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Flu shot target rises FLU SHOT CLINICS START OCT. 20 A2

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta is gearing up for the flu season with an ambitious plan to almost double the number of people who get flu shots.

Alberta Health Services says it has ordered more than 2 million doses of vaccine and hopes 45 per cent of people in the province will roll up their sleeves to be immunized.

Last year the province faced a shortage with 1.2 million doses and had an immunization rate of about

27 per cent.

Dr. Gerry Predy, senior medical health officer, says when the “Get It Before You Need It” campaign begins Oct. 20, people can get free shots at public health clinics, a larger number of pharmacies and doctors’ offices.

Predy says Alberta also hopes to increase the immunization rate of health-care workers to 80 per cent from about 55 per cent last year.

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He says reaching these targets would help already busy hospitals from being overloaded during the flu season.

“It can be a very serious illness and lead to death and hospitalization,” Predy says. “It puts a lot of pressure on our hospitals and emergency departments.

“People can not only protect themselves, but protect others in the community.”

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ENROLMENT UP MORE THAN 4 PER CENT IN CATHOLIC, PUBLIC SYSTEMS

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF More students are getting a Red Deer education.

Enrolment has climbed 4.3 per cent at Red Deer Catholic schools in the city and Red Deer Public Schools saw a 4.1 per cent increase for the term.

As of the end of September, Red Deer Public NEW SCHOOLS PREPARE had 10,842 students and TO CELEBRATE C1 Catholic schools had 6,197 students. Enrolment at Central Alberta’s francophone school École La Prairie rose to 140 kindergarten to Grade 9 students, up from 134. The new North Central Francophone Education Region school in Red Deer was built for students up to Grade 12.

Bruce Buruma, Red Deer Public Schools community relations director, said having 331 more students in the district is comparable to the population of an elementary school.

“We are a growing district and Red Deer is a growing community,” Buruma said.

The district’s new Ecole Barrie Wilson Elementary School opened in September with just over 400 students, 100 more than anticipated.

The school for English and French immersion students serves kindergarten to Grade 5.

“That’s a growing community so that school will be filled fairly soon,” said Buruma about the Timberlands school.

He said a few elementary schools in the city have seen a slight decline in enrolment as some students moved to Barrie Wilson to deal with overcrowding elsewhere. Growth in the district is mostly at the younger grades.

Barrie Wilson’s current capacity is 500. Four modular classrooms could be added in the future that would increase capacity to 600 students.

Rod Steeves, secretary treasurer with Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division, said its new school Father Henri Voisin School in Clearview Ridge, for pre-kindergarten to Grade 5, also opened with more students than expected with 248 students.

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City wants to use 30% green power by end of ’15

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF City buildings are getting greener.

In 2015, the City of Red Deer is expected to purchase even more green power to offset electricity use in its buildings, street lights and other infrastructure.

Currently, 25 per cent of the energy used in the facilities are powered by green energy sources. The goal is to reach 30 per cent by the end of 2015, by doing such things as using solar panels and buying from green suppliers.

The city will use the equivalent of 11,842,000 kilowatt hours of green power in 2014.

As a result, 10,420 tonnes per year of carbon dioxide emissions are avoided that would have been created with conventional power.

Nancy Hackett, the city’s Environmental Initiatives supervisor, said one goal under the Environmental Master Plan is to bring to the buildings and infrastructure up to 40 per cent green by 2020 and 60 per cent in 2035.

In 2009, only 15 per cent of the city’s facilities were powered by green energy. Hackett noted that this weekend the Alberta Green Energy Doors initiative will happen across the province, demonstrating that municipalities are not the only ones moving to green sources of energy.

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A2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Oct. 3, 2014

Manitoba teen fined for stealing cows

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DEFENCE SAYS HE WAS ‘TRICKED’ INTO SCHEME

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — A 16-year-old Manitoba boy has been fined for cattle rustling.

The teen, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty Thursday under the Health of Animals Act. He was given a $1,500 fine and ordered pay more than $700 in restitution.

The cattle farmers discovered the theft in October 2013 near Fisher Branch and contacted RCMP. Police learned that a vehicle belonging to the accused’s family was seen in the area, in the dark of night, around the time of the incident.

Video surveillance from a Winnipeg auction house showed the teen selling nine cattle the morning after the theft. They were then sold that same day to an Alberta-based slaughterhouse.

This triggered a race to find the cows before any were killed. Police learned eight had gone to a Manitoba processing plant, while a ninth — suffering from an eye infection — was already in Alberta.

The cattle owner visited the Manitoba processing plant in person and was able to identify the eight by making a unique “sound” which they all responded to, court was told. Those cows were returned to her.

The Alberta-bound cow, however, had already been killed which was more than a $700 loss to the woman.

Defence lawyer Ryan Rolston told court the teen was tricked into selling the cows. He got an call from someone purporting to be the owner of the cattle, hiring him to pick up the cows and take them to the Winnipeg auction house for sale.

“He’s not a particularly sophisticated individual,” said Rolston. “He’s either an individual who is extremely bad at being a criminal or believed what he was doing was legitimate at the end of the day.”

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Author and actor Lesley Livingston made a visit to Red Deer Thursday. The Toronto-based author visited the Dawe Branch of the Red Deer Library and the Downtown Branch, where she met and spoke to youth in the Mezz. Livingston is the author of a number of books including ‘Starling,’ ‘Dezcendant’ and ‘Transcendent.’ Livingston is also the author of ‘Wondrous Strange,’ winner of the CLA Young Adult Book of the Year 2010.

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Flu shot clinics start Oct. 20

FLU: People encouraged to get protected, not infected The federal National Advisory Committee on Immunization strongly suggests that health workers get flu shots, saying that refusal to be immunized implies failure in their duty of care to patients.

The committee calls flu shots an essential part of the standard of care for health workers for the protection of their patients.

Predy said Alberta will try to encourage more health workers to get flu shots by promoting the benefits of immunization, including honouring staff who get shots as “flu champions.”

He said if the voluntary approach isn’t successful, Alberta will consider following the British Columbia government’s policy of requiring health workers to either get a flu shot or wear a mask while on the job.

“Part of our messaging to our staff is it is part of their duty of care to patients. We are stressing to our staff our objective is that no patient should get influenza from one of our staff. That is something that is just not acceptable.”

Alberta Health Services says the flu immunization campaign will feature a media blitz this month to encourage people to get protected, not infected.

The province is already running immunization ads on buses and bus stops with a darker message.

Two of the ads make reference to polio and whooping cough epidemics that killed more than 100 Albertans during the 1950s.

The slogan on these ads is: “Keep The Past Where It Belongs.”

ENROLMENT: Penhold, Sylvan Lake also grow “A couple of our schools dropped in student count because of that but not substantially,” Steeves said.

Catholic schools saw a 4.1 increase in enrolment with a total of 8,887 students across the division, including a 13 per cent increase in kindergarten and

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Alberta Health Services flu shot clinics are scheduled to start on Oct. 20 and run through November at five locations in Red Deer.

One clinic is scheduled for Nov. 4 at the Golden Circle, at 4620 47A Ave. Flu shots will be administered on a drop-in basis from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. that day.

At the Pidherney Centre curling club, at 4725 43rd St., there will be four clinics. The ones scheduled for Oct. 20, 21 and Nov. 10 run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with the clinic scheduled for Nov. 24 running from 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. These clinics will operate on a dropin basis.

The Red Deer First Christian Reformed Church, at 16 McVicar St., will host two clinics in November on a drop-in basis. They are scheduled for Nov. 8 and 22 and go from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Six clinics will be hosted by the Red Deer iHotel, at 6500 67th St. They are scheduled for Oct. 23 and Nov. 5, 12, 13, 19 and 20 and run from 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. on a drop-in basis.

Westerner Park, at 4847A 19th St., will hold clinics on Oct. 25, 28, 29 and 30 on a drop-in basis. The clinic on Oct. 25 goes from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. while the others are from 12:30 to 7:30 p.m.

For more information on clinics in the Red Deer area, visit www.albertahealthservices.ca/influ. pre-kindergarten students.

In addition to Red Deer, the Catholic regional division operates schools in Sylvan Lake, Rocky Mountain House, Innisfail and Olds.

Elsewhere in Central Alberta, Chinook’s Edge School Division saw a one per cent increase in enrolment. The division has 10,914 students, up from 10,806.

Superintendent Kurt Sacher said Sylvan Lake and Penhold were among the communities that have seen more growth.

The new Penhold Crossing Secondary School, with Grades 7 to 12, drew 217 students, 35 more than projected.

“It’s off to a great start. In the community, the growth at the young end has been overwhelming,” Sacher said.

Most of the students came from River Glen School, which the division closed in Red Deer. River Glen is

now operated by Red Deer Public as Gateway Christian School.

Sylvan Lake saw a 1.7 per cent increase in student population.

Sacher said Chinook’s Edge is working to stay on top of growth in Sylvan Lake.

“As the young students make their way through the grades, we’re going to need to be ready for them.”

Chinook’s Edge also operates schools in Red Deer County, Olds, Delburne, Innisfail, Crossfield, Cremona, Carstairs, Elnora Bowden, Didsbury, Benalto, Spruce View and Sundre. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

GREEN POWER: New measure tested at Collicutt Centre Red Deer’s corporate greenhouse gas emissions reached about 137,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents in 2010, according to the city’s 2010 Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventory report.

The city’s plan is to reduce the emissions by 30 per cent or 95,900 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents by 2020 and 50 per cent or another 68,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents by 2035.

One of the new measures will soon be tested at the Collicutt Centre. The facility is to be one of the first in Alberta to use ATCO Gas’s combined heat and power (CHP) unit. It will produce heat and electricity for the 250,000-square-foot facility. The new technology is expected to lower operating costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 800 tonnes per year. That’s the equivalent of taking 160 cars off the road. It is expected to be up and running by November.

Last year, the city released its Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventory. Staff is now calculating the community’s carbon footprint.

The city buys its EcoLogo-certified green power from Bow Valley Power.

The annual report on the Environmental Master Plan, including focus areas such as energy, air, transportation, waste and water, will come to city council on Oct. 14. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Twinning ‘Death Highway’ on track EDMONTON — The twinning of Alberta’s “Death Highway” to Fort McMurray will be done as promised by the fall of 2016, Premier Jim Prentice announced Thursday.

“We have as of today now signed the final contract to complete the twinning of Highway 63,” Prentice told an audience in the oilsands city.

He said 22 per cent of the 240-kilometre stretch of road is twinned. That figure will go up to 78 per cent by next year with completion the year after that.

“The entirety of the twinning of Highway 63 will be completed on time and on budget as originally promised.”

The province will spend $423 mil-

lion this year on the project - about double what it spent last year.

The highway is the main road to Fort McMurray and has become overloaded in the last decade as work in the region skyrocketed.

The road has been the site of frequent traffic snarls due to slow-moving oversized trucks. It is also known for multiple head-on crashes, cars hitting the ditch, high-speed tailgating and drivers going at dangerous speeds of 160 km/h or higher.

Critics have said that while twinning will cut down on head-on crashes, authorities must continue to crack down on speeders and dangerous driving.

For six years, the Progressive Conservative government did little to fulfil its promise to twin the road. That changed in the spring of 2012 when a

head-on crash killed seven people and galvanized the public to demand action.

Then-premier Alison Redford’s government took on debt to pay for construction and set a goal of 2016 for completion.

Redford quit politics this year after revelations surfaced she had abused the public purse through extravagant spending on herself, her travel, her office and inner circle.

In the campaign to become PC party leader and premier, Prentice promised to clean up the excesses of the Redford era. He has since committed to sell the government air fleet and promised new laws to prevent cronyism and entitlement.

Redford has kept a low profile since her departure from caucus in August

Four people arrested, drugs seized in record steroid bust

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Four people have been arrested in what the police say is a record seizure of illegal steroids in Canada.

Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team spokesman Mike Tucker says the four were arrested following searches of three homes and two storage lockers in Edmonton last month.

One of the homes had a full-blown, industrial steroids manufacturing laboratory and was just metres away from an elementary school.

Tucker says more than 360,000 pills, 10,000 vials and over three dozen types of liquids and powders were seized.

The value of the materials is pegged at $9.3 million.

Police allege the illegal steroids were distributed as far away as St. John’s, N.L., and possibly internationally

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BRIEF Grisly discovery for firefighters in charred debris of house BOYLE — Human remains have been found in a home north of Edmonton that was destroyed by fire.

RCMP say firefighters were called Wednesday morning to the rural residence northwest of Boyle.

It took crews a number of hours to completely extinguish the blaze.

The remains were discovered when firefighters searched the debris.

Forensics investigators have been called to the scene.

They will work with the medical examiner in Edmonton to identify the remains.

RCMP investigating death of girl, 4, injured while playing with other kids MASKWACIS — Mounties are investigating the death of a four-year-old girl in an aboriginal community in cen-

“These individuals are allegedly responsible for a large, illegal, underground steroid distribution network that spans across Canada and these investigators have literally cut the head off the snake,” said Insp. Darcy Strang said Thursday.

“We believe this has literally shut down the sale of steroids in Alberta, significantly.”

Kirk Goodkey, 40, of Edmonton is charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and possessing the proceeds of crime.

Parmjit Brar, 40; Jordan Quiring, 27; and Alexandria Edwards, 27, each face similar charges.

Tucker said more charges are being contemplated.

The lab that officers discovered contained a pill press, powder mixer, two fume hoods, a spectrometer, glassware and beakers and a large amount of packaging materials.

Inside one of the storage lockers in-

vestigators found nearly 100 barrels of unknown chemicals.

The Edmonton fire department’s hazardous materials team helped with testing and decontamination.

The drugs were being sold under the name USP, an acronym that stands for underground steroid pharmaceuticals.

“I think it spans all across society for the most part. Anybody who wants to be bigger, better professional athletes, bodybuilders — even kids who may want to be a bit larger — often end up falling into this trap, unfortunately,” Strang said.

Four high-end vehicles and $88,000 in cash were also seized.

Tucker said the investigation began in May 2014 and remains ongoing.

ALERT says the largest steroids bust in Canada previously was in December 2008 when police in Quebec seized more than 400,000 tablets from a home in Therese-De Blainville, Que.

tral Alberta.

RCMP say the child was injured in an accident Sept. 18 while playing outside with other children in Maskwacis, formerly known as Hobbema, about 85 kilometres south of Edmonton.

She died nine days later in hospital.

RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Josee Valiquette said Thursday that police became involved the day after the accident because of the severity of the girl’s injuries. She wouldn’t say how the girl was hurt.

“There was an accident but, until we can be sure this is the cause of her death, we’re involved in this matter,” said Valiquette.

“We want to make sure there is no criminal element to this.”

She said an autopsy has been completed but results likely won’t be available for a few weeks.

McAllister says the Wildrose would speed up construction by allowing a wider range of qualified construction companies to bid on the work.

Premier Jim Prentice has promised to complete the 50 schools and has launched a series of modular-based socalled starter schools in Calgary to get students into classrooms sooner.

McAllister made the announcement in Calgary alongside school trustee Sheila Taylor Taylor is running for a seat in the Oct. 27 byelection in Calgary-West.

Wildrose promises $2B and tendering changes to fasttrack new schools CALGARY — Alberta’s Wildrose Opposition says it would commit $2 billion over four years to break a bottleneck on school construction.

The party’s education critic, Bruce McAllister, says the Wildrose would complete 50 schools provincewide that were promised by the governing Progressive Conservatives in 2012, but have yet to be built.

India to launch Canadian satellite delayed by dispute with Russia

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The launch of a Canadian satellite, postponed amid tensions in the Ukraine, is finally scheduled for liftoff — one year behind schedule.

The M3M communications satellite, which was originally to be launched aboard a Russian rocket, will instead blast into orbit from India next July.

The announcement that a deal has been signed with India was made at the International Astronautical Congress in Toronto, a few days after Canada refused to allow Russian delegates to attend the prestigious symposium which opened on Monday.

The exclusion angered Moscow, which said it flew in the face of international space co-operation. The Russians said it amounts to politicizing space exploration over the conflict in Ukraine, where fighting has raged since Russian troops moved on the Crimea in March.

Canada also denied visas to some Chinese delegates.

COM DEV International Ltd., based in Cambridge, Ont., reached a deal with Antrix Corp., the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization, to launch the satellite.

The Canadian Space Agency says on its website the M3M was built to meet the needs of the Department of National Defence and ensure Canada’s sovereignty.

It was to be launched with a Russian Soyuz rocket in July, but the federal government decided in April not to proceed.

“This was a Canadian government decision based, I would argue,

on the political situation that existed,” Michael Pley, the CEO of COM DEV, said Thursday. “Clearly there’s a link to what’s been happening in the Ukraine.”

He said the satellite will now be launched on India’s Polar Satellite launch vehicle.

“We’re thinking that it’s late in our third quarter of 2015, so around the July time frame,” Pley said in an interview from Toronto.

“We’re really excited because this is a good reliable launcher and we were initially worried the delay would take a lot longer and so we’re really pleased that the Canadian Space Agency in particular worked really hard and closely with us to find this launch and actually secure it quickly,” he said.

Pley said the Canadian government would be paying for the new launch, although he did not disclose any figure.

“We’re not anticipating any compensation at all except for the payment in setting up for a new launch,” he said.

“Our primary concern was to do that.”

Pley added that the federal government, which he described as a “good anchor customer,” recently expanded a contract it had with COM DEV to provide Earth data services.

COM DEV was selected to built the satellite under a government contract worth $21 million.

M3M stands for Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Micro-Satellite. The Canadian Space Agency says on its website that the satellite, which is as big as a medium-sized moving box, will be used to manage marine transport in Canadian waters.

Rimbey voters elect new councillor on Monday Rimbey voters will go to the polls on Monday to elect a new town councillor.

A seat opened when first-time Coun.

Einar Olsen moved out of the town and was no longer eligible to sit on council.

Ben Nesbitt and Brian Godlonton are vying for the seat on the five-person council.

Advance voting takes place on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Parkland Manor, at 4906 54th Ave. The regular vote is two days later from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Peter Lougheed Community Centre at 5109 54th St. Proof of identity and current residence is required to vote.

and does not appear at party events.

PC members rarely, if ever, mention her by name in public.

On Thursday, Prentice reminded Albertans that the government had kept its promise about twinning Highway 63, but did not mention Redford or her contribution.

Opposition Wildrose critic Rob Anderson said the issue goes further back than Redford. He also criticized Prentice for making the announcement while running in an Oct. 27 byelection in Calgary-Foothills.

“Redford was responding to pressure from the Opposition (when she) promised to twin 63 — and so Prentice spends govt money to take the credit?

No shame,” wrote Anderson on Twitter.

TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS

B.C. premier chides Ottawa for overhaul

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has accused federal politicians of “tragically misdirected” policies over the issue of temporary foreign workers, as she pushes for the thousands of skilled labourers needed for her envisioned liquefied natural gas industry.

Clark took a bold stand in a speech to the province’s business community Thursday, just ahead of her government’s return to the legislature and planned introduction of new LNG laws.

She told the Vancouver Board of Trade luncheon that as federal election campaigning unfolds, leaders in Ottawa must stop playing politics over the controversial program.

The premier added her voice to other western leaders critical of the federal government’s program overhaul, arguing rules are too onerous for provinces facing genuine labour shortages.

In June, Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney laid out plans to limit how many foreign workers can be hired by large- and medium-sized companies. Kenney also included tougher penalties for companies found in violation of the rules and ordered inspections to deter abuses.

Alberta Premier Jim Prentice said last week that labour policy will top his agenda when he gets his first meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The B.C. Liberals also want to mitigate an expected dearth of labour, which will only grow larger if their LNG plans are successful.

Clark said her government is attempting to re-engineer secondary and post-secondary programs to ensure young people are properly trained for skills-intensive work. But even wooing workers from other provinces will not be enough to meet the demand, she warned the gathering. The only option will be to look overseas, she said.

According to the federal immigration department, the temporary foreign workers program is meant to help employers fill “short-term gaps.”

“Most temporary foreign workers are limited to working in Canada for four years before having to return to their home country,” states the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website.

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The government requires CWD testing on all deer harvested within Wildlife Management Units (WMUs): 102, 116, 118, 119, 124, 144, 148, 150, 151, 152, 160, 162, 163, 164, 200, 202, 203, 204, 230, 232, 234, 236, 238, 254, 256, 258, 500, 728, and 730. It Edmonton is mandatory to submit deer heads harvested in these areas.

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Tough sandwich to chew ALBERTA FAMILIES SHOULD NOT BE HEALTH CARE’S DUMPING GROUND At Monday’s debate in Red Deer for leadership of the Alberta NDP, it was difficult — make that impossible — to separate the candidates according to their platforms. They all agreed on everything.

Among the things they agreed on: the governing Progressive Conservatives have been unethically downloading their responsibilities in health care to municipalities — and especialGREG ly to the elderly NEIMAN and to the family members who care for them.

We’ve all heard about the “sandwich generation.” They’re the demographic who just finished working two jobs to pay for day care through college for their children. Now that their children are older and more independent, the parents can begin to pay — in time and in money — to help with continuing care for the aging grandparents.

The government calls it “aging in place.” But the caregivers can call it just one more tough sandwich to chew on.

The story in Thursday’s Advocate (Region short 70 beds) is an example of both the Tory program and the Wildrose Party response to it. Both are

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lacking, in my view.

To make the criticism fair, as much as I pressed for numbers and specifics from the New Democrats at the debate (I was the moderator for the evening), I didn’t get much of either. But we’ll look at what we know now.

First comes the jaw-dropper: despite a chronic shortage of long-term care beds for seniors who need them, our region has 64 fewer of them this year than last.

Wildrose MLA and health critic Kerry Towle makes a good point in that despite her repeated questioning over two years, the government repeatedly denied they were closing any long-term care beds.

Sense a discontinuity there? Pick up your jaw, so you can drop it again.

Last week, Alberta Health Services CEO Vickie Kaminski confirmed they were abandoning a plan to actually close 1,000 long-term care beds over four years.

So if you were sitting in the emergency ward recently, or trying to get an elective surgery scheduled, part of the reason things were taking so long is that seniors in active care hospital beds can’t get into substantially cheaper and better-suited long-term care beds. And there was actually a plan to cut them back? How was that supposed to work?

Part of the answer is that in Alberta there is health care, and there is health care, and there is the care provided by families to make up the gap between the two.

Aging in place is a great concept. As

I get older and my faculties diminish, I plan to make full use of it.

The Wildrose solution is to put another $50 million into home care services, to make aging in place work better.

It’s cheaper (and much more pleasant for most) for seniors who need some help with day-to-day needs to stay in their own home, and to have professionals come in regularly to check on your diet, your hygiene, to make sure you’re taking medications properly (who can read that fine print anyway?) ... and likely to eventually recommend when it’s time you moved out.

When aging in place fails (and it fails earlier for seniors who don’t have adult children living nearby), there is supported living. In this event, seniors live in specialized apartments, but with some autonomy.

The government is pumping up that aspect of care as well. In the past five years, Alberta has added 4,100 more continuing care beds to its roster.

But neither the government nor the Wildrose plans tackle the immediate problem.

There are people in Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre right now in an extremely expensive active care bed, who are waiting for a long-term care bed to “open up.” You know how this happens in Alberta — don’t ask for whom the bell tolls.

In Alberta, it apparently occurs to neither the government nor Wildrose that you can “open up” some long-term care beds by adding them to the sys-

tem.

A decade or so ago, it was proposed that specialized long-term care beds be added in a new building, for the more than 100 aging and severely handicapped patients then living at the Michener Centre.

The old, inefficient buildings housing these people would be closed, and Michener Centre would move into history.

As those beds “opened up” there would be spaces for respite care for handicapped people in the community who were going through rough spots, and who needed some close attention.

Later on, some spaces could be used for seniors with dementia needing long-term care, but not a hospital bed.

The Ralph Klein government killed the idea and we are left with the abhorrent mess we have now.

To my last sentient breath, I plan to make use of all aid as I age in place.

But meantime, we need solutions for people who need appropriate care right now. It is not unexpected that families should help to care for themselves. But there comes a point when families are squeezed into a sandwich of stress, guilt, frustration and anger that they can no longer reasonably handle themselves.

It’s not right that governments should cut budgets by downloading their part of social responsibilities onto families.

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BY ROBERT ROACH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE I know for a fact that if I ate better and exercised more, I’d have more energy and live longer. But I continue to eat junk food and avoid the gym. As Spock would say, this is illogical.

The same is true for how Albertans deal with our non-renewable resource revenue. We know that saving more of it is a good idea for all sorts of reasons.

But we still spend almost all of it as it comes in. You can almost see the bewilderment on Spock’s face.

How do we break this cycle?

Perhaps it’s time to take the ball back from government and have the people of Alberta come up with a recommendation using a citizens’ assembly.

The assembly process has the advantage of being straightforward and democratic: you pull together a roughly representative group of everyday Albertans, give them some time and resources to learn the ins and outs of why we should or shouldn’t save more resource revenue, ask them to provide a clear recommendation, and then hold a binding referendum.

Along the way, there will be lots of debate, campaigning, cajoling, and probably some name calling — in short, exactly what we need to finally come to ground on this issue.

Hopefully, we will decide to save more, but if that is not the outcome, at least we can put the issue to rest knowing that we thought it through and gave Albertans the chance to decide.

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Is it worth the time, money and hassle?

The numbers speak for themselves.

Between 2004, when former premier Ralph Klein held up the sign that said Alberta’s debt was paid in full, and March of this year, the province collected over $103 billion in natural resource revenue.

Of this, the province put away about $4.5 billion in the Heritage Fund and the Cancer Prevention Legacy Fund. That’s four per cent saved and 96 per cent spent.

These figures do not include the $5 billion kept in the Contingency Account for, as the name suggests, contingencies, or the $2.7 billion of earnings left in the Heritage Fund for inflation-proofing.

Either way, the basic picture does not change: Albertans are spendoholics when it comes to our resource revenue.

This is, of course, a very, very good problem to have. Imagine if we had to make up that $100 billion through higher taxes. Ouch!

But the annual influx of resource revenues is still a problem for two reasons.

First, resource revenues are extremely volatile.

Since 2004, Alberta’s annual resource revenues have increased by as much as 47 per cent and decreased by as much as 43 per cent. Riding this fiscal rollercoaster is bad for planning and highlights the fact that we can’t count on resource revenues.

Second, given that resource revenues are derived from a diminishing asset owned by the people of Alberta, some argue that it’s unfair to spend all of this money as it comes in and leave little or nothing for

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We could, instead, spend half of the money as it comes in (which is still a whopping $50 billion since 2004) and save the other half in a super-sized Heritage Fund that would provide a steady stream of revenue for the province in perpetuity. The annual earnings on an extra $50 billion in the Heritage Fund could be used to keep taxes low, fund infrastructure, provide annual dividend payments or whatever future voters feel is best.

The options for addressing the “problem” of resource revenues are, however, debatable. There are other ways to address revenue volatility than a giant savings account. And when it comes to intergenerational fairness, you could just ignore it or argue that current spending on things like education and infrastructure are investments in the future.

This is precisely why a citizens’ assembly makes sense.

There has been some debate in Alberta over the years about saving, but we’ve spent a lot more time and energy on licence plate design than we have on what to do with our resource revenues.

As Albertans, we have largely defaulted to the “let’s spend it now” option.

A citizens’ assembly and referendum may come to the very same conclusion. But at least it would be a conscious one based on a thorough airing of the pros and cons.

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Two men guilty of killing six the verdict today gives them some comfort.”

A couple of months into the trial, gang leader Michael Le entered a surprise guilty plea to conspiracy. The Crown dropped a first-degree murder charge and Le was sentenced to 12 years in prison in exchange for his testimony.

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The trial took a year and heard from 73 witnesses.

The witness list included a gang leader who admitted to ordering the hit, as well as several former gangsters involved in the plot.

The Surrey murders were part of a bloody gang war that spanned several years and turned the streets of Metro Vancouver into a shooting gallery.

VANCOUVER — Two men accused in the gang slayings of six people in a Surrey, B.C., apartment have been found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the deaths.

B.C. Supreme Court Judge Catherine Wedge said Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston played key roles in the execution-style killings of defenceless victims.

Families and friends of the victims applauded when the verdicts were announced Thursday.

On Oct. 19, 2007, Haevischer, Johnston and an associate who can only be identified as Person X entered the suite of Corey Lal. The trial heard they’d been sent there by their gang leadership to kill a rival drug dealer. Lal’s brother, Michael, and associates Eddie Narong and Ryan Bartolomeo were caught in the crossfire.

Ed Schellenberg, a 55-year-old father of two, was in the building to service fireplaces and Chris Mohan, a 22-yearold student who lived next door with his mother, were also killed in the suite. Like the others, hoods were placed over their heads before they were shot execution-style.

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Jury watches Jun Lin on video entering Magnotta’s building

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Video surveillance shown at Luka Rocco Magnotta’s firstdegree murder trial on Thursday showed Jun Lin entering the killer’s apartment building on the day he was last seen alive.

Lin, 33, was wearing a yellow Tshirt, shorts and a baseball cap as he walked in nonchalantly with Magnotta at 10:16 p.m. on May 24, 2012.

Just a few hours later, Magnotta was caught on the same cameras, wearing Lin’s T-shirt and methodically putting trash in the basement of the building as well as carrying it outside over the next day.

That was just one of dozens of instances that Magnotta was captured entering and leaving the building before he left for Europe on May 26.

Magnotta, 32, is charged with firstdegree murder in Lin’s slaying and dismemberment. The Chinese student’s

torso was found on May 29, stuffed into a suitcase behind the apartment building.

Confronted with the body part, garbage bags soaked in blood and identity papers bearing the name Luka Rocco Magnotta, a homicide detective initially thought the accused was the victim.

But Claudette Hamelin testified Thursday that Magnotta quickly went from possible victim to person of interest and then to main suspect after the building manager identified a man caught on the surveillance video as Magnotta.

The jury also heard from another witness Thursday that Magnotta was captured on video at two Montrealarea postal counters.

The trash behind the apartment provided a wealth of evidence, Hamelin testified, referring to items the jurors saw for themselves after seeing them in photos.

“We found Mr. Magnotta’s identification, tools that were covered in blood

or what looked like blood, a small dog and pieces of a human body,” Hamelin said.

Police also found a video camera, a laptop computer and a cellular phone, all looking “normal, usable, functional,” Hamelin said. A few of the garbage bags contained limbs — arms and legs without hands or feet attached.

Armed later with the knowledge of a so-called murder video, Hamelin said they returned for a few more items from the trash: a poster from the movie “Casablanca” and a wine bottle, bearing the label “Wish for Love,” that had been used to sodomize the victim.

The video sequences shown Thursday capture Magnotta returning to the apartment on the morning of May 25 with a big, grey suitcase. The torso was found in a grey suitcase with slash marks and drops of spray paint.

A sequence later in the day shows Magnotta using the elevator to bring the suitcase downstairs, struggling to get it out the front door. Magnotta is

seen taking garbage out the front door, even though garbage bins are in the basement.

Magnotta is also spotted on video walking a small black puppy in the wee hours of May 25 — the same animal police found dead in the trash.

In the videos, Magnotta is often seen wearing a dark wig. He shows no discernible emotion. On a number of occasions, he stops to check his appearance in a wall of mirrors in the lobby of the building as he goes out.

Earlier on Thursday, the trial heard audio testimony from the preliminary hearing of a now-deceased witness who rented Magnotta the bachelor apartment for $490 a month.

Eric Schorer testified in 2013 the building had four security cameras — three with various views of the ground floor and entrance and one in the basement. They were activated by motion detectors and Schorer testified he never told Magnotta specifically of their existence.

2013-14 deficit projected at $5.2B

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BRAMPTON, Ont. — The federal deficit for the last fiscal year is expected to come in at $5.2 billion — well below earlier forecasts, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.

The government had projected a deficit of $16.6 billion for 2013-14 in the last budget, but it’s expected to be about a third of that, he told members of two board of trades in Brampton, Ont. “The government has no plan or no intention to move this year into a surplus,” Harper said in a presentation ahead of a moderated question-andanswer session.

“We continue to intend to run a small deficit this year before returning

to surplus.”

The rest of the figures remain unchanged from the estimates made in February’s budget: a $2.9 billion shortfall in the 2014-15 fiscal year — which runs from April to next March — then climbing to a $6.4 billion surplus the following year, he said.

One-time factors played a significant role in the improvement this past year, Harper added.

The timing is hardly a happy coincidence for the Conservatives, who find themselves well on their way to reaping a surplus just in time for a federal election, scheduled to take place in October 2015.

