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HOW LOW WILL OIL GO?

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Six years ago, energy companies were reeling from the impact of crude oil prices tumbling from US$134 to $57 in just five months. By the time West Texas intermediate (WTI) bottomed out at below $40 a barrel, in February 2009, there were widespread layoffs and even business closures.

Central Alberta, with its high concentration of oil and gas service companies, was hit hard — as was the regional economy.

Fast-forward to 2014 and industry insiders can be forgiven for being a bit nervous. The price of WTI crude dipped below $67.15 on Friday, a $40 slide in five months.

Last week, the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Con-

tractors forecast that drilling activity would decrease by 10 per cent in 2015. And that assumed an average WTI price of $85.

“We think that this is a temporary cycle and we’re going to get back, hopefully, to the $85 territory in the next quarter or so,” said CAODC president Mark Scholz.

But if prices move in the opposite direction?

“If you’re getting below 70 bucks, the economics are not making sense and you could see a lot of blood on the streets,” warned Scholz.

“I can assure you, for some of my private, small to medium-size service rig contracting companies, they’re very worried.”

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An employee with Roll’n Oilfield Industries works on a refurbished rig at the company’s Blackfalds yards this week.

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A string of collisions on Hwy 2 kept emergency crews busy all day on Friday as winter set in with a vengeance.

Drivers were warned by police and the province to stay off the highway if possible as blowing snow and poor visibility led to treacherous conditions.

Collisions were reported at Morningside near Ponoka in the late morning.

A semi jackknifed near Olds, blocking both northbound lanes early in the afternoon and another collision in front of the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum outside Red Deer backed up traffic, among other collisions.

No serious injuries were reported.

“It’s been a busy day, I know, for the officers up in the Red Deer area,” said RCMP Cpl. Darrin Turnbull, with the integrated traffic unit out of Airdrie.

“They had several collisions on the QEII between Lacombe, Ponoka and Red Deer.”

While the snowstorm had largely petered out in Red Deer by 4 p.m., police were asking people to stay off the highway if possible through the evening.

Turnbull said the snowstorm was moving south and blowing snow is reducing visibility.

“It’s not worth the risk to you and your passengers to go out tonight,” he said.

All the usual winter driving precautions should be taken: slow down, leave more time for travel, leave more space between vehicles, and make sure you have emergency supplies in case you end up stuck and left waiting for a tow.

In the City of Red Deer, plows and sanders were tackling hills and bridges all day and tackling arterial routes, such as Ross, 67th, 32nd Streets and Gaetz, 30th and 40th Avenues and Taylor Drive.

Those routes will be targeted through the weekend with snow removal scheduled for the hills and bridges on Sunday.

Environment Canada was forecasting an end to the snow overnight, followed by a chilly weekend,

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ENERGY: An ‘air of caution’ Even CAODC’s optimistic forecast of $85 oil and a 10 per cent drop in activity will result in some pain, he acknowledged.

“I think there’s going to be an impact on the number of people employed in our business for sure, and there will be certainly an impact on revenues coming into my membership companies.”

One of those members is Red Deer-based Roll’n Oilfield Industries Ltd., a service rig contractor that’s witnessed 37 years of petroleum sector ups and downs. Company president Brad Rowbotham isn’t ready to push the panic button.

“Things can change so quickly,” he pointed out.

“A few weeks from now, it could be back up.”

Rowbotham doesn’t anticipate a big drop in activity in the field, even if oil settles in the $75 range.

“A lot of the operators have planned their projects quite far out and made commitments to do certain wells and have contracts with certain suppliers.”

David LeMay, president and CEO of construction giant Stuart Olson — which counts on the energy sector for much of its work — agrees that the industry’s momentum is unlikely to be halted by the current decline in oil revenues.

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Seeking out a prize meal on a cold day this downy woodpecker clings to a feeder at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Friday afternoon. with highs of -20C on Saturday and -18 on Sunday.

Friday’s blast of winter probably was, no doubt, welcomed by some school children, who got an unexpected “snow day.”

Wolf Creek School Division cancelled classes, and in Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools most rural buses were cancelled.

In Chinook’s Edge, only Cremona School was closed. Red Deer Public Schools reported no changes.

Numerous sporting events around Central Alberta were cancelled, including an Innisfail Eagles hockey game, and Red Deer College Kings and Queens volleyball and hockey games, and a college curling bonspiel.

The white Friday seemed to take some of the steam out of Black Friday during the height of the storm.

Stores were hardly shoulder to shoulder despite the lure of big sales.

Adam McGee, of Blackfalds, had planned to hit

the sales in Edmonton or Calgary on Friday, but didn’t want to face the drive.

He and girlfriend Jacqueline White stopped at Bower Place shopping centre before hitting Canadian Tire.

“It’s busy in there,” he said of the mall, “but it’s not crazy.”

McGee managed to get a good deal on an iPad so the trip into Red Deer was worthwhile, he said.

Asked what lured her to Future Shop, Jessica Trautman replied, “Craziness.”

Her shopping trip started off badly with poor road conditions and got a lot worse when she locked her keys in her car.

“I’m going back home after this,” she said.

Matthew Burgess walked to Future Shop from his nearby apartment just to get out for a while.

“I had yesterday off work and I stayed in my apartment all day. I just needed to get out so I didn’t care how bad the weather is.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

will continue to happen, almost irrespective of oil prices,” he said during a conference call.

Mark Salkeld, president and CEO of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada, agrees that most companies are unlikely to slash their capital expenditures in response to a few months of low prices.

“I haven’t seen anything or heard anything along the lines of budget cutbacks,” he said last week.

“We’ve got member companies that are buying or building new rigs and equipment, fracking equipment, drilling rigs.”

PSAC members are going into the winter with plenty of work in the books, said Salkeld. There’s an “air of caution,” he added, but nobody is sitting idle.

Salkeld also noted that a lot has changed since 2008. Canadian producers are now benefitting from a more favourable exchange rate, and the discount they receive on Western Canadian oil relative to WTI is less.

Todd Hirsch, ATB Financial’s chief economist, reinforced Salkeld’s assessment.

“The Canadian dollar is providing a nice buffer because a lot of our energy is exported,” said Hirsch.

And the price gap between WTI and Western Canadian select has narrowed from about $40 a few years ago to between $18 and $20 now, he continued.

“Even a few weeks ago, it was as low as $12 or $14 a barrel — the gap.”

That’s softened the impact of declining WTI prices.

Another difference from 2008 is the broader economic backdrop, said Hirsch.

“The global economy in 2014 is not in the same sort of frenzied panic that we were in 2008 and 2009.

“We were seeing the financial markets collapsing, we were seeing the housing market in the States collapsing: there was all kinds of chaos and real panic.”

If 2015 oil prices remain in the $75-to-$80 range, as many predict, the industry will experience a slowdown, said Hirsch. But it’s unlikely to cause much pain — and might even provide relief from labour shortages and the strain of overheated development.

“I don’t foresee the kind of situation where we have to brace ourselves for a real sharp correction: a lot of layoffs, a lot of projects being cancelled or delayed,” he said.

Hirsch did caution that the slide in oil prices will hit some players — most notably smaller companies that are reliant on steady cash flows — harder than others. And that will probably result in announcements of certain projects being delayed or cancelled.

“Sometimes when Albertans read those things, they start talking at the water cooler,” observed Hirsch. “And they put off making that purchase of a new home or they feel nervous about things, and quite quickly things can spiral downward even though they don’t need to.”

Ultimately, in the volatile world of energy markets, nothing is certain. Speaking to the Advocate on Nov. 20, when oil was still around $75, Hirsch said: “If next week you call me back and WTI is at $65, then it’s a different conversation again.”

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BRIEFS Men charged with murder return to court on Dec. 8 Two men accused of killing three Consort-area people and burning down their family home return to court on Dec. 8 after a brief appearance on Friday.

Jason Gordon Klaus, 41, and Joshua Gregory Frank, 29, are jointly charged with arson and first-degree murder in connection with the deaths earlier this year of Klaus’s father, mother and sister. Frank is also accused of shooting the family dog.

Remains of Gordon Klaus, 61, and his daughter, Monica, 40, were found in the rubble left after a fire in their farmhouse on Dec. 8, 2013. Sandra Klaus, 62, is presumed to have perished as well, although her remains have not been found.

Criminal proceedings against the two accused were stalled on Nov. 3 when Klaus abruptly fired his legal team, Jason Snider and Richard Fritze of Red Deer.

Back in court with Frank on Friday, via closed-circuit TV from the Red Deer Remand Centre, Klaus confirmed that he is now represented by Calgary lawyer Allan Fay. They and their lawyers are due back in court on Dec. 8 to elect the mode by which they will be tried.

Eckville man pleads guilty to assault causing bodily harm An Eckville man now admits that he used excessive force in response to a perceived threat.

Chance McClellan-Hughes, 22, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault while attending a social gathering in Red Deer on April 18, 2012.

When police arrived at the scene, a guest who had been ordered out of the house for causing a scene complained that he needed medical treatment and stitches after taking a blow to the face from a glass.

Represented by Edmonton defence counsel Arnold Piragoff, McClellanHughes pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of assault causing bodily harm before Justice Kirk Sisson in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Friday morning.

The plea came after an eleventhhour negotiation with Crown prosecutor Jordan Petty.

The plea deal was struck after Piragoff’s first witness testified on Thursday.

In court on Friday, Piragoff presented a summary of the testimony McClellan-Hughes would have given had he been called to the stand.

Penhold man jailed four years for assault A Penhold man who sent two others to avenge alleged abuse of his ex-girlfriend was sentenced on Friday to serve four years in jail, minus four months for time served in pre-trial custody.

Michael Wade Lawrence, 39, was arrested with two other men. Police were investigating allegations that two masked men entered a home in the Riverside Meadows subdivision of Red Deer and beat a man there.

In Red Deer provincial court on Friday, Lawrence admitted to arranging the attack after learning that his ex-girlfriend’s current boyfriend had been beating her.

Lawrence, 39, was convicted of assault, wearing a mask to commit an offence and impersonating a police officer.

Kyle Brice Connon, 28, of Red Deer was sentenced to seven years in July after pleading guilty to five of the eight charges against him.

Bradley Amos Erickson, 39, also of Red Deer, pleaded not guilty earlier and is set to stand trial in January.

Woman charged with impaired driving to be tried by judge alone The woman accused of hurting three others in an alcohol-fuelled collision on July 21 has asked to be tried in the Court of Queen’s Bench by judge alone with a preliminary hearing beforehand.

Kelsey Jean Machuik, 29, is charged with three counts each of impaired driving causing injury and dangerous driving causing injury in connection with a collision in the area of 55th Street and 30th Avenue.

Now represented by defence counsel Kevin Sproule, Machuik announced her decision in Red Deer provincial court on Friday, with a date for her preliminary hearing to be set on Dec. 5.

Preliminary hearings may be requested to test the strength of the Crown’s evidence before proceeding to

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014 A3 French accent. He is about 1.67 metres the Court of Queen’s Bench for trial. (five-foot-six) tall, 77 kg (170 pounds), with spiked-up dark hair.

He was wearing a red hoodie with a black symbol, blue jeans and skate shoes.

Anyone with information is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

Police are searching for a young If you wish to remain anonymous, call male who went from being an online Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or reacquaintance to an alleged home inport it online at www.tipsubmit.com. vader in Red Deer.

Two women were expecting a visitor to their Riverside Meadows residence on Nov. 19 after making brief online arrangements to meet man they didn’t previously know.

Shortly after arriving, the male alRoofs on four of the city’s major legedly pushed the women aside and went through the house on Kerry Wood facilities were identified as having Drive demanding drugs and cash. urgent needs that require work, acHe allegedly stole a white iPhone cording to a detailed roof assessment with a pink cover, a Samsung Galaxy conducted earlier this year.

S3 phone with a blue back and white The Collicutt Centre, the Golden front, and a small amount of cash beCircle, the Kerry Wood Nature Centre fore leaving the residence. and the Red Deer Museum will be Red Deer RCMP officers responded worked on starting next spring after to the complaint of a home invasion at council approved $312,000 in the 2015 about 8:45 p.m.

They searched for the suspect, capital budget on Tuesday. last seen running north on Kerry The Community Services DepartWood Drive toward Taylor Drive, but ment conducts roof inspections ancouldn’t find him. nually as part of its roof management The two women were not injured program at each facility. during the incident, and later worked However, a more detailed roof aswith a police sketch artist to develop a sessment was conducted in 2014 due to composite drawing of the suspect. the heavy snow loads experienced last He is described as being Caucasian in his 20s with a tan. He spoke with a winter.

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A heated argument broke out after one of the house guests made derogatory remarks about pit bull dogs and the people who keep them, said Piragoff.

While he had planned to make a case for self defence, Piragoff said his client now accepts that he overreacted and is prepared to pay the price.

Sisson accepted the guilty plea and convicted McClellan-Hughes of the lesser offence of assault causing bodily harm.

Sentencing has been adjourned until May 4 to allow time for preparation of a pre-sentence report.

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BRIEFS Motorists urged to plan their ride home if they want to drink Local police are reminding motorists to plan their ride home before they head off to a Christmas party or event this season.

“If you drive impaired, you’re going to get caught,” said Cpl. Matt LaBelle of Red Deer RCMP traffic services.

LaBelle said police receive dozens of calls each week about suspected drunk drivers.

Police will conduct more CheckStops during December in an effort to keep impaired drivers off the road.

LaBelle said the tragedies linked to drunk driving are completely preventable.

“Drivers who choose to drive impaired face not only the possibility of killing themselves, their friends, or someone else — they also face very serious legal, financial and social consequences,” LaBelle said.

Red Deer RCMP will test for impairment from alcohol and/or drugs.

Red Deer RCMP have experts who are trained to identify drivers who are impaired by street drugs, prescription drugs or combinations of intoxicating substances.

On every shift, RCMP say they actively patrol in marked and unmarked cars for impaired drivers.

Drivers can be asked for breath or blood samples if suspected of impaired driving. Those who refuse can also be charged with failing to provide them.

Drivers with graduated licences must not consume any alcohol before driving. Those who fail a roadside test will lose their licence for one month, face a $230 ticket and have the vehicle they are driving seized for a minimum of seven days.

Drivers who blow between .05 and .08 will lose their licence for a minimum of 72 hours and have vehicles seized for a minimum of three days.

Those who blow over .08 will lose their licence until court proceedings are completed, which can take several months.

The vehicle they are driving will be seized for a minimum of three days.

Two youths facing charges after collision Two youths face criminal charges after a collision in northeast Red Deer sent one man to hospital with serious

Hospital visitors asked to use east entrance Hospital visitors are asked to use the east entrance to the Red Deer hospital between Monday and Dec. 8.

The entrance, located at 50A Avenue, will allow access to parking lots, the main entrance and dropoff zones.

The change is necessary to accommodate utility work needed to prepare for construction of a new parkade. The 51st Avenue west entrance will remain open but the dropoff zones will not be accessible to vehicles entering there.

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Donations will be accepted and split between the participating HIV charities.

Vanderschaeghe said one of CAANS’ fundraising programs helps out with travel costs for people to access treatment and those costs are increasing.

“There are only infectious disease doctors who work with HIV in Calgary and in Edmonton. That means the cost of travelling is substantial, but also a barrier for treatment.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com provide 1,100 stalls. The parkade will have five levels and will have capacity to add two more levels in the future. Construction is underway and is expected to be completed in 18 months.

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Witnesses said the Ford F350 truck was travelling west on 67th Street when it crossed the median and struck an eastbound Mazda truck. The collision happened at 11:30 p.m. at the intersection of 67th Street and Carrington Drive.

The force of the collision left the Ford truck on its side. Passersby assisted the occupants of the Ford truck to exit the vehicle. The male driver and female passenger then fled on foot into the Clearview neighbourhood. The second driver had to be extricated from his Mazda truck using the Jaws of Life.

He was taken to hospital with serious but non-lifethreatening injuries.

A police dog was able to track the Ford truck driver and passenger to a home in Clearview Ridge where they were taken into custody. Police say the truck they were driving was reported stolen.

The names of the two 17-year-olds charged will not be released because they are minors.

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The rate of HIV infection rose slightly in Central Alberta this year.

From 2010 to 2013, an average of 12 people were diagnosed with HIV annually. So far this year, there are 13, with official year-end statistics yet to be released, said Jennifer Vanderschaeghe, executive director of Central Alberta AIDS Network.

“We don’t know what it will be,” said Vanderschaeghe on Friday.

She it’s hard to say why the rate may be growing until the risk behaviour of those diagnosed is examined.

“In Central Alberta still, HIV is transmitted primarily, about two-thirds of the time, through sex and one-third through drugs.”

She said HIV is an ongoing issue predominately because most of those affected are marginalized populations.

“The reality is HIV is just one of the pieces they’re dealing with. It’s not just HIV usually, it’s also food security or it’s housing. None of those issues is very simple.”

HIV has been around for 30 years and is still considered a medical epidemic just like Ebola, she said.

“For sure Ebola is a substantial issue. Having said that, the impact of HIV every day is much larger than Ebola is. But people are complacent because it’s been around for so long.”

Monday is World AIDS Day and will be marked locally with a World AIDS Day Concert at Gaetz Memorial United Church, at 4758 50th St., at 7:30 p.m.

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‘Consequences for all Albertans’: Prentice has grim take on oil prices CALGARY — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says there are no simple solutions for the revenue shortfall that will be coming from plummeting oil prices and Albertans will feel the consequences.

Prentice told the Calgary Chamber of Commerce on Friday that he expects the price of a barrel of oil to be between US$65 and US$75 for the rest of the year.

It closed at US$66.15 a barrel on Friday - down about 10 per cent since Wednesday’s close.

He said the government is going to have to find a way to cope with the lost revenue and make sure the budget remains sustainable.

“It involves a number of things. Certainly belttightening on the part of government and the containment of government expenditures,” Prentice said after his speech.

“I have to be clear.

As I’ve said before, to deal with the implications of not just $75 oil at this point, but sub-$75 oil, there will be consequences for all Albertans.”

In the March budget, the province forecast West Texas Intermediate oil to average around US$92 a barrel. For the first six months of the year, it was higher than that, around US$100 a barrel.

But higher production in the U.S., coupled with instability in other oil producing regions, has sent the price plunging.

On Thursday, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said it would keep output at 30 million barrels a day rather than cut back and put a floor under prices, meaning there’s not much to boost crude in the near term.

Former Edmonton remand centre to be turned into overflow homeless shelter EDMONTON —An Edmonton organization that helps the homeless will use a former jail as an overflow shelter.

Hope Mission said starting this weekend, the old downtown Remand Centre will be used as an over-

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The organization said this year they have seen some of the highest numbers of homeless individuals seeking their services in their 85 year history.

This month, more than 600 people per night on average slept at Hope Mission, with as many as 645 sleeping there.

Those numbers are expected to go even higher after a day-long snowfall and temperatures on the weekend expected to plummet with wind chills in the -30 Celsius range.

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The female arrived Wednesday night at the Peter Lougheed Centre.

Staff quickly shut down part of the emergency room and police taped off the entrance, although the ER fully reopened some time later.

The patient was transferred to Calgary’s South Health Campus - one of four hospitals in the province designated to deal with Ebola cases.

The protocol was put into place due to the individual’s travel and symptom history.

Calgary’s medical health officer said on Thursday that the chance of the patient having Ebola was very low.

Court appearance for brothers accused in attack on teen CALGARY — It was a brief court appearance for two brothers accused in an attack on a 17-yearold girl in Calgary earlier this month.

Corey Manyshots, who is 25, and Cody Manyshots, who is 21, are charged with kidnapping, uttering threats, sexual assault causing bodily harm and assault causing bodily harm.

The case was put over until Thursday because Cody still needs a lawyer and Corey just retained his.

Police have said the girl was waiting at a bus stop when she was dragged into an alley and sexually assaulted.

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Joining the Manson family It’s natural for a young couple in love to be a bit fidgety when they meet the future in-laws for the first time. And many parents are equally nervous meeting their children’s sweethearts for the first time — with the prospect of marriage in the back of their minds.

Will that prospective bride or groom live up to their expectations? Will that person treat their child with unconditional love and respect? Does he or she have a drinking problem or use drugs?

The questions race through the parents’ minds. Marriage is a big commitment and the parents want what’s best for their children.

So how does a 26-yearold daughter tell her mother RICK that she’s engaged to marry ZEMANEK 80-year-old monster Charles Manson, one of the most notorious killers in the history of the United States, who stands a better chance of throwing a stone at the moon and hitting it than getting out of prison?

Astonishingly, the mother of the blushing bride has given her blessings to the impending nuptials, setting the stage for a marriage made in hell. She will be embracing a son-in-law who stunned the world after leading his devout followers — the Manson Family — on a California bloodbath in the 1960s.

Bride-to-be Afton Elaine Burton, who calls herself Star, says she loves the man convicted of killing seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate.

Star is campaigning to prove Manson, whom she affectionately calls Charlie, is innocent of all crimes.

Star’s mom, Melissa Burton, admits the relationship is “different,” but adds: “my daughter is smart.

She plans out what she wants to do. She’s come to love him.”

Mom Burton, 48, also says she’s convinced Charlie truly loves her daughter. “I know (Manson) has made lots of bad choices, but I don’t believe he is dangerous.”

There’s an old saying that sums up this bizarre engagement and mom’s approval: Somebody’s elevators are not going to the top floor.

The Manson Family slaughtered more than a dozen people on Charlie’s instructions. Some victims were shot several times after torture. Others were stabbed multiple times — more than 50 times in some cases — and others were disembowelled.

Blood from victims was used to scrawl messages “Pig, Political piggy, Helter Skelter” on the walls of murder scenes.

The most notable case in Manson’s mission from hell was the Aug. 9, 1969, Sharon Tate murders. The actress, eight-and-a-half months pregnant and married to director Roman Polanski, was stabbed more than 15 times. Four guests at her home were shot and hacked to death.

Nine years ago, the starry-eyed Star embarked on a mission to help clear Manson of all wrongdoing, creating websites claiming his innocence. At the age of 19, Star, raised as a Baptist in a “good Christian home,” according to her mom, left the family home in Illinois and moved to California to be closer to her new-found love, who is serving time in the notorious Corcoran State Prison in Kings County.

She talks to Manson almost daily by phone and visits him on most weekends. She’s allowed to hug him twice — at the start and the end of their visits.

“We talk about anything and everything, you know,

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like what’s going on today — who’s doing what,” she told CNN. “I try to help him file papers and stuff like that.”

Mom Burton, who won’t be attending the wedding — if it indeed goes ahead — says her daughter was drawn to Manson for his “work as an environmentalist.” Star says she was smitten after she read Manson’s environmental philosophy “that stands for air, trees, water, and animals ... and cleaning up the Earth,” Star admits people think she’s crazy. “I don’t care what those people think. The man that I know is not what they have in the movies or in documentaries and the books. He’s nothing like that at all.”

Star says Manson is innocent of all crimes. “He never ever thought of any of that stuff. That’s ridiculous. That’s crazy. He’s nice to everyone.”

Her infatuation is not unique, according to experts. Jailed felons receive mountains of fan letters.

Many writers are seeking a relationship. And the more heinous their crimes, the more mail they receive. Commonly called The Bonnie and Clyde Syndrome, this mindset draws people to evil like a bluebottle fly to road-kill. Reasons range from titillation, to “I can change that person,” or they feel a sense of power by winning the affection of a high-profile lowlife.

“Being associated with someone bad gives you a chance to consider yourself a rebel,” says forensic psychologist Mike Aamodt, of the State of Virginia’s Radford University.

“If you have a dull life, this gives you a purpose,” says Aamodt. “At parties, people ask who you’re dating. If instead of saying that you’re dating an accountant you can say you’re dating a serial killer, doesn’t

that make you sound a lot more exciting?”

Violence can also be titillating to some, says Aamodt. “You see it in junior high and high school where thugs are ‘chick magnets.’ When you’re talking about killers, that ups the bad-boy ante.”

The Internet is a hub of activity with websites for people seeking to correspond with criminals. Crime writer Diane Fanning says she’s not surprised by love letters flooding the inboxes of serial killers. “A lot of women know that they’ll never get a one-on-one communication with a movie star or a sports star. But contact a killer and hey, he might write back.”

Fanning says the attraction can also be a selfesteem issue. “They believe that they don’t deserve anything better than a social reject. They look at someone who is hated by the world and they can relate.”

Manson’s Corcoran Prison home isn’t the most ideal setting for a wedding. In 1996, the Los Angeles Times reported that it was “the most troubled of the 32 state prisons” in the U.S. At the time of the report, COR officers had shot and killed more inmates “than any prison in the country.” Seven inmates had been killed and 50 others seriously wounded.

If the wedding is a go, Charlie and Star can invite up to 10 external guests and an external officiate to perform the ceremony. Prison policy states there will not be a wedding night to consummate the marriage — ever.

