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BUSINESS OWNERS IN AND AROUND HERITAGE VILLAGE DOWNTOWN ARE FED UP WITH THE LARGE NUMBER OF STREET YOUTHS AND VAGRANTS WHO HAVE MOVED INTO THE AREA

Dawn-R Raii K Kit ittt has a lott off questi tions.

“Why am I, a law-abiding citizen, having to be reactive to street youth? Why am I, a taxpayer, having to cut my businesses’ trees? Why am I having to put up security cameras? Why am I having to make sure my staff is safe when they walk to their car?”

Kitt is an owner of a downtown business, Bahrey Dental and Kitt Hygiene, at 5212 48th St. in Red Deer. The business area is called Heritage Village.

She and other nearby business people have become exasperated with a problem that intensified in May when road construction began on the Taylor Drive intersection near her business, located directly behind the downtown McDonald’s restaurant.

The city is aware of their concerns. She’s not sure the response is really going to resolve things.

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Dawn-Rai Kitt, owner of Bahrey Dental, shows off some of the graffiti work on the side of her business Tuesday afternoon. The business, along with others nearby, has seen an increase in vandalism and drug paraphernalia littered on the grass around it over the past few months.

AHS staff receiving training, equipment to deal with Ebola

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Personal protective equipment for Alberta health-care workers dealing directly with an Ebola patient (left) was worn at a press conference on Tuesday, along with the equipment for those who make sure the health-care worker is properly protected.

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More than 1,700 staff with Alberta Health Services have been trained to deal with Ebola and the training will continue, says Alberta’s chief medical officer of health.

Dr. James Talbot said while the risk to Albertans is low, the threat remains with ongoing outbreaks in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

“We’re not going to be completely safe until the disease is completely eradicated in those three countries.

So this is a marathon, potentially, in which we’ll have to be alert for months until that situation is resolved in Africa, so the training is going to be ongoing.”

He said training has been happening around the province.

So far, Alberta has seen five or six possible cases that all turned out to be negative for Ebola.

Ebola causes hemorrhagic fever in humans and animals and can lead to internal bleeding and organ failure. It is often fatal.

Recently, a Fort McMurray work camp was closed by the operator and

the medic on site isolated himself from others after a possible case was sent to hospital.

“We probably wouldn’t have done those things but it’s hard to criticize people from being overly cautious.”

Talbot said if someone did have Ebola, they would not be infectious until they developed a fever.

“Even when you have fever for the first couple of days, the viral load they carry is quite low. Usually the chance of a transmission is correspondingly low.”

In addition to training, enhanced guidelines are in place for rapid assessment and triage for patients with fever and care for seriously ill potential or proven Ebola cases. Guidelines have also been enhanced for infection, prevention and control in acute care and for waste management.

Ebola personal protective gear has been sent to the four acute care facilities in Edmonton and Calgary designated to care for suspected or confirmed cases, as well as regional and urban hospital emergency departments, urgent care centres and several additional facilities.

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Country mourns ‘kid at heart’ Thousands of people lined the streets of Hamilton on Tuesday to pay respects to a soldier described as a ‘kid at heart.’

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake visitors likely won’t see a new beach until 2016 at the earliest.

Even making that schedule depends on the province approving the creation of a new stretch of sand in Sylvan Lake Provincial Park.

Bringing back sand in some fashion is a priority for town council.

However, environmental standards have changed significantly since the days when graders were used to dredge up sand each spring to form a new beach.

Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development and Alberta Parks are not in favour of any disruption to the lake.

The town hasn’t given up on looking at ways to restore the beach at its original location.

Another option being considered is to create a new beach above the seawall in the provincial park.

Alberta Parks has given the town a list of the steps to be taken to even be considered for approval — and they’re extensive.

A study and report on fish habitat, vegetation, water levels and water quality will be required, as well as engineering reports and an environmental review.

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The Blackfalds Bulldogs minor hockey team received the surprise of a lifetime when the Stanley Cup showed up before their practice. The surprise was part of Scotiabank’s Community Hockey Sponsorship Program. Last year, the program sponsored 5,000 teams across Canada including teams in Red Deer. Here, Dylan Hunt kisses the cup.

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DOWNTOWN: Identified as an area needing more enforcement When the road work began, it apparently cut off passage and displaced street people around the river area near the water treatment plant. She soon began to notice “street youth” hanging around her business location where she has been the past seven years.

And since then, she said, there’s been no lack of problems from a group of people, not always the same ones, who number as high as 12 at a time.

“We began having a significant group of street youth and vagrants who made our area their new home.”

A typical complaint Kitt might report could include any or some of the following: “Nudity, having sex, having open liquor, having drug paraphernalia, loitering, defecating, vulgarities through our windows, camping out, sleeping here.”

“This has been an ongoing issue. We’ve had bylaw on speed dial. In some instances contacting them up to three times a day.”

Kitt differentiates between the street youth and other homeless people.

“It’s not a homeless gentleman who is doing graffiti on our building or putting rocks through our windows. . .. That’s not the person that’s doing it.”

“They don’t wish to be around us anymore than we want them to be about. They don’t leave trash.

They are not the issue.

“No. These are young adults who are using drugs, selling drugs, they’re doing a lot of theft. They had a bike chop shop outside of our window for a good part of the summer. They know how to use the system.

This is a very different slice of society.”

“Wednesday of last week, at 9:20 a.m. they spread out a blanket and had a beer right outside of our window. I myself as a taxpayer would never in my wildest dreams crack a beer at 9:20 in the morning.

But there’s no fear of repercussion or that there’s anything wrong with that.”

Regular contact with City of Red Deer bylaw officers and RCMP has not resolved the problem, she said. She doesn’t blame them. She believes there is only so much they can do.

If police pick up someone, they may have three hours of paperwork, and there’s nothing to hold the person in custody anyway, Kitt said.

“I think if they (police, bylaw) had the ability (to deal with the problem) this would not have gone on

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for five months.”

“I think I am at the point of saying: Why? Why are we allowing vagrants to dictate?”

“It’s got to a point for us of extreme frustration that they can’t do anything. ... We’ve been asked to take video and photographs and document things.

Well, we actually have a job to do. We come here to work.”

“I did not go to school to be any kind of police person. I’m not understanding why I should have to do that.

“I alone pay close to $13,000 in property taxes.”

Kitt said Red Deer has “some of the most amazing outreach facilities” downtown. “We have everything possible to help assist them. ... well if you don’t want help you can’t be sitting out here loitering and causing trouble.”

“What do you do with them? We as society, are we going to just allow them to stay if they don’t wish to have help?

“All I know, as a citizen I shouldn’t be fearful at my place of work and again as a business owner I shouldn’t have to pay for their vandalism.”

She doesn’t know what the answer is. “I have suggestions. I don’t think they’re politically correct.”

Kitt is concerned that her condo fees she pays for her business will be rising because of all the repairs, such as cleaning graffiti and fixing broken windows.

“Our lawn, normally pristine ... looks terrible. You can’t see blades of grass for the cigarette butts and the garbage they leave behind daily.”

She also feels the onus has been placed on businesses to solve the problem.

“You the business owner should cut your trees so they can’t hide in them. You the business owner should lock you garbage receptacle so they can’t get entry. You the business owner should put up spotlights. You the business owner should hire security.”

“We the owners are told to be very cautious in our reaction to them for fear of repercussions.

“I’m not understanding why I as taxpayer, both personally and business, have to be fearful of street youths.”

She said she’s spoken to many other business owners who have been broken into or their businesses have had to make adjustments all at their own cost to deal with the problem.

“Do we have to revisit bylaws to address a problem that happens I’m sure everywhere, without this kind of thing — Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design.”

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design is in fact part of what the city sees as a solution.

It involves, among other things, doing things around businesses, such as removing trees so people won’t camp in an area.

Kitt asks why should she tear up grass and put in rocks to keep people from sitting on it. “Who is paying for that?

Heritage Village representatives have met with city representatives, including the mayor, about the

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concerns.

Mayor Tara Veer said she and the city manager, Craig Curtis, have been working closely with the chief of police, RCMP Insp. Scott Tod. “We have identified downtown as an area needing more enforcement,” Veer said.

A Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design analysis has been done on Heritage Village to help identify initiatives that can be implemented, she said.

“It would be important what would be private implementation and what would be the responsibility of the city.”

At the moment it’s a work in progress.

Veer said that there are likely a few issues at play concerning the problems at Heritage Village.

One would be the road construction, but also she suggests that other businesses have been more aggressive in the area in terms of private security, which may have displaced people and activities from those businesses onto Heritage Village.

“If the bigger issue is displacement throughout the downtown I think that that is where the city needs to place significant priority if we’re going to get to the root of what the issues really are,” Veer said.

“The concerns that Heritage Village has identified are highly symptomatic of a bigger picture. I think as Red Deer has grown so substantial in the last 10 years alone ... and all the great things about our prime geographic positioning in the province also pose a challenge for us when it comes to dealing with crime and social issues.”

Red Deer’s strong social services infrastructure providing support for individuals in need has in many respects also attracted a lot of individuals throughout the province seeking out those services, Veer said.

And yet if you look at the city’s social service capacity, it’s hard to keep up, she said.

Veer points to a new crime safety committee approved by council that will be a formal mechanism to channel specific safety concerns, and will be in operation hopefully early in the new year.

She says police foot patrols have recently been increased in the downtown in response to the concerns raised by Heritage Village and other downtown groups.

Higher priority is being placed on crime prevention and enforcement, she said.

As well, the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) has a strong presence downtown.

“In the bigger picture we are really focusing on organized crime and its activities in Red Deer and the ALERT team has been pursuing that.”

“When you look at public safety in general in Red Deer, addictions, property and person crime are strongly rooted in drug trafficking.”

All of this though, to be sure, won’t resolve all of Kitt’s concerns any time soon, if at all. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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CALGARY — Alberta Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith is putting her leadership on the line in the light of four byelection losses.

Smith said Tuesday she has asked to have a leadership review put on the agenda when the party holds its annual general meeting in Red Deer in mid-November.

“I have to take responsibility in the result,” said Smith.

“I don’t have to face another leadership review until after the next election, but I think it’s important for me to know that going forward as leader of this party that I’ve Danielle Smith got my members behind me.”

The Opposition Wildrose was beaten in three byelections in Calgary and one in Edmonton on Monday night. All the seats were won by the governing Progressive Conservatives. The

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Wildrose finished third in two of the races.

The party under Smith was seen by many as a contender to form government in the 2012 general election, but came up well short against the Tories.

“This just seems to be the right way to go about it,” she said of the review.

“I’ve had two opportunities now to contest elections, both of them having not gone the way we planned. It seems to me this is a good opportunity for my members to make that choice once again.”

Smith received 90 per cent support at her last leadership review in 2013. On Tuesday, she said she would require more than the 77 per cent the PCs gave to former premier Alison Redford before she resigned earlier this year.

“A 77 per cent seems to be the kiss of death, so I would say you probably need more than 77 per cent to stay on as party leader,” Smith said.

Her decision to seek a review is a good pre-emptive strike, said a Calgary political scientist.

“She’s getting ahead of the curve,” said David Taras from Mount Royal University.

“I would be really surprised if she lost a leadership review and she has good political instincts. Part of her good political instincts is probably to call a

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leadership review. I’m sure she will get over the high-jump bar quite easily, unless there’s something going on in the party that most people aren’t seeing.”

Taras said the Wildrose needs to make the transition from being a “fierce opposition” party to a “government in waiting” in the eyes of voters.

PC Premier Jim Prentice has lived up to his billing in helping to restart that party, Taras said, and Wildrose has been underestimating its opponent.

“She’s not dealing with a stumblebum. She’s dealing with people who are tacticians, major political chess players, who are aware of what the next move is and the next move after that.

“It’s a much higher-level game than was the case previously.”

Smith said her party needs to re-examine its messaging to earn the support of urban voters.

“It’s very clear from what I’ve heard from my members already that they feel we don’t have the right balance in talking about what the other guys are doing and what we would do right,” said Smith.

“We want to make sure that our members have the opportunity to give that full feedback to me and the party leadership about what it is we need to do on a go forward.”

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BEACH: Town must consult with Albertans

If there is widespread support, the town would extend its consultation to the rest of the province.

Council also voted on Monday to extend the deadline for the entire project until the end of October 2016.

Gaudet said the deadline reflects the amount of work the province wants done before it considers a beach application. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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The province also says the town must consult with Albertans.

Before going ahead with what is likely to be a costly application process, council wants to hear from local residents. It hoped to undertake public consultation this fall but staff vacancies and the demands of hosting “ Thank you so much for all of your hard work & the Tour of Alberta and patience with the kids over the years. Halle has really Hockeyville pushed that enjoyed coming to school every week and looked forward back. to the different “work” that would be out for her to Council approved exchallenge herself. tending the deadline to She always had hear from local residents great things to the end of the year.

Town communications to say about officer Joanne Gaudet school and we said a mail-out will be are grateful sent to residents later this she had the fall with a code that can opportunity be used to access an onto experience line survey. Hard copies Montessori. will also be available at Thanks specified locations. again, People will be given Sharon & background on the beach Richard Kidd history, and then asked a number of questions For details or to sign up for classes, please phone: about the beach and 403 340-8877 or 403 340-2764 whether they would supC9 - 5580 - 45TH ST. RED DEER port a restoration project Follow us on WWW.REDDEERMONTESSORI.COM facebook of some sort.

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A 69-year-old man suffered serious burns after a fire ripped through a Deer Park home on Tuesday afternoon. Fire investigator Bob Boudreau said the fire department was called about 4:30 p.m. to the home at 12 Drummond Close. The injured man was taken to hospital and then airlifted by STARS to Calgary’s Foothills Hospital, said a STARS spokesman. The home is a total loss. An iPhone video sent to the Advocate shows thick smoke billowing out of the split level home. The front of the home was badly scorched and the basement also appeared to be burned out. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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EBOLA: No skin exposed Talbot said it is most important that health-care workers have no skin exposed and take care when removing their gear to avoid contamination.

He said the outbreak in Africa has shown the importance of workers be-

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They also need to be willing to look after an Ebola patient. At the moment, Alberta health-care workers can refuse to work with an Ebola patient, he said.

“The key thing is to make sure that the health-care worker is relaxed, is alert, is properly trained, properly protected and that they monitor things like their fatigue level. You really do want people involved in doing that on a voluntary basis.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Time for adult discourse TO TACKLE TERROR IN CALM, PROGRESSIVE WAY, THE TORIES NEED A POINTMAN One of the main things to know about the so-called Protection of Canada from Terrorists bill that was brought forward in the House of Commons on Monday is that it cannot possibly live up to its title.

Another useful thing to note is that its official author, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, was never meant to be at centre stage of a highstakes political drama.

Initially scheduled for CHANTAL presentation HÉBERT on the very day when Michael Zehaf-Bibeau stormed the Hill, the bill was designed to expand the power of CSIS spies.

It may or may not have an easier ride in Parliament as a result of the circumstances that delayed its presentation until this week, but it is not the prime vehicle for the government’s

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post-Oct. 22 policies. That will come later.

If a load of new measures had been thrown in the bill over the weekend, it would have been in the absence of definitive answers as to last week’s events and under the impetus of political post-traumatic shock.

Blaney himself was a walking and talking picture of that shock as he tried to sketch the way forward from the shooting for the media last Friday.

A Quebec minister mostly known for unflinchingly delivering the government line, he was struggling to keep his head above (uncharted) water.

Blaney will never overshadow his boss or even the non-bilingual ministerial colleagues at whose side he routinely appears to deliver some Frenchlanguage content.

From a political operations perspective, there is little to dislike about this obedient ministerial soldier.

But at a time when a rattled but critical Canadian public is looking to the government for a balanced response to a complex situation, more than a capacity to execute orders is needed.

Over the longer run, it is far from certain that having Prime Minister Stephen Harper front and centre at all

crucial stages of the coming debate — in the way that he was last week when he broke the news that a murderous hit-and-run in Saint-Jean-surRichelieu had terrorist undertones — is the way to go to shore up public confidence in the government.

No party, no leader owns the lawand-order issue in the way that the Conservatives and Harper do.

But in this instance, their penchant for punitive legislation inspires as much or more public suspicion as it does confidence.

As prime minister, Harper himself is the lightning rod for that suspicion.

No amount of hugging in the House of Commons is likely to overcome it.

As the initial shock of last week’s events wears off, it is becoming increasingly evident that — in the case of this government — the question uppermost in many voters’ minds is not whether it will do enough to make Canada safer from the attacks of extremists but whether it will do too much.

From that perspective, the fact that there was no rush to load an existing bill with on-the-fly security measures is a positive sign.

A demonstrated willingness on the part of the government to engage in an

adult conversation with the opposition parties and with Canadians about the post-Oct. 22 country would be another.

After Sept. 11, Jean Chrétien tasked one of his most senior ministers to coordinate Canada’s response to the terrorist attacks on the United States.

John Manley’s role involved departmental multi-tasking of a kind that a line minister such as Blaney could not possibly handle.

Part of his brief also involved reassuring both the Canadian public and a watchful American administration as to the purpose and the seriousness of the federal security efforts.

Harper has borrowed pages from Chrétien’s handbook in the past.

He could do worse than appoint a top minister to a Manley-style role.

His cabinet fixer-in-chief Jason Kenney — a senior minister familiar with Canada’s Muslim community, a reputation for getting things done and the capacity to communicate effectively in both official languages — comes to mind.

As a bonus the PMO would not have to write his lines.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

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Private MRI clinics do not shorten wait times

BY RYAN MEILI SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Last week, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall took to twitter to ask the question: “Is it time to allow people to pay for their own private MRIs in Saskatchewan like they can do in Alberta?”

His comments came after a radio show in which he’d received a call from a patient who’s been waiting three months for an MRI — one of many Saskatchewan patients who are, understandably, frustrated by long waits for essential imaging services.

It’s a real problem.

For that reason, we should be wary of false solutions, and look first to evidence before rhetoric takes over.

The best place to look for evidence is the province Wall references as a model: Alberta. Many Saskatchewan residents have sought out care in Alberta’s private MRI clinics, giving the impression that the experiment there has been a success.

It turns out, when we take a closer look, that things are not so rosy in the land of private MRIs after all.

Perhaps the most surprising fact is that the wait list for an MRI in Alberta, rather than having been shortened by the presence of private imaging clinics, is actually the longest in the country.

According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), patients in Alberta can wait from 87 days to up to 247 days compared with a 28 to 88 day wait in Saskatchewan. These waiting lists exist despite Alberta having the second highest number

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of scanners per capita in the country, suggesting that overuse may be a problem — a phenomenon that may actually be exacerbated by excess capacity.

It may seem counterintuitive that the public wait list would lengthen in the context of more MRI clinics and scanners. It appears that capacity, in the form of physicians and technologists, is siphoned off from the public system by parallel patient-pay services, a pattern that has been seen in surgery as well as imaging.

More troubling yet is the question of equity. If an MRI scan is the limiting factor for getting a surgery, and I can pay for my scan, I get to have my publiclyfunded surgery before someone in as much need but less able to pay out of pocket. This is the principle reason that the existence of patient-pay MRI clinics, as Wall has pointed out, is against the Canada Health Act. This is also the reason that Alberta has, in recent years, moved away from the patient-pay model.

Many of the private clinics charge the public system for the scan and charge the patient a premium on top. Alberta was also forced to repay some patients who had paid for medically-necessary scans out-ofpocket.

With no financial savings, and no increase in accessibility, there is actually little real impetus for provinces to promote patient-pay imaging centres.