Harper said the Tories do intend “to move quickly to implement promises that we made to Canadians in the last election.”

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Members of federal benefits tribunal get no benefits, insurance themselves OTTAWA — A former member of the federal government’s badly backlogged social security tribunal suggests it fails to attract skilled arbitrators because it doesn’t provide basic benefits to its members.

Six members have left the tribunal since its inception in April 2013; the government says they have quit due to personal reasons.

Hundreds have applied for current full-time and part-time openings on the tribunal. Full-time members can earn as much as $109,000 annually.

But one of the six former members, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, left in part because the government doesn’t provide basic benefits like medical and dental coverage.

The person says many tribunal arbitrators are also required to work from home on government computers, yet receive no workplace disability insurance that could be drawn upon if they were to hurt themselves on the job.

The former member says highly qualified candidates likely aren’t applying because they can earn more money, with better benefits, in the private sector.

The tribunal hears appeals from thousands of Canadians denied employment insurance, Canada Pension Plan and old-age security benefits. It is currently struggling with a 10,000-case backlog.

Opening of carbon capture project in Saskatchewan draws global interest ESTEVAN, Sask. — Saskatchewan’s power utility is heralding its carbon capture and storage project, touted as the world’s first commercial-scale operation of its kind.

SaskPower says more than 250 people from at least 20 countries attended the opening of the $1.4-billion project Thursday.

It will take carboncapture emissions released by the Boundary Dam power plant near Estevan and release the gas deep underground using a steel pipeline for storage.

Premier Brad Wall said the project helps curb greenhouse gas emissions while creating affordable energy.

Critics of the technology argue that it doesn’t effectively address environmental concerns because it justifies the burning of fossil fuels..

The aim is to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by one million tonnes annually, which amounts to 90 per cent of the emissions from the power plant.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is playing political games with the lives of Canadian soldiers as he prepares to send them to war against Islamic extremists in Iraq, Justin Trudeau charged Thursday.

The Liberal leader said Harper has made no attempt to justify a combat mission or to foster an all-party consensus on the issue.

I n d e e d , Trudeau said the prime minister seems to relish casting Justin Trudeau himself as the lone, macho, tough guy among federal leaders.

“Unlike prime ministers for decades before him, Mr. Harper has made no effort to build a non-partisan case for war,” Trudeau told a conference hosted by Canada2020, a progressive think tank.

“Instead, he dares us to oppose his war, staking out not moral territory but political territory.”

Trudeau said he hasn’t yet decided whether Liberals will support a combat mission, but made it clear his inclination is to have Canada stick to a non-combat role in the U.S.-led fight against the militant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

“Why aren’t we talking more about the kind of humanitarian aid that Canada can and must be engaged in, rather than trying to whip out our CF-18s and show them how big they are? It just doesn’t work like that in Canada.”

Harper is expected to announce Friday that Canada will deploy CF-18 fighter jets to take part in air strikes against the militants in Iraq.

Conservatives quickly struck back at Trudeau’s comments.

“Mr. Trudeau’s comments are disrespectful of the Canadian Armed Forces and make light of a serious issue,” said Jason MacDonald, the prime minister’s spokesman.

“Our involvement in the fight against ISIL is, and has been, motivated by a desire to do our part in fighting a group that has made direct terrorist threats against Canada and Canadians, in addition to carrying out atrocities against children, women, and men in the region. As the prime minister has said, we take that seriously and will do our part.”

Contrary to Trudeau’s contention, MacDonald said Canada already ranks as one of the most generous humanitarian aid donors in Iraq.

The Liberals supported the government’s decision to send a small number of special forces members into Iraq for 30 days to help train Kurdish soldiers who are battling ISIL extremists. But whether that support will extend to a combat role is doubtful.

While he acknowledged that Canada has a duty to help deal with the “global security threat” posed by ISIL, Trudeau questioned whether deploying “a handful of aging war planes” is the best contribution Canada can make.

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“I think Canadians have a lot more in them than that. We can be resourceful and there are significant, substantial, non-combat roles that Canada can play,” he said, suggesting Canada could do more to provide strategic airlift, training, medical support and humanitarian aid for the thousands of displaced Iraqis.

If Harper wants Liberal support for a combat mission, Trudeau said he’ll have to make the case “openly and transparently, based on clear and reliable, dispassionately presented facts.”

Trudeau reminded the conference that Harper supported the 2003 U.S.led war in Iraq, which was sold to the public “with overheated, moralistic rhetoric that obscured very real flaws in the strategy and the plan to implement it.”

He accused Harper of taking the same approach to the current conflict, talking about “the nobility of combat,” while refusing to tell Canadians what military support he’s offered the Americans, how long a combat role would last or how helpful the CF-18s can actually be.

“Mr. Harper is intent on taking Canada to war in Iraq. He needs to justify that. He has not made the case for it.

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Executive committee chairman Pierre Desrochers says there will also be sanctions against 57 other employees.

The suspensions will range from one week to six months and will be unpaid.

The workers, who also included white- and blue-collar city employees, were angry about a proposed provincial government plan to change their pensions.

Del Mastro cousin and one other charged in connection with 2008 campaign OTTAWA — Two people, including a cousin of Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, are facing charges in connection with donations made to Del Mastro’s 2008 election campaign.

The Commissioner of Canada Elections says David Del Mastro and Tori-Lynn Manchulenko have each been charged with knowingly concealing or attempting to conceal the identity of a campaign donor and knowingly circumventing campaign contribution limits for an individual donor.

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‘We expect people to do the honourable thing’ LIBERIA TO PROSECUTE MAN WHO BROUGHT EBOLA TO U.S. could be closely monitored, including checking them for fevers over the next 21 days.

Ebola symptoms can include fever, muscle pain, vomiting and bleeding, and can appear as much as three weeks after exposure to the virus. The disease is not contagious until symptoms begin. It spreads only by close contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids.

The 80 people include 12 to 18 who came in direct contact with the infected man, as well as others known to have had contact with them, she said.

“This is a big spider web” of people involved, Neroes said.

The initial group includes three members of the ambulance crew that took Duncan to the hospital, plus a handful of schoolchildren.

Duncan arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20 to visit relatives and fell ill a few days later. His sister, Mai Wureh, identified him as the infected man in an interview with The Associated Press.

A Dallas emergency room sent Duncan home last week, even though he told a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa. The decision by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to release Duncan could have put others at risk of exposure to Ebola before the man went back to the ER a couple of days later when his condition worsened.

He has been kept in isolation at the hospital since Sunday. He was listed Thursday in serious but stable condition.

Duncan’s neighbourhood in Liberia, a collection of tin-roofed homes, has been ravaged by Ebola. So many people have fallen ill that neighbours are too frightened to comfort a 9-year-old girl who lost her mother to the disease.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — Liberia plans to prosecute the airline passenger who brought Ebola into the U.S., alleging that he lied on an airport questionnaire about not having any contact with an infected person, authorities said Thursday.

Thomas Eric Duncan filled out a series of questions about his health and activities before leaving on his journey to Dallas. On a Sept. 19 form obtained

by The Associated Press, he answered no to all of them.

Among other questions, the form asked whether Duncan had cared for an Ebola patient or touched the body of anyone who had died in an area affected by Ebola.

“We expect people to do the honourable thing,” said Binyah Kesselly, chairman of the board of directors of the Liberia Airport Authority in Monrovia. The agency took the case to the Ministry of Justice, which will formally prosecute it.

Neighbours in the Liberian capital believe Duncan become infected when he helped bundle a sick pregnant neighbour into a taxi a few weeks ago and set off with her to find treatment.

The case has raised questions about whether a disease that has killed 3,300 people in West Africa could spread in the United States. U.S. health officials say they remain confident they can keep it contained. Liberia is one of the three countries hit hardest in the epidemic, along with Sierra Leone and Guinea.

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Two days after a man in Texas was diagnosed with Ebola, Dr. Gil Mobley, a Missouri doctor, checked in and boarded a plane dressed in full protection gear Thursday morning at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He was protesting what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. efforts to stem the risk of the Ebola virus spreading.

None of the people is showing symptoms, but health authorities have educated them about Ebola and told them to notify medical workers if they begin to feel ill, Erikka Neroes, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County Health and Human Services agency, said Thursday.

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if anyone seeks medical care during the three weeks immediately following the time of contact, Neroes said.

Also Thursday, Texas health officials ordered four members of Duncan’s family to stay in their Dallas home and posted law-enforcement officers outside to be sure.

Texas State Health Commissioner David Lakey said authorities took the unusual step to ensure the family

Hong Kong leader offers talks with protesters HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s embattled leader refused to step down Thursday, as pro-democracy protesters have demanded, and instead offered talks to defuse a week of massive street demonstrations that are the biggest challenge to Beijing’s authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997.

Student leaders of the protests did not immediately respond to the announcement by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. A wider pro-democracy group that joined the mass protests, Occupy Central, welcomed the talks but insisted that Leung still should resign.

Occupy Central “hopes the talks can provide a turning point in the current political stalemate,” it said in a statement. “However, we reiterate our view that Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is the one responsible for the stalemate, and that he must step down.”

Leung made his comments at a news conference just minutes before a deadline that had been set by the protesters for him to quit.

“I will not resign,” he said.

Leung asked the territory’s top civil servant, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam, to arrange the talks.

Lam, standing beside Leung, said she would seek to meet with student leaders as soon as possible.

“I hope both sides will be satisfied,” she said. “Students had wanted a public meeting but I hope that we can have some flexibility to discuss details.”

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verse its decision that all candidates in an inaugural 2017 election for chief executive must be approved by a committee of mostly pro-Beijing elites. They say China is reneging on its promise that the city’s top leader will be chosen through “universal suffrage.”

Before Leung’s announcement, the heads of two major universities whose students joined in launching the protests appeared before a jittery crowd massed in front of the entrance to the leader’s office and appealed for calm.

Afterward, the atmosphere was palpably calmer, but many protesters expressed disappointment.

“They didn’t mention anything about when they are going to talk, no details, nothing,” said Joanna Wong, 28, who works in the aviation industry.

Wong said she would stay at the protest site to see how the student groups react to the announcement.

Marketing professional Heiman Chan, 25, said the talks should take place right away.

“If we need to wait two or three days, the crowd will become smaller and there will be fewer people to support this movement,” she said. “That’s why the government just keeps us waiting.”

Earlier in the day, police brought in supplies of tear gas and other riot gear, and the protesters prepared face masks and goggles as tensions rose in the standoff outside the imposing government compound.

Police warned of serious consequences if the protesters tried to surround or occupy government buildings, as they had threatened to do if Leung didn’t resign by the end of Thursday.

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A Kurdish peshmerga soldier prays at a battle field in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, where Kurdish fighters took control from the Islamic State group on Tuesday, as they patrol in the northern village on Wednesday. Iraqi Kurdish fighters on the front lines of battle say they have yet to receive the heavy weapons and training pledged by the United States and nearly a dozen other countries to help them push back the Sunni militants.

Without more sophisticated weaponry, the Kurdish fighters, known as peshmerga, have had to rely on aging arms like the Soviet-era cannons, a centerpiece of the offensive Tuesday to retake Mahmoudiyah. civilians so far this year is at least 9,347 civilians, while 17,386 have been wounded. It said over half of the casualties have happened since Islamic State group began overrunning large parts of the north in early June.

“This report is terrifying,” said Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, saying that hundreds of other allegations concerning the killing of civilians were not included because they had not yet been sufficiently verified.

“Iraqi leaders must act in unity to restore control over areas that have been taken over by (Islamic State group fighters) and implement inclusive social, political and economic reforms.”

Turkey approves motion for military operations in Iraq, Syria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s parliament approved a motion Thursday that gives the government new powers to launch military incursions into Syria and Iraq and to allow foreign forces to use its territory for possible operations against the Islamic State group.

Parliament voted 298-98 in favour of the motion which sets the legal framework for any Turkish military involvement, and for the potential use of Turkish bases by foreign troops.

Meanwhile, the militants pressed their offensive against a beleaguered Kurdish town along the SyriaTurkey border. The assault, which has forced about 160,000 people to flee across the frontier in recent days, left Kurdish militiamen scrambling Thursday to repel Islamic State extremists pushing into the outskirts of the northern Syrian town of Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab.

Turkey, a NATO member with a large and modern military, has yet to define what role it intends to play in the U.S.-led coalition.

Parliament had previously approved operations into Iraq and Syria to attack Kurdish separatists or to thwart threats from the Syrian regime. Thursday’s motion expands those powers to address threats from the Islamic State militants who control a large cross-border swath of Iraq and Syria, in some parts right up to the Turkish border.

Asked what measures Turkey would take after the motion was approved, Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz said: “don’t expect any immediate steps.”

“The motion prepares the legal ground for possible interventions, but it is too early to say what those interventions will be,” said Dogu Ergil, a professor of political science.

Ergil said the motion could allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters, for example to use Turkey’s territory to safely cross into Syria, to help Syrian Kurdish forces there, or the deployment of coalition forces’ drones.

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moved closer into Kobani, right across the border from Turkey, despite renewed U.S.-led airstrikes in the area overnight, according to a senior fighter and activist. The United States has been bombing the Islamic State group across Syria since last week and in neighbouring Iraq since early August.

Ismet Sheikh Hasan, a senior fighter, said the Kurdish forces were preparing for urban clashes in Kobani in a desperate attempt to repel the militants.

The fight for Kobani has raged since mid-September, sending over 160,000 Syrian Kurds streaming across the Turkish border in one of the worst refugee crisis since the war began over three and a half years ago.

“We are preparing outsides for street battles,” Hasan said. “They still haven’t entered Kobani, but we are preparing ourselves.”

Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group tracking the Syrian conflict, reported that the Islamic State group fighters were, in some cases, just “hundreds of meters (yards)” from Kobani on its eastern and southeast side. The militants were about a mile away on the southern side of town.

In a statement, the Observatory said it had “real fears” that the militants would storm Kobani and “butcher civilians remaining in the city.”

Last week, a U.S.-led coalition seeking to destroy the Islamic State group began bombing the militants’ locations around Kobani. But the airstrikes haven’t halted the militants’ advance, said Hasan.

That included explosions heard overnight around the Kobani area, believed to be caused by U.S. strikes, said Hasan. There was no immediate confirmation from Washington on the latest airstrikes. The strikes were also reported by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group tracking the Syrian conflict.

Turkey had been reluctant to join its NATO allies in a coalition against the Islamic State militants, citing worries about the safety of Turkish hostages held by the group. It reversed its decision after the hostages’ release earlier this month.

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BAGHDAD — Islamic State group militants launched an assault Thursday on a small town in western Iraq, a military spokesman said, as the United Nations warned that 10 months of violence in the country has taken a heavy toll on civilians.

Iraq is in its worst crisis since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops as Sunni militant groups led by the alQaida breakaway Islamic State group have seized a third of the country since early this year. In one lightning offensive over the summer, Iraq’s U.S.trained army and security forces melted away as the extremists advanced and captured key cities and towns in country’s north.

In Iraq and along with areas in eastern Syria, the militants have declared a self-styled caliphate and imposed their own harsh interpretation of Islamic Shariah law. They have also targeted the country’s religious minorities, including Christians and others, killing hundreds and forcing hundreds of thousands to leave their homes.

The attack Thursday against the town of Hit started at dawn when the militants, using at least three suicide bombers, attacked checkpoints at its entrances, military spokesman Qassim al-Moussawi said. Al-Moussawi said there were causalities among the security forces but that no precise figure was available.

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U.S. Central Command said late Thursday that coalition aircraft, including those from the United Kingdom, took part in airstrikes around Baghdad, Mosul, Fallujah, Ramadi and Sinjar.

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Coroner rules cause of gun instructor’s death by girl with Uzi an accident LAS VEGAS — The coroner in Las Vegas has issued a final ruling in the accidental shooting death of a 39-year-old gun instructor by a 9-year-old girl using an Uzi. Coroner Mike Murphy said Thursday that the results of blood toxicology tests didn’t change a preliminary finding that Charles Joseph Vacca Jr.’s death from a single gunshot to the head was an accident.

Vacca died Aug. 25, shortly after being flown by medical helicopter about 60 miles (100 kilometres) from the Last Stop outdoor shooting range in Arizona, to a hospital in Las Vegas.

Prosecutors aren’t filing criminal charges in the case. Police reports say that immediately after the shooting, the girl said she felt the gun was too much for her.

Arizona’s workplace safety agency is investigating the death.

Blast kills 15, injures 3 in explosives factory in northwestern Bulgaria SOFIA, Bulgaria — Fifteen people were confirmed dead Thursday in a blast at an explosives decommissioning factory in northwestern Bulgaria.

Civil Defence chief Nikolai Nikolov said that thirteen men and two women perished in the wake of the blast that left craters. Three others were taken to hospital with injuries.

The explosion occurred near the village of Gorni Lom, some 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of the capital, Sofia, late Wednesday. Police said smaller explosions continued for several hours.

At the time of the blast, 12 workers and three people from the plant management were at the site decommissioning Greek land mines.

Nikolov said the cause of the explosions at the factory, owned by a private Bulgarian company, was probably “human error.”

U.S. woman sues after receiving sperm from a black donor CLEVELAND — An Ohio woman has sued a Chicago-area sperm bank after she became pregnant with sperm donated by a black man instead of a white man as she and her partner had intended.

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Judge who oversaw mass death sentence cases removed from court CAIRO, Egypt — The Egyptian judge who oversaw mass death sentence cases against Islamist supporters of the country’s ousted president, drawing world criticism, has been removed from his criminal court, officials and the judge himself told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Judge Said Youssef, who led two high profile cases in southern city of Minya, told the AP he was notified on Sunday that he was removed from “criminal judiciary” to “civilian judiciary.”

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Youssef’s court appeared to be the only one dismantled.

The move looks like a demotion for Youssef. According to the el-Shorouk daily newspaper, removal from the court is an exceptional measure which only takes place in two cases: either the judge has been associated to an act that is damaging to his reputation or that he was investigated by a special committee which ruled that he was no longer capable of overseeing criminal court cases.

Normally, a judge who has spent 15 years in criminal judiciary remains in his post until retirement, the paper said.

Other officials, including a top judicial official, corroborated Youssef’s account.

Said was condemned when he sentenced to death more than 1,200 people in two mass trials. The number of death sentences, initially the most in recent memory anywhere in the world, was later reduced to more than 200. Most of the defendants were charged with murder, attempted murder, joining an outlawed group aiming at toppling the regime and stealing government weapons in connection with the attack last August in the town of Matay and el-Adawa, south of Cairo. Police officers were killed in the attacks.

Red Cross office hit by shelling in eastern Ukraine, 1 employee killed DONETSK, Ukraine — Red Cross says that one of its employees in the rebel-held city of Donetsk has been killed by shelling.

ICRC spokesman Ewan Watson says one of its staff members in Donetsk was killed when a shell hit close to its office.

Rebels identified the victim as a 38-year-old Swiss citizen. Watson confirmed the victim was Swiss, but didn’t provide a name.

AP footage from Donetsk showed the victim’s bloodied body lying on the pavement and what the rebels said were his passport and his ICRC identification.

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Rebels shut out by Warriors

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Warriors 3 Rebels 0 MOOSE JAW, Sask. — The Red Deer Rebels fired 13 first-period shots at Zach Sawchenko Thursday without finding twine and the tone was set for the remainder of their WHL clash with the Moose Jaw Warriors.

“We just didn’t finish early and played erratically with a lot of turnovers,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter following a 3-0 Western Hockey League loss to the Warriors before 3,044 fans at Mosaic Place.

Sawchenko finished with 30 saves while posting his first-ever WHL shutout, but Sutter suggested the 17-yearold goaltender had it easier than the stats would suggest.

“We played too sloppy tonight. Our game wasn’t tight and when we play that way we don’t generate enough (scoring chances),” he said. “We had some offensive opportunities but a lot of them were from the outside. We couldn’t have had more than a handful of quality opportunities.

“We just weren’t sharp, not as sharp as we have been.”

Brett Howden notched the eventual

winner midway through the opening need to get better.” period and defenceman Tyler Brown The Rebels wasted four power-play beat Rebels netminder Rylan Toth opportunities, while their hosts were with a power-play shot at 9:21 of the one-for-six with a man advantage. middle frame.

Defenceman Warriors fourthHaydn Fleury re‘IT’S NOT THE WAY WE year forward Torrin to the Rebels WANTED TO OPEN THIS turned White, for all inlineup Thursday aftents and purposes, TRIP, BUT WE JUST HAVE ter being reassigned put the game out of the Carolina HurTO MOVE ON AND GET by reach with a late ricanes. His pressecond-period tally. ence pushed rookie READY FOR OUR NEXT “It’s not the way rearguards Josh we wanted to open GAME. THERE’S NOTHING Mahura and Austhis trip, but we just tin Strand into the WE CAN DO ABOUT have to move on and press box.

TONIGHT’S RESULT get ready for our “With Haydn EXCEPT JUST LEARN next game,” said back it gives us eight Sutter, whose squad FROM IT AND RECOGNIZE healthy defencemen, returns to action so we’ll have to manWHERE OUR AREAS OF age things differSaturday against the host Brandon Wheat ently,” said Sutter.

CONCERN ARE AND Kings and closes “There’s going to be WHERE WE NEED TO GET two guys sitting out out the three-game jaunt with a Sunday every game and it’s BETTER.’ evening date with not going to be the the Regina Pats.

— BRENT SUTTER same two guys every REBELS GM/HEAD COACH night.”

“There’s nothing we can do about toJoining Mahunight’s result except ra and Strand as just learn from it and recognize where healthy Red Deer scratches were rookour areas of concern are and where we ie forwards Brayden Burke and Mason

McCarty.

Toth finished with 24 saves and got a positive review from Sutter. ● Mahura is one of 19 WHL players selected by Hockey Canada to play for one of three Canadian teams in the 2014 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge Nov. 2-8 Sarnia-Lambton, Ont. The tournament will be the first to feature three Canadian national teams — Black, Red and White. From 1986 until last year, Canada was represented by five regional teams — Atlantic, Ontario, Pacific, Quebec and West.

The 66 players named to the three Canadian squads were selected by Ryan Jankowski, Hockey Canada’s director of player personnel, together with Joël Bouchard, a member of Hockey Canada’s Program of Excellence management group, and regional scouts Donald Audette (Quebec), Brad McEwen (West), Kevin Mitchell (Atlantic) and Kyle Raftis (Ontario).

Mahura, who will play with Team White, attended the national under-17 development camp in Calgary in August and made a positive impression.

“He deserves this,” said Sutter.

“He’s a good defenceman and he had an outstanding development camp.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Cougars hold off Rams in penalty filled game

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Cougars 35, Rams 20 The cliché goes you learn more from a loss, but Notre Dame Cougars head coach Gino Castellan is hoping his team learned plenty from their win over the Lacombe Rams.

The Cougars beat the Rams 35-20 on Thursday at Great Chief Park on Central Alberta High School Football League action, despite 185 yards in penalties on 20 flags.

“I thought our kids played well, we just shot ourselves in the foot, time after time,” said Castellan. “That’s tough to win a lot of games with almost 200 yards in penalties.”0 The penalties stalled drives for Notre Dame, extended drives for Lacombe and even brought back a 100-yard kick off return touchdown by Jesse Kowalchuk for objectionable conduct as he started his celebration 10-yards before the end zone.

Their equalizer, however, was Grade 10 running back Johannes Smith who had 214 yards on 28 carries and four touchdowns.

Smith showed great burst and separation ability, particularly on the game’s first score, a 51-yard score as he took the ball on a toss left and cut the ball back up to the right all the way to the end zone.

“He’s a tough cookie,” said Castellan. “He runs hard and he doesn’t quit.

If you look at his stats, a lot of his stats are yards after contact ... and that’s just toughness. He just goes and he doesn’t quit and that’s what you want out of a running back.”

Smith also had touchdown runs of three, five and a game clinching 19 yards with 30 seconds to go on a broken play. Quarterback Keegan MacDonald fumbled the snap out of the shot gun, but managed to get the ball to Smith as he was falling forward. The major put the Cougars up by 15 points.

“It feels great It’s good to know that when you play hard it comes off,” said Smith.

MacDonald finished 4-for-6 for 78 yards and a touchdown, hooking up with Beko Wande from 30 yards out on a corner route at 2:13 of fourth quarter.

Kowalchuck had three receptions for 48 yards.

The Notre Dame played well to keep the Lacombe passing attack under wraps, holding Rams QB Zachary Bailey to 9-for-20 and 82 yards, one interception and two touchdowns, the longest score being a 15-yard pass to wide out Cam Heslop while Lucas Wessner had one for eight yards.

Kowalchuk had the interception for Notre Dame, while Franz Credo

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Notre Dame Cougar Jesse Kowalchuk takes the ball for an 80 yard kickoff return during second quarter action at Great Chief Park on Thursday against the Lacombe Rams. dropped a couple of other sure interceptions for the Cougars.

Another stand out defensively for Notre Dame was another Grade 10 player, Jacob Plamondon who had a couple of sacks in the second half and played well for most of the four quarters. “(The key was) to keep our eyes up and looking and reading the play if it was going to the left or going to the right,” he said. “Their line wasn’t really blocking as well as I expected, so as soon as they’d miss their block I’d take the run.”

At six-foot-two and 15 years old, he

already has the frame to develop into a dominant defensive player, just give him a couple of more years at the level.

“He’s a tough kid and he’s a big kid, he can be a very good football player if he puts his mind to it,” said Castellan.

“He’s got the frame, he’s got the speed, he’s a good player for a Grade 10 kid. He’s learning, it’s different than bantam, so he’s learning lots and he’s just going to get better game after game.”

Most importantly, the win guarantees the Cougars at leas a share of first place heading into the second

last week of the season with contests against the Lindsay Thurber Raiders and Hunting Hills Lightning still on tap — they play the Raiders on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park.

The Raiders and the Lightning play tonight at 7 p.m.

Castellan is not getting too ahead of himself just yet.

“It’s not a big deal because we’re going to play a team three times this year,” he said. “Where you end up is irrelevant. Winning is always good for the kids, but as long as you’re getting better every week, that’s what counts.”

JAldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Defensive domination comes from ability to use specialists This would not be a great year to Week 15 starts with a basement batshowcase the quarterback in the CFL. tle between the 6-7 Bombers and the Many starters have been blindsided 1-11 RedBlacks in Ottawa. The Redby injury and the rest are Blacks have been tantalizingrunning for their lives. ly close in several games this Theories abound in the year and discovered a way to CFL about the source of lose in heart-breaking fashthe sudden domination of ion. The close loss explanadefence and the one that tion is simple: they are losers makes the most sense is and have yet to discover the expanded rosters with the secret to success. ability to use more defenThe same affliction was evsive specialists in games. ident in bottom-feeders like On the other hand, the Edmonton Eskimos and some teams have relied Winnipeg Blue Bombers in reheavily upon feature runcent years. A change at head ning backs and a big Ocoach worked magic for the JIM line push to dominate Esks this year because close defences. This run game games are lost due to avoidSUTHERLAND plan worked very well for able mistakes and Edmonton Saskatchewan in the first makes fewer mistakes in 2014. half of the 2014 season, I expect the Bombers to but now the Riders have make fewer mistakes than the no run game and no defence against bumbling RedBlacks in their matchup the run game. and win in Ottawa.

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Next up is a game between 9-4 Saskatchewan and 11-2 Calgary in Regina.

Stamp tailback Jon Cornish made a public statement about how he expects to play a role in a Calgary win and he is correct.

As mentioned earlier, the Riders D has collapsed against the run over the past few games. The Roughrider defence will be cannon fodder for Cornish in this game and there will be no aerial attack from Saskatchewan’s quarterbacks to match the Calgary run game. This game will be Calgary’s in a runaway.

Edmonton, 9-4, visits 4-8 Toronto on Saturday and this game gave me pause for thought. The Eskimos dominated the Riders last weekend, while the Argonauts are fresh off a two-week break and healthier than they have been since early in the season. This week the Eskies face a much tougher task against Toronto and their quarterback Ricky Ray.

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

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Ray is one of the few bright quarterback lights in a year without passing and he loves to hang a loss on the team that traded him. Argonauts win at home.

The final game of the weekend is a Saturday night cat fight between the 7-6 B.C. Lions and 5-7 Tiger Cats in Hamilton’s half-built dome. The TiCats have improved immensely on both sides of the ball since the start of the season. Reasons include the play of quarterback Zach Collaros since his return from injury, along with improvements on defence, particularly in the Cats’ interior line play.

The Lions have lost tailback Andrew Harris to injury and are reeling from two consecutive losses. There is little reason to believe the Lions will be able to scratch out a win against the Ti-Cats. Look for a Hamilton victory in the last game of Week 15.

Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer.

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Johnson is every coach’s dream

THIS WEEK IN REEBLS HISTORY

REBELS FORWARD WORKS HARD ON IMPROVING EVERY ASPECT OF GAME

Ted Vandermeer ended an extended shootout session to give the Red Deer Ted Rebels a 3-2 Vandermeer win over the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes on Oct. 3 of 2006. Vandermeer, Red Deer’s seventh shooter, beat ‘Canes netminder Justin LeClerc to provide the Rebels with a third consecutive win and sole possession of the first place in the Central Division. “I planned on going in and shooting, but he (Leclerc) was a little far out,” said Vandermeer, a right-hand shot. “I just decided to go to the backhand and hope for the best, and luckily he bit on the first move and it went in.” Martin Hanzal, now with the Arizona Coyotes, also notched a shootout goal for Red Deer, while current Toronto Maple Leafs netminder James Reimer gave up just one shootout marker.

WHO’S HOT Tyson Baillie has collected at least one point in each of the Kelowna Rockets’ four games, Tyson all victories.

Baillie In fact, the 19-year-old C from Fort Saskatchewan is averaging over two points per outing and is tied for second in league scoring with nine points (5g,4a).

FABULOUS FRESHMAN Kamloops Blazers RW Deven Sideroff, a 17-yearold from Summerland, Deven B.C., leads all WHL rookies Sideroff in scoring with five points (3-2) in five games.

HE SAID IT “At the end of the day, you have to figure out if you want to compete. It’s a 72-game season, you Jay can’t pick and Henderson choose when you want to show up. I get it’s a long bus ride (to Red Deer) but there’s no excuse for (what happened Saturday night).” — Kootenay Ice assistant coach Jay Henderson, to Taylor Rocca of the Cranbrook Daily Townsman, in reference to his club’s 7-1 loss to the host Red Deer Rebels last weekend.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Red Deer Rebels third-year forward Wyatt Johnson harbours all of the characteristics of a true team player . . . every coach’s dream, if you will.

Now he’s honing those special attributes that will hopefully make him the ultimate complete player.

“He’s always had a great work ethic, he’s always had great character and he’s always been a good leader,” Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter said this week, prior to the club’s departure for Moose Jaw and the start of a three-game WHL road trip.

“In the last while he’s really worked on his skating and his skills set. He’s a much quicker skater, he’s strong on his skates. Overall, his skills have really improved.”

Johnson’s improvement didn’t just happen.

He toiled long and hard during the off-season to make himself a better all-around player.

“I worked on my skills quite a bit during the summer. I really worked on my shot and that’s an aspect of my game that has to continue to improve,” said the 19-yearold forward and Saskatoon product.

“I feel I’ve grown in some ares but I have to keep working hard and getting better as the season goes on.”

Johnson and a small group of players attended workout sessions in his hometown during the spring and summer months.

“We really worked on handling and protecting the puck working down low in the corners,” he said. “We also did some off-ice training and on ice we worked with power skating instructors and skill coaches. We would do certain drills a couple of time a week.”

The extra labour paid off for Johnson, who was invited to the Anaheim

paign. And yet, he fully realizes there’s plenty of room for improvement.

“We’re happy with how we’ve played that last two games (both

Some saw it as a conspiracy, For the record, the Wheat others suggested it was Leth- Kings snared the ‘Canes’ top forbridge Hurricanes’ GM Brad ward in Reid Duke, 18, and top Robson’s way of simply cutting defenceman in Macoy Erkamps, his losses and settling for nick- 19, in exchange for a trio of els on the dollar.