It’s not certain if Manson will be allowed a bestworst man. Star for certain can rule out her sister Deborah as bride’s maid. “I think it’s insane,” Deb says of the wedding plans.

That seems like a rational response.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

Abe’s gamble: snap election in Japan “I need to hear the voice of the people,” said Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “I will step down if we fail to keep our majority because that would mean our Abenomics is rejected.”

And with that feeble excuse, he announced that he was calling an election two years earlier than necessary, on Dec. 14.

“Abenomics,” the prime minister’s drastic strategy for kick-starting Japan out of 20 years of deflation and economic stagnation, has not GWYNNE actually been rejected by the public, but it is failing neverDYER theless.

After an initial burst of growth last year, Japan has fallen into a recession despite the trillions of yen that the central bank has pumped into the economy.

Japanese voters would love to see Abenomics succeed. It’s no fun living in a no-growth economy, and Abe’s plan was the first they had seen in a long time that had even a chance of turning that around.

But two years in, the kick-start has stalled and Abe’s public approval rating recently fell below 50 per cent for the first time.

Maybe he’s just going for another four years now because he fears that later the prospects will be even worse.

To be fair to the prime minister, Abenomics didn’t actually cause the recession.

The problem was that Abe raised the sales tax from five per cent to eight per cent last April, in obe-

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dience to a law passed by the previous government.

Unfortunately, Japanese consumers responded by cutting their spending, especially on big-ticket items — and so the economy tumbled into recession.

Abe has learned his lesson, and he is now promising that the scheduled second rise in the sales tax next year, from eight to 10 per cent, will be postponed until 2017 if he wins the election. In fact, he is portraying the election as a referendum on whether the public wants him to kill the next tax rise — as if they were likely to demand that he go ahead with it.

If he can keep the debate centred on the economy, Abe should cruise to an easy victory, for the opposition parties are divided and disorganized and have no plausible alternative solution.

However, if the focus shifts to Abe’s plans to restart the country’s nuclear power stations and remove the pacifist elements from the Japanese constitution, the election’s outcome will get much harder to predict.

On the nuclear issue, as on the sales tax, Abe is doing the sensible thing. Nuclear power used to provide 30 per cent of Japan’s electrical power, and the shutdown of all the country’s reactors has compelled it to spend huge amounts of money on imported energy.

It’s now high time to turn the nuclear reactors on again.

But the Japanese public, post-Fukushima, has an acute nuclear allergy, and the opposition to restarting the reactors is large, vocal, and well-organized.

If that becomes a central election issue, Abe will lose a lot of votes.

And then there’s the constitutional question. Abe has long detested the constitution, written by Americans during the post-1945 occupation.

It forbids Japan to send military forces abroad.

He says he wants to rewrite it to allow Japan to

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send its troops to the aid of allies who are under attack. His critics see it as the entering wedge for a full-scale remilitarization of the country.

“The global situation surrounding Japan is getting ever more difficult,” Abe said in a televised press conference last summer, in an attempt to justify his proposed constitutional changes.

He was really talking about the growing tension and even hostility between Tokyo and Beijing, of course, and China’s Xinhua news agency replied with an editorial that verged on the hysterical.

Abe is “leading his country on a dangerous path” by “gutting the constitution,” Xinhua wrote. “No matter how Abe glosses over it, he is dallying with the spectre of war.”

And it really doesn’t help that some of Abe’s hardright friends and political associates dabble in antiChinese invective and deny Japan’s war crimes before and during the Second World War. There are a great many people in Japan who find this attempt to change the constitution frightening.

Nobody knows exactly how many (it depends on how the opinion pollsters pose the question), but it may well be a majority.

So Abe really needs to keep this from becoming the dominant issue in the election.

The fact that it will be a relatively short campaign helps Abe, but if these two issues catch fire he will be in serious difficulty.

It’s unlikely that his Liberal Democratic Party, in power for 53 of the past 59 years, will actually lose control of the Lower House of the Diet, but it could lose enough seats to force him to drop his nuclear and constitutional projects.

And there is an outside chance that he could actually lose the election.

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Falling short on innovation Innovation is Canada’s best hope for future prosperity and good jobs. Yet, despite efforts of successive governments, we are still falling short.

This is confirmed, once again, in the latest OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook. We have to do better.

Innovation matters because new products and services and new ways of doing things lead to greater productivity and an improved standard of living. It is through new activities that new jobs and prosperity are created.

This is why innovation policy should be seen as central DAVID to a nation’s overall strategy CRANE for growth and employment, meaning the economy is no longer the territory of the Finance minister alone. Industry, Health, Agri-Food, Environment, Public Works and Defence are among other departments which have important roles to play in shaping our future economy.

As the recent OECD report finds, Canada ranks 15th in labour productivity, 24th in research and development as a share of gross domestic product and 27th when it comes to business spending on research and development as a share of GDP. In fact, Canadian business has been cutting back on R&D at a time when other countries are growing such spending.

This ignores the future we face.

As the OECD says, “innovation and technology are now expected to help restore competitiveness, boost productivity, upgrade industrial structure and address global challenges.”

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At the same time, “the rise of global value chains, the new central role for entrepreneurship, the search for new sources of growth, and the challenges raised by environmental and social issues have introduced new objectives and instruments for policy intervention.”

In a number of ways, the Conservative government of Stephen Harper has tried to boost innovative activity, for example by pushing hard on commercialization of new ideas from universities and colleges, boosting the supply of angel and venture capital, simplifying the R&D tax credit system, creating a fund for advanced manufacturing, linking the National Research Council more closely to partnerships with industry, and doubling base funding for the Industrial Research Assistance Program.

These policies matter. But many are supply-side measures that push innovation. The time has come to consider more active demand-side measures, creating markets to pull innovation because of the needs and opportunities that are created on the demand side.

This approach requires a vision of the grand challenges we face as a country, in moving to a lowcarbon economy, planning for the health and other needs of an aging society, dealing with future water and food needs and embracing the next generation of the Internet, the Internet of Everything that leads to smart cities and smart infrastructure.

For example, “the transition to a low-carbon future requires technological solutions and radical changes to the global energy system.” Carbon pricing, preferably a carbon tax, would create a market for innovation by forcing energy users to look for cleaner energy and greater energy efficiency.

Likewise, “it is important to promote services innovation in health care and nursing, education, transport, and urban development,” the OECD says.

For example, “housing design that supports independence, access to adaptations and technology that support aging, flexible support at home, and integration of housing services with health and care to create integrated teams on a neighbourhood basis can all play a role.”

Unfortunately, we lack the independent research bodies that can inform the public on the challenges and choices we face and mobilize public understanding. The Mulroney government abolished the Science Council of Canada and the Economic Council of Canada while the Harper government abolished the National Roundtable on the Economy and the Environment.

The demand-side toolbox is, in fact, quite big.

Taxes on undesirable outcomes can lead to innovative solutions. A carbon tax is just one example.

Regulatory and standards-setting powers are another tool. Building codes can mandate higher levels of energy efficiency. Fuel efficiency standards can lead to cleaner vehicles. Product standards can force manufacturers to produce more efficient appliances.

Competitions to solve important problems, with funding for the winning proposal, can also be effective in attracting innovators and entrepreneurs.

Raising the bar in requirements for publicly-funded projects such as infrastructure is another tool.

Government procurement can also demonstrate new technologies.

The Harper government has promised to produce a revised national innovation strategy this year.

Given Canada’s mediocre economic performance, we need demand-side ideas that can give innovation a stronger pull because what we are doing right now is not delivering what Canada urgently needs — prosperity and good jobs.

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

yummy orange flavoured chocolate slices. But only at Christmas time.

Back in the day, it used to be those magical black and white boxes of Black Magic chocolates. I looked it up, and those iconic boxes containing what Monty Python refer to as “sweetmeat comestibles” were first created in Yorkshire, England, by the Rowntree company in 1933 and became the first affordable and wildly popular boxed chocolate goodies. And the goto gift for a sweetie who loves sweets at Christmas.

Me and my reprobate buddies would fill our faces with the rectangular nougat chocolates with the wavy design, and the coffee cream crescent shapes ones, and we’d fight over the one big Brazil nut chocolate in every box (I’m trying very hard to forget what we used to call those), and my favorite: the Hazel nut trio.

Sadly, Black Magic disappeared for a while, then reappeared on the shelves fairly recently sporting a new black and red design on the box, and a gathering of fairly disappointing “new” chocolate comestibles inside the box.

But we still have — only at Christmas (at our place anyway) — Chocolate coins! Santa always leaves a handful of golden chocolate coins in the toe of each Christmas sock, along with a Mandarin orange, of course.

Then there’s those highly addictive Belgian chocolates that for some odd reason are shaped like sea horses, and sea shells and amoebas but are sinfully delicious anyway.

Unfortunately there are also my personal least favorite bonbons that seem to surface at Christmas like a flotsam and jetsam bobbing up in a muddy slough: Turkish Delight. Ewwww!

Now some good friends of mine who shall remain anonymous (Fudd and Donna) actually claim to really like Turkish Delight chocolate items. I pretty sure they are pulling my leg, because Turkish Delight, which is a sort of alien red squishy jell-goo,

tastes like spoiled marshmallow soaked in Drano.

I’m seriously worried about people who claim to like Turkish Disaster.

I’m also worried about chocolate.

As reported in this week’s Maclean’s magazine, there is a world-scale crisis looming. Never mind the price of oil, or even the potentially mythological issue of global warming — we’re talking a worldwide shortage of chocolate!

Apparently, Mars Inc. and Callebaut, two of the biggest chocolate makers have warned that “cocoa production is in decline while demand is soaring” leading to a “70,000 metric tonne chocolate deficit.”

Which is about the amount of chocolate we have in our house every Christmas.

This is bad news. I can image a world without, say, Turkish Delight, Brussel sprouts or cod liver oil, but no chocolate? You might as well do away with Christmas, too.

And what will happen to all of us chocolate lovers? Especially us baby boomer types who grew up smashing chocolate oranges, unwrapping chocolate coins and scarfing Black Magic sweetmeats. Because, according to the same article a recent study found that “an antioxidant in chocolate appeared to significantly improve memory skills in healthy people aged 50 to 69.”

No wonder most of us can remember every single one of the 12 awesome chocolates in the original Black Magic boxes (montelimar, chocolate nut, hazel cluster, toffee & mallow, orange cream, truffle & nougat, butterscotch, coffee cream, liquid cherry, caramel, strawberry cup and marzipan).

So it’s obvious. I’ll just have to stock up on an abundance of chocolate this year. While I can still remember why.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning 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.

Christmas creep and chocolate crisis Just a few short weeks ago, people were complaining about something called the “Christmas creep” and at first I was pretty sure they were referring to that one relative and/or family “friend” that you see once a year (Christmas) and who always hangs around the punch bowl a bit too long, if you get my drift, and ends up saying the most inappropriate and embarrassing things before tripping over the cat and falling face first into the Christmas tree.

Turns out said “Christmas creep” is an expression somebody made up that concerns the fact that many unnamed department stores (WallyMart) begin putting out Christmas decorations and merchandise right about the time they begin to remove the Back To School blitz.

Which is about the end of July. And not only that, before you can say: “It isn’t even Halloween yet!” the air seems HARLEY to be practically polluted HAY with the cheesiest versions of worst Christmas music ever.

I mean, hey, I love Christmas music as much as the next guy but played on saxophones and accordions? I don’t think so.

In October? Not so much.

But here it is practically December already and the slow creep has already morphed into a quick crawl. Soon the snowy sparkling sleigh ride to Christmas will be a full-on gallop and that certainly causes me to think about chocolate.

You see, I’ve been gazing longingly at the chocolate shelves in stores for a while now. Not that I don’t indulge in the finer qualities of the cocoa beans during the regular non-Christmas time of year — boy do I ever — but there are certain chocolates that I restrict myself to a Christmas-only category.

After Eight chocolates for example. Around our house, they’re like the Mandarin oranges we only get at this time of year. For me, After Eights and Mandarin oranges speak to me. And they always say “It’s Christmastime!”

And speaking of oranges, let’s not forget those Terry Chocolate Oranges in the square boxes that you take out and bang on the counter and open up the wrapping and Voila! you have a bunch of smashed pieces of chocolate! Or, if you do it right, you have a whole entire orange-shaped batch of

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Numbing the pain again and again It all starts when she comes into the kitchen while it is closed (although we usually leave the door unlocked so people can have a coffee, etc.) just to use the washroom, but we can tell by her appearance that she is feeling pretty low, so we offer her a coffee.

Taking a cup, she sits by herself at one of the tables staring off into space with a forlorn expression on her face.

So we carry on with our work, and every time we would pass by her to go to the pantry, we offer a few words of encouragement and concern.

On one such pass by, I stopped to talk with her a moment and it was at this time when I asked her what was CHRIS she coming down from.

SALOMONS On the verge of tears, she never answered that question but she used the expression that she was, “Numbing the Pain.”

The evening before, as I was prepping the kitchen for the next morning, she had walked by, asked to use the washroom and wanted a toothbrush and paste, which I gave her out of the donated supplies we had.

At that time, she was very ‘up,’ and as she wan-

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dered off down the street her comment was “Now I’m ready for the night.”

So it was evident that she had been up all night doing whatever, and in all likelihood bolstered by whatever she was on, whether crack, meth or some other drug. Now she was worn out, and the pain and remorse were coming in waves.

Plus she was extremely tired, so our street mother took her into a back room where she could lay down for a couple of hours in safety.

I never realized before, but a lot of these girls are afraid to close their eyes in rest for fear of molestation while they sleep in an unprotected area.

So after a couple of hours, Gertie took her to the Safe Harbour Day Care program, where she was allowed to sleep, which she did until the next morning.

As I reflected on this event, I kept thinking how this type of behaviour is like beating your head against a brick wall because it feels so good when you stop. So many of these girls and guys do this constantly that I asked someone who had been there, why; what goes on in the mind to repeat and repeat this same behaviour?

The answer I received was that when you come down from one of these trips, the only thing you can see or imagine to fix the hurt is to do the same thing again.

No other thought enters your mind. Eventually it becomes a mindset, and the only thing on your mind then is the procurement of the next trip or fix, which makes it almost impossible to stop.

For an alcoholic, the expressions are drowning the sorrows, washing the past, and for the drug addict it’s numbing the pain, burying bad dreams and so on.

There are many more expressions as well, but they all indicate one thing — the hopelessness of one’s situation. That hopelessness is only in their own minds, though, and the challenge for the workers who deal with these people all the time is to search for ways to break into that seemingly unchangeable mindset.

For those folks caught up in this trap, it is not just a mindset — they actually feel the pain and the extreme sorrow that they are desperately trying to erase.

What is lacking is finding an alternative way to deal with these emotions that is not so destructive to their lives. They have either never been taught or have learned to avoid using these alternatives.

Oh that there was a little pill to fix that problem, but then it’s evident that is what they are already doing; and it’s not working, just different people making money on them.

I guess that the greatest and best tool that anyone can have in their arsenal to fight this battle is just plain ordinary love and compassion. And, we need it in copious amounts from many sources if we are to win.

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

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SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 2014 FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Akaka Falls. Under a banyan tree. I came across this wild orchid growing on a tree above Rainbow Falls.

Photos by DEBBIE OLSEN/ Freelance

Kona’s natural wonders THE LARGEST OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS IS HOME TO MANTA RAYS, TURTLES, POWERFUL VOLCANOES AND SCENIC VISTAS A protected bay right in front of the Sheraton Kona Resort and Spa on the Big Island of Hawaii is one of the best places on the planet to see giant manta rays, but the ideal time to do it is after dark when the mantas are actively feeding.

Manta rays are one of the largest fishes in the ocean with wingspans that can measure six metres or more. Though they look fearsome and other-worldly, these gentle giants are stinger-less plankton eaters that are harmless to humans and can even be quite friendly.

The best way to see mantas up close is via a tour and with our boat safely stopped in Keauhou Bay, I slipped into the dark water and adjusted my snorkel gear.

I was a little nervous and the darkness wasn’t helping. Our guide Nick was alDEBBIE ready in the water with a large flotation OLSEN apparatus and my friends and I grabbed onto the edge and floated face down in the water while Nick shone a powerful spotlight below us.

It didn’t take long before the phytoplankton began swarming in the light. Nick explained that phytoplankton needs light for photosynthesis, so the tiny creatures are attracted to the spotlights. Since phytoplankton are the food source for manta rays, shining a spotlight and gathering the plankton in one spot is a little like ringing the dinner bell at a school cafeteria.

A few moments later, the manta rays began to arrive. We watched as they swirled and barrel-rolled with their massive mouths gaping open to ingest plankton. It was almost like watching an intricate ethereal underwater ballet with the mantas slowing gliding closer and closer towards us until they almost brushed against our bodies.

Nearly a dozen massive rays swam around us for almost a full hour before another boat with a bigger spotlight arrived and the plankton snow storm and the mantas moved on.

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TOP: A night snorkel or dive is the best way to see Manata Rays up close. You’ll soon discover them to be difficult to photograph. They are constantly moving in low light and the abundance of plankton makes it look like you are in the middle of a snow storm.

ABOVE: The Waipi’o Valley or Valley of the Kings is considered sacred to many Hawaiians and has been protected from development. It is a popular film site and the final land scenes of Kevin Costner’s ‘Waterworld’ were filmed in this valley.

LEFT: Make a stop at the visitors’ centre at Waipi’o Valley State Park and you’ll likely meet ranger Darren Barden. He can give you directions to Hawaii’s tallest waterfall, which is located inside the park.

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ABOVE: At Panalu’u State Park, turtles warm themselves on the black sand every evening, night and morning.

BELOW: Those who hike to the top of Rainbow Falls are rewarded with great views.

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HAWAII: Five wonders of nature Being so close to these magnificent creatures was an experience of a lifetime.

And it was just one of the amazing adventures we enjoyed during our six-night stay.

As the largest of the Hawaiian Islands, Kona is home to all but two of the world’s climactic zones and many of its natural wonders. Besides the awesomely powerful volcanoes, here are five wonders of nature that you really shouldn’t miss on the Big Island.

Snorkelling with manta rays Night-time is the best time to snorkel with manta rays and there are several companies that offer tours from Honokohau Harbor just north of Kailua-Kona.

We travelled with a company called My Kona Adventures (www.mykonaadventures.com). Manta Ray snorkel tours last for about an hour and cost US$109 plus tax per person.

My Kona Adventures caters to individuals and small groups, which made for a more intimate experience than can be had with the big tour companies.

Reduced rates are available when you book two or more different tours.

Located on the northeastern coast of the Big Island, Akaka State Park (www.hawaiistateparks.org) is the place to go if you want to see two gorgeous waterfalls in one easy 10-minute hike.

A meandering paved trail takes you through lush rainforest, thick bamboo groves and past fragrant wild orchids to the cascading 30-metre Kahuna Falls.

As you continue walking, the highlight comes near the end of the trail when you spot the iconic 135-metre Akaka Falls plummeting into a deep green gorge.

Akaka Falls is by many accounts Hawaii’s most famous waterfall.

Akaka Falls State Park

Waipi’o Valley

Known anciently as the “Valley of the Kings,” Waipi’o Valley was the boyhood home of King Kamehameha and one of the most fertile taro growing regions on the island. It was also home to many important ancient temples and is to this day considered by many Hawaiians to be a sacred place. One has but to gaze out at the valley from the overlook to feel the power and majestic beauty that resonates from this ancient place.

At one time, thousands of Hawaiians lived in this lush valley protected by the spirits of past kings who were buried in caves on the sides of the steep cliffs.

Today there are less than 100 permanent residents in the valley and it has been carefully protected from big development.

There are only a few companies that have permits to operate tours in the area and the only way in is either on foot, horseback or with a four-wheel-drive vehicle. A hike into the valley will lead you to Hawaii’s tallest waterfall, Hiilawe Falls and to a crescent shaped black sand beach that is popular with surfers.

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.

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Organizers estimate that as many as 15,000 people will attend the Sept. 22-25 conference, which offers workshops and seminars on strengthening family bonds. More than 1.5 million pilgrims are expected for the pontiff’s two public appearances Sept. 2627, including a festival and a Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Legend has it that in times of drought, ancient Hawaiians would dive underwater just off Panalu’u Beach and fill jugs with the fresh underground spring water that flows into the bay.

If you look carefully at the water inside the bay, you can still see the place where the cold spring water mixes with the warm salt water. This unique black sand beach was created by lava which flowed into the ocean and is a must-see for any visitor to the Big Island.

The best time to visit is in the early morning or early evening when you’re most likely to spot an endangered sea turtle. Hawksbill and Green Turtles enjoy basking in the warmth of the black sand during the cooler hours of the day.

A visit to the beach and the surrounding beach park is free, but visitors should be warned — the sand gets very hot during the heat of the day and the swimming area is rocky and thus somewhat dangerous.

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ABOVE: Bald eagles can reach 30 years of age, but about only one in 10 will reach adulthood.

RIGHT: Eagles gather along the Fraser Harrison River System to eat salmon.

BELOW: Bald eagles can travel over 800 km in three days.

“I drove two hours for that?” I heard a woman mutter after hiking a kilometre to peer through a scope for a fuzzy view of an eagle two km distant.

I wanted to tell her I had driven 11 hours for that view and like her, was disappointed. Jo-Anne Chadwick of Fraser River Safari had said I was likely to see 1,000 eagles at the Fraser Valley Bald Eagle festival. So far, I’d been underwhelmed.

Pulling into the Harrison River RV Resort — one of the festival viewing sites — the trees were empty of anything other than leaves.

“Where are the eagles?” I asked a gentleman ambling by, his thick coat and wool cap at odds with the sunny skies.

“They aren’t here yet. The festival is too early,” he lamented. My heart sank.

Nature is unpredictable and festival organizers can’t order a few hundred birds to show up on demand.

I continued the search at another viewing site.

“The water is high and sockeye salmon won’t swim up river until levels drop,” a gentleman explained as I warmed my hands over a roaring fire at Tapadara Estates, the closest community to the Chehalis Flats Bald Eagle and Salmon Preserve. I counted almost 100 eagles perched or walking among salmon carcasses on the estuary mudflats; not bad for a morning of bird watching but far fewer than I expected.

My spirits plummeted lower than thermometer mercury in January as I headed to the last place for eagle viewing — a jet boat tour of the Harrison

River.

“There were hundreds of eagles out there,” I overheard one woman tell her friend in the parking lot. My pace quickened as I headed to the launch site.

The Fraser River Safari doesn’t use an average jet boat. Built for touring, its large glass windows and skylights provided clear views in every direction while sheltering us from cold winds.

Capable of hitting 80 km/h, the boat handled strong currents with ease.

With few eagles on the Fraser River, we headed up the 13-km Harrison River to find Canada’s largest bird of prey and one of 59 eagle species in the world.

Several eagles stood on a gravel bar, their hefty brown bodies looming over dozens of seagulls ripping flesh from dead salmon. To avoid theft by other birds, the eagles gulped fish quickly — they can eat half a kilogram in four minutes — as the calories are important for surviving winter.

My mouth gaped as I counted 21 eagles in a single tree while dozens more circled above! Covering hundreds of kilometres in a single day, thousands of eagles arrive in British Columbia as Alaska’s rivers freeze.

Jo-Anne estimated we were looking at about 500 eagles shoehorned into a three-km stretch of the river.

I tried to imagine two or three times as many eagles and failed.

Already, the trees lining the banks looked like they had been showered in golf balls — the white heads of mature bald eagles clearly visible among darker branches.

This spectacle was breathtaking, but at its peak, the migration would be one of the most impressive wildlife sights on the continent.

Time flew almost as fast as the eagles and too quickly, the tour was over.

Eagle withdrawal started immediately but David Hancock, eagle expert and festival speaker, came to our rescue. His organization, Hancock Wildlife Foundation, has eagle-cams on the Chehalis Flats so everyone can watch the world’s highest concentration of eagles. I faced a long drive home but left happy, knowing I could watch eagles until my travels coincided with theirs once again.

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Tigers 4 Rebels 3 (OT) MEDICINE HAT — There was a time, as recent as last winter, when the Red Deer Rebels might have been tickled with gaining a single point in a Western Hockey League game at Medicine Hat. That attitude has changed this season.

“We’re leaving disappointed with the fact we could have had two points,” Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter said Friday, following a 4-3 overtime

loss to the Tigers. “We’re leaving here disappointed that we lost a point.

“It’s a situation where we have to find a way to win hockey games. It’s a road game, we’ll take the point, but we played well enough here tonight that we had an opportunity to get two (points).”

The Rebels grabbed their first and only lead of the evening when Scott Feser potted his ninth goal of the season, a short-handed marker, at 17:07 of the second period.

Down 3-2, the Tigers pulled even when Zach Fischer scored his first of the season at 9:23, forcing extra time.

