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Leilani O’Malley (right) and Judy Lytton pet O’Malley’s dog, Peggy Sue, after a February interview. The two women lived at the Provincial Training School (now Michener Centre) in the ’50s and ’60s, and both would successfully sue the Alberta government in the 1990s for having been sterilized while institutionalized in Red Deer.

A blessing and a curse LIVING AT MICHENER CENTRE PROBABLY SAVED LEILANI O’MALLEY’S LIFE, BUT THAT SAFETY CAME AT A TERRIBLE PRICE

Michener Centre: The Closing Doors is a special Red Deer Advocate series by reporters Susan Zielinski and Myles Fish about the centre for persons with developmental disabilities. They examine its controversial past, debated present and unclear future.

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF You’ve probably heard of Leilani Muir. It was her 1995 trial that brought to public attention the darkest abuse of Michener Centre residents that went on for 44 years — involuntary sterilizations.

What may surprise is that the institution that

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caused so much hurt and sadness in her life may have actually saved that life in the first place.

“It was a godsend. It was a blessing because I wasn’t getting beaten every day of my life with logs or hammers or whatever she (my mother) could beat me with. I got three meals a day. I had a dry bed every night,” recounts the former Leilani Muir, 69, who legally changed her last name to O’Malley after the trial.

O’Malley was born to a mother who had no interest in having a daughter and made sure she knew it. As a child, Leilani was beaten, fed and schooled little, and hidden under stairs or in granaries so visitors to the family farm would not know she existed.

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LEILANI: Sterilized at 14 Her mother first confined her to a convent, then on July 12, 1955, Leilani was dropped off unceremoniously in front of what was then the Michener Centre administration building. Three days later, she got her first cake on the occasion of a birthday she did not know she had and she eventually settled in with the other girls her age, playing games and causing mischief. It was the first time she was able to act like a regular kid.

That semblance of a normal childhood, though, was shattered in 1959 when the girl of 14 had her Fallopian tubes removed during an operation she was told was a simple procedure to remove her appendix. She had been classified as having below normal intelligence at the time — psychologists later contended her low IQ test score was likely the result of an abusive upbringing that saw her rarely attend school — and the Alberta Eugenics Board also noted that she had “shown definite interest in the opposite sex,” two of the factors that led to her being OK’d for the operation.

At 21, O’Malley was out of the institution and on her own, working in restaurants and night clubs in Edmonton and B.C., where she put to use the skills she had gained catering to the more disabled Michener patients during her teens. She married twice, but though doctor after doctor told her it would be impossible for her to conceive, she refused to believe that an operation had rendered her infertile.

She had two additional surgeries in the hopes of reversing the damage, but nothing could be done as her tubes had been removed altogether years earlier.

Attempts to adopt failed as well, largely due to her having been institutionalized in the past, and her second marriage ended in frustration in 1986.

Life had beaten her down, and around Christmas 1989 she finally thought “enough is enough.”

“I was sitting there one night with pills all ready. I had already taken some and I was going to take some more and it was like God was on my shoulder. ... He had me write a poem — word for word it was God’s words to me. And I never committed suicide and I made a change in my life,” says O’Malley.

Doctors could not repair the damage to her body, so she set about repairing the emotional damage.

She told her story to a psychiatrist in Victoria, B.C., who told her in no uncertain terms to go after the Alberta government for the damage its policies had caused her.

She sued the government for $2.5 million soon after, but it was not until six years later that O’Malley arrived in Edmonton for her trial. Having to relive terrible childhood memories at the trial took its toll; the huge media interest generated and the unwavering government lawyers who peppered her with questions did not help either.

“I had to put on a front every day. Smile, be happy and not let anyone know how you’re feeling inside, because there were times inside I just wanted to give up. I just really wanted to say ‘I’m walking away from it,’ ” says O’Malley.

She would be on the stand for a full week during the June trial, rosary always in her hands. Government lawyers conceded on the trial’s first day that O’Malley never should have been sterilized, but argued that her placement in the old Provincial Training School (PTS) was warranted due to her initial low IQ test score.

The lawyers, she says, picked through the old institutional files in an attempt to show that she was a problem child. In response, she would snicker and one lawyer called her out as being sassy both as a child and an adult.

“The judge (Justice Joanne Veit) put her hand up and she said ‘Sassiness is good for us women.’ She had the courtroom all in laughter . . . . I knew then I won the case,” laughs O’Malley.

On Jan. 25, 1996, the court ordered the government to pay O’Malley $740,000 in compensation. Almost half of that total was awarded for improper detention, in recognition of O’Malley’s claim that the intelligence test used to justify her admission to the PTS did not account for her abusive upbringing.

That cash payout, though, is effectively all gone, says O’Malley. Lawyers’ fees ate into her settlement, and then after returning to her B.C. home she was harassed by anonymous callers claiming to be relatives living nearby or threatening her with violence if she did not dole out some cash. An unscrupulous relative got hold of a large chunk.

In the aftermath of the payouts to O’Malley and other former Michener residents who sued, lawyers involved warned clients of the “vulture syndrome” that sees exploitative people swarm to those newly flush with cash. It was a prospect that drove Glen Sinclair to pack up his graphic arts career in Red

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Leilani O’Malley has many tales to tell. There are the horror stories from a childhood stolen and the sad reminisces about the motherhood she desired for herself but was robbed of due to a misguided policy.

But anecdotes of adolescent mischief and an adult life that has seen her find fulfilment through doing work she loves — including babysitting children and running a daycare — provide balance.

O’Malley today lives on her own, doting on her pet shih tzu Peggy Sue and entertaining her many visitors. She has no dealings with her biological family anymore, but says her friends are her true family.

When the Advocate visited in late February, O’Malley and friend and fellow former Michener resident Judy Lytton spent nearly three hours speaking about their experiences, remembrances that often elicited hearty laughter and plenty of head-shaking in disbelief or amusement. A selection of quotes from O’Malley follows: On life at the Provincial Training School (PTS): ● “I didn’t even know that my name was Leilani until I went into the institution. I was always called Tom or different names. ... When they called me that (Leilani), I said ‘Who are you calling?’ They said ‘We’re talking to you!’ I said ‘That’s not my name!’ ” ● “I didn’t even know that I had a birthday until I went into the institution. I was 11. I went in there three days before I turned 11, and that was the first time I had a cake, and I didn’t even know what it was for.” ● “We used to have fights, and we had pillow fights and balloon water fights, which we weren’t supposed to have — any normal thing that a kid would do.” ● “I got punished four times in the 10 years I was there and I got punished because I wasn’t supposed to speak out. I was sent to a ward with people in straitjackets. ... They would get these two big burly guys to take us to the prison wards to punish us. I’d think to myself, why do I need you guys to drag me along? I can walk.”

On occasionally being let out of the PTS: ● “Whenever my mother wanted me they let me go home. I came back with bruises lots of times and a loss of weight. They still let my mother take me back. All she needed was someone to do the chores and have a punching bag around for a while.”

Deer and head off to the big city, where he hoped for anonymity after his sterilization suit was settled in 1999.

But O’Malley, who is back living in Alberta, says she is glad she went through the process because it led others to follow suit in seeking restitution. An estimated 2,822 people were sterilized in Alberta; hundreds filed claims in the immediate aftermath of the O’Malley trial.

Since O’Malley won her case, over $130 million has been paid out to more than 780 Alberta sterilization victims, with most claimants receiving a minimum of $75,000. In 2005, nine B.C. women forcibly sterilized in that province split a $450,000 payout.

Last year, North Carolina allocated US$10 million to compensate the mostly poor African American women subjected to its forced sterilization program up until 1968. And Swedish transsexuals fought for restitution relating to the sterilizations that by law accompanied their sex changes up until the law’s repeal in early 2013.

Ontario did not have a formal eugenics program, but the province has recently settled claims totalling nearly $68 million for thousands of former institution residents who alleged abuse at the province’s three largest facilities. Formal apologies are also be-

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On her mother: ● “I wouldn’t have gone (to trial) if she were still alive; I was still scared of her until she died.

The day she died, I said to myself as I went to bed that night, ‘I don’t have to be afraid anymore.’ Isn’t that horrible to have to think that of your own mother?”

On preparing for the trial: ● “I woke up a couple of mornings in a row, and I was literally cowered down behind my dresser in my room. You have to relive those memories, and that cowering behind the dresser was me trying to get away from my mother.”

On dealing with lawyers at her trial: ● “Oh, I’ll tell ya, I got pretty snitty with them.

I had to get snitty with them. They were reading stuff off my files, they’d show me files and I’d go ‘Ah, that’s just kid stuff!’ ” On her feelings after the trial: ● “I was glad I had done it finally. I was more glad for the other people, because I was speaking for everybody. I was so glad because then these people could have their lives at ease and live a more comfortable life.”

On her philosophy: ● “I always say God put everybody on Earth for a reason, to be what they are and it’s for us to learn from them. We have to learn from everybody.”

On eugenics: ● “I don’t care what anybody says, it’s still going on under the table, we just don’t hear about it. And I’m always scared that some day history will repeat. It may not be to the extent we went through, but I fear that history will repeat.”

On the iconic former Michener administration building: ● “Lightning hit it — I wonder why! Doesn’t that tell you something?” ing made as part of the settlements.

Though she has told her story to reporters from around the world innumerable times and two recent plays and a documentary have been made about her tribulations and trial, O’Malley admits she has some butterflies in anticipation of the release of the fullest account yet of her life, a 200-plus page memoir she has titled A Whisper Past. She spent 25 years penning her story, she says, and the autobiography will reveal some stories she has never before shared.

“My family always called me dumb and stupid and retarded . . . . and I’m thinking ‘Who’s having the last laugh and the last word?’ ” She would like to one day see her story turned into a movie, she says, and would want to play herself in scenes representing the trial. When friend Judy Lytton said she doubted such a thing would be possible, O’Malley summoned a little of that sass from years gone by: “Don’t ever tell me I can’t! That’s what everyone’s always told me — ‘You can’t.’ What did I do? I sued the government!”

O’Malley said she expects the book will be available for purchase soon. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com Coming Monday: Advancements in medical care at Michener Centre.

Michener Centre: The Closing Doors CHRONOLOGY

1928-72 — Over 2,800 Albertans are sterilized, many of whom were residents of Michener Centre. Provincial eugenics board had recommended another approximately 2,000 sterilizations take place.

1989 — IQ test finds Leilani O’Malley to be of normal intelligence. She files a statement of claim asking for $2.5 million in compensation for having been sterilized and wrongfully confined.

June 1995 — O’Malley trial begins in Edmonton.

January 1996 — Court awards O’Malley $740,000. One month earlier, government set its compensation offer at $60,000.

June 1996 — Province asks courts to throw out about 200 lawsuits related to sterilization, saying governments of the

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On leaving the PTS for the last time: ● “It was March 5 of ’65. We were supposed to go out for supper, which is what (her mother) told the administration staff. Well, needless to say we never went out for supper. She didn’t have a bus ticket, she didn’t have a train ticket, she didn’t have a ride. We hitchhiked to Edmonton! I didn’t know anything about hitchhiking until that day and I’m thinking ‘Somebody’s going to hurt me.’ ”

time acted in good faith and lawsuits were filed too late under limitations act.

March 1998 — Government introduces a bill that would limit compensation available to sterilization victims by invoking the notwithstanding clause. Public outcry forces backdown on bill within 24 hours.

June 1998 — Government pays out $48 million in compensation settlement to 500 sterilization victims. All are dependent adults whose funds are managed by the public trustee’s office.

November 1999 — Government settles lawsuit with 246 claimants out of court for $82 million.

November 1999 — Premier Ralph Klein apologizes for era of forced sterilizations.

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Redford right to resign: Jablonski TRUST, CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE HAD ERODED AWAY: RED DEER NORTH MLA

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski says she is not happy that Premier Alison Redford had to resign, but she made the right decision.

After recent tumultuous times, Redford announced her resignation on Wednesday night, effective Sunday, after two-and-a-half years as premier.

Her run as Alberta’s leader was marred by controversy, including an ethics investigation that she was cleared of, over the awarding to her ex-husband’s law firm of a potentially lucrative tobacco litigation contract when she was still justice minister and, most recently, a $45,000 tab for flying to South Africa for Nelson Mandela’s funeral.

Deputy Premier Dave Hancock has been named as her interim successor. A meeting of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta board of directors will be held on Monday evening in Red Deer to discuss when to elect a new leader.

“There were a number of concerns that I think eroded away the trust and the confidence of the people,” said Jablonski on Friday. “Once that happens, for me, it’s very important to listen to what the people have to say, and if they’ve lost trust and confidence in the leadership, it’s a great concern to all MLAs and to our PC party.”

Jablonski said if she continues on into the next provincial election, it will be as whatever role the new leader decides for her, if she is re-elected.

“I have made no decision, but I think I make a better lieutenant than a general,” she said, when asked about the possibility of her seeking the leadership.

Hancock, who is the longest serving minister in cabinet, at 17 years, has said he does not plan to seek full-time leadership. Jablonski says he is the right man to shepherd the party and province through this time of transition.

Despite the way things ended for Redford, Tory MLA Cal Dallas, Red Deer South, says they still accomplished a lot of good in her short time as leader.

“Our premier was a champion for this province

and I’m proud of what we were able to get done under her leadership,” said Dallas, minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations, in an email while in China. “We will move forward now as a government and a caucus to continue doing the job Albertans asked us to do.”

Wildrose MLA Kerry Towle, Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, says the issues that caused Redford to step down go beyond just the leader — it shines a brighter light on the problems within the party.

Danielle Smith, Wildrose leader and the leader of the Opposition, was already talking about being prepared for an early election on Thursday night in Calgary.

“This isn’t just the premier. The party has a view that it is so entitled that they no longer represent Albertans,” said Towle. “Changing the leader isn’t going to change the massive problems in the party.”

Smith will be hosting a meet and greet on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Gasoline Alley. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Yellow ribbons welcome troops home from Afghanistan

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Pothole patching crew busy Red Deer’s pothole patching crews are in the thick of repairs on city streets.

Crews have filled more than 1,125 potholes in two weeks. In any given year, the city crews can fill between 11,000 to 1,400 holes in a year.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Lydia Kelston, left, with her neighbour Michelle Osachoff and her son, Kohen, have put up yellow ribbons on their street in Oriole Park as a symbolic gesture to welcome Canadian Forces troops who have just returned from Afghanistan this week. the conversation. Kelston said he got emotional and thanked her for her gesture.

“I don’t know how old he was but I thought at 74 I could get away with hugging him,” said Kelston. “He needed some comfort so I thanked him profusely.”

The federal government has proclaimed May 9 as a national day to honour those who served in Afghanistan and remember those who died.

Between 2002 and 2011 in Afghanistan, a total of 158 Canadian Forces personnel were killed in action, 635 soldiers were wounded in action and 1,412 received non-battle injuries. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

While potholes are filled all year, the city dedicates a pothole crew at this time of year because of the freezethaw cycles that create more potholes.

The potholes that are hazardous will be given immediate attention.

Potholes can be reported to Public Works by calling 403-342-8238 or using Report a Problem at www.reddeer.ca.

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To welcome Canadian troops home from Afghanistan, a Red Deer woman has tied yellow ribbons around posts in her neighbourhood.

On March 12, Canada’s time in Afghanistan officially ended after 12 years of in the conflict-ridden country. The last of the troops returned to Canada on March 18.

Lydia Kelston, 74, said she did not want the historic moment go unnoticed in Red Deer.

She says the ribbons symbolize recognition and appreciation of their service.

“A lot of them fought and died,” said Kelston.

“They did it for a good reason. They have helped so much in the countries that they fought in. We are lucky to have them back.”

Kelston was moved to tears after watching a news program about two teenagers whose father died in Afghanistan just days before he was set to return home. They spoke about the times they wished their father was there with them.

Kelston said the siblings were consoling one another. She said it was very moving.

“I thought ‘Oh wow,’ ” she said. “Here I am sitting where it’s warm and comfortable. I am thankful for life and I just thought it might be a nice gesture (to put up the ribbons).”

Kelston made 41 ribbons out of a plastic yellow table cloth. After tying the ribbons around the posts in Owens Close, Kelston dropped off the ribbons at several pubs because she thought some of the troops will want to have a drink in a safe spot. A friend will deliver some at the former Penhold military base.

She has enlisted the help of her neighbour.

Kelston’s uncles and great uncles served in the First World War, Second World War and Korean War. She has lived in Red Deer since 1980.

Her late husband, Adam, was a police officer and was in the navy reserve as a young man.

Kelston has already seen firsthand the effects of her ribbons. She was at a local pub explaining the significance of the ribbons to a young woman when a man who had served in the Canadian navy overheard

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Regional plans are developed in consultation with Albertans and become legal instruments once approved by Cabinet.

As such, the Alberta Land Stewardship Act (ALSA) includes provisions for requesting a review of a regional plan or regional plan amendment. To support this review process, the Government of Alberta is creating a standing roster of candidates from which it will select members to participate in review panels for regional plans once the plans have been implemented. The role of the panel will be to consider review requests and provide recommendations to the Government of Alberta.

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Former teacher jailed five years for rape

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A woman who was raped by her teacher when she was a young student said she found closure after her perpetrator was sentenced on Friday.

“The power is not with him anymore. That chapter in my life is now closed,” she said.

Warren Dexter Fertig, 73, a former Red Deer teacher and vice-principal, pleaded guilty in November to one count of rape, which occurred in the 1970s. He was sentenced to five years in prison in Red Deer provincial court on Friday morning.

The assault occurred when the victim was 12 to 15 years old and he was 35 to 37.

Judge Norman Mackie told the court that Fertig’s behaviour was “morally despicable” when announcing the fiveyear sentence, which went beyond the two-to-four-year prison sentence recommended by Crown prosecutor Jason Snider.

Defence lawyer Alain Hepner argued for a conditional sentence of two years less a day to be served in the community under strict conditions.

Mackie said at times in the case, Fertig referred to his own actions as “bad judgment.” The judge said it was more like a “string of self-indulgences.”

According to the agreed statement of facts, Fertig had sexual intercourse with the victim 10 to 15 times.

Instead of sexual assault, he was charged with rape, which was what the crime was called in the Criminal Code at the time of the offences.

Fertig was friendly towards her as soon as she began attending junior high classes at River Glen School.

The majority of incidents occurred after she babysat his children while he was driving her home.

Fertig threatened that if she told anyone, her family would not be allowed to attend the school.

As both a school administrator and her employer, the judge said Fertig was in a double position of trust and not only did he breach the victim’s trust, but the trust of the teaching profession.

An undercover police investigation into the offences began in 2011 after the victim contacted police. She met Fertig to assist police in gathering evidence.

Mackie said Fertig was almost revelling in his past sexual acts with the vic-

Alberta, Ottawa announce funding deal to deal with specific job vacancies

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta government struck a deal with Ottawa on Friday that gives the province money and flexibility to train more people for specific jobs.

Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney says under a renewed labour market agreement, $23 million will go toward employer-driven training under the direction of the provincial government.

“We want provinces to deliver this because they’re closer to the ground,” Kenney said in a legislature news conference alongside his provincial counterpart Thomas Lukaszuk.

“They know who the players are.

They understand the local and region-

al job market subtleties much better than we do.

“This agreement will be good for Albertans, good for the Alberta economy (and) good for taxpayers because they will be getting better bang for the buck from the training dollars we spend.”

The $23 million is part of the current $33 million Canada Job Grant.

Under the employer-driven program, the federal government would provide up to $10,000 per person for training costs, including tuition for short-duration training at community colleges, career colleges, trade union centres, and private trainers.

Employers would be responsible for the final third for a maximum per person contribution of $15,000.

The training can be done in classrooms, at the worksite or online.

Lukaszuk said the money is crucial given the acute shortages in his province’s roaring petro-based economy.

“This province right now is attracting approximately 130,000 people every year,” said Lukaszuk.

“And yet we estimate that we will be short some 100,000 workers within the next 10 years.

“That’s a problem that we must first solve domestically before we reach out to immigration as a primary supplement of workers.”

There are about 220,000 job openings in Canada, a quarter of which are in Alberta.

The job vacancy rate in Alberta has doubled in the last five years to six per cent.

Federal Court grants injunction to allow patients to grow medical pot

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The Conservative government’s plan to move medical marijuana plants out of patients’ basements and into commercial facilities was dealt a significant setback Friday, after a Federal Court judge ruled anyone already licensed to grow the drug may continue to do so.

Judge Michael Manson issued an injunction exempting patients who are licensed to possess or grow medical marijuana under the current rules, either for themselves or someone else, from new regulations that would have made the practice illegal.

A group of patients behind a constitutional challenge asked for an injunction to preserve the status quo until their legal case goes to trial.

The federal government announced its plans to overhaul the production of medical pot last year, arguing the current system had grown out of control and was rife with problems ranging

from unsafe grow-ops to infiltration by criminals.

The new regulations restrict medical marijuana production to commercial growers, though the court injunction does not affect the new licensing system.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued the updated regulations violate their right to access important medicine, because marijuana is expected to initially be more expensive under the new system. They also complained they won’t have as much control over which strains of the drug they use.

The judge concluded some patients will not be able to afford marijuana if prices increase as expected.

“This group will be irreparably harmed by the effects of the (new regulations),” wrote Manson.

“I find that the nature of the irreparable harm that the applicants will suffer under the (updated regulations) constitutes a ’clear case,’ which outweighs the public interest in wholly maintaining the enacted regulations.”

Under the terms of the injunction, patients who were licensed to grow marijuana as of Sept. 30 of last year can continue to do so.

Patients will be restricted to possessing 150 grams of dried marijuana, which is a limit set by the new regulations, the decision says.

Health Canada had warned that any patients licensed to grow pot who didn’t confirm they had destroyed their plants would be reported to the police.

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The charge of rape was laid in September 2011. Fertig pleaded guilty after a preliminary hearing was held and he was ordered to stand trial.

The judge said the victim has turned out to be more powerful than her abuser.

Following the sentencing, the victim told local media that she got her strength back by reading her impact statement in court in January and the sentencing has given her closure.

She said she was satisfied with the five-year prison sentence and thinks it’s fair.

“It’s important that people are penalized because of their actions.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Top court says non to Nadon OTTAWA — Stephen Harper has come almost full circle.

The Conservative prime minister who came to office in 2006 cautioning against the power of the courts suffered a political body blow Friday from the highest court in the land — a Supreme Court stacked with Harper appointees.

By rejecting Justice Marc Nadon, Harper’s sixth and most recent pick for the nine-member bench, the remaining Supremes laid down constitutional markers that could proscribe the government’s future plans for Senate reform, electoral changes and the appointment of judges.

Not only was Nadon, a semi-retired Federal Court of Appeal justice, found to not have the proper qualifications laid out in the Supreme Court Act for a Quebec nominee to the top bench, but the government’s efforts to rewrite the rules were thwarted.

The government does not have the authority to amend the Act, wrote six of seven judges, saying “the unanimous consent of Parliament and all provincial legislatures is required for amendments to the Constitution relating to the ‘composition of the Supreme Court.�’ The government appeared to be caught flat-footed by the twin rebukes.

A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said it was “genuinely surprised� and would review its

options, all the while stressing Nadon’s appointment had been vetted by two former Supreme Court justices and a committee of MPs. “At no time did any (committee) members, including from the Opposition, object to appointing a member of the Federal Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court,� it said — a claim hotly disputed Friday by one NDP MP on the committee who accused the PMO of “talking through its hat.�

As for the government’s options, legal scholars were left scratching their heads.

Carissima Mathen, a University of Ottawa law professor and constitutional lawyer who followed the Nadon reference closely, said the government was “pretty cavalier� in how it appointed him. “Will they accept defeat, or will they look for other ways to get around this?� she wondered. “I think it’s really important for public confidence that they actually accept when they have been defeated.�

It was the second muscular reminder from the high court in as many days that the Constitution reigns supreme.

On Thursday, a retroactive element in the Conservative tough-on-crime agenda dealing with parole eligibility was struck down, with the court reminding the government that passing unconstitutional laws brings the justice system into disrepute.

Their week’s work will have implications for a number of high-profile Conservative government agenda items, notably Senate reform. “It’s quite easy to extrapolate today’s decision to

the Senate reference,� said Sebastien Grammond, a constitutional law expert at the University of Ottawa who also argued the case on behalf of an interveners group that represented provincial court judges. “I think it would be relevant to the issue of the abolition of the Senate. You can make the argument that it requires unanimity because it has a central importance in our political institutions.�

Green party Leader Elizabeth May issued a release that drew the next obvious inference — a constitutional challenge to the government’s deeply controversial “Fair Elections Act� that rewrites the way Canadian elections are conducted and, some argue, tilts the field in the Conservative party’s favour.

May urged the government to “stop wasting Parliament’s time and stop clogging the courts with legislation that was, on its face, unlikely to survive a court challenge, but which the House keeps passing in blind disregard of the consequences.�

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said the government has some big decisions ahead, such as Senate reform and assisted suicide. “These are big deals and the prime minister has failed in one of his fundamental responsibilities,� he said. “Now we’re going to start over again, and the prime minister will hopefully get the appointment right this time.�

Trudeau said the ruling is an affirmation that Canadian federalism works, and it comes “at a convenient time for people who believe in the strength and functioning of Canada.�

B.C. New Democrat repays $35K for trips

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — British Columbia New Democrat Jenny Kwan says she has reimbursed $35,000 after government audits revealed her family’s trips to Disneyland and Europe were paid for by a non-profit society.

The Vancouver member of the legislature made tearful apologies at a news conference Friday, saying her husband assured her he’d paid for the family portion of the trips to Disneyland in Anahaim, Calif., and a trip to Europe that included stays in Vienna and the United Kingdom in 2012.

Robert Dan Small was an executive with the Portland Hotel Society until Thursday, when the B.C. government fired four managers and appointed an interim board after scathing audits detailed the society spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lavish trips, hotels, restaurant meals and other questionable expenses. “Words cannot adequately express how shocked and sorry I am about the findings of these audits,�

Kwan said, adding she is taking an unpaid leave of absence to spend time with her children.

Kwan said it’s her understanding that Small, from whom she is now separated, was attending conferences in Europe when he brought the family along. “He reassured me that the payments were made by him and I accepted that. In a relationship there is an element of trust.�

Kwan said she paid for a package vacation to Disneyland with her credit card and made copies of the bill available to reporters.

“Upon arrival in Disneyland my ex-husband informed me that he had paid for a hotel package update,� she said.

Kwan said she tried unsuccessfully to reach Small on Thursday for an explanation but communication between the divorcing couple has been difficult.

She said she spent most of the day, after the audits were released, attempting to get answers from the Portland Hotel Society but was not provided with any information. “Given the findings of the audits it is clear to me that their accounting is deficient and I’m not at all confident that they will be able to provide me with this information,� she said. I strongly believe that the travel expense incurred by my family should not be paid for or perceived to be paid for by the society.

I’m therefore paying the full amount identified in the audits that either my ex-husband and/or my family is associated with.“ The Portland Hotel Society was established more than 20 years ago to help house Downtown Eastside residents, many of them mentally ill and addicted to drugs. The group is best known for administering Insite, North America’s only safe-infection site where people shoot up their own drugs with clean needles under medical supervision to prevent overdoses and the spread of infectious diseases.

Questions over spending by the society that received $28.5 million for the current fiscal year prompted an internal review and audit that led to an external audit covering March 2010 to March 2013.

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Jury renders guilty verdict in cabin sex abuse case

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BRIDGEWATER, N.S. — The mother of a teenaged boy who was sexually abused while he was blindfolded and held against his will expressed relief and gratitude Friday after a jury found John Leonard MacKean guilty of sexual assault. “I’m glad it’s going to be over,� said the mother of the victim, whose identity is protected by a publication ban. “My son doesn’t have to talk about it anymore until he’s ready to.�

MacKean, 64, was also found guilty of communicating for the purpose of obtaining sexual services from a person under 18. He will be sentenced June 24.

The mother said it was painful for her son struggle through police interviews and testify in court, recounting the horror of being chained and sexually assaulted in a ramshackle cabin after he was kidnapped in Halifax. “He’s done a very good job and he’s been very strong,� she said. “He’s just a very brave boy.�

The verdict came after more than four hours of deliberations. The trial, which began Monday, heard MacKean and the victim each give their accounts of what happened on Sept. 20, 2012.

The teen testified that he was blindfolded with a sleeping mask and his hands and feet were chained to a bed when a man sexually assaulted him at a cabin about a 90-minute drive southwest of Halifax, where he was kept captive for eight days.

The youth, who was 16 at the time, later told the province’s Supreme Court in Bridgewater that a man performed oral sex on him as he cried, unable to move.

The teen, now 17, said he was certain the man was not one of two other men accused in the case, one of whom was later convicted of kidnapping him, because he was able to determine from a limited view beneath his blindfold that the perpetrator was a balding, heavy-set man who wore glasses.

Crown prosecutor Lloyd Tancock said he believes a video of an interview MacKean gave to police after his arrest, during which MacKean said he was inside the cabin and involved in a sexual encounter with the boy, was a major factor in the jury’s decision.

Tancock said the case has been an ordeal for the victim and his family. “It’s been a terrible case for the family and it doesn’t end here for them I’m sure,� he said.

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Man in the Moon has a speck in his eye Did you know that the Man in the Moon, as of Dec. 15, 2013, now has a tiny speck in his right eye? And hardly anybody even noticed.

So what’s the big hairy deal, you may ask though I doubt if you would say “big hairy deal” because hardly anyone uses that dumb expression anymore.

More likely, you are saying to yourself, as usual, what on earth (or the moon) is he talking about?

Maybe I should explain.

The Man in the Moon is apparently a geographical feature that moon scientists and other “looney” people with their heads in the starry night sky use to map out the surface of Earth’s personal lunar satellite, our moon.

And who hasn’t looked up at that glowing orb on a wondrous clear night and noticed that the shadows and craters and discarded Russian and American moon exploration spaced junk form, if you use enough imagination, what HARLEY looks like the face of, say, WinHAY ston Churchill.

This face is the Man in the Moon, and his right eye contains a large flat volcanic crater called the Bay of Rainbows.

All of which begs the question: “Who on earth names these things?” and also: “Rainbows? The moon has rainbows?”

Be that as it may, the thing is, what I’m getting at is, is the fact that, as reported by The Japan Times, in December China landed an unmanned space craft lunar probe thingy right on the moon. In fact, the 2,000 pound (907,000 gram) craft landed “in the right eye of the lunar feature dubbed the Man in the Moon.”

This is significant on account of this was the first soft landing on the moon in 37 years and also, the landing craft’s name is The Jade Rabbit, and the rover’s name is Yutu.

(Not to be confused with the popular Irish rock band called U2).

And the reason the shiny silver and gold lander and the small six-wheeled rover robot have such cute names is, and I quote: “The lander and the rover are named for a Chinese myth about a woman named Chang’e who swallowed magic pills and took her pet rabbit, Yutu, to the moon, where she has lived as a goddess ever since.”