18-year-olds — forwards Brett Whatever the supposed sce- Kitt and Ryley Lindgren and narios, there were plenty of defenceman Kord Pankewicz. ‘anonymous’, off-the-cuff state- Brandon also garnered 16-yearments and knee-jerk reactions old prospect Tak Anholt, the from WHL team executives re- ‘Canes’ second-round pick in garding this week’s the 2013 bantam draft deal between the who is enrolled in the ‘Canes and BranYale Hockey Academy don Wheat Kings, in Abbotsford, B.C., but a multi-player may, in time, decide to swap in which play in the WHL now the Wheat Kings that he’s the property acquired two topof a high-end team. end players in reDuke and Erkamps turn for a few of will almost certainly their spare parts. help the already talent“Kelly must laden Wheat Kings, have pictures on who simply had no somebody.” That room for Kitt, Lindgren GREG was a retweet by and Pankewicz.

MEACHEM Saskatoon StarTo be somewhat fair, Phoenix sports Robson’s hands were writer Daniel Nuat least partially tied gent-Bowman folsince Duke was a nolowing one execushow in training camp tive’s feelings on the deal via before eventually re-joining the social media. troubled team, and Erkamps Another executive/owner didn’t show up at all. The botwondered why the WHL head tom line, though, is that the office wasn’t investigating the trade comes off as one-sided, trade orchestrated by Robson giving the appearance of one and Brandon owner/GM/head GM fleecing another GM in coach Kelly McCrimmon. charge of a team that last sea-

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Red Deer Rebel Wyatt Johnson is honing the skills that will hopefully make him the ultimate complete player. His effort is not going unnoticed as head coach Brent Sutter is seeing a lot of improvement out of the 19 year-old forward. victories), but we have to continue to work on playing 60 minutes,” he noted.

“We’re playing a puckpossession style that’s re-

ally been working for us and we need to continue to work on improving our systems.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Ducks development camp during the summer and, from there, earned an invitation to the NHL team’s main camp in September.

“Yeah, that was cool.

I got a call for the development camp just a few days before it happened, so it all came together fairly quick,” he said. “Then it was nice to get invited back (to main camp).

“Attending (Anaheim’s) training camp was a really good experience. I learned a lot and it was cool to see how things are done at that level and learn from all the guys up there.”

Johnson was acquired from the Vancouver Giants in 2012 and he appeared in 56 games with his new club that season, scoring 10 goals and adding 10 assists. He improved to 31 points, including 14 goals, in 61 outings last winter and was producing at a pointper-game pace (1-2-3 in three games) heading into Thursday’s meeting with the host Moose Jaw Warriors.

At six-foot and 180 pounds, Johnson is also capable of playing a fearless, physical game, and yet there’s more to the former midget AAA Saskatoon Blazers star than his character, offensive potential and willingness to venture into the hazardous areas.

“He’s always been an intelligent player, too, and a very dependable player,” said Sutter. “We expect all of that from Johnny, and the great thing about him is he can bring all of it . . . he’s that type of player.

“I put him in a classification where he’s a complete player as far as what you want from a coach’s perspective. You can put him in any situation. He can play centre or right wing. He’s also a good penalty killer.

“He’s one of those all-purpose players you need on your hockey team.”

Johnson likes what he’s seen of the Rebels early in the current cam-

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son struggled to win 12 games and was riddled with player dissension.

The situation becomes even more suspect — at least to some — considering most observers feel that McCrimmon robbed his Lethbridge counterpart last season when he acquired promising defender Ryan Pilon, a top 2015 NHL draft prospect, from the ‘Canes and also moved well up in the bantam draft — sending overage goalie Corbin Boes and their own first-round pick (17th overall) to Lethbridge for the ‘Canes’ sixth overall selection — to nab another prospective future all-star WHL defenceman in Kale Clague.

Perhaps this week’s deal will help both teams. Duke, drafted by the Minnesota Wild in June, didn’t want to be in Lethbridge and clearly Erkamps had no intention of ever reporting to the ‘Canes. The players coming over to Lethbridge, meanwhile, will provide at least size and character and all three were in the lineup for the ‘Canes’ upset win over the visiting Calgary Hitmen Wednesday.

Robson insisted that this was the best deal he could swing, considering he was trying to move a pair of malcontents, although word is that more than one team was told by the ‘Canes

GM that Duke wasn’t available for trade.

If nothing else, the transaction points out the disparity in talent between the two teams — one still struggling to be even remotely competitive and the other up the upswing with a cluster of skilled skaters and the depth to trade fringe players for potential impact performers. ● While the Brandon-Lethbridge deal was the big shaker of the week, first-year Saskatoon Blades GM/head coach Bob Woods has been making headlines for his massive overhaul of the team.

Woods has made 16 roster changes dating back to Sept.

16, his latest move being the release of former Red Deer midget AAA Optimist Chiefs forward Ty Mappin, who will rejoin the Olds Grizzlys of the AJHL. “We’re trying to cycle through some guys and get some fresh blood,” Woods told Nugent-Bowman following a series of moves this week. “We’re trying to change the culture here.

After Moose Jaw (where the Blades fell 7-1 last Saturday), the way the room was and the way that the bus was, we just needed to make changes.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 B3

Queens rally to tie exhibition game RDC HOCKEY

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Queens 2 Edge 2 Fifth-year RDC Queens forward Rachael Hoppins knows what she’s talking about when it comes to discussing this year’s edition of the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League squad.

“We don’t have the finesse and skill we had last year . . . we’re more of a grind-it-out team,” she said. “We don’t get the fancy goals, but we have some girls who aren’t afraid of the physical game and we work hard as a team.”

It was the physical play, especially in the one-on-one battles, that played a major role in the Queens coming from behind to pull out a 2-2 tie with the Edge Hockey Academy of Calgary in exhibition play at the Arena Thursday.

“We’ve been slow out of the gate at times, but today I thought we were strong from start to finish,” she added.

“And finishing strong like that will definitely help us as a team. We could have been nervous being down 2-0 but there were no doubts in the room after the second period and it showed.”

The Queens gave up power play goals in each of the first two periods, but got goals from Kailey Butz and Hoppins at 6:02 and 8:41 of the final frame to tie the game.

Butz slap shot from the edge of the left circle found the top on the glove side of Edge goaltender Kristen Chamberlin while Hoppins lifted a nifty backhand over the netminder from in close.

Both goals came after some solid work along the boards to keep the puck in the Calgary zone.

“I’m really excited about how hard we work,” said Queens head coach Bob Rutz. “I’m extremely excited about the potential of this team, how hard we work and how everyone has bought in. Take nothing away from last year’s team but we’ve grown so much from the start of the season to now, compared to last year. I’m excited where we can go.”

Rutz uses four lines and six defencemen, something he believes will be an advantage against most teams in the ACAC. “We want to roll four lines and wear the other teams down,” he said. “We’ve worked hard on playing a tough physical game from day one and it’s beginning to show on a consistent basis.

“I don’t even know what our record is so far and I don’t care, I’m just excited about the fact we’re getting better every time we play.”

The Queens don’t open their ACAC season until Oct. 23, but have at least one more exhibition game on tap when they host the Banff Hockey Academy Oct. 16.

“It’s been a long exhibition season, but (Rutz) has done a good job of scheduling tough teams, like this team.

They’re young, quick and force us to be better,” said Hoppins. “They could easily play in our league.”

Besides the strong finish Hoppins also liked what she saw from the defence.

“We’ve been working on moving the puck in practice and I though the

defence was awesome. They moved the puck and made smart plays which made it easier on the forwards.”

The Edge opened the scoring at 12:15 of the first period on a flip shot

by Katie Duncan that RDC netminder Moriah Andrews had go in off the top of her glove.

The Calgary squad made it 2-0 at 18:47 of the second period on a tip in

by Kate Hufnagel that snuck between Andrews’ pads.

“Moriah talked to me and she wanted both those goals back,” said Rutz.

“She knows she can be better but I also thought we had chances to clear the puck before they scored. We’re confident in both our goaltenders (Andrews and SummerRoberts).”

Andrews also made a number of solid stops and finished with 29 saves while the Queens had 29 shots on Chamberlin, including 16 in the third period.

Danny Rode is a retired advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog

Lack leads Canucks to road win over Oilers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canucks 2 Oilers 1 EDMONTON — The Vancouver Canucks may have brought in goalie Ryan Miller in the off-season, but Eddie Lack isn’t ready to hand over the starting goalie reins just yet.

Lack had 21 saves and Alexander Edler had a goal and an assist as the Canucks came away with a 2-1 road win over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

Nick Bonino also scored for Vancouver, who improved to 4-2-0 in pre-season play.

Teddy Purcell’s goal was the only one Lack has allowed in just over two full games worth of pre-season play, stopping 57 of 58 shots faced. However, the 26-year-old Swedish goalie was the first to admit that stats from before the regular season can be misleading.

“It’s just the pre-season, so you can’t read too much into it,’’ said Lack. “I think I let in five goals every game in the last pre-season. I’m just trying to focus on what I can do here. I’m just looking forward to the regular season now.’’

Canucks coach Willie Desjardins said Thursday’s game was more competitive than the ones that preceded it, offering a welcome test for his team with the regular season on the horizon.

“I thought there was bit more intensity out there,’’ said Desjardins. “I know we wanted to play with more intensity. I thought our battle level was a little higher, which was good to see.’’

Purcell was the lone scorer for the Oilers, who dropped to 4-3-0 in exhibition action.

“It started off intense right off the bat,’’ Purcell said. “I learned pretty quick that this is a heated rivalry. It’s good to show some emotion in pre-season, both teams are still trying to get the rust off and learn the systems and stuff, but it was good to see that emotion early.

“You can tell there is a strong dislike there.’’

Edmonton took a 1-0 lead with 1:19 left in the first period.

Jesse Joensuu followed up on a two-goal night against Arizona the night before by showing some

solid hustle to fight off two defenders in a race to the puck along the boards. Joensuu fed it to Purcell, who scored his first goal as an Oiler since coming over in a trade with Tampa Bay this summer.

Purcell beat Canucks goalie Eddie Lack with a backhand in tight. Lack was shaken up by a collision on the play, but was able to continue in net.

“I made a save and I kind of got stuck and he ran me over,’’ Lack said. “It was just black and all of a sudden the puck was in the net. I think I was more scared than anything. I am fine now.’’

Joensuu also looked strong in the pre-season last year when he had three goals and an assist in three games, but a back injury was at least partially to blame in a poor regular season where he had just five points in 42 games.

“To be honest, I’m happy for every healthy day, that was my focus this summer,’’ he said. “I feel like I’ve performed well and I’ve enjoyed playing tones and playing more minutes than maybe what I’ve played last season. It’s been fun and I’m happy.’’

It was a feisty affair with several fights, punctuated by a brief stretch early in the second that saw Cal O’Reilly drag down Edmonton’s Nikita Nikitin, forcing him from the game with an ankle injury. Vancouver’s Tim Sestito then took a run at Oilers goalie Viktor Fasth, earning the ire of rookie defenceman Darnell Nurse and later a fight with Kevin Westgarth.

Vancouver tied the game 11 minutes into the second period with a short-handed goal as Edler made a long feed to Bonino and he beat Fasth with a quick shot.The Canucks went up 2-1 with five minutes left in the second while the teams were playing four men a side as Niklas Jensen fed a wide-open Edler in the slot and he blasted it into the Edmonton net.

There was no scoring in a largely uneventful third period.

The two teams will close out the pre-season with a rematch in Vancouver on Saturday night.

Notes: Canucks forward Bo Horvat left the game in the first period with an upper body injury and did not return Vancouver and Edmonton met five times in the regular season last year, with the Canucks winning three of the five outings The Canucks iced a largely veteran lineup, however their top line re-

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Vancouver Canucks goalie Eddie Lack makes the save against Edmonton Oilers’ Bogdan Yakimov during third period NHL preseason action in Edmonton, on Thursday. mained at home as the Sedins and linemate Radim Vrbata did not play. The Oilers re-assigned goalie Laurent Brossoit and defenceman David Musil to Oklahoma City earlier in the day, but still had 32 players in camp heading into Thursday’s game Out with what are reported to be minor injuries for the Oilers at the moment are defencemen Andrew Ference and Jeff Petry and forward David Perron.

Jooris continues strong preseason play in Flames win over Jets

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 4 Jets 2 CALGARY — Unheralded Josh Jooris continued his unexpected push to open the season with the Calgary Flames on Thursday.

The 24-year-old right-winger scored twice in the third period including the winner to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets in NHL pre-season action.

Most of the work on the go-ahead goal came from Johnny Gaudreau, who spun away from a Jets defenceman along the sideboards, than drew the other defenceman towards him in the slot before slipping the puck to a wide open Jooris down low, who beat Michael Hutchinson.

“That’s great work by Johnny there. I don’t know how he managed to get out of the corner with two guys on him,” said Jooris.

The native of Burlington, Ont., has been a pleasant surprise at Flames camp. Undrafted, Jooris left Union College after three years to sign with Calgary a year ago. He spent all of last year with the American Hockey League’s Abbotsford Heat.

“It’s been a good ride,” said Jooris. “It’s kind of surreal, I don’t think a lot of other people thought I’d be here. I’m kind of an underdog but it’s exciting.”

Jooris’s second goal, which made it 4-1, came five minutes later and again it was after a sequence initiated by Gaudreau. Only this time, it was Flames 2014 fourth overall pick Sam Bennett that made the nice pass to Jooris for a one-timer from in front.

“It was nice to get on the scoresheet there. Two great plays by two great players but that’s secondary for me. First and foremost is focusing on the details and the little things and being trustworthy out there for the coaches,” Jooris said. “The slogan, they mean it here. ’Always earned, never given.’ I just have to keep going out there and earning the ice and earning a spot on this team.”

Jooris, Bennett, Michael Ferland, Sven Baertschi and Gaudreau — who had three assists — are all battling for what may end up being only one open forward job, depending on injuries.

Coach Bob Hartley credits the kids for making the final roster decisions difficult.

“It’s not getting any easier. There’s going to be lots of long nights thinking about it and after tonight’s game, the nights are just getting longer and longer,” Hartley said. “We have some good, really young players who are coming up and right now they’re making statements.”

Sean Monahan also scored twice for the Flames (5-3-0).

Mark Scheifele and Cliff Thorburn scored for Winnipeg (2-4-0). The Jets and Flames (5-3-0) will wrap up the pre-season on Saturday when they meet again.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey GA 8 8 14 19 20 21

Pt 8 4 4 4 4 0

GF 17 13 14 15 8 9

GA 9 8 10 14 14 20

Pt 8 6 4 3 2 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 4 4 0 0 0 28 Kamloops 5 3 1 1 0 21 Vancouver 4 3 1 0 0 18 Prince George 5 2 3 0 0 15 Victoria 5 1 4 0 0 13

GA 10 16 14 28 25

Pt 8 7 6 4 2

GF GA 12 5 7 4 14 8 5 5 12 26

Pt 6 4 4 2 0

Everett Spokane Tri-City Seattle Portland

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL 5 4 1 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 4 2 2 0 0 4 1 2 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 4 1 3 0 0

GP 3 2 4 3 5

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 5 0 0

Wednesday’s results Lethbridge 4 Calgary 3 (SO) Kamloops 3 Swift Current 1 Kelowna 7 Vancouver 5

3. Moose Jaw, White 1 (Gregor, Eberle) 17:07.

Penalties — Kopeck RD (roughing) 7:42, Point MJ (roughing) 7:42, Bleackley RD (cross-checking) 8:52, Bleackley RD (slashing) 8:52, Howden MJ (slashing) 8:52, Fafard RD (roughing) 12:53, Rodewald MJ (roughing) 12:53.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Grman RD (tripping) 1:34, Zalitach MJ (high-sticking) 3:47, Polei RD (hooking) 4:13, Grman RD (holding) 9:48, Cote RD (high-sticking) 14:13, Zalitach MJ (cross-checking) 16:41, White MJ (hooking) 19:26.

Shots on goal Red Deer 13 8 9 — 30 Moose Jaw 9 13 5 — 27 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (L, 2-1-0); Moose Jaw: Sawchenko (W, 2-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 0-4; Moose Jaw: 1-6.

National Hockey League Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts Columbus 7 6 1 0 12 Toronto 7 4 2 1 9 N.Y. Islanders 6 4 1 1 9 Tampa Bay 5 4 1 0 8 Montreal 5 4 1 0 8 Washington 7 4 3 0 8 Philadelphia 8 3 3 2 8 New Jersey 5 3 1 1 7 Detroit 6 3 2 1 7 Pittsburgh 6 3 3 0 6 Buffalo 5 2 2 1 5 Boston 5 2 2 1 5 Ottawa 5 2 2 1 5 N.Y. Rangers 4 2 2 0 4 Carolina 5 1 4 0 2 Florida 5 0 3 2 2

GF 25 21 17 18 12 16 21 12 10 9 14 14 12 16 11 9

GA 15 18 15 7 9 19 25 13 10 11 11 14 13 13 17 18

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 6 5 0 1 11 22 15 Dallas 6 4 2 0 8 21 23 Arizona 7 4 1 2 10 23 18 Nashville 5 3 2 0 6 9 9 Calgary 8 5 3 0 10 15 15 Minnesota 5 2 2 1 5 12 13 Vancouver 6 4 2 0 8 16 13 Edmonton 7 4 3 0 8 13 14 San Jose 5 2 2 1 5 12 13 St. Louis 6 2 3 1 5 19 19 Anaheim 6 2 3 1 5 15 17 Chicago 5 2 3 0 4 11 11 Winnipeg 6 2 4 0 4 12 16 Colorado 7 0 5 2 2 8 21 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s results Moose Jaw 3 Red Deer 0 Friday’s games Tri-City at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 8 p.m.

Swift Current at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday’s games Red Deer at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Tri-City at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Regina, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Swift Current at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Prince George at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Buffalo 6, Washington 1 Columbus 6, Carolina 3 Pittsburgh 2, Detroit 0 Montreal 3, Chicago 1 Edmonton 3, Arizona 2

Sunday’s games Kamloops at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m.

Prince George at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Thursday’s summary Warriors 3, Rebels 0 First Period 1. Moose Jaw, Howden 2 (Sleptsov) 9:39.

Penalties — Sleptsov MJ (holding) 6:36, Doetzel RD (tripping) 18:23.

Second Period 2. Moose Jaw, Brown 1 (Sleptsov, Rodewald) 9:21 (pp).

Thursday’s Games Washington 3, Philadelphia 2, SO New Jersey 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, SO Los Angeles 2, Colorado 1, SO Tampa Bay 3, Florida 0 St. Louis 4, Minnesota 1 Calgary 4, Winnipeg 2 Vancouver 2, Edmonton 1 Friday’s Games Buffalo at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Chicago at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Boston vs. N.Y. Islanders at Bridgeport, CT, 5:30 p.m.

San Jose at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Detroit at Boston, 3:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Montreal, 5 p.m.

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

Florida at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Nashville at Columbus, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Colorado vs. Los Angeles at Las Vegas, NV, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s summaries Flames 4, Jets 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Stuart Wpg (interference) 1:50, Ellerby Wpg (hooking) 5:06, Colborne Cgy (high-sticking) 14:17, Scheifele Wpg (tripping) 16:07.

Second Period 1. Calgary, Monahan 2 (Hudler, Gaudreau) 8:20.

2. Winnipeg, Scheifele 1 (Ehlers) 14:16.

Penalties — Lowry Wpg (tripping) 3:45, Jooris Cgy (tripping) 9:22.

Third Period 3. Calgary, Jooris 1 (Gaudreau, Engelland) 4:03.

4. Calgary, Monahan 3 (Byron, Wideman) 4:43.

5. Calgary, Jooris 2 (Bennett, Gaudreau) 9:05.

6. Winnipeg, Thorburn 1 (Tangradi, Trouba) 19:06 (pp).

Penalties — Clitsome Wpg (hooking) 1:17, Perreault Wpg (boarding) 6:39, Brodie Cgy (holding) 13:42, Monahan Cgy (roughing) 13:49, Perreault Wpg (roughing) 13:49, McGrattan Cgy (roughing) 15:59, Baertschi Cgy (roughing) 18:23, McGrattan Cgy (unsportsmanlike conduct) 18:23, McGrattan Cgy (misconduct) 18:23.

Shots on goal Winnipeg 7 6 5 — 18 Calgary 10 5 10 — 25 Goal — Winnipeg: Hutchinson (L, 1-3-0); Calgary: Ramo (W, 2-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Winnipeg: 1-6; Calgary: 0-6.

Canucks 2, Oilers 1 First Period 1. Edmonton, Purcell 1 (Joensuu, Draisaitl) 18:41.

Penalties — Sestito Vcr (charging) 1:58, Yakupov Edm (cross-checking) 8:42, Burrows Vcr (hooking) 8:42, Bieksa Vcr (high-sticking) 8:42, Lander Edm (stick holding) 8:45, Dorsett Vcr (fighting) 15:13, Pinizzotto Edm (fighting) 15:13, Pinizzotto Edm (high-sticking) 15:13, Matthias Vcr (fighting) 20:00, Matthias Vcr (misconduct) 20:00, Acton Edm (fighting) 20:00, Acton Edm (misconduct) 20:00.

Second Period 2. Vancouver, Bonino 2 (Edler, Burrows) 10:49 (sh).

3. Vancouver, Edler 1 (Jensen, Dorsett) 14:57.

Penalties — Joensuu Edm (hooking) 1:48, Sestito Vcr (roughing) 3:56, Joensuu Edm (roughing) 3:56, O’Reilly Vcr (holding) 4:47, Sestito Vcr (goaltender interference) 6:05, Nurse Edm (unsportsmanlike conduct) 6:05, Sbisa Vcr (tripping) 10:30, Westgarth Edm (roughing) 13:24, Sestito Vcr (fighting) 13:24, Westgarth Edm (fighting) 13:24, Vcr Bench (too many men) 14:47.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Joensuu Edm (high-sticking) 12:54.

Shots on goal Vancouver 7 9 7 — 23 Edmonton 9 5 8 — 22 Goal — Vancouver: Lack (W, 2-0-0); Edmonton: Fasth (L, 1-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Vancouver: 0-5; Edmonton: 0-5.

Football GP 13 12 12 12

CFL East Division W L T 5 8 0 5 7 0 4 8 0 1 11 0

GP Calgary 13 Edmonton 13 Saskatchewan 13 B.C. 13 Winnipeg 13

West Division W L T 11 2 0 9 4 0 9 4 0 7 6 0 6 7 0

Montreal Hamilton Toronto Ottawa

PF 245 262 308 180 PF 361 341 296 275 304

PA 313 272 325 308 PA 239 252 289 250 324

Pt 10 10 8 2 Pt 22 18 18 14 12

Week 15 Friday’s games Winnipeg at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Friday’s games Calgary at Saskatchewan, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s games Edmonton at Toronto, 4 p.m.

B.C. at Hamilton, 7 p.m.

CFL Scoring Leaders TD Waters, Tor 0 Paredes, Cgy 0 Whyte, Mtl 0 Medlock, Ham 0 McCallum, BC 0 Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 Milo, Sask 0 Shaw, Edm 0 Maher, Ott 0 Grigsby, Wpg 9 Allen, Sask 7 Arceneaux, BC 7 Ford, Sask 7 O’Neill, Edm 0 Bowman, Edm 6 A.Harris, BC 6 Tate, Cgy 6 x-Cornish, Cgy 5 Fuller, Cgy 5 Steele, Tor 5 Barnes, Tor 4 D.Carter, Mtl 4 Gable, Ham 4 LeFevour, Ham 4 Marsh, Mtl 4 McDaniel, Cgy 4 Miles, Ott 4 Mitchell, Cgy 4 Owens, Tor 4 Walker, Ott 4

C 29 37 20 24 23 26 27 21 17 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 4 4 0 0 0 21 Prince Albert 3 2 1 0 0 11 Regina 4 2 2 0 0 14 Moose Jaw 5 2 3 0 0 13 Swift Current 6 2 4 0 0 18 Saskatoon 4 0 4 0 0 8

Medicine Hat Edmonton Red Deer Calgary Kootenay Lethbridge

B4

FG 27 26 28 28 29 26 25 23 18 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

S 8 2 13 6 3 6 4 7 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pt 118 117 117 114 113 110 106 97 76 54 42 42 42 38 36 36 36 32 30 30 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24

x-Dressler, Sask Banks, Ham Cunningham, Cgy Guyton, Edm Kelly, Wpg Kohlert, Wpg Marve, Wpg Parker, Cgy Rodgers, Mtl Slaton, Tor T.Smith, Sask Tasker, Ham Watson, Wpg J.White, Edm

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

20 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Buffalo 2 2 0 .500 79 75 Miami 2 2 0 .500 96 97 New England 2 2 0 .500 80 90 N.Y. Jets 1 3 0 .250 79 96 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 3 1 0 .750 87 67 Indianapolis 2 2 0 .500 136 95 Tennessee 1 3 0 .250 60 110 Jacksonville 0 4 0 .000 58 152 North W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 3 0 01.000 80 33 Baltimore 3 1 0 .750 103 60 Pittsburgh 2 2 0 .500 97 99 Cleveland 1 2 0 .333 74 77 West W L T Pct PF PA San Diego 3 1 0 .750 102 63 Denver 2 1 0 .667 75 67 Kansas City 2 2 0 .500 102 79 Oakland 0 4 0 .000 51 103 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 3 1 0 .750 122 Dallas 3 1 0 .750 115 N.Y. Giants 2 2 0 .500 103 Washington 1 3 0 .250 95 South W L T Pct PF Atlanta 2 2 0 .500 131 Carolina 2 2 0 .500 73 New Orleans 1 3 0 .250 95 Tampa Bay 1 3 0 .250 72 North W L T Pct PF

PA 104 86 91 109 PA 113 96 110 119

Detroit Green Bay Chicago Minnesota Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis

3 3 2 2 W 3 2 2 1

1 2 2 3 West L 0 1 2 2

0 0 0 0

.750 85 62 .600 134 106 .500 92 100 .400 101 126

T Pct 01.000 0 .667 0 .500 0 .333

PF 66 83 88 56

PA 45 66 89 85

WILD CARD Tuesday, Sept. 30: Kansas City 9, Oakland 8, 12 innings Wednesday, Oct. 1: San Francisco 8, Pittsburgh 0 DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5) American League Baltimore 1, Detroit 0 Thursday, Oct. 2: Baltimore 12, Detroit 3 Friday, Oct. 3: Detroit (Verlander 15-12) at Baltimore (Chen 16-6), 10:07 a.m.

Sunday, Oct. 5: Baltimore (Gonzalez 10-9) at Detroit (Price 15-12), 1:45 p.m. x-Monday, Oct. 6: Baltimore at Detroit (Porcello 15-13), TBD x-Wednesday, Oct. 8: Detroit at Baltimore, TBD Kansas 1, Los Angeles 0 Thursday, Oct. 2: Kansas City 3, Los Angeles 2, 11 innings Friday, Oct. 3: Kansas City (Ventura 14-10) at Los Angeles (Shoemaker 16-4), 7:37 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 5: Los Angeles (Wilson 13-10) at Kansas City (Shields 14-8), 5:37 p.m. x-Monday, Oct. 6: Los Angeles at Kansas City, TBD x-Wednesday, Oct. 8: Kansas City at Los Angeles, TBD

Los Angeles vs. St. Louis Friday, Oct. 3: St. Louis (Wainwright 20-9) at Los Angeles (Kershaw 21-3), 4:37 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 4: St. Louis (Lynn 15-10) at Los Angeles (Greinke 17-8), 7:37 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 6: Los Angeles (Ryu 14-7) at St. Louis (Lackey 3-3), TBD x-Tuesday, Oct. 7: Los Angeles (Haren 13-11) at St. Louis (Miller 10-9), TBD x-Thursday Oct. 9: St. Louis at Los Angeles, TBD LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7) American League Friday, Oct. 10: Detroit-Baltimore winner at Los Angeles OR Kansas City at Detroit-Baltimore winner Saturday, Oct. 11: Detroit-Baltimore winner at Los Angeles OR Kansas City at Detroit-Baltimore winner Monday, Oct. 13: Los Angeles at Detroit-Baltimore

LPGA

Top-ranked Stacy Lewis leads Reignwood Classic in China BEIJING — Top-ranked Stacy Lewis birdied five of her final seven holes Thursday for a 7-under 66 and the first-round lead in the Reignwood LPGA Classic.

“You learn you just got to stay patient,” Lewis said.

“You’re not going to go shoot a 66 or 65 every single day. Yeah, I want to be in the lead.

That’s where I want to be. I want to be in the lead coming up 18 on Sunday as well. It’s a good start, but we have a long ways to go.”

Saturday

● College women’s volleyball: iHotel Wild Rose Classic at RDC — Matches at 9:30 and 11 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 6 and 7:15 p.m. ● Peewee football: Red Deer Hornets at Olds, 10:30 a.m.; Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 11 a.m.; Strathmore at Innisfail 11 a.m.; Rocky Mountain House at Stettler 11 a.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lacombe at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Red Deer Parkland at Sylvan Lake, 3:30 p.m. ● Bantam football: Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, 1 p.m., Great Chief Park; Sylvan Lake at Stettler, 1 p.m.; Strathmore at Innisfail, 1 p.m.; Springbank at Rocky Mountain House, 1:30 p.m.; Ponoka at Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Red Deer Northstar, 2 p.m., Arena.

Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF D.C. 15 9 6 51 46 New England 14 13 3 45 44 Sporting KC 13 11 6 45 45 Columbus 11 9 10 43 43 New York 10 9 11 41 48 Toronto FC 11 11 7 40 42 Philadelphia 9 10 12 39 46 Houston 10 13 6 36 35 Chicago 5 8 17 32 38 Montreal 6 18 6 24 34

Thursday’s Games Philadelphia 1, Chicago 1, tie

Saturday’s Games Houston at New York, 4 p.m.

FC Dallas at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Columbus at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto FC at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Portland at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 9 Indianapolis at Houston, 6:25 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Sunday Chicago at CAROLINA 2.5 45.5 Buffalo at DETROIT 7.5 44.5 Houston at DALLAS 4.5 46.5 Tampa Bay at NEW ORLEANS 10.5 48.5 Atlanta at NY GIANTS 3.5 50.5 Baltimore at INDIANAPOLIS 3.5 47.5 St. Louis at PHILADELPHIA 7.5 47.5 PITTSBURGH at Jacksonville 7.5 46.5 Cleveland at TENNESSEE 1.5 44.5 Kansas City at SAN FRANCISCO 6.5 44.5 Arizona at DENVER 8.5 49.5 NY Jets at SAN DIEGO 7.5 43.5 CINCINNATI at New England 0.5 46.5 Monday SEATTLE at Washington 7.5 45.5

winner OR Detroit-Baltimore winner at Kansas City Tuesday, Oct. 14: Los Angeles at Detroit-Baltimore winner OR Detroit-Baltimore winner at Kansas City x-Wednesday, Oct. 15: Los Angeles at DetroitBaltimore winner OR Detroit-Baltimore winner at Kansas City x-Friday, Oct. 17: Detroit-Baltimore winner at Los Angeles OR Kansas City at Detroit-Baltimore winner x-Saturday, Oct. 18: Detroit-Baltimore winner at Los Angeles OR Kansas City at Detroit-Baltimore winner National League Saturday, Oct. 11: St. Louis-Los Angeles winner at Washington OR San Francisco at St. Louis-Los Angeles winner Sunday, Oct. 12: St. Louis-Los Angeles winner at Washington OR San Francisco at St. Louis-Los Angeles winner (FS1) Tuesday, Oct. 14: Washington at St. Louis-Los Angeles winner OR St. Louis-Los Angeles winner at San Francisco (FS1) Wednesday, Oct. 15: Washington at St. Louis-Los Angeles winner OR St. Louis-Los Angeles winner at San Francisco (FS1) x-Thursday, Oct. 16: Washington at St. Louis-Los Angeles winner OR St. Louis-Los Angeles winner at San Francisco (FS1) x-Saturday, Oct. 18: St. Louis-Los Angeles winner at Washington OR San Francisco at St. Louis-Los Angeles winner (Fox) x-Sunday, Oct. 19: St. Louis-Los Angeles winner at Washington OR San Francisco at St. Louis-Los Angeles winner (FS1)

Lewis leads the tour with three victories and earnings of $2,214,143. Last year, she finished a stroke behind Shanshan Feng after the Chinese player eagled the par-5 18th.

Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall was second after a 67. South Koreans Sun Young Yoo and Jenny Shin were tied for third at 68.

Lewis played alongside No. 2 Inbee Park and No. 4 Suzann Pettersen. Park shot 69, and Pettersen 74.

“The grouping today was fun.” Lewis said. “I always like playing with Inbee and Suzann. If you play with the best players in the world, that makes you better. I don’t know if it made me elevate my game and play a little bit a better, but we had great crowds out there, I thought, for a first round.”