Anthony Ast opened the scoring for the Tigers 9:56 into the contest and Presten Kopeck potted an equalizer for the Rebels just under five minutes later. From there, Cole Sanford restored the Tigers’ lead with his 17th of the season at 3:48 of the second period and Rebels defenceman Brett Cote replied with his fourth exactly four minutes later.

“We played well for the first 40 minutes, and then we got on our heels for 10 minutes in the third,” said Sutter.

“We got our game back near the end, we played well the last 10 minutes of the third. Then in overtime we had a

breakdown in our own zone.”

The Rebels performance, at least, was far superior to what they put forth in a 4-2 loss at Medicine Hat Nov. 18.

“We played a different game here tonight. We played with a lot more urgency,” said Sutter.

The Rebels, who host the Swift Current Broncos tonight, were three-forthree on the penalty kill and did not get a power-play opportunity.

“Nope,” said Sutter, when asked if it was proper that the Tigers were not assessed a single penalty. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Oilers drop 9th in a row

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS St. Louis 4 Oilers 3 (OT) ST. LOUIS — Vladimir Tarasenko scored at 4:20 of overtime to lift the St. Louis Blues over the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Friday night.

The Blues, who rebounded from a shootout loss to Ottawa at home on Tuesday, have won four straight against the Oilers and nine of 10.

The Oilers, who were beaten 1-0 in overtime in Nashville on Thursday, have dropped nine straight games, including three in overtime. They have also lost 13 of 15.

Tarasenko’s goal was his team-high 13th of the season. T.J. Oshie had a goal and two assists for his first multipoint game of the season. Jake Allen made 13 saves.

Edmonton’s Ben Scrivens stopped 37 shots in the loss.

Oshie’s second goal of the season, a drive from beyond the right circle after a drop pass by Tarasenko, beat Scrivens high stick side and gave the Blues a 1-0 lead with 8:25 remaining in the first period.

The Oilers went nearly 10 minutes in the first without a shot and had just three shots in the period, but they tied the game on David Perron’s third goal of the season with 14:09 left in the second period.

Perron has two goals in four career games against his former team. He scored 84 in six seasons with St. Louis before being traded before the 2013-14 season.

Edmonton went ahead 2-1, its first lead since beating the Rangers on Nov. 9, when Nikita Nikitin scored off a back-door assist from Taylor Hall with 3:14 remaining in the second.

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St. Louis Blues’ Vladimir Tarasenko, second from left, celebrates with teammates Alex Pietrangelo (27), Jori Lehtera (12) and Chris Butler (25) after scoring the game-winning goal in overtime of an NHL hockey game against the Edmonton Oilers, Friday, in St. Louis. The Blues won 4-3 in overtime.

Kevin Shattenkirk tied it 2-2 with a long shot from near the blue line, assisted by Oshie, just 31 seconds into the third.

Mark Arcobello put Edmonton back in front 3-2 three minutes later with his fifth of the season off another nice pass from Hall.

The Blues tied it with 7:35 remaining when Alex Pietrangelo put in a rebound of Oshie’s miss.

NOTES: Blues coach Ken Hitchcock tied Mike Keenan for sixth on the NHL career wins list with 671. ... Blues D Jay Bouwmeester missed his fourth game with a lower-body injury, and is

expected to sit out Saturday at Minnesota. ... The Blues outshot the Oilers 37-15 in regulation. . St. Louis is 12-0 when it scores at least three goals, and is 3-6-2 when scoring two or fewer.

Stampeders still look to Lewis for guidance Lewis’s teammates still look to him for guidance, with quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell pointing to Calgary’s stunning 40-27 comeback win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders in October when the veteran receiver had nine catches for 98 yards.

“Nik has been in the league for a long time and for a very good reason, because he’s done so many great things,” said Mitchell, in his first year as Calgary’s starter. “He is absolutely a leader in our locker-room.”

Veteran running back Rob Cote added that the Stampeders often follow Lewis’s lead on and off the field.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Nik Lewis found himself in unfamiliar territory this season.

A key cog in the Calgary Stampeders’ offence for the last decade, the veteran slotback was mostly relegated to a supporting role in 2014 — one that he wasn’t at all used to, but accepted for the good of the team.

“It’s the first time in my life, not just professionally, it’s the first time in my life that it’s been like this,” the 32-year-old said this week. “But growing over the years and growing up and understanding the way things are, I’m a leader of men.

“I’m a leader of those receivers in there and I owe it them to show up every day with the best attitude, with the ability to try to make them better men, better football players, better receivers, and that’s what I did.”

As the Stampeders continue their preparations for Sunday’s Grey Cup game at B.C. Place Stadium against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Lewis said his contributions go far beyond his mediocre 37 catches for 377 yards and no touchdowns in 12 games this season.

“I think what I do is valuable. It’s not just stats and yards, it’s more about how I communicate with those guys,” said the outspoken 11-year veteran out of Southern Arkansas University.

“There’s been a lot of different things this year that have allowed me to be a better person, but also to understand and relate to these guys. It’s just an ultimate experience to be a leader on a team and not just be a player.”

A 1,000-yard receiver in each of his first nine CFL seasons, Lewis suffered a broken fibula in August 2013 and has totalled just 69 catches for 777 yards and three TDs over the last two years.

His future with the Stampeders beyond this weekend is very much up in the air, but the native of Jacksboro,

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Calgary Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell (19) speaks to his teammates while stretching at the end of Grey Cup football practice in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday. The Calgary Stampeders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats are scheduled to play in the Canadian Football League’s 102nd Grey Cup championship football game on Sunday.

Tex., is clear he’s far from finished.

“I plan on playing next year and the next year after that,” he said. “I feel good, I feel confident. My body is finally getting back to the place (it needs to be). I talked to the coaches at the beginning of the year and they were just like, ‘We need you to be at your best at the end of the season.’

“It’s the end of the season and I’m at my best and I can do what I used to do, I promise you that. Now it’s just the opportunity to go out and do it.”

Lewis — who had just one catch for five yards in Calgary’s West Division victory over the Edmonton Eskimos -

wouldn’t speculate on his next step in the CFL, but it’s clear where his heart resides.

“My focus when I started my career was to play for one team my whole career,” he said. “I didn’t know how long my career would last. I’m blessed to be here 11 years later. I don’t know what’s going to happen next year. I’m not really focused on next year.

“All I can really focus on is right now and this game. I’ve always said, if I got out and play the way I can play I don’t have to worry about anything else because it’s going to take care of itself.”

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

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“He’s the heart and soul of this team and you see a difference when he’s up,” said Cote, who has played every one of his eight professional seasons alongside Lewis. “He’s a great leader, a great guy and a great teammate.”

For all of Lewis’s personal success with the Stampeders — 805 receptions for 11,250 yards and 65 TDs in his career — he conceded the team has often failed to meet expectations. A talented Calgary roster won the Grey Cup in 2008 but lost the big game in 2012, while falling in the West final in 2009, 2010 and again last year.

“I’ve said in the past I’ve always felt like we have been underachievers in my career here,” said Lewis. “Not talking about any one individual, but just as a team I’ve felt like we’ve had the talent and ability to win more Grey Cups or at least play in more Grey Cup games.”

But he added the veteran core with the Stampeders, who finished the regular season 15-3, has learned valuable lessons heading into the 102nd Grey Cup against the Tiger-Cats (9-9).

“They say you learn when you lose.

Now it’s time to go win it,” said Lewis.

“We just learned to be patient, go enjoy ourselves and not press in the playoffs. It’s still the same game. We’ve just got to go out and execute.”

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Ticats brimming with belief

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — With a 1-6 record, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats were a long way from the Grey Cup in August.

But the team never panicked. Head coach Kent Austin saw success ahead.

“When we were 1-6, our head coach, our defensive co-ordinator (Orlondo Steinauer) said, ‘This is a Grey Cup team.’ It just wasn’t our time yet,” said sumosized defensive lineman Ted Laurent.

Linebacker Simoni Lawrence remembers the words Austin used. “It’s going to be an amazing story when it’s all said and done.”

The last chapter will be written Sunday at B.C. Place Stadium when the Tiger-Cats play the powerful Calgary Stampeders.

The Ticats, 45-23 losers to the hometown Saskatchewan Roughriders in last year’s championship game, go into the game brimming with belief.

It’s been a signpost of their season, no matter where they were in the standings.

“We knew we weren’t a 1-6 team,” said offensive lineman Peter Dyakowski.

“I’ve played on basket-case teams and we weren’t that,” he added. “You could look at every position group and know that we had it, that we were close.

And if we just stuck with it, we were going to get it turned around.

“And that belief was through the organization, top to bottom, throughout the team ... no one shut it down, no one thought that this is going to be the story of our season. Everyone knew we had a team that could make a run.”

“This team was extremely resilient inside, where it’s most important,” said Jeff Reinebold, Hamilton’s special teams co-ordinator and linebackers coach.

Reinebold has seen more than a few teams in a coaching career that has stretched from Amsterdam to Las Vegas with CFL stops in B.C., Edmonton, Hamilton, Montreal and Winnipeg.

“Every team is unique but this team is extra-special to me,” he said.

“They never wavered,” he added. “They never flinched. They never backed off their beliefs, they never pointed fingers at one another. All of the things that can happen when you don’t have success in professional sports - all the ‘Me guys’ take over, all the finger-pointing begins, all the blame gets spread around.

“This team never took part in that. And a lot of

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ running back C.J. Gable sits on the bench with gloves on his helmet during Grey Cup football practice in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Calgary Stampeders are scheduled to play in the Canadian Football League’s 102nd Grey Cup championship football game on Sunday. that comes from Coach Austin and his unshakable belief in his principles and then that got disseminated among the assistant coaches. And the message was always consistent.”

Hamilton (9-9) went on to win eight of its next 11 games and finish first in the East. Hamilton then thumped Montreal 40-24 in the East final.

“The thing that was most regarding after the win (over the Als) last week was not the win, was not the money, was not the fact even that they were going to go play for a championship,” said Reinebold. “It was the fact that they all got to stay together one more

Cohon leaves CFL on stable footing

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - As he completes his tenure as CFL commissioner, Mark Cohon is leaving the league in better shape now than when he took the reins eight years ago.

A blockbuster TV agreement that will net teams millions, several new or refurbished stadiums and an expansion team in Ottawa will be among the legacies he leaves behind. But as he steps down, the future of the Toronto Argonauts remains unclear and not fixing their problems will be one of his biggest regrets.

Cohon announced in August he wouldn’t seek a contract extension when his current deal expires in April. In his final state-of-the-league address Friday at the Grey Cup, the 48-year-old acknowledged that his inability to resolve Toronto’s stadium issue - the Argos still haven’t found a new home with their Rogers Centre lease set to expire in 2017 - is a blemish on his record.

“Would I like to have had the bow tied around that before I leave as commissioner? Absolutely,” Cohon said. “We have to change the experience for Argos fans and I think a new home is a big part of that puzzle.”

Owner David Braley has lost millions operating the Argos since 2010. The struggling franchise averaged less than 18,000 spectators this season at the cavernous Rogers Centre, which can hold 50,000 fans for football.

Braley continues to negotiate with Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment on a lease at the more intimate BMO Field. But that deal is contingent on the completion of a $125-million renovation at the outdoor facility.

MLSE is contributing $95 million toward the expansion with the city of Toronto agreeing to provide $10 million. But the anticipated funding of $10 million each from the provincial and federal governments hasn’t materialized, potentially threatening completion of the project.

The Ontario Liberals are expected to contribute $10 million but the federal government is reportedly balking, creating a $10-million shortfall Cohon said the CFL could make up to secure the Argos’ future.

“You look at everything, you look at all options,” Cohon said. “That’s a better option than building a new $150-$200 million stadium so I think you have to look at all scenarios and how would we consider any future investment in that opportunity for the partners to get that back.”

In March 2013, Cohon helped negotiate a five-year deal with TSN reportedly worth $43 million a year that was more than 2 ½ times the previous agreement. The result was increased league payments to its teams.

But the TV money was a hot-button topic this spring in a contentious, testy negotiation with the CFL Players’ Association. The players voted to go on strike and threatened to walk just prior to the season before agreeing to a five-year deal at the last minute, ensuring the 2014 campaign started on time and clubs start sharing in the extra television revenue.

The Toronto issue and labour strife compounded what was a challenging final season for Cohon.

Injuries to proven offensive stars like quarterbacks Travis Lulay and Darian Durant, receivers Chad Owens and Any Fantuz as well as running backs Jon Cornish and C.J. Gable dramatically impacted the on-field product. Defences dominated as scoring and total offence were down - thanks in part to conservative offensive play. On Thursday, B.C. Lions linebacker Solomon Elimimian became the first pure defensive performer to capture the league’s outstanding player honour.

Off the field, attendance and the league’s TV ratings were both down but Cohon remained bullish on the CFL’s standing on the Canadian sports landscape.

“Let’s put that into perspective,” he said. “We’re bigger than the NFL in this country, we’re bigger than the Toronto Blue Jays in this country, much bigger than the NBA and the (Toronto) Raptors, which is a hot team in this country,” Cohon said, without citing any specific data to support his claim.

week.

“Because the reality of it is in this business when a season ends, whether it ends at the end of the regular season or after a championship game, that team will never be the same again. Never will all those coaches, all those players, all those personalities be together one more time. There are always transitions, particularly in pro sports today.

“This team has blessed itself because it competed so hard last week against Montreal, with the opportunity to experience this and to be together as brothers one more week. That’s fantastic.”

SPORTS

BRIEFS

Blue Jays trade Lawrie, prospects to Athletics for all-star Donaldson TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays had to send Canadian third baseman Brett Lawrie south of the border to move their team forward.

Lawrie, from Langley, B.C., was traded from Toronto to the Oakland Athletics on Friday for all-star third baseman Josh Donaldson. Shortstop Franklin Barreto as well as pitchers Sean Nolin and Kendall Graveman were also sent to Oakland as part of the deal.

Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos said it was very difficult to trade the 24-year-old Lawrie, who hit .247 with nine doubles, 12 home runs and 38 runs batted in through 70 games last season. He hit .265 with 61 doubles, 43 home runs and 157 RBIs over four years with Toronto.

“You get attached to these guys,” said Anthopoulos. “Obviously, Brett’s been here a while and he’s still so young and you love the way he plays, the energy he brings. I talked to him on the phone and it was a hard conversation. Rightfully so, he was a Toronto Blue Jay through and through. Tough to see him go.

“We would have loved to have kept him. We tried.

But I don’t think this deal was getting done without Brett.”

Athletics GM Billy Beane confirmed in a separate conference call that the deal would not have proceeded without the inclusion of Lawrie and all three prospects.

“We wouldn’t have done the deal unless it addressed now and the future and they were able to do that. This deal in our minds addresses a little bit of everything,” said Beane. “It got pretty serious the last 48 hours. They were reluctant to give up all four players and we weren’t going to do it without those four players in the deal.”

Cowboys anxious for a do-over after getting blown out by Eagles “Maybe bothered by a pass rush,” Garrett said.

“He’s a human being.

He’s dealing with stuff.

Everybody’s dealing with stuff. He certainly missed some throws and just the overall environment, there were some tight throws he had to make.”

NFL

IRVING, Texas — Dez Bryant was ready to play Romo went down early on one third-down play Philadelphia again as soon as the Eagles finished with nobody in position to sack him, and didn’t try to blowing out the Cowboys in a Thanksgiving battle for escape trouble a few other times on his way to four the NFC East lead. sacks, one shy of his season high.

At least the star Dallas receiver mentioned that a “I thought there was a guy coming and I was probtrip to Chicago comes first. ably wrong,” said Romo, who had his worst passer “I’m really not mad at all,” Bryant said after rating of the season while the Cowboys were outThursday’s 33-10 loss, the third straight at home for gained by almost 200 yards. “That was a concession, Dallas. “They beat us. I’m going to accept that. But I but that was also becannot wait to go up there and play them again.” cause the way their deCowboys coach Jason Garrett has a unique chal- fence guarded the play, lenge to his mantra of next practice, next day, next more so than anything game. The Cowboys (8-4) were a bust in the first of else.” two games against Philadelphia in 18 days, all the Garrett said he didn’t more reason to be anxious for a do-over. think Romo’s back was The Bears (5-7) also were flattened on Thanksgiv- the reason he threw ing, losing 34-17 at Detroit. Instead of the usual extra two interceptions while time off, both teams are playing the rare Thursday- a 38-game streak with to-Thursday set. at least one touchdown “We’d be saying the same thing if the outcome pass ended. would’ve been the reverse,” Garrett said.

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SCOREBOARD ● College curling: ACAC Fall Regional at Pidherney Centre. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Steel Kings, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A; Taber at Red Deer Ramada, 3 p.m., Kinsmen A; Sylvan Lake at Olds, 4:45 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Wheatland at Sylvan Lake, 2:15 p.m., Caroline; Lacombe at Olds, 2:15 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Junior women’s hockey: Sherwood Park at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Camrose Augustana at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Elks, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Wheatland at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena.

Sunday

● College curling: ACAC Fall Regional at Pidherney Centre. ● Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Sylvan Lake at Olds, 12:15 p.m.; Airdrie at Lacombe, 2 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Southeast at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Sylvan Lake, 1:30 p.m., Caroline; Taber at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Medicine Hat at Olds, 2:45 p.m. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

Golf EMIRATES AUSTRALIAN OPEN At The Australian Golf Club Sydney Purse: $1.07 million Yardage: 7,208; Par: 71 Second Round a-amateur Greg Chalmers, Australia 71-66-137 Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland 69-69-138 Adam Crawford, Australia 69-69-138 a-Todd Sinnott, Australia 71-67-138 Conrad Shindler, United States 70-68-138 Jordan Spieth, United States 67-72-139 Geoff Drakeford, Australia 69-70-139 Brett Rumford, Australia 70-69-139 Robert Allenby, Australia 71-69-140 Rod Pampling, Australia 73-67-140 Jake Higginbottom, Australia 71-69-140 Adam Scott, Australia 74-66-140 Rhein Gibson, Australia 70-70-140 Richard Green, Australia 69-71-140 Scott Gardiner, Australia 68-73-141 Matthew Griffin, Australia 72-69-141 Jason Norris, Australia 73-69-142 David Bransdon, Australia 72-70-142 Nick Cullen, Australia 73-69-142 Jamie Lovemark, United States 77-65-142 Lincoln Tighe, Australia 70-72-142 Matt Jager, Australia 72-70-142 Choi Jin-ho, South Korea 74-68-142 John Senden, Australia 73-69-142 Stephen Dartnall, Australia 72-71-143 Aaron Townsend, Australia 73-70-143 Boo Weekley, United States 72-71-143 Ashley Hall, Australia 73-70-143 Oliver Goss, Australia 71-72-143 Andrew Evans, Australia 75-68-143 Cameron Smith, Australia 73-70-143 Kang Sung-hoon, South Korea 73-70-143 Josh Younger, Australia 71-72-143 Choi Joon-woo, South Korea 72-71-143 Bryden Macpherson, Australia 70-73-143 Aron Price, Australia 68-75-143 Rohan Blizard, Australia 70-73-143 a-Antonio Murdaca, Australia 70-73-143 Josh Geary, New Zealand 76-68-144 Ryan Fox, New Zealand 72-72-144 Michael Hendry, New Zealand 70-74-144 Steven Bowditch, Australia 70-74-144 Brendon de Jonge, Zimbabwe 69-75-144 Nathan Green, Australia 72-72-144 James Nitties, Australia 71-73-144 Leigh McKechnie, Australia 73-71-144 Patrick Rodgers, United States 70-74-144 Nathan Holman, Australia 73-72-145 Callan O’Reilly, Australia 74-71-145 Brady Watt, Australia 74-71-145 Adam Bland, Australia 73-72-145 a-Ryan Ruffels, Australia 71-74-145 Geoff Ogilvy, Australia 74-71-145 Garrett Sapp, United States 73-72-145 Michael Wright, Australia 73-73-146 David McKenzie, Australia 70-76-146 Max McCardle, Australia 73-73-146 Kyle Stanley, United States 74-72-146 David McKendrick, Australia 75-71-146 Craig Parry, Australia 74-72-146 Matthew Giles, Australia 73-73-146 Brad Shilton, New Zealand 74-72-146 James Marchesani, Australia 73-73-146 Aaron Pike, Australia 75-71-146 Steven Jeffress, Australia 75-71-146 Michael Long, New Zealand 75-71-146 Stephen Leaney, Australia 73-73-146 Jeong Jin, South Korea 71-75-146 a-Lucas Herbert, Australia 75-71-146 Matthew Millar, Australia 73-73-146 Alistair Presnell, Australia 74-72-146 Stephen Allan, Australia 75-71-146 Jason Scrivener, Australia 72-74-146 Bradley Hughes, Australia 72-74-146 Daniel Nisbet, Australia 74-72-146 a-Taylor MacDonald, Australia 74-72-146 Missed cut Scott Laycock, Australia 73-74-147 Anthony Summers, Australia 77-70-147 Andrew Tampion, Australia 69-78-147 Abdul Nabil, Australia 75-72-147 a-Tae Koh, New Zealand 71-76-147 Wisut Artjanawat, Thailand 74-73-147 Daniel Woltman, United States 73-74-147 Dimitrios Papadatos, Australia 74-73-147 Rory Hie, Indonesia 72-75-147 Marcus Fraser, Australia 74-73-147

Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Brandon 27 20 5 2 0 127 89 42 Swift Current 29 14 11 0 4 86 88 32 Regina 25 14 10 1 0 88 70 29 Prince Albert 26 13 13 0 0 81 86 26 Moose Jaw 26 11 12 2 1 76 89 25 Saskatoon 26 7 17 2 0 71 122 16 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Medicine Hat 26 18 6 1 1 99 63 38 Edmonton 28 14 10 2 2 87 74 32 Calgary 27 14 10 1 2 98 78 31 Red Deer 27 13 10 3 1 94 90 30 Kootenay 26 11 15 0 0 76 105 22 Lethbridge 25 6 15 3 1 61 102 16 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 27 22 2 3 0 128 65 47 Victoria 29 14 13 2 0 92 97 30 Kamloops 27 11 11 3 2 82 88 27 Prince George 27 13 14 0 0 82 113 26 Vancouver 27 9 18 0 0 78 99 18 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 23 16 4 2 1 81 59 35 Spokane 23 13 7 3 0 67 64 29 Portland 28 13 12 0 3 93 103 29 Tri-City 25 14 11 0 0 69 66 28 Seattle 24 9 11 2 2 61 67 22 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 Portland 5 Kootenay 2 Brandon 4 Saskatoon 3 (OT) Edmonton 3 Vancouver 0 Calgary 6 Swift Current 4 Medicine Hat 4 Red Deer 3 (OT) Regina at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Lethbridge at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Today’s games Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

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

Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Regina at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Kootenay at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Lethbridge at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 22 15 5 2 32 78 53 N.Y. Islanders 23 16 7 0 32 74 64 Washington 22 10 8 4 24 63 59 N.Y. Rangers 22 10 8 4 24 63 62 New Jersey 23 9 10 4 22 57 68 Philadelphia 22 8 11 3 19 59 69 Carolina 22 7 12 3 17 52 65 Columbus 22 6 14 2 14 51 81 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 22 15 5 2 32 62 45 St. Louis 23 15 6 2 32 63 49 Chicago 23 14 8 1 29 70 47 Winnipeg 25 12 9 4 28 52 56 Minnesota 21 12 9 0 24 58 48 Dallas 22 9 9 4 22 64 74 Colorado 23 8 10 5 21 59 73 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 23 16 6 1 33 72 61 Anaheim 24 14 5 5 33 64 60 Calgary 24 14 8 2 30 75 64 Los Angeles 23 12 6 5 29 64 53 San Jose 24 10 10 4 24 62 66 Arizona 23 9 11 3 21 57 71 Edmonton 24 6 14 4 16 54 82 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Friday’s Games Detroit 5, New Jersey 4, SO N.Y. Rangers 3, Philadelphia 0 Chicago 4, Anaheim 1 Washington 5, N.Y. Islanders 2 Boston 2, Winnipeg 1, OT Buffalo 2, Montreal 1 Carolina 4, Pittsburgh 2 Vancouver 5, Columbus 0 Florida 3, Ottawa 2 St. Louis 4, Edmonton 3, OT Minnesota 5, Dallas 4, OT

Sunday’s Games Vancouver at Detroit, 12 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 24 16 7 1 33 62 Tampa Bay 23 15 6 2 32 81 Detroit 23 13 5 5 31 69 Boston 24 14 9 1 29 61 Toronto 22 11 8 3 25 70 Florida 21 9 6 6 24 45 Ottawa 22 10 8 4 24 60 Buffalo 23 7 14 2 16 39

GA 59 63 58 58 67 53 59 73

RANGERS 3, Flyers 0 First Period 1. NY Rangers, Boyle 2 (Stepan, St. Louis) 6:10 (pp).