In fact, Alberta has moved in the opposite direction, increasing public capacity and ending the practice of contracting out services to private facilities. As a result, there appear to have been no new private MRI clinics built in Alberta in the last decade, as the

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Along with failing to increase affordability and access, private MRIs pose a more insidious threat to publicly-funded health care. The more Canadians believe that they have to pay out of their own pocket for necessary care, the more we will see confidence in and commitment to medicare eroded. We need strategies to improve access to diagnostic technologies that strengthen medicare rather than undermining it.

There are ways of improving access to MRI that don’t undermine the principles of or confidence in the public system. Imaging is one of the most overused elements of our health-care system. A 2013 study of MRI use in Alberta showed that over half of low back MRI scans in an Alberta hospital were not appropriate. Working to promote rational use of technology is one way to make sure it is available for those who need it most.

Expanding hours of use, training programs for personnel, and the number of machines in the public system is another. Anyone can learn from their own mistakes; a true leader learns from the mistakes of others. Saskatchewan should look closely at the experiences of other provinces before choosing a path that, while seeming to offer solutions to our challenges in health care, could actually make them worse.

Ryan Meili is a family physician in Saskatoon, an expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca, and vice-chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HAMILTON, Ont. — Thousands of people lined the streets of Hamilton on Tuesday to pay respects to a soldier described as a “kid at heart” who was gunned down as he stood ceremonial guard in Ottawa in what the prime minister called a terrorist attack.

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo’s coffin, carried atop a gun carriage to Christ’s Church Cathedral, was accompanied by members of his regiment as well as scores of soldiers and police officers marching to the sounds of muffled drums.

In a homily, Rev. Canon Rob Fead called Cirillo “Canada’s son” and said the tragedy of his death had helped bring the country together.

“We gather this day in faith and in hope,” Fead told mourners. “His bravery, his sacrifice, is not in vain.”

In a message to Cirillo’s regiment, the Queen expressed sorrow at his death under such “grievous” circumstances.

“I send my deepest sympathy to all those affected by this tragedy, in particular to members of Cpl. Cirillo’s own family,” the Queen, who is the regiment’s colonel-in-chief, said in her note.

Near the church, people lined up four deep to watch the procession, many of them holding Canadian flags and balloons emblazoned with the Maple Leaf. At one point on the route, a group of young women sang the national anthem, drawing cheers and applause from the crowd.

However, as the casket went by, silence befell the street save for the mournful strains of bagpipes or drumming.

Hundreds of bouquets and wreaths were piled on the steps Lt.-Col. John Weir Foote armoury, along with written tributes to Cirillo.

“Reservist Cpl, Nathan Cirillo — we will never forget your sacrifice,” one read.

Others left toys and treats for Cirillo’s dog.

An unarmed Cirillo was standing ceremonial guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa last Wednesday when a gunman shot him in the back before rushing into the Centre Block on Parliament Hill, where security staff felled him in a hail of bullets.

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Kathy Cirillo is comforted in front of the coffin of her son Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at his regimental funeral service in Hamilton, Ont., on Tuesday. nitaries bidding farewell to Cirillo, 24, at the full regimental funeral.

In his tribute, Harper talked about the “gutwrenching” irony that Cirillo was killed guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

“He knew what he was protecting and he knew what he was preserving,” Harper said. “He died protecting and preserving.”

Cirillo’s cousin, Jenny Holland, said he was a rambunctious, smiling adventurous child — qualities he kept even as he grew into manhood.

“Nathan may have looked like a big tough man, but he was such a kid at heart,” Holland said.

Because only invited guests were allowed into the funeral service, proceedings were broadcast on screens at a sporting arena in the city.

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Lilge said Magnotta had a grin on his face as he was transported to a detention centre.

“I have the opinion that, somehow, he felt relieved because he had this grin on his face,” he said.

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Kerry, who opened his remarks in French, said he was in Ottawa to show American solidarity with their Canadian friends and top ally.

Joined by Baird, Kerry placed a wreath at the National War Memorial today in honour of two Canadian soldiers killed last week.

The two then drove to Foreign Affairs headquarters for a brief formal welcome.

“We’re thrilled to have you here,” Baird said.

“Wish it was under better circumstances. But we appreciate your friendship.”

Kerry said he was glad to be in Ottawa, but was “so sorry obviously for the events.”

The two then sat down to discuss the threat posed

by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the situation in Ukraine, border management and North American energy co-operation.

The top U.S. diplomat will end his whirlwind day in Ottawa with a late afternoon meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his Centre Block office on Parliament Hill, not far from where the armed man who shot Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was killed in a gunfight with security.

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A camp kitchen in a box

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A Lacombe couple think they’ve invented an easy way to transport cooking equipment from home to campsite, and they’re counting on crowdfunding to turn their idea into an international product.

Greg and Melissa Petersen have developed a cooler-sized box that converts into a camp kitchen. With legs that fold down, a heat-resistant aluminum top that folds up, and easily accessible storage cupboards in between, the Camp Caddy simplifies the process of outdoor cooking.

The idea came to the Petersens several years ago while they were camping with their young children. When an infant needed a bottle, Greg found himself fumbling through their sup-

plies.

“It was a complete disaster trying to get everything out,” he remembered.

After searching in vain for equipment that would make camp cooking easier, Greg remembered the “chuck boxes” that scouts used to store equipment when he was younger. He set to work developing a wooden box that could carry his families cooking supplies, and was rewarded with a functional product that the Petersens began using on their camping trips.

“One day, we were sitting around the campfire and we said, ‘Everyone needs this; we should plasticize it.’”

After a few plywood prototypes, Greg had an early version of the Camp Caddy. It had wings that folded up to create the surface, and retractable legs.

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Ottawa monitoring low oil prices ahead of fall fiscal update

CHATTERS CONFERENCE

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A stylist gives tips on how to create the latest men’s hairstyles during the Chatters Conference at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel on Tuesday.

The annual event, which began Monday and wraps up today, featured presentations by Redken educators and platform artists. More than 750 stylists were expected to take part in this year’s conference, as well as salon franchisees.

OTTAWA — The federal government says it’s carefully monitoring the impact of sliding oil prices on public finances as it prepares to release its fall economic update.

Canada’s junior finance minister said Tuesday that even as tumbling energy prices eat away at tax revenues, the government still believes it can deliver a balanced budget next year.

“Any time there’s a dynamic like falling oil prices that we see happening right now globally, we monitor it very closely,” Kevin Sorenson said Tuesday in Ottawa.

“The economic update will give us a little bit better indication as to where we are.”

Sorenson’s remarks came as the Harper government plans how to introduce promised tax cuts amid economists’ concerns that low crude prices threaten to deplete Canada’s public coffers.

The government is expected to release its fall fiscal update soon, although no date has been announced.

On Monday, the price of oil dipped below US$80 per barrel after a Goldman Sachs report predicted crude prices would fall to US$75 next year

with expanding shale production and supplies exceeding demand.

Finance Minister Joe Oliver remained optimistic Tuesday despite the oil-price tumult, and said the Goldman Sachs prediction was “at the lower end of projections.”

“Irrespective of the number, we’re comfortable that we’re going to achieve a budgetary surplus next year and we’ll be able to follow up on our commitment to reduce taxes,” Oliver told The Canadian Press.

As a result, he said, the recent drop in oil prices won’t force the government to revisit its economic game plan.

“We constantly monitor the markets and we take into account a variety of factors — and the Canadian economy is strong,” Oliver said.

“Lower oil prices have a varied impact. On oil producers, but also on consumers and so it’s a complex matter of what the actual impact will be, because clearly there are advantages for manufacturing companies as well.”

When asked whether oil prices could affect the timing of the fall economic update, he did suggest there was some flexibility.

“Well, if accommodation has to be made, we’ll make it, but we are going to have a fall update,” Oliver said, declining to elaborate.

Rocky Mountain House Co-op Home Centre honoured

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HARDLINES’ 2014 OUTSTANDING RETAILER AWARDS

Rocky Mountain House Co-op Home Centre has been named one of Canada’s top hardware and home-improvement stores.

The retailer was honoured at Hardlines’ 2014 Outstanding Retailer Awards last week in Toronto, receiving the award for Best Building Supply/ Home Centre under 25,000 square feet.

Shane Buss, the store’s general manager, said it was a team effort to

change the culture of the store.

“Our retail, and the home centre in particular, have been on a five-year journey,” said Buss. “Looking back, there wasn’t one thing that we had to change to get here — we had to change everything.”

Rocky Mountain House Co-op built the home centre 10 years ago, and renovated it three years ago.

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Hayley and Jackie Tickle’s business Candy Couture Girls was voted the top vendor during the recent Mall Street Market promotion at the shopping centre. As “Mall Street Mogul,” it will receive four weekends of free rent at a Parkland Mall kiosk location, a one-year membership to the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce, and business coaching from Community Futures.

Couture Girls, which sells homemade candy, and other local businesses displayed their products for free at Parkland Mall from Oct. 16 to 19. Fifteen vendors took part this year in Mall Street Market, the third annual edition of the event.

BRIEF Cow-Calfenomics back in Olds next month Cow-Calfenomics returns to Olds this year, one of six Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development information sessions being held across the province. The Nov. 27 session will cover herd planning, feed management, livestock costs, financial management, labour, succession planning, business models and more.

“The goal of these information sessions is to leave producers with tools, resources and information to enhance their management skills and, therefore, enable them to make better informed business decisions,” said Rick Dehod, a farm financial specialist with Alberta Agriculture in Edmonton.

The registration fee for Cow-Calfenomics is $25. Call the Ag-info Center at 1-800-387-6030 for more information.

Candy Couture Girls top vendor at Mall Street Market A mother-and-daughter business from Lacombe has earned itself some prime retail space in Parkland Mall.

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“This is the first time a Co-op Home Centre has been entered into a competition,” said Ron Healy, Federated Cooperatives Ltd.’s associate vice-president of ag and home.

The Outstanding Retailer Awards are presented by Hardlines, a newsletter and magazine on home improvement retailing in Canada.

The other award categories were

Best Hardware Store, Best Building Centre over 25,000 square feet, Best Contractor Specialist Retailer, Best Large Surface Retailer, Young Retailer of the Year and Marc Robichaud Memorial Community Leader Award.

Judging was based on customer service, store appearance, merchandising, marketing, employee management, community involvement and sales growth.

The 2014 winners will be featured in Hardlines Home Improvement Quarterly Magazine.

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No timeline for reopening of canola-crushing plant after explosion YORKTON, Sask. — There’s been no word as to when a canola-crushing plant in southeastern Saskatchewan will reopen after an explosion.

There was one minor injury in the blast at the Louis Dreyfus (Loo’-ee DRY’-fuss) Commodities plant in Yorkton on Friday.

Fire Chief Trevor Morrisey says investigators are still working with the company to pinpoint the cause.

The explosion occurred in a storage area. The Yorkton plant along Highway 16 is one of the province’s main canola-processing facilities.

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Burnaby to appeal NEB decision ON KINDER MORGAN ACCESS FOR PIPELINE SURVEY WORK

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BURNABY, B.C. — The City of Burnaby, B.C., is refusing to back down from its fight with Kinder Morgan, saying it plans to appeal a National Energy Board decision granting the energy giant access to a municipal conservation area.

The city has tried in recent months to block the company from conducting survey work in the area on Burnaby Mountain — Kinder Morgan’s preferred route for the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

But the energy board ruled last week that Burnaby can’t stop the company’s activities because the geotechnical work is needed by the board so it can make recommendations to the

federal government about whether the project should proceed.

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan says he wasn’t surprised by the NEB ruling, but he questions the energy regulator’s legal authority to consider constitutional questions relating to municipal bylaws.

Such a power has never been previously found to exist in any prior board decision or by any court, he said.

“We are disappointed but not surprised by this ruling,” he said in a written release on Tuesday.

“We believe that it is inappropriate for the National Energy Board to rule on the critical constitutional issue of whether a multinational pipeline com-

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David Chilton, author of ‘The Wealthy Barber’ and one of the angel investors on CBC TV’s ‘Dragons’ Den,’ speaks at the Central Alberta Business Innovation Conference last week. About 175 people were on hand to hear Chilton, and other presenters who focused on agriculture, tourism, people management and entrepreneurship.

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CADDY: Grab-andgo-type system “It’s a true grab-and-go-type system,” he said of the creation.

A plastic and aluminum version of the Camp Caddy was built in Toronto, and now the Petersens are poised to engage the services of a plastics manufacturer. First, however, they need to raise the money to build the moulds.

That’s where Kickstarter comes in.

The crowdfunding platform allows people to pledge financial support to creative projects.

In the case of Camp Caddy, a $200,000 goal has been set. If that much money is raised, the Petersens will go into production and provide a Camp Caddy unit to everyone who provided $200 or more. Those who pledged less will receive products like T-shirts, hand-made bottle openers, and an essential camping supply list.

Camp Caddy’s Kickstarter campaign was launched on Friday. By mid-afternoon on Tuesday it had attracted 33

pany can override municipal bylaws and cause damage to a conservation area, for a project that no level of government has deemed to be in the public interest.”

Lawyer Greg McDade, who is representing the City of Burnaby, said he believes no federally appointed panel should have the power to rule on municipal laws or enforcement powers.

“It doesn’t exist in the NEB Act, and it has never been claimed before by any federal tribunal,” he said.

The board disagrees on the extent of its powers, saying in a statement last week that it found it does have the legal jurisdiction to override municipal bylaws.

The order forbids the City of Burnaby from undertaking any bylaw enforcement.

It also says Kinder Morgan must give the city written notice of work 48 hours in advance and must remediate any damage.

It is the first time the National Energy Board has ever issued an order to a municipality.

Burnaby and Kinder Morgan have been locked in battle over the $5.4-billion pipeline expansion, with both sides filing duelling legal actions in court and applications with the National Energy Board.

The expansion would almost triple the capacity of the existing pipeline between Alberta and the B.C. coast to about 900,000 barrels of crude a day.

pledges for a total of more than $6,000.

“We’re just starting to build momentum here,” said Greg, who’s been promoting the product on social media.

“The feedback is starting to come back on that. Already we have 288 Shares on Facebook.”

The patent-pending invention has applications that extend beyond camping, said Greg.

“Anytime you need portable storage that’s also a table, this product is for you,” he said, listing trade show and farmers market displays as possibilities.

Greg, who works as a grain marketer, and Melissa, who is a stay-at-home mom, have lived in Lacombe for seven years. Both have business-related educations, and Greg is a self-described tinkerer.

“International is our goal,” he said of their plans for Camp Caddy.

“The shipping company we’ve lined up, it has warehouses throughout the world.”

More information about the Camp Caddy and a link to Kickstarter can be found online at www.campcaddy.com. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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PWC REPORT

TORONTO — Homeowners who choose the convenience of city life over the more generous living space in suburbia are driving Canada’s real estate market, according to a new report jointly produced by consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers and the non-profit Urban Land Institute.

The annual outlook on emerging real estate trends says the move downtown, which has emerged in the past few years, will continue as more Canadians decide to stay in or move back to urban cores.

Much of this is due to changing demographics as young families and millennials forgo the white picket fence and house in the suburbs to take advantage of downtown living, where properties are smaller but offer more conveniences, said the 112-page report released Tuesday.

According to Statistics Canada, the most recent numbers available show that the population of urban centres grew 7.1 per cent between 2006 and 2011.

Frank Magliocco, Canadian real estate leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said there are a number of factors behind the urban growth, including that Canadians are more aware of the environmental costs associated with urban sprawl as well as the cost in time and money of lengthy commutes.

As well, provincial land use regulations that protect green spaces — for example Toronto’s Greenbelt involving about 800,000 hectares of protected land from Peterborough, Ont., to Niagara Falls, Ont. — have made it more difficult to find land to develop and has pushed an explosion of condominium growth in major cities.

But one of the concerns is what will happen to these urban properties once the younger generation grows out of them.

“This continuing urbanization trend has fuelled the condo boom in Toronto and other cities, but some question what will happen as the lifestyles of today’s young urban singles and couples change. Will they move out of the city core in search of larger homes, schools and services, or will they — like their counterparts in other parts of the world — simply adapt to smaller living spaces?” the report asks.

Magliocco said Canadian cities will either go the way of New York, where families are willing to sacrifice space to live in the city, or the way of London, where families are used to living outside the city and commuting downtown for work.

The rapidly growing condo markets in cities such as Toronto and Vancouver have also raised concerns about an oversupply of units and whether the boom is overly weighted towards wealthy, foreign investors who lease the units to others.

Meanwhile, an expected rise next year in interest rates from historically low levels may also influence demand in the housing market.

However, among the 1,400 people interviewed and surveyed for the report, which included private property investors and developers, commercial developers and real estate service firms, the consensus was that the Canadian market is strong enough to weather a bump in mortgage rates.

“The improvement in the U.S. economy indicates that higher rates could be coming, but the economic stability in Canada and the United States will continue to attract foreign capital,” said the report. “In addition, retiring baby boomers are likely to flood the market with private capital as they look to turn stock options and retirement packages into stable, income-generating assets.”

Overall, the report sees developers responding to the needs of downtown dwellers by building more mixed-used properties, which include residential and retail space.

“Looking ahead, we can expect to see more and more retail and services along the streets of Canada’s city cores and along major transit arteries, especially where new developments predominate. Major brands are likely to move into these new spaces, too — though with new formats and smaller footprints,” said the report.

The report also noted that Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, will see the most residential growth in 2015, a trend that has been helped by more jobs becoming available in the West than in Central Canada, while Calgary and the Greater Toronto Area will hold the most potential for retail growth.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 107.16 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.74 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.31 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.92 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.90 Cdn. National Railway . . 78.25 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 229.68 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.39 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.41 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.28 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 47.98 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.26 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.35 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.20 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.17 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.76 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.06 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 48.09 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 72.20 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.51 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.08 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.30 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 123.85 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.89 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.39 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 58.51 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 20.15 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market surged more than 150 points Wednesday as the TSX continued its recovery from the worst of this month’s sell-off.

The S&P/TSX composite index ran ahead 155.25 points to 14,624.25 in a broad-based advance. The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.54 of a cent at 89.52 cents US. U.S. markets also racked up strong gains amid a strong reading on U.S. consumer confidence.

The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index jumped to 94.5, much higher than the 87 reading that economists expected.

The Dow Jones industrials was up 187.81 points to 17,005.75, the Nasdaq gained 78.36 points to 4,564.29 and the S&P 500 index climbed 23.42 points to 1,985.05.

The move higher on the market came ahead of the latest interest rate announcement from the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday.

The Fed meeting comes as the central bank’s key stimulus program — its massive bond purchases designed to keep long-term rates low — is set to wind up at the end of this month.

Traders will be looking for reassurance that the Fed is in no hurry to raise rates from near zero. They will be looking to see that the Fed intends to leave the benchmark rate low for a “considerable period” after quantitative easing ends.

There have been concerns over how the markets, and the U.S. economy, will fare without the prop from the Fed that also encouraged investors to buy into stocks as returns on other securities were so small in comparison.

The TSX has been grinding higher since hitting the worst of the October sell-off when it was down about 12 per cent from its highs of the year. It’s now down about 6.5 per cent from its peak, leaving the Toronto market up about 7.4 per cent year to date.

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.55 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 89.33 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.35 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 31.42 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.10 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.57 First Quantum Minerals . 18.84 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 25.08 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.76 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.07 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.05 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 37.96 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.69 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 17.84 Energy ARC Resources . . . . . . . 27.04 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.76 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 52.10 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.89 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 51.16 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.74 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 17.39 Canyon Services Group. 10.70 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 27.95 CWC Well Services . . . . . 0.72 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.61 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.06 Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets, doesn’t think it will get much better on the TSX this year.

