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POSTER BOY Red Deer Second World War veteran Tom Baker had no idea a war correspondent had snapped a picture of him while he was fighting with his regiment on mainland Italy until his mother produced a copy a magazine with his face on the cover 50 years later. See related story on

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‘We had a slam bang regiment’ RED DEER SECOND WORLD WAR VETERAN TOM BAKER SERVED AS A DISPATCH RIDER WITH THE LEGENDARY 14 CALGARY TANKS

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Tom Baker before his framed copy of the ‘Picture Post,’ where a photograph of him as a young dispatch rider with 14 Calgary Tanks appeared on the front cover in October 1943.

“But they kept us busy. The next day we were out on the parade square.”

In July, 1943 Calgary Tanks was back into action, this time in Sicily. Once ashore, Baker was picked to become a dispatch rider, a critical job because the mountainous terrain played havoc with radio communications and most messages had to be delivered by hand.

It was dangerous work and snipers were a regular threat, especially in the towns. “They were always deadly sure. Most of their bullets hit the head.”

While Baker was fighting with his regiment on mainland Italy, a war correspondent snapped a picture of him taking a quick snack break leaning up against the tracks of a Sherman tank. Tommy gun slung across his chest, the then-20-year-old veteran’s image wound up on the cover of Picture Post, an English news magazine. What the photo — which hangs on his living room wall — doesn’t show clearly are the six hand grenades that were hanging from his belt in case he ran into trouble. Not long after the photo was taken, he was wounded.

Incredibly, an English Picture Post reader had made the effort to track down the family of the young soldier to send them a copy of the paper. It then sat folded in a drawer for years before his mother nonchalantly produced it.

“I guess it was 50 years later when she told me about it and said, ‘Here’s something you might like.’

“That photo has gone all over the world,” says Baker, who has signed more than a few copies for people.

He remains proud of his unit’s war record. No armoured regiment spent more time in combat than 14 Tanks, he says.

They took their Sherman tanks across Italy in the middle of winter through the Apennine Mountains on roads so narrow the tank tracks overhung the edge of the road — and they didn’t lose a tank, he says.

He served with the regiment through France,

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Tom wasn’t the only Baker boy or girl to serve.

Two older brothers joined the army and navy and two sisters were in the Wrens (Women’s Royal Naval Service).

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Squinting up a winding Italian road, Tom Baker was pretty sure he had the right spot.

Just around the next bend was the small town of Motta. And a nearby farmhouse looked a lot like the one that had been converted into a forward aid post that day in October 1943.

“I wouldn’t say I was dead on. But it was close,” says the Red Deer Second World War veteran, of the dusty corner that he returned to last month as part of a battlefield tour.

The last time Baker stopped at that spot, he was a 20-year-old motorcycle dispatch rider with the legendary 14 Calgary Tanks. He left on a stretcher, courtesy of a German shell that riddled him with shrapnel from his legs to his head.

“I was actually on a bike when I got hit,” he says.

“They lobbed a shell over and it blew the bike all to pot and I got wounded.”

He returned as a 91-year-old, an honoured guest of his old regiment, now known as King’s Own Calgary Regiment, which organized the tour of Italian battlefields where the regiment made its reputation.

That shell led to a six-month hospital stay in North Africa before he could rejoin the regiment the following year as it worked its way through Italy, driving some of the German army’s crack troops ahead of it.

Baker would stay with the regiment as it switched theatres to northwest Europe, where it continued fighting until the end of the war.

Manitoba-born, Baker was one of nine children and moved with his family to Calgary when he was only a few years old.

When the war came, the former army cadet couldn’t wait to join.

“There were no jobs and there was no food. Things were tough back then,” he recalls.

There was a hitch however — he was only 16 years old. He tried to join twice, both times being tracked down and yanked back home by his father, before his dad finally gave up and let him join the third time.

He spent the next year and half or so on guard duty and other jobs around Calgary before word came that a tank regiment was looking for men.

Baker and two childhood buddies, C.D. Howe and Willard Scheuchner, became the first three recruits for 14 Calgary Tanks, which was mobilized in February 1941.

“We all went through (the war). The only one that got really banged up was (Scheuchner). He got shot up at Dieppe.”

After four months training in Canada, Calgary Tanks was sent to England and landed July 1, 1941.

Months and months of drill, training, manoeuvres and exercises followed.

“We had a good regiment. We had a slam bang regiment,” he says.

British soldiers units made the mistake of challenging the Canadians to a marksmanship contest.

With help from some of their Yukon Territories recruits, raised on hunting, the Canadians were more than a match for the Brits.

Likewise, a tank repair challenge went easily to the Canadians, many of whom were farm boys, born fixing tractors.

The unit finally got into action during the ill-fated Dieppe Raid in August 1942. Nearly 50 were killed and wounded, 138 taken prisoner, and all of the tanks that landed were lost in the unsuccessful raid.

Baker was offshore with the rest of his regiment’s reinforcements, bobbing about in a landing craft waiting to deliver ammunition and gasoline while the regiment’s tanks foundered on the pebbly shore.

Before he and the rest of the regiment’s tanks could be landed, they were called off when it was clear the raid was failing.

It had been a tough way to start the war for the young soldiers.

“We were only kids. I don’t think it really affected us that much,” he says. “There was a feeling, you know, it seemed like there was this pall over everything. It lasted for a while.

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Search continues for missing Red Deer man

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Trust accounts have been set up to help family members who continue to search for a young Red Deer man missing in Northern B.C. for a week today.

Dustin Steele, 23, has not been seen since last Saturday night, when a pickup truck he was travelling in with two co-workers got stuck in the Skeena River, about 10 km east of Terrace, B.C. The three men had been part of a crew building a new Ramada Hotel in Kitimat.

They were enjoying some time off at an area known as Copper Flats when their truck got stuck in the water and was pulled under by strong currents.

Steele’s companions were able to get to shore, but he had disappeared.

In Red Deer on Friday, Dustin’s grandmother, Edith Steele, said his father and teenaged brother, Dwayne and Austin, are still in the area with other members of the family.

Edith said her grandson loves the outdoors and has good survival skills, so if he made it out of the river, he would likely be able to look after himself.

Nearly a week sinice his disappearance, however, she can only hope that he will be found alive.

“I believe in miracles, too, but I feel he’s with the Lord.”

Steele said that, from what Dwayne has told her, Dustin has become a victim of his own generosity.

“Dus would always go one step more. He’d do anything for anybody,” she said.

“He was in the back of the truck, trying to hook a chain on it, and he told the other two boys to jump and swim. I don’t know why he didn’t let the dang chain go and jump and swim himself.”

She said Dwayne and Austin are committed to finding Dustin and bringing him home.

Bad weather has played havoc with the search, including grounding a helicopter that had been used earlier in the week when there were a couple of nice days.

The truck was located under water on Wednesday and pulled to shore on Friday.

The only sign of Dustin has been one of his shoes, found 11 kilometres downstream.

Dustin had just been to Lloydminster with a workmate who had purchased an identical pair, so that’s how they were able to confirm it was his, said Edith.

Searchers hope during the next few days to check out a number of islands in the river as well as some cabins across from the site where the truck went in.

Edith and her nephew, Bryon Miller, spent the day on Friday setting up bank accounts to help feed and house the searchers, including those who took time off work to find Dustin. Work was shut down in Kitimat so members of the construction crew could help out, said Miller.

He and his aunt set up an account at the ATB, and then added another at TD Canada Trust because ATB doesn’t operate outside of Alberta.

Anyone interested in helping out can contribute to the accounts by asking for the Edith Steele account, in trust for Dustin Steele. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Family of soldier killed in tower collapse has questions WAINWRIGHT — The relatives of a young soldier killed in Alberta say they have questions about how he died but are too distraught to publicly ask them now.

Pte. Steven Allen was standing in a lookout tower at the Canadian Forces training base in Wainwright, when the structure collapsed Monday.

The 20-year-old from Victoria later died in hospital.

Another soldier who was also in the tower at the time was treated for minor injuries.

Pte. Steven Allen A military spokesman has said the wooden tower was perched on top of a metal storage container. He provided no other details as the circumstances of what happened are under investigation.

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questions about how this accident occurred,” Allen’s family said in a statement Friday.

“These tragic circumstances have taken us all by surprise. In the future, we will be more than willing to discuss the circumstances regarding this tragedy.

However, at the moment, we ask for some privacy so that we can continue our grieving process.”

The family said it was Allen’s dream to serve his country and, despite many obstacles, he never gave up.

He joined the military last fall and completed his basic training earlier this year. He was training at Wainwright to become a fully qualified infantry soldier in the regular forces. His family said he was a member of the 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry based in Shilo, Man. “During the past year, Steven transformed from a boy into the man that we all know and are so proud of. He was strong, brave and happier in this last year than ever before. When he joined the Forces, he gained a whole new family and we want to acknowledge his military brothers and sisters and the loss they are feeling right now.

“He died a soldier, a warrior. We love you Steven.”

Air Canada flight makes emergency landing

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A passenger who was on an Air Canada Express flight that made an emergency landing knew something was wrong when he heard an explosion as the plane took off from Calgary.

“There was a loud explosion and then we took off and it was like bump, bump, bump,” Ron Prochner said Friday.

As the Q400 turboprop climbed Thursday night en route to Grande Prairie, the pilot told the 71 passengers and three other crew that they had blown a tire, but he could still land the aircraft.

The flight was diverted to Edmonton because officials felt conditions were safer there. Prochner said people calmed down until the pilot started his approach into Edmonton International Airport.

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Court accepts guilty pleas from ex-soldier allegedly planning attack on Veteran’s Affairs office CALGARY — Court records show a former Canadian soldier who was allegedly planning to attack the Calgary office of Veterans Affairs had a beef with the department over coverage for illnesses he believed were caused by a flu shot.

The 45-year-old former military intelligence officer, whose name is protected by a publication ban, pleaded guilty to weapons charges in a Calgary court this week.

An agreed statement of fact, first reported by CBC, says he was arrested in January after his wife contacted police concerned that her husband might be suicidal.

When officers found him several hours later, they recovered firearms, body armour, possible bomb-making materials, schematics of the downtown skyscraper that houses Veterans Affairs and a plan to attack the seventhfloor offices. There were also photos and videos taken inside the building.

The man was arrested under the Mental Health Act and taken to hospital for treatment. He told officers he had planned to commit suicide.

Court documents say he had been in the military from 2008 until he went on long-term military disability in 2011.

He was in a dispute with the department over the coverage of costs for his health issues, which included multiple sclerosis that he blamed on the H1N1 flu vaccine he was given while in the military.

When the accused was arrested at his parent’s acreage west of Calgary he was dressed in camouflage pants and sleeping with a duffel bag near his head.

Inside the bag was a 40 calibre semi-automatic handgun that was loaded with a full magazine. They also recovered a .308 calibre rifle, a ballistic range finder scope for shooting long distances, a laser site for shooting at close range, night vision binoculars and 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

“Recovered off the accused’s laptop was a written plan that contained notes made regarding the reconnaissance of the Bantrel Tower and a plan relating to what the Crown submits was a plan to attack the office of Veter-

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LANDING: People were terrified When it touched down he said the landing gear on one side of the plane collapsed.

“There were sparks.

I remember smoke. I remember the horrible smell like gasoline and oil burning,” he said.

“A lot of people were really terrified. I know the young lady sitting beside me was scared.

I wasn’t scared until I looked at her. It was very frightening.”

As the plane skidded across the runway something started to smash into the fuselage, Prochner said.

“There were some people that were injured from debris hitting the side of the plane. I think there was some flying glass. One fellow had a cut neck.”

When the plane finally came to a halt some passengers whistled and hollered. Others tried to grab their carry-on luggage.

Prochner said the flight attendants calmed people down and directed them out of the damaged plane.

He said all of the passengers were out on the runway in about one

REGINA — Saskatchewan’s Crown utility is investigating the latest smartmeter failure after one of the devices overheated and melted.

Spokesman Tyler Hopson said the problem was reported to SaskPower just before 2 a.m. Friday and a crew went to replace the device.

Hopson said it’s concerning whenever there is a malfunction and the company is working to remove smart meters as quickly as possible.

Autopsy hearing told storage locker babies found in garbage bags

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WINNIPEG — Police who searched a storage locker where six dead infants were discovered said the remains were in kitchen garbage bags, plastic containers and, in one case, a pail.

Parts of a police report were read out in court Friday during a hearing over who should be allowed to observe the autopsies. The report said officers were called on Oct. 20 to a Winnipeg UHaul facility after employees went into the locker, smelled a strong odour and saw “squishy bags.”

Police notes indicate the officers found bodies wrapped in garbage bags and placed in either a duffle bag, a tote bag or plastic containers. One body was wrapped in a towel, as well as a garbage bag, and stored in a pail.

One officer managed to pry open one container and saw “limbs that belonged to an infant,” said Crown attorney Debbie Buors.

She said the storage locker wasn’t full of personal effects. It was sparse and contained only the bags and containers apparently meant for the sole purpose of storing the remains.

“They were all found in a small contained area.”

The medical examiner’s office was immediately called since it has jurisdiction over human remains, Buors said.

Andrea Giesbrecht was arrested soon after on four counts of homicide, but was charged with six counts of concealing a body and one count of breaching probation.

minute as emergency vehicles surrounded the aircraft.

“That is where the flight crew did a very good job of just telling people to just leave that stuff and just get off of the plane.”

Jazz Aviation LP said in a statement that four passengers on Flight 8481 were sent to hospital for treatment. Three were later released. One person remained in hospital Friday for observation.

Preliminary Transport Canada reports say the plane blew a tire as it took off from Calgary and debris from the tire forced the closure of a runway for 50 minutes.

Another report says the plane was diverted to Edmonton, where its right main landing gear collapsed.

Transportation Safety Board spokesman Chris Krepski said three investigators were at the airport. He said they would be interviewing the flight crew and air traffic controllers Friday.

“Our investigators are continuing to work on it and gather information, interview witnesses, examine the aircraft,” he said from Gatineau, Que. Pictures of the damaged plane on the airport tarmac appear to show the propeller blades on one of the engines missing.

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Struggles in smuggling Is that a turtle in your pants or are you just happy to be returning to Canada?

U.S. and Canadian customs agents are laughing now, but it was no joke that a man was nabbed at the border trying to smuggle 51 live turtles, some shoved down the front of his pants.

RICK Canadian Kai Xu was inZEMANEK tercepted last month by the Canada Border Services Agency as he attempted to cross into Windsor, Ont., from Detroit with the turtles taped to the lower portion of his body.

“Xu was found to have 51 live turtles taped to his person,” said Kenneth Adams, a special agent with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “Specifically, Xu had 41 turtles taped to his legs and 10 hidden between his legs,” Canadian Press reported.

While Hollywood portrays smugglers as intelligent and cunning, Xu has soiled that romantic image.

Canadian authorities seized the turtles. According to Canadian Press, they included North American varieties such as eastern box turtles, red-eared sliders and diamondback terrapins.

Officials say they could fetch upwards of $1,500 each on the black market. It’s a good thing for Xu, who faces smuggling-related charges in the U.S., that none were of the snapping variety.

Not to be outdone by Xu, a man was recently arrested attempting to smuggle his pet turtle on a flight to Beijing, cleverly disguised as a burger packed in his bag. The turtle came with the full-meal deal — tomatoes, lettuce, a slice of cheese and a cooked hamburger patty, all stuffed under its shell. According to Yahoo News, airport security became suspicious when they noticed “odd protrusions” sticking out of the burger.

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ed in an account of “stupid smugglers,” not every perpetrator is sophisticated, or even very bright. “Some things that people try to sneak through (airport) security, and how they do it, will make you scratch your head in wonder,” Yahoo stated. And Ian Fortey, staff writer for the website Cracked, says “When you combine contraband, poverty, desperation and lots of spare time, you get the bizarre world of the smuggler ... using every ounce of creativity. It appears quite a few of them are insane.”

While the infamous “turtle burger” might lead the top of the list of stupid smugglers, there are other examples to be considered: ● Live pigeons were found strapped to a man’s legs while he attempted to board a flight from Dubai to Melbourne. He also attempted to smuggle in bird eggs, plant seeds and an eggplant. ● A man was arrested trying to sneak 44 snakes and lizards in his carry-on luggage onto a flight from Australia to Bangkok. The haul included an albino carpet python. ● A woman with a taste for spicy sausages tried smuggling links of chorizo (a much-coveted spicy Mexican delight) across the U.S.-Mexican border in baby diapers. Customs inspectors became suspicious of the “chunky nappies.” ● In California, airport security uncovered live ammunition stored in packages of compressed marijuana.

The Drug Enforcement Agency said this was the first and only time they’ve found ammunition smuggled inside a controlled substance. ● A woman was stopped in the Melbourne airport after officials heard “flipping noises” coming from her body. She was wearing an apron-like garment that held 15 water containers carrying 51 tropical fish. ● Officials at Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport found 200 live tarantulas, and a load of other insects, including crickets and millipedes, in tubes hidden in a German couple’s clothing and shoes.

They had collected the creepy-crawlers on a trip to Peru. ● In 2010, a Thai woman attempted to smuggle a baby tiger into Iran, cleverly disguised as a stuffed toy. An X-ray scan detected the animal’s heartbeat. The two-month-old cub had been sedated and wedged next to a stuffed version of a tiger.

Not to be outdone, Cracked has its own version of what Fortey calls “The ... most ingenious (and insane) smuggling techniques.”

U.S. authorities are constantly on guard for Mexican immigrants trying to sneak into the country.

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Above: Canadian authorities show some of the 51 turtles seized from a would-be smuggler.

Below: The “turtle burger” customs officials found in a passenger’s a carry-on bag. The full-meal deal, but not for the would-be smuggler.

“Of course smuggling human beings across borders is a whole different ballgame,” writes Fortey. “After all, it’s not like you can stuff a whole person in the glove box.”

Wrong!

A few years ago, customs officials at the U.S.-Mexican border stopped a car and asked to see the driver’s registration. When the glove box was popped open, authorities noted a 135-pound woman jammed in the dashboard looking out at them.

“Arguably more stupid,” writes Fortey, was the case of a man who tried to disguise himself as a captain’s chair in a vehicle attempting the cross into the U.S. The stuffing in the seat was removed and the chair’s uphol-

stery was wrapped around the wouldbe culprit. Another passenger was sitting on the human seat.

Of course, there’s nothing like a shot of vodka to make a person think they’re clever.

Entrepreneurs tried to deliver the booze through a pipeline from Russia to Estonia. Authorities discovered the pipeline, more than 1.5 km long, after it delivered 7,300 litres of the muchsought-after vodka.

Based on the evidence of smugglers’ bad choices around the world, more than a few of them might spend a little too much time being inspired by vodka.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

Twenty-five years later: the Berlin Wall In China, the communists had just massacred the students in Tiananmen Square and won themselves another quarter-century in power.

On the other hand, the Poles voted overwhelmingly for Solidarity in June, and by September, Hungary had opened its border with the West.

But it was the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. GWYNNE 9, 1989, that reDYER ally opened the flood-gates.

I had been spending a lot of time in the old Soviet Union since 1987, when I visited Moscow after a five-year absence and found the place unrecognizable. People had lost their fear: in the kitchens, and sometimes in the streets, they were saying what they really thought. It was the first time I had gone to Russia without feeling that I had left Planet Earth.

So I went home and told my friendly neighbourhood network that something very big was going to happen. I didn’t know exactly what, but if they gave me a travel budget I’d spend a couple of weeks in the Soviet bloc interviewing people every three months, and when the big thing happened I’d give them an instant radio series on it.

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more nerve in those days, so they said yes.

By 1989, I had kind of worked out what was going to happen but I didn’t know if it could all be done non-violently.

The signs were good — I had spent much of the summer in the Soviet Union, and the first big demos had already happened peacefully in Moscow — but where and when the dam would finally break was still anybody’s guess.

Then in early September, I flew from Moscow to Hungary for a quick look around on my way home.

On the way in to Budapest from the airport, the streets were full of abandoned East German cars, mostly pathetic Trabis that any sensible person would abandon. But still. ...

The taxi driver explained that Hungary had opened its border with Austria.

East Germans were coming down in droves across the “fraternal” communist country of Czechoslovakia (no visa needed), to travel onwards to Austria and thence to West Germany. So I had the taxi take me up to the Young Pioneer camp in the hills behind Buda that was serving as a transit camp.

Every few minutes a taxi would pull up and East Germans — usually a young couple — would get out. Every hour, an enormous coach would drive up and take them all off to the West.

And after an hour or so interviewing them as they arrived at the gate, I knew what was going to happen next.

They didn’t see themselves as refugees fleeing to start a new life in the West. They were taking advantage of

an opportunity to see the West, and they’d be safe there if things went badly wrong in East Germany but most fully expected to be home again, in a democratic East Germany, within a year.

When I got on the plane home, I started writing a piece in which I compared East Germany’s communist regime to a Walt Disney character who had run off a cliff — but wouldn’t actually start to fall until he looked down.

And as soon as we landed, I booked a ticket back to Berlin for late October.

I was just in time for a great party.

What astonished everyone was the way the old system just rolled over and died. This amazing new technique of non-violent revolution had been working well in Asia since 1986 — the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Bangladesh — but taking down a communist regime seemed like a much more dangerous and doubtful enterprise, especially after Tiananmen Square.

The party was so great because most people were enormously relieved that it had been so easy. They were fed up to the back teeth with the pettyminded, boring communist bullies who dominated their lives, and they were sick of being poor, but nobody wanted to die in an old-fashioned revolution.

Yet the communist ideology obliged the believers to launch a civil war rather than surrender power peacefully.

So when it turned out that non-violence worked even against communists, at least in Europe, people quite rightly felt that they had been very lucky. And as a bonus, the threat of a nuclear World War Three went away.

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There were some problems later on in places like Romania and Russia, but it was a radical, amazingly peaceful revolution in a part of the world that was not best known for its ability to change peacefully. So once the celebrations died down in Berlin, I rented a car and drove off to Warsaw to see how the new post-communist government was doing in Poland.

I parked outside a government ministry right on Nowy Swiat, and while I was inside interviewing the minister somebody broke into my car and stole my bag, including all the interview tapes from Berlin and the piece of the Wall I was bringing home to my daughter.

The soldiers who were marching back and forth inside the fence saw it happen, but pointed out that stopping thieves was not their job.

So I reported the theft to the police for insurance purposes, and explained to them that if they spotted a welldressed man who was limping badly, it was probably the thief.

The stolen bag contained the suit I wore for interviewing presidents, but I had mistakenly packed two left dress shoes with it.

They didn’t laugh — they had been trained by the communists, after all — so I drove off down to Prague for the next revolution.

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Automotive strategy needed There’s a vital question about where Canada will fit in the future global economy. This directly affects our jobs and living standards.

And how well we are able to do in the fast-changing and increasingly high-tech automotive industry may be a good test case of our ability to succeed in a major global industry.

We will need more than natural resources for a strong economy. But if recent developments in our automotive industry are a sign of things to come, the future is not bright.

Our MPs don’t talk much DAVID about it, yet this is Canada’s CRANE key manufacturing industry with close to 120,000 employees and, after oil, is our leading exporter.

But Canada is falling behind in retaining and attracting new investment, losing ground to Mexico and the U.S., and is lagging even further in the new technologies that will dominate the future automobile.

According to the Centre for Automotive Research, of US$43 billion invested in the North American auto industry in 2010-2012, only five per cent was invested in Canada, and there are no signs of improvement.

But why are we not attracting more investment?

Based on conventional economic theories there shouldn’t be a problem. For example: ● Canadians were told during the NAFTA debates that they had nothing to fear from downward pressure on wages from the U.S. South or Mexico.

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Our higher productivity would offset any lower-cost labour advantage.

Yet it is Mexican workers, or lower-paid workers in U.S. southern states who are attracting investment and new jobs — despite the fact that Canadian autoworkers have made concessions. Mexican workers are just as capable of being trained to work in automated auto plants as Canadian workers, and for less money. ● Canadians were told that they did not have to worry about loss of competitiveness for investment and jobs because our exchange rate would automatically adjust, restoring competitiveness. If weak competitiveness was costing us jobs, our dollar would decline, making us competitive again.

But that hasn’t happened. Our dollar has soared despite Canada losing significant manufacturing investment and jobs. ● Canadians were told that if we had low corporate taxes, that this would attract investment because tax rates were a key factor in investment decisions.

Today, our government boasts that Canada has one of the lowest corporate tax rates. Yet this has not led to a surge in investment and job creation. Auto companies haven’t rushed across the border from Michigan or Ohio to Ontario because of a lower tax rate here. ● The Bank of Canada and Finance Canada told Canadians not to worry about the high exchange rate — this, they said, would significantly lower the price of imported high-tech machinery and equipment, enabling Canadian companies to modernize, increase productivity and become much more innovative and competitive.

It didn’t happen on any scale. In the auto sector, investment largely dried up.

What has really been happening is that the U.S. and Mexico have made it a much higher priority to attract major auto plant investments.

There’s a reason for this: The presence of a major assembly plant means there will also be a large number of auto parts plants which, in total, may employ many more people than the assembly plant, so the economic benefits outweigh the costs of incentives.

The assembly plants are seen as anchors. It explains why countries dangle incentives to attract such plants. Canada does it as well, but compared to other countries our incentives may be relatively modest.

Like it or not, Canada has to be in the game to attract major assembly investments. But this is only part of the story.

Automotive technology is changing rapidly and what used to be a mechanical vehicle is now an electronic vehicle, a “connected car,” perhaps soon a “driverless car,” and loaded with software. Vehicles are also using new materials such as carbon fibre, and shifting to batteries and fuel cells.

We need to help build competitive companies in many of these fields.

To attract investment and create new jobs in a much more competitive global economy, Canada will need to be at the frontiers of knowledge and skills.

This means much more attention to an industry that will depend on much more technologically agile suppliers.

Yet if we are to capture opportunities from new technologies, we will also need the assembly plants.

So we cannot avoid the incentives game.

What this means is that we need a much more focused automotive strategy in Canada.

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

A bad case of earworms They call them “earworms.” I’m not sure who “they” are but I kind of wish they’d called it something else because “earworm” is not an image I like to carry around with me because it’s almost impossible to get rid of.

And that’s the point. Aside from being an image that makes you go “Ewwww,” an audio earworm is just that — a snippet, ditty or even an entire song that is so catchy you can’t get rid of it. Knocking around in your head like an unwanted juke box you can’t unplug. You’re waiting in line at the grocery store, minding your own business, when suddenly the song Itsy Bitsy YelHARLEY low Polka Dot Bikini pops into HAY your head, and the person in front of you is looking at you funny and you realize you’re inadvertently humming that stupid little song right out loud.

Or you’ve finally made it to bed after a long and busy day, and you are so tired you can barely keep your eyes open but when your head hits the pillow all of a sudden that guy is singing “WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? WHO WHO WHO-WHO!” in full stereo sound at full volume in your exhausted brain. And of course you’re now so wide awake that you toss and turn while the song plays in your head ad nauseum until you have to get up for a glass of warm milk and a Tylenol.