Well, of course, that makes perfect sense. After all, the moon has always been a romantic, mysterious, highly mystical chunk of dead rock to us Earthlings, and don’t you think after nearly 40 years, it’s high time we got back to the moon?

And by we, I mean the Chinese. Maybe they can do what the Americans and Russians couldn’t or wouldn’t do — find out for once and for all if the moon really is made of green cheese.

The Jade Rabbit moniker is also important because it makes it possible for bored and jaded (sorry) newspaper and interweb writer folks to make up excellent headlines and bylines like the one posted yesterday on Nature.com: “China’s Moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, has stopped hopping.

But its ears are still twitching — and communicating with Earth.”

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And therein lays this week’s news.

The mission for Yutu was to roam around collecting samples in a 10 km (217 mile) area, samples that will (somehow) help the Chinese use the moon to develop it’s “space program,” by which everybody else on Earth hopes they don’t mean “lunar military base.”

Thing is the diminutive Yutu only made it 100 metres (several feet) before it stubbornly stopped bunny hopping.

This was in late January. It is reported that it was the frigid “two week lunar night” that froze Yutu’s little butt.

But, the good news this week is that it can still send information from where it’s stuck somewhere in the eye of the Man in the Moon.

Which means it can keep probing the same spot over and over again and send back the vital scientific space data that confirms the moon is still in fact made up of a bunch of extremely cold rock and dust.

But at least there really is a rabbit on the moon now.

You see, moon bunnies are not strictly limited to Chinese fairy tales. It turns out that there are a number of ancient mythical legends and traditions including Buddhism and Native American folklore that tell tales of a rabbit that lives on the moon.

(Honest.)

This is also significant on account of it proves that the Chinese weren’t the only early civilizations to

actively engage in mind altering substances such as opium.

But as a matter of fact the rabbit/moon legend has long been so pervasive that according to History.com when Apollo 11 was descending to a first-ever landing on the moon in 1969 Mission Control radioed that there were headlines asking them to “watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit.”

Apparently they said this in jest; possibly to lighten the mood in the middle of quit possibly the most knuckle-biting, sphincter-tightening landing ever attempted.

But command pilot Michael Collins was as cool as a cucumber.

He replied, ”OK. We’ll keep a close eye out for the bunny girl.”

Well, she’s there now, only 45 years too late for Apollo 11.

But you know what rabbits are like. If they can ever get Yutu moving again, she might hook up with some of the other abandoned moon rovers and pretty soon there could just be a whole bunch of new little Yutus hippity hopping around the Man on the Moon.

And maybe, just maybe they’ll discover Goddess Chang’e and her magic pills.

Now that would be news.

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The framing of al-Megrahi: lies, lies, lies THAT’S WHAT INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES DO They lied, they’re still lying, and they’ll go on lying until Libya calms down enough to allow a thorough search of its archives.

That’s what intelligence agencies do, and being angry at them for lying is like being angry at a scorpion for stinging.

But we now know that they lied about the Libyans planting the bomb on Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan airline official who was convicted of placing the bomb aboard the plane and sentenced to 27 years in prisGWYNNE on by a special international DYER court in 2001, was freed from jail in 2009 and sent home, allegedly dying from cancer and with only three months to live.

He eventually did die three years later, but it was a very peculiar thing for the Scottish government to do.

Megrahi was in a Scottish jail because Pan Am 103, en route from London to Detroit, had blown up over the Scottish village of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 in the village below.

But he clearly wasn’t dying when he was freed, and he had served less than a third of his sentence.

And there was something even more disturbing about the case.

As a condition of his release, Megrahi was required to drop an appeal against his conviction that had been granted by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission in 2007.

The SCCRC listed no fewer than six grounds for serious concern about Megrahi’s conviction, including the fact that the U.S. Justice Department made an undisclosed payment of $3 million to two Maltese

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citizens whose evidence had linked Megrahi with the suitcase that contained the bomb. If the appeal had gone ahead, Megrahi’s conviction would probably have been quashed.

That would have been deeply embarrassing for the Scottish authorities, especially since the evidence suggested there had been a deliberate attempt to frame the Libyan.

But they did have the power to delay the hearing of his appeal for a very long time, and al-Megrahi was not a well man.

So one can imagine a bargain being struck: his freedom for his silence.

Megrahi never stopped protesting his innocence, but he did withdraw his appeal, so the new evidence was never heard in court, his conviction was never cancelled, and nobody was embarrassed.

But why did the intelligence agencies pick on him in the first place?

Because they had to abandon their first working hypothesis, which was that Pan Am 103 was destroyed in late 1988 as tit-for-tat Iranian revenge for the accidental shooting down of an Iran Air plane with 290 people aboard by the U.S. warship Vincennes earlier that year.

Since the Iranians didn’t have people in the right places with the right skills to do this job, U.S. intelligence calculated, they paid some Palestinian terrorists to do it.

The U.S. even fingered the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command, headed by Ahmed Jibril, as the ones who took the contract.

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Nevertheless, somebody had to be punished or the intelligence services would look incompetent.

The people who carried out the bombing for Iran had made some rudimentary attempts to put the blame on Libya, and the security services now started using that evidence to frame Megrahi. The evidence was full of holes, but the Libyan’s defence team did a poor job of exposing them, and he was convicted anyway.

The reason his defence team did so badly may have been that the Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafy, had made a deal: in order to be released from a crippling trade embargo, he would admit the blame for the Pan Am bombing and pay compensation to the families of the victims.

For that deal to stand, Megrahi had to go down. A few threats to his family back in Libya would have persuaded him to sabotage his own defence.

But with the appeal that would have exposed the truth smothered, all this remained mere conjecture until last week, when the al-Jazeera network broadcast an interview with Abolghassem Mesbahi, a former Iranian intelligence officer.

Mesbahi, who once reported directly to the Iranian president, said it quite plainly: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, gave direct orders for the destruction of an American airliner after the Vincennes incident in 1988.

So the original hypothesis was correct, and the Western security services probably always knew it was correct.

They don’t care; the case is closed, and with Megrahi’s appeal cancelled it will never be re-opened.

But it is worth noting that he was an innocent man, not a mass murderer, and that his life was cynically destroyed by the same people who brought us the invasion of Iraq, mass surveillance, and so much more.

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Now, what can we sell to South Korea?

CANADIANS ARE FAMILIAR WITH MANY SOUTH KOREAN PRODUCTS Canadians are familiar with such South Korean products as Samsung smart phones, LG household appliances, Samsung and LG high-definition TV sets, and Hyundai and Kia automobiles.

But what Canadian products would South Koreans be familiar with?

Lobsters?

There are few Canadian brands that would be known to South Koreans.

So while the Harper government boasts that the proposed Canada-South Korea free trade agreement will “create thousands of new jobs in Canada,” it may be that most of those jobs will be in commodities.

Coal, minerals and metals, lumber and wood pulp, beef, DAVID pork and canola, and lobsters CRANE and other seafood products are among the top exports from Canada to South Korea.

It’s not clear how the proposed free-trade agreement will change that very much.

Overall, the Harper government claims, the trade agreement will eventually increase Canadian exports by 32 per cent, or just over $1.1 billion, and boost the economy by $1.7 billion.

While any gains in trade and economic activity are welcome, these are not big amounts considering that total Canadian exports worldwide last year were about $480 billion and the economy was about $1.7 trillion.

Of Canada’s $3.4 billion in exports to South Korea last year, almost 75 per cent consisted of coal, minerals and metals, agricultural commodities, forest products and seafood.

In fact, coal for South Korea’s steel industry accounted for nearly one-third of our exports. Conversely, motor vehicles, electrical and electronic products and boilers and machinery accounted for about 78 per cent of our $7.3 billion in imports from South Korea last year.

We do, of course, export higher value products to South Korea, such as aircraft components, machinery, some chemicals and pharmaceuticals, instruments and tools, but the volumes are not large.

The trade agreement, by eliminating tariffs and reducing non-tariff barriers, will expand opportunities for Canadian companies, provided they have things South Koreans want.

But the trade agreement highlights an important Canadian weakness in international trade.

We are important exporters of raw materials and semi-processed products, which to be sure generate wealth and jobs.

But we have few large Canadian companies that can compete in high-value manufactured products.

The Harper government’s background document on the trade deal boasts that “if something can be manufactured, chances are a Canadian is producing it or working on ways to improve it.”

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This is hype, not reality.

When was the last time anyone purchased a Canadian TV set, refrigerator, laptop computer or farm tractor?

Data from Statistics Canada shows that larger companies (250 or more employees) are more likely to be innovative, to export, to be engaged in global value chains, to use advanced technologies and to have some operations abroad.

But Canada appears to have a disproportionate number of small (20 to 99 employees) and midsize (100 to 249 employees) companies.

Moreover, the data show that for all enterprises, the proportion that introduced at least one type of innovation in a product or process in 2010-12 was lower than the proportion that did so in 2007-09.

This is the opposite of what needs to happen.

However, there was an increase in the proportion of enterprises that introduced an organizational innovation.

But “this shift towards organizational innovation may reflect enterprises choosing to reduce their costs by optimizing current operations through reorganization rather than introducing new logistics, distribution or production methods,” Statistics Canada says.

Likewise, according to Statistics Canada, Cana-

dian enterprises seem to be pulling back on investments in advanced technology.

In 2012, some 36.5 per cent of all enterprises in surveyed industries invested in at least one type of advance technology in 2012, compared to 49.9 per cent in 2009.

Investment in advanced technology is an important indicator of innovation.

While Canada can count on growth in global demand for mineral, energy, food and forest products, this is not enough to sustain a high standard of living in Canada.

There is a need to focus much more on growing our knowledge-based companies.

At present, there is great attention to start-ups.

But much greater attention needs to be paid to scaling up more of our established companies for global competition.

Small business has its place, but larger business is critical in the global marketplace.

It is one thing for government to travel the world signing trade agreements.

But if we fail to develop high-value Canadian companies that can take advantage of these trade deals, then the full potential of wealth and job creation gains will fail to materialize.

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

Hockey fans drift slapshot over beer cups LAWSUIT LAUNCHED AFTER BIG, SMALL CUPS EXPOSED AS HOLDING SAME AMOUNT OF BEER Hotdogs are to baseball as beer is A suds experiment was demonstratto hockey. And the suds are taken very ed at the arena and recorded by fan seriously among many diehard hockey Gwen Gibbs, showing the amount of fans. beer in the small cups also In fact, so serious that filled the larger cups. Gibbs a group of fans in the U.S. then posted the evidence on have recently launched YouTube, triggering a howl at $10,000 lawsuit against of protests, followed by four the CenturyLink Arena in Steelheads’ fans launching Boise, Idaho, for allegedly the lawsuit. shorting them of their beer It’s alleged the arena was poured in a cup. imposing a penalty call of With the NHL teams now $3 against those choosing in the heat of scrambling the larger cups. for playoff positions, the It’s also suspected the suds are flowing big time. same-size servings, but at But “big” in Boise does not different prices, may have RICK necessarily mean “more,” been poured for the past ZEMANEK as some angry hockey buffs five years at arena events. following the East Coast Here’s the YouTube link to Hockey League have found. the beer-experiment video: At a recent game between https://www.youtube.com/ the ECHL’s Idaho Steelheads and the watch?v=94-FTyjjwBA Las Vegas Wranglers, fans preferring “While different shapes, both cup the bigger helping of the brew were sizes hold substantially the same paying US$7 for the tall, 20-ounce cups. amount of liquid and are not large Those choosing to savour a small- versus small in actual capacity,” the er version of the golden refreshment group’s attorney, Wyatt Johnson, wrote were paying $4 for a shorter, wider in the lawsuit.

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Johnson alleges the “Defendants Large or small, it was discovered knowingly sold each of their beers in both cups held the same amount of a similar manner at each event held beer. Oops! at the arena where beer was sold for a The revelation came to light when least the last five years.” one Idaho hockey/beer aficionado disIn response to the revealing video, covered the size of the cups were de- according to Internet accounts, Centuceiving. ryLink Arena is scrambling to correct

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“that problem” by appeasing fans with a bargain on beer.

“It was recently brought to our attention that the amount of beer that fits in our large (20-ounce) cups also fits in our regular (16-ounce) cups,” said CenturyLink Arena president Eric Trapp.

“The differentiation in the size of the two cups is too small,” said Trapp.

“To correct that problem, we’re purchasing new cups for the large beers that will hold 24 ounces, instead of 20, for the remainder of this season to provide better value for our fans.”

Gibbs said earlier she was “annoyed” when she saw her boyfriend, Heath Forsey (the fan conducting the experiment in her posted video), poured beer from the small cup, filling the larger cup.

“It’s amazing what can be done with one little video and the power of social media,” Gibbs said in an interview, joking that she hoped CenturyLink would rename the new 24-ounce cups the “Heath and Gwen size.”

Associated Press has waded into the beer debate, saying that despite the larger cups, one will get a better deal in the long run by ordering smaller servings.

It reports: “Regular draft beer costs $4 at the arena. Large beers cost $7.

Even with the change (to larger cups), there is still a better value in the small cups. Forty-eight ounces of beer costs

$14 if you purchase two large beers or $12 if you purchase three regular beers.”

To depart from the beer fiasco for a moment, those not familiar with the Idaho Steelheads, or the Las Vegas Wranglers, avid hockey buffs will attest we are dealing with serious hockey.

The ECHL is a mid-level professional league, generally regarded as a tier below the American Hockey League.

Both the ECHL and the AHL are recognized by the collective bargaining agreement between the National Hockey League and the NHL Players’ Association.

Twenty-six of the 30 NHL teams have affiliations with the ECHL, and most recent statistics show that at least 528 players have advanced from the ECHL to play in the NHL. The ECHL celebrated its 25th anniversary this year.

Here’s a link to the 20 best NHL players who got their starts in that league: http://bleacherreport.com/ articles/1512153-20-best-nhl-playersthat-got-a-start-in-the-echl Such talent attests to why the ECHL teams have a robust, loyal following in the U.S. These are fans who understand the game, and pledge allegiance to beer as being part of the tradition — so don’t mess with tradition when pouring the suds.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

Sometimes you just happen to have a perfect day Tuesday was a good day all around. It seemed that everything we did just went super smooth.

Breakfast was a little slower than usual, so I was able to concentrate on our shopping list; and then shopping seemed to go very quickly and without any difficulties.

And we had the afternoon to look forward to as we would have a guest cook.

Five years ago, we would have this gentle man with a ready smile and a humble spirit come to the kitchen occasionally.

CHRIS His pleasant attitude made SALOMONS him a pleasure to serve. Since then, he has dropped in occasionally; always with that pleasant smile and to ask how things were going.

Then about five months ago he let it be known that he was a cook, and would I like it if he came and made soup once. I was at that time a little hesitant, because he was talking about won-ton soup.

What I know of this soup, which a lot of people like, is that it is flavoured water with a few small pasta-wrapped particles in it.

When I make a soup, I like to stand a spoon up in it. I use to have a volunteer named Ada, who would chide and then cajole me into adding more liquid;

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but I just happen to like a thick hearty soup.

So this man’s offer was not eagerly accepted.

Then a week ago, he came and started a conversation during which once again he offered to do a Chinese meal.

Complete!

This time I did not hesitate, and so we set a time for this past Tuesday.

This then is what we were looking forward to.

I like Oriental cooking and so I would watch this man like a hawk, gleaning what knowledge I could.

So when he came and started cooking, I watched and learned and we had a conversation during which he asked a lot of questions concerning Potter’s Hands, where did we get our funding, etc.

As we were having our discussion, two people came in; first a man, and then a woman.

On both of them, it took about 20 to 30 seconds to recognize them as having been recipients of the kitchen’s fare several years ago. The change in both of them was so dramatic that they were almost unrecognizable.

The six-foot-plus man in question had struggled with a crack addiction for many years, and when he left here to go to treatment, I don’t think he was any more than 125 pounds soaking wet.

The man in front of me was now close to 200 pounds, looking healthy and happy. “I just wanted to come and say thank you for all you people did for me and others.”

He went on to say where he now lived and worked, and he was seeing a lady who he hoped to marry in

the near future.

Shortly after this, a young woman came in. She wore a smile that stretched across her full plump face and would have required a scraper to remove.

“I came into town to see a doctor, but I wanted to see you and let you know that I’m doing just awesome!”

One look at this beautiful, well dressed, joyful lady was all I needed to see that indeed she was doing fine.

As we continued cooking, the guest cook took his time, but eventually he asked if these had been volunteers before.

“No,” I replied, “they used to use the kitchen when they lived on the street.”

He had some difficulty accepting the fact that these people actually at one time had no home, and that they slept in open vestibules or any nook or cranny they could find.

The supper was fantastic and a real hit with all who came to eat, so when it was time to close up shop for the day, I stopped to take a look around the kitchen and dining room, pondering the fact that indeed this had been a blessed day, what with the fantastic meal and these two drop-in guests.

I am so fortunate to be involved in this work, and I know that it is all worth the effort.

So thank you Peter for helping to make this day perfect.

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

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SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2014 LEFT: A local Ma and Pa operation or a small town inn like the one pictured here will usually have better prices than sleek big city hotel chains.

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There are many ways to experience

ABOVE: Visiting a local market allows you to interact with local producers and purchase the freshest foods at the best prices.

LEFT: Look for fun free things to do. This local concert was a held once per week.

Europe on the cheap A

lthough Europe is one of the smallest continents, there is such a wide variety

of landscapes, architecture, history, cultures and foods that many travellers still call it “The Continent” — as if there weren’t half a dozen others on the planet.

With 28 countries in DEBBIE the European OLSEN Union alone, a trip to Europe takes a traveller through different countries and cultures making memories that last a lifetime.

There are plenty of reasons to go,

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but hopping across the pond is no small undertaking and the travel costs alone can deter some people from actually booking the trip they have always dreamed of taking. Even though airfares can be expensive and exchange rates can be high, there are ways to stretch your dollar and experience more of The Continent for less.

When to go If you can travel during the offseason, you’ll generally get a cheaper airfare, find more budget rooms, and spend less time in lineups to see the major sites.

In general, October through April is the slower season in Europe. Spring and fall have pleasant temperatures, but the major sites are interesting at any time of year.

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ABOVE: July and August are peak travel times in most of Europe. You can avoid crowds like to one pictured here near St. Mark’s Square in Venice by travelling during the spring or fall.

RIGHT: It’s fun to see unique local products on sale. Cockle shells are pictured here.

Goodbye, Red Deer. Hello, Europe.

Enjoy the most daily flights to Europe via Calgary.

Book at aircanada.com or call your travel agent.

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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Stop at farmers markets and you can stock up on great local products like Welsh cakes pictured here. Hop-on-hop-off buses can be a good value, because you get a tour and transportation to the major sites all in one. Local subways can also get you to the major sites in many cities, though.

Many European cities have great rail service from the downtown area of the city to the airport and it’s much cheaper and more efficient to use it than to take a cab. The Leonardo Express pictured here takes you from the airport to the city centre in about 30 minutes.

Where to go London and Paris are amazing cities to visit, but they tend to be more costly than some of the other Eastern European cities like Krakow, Prague or Budapest.

To save money, you could plan to spend less time in the expensive cities and more time in the less costly ones.

Small villages outside the major centres also tend to have less costly food and accommodations and provide an authentic cultural experience.

Hopping the pond When you’re booking flights to Europe, it is generally best to book as far ahead as possible.

Flights may go up in price when you wait and good lower priced accommodations can sell out. If you are planning to visit several countries in one trip, you may be able to save time and money by booking an open jaw flight that goes into one city and comes home from another.

This saves you having to double back to your starting point.

If you are planning to visit London and several other countries, you’ll generally save money by flying into London and home from another European city instead of the other way around.

This is because London has a very high tax added to departing flights.

Getting around ● There was a time when rail was the best way to get from one country to another in Europe and today it is still a great option — though not always the least costly one.

Budget airlines like Ryanair (ryanair.com), EasyJet (easyjet.com) and Vueling (vueling.com) have made flying less cost prohibitive.

One catch is that baggage weights are more strict on these airlines and they weigh all bags including carry-ons to ensure they are within limits. Extra weight fees can be very expensive.

Travel light and you’ll have no worries.

If you know your bags will be overweight, purchase extra baggage allowance in advance and save money. You may also want to pay a little extra to preassign your seat and get early boarding. ● If there are several people travelling together, a car rental may be the least costly and most conve-

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Travel to the U.S. in January down from December: Statistics Canada OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says Canadian residents took 4.5 million trips to the United States in January, down 2.4 per cent from December.

Overnight car trips were down 4.9 per cent, while same-day car travel declined 1.1 per cent. Trips to overseas countries fell 0.4 per cent.

Meanwhile, the overall number of foreign visitors to Canada fell by 2.1 per cent in January.

U.S. residents made 3.0 per cent fewer trips to Canada in January, while there was a 1.7 per cent increase in the number of overseas travellers.

U.S. residents made 1.6 million trips to Canada, the lowest monthly number of trips since October 2009.

Same-day car trips were down 1.7 per cent from December while overnight car trips declined 2.6 per cent.

Morocco’s tourism industry sees 2013 boost with 10 million visitors RABAT, Morocco — Morocco’s tourism minister says a record-breaking 10 million people visited the North African country in 2013, indicating the industry is recovering from the setbacks of the Arab Spring revolutions.

After several years of flat growth, Morocco on Tuesday reported a 7.2 per cent increase in arrivals

transmission, you’ll usually save a substantial amount on rental costs. ● Bring your own GPS from home and it will save you the cost of renting one and make it easier to navigate in places where you don’t speak the language.

Rail passes

There are two prices at many European cafes — the counter price and the table price. In most cases, you save money by eating standing up at the counter as opposed to sitting down at a table.

Rail tickets and passes are cheaper when booked in advance from Canada, because there are special discounts for tourists.

Sometimes a rail pass can save you money and sometimes it can be cheaper to book point-to-point tickets.

To determine which is best, consult a travel agent or visit www.raileurope.ca.

Museum passes ● Many major cities have museum passes that are a real bargain and provide express entry into museums and attractions. The Paris Pass (www. parispass.com) for example, allows you to avoid the long lineups at the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower and other great attractions and saves you money. Some museum passes include transit passes in the cost. ● Purchasing tickets in advance online can also allow you to skip long lineups. The wait for the Vatican Museum and the Colosseum in Rome can take several hours if you don’t purchase tickets in advance.

Car rental considerations ● Check the licensing requirements for the countries you plan to drive in. You may need an International Driving Permit (IDP) to drive in some countries and if you don’t have it and are stopped by the police, you can get a big ticket. You can obtain an IDP at any AMA office in Alberta for about $25. ● Some rental companies restrict travel to certain countries. Make sure you are allowed to drive your rental vehicle into the countries you plan to visit before going there. If anything happens to the vehicle while you are in a country where you are not allowed to be, you could pay a hefty fee. ● It’s also a good idea to make sure you have car rental insurance before arriving at the car rental counter. There are credit cards that have good coverage, but you have to make sure you charge the rental to the card with the coverage or you won’t be insured. ● Car rentals are almost always wasted in a large city, because traffic is congested and parking can be costly. You are better off using public transit in most cities and saving the car rental for the day you are leaving. ● If you are able to drive a vehicle with manual since 2012.

Morocco, whose beaches, exotic cities and pristine mountains are popular among Europeans, relies on tourism for 10 per cent of its GDP, the secondlargest contributor after agriculture.

Tourism Minister Lahcen Haddad reported a 9 per cent increase in the number of nights in tourist hotels but earnings were nearly the same as 2012 at $7.2 billion. He predicted another 8 per cent increase for arrivals in 2014.

Tourism dropped across North Africa amid the unrest generated by the Arab Spring revolutions, especially in Tunisia and Egypt.

U.S.-based tour companies offering variety of D-Day-themed trips to Normandy NEW YORK — With the 70th anniversary of the DDay approaching, many travel companies are offering tours that include stops connected to the history of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, during the Second World War. D-Day took place on June 6, 1944, and was a turning point in the Allies’ defeat of the Nazis. President Barack Obama, Queen Elizabeth II and other dignitaries are expected to join French President Francois Hollande in marking the anniversary.

Many of the tour itineraries include visits to the beaches where Allied troops landed, along with nearby museums, cemeteries and related stops.

Some tours include trips around the region, taking in the countryside with wine- and cider-tasting and visits to castles, while others head to Paris. Most of the tours are being offered throughout the spring, summer and fall.

Among the U.S. Tour Operators Association member companies offering D-Day-themed itineraries are Grand European Travel, Collette, AHI Travel and VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacation, which all

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Accommodations Check out bed-and-breakfast-style accommodations, hostels (some have private rooms with en suites), college dorm rentals and apartment rentals to save money on accommodations in Europe.

Currency considerations

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Almost nobody travels with traveller’s cheques anymore.

ATMs are plentiful in Europe and the exchange rates are excellent.

There are fees each time you use an ATM though, so you should try to take out as much money as you will need for a few days at a time.

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Most McDonald’s Restaurants in Europe have free Wi-Fi. Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story that we might interview, please email: DOGO@telusplanet.net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.

have trips with prices starting at under $3,000 a person (excluding airfare). Adventures by Disney prices start under $6,000, while Cox & Kings starts at $8,995 and Abercrombie & Kents start at $11,895.

Several river cruise companies offer day trip excursions to Normandy by motor coach from Rouen. Other travel companies offering Normandy tours range from Road Scholar to Classic Journeys, while the National WWII Museum in New Orleans is also sponsoring a D-Day-themed trip to Normandy this fall.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 22, 2014 B3

FAA says Boeing 787 jet is safe DESPITE THE CUTTING-EDGE JET’S MANY PROBLEMS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

N.J. tourism broke record in 2013 despite Sandy

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Tourism promoters, business owners and even members of the Christie administration have been saying for months that tourism was down last year as a result of Superstorm Sandy.

But 2013 was actually a banner year for New Jersey, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno said Thursday at the state’s annual tourism conference in Atlantic City.

She said tourism accounted for $40.4 billion in economic activity last year, topping the previous record of nearly $40 billion set in 2012.

Her claim contradicts statements made last month

by Michele Brown, the state economic development chief, at hearings on Sandy relief aid. Brown said 2013’s tourism numbers were slightly below the 2012 figure.

“I read it like five times and I asked the people, ‘Are you sure about these numbers?”’ Guadagno said at the conference in the Golden Nugget Atlantic City.

“That’s the first summer after Sandy.”

Virginia Pellerin, a spokeswoman for the Economic Development Authority, said the report Guadagno cited Thursday contains new data that was not available earlier in the year.

She also said the tourism data Brown referenced included only the four shore counties, not the entire state.

The overall tourism statistics came from a report compiled for the state by Tourism Economics, a subsidiary of the U.K.-based Oxford Economics firm.

It said visitor spending increased by 1.3 per cent in 2013, and total visitation to New Jersey increased by nearly 6 per cent to 87.2 million.

Guadagno also said construction of and investment in tourism facilities was up 24 per cent last year — not surprising given the amount of damage that needed to be repaired after Sandy and from a devastating boardwalk fire in Seaside Heights and Seaside Park.

An informal Associated Press survey of beachfront business owners in Monmouth and Ocean counties just before Labor Day found many reporting sales had fallen by 30 per cent in the summer of 2013.

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A man leaves New York’s Criminal Court Building. Night Court is one of New York’s more peculiar and paradoxical tourist traditions, a place visitors extol on travel websites while many residents hope never to wind up there. To travellers, it’s gritty entertainment, hard-knocks education or at least a chance to experience real-life law and order on a New York scale.

Justice of the peeps TOURISTS MAKE N.Y.C. NIGHT COURT A MUST-SEE LAW AND ORDER ATTRACTION

BY JENNIFER PELTZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Jenny Baumann’s itinerary for her first trip to New York City: Rockefeller Center.

The Empire State Building.

Central Park.

Night court.

In a city synonymous with theatres and nightlife, the 26-yearold from Munich was perched on a scarred wooden bench in a utilitarian room in lower Manhattan on a recent evening, straining to decode — sometimes even to hear — the methodical hubbub of arraignments in one of the nation’s busiest courts.

“It’s very interesting to hear real cases,” Baumann said as she and a friend watched a judge decide whether to set bail for people facing charges ranging from choking a girlfriend to stealing a sixpack of beer.

Each case was handled in a matter of minutes amid a hive of clerks shuffling paperwork, police taking retinal scans, defendants and lawyers conferring in a confessional-sized glass booth and court officers occasionally bellowing, “Quiet, please!”

It’s one of New York’s more peculiar and paradoxical tourist traditions, a place visitors extol on travel websites while many residents hope never to wind up there.

To travellers, it’s gritty entertainment, hard-knocks education or at least a chance to experience real-life law and order on a New York scale.

Dozens of jurisdictions nationwide hold some court sessions at night, but Manhattan Criminal Court occupies a unique spot in the public’s imagination, thanks to TV’s Law & Order and Night Court, not to mention arraignments of real-life notables ranging from rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs to French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

The court handles more than 100,000 arrests a year, averaging about 70 to 90 cases during the 5 p.m.-1 a.m. night session — and that doesn’t count people who got summonses, let alone New York

City’s four other boroughs.

Established in 1907, Manhattan night court once attracted such spectators as John D. Rockefeller and the then-Duke of Manchester.

More recently, it’s been noted in tour books, including once in the off-the-beaten-path-prizing Lonely Planet guide.

“This is something that feels really underground and unique,” said Regis St. Louis, author of the current Lonely Planet New York book.

defence work there.

But if it can be entertaining to watch, it’s fraught and serious work, notes acting State Supreme Court Justice Melissa Jackson, the Criminal Court’s supervising judge from 2008 through 2012.

“From the judge’s perspective and all of the attorneys’ who work so hard, there’s nothing amusing about it,” she said.

“And the stakes are very high.”

Those stakes are measurable on the faces of audience members hoping to bail out loved ones or discovering they can’t.

Some spectators develop mixed feelings about being there.

“Had I come to — REGIS ST. LOUIS, AUTHOR OF THE CURRENT LONELY PLANET NEW YORK BOOK l e a r n s o m e t h i n g about the American legal system or to watch a wrestling Night court is so popular that match?” Michael Coto wrote on veteran clerk Robert Smith has Triphoney, his New York travelbecome an impromptu tour guide guide site, after a 2011 visit. for school groups from as far away But he found a powerful anas Denmark, judges from Japan swer as he reflected on what he and individual sightseers he spots was watching. in the audience.