“If there are two words that describe the rest of the year in Canada (it’s) treading water,” Belski said, with the energy sector under renewed pressure after Goldman Sachs released a report Monday saying it expects oil prices to tumble into the next year as shale gas production grows and oil supply outstrips demand.

“We have to understand that lower oil prices or even flat oil prices are probably more of a reality going forward.”

The energy sector was up 2.1 per cent after losing three per cent Monday in the wake of the Goldman Sachs report. The December crude oil contract gained 42 cents to US$81.42 a barrel.

The base metals sector gained 2.6 per cent as copper prices rose three cents to US$3.09 a pound.

Financials were up 0.8 per cent.

The gold sector edged up about 1.1 per cent as the December bullion contract inched up a dime to US$1,229.40 an ounce.

Among the latest batch of corporate earnings, after the close Facebook reported adjusted earnings came in at 43 cents a share against the 40 cents that analysts had forecast but its stock dipped 2.5 per cent in after-market trading.

Twitter posted adjusted earnings of one cent a share, matching expectations. But investors concerned about user growth and holiday-quarter revenue sent the stock tumbling almost 10 per cent.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Tuesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,624.25, up 155.25 points Dow — 17,005.75, up 187.81 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 95.10 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 53.26 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.09 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.28 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 52.31 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.49 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 5.10 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.035 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.33 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.00 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 7.24 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 10.34 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.09 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 65.09 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.45 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 68.55 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.25 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.17 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.11 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.27 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.75 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 74.62 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.76 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 52.90 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.60 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.47 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.26 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.77 S&P 500 — 1,985.05, up 23.42 points Nasdaq — 4,564.29, up 78.36 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 89.52 cents US, up 0.54 of a cent Pound — C$1.8028, down 0.95 of a cent Euro — C$1.4230, down 0.49 of a cent Euro — US$1.2738, up 0.32 of a cent Oil futures: US$81.42 per barrel, up 42 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,229.40 per oz., up 10 cents (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.031 oz., down 3.1 cents $644 kg., down 99 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $11.00 higher $433.70; Jan ’15 $4.50 higher $425.00; March ’15 $1.90 higher $424.70; May ’15 $0.50 higher $426.70; July ’15 $0.40 lower $427.20; Nov ’15 $0.20 higher $423.70; Jan. ’16 $0.10 lower $429.20; March ’16 $0.10 lower $433.10; May ’16 $0.10 lower $433.10; July ’16 $0.10 lower $433.10; Nov. ’16 $0.10 lower $433.10.

Barley (Western): Dec. ’14 $3.00 higher 140.00; March ’15 $3.00 higher 143.00; May ’15 $3.00 higher 143.00; July ’15 $3.00 higher 143.00; Oct. ’15 $3.00 higher 143.00; Dec. ’15 $3.00 higher 143.00; March ’16 $3.00 higher 143.00; May ’16 $3.00 higher 143.00; July ’16 $3.00 higher 143.00; Oct. ’16 $3.00 higher 143.00; Dec. ’16 $3.00 higher 143.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 437,300 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 437,300.

D I L B E R T

Facebook advertising revenue soars UP 64 PER CENT IN 3RD QUARTER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Facebook grew its advertising revenue by 64 per cent in the third quarter, helped by a boost in mobile ads that are becoming an increasingly large chunk of the social networking giant’s overall advertising business.

The steady increase indicates that Facebook has succeeded in steering advertisers to its mobile platform at a time when most of its users are using Facebook on phones and tablets.

Investors were initially worried about the desktop Web era-born company’s ability to succeed in mobile advertising, but those concerns are long gone.

Though Facebook’s results surpassed expectations, investors sent the company’s stock down sharply not long after the results came out, possibly spooked by comments during a conference call that 2015 will be a “significant” year for expenses. The company said it expects costs to grow by 55 per cent to 75 per cent next year as it ramps up investment in its work force, growing existing products and new areas such as WhatsApp, Oculus and video.

This year, Facebook spent $22 billion in cash and stock to buy the messaging service WhatsApp and about $2 billion to buy the virtual reality company Oculus.

The Menlo Park, California-based company’s stock fell nearly 11 per cent in extended trading. Daniel Morgan, a portfolio manager at Synovus Trust Company, who focuses mostly on technology stocks, was surprised by the downturn.

“Unless there is something I am missing, I didn’t see anything in the report that would cause any concern,” he said, adding that the only thing he can think of is that the stock has done so well that expectations were extra high, and while Facebook did better than expected, they didn’t blow it out of the water.

“Maybe it’s just not enough to answer the Street’s desire to have unbelievable numbers,” he said. “It’s kind of a scratch your head kind of situation.”

Advertising revenue at the company totalled $2.96 billion. Mobile ad revenue, a closely watched figure, was

$1.95 billion, or 66 per cent of Facebook’s total advertising revenue for the quarter. That’s up from 62 per cent in the second quarter and 59 per cent in the first three months of the year.

The 10-year-old company began offering mobile ads in 2012.

Now, Facebook is expanding into highly lucrative video ads, and earlier this year re-launched Atlas, a tool for marketers to better target people across “devices, platforms and publishers” and to measure how well the ads work.

The Atlas move and the acquisition of LiveRail, an online video advertising platform signal that an “important shift is under way at Facebook,” says Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at research firm eMarketer. Facebook is “becoming much more ambitious in offering digital services far beyond what the company was initially created to do as a social network.”

The company has been on a roll lately, and its stock hit an all-time high of $81.16 on Tuesday before the results came out. That’s more than double its initial public offering price of $38.

Both the troubled IPO and the company’s lagging stock price seem like a distant memory. Still, Facebook has had to be vigilant in attracting new users, especially outside the U.S., and ensuring that existing members return day after day.

Facebook had 1.35 billion average monthly users as of Sept. 30, an increase of 14 per cent from a year earlier. Daily users totalled 864 million, up 19 per cent. Mobile monthly active users, meanwhile, were 1.12 billion, up 29 per cent from a year earlier.

While Facebook has been growing its share of the worldwide digital advertising market, it’s still a long way from catching up to rival Google Inc. In 2013, Facebook had a nearly 6 per cent share of the market compared with Google’s 32 per cent, according to eMarketer. This year, Facebook is expected to grow its slice to nearly 8 per cent, while Google’s should decline slightly, to just below 32 per cent.

Overall, Facebook’s earnings nearly doubled to $802 million after paying preferred dividends, or 30 cents per share.

Revenue rose 59 per cent to $3.2 billion. Adjusted earnings and revenue both beat Wall Street’s estimates.

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TORONTO — Lawyers presented very different characterizations of Conrad Black as they wrapped up arguments that will determine whether the former media baron will be banned from the boardrooms of Ontario public companies.

Staff for the Ontario Securities Commission told a hearing that the former Hollinger executive’s fraud conviction in a U.S. trial should mean he’s “out of the market” and is unfit to serve as a company director or officer.

Competition Bureau OKs Burger King deal for Tim Hortons OTTAWA — Canada’s Competition Bureau has approved Burger King’s plan to buy Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX:THI).

The federal regulator ruled Tuesday the deal was unlikely to reduce competition “due to, among other things, the existence of a large number of competitors and the low barriers to entry in the fast food industry.”

Burger King has offered US$11 billion for the Canadian coffee chain.

The deal still faces a review under the Investment Canada Act and requires approval by Tim Hortons shareholders.

Burger King and Tim Hortons announced the deal in August. The deal would create the third largest fast-food company.

Google developing pill that would test for illnesses LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — Google’s latest “moon shot” project: A

pill that would test for cancer and other illnesses.

The company says it’s working a pill that contains microscopic particles, which can travel through the bloodstream and search for malignant cells. The particles could then report their findings to a sensor device that you wear.

The project is in the early stages. It’s the latest effort undertaken by the Internet giant’s X division, which tries to apply new technology to solving big problems.

The division’s other “moon shot” efforts include self-driving cars and contact lenses that can measure glucose in tears.

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SPORTS

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29, 2014

Rebels take down Tigers

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 5 Tigers 3 Suddenly, home cooking is tasting awfully good to the Red Deer Rebels.

The Rebels, who struggled on home ice last season and early this fall, posted their third straight Western Hockey League victory at the Enmax Centrium Tuesday night, 5-3 over the Medicine Hat Tigers — tied with Brandon for first place in the Eastern Conference — in front of 3,893 fans.

“That’s obviously a very good team we played, but if we play the game the right way like we did the last two periods tonight, we can play with teams like this,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, who got a majestic, 30-save performance from netminder Ryan Toth. “We stayed with it tonight. We were resilient and Tother was huge for us throughout the game.”

Fourth-line forward Devan Fafard scored the winner at 6:45 of the third period, snapping a 3-3 tie with a sharp-angle shot that squeezed through the pads of Tigers netminder Marek Langhamer, who finished with 20 saves.

Wyatt Johnson added an insurance marker eight minutes later, beating Langhamer from the high slot. The Tigers pressed down the stretch but Toth came up with a series of sizzling stops and the Rebels hung on for their sixth win of the season.

“That feels really good to beat the best team in our division, for sure,” said Toth, who stopped all 12 shots he faced in the third period with the

game on the line. “It was a full team effort. Everyone played well.

“The guys did a real good job of blocking shots and getting out of the way and giving me a chance to see the puck.

I got a couple of lucky (stops) there and that’s what you need to win.”

Tigers defenceman Tyler Lewington notched the lone goal of the opening period, shoving a loose puck in the crease past Toth, but the Rebels replied in the middle frame with consecutive tallies from rearguard Austin Strand and Meyer Nell. Strand scored on a wrist shot from the point that eluded a screened Langhamer, and Nell, from the faceoff circle, caught the far corner midway through the frame with Red Deer on a power play.

The Rebels gave that one back just 47 seconds later when Cole Sanford pulled the trigger on a three-on-one, short-handed break, and the visitors regained the lead at 15:13 when Steve Owre broke to the net and converted a feed from Trevor Cox. But Rebels second-year forward Grayson Pawlenchuk gobbled up a stretch pass from Haydn Fleury, broke in alone and scored on a backhand deke with two minutes remaining in the period.

“The first period wasn’t a great period for us, we had a lot of turnovers,” said Sutter.

“But we beared down a little better in the second and third and our details were certainly a lot better. We had everyone engaged the last two periods.”

There was a time, not so long ago, when the Rebels’

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Medicine Hat Tigers netminder Marek Langhamer lets a Red Deer Rebels shot slip past him during Tuesday night’s game at the Enmax Centrium. The Rebels won the game 5-3 to get their third straight victory. fragile psyche might have been shattered by Owre’s go-ahead goal, but the club’s resolve has clearly been stronger over the past three outings.

“We regrouped over the last week. We had some good practices and did some things that we needed to do with our mindset,” said Sutter. “We challenged the players to be better just not as individuals but also as a group and we were able to win three in a row at home here before we hit the road.”

The Rebels open a six-game trip Friday against the Kootenay Ice, then cross the border to engage all five U.S.-based teams.

“We have a lot of games on the road coming up and

Flames snuffed out by Canadiens in a shootout

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadiens 2 Flames 1 SO CALGARY — Carey Price had full confidence that P.A. Parenteau would score the winner in the shootout.

Parenteau did just that as he snapped a shot past Jonas Hiller to give the Montreal Canadiens a 2-1 shootout win over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday.

“He told me he was going to take care of business,’’ said Price, who made 37 saves through regulation and overtime before stopping shootout attempts by Jiri Hudler, Sean Monahan and Johnny Gaudreau. “He said, ‘I got this,’ so I put my full trust in him and was halfway to the blue-line before he shot. He’s got a great release. He really came up big for us there.’’

Hiller stopped shots by Alex Galchenyuk and David Desharnais in the shootout before Parenteau beat him to the blocker side to end the game.

“When you know you have the game on your stick, it makes a huge difference,’’ said Parenteau, who added that he used his go-to move. “It makes you want to bear down and go home with those two points. That’s what I did. I had my move in mind and luckily I worked for me.’’

Tom Gilbert also scored for the Canadiens (8-2-0), who had lost their previous seven games in Calgary.

“This has been a tough place to get wins,’’ Price said.

“They play us tough when we come to town. It took every ounce of effort to get this one.

We’re just happy we pulled it off.’’

Mark Giordano scored the lone goal of the game for the Flames (5-4-2), whose record fell to 1-1-2 during their current five-game homestand that will wrap up on Friday when they host the Nashville Predators.

“We played a good game,’’ Giordano said. “We were skating all night, created a lot of opportunities. A few of us — myself No. 1 — had some really, really good looks down the stretch. Got to find a way to bury one of those ones. It sucks to lose in a shootout — always — but we can’t be dis-

we have to be road warriors now,” said Sutter. “This was a good way to finish off this homestand. I credit the kids for staying with it tonight.

They kept battling and they were resilient.”

Toth, a WHL rookie, admitted his ability to stand tall and fend off the speedy, highlyskilled Tigers was good for his confidence.

“Especially beating a team like that. They’re such a good team,” said the 18-year-old.

“We won’t be home for awhile now so it feels good to win three in a row here.” ● The Rebels visit the Spokane Chiefs Saturday, then take on the Seattle Thunderbirds, Everett Silvertips, Portland Winterhawks and

Royals rout Giants to force a final game in World Series

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price, right, blocks the net as Calgary Flames’ Johnny Gaudreau tries to score during second period NHL action in Calgary, Tuesday. appointed with that game.’’

Hiller, who finished with 18 saves, saw his personal winning streak end at three straight games.

Price had to be sharp early in the first period to stop a Kris Russell point shot during a Calgary power play that was tipped on net by Curtis Glencross.

“I got lucky a few times,’’ Price said. “They do a pretty good job, especially Glencross, of being in front of the net. He tipped a couple.’’

Calgary then had a two-man advantage for 46 seconds with Montreal defencemen P.K. Subban and Alexei Emelin in the penalty box. Dennis Wideman had the best chance to score, but he blasted a shot wide of the net that bounced off the boards and out of the zone to end the threat.

The Canadiens had a chance to score a short-handed goal with Emelin still in the penalty box, but Lars Eller redirected a pass from Travis Moen high and wide of the Calgary net.

During a man advantage

for Montreal, Hiller stopped a hard shot from the slot off the stick of Brendan Gallagher.

Hiller then made a glove save to stop a breakaway attempt

by Montreal forward Rene Bourque.

At the other end of the ice, Price stopped back-to-back shots by Monahan and Glencross to keep the Flames off the scoresheet during their third power play of the first period.

Calgary appeared to open the scoring early in the second when Mikael Backlund tapped the puck into a wide-open net, but the goal was waived off due the net being off its moorings.

The Flames continued to press and were rewarded when Giordano snapped a shot from the high slot into the top corner over Price’s outstretched glove at 2:08 of the second. Giordano was set up by Gaudreau, who worked hard to keep the puck in the Montreal zone.

“The team was flying out there in the second and third periods,’’ Gaudreau said.

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

Tri-City Americans over a five-day stretch starting next Tuesday . . . Red Deer’s next home game is Nov. 14 versus the Lethbridge Hurricanes . . . The Rebels were minus the services of injured defencemen Nick Charif (lower body, indefinite), Josh Mahura (upper body, day-to-day) and Hugo Jansons (upper body, indefinite) as well as centre Brayden Burke (lower body, four to six weeks). Winger Mason McCarty was a healthy scratch . . .

The three stars, as selected by the Advocate, were (1) Toth, (2) Rebels forward Adam Musil, who picked up two assists, and (3) Trevor Cox, who had three helpers for the Tigers. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Royals 10 Giants 0 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The raucous roar at Kauffman Stadium swelled with every batter in the second inning and then got louder the rest of the night.

As bouncers rolled by infielders and bloops dropped in front of outfielders, it became clear this World Series was headed to a climactic Game 7 — just like the one 29 years ago when the Kansas City Royals won their only title.

Lorenzo Cain looped a tworun single — one of eight Royals to get hits in a seven-run second inning — and Eric Hosmer chopped a two-run double over shortstop as the Royals battered the San Francisco Giants 10-0 Tuesday night to tie the Series at three games apiece.

Pitching with the initials of late St. Louis outfielder Oscar Taveras on his cap, 23-yearold rookie Yordano Ventura allowed three hits over seven innings for his first Series win.

“Guys stepped up in a big way tonight,” Cain said.

Jeremy Guthrie starts Wednesday night for Kansas City and Tim Hudson for San Francisco in a rematch of Game 3, won by Kansas City 3-2. Hudson, 39, will become the oldest Game 7 starter in Series history.

Lurking is Madison Bumgarner, ready to pitch in relief after suffocating the Royals on a total of one run in winning Games 1 and 5.

“We’re confident,” the Royals’ Billy Butler said. “Jeremy, every time out, gives us a chance to win.”

Kansas City can be comfortable in this bit of history: Home teams have won nine straight Game 7s in the Series, including the Royals’ 11-0 rout of St. Louis in 1985, since Pittsburgh’s victory at Baltimore in 1979.

And the Giants have lost all four of their World Series finales pushed to the limit.

“This club’s so resilient.

They’re so tough. They’ll put this behind them,” San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said.

“You’ve come back against

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the odds, and you can do it again.”

Teams with the home-field advantage have won 23 of the last 28 titles, including five in a row. This Series has followed the exact pattern of the only other all-wild card matchup in 2002, when the Giants won the opener, fell behind 2-1, took a 3-2 lead and lost the last two games at Anaheim.

Ventura escaped his only trouble in the third, when he walked the bases loaded with one out and then got Buster Posey to ground a 97 mph fastball into a double play. Ventura threw fastballs on 81 of 100 pitches, reaching up to 100 mph, and worked around five walks.

Royals manager Ned Yost was able to rest the hardthrowing back of his bullpen: Kelvin Herrera and Wade Davis enter Game 7 with two days off and closer Greg Holland with three.

“This keeps all our big guns fresh and ready to tomorrow,” Yost said.

In a Series marked by blowouts — the first in which five games were decided by five runs or more — Kansas City out-hit the Giants 15-6 Tuesday. All nine Royals had hits by the third inning, matching the mark set by Arizona against the Yankees in Game 6 in 2001.

Cain drove in three runs and was among six Royals with two hits each.

Mike Moustakas homered in the seventh against Hunter Strickland, ending a 36-inning homerless streak in the Series, the longest since 1945.

Peavy’s outing was the shortest for a Series starter since the Yankees’ David Wells got just three outs against the Marlins 11 years ago in Game 5, according to STATS. Peavy was charged with five runs and six hits in 1 1-3 innings, leaving with a career Series record of 0-2 with a 9.58 ERA in three starts. His record at Kauffman Stadium is 1-7 with a 7.28 ERA. San Francisco had scored 15 straight runs entering the night, but the Royals bludgeoned Peavy and Yusmeiro Petit in a 32-minute bottom of the second to take a 7-0 lead.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29, 2014

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 14 10 3 1 0 75 Swift Current 17 9 7 0 1 51 Regina 15 6 8 1 0 46 Moose Jaw 15 6 8 0 1 39 Prince Albert 14 6 8 0 0 38 Saskatoon 14 5 9 0 0 39 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Medicine Hat 14 11 2 1 0 62 Edmonton 13 9 3 0 1 42 Calgary 14 7 6 0 1 55 Red Deer 14 6 7 1 0 49 Lethbridge 14 4 9 0 1 32 Kootenay 15 3 12 0 0 29 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 13 12 1 0 0 68 Kamloops 16 9 6 1 0 58 Victoria 15 8 6 1 0 46 Prince George 16 8 8 0 0 47 Vancouver 13 6 7 0 0 47 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Everett 12 8 1 2 1 45 Tri-City 15 8 7 0 0 41 Spokane 12 6 3 3 0 34 Seattle 13 5 5 2 1 32 Portland 16 5 9 0 2 51

GA 49 51 43 51 42 64

Pt 21 19 13 13 12 10

GA 28 29 43 51 58 64

Pt 23 19 15 13 9 6

GA 32 54 52 70 37

Pt 24 19 17 16 12

GA 30 38 35 37 68

Pt 19 16 15 13 12

Tuesday’s results Prince Albert 5 Kootenay 0 Red Deer 5 Medicine Hat 3 Saskatoon 5 Moose Jaw 2 Brandon at Victoria, late Wednesday’s games Prince Albert at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Everett at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s games Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s summary Rebels 5, Tigers 3 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Lewington 2 (Owre, Cox) 14:16.