I’m thinking about all of this on account of this week the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester released the results of a year-long study that revealed what they call the “10 catchiest songs of all time.” The study involved over 12,000 random people who voluntarily played a sort of game on the Internet involving 1,000 hit songs from the past 70 years. Participants had to identify as many songs clips as possible in three minutes, listen to two different song clips and identify which was the catchiest, and on like that for several other earworm identifying tasks.

So, what’s on the list, I can hear you asking. Good question — and a brave one too, on account of you are putting yourself at risk of catching one or two of their earworms for the rest of the day, and possibly longer. How about Mambo Number 5 by Lou Bega?

(That came in at No. 2 of the catchiest songs list). Or No. 13 — It’s Now or Never by Elvis. (I can hear you singing it out loud already.) No. 16 — Karma Chameleon by Culture Club (remember — or trying to forget — Boy George?). Everybody now, sing: “Karma karma karma karma karma chameleeeoooonnn.”

The list included: Eye of the Tiger (Survivor), Beat It (Michael Jackson), Poker Face (Lady Gaga) and, of course, SOS by ABBA. There had to be at least one ABBA tune, right?

It’s pretty clear from the results of this study, however, that it was conducted in merry old England, and the participants were most probably on the youngish end of the demographic. Most of the “catchiest” songs on the list were fairly current imminently catchy pop songs.

Their list didn’t even scratch the baby boomer

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surface of … “We had joy we had fun, we had seasons in the sun. …” Or: “There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Lisa …” and “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly. …” An earworm about swallowing a fly — what could be worse?!

At the risk of doing real physical damage to any reader who unwittingly latches onto one of these earworms, how about: Achy Breaky Heart or Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?

Or a couple that won’t seem to leave me alone: Bad Moon Arisin’ by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf. Or, as Dave Barry once wrote: “When reading this article DO NOT think about Copacabana.”

Commercial jingles and TV/movie theme songs are particularly lethal. Remember: “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz — oh what a relief it is!” (Alka-Seltzer); the theme from (“… where everybody knows your naaame …”), and M.A.S.H. (Suicide is Painless). Or Friends (“… I’ll be there for yooooouuu …”) or the positively deadly Jeopardy game show ‘think music’ — tick, tock, tick tock, dum dee dum dummm. …

If you’re not completely exhausted from the invading earworms at this point, I’ve got a couple of doozies for you. I asked the Better Half which tunes got caught in her brain when she least expected it.

I give you: It’s a Small World After All. YIKES! Or the TV series theme song: Green Acres. BAM!

And we haven’t even scratched the surface of kids songs and cartoon music and novelty tunes — I’m just not that mean.

So back to the research list of catchiest tunes.

There was only one Canadian song on the list (and it wasn’t Sweet City Woman by the Stampeders). Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, where old Randy attempts to sing and stutters instead. And the No. 1 catchiest tune according to the MSIM? Wannabe by the Spice Girls. If you don’t recognize the title, you’ll certainly know the earworm lyric hook: “Tell me what you want, what you really really want. …”

We are in dangerous territory here, whenever one steps tentatively into the quicksand world of earworms, we do so at our peril. The worst earworms can attack when you least expect it.

So I apologize profusely by mentioning that you might have to have YMCA by the Village People in your head whenever you really don’t want it to be. Can’t you just hear it? “YYYYY MMMM CCCCC AAAAA.” Just try really hard not to do the arm motions. You may be in public at the time.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, awardwinning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Services for impoverished are crucial Often in my articles, I bash or ridicule the government.

I really don’t want to and sometimes feel bad when I do, but usually I have a definite reason for doing so.

So before I proceed with a discourse on this subject, I need to say that I fully respect and will do as levels of government legislate.

Even when they strip me of some rights that former governments have granted us within our Constitution.

I believe that under our CHRIS system, an elected body SALOMONS should be recognized by all as the ruling authority.

When that recognition is eroded, it leaves an opening for anarchy.

Working at the kitchen and trying to deal with different levels of government has at times left me discouraged, frustrated and — I hate to say it — quite cynical.

The inability or refusal of officials to recognize the value of investing in the welfare of the downtrodden, addicted and homeless leaves a person with a sour taste in their mouth.

Believe me, no one is more aware of the destruction and other mayhem these people can cause than

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those of us who work with them all the time; but then we often see what drives these folks to do what they do. The reasons, of course, are obvious: parental, family or societal abuse, substance abuse, physical and/or mental limitations, and so on.

What I find is that when approached, the authorities do know very well what goes on, but either because of finances or coping inabilities, or downright opposition to any help whatsoever, they have instead taken lessons from George Orwell and have created a language of avoidance.

No political figure is going to go into an election stating that they used your tax dollars to feed or house or clothe the unproductive portion of society that harms or defaces our properties. Instead, they will talk about security issues or vandalism, and lay blame at the feet of the homeless and the addicted.

Many are the people who will approach me wanting to discuss issues regarding the downtown folk, and the question asked most often is whether we are helping or enabling, to which I answer: both. The questions come from elected officials and/or their representatives.

Many business people also ask the same questions, and rightfully so.

Now, because of all the difficulties and problems that certain individuals have caused in the heritage area downtown, the question is asked more than ever.

I found that the one person most affected was very honest in her assessment of the people involved.

Business owner Dawn-Rai Kitt stated in a recent Ad-

vocate story that it was not the homeless causing the problems as much as street youths and even gangs.

What was a troubling statement in the article was the one made by Mayor Tara Veer, where she stated that it was the services offered here in Red Deer that actually draws the riff-raff. I’m certain that that idea came from some of her councillors; none of whom have ever come to the kitchen to meet with anyone.

I have stated it before and I’ll say it again: if we all withdraw our services, these same people who we feed, clothe and house will still eat, and sleep and be dressed, but you will not like how they go about it.

Take your pick!

Every home and business should practise due diligence as far as security is concerned; but without the services provided to these people, due diligence will never be enough and our policing costs will double.

This month, all of the agencies that provide services will be meeting to deal with all of the issues we as a growing city face now and will continue to face as we grow even larger.

Governments at all levels and their services, like the police, should have feet on the ground in the very locations where they can learn about issues and deal with them in a progressive manner, rather than form and express personal opinions while sitting in a padded chair.

Then and then only will we be able to deal with these issues in a proper and compassionate manner.

And then I won’t be on the governing bodies’ case.

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

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China gripped by lobster-mania HEAD OF CHINA’S AMAZON WANTS TO SELL 200,000 CANADIAN LOBSTERS ON HIS SITE

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, talks with Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma during his visit to Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province, Friday. populous country on the planet, it’s a substantial amount of jobs to Canada.

With China’s middle class on the brink of explosion, Harper added, Canada “sees tremendous opportunity.”

To that end, the Conservative government also announced Friday that Canada will open new trade offices in Hangzhou, Xi’an, Xiamen and Tianjin, cities in some of China’s fastest growing regions.

The Prime Minister’s Office said the locations were selected because their needs match Canadian strengths, particularly in the areas of information

Former NDP staffer files wrongful dismissal suit against MP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — An NDP MP faces a wrongful dismissal suit filed by a former employee who says she faced a “toxic” and “humiliating” work environment rooted in sexism and was fired after formally complaining about the alleged bullying.

Fabiola Ferro also alleges in her statement of claim, filed Friday in Ontario Superior Court, that the party offered her a new job on the condition that she agree not to sue MP Sylvain Chicoine and the NDP. The lawsuit comes to light as political parties grapple with the issue of sexual harassment and the treatment of women on Parliament Hill.

On Wednesday, two Liberal MPs were suspended from caucus following allegations of serious personal misconduct by two female NDP MPs. Scott Andrews and Massimo Pacetti say they have done nothing wrong. Neither the nature of their alleged misconduct nor the names of the two women have been released.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said Chicoine would not face a reprimand because a management-union committee had already reviewed the matter. Chicoine said he took all the right steps, and believes the matter will be dismissed.

The case involving Chicoine revolves around the office environment and Ferro’s accusation that the MP allowed a fellow male employee to bully her.

Ferro is suing for more than $150,000 in damages and claiming Ontario Human Rights Code violations. “(The co-worker) threatened her, violated her freedom of expression, criticized her work in an unfair manner, insulted her professional abilities, ignored her, assigned her overtime (without permis-

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sion) and increasingly isolated her,” said the statement of claim.

“On several occasions, Fabiola tried to discuss the problem of harassment with Chicoine. He refused to take steps to fix the deplorable situation and instead reprimanded her.”

Chicoine said in a written statement he took Ferro’s complaints seriously.

“According to provisions of the collective agreement, Ms. Ferro’s allegations were immediately subject to a formal investigation, which found them to be baseless,” said Chicoine.

“I am confident that the courts will reach the same conclusion.”

None of the allegations have been tested in court.

Ferro eventually launched an unsuccessful complaint through a committee linked to the NDP’s collective agreement. She says Chicoine initially fired her after she initiated the grievance, but later put her on leave with pay.

The co-worker also launched a complaint accusing Ferro herself of harassment. Both complaints were dismissed last spring by the workplace committee. Ferro says she was fired for good in late October, with Chicoine arguing she had “abandoned her position.”

Ferro says the NDP subsequently offered her a data entry job with a 60-day probation period, on the condition she agree not to sue Chicoine and the party.

Mulcair, speaking to reporters in Saskatoon on Friday, emphasized that Ferro’s lawsuit was focused on her dealings with the co-worker and not with Chicoine.

“The union and the management have concluded that no action is required under this case,” Mulcair said.

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“Further reports today of a column of Russian tanks crossing the Ukrainian border only underline Russia’s true intent and their complete lack of credibility.”

Ukraine accused Russia on Friday of sending dozens of tanks and other heavy weapons into rebelcontrolled eastern regions and said five servicemen were killed in clashes with the rebels.

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Following his brief remarks at the business conference, Harper and his wife, Laureen, took a morning stroll through the bustling downtown shopping district, making their way to a museum of traditional Chinese medicine.

Hopes dashed for Quebec mom seeking closure in toddler’s disappearance

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — A Quebec mother who was seeking closure in her toddler daughter’s disappearance 36 years ago was left devastated Friday after an excavation search proved fruitless.

Liliane Cyr had been quietly confident that the targeted search would provide answers to the mystery of what happened to her 18-month old daughter Yohanna in 1978. Those hopes were dashed when Montreal police emerged from digging up parts of a parking lot to say they had found nothing.

Cyr had left Yohanna in the care of a boyfriend for one week while taking a job outside Montreal.

Her daughter was declared missing on Aug. 15, 1978.

The boyfriend eventually told Cyr the girl had drowned in the bathtub and that he’d buried the body. The corpse was never recovered and charges against the suspect were stayed due to a lack of evidence.

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Jack Ma, the founder and chairman of the world’s largest mobile commerce company, stood alongside the prime minister as he declared Alibaba’s goal to sell legions of the tasty crustaceans on Nov. 11, its annual deep-discount day.

The purpose, Ma said, is to assist Canada’s smalland medium-sized companies — from cherry farmers to lobster producers — sell their products to China’s rapidly expanding middle class.

Some 120 million people shop online on Alibaba every day, he noted.

“We want to help the small guys sell to China because the big guys, they don’t need us,” said Ma, a Hangzhou native who started up the company from his apartment 15 years ago.

Alibaba now employs 30,000 people. The company’s public stock offering in September raised $25 billion.

Canadian producers sold 20,000 lobsters on Alibaba last year, said Ma, who is aiming to move 10 times as many in a single day on Tuesday. Alibaba might ultimately even set up a Canadian operation, he added.

Ma’s enthusiasm for stronger Canada-China economic ties, however, didn’t seem to be fully reciprocated by Harper, who confessed one of the reasons he’d travelled to China was simply because Chinese officials “really wanted me to be here” for the APEC summit kicking off Monday.

“We have a pretty important relationship here and pretty important opportunities,” he said.

Nonetheless, the prime minister is slated to announce commercial agreements in Beijing on Saturday that could be worth in excess of $1 billion and create hundreds of Canadian jobs.

He made note of the importance of Canada’s No. 2 trading partner to the country’s economy in earlier remarks in Hangzhou.

“We already have half a million Canadian jobs ... that depend directly on our trade with China,” Harper told a China-Canada business conference.

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The president’s decision to escalate the U.S. effort in Iraq comes just three days after a bruising American election and amid persistent arguments that more U.S. troops are needed to bolster the struggling Iraqi forces.

In particular, there have been calls to send troops to the western Anbar province, where extremists have been slaughtering men, women and children.

Obama authorized the Pentagon to send 1,500 troops to Iraq in addition to the 1,600 previously allowed. He also is asking Congress for more than $5 billion to fund the fight. Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the military will set up several training sites across Iraq to instruct 12 Iraqi brigades, and also establish two operations centres where small advisory teams can work with Iraqi forces at the headquarters and brigade levels.

A senior military official said one of those centres will be in Anbar Province, and that it is likely that the bulk of the additional troops will be in Iraq by the end of the year. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.

Kirby said the new changes were based on a request from the Iraqi officials, the assessment of military commanders on the progress that Iraq’s military has made in the fight and as part of a campaign plan “to defend key areas and go on the offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,” another name for IS. The U.S. troops will not be in combat roles but will do the training in protected locations around the country. Until now, U.S. troops have largely been confined to Baghdad and Irbil, including two operations centres in those cities.

Iran not answering questions about alleged nuclear weapons work VIENNA, Austria — The UN nuclear agency said Friday that its attempts to probe allegations that Tehran worked on nuclear weapons were deadlocked — a finding that all but rules out hopes of full nuclear deal between six world powers and Iran by the Nov. 24 target date.

Iran agreed in February to work with the International Atomic Energy Agency, in what was seen as a test of Tehran’s professed new willingness to reduce tensions over its nuclear program.

Since then, the agency has sought information on alleged experiments with detonators that can be used to set off nuclear explosions; work on high-explosive charges used in nuclear blasts, and alleged studies on calculating nuclear explosive yields.

Iran denies wanting — or ever working on — nuclear arms. Since February, it has provided information only on the detonators, insisting that they were used for oil exploration or nonnuclear military purposes. The agency says interconnected information suggests that they were being tested for nuclear weapons use.

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“I know the enormous pain the information we’ve obtained causes the family members, a pain we all share,” Murillo Karam said at a news conference. “The statements and information that we have gotten unfortunately points to the murder of a large number of people in the municipality of Cocula.”

Some 74 people have been detained so far in a case that prosecutors have said started when police, under orders of the mayor and working with a drug gang, opened fire on students in the city of Iguala, where they were collecting donations and had commandeered public buses. Six people were killed in two confrontations before the 43 were taken away and handed over to members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel.

Murillo Karam said authorities are searching for more suspects.

China, Japan agree to resume dialogue following 2-year freeze BEIJING — China and Japan reached agreement to ramp up high-level contacts, the strongest indication yet of a possible meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at next week’s AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation summit.

The Chinese and Japanese foreign ministries said Friday the two sides agreed to “gradually resume political, diplomatic and security dialogues.” China froze high-level contacts more than two years ago amid a dispute over uninhabited East China Sea islands and other contentious issues.

No meeting has been announced, though Xi and Abe are widely expected to at least hold some kind of tete-a-tete during the summit Monday and Tuesday. It’s unclear what form that meeting would take or whether anything substantial would be discussed.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said a meeting between the two leaders had not been finalized, but an environment for talks had been achieved.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 2014

On Aug. 19, 1942, the Allies launched a major raid on the French port of Dieppe. Many Canadians were killed, wounded or captured that day.

Pictured below Dieppe Castle standing in Canada Square with the Red Deer Legion Pipe Band, is the mayor of Dieppe, city officials and Dieppe Museum volunteers.

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Story by DEBBIE OLSEN Special to the Advocate

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ome have said that “the bloodiest nine hours in Canadian military history” took place on Aug. 19, 1942.

During the Dieppe Raid of the Second World War, 5,000 Canadian troops, mostly from the Canadian 2nd Division, fought to free the French port city from German occupation.

When the Allies were forced to retreat, 1,000 Canadians had been killed and another 2,000 had been taken pris-

oner.

Just over two years later, on Sept. 1, 1944, it was soldiers from the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division that ultimately liberated Dieppe.

On Sept. 3, 1944, a victory parade was held and members of the Canadian 2nd Division marched behind the pipers and drummers of the division’s highland regiments through the streets of the city and held a memorial service to honour those killed in the Dieppe

Raid.

Last August, Canadian pipers and drummers once again marched through the streets of Dieppe and through the nearby Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, when members of the Red Deer Legion Pipe Band visited the city.

This year marked the passing of 72 years since the Dieppe Raid and 100 years since the start of the First World War, and a trip to visit the war memorials and cemeteries of Europe was a fit-

ting way for the group to commemorate and remember Canadians who fought, bled and died in Europe in both world wars.

To the delight of many band members, the communities they visited still remember and honour the sacrifices made by members of the Canadian military to ensure freedom.

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LEFT: Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is the final resting place for many Canadians killed during the early stages of the battle of Normandy. Piper Bill Whitehead located his uncle’s gravesite here.

The band plays into Beny-surMer led by flag carrier Maureen MacAskill and sergeant at arms Bill Coyne.

ABOVE: Pictured here is the beautiful village of Pourville on the north coast of France. A far cry from August 1942, when it was one of the Canadian objectives in the Dieppe Raid.

RIGHT: Many historians consider the Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge a defining moment for Canada. At each Canadian monument and cemetery, the Red Deer Legion Pipe Band conducted a short service of remembrance. Pictured on the left, carrying the Canadian flag this day, is Kathleen Jaffary.

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LEFT: The Eiffel Tower, one of the many landmarks that define Paris. A large crowd gathered to hear the Red Deer Legion Pipe Band play. In the centre of the circle is tenor drummer Emma MacKay. RIGHT: St. Julien Canadian War Memorial commemorates the Canadian 1st Division and the first gas attacks along the Western front in 1915. The Red Deer Legion Pipe Band posses for a group photo in front of the Brooding Soldier.

DIEPPE: Warm reception “The warmest reception we received was in Dieppe,” said Jaime Morrow, a drummer who serves as the band’s secretary and quartermaster.

“To this day, French and Canadian flags hang side-by-side in the streets of Dieppe, maple trees are planted along the main road and a flower garden in the shape of a maple leaf is planted in the Square du Canada.”

The mayor, city council, Dieppe Museum staff and a war veteran took time out on a work day to see the Red Deer Legion Pipe Band perform on the promenade, at the Square du Canada and around the city.

Band members agreed that playing at the Canadian War Cemetery outside Dieppe was a moving experience.

The cemetery was the most unique of those they visited, because it was built by the occupying Germans who placed the headstones back-to-back in long double rows, unlike any other Commonwealth war cemetery.

Dieppe was not the only European city that warmly welcomed the Red

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Four parks recommended for November storm watching THUNDER BAY, Ont. — There’s no predicting for sure when a Great Lakes gale will whip up big waves, but storm watchers can take their chances at some recommended sites and hope to get lucky.

November is when some of the fiercest storms occur, according to an Ontario Parks blog.

It suggests four parks — each offering roofed accommodation — for storm watching: Sandbanks Provincial Park, in Prince Edward County on Lake Ontario: Big winds and waves draw hundreds of kiteboarders and windsurfers as well as storm watchers in late fall. Path access to Sandbanks’ beach was recently improved.

Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, an hour east of Thunder Bay on Lake Superior: High granite cliffs offer views of the lake. Threebedroom cottages in the park have full bathrooms and kitchens.

MacGregor Point Provincial Park, north of Kincardine on Lake Huron: Well-treed campsites protect 16 heated yurts in stormy weather.

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For Arnie MacAskill, a drummer who serves as vice-president and events co-ordinator, the highlight of the trip was a chance to participate in the Menin Gate Last Post Ceremony in Ypres, Belgium.

Ypres is the place Lt.-Col. John McCrae, a Canadian physician, first penned the words to the famous war poem In Flanders Fields while presiding over the funeral of a friend and fellow soldier. The red poppy he wrote about has since become a symbol of the Royal Canadian Legion.

“The Menin Gate ceremony has taken place every night since 1928, with the only break being during the German occupation of the Second World War, where it was moved to London,” said MacAskill.

“It was an incredible feeling to perform there with 3,000 people looking on. We played the pipe tune Highland Cathedral and one of our pipers played the lament for the service. We also played a march/countermarch under the Menin Gate and then playing, marched all the way down the street back to our hotel.

“The whole band was on such an emotional high when we finished that performance.”

Ypres has become a pilgrimage site for those wishing to honour the contributions of Allied soldiers during both world wars.

Each yurt accommodates up to six people. The park has seven kilometres of shoreline.

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First official app to Bruce Trail includes detailed maps, GPS location function HAMILTON, Ont. — The Bruce Trail Conservancy has launched its first official app for the popular Ontario hiking route, Canada’s oldest and longest marked footpath.

The app for iPhone and iPad includes detailed maps of the trail that stretches along the Niagara Escarpment from Niagara to Tobermory. All 890 kilometres of the main trail are covered, as well as the 400-plus kilometres of side trails, said Laura Tuohy, the conservancy’s membership co-ordinator.

The app allows users to calculate distances when planning hikes and to track their location on the trail with their device’s GPS function.

Updates on trail changes will be incorporated.

Plans are for an Android version to be released by late 2015 or early 2016.

Many Canadians fought and died in Belgium and the gratitude of the local people has not waned.

The In Flanders Fields Museum and a nightly year-round Last Post Ceremony are reminders that the people of Ypres and the people of Belgium have not forgotten the sacrifices made on their behalf.

There were many other special highlights on the band’s two-week tour of European battlefields, cemeteries and memorials, but visiting Juno Beach and the Juno Beach Museum just after the 70th anniversary of DDay was near the top.

“There was a Canadian Acadian group honouring their fallen soldiers in a special ceremony and we played for them,” said Morrow.

“We were fortunate to visit shortly after they had unearthed a bunker and were amongst the first allowed inside to explore it.”

Visiting war memorials, historic sites and cemeteries was an unusual trip for the Red Deer Legion Pipe Band, but one the band hopes to repeat at some point in the future.

“We were so impressed with the reception we received everywhere we went,” said MacAskill.

“The Allied and Canadian war cemeteries were incredibly well maintained and the people were so warm and welcoming that it was clear they have never forgotten what Canadians

did to secure their freedom.

“It was great to know that in some parts of the world, ‘Lest we forget’ is not even an issue.”

More information ● Special Travel International (www.sticanada.com) in Vancouver helped the Red Deer Legion Pipe Band organize the trip. The group felt the tour operator provided a wellplanned customized itinerary at a great price. ● The Red Deer Legion Pipe Band (www.reddeerlegionpipeband.com) is looking for experienced pipers and drummers as well as new students who would like to play better to join their organization. Contact Arnie MacAskill at amacaskill@telus.net or phone 403782-7183 for more information. ● The pipe band would like to thank the Red Deer Legion Branch No. 35 for its continued support.

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

The Bruce Trail App is available for $9.99 at the iTunes store. After the app’s development costs are covered, proceeds will be used to support trail development and conservation work, the non-profit conservancy says.

Officially opened in 1967, the Bruce Trail receives an estimated 400,000 visits per year, the conservancy says.

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A pastry lover’s promised land SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PROVIDES AN AMAZING PALATE FOR ALL TO ENJOY

BY CATHY BARROW SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

SAN FRANCISCO — Bien cuit means well done, and, in the case of steak, not in a good way.

But in the world of pastry it defines a specific colour: toasty brown, almost to the point of burned. Bringing croissants, muffins, scones or meringues to this delightful place elicits the nutty flavor of browned butter, the caramel of cooked sugar and, across San Francisco, the very best in sweet and savory treats.

Tartine, the mecca of the Bay Area’s pastry shops, was the first to bake croissants bien cuit, and the pastries have become its signature.

In fact, locals measure other confections by their “Tartine-ness.� There is not a pale pastry to be had in all of San Francisco, which is a good thing.

And two of us set forth to taste them all on a whirlwind four-hour pastry Photos by CATHY BARROW tour.

Left: The desserts from Thorough A convivial group gathers outside Tartine on a Saturday morning; the ex- Bread and Pastry are on display to perienced bring coffee. make it very hard to resist one of The line, already a 35-minute wait these tasty treats. at 8:30, snakes along next to the windows offering views into the kitchen, Bottom: A “pop tart� from Craftsman where focused bakers beat butter into and Wolves can work for any meal. flour. Trays are piled high with morning buns (egg-rich spirals with hints of Boccalone sausage. It’s a savory all-inorange); stacks of croissants (plain and one breakfast, and it’s sensational. chocolate); craggy buttermilk scones; The “pop tart� offered more surairy, cheesy gougeres the size of soft- prises. Billed as including mortadella, balls; and a savory quiche and tart of ham and Swiss cheese, this standardthe day (this day, kale-and-tomato). ish treat had a swipe of bright musOnce inside the snug shop, seasoned tard and layer of dill pickle slices that patrons in pairs split up: One snags a moved it to sublime levels. The canoes table and the other marches forward of fresh fruit and the verrines of chocoin the line. Patience is a necessity. late, kettle corn, milk jam and coffeeThe payoff is significant. The crois- laced peanuts looked spectacular and sants, light and layered with a crackly worth another visit to this creative eatcrust, are buttery but never greasy. ery.

The smell is intoxicating.

About two miles outside the MisOurs were still slightly warm from sion District, up several long hills, is the oven, and each layer was rich with Pacific Heights and the light and airy butter and the tang of dough that had B Patisserie. Doors thrown open, iron had the time to rest. tables and bistro chairs littering the Once the base line was established, sidewalk and the aroma of butter and Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes ing, will be published this month. She our tour began in earnest. sugar pervading the air: It smells like and Techniques for Year-Round Preserv- blogs at www.mrswheelbarrow.com.

The next stop, just a short walk away Paris. The pastries here were the best — albeit uphill — was Thorough Bread we experienced. The kouign amann, a and Pastry, a friendly shop with plenty crispy Breton cake, is legendary — and of elbow room. After the jostling at for good reason.

Tartine, we were happy to sprawl.

Nestled inside what might be a The bakery is run by students from thousand layers of lacy, delicate pastry the San Francisco Baking Institute, is a whisper of almond syrup, not the and every offering looks picture-per- least bit floral or overwhelming, just Laughlin, NV fect. The sticky buns were eggy and pure, sweet almond flavor. This pastry 12 days starting at $649.00 light, moist and delicate, with a sharp, is worth a cross-country flight.

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B4 SPORTS Thrilling victory

SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 2014

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 5 Winterhawks 4 PORTLAND — The Red Deer Rebels embarked on an extended rollercoaster ride Friday night at the Moda Centre.

“You know, there are games when you feel like it’s been a long night and tonight was one of those nights where there were so many different flows and momentum changes,” said Rebels GM/

head coach Brent Sutter, following his club’s 5-4 Western Hockey League victory over the Portland Winterhawks.