Feng opened with a 75.

Sunday

● College women’s volleyball: iHotel Wild Rose Classic at RDC — Matches at 9:30 and 11 a.m., 12:30 (final) and 2 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kin City A. ● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail Eagles Chinook League Classic — Fort Saskatchewan vs. Stony Plain, 1 p.m.; Bentley vs. Innisfail, 4 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Lacombe, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m.; Airdrie at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Southside at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Strathmore at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m. (The Drive).

Montreal at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at Chivas USA, 5 p.m.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA x-Seattle 18 9 3 57 57 46 x-Los Angeles 16 5 9 57 63 31 Real Salt Lake 13 7 10 49 50 38 FC Dallas 14 10 6 48 52 40 Vancouver 9 8 13 40 38 40 Portland 9 9 12 39 54 51 Colorado 8 14 8 32 41 54 San Jose 6 12 11 29 34 42 Chivas USA 6 18 6 24 25 58 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. x- clinched playoff berth

Sunday’s Games Cleveland at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Houston at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Carolina, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

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

Cincinnati at New England, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Miami, Oakland Monday’s Game Seattle at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail Eagles Chinook League Classic — Stony Plain vs. Okotoks, 4 p.m.; Bentley vs. Fort Saskatchewan, 7 p.m. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kin City B. ● Midget AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 5:45 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

(The Drive). ● College men’s hockey: Concordia at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● AJHL: Spruce Grove at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Foothills at Red Deer Elks, 7:30 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Cochrane at Three Hills, 8 p.m., Trochu.

Soccer

Friday’s Games Sporting Kansas City at D.C. United, 4 p.m.

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National League Washington vs. San Francisco Friday, Oct. 3: San Francisco (Peavy 7-13) at Washington (Strasburg 14-11), 1:07 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 4: San Francisco (Hudson 9-13) at Washington (Zimmermann 14-5), 3:37 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 6: Washington (Fister 16-6) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 18-10), TBD x-Tuesday, Oct. 7: Washington at San Francisco, TBD x-Thursday, Oct. 9: San Francisco at Washington, TBD

● High school football: Stettler at Sylvan Lake, 4 p.m.; Rocky Mountain House at Wetaskiwin, 4 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● College women’s volleyball: iHotel Wild Rose Classic at RDC — Matches at 4:30, 5:45, 7 and 8:15 p.m. ● AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Northstar at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail Eagles Chinook League Classic — Okotoks vs.

Innisfail, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s Game Green Bay 42, Minnesota 10

Baseball Major League Baseball Playoffs x-if necessary

Today

English Premier League GP W Chelsea 6 5 Southampton 6 4 Manchester City 6 3 Arsenal 6 2 Swansea 6 3 Aston Villa 6 3 Man. United 6 2 Tottenham 6 2 Crystal Palace 6 2 West Brom 6 2 Stoke 6 2 Leicester City 6 2 West Ham 6 2 Liverpool 6 2 Everton 6 1 Hull City 6 1 Sunderland 6 0 QPR 6 1 Newcastle 6 0 Burnley 6 0

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L 0 1 1 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 1 4 3 3

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Monday, Sept. 29 Stoke 1, Newcastle 0 Saturday, Oct. 4 Hull City vs. Crystal Palace, 1400 GMT Leicester City vs. Burnley, 1400 GMT Liverpool vs. West Brom, 1400 GMT Sunderland vs. Stoke, 1400 GMT Swansea vs. Newcastle, 1400 GMT Aston Villa vs. Manchester City, 1630 GMT Sunday, Oct. 5 Manchester United vs. Everton, 1100 GMT Chelsea vs. Arsenal, 1305 GMT Tottenham vs. Southampton, 1305 GMT West Ham vs. Queens Park Rangers, 1515 GMT

Sunday’s Games Seattle FC at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Signed a two-year extension of their player development contract with Lowell (NYP) through the 2016 season.

TEXAS RANGERS — Claimed RHP Alfredo Figaro off waivers from Milwaukee. Designated RHP Wilmer Font for assignment.

National League NEW YORK METS — Announced hitting coach Lamar Johnson and assistant hitting coach Luis Natera will not return to their positions in 2015 and have been offered positions within the minor league system. Announced the resignation of major league strength and conditioning coach Jim Malone. Announced strength and conditioning consultant Mike Barwis will oversee all major league and minor league strength and conditioning.

Frontier League WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Released OF Daniel Aldrich, C Michael Allen, C Mike McGuckin, 1B Davidson Peguero, LHP Hein Robb and OF Deaun Williams.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed G Conor Boffeli and WR Rashad Ross to the practice squad. Terminated the practice squad contract of CB Jordan Sullen.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed DT Luther Robinson from the practice squad MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed QB Chandler Harnish to the practice squad. Released WR Rodney Smith.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Placed WR Rod Streater on the injured reserve/return list.

Canadian Football League CFL — Fined Ottawa DL Kalonji Kashama an undisclosed amount for an illegal and dangerous hit on a quarterback during a Sept. 21 game against Saskatchewan. Fined Saskatchewan DB Macho Harris an undisclosed amount for an illegal and dangerous hit and Saskatchewan OL Dominic Picard an undisclosed amount for an illegal peel back block during a Sept. 28 game against Edmonton. Fined

BC Lions RB Rolly Lumbala an undisclosed amount for punching an opponent during at Sept. 29 game against Calgary.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Agreed to terms with WR Antonio Robinson and DB Arthur Hobbs.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned G Louis Domingue, D Andrew Campbell, D Brandon Gormley, F Lucas Lessio, F Tobias Rieder and F Jordan Szwarz to Portland (AHL) and F Max Domi to London (OHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Placed C Jordan Staal on injured reserve. Assigned F Phil Di Giuseppe, F Brock McGinn, F Carter Sandlak, F Brody Sutter, F Brendan Woods and D Danny Biega to Charlotte (AHL). Waived G Drew MacIntyre, D Michal Jordan and D Rasmus Rissanen. Sent D Haydn Fleury to Red Deer (WHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Assigned F Ryan Hartman to Rockford (AHL). Recalled D Klas Dahlbeck from Rockford.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Assigned F Simon Hjarlmarsson and G Oscar Dansk to Springfield (AHL). Waived F Dana Tyrell.

DALLAS STARS — Assigned C Travis Morin and G Jussi Rynnas to Texas (AHL). Signed D Brenden Dillon to a one-year contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned F Andreas Athanasiou, F Colin Campbell, F Martin Frk, D Mattias Backman, D Richard Nedomlel and D Ryan Sproul to Grand Rapids (AHL) and Joe Hicketts to Victoria (WHL). Released F Shane Berschbach, F Alden Hirschfeld and F Mark Zengerle.

MINNESOTA WILD — Claimed D Nate Prosser off waivers from St. Louis.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned F Sven Andrighetto, F Jake Dowell, F Gabriel Dumont, D Davis Drewiske and D Greg Pateryn to Hamilton (AHL). Agreed to terms with F Drayson Bowman on a one-year contract.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Signed F Bobby Ryan to a seven-year contract extension.

ECHL UTAH GRIZZLIES — Signed F Alex Krushelnyski to a one-year contract.

NFL

League to stage draft in Chicago next April NEW YORK — The 2015 NFL draft will be held in Chicago, the league announced Thursday.

Hours after the Bears posted an announcement on their Twitter account, the NFL confirmed the draft will move to Chicago on April 30-May 2. It will be held Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University.

The draft was held in Chicago in 1938, 1942-44, 1951, and 1962-64.

“Chicago is pleased to welcome the 2015 NFL draft to America’s heartland,” said Mayor Emanuel.

“Next year, NFL fans from across the country will travel here or tune in as the future of their team is decided in Chicago.”

Moving the draft out of New York, where it has been held

for decades, was likely once the league began taking bids for the event.

Los Angeles and Chicago were the finalists for next year’s event.

The NFL soured on Radio City Music Hall after it was forced to move the draft back two weeks into May this year.

But under Commissioner Roger Goodell, the league also has considered moving around the draft for a while.

“We are excited to have fans from throughout the Midwest experience the NFL draft,” said Goodell. “We look forward to returning the event to the city of Chicago and working with the city, Choose Chicago, and the Chicago Sports Commission to create a week-long celebration of football for our fans.”

The Auditorium Theatre opened in 1889 and has hosted operas, concerts, musicals and ballets.

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Packers put the hurt on Vikings

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Green Bay Packers’ Nick Perry and A.J. Hawk (50) sack Minnesota Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder during the second half of an NFL game Thursday, in Green Bay, Wis.

Packers 42 Vikings 10 GREEN BAY, Wis. — Julius Peppers crossed the goal line and caught his breath.

But his work wasn’t done after returning an interception 49 yards for a touchdown. Teammate Morgan Burnett pointed to the stands — time for Peppers’ first Lambeau Leap.

One of many for the Packers on Thursday night.

Aaron Rodgers threw for three scores, and Eddie Lacy ran for a season-high 105 yards and two touchdowns in the 42-10 rout of the Minnesota Vikings.

Jordy Nelson hauled in a 66-yard touchdown catch. Things were going so well in Green Bay that even Peppers found his way to the end zone through the mist.

But something was missing. “’(Burnett)”just said, ’Go, go, go, go!’“ Peppers recounted.

This is all new to Peppers after joining the Packers in the off-season as a free agent.

“It was actually pretty tough to get up there. I was pretty tired after that run, so I barely got up there,” Peppers said. “It was tough.”

The Vikings had it much worse.

The Packers led 28-0 after the first half played in a light rain. They essentially toyed with Minnesota the rest of the way.

“Green Bay outplayed us,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said. “They were more physical than we were. They did a much better job all night.”

Peppers had the highlight-reel play in the second quarter after picking off a pass over the middle from Christian Ponder, who was hit by tackle Luther Robinson as he released the throw.

The 34-year-old Peppers veered left across the field and waited for blocks before striding the final 10 yards along the sideline to make it 21-0 with 7:06 left in the second quarter.

Peppers became the first player in NFL history with 100 sacks and 10 interceptions.

“I like the way it went tonight,” Packers coach Mike McCarthy said.

“Yeah, I’ll take this.”

Ponder struggled in getting the start at quarterback with rookie Teddy Bridgewater out with a sprained left ankle.

Jamari Lattimore intercepted Ponder’s pass over the middle on Minnesota’s drive after the Peppers’ touchdown, setting up Rodgers’ 11-yard scoring pass to Davante Adams to give Green Bay a four-touchdown lead with 4:55 left in the first half.

That was Rodgers’ 200th career touchdown — though he let Adams’ keep the ball in honour of his first career score.

“I’m very proud of Aaron,” McCarthy said. “It seems like he’s in the point of his career now where every week or every other week he’s breaking a record.”

The rest of the game was a mere formality. Fans took delight in showering former Green Bay receiver Greg Jennings with boos whenever he touched the ball.

Jennings finished with two catches for 31 yards.

Friday night lights will shine again on Riders quarterback Doege

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — The Friday night lights will shine again on Seth Doege.

The San Angelo, Texas product, who was a high school and college quarterback sensation in the Lone Star State, will start his first CFL game with the Saskatchewan Roughriders (9-4) on Friday at Mosaic Stadium against the league’s top team, the Calgary Stampeders (11-2).

The 25-year-old rookie said his upbringing has prepared him well for his first pro start.

“The Rider Nation fan base reminds me a lot of big time football in Texas just because people are crazy about it here and they love it and have a lot of passion for it,’’ Doege said. “In Texas, all of the movies you’ve seen, it’s pretty similar. If you’re winning, anyway, that’s what it’s like.’’

Doege grew up in a community in rural Texas where high school football on Friday nights mattered. His father was a high school coach, and that meant the game was introduced to him at an early age.

Doege was the starter of his west Texas high school team in his freshman and sophomore years. Knee injuries derailed his junior and senior

seasons, but Doege still drew interest from nearby Texas Tech University.

Doege blossomed into a star his junior year with the Red Raiders, as he set an NCAA Division I record for completion percentage in a game (90.0 per cent, on 40-of-44 pass attempts). His 4,004 passing yards that year ranked eighth in the nation.

His senior season was even better.

He was named the MVP of the Meineke Car Care Bowl and finished in the top three in the country in passing yards (4,205 yards) and touchdown passes (39).

Doege said he accepts the added pressures and responsibilities associated with being the starting quarterback in a football-crazed community.

“In college, you get used to it,’’ he said. “When you go to a big school, you’re playing in front of 60,000 or 70,000 fans each and every week, especially in a big time conference. You get used to the crowd and you love it.

That’s part of it, that’s part of being the quarterback. You get all the love when things are good and all the blame when things are bad. That’s part of the job description.’’

It’s no different in Regina, where fans were left shaking their heads after a 24-0 defeat last week at the hands of the Edmonton Eskimos. Tino Sun-

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But songs of Sunseri’s praises quickly turned to a chorus of boos after the Riders’ beatdown in Edmonton last week.

Doege is next in line.

“For this week, I thought it was a chance to give Seth a chance to show what he has,’’ head coach Corey Chamblin said. “They (Sunseri and Doege) have different skill sets for the most part, but when I looked at it (Doege) has good command of the huddle this week and I want to see him go for it.’’

Chamblin’s decision on Wednesday ended a few days worth of rumours of new quarterbacks coming to Saskatchewan, including a trade for Henry Burris or a return of veteran Kerry Joseph.

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“Tino and I want that. We want to be the guy that elevates this team,’’ Doege said. “I think we both have the skill set to play at a high level and I think the guys trust us in the locker-room, regardless whether it’s Tino or myself.’’

Doege has climbed the Riders’ depth chart in recent weeks. Starting quarterback Darian Durant went down nearly a month ago with a torn tendon in his right (throwing) elbow, with Sunseri having filled in under centre the previous three games. The Riders have scratched out just 38 points in those three contests, including a pair of lopsided losses on the road to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (28-3) and to the Eskimos (24-0).

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Orioles tame Tigers in playoff opener

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE — Nelson Cruz and the Baltimore Orioles had the good fortune of avoiding Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer during the regular season.

Or maybe it was the other way around.

In his 2014 debut against the hard-hitting Orioles, Scherzer found out quickly that a poor pitch can go a long way — in the other direction.

Cruz and J.J. Hardy homered, and Baltimore hammered out 12 hits in defeating Scherzer and the De-

troit Tigers 12-3 Thursday in the opener of their AL Division Series. “I just left too many pitches up,� Scherzer said. “This is a great-hitting ballclub. You give them a chance to extend their arms, they can really hit it.�

Jonathan Schoop and Alejandro De Aza each had two hits and two RBIs for the Orioles, who turned a close game into a rout with an eight-run eighth inning against Scherzer and three ineffective relievers.

The 12 runs set a post-season record for Baltimore, making its second playoff appearance since 1997.

Game 2 of the best-of-five series is Friday at Camden Yards. Justin Verlander, the second of three straight Cy Young winners the Orioles will face, is set to go against left-hander Wei-Yin Chen.

Verlander must avoid the mistakes made by Scherzer, who allowed five runs and seven hits in 7 1-3 innings. The right-hander was 18-5 during the regular season, but in this one he was burned by the long ball and outpitched by the Orioles. “I’ve got to find a way to get the ball down,� Scherzer said. “I wasn’t quite able to do that tonight, and I paid for it.�

Cruz led the majors with 40 homers during the regular season, a good portion of Baltimore’s big league-best 211 long balls. His first-inning drive off Scherzer put the Orioles up 2-0 before Detroit’s Vic-

tor Martinez and J.D. Martinez connected off Chris Tillman in the second to tie it.

But Baltimore had too much firepower for the Tigers. Hardy led off the seventh by driving a poorly thrown changeup from Scherzer over the centre-field wall for a 4-2 lead. “The one that stings is that J.J. Hardy home run,�

Scherzer said. “That home run really changed the game in my eyes, gave them that insurance run.�

Cruz added his third RBI with a single during a wild eighth inning keyed by a Detroit error that kept the boisterous, orange-clad crowd of 47,842 on its feet.

Five different Orioles finished with two hits.

Clearly, facing Scherzer was not too daunting a task. “It’s the same game,� De Aza said. “Yes, this is a good pitcher, but it’s the same game. You have to throw the ball to home plate for a strike to get us out.�

Tillman (1-0) allowed two runs in five innings before Andrew Miller got five outs — three by strikeout. Darren O’Day gave up an eighth-inning homer to Miguel Cabrera, but the drive followed a double play.

Orioles manager Buck Showalter then called upon closer Zach Britton, who had 37 saves during the regular season. Britton got the last out in the eighth, and by the time the ninth inning rolled around, he wasn’t needed anymore.

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Moustakas hit the first extra-inning homer in postseason history for the Royals, a high shot off Fernando Salas that barely reached the elevated right-field stands at Angel Stadium.

Alcides Escobar had an early RBI double for the Royals, and their bullpen repeatedly escaped trouble in Kansas City’s first game since that spectacular, 12-inning comeback victory over Oakland in the wildcard playoff Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium.

Game 2 in the best-of-five series is Friday night at the Big A, with Angels 16-game winner Matt Shoemaker taking on fellow rookie Yordano Ventura.

Chris Iannetta and David Freese homered early in the Angels’ first playoff game since 2009, but the majors’ most productive offence stranded eight runners in the five innings before Greg Holland’s perfect 11th.

Winning pitcher Danny Duffy worked the 10th for Kansas City, and Holland picked up the save after arriving at the ballpark around the fourth inning. He went to North Carolina on the Royals’ off day to attend his child’s birth.

Mike Trout was 0 for 4 with a walk in his playoff debut. The favourite for AL MVP grounded into a fielder’s choice in the 10th before Albert Pujols popped out to end his 0-for-4 Angels playoff debut.

Josh Hamilton popped out to end the game, capping his 0-for-5 return to the lineup.

Jered Weaver, Joe Smith and Huston Street combined to retire Kansas City’s final 15 batters before extra innings — and that’s when the Royals went to work. Kevin Jepsen let two runners on in the 10th, but retired Salvador Perez and Omar Infante to escape.

Salas wasn’t as lucky, giving up a homer to the Royals’ No. 9 hitter. Moustakas grew up in the San Fernando Valley and played at UCLA before making his big league debut and hitting his first homer at the Big A in 2011.

A raucous crowd banged balloons and cheered on the Angels throughout their post-season return after a half-decade away, but the fans got tense while the teams managed just three hits apiece in the first nine innings.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BURNABY, B.C. — Like virtually every bulky seven-foot basketball player, Jonas Valanciunas isn’t the most nimble of runners.

He dips his head and furiously pumps his arms, a lumbering style that is one of his biggest weaknesses.

So the Toronto Raptors decided to send their young centre to a place where they know a thing or two about running — Eugene, Ore., to work with renowned strength and conditioning coach Jim Radcliffe.

“Speed is the priority,” Valanciunas said Thursday. “When you’re able to come back to contest a shot. . . It’s going to help a lot.”

The 22-year-old Lithuanian went twice this past summer to Oregon — a hotbed for U.S. track and field for decades — to train with Radcliffe.

The 56-year-old, whose lean physique could belong to a man three decades younger, is in his 29th year as strength and conditioning coach for the Oregon Ducks.

He’s considered one of the foremost experts on sprint training in the U.S. and works with all of the Ducks teams to improve things like strength, speed, agility, and explosiveness.

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remains common in places of detention.” Ah. Kazakhstan also finished last in 11 of the 14 categories the IOC uses to score bids. If it happens there would be ample Borat jokes, and everyone would get to say they got to go to Kazakhstan that one time, assuming Russia hasn’t invaded by then. It could also be the year the soccer World Cup will be held in Qatar, four years after being held in Russia, just in case you had any illusions left about how global sports works.

After Sochi, though, new president Thomas Bach talked about sustainability of bids, and the IOC adjusted its charter to include “prohibition of any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise.”

But if the IOC could stomach Russia and China in a six-year span, it can stomach almost anything. And for 2022, it doesn’t currently have much of a choice.

So now the IOC has to drag their big beautiful TV show somewhere regrettable. Beijing’s air pollution has actually worsened since 2008, and the human rights aren’t any better.

But Kazakhstan would mean humping this show into the wilderness, to the borders of civilized possibility, and the IOC would have to bet that the president-for-life wouldn’t get toppled between now and then.

So unless they can roust a ringer — Vancouver! Calgary! St. Moritz! — it’ll be back to Beijing, and a special sort of humiliation. It won’t just be that the IOC was reduced to peddling the Olympics to autocratic, anti-democratic regimes, where the Games ballooned into a colossal, theatrical grotesquerie. It will be that they had to go slinking back to one of them twice.

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Norway loves the Winter Olympics, Norwegians, and claimed Norway and you can tell. Norway is a nation didn’t bother sending senior officials of ice and snow and occasionally a re- to important meetings. The IOC helpmarkable capacity to carry oxygen in fully added the decision to drop the the blood, and as a result bid was made by Norway’s has more winter medals politicians “on the basis than any nation on earth, of half-truths and factual despite just over five milinaccuracies.” lion people to choose from.

That’s the sound of an Norway is the heart of winorganization that realizes ter, and of the Games. the jig might be up. The But Norway doesn’t IOC is offering $880 million want the Winter Olympics, to help stage the Games, thanks. Oslo said no on and even Sochi’s operaWednesday, after its bid tions budget — as opposed for the 2022 Games had to its capital budget, which limped along for a while built parts of two cities in the face of strong public that gradually fell apart as BRUCE opposition. The people of the Games soldiered on — ARTHUR Norway weren’t interestwas only about $2.2 billion, ed in a bid, 20 years after or a little more than VanLillehammer was such a couver’s. success.

And still, Norway wasn’t So the candidates for the 2022 interested. Whoops.

Olympics are down to Beijing, ChiThe Olympics were just in Beijing na, and Almaty, Kazakhstan, which six years ago, and it was spectacuisn’t quite ideal. Sweden, Poland and lar. I mean, they displaced 1.5-million Ukraine dropped out of the running people and spent an estimated $43 — in fairness, the host of the 2014 billion, and both the smog and human Olympics had a fair bit to do with rights protesters gradually vanished that last one — and before that Swit- as the Games went on, and one jourzerland and Germany did the same, nalist from Cuba summed up a lot citing a lack of desire to build the when he told the AP, “I’m surprised infrastructure. Some claimed it was how tightly controlled and complicatbecause countries were scared away ed everything is here.” Hong Kong is

by Sochi’s $51-billion price tag. As boiling now, too, and could boil over.

The Associated Press put it, “The IOC But wow, the visuals. In related has acknowledged that it has failed news, the IOC recorded a $383.3-milto properly explain the difference lion profit on a then-record $2.4 bilbetween operating and capital bud- lion worth of revenue in 2008. gets.”

Kazakhstan, though: that would be Sure, sounds pretty tricky. Those a frontier. Kazakhstan is rich in oil various countries couldn’t be expect- and natural gas, and also ranks 140th ed to understand that they wouldn’t out of 177 countries in the world in also have to spend $50 billion, right? corruption, as measured by transparMmm hmm. ency.org. It’s basically a dictatorial After Norway said no, the IOC re- state, and Human Rights Watch notes leased a screw-you-guys statement that Kazakhstan maintains a poor hucalling it a missed opportunity for man rights record, and that “torture

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2014-15 NHL SEASON PREVIEW

NHL is getting back to normal WITH LOCKOUT, OLYMPICS IN REARVIEW MIRROR, LEAGUE FACING NO PROBLEMS ented Tampa Bay Lightning and everchanging Pittsburgh Penguins could just as easily go to the Cup final.

Of course last year the New York Rangers showed they could make a run, too.

“It’s about getting hot at the right time,” Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist said. “First thing you need to get in, but after that it’s about peaking at the right time.”

The 2013-14 season was a test of endurance, specifically for the likes of Lundqvist, Martin St. Louis and the Kings’ Drew Doughty and Jeff Carter, who all went to the gold-medal game at the Olympics and then to the Cup final. The Rangers and Kings also each played hockey outdoors last year as part of the NHL’s “Stadium Series.”

In 2014-15, only two of the 1,230 regmidst of an arms race to keep up. The ular-season games will be outdoors: Dallas Stars went out and got Jason the Winter Classic at Nationals Park Spezza and Ales Hemsky, the Anaheim in Washington on Jan. 1 between the Ducks got Ryan Kesler and the St. Lou- Blackhawks and Capitals and one Stais Blues got Paul Stastny. dium Series event Feb. 21 at Levi’s StaThe Stars had one of the busiest off- dium in Santa Clara, Calif., between seasons and are a team to get excited the Kings and San Jose Sharks. about. But given Cutting down the stiff compefrom six out‘THE GAME ON THE tition are they door games even one of the ICE HAS NEVER BEEN to two wasn’t best three or four just a matter of BETTER. IT’S NEVER BEEN teams in their preventing too conference?

MORE COMPETITIVE, much of a good “I think we get thing, according MORE ENTERTAINING, lost under the rato Bettman, who dar because there MORE EXCITING, MORE said there’s still are some powerplenty of interUNPREDICTABLE, AND house teams in the from cities West,” Dallas cenEVERYTHING WE DO STARTS est to host in the futre Tyler Seguin ture.

WITH THAT. WE HAVE A said. “Teams are “Everybody SYSTEM THAT GIVES US only getting betwants one,” Better, and a lot of tman said.

STABILITY AND GIVES ALL guys and top-end “What hapTEAMS AN OPPORTUNITY TO guys from the East pened, though, are coming over COMPETE, WHICH IS WHY this year, when and playing in the we were looking WE SEE SUCH COMPETITIVE West. I think it’s a at doing games, lot of fun.”

BALANCE.’ the games have The fun in the gotten so big our East is that no — GARY BETTMAN clubs that are one’s untouchable NHL COMMISSIONER interested want and pre-season more lead time. prognostications There were teams that didn’t want to don’t matter. Again the Boston Bruins go this year. They said, ’We’ll take a are the favourites, even after losing game, but make it the following year Jarome Iginla in free agency, but the because we want more lead time.”’

Montreal Canadiens, young-and-talFuture outdoor games could be

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A year ago, the NHL was in the middle of a whirlwind. The lockout-shortened season had barely ended and the Sochi Olympics and six outdoor games were on the horizon.

“Last year was a season like no other,” commissioner Gary Bettman said.

When Alec Martinez scored in overtime to win the Stanley Cup for the Los Angeles Kings and the league faded into summer, the ice chips settled. Now well into an era of labour peace and two years away from the likely return of the World Cup of Hockey, there’s nothing interrupting each team playing 82 from Oct. 8 through April 11.

“The last couple years have been crazy,” Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask said. “Playing that shortened season, shorter off-season and really compact season with the Olympics.

It was kind of a long year and a half and now a really long off-season and a regular season. Things are back to normal, I guess.”

This is, indeed, a regular season in the strictest definition of the phrase.

There are no glaring problems facing a business with $4 billion in revenues, and things are going so well that the rampant expansion rumours won’t go away even as Bettman insists the NHL isn’t ready to look in that direction just yet.

A new Canadian television-rights deal should result in the salary cap rising next summer, and the health of the league is perhaps as good as it has ever been.

“The game on the ice has never been better,” Bettman said. “It’s never been more competitive, more entertaining, more exciting, more unpredictable, and everything we do starts with that. We have a system that gives us stability and gives all teams an opportunity to compete, which is why we see such competitive balance.”

Calm waters all around mean there’s not a crisis, but it doesn’t mean the landscape is boring. In the Western Conference, the Kings and Chicago Blackhawks each have two championships over the past five years and haven’t shown any signs of going away.

In the process of those duelling dynasties developing, the West is in the

coming to Toronto, Winnipeg and Minnesota. But the Maple Leafs, Jets and Wild will have to deal with 41 indoor home games this season.

Among those games, the lack of an Olympic break will allow for a more normal schedule without as many back-to-backs and stretches of three games in four nights.

“The biggest thing is the rest days, the time between games, the time between travel,” former Canadiens captain and current Buffalo Sabres forward Brian Gionta said. “Everyone looks at it and they’re like, ’It’s a game a week difference,’ but it makes a big difference in your travel, it makes a big difference in your practice time or your rest time.”

After that 48-game condensed schedule after the end of the lockout in 2013 and 82 sandwiched around the Olympics last year, players hope a return to normalcy also means fewer injuries and better quality of play.

“It’ll be nice to practise and work on things,” New York Islanders winger Kyle Okposo said. “You can really get back to a normal schedule. That’ll be big for everybody, hopefully enable us to stay more healthy than we have.

We’re excited for kind of a normal routine.”

Normal, though, is relative and could be short-term. The league and the NHLPA could as soon as this month announce plans for the return of the World Cup of Hockey in 2016, and there’s still hope that players go to Pyeongchang, South Korea, for the 2018 Olympics.

That’s a concern for down the line, when prospective top picks in June’s draft like Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel are blossoming NHL stars and not just prizes for the league’s worst teams. The Sabres and Calgary Flames can dream of that, but Bettman is glad that playoff hopes are the new normal almost everywhere.

“What we have in competitive balance now is unprecedented in our history and maybe for any sport,” he said at a recent Canadian Club luncheon.

“It’s more important that no matter what team you root for, you feel at this time of year, ’Boy my team’s got a shot at the playoffs,’ and as we’ve seen the last few years once you make the playoffs anything can happen.”

Backlund prepares for big season with Flames he’ll be ready for the season-opener.

“Obviously I will wait for the green light from the doctors,” Hartley said.

“We’re going to play Mikael Backlund when we feel he’s 100 per cent on the medical side and hockey-wise.

“The good part is he knows our systems. It’s not like we’re putting him in

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Calgary Flames head coach Bob Hartley says he’s sleeping easier where Mikael Backlund is concerned.

When an NHL coach candidly tells reporters “I’m worried,” which is what Hartley said earlier in training camp about Backlund, antennas go up.

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Backlund arrived at Flames training camp feeling sore from off-season training in Sweden.

The six-foot, 198-pound forward became uneasy about the possibility the injury required surgery.

“It didn’t go away. It got worse,” Backlund said. “A week ago, we weren’t sure what was going to happen.

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Oilers add depth to stave off skeptics Igrid Kaveelaars knew.

The wife of Edmonton Oilers coach Dallas Eakins could see her husband was ready to return to work shortly after last season ended.

A 28th place finish will do that.

“A week to 10 days go by and my wife said, ’You’re ready to go back to the rink now,”’ Eakins said, “I am. You want to get back in there and get back in the fight.”

Edmonton hasn’t qualified for the playoffs since the 200506 season, but Eakins believes there a positives heading into the upcoming campaign.

“We’ve added size, we’ve added depth and we’ve added some people who can make plays. You start putting your lineup on the board and these are established NHL players that give you some comfort,” Eakins said. “With the additions of those players and then with all of our other guys getting another year of experience, it’s a step in the right direction.”

Here are some things to keep in mind before Edmonton’s season begins with game against Calgary on Oct. 9: NOT STATISTICAL ANOMALIES: The debate that has ceaselessly raged between advocates for hockey analytics and those that disbelieve can be distilled to one fundamental question: Are these numbers fact or fiction? In

EDMONTON OILERS LAST SEASON: 29-44-7, 67 points, finished 14th in the Western Conference and missed the playoffs.

COACH: Dallas Eakins, second season with the Oilers, 29-44-7.

ADDED: D Mark Fayne, D Nikita Nikitin, F Benoit Pouliot, F Teddy Purcell.

LOST: D Anton Belov, C Sam Gagner, LW Ryan Smyth.

PLAYER TO WATCH: Justin Schultz: The Oilers signed the defenceman to a one-

the case of the Oilers, though, the numbers cannot be parsed into anything other than hard evidence of a woefully subpar squad.

At the end of the 2013-14 season, the Oilers ranked last in goals-against average (3.26), and were tied for 22nd, 16th and 13th, respectively, in goals per game (2.43), power-play success rate (17 per cent) and penalty-kill success rate (82.1 per cent).

NET LOSS: The Oilers employed a revolving door in goal last season, as Richard Bachman, Ilya Bryzgalov, Devan Dubnyk, Viktor Fasth, Jason Labarbera and Ben Scrivens each stated their case to be Edmonton’s top goaltender. In

year, $3,675,000 deal on Aug. 29. Why one year? “Justin is going to be a great player and a great Oiler. What we wanted to do as an organization is buy ourselves a little bit of time to negotiate a longterm deal,” general manager Craig MacTavish said. “We as an organization wanted a little more information, fully aware information can be expensive.”

OUTLOOK: Six straight years of drafting in the top 10 and stockpiling high-end young talent without showing tangible on-ice improvement tends to create skepticism. a combined 90 games with the Oilers, the sextet combined for 29-44-9 record and 2.85 goalsagainst average.

