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BLOODSHED ON THE HILL SOLDIER, GUNMAN DEAD IN ATTACK ON HOUSE OF COMMONS

BY BRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A gunman turned the nation’s capital into an armed camp Wednesday after he fatally shot an honour guard at “point-blank” range at the National War Memorial before setting his sights on Parliament Hill. The e x - SHOOTING t r a o r - WILL CHANGE dinary CANADA: s c e n e FORMER MP A2 ended w i t h the assailant shot dead in the polished marble halls of Parliament’s Centre Block, apparently by the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Commons, while SWAT teams combed the busy parliamentary precinct in an ultimately fruitless search for accomplices. Prime Minister Stephen Harper capped the day’s stunning events with a rare live televised address, calling the tragedy a terrorist attack that he said would only redouble Canada’s efforts to combat fight terrorism at home and abroad. Slain reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo of Hamilton, Ont., is the second member of the Armed Forces this week to die in an apparently random, murderous attack, just as Canadian war planes are being deployed to Iraq. Two Canadian soldiers were run over — one of them fatally — in Quebec on Monday by a man with jihadist sympathies. The shooter was identified as Michael Zehaf Bibeau, born in 1982 and known to police in Montreal and Vancouver. “It’s way too early to be able to determine a motive,” said Gilles Michaud, the assistant commissioner of the RCMP. But the prime minister later took to the national airwaves to unequivocally characterize the shooter’s true motives.

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A soldier shot and killed in Ottawa on Wednesday was a reservist who was only on a short-term posting at the National War Memorial, relatives and other sources said. Cpl. Nathan Cirillo of Hamilton, was gunned down as he and another soldier stood guard at the cenotaph. “Our family is grieving,” a relative reached at the Cirillo home told The Canadian Press. “Right now is the wrong time to talk.” Military representatives were with the family and the man said he would not be speaking publicly. Cirillo’s mother was reported to have gone to Ottawa while his father and sisters remained in Hamilton. According to his Facebook profile, Cirillo was an animal lover, outdoor enthusiast and fitness buff. Photographs show him posing with a dog last month. Other pictures show him with an axe in the woods in uniform, or smiling broadly as he stands in a river in swimming trunks. Another shows a kitten peeking out from his military backpack. Cirillo, 24, left behind a six-yearold son, according to a friend who asked not to be named.

Police secure an area around Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday. A gunman opened fire at the National War Memorial, killing Cpl. Nathan Cirillo of Hamilton, then moved to nearby Parliament Hill and wounded a security guard before he was shot and killed, reportedly by Parliament’s sergeant-at-arms.

TIMELINE 9:52 a.m. ● Ottawa police say they receive reports of a Canadian honour guard shot at the National War Memorial. 9:54 a.m. ● Reporter Josh Wingrove of the Globe and Mail tweets that he hears gunfire inside Parliament’s Centre Block building. In a subsequent tweet two minutes later, he reports hearing “dozens” of shots and sees a body on the ground outside the Library of Parliament. 10:25 a.m. ● As word of the shootings goes viral online and dominates TV newscasts in Canada and around the world, the RCMP tweets out its first statement asking the public to stay away from Parliament Hill “due to ongoing police incident.” The public is later asked “to stay away from windows and off roofs” in downtown Ottawa. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

● Ottawa police announce on Twitter that they have closed all their stations and won’t offer any services to the public while the investigation into the shootings continues. ● Soon after, a statement says officers are “investigating several shooting incidents in downtown Ottawa.” ● Politicians, journalists and staff on Parliament Hill and people in downtown Ottawa are largely forced into lockdowns or evacuated from the area as growing numbers of police officers search for one or more suspects. ● An NHL game between the Ottawa Senators and the Toronto Maple Leafs scheduled for Wednesday night in Ottawa is postponed. ● The Quebec national assembly and the New Brunswick legislature close outright while some other provincial government buildings restrict access or beef up security. ● The U.S. State Department says it’s limiting movement of personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, which is located near Parliament Hill.

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Shooting will change Canada: former MP BY MARY-ANN BARR AND SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A former Central Alberta Conservative MP said the country will change in the wake of the shooting on Parliament Hill on Wednesday. Myron Thompson, 78, the MP for the riding of Wild Rose for 15 years before he stepped down in 2008, lives in Sundre. When reached on Wednesday afternoon, Thompson said he was very perturbed about the shooting, and had been following it for much of the day. “The country will change. ... There’ll be a lot heavier security and they will be well trained and armed. That’s what I think will come. “I just hope that the government takes this very seriously and will retaliate in a manner that means business. “If you plan on trying any of this stuff anywhere in this country, there will be hell to pay.” Thompson, not known for tender-footing around issues, said he would be trying to call friends in Ottawa later today to see if they are all right. “They’re not going to let those guys out of those rooms until they are absolutely certain it is all clear. “These are terrorists. “I often wondered at times when that 9/11 came

out ... if the measures they were taking (in Ottawa) were going to be sufficient if anything went haywire there.” Security guards for the most part are not armed, although there are plainclothes officers who are, he said. “It’s very upsetting and people better not take it with a grain of salt. This is serious business.” The mayor of Red Deer, Tara Veer, issued a statement earlier. “On behalf of Red Deerians, my thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and fellow Canadians affected by the shootings on Parliament Hill and at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.” The release said that while there is no indication that the safety and security of Red Deerians is at risk in any way, the City of Red Deer and local authorities are closely monitoring the situation in Ottawa, and are always prepared to respond to emergent situations. “Tragic events like these highlight the need to be vigilant in our emergency preparedness as well as in our awareness that these kinds of occurrences have the potential to affect us at a local level. We are confident in our emergency planning, response and personnel in Red Deer, and we are prepared to extend support, if needed, to the men and women who are on the ground dealing with the situation in Ottawa today,” said Veer.

Earlier today, Matthew Trapp, legislative assistant to Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen, said he talked to Dreeshen after the shooting and he was OK. “Earl was in Centre Block at the time,” said Trapp at about 9:15 a.m. from Dreeshen’s office across the street from Parliament. Centre Block is the main parliamentary building in Ottawa. “We’re not exactly sure where (MPs) are. Everything is in lockdown.” A staff member in Central Alberta for Crowfoot MP Kevin Sorenson would only say that they have been informed that Sorenson is safe. Similarly, local staff for Wetaskiwin MP Blaine Calkins said they have received a text saying that he is safe. Ottawa staff for Wild Rose MP Blake Richards confirmed that Richards and his staff were safe. “We understand that many of you are following the rapidly developing tragic events in Ottawa this morning. The Parliamentary Precinct is currently on a security lockdown. We can confirm the safety of Mr. Richards and our Ottawa staff. Please keep those injured and those responding in your thoughts and prayers,” Russ Lyster, director of operations for Richards, said in an email to the Advocate. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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SHOOTING: Terrorism

CHRONOLOGY: Lockdown partially lifted

● Some buildings in Ottawa’s downtown core, including the Rideau Centre, have their lockdowns lifted and people are allowed to go home. 5:10 p.m. ● Ottawa police say its “safety perimeter” has been reduced in size. Residents inside the area are still asked to stay indoors until further notice.

SOLDIER: ‘Cowardly ambush’

● Ottawa police confirm the soldier is dead, as is the gunman. “This is an ongoing police operation and there is no one in custody at this time,” police say. An earlier report of an incident at the Rideau Centre is retracted as incorrect.

He and the boy’s mother had split up, the friend said. “He loved his son,” the friend said. He was the one guy that never picked a fight with anybody. He was just happy go lucky.“ The friend called it “messed up” that Cirillo survived a serious motorcycle crash only to be gunned down. David Cirillo, who identified himself as the soldier’s cousin, expressed anger at the killing in a posting on Facebook. “To the gunman that shot my cousin point blank in front of the Parliament Hill this morning for no reason, you will get what’s coming to you,” the posting reads. “You destroyed my whole family for life. If there’s a way I can find you I will kill you.” Cirillo, who attended Sherwood Secondary School

2 p.m. - 4 p.m. ● At a press conference, police won’t say whether they believe a second shooter was involved and still on the run. They say the investigation continues and ask Ottawa residents to remain on the watch for anything suspicious. ● The Prime Minister’s Office releases a statement with Stephen Harper calling the shootings a “despicable attack.” ● The White House summarizes a call between U.S. President Barack Obama and Harper. Obama condemned the “outrageous attacks” and offered assistance in responding to the shootings.

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in Hamilton, was also an online gaming enthusiast. The soldier was standing on guard at the war memorial near Parliament Hill Wednesday morning when a man opened fire. The gunman was later shot dead in Parliament’s Centre Block amid a frantic search for the assailant and any accomplices. Hamilton Mayor Bob Bratina called it a “such a terrible day” for Canada. “When you’re a soldier you understand that when you go into harm’s way that there’s always the possibility that the worst could happen, but who would ever think of it standing in ceremony at the cenotaph in Ottawa,” Bratina told CP24. After visiting the family, Bratina said Cirillo joined the cadets as a 13-year-old and became a reservist. He was only at the cenotaph for a day or so, the mayor said. “(He) would have been a trained combat soldier sadly taken in this cowardly ambush, which makes the tragedy even greater,” said Bratina. “The sad timing of this man’s life to put him there in that position on the day that this occurrence took place is just a horrible irony.” At least two memorial Facebook pages to Cirillo sprang up within hours after the killing. “RIP Cpl. Nathan,” said one comment. “Thank you so much for serving our country. My sincerest condolences to your family. My thoughts and prayers are with you.”

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“Fellow Canadians, in the days to come we will learn more about the terrorist and any accomplices he may have had,” Harper said. “But this week’s events are a grim reminder that Canada is not immune to the types of terrorist attacks we have seen elsewhere around the world.” Attacks on Canadian security personnel and governing institutions, he said, are “by their very nature, attacks on our country, on our values, on our society, on us Canadians as a free and democratic people who embrace human dignity for all.” Tony Zobl, 35, witnessed Cirillo being gunned down at the War Memorial from his fourth-floor office window directly above the monument, just before 10 a.m. Wednesday. “I looked out the window and saw a shooter — a man dressed all in black with a kerchief over his nose and mouth and something over his head as well — holding a rifle and shooting an honour guard in front of the Cenotaph, point blank, twice,” Zobl told The Canadian Press. “It looked like the honour guard was trying to reach for the barrel of the gun,” he continued. “The honour guard dropped to the ground and the shooter kind of raised his arms in triumph holding the rifle.” Zobl said the shooter then ran up the street toward Parliament Hill. It was only earlier this year that the government extended the season for live guards at the monument through the November Remembrance Day ceremonies. In the past, the honour guard has stood down after Labour Day. — With files from Jennifer Ditchburn, Steve Rennie, Jim Bronskill, Murray Brewster, Stephanie Levitz, Joan Bryden, Andy Blatchford and Lina Dib

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Chamber honours businesses Heather Murphy, who started the Go Tire mobile tire service with her husband Craig Howes, reflected on how the business — which now has 20 franchised locations — has grown. She said Howes’ commitment had a lot to do with that. “It’s because of his insatiable drive that the company is growing at the rate that it has and achieving successes that seem almost impossible when you consider that Go Tire was only an idea four years ago.” In addition to Accu-Thread, the finalists in the 21-plus employee category were Carpet Colour Centre and Boston Pizza Red Deer. Competing against Collegiate Sports Medicine in the 11-to-20-employee division were Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital and Red Deer Electric Ltd. And rounding out the field in the one-to-10-employee category won by Go Tire were Larkaun Homes and Family First Chiropractic and Wellness. Early in the evening, Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas commented on the day’s events in Ottawa. “Our country, our democracy, came under attack,” he said. Dallas acknowledged the sacrifice of the young reservist who was killed, and the bravery of the first responders who arrived on the scene soon after. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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It was an emotional evening at the Red Deer College Arts Centre on Wednesday, as tribute was paid to the soldier killed earlier in the day at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, and recipients of Business of the Year awards shed tears on stage. The annual Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce awards saw Accu-Thread Machining Inc. take the prize for businesses with 21 or more employees. Claiming top honours among businesses with 11 to 20 employees was Collegiate Sports Medicine Inc., and Go Tire Inc. received the award for businesses with staffs of one to 10 people. “We didn’t expect this,” said David Jakeman, shop manager at AccuThread. Owned by Barry and Sherry Daniluk, the machining shop specializes in oilfield equipment. Jakeman remarked on how the business has grown from a tiny machine shop to one of the city’s biggest in just seven years, and the “great honour” of being recognized by the Chamber. Collegiate Sports Medicine owner Melanie Tuck said she was “honoured” and “flabbergasted.” She credited Collegiate’s success since it started in 2003 to Red Deer’s rich sports culture and the shared vision of her team.

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nation of making sure we’re operating as efficiently as possible and we’re building as much capacity as possible to meet that growing demand.” Bales said in the last several weeks, those waiting to leave the hospital for continuing care has been as high as 20 people. The longest waits are for supportive-living care, not long-term. Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Kerry Towle said AHS always blames wait times on population growth. “That’s not accurate. We have a $17-billion Alberta Health Services budget. Yes we have more people coming to the province and that adds to the workloads, but it’s the centralization of those programs in the province that has created the backlog for a multitude of different areas,” Towle said. Unlike people in Calgary and Edmonton, Central Albertans don’t have the ability to choose which emergency department to visit, making it harder on them, she said. A Freedom of Information request released last fall by Wildrose showed only 39 per cent of ER patients at the Red Deer hospital were admitted within the eight-hour wait time benchmark in 2013 and patients waited an average of 14.5 hours to be admitted. Towle said the Wildrose would reduce wait times by reopening all the long-term care beds the Progressive Conservatives closed and use transition beds for acute care patients to alleviate pressures on the emergency department. Towle said Wildrose would also put $50 million more into home care so people can get the care they need. Last year, AHS cut the time allotted for medication administration to seven minutes from 15 minutes, so less time can be spent on preventive care. “There’s no opportunity for that home-care person to engage with that person and make sure they’re OK,” Towle said. When it comes to wait times for being treated and released from emergency in Red Deer, the median length of time was three hours, meaning half the patients waited three hours or longer and half had shorter waits. Eight hospitals in Alberta had longer average emergency waits from up

to 5.1 hours at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital to 3.2 hours at both Edmonton’s Misericordia Community Hospital and Northeast Community Health Centre. Red Deer’s treatment target for 2014-15 is 2.9 hours. According to AHS’s former benchmark standard to release 80 per cent of patients within four hours, Red Deer met the target for emergency wait times in over 50 per cent of patients. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Putting a surplus to use BY LIVIO DI MATTEO SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The news that Ottawa will post a dramatically smaller deficit — $5.2 billion versus the $16.6 billion forecast — indicates Ottawa is moving into surplus territory quicker than anticipated. Although Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated Ottawa is still expected to post a small deficit for the 2014-15 fiscal year, analysis from TD Economics forecasts a $5-billion surplus and more surpluses thereafter. In fact, Ottawa may be on track for $71 billion in surpluses over the next six years. It would appear that the lean years are over. Ottawa has balanced the budget while also shrinking the federal government’s fiscal footprint. As a percentage of GDP, federal government revenues are the lowest they have been since the mid-1960s. Indeed, the last budget predicted revenue to GDP of 14.4 per cent by 2018-19 compared to program spending taking up only 12.4 per cent and public debt charges 1.6 per cent. The prospect of an era of surpluses will generate a new dynamic as the prospect of rela-

tive abundance sparks demand for new initiatives. What should the federal government do with its newfound abundance? The more relaxed fiscal constraints will allow the Conservative government to go into an election year with a platform of initiatives funded from the growing surplus. Here are some candidates. ● More money to pay the debt. This is a non-starter in an election year as the photo opportunities from governments for paying down the debt are not the stuff election campaigns are made of. The federal debt to GDP ratio is below 35 per cent and a growing GDP erodes that share without paying down a dime of the debt. Moreover, interest rates are still low and public debt charges not an enormous burden on the government. ● More money for the provinces. This is another non-starter. The federal government rarely gets credit for handing the provinces money to announce their own new initiatives. Since 2005-06, federal transfers to the provinces and territories have grown by $23 billion but you would never know that from the lamentations of provincial premiers. The one area where one might have anticipated new money is health, given

our aging populations. However, the federal government has already put those demands in abeyance by announcing that, after 2017, federal health transfers will grow at the rate of growth of GDP. Moreover, the provinces have access to as many revenue sources as Ottawa does and if they want to spend more, they should simply raise their own tax rates — and take the heat for doing so. ● More money for municipalities. This might have some traction given that money for new physical infrastructure generates ample venues for federal ministers to have their picture taken and optics are extremely important in an election year. On the other hand, our constitution makes municipalities creatures of the provinces. Why help the provinces indirectly if you are unwilling to help them directly? ● More money for people. This is where the federal government will likely go and one can expect the government to deliver on income splitting for couples with children under age 18. However, the real question is whether this is the best way to deliver tax relief? Should tax relief be targeted or broad based? Why income splitting

and not a reduction in income tax rates? This is an important discussion and a broader discussion about the tax system has not been had in Canada since the late 1980s when the foundations for income tax reform and the GST were laid. Ideally, one wants a more reflective and thoughtful approach to what Ottawa should do with the money, particularly given the volatility of the global economic environment and the aging of the Canadian population with the spillover effects on health care and the labour market. Along with a systematic review of the tax system, where should the federal government go with respect to new infrastructure spending? Should we four-lane the Trans-Canada Hwy? Build new ships to assert Arctic sovereignty? Invest in aboriginal education? Where will we get the most value for our tax dollars? This might be one of the times we might actually welcome a Royal Commission on new directions for dealing with the anticipated federal surplus. Livio Di Matteo is professor of Economics at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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Assisted suicide versus palliative care BY HARVEY MAX CHOCHINOV AND BALFOUR M. MOUNT SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The Supreme Court of Canada has been hearing an appeal by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association that could grant terminally-ill Canadians the right to assisted suicide. With this impending ruling and the passing of Bill 52 in Quebec (Medical Aid in Dying) and rumblings from Parliament of another private member’s bill on assisted suicide, Canada is at a crossroads. The court faces a daunting task. The arguments they will hear are complex, diverse and impassioned, given our societal fear of death and the process leading to it. While some will try to reassure the court that many Canadians support physician hastened death, others will caution that popularity is hardly a trustworthy guide to constructive and just social policy reform. But first, the court must consider whether their decision will improve care for the terminally ill. Dying in Canada can be a scary prospect. According to a parliamentary report from 2000, most Canadians do not have access to comprehensive palliative care. Most will die in tertiary care settings due to inadequate community resources to support a home death. Furthermore, there are no national standards pertaining to pain control, symptom alleviation, psychosocial care and spiritual support. For First Nations, Metis or Inuit, receiving culturally sensitive palliative care is unlikely. Many patients in rural areas have little or no access to comprehensive palliative care. The court must also consider who they would empower to carry out assisted suicide. By the time

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A Stettler-area woman is fighting for tougher dog bylaws after her family’s beloved chocolate Labrador was mauled to death by a neighbour’s pit bulls. The attack happened on Sept. 15 in Wanda Webster’s acreage yard just south of town in the County of Stettler. The pit bulls were seized by animal control, but the dogs were released to their owner the next day as is allowed under the county’s bylaw. “Those dogs were released to their owner the next morning. That’s just not right,” said Webster, who took her case to county council earlier this month. Webster said violent dogs should be held at least until the courts have decided their fate. That would have been the procedure under the county’s bylaw had the dogs attacked a person. They are deemed dangerous and held until a court rules on their future. But the same rules don’t apply in dog-on-dog attacks. Webster found her dog Hershey badly injured in the yard when she came home about 6 p.m. She called a veterinarian but the eight-year-old dog she had raised from a puppy died before the vet arrived. The pit bulls had ripped open and crushed her dog’s chest, KITCHEN APPLIANCES she was told. The dogs were not from the area, but from town. She saw them be-

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said he had seen a preliminary outline of the charges and met with his client. “She’s in bewilderment,” he said. “But I can’t talk to you about what she said to me because that would be a breach of solicitor-client privilege.” Giesbrecht was initially arrested on murder charges, but those weren’t the charges that were filed with the court, Brodsky said. That indicates the autopsy and forensic investigation isn’t complete yet, he said. “The forensic examination is really important,” Brodsky said. “There has to be an autopsy conducted and more investigation done in order to determine where this case is going.” The breach of probation charge relates to two charges of fraud over $5,000 that were laid against Giesbrecht in 2012. She was given a suspended sentence and two years of probation at a court hearing three weeks ago after pleading guilty to borrowing money from a 73-year-old neighbour and repaying her with bounced cheques. Her lawyer at that hearing, Alan Libman, told the court that Giesbrecht’s parents were longtime gamblers who had “gambled away all their savings” before they died and left taxes unpaid on the house that Giesbrecht now lives in. Gambling “was part of the family milieu,” Libman is heard to say in a recording of the proceedings. Records indicate Giesbrecht was also unable to pay taxes and utilities, and borrowed money on more than one occasion from her neighbour. Eventually, she wrote two cheques to repay the woman. But the bank account the cheques were written on had been closed for two years. Giesbrecht wanted to repay the woman, but was caught up in addiction, Libman told the hearing.

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Link said the company has a batch of vaccine that is close to being ready. It is working with two European contract manufacturers to produce more, and anticipates having an American manufacturer signed on to help in the next couple of weeks. The company expects to have between 60,000 and 70,000 vials of VSV-EBOV by the end of the year, Link said. Depending on how much is required per person, those vials could represent 600,000 to 700,000 doses — or six million to seven million. Link said preliminary work is already underway in Sierra Leone and Liberia to plan for the start of a Phase 3 trial there early in the New Year. The current idea would be to go from Phase 1 trials straight to Phase 3, the large trials meant to show if a drug or vaccines actually works, Link said. The Phase 3 trial would test the vaccine in thousands of volunteers, including health-care workers. Link spoke of a trial design that would see between 30,000 and 40,000 people randomly assigned to get VSV-EBOV, the other experimental vaccine which is being made by GlaxoSmithKline, or a placebo — probably hepatitis B vaccine. Some argue the placebo arm is needed to show if these vaccines are actually protective. But a number

of public health experts have denounced that plan, calling it unethical. “It’s the $64,000 question that’s being talked about all around the world right now,” Link admitted. Hopes are high for the NewLink vaccine. Studies in animals suggest it can be given both to prevent infection before exposure to the virus — the way childhood vaccines work — and to mitigate the severity of the illness if given shortly after exposure. It is also expected that VSV-EBOV will require only one dose. The other leading vaccine candidate, the one made by GSK, may require a priming and a boosting dose, which will further complicate what is already expected to be the enormously challenging task of vaccinating large numbers of people in a setting with few health-care resources. But the feature of the VSV vaccine that is responsible for its one-dose delivery is also the reason why there are some concerns about this vaccine. VSV-EBOV contains live viruses — vesicular stomatitis viruses, which infect animals but which are harmless to people. The viruses have been genetically engineered to produce one of the proteins generate by the Ebola virus. The vaccine cannot give a recipient Ebola; it does not contain the whole Ebola virus. But the VSV viruses replicate in the recipient, essentially causing a low grade infection.

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Oilers take down Capitals THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 3 Capitals 2 EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers are improving — but they’re still struggling with defensive lapses. Ben Scrivens made 32 stops as the Oilers won their second game in a row, handing the Capitals their first loss in regulation this season with a 3-2 victory over Washington on Wednesday. Scrivens faced 13 shots in the third alone, safeguarding Edmonton’s narrow one-goal lead in the scoreless period. “I will say that’s not how we want to play in the third period,’’ said Oilers head coach Dallas Eakins. “We started backing up and we don’t want to do that as a group. We’ll get better at that for sure. Even though we ended up in our zone a lot, we were able to cover off that bad area. that red zone, and when Ben needed to, he was there for us, he was excellent. “They’re maturing, they’re getting some gamesmanship. It’s not like there is a big fire drill going on anymore.’’ Defenceman Justin Schultz agreed with his coach, but put an emphasis on Edmonton’s progress from game to game.

“We’re improving each game and we’re definitely trying to clean that up, not be running around and leaving guys open. It’s been working for us in the last few games,’’ said Schultz, who added that Scrivens was a game saver. “When he plays like that, he always gives us a chance. It wasn’t our best effort for us out there, but we found a way to win.’’ Schultz, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Nikita Nikitin scored for the Oilers (2-4-1), who had avoided setting a new franchise record for the worst start to the season with a win over Tampa Bay on Monday. Teddy Purcell picked up a pair of assists for Edmonton. John Carlson and Mike Green replied for the Capitals (3-1-2), who saw a two-game winning streak snapped. “For the last two periods we played great,’’ said Washington forward Marcus Johansson. “We had enough chances to score, we just didn’t bury them. It is the small details that can cost you a game and tonight it did. It was a tough one to lose, but that’s hockey sometimes. “We played well, we just didn’t execute and it cost us too much.’’ Capitals goalie Braden

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Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin is stopped by Edmonton Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens during NHL action in Edmonton, on Wednesday. Holtby shouldered part of the blame. “We did a lot of good things, we just didn’t seem to be able to get a bounce,’’ he said. “Our team played well enough to get a win. In the end, they won

a goaltending battle. Their second goal had no business going in and that was the difference in the game.’’ The Oilers started the scoring seven minutes into the opening period as Purcell

made a nice backhand pass from the corner to a pinching Schultz in front, and he beat Holtby for his second goal in as many games.