Penalties — Sanford MH (hooking) 8:36, Stanton MH (fighting) 10:38, Johnson RD (fighting) 10:38, Owre MH (holding) 19:28.

Second Period 2. Red Deer, Strand 2 (Musil) 3:20.

3. Red Deer, Nell 4 (Feser, Cote) 10:44 (pp).

4. Medicine Hat, Sanford 9 (Cox, Becker) 11:31 (short-handed-SH).

5. Medicine Hat, Owre 6 (Cox, Butcher) 15:13.

6. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 5 (Fleury) 18:01.

Penalties — Vannelli MH (holding) 8:45, Lewington MH (slashing) 10:31, Vannelli MH (cross-checking) 12:04, Fleury RD (slashing) 15:42, Sanford MH (slashing) 20:00.

Third Period

7. Red Deer, Fafard 2 (Musil, De Wit) 6:45.

8. Red Deer, Johnson 7 (Kopeck, Fleury) 14:57.

Penalties — Feser RD (high-sticking) 3:10, Kopeck RD (slashing) 16:26.

Shots on goal Medicine Hat 13 8 12 — 33 Red Deer 5 10 10 — 25 Goal — Medicine Hat: Langhamer (L, 7-2-1); Red Deer: Toth (W, 6-5-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Medicine Hat: 0-3; Red Deer: 1-6.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts Montreal 10 8 2 0 16 N.Y. Islanders 9 6 3 0 12 Tampa Bay 10 6 3 1 13 Pittsburgh 8 5 2 1 11 Ottawa 8 5 2 1 11 Washington 8 4 2 2 10 Detroit 8 4 2 2 10 N.Y. Rangers 9 5 4 0 10 Philadelphia 9 4 3 2 10 New Jersey 9 4 3 2 10 Boston 11 5 6 0 10 Toronto 9 4 4 1 9 Columbus 9 4 5 0 8 Florida 7 2 2 3 7 Buffalo 10 2 8 0 4 Carolina 8 0 6 2 2

GF GA 27 26 35 31 34 26 33 22 22 17 25 19 18 17 27 30 29 32 28 33 29 28 25 25 25 30 10 16 11 33 15 33

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 10 8 2 0 16 31 19 Nashville 8 5 1 2 12 19 16 Los Angeles 9 6 1 2 14 24 15 Chicago 9 5 3 1 11 22 15 San Jose 11 6 4 1 13 35 30 Dallas 9 4 2 3 11 32 33 Vancouver 9 6 3 0 12 31 27 Calgary 11 5 4 2 12 27 24 Minnesota 8 5 3 0 10 27 14 St. Louis 8 4 3 1 9 20 18 Edmonton 9 4 4 1 9 26 32 Winnipeg 9 4 5 0 8 19 24 Colorado 10 2 4 4 8 22 32 Arizona 8 3 4 1 7 21 32 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 5, Minnesota 4 Edmonton 3, Montreal 0

Nashville at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Today

Thursday’s Games Boston at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

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

Arizona at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Anaheim at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

● JV volleyball: Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

Thursday

Tuesday’s summary Canadiens 2, Flames 1 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Colborne Cgy (goaltender interference) 3:50, Subban Mtl (interference) 6:21, Emelin Mtl (hooking) 7:36, Giordano Cgy (interference) 10:35, Gilbert Mtl (hooking) 15:16.

Second Period 1. Calgary, Giordano 2 (Gaudreau, Brodie) 2:09.

2. Montreal, Gilbert 1 (unassisted) 12:48.

Penalties — Galchenyuk Mtl (stick holding) 0:19, Colborne Cgy (hooking) 0:19, Giordano Cgy (roughing) 10:26, Giordano Cgy (Embellishment) 13:39, Pacioretty Mtl (interference) 13:39, Eller Mtl (roughing) 16:01.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Tinordi Mtl (kneeing) 12:32, Parenteau Mtl (cross-checking) 14:54, Emelin Mtl (hooking) 17:47.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Montreal wins 1-0 Montreal : Galchenyuk miss, Desharnais miss, Parenteau goal.

Calgary : Hudler miss, Monahan miss, Gaudreau miss.

Shots on goal Montreal 6 5 6 2 — 19 Calgary 9 16 12 1 — 38 Goal — Montreal: Price (W, 7-1-0); Calgary: Hiller (LO, 3-2-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Montreal: 0-3; Calgary: 0-7.

NHL Scoring Leaders G 6 9 5 5 4 4 3 9 5 3 3 2 2 2 5 5 5

Tyler Seguin, Dal Corey Perry, Ana Jeff Carter, LA Sidney Crosby, Pgh Tyler Toffoli, LA Patrick Marleau, SJ Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Rick Nash, NYR Ryan Johansen, Clb Brent Burns, SJ John Tavares, NYI Jason Spezza, Dal Daniel Sedin, Vcr Jakub Voracek, Pha Radim Vrbata, Vcr Jamie Benn, Dal Brock Nelson, NYI

Tuesday’s Games San Jose 3, Colorado 2, SO Montreal 2, Calgary 1, SO Minnesota 4, Boston 3 Winnipeg 4, N.Y. Islanders 3 Philadelphia 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Pittsburgh 8, New Jersey 3 Ottawa 5, Columbus 2 Toronto 4, Buffalo 0 Tampa Bay 7, Arizona 3 Anaheim 1, Chicago 0 St. Louis 4, Dallas 3, OT Vancouver 4, Carolina 1 Wednesday’s Games Detroit at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

A 7 3 7 7 8 8 9 2 6 8 8 9 9 9 5 5 5

Pts 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10

● High school football: Rural Conference consolation final — Rocky Mountain House at Stettler, 4 p.m.; City Conference consolation final — Lacombe at Notre Dame, 6 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Olds at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m.

Friday

● Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament. ● College basketball: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Lacombe, 6 p.m. ● AJHL: Calgary Mustangs at Olds, 7 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

(The Drive). ● Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 8 p.m., Arena.

Saturday

● Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Northstar, 11 a.m., Arena; Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● College basketball: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow. ● Major bantam hockey: Red Deer Black and Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Olds at Sylvan Lake, 3:30 p.m., Caroline; Foothills at Lacombe, 5:45 p.m.

GP 16 16 16 16

CFL East Division W L T 8 8 0 7 9 0 7 9 0 2 14 0

PF 328 413 354 248

PA 351 434 355 408

Pt 16 14 14 4

GP x-Calgary 16 x-Edmonton 16 x-B.C. 16 Saskatchewan 17 Winnipeg 17

West Division W L T 14 2 0 11 5 0 9 7 0 9 8 0 6 11 0

PF 465 438 361 375 379

PA 313 313 295 424 468

Pt 28 22 18 18 12

Week 19 Friday, October 31 Hamilton at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 1 Winnipeg at Calgary, 2 p.m.

B.C. at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Sunday, November 2 Toronto at Montreal, 10 a.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 6 2 0 .750 238 Buffalo 5 3 0 .625 178 Miami 4 3 0 .571 174 N.Y. Jets 1 7 0 .125 144 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 5 3 0 .625 250 Houston 4 4 0 .500 185 Tennessee 2 6 0 .250 137 Jacksonville 1 7 0 .125 118 North W L T Pct PF

PA 177 165 151 228 PA 187 166 202 218 PA

Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland Denver San Diego Kansas City Oakland

4 5 5 4 W 6 5 4 0

2 3 3 3 West L 1 3 3 7

1 0 0 0

.643 .625 .625 .571

161 217 205 163

164 131 196 152

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .857 .625 .571 .000

PF 224 205 176 105

PA 142 149 128 181

PF 213 203 154 171

PA 167 156 169 200

PF 167 199 192 133

PA 208 188 221 223

PF 162 222 180 139

PA 126 191 222 173

PF 164 158 172 136

PA 139 165 150 210

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 6 2 0 .750 Philadelphia 5 2 0 .714 N.Y. Giants 3 4 0 .429 Washington 3 5 0 .375 South W L T Pct Carolina 3 4 1 .438 New Orleans 3 4 0 .429 Atlanta 2 6 0 .250 Tampa Bay 1 6 0 .143 North W L T Pct Detroit 6 2 0 .750 Green Bay 5 3 0 .625 Chicago 3 5 0 .375 Minnesota 3 5 0 .375 West W L T Pct Arizona 6 1 0 .857 San Francisco 4 3 0 .571 Seattle 4 3 0 .571 St. Louis 2 5 0 .286 Monday’s Game Washington 20, Dallas 17, OT

New Orleans at Carolina, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 2 Arizona at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Houston, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Washington at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Miami, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at New England, 2:25 p.m.

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Tennessee Monday, Nov. 3 Indianapolis at N.Y. Giants, 6:30 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds provided by SportsBetting.ag; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Thursday NEW ORLEANS at Carolina 2.5 48 Sunday Washington at MINNESOTA 2.5 44.5 NY Jets at KANSAS CITY 10 41.5 Arizona at DALLAS 4 48 Tampa Bay at CLEVELAND 6.5 43.5 PHILADELPHIA at Houston 2.5 48 San Diego at MIAMI 2 44 Jacksonville at CINCINNATI 11 43.5 Oakland at SEATTLE 15 43 DENVER at New England 3 55 Baltimore at Pittsburgh Pick 47 St. Louis at SAN FRANCISCO 10 43.5 Monday INDIANAPOLIS at NY Giants 3 50.5

Thursday, Oct. 30

Swimming Red Deer Catalina Swim Club Weekend results - Top three Sylvan Lake meet Eight and under — Myles Grant, 1st-25m breast, 50m breast, 2nd-200m free, 3rd-100m free; Marisa Klugkist: 1st-200m free, 2nd-25m breast, 100m IM, 50m breast, 25m fly; Dalton Powell: 1st-50m back, 100m IM, 100m free, 50m free, 25m fly; Laina Powell: 1st-50m back, 100m IM, 50m fly, 50m free, 25m fly; Reef Roos: 1st-200m free, 2nd-50m free, 25m fly; Amy Wandler: 1st-25m breast, 50m breast, 2nd-100m free, 50m free, 3rd-50m back; Annika Erickson: 2nd-200m free, 3rd-25m breast, 100m IM, 25m fly; Kaillen Sumang: 2nd-50m back, 100m free, 3rd-50m free; Jordyn Waldo: 3rd-100m free, 200m free, 50m free; Allison Xu: 3rd-50m breast.

Nine years — Liam Labrecque: 1st-50m free, 2nd-25m breast, 3rd-100m free; Kalen Sabasch: 1st-50m back, 2nd-100m IM, 200m free, 3rd-50m breast; Cooper Waddle: 1st-100m IM, 50m breast, 100m free, 200m free, 25m fly; Serenity Smith: 2nd25m breast, 100m free, 25m fly, 3rd-100m IM, 200m free; Kolton Toews: 2nd-50m free, 3rd-25m breast; Emma Tainsh: 3rd-25m fly.

10 years — Lily Barschel: 1st-200m free, 2nd-100m free, 3rd-25m breast; Munn Chai: 1st-25m breast, 3rd-50m back, 100m IM, 25m fly; Elle Couture: 1st25m breast, 50m breast, 200m IM, 200m free, 25m fly; Alexis Heinzlmeir: 1st-100m IM, 2nd-25m breast; Illia Ivanitskyi: 1st-100m IM, 50m breast, 50m free, 25m fly, 2nd-200m free; Kouta MacQuarrie: 1st-25m breast, 2nd-25m fly, 3rd-200m free; Ally Wandler: 1st-25m breast, 50m breast, 100m free, 2nd-50m free, 3rd-50m back; Dalia Morales: 1st-25m fly, 3rd-200m free; Michael Chen: 2nd-50m back, 100m free, 25m fly, 3rd-200m free.

11 years — Jaden DeBruijn: 1st 50m breast, 100m free, 200m free, 3rd-25m fly; Nathan Delver:

1st-25m breast, 2nd-50m back, 200m IM, 25m fly, 400m free; Amy Johnson: 1st-25m breast, 50m breast; Siana Klugkist: 1st-25m fly, 2nd-50m breast, 3rd-25m breast, 200m IM; Jayden Vale: 1st-50m back, 200m IM, 50m fly, 25m fly, 400m free; Claire Xu: 1st-200m IM, 2nd-25m breast, 50m fly, 50m free, 3rd-400m free; Brooklyn Wiens: 3rd-100m IM, 100m free; Kayia Hartfield: 3rd-50m back.

12 years — Skylar Sabasch: 1st-50m breast, 2nd200m IM; Bryan Schaerer: 1st-50m back, 200m IM, 200m free, 50m free, 400m free; Tyrus Toews: 1st-50m back, 50m breast, 50m fly, 2nd-200m IM, 400m free; Madisson Young: 1st-200m IM, 400m free, 2nd-50m free; Ian Tainsh: 2nd:50m breast, 50m fly, 3rd-50m back, 200m IM, 400m free; Brooklyn Young: 2nd-25m breast, 50m breast, 200m free, 25m fly; Elena Kelly: 3rd-50m breast, 25m fly.

13 years — Dahlia MacEachern: 1st-25m breast, 25m fly.

Age group trials qualifiers — Maddison Young, 200 I.M.; Claire Xu, Laina Powell, 400m free.

Saskatoon meet 800m freestyle — Girls 13-14: 1. Kyla Leibel; 2.

Kennedy Townsend; 3. Tanille Collicutt; Girls 1516: 1. Emma MacDermaid; Boys 17 and over: 2.

Cole Brown.

1500m freestyle — Boys 13-14: 1. Josh Young; 3.

Justin Valentine.

200m I.M. — Girls 13-14: 1. Leibel; Girls 17 and over: 3. Kaitlyn Hounsome.

100m backstroke — Girls 13-14: 3. Townsend; Girls 17 and over: 3. Kyra Brown; Boys 13-14: 1.

Young; 3. Valentine; Boys 17 and over: 1. Brown.

200m backstroke — Girls 11-12: 3. Jaleesa Zaparniuk; Girls 17 and over: 2. Brown; Boys 13-14: 1. Young.

200m butterfly — Girls 13-14: 1. Collicutt.

100m freestyle — Girls 11-12: 2. Zaparniuk; Girls 13-14: 1. Leibel; Girls 15-16: 3. MacDermaid; Boys 15-16: 1. Daniel Stayer; Boys 17 and over: 3. Brown.

200m freestyle — Girls 11-12: 3. Zaparniuk; Girls 13-14: 1. Leibel; Girls 15-16: 1. MacDermaid; Boys 13-14: 1. Young; Boys 15-16: 2. Stayer; Boys 17 and over: 3. Brown.

100m breastroke — Girls 11-12: 2. Zaparniuk; Girls 15-16: 3. Breanna Menzel; Girls 17 and over: 2. Hounsome; Boys 13-14: 1. Young.

100m butterfly — Girls 13-14: 1. Leibel; Girls 17 and over: 3. Brown.

50m freestyle — Girls 13-14: 1. Leibel; Boys 1314: 1. Young; Boys 15-16: 1. Stayer; Boys 17 and over: 3. Brown.

400m freestyle — Girls 13-14: 1. Collicutt; Girls 15-16: 3. Amber Rohwer; Boys 13-14: 3. Valentine.

50m backstroke — Boys 15-16: 2. Stayer; Boys 17 and over: 2. Brown.

50m butterfly — Girls 13-14: 1. Leibel; Girls 17 and over: 1. Brown; 3. Kristen Irvine; Boys 13-14: 1. Tyler Menzel.

200m backstroke — Boys 13-14: 2. Young; 3.

Valentine; Boys 17 and over: 1. Brown.

50m breaststroke — Girls 15-16: 1. Menzel; Boys 10 and under: 3. River Roos; Boys 13-14: 1.

Young; 2. Menzel.

Relays — Girls 15 and over 4x50 free: 2. Leibel, MacDermaid, Barschel, Rohwer; Boys 15 and over free: 1. Stayer, Young, Brown, Johns; Girls 13-14 4x50 medley: 2. Leibel, Eberts, Collicutt, Townsend; Boys 13-14 4x50 medley: 1. Valentine, Young, Menzel, Janzen.

Age group trials qualifiers — Ocean Roos, 400m free; Chloe Grant, 200m I.M., 400m free, 800m free; Justin Valentine, 1,500m free; Jaleesa Zaparniuk, 200m breast, 100m breast, 200m free; Daniel Stayer, 50m free.

● High school football: Central Alberta League City Division final — Hunting Hills vs. Lindsay Thurber, 5 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Lacombe, 6 p.m., Blackfalds; Cranbrook at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena ● WHL: Red Deer at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

(The Drive)

Sunday ● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kin City A; Red Deer Parkland at Olds, 12:15 p.m.; Bow Valley at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Innisfail Blue. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, noon, Kin City A. ● Major midget girls hockey: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Bentley, 2 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Olds, 2:45 p.m.; Airdrie at Olds, 2:45 p.m.; Foothills at Sylvan Lake, 4:45 p.m., Innisfail Blue. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Southside at Red Deer Northstar, 4:15 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Orangemen, Kingsmen vs.

Triple A Batteries, Johns Manville vs.

Rusty Chuckers, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs.

Monstars, All Sports Cresting Lacombe vs. Silver Spurs, Alken Basin Drillers vs.

Driven, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

Baseball Major League Baseball Playoffs x-if necessary

Football Montreal Toronto Hamilton Ottawa

B5

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 Wednesday, Oct. 15: San Francisco 6, St. Louis 4 Thursday, Oct. 16: San Francisco 6, St. Louis 3 WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7) San Francisco 3, Kansas City 3 Tuesday, Oct. 21: San Francisco 7, Kansas City 1 Wednesday, Oct. 22: Kansas City 7, San Francisco 2 Friday, Oct. 24: Kansas City 3, San Francisco 2 Saturday, Oct. 25: San Francisco 11, Kansas City 4 Sunday, Oct. 26: San Francisco 5, Kansas City 0 Tuesday, Oct. 28: Kansas City 10, San Francisco 0 Wednesday, Oct. 29: San Francisco (Hudson 9-13) at Kansas City (Guthrie 13-11), 6:07 p.m.

Basketball Oklahoma City Portland Utah

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 0 0 .000 — Brooklyn 0 0 .000 — New York 0 0 .000 — Philadelphia 0 0 .000 — Toronto 0 0 .000 — Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 0 0 .000 — Charlotte 0 0 .000 — Miami 0 0 .000 — Washington 0 0 .000 — Orlando 0 1 .000 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 0 0 .000 — Cleveland 0 0 .000 — Detroit 0 0 .000 — Indiana 0 0 .000 — Milwaukee 0 0 .000 — WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 1 0 1.000 New Orleans 1 0 1.000 Houston 0 0 .000 Memphis 0 0 .000 Dallas 0 1 .000 Northwest Division W L Pct Denver 0 0 .000 Minnesota 0 0 .000

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

0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 Pacific Division W L Pct 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000

— — — GB — — — — —

Tuesday’s Games New Orleans 101, Orlando 84 San Antonio 101, Dallas 100 Houston at L.A. Lakers, late Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Chicago at New York, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Denver, 7 p.m.