BOLSTERED BACK END: In an attempt to address the defensive decencies, Edmonton traded for--and subsequently signed to a two-year, $9 million deal-Nikita Nikitin, and signed free agents Mark Fayne (four years, $14.5 million) and Keith Aulie (one year, $800,000).

FORWARD REFORMATION: General manager Craig MacTavish added forward depth in the off-season by trading for Tampa Bay right wing Teddy Purcell, and signing New York Rangers left wing Benoit Pouliot. Purcell

and Pouliot add size — both are 6-foot-3 — and some offensive production. Purcell recorded 42 points in 81 games, while Pouliot finished with 36 points in 80 games.

WHO’S ON SECOND?: In a division and conference in which quality depth down the middle is imperative in order to be successful, MacTavish has said second-line centre is a concern for Edmonton.

Third overall pick Leon Drai-

saitl, Mark Arcobello and Anton Lander competed for the job during training camp and preseason, but MacTavish noted the “position (has) the most question marks.

The onus is going to be on (the) current group of players to show an ability to be competitive for a playoff position.

The only is going to be on Arcobello, (Lander) and (Draisaitl) to show they’re ready to play.”

Flames hoping hard work Jets have room leads to playoff berth to grow with Pride was etched onto Bob Hartley’s face and evident in his voice.

The coach of the Calgary Flames had spent the better part of 2 1-2 hours watching his team play spoiler to the New Jersey Devils’ playoff hopes, winning a 1-0 game at the Prudential Center on April 7.

“I love this group,” Hartley said. “It’s just a hard-working group. We’re going to fight until the last second.”

Calgary’s work ethic was a key component last season. A significantly under-talented squad played hard and finished with a 35-40-7 record despite competing in the tough Pacific Division.

Before the Flames open their 2014-15 campaign at home against Vancouver on Oct. 8, here are some things to consider: FROSH FLAMES: A little more than a year after embarking on an organizationalwide rebuilding project, it is too soon to state the Flames possess more talent their pipeline. But what they do possess makes for an intriguing foundation. Sean Monahan, the sixth overall pick in the 2013 draft, played 75 games for Calgary last season and finished with 34 points (22 goals and 12 assists). He could be joined this year by the offensively gifted Johnny Gaudreau, 2014 fourth overall pick Sam Bennett and Sven Baertschi, who recorded 11 points in 26 games last season with Calgary.

CONTENTIOUS CALGARY: One of the hot topics in hockey is the role of fighting in the game. The Flames, who finished tied for 11th in the league with 32 bouts last season, believe it has a role, especially as it pertains to their young players taking care of themselves on the ice. Calgary brought in former AHL pugilist Serge Roberge into training camp to teach their prospects about fighting. “What’s our job as a coaching staff, as an organization?” Hartley rhetorically asked reporters when the subject was brought up.

“To try and protect our assets.

“It was about doing the right things in order to teach them to protect themselves.”

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CALGARY FLAMES LAST SEASON: 35-40-7, 77 points, finished 13th in the Western Conference and missed the playoffs.

COACH: Bob Hartley, fourth season with Calgary, 383-291-61-45 overall.

ADDED: LW Brandon Bollig, D Deryk Engelland, G Jonas Hiller, LW Mason Raymond.

LOST: D Chris Butler, LW Mike Cammalleri.

PLAYER TO WATCH: Johnny Gaudreau. Offense was a major issue for the Flames, who finished 23rd and 24th, respectively, in goals per game (2.46) and power play percentage (15.7).

Gaudreau, the reigning to throw their prospects in too deep. Instead, teams us veterans to show them the ropes.

To that end, Calgary added established NHLers Mason Raymond, Deryk Engelland and Jonas Hiller in free agency, and traded for Brandon Bollig.

BLUELINE BREAKOUT: Consider the 2013-14 season Mark Giordano’s coming out party. Calgary’s top-pair defenceman set career highs in goals (14), points (47), average time on ice per game (25:14) and finished 10th in Norris Trophy voting. Now the challenge is to repeat the feat, as

Hobey Baker winner, recorded 80 points (36 goals and 44 assists) in 40 games with Boston College.

OUTLOOK: With the possible exception of John Tortorella, who attempted to fight his way into the Calgary dressing room during the first intermission of a Jan. 18 game in Vancouver to ostensibly express his displeasure about a line brawl following the opening faceoff, Hartley and the Flames earned praise around the NHL for their hardworking style of play. Even with the addition of Gaudreau and friends to the lineup, don’t expect the Flames to change their modus operandi. But it’s too much to ask the Flames to compete for a playoff berth. he will be counted to stabilize Calgary’s back end.

SET IN NET?: Karri Ramo acquitted himself well in 201314, compiling a 17-15-4 mark with a 2.65 goals-against average and .911 save percentage in 40 games. Yet he enters training camp challenging for the No. 1 job as the Flames signed Hiller to a two-year, $9 million deal in free agency. In 326 NHL games all with Western Conference rival Anaheim, Hiller had a 162-110-32 record with a .916 save percentage and 2.51 goals-against average.

Weather only obstacle for NHL outdoor game in Santa Clara

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The excitement is palpable, the tickets are nearly all sold and the stadium is a technological marvel.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman only needs one more thing for the league’s second outdoor game ever in California — on Feb. 21 when the San Jose Sharks host the Los Angeles Kings at the $1.3 billion Levi’s Stadium — to be a success.

“We’re going to need it about 40 degrees cooler on the day of the game,” Bettman

told San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York at a news conference Thursday promoting the matchup.

Bettman spoke on a day when the temperature was right around 90 degrees, obviously not ideal conditions for a hockey game.

But as long as there’s no rain storm, Bettman is confident the ice will hold up just fine in February after watching the success of last season’s outdoor game between the Kings and Anaheim Ducks at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

“As soon as we saw what we had at Dodger Stadium,

we knew we were coming up here,” Bettman said. “We knew the Sharks wanted it and they kept saying, ’If you can do it there, you can do it here.’

As soon as we saw what an incredible success that game was, there was no question we were coming.”

Tickets went on sale to the general public starting Thursday and fewer than 5,000 remain, according to Sharks chief operating officer John Tortora.

Tortora said he expected to see those sold quickly and anticipated a capacity crowd of 68,500 for the game.

Everywhere the Winnipeg Jets turn, they are surrounded by what they aspire to be.

Champions. Stanley Cup contenders. NHL heavyweights.

For a team whose debut season as a Western Conference member ended with an 11th place finish — seventh in the Central Division — at 3735-10, the goal is to reach the rarefied air where the NHL’s elite reside.

Getting to that summit, that is the tricky part.

“The division and the conference we’re in right now, there’s several teams that are certainly in the cycle to be considered Stanley Cup contenders,” Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff told The Associated Press.

“It’s an extremely competitive conference with L.A. winning the Stanley Cup, the Blackhawks’ history of winning the Stanley Cup, with the competitive level of Anaheim, the competitive level of San Jose and certainly the competitive level of St. Louis. Those are all teams that each and every night, you’re measuring yourself against the upper echelon of the National Hockey League.”

So what does Cheveldayoff see when he watches his team take on the NHL’s best?

“We’re a young team that is looking for its players to take the next step in the progression,” he said. “We believe we have a lot players in our group who have just kind of scratched the surface of where they are as players at the National League level, and are going to continue to grow.”

With the Jets’ campaign beginning Oct. 9 in Arizona, here are some things to keep an eye on: CAPTAIN MAURICE: The Paul Maurice era began on Jan. 12, 2014. On that day, Cheveldayoff made the decision to fire head coach Claude Noel (and assistant Perry Pearn) in favour of Maurice. At the time, the Jets had a 19-23-5 record.

Over their final 35 games, the Jets went 18-12-5 leading to Maurice signing a four-year extension on Apr. 16. “Paul walked into the room as one man,” Cheveldayoff said, “and immediately you could see he had the full attention of everybody, from top to bottom, from young guys to the most veteran guys.”

HY-BYFUGLIEN: Among Maurice’s first acts after taking over for Noel was to announce that Dustin Byfuglien would serve as a hybrid forward/defenceman, dependent on game situations. As camp opened, Maurice reiterated Byfuglien will fill that role.

According to Cheveldayoff, Byfuglien will play forward at even strength, but revert to defence when the Jets are on the power play.

“He’s a very unique hockey player,” Cheveldayoff said.

“He’s an impact player at the National Hockey League level, and for him to make an impact at forward and defence is a

testament to just how talented he is.”

JET PROPELLED: The Jets’ final practice of the 2013-14 season was a not-at-all subtle communique to his team as to what they should expect in 2014-15.

Maurice skated the Jets for 90 minutes before telling reporters the organization was looking “to improve our overall group fitness. I’m going to tell (the players), ’I want you to be prepared for a tougher training camp perhaps than you’re used to.”’

Cheveldayoff noted the first days of camp were devoted to “drills, system work and conditioning,” because “(Maurice) wants to play an up-tempo game. We have a big team, we have a team that can skate.

He wants a team that can use those attributes to the highest level for a sustained period of time.”

GROWING PAINS: NHL coaches and executives routinely stress the importance of drafting and developing players in the hard salary cap era.

The Jets are no exception to that philosophy. Cheveldayoff estimated that Winnipeg was “the third youngest” team in the NHL in 2013-14, and his hope is that the Jets will grow and learn as they play together.

“You have to have the patience to allow those players to fit in the right places at the right times,” Cheveldayoff said.

“We’re hoping to grow as a unit, to continue to expand the core of the team with top end young players.”

STOPPING THE PAVELEC: By all accounts, 2013-14 was a year Ondrej Pavelec would rather forget. At season’s end, the Winnipeg netminder was tied for 45th and 69th, respectively, in save percentage (.901) and goals against average (3.01) while compiling 2226-7 record in 57 games.

“The numbers do speak for themselves,” Cheveldayoff said. “Statistically, they are what they are. As a group we really struggled in the first half of the season. We had some real rough stretches, not only goaltending but our goals against, the way we were playing.”

But Cheveldayoff sees a silver lining for both his team and his goaltender.

“Individually, players like Pavelec have taken it upon themselves to look at their own career, their own year, and they have to get better for it,” he said.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — Fourth-seeded Kei Nishikori beat Donald Young of the United States 6-4, 7-6 (4) on Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Japan Open.

Nishikori, ranked seventh in the world, used his solid baseline game to capitalize on several unforced errors by Young.

With Nishikori leading 4-3 in the tiebreaker, Young double-faulted. Nishikori then ended a rally with a crosscourt forehand to set up match point and closed it out when Young hit a return into the net.

Young had a set point in the second set, but Nishikori held to force the tiebreaker.

“There were some tough moments in the second set, including when he had the set point,” Nishikori said. “It wasn’t easy. I just tried to save my serve and rely on my forehand. I think I was returning well.”

The 24-year-old Nishikori, who won the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday for his third ATP tour title of the season, will take on France’s Jeremy Chardy, who ousted seventh-seeded Kevin Anderson of South Africa 6-4, 6-4.

Third-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada booked his spot in the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-3 win over unseeded Jurgen Melzer of Austria.

Raonic hit 11 aces in a match that lasted just 1 hour, 14 minutes.

Raonic will play unseeded Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan, who downed qualifier Michal Przysiezny of Poland 6-4, 7-6 (5).

“I felt I played well,” Raonic said. “I dealt with adversity well in the second set after going down a break. I served well and took advantage of my opportunities.”

Raonic is on course for a potential meeting with Nishikori in the finals on Sunday. Raonic, ranked eighth, has lost in the final here the previous two years. Nishikori beat him for the title in 2012, while Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina denied him the crown last year.

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Milos Raonic of Canada returns a shot against Jurgen Melzer of Austria during their second round match of Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo, Thursday.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard qualified for the upcoming WTA Finals when seventh-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany lost her third-round match at the China Open on Thursday.

Bouchard, who suffered an upset loss to Germany’s Sabine Lisicki in the second round, locked up a berth in the season-ending tournament when Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova completed a 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Kerber.

The Beijing tournament provided a last-ditch opportunity for players to collect qualification points for the Oct. 20-26 event in Singapore. The US$6.5million tournament will feature the tour’s top eight players.

Bouchard, from Westmount, Que., has risen to seventh in the world rankings this season. The Wimbledon finalist was the only woman to make it to at least the semifinals at each of the year’s first three Grand Slam tournaments.

She’s the first Canadian to advance to the Tour final since Helen Kelesi in 1989.

In other matches Thursday, top-ranked Serena Williams recovered from a second-set lapse to defeat Lucie Safarova, 6-1, 1-6, 6-2 and No. 12-seeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia dropped a 6-1, 0-6, 7-5 decision to Roberta Vinci of Italy.

Simona Halep of Romania won a back-and-forth match against Andrea Petkovic of Germany 7-6 (4), 5-7, 7-6 (1), then immediately withdrew from the tournament with a left hip injury.

The second-seeded Halep took a medical timeout for treatment on her hip after the first set, but returned to complete the match, which featured 17 breaks of serve and 105 combined unforced errors (61 from the Romanian).

Halep’s withdrawal gave ninth-seeded Ana Ivanovic of Serbia a pass to the semifinals. The 2008 French Open champion beat Sabine Lisicki of Germany 6-3, 7-5.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova also advanced when Venus Williams withdrew before their match with a virus. Her illness came days after sister Serena retired from a match at last week’s Wuhan Open with a virus, as well.

The remaining Singapore spots were filled by Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark and Ivanovic.

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Longtime Boston Bruins great Bobby Orr is featured along with Tim Horton, Pierre Pilote, Red Kelly, Doug Harvey and Harry Howell. The latest issue, unveiled Thursday at the Hockey Hall of Fame, also includes stamps featuring Canada’s seven NHL teams and the Zamboni.

Orr, Pilote, Kelly and Howell were on hand for the ceremony along with members of the Horton and Harvey families. They were joined by Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Canada Post president and CEO Deepak Chopra.

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Sprinkler systems tested FIRE PREVENTION WEEK INCLUDES DEMONSTRATION OF SPRINKLER CAPABILITIES

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF As part of fire prevention week, the Red Deer Emergency Services will set two rooms ablaze to demonstrate residential sprinkler systems.

Two burn cells will be set up on Saturday afternoon at the downtown fire hall, at 4941 46th St. One will have a sprinkler head in it and the other won’t. Both will be otherwise identical.

“They’ll both be bedroom scenarios,” said Shane Dussault, Red Deer Emergency Services fire prevention officer. “We’ll be able to see the difference of how effective a sprinkler head is.”

Oct. 5 to 11 is fire prevention week.

The theme this year is: “Working smoke alarms save lives, test them every month.’

Though battery replacements have to be done annually, there is significant benefit to testing smoke alarms

monthly, said Dussault.

“Quite often we find people remove batteries or there are dead batteries in smoke alarms when we go to a house that has been on fire,” he said.

“We’re really trying to reinforce it’s not just the smoke alarm that has to be in there, it has to work.”

The sensors in a smoke detector are typically only good for 10 years and then the detectors need to be replaced.

Through the home safety program, Red Deer Emergency Services attempts to go into every home or business once every 10 years to check smoke alarms and remind people of the hazards.

“Even though a smoke alarm is important, it would be better to just not start the fire,” said Dussault. “We remind people about not leaving cooking unattended, which is a leading cause of fires in Red Deer.”

Another problem common in Red Deer is the improper disposal of cigarettes.

Toys “R” Us fire arson: investigators Fire officials say a fire at Toys “R” Us on Wednesday afternoon was deliberately set.

Red Deer fire prevention officer Barry Wulff said investigation into the arson was turned over to the RCMP. Shoppers and staff at the store were evacuated.

The rest of Bower Place mall remained open.

Wulff said firefighters were

called at about 3:45 p.m. and contained the fire to where it was started on the main floor of the store.

“The smoke travelled throughout the store and the duct work,” Wulff said.

He said any more information on the suspicious fire would have to come from the RCMP. RCMP were unavailable for comment.

On Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the downtown fire hall will host the emergency services’ fire prevention week festivities.

There will be a barbecue, tours of the fire hall, fire trucks and ambulances, fire extinguisher training and face

painting for the kids.

Fire prevention week aims to educate citizens about fire prevention practices and remind the community of the tragic circumstances fire can bring when people are unprepared. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

New schools prepare to celebrate

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Four new schools that opened in the Red Deer area in September will celebrate official openings this month. École La Prairie, École Barrie Wilson Elementary School, Father Henri Voisin School and Penhold Crossing Secondary School all have grand opening ceremonies planned. École La Prairie’s event is scheduled for later in October, but they have the Archbishop of Edmonton, Richard Smith, coming to bless the school on Monday.

On Wednesday, the official openings start with Barrie Wilson, located in Timberlands opening.

However, because the school shares a facility with the newest Red Deer Public Library branch, the opening ceremonies will be twofold.

The grand opening is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. with dignitaries and a ribbon cutting.

The school opened with 405 students in pre-kindergarten to Grade 5, with two-thirds in English and onethird in French immersion. The school has capacity to hold up to 500, with the potential of going up to 600 with portables added.

Across the Red Deer Public School District, enrolment is up by 331 students last year. Work has already begun on a new school in the Inglewood subdivision that was first announced in the spring.

The Red Deer Regional Catholic School District will christen its newest facility on Oct. 28, with ceremonies planned to recognize the opening of Father Henri Voisin School.

The pre-kindergarten to Grade 5 school located at 60 Clearview Dr. celebrates its opening 10:30 a.m. with a

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

École La Prairie (shown), École Barrie Wilson Elementary School, Father Henri Voisin School and Penhold Crossing Secondary School all have grand opening ceremonies planned this month. civil ceremony, followed by an 11 a.m. liturgy featuring Archbishop Smith.

Smith and the clergy will then bless all the rooms in the new school.

The new Catholic school started with about 230 students, but has the capacity to hold up to 300.

The official inauguration of the École La Prairie is on Oct. 29 at 10:30 a.m. A kindergarten to Grade 12, École La Prairie was built next door to its

Innisfail man sent to prison over kidnapping An Innisfail man has been sentenced to 12 years for a series of violent crimes that ended with his arrest in Balzac on March 28, 2012.

The 54-year-old man, whose name is withheld to protect the identity of his victim, pleaded guilty in Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench on Sept. 26 to two counts of sexual assault and one each of kidnapping and assaulting a police officer.

He was arrested inside the Cross Iron Mills shopping centre after a woman passed a note to a security guard saying to call police because she had been kidnapped.

Airdrie RCMP said at the time that a violent scene erupted in the mall when they arrived, including the assault of one officer.

Investigators learned that the woman had been assaulted and kidnapped from a location in Mundare the previous day.

There had also been an incident in Mundare on March 15, 2012.

Numerous charges were laid in Mundare and Airdrie, including harassment, stalking, housebreaking, assault, sexual assault, overcoming resistance, uttering threats, resisting police, assaulting a police officer, possessing a dangerous weapon and breaching conditions of a recognizance.

The balances of those charges were withdrawn once the court accepted the man’s guilty pleas.

old site west of Piper Creek on 34th Street.

Students who used to attend River Glen School were moved to Penhold when the Penhold Crossing Secondary School opened its doors last month. On Oct. 9 from 11 a.m. to noon at 1 Waskasoo Ave., adjacent to the Penhold Multiplex, they will celebrate their school’s new beginnings.

Vice-principal Jim Burbridge said

it would be loosely scheduled with dignitaries from the Alberta government and school board making speeches. A ribbon cutting and a cake celebrating the school’s start will follow.

The Grade 7 to 12 school has about 200 students to start.

However, the school can hold up to 500 with the addition of modular classrooms. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Voir dire examines if rights violated in bust

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

2011 DRUG ARREST

Cash totalling nearly $62,000 was among the items seized during a drug arrest by Red Deer RCMP in the summer of 2011.

Ahmed Nur, 31, and Raed Abdulla, 32, had been the subject of an ongoing investigation and were arrested following raids on homes in Red Deer and Edmonton on July 12, 2011.

Released earlier on $15,000 bail, Nur is now on trial before Calgary-based Justice Carolyn Anderson in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

He is charged with trafficking crack cocaine, possessing crack for trafficking and possessing the proceeds of crime at a value exceeding $5,000.

The trial opened on Monday and is now in a voir dire, or trial within a trial, to examine the actions of police and determine whether investigators violated Nur’s rights under Section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 8 protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure.

On Thursday morning, Crown prosecutor Patricia Giroux and defence counsel Paul Moreau, both of Edmonton, examined evidence collected from the two men and the pickup truck they were win at the time of the arrest.

The evidence includes three suitcases in which investigators found the bulk of the money.

RCMP Cpl. Lee Kevin Hammond testified that additional cash was found in Nur’s possession and in a wallet belonging to Abdulla located in the front pocket of one of the suitcases.

Lawyers also examined clothing and other personal items in the suitcases, including a boarding pass for two adults and one child for a flight from Edmonton to Toronto.

The voir dire continues today with testimony from other officers involved in the investigation and arrest of Nur and Abdulla.

The two men were to have been tried as co-accused on dozens of drugs and weapons offences.

However, all charges against Abdulla were stayed on Monday and most charges against Nur were withdrawn.

Giroux did not give reasons for the stay, and the Crown is not required to do so.

The charges against him are considered to be dismissed if the Crown takes no further action within a year of the date on which they were stayed. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Stolen vehicle, information leads to house break-in Red Deer RCMP believe two people stole a vehicle and then used the information in the vehicle to break into its owner’s house, and they are looking for suspects.

On Sept. 21, police received a report at 5:15 p.m. of a vehicle stolen from the Michener neighbourhood while the owner was at work.

According to police, the suspects drove the stolen vehicle to the victim’s home in Westlake and used the garage door opener to access the house.

Once inside the residence, the suspects stole computers and various other items.

The stolen vehicle was recovered later that day.

Police are working with witnesses to develop a composite sketch of the suspects. It is believed that a man and woman were involved in the incident.

Police recommend that people protect their personal information and home addresses from potential thieves by taking any personal documents with them when they exit their vehicles, including keeping insurance and registration papers in wallets or purses.

Anyone with information that may assist police in this investigation is asked to call the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575 or, for those wishing to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Lacombe Foodgrains harvest delayed; Ponoka a go Wet weather has put the kibosh on this Saturday’s Central Alberta Foodgrains Harvest in Lacombe.

One of the organizers, Doug Maas, said the crop hadn’t dried out from last week’s rain when it got hit again on Wednesday.

It was the second week the charity harvest and barbecue have been delayed, and that’s not unknown in the harvest’s 19-year history.

The committee plans to get together soon to decide whether to schedule the harvest for the Thanksgiving weekend or just take to the fields whenever the sun shines, regardless of the day.

In Ponoka, conditions are better and they hope to go ahead with their Saturday harvest and community lunch at noon. Lunch is free but donations to the cause are welcomed.

To reach the site from Red Deer, go north on Hwy 2A and turn west on Spruce Road and follow the signs. For more information, call Larry Henderson at 403-782-5218.

The harvests are in support of Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a Winnipegbased interdenominational group.

Library book sale Oct. 16-18 The Friends of the Red Deer Public Library are putting some books on sale for people to take home, permanently.

The annual fall book sale is scheduled to occur from Oct. 16 to 18 at the Snell Auditorium in the downtown library branch, at 4818 49th Ave. On Oct. 16 from 5 to 9 p.m., the sale is open to Friends’ members and on Oct. 17 and 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., it is open to the general public.

Memberships to the Friends group will be available on Friday. A sixmonth membership costs $7.50 and a family membership is $10.

Donations, including books, VHS, DVDs and CDs, will be accepted at the branch.

For more information, contact Lesley Caddy at 403-346-5721.

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Stabbing case hearing eyed A Red Deer man accused of stabbing another man during a fight on a pedestrian bridge in Red Deer has asked for a trial by judge alone in the Court of Queen’s Bench.

Marlo Tyrell Thomas, 21, was arrested in August by police investigating a stabbing on the CP Rail Bridge on July 5.

Police alleged that Thomas was among a group of people who got into a fight with a second group. One man was stabbed in the belly and taken to a nearby residence. Police were called and the victim was transported to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

His injury was not believed to be life threatening.

Represented by defence counsel Jason Snider, Thomas has asked to proceed to a preliminary hearing on charges of aggravated assault and using a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

Preliminary hearings are optional and may be ordered to examine evidence before proceeding to trial.

Thomas has pleaded not guilty to a separate and unrelated charge of assault, to be heard in provincial court at a later date.

Represented by defence counsel Kevin Schollie, Thomas was also scheduled to stand trial in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday on a single count of assault causing bodily harm, laid in 2013. Judge Bert Skinner dismissed the charge after Crown prosecutor Katie Carey called no evidence.

Historic women discussed The Central Alberta Historical Society is celebrating women’s history with a special topic at their upcoming meeting.

As October is women’s history month, the topic will be on Lost and Forgotten Women in history past with Dr. Patricia McCormack leading the discussion.

The meeting takes place on Oct. 15 started at 7 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, 4525 47A Ave. Everyone is welcome to attend.

For more information, call Faye at 403-343-1881.

Jail ’n’ Bail coming The annual jail and bail fundraiser for the local chapter of the Canadian Cancer Society is set to return with celebrity judges convicting and setting bail for felonious friends, family and employees.

On Oct. 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Parkland Mall, at 4747 67th St. in Red Deer, people will be arrested by police officers or volunteers for mundane activities including drinking too much coffee, snoring, wearing the wrong shirt or any reason imaginable.

They will face the judge who will sentence them to the jail and set the bail, a sum of money they must raise to be sprung.

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When the starting quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos shows up in Rimbey, everyone pays attention. Mike Reilly spent an afternoon recently signing anything with the familiar EE logo for fans. The Canadian Football League star visited the Rimbey Co-op Shopping Centre as part of the Co-op Game Day promotion and drew a large crowd. The fans included two-yearold Charlie Grimsdale, who had nothing but smiles for Reilly and didn’t want to leave his perch after getting an autograph on his Eskimos T-shirt.

The market will take place on Oct. 8 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Hub on Ross, at 4936 50th St. It will feature many locally and globally made arts and crafts, homemade baking, refreshments and ethnic snacks for sale.

Admission is by donation in support of local initiatives in building inclusive communities.

For more information, call Shirley at 403-3475958, Lyn at 403-314-4911 or Sherry at 403-600-3501.

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‘Right in the sweet spot’ ALBERTA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH IS HEALTHY AND BALANCED

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ATB Q4 OUTLOOK

A “Goldilocks economy.”

That’s how Todd Hirsch describes the current state of economic affairs in Alberta.

“Alberta’s economy continues to be right in the sweet spot — growth is not too hot, not too cold,” said ATB Financial’s chief economist. “It’s healthy and balanced.”

This positive assessment provides the foundation for an upbeat fourth-

quarter outlook, which ATB Financial issued on Thursday. The financial institution is projecting 3.7 per cent growth in the province for the remainder of 2014, followed by a 3.6 per cent increase in GDP next year and 3.4 per cent in 2016.

Strong investment in the energy sector will continue, it said, based on an average price of US$98 a barrel for West Texas intermediate crude oil and

Construction permits continue to lag

US$4.49 per million BTU (British thermal units) for natural gas. The housing and labour markets should both remain balanced, added the report.

“You have to look pretty hard to find any areas of pessimism in the province,” said Hirsch.

“The only broad concerns with the Alberta economy tend to be related to labour — specifically finding both skilled and lower-skilled labour.”

The report also pointed out that the major pipeline projects that are needed to improve the flow of Alberta energy to markets remain in limbo.

It contains a favourable outlook for the beef and pork industries, but notes that grain and oilseed prices have come down.

As for the retail sector, it notes that Alberta posted record sales in June and July, helped by population growth and high wages. Total sales during the last 12 months were up eight per cent from the preceding 12 months.

The net influx of 13,204 people into Alberta during the April-to-June period of 2014 marked the biggest quarterly increase since 2006. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

BEST WESTERN PLUS LACOMBE

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The pace of construction in Red Deer continues to lag behind that of 2013.

The city reported on Thursday that it issued building permits for $15.5 million worth of work in September, down from $16.1 million for the same period last year. Residential projects accounted for $8.8 million of last month’s total, as compared with $12.9 million a year earlier; commercial construction added $4.6 million, up from $2.8 million; industrial work contributed $2.1 million, an improvement from $11,000; and public projects made up $20,000, down from $400,000.

Boosting the commercial permit tally last month was an approval for PCL Construction to enclose the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel swimming pool at a cost of $2.1 million.

With three months remaining in 2014, the city had issued building permits for $130.3 million in work, down 30 per cent from the $185.1 million recorded at the three-quarters-way point last year. The value of residential work this year is up to $86.4 million from $84.3 million, commercial permit values have slipped to $17.9 million from $24.6 million, construction in the industrial category has dropped to $25.5 million from $39.8 million, and the cumulative value of the public projects approved has tumbled to $581,000 from $36.4 million. However, last year the city approved three new schools, which inflated the public permit figure.

Strong third quarter for Servus Credit Union

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Servus Credit Union is coming off a strong third quarter, with income up nearly 17 per cent from the same period in 2013.

The member-owned financial institution announced on Thursday that it earned $28.7 million — before patronage allocations and income taxes — during the three months ended July 31. That compares with $24.6 million a year earlier.

Member loans grew to $12.3 billion during the quarter, as compared with $11.4 million in 2013; while deposits jumped to $12.6 billion, up from a yearago figure of $11.7 billion.

“Our loans and deposits continue to be strong and provides our members with a solid foundation to grow their lives and their businesses here in Alberta,” said Garth Warner, president and CEO of Servus.

The credit union’s year-over-year income did drop on a nine-month timeframe — to $86.8 million from $89 million.

It said in a release that this reflected increased loan loss provisions and operating expenses through the first half of the year, as well as a significant decrease in revenues from Credit Union Central of Alberta.

“We expect to see good performance from all of our lines of business for the rest of the year, even with increased pressure from the low-rate environment,” said Warner.

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Work is proceeding on the new Best Western Plus Lacombe Inn & Suites, which is being developed in the city’s Michener Park. The 83-room hotel will boast a swimming pool and waterslide, a fitness room, a banquet room with seating for 180, and a boardroom that can hold 60. Valued at $10 million, the four-storey building is being built by Stretch Construction Ltd.

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Bower Place is owned by Bentall Kennedy (Canada) Limited Partnership.

Ag Labour Summit set for Oct. 30 Red Deer will be the site of an Agriculture Labour Summit on Oct. 30.

Co-sponsored by Alberta Pork, the event will focus on best practices in farm labour management and where to go for agriculture skills and career development, and provide information on the seasonal agricultural worker program and the temporary foreign worker program. The summit will take place at the Black Knight Inn from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registrations can be completed online at http://laboursummit.albertamilk.com, or by contacting Daria Taylor at 780-577-3324 or by email at dtaylor @albertamilk.com.

Group launches constitutional challenges of Kinder Morgan pipeline review VANCOUVER — A group of landowners, business people, academics and environmentalists is launching a constitutional challenge of the Nation-

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That review is currently underway, but under new rules the board has opted against allowing interveners to directly question the company, and all comment must be submitted in writing.

ForestEthics says in its motion to the Federal Court of Appeal that the new process unfairly restricts public participation, rejects participants’ applications, and refuses to hear concerns related to climate change and oilsands development.

ForestEthics says it is also asking the court to impose an interim injunction on the pipeline-review process until its legal challenge is resolved.

The group says its application to the Federal Court of Appeal follows an unsuccessful constitutional challenge that was filed to the board.

The proposed expansion would almost triple the pipeline’s capacity, bringing about 900,000 barrels a day from Alberta’s oilsands to a tanker terminal in Metro Vancouver.

Sears to raise $380M through sale of most of its stake in Canadian unit TORONTO — Sears Holdings Corp.

(NYSE:SHLD) is selling most of its stake in its Canadian unit to raise as much as US$380 million and increase its cash holdings ahead of the crucial holiday shopping season.

The sale of about 40 million shares of Sears Canada to shareholders of Sears Holdings — including financier Edward Lampert and ESL Investments Inc., a private company that he controls — will give the publicly traded U.S. retailer some breathing room but reduce it to a minority shareholder in its Canadian counterpart.

The Chicago-area company — which owns the Sears and Kmart retail chains in the United States — expects at least US$168 million in proceeds in midto-late October, with the rest by early November. Lampert and ESL have told Sears they intend to exercise their op-

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Sears Holdings currently owns about 51 per cent of Sears Canada’s stock. ESL is the Toronto-based company’s second-largest shareholder with about 27.6 per cent of Sears Canada’s stock.