“But we stuck with it and found a way.”

The men of the hour for the visitors were netminder Rylan Toth, who stopped all 15 shots he faced in the third period and finished with 44 saves, and Wyatt Johnson, who scored the decisive goal with 10.8 seconds remaining, beating Portland goalie Michael Bullion high to the glove side

from close range. It was Johnson’s ninth goal of the season and second of the game.

The Saskatoon native gave the Rebels a 4-2 lead at 13:51 of the second period before 6,696 fans, but the home side roared back with goals from Dominic Turgeon and Chase De Leo before the intermission.

“It’s been a long road trip and we were worried about our third period here tonight,” said Sutter, whose squad was playing Game 5 of a six-

game jaunt. “We were up 4-2, then we made a couple of mistakes and all of a sudden it was 4-4 and they had all the momentum going into the third.

“They threw everything at us, they came at us pretty hard in the third period. But we weathered the storm and Tother made some huge saves. He was outstanding.”

Please see REBELS on Page B5

Kings, Queens sweep Rattlers

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 3 Rattlers 0 Queens 3 Rattlers 0 On a night where last season’s accomplishments were the headlining act, the current edition of the Red Deer College volleyball teams stole the show.

RDC Queens opened the night with a 3-0 (25-18, 25-19, 25-17) win over a rebuilding Medicine Hat College Rattlers team, the Kings followed with a 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 25-22) in a show down between the two top ranked teams in the country.

In between the two matches the three Canadian Colleges Athletic Association championship banners —men’s and women’s volleyball and women’s curling — were raised to the rafters in a 30-minute ceremony, in front of a sold out crowd of 450 people.

The Kings (4-1, 13-4), however, managed to keep their focus on an opponent that had only dropped one set in six matches heading into the night.

“That’s by far the best serving team we’ve faced,” said RDC head coach Aaron Schula, singing out in particular their two imports, Isak HellandHansen and Fraser Smith. “In the first contact scheme of things we should have an advantage in our gym serving and passing and I think we showed that today.”

Hard-hitting brothers Tim and Anthony Finnigan led the Kings with 11 kills each while Justin Lukas had 13 digs. Meanwhile, first-year setter Luke Brisbane out of Melbourne, Australia, ran an effective offence that kept the Rattlers (6-1, 18-4) off balance all night.

“His learning curve has been extremely steep since he got here,” said Schula. “His high end is extremely, just like his brother (Sam Brisbane)

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Bronwyn Hawkes covers as Queens Libero, Maddi Quinn makes a pass during the first game Friday against the Medicine Hat Rattlers. who left us to go play (Canadian Interuniversity Sport volleyball).”

Paul Mennie led MHC with 10 kills while Helland-Hansen had 12 digs and Dylan Neufeld a game-high five blocks.

The biggest point of concern for the Kings, after two tight sets, they finally got out to a big lead in the third set with a chance to put it away at 24-17, but they let the Rattlers creep back in.

“We’ve got to make sure we’re finishing out every game,” said Schula.

“That should be a rude awakening

for us to never let off the gas.”

The Queens (4-1, 13-4) backed up their No. 1 ranking in the CCAA standings by cruising past the Rattlers (1-6, 4-20) in three sets in the early match.

Leah Koot led RDC with 11 kills while Marisa Neufeld had seven digs, while other bench players like libero Kelsey Ewashkiw, Kelsey Tymkow and Ashley Fehr also played well in their opportunities.

“I was real impressed with Leah, she was almost at 100 per cent kill effi-

ciency for most of the game, so she did a super job just putting away the ball,” said RDC head coach Talbot Walton.

Most importantly for Walton, he was able to get 14 different players into the game, including all of his returning players off of last year’s championship team, and not miss much of a beat. As they go deeper into the season, that experience and depth will prove critical.

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Oilers beat Sabres to snap losing skid at four

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton 3 Buffalo 2 BUFFALO, N.Y. — In a season full of lessons, the Edmonton Oilers learned a quick one to snap their losing streak.

A day after getting discouraged when the Boston Bruins came back and scored on them, the Oilers responded multiple times Friday night against the Buffalo Sabres to win 3-2 at First Niagara Center.

Erasing an early deficit and then one in the third period, the Oilers got the winner from Boyd Gordon to end their skid at four. It was a victory coach Dallas Eakins knows his team needed.

“It’s important for our dressing room,” Eakins said. “We fully understand critics and we fully understand and I embrace the result. You can stand and talk about how well you’re playing and how you’ve improved, but if you’re not getting points, no one’s going to listen.”

These were two valuable points in a back-to-back situation for the Oilers (5-8-1), who are on the road for two more games: Sunday at the New York Rangers and Tuesday at the Nashville Predators.

“Now we want to start a winning streak,” said centre Mark Arcobello, who scored his third goal of the season.

“Getting that win was big for us and now we’ve got to get back on track.”

Facing the Sabres (3-10-2), the NHL’s last-place team with just eight points in 15 games, this looked like a trap for an Edmonton team that didn’t skate

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Edmonton Oilers’ Boyd Gordon (27), Teddy Purcell (16), Mark Fayne (5), Keith Aulie (22) and Matt Hendricks (23) celebrate a game-winning goal by Gordon during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Buffalo Sabres, Friday.

Friday morning.

“Sometimes these things don’t set up very well,” Eakins said. “You’ve lost a few in a row and you’re coming in to play a team that’s struggling and you’re playing back-to-back and the odds aren’t lining up very well for you.”

It didn’t help the odds that the Oilers fell behind 26 seconds into the second period on Matt Moulson’s first of the season. But Iiro Pakarinen answered 54 seconds later with the first of his NHL career.

“I don’t even remember,” said Pakarinen, who made his NHL debut

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Thursday night in Boston. “I was a little bit shocked. It was so fast of a situation. I jumped on the ice and the rebound was there and I tried to shoot as hard as I can.”

Eakins said Pakarinen looked a bit like a “deer in the headlights” against the Bruins, and many of his Oilers teammates weren’t much different. A 2-1 lead quickly turned into a 5-2 loss for Edmonton, which is without captain Andrew Ference (suspension) and left-winger Taylor Hall (knee injury).

“We were up by a goal we have a big hiccup and next thing you know we’re kind of sulking and then boomboom-boom it’s in the back of our net,” alternate captain Matt Hendricks said of the Bruins game. “We’ve had that problem all season.”

That’s why Eakins was impressed when his players took a deep breath when they went down Friday night, not just when Moulson opened the scoring but when Drew Stafford snapped a shot past Viktor Fasth 6:34 into the third to make it 2-1 Sabres.

At 11:42, Arcobello whiffed on a rebound attempt but beat Michal Neuvirth to tie it up again. That set the stage for Gordon’s winner at 15:45 after Hendricks forced a turnover and Teddy Purcell found the fourth-line centre streaking to the net.

“Heno made a good play to him and then Teddy made a nice move and got the puck over and fortunately it went in for us,” said Gordon, who has goals in two straight after none in the first 12 games of the season.

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Harris wins first CFL start ARGOS STAY IN CONTENTION FOR PLAYOFF SPOT

REBELS: Tri-City up next Winterhawks veteran Alex Schoenborn opened the scoring six minutes into the game and Rebels captain Conner Bleackley evened the count three minutes later. Miles Koules restored Portland’s lead at 12:58, but Rebels rookie defenceman Austin Strand answered back at 16:31.

Evan Polei gave the visitors’ their first lead with a power-play tally at 5:07 of the middle stanza, and Johnson made it 4-2 before the hosts stormed back to pull even after 40 minutes.

The Rebels conclude their nine-day trip tonight versus the Tri-City Americans at Kennewick, Wash.

Red Deer is 3-1-0-1 on the trip and 9-8-1-1 on the season, good for a third-place tie with the Edmonton Oil Kings in the Central Division.

“This was a big win on a long trip. Now we get to go to Tri-City and try to finish it up the right way,” said Sutter.

The Rebels next home game is next Friday against the Lethbridge Hurricanes. Red Deer hosts the Saskatoon Blades the following night. ● Red Deer was one-for-two on the power play Friday, while the Winterhawks were zero-for-four with a man advantage . . . The three stars were (1) Portland’s Nic Petan, (2) Turgeon and (3) Johnson, who also picked up an assist on Bleackley’s goal. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

RDC: Rematch today “It was one of those situations where it was super unique to have that moment and be part of a championship banner night and also be able to play that night, it was one of my goals coming into the season (to get everyone in) and I was hoping we were ready

to,” said Walton. “The distractions were all around us tonight and I think we played well.”

The two teams play each other again today with the women going at 1 p.m. and the men at 3 p.m. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate

NHL: Battle between lastplace teams In a game between the last-place teams in each conference, the Oilers outshot the Sabres 52-31.

“We’ll take 52 every night if we can,” Eakins said.

But Neuvirth, who has excelled of late, was the difference in keeping the Sabres in it and frustrating the Oilers.

“He doesn’t do a lot, but he doesn’t do a lot wrong,” said Hendricks, who played with Neuvirth in Washington. “He always just seems to be square with every shot. I think we could’ve had quite a few goals tonight if it wasn’t for Neuvy.”

Notes — Legendary Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly and longtime Sabres announcer Rick Jeanneret took part in a ceremonial puck drop on Hockey Fights Cancer night. Kelly, who led Buffalo’s NFL team to four straight Super Bowls, was declared jaw cancer-free in September. Jeanneret said on local TV before the game that he was told this week he’s throat cancer-free. ... During a commercial break in the second period, Sabres general manager Tim Murray said in a taped message that he was fighting for Bryan Murray. His uncle, the GM of the Ottawa Senators, has been fighting cancer since the summer. ... Martin Marincin replaced Oscar Klefbom in the lineup a day after the Oilers’ loss in Boston.

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able to find the open spots on the defence and get distance so he could get me the ball.”

Ottawa (2-16) capped its inaugural season with five straight losses. The RedBlacks are just the third CFL club to suffer 16 losses in a season, joining the ’88 Rough Riders and ’97 Ticats.

“I’m proud to coach these guys,” Ottawa head coach Rick Campbell said. “Their effort and attitude has never been an issue, especially for a team that didn’t win a lot of games this year.

“The losing is tough now but we’ll continue to work at this thing and we’ll become a better football team.”

Milanovich and his coaches will spend Saturday preparing gameplans for both the B.C. Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders, with one of those teams crossing over to become the East Division’s third playoff seed. However, they’ll also have one eye on the Hamilton-Montreal contest.

“This will be unique,” Milanovich said. “We’re all obviously going to be cheering hard for Montreal.”

Ottawa outscored Toronto 5-3 in the second half and twice had solid chances for touchdowns. Starter Henry Burris drove the RedBlacks to the Argos’ 14-yard line before two incompletions set up Brett Maher’s 22-yard field goal at 3:18 of the fourth to make it 20-5.

O’Brien marched Ottawa to the Toronto sevenyard line — thanks largely to a 77-yard completion to Khalil Paden — before throwing incomplete on third down with 3:08 remaining.

“We didn’t take our foot off the pedal,” Milanovich said. “We weren’t able to run the ball, they did an excellent job of stopping our run game.

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Toronto 23 Ottawa 5 TORONTO — Now the waiting begins for Trevor Harris and the Toronto Argonauts.

Harris threw two TD passes in his first CFL start Friday night, leading Toronto to an important 23-5 win over the Ottawa RedBlacks. The Argos desperately needed the victory to keep their playoff hopes alive.

However Toronto (8-10) doesn’t control its own destiny. It needs the Montreal Alouettes to beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday to secure second in the East Division and host the conference semifinal Nov. 16.

But a Hamilton win will end the Argos’ season.

And if the Ticats are victorious by eight or more points, they’ll finish first and Montreal will take second.

“It’s nerve-racking, we want to get in,” Harris said.

“I mean, who doesn’t? “(Waiting) is the toughest part about life . . . but a lot of times you’re waiting on opportunities and for certain things to happen. But we took care of our business and that’s all we controlled.”

Harris, replacing incumbent Ricky Ray (concussion), was solid in the first start of his three-year CFL career. The former Edinboro star finished 26-of-36 passing for 281 yards before an announced seasonhigh Rogers Centre gathering of 19,687.

Ottawa came into the game ranked last in the CFL in yards allowed (374.1 per game), passing yards (262.8) and second-last in rushing yards (126.9).

Harris was sharp in the first half, completing 16of-22 passes for 184 yards and two TDs in staking Toronto to its 20-0 half-time lead. He capped a six-play, 78-yard march with a 12-yard touchdown strike to John Chiles on the Argos’ opening possession, then hit Chad Owens on a three-yard pass one play after Tristan Okpalaugo returned a Burris interception 23 yards to the Ottawa three-yard line.

The lone blemish on Harris’s half was being picked off in the end zone by Ottawa’s Abdul Kanneh. Branden Smith intercepted RedBlacks’ backup Danny O’Brien in the second to set up Waters’ 22-yard field goal at 11:47 as the Argos had 10 points off RedBlacks turnovers.

“I thought Trevor came out of the gate on fire,” said Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich. “There’s a couple of things I think when he sees on film he’s going to wish he had done differently.

“But for the first real start in a game we needed to win, I thought Trevor did an outstanding job.”

The start was Harris’s first since ’09, his final season at Edinboro University, where he threw for 11,899 career yards and 100 TD passes. In his final collegiate game, Harris completed 50-of-70 passes for a Division II playoff-record 630 yards and five TDs while running for two more in a wild 84-63 playoff loss to West Liberty.

Chiles was Harris’s favourite target with six catches for 101 yards and a TD. Chiles said he and his teammates had to help Harris contain his enthusiasm on the field.

“He was really amped up,” Chiles said. “We had to try and calm him down.

“We knew Trevor would be prepared and I was

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B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014

Family affair at Canadian Finals Rodeo “It’s Vold on Vold,” cackled stock contractor Wayne Vold after the bareback riding wrapped up Friday night at the 41st annual Canadian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton.

P o n o k a raised Jake Vold, the season leader, was matched up with Mucho Dinero, the Canadian Bareback Horse of the Year, owned

by Wayne Vold.

It was a combination that did not disDIANNE appoint. The FINSTAD powerful horse threw his trademark moves, but the cowboy was up to the task, and the 88.75 mark moved Vold back to the top of the Canadian standings.

“I love that horse,” puffed Vold, still sweating from the eight-second effort as he awaited his buckle presentation.

“That’s the second time I’ve been on him. You know he’s big, he’s gray, he’s hard as a rock, he’s almost intimidating. He rides so good, but you’ve got to have your hammer cocked every time you get on him. I’m just glad it worked out.”

The last time the two met was at the Strathmore rodeo in August, where the result was 90.25 points in the finals.

“Kyle Bowers said if it broke his record (90) tonight, we’d have a few words after,” he chuckled. “I was close but I guess he’s safe.

“It was awesome, it couldn’t have come at a better time.”

Vold didn’t have the start to the CFR he wanted in the first two rounds, but the $11,089 he earned on Friday night puts him back firmly in the driver’s seat for the title with season earnings now sitting at $51,812.

In the complex and large Vold family tree, it’s not easy explaining how Wayne and Jake are related.

“When he started out riding, he was a far distant relative of mine,” joked the elder Vold, who also received a buckle for the horse’s performance.

“Tonight, I’m calling him my nephew.”

Bowden’s Ky Marshall tied for third place in the third round, helping his drive for the all-around honours, and he’s still second in the bareback race.

Ponoka pride was in full force in the steer wrestling too, when Trygve Pugh was the first man out, and got the job done in 3.4 seconds. No one was able to match that, and Pugh was just as excited about his trophy buckle as the $11,809 payout.

“This is my first one,” stated Pugh.

“It’s kind of weird, this is my 33rd steer I’ve ever ran here in Edmonton … and

my (contestant) back number is 33. So there’s something there, I guess.

“I knew the steer. I won Brooks on him and was 3.5. He had the exact same tracks, left good, just let up, and let me slam him. I’m just real happy.”

Pugh is one of four cowboys riding Dustin Walker’s horse Tank. The win moved him up to third in the steer wrestling standings. Just ahead of him is Donalda’s Cody Cassidy, who picked up a fifth-place cheque, to move within $800 of leader Tanner Milan.

It was an outstanding night of saddle bronc riding at Rexall Place with a power packed pen of horses. Best of the bunch was Nebraska’s Cort Scheer on Calgary’s Lynx Mountain for 88.75 points, to push his CFR earnings over $29,000 already. But his travelling partner, Tyler Corrington of Minnesota, was just a quarter point behind him on bronc of the year Lunatic Party, and he’s now overtaken season leader Rylan Geiger, with his total of $53,837.

Despite riding with a cast in his boot, Canadian champion Chad Besplug continues to display true grit in the bull riding. He met up with the mull of the year, Up Tight, and came out with an 87 score. That was equaled by yet another Ponoka cowboy, Tyler Pankewitz, on a bull called TID. They shared top dollars, but with season leader Dakota Buttar bucking off his Friday bull, Besplug is rapidly closing ground on Buttar, and is now only

$4,000 behind him in the race.

Curtis Cassidy was the fastest tiedown roper of the evening, with a smooth 7.9 second run, to get his big payday of the night. He’s also well in front for the high point honours. Utah’s Clint Robinson is still first overall for the roping event, but took a no time on the night, which will hurt his position in the average.

The barrel racing went to Medicine Hat cowgirl Steffanie Mather in 14.610 second — she’s placed in every round so far. She leads the average and has picked up $26,344 in Edmonton so far, putting herself within $1,000 of season leader Brittany Diaz.

The team roping round went to Kolton Schmidt and Rocky Dallyn for a rapid 4.2 second run. They’re moving up the ladder, but Ponoka’s Levi Simpson and Ryon Tittel still top the race.

They took some barrier penalities and failed to place Friday night.

Dantan Bertsch won first again in novice bareback riding and Lane Cust of Ardmore accomplished the same feat in novice saddle bronc. The steer riding was split between Coy Robbins and Owen Berreth of Airdrie.

Friday’s attendance was best of the CFR so far at 16,241 fans. There are two performances today, with the final action Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m.

Dianne Finstad is a Red Deer freelance rodeo writer

Barsntable backstops Kings to a win

Top administrator predict NHLers will play in Olympics

Clay Petrie and Joe Topping scored for the RDC Kings in a 2-1 win over the SAIT Trojans in ACAC men’s hockey action Friday at Calgary.

Kraymer Barnstable made 21 saves for the Kings, who held a 39-22 advantage in shots. Defenceman Davis Claffey was named the RDC player of the game.

Brenden Forbes scored the lone goal for the Trojans while Austin Smith made 26 saves in net.

The teams meet again tonight at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● RDC basketball was swept at Olds College on Friday. The Queens (0-5) lost 84-57 to Olds (5-0) while the Kings (3-1) dropped their first game of the season 103-98 to the Broncos (2-2). The two teams meet again tonight at RDC at 6 and 8 p.m.

BANGKOK, Thailand — A senior Canadian hockey official believes NHL players will return to the Winter Olympics, and is urging an early decision this time.

The participation of NHL players in the Olympics is contentious because of disruption to the league season and teams’ concerns over injury risks.

Bob Nicholson, a vice-president of the International Ice Hockey Federation and former Hockey Canada chief, was asked Friday about the prospect of NHL players competing at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

“The players want to go but it’s very difficult for the NHL,” Nicholson said.

“If everyone agrees to take some and leave some on the table, I think we’ll see NHL players in the future.”

“You never like it to go down to the wire, because everyone loses,” he added. “The sooner you decide to go, the better it will be for them and for all of the countries participating.”

NHL players have participated in every Winter Olympics since 1998.

Doubts have been raised about the league’s participation in Pyeongchang because of, among other things, a lack of hockey tradition in South Korea.

Nicholson was speaking at the As-

sociation of National Olympic Committees inaugural awards. Canada’s hockey teams won both the men’s and women’s awards for the best team performance at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Canada beat Sweden for the men’s gold in Sochi, but the final was overshadowed by the suspension of Sweden’s Nicklas Backstrom on the day of the game for a doping offence.

Sweden was angered by the late notice that its star player would be out, and the NHL Players’ Association was unhappy with the way the matter was handled by Olympic officials. The dis-

pute was seen as diminishing the likelihood that NHL players would participate in 2018.

Nicholson, who is also a vice-chairman of the Edmonton Oilers, said the Backstrom case would not be the principal factor in deciding on the Pyeongchang Olympics.

“That was a very unfortunate situation,” Nicholson said. “The National Hockey League takes doping very seriously, so that wouldn’t be an issue of why they’re not going to go. The biggest one was the safety of their players, players getting hurt at the Olympic Games midway through the season.”

Vipers need shootout to beat Stettler

STETTLER — The Red Deer Vipers edged the Stettler Lightning 2-1 in a shoot out in Heritage Junior B Hockey League action in Stettler on Friday.

Nick Glackin scored for the Vipers in regulation while Kale Lapointe and Cole deGraaf scored in the shoot out for the win.

The Vipers host the Coaldale Copperheads tonight at 8 p.m. ● The Three Hills Thrashers beat the Strathmore Wheatland Kings 3-2 in Trochu.

Tyler Newsham, Tom Vanderlinde and Connor Ablett all scored for the Thrashers in the third period. Strathmore came back with third period goals from Kirby Ruzesky and Brayden Beckley but could not rally all of the way back.

Brady Hoover made 35 TELUS OPTIK TV saves for the win while Liam Banks stopped 40 of 43 shots in the Strathmore net.

Three Hills hosts the Airdrie Thunder tonight at 8 p.m.

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RDC reflects on three national titles THREE BANNERS RAISED IN HONOUR OF VOLLEYBALL, CURLING TEAMS

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The word ‘legacy’ carries a special importance at Red Deer College, especially in the athletic department.

While their sites are always set on their present day goals, there is always an emphasis on the bigger picture.

Last season the department reached a new pinnacle becoming the first Canadian Colleges Athletic Association institution to win three national championships in one year, and they honoured this feat on Friday with a plaque added to their Legacy Wall in the afternoon and by raising all three banners to the rafters of the main gym in the evening.

Ever present, however, was a concentration on the legacy being created that includes the Athletics Leadership Fund and a building program that will upgrade their athletic facilities to some of the best in the country for a school their size.

“Our legacy is in the striving for excellence, it’s not so much in every in every single championship,” said RDC athletic director Keith Hansen. “We have a lot of people that have gone on to do incredible things in their lives that didn’t win a championship, so I think we’re really about developing people, developing community, making sport better in the community, and I think that by striving for excellence, championships happen.”

RDC made even more history by becoming the first school to sweep a sport’s championships by winning both the men’s and women’s titles in volleyball and then added the women’s curling championship.

All three banners went up during their volleyball home opener, in between the men’s and women’s matches against Medicine Hat College.

While RDC has long been known as

one of the top volleyball schools in the country, particularly on the men’s side, Hansen said the curling title is more than just an afterthought.

“Our curling girls that won a national championship are every bit as important as our volleyball championships,” said Hansen. “We have to make sure that everybody is spot-lighted.

That isn’t something we’ve had to do before, but it’s a wonderful problem to have.”

Most importantly, this was an opportunity to recognize the accomplishments of last year — which also included a CCAA silver medal in men’s basketball, five all-Canadian athletes, two CCAA nationals MVPs, an academic all-Canadian and the CCAA coach of the year (Aaron Schula for men’s volleyball) — and to refocus on this year’s season.

It is clear expectations are for similar successes despite the history of last season, but Hansen is taking it all in stride.

“I feel pressure to strive to be the best that we can possibly be, I feel pressure to push past what we’ve done in the past, but the results are really the end result of a really good process,” he said. “I think you screw yourself up if you focus on ‘you have to win’ as opposed to ‘you have to prepare to win.’”

RDC is hoping to continue this success without interruption with the Athletics Leadership Fund, created as part of a challenge by former men’s hockey coach and current Detroit Red Wings bench boss Mike Babock. The goal is to be able to fund the athletic program, their scholarships and trips to national championships — they spent $106,000 on this alone last school year — and other expenses through this initiative. They announced on Friday that they had hit the $2 million mark and are working to get to $5 million which would fund the department

Photo by JOSH ALDRICH/Advocate staff

Red Deer College athletic director Keith Hansen helps unveil a plaque commemorating the department’s record setting season in 2013-14 on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014 at Red Deer College. in perpetuity.

“Once we hit $5 million in the endowment, we believe we will have enough to support all of our student athletes forever, without ever having to worry about budgets being cut and athletics being cut,” said RDC president Joel Ward. “We believe athletics are a huge part of the experience at a post-secondary institution. It develops leaders and they make a huge difference to just the energy and vibrancy at an institution. We figured this was the best way.”

The next step is to upgrade their facilities to meet the stature of the teams they are fielding. This enterprise received a huge boost in Sep-

tember when Red Deer was awarded the 2019 Canada Winter Games, and RDC will be a focal point of the hosting operation. They are working on plans to build a massive health and wellness centre that will also include a new gymnasiums, two sheets of ice and other facilities that will make it possible for them to host national championships in the future and to better represent the college.

“I firmly believe that this is the top athletic program in the country and our facilities are definitely not at the same level as what would be expected from a college this size, so we’re due,” said Hansen. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Lowry carries Raptors over Wizards

STAMPEDERS TROUNCE LIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

B.C. Lions’ Solomon Elimimian, right, tackles Calgary Stampeders’ Martell Mallett during the first half of a CFL football game in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday. Calgary beat B.C. 33-16.

Toronto 103 Washington 84 TORONTO — Kyle Lowry had a triple-double and as the Toronto Raptors routed the Washington Wizards 103-84 on Friday night to improve to 5-1 on the season, their best start in team history.

DeMar DeRozan had 25 points as four Raptors scored in double figures, including Lowry, who had 13 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.

The Raptors led from start to finish in defeating the Wizards before a sellout crowd of 19,800 at Air Canada Centre as Toronto opened a franchise-record seven-game home stand.

With the victory, the Raptors third straight, Toronto moved into a first-place tie with the Chicago Bulls atop the NBA’s Eastern Conference. The Wizards (42) are a game back.

Kris Humphries had 11 points for the Wizards while Marcin Gortat pulled down 10 rebounds.

On a night the Raptors held the first of seven 20th anniversary celebrations this season, the only blemish was that forward Amir Johnson, who missed the previous three games with a sore left ankle, went to Toronto’s locker-room early in the second half after re-aggravating it and did not return.

The Raptors led 59-35 at halftime and continued to pour it on early in the third quarter.

DeRozan’s basket at 2:58 of the quarter widened the Toronto lead to 28 points at 63-45.

The Wizards went on a 10-0 run over the next 1:49 but never seriously threatened to make it a game.

The first half was all Raptors.

Ross hit a 25-foot, three-point jumper to open the scoring and Toronto never trailed.

Ross had a game-high 11 points in the first quarter as the Raptors opened up a 28-18 lead, shooting a solid 55 per cent from the field compared to a woeful 31 per cent by the Wizards.

Toronto continued the domination in the second quarter.