“I started thinking about how “I try to make it informative” by this person’s rights are protectexplaining the process, he says. ed and what protects somebody Much about the experience in that position, the fact that you can be foreign even to those who can be in there and not have to aren’t foreigners. fend for yourself,” he recalled by Some arraignments gallop by in phone recently. a blur of jargon, and certain cases Some court tourists are legal are only-in-New-York by nature. workers or law students seeking “To people who live in a little to educate themselves about New community in Nebraska, what’s York’s justice system, or parents fare-beating?” asked Manhattan or who want to teach their chilstate Supreme Court Justice and dren about it. former Criminal Court SupervisAdam Jory Waxman and his ing Judge Charles Solomon, refer- wife took their 16-year-old son ring to the practice of not paying there last month while visiting for rides on public transportation. from the Atlanta area, hoping it “It’s eye-opening.” would be a lesson in choices and Lorraine Cheyne was surprised consequences. And it was. to see handcuffed people sitting “He saw that people got themnear her in the court audience — selves in trouble and that there that wouldn’t happen at home in wasn’t anything they could do Ranfurly, New Zealand. about it until a judge made a deciThe retired property manag- sion,” Waxman said. er was struck by the Manhattan After two hours in Manhattan court’s unceremonious bustle, night court, Baumann came away chatter and “very casual atmo- determined to observe a court sphere all round” during her late- back in Germany. As she left, Holafternoon visit last fall. ly Young was in the midst of her If visitors find allure in night own first visit to the Manhattan court, insiders understand why. court, waiting for a friend’s ar“It is a ’just-off-Broadway show’ raignment. with a cast of thousands, everGo there for fun? She shook her changing story lines ... real drama, head. as well as occasional comic re“That’s not something I would lief,” said Edward McCarthy, who want to do,” she said. “I don’t oversees the Legal Aid Society’s think this is cool at all.”

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WASHINGTON — Boeing’s design and manufacture of its cutting-edge 787 jetliner is safe despite the many problems encountered since the plane’s rollout, including a fire that forced a redesign of the its batteries, according to a report issued jointly Wednesday by the Federal Aviation Administration and the aircraft maker.

The yearlong review concluded “the aircraft was soundly designed, met its intended safety level, and that the manufacturer and the FAA had effective processes in place to identify and correct issues that emerged before and after certification,” the agency said in a statement.

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta asked for the review in January 2013 after a lithium-ion battery caught fire on a 787 parked at Logan International Airport in Boston.

A battery aboard another 787 failed less than two weeks later. Airlines around the world temporarily ground their 787 fleets after the incidents.

The 787, Boeing’s newest and most technologically advanced plane, has been hit by a variety of technical and safety glitches since its launch in 2011. It is the first airliner to make extensive use of lithium-ion batteries.

Since the FAA didn’t have safety regulations for those batteries as installed equipment in planes when the 787 was designed, the agency and Boeing jointly developed the special safety conditions the plane’s battery system should meet.

After the battery failures, the FAA was criticized for relying too heavily on designated Boeing employees to ensure the safety of the plane’s design and manufacture.

“The (report’s) findings validate our confidence in both the design of the airplane and the disciplined process used to identify and correct in-service issues as they arise,” said Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner.

A National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the battery fire in Boston is still underway.

The report was not intended to address the battery’s design, but rather the overall safety of Boeing’s design and manufacture of the plane and the adequacy of FAA’s oversight.

The report also makes several recommendations for improvement by Boeing and FAA. It says Boeing should ensure suppliers are fully aware of their responsibilities, establish a way to ensure suppliers identify realistic risks, and require suppliers to follow industry standards for personnel performing Boeing-required inspections.

The report recommended that the FAA make changes to its oversight of the safety certification of new planes to take into account “new aircraft manufacturing business models.”

Boeing extensively outsourced the manufacture of many elements of the 787 to overseas suppliers. Suppliers sometimes then outsourced portions of their work to other companies.

Another report recommendation is that the FAA revise its production approval procedures “to more fully address complex, large-scale manufacturers with extended supply chains.”

“The review team identified some problems with the manufacturing process and the way we oversee it, and we are moving quickly to address those problems,” Huerta said.

Last month, an Air India Dreamliner, flying nonstop from Sydney to Delhi with 215 people on board, landed in Kuala Lumpur under emergency conditions after its cockpit panels suffered a software malfunction. There was a third battery incident in Japan in January, but Boeing officials said the problem appeared to have been contained by the new battery design.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2014

Chiefs blank Bobcats LEAD BEST-OF-FIVE SERIES 1-0

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Chiefs 2 Bobcats 0 With home ice advantage the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs were looking to get off to a good start in the best-of-five Alberta Midget Hockey League final against the Lloydminster Bobcats.

Mission accomplished as they recorded a tough 2-0 victory over the Bobcats before a near full house at the Arena Friday.

“The first game is certainly important as it sets the tempo for the rest of the series,” said Chiefs head coach Doug Quinn. “But then we also know we’re in for a tough game (Sunday) in their rink. They’re a strong, physical team and will be ready to play.”

The Chiefs started strong Friday, and grabbed a 1-0 lead at 12:46 of the first period on a goal by Layne Bensmiller.

“I thought we started well, but they started to push back and started to play more physical and I thought we stepped back a little bit,” said Quinn.

“But at the end of the day we did enough good things to win . . . I was happy with the effort.”

The Chiefs lost defenceman Travis Verveda in the first period when he was slammed into the boards from behind. It was only a two-minute boarding call, but most felt it should have been more.

“I thought so, but it’s playoff hockey and it’s going to be physical and tough and we have to deal with it and move on,” said Quinn, who hopes to have Verveda back shortly.

“He banged up his shoulder a little and hopefully he’s back right away.”

The Chiefs held a 15-2 edge in shots in the first period, but it wasn’t until 9:39 of the second period, when Trey deGraaf scored on the power play, that they managed to go up by two.

Despite deGraaf’s marker, Quinn felt the power play could have been better.

“Twice we had a five-on-three and could have put the game away, but didn’t, so it was a little closer than we wanted it to be,” he said.

The Chiefs finished with a 35-14 edge in shots and for the most part did

Photo by ROB WALLATOR/Freelance

Red Deer goalie Jayden Sittler stays focused on the puck during AAA midget action at the Arena. an excellent job of swarming the Lloydminster forwards in the defensive end. The only real problem they had came early in the second period when twice the Bobcats had what looked to be an open net during wild scrambles.

“They certainly have several strong offensive players, but overall we did a good job defensively,” added Quinn, who wasn’t surprised to see a close

game.

“One of the things I said after the game was that it’s a typical Red Deer game. We play well enough, get enough shots and scoring chances, but don’t score and in the end find a way to win.”

Jayden Sittler was steady in goal for Red Deer with Austin McGrath in net for the Bobcats.

The teams meet Sunday at 2 p.m. in Lloydminster with the third game Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Arena. If a fourth game is necessary it’s Thursday in Lloydminster with the fifth game, if needed, March 30 at 1:30 p.m., at the Arena. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Weber scores twice to lead Predators over Flames

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Nashville Predators’ Shea Weber (6) scores on Calgary Flames goalie Joni Ortio, of Finland, during first period NHL hockey action in Calgary on Friday.

Nashville 6 Calgary 5 CALGARY — Shea Weber scored twice, including the go-ahead goal late in the third period, Friday night as the Nashville Predators, despite blowing three leads, escaped with a 6-5 victory over the Calgary Flames.

Tied 4-4 and with the Predators on the power play, Weber took a perfect feed from Matt Cullen and blasted a high slapshot past Joey MacDonald from the face-off dot to put Nashville back into the lead at 14:28.

Canada’s Homan goes for gold at championship

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 8 Switzerland 3 SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Alison Kreviazuk banged her broom in frustration a few times after missing shots in the preliminary round at the Ford Women’s World Curling Championship.

Rachel Homan’s second had no reason to punish her broom Friday.

Kreviazuk’s showy raise triple takeouts in the third and fifth ends were key to Canada controlling their playoff game against Switzerland’s Binia Feltscher.

Homan followed up with impressive double takeouts in the eighth and ninth ends to cap an 8-3 win to send Canada to Sunday’s final.

“It’s all confidence right now,” Homan said. “We are feeling good.

“We are going to be nervous come the gold medal game, but it’s going to be a good thing. It means a lot to us and we want to bring back gold for Canada.”

Homan, third Emma Miskew, Kreviazuk and lead Lisa Weagle out of the Ottawa Curling Club will attempt to claim Canada’s first women’s world title since 2008, when Winnipeg Jennifer Jones won gold in Vernon, B.C. Jones went undefeated to win Olym-

pic gold in Sochi last month, so Homan’s foursome intend to make this a dominant year for Canadian women’s curling.

Homan will have last-rock advantage to start Sunday’s final. The Canadians went 10-1 to win the preliminary round in Saint John with one lopsided 8-4 loss to the Swiss on the second day of competition.

The Swiss, who finished second at 9-2, can still get to the final, but must win Saturday afternoon’s semifinal to gain a rematch.

“We hope to see Canada in Sunday’s final,” Swiss third Irene Schori said. “They played really well. We also played really good but Alison had two big shots that were awesome.”

Feltscher will take on the winner on Sunday morning’s playoff between third seed Russia’s Anna Sidorova and fourth seed South Korean’s Ji-sun Kim. The South Koreans claimed the fourth and final playoff berth with a 7-5 tiebreaker win earlier Friday over Sweden’s Margaretha Sigfridsson.

Miskew led all thirds in shooting percentage in the preliminary round.

The Canadian third executed beautiful clearing shots and hits and rolls during the week, but it was Kreviazuk, after an up and down few days, taking over in the highlight reel department Friday.

The 23-year-old also made a runback double in the sixth in front of 2,835 at Harbour Station.

“She played amazing and those runbacks she made were key to getting their rocks out of there because we were in trouble both those times, so really good on her,” Miskew said.

The shot of confidence came at the right time for Kreviazuk.

“It’s definitely going up a lot higher,” the second said. “It’s been frustrating throughout the week managing the ice, the rocks.

“It takes a toll on your confidence sometimes, but ultimately you’ve got to believe you’re a great thrower and you’re dealing with the best scenario you possibly can and sometimes it’s going to be tricky. Just go back to the basics and do what you know you can do.”

Homan’s team took bronze in their world championship debut last year in Riga, Latvia, where they had to come through a tiebreaker to get into playoffs.

Homan won her playoff between the third and fourth seeds, but missed a double takeout with her last shot of the semifinal to give up a steal of one and the win to eventual world champion Eve Muirhead of Scotland.

Please see HOMAN on Page B5

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Weber’s 18th goal ties him with Ottawa’s Erik Karlsson for second in the NHL among defencemen, one back of Winnipeg’s Dustin Byfuglien.

Cullen added his seventh goal of the season at 17:08 on a deflection and that would turn out to be the winning goal after Mike Cammalleri’s second of the night 28 seconds later set up a furious final two-and-a-half minutes for the Flames, who buzzed around the Predators net and did everything but tie it against back-up goaltender Carter Hutton.

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WHL

BRIEFS Bartosak an all-star Red Deer Rebels graduating netminder Patrik Bartosak has been named to the Western Hockey League Eastern Conference second all-star team.

The second team also consists of defenceman Griffin Reinhart of the Edmonton Oil Kings and Julius Honka of the Swift Current Broncos, and forwards Curtis Valk of the Medicine Hat Tigers, Jaedon Descheneau of the Kootenay Ice and the Regina Pats’ Chandler Stephenson.

The Eastern Conference first allstar features Edmonton’s Tristain Jarry in goal, defencemen Josh Morrissey of the Prince Albert Raiders and Ryan Pollock of the Brandon Wheat Kings, and forwards Sam Reinhart of the Ice, Leon Draisailt of the Raiders and Curtis Lazar of the Oil Kings.

Meanwhile, Red Deer native and Tri-City Americans defenceman Mitch Topping is the Western Conference finalist for the humanitarian of the year award.

(See Western Conference all-star teams and WHL awards finalists in Scoreboard of Page B7)

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Midget Chiefs let leads slip away TIE LLOYDMINSTER, LOSE TO CALGARY TO END PROVINCIALS RUN

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer iHotel Chief Jarvis Gaume gets a shot on goal against the Lethbridge Hurricane goalie Shave Abbott during the Hockey Alberta Peewee A Provincial championships taking place this weekend at the KinCity Arenas.

Host Peewee Chiefs start strong at provincials

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Colby Phillips and Jarvis Gaume each sniped a pair of goals to lead the host Red Deer Chiefs to a 6-5 win over the Lethbridge ‘Canes in provincial peewee A hockey championship action Friday at Kinsmen Arenas.

Riley Sitko and Connor Fenton also scored for the Chiefs, who watched their opponents close the gap with three goals in the final five minutes of the game.

Rylan Nikles paced the ‘Canes with two goals.

Chiefs netminder Logan Breen made 33 saves, while Shaye Abbott stopped 32 shots for Lethbridge.

In other morning contests, the Ponoka Stampeders doubled Rocky Mountain 6-3, the Stettler Storm blew past Lloydminster Physio 8-1 and the St. Albert Mission, with Blake Sydlowski firing six goals and Cameron Aucoin scoring five, crushed Grande Prairie 13-1.

Noah Hackett fired five goals, including four in the second period, as the Stampeders cruised to victory.

Reagan Rabbitt had the other Ponoka marker and Madison McLaren made 33 saves as the winning netminder.

The Storm erupted for three unanswered goals in each of the first two periods en route to their blowout win. Isaac Lee led the way with a hat-trick performance, while Jackson Squires and Daylan Kuefler each tallied twice and Austin Jacobson added a single goal.

Stettler goaltender Wade Smith turned aside 20 shots.

The tournament was set to resume this morning with Red Deer facing Grande Prairie at 9 a.m. and Lethbridge going against St. Albert at 9:15 a.m.

Stettler will do battle with Ponoka at 11:15 a.m. and the Lloydminster-Rocky Mountain game will start 15 minutes later.

Grande Prairie will face Lethbridge at 4 p.m. and the Chiefs will conclude the day’s action with a 4:15 p.m. clash with St. Albert.

The semifinals will be played at 8 and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday, with the championship game to follow at 4 p.m.

Ont., and finished in a tie for third with Mohawk College of Hamilton. The two meet in a tie-breaker with the winner facing Humber in the semifinal.

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High school basketball teams fall short

College curlers have shot at championship SAULT STE MARIE, Ont. — Kaitlyn Sherrer and her RDC women’s curling team are going for gold at the Canadian Colleges championships.

Sherrer along with Julie Primrose, Courtney Smith, Taylor Eno and Jessica Newmann won a trio of games Friday to finish round-robin play with a 6-1 record, which gives them a bye into the today’s final, set for 5 p.m. (MDT).

Sherrer opened the day with an impressive 9-4 victory over NAIT, putting the game away with three in the eighth. She then counted a deuce in the 10th end to edge Fanshawe College of London, Ont., 7-6 and completed the day with an 8-7 extra end victory over Grant MacEwan.

NAIT also lost to Humber College of Etobicoke,

The Red Deer teams both split a pair of games in the provincial 4A high school basketball championships Friday.

The Lindsay Thurber Raiders opened the day with a 62-54 win over Strathcona in girls’ consolation quarter-final play in Lethbridge then dropped a 6451 decision to Medicine Hat. The Hunting Hills Lightning lost their boys’ consolation quarter-final game 98-73 to host Magrath, then downed Lloydminster 85-48 in a placement game.

Meanwhile, in 3A boys’ action in Lethbridge the Ponoka Broncs were defeated 82-75 by Holy Trinity in A-side quarter-final action.

In 2A boys’ play the Central Alberta Christian High School Knights of Lacombe lost 69-65 to Holy Redeemer in consolation play.

Ian Vanderhoek had 27 points and Geoffrey Noordhol 14 for the Knights.

In 3A girls’ action Wetaskiwin lost 60-40 to Eagle Butte.

The Red Deer Northstar Chiefs inability to hang onto leads eventually cost them a playoff berth in the provincial minor midget AAA hockey championships.

The Chiefs went into Friday’s final two games of round-robin play needing at least two points to have a chance at making the top four and reaching the semifinals.

They led both games, but in the end battled the Lloydminster Rage to a 2-2 tie at the Kinex Friday morning then blew a 4-1 lead and lost 5-4 to the Calgary Rangers at the Arena in the afternoon.

It was the second time in the six-team tournament the Chiefs let a 4-1 lead slip away. They led their opening game against the Edmonton Canadians 4-1 only to tie 4-4.

The power play played a major role in the loss to the Rangers, who scored three times with the man advantage. They tallied twice in the second period to narrow the gap to 4-3, then tied the game with a power play goal by Kevin Pierce at 9:23 of the third period.

Chiefs head coach Justin Jarmolicz was anything but pleased with the penalties.

“The boys battled hard and the referee was the difference, you can print that,” said Jarmolicz.

“We’re up 4-1 and the marginal calls started to go against us because we were up 4-1. That shifted the whole game and it continued into the third period and it cost us the game, “Our power play wasn’t that good and they have a very good power play and that’s what we wanted to stay away from. Then we start getting penalties for the same thing they were doing, but the calls go against us. It’s tough to take for those boys in there.

It cost them their season.”

The loss cost the Chiefs any chance of a playoff berth.

“A tie might have worked, that’s how tight this tournament was,” said Jarmolicz, who did say his team started to run out of gas.

“We’re banged up a bit plus we had a suspension this morning, losing Landon MacKenzie, which hurt us on defence, but the rest of the guys hung in there . . . I’m proud of them.”

The Rangers jumped into a 1-0 lead at 1:44 of the first period on a goal by Alex Loewen, but the Chiefs exploded for three goals in less than 30 seconds to take the lead. Ryan Chambers scored at 4:21, Matthew Froehlick at 4:42 and Gerritt Verhoeven at 4:50.

Reed Engman connected on the power play at 14:17.

Cooper Johnson and Jake Ashton scored for the Rangers in the second period with Ashton eventually netting the winner at 13:30 of the third.

The Rangers had 29 shots on Red Deer’s Lane Congdon while the Chiefs managed 22 shots on Nick Sanders.

In the morning, Froehlick and Chambers scored for the Chiefs, who led 2-1 after 40 minutes.

MacGregor Sinclair and Zane Zaber, who got the tying marker in the third period, connected for the Rage.

“We didn’t get any bounces in the morning game and just couldn’t get that third goal,” said Jarmolicz.

“However, in the first period tonight we had the bounces going our way, but couldn’t carry the momentum through.”

Despite the loss Jarmolicz was proud of his team that finished eighth in the South Division during the season.

“I was proud of the way they played in the playoffs. They ramped it up. This was their best weekend of the season, which is what you want at the end.” drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Scott takes seven-shot lead at Bay Hill, ties 36-hole record

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ORLANDO, Fla. — Adam Scott keeps putting his name in the Bay Hill record book, each round moving him closer to another handshake with The King.

One day after Scott opened with a record-tying 62 in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, he hit his stride around the turn Friday with five birdies in an eight-hole stretch to leave everyone else far behind. Even with a three-putt bogey on his final hole, Scott still had a 4-under 68 for a seven-shot lead.

He was at 14-under 130, matching the 36-hole record at Bay Hill first set

by Tom Watson and Andy Bean in 1981.

And his seven-shot margin at the halfway point shattered the previous record held by Tiger Woods in 2002 and Paul Azinger in 1988.

Scott sounds like he’s not the least bit satisfied.

“The challenge might be just to start again and try and play a great 36 holes,” he said. “Start fresh and try to be the leader after the next 36.”

That would merit a visit with Arnold Palmer, the tournament host known simply as “The King” in golf circles.

Scott has spoken glowingly all week about his first invitation to Bay Hill when he was 20. Walking off the first green, Palmer was in a cart to greet

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NHL: Preds snap losing streak Victor Bartley, Patric Hornqvist and Viktor Stalberg scored for Nashville (30-31-10), which snapped a three-game losing skid, and Centre Calle Jarnkrok had an assist in his NHL debut.

Kris Russell, Jiri Hudler and Mikael Backlund also scored for Calgary (28-35-7), which lost for only the third time in their last dozen games at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

Leading 2-1 after the first period, Nashville increased its margin to two when Hornqvist batted a centring pass out of the air and past rookie goaltender Joni Ortio at 4:10.

It was the first of five goals in a wide open, back and forth and middle period in which both starting goaltenders would be pulled.

Cammalleri’s eighth goal in his last 10 games drew the Flames back to within one at 6:23. With the puck teed up to him in the slot by Russell, Cammalleri blasted a slapshot past Pekka Rinne for his 21st goal.

Fifty-one seconds later, the game was back even with Mark Giordano’s snapshot from the blue-line being tipped by Hudler to tie it 3-3.

It didn’t remain that way for long, however, as less than a minute later the Predators struck back on Stalberg’s eighth of the year, which prompted

him with a handshake, and Scott was amazed that Palmer knew his name.

Now he’s the Masters champion, and the 33-year-old Australian is playing like one.

J.B. Holmes (69), Chesson Hadley (68) and Francesco Molinari of Italy (70) were tied for second at 7-under.

Keegan Bradley had the low score of the blustery second round with a 67, putting him in a group at 138 that included Brandt Snedeker (71) and Jamie Donaldson of Wales (71).

“I think I’m 10 behind and playing pretty well for two rounds,” said Snedeker, who was off by two. “He’s playing pretty phenomenal. He’s going to be a tough guy to catch. A guy that

Flames coach Bob Hartley to bring in veteran backup goaltender MacDonald.

Ortio left after giving up four goals on 13 shots.

It was just over five minutes later when Rinne would join Ortio as a spectator.

Showing tremendous hustle, Lance Bouma raced in after Brian McGrattan’s dump-in and got to the puck along the end boards before Rinne was able to play it. Bouma immediately sent a pass in front that Backlund fired into the empty net with Rinne caught way out of position.

In his 33-plus minutes, Rinne stopped 14 of the 18 shots he faced.

Hutton stopped 10-of-11 shots to earn the victory and improve to 16-11-4.

MacDonald was tagged with the loss to fall to 4-4-1.

He had six saves on eight shots.

Nashville got off to a fast start beating Ortio on both of its first two shots.

At 5:10, Bartley scored his first NHL goal, one-timing a slapshot through Ortio’s pads after a nice pass from Craig Smith.

Just 49 seconds later, Weber finished off a giveand-go with Mike Fisher on an odd-man rush to make it 2-0 for the visitors.

Looking for a spark, the Flames got it just before the first ended on Russell’s power play goal with 34 seconds left in the period.

It’s the fourth time in a row that Calgary has pulled its starting goaltender and ended up winning.

Notes: Kenny Agostino made his NHL debut for the Flames. He played left wing on a line with rookies Sean Monahan and Joe Colborne. Agostino’s parents flew in from New Jersey for the game... Calgary

hits it as good as he does and seems to have a complete game like he has, and the way he’s playing now, he’s not going to come backward. Seems like an awfully special week if you can get close to him.”

Scott played in the afternoon, when the course began to get firm under two days of full sunshine, and the pace on the greens began to quicken. No one ever got closer than his three-shot lead to start the round, though there were two pivotal moments.

He holed a 15-foot par putt on the first hole to calm his nerves, and he hit a gorgeous shot out of the rough from 167 yards and made a 12-foot birdie on the ninth.

RW Jiri Hudler (upper body) returned after missing seven games... Sidelined with upper body injuries sustained in Nashville’s last game were LW Nick Spaling, RW Patrick Eaves and C Paul Gaustad....

Agostino is the eighth player to make his NHL debut with the Flames this season.

HOMAN: Team in need of rest The skip’s hitting game was in full force Friday, however. Her cross-house double takeout in the eighth negated Switzerland’s chance for two to get back in the game and brought Harbour Station to its feet.

With some scrubbing by front end Kreviazuk and Weagle, Homan squeaked by a guard for another double to score three in the ninth when the Swiss shook hands.

Because there’s two games at Harbour Station on Saturday, the Canadians will have to wait until Sunday to throw some pre-final rocks. That’s fine with Homan.

“I’m glad we have some rest. I wouldn’t have any voice tomorrow that’s for sure,” Homan said. “I know our sweepers are tired, especially after my last shot.

They need the rest and recovery as well.

“We’re ready. We need rest more than we need to play. We’re playing really well. The more rested and mentally prepared we are for Sunday, the better off we’ll be.”

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 22, 2014

Mercer gets in on the madness KNOCKS OFF DUKE IN SECOND DAY OF NCAA TOURNAMENT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. — Jakob Gollon scored 20 points and Mercer pulled off the biggest upset in the NCAA tournament so far by knocking off Duke 78-71 on Friday in the second round.

The 14th-seeded and senior-laden Bears scored 11 straight points during the late 20-5 run that clinched the biggest victory in school history. It was the second one-and-done in three years for the third-seeded Blue Devils.

Mercer, which came back from five points down in the last 4:52, won the Atlantic Sun conference championship. That’s the same conference that produced 2013 tournament darling Florida Gulf Coast.

Daniel Coursey added 17 points to help the Bears (27-8) overcome a season-high 15 3-pointers from Duke.

Quinn Cook scored 23 points for Duke (26-9) and Rasheed Sulaimon added 20.

Duke went up 63-58 with 4:52 left after freshman Jabari Parker converted a three-point play and Tyler Thornton hit three free throws.

Duke didn’t score again until the final minute. The Bears hit 12 of 14 free throws in the final 2 minutes and finished 23 of 28 from the line.

WICHITA STATE 64, CAL POLY 37 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Cleananthony Early had 23 points and unbeaten Wichita State faced no resistance from Cal Poly, going to 35-0 for the best start in NCAA history with a rout of Cal Poly.

The Shockers (35-0) dominated from the tip-off against the only team with a sub-.500 record in the tournament.

With the exception of Early, most of the glaring numbers were on defence.

The losers managed 13 points in the first half and shot 21 per cent.

Malik Love had nine points for Cal Poly (14-20), which won the Big West tournament as the No. 7 seed and beat Texas Southern in First Four game before being held to a season low for points. Chris Eversley, the Big West tourney MVP and coming off a 19-point game, was held to six points on 2-for-14 shooting.

TENNESSEE 86, MASSACHUSETTS 67 Jarnell Stokes scored a career-high 26 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to lead Tennessee.

Jordan McRae added 21 points for the Volunteers (23-12), the No. 11 seed

in the Midwest Regional. Tennessee had little trouble with the sixth-seeded Minutemen (24-9), shooting 54 per cent from the field and handling UMass’ fullcourt pressure in a surprisingly one-sided performance that included another solid defensive showing.

The Vols are in the NCAAs for the first time in three seasons, starting with a First Four overtime win against Iowa.

Chaz Williams and Maxie Esho scored 12 points each for UMass in its first NCAA appearance since 1998. The Minutemen fell behind by double figures early, trailed by 20 points before halftime and never got closer than 10 again.

SOUTH REGIONAL STANFORD 58, NEW MEXICO 53 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chasson Randle scored 23 points and Stanford made an impression in its first NCAA appearance since 2008.

The 10th-seeded Cardinal (22-12) built an early 16-point lead then held on after No. 7 seed New Mexico rallied to tie it midway through the second half. They got four crucial free throws from reserve Robbie Lemons and Randle in the final half-minute after New Mexico had cut the deficit to two points.

Cameron Bairstow had 24 points and eight rebounds but the Lobos (27-7) got off-days from their other top threats.

Kendall Williams and Alex Kirk, who together average 30 points, combined for just six.

KANSAS 80, EASTERN KENTUCKY 69 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Andrew Wiggins scored 19 points, Jamari Traylor and Perry Ellis had double-doubles and second-seeded Kansas pulled away down the stretch to beat pesky Eastern Kentucky.

Traylor finished with 17 points and 14 rebounds, and Ellis had 14 points and 13 boards for the Jayhawks (25-9), who trailed 56-53 with 9 minutes to go before their game-ending charge.

Glenn Cosey hit five 3-pointers and had 17 points for the 15th-seeded Colonels (24-10), the Ohio Valley Conference champions. Tarius Johnson and Eric Stutz finished with 15 points apiece.

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN 77, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH 75, OT SAN DIEGO (AP) — Desmond Haymon scored on an improbable fourpoint play with 3.6 seconds in regulation and hit a big 3-pointer in overtime

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Mercer guard Kevin Canevari (3) dances with team mates after the second half of an NCAA college basketball second-round game against Duke, Friday, March 21, 2014, in Raleigh, N.C. Mercer won 78-71. to lead No. 12 seed Stephen F. Austin to a win over fifth-seeded Virginia Commonwealth.

VCU (23-10) was firmly in control for most of the second half before SFA (322) rallied in the closing seconds.

Haymon hit one of the biggest — and most improbable — shots of what’s already been a wild March, knocking down a 3-pointer and a free throw after being fouled by Jordan Burgess at the end of regulation.

Haymon hit another 3-pointer to put SFA up with 2 minutes left, but VCU had a final shot after Thomas Walkup missed 1 of 2 free throws with 14 seconds left. JeQuan Lewis got an open 3-pointer, but it went long and SFA snared the rebound.

WEST REGIONAL BAYLOR 74, NEBRASKA 60 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Cory Jefferson scored 16 points and sixth-seeded Baylor kept 11th-seeded Nebraska winless in its NCAA tournament history.

The Bears (25-11) have won 11 of 13 after a dismal start in the Big 12, recapturing the kind of momentum that vaulted the Bears to the Elite Eight in 2010 and 2012.

Terran Petteway scored 18 points for Nebraska (19-13), which fell to 0-7

in tournament history.

The Cornhuskers hadn’t played on this stage since 1998 and often looked like it. Frustration boiled over for Big Ten coach of the year Tim Miles, who was ejected with 11 minutes left.

CREIGHTON 76, LOUISIANALAFAYETTE 66 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Doug McDermott scored 30 points and third-seeded Creighton got three huge 3-pointers in the second half from Ethan Wragge to beat Louisiana-Lafayette.

McDermott had a double-double by halftime but went scoreless for nearly 14 minutes of the second half, leaving it to Wragge’s long shots to bail out the Bluejays from a potential upset by the Ragin’ Cajuns, who attacked Creighton (27-7) with fearless defence and rebounding.

Elfrid Payton scored 24 points for Sun Belt tournament champion Louisiana-Lafayette (23-12), which led 50-48 before Wragge struck from long range to turn the momentum.

McDermott came into the tournament averaging 26.9 points per game and ranks fifth in NCAA history in career points. He has scored at least 30 points in four of Creighton’s last five games.

Raptors fall one point short Dineen looking like Hockey in overtime loss Canada’s go-to coach

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oklahoma City 119 Toronto 118 (OT) TORONTO — Kevin Durant poured in 51 points including a huge three-pointer with 1.7 seconds left to lift the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 119-118 victory over the Toronto Raptors in double overtime on Friday.

DeMar DeRozan scored 33 points to top the Raptors (38-30), in just their sixth loss at home in 22 outings. Kyle Lowry added 25 points, including a threepointer that forced a second overtime period, while Amir Johnson had 25 points and 12 rebounds, and Greivis Vasquez finished with 21 points.

Reggie Jackson added 25 points for the Thunder (51-18), while Russell Westbrook had 15 points before leaving the game in the third quarter with yet another knee injury.

Durant extended his scoring streak — of at least 25 points a game — to 34 consecutive games. It’s the league’s longest scoring streak since Michael Jordan’s 40-game run in 1986-87.

With the capacity crowd of 19,800 fans on their feet, and a playoff vibe palpable at Air Canada Centre, the Raptors dominated the second overtime period to nearly secure the hard-fought win. DeRozan pumped a victorious fist when he scored on a pullup jumper with 2:37 left to put Toronto up by five.