Penalties - Rinaldo Pha (roughing) 5:22, Moore NYR (interference) 7:20, Pha Bench (too many men) 10:38.

Second Period 2. NY Rangers, St. Louis 9 (Stepan, Kreider) 4:14.

Penalties - Kreider NYR (high-sticking) 1:52, Streit Pha (holding) 5:41, Hagelin NYR (tripping) 9:34, Rinaldo Pha (interference) 16:19, Moore NYR (tripping) 19:48.

Third Period 3. NY Rangers, Nash 16 (Stepan, McDonagh) 5:30 (sh).

Penalties - Voracek Pha (slashing) 2:33, Kreider NYR (high-sticking) 4:33, Del Zotto Pha (roughing) 19:16.

Blackhawks 4, Ducks 1 First Period 1. Chicago, Richards 4 (Seabrook) 7:58.

2. Chicago, Shaw 5 (Keith, Carcillo) 13:30.

3. Anaheim, Lindholm 3 (Maroon, Kesler) 16:49.

Penalties - Beleskey Ana (tripping) 17:38.

Second Period 4. Chicago, Kane 9 (Versteeg, Richards) 10:36.

Penalties - Beleskey Ana (interference) 6:02, Bourque Ana (boarding) 14:56, Chi Bench (too many men) 19:50, Palmieri Ana (boarding - major) 19:50, Palmieri Ana (game misconduct) 19:50.

Third Period 5. Chicago, Kane 10 (Versteeg, Shaw) 19:00 (en).

Penalties - Chi Bench (too many men) 4:31, Perry Ana (goaltender interference) 12:48, Carcillo Chi (slashing) 19:53.

Today’s Games Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 11 a.m.

Washington at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 5 p.m.

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

Columbus at Nashville, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

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

Tigers 4, Rebels 3 (OT) First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Ast 1 (Mowbray) 9:56.

2. Red Deer, Kopeck 8 (Johnson) 14:22.

Penalties - None.

Second Period 3. Medicine Hat, Sanford 17 (Cox, Owre) 3:48.

4. Red Deer, Cote 4 (Nell) 7:48.

5. Red Deer, Feser 9 (Maxwell) 17:07 (shorthanded-SH).

Penalties - Musil RD (boarding) 15:56.

Third Period 6. Medicine Hat, Fischer 1 (Schultz, Vannelli) 9:23.

Penalties - Polei RD (inter. on goaltender) 12:01, Bleackley RD (tripping) 14:54.

Overtime 7. Medicine Hat, Lewington 3 (Schultz, Sanford) 4:19.

Penalties - None.

Capitals 5, Islanders 2 First Period 1. Washington, Burakovsky 4 (Niskanen, Kuznetsov) 11:51 (pp).

2. Washington, Johansson 9 (Niskanen) 18:27.

3. NY Islanders, Tavares 10 (Leddy, Okposo) 18:58.

4. NY Islanders, Lee 5 (Hamonic, Cizikas) 19:33.

Penalties - Martin NYI (hooking) 11:20, Martin NYI (fighting) 19:01, Wilson Wash (fighting) 19:01.

Second Period 5. Washington, Ovechkin 12 (Wilson, Backstrom) 9:53.

Penalties - Nelson NYI (hooking) 2:14, Wilson Wash (roughing) 14:45.

Third Period 6. Washington, Kuznetsov 2 (Brouwer, Johansson) 5:56.

7. Washington, Ward 9 (Carlson, Niskanen) 18:32 (en).

Penalties - Niskanen Wash (kneeing) 9:06.

Canucks 5, Blue Jackets 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Hartnell Clb (boarding) 3:16, Bieksa Vcr (interference) 3:39.

Second Period 1. Vancouver, Higgins 5 (Bonino, Sbisa) 15:25.

Penalties - Bieksa Vcr (high-sticking) 11:42.

Third Period 2. Vancouver, H. Sedin 6 (Vrbata, D. Sedin) :48.

3. Vancouver, Matthias 4 (unassisted) 11:49.

4. Vancouver, Richardson 4 (Bonino) 14:38 (en).

5. Vancouver, Burrows 6 (Higgins) 17:26.

Penalties - Edler Vcr (interference) 3:38, Johnson Clb (interference) 7:12.

Hurricanes 4, Penguins 2 First Period 1. Carolina, Tlusty 9 (McClement) 15:47.

2. Pittsburgh, Letang 4 (Crosby, Spaling) 16:30.

Penalties - Semin Car (tripping) 11:06.

Second Period 3. Carolina, Dwyer 2 (Tlusty, Faulk) 2:54.

4. Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 11 (Crosby, Kunitz) 15:52.

Penalties - None.

Third Period 5. Carolina, Gerbe 3 (Lindholm, Rask) 3:10 (pp).

6. Carolina, Tlusty 10 (E. Staal, Faulk) 19:47 (enpp).

Penalties - Crosby Pgh (goaltender interference) 2:14, Ehrhoff Pgh (tripping) 15:04, Maatta Pgh (tripping) 19:00.

Bruins 2, Jets 1 (OT) First Period 1. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 4 (Kane, Scheifele) 16:24 (pp).

Penalties - Perreault Wpg (tripping) 2:14, Marchand Bos (tripping) 8:17, Eriksson Bos (tripping) 14:55, Bergeron Bos (holding) 17:40.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Bogosian Wpg (tripping) 1:31, Stuart Wpg (roughing) 17:24.

Third Period 2. Boston, Lucic 5 (Soderberg, Hamilton) 3:05.

Penalties - Marchand Bos (high-sticking) 16:30.

Overtime 3. Boston, Hamilton 5 (Soderberg, Eriksson) 3:39.

Penalties - None.

Sabres 2, Canadiens 1 First Period 1. Buffalo, Ennis 7 (Girgensons, Moulson) 3:27.

Penalties - Foligno Buf (hooking) 4:47, Emelin Mtl (slashing) 11:28, Zadorov Buf (hooking) 12:45, Stewart Buf (fighting) 19:45, Prust Mtl (fighting) 19:45.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Gonchar Mtl (hooking) 15:23, Prust Mtl (misconduct) 17:41, Prust Mtl (unsportsmanlike conduct) 17:41, Prust Mtl (game misconduct) 17:41.

Third Period 2. Montreal, Parenteau 6 (Desharnais, Sekac) 1:35 (pp).

3. Buffalo, Moulson 4 (Ennis, Ristolainen) 18:42 (pp).

Penalties - Ennis Buf (tripping) 0:55, Emelin Mtl (Illegal Check to the Head Minor) 18:06.

Wild 5, Stars 4 (OT) First Period 1. Minnesota, Niederreiter 11 (Vanek) 8:41.

2. Minnesota, Zucker 9 (Prosser, Koivu) 17:29.

Penalties - Oleksiak Dal (kneeing) 3:30, Koivu Minn (interference) 5:16.

Second Period 3. Minnesota, Granlund 3 (Pominville, Parise) 11:47.

4. Dallas, Hemsky 1 (Horcoff, Jokipakka) 16:18.

5. Dallas, Seguin 18 (Ja. Benn, Jokipakka) 18:50.

6. Dallas, Cole 5 (Daley, Demers) 19:49.

Penalties - Brodziak Minn (cross-checking) 6:09.

Third Period 7. Dallas, Goligoski 1 (Seguin, Ja. Benn) 13:29.

8. Minnesota, Vanek 2 (Suter, Parise) 18:08.

Penalties - Eakin Dal (roughing) 5:32, Haula Minn (cross-checking) 5:32, Scandella Minn (hooking) 9:05.

Overtime 9. Minnesota, Scandella 5 (Parise, Vanek) 2:04.

Penalties - None.

Blues 4, Oilers 3 (OT) First Period 1. St. Louis, Oshie 2 (Tarasenko, Cole) 11:35.

Penalties - Pinizzotto Edm (fighting) 1:50, Ott StL (fighting) 1:50, Draisaitl Edm (holding) 4:51.

Second Period 2. Edmonton, Perron 3 (Draisaitl, Joensuu) 5:51.

3. Edmonton, Nikitin 2 (Hall, Nugent-Hopkins) 16:46.

Penalties - None.

Third Period 4. St. Louis, Shattenkirk 2 (Oshie) :31.

5. Edmonton, Arcobello 5 (Hall, Purcell) 3:55.

6. St. Louis, Pietrangelo 2 (Oshie) 12:25.

Penalties - Klefbom Edm (delay of game) 14:15.

Overtime 7. St. Louis, Tarasenko 13 (Lehtera, Pietrangelo) 4:20.

Penalties - Fayne Edm (tripping) 1:49.

Panthers 3, Senators 2 First Period 1. Ottawa, Neil 4 (Condra, Legwand) 5:04.

2. Florida, Olsen 1 (Trocheck) 5:51.

Penalties - Phillips Ott (delay of game) 17:35, Bergenheim Fla (hooking) 20:00.

Second Period 3. Ottawa, Ceci 1 (Neil) 2:41.

Penalties - Thornton Fla (fighting) 10:08, Neil Ott (fighting) 10:08.

Third Period 4. Florida, Bergenheim 3 (Boyes, Barkov) :34.

5. Florida, Hayes 5 (Trocheck, Fleischmann) 7:31.

Penalties - Smith Ott (roughing) 1:54, Hayes Fla (roughing) 1:54, Bergenheim Fla (slashing) 12:06, Wiercioch Ott (hooking) 13:17.

Red Wings 5, Devils 4 (SO) First Period 1. New Jersey, Jagr 4 (Greene, Severson) 2:18.

2. Detroit, Sheahan 5 (Kronwall, Zetterberg) 3:50 (pp).

3. New Jersey, Cammalleri 9 (Zidlicky) 13:52 (pp).

4. New Jersey, Harrold 1 (Jagr, Henrique) 15:18.

Penalties - Zidlicky NJ (roughing) 2:05, Jurco Det (roughing) 2:05, Havlat NJ (hooking) 3:20, Kindl Det (tripping) 12:22, Franzen Det (hooking) 18:42.

Second Period 5. New Jersey, Cammalleri 10 (Severson, Henrique) :28 (pp).

6. Detroit, Ouellet 1 (Helm, Weiss) 1:55.

7. Detroit, Abdelkader 7 (Zetterberg, Franzen) 12:52 (pp).

Penalties - Severson NJ (holding) 2:40, Quincey Det (slashing) 7:35, Kronwall Det (slashing) 7:39, Gionta NJ (slashing) 10:59, Larsson NJ (holding) 14:27.

Third Period 8. Detroit, Miller 1 (Kronwall, Jurco) 10:07.

Penalties - Greene NJ (interference) 0:20, Nyquist Det (Embellishment) 0:20.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties - None.

Shootout - Detroit wins 1-0 Detroit : Datsyuk miss, Tatar miss, Nyquist goal.

New Jersey : Josefson miss, Cammalleri miss, Ryder miss.

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 13 3 .813 Brooklyn 6 8 .429 Boston 4 9 .308 New York 4 13 .235 Philadelphia 0 15 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Washington 9 5 .643 Atlanta 8 6 .571 Miami 8 7 .533 Orlando 6 12 .333 Charlotte 4 13 .235 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 10 6 .625

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10 7 .588 7 7 .500 7 9 .438 3 13 .188 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 13 2 .867 Houston 12 4 .750 San Antonio 11 4 .733 Dallas 12 5 .706 New Orleans 7 7 .500 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 12 3 .800 Denver 8 8 .500 Utah 5 11 .313 Oklahoma City 5 12 .294 Minnesota 3 10 .231

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Pacific Division W L Pct 13 2 .867 10 5 .667 10 7 .588 9 7 .563 3 12 .200

GB 3 4 4 1/2 10

Friday’s Games Chicago 109, Boston 102 Golden State 106, Charlotte 101 Atlanta 100, New Orleans 91 Dallas 106, Toronto 102 Milwaukee 104, Detroit 88 Oklahoma City 105, New York 78 L.A. Clippers 102, Houston 85 Indiana 98, Orlando 83 San Antonio 112, Sacramento 104 Denver 122, Phoenix 97

Memphis at Portland, 10 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Dallas at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Washington, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Utah, 7 p.m.

Houston at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games San Antonio at Boston, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Brooklyn, 1 p.m.

Golden State at Detroit, 1:30 p.m.

Memphis at Sacramento, 4 p.m.

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

Orlando at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Portland, 7 p.m.

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

Transactions BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jason Frasor on a one-year contract.

Traded RHP Aaron Crow to Miami for LHP Brian Flynn and RHP Reid Redman.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS — Recalled F Tony Mitchell from Grand Rapids (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed RB Kerwynn Williams to the practice squad.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Released OT Cameron Bradfield. Activated S William Moore from injured reserve.

BUFFALO BILLS — Released CB Brandon Smith from the practice squad. Signed DE Bryan Johnson to the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Placed LB Lance Briggs on injured reserve.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Released WR Mike Brown. Signed WR Tommy Streeter from the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed DT Garrison Smith to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released S Don Jones. Released TE Xavier Grimble and LS Charley Hughlett from the practice squad.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed NT Brodrick Bunkley on injured reserve. Signed DT DT Lawrence Virgil from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League

ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled F Brendan Shinnimin from Portland (AHL).

BUFFALO SABRES — Reassigned Fs Justin Kea and Kevin Sundher and D Brady Austin from Rochester (AHL) to Elmira (ECHL).

DALLAS STARS — Recalled LW Curtis McKenzie from Texas (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Recalled F J.T. Miller from Hartford (AHL).

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Assigned F Brandon Alderson from Lehigh Valley (AHL) to Reading (ECHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Traded D Eric Brewer to Anaheim for a 2015 third-round draft pick.

tions during Wednesday’s game.

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Assigned G Oscar Dansk to Kalamazoo (ECHL). Recalled G Scot Munroe from Kalamazoo.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Iowa LWs Curt Gogol and Stephane Veilleux two games and Rockford C Cody Bass and coach Ted Dent one game for their ac-

COLLEGE TEXAS A&M — Fired defensive co-ordinator Mark Snyder. Named linebackers coach Mark Hagan interim defensive co-ordinator.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Colorado F Chris Duszynski two games and fined him and undisclosed amount. Fined Wheeling F Chaz Johnson an undisclosed amount.

READING ROYALS — Traded F Brock Higgs to South Carolina for future considerations. Signed G Pete Dundovich as emergency backup.

Football CFL Playoffs Sunday, Nov. 16 Division Semifinals East Bye: Hamilton Montreal 50 B.C. 17 West Bye: Calgary Edmonton 18 Saskatchewan 10 Sunday, Nov. 23 Division Finals East Hamilton 40 Montreal 24 West Calgary 43 Edmonton 18 102nd Grey Cup Sunday, Nov. 30 At Vancouver Calgary (16-3) vs. Hamilton (10-9), 4 p.m.

2014 CFL Awards winners Most Outstanding Player - Solomon Elimimian, LB, B.C. Lions Most Outstanding Defensive Player - Solomon Elimimian, LB, B.C. Lions Most Outstanding Canadian - Jon Cornish, RB, Calgary Stampeders Most Outstanding Special Teams Player -

Swayze Waters, K/P, Toronto Argonauts Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman - Brett Jones, Calgary Stampeders Most Outstanding Rookie - Dexter McCoil, LB, Edmonton Eskimos Outstanding Community Service - Randy Chevrier, LS, Calgary Stampeders Veteran Leadership - James Yurichuk, LB, Toronto Argonauts Commissioner’s Award - Ottawa Redblacks’ ownership (Roger Greenberg, Jeff Hunt, John Pugh, John Ruddy and Bell Shenkman) Contributions to the CFL - Jim Hopson, president, Saskatchewan Roughriders National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 9 2 0 .818 357 Miami 6 5 0 .545 285 Buffalo 6 5 0 .545 238 N.Y. Jets 2 9 0 .182 177 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 7 4 0 .636 333 Houston 5 6 0 .455 242 Tennessee 2 9 0 .182 192 Jacksonville 1 10 0 .091 161 North W L T Pct PF

PA 227 219 207 303 PA 256 226 293 305 PA

Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

7 7 7 7 W 8 7 7 1

3 1 4 0 4 0 4 0 West L T 3 0 4 0 4 0 10 0

.682 .636 .636 .636

246 295 288 242

234 208 263 219

Pct .727 .636 .636 .091

PF 332 261 245 176

PA 260 195 216 285

PF 375 302 233 217

PA 285 273 294 273

PF 262 288 215 207

PA 281 286 300 300

PF 354 231 253 202

PA 246 207 337 244

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 9 3 0 .750 Dallas 8 4 0 .667 N.Y. Giants 3 8 0 .273 Washington 3 8 0 .273 South W L T Pct Atlanta 4 7 0 .364 New Orleans 4 7 0 .364 Carolina 3 7 1 .318 Tampa Bay 2 9 0 .182 North W L T Pct Green Bay 8 3 0 .727 Detroit 8 4 0 .667 Chicago 5 7 0 .417 Minnesota 4 7 0 .364 West

Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis

W 9 8 7 4

L 2 4 5 7

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .818 .667 .583 .364

PF 240 298 231 209

PA 195 221 244 285

Thursday’s Games Detroit 34, Chicago 17 Philadelphia 33, Dallas 10 Seattle 19, San Francisco 3 Sunday’s Games Tennessee at Houston, 11 a.m.

Oakland at St. Louis, 11 p.m.

Carolina at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Washington at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

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

Cincinnati at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Atlanta, 2:05 p.m.

New England at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Miami at N.Y. Jets, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 4 Dallas at Chicago, 6:25 p.m.

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Toronto Raptors’ Terrence Ross scores against the Dallas Mavericks during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Friday.

Winning streak snapped MAVERICKS HAND RAPTORS SECOND HOME LOSS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Dallas 106 Toronto 102 TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors’ feel-good story lost a little of its lustre Friday night, courtesy of the Dallas Mavericks.

Kyle Lowry scored 25 points to top the Raptors in a 106-102 loss to Dallas - just their second loss this season at the Air Canada Centre.

Amir Johnson had 20 points, while Lou Williams had 16 and Greivis Vasquez chipped in with 14 for the Raptors, who also saw their six-game win streak also came to an end.

Patrick Patterson had 10 points, while Jonas Valanciunas grabbed 13 boards on a night the Raptors (13-3) lost DeMar DeRozan to a left groin strain.

In the battle between the league’s two highestscoring teams, Monta Ellis topped Dallas (12-5) with 30 points, while Chandler Parsons finished with 16 .

DeRozan left the game with 8:23 to go in the third quarter after laying on the court for several minutes surrounded by training staff and teammates before he got up to walk gingerly, helped by team staff, to the dressing room. He had missed all eight of his shots for zero points in the game.

The Raptors, wearing their retro purple jerseys, trailed the Mavericks for most of the night and were behind by as many as 15 points in the third quarter.

Toronto went into the fourth trailing 71-64.

Back-to-back three-point shots by Johnson and Vasquez, then a jumper by Johnson cut the Mavericks’ lead to four points with five minutes to play, infusing some energy into the Air Canada Centre crowd. But Ellis responded with seven straight points in less than 90 seconds and just like that, the Mavericks were back up by 11. Ellis dropped another three to put Dallas up by 14, sending many fans for the exits.

The Raptors fought back with a 7-0 run, capped by a Vasquez three with 1:01 to play, that pulled the home team within six. Lowry was at his fourthquarter best, scoring 11 straight points to make it a two-point game with nine seconds to play, but Devin Harris drained two free throws to clinch the victory for Dallas.

Turnovers proved costly for the Raptors, who gave up 22 points on 17 giveaways. Dallas protected the ball well, giving up just four points on eight turnovers.

The Raptors honoured Jalen Rose with a video tribute during a first-quarter timeout - part of the franchise’s 20th anniversary celebrations. The former guard, who played parts of three seasons with Toronto from 2003 to ‘06, received a standing ovation when he stood and waved to the crowd.

ESPN, in its playoff predictions, had pegged the Raptors’ chances this week of winning the NBA championship at a whopping 41 per cent. Coach Dwane Casey scoffed at the predictions when asked about them pre-game.

“They can take that and the paper they write on it…because it’s a long season,” Casey said. “I’ve been around this too long, around a lot of good teams in the pros and college.

“The beginning of the season you kind of set the tone for the way you’re going to live the rest of the way. By no means does it designate or determine where you’re going to be in the end. We just want to keep going, keep improving.”

The Raptors now head west for three games. They face the Lakers in Los Angeles on Sunday, the Kings in Sacramento on Tuesday, then wrap up against the Utah Jazz on Wednesday.

The Raptors, who were coming off a 126-115 victory at Atlanta on Wednesday, raced out to a quick 10-0 lead. But they couldn’t maintain any momentum as the Mavericks used a 20-5 run to go up by five points.

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF A trio of former Red Deer Optimist Chiefs have been invited to the Canada West camp for the 2014 World Junior A Challenge.

Penticton Vees defenceman Gabe Bast, Olds Grizzlys forward Chris Gerrie and Camrose Kodiaks forwards Ryker Leer were all members of the 2012-13 Telus Cup champion Optimist Chiefs.

The five-foot-nine, 181-pound Bast, 17, spent two seasons with the Chiefs, combining for 37 points (17, goals, 20 assists) and 97 penalty minutes in 66 games and added one assist in seven Telus Cup games. The Red Deer product is in his first full year with the B.C. Hockey League’s Vees and has 17 points (2-15-17) in 22 games.

The five-foot-10, 170-pound Gerrie, 18, spent one season with the Chiefs, scoring 13 points (3-10-23) in 23 games, but shone in the playoffs , scoring eight points (3-5-8) in 14 games and added nine more (6-3-9) in seven games at the Telus Cup. After his first year with the Grizzlies, in which he scored 54 points (1836-54) in 60 games, the Red Deer native was named AJHL and Canadian Junior A Hockey League rookie of the year. This year he leads the Grizzlys with 33 points (16-17-33) in 28 games, fifth in the AJHL. He is

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The five-foot-11, 180 pound Leer, 18, is in his second full season with the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s Kodiaks and has 27 points (6-21-27) in 25 games. The Sylvan Lake native spent one season with the Chiefs, scoring 31 points (13-18-31) in 31 games and then added six points (3-3-6) in seven Telus Cup games. He is committed to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

There were 60 players from the CJHL’s four western leagues named to the camp roster. The camp will be held from Dec. 7-9 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at WinSport’s Canada Olympic Park in Calgary. The World Junior A Challenge will be held from Dec. 1420 in Kindersley, Sask.

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More bad weather Friday forced the postponement of Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference games for the second straight day.

For Red Deer College, this meant a rare off day during the season with the cancellation of volleyball and hockey, but it also means games today may also be in question.

The volleyball program was set to host the SAIT Trojans, while the women’s hockey team was set to travel to Calgary to play SAIT. On Thursday, weather wiped out the basketball program’s trip to Caronport, Sask., to play the Briercrest Clippers, the men’s hockey team had their game in Camrose against the Augustana Vikings cancelled, and the ACAC Fall Bonspiel set for the Pidherney Curling Centre in Red Deer was showed out.

P.J. Swales, the marketing and events coordinator for RDC Athletics, has been hard at work with RDC athletic director Keith Hansen to reschedule games.

The goal is to get as many as they can rescheduled for this semester.

“We’re fairly lucky that we are centrally located in the province, so we can go anywhere pretty easy, it’s not like we’re having to cover thousands of kilometres of distance to make these games up,” he said.

The Kings hockey team has had to already reschedule two games for the next semester, though they are trying to make up the game in Camrose next week, as are the Queens hockey team with their trip to SAIT. Volleyball is also hoping to get the Trojans back up to Red Deer next week.

The biggest problem continues to be rescheduling the bonspiel. There is the potential that they could lose the event completely this year, though that means they would get to host next year. RDC currently has ice booked for the Feb. 20th weekend, one week before the ACAC championships.

“It’s a matter of trying to balance out with the league what the appropriate action is,” said Swales.

“In the case of the curling, it was an action taken by the ACAC executive, trying to figure out what the right thing to do was, because some teams couldn’t make it and other teams could. In the case of a tournament sport like curling ... you need to have everybody involved.”

Depending on weather, there is the chance that today’s games — volleyball at SAIT, Kings hockey hosting the Vikings at Penhold — may also be called off. The call on the fait of those games will be made at noon.

For Talbot Walton and the Queens volleyball team it was disappointing to not be able to play on Friday.

“Especially when you look out the window and you see it has stopped blowing, but they made that call quite early today when it was white out and Highway 2 was having troubles,” he said. “But you can never predict when the storm is going to let off and I don’t want to be the one responsible for SAIT travelling and having anything terrible go wrong.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Bonnyville 4 Olds 1 BONNYVILLE — Colton Sheen notched the lone goal for the Olds Grizzlys in a 4-1 Alberta Junior Hockey League loss to the Bonnyville Pontiacs Friday.