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Many sports represented in Hall of Fame’s new class MANLEY, HEANEY, BURKE AMONG INDUCTEES FOR CANADA’S SPORTS HALL’S CLASS OF 2014 BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Figure skater Elizabeth Manley didn’t feel any pressure before competing at the 1988 Winter Games in her home country. She was just happy that a case of pneumonia didn’t derail her Olympic dream. Manley, who was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday, battled a high fever ahead of her memorable performance at the Olympic Saddledome. She fought through the illness and wowed an adoring crowd by winning a silver medal in one of the standout moments of the Games. Manley’s stunned smile at the finish provided a lasting image of the Calgary experience. But it was a struggle to get to that point. On the off-day between the short and long program, Manley was running a temperature of 105 degrees. “Honestly the best thing that ever happened to me was

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Anna Phelan, sister of the late skier Sarah Burke, holds a plaque at a press conference where her sister and seven others were inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in Toronto on Wednesday. that I was that sick,” she said. “I was too sick to get nervous, too sick to get caught up and be obsessed with, ’Oh my God, I’m (competing) in my home country.’ I literally just be-

came robotic because of my illness. “I just had to go from A to B and then just take each step at a time.” Manley and her coaches

weren’t sure whether she could physically get through her free program. But she was in excellent condition and had actually trained on how to compete when fighting an illness. A conversation with Canadian hockey coach Dave King also helped motivate her. He told her how much she had inspired his players with her effort. “It turned things around for me in a matter of hours,” Manley said. “It just made me realize that I’m here, I want to do this, why would I give it up at this point. And I proceeded through to the free program and thank goodness I did.” Manley, who was not expected to be a podium contender, finished just behind East German favourite Katarina Witt. American Debi Thomas was third. Manley also took silver at the 1988 world championship and was the first female skater in Canada to successfully land a triple-double combination jump in competition.

The Hall’s Class of 2014 also included freestyle skier Sarah Burke, ski jumper Horst Bulau, skier/cyclist Pierre Harvey, hockey player Geraldine Heaney, rugby player Gareth Rees, wheelchair basketball coach Tim Frick and basketball coach Kathy Shields. Burke was a freestyle pioneer and driving force behind the inclusion of the women’s halfpipe and slopestyle events at the Sochi Olympics. She died at age 29 after a training accident in Utah in 2012. A number of Burke’s family members were on hand for the induction at the Mattamy Athletic Centre. “It really comes down to honouring such an incredibly kind human being that played the sport,” said her father, Gordon Burke. “She worked hard, she played hard and she loved what she did — every minute of the day. “She’d be pretty blown away I think that this was happening to her.”

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fornia and should fill Strickland’s spot at centre. Shooting guard Benny Bankazo came in from Medicine Hat College after averaging 20.4 points per game for the Rattlers in 2012-13, he seemed destined for a college in the U.S. before deciding on RDC. Meanwhile, forward Tyler Wise comes over from the MacEwan Griffins, choosing the Kings over several other options, including the University of Alberta Golden Bears. The third-year shooting guard averaged 14.4 points last year while leading the Griffins with a shooting percentage of 33.3 from threepoint range. One other recruit may prove to have the biggest upside of them all: William Beard-Camp. The six-foot-two guard out of Ogden, Utah has not played in the ACAC since tearing his ACL in the 10th game of the 2012-13 season with MHC. At the time he was averaging 18.1 points per game and was

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hitting on 53.1 per cent of his shots from beyond the arch. “We took a flier on him, he seems like a good kid and is getting better every day in practice and I think by the time it’s all said and done, he’s going to be one of the most dangerous players in the league,” said Pottinger. But the Kings have four key players back from their provincial championship team, led by fifth year guard Jacob Cusumano, the only returning starter. However, he will be joined in the top five by Brian Prenoslo and Matt Johnson who were valuable bench players last season and have earned their spot in the starting lineup. JP Leblanc, meanwhile, has stepped up as a second year guard and has been one of the Kings’ best players in the preseason and will be one of the first men off the bench. The most important thing they bring as a group, howev-

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er, is that championship experience and the ability to carry on the Kings way. “Those guys are at the heart of what we do, they give us the continuity,” said Pottinger. “They’re taking the torch from the Lloyd Stricklands and the Rob Pierces and they’re trying to pick up from where they left off ... “Especially early in the year with a lot of new guys coming in, we as coaches can say what we want but if we don’t have players showing it and living it and exuding it the sell becomes much harder.” The Queens are on the other end of the spectrum. They’re building from the ground up with new coach Ken King who is in his first college head coaching job. They are also returning just two players from last year’s team that finished 9-11 and out of the playoffs.

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RDC’s basketball teams that came within a few bascould not have ended last sea- kets of a national championson with more different sta- ship, Kings head coach Clay tuses. Pottinger is ready for another The Kings findeep run. ished as Canadian “We’re always Colleges Athletic recruiting with the Association silver end game in mind, medallists and the we recruited guys Queens missed out that we think will be on the post season able to pick basicalaltogether. ly where we left off However, both last year,” said Potenter the new Altinger. “A lot of peoberta Colleges Athple think it would be letic Conference prudent to baby-step season on Friday your way toward it against the SAIT ... but we’re a little JOSH Trojans with a lot bit more of a swingALDRICH of the same quesfor-the-fences type tion marks. of team.” Both teams unGone are last derwent wholesale year’s stars like Clay roster changes and neither Crellin, Lloyd Strickland, Mari team is a pre-season favourite Peoples and Ashaunti Hogan. to win the conference. In their place are a trio of But it is their foundations transfers. that make them different. Six-foot-seven forward MarDespite only returning one cellus Clay has transferred in starter from last year’s team from Ohlone College in Cali-

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Royals down Giants to even World Series BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Royals 7 Giants 2 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Salvador Perez and the pesky Kansas City Royals fought back from a Game 1 flop to beat the San Francisco Giants’ brilliant bullpen and even the World Series. Perez broke open Game 2 with a two-run double in a five-run sixth inning, and the Royals’ own cast of clutch relievers kept the Giants in check in a 7-2 victory Wednesday night that certainly spiced things up as the Series shifts to San Francisco for the next three games. Jeremy Guthrie will be on the mound Friday night for the Royals, who had won eight straight playoff games before a 7-1 loss in the opener. Tim Hudson will start for San Francisco. “We showed them that we have fight in us, and I think they knew that already. But we stepped up big there as a team, and that gave us some confidence,” said Billy Butler, whose RBI single in the sixth inning gave the Royals a 3-2 lead. Perez followed with a double into the left-field gap, and Omar Infante hit a two-run shot off Hunter Strickland, the fifth home run that he’d allowed to 23 post-season batters. Strickland appeared to be muttering to himself as he stalked back to the mound, and Perez overheard him. The two exchanged words and players from both dugouts spilled onto the field. More streamed in from the outfield bullpens before order was finally restored. “He started to look at me, so I asked him like, ’Hey, why you look at me?”’ Perez said. “So he was telling me, ’Get out of here, whatever.’ So I don’t know. ’You

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OILERS: Stood tall Washington tied the game 1-1 midway through the first on the power play as the Capitals caught Edmonton running around, allowing Carlson to move in tight from the point and beat Scrivens with a bullet of a shot. The Caps’ next power play with two minutes left in the first was equally dangerous, but Scrivens came up with a huge save in tight on Green to keep the game tied. Edmonton outshot Washington 11-10 through the first 20 minutes. Green’s wrist shot from the slot five minutes into the second period gave Washington a 2-1 lead. That lead was short-lived, however, as Nugent-Hopkins picked off an Alex Ovechkin pass and blazed into the Washington zone, scoring just 20 seconds after the Capitals surged ahead. Edmonton regained the lead with four minutes left in the second period as a clumsy power play suddenly connected as Purcell tapped a puck back to the point and Nikitin scored his first as an Oiler on a point shot through traffic. Washington came out flying in the third, but Scrivens stood tall, stopping Ovechkin after he walked around Schultz for a great opportunity. Scrivens almost single-handedly preserved the win as the Capitals buzzed the Edmonton net, outshooting them 12-1 halfway through the third, but the Oilers held on for the victory.

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Kansas City Royals’ Billy Butler hits an RBI single during the sixth inning of Game 2 of baseball’s World Series against the San Francisco Giants Wednesday, in Kansas City, Mo. don’t have to treat me like that. Look at Omar. Omar hit a bomb. I didn’t hit a bomb. I hit a double. “So I don’t know what happened with that guy,” Perez added. “But the last thing, we don’t want to fight on the field. I’m not that kind of person, that kind of player.” Nevertheless, a series that began with a sleepy blowout had some life. Young flamethrower Yordano Ventura, with his 100 mph fastball singeing the brims of the Giants’ batting helmets, allowed just two runs while pitching into the sixth inning. The

23-year-old hardly looked like the first rookie to make a World Series start in Royals history, calmly working through a lineup that ravaged staff ace James Shields just 24 hours earlier. The dynamic trio of Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis and Greg Holland did the rest. Herrera got the final two outs of the sixth to escape a jam, two of his first three pitches clocking 101 mph on the radar gun. He also survived a shaky seventh that included a pair of walks before Davis locked down the eighth, striking out two in a perfect inning.

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Bulau, who won 13 World Cup titles over his career, represented Canada at four straight Olympic Games from 1980 to 1992. The 1979 world junior champion is considered Canada’s greatest ski jumper of all-time. Harvey, a multi-sport star, competed for Canada at two different Olympics in 1984. He raced in cross-country skiing at the Winter Games in Sarajevo and competed in cycling at the Summer Games in Los Angeles. In 1987, he won a World Cup race in Sweden to become the first Canadian to win an international cross-country event. Heaney is still the highest-scoring defender in the history of the national women’s hockey team program. The seven-time world champion won Olympic gold at the 2002 Salt Lake Games and silver at the 1998 Nagano Games. Rees played in four straight Rugby World Cups from 1987 to 1999 and served as captain on 25 occasions over his 14 years with the team. He also won scoring titles in France, Wales and England over his pro career. Frick and Shields entered in the builders category. Frick served as head coach of the Canadian women’s wheelchair basketball team for almost two decades. He led the squad to three straight Paralympic gold medals from 1992 to 2000. Shields guided the University of Victoria women’s basketball team to eight national titles and had a career coaching record of 320-50 at the school. The former senior women’s national team coach was also named Canada West coach of the year on nine occasions.

But King is optimistic about the opportunity before him. “I’m very excited, essentially the whole team is making their debut with all of the young people we brought in this year,” he said. “Process is the perfect word, it something we start at the end of August and it’s something that is ongoing for us as we change the culture and the attitude of the people that are on the team and getting everyone to buy in to what’s hopefully going to be a new direction.” The Queens have not made the ACAC playoffs since 2010 when they were swept 2-0 in the quarter-final by the Concordia Thunder. They have not made it past the first round of provincials since 1992 when they won the their fifth ACAC championship. Mount Royal University transfer Aneca Fretts has established herself early in the pre-season as player King will be able to lean on, as well as Amber Smith who led the St. Mary’s University Lightning in scoring last season. Meanwhile top recruit Kennedy Burgess out of Foothills high school in Okotoks has positioned herself early as a potential future captain. “She can really score, she can really defend and she knows the game well,” said King of Burgess. Third year guard Dedra Janvier and second year guard Gillian Griffin are the only two returning players, but Janvier appears ready to take the next step in her development. “Now that she’s getting increased minutes and we’ve worked on her shot a lot, she’s really turned into quite the scorer,” said King. The mass turnover is a function of players leaving for greener pastures

Greg Holland, who saved each game in the Royals’ sweep of Baltimore in the AL Championship Series, allowed a two-out single to Brandon Crawford before fanning Gregor Blanco to end the game. “We weren’t taking any chances,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. The Giants’ only runs came on a homer by Blanco and a double by Brandon Belt, their streak of seven straight World Series wins ending on a crisp, breezy night. “For us to leave here with a split, you like to get greedy,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said, “but we know it’s going to be a tough series.” Early on, it looked as if the Giants could be heading back to the Bay Area with a big lead. The fleet-footed Blanco silenced a rollicking sea of blue, becoming the 10th player to open a World Series game with a home run. He deposited Ventura’s 98 mph fastball in the bullpen in right field, just his 17th home run in more than 2,300 at-bats. The crowd, energized from the moment that Hall of Famer George Brett delivered the ceremonial first pitch, was left waiting for something good to happen for the second straight night. This time, the scrappy Royals gave it to them. ALCS MVP Lorenzo Cain stretched a two-out double later in the first, and Eric Hosmer walked on four pitches. Butler, Giants starter Jake Peavy’s long-time nemesis, then bounced a single past the outstretched glove of Crawford at shortstop to knot the game 1-all. The Royals kept the pressure on in second. Infante doubled over the head of Travis Ishikawa in left field, and Escobar sliced a two-out double down the right-field line to give Kansas City a 2-1 lead, its first in the World Series since Game 7 in 1985. and King’s need to build his own foundation. It is a natural transition whenever a new head coach comes into a program. “We really wanted to make sure that the people we did keep around were the people that believed in the vision that we have for the program,” he said. King’s biggest goal is to see a much improved team on the court by the end of the year, but he understands there will definitely be some tough stretches as this group adjusts to playing in the ACAC. “Because of the amount of the first years we have on our team (we’re working on) getting used to the pace and physicality of this level, as we adjust to that, the learning curve is going to be pretty awesome for them,” he said. The Queens tip off against the Trojans at RDC on at 6 p.m. with the Kings following at 8 p.m. They play in Calgary on Saturday against SAIT. ● Kings soccer player Alim Hirji was named ACAC men’s athlete of the week. ● The RDC Queens soccer team will play the Grande Prairie Wolves on Friday at 2 p.m. to open the ACAC championships hosted by NAIT in Edmonton. Provincials run through Sunday. ● The RDC Queens hockey team opens up their season tonight at the Red Deer Arena, hosting the MacEwan University Griffins at 7 p.m. They are in Edmonton on Friday for the return game against MacEwan at 8:15 p.m. ● The RDC Kings (3-4-0-1) hockey team hosts the Keyano College Huskies (5-1-0-0) on Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● The RDC volleyball teams are in Caronport, Sask., to play the Briercrest Clippers this weekend. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Linebacker Shea Emry tackling his depression head-on BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Shea Emry makes his living being dominant. The Toronto Argonauts middle linebacker has the brute strength to face a hulking offensive lineman head-on and is quick enough to track down a speedy running back in the open field. But throughout his successful football career, the two-time Grey Cup champion has been fighting a secret battle that he only recently started talking about publicly. Since childhood, the six-foot, 230-pound Emry has suffered from depression. And at times, it has taken him to dark places. “Yes, (suicide) is definitely something that’s crossed my mind,” Emery said during a recent interview. “It was never something I considered doing but I thought about it. “I thought about how it would affect my family. I knew I always had a greater purpose and life is amazing and luckily I’ve had a privileged life. I knew I wanted to have a family and share those types of moments with them. That’s why I never considered actually doing anything.” Fortunately for Emry, life is pretty good these days. The 28-year-old native of Richmond, B.C., is one of the one of the CFL’s top defensive players and last month became a father after his fiancee Devon Brooks gave birth to son Rozen Oak Emry. “We wanted the name to have some connection with nature and that’s where Oak

came in,” Emry said. That’s fitting as Emry often finds solitude outdoors. “There’s this place in West Vancouver, B.C., called Cypress Falls Park where there’s a roaring waterfall with a little lookout point that’s never really that busy,” Emry said. “I go there with Devon and if we’ve had any issues I’ll try to get her to yell as loud as possible because there’s so much natural noise going on that you can just get everything out. “I really need to utilize these moments where I feel at peace . . . you know how good you feel after a really good workout or a soccer match with your buddies? Those are the moments I search for.” A victim of bullying, Emry’s depression began when he was growing up in B.C. Rather than confide in his parents, friends or teachers, Emry kept quiet. “I wanted to be that alpha male, the tough, strong kid who didn’t have any problems,” Emry said. “That’s where the toxicity of silence occurs . . . not feeling that (talking to someone) was something I could do in my life made it worse for me.” Emry found solace in sports, where he could positively channel his aggression and feelings of frustration. He excelled in football, in 2004 earning a full scholarship at Eastern Washington. But leaving Richmond didn’t help. Emry felt homesick and often took sleeping pills to rest. After games on weekends, he drank. “The issues I was dealing with in my mind snowballed there because I didn’t have the

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats running back Mossis Madu is tackled by Toronto Argonauts linebackers Shea Emry (41) and Gregory Jones (53) during CFL action in Toronto on October 10, 2014. Emry has battled depression since he was a youth and until recently had done so quietly. support system I was looking for,” Emry said. “I didn’t know who I was . . . and it came to a boiling point where I was basically crying out for help to my parents.” After three years, Emry transferred to the University of British Columbia and established himself as a bluechip prospect. He was selected seventh overall in the ’08 CFL draft by the Montreal Alouettes, becoming a starter the following year and helping them win consecutive Grey Cup titles in 2009 and 2010. But Emry missed the second half of the 2011 season with a concussion. With time on his hands, Emry found himself again struggling with depression. “When I transferred, that was the first realization there was definitely a problem,” he said. “I hadn’t put my finger on it yet and I went through the beginning of my CFL career dealing with those issues but it was 2011 when I really first started to uncover what they were and where they were coming from. “That was the most important part . . . and actually opening up and speaking in my inner circle about what happened, why I felt that way and getting down to the root of the problem.”

Emry found inspiration in his mother Patty, who has endured more than 20 surgeries due to reproductive and intestinal problems. “She provided me the perspective to realize I wasn’t being the best person at that time and I wasn’t respecting the fact my parents had given me such a privileged life,” said Emry. Not long after, Emry felt strong enough to go public with his story to emphasize the importance of men talking about depression. He also launched the Wellmen Project, a program aimed at empowering males to take initiative in their own mental wellness. Earlier this month, Emry wrote a story about his depression for the Canadian Mental Health Association. Emry also draws support from home — his fiancee is a sexual assault victim who speaks publicly about violence against women. He also credits Brooks for motivating him to begin the Wellmen Project. “It’s something we as a couple have to deal with on a daily basis,” Emry said. “We know we have to feed off each other and make sure we’re accountable to our self-esteem and confidence issues. “Because our stories are completely different . . . we know we can bounce ideas off

one other and motivate each other. Meeting her and moving forward in our relationship allowed me to open up and talk about my situation because she talks openly about hers.” But dealing with depression is a life-long journey for many, including pro athletes. Many retired football players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative disease of the brain. Symptoms include depression and former NFL players Junior Seau and Dave Duerson both showed signs of brain disease after they committed suicide. When Emry was recovering from his concussion in 2011, the issue of depression was in the news with the suicides of former NHL players Wade Belak and Rick Rypien. Emry admits he was initially afraid to resume playing but believes strengthening his mind is one way to limit the potential affects of CTE. “After doing the research on CTE and communicating with experts . . . I realized the mind is a muscle and you need to work it out,” Emry said. “I’ve tried to fill my diet with as much brain-healthy food as possible, meditate, go to yoga and really do everything I can on and off the field to strengthen my mind.”

Attorney says Voynov didn’t hit girlfriend, police misunderstood her BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Slava Voynov’s attorney says the Los Angeles Kings defenceman never hit his girlfriend, and blames Voynov’s arrest on a misunderstanding caused partly by the couple’s limited ability to speak English. Craig Renetzky is hopeful the NHL will end Voynov’s indefinite suspension after reviewing the events that led to Voynov’s arrest on suspicion of domestic violence at a hospital near his home. Voynov hasn’t been charged. “From everything they’ve both said to me, this didn’t amount to a crime,” Renetzky said. “I think when the police understand what happened, their impression will be quite different.” Renetzky interviewed Voynov and his girlfriend extensively with help from a Russian interpreter. Without providing specific details, Renetzky said Voynov’s girlfriend’s injury resulted from “an accident.” “Slava never hit her,” Renetzky said. “She was injured, but it’s not a result of Slava punching her or anything remotely like that.” Redondo Beach police presented the investigation Wednesday to the Los

Angeles County District Attorney’s office, which requested more information before deciding whether to file charges. Voynov isn’t due in court again until Dec. 1. The NHL suspended Voynov indefinitely with pay on Monday, an action firmly supported by the Kings. Voynov is free on $50,000 bond, and the couple is still living together in Redondo Beach, a Los Angeles suburb, Renetzky said. “My hope is the courts and the league will look at what happened, what the reports show,” Renetzky said. “My hope is the district attorney’s office will keep an open mind, look at what the woman involved has said, and they’re going to conclude there’s no criminal activity.” Renetzky said he has been in contact with the NHL and the players’ union to offer the couple’s description of what happened. The Kings have 18 games before Voynov’s next court appearance, but Renetzky hopes the situation is resolved before then. “He’s very anxious to get back on the ice,” Renetzky said. The defending Stanley Cup champions host Buffalo on Thursday.

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Tuesday’s results Portland 3 Regina 1 Prince Albert 3 Kootenay 2 Lethbridge 2 Edmonton 1 (SO) Wednesday’s results Swift Current 5 Portland 4 Saskatoon 5 Kootenay 2 Brandon at Prince George, lateKamloops 7 Vancouver 2 Kelowna 4 Tri-City 0 Spokane 5 Everett 4 Friday’s games Prince George at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Portland at Prince Albert, 7 p.m. Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m. Lethbridge at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m. Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Brandon at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Tri-City at Everett, 8:35 p.m. Spokane at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 7 6 1 0 12 Tampa Bay 7 4 2 1 9 Ottawa 5 4 1 0 8 Detroit 6 3 1 2 8 Boston 8 4 4 0 8 Toronto 7 3 3 1 7 Florida 6 2 2 2 6 Buffalo 6 1 5 0 2

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Islanders 6 4 2 0 8 Washington 6 3 1 2 8 N.Y. Rangers 7 4 3 0 8 New Jersey 6 3 2 1 7 Pittsburgh 5 3 2 0 6 Columbus 5 3 2 0 6 Philadelphia 7 2 3 2 6 Carolina 5 0 3 2 2

GF GA 22 20 20 14 21 23 20 20 19 15 15 12 22 28 11 18

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 6 4 0 2 10 Chicago 5 4 0 1 9 Dallas 6 3 1 2 8 St. Louis 5 2 2 1 5 Minnesota 4 2 2 0 4 Winnipeg 6 2 4 0 4 Colorado 7 1 4 2 4

GF GA 16 11 16 7 21 20 12 9 10 4 11 16 12 24

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 6 5 1 0 10 21 13 Los Angeles 6 4 1 1 9 15 10 San Jose 7 4 2 1 9 23 20 Calgary 8 4 3 1 9 20 19 Vancouver 5 3 2 0 6 16 16 Arizona 5 2 2 1 5 16 22 Edmonton 7 2 4 1 5 17 29 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Tuesday’s Games Nashville 4, Arizona 3, SO Boston 5, San Jose 3 N.Y. Rangers 4, New Jersey 3, OT Toronto 5, N.Y. Islanders 2 Montreal 2, Detroit 1, OT Winnipeg 3, Carolina 1 Chicago 4, Philadelphia 0 Dallas 6, Vancouver 3 Florida 4, Colorado 3, OT Tampa Bay 2, Calgary 1, OT Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 3 Edmonton 3, Washington 2 Toronto at Ottawa, ppd. Buffalo at Anaheim, late

Flyers 5, Penguins 3 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Spaling 1 (Ehrhoff, Comeau) 3:50. 2. Philadelphia, Streit 2 (Giroux, Voracek) 9:20. 3. Philadelphia, Bellemare 1 (Couturier, Schultz) 13:18. Penalties — VandeVelde Pha (hooking) 1:43, Couturier Pha (hooking) 11:04, Umberger Pha (fighting) 18:47, Despres Pgh (fighting) 18:47, Despres Pgh (interference) 18:47. Second Period 4. Pittsburgh, Dupuis 2 (Martin, Malkin) 9:00. Penalties — Dupuis Pgh (holding) 6:20, Schultz Pha (hooking) 19:39, Kunitz Pgh (Embellishment) 19:39. Third Period 5. Philadelphia, Umberger 1 (Giroux, Voracek) 6:50. 6. Philadelphia, Read 1 (Couturier, Umberger) 8:50. 7. Pittsburgh, Goc 1 (Spaling, Downie) 17:03. 8. Philadelphia, Couturier 3 (unassisted) 19:33 (en). Penalties — None. Shots on goal Philadelphia 7 17 9 — 33 Pittsburgh 11 6 8 — 25 Goal — Philadelphia: Emery (W, 2-0-1); Pittsburgh: Fleury (L, 3-2-0). Power plays (goal-chances) — Philadelphia: 0-2; Pittsburgh: 0-2.