Houston at Utah, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

GB — — 1/2 1/2 1

Thursday’s Games Washington at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

New York at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Utah at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

GB — —

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES — Announced D Corey Potter cleared waivers and was assigned to Adirondack (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Activated C Eric Staal from injured reserve. Reassigned F Patrick Brown to Charlotte (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Placed G Sergei Bobrovsky on injured reserve. Recalled G Anton Forsberg from Springfield (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned C Stephen Weiss to Grand Rapids (AHL) for conditioning. Reassigned D Richard Nedomlel from Grand Rapids to Toledo (ECHL).

MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled D Stu Bickel and D Justin Falk from Iowa (AHL). Placed D Keith Ballard and D Christian Folin on injured reserve, retroactive to Oct. 21.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Placed F Rich Clune on waivers. Assigned F Viktor Stalberg to Milwaukee on a conditioning assignment.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled RW Tom Wilson from Hershey (AHL). Reassigned RW Chris Brown to Hershey.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Binghamton F Brad Mills has 20 games for violating the terms of the AHL/PHPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program.

GRAND RAPID GRIFFINS — Recalled LW Shane Berschbach from Toledo (ECHL). Assigned C Alden Hirschfeld to Toledo.

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Announced G Jason Missiaen was reassigned to Greenville (ECHL).

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Recalled G Scott Munroe from Kalamazoo (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Elmira’s Andrew Conboy two additional games for his actions in an Oct. 24 game against Reading. Suspended Quad City’s Todd Fiddler one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in an Oct. 25 game against Rapid City. Suspended Brampton’s Andrew Darrigo two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions Oct. 26 game against Toledo.

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Surging Oilers get ready for West rivals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LEDUC, Alta. — These are heady times for Taylor Hall and the Edmonton Oilers.

The Oilers (4-4-1) have won four straight games against Eastern Conference teams. But now comes an all too familiar challenge for Edmonton: trying to match up against their Western rivals.

Edmonton began the season 0-4-1 against Western teams before getting back on track against Eastern squads at Rexall Place.

But the final two contests of the Oilers’ seven-game homestand will be against the Nashville Predators on Wednesday night and Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night.

“We certainly get excited about playing Eastern Conference teams,” Hall said after practice Tuesday. “It’s pretty obvious the Eastern style lends

itself to the way our team is built a little bit more than the West.

“But in saying that, I think the way our team is built this year is more capable of playing Western teams. It might not have shown in the first five games but I think as the season goes on you will see that.”

Head coach Dallas Eakins feels a reason for Edmonton’s success against Eastern teams, simply put, is confidence.

“It seems like we’ve got a little extra mojo and a little extra swagger when we’re playing an Eastern team,” he said. “Against the Western teams I feel we’re a little more tense and we have to get over that.

“Listen, Montreal is as good as L.A., they’re as good as Anaheim ... we should be able to play with every team in this league now.”

Veteran defenceman Andrew Ference, who joined the Oilers two years ago after seven years in Boston, credits the four wins to the Oilers play-

ing more responsibly in the defensive zone.

“You’ve seen a lot better job of five guys working together to prevent chances,” he said. “The other parts of our game were going all right.

“The more glaring thing for me was the breakdowns that we have definitely limited, if not eliminated, on many nights.”

Edmonton’s 7-1 win over Montreal on Monday improved its record to 4-1 on the homestand. This time last year, the Oilers were 3-9-1 and en route to finishing with a 29-44-9 mark.

Last year, Edmonton was 14-14-4 against the Eastern Conference but just 15-30-5 versus Western rivals.

Despite its early-season struggles, Hall said the Oilers seemed to adopt a new mindset following a 2-0 home loss to Vancouver on Oct. 17.

“It seems like we have a different mentality on the bench, the bench doesn’t seem to get as down,” he said.

“I don’t know if it’s maturity or what it

is, but we don’t have that quiet on the bench when something bad happens.”

Meanwhile, Eakins confirmed centre Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton’s firstround pick in June’s NHL draft, will remain with the club. Wednesday night’s contest will be Draisaitl’s 10th and activate the first year of his entrylevel contract.

“You shouldn’t be surprised,” said Eakins. “He’s part of our hockey team.

“He’s earned the right to be here in the lineup (Wednesday). He continues to improve. His perseverance and commitment right now is outstanding.”

Draisaitl, a native of Cologne, Germany, turned 19 on Monday. He took the good news in stride.

“I’m just trying to get better every day,” he said.

“Just get up in the morning and get better every day.

“You couldn’t say I was confident I would stick around but I think for the most part of the nine games, I think I did a pretty good job.”

Red Deer’s Smith selected Raptors looking to build for Swimming Canada’s on last season’s thrill ride coaches program NBA Mandi Smith of Red Deer is one of five coaches named to Swimming Canada’s inaugural Select Coaches Group program aimed at developing the country’s next generation of elite coaches. ‘’We based our selections on coaches who were passionate and 100 per cent dedicated to the coaching profession,’’ said Ken McKinnon, Swimming Canada’s national development coach. “Our goal is to provide up-todate, modern, evidence-based, successful practices that will challenge our younger coaches and help them coach at a higher level immediately.’’

Swimming Canada issued a call for applications in July, from which 14 coaches from across the country applied. McKinnon and Swimming Canada High Performance Director John Atkinson interviewed applicants at last month’s Canadian Swimming Congress. This group was selected to be the first in an annual initiative that aims to enhance the development of a sustainable stream of world-leading high performance coaches.

“One of the strategies Swimming Canada’s High Performance program has in place is to develop coaches,” Atkinson said.

“This program will see that attained.”

The coaches will attend a Mentor Coach Program workshop Dec. 15-17 in Victoria which will feature Swimming Canada High Performance Centre – Victoria head coach Randy Bennett, integrated support team director Dr. Allan Wrigley, University of Victoria strength and conditioning expert Eugene Liang and two-time Olympic medallist Ryan Cochrane.

Smith has been at the helm at the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club since 2009 and developed a solid age group squad in addition to heading Alberta teams to international events.

The Select Coaches Group program is part of Swimming Canada’s mission to be amongst the world leading swimming nations by 2020.

(See Scoreboard on Page B5 for Catalina Swim Club weekend results).

Hockey great Gordie Howe resting after stroke

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Hockey legend Gordie Howe has lost some function on the right side of his body after having a stroke Sunday in Texas.

Howe’s daughter Cathy said Tuesday night the 86-year-old Detroit Red Wings legend had lost much use of his right arm and right leg. Howe suffered the stroke in Lubbock, where his daughter lives.

“We’ll just see what each day brings,” she said. “He’s tough. He’s not giving up.”

Howe’s daughter said his speech is slurred, but he’s been looking at family pictures and pictures from his playing days, and he’s able to recognize and identify people he played with. His three sons were on the way there to see him.

“The stroke kind of came out of nowhere,” said his son Dr. Murray Howe, a radiologist.

The man known as “Mr. Hockey” set NHL marks with 801 goals and 1,850 points — mostly with the Red Wings — that held up until Wayne Gretzky surpassed him in the record book. He was revered for his blend of finesse and grit, playing 26 years in the NHL until he retired for good from the league at age 52.

With one shift for the Detroit Vipers in the International Hockey League in 1997, he played professionally in a sixth decade at the age of 69.

“Wishing my friend Gordie Howe all the best, you’re in all of our thoughts and prayers,” said Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a tweet from his verified account.

Murray Howe said last year his father was still strong but was struggling a bit with short-term memory loss. The senior Howe also suffers from a form of dementia. This year, around the end of August, he underwent a procedure to help with back trouble. That operation helped significantly.

“He ended up getting what’s called a minimally invasive lumbar decompression,” Murray Howe said. “He was doing great for a while.”

Howe’s daughter said his spirits were still strong after the stroke.

“He’s as tough now as he was when he played,” she said.

Howe played 25 seasons with Detroit, winning four Stanley Cups, six Hart Trophies as the NHL’s most valuable player and six Art Ross Trophies as the league’s leading scorer.

He debuted with the Red Wings in 1946 at the age of 18 and quickly became a leader on the team. Howe and teammates Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay became known as the Production Line thanks to their hard-nosed style.

The term Gordie Howe hat trick — when a player scores a goal, records an assist and gets in a fight in one game — is named after him.

After a brief retirement in 1971, Howe returned to the ice as a member of the World Hockey Association’s Houston Aeros, joining his sons Mark and Marty. In 1977, the three Howes moved to the WHA’s New England Whalers. When the league folded in 1979 the newly named Hartford Whalers joined the NHL with the Howes in tow. At 51 years old, Howe played all 80 games of the 1979-80 NHL season with the Whalers, helping them to the playoffs with 15 goals.

TORONTO — Thousands of fans packed Maple Leaf Square, the general manager dropped an F-bomb, Drake became the team’s biggest cheerleader and “We the North” flags flew across the city. The images of last season’s thrilling success were unlike any other for the Toronto Raptors.

Now they have to figure out how to do it one better.

The Raptors carry lofty expectations into their 20th NBA season when they host the Atlanta Hawks in their opener Wednesday.

“This is the first time since this organization — even before I got here — had heightened expectations and I think that’s a good thing,” said coach Dwane Casey. “It’s something we’ve got to embrace, we’ve got to take it and run with it because it’s going to be there.

“There’s no pressure, it’s good pressure. We’re defending division champions and we have to go out every night and play like it.”

The Raptors won a franchise-record 48 games last season and claimed the Atlantic Division title for just the second time. They paced the Brooklyn Nets through a thrilling first-round playoff run that ended in heartbreak when Paul Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry’s shot on the final play of Game 7.

The bitter ending played out in the Raptors’ minds long into the off-season and they’ve been eager to get back on the court to erase the disappointment.

“I think about it all the time because we’re going to need that to feed off of, honestly, and understand how bad that hurt, that feeling of losing Game 7 and coming so close, losing by one point,” said DeMar DeRozan.

“We’ve got to. . . have that hunger and that edge to do the same thing all over again this year.”

Canadian Vasek Pospisil loses firstround match at Paris Masters event

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS — Spain’s Tommy Robredo defeated Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (5) on Tuesday in a firstround match at the Paris Masters tennis tournament.

Robredo needed just over two hours to earn the win over Pospisil, who had 13 aces in his final singles match of the season. Pospisil earned a break in the final set to go ahead 3-2, then held serve took a 4-2 advantage with an ace.

But Robredo recorded a break of his own, then held serve to tie the match 4-4. Pospisil then took the set into the tie-breaker with yet another ace.

After falling behind 4-2, Pospisil saved two match points before losing on the third after sending a return long.

“It was frustrating for sure, he played well,” said Pospisil. “I played

a good match after the first set, I had a high lever.

“We were both pretty tired at end.

He had a tough week last week (losing in Valencia final) and I’ve been going eight weeks in a row. In the circumstances we were both playing well.

He’s a good fighter and got the better of me “But I’m just happy that I played a better match than last week (a straightsets, second-round loss to Grigor Dimitrov at Swiss Indoors). Today I felt more like myself, competing well and playing a good match.”

Pospisil will now turn his attention to doubles as he and American Jack Sock, the ’14 Wimbledon champions, are fighting to qualify for next month’s eight-team World Tour Finals in London.

“We’ll go out there and do our best,” he said. “I’ll try to forget this loss and turn to doubles.”

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Get ready to be taken back to the days of youthful adventure during Cornerstone Youth Theatre’s production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Based on Mark Twain’s much-loved 1876 novel, the Broadway-style musical is sure to have the audience reminiscing about their childhood as they follow Sam Darby’s Tom Sawyer and his mischievous gang on their adventures in the fictional town of Hannibal, Mo. The 63-member cast, all between the ages of six and 18, puts an enthusiastic youthful touch to the tale as they sing along to lively country tunes on stage, and reintroduce the characters of Huckleberry Finn, Aunt Polly and others who have stood the test of time. The show opens on Friday at 7 p.m. at the New Life Fellowship Church, located at 20 Kelloway Cres.

Other shows are on Saturday at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 8 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

There will also be three school-day performances on Nov. 3 and Nov. 5 exclusively for school students.

Advance tickets for the show are $10 for children, $11 for seniors and $12 for adults and youth. They can be purchased online at www.cornerstoneyouththeatre.org or via the box office by phoning 403-9862981. Tickets sold at the door are $14.

PHOTOS BY ASHLI BARRETT/ADVOCATE STAFF Photos from the top: ● Ben Rogers (Mark Vesely) pokes fun at Tom Sawyer (Sam Darby) during the dress rehearsal for Cornerstone Youth Theatre’s production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ● Menfolk and womensfolk express the difficulties of their lives during Cornerstone Youth Theatre’s production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The musical opens on Friday at the New Life Fellowship Church. ● Part of the cast of Cornerstone Youth Theatre’s production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer poses after the end of a scene during their dress rehearsal this week. ● Injun Joe (Aidan Degraff), the villain of Cornerstone Youth Theatre’s production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, lurks as the townspeople go about their lives.

Festival of Trees to benefit Maternity Unit

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Money raised by this year’s Festival of Trees is earmarked to help the youngest of patients and their mothers.

Dollars will go to equipping two dedicated operating rooms for scheduled caesarean sections and emergency obstetrical procedures at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

Currently, obstetric surgical patients are taken to the operating unit located on another floor, creating safety challenges in emergency situations. The new operating rooms will be adjacent to the Obstetrics (Maternity) Unit.

On average, about 225 babies are born in the hospital every month, and a third of those deliveries result in C-sections.

“It’s pretty hard not to help when babies are involved. I think we all feel the same about that,” said Alaine Martin, foundation project officer.

The foundation is contributing just over $1 million to fully equip the operating rooms. Alberta Health Services is contributing $9.7 million to the project.

Construction is expected to get underway early next year and be completed 18 months later.

Last year, the festival raised a record-breaking $1.28 million that went towards new equipment for the hospital’s diagnostic imaging, urology and operating departments.

New to the 2014 Festival of Trees, which runs Nov. 22 and 26 to 30, is the Winter Solstice Masquerade Party on Friday, Nov. 28. The semi-formal adult Christmas party replaces Cirque de Noel, which was always held on Thursday.

“For Solstice, we already have more tickets sold than Cirque de Noel,” said Martin, who believes having it on Friday will make it more convenient for people to attend.

Solstice includes a dance, fun casino and a traditional buffet dinner.

Taste of Red Deer has moved to Thursday, Nov. 27, instead of Friday. So far, 20 Central Alberta res-

taurants will be on site.

“Friday is usually a busy night for most restaurants. It was a positive change for our vendors.”

Candy Cane Lane opens on Friday as usual, so it won’t be available to Taste of Red Deer visitors. But the Tree Room will be open on Thursday, she said.

Martin said Mistletoe Magic, Breakfast With Santa and Festival of Wines have sold out again this year.

Tickets sales for the Business Lunch, Tis the Season Fashion Luncheon, and Winter Solstice Masquerade are going strong, but still available.

She said Festival of Trees has widely become the kickoff to the Christmas season.

“People want to get out and socialize and if they can do it and support a worthwhile cause at the same time, it’s kind of a winning recipe for us.”

The festival takes place at Westerner Park, 4847A 19th St., in the Stockmen’s and Prairie Pavilions. For more information, visit www.reddeerfestivaloftrees. ca. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Olds library offers 3D printer PATRONS USING PRINTER TO CREATE ITEMS FOR HOBBIES OR FOR FUN; TRAINING CLASSES OFFERED

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Once upon a time, you could go to the local library to print a homework paper or perhaps a letter.

Things have changed a lot — at least at the Olds Municipal Library.

There you can now print an actual necklace, candle holder, phone cover, cookie cutter or maybe even an action figure.

The library recently made a 3D printer available to the public, and, according to program co-ordinator Maia Foster, it’s a hit.

The 3D printer is expected to become common in most homes in the future, said Foster, to do things like print out spare parts for the vacuum cleaner — or whatever the imagination can design.

3D printing involves using filament, heating it and then pushing it through a needle that drops it into a shape in layers so it becomes three dimensional.

The printers range in price from hundreds of dollars to thousands of dollars. The Olds library printer is a lower grade, smaller printer. More expensive ones can do higher quality work.

People are coming in to print small things for hobbies or just fun things, said Foster. The library offers training classes. Staff went through a month of train-

ing.

The Olds library also has a computer lab so people can get designs from a computer and then load those into the 3D printer.

It’s affordable, Foster said. For example, to print a phone case costs $5 to $7. The library has all different colours of filament, including white, which can then be painted.

People are stopping in every day to look at the 3D printer, she said.

An Olds College landscape design student visiting the library last week was excited to learn about the printer and the possibility it could be used for a project, Foster said.

“I have two little boys so I printed them each a figurine.

“Kids go crazy for it. Teenagers and kids and tweens really love it. It’s really interesting.”

The library’s Glenn McCracken MakerSpace, an experimental room to try out new technology, includes the 3D printer and scanner, as well as a drawing tablet, iMac, XBox One, iPads and Android tablets.

The MakerSpace will be officially launched with tours during the day on Nov. 12 at the library, which was rebuilt four years ago.

The MakerSpace room is dedicated to exploring new technology that people may not have in their

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A product of the 3D printer at the Olds Municipal Library: available to use by library patrons. homes or if they want some help from library staff, she said.

The public can do different things with different tools that maybe they don’t have access to in everyday life, Foster said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Ebola scare at remand negative A Red Deer inmate suspected of having contact with the Ebola virus has been cleared and returned to the general population. The 42-year-old man was arrested last week on drug charges, then placed in isolation at the Red Deer Remand Centre because he was showing flu-like symptoms.

Staff at the Remand Centre took the precaution out of concern that the man may have contracted Ebola virus, defence counsel Andrew Phypers said in Red Deer provincial court on Friday. Part of their concern was that he had been in contact with Africans at some point in his past, said Phypers.

The man returned to court on Tuesday, appearing by closed-circuit TV from the Red Deer Remand Centre and represented by defence counsel Jason Snider, acting as Phypers’ agent.

Matters that were to have been dealt with on Friday have been set over to Nov. 6.

Olds College honoured Olds College has been recognized for excellence in post-secondary governance.

The college is the first ever gold medalist for excellence in leverage governance as a competitive advantage in higher education.

The award was given at a conference in Beijing, China, on Friday, by the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics, an international network of colleges and national and regional associations of colleges. The federation has over 50 members from around the world. The network shares “leading-edge education strategies and best practices to increase workforce employability in countries around the world,” according to its website.

Sylvan lighthouse project delayed Sylvan Lake town council has extended the deadline to complete a lighthouse and park project on the shoreline until the end of October 2015.

Council will also be asked to put another $50,000 into next year’s budget, on top of $98,050 previously earmarked for the lighthouse and small park.

Initially, it was hoped the project could have been completed this year.

A geotechnical report on the site is expected to be completed next month, which will allow work to begin on final designs. An unexpected wrinkle arose when new shoreline erosion was discovered. The damage is expected to add to the complexity of the project and require permission from Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development to widen part of the Lighthouse Park.

A local fundraising effort is underway to bankroll the lighthouse structure, led by Sylvan Lake Rotary Club. The previous iconic lighthouse was torn down in the fall of 2012. That lighthouse, built in 1988, had fallen into disrepair. The light no longer worked.