Scoring for the Pontiacs, who got a 24-save performance from Red Deer native Joey Desrosiers in front of 753 fans at RJ Lalonde Arena, were Ryan Piche, Mitch Fritz, Mark Zvonkovic and Steenn Pasichnuk.

The Pontiacs were zero-for-seven on the power play, while the Grizzlys were one-for-two with a man advantage. Olds netminder Billy Gorn made 23 saves.

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Freedom at last ‘NIGHTMARE’ OVER FOR MAN WRONGFULLY CONVICTED MURDER A DECADE AGO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A man wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder more than a decade ago took his first anxious steps as a free man on Friday after the Crown withdrew the charge against him.

The decision came a year after the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decided Leighton Hay should get a new trial based on new hair evidence.

As Hay and family members looked on, Superior Court Justice John McMahon apologized that it took so long for the system to get it right.

“He’s out, he’s free,” an excited Win Wahrer of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted said minutes after the brief hearing. “He just wants to go home.”

Hay, who has a mental illness and spent most of his incarceration in the psychiatric wings of two penitentiaries, had little to say as he left court.

Lawyer James Lockyer said in an interview he wasn’t sure his client was able to process the implications of what had just occurred.

“Leighton has been through a nightmare for all these years,” Lockyer said.

“This was a miscarriage of justice of the highest order.”

As a teen with mental-health problems and a member of a visible minority, the lawyer said, Hay was “vulnerable” and police rushed to judgment.

“He was another black guy,” Lockyer said.

Hay was charged after two men

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Leighton Hay stands with his lawyer James Lockyer outside of a court house in Toronto on Friday. Leighton Hay was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder more than a decade ago and Friday took his first anxious steps as a free man after the Crown withdrew the charge against him. burst into a fundraiser at a Toronto nightclub in July 2002 and gunned down a respected community figure, Colin Moore, over a disputed cover charge.

The identity of one of the shooters, Gary Eunick, was never in doubt and

he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

The Crown alleged Hay, then 19, was Eunick’s dreadlocked accomplice. The only problem was Hay’s hair was almost completely shorn when police arrested him.

Fisherman’s fate in hands of Nova Scotia jury

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

MURDER FOR LOBSTER

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A jury will continue deliberations Saturday in the case of a Cape Breton fisherman who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of a man at sea.

Joseph James Landry of Little Anse is being tried before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Port Hawkesbury in the death last year of Philip Boudreau.

The 43-year-old fisherman’s body hasn’t been found but the Crown has alleged Boudreau’s death was the result of a sustained attack by a lobster fishing crew that included Landry - one of four people charged in the case.

Crown prosecutor Steve Drake has told the court that the Twin Maggies rammed Boudreau’s boat three times at the mouth of Petit de Grat harbour on June 1, 2013.

He alleged the 67-year-old Landry fired four shots from a rifle, one of which it Boudreau in the leg.

Drake said Boudreau’s boat overturned after it was rammed the third time before he was hooked with a fishing gaff and dragged out to sea.

The Crown’s case included an account given by Craig Landry, a crew member on Twin Maggies at the time of the incident.

Craig Landry, who is a third cousin of Joseph James Landry, is facing a charge of accessory after the fact and has yet to stand trial.

Defence counsel Luke Craggs has argued Craig Landry’s testimony was a fabrication and that it shouldn’t be relied on because the crew member was attempting to avoid a more serious charge of second-degree murder.

Chief Justice Joseph Kennedy told the jury Friday that the charge Craig Landry faces was changed from seconddegree murder after he gave a second statement to police describing how Boudreau was gaffed, dragged out to sea and tied to an anchor.

“You will assess his credibility,” Kennedy said. “Luke Craggs suggests his evidence is a fabrication. What do you think? Was it a fabrication or does he give the detailed evidence that a truth-teller would give?”

Appeals backlog plagues social security tribunal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — In 2012, prior to the launch of Ottawa’s troubled social security tribunal, there was a plan in the works to ensure Canadians denied employment insurance or Canada Pension Plan benefits would have their appeals heard in a timely way.

Sue Foster, a federal government official, told a Senate finance committee in May of that year that by the summer, regulations would be drafted to make sure appeals would be heard within 100 days under the new system.

Two years later, the tribunal is now plagued with an 11,000-case backlog - mostly ailing Canadians seeking CPP disability benefits, now caught in a pileup that’s forcing them to wait years to have their appeals heard.

“Legislating the timelines associated with this is meant to improve the service to clients in terms of the period of time that they have to wait for their appeals to be heard,” Foster told the committee in May 2012, 11 months before the tribunal officially began operation.

“They have not actually been drafted yet, but they will be drafted in the summer.”

At the time, Foster was with the department that’s now known as Employment and Social Development and helmed

by Jason Kenney.

Employment and Social Development Canada says regulations were in fact drafted to ensure Canadians heard back promptly from the department regarding the status of their appeals.

An official for the department also said the tribunal has hired an outside firm to come up with a plan to shrink the backlog as quickly as TELUS TWO WAY OPTIK TV RADIO possible.

Earlier this week, Kenney told a parliamentary committee that the government was unaware when it launched the new panel in April 2013 that it was inheriting a backlog of 7,000 ap-

peals from the former pension review tribunal.

He added he was personally “dismayed to learn” about the backlog when he took over the portfolio from Diane Finley in July 2013.

The former head of the pension review tribunal, Julie Gagnon, could not be reached for comment on Friday about whether her officials alerted the government about the backlog of cases it was inheriting as it replaced four appeal boards with a single tribunal.

The head of the new tribunal, however, told the same committee earlier this month that she knew of the backlog from Day 1. Murielle Brazeau testified she’d discussed the pileup of cases with the minister’s office “throughout the whole process.”

In the months leading up to the launch of the tribunal, some stakeholders had also warned the government that replacing nearly 1,000 part-time referees with 74 full-time tribunal members could result in a 16-month backlog.

MPs and senators also raised concerns about workload and backlog issues during various parliamentary hearings in the spring of 2012.

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At his trial in 2004, prosecutors argued Hay had rushed home and shaved his scalp to get rid of his dreadlocks after the shooting.

Key evidence in support of the prosecution theory was hair found in a newspaper in his bathroom garbage and in the electric razor on his nightstand.

The one witness who fingered Hay had pointed to his image in a photo line-up, saying he looked more like the second gunman than the other 11.

She was shown a second line-up three weeks later and did not choose Hay, who always denied any part in the killing.

Nevertheless, the jury convicted him of first-degree murder.

The association for the wrongly convicted became involved after Ontario’s top court rejected his appeal.

At the association’s request, forensic experts determined the hair used to convict Hay did not come from his scalp but from his face. The finding undercut the Crown’s contention he had cut off his dreads to alter his appearance.

Last November, the Supreme Court of Canada heard the new hair evidence. The court concluded the information could have made a crucial difference at Hay’s trial and quashed his conviction.

The Crown announced Friday it would not proceed against him.

Hay’s mental health declined in custody, but Lockyer said he was “guardedly optimistic” Hay would manage as a free man living with his father.

Ottawa facing questions about veterans cash

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government was on the defensive again Friday over reports that the latest cash injection for mental-health services for veterans could take 50 years to be portioned out.

Conservative MP Parm Gill, the parliamentary secretary to the veterans affairs minister, deflected questions about the numbers, but noted the government’s plans to build a major operational stress injury clinic in Halifax and open other satellite offices across the country.

Last Sunday, the Harper government announced it would put up to $200 million into improved mental health care for veterans in a series of initiatives that stretch out over five, possibly six years.

But a Globe and Mail report Friday said only $19 million of that would be so-called up-front cash, with the rest being used to help top up the Veterans Affairs budget over the next 50 years.

The Conservatives got into similar trouble a few years ago when they announced $2 billion in improvements to the new veterans charter, but were later forced to admit much of the cash was for future budgets.

A spokeswoman for Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino did not address the claim that some of the cash will take five decades to spend, but insisted that the government is budgeting responsibly over the long-term.

“To build on recent investments, last Sunday we announced increased mental health support for those in the Canadian Armed Forces, veterans, and their families,” Ashlee Smith said in an email.

Making a political announcement with big dollar figures that stretch out over half a century is disrespectful to former soldiers who are in need of immediate help, said New Democrat critic Alexandre Boulerice.

“I think veterans deserve better,” Boulerice said.

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he Festival Lights the Night event in downtown Red Deer on Nov. 22 was a resounding success, and was enjoyed by all who attended.

There was plenty of hot chocolate, treats and activities for all attendees to enjoy!

Santa Claus made an appearance, visiting with the children, who then received a candy cane treat from some of our many volunteers and supporters.

The addition of the Festival Market was also very popular, and the fire pits disbursed along Ross Street helped to keep the guests warm as they strolled around, taking in the sights.

Another addition was the activities in the Red Deer Public Library, giving the children a chance to sign a letter to Santa, have their face painted or to have a fun Christmas photo taken.

Mother Nature did dictate that the fireworks show would have to be rescheduled, as it was simply too windy to safely set them off. Event organizers are working to formulate a new plan to still set them off at a later date.

This was the first event of many organized with the Festival of Trees, now it its 21st year, and continues on at Westerner Park this week and weekend.

Funds raised through the events go towards supporting health care through the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation for the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

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Arena will get big sendoff, city promises IT WILL COST $21.5 MILLION TO REPLACE AGING RINK

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Plans are in the works to give the Red Deer Arena the proper sendoff before the much-loved facility is demolished.

This week, council allocated $21.5 million to replace the 1950s-built building because of its aging infrastructure.

Sarah Cockerill, Community Services director, said it is an exciting project but a sad one because of the history of the building.

“Yes, we are getting a new arena but there will be a lot of thought going into how we will memorialize the old arena and celebrate those stories and legacies,” said Cockerill. “We want to celebrate in some way what the Red Deer Arena meant to Red Deerians, and bring that type of heart and legacy into this new building.”

Cockerill said they hope to have something

planned in the next three to six months.

The project cost is based on a replica of the current facility with one ice surface and 1,500 seats.

Mayor Tara Veer said on Wednesday that it is important that the city work with user groups so they are not left out in the cold when the new arena is being built.

The city has met with the ice user groups and non-ice user groups to talk about the plans and the impacts of losing an arena during the construction phase.

“We are fortunate that we have a year and a half to plan,” said Shelley Gagnon, the city’s manager of Recreation Parks and Culture. “So we are not faced with a claustrophobe failure like in Sylvan Lake and having to react. The user groups will be affected but we have a year and a half to work together to try to mitigate and minimize the impact, including working with our neighbouring municipalities.”

The new arena will be used during the 2019 Canada Winter Games, which means it has to be opera-

Growing RCMP force faces space crunch

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

For Katherine Barg, underestimating the weather on Thursday made for a very tough commute.

With four km from work to home, the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre worker faced a lot of unrideable sidewalks and roads, forcing her to push her bike through the deep snow much of the way.

According to Environment Canada, the storm will ease today, with a 30 per cent chance of flurries in the morning and clearing in the afternoon. But the cold will persist, with a high of -19 and wind chill of -33.

On Sunday, expect sunny conditions with a low of -24 and a high of -17.

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Red Deer city council has approved a plan to replace the Red Deer Arena with a new arena on the site downtown. tional for at least one year before the competition.

The current arena was built in 1952 with renovations in 1995 that extended the life of the building for 10 to 20 years. A recent engineering assessment concluded the roof has one to three years left in its lifespan. An interim monitoring system was installed to keep an eye on the roof in case of risk, such as from heavy snowfall. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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City council has handed over more than $1 million to help ease the space crunch at the downtown RCMP building.

Council heard this week that the main floor of the building has reached capacity and officers are working in cramped quarters.

The pitch for money to create more office space was made during the 2015 capital budget debate on Tuesday.

Sarah Cockerill, director of Community Services, said the money will be used to develop the second level of the building, which was left unfinished in order to be expanded at a later date. The General Investigation Section (GIS) unit will move to the second floor.

Members of the Alberta Emergency Response Team took some space on the second level when they set up shop in Red Deer in 2012.

Cockerill said they knew they would have to add more police at same point because Red Deer is a growing community, and more members means more space is required.

“We have added more than 30 members over the last three or four years and we are not going to stop,” said Cockerill.

“Our community is growing. We have a high case load. We need more members to increase community safety.”

In fact, the city will be asking for six more RCMP members during the operational budget deliberations in January.

“At some point in our growth strategy, council may have to consider another space somewhere on the east for response times,” she said. “But we haven’t entered into that. That’s a long way off — that’s in excess of 10 to 15 years. It is 100 per cent depending on growth.”

The 86,000-square-foot, two-storey downtown building opened in the fall of 2010. Officers had previously worked in cramped quarters on 48th Avenue and 49th Street.

The price tag for initial the downtown project, including design and start up, was roughly $30 million.

The city invested about $4 million, while the province footed $16.5 million. The remaining $10 million was borrowed by the city.

A second detachment, on 67th Street, has space if more room is needed. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Assault suspects sought

A composite sketch of assault suspect who was driving the pickup truck.

Red Deer RCMP have released descriptions of two men believed to have assaulted a man nearly one month ago.

Police say the assault happened near the Clearview Community Hall on Cornett Drive on Nov. 1.

A Red Deer man was walking from a Halloween party at 5 a.m. when he exchanged words with the driver of a black truck.

The driver of the truck then left the vehicle and hit the man on the head with what is believed to be a hammer. A male passenger also got out and assaulted the man. A female stayed in the truck.

The driver is described as a Caucasian man with short black hair. He is about 23

years old, and wearing a black hoodie and a black hat.

The male passenger was a black man with lighter skin with his hair in an afro.

He was wearing a black hoodie.

The woman was described as a heavyset redhead weighing an estimated 82 kg (180 pounds).

The black pickup is believed to be a Toyota, possibly a Tacoma.

Police say the victim was wearing a distinctive Halloween costume at the time, but they have not disclosed the costume.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 403-343-5575. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Restorative justice efforts bring award

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A Maskwacis woman is being recognized for her efforts in both restorative justice and recording aboriginal oral traditions.

Vanessa Omeasoo is the youth restorative justice co-ordinator for the Ermineskin Cree Nation, one of four bands on the Central Alberta reserve.

Omeasoo was one of 24 TD Canada Trust customers recognized as a person who “Makes today matter.” The campaign honours people with powerful ideas who make an impact in a community.

Omeasoo works with youth and victims of crime in her community. The primary goal is to address crime or conflict while making the offender accountable and repair a broken relationship.

“It’s very valuable in our community because this is our home,” she said. “This is our family, our friend. This is where we grew up.

“It’s very hard for our community members to move away. We always end up coming back whether to visit or come back to live. It’s our home.”

When a youth is referred to the program after committing an offence, they go through what is called a circle process. The circle consists of a facilitator, Omeasoo; sometimes a co-facilitator; an elder; a victim; an offender; and sometimes other community resource workers, including addictions counsellors,

mental health counsellors or even a representative from the offender’s school.

Omeasoo will ask the offender to share their story and what they were thinking when the incident happened.

“They get to say what was going through their mind when they were committing the crime,” she said.

Then she asks them how they have been affected by the incident and who else they think this has been affected.

Next, the victim is given a chance to speak as the person who has been most harmed. They are given a chance to talk about what led up to the crime or conflict, what was going through their mind when it occurred and how it impacted them.

“In the end, I ask the young person what they need to do to make it right,” said Omeasoo. “They get to have input. The reason why the circles work is we are including them. Even though people have done wrong, we are including them in the conversation and in the reparation or the agreement, and it’s more likely to succeed because it is not imposed on them.

“It’s so valuable in our community because they’re going to be in our community and we can shun them or give them a cold shoulder, but that’s only going to aggravate them more or make them feel even worse about themselves.”

Omeasoo said she gets to see the victims and the offenders hugging at the end.

In her experience, the program has been successful with only one repeat offender coming through her door.

“That offender was FASD (fetal alcohol spectrum disorder), because they just don’t understand consequences. They will keep reoffending until there is a different kind of system around them.”

In addition to her work in restorative justice, Omeasoo Vanessa Omeasoo earned recognition for her efforts to keep oral traditions alive through new technology. She said their culture has a great oral tradition, but not much is recorded.

“Elders are so sacred, they have all their life’s experience, they have the teachings they got from their parents and their grandparents. They have such knowledge and when they leave into the spirit world, there goes a book from our oral library. And it’s gone.”

Using the idea of shared knowledge, a tradition in Omeasoo’s community, a website is under development to show videos of elders telling stories and sharing the traditions of the community.

The website is at www.neyaskweyahk-acimowina. com. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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The Red Deer Youth and Community Orchestra will play alongside the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra at the Seasonal Strings concert.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Peace is the one thing Claude Lapalme hopes listeners will take away from the Seasonal Strings concert at the Red Deer College Arts Centre.

The Red Deer Symphony Orchestra music director usually struggles to come up with a different theme for the annual Christmas concert. But Lapalme found this year’s motif to be a fairly obvious choice.

With all of the turmoil in Ukraine, the Middle East, and even violence in our own country, with the recent killings of two Canadian soldiers, Lapalme said, “I think we need peace right no. ...

“There’s been so much worldwide ruffling of feathers, it makes me uneasy. ... I think it’s time to reflect on how much more productive peace can be — and better for your entire psyche.”

The first half of the sold-out Seasonal Strings concert on Saturday, Dec. 6, will be devoted to Christmases of old, with 17th-century selections from France, Germany and Italy.

The second half will feature newer Christmas favourites, played by the RDSO string section (and one

percussionist), along with musicians from the Red Deer Youth and Community Orchestra.

The community orchestra, under the direction of Louise Stuppard, is made up of about 30 musicians ranging from 12-year-olds to adults.

All are thrilled to play with RDSO musicians, said Stuppard. “This is such a great opportunity for students. It’s thrilling. They are excited and have worked really hard (to prepare) for this event.”

On the program are some recognizable carols, including Deck the Halls, as well as less obvious choices that might still be familiar to the audience, such as Veni Veni Emmanuel, Brazilian Sleigh Bells and Arcangelo Corelli’s Christmas Concerto.

“We wanted to do some classical works, as well as some Christmas carols with a twist,” said Stuppard.

The concert will begin with works by Louis-Claude Daquin, Johann Christoph Pez and Antonio Vivaldi, played by RDSO musicians.

All three are fairly quiet, peaceful works, but are influenced by the Christmas traditions of their countries of origin, said Lapalme.

The two selections from Daquin’s Le livre d’orgue were adapted for string instruments instead of the organ they were originally written for — but Lapalme

feels “they work extremely well for strings.”

The French tune features a more lilting melody.

“In French baroque compositions, they didn’t play the eighth notes straight.

They would swing them a little, so there’s more of a dance feel. The Germans don’t do that,” said Lapalme.

By comparison, Pez’s Pastoral Christmas Concerto sounds more formal, although there is still a “very pretty Christmas-y” sense to the German composition.

Lapalme said Vivaldi’s Concerto in E Major “Il riposo — per il Natale” incorporates the Italian love of pipe music, giving it a pastoral, countryside sensibility.

“It’s the quietest piece Vivaldi ever wrote, since it’s for a nativity scene with the Magi and a sleeping baby.” Even the violin strings are muted.

But anyone who loves Vivaldi, will recognize the composer’s characteristic flourishes, Lapalme added.

“There’s a famous line: Vivaldi only wrote one concerto, but he wrote it 600 times. This is the quiet version.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Treehouse presents unconventional Christmas show

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Ho, Ho ... Huh? is Tree House Youth Theatre’s unconventional Christmas show that starts on Thursday, Dec. 4, at Red Deer’s Scott Block Theatre.

It draws on some colourful and bizarre yuletide traditions to help shed some light on our world.

The original play, written by Tree House artistic director Matt Gould, is about a Martha Stewart-obsessed kid named Nigel who aims to put on a Christmas party unlike any other. “He wants to put on a Christmas/solstice party to end what he considers the ho-ho-horribleness of North American Christmas,” said Gould.

Being an exceptionally inventive 13-year-old, Nigel invites his friends to come dressed as Europe’s lesser-known Christmas characters.

There’s Germany’s demon-like Krampus, who travels with St. Nicholas and whacks bad kids with sticks before taking them back to his lair, where “he cooks them and eats them,” said Gould, who’s also directing the show.

There’s Greece’s Kallikantzaroi, who surfaces from underground during the 12 days of Christmas, when the sun ceases its seasonal movements during the winter solstice. The trickster goblin wreaks havoc in people’s lives, breaking and stealing things until the sun starts moving again and he heads back underground.

There’s also Sweden’s Tomte, a farmyard gnome who travels around with a pig, rewarding those who leave him butter and porridge, and punishing those who don’t.

Add to this Italy’s Christmas witch La Befana, who delivers gifts to children on Epiphany Eve (Jan. 5), and Holland’s Zwarte Piet, servant to Sinterklasse, who carries bad children to his native Spain in a burlap sack, and you get the idea.

Nigel’s partygoers will be entertained by poetry, songs and stories from an extraordinary group of characters, said Gould.

Besides learning about obscure Christmas traditions from other countries, Ho, Ho ... Huh? also has a plot line that touches on some contemporary issues many Canadian children are dealing with, including racial stereotyping and being targeted by gay slurs and other kinds of bullying.

“It’s a slice of life. (The play) has some meat on the bone,” added Gould, who noted Nigel has a tor-

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Katherine Stier, playing Johana, is strangled by Allison Weninger, playing the part of Lee Archibald, during a rehearsal of the Tree House Youth Theatre production of Ho, Ho ... Huh? mentor that he has to invite to the party for family reasons. Although the production won’t hit anyone over the head with a message (Gould feels he doesn’t write didactically), audience members will see some kind of resolution take place.

The double-cast play involves 22 youths, aged nine to 12. It is the second-last production Gould will be helming for Tree House theatre.

After 10 years with the company, he plans to step down as artistic director at the end of the seasonclosing variety show planned for late May/early June.

It was a difficult decision, but with many of his longtime students now graduating from high school and moving on, Gould felt it was also time for him to

focus more energy on other challenges — including his interdisciplinary arts teaching job at Red Deer College and his Frame-It Store in Red Deer. The local fabric artist also plans a new exhibit based on women’s portraits.

Gould said he will miss Tree House “like crazy.

But it’s time to be like the kids and move on with life.

I won’t be pining about what to do, that’s for sure.”

The group is looking for a new artistic director.

Ho, Ho ... Huh? will be showing from Dec. 4 to 6 and Dec. 11 to 13 at 7:30 p.m. There will also be 2 p.m. shows on Dec. 6 and 13. Tickets are $20 from treehouseyouththeatre.ca, or call 403-986-0631. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Melodies still rule for Edmonton jazz group A/B Trio

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A conversation about “bad jazz” with members of the A/B Trio of Edmonton veers into the abstract and philosophical.

Two rather intriguing questions emerge: Can any creative form be disparaged in a world that’s relaxed the term ‘artistic’ to include such modern art installments as twine pinned to a wall?

And do improvising musicians — under the very definition of ‘improvisation’ — have complete freedom to invent their own rules as they go along?

The answers are given a ‘not really’ and a qualified ‘yes’ by Thomas Bennett, drummer for the jazz trio that performs along award-winning saxophonist Mike Murley on Thursday, Dec. 4, at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer.

Bennett said putting down certain jazz forms that are not to your liking is like calling certain foods gross because they are not to your taste.

“Maybe you don’t like Indian food, but other people do.”

On the other hand, he believes bad jazz can be created by musicians who don’t possess the fundamental skills or “craftsmanship” the genre requires.

“It becomes an open concept for self indulgence,” said Bennett.

A/B Trio’s double bassist Josh McHan doesn’t like the term “bad jazz” at all. He noted that free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman chose to break the structures of standard or traditional jazz. But Coleman knew what he was doing, as his musical mastery is undeniable. He’s a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, saxophonist, violinist and trumpeter.

Wherever listeners might stand on these musical questions, they won’t have to overstretch their tolerance to appreciate upcoming A/B Trio album, Out West, to be released in February.

Melodies still rule on its original jazz compositions, say Bennett and McHan, who perform in the group, along with saxophonist Dan Davis. The trio’s second CD will be full of groove-based tunes, from reinterpretations of old standards, to original instrumentals with two-part melodies, harmonies and driving rhythms.

Multiple Juno Award-winning saxophonist Murley, of Toronto, was invited to play on the release — and Bennett believes this upped everyone’s game.

“He was our special guest and personal hero.”

McHan praised Murley, who’s coming on tour with the group, for having a musical vocabulary that’s not dependent on playing a lot of notes. “Mike’s devel-

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A/B Trio perform at Fratters on Thursday. oped a sound that’s very melodically based,” which, he believes, fits exactly with A/B Trio’s vibe.