Fans chanted “M-V-P!” when Lowry stepped up to the line to sink two free throws that gave Toronto a nine-point lead. But the Thunder rallied to pull within two on a basket by Derek Fisher with 15.7 seconds left, then John Salmons missed on two free throws that surely would have sealed the victory for Toronto.

Then with 1.7 seconds on the clock and Johnson guarding him, Durant — the league’s leading scorer — calmly launched the three that sent the fans home unhappy.

The game had gone into a second overtime tied 107-107 thanks to a three-pointer by Lowry with seven seconds left.

The game was bad news for for Westbrook who sprained his surgically-repaired right knee and with 7:37 left in the third quarter. Lowry had inadvertently bumped into the same knee the Thunder player had undergone his third surgery on in late December.

Lowry apologized to Westbrook, as he was being

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Toronto Raptors coach Dwane Casey reacts in double over-time against the Oklahoma Thunder during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Friday, March 21, 2014. helped to the locker-room by teammate Hasheem Thabeet. Westbrook had sat out the Thunder’s 10295 win at Cleveland the previous night to rest his troublesome knee.

The Raptors trailed Oklahoma City 72-71 going into the fourth quarter in a scrappy see-saw affair that saw 22 lead changes. The Thunder stretched their lead to seven points when Jackson chucked up an alley-oop to Durant for a dunk with 9:14 left to play.

Toronto chipped away at it, eventually taking a 9089 lead with 3:08 left after a thrilling 30-second segment that saw five points and steal from DeRozan, and a basket by Johnson.

The Raptors were trailing by three with just under a minute to go when Johnson hit one of two free throws then a layup with 17 seconds to go to send the game into the first extra period 96-96.

The Raptors had beaten the Thunder 104-98 on Dec. 22 at Oklahoma, ending the Thunder’s 13-game unbeaten streak at home.

Kevin Dineen led the Canadian women’s hockey team to gold at the Sochi Olympics, then got the call to coach the men’s under-18 team at the world championship in April.

Is he becoming Hockey Canada’s go-to guy?

“I don’t know about that,” Dineen said. “Mike Babcock’s Canada’s guy as well. He’s pretty busy.”

Sure, Babcock’s still around after coaching Team Canada to back-to-back Olympic gold medals and is immersed in trying to help the Detroit Red Wings overcome a plethora of injuries to reach the playoffs.

And if NHL players return to the Olympics in 2018, Babcock would likely get the right of first refusal to go for three in a row.

But Dineen could play a major role in Canada getting to that point if he continues coaching internationally, a path he has taken since getting fired by the Florida Panthers in December.

“You’re hurt, you’re mad, you’re sad when you get fired,” Dineen said in a phone interview this week.

“But at the end of the day I look back at this as the last two months is one of the greatest experiences I’ve had in my whole life.”

Dineen considers himself a “product of Hockey Canada,” dating to his time playing in four world championships, the 1984 Olympics and the 1987 Canada Cup. “When I look back at my playing career I always consider that one of the best experiences that I had,” he said. “Now to get back and be on the coaching side of it, it’s a thrill, it really is.”

Dineen experienced the thrill of victory in Sochi with the women’s team after taking over for Dan Church, who resigned two months before the Olympics. Dineen wanted to ensure that Canada peaked at the right time.

It worked throughout an undefeated tournament that ended with a stunning overtime win over the United States for Canada’s fourth straight women’s gold medal. Then Dineen got to soak it all in.

Winnipeg Jets starting to heal down the stretch

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets held their own without them this week, but they could be getting three key players back for Saturday’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes.

Coach Paul Maurice said Friday he expects forwards Dustin Byfuglien and Jim Slater and defenceman Zach Bogosian to skate in the morning, and he’s fairly optimistic they will be able to dress for the game.

All three missed Wednesday’s game against the Colorado Avalanche but the Jets (32-30-9) still pulled a 5-4 overtime win out of the hat, keeping their playoff hopes alive at least for a little while. With 73 points, six behind Phoe-

nix in the eighth and last Western Conference spot, the Jets must pretty well win out to have a shot.

Bogosian, who has developed into one of the Jets top blue-liners, and Byfuglien, the team’s No. 3 scorer with 52 points, were on hand only for a team picture Friday. But Slater, one of Winnipeg’s best centres in the faceoff circle, skated with the rest of the team.

Slater is also a new father, as his appropriately-named daughter Wyn (pronounced win) was born Wednesday when his team did just that. It’s also worth noting that his daughter’s birthday on the 19th matches his sweater number.

“Just looking at her face brings a smile to yours,” he said.

Maurice, meanwhile, was also smil-

ing a little and says he’d be making decisions about who plays after the morning skate Saturday. But the coach says goaltender Ondrej Pavelec isn’t ready to return, although he may be able to play when the Jets face Dallas on Monday.

That means backup Al Montoya will return to the net. He spent time with the Phoenix Coyotes and New York Islanders before coming to Winnipeg in 2012 but hasn’t seen much action until this season.

Pavelec was hurt in the first period of Winnipeg’s March 14 loss to the New York Rangers and since then Montoya has recorded two wins and a loss to the NHL-leading St. Louis Blues.

He has played in or started a total of 24 games this season with a record

of 12-6-3, a save percentage of .921 and goals-against average of 2.26.

He’s also a fan favourite when Pavelec struggles and, with a record of 20-24-6, a save percentage of .902 and a goals against average of 2.97, this hasn’t been Pavelec’s best season.

Maurice says the players feel comfortable with Montoya in the net and he’s popular in the locker-room but it’s hard to say whether any backup netminder can become a starter until he gets the chance.

“Whether a player can do it long term, and I’m going to say it only in that position, goaltender, nobody knows until he’s given that opportunity,” he said. “What he’s got to do is do what he’s doing, change the frequency of starts.”

SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● Peewee A hockey: Provincial championship, games at 9, 9:15, 11:15 and 11:30 a.m., 4 and 4:15 p.m., Kin City A and B. ● Midget D hockey: Provincial championship, game at 9 a.m., Coronation; game at 10 a.m., Castor; games at 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:15 and 8 p.m., Coronation. ● Minor Midget AAA: Provincial championships, semifinals, 11:15 a.m., 2 p.m., Arena. ● Curling: Jack & Jill Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, fifth game of best--of-seven provincial final, if necessary, 8 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Sunday

● Peewee A hockey: Provincial championship, semifinals at 8 and 10:30 p.m., final at 4 p.m., Kin City A. ● Midget D hockey: Provincial championship, semifinals at 8:30 and 11:15 a.m., final at 5 p.m. Coronation. ● Minor Midget AAA: Provincial championships, bronze medal game, 11:45 a.m.; final, 2:30 p.m., Arena. ● Curling: Jack & Jill Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer at Lloydminster, second game of best-offive provincial final, 2 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Blackfalds, second game of best-of-five final, 3:30 p.m. ● Central Alberta men’s basketball: Playoff games at 4:15 and 5:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● Senior AAA hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, sixth game of best-of-seven provincial final, if necessary, 7:30 p.m. ● AJHL: Brooks at Olds, sixth game of best-of-seven South Division semifinal, if necessary, 7:30 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Granted RHP David Aardsma his release.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Acquired LHP Jose Alvarez from Detroit for INF Andrew Romine.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Announced RHP Vance Worley cleared waivers and was sent outright to Rochester (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Named Chris Prieto quality control coach.

TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned RHP Roman Mendez to Frisco (Texas).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed LHP Matt Reynolds and OF Cody Ross on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 19. Optioned RHP Charles Brewer and RHP Zeke Spruill to Reno (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Placed RHP Josh Beckett, RHP Chad Billingsley and OF Matt Kemp on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 19.

Placed OF Carl Crawford on paternity leave. Optioned C Tim Federowicz to the minor camp. Reassigned OF Joc Pederson, LHP Zach Lee and INF Miguel Rojas.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHP Phil Irwin, INF Chris McGuiness and INF Brent Morel to Indianapolis (IL). Reassigned RHP Jake Brigham, INF Chase d’Arnaud, RHP Cody Eppley, RHP Josh Kinney and LHP Yao-Hsun Yang to their minor league camp.

American Association GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS — Released INF Jorge Jimenez, LHP Jared Potts and INF Yasatsugu Nishimoto.

LAREDO LEMURS — Signed 1B Gerardo Avila.

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed OF Antone DeJesus, RHP Min Hur and INF Matt Nandin.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed INF Josh Allen.

FRONTIER GREYS — Signed C Ramon Ortega.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Traded 1B Gerardo Avila to Laredo (AA) for a player to be named.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Placed INF Chad Cregar on the retired list.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHARLOTTE BOBCATS — Signed F DJ White to a 10-day contract.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Signed G Seth Curry to a 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE BALTIMORE RAVENS — Agreed to terms S Darian Stewart on a one-year contract.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed CB Antoine Cason and QB Joe Webb to one-year contracts and WR Tiquan Underwood to a two-year contract.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed OT Marshall Newhouse. Waived QB Greg McElroy.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed DE Corey Wootton.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed OL John Jerry.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed QB Michael Vick.

Released QB Mark Sanchez.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Acquired QB Matt Schaub from Houston for an undisclosed 2014 draft pick. Re-signed CB Charles Woodson to a one-year contract.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Agreed to terms with WR Lance Moore on a two-year contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined Pittsburgh F James Neal $5,000 for cross-checking Detroit F Luke Glendening and Detroit F David Legwand $5,000 for butt-ending Pittsburgh F Evgeni Malkin during a March 20 game.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Signed C Caleb Herbert to a two-year, entry-level contract.

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Agreed to terms with F Ryan Walters and F Brock Montpetit on amateur tryout contracts. Released F Joey Martin from his professional tryout contract.

ECHL STOCKTON THUNDER — Announced the addition of F Joey Martin.

COLLEGE VIRGINIA TECH — Named Buzz Williams men’s basketball coach.

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Houston 2 2 0 0 5 Philadelphia 2 1 0 1 2 Columbus 1 1 0 0 3 Toronto 1 1 0 0 2 Chicago 2 0 1 1 3 Kansas City 2 0 1 1 1 New York 2 0 1 1 2 Montreal 2 0 2 0 2 D.C. 1 0 1 0 0 New England 2 0 2 0 0

GA 0 1 0 1 4 2 5 4 3 5

Pt 6 4 3 3 1 1 1 0 0 0

Western Conference GP W L T GF 2 1 0 1 5 2 1 0 1 4 2 1 0 1 4 2 1 0 1 4 2 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0

GA 2 3 3 3 2 2 3 1 1

Pt 4 4 4 4 3 2 1 1 0

Today’s games Vancouver at New England, noon Seattle at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Los Angeles at Salt Lake, 2 p.m.

D.C. at Toronto, 2:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Columbus, 4 p.m.

Portland at Colorado, 4 p.m.

San Jose at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Chivas at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games New York at Chicago, 1 p.m.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2014

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WHL Playoffs FIRST ROUND Conference Quarter-finals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Prince Albert (8) Saturday’s game Prince Albert at Edmonton, 1:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game Prince Albert at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, March 25 Edmonton at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 Edmonton at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 29 x-Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, March 30 x-Edmonton at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 1 x-Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 29 x-Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 30 x-Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 1 x-Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Kelowna (1) vs. Tri-City (8) Saturday’s game Tri-City at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s game Tri-City at Kelowna, 6:05 p.m.

Tuesday, March 25 Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Friday, March 28 x-Tri-City at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday, March 29 x-Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday, April 1 x-Tri-City at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Regina (2) vs. Brandon (7) Saturday’s game Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s game Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 Regina at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Friday, March 28 Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 29 x-Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Monday, March 31 x-Regina at Brandon, TBA Wednesday, April 2 x-Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Victoria (3) vs. Spokane (6) Saturday’s game Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s game Spokane at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday, March 27 Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday, March 29 x-Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Monday, March 31 x-Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, April 2 x-Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Medicine Hat (4) vs. Swift Current (5) (Medicine Hat leads series 1-0) Friday’s result Medicine Hat 2 Swift Current 1 Saturday’s game Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 25 Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

Everett (4) vs. Seattle (5) Saturday’s game Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s game

GP W L OT Pts GF 70 48 17 5 101 225 70 39 24 7 85 208 71 38 26 7 83 182 71 36 27 8 80 208 69 32 24 13 77 183 69 28 28 13 69 198 70 26 36 8 60 173 70 20 42 8 48 136 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 69 45 19 5 95 218 Philadelphia 69 37 25 7 81 199 N.Y. Rangers 71 38 29 4 80 188 Columbus 70 36 28 6 78 200 Washington 71 33 27 11 77 205 New Jersey 70 30 27 13 73 172 Carolina 70 30 31 9 69 174 N.Y. Islanders 70 26 35 9 61 195 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Boston Tampa Bay Montreal Toronto Detroit Ottawa Florida Buffalo

WHL AWARDS Western Conference All-stars First Team Goal — Jordon Cooke, Kelowna Rockets; Defence — Derrick Pouliot, Portland Winter Hawks; Shea Theodore, Seattle Thunderbirds; Forwards — Nicolas Petan, Portland; Mitch Holmberg, Spokane Chiefs; Oliver Bjorkstrand, Portland.

Western Second Team Goal — Eric Comrie, Tri-City Americans; Defence — Damon Severson, Kelowna; Madison Bowey, Kelowna; Forwards — Joshua Winquist, Everett Silvertips; Todd Fiddler, Prince George Cougars; Mike Aviani, Spokane.

Awards finalists WHL rookie of the year Eastern Conference — Nikita Scherbak, Saskatoon Blades; Western Conference — Nick Merkley, Kelowna.

Goaltender of the year Eastern Conference — Jarry; Western Conference — Cooke.

Defenceman of the year Eastern Conference — Morrissey; Western Conference — Pouliot.

Sportsmanlike player of the year Eastern Conference — Reinhart; Western Conference — Holmberg.

Scholastic player of the year Eastern Conference — Nelson Nogier, Saskatoon; Western Conference — Dominic Turgeon, Portland.

Coach of the year Eastern Conference — Shaun Clouston, Medicine Hat; Western Conference — Dave Lowry, Victoria Royals.

Executive of the year Eastern Conference — Mike Moore, Calgary Hitmen; Western Conference — Cam Hope, Victoria.

Humanitarian of the year Eastern Conference — Sam Fioretti, Moose Jaw Warriors; Western Conference — Mitch Topping, Tri-City.

Portland (2) vs. Vancouver (7) Friday’s game Vancouver at Portland, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s game Vancouver at Portland, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, March 25 Portland at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 Portland at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Friday, March 28 x-Vancouver at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sunday, March 30 x-Portland at Vancouver, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, April 1 x-Vancouver at Portland, 8 p.m.

Calgary (3) vs. Kootenay (6) (Kootenay leads series 1-0) Thursday’s result Kootenay 5 Calgary 2 Saturday’s game Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Monday, March 24 Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, March 25 Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 27 x-Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 29 x-Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Monday, March 31 x-Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 4:05 p.m.

Tuesday, March 25 Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Friday, March 28 Seattle at Everett, 7:35 p.m.

Saturday, March 29 x-Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Monday, March 31 x-Seattle at Everett, 7:35 p.m.

Wednesday, April 2 x-Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m. x — if necessary.

St. Louis Chicago Colorado Minnesota Dallas Winnipeg Nashville

GP 69 71 71 70 69 71 71

San Jose Anaheim Los Angeles Phoenix Vancouver Calgary Edmonton

GP 71 70 70 70 72 70 71

W L OT Pts 47 15 7 101 41 15 15 97 44 21 6 94 36 23 11 83 32 26 11 75 32 30 9 73 30 31 10 70 Pacific Division W 46 45 39 34 32 28 25

GA 149 185 180 219 194 234 225 206 GA 173 197 175 192 211 183 198 239

GF 226 240 216 174 196 199 171

GA 156 184 194 172 201 208 213

L OT Pts GF 18 7 99 219 18 7 97 222 25 6 84 170 25 11 79 194 30 10 74 172 35 7 63 173 37 9 59 177

GA 170 178 149 197 194 209 228

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

Friday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 3, Columbus 1 Chicago 3, Carolina 2 Boston 2, Colorado 0 Nashville 6, Calgary 5 Today’s Games St. Louis at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 12 p.m.

Ottawa at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Florida at Los Angeles, 2 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Boston at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

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

Baseball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct x-Indiana 51 18 .739 x-Miami 47 20 .701 d-Toronto 38 30 .559 Chicago 38 31 .551 Brooklyn 36 31 .537 Washington 35 33 .515 Charlotte 33 36 .478 Atlanta 31 36 .463 New York 29 40 .420 Cleveland 26 43 .377 Detroit 25 42 .373 Boston 23 47 .329 Orlando 19 50 .275 Philadelphia 15 54 .217 Milwaukee 13 56 .188

GB — 3 12.5 13 14 15.5 18 19 22 25 25 28.5 32 36 38

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct 51 16 .761 51 18 .739 48 21 .696 46 22 .676 45 24 .652 44 26 .629 42 28 .600 40 28 .588 39 29 .574 34 33 .507 31 38 .449 28 40 .412 24 44 .353 22 45 .328 22 47 .319

GB — 1 4 5.5 7 8.5 10.5 11.5 12.5 17 21 23.5 27.5 29 30

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

d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot

NCAA TOURNAMENT EAST REGIONAL Friday, March 21 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Memphis 71, George Washington 66 Virginia (28-6) vs. Coastal Carolina (21-12), (n) At The AT&T Center San Antonio North Carolina 79, Providence 77 Iowa State (26-7) vs. North Carolina Central (28-5), (n)

At The Amway Center Orlando, Fla. Florida (33-2) vs. Pittsburgh (26-9), 10:15 a.m.

Sunday, March 23 At Scottrade Center St. Louis Kansas (25-9) vs. Stanford (22-12) At Viejas Arena San Diego UCLA-Tulsa winner vs. VCU-Stephen F. Austin winner

Third Round Saturday, March 22 At First Niagara Center Buffalo, N.Y. Villanova (29-4) vs. UConn (27-8), 7:40 p.m.

At Spokane Arena Spokane, Wash.

Michigan State (27-8) vs. Harvard (27-4), 6:40 p.m.

Sunday, March 23 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Virginia-Coastal Carolina winner vs. Memphis (24-9) At The AT&T Center San Antonio Iowa State-North Carolina Central winner vs.

North Carolina (24-9) Regional Semifinals At Madison Square Garden New York Friday, March 28 Villanova-UConn winner vs. Iowa State-North Carolina Central—North Carolina winner Michigan State-Harvard winner vs. VirginiaCoastal Carolina—Memphis winner

Friday’s Games Indiana 91, Chicago 79 New York 93, Philadelphia 92 Oklahoma City 119, Toronto 118,2OT Brooklyn 114, Boston 98 Miami 91, Memphis 86 New Orleans 111, Atlanta 105 Dallas 122, Denver 106 Detroit at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Washington at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Portland at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Houston at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Miami at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Utah, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Toronto, 11 a.m.

Phoenix at Minnesota, 1:30 p.m.

Washington at Denver, 3 p.m.

Milwaukee at Sacramento, 4 p.m.

Brooklyn at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

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

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

Buffalo, N.Y. Syracuse (28-5) vs. Dayton (24-10), 5:10 p.m.

Regional Championship Sunday, March 30 Semifinal winners

Regional Semifinals At FedExForum Memphis, Tenn.

Thursday, March 27 Syracuse-Dayton winner vs. Kansas-Stanford winner Florida-Pittsburgh winner vs. UCLA-Tulsa— VCU-Stephen F. Austin winner Regional Championship Saturday, March 29 Semifinal winners MIDWEST REGIONAL Friday, March 21 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Mercer 78, Duke 71 Tennessee 86, UMass 67

Third Round Saturday, March 22 At First Niagara Center

WEST REGIONAL Friday, March 21 At The AT&T Center San Antonio Baylor 74, Nebraska 60 Creighton 76, Louisiana-Lafayette 66 At Viejas Arena San Diego Arizona 68, Weber State 59 Gonzaga 85, Oklahoma State 77 Third Round Saturday, March 22 At BMO Harris Bradley Center Milwaukee Wisconsin (27-7) vs. Oregon (24-9), 5:45 p.m.

Sunday, March 23 At The AT&T Center San Antonio Creighton (27-7) vs. Baylor (25-11)

At Scottrade Center St. Louis Wichita State 64, Cal Poly 37 Kentucky (24-10) vs. Kansas State (20-12), (n) Third Round Saturday, March 22 At The Amway Center Orlando, Fla. Louisville (30-5) vs. Saint Louis (27-6), 12:45 p.m.

Sunday, March 23 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Mercer (27-8) vs. Tennessee (23-12)

At Viejas Arena San Diego VCU (26-8) vs. Stephen F. Austin (31-2), 5:27 p.m.

UCLA (26-8) vs. Tulsa (21-12), 30 minutes following

Regional Championship Sunday, March 30 Semifinal winners

At Spokane Arena Spokane, Wash.

San Diego State (30-4) vs. North Dakota State (26-6), 4:10 p.m.

At BMO Harris Bradley Center Milwaukee Michigan (26-8) vs. Texas (24-10), 3:15 p.m.

SOUTH REGIONAL Friday, March 21 At Scottrade Center St. Louis Stanford 58, New Mexico 53 Kansas 80, Eastern Kentucky 69

vs. Louisville-Saint Louis winner Michigan-Texas winner vs. Mercer-Tennessee winner

At Scottrade Center St. Louis Wichita State (35-0) vs. Kentucky-Kansas State winner Regional Semifinals At Lucas Oil Stadium Indianapolis Friday, March 28 Wichita State—Kentucky-Kansas State winner

At Viejas Arena San Diego Arizona (31-4) vs. Gonzaga (29-6) Regional Semifinals At The Honda Center Anaheim, Calif.

Thursday, March 27 Wisconsin-Oregon winner vs. Creighton-Baylor winner San Diego State-North Dakota State winner vs.

Arizona-Gonzaga winner Regional Championship Saturday, March 29 Semifinal winners FINAL FOUR At AT&T Stadium Arlington, Texas National Semifinals Saturday, April 5 East champion vs. South champion Midwest champion vs. West champion National Championship Monday, April 7 Semifinal winners

Curling Latvia (Regza)

2014 WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP Country (skip) x-Canada (Homan) x-Switzerland (Feltscher) x-Russia (Sidorova) t-South Korea (Kim) t-Sweden (Sigfridsson) U.S. (Pottinger) China (Sijia) Czech Rep. (Kubeskova) Germany (Lehmann) Scotland (Barr) Denmark (Dupont)

W 10 9 8 8 8 6 6 3 3 2 2

L 1 2 3 3 3 5 5 8 8 9 9

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U.S. 8 Scotland 4 Saturday’s games Page Playoffs Third vs. Fouth Russia (Sidorova) vs. South Korea (Kim), 6 a.m.

Semifinal Switzerland (Feltscher) vs. Russia-South Korea winner, 11 a.m.

Draw 17 Canada 9 Sweden 6 Czech Republic 8 Russia 7 Denmark 10 Latvia 4 South Korea 10 Scotland 5 End of Round Robin

x — clinched playoff berth. t — played tiebreaker.

Thursday’s results Draw 15 Germany 6 Latvia 4 Russia 8 Switzerland 5 South Korea 8 U.S. 6 Sweden 10 China 5 Draw 16 Canada 6 China 4 Germany 10 Denmark 5 Switzerland 9 Czech Republic 5

Friday’s results Tiebreaker South Korea (Kim) 7 Sweden (Sigfridsson) 5 PLAYOFFS Page Playoffs One vs. Two Canada (Homan) 8 Switzerland (Feltscher) 3

Sunday’s games Third Place Russia-South Korea loser vs. Semifinal loser, 9 a.m.

Championship Canada (Homan) vs. Semifinal winner, 4:30 p.m.

Golf BAY HILL At Bay Hill Club and Lodge Course Orlando, Fla. Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,419; Par: 72 Second Round (a-amateur) Adam Scott J.B. Holmes Chesson Hadley Francesco Molinari Keegan Bradley Jamie Donaldson Jason Kokrak Brandt Snedeker Morgan Hoffmann Freddie Jacobson Matt Every Ryo Ishikawa Ian Poulter John Merrick Charles Howell III Padraig Harrington Erik Compton Aaron Baddeley Harris English Sam Saunders Seung-Yul Noh Pat Perez Ryan Moore Kevin Chappell Chris Kirk Stewart Cink Kevin Na Trevor Immelman Brendan Steele Zach Johnson Henrik Stenson David Hearn Matt Jones Chris Stroud Russell Knox Luke Guthrie Patrick Reed Jhonattan Vegas George McNeill Woody Austin Martin Laird Danny Lee Briny Baird Gonzalo Fdez-Castano Davis Love III

62-68 68-69 69-68 67-70 71-67 67-71 67-71 67-71 67-71 71-68 69-70 65-74 68-71 65-74 68-71 70-70 72-68 70-70 69-71 69-71 72-68 70-70 68-72 71-70 69-72 71-70 70-71 69-72 68-74 71-71 69-73 70-72 71-71 73-69 71-71 71-71 69-73 70-72 71-72 72-71 71-72 71-72 72-71 66-77 70-73

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130 137 137 137 138 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 139 139 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 143 143 143 143 143 143 143

Camilo Villegas Gary Woodland Charlie Beljan Brian Davis Brooks Koepka a-Zachary Olsen Peter Hanson Bryce Molder Billy Horschel Nicholas Thompson Cameron Tringale Hunter Mahan Graeme McDowell Retief Goosen Rod Pampling Michael Putnam Lee Janzen Vijay Singh Greg Owen Tim Wilkinson Marc Leishman Will MacKenzie Sean O’Hair Jason Bohn Chad Campbell Justin Hicks Brian Stuard David Lingmerth John Senden K.J. Choi Lucas Glover Paul Casey

71-73 73-71 72-72 70-74 74-70 73-71 75-69 72-72 70-74 71-73 70-74 70-75 68-77 70-75 73-72 70-75 72-73 72-73 76-69 71-74 72-74 71-75 71-75 73-73 69-77 78-68 72-74 75-71 72-74 70-76 72-74 67-79

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144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 145 145 145 145 145 145 145 145 145 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146

PANAMA CLARO CHAMPIONSHIP At Panama Golf Club Course Panama City Purse: $625,000 Yardage: 7,171; Par: 70 Second Round Aron Price Scott Parel Jonathan Randolph Mark Hubbard Max Homa Jon Curran Bhavik Patel Andrew Svoboda Josh Broadaway Manuel Villegas Daniel Berger Jose Toledo Roland Thatcher

66-68 68-66 69-66 72-63 69-66 67-68 70-65 72-64 68-68 69-67 68-68 67-69 73-64

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134 134 135 135 135 135 135 136 136 136 136 136 137

Richard S. Johnson Steve Allan Andres Gonzales Alex Cejka Vaughn Taylor Andrew D. Putnam Jason Gore Justin Thomas Zack Fischer Steven Alker Tim Petrovic Camilo Benedetti Brad Schneider Nick Taylor Steve Wheatcroft J.J. Killeen Chris Epperson Carlos Ortiz Adam Hadwin Will Wilcox Casey Wittenberg Carlos Franco Shawn Stefani Philip Pettitt, Jr. Fabian Gomez Whee Kim Luke List Bill Lunde Henrik Norlander Kyle Thompson Justin Bolli Colt Knost Billy Mayfair Jorge Fernandez-Valdes Scott Pinckney Chris Baker Kyle Stough Tyler Weworski Vince India Matt Weibring Gavin Coles James Nitties Skip Kendall Byron Smith John Mallinger Alex Prugh Jeff Klauk Derek Fathauer Timothy O’Neal Cam Burke Alistair Presnell Tom Hoge Steve Saunders

68-69 71-66 69-68 68-69 70-67 69-68 70-67 70-67 71-67 69-69 71-67 71-67 70-68 69-69 68-70 67-71 71-67 70-68 68-71 72-67 71-68 72-67 69-70 72-67 72-68 73-67 72-68 70-70 71-69 69-71 71-69 69-71 72-68 72-68 72-69 72-69 71-70 73-68 72-69 71-70 70-71 70-71 70-71 75-66 70-71 73-68 70-71 72-69 70-71 69-72 71-71 70-72 72-70

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137 137 137 137 137 137 137 137 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 139 139 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142

Hunter Haas Sebastian Vazquez Zack Sucher Steve LeBrun T.J. Vogel Oscar Fraustro Jonathan Kaye Andy Pope Matt Hendrix Brent Witcher

72-70 74-68 73-69 75-67 72-70 71-71 72-70 71-71 69-73 72-70

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142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142

MISSISSIPPI GULF RESORT CLASSIC First Round Fred Couples Jeff Maggert Kenny Perry David Frost Jay Haas Michael Allen Duffy Waldorf John Riegger Fred Funk Roger Chapman Tom Kite Scott Dunlap Anders Forsbrand

34-32 34-34 34-34 36-32 35-33 35-33 37-32 34-35 34-35 34-35 33-36 36-33 35-34

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66 68 68 68 68 68 69 69 69 69 69 69 69

JTBC FOUNDERS CUP At JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, Wildfire Golf Club Course Phoenix Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,583; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Mirim Lee Morgan Pressel Eun-Hee Ji Stacy Lewis Pernilla Lindberg Catriona Matthew Inbee Park Gerina Piller Karrie Webb Michelle Wie Jodi Ewart Shadoff I.K. Kim Lydia Ko Mo Martin Haru Nomura Pornanong Phatlum Amy Yang

34-30 36-29 32-34 34-32 32-34 34-32 32-34 34-32 33-33 34-32 37-30 33-34 36-31 33-34 33-34 32-35 34-33

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64 65 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 67 67 67 67 67 67 67

B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 22, 2014

Daunting challenge ahead for Canucks TEAM SITS FIVE POINTS OUT OF A PLAYOFF SPOT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — It was another one of those days in the Vancouver Canucks’ chaotic 2014 season.

The return of injured forwards Daniel Sedin and Ryan Kesler to practice sparked a sliver of optimism as the Canucks prepared to keep their flickering playoff hopes alive Sunday at home against the Buffalo Sabres. But hard-luck winger Alex Burrows’ absence due to a hand injury was ominous.

Burrows was injured of the third period of Thursday’s 2-0 victory over Nashville. Shea Weber slashed him on the hand while Alex Edler was scoring an insurance goal. The Canuck has already battled a broken foot and jaw along with a lengthy scoring drought from which he had recently escaped.

“It’s been one of those years for (Burrows),” said Canucks coach John Tortorella. “He’s spent a lot of time with the trainers and Roger (Takahashi, the team’s strength and conditioning coach), and he finds his game. I’m not sure what’s going to happen, whether his misses or, if he does, how many. But it’s been a very difficult time for him, especially (with) the way he plays, so we’ll see what happens.”

Tortorella said he had not spoken to Burrows since he got hurt, but general manager Mike Gillis told a Vancouver newspaper that the analysis on his injury was not positive and his status does not look good.

Accordingly, Tortorella was not ready to rejoice after Sedin and Kesler hit the ice for their first full workout since getting hurt earlier this month. Tortorella said he will see how they have fared after another workout Saturday and then determine whether they can play against the Sabres.