Lowry, coming off a season-high 35-point performance in Boston on Wednesday, hit his only basket of the first half, a 24-foot, three-point shot with 4:16 to go, to widen the lead to 26 points at 53-27.

DeRozan led all scorers at the break with 15 points while Lowry added seven assists against a Wizards team that shot just 28 per cent from the field, including 0-for-8 on three-point attempts.

McDowell, Poulter in contention at World Golf Championship SHANGHAI, China — The HSBC Champions has a familiar look to Graeme McDowell, with a few exceptions.

He goes into the weekend at Sheshan International in contention for a World Golf Championship, with Ian Poulter and a big-hitting American alongside.

Only, now, the American is Masters champion Bubba Watson — not Dustin Johnson, who overpowered the course on his way to victory last year.

And at least this time, McDowell has the lead.

McDowell leaned on a hot putter to carry him to another 5-under 67 on Friday. That gave him a threeshot lead over Poulter, with Watson and Hiroshi Iwata of Japan right behind.

Johnson is on a “voluntary leave” for what he described as personal challenges.

Poulter and Watson showed that a deficit can be made up quickly, particularly on the dynamic finishing holes at Sheshan International.

Poulter birdied four of the last five holes for a 67.

Watson was seven shots behind when he made birdie on the par-5 14th. He blasted a drive just through the end of the fairway on the 487-yard 15th hole and hit gap wedge to 8 feet for birdie. He chipped in for birdies on the next two holes, and had a simple up-and-down on the par-5 18th to end his

round of 67 with five straight birdies. Iwata had a 65 to join Watson at 6 under.

SANDERSON FARMS CHAMPIONSHIP JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — David Toms and John Rollins each shot 6-under 66 to share the second-round lead in the Sanderson Farms Championship.

The 47-year-old Toms — a 13-time PGA Tour winner — was bogey-free through the first two rounds.

He hasn’t won since 2011.

Rollins had eight birdies and two bogeys at the Country Club of Jackson. He won the last of his three tour titles in 2009 and finished 177th on the money list last season.

Toms and Rollins were at 10-under 134.

Canada’s Nick Taylor was two strokes back after a 69.

Play was suspended because of darkness with 15 players unable to finish. First-round leader Sebastian Cappelen was 3 over for the round and 4 under overall with two holes left.

MIZUNO CLASSIC SHIMA, Japan (AP) — Morgan Pressel shot a 5-under 67 in the Mizuno Classic to take a one-stroke lead over 51-year-old Laura Davies and Chella Choi.

Pressel had five birdies at Kintetsu Kashikojima.

Davies won the last of her 20 LPGA Tour titles in 2001. The Englishwoman also has 45 victories on the Ladies European Tour.

Choi, from South Korea, birdied four of the last

seven holes.

Japan’s Kotono Kozuma was two strokes back at 69 along with South Koreans Ilhee Lee and Mi Hyang Lee and Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlam.

Second-ranked Stacy Lewis, the 2012 winner, was at 70 in a group that included Australia’s Karrie Webb.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● Tennis: Red Deer U12 Jr. Challenger, matches from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Red Deer Tennis Club. ● Peewee football: Provincial Tier 3 final — Bonnyville at Sylvan Lake, 11 a.m., H.J. Cody High School. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Royals at Red Deer White, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Rockyview at Red Deer Black, 2 p.m., Arena. ● High school football: Provincial Tier 1 quarter-final — Calgary Henry Wise Wood at Notre Dame, noon, Great Chief Park; provincial Tier 3 quarter-final — Cold Lake at Sylvan Lake, 1:30 p.m., H.J. Cody High School. ● Peewee AA hockey: Southwest at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A; Badlands at Olds, 2:45 p.m. ● College volleyball: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow. ● Bantam football: Provincial Tier 3 semifinal — Lethbridge at Lindsay Thurber, 2:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Bantam AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Badlands at Lacombe, 5:45 p.m. ● Junior women’s hockey: Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Maple Leafs at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Six-man high school football: Edson Holy Redeemer at Rimbey, 5 p.m., Lacombe MEGlobal Athletic Park. ● College basketball: Olds at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Lacombe, 6 p.m., Blackfalds. ● College men’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; High River at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m., Trochu. ● WHL: Red Deer at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

(The Drive).

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 19 15 3 1 0 98 Swift Current 21 11 8 0 2 60 Regina 18 8 9 1 0 56 Moose Jaw 18 7 9 1 1 47 Prince Albert 19 8 11 0 0 55 Saskatoon 18 5 13 0 0 46

GA 59 58 51 62 62 84

Pt 31 24 17 16 16 10

GF 68 69 51 68 49 42

GA 36 54 49 68 75 79

Pt 27 21 20 20 14 10

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 18 16 1 1 0 89 Prince George 19 11 8 0 0 57 Victoria 20 9 9 2 0 59 Kamloops 20 9 9 1 1 64 Vancouver 16 7 9 0 0 53

GA 41 75 69 70 47

Pt 33 22 20 20 14

GA 34 48 44 44 81

Pt 25 22 19 17 16

Medicine Hat Calgary Edmonton Red Deer Lethbridge Kootenay

Everett Tri-City Seattle Spokane Portland

GP 15 19 17 15 20

GF 58 53 46 41 61

Rebels 5, Winterhawks 4 First Period 1. Portland, Schoenborn 3 (Overhardt) 6:00.

2. Red Deer, Bleackley 6 (Johnson, Cote) 9:13.

3. Portland, Koules 6 (Price, Bullion) 12:58.

4. Red Deer, Strand 3 (unassisted) 16:32.

Penalties — Strand RD (interference) 1:03, Feser RD (slashing) 6:56.

Second Period 5. Red Deer, Polei 8 (Nell, Feser) 5:07 (pp).

6. Red Deer, Johnson 8 (Pawlenchuk, Strand) 13:51.

7. Portland, Turgeon 5 (Petan, Viveiros) 15:36.

8. Portland, De Leo 11 (Bjorkstrand, Texeira) 16:51.

Penalties — McKenzie Por (interference) 3:40, Texeira Por (charging) 14:02, Cote RD (tripping) 14:46.

Third Period 9. Red Deer, Johnson 9 (unassisted) 19:50.

Penalties — Bleackley RD (tripping) 0:24.

Shots on goal by Red Deer 12 12 7 — 31 Portland 17 16 15 — 48 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (W, 7-5-1); Portland: Bullion (L, 2-2-0).

Cougars 3, Royals 2

SANDERSON FARMS CHAMPIONSHIP At The Country Club of Jackson Jackson, Miss.

Purse: $4 million Yardage: 7,354; Par: 72 Partial Second Round 15 players failed to complete the round a-amateur — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

Montreal x-Toronto Hamilton Ottawa

GP 17 18 17 18

WGC HSBC CHAMPIONS At Sheshan International Golf Club Shanghai Purse: $8.5 million Yardage: 7,261; Par: 72 Second Round — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

CFL East Division W L T PF 9 8 0 345 8 10 0 450 8 9 0 388 2 16 0 278 West Division W L T PF 14 3 0 478 12 5 0 475 9 8 0 364 9 8 0 375 7 11 0 397

PA 365 456 380 465 PA 331 316 332 424 481

Pt 18 16 16 4 Pt 30 24 18 18 14

Week 20 Friday’s results Toronto 23 Ottawa 5 Calgary 33 B.C. 16 Saturday’s results Montreal at Hamilton, 2 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

134 134 136 137 137 138 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 139 139 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142

134 137 138 138 139 139 139 139 140 140 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142 142 143 143 143 143 143 143 144 144 144

First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Hicketts Vic (holding opp. stick) 16:04.

Second Period 1. Prince George, Erricson 11 (Braid, Ruopp) 8:41.

2. Prince George, Braid 5 (Erricson, Morrison) 13:19.

Penalties — PG Bench (served by Erricson, too many men) 0:58, Ruopp PG (boarding) 3:19, Mrkonjic PG (hooking) 9:11, Magee Vic (cross-checking) 10:25.

Third Period 3. Victoria, Magee 5 (Carroll) 3:03 (pp).

4. Prince George, Harkins 5 (Morrison, Olson) 5:31 (pp).

5. Victoria, Carroll 12 (Hicketts, Magee) 15:09 (pp).

Penalties — Harkins PG (tripping) 1:22, Kanzig Vic (fighting) 5:15, Braid PG (fighting) 5:15, Carroll Vic (roughing) 5:15, Reddekopp Vic (charging) 5:47, Reddekopp Vic (roughing) 5:47, Mrkonjic PG (roughing) 5:47, Mrkonjic PG (roughing) 5:47, Braid PG (Major-Cross Checking) 12:11, PG Bench (served by Eagletail, too many men) 17:19, Magee Vic (tripping) 18:47.

Shots on goal by Victoria 8 6 11 — 25 Prince George 11 9 4 — 24 Goal — Victoria: Sittler (L, 0-1-0); Prince George: Edmonds (W, 10-7-0).

Rockets 4, Chiefs 2 First Period 1. Kelowna, Merkley 7 (Bowey, Stadel) 18:41 (pp).

Penalties — Coughlin Kel (tripping) 2:57, Fiala Spo (hooking) 17:19.

Second Period 2. Kelowna, Chartier 16 (Merkley, Martin) 7:44.

3. Kelowna, Chartier 17 (Schmidli) 17:13.

4. Spokane, Stewart 7 (Fram, Whittingham) 17:52.

Penalties — Henderson Spo (roughing) 18:45, Baillie Kel (slashing) 18:45, Soustal Kel (roughing) 18:45.

Third Period 5. Spokane, Helewka 8 (unassisted) :18 (lp).

6. Kelowna, Baillie 13 (unassisted) 5:32.

Penalties — Playfair Spo (hooking) 5:52, Bobyk Spo (hooking) 14:19.

Shots on goal by Spokane 6 14 10 — 30 Kelowna 11 14 11 — 36 Goal — Spokane: Hughson (L, 6-4-3); Kelowna: Whistle (W, 14-1-1).

Ottawa Toronto Florida Buffalo

12 7 3 2 16 34 13 6 5 2 14 37 11 4 3 4 12 16 15 3 10 2 8 19 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 12 9 2 1 19 49 N.Y. Islanders 13 8 5 0 16 41 N.Y. Rangers 12 6 4 2 14 34 Philadelphia 13 6 5 2 14 41 New Jersey 14 6 6 2 14 38 Washington 13 5 5 3 13 41 Carolina 12 4 6 2 10 28 Columbus 13 4 8 1 9 32

27 35 24 48 GA 26 42 38 40 45 39 39 44

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF St. Louis 13 9 3 1 19 34 Nashville 13 8 3 2 18 33 Winnipeg 14 7 5 2 16 28 Chicago 14 7 6 1 15 36 Minnesota 12 7 5 0 14 36 Colorado 15 4 6 5 13 37 Dallas 13 4 5 4 12 37 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Anaheim 15 10 3 2 22 40 Vancouver 14 10 4 0 20 46 Calgary 15 8 5 2 18 43 Los Angeles 14 7 4 3 17 32 San Jose 14 7 5 2 16 43 Arizona 13 6 6 1 13 34 Edmonton 14 5 8 1 11 35

GA 26 27 31 26 25 46 45 GA 30 38 37 29 38 46 50

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

Red Wings 4, Devils 2 First Period 1. New Jersey, Bernier 1 (Salvador, Gionta) 3:18.

2. Detroit, Kindl 2 (Tatar, Helm) 18:55 (pp).

3. Detroit, Smith 1 (Andersson, Miller) 19:28.

Penalties — Glendening Det (hooking) 8:22, Tootoo NJ (tripping) 16:38, Salvador NJ (crosschecking) 18:34.

Second Period 4. Detroit, Franzen 3 (Kronwall, Zetterberg) 11:41 (pp).

5. Detroit, Kronwall 3 (unassisted) 17:39.

Penalties — Jagr NJ (holding) 0:15, Ericsson Det (holding) 0:15, Zidlicky NJ (hooking) 11:35, Glendening Det (slashing) 13:21.

Third Period 6. New Jersey, Tootoo 1 (Zidlicky) 2:26.

Penalties — Salvador NJ (hooking) 8:06, Abdelkader Det (roughing) 16:13.

Shots on goal by New Jersey 3 8 6 — 17 Detroit 14 10 7 — 31 Goal — New Jersey: Schneider (L, 6-5-2); Detroit: Howard (W, 6-2-3).

Hurricanes 3, Blue Jackets 2 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Erixon Clb (interference) 8:00, Bellemore Car (hooking) 13:23, Terry Car (hooking) 17:04.

Second Period 1. Carolina, Skinner 2 (unassisted) 2:43.

2. Columbus, Hartnell 2 (Jenner, St. Denis) 11:15.

3. Columbus, Hartnell 3 (Jenner, Atkinson) 18:44.

Penalties — Jenner Clb (interference) 4:13, Wennberg Clb (tripping) 7:50, Foligno Clb (slashing) 11:38, Dwyer Car (stick holding) 14:48.

Third Period 4. Carolina, Rask 2 (Gerbe, Semin) 11:51.

Penalties — Savard Clb (interference) 2:34, Tyutin Clb (high-sticking) 8:51, E. Staal Car (roughing) 10:27, Prout Clb (roughing) 10:27, Bellemore Car (interference) 15:51.

Overtime 5. Carolina, Lindholm 4 (E. Staal, Rask) 4:22 (pp).

Penalties — Savard Clb (holding) 3:10.

Shots on goal by Columbus 11 10 8 2 — 31 Carolina 4 10 18 3 — 35 Goal — Columbus: McElhinney (LO, 0-3-1); Carolina: Ward (W, 4-3-1).

Friday’s Games Arizona 3, Anaheim 2, SO Edmonton 3, Buffalo 2 Carolina 3, Columbus 2, OT Detroit 4, New Jersey 2 Washington 3, Chicago 2 Today’s Games Calgary at Florida, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Colorado at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Washington, 6 p.m.

Nashville at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Dallas, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Arizona, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Edmonton at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 4 p.m.

San Jose at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

Americans 5, Blazers 2 First Period 1. Tri-City, Bowles 7 (Nejezchleb, Wotherspoon) 14:07 (pp).

2. Tri-City, Nejezchleb 2 (McCue, Bowles) 18:01 (pp).

Penalties — McVeigh Kam (checking from behind) 12:24, Ully Kam (hooking) 17:27.

Second Period 3. Tri-City, McCue 7 (Nejezchleb, Bowles) 10:45.

4. Kamloops, Needham 8 (Ully, Gaudet) 12:22.

5. Kamloops, Revel 6 (Winther, McVeigh) 16:20.

6. Tri-City, Gutierrez 3 (Wotherspoon, Hamonic) 19:02 (pp).

Penalties — Wotherspoon TC (interference) 3:14, Carlo TC (delay of game) 7:13, Connolly Kam (hooking) 8:32, Nejezchleb TC (cross-checking) 13:28, Rehill Kam (instigator) 17:37, Rehill Kam (fighting) 17:37, Rehill Kam (10-minute misconduct) 17:37, James TC (fighting) 17:37.

Third Period 7. Tri-City, Wotherspoon 5 (Nejezchleb, Bowles) 18:17.

Penalties — Connolly Kam (delay of game) 10:18, Nejezchleb TC (hooking) 11:27, Needham Kam (inter. on goaltender) 15:55, Benjafield Kam (roughing) 19:56, Clouston Kam (roughing) 19:56, Lukin TC (checking from behind) 19:56, Lukin TC (roughing) 19:56, Thrower TC (roughing) 19:56.

Shots on goal by Kamloops 8 18 12 — 38 Tri-City 7 10 12 — 29 Goal — Kamloops: Ingram (L, 2-3-0); Tri-City: Comrie (W, 8-6-0).

Capitals 3, Blackhawks 2 First Period 1. Chicago, Saad 2 (Hossa, Shaw) 17:12.

Penalties — Ovechkin Wash (Illegal Check to Head Minor) 19:44.

Second Period 2. Chicago, Keith 3 (Richards, Toews) :56 (pp).

3. Washington, Burakovsky 3 (Johansson) 15:03.

4. Washington, Johansson 6 (Niskanen, Burakovsky) 19:13.

5. Washington, Ward 7 (Niskanen, Alzner) 19:55.

Penalties — Laich Wash (hooking) 3:12, Hossa Chi (hooking) 8:18, Brouwer Wash (interference) 9:25.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Washington 8 12 4 — 24 Chicago 15 12 13 — 40 Goal — Washington: Holtby (W, 4-3-2); Chicago: Crawford (L, 4-3-1).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Tampa Bay 13 9 3 1 19 47 Montreal 14 9 4 1 19 33 Detroit 14 7 3 4 18 37 Boston 15 9 6 0 18 43

Oilers 3, Sabres 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Meszaros Buf (cross-checking) 4:12.

Second Period 1. Buffalo, Moulson 1 (Gionta, Girgensons) :26.

2. Edmonton, Pakarinen 1 (Fayne, Purcell) 1:20.

Penalties — Stewart Buf (fighting) 5:36, Aulie Edm

GA 34 41 33 35

(fighting) 5:36, Meszaros Buf (slashing) 6:03.

Third Period 3. Buffalo, Stafford 3 (Deslauriers, Ristolainen) 6:34.

4. Edmonton, Arcobello 4 (Perron, Yakupov) 11:42.

5. Edmonton, Gordon 2 (Purcell, Hendricks) 15:45.

Penalties — Aulie Edm (holding) 2:03, Ennis Buf (game misconduct) 20:00.

Shots on goal by Edmonton 19 14 19 — 52 Buffalo 12 8 11 — 31 Goal — Edmonton: Fasth (W, 1-2-1); Buffalo: Neuvirth (L, 2-4-1).

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Coyotes 3, Ducks 2 (SO) First Period 1. Anaheim, Getzlaf 4 (Vatanen, Smith-Pelly) 5:02 (pp).

2. Anaheim, Beleskey 7 (Silfverberg, Kesler) 8:49.

Penalties — Gagner Ari (tripping) 4:16, Getzlaf Ana (tripping) 10:45.

Second Period 3. Arizona, Klinkhammer 3 (Hanzal, Erat) 3:55.

4. Arizona, Doan 4 (Vermette, Yandle) 4:53.

Penalties — Andersen Ana (delay of game) 17:02.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Murphy Ari (high-sticking) 2:55, Murphy Ari (hooking) 5:39, Smith-Pelly Ana (holding) 6:26, Crombeen Ari (cross-checking) 9:26.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Arizona wins 2-1 Arizona : Gagner goal, Boedker goal.

Anaheim : Silfverberg goal, Smith-Pelly miss, Kesler miss.

Shots on goal by Arizona 7 10 6 2 — 25 Anaheim 11 13 12 3 — 39 Goal — Arizona: Smith (W, 4-6-0); Anaheim: Andersen (LO, 7-1-1).

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GP x-Calgary 17 x-Edmonton 17 x-B.C. 17 Saskatchewan 17 Winnipeg 18

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FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES

Golf

Graeme McDowell Ian Poulter Bubba Watson Hiroshi Iwata Tim Clark Kevin Na Jonas Blixt Rickie Fowler Thorbjorn Olesen Louis Oosthuizen Martin Kaymer J.B.Holmes Henrik Stenson Oliver Wilson Alexander Levy Jimmy Walker Dawie Van der Walt Jason Dufner Hunter Mahan Adam Scott Marc Leishman Brandt Snedeker Chris Kirk Justin Rose Lee Westwood Hideki Matsuyama Hyung-Sung Kim Bill Haas Marcel Siem

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL 17 13 3 1 0 19 10 8 0 1 19 9 8 0 2 19 9 8 1 1 18 5 9 3 1 18 5 13 0 0

z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; xclinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Friday’s results Seattle 6 Prince Albert 2 Medicine Hat 4 Moose Jaw 3 (OT) Calgary 5 Regina 3 Brandon 6 Saskatoon 2 Swift Current 4 Lethbridge 3 (OT) Kootenay 4 Edmonton 3 Red Deer 5 Portland 4 Prince George 3 Victoria 2 Kelowna 4 Spokane 2 Tri-City 5 Kamloops 2 Everett at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Seattle at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Calgary at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Swift Current at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Kamloops at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Red Deer at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday

● Peewee AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Southwest at Lacombe, 3 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Tennis: Red Deer U12 Jr. Challenge, firls final at 1:30 p.m., boys final at 2:45 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Lacombe, 2 p.m.; Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m., Eckville; Olds at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 5:30 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Red Deer Steel Kings at Sylvan Lake, 2:45 p.m.; Bow Valley at Olds, 2:45 p.m.; Wheatland at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Airdrie at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Grande Prairie at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview vs. NWS, Vikings vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, Rusty Chuckers vs. Triple A Batteries, 4:15 p.m.; Wells Furniture vs. Carstar, Sheraton Red Deer vs. Driven, Alken Basin vs.

Johns Mansville, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

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FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Argonauts 23, RedBlacks 5 First Quarter Tor — TD Chiles 12 pass from Harris (Waters convert) 4:54 Tor — TD Owens 3 pass from Harris (Waters convert) 6:09 Second Quarter Tor — FG Waters 39 0:23 Tor — FG Waters 22 11:47 Third Quarter Ottawa 0:04..

Ottawa — Single Maher 54 12:33 Fourth Quarter Ottawa — FG Maher 22 3:18 Tor — FG Waters 45 7:44 Ottawa 0 0 2 3 — 5 Toronto 14 6 0 3 — 23

Punts-average Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

58-4 45-8 24:35

21-7 90-7 35:25

Net offence is yards passing, plus yards rushing, minus team losses such as yards lost on broken plays.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Ottawa: Johnson 2-19, Burris 3-15, Finch 7-12, O’Brien 2-4. Toronto: Slaton 7-27, Woodson 6-17, Owens 1-16, Harris 3-14, Gale 2-2.

Receiving Ottawa: Paden 2-89, Poole 3-57, Miles 5-44, Macdonell 3-22, Finch 3-16, Lavoie 2-14, Carter 2-13.

Toronto: Chiles 6-101, Barnes 6-72, Owens 6-39, Slaton 3-35, Watt 3-25, Woodson 1-8, Bradwell 1-1.

Passing Ottawa: O’Brien 13-25-161-0-1, Burris 7-13-94-0-1.

Toronto: Harris 26-36-281-2-1.

Stampeders 33, Lions 16 First Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 13 3:49 B.C. — FG McCallum 18 7:54 Second Quarter Cgy — TD Rogers 21 pass from Tate (Paredes convert) 0:49 B.C. — FG McCallum 47 6:07 Cgy — TD Moniz 1 run (Paredes convert) 12:42 B.C. — TD Arceneaux 46 pass from Glenn (McCallum convert) 13:59 Cgy — TD Rogers 24 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 14:37 Third Quarter B.C. — FG McCallum 27 8:58 Cgy — FG Paredes 26 12:39 Fourth Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 41 3:42 Cgy — FG Paredes 14 12:42 Calgary 3 21 3 6 — 33 B.C. 3 10 3 0 — 16 Attendance — 33,752 at B.C.

Attendance — 19,687 at Toronto.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Passes made-tried Returns yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-Lost Sacks by

Ottawa Toronto 15 21 50 76 255 281 305 357 38-26 36-20 141 21 1-28 2-0 0-0 0-0 1 3

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Passes made-tried Returns yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-Lost Sacks by Punts-average

Calgary 24 55 414 469 38-26 159 2-10 0-2 5 23-3

B.C. 23 122 312 434 36-27 111 1-43 0-2 0 39-3

Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

10-9 30:22

73-3 29:38

Net offence is yards passing, plus yards rushing, minus team losses such as yards lost on broken plays.

New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay

4 3 2 1

4 0 5 1 6 0 7 0 North L T 2 0 3 0 5 0 5 0 West L T 1 0 3 0 4 0 5 0

.500 .389 .250 .125

227 177 192 150

198 236 221 245

Pct .750 .625 .444 .375

PF 162 222 168 180

PA 126 191 199 222

Pct .875 .625 .500 .375

PF 192 202 168 149

PA 156 174 178 220

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Calgary: Mallett 10-31, Parker 1-17, Tate 1-4, Moniz 3-3. B.C.: Logan 17-117, Beck 1-3, Lochard 1-2.

Receiving Calgary: McDaniel 12-165, West 5-87, Rogers 4-77, Charbonneau-Campeau 2-53, Mallett 1-13, Parker 2-13, Walter 1-6. B.C.: Arceneaux 6-89, Jackson 5-77, Logan 6-70, Gore 5-56, Poblah 2-19, Lumbala 2-1.

Passing Calgary: Tate 14-20-206-1-1, Mitchell 13-18-208-10. B.C.: Glenn 26-36-312-1-2.

Detroit Green Bay Minnesota Chicago

W 6 5 4 3

Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis

W 7 5 4 3

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 2 0 .778 281 Buffalo 5 3 0 .625 178 Miami 5 3 0 .625 211 N.Y. Jets 1 8 0 .111 154 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 6 3 0 .667 290 Houston 4 5 0 .444 206 Tennessee 2 6 0 .250 137 Jacksonville 1 8 0 .111 141 North W L T Pct PF Pittsburgh 6 3 0 .667 248 Cleveland 6 3 0 .667 209 Cincinnati 5 3 1 .611 197 Baltimore 5 4 0 .556 240 West W L T Pct PF Denver 6 2 0 .750 245 Kansas City 5 3 0 .625 200 San Diego 5 4 0 .556 205 Oakland 0 8 0 .000 129

Sunday’s Games San Francisco at New Orleans, 11a.m.

Kansas City at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Miami at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Dallas vs. Jacksonville at London, 11 a.m.

Denver at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Chicago at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Houston, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New England, San Diego, Washington

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 6 2 0 .750 Dallas 6 3 0 .667 N.Y. Giants 3 5 0 .375 Washington 3 6 0 .333 South W L T Pct

PA 198 165 151 252 PA 211 197 202 251 PA 219 172 211 174 PA 185 138 186 211

PF 234 230 178 197

PA 177 195 209 229

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Thursday’s Game Cleveland 24, Cincinnati 3

Monday’s Game Carolina at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds provided by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Sunday KANSAS CITY at Buffalo 2.5 41.5 Miami at DETROIT 2.5 43.5 San Francisco at NEW ORLEANS 4.5 49.5 Tennessee at BALTIMORE 9.5 43.5 PITTSBURGH at NY Jets 5.5 45.5 ATLANTA at Tampa Bay 1.5 45.5 DENVER at Oakland 11.5 49.5 Dallas at Jacksonville OFF OFF St. Louis at ARIZONA 7.5 43.5 NY Giants at SEATTLE 9.5 44.5 Chicago at GREEN BAY 7.5 53.5 Monday Carolina at PHILADELPHIA 6.5 48.5

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 5 1 .833 Brooklyn 3 2 .600 Boston 2 3 .400 New York 2 4 .333 Philadelphia 0 6 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Washington 4 2 .667 Miami 3 2 .600 Charlotte 3 3 .500 Orlando 2 4 .333 Atlanta 1 3 .250 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 5 1 .833

GB — 1.5 2.5 3 5 GB — 1/2 1 2 2 GB —

Detroit Milwaukee Cleveland Indiana

2 3 .400 2 4 .333 1 3 .250 1 5 .167 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 6 0 1.000 Houston 6 0 1.000 Dallas 4 2 .667 San Antonio 2 2 .500 New Orleans 2 2 .500 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 3 2 .600 Minnesota 2 3 .400 Utah 2 4 .333 Denver 1 3 .250 Oklahoma City 1 5 .167

2.5 3 3 4 GB — — 2 3 3 GB — 1 1.5 1.5 2.5

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

Pacific Division W L Pct 4 0 1.000 5 1 .833 3 2 .600 3 3 .500 0 5 .000

GB — — 1.5 2 4.5

Friday’s Games Chicago 118, Philadelphia 115 Orlando 112, Minnesota 103, OT Charlotte 122, Atlanta 119,2OT Toronto 103, Washington 84 Detroit 98, Milwaukee 95 Boston 101, Indiana 98 Brooklyn 110, New York 99 Memphis 91, Oklahoma City 89 Sacramento 114, Phoenix 112,2OT Dallas 105, Utah 82

Cleveland at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Portland at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Washington at Indiana, 5 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Houston, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

New Orleans at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Orlando at Brooklyn, 1:30 p.m.