ESL, a Florida-based fund manager controlled by Lampert, is also the largest shareholder of Sears Holdings with 24.8 per cent while Lampert directly owns 23.7 per cent of Sears Holdings.

Fairholme Capital Management — which controls about 24 per cent of Sears Holdings stock — has also indicated that some its clients will also take part in the Sears Canada subscription rights offering.

The Sears Canada subscription rights are expected to be tradable and can be used to buy Sears Canada shares at C$10.60 each — a discount to the Oct. 1 closing price of C$11.12.

Sears Canada (TSX:SCC) shares fell after the announcement and were down 24 cents at $10.88 near midday on the Toronto Stock Exchange, although fewer than 4,000 had traded.

The Canadian operations — which itself is a Toronto-listed public company that’s controlled by Lampert through Sears Holdings, ESL and his personal holdings — says it will cooperate with the plan. It said in separate announcement that there’s no assurance that it will receive a Nasdaq listing. It has yet to file a prospectus with either Canadian or U.S. securities authorities. Sears Holdings has said previously that it was exploring options for its Sears Canada operations, which have been downsized in recent years amid increased competition with the arrival of other U.S. retailers. Even after downsizing, it continues to have a widespread Canadian retailing network with 176 corporate stores, 222 Hometown stores, over 1,300 catalogue and online merchandise pick-up locations and the sears.ca online site. Its current president and chief executive, Douglas Campbell, said last week that he intends to resign and return to the United States by the end of the year for personal reasons.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market extended its losses Thursday with resource stocks leading the way as oil and metal prices broke through important levels amid a strong American currency and worries about a faltering global economy.

The S&P/TSX composite index was well off early lows, coming back from a triple-digit loss as gold stocks turned positive.

But the main index was still down 44.8 points to 14,760.64 following a 115-point tumble Wednesday as oil prices fell below US$90 a barrel for the first time since April 2013 and copper prices hit a six-month low.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.07 of a cent to 89.58 cents US. U.S. indexes were largely lacklustre with the Dow Jones industrials down 3.66 points to 16,801.05 following a 238-point loss Wednesday.

The Nasdaq gained 8.11 points to 4,430.2 and the S&P 500 index added 0.01 of a point to 1,946.17.

The mining sector fell one per cent with December copper down four cents to US$3 a pound. HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) gave back 25 cents to $9.15.

The TSX energy sector lost 0.75 per cent while November crude in New York edged up 28 cents to US$91.01 a barrel after tumbling as low as $88.18.

Nymex crude is down around nine per cent year-todate.

The TSX sector is down about 12 per cent over the past month and was a major contributor to the Toronto market losing more than four per cent during September.

“The TSX has sold off primarily because it got ahead of itself, especially on the energy side of things,” said Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

Beyond economic worries, commodities have also suffered from a U.S. dollar that has strengthened sharply in recent weeks as a string of positive U.S. economic data persuaded some investors that the Federal Reserve will move to raise interest rates earlier than expected next year.

A higher U.S. dollar pressures commodities because a stronger greenback makes it more expensive for holders of other currencies to buy oil and metals which are dollar-denominated.

Another source of uncertainty has come from the impending end of the third and last instalment of the Fed’s quantitative easing program, which saw the central bank buy up massive amounts of bonds.

The move was intended to keep long-term rates low and has been partly responsible for the sharp run up in markets since the lows of March 2009.

These pressures added up at a time when Toronto and New York markets were at or near record levels.

“We could assign a reason for it but the reality is the market is correcting because that’s what the market does,” added Pashootan.

“We have had essentially 24 months of straight gains and valuations become frothy and at some point it corrects — it’s just the market being the market.”

Elsewhere on the TSX, financials were also a major weight with the group down per cent. Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) gave back 73 cents to $68.92.

The gold sector limited TSX losses as the group rose one per cent with December bullion down 40 cents to US$1,215.10.

Goldcorp (TSX:G) was ahead 48 cents to C$26.93.

Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) was one of the few bright spots, ahead $11.89 to $234.70 a day after the company said it can double its profits and drive its revenues to $10 billion over the next four years.

CEO Hunter Harrison said CP is aiming at a two-fold increase in earnings per share between this year and 2018.

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 16.43 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.75 First Quantum Minerals . 21.11 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.39 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.15 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.71 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.08 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 37.66 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.14 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 20.57 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 28.75 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 27.18 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 62.11 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.27 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 55.25 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 41.89 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.08 Canyon Services Group. 12.26 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 29.52 CWC Well Services . . . 0.8700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 24.03 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.38

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Thursday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,760.64, down 44.80 points Dow — 16,801.05, down 3.66 points S&P 500 — 1,946.17, up 0.01 of a point Nasdaq — 4,430.20, up 8.11 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 89.58 cents US, up 0.07 of a cent Pound — C$1.8014, down 0.62 of a cent Euro — C$1.4135, up 0.39 of a cent Euro — US$1.2662, up 0.45 of a cent Oil futures: US$91.01 per barrel, up 28 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,215.10 per oz., down 40 cents (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.783 oz., down 38.3

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 93.30 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 61.44 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.56 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.59 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 52.08 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.53 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 6.98 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.060 Precision Drilling Corp . . 11.36 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 40.04 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.09 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.56 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 8.24 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 66.77 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 81.75 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 68.92 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.26 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 39.11 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.32 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.60 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 47.16 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 72.44 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.27 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 50.87 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.81 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.67 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.01 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.97

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed higher Thursday as the American currency softened somewhat against other major currencies after steadily gaining strength in recent weeks.

The commodity-sensitive loonie was ahead 0.07 of a cent to 89.58 cents US as oil and metal prices broke through important levels. Prices have been pressured by a rising U.S. currency and worries about a faltering global economy The November crude oil contract in New York was up 28 cents to US$91.01 after earlier breaking through $90 a barrel for the first time since April, 2013, tumbling as low as $88.18. Nymex

crude is down around nine per cent year-to-date.

The December copper contract closed down four cents to a six-month low US$3 a pound. The loonie had gained just over one-fifth of a cent on Wednesday after the greenback weakened amid a weaker than expected read on U.S. manufacturing during September. Prior to that, the Canadian currency had a dreadful September, losing over 2 ½ US cents as the U.S. dollar strengthened amid growing speculation that the U.S. Federal Reserve could move to hike interest rates next year sooner than expected.

Meanwhile, there was positive weekly U.S. jobs data a day ahead of the release of the U.S. government’s monthly employment report for September.

cents $636.02 kg., down $12.32 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $2.30 higher $398.20; Jan ’15 $2.00 higher $404.30; March ’15 $1.90 higher $411.20; May ’15 $1.30 higher $417.40; July ’15 $0.40 higher $422.70; Nov ’15 $0.10 higher $428.60; Jan. ’16 $0.10 higher $433.80; March ’16 $0.10 higher $437.70; May ’16 $0.10 higher $437.70; July ’16 $0.10 higher $437.70; Nov. ’16 $0.10 higher $437.70.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 $0.30 lower 114.50; Dec. ’14 $0.30 lower $116.50; March ’15 unchanged $119.50; May ’15 unchanged $119.50; July ’15 unchanged $119.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $119.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $119.50; March ’16 unchanged $119.50; May ’16 unchanged $119.50; July ’16 unchanged $119.50; Oct. ’16 unchanged $119.50.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 321,900 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 321,900.

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Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 18.94 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.56 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 87.75 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.23 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.57

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Take life down to the basics, strip it to what in my day was taught in Grade 3 science, and we find human beings need three simple things to survive: food, clothing, shelter.

Admittedly, we could still use animal skins for clothing, teepees or a lavvu for shelter, and kill our supper with sticks.

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This sitting and thinking habit has given us some pretty interesting inventions. We have cars and pickup trucks for mobility, gas furnaces to heat our shelters, lights with the flick of a switch.

However, they all require energy. And the main source of this energy is hydrocarbons.

But as time goes on, we are starting to find out there are shortcomings to the use of petroleum.

Unless, as a society, we are all willing to go back to the hunter/gatherer, small farm system of our forefathers, we must develop other sources of energy in order to provide the standard of living to which we have become so comfortably accustomed.

Being that our current system does allow a large amount of time for sober thought and enlightened, and investigation, mankind is not sitting idly by waiting for his eventual return to the Middle Ages.

Although many alternate forms of energy, such as hydrogen, solar power, wind, tidal and others have been around for many years, cost, efficiency, intermittency and availability have all been the insects in the ointment.

Science has not been sitting still — researchers at EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in

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Studies show some of 2013’s weirdest weather had the fingerprints of man-made climate change

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Scientists looking at 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year see the fingerprints of man-made global warming on more than half of them.

Researchers found that climate change increased the odds of nine extremes: Heat waves in Australia, Europe, China, Japan and Korea, intense rain in parts of the United States and India, and severe droughts in California and New Zealand. The California drought, though, comes with an asterisk.

Scientists couldn’t find a global warming link to an early South Dakota blizzard, freak storms in Germany and the Pyrenees, heavy rain in Colorado, southern and central Europe, and a cold British spring.

Organized by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, researchers on Monday published 22 studies on 2013 climate extremes in a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

“It’s not ever a single factor that is responsible for the extremes that we see,” said NOAA National Climatic Data Center director Tom Karl said. “Natural variability is always part of any extreme climate event.”

For years, scientists said they could not attribute single weather events — like a drought, heat wave or storm — to man-made global warming. But with better computer models and new research, in some cases scientists can see how the odds of events increase — or not — because of climate change. Other researchers question the usefulness and accuracy of focusing on single extreme events.

The editors of the 108-page compilation of studies wrote that people and animals tend to be more affected by extreme weather than changes in averages, so they pay attention to it. The public often connects extreme events to climate change, sometimes wrongly, so scientific analysis like this “can help inform the public’s understanding of our changing environment.”

The report seeks to find how much and how manmade warming has influenced the weather, said NOAA research meteorologist Martin Hoerling, an editor of the report.

The influence on Australia’s hottest year in more than a century is glaring, the report’s editors said.

“It’s almost impossible” to explain Australia’s hot 2013 without climate change, said Peter Stott of Britain’s meteorology office, another report editor.

The most complicated issue is the California drought, the only extreme that has continued into this year.

Three teams studied that state’s record drought in different ways.

Two teams couldn’t find a link to global warming and water and air temperatures, but the third from Stanford University looked at high pressure patterns in the air and found a connection.

A high pressure system parks over the northern Pacific during California’s winters, which is normally when it gets rain. Higher atmospheric pressure usually means less storms and rain. The pressure was so strong last year that study lead author Daniel Swain called it “a ridiculously resilient ridge.”

The Stanford team ran computer models with and without man-made warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

The warming from greenhouse gases showed that the rain-blocking ridge of high pressure was more than three times more likely with man-made factors than without, Swain said.

Lausanne) in the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, led by Micheal Grätzel, have developed a technique to produce hydrogen by using an electrolyser based on perovskite.

Perovskite is the general term for the crystal structure most commonly found in the mineral calcium titanium trioxide, but it’s also used to describe any mineral with the same molecular structure.

The process is not new but the materials being tested are very common and inexpensive. Perovskite absorbers were developed that convert 12.3 per cent of the energy from the sunshine exposed to them into hydrogen.

This is an amazing output and the beauty of the technique is the mundane materials such as nickel and iron used with the perovskite that are performing as well as platinum-based electrolysers. The enormous price difference between precious metals and common materials is what makes the technique

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so noteworthy.

It could be the turning point in hydrogen production, in which ultimately a hydrogen economy becomes viable.

Perovskite is also causing a stir in the photovoltaic field. It is has been found to work turning sunlight to electricity as does silicon, but the materials are less expensive and the energy generation efficiency is amazing researchers.

Although perovskite has not had decades of research and reached the efficiency level of silicon, it has, in a very short time, produced some very quick and startling results.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

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On September 30, 2014, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications:

On September 24, 2014, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications: Discretionary Use Approvals: Red Deer College – two dynamic signs to be located on the existing canopy sign on the existing Red Deer College City Centre Stage building located at 4922-49 Street (Lot 6A, Block 18, Plan H), zoned C1.

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on October 17, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403342-8132.

Anders Park 1. F. & L. Gauthier – a 0.4 metre relaxation to the maximum height of a proposed detached garage, to be located at 404 Allan Street.

2. Gerig Hamilton Neeland LLP – a 0.85 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing deck, located at 18 Ansett Crescent.

Be a part of the Regional Assessment Review Board WE ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU! Members are needed for the Regional Assessment Review Board in central Alberta. The Central Alberta Regional Assessment Partnership is seeking people with expertise who want to be part of the assessment review board.

We are seeking citizens who have: an assessment, legal or valuation background expertise / knowledge on quasi-judicial boards a flexible schedule / daytime availability for training and hearings (3 or more days per month) decision or report writing experience an asset Board members are responsible for issuing decisions on appeals relative to property assessment. Board members will: receive training from Municipal Affairs receive remuneration for the responsibilities have an opportunity to network with like minded individuals within the region Board members will be selected by a nomination review committee made up of representatives from member municipalities. Submit your cover letter and resume to RegionalARB@reddeer.ca.

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Deer Park 3. Snell & Oslund Surveys Ltd. – a 0.53 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to an existing detached garage, located at 157 Dixon Crescent.

4. Bemoco Land Surveying Ltd. – a 0.35 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to an existing detached garage, located at 43 Duston Street.

Eastview 5. Compass Geomatics Ltd. – a 1.0 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing deck and stairs, located at 27 Elliot Crescent.

Inglewood 6. A. Rusnak – a 0.91 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing deck, located at 11 Ion Close.

Johnstone Park 7. Beta Surveys Ltd. – a 0.58 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to an existing detached garage, located at 122 Jenner Crescent.

Lancaster 8. Parkland Builders Group Ltd. – a 2.7m2 relaxation to the maximum site coverage, to a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 93 Lalor Drive.

Michener Hill 9. Beta Surveys Ltd. – a 1.48 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing deck, located at 3909-50A Street.

Queens 10. Scott Builders Inc. – a 9696.3m2 industrial shop & office, to be located at 226 Queens Drive.

Discretionary Use Burnt Lake Industrial 11. Mission Safety Service Limited – a safety training business, to be located at A3, 83 Burnt Park Drive.

Downtown 12. Budget Rent-A-Car – a 44.6m2 temporary sales office, until January 31, 2015, to be located at 5214-50 Avenue.

13. Red Deer Child Care – a day care to be located within Central School, at 5205-48 Avenue.

Gaetz Avenue North 14. Youth & Volunteer Centre – temporary outdoor storage, until November 30, 2014, to be located at 4747-67 Street.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on October 17, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403342-8190.

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Taking a stroll Seeing Juliet before Romeo through the happy and sad times of a small town Julietâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nurse

By Lois Leveen Random House Canada

Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

By Jan Karon $32.95 Putnam Publishing This is the tenth book about the little (mythical) town of Mitford, and fans will be more than ready for this addition to the series.

Mitford is a small town somewhere in the New England states.

I refer to it as â&#x20AC;&#x153;mythicalâ&#x20AC;? because it is a town almost lost in time; no big box stores, just ordinary folks living their lives, attending church on Sunday and generally supporting each other.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like you imagine a small town could be ... perhaps.

Lest you think this is a book full of twaddle and saccharin, I assure you that I find this series a refreshing break from the stories of broken lives and hearts, sexual misconduct and unkept promises in some popular fiction.

The series begins with At Home In Mitford. You could read this new one by itself, but you would miss former adventures of Father Tim Kavanagh.

He is an Episcopal priest, who has served at, Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chapel Church, for 16 years. Now he is retired but not out of a job.

The needs of the residents of Mitford are many, and Father Tim always steps up to the plate.

It has been a few years since Jan Karon gave us a Mitford novel, and this one will catch you up with all the people met in other stories.

Hoppy Harper, the village doctor of many years, is retiring and heading for Africa to help.

There is a posh party for him, of course, but Father Tim cannot fit into his tuxedo. This seemingly small problem snowballs into many other small adventures.

Such is the life in Mitford.

The owner of, A Cut Above, the upstairs hair salon in Mitford, has brought her sister to town.

She comes to the shop with a full-sized spray tan salon; everyone in town can sport a Palm Beach tan (for a price).

Hope Anne Winchester is expecting but there are complications.

Who will run her bookstore Happy Endings while she takes to her bed? Why Father Tim, of course, after all he is retired.

Through the hedge from Father Timâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, in the yellow house, is Helene Pringle, a half-sister to Sadie Baxter (deceased).

In Heleneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basement live the brothers of Dooley, Sammy and Kenny.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read any of this series, you will see that Mitford residents have grown up, moved on and, in some cases, passed on.

Dooley, the mountain boy adopted earlier by Father Tim and his wife, is away at university.

At 500 pages, this book takes you through many happy and sad times in this small town.

There are the disagreements on town council, the Mitford Muse newspaper with its made-up news and Coot Hendrick finally learning to read.

Besides that, The Main Street Grill has become Wandaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Feel Good CafĂŠ. Horrors!

Through it all, Father Tim always has a prayer that helps and heals.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll either love these stories or hate them.

I think they are quite

pelletti, who treats his daughter as any loving, protective father would. Lady Cappelletti is cold and removed from Juliet because After losing her one-day-old she is a girl, when the Cappellettdaughter, Angelica is taken by her is prayed for a son to become the loving husband, Pietro, through heir of the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fortunes and tithe plagued streets tle; and because of the of Verona until they name Lord Cappelletti reach the large and gave his daughter. exquisite manor of For Juliet is also Caâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cappelletti. the name of his late Her breasts are wife, who he loved aching with milk and with all his heart. the couple are in This causes the naĂŻve search of a child to and jealous 15-yeardraw out what burold Lady Cappelletti dens Angelica. to only see her comPassing through petition whenever she the rich familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prilays eyes on her own vate apartments to daughter. the hidden confineIf you study Shakement room, Angelica speareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Romeo and KIRSTEN is approached by the Juliet, you will be LOWE midwifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistant, amazed by how Leveen who places a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;bundled adds such depth and jewelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in Angelicaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creativity to the three arms whispering one main characters of word â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Juliet.â&#x20AC;? the nurse (Angelica), From that first moJuliet and her older ment that Angelica lays eyes on cousin Tybalt. the Cappellettisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daughter, her In the play, we see Tybalt as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;mother heart bursts with love vicious and angry man who always and attachmentâ&#x20AC;? as she becomes seeks fights with Romeo and the Julietâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wet nurse.

Montecche house.

It is sad in Angelicaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes how, What Leveen has done is reat first, Julietâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother treats her markable â&#x20AC;&#x201D; when Angelica first daughter, compared to Lord Cap- meets Tybalt, he is only nine-

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years-old and a full-of-life child who enjoys climbing the castle walls and playing with his baby cousin Juliet, since his sister, Rosaline, is sent away to a convent.

These three characters grow a special bond â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with Tybalt and Juliet like brother and sister, and Angelica as their mother. Readers are shown what life was like for the Cappelletti family before Juliet ever met Romeo.

It is wonderful to start from the beginning of this tale, when Juliet is first born, and to watch as she becomes a 14-year-old.

Although a good read, I was disappointed with how little the novel really had to do with Romeo and Juliet.

I understand that this is a prequel, but some scenes in the beginning of this book seemed unnecessary and if removed, Leveen could have put a little more emphasis on the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous love story.

Also there are some twists that Leveen adds that I believe weaken the general story.

However, I enjoyed this novel.

To take up an idea from Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work is a heavy task, and in the end I say Leveen did a good job!

Kirsten Lowe is a Red Deer College student and freelance book reviewer.

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Stepmom doesn’t feel important Dear Annie: I have been the stepmom to grown stepchildren for 20 years.

Their father died a few years ago. We live in the same town, and their mother, his ex, is also here.

I am ready to give up on any relationship with them. I invite them to do things, communicate often and MITCHELL support them & SUGAR and the grandkids on social media.

I send birthday and holiday cards. But I have never felt important in their lives. And since their father died, I haven’t once been invited over for dinner or a holiday event. I’m sure with their mother around, they don’t feel comfortable with both of us at the same table.

When Dad was alive, they visited us separately from his ex.

I don’t have children of my own. I travel a lot and have a wide circle of friends.

Perhaps I am not motherly enough or put too much into considering them my family when they already have a mother and don’t seem to need a stepmom. They are not mean to me. They just don’t initiate anything or think to phone me.

Should I just give up? Should I tell them? I am getting myself all worked up over this. It really hurts to see family events posted on Facebook, etc., and I’m not included — ever. I am dating again and have recently met a man who has grown children. It makes me hesitant to continue seeing him. What do I do?— Stressed and Nervous Dear Nervous: Children who are not raised by the stepparent often do not form as close of a bond as you might think. The relationship can be pleasant but distant.

When Dad was alive, the kids made more of an effort, so if you want things to improve, you will have to do the majority of the communicating and inviting. Please do not expect to be included in family events where their mother is present. Instead, consider inviting

the kids over for a Sunday brunch. As for future relationships, each one is different. Please don’t let this experience prevent you from finding another.

Dear Annie: I am continually amazed at your Victorian responses to readers whose spouses are cheating.

So many of your female writers seem to undergo a cataclysmic seizure at the briefest flirtations of their men with other women.

This is childish. Of course men are expected to look at and admire the beauty of other women. And women wear the tightest, most revealing garb they can get away with, thereby inviting such scrutiny.

In one letter you printed, a guy admitted to cheating on his wife of 44 years, confessing the same and being forgiven.

But his wife was still badgering him for details, and you thought she was justified in wanting her questions answered. The right answer should have been for her to get over it. She either has forgiven him, in which case shut up about it, or she hasn’t, in which case leave. —Happy Man Dear H.M.: It’s always so amusing to get a man’s take on how a woman is

supposed to feel.

For women who don’t care that their man cheats (or who enjoy the same benefits), that is their choice.

But if you marry someone who expects you to be faithful, it is not unreasonable that you keep your word.

Of course, that requires maturity, self-discipline and respect for one’s partner. If she needs answers in order to put it behind her, it’s a small price to pay.

Dear Annie: Like “Stuffed in Pennsylvania,” I had a mother-in-law who expressed her love through food. She was an excellent cook and hard to resist.

When I didn’t want to stuff myself, I would say, “I just can’t. But this would taste great for lunch tomorrow. Can I take it with me?”

That helped her get rid of extra food, and I often had a terrific lunch or snack later. —Indiana Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

need to share news with the significant relationships in your life today. Your feelings in relation to your public image or perhaps your career will need to be discussed. There is a wonderful harFriday, Oct. 3 mony going on with others that will CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS create pleasant feelings now.

DATE: Gwen Stefani, 44; Sean WilTAURUS (April 20-May 20): liam Scott, 37; Clive Owen, 49 Your focus will be on your public THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Tolife and your public status. You will day will highlight a need for freehave a pleasant day, although you dom and autonomy. Understand will feel the need to share any isthat your feelings will overrun your sues you are having within relationrational mind, so you will need to ships now. Life will be easier for you find an appropriate way to express now, but so will saying anything that what needs to be said. All in all, comes to mind. it will be a pleasant atmosphere, GEMINI (May 21-June 20): especially the latter half of the day.

Share your beliefs today, but do so You will be feeling more in harmony in a rational way. There is a need for with yourself than ever before, so you to express the changes that you life will seem easier.

LARISA MAIRA have had to endure for some time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today Also, you are expressing yourself OZOLINS is your birthday, this year will enin a more caring and amicable way sure that you will highlight a lot of now. Simply be mindful of overstatlove coming your way — whether ing your case. it is having your first child, or simply CANCER (June 21-July 22): joining a sports team, or new romance entering You will want to express your viewpoint without your life. There will be a shift with how you ex- attaching to others’ views today. Try to be more press your love to others too; it will be very differ- diplomatic when dealing with those within your ent from what your family has done before. Take home environment and watch for Freudian slips. the time to make each word count!

It will be a great day, everyone will be happy if ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will feel the

everyone is open.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will be feeling quite independent today. Trying to express what you are feeling will be difficult, as you will not be focused on that, but will feel a need to pull away from partners now. You will want to be out and about in the neighbourhood socializing later, so do just that.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Work activities should go well now. There will be a need to start understanding those lessons that have been troubling you. Today might not be the day to implement anything, your ruler Mercury is stationing to go retrograde. Relax a bit if you can and start tomorrow.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will want to do an activity that is enjoyable, and will most likely enjoy your company now. You are feeling quite relaxed and good at the moment, which could lead you to want to go it alone, or at least for today. Watch for money being misplaced, be mindful of that.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will be feeling quite capable today and also willing to share exactly what you are feeling with many others.

You will be able to express yourself just as you please, but do consult family and those within your country before you step on any of their toes with your expression.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Okay, so,

today you will want to express what’s on your mind. It ís just a bit tricky today, you will not be able to understand what is rational or not and emotions will rule. So if dealing with family fine, if not, then hold it in. It will be a great day out with friends none the less.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You will come across beautifully today, just be careful to watch what is going on with your aspirations and dreams. Do not tell others about them if you are not at the stage to implement the work. It will lead to you not wanting to go forward with the project if you do.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The perspective that you are sharing with others is great! You might let your emotions override your rational mind, but truly even your imagination is on cue so share away at this stage. Allow for greater awareness to come in through listening to others’ views, be understanding.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your independent thoughts are based on your actual wisdom, and well-earned wisdom at that. So do share your views with others, they are willing to hear you out now. This includes especially when dealing with intimate relationships in your life, business or romantic.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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CHIP TAYLOR HAS ENJOYED SUCCESS IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT CAREERS, BUT MUSIC IS HIS FIRST LOVE

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To say that singer/songwriter Chip Taylor — who gave us Wild Thing, Angel of the Morning and Try — comes from an accomplished family is an understatement.

His brother is Hollywood actor Jon Voight, and his niece is actor, filmmaker and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie. That much is fairly well known.

What most people might not realize is that Taylor’s father was a highly talented golf pro, Taylor’s daughter is dean of the Yale University School of Law, and his oldest brother, Barry Voight, is the renowned geologist who invented the scientific formula to predict volcano eruptions.

“He’s the smartest one of us all,” said a chuckling Taylor, who will perform, along with Van Morrison guitarist John Platania, on Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Elks Lodge in Red Deer.

The 74-year-old singer/songwriter produced hits for The Troggs, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Juice Newton among others.

But he might have enjoyed success in a number of different careers — and in fact, did.

After losing interest in the music industry’s formulaic approach, Taylor became a professional gambler in the 1980s. He said he liked the challenge and was good at it — too good. He was eventually banned from Atlantic City casinos, along with other card counters, including the famous MIT blackjack team.

“They’d assign someone to me. It got so that as soon as I’d raise my bet, they shuffled the cards,” he recalled.

Taylor then became an expert at predicting wins at the horse track, taking into account such details as wind velocity, fractional intervals during races, track soil conditions and the kind of shoes the horses wore. “You have to use creative and scientific skills to be a good horse race handicapper,” said Taylor.

But he returned to music about 20 years ago, after writing a song at his dying mother’s bedside. “She was so happy to hear me play ... after two weeks of playing for her, I thought about how much I loved performing for people and what a beautiful experience that was, and how I’d never have that if I didn’t stop gambling. You can’t do both.”

When he quit playing the horses, he pledged to put out the kind of records he wanted to make — which he’s been doing ever since.

Taylor’s latest carefully crafted tunes are from a three-disc The Little Prayer Trilogy — an album full of the kind of reflective songs that couldn’t have been written by a much younger man.

They include Sleep With Open Windows, which Taylor recorded as a duet with Lucinda Williams. The song awash with longing was inspired by a female inmate he met during one of his regular performance tours of penitentiaries in Sweden.

“She told me the thing she misses most was sleeping with the window open,” said Taylor, who began doing prison tours shortly after restarting his music career. (His Swedish promoter also worked as a prison guard and got the ball rolling.)

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Chip Taylor will perform, along with Van Morrison guitarist John Platania, on Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Elks Lodge in Red Deer.

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF It’s billed as “a true and accurate account of the Elizabethan zombie plague.”

In the spoofy and suspenseful spirit of the parody novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the play William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead is coming soon to a theatre near you.

The dramatic comedy by U.S. playwright John Heimbuch opens on Thursday, Oct. 9, in Studio A of the Red Deer College Arts Centre with the promise of providing plenty of thrilling fist fights, chase scenes and swordplay.

The alternate universe created on stage by Theatre Studies students will be populated by a variety of 16th-century characters, including the Bard and many of the real people he associated with during his lifetime, including Elizabethan actors Will Kemp and Richard Burbage.

The majestic Queen Elizabeth I will also make an appearance, as will wealthy lawyer Sir Francis Bacon.

And did we mention zombies?

The foot-dragging corpses that have been turning up on TV, the movies and at various Halloween parties will also be scaring the wits out of Will Shakespeare and his motley crew.

How does one reconcile Shakespeare and living dead? The play is set in London in 1599, and the renowned acting troupe has just finished staging Shakespeare’s Henry V at the Globe Theatre. The gang is just about to hit the pub for some celebratory ales when they discover the bridge is out.

Further complications arise when one of their number is bitten by a plague-addled madman.

Up to then, the actors had only heard rumours of a vile sickness going around, said Kelly Reay of Calgary, who’s guest directing the college production.

“There’s no TV, no Internet, so news only spreads by word-of-mouth.”

As the characters grapple with the imminent threat posed by zombified plague victims, various personality clashes arise. And then Queen Elizabeth, who had to make a detour due to the washed-out bridge, arrives unexpectedly at the theatre, creating more kerfuffle.

The stress of this quarantine situation creates a pressure-cooker environment, said Reay, “People are fighting the zombies off and they are also turning on each other. ... There’s a lot of swordplay and handto-hand combat.”

While the artistic director of Calgary’s Sage Theatre didn’t choose this play, which he was invited to

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Red Deer College performing arts students Pharaoh Amnesty, playing Kate Braithwaite, and Nate Rehman, playing Will Kemp, play out a scene from the Red Deer College production of Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead in Studio A at the Red Deer College Arts Centre. direct, Reay said of all the productions in the college season, this one holds the most personal appeal.

“It really is a fun, suspenseful thriller and has all the elements: a good story, good characters ... it’s got adventure, it’s got fighting, it’s got zombies. Something for everyone.”

The smart 2009 play also has many roles — it requires a cast of 15 second-year acting students, as well as five to 10 extras.

One of Reay’s challenges has been figuring out how to fit all of the actors and action sequences within Studio A. He concluded the zombies will have to be quite slow-moving for the actors to manage to evade them in the limited space.

Challenges for the young cast have been both physical (the demands of all the fight scenes) and linguistic.

A voice coach is tutoring on English accents.

Reay said the lines will have some of the cadence of Shakespearean dialogue, but none of the poetry, so audience members won’t need a special aptitude for the Bard’s writing to understand them.

This is archly alluded to in the play when one of William Shakespeare’s friends tells him “Can’t you speak plainly, for once?” said Reay.

There’s a lot of this campy humour, but the director also wants to humanize the characters as much as possible so the audience can identify with them, heightening the suspense and danger.

The well-received play, which has been touted as “an Elizabethan production of bloody proportions” for both Shakespeare and horror nerds, takes advantage of society’s preoccupation with the undead.

Reay believes there’s something infectiously fun (pun intended) about the idea of fighting off zombies.

It’s more escapist, for example, than the idea of trying to escape an Ebola outbreak.

“It’s tongue in cheek ... and there’s room for imagination,” said Reay.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $21.80 ($17.80 students/seniors) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. (1 p.m. matinees on Oct. 11 and 18). lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Transparent is the fall’s only great new show NEW YORK — As if there was not enough to watch already; as if you were not paying for enough TV-dispensing services already; as if you were not borrowing enough passwords to avail yourself of TVdispensing services already; it is time to figure out how to get Amazon Prime.

Transparent, Jill Soloway’s 10-episode series, debuted on the platform on Friday. To call it Amazon’s first great series, or the only great series of the new fall season — both of which are true — is to damn it with faint praise. The title is a pun: as the show begins, the patriarch of the Pfeffermans, a close-knit, affluent, Jewish clan of Los Angelinos, begins to come out as transgender to her children.

But it’s a pun that revels in both its meanings, rather than being some sitcom yuk-yuk highlighting that it is a series about a trans parent. It is, even more so, about transparency and secrecy, about what we reveal of ourselves and what we can’t help but reveal even as we try to keep it hidden.

Start hitting up your friends for that Amazon password now.