Sedin and Kesler made similar comments, but Sedin was still encouraged by the results of his first workout since he was injured in a collision with Ottawa defenceman Marc Methot during the Heritage Classic.

“Anything could happen, of course,” he said. “But if I feel good enough to play, I’m going to play. I was excited about (Friday) and we’ll see how it is (Saturday.)”

The Canucks (32-30-10) have won four of their past seven games, but trail the eighth-place Phoenix Coyotes by five points. Tortorella and his crew face an increasingly daunting challenge to make the playoffs with 10 regular-season games remaining, and know they can’t take the last-overall Sabres (20-42-8) for granted.

Sedin expressed the need for the Canucks to stick to the one-game-at-a-time mantra and avoid watching what other teams do in the standings. But he did not downplay the magnitude of Vancouver’s challenge.

“We have to go on a big (win) streak,” he said.

“Yeah, we’ve probably got to win at least eight out of 10. We’ll see what happens. We still feel like we have a chance, and we have to do everything we can to get back in the race.”

Meanwhile, Kesler, who was injured in a knee-onknee collision with Winnipeg’s Jim Slater on March 12, vowed to proceed cautiously as he attempts to get back in the lineup.

The injury has forced him to miss four games, but he indicated that his return is imminent.

“I knew from day one it wasn’t going to be long,” he said. “The next day, it wasn’t that sore.”

He expressed no ill will towards Slater, a 31-yearold Petosky, Mich., native.

“I thought he stuck his leg out, but you never want to think that a player does that intentionally, espe-

Lawrie homers as Jays blank Rays CANADIAN PITCHER BEDARD STRUGGLED IN BID FOR SPOT IN RAYS ROTATION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Vancouver Canucks head coach John Tortorella gestures on the bench during third period NHL hockey action against the Nashville Predators. cially (considering) I kind of grew up with him,” said Kesler, a 29-year-old from Livonia, Mich. “Let’s just move on and keep going.”

Kesler’s eventual return bodes well for the Canucks, because he leads the team with 22 goals. He could also help make up for Burrows’ expected absence while bolstering the second line.

But unlike Sedin, the centre will be paying close attention to other teams’ results as the playoffs approach rapidly.

“Obviously, we need help to make playoffs,” said Kesler. “You’ve got to watch the scoreboard. But at the same time, we’ve got to take care of business in here. The last two games, the guys did a good job of that. a We’ve just got to keep going.”

Unlike Daniel Sedin and goaltender Eddie Lack, he did not call for the Canucks to go on a big run of wins. In Kesler’s view, it will be “a little overwhelming” if the club focuses on the number of games that it must win to qualify for the post-season.

“It’s a cliche, but we’ve got to focus on the next game and the next practice and just keep going until we clinch a spot,” he said.

A long win streak does not appear likely, considering that the Canucks have not won two games in a row since they beat Calgary on Jan. 18 and Edmonton on Jan. 21.

But Tortorella, whose job security has been increasingly questioned in wake of his suspension for storming the Calgary Flames dressing room in the Jan. 18 game and the decision to sit since-departed No. 1 goaltender Roberto Luongo in the Heritage Classic, said his players will stay focused if they keep close tabs on other teams’ games.

“I’m not a big one to do it,” he said. “But, certainly, the situation that we’re in, I want them to watch the scoreboards. But we have to win. It doesn’t matter who we’re watching. If we don’t take care of our business, it goes by the boards.”

Scoreboard-watching aside, there is little doubt that Vancouver players will be checking to see how soon injured players can return. Defenceman Kevin Bieksa, who has dealt with lengthy absences in two past successive seasons, felt badly for Burrows.

However, Bieksa was glad to see Sedin and Kesler back on the ice for a full practice.

“We need the help right now,” said Bieksa. “We’ve had a lot of important injuries this year that have hurt us, and to get two of our best forwards back is a good thing for us.”

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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Brett Lawrie hit his first homer of the spring and the Toronto Blue Jays held AL East rival Tampa Bay Rays to just three hits in a 5-0 victory Friday.

Erik Bedard, in his final bid to earn the Rays’ fifth rotation spot, struggled through 5 2-3 innings. He gave up four runs over 94 pitches, walking one and striking out four.

Bedard is in a three-way competition with LHP Cesar Ramos and RHP Jake Odorizzi. Manager Joe Maddon said the decision on the fifth starter will come Saturday morning.

“The other guys I’m competing with are really good, (so) I’m sure it’s a hard decision to make,” Bedard said. “They’re probably going to crunch some numbers and go with their gut feeling, and we’ll see.

When you don’t have a guaranteed deal, you have to compete.”

Bedard signed a minor league deal with the Rays in February. As recently as March 18, he said he would opt out of his contract if he doesn’t make the starting rotation, but he appeared to relax his position Friday.

“Competition is always fun, but I guess everyone is ready to know,” Bedard said. “I feel good, and maybe the numbers don’t show, but they show for Ramos, who had a very good spring. We’ll have to see because I don’t make the decision.”

Bedard has a 6.88 ERA over 17 innings with 13 strikeouts and two walks, while Odorizzi has a 3.75 ERA over 12 innings with eight strikeouts and six walks. Ramos has the best numbers of the competition: a 2.63 ERA over 13 1-2 innings with 11 strikeouts and a walk.

“It’s not easy,” Maddon said. “They’ve all represented themselves extremely really well. We just got to try and figure out how this thing fits and who’s going to give us the best chance to win coming out of the gate.”

STARTING TIME Rays: Opening-day starter David Price threw 106 pitches in a simulated game vs. minor league hitters Friday morning. Price pitched into the eighth inning and said he didn’t reach a three-ball count until the last hitter in the seventh.

“Curveball was extremely sharp — it was a good day,” Price said. “It was essentially a game, minus an anthem, walkout songs and umpires. Guys were out there trying to get on base and steal. It was good.”

Jays: Aaron Sanchez, the team’s 21-year-old top pitching prospect who hasn’t been above Class A, looked sharp in his first start of the spring Friday, throwing 5 1-3 scoreless innings, while giving up just three hits, walking three and striking out two over 69 pitches. Sanchez has a perfect 0.00 ERA over 12 1-3 innings of this spring, but will probably be sent to Double-A New Hampshire.

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Big anniversary for CAWES CENTRAL ALBERTA WOMEN’S EMERGENCY SHELTER RAISES $150,000

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Danny Hooper regales the crowd in his 20th year as auctioneer for the CAWES Charity Gala on March 6.

Marlo Ruttan presents CAWES with $35,000 on behalf of Royal Le Page Network Realty.

James McPherson, longtime CAWES supporter, acted as the evening’s emcee.

The crowd shows their support during the Live Auction.

Central Alberta celebrated the 20th anniversary of the CAWES Charity Gala presented by the Scottsville Group in style on March 6th. The 370 guests opened their hearts and wallets to support the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter, raising over $150,000 for families affected by family violence in Central Alberta. As CAWES executive director, Ian Wheeliker expressed during his address to the crowd “a pledge has been made by the community that no child, woman or man need experience violence, abuse, bullying or intimidation.”

Central Alberta has been supporting the CAWES Charity Gala for 20 years, with over $2 million raised to date, every penny of which stays in our community. The Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter offers safe refuge, personal counselling, and community support for families experiencing family violence. Every year, CAWES meets over 3,000 people who have made the brave step towards a life free from violence.

Guests showed their support by giving generously in both in live and silent auctions. Local artist David More was also on hand to present his specially commissioned painting Evening Path, sponsored together with Dave Wilde and Dave McNabb of Regional Mortgage, to be hung in with pride in the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter. Guests pledged generously to support the hanging of this inspiring artwork.

CAWES would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported the CAWES Charity Gala over the last 20 years, and in particular our 2014 sponsors: The Scottsville Group, Golf a Kid to Cure, The Kinsman Club of Red Deer, Earls Restaurant, The Printing Place, Jim McPherson, Black Knight Inn, Grower Direct, EnviroSort/Clean Harbors and Anderson Slipp LLP, and numerous others.

CAWES Charity Gala sponsors Holly and Vince Morelli of SafeTracks GPS Solutions.

Guests of RBC Royal Bank enjoy the evening.

Ian Wheeliker is presented with Evening Path by Yvette and David More.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2014

FRONT

Rocky wants new hospital

ARGENT GALA ON APRIL 5

43-YEAR-OLD HOSPITAL CAN’T MEET DEMAND IN GROWING REGION

The Taylor Argent Legacy Foundation is hosting a fundraising gala on April 5 at the iHotel on 67th Street in Red Deer. The foundation is raising money for people under 30 to seek immediate addiction treatment. Past recipients and special guests will be on hand for the dinner and there will be a silent auction throughout the night.

For tickets or more information, call Kim at 1-844-348-8714 or go to www.taylorargent legacyfoundation.org.

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Rocky Mountain House is cranking up efforts to replace its 43-year-old hospital.

Much has changed in the region since the hospital was built in 1971, and now it is struggling to serve the 25,000 people that call Clearwater County home.

People in the community have several major concerns including a high volume of STARS calls and their ability to retain the doctors they have worked diligently to recruit.

Earlier this month, the three major municipalities — Rocky Mountain House, the Village of Caroline and Clearwater County — all agreed to move forward with an official proposal for a new hospital.

“A hospital is needed here, Alberta Health recognizes that, we’re the hub for the area,” said Rocky Mountain House Mayor and chairman of the hospital committee Fred Nash, adding all parties are

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working well together so far on this project.

“No matter what’s happening in Alberta politics, this is a need and it’s going to get done.”

Wildrose Party MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre Joe Anglin says a new hospital is long overdue and is one of his highest priorities.

“The question of whether or not Rocky Mountain House needs a new hospital or not is kind of a moot point, we all know that to be true, it’s just a matter of the bureaucratic process, getting the wheels turning and getting the job done,” he said.

The committee has been told it needs to put together a new needs assessment for Alberta Health Services and that should be completed by August.

The region sees between 30,000 and 50,000 transient workers and tourists each weekend, many of them working in highrisk fields or participating in risky activities.

For this reason, the region has one of the highest rates of incidences requiring the

assistance of STARS in the province, last year they had 42 calls — Red Deer had 54, with the average for the province considered to be 20 calls.

This is further complicated by the fact their helipad is no longer considered adequate for the new STARS helicopters and its proximity to the town’s pool is also an issue.

Nash says the hospital regularly runs at 100 per cent capacity and occasionally as high as 115 per cent, and the region’s population is only growing due to the growing oil and gas and coal mining industries.

There is no estimate for a cost for a new hospital yet, but it would be coming out of the province’s infrastructure budget.

Nash is realistic about the process, hoping to have shovels in the ground within five years, but the process has to start now.

“We’re thinking about the future,” he said. “We want to be ahead of curve and the need is there now, so it will only be worse later.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

CARRYING THE LOAD

An Alberta resident will share his experience of living with bears in Canada and Russia for five decades on April 5.

Author and photographer Charlie Russell has studied the behaviour of bears, giving him an insight that allowed him to live closely with them. Russell will give a visual presentation at Carnival Cinemas in Red Deer at 1 p.m., followed by a book signing. He will also give ranchers an insight on how to deal with the growing number of grizzly bears that are repopulating Southern Alberta. Tickets can be purchased at the cinema for $25.

DAHLIA, GLAD ANNUAL SALE Gardeners can learn how to grow their own dahlias and gladiolus at the fifth annual sale in Red Deer on April 5. The dahlia tuber and gladiolus sale is at the Bower Place Shopping Centre from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hosted by the Alberta Dahlia and Glad Society, the sale will feature a variety of tubers and corms. All plants on sale are homegrown by local growers. For more information, visit www. albertadahlia andgladsociety.com.

CORRECTION A story about flood mitigation permits that appeared in Thursday’s Advocate had incorrect information. The March 31 application deadline only applies to municipal permits for flood mitigation work. The application deadline for financial assistance was in November 2013.

GIVE US A CALL The Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta. We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages. We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit. Call 403-3144333.

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Rodrigo Morataya lugs a 20-litre jug of water around the gymnasium at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School on Thursday. The Grade 12 student joined several other students for a Water-Walk-Athon, a race to see which team could carry a loaded water container the furthest in a 20 minutes. It was an effort to simulate what some people in the world do just to survive. Funds raised during the event will go to the charity Free The Children Adopt A Village program.

LOCAL

BRIEFS Four prisoners charged after remand centre riot Four prisoners in the Red Deer Remand Centre have been charged for their involvement in a jail house riot earlier this month.

Around 5:10 p.m. on March 5, Red Deer RCMP were called in to assist correctional officers in managing a disturbance in one of the cell units.

Police say a minor misunderstanding escalated into violence when an inmate allegedly swung his fist at a correctional officer and made threats.

Several inmates joined the fray with “acts of aggression and vandalism,” a press release says.

No correctional officers or inmates were injured during the incident.

Most inmates returned to their cells to avoid the conflict.

The rest were returned to their cells by 5:40 p.m.

At that time, the RCMP dog service searched the unit to ensure that all inmates were secure.

The streets around the Remand Centre were closed as a precaution at the onset and were re-opened at approximately 6:30 p.m. that evening.

Damage to one cell pod is estimated at between $20,000 and $25,000.

Chol Achuil Chol, 27, is charged with assault on peace officer, uttering threats, mischief over $5,000 and participating in a riot. He appears in Red Deer provincial court on April 8.

John Tuik Jok, 26, is charged with mischief over $5,000 and participating in a riot. He appears in Red Deer provincial court on April 15.

Diing Geng, 22, is charged with mischief over $5,000 and participating in a riot. He will make his first court appearance on April 1.

Athiang Geng, 23, is charged with mischief over $5,000 and participating in a riot. He appears in Red Deer provincial court on April 9.

Feral horse death natural A Central Alberta feral horse whose death was initially called suspicious has been found to have died of natural causes.

The animal’s remains were found on a rural road near Sundre, just north of Hwy 584 in Clearwater County, on Feb. 28.

Sundre RCMP said their preliminary investigation suggested the horse may have been shot.

After a necropsy, assisted by the forensic unit of the Alberta Fish and Wildlife enforcement branch, it was determined the cause of death was not related to a gunshot.

Police say the investigation is now over.

Feral horses are considered livestock and are protected under Section 444 of the Criminal Code.

The Alberta government distributed permits last month to round up as many as 200 feral horses and thin out the population, causing public outcry.

The wild horse capture season ended on Feb. 29.

Medicine River seeks help People are being urged to donated unwanted equipment to the Medicine River Wildlife Centre in Red Deer.

Items sought include boat safety equipment such as a bailer, waterproof flashlight, whistle and 15-metre buoyant heaving line.

The centre is also in need of a white truck topper for a 2006 Dodge Dakota Sport, along with a jack and wheel wrench for the vehicle.

A multi-functional yard maintenance tractor and a heavy duty blender or food processor have also been requested.

While the equipment gathered will help facilitate this wildlife hospital and educational centre, Medicine River Wildlife Centre is also in need of volunteers.

This includes a mechanic who can do light maintenance on the centre’s vehicles and committee members who can volunteer at various events.

Cash donations are also accepted and eligible for an income tax deductible receipt.

For more information on the Medicine River Wildlife Centre, visit www.mrwc.ca or call 403-728-3467.

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

CANADA WINTER GAMES

Open houses to showcase event impact Two open houses will showcase what the 2019 Canada Winter Games would mean for Red Deer next month.

Story boards and billboards will be on display at the Collicutt Centre on April 22 and the G.H. Dawe Community Centre on April 23, both from 6 to 8 p.m.

Lyn Radford, bid committee chairperson, said this will give the community an opportunity to visualize the proposed new facilities and get a glimpse of the complete games experience. “(This) will allow people to be able to understand how the actual competitions will operate during the weeks,” she said. “That will give them a better picture.”

Comment cards will also be on hand to allow residents to provide suggestions and feedback.

On April 12 at the city’s Let’s Talk forum at Parkland Mall, a games booth will be set up for residents to chat with the committee members about the games.

The committee met for the second time on Wednesday, after the group was given the green light to continue working on its bid for the games in February.

Radford said the committee is firming up partnership agreements and reviewing the recommendations from the games council.

Meanwhile, the committee continues to fine-tune its final bid proposal while waiting for the community tour date to be sorted out.

The Canada Games Council will tour Red Deer and Lethbridge one more time before the winning community is announced in September.

Radford said this will be the time for Red Deerians to come out and show their support for the games. Red Deer will generate an estimated $132 million in economic impact from the two-week games.

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How to spot an atheist FINE-TUNE YOUR ATHEIST RADAR AND BE ON THE LOOKOUT

BY DEBORAH MITCHELL ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES How do you know if your neighbor or coworker is an atheist? They’re actually quite easy to spot. Just look for these signs: 1. They look shifty.

Their eyes dart around a lot, looking for opportunities.

Atheists don’t have to answer to a higher power.

All they have to keep them in check is their conscience and the law.

This means that it is openseason for criminal activity.

Keep an eye on your wallets, your smart phones and your children.

People who don’t believe in God cannot be trusted.

2. They think science is the answer to everything.

Atheism is a belief system, and it believes in science. Secularists will tell you that humans came from apes, that we are nothing more than another animal at the top of the food chain.

Yet people who don’t believe in God can’t answer these basic questions: Where did life come from?

Where are we going?

Why are we here?

3. They’re likely wearing a black shirt or black pants or black shoes.

They may even have black accessories, such as wallets, purses and belts.

Note that they are not smiling. Without belief, they have no hope, nothing to look forward to after this life.

4. Atheists are arrogant and unreasonable.

They think they are smarter than believers, and they refuse to listen to the word of God. Instead, they choose to argue about the Bible, the existence of God and the divinity of Jesus Christ.

Atheists don’t want you to have faith, so they will employ any means to talk you out of yours.

You know the saying: misery loves company. Atheists don’t want you to be joyful either.

5. They will not bow their heads in prayer or allow their children to say the word “God.” Atheists don’t want God in the schools or in the government.

Their goal is to have the

word “God” banned from the public sphere and to eradicate religion.

They are doing everything possible to take God out of America and to de-convert children.

6. They are not neighborly or friendly.

They hang signs on their door warning visitors that evangelism is not welcome.

They will not let you into their homes or onto their property to share The Word.

7. The special tax treatment that religion receives makes atheists angry.

They have started their own churches in response.

Non-theists also claim that they miss the community from church.

This is only further proof that humans have been programmed by a higher power to seek religion in their lives.

The truth is that non-theists come in all shapes, sizes, colors and even beliefs. They look and act just like your friends and family.

The truth is that one of them may be your friend or family member, and they’re still in the proverbial closet.

The truth is that a large

majority of people who don’t believe in God do not care if others believe.

We are not anti-religion.

We respect your faith as well as your right to believe.

We understand that God means a lot to you and that your traditions and your faith bring you comfort.

We actually do not want to eradicate religion from the planet.

We don’t think that science has all the answers, nor is it the source of morality.

Neither is religion.

Only self-reflection and empathy can grow moral humans, and that can be learned regardless of what we believe or don’t believe.

Don’t take our disbelief personally.

It’s not about you. It’s between us and our individual conceptions of what and who God is.

We won’t try to talk you out of your faith. Sometimes we will even attend church with family or friends.

We don’t have a problem with teaching religion — all religions and belief systems — in the schools so that children can learn that not everyone

believes the same things.

On the other hand, we hope that you will respect our right to live without the pressures and influences of religion in our mutually shared spaces.

When we say we don’t believe, that is not an invitation to tell us about your unwavering faith or your amazing church.

(Yes, many of us have read the Bible.)

When religion is pushed onto us and onto our children, it feels as if you don’t respect us, as if we’re in a parent/child relationship with you, one where you decide what is best and the rules we will live by.

Belief does not make you a good person; lack of belief does not make us bad. We just aren’t fans of the same folk heroes.

And that’s okay. We want to make a better world with you anyway.

Deborah Mitchell Deborah Mitchell is a secular humanist living in Texas. She is a blogger and the author of “Growing Up Godless: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Kids without Religion.”

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403-346-0811

For more information on Christian Science visit christianscience.com Sunday Services Services Sunday 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.

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

6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Ministries 7:00p.m.

Passion for God, Compassion for People.

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

43 Ave. & 39 St. • 403-346-4281 Pastor Chris Wilson Worship Pastor David Richardson

GAETZ MEMORIAL

Corner of Ross Street and 48th Avenue — Phone 403-347-2244

10:30 a.m.

“Drink Deeply From The Well” www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

SUNNYBROOK UNITED CHURCH 12 Stanton Street

403-347-6073

10:30 a.m. Worship Service “Thirsty For Transformation” Babyfold, ToddlerToddler Room, Room SundaySunday Club Club www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, www.sunnybrookunited.org

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Balmoral Bible Chapel 403-347-5450

Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.)

10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Wayne Tomalty “The Lord’s Sovereignty” Ruth 4 Children’s Church 2 1/2 - Grade 5 www.balmoralchapel.ca

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Helping people encounter the goodness of God “Come hear the story of one of the world’s greatest heroes in the fight against human trafficking; Iana Matai from Romania, with over 500 women rescued. She was “Reader’s Digest European of the Year.”

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BAHÁ'í Faith “The cycle of the year ends with a period of nineteen days of fasting to prepare for the coming of Naw-Ruz, the New Year, when both the physical and spiritual beauty blend and we advance to another year in which to mature the soul and prepare “for the everlasting kingdom”. Shoghi Effendi May this new year enkindle the light of the love of God in the hearts of all mankind. www.ca.bahai.org or www.building-community.ca

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Tapping history for art WENDY MEERES’ NEW EXHIBIT FOCUSES ON THE DETAIL IN HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta’s lack of tangible history makes Wendy Meeres appreciate the aged buildings she’s seen on her travels across North America and the world.

“I’ve always taken a lot of photos and close-ups of architectural features,” said the mixed-media artist, who incorporated some of these images into her latest exhibit, Open and Closed, in the Kiwanis Gallery in the Red Deer Public Library.

The show, presented by the Red Deer Arts Council, hints at secrets that lie behind various entry ways. It contains turrets, a stone cherub, wroughtiron railings, a grinning gargoyle, twisted columns, and a red-painted Chinese-style door.

It also features antique keys — the sort Meeres came across while poking around a vintage hardware store in Portland, Ore. While the store also sold the kind of quaint glass doorknobs Meeres remembers from her grandmother’s house, it was the keys that most intrigued the artist, who began wondering what kind of doors they would have opened.

Her 27 works incorporate some photographs and some pastel and painted elements that often overlap on canvas or paper. For instance, in her Cultural Influences work, inspired by the Spanish-style architecture Meeres admired in San Diego’s Balboa Park, she embellished a photo of a twisty column with some painted curves.

The artwork also features a Spanish door topped by an ornate pediment that might make viewers won-

Clockwise from the top, works contained in Wendy Meeres’ exhibit Open and Closed, showing at the Kiwanis Gallery in the Red Deer Public Library until April 27: Contrasting Worlds, Intrigue of China (town) II, and Locked.

der “what are the stories behind everything?” said Meeres.

The history of the Hatley Castle in Victoria, B.C., inspired the artist to create The Stories Within, a mixed-media work with some text. The elaborate residence had been built by an industrialist and his family, but it was later turned into a cadet dormitory and is now the administrative building for Royal

Roads University.

Meeres could still make out some of the old graffiti that had been carved into woodwork by cadets or students on the main floor.

Her History of Secrets work depicts the door of a Masonic temple, as well as a stone gargoyle and other architectural details she saw in Old Montreal.

Other pieces were inspired by her trips to Thai-

land, the narrow Fan Tan Alley in Victoria’s Chinatown, Mexico, Whistler, B.C., Seattle and the Dominican Republic.

Meeres said a few of her artworks were sparked by photos taken by other people on travels to places “that are on my bucket list,” including Venice and New Orleans.

But her Loss of Family Icon has origins closer to home. A Central Alberta barn built by her friend’s homesteading ancestors was collapsing on the family farm. Meeres heard family members were planning to recycle all the old timber for various furniture building projects — or save pieces as reminders of the old structure.

She said, “There was concern how the farm would look without the barn ... it shows how important that architectural feature was to the family.”

Meeres, who has a graphic design diploma but now works as culture community development co-ordinator for the City of Red Deer, began creating art from the time she could hold a crayon. Her passions eventually switched from pottery and ceramics to lampwork bead jewelry and two-dimensional works that veer between realism and abstraction.

The exhibit runs to April 27. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Ready to rock once again THE ROCKIN’ HIGHLINERS ARE BACK ON THE ROAD, AND COMING TO RED DEER

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The Rockin’ Highliners are back and ready to shake up more gin joints after taking a 10-year hiatus.

“We never really broke up — we just got tired,” said Alex Herriot, guitarist with the Juno-nominated, Maple Blues Award-winning swing-blues band that plays on Friday at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer.

In its heyday in the early 2000s, the energetic Edmonton group was playing upwards of 300 gigs a year, across Canada and Europe — and “there’s a cost to that,” added Herriot.

But performing for fans was a great old time — and Herriot remembered it fondly while listening to one of the group’s CDs recently. “I was listening to a live recordings from Europe — I don’t remember if it was over a glass of wine or a cup of coffee — but I thought it was really a lot of fun times we had.”

Before taking the extended break, The Rockin’ Highliners had been signed to Stony Plain Records and released four albums, including Oh My!, produced by Duke Robillard. The band regularly toured in France and Belgium and was doing so many bus trips across Canada, it had to establish a Toronto home base. The Rockin’ Highliners were also asked to open arena shows for major acts, such as George Thoroughgood.

While thinking back to those high times, Herriot got caught up in his nostalgia trip and called up former band members to ask if they were interested in giving it another go.

Although several of the musicians now live in Winnipeg and Toronto, they were all game to get together and try out how they sounded after so many years of playing with other bands.

Herriot remembered “We practised a few times in my basement, and after our first or second song we just thought: ‘Wow! It’s like we never

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The Rockin’ Highliners took an extended break from touring after playing upwards of 300 gigs a year in the early 2000s. But they are back on the road and will play Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer on Friday. stopped. It’s like it was yesterday.’ It felt wonderful!”

The re-established The Rockin’ Highliners consists of original members — guitarists Herriot and Clayton Sample, singer Robert Tycholis and drummer Ken Machon. Two other crack musicians are also on board — the aptly named organist Doug Organ and world-class saxophonist Dave Babcock. (Both of the new guys also play with Herriot in the Edmonton band

Night Keepers.)

Their first public reunion performance was at a November benefit in Edmonton for fellow musician Amos Garrett, a High River resident who was devastated by last June’s flooding.

The Rockin’ Highliners’ Red Deer appearance will be tacked on to a couple of larger concerts the band is doing next weekend in Edmonton.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 22, 2014 C5

Poetry celebration to highlight diversity in Red Deer

BY INONGE CHIMWASO ADVOCATE STAFF More Than Words is a celebration of poetry designed to showcase the diverse impact that this literary art form has on different cultures.

Avery Acheson, settlement practitioner at the Central Alberta Refugee Effort in Red Deer, said the concept of the Thursday poetry reading is reflected in the event’s name.

“When poetry is spoken it is more than words, it’s a feeling, it’s the connection to something greater,”

said Acheson.

More Than Words will feature a diverse group of local poets including Zafar Nadeem, Elena Rousseau, Jock McKenzie and Mark Bretherton.

The diverse acts will also include a poem by Nadeem that will be read in both English and his native tongue.

Through their poems, each poet will display the power and influence of words, something that Acheson said varies amongst different groups of people.

“In some countries it’s significant in the way it impacts history, in some countries it impacts their

Elvis Stojko leaps from skating to stage

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Artwalk submissions sought The 25th annual Red Deer Artwalk Festival will feature an art market on June 21 to round off the week-long event.

Artwalk’s Art Market will be held at the Rotary Park on the corner of 43rd Street and 47th Avenue.

Artists are encouraged to partake in the art market by contributing original creations.

While artists are required to supply their own tables and chair, organizers of the festival will provide designated tented and non-tented spaces.

Tented spaces are available for $50 and non-tented spaces are $25.

The deadline for submissions is April 17 and exhibitors will be notified of the status of their submission by May 5.

The Artwalk’s Art Market will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, visit reddeerartwalk.ca or email info@reddeerartwalk.ca.

Dobson performance postponed The western leg of Fefe Dobson’s Firebird tour has been postponed “due to unforeseen circumstances.”

Dobson will not be performing on Friday, March 28, at the International Beer Haus in Red Deer as she was slated to. A rescheduled date for her local concert is expected to be announced by early next week.

The venue will not be issuing refunds on tickets.

Purchased tickets will be honoured on the new date.

According to officials, “Due to unforeseen circumstances the Western leg of the Firebird Tour has been postponed until further notice. Stay tuned to www.fefedobson.com for updates.”

TORONTO — Making the leap from skating to stage work isn’t a huge stretch for Elvis Stojko, who’s starring in a production of Chicago, the Musical that begins in Toronto on Wednesday.

After all, the three-time world champion figure skater and two-time Olympic silver medallist used to act as a child in Newmarket, Ont., performing in annual plays at his small private school.

He also learned music theory and how to sing from his father, a classically trained tenor, which led to his own album release in 2009 and a role as Vince Fontaine in a 2004 production of Grease in Toronto and Hamilton.

“Even on reel to reel, as a little kid, I was always singing by myself playing the tennis racket and in rubber boots,” Stojko said in a telephone interview from his home in Ajijic, Mexico.

“That was me growing up when I was a kid, I was four or five or six years old. My dad, because he’s Slovenian, he was singing in the Slovenian church and that was his thing. He used to go every week and that was his outlet and he loved doing that.”

Stojko developed a lifelong passion for singing too, often belting out tunes while on the road for an ice career in which he became a seven-time Canadian national figure skating champion.

“It’s very rare that I just sit and listen to music, unless it’s just instrumental,” said Stojko, who announced his retirement from amateur figure skating in 2002. “Especially if it’s in my range, I always love to jump in and sing.

“So travelling a lot, driving a lot over the years, driving from the house to the rink, I would always sing — always, always, always sing in the car. That

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Herriot said the goal, this time around, is not to do so much exhaustive touring, but to focus on larger concerts and festivals.

“We can’t tour so much now,” he said, since all of the musicians are married and some have children.

Band members are already writing more original music, with plans to release a new album by early 2015. And Herriot, now age 40, is itching to cross the Atlantic to play for European fans who have never lost their devotion to the band.

He recalls stopping at a pub while doing the tourist thing in Amsterdam a few years back. His music history came out while talking to the owner. “He had a thousand cassette tapes all along one wall, and when I said I played with The Rockin’ Highliners, it took him all of 16 seconds to pull out a Rockin’ Highliners cassette. ... Needless to say, the drinks were cheaper from then on,” said Herriot, with a laugh.

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was my thing, and almost in a way, it was a meditation for me.”

Stojko plays smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn in the jazzy prohibition-era show that Mirvish Productions is running at the Princess of Wales Theatre from March 26 through March 30.

The production also stars Bianca Marroquin as Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who kills her lover when he threatens to leave her. Terra C. MacLeod plays her cellmate, Velma Kelly, and Carol Woods plays Matron (Mama) Morton.