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Ol’ Boots and the Hoots will perform along with The Doll Sisters and Jake Peters at Red Deer Food Bank fundraiser next week.

Food Bank fundraiser at the Hub on Friday

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Penguins of Madagascar: it quickly settles down to become a 007 parody.

Penguins of Madagascar don’t soar Penguins of Madagascar 2 stars Rated: G Spinoffs are common with hit animation franchises, but Penguins of Madagascar might be more accurately referred to as a spin-out.

So much manic energy is expended putting these waddlers through their paces, as they strike out on adventures far from their Madagascar roost, it often seems as though they might ricochet right off the screen.

And it’s all in service of a very thin story that occasionally approaches brilliance but too often settles for a rote 007 ripoff — we even hear the James Bond theme at one PETER point. There are visual puns HOWELL and verbal riffs on other movies, too, including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Planet of the Apes and Life of Pi. If members of the DreamWorks screenwriting committee had expended as much effort on the plot as they did penning puns with celebrity names (Nicolas Cage and Drew Barrymore among them), there might be less reason to carp about this kettle o’ fish.

Directed by Eric Darnell (the Madagascar franchise) and Simon J. Smith (Bee Movie), the film starts off cleverly enough, with an Antarctic back story about how the penguin quartet of Skipper (Tom McGrath), Kowalski (Chris Miller), Rico (Conrad Vernon) and Private (Christopher Knights) first frolicked together on the same floe.

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It’s presented as a documentary made and narrated by Werner Herzog, who actually did once make a doc, Encounters at the End of the World, which featured the flightless avian superstars he calls “frisky little snow clowns.”

But once that film-savvy prologue ends, Penguins of Madagascar quickly settles into 007 parody mode, as Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private embark on a quest that spans the globe (including a stop in Shanghai, for that economically essential China connection).

They’re in pursuit of Dr. Octavius Brine (John Malkovich), a.k.a. Dave, a jealous octopus who once commanded eyeballs as a major zoo attraction but who lost popular favour after penguins entered the scene. He’s out to get revenge with an army of stooge octopi and a “Medusa serum” that will turn those “snow clowns” into scary monsters. Helping in the hunt is an animal spy agency known as North Wind, which of course leads into a joke how “nobody can break the Wind.” The agency is led by a pompous wolf (Benedict Cumberbatch), who is so into being undercover, he’s referred to only as Agent Classified.

It may be a case of damning with faint praise to say that Penguins of Madagascar never really gets a chance to bore, since it never slows down.

The humour is rarely cheesy, although much is made of a puffed fromage snack called Cheezy Dibbles that looks suspiciously like a product placement — don’t be surprised if you crave Cheetos after the film. And the movie never gets flat, because it’s in 3D. All of which should be enough to delight the small fry the movie is expressly aimed at, while occasionally prodding a smile out of the adults who accompany them. But these wacky birds could have truly soared, if a little more attention had been paid to storytelling basics.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Ol’ Boots and the Hoots, The Doll Sisters and Jake Peters will raise their voices in song to benefit the Red Deer Food Bank next week.

The multi-talented Central Alberta musicians will perform at a triple-bill seasonal concert, hosted by CKUA Radio’s David Ward, on Friday, Dec. 5, at The Hub on Ross Street.

The annual event is an audience favourite. “Usually we pack the house, and we’ve had standing ovations,” said staffer Twyla Joy Lapointe, who’s heard people leaving past concerts commenting, “Now it’s really starting to feel like Christmas!”

Performers also like playing at The Hub, which is considered among the finest acoustic halls in the province, added Lapointe. “That’s why Amos Garrett’s asked to come back and play here. He said it’s one of the best-sounding venues.”

The superb environment is due to acoustic tilelike rectangles that hang from the high ceiling — a vestige of the building’s past use as a 1970s-era bank.

Lapointe looks forward to hearing the three local music acts that will be playing for the food bank.

Ol’ Boots and the Hoots are a high-energy rockabilly band from the Red Deer area “that make me want to move,” she said. “It’s hard to be sad when you listen to their music.”

Made up of frontman “Boots,” banjoist Tyler Allen, and bassist Sean VandenBrink, the group is heavily influenced by Hank Williams, Stompin’ Tom Connors and Roger Miller.

The Doll Sisters are a Celtic-flavoured folk/roots duo from Raven who sing haunting harmonic ballads in the vein of The Civil Wars or Alison Krauss and play guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and bodhran.

Peters is a versatile and award-winning entertainer who’s been known to create his own guitars, as well as more innovative and unorthodox instruments. “He’s a real entertainer,” said Lapointe.

His many musical stylings include bluegrass, blues, Latin, and gospel.

As well, Magdalene House Society representatives will be selling coffee, chocolates and other freetrade goods at the Hub, and an art show and sale is on-going. (A reception will be held Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.) Tickets to the 7 to 9 p.m. concert are $20 cash at the door. All proceeds will go to the food bank. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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The group inspired by the music of Sonny Rollins and Joshua Redman was formed in 2010 by musicians who go back a decade or more on Edmonton’s music scene. Each contributed original content to Out West.

For instance, McHan wrote the contemplative tune For Carson with Davis. McHan was thinking a lot about his uncle, who was battling liver cancer, while composing the instrumental track. And he believes a certain “vulnerability” emerged on it.

Bennett came up with the upbeat tune that he later named Daytime Errands because it reminded him of all the running around he sometimes does.

“I like high-energy stuff.”

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Although jazz sometimes struggles to find an audience, McHan is thrilled by the trio’s reception in Red Deer, where the group previously played at the One Eleven Grill.

“Lately, there seems to be an appreciation for well-crafted, non-massproduced items, whether its farmers markets, art, or coffee or music. I think jazz fits into that. There’s a subculture that’s more open to being challenged,” he said. “What’s different about art music is that it really needs to be enjoyed in a live setting.”

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Kiwanis Christmas Carol Festival set for Dec. 7 at Gaetz United Local bands, bell-ringers, singers and choral groups are joyfully joining forces to perform seasonal selections during the Sunday, Dec. 7, Kiwanis Christmas Carol Festival.

The Red Deer Royals, Red Deer Youth and Community Orchestra, Benwood Strings Junior Orchestra, and Tuesday Night Community Band will play from 2 p.m. at Gaetz United Church.

The local bands are being joined by singers Donna Durand, Trish MacSween and Jean Duckering, the Red Deer Chamber Singers, and Gaetz Memorial United Church Sanctuary Choir. Glad tidings will also be rung in by Golden Gaetz Ringers.

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“Right now, I’m living in a Holiday Inn, by the grace of God, because there’s been a couple of weeks where I had to live in my truck,” he said in the video.

“I had no money, not even for gas or food.”

Stapp said money has been stolen from his bank account and royalty payments have not been paid to him.

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Stapp denied he’s taking drugs or alcohol and said he is “as sober as can be.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Alberta Utilities Commission has approved the sale of a regulated power utility that owns about half of Alberta’s electricity transmission grid.

The deal announced in May involves SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) selling Altalink to a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, a holding company run by U.S. financier Warren Buffett.

In July, Industry Canada approved the $3.2 billion deal on the condition that the new owner maintain jobs and be managed in Alberta.

Industry Canada also said all of AltaLink’s earnings must be invested in the company, or elsewhere in Canada, for at least five years.

The commission said Friday that it approved the sale because the deal will not negatively affect customer power rates and service quality.

Jim Law, a commission spokesman, says Altalink will continue to be regulated in same way it was before the

sale.

He said the deal comes as Altalink is raising money to expand its electricity transmission network.

“The commission found the purchase of Altalink should be a net benefit to ratepayers from a financing perspective,” he said Friday in a release.

Altalink owns about 12,000 kilometres of transmission lines, as well as 280 substations, delivering electricity to about 85 per cent of the province’s population.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy is owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Based in Iowa, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, with assets of some $70 billion, owns and operates some 284,000 kilometres of transmission and distribution lines.

SNC-Lavalin is one of the leading engineering and construction groups in the world and is a major player in the ownership of infrastructure and in the provision of operations and maintenance services.

New Democrat Leader Rachel Notley said the sale is bad for Albertans.

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“Albertans paid for this infrastructure through their electricity bills and now it’s just going to be sold off to a foreign company that stands to make huge profits from it,” Notley said in a news release.

“Electricity is an essential service and it should be managed for the benefit of Albertans, not in the interest of foreign company.

“Once again, Alberta families are this government’s last priority. The PCs deregulated electricity market sticks families with unnecessarily high bills while private corporations make massive profits.”

The Christmas gift options at Bower Place have increased with the opening of Pandora on Nov. 21 The jewelry store chain, which is headquartered in Denmark, has approximately 1,000 branded stores.

Pandora jewelry is sold in more than 80 countries and at over 10,000 points of sale, with the company employing more than 9,000 people.

Founded in 1982, Pandora offers hand-finished jewelry, including bracelets, earrings, necklaces and rings.

Lyle Hance owns the Red Deer store. It’s celebrating its grand opening this weekend, with limited edition charms and specially priced holiday gifts.

Economic partnership taps municipal councillors for board of directors Central Alberta Economic Partnership has named a new group of directors to its board.

These include Murray Berezowski, executive director of Community Futures Central Alberta, who is newly elected to the board. Chosen to return as directors are Dennis Cooper, mayor of Penhold; Nathan Cooper, a Carstairs town councillor; Ken Wigmore, a Lacombe County councillor; and Karen Grant, of the Delburne News. City of Red Deer councillor Lawrence Lee was also appointed to the board.

CAEP’s 15-director board represents municipalities, first nations and associate members.

The meeting also saw the presentation of three achievement awards. The Town of Blackfalds was awarded the Community Collaborative Award, the City of Wetaskiwin the Quality of Life Improvement Award, and the Town of Sylvan Lake the Volunteer Leadership Award.

Founded in 1998, CAEP is a regional economic development alliance of 39 municipal/first nations members and 14 associate members.

‘Paradigm shift’ for oilpatch crude

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Jim Hole speaks at the Festival of Trees Business Luncheon on Friday.

Businesses need to evolve EDMONTON AUTHOR AND HORTICULTURIST SPEAKS IN RED DEER

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Charles Darwin may have been focused on animals when he developed his theories about evolution. But his conclusions also apply to businesses, says Jim Hole.

The well-known Edmonton horticulturist, who is a bestselling author and regular contributor to the print and broadcast media, said his family’s Hole’s Greenhouses & Gardens exemplifies the importance of adapting to survive. Speaking at the Festival of Trees Business Lunch on Friday, Hole

reflected on the evolution of the St. Albert-based greenhouse and garden centre.

“We’ve gone through a lot of change over the years,” he said, noting how the Enjoy Centre, where Hole’s Greenhouses & Gardens now operates, bears little resemblance to the business’s original setting.

“You can’t stay static in business, otherwise it’s not going to make it.”

Hole related how his father Ted and mother Lois — who later became Lieutenant Governor of Alberta — moved from Edmonton to a mixed farm near St. Albert.

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business of farming, often taking books into the field with them.

“The advantage of that was they had no pre-conceived ideas,” said Hole, one of the couple’s two sons. “They weren’t scared to try different things.”

Like many farm women, his mother had a huge garden, he said. That resulted in a surplus of produce and eventually a small business selling vegetables.

In time, this side business displaced the livestock on the farm. And a greenhouse was developed to support the vegetable production.

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CALGARY — Oilpatch companies will have to take another look at their 2015 budgets after being caught off guard by a steep and sudden drop in crude prices, portfolio managers said Friday as oil plunged to a five-year low.

John Stephenson, president and CEO of Stephenson & Company Capital Management, predicts firms will have to live with crude prices of US$65 per barrel - or even lower - for some time.

“This is a new environment. This is a paradigm shift,” he said.

The price of U.S. benchmark crude has fallen by more than a third since the summer. It closed at US$66.15 a barrel on Friday - down about 10 per cent since Wednesday’s close.

On Thursday, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said it would keep output at 30 million barrels a day rather than cut back and put a floor under prices, meaning there’s not much to buoy crude in the near term.

“Saudi Arabia has decided to draw the line here and they’ve drawn the line on it because they don’t want to lose relevance in the world,” said Stephenson. “They’re worried that if they allow the American growth in shale oil to continue, they would have to keep cutting back their own production.”

How to turn a job into a career Dear Working Wise: I work for a great company and I want to make it a career. Do you have any tips for catching your boss’s eye as a promising upand-comer? — Ambitious Dear Ambitious: I cannot provide a specific answer to your question, because expectations of employees vary by industry and occupation.

I suggest that you talk to your manager about your career aspirations and get their advice. Talking to your manager will also help get them thinking about your potential and how they can help develop you.

There are also a number of tip sheets on promotions and succeeding at work on the ALIS website http://alis. alberta.ca/tips, including these tips on how to stand out from the crowd at work.

Be reliable ● Be honest and trustworthy. ● Be on time and maintain good attendance. ● Call if you’re going to be late or can’t make it to work. ● Keep your promises and complete

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your tasks on time. your personal life at work. ● Don’t take extended ● Don’t complain about breaks or abuse your sick your job, boss or co-workdays. ers on social media. ● Stay healthy – physiBe proactive cally and mentally. ● Learn all you can Be professional about the organization and ● Dress appropriately how you can contribute.

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Be a team player ● Help your co-workers with their projects if asked by your boss. You will learn something new and gain a reputation as a helpful co-worker and employee. ● Be willing to share information. ● Support and encourage your coworkers.

Be positive ● Maintain a positive attitude. ● Be flexible and open to taking on new tasks and learning new skills. ● Keep learning — new skills and tasks make you a more marketable employee. ● Ask if you don’t know how to do something. Asking shows that you want to do things right and that you’re willing to learn.

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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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 110.38 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.70 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.34 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.85 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.36 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.49 Cdn. National Railway . . 81.23 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 220.56 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.96 Capital Power Corp . . . . 27.13 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.40 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 48.67 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.50 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.37 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.61 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.43 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.35 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.38 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.22 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.20 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.28 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.14 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 54.45 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 128.31 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.50 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.90 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 61.51 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed sharply lower for a second session Friday even as economic growth for the third quarter came in much better than expected.

The loonie fell 0.84 to 87.41 cents US as Statistics Canada reported that third-quarter gross domestic product ran ahead at an annualized pace of 2.8 per cent, much higher than the 2.1 per cent rise that economists had expected.

On a monthly basis, the economy grew by 0.4 per cent in September.

The agency says the growth was mainly the result of exports and household spending.

However, the data wasn’t enough to lift the Canadian dollar. Like other commodity-based currencies, the loonie is getting hammered this week by a collapse in crude prices after the OPEC oil cartel opted to leave its daily output unchanged at 30 million barrels a day, rejecting intense lobbying by some of its 12 members to cut production to put a floor under prices.

Oil prices have plunged about 35 per cent from mid-summer highs because of a higher U.S. dollar, lower demand and most particularly, a glut of global supply.

Friday’s decline in the loonie followed a tumble of three-quarters of a cent on Thursday.

On Friday, the January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange was down $7.54 from Wednesday’s closing price to a five-year low of US$66.15 a barrel. American markets had been closed Thursday for U.S. Thanksgiving.

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However, for oil producers like Canada, it weighs on trade and investment, which in turn depresses gross domestic product.

And “for currencies the reaction is clear, it adds upside risk to the U.S. dollar and downside risk to commodity currencies,� said Camilla Sutton, chief FX strategist and managing director at Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets.

The loonie also suffered from sliding metal prices.

March copper declined 11 cents to US$2.85 a pound. Copper hasn’t broken below $3 since 2010. The decision by China’s central bank to lower interest rates got a positive reception a week ago. But since then there have been concerns that the move isn’t enough to keep Chinese growth above seven per cent.

And gold prices were heavily punished since lower oil prices will translate into lower inflation. February bullion lost $22 to US$1,175.50 an ounce.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index 14,744.70, down 177.74 points Dow - 17,828.24, up 0.49 of a point S&P 500 - 2,067.56, down 5.27 points Nasdaq - 4,791.63, up 4.31 points Currencies: Cdn - 87.41 cents US, down 0.84 of a cent Pound - C$1.7890, up 0.52

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Barley (Western): Dec. ‘14 unchanged $174.00; March ‘15 unchanged $177.00; May ‘15 unchanged $177.00; July ‘15 unchanged $177.00; Oct. ‘15 unchanged $177.00; Dec. ‘15 unchanged $177.00; March ‘16 unchanged $177.00; May ‘16 unchanged $177.00; July ‘16 unchanged $177.00; Oct. ‘16 unchanged $177.00; Dec. ‘16 unchanged $177.00.

HOLE: Giant retailer couldn’t match quality, knowledge of local staff

ferent businesses, not all run by us,� said Hole.

It also offers creative activities, like horticultural workshops; and hosts a gathering of urban artisans, designers and crafters called Make It! “What we’re trying to do is pull that younger generation in,� said Hole.

Open since 2011, the centre also hosts events like weddings and banquets. “We need a lot of space in the springtime for the bedding plants, but after that we don’t need all that space,� said Hole.

The greenhouse and garden centre has also become a model of environmental sustainability. Rain and snowmelt are collected into a 500,000-litre tank and used to water plants; doublepane glass and ceiling curtains preserve heat; ventilation fans have been replaced by a roof that opens up; and a heated floor provides warmth where it’s most needed by the plants.

The Enjoy Centre also operates its own gas-fired electricity generator, with the resulting waste heat used in the greenhouse. And pesticides have given way to bio-controls, like predatory insects.

Hole stressed the importance of keeping staff informed about a businesses changing plans, and investing in their training. “I’ve had other business owners say, ‘What happens if you train them and they leave?’ “What happens if you don’t train them and they stay?� hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

When Hole and his brother Bill graduated from university, Bill insisted that the premises be upgraded.

That allowed customers to walk on concrete instead of mud.

When it became evident that the family couldn’t grow commercial vegetables and also operate a greenhouse and garden centre, they dropped the produce side of their business.

The next challenge came in the form of big box stores that carried their own offering of plants. Hole said the giant retailers couldn’t match the quality of greenhouses, or maintain staff who were as knowledgeable as their garden centre counterparts. But they offered convenience. “The clientele were drifting off into the chain stores.�

Hole and his brother found themselves facing another “Darwinian moment.� “Either we’re going to get into it in a big way, like we did in the past, or we’re going to get out of it,� said Hole of their thinking.

They jumped in with both feet, developing a multi-faceted retail space called the Enjoy Centre. “The Enjoy Centre was our idea of how we could capture the next UNRESERVED PUBLIC AUCTION generation of people TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014 8:00 a.m. that would garden and embrace that nice new 9320 – 52 Street S.E., CALGARY lifestyle.�

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Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 128,280 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 128,280.

Gerry Ritz has said Ottawa would consider imposing retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. goods as early as next year if Washington doesn’t comply with the WTO rulings. Along with U.S. beef , those tariffs could be placed on cheese, apples, corn, maple syrup, chocolate, pasta, frozen orange juice and wine,

The United States is appealing a World Trade Organization ruling that found the country’s meat-labelling laws discriminate against Canadian beef and pork exports.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 2014

Mideast’s largest Jewish population outside Israel finds new acceptance by officials

LOCAL EVENTS

Today Knox Presbyterian Church Fundraiser featuring St. James Gate in Concert will be held on Nov. 29. Church doors open at 6:30 p.m. Concert at 7:30 p.m. followed by wine and cheese, silent auction. Tickets cost $35 each. Contact 403-346-4560, knoxrd1898@yahoo.ca.

Victory Church Cookie Walk/Craft Sale will be offered on Nov. 29, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Table rental available for $15 per table. Contact Shirley at 403-872-1345, or Sandi at 403986-1605. All proceeds to Food Zone.

Christmas Muffins and Coffee Party at Gaetz Memorial United Church goes Nov. 29, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. A free will offering will be accepted. There will also be baking, Christmas items, white elephant items, preserves, and jewelry for sale.

Phone 403-347-2244.

once accused Jews as whole of being drug dealers.

But since Rouhani took office last year, Jews say they have been heartened by the support they’ve received.

His government agreed to allow Jewish schools to be closed on Saturdays to mark Shabbat, the day of rest.

Rouhani also allocated the equivalent of $400,000 to a Jewish charity hospital in Tehran and invited the country’s only Jewish lawmaker to accompany him to the United Nations General Assembly in New York last year.

“We were fearful in the ’80s. We were feeling the pressure. Now, we are not concerned anymore. We feel secure and enjoy freedoms,” said Mahvash Kohan, a female Jewish pilgrim who came to Yazd from Shiraz.

“In the past, Israel and others were providing incentives such as housing that lured some Jews. Now, it’s not like that. And Iranian Jews have better living and working conditions in Iran. So, no one is willing to leave now.”

Still, human rights groups say Jews and other minorities in Iran face discrimination. Last year, officials in Iran’s presidency denied that Rouhani had a Twitter account after a tweet that appeared to be from the leader offered a greeting for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.

Iranian state television also has aired anti-Semitic programming.

Those taking part in the recent Yazd pilgrimage to the tomb of a famed Jewish scholar, however, praised the Iranian government’s new outreach.

“We’ve gathered here to pray and celebrate our Jewishness,” Kohan said.

“We are proud that we freely practice our religion.”

IRAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YAZD — More than a thousand people trekked across Iran this past week to visit a shrine in this ancient Persian city, a pilgrimage like many others in the Islamic Republic — until you notice men there wearing yarmulkes.

Iran, a home for Jews for more than 3,000 years, has the Middle East’s largest Jewish population outside of Israel, a perennial foe of the country.

But while Iran’s Jews in recent years had their faith continually criticized by the country’s previous governments, they’ve found new acceptance under moderate President Hassan Rouhani.

“The government has listened to our grievances and requests. That we are being consulted is an important step forward,” said Homayoun Samiah, leader of the Tehran Jewish Association.

“Under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nobody was listening to us. Our requests fell on deaf ears.”

Most of Iran’s 77 million people are Shiite Muslims and its ruling establishment is led by hard-line clerics who preach a strict version of Islam. Many Jews fled the country after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Jews linked to Israel afterward were targeted.

Today, estimates suggest some 20,000 Jews remain in the country.

Tensions grew under Ahmadinejad, who repeatedly called the Holocaust “a myth” and even sponsored an international conference in 2006 to debate whether the Second World War genocide of Jews took place. Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi

Sunday Red Deer Interfaith Network Open House Initiative will take place Nov. 22 to 30. Opportunities to learn about various faith communities will be presented. Dates and denominations are: Nov. 30, 7 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church.

To find out more, contact Rev. Jeffrey Rock, 403-347-2244, Jeffrey.t.rock@gmail.com.

Tuesday Heartland Cowboy Church is on the first and third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Stettler Agriplex, next Dec. 2 and 16. Call 403-742-4273.

Upcoming events CrossRoads Church Seniors Ministry Christmas Banquet will be offered on Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. Tickets cost $25 and must be purchased by Dec. 5 from CrossRoads Church or online at www.crossroadschurch.ca.

Knox Presbyterian Church Christmas Tea and Bake Sale will be offered on Dec. 6, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Admission is $5 and includes light lunch. Preschoolers free.

There will be a selection of baked goods, frozen savoury pies and Christmas treats available to purchase.

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Caring for Grandma taking a toll Dear Annie: My husband and I have but it’s too difficult at this point. The been caring for my grandmother for two of them also have tried to get senthe past eight years. sitive health-care inforWe both have full-time mation and have given the jobs and two young chilcare home operator a lot of dren. trouble.

Grandma has dementia, We have told these and her health and cognineighbours to stop visiting tion have been declining Grandma and riling her up significantly in the past six and to leave the care home months, with multiple hosoperator alone since they pitalizations for dehydracannot follow our request to tion and infections. respect my grandmother’s It has taken a toll on my privacy. husband and me to manage They think Grandma is her care at home, and after fine because she tells them MITCHELL this last hospitalization, our she is, but they don’t realfamily decided to place her ize the extent of her demen& SUGAR in a nursing home. tia. What is the best way The problem is, Grandma to handle this situation? has a longtime neighbour — Stressed Caregiver in Hafriend who is interfering waii with our decision to place her in a care Dear Stressed: These people have home. no business interfering in Grandma’s In spite of knowing my grandmother care. They have no right to her medifor 40 years, she knows her only super- cal information, and they should not ficially. be a party to your decisions.

Now that Grandma is in a care facilTell the care facility to deal with ity, this neighbour and her daughter them however they choose. have become very intrusive and are They certainly aren’t the only ones demanding that Grandma return home to give them a hard time. under our care.

If the neighbour should call you, tell We have tried to provide home care, her, “We appreciate your concern.”

ANNIE ANNIE

Then hang up.

You owe her nothing.

Dear Annie: In response to “Agitated Student and Caring Brother,” the nine-year-old boy who has problems with decimals, I think I might be able to help.

Decimals are numbers that aren’t whole.

For example, 1.5 is a number halfway between 1 and 2.