Tuesday’s results Calgary Mustangs 6 Calgary Canucks 2 Drayton Valley 5 Spruce Grove 4

Friday’s Games Dallas at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 7 p.m. Carolina at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m. Columbus at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s results Brooks 4 Bonnyville 3 (OT) Whitecourt at Grand Prairie, late

Wednesday’s summaries

GF GA 22 21 21 14 14 10 12 10 20 20 20 21 9 14 8 22

No Scoring. Penalties — None. Shots on goal Washington 11 10 13 — 34 Edmonton 10 5 5 — 20 Goal — Washington: Holtby (L, 2-1-1); Edmonton: Scrivens (W, 2-3-0). Power plays (goal-chances) — Washington: 1-2; Edmonton: 1-2.

AJHL North Division GP W L OTL SOLGF GA Pt Spruce Grove 17 11 4 2 0 63 39 24 Sherwood Park 18 10 7 0 1 54 46 21 Fort McMurray 18 9 7 1 1 54 53 20 Bonnyville 15 7 5 2 1 37 36 17 Lloydminster 15 8 7 0 0 43 37 16 Drayton Valley 14 7 6 1 0 35 38 15 Whitecourt 16 5 9 1 1 53 62 12 Grand Prairie 18 6 12 0 0 41 66 12 South Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Camrose 15 11 2 1 1 44 30 24 Okotoks 18 10 5 1 2 48 47 23 Brooks 16 10 5 0 1 62 43 21 Olds 17 9 5 2 1 67 69 21 Drumheller 15 8 4 2 1 43 40 19 Canmore 15 8 7 0 0 52 48 16 Cal. Canucks 17 7 8 0 2 44 61 16 Cal. Mustangs 16 4 12 0 0 35 60 8

Thursday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Boston, 5 p.m. Pittsburgh at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Vancouver at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Chicago at Nashville, 6 p.m. Arizona at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Carolina at Calgary, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Columbus at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Prince George at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Lethbridge at Prince Albert, 7 p.m. Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m. Portland at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m. Calgary at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Brandon at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Kootenay at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Kamloops at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Oilers 3, Capitals 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Schultz 2 (Purcell, Perron) 6:53. 2. Washington, Carlson 1 (Backstrom, Johansson) 10:15 (pp). Penalties — Hendricks Edm (tripping) 9:10, O’Brien Wash (interference) 13:29, O’Brien Wash (fighting) 13:29, Hendricks Edm (fighting) 13:29, Joensuu Edm (high-sticking) 16:11. Second Period 3. Washington, Green 3 (Burakovsky) 4:50. 4. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 2 (unassisted) 5:10. 5. Edmonton, Nikitin 1 (Purcell, Draisaitl) 16:08 (pp). Penalties — Chimera Wash (slashing) 15:11. Third Period

Thursday’s games Olds at Drumheller, 7 p.m. Sherwood Park at Drayton Valley, 7:30 p.m. Bonnyville at Calgary Mustangs, 7:30 p.m. Friday’s games Calgary Canucks at Camrose, 7 p.m. Canmore at Okotoks, 7 p.m. Grand Prairie at Whitecourt, 7:30 p.m. Fort McMurray at Lloydminster, 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s games Brooks at Olds, 7 p.m. Grand Prairie at Spruce Grove, 7 p.m. Whitecourt at Camrose, 7 p.m. Bonnyville at Canmore, 7 p.m. Drayton Valley at Drumheller, 7:30 p.m. Fort McMurray at Lloydminster, 7:30 p.m.

Football Montreal Hamilton Toronto Ottawa

x-Calgary x-Edmonton x-Sask. B.C. Winnipeg

GP 15 15 15 15 GP 15 16 16 15 16

CFL East Division W L T 7 8 0 7 8 0 6 9 0 2 13 0 West Division W L T 13 2 0 11 5 0 9 7 0 8 7 0 6 10 0

PF 305 330 387 231 PF 425 438 348 333 356

PA 334 329 410 385 PA 286 313 384 272 440

Pt 14 14 12 4 Pt 26 22 18 16 12

Week 18 Friday, October 24 Montreal at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m. Friday, October 24 Saskatchewan at Calgary, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 25 Hamilton at Toronto, 2 p.m. B.C. at Winnipeg, 5 p.m. National Football League Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 5 2 0 .714 187 Buffalo 4 3 0 .571 135 Miami 3 3 0 .500 147 N.Y. Jets 1 6 0 .143 121

Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Jacksonville

THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 2014

Local Sports

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 11 8 2 1 0 59 Swift Current 15 7 7 0 1 46 Moose Jaw 11 6 4 0 1 34 Regina 12 5 6 1 0 36 Prince Albert 11 5 6 0 0 30 Saskatoon 11 4 7 0 0 31

Tri-City Everett Spokane Seattle Portland

Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland

Denver San Diego Kansas City Oakland

5 4 3 3 W 5 5 3 0

2 3 2 3

0 0 1 0

.714 .571 .583 .500

193 154 134 140

104 162 140 139

West L T 1 0 2 0 3 0 6 0

Pct .833 .714 .500 .000

PF 189 184 142 92

PA 121 114 121 158

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 6 1 0 .857 Philadelphia 5 1 0 .833 N.Y. Giants 3 4 0 .429 Washington 2 5 0 .286

PF 196 183 154 151

PA 147 132 169 183

Carolina New Orleans Atlanta Tampa Bay

W 3 2 2 1

South L T 3 1 4 0 5 0 5 0

PA 154 142 138 185

Detroit Green Bay Chicago Minnesota

W 5 5 3 2

North L T 2 0 2 0 4 0 5 0

Pct .714 .714 .429 .286

PF 140 199 157 120

PA 105 147 171 160

W 5 4 3 2

West L T 1 0 3 0 3 0 4 0

Pct .833 .571 .500 .333

PF 140 158 159 129

PA 119 165 141 176

W 5 3 2 1

South L T 2 0 4 0 5 0 6 0

Pct .714 .429 .286 .143

PF 216 155 121 105

PA 136 150 172 191

Arizona San Francisco Seattle St. Louis

North L T

Pct

Thursday, Oct. 23 San Diego at Denver, 6:25 p.m.

Pct .500 .333 .286 .167

PF 158 155 171 120

PA 195 165 199 204

Sunday, Oct. 26 Detroit vs. Atlanta at London, 7:30 a.m. St. Louis at Kansas City, 11 a.m. Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m. Seattle at Carolina, 11 a.m. Baltimore at Cincinnati, 11 a.m. Miami at Jacksonville, 11 a.m. Chicago at New England, 11 a.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m. Philadelphia at Arizona, 2:05 p.m. Oakland at Cleveland, 2:25 p.m. Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 2:25 p.m. Green Bay at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m. Open: N.Y. Giants, San Francisco Monday, Oct. 27 Washington at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. NFL Odds (Odds provided by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Thursday San Diego at DENVER 7.5 51.5 Sunday DETROIT at Atlanta 3.5 46.5 St. Louis at KANSAS CITY 6.5 44.5 HOUSTON at Tennessee 1.5 43.5 Minnesota at TAMPA BAY 2.5 42.5 SEATTLE at Carolina 4.5 44.5 Baltimore at CINCINNATI 1.5 46.5 MIAMI at Jacksonville 5.5 42.5 Chicago at NEW ENGLAND 6.5 50.5 Buffalo at NY JETS 2.5 40.5 Philadelphia at ARIZONA 2.5 48.5 Oakland at CLEVELAND 7.5 43.5 INDIANAPOLIS at Pittsburgh 3.5 48.5 Green Bay at NEW ORLEANS 1.5 55.5 Monday Washington at DALLAS 9.5 49.5

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS — Declined their 2015 contract option for 2015 on RHP Jared Burton, making him a free agent. National League SAN DIEGO PADRES — Fired hitting coach Phil Plantier. Frontier League RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed LHP Paul Hvozdovic to a contract extension. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Waived F Earl Clark and C Hassan Whiteside. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Indianapolis LB Erik Walden $27,562 after being ejected for making contact with an official during an Oct. 19 game against Cincin-

nati. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Re-signed DL Jacobbi McDaniel to the practice squad. Signed WR L’Damian Washington to the practice squad. DETROIT LIONS — Signed S Jerome Couplin to the practice squad. Released RB William Powell. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Acquired LB Akeem Ayers from Tennessee for an undisclosed draft choice. Released LB Ja’Gared Davis. TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed TE Richard Gordon. Agreed to terms with LB Nate Askew and WR Derek Moye on practice squad contracts. HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F Brody Sutter from Charlotte (AHL). Placed C Eric Staal on injured reserve, retroactive to Oct. 11. MINNESOTA WILD — Agreed to terms with RW Charlie Coyleon on a five-year contract extension. MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned D Nathan Beaulieu and F Michael Bournival to Hamilton

(AHL). American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Albany RW Darcy Zajac one for his actions in an Oct. 21 game vs. Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton. BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Loaned D Mark Nemec to Colorado (ECHL). CHICAGO WOLVES — Released D Matt Register from his player tryout contract. HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Announced G Mackenzie Skapski was reassigned to the team from Greenville (ECHL) and F Chris McCarthy was reassigned to Greenville. Released F Richard Nejezchleb from his amateur tryout agreement. SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Announced D Josh McFadden was reassigned to Cincinnati (ECHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer LA GALAXY — Signed D A.J. DeLaGarza to a multiyear contract extension.

Raiders teams play Robert Thirsk from Calgary to open home volleyball tournament The host senior girls and boys Raiders will open the Lindsay Thurber volleyball tournament Friday at 3 p.m. versus teams from Calgary Robert Thirsk. The boys division consists of eight teams, including the Raiders, Robert Thirsk, Notre Dame Cougars, Hunting Hills Lightning, Sherwood Park Bev Facey, Lethbridge Catholic Central, W.P. Wagner of Edmonton and Calgary E.P. Scarlett.

MINNESOTA WILD The Minnesota Wild agreed to terms Wednesday on a five-year, $16 million contract extension with right wing Charlie Coyle that lasts through the 2019-20 season, locking up another part of their young core for the long term. The 22-year-old Coyle, in third season with the Wild, said his agents had been working on the deal for the past couple of weeks with the team’s front office. “I’m just happy it worked out and everything got done,” he said. Defenceman Jonas Brodin signed a six-year,

The teams competing in the girls division include the Raiders, Notre Dame, Hunting Hills, Catholic Central, W.P. Wagner, E.P. Scarlett, Robert Thirsk, Bev Facey, Calgary Sir Winston Churchill and the Sylvan Lake Lakers. Additional games Friday are slated for 4:15, 5:30, 6:45 and 8 p.m. The tournament resumes Saturday at 9 a.m. and concludes with both finals at 7 p.m.

Today

● High school football: Tier 3/4 semifinal, Stettler at Sylvan Lake, 4 p.m. ● Senior high volleyball: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● High school football: Tier 1/2 semifinal — Hunting Hills vs. Notre Dame, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: NWS Axemen vs. Orangemen, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Triple A Batteries, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament. ● College basketball: SAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Prince George at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Keyano at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● High school football: Tier 1/2 semifinal, Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Red Deer, 8:15 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Cranbrook at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m.. ● Midget AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Elks, 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge Red at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Kin City A; Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 2:45 p.m., Caroline. ● College men’s hockey: Keyano at RDC,

1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam hockey: Leduc at Red Deer Black, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blue at Lacombe, 3:15 p.m., Blackfalds; Medicine Hat at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m., Eckville; Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 7:30 p.m., Arena. ● Junior women’s hockey: Calgary Titans at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Rockyview at Red Deer Northstar, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Brooks at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Okotoks at Three Hills, 8 p.m., Trochu.

Sunday

● Peewee AA hockey: Medicine Hat White at Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kin City A; Lethbridge Red at Lacombe, 2 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Lacombe at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m/, Kin City A. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Strathmore at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; High River at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m., Eckville; Medicine Hat at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Carstar, Rusty Chuckers vs. Kingsmen, All Sports Cresting vs. Triple A Batteries, 4:15 p.m.; Wells Furnuture vs. Monstars, Alken Basin Drillers vs. Silver Spurs, Driven vs. Johns Mansville, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

Baseball Wednesday, Oct. 15: San Francisco 6, St. Louis 4 Thursday, Oct. 16: San Francisco 6, St. Louis 3

Major League Baseball Playoffs x-if necessary LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7) American League Kansas City 4, Baltimore 0 Friday, Oct. 10: Kansas City 8, Baltimore 6, 10 innings Saturday, Oct. 11: Kansas City 6, Baltimore 4 Monday, Oct. 13: Baltimore at Kansas City, ppd., rain Tuesday, Oct. 14: Kansas City 2, Baltimore 1 Wednesday, Oct. 15: Kansas City 2, Baltimore 1 National League San Francisco 4, St. Louis 1 Saturday, Oct. 11: San Francisco 3, St. Louis 0 Sunday, Oct. 12: St. Louis 5, San Francisco 4 Tuesday, Oct. 14: San Francisco 5, St. Louis 4, 10 innings

WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7) San Francisco 1, Kansas City 1 Tuesday, Oct. 21: San Francisco 7, Kansas City 1 Wednesday, Oct. 22: Kansas City 7, San Francisco 2 Friday, Oct. 24: Kansas City (Guthrie 13-11) at San Francisco (Hudson 9-13), 6:07 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25: Kansas City (Vargas 11-10) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 8-13), 6:07 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26: Kansas City at San Francisco, 6:07 p.m. x-Tuesday, Oct. 28: San Francisco at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m. x-Wednesday, Oct. 29: San Francisco at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 5 1 .833 — Boston 5 3 .625 1 Brooklyn 3 2 .600 1 1/2 New York 3 3 .500 2 Philadelphia 2 5 .286 3 1/2

Atlanta Orlando Charlotte Washington Miami

Cleveland Detroit Chicago Milwaukee Indiana

Southeast Division W L Pct 4 3 .571 3 3 .500 3 4 .429 3 4 .429 3 4 .429 Central Division W L Pct 4 2 .667 4 2 .667 4 3 .571 3 4 .429 2 4 .333

GB — 1/2 1 1 1 GB — — 1/2 1 1/2 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Houston 5 2 .714 — New Orleans 4 2 .667 1/2 Dallas 3 3 .500 1 1/2 Memphis 2 4 .333 2 1/2 San Antonio 1 3 .250 2 1/2

Utah Minnesota Portland Denver Oklahoma City

Northwest Division W L Pct 5 2 .714 4 2 .667 2 2 .500 2 5 .286 2 5 .286

GB — 1/2 1 1/2 3 3

Phoenix Golden State L.A. Lakers Sacramento L.A. Clippers

Pacific Division W L Pct 3 1 .750 5 2 .714 2 4 .333 1 4 .200 1 5 .167

GB 1/2 — 2 1/2 3 3 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Minnesota 107, Indiana 89 Utah 105, Oklahoma City 91 Miami 90, Houston 85 Portland 93, Denver 75 Phoenix 114, L.A. Lakers 108, OT Golden State 125, L.A. Clippers 107 Wednesday’s Games Houston 90, Orlando 89 Boston 100, Brooklyn 86 New York 103, Washington 100 Memphis 96, Cleveland 92 Minnesota 110, Milwaukee 91 Atlanta 117, San Antonio 107 Portland vs. L.A. Lakers at Ontario, CA, late Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, late Thursday’s Games Indiana at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Dallas vs. New Orleans at Bossier City, LA, 6 p.m. Friday’s Games Dallas at Orlando, 5 p.m. New York vs. Toronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Minnesota vs. Chicago at St. Louis, MO, 6 p.m. Miami at Memphis, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Houston,6 p.m. Phoenix at Utah, 7 p.m. Sacramento vs. L.A. Lakers at Las Vegas, 8 p.m. Denver at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF y-D.C. 17 9 7 58 51 x-New England 16 13 4 52 50 x-Sporting KC 14 12 7 49 48 x-Columbus 13 10 10 49 50 x-New York 12 10 11 47 53 Philadelphia 10 11 12 42 50 Toronto FC 11 14 8 41 44 Houston 11 16 6 39 38 Chicago 5 10 18 33 39 Montreal 6 18 9 27 37 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF x-Seattle 19 10 4 61 63 x-Los Angeles 17 6 10 61 69 x-Real Salt Lake 15 8 11 56 54 x-FC Dallas 16 11 6 54 55

GA 36 46 39 41 50 49 53 56 50 57 GA 50 35 39 43

Vancouver 11 8 14 47 41 Portland 11 9 13 46 59 Colorado 8 17 8 32 43 Chivas USA 8 19 6 30 28 San Jose 6 15 12 30 35 x- clinched playoff berth y- clinched conference

40 52 61 61 49

Wednesday’s Games Real Salt Lake 2, Chivas USA 0 Friday’s Games Houston at Chicago,6 p.m. Saturday’s Games Los Angeles at Seattle FC, 1 p.m. D.C. United at Montreal, 2 p.m. Toronto FC at New England, 5:30 p.m. Portland at FC Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Colorado at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

RED DEER MEN’S BASKETBALL LEAGUE Mark Vos scored 20 points as the Vikings shaded the Kingsmen 72-70 in a Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association game Tuesday. Kevin Kras added 13 points for the winners, while Michael Gajudo had nine for the Kingsmen.

RED DEER WOMEN’S BASKETBALL LEAGUE $25 million extension Oct. 12 and right wing Nino Niederreiter got a three-year, $8 million deal Sept. 11, further steps toward securing the club’s promising future. The Wild have six players in their lineup who are 22 or younger, including Coyle, Brodin and Niederreiter. Another one, centre Mikael Granlund, is the next player they’ll try to extend soon. The security of a longer deal was more important to Coyle than the chance to make more money on his next contract if it were to come up more quickly. “You never know how things are going to play out, I don’t think,” Coyle said.

Jessice Charchuk dropped in 18 points in a losing cause as Triple Threat fell 45-40 to the Storm in Red Deer Women’s Basketball League action. Shannon Van Parys and Krista Dewit-Wright each scored eight for the winners. In other games: • The Spartans, with Carla Stewart netting 26 points, ran past the Young Guns 49-33. • Hoosier Daddy got 13 points from Cori Jones in a 53-41 win over the Big Ballers, who got 11 from Amber Stauffer. • Julia de Vos contributed nine points to pace the Xpress to a 48-22 victory over the Shooting Stars. • Simone Date poured in 17 points to lead the Red Deer Royals to a 52-30 win over the Rampage, who got 16 points from Marlene Funtua.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 B5

Overcoming the odds to live the dream MACKENZE STEWART OVERCOMES CHILDHOOD DEAFNESS TO EARN SHOT AT NHL CAREER BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Before this year’s NHL draft, Mackenze Stewart was just hoping to get a tryout with a club, thinking it unlikely that his name would be called. But Stewart’s determination to overcome being born deaf convinced the Vancouver Canucks to take a chance on him in his second and final year of draft eligibility. The Canucks chose him with their final pick, in the seventh round (186th overall), in June. Now, the Prince Albert Raiders defenceman has a chance to become one of the few hearing-impaired players to reach the NHL. “It was something that I never expected to happen,” said Stewart, a 19-year-old Calgary native. “But when it did, I was just really happy.” In addition to his stay-at-home defensive qualities, Stewart’s determination to overcome his childhood deafness factored into the Canucks’ decision. “It’s quite a story of perseverance,” said Canucks general manager Jim Benning. “He’s been raised by his mom, so his mom’s worked hard to support him throughout his hockey career. He gets through adversity.” Benning said there’s a good chance the Canucks will sign Stewart, who is in his second season with Prince Albert, if he improves as expected. “We like his physical skill set,” said Benning. “He’s a big kid. He can skate. He plays a physical, stay-at-home game. He can make a first pass with the puck. There are some things he needs to learn in his game. He needs to be consistent.” Stewart has 80 per cent hearing capability after undergoing multiple operations to correct a “mechanical” problem.

Through most of his life, Stewart, who is listed at six-foot-four and 216 pounds, has excelled despite having to deal with his medical procedures, speech therapy and a late start in minor hockey at age 12 because contact sports posed a risk to his hearing health. But he downplays his ability to overcome obstacles. “I always tried to live my life before as a normal kid. (Playing hockey) just felt like a normal thing,” said Stewart, who played street hockey before he competed on ice. He advanced to the WHL after playing with Junior B clubs in Southern Alberta and the Calgary Mustangs of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. “He’s come a long way,” said Prince Albert coach Corey Clouston. “He’s worked hard on the conditioning aspect of it. He’s quietly gone off under the radar. Obviously, last year, he made lots of improvements in his game and, obviously, Vancouver thought enough of him to draft him.” Clouston wants Stewart to get back to playing the simple game he displayed last season. A former Ottawa Senators coach, Clouston said Stewart has a chance to reach the NHL if he continues to play physical and work on his conditioning. He says his hearing impairment is “a non-issue.” But former NHL defenceman Jim Kyte — the league’s first and only legally deaf player — said Stewart will still have to use strategies, such as signals from goalies on which way to move the puck, in order to compensate for his 20-per-cent hearing loss. “He needs to know the game, he needs to know his systems, know his limitations, and he needs to be proactive in advocating for himself,” said Kyte. “Don’t be too proud to ask for help. If you need the coach to repeat something, you ask the coach to repeat it.”

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Prince Albert Raiders Mackenze Stewart handles the puck in a recent handout photo. Before this year’s NHL draft, Mackenze Stewart was just hoping to get a tryout with a club, thinking it unlikely that his name would be called. Kyte, a former stay-at-home rearguard and feared fighter, overcame his disability to become a Winnipeg Jets first-round pick (12th overall) and he also played for Pittsburgh, Calgary, San Jose and Ottawa over 13 NHL seasons. He believes Stewart has a chance to excel because the Vancouver prospect has qualities that can’t be taught: He’s big and plays mean. “He may not hear as well, but there

are a lot of things he can do to compensate for that,” said Kyte. The former NHLer also views Stewart’s ability to persevere as a key attribute. “He has been second-guessed all the way up and he believes in himself,” said Kyte. “If he continues that belief and he continues to improve as a player, he could be a National Hockey League player.”

Kirk took off at 2013 McGladrey Bouchard falls to 0-2 at WTA Finals Classic, hopes to do the same in first event back from off-season BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Chris Kirk had a five-week break that featured no Ryder Cup and no complaints. Considering the Americans’ ugly loss at Gleneagles and the resulting fallout, it was probably a good one to miss. “It didn’t look like a whole lot of fun over there, did it?” Kirk said with a smile. Kirk was left off the Ryder Cup team despite two victories, including a win at the Deutsche Bank Championship a day before U.S. captain Tom Watson announced his three picks. Kirk didn’t argue with Watson’s choices in the weeks that followed. He figured it was his own fault for not qualifying. He’ll have a fresh start Thursday at the McGladrey Classic, his first event of the new PGA Tour season. Sea Island is where he began to establish himself a year ago when he closed with a 66 to win the tournament by one shot. Kirk was barely inside the top 100 in the world at the time. When the season ended, he had another victory, a runner-up finish in Honolulu and topfive results at the Memorial and the Tour Championship. He picked up a $3 million bonus for finishing No. 2 in the FedEx Cup. As much as the McGladrey Classic got him started, it was the second win that meant more. “Just proving that it wasn’t a fluke to win,” he said Wednesday. “Everybody wants to win out here, and a lot of guys are able to accomplish that. But I think the respect of your peers comes from being able to back it up time and time again.” The McGladrey Classic, can feel like a work-

ing vacation, as the third event of the PGA Tour season is located in the idyllic Golden Isles off the Georgia coast. There is clearly a Georgia feel to this event, from tournament host Davis Love III to a host of Sea Island neighbours that include Kirk, Matt Kuchar, Harris English and Zach Johnson. Winning in the fall can go a long way. A year ago, the six winners in October and November began the FedEx Cup playoffs in the top 20, and all but one of them — English — qualified for the Tour Championship. “Knowing you had that two-year exemption under your belt and right there at the top, or close, to the FedEx Cup standings, feeling you really just had a head start of everybody, yeah, it definitely takes a lot of pressure off you,” Kirk said. “It helps you set your schedule a little bit easier and gets you going on the right foot.” His expectations aren’t quite as high to start this year. Kirk already had played in Las Vegas and Malaysia a year ago and his game was just starting to round into form when he returned home to Sea Island. But he hasn’t played since Sept. 14 at East Lake, when he finished four shots behind at the Tour Championship.

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SINGAPORE — Eugenie Bouchard’s struggles continued at the WTA Finals on Wednesday. The Westmount, Que., native lost 6-1, 6-3 to Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic to drop to 0-2 in her group. She will face Serena Williams in her final round-robin match Thursday but has only a very slim mathematical chance of advancing to the semifinals. Williams was hammered 6-0, 6-2 by Simona Halep on Wednesday in one of the most lopsided losses of the star American’s career. The fifth-ranked Bouchard played outstanding tennis in the first half of 2014, advancing to the semifinals of the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. But she has struggled since August, losing in the first round of the Rogers Cup in Montreal and making an early exit at the U.S. Open. She came into this tournament having played only two tour matches in a month due to injuries, and during a discussion with her coach Nick Saviano after the first set Wednesday, she even questioned whether she was capable of competing at the required level. “I still had the belief I can try to work my way into it, which is what I’ve done in the past,” Bouchard said after the loss. “You’re never 100 per cent perfectly prepared for every event. Just unfortunate that it would happen at a big event like this one.”