Stojko said he first heard about the opportunity through a skating friend in the U.S. who does a lot of theatre and is friends with one of the producers.

The producers then got in touch with Stojko, who sent them an audition tape to prove he could hit the high notes.

“For me, being a skater-performer, it’s basically a little bit smaller stage,” said Stojko, who has also studied singing under a vocal coach in Toronto and describes his voice as a high baritone tenor.

“I think skaters have the largest stage in the world because of the ice surface, but it’s still performance.”

Stojko said he hadn’t seen Chicago onstage before landing the part, but he had watched the 2002 Oscarwinning film in which Richard Gere played Billy Flynn.

Other big names who’ve taken on the role onstage over the years have included Alan Thicke, Billy Ray Cyrus, Usher and Tom Wopat.

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feelings — and that’s when you hear romantic love poems — in some countries it’s impacted their political process,” he said.

The event will showcase the impact that poetry has on the world.

But it is also meant to showcase the works of poets residing in Red Deer.

“It’s an opportunity for people to hear what local poets are creating and bring awareness to some of the different groups that are around.”

More Than Words will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at The Hub. There is no cost for admission.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2014 PAYING IT FORWARD

First-year Red Deer College cooking apprenticeship program student Francis Trca leaves a note on the Kindness Wall in the Forum over the noon hour one day this week.

Several Social Work students, including Maggie Jones, Erica Bolze, Brendan McCauley, Heather Gourley and Suraya Mustamandy, were hosting a Pay it Forward With Kindness project where they were handing out candies, and cupcakes and encouraging people to pay forward an act of kindness.

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Sunday, March 23 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Keri Russell, 37; Yasmeen Ghauri, 43; MiSaturday, March 22 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: chael Heneke, 72 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon Reese Witherspoon, 38; Tania Raymonde, glides into hard-working Capricorn while set26; Will Yun Lee, 43 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Mercury moves ting a more serious tune to the day. It’s all into Pisces today. Our minds will be inclined about business. A need to structure and to to think more intuitively and emotionality will plan for our future is heightened. Ambition prevail in our thoughts. Sympathy and care and success come hand in hand today and for others will arise in us a more compas- we strive to do our best in order to move up the ladder. Time is very precious sionate nature. The Moon’s and we will attempt to not waste transit through Sagittarius sets a our energies or resources into more adventurous mood to the activities and endeavours that we day. Opportunities will abound believe will not bring us benefits. through today’s cooperative enHAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today ergies. is your birthday, the year ahead HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If tomarks increased responsibilities day is your birthday, you have and a lot of work. Be ready to great potential to realize what stay focused and move up proyou want this coming year. You fessionally as that’s what you will have a great sense of direction have mainly on top of your mind. and you are led by this natural Emotionally, you will tend to keep flow. Your need to be part of a your guards up and be reserved collective or a group of activiASTRO in your attitude towards others. ties will bring in you a more exDOYNA ARIES (March 21-April 19): plorative, adventurous side. You You want to shine and be recogcrave personal freedom and innized in your chosen vocation. dependence within all your acAs long as you do not deviate tions this year from other’s opinions today, you ARIES (March 21-April 19): You want to escape your everyday life as routine may may gain a few extra points. Exercise active prove too boring at this time. You seek to listening and be responsive whenever your liberate yourself more in your subconscious guidance is required.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This is a day mind. Even though you are not feeling at your where you will envision your life under a difbest, do not get discouraged. Retire and get ferent light. You own a certain call for explorasome rest.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You search tion and diving into experiences that will bring for personal freedom and develop a strong you closer to your higher consciousness. You urge to break free from a certain co-depen- want to enhance your skills by pursuing some dency. At the same time, you are struggling class or study.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Themes of to do what you can in order to regain that sharing power or resources will most likely independence.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Follow predominate today. Subjects that are hard through the small elements and maintain a to digest or the ones, which are considered sharp mind and you should be able to focus taboo, may ask for your full attention. Do not on the road ahead. Make sure you do not fear new approaches when dealing with such disregard any details if you want to succeed matters.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Contracts or you will easily get lost in its way.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do not ac- and social concerns will preoccupy your mind complish more than you are capable of. If today. You may have to deal with the pubyou are given a number of projects or assign- lic more than usually. Try not to be too coments to execute, ensure these are within dependent over your primal partnerships and your limits. Otherwise, you risk of being inun- you will not feel as lonely.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Concerns over dated with too many tasks at once. your health and your lifestyle habits will cerLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Just go with the flow today. Your personal life and your ob- tainly require you to slow down and to stratjectives are in tune with your need for self- egize your routine through careful, practical expression. A sweet harmony resides in all planning. Steps you undertake now will be in your relationships. Any recent struggles be- effect for the long-haul, so plan wisely.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You feel that tween you and your significant other should despite all the heavy energy around you that decrease now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your relation- is weighting you down, you have someone ships and your career need some balancing special you can rely on. It’s a great feeling right now. Do not overdo or try to impress knowing that your need for self-expression by accomplishing something out of your own and for individualism are being recognized reach. Use your great verbal skills in order to and acknowledged for.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You need your strengthen the bond between your alliances home as a means of refugee or to escape and your higher ups.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your intentions reality somehow. You long to be more conare clear and sincere. You want to use them nected to your inner world now rather than towards achieving your main objectives. You face the harsh realities. The past has settled appear as a frank individual who wishes the into your present in most subtle ways.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your abilsame kind of treatment from others. Today ity to tap into other people’s intentions has you are like an open book.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A harmoni- a marvellous effect on those around you. ous vibe resides in your own living space. A It takes only a few words of yours that can Zen-like atmosphere prevails, which sets you touch and produce a powerful influence over in a more than comfortable environment. This others. Your mental activity is extremely is also a great time to measure the value of keen.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You your assets.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dis- may experience a strong attachment over cipline may not be your strong quality today. your belongings. Certain items are hard to Relationships with women, in special, might let go as they have tremendous emotional prove a bit more challenging than usual. significance to you. You see them as your Avoid being too demanding or too trying with security blanket, which makes you feel warm your partner. Diplomacy should smooth over and protected.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Objectivany disparity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Despite ity and rational thinking may become a bit of a recent financial challenges, today you feel a challenge to you now. Try not to absorb other personal gratification knowing that your as- people’s problems or concerns as you have sets mirror your main purpose. It wouldn’t your own baggage of issues to deal with. You hurt for you to re-evaluate your basic needs will be prone to moodiness.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may and recalculate your financial situation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Pursuing a find yourself a bit lost in translation today. new vision or seeking the truth is exactly what Past resentments seem to hunt you or overyou long for today. You are enchanted to whelm you in the present. A trip to the subknow that you can relate to others on a very conscious world brings back melancholic positive note and that your hopeful needs are memories. Try not to become too morbid.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today you met. You are more than willing to take chancmay want to catch up with some old buddies es right now in terms of your dreams.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Facing ca- and share the latest news. A friend of yours reer obligations can be tiring when you know may go through an emotional crisis. Your that household obligations are setting tempo- presence may be needed more than just your rary blockages. You feel that you want to go mental support or empathy.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndifurther in life, but you realize that you need to find the equilibrium between your professional cated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate. and your personal life first.

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Gossip hurtful and damaging to family Dear Annie: For the past 14 years, social gatherings. I find every excuse my family has not spoken to me. Worse, to avoid them. they have spread lies and brought lawRight now I don’t know whether suits, none of which they have won. there is anyone out there for me. One The gossip has been hurtful and woman asked me whether I could supdamaging to my small immediate fam- port her in the manner to which she ily. No one, of course, has ever asked to was accustomed, meaning a new car hear the truth. Life is short, every year, a home priced and every time we extend over $200,000, deluxe applian olive branch, it is thrown ances, new furniture and back at us with more vindiccredit cards with a $100,000 tiveness. limit. I told her goodbye Could you please find and best of luck. and print the essay titled I wonder whether she’ll “My Name Is Gossip”? Mayever have any luck finding a be someone will read it and guy who can do this for her. understand, if not for my I wonder how many other sake, for others. — Pennsylsingles feel this way. — S.D. vania Dear S.D.: When someDear Pennsylvania: How one tells us they have never sad. We can only hope your been able to meet the right MITCHELL family will see the column person, we have to consider and open their hearts. everything, including your & SUGAR appearance, your personalMy Name is Gossip ity, your expectations and (author unknown) the type of women you gravMy name is Gossip. I have itate toward. no respect for justice. I maim withIf you have friends or family who out killing. I break hearts and ruin will be brutally honest with you, ask lives. I am cunning and malicious and them to critique the way you come gather strength with age. The more I across to women. Try to listen with an am quoted the more I am believed. My open mind and understand that they victims are helpless. They cannot pro- may see things you don’t. Then considtect themselves against me because I er doing some volunteer work, audithave no name and no face. To track me ing college classes, joining a church or down is impossible. The harder you community choir or theater group or a try the more elusive I become. I am no- travel tour. body’s friend. Once I tarnish a reputaThese things provide opportunities tion, it is never the same. I topple gov- to meet others, do interesting things ernments and wreck marriages. I ruin and become a more engaging compancareers and cause sleepless nights, ion. heartaches and indigestion. I make inDear Annie: I can relate to all of nocent people cry in their pillows. the parents who write about being esEven my name hisses. I am called tranged from their children. I, too, am Gossip. estranged, from my sister. She is 65, I make headlines and headaches. and I am 70.

Before you repeat a story, ask yourUnlike the parents, I know full well self: the problem. Three years ago, I took Is it true? legal action to get the inheritance my Is it harmless? mother left me in her will. My sister Is it necessary? hasn’t spoken to me since. I do someIf it isn’t, don’t repeat it. times wonder whether getting my fair Dear Annie: Now that the holidays share was worth the resulting fallout. and Valentine’s Day are over, there are — Can Relate in N.Y. State doubtless thousands of single people Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy who feel as I do. To me, these holidays Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ediare just another day to get through in tors of the Ann Landers column. Please any way possible. email your questions to anniesmailbox@ I am a 69-year-old unmarried male. comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, I have never been in circulation or in- c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, troduced to anyone and am ignored at Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Inflation worries ease ROBUST CONSUMER PRICE INCREASES WARD OFF FEARS OF DISINFLATION

BY JULIAN BELTRAME THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Consumer prices rose more in February than expected but not enough to keep annual inflation from dipping four-tenths of a point to 1.1 per cent — near the low end of the Bank of Canada’s target range.

Economists had anticipated Statistics Canada’s annual inflation rate would tumble because of a spike in gasoline prices in February 2013 that didn’t happen again this year, but increases in other goods kept the actual decline less than expected.

Travel tour prices were 14.3 per cent higher than in January, hotel accommodation rose 4.7 per cent, and women’s clothing gained 2.7 per cent, Statistics Canada reported Friday.

Gasoline also advanced 2.3 per cent and food prices rose one per cent in February compared with

the previous month.

Analysts said the reading is just what Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz wanted and should erase any fears of disinflation, as well as lessen speculation he might cut interest rates to stimulate economic activity. The bank hopes to keep inflation within a range of one-to-three per cent and as close to two per cent as possible.

“They have been worried about persistently low inflation and, for two months in a row now, we’ve had upward surprises on inflation and that should bring some smiles to the faces of policy-makers at the bank,” said Benjamin Reitzes, a senior economist with the Bank of Montreal.

Jimmy Jean of Desjardins Capital Markets said he expects inflation to inch up further and even hit the bank’s two per cent target later this spring.

That may not be welcome news for consumers, Jean said, but it’s a strong signal of healthy economic activity since it shows shoppers and business are

prepared to spend.

The economy got another bit of good news Friday with a report that retail sales had rebounded smartly from December’s weather-induced plunge, rising a better than expected 1.3 per cent in January.

The markets responded well to the dual reports from the agency, bumping up the dollar almost a third of a cent to 89.25 cents US. “The strong rebound in retail sales volumes in January, following the weather-related drop in the month before, suggests that the economy recovered fairly quickly,” said David Madani, chief economist with Capital Economics in Canada.

Still, most economists and the Bank of Canada are expecting a soft first quarter of growth, in part because of the weak December hand-off and the fact that weather continued to be harsh in January and February. But they also see a big make-up in the second quarter, which begins April 1, and 2014 growth to reach between two and 2.5 per cent.

Regulate massage therapy: therapist LACK OF GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT PROBLEMATIC FOR INSURANCE, SAFETY

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Chandra Kastern is a Red Deer massage therapist on a mission: regulation of the industry in Alberta.

Massage therapy is unregulated in the province with four different associations, all with their own different set of standards and bylaws.

This lack of government oversight has created a number of issues from insurance coverage to safety of the clientèle.

Regulation would help legitimize the profession in the same way as physiotherapy and athletic therapy.

“The profession at large refers to themselves as a profession, but we’re not because we’re not regulated, and the practitioners themselves utilize the title ‘registered massage therapist.’ The term ‘registered’ is actually a protected term under the Health Practitioners Act . . . and nobody is in Alberta,” said Kastern, communications co-ordinator for the Massage Therapist Association of Alberta.

She is spending the next the few weeks travelling the province, holding open houses to get the conversation going and to get information out to as many of the approximately 8,000 massage therapists in Alberta that she can.

Part of the problem is the public does not realize the industry has no regulatory body. This affects many different aspects from insurance billing — only certain therapists are approved by certain insurance companies, unbeknownst to the clients — to educational standards for the therapists.

Massage therapy is only regulated in B.C., Ontario, Newfoundland Labrador and New Brunswick, creating major issues if massage therapists from Alberta want to transfer to one of those provinces.

The biggest reason for regulation is patient safety,

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Massage therapist Tamina Gravelle works with patient Kent Brown.

‘THE VERY NATURE OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP — THE MASSAGE THERAPIST IS FULLY CLOTHED, STANDING UPRIGHT OVER THE PATIENT WHILE THE PATIENT IS NAKED ON THE TABLE IN A DIMLY LIT ROOM . . . TO ME IT SHOULD BE A QUALIFIED PERSON THAT’S IN THAT POSITION.’ — CHANDRA KASTERN MASSAGE THERAPIST

said Kastern.

This is to protect clients, from masseuses using improper techniques and may inadvertently be causing injury to those they’re trying to help, and from criminal activity and sexual abuse.

Kastern has her own practice in Red Deer and has been in the industry for 14 years.

“The very nature of the therapeutic relationship — the massage therapist is fully clothed, standing upright over the patient while the patient is naked on the table in a dimly lit room ... to me it should be a qualified person that’s in that position.”

Though she says the will seems to be there for reg-

ulation, there are still some major stumbling blocks, chief among them education.

Many therapists are concerned that they will have to go back to school and shut down their business in the meantime to reach standards on paper, despite already being in the industry for a number of years.

“The reality of it, when the minister set out his recommendations in 2009, it was made abundantly clear that there had to be a plan to transition the entire existing profession ... into the new regulatory body. It’s patently false that their livelihood will be affected.”

The process for regulation really began in 2008 when the Health Profession’s Advisory Board recommended it, but it has been a long drawn out process since with little progress.

At this point, the plan is to get correct information out to practitioners and then for the government to poll the profession at large, away from the associations, with the hope they will self-regulate.

Tamina Gravelle, a local practitioner with 10 years of experience, said, “If everybody would educate themselves on the facts of it all, they would see it’s not quite so scary. We’re not out to put anyone out of work ... but no one is paying attention to the greater good, they’re more paying attention to themselves and that’s going to be hard for them.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Get the most out of your time, money at job fairs Dear Working Wise: I attend quite a few job fairs and I’ve noticed employers making the same mistakes over and over. Do you have any pointers for them? — Job Fair Pro Dear Job Fair Pro: Yes, you are right. Job fairs are a great way for employers to pre-screen applicants and grab the attention of job seekers who might otherwise pass over your recruitment ads.

But some employers are not getting the most out of the time and money they spend participating in job fairs.

Don’t just collect resumés at your next job fair — use CHARLES these face-to-face meetings STRACHEY to ask questions and create a short-list of your best candi- WORKING WISE dates.

Here are some tips to make the most of your next job fair: ● Staff your booth with outgoing, enthusiastic and helpful people who want to help you find great new hires. ● Stand up, move your table to the side and make

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your booth welcoming to job seekers. ● Make the first move—smile, make eye contact with job seekers, welcome them into your booth, and ask them if they are interested in learning more about your company and job opportunities. ● Wear a nametag and prepare a 15-second introduction explaining your company, industry and the types of positions and people you are looking for. ● Attract visitors to your booth with a professional-looking display, interactive demonstration, photos/videos and interesting give-a-ways. ● Bring lots of business cards and have a list of available positions handy. ● Be sure you have enough staff to avoid long lineups of job seekers and give your booth staff some much-needed breaks throughout the day. ● Be courteous of other employers, including volume levels on your audio-visual equipment. ● Label and secure laptops and other valuable equipment so you can focus your attention on the job seekers. ● Wear comfortable shoes and take a short break every hour to relieve sore feet and backs. Bring a rubber mat if you are standing on concrete all day. ● Take a tour around to other booths and borrow ideas you like for next time. ● Don’t eat in your booth, leave your booth empty,

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or sit behind your table with your arms crossed and your eyes down.

The people in your booth make the biggest difference. Booth staff should be friendly ambassadors for your company who enjoy meeting new people. They should also be properly trained to answer common job-seeker questions, including: ● What positions are available and what do those people do? ● What are the working conditions, hours and compensation? ● What qualifications do I need for that position? ● Do you have any entry-level positions available? ● Will you provide training or support my training for this position? ● How would you describe your corporate culture? ● What do you like about your job / company? ● What sets your company apart from other employers? ● What is the growth outlook for your company?

Want to put these tips to the test? You can find out about upcoming Alberta Works job fairs in your community at: http://humanservices.alberta.ca/jobfairs.

Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. Contact him at charles.strachey@gov.ab.ca.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 105.14 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 51.15 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.89 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.19 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.18 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.15 Cdn. National Railway . . 62.13 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 168.61 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.60 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.62 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.75 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.21 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 49.96 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.90 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.19 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.01 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.14 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.28 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.98 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 68.23 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.08 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.60 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.33 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 101.02 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.44 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.77 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.01 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 17.00 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Friday at the end of a positive week where indications that the U.S. economy didn’t take a major weather-related hit this winter helped ease the prospect of higher interest rates.

The S&P/TSX composite index was 26.07 points lower at 14,335.76.

The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.26 of a cent at 89.21 cents US in the wake of a better than expected reading on retail sales for January and slowing price pressures.

Statistics Canada said retail sales were up 1.3 per cent, against the 0.7 per cent rise that had been expected.

U.S. markets were also off the best levels of the session even as data suggested that the America’s economic growth should bounce back following a harsh winter.

The Dow Jones industrials dropped 28.28 points to 16,302.77, while the Nasdaq fell 42.5 points to 4,276.79 and the S&P 500 index was down 5.49 points at 1,866.52.

The U.S. Conference Board’s index of leading indicators rose in February by the largest amount in three months. And a key manufacturing reading, the

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.07 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.18 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 60.79 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.10 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.04 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 21.76 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 26.81 First Quantum Minerals . 19.73 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 29.86 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.31 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.38 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.46 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.66 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 23.68 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 30.10 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 38.25 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 62.11 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.12 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 52.84 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 41.81 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 21.99 Canyon Services Group. 13.57 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.55 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.890 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 22.68 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.73 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 94.31 Philadelphia Fed’s manufacturing index, rebounded in March from a negative reading in February.

The data helped persuade investors that the U.S. economy is strengthening to a point where it can withstand higher short-term interest rates. “(The data) could have been

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 58.06 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.64 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 51.02 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.76 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.47 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.185 Precision Drilling Corp . . 12.73 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.34 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.34 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.42 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 11.41 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 67.17 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.05 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.86 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.88 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.78 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.45 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.84 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 52.22 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 66.75 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.50 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.55 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.32 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 72.16 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.86 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.54

a whole lot worse — all the talk earlier was that it was going to be a lot worse,” said Fred Ketchen, manager of equity trading at ScotiaMcLeod.

“But when they finally get down to the numbers, they escaped a bit, we escaped along with them and it gives you a good feeling.”

Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen said Wednesday that the U.S. central bank could begin raising short-term rates six months after it halts its bond purchases around year’s end.

The Fed has been steadily cutting back on those purchases, a key element of stimulus that had kept long-term rates low, since December.

The tech sector fell 1.75 per cent and BlackBerry (TSX:BB) shares dropped 42 cents to $10.19 as it announced the sale of a majority of its real estate holdings in Canada. Terms of the deal and the buyer were not disclosed.

The gold sector fell about 0.7 per cent even as the April gold contract gained $5.50 to US$1,336 an ounce after four days of declines as traders hoped the Ukraine crisis wouldn’t worsen.

The industrials sector was down 0.6 per cent. Conductors, yard workers and other train workers at Canadian National Railways (TSX:CNR) have rejected a second tentative contract, prompting the company to suggest the talks go to a form of binding arbitration. Its shares were down 71 cents to $62.13.

Economic optimism sent oil and copper higher, with May copper up two cents to US$2.95 a pound. The base metals sector gained 1.47 per cent.

The May crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange was up 56 cents to US$99.46 a barrel and the energy sector rose 0.48 per cent.

The consumer staples sec-

tor was ahead 0.62 per cent as Loblaw Companies Ltd. (TSX:L) received approval from the Competition Bureau for its $12.4-billion purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. (TSX:SC), on the condition that it sell 18 stores and nine pharmacies. Loblaw shares rose 79 cents to $47.01 and while Shoppers gained 57 cents to $61.18.

Worries about Chinese growth and the Ukraine crises had depressed markets last week but the TSX ran ahead this week by 108 points or 0.76 per cent, held back by sliding gold stocks. The Dow industrials advanced 237 points or 1.48 per cent.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,335.76, down 26.07 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,034.76, down 0.50 of a point TSX 60 — 822.21, down 1.86 points Dow — 16,302.77, down 28.28 points S&P 500 — 1,866.52, down 5.49 points Nasdaq — 4,276.79, down 42.50 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 89.21 cents US, up 0.26 of a cent Pound — C$1.8490, down 0.60 of a cent Euro — C$1.5467, down 0.19 of a cent

Euro — US$1.3798, up 0.23 of a cent Oil futures: US$99.46 per barrel, up 56 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,336 per oz., up $5.50 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.711 oz., down 21.2 cents $762.31 kg, down $6.81 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’14 $14.70 lower $440.50; July ’14 $14.70 lower $449.90; Nov. ’14 $14.10 lower $466.50; Jan ’15 $14.10 lower $473.40; March ’15 $13.50 lower $480.50; May ’15 $13.00 lower $486.70; July ’15 $11.70 lower $492.50; Nov ’15 $11.70 lower $485.10; Jan. ’16 $11.70 lower $485.10; March ’16 $11.70 lower $485.10.

Barley (Western): May ’14 unchanged $130.50; 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; May ’16 unchanged $128.50.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 688,620 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 688,620.

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The company said Friday it will sell more than three million square feet of space and vacant lands and lease back a portion of the properties.

BlackBerry did not disclose the buyer or the purchase price as it said the sale was still subject to unspecified conditions.

“The successful sale of property in Canada will help us move toward our goal of continued operational efficiency,” CEO and executive chairman John Chen said in a statement.

The company had announced in January that it planned to sell the majority of its Canadian real estate holdings.

BlackBerry pioneered the smartphone in 1999 and dominated for years, but since the late 2000s the company has been hammered by competition from the iPhone as well as Android-based rivals.

Under Chen — who took on the CEO post permanently late last year — BlackBerry has been working to turn around its business.

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A bungalow of luxury GRAND PRIZE DREAM HOME FOR THE RED DEER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION’S 16TH ANNUAL HOSPITALS’ LOTTERY IS WORTH $850,000

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF

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The Red Deer Regional Health Foundation’s annual Hospitals’ Lottery 2014 grand prize dream home is located at 78 Voisin Close in Red Deer. The lottery is also offering a 50/50 raffle, called Mega Bucks, with a minimum cash payout of $80,000. Draw tickets are $25 each, five for $100 or 15 for $250. Mega Bucks tickets are $10 each, 10 for $25 or 25 for $50. Tickets can be purchased online at www.hospitalslottery.com or by calling 403-340-1878 or 1-877-808-9005. Due to sell-outs the past two years, there are more tickets this year with a total of 98,758, plus 183,275 Mega Bucks tickets. The early bird cutoff is 11 p.m. on June 8 with the draw taking place on June 24. The last day to purchase tickets is June 22 and the final draw will be on July 7.

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A spacious luxury bungalow at 78 Voisin Close in Red Deer’s Vanier Woods neighbourhood is up for grabs.

The grand prize dream home for the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation’s 16th annual Hospitals’ Lottery is listed at $700,000.

Graham Moore, lottery chair, said that at the end of the day the Abbey Master Builder home is valued at over $850,000.

The five-bedroom, three-bathroom residence covers 1,698 square feet, plus 1,500 square feet in the fully finished basement featuring a large media room, bar and a custom designed wine cellar.

The main level ceilings reach 10 feet high while the lower level ones are all nine feet high.

Complete with custom lighting and flooring, the house also boasts a covered veranda, back deck, two-car garage, an executive-style kitchen with glass cabinetwork and a “hotel-inspired” master en suite with a free-standing soaker tub and temperaturecontrolled heated floors.

The yard also comes fully landscaped.

It is open for public viewing from 1 to 5 p.m. daily with hours extended to 8 p.m. on Thursdays.

In addition to the upscale modern home, the lottery has 442 other prizes, valued at over $1 million.

These include a 2014 Dodge Dart plus $50,000 cash for the early bird draw, diamond stud earrings, vacation vouchers, two new vehicles, numerous electronics, a bedroom furniture package and more.

All proceeds will go towards purchasing new cardiac monitors for the local hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, upgrades to surgical lighting in obstetrical suites and equipment enhancements to improve services in gastroenterology.

For the first time, the lottery is also offering a 50/50 raffle, called Mega Bucks, with a minimum cash payout of $80,000.

Draw tickets are $25 each, five for $100 or 15 for $250.

Mega Bucks tickets are $10 each, 10 for $25 or 25 for $50.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.hospitalslottery.com or by calling 403-340-1878 or 1-877808-9005.

Due to sell-outs the past two years, there are more tickets this year with a total of 98,758, plus 183,275 Mega Bucks tickets.

The early bird cutoff is 11 p.m. on June 8 with the draw taking place on June 24.

The last day to purchase tickets is June 22 and the final draw will be on July 7.

At the time of the lottery launch on March 14, tickets were already over 40 per cent sold out from the previous supporters draw.

The lottery raised $625,000 last year.

Organizers say they hope to raise $1 million this year, which would be a first for the event. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 22, 2014

Switchin’ the kitchen A recurring problem facing many people when they decide to update their kitchen is what style of project to opt for in terms of layout, space management and visuals.

Should that dream cuisine be modern and glossy with sharp angles and cutting-edge lines?

Or perhaps more traditional, with Shaker leanings and hand-built allusions? And how about tiling?

And marble as opposed to granite?

We appreciate that while decision-making is important in any room, it’s in the kitchen that the most cautious hand should be played.

Cabinetry is more difficult to change on a whim (practically and financially) than soCOLIN & fas and bed linen.

JUSTIN And appliances, similarly, are more expensive than a new set of curtains and a contrasting rug.

Throughout our career on both sides of the pond, we’ve refitted literally scores of cooking spaces and the conundrum that meets us time and time again is how to provide clients with results that look more like custom installation than off-the-shelf basics.

Clients, before we arrive, are generally immersed in property porn and have been lusting after expensive creations, but of course hoping we’ll achieve similar bespoke aesthetics ... on a budget.

Which is problematic in a world where much of what’s available looks decidedly like the rest of what’s available elsewhere. Ah, the great homogenization of consumer products.

Therein lies the very root of our creative crisis.

A kitchen from Home Depot, you see, can look pretty much like one from Lowe’s, while that affordable offer from one online retailer can look surprisingly similar to the next virtual bargain. To remedy this issue, there are several techniques we regularly employ.

One bit of C and J visual trickery is to mix and match cabinet style throughout the same plan, or merge different colours (cream and chocolate doors, for example) or alternate wood and painted finish at floor and eye levels.

Or you could mix glossy and matte finish cabinetry to establish extra visual interest.

Other quick fixes include changing hardware to add custom lines to basic buy product (in the past we’ve used long D handles to give Shaker kitchens a whole new look) or running coloured under-cabinet lighting to enliven even the most humdrum cupboards.

All it takes to add identity is a little imagination, and that careful thought process is the fun — and of course free —part.

A spot of radical tiling, a glass backsplash or simply breaking up a long run of eye level cabinetry with floating shelving might be all that’s required to create much needed personalization.

And today’s kitchen project? Well, small as it was, it really came alive with a new colour scheme.

The dated wood cabinets were falling apart and, by their owners account, were well past their sell by date. So we had a re think. And told our clients to brace themselves for a whole new look.

One that might surprise them in such a tight, restricted environment; dark wood veneer.

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The designers add serious wow factor to a kitchen in need of a facelift (below). The key steps? Brave, dark wood finish cabinetry and new counters.

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Free up surfaces Keeping kitchen counters clutter free works wonders.

If you’re planning a new install or just freshening up what you’ve got, a little effort goes a long way.

Integrating microwaves and providing storage for bulky items helps too — here, a combination microwave / grill was repositioned under the counter to replace the counter grill and separate microwave.

Buying items with a multipurpose edge always frees up space…

Small decisions add up Something as simple as choosing a square cut work surface over bullnose can make a huge difference to how modern and luxurious your kitchen feels.

Square edged isn’t necessarily pricier, so shop around and don’t be afraid to buy doors and carcasses from one source and worktops from another.

The two things you should concern yourself with are getting the feel you want and bringing it in on budget. Ikea has a great range of white or grey work surfaces that would be perfect for this look - ‘Saljan’ for instance: check it out at www.ikea.com

Modernize your handles

Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts on Cityline. Colin and Justin’s Cabin Pressure, a new reality show, is in production with Cottage Life TV and airs this month.

Modern door handles and drawer pulls make for modern units, so think about how your choice of metal and style choices will influence your final aesthetic.

Here, dated 1980’s wooden handles were swapped out for long stainless steel ‘D’ options – perfect for modern kitchens, the look is sleek and efficient.

‘Lansa’ stainless steel handles start from just www.ikea.com

Floored by Choice The floor tile adds warmth through its stone colouring, and a feeling of space thanks to the tile size and brickwork pattern.

We used Karndean vinyl tile — it’s perfect for food prep’ zones due to its low profile depth which meant we were able to lay it without the need for skirting board removal or door planing.

For the lowdown on this unique product, click on www.karndean.com

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All the entries are in, now it’s time to vote!

Go to www.reddeeradvocate.com/contests/ and click on the OMG logo to see all the entries. Scroll through the submissions and vote for your favorite. Winner receives $1000 towards installed garage organizational solutions from Canadian Closet Voting close April 12/14. See online for full contest rules.