As the show begins, Maura (Jeffrey Tambor), formerly known as Mort, has been living as a woman for some time. But she has yet to tell her three grown children: Sarah (Amy Landecker), the frazzled and

caustic mother of two young kids in a bickering, sexless marriage to Len (Rob Huebel); Josh (Jay Duplass), a charming, scruffy, genial, and serial ladies man, who would be both hurt and proud to be called out as such; and Ali (Gaby Hoffman), the youngest and the most lost.

Rounding out the ensemble is their mother, Maura’s ex-wife, Shelly (Judith Light), who is high-strung, anxious, brittle, re-married to a man with dementia, and, as the sibling’s joke midway through the series in a bit of characteristic sexual matter-of-factness, perhaps the only Pfefferman left who likes sex.

Transparent has the feel of idiosyncratic, critically beloved comedies like Louie and Girls — the same tangential relationship to humour, the same occasional cringiness, and the same anthropological specificity. As has been noted, the Pfeffermans are very much cultural California Jews, with, among other things, a standing order at Canter’s. (The last line of the season, fittingly, is “oy gevalt.”)

They speak to one another like family: in a tumble, often of old references, with a quickness both to anger and to letting go of anger, sibling order always thrumming underneath the dynamic — Sarah and Josh regularly picking on Ali, whom they are both closer to, with Ali moping instead of lashing out.

But Transparent is more realistic than Louie and

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Please see TRANSPARENT on Page D3 all these things, and toured with them. (Platania) has always shared his time with Van and me and I’ve had to fight for my space,” he added, with a laugh.

“I’ve never been to Red Deer before, but I love playing in Alberta,” said Taylor, who promised to deliver some of his old country and rock hits, as well as some newer selections at this fundraising concert for the Central Music Festival Society.

Tickets to the 8 p.m. show are $28 in advance from www.centralmusicfest.com or $35 at the door. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Taylor said he likes the blunt honesty of inmates and the sense they give him “that we’re all in this together. ... I know some of them did some terrible things, but I never met any of them that I didn’t feel that there was a lot of goodness in them.”

While Taylor has a social conscience, it’s never allowed to overtly creep into his songwriting, he said, lest his tunes begin to sound like they are instructing people on how to live their lives.

“I’m a stream of consciousness writer. My songwriting comes from my emotions. Once in a while I write about (issues), but I don’t think that’s the best of me.”

His song Hold It Right There describes his creative process: “You can’t really think until you hold it right there,” say the lyrics. You let the thought go “back in space and be its own thing,” until it comes back again.

Taylor was born in Yonkers, N.Y., and named James Wesley Voight.

His mother gave him a violin when he was five or six years old. He was learning to play it until his older brothers got tired of listening to his squeaks and conspired to give him a ukulele for Christmas.

Taylor switched to the new instrument and later took up the guitar. “My mother never forgave my brothers for this — and she told them so on her deathbed,” recalled the singer, who never became the violinist his mom envisioned, but did make huge inroads in popular music.

Inspired by the Ink Spots, Bing Crosby and Delta blues records he heard around the house, Taylor began breaking into the music biz in the early 1960s.

“I was blessed to be signed (to King Records), but I wasn’t selling enough, so I began selling my songs to other people.”

Taylor had written several successful country songs when someone asked if he could write for rock ’n’ roll. “I said ‘Let me have a day,’ and (Wild Thing) is what came out.”

The song was recorded by Christopher Jordan and The Wild Ones in 1965, but didn’t become a huge until The Troggs made it a hit single in 1966 and Hendrix performed it live in 1967. “The Troggs sang it exactly the way I wrote it, then Jimi Hendrix also sang that version,” he called.

At around the same time, Joplin performed Taylor’s tune Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) and a number of artists (including The Troggs and later Juice Newton) recorded his Any Way That You Want Me. Waylon Jennings ran with his Sweet Dream Woman, and Taylor’s Son of a Rotten Gambler was recorded by EmmyLou Harris, the Hollies and Anne Murray.

His other big hit, Angel of the Morning, was recorded by various artists, including Merrilee Rush, Juice Newton, Nina Simone, Olivia Newton-John, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, and Dusty Springfield.

His tunes were recorded by Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Ike and Tina Turner, Johnny Cash, Kermit the Frog and many others.

Taylor, who recently remarried his first wife after they were divorced for many years, has children and grandchildren. He feels fortunate in life — although he’s no longer in touch with his niece, Jolie.

“When she was growing up ... I always felt close to Angie, and her mom used to say she felt very close to me. But since she’s done all these unbelievable, crazy, wonderful things, we don’t really have contact anymore.”

Taylor looks forward to touring once again with his guitarist buddy Platania, whom he managed to wrestle away from his other gig with Van Morrison.

“He’s played on Moondance and Domino and

Girls. Both of those series contain thunderbolts of verisimilitude, moments of recognition, when what is happening on screen aligns impossibly closely with the viewer’s experience of the world and the people in it. But they are also intentionally bizarre at times.

Transparent contains few of Louie’s surreal segments and Girls’ larger-than-life, comically monstrous characters. Soloway, who worked on Six Feet Under, has wedded her very closely observed alt-comedy to a propulsive narrative, a marriage of very contemporary material and an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness plot.

The series is structured like a drama, taking place over a condensed period of time, one episode often picking up where another left off, no installment quite so self-contained that you won’t be desperate to know what happens next. It is, needless to say, highly bingeable.

Maura’s revelation both coincides with and catalyzes a huge amount of turmoil in her children’s lives. Sarah, who takes the news of her father’s change with relative equanimity, has already begun an affair with an old college girlfriend that rapidly escalates in intensity and seriousness. (“It’s love,” she tells Ali. “She made me squirt,” which indicates exactly how closely love and great sex are tied not just in Sarah’s mind, but in Transparent’s as well.)

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with his twin sister, Margo (Carrie Coon).

“I know the Bar!” exclaims Rhonda Boney (Kim Dickens), one of the detectives assigned to Nick and Amy’s case. “Great name — very meta.”

The same could be said for Gone Girl, in which Nick appears first as panicked husband and then as a suspect, partly due to his own tendency to smile and flirt at inappropriate moments — an ingratiating habit he’s developed to keep from appearing like an arrogant jerk (a character trait played out with more rich detail in the book).

Playing Nick with thick, bleary-eyed handsomeness, Affleck is quietly persuasive as a guy who in another era might have been a master of the universe, but is still reeling from having that perch snatched from under him.

For her part, Amy, radiantly played by Pike in the kind of leading role she’s long deserved, emerges in flashbacks and reenacted diary entries first as a toogood-to-be-true Manhattan singleton, then as a young wife whose patience with her husband’s personal and professional setbacks may not be entirely longsuffering.

Both Affleck and Pike are convincing as the compulsively self-conscious, highly unreliable dual narrators of Gone Girl. The film also features some terrific supporting performances, most notably from Dickens, Coons and Tyler Perry as a celebrity criminal defense attorney who winds up being an alternately amused and exasperated Greek chorus observing the story’s most vertiginous zigs and zags.

That those turns finally send Gone Girl into such outlandish territory is very much in keeping with the book’s florid third act, here featuring a wildly mis-

cast Neil Patrick Harris in a pivotal role. But the story’s pulpy nuttiness isn’t particularly well served by Fincher’s careful, literal-minded restraint, in which what might have been a teasingly perverse romp on a par with To Die For becomes something more glum and fatally defanged.

On a meta level that Detective Boney would no doubt appreciate, Gone Girl contains within it a fascinating meditation on TV scandal culture, gender politics and the private and performative selves that comprise every marriage.

But rather than reel in the audience by adopting the book’s own seductively confiding tone, Fincher keeps the material at arm’s length, depicting Nick and Amy’s courtship and marriage with the unlivedin emotional distance of their bland, Pottery Barnperfect house.

The result is a movie that’s nominally all about subverting expectations, but that never gives us convincing expectations to subvert.

Fincher’s somber, exacting tone leeches the diabolical humor that would have given Gone Girl muchneeded satirical juice. With few exceptions (often by way of Coons’s tartly revelatory portrayal of the acid-tongued Margo), the film plays even the story’s most darkly funny passages tensely straight, ending up less a parodic pageant of fame whoredom, image manipulation and pseudo-feminist, have-it-all rhetoric than a conventionally pessimistic — and, by the way, very talky — thriller.

Whether all that talk winds up buying into or playing off of trite images of controlling women and callow men may depend on each viewer’s individual lens. What’s less debatable is how little fun Fincher seems to be having with the tussle.

Put another way, in the context of the filmmaker’s oeuvre, Gone Girl could have used less Social Network classicism and more Fight Club brio — or even the moxie of “House of Cards,” the Fincher-produced Netflix series whose length, breadth and cynical streak might have more suitably served Flynn’s slippery characters and their unsettling sleights of hand (and heart).

Gone Girl may get the job done as a dutiful, deliberately paced procedural, but it never quite makes the splash it could have as a thoughtful, timely and thoroughly bracing plunge.

when the occasion calls for it, like at a trans talent show.

Even as events swirl around the Pfeffermans, Tambor’s manner, whether as Maura or in flashbacks as Mort, stays similar: slightly feminine, reassuring, soothing, with occasional bursts of intense anger. Maura has always been herself, even when she was Mort. This even holds for her relationship

to Shelly. They are no longer married or having sex, but they support each other, as longtime companions would. In the climatic fight of the series, the siblings go off to lick their wounds, and the parents tend to theirs. Change is change, but family is family.

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BY ANN HORNADAY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES The challenge for any director bringing Gillian Flynn’s addictive 2012 whodunit Gone Girl to the big screen, is to capture the propulsive, page-turning readability that made the book such a diabolically pleasurable airplane read. David Fincher has risen to the challenge by making a sober, handsomely realized airplane movie, which is not nearly the same thing.

At a tushie-numbing 2 ½ hours, Fincher’s Gone Girl might provide some welcome diversion on a trip over the flyover country the book and movie subtly lampoon: the twisty plot, sophisticated production values and handful of standout performances will no doubt persuade rows of fidgety viewers that they’re watching something of intelligence, quality and impeccable literary provenance.

But it’s just that sense of seriousness that keeps Gone Girl from reaching its fullest potential. Unaccountably, Flynn — who adapted her own book for the screen — has left some of her tangiest provocations either entirely unplumbed or superficially pinged. Gone Girl is a “yes, but” movie: Yes, it’s wellmade, but it stays maddeningly on its own polished surfaces. It’s smart, but not clever or probing or risky enough to be truly brilliant. It’s absorbing, but not terribly deep, memorable or, finally, all that much fun to watch.

These are just the kind of nagging, picayune nitpicks that can make someone sound suspiciously like Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike), the impossibly demanding — and rich, and smart and gorgeous — enigma at the center of Gone Girl, which revolves around her disappearance in North Carthage, Missouri.

That’s where Amy has moved with her husband, Nick (Ben Affleck), who asked her to return with him to his hometown in order to attend to his dying mother and ride out a bumpy economy. As Gone Girl opens, Nick is coming to work at his new job: proprietor of a local tavern called the Bar, which he runs

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TRANSPARENT: Family is family Ali, already exploring submission and destroying molly-laced threesomes with suggestions that the beefy, macho men involved really want to have sex with each other, becomes intensely interested in gender, both as a subject of study and as something to play out on a more personal level, whether by dating a female-to-male trans or dressing in everything from cleavage-baring gingham to suits and ties.

Josh is most bothered

by Maura’s revelation.

He is dedicated to the idea of his father as a philanderer and wonders if it doesn’t make everything that came before — his entire childhood — a kind of lie.

His gender, his sexual identity, and his sexual rapaciousness are an immutable part of his own self-conception — in contrast to his sisters, who understand a thing or two about fluidity.

Amid all this change, Maura, despite instigating so much turmoil, becomes a kind of beacon of calm. Tambor does not camp it up — except

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announcements Obituaries DUNN Malcolm (1922-2014) On September 24, 2014, Malcolm “Mac” Dunn of Red Deer, Alberta and formerly of Blairmore, Alberta, passed away at the Crowsnest Pass Health Care Centre in Blairmore, Alberta, at the age of 91 years. He was vital and active up until 10 days before his death, exploring central and southern Alberta in his pickup truck, golfing many courses in these areas, driving teams of horses in Red Deer, and honing his keyboard skills. Mac was born on October 6, 1922 in Edmonton, Alberta to parents Peter and Kathleen Dunn. He grew up during the Great Depression and gained a “stiff upper lip” that carried him through the challenges of that era.

He had no use for extravagance, self-indulgence, and selfpity. He served with Royal Canadian Air Force, growing from a farm boy to a man like so many others during World War II. Mac met Corinne Eleanor McColl in Lethbridge, where they married on September 14, 1946. They had two children, and later came several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Mac spent his entire working career with Alberta Government Telephones, first as an outside plant foreman in the Crowsnest Pass, then transferring to management in Red Deer. He preferred working outside, and was pleased when AGT allowed him to end his career as a foreman of a crew laying the first buried cable throughout rural central Alberta. While working in the Pass, his favorite part of the job was the construction and ongoing operation of the microwave tower situated on the ridge above Crowsnest Lake. Later this year, he would have been retired for as long as he had worked. To the end, Mac had a sense of curiosity about everything and a keen interest in everyone. An avid reader, he loved his mysteries, and also enjoyed learning about the history of Alberta and Northern Canada. He is survived by his brother, William (Bill) Dunn of Lethbridge; his children, Peter (Isabel) Dunn of Blairmore and Patricia (Ray) Duffy of Edmonton; his grandchildren, Kevin (Jana) Dunn of Yellowknife, Melissa Brown of Sparwood, Micaela (Brad Istace) Brown of St. Albert, George (Laurie) Duffy of Edmonton, Shannon (Ryan) Webb of Mundare and Heather (Ted) Duffy of Slave Lake; his great grandchildren, Aisling, Lochlan, Jack, Xander, Mia, Isabel, Cameron, Keira, Malcolm, and Sawyer; and several cousins, nieces, nephews and extended family. He was predeceased by his wife, Corinne Dunn; his parents, Peter and Kathleen Dunn; and grandchildren, Michael and Stephen. A very special thank you must be given to Joel Martens, of the Heritage Ranch in Red Deer, who gave Mac so many opportunities this past summer to live life to the fullest. Mac loved Heritage Ranch, its horses, its activity, and the people who worked there. A Memorial Service will be held next spring at the Heritage Ranch in Red Deer.

Condolences may be registered at www.fantinsfuneralchapel.ca.

FANTIN’S FUNERAL CHAPEL assisting the family. (403) 562-8555.

Obituaries CAMPBELL Riley Chase Sept 16, 1992 - Sept 9, 2014 Red Deer, AB Riley passed away suddenly, one week short of his 22nd birthday. He is survived by his proud and loving family; parents Trevor and Kelly, big sister Alex, and big brother Taylor.

Girlfriend Ciara Williams, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and relatives. He is welcomed to paradise by his Grandma, Grandpas, and other relatives. A Celebration of Life was held Sept 20, 2014 at the Harvest Center, RD. Riley’s family lived on their acreage in Stettler until 2000, moving to Red Deer. He attended school at St. Elizabeth, St. Francis, and graduated class of 2010 at Notre Dame. Riley pursued his dream since a small boy, of becoming a firefighter. He attended Lakeland College’s Firefighters Training Program, absolutely loving it, graduating in June 2012. He attained many certificates and qualifications in this field, using these working as a firefighter in the oilfield. Riley was a young man with a PASSION for life! He loved people! His accomplishments were earned...he worked hard... and played harder! Riley was adventurous and loved nature and the outdoors. He enjoyed camping, boating, wake boarding, fishing, hiking, mudding with his 4 x 4’s, landscaping and sky diving. He enjoyed playing sports, cross country running, hockey, volleyball, basketball, wrestling, but there was none other like lacrosse to him!

Riley played both Field and Box lacrosse, on many teams, even working the flip side of it, the whistle. He was a people person! He encouraged and believed in others, and, “he was a leader!” In 2009 Riley was drafted to the Junior A, St Albert Miners lacrosse team, where he lived, worked and played for five seasons, as a defensemen. He was awarded top defensemen awards, and Riley was very proud, to be chosen “Captain”! An article once stated “The scars on Riley’s knuckles weren’t from playing piano!” He put those same hands to other creative uses, he was artistic, always sketching and drawing, games night Pictionary was never fair. He was also inventive, and liked to talk about his ideas.

Enjoyed music, attending music festivals, and concerts, and he had a good voice. Fitness was very important to Riley, working out, running, and even hot yoga. There was also no such thing as too many hats to him. Riley was strong, humorous, loyal to a fault, genuine, caring and had a warm, kind, and loving heart! A true animal lover of all kinds! He was like the dog whisperer, they were always drawn to him.

His family Yorkie adored him and his affection! Even telling her “Smile, Smile”! Those who know Riley know: the saying “don’t mistake kindness for weakness”, truly applies to him.

Riley was tough, A wolf, not a sheep! Such strength... had a backbone... stood up for what he believed in... he was a fighter, and a protector. It just came natural that he would grow, to protect his friends, family, teammates, and people with his chosen career! Riley’s tattoo was across his chest, “Fate Loves The Fearless”! Riley and his siblings were close!

His older sister Alex and brother Taylor... “Looked up to him”. They loved, that he “always broke the mold”! Riley continued to dream, and planned to further himself in firefighting, to pursue becoming a personal trainer, venture moving to Kelowna, and starting a family. He would want us to be fearless: Courageous living everyday! Donations in Riley’s memory can be made to Red Deer Kid Sport Canada www.kidsportcanada.ca/alberta/red-deer/

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LEE Heidi Louise 1975 - 2014 It is with great sadness that the family of Heidi Louise Lee (nee Bruin) announces her passing on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at the age of 38 years. She was born on November 19, 1975 at Red Deer, Alberta. Heidi was a beautiful person with an intelligent nature. She had a sense of humour along with a giving and compassionate heart. She loved to play baseball in the summer and even joined a league. Her greatest love and joy were her sons and making sure they were happy. She had a passion for being a lifeguard and a swim coach. Heidi was that person that could be a magician with many tricks of the trade. Heidi will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Jody and their two sons, Jessy and Austyn of Olds, Alberta, her father, Herman Bruin (Christine) of Red Deer, sisters, Corinna (Roger) Bruin-Tewson of Innisfail, Alberta, Rebecca (Chuck) Steele of Penhold, Alberta, brothers, Troy (Diane) Bruin of Millet, Alberta, Marty (Catherine) Bruin of Red Deer and grandfather, Cor Bruin. She will also be sadly missed by her parents-in-law, Dennis and Shirley Shewkenek of Olds, Alberta, sisters-in-law, Shannon Lee (Devin) of Okotoks, Alberta, Robyn Orom (Brandon) of Lacombe, Alberta and Dani Shewkenek (Cory) of Red Deer; as well as numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Heidi was predeceased by her mother, Carol Bruin (nee Barnes), brother, Cameron Bruin, grandparents, Ella and Robert Barnes and grandmother, Ariea Bruin. A Celebration of Heidi’s Life will be held at First Christian Reformed Church, 16 McVicar Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Gary Bomhof officiating.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

PALFI Andras Nov. 15, 1949 - Sept. 27, 2014 Andras passed away peacefully with his family by his side at the Red Deer Regional Hospital.

He is survived by his wife of 41 years Hilda; and daughter Linda (Ron). A celebration of life will be held at the iHotel, David Thompson East Room, 6500 67 Street, Red Deer, on October 7, 2014 at 2:00 pm.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lending Cupboard or the Red Cross.

Condolences may be sent to the family at palfil@shaw.ca.

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HARDING Ellen Ivy 1920 - 2014 Ellen Ivy Harding of Red Deer passed away peacefully at Royal Oak in Lacombe on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at the age of 94 years. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on March 15, 1920.

She lived in Winnipeg, met her husband Les, and married on February 12, 1944. They moved to Alberta in 1944 where they started their family of four children; Donna (Harvey) Pidhirney, Betty (Bob) Christianson, Garry (Bernice) Harding, and Gale Lee. She was predeceased by her husband Les, her parents, and her brothers and sister. She is survived by her four children, 13 grandchildren, 29 great grandchildren and 9 greatgreat grandchildren and a host of friends. Funeral Service will be held on Monday, October 6, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at Liberty Christian Assembly 6315 Horn Street, Red Deer, AB. No flowers by request.

Donations in memory of Ellen may be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta # 202 - 5913 - 50th Avenue, Red Deer, AB. T4N 4C4, or a charity of the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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AINSLIE KEN STEWART Helen Catherine 1939 - 2013 Born Oct. 3 1918, Edmonton Our hearts still ache in sadness Long time Delburne area And secret tears still flow, Resident - recently St Mary’s What it means to lose you Lodge in Trochu. Passed No one will ever know. away in Three Hills Hospital Your loving wife Carol and family September 26 2014 a few days short of her 96th birthday. She was predeceased by her husband Earl (Nov. 25, 2004). She is survived by Card Of Thanks 2 sons; Jim (Anne) and Stan BILL MOORE (Judy); four grandchildren October 3, 2013 Carol (Gary) Lebsack, Ron Ainslie (Jen Mercier), Barb The moment that you left me, (James) Power Robert my heart was split in two; (Monika) Kupczak Ainslie;, One side was filled with 6 great-grandchildren Avery memories, the other side and Makenna Lebsack, Kiara died with you. I often lay and Scarlett Power, Nevan awake at night when the and Milla Kupczak Ainslie; world is fast asleep and take sister-in-law Noreen Robertson; a walk down memory lane several cousins, nieces, with tears upon my cheek. nephews and many very Remembering you is easy, special friends. Helen worked I do it every day, but missing tirelessly in the community you is a heartache that never supporting numerous goes away. I hold you tightly organizations and activities, especially important, included in my heart and there you will remain. You see life has 4-H, Women’s Institute and gone on without you, but will Royal Purple. Helen loved to never be the same. visit, she was a mentor to many; her kindness, empathy, Vi and Family wisdom and faith brought peace, hope and a lot of laughter to family and friends. A memorial service Funeral Directors will be held Tuesday October & Services 7 2014 in the Lousana Hall at 2:00 PM. In Lieu of flowers donations in Helens memory maybe directed to St Mary’s Lodge in Trochu or Charity of your choice.

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LAWRENCE Ray 1947 - 2014 After a courageous battle with cancer, Raymond Arthur Lawrence passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on September 29, 2014 at the age of 67. Ray was born on February 19, 1947 in Eckville, went to school in Sylvan Lake and has called Benalto home for the past 38 years.

He owned and operated his gas plant maintenance business for over 35 years. He loved his sports as he grew up playing hockey and baseball.

With the Rocky Mountains so close, he spent many summer and fall seasons camping and hunting with his family and friends. Grieving Ray’s loss are his loving wife Lynne, children Caron (Darren), Allan (Anji), Stacey, Jimmy (Brandy), his 10 grandchildren, his sister Lois (Hugh), brother Ron, sister-in-law Margaret, brother-in-law Barry (Cathy) and many nieces and nephews. Ray was predeceased by his parents Myron and Margaret, brother Leonard and nephew Robert.

A Celebration of Ray’s life will be held at the Benalto Hall on Thursday October 9th, 2014 at 1:30 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations will be accepted by the Benalto Booster Club Train Station Fund, Box 135, Benalto, AB, T0M 0H0.

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SULLY CHAPMAN BEATTIE LLP

BUSY MEDICAL OFFICE requires FRONT DESK RECEPTIONIST Starting wage $16/hour.

Computer skills a requirement.

Please fax resume to 403-342-2024.

is looking for a wellorganized and efficient legal assistant with broad Various Artists experience in a solicitor’s practice, which would th include corporate and EAST 40 PUB commercial law, real LIVE JAM estate conveyancing, and Sunday’s 5-9 p.m.

LOOKING for an energetic, wills and estates. Salary motivated individual to join and benefits are negotiable GOOD MUSIC ALL NIGHT, our team to take on a and will be commensurate OPEN JAM & DJ MUSIC. position of Payroll/Benefits with experience.

TUESDAYS & Administrator. This person SATURDAYS @ must have payroll Please email your resume th EAST 40 PUB experience as well as be to kbeattie@scblaw.ca proficient in Simply KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Accounting and Microsoft Please Note: We will only Presents Office. This position is 20 reply to those candidates OKTOBER FEST 2014 hrs. per week with flexible meeting our criteria. with the Emeralds at hrs. and will possibly lead Lacombe Memorial Centre into F/T with our rapidly October 18th growing company. Only Dinner & Dance Oilfield exp’d person need apply Bar opens 6 pm, meal at 7 pm with resume to our office at Tickets are just $45 & are stacyschnepf@ avail. at Culinary Gift Shoppe, hurricaneenergy.ca Lacombe or contact Tim 403-782-7974 or Ron 403-782-5576 Dental Proceeds support community projects.

P/T DENTAL Hygienist $2500 Bonus req’d in Innisfail. Email Every 100 days resume to Companions jtkdental@hotmail.com IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Classifieds...costs so little ATTENTION LADIES Early Saves you so much!

Oil & Gas Well Testing 50 yr. old gentleman/reguSupervisors, Night Foremen, lar guy 6’2, blue eyes, fit.

Experienced/ Avail. as your guest for a Inexperienced Christmas party/dinner Janitorial Junior Day/Night engagement etc. Ultimate Operators goal: friendship.

Must have H2S, First Aid, itisanewday1@ valid driver’s license. hotmail.com Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages.

Personals Benefit Package Please submit resume CCCSI is hiring sanitation with references to: ALCOHOLICS workers for the afternoon apply@wespro.ca ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 and evening shifts. Get Only individuals selected paid weekly, $14.22/hr. for interviews will be COCAINE ANONYMOUS Call 403-348-8440 or fax contacted 403-396-8298 403-348-8463 presents

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MADDON Oilfield Services is seeking qualified, competent, and professional personnel to join our team. Slickline Operators and Trainees.

Class 3 License, WHIMIS, H2S, First Aid preferred but not limited to. Fax resume to 780-603-2241 Email resume to Paul.Ste. Marie@Maddon.ca NEEDED: H2S Supervisors, firefighters and medics. Please email resume and relevant oilfield tickets to: admin@ tcbsafety.com or call Carl 403-506-1255

A & W GASOLINE ALLEY Requires to work at these locations: 121 Leva Avenue 61 Gasoline Alley Food Counter Attendants Permanent F/T & P/T shifts, Weekends, day, night & evenings. Starting wage $13/hr. Start date: ASAP, 40 hrs./wk + Blue Cross Benefits.

3 Vacancies. Education & exp. not req’d. Apply in person or at aw.ca or fax to 403-346-6017 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

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NORTH Attn: Human Resources (formerly Sam’s Cafe) is email:payroll@ now taking applications for bearspawpet.com Full Time/Part time COOK, Fax 403-252-9719 Bring resume to Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer between 2-4 pm.

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DUE to recent significant growth, Alstar Oilfield Contractors has immediate openings for full time permanent JOURNEYMAN WELDERS AND B PRESSURE WELDERS (NOC 7265) at our Hinton location.

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Red Deer Advocate Publication dates: SAT. OCT. 11 TUES.OCT. 14 Deadline is: Fri. October 10 @ 5 p.m.

EXP. BARTENDER, WAITSTAFF & DJ REQ’D for sports bar in Innisfail.

Opening soon! Fax resume to 403-865-7172

Sales & Distributors

Rimbey Publication date; TUES. OCT. 14 Deadline is: Thur. October 9 @Noon Stettler & Weekender

Publication date: WED. OCT. 15 FRI. OCT. 17 Deadline is: Fri. October 10 @ Noon Sylvan Lake News & Eckville Echo Publication date: THUR. OCT. 16 Deadline is: Fri. October 10 @ 5 p.m.

Bashaw Publication date: WED. OCT. 15 Deadline is: Wed. October 8 @ noon Castor - Regular deadline Have a safe & happy holiday CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com wegotads.ca

EXP’D CLASS 1 DRIVER REQ’D. Class 1 is a must and picker exp. would be an asset. Oilfield exp. preferred. Will require H2S and First Aid Certificate.

This position is F/T days only in the Stettler area.

Salary to commensurate with experience. Please send resumes to: lornemurfitt@telus.net.

HYDROTESTORS 2000 is currently taking resumes for

TESTING TRUCK OPERATORS Must have class 5 Q endorsement license.

Please provide drivers abstract as well as valid oilfield tickets. Drop off resumes at 7889 49 Ave. Red Deer.

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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ALPINE DRYWALL

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for an EXPERIENCED BARTENDER. MUST HAVE REFERENCES. Able to work evening shift.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Immed. openings for tradespersons. Commercial.

No exp. req’d. Willing to train.

Competative wages & benefits.

Phone 403-348-8640

BIG HORN ELECTRIC and CONTROLS LTD. Now Recruiting Electrical and Instrumentation Journeyman and Apprentices Req’d QUALIFICATIONS H2S Alive / First Aid CSTS or PST / Fall Protection Valid Driver’s Licence Oilfield Experience Will Require a Pre-Employment Drug & Alcohol Screening SEND RESUMES TO FAX: 403-638-3688 OR EMAIL: careers@ bighornelectric.com

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for an EXPERIENCED LINE COOK MUST HAVE REFERENCES. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. D. LESLIE WELDING LTD. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone We are currently accepting calls WILL NOT be accepted. resumes for 3rd. yr. apprentices and B You can sell your guitar Pressure Welders, for a song... $30-$55/hr.

Valid safety or put it in CLASSIFIEDS tickets req’d. Fax your and we’ll sell it for you! resumes to: 403-729-2771 or send by email to: brleslie@telus.net Sales &

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FIREPLACE PERSON required for sales in Red Deer. Light office duties.

Must have drivers license.

Top wages. Call or email John, 1-780-993-2040 firegall@telusplanet.net Start your career!

See Help Wanted WHOLESALE FOOD DISTRIBUTION COMPANY looking for a responsible individual for

SALES REP/DRIVER position in Red Deer.

The qualified applicant must have a clean abstract and be able to drive a 5 ton standard truck. $50K+/yr with benefits.

Please apply by email stanleyfoods@shaw.ca or fax (780)463-7132.

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NEEDED F/T Service Person for after sales service and set up of manufactured and modular home. Must have exp. in roofing, siding, flooring, drywall, paint etc., Competitive wages and health plan avail. Apply to James at M & K Homes, 403-346-6116 NEEDED IMMED. FOR manufacturing company in Blackfalds JOURNEYMAN WELDERS Competitive wages and benefits package.

Email resume to: joel@prolineinc.ca Service Plumbing & Heating is looking for experienced residential and commercial service technician with current Alberta gas/plumbing ticket. Benefit package after 3 months, wages based on experience.

Email: info@serviceplumbing.ca or fax to (403) 342-2025

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Rattray Reclamation Ltd is currently seeking an experienced backhoe operator with a clean and valid class 1 license preferably 3 years experience to work in the Lacombe and surrounding areas. Duties will include lease construction, lease cleanups and reclamation.

Valid H2s, Ground Disturbance, and First aid tickets are a must.

Competitive wages and benefits available Please email resume to drattray@rattrayrec.com.

Or fax to (403)-934-5235 No phone calls please.

Shipper/Receiver A local company requires an energetic person for shipper/receiver.

Email resume to mark@aesreddeer.com Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION requires a

Safety Coordinator to implement, manage & enhance our existing safety program. Fax resume and references to 403-343-1248 or email admin@shunda.ca.

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters & Apprentices Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Equipment Operator/Truck Driver Q Endorsement preferred.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca STUCCO/Plaster & labour needed! Can pay cash. Call /text Chris@4035507237

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Find the right fit.

Are you looking for year-round work that is not interrupted by local economy?

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

Licensed Heavy Duty Mechanics and apprentices • Planned preventive maintenance on fleet equipment • Major repairs and overhaul of onhighway vehicles.

• CVIP inspection and repairs as per government programs.

As an integral part of our TEAM, you will receive top rate wages and benefits and be a part of our Quality-Share bonus program. Submit your résumé to: Hi-Way 9 Express Ltd. 4120 78 Street Crescent Red Deer, AB T4P 3E3 Fax: (403) 823-4285 email: employment@hi-way9.com

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

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830 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Phone/Front Counter Sales Maternity Leave Position

Central AB Life Publication date: THURS. SEPT. 18 Deadline is: Fri. October 10 @ 5 p.m.

Ponoka & Lacombe Express Publication date: WED. OCT. 15 Deadline is: Thur. October 9 @5 p.m.