Building and fire inspections determined it couldn’t be saved. It is hoped the new lighthouse can be built by next summer, followed by the park, which will include a path and benches.

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Quaid Hamel, Samantha Hallan, Aiden Choi, and Jordan Whitford (left to right) in the Grade 4/5 class work in groups during during the afternoon at Father Henri Voisin School Tuesday. The Red Deer Regional Catholic school had its grand opening in the morning.

Bethany workers protest job conditions

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF AUPE workers at Bethany CollegeSide are holding a lunchtime information picket today to protest what they are calling a rollback to compensation and working conditions by Bethany Care Society.

AUPE vice-president Carrie-Lynn Rusznak said it’s a growing problem that funding coming from Alberta Health Services is not reaching front-line staff.

“There is an expectation, but there is no monitoring service by Alberta Health Services once they pay the facilities the money,” Rusznak said on Tuesday.

“A lot of these private organizations seem to be quoting ‘because we can’ at bargaining tables.”

The auditor general has identified the systemic lack of accountability in continuing care, she said.

According to Bethany Care Society, AHS funding increases have not kept pace with inflation, leaving staff and residents caught in the squeeze. AHS provides about $165 per day for about three hours of care for an average continuing care resident. The money is expected to cover all aspects of personal care, nursing care, therapies and other staff costs.

“We’ve been and will continue to bargain in good faith with AUPE. We do have bargaining

dates set up through November for that purpose,” said Kristen Lawson, director of communications for Bethany Care Society.

The next bargaining date is Friday.

The union is in negotiations with Bethany for six facilities in Central and Southern Alberta, including Sylvan Lake and Red Deer.

The intent is to bring the members under one contract to standardize working conditions and compensation.

AUPE represents about 100 licensed practical nurses and health-care aides at CollegeSide. About 80 nursing staff at Bethany Sylvan Lake joined the union in September.

The Red Deer contract expired June 30.

Bethany CollegeSide has 112 long-term care beds and nearby CollegeSide Gardens has 108 beds at supportive living levels 1 and 2.

Wages for health care attendants in the current contract for CollegeSide starts at $17.87 with LPNs starting at $25.17.

The information picket at CollegeSide, at 99 College Circle, runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with hotdogs and refreshments. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Prostate screening test gets warning TASK FORCE ADVISES AGAINST SCREENING FOR PROSTATE CANCER USING PSA TEST diagnosed — meaning they won’t cause symptoms or death during a man’s lifetime. Such overdiagnosis often leads to TORONTO — A national task force treatments that can cause impotence, that produces guidelines for doctors incontinence, infection and bleeding.

“So what’s the benefit in that age says PSA testing should not be used to screen men for possible prostate can- group? If you screen men based on the cer because it can lead to more harms protocol in those trials, every two to four years for 13 years, five out of 1,000 than benefit.

In guidelines issued Monday, the will die from prostate cancer. If you Canadian Task Force on Preventive don’t screen, six out of 1,000 men will Health Care says prostate specific an- die from prostate cancer,” Bell said. tigen, or PSA, testing is not an effective “So the reduction in prostate cancer screening tool because it often produc- mortality is one in 1,000 or about 0.1 es false-positive results that lead to un- per cent.”

“To get the benefit, you’re diagnosnecessary treatments and potentially ing about 27 or 28 men with prostate adverse side-effects.

That conclusion brought swift and cancer who would never benefit from mostly negative reaction from some the treatment related to prostate canmedical and advocacy groups, which cer because they would never suffer disagree with the task force’s recom- any difficulty from it,” he said. “They mendation that PSA testing be elimi- could be investigated or treated and nated as a screening tool for prostate suffer the consequences of that treatment without actually benefiting from cancer.

PSA is a protein produced in the it.”

“Physicians and patients need to prostate, the walnut-sized gland located below a man’s bladder. Elevated be aware of the fact that in prostate levels of PSA in the blood may indicate cancer, early diagnosis doesn’t always mean you’re gothe presence of prostate cancer.

‘PHYSICIANS AND PATIENTS ing to get a better “Our recomNEED TO BE AWARE OF THE benefit.”

The task force mendation is guidelines, pubagainst PSA FACT THAT IN PROSTATE in Monscreening,” said CANCER, EARLY DIAGNOSIS lished day’s edition of Dr. Neil Bell, who DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN the Canadian heads the working Medical Associagroup on prostate YOU’RE GOING TO GET A tion Journal, apcancer screening BETTER BENEFIT.’ ply only to using for the 14-memPSA testing to see ber task force es— DR. NEIL BELL if a man might tablished by the have prostate Public Health cancer, not for checking whether treatAgency of Canada.

“We have a stronger recommenda- ment is working in men already diagtion for men over 69 and under 55, and nosed with the disease.

The advocacy group Prostate Cancer a little less strong recommendation for men between 55 and 69,” said Bell, Canada was among those that disputed noting that the advice is based on a the recommendation, insisting that review of large international clinical when performed appropriately, the trials that compared outcomes for men benefits of PSA screening far outweigh who got PSA screening and those who potential harms.

“It’s the approach of one size fits all didn’t over more than a decade.

The evidence suggests that among and that doesn’t work for health care,” men aged 55 to 69, almost one in five said Stuart Edmonds, vice-president of had at least one false-positive PSA test, research, health promotion and surviand about 17 per cent ended up with vorship at Prostate Cancer Canada.

Edmonds said that based on recentunnecessary biopsies of the prostate as a result, Bell said from Edmonton, ly published modelling estimates, dowhere he is a professor of family medi- ing away with regular PSA screening would double the number of advanced cine at the University of Alberta.

Furthermore, more than half of cases — in which the malignancy detected prostate cancers are over- spreads beyond the prostate gland — resulting in an estimated 13 per cent

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Dr. Neil Bell of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. A national task force that produces guidelines for doctors says PSA testing should not be used to screen men for possible prostate cancer because it can lead to more harms than benefit. to 20 per cent jump in prostate cancer deaths each year.

Prostate Cancer Canada suggests PSA testing should be used as part of “smart screening,” a personalized approach in which men are tested at age 40 to establish a baseline number; subsequent tests would be performed over time to monitor any changes in that measurement.

“The PSA test, we believe, has an important role in diagnosing prostate cancer early, and that’s why we suggest a smart screening approach whereby men get a PSA test and that’s added to their risk profile along with their age, their ethnicity and their family history,” he said.

“And then that determines when the next PSA test takes place. It could be two years, it could be 10 years. ... We really believe the benefits of the PSA test far outweigh the risk of not doing it.”

Dr. Rodney Breau, a spokesman for the Canadian Urological Association, said the new advice is concerning to prostate specialists who believe a lot of good has arisen from PSA screening over the last couple of decades.

In the past, about 20 per cent of men diagnosed with prostate cancer already had metastasis to other parts of the body, reducing the options for successful treatment, said Breau, a uro-oncologist at the Ottawa Hospital.

“That’s a very rare presentation nowadays, thankfully.”

“And the reason for that is PSA screening, there’s no doubt about it.”

Since PSA testing was first introduced in the early 1990s, the death rate from prostate cancer has dropped by about 40 per cent in Canada, which Breau also attributes to regular screening.

(Bell of the task force said there also may be other reasons, including improved treatments.)

“There’s no doubt that it has helped many men,” said Breau, though he agreed there are also harms that can arise from PSA screening.

“We want to keep the benefits of screening, but we want to reduce the harms,” he said, noting that doctors are more judicious about performing biopsies and treating only those men who are likely to benefit.

“There’s risks and benefits associated with (screening), but there are ways of mitigating many of those risks.”

The conflicting stances on PSA screening will likely lead to confusion, with some men wondering if they should or shouldn’t get testing, agreed Edmonds of Prostate Cancer Canada, whose bigger concern is that many men might be less likely to see their family doctor about prostate health in general.

“There’s also other aspects to prostate health, with prostatitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia also indicated by a high PSA level,” he said.

While Bell said task force members are recommending against routine PSA screening, they understand that some men will want the test anyway.

“Men who are concerned about prostate screening should have a discussion with their physician ... to come up with the decision that’s appropriate for that person,” he said.

An estimated 23,600 Canadian men will be diagnosed this year with prostate cancer, the most common cancer among Canadian men and the third leading cause of death from cancer, according to the Canadian Cancer Society, and about 4,000 Canadian men will die from the disease in 2014.

Canadians from Africa face stigma while they fear for family at home EBOLA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — The Ebola virus may not have crossed Canada’s border, but the epidemic sweeping parts of west Africa is taking a toll on many Canadians.

Those with parents, brothers, sisters and cousins in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea say they are living on the edge — filled with anxiety every time the phone rings and dealing with the stigma created by the disease.

Abu Bakarr Kamara, who immigrated from Sierra Leone in 2003 and lives in Winnipeg, said he often lets his phone go to voice mail when it rings for fear of hearing his father or sister have fallen ill.

“I listen to the voice mail before I call back,” he said. “If I don’t hear any

terrible news on the voice mail, I say, ’Thank God.’ That’s our life right now.

“It’s frustrating. It’s terrible. It’s terrifying. Sometimes you go to bed thinking about what horrible news you could get from back home. You just pray. It’s really heartbreaking.”

The World Health Organization estimates the disease has killed more than 4,900 people and infected about 10,000 — virtually all in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

A lack of beds in Ebola clinics is also forcing families to care for relatives at home, risking further spread of the virus, the WHO has said.

“The rate that people are getting infected in the capital city, it’s all so heartbreaking,” said Kamara, vicepresident of the Sierra Leone Nationals Association of Manitoba. “It’s like there is no hope, even though we try to hope for the best.”

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In Edmonton, members of the Canadian Liberian Friendship Association are raising money to buy an ambulance for their homeland. President John Gaye said he and many others feel helpless.

Liberian-Canadians are also feeling the effects of the epidemic in their adopted country, he said.

People back away suspiciously when they find out someone is originally from Liberia. Others cast suspicion with questions: when were you last there? Have you entertained any visitors recently?

“Just because a person is Liberian or from west Africa, that doesn’t mean the person is carrying the Ebola virus,” Gaye said.

“I haven’t been back home for a few years now. I cannot carry the virus with me wherever I go.

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Parliamentary budget officer says budget for patrol ships ‘insufficient’ OTTAWA — There’s a fresh spat brewing between the Parliament’s top bean counter and the Conservative government, this time over Arctic patrol ships.

Parliamentary budget officer Jean-Denis Frechette said there’s little chance the government can afford to buy between six and eight vessels on a budget of $3.1 billion.

Frechette said that’s only enough money to pay for four Arctic patrol ships — and even then, there’s only a 50 per cent chance the vessels get built on that budget.

The number of ships could drop to three if there is a delay of more than a year, he added.

“PBO analysis suggests that the current budget will be insufficient to procure six to eight (Arctic/ offshore patrol ships) as planned,” the PBO said in a report released Tuesday.

“Rather, it is more likely that, if there are no delays, the current budget will allow for four ships to be built. However, any delay over a year would mean that the budget would likely only be sufficient to build three ships.”

Public Works Minister Diane Finley’s office shot back, saying the PBO got its numbers wrong.

“The numbers provided by the PBO are based on erroneous data, rough cost estimates of international vessels with varied capabilities and derived using inaccurate specifications,” Finley spokesman Marcel Poulin wrote in an email.

“In fact, when explaining one of his assumptions the PBO states that he ’was unable to locate reliable, sufficiently contemporary Canadian data on an acquisition of this nature’.”

Frechette and assistant PBO Mostafa Askari said that’s because the government refused to give them all the information they needed to do their work.

The Defence Department refused to give the PBO a statement of operating requirements for the ships, Askari said. The PBO requested the document under the Access to Information Act, he added, but what it got back was heavily redacted.

Justin Bourque apologizes for Moncton shootings MONCTON, N.B. — Justin Bourque apologized Tuesday to the families of the Mounties he shot in the north end of Moncton on June 4, saying in a quavering voice that the reasons he gave to police for killing three officers and wounding two others were the words of an “arrogant pissant.”

Bourque, speaking at the conclusion of a two-day sentencing hearing in the Court of Queen’s Bench, started by acknowledging the pain the victims’ families must have felt Monday after they watched his emotionless, rambling statement to police on June 6.

“It’s the talk of some arrogant pissant, as if it was nothing to me,” he said. “I want the families to know ... it does mean something to me.”

In the three-hour, videotaped statement, Bourque appears relaxed as he leans back in a chair and explains that he wanted to encourage people to rise up against the “soldiers” that defend federal institutions and protect the rich from the poor.

He calmly muses about his strict Catholic upbringing, climate change, evolution, social engineering, class warfare, tyrants, something called the “black curtain” and threats posed by the Russians and the Chinese.

“I know this is going to sound pretty messed up, but I felt pretty accomplished,” he told police.

The 24-year-old said his original plan was to set fire to several Moncton gas stations to harm the oil industry, but he ditched that idea because of problems with his bicycle.

On Tuesday, Bourque said he had changed his mind about what he had said and done.

“Everything I said was from hatred,” he said, referring to the police statement. “If you had asked me about this two days (after the shootings), there was nothing to be proud of. I took the easy way out.”

Before he was led out of the courtroom, Bourque offered an apology.

“Saying sorry or any apology is almost useless, but I am sorry,” he said. “There’s nothing else to say.”

Consulate in Istanbul to reopen after officials say powder was chalk dust ANKARA, Turkey — The Canadian consulate in Istanbul will reopen Thursday after tests revealed yellow powder sent there last week was similar to chalk dust.

Empty chairs at spy watchdog as government strengthens CSIS hand OTTAWA — As the government moves to strengthen the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, two of five chairs sit empty on the watchdog agency that

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Opposition MPs and a prominent national security lawyer say the vacancies leave the Security Intelligence Review Committee weakened at a time of heightened public concern about civil liberties.

Deborah Grey, the committee’s interim chairwoman, says she’s anxiously awaiting the appointment of two new members to bring the committee up to full strength.

Currently the committee is operating with three members, including Grey — the minimum permitted under federal legislation.

Grey said in an interview that she has flagged the vacancies to senior government officials.

“I’ve had discussions with some folks to say, ’We need two more, and we look forward to them being appointed as soon as possible’.”

The review committee, which has access to all CSIS records, studies the spy service’s operations to ensure compliance with the law and also examines complaints from the public. It has absorbed some functions of the former inspector general’s office, which was abolished by the Conservatives to save money.

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Though more than 30 staff from the consulates were sent to hospital as a precaution and some offices were evacuated, Turkish authorities now say the powder wasn’t dangerous.

Turkish Health Ministry Undersecretary Eyup Gumus said Tuesday that the powder tested negative for biological and toxic agents.

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Going out on top ‘BOARDWALK EMPIRE’ ACHIEVED A GREAT FINALE — BUT MOST TV SHOWS DON’T strong, but not necessarily long-lasting.

When it should have ended: For Lost, it’s less when it should have ended, but how. Yes, just come out and say it: They were all in purgatory. The end.

BY CAITLIN MOORE ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Some television shows end well, with a satisfying and thoughtful conclusion worthy of the critical acclaim and rabid fans it has kept to the end.

And then there are all the others.

Boardwalk Empire offered a “pitchperfect” series finale on Sunday, joining the ranks of other acclaimed shows that managed not to wear out their welcome (Breaking Bad, The Wire, 30 Rock, etc.). But they are among the rarities.

Forgive us, oh TV gods, as we list some of the shows that went on too long — and a few that still need to be put out of their misery. (Spoilers abound.)

● Friends (1994-2004)

● The Office (2005-2013) A great workplace comedy for many years, The Office was also one of the first “mockumentaries” that really took off on network TV. After a middling first season, the cast caught a groove and went on to perfect the art of the awkward laugh. Viewers cringed and guffawed in equal measure. But right around the end of Season 7, the wheels came a little loose. When you replace a lead actor on any show, it’s a distinct gamble. But when you replace Steve Carell, the heart and well-intentioned soul of the whole thing? You’re betting the house. There were a few great episodes and arcs in the last two seasons — some serious rifts between Jim and Pam, the big reveal of the folks behind the camera — but it all felt a little too late, especially amid the confusing mass of office newbies. (Remember Clark? Exactly.)

When it should have ended: After Michael’s sad farewell. Wrap up a few loose ends and boom, roasted. ● How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014) With any incestuous friend group, you run the risk of wearing out relationships — and plot devices — rather quickly. As the show progressed, main character Ted (the “I” of the title) became less of a hopeless romantic and more of a lovelorn snob. The relationships became more exhausting than exciting. Ted and Robin at first? Yay! Barney and Robin at first? Yay? Barney and Robin again? OK ... Ted and Robin again? It seemed liked the writers stopped trying to create new situations and just played a game of Sit-

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‘The Office’s’ Steve Carell, right, as Michael Scott, makes an announcement alongside John Krasinski as Jim Halpert, left, and Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute. com Musical Chairs — while, in fine CBS style, the network indulged them too long because the ratings were too good.

When it should have ended: Any time before Season 9. We can count the number of people who were satisfied with the conclusion on one hand. With no fingers.

Lawrence didn’t like it.

When it should have ended: With the finale of Season 8. While some may argue Seasons 6 and 7 were rough (J.D. managing to impregnate Kim without having sex; way too many dream sequences), J.D.’s final walk through the hospital is a perfect ending. ● Lost (2004-2010)

● Scrubs (2001-2010) This hospital sitcom survived not only a brisk rotation through new timeslots but a shift over to an entirely new network. The seamless melding of J.D.’s daydreams with his actual work life gave the show a sense of magical realism that was unique among primetime series. But these fantastical elements soon became more crutch than flourish. (Who cares about emotions? Let’s do an episode entirely in a fairytale world!) However, the move from NBC to ABC for Season 8 seemed a rare chance to give the show the heartfelt finale it deserved, in a season with more character focus. But ABC couldn’t leave well enough alone, and Season 9 happened — but it was really “Season 9,” a sorta-kinda-spinoff-buttechnically-the-same-show that should have never existed. Even creator Bill as host of a comedy-variety series.

The new show is based on the successful British TV format Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. NBC didn’t announce an official title or premiere date for its adaptation, which will air for 10 episodes.

The series will feature comedy sketches, musical numbers, mini game shows and appearances by A-list stars, NBC said. It will film in front of a live audience.

Harris has previously served as host of both the Emmys and Tony Awards.

He was recently announced as host of the 2015 Academy Awards.

Don’t get us wrong, Lost was great.

One of the best. But a show that centered around characters in a plane crash peppered with mythology slowly became a show about mythology peppered with character development.

On low points in its roller coaster ride, more questions were raised than answered, providing a frustrating (if intermittently enthralling) experience for the viewer. When producers announced during the third season that they already knew when they wanted the series to end, they appeared to acknowledge the bumpiness of the show’s ride. A scheduled finale “gives everyone a feeling of certainty that the story is driving to a conclusion. It’s time for us now to find an end point for the show,” executive producer Carlton Cuse said. Whether coincidentally or not, the following Season 4 was quite

Burton Cummings fills in for sick Alanis Morissette at Ottawa fundraiser OTTAWA — Alanis Morissette raised the ire of some Ottawa residents this week when she pulled out of a major charity event due to illness and then posted Twitter photos from a beach location, but a spokesman says the Ironic singer really was sick.