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Ivanovic had lost both her previous matches against Bouchard, at Wimbledon last year and this year’s Australian Open quarter-final. The key moment arrived in the seventh game, when Bouchard saved five break points but double faulted on the sixth, handing Ivanovic the break. The Serb went on to take the victory. “I felt today I had advantage at different situations because it’s her first Championships,” said Ivanovic. “Also, this is the first time that she’s ranked higher than me in all of our matches, so pressure was on her.” Bouchard but she said wasn’t intimidated. “I’ve been asked a few times about it being my first time here,” she said. “That never crossed my mind. I’ve done a lot of first things this year. You have to do everything first at some point in your life. I just was excited to come here. I see it as the fifth Grand Slam. I wish I could have had better results so far, but it’s a great experience. It’s learning. Hopefully I can be back many more times.” Bouchard is at the bottom of the Red Group standings while Ivanovic and Williams are each 1-1. Halep is leading the group at 2-0 and is all but guaranteed a spot in the semifinals. The top two from each group advance to the semifinals.

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The Westerner Park Parkland and Prairie Pavilions will come alive this weekend with the annual Our Best To You Art and Craft Sale. The pre-Christmas shopping event is back for its 23rd year at the Westerner, featuring Canadian handmade arts and crafts and gifts by over 200 artists, artisans and designers. The show opens on Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Friday ● Made with Hope campaign in support of Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation will be held at Red Deer Public Library until Oct. 24. Drop in and renew your library membership to donate to CBCF, shop at the Pink Boutique, or purchase a raffle ticket. ● Haynes Community Society Halloween Dance will take place on Oct. 24 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets at the door cost $10. For each Jolyn at 403-391-3433, or Jackie at 403-309-8856. ● Fall Extravaganza October Show and Sale at Gallery on Main in Lacombe takes place Oct. 24 and 25 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. with meet and greet receptions from 5 to 8 p.m., and on Oct. 26 from noon to 5 p.m. with music by Uncle John and the Traveler on Saturday and Sunday. The event features art by over 80 Alberta artists as well as new artists coming into the gallery. ● Nonfiction book reading by author Peter Midgley from Edmonton will be featured at Sunworks upstairs in the Coconut Room on Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. Midgley will read from his book Counting Teeth: A Namibian Story. Phone 403-341-3455. ● Zed99 Haunted House will be open to the public Oct. 17 to 31 from 6 to 10 p.m. daily, at Parkland Mall in support of Boys and Girls Club of Red Deer. Midnight Madness will be offered on Oct. 24 from midnight to 2 a.m. for 18 years and up only. Evening shows not recommended for children under seven years of age. Weekend matinees from 1 to 4 p.m. are available for younger children and others. Ticket prices range from $10 to $15. See zedhauntedhouse.com or see Facebook. Advance reserved tickets are available only at ticktleap.com/zedhauntedhouse. Phone 403-342-6500.

Saturday ● Around the World in 80 Musical Minutes will be presented by Red Deer College Music Faculty on Oct. 25, and Classical Haunts will be presented by RDC Symphonic Winds on Oct. 30, each at 7:30 p.m. at Mainstage, Arts Centre. Tickets available at www. bkticketcenetre.ca, 403-755-6626. ● St. Stephen’s Catholic Church Traditional Turkey Supper will be served on Oct. 25 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the church hall in Olds. Costs are $40 for family including parents and children under 18 years, $12 for adults ages 13 years and up, $6 for children ages six to 12 years, and free for preschoolers. Phone 403-556-6566. ● Sylvan Lake Municipal Library celebration will be held on Oct. 25 with an open house from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a brief ceremony at 1 p.m. Food and drink will be provided. Phone 403-887-2130. ● Guess Who? at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library will have a family surprise that will take guests on a journey of games, crafts, puppet shows, a scavenger hunt, and have an appearance of a guest literary character on Oct. 25 from 1 to 2 p.m. Free. ● Halloween Spooktacular takes place at Timberlands Branch of Red

Deer Public Library on Oct. 25 from 2 to 3 p.m. Participants of all ages are invited to dress up and enjoy Halloween stories, songs, and craftivities. ● Early Onset Dementia Alberta (EODA) meeting will be held at Sheraton Red Deer Hotel on Oct. 25 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. To attend, contact bernietravis77@gmail.com, or drrakos@shaw.ca. ● Halloween Carnival of Hope takes place at Dentooms Greenhouses on Oct. 25 from noon to 5 p.m. in support of Hope Lives Here Animal Rescue Society. Families are invited to enjoy carnival games, craft stations, purchase raffle tickets, have their face painted, purchase merchandise, visit adoptable dogs, as well as dress in costume and win prizes. ● Town and Country Dance Club will host a Valley Center Hall public dance on Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m. to midnight. Teens, adults and seniors all welcome. Cost is $15. On Oct. 25 join in a rock and roll sock hop at Valley Center Hall. The hall is located between Red Deer and Delburne, 38062 Range Road 260. For more information email townandcountrydance@airenet.com ● Eckville Trade and Fall Market will go Oct. 25, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Eckville Community Centre. Enter door prize draw by cash donation to Santa Anonymous. Contact Kit at 403-782-4772, or Darlene at 403-352-7962. ● Stettler Health Foundation major capital campaign launch will take place Oct. 25 at Stettler Community Hall. Doors open at 5 p.m., with cocktails at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $100 each with a portion eligible for tax receipt. Live auction, and guest speakers: Angus Watt, and families of Stettler. Phone 403-740-9121. ● Ridgewood Hall Turkey Supper goes Oct. 25 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the hall located from Penhold Fas Gas, west on 592, cross the river to RR 10, go north. Prices are $13 for adults, $5 for children, and free for under seven. No reservations needed. Phone 403-886-4642. ● Ducks Unlimited Fundraising Dinner will be held at Holiday Inn and Suites on Gasoline Alley in Red Deer County on Oct. 25. Cocktails, raffles, silent auction start at 5 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and high flyer and live auction with Rick Horn, auctioneer. Tickets cost $75 each, or reserve a table of eight for $600. There will exclusive Ducks Unlimited art work, sculptures, camping supplies, furniture, firearms, collectibles and more on live and silent auctions. A special tribute to late James T. Mah Ming, long-time supporter of wildlife and conservation in the Red Deer area will be featured. For tickets and information, contact Jim at 403-342-1314, or 403596-5241, J_ingoldsby@ducks.ca. ● Waste Reduction Day Spooktacular is a Halloween-themed event presented by City of Red Deer on Oct. 25 from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at City of Red Deer Waste Management Facility. Treats for kids and other refreshments will be available at the Interpretive Centre. Bus tours of the facility will be available. Residents are encouraged to bring old batteries, compact fluorescent light bulbs, e-waste such as computers, monitors, televisions, nail polish, dress in costume, and enter

to win an iPad. See www.reddeer.ca/waste.

Sunday ● Botha Old-Time Dances are held on the last Sunday of each month at Botha Community Hall, Sept. through June with some exceptions from 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Sundays, with admission of $12.50. Different popular old time bands each dance. Please contribute to and enjoy a pooled luncheon of buns/ sandwiches and desserts to be shared by all, served at 5 p.m. All ages and families welcome. For more information, call Doug at 403-742-3994. ● Harvest Garden Party at Bethany CollegeSide will be celebrated on Oct. 26 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Special guest speaker will be Hazel Flewwelling, and samples of food made fresh with garden produce, prepared at Bethany’s own kitchen will be offered. Enjoy tours and see proposed garden project plans, and more. Free of charge. RSVP to Kay at 403-357-3309, kay.pakkari@bethanyseniors. com. ● Living Faith Lutheran Church invites everyone to Sunday Worship at Bethany CollegeSide at 10 a.m. Contact Ralph at 403347-9852. Coffee and fellowship follow service. Living Faith is a North American Lutheran Church Congregation. ● Red Deer River Naturalists — Sunday Bird Focus meets Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre to depart on excursions in central Alberta. On Oct. 26, the group will go to Kentwood Natural Area. Come prepared for a full afternoon of birding. Bring along lunch, snacks, coffee, and dress for the weather. Be prepared to carpool. To join in, confirm attendance with Judy at 403342-4150.

Monday ● Innisfail and District Garden Club meets the fourth Monday of each month from Jan. to Nov. at 7 p.m. in St. Mark’s Anglican Church Hall. Please use the back door. Meetings feature speakers, tours, films, contests, plant exchanges and more. Next meeting will be Oct. 27. Call Davina at 403-598-9481. ● Chess Club at Red Deer Public Library Dawe Branch welcomes all levels of players from beginner to intermediate to learn chess rules and strategies on Mondays with child players from 5 to 6 p.m. and adult players from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by Alberta Chess Association. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Canadian Red Cross disaster management volunteer information session will be presented on Oct. 27, 7 p.m. Volunteers are needed. See www.redcross.ca/volunteer ● World Religions Conference will be held at Red Deer College on Oct. 27 from 6 to 8:45 p.m. at RDC Arts Centre, Mainstage. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Speakers representing Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Atheism will speak on world peace and religion. See www.rdc.ab.ca.

Tuesday ● Inner Peace Movement Canada will hold a presentation at Super 8 Hotel in Red Deer on Oct. 28, at 1 and 7 p.m. The cost is $21 at the door. See www.innerpeacemovement.ca. ● Teen Ink: Words as Art invites youth ages 14 to 21 to bring creative short stories, novels, poetry, and lyrics to be peer edited on Oct. 28 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Snell Audi-

torium at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. The group meets twice monthly with the first meeting a writing meeting, a poetry slam of poetry reading on the second meeting. Guest speakers invited to share experiences and insights. ● Bower Place Community Association seniors’ coffee and card parties are held on the last Tuesday of each month at Bower Kin Place from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Join the fun on Oct. 28. Call Marlene at 403-343-0632.

Wednesday ● Jack Skellington’s Scavenger Hunt and Freaky Flick for teens will be offered on Oct. 29 from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library for youth ages 12 to 18 years. Compete in Jack-and-Sally look-alike makeup competition, and enjoy an epic Tim Burton flick on the big screen. ● Red Deer Legion Old Time Dance with Nice Notes is on Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Riverside Meadows Community Association Annual General Meeting, Oct. 29, 7 p.m. at the Activity Centre. The committee would like to hear comments and ideas how to move forward. Contact riversidemeadowca@gmail.com.

Thursday ● Benalto and Area Rural Crime Watch Society Annual General Meeting will be held on Oct. 30, 7 p.m. at Benalto Leisure Centre, Agriculture Grounds. On the agenda will be elections and year and business. Guest speakers will be Sr. Peace Officers Julian Veuger from Lacombe Protective Services and Bob Dixon, Red Deer County Protective Services speaking on the life of county peace officer — the lighter side. Residents should reside within the area patrolled by Sylvan Lake RCMP. Contact Yvette at 403746-3429. ● School’s Out Hangout for youth in Grades 4 and 5 will be offered at Timberlands Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Thursdays until 4 p.m. Hang out with friends and enjoy a variety of activities. ● Dawe Branch POP Goes the Teen Club is held Thursdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library. Youth 12 years plus are invited to explore pop culture from Divergent trivia to cosplay and more. ● Are you afraid of the dark? Kids ages eight and up are invited to find out on Oct. 30 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library. A creepy good time complete with a scavenger hunt, ghoulish games and tricky treats will be presented in the Children’s Department which will be closed to the public while the lights are out. See www.rdpl.org ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Oct. 30, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Black Velvet Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403346-3896. ● Red Deer College Thursday Live Concert Series begins at 1 p.m. on Oct. 30 and costs $2 at the door at Mainstage, Arts Centre. From classical to contemporary, this variety show of music student performances is a great way to spend a lunch hour. Funds raised go to local charities.

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raging in Benghazi and the army had a long battle ahead, said Meloud alZewi, spokesman for Libya’s special forces. Al-Zewi said Libyan troops first swooped into the district of Benina, where Benghazi’s airport is located, then took control of other districts, including the eastern, heavily populated neighbourhood of Sedi Khalifa. Pictures of soldiers kissing the ground and residents welcoming the armoured vehicles were widely circulated on social networking sites. On its official Facebook page, the Libyan army urged residents to stay from crowding around the army in their joy for fear this would make them an easy target. Libya is witnessing its worst spasm of violence since the downfall of the longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Three years after his killing at the hands of rebel forces, the country has been taken hostage by militias, whose loyalties are either to their local area or to Islamist extremist ideology. Successive governments have failed to rein in the militias and instead have bankrolled them to maintain order in the absence of a strong army and police.

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Iguala mayor linked to attack on students that left six dead, 43 missing MEXICO CITY — The mayor of a town in southern Mexico ordered a police attack that resulted in six deaths and the disappearance of 43 students who remain missing weeks later, the country’s top prosecutor said Wednesday. Iguala police received an order that they said came from Mayor Jose Luis Abarca to prevent the students from disrupting an event at which his wife was presenting a report, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam told reporters. Murillo Karam said Abarca’s wife has been linked to drug gangs and is now considered a fugitive, along with her husband and the Iguala police chief. He added that authorities have discovered a total of nine mass graves in the area around Iguala that contain 30 bodies, two more than previously reported. Initial DNA tests have not linked the cadavers to the missing students. Demonstrators protesting the disappearances set fire to Iguala’s city hall on Wednesday. The extent of damage was not immediately clear, but televised images showed smoke billowing from the building.

Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers vote to send peshmerga fighters to Kobani IRBIL, Iraq — Lawmakers in Iraq’s largely autonomous Kurdish region Wednesday authorized peshmerga forces to go to neighbouring Syria and help fellow Kurds combat Islamic State militants in the key border town of Kobani, providing much-needed boots on the ground. The unprecedented deployment will almost certainly depend on the support of Turkey, whose president criticized a U.S. airdrop of arms to Kurdish fighters after some of the weapons wound up in the hands of the extremists. Turkey, which has riled Kurdish leaders and frustrated Washington by refusing to allow fighters or weapons into Kobani, said this week it would help Iraqi Kurdish fighters cross into

Libyan army troops advance into Benghazi BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan army troops on Wednesday pushed into Benghazi, the first time in two months that government forces had entered the eastern city, which has been under control of Islamist militias. The advance was a significant boost to the troops, though fighting was still

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 B7 Syria to help their brethren against news site, showed the car turning out the militants, who also are being atof moving traffic and heading straight tacked by a U.S.-led campaign of airinto the station, accelerating while strikes. plowing through several rows of peoBut it is not clear how many fighters ple. will be allowed in or whether they will Dr. Yaakov Barkun of Hadassah be allowed to carry enough weapons to Medical Center said a 3-month-old girl make an impact. was injured in the attack and later The Kurds of Syria and Iraq have died of her wounds. become a major focal point in the war “She is a pure baby girl who hasn’t against the Islamic State group, with done anything bad to anyone,” ShimKurdish populations in both countries shon Halperin, the girl’s grandfather, coming under significant threat by the who is Israeli, told Channel 2 TV. “She militants’ lightning advance. was murdered for no reason.” It was not immediately clear if the baby and her parents also held Israeli citizenship.

Palestinian motorist plows into crowded Jerusalem train station

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian motorist with a history of anti-Israel violence slammed his car into a crowded train station in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing a three-month-old baby girl and wounding eight people in what police called a terror attack. The girl and her parents, who were injured in the attack, were U.S. citizens, according to Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. The violence came after months of tensions between Jews and Palestinians in east Jerusalem — the section of the city the Palestinians demand as their future capital. The area has experienced unrest and near-daily attacks on the city’s light rail by Palestinian youths since a wave of violence over the summer, capped by a 50-day war between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. The car struck the train station near the national headquarters of Israel’s police force. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the driver got out of the car and tried to flee before he was shot by a police officer. He said footage captured by security cameras indicated the driver deliberately struck people waiting at the stop. “We look at this incident as a terrorist attack,” Rosenfeld said. He said the area was cordoned off and forensic and bomb disposal experts were on the scene examining the car. The footage, posted on the Ynet

U.K. man who faked coma to avoid fraud charges pleads guilty after he’s caught walking on camera LONDON — He might have got away with it if it hadn’t been for his supermarket loyalty card. A British fraudster who pretended to be quadriplegic and sometimes comatose for two years to avoid prosecution has been convicted after police caught him on camera driving and strolling around supermarkets. Alan Knight of Swansea, Wales, stole more than 40,000 pounds ($64,000) from the bank account of an elderly neighbour with Alzheimer’s disease, prosecutors said. When police began investigating, the 47-year-old Knight claimed to be quadriplegic and so sick he sometimes fell into a coma. He checked himself into a hospital to avoid court appearances, saying he was having seizures. The South Wales Evening Post reported Wednesday that the suspect’s wife, Helen Knight, had written to the newspaper saying her husband had obtained a doctor’s letter certifying he was “quadriplegic and in a comatose condition, bed-bound at home” after a neck injury. “We’ve been through absolute hell and we’re still going through hell,” she wrote, according to the newspaper. Knight is due to be sentenced Nov. 7.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Muzzy Online is the world’s No. 1 language course for children and is now available free with a Red Deer Public Library membership. Eight languages available. See www.rdpl.org, digital content, language learning tools. ● Reading Tails is a six-week program for children ages six to 12 who would like to practice reading skills with a trained therapy dog and its handler. For more information or to register contact 403-346-4688 or email lgrimes@rdpl.org. ● School’s Out Fun at Red Deer Public Library welcomes children ages six years and up to the Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium during Christmas break. How to Train Your Dragon 2 will be shown on Dec. 30 from 2 to 4 p.m., and Battle Lego will be offered on Jan. 2 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and features Minute to Win challenges. ● Fireside Readers book club will meet on Nov. 19 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room. For discussion will be Where Nests the Water Hen by Gabrielle Roy. Phone 403-342-9110. See the blog at http://firesidereaders.rdpl.org/. If you can’t attend meetings, read along and post your comments. ● Elnora Christmas Market takes place at Elnora Community Hall on Dec. 6 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lunch will be served all day. Photos will be offered. For information, or to book tables, phone 403-773-2270 or 403773-2269. Food bank donations appreciated. ● Ghostpine 40 Plus Christmas Party will be celebrated on Nov. 10 at Pine Lake Hub Community Centre. Doors open at 6 p.m. Dinner at 6:30 p.m. with entertainment by Black Velvet Band and Cowboy Poet to follow. Admission is $25. Limited tickets avail-

able. Call 403-886-2478. ● Cottonwood-Gordon Agricultural Society Christmas Craft Sale will take place Nov. 7 — 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and Nov. 8 — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Items for sale include whimsical, inspirational, quilting, jewelry, baking, books, photography, art, ceramic painting, specialty teas, sewn clothing and more. A hearty lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. with donations to the Christmas Bureau, and there will be door prize draws and more. Contact Sharon at 403-227-2489, Linda at 403-227-2273, or Lucille at 403350-1490. To get to the hall, head south of Innisfail, take overpass 13 miles west on Cottonwood Road, just past RR 30. ● Hillcrest Community Hall Craft Fair and Bake Sale will be held on Nov. 8, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring baking, quilting, jams, sewing, Christmas gifts, toys, and more. Lunch available. Door prize draws. Contact Bea at 403-224-3880, Linda at 403-556-6647. Hall is located west of Bowden on Hwy 587, two miles south on RR 22. ● Central Alberta Refugee Effort (C.A.R.E.) is offering intercultural training for boards during Nov. and Dec. free of charge. For more information contact Jan at 403-3468818 or visit www.immigrant-centre.ca ● Lacombe Neighbourhood Place Career Closet is looking for volunteers aged 18 years and up for shifts of two to four hours a week. Career Closet offers clothing to men and women who are going back to school, changing careers, or graduating, a selection of clothing, free of charge. Contact 403-7820886, or lacombenp@telus.net. ● Salvation Army Red Deer Christmas Kettle Campaign needs volunteers to man Christmas kettles at various venues until Dec. 23. Contact 403-346-2251 or kettles9@telus.

net. ● Klaglahachie Fine Arts Society presents Anne of Green Gables at Ponoka United Church with performances on Nov. 28 to 30, Dec. 5 to 7, and Dec. 12 and 13. For tickets or information, phone 403-783-4087. ● Outreach Centre Adopt-A-Family matches families in need with community sponsors. Gifts and Christmas dinner can be supplied to single moms or dads and their children. Applications will be available for individuals and businesses wishing to participate between Nov. 3 to Dec. 12. Contact 403-3472480 or darcy-ouellet@womensoutreach.ca for an information package. ● Ladies Black and White Gala in support of Outreach Centre on Nov. 8 at Holiday Inn on Gasoline Alley. Doors open at 7 p.m. with dinner at 7:30 p.m. and a fashion show and entertainment at 8 p.m. Information and tickets available at the event sponsor — Aurora Laser and Vein Centre, 403-358-5818. Tickets cost of $75 each, or a table of eight for $525. Guests must be 18 years and up. ● Wills and Estate Planning Workshop will be offered by Red Deer and District Community Foundation on Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to noon at iHotel, David Thompson East Room. To register, phone 403-341-6911. ● Soroptimist International of Central Alberta Pyjamas and Pearls Fundraising Dinner gets underway Nov. 1 at Holiday Inn and Suites South. Come dressed in your favourite pyjamas and pearls, enjoy entertainment by comedian Cam Cook, local musician Randi Boulton, and MCs Meg and Vinnie from Cruz 100 FM. Tickets cost $80 per person, or $600 for a table of eight. Cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., raffles, pyjama contest, silent auction and more. Proceeds support women and girls locally and globally.

See http://pjsandpearls.ca or contact Brittany at 403-588-6687, or Robin at 403-347-0099. Guests must be 18 years and over. ● Julestue Scandinavian Bazaar and Danish Restaurant Experience will be held on Nov. 8 at Spruce View Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Danish lunch begins at 11a.m. To book a vendor table, or for information call Joanne at 403-227-4917, or Dickson Store Museum at 403-728-3355. Admission $2 for adults, and free for children and includes coffee, juice, and chance to win door prize. ● Stettler Christmas Farmers Market will be held on Nov. 4, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Stettler Agriplex. To book a table, call 403742-6288. ● Shady Nook Community Centre will offer pizza and games free along with the annual general meeting on Nov. 3. at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call Linda at 403347-3860. ● Alzheimer Society National Coffee Break Campaign is gearing up for October Coffee Break events. The society invites everyone in Central Alberta to host or take part in a Coffee Break event to raise awareness and funds for education and support programs. Coffee will be supplied by the Alzheimer Society for individuals or groups who wish to host a coffee break event such as bake sale, game night, high tea or a small coffee klatch. Visit alzheimercoffeebreak.ca or call 403-342-0448. ● Central Alberta Victim and Witness Support Helping Hands Harvest Gala happens Nov. 15 at Black Night Inn in Red Deer from 5 to 11 p.m. for an evening of entertainment, fine dining and more. Volunteers, sponsors, and guests welcome. To find out more, phone 403-885-3355.

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Cheating husband doesn’t see the problem Dear Annie: I have been married to my husband for six years. A few months after the wedding, I found out he was cheating on me. I saw his cellphone while he was sleeping and noticed the messages and phone calls. He had been meeting girls from dating sites, talking to MITCHELL them and ex& SUGAR changing photographs. He also wouldn’t come home until 3 or 4 a.m. I called one of the girls and told her I am his wife and she should stop talking to him. That’s when she told me she was pregnant with his child. I confronted my husband, who said the woman was lying. He also apologized and promised to stop cheating.

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Several weeks later, he was again out until after midnight. He texted that he was coming home, but I tripped and hurt my ankle. I called several times and left messages, but it took an hour until he texted that he was on his way. We have tried to work things out, but I feel that he doesn’t want me anymore, or that he only wants me for a place to live and money in the bank. When he touches me, it doesn’t feel genuine. I recently found out that he has been on dating sites again, possibly meeting up with these women when he claims to be out fishing. When I asked him about it, he said, “I haven’t done anything. I just ask for photographs to see how far they will go.” Do you think he really wants me? Should I keep trying to work it out with him? I am scared that he is just going to keep hurting me. —Alabama Dear Alabama: We can guarantee he will keep hurting you, because he doesn’t see that he’s doing anything wrong and has no interest in changing his behaviour, no matter how much it upsets you.