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Keeping your sink, fridge and cooker in the same place works wonders at keeping costs down so, if your current work triangle is good, leave power and water supplies undisturbed to save both time and money. Spending less on invisible items means you can spend more on the things that stand out.

If you have an open plan kitchen / dining / living room, it’s imperative to consider each of the zones as one space and furnish accordingly to create uniformity and cohesion.

The owners of this kitchen had a dark ‘espresso’ timber dining table and chairs that they loved, so we tied the kitchen door choice in with that to create connectivity.

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As soon as our clients had gotten over the shock of dark timber cabinetry (it took them time to accept that ‘somber’ finishes wouldn’t make proportions appear tighter — rather more atmospheric —they were delighted with our decorative endeavors.

We counseled that there’s a difference between matters of scale and matters of ‘mood’.

As soon as they saw all the inclusion go in — new counters, tile and metal finish appliances — they began kicking their height with approval.

And so it came to pass that another room was corrected. And another two clients faced life … with kitchen sink drama entirely arrested.

More from us next week!

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 22, 2014 D3

Rejuvenate Textured bathroom walls old wood finishes with ease There’s something especially glum about a worn, dented and scratched finish on interior woodwork, cabinets and furniture.

This is especially true since so many wood finishes in Canadian homes include stains that are darker than the natural colour of the wood itself.

Dents, abrasion and ordinary wear inevitably punch through this darker, surface layer of stain, revealing bright wood below that looks ugly and impoverished.

Yes, visible wear is entirely a superficial thing, but way too much perfectly sound woodwork is pitched onto the trash heap because of it.

That’s not surprising considering how worn wood STEVE finishes can make you feel so bad about your home and MAXWELL yourself.

What’s not so obvious is how simple and easy it is to reverse the appearance of this kind of wear and tear without a full-blown refinishing job.

In fact, wood rejuvenation of this sort is now faster and more pleasant than ever.

The main challenge behind revitalizing an old stained finish without complete stripping back to bare wood comes down to re-establishing a dark colour on areas of wear.

Traditionally this has involved buying several small cans of wood stain, experimenting with different hues and tones, then settling on one colour to reapply with a brush and rag.

After that you go over everything again with coats of urethane.

Trouble is, most cans of stain are much larger than you need for this work, and most formulations of stain also contain solvents that leave irritating odours wafting through your home.

Solving both these problems is why a brand new option for wood finishing caught my eye.

I spotted it at a trade show back in the fall, and it’s just coming out on Canadian store shelves now.

Though unique at the moment, I expect it will spawn copycat products over the next few years.

Minwax Wood Finishing Cloths come pre-charged with a liquid that’s both a stain and a mild wood sealer in one.

They’re designed primarily for applying a new finish on bare wood, but they’re also the best thing I’ve seen so far for repairing old finishes.

Put on the protective gloves that come with each package, open the resealable pouch, pull out one of the stain-saturated rags, then wipe areas of dented, worn wood.

The stain only soaks in where the old finish is gone, colouring light areas while making things look much better.

If you can’t find an exact match for your woodwork, choose one shade darker than the existing finish.

This cloth-based approach never leaves brush marks behind because paint brushes are never involved.

The thick, waterbased liquid that saturates the cloths is almost odour-free, it dries in an hour and washes up with soap and water.

It’s also viscous enough that you can vary the depth of colour by rubbing more or less material into a given area.

Two or three coats are enough to create a basic layer of protection on wood, but you can add a couple of coats of waterbased or oil-based urethane or wipe-on poly on top after it dries, if you need more protection.

There are eight seven-by-eight-inch cloths in each package, and each cloth goes a long way.

Slip unused cloths back in the resealable plastic pouch for use again later.

It’s sleek and simple.

Fixing up old finishes like this won’t make cabinets, trim and furniture look new again.

But they will do something that many people like better.

Although the dents and worn edges won’t go away, surfaces get quite attractive when these areas are made as dark or darker than the surrounding undamaged areas.

There’s something attractive about this kind of distressed, ‘shabby chic’ look.

Will you like the effect in your own home? You’ve got nothing to lose to give it a try.

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Steve Maxwell, syndicated home improvement and woodworking columnist, has shared his DIY tips, how-to videos and product reviews since 1988. Get home improvement and renovation advice directly from Steve at www.stevemaxwellhowto.com

Question: I would like to texture a guest bathroom walls and need some direction.

The look I am after is a very thick texture, not the regular texture that can be applied with a sponge or a pressure gun. I am hoping you know what I’m talking about.

Answer: The thick texture that you are talking about is created with plaster, applied with a metal trowel and then worked with a wood trowel.

I would recommend contacting a professional plasterer who will know the type and thickness of the plaster mix required.

There are different types of plaster available for wall applications that you can do yourself.

Venetian plaster has marble dust mixed into it, unlike traditional stucco, and can be burnished to a high sheen by rubbing with a spatula or trowel.

DEBBIE For the light, smooth texTRAVIS ture, I used Venetian plaster.

Prime your walls with a good paint or plaster primer before you start.

Use a trowel to apply the plaster to the wall, smooth it on and work in a cross hatch pattern smearing on and taking off the plaster until you have a thin coat covering the wall. Let dry and then apply a second coat, building up a smooth, slightly uneven texture.

After each coat dries, sand off any sharp points or stubbly bits.

Plasters can be precoloured using universal tints.

Rather than the colour sitting on the surface as it does with paint, pre-tinted plaster won’t show nicks and scratches.

You can also achieve beautiful effects by layering colours.

For the textured bathroom walls shown here, I layered a gold metallic gel (or gold glaze) between layers of white plaster.

I smeared on the gel with a spatula over and across the plaster to highlight the subtle texture underneath.

The final plaster coat is skimmed over the gold showing tones of white, while allowing bits of gold to shimmer through.

Plaster is porous, so particularly for a bathroom, it is important to apply two coats of acrylic varnish to seal the walls.

Question: I am planning to remove the paneling in our rec room and have drywall installed.

There is an ugly fuse box in one corner that has

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been covered over. It sits above the couch. How can I hide the fuse box and make it look like part of the decor?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Answer: Your best plan is to diminish the appearance of the fuse box so that it blends in with the wall.

Use metal paint the same colour as the wall.

Follow the instructions for painting over metal so that the paint won’t peel.

If your fuse box doesn’t stick out too far — the door is usually about an inch deep — then hang a picture over it.

Make it part of a collage of pictures that hang above your couch.

Question: We have white painted cabinets throughout the house.

Over the years they have taken on a yellowish hue.

Is there any way to bring back their whiteness without painting?

Answer: There are various recipes for bleaching yellowed cabinets using baking soda and vinegar or lemon juice, but they are time-consuming and don’t promise an even finish.

There is no process that reverses the colour of paint that has aged. It’s a bigger job to try to bleach them than to paint.

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A gel-like gold glaze is troweled over the first plaster coat in random patches.

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1922 — 12,000 B.C. and Alberta coal miners go on strike until Aug. 24, 1923.

1894 — The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association wins the first Stanley Cup

championship game, beating the Ottawa Capitals 3-1, and winning the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association tournament 3 games to 2. A year earlier, Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston, former governor general, had purchased the silver bowl in London for $48.67 to donate to the Canadian amateur champions. Today, the Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports competition in North America.

1885 — Canadian troops are mobilized because of the Northwest Rebellion.

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Lost BUTZ KISINGER Agnes Lenora Edwin Henry Oct. 31, 1927 - Mar. 19, 2014 Oct. 15, 1921 - Mar. 14, 2014 It is with great sadness that Edwin passed away peacefully the family of Agnes Butz on Friday, March 14, 2014, announce her passing on with his family by his side.

Thursday, March 19th, 2014 Edwin is survived by his loving at the age of 86 years. Agnes wife Violet, his son-in-law Eldon Anniversaries fought a valiant battle against Riley, his granddaughters; cancer for many years and Alissa (Steven) and Aleigha passed away with her loving (Jared), and his great family by her side. She is grandchildren; Austin, Olivia, survived by her husband Ray Joshua, and Katelyn. Edwin of 61 years who was the love also leaves behind his siblings; of her life and best friend, Brian (Gloria), Florence, Ruth her children; Pam (Blair) (John), Jake (Elaine), Eva, Palmer, Wendy (Clifford) Keeler, and Edna, and numerous Grant (Crystal) Butz, Sandi nieces and nephews. Edwin (Randy) Coulter, and Trevor was predeceased by his only (Sherry) Butz. Agnes is also daughter Cheryl. Edwin was survived by 10 grandchildren; raised in the Hilda area until Scott (Tammy) Palmer, 1939, he then joined the Stefanie (Scotty) Palmer, Canadian Armed Forces Derek (Jodi) Keeler, Marci where he served until 1946.

(Jared) Sweet, Colin (Richelle) He then moved to Medicine Cooke, Sarah (Donovan) Hat where he met his wife Cooke, Landon Coulter, Lee Violet and raised their Coulter, Rylee (Dominic) Butz, daughter Cheryl. Edwin and PROVENCHER MacKenzie (Lucas) Butz, and Violet decided in 2000 to Don and Maureen were 7 great-grandchildren; Sidnee, move to Red Deer to be married in Vancouver on Linkyn, Liam, Raya, Jaden, closer to their daughter and March 21, 1964. They lived Barrett and Daniel. Agnes is her family. Edwin was an abroad for a number of years also survived by her two amazing husband, father and with the Canadian Armed sisters; Louise (Eddy) Biffart grandfather. He was always Forces. They have made and Mabel (Rene) LeBlanc, happy and loved spending Red Deer their home since sister in law Ruth Fauser, her time with his granddaughters 1971 where they have now special nephews, nieces and and great grandchildren. His retired. Congratulations on many dear friends. Agnes spare time was spent playing your 50th wedding was predeceased by her the piano, playing crib and anniversary Mom and Dad. parents; Christopher and serving on the Condo Board.

Love, Colette, Nicole, Barbara Fauser, brothers; Edwin will be sincerely missed and Chantal Ted, Elmer and Ken, sisters; by everyone who knew him.

Selma, Tina and Mert and A memorial service will be son in law, Sandy. She will held at Eventide Funeral be sorefully missed by all Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red who loved and knew her. A Deer, on Tuesday, March 25, special thanks to Terry, Judy 2014 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of Card Of Thanks and staff on Unit 32 and the flowers, donations in Edwin’s Palliative Care Unit of the name may be made directly Thank you to Dr. Korbyl Red Deer Regional Hospital. to the Cancer Center, Red Deer and the nurses and staff of Heartfelt thanks to Dr. Lui for Regional Health Foundation, Unit 21 at the Red Deer Hospital his compassionate care. 3942-50A Avenue, Red Deer, and the Hip and Knee Clinic Memorial contributions can Alberta, T4N 4E7. for the exceptional care I received. be made specifically to the Condolences may be forwarded ~ Fay Fyte “Palliative Care Unit” Red Deer to the family by visiting Regional Health Foundation www.eventidefuneralchapels.com 3942 50A Ave, Red Deer, AB Arrangements entrusted to T4N 4E7. A funeral service EVENTIDE FUNERAL for Agnes will be held on CHAPEL Thank you to Dr. T and the Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. nurses and staff of the Central 1:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Phone (403) 347-2222 Alberta Cancer Clinic for their Church 4310 39 St, Red care & concern over the years.

Deer, Alberta. Inurnment will The Robert Fyten family be held at Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta at a later date. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL Celebrations CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe COMMUNITY SHOWER and Rimbey in charge for of arrangements.

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The family of Vic and Gem Fitch invite their friends to join them for a “come-and-go” celebration of their parents’ 80th birthdays, and soon-to-be 56th anniversary.

WHEN: Sunday, March 23 from 2 - 5 p.m.

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BIG REWARD OFFERED. LOST MOTHERS RING. 2 White Zirconias on either side of blue sapphire.

Yellow gold.

Very sentimental, it’s almost like my mother passing again.

778-628-7778 or 403-346-6336 IPHONE LOST in downtown Royal Bank, if you are the kind lady who picked it up, please phone 403-350-4712 & leave msg for Ken.

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EYE GLASSES found on 32 St. & 30 Ave. bike path 403-986-6075

with at least 3 yrs. of practice and ClearDent experience who is extremely well organized, energetic & self motivated.

4 days/wk. No evenings or weekends. Send resume ASAP to reddeer@periopartners.com or bring by in person, we would love to meet you.

4619 48 Ave, Red Deer.

Farm Work

755

F/T FEED TRUCK OPERATOR for large expanding feed lot in Sundre.

Fax resume to 403-638-3908 or call 403-556-9588 or email: feedlot@hotmail.ca Start your career!

See Help Wanted

VFA Pork, a farrow to finish operation, is looking for a full-time hog farm workers supervisor. Preferably college ed. in swine production.20 Min. west of Lacombe. $15-18/hour, dep. on experience. Email or fax resumes: vfapork@ gmail.com/403-782-4854.

Medical

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BUSY MEDICAL OFFICE requires a PRESCREENING TECH. Personals Computer literacy is a must.

Experience not necessary, job training is provided but ALCOHOLICS qualifications will be ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 considered. Starting wages COCAINE ANONYMOUS $14/hr. Please fax resume 403-396-8298 to 403-342-2024.

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FUEL up to win. Need Ucluelet, Beausejour, Milestone, Swift Current, Eckville, Deloraine. Split prize 50-50. 403-755-2760 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Clinic Manager Required for Rocky Medical Clinic Rocky Mtn. House, AB See website for full posting www.rockymedical.com <http://www. rockymedical.com> Email resumes to rockymed@telusplanet.net

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PERIOPARTNERS Dr. Patrick Pierce/ Dr. Janel Yu Require

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MANLEY In loving memory of our dear daughter, mother Tricia Lynn, who went to Heaven 23 years ago

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Announcements

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Parkland Youth Homes is a non-profit, dynamic, learning organization that is passionate about providing quality service to youth and families in the Red Deer area. We are seeking qualified, motivated individuals to fill the following positions:

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TEAM LEADER (FULL TIME) THERAPIST (FULL TIME) YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELLORS (FULL TIME) YOUTH COUNSELLOR-RESIDENTIAL OVERNIGHTS (1.5 FTE) YOUTH COUNSELLOR -RESIDENTIAL COOK (FULL TIME) FAMILY SUPPORT WORKER (FULL TIME) SCHOOL SUPPORT COUNSELLOR (FULL TIME) YOUTH COUNSELLORS (RELIEF) Please visit our website

www.parklandyouthhomes.ca for more information.

Applicants are sincerely thanked in advance for their interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition closes when positions are filled.

Resumes can be emailed to: HR@parklandyouthhomes.ca Faxed to: 403-346-3225 or forwarded to: Human Resources Parkland Youth Homes Society 4920 54 St., Red Deer, AB, T4N 2G8

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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jobs

NOW HIRING

CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Clerical

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P/T friendly receptionist, good with details. Fax resume 403-314-5307 Part time personnel required. Must have accounting experience and be proficient in Quick Books and Microsoft Office. Backgound in Ag Industry is preferable.

Contact David at Kaun’s Seed Farm 403-350-2555

Dental

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RDH, P/T 2-3 days/wk in a brand new dental office in Penhold. Please send resume to centralabdentist @gmail.com

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Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions: • Coil Tubing Supervisors • Coil Tubing Operators • Boom Truck Operators • Nitrogen Pump Operators • Fluid Pump Operators • Field Mechanics Competitive Wages and Benefits. Extended rotations available (22/13). Priority given to applicants with relevant experience, Class 1 Drivers License and Valid Oilfield Tickets Wise is a leading oilfield services provider that is committed to Quality and Safety excellence. By empowering positive attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values, our employees care for the success of one another.

For more information see

www.wiseisi.com Please Forward All Resumes to jobs@wiseisi.com or by fax to 403-340-1046

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Hiring full time Operation Coordinator/Field Supervisor for local oilfield testing company Must be local (Red Deer area) Must have testing experience Competitive salary Health benefits offered Send resume to ken@darkstarproduction. com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

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Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, Tired of Standing? be quick learners, motivated Find something to sit on and hard working and live in Classifieds or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commute to workplace location. This Buying or Selling position offers a challenging your home?

Check out Homes for Sale work environment, attractive benefits with competitive in Classifieds pay and significant room for promotion.

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

SOCCER ASSOCIATION Business Operations Manager – Red Deer, AB Summary: The Business Operations Manager will be responsible for dayto-day operations, managing the organization’s HR, helping and creating organizational and program budgets in collaboration with the Board of Directors (BoD) and the staff, and other misc. tasks.

Working with the board executive team, the position also contributes to the development and implementation of organizational strategies, policies and practices.

Qualifications: Post-secondary degree – preferred in some area of business and/or marketing Experience: Five years of non-profit related work experience in business, marketing and experienced in dealing with mid-senior level executives.

Skills: • Must have excellent marketing skills • Excellent people manager, open to direction and collaborative work style and commitment to get the job done • Excellent writing, editing, communication and interpersonal skills • Excellent PC skills • Persuasive with details and facts • Budget development and oversight experience

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ACCOUNTANT Hart Oilfield Rentals Ltd. currently has an opening in our Rocky Mountain House office for a full-time accountant.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

This is a full time position. Some additional work outside maybe required for association events.

Salary and benefits to be negotiated based on qualifications and experience.

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Submit resume to ajpeturson@gmail.com by March 27, 2014.

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Cameron Bay Holdings Inc. o/a McDonald’s requires a RESTAURANT MANAGER for our Gasoline Alley Stores, located at 37479 Hwy 2, and 37428 Hwy 2, Red Deer.

Yearly salary is between $38,000.00 - $43,000.00.

Must have 3 to 5 yrs exp. and be able to supervise 30 to 70 employees. Flexible hours needed as both restaurants are 24 hours.

McDonald’s experience is preferred but we will consider all applicants.

Benefits and bonus program offered. Fax resume to 403-783-4251 or email to cbay22@telus.net

Job functions will include, but not be limited to: Prepare accurate & timely DAD’S PIZZA Financial Statements, P/T / F/T COOK daily & monthly.

Apply at East 40th Pub. • Prepare month end close 3811 40th Ave. process & reports.

• Prepare quarterly reports JOSE JOSE LATIN for owners.

Attn: Human Resources • Prepare working papers RESTAURANT IS HIRING!!

COOKS HELPER email:kwolokoff@ & lead sheet for year end.

Please drop off your bearspawpet.com • Monthly GST & PST filings Fax 403-252-9719 • Maintain master vehicle resume at #9 7110-50 Ave or call 403-986-5673 Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 spreadsheet.

Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 • Maintain insurance RAMADA INN & SUITES requirements. req’s. ROOM ATTENDANTS Celebrate your life • Proficiency with Microsoft Exp. pref’d, but not necessary. with a Classified Office.

F/T wk days & weekends.

ANNOUNCEMENT Approx. 35 hrs/wk. Bonus Job Requirements: program.

Rate: $13.50/hr.

Looking for a place Post-Secondary Diploma Applicants may apply in to live? in Accounting or Finance, person at 6853 - 66 St. Take a tour through the minimum 5 years or more Red Deer T4P 3T5 or fax CLASSIFIEDS experience in a similar role.

403-342-4433 or email: Must be well versed in info@ramadareddeer.com accounting processes, have the ability to multitask & is a solid team player.

Must be flexible in job duties.

Comprehensive health & dental benefits offered.

PRODUCTION TESTING Forward resumes to EXPERIENCED (403) 845-7998, SUPERVISORS and or by e-mail to: WAITER / WAITRESS, TESTERS humanresources@hartoil.com HOST & BUS PEOPLE Day & Night Full Time & Part Time Start your career!

Must have tickets.

Varying shifts. Excellent Top paid wages.

See Help Wanted & wages & benefits.

Based out of Devon, AB. Call 403-346-5448 Email resume to: Ask for the manager. kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca •

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: Financial - Review financial statements and data and recommend effective strategies or organization.

Best Practices - Improve processes and policies in support of organizational goals.

Human Resources – Working with the Board of Directors (BoD) plan the use of human resources. Monitor and evaluate performance in partnership with the BoD. Communication & Marketing- Facilitates the development of a positive image, reputation, marketing opportunities and awareness of the organization throughout our demographic area.

Strategic Input - Assist in the development of strategic plans for operational activity. Implement and manage operational plans.

Risk Management - Oversee organizational insurance policies.

6905 Edgar Industrial Drive Red Deer, AB T4P 3R2 office@rdcsa.com 403-346-4259; Fax: 403-340-1044

Professionals

OIL & GAS OPERATOR

NOW HIRING

RED DEER CITY

Professionals

Oilfield

Purchaser

NexSource Power Inc. Sylvan Lake, AB, CANADA

We are currently looking for an experienced person to coordinate material purchases for a busy oilfield Electrical Instrumentation Company. Must have experience with electrical and instrumentation parts and fittings. Must have strong computer skills and SERVICE RIG good knowledge of MS Excel.

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd General Duties/ is seeking exp’d Responsibilities: FLOORHANDS & * Sourcing and purchasing DERRICK HANDS materials Locally based, home every * Creating purchase orders. night! Qualified applicants * Sending purchase orders must have all necessary to vendors. valid tickets for the position * Maintaining adequate being applied for. document controls.

Bearspaw offers a * Shipping and Receiving very competitive salary * Inventory control and benefits package Please submit your along with a steady resume and salary work schedule. expectations to jobs@ Please submit resumes: nexsourcepower.com or Attn: Human Resources FAX 403-887-4945 Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Looking for a new pet?

Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Check out Classifieds to Mail to: Suite 5309, find the purrfect pet.

333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

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Trades

Sales & Distributors

830

GRATIAE is seeking 5 Retails Sales representatives selling skin & body care products in Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer, $12.10/Hr plus bonus & commission, F/T. No Exp. Req’d.

Email resumes: gratiaereddeersr@ gmail.com 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 WIRELESS WORLD requires 2 Retail Sales Associates for Bower Place Mall, 149A 4900 Molly Banister Drive., Red Deer, AB; FT, perm to start ASAP; Will train, provide direct mobile phone sales and customer support services at location & other duties; $12.00/hr. Email Resume: retailjobs@ mywirelessworld.ca

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Parkland Community Living and Supports Society

RESIDENTIAL SUPERVISOR

Trades

850

Trades

850

APPLE Auto Glass EXP’D auto glass installer req’d immed. Wage dependent on exp. Good communication/phone skills.

8-5 Mon. - Fri. Drop resume at 4801-78 St. No phone calls.

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

JOURNEYMAN Mechanic wanted for busy auto shop that specializes in customizing, diesel repair and performance. Must be able to work independently and efficiently. Must have own tools. Wage neg, benefits an option. Sundre Ab price4x4@hotmail.com Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Heavy Equipment Operators, Skid Steer Operators and Laborers. Send resumes to: office@bricar.ca or fax 403-347-6296 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

CARPENTERS and laborers with exp. in farm buildings. 403-318-6406

Trades

CHINOOK’S EDGE SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 73 invites applications for a full-time Heavy-Duty or Automotive Apprentice and/or a Journeyman Automotive or Heavy-Duty Mechanic. The successful candidate will be required to work with licensed technicians, maintaining and inspecting the Division’s fleet of buses located at the Community Learning Campus in Olds.

Applicants must have mechanical knowledge, ability to work on their own and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment, as well as strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Cover letter and resume, complete with the names and telephone numbers of three current work related references and a driver’s abstract are accepted by email only and should be forwarded to: Shawn Russell, Associate Superintendent - People Services Chinook-s Edge School Division No. 73 Email: careers @chinooksedge.ab.ca For information on Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73, please check our website (www.chinooksedge.ab.ca) Applications will be accepted until 12:00 noon, Tuesday, April 1, 2014.

The successful applicant will be required to provide a Criminal Record Check and a Child Intervention (Welfare) Check. While we thank all applicants for their interest, only those individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

Resumes of applicants not granted an interview will not be kept on file.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Clark’s has immediate openings for qualified, experienced

for both our Bonnyville and Lac La Biche Locations.

Various Shifts available (furnished living accommodations provided for out of town employees) The successful candidates will: • hold a current Journeyman’s ticket, H2S, CSTS and First Aid • must pass a Pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening • Provide a current Driver Licence and Drivers Abstract • be a motivated self-starter • take pride in doing great work and willing to work long hours if needed • be energetic, positive, and keen to work with a rapidly expanding company • be 100% dedicated to customer service and satisfaction Clark’s offers top wages plus 10% holiday/vacation pay, overtime after 8 hrs, training, Health and Dental packages, Cell phones, Company Truck.

We are a COR Certified and ISNetworld Compliant, safety-conscious company that provides a safe and enjoyable workplace.

Is recruiting a

to join our award winning parts team.

Experienced Ford parts person preferred. Back counter (shop) will be the main focus, along with helping on the front counter and phones.

This is a full time position Monday to Friday and some Saturday mornings.

The successful applicant should have: • Good computer and solid organizational skills • Team player attitude • Willingness to learn and adapt.

• Experience with the Ford DMS invoicing, ordering system is an asset.

Please forward your resume for the Adult Residential Supervisor by quoting #4866SUP by March 31, 2014 and for the Children Residential Supervisor by quoting #4867SUP by March 31, 2014 to:

Competitive remuneration and benefit package for the right person

Parkland CLASS, Human Resources, 6010-45th Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 3M4 Fax: (403) 342-2677, email: hr@pclass.org

Sales & Distributors

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www.parklandclass.org We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Competition will remain open until a suitable applicant is found.

Submit your resume to: Doug Roberts Parts Manager Fourlane Ford Sales Ltd. Email: droberts@fourlaneford.com Ph: 403-227-3311 weekdays 403-350-9535 after 5PM Mail: 4412 50 Street, Innisfail, AB T4G 1P7

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FULL TIME SALES POSITION

IS HIRING! One of Alberta’s premium used vehicle operations is looking for a full-time sales consultant.

Sales Experience is a requirement.

Here’s what we offer: • Large Inventory – 2 locations to sell from • Flexible Hours • Excellent Reputation • Excellent Pay Structure • Excellent Benefit Plan

Experienced Hoe Operator Class 3 Tandem Operator Flag People General Labourers Screedman Rakerman Finish Roller Operator email resume: office@ccal.com

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Road Train Oilfield Transport Ltd

is looking for JOURNEYMAN HD MECHANIC or REG’D APPRENTICE. Ability to complete CVIP inspections is considered an asset. Top wages/ benefits. Safety tickets req’d. Fax or drop off resume 403-346-6128 No phone calls. roadtrain.com

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Foremen, Carpenters Apprentices & Laborers Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop.

MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 EXP’D CLASS 1 end dump driver for local haul. Please fax resume with driver’s abstract 403-342-6881

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: PRECAST INSTALLATION LABORERS CONCRETE FINISHERS CARPENTERS/ WOODWORKERS STEEL REINFORCEMENT LABORERS OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATORS GENERAL LABORERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

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: March 28, 2014

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

www.eaglebuilders.ca

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

TRUCKERS

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Contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview. Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

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PROFESSIONAL Truck Driver Position Available

PARTS PERSON

A valid class 5 driver’s license and your own transportation are required.

CENTRAL CITY ASPHALT LTD.

Truckers/ Drivers

RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND SERVICE: PLUMBERS, REFRIGERATION AND SHEET METAL TECHNICIANS

Qualifications: A Degree/Diploma in Human Services or a related field, plus 3–5 years of experience working with youth or adults with developmental disabilities is required. Experience with Autism, Aboriginal Culture, responding to behaviours of concern, following a behavior support plan, assisting with personal care and/or working with medically fragile individuals would be ideal. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills, team building and leadership skills.

NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

TJ PAVING LTD. Openings for Operators & Labourers. Paving experience an asset. Busy, growing company, opportunities to move up. Great working atmosphere. Email resume: tjpaving@hotmail. com or Fax: 403-346-8404.

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Fax Resume to 780-623-7451 or Email: sales@cpandh.ca

Salary: $3,709.48 - $3,764.94

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Motor coach company looking for 4th year or journeyman. Experience with motor coaches preferred. Send resume to frontbus@platinum.ca or fax 403.-347-4999

AUTOMOTIVE/ HEAVY-DUTY MECHANIC

Parkland CLASS is currently seeking an Adult Residential Supervisor & a Children Residential Supervisor to manage the overall program delivery for 3 individuals with developmental disabilities living in a residential home. Responsibilities include: providing direct care, participating in the development & implementation of personalized plans, following behaviour support plans, training, supervising a team of employees, & budget management. Hours of work are 40 hrs. /wk., primarily days, Mon-Fri; however, you will be required to work some evenings and weekends.

Adult Residential Supervisor is a permanent position Children Residential Supervisor is a term position: May 1, 2014 – July 7, 2014

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MECHANIC REQUIRED

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Oilfield

Busy road construction company looking for Class 1, Class 3, and winch truck drivers. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have at least 3 yr’s exp. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 22, 2014 D7

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ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

SPRING START

FRANCHISE AVAILABLE! FOR APPROVED LOCATION IN

RED DEER, AB

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Community Support Worker Program

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Women in the Trades Program

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Math and Science for the Trades Program

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GED Preparation

(SINGLE OR AREA FRANCHISE)

Minimum Investment: Approximately $150,000 unencumbered

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

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Chris Chan

SMITTY’S™ CANADA LIMITED 600 – 501 18th Ave SW Calgary, AB T2S 0C7 www.smittys.ca

880

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info

LABOUR

KENTWOOD & GLENDALE

Busy road construction company looking for Labours. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK

Fax resumes to 403-309-3860 Email: rvparts@southsidereddeer.com or drop off in person, attention Matt Peterson

SAFETY PERSON

Busy road construction company looking for safety person. Work is throughout the province. Experience is an asset but willing to train the right person. Must have a valid Class 5 driver’s license. Fax resume 403-309-0489

Employment Training

WESTLAKE Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

For more information phone Loren at 403-314-4316

DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

INNISFAIL Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

DRIVING INSTRUCTORS, training provided for Rimbey, Drayton Valley, Ponoka and Red Deer.

Streetwise Driving School.

340-8848

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SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

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

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Competitive wages and benefits

CARRIERS NEEDED 377687C17

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RV TECHNICIANS RV SERVICE WRITERS RV PARTS PERSONNEL

880

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AFTERNOON

We are a growing water purification company proudly serving families across central AB. Average starting base pay of approx. $18/hr. with room for rapid advancement. In house training is provided to qualified applicants.

Applicants should be motivated, reliable, professional, and possess a thirst for knowledge. Call to schedule an interview between 10 am and 7 pm.

403-356-0330

is now accepting resumes for

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BOWER

HIGH Paying Entry Level Positions

880

880

newspaper carriers needed in the following areas:

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

SOUTHSIDE RV PARTS & SERVICE DEPARTMENT

President 1-800-927-0366 cchan@smittys.ca

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MORRISROE AREA

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Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

For more information, contact:

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

(Reliable vehicle needed.)