Utah at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Miami at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

Denver at Portland, 7 p.m.

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

Transactions BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Promoted Mike LaCassa to assistant director of player development and Jonathan Strangio to manager of major league operations.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Named Gabe Kapler director of player development and Billy Gasparino director of amateur scouting.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Claimed INF Jake Elmore off waivers from Cincinnati.

American Association AMARILLO SOX — Signed RHP Jeremy Gooding. Released C Jody Roberston.

FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Exercised the 2015 option on RHP Curtis Camilli.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Exercised the 2015 option on RHP Greg Holt.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Acquired INF Ryan Cavan from Fort Worth (United) for cash.

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Exercised the 2015 option on RHP Min Hur. Frontier League LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Exercised 2015

options on RHPs Ryan Connelly, Brad Duffy, Zach Gordon, Trevor Longfellow, Jordan McCoy, Brandon Smith, Zac Treece and Jason Wilson; LHPs Todd Kibby, Matt Rein, Andy Roberts, Connor Whalen and Brad Zambron; 1B Joey Burney; OFs Adam Ford and Craig Hertler; Cs Kevin Franchetti, Emmanuel Quiles and P.J. Torres; and INFs Anderson Hidalgo, Vincent Mejia, Juan Sanchez and Trevor Stevens.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed C Zach Komentani to a contract extension.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Signed G Ish Smith.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined San Diego WR Seyi Ajirotutu $27,562, Washington FB Darrel Young $22,050, Baltimore LB Courtney Upshaw $20,000, N.Y. Jets CB Marcus Williams and Carolina LB Thomas Davis $16,537, and Baltimore LB Terrell Suggs, LB Albert McClellan and C Jeremy Zuttah $8,268 for their actions during last week’s games.

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed QB Carson Palmer to a three-year contract extension.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed TE Phillip Supernaw to the practice squad.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Released WR Willie Snead from the practice squad. Signed WR De’Andre Presley to the practice squad.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Released DE Ryan Robinson from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed D Jon Merrill on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 1.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned F Michael Kantor from Hartford (AHL) to Greenville (ECHL).

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Reassigned D Maxim Lamarche from Lehigh Valley (AHL) to Reading (ECHL).

American Hockey League CHICAGO WOLVES — Assigned D Colten Hayes to Alaska (ECHL).

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Returned D Jared Nightingale to Toledo (ECHL).

IOWA WILD — Returned D Nicholas Rioux to Quad City (ECHL).

ECHL GREENVILLE ROAD WARRIORS — Traded F Trevor Parkes to Utah for D Charles-Olivier

Roussel.

TULSA OILERS — Released D Jason Cohen and G Mike Zacharias.

LACROSSE National Lacrosse League MINNESOTA SWARM — Re-signed D Mitch Belisle and Pat Laconi to one-year contracts.

SOCCER Major League Soccer PHILADELPHIA UNION — Named Jim Curtin coach.

National Women’s Soccer League FC KANSAS CITY — Signed M Yael Averbuch.

COLLEGE NCAA — Cleared Notre Dame S Eilar Hardy to play.

BARTON — Announced the resignation of director of athletics media relations and men’s and women’s assistant golf coach Kevin Buczek, effective by the end of the year.

TENNESSEE TECH — Signed baseball coach Matt Bragga to a contract extension through the 2017 season.

VIRGINIA — Suspended men’s basketball F Evan Nolte and G London Perrantes one game.

BUSINESS

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SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 2014

List would track employers paying workers a living wage

Prentice wants access to Asian markets SAYS HE WILL DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO MOVE NORTHERN GATEWAY FORWARD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says he’ll “do what needs to be done” to help move forward the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline and to gain access to Asian markets for the province’s oil and gas.

Prentice was asked Friday if he would take a direct role in negotiating with chiefs in the areas of northern B.C. where the pipeline is supposed to run.

“I’m not going to get into that today, but I’ll tell you this — our prosperity in this province depends on our ability to access global markets. Otherwise we don’t get global prices and I will do what is needed to be done as premier of this province to make sure we realize that potential,” he said.

There has been stiff opposition to Enbridge Inc.’s (TSX:ENB) Northern Gateway pipeline, which would transport 525,000 barrels of oilsands crude to a tanker port at Kitimat, B.C. It received a federal permit to go ahead in June, subject to 209 conditions, but Enbridge has signalled it does not intend to make a final decision to break ground any time soon and is attempting to gain support from B.C. First Nations along its route from Alberta to the West Coast.

Prentice spent years in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet, including time in the posts of Indian Affairs, Environment and Industry.

He was hired by Enbridge after leaving federal politics to try to bring First Nations on board with the proposed pipeline.

Prentice said he and B.C. Premier Christy Clark are on the same page on issues such as trade, Asia Pacific markets and Northern Gateway.

“The point we both have agreed on is when you have Alberta and British Columbia working together, we are an incredible force in the entire Asia Pacific basin. That will include (liquid natural gas) and it will certainly involve oil as well,” he said.

Clark has said that B.C.’s five conditions on the pipeline remain in place, including that her province receive a fair share of economic benefits. On the fair-share issue — the most contentious in Alberta — Prentice would only say “the premier of British Columbia has never at any time suggested that British Columbia should have access to Alberta’s royalties.

“That has never been up for discussion, it certainly is not up for discussion,” he said.

“The discussion we’ve had is how we work together to realize the full potential of trading into the Asia Pacific basin. I am fully confident we will have a constructive working relationship and that we’ll be able to deal with the issues British Columbia has raised in the past.”

Prentice has made a concerted effort to reach out to First Nations communities since becoming premier in mid-September.

Prentice noted Friday that there are “unacceptable gaps” in prosperity and employment between aboriginals and non-aboriginals.

Last week, he met with leaders of the Lubicon Lake Cree in northern Alberta to discuss negotiations on a land settlement, workforce training and education. The Lubicon band was missed by federal treaty makers in the early 1900s and the band claims it has never given up rights to any of its northern territory.

On the issues of the Keystone XL pipeline through the U.S. — one of the other major projects Alberta is pushing — Prentice told reporters he is “cautiously optimistic” after the results of the U.S. mid-term elections, which saw the Republicans gain control of the Senate.

“We’re hopeful. We’re respectful of the American political process,” he said. “At some point I fully intend to go to the United States to speak with people individually and probably to speak publicly.”

Prentice said a date for his U.S. visit has not been determined.

YOGA NATION

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Yoga instructor/co-owner Justina Waschuk leads a group in a yoga foundations beginner class at the new YogaNation location in Clearview Market Square. Opened on October 27 YogaNation offers 30 classes per week in Powerflow Vinyasa, gentle restorative Yin and beginner classes in both hot and cool rooms. For information on YogaNation go to www.YogaNationRedDeer.com

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Soon everyone will know which employers in Central Alberta are meeting the basic needs of their workers by providing them with a living wage instead of a minimum wage.

Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Alliance recently determined that a living wage is $14.75 per hour for the region. By comparison, the province’s minimum wage is $10.20.

“Certainly by spring of 2015, we will be able to really start getting momentum around establishing that list and asking employers to consider participating,” said alliance member Danielle Klooster at the Living Wage Breakfast held on Friday. The breakfast attracted 52 people, including 28 business representatives.

“It’s got to be a grassroots initiative that catches fire and goes by word of mouth and becomes a social movement that people want to become part of.”

But first the alliance is inviting businesses to help determine other living wage criteria, such as a focus on full-time jobs instead of part-time.

Klooster said work on the criteria will likely begin early next year.

Meanwhile, recognition of businesses providing a living wage had already begun at the breakfast.

Jeremy Jablonski, president and general manager of The Coverall Shop, of Red Deer, said he was surprised to learn his company was a “living wage champion” and that he was asked to speak at Friday’s breakfast.

“It always seemed intuitive to me if you paid your staff above-average wages, your returns will come back tenfold,” said Jablonski, whose company pays an hourly internal wage of $15 and all but one of staff are full-time.

His mother is Red Deer South MLA Mary Anne Jablonski.

He said the benefits of a living wage are multiple.

“Employers will see a happier, more motivated workforce. They will have less turnover, less training costs and better overall performance. Employers will see an improved level of customer loyalty and that will lead to improved revenues.”

He said employees and their families have a higher quality of life, with better health and wellness and educational opportunities. The community benefits with higher consumer spending, higher civic engagement, and less poverty and crime.

“It isn’t easy, but from my vantage point it’s the right way to grow an ethical company and to be a responsible entrepreneur,” Jablonski said.

Brooke Einerson-Schaab, general manager at 360 Fitness of Red Deer, said turnover is a huge problem with personal trainers in the fitness industry so her company pays more than the industry standard, and has developed perks that employees really notice and appreciate, like sending a cleaning lady to their homes.

“We realized if we sent someone to their house to clean their bathroom and kitchen, they’re going to realize, especially our 20-year-old boys — trust me,” Einerson-Schaab said with a smile.

Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas said as a former employer, it makes tremendous sense to be thinking about the well-being and welfare of not only employees, but their families.

“That’s a key part of any business,” said Dallas, who attended the breakfast to learn more about the living wage.

He said Premier Jim Prentice and colleagues in the legislature want to keep up with alliance’s initiative. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Relationship stress negatively affecting job Dear Working Wise: I’m worried about my friend at work. She’s distracted and nervous all the time.

She has told me about troubles in her relationship and I suspect that her partner is verbally abusive and may even hit her, but she won’t leave him and it seems to be getting worse. She’s also close to losing her job, because she’s always away due to her stress.

What can I do? — Worried at Work Dear Worried: No one likes to talk about family violence and most workplaces treat it as a private matter.

But no matter how hard we try to ignore it, the effects of family violence creep into our workplaces, causing: ● higher turnover; ● lower productivity; ● higher absenteeism; ● higher workplace instability; ● increased risk of alcohol and drug abuse; ● increased risk of violence in the workplace.

Unfortunately, Alberta has the second-highest rate of spousal violence among the provinces. The social, health and criminal justice costs of family violence are estimated at more than $4 billion per year in Canada, with Alberta’s share likely close to half a billion.

Not many years ago, suspected alcohol and drug abuse was regarded as a private matter. However, when the links between substance abuse and

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productivity were clearly established, many workplaces responded with programs to help employees deal with these issues.

In a similar way, programs, resources and support offered in the workplace can play an important role in preventing family violence.

As a supervisor or co-worker, you can offer support in the following ways: ● Express your concern CHARLES (e.g., “Something seems to be STRACHEY going on, can I help?”) ● Listen carefully without WORKING being judgmental. ● Tell them that you beWISE lieve them and acknowledge their feelings. ● Let the person know that no one deserves to be abused, that family violence is a crime, and that they are not responsible for the abuser’s behaviour. ● Acknowledge the danger. Don’t downplay the situation or suggest the person try harder. ● Don’t offer advice or try to fix the situation. ● Encourage them to seek professional help and

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support. Become familiar with employee-wellness programs offered by your company or family violence resources available through community agencies. ● Ask if they want your help accessing services, but respect their decision if they say, “No.” ● Keep yourself safe — don’t confront the abusive person.

You can also help raise awareness of family violence: ● Display information in your workplace about family violence and resources for victims.

• Sponsor a workplace event to raise awareness during Family Violence Prevention Month (November) — http://humanservices.alberta.ca/abuse-bullying.

For more tips on spotting family violence and what co-workers and managers can do to help prevent it, read the Family Violence Prevention tip sheet on the ALIS website at: http://alis.alberta.ca.

The Alberta Council of Womens’ Shelters also offers an Employer Toolkit at www.acws.ca/an-employers-toolkit.

If you want advice or need more help, call the tollfree Family Violence Info Line at 310-1818.

Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. He can be contacted at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.

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that Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) could be interested in going after Norfolk Southern, the second-largest railway in the eastern U.S. CP made a pitch to U.S. carrier CSX in October but talks didn’t result in a deal.

Canadian Pacific director Bill Ackman, founder of CP shareholder Pershing Square Capital, said CSX is not the only potential merger partner. “I think the risk with CSX is we merge with” a rival to the Jacksonville, Fla.,based carrier. CP fell $1.16 to $233.85 while Norfolk Southern gained 1.9 per cent.

The TSX finished ahead 78 points or 0.5 per cent at the end of a volatile week in which energy shares were whipsawed as a move by Saudi Arabia to cut prices to its American customers pushed oil prices to three-year lows. The Dow gained 184 points or 1.05 per cent on the week.

A higher U.S. dollar had also pressured commodities and resource stocks but the energy group, which makes up 25 per cent of the TSX, ended the week higher, up about three per cent.

But it’s still down a good five per cent over the past month.

“You really had this perfect storm brew for the downside,” Jerusalim said.

Resource stocks were supported by commodities which advanced while the greenback weakened following the American jobs data.

The base metals sector jumped 6.76 per cent as December copper rose two cents to US$3.03 a pound, while the gold sector gained about 7.3 per cent as December bullion added $27.20 to US$1,169.80 an ounce.

The energy sector rose 2.7 per cent as December crude climbed 74 cents to US$78.65 a barrel.

The health sector fell seven per cent. Senior care company Extendicare (TSX:EXE) is selling its U.S. business for about C$922 million. Its stock was down $1.41 or 17.4 per cent to $6.70.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan buying up BlackBerry shares TORONTO — The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is buying into the future of BlackBerry as the smartphone company pushes forward with its recovery effort.

In documents filed with U.S. regulators on Friday, the pension plan disclosed the purchase of 7.79 million shares of BlackBerry during the third quarter ended Sept. 30.

The latest purchase makes Teachers one of the Top 10 holders of BlackBerry shares, according to data compiled

by Thomson Reuters.

In total, Teachers now holds 8.23 million shares in BlackBerry, worth about US$86.7 million as of Friday’s closing stock price.

The Waterloo, Ont.,based hardware and services company began a dramatic turnaround attempt a year ago when it hired John Chen as its chief executive officer.

Chen, a seasoned veteran of the technology industry, immediately began an effort to reshape BlackBerry as a leaner operation focused mainly on the business community.

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 81.27 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 67.48 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.15 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.94 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.10 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.33 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 47.34 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 79.83 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.23 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 54.09 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.65 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 81.08 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.07 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.80 Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,690.83, up 127.45 points Dow — 17,573.93, up 19.46 points S&P 500 — 2,031.92, up 0.71 of a point Nasdaq — 4,632.53, down 5.94 points

Canada adds 43,100 jobs in October THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s latest labourmarket survey says the country’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.5 per cent last month, it’s lowest level since November 2008.

Statistics Canada said Friday the economy generated 43,100 net new jobs in October, pushing the jobless rate down 0.3 percentage points from September.

Economists had predicted the economy to lose 5,000 jobs in October and for the unemployment rate to remain unchanged, according to Thomson Reuters.

The October gain follows an increase of 74,100 jobs for September, which marked the first time since December 2012 that the agency’s roller-coaster jobs report recorded two consecutive months of employment growth.

The report found employment was up one per cent from a year ago, with the increases of the past two months making up about two-thirds of that boost.

Provincially, the survey listed job gains in Manitoba, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, while employment decreased in New Brunswick. Other provinces saw only marginal changes in employment.

In the manufacturing sector, there were 33,200 more jobs in October compared to the previous month, and the industry saw a two per cent increase from a year ago.

Meanwhile, the survey said the natural resources sector shed 22,200 jobs in October, delivering a 6.2 per cent decline in the industry over the last 12 months.

The agency says the youth unemployment rate for October fell 0.9 percentage points to 12.6 per cent as fewer young people searched for work.

Currencies at close: Cdn — 88.24 cents US, up 0.72 of a cent Pound — C$1.7991, down 1.01 cents Euro — C$1.4115, down 0.26 of a cent Euro — US$1.2455, up 0.79 of a cent Oil futures: US$78.65 per barrel, up 74 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,169.80 per oz., up $27.20 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $18.577 oz., up 23.1 cents $597.25 kg., up $7.43 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $1.60 lower $451.10; Jan ’15 $1.60 lower $435.10; March ’15 $0.70 lower $432.50; May ’15 $1.60 lower $431.20; July ’15 $2.20 lower $430.10; Nov ’15 $1.60 lower $425.00; Jan. ’16 $1.60 lower $432.10; March ’16 $1.60 lower $435.90; May ’16 $1.60 lower $435.90; July ’16 $1.60 lower $435.90; Nov. ’16 $1.60 lower $435.90.

Barley (Western): Dec. ’14 $8.00 higher $154.00; March ’15 $8.00 higher $158.00; May ’15 $8.00 higher $158.00; July ’15 $8.00 higher $158.00; Oct. ’15 $8.00 higher $158.00; Dec. ’15 $8.00 higher $158.00; March ’16 $8.00 higher $158.00; May ’16 $8.00 higher $158.00; July ’16 $8.00 higher $158.00; Oct. ’16 $8.00 higher $158.00; Dec. ’16 $8.00 higher $158.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 572,060 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 572,060.

billion on its proposed export facility at Kitimat, on British Columbia’s northwest coast.

Officials for LNG Canada, a joint venture company that includes Shell Canada Energy (TSX:SHC), PetroChina, Korea Gas Corp., and Mitsubishi Corp., say the project will also create up to 7,500 jobs in the construction phase.

There’s an expectation the construction of the plant will contribute $94 million in regional and municipal taxes annually and $15 million in annual taxes when the facility is operating.

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The S&P/TSX composite index jumped 127.45 points to 14,690.83. The weaker American currency and a strong Canadian employment report sent the loonie up 0.72 of a cent to 88.24 cents US. The Canadian economy created 43,100 jobs last month.

Economists had forecast the country would actually shed about 5,000 jobs after adding 74,000 in September. The Canadian unemployment rate dropped sharply from 6.8 per cent to 6.5 per cent, the lowest since November 2008.

New York markets were generally lacklustre after the U.S. economy generated 215,000 positions in October, lower than the 235,000 reading that economists had expected. However, the U.S. jobless rate also fell, dropping to 5.8 from 5.9 per cent. Also, U.S. job creation estimates for the past two months were revised upward by 31,000.

New York’s Dow industrials climbed 19.46 points to 17,573.93, the Nasdaq declined 5.94 points to 4,632.53 and the S&P 500 index was up 0.71 of a point to 2,031.92.

Some analysts were curious about the market reaction since the data showed that employers have now added at least 200,000 jobs for nine straight months — the longest such stretch since 1995.

“It’s an example of shoot first and ask questions later,” said Craig Jerusalim, portfolio manager at CIBC Asset Management.

“It wasn’t all that bad. There’s still over 200,000 jobs (created), the participation rate picked up, the unemployment rate came down nicely, people are going back to work. Why? Because the economy is starting to gain some proper momentum and fundamental strength in my view.”

In other corporate developments, Bloomberg reported

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Photos by HENNIE DOORNENBAL/ freelance After stops and starts due to quirky weather, Central Alberta’s Foodgrains

Project harvest in Ponoka and Lacombe finally finished up in mid-October.

Now in its 31st year, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a Winnipeg-based interdenominational group, is dedicated to resolving hunger issues around the world.

Third time was the charm for Lacombe’s Central Alberta Foodgrains Project harvest.

Twice postponed because of wet weather, organizers were finally able to wrap up the annual harvest in midOctober to raise money for Foodgrains.

A barbecue was free but people were free to make donations to the cause.

Starting on a Friday, five swathers handled difficult conditions in swathing the crop for Saturday’s harvest.

The crop was uneven and flat in many spots due to the September snowfall, and so the work was difficult.

But it was all done on Friday so it could be combined on Saturday.

The great perseverance shown by the five farmers who dedicated their time and machinery paid off.

The Lacombe group raised $61,468 from the wheat crop and barbecue on Saturday.

They averaged 75 bushels per acre on the 175 acres and most of the crop graded No. 2. This is excellent given the conditions they had in the fall with snow and rain.

In all, eight combines, a grain cart, four grain trucks and a baler to bale the straw were put into action.

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About 100 people enjoyed the barbecue under sunny and relatively warm conditions.

Next year is the 20th project in Central Alberta and organizers are already planning for it.

In Ponoka, the harvest got underway on Monday, Oct. 6, after an earlier cancellation due to wet weather at a field south of Ponoka.

There were 165 acres seeded into wheat, which yielded 42 bushels to the acre — slightly down due to an early snowfall in September.

The wheat was sold to local poultry producers and raised $32,000. However, with cash donations and straw bale sales, the harvest raised $40,000, said Larry Henderson, Ponoka Foodgrains Project committee member.

Henderson said the committee was pleased to have nine combines, and five trucks, and around 100 volunteers help out on harvest day despite strong winds and threatening rain.

Ponoka Foodgrains Project wishes to thank the farmers, volunteers, donors, and businesses who supported the project.

All money raised in Foodgrains projects is matched at a four-to-one ratio by the Canadian government.

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Council must approve jobs $3 MILLION IN GRANT MONEY TIED TO CITY CONTRACT WITH AHS Administration will ask Red Deer city council to tweak the 2014 budget to pave the way for 20.5 new full-time positions in the Emergency Services Department on Monday.

Roughly $3 million in grant money was finalized recently, allowing the city to fulfil contractual obligations with Alberta Health Services. At the time of the budgeting last year, the figures were not finalized.

A total of 16.5 full-time equivalent positions will work in Emergency Services and another four will work in Information Technology.

City documents say approval is required ahead of the upcoming 2015 budgets in order to be compliant with

the new contract.

Other council matters on the agenda Monday: ● In an effort to encourage winter usage of the city’s outdoor recreational and gathering spaces, including Ross Street Patio, council will discuss a new winter strategy.

The issue was first brought up when council decided to hold off on piloting a winterized patio in September.

Council asked that the Ross Street Patio be discussed as an overall strategy for an outdoor winter activities. ● Council will consider first reading on the Northeast High School Site and Play Fields site plan as a long-term development of the site.

The plan area consists of nearly 56 acres of city-owned land northeast of where 67th Street and 30th Avenue will intersect following their future realignment.

The eastern portion of the parcel would be earmarked for the high school construction, which is expected to occur over the next 10 to 25 years.

Each of the Red Deer Public School District, the Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division and the Greater North Central Francophone Education Region will eventually build a school on the site northeast of the 67th Street and 30th Avenue intersection. ● Council will also hear a report on Greening the Fleet, the transportation

initiative designed to reduce its carbon foot.

One of the city’s initiatives under the air component of the Environmental Master Plan is to reduce petroleum fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

City administration will recommend continuing programs such as Idle Free Program and approving long-term initiatives such as migrating from diesel to compressed natural gas in the city’s fleet. ● A public hearing will be held on the Timberstone Park Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan before council considers first and second reading at 6 p.m.

FINAL DAYS OF FINE WEATHER?

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A stretch of fine weather in Central Alberta made it easy for people to get out and enjoy the outdoors, but the trend is about to change. Here a cyclist pedals along the bike paths in Red Deer at Bower Ponds. On Thursday at 3 p.m., Environment Canada recorded a high temperature at the Red Deer Regional Airport of 18C. Friday was cooler, with a high of 5C, and forecasters expect snow or rain today. And cooler weather will be upon us next week.

Tour booklet reveals Red Deer’s war memorials

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF For the first time, Central Albertans can commemorate Nov. 11 by touring Red Deer sites linked to local soldiers and the wars they fought.

The City of Red Deer is making it easy with the War Memorial Heritage Tour, a self-guided tour booklet that lists 10 sites with war memorials to those who served in the Boer War, First and Second World Wars, Korean Wars and peacekeeping missions.

Another three sites played huge roles during the First World War, like the CPR Station where many families saw their young men for the last time, said Janet Pennington, the heritage community development co-ordinator with the city.

“At the start of the First World War, we had somewhere between 2,600 to 2,800 people in Red Deer and North Red Deer and 850 enlisted. That’s like a quarter of our population today —

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BRIEF Benalto artist More introduces new work The ever-increasing turbulence of our skies has inspired the latest exhibit of paintings by Benalto artist David More.

Thirteen of More’s recent works — 10 oil paintings and three chalk pastels — are showing in the Vanishing Point exhibit at the Coconut Room cafe, upstairs at Sunworks.

The artworks depict the change More has noticed in our climate and the skies in the past decade or more.

He feels it due to global warming caus-

28,000 to 30,000 people. That’s absolutely phenomenal,” Pennington said.

The booklet, available for free, was released at the end of July to coincide with the centennial of the start of the First World War. The cover of the 40-page tour book features the wax model of the soldier used for the Red Deer Cenotaph. Five sites listed are located in the downtown. The rest are spread out through the city.

“This is meant to be a real tribute to those people throughout the history of this community, and Central Alberta, that either served in the armed forces or somehow aided in the war effort.”

Booklets are available for the public at Red Deer Tourism, each branch of the Red Deer Public Library, City Hall, Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, and online at www.reddeer.ca/ about-red-deer/history/heritage/explore-our-heritage/heritage-tours.

For more information, call Pennington at 403-309-6270. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com ing more extreme weather patterns.

An opening reception will be held tonight from 5 p.m. Everyone is welcome, but should RSVP Sunworks at 403-341-3455.

New artwork on display at Lacombe gallery New artworks by Vivian Bennett are on display at the Gallery on Main in Lacombe.

Bennett is a Red Deer-area artist who tells stories through her paintings, which are created through use of spaces and shapes.

“This process of telling my stories within the confines of my Prairie culture continues to motivate and challenge my skills as an artist,” she said.

An opening reception will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15, at the gallery. The show runs to Dec. 5.

The cover of the self-guided tour booklet on Red Deer’s war memorial sites. The booklet is available at Red Deer Tourism, City Hall, all Red Deer Public Library branches, the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, and online.

The gallery’s Light Up the Night show and sale on Nov. 27 will feature the works of 80 Alberta artists.

A wide selection of original art, as well as music, refreshment and goodies will be available from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

For more information, visit www. thegalleryonmain.com.