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Alstar Oilfield Contractors LTD. 310 East River Road Hinton, Alberta T7V 2G3 www.alstaroilfield.com hr@alstaroilfield.com Fax: 780 865 5829

Restaurant/ Hotel

TR3 Energy is at the forefront of reclamation and remediation in the oil & gas industry We are currently recruiting for:

Requirements: Valid Driver’s License H2S Alive Duties: Standard First Aid WHIMIS and/or Work as part of a CSTS or PST safety oriented team Pre-Access A&D Testing Fabricate pipe spools Fabricate structural as- Ground Disturbance Level 11 Please e-mail or fax your semblies resume to: hr@tr3energy.com Knowledge, Skills and Fax: (403) 294-9323 Qualifications: www.tr3energy.com Journeyman or Red Seal Welder ZUBAR Production B Pressure or CWB Services certificates would be is currently taking resumes an asset for experienced Stainless pipe exProduction Testing perience would be an Personnel asset Email resume to: Be able to interpret rdzubaroffice@telus.net drawings or fax to (403)346-9420.

Compensation: Starting at $35.00 per Restaurant/ hour (based on exHotel perience) Matching RRSP EAST 40TH PUB program Looking for Exp. Medical, Dental, Vision plan P/T Bartender/Waitress Disability and life Apply with Resume to insurance 3811 40th Ave.

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S NOW HIRING 37543 HWY 2N Well Testing Personnel 700 3020 22 St. Experienced Supervisors FOOD ATTENDANT & Operators Req’d permanent shift Must have valid applicable weekend day and evening tickets. Email: lstouffer@ both full and part time. testalta.com 16 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

OIL & GAS OPERATOR Apply in person or fax Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field resume to: 403-314-1303 operations for an intermediate Buying or Selling oil and gas operator. Applicants your home? must have experience as a Check out Homes for Sale heavy duty mechanic or in Classifieds journeyman instrument SERVER -CUSTOMER mechanic and possess COUNTER - F/T strong mechanical skills, Duties: Take customer be quick learners, motivated and hard working and live orders, portion raw food, or be willing to relocate package take-out orders, handle cleaning & store within a 20 minute commute to workplace location. This cleaning products, stock fridge, & collect money position offers a challenging from costumer. $11.89/hr. work environment, attractive 5 days/wk. Must be avail. benefits with competitive pay and significant room on weekends & holidays.

Paula @ 403-347-8001 for promotion.

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The Classified Department has a one year Maternity leave position available. This is a part time position averaging 3 days / 22.5 hours per week. Monday, Thursday & Friday 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. The person selected will also occasionally be required to work full time for staff holiday relief.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the sale of classified advertising in the Red Deer Advocate and associated community papers, both over the phone and at the front counter. You will provide assistance to customers’ inquiries; as well as close of day balancing procedures, sale of newspapers and general customer service duties.

This position requires computer skills, knowledge of Word and Excel programs and excellent command of the English language with above average spelling. The ability to multi-task, work well on a team and be selfmotivated is essential. We are looking for someone to join our team in October 2014 for paid training with the maternity leave commencing early December (possibly earlier).

If interested, please send your resume by October 17, 2014 to: prstamm@reddeeradvocate.com or drop off at the Front Counter of the Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave.

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APPLIANCE DELIVERY DRIVER

Family owned and operated, Trail Appliances continues to grow and due to this, we are looking to expand our delivery department. We are currently looking for an experienced Delivery Driver to work out of our Red Deer Warehouse located at #6 4622 61 Street, Riverside Industrial District The ideal candidate will: • be able to maneuver merchandise in excess of 100lbs • possess exceptional customer service skills • enjoy working within a diverse team • hold a valid driver’s license and a clear drivers abstract The Company provides a comprehensive and competitive benefit program including such things as: • Medical & Dental benefit Program • Flex days • Stat holidays off • Paid vacation time off • Employee & Family Assistance Program • Referral Incentives • Employee discounts • Boot Allowance Trail is always looking for people who want opportunities to grow, take initiative and work well within a team environment. Launch your career with a well-known and respected company.

Become a part of the successful Trail team by submitting a resume to reddeerjobs@trail-appliances.com or by fax to 403-347-3314.

A security check will be conducted on successful candidates. We thank all interested applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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EXPECT LEADERSHIP 31 DODGE AVE. Saturday 4th, 9-5 MOVING SALE Lots of various items.

39 DONNELLY CRES. OCT. 4 & 5 Sat. 9 - 5 & Sun. 12 - 4 Antique dishware, furniture yard tools, household misc 80 DUNHAM CLOSE Friday Oct. 3rd, 3-7, & Saturday Oct. 4th, 9-2.

Avon, tools, toys, antiques, etc.

Fairview - Upper 32, 5202 FARRELL AVE. Oct. 2nd - 4th Thursday & Friday 2-6 Saturday 10-2 GARAGE SALE - MOVING

Kentwood Estates 38 KIRK CLOSE (back) Oct. 4 & 5, 1-4. MOVING OUT SALE, Classic to modern furniture, computers, classic organ, etc.

Mountview 3716-43 A AVENUE Oct 4. Fri. 10-6, Sat. 8-3 4 families, 2 moving, mostly loonie & toonie items, everything must go. Tools, furniture, misc. household, beautiful home decor.

ANTIQUES! Oct. 4 & 5. 4117 - 35 St. Estate Sale in House, ‘Box’ Sale in Garage Sat. 10-5pm, Sun.10-3pm NO Early Birds!

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Parkvale 4303 46A AVE Oct. 4, Sat. 9 - 4:30 Household furniture, dishes, pictures, books, odds & ends!!!

West Park

38 Wishart St. STILL DOWNSIZING Oct. 3, 4 & 5 Fri., Sat. & Sun. 11 - 6 Air tools, air paint sprayers, lawn mower, bikes, foot pedal sewing machine, housewares, & garden items, some Snap-On tools etc....

Weather permitting.

5902 & 5906 41 ST. Cres.

Oct. 2, 3 & 4 Thurs. & Fri. 3-7 Sat. 9-1 Antiques, collectibles, tools Lots of Lots!!

CLASS 1 DRIVERS & CLASS 5 (NON-GDL) OPERATORS & SUPERVISORS CEMENTING, FRACTURING & COILED TUBING SERVICE LINES You have expertise, a passion for excellence and improvement, and a commitment to safety – bring them to work as part of our team.

What’s in it for you? Rotations that fit your lifestyle, competitive salaries and benefits, training and development opportunities with a focus on career advancement and a commitment to getting the job done safely.

Speak to a recruiter at 1.800.9SANJEL, e-mail careers@sanjel.com, or drop off your resume at: CEMENTING & COILED TUBING: 8051 Edgar Industrial Drive, Red Deer, AB T4P-3R2 FRACTURING: 4100 - 77th Street, Red Deer, AB T4P-3P7

Safe. Smart. Solid. That’s Sanjel.

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Leading the way in workplace safety – Sanjel, Canada’s largest privately owned global energy service company is leading the industry in safety everywhere we operate. Our employees are working together to achieve the lowest consolidated TRIF (Total Recoverable Injury Frequency) rate in our history – and we are committed to even better. If safety is as important to you as it is to Sanjel, consider a career with a safety leader.

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Oct. 3, 2014

Skill Metal Fabricators in Bassano, Alberta are looking for operators in the following departments CNC machine shop, sheet metal, powder coating, welding and anodizing. We offer competitive wages and benefit package.

These are full time positions - available immediately. Please email your resume to: resumes@ skillmetal.com or fax to 403-641-3466.

860

Truckers/ Drivers

2-GOOD OILFIELD SERVICES is currently seeking CLASS 1 TANK TRUCK & PRESSURE TRUCK OPERATORS. Base salary + bonuses.

Great benefits pkg after 3 mo.

Please fax resume & drivers abstract to: 403-346-3766

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LABORERS NEEDED F/T FOR SNOW REMOVAL & MAINTENANCE WORK. Must have driver’s license.

Call 403-506-8928 or Fax 403-886-5814

F/T P/T MEAT CUTTER. Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Labourers, Flag Persons & Operators GAETZ SOUTH F/T P/T Grocery Staff Morning & evening hrs. avail. Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

Busy road construction company looking for Labourers AND flag persons. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

LOOKING for Class 1 driver based out of Red Deer, Super B flatdeck for western Canada. Weekends and stats off. Call 403-872-9452 358-0461 348-3177

Business Opportunities

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START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL CLEANING BUSINESS

437627L20

Revenue between $24,000 - $120,000 Initial cash required as low as $6,000 In Business for over 20 years *Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl. *Training Incl. *Ongoing Office Support

Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866

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HIGH Paying Entry Level Positions 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

F/T CLEANERS 3 am - 11 am shift.

Need to be physically fit.

Must have reliable transportation.

Please send resume attn: Greg Tisdale gtisdale@ cashcasino.ca or fax 403-346-3101 or drop off at Cash Casino, 6350 - 67 St.

Counter Salesperson A local company requires an enthusiastic person for counter sales.

Email resume to mark@aesreddeer.com DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS For our parts & service dept.

Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume:joel@prolineinc.ca 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

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6 mo. Community Support Worker Program AND

GED Program Funding may be available.

403-340-1930

Academic Express

THE TASTY BAKERY PACKAGING & COUNTER SALES

6 mo. Community Support Worker Program

P/T OPPORTUNITY No early mornings, No late nights No Sundays, Apply in person at: Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive (directly behind Nutters)

GED Program

AND Funding may be available.

403-340-1930

Academic Express Adult Education & Training www.academicexpress.ca

SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

INGLEWOOD & MORRISROE

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC REQUIRED

MOTOR COACH CLEANER

Part time position. Shop is located 6 miles from Red Deer. Applicants must have own transportation and be able to work flexible schedule.

900

ENROLL TODAY! Classes Starting Soon!

Medical Office Assistant / Unit Clerk

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

880

EASTVIEW AREA

$605/mo.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

BOWER AREA Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

Tuesday, October 7th 10am to 6pm FT & PT positions available Walk-In Interviews Draws and Prizes

4217-50 Avenue (downtown by hospital) 6721-50 Avenue (behind Mr. Mike’s Steakhouse) 62 Carleton Avenue (new Clearview Market location)

Join our team!

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

Tools

1640

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

Clearview Ridge Area $172/mo.

TV's, VCRs

Advocate Opportunities

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

GLENDALE Grimson & Goodall Ave. Gehrke Cl. & 71 St. 69 & 70 St. Dr. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

CARRIERS REQUIRED

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

ALSO

KENTWOOD AREA

Dumas Cres., Duffy Close, and 2 Blocks of Dempsey St. $80.48/mo.

For More Information, please call Joanne 403-314-4308

GRANDVIEW AREA

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

CARRIERS NEEDED 3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres.

Addinel Close Allsop Close Anquetel/Atlee Close INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close Illingworth Close Issard Close MORRISROE AREA Metcalf Ave SUNNYBROOK AREA Stirling Close/Sherwod Cres.

LANCASTER AREA

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

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APPROX. 100 PEACOCK FEATHERS - some white, $1/each.

10 QUART STAINLESS STEEL STOCK POT - new cond. $16.

403-346-2231 Canon K920 copier, good for small business, exc. cond. $45; 3 clean, wool accent matching carpets, two 2’ x 7’, one hexagon $45/all or will sell individually; LEE Enfield .303 ammo magazine $35 403-352-8811 COMPUTER desk, black, 48”w, 23”d, 30”h, like new.

Bought at the Brick, was $250 asking $95 403-352-8811 CUSTOM made moose leather jacket size 12 $25, Mummy sleeping bag for cooler weather $55, saddle bags, leather, $50, saddle blanket new $25, saddle pad, new $35 403-342-7460 ELECTRIC handmixer $5, blender $5, wok $5, hedge clipper $15, ladder $50, fertilizer spreader $10, dandelion digger $10, sprayer $6, edger $5, hose storage box $30, several hoses $5-$10, 2 outside carriage house lights $20 403-343-2730 FERTILIZER spreader 20” hopper $25; part bag of OilDri (all purpose absorbent $4, metal tamping bar $5; metal chapin spreader tank 1 1/2 gal $15, 16-20-0 fertilizer almost full bag $10, grass clipper battery operated $20, Lagostina 7L pressure cooker stainless steel easy lock closing $80, 2 stacking chairs metal frame $10, turf edger (reg. $40) $20, 12 bottle wine rack $10 403-314-2026 GARAGE Door opener, Lift Master, 1/2 hp motor, with remote included. $125 Like New! 403-348-6449 HIDEABED $50; home gym, $50; playpen $20; mens size 10 football cleats $30. 403-340-1347 HORSESHOES, $20.

2 new plastic SAW HORSES, $12/ea.

2 new in box 30 wall mounted STORAGE BINS, $25/ea.

1 CHROME CLOTHES RACK, $25.

EXERCISE BIKE, $20.

GLASS PATIO TABLE, 4 chairs & umbrella $50.

403-358-5568 HOUSEHOLD ITEMS - 2 box fulls Sheets set, afghan, cushions, dishes, glasses, coffee maker & filters, $25.

403-314-9603 QUEEN FAUX MINK BLANKET, like new $25, queen quilt, like new $25, Corningware ten cup coffee pot $25 403-348-6449

Musical Instruments

1770

AMPLIFYER for guitar, RX-100 for beginners, 7 Watt. Asking $30.

403-227-2976

Pets & Supplies

1810

37 TABS 225 mg. Milk Thistle for dogs/cats w/liver disease. Expires 05/15 Vet cost $85. Asking $50.

403-227-2976

Cats

1830

2 BALINESE KITTENS 2 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE $50/ea. 403-887-3649

Dogs

1840

Lamb Close VANIER AREA Vanson Close Viscount Drive

47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $134./mo.

Misc. for Sale

Lancaster Drive

Vanier Drive WOODLEA AREA

1720

12” COLOR TV w/remote, 2 yrs. old $25 403-314-0804

PINES AREA

West end of Robinson Cres., Ryan Cl., Rich Cl., & Rabbis St. $71.30/mo.

ALSO Roberts Cres. $53.64/mo.

Household Furnishings

1680

Dolan Close $49.24/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA

FRIDGE, GE, side by side, cold water & ice dispenser, exc. cond., 8 yrs. old. $200. obo. 403-755-2760 KENMORE DISHWASHER, $150.

MICROWAVE, $15.

403-358-5568 STOVE, Kenmore, electric convection oven, ceramic glass cook top, use and care guide booklet, exc. cond. 8 yrs. old. $200. obo 403-755-2760

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Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

41 Ave. between 33 St. and 35 St., 3 Blocks of 33 St. and 1 Block of 35 St. $62./mo.

ALSO 42 Ave. between 33 and 35 St. and 42A Ave. Close $74./mo.

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DEER PARK AREA

3900 to 4200 Blocks of 41A Ave. and 1 Block of 39 St.

Household Appliances

COMPOUND miter saw $100; 8” power ice auger 1 DARK wood coffee table 35x50” $50, 1 end table $10. $75 403-342-7951 3 stacking tables $10.

2 brown recliners $50 ea.

Phone 403-887-5020 Firewood or 403-357-4230 Sylvan Lake. Must pick up AFFORDABLE 2 LOVESEATS, cream Homestead Firewood suede & brown leather $100 ea.

CLASSIFICATIONS Spruce Phone 403-887-5020 & Pine -Split. Firepits 1500-1990 or 403-357-4230 avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Sylvan Lake. Must pick up.

LOGS Building Semi loads of pine, spruce, 2 MATCHING LAZ-E-BOY RECLINERS tamarack, poplar.

Supplies -Teal in colour. $100/ea.

Price depends on location.

403-318-7717 Lil Mule Logging 2 - 8’ TREATED 4x4’s $10.

403-318-4346 3 SEATER sofa, light tan 2 SHEETS 7/16” 4’x8’ $200 403-343-2730 CHIPBOARD $20.

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner 403-358-5568 BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / BLUE swivel rocker $25, green swivel rocker $20, Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 VHS stand $10, cedar front Children's door, new $100 Garden Items 403-343-2730 Supplies MICROWAVE, Kenmore, BOYS RUNNERS white, 900 watts. $25.

- Spiderman, size 3, RIMBEY TREES 403-352-8811 very good cond. $10.

Large variety of trees for sale.

403-314-9603 WANTED Planting available.

Antiques, furniture and Fall Specials!

LEAPSTER L-MAX with estates. 342-2514 Call Walter, 403-748-3611 extra game, tv cables.

Something for Everyone Very good cond. $25 403-314-9603 Everyday in Classifieds Stereos

To deliver the For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316

MOUNTVIEW AREA

HIRING DAY

2 PC. man’s suit, dbl. breasted, grey pure wool, size 40R (Moores) worn once, like new $75 403-314-2026

SAFETY

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.

1590

CLEARVIEW AREA

On-site work experience Unit Clerk Specialty curriculum Under one-year full Diploma program Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Nationally recognized Medical Assisting First Aid / CPR Training Professional Certificate Hospital Scrubs included Train with Industry experts Perfect graduate job placement rate reported last year

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

For More Information, please call For More informaiton, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

Will consider either full or part time.

Previous motor coach repair experience preferred.

Call Today (403) 347-6676

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Full time and part time positions available.

Must be willing to work evenings and weekends, and must have previous experience driving either motor coach or semi. Clean Class 1 or Class 2 with air.

frontbus@platinum.ca 403-347-4999

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

EXPERIENCED MOTOR COACH DRIVERS

Please email or fax resume to:

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Phone 403-314-4301

FRONTIER BUS LINES Ltd.

Clothing

1580

Advocate Opportunities

Adult Education & Training www.academicexpress.ca

880

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Employment Training CASH CASINO is hiring a

OCTOBER START! Accepting registrations for

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CLASS 1 DRIVER with super B and grain hauling experience for Central AB. Call Wayne 403-341-9113

GAETZ SOUTH P/T Bakery Evening Staff Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

wanted for busy dealership, possible chance for advancement into apprenticeship.

Must have drivers license.

Fax resume to 341-5066

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in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

900

OCTOBER START!

LUBE TECH

900

Employment Training

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Accepting registrations for

FT/PT CASHIERS Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

Owner Operators & Contract Drivers

880

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PARTS TECHNICIAN We are looking for WANTED. Trochu Motors LANDSCAPE LABOURERS to work on residential and is seeking a customer oriented and responsible commercial properties in individual to join our parts Red Deer and surrounding area. team. Prior experience in Main duties to include: the industry would be an - Laying sod, spreading top asset but not a must. soil, plant flowers, grass, Applicants must have trees and shrubs. organizational skills, basic - Cut grass, rake, fertilize, computer skills and the water, prune trees and shrubs. ability to multi-task in a -In snow season, we fast-paced environment. require snow removal.

We are looking forward to No formal education or add to our growing dealerexperience necessary. ship. Please Apply in Full time/Seasonal posiperson at 102 Eckenfelder tion. Weather dependant St. Trochu, Alberta. Fax Wage: $16.51 per hour/44 (403) 442-3829 or by email hours per week Email wmtn@inbox.com resume to: erika.skalozub @bg-rd.com Phone: 403-347-7211 Fax: 403-342-7488 Att: Erika

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

GAETZ SOUTH

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

880

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278950A5

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Trades

Vold Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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

HIGH QUALITY LABRADOODLES and GOLDEN DOODLE pups Long time Breeder, text 306-521-1371 www.furtettishfarm.ca

Sporting Goods

1860

BROWNING A-Bolt II 7 MM, WSM with Kahles 3-9x42 scope, FAC required. 403-347-4179

leaving 95 per cent of customers in the dark statewide.

The agency says in a Thursday statement that Odile caused more damage to Mexican electrical infrastructure than any other storm, including Hurricane Wilma in 2005.

The Los Cabos international airport is reportedly set to return to normal flight operations Friday.

WORLD

BRIEFS

Surfer loses part of his arm in attack by suspected great white shark SYDNEY, Australia — A man had part of his arm torn off by a suspected great white shark while surfing off the coast of Western Australia on Thursday, officials said.

The man was surfing at Wylie Bay in the town of Esperance on Western Australia’s remote southern coast when he was attacked by what is believed to be a 4-meter (13-foot) great white, Esperance Shire President Malcolm Heasman said.

A fellow surfer managed to get the victim to shore and to a nearby parking lot where there was an offduty ambulance officer, Heasman said. The officer gave the man first aid while they waited for help to arrive.

The victim lost one arm below the elbow and had extensive injuries on his other arm, likely from trying to fend off the shark, Heasman said. The man, who was a visitor to the area, also had lacerations to his legs. He was flown to a hospital in Perth for treatment and was in stable condition.

Within hours of the attack, fisheries officers caught two great white sharks between 3 and 4.5 metres (10 and 15 feet) long in Wylie Bay, the state fisheries department said in a statement. It was not yet known whether either shark was responsible for the attack. Both were being taken to Perth for examination, but even that may prove inconclusive as it is common for sharks to disgorge their stomach contents, the department said.

Electricity restored 17 days after Hurricane Odile hit Los Cabos MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say electrical service has been restored to 100 per cent of users in Baja California Sur state 17 days after Hurricane Odile knocked the power out.

That includes the resort area of Los Cabos, which sustained heavy damage from a direct hit by the Category 3 storm last month.

Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission says the storm had damaged 534 transmission towers, 1,353 transformers, 108 circuits and 7,971 electrical poles,

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Houses/ Duplexes

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2030

3030

MORRISROE

3 bdrm. townhouse, across from park, 1.5 bath, fenced yard, 5 appls., rent $1350, SD. $800. Avail.

Nov. 1. Call 403-304-5337

SEIBEL PROPERTY

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer 18†H.P. Case acreage tractor.

Hydrostatic drive c/w 54” ~ Halman Heights mower, 54” rototiller & 60” ~ Riverfront Estates hydraulic blade. In excellent ~ Westpark cond. with only 289 hrs.† ~ Kitson Close $11,000 obo. 403-887-5020 ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245 to $1445 Horses 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, WANTED: all types of lrg. balconies, no dogs. horses. Processing locally N/S, no utils. incl. avail. in Lacombe weekly.

Oct. 15 & Nov. 1 403-651-5912 References required.

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Tractors

2140

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

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

3010

3050

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

Acreages/ Farms

STETTLER/DONALDA AREA. 10 acres park-like setting, large screened deck, large heated shop, bsmt. fully renovated, $1350. + utils. Available immediately For more info call 403-741-5284 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

MOUNTVIEW

3 bdrm. house, main Áoor, 5 appls., fenced yard, large deck, rent $1550 incl. all utils. $900 s.d. Avail.

Now or Nov. 1. 403-304-5337 NEWLY reÀnished 3 bdrm. duplex, fenced yard, close to schools, avail. Nov. 1, $1350 + utils, Sylvan Lake Call/Text 780-887-4430 for apt

Auctions

FRESNO, Calif. — Deputies have arrested four young men — one adult and three juveniles — suspected of breaking into a California chicken ranch and killing more than 900 birds with a golf club.

Fresno County sheriff’s officials acting on several tips Wednesday tracked down 18-year-old Gabriel Quintero of Riverdale. Also taken into custody were two 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old.

All have been booked on charges of burglary and felony cruelty to animals.

Fresno Sheriff’s Department spokesman Christian Curtice said he cannot release information about what prompted the killing of the chickens. He didn’t anticipate any more arrests and said he did not know if the suspects had attorneys.

Investigators say the suspects pulled back a fence on Sept. 20 to break into a Foster Farms, a poultry company. Once inside the barn, they beat 920 chickens to death with a golf club and possibly another blunt instrument, investigators said.

The suspects were caught by detectives from a special Fresno-based agriculture task force, a sheriff’s unit established to investigate farming-related crimes in the nation’s leading agra-business county, with $5 billion in annual revenues.

Not all the chickens at the facility were killed, said Foster Farms spokesman Ira Brill, noting the barns typically have several thousand chickens inside. He said Thursday that as a chicken producer certified by the American Humane Association, the company takes the incident seriously.

Opposition grows in Uruguay to plan to accept six Guantanamo prisoners MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A plan to resettle six Guantanamo prisoners in Uruguay is facing increased opposition in the South American country.

President Jose Mujica agreed to accept the men earlier this year as a humanitarian gesture. But plans to transfer them from the U.S. base in Cuba to Uruguay were put on hold until after the Oct. 26 elec-

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Suites

SPLIT level house in newer 1 & 2 BDRM APTS part of Anders, 4 bdrm. 2 in NEW BUILDING. baths, laundry, parking in Avail Nov 1. No pets, N/S. back, fenced backyard & Underground parking. deck, n/s, no pets, $1650/mo., Great location. 3430-49 Ave. WoodWalkerVentures + utils & d.d., close to mini mall. 403-357-0320 @gmail.com or 403-782-5781

Condos/ Townhouses AGRICULTURAL

3020

Four California teens arrested in killing of 920 chickens with golf club

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

AVAIL. Oct. 1 recently reno’d 2 bdrm 1.5 bath, 4 appls, water, sewer & garbage incl. No Pets, N/S, $1100.

403-788-3980, 391-2795

CLEARVIEW

3 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls.

Rent $1125. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail. Nov. 1st.

403-304-5337

2 BDRM apt. for over 40 yr. old working tenants, no pets, no partiers, no drugs.

Free laundry, heat, water, private parking at 5910-55 Ave. in Riverside Meadows. $1100 . Avail.Immed.

403-341-4627

Warehouse Space

3140

SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft. $1000 Phil 403-350-0479

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

Houses/ Duplexes

Avail. Nov. 1, 1 bdrm. bsmt., $750/mo., $750 DD inclds. utils. & laundry Call 403-357-7662

3260

4 MATURE, working, responsible adults want 4 bdrm. house w/garage, for Nov. 1st. Ref’s avail.

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. 587-876-2335/403-877-8055 apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 HAZZARD COUNTY BAR & GRILL in Sylvan Lake Looking for exp. & reliable P/T Staff with some cooking exp. Must have Pro-Serve & be Áexible for day or night shifts.

Please contact Sheri 403-877-0824 or Jackie 403-352-1735 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS

4010

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-596-2444

ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail.

Nov. 1st. 403-304-5337

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WOOD WORKING MACHINERY BAND SAW SAWMILL RECLAIMED OLD GROWTH CHARACTER ELEVATOR WOOD

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Offices

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RUNNING BOARDS for GM extended cab.

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1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. REDUCED TO SELL! 2001 2004 DODGE Dakota SLT $192,000. 403-588-2550 Buick LeSabre drk. red exc. 4.7L, quad cab, box cap, 1 SET CAR RAMPS $20.

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — Two sex offenders were indicted Thursday after authorities said they raped and killed four women while the men wore GPS tracking monitors.

Franc Cano, 28, and Steven Dean Gordon, 45, were charged with murder with special circumstances — including lying in wait, rape and kidnapping — and forcible rape, the Orange County District Attorney’s office said.

If convicted, the men could face a minimum sentence of life in prison or the death penalty.

Prosecutors say Cano and Gordon worked together to sexually assault and kill the California women while the men were wearing the tracking devices ordered after prior sex crimes.

The monitoring systems helped investigators link the pair to the slayings earlier this year after the body of Jarrae Nykkole Estepp was found at a trash sorting plant.

Messages were left for the men’s attorneys seeking comment. Gordon and Cano were expected to be arraigned Friday in Orange County Superior Court.

The case has raised questions about the effectiveness of GPS devices and other forms of parole supervision in tracking offenders and deterring them from committing new crimes.

Parole records show the men had escaped supervision together before. In 2010, Cano cut off his GPS device and fled to Alabama, where he was arrested with Gordon. The two were arrested in Las Vegas two years later after cutting off their ankle bracelets, according to court records and state officials.

In addition to Estepp, the men are charged with killing Kianna Jackson, 20; Josephine Monique Vargas, 34; and Martha Anaya, 28, last fall in Santa Ana. Authorities searched for the bodies of the three women for months but gave up in August, saying it was unlikely they’d ever find them because too much time had passed.

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In addition, the leading opposition presidential candidate says he’s against the pending transfer and a former president is criticizing the U.S. ambassador for saying publicly that Uruguay was committed to the transfer.

Mujica said Thursday that he still believes the country has the “political will” to accept the prisoners.

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B.C.’s top court rejects appeal for man who killed his girlfriend VANCOUVER — The man convicted of shooting his 18-year-old girlfriend in 1999 and dumping her body in a Vancouver alley before escaping to the United States has lost his appeal for a new trial.

Ninderjit Singh pleaded guilty in March 2013 to the second-degree murder of Poonam Randhawa and was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 16 years.

He appealed, asking B.C. highest court to withdraw his guilty plea and order a new trial for seconddegree murder.

Singh asked to introduce new evidence and argued his guilty plea was invalid because it was involuntary and uninformed, and the judge didn’t adequately question his decision.

In dismissing the claim, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled the trial judge ensured Singh understood the plea, that it was entering it voluntarily and the Crown’s evidence in the case was overwhelming.

Singh was arrested in August 2011, while driving away from his home in Riverside County, Calif., where he had a family, acquired a new identity with forged documents, grew a beard and long hair and gained 65 pounds.

Quebec minister talks frankly about possible re-opening of Constitution OTTAWA — Quebec’s intergovernmental affairs minister has done something few people in Ottawa dare to do: he talked about the possible re-opening of the Constitution.

Jean-Marc Fournier, speaking Thursday at the first day of the Canada2020 policy conference, laid out examples of how the landscape has shifted positively on the topic over the past several years.

One of those shifts, he said, was the 2006 motion in the Commons recognizing Quebec as a nation; another was the special agreement made with Quebec this year on federal funding for jobs training.

“What I see is that there is a movement that is very real that is looking to recognize Quebec, and so when someone will open up these constitutional talks, that will be on the table,” Fournier said.

He also emphasized that the fact Quebec did not sign on to the Constitution is something that people in the province feel very strongly about — and that, too, should be taken into account.

But he spoke about the re-opening of the issue as an eventual certainty, even if he didn’t offer any ideas about who would do it, or when.

“The Constitution is not a taboo word either. It’s the fundamental contract of the country,” Fournier said.

“We can’t deal with the Constitution by closing our eyes.

“It’s a fundamental contract, it should be the basis of our relations. It shouldn’t be something that we’re afraid of.”

Rob Ford says doctors told him cancer has 50/50 survival rate TORONTO — The hardest part of battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer has been explaining it to his school-age children, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Thursday, admitting he sometimes cries himself to sleep.

“The kids, it’s ripping my heart out,” a pale and tired-looking Ford told reporters outside his city hall office.

“Some nights I just cry myself to sleep, but what can you do, there’s only that many tears that can be shed,” he said hoarsely.

Ford began chemotherapy last month after doctors found a tumour in his abdomen, with another round of the treatment scheduled to start next week.

The mayor said doctors have told him there’s a 50/50 survival rate for his condition but stressed he always “sees the glass as half full” and is taking it “day to day.”

The diagnosis prompted Ford to pull out of the mayoral race to run for city council instead. His councillor brother Doug is now gunning for the mayor’s seat.

Ford said it’s hard to predict whether he’ll be able to take part in any debates ahead of the Oct. 27 election because his energy levels vary so much.

Earlier in the day, he said chemotherapy has “knocked the you-know-what” out of him but he remains optimistic.

Complaints filed after transgender girl told she can’t use girl’s bathroom WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg family has filed a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission and with police after their eight-year-old transgender daughter was told she was not allowed to use the girls’ bathroom at school.

The Burgos family says they hope their actions will result in the human rights code being rewritten to make the rules for transgender students clearer.

Dale Burgos says his daughter, Isabella, was twice confronted by the parent of a classmate at Joseph Teres School and told she was not allowed to use the girls’ bathroom, as she had been doing since the start of the school year.

He says he has also filed a criminal harassment complaint against the parent.

After the incident, Burgos says the River East Transcona School Division informed the family Isabella would no longer be allowed to use the girls’ bathroom and would have to use one that has been designated as gender-neutral. Wanda McConnell of the school division says they are simply following the policy of the human rights commission but the Burgos family says they are interpreting the policy incorrectly. Patricia Knipe, communications director with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, said they won’t comment on an individual complaint but explains their guidelines: “Flexibility with respect to washroom use policies may be necessary to ensure that persons who are transgender or transsexual have access to a washroom that is as safe and comfortable as that available to others.”

Aside from this incident, Burgos said people at school have been very supportive since Isabella returned to classes this year identifying as female. He says they met with the superintendent in August to prepare for the sensitive transition. ”Everyone’s been open and they’ve accepted everything and Isabella’s part of the community,” said Burgos.

For Isabella, who wears pink nail polish and has coloured part of her long locks pink, the confrontation with the other child’s parent was clearly upsetting.

“I think that was really mean and I didn’t know if I should go in the office or not,” she said, grimacing and covering her eyes with her hands.

“I asked my teacher if we could learn about transgender in my class so they all understand.”

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