Morissette’s publicist told The Canadian Press that the photo tweeted Monday was actually taken on Oct. 10

A giant hit in its day, it’s become part of our cultural DNA in syndication, the characters remaining archetypes for our time (“He’s a controlling nebbish: such a Ross”). But it got mired in melodramatic relationships and simplistic solutions. In the fifth year of the show alone, after Ross mistakenly says Rachel’s name at the altar, his new wife Emily gives him an ultimatum, Phoebe gives birth to her brother’s triplets, and Ross and Rachel get drunkenly married, beating a newly coupled Chandler and Monica to the punch. While the show was still wellwritten enough to have memorable jokes and iconic characters throughout its 10 seasons, it floundered for playedout plots in the second half of its run.

When it should have ended: Before they ever tested the whole Joey-Rachel thing in Season 8. It put Ross in a weird place, strained the dynamics of the group, and seemed to be more of a try-hard ratings ploy than a natural development — especially considering Rachel was pregnant with Ross’ baby at the time. Obviously. ● True Blood (2008-2014) A steamy show set in the sexy South where humans and vampires live in — discordant — harmony. What’s not to love? Well, towards the end, a lot.

The signs started to come about halfway through the bloody HBO series. As Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever noted in his review of the beginning of Season 4, “the cast keeps expanding into an overpopulated mishmash of disparate story threads that no longer weave together as a whole ... Characters I care less about (waitresses, extraneous vampires, panther hillbillies on meth) are getting as much or more time as characters I initially adored.”

When showrunner Alan Ball stepped down after five seasons at the front, the show seemed to lose its last bit of cohesion, providing a simply messy and overly campy final two seasons.

When it should have ended: With the end of Season 5, while it was still on top. We could’ve avoided that odd series finale. at a private residence in L.A. “She was indeed sick, which is why she unfortunately could not make the trip to Ottawa,” said Morissette’s publicist via email.

The $400 per ticket benefit was to raise money for Fertile Futures, an organization that connects cancer survivors with information and treatment so they can have children after beating their illness.

Morissette had been advertised since the summer as the marquee performer at the annual concert, with CBC personality Rick Mercer hosting for the sixth year in a row.

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Although he was a quiet man, his ever bright smile spoke for him; that and his sharp wit will always be remembered. He was a treasured friend to many throughout his life, but the friendship most valuable to him was that of his wife of 56 years Jean Gowalko (nee: Senyk). Knowing his generous nature, it was no surprise that his final wish was to donate his corneas and irises to someone in need, and his body to the University of Alberta Hospital Clinical Sciences department. Steve is survived by his Wife Jean, Brother Orest (Donna) Gawalko, Son Dan, Grandchildren Cody (Collette) Gowalko, Jasmine (Bruce) Cardinal, Aaron Gowalko, Savannah Gowalko, Auriana Gowalko as well as 4 greatgrand children. At the request of Steve there will only be a small family gathering to remember him and no formal service will be held.

OSCROFT Robert Keith Fire Chief, Retired May 16, 1941 - Oct. 23, 2014 Robert Oscroft passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Thursday, October 23, 2014 with his wife Kathy, daughter Jennifer, and caregivers; Amanda, Chelsi, Nejat, Carrie, Jackie, Neda, and Gus, by his side.

Robert was active in the Fire Service in both Alberta and the Northwest Territories for over 50 years. He became a volunteer firefighter with the County of Strathcona at the age of 15, was hired as the first full time firefighter in 1965, and became Deputy Chief in 1966. He was hired as Fire Chief for the City of Yellowknife in 1970. He relocated to Red Deer and was Fire Chief for the city from 1979 until his retirement in 1997. In 2000, Robert went to work with the County of Red Deer to assist with special projects until 2003 and then continued as a volunteer until 2010. A Memorial Service will be held at the Harvest Centre, Westerner Park, 4847A - 19 Street, Red Deer, AB, on Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers please consider a gift to the Alberta Cancer Foundation, directed to Esophageal Cancer/clinical trial research, 710-10123 99 Street NW, Edmonton, AB, T5J 3H1.

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BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting applications for a

JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR in our Stettler Field.

Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly.

Associated industry experience eg. instrumentation or facilities construction experience would be an asset but is not necessarily required.

This position offers a diverse and challenging work environment with competitive pay, attractive benefits and the ability to grow within the organization. Applicants must live or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute commute of the work place location (Stettler).

Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1 DEX Production Testing req’s exp. day night supervisors, assistants, and boiler hands. Must have boilers ticket.

Competitive wage & benefit pkg. Email resume to: office@ dexproduction.com or fax 403-864-8284 LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

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

Professionals

810

WE are seeking a F/T accounting professional to be responsible for our entire bookkeeping process and office admin. Exp. in Simply Accounting a must w/minimum 2 yrs. exp.

Email resume to: danacg@shaw.ca Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

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 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

BLACKFALDS Motor Inn is looking for F/T permanent Food & Beverage Supervisor. $15.00 hourly.

Must have at least 1 yr. exp. plus ProServe Certificate & VLT Responsible Certification.

Apply in person between 9 am - 2 pm. Ask for Danny 403-885-4611 JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s Permanent ROOM ATTENDANTS Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Performance based bonus program.

Must be fluent with verbal & written English, be physically fit. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com

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.

800

TRICAN is a global well service company with operations in Canada, USA, Russia, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Australia, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, and Norway.

If you are an energetic, motivated team player with excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills, we invite you to apply for the following position:

Scan to See Current Openings

Parts Person

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Maintain parts inventory for oil¿eld heavy equipment, trucks, and various other vehicles Ship, Receive, Stock and order parts as required by maintenance and operations Manage and process inventory transactions and purchases for the base Process paperwork in a timely manner Issue purchase order numbers for purchased stock Provide seamless and friendly support to our ¿eld operations

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Strong Computer skills are an asset Journeyman Parts Certi¿cate an asset Valid Class 5 license is required Experience in the ¿eld is an asset Inventory/procurement management systems experience is an asset Warehousing experience also an asset Experience using a Forklift is an asset

What Makes Us Attractive:

Values-driven organization Full coverage benefits program, Health Spending Account Global technical leader within our industry Focus on safety, training and development Career advancement opportunities RRSP matching program

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Monday to Friday, hours 8am-5pm Heavy lifting is required; must be physically ¿t Willing to live near base of employment Pre-employment medical testing is required

Please forward your cover letter, resume and a copy of a current driver’s abstract (in confidence) Trican Well Service Ltd. Fax: (403) 314-3332 We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted

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D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

860

Truckers/ Drivers

Truckers/ Drivers

BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus THE RUSTY PELICAN is program. Grain and super now accepting resumes for B exp. an asset but not F/T Exp’d necessary. If you have a LINE COOKS clean commercial drivers at all stations. abstract and would like to MUST HAVE: start making good money.

• 2-3 yrs. post secondary fax or email resume and education. comm.abstract to • 2-3 yrs. on-the-job exp. 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net • Provide references Celebrate your life The hourly rate will be with a Classified $13.25 - $15. per hour ANNOUNCEMENT dependant on experience.

Mail to: 2079 50 AVE. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 or Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

ACADEMIC Express

FLUID Experts Ltd.

GED Preparation

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

Misc.

BRAATT CONST. Of Red Deer is seeking exp’d. carpenters and laborers for the agricultural industry. Must have drivers license. Call Brad 403-588-8588

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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 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

880

Sales & Distributors

GAETZ SOUTH

GAETZ SOUTH

P/T Bakery Evening Staff Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer Start your career!

See Help Wanted

F/T P/T MEAT CUTTER. Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

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

DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. Exp. an asset. Must have own transportation.

403-341-7619

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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

830 Maternity Leave Position

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.

Individuals must be safety conscious, physically fit, able to work overtime and shift work.

Wages start at $40.00 per hour and offer an excellent benefit and pension package.

Please send resume to reddeerhr@evrazna.com or deliver in person to 27251 391 Township Road

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 November 2014 for paid training until the maternity leave commencing early December (possibly earlier).

Requires

If interested, please send your resume by November 7, 2014 to:

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

prstamm@reddeeradvocate.com or drop off at the Red Deer Advocate Front Counter, Attention: Patricia Stamm, Classified Manager 2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! LOOKING FOR: Exp. Framers & farm building.

403-318-6406 NEEDED IMMED. FOR manufacturing company in Blackfalds JOURNEYMAN WELDERS Competitive wages and benefits package.

Email resume to: joel@prolineinc.ca

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.

Part Time Cashiers and Clerks Please apply with resume to:

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 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

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

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 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE

International ladies

Eavestroughing

1130

ROBUST EAVESTROUGH CLEANING SERVICES 403-506-4822

Now Open

1280

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town. www.viimassage.com

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. 403-358-1614 We do dump runs/odd jobs 4035502502/4038855333

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

1370

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Roofing

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

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

As the ideal candidate,you GREEN CLEAN RED feel comfortable dealing DEER Ltd. is looking for directly with customers and cleaners for our will provide effective RESIDENTIAL division! leadership to staff.

Hours of work are Mon-Fri, Requirements: 9am-4pm. Applicants can Previous retail supervisory expect to work approx.30 experience. hrs/week and be paid Proficient in Microsoft above industry average.

Office and knowledge of Applicants must have a computer systems. reliable vehicle, a clean criminal record check, be Proserve Certification is an asset. highly motivated and Must be available days, reliable! Apply by emailing weekends and evenings your resume to thenry@ up to Midnight. greencleanreddeer.com.

Please submit resume to LADY who is blind req’s swcbjobs@sobeys.com personal assistant 1 or 2 afternoons per week.

You can sell your guitar Also require driver for for a song... occasional medical appts. or put it in CLASSIFIEDS in Edm. 403-309-4554 and we’ll sell it for you!

LARGE fireplace store expanding in Western Canada. Seeking experienced personnel for admin, data entry, scheduling etc. No phone calls please. Send full resume jim@thefireplaceexperience .com CLASSIFICATIONS NEEDED F/T Service Person General Carpenter/handy1500-1990 man type for service and set up of manufactured and modular home. Exp. in trim, roofing, siding, flooring, paint etc. Competitive Clothing wages and health plan avail. Apply to James at M JACKET, leather, size 40 & K Homes, 403-346-6116 Tall, $20. 403-347-5316 SHRUMS MEATS VINTAGE MINK COAT HIRING EXP’D. (Brown) Size 18. Absolutely BUTCHER, $20-$30/hr. excellent condition. $150.

Phone 1-403-742-1427 Call or text 403-391-3335 or fax 403-742-1429

1590

Advocate Opportunities

464664J29

1372

1380

SNOWPLOWING Comm/Res. Contracts welcome. 403-358-1614 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

1420

ROBUST WINDOW CLEANING SERVICES 403-506-4822

Yard Care

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD, birch, spruce & pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Appliances

1710

HARD TO FIND 2 MAN TABLE! Small 2 person kitchen table. White top & metal legs, 2 matching chairs.

Asking $100.

Call or text 403-391-3335 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $40; (3) clean wool accent matching 3x5 oval carpets, $40. for all 3; David Winter Collector’s houses in original boxes, $25. ea.

403-352-8811 REGAL burgundy sofa and love seat $160; kitchen table w/4 chairs $40 403-782-7439

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

PS 2 w/15 games $65; XBox 15 games $75, Sony ROPER stove, white, lift CD stereo $25, older comtop clean, self clean oven puter games $30, Game $100 403-318-5420 or Boy, 1 game 403-746-5123 $35 403-782-3847 STOVE, Kenmore, electric, white, 6 yrs. old. $145.

Misc. for 403-347-5316

Sale

Household Furnishings

1720

1760

GARMENT single trolley rack, 36” wide extends upward 60” on casters with shoe rack at bottom $10, 2 DUSTY ROSE upholstered arm chairs, 1 3/8” thick plywood strips 2” rocker, 1 recliner, $60/ea. wide various lengths from or both for $90 ; Lift Master 14” to 8’, have about 20 all for $10, 6 totes, med- to garage door opener 1/2 HP motor, used only 2 yrs. med. large with lids $6/ea.

403-314-2026 exc. cond., $90 403-348-6449 SAFETY BATH TUB HANDLE. BED, dble., mattress, box Asking $30. spring & frame. $80.; Call or text 403-391-3335 403-346-0674, 392-5657

Advocate Opportunities

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

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 Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

HIGHLAND GREEN KENTWOOD AREA For More Information, please call Joanne 403-314-4308

SUNNYBROOK & MORRISROE Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

CARRIERS NEEDED

Phone 403-314-4301

ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Abbot Close/Allan St. Alexander Cres.

Atlee Close/Ansett Cres Anquetel St./Ainge Close Andrews Close Alhstrom Close Anders St./Armstrong Close Asheley Ave/Ashley Close Archibald Cres.

1430

FALL clean-up, Yard care, Junk/tree/snow removal, comm/res. 403-358-1614 S2N EAVES/FALL CLEAN-UP 403-302-7778

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

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

Isherwood Close Inglewood Drive Isbister Close

HELPING HANDS

Window Cleaning

1660

46” SINGLE BED w/side rails, headboard, footboard, FREE, mattress and box spring $100 403-347-3849

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

INGLEWOOD AREA

Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

Snow Removal

MITRE saw c/w table and

1720

3 days per week, no weekends

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Massage Therapy

1640

Tools

Household Furnishings

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

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

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

1100

at our Sobeys Liquor Village Mall location

If excellent customer service is a priority with you, we may have just the right opportunity.

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Contractors

Full-Time Supervisor

Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

1000-1430

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

We are seeking a

BOWER AREA

Fresh Department Manager

1630

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

Firewood

The successful candidate will have warehouse experience, preferably with electrical and mechanical background as well as forklift exp. Strong computer skills is an asset.

Please fax resumes to 403-347-9301 or email: administration @barwpetroleum.com

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

We are expanding our product line and we need more in store help.

We have openings for the following “team members.”

EquipmentHeavy

wheels, $65 403-782-7439 WAREHOUSE SHIPPER/RECEIVER & PARTS PERSON

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

880

Misc.

Help

CLASSIFICATIONS

1010

has an opening for:

Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake

wegotservices

Accounting

UFA/BAR W

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

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.

STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop.

MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

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

SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Sat. & Sun. 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Bulk & Natural Foods

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. $1 -$1.10 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

Central Alberta Greenhouses Ltd

880

Misc.

Help

wegot

Journeyman Millwrights, Electricians, and Machinists.

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

880

Misc.

Help

stuff

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Sales

EVRAZ Red Deer Works is now accepting applications for

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

Great second career.

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d Must be fit and love to for moving equipment. travel.

Resumes to be dropped off • Work schedule approx. at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. 8 months per year.

Cres. Red Deer.

• A strong interest in ladies fashion an asset.

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement Reply to: needed immed. for waste & order@klassenjlrs.com recycling automated & roll Terry, 306-652-2112 off trucks. Email resume Check us out at: with a min. of 2 references www.klassenjlrs.com to: canpak@xplornet.ca

850

WINTER START

Class 1 Operators

• •

Trades

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Of Red Deer is seeking experienced

SALES ASSOCIATE CENTRAL AB based truck- Help REQUIRED ing company requires For North/Central Alberta.

Owner Operators Opportunity for a mature & Contract Drivers person or couple in wholesale fashion jewelry and giftware sales.

880

Misc.

Help

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.

830

Sales & Distributors

860

MORRISROE AREA Manning St./Maxwell Ave. McKinnon Cres/Munro Cres.

McCullough Cres.

McDougall Cres.

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

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.

MOUNTVIEW 44 and 44 A Ave between 37 st. & Springbett Dr, and Spruce Dr. $108/mo.

VANIER AREA Vanier Drive Vanson Close 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

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 D3

the n o d e t is l e l ic h e v r u Get yo

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

1998 CHRYSLER AWD

Town N` Country, 7 pass., 199,000 kms., command start, hitch, special mag whls. $1500 **SOLD**

2003 DAKOTA, 3.9, auto., 128,000., 60% tires, $4400. o.b.o. **SOLD**

2006 MURANO AWD, V6, Remote Start, hitch, no rust, great cond.125,000 mi., $8900 obo.

403-309-4585

2008 MONTANA, 2955RL, 2 slides, king bed, Mor-Ryde hitch, Arctic pckg. exc. cond., $27,500. **SOLD**

2011 CYCLONE 300C Toy Hauler, $44,500.

2007 GMC dually 1 ton 182,000 kms.

Together $66,500.

403-507-0570

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 VW Jetta TDI

137,000 kms, fully loaded, sunroof, diesel, auto, $10,000

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2009 HYUNDAI Accent, 64,000 kms.

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 RAV4 LIMITED Leather, sunroof, 8 way power driver’s seat, very clean, great cond. $19,500 obo.

403-341-0606

1966 FORD Mustang Coupe appraised $15,500. Runs good.

Would like at least $9500 403-391-3456

1998 DURANGO, 119,700 kms. Must see!

Safetied.

1985 BUICK Riviera.

Original paint, fully loaded, sunroof, exc. shape. 2nd owner.

Immaculate interior. 158,000 km. $3750 obo.

403-347-3950

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1985 HONDA 250 SX Trike $950.00 **SOLD**

1999 GMC Sierra 1500 2WD, E/C, original owner, 252,000 km, Immaculate $3400. **SOLD**

2004 DODGE 1/2 ton 4x4 SLT quad cab.

New tires, battery, power steering pump. $6000.

403-506-9632

ULTIMATE TRUCK CAMPER 2007 Okanagan 117 DBL - 2 Slides, Sleeps 6, Full bath & kitchen. Queen. Huge. Mint $24,250 obo 403-620-8106

2009 KEYSTONE Passport Ultralite 29 ft Reduced, 1 slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C. See Kijiji Ad ID 548133556 $19,000. 403-343-1043

1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor, exc. cond. low kms. $6900, obo **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 DODGE DAKOTA 4x4 Good shape. $5700.

403-598-4131

2007 SATURN AURA. Loaded, 1 owner, exc. cond.

86,000 km.

Never winter driven. $10,500 403-391-3820

2010 16 XCALIBUR Legend, 18’ alum. welded hull, prem. pckg for leisure & fishing, deluxe console, conv. top, travel tarp, 75 hp Merc. $13,500 SOLD!!!

1989 1 TON WITH PLOW, 4x4, controls inside, & dump. $6350.

Good working order.

403-348-9746

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 TITANIUM model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $24,500 obo.

403-347-1050 or 304-4580

2007 VW Tourareg, fully loaded, AWD, new windshield, Nokian all season tires, in exceptionally good cond.. 180,000 kms. $14,750 obo 403-346-5440 or 403-391-0320

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1989 GMC SIERRA Auto 350, s/b, no rust.

Glass exc. 144,000km $4900.

403-340-8950

2001 VOLVO S60.

Loaded, very good cond.

182,000 km. $4500 obo.

403-343-2058

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 AVALANCHE, 4x4, nice shape.

587-679-1000

2010 DODGE RAM 3500, loaded SLT, white, 4x4, S/B, 60,600 kms., $39,000.

403-347-4896

2013 CHEV LTZ full load, sunroof, leather, over $4000 in extras. $41,000.

Sliding box cover.

403-348-9746

1991 ALLEGRO-BAY 29’.

Class A, 35,000 miles, Generator, AC, Rear Bed, Exc. Cond. $10,000 obo.

Call 403-442-3837

2002 CHRYSLER $6900.

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2010 Ford Explorer

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Supply rocket explodes after takeoff UNMANNED COMMERCIAL SUPPLY ROCKET HEADED FOR ISS EXPLODES IN VIRGINIA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An unmanned commercial supply rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded moments after liftoff Tuesday evening, with debris falling in flames over the launch site in Virginia. No injuries were reported following the first catastrophic launch in NASA’s commercial spaceflight effort.