Please get some counselling on your own to decide what you are willing to tolerate and to determine your next step. Dear Annie: I was disappointed in your response to “To Tip or Not To Tip,” saying that wedding DJs and photographers who own their own businesses don’t expect to be tipped. That is not true. I am married to a man who has been a DJ for 40 years. He has many extra expenses. A week before the wedding, they make sure all the music is in order, and they do a lot of recording and cover the expenses associated with that. They arrive at least an hour before the wedding to get everything set up and run the whole wedding reception to keep things on time. The guests probably won’t remember your decorations or the food, but if they don’t like the DJ, they will go home. When you tip your DJ, it tells him he did a good job and you are pleased with his work. It’s no different from tipping a beautician who owns her own shop. She still

expects a tip. —Omaha DJ’s Wife Dear Omaha: We understand that you want to support your husband, but those who own their businesses (including beauticians) should not expect tips when performing services. The fact that some people choose to tip anyway is fine and undoubtedly appreciated, but it is not required. Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Frustrated in North Carolina,” whose mother-in-law doesn’t understand boundaries. When my brother married decades ago, they lived not far from our parents. Every now and then, our parents would stop by unannounced and just walk in. One day they found the young couple was not, shall we say, dressed for company. It was the last time our parents ever did that. —Always Some Humour Somewhere 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.

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Collisions on the decline STATS ALSO SHOW FEWER TRAFFIC-RELATED INJURIES AND $1.3 MILLION IN REPAIRS SAVED MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF The numbers don’t lie — the roads in Red Deer are getting safer to drive on. Statistics provided by the RCMP to Doug Taylor, a retired engineer in Red Deer, show there were 48 casualty collisions in the city between March and August. This compares with a sixmonth period in 2013 (January to June) where there were 77 casualty collisions. Casualty collisions include fatals or injuries. Typically, said Taylor, monthly casualty collisions across Alberta remain comparable on a month-to-month

basis. The numbers are provided by RCMP headquarters in Ottawa. Taylor is running the Red Deer Road Users Challenge, offering his own money to local groups whenever driving statistics show a certain improvement target. In April, he gave $2,000. And with the latest results, he will donate $4,000. Each year, a maximum of $12,000 can be awarded. If the target of less than 30 casualty collisions in six months is reached, he will award another $6,000 this year. The money is given to high school and college students, seniors and Red Deer Safety City, to be used to raise awareness about good driving. Over a 20-month period, the num-

bers show a trend toward fewer casualty collisions. Taylor said that seven fewer people were hurt in traffic collisions (although 11 were hurt); there were 250 fewer people involved in collisions (635 were involved); 180 fewer vehicles were damaged (450 were damaged); there were 95 fewer collisions (a total of 240 occurred); resulting in an estimated $1.3 million saved (but $3.1 million was the total cost). Taylor said he does not know why driving is improving but it could be for a number of reasons. Drivers are driving better, he suspects a difference in enforcement and possibly more public awareness. “There is better and better driving

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all the time. At least that’s what I see. “If you started looking at the good drivers, you’ll see a lot of people driving exactly the way they should be, with their safety in mind and with other people’s safety in mind.” There were two fatalities in 2013 and there have been two so far in 2014. The Road Users’ Challenge runs until the end of 2016. “If we improve the driving so that I make that contribution, that means that we’ve saved an awful lot of agony and a lot of money in how we drive in Red Deer. It would be wonderful if that happens,” said Taylor. For more information, go to www. leadrs.ca. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Gloria Ross, left, and Flo Bray enjoy a bowl of homemade chili Wednesday at the Gaetz United Church. The two ladies joined almost 300 other people for the GrammaLink Africa annual Chili for a Cause lunch in the church basement in support of GrammaLink Africa and the Stephen Lewis Foundation. For $18 participants got a bowl of chili and a handmade ceramic bowl donated by the Red Deer Pottery Club, Maureen Lewis, and Red Deer College. Other sponsors of the event included The Gaetz United Church and Galaxy Plumbing and Heating.

The trial of a Red Deer man arrested in a drug and weapons raid more than three years ago is adjourned pending a judge’s decision. Ahmed Nur, 32, was arrested on July 12, 2011, by Red Deer City RCMP who had been keeping him under surveillance and followed him to a storage locker in Edmonton. Police alleged that he had been running a drug trafficking operation, supplying dope to youthful dealers who were selling to customers from a house in the Johnstone subdivision. Defence counsel Paul Moreau of Edmonton raised a number of questions about police actions during the surveillance and arrest, which were examined during a voir dire, or trial within a trial, before Justice Charlene Anderson in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. Anderson has adjourned the trial to Nov. 24, when she will announce her decision on the evidence presented to her during the voir dire and trial, which opened on Sept. 29.

Historic radar array Bail granted for returned to airport woman accused in EQUIPMENT TO BECOME PART OF MUSEUM Penhold hit and run CELEBRATING AVIATION HISTORY IN THE AREA BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Cold War sentinel has returned to Red Deer Airport. The sophisticated radar array stood on a hill east of the then-CFB Penhold when 43 Radar Squadron was based there from 1964 until 1986. The array later ended up as a display in front of the old officers’ mess at the airport next to the present-day terminal. Sometime in the 1990s, the radar ended up in Wetaskiwin at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum. There it languished in storage until aviation curator Byron Reynolds, nephew of museum founder Stan Reynolds, offered to donate it to the Harvard Historical Aviation Society, a dedicated group of local aviation enthusiasts working towards creating a museum at the airport. Society member Gary Hillman said longtime locals may remember the radar, which was housed in a distinctive white dome on a hill about 20 km east

of the airport. The radar facility was part of Canada’s Pine Tree Line, an interlocking web of radar stations staffed with U.S. and Canadian air force personnel designed to provide early warning of a Russian bomber attack. Hillman said the plan is to mount the array once again near the site of the future museum at the airport. “We likely won’t put it in a dome. We’ll just have the antenna itself, which was a height finding radar.” While maybe not as glamorous as some of the society’s other prized possessions, such as a vintage Tiger Moth biplane trainer, the radar is quite a find. “There are not too many places that still have the antenna for the Pine Tree Line,” he said. The local society plans to build a museum in the style of an H-Hut, the distinctively shaped buildings used widely during the base’s early days as a training facility for Second World War pilots. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

Bail has been granted for a Penhold woman originally charged with a fatal hit and run and arrested again in August on new charges. Jessica Masyk, 25, was arrested on Aug. 18 after an incident in which Red Deer City RCMP allege that one of their vehicles was rammed while two suspects attempted to escape in a pickup truck bearing a stolen licence plate. Masyk was charged with assaulting a police officer with a weapon, flight from police and two counts of possession of stolen property. Also charged was Daniel Apetrea, 35. At the time of her arrest, Masyk was on release from charges laid in June in relation to the death of an 18-yearold Penhold man. Police allege that Trystan Sorensen was longboarding along the side of Hwy 592 just west of Penhold on May 20 when he was struck down by a hit and run driver. Masyk’s burned-out vehicle, which

she reported stolen, was found some time later in a farmer’s field near Innisfail. Steve Lagace and two other men were charged with arson. Lagace was sentenced to 26 months in jail after pleading guilty to arson as well as other charges arising from a separate incident. Logan Graham has not yet entered a plea. Masyk was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal collision, mischief and driving while disqualified. She was not held on the original charges, but was returned to custody and denied bail after the Aug. 18 arrest. The order was overturned after a bail review in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Wednesday. Masyk was granted release on a $1,000 cash deposit along with a number of other conditions. She was ordered to return to Red Deer provincial court on Nov. 14 to enter pleas on both sets of charges. Apetrea is scheduled to enter his pleas on Wednesday, Oct. 29. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

ATV user fined for being in waterway There is a price to be paid for people who drive off-highway vehicles into prohibited areas, a man learned in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday. James Dwayne Paul, 35, was charged late in the evening of July 30 by RCMP investigating complaints that someone was washing a quad in the river at a popular camping area downstream from Abraham Lake and the Bighorn Dam, west of Nordegg. Paul pleaded guilty on Wednesday to an offence laid under the Public

PUBLIC LANDS ACT Lands Act by police and carrying a maximum fine of $25,000. Reading the facts for Judge Jim Glass, Crown prosecutor Ann MacDonald said signs were posted in the area prohibiting people from driving their off-highway vehicles. Public officials posted the area because of concerns that the machines were causing damage to the river en-

vironment, including degrading shorelines and stirring up mud, as well as depositing pollutants in the fishery. Paul caused additional damage to the shoreline while spinning the vehicle’s wheels as he drove it out of the water, said MacDonald, who sought a fine of $1,500. In his address to the court, Paul said he and friends went into the water with a portable shower to clean up after camping in the area for a number of days. He said they didn’t see any signs

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because it was late at night. He said the water was very shallow there at the time and was completely gone five days later. Glass acknowledged Paul’s guilty plea and ordered that he pay a fine of $1,000, stating that parking a quad in a prohibited area posed a significant risk to a public resource. The camping area downstream from Bighorn Dam falls within the Bighorn Forest Land Use Zone, an area of more than 5,000 square km along the front ranges of the Rocky Mountains.

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Video surveillance snapshot of the suspect in a break-in at Café O Play early Tuesday.

Suspect sought in Café O Play break-in The sweater says it all for one local thief. Police have released video surveillance images of a crook who broke into Café O Play at 2080 50th Ave. early Tuesday. The culprit was wearing a green and yellow sweater with the word “Crook” across the back. Two Nintendo DS consoles and a number of games were swiped during the 2:30 a.m. break-in. Despite efforts to avoid surveillance cameras, the culprit was picked up by cameras. He is described as Caucasian with an average build and short, dark hair. Anyone with information is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or online at tipsubmit.com.

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The cars have been cleared from one of the lots at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and this week fencing was being installed around the lot in preparation for construction of a new parkade. Construction on the five-storey, $44-million parkade is expected to cause some difficulties with traffic around the facility and visitors to the hospital are advised to use public parking lots rather than on-street parking, if possible. For the duration of the project, additional public parking has been made available in the lot south of the hospital, along 39th Street.

Bag of Books grows in effort to help shelter residents Bags of Books continues to provide new books to women and children staying at Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter. Avid readers Maureen Miller and her daughter Olivia, of Red Deer, organized the local program about seven years ago based on Calgary’s Bag of Books project. The mother and daughter wanted to help those who left their homes with little or no personal belongings. “The wonderful thing about this project is that a simple experience of reading can transport a person, young or old, to another place where they can experience security and safety,” said Maureen Miller, Bag of Books project co-ordinator, in a press release. “A story can provide therapy, can

be a companion and be hope for change and new beginnings when seen through the eyes of another character or place in time.” Now the Millers have many friends, relatives, neighbours, book clubs and acquaintances who help out with the project. Last year, 321 bags were filled with 1,212 books by Bags of Books volunteers. Bags of Books are delivered annually to the shelter in October. This year, over 3,000 books were donated. Cloth bags for the books are donated to the project by Red Deer Public Library. For more information about Bag of Books, contact Maureen Miller at millerdm@telusplanet.net.

Vehicle vandalism cases investigated by RCMP Red Deer RCMP are looking for information to help them solve more than 55 cases of vehicle vandalism. On Oct. 14, police received reports of about 55 cases of broken windows in vehicles parked throughout Red Deer. Since that day, more cases have been reported in neighbourhoods across Red Deer. In most cases, nothing was stolen from the vehicles but side or back windows had small holes punched in them. Red Deer RCMP Cpl. Leanne Molzahn said police take mischief files very seriously and they continue to

search for the culprits. “This sort of senseless vandalism is not a joke — it has a significant impact on the people whose vehicles have been damaged, and a spillover impact on the entire community,” she said. Molzahn said the crimes cost individuals lost work time, and cost of repair bills and/or insurance deductible. The entire community is affected when streets are littered with glass or people don’t feel safe. Ultimately, everyone pays through increased insurance rates, she said. Anyone with information that may assist police to identify suspects is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403343-5575. To remain anonymous call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Senate to hear more testimony on cluster bomb legislation of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Canada signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008, but has yet to ratify the treaty because of a contentious clause in its bill that would still allow Canadian Forces personnel to be indirectly involved in the use of the weapons. The government argues the bill, in its current form, is needed to preserve the military’s ability to participate in joint operations with the United States, which opposes the treaty, and still reserves the right to use the weapons. Last fall, the Commons foreign affairs committee allowed a one-word amendment that removed the word “using” in a key part of the bill, but retained it in other sections. That meant the bill now clearly prohibits Canadian military personnel from directly using the weapons, but doesn’t completely rule out less direct involvement in com-

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bined operations. “The bill was amended very, very slightly, but we think there are some areas where it can still be tidied up because there are still references to ’use’ in the bill and we’d like to see those removed,” said Paul Hannon, the executive director of Mines Action Canada. The senators will also hear from Louise Bradach, whose son, 21-year U.S. Marine Cpl. Travis Bradach-Nall, was killed in southern Iraq in July 2003 while helping to clear cluster bombs that had failed to explode — a U.S.made weapon fired by his own comrades in arms. “If you really, really look inside your soul, I cannot believe that you could say, ’No, we need to use loopholes,”’ she said in an interview. “I would say, ’No, hard and firm, we’re not using it,’ I don’t want to be part of saying, ’Yes, it’s OK to use it.”’

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OTTAWA — Richard MacCormac was literally thunderstruck when he fired his first cluster bomb. Part of a British bombing raid on Saddam Hussein’s invading forces inside Kuwait in January 1991, MacCormac and his fellow Jaguar fighter jet pilots were “taken aback” by the extraordinary expanse of dust and damage the weapons created. Their radios were unusually silent as they returned to their base in Bahrain. “Even though you know exactly how it’s going to happen, seeing it operate for the first time provides an immediacy and intimacy that you don’t get by reading about weapons,” MacCormac said in an interview. “That was the reason why we were all fairly thunderstruck, really, by what

we’d seen.” MacCormac, 51, retired in 2010 after a 25-year career in the British air force, and now leads a Danish aid agency’s efforts clean up the remnants of deadly cluster bombs in nine countries. He is also an advocate for an outright ban of a weapon critics say is indiscriminate and inaccurate with a long history of maiming innocent civilians, and has no useful place on any modern battlefield. MacCormac will be among those testifying Wednesday at the Senate foreign affairs committee, urging the Harper government to close what they say is a loophole in a controversial bill to ratify an international treaty outlawing their use. The hearing will mark another chapter in a grinding legislative battle over the bill, which has exposed the Conservative government to broad international criticism from the likes

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THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 2014

Environmental collision course Twenty-two years ago, Darryl Smith, dentist, outdoorsman and environmental activist from Valleyview, in Northern Alberta, took me on a fishing tour of his Little Smoky River; “his” because the doctor was the father of the Little Smoky becoming the first designated catch and release grayling fishery in North America. Darryl wanted to show me his favourite, largely unBOB tracked back SCAMMELL country stretches of the river, so we travelled on two ATVs, what I was calling “Kamikaze 500s,” “phoney ponies,” and “tin horses” in those days. Part way in, Darryl’s heavily loaded “horse,” climbing out of a berm, did a back flip over on him that scored 9.5 … on the Richter scale. Weirdly and waggishly I thought of uttering the Wayne and Shuster classic line “Is there a doctor in the horse?” into the sudden silence and mushroom dust cloud. But then I remembered the only person who knew the way back out to civilization was buried under the dog pile of Kamikaze 500, gear, grub, fishing and camping equipment. But Darryl badgered out from under, miraculously uninjured and unfazed. That is the man I have known forever, calm and steady, although, since he has been fish chairman for the Alberta Fish and Game Association, I detect an occasional smidgen of angst and anger at the Alberta government’s total abdication of all responsibility for fisheries protection and management in favour of ignoring anglers except for abusing, and misusing them. So I was quite unprepared for the anxious tone of Smith in his report on his mid-September tour with Encana Corp. of some of their oil and gas operations sites near his Vallyview home area. “To say I was overwhelmed would be an understatement,” Darryl commences, and then gets on with what bothered him about what he was being shown. “I saw double drilling rigs (transformers would be a better term),” Darryl says, able to move themselves across a well site in less than 12 hours to begin another hole (10 to 12 holes on every lease). … The actual drilling time for each hole has been reduced from 61 days to 30. Once the rigs move off the lease site to another one, then the fracking process begins. “For fracking, each hole requires 30,000 to 50,000 cubic metres of water! “To put that in perspective, a 12-pad well site would use two-thirds of the annual water required for a town like Valleyview (pop. 2,000). “The associated water reservoir on the site we saw most of is one of 13 to be built by Encana alone and holds 375,000 cubic metres, not likely enough to complete the frack for this site alone.” One reason for Darryl’s shock is that the water is taken from his beloved Little Smoky River, one of Alberta’s few remaining angling treasures. Smith’s concerns mirror some of my own regarding a huge tract of public land dozed flat next door to a quarter section of my own to horizontally drill under my land. There, the fracking water will be taken from my own home stream, Prairie Creek. I had wondered about the huge pile of logs on the lease. Darryl Smith reports “trees are required to be salvaged, but forest companies often do not even bother to pick them up, and when that happens Envi-

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Above: Fighting a nice Little Smoky bull trout. Below: Product of North America’s first catch and release grayling fishery ... the Little Smoky River.

ronment Sustainable Resource Development requires that the salvaged and stored timber be placed on additionally cleared areas, further expanding the environmental footprint.” Among Darryl’s concerns are the total lack of monitoring, particularly of the total amount of our pure fresh surface water being poisoned and pumped underground to extract more oil and gas, and his grave doubts that the surface damage will ever be reclaimed. Coincidentally, I have been reading of the fatal collision course of the environment and big energy economics in Louisiana that has resulted in a chunk

of the state as big as Prince Edward Island having sunk into the Gulf of Mexico, mostly caused by well-access canals dug by oil and gas developers. We are on that same fatal head-on collision course in Alberta, but the result will not be the sinking of our land into the sea. It is too often lost sight of that most of the great deserts on Earth were once lush, verdant forests until, among other factors, mindless, rapacious deforestation by human activities. What we are doing in Alberta now sounds to me like a classic modern recipe for desert creation: clear cutting

the headwaters of our watersheds, and lower down clearing huge public land lease sites for drilling small holes, poisoning and pumping unknown volumes of our finite amount of fresh water underground in the fracking process, never to surface or be seen again in any usable form for sustaining life; all this going on simultaneously and with the given of climate change and global warming. Is there a doctor in the hearse? Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Stop fungi, viruses and pests in autumn In late spring, summer and early fall, deciduous trees and shrubs are covered in leaves. During this time, yellow leaves, dead leaves and dead branches are tell-tale signs that the plant is not healthy. Once the leaves have fallen, it is easier to see irregularities on the branches and trunk. Any plant LINDA can become TOMLINSON susceptible to: insects, fungi, viruses or other pest, but most often the plant attacked is not in optimum health. Plants that have ideal climatic conditions: soil, moisture levels, sunlight, temperature and available nutrients are more likely to resist pests than ones that are stressed. Paying attention to the plants helps to catch infestations early making, it easier to eliminate them. Wet springs provide the ideal climate for the black knot fungus to multiply and form rough black lumps on

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branches of may day and Schubert chokecherry trees. If the fungus is allowed to grow, it will cut off all the nutrients to the end of the branch. Removing the problem is as simple as cutting the branch six to eight inches (15 to 20 cm) below the infection area. All infected material should either be burned or double bagged and sent to the landfill. Urban areas that have used these trees for boulevard trees have hired extra arborists to try to eliminate the problem. Cankers are harder to spot. Look for areas of bark that are shrunken, leaving a shallow depression. Cankers tend to plug the plants’ vascular systems, stopping the flow of nutrients past the diseased area, resulting in dead branches or crowns of trees. As with the black knot, cut out the diseased area and dispose of the infected material. Wood peckers called yellow bellied sapsuckers drill quarter-inch holes, row after row on trunks or limbs of trees. Once the holes are drilled, the birds come back regularly to feed on the sap. Loss of sap eventually weakens the tree, causing part or all of it to die. There is little that can be done to protect the tree as placing a barrier

between the tree and bird is virtually impossible without climbing the tree. Leaving the injured tree as is often keeps the birds using that tree as opposed to starting on a new one. The birds can not be poisoned or destroyed as they are protected by the Migratory Birds Convention Act. Slim-flux is prevalent in many poplars. The bacteria increases the pressure of the sap within the tree until it begins to ooze out of cuts, cracks and abrasions. Trees will live for many years with slim-flux, with the sap oozing from the tree. Black streaks on the tree and sticky residue under the tree are signs that the bacteria is present. Small holes with sawdust below are telltale signs that the poplar or willow bore is present. The larva tunnels its way through the tree, disrupting the plant’s vascular system (the branches food supply). The only cure is to remove the tree to prevent the insect from spreading to other plants. Spruce budworm has always been part of the Alberta coniferous forests. The worms are visible the late part of May until early June at the tips of spruce trees, eating the new needles. Spraying the caterpillars with bacillus thuringiensis var kurtaki is an organic solution to the problem.

The caterpillars will eat the sprayed vegetation, develop a bacterial infection in the stomach and die. If left unchecked, the worms will eat the new needles and spin casings in old and new needles, causing them to turn brown. The result is a dead brown area on the spruce tree becoming visible in July. Fire blight attacks fruit trees. Bark of diseased areas turn black, looking as if it went through a fire. Leaves on infected areas wilt and turn brown. They will remain on the tree long after all the other leaves have fallen. Remove all infected wood as soon as the disease is discovered. Burn the wood immediately or double bag it and send it to the landfill. To avoid the transfer of active fungus and bacteria, sterilize tools between cuts. A one per cent bleach solution was once the solution of choice but research has found that Lysol works just as good and doesn’t damage the blades of the equipment. Keep an eye out for pests in the trees and remove them as soon as they appear before they can spread. Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com.

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BDC economist discusses keys to success BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR There’s no secret formula for operating a successful business. But the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) may have come up with the next best thing. The federal Crown corporation has produced a research report that identifies five keys to business success, based on the practices of the top 20 per cent of Canadian businesses. These are: innovation, seeking outside advice, having a solid plan, hiring good employees and building relationships with suppliers. Pierre Cléroux, BDC’s chief economist and vice-president of research, discussed these strategies with the Advocate prior to meeting with BDC clients in Red Deer on Wednesday. He said the link between a business’s performance and its ties to suppliers is perhaps the most surprising. “The most successful firms in Canada, they rank the relationship with suppliers as a top priority for them. They meet with them regularly, they talk to them, they share their long-term plans and they work with them to grow their business.” It’s difficult for businesses to grow if they can’t get the inputs they need, Cléroux explained. And many have trouble finding suppliers that provide the quality they want. The relationship theme extends to some of the other keys to business success, he said, including the use of external resources, like consultants. “Our business environment is get-

ting more and more complex, so entrepreneurs cannot be experts in everything. The most successful ones, they reach out outside the company in a formal way. “They are getting advice from experienced people outside their company.” A positive relationship with employees is also a hallmark of profitable businesses, said Cléroux. “The most successful firms, they don’t do it with salary; they do it with everything else: the culture of the business, the flexibility of the workplace.” Innovation is also critical, according to the BDC report. One-third of the successful firms studied reported that 20 per cent of their products and services did not exist five years ago. Cléroux said a willingness to adopt new technologies is important as well. Unfortunately, he added, Canadian businesses are not global leaders when it comes to innovation. “We’re in the middle of the pack.” He cited the example of Internetbased sales — an area in which many American and European companies are outpacing their Canadian counterparts. “There is still only 20 per cent of Canadian businesses selling online,” pointed out Cléroux, adding that this is surprising considering how many consumers use the Internet. The BDC report also identifies five common pitfalls that businesses encounter, based on the experiences of 118 established companies that have suffered financial adversity. These involve relying on too few

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Discovery Wildlife Park earns Alto award Discovery Wildlife Park took a walk on the winning side Monday when it was presented with an Alberta Tourism (Alto) Award. The Innisfail-based animal park received the award for Service Excellence, beating out co-finalists Alpine Village Resort of Jasper and Northlands of Edmonton. A release issued by Tourism Red Deer said Discovery Wildlife Park, which is owned by Doug Bos and Debbie Rowland, offers visitors amenities like golf carts, a family room, weather guarantees, and complimentary sunscreen and insect repellent. The park features an array of animals, including monkeys, bears, tigers, jaguars, wolves and an alligator. Alto Awards are presented annually in nine categories. Hotels Red Deer was a finalist this year for Marketing Excellence (Budget up to $10,000). In 2013, the local hotel group won in the Marketing Partnership category. The other award categories were Alberta Pride, Collaborative Tourism, Marketing Excellence (Budget $10,000 $50,000), Marketing Excellence (Budget over $50,000), Sustainable Tourism and Tourism Media.