Adding and subtracting decimals is easier when you stack the numbers on top of each other. Line up the decimal points and solve the problem as you would any other number.

For example: 1.5 plus 1.5 equals 3.

I like using money to help me out — $1.50 plus $1.50 equals $3.

Or $1.75 less $1.50 equals 25 cents (or 0.25). Sometimes you might find numbers that have more numbers behind the decimal point, such as 1.75 minus 1.5.

Just add zeroes to make the numbers the same length, making the shorter one 1.50.

The fun thing about decimals is, once you get the hang of them, it makes percentages easier — 0.25 is the same as 25 per cent.

But we’ll save that for another day.

— Indy

Dear Indy: Several readers attempted to provide a simple solution to the problem with decimals, and we hope yours helps.

We love how our readers take care of one another.

Dear Annie: Can you print one more letter about kids in church and synagogues?

Many years ago, my then two-yearold daughter would squirm off of her seat next to me and run up to the Bima (dais) at our synagogue and dance when the cantor sang.

I would dash up and bring her back to the seats.

One Friday evening, the rabbi smiled at both of us and said, “Leave her be. She wants to be close to the Torah (bible).” And so I sat down.

Thirty-three years later, that same daughter is the one teaching Torah, tutoring bar and bat mitzvah students, and leading services.

The rabbi was right. Children should feel welcome at services. —M. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Tony Roma’s wishes you and your family

Saturday, Nov. 29 cited about life and everyCELEBRITIES BORN ON thing will move along in a THIS DATE: Howie Mandel, very positive and joyous way.

59; Anna Faris, Take the time 38; Gena Lee to find out what Nolin, 43 you truly want to THOUGHT do, then do just OF THE DAY: that. Enjoy the You will be mopositivity today! tivated and inCANCER spired by your (June 21-July dreams and the 22): The more future. You will you utilize your have even more keen intuition empathy for and sympathetic your fellow man, nature today, the and will most more you will be LARISA MAIRA likely pick up on rewarded on others’ moods a professional OZOLINS today. So surlevel. There is a round yourself strong possibility with positive that you will be people. There able to increase will be some changes going your finances today, or simon within your daily plans that ply get yourself in a position could create some tension whereby you are able to. for you. Take a hard look at LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If what needs to be done — do you are not travelling today, that first! then learn something new.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If This will not only expand today is your birthday, this your perspective on life, but year will prove to be just what it will also create greater you need to get your creative awareness of your true callprojects off the ground and ing and path. Anything and moving forward in a very everything you do today will positive direction. benefit your spouse or busiPerhaps, you are taking ness partners in a grand courses, or simply travelling way! more. You will be more able VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. to see results this year than 22): You are more than willany other year before. ing to be a support to others Trust your own judgement today. and do what you need to do This will cause some disto align yourself with your ruptions for you at home, path. but it will be well worth it in ARIES (March 21-April the end. It truly will be a very 19): This is the day to trust pleasant day, if your mind set your intuition. Y is in the right place. Allow for our dreams tonight will be greater truth to be revealed very foretelling as well. Take to benefit others. the opportunities presented LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. to you today and step up the 22): If ever there was a day game when it comes to your to get everything out into the actively seeking fun and the open and to make real progpleasures of life. Romance ress, today is that day! Trust will burn brightly today — En- your vision, but do be acjoy! countable and be sympathetTAURUS (April 20-May ic to those who need to catch 20): If you are thinking of pro- up with this truth today. Your posing to your significant re- spouse and others are willing lationship, then today is the and able to hear you out. day to so!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. You will be feeling like you 21): Today, at this moment want to do something new in time, you are so in line and step up the game a little. with your true vocation and The energy will be phenom- your purpose in life. You will enal now! feel it and will only share this Do what brings you joy! deeper truth with others. AlEverything will work out! low for the greater good to GEMINI (May 21-June emerge by sharing your per20): Today is the day to get sonal values. Have faith all is out there with friends and go aligned now. have fun!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22You’ll be able to feel ex- Dec. 21): Speak your truth

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today and allow for others to catch up on that higher knowledge. You will be a firecracker waiting to explode, as you gracefully move in the proper direction to align with your higher self. Sympathize with others, but do lead the pack going forward.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): You know that “thing” you want to do professionally, or in the public, or a change in your status? Well, do it today, it will be wonderfully appreciated and very rewarding for you. You are not in the mood for superficial activities. Dig deep, express your ultimate truth.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): Today, you will be more in line with others than you think.

By trusting your values, you will be able to reach those goals you have set for yourself.

Dream big, allow for greater truth to emerge while you are following those wonderfully passionate dreams of yours.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Truly, anything you want to do today will happen and will happen quickly. There could be some money coming back to you from work related endeavours or simply you will be valued more for your contributions at work.

Relax and go with the flow of positive energy!

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HOROSCOPES You will have a realistic stance today that will help you focus.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will be ready and on cue within group settings and with significant relationships, either business or romantic. There is a sense that psychic understandings and bonds with others will come to light, or simply a deeper awareness of the gifts you have will come to light today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today will be a day for you to communicate your truth with others at work or perhaps even your mother. There could be misunderstandings that will need to be addressed.

You might be inclined to keep your emotions to yourself, but the truth will still become clear to you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll be easily able to put up with a lot today, especially with those at work. There will be intuitive urges and knowledge filtering through all discussions with those you see on a daily basis, perhaps even a mentor or past teacher. Their wisdom will be priceless today.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It is one of those days when you will be in silent mode, ploughing away at tasks you have yet to complete. There might be confusion or perhaps some misunderstandings, but trust your own instincts. Lot of tasks can be checked off the household to do list today — Enjoy!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Breakthroughs with sales will happen. This could leave you scratching your head a bit, but trust the path forward.

Sometimes, it is just an accumulation of energy that gets released at the right moment, and we all call it destiny and luck. Trust your luck, you’ve earned it!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Whatever you dream of happening for you personally will be exactly what you attract when out with friends.

Watch for what thoughts are brought to mind as you acknowledge them. It could be a reflection of that dream presented in another form by the universe.

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Discussions today will veer more towards the religious, spiritual, and mystical subjects.

Business deals are not exactly on the forefront of others’ minds at this time. On a positive note, you will attract what you respect.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will prove to be the year whereby you attract the right people and resources into your life just when you need them. It will be a very powerful year to get things moving forward.

If you are taking more courses, then wonderful!

If you are travelling more, you will be able to use that knowledge at work. Vacations will be deeply restful this year.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Trust your intuition today — it will not lead you wrong. You will be able to steadily work at your career objectives today and will be more than able to work with others or happily lead the crowd forward.

lovely holiday with your sweetheart or children or maybe you’ve started a creative project. The joy felt today will be revisited in a more pronounced way in a few weeks. Trust your path and vision forward.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Any past confusion can be cleared up today. Yes, there could be some miscommunications happening between you and family members, or between your significant relationships and your family.

Today is a great opportunity to clear the air once and for all — Enjoy!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Lots of fun can happen today! Today will mark the time when you will feel like you can do anything. If on vacation, it will be the day when you finally relax.

If working, then what you are doing is definitely getting approval and you’ll feel free to express yourself now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is a strong opportunity presented to you today.

When asked, or when required, speak your truth. You will not only speak for others who can’t share their truth, but you will also make advances by understanding your worth and the value of sharing your thoughts.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You will have this uncanny connection with family members or those within your home environment

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This Parisian influenced bathroom is bold and memorable. With a traditional tub, a string panelled shower curter and a tasteful marble counter top, this room is sure to turn a few heads and it is a far cry from the dull ensuite it replaced. The room before is below.

Ah, the Moulin Rouge. We remember our first visit to France’s famous red windmill, some 25 years past, while backpacking round Europe as gap-year students.

Back then, dizzy with excitement, we fell madly in love with the theatre’s dramatic décor. Décor that is, for those who haven’t visited, part Vaudeville and part museum.

And, erm, part bordello.

But it wasn’t just the décor that caught our attention. We loved every last moment of a wine-fuelled evening spent in front of a sparkly stage that whirred with taffeta and feathers as a hundred and one COLIN & CanCan girls spun into derJUSTIN vish-like frenzy.

Courtesy of Notreami Pascal (personal assistant, then, to Paco Rabanne) and his girlfriend Marie, one of the feathered ladies who so expertly entertained atop that hallowed stage, we enjoyed furtive backstage access to dark, mysterious corridors that would normally have been out of bounds.

We distinctly remember the smell of grease paint and cloying air, tainted heavy with Gauloise.

And boy, did those memories come flooding back when Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge hit the big screen some years back.

If you saw the hedonistic flick, you’ll remember swathes of red velvet, swishing bead curtains and acres of dark timber flooring.

You’ll recall sets dressed with a million-andone-mirrors, positioned, we imagine, to magnify the glamour and allow the feathered ladies to check their look as they swirled and twirled to that coursing can-can beat.

Today, inspired by things Parisian, witness our dramatic en suite transformation and the salient points that allowed us to turn a dull as-you-like ensuite into a sexy Parisian fantasy.

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The gold-detailed shower door and kitchen-cabinet style vanity units were decidedly passé, so we tore them down to make way for our new scheme.

Keeping the tub plumbing in the same place saved hassle (and cash) while switching the loo to the other side of the room cleared it from immediate eye line upon entering the newly opened space.

Finally, plumbing for his and hers sinks was switched to the longest unbroken wall to create maximum vanity space.

Demo Stage 2 Our next job was to close up the original door that led to the ensuite. This done, we fashioned a double width portal and added glazed pine ladder doors (from Home Depot) to make a seriously grand entrance.

Paint finished to resemble darkest oak, they have immediate presence and set the scene for that which lies beyond.

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Flooring Wood flooring can be problematic in wet zones so we generally opt for ‘interpretation’ product or tile.

In this instance, we specified Karndean (www. karndean.com) due to its moisture repellent qualities.

Flexible and easily to cut, it’s warm underfoot and comes in a myriad of timber genus finishes.

Bath Traditional features, reinterpreted, look thoroughly at home in a funky space such as this.

We chose this tub for its simple roll-top lines and depth.

Tip: When choosing, ask about cubic water quantity and don’t be afraid to sit in the tub: not all models have the same depth or width. Testing before investing guards against bathing disappointment.

Shower curtain With an eye on practicality and another fixed firmly on glamour, we used a two-curtain technique to dress and waterproof the shower.

Our first layer is a clear drape — to keep water off the floor — and our second, for decoration, a set of string panels hung from the same hoop as the clear acrylic drape.

Vanity area We engaged Wendy Kelloway, a specialist metal worker (find her at www.welddonedesigns.com) to build a chunky base for our pre-measured marble box plinth.

Plumbed to accommodate double sinks, it has a sturdy appearance which affords an air of dependability.

While this might sound complicated, it was actually rather straightforward: we established a threeway dialogue between our plumber, metal fabricator and marble supplier to ensure a perfect fit.

The project complete, our clients’ describe their bathing experience as thoroughly satisfying. No more for them the ‘wash and go’ woes that underpinned their desperately dull en suite.

Nowadays, their Moulin Rouge-inspired beauty makes their life spin ever faster.

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Cranberry mini mosaic to elicit hedonistic mood and cover all wall surfaces ceiling to floor. Our tile came on mesh-backed 12-inch-by-12-inch panels but, to save time, it’s possible to find mosaic look-alike that’s actually regular tiling, indented with deep grooves to mimic the genuine article.

This type of kit is installed like regular tile then grouted into the grout lines across its entire surface.

Tip: Budget tile can look fab with professional installation but, conversely, expensive product can look inferior with poor installation. There are jobs we’ll happily tackle, but mosaic installation, in our opinion, is best left to the experts.

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Simpler, better holiday lights The world has seen a steady improvement in the reliability and efficiency of Christmas lights, and things have just taken another leap forward.

To understand how, you need a little history.

Anyone over 40 can tell you that strings of holiday lights used to be infuriating. I remember when my Dad used to put up the outdoor lights on my boyhood home back in the early 1970s, and it didn’t exactly leave him STEVE with a spirit of MAXWELL goodwill.

By the time he was done wrestling with bad sockets, frazzled wires or that one dead bulb that caused an entire string to stay dark, this normally quiet, polite man was nearly cursing.

Things got somewhat better when those strings of little coloured lights came out to replace the big, hot-running, screw-in holiday bulbs, though first-generation mini-lights were still far from soothing. When the thread-like wires coming out from each tiny bulb got broken or didn’t touch the contacts correctly in the socket, you learned to live with dark patches around your house and yard.

Today’s LED mini-lights offer a huge improvement in the Christmas lighting experience, mostly because they’re so reliable. And it doesn’t hurt that a whole string of LEDs only uses as much electricity as a few of those hotrunning incandescent holiday bulbs that used to burn people’s houses down when they went bad.

The LED lights we’ve put up at my place for the last few years are probably as close to perfection as we’ll ever get in string-type lights.

Not a single bulb has gone out in three years of use, though one problem remains. You still need to put the strings up, and solving this issue is something that a completely different approach to holiday lighting call the Elf Light can do.

Instead of strings of small lights you hang on houses and trees, the Elf Light is a single LED floodlight that projects thousands of small points of red and green light onto trees, homes or any other outdoor surface. Stick this one light into the ground on its spike, switch it on, aim it and you’re done.

This year, I’ve been using two units at my place and I’m impressed. Each of the thousands of points of light pro-

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The Elf Light projects thousands of points of red and green holiday lights on trees and buildings, eliminating the need to wrestle with strings of bulbs. from one of those maddening strings of yesteryear.

As the darkness of shortened days reaches its depths, holiday lights make the world a happier place.

And the fact that you don’t have to endure high operating costs, loads of

installation time and frozen fingers to make Christmas cheer happen, all the better.

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jected isn’t as bright as a regular outdoor Christmas bulb, but there are so many of them that it makes up for it.

I still use string lights where they’re easy to install, but the Elf Lights make it easier to expand the display beyond strings.

My Elf Lights are sitting in the ground on the built-in spikes that are part of the design, but I may mount them on a pole or porch post. It doesn’t take much snow to cover the lights and, of course, the light show stops until I dig them out.

The Elf Light is controlled remotely, with a hand-held transmitter that lets you turn the light on or off from indoors, set it to go on for a specified period of time, or project either the green or red lights only.

Power consumption is five watts for one unit, which means it costs less than a dime to project lights 24/7 for four days straight if you pay 20 cents per kilowatt hour.

That’s about as close to free as you’ll get, and half as much as it cost to run just one single, thread-in holiday bulb

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Fireplaces — the big picture

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The spacious bedroom in this Victorian home has been decorated with restful shades of taupe and plum that star in the fireplace transformation.

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balance, random colours and patterns should be introduced to avoid a forced ‘matchy’ look.

Stepping away from the bright palette, a green chair and ceramic lamp, and black and white geometrically patterned cushions serve to reinforce the interest and character in the room, while ensuring that the overall feel is casual and livable.

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We are all inherently mosaic tiles that surdrawn to the welcoming round the firebox relate warmth and ambiance of to the wall colour, and fire. the draperies, while the I t ’ s g e n e r a l l y a c - warm plum shade of the cepted that feature wall if there is behind the a fireplace bed is picked in a room, it up in the cewill steal the ramic vases show, espeand pillar cially when candle on the lit. mantel.

Take adThis firevantage of place vignette this natural is now a beaufocal point to tiful and restenhance your ful focal point decorating year round, choices, to with or withconnect with out the fire the colours burning. It reDEBBIE and character sponds to any TRAVIS of the whole season. room.

For a young Look at the couple who big picture. had travelled Treat the extensively in fireplace surSouth Amerround, the mantel, and ica, budget was small, the space around and but they had big dreams above the fireplace as a of creating a joyful first creative whole. home.

MaryLynne Meschino Their favourite pos(www.allegrointeriors. sessions were two paintca) is an award-winning ings they had brought decorator who is mas- home from their travels. terful at integrating the These were the inspihomeowners’ personali- ration for Meschino to ties and possessions to create a living space that produce an harmonious, was simple, with bold, inviting setting. colourful accents.

The fireplace transThe homeowners formation in the bed- wanted a basic ivory room shown here was b a c k g r o u n d f o r t h e conceived as a natural walls, a perfect foil for extension of the overall the orange and vibrant room design. colours in the paintings.

The homeowners had Meschino selected a grid chosen taupe linens for of marble and glass mothe classic sleigh bed. saic tiles that featured Meschino selected plum a mix of orange, red, tones, a rich choice for gold, white and grey. Ust h e c o m p l e m e n t a r y ing the one-inch mosacolour to be paired with ic tiles, which come in taupe on the walls and sheets of 12 inches by 12 throughout the fabrics inches and can be cut to and accessories. fit the existing space, alThe dark oak fire- lows for a clean looking place was painted white, surround without miswhich highlights the matching grout lines. handsome moulding deThe ceramic vases tails and lightens the on the mantel have a view. quirky nature that suits T h e s t r i k i n g i r o n the painting; one has a sculpture above the twisted base, the other a mantel is a brilliant native pattern. find that is not only capFurnishings in the tivating on its own, but room (not shown) inserves to connect with clude a red slipper the branch detail in the chair, and a window seat chair fabric, and the fine upholstered in a pattern lines of the architectural of red, gold and orange prints. on a white background.

The sheen and taupe Although repetition shading of the marble is what affords a room

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Fax: 403-887-1463 communication skills. travel Apply with resume @ www.advantagevalve.com 4. General Office duties Artic Truck, Email: Only qualified applicants ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com Cover letter and resume, etc. will be notified. complete with the names Fax: 403-348-5198 and telephone numbers of REQUIREMENTS three current work related 5 years minimum in the oil references are accepted and gas industry, F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS by email only and should 3 years in a Recruiting/ - Good hours, home every be forwarded to: Human Resources Admin night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Shawn Russell, position Highly organized, Contractor must have truck detail orientated, capable Associate Superintendent or van. Tools, supplies & People Services of multitasking Proficient in SIDING INSTALLER ladders required. Training Chinook’s Edge School Microsoft Office; including with or without trailer & provided, no experience Division No. 73 word, excel and Outlook tools. F.T. year round needed. Apply to: Email: careers@ Motivated and have the work, must have truck and satjobs@shaw.ca chinooksedge.ab.ca ability to maintain strict 2 yrs. exp. $1.30 per sq.ft. confidentiality as well as a 403-358-8580 For information on professional attitude Able SUNTERRA Meats in GOODMEN Chinook’s Edge School to be on call, work some Trochu is looking for a Division No. 73, please evenings and weekends ROOFING LTD. Journeyman Electrician to check our website Able to work independently Requires join our maintenance team. (www.chinooksedge.ab.ca) and as part of a team; Job entails but is not Applications will be encourage excellence SLOPED ROOFERS limited to installation, accepted until 12:00 noon, through positive LABOURERS maintenance, repair, Monday, December 1, contributions & FLAT ROOFERS service and trouble shoot2014. The successfu ing. Successful candidate applicant will be required Please submit cover letter Valid Driver’s Licence must have Industrial to provide a criminal record and resume to: preferred. Fax or email Electrician Red Seal check and a child resumes@ info@goodmenroofing.ca Certifi cate and 3 years intervention (welfare) newcartcontracting.com or (403)341-6722 check. While we thank all NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! experience in the electrical or fax to (403) 729-2396 field. Meat processing applicants for their interest, Attn. HR. plant experience a definite only those individuals No phone calls Please. asset. For more selected for interviews will information call Dave Guay Something for Everyone be contacted. Resumes of at 403-442-4202 or send Everyday in Classifieds individuals not granted an resume to dave. interview will not be kept guay@sunterrameats.ca.

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NEWCART is looking for a fulltime

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Benefits: • Excellent hourly wage • Lucrative Safety Bonus and Christmas bonus • Excellent benefit plan • Retirement plan Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to:

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Valve Technicians

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Duties include but not limited to the following: • Assembling and repairing control valves/frac heads • Calibration, testing and troubleshooting of valves as well as measurement and valve related instruments • Disassembly, cleanup and evaluation of parts • Signing and documenting date compliance sheets • Pressure testing processes with experience, will train • Forklift experience/loader experience, will train • Must be 18 years of age or older to apply • Must supply driver’s abstract

Professionals

PAY & BENEFITS ADMINISTRATOR

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Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Isolation Equipment Services Inc. an expanding Oil Service Company is willing to train the right candidates as valve technicians and/or shop assistants in its fast and mechanical environment.

Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop by #239 Clearview Drive Clearview Industrial Park Red Deer County

Professionals

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

HAMPTON INN & SUITES Red Deer is now accepting resumes for a housekeeping supervisor. Must be able to work weekends.

Apply within 128 Leva Ave. Desirable candidate will Red Deer County. Fax possess: 403-341-9996 or email: • Journeyman Heavy info@hamptoninnrd.com Equipment Technician Ticket and min 5 years experience • Ability to perform CVIPs on heavy trucks • Self motivation and ability to train an apprentice • Excellent interpersonal HIRING SERVER skills Apply in person at Shiso Japanese Restaurant, To apply: e-mail resume to 3731 Gaetz Avenue hr@apexoil.ca by No Phone Calls Please!

December 10, 2014.

Visit our website at JJAM Management (1987) www.apexoil.ca Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. MILLARD TRUCKING LTD. 37444 HWY 2 S is looking for a 2 Licenced 37543 HWY 2N Journeyman Heavy 700 3020 22 St. Duty Mechanics.

FOOD ATTENDANT The successful applicant Req’d permanent shift must be able to work well weekend day and evening in a high paced environboth full and part time. ment. We offer a great 16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + working environment, very benefits. Start ASAP. competitive wages and Job description performance bonuses. www.timhortons.com All interested person are Education and experience invited to apply to: not req’d.

Millard Trucking Ltd. Apply in person or fax Box 960, Sundre, AB resume to: 403-314-1303 T0M1X0 Fax: 403-638-4987 THE RUSTY PELICAN email: is now accepting resumes mbrodie@enerchem.com 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.

NEWCART is looking for a full time

Landscape Labourer,

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for an EXPERIENCED BARTENDER. MUST HAVE REFERENCES. Able to work evening shift.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Trades

850

LICENSED MECHANIC & AUTO BODY TECH. Reasonable rate.

A.J. Auto Repair & Body 11, 7836 49 Ave. Call 403-506-6258

850

Shop & Field Mechanic will service and maintain winch trucks, generators, centrifuges and all other equipment.

Restaurant/ Hotel

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.

Sobeys Village Mall is now hiring for the following positions:

BAKER PRODUCE CLERK GROCERY CLERK DELI CLERK COURTESY CLERK Please forward resumes to Frank.Bangma@sobeys.com fax (403) 347-4588 apply online at:

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Business Opportunities

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

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ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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

• • • • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca HIRING Full time, Night shift chicken catchers.

Must be Physically fit and able to work hard. Wage will be discussed. Contact Mike 403-586-4533

LABORERS NEEDED F/T FOR SNOW REMOVAL & MAINTENANCE WORK. Must have driver’s license.

Call 403-506-8928 or Fax 403-886-5814 Looking for a part-time cleaner 6 evenings per week approximately 2 hours each night in Sylvan Lake. Must be able to work well on their own. Please reply to melleibel@shaw.ca or call 403-358-8295 for an interview.

RESPONSIBLE mature person req’d for weekly cleaning in small apt. in South Red Deer. Ref’s req’d. Call 403-309-4554 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

860

Truckers/ Drivers

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER

Welcome to Trail

Appliances, a family owned and operated company since 1974! Trail Appliances is one of the leading independent appliance retailers in Western Canada, supplying brand name appliances from North American and Europe.

We have an immediate opening for a full-time Journeyman Plumber to work within Red Deer and surrounding areas based out of our Red Deer location 2823 Bremner Ave. The main duties of this position include, but are not limited to: • The installation and service of water purification products • Installation of dishwashers, water softeners, fridge water lines, water heaters and humidification products.

The Company provides a comprehensive and competitive benefit program including such things as: • Medical & Dental benefit Program • Flex days • Stat holidays off • Paid vacation time

• Employee & Family Assistance Program • Referral Incentives • Employee discounts • Paid overtime

Please submit your resume including cover letter and salary expectation to: reddeerjobs@trail-appliances.com or by fax at (403) 342-7168.

Security clearances will be conducted on successful applicants. We thank all interested applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL CLEANING BUSINESS

880

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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.

Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866

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

We are currently hiring for the position of:

JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN

CLASS 1 DRIVER with super B and grain hauling experience for Central AB. Call Wayne 403-341-9113 DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

HALLCON is seeking qualified drivers to transport rail crews throughout Red Deer area.

Drivers are ideally based out of RED DEER. No overnight stays required.