The accident at Orbital Sciences Corp.’s launch complex at Wallops Island was sure to draw criticism over the space agency’s growing reliance on private U.S. companies in this post-shuttle effort.

NASA is paying billions of dollars to Orbital Sciences and the SpaceX company to make station deliveries, and it’s counting on SpaceX and Boeing to start flying U.S. astronauts to the orbiting lab as early as 2017. NASA spokesman Rob Navias said there was nothing on the lost flight that was urgently needed by the six people living on the space station.

Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket blew up over the launch complex, just six seconds after the liftoff. The company said everyone at the site had been accounted for, and the damage appeared to be limited to the facilities.

Flames could be seen shooting into the sky as the sun set.

There was no hint of any trouble until the rocket exploded.

This was the second launch attempt for the mission. Monday evening’s try was thwarted by a stray sailboat in the rocket’s danger zone. The restrictions are in case of just such an accident that occurred Tuesday.

“We will understand what happened — hopefully soon — and we’ll get things back on track,” Orbital Sciences’ executive vice-president Frank Culbertson told his team an

hour after the failure. “We’ve all seen this happen in our business before, and we’ve all seen the teams recover from this, and we will do the same.”

The roomful of engineers and technicians were ordered to maintain all computer data for the ensuing investigation.

Culbertson advised his staff not to talk to news reporters and to refrain from speculating among themselves.

“Definitely do not talk outside of our family,” said Culbertson, a former astronaut who once served on the space station.

It was the fourth Cygnus bound for the orbiting lab; the first flew just over a year ago.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch another Dragon supply ship from Cape Canaveral in December.

The Cygnus cargo ship Tuesday had held 5,000 pounds (2,267 kilograms) of experiments and equipment. By coincidence, the Russian Space Agency was proceeding with its own supply run on Wednesday, planned well before the U.S. mishap.

All the scientists and students behind the science experiments aboard the Cygnus were surely devastated. About one-third of the capsule’s contents involved research.

Among the instruments that were lost: a meteor tracker and 32 mini research satellites, along with numerous experiments compiled by schoolchildren.

The two Americans, three Russians and one German on the orbiting lab were informed promptly of the accident.

Until Tuesday, all of the supply missions by the Virginia-based Orbital Sciences and California-based SpaceX had been near-flawless.

President Barack Obama has long championed this commercial effort, urging that NASA focus its human spaceflight effort less on nearby or-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This image taken from video provided by NASA TV shows Orbital Sciences Corp.’s unmanned rocket blowing up over the launch complex at Wallops Island, Va., just six seconds after liftoff.

The company says no one was believed to be hurt and the damage appeared to be limited to the facilities. bit and more on destinations like asteroids and Mars. He was in Wisconsin for a campaign rally Tuesday evening and was kept abreast of the accident and its developments.

SpaceX’s billionaire founder and chief officer Elon Musk — whose company is the face, in many ways, of the commercial effort — said he was sorry to learn about the failure.

“Hope they recover soon,” he said in a tweet.

Support poured in from elsewhere in the space community late Tuesday night.

“We are with you (at)OrbitalSciences and (at)NASA,” former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin said via Twitter.

Mexico investigators comb gully in search of remains of missing students

“Very sorry to see the Antares rocket launch failure,” said Chris Hadfield, a former Canadian astronaut who served as space station commander last year. “Spaceflight is hard. Very glad that no one was hurt. Now time to sort out why & effects.”

John Logdson, former space policy director at George Washington University, said it was unlikely to be a major setback to NASA’s commercial space plans. But he noted it could derail Orbital Sciences for a while given the company has just one launch pad and the accident occurred right above it.

“It shows the wisdom of hav-

Sheriff says manhunt launched after two shot outside courthouse

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COCULA, Mexico — Forensic experts combed a gully in southern Mexico on Tuesday for the remains of 43 missing students, as frustration mounted among relatives of both the disappeared and the detained for the lack of answers more than a month into the investigation.

Workers in protective gear focused on a 25-by-25 footsquare area below the ridge of the municipal dump in Cocula, a town in Guerrero state where police have been arrested and linked to the Sept.

26 disappearances. But they have not said so far how many bodies have been found or in what condition.

Parents of the students say they were not even notified of the latest remains, discovered Monday based on the testimony of four new detainees in the case.

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Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said he has nothing concrete so far regarding the remains.

“I prefer taking more time to find the truth than rushing to put out a guess, imagination or invention,” he said.

A parent who spoke on conditional of anonymity said the group would meet in Mexico City on Wednesday with President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Murillo Karam said Monday that two of the detainees were members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel who handled the disappearances of the students. The two said they received a large group of people around Sept. 26, the date the students went missing. The arrests Monday put the total at 56 detainees so far in the case, yet there is still nothing concrete on the whereabouts of the students.

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The rural teachers college students disappeared after an attack by police in nearby Iguala. Authorities say it was ordered by former Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and carried out by police working with the Guerreros Unidos cartel.

Parents of the missing students and their allies are staging increasingly angry protests in the state capital, Chilpancingo, blocking roads and taking public buildings.

“We aren’t going to stop”, said Manuel Martinez, a spokesman for the families.

Relatives of suspects arrested in raids in the area last week are angry as well, hanging a large banner Tuesday from the gates of the Cocula church accusing President Enrique Pena Nieto and the federal government of “a wave of arbitrary detentions of innocent citizens.”

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NASHVILLE, N.C. — A manhunt is on for two suspects in the shooting of two men outside a North Carolina courthouse Tuesday, authorities said.

Nash County Sheriff Dick Jenkins said the men had nonlife-threatening wounds in the shooting that happened about 11:15 a.m.

He says one man ran inside the Nash County Courthouse and collapsed after being hit in the hand and leg. The other victim ran down the street and was found in a lot with a back wound.

Both men were taken to hospitals, Jenkins said. He didn’t know their ages or offer further descriptions.

Jenkins said he had no information on how the shooting happened or why. Nashville Police Chief Thomas Bashore said the victims didn’t work at the courthouse.

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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat who flew on a space shuttle right before the 1986 Challenger disaster, said in a statement, “Space flight is inherently risky. As we push the frontiers of space there will be setbacks.

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Judy Winstead said she heard the gunshots as she sat at her desk in a real estate office across the street from the downtown courthouse decorated with two-story white columns.

She said she ran to front door and locked it as an uninjured woman screamed in the front of the courthouse that is the main one for the county, handing both civil and criminal cases.

Within minutes “there were deputies all over the place and cop cars zooming in,” Winstead said.

Nashville is a town of about 5,500 in a heavily agricultural county and Winstead described the courthouse area as usually very safe.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KAMPALA, Uganda — Authorities are having trouble figuring out how many more people are getting Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone and where the hot spots are in those countries, harming efforts to get control of the raging, deadly outbreak, the UN’s top Ebola official in West Africa said Tuesday.

“The challenge is good information, because information helps tell us where the disease is, how it’s spreading and where we need to target our resources,” Anthony Banbury said from the Ghanaian capital of Accra, where the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, or UNMEER, is based.

Health experts say the key to stopping Ebola is breaking the chain of transmission by tracing and isolating those who have had contact with Ebola patients or victims. Health care workers can’t do that if they don’t know where new cases are emerging.

“And unfortunately, we don’t have good data from a lot of areas. We don’t know exactly what is happening,” said Banbury, the chief of UNMEER. Banbury, who visited the three most affected countries last week, said it was “heartbreaking” to see families torn apart by Ebola as they struggle to care for sick loves ones while also hoping to avoid infection. He said he is hoping for a new approach in Liberia as the UN and its partners work to improve the capacity of communities to safely bury victims.

Over the past week, Banbury met with the presidents of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the vast majority of the more than 10,000 Ebola cases have occurred, the UN said.

Meanwhile, the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, said the three countries need at least 5,000 more health workers to effectively fight the epidemic.

Kim said Tuesday that he is worried about where those health workers can be found given the widespread fear of Ebola. Quarantining health workers returning to their home countries — as some U.S. states are doing — could also hurt recruitment efforts. The World Bank president spoke alongside U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and African Union Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where the AU is headquartered.

As more countries close their borders with or severely restrict travel from the affected countries, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pleaded Tuesday with the world to not turn its back on those suffering.

“We’d just like the international community to continue to see this as a global threat, that stigmatization, exclusion, restriction is not the appropriate response to this,” she said.

She spoke alongside Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who is also touring the worst-hit countries this week. Power reiterated that the best way to keep Americans safe is to help the West African countries fight the disease.

“We’re not just looking to bend the curve, we’re looking to end the curve,” she added.

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Oct. 22, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, a vertical view of the lava upslope from the flow front covering a dirt road. A 21-km finger of lava from Kilauea Volcano has started to again move quickly. Officials on Hawaii’s Big Island won’t start evacuating people until the lava flow is within three to five days of affecting Pahoa residents.

Occupants to observe lava destroy home as ‘closure’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU — A river of asphaltblack lava was within yards of a home in a Big Island community on Tuesday, after weeks of slow, stop-and-go movement.

The lava crackled and smoked as it advanced toward the two-story structure in Pahoa Village, smothering an expanse of vegetation.

Residents of the small town have had weeks to prepare for what’s been described as a slow-motion disaster.

Most have either already left or are prepared to go when necessary.

County officials are making arrangements for those living in the lava’s path to be able to watch the lava destroy

their homes as a means of closure.

“You can only imagine the frustration as well as ... despair they’re going through,” Hawaii County Civil Defence Director Darryl Oliveira said.

The lava was about 70 yards (64 metres) from a home Monday evening, officials said. County officials have warned those with respiratory problems to stay indoors because of the smoke.

Over the weekend, the lava crossed a road in Pahoa Village, considered a main town in the island’s rural Puna district. It was getting dangerously close to Pahoa Village Road, which goes straight through downtown.

The flow advanced about 275 yards (250 metres) from Sunday morning to Monday morning, moving northeast at about 10 to 15 yards (10 to 15 me-

tres) per hour. At other times, the lava slowed to about 2 yards (2 metres) per hour or sped up to about 20 yards (20 metres) per hour, depending on topography, said Janet Babb, a spokeswoman for the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

Scientists began warning the public about the lava on Aug. 22. At the time, residents were cleaning up from a tropical storm that made landfall over the Puna district, toppling trees and knocking out electricity.

No one knows if the lava flow will stop, change direction or hit homes.

In the 1990s, about 200 homes were destroyed by lava flows from Kilauea.

The last evacuations from the volcano came in 2011. One home was destroyed and others were threatened before the lava changed course.

Gunmen kill, kidnap Germans as pirates hijack gunboat in Nigeria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WARRI, Nigeria — Gunmen killed a German man and kidnapped a second in southwest Nigeria, police said Tuesday as the military reported that pirates in the oil-rich south hijacked a police gunboat and killed three officers.

Armed men attacked a group of workers for Julius Berger Nigeria construction company as they were being driven to work in southwest Ogun state on Friday, police Assistant Superintendent Abimbola Oyeyemi told The Associated Press.

One German was shot and killed in the attack and “we are working 24 hours round the clock to free the abducted German and arrest the criminals,” he said.

Another German national has been kidnapped in northern Nigeria, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told a news conference in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Monday.

“There is no new information at the moment on that case,” he said.

Kidnappings in the north usually are carried out by Boko Haram Islamic extremists or a breakaway group called Ansaru. Foreign hostages generally are released unharmed once a ransom is paid.

Meanwhile, pirates attacked a police gunboat escorting a barge-load of oil for the Nigerian Agip Oil Company in southern Niger Delta, also on Friday.

Three police officers were killed and the pirates hijacked the gunboat, according to the Joint Task force spokesman, Col. Mustapha Anka. The

barge was not attacked. That happened on the Barbara River in Bayelsa state, Anka said.

On Oct. 23, the Bayelsa police command reported that six Nigerians working for Agip had been kidnapped by pirates.

Piracy in Nigeria is aimed at oil theft and kidnapping for ransom and cost the nation some $131 million in the past three years, according to the Contemporary Maritime Piracy Database.

While piracy has gone down in the rest of world and especially in Somalia since a multinational force was deployed, it has increased in Nigeria.

Last year, Nigerian pirates and armed robbers were blamed for 31 of 51 attacks in the region, including in waters far from home off Gabon, Ivory Coast and Togo, according to the International Maritime Bureau.

Journalist held by Islamic State group ‘reports’ for his captors in Syria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Freelance British photojournalist John Cantlie poses with a Free Syrian Army rebel in Aleppo, Syria, on Nov. 11, 2012.

BEIRUT — A captive British photojournalist has been used by the Islamic State group to take on the role of a war correspondent in the extremists’ latest propaganda video.

In the video, made public on Monday, John Cantlie calmly stands before a camera in what he identifies as the embattled Syrian town of Kobani. He asserts in the video that Islamic State group fighters have pushed deep into the town despite airstrikes by a U.S.led coalition and that they are winning the battle against Kurdish forces.

The strange spectacle of a prisoner who has admitted to being afraid for his life being used as a spokesman is the latest of example of the IS’s attention-getting approach to propagating its message and its threats.

The Associated Press could not independently verify the video as authentic, although some of the images, including footage the Islamic State group says was shot by a drone, appear to be Kobani, a town near the Turkish border. Sporadic gunfire can be heard in the background. At one point in the 5 ½-minute report, a Turkish flag can be seen flying atop a grain silo; Cantlie is not in the same shot.

Although it was unclear exactly when the video was recorded, Cantlie

mentions specific news reports and statements by Western officials from as recently as last week.

“Without any safe access, there are no journalists here in the city,” Cantlie intones in the video. He wears black clothes and is bearded. In previous videos, he wore an orange jumpsuit — as did the hostages beheaded by the extremists.

IS militants launched an offensive on Kobani in mid-September, capturing dozens of Kurdish villages and entering parts of the town. The attack has displaced more than 200,000 people.

American officials say the U.S. has conducted dozens of airstrikes against the militants in and around the town, killing hundreds of Islamic State fighters.

In contrast to those accounts, Cantlie gave the IS’s different slant on the fighting.

“Airstrikes did prevent some groups of mujahedeen from using their tanks and heavy armour as they’d have liked, so they’re entering the city and using light weapons instead, going house to house,” Cantlie says in the video, a fly buzzing around his head. “The battle for Kobani is coming to an end,” he continues. “The mujahedeen are just mopping up now, street to street and building to building. ... As you can hear, it is very quiet — just occasional gunfire.”

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A hare takes in some of the last fall foliage while having a rest and wondering when winter is While things are improving coming. for my daughter and me, we are both having a hard time dealing with Clyde, who is in Wednesday, Oct. 29 gate a profound change for you on a mental level. his late 60s.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ToSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today, you will feel The day my husband died, day’s astrological transit will highthe push to move forward. Those found in your daily life will Clyde said, “I’m still not over MITCHELL instigate you to share more and to care more. There will be a my wife, and now this. I can’t light a T-Square between the ongo& SUGAR ing Uranus and Pluto square.

This need for you to share your emotions with them today. Perhaps even think about him right specific square has been reflected it is simply you learning more about your emotional nature. now.” in the state of global riots and auCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You will be pushed to A few weeks after the fucreate solid emotional bonds with another today. That will creneral, I called Clyde, and dur- tonomy struggles since 2012. For ate some tension for you, as you more than likely will not want ing our conversation he told me, “I’m not going to today, you will examine the internal struggles you are experiencing to to be involved with others at that level now. Through open worry about you. You’ll be married within the year.” find a proper resolution. It will be an dialogue, you’ll be able to sort through any issues.

Again, I let it slide. intense day but much can be acAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today you are more calm That spring, I invited him to a family cookout. and able to conquer anything you set out for yourself. Just be When we were alone, he said, “You don’t know what complished now.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is mindful that it will be a stressful day.

LARISA MAIRA grief is. You have no idea what it’s like to lose someyour birthday, this year will prove Try to use that energy to your advantage and create more one you love.”

OZOLINS internal strength for yourself and others. Express all that you Annie, I almost got sick. I told him he was lucky to to be a year when much can and need to now. have 30 years with his spouse, because I didn’t even will be accomplished with finding a proper resolution to any ongoing PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Any tension that you feel have seven. today will have you focused on your creative expression and After that, I limited my time with Clyde. We only issues you are experiencing within your daily life, health, and work. There is a keen sense that all self-expression. You want your aspirations to work out, but tosee him on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Last Christmas, he came for two family meals. At will find that proper balance and harmony this year, but first day there will be a little snag in those events. Just be mindful both occasions, he was rude, obnoxious and spoke you will have to let go of the past which to date has held you that this transit is temporary, your dreams are not.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated asdown to me in front of everyone. I was in awe at the back.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Today will highlight a lovely trologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Adamount of cursing and his nasty tone of voice.

My sister didn’t wait a beat before jumping in T-square involving the planets that are creating the ruckus vocate. and putting him in his place. He gave my college-age around the world at the moment. So do expect some tendaughter $20 as a gift. She was gracious and thanked sions to happen within your career and for you on a profeshim, whereupon he turned to me and said, “How do sional level today. It will be intense, but you’ll gain emotional strength. you know she won’t use it for something illegal?”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today, there will be tension Annie, the holidays are fast approaching, and affor you with those you see on a daily basis. You will be asked ter last year, I just can’t take it anymore.

The problem is, Clyde has no one (he hasn’t spo- to express your true emotions to these individuals. Perhaps ken to his sister in 30 years). Is it OK not to invite you will need to share news with co-workers which are not the him? And if so, do I need to tell him he’s not invited? most positive. Whatever it is, it will help to get it off your chest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today will welcome in a lot of — Still Related in the East Dear East: Clyde sounds like a cranky, belligerent opposition from friends. This will no doubt create some tension for you, and you will be left feeling a little upset. Some fears pain in the butt.

It would be a kindness to include him, but only if are popping up now and these will be short lived, as you are more than able to conquer all of them and create harmony. you can ignore his comments completely.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There will be a lot of tension The only way he knows how to communicate is to push everyone’s buttons. Do not respond. However, for you today as you interact with more and more individuals if that is more “charity” than you can handle, you do within your family circle. Perhaps your spouse has created some intense moments for you without realizing it. Whatever not need to invite him.

Nor do you need to notify him in advance, unless the case, you are more able to work through them today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today’s transits will leave you you want to call to say you will include him only if he feeling slightly taken off guard. You will have to find that emomakes a sincere effort to be polite.

Dear Annie: I think you missed an opportunity to tional equilibrium for yourself today, especially when dealing lambaste “Frustrated Husband,” who complained with co-workers and those you see on a daily basis. Go within to find that strength and emotional truth now. that his wife is a lousy housekeeper.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The tension created today He says she still works, and he is retired.

I’m retired and my wife still works. I feel it is my will help you move towards your aspirations and true wishes.

Through dialogue, you will be more than able to see this truth. job to keep the house clean. What is this guy doing?

Since he’s retired, why isn’t he helping out while You will be more than able to implement, by using today’s energy, to get all ideas and creative projects off the ground. his poor wife is still at the office?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today will highlight some emoMy wife and I are a team and I would never even think that she should be doing house chores when tional tension between you and others in your life. You will be seen expressing these disagreements on a public level, but if she gets home. — B. Dear B.: You sound like a peach. But why do you not, then they will most definitely be shared with those within assume “Frustrated” isn’t doing any household your home environment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There will be some important chores?

He said he throws out stuff when his wife is at conversations with your siblings today. Perhaps it is simply a work, and she doesn’t notice or mind, and beyond conversation with someone within your local environment that that, we really don’t know. But we agree that if he will transpire, but whomever you converse with today will instiisn’t doing any housework and expects his wife to handle it after a full day at her job, it is exceedingly unfair.

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