Wholesale sales up 0.2 per cent to $53.1 billion in August: Statistics Canada

OTTAWA — It is essential for the bulk of Canadian economic activity to begin shifting from the backs of households to business investment and exports, the Bank of Canada said Wednesday as it kept its trend-setting interest rate fixed at one per cent. In its monetary policy report, the central bank pointed to rock-bottom borrowing rates as a contributor to “renewed vigour” in consumer spending and the real estate market since July. “Household spending still represents more than its long-run sustainable share of growth and a rotation away from household spending toward business investment and exports is essential,” the bank said in the report. “Exports have been gaining traction, in line with the growing momentum in the U.S. economy, but investment remains weak.” The bank warned consumer spending has led to near-record-high housing prices and debt, leaving households exposed to economic shocks. For Canada, the bank adjusted its July growth prediction, nudging it up one-tenth of a point to 2.3 per cent for this year. It’s keeping to its 2015 expectation at 2.4 per cent growth. Global growth, meanwhile, has been disappointing due to factors such as financial stress in China and geopolitical uncertainties. Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz said exports appear to be im-

Wholesale sales increased 0.2 per cent to $53.1 billion in August, boosted by an increase in sales of machinery, equipment and supplies, Statistics Canada reported Monday. The increase from July beat the loss of 0.2 per cent that economists had expected, according to Thomson Reuters. Excluding the motor vehicle and parts subsector — which had the largest drop — wholesale sales rose 1.0 per cent. CIBC economist Nick Exarhos noted that the better than expected report followed disappointing manufacturing data for the same month that was released last week. “Wholesale trade remains on a steep upward trajectory from mid-2013,” Exarhos wrote in a note to clients. Statistics Canada said the machinery, equipment and supplies subsector posted the largest gain for August with a 3.6 per cent increase. Sales were also up in the miscellaneous subsector, which rose 1.2 per cent while food, beverage and tobacco sales were up 0.3 per cent. Motor vehicle and parts sales was the leading group on the downside as it fell 3.7 per cent, offsetting most of a 4.5 per cent increase posted in July. The farm product group was down 1.4 per cent, while personal and household goods fell 0.9 per cent. Sales of building materials and supplies were unchanged. In volume terms, wholesale sales edged up 0.1 per cent. Statistics Canada said sales rose in four provinces in August, which together represented two-thirds of wholesale sales in Canada, with Ontario accounting for much of the gain.

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customers, underestimating the importance of effective financial management, failing to plan for contingencies, ignoring developments in the market and waiting too long to seek help. Asked about the current state of the Canadian economy, Cléroux said we’re benefitting from a resurgent United States. “Our exports are increasing,” he said, pointing out that Alberta is ship-

ping more oil and manufactured goods as a result. Anticipated growth in the U.S. and elsewhere should increase demand for commodities, and apply upward pressure on the currently low price of oil, he said. “I don’t think we’ll see the price going up quickly, but probably we’re close to the floor.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Ken Holmes, left, business centre manager of the Red Deer branch of the Business Development Bank of Canada, speaks with Pierre Cl√©roux, vicepresident of research and chief economist with BDC at Heritage Ranch on Wednesday.

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proving, with some help from a lower Canadian dollar. “Our conversations with exporters indicate that they are seeing a better export outlook from the ground,” Poloz said in prepared remarks. “However, it is clear that our export sector is less robust than in previous cycles.” Poloz had been scheduled to take questions at a news conference Wednesday morning, however it was cancelled after a shooting on Parliament Hill that prompted a police lockdown of downtown Ottawa. The central bank governor’s appearance before the House of Commons finance committee was also cancelled as well as plans for him to meet with the Senate banking committee on Thursday. Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter called the central bank’s statement Wednesday the “very essence of neutral.” “For every negative, there’s a positive. For every fading concern, there’s an emerging risk,” Porter said. “In other words, the bank’s main point is that it feels zero urgency to do anything with rates, either up or down. Their forecasts seem perfectly reasonable for now. “Perhaps the only surprise is that they didn’t dwell on the downbeat aspects of the outlook.” The bank maintained its overnightrate target at one per cent — where it’s been set for more than four years — because of the collection of pressures from all sides on Canadian inflation,

such as the lower dollar, cheap oil prices and disappointing global economic growth. Since July, the bank said core inflation, which excludes some energy and food-related goods, climbed more quickly than anticipated, but remained close to its optimal two per cent target. The bank said underlying inflationary pressures are “muted.” In the prepared statement, Poloz said factor in achieving the bank’s inflation objective over a reasonable time frame are roughly balanced. “Accordingly, we believe that the current level of monetary stimulus remains appropriate,” he said. CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld noted the central bank has decided to say less about where rates are headed in its statement, but isn’t saying anything really that different. “The final paragraph no longer says that rates could go up or down, merely that one per cent rates are appropriate,” Shenfeld said of the Bank of Canada’s statement. “While some might judge that as more hawkish, we see it as merely reflecting the recent speech by the governor, in which he argued that forward guidance should not be offered except in the special case where rates are at zero.” The central bank projects the Canadian economy to gradually return to its full production capacity in the latter half of 2016. The report also examined some of the pros and cons of the sudden plunge in oil prices in recent weeks.

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Princess Auto store leader Jeff Miechkota helps stock the shelves at the retailer’s new location in Gasoline Alley, just north of Costco. Scheduled to open on Nov. 4, the 28,000-square-foot store will be one of the biggest in the Winnipeg-based chain. Its 22,000 square feet of retail space will be a big increase over Princess Auto’s existing premises at 6833 66th St., where it has operated from since 2002.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market tumbled more than 200 points Wednesday as markets gave back a chunk of gains collected over the previous four days of solid, triple-digit advances. The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 235.64 points to 14,312.07, led by falling resource stocks as prices for oil hit a twoyear low. Losses picked up at midmorning when reports surfaced that a gunman had opened fire at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, fatally wounding a soldier, then moved to nearby Parliament Hill and wounded a security guard before the attacker was himself shot dead. A manhunt was still underway in the national capital, with reports there may have been as many as three gunmen. However, analysts thought that while there may have been a short, knee-jerk reaction to the shootings, the declines on the TSX had everything to do with markets stepping back after a recent big move upward. “The market was trading down at the open, it was already in that trend, so the decline was to be expected,” said Michael Greenberg, portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton Solutions Group The Canadian dollar was down 0.12 of a cent at 88.94 cents US as the Bank of Canada announced that it was leaving its key rate unchanged at one per cent. In its monetary policy report, released at the same time as the rate announcement, the bank adjusted the economic growth prediction it made in July, nudging it up one-tenth of a point to 2.3 per cent for 2014. Traders also took in a worse than expected reading on midsummer Canadian retail sales. Statistics Canada reported retail sales fell 0.3 per cent overall in August. Economists had expected a flat reading. U.S. indexes also gave up ground after a string of sharp run-ups, with the Dow Jones industrials down 153.49 points at 16,461.32, the Nasdaq falling 36.63 points to 4,382.85 and the S&P 500 index giving back 14.17

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.07 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.65 First Quantum Minerals . 18.96 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 25.08 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.45 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.12 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.55 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 36.88 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.67 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 17.65 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 27.75 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.13 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 52.34 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.11 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 53.05 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.48 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 17.71 Canyon Services Group. 11.11 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 26.27 CWC Well Services . . . 0.7500 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.32 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.13 points to 1,927.11. The TSX had gained almost 700 points over the previous four sessions in a rebound that followed a big sell-off in markets triggered in part by worries about the global economy. The TSX is down seven per cent from the record highs set in early September, although still ahead six per cent year to date. Investors have also been concerned about the impending end to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s key stimulus program involving the purchase of hundreds of billions of dollars of bonds. Analysts have been careful to warn that it’s too early to sound the all-clear on the current retracement and that volatility will be a fixture on markets for a while yet. “And volatility is not necessarily a bad thing, it’s a natural thing for markets,” Greenberg said. In earnings news, Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) posted net income of $853 million, up 21 per cent from a year earlier. Revenues grew 16 per cent to a record $2.7 billion but adjusted earnings came in at $1.04, a penny short of expectations and its shares dipped 50 cents to $75.18. The energy sector led TSX decliners with a 3.3 per cent slide as the December crude contract in New York dropped $1.97 to US$80.52 a barrel, oil’s lowest settlement since June 28, 2012. The plunge came amid downward pressure on the euro, which drove up the value of the U.S. dollar. Commodities are priced in greenbacks. Also, data showed crude supplies rose by 7.1 million barrels last week, about three times more than expected. The base metals sector declined three per cent as December copper faded a penny to US$3.02 a pound. The gold sector about three fell per cent while December bullion faded $6.20 to US$1,245.10 an ounce. Financials were also a major drag, falling 1.1 per cent. MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Wednesday at world financial market trading. Stocks:

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Open Text says Q1 revenues grew 40% as profits rose WATERLOO, Ont. — Open Text Corp. (TSX:OTC) said Wednesday that first-quarter profits more than doubled as its corporate software business experienced particular strength in the services and technology industries, as well as the public sector. The Waterloo, Ont.,-based company, which reports in U.S. dollars, said that net income rose to US$64.7 million, or 53 cents per diluted share, compared

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 93.13 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 54.43 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.26 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.90 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 50.99 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.58 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 5.32 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.035 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.92 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.90 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 7.38 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 10.26 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.27 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 64.96 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 80.30 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.77 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.28 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.05 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.18 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.56 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 42.99 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 72.58 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.09 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 51.19 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.76 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.46 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.57 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.77 S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,312.07, down 235.64 points Dow — 16,461.32, down 153.49 points S&P 500 — 1,927.11, down 14.17 points Nasdaq — 4,382.85, down 36.63 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 88.94 cents US, down 0.12 of a cent Pound — C$1.8046, down 0.47 of a cent Euro — C$1.4215, down 0.62 of a cent Euro — US$1.2643, down 0.73 of a cent Oil futures: US$80.52 per barrel, down $1.97 (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,245.50 per oz., down $6.20 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.114 oz., down 34.5 cents $646.67 kg., down $11.09 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $10.90 higher $414.90; Jan ’15 $10.00 higher $417.10; March ’15 $10.00 higher $421.90; May ’15 $10.10 higher $425.00; July ’15 $10.10 higher $426.10; Nov ’15 $8.60 higher $424.10; Jan. ’16 $8.10 higher $428.90; March ’16 $8.10 higher $432.80; May ’16 $8.10 higher $432.80; July ’16 $8.10 higher $432.80; Nov. ’16 $8.10 higher $432.80. Barley (Western): Dec. ’14 $3.00 higher $130.00; March ’15 $5.00 higher $133.00; May ’15 $5.00 higher $133.00; July ’15 $5.00 higher $133.00; Oct. ’15 $5.00 higher $133.00; Dec. ’15 $5.00 higher $133.00; March ’16 $5.00 higher $133.00; May ’16 $5.00 higher $133.00; July ’16 $5.00 higher $133.00; Oct. ’16 $5.00 higher $133.00; Dec. ’16 $5.00 higher $133.00. Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 375,480 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 375,480.

with $30.6 million or 26 cents per share a year ago. Revenue grew 40 per cent to US$453.8 million from $324.5 million. The results are the strongest firstquarter performance in the company’s history and were reached despite a tougher economy, chief executive Mark Barrenechea said in a release. “Our focus on enabling a digital-first world is resonating with customers as they deploy projects to reduce costs, grow revenues or scale with greater efficiency,” he said. During the quarter, Open Text worked with customers that included the Alberta government’s Ministry of Justice, Talisman Energy (TSX:TLM) and the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp. Licence revenue was up six per cent compared with a year ago, reaching $58.6 million.

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photos from the 1930s-40s, it sometimes seems like there was nothing else on the road. They can still provide reliable transportation even in the 21st century. Amazingly, this piece of automotive history is still affordable. Tudor sedans range from $15,000 to $20,000 and roadsters $20,000 to $25,000.

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All-new pony car set to hit the highway The all-new 2015 Ford Mustang is now in production and Driveway will be at the much anticipated pony car’s launch this month in California. It goes on sale here later this year then for the first time in its 50-year history the Mustang will be exported to more than 120 countries next year. The addition of a right-hand-drive Mustang to Ford’s global vehicle lineup will allow the iconic

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A funkadelic good time THE DOOBIE BROTHERS PLAY LIKE DEMONS AND ENTERTAIN WITH THE BEST OF THEM Wanna hear some funky Dixieland? The Doobie Brothers took nearly 3,000 Central Alberta fans by the hand and showed them a good, old funkadelic time this week. No splashy video show was played, or needed, at Tuesday night’s concert at the Centrium. The only special effect was the kind of low-tech pinwheel lighting that brought The Monkees TV series to mind. But when LANA walrus-mousMICHELIN tached singer and band cofounder Tom Johnston improvised, “Red Deer moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me” during the tune Black Water, the mostly older crowd went absolutely wild. The song’s swampy, hypnotic vibe was accentuated by accomplished musical solos, including John McFee’s electric fiddle playing. Soon everybody was either singing along with the band, dancing in front of the stage or tapping toes in the stands. The big finish came when longhaired guitarist Patrick Simmons jumped into the air, then handed out high-fives to fans along the stage, creating a feel-good moment all around. It shouldn’t be a surprise, after 45 years as a band, that The Doobie Brothers can play like demons and entertain with the best of them. But it was an eye-opener to me, since I never was a big fan of the California group during its heyday when Doobie tunes ruled AM-radio. How misguided I apparently was — for the band’s stage presence, alone, is something to behold. The three veteran Brothers (including black-clad McFee) stood shoulderto-shoulder with their guitars, next to newer members bassist John Cowan and keyboardist Guy Allison. Along with sax player Marc Russo, they formed a lineup that spanned nearly the entire stage. With extra oomph provided by percussionists Ed Toth and Tony Pia on their expansive drum kits, the cumulative effect was a massive wall of sound rarely heard since the 1970s. Beyond its jaw-dropping musicianship, there was also the band’s Blues Brothers-like synchronicity. During Don’t Start Me Talkin’, the guitarists and saxophonist moved as

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up for a final, drawn-out bow. It seemed the Doobies were as reluctant as anyone to have the concert draw to a close. Joining the curtain call was the opening act — Johnston’s grown daughter Lara and her band. Although Lara Johnston’s 45-minute set seemed over-indulgent for a starter (that’s connections for you), she showcased her throaty, robust voice on songs such as Keep You in My Pocket and The Party’s Over, and proved talent didn’t skip a generation. Although the pop singer likes to belt it out, she was more powerful on quieter songs, when she modulated her voice to create more interesting moods and soundscapes. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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ANDERSEN Jean Marie Andersen passed away October 20, 2014 at the age of 93. She is survived by her husband Clare and sister-in-laws Bernice Wilkenson, Alice Coughlin, Evelyn Spelrem and Sylvia Spelrem; nephews Clarke Lynn and Kent Lynn; and niece Judy Stamp. Marie was born in Red Deer and had made it her home until her passing. At Marie’s request there will be no service. Anyone wishing to make a donation can do so to a charity of their choice.

BRUCE Rohnna Rohnna left us and went to heaven October 18 at the age of 50 after fighting a courageous battle. She faced all her struggles with a cheerful smile that lit up the room and warmed everyone’s heart. She had a bright and loving personality and adopted any and all of her daughters friends with open arms and a big loving heart. She is survived by her forever soul mate, Cary Bruce; her girls that were her best friends and light of her life, Alicia (Dan), Tanya, her father Lloyd (Charlotte); sisters, Roxanne and Shawna; brother, Mickey, Aunty Marie; In-laws, Shirley and Leonard Bruce; brother and sisters-in-law, numerous nieces and nephews who she loved so very much. Rohnna is predeceased by her mother Mary Ann and her “bro” Eddie, and Pompa (Ned). A celebration of Rohnna’s life will be held at Potter’s Hand Ministry, 5202 53 Ave. Red Deer, Saturday, October 25, from 1 - 3:30.

POOLE Perry 1974 - 2014 Perry Dwayne Poole passed away suddenly at his home in Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, October 17, 2014 at the age of 40 years. Perry was a beloved son, father, brother, uncle and friend. He is survived by his parents, Brenda and Mike Poole, his cherished daughter, Alexis and his sister, Carrie (Neil) Munro and his niece and nephew, Melanie and Duncan. He will also be sadly missed by his beloved partner, Natalie, as well as many other aunts, uncles and cousins, all near and far away. Perry’s friends are far too numerous to count but they will all be left with a void which Perry once filled with his laughter, love and stories. He travelled the world but Perry was most at home on horseback in the mountains or sailing on the ocean. Relatives and friends are invited to a Gathering of Celebration and Remembrance at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, October 25, 2014 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

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CLAMPITT Brenda Lee Mar. 11, 1955 - Oct. 20, 2014 Brenda Lee Clampitt passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends in Red Deer on Monday, October 20, 2014 at the age of 59 years. Brenda was a loving, caring person who gave countless hours to her family, friends and the community. She touched many lives during her career of 34 years as an ICU nurse at the Red Deer Hospital. She is survived by her mom, Patricia Clampitt of Oyen, brothers; Barry (Laura) of Vermilion, Brian (Christine) of Red Deer, Brent (Grazyna) of Oyen, and Blaine (Candice) of Oyen, and sister, Bev (Paul) Lijdsman of Oyen. She will also be missed by seventeen nieces and nephews, and fifteen greatnieces and nephews. Brenda was predeceased by her dad, Philip Clampitt in 1984. The family of Brenda wishes at this time to recognize the loving care she received from all the staff at the Red Deer Hospital and also the Red Deer Hospice. A Memorial Service will be held at Gaetz United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, on Monday, October 27, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations in Brenda’s honour may be made directly to the ALS Society of Alberta, Suite 250, 4723 1st Street SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2G 4Y8 or to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

LAVIOLETTE Herbert John 1937 - 2014 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Mr. Herbert John Laviolette at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the age of 77 years. He will be sadly missed by his children; Leigh, Rhonda and Juanita Laviolette, Ivan Thompson, Curtis and (Tanya) Couturier; his grandchildren, Tracy (Justin Dunstan), Tyler, Brina and Hayle Garberg, Tylor and Destiny Couturier, Mattias and Sidney Thompson as well as his great grandchildren, Connor, Skyler and Shyla Dunstan. He also leaves to mourn his brother, Owen (Patricia) Laviolette, his sisters, Shirley Sauve and Joyce Lewis. Herb was predeceased by his son; Byron David Laviolette on October 30, 2010; his brothers, Claude, Robert, Walter and Brian Laviolette and his sisters, Patricia Leroux and Olive Dewar. Herb pursued a lifelong love for cars and could often be found at the Thursday Night “Show & Shine” driving his 1953 Kaiser. Those wishing to pay their respects may do so at the Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67th A Street, Red Deer on Friday, October 24, 2014 between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. A Celebration of Herbert’s life will be held at the Living Stones Church, 2020 - 40th Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

TAYLOR Chester Alexander July 12, 1930 -Oct. 18, 2014 Chester Alexander “Alex” Taylor of Blackfalds, passed away Oct 18, 2014 in Lacombe at the age of 84 years. Alex was born in Vegreville July 12, 1930 settling in Red Deer with his family in 1961. Alex was an avid outdoorsman. The Rocky Mountains were his second home. Alex was active in Red Deer and District real estate for many years. He is survived by his loving wife Joan, his children; Randy (Laura) Taylor of New Dayton, Garth Taylor of Red Deer, Charlene (Duane) Bouck of Kitscoty, Jeremy Taylor of Innisfree, James Taylor of Calgary, Lorinda (Travis) Waldo of Vermilion, Alexandra Taylor of Red Deer and Alexander Taylor of Red Deer, his step children Ron Zwicker of Victoria, Don Zwicker of Victoria, Kelly (Serina) Zwicker of Blackfalds, and Wade (Michelle) Zwicker of Edmonton, 10 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his cousin and best friends Ernie and Helen Taylor and family of Viking, his sister-in-law Jane Parker of Edmonton, his brother-in-law Ralph Magee of Chiliwack, niece Eleanor (Ron) Dzus-Adolphe of Paradise Valley, and nephew Terry (Dawn) Magee of Edmonton. As per Alex’s request there will be a private family service at a later date. Donations can be made to the Lacombe Hospital & Care Centre 5430 - 47 Avenue, Lacombe, Alberta T4L 1G8, 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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MIREAU Clement Ovide (Clem) Oct. 1925 - Oct. 2014 It is with our deepest sorrow that we announce the passing of Clem Mireau on Thursday, the 16th of October, 2014, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 89 years. Clem was born in Bonnyville, Alberta, the 3rd eldest of a family of 11 and spent his childhood years in Alberta and Saskatchewan. He was a proud member of the Royal Canadian Legion, serving first in the Royal Canadian Army during 1944 and then the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1945 to 1956, when he received an Honourable Discharge. He then became a school teacher and principal and taught for many years within the borders of Saskatchewan and Alberta, finishing his career at Delburne School. Clem was an accomplished violinist, and he shared his love of music with many persons by performing and giving violin lessons. He was the inspiration for many of his students to follow a career in music. He also enjoyed making and repairing violins and could be counted on to support anyone who showed an interest in his beloved instrument. Clem will be sadly missed by his loving wife of 56 years, Pauline; his granddaughter, Heidi; and his grandson, Jason; as well his siblings, Clemence Rose (Midge) Patterson, Rolland Mireau, Blanche Tuchelt, Gregoire Mireau, Alice Walton, and Maurice Mireau, as well as their spouses; and sisterin-law, Ellen Richards (Rob); and dear friends Michel Lapointe and Wendy Reis. He will be lovingly remembered by many nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends who shared in his life and enjoyed his good nature and sense of humour. He was predeceased by his parents, Alonzo and Alexandrine Mireau; and his daughters, Clemene and Ruth; as well as siblings: Donat (Don) Mireau, Aime (Tony) Mireau, Delia (Vi) Hammond and Therese (Lucille) Larson. A graveside service will be held at the Alto Reste Cemetery (3.6 km east of 30th Avenue on Highway 11) on Friday, October 24, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., followed by a memorial service at the Royal Canadian Legion (2810 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer) at 11:00 a.m. Services will be presided over by Pastor Ian Hartley. Memorials in Clem’s honour may be made directly to the charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319.

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ZEMANEK Wilma Josephine 1927 - 2014 There are no words to express our deep sorrow in the passing of our dear mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Wilma. Wilma died peacefully at the Red Deer Hospice on Sunday evening, October 19, 2014 at the age of 86 years, shortly after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She was born in Pitin, Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Canada with her parents at the age of 2. Wilma was fluent in English & Czech and served as an interpreter welcoming Czech immigrants to the Red Deer area. She was a courageous, gentle soul who raised eight children. Her unwavering Christian faith, and unconditional love for her children, was her rock during difficult times. She was our mentor and inspiration. For that we will be eternally grateful. Wilma also embraced nature and “adopted” as her pets a doe deer and her twin fawns that frequently grazed below her apartment balcony. She always had her camera ready to snap a picture, and eagerly shared her photos to anyone who came to visit. She was a member of the CWL for 15 years. Wilma is survived by her children: Mary (Mac) Aunger, Rick (Barb) Zemanek, Jim Zemanek, Joanne Nolan, Christine Zemanek, Michael (Angie) Zemanek, and Caroline (Arnold) Zemanek-Baker; twenty-four grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. She is also survived by brother, Joe, and sister, Helen. Wilma was predeceased by her husband, Joseph (1969) and oldest son, John (1995), her parents and her four brothers. A Prayer Service for Wilma will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer on Friday, October 24, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. A Funeral Service will take place at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, on Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations in Wilma’s honour may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6 or www.reddeerhospice.com. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

Anniversaries

birth of first child youngest son graduated from College

Obituaries

In Honor of MARC HAWKSWORTH Oct. 23, 1985 - Jan. 14, 2006 HOMAGE What artificial culture heeds, To those who would disgrace, Every noble human being, Within the human race. Until there’s not a vestige left Of love, or pride and grace. And they could look at everybody Equal in the face. Tis not a just ambition To mankind super cede. Yet to be a trusted member Of the human creed. For what is love or honor; Without anothers need, Strayed among a culture That thrives on lust and greed; And victim of their brethren that prejudices feed. Walter J. Hawksworth

Announcements

Daily

Classifieds 309-3300

Births

ARE YOU EXPECTING A BABY SOON?

Welcome Wagon

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

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014

EURO-MODE is celebrating it’s 23rd anniversary with a BUY 1 GET 1 FREE SALE. Storewide until the end of October!