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

We Provide: Site Selection & Design Lease Negotiations Construction Administration Training & Operations Support Menu Development Marketing

Canada’s Largest Family Restaurant Chain serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner to Canadians coast to coast since 1960

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer

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Business Opportunities

MORNING

stuff

newspaper carriers needed in the following areas:

CLASSIFICATIONS

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

SOUTH HILL

ANDERS AREA For more information phone Loren at 403-314-4316

Allan St. / Ardell Close Andrews Close

1500-1990

Antiques & Art

VINTAGE Retro ANTIQUE SALE Sat. Mar. 22 10-3 @ Clearview Hall, 93 Cornett Dr.

Aikman Close Arb Close / Asmundsen Ave.

2804 GAETZ AVE., RED DEER

Auctions

INGLEWOOD AREA Inglis Cres.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

LANCASTER AREA Lacey Close / Lennon Close

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

Addington Drive MORRISROE AREA

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

McVicar Street / McKee Close Marion Cres / McKenzie Cres SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres.

Resident Apartment Manager - Red Deer

VANIER AREA Viscount Drive Volks Place / Vanier Drive Vanson Close / Visser St. Vickers Close

27 units, quiet, adult, no smoking, no pets Collect rent, clean, building maintenance, Sidewalks and grass.

Renovation skills a plus Criminal record check.

Send resumes with experience, expectations and references to: resumes@ wunschdevelopments.ca or fax: 780-452-8284

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

ROOFING LABOURER REQ’D. 403-314-9516 please leave a message. or 403-350-1520

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UNRESERVED AUCTION SALE FOR LAKESIDE RONA

Saturday, April 5, 2014 Sylvan Lake, Alberta Time: 10:00 a.m.

Location: 4725 43rd Street (Sylvan Lake Community Centre)

Machinery 2002 IHC 4300 Flat Deck Truck w/ 17’ 6” Flat Deck & Only 212,000 Kms Plus Selling A Huge Assortment of New Power Tools, Doors & Windows, Skylights, Moldings & Floor Trim, Broan Vaccum, Weiser Locksets, Taps & Shower Enclosures, 8’ Columns, Hardwood & Laminate Floor and Nuts & Bolts Sale Conducted by:

ALLEN B. OLSON AUCTION SERVICE LTD. Rimbey, Alberta License No. 165690 (403) 843-2747 Sale Site E-mail: abolson@ telusplanet.net Homepage: allenolsonauction.com

Bicycles

1540

NORCO mens 12 spd. bike, good cond., $35 403-356-9019

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

376856C13-23

CLEARVIEW and CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREAS

2 Blocks of Cosgrove Cres. $80/mo.

ALSO Cunningham Cres. $50/mo.

Town of Blackfalds Employment Opportunities

DEER PARK AREA 104 to 194 Blocks of Douglas St. $58/mo.

ALSO Dietz Close, Durie Close and 1 block of Davison Dr. $51/mo.

Company: Blackfalds continues to be a fast growing community with a current population of 7,275, which grows on average 6 – 7% annually. It is nestled halfway between Red Deer and Lacombe in Central Alberta along the North/south Trade Corridor. A ten-minute commute in either direction provides the residents of Blackfalds not only a wide range of employment opportunities and post-secondary educational institutions, but also regional-scale shopping outlets and entertainment. Through the Municipal Development Plan, the Town is fulfilling its commitment to maintaining a small town atmosphere while expanding the industrial and commercial base and improving the quality of life for its citizens. Affordable housing, a quiet place to live, new recreational facilities, ample business opportunities, close proximity to major transportation routes will continue to increase the population and economy making it easy to say that Blackfalds is...”A Nice Place to Grow!”

Erickson Dr., Eldrige Cr., Everitt Cr., Elkin Cl., $187/mo.

ALSO 37 Ave. from 39 St. to 44 St. and Exeter Cr. and 38A Ave. Area $111/mo.

“Community Pride” is evident in the participation in community events such as Blackfalds Days held each spring as well as other events throughout the year. It shows up in the well-tended yards and flower gardens throughout the town and it is evident in the response to volunteer needs. People know their neighbors. They watch out for each other’s children and property. They’re like family. If you’d like to live in this kind of community you’d be welcome in Blackfalds! Check out the Town’s excellent Website for the full story: www.blackfalds.com

GRANDVIEW AREA

For detailed information and complete Job descriptions, please visit http://www.blackfalds.com/administration/employment

41 Ave. from Ross St. to 44 St. + 4000 Block of 47 St. &44 Block of 40A Ave. $63/mo.

ALSO

Labourer (Parks) Seasonal - Participates as a member of the field staff and is responsible to carry out the day-to-day activities related to maintenance and repair of Town of Blackfalds owned facilities and equipment. The Parks Labourer is required to perform skilled, non-skilled manual tasks, and custodial duties with general instruction and supervision. Ability to operate a variety of specialized power and hand tools to perform manual tasks and required to drive light duty vehicles. Labourer is required to work weekends and evenings as scheduled.

Equipment Operator II (Public Works) - This position is a med level experienced operator position where general labour functions are combined with operation of light duty fleet vehicles, mechanized tools and equipment, as well as operation of heavy equipment utilized for the maintenance of road and sidewalk systems, water distribution systems, waste water and storm water collection systems.

Planning and Development Officer 1- Reporting to the Planning and Development Manager the Development Officer will deliver numerous development processes including permitting, and compliance process from application review/permit issuance to compliance, monitoring, review and development completion. This position will assist in the management of development needs and activities of the Town of Blackfalds through the implementation and enforcement of the development permitting process, Land Use Bylaw, accepted development protocols, and relevant Municipal Engineering & Design Standards.

Activities also include responsibility for the upkeep of the Town Quality Management Plan (except fire) and coordination of the Safety and Building Code inspections, Permit and Licensing processes.

IT Website & Database Administrator- This position implements, supports and provides the optimization of database programs and websites for the Town. The Data Base Administrator is responsible for providing technical support for the database environment including overseeing the development and organization of the databases, assessment and implementation of new technologies, and providing Information Technology with a long-term perspective on the relationship of database technology to the operations facing the Town. Design, integrate and implement web based solutions for the Town’s service delivery. Provide web administration support for the departments within the organization. Services may also be warranted for advanced website enhancements and design templates

MICHENER AREA

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

Firewood

1660

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Appliances

1710

ACACIA wood footed, flower petal shaped punch bowl. $20; 12 acacia wood footed goblets, $15. Acacia wood serving bowl with decorative carving $15; Set of 5 dolls wearing formal gowns of S.E. Asia. $10. 403-342-7460 CHEST Freezer, Kenmore, 5 c.f. $50 403-346-9169 TOASTER oven very good cond. $20; electric oil heater $20 403-348-1905 403-348-8111 WORKING WHITE GE STOVE w/black glass front. $200 obo. 403-782-3398

Household Furnishings

1720

West of 40Ave. between Ross St. and 52 Ave. $264/mo

CINA Cabinet, solid wood, buffet $99; and glass front hutch. $99. 403-346-9169

ROSEDALE AREA

KING SIZE BOX SPRING, $100.

SINGLE FUTON, wood base & mattress, $30.

403-350-9029 or 403-343-7389

Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

TIMBERSTONE AREA 378616C22

We thank all applicants for their interest, but advise that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

40A, 41 & 42 Ave. between 39 St. & 44 St. $120/mo.

ALSO 43 Ave. Area between 39 St. and 43 St. $61/mo

1580

BABY SEAT, Brightstars with music & vibration. $10. 403-356-9019

EASTVIEW

Blackfalds residents choose this community because of its quality of life. Results of a recent survey show: 65% of the population indicated they live in the community because of its rural lifestyle, recreational amenities and low crime rate. The remaining 35% prefer the town for its affordable cost of housing and living.

Resumes can be dropped off in person at the Town Office (5018 Waghorn Street), or by email to hr@blackfalds.com or via fax: 403-885-4610.

Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.

Children's Items

Timberstone Way $302/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

LOVESEAT pull out bed 61”w, taupe/pin stripe, very good cond. $60; cloth high back office chair on wheels, adjustable, very good cond. $30; large bevelled mirror set in maple frame w/black design $40 403-347-5846

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 22, 2014

1720

QUEEN MATTRESS (Sealy Perfect Sleeper) Like new, used very little. $250 obo.

Call 403-343-7389 or 403-350-9029

1730

Stereos TV's, VCRs

27” COLOUR TV w/stand. $100.

25” IN CABINET COLOUR TV, $50.

8” TRAVEL COLOUR TV, $30.

403-341-4632 HOUSE STEREO w/19” LCD TV $140; 19”HP computer monitor $50 403-782-3847 PS1 w/10 games $70; PSP w/4 movies, 6 games $130 403-782-3847 TOSHIBA 50” rear projection TV, $99; Glass front media stand, $30.

403-346-9169

1760

Misc. for Sale

2 WOOL ACCENT MATCHING 5X7 CARPETS & 1 matching oval. Clean, will sell separately. $45.

DAVID WINTER COLLECTORS HOUSES in original boxes. $20/ea.

CANNON K920 Copier machine w/metal stand.

Exc. cond. $75.

403-352-8811

,

1860

Sporting Goods

RE-CURVE BOW, 62” with 6 arrows & storage case. & COMPOUND BOW with 6 arrows & storage case.

New archery book & lots of accessories, $199 for all.

New condition.

403-986-1720

1870

Collectors' Items

ALL COLLECTORS DREAM 1 great wagon wheel coffee table. Approx. 100 yrs old from grandpas hay wagon!

With it’s original metal rim.

43” in diameter w/ 1/2” clear thick glass top. 22” high on metal legs. $200.

403-347-7405

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2030

Tractors

JOHN DEERE 9400 Tractor with or w/o 16’ 6 way blade. 403-502-1091

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

LEGACY ESTATES 60yrs + condo. 403-350-5054 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

WESTPARK

11/2 blocks west of hospital!

3 bdrm. bi-level, lrg. balcony, no pets, n/s, rent $1195 SD $1000.

Avail. April 1st.

403-304-7576, 347-7545

3060

Suites

1 BDRM apt. to over 40 aged non partying tenant, no pets, private parking, laundry on site, security cameras, at Riverside Meadows, 5910-55 Ave. Rent/D.D. $750.00.

Ph:403-341-4627.

KENMORE BUILT IN VACUUM UNIT including hose, $125.

403-350-9029 or 403-343-7389 KENMORE White microwave oven 800W, $30.

KENMORE model 30 dehumidiÀer, exc. cond., $75.

POTTERY SOUP SET with urn & label. 4 bowls, casserole dish & salad bowl w/4 plates, like new, $95. 403-352-8811 KEURIG ONE CUP COFFEE MAKER, never used, $75.

3 RAIN BARRELS & Pedestals, $75/ea.

403-341-4632 OAKLEY Sunglasses model D Whisker Silver /00BLK IRID, polar, never used, $95.

403-352-8811 SET OF smoked glass pots and lids, all sizes $25; assortment of queen sheets sets, mattress cover $30, elec. roasting pan $20; antique bean crock pot $25 403-348-6449

1840

Dogs

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

2190

Grain, Feed Hay

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

CLASSIFICATIONS

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852 Newly renovated bachelor & 2 bedroom suites avail. in central location. leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

2 BDRM Adult Apt.

ns, no pets, no parties, $960. 403-350-4133 www.ambassadorapts.ca

THE NORDIC

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

Houses For Sale

4020

1722 SQ.FT. 2 storey 3 bdrm., 2.5 bath, over-sized dbl. garage.

Call Glen 403-588-2231 2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820

CUSTOM BUILT

NEW HOMES

by Mason Martin Homes Kyle, 403-588-2550 DEER PARK fully Ànished 1450 sq. ft. bungalow Fanta home, 5 bdrms,3 bath, Listed on kijiji 403-343-1683

SHOP LACOMBE! 60 RIVIERA DRIVE 1539 sqft. Regency Park 6 Bedrooms 3 BathsBungalow Att. Dbl Garage, Lrg Lot 50x118 Fenced Yd, 6 appl.

PRICED TO SELL! $434,900 Call Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399

www.laebon.com

4040

3090

3020

4 BDRM., 3 bath, 1800 sq.ft. fully furn. house. $2000/mo. 403-302-0488

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

HALMAN Heights

3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, no pets, n/s, rent $1395, SD $1000.

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

403-304-7576 / 347-7545 SYLVAN LAKE 3 bdrm. townhouse, 1 1/2 bath, country kitchen, $1150/mo. + utils. avail. Apr. 1, 403-341-4664

3170

Land

110 ACRES for rent at Haynes 403-885-4528

Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Misc.

For Rent

3200

DOWNTOWN PARKING STALLS FOR RENT. 4922 47th St. (One block south of Mellenium Centre.) $75/mo. + GST 403-357-0111 or 347-4044

+

Eastview Estates

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

CALL:

1-877-223-3311 To Place Your Ad Now!

Call Renee at 403-314-1687 for Inquiries.

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Automotive Services

5010

Keep the Car,

Realtors & Services

4010

FOR ALL YOUR OFFICE NEEDS call Glenn Moore Associate 403-346-6655 www.reddeercommercial.com

Cars

5030

2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040

1999 PONTIAC SunÀre, GT, well maintained. $2000. 403-346-9169

1989 LINCOLN Mark II, 2 door, low kms., exc cond $4000. 403-343-0081

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

at www.garymoe.com

4070 Locally owned and family operated

455 ACRES AGRICULTURAL

land, 12 mi. E. of Ponoka, 1 mi. off pavement, good surface lease revenue.

Inquire with your name and address to: Box 1079, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Ab T4R 1M9

Trucks

5050

2008 TOYOTA Tundra crew cab, light brown. 260,000 km. $12,000 obo. 780-608-9547 2008 F-250 Super duty, e/c, 217,000 km. $15,000 obo.

780-608-9547

4100

2005 DODGE Ram 1500 SLT, quad cab, 4x2, 5.7L Hemi, only 124,000 kms. power equipped side 13-unit apt. bldg., Red Deer steps, linex box liner, tonInd. metered units neau cover, very well kept Below market rents truck, for more info & price Free & clear Ànancing call Dean 403-347-2797 Call Karen Barry, Broker 403.767.9999 2003 DODGE 3/4 ton HD, Email: karen stnd, 4/4, Hemi, reg. cab @barrycommercial.com L/B, 149,000 kms, dk. red, www.barrycommercial.com 1 owner $4000 Barry Commercial 403-886-2815 Real Estate, Brokerage 2000 GMC 1/2 ton S/B, reg. cab, loaded, good Commercial cond, $7000 obo; 2000 GMC Yukon loaded $7000 Property obo 403-304-0678 13 ACRES highway commercial Red Deer area 403-886-2358 Motorhomes

4110

5100

wegotservices

SYLVAN LAKE RV is looking to pay

TOP DOLLAR

for your Preowned RV - Consignments Welcome!

Call today 403-887-0911 2005 TIFFIN Phaeton 40’ diesel pusher 42,000 miles, very good cond 403-729-3242

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Fifth Wheels

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

5110

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

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

Contractors

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 SIDING, SofÀt, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Escorts

EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

TAHNEE 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or Áooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage TRINITY PROPERTY Therapy MANAGEMENT Complete Building Services Heating - Plumbing Mechanical - Electrical 403-986-5685

1165

1280

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

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

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

Misc.

Services

1290

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELP FOR SENIORS:

in home or facility family business est. 1999 bondable staff, great rates, gift certiÀcates avail.

403-346-7777 helpinghandshomesupport.com

Yard Care

1430

5* JUNK REMOVAL SPRING LAWN CLEANUP

Property clean up 340-8666

Call 403-304-0678

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Misc.

Automotive

5240

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

2007 SPORTSMAN

LX, 3254, 3 slides,thermo windows, Àreplace, lots of extras. MINT $27,900. trades cons. 403-598-0682

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

4 TOYO tires plain rims, 245 75 R16 $800 403-304-1013 SET OF HEAVY DUTY MAGNETIC TRUCKERS ROAD FLARES. $25 403-348-6449

Auto Wreckers

PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

NEW CONDO

Farms/ Land

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

Pinnacle Estates

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

Income Property

homes TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

4160

LOT FOR SALE IN PONOKA 50x170, zoned R4 (Multi-family residential).

Located in Riverside, close to walking trails. $105,000.

403-782-4773 or 302-4679

RISER HOMES

Our SPRING Ahead into a Riser Home special is upon us again.

Beautiful ModiÀed Bi-level with a large entry, and a modern look. Large 3 bdrm., 2 bath walkout, 1563 sq. ft. of family space, large deck, large garage, wide lot backing onto trail system & green, 5 pce. master ensuite, large walk-in closet.

Much, Much More!

A MUST SEE!. $432,235.

Lloyd @ 403-391-9294

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, Laebon Homes 346-7273 N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

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MOVING SALE/Garage sale. Since we had to shut down our sale of 2 weeks ago, early, we are having it again on Sat. Mar. 22, 10-4. Price stickers still on merchandise and we are offering 20% discount on everything. Dealers are welcome. 6 Escott Close

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Condos/ FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Townhouses WANTED • 3250-3390 Rooms EXCLUSIVE LUXURY For Rent RIVERFRONT CONDOS Houses/ FOR SALE MATURE, quiet, n/s, Furn.

Duplexes in Downtown Red Deer. $525. 403-466-7979

KITSON CLOSE

5 MO. old male Pit bull/ Bull dog Brindle in colour. 1st shots.

Great around cats, horses & other dogs. Gentle, smart & obedient. To good loving home. $300. please text / call.

Kevin (403) 588-4077

MORRISROE MANOR

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rentals

Lots For Sale

5020

Horses

2140

4110

FREE Weekly list of Take the Money! properties for sale w/details, If you own a vehicle, prices, address, owner’s 1 BDRM. apt. at 4616-44 St., phone #, etc. 342-7355 get up to $10,000 today! quiet tenant over 40 yrs old, Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.thetitlestore.ca non smoking, no pets, heat www.homesreddeer.com RED DEER & water incl, laundry on 403-754-5104 site, rent/sec. $720/month.

MUST SELL 4971 Phelan St. Available April 1, 2014.

1217 sq.ft. duplex.

Ph: 403-341-4627.

4 bdrm., $184,900.

403-588-2222 Antique & AVAIL. Apr. 1. Large 1 Classic Autos MUST SELL bdrm. on 3rd Ár w/balcony, New Home. 1335 sq.ft. new reno’s, 6 appls. $775/mo.

1962 FORD GALAXY, bi-level, 24x23 att. garage. $750 DD. Free water & 40,000 original miles, 403-588-2550 heat. Close to parks/trails, original cond. 403-502-1091 Call Don (780) 554-2870.

BREAD Maker, $25 DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino

Commercial Property

FOR SALE 42,000 sq. ft.

SHOPPING CENTRE in Calgary, Blackstone Commercial, Shane Olin solin@blackstonecommercial .com 403-708-9086

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. immed. or Apr. 1st.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545

FLATLAND RANCH has on offer yearling and GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm.

2 year old Gelbvieh Bulls. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 We have been selling reputable bulls for 15 years LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. Chuck 403-854-6270 SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

2100

4010

KYTE/Kelloway Cres.

3 SAW horses 36”L x 27”H $8/ea, 6 shelf boards 5/8” thick x 16” W $40, box of garden chemicals and powder $3, galvanized garbage can w/lid $12, hose reel cart, portable $40, aluminum scoop shovel $10, claw bars 17”L $5, 30”L $9, ice scraper $8, ice pick custom made for ice Àshing $47 403-314-2026

Livestock

Realtors & Services

368275C3-29

y,

Household Furnishings

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

6010

Notice To Creditors And Claimants Estate of Beverley Jean Roth who died on October 14, 2013 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by April 21, 2014 with Chapman Riebeek LLP at 300, 4808 Ross Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X5 and provide details of your claim.

If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

If you think an ad with a

Chimp attack victim hoping to sue

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HARTFORD, Conn. — The Connecticut woman disfigured in a 2009 chimpanzee attack asked state lawmakers Friday to grant her the ability to sue the state so she can pay her medical bills and “have a chance to live a comfortable life.”

“The state knew what was happening and failed to protect me,” the woman, Charla Nash, said at a public hearing before being guided back to her seat by her collegeage daughter, Briana, who later fed her a banana with a spoon.

Nash’s lawyer Charles Willinger contends the state’s environmental agency “failed miserably” in its mission to keep the public, especially Nash, safe, by not seizing the 200-pound chimpanzee when it had the chance. That inaction, Willinger argued, led to Nash’s life being irreparably harmed.

“Today, Charla’s world is basically one of darkness. She sits in a room without eyes, without hands, without her own face. She is obviously, permanently scarred, not only physically, but emotionally and psychologically,” he said. “She cannot see Briana, and in my way of thinking, even worse, she can’t embrace Briana.”

The sight of Nash and her daughter appeared to move some members of the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee, which is considering her request.

“The simple words spoken by Ms. Nash rang loudly, I think for all of us,” said Sen. John Kissel, the top-ranking Senate Republican on the committee, who acknowledged he questions whether Nash has legal standing to sue the state.

Michigan gay LARGE marriage HEADING ban struck down grabs your attention

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

the REVERSE is also true CALL

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS to find out more ...

DETROIT — A federal judge has struck down Michigan’s ban on gay marriage, the latest in a series of decisions overturning similar laws across the U.S. That means clerks could start issuing licenses Monday unless a higher court intervenes.

Judge Bernard Friedman ruled Friday after a trial that mostly focused on the impact of same-sex parenting on children.

Two nurses who’ve been partners for eight years claimed the ban violated their rights under the U.S. Constitution.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said he was immediately filing a request with a federal appeals court to suspend Friedman’s decision and prevent same-sex couples from immediately marrying.

Seventeen states and the District of Columbia issue licenses for same-sex marriage. Since December, bans on gay marriage have been overturned in Texas, Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia, but appeals have put those cases on hold.

Two nurses, Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer, want to get married, but the original purpose of their 2012 lawsuit was to overturn Michigan’s ban on joint adoptions by same-sex couples.

They are raising three adopted children with special needs, but they can’t jointly adopt each other’s kids because joint adoption in the state is tied exclusively to marriage.

Rowse, 49, and DeBoer, 42, didn’t testify, and the trial had nothing to do with their relationship. In fact, attorneys for the state told the judge that they are great parents.

Instead, the state urged the judge to respect the results of a 2004 election in which 59 per cent of voters said marriage in Michigan can only be between a man and a woman. Conservative scholars also questioned the impact of same-sex parenting on children.

But experts testifying for Rowse and DeBoer said there were no differences between the kids of same-sex couples and the children raised by a man and woman.

The couple got a standing ovation and cheers Friday at Affirmations, a community centre for gays and lesbians. DeBoer said she and Rowse won’t get married until the case comes to a close in the months — possibly years — ahead.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 22, 2014 D9

Russia agrees to monitoring mission in Ukraine DAYS OF NEGOTIATION LET ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE CARRY OUT MISSION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Afghan police officers arrive to the scene after a multi-pronged attack on a police station in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 20, 2014.

Nine dead in Taliban attack

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — The luxury hotel was considered one of the safest spots in the Afghan capital.

Yet four gunmen walked in, proceeded to the restaurant and pulled out pistols hidden in their shoes.

They killed nine people, including a journalist for a French news agency, his wife and two children who were shot in the head.

One child survived but was seriously wounded.

The Taliban boasted that the assault Thursday night shows they can strike anywhere, and Afghan officials issued a string of conflicting statements as they scrambled to explain how the attackers penetrated the Serena Hotel’s tight security.

It was a major embarrassment to government security forces less than two weeks before national elections and came on the heels of an uptick in bombings and shootings against foreigners in the capital, something that had been relatively rare. A Swedish journalist was shot on the street earlier this month, and a Lebanese restaurant popular with foreigners was attacked by a suicide bomber and gunmen in January.

The latest attack was particularly brazen because it was considered one of the best-protected sites for civilians in Kabul. Sheltered behind a nondescript wall, entrants must pass through a security room at the gate where they are patted down and go through a metal detector as bags are put through an X-ray machine and sometimes searched.

The attackers hid their small pistols and ammunition in their shoes and socks, Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told reporters, but he could not say how the weapons went undetected. The hotel security has been known in the past not always to act when the metal detector beeps.

At the time of the attack, Cafe Zarnegar, one of the main restaurants, was packed with foreigners as well as Afghans celebrating the eve of the Persian New Year, Nowruz. The hotel is popular among aid workers, journalists, contractors and diplomats who often come for brunch or dinner.

The dead included five Afghans, two Canadians, an American and a Paraguayan. Six people were wounded, including a child, a foreigner, two policemen, a hotel guard, and an Afghan lawmaker.

Kimberley Motley, an American lawyer who has worked in Afghanistan for many years, was taking a bath in her second-floor room when the shots started about 9:15 p.m. Unaware that the staff and many guests had taken refuge in a basement safe room, she got out of the tub, barricaded herself in a corner of the bedroom and tried to stay as quiet as possible while gunfire rattled downstairs for hours.

After the shooting stopped about midnight she went to the lobby, which was packed with security forces and other confused guests who were smoking as hotel staff handed out water and slices of cake.

“I saw them bring out four bodies. They weren’t covered,” she said Friday in a telephone interview.

“There was a trail of blood from the restaurant to the front door,” she said, apparently from corpses being dragged away. The restaurant itself was devastated. “It was blood and bullet holes,” she added.

Authorities said two of the gunmen went to the restaurant and killed seven victims by shooting them in the head. Two other victims were found in the halls, Sediqqi said, displaying photos of the small pistols and ammunition the attackers used and their shoes. Police killed all four attackers — who appeared to be about 18 years old — after a three-hour standoff.

Among the dead was Sardar Ahmad, a widely respected 40-year-old Afghan journalist with the French news agency Agence France-Presse.

His wife and two of their children also were killed, and the agency said their 1-year-old son was badly wounded and hospitalized. All were shot in the restaurant.

Ahmad also ran the Kabul Pressistan media company and joined AFP in 2003 to become the agency’s senior reporter in Kabul. He covered all aspects of life, war and politics in his native Afghanistan, according to a statement by the news agency.

A U.S. official confirmed that an American citizen was killed in the attack. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the death had not been made public.

One of the Canadians who died was identified as Roshan Thomas, who with her family had dedicated years to helping Afghan children. Canadian Sen. Mobina Jaffer said Thomas and her husband built a school in Afghanistan and played frequent host to young girls in need of a helping hand.

VIENNA, Austria — Russia on Friday accepted the deployment of an international monitoring team to Ukraine that officials said will have free access to regions throughout the country. But a senior Russian envoy said that doesn’t include Crimea, which his country claims as its own.

The development followed more than a week of stonewalling by Russia of a push by all other members of the 57-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to send such a mission, which they hope will prevent an escalation of tensions in Ukraine’s east and south — regions that have large Russian-speaking populations.

Friday’s decision calls for advance teams to be deployed within 24 hours. The mission, which has a six-month mandate, initially will consist of 100 observers. Up to 400 extra monitors could be deployed if necessary.

The OSCE said the civilian observer team will gather information and report on the security situation “throughout the country.”

It didn’t specify whether that included Crimea, which Russia is in the process of formally annexing.

Andrei Kelin, Russia’s chief OSCE envoy, said the peninsula was off limits for the observers because “Crimea is a part of the Russian Federation.”

But U.S. chief envoy Daniel Baer told reporters said that because “Crimea is Ukraine ... they should have access to Crimea.”

The OSCE makes most decisions by consensus.

Russia’s approval appeared to signify that it was ready to work toward easing sanctions with its goal of annexing Crimea nearly accomplished.

In Berlin, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that — although the decision on the monitors is “not the end of the crisis ... it is a step that helps support our efforts toward de-escalation.”

Two previous observer teams — unarmed military missions — didn’t need Russian approval because they were asked for by Ukraine under a special provision exempting them from the normal consensus decisions the OSCE works through.

They returned without carrying out their mission of monitoring Crimea after being stopped from entering repeatedly over the past two weeks by proRussian forces.

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic arrived in the Crimean capital, Simferopol, Friday on a two-day visit to lay the groundwork for a U.N. human rights monitoring mission in the peninsula, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

The UN has four international monitors and seven national monitors in Ukraine — a number that will increase — and is already operating in two major cities in the pro-Russian east, Donetsk and Kharkiv, Dujarric said.

Simonovic plans to visit the port of Sevastopol on Saturday for further meetings before returning to Kyiv, the office said.

Hawaii lawmakers plan to end salacious provision BILL COULD END POLICE EXEMPTION TO STATE’S PROSTITUTION LAWS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU — Hawaii lawmakers say they plan to change a bill to end a police exemption under the state’s prostitution laws.

Currently, police acting in the course of their duties in Hawaii are legally allowed to have sex with prostitutes. Law enforcement experts and women’s advocates have called that provision unnecessary and an invitation to abuse.

Lawmakers have been working to revamp and toughen Hawaii’s decades-old law against prostitution, and had proposed scrapping the sex exemption for officers on duty.

But Honolulu police officials told lawmakers the exemption is a valuable crime-fighting tool, and an amended version of the bill later passed the House with the exemption intact.

On Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from citizens, advocates and lawyers who argued against the exemption.

No police testified, and Committee Chairman Clayton Hee said he would amend the bill to end the exemption.

Honolulu police are urging lawmakers to preserve an exemption in Hawaii law that lets undercover officers have sex with prostitutes during investigations.

But they won’t say how often — or even if — they use the provision.

The notion has shocked advocates and law enforcement experts on the sex trade.

“I don’t know of any state or federal law that allows any law enforcement officer undercover to ... do what this law is allowing,” said Roger Young, a retired FBI agent who worked sex crimes out of Las Vegas for more than 20 years and has trained vice squads around the country.

“Once we agree on the price and the sex act, that’s all that you need. That breaks the law.”

Honolulu police say they need the legal protection to catch lawbreakers in the act. Otherwise, they argue, prostitutes will insist on sex to identify undercover officers.

This year, state legislators moved to revamp Hawaii’s decades-old law against prostitution. They toughened penalties against pimps and those who use prostitutes.

They also proposed scrapping the sex exemption for officers on duty.

But the legislation was amended to restore that protection after police objected. The revised proposal passed the House and is now before the Senate.

Selling sex would remain a petty misdemeanour, punishable by up to 30 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

The Honolulu police vice officers who investigate prostitution haven’t been accused of sexual wrongdoing in recent memory, spokeswoman Michelle Yu said in an email.

In recent testimony, Honolulu police assured lawmakers that departmental policies are in place to prevent officers from taking advantage of the sex exemption. But they wouldn’t detail those policies.

“If prostitution suspects, pimps and other people are privy to that information, they’re going to know exactly how far the undercover officer can and cannot go,” Maj. Jerry Inouye testified.

Advocates warn that the provision is an invitation for misconduct.

Melissa Farley, executive director of the San Francisco-based group Prostitution Research and Education, said prostitutes commonly complain of being coerced into giving sexual favours to police to

keep from getting arrested.

Having sex with a prostitute during an undercover operation “doesn’t help your case, and at worst you further traumatize someone,” said Derek Marsh, who trains California police on human trafficking.

Charlie Fuller, executive director of the International Association of Undercover Officers, laughed when he heard about the Hawaii law.

“A good undercover is going to get probable cause before they have to cross that line,” he said.

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