Grain bags slashed open, police investigating Farmers who have stored grain in their fields are being advised to keep watch on the sites in light of a recent incident near Clive.

Blackfalds RCMP were notified earlier this week that someone had slashed open a long plastic bag used to store wheat after the fall harvest.

The slash laid the bag open, exposing the grain to the elements and to

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marauding wildlife.

The vandalism was not clearly visible from the road or the farmyard and therefore went unnoticed until a hunter reported the damage to the farmer who owns the grain.

Attempts are underway to recover as much grain as possible before it becomes damaged by rain, snow and raiding deer.

RCMP have no suspects, nor had their been similar reports as of Friday afternoon, said Cpl. Barry Larocque of the Blackfalds detachment.

Investigators need to hear from any others in the area or beyond who have suffered similar damages, said Larocque.

Anyone with information that may help the investigation is asked to call the Blackfalds RCMP complaint line, 403-885-3333. To remain anonymous, submit information online to www. tipsubmit.com or call Crime Stoppers, 1-800-222-8477.

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Woman upset by mother’s spoiling of sister Dear Annie: I am the middle sis- paying rent, her credit is no good, and ter of three. My mother has always fa- she can’t find anybody who will rent to voured my younger sister, “Louise,” her. She has three young children who despite periods of seriously bad be- are living with my son (her father) and haviour. his wife.

Mom has bailed Louise I am 83 years young and out of numerous poor ficannot have the children nancial decisions. She also here. It’s bad enough that takes her and her son on her dog is here. It also isn’t cruises and buys them exright that my son, who is 66 pensive presents. with several disabilities, is I recently found out that raising another family, but Mom is giving Louise a reguhe and his wife don’t know lar monthly allowance. This how to resolve the situation. is creating some resentIt’s great for me to have ment. my granddaughter here to I feel I’m being punished help me with things I can for working hard and makno longer do, but this can’t MITCHELL ing better choices. Mom says go on. She has a good job, & SUGAR she’ll make it up to me when although it is not full time she passes, but I doubt there and the pay is low. But she will be much left at the rate could afford to rent a place Louise is bilking her. with a roommate.

I make an effort to include my mothWhat advice can you give us? — er in everything with my family, but Can’t Handle Much More Louise only spends time with Mom Dear Can’t: How your son chooses to when she’s being treated to a shopping handle his daughter is up to him. spree.

Please don’t give him unsolicited My older sister is in desperate need advice. Since you can use your grandof assistance, and I want to ask my daughter’s help around the house, conmother to match what she gives to Lou- sider letting her save up some money ise. while you encourage her to find fullAm I being fair or greedy? I am hurt time employment. and confused about what to do. — DisDiscuss taking in a roommate (or tressed Daughter two) in a place of her own, although it Dear Daughter: This has nothing to would be difficult to find a setup that do with fairness. Your mother is play- will also accommodate three young ing favourites, and your resentment is children. perfectly understandable.

We understand that you aren’t crazy Nonetheless, it’s Mom’s money. about this situation, but your choice She is not obligated to give any of her is to let her stay or throw her out. You adult children an allowance, and if she cannot fix the root of her problem, wants to give everything to Louise, that which is earning enough money and is her choice. handling it responsibly.

If it alienates her from her older Dear Annie: Please tell “Lonely in daughters, that is the sad consequence. Pa.,” the 50-year-old virgin, that one Dear Annie: My 42-year-old grand- way to expand his search for a partner daughter is currently living with me. is through Internet dating sites.

She has been evicted twice for not These sites are especially helpful

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one million people in the U.S. have the gene mutation that can cause hemochromatosis.

It is most common among people whose ancestors are of Irish, Scottish, British or Scandinavian ancestry. In fact, the mutation is often called the “Viking Gene.”

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I lost my dear mother to hemochromatosis in 1999. Through genetic testing, I found out that I am a “silent carrier.” Testing is not done routinely.

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THE TREWS IN CONCERT

Staying true to their roots Stage lights at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre dimmed as The Trews began playing the familiar intro of a song that’s come to epitomize Canadian duty and sacrifice.

Highway of Heroes, the band’s stirring single that was certified gold this week, was inspired by the 2006 death in Afghanistan of Capt. Nichola Goddard of Antigonish, N.S. But this fall, LANA “this song takes on extra meanMICHELIN ing,” said the band’s singer Colin MacDonald during Thursday’s concert.

He was referring, of course, to the recent murders of two Canadian soldiers on home soil.

As the mournful sound of synthesized bag pipes melded with the song’s militaristic drumming and wailing guitars, MacDonald’s high, raspy voice filled the theatre: “Carry me home down The Highway of Heroes. ... People above with their flags flying low. ...”

It all made for an electrifying moment — or would have, if not for the unusually expressive interpretive dancing going on in front of me, and the loud jabbering of the selfie-snap-

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ping fans sitting behind me (when they weren’t making for the beer line).

But, I guess, that’s par for the course at a Trews concert. ...

Is there another Canadian group that so successfully straddles the divide between producing beer-hall party music and tunes that capture, so poignantly, life’s disappointments and heartbreaks? If there is, I can’t think of it.

The 700-seat theatre was also nearly full of rapt (and far better-behaved) Trews fans. Dozens of them hung onto the band’s every lyric, often singing the words back to the musicians. Fans stood, four deep, in front of the stage for much of the concert, swaying to melodies, whistling and cheering — and even leaping up in applause midway through to show their appreciation.

The Trews inspire a fervent, headlong devotion — and deservedly so, for the Nova Scotia band puts on an amazing live show.

One of many highlights from the concert was a rousing rendition of Yearning in the first acoustic set. Just as the song’s melody was starting to fade out, the musicians picked up steam again and climaxed in frenzied playing by lead guitarist John-Angus MacDonald, keyboardist Jeff Heisholt, bassist Jack Syperek and drummer Sean Dalton.

The set also included the drownyour-sorrows break-up song The Power of Positive Drinking, and also When You Leave, Ishmael and Maggie, the torchy Hope & Ruin, Oblivion and infectious, harmonica-driven Sing Your Heart Out

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Colin MacDonald leads the Canadian rock band The Trews through their opening acoustic set on Thursday at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre. The second set was plugged in, and both sets were warmly received by local fans.

— which involved the audience doing just that.

The mood turned several shades bluer with 65 Roses, written for the band’s late agent, Paul Gourlie, who died at age 38 of cystic fibrosis. “You can borrow time, but you still run out of days,” sang Colin MacDonald, reinforcing the rarity of a rollicking band that can write that sort of heart-catching lyric.

I Can’t Stop Laughing was a huge favourite that got everyone clapping along, while the funky Hollis and Morris featured bongo drums, as well as an impressive keyboard solo.

The band continued serving up hits in the electric second half, including Not Ready to Go, Paranoid Freak, Tired of Waiting and Poor Ol’ Broken Hearted, which became another audience singalong with some barrelhouse keyboard playing and unusual percussion. (Colin MacDonald remarked that a Red Deer

theatre has never heard so much cow bell and he might well be right.)

There was the new Trews single What’s Fair is Fair, and some trippy psychedelic instrumentals on Hold Me In Your Arms — especially a phenomenal prolonged guitar solo from John-Angus MacDonald, who made his instrument wail, howl and scream before he held it triumphantly over his head.

The show ended (appropriately enough) with People of the Deer — as well as So She’s Leaving.

For most of the concert, Colin MacDonald was too busy singing and playing his heart out to do much chit-chatting. But he did note how long it’s been since his group last played in Red Deer (about four years, since The Trews last performed at the 2010 Central Music Festival).

Let’s hope for a sooner return visit. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Plamondon to spice up Mardi Gras Music Night

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF It’s not too far to Louisiana — just ask Alberta’s Cajun queen Crystal Plamondon.

The singer now based in the Rocky Mountain House area is gearing up to perform Diggy Liggy Lo and other Creole favourites with her band at a Mardi Gras Music Night on Saturday, Nov. 15, at Red Deer Elks Lodge.

One of her biggest fans at the dinner-dance fundraiser for the Central Music Festival will be her southern “sister” Laura LeBlanc, who’s visiting from Lafayette, La. Plamondon met LeBlanc about 20 years ago when she first started performing in the southern state that’s home to Cajun-zydeco music.

The woman was impressed enough

by Plamondon’s singing to invite her to stay at her house. LeBlanc became one of her first Louisiana fans and has since been adopted as an honourary family member.

“For the first 10 years, it was hard ... Cajuns weren’t that friendly. They thought I was copying their culture or trying to use their music to make my name,” recalled Plamondon.

She actually grew up in a fiddleand accordion-playing family and was turned on to the Franco-American roots music as a child by an older cousin enraptured with “ragin’ Cajun” Doug Kershaw.

After a couple of decades of dedicated performances around Louisiana and across North America, she believes other Cajun musicians came to realize “I’m the real deal ...

“Now when I go to Louisiana, young girls say to me, ‘Miss Crystal, because

you (perform), now I play too’ ... they look up to me.”

Plamondon’s family roots extend back to the Acadians, who were driven out of Nova Scotia by the British in 1755-1764.

As the name ‘Cajun’ suggests, some Acadians became French-speaking settlers in Spanish colonial Louisiana.

Plamondon always thought her talent sprang from her father’s musically gifted side of the family, which hails from Quebec and Michigan. But one day her mother told her “you’ve got to get some from the Landry side of the family, too.”

Landry is a Nova Scotian name and Plamondon noted it happens to be “a big Cajun name,” too.

The singer’s Acadian great-grandmother was remembered fondly by Plamondon’s mother. As Plamondon grew up, her Mom would remark on similarities she noticed between her daughter and her grandmother.

“I grow herbs in my kitchen and my mother would walk in and say, ‘Your grandmother’s kitchen smells like this. She always used to grow this herb (thyme) too. ...’

“Or she’d say, ‘My grandmother used to wear earrings just like that. ...’”

Plamondon grew up in the Northern Alberta town of Plamondon, which was founded by her grandfather. She remembers singing for people as a way of getting to stay up late at family gatherings when she was a kid.

She began singing publicly at age 10, and has gone on to record five albums since 1991.

Plamondon has had hits in France and her songs have been played across the world, including West Africa. She has performed on Parliament Hill, the Calgary Stampede and opened for Ce-

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Crystal Plamondon performs with her band at a Mardi Gras Music Night on Nov. 15 at Red Deer Elks Lodge line Dion in the early 1990s.

“We kept in contact for a while and she would give me free tickets to her shows in Alberta, before (her fame) got so mega-worldwide,” recalls Plamondon.

The Alberta singer also sings smooth jazz, country and gospel tunes and wrote a couple of songs for the CBC-TV show Heartland.

She’s looking forward to releasing an new album of original songs next spring tentatively titled Songs from Lit-

tle Heaven Ranch.

Meanwhile, she’s anticipating a great time with fans of her band’s toetapping Cajun music at Mardi Gras Music Night.

Tickets to the 6:30 p.m. benefit at 6315 Horn St. are $150 and are available from www.centralmusicfest.com or by calling 403-886-5745. Proceeds go towards next summer’s Central Music Festival. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Alberta-made films to be shown at RDC

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Eleven short films featuring everything from Count Floyd to puppets and mounting garbage will shown at the Prairie Tales Film Festival next week in Red Deer.

Red Deer College wants to give Central Albertans a rare chance to view a diverse array of Alberta-made shorts over two days, on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14 and 15, at the Welikoklad Event Centre (former City Centre Stage).

RDC alumni and award-winning filmmaker Trevor Anderson made one of the films — which is actually a music video for his Edmonton band, called The Wet Secrets Night Life. (In 2010, CBC Radio 3 put The Wet Secrets’ song Secret March in the Top 20 Best Songs of the 2000s.)

Anderson managed to track down former SCTV actor Joe Flaherty and convince him to reprise his Count Floyd character. In the video, Flaherty, who was also in the cult TV series Freaks and Geeks, plays an immortal vampire who struggles to engage with youth culture.

Anderson is a self-taught, independent filmmaker who studied theatre at RDC before the college launched its Motion Picture Arts program. His

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A scene from the short film/music video The Wet Secrets Nightlife. film The Man That Got Away (2012) won a short film prize at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).

His previous short, The High Level Bridge (2010), was included in the Sundance Institute Art House Project, where it was favourably reviewed by the late Roger Ebert, and also won a special mention as Live Action Short Film at the American Film Institute’s Festival in Los Angeles.

Anderson’s The Island (2009) won Best Short Film at the Pink Apple Fes-

tival in Zürich, Switzerland; and Rock Pockets (2007) won the inaugural Lindalee Tracey Award at Hot Docs in Toronto. It was presented to “an emerging Canadian filmmaker working with passion, humour, a strong sense of social justice, and a personal point of view.”

While Anderson’s films have been shown to select film festival audiences across the world, most Central Albertans have never seen them.

James Wilson, an instructor in the

RDC Motion Picture Arts program, believes Red Deer-area residents would appreciate the chance to view the works of Anderson and other talented Albertans. The filmmakers, in turn, would also gain from developing a local fan following.

The Prairie Tales Film Festival has been put together by the Alberta Media Arts Alliance and Edmonton’s Metro Cinema. It’s an annually curated, touring collection of short films and videos made by Albertan artists, but has only sporadically been screened in Red Deer. Wilson hopes to make it an annual event.

Some of the other films that will be shown are: A Dead Man’s Holiday animation compilation by Pincher Creek’s Don Best; Stepping Lightly, a documentary about the mounting garbage problem, produced by the Edmonton Waste Management Centre; Falling, a short with puppets by Black Diamond filmmaker Zoe Slusar; and Bresial, a film about a young man’s search for identity by Italian-born filmmaker Carlo Ghioni.

The festival goes from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on both nights. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted for student projects in the RDC Motion Picture Arts program. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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A marshmallow man mash-up Big Hero 6 2.5 stars (out of four) Rated: PG Walt Disney meets Marvel Comics in Big Hero 6, but there’s more of a mash-up happening in this animated adventure than perhaps these titans are willing to admit.

The movie is like a variety pack sampler of previous ’toon tales, with obvious lifts from The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, How to Train Your Dragon and Scooby-Doo. Appropriate for a movie that spans the divide between East and West — the action occurs in a San Francisco/Tokyo megalopolis called “San Fransokyo” — there’s also a debt owed to the art and charPETER acters of Studio Ghibli’s vivid HOWELL fantasies, in particular the giant magical caregiver of My Neighbor Totoro.

Yet what Big Hero 6 lacks in originality, it makes up for in charm. Chiefly through the whimsical presence of Baymax, a giant robot companion voiced by Scott Adsit from TV’s 30 Rock.

He’s like brainy HAL 9000 (minus the killer instinct) inside an inflatable suit that resembles the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters or Michelin Tire man from a different commercial realm.

Baymax is the “personal health care companion” of Hiro, a 14-year-old computer whiz, voiced by Ryan Potter, whom at first meeting is busily wasting his youth and talent on back-alley cage matches involving the pint-sized fighter robots he seems to make as easily as PB&J sandwiches.

Hiro’s big brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) takes a paternal interest in the teen and leads him to his workplace, the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology. (Hiro also has a scolding aunt, voiced by Maya Rudolph, since this is one of those Disney family movies were no mom or dad are around.)

While Tadashi works on the robot helper who will become Baymax, Hiro invents an easily reproduced microbot that swarms like a locust infestation but which promises to revolutionize the construction industry.

Such versatility can also be employed to nefarious ends, as is quickly demonstrated in a series of

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This image released by Disney shows animated characters Hiro Hamada, voiced by Ryan Potter, left, and Baymax, voiced by Scott Adsit, in a scene from Big Hero 6. events that include a fire tragedy and the emergence of a masked villain who looks as if he stepped out of a Tim Burton film, yet another influence. It’s a truly scary villain, too, hence the “parental guidance” rating.

Fortunately for Hiro, he’s got Baymax to watch his back, and also to take his blood pressure and administer random health-care advice.

Baymax observes that Hiro suffers from “pubescent mood swings,” but stating the obvious isn’t just a robot thing. A human character makes a comment on the plot at one point, while another complains that he doesn’t understand what the plan is.

Hiro also gets a big assist from goofy guardians of the inner-city galaxy, brainy, goofy and brave pals with names that will go great with their inevitable Happy Meal figurines: Wasabi (Damon Wayans Jr.), Honey Lemon (Genesis Rodriguez), GoGo (Jamie and grandparents coming up to us after the show to tell us how much they enjoyed it,” said George Solomon, one of the singers and the show’s creative consultant.

Tickets to the 7 p.m. revue are $62.35 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

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The genre-bending country and western group the Sadies perform at The Hideout on Tuesday.

Since forming in Toronto in 1994, the Sadies have developed, even perfected, a style of music that’s uniquely their own. Possessing a deep fondness for the best of country, bluegrass and blues, the musicians are equally influenced by everything from 1960s garage and psychedelic rock to surf instrumentals and punk rock — figuring it’s all relevant to the band’s musical explorations.

The Juno Award-winning band has put out four acclaimed albums, including the latest Internal Sounds, which features guest vocals from Buffy Sainte-Marie.

The Sadies — made up of musicians Dallas Good, Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky — have often collaborated with Blue Rodeo and Gordon Downie. The band has also recorded, written and toured extensively with singer Neko Case and has had music featured in films and television shows.

Tickets to the 8 p.m. show are $20 in advance from The Hideout, 53rd Street Music, or Gord’s Smoke Shop, or $25 at the door. For more information, call 403-348-5309.

The comic foibles of two aspiring fashion designers will play out on stage in Cow Patti Theatre’s first dinner theatre production of the season.

Who’s Under Where?, by Marcia Kash and Doug Hughes, opens on Thursday at the Lacombe Golf and Country Club and runs through Dec. 14.

The professional theatre company from Lacombe has gathered a “remarkable herd” of actors from as far as Toronto and Edmonton for this play, which has been translated into five languages and produced more than 100 times in eight countries.

Who’s Under Where? concerns two aspiring fashion designers who hope to get the break of their lives by showing their new Fashion Passion lingerie line to a famous Italian designer. Will their hopes be sabotaged when their jealous husbands jump to the wrong conclusion?

You’ll have to watch the comic hijinks, involving stolen mannequins, a $5-million payout, and a bunch of wacky characters, to find out. “You’ll be holding onto your underwear, trying not to laugh them off during this outrageous, gutbusting comedy,” say the show’s producers.

Who’s Under Where? is the first of two Cow Patti productions for the 201415 season. The second, The Ladies Foursome, by Norm Foster, will be staged from March 4-29.

For more information about brunch and evening shows, including tickets and benefit performances for various local charities, visit www. cowpatti.com or call 403304-6329.

Four Seasons music on stage The popular songbook of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons will be performed in Red Deer once again in OH WHAT A NIGHT. The musical revue returns to the Memorial Centre on Tuesday.

Packed full of hits from the 1960s to late ’70s, the stage show will feature a lineup of favourites, including Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Working My Way Back to You Girl and My Eyes Adored You. Now on their third soldout tour, the singers behind OH WHAT A NIGHT are not depicting the actual Four Seasons group, as in the biographical Jersey Boys, but play themselves as they deliver the melodies and harmonies that are pure nostalgia for many fans.

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Which is more than a little ironic, given the film’s emphasis on the evils of corporate exploitation of noble ideas. Happily, there is Baymax, who is innocent of all cynicism and is all the more enjoyable for it. He gets a charge of doing those fist-bumping tricks that all the cool kids discovered eons ago.

“Are you satisfied with your care?” Baymax asks.

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Churchy phrases that scare off millennials ADDIE ZIERMAN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The statistics are in. The millennials are leaving the church, and nobody seems quite sure what to do about it.

I am one of them. Born in 1983, I belong to the wispy beginnings of the new generation. Here is what I can tell you about millennials: We grew up on easy answers, catchphrases and cliché, and if we’ve learned anything, it’s that things are almost always more complicated than that.

When I returned to church, it wasn’t because of great programs, alluring events or a really cool “café” set up in the foyer. I went back not because of what the church was doing, but rather in spite of it. I went back because I needed community, and because, thanks to a steady dose of medication and therapy, I was finally well enough to root through the cliché to find it.

But not all of us are there yet. For some of us, the clichés are still maddening and alienating. Recently, I asked my followers online for the five church clichés that they tend to hate the most. These were the top five responses: “The Bible clearly says…”

We are the first generation to grow up in the age of information technology, and we have at our fingertips hundreds of commentaries, sermons, ideas, and books. We can engage with Biblical scholars on Facebook and Twitter, and it’s impossible not to see the way that their doctrines – rooted in the same Bible – differ and clash.

We’re acutely aware of the Bible’s intricacies. We know the Bible is clear about some things– but also that much

is not clear. We know the words are weighted to a culture that we don’t completely understand and that the scholars will never all agree.

We want to hear our pastors approach these words with humility and reverence. Saying, “This is where study and prayer have led me, but I could be wrong,” does infinitely more to secure our trust than The Bible clearly says…

“God will never give you more than you can handle” This paraphrased Mother Teresa quote has become so commonplace in Christian culture that I was shocked to learn that it wasn’t in the Bible.

Inherent in this phrase is the undertone that if life has become “more than you can handle,” then your faith must not be strong enough. We millennials may be a bit narcissistic, but we also know the weight of too much. We understand that we need help. Connections. Friendship. Sometimes therapy.

We know that life so often feels like entirely too much to handle. And we want to know that this is okay with you and with God. “Love on” (e.g. “As youth group leaders, we’re just here to love on those kids.”

In addition to sounding just plain creepy, this phrase also has troubling implications. We may understand that we need help, but we certainly don’t want to be anyone’s project or ministry. It may just be semantics, but being loved on feels very different than being simply loved. The former connotes a sudden flash of contrived kindness; the latter is simpler … but deeper. It suggests that the relationship is the point, not the act of love itself.

Black and white quantifiers of faith, such as “Believer, Unbeliever, Back-

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sliding” Millennials are sick of rhetoric that centers around who’s in and who’s out. We know our own doubtful hearts enough to know that belief and unbelief so often coexist. Those of us who follow the Christian faith know that world around us feels truer than the invisible God who holds it together.

Terms like backsliding that try to pinpoint the success (or, more accurately, lack thereof) of our faith, frustrate us. We don’t want to hustle to prove our faith; we don’t want to pretend.

“God is in control . . . has a plan . . . works in mysterious ways” Chances are we believe this is true.

But it’s the last thing we want to hear when something goes horribly wrong in our life. We are drawn to the Jesus who sits down with the down-and-out woman at the well. Who touches the leper, the sick, the hurting. Who cries when Lazarus is found dead…even though he is in control and has a plan to bring Lazarus back to life.

You’ve heard us say that we like Jesus but not the church, and it’s not because we’re trying to be difficult.

It’s because the Jesus we read about enters into the pain of humanity where so often the church people seem to want to float above it.

In the end, it’s not really about what churches say or don’t say. What millennials want is to be seen. Understood.

Loved. Choosing honesty over cliché is a really great place to start.

Addie Zierman is a writer and blogger.

She recently published her debut book, When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love and Starting Over through Convergent Books,

Today Winter Wonderland Tea and Bake Sale will be featured at St. Leonard’s Anglican Church on Nov. 8 from 9 a.m. to noon. Admission is $4 including coffee, tea, and homemade muffins.

Sunday Living Faith Lutheran Church invites everyone to Sunday Worship at Bethany CollegeSide at 10 a.m. The congregation welcomes Pastor Phil Gagnon, Provisional Dean for Canada Mission District of North American Lutheran Church. Contact Ralph at 403-347-9852 or John at 403-341-4022. Coffee and fellowship follow service. Living Faith is a North American Lutheran Church Congregation.

Wednesday, Nov. 12 Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Elnora Drop In Centre. Cowboy boots and hats welcome. Next dates are Nov. 12 and 26. Call 403-749-3361.

Saturday, Nov. 15 Mount Calvary Church Cookie Walk, Craft, Bake, and Quilting Sale will be held on Nov. 15, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Cookie boxes cost $7. Phone 403347-1044.

Sunnybrook United Church Bazaar and Coffee Party goes Nov. 15, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Highlights include crafts, bake table, and white elephant sale. Contact Linda at 4023-347-6073.

Schedule of Services

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Children’s Programs Weekly 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1X2 403-347-2244 “Sharing Faith, Serving Community” website: www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

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Worship Service “Desiring God” Babyfold, Toddler Room, Sunday Club www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Room Sunday Club www.sunnybrookunited.org

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Speaker: Don & Joanne Friesen Inspirational Hymns with Steve & June Potter and Rob & Lynda Purdie

GOOD SHEPHERD 40 Holmes St. 403-340-1022 Rev. Dr. Marc Jerry

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Pastor Phil Gagnon (NALC Canada Dean) Bethany Collegeside 99 College Circle RDC

Sunday Services Services Sunday 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.

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Bahá’í Faith Sundays at 9:30 am and 11:15 am

“ From the moment the soul leaves the body and arrives in the Heavenly World, its evolution is spiritual, and that evolution is: The approaching unto God.” Abdu’lBahá Let us together, all races and faiths, on Tuesday honor those fallen in service to humanity. The Bahá›i community will host an Inter faith open house on Nov. 25th. Call 343-0091 for information. www.bahai.org www.ca.bahai.org

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HOROSCOPES Saturday, Nov. 8 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Gordon Ramsay, 48; Parker Posey, 46; Alfre Woodard, 62 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: There will be a need for you to take a serious look at the commitments you have made to date. You will understand which individuals will need to leave your life.

There will also be an undercurrent of newness and a need for excitement now LARISA MAIRA that will translate OZOLINS into all you do and communicate today. You’ll feel that restless energy and will want to take action now!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will prove to be a year when you take a serious look at your current circumstances. You will definitely be focused on others and the roles they play in your life, either good or bad. You will take action to correct any wrongdoings. Dreams bring much excitement to your career and newness is promised to you within that area of your life this year.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will communicate what’s on your mind today. It will almost seem like inspiration will be brought back into your daily life at a lightning bolt speed. What is it that will create this to happen? It will be a need for more excitement.

You’ll instigate this in others too.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will be communicating your value with regards to your dreams now. There is a sense that you will feel more excited than ever with journeying towards that destination. Take the time needed to properly explain your aspirations with your significant relationships now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You should be feeling quite good today, and will most likely be inspired on a professional level now. There will be added excitement when it comes to your aspirations and with your friends. You will desire the new and will hang out with those who will provide that for you today.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will be in a dreamy state today. Perhaps this is indicative of lack of sleep last night, or maybe you are getting visions from your guides.

Whatever the case, try to stay alert now, there is much excitement coming in for you within your career today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your perspective will be shocked now. Perhaps it will be something that you will read in the news that will provide you with this amazement. Or, simply a close relationship will share some untrue perspective that will shake you awake now.

Share your wisdom with others.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Greater truth will almost emerge like an epiphany today.