WHAT’S HAPPENING

CLASSIFICATIONS 50-70

FREE FLU SHOTS

Coming Events

Highland Green Value Drug Mart 6315 Horn St.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

NOW PLAYING VLT’S AT

EAST 40TH PUB

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Medical

790

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

830

Sales & Distributors

REWARD FOR SAFE RETURN. Missing around the SPCA, spayed F. cat, black/white/orange w/black patch on nose, answers to Missy. 403-343-8680 or 352-6531

MEDICAL office assistant, HOLIDAY INN FARGEY’S PAINT Red Deer, P/T, 16-20 hrs. EXPRESS NOW HIRING per week. Essentials: F/T SALES POSTIONS RED DEER Experienced and COMPETITIVE WAGES. 2803-50 Avenue, ability to work Must be energetic, & Red Deer independently with billing business minded. Some is seeking Software (Alberta Province) heavy lifting may be involved. Please forward your FRONT DESK CLERK Own transportation resume to Suite 220, preferred. Willing to work ~ $14.00/hr. 5201-43 St. Red Deer, AB. • Answer phone calls, weekends & at other locations T4N 1C7 take reservations. Benefits & opportunity Found • Check in/out guests. for advancement. Please drop resume • Balance cash out & FOUND AT 47TH ST in person to Jenny attend to guest needs Oilfield & 48 AVE. or fax to 403-340-8636 HOUSEKEEPING 3 Keys with tag. fargeys@gmail.com ROOM ATTENDANT DEX Production Testing 403-346-5942 req’s exp. day night ~14.00/hr. KEY in MAGNETIC Box supervisors, assistants, • Clean & vacuum rooms, found in Fairview. Must and boiler hands. Must public areas, pool etc. Trades identify. Call 403-347-3148 have boilers ticket. • Replenish amenities, Competitive wage & linens & towels. benefit pkg. Email • Adhere to Holiday Inn ALPINE DRYWALL Immed. openings for resume to: office@ safety standards. Personals dexproduction.com or fax All positions are permanent tradespersons. Commercial. No exp. req’d. Willing to train. 403-864-8284 Full-time/Part-time, shift Competative wages & benefits. work & weekends. ALCOHOLICS LOCAL SERVICE CO. Phone 403-348-8640 ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. Education: Above Secondary Work Experience not CELEBRATIONS VACUUM TRUCK COCAINE ANONYMOUS essential, training provided. HAPPEN EVERY DAY OPERATOR 403-396-8298 Fax resume to 780-702-5051 Must have Class 3 licence IN CLASSIFIEDS w/air & all oilfield tickets. Classifieds HOLIDAY INN Fax resume w/drivers Your place to SELL BRAATT CONST. Red Deer South, abstract to 403-886-4475 Your place to BUY Of Red Deer is seeking Gasoline Alley, exp’d. carpenters and 37471 Hwy 2S, laborers for the Red Deer County agricultural industry. Must is seeking have drivers license. Call FRONT DESK CLERK Brad 403-588-8588

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Mountview 3528 - 44A AVE. OCT. 23, 24, & 25 Thurs. 4-8, Fri. 9-8 Sat. 9-4 MULTI FAMILY - lots of furniture, antiques, household, bikes, electronics

Oilfield

PLACE an ad in Central Alber ta LIFE and reach over 100,000 potential buyers. 309-3300. READ the classifieds and find just what you’re looking for. 309-3300

800

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~ $14.00/hr.

jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

• Surveyor Assistants (Red Deer Area)

Caregivers/ Aides

Just Graduated from High School or have Survey Experience? This job could be for you! If you enjoy working in the out of doors, are enthusiastic about learning new skills and would like to work toward a career in the recognized profession of Land Surveying then please visit our website at:

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820

DELIVERY DRIVERS

Daytime, Evening, FT & PT Shifts Available

Sales & Distributors

830

Pro V Manufacturing LP needs CENTRAL AB based truckJourneymen, ing company requires B Pressure welders Owner Operators & apprentice pipefitters & Contract Drivers to work in their brand new, best in class facilities in West Edmonton! Long term employment, exciting opportunities for career growth, great compensation, benefits and you’ll be at home every night. Apply now at Pro-V-MFG.ca or call 780-962-0103 www.provmfg.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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760

is currently taking resumes for experienced Production Testing Personnel Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420.

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. This is a Sales Position, 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 general customer service duties; as well as any additional tasks assigned. 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 until the maternity leave commencing early December (possibly earlier). If interested, please send your resume by October 31, 2014 to: prstamm@reddeeradvocate.com or drop off at the Front Counter of the Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave.

Professionals

JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION (Full-Time; Red Deer Area)

This is position is full-time, and will consist of long-term work in a plant setting in the Red Deer Area. The ideal candidate will have the following: • Journeyman Instrumentation Mechanic • CSTS (Version 0.9) • Dedication to safety; reflected in practice and experience • Excellent communication & organizational skills • Strong focus on customer satisfaction • Team player

(formerly Sam’s Cafe) is now taking applications for Full Time/Part time COOK, Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer between 2-4 pm.

Starting Rate: $43.06/hour STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment. Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

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STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Jon Skene Fax # 403-342-6505 Email: jskene@studon.com

DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person. 6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 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. Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

FLUID Experts Ltd. Of Red Deer is seeking experienced

Class 1 Operators to join our team of drivers hauling clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry. Home most evenings, scheduled days off, company benefits with exceptional pay structure that includes guarantied salary + hourly when hauling. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com

GARNET’S OILFIELD TRUCKING is looking for CLASS 1 PICKER OPERATORS, BED TRUCK DRIVERS & WINCH TRUCK DRIVERS to join our growing company. Competitive wages and benefits. Must pass preemployment substance screening. Fax or email resumes, drivers abstract & safety tickets 403-346-8992 admin@garnetstrucking.com No phone calls.

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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

Nutter’s Bulk and Natural Foods in Red Deer is moving to a new and larger location, right across the street from our current location. We are expanding our product line and we need more in store help. We have openings for the following “team members.”

Part Time Cashiers and Clerks If excellent customer service is a priority with you, we may have just the right opportunity. Please apply with resume to:

Don Chartrand, Marketing Manager Nutter’s Bulk and Natural Foods. dchartrand@nutters.com

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services CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time COOKS AND DISHWASHERS. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

Sales & Distributors

830

Due to the growth and direction of our business we are currently looking for a Field Customer Service Representative to serve our client’s needs. The successful applicant will have a proven track record on acquiring new BOULEVARD accounts with cold call and Restaurant & Lounge networking techniques as well as maintaining our Gasoline Alley, existing clients ensuring 37471 Hwy 2S, our high quality service Red Deer County expectations are being met. is seeking Responsibilities will include Cook ~ $14.00/hr. working with the General To prepare & cook all food Manager, Calgary Sales up to standard, clean kitchen and our inside Sales & maintain hygiene, follow Co-ordinators to ensure we recipes, assist in provide a safe and efficient receiving & storing end product for our clients. To clean kitchen following Evergreen Energy Tank safety & hygiene standards. Rentals Ltd. is a privately Clean utensils, cutlery, operated business that has crockery & glassware items, been providing surface floors, assist in prep. rental equipment to the oil All positions are permanent and gas industry since 2000. Full-time/Part-time, Our product line includes shift work & weekends. 400 BBL Storage Tanks, Education: Above Secondary Manifolds, Wellsites, Office Work Experience not Trailers, Light Towers, essential, training provided. Generators and all required Fax resume to 780-702-5051 support equipment.

EAST SIDE MARIO’S HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS Full Time & Part Time. Apply after 2 p.m. ask for the manager on duty.

Bulk & Natural Foods

Fresh Department Manager

Kitchen Helper ~ $11.00/hr.

This position is Monday – Thursday, 10 hour days

CLASS 1 DRIVER with fluid hauling experience, local runs. 403-373-3285 or fax resume and copies of all valid tickets to 403-986-2819

This position will require a person with previous fresh department experience, handling and displaying of all fresh department products such as produce, dairy, bread etc.

NOW HIRING - LAB ANALYST 2 THE RUSTY PELICAN is Joffre, AB. Duties: Analyze now accepting resumes for water & organic samples F/T Exp’d using ICP, GC, HPLC, & LINE COOKS NMR; maintain proper at all stations. calibration & quality control MUST HAVE: records; prepare samples • 2-3 yrs. post secondary for analysis using extraction education. methods; troubleshoot & • 2-3 yrs. on-the-job exp. understand analytical • Provide references equipment. Required: post The hourly rate will be secondary education in $13.25 - $15. per hour chemistry or related field; dependant on experience. organized, detail-oriented; Mail to: 2079 50 AVE. good communication skills Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 (verbal & written); must be or Call 403-347-1414 able to work shifts. Apply to: or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Petroleum.Careers@ maxxam.ca Reference #A2-JOFFRE www.maxxam.ca

Restaurant/ Hotel

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees. We are currently hiring for the position of:

TAP HOUSE NORTH

810

REGISTERED MASSAGE THERAPIST REQUIRED Must have 2200 hrs or insurance qualified. Please inquire by phone 403-343-1086

850

Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

880

ZUBAR Production Services

Maternity Leave Position

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment. Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

Clean & Vacuum rooms, DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. SQUARE ONE public areas, pool, etc. CONSTRUCTION is Exp. an asset. Must have • Replenish amenities, looking to hire an own transportation. SPECTRUM WIRELINE P/T F. caregiver wanted linens & towels. apprentice or self 403-341-7619 is now hiring for for F quad. Must be reliable • Adhere to Holiday Inn motivated individual with and have own vehicle. EVRAZ safety standards Driver/Operator exp. in framing and finish403-505-7846 ing carpentry. Must have Red Deer Works Assistant positions. All positions are permanent Full-time/Part-time, shift valid drivers license and is now accepting Looking for experienced work & weekends. own vehicle. Call Ted applications for class 3 drivers, with all Education: Above Secondary 403-357-8041 oilfield tickets. Willing to Journeyman Clerical Work Experience not train the right applicant. STAIR MANUFACTURER Millwrights, Successful applicants must essential, training provided. Req’s F/T workers to build Electricians, and Fax resume to 780-702-5051 Office Administrator/ pass a pre-employment stairs in Red Deer shop. Executive Assistant Machinists. Medical and Drug test. MUST HAVE basic carNational software company Competitive monthly salary JJAM Management (1987) Individuals must be safety pentry skills. Salary based Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s based in Red Deer seeking plus job bonuses, schedule conscious, physically fit, on skill level. Benefits Requires to work at these FT position. For further info able to work overtime and rotation of 15-6. avail. Apply in person at Red Deer, AB locations: and to apply, please visit shift work. Please fax resume and 100, 7491 Edgar 5111 22 St. us at www.visual-eyes.ca Wages start at $40.00 per drivers abstract to Industrial Bend. email: 37444 HWY 2 S hour and offer an 403-885-1876 or Email earl707@telus.net. and/or 37543 HWY 2N Buying or Selling excellent benefit and patf@spectrumwireline.com fax 403-347-7913 700 3020 22 St. your home? pension package. FOOD ATTENDANT Check out Homes for Sale TOO MUCH STUFF? Please send resume to Req’d permanent shift Let Classifieds in Classifieds reddeerhr@evrazna.com Truckers/ weekend day and evening help you sell it. or deliver in person to Drivers both full and part time. 16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + 27251 391 Township Road 2-GOOD OILFIELD benefits. Start ASAP. Dental GOODMEN SERVICES Job description ROOFING LTD. is currently seeking www.timhortons.com F/T Dental Hygienist Requires CLASS 1 TANK TRUCK Education and experience for busy Red Deer & PRESSURE TRUCK not req’d. practice. This is a SLOPED ROOFERS OPERATORS. Apply in person or fax maternity leave position LABOURERS Base salary + bonuses. resume to: 403-314-1303 TR3 Energy is at the that req’s 2 evenings per & FLAT ROOFERS Great benefits pkg after 3 mo. forefront of reclamation week and alternate SaturLooking for a place Please fax resume & drivers and remediation in the oil days. Great remuneration to live? Valid Driver’s Licence abstract to: 403-346-3766 & gas industry Take a tour through the with benefit package. preferred. Fax or email We are currently CLASS 3 DRIVERS Please submit resume to info@goodmenroofi ng.ca CLASSIFIEDS recruiting for: w/airbrake endorsement bmloney@gmx.com or fax or (403)341-6722 403-346-5116 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! needed immed. for waste & Heavy Equipment RAMADA INN & recycling automated & roll Operators SUITES LOOKING FOR: Exp. off trucks. Email resume req’s Permanent Requirements: Framers & farm building. Hair with a min. of 2 references ROOM ATTENDANTS Valid Driver’s License 403-318-6406 to: canpak@xplornet.ca Stylists Attendants. Exp. not nec. H2S Alive will train. Approx. 35 - 40 Standard First Aid ADAM & EVE UNISEX hrs/wk. Performance Misc. WHIMIS and/or In the Parkland Mall based bonus program. CSTS or PST Help is seeking P/T / F/T Must be fluent with verbal Pre-Access A&D Testing HAIR STYLISTS & written English, be Ground Disturbance Level 11 Please drop off physically fit. Applicants Please e-mail or fax your resume in person. may apply in person at resume to: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer hr@tr3energy.com T4P 3T5 or fax Fax: (403) 294-9323 403-342-4433 or email: www.tr3energy.com info@ramadareddeer.com

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Sales

Trades

~ $14.00/hr.

required in Sylvan Lake. Rate to start at $15-17/hr depending on skill level. Fax resume to 403 887 1037 or email to gwwood@telus.net

860

Truckers/ Drivers

NEEDED IMMED. FOR manufacturing company in Blackfalds JOURNEYMAN WELDERS Competitive wages and benefits package. Email resume to: joel@prolineinc.ca

740

KFC requires

Apply by: Fax: (403) 341-3820 or in person at Downtown KFC 4834-53 St., Red Deer

710

Cabinetmakers Helper

850

720

www.questinc.ca

Restaurant/ Hotel

• Answer phone calls, NOW HIRING take reservations. Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors • Check in/out guests. • Balance cash out & & Operators attend to guest needs. Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ HOUSEKEEPING testalta.com ROOM ATTENDANT

Trades

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Coming Events

We offer competitive pay along with a family benefit plan. Remuneration will be based on experience. Please forward resumes via careers@evergreenenergy.ca or fax 403-309-5962. All resumes will be held in strictest confidence. SYNIK CLOTHING - F/T Gasoline Alley apply within.

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

1010

Accounting

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

Contractors

1100

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, or cutting small trees? Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

FANTASY

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

International ladies

DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210. JEHN’S PAINTING & GENERAL CONTRACTING Painting, Plumbing & General Home Reno’s. Lowest quotes in Red Deer. 403-396-1371

Eavestroughing

1130

ROBUST EAVESTROUGH CLEANING SERVICES 403-506-4822 VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs. Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

MASSAGE

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. 403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

Snow

1380

Removal VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. SNOWPLOWING Pampering at its Comm/Res. Contracts BEST! welcome. 403-358-1614 403-986-6686 Come in and see Window why we are the talk Cleaning of the town. www.viimassage.com

1420

Misc. Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. 403-358-1614 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much! We do dump runs/odd jobs 4035502502/4038855333

ROBUST WINDOW CLEANING SERVICES 403-506-4822

Yard Care

1430

FALL clean-up, Yard care, Junk/tree/snow removal, comm/res. 403-358-1614 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 D3

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community? • • • • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available. 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Brand New Position with Helping Hands Light housekeeping for Seniors, Mon-Fri 8:30-3:00 NO eves, wknds or stats MUST be flexible, kind & enjoy seniors. MUST have clear criminal check, reliable vehicle and refs. from previous cleaning clients. Competitive wages and health benefits offered. Position to start Nov. 17th (flexible). Email: rdhelpinghands@gmail.com Fax 403-346-4100 or Call 403-346-7777

Misc. Help

880

Central Alberta Greenhouses Ltd Greenhouse Laborers required for our greenhouse operation located near Blackfalds, Alberta. Responsibilities include transplanting, watering, handling and caring for plant material and preparation of orders. This position is labor intensive and entails working in a cold/hot environment. Laborers are required to work a minimum 40 hours per week and must be available to work different shifts, 7 days a week. Positions are available starting Early February and last till late June. No previous work experience or qualifications are required. Starting wage is $10.20/hr. Please email resume to kevin@cagreenhouses.ca or fax resume to 403-885-4147(Attn. Human Resources). Resumes may also be mailed to Box 100, Blackfalds, AB. T0M 0J0 Start your career! See Help Wanted

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

880

Misc. Help

1660

900

Employment Training

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

P/T Bakery Evening Staff Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

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GAETZ SOUTH FT/PT CASHIERS Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

NEEDED F/T Service Person General Carpenter/handyman type for service and set up of manufactured and modular home. Exp. in trim, roofing, siding, flooring, paint etc., Competitive wages and health plan avail. Apply to James at M & K Homes, 403-346-6116

Advocate Opportunities

Bicycles

1540

BIKES, child’s (3) and 2 WAGONS, $25. each. 403-755-0785

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

1500-1990

F/T P/T MEAT CUTTER. Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

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

LOGS

Industries #1 Choice!

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.

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood FIREWOOD, birch, spruce & pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754

CLASSIFICATIONS

GAETZ SOUTH

1630

Household Appliances

1710

ROPER stove, white, lift top clean, self clean oven $100 403-318-5420 or 403-746-5123

Household Furnishings

1720

2 DUSTY ROSE upholstered arm chairs, 1 rocker, 1 recliner, $60/ea. or both for $90 ; Lift Master garage door opener 1/2 HP motor, used only 2 yrs. exc. cond., $90 403-348-6449

Advocate Opportunities

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

SUNNYBROOK & MORRISROE

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE 6 Days a week! Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie Phone 403-314-4301 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. For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday through Saturday. Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am. Reliable vehicle needed. HIGHLAND GREEN

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres. Atlee Close/Ansett Cres Anquetel St./Ainge Close Asheley Ave/Ashley Close Archibald Cres. INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close Inglewood Drive

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

SUNNYBROOK AREA Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Sunnyside Cres./Sutton Close

GLENDALE Grimson & Goodall Ave. Gehrke Cl. & 71 St. 69 & 70 St. Dr. KENTWOOD Kennings Cres. & Kirby St. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW AREA Clearview Ridge Area $172/mo. DEER PARK AREA Dolan Close $49.24/mo. ALSO Dumas Cres., Duffy Close, and 2 Blocks of Dempsey St. $80.48/mo. GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 to 4200 Blocks of 41A Ave. and 1 Block of 39 St. $55.68/mo. ROSEDALE AREA

VANIER AREA Vanier Drive Viscount Drive Vold Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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

West end of Robinson Cres., Ryan Cl., Rich Cl., & Rabbis St. $71.30/mo.

WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $134./mo. For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

INNISFAIL, 1 yr. old 3 plex 1250 sq. ft., fin. bsmt., 3 bdrm. + den, att. garage, many upgraded features, gas fireplace, granite island top, fenced yard, backs on to green, located by Dodds Lake. $1750/mo. For immed. move in. Call Daryl @ 403-350-7937

3060

Suites

1 BDRM apt. above Wies Western Wear. Quiet single person preferred. no pets, $850 rent/dd. Avail. Immed. 403-347-3149

PS 2 w/15 games $65; XBox 15 games $75, Sony CD stereo $25, older computer games $30, Game Boy, 1 game $35 403-782-3847

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

1760

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

Misc. for Sale

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1830

Cats

2 BALINESE KITTENS 2 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE $50/ea. 403-887-3649 WANTED: 1 Grey tabby or black cat with white spots, or a white cat with black spots, or a Manx cat. FOUND

1840

HIGH QUALITY LABRADOODLES and GOLDEN DOODLE pups Long time Breeder, text 306-521-1371 www.furtettishfarm.ca

Travel Packages

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Cottage/ Seasonal

3070

Rooms For Rent

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Trucks

AVAIL IMMED: 1 lrg fully furn bdrm for rent - Incl. gas fireplace. Working or Student Male only. $300 dd $600/mo. Call 403-396-2468

Motels/ Hotels

3100

FULLY furnished restaurant for lease in Lacombe, 4000 sq. ft, seating capacity 100 people approx. 403-782-2424 or email lacombemotorinn@ hotmail.com

Warehouse Space

3140

2008 AVALANCHE, 4x4, nice shape. 587-679-1000

Vans Buses

2009 MONTANA, V6, hwy driven, 1 owner, 74,000 kms., mech. insp., Car proof, all maint. records, $8500. 403- 304-6479 2007 HONDA Odyssey EX accident free, 1 owner, n/s, clean, weather tech mats, 1 set of snow tires. $15,500. 403-864-7781

Motorcycles

2006 HONDA GOLDWING TRIKE

Campers

Motorhomes

2006 FOREST RIVER Georgetown, 375XL, Triple Slide. Must Go. Call Rob 403-396-1380 2006 COACHMEN Aurora 3480DS Low Low Mileage, Ford Chassis,Offers! Call Rob 403-396-1380

2004 NEWMAR Mountain Aire 37’- Very Clean. MUST SELL Call Rob 403-396-1380

Realtors & Services

4010

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

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NEW HOMES Mason Martin Homes Senior New Home Planner Kyle, 403-588-2550

3 BDRM. house with full bsmt., det. garage in N. Red Deer. Close to school. No pets, n/s only apply. 403-346-4307, 896-2194 3 BDRM. house, recently reno’d, fin. bsmt., 4 appls., no pets. 403-848-4618

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Fifth Wheels

2014 40’ PREMIERE ELITE 5th Wheel. Brand new lived in only 6 mos. Must sell immed. to purchase house. Fully loaded, 3 slides, electric awning & window awnings, fully enclosed heated bsmt. Deluxe int. design, cherrywood & cream furnishings, 46” TV incl. Dishwasher, washer/dryer, stereo, vast closet space. Every avail. option. Asking $36,500. Call Rene @ 403-478-6558 Can be seen in Calgary

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1150. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

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UTILITY Trailer, Toyota Pickup based, new lights & wiring. $325. 403-348-5380

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FLOOR MATS, Weather Tech, $125. 403-442-3815 HITCH - fits Chevy. New. $100. 403-314-0804

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RIMS (2) black from CHEV HHR 2011 $200; 403-442-3815

TIRES (4) 1/2 warn, from 2011 Chev HHR $200. 403-442-3815

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Country Mobile Home, near Bentley. $900/mo. + d.d., Call 403-748-2678.

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New Home. 1325 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage. 403-588-2550

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3040

5110

HITCH, Reverse load Leveller, Complete. $175. 403-348-5380

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Manufactured Homes

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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

5090

2008 EAGLE Cap Camper 855 Very Clean Unit. Fits Long/Short Box Trucks Call Rob 403-396-1380

CUSTOM BUILT

3030

5080

2005 GULF Stream Super C Duramax Diesel 6340 EH, Great Unit $59,000. Call Rob 403-396-1380

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Condos/ Townhouses

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2 INDIVIDUAL bsmt bdms w/Lehman Monarch 2 trike kit. This unit is loaded with for working Male tenants. In house in downtown. Each all options plus lots of extra chrome. 49,500 kms. bdrm is $600/mo. Avail. Bike was triked in 2011. Nov. 1. Shared utils, bath & Asking $33,000 kitchen area. 1 parking space Call (403)318-4653 ea. N/S or illegal drugs in house. Ken, 403-318-5552

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2 BDRMS w/kitchenette in bsmt. Older person preferred - some assistance avail. N/S, no parties, no pets. Furnished, utils. incl. $800/mo. 403-347-0650

2140

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

2010 Toyota Rav4 51,000 kms. $16,000 obo. 358-1614

PARK Model for rent for full season or for sale at Sun Vista RV Resort, Arizona. 403-346-7178 or 392-7754

2000-2290

Horses

5040

MORRISROE MANOR

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AGRICULTURAL

SUV's

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1730

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Household Furnishings

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stuff

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Auto Wreckers

5190

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Secret Service apprehends latest person to jump over White House fence WASHINGTON — The Secret Service has apprehended a man who jumped over the White House fence. This latest incident comes about a month after a previous White House fence jumper sprinted across the lawn, past armed uniformed agents and entered the mansion. The fallout from that September incident and other Secret Service breaches in security for the president led Julia Pierson to step down as director of the agency. Video of the incident Wednesday night taken by TV news cameras shows a man in white shorts just inside the White House fence on Pennsylvania Avenue. The video shows the man lifting his shirt as if to show agents that he has no weapons. The man is then seen kicking and punching two Secret Service dogs that were released on him.

Romanian princess gets probation for role in cockfighting business in U.S. PORTLAND, Ore. — A Romanian princess was sentenced Wednesday to probation after apologizing for her role in a cockfighting enterprise that she said brought shame to her and her family. “I’m very sorry about my involvement in this business,” Irina Walker told a federal judge before she was given three years’ probation. “It was not my intention to go against the law.” She and her husband John Walker both pleaded guilty in July to operating an illegal gambling business. John Walker, a former sheriff’s deputy, was also sentenced to probation by U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman. As part of the plea deal, the Walkers agreed to sell real estate and pay $200,000 to the government. Irina Walker, 61, is the third daughter of former Romanian King Michael I, who was forced to abdicate by communists in 1947. The judge agreed to let the Walkers travel internationally during their probation after their attorneys said the 93-year-old former king has health problems and Irina wants to visit while he’s still alive. The Walkers were arrested in 2013 after authorities said they staged at least 10 cockfighting derbies in a barn at their ranch. The Walkers charged spectators each $20 to watch roosters with knives attached to their legs fight to the death. Crowds generally exceeded 100 people, and the couple also made money from the sale of alcohol. Authorities said the people who brought roosters paid $1,000 to enter the fights, and the prizes ranged from $10,000 to $18,000. The person whose roosters won the most matches took home the money, except for 10 per cent kept by referees. More than a dozen other people were indicted in the case. Charges against a woman who made food were later dropped, and two suspects remain fugitives — Ruben Saltos Godina, known as Chino; and Antonio Dominguez Robles, known as Tono. Everyone else pleaded guilty either in Oregon or Washington state. Irina Walker moved to the U.S. from Switzerland in the early 1980s with her former husband John Kreuger, according to her daughter Angelica Kreuger, who said her mother raised two children while living for many years in Coos County in southwest Oregon.

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Jeffrey Fowle is greeted by family members on his arrival at Wright-Patterson Airforce Base, Wednesday morning, in Dayton, Ohio.