This position is an on call position. Employees are responsible for taking trips during the period they have designated themselves available to do so. Transportation is done in Hallcon company vehicles. Vehicles are extensively & consistently maintained ensuring optimal safety for drivers and clients. Drivers must possess valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with clean driver abstract. Assisted licensing upgrade to achieve a class 4 is available. Pay is based at a rate of $16.00. Earning potential is based on your availability, as our operation runs on a 24/7 on call basis. Both full time and part time employees are welcome. Semiretired, retired, full time, part time employees are welcome. Forward resumes & current driver abstract: Shane Flack asmabnorth@gmail.com.

870

Join Avon for ONLY $10, NO minimum orders! thousands of products! call 403-392-0935 for more details or visit www.avon.ca

860

Truckers/ Drivers

Duty Mechanic Red Deer

Business Opportunities

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

/MAVERICK

Supply

Warehouse Representative Required for Rimbey Oilfield Supply Store

Duties to include:

Now Hiring

(Full-Time; Red Deer Area)

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

The ideal candidate will have the following: • Journeyman Instrumentation • Fall Protection, CSTS (Version 0.9) • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Committed dedication to safety; reflected in practice and experience • Strong focus on customer satisfaction • A team player with strong people skills

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

Please note: This job posting closes on November 7th, 2014

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STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Andrea Mercer Fax # 403-342-6505 Email hr@studon.com

Fax: (403) 843 - 3775

FRONTIER “because we care”

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

Please Send Resume to: Email: rick.davies@meridianvalve.ca

TRAVEL WITH

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.

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.

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Starting Rate: $43.06/hour

Heavy Lifting Involved Deliveries (with trailer) Shipping & Receiving

In Person: 5618 – 44th St, Rimbey (Behind the A&W)

FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

40 Hour Week / Monday – Thursday

Customer Service Inventory Control Clerical Duties Forklift Operations

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Making a Difference

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CENTRAL ALBERTA MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRM LOOKING FOR PROJECT BASED CONTRACTORS. Prefer candidates with background in agriculture, business or sciences.

Must have post secondary education and have excellent writing, research and communication skills.

Must be proficient with MS Office and be able to work independently.

Apply in confidence with cover letter and resume to: shan@kbsl.ca

Professionals

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Professionals

email or fax resume to: frontbus@platinum.ca 403-347-4999

www.frontierbuslines.com

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014 Advocate Opportunities

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

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

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

278950A5

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

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DEER PARK AREA

Antiques & Art

Dixon Cres. $100.20/mo.

Dunning Cres, Cl., and Depalme St. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $136.24/mo.

1520

VINTAGE Retro ANTIQUE SALE Sat. Nov. 29, 10-3 @OLSEN ST. HALL.

3900 & 4200 Blocks of 40A Ave. and 4000 Block of 39 St. (North side only). $55.68/mo.

WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $134./mo.

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Abbot Close/Allan St. Addinell Close/Allan St. Adamson Ave/Arthur Close Alwright Close Anderson Close Anquetel Close BOWER AREA Brown Close/Barrett Drive Baile Close INGLEWOOD AREA

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Household Furnishings

1720

2 DUSTY ROSE upholstered arm chairs, 1 rocker, 1 recliner, $60/ea. or both for $90.; Sewing machine cabinet, dark oak, 3 large side drawers, fits any size machine. $85.; ROASTER, electric, large aluminum, $20; 403-348-6449 2 HIGH back chairs, new, rayon material, small stripes $100/ea 403-347-2046

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

SUNNYBROOK AREA Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Stirling Close Sherwood Cres LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lougheed Close Lyons Close

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.

VANIER AREA

DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo.

Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo.

Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo.

Dowler St., Daniel Cres. Dawe Cl., Dunham Close and area $412.00/mo.

Vickers Close Vincent Close Viscount Drive Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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

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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

Massage Therapy

1280

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

FANTASY

1200

International ladies

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

DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

CHINESE massage therapy. Direct bill. Gift card.

403-986-1691 4606-48 Ave

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

MASSAGE

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 STRESSBUSTERS 403-923-0682

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Services

Pets & Supplies

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 SNOW shoveling/dump runs /odd jobs 403-885-5333

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

1810

2 AQUARIUMS/CRITTER CAGE - NO LEAKS. 20 gallon Hartz in box c/w hood light. $50.

5 Gallon, $20.

AQUARIUM GRAVEL - 10 lbs (new), white, $15.

OR all 3 for $75.

403-227-2976

Cats

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Houses/ Duplexes

Travel Packages

4010

3020

3 BDRM. duplex near Dawe, newly reno’d, avail. now N/S, pets negotiable 403-347-6330

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

5040

SUV's

2006 JEEP Commander full load, 4.7, $12,000 403-505-1150

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Call GORD ING at MOUNTVIEW, across from RE/MAX real estate school, 4 bdrm. dbl. garage, + RV park, lrg. lot central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net backs onto park, fully dev.

2 full baths, new reno’s, 4 appls., $1650 + utils. Jan.1.

Houses Call Alex 403-519-2944

For Sale Condos/ Townhouses

3030

2 BDRM. 1 1/2 bath condo townhouse unit in Sylvan, avail. now 403-341-9974

4020

CUSTOM BUILT

Trucks

5050

2008 GMC Sierra 1500 4x4. Excellent condition inside/out. 183,000 km.

Black w/chrome. Touch screen Pioneer deck, bose sound system. Tonneau cover. $16,500.00 obo.

(403) 505-1902, 342-4894

NEW HOMES 2001 Ram 1500 4x4 SLT Mason Martin Homes Quad cab 5.2 L 192,000 km Senior New Home Planner $5300 403-342-5297 Kyle, 403-588-2550

FREE Weekly list of INGLEWOOD POINTE 2 bdrm, 2 bath condo. Heated park- properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s ing & all utils. incl. $1450.

403-350-3722/780-479-1522 phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

SEIBEL PROPERTY

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245 to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl. avail.

Dec. 1 References required.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

LAST ONE! RISER HOMES STARTER HOME 2 bdrm., 2 bath.

Many upgraded features, Don’t Miss out on this 1170 sq.ft. 134 Morris Court To view call Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294 Total sale price $329,900.

Prices includes legal fees, GST, appliances, sod & tree.

MUST SELL New Home. 1325 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550 REDUCED BY OWNER Sunnybrook total 2682 sq. ft, large kitchen & deck, 7 appls, 22 x 24 det. garage, RV parking, close to school, centra vac & a/c, immed. poss. 403-347-6754 or 347-6509

RISER HOMES Move in Ready.

Gorgeous 2 storey 1700 sq. ft. 3 bdrm., 2 1/2 bath, master bath has a spa atmosphere 5 pc. ensuite, bonus room, indoor/outdoor fireplace, front porch, too many upgrades to menSuites tion. A must see! $399,500 incds. GST, legal fees, GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. appls. pkg, and front sod apartments, avail. immed, entry. To view call Lloyd rent $875 403-596-6000 Fiddler 403-391-9294 2 BDRMS., no pets.

Jan. 1. $900./mo. 5805-56 Ave 403-343-6609

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INNISFAIL deluxe 2 bdrm., incl. water, $860 avail. Jan. 403-348-6594 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 NEWLY RENOVATED 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly.

86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

THE NORDIC

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Public Notices

FISHING HUT and manual ice auger. $60. 403-347-0347 TREADMILL, Vitamaster exc. cond. $280. obo.

403-749-3960

Collectors' Items

Realtors & Services

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

homes

1870 1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

WINTER in VEGAS 2 bdrm., 2 bath condo.

1 mo. $1000. or 3 mos. for $2750 403-986-4340

Condos/ Townhouses

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NEW CONDO 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $194,900. 403-588-2550

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Manufactured Homes

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS Dbl. wide, 1248 sq. ft. 3 bdrm, 2 bath, gas fireplace, fenced yard, small shed/shop w/electricity, $85,000Margaret Comeau 403.391.3399 RE/MAX real estate central alberta

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of DUNCAN ALEXANDER ANDERSON, who died on November 1, 2014.

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file with the undersigned by January 6, 2014, and provide details of your claim with: BRIAN S. MACNAIRN Barrister & Solicitor 201, 5008 Ross Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y3 Solicitor For The Personal Representative Solicitor’s File: 01-0034-12 If you do not file by the date above, the Estate property can be lawfully distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

2001 FORD 4x4 S/C F150 205,000 kms, very good cond., never abused $4100 403-887-8717 1995 MAZDA B3000 Truck.

174,000 km. New battery, winter tires.

Call 403-343-2043

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Misc.

Automotive

5240

$crap Vehicle Disposal $ervice 403-302-1848

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the REVERSE is also true

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Handyman Services

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CORNET (Trumpet) F.E.OLDS & Son, made in Los Angeles, $89.

403-877-0825

Tenders

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

1730

3 DISC. CD stereo w/ 6 speakers. $140.

403-782-3847 PS1 w/6 games, $50.; 403-782-3847 X BOX w/5 games $40.

403-782-3847

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rentals

VINTAGE record storage footstool, beige, good cond. $25 403-314-9603

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres, Close Root Close, Ralston Cres. $327.00/mo.

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Escorts

Stereos TV's, VCRs

Musical Instruments

Johnstone Crossing Jenner Cres. & Judd Cl.

Vista Village

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2190

(Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

MORRISROE AREA

3190

Mobile Lot

DINING ROOM SET with 4 PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Homestead Firewood chairs & leaf, good shape.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., $175 obo.

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Syrian rebels push forward U.S.-BACKED, AL-QAIDA AIDED MILITANTS MAKING BIG GAINS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Syrian rebels backed by the United States are making their biggest gains yet south of the capital Damascus, capturing a string of towns from government forces and aiming to carve out a swath of territory leading to the doorstep of President Bashar Assad’s seat of power.

The advances appear to be a rare visible success story from efforts by the U.S. and its allies to train and arm moderate rebel fighters.

The rebel forces are believed to include fighters who graduated from a nearly 2-year-old CIA training program based in Syria’s southern neighbour Jordan. The group known as the Friends of Syria, including Jordan, France the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, are backing the rebels with money and weapons, said Gen. Ibrahim Jbawi, the spokesman for the Free Syrian Army’s southern front.

The gains are a contrast to northern Syria, where U.S.-backed rebels are collapsing in the face of an assault

by Islamic militants. Notably, in the south, the rebels are working together with fighters from al-Qaida’s Syria branch, whose battle-hardened militants have helped them gain the momentum against government forces.

The co-operation points to the difficulty in American efforts to build up “moderate” factions while isolating extremists.

“The goal is to reach the capital ... because there is no way to bring down the regime without reaching Damascus,” said Ahmad al-Masalmeh, an opposition activist in Daraa.

But few are under the illusion that the offensive in the south can loosen Assad’s grip on power in the near future. The Syrian leader has benefited from the U.S.-led coalition’s war against the Islamic State group, which has had the side effect of freeing up Assad’s forces to focus on more moderate rebels elsewhere in the country.

Government forces have seized several key areas around the capital.

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In this March 18, 2013, file image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, free Syrian Army fighters fire at Syrian army soldiers during a fierce firefight in Daraa al-Balad, Syria. Syrian rebels backed by the United States are making their biggest gains yet south of the capital Damascus, capturing a string of towns from government forces and aiming to carve out a swath of territory leading to the doorstep of President Bashar Assad’s seat of power.

Jbawi said the international support for the assault “is not enough to let the rebels win the battle militarily. They are backing (us) to pressure Bashar Assad’s regime to bring him to the negotiating table.”

The Islamic State group’s onslaught in Syria and Iraq has given greater urgency to international efforts to find some sort of solution for Syria’s conflict, which has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced millions.

Previous attempts and two rounds of peace talks in Switzerland earlier this year failed to make any progress as each side remained convinced it could

win the war militarily.

The UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has now proposed local ceasefires starting with the northern city of Aleppo as a building block for a wider solution - an idea that Assad has said is “worth studying.”

Speaking by telephone, Jbawi said 54 rebel factions consisting of 30,000 fighters are taking part in the battles in southern Syria. Activists say that Jordan is also facilitating the rebels’ push by arming some rebels and allowing them to cross freely to and from the country.

The rebel offensive gained momen-

tum two months ago, leading to the capture of much of the Quneitra region bordering Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, as well as large areas in the southern province of Daraa on the border with Jordan.

These included the town of Nawa and the Harra hill, a strategic hill where Syrian troops had stationed monitoring equipment because of its proximity to Israeli army positions in the Golan. The hill, one of the highest in Daraa province, also overlooks a main road that rebels use.

More recently, the fighting has been concentrated in and around the contested village of Sheikh Maskeen and the nearby Brigade 82 base, one of the main government units in the province. If the rebels capture the village and the base they will be then able to threaten the Damascus-Daraa highway, a main lifeline for government forces.

On Friday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the government carried out some 60 air raids on areas in Daraa province, many of them on Sheikh Maskeen and nearby areas. The group, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria, said the air raids killed at least nine people and wounded others.

The rebel offensive could eventually link opposition fighters’ positions in Daraa and Quneitra with Damascus’ rebel-held Ghouta suburbs.

“The military objective is to secure lines of communication and to put pressure on the capital,” said Faysal Itani, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council.

However, despite the rebel advance, Assad’s forces remain strong in the area, holding bases in critical locations that the rebels will find difficult to capture, he said.

Daraa-based activist Ibrahim Hariri said that while government forces collapsed in some parts of the province, they still hold much of the city of Daraa and control the Daraa-Damascus highway, “the spine of the province.”

“The regime always has a very big force in Daraa because it is close to the front with Israel,” Hariri said.

Pope calls for Muslim opposition to Islamic State

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANKARA, Turkey — Pope Francis urged Muslim leaders to condemn the “barbaric violence” being committed in Islam’s name against religious minorities in Iraq and Syria as he arrived in neighbouring Turkey Friday for a delicate visit aimed at improving interfaith ties.

Francis sought to offer a balanced message as he met with Turkish political and religious officials at the start of his second trip to the Middle East this year. He reaffirmed that military force was justified to halt the Islamic State group’s advance, and called for greater dialogue between Christians, Muslims and people of all faiths to end fundamentalism.

“As religious leaders, we are obliged to denounce all violations against human dignity and human rights,” Francis told Mehmet Gormez, Turkey’s top cleric and other religious officials gathered at the governmentrun Religious Affairs Directorate. “As such, any violence which seeks religious justification warrants the strongest condemnation because the omnipotent is the God of life and peace.”

Francis condemned the “barbaric violence” by IS against Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities and the destruction of their places of worship.

The Vatican has voiced particular concern about the expulsion of Christians from communities that have had a Christian presence for 2,000 years and has demanded that they be allowed to return home in safety once the conflict settles.

Francis’ three-day visit to the Muslim nation comes at a sensitive moment for Turkey, as it struggles to cope with 1.6 million refugees fleeing the IS advance in Syria and weighs how to respond to U.S. calls to get more engaged with the international coalition fighting the extremists.

Turkey has accused the group of casting a shadow over Islam and has said Muslim countries have a duty to stand up against its radical views. But Turkey is still negotiating with the United States over helping the coali-

tion, pressing for a safe haven and a no-fly zone along the Syrian border with Turkey and demanding the coalition go after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.

Turkey has long been accused of turning a blind eye to IS fighters entering Syria from its territory in the hope that it would hasten Assad’s downfall — charges it denies.

“Those who veer away from the message of Islam — which is a call for peace — and spread violence and savagery are in a state of rebellion against Allah no matter what they call themselves,” Gormez told the pope in stressing Turkey’s opposition to the fundamentalists.

He and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan both complained about rising Islamophobia in the West, with Erdogan saying prejudices against Muslims were helping fuel radical Islamic groups like the IS in the Middle East and Boko Haram in Africa.

“Those who feel defeated, wronged, oppressed and abandoned ... can become open to being exploited by terror organizations,” Erdogan said.

Erdogan said he hoped Francis’ visit would strengthen ties between Christians and Muslims. But the pope’s visit was met largely with indifference among Turkey’s people, 99 per cent of whom are Muslim.

“I don’t know what a Catholic leader is doing in a Muslim country,” said Akay Incebacak, an Istanbul resident ahead of Friday prayers at the Sisli Mosque. “We need to discuss whether our religious leaders are welcome or met with that much respect abroad.”

The pope was greeted at Ankara’s Esenboga Airport by a line of Turkish dignitaries before heading to the mausoleum of the Turkish republic’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, where he laid a wreath.

“My wish is that Turkey, which is a natural bridge between the two continents, is not just a point of intersection, but at the same time a point where men and women belonging to all cultures, ethnicity and religion live together in dialogue,” Francis wrote in a guest book at the mausoleum.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said it was clear Fran-

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In this photo made available by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Office, Pope Francis, left, and head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Mehmet Gormez speak during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Under heavy security measures Pope Francis arrived in Turkey for a three-day visit. cis “was not exactly in his milieu” in carrying out all the protocol required of him by his Turkish hosts, paying his respects at the mausoleum, inspecting the turquoise-uniformed honour guard and being received at Erdogan’s enormous and controversial $620 million new palace, which environmentalists and architects have opposed. Lombardi said it was a more excessive protocol than Francis was used to, but that he did it out of respect for his hosts.

Beyond the geopolitical issues, the three-day visit will give Francis a chance to reach out to Turkey’s tiny Christian community — less than 1 per cent of Turks are Catholic — and visit with the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. Francis will tour two of Istanbul’s most impressive sites, the Haghia Sofia - the Byzantine church-turned-mosque that is now a museum - and the nearby Sultan Ahmet mosque, Turkey’s most important place of Muslim worship.

The Vatican’s plans call for him to pause in the mosque for a moment of “reflection.”

The Vatican added a speech to Francis’ itinerary Sunday at an event in which some Syrian refugees are expected to attend. The absence of any meeting with refugees had raised eyebrows given that Francis had met with refugees in Jordan and in the Palestinian territories and has made welcoming refugees a major thrust of his papacy.

In his opening remarks to Erdogan, Francis praised Turkey’s welcome of refugees and said the international community had the “moral obligation” to help Ankara provide for them.

Security was tight: Turkish media reports said some 2,700 police officers would be on duty during the Ankara leg of the trip alone, and that a court had issued an order allowing police to stop and search cars and carry out random identity checks on people along routes used by the pope.

Overdose deaths in Venezuelan prison grows to 35

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — Pressure is building on Venezuela’s government to fully investigate a rising number of deaths at an overcrowded prison, with human rights activists questioning authorities’ claim of a mass drug overdose by dozens of inmates who stormed an infirmary.

After days of conflicting reports from the government and family members, the depth of the tragedy at David Viloria prison in western Venezuela became clearer Friday when authorities confirmed that 35 inmates had died and said 20 of an additional 100 still being treated for intoxication were in comas.

The government has said the troubles at the prison began Monday with a hunger strike for better conditions. A group of violent inmates raided the prison infirmary and then guzzled down a deadly mix of pure alcohol with drugs used to treat diabetes, epilepsy and high blood pressure, officials say.

William Ojeda of the ruling socialist party said Friday after visiting the jail that many of the intoxicated inmates were drug users suffering from with-

drawal symptoms due to the prison’s strict regimen of abstinence.

Prisoner rights activists have been skeptical of the official version.

They say that as deplorable as Venezuela’s jails are no inmates would voluntarily end their lives or poison themselves as a form of protest.

The lack of information and access to the prison has added to the mystery, with family members wondering whether loved ones could have been poisoned to restore order.

“Counting the deaths now requires going to the morgue” because government information is so incomplete, said Ligia Bolivar, a human rights expert at Andres Bello Catholic University in Caracas.

President Nicolas Maduro has yet to comment on the incident in frequent television appearances this week even as calls for a thorough investigation have come from Roman Catholic Church leaders in Venezuela and from the United Nations human rights agency.

On Thursday, police arrested the jail’s warden, Julio Cesar Perez, who is expected to be charged in connection with the deaths.

The government says the situation at the prison is

under control after it called in the National Guard and transferred hundreds of inmates to other facilities.

All prisoners’ rights are being respected, said Ojeda, who is president of a congressional committee that oversees the penitentiary system.

Venezuela’s prisons are among the world’s most violent.

Overall, the country’s 32 correction facilities are the fifth most-crowded in the world, housing almost three times their intended capacity, according to the London-based International Centre for Prison Studies. The prison population has doubled since 2008 as a result of rampant crime and stiffer mandatory sentences.

The David Viloria prison is named for a guard who was one of 58 people killed at the facility last year during the second-deadliest prison riot in Venezuela’s history. The facility, previously called La Uribana, was built to hold no more than 850 inmates but was believed to be holding around 3,000 when the latest disturbances broke out Last year, 506 inmates died in the country’s jails, according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons, a nongovernmental watchdog group.

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Dear Harlan; People tell me How long is a good amount of that I’m a nice guy. time to wait before making my I have good intentions, but I do move? — Moving In not want to make women uncomDear Moving In; Back off. He fortable. How do you hit on a girl can pop back in at any second. during the day without making it Right now, her world is upawkward, if you don’t side down. She might look like Fabio? — Not feel unsure, undesirFabio able, confused, lost, Dear Not Fabio; Acangry and hurt. She cording to a new study, might need a little love 75 per cent of women to cover the hurt, but prefer a man with a you don’t want to be belly, as opposed to a her Mand-Aid (Get it? man with a six-pack.

“Man” plus Aid”?).

You and I are hot. As For all you know, for hitting on women — she might decide that no hitting. Instead, enshe wants to get back gage them. together with her ex in In case you haven’t a few weeks. Give her been listening, women time to breathe. Let are upset with men. her get her footing. You HARLAN Women have a long want to make sure that COHEN history of being objecshe’s in the right place tified, controlled and and in the right frame assaulted. Therefore, of mind. women are on the deBe there for her as fensive. a friend who will want more in You can be named “World’s the future. Offer a shoulder to cry Most Harmless Man” by Time on, and be a good friend to lean Magazine (there is no such award), on. Once she’s in a better place, and a women who doesn’t know bring up the idea of asking her on you might assume you are going to a date. Ask her if it’s too soon. do her harm. If a quarter of your Make it clear that you want to gender had been assaulted, you’d respect her space. Remind her be on the defensive, too. that you respect her friendship As a man, you have to prove and that that’s the most important that you are safe — because un- thing. safe is the assumption. So, to adAs for time, there isn’t an exact dress your question, don’t hit on frame of time; it’s more about her anyone. frame of mind.

Think of it as discovering Dear Harlan; My girlfriend and whether a woman is as interest- I have been thinking of having a ing as she is attractive (think it, threesome. We haven’t done anydon’t say it). Do things with wom- thing like this before. How would en where you can play, pray and you approach someone else to be sweat as part of a group. Become in a threesome with your signififamiliar. cant other? — Seeking Adventure Should you approach a woman Dear Seeking Adventure; I who’s unfamiliar, make it clear wouldn’t approach someone. I who you are and what you want. couldn’t handle a threesome.

Part-time jobs, volunteering and The idea is interesting, but fundraising always give you some- the reality freaks me out. I would thing to talk about. Make the con- be too worried that it would ruin versation about something other something. What if my wife liked than physical appearance. Trust it more than I did? What if I liked that a woman will be guarded, the experience too much? What but expect it. Give her a chance to if the other person was more atknow that you’re safe, have good tractive? What if I said or did the intentions and have a belly. wrong thing before during or afDear Harlan; I’m a man with a ter? There’s too much about it female friend whom I really con- that makes me neurotic (that’s just nected with at the end of the sum- me). mer. We never got together. She It’s enough work to be a funchad a boyfriend before I was able tional, healthy couple — the idea to ask her out, so I tried to keep of adding another person into the my distance. Her relationship mix is drama I don’t need. But if ended yesterday. this is what you want, make sure

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you think it through. Don’t make it an impulse decision. Make sure you and your partner are comfortable with what happens before, during and after.

You need to be sure you find the right person. You need to make sure it happens in the right place (you might not want to do it at home). You need to make sure everyone is clean (no sexually transmitted diseases). You need to discuss what happens after (is this a one-time deal?).

Then there is the person you bring into the relationship — he or she needs to know the rules and boundaries.

Dear Harlan; I’m a woman in a relationship with a man who’s my best friend. I’m starting to lose my sexual attraction to him. I don’t know how to bring this up.

Should I tell him? What should I do? — Losing It Dear Losing It; He’s not responsible for your sexual attraction.

Unless there’s something he’s said or done since you’ve started dating, don’t blame him.

Besides, telling him isn’t going to get him to magically turn on the sex appeal. If you don’t know why this is happening, there’s not much for him to do.

First, talk to your doctor and explain your symptoms. Rule out any physical issues. If that doesn’t help, move on to the emotional side of things. Talk to a therapist and figure out if there’s something emotional holding you back. When you’re comfortable, talk to your boyfriend about this issue, but don’t make it about him — make it about you. The answer might be as simple as being more honest in bed. It could be showing him what to do and how to do it.

You might want to spice things up. If you never really had a strong sexual attraction to him and still don’t, you might be better off being friends instead of lovers.

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