You will be a bit taken back because you will almost feel like others will be zoned out. You will not be able to fully express what you have realized with them right away. By the end of the day, all will be fine.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today is not the day to organize any event at work. There will be trouble with planning and organizing and things will just not work out well. On the plus side, others in your life will be keen to help you out if needed today. Rest up, boost that immune system too!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today is an excellent day to give creative projects new inspiration. You will add more flare to your daily life by allowing greater imagination to enter.

Try to see this as an opportunity to allow a little more excitement in your work and all will be wonderful today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There will be some excitement that you will want to join into today.

This will cause some minor miscommunications with family members and those within your home environment now. You will be full of ideas, so go out there and have fun and express yourself!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There is definitely a strong pull towards your dreams.

You will be inspired and full of ideas, but hold off with taking action today.

I know you want some more excitement in your life, but some of these ideas will not work out well. Wait a day to implement them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your career is definitely in focus now. You do not need to spend more in order to claim your rightful stature in your field. You simply have to express your unique stance on life. You have such tremendous wisdom to share with

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SUN SIGNS

BRIEF Bad first date: Woman takes Oregon man’s wallet and runs away after he buys her a milkshake WILSONVILLE, Ore. — Oregon police agree it was a bad first date.

They say a 23-year-old man met a woman for the first time in person Monday night after they talked online.

She hopped into his vehicle at a drivethrough restaurant in Wilsonville, south of Portland, and suggested he buy her a milkshake.

Sgt. Dan Kraus says the man got two $1 bills in change and put them into his wallet, which he left on the centre console. Kraus says the woman grabbed the wallet, got out of the car and ran off. The Oregonian reports the man called 911 and provided the woman’s cellphone number. Officers called her to arrange a meeting at the same res-

us all. Please do share this with us today!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Psychic instincts will be high today.

Trust these instincts when it comes to sales and financial dealings now. Write down any ideas you come up with at home as they will help build your finances and your personal worth. Greater excitement is just around the corner.

Sunday, Nov. 9 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Eric Dane, 42; Robert David Hall, 67; Lou Ferrigno, 63 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will have you communicating and learning a lot through others in your life.

You will feel the need to socialize and whatever you are doing will contribute to the overall good of all involved. The challenge for the day will be with moderation. Do not over promise or over give to others. Look at your abilities realistically and take a balanced approach with all your dealings.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will promise to have you fully engaged with other individuals. You will be more than happy to share your beliefs on a public platform, but do not over promise — this will be your only downfall this year. Try to balance that energy appropriately now, allow for truth to emerge organically and don’t try to push your beliefs and views on others.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is a great opportunity for you to learn a lot today.

Your talents might be recognized, but there is always room for improvement. You will enjoy the company of others and will form closer bonds with those you socialize with today.

Devote your time to what matters most.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will have to be more tolerant of those you interact with.

It is a good day to socialize, but do not over promise or volunteer others into something they just are not capable of. You are starting to learn who you are through them. Become more supportive of their perspective.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There is a great opportunity for you to learn much today.

Go out and socialize, enjoy the company of others. They will teach you more than you can learn on your own. Your daily life will be quite busy and you will be able to interact with very supportive individuals now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There is a great opportunity for you to deeply think about the role you play with those children in your life, or simply the role they play in your life. There will be a lot of fun to be had today,

but do watch out for power struggles. Just go with the flow as best as you can now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today is a good day to get out there and socialize. You will be most happy when giving back to family and those within your household. But do realize you can’t be everything to everyone. Practice moderation today, learn and communicate with friends and groups now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Thinking about everything that has happened in the last month, today is a good day to understand those at work who were supportive towards you. Your creative projects, or perhaps your children, will be highlighted today. Find that balance and value your supportive group.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will want to get out there and socialize with friends today. Just don’t over promise, or give too much. It is a day to enjoy their company and find that balance between give and take. You will be full of ideas now with how to help others, just be sure they want your advice first.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will be sharing news with others that can veer on the darker aspects of life. Do try to present these beliefs with moderation. It is a good day to socialize with many others in the public or for your government concerns now. Others will be supportive, work with them today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Those at a distance or perhaps just a new perspective on life will leave you feeling very good today. Others in your life will be very supportive of you. Your focus will be on learning more and advancing your higher mind today, through school or just communicating.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You will be keen to provide service to groups and friends you have within your work environment today. Perhaps it is simply you giving more of your support that will be highlighted now. Just make sure that you are including your wishes too.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s a lot of chatter going on today. You are definitely becoming more passionate about something at work or simply, you are finding people you can share a closer bond with. Enjoy their company, but just don’t over promise and then feel drained later. Moderation is key.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There is a lot of positive energy coming for you today.

Much can be learnt through interacting with those at home.

Take the lead, allow for your investments to be towards the greater good of others. Allow for that new perspective to light the path forward today!

RAIN BARREL REFLECTION

Mission accomplished: Little green army men in Toy Hall of Fame ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It’s mission accomplished for little green army men.

The moulded plastic must-haves for generations of pretend soldiers were announced as the newest additions to the National Toy Hall of Fame, along with the Rubik’s Cube and bubbles.

The toys enter the Rochester museum after being selected by a panel of expert judges from among a dozen finalists. The other contenders were: American Girl dolls, Fisher-Price Little People, Hess toy trucks, My Little Pony, the skill game Operation, paper airplanes, pots and pans, Slip ’N Slide and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Anyone can nominate a toy, but to become a finalist a toy must have achieved icon status, survived through generations, foster learning, creativity or discovery and have profoundly changed play or toy design.

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LUANN Nov. 8 1976 — A U.S.-Canadian syndicate pays $235,000 for Hanover Hill Barb. It is the highest price ever paid for a cow.

1971 — National Hockey League approves franchises in Long Island and Atlanta. The Islanders and Flames begin play in the 197273 season.

1962 — The federal government orders the Royal Canadian Mint to change the nickel

back to a round shape.

1945 — House of Commons debates creating a new Canadian flag to replace Red Ensign.

1923 — Adolf Hitler makes his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the “Beer-Hall Putsch.”

1917 — Canada’s daily newspapers found a co-operative cross-Canada news gathering service called the Canadian Press with offices in the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec and B.C. 1793 — The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opens to the public for the first time.

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First impressions

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A few key changes to an exterior of a house can make all the difference. With new windows and frames, new paint and brickwork, and an inviting gravel pathway, this house is inviting and easy on the eyes. The exterior before is below.

DESIGN

Pitch perfect In its initial incarnation, the flattopped front bay stuck out like a sore thumb.

Undeterred, we submitted a sketch to our contractor who built a wedge shaped pitched frame which we tiled to echo the lines of the main roof.

Following our rendering to the letter, our chap continued this elevation across the front door to deliver a secondary benefit: a simple covered porch area.

It’s the little touches, you know, that make the biggest difference.

Illusions of grandeur The previous approach was open and insignificant so we gave it serious balls via the addition of a weighty sphere atop each original brick post.

To enhance our vision, we added new custom gates and, completed, the overall impression is of a house that now takes itself seriously.

Couple of options: Home Depot carry a great range of ready-made gates, while specialty suppliers can offer a reliable — and affordable — custom service.

Window-shopping Replacement windows, generally, make a huge difference.

Just like a new, veneered smile, they’ll have your house beaming from ear to ear in no time. First up, we replaced the decaying ’60s frames with Georgian multi-paned updates, a simple step which amplified character.

We also re-envisioned the centre window with a circular unit to punctuate the building’s boxy nature.

Check out custom designed product at Farley Windows, available at Home Depot.

A lick of paint The easiest way to transform anything is with paint and, with today’s high-tech products — and ever increasing colour palette — there’s no limit to what can be achieved.

We kept the roughcast sections white, to contrast beautifully with the brickwork and connect the new polar toned windows and doors.

Discover Aura Waterborne exterior paint in literally thousands of tones at Benjamin Moore.

Jump online and prepare to be dazzled by a veritable Joseph’s coat. ...

Plant ideas Adding window boxes is a great way to provide a softening touch and the perfect means with which to seasonally adjust.

If you don’t have a green thumb, worry not: fake it with good quality ar-

tificial plants.

March purposefully into Canadian Tire to scope top-grade synthetic topiary balls, hanging foliage and boxwood spiral structures.

Grass and gravel Years of horticultural abandon had resulted in a flatlined lawn, so we quote searched a few suppliers before settling on a deal to re-sod the entire front area.

Next, we fashioned a welcoming gravel pathway, a relatively inexpensive move which delivered atmosphere in spades. Literally.

Who, after all, doesn’t love that dreamy, crunchy sound as feet sink into rocky crumbs? It makes us think of affluent country homes and manicured estates.

Score with new doors Fancy a new look without major upheaval? Consider updating front and

garage doors — Rona and Home Depot stock quality ranges.

Alternatively, hold a painting séance and raise the dead. Or, in other words, sand, fill and paint your existing portals to bring them back to life.

Popular colours are white, red, navy or Oxford green, tones that suggest order, style and class.

Finally, to spell out a warm welcome, we throw down a stout doormat; try Home Hardware for a no-fuss selection of tufted lovelies.

With the promise of at lease some dry weather ahead, we recommend tackling all those niggling exterior jobs now (apart from re-turfing, of course: this should be left until warmer times), so get stuck in before the mercury collapses into the very bowels of climatic hell.

Aye, it looks like a long, cold winter.

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Curb appeal, sidewalk seduction or pavement presence: take a tip: the way your exterior presents is critically important, especially if real estate considerations are on the cards.

A well-tended exterior, after all, will tempt dollar value in excess of similar properties that remain — externally — unloved.

So come on — read it and reap: improving your first impression isn’t rocket science.

When, that is, you know what you’re doing.

It may be your ‘tick list’ is minimal (perCOLIN & haps a lick of JUSTIN paint on peeling windows or a whiz round with the lawn mower) and, if this is the case, a concerted effort over a long weekend may elicit great results. With any project that involves structural change, we recommend speaking to the planning department and hiring a licensed contractor to ensure safety issues — and code — are fully observed.

Consider the subject of today’s before and after: a suburban home possessed of no particular pedigree. Appraising the empty house, we observed how a few key changes would make a mighty difference. So we prescribed a mini facelift and watched, proudly, as a character home slowly emerged.

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The open end of a septic system drainage pipe ready for cleaning. Reviving an old system this way is much less expensive and disruptive than a complete rebuild.

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Inset: Masking tape on each side of a caulking joint makes it very easy to create neat results. Peel the tape off right after the caulking is applied and smoothed and it leaves tidy edges.

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Simpler septic system revival Question: What are my options for getting an old septic system to work well again? Sewage drains sluggishly from the tank, and a local contractor says it will cost $15,000 to rebuild it.

Surely there’s a cheaper option, isn’t there?

Answer: Besides being so expensive, rebuilding a septic system is disruptive. It will probably be two or three years before the grass is growing properly again.

All this is why there are so many different additives that claim to revitalize tired septic systems, and in my experience some do work to varying extents.

That said, a completely failed system might not respond to chemical or bacterial treatments applied to the tank only. In cases like this, there still is an alternative to rebuilding that’s worth a try.

Every traditional septic system has buried perforated pipes that allow wastewater to drain into the surrounding soil. When these become clogged and the soil around them unable to absorb water any more, sewage backs up and problems appear.

Jetting is the process of digging down to the ends of the perforated pipes, opening them up and cleaning them out with a high-pressure jet of water.

It’s not work for the faint of heart, but there are professionals who handle this sort of thing. Today’s best tools for doing jetting septic pipes include a

flexible hose that fits onto the end of a pressure washer, in place of the rigid wand that’s normally there. The nozzle on the end of the hose includes one forward-facing stream of water that clears clogs, and several rearward-facing ones the propel the hose into pipes under its own steam.

You don’t push the hose into the pipe, it simply draws itself in. You just hold it back.

Clog Hog (www.cloghog.com; 877-992-5644) is one tool like this that I’ve used with great results.

The jetting treatment completely restored the performance of a failed 25-year-old septic system.

It’s since been performing like new for months.

Steve Maxwell has been Canada’s go-to guy for home maintenance know-how since 1988. Get Steve’s articles and videos for free at www.stevemaxwell.ca.

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Answer: Polyurethane caulking offers one excellent way to seal cracks like these because this product is so very flexible and so sticky. I find it works much better than the usual masonry-based products sold for patching large cracks.

Start by using a screw driver or large nail to knock off any loose bits of concrete along the edges of the crack, STEVE then carefully vacuum up all MAXWELL the dust and debris on the faces of the cracks.

To keep things neat, run a length of two-inch wide tape along the edges of the crack to keep caulking off the floor. You’ll peel this tape off the floor immediately after the caulking is down and smoothed with your finger, so lay down the tape in two-or-three-foot sections.

It’s much easier to lift gooey, shorter pieces off than longer ones, then drop them into a garbage bag.

Since the crack you’ve got is probably deep, stuff something down into the crack before caulking, to limit the amount of caulking required. A half-inchwide crack should be filled with caulking about half an inch deep. Fiberglass insulation is perfect for limiting the depth of caulking.

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Learn all about time-honoured textiles, cook’s kitchens, bed culture, fine dining and more in the inimitable French style.

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Gleaming copper pots, pans, bowls and moulds hang in clear view. Wooden countertops are cluttered with cutting boards, a chef’s collection of knives, small appliances and baskets for breads, fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs.

The décor is most often rustic, where unglazed, oversized squares or octagons of terra-cotta tile have the flavor of Provence, Burgundy and the Loire Valley, where clay is plentiful.

Floors are wood, stone, or black and white tile.

For tips on hanging art, Phillips dedicates a chapter to timeless lessons

taught by the French museums on the art of hanging art, not an easy task. One lesson states, “Whereas small paintings scattered around a room disappear on generous walls, when grouped together and hung inches apart, they make a strong statement.”

There are 12 more lessons — one more reason to seek out this essential guide to French decorating, which provides lessons that can be put into practice anywhere, any time.

Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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I am inspired by many of the details ing charm. found in French design, One of my favourite both old and new. rooms is the harmonious The regal yet comfortable living room shown here. It form of a bergëre chair, the glorifies textiles’ important intricate painted details on qualities. a bedroom dresser, and a There is so much more collection of crystal candleto any fabric when it is sticks are each welcoming wrapped, sewn or hung in symbols of the style. such a way as to show off its True French design plactexture and colour. es value on fine linens for “Luxury is in each deall occasions and puts them tail,” proclaimed Hubert de to use everywhere from Givenchy, French aristocrat tabletops to window dressand fashion designer. ings.

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BARR 1958 - 2014 Marie Barr, of Red Deer, born October 2, 1958 in Calgary, AB passed away peacefully with her family by her side on November 5, 2014 at the Red Deer Hospice following a courageous battle with cancer. Marie is lovingly remembered by her husband Melvin Barr, son Brett (Liesel) Barr, daughter Karlee (Christopher) McNabb; grandsons Taylor and Vanson; parents Roy and Justina Kary; sister Shelley Kary and nieces Jamie Estey and Kelly Roberts. A Celebration of Marie’s life will be held at the Deer Park Alliance Church, 2960 - 39 Street, Red Deer AB on Monday, November 10, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Marie’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 - Arnot Ave, Red Deer AB T4R 3S6.

Condolences to Marie’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

VERSLUIS (nee Mussche) Frances Margaret July 28, 1953 - Nov. 4, 2014 Frances Versluis of Red Deer, AB passed away on November 4, 2014 at the age of 61. She is survived by her loving husband of 43 years Marinus Versluis; two sons James, and Steven (Patricia); two daughters, Tamara (Richard) Walker and Wendy (Trevor) Elgersma and 5 grandchildren Zackary, Brody, Tristen, Kassandra and Abigail. Frances was a long time resident of Red Deer and proud owner of a local Dutch Store called Otherlands Imports. The family wishes to thank the nursing staff, doctors and volunteers at the Red Deer Hospice and Unit 32 of the Red Deer Hospital. Services will be held at the Parkland United Reformed Church of Ponoka County, located at the cross section of Hwy 2a and Spruce Road, just north of Morningside on Monday, November 10, 2014 at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

BROWN M. WAYNE May 15, 1945 - Nov. 7, 2014 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Wayne on November 7, 2014 after a brief illness. Wayne leaves to mourn his passing the love of his life, his spouse Loraie Dallke, his daughters Sherri-Lynn (Scott) Gurney, Michelle Brown (Rick), stepdaughters Lucille (Maurice) Chislett, Sheola (Karl) Menzies, grandchildren Brandon, Asha and Ian, his brother Barry (Karen) Brown, his sister Barb (Gord) Nichol, numerous extended family members and many friends. Wayne was predeceased by his parents Laurison and Laverne Brown.

Wayne was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and grew up in Killarney, MB. He moved to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba and began working for the Manitoba Telephone System in 1966, retiring as district manager in 2003. He was an avid golfer, loved sailing, playing and coaching hockey, gardening and “puttering”.

Wayne loved spending time with his family and friends.

He was a proud husband, father, step-father and grandfather.

He and Loraie enjoyed their first years of retirement spending their summers sailing on their sailboat at Gimli, Manitoba and winters in Red Deer, AB. They also enjoyed travelling around the world to places such as Australia, Hawaii, Mexico, Florida and throughout North America. In December 2008 at the age of 63, Wayne suffered a life altering stroke. Even though he faced many limitations during the past six years he remained positive and enjoyed life to the fullest. He entered Red Deer Regional Hospital on November 1st and had his family by his side until his passing. He was loved by all that knew him and he will be greatly missed. Thank you to the Red Deer Regional Hospital staff who provided exceptional care and compassion to Wayne and his family during his last days. A Memorial Service will be held on Monday, November 10, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150-67 Street, Red Deer. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Wayne’s honour may be made to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, 3942 - 50A Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4E7.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222.

COLE 1922 - 2014 Mr. George Albert Cole of Red Deer, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at the age of 92 years.

A more detailed obituary with family and service information will appear in the Tuesday, November 11th, 2014 edition of the Red Deer Advocate.

Condolences to George’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

WARNER Stephen John 1972 - 2014 Steve passed away surrounded by his family on Thursday, November 6, 2014 in Calgary, AB at the age of 41 years. Steve was born in Porthcawl, Wales and moved to Canada as an infant. He always enjoyed his time in the kitchen and working as a cook at the Red Deer Hospital.

Steve will be lovingly remembered by his sisters, Lynne (Cam) Madsen, Sue (Brent) Sage; Keith (Doreen) Warner; lifelong friend, Ron McTeer; as well as many extended family and friends.

Steve was predeceased by his parents, Mary and Roy Warner. A Celebration of Steve’s Life will be held at the Red Deer Hospital Cafeteria in the Private Dining Room on Monday, November 10, 2014 at 2:45 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Steve’s memory to the Renfrew Recovery Centre, c/o Calgary Health Trust, #800, 11012 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary, AB, T2J 6A5. A special thank-you to Laurie and staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Food Services for their kindness and support. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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Card Of Thanks From Barb & Clay Wilson With many thanks to our family for the party to celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary and to the many friends and relatives who came to celebrate with us.

RODRIGUE Thanks to all my family, friends and neighbors for your kindness during a very difficult time. ~Carol Rodrigue

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WESLEY Debra 1955 ~ 2014 Mrs. Debra Wesley of Lethbridge, beloved wife of Mr. Ray Wesley, passed away on November 4, 2014 at the age of 59 years.

Debbie will be sadly missed after a short battle with ALS. She was an avid gardener, enjoyed her yard and maintained it meticulously.

Debbie was a generous, gracious, encouraging person, and opinionated. Relationships were important to her and she loved family and friends, especially her grandchildren.

Debbie and her husband, Ray, enjoyed traveling. They especially loved traveling to Mexico, enjoying their adventures together. You always know it was summer the day Debbie put on her infamous tie-dye dress. She will be sorely missed by family, friends and everybody that knew her. Besides her loving husband Ray, Debra is survived by her parents Rose and Clayton Dalwood; children Scott (Shannon Craven), Jodie Craven (Allan MacDairmid), Chelsea Stringam (Jeff Ainscough); step children Doreen (Martin) Vandermaaten and Kelly (Michelle) Wesley; brother Miles Dalwood; sister Cheryl Dalwood; as well as numerous grandchildren, aunts and uncles and their families.

Debra was predeceased by her grandparents Anne and Ray Bernas of Westlock, Alberta, Christine and Thomas Dalwood of Eston, SK. A Graveside Service will be held at 3:00 PM on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY, Lethbridge, AB. A Celebration of Life will be held following the service at the COAST HOTEL, 526 Mayor Magrath Drive, Lethbridge, AB T1J 3M2.

In lieu of flowers, those who wish may make donations to ALS Canada 3000 Steeles Avenue East, Suite 200, Markham, Ontario L3R 4T9.

Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to MARTIN BROTHERS FUNERAL CHAPELS LTD. Send condolences at www.mbfunerals.com

In Memoriam In Loving Memory of Allan Green who passed away two years ago, November 9, 2012 Time changes many things, But love and memory ever clings.

Always remembered, Rose, Vance, Terry and Brenda

NEIGUM Joseph Peter 1923 - 2007 No one knows the heartache That lies behind our smiles.

No one knows how many times We have broken down and cried.

We want to tell you something So there won’t be any doubt, You’re so wonderful to think of But so hard to be without.

Love you always, your wife Jean, children, and grandkids.

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CAREGIVER for disabled F senior in Sylvan Lake for weekends. Duties: personal care, meals, some light housekeeping.

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STEEL MAGNOLIAS† CHRISTMAS MARKET Saturday, November 15 Get into the spirit of the Season.

Grab your list and shop our amazing vendors!

Westerner Chalet Red Deer Market - Antiques & Vintage Home Décor

The Farm Studio 12th Annual CHRISTMAS ART SHOW & SALE Saturday / Sunday Nov. 15 & 16 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Raku Ceramics, Watercolours, other gift ideas.

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We are looking for a motivated candidate with computer + organization skills. The successful applicant will be customer oriented + show strong inter-personal skills, Service-writing experience is an asset.

Forward your resume to: Future Ag Inc. Attn. Human Resources Box 489 Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1 Fax to (403) 342-0396 Email: hr@futureag.ca

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Successful Applicant will have good computer, phone and people skills.

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All employment is conditional upon the completing and obtaining a satisfactory background check, including educational, employment, references and other relevant verifications.

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in Ponoka county, supplies oilfield septic containment & disposal throughout AB. We require Driver Operators for small vac trucks. Oilfield exp. is an asset. Must have H2S, First Aid, TDG, clean driver’s abstract & Class 5 license, drug testing. $20/ hr. to start, home every night, benefits.

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EXP’D winch tractor operator req’d for trucking company in Red Deer.

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LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

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

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for experienced F/T SERVERS Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

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Teachers/ Tutors

840

One of Alberta’s premium used vehicle operations is looking for a full-time sales consultant.

Sales Experience is a requirement.

Here’s what we offer: • Large Inventory – 2 locations to sell from • Flexible Hours • Excellent Reputation • Excellent Pay Structure • Excellent Benefit Plan

For further specifics on the above position, please visit Wolf Creek Public Schools’ website at www.wolfcreek.ab.ca, or contact the Division Office at 403-783-3473

Trades

Contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview.

Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

Teachers/ Tutors

850

EVRAZ Red Deer Works is now accepting applications for

Journeyman Millwrights, Electricians, and Machinists.

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

840 STUDENT SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

Forester Logging Ltd. is seeking a

Olds College has a regular full-time opportunity for a Student Services Representative. This position will attract an individual who is willing to be a member of a cross-trained, multi-functional team working in a very busy environment.

Please forward a resume quoting competition #14140A by November 16, 2014.

For information on this or other employment opportunities please visit our website at www.oldscollege.ca/employment

800

465797K1,8

Oilfield

FIREPLACE SALES PERSON

École James S. McCormick School

467188K8

Restaurant/ Hotel

830

EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANT

EARLY LEARNING CHILDCARE FACILIATATOR

8 hours a week/day $20-$25/hr, 4 Month Contract Education: Child Development Supervisor (Level 3) Certification + University Degree Experience: Experienced in working with Adults.

Please forward resumes to: rdmcg @mcbridecareergroup.com

Distributors

Wolf Creek Public Schools invites applications for the following position:

467177K5-8

ZUBAR Production Services

820

830

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately.

All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement,and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits.

Please include 2 work reference names and numbers.

Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

JJAM Management (1987) Queens Diner is a unique Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s 50’s style Diner located in Requires to work at these Burnt Lake Industrial Park Red Deer, AB locations: in Red Deer.

5111 22 St. We have a opportunity for 37444 HWY 2 S a new full time prep/line THE RUSTY PELICAN is 37543 HWY 2N cook. Great staff, great now accepting resumes for 700 3020 22 St. customers, great hours!

F/T Exp’d FOOD ATTENDANT We are closed every day LINE COOKS Req’d permanent shift by 4:00pm, and closed at all stations. weekend day and evening Sundays.

MUST HAVE: both full and part time.

We are also looking for a 16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + part time help with take-out • 2-3 yrs. post secondary education. benefits. Start ASAP. orders during the week • 2-3 yrs. on-the-job exp.

Job description (taking orders over the • Provide references www.timhortons.com phone, and a bit of waitThe hourly rate will be Education and experience ressing). Wages/ Hours $13.25 - $15. per hour not req’d. will be discussed during dependant on experience.

Apply in person or fax interview. Please email in Mail to: 2079 50 AVE. resume to: 403-314-1303 resume to scottnshaw@ Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 telus.net, or drop a resume or Call 403-347-1414 off at the Diner (34 Burnt Looking for a place or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Basin St) to live?

Take a tour through the TAP HOUSE CLASSIFIEDS Sales &

Sales & Distributors

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

820

Heavy Duty Mechanic

with at least at least 5-10 years in the forestry/ logging industry.

Experience with hydraulics is a must as well. Duties include servicing Forester’s Fleet & preventative maintenance.

Forester Logging is equipped with their own Brand New Service Truck that’s fully set up and ready to roll. This job is based on Full time hours, 12 months of the year.

Forester Logging has Competitive Wages and an excellent Benefits Plan (after 3 months) Please forward resumes and driver’s abstracts to Forester.shop@gmail.com or by fax to (403) 846-0092.

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

850

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

NEWCART is looking for a full time

466374K1,8

Landscape Labourer,

Professionals

810

as soon as possible.

Duties will include: cutting grass, raking, litter removal, fertilizing, watering, snow clearing, operating light and heavy duty machinery, maintaining property maintenance equipment, general yard maintenance etc. This position will require some evenings, weekends, early mornings.

2 years experience minimum required.

Hourly wage is $23-$25.00 depending on experience.

Benefits available after 3 month probation period.

Please submit resumes to: resumes @newcartcontracting.com or fax to 403-729-2396.

NO phone calls please.

PAINTER F/T

Join our highly qualified painting team. Serving Central AB. Vehicle req’d.

Contact Drew at CCL 403-596-1829 SEEKING an experienced SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR: Applicants should have experience operating an industrial strength sewing machine and designing patterns.

Please contact 403-3427015 Boat Mart or ray@ boatmart.net.