American detained in North Korea has tearful reunion with family BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST CARROLLTON, Ohio — An American arrested and held for nearly six months in North Korea for leaving a Bible at a nightclub returned home to Ohio on Wednesday to tears of joy and hugs from his wife and surprised children. A plane carrying Jeffrey Fowle, who was released with help from a retired diplomat and former Ohio congressman, landed Wednesday morning at an Air Force base near Dayton, where he was reunited with his family. Moments after Fowle stepped off the plane, his three children and wife ran from a nearby airplane hangar and shared hugs. Tony Hall, a retired diplomat and former Ohio congressman who used his connections with North Korean officials to discuss Fowle’s case, said he was excited about Fowle’s release. A lot of people were involved, he said, but he declined to name any of the officials in Pyongyang to whom he reached out. He said he was never asked by either the U.S. or North Korea to go to Pyongyang on Fowle’s behalf. The Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang, along with China and Japan and envoys from Mongolia, were also involved, Hall said. Hall said he got involved at the request of Fowle’s family and attorney, as well as the State Department, which led the push for Fowle’s release. “So I spent a lot of time communicating and trying to use some of the relations I’d built up over the years,” Hall told The Associated Press on Wednesday. There was no immediate explanation for the release of Fowle, who was whisked to the U.S. territory of Guam, where doctors declared him in good health, before heading back to Ohio.

Boko Haram still fighting, no news of kidnapped schoolgirls BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Estonia summons Russia’s ambassador saying Russian military aircraft violated its airspace TALLINN, Estonia — Estonia has summoned Russia’s ambassador over an airspace violation by a Russian military aircraft. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mari-Liis Valter said Wednesday Estonia considers the violation serious. She said the Baltic country “demands an explanation” as to why a Russian Ilyushin-20 surveillance aircraft crossed into its airspace Tuesday afternoon. Estonia’s military said earlier the plane had entered Estonia’s airspace for around one minute, before NATO fighter planes stationed in Lithuania intercepted it. The incident comes as Russian forces have been accused of a series of border violations. Since Friday, the Swedish Navy has been combing the Stockholm archipelago for signs of a foreign submarine that officials suspect entered its territorial waters illegally. It hasn’t officially linked Russia to the suspected intrusion, but many analysts say Russia would be a likely culprit.

Australian Chloe McCardel finishes marathon swim between 2 islands in Bahamas NASSAU, Bahamas — Dehydrated and exhausted, Australian swimmer Chloe McCardel successfully completed a 126-kilometre swim Wednesday between two islands in the Bahamas. McCardel’s support team says the 42 ½ hour effort is the longest open-water solo, continuous marathon swim in history, though such claims come with complications. The Marathon Swimmers Federation says it is difficult to compare marathon swims because of varying currents and other factors, including the fact that some previous efforts were not well documented. McCardel, a 29-year-old athlete from Melbourne, set out from the southern tip of Eleuthera island and reached the capital of Nassau at about 1 a.m. local time. She made the attempt under rules that included not being permitted to intentionally touch her support boat or hold on to anything. Upon reaching Nassau, she was escorted by her husband and support crew for a medical examination. She plans to remain in the Bahamas until she is rested enough to travel. The longest nonstop, solo open-water swims have been in rivers and benefited from significant assistance from currents, so they are not comparable to ocean swims, said Evan Morrison, co-founder of the Marathon Swimmers Federation. The longest previous nonstop solo non-currentassisted swim is believed to be by Zhang Jian, who claims to have swum 123 kilometres in Bohai Bay, China, but Morrison said there is some uncertainty because the feat was not well-documented. Guinness World Records lists Veljko Rogosic as holder of the record for the longest ocean swim, a 225-kilometre journey through the Adriatic in 2006. But Morrison said there is little documentation about that swim, and it was likely aided by strong, predictable Adriatic currents, and so is not comparable.

A Korean Central News Agency report said Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, took “a special measure” by releasing Fowle, who was referred to as a “U.S. criminal.” The report said Kim took “into consideration the repeated requests of U.S. President Barack Obama.” Relations between Washington and Pyongyang, never warm, are at a particularly low point, and the U.S. has sought unsuccessfully for months to send a high-level representative to North Korea to negotiate acquittals for all three men. The United States has no diplomatic relations with North Korea and strongly warns American citizens against travelling to the country. Air Force Col. John Devillier said Fowle had a tearful reunion, and that Fowle seemed thrilled. “We had a great reunion for an American citizen coming home,” he said. Devillier said Fowle’s family hadn’t told the children why they were being brought to the base. “The reaction from his children was priceless,” Devillier said. The surprise was the work of Fowle’s wife, Tatyana, who only told the children they weren’t going to school Wednesday. “Jeff likes surprises,” Tatyana Fowle said Wednesday afternoon at a news conference in Moraine. Jeffrey Fowle stood beside her and smiled at times, but he did not make any statements or answer questions. Outside the family’s home in rural southwest Ohio, family attorney Timothy Tepe said Fowle had been treated well by the North Korean government and needed time to adjust to life at home. Fowle arrived in North Korea on April 29 and was arrested in May for leaving a Bible at the nightclub, something Fowle acknowledged in interviews with the AP. Christian evangelism is considered a crime in North Korea.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Days after Nigeria’s military raised hopes with the announcement that Islamic extremists had agreed to a cease-fire, Boko Haram is still fighting and there is no word on the fate of the 219 schoolgirls held hostage for six months. Officials had said talks would resume in neighbouring Chad this week, but there was no confirmation that those negotiations had resumed by Wednesday. The official silence raises many questions, especially since Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau has not confirmed that a truce has been agreed. Relatives of the girls abducted from a boarding school in northeastern Chibok town said they are confused but trying to be hopeful. “Things are still sketchy with lots of holes and varying statements,” Allen Manasseh, a brother of one of the missing schoolgirls, told The Associated Press by telephone. Manasseh said he relentlessly scours the news headlines to find out when his sister, Maryam, may return home. Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Aminu Wali on Tuesday said “I can say with some optimism, cautious optimism, that were are moving toward a situation

where we’d be able to, in the very near future, to be able to get back our girls.” Wali spoke at a news conference in Berlin of “the possibility of having total cessation of hostilities.” Despite the cease-fire announced by the military on Friday, the Islamic insurgents have attacked two villages and a town in the northeast and raised their flag in a fourth village. People who escaped this week from Bama, a town in a part of northeastern Nigeria where Boko Haram has declared an Islamic caliphate, say hundreds of residents are being detained for allegedly breaking the group’s strict version of Shariah law. Residents who got out of Bama said so many people have been detained by Boko Haram that the local jail is overcrowded and houses are being used as makeshift prisons. Many young men have been forced to join Boko Haram, and those who refuse are killed, said those who ran away. People are jailed after brief “trials” for infringements like smoking cigarettes, said Amina Bukar, a middle-aged woman who said she hiked through the bush for five days before reaching Maiduguri, the Borno state capital 75 kilometres (nearly 50 miles) away. F ood is running short since shops have been looted by Boko Haram, said Bukar.

FRENCH QUARTER BUILDING COLLAPSE

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Firemen hose down a building that collapsed in the historic French Quarter section of New Orleans, Wednesday. Crews in the French Quarter were working to clear away debris after an additional portion of a 200-year-old building collapsed on Wednesday. Officials said no one was injured when part of the facade of the peach-colored building at St. Ann and Royal streets gave way Tuesday afternoon, striking the balcony below and causing it to collapse to the street.

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LUANN Oct. 23 1993 — Slugger Joe Carter hits a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Toronto Blue Jays an 8-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 to become the first team to win the World Series in Canada. 1958 — An underground coal gas explosion and rock surge in the No. 2 Cumberland mine traps 174 miners. 1946 — The United Nations General Assem-

bly convenes in New York for the first time. 1945 — Brooklyn Dodgers announce that Jackie Robinson will play for their farm club, the Montreal Royals. Robinson becomes the first black baseball player hired by a major league team. 1935 — William Lyon Mackenzie King is sworn in as prime minister. 1929 — New York Stock Exchange crash spreads to Toronto and Montreal. Montreal Exchange trades a record 400,000 shares. 1874 — Harvard beats McGill in the first intercollegiate football game in Canada.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 2014

Be an informed patient, get healthier If you’ve ever wondered what your doc is scribbling in your file or entering into a computer during your medical appointment, you’re not alone. More than 90 per cent of us want to see our doctors’ notes. In fact, millions of North American health-care consumers now do. Seems there’s been a little revolution brewing. The big news? The revolution is making consumers healthier. The success of a groundbreaking new open medical-records program has both of us cheering. The program gave over 13,500 patients in three big health systems — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania and Harbor View Medical in Seattle — access to their doctors’ notes for one year. The patients couldn’t wait to read their charts; up to 92 per cent checked them at least once. The results were amazing: ● Up to 85 per cent said they had a better understanding of their health and medical conditions. ● Up to 87 per cent felt more in control of their health care. ● Up to 72 per cent took better care of themselves. ● Up to 78 per cent did better with taking medications. ● Up to 42 per cent shared the notes with a close friend or family member (a great way to get support and encouragement for staying healthy). ● 99 per cent wanted to keep seeing their charts after the study ended! The docs were enthusiastic, too. Many said their patient relationships were better, with more trust, better communication and stronger partnerships for good health. All of the docs opted to make their notes available to their patients after the study ended. Now this breakthrough is rolling out across North America. The Cleveland Clinic (where Dr. Mike is in charge of wellness), Milwaukee’s Columbia St. Mary’s Health System, the U.S. Department of Veterans

A cold remedy that uses ingredients grown in Alberta gardens This past couple of weeks, I have been making a traditional cold remedy called fire cider with people who are looking for alternatives to overthe-counter cold medicine. Fire cider is a remedy one makes in the fall, during harvest. All the ingredients but two (and if need be, these can be eliminated from the remedy) are grown in Alberta gardens. Most herbal remedies use a liquid to extract the medicine from the plant. The liqABRAH uid used in fire cider is apple ARNESON cider vinegar. Apple cider vinegar is fermentation with HERBS FOR LIFE significant health properties. It is anti-bacterial and anti-fungi. I have known a number of people who have cleared up candida infections with a couple of tablespoons of apple cider a day. Apple cider vinegar creates an alkaline state in the body. Many pathogens prefer an acidic environment to grow. Changing the body’s environment to an alkaline state will limit the pathogen ability to replicate. Apple cider vinegar is also a probiotic, helping healthy gut flora flourish, which in turn strengthens digestion and the immune system. Finally, apple cider vinegar encourages a weak digestive system. Now when going out to purchase an apple cider vinegar to make medicine, it is important to pick one that contains its mother. The apple cider vinegar’s mother is a collection of microorganism that encourages fermentation. Be aware, the vinegar will be expensive, and medicine making requires a substantial amount. So with apple trees drooping with fruit, why buy what is so easy to make? All that is needed is buckets of homegrown apples; they are covered in natural yeast necessary for fermentation processes. Storebought apples, even organic ones, lack these helpful microorganism. They are too clean. Cut up the apple into bite-size pieces. Some people like to leave the core and seeds in while others prefer to remove them. Then cover the cut-up apples with spring water. Chlorinated water will kill off the helpful microorganisms. For every cup of water, add a tablespoon or two of unpasteurized honey. Stir briskly, thinking good medicine making thoughts. Cover with cheese cloth. The bucket needs to be open to the air for the apples to become cider. Stir briskly as frequently as possible every day.

In August, the Canadian Medical Journal called for open doc notes, too, urging an end to the “hoops and speed bumps” that leave patients waiting nearly three months (and footing the bill for paper copies) for info that’s rightfully theirs.

How to get the info that’s already yours! MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ

DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN Affairs, Penn State Hershey Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente Northwest and other health systems are making doc notes and medical records available to any and all of their patients through electronic media. (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has been sharing its records with patients since 2009.)

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In the U.S., health-care consumers have had the legal right to see their doctors’ notes, along with lab test results and other info in their medical files, since 1996 (earlier in some states). But while it’s been easy for docs and even insurance companies to peek at this oh-so-personal info, patients were stymied by lots of red tape and copying fees. Some even had to sue to see their files! The story’s frustratingly similar in Canada, where a Thunder Bay woman’s discovery that it would cost her $617 to see copies of her records made nationwide headlines last summer.

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Eight steps to a good night’s sleep “Early to bed, early to rise makes a The first step in addressing poor man healthy, wealthy and wise,” said sleep is to identify which part of the Ben Franklin. sleep cycle is disrupted. There are It has long been appreciated that three types of insomnia. a good night’s sleep is The first is difficulty falling paramount to ensuring asleep. How long is too long to our health and longevwait to fall asleep? It is considity. ered normal to take about 15 to Not getting enough 20 minutes to fall asleep. can leave you feeling If you are falling asleep when drained, stressed, foggy your head hits to pillow, you and drowsy. may not be getting enough sleep There are easy at hours overall. home tips that can help Conversely, if you are laying you turn your sleep in bed for an hour before you around. slip into sleep, it might be time A whole host of esto get help. sential processes hapSome common causes of diffiSHANE pen while we sleep, culty getting to sleep are stress, JOHNSON which is why we need worry and anxiety. about eight hours each The second type of insomnia NATUROPATHIC night. Consistently fallis waking up frequently throughing short on sleep has out the night. Whether the wakeMEDICINE been associated with ups are brief or long in duration, hormonal imbalances, they are likely disrupting your high blood pressure and depression. sleep rhythm and pulling you out of And the reality is that many of us deep sleep, which can leave you feeldon’t sleep enough. ing tired.

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HERBS: Feisty brew After a week or two, a feisty brew of apple cider will take hold. This is not what is used to make medicine. Keep stirring. After about another week, the alcohol becomes vinegar. Strain off the apples, compost and pour the vinegar into a jar, put the lid on and put into a cupboard. Let it sit for a bit. The longer it sits, the stronger the vinegar becomes. A white milk substance will be seen floating on the cider — this is the mother; keep it to make all future batches. When the garlic and onions are pulled from the garden, make fire cider. Here’s the recipe:

Fire Cider 4 cups of apple cider 2 heads of garlic 1 large onion 1½ cups of horse radish 4 inch piece of fresh ginger 1-2 chili peppers Chop and grate the garlic, onion, horseradish, ginger and peppers

cause of light. If you are consistently having difficulty sleeping despite trying the above tips, it may be time to talk to your naturopathic doctor for further treatment of your insomnia. As naturopathic doctors, we aim to correct sleep structure where it is disrupted and identify what is causing the disruption, not just giving a sedative to cover up the problem. Balancing hormones, managing stress and supporting positive mood balance are all good strategies for optimizing sleep. Talk to your naturopathic doctor today to find out the most effective strategy for you. Dr. Shane Johnson ND was born and raised in Red Deer and is the owner of Aspire Natural Medicine. He completed his naturopathic medical training at Bastyr University, and is among only a handful of naturopathic doctors in Alberta to complete an additional one-year residency in family medicine. For more detailed information on naturopathic medicine visit www.aspiremedicine.ca.

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So if you don’t already have access, ask your doc if you can see your notes — and the rest of your medical records. Then do this: ● Look for and correct errors! An accurate record could save your life in the emergency room, not to mention avoid confusion in your regular care in the future. ● Keep track of your meds and test results. Having an up-to-date list of the drugs you take is on our list of the smart habits of highly effective healthcare consumers; so is knowing your health metrics, like blood pressure, blood sugar, LDL cholesterol and results of other tests, too. ● Doc not ready to go public with his notes? Show him this column. And point him to www.myopennotes.org, the website of the Open Notes study, for important info about sharing medical records with patients. Be patient. Docs may need to change the way they make notes so you don’t misunderstand their shorthand (“SOB” means “short of breath,” not that he doesn’t like you!). Together you can feed the revolution. Mehmet Oz, MD, is host of The Dr. Oz Show, and Mike Roizen, MD, is chief wellness officer and chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into The Dr. Oz Show or visit www.sharecare.com.

Frequent night-time waking can happen at any age and for many reasons, but it is common for men with prostate enlargement and women going through menopause. The last type of insomnia happens if you unintentionally wake up too early in the morning on a consistent basis and are unable to get back to sleep. This type of insomnia is most common in depression and can be related to serotonin balance in the brain. If you are having trouble sleeping, try these easy at-home tips to improve sleep quality: ● Avoid alcohol for three hours before bedtime; ● Avoid pop and coffee after 3 p.m.; ● Avoid exercising after 6 p.m.; ● Avoid watching the news before bed, paying bills, checking stocks, etc.; ● Avoid afternoon naps longer than 45 minutes; ● Avoid large meals before bed; ● Use a white noise generator to reduce environmental sounds; ● Use dark window shades or an eye mask if you awaken too early be-

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A picture of fire cider after being made from garden ingredients Add to apple cider vinegar in a mason jar Seal and let sit for two weeks to one month Strain out plants, add honey to taste. 1 tablespoon in a cup of water every hour while a cold arrives. Cold. Let’s review the ingredients. Garlic is a pungent anti-bacterial that will kill just about any nasty pathogen, including viruses. Because garlic’s stink contains its medicine, and garlic is notorious for causing bad breath, garlic’s medicine mingles with each exhalation of breath, disinfecting lungs, bronchi, throats and sinuses. The onion is a very close cousin to garlic. While the onion also carries anti-microbial activity, it also helps break up congestion in the sinus and chest. Anyone who has sliced onions can attest to this fact. Horseradish was traditionally used by herbalists to thin hard thick mucous. This makes the mucous easier to expel from the body. Horseradish’s irritant volatile oils will also help kill off any infecting organism. Lastly, ginger and hot pepper warm a cold chest, further break up congestion and make breathing easier and freer. Reading this recipe, one might think that this is probably the worst-tasting medicine in the world. With assurance, I can honestly say there are herbal remedies that taste much worse. With a little honey, diluted in water, fire cider can be pleasant even to a fussy palate. Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is intended for information purposes only. Readers with a specific medical problem should consult a doctor. For more information, visit www.abraherbalist.ca. Arneson can be reached www.abraherbs. com.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Dietary supplements containing potentially dangerous prescription drug ingredients may still be for sale even years after safety recalls, a study found. In supplements bought online, researchers detected hidden steroids, similar ingredients to Viagra and Prozac and a weight loss drug linked with heart attacks. They tested 27 products promising big muscles, sexual prowess, weight loss and more. Of those, 18 contained ingredients not approved for over-thecounter use; 17 still had the same drug that prompted the recalls. Manufacturers are putting profit ahead of consumer health, but lax oversight by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is contributing to the problem, said lead author Dr. Pieter Cohen, an internist and researcher at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Bostonarea health care system. The tested supplements were recalled by manufacturers after FDA raised concerns about drugs in their products. This type of recall is usually voluntary, involving products that could potentially cause serious health problems and even death. The FDA’s role includes assessing whether recalls successfully remove potentially unsafe products from the market. “There should be significant legal and financial consequences for manufacturers who the FDA finds to be continuing to sell these spiked supplements,” Cohen said. Unlike prescription drugs, dietary supplements don’t need FDA approval before they are marketed. Still, their labels must list all ingredients and manufacturers are not allowed to sell products that are “adulterated or misbranded,” the agency’s website say The study was published in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. The authors say laws that increase FDA’s enforcement powers may be needed to fix the problem.

In response to the study, the FDA said it has issued hundreds of consumer alerts warning about tainted products, sent warning letters to supplement makers “and pursued civil and criminal enforcement” against those illegally marketed products. Deterring manufacturers is sometimes challenging because they are often difficult to locate and some are overseas, the agency said. The researchers bought 27 of the 274 supplements recalled from 2009 to 2012. The products were purchased in summer 2013 from manufacturers’ websites or other online retailers. An Oregon research laboratory tested them. Whether any consumers were harmed by using the tainted supplements was beyond the study’s scope. Among the 27 products: —Six weight loss supplements contained sibutramine or a substance similar to the diet drug removed from the U.S. market in 2010 after it was linked with heart attacks and strokes. Two also contained the active ingredient in Prozac. —Ten body-building supplements contained anabolic steroids or related compounds, which have been linked with side effects including prostate cancer, aggression and infertility. —One sexual enhancement product contained sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, which is not recommended for those taking some heart medicines. The Consumer Healthcare Products Association, a supplements trade group, said it encourages federal regulators to crack down on “rogue” companies. “Unapproved or adulterated drugs’ masquerading as lawful supplements is a threat to public health and to consumer confidence in the supplement industry,” Scott Melville, the association’s president and CEO, said in an emailed statement. Online: JAMA http://jama.ama-assn.org FDA: http://tinyurl.com/2c257mc

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‘We have to keep our guard up’ PLAN WILL MONITOR ANYONE COMING INTO U.S. FROM THREE EBOLA NATIONS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — U.S. authorities said Wednesday that everyone travelling into the U.S. from Ebola-stricken nations will be monitored for symptoms for 21 days. That includes returning American aid workers, federal health employees and journalists, as well as West African travellers. The program will start Monday in six states that represent 70 per cent of people arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Director Tom Frieden said monitoring would extend to other states in coming days and reach “every person coming back to the country for the 21 days they are at risk for Ebola.” He said it would continue until the outbreak in West Africa is controlled. “We have to keep our guard up,” Frieden told reporters on a conference call. The Obama administration has

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tion on whom to call if symptoms occur and a card the traveller can present to health care providers if they seek care. CDC already was telling its own employees and other health professionals working in the outbreak zone to monitor their temperature for 21 days upon return, so Wednesday’s announcement adds another step to their ongoing fever watch. The new program comes after authorities announced Wednesday plans to funnel all visitors from the three nations through five airports where fever checks and other Ebola screening measures have been put in place. An American video journalist who has recovered from Ebola left the hospital Wednesday and headed home to Providence, Rhode Island. “Today is a joyful day,” Ashoka Mukpo said in a statement released by the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The hospital said testing found him free of the virus now. The virus has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa, nearly all in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Muk-

po caught it while working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC and other media outlets. Two American nurses remain hospitalized after catching the virus from a Liberian man who travelled to the U.S. before exhibiting symptoms and dying at a Dallas hospital. Because of their cases, the CDC issued more stringent safety guidelines this week and is working with states to spread them to health care workers across the country. Debra Berry, the mother of Dallas nurse Amber Vinson, said Tuesday her daughter is “doing OK, just trying to get stronger” while being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Fellow Dallas nurse Nina Pham’s condition has been upgraded from fair to good at the National Institutes of Health outside Washington. At the White House, President Barack Obama was meeting with his new Ebola co-ordinator Ron Klain and top aides Wednesday afternoon.

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Iraqi students take part in assembly at al-Kenuz primary School in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday. Iraqi students went back to school on Wednesday amid tightened security as the academic year began a month late because thousands of people displaced by last summer’s onslaught by the Islamic State group had taken shelter in school buildings.

Iraqi students return to school BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — Iraqi students returned to school on Wednesday amid tightened security as the academic year began a month late because thousands of people displaced by last summer’s onslaught by the Islamic State group had taken shelter in school buildings. In the areas of northern and western Iraq captured by the extremist group earlier this year — including the country’s second largest city of Mosul — students are not required to attend classes, but will be able to watch lectures on state-run TV to prepare for final exams, Education Ministry spokeswoman Salama al-Hassan said. She told The Associated Press only a few schools are still occupied by displaced families and that authorities have set up trailers to be used as classrooms. She could not provide a specific number for the students, but said around nine million attended classes last year. More than 1.8 million people have been uprooted from their homes by

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CROWN POINT, Ind. — A man who allegedly confessed to killing seven women in Indiana refused to even acknowledge his name to a judge Wednesday, and a sheriff explained later that the suspect was upset his hearing was in open court before dozens of journalists. The judge asked Darren Vann, 43, at his initial court appearance if he understood the reason for the hearing in the strangulation death of 19-yearold Afrikka Hardy. But Vann stood unmoving and stone-faced, staring back silently at the judge. “Mr. Vann, are you choosing not to take part in this hearing?” Magistrate Judge Kathleen Sullivan asked Vann, wearing striped jail garb and with his wrists and legs shackled and flanked by two Lake County Jail guards. Sullivan then addressed Vann’s public defender, Matthew Fech, urging him to “tell your client that he stays in jail the rest of his life until this hearing takes place.” Vann’s public defender walked up to Vann and put his hand on his shoulder, encouraging him to speak. But he again offered no response. The judge then found him in contempt and said she would schedule another initial hearing for next week. Before entering the courtroom, Vann had peered through a window at spectator benches, asking his guards why so many journalists were there and refusing to even enter, Lake County Sheriff John Buncich told reporters later. Vann’s lawyer finally convinced Vann to at least enter the room, he added. Until Wednesday morning’s hearing, the sheriff said Vann’s demeanour had been “quiet, calm and collected,” which included confessing to investigators and leading police to abandoned homes where several bodies were hidden. Vann is being held in isolation and is on 24-hour-a-day watch at the county jail, Bunich said, so it’s unclear how the contempt charge will alter his status. His silence, if it persists, could raise complicated legal questions that might slow the prosecution process. At the less than 10 minute hearing, the judge also issued a gag order, meaning investigators can no longer interview Vann unless they first get his permission.