475690K8-14

475351K7,8

Trades

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

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 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014

850

Truckers/ Drivers

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

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

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net

TRIPLE A ELECTRIC LTD. Is currently accepting resumes for the following positions: JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS For both our Service & Residential Departments These Monday-Friday positions are for work in the Red Deer area.

A current drivers licence and experience is mandatory.

Resumes may be dropped off at: Triple A Electric Ltd. 6209 - 46 Avenue, Red Deer Fax (403)346-1888 or Email: inquiries@tripleaelectric.com

860

Truckers/ Drivers

860

ACADEMIC Express

870

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

Business Opportunities

START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL CLEANING BUSINESS

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

Revenue between $24,000 - $120,000 Initial cash required as low as $6,000 In Business for over 20 years *Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl. *Training Incl. *Ongoing Office Support

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

Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866

880

Misc.

Help

B&R ECKEL’S TRANSPORT LOCAL FREIGHT COMPANY Is Looking For:

CLASS 1 or 3 driver CITY P & D, Some out of town trips.

Monday to Friday.

PLEASE FAX RESUME TO: 403-347-6110

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START GED Preparation

• • • • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

money doing a job you love this is the place for you. We are a table rental salon so you can much more money than if you are on commission. Please email resumes to nicolek @telus.net or apply in person.

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

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

/MAVERICK

GAETZ SOUTH

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

FT/PT CASHIERS Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

SHRUMS MEATS HIRING EXP’D. BUTCHER, $20-$30/hr.

Phone 1-403-742-1427 or fax 403-742-1429

467185K15

Fax: (403) 843 - 3775

In Person: 5618 – 44th St, Rimbey

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

Inside Sales Supervisor

FRONTIER “because we care”

EXPERIENCED MOTOR COACH DRIVERS

Full time and part time positions available.

Must be willing to work evenings and weekends, and must have previous experience driving either motor coach or semi. Clean Class 1 or Class 2 with air.

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC REQUIRED

Will consider either full or part time. Previous motor coach repair experience preferred.

467068K18

MOTOR COACH CLEANER

Part time position. Shop is located 6 miles from Red Deer. Applicants must have own transportation and be able to work flexible schedule.

frontbus@platinum.ca 403-347-4999

www.frontierbuslines.com

F/T, Red Deer, $20 - $25/hr.

Responsible for all office & shipping and receiving processes. Requires: strong mgmt skills; accurate data entry skills; ability to train employees in policy & procedures; order entry, inventory, returns, & warehouse knowledge; experience in shipping & receiving.

Experience with forklift and oilfield or oilfield equipment is a huge plus.

Pleasant working environment with competitive wages and benefit program includes RRSP plan, health, dental and life insurance.

Fax or email resume to:

Kemper Valve & Fittings Corp.

Fax: 847-487-9354 Email HR@ kempervalve.com

Employment Training Bulk & Natural Foods

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

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

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

Health & Beauty

1700

NEW LIZ AREN NY, 1 red croc. make-up bag. c/w 12 eyeshadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. $195 value, asking $75.

Would make a great Christmas gift.

403-227-2976

880

DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle provided by company!

Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.

Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

Advocate Opportunities

ANDERS & MORRISROE

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie Phone 403-314-4301

OILFIELD TICKETS

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

Please apply with resume to:

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

464664J29

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

1000-1430

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

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

Contractors

1100

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

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Handyman Services

1200

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

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

1280

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 2nd. location in Calgary coming Dec. 1. www.viimassage.com

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. 403-358-1614 SNOW shoveling/dump runs /odd jobs 403-885-5333

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL Free Est. 403-872-8888 WALK-INS WELCOME LAUREL TRUDGEON 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

STRESSBUSTERS 403-342-7801.

403-923-0682

BOY’S SIZE 12 ADIDA’S SOCCER SHOES with shin guards (hardly worn) $30. 403-352-2339

TWO VINTAGE (CIRCA 1970’S) ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHAIRS. Very solid/sturdy. Seat height is 14”. $15 for the pair. Call (403) 342-7908

DUVET COVER, Navy, King sz., like new $30.

403-346-2070

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

FOOD PROCESSOR, $25; Rice cooker $25 Slap Chop Food Processor & Cheese Grater, $15.

Electric blanket, double, $50.

Everything works.

403-347-0325

Advocate Opportunities

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

GLENDALE 69 & 70 St. Dr.

Pearson Cres.

Also Payne & Parsons Close Also Piper Dr. & Pallo Cl. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo.

Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres, Close Root Close, Ralston Cres. $327.00/mo.

For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

ROUTES IN:

CARRIERS REQUIRED

ANDERS AREA

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

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.

Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

BOWER AREA ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

Denison Cres and 1 block of Davison Dr. $45.44/mo.

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

SET: COFFEE TABLE & 2 END TABLES. $150.

Lighter wood with glass tops. 403-346-4155

3 days per week, no weekends

DEER PARK AREA

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Accounting

ATV cabin for quad w/fabric shell and vinyl windows $95; quad cargo bag (never used) $25; extension custom towing mirrors for pickup truck $49; leather jacket (moose) size 12 $25 403-342-7460

403.341.4544

CLASSIFICATIONS

Massage Therapy

2 CHRISTMAS outdoor lighted reindeer, 1 large doe w/fawn, both for $50; 1 rocker, 1 rocker recliner both for $100; large Warwick vase picture 36 x 45, done in Crewel wool $50 403-348-6449

CARRIERS NEEDED

wegotservices

1165

1760

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

Escorts

Misc. for Sale

Industries #1 Choice!

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

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.

1720

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

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Fresh Department Manager

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

900

SAFETY

We are expanding our product line and we need more in store help.

We have openings for the following “team members.”

Household Furnishings

BOY’S SIZE 12 5 PC. bdrm. suite, queen, ADIDA’S SOCCER SHOES $175 403-782-7439 with shin guards (hardly worn) $30. 403-352-2339 DINING ROOM SET with 4 chairs & leaf, good shape.

MEN’S WINTER JACKETS $175. Nice top with light 1- Marv Holland Safety wood around side, brass Wear, XL. $40. legs on chairs. 403-346-4155 1 -Storm Master XL, $40.

403-342-5609 MATTRESS & Boxspring, Serta, Pillowtop. Queen WOMEN’S LARGE, Size.

Delivery Avail. $100.

SOREL VEST. 403-346-0674 392-5657 Windproof, fleece lined, brown.† In mint condition.

SET of 3 nesting tables, $20. Call (403) 342-7908 $25 for the set.

403-755-3556

RED DEER ADVOCATE

TRAINING CENTRE

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.

1580

1590

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

278950A5

email or fax resume to:

Golf Pictures (2) wood framed, dble. matted, 30x16. $35. Set. 403-346-2070

Clothing

PINES

WAREHOUSE

TRAVEL WITH

1520

Misc.

Help

Duties to include:

Email: rick.davies@meridianvalve.ca

1500-1990

New Jolly Jumper, $20.

Baby Exersaucer, $25.

Bumbo chair, $20.

403-755-3556

Warehouse Person/Shipper-Receiver

Please Send Resume to:

CLASSIFICATIONS

Children's Items

GAETZ SOUTH

Deliveries Heavy Lifting involved Clerical Duties

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stuff

VINTAGE WOODEN IRONING BOARD. In great shape. $25.

Call (403) 342-7908

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

Shipping & Receiving Inventory Control Assisting Inside Sales Operating Forklift

20 week long program funded by Alberta Works.

Clients have the opportunity to receive: Child Development Assistant (Level 1) Certification 380 hours toward Child Development Worker (Level 2) Certification.

5 week work experience and Job search assistance

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Supply

Required for Ponoka Oilfield Supply Store

EARLY LEARNING AND CHILDCARE PROGRAM

Antiques & Art

880

Misc.

Help

900

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

GAETZ SOUTH

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Employment Training

If you are a resident of Alberta and have been out of high school for more than 1 year and have an active interest in being employed in the Early Childhood field, please contact us at: rdmcg @mcbridecareergroup.com

Dog Central is currently

looking for an experienced GARNET’S full time groomer. If you OILFIELD TRUCKING would like to make more

is looking for CLASS 1 PICKER OPERATORS, BED TRUCK DRIVERS & WINCH TRUCK DRIVERS to join our growing company.

Competitive wages and benefits. Must pass preemployment substance screening. Fax or email resumes, drivers abstract & safety tickets 403-346-8992 admin@garnetstrucking.com No phone calls.

880

Misc.

Help

NEED EXPERIENCED Class 1 drivers for short and long haul. Full Time.

Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC. Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

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.

860

Truckers/ Drivers

437627L20

Trades

1372

HELPING HANDS

Dunning Cres, Cl., and Depalme St. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $136.24/mo.

EASTVIEW AREA Eastman Cres & Edge Close. $130/mo.

Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

MOUNTVIEW

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

44 and 44 A Ave between 37 st. & Springbett Dr, and Spruce Dr. $108/mo.

Snow Removal

1380

SNOWPLOWING Comm/Res. Contracts welcome. 403-358-1614

Yard Care

1430

FALL clean-up, Yard care, Junk/tree/snow removal, comm/res. 403-358-1614

Bunn Cres.

Boyce Street Barrett Drive Baker Ave. Brookes Cres.

Baile Close Byer Close Bell Street Broughton Cres.

Beatty Cres.

INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close Inglewood Drive Isbister Close 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 VANIER AREA

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

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014 D7 y, ,

1760

Misc. for Sale

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; Ammo magazine clip for British Lee EnÀeld 303, $35; Hoover Dirt Finder Vacuum Cleaner, self propelled, allergen Àltration, $50.

403-352-8811 NEW - NEVER USED! Beautiful Normandy Cut Lace Duvet, Bed Skirt & Shams for double bed.

Asking $125.

403-346-1934 or email: gandersonrd@shaw.ca

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

3060

Suites

NEWLY RENOVATED bachelor, 1, & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly. leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390 Cottage/ Seasonal Houses/ PARK Model for rent for full season or for sale at Duplexes

3070

3020

CORNET (Trumpet) FE’OLDS & Son, made in Las Angeles, $99.

403-877-0825

1810

Pets & Supplies

2 AQUARIUMS/CRITTER CAGE - NO LEAKS. 20 gallon Hartz in box c/w hood light. $50.

5 Gallon, $20.

Or get both for $60.

AQUARIUM GRAVEL - 10 lbs (new), white, $15 403-227-2976 37 TABLETS (For Dogs) 225 mg with Milk Thistle.

Expires 05/15. For Liver Function. Vet cost was $106, asking $50.

403-227-2976

1830

Cats

2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649

1840

Dogs

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

1860

Sporting Goods

SKIS, 205 Mega Sport Tyrolia, and boots Sz. 10, Memo Salomon. $40. ea. or both for $70.

403-346-2070

ALIX, 2 bdrm. 1 bath condo, with balcony & 2 parking. Avail, immed.

403-341-9974 INGLEWOOD POINT 2 bdrm, 2 bath condo. Heated parking & all utils. incl. $1450.

403-350-3722/780-479-1522

SEIBEL PROPERTY

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

~ Westpark

3090

3060

Suites

2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avai. lnow or Dec. 1 . $1050/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

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CLASSIFICATIONS

Estate of

Frederick Alexander Woolf

who died October 18, 2014.

CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 Auto Wreckers

If you have a claim against this estate you must Àle your claim by December 8, 2014 with Laurie Soderberg at Box 598, Rimbey AB T0C 2J0 and provide details of your claim.

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

If you do not Àle by the date above the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

5190

Well cared for property in Ponoka. Granite countertops and hardwood Áoor. $329,900. 403-396-7024

Blackfalds near Abbey Centre. 2 bdrm, 2 bath, Double garage. $289,900. 403-600-1794

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

SE Red Deer

4280

OPEN HOUSE NOV 8, 2-4 PM 62 RUTHERFORD DRIVE Be In Before Xmas Reduced to $259,000 4 Beds/3 Bath ї Duplex Call Margaret Comeau 403.391.3399

★

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

BY OWNER. Sunnybrook, A/C & RV Parking. Dbl. det. garage. Lots of extras.

403-347-6754 or 347-6509

CUSTOM BUILT

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Houses For Sale

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

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Large Deerpark condo.

2 bdrm, 2 bath, den, laundry, top Áoor. $229,900.

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Farms/ Land

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For sale or possible trade.

Close to Tobin Lake, SK. www.simplesite.com/ migrationridgezoneresort Asking $225,000.

Phone 403-742-8574

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Manufactured Homes

Great revenue potential!

New hot water tank and high efÀciency furnace. Mother in law suite. $219,900.

Eastview bungalow w/legal suite & dbl garage. New shingles hot water tank & high efÀciency furnace. $359,000

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4010

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Affordable Penhold condo!

2 bdrm. updated, balcony, Laundry $139,900.

403-886-2095

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Fresh makeover inc. paint, Áooring, skirting & deck.

Great location! $105,900.

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SIMPLE! It’s simple to run a Garage Condos/ Townhouses

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MULTI-USE commercial/ residential, 2 large suites with separate shop & yard. $549,900. Help-U-Sell Red Deer 403-342-7355

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4 PLEX/sale Elnora, huge lot, 2 titles, fully occupied,.

Brian 403-348-6594

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NEW CONDO

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $194,900. 403-588-2550

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2 ARDELL CLOSE Space for 20x24 detached garage Approved by City $575,000. 4 Beds/3 Baths w/Bonus Room CA0048054 Contact Margaret Comeau 403.391.3399 OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY NOV 9 3-5 pm

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USED 4 snow tires $500, Àt 2005 Toyota Avalon, 215/55r17 Himalaya, mounted on black steel rims, new $968.50 driven 3 Bdrm. condo on south hill. 12,300 kms, Vic 347-4220 Great investment or starter. $149,900.

Good revenue potential.

New Áooring fridge and dishwasher. Garage. $205,000. 403-302-1232

4 bdrm, 2 bath backing onto Main Áoor 1570 sq ft large park. Wrap around patio and Wood burning Àreplace. commercial space for $283,900. 403-302-0620 lease at corner of 48 Ave and 49 St. OfÀce or retail.

One of the highest trafÀc counts in downtown,great visibility just south of courthouse. Available Dec 2014. To view call Darryl Sim 403-358-9003 or email darryl@simproperties.ca

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CASE of 12 Formula 1 w/Synthetic wear guard oil, 5W20, $25; two 4.4L of Gastrol GTX SAE 5w20 $10/ea., Premium diesel engine oil, 20L pail, SAE, 15w40, $30 403-782-7439

2 bdrm 18+ top Áoor condo at Cosgrove place. Wood Àreplace. $146,500.

403-350-1779

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2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1125. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. Nov 15 403-304-5337 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1095. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

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Sturdy home on a large park like lot, 24x30 garage.

Lots of recent upgrades. $279,000. 4003-886-4540

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Warehouse Dec. 1 Space References required.

SOUTHWOOD PARK SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft.

3110-47TH Avenue, $1000 Phil 403-350-0479 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, Mobile full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Lot Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

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LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

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RHINSTONE necklace and 1/2 DUPLEX, 2 bdrm. c/w 403-346-7178 or 392-7754 earrings to match from the stove/fridge, no pets, n/’s, 1950’s, A1 cond. $75; large 40+, $900 rent, $900 s.d., Central Alberta’s Largest stainless steel pot $8; approx. 403-348-0241 Car Lot in Classifieds 40 peacock feathers $1/ea.; SYLVAN LAKE: fully large multi colored Áower furnished, inclds dishes, vase $18, large fruit bowl bedding, utils. Avail. Now! Rooms grape design $10. Magic $1200. 403-880-0210.

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Temporary Part-time

INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT ABORICULTURE & HORTICULTURE PROGRAM Olds College Animal Sciences and Horticulture has an opportunity for a temporary part-time Instructional Assistant beginning January 5, 2015. This is a full-time position with a term of employment from January 5, 2015 to April 24, 2015.

For information on this or other employment opportunities, please visit our website at www.oldscollege.ca/employment

HEALTH CARE AIDE

Sunset Manor is a Supportive Living Facility that teams with Alberta Health Services to provide a home-like experience for our residents in the community of Innisfail. We are currently accepting applications for Part-time (FTE 0.56 and 0.52) and Casual Licensed Practical Nurses.

Qualifications: - Graduate of a recognized Practical Nursing Program - Current License with CLPNA - Current Criminal Record Check / working with vulnerable sector

Please send your confidential CV to

Please send your confidential CV to

All applicants will be kept confidential.

LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE

greatjobs@chantellegroup.com or fax to 403-227-8201 – Attn: Administrator All applicants will be kept confidential.

Soderquist Appraisals has an opening for an

Administrative Assistant A full-time Administrative Assistant required for busy professional services office. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Word and Excel required as well as strong organizational and time management skills. Duties will include reception, file management, basic research, general office tasks, etc.

Please apply in confidence by submitting resume with salary expectations via email only to

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greatjobs@chantellegroup.com or fax to 403-227-8201 – Attn: Administrator

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Sunset Manor is a Supportive Living Facility that teams with Alberta Health Services to provide a home-like experience for our residents in the community of Innisfail.

We are currently accepting applications for Part-time (FTE 0.52 – 0.76) and casual Health Care Aides to join our team. Under the direction of a Licensed Practical Nurse, you will provide safe, quality personal care to residents. All shifts are unionized and scheduled for 8 hours.

Qualifications: - Graduate of a recognized Health Care Aide Program or Foreign trained health professional (RN) - Current Criminal Record Check /working with vulnerable sector - Good communication skills - Able to work independently

no later than Friday November 14th. No phone calls please.

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Please forward a resume quoting competition # 14142A by November 19, 2014.

YOUTH

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SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 2014

Must move past crush instead of waiting Dear Harlan; I’m a junior in college know what to do. and have a crush on this girl.

I grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s, and I don’t drink or go out that much, also felt the same. One of the popular and neither does she, which is pretty beliefs was just to find a good woman rare on our campus. We’re to love and marry, and the decently good friends, but feelings would go away. Unnot extraordinarily close. fortunately, I believed this.

I’ve kind of confessed my Guess what? It doesn’t feelings once in the past work. About halfway year. She explained that I’m through my 25-year marher “favorite person,” but riage, my wife found my gay said that she just doesn’t magazines and confronted feel the same about me as I me with them. I was forced do about her. to admit my true feelings.

However, my friends Because I loved my (both girls and guys) say daughters and my wife was that she probably does have in poor health, we decided feelings for me, judging by to stay married. It was difthe way she acts. And her ficult to do, but I never refriends, when drunk, tell me gretted my decision.

HARLAN that she really does like me My wife passed away at COHEN and could even see herself 48 years old. I never was marrying me, and say that able to find a male lover, she’s just been telling me although I found many gay that because she doesn’t want to ruin friends to help me understand my feelher chances with me if we got together ings. now.

Your advice to the young man was What should I do? — Mixed Mes- excellent. Let your gay friends and acsages quaintances put your feelings in propDear Mixed Messages; You’re not the er perspective. I’ve read that there is feelings police. Your job isn’t to inves- only a small percentage of people who tigate how she feels and report back to are 100 percent straight or 100 percent her. gay.

She told you: She doesn’t want to Most of us fall somewhere between date you right now. Respect her bound- the two extremes. I believe that I’m 90 aries. percent gay and 10 percent straight. — The next time her drunken friends Been There tell you that she really likes you, make Dear Been There; Thank you for it clear that you’re going to be a gentle- sharing this letter. It’s so generous. I man and respect her feelings until she hope you find love that fits the 90 perlets you know otherwise. cent of you.

In the meantime, get out and meet I’m sure your kindness and comother women. passion are just two of many amazing I guarantee once you have other qualities. Thanks for sharing. women in your world, this one will be Dear Harlan; My 20-year-old daughfar less important. And you will be far ter is contemplating giving a boy a secmore attractive to her. ond chance to date her.

Once you start meeting and dating He had previously shown interest, other women, this girl will see that she but when she told him to commit or might lose her favorite person. Then, forget it, he forgot it. she might be more motivated to date Now he says he is ready. Is “one you. and done” your advice, or can second One thing I know: Waiting around chances work? — Second Chances and trying to persuade her to date you Dear Second Chances; I love your will never change anything. daughter. I’m not attracted to her, but I Dear Harlan; I recently read the let- love her style. She doesn’t put up with ter from the 20-year-old man who had crap. feelings for other males and didn’t She told this guy what she wanted.

He couldn’t deliver. So she kicked him to the curb. Now he’s back. Either he learned that your daughter is the best and is ready to commit, or he’s lonely and wants to hook up.

If your daughter is looking for advice from you or me (which I’m guessing she isn’t), she should ask him what will make things different this time around.

Then she should give it time before committing her heart again. His words are just promises. His actions will tell the story.

Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

HELP

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNICAL SPECIALIST The Natural Resources Conservation Board (NRCB) is an agency of the Government of Alberta that reviews proposed non-energy natural resource developments under the Natural Resources Conservation Board Act (NRCBA). The NRCB is also the authority under the Agricultural Operation Practices Act (AOPA) responsible for regulating confined feeding operations and manure management practices.

As an Environmental Technical Specialist in the NRCB’s Science and Technology Division you will provide technical support to NRCB Field Services staff on AOPA approvals and compliance activity relating to confined feeding operations, and in the review of environmental impact assessments to promote sustainable and responsible growth of Alberta’s non-energy resource developments. The successful candidate will possess a university degree (post-graduate degree preferred) in environmental/natural science or engineering with a minimum of three years experience in a related field preferred. Experience with soil science and land reclamation would be an asset. Excellent verbal and written communications skills are essential.

This position will be located in the NRCB Red Deer or Lethbridge office. Based on experience and qualifications, the position offers competitive compensation, along with a generous benefits package and a defined contribution pension plan.

Additional information on this position is posted on our website www.nrcb.ca. Interested applicants are asked to submit their resume to the attention of Human Resources by Monday November 24, 2014. We thank all applicants in advance, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Natural Resources Conservation Board 4th Floor, Sterling Place, 9940 – 106th Street Edmonton, AB T5K 2N2 Fax: 780-427-0607 Email: hr@nrcb.ca

Process Operation Technician Red Deer, AB MEGlobal Canada Inc. Prentiss location is seeking 4 talented PROCESS OPERATION TECHNICIAN(S) to work in a highly participative, self-managed team environment. Successful candidates will work rotating 12hour shifts (including nights and weekends) to support the safe, environmentally sound, and effi cient operation of our Ethylene Oxide/Ethylene Glycol (EO/EG) Energy Systems/ Environmental Operations facility.

CHILDREN & ADULT PROPRIETORS NEEDED!

QUALIFICATIONS • Graduate of Power Engineering Technology or related program such as Chemical Engineering Technology or Process Technology.

• Minimum 3rd Class Government Power Engineering Certifi cate SOPEEC standard.

Apply now to provide value in the Human Services Industry Parkland C.L.A.S.S. has grown over five decades to become one of the largest disability based service providers in Alberta. Parkland C.L.A.S.S. exists to improve the quality of life of children & adults with developmental disabilities through individual choice, dignity and rights. We strive to empower the people we serve, measuring our success against the goals they set for themselves.

EXPERIENCE • Up to ten years of related work experience.

Salaries are competitive and commensurate with qualifi cations and experience.

Individuals or couples willing to open up their home have the opportunity to make an incredible difference in the life of someone in need. As a Full Time Proprietor you will provide a caring, safe & structured environment with fun activities and dependable routines.

Part Time Proprietors will work 1 to 2, 48 hr. weekends per month.

This commitment involves the inclusion of the child/adult in your regular family life.

Deadline for applications is November 28, 2014

Submit resume to: careers@meglobal.biz (Subject line ‘2014CA005 Process Operation Technician’) OR mail to: Human Resources MEGlobal Canada Inc. P.O. Bag 5501 Red Deer, AB T4N 6N1 Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

MEGlobal is an equal opportunity employer.

MEGlobal™ is a world leader in the manufacture and marketing of merchant monoethylene glycol and diethylene glycol (EG). Established in 2004, the company is a joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait and is headquartered in Dubai, UAE. MEGlobal serves customers around the world and has manufacturing facilities located in Alberta.

For more information about MEGlobal, visit our website at: www.MEGlobal.biz.

Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the individual. Experience with young children, youth and/or adults with developmental disabilities would be ideal. Knowledge of First Nations culture & some related postsecondary education would be an asset. Individual must have a private room & be in a non-smoking environment. Driver’s license & transportation are required.

WANTED

Full time Proprietors receive a (tax free) monthly remuneration & part time Proprietors are paid $125 per days worked. We provide extensive mandatory training for all Foster Care Providers.

Appeal Panel Members

Please send a cover letter & resume confirming you are interested in Proprietorship to: HR Fax: 403-342-2677 e-mail: hr@pclass.org

Human Services is seeking applicants to serve on appeal panels for: 54732K8,15

If you would like to inquire more information please contact Donita Stewart, Children Proprietor Coordinator or Nicole Shultz, Adult Proprietor Coordinator at 403-347-3333.

APPLY TODAY

• Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) • Income and Employment Supports (IES) • Child, Youth and Family Enhancement (CYFE) • Child Care Licensing (CCL) As a panel member, you’ll receive training on relevant legislation and appeal processes to provide a fair and independent citizen review of certain decisions of a director. You’ll serve a one to three-year term with the possibility for reappointment. Duties include three to seven days attending hearings each month, two to four days in training and meetings every two months, and time reviewing and writing decisions.

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLOR Our Mental Health Counsellors are excited about being part of an innovative organization that puts patients first. Continuous quality improvement is in our DNA.

Consider becoming an appeal panel member if you understand and respect diversity, have strong interpersonal skills, and a desire to resolve concerns. Your commitment to fair and transparent processes, sound judgment, and an impartial approach complement your experience. Other assets may include:

A day in the life of a Mental Health Counsellor at the Red Deer Primary Care Network includes helping people to design a self management plan that works in one on one appointments in physician clinics collaborating with a team of RDPCN family physicians and other health care professionals facilitating state of the art mental health groups

• the ability to objectively analyze complex written and verbal information; • the ability to assess issues and participate in consensus decision-making.

Learn more at www.appeals.gov.ab.ca. For questions, contact Laura Ritzen, Appeals Secretariat, at laura.ritzen@gov.ab.ca or 780-644-2514, or call toll free at 780-310-0000.

Act now. APPLY Submit your curriculum vitae to hr@rdpcn.com or by fax to 403.342.9502 Only selected candidates for an interview will be contacted.

Open until suitable candidate selected.

Closing date: November 14, 2014 This posting is for existing and future appeal panel vacancies. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Visit jobs.alberta.ca to learn more about these opportunities and to apply online.

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• experience as a member or chair of a committee or quasi-judicial board;

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If you: are a Registered Psychologist or Master’s level Social Worker; practice using a variety of frameworks such as, CBT, Solution Focused Therapy, or Positive Psychology are interested in .8 – 1.0 FTE

Panel membership reflects Alberta’s diverse, multi-cultural population. Participants serve on a voluntary basis and receive an honorarium and reimbursed expenses.