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‘God forsaken rat poison’ DRUGS A TERRIBLE PLAGUE ON THE COMMUNITY, SAYS RED DEER JUDGE

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF The end users of cocaine are the people most directly responsible for the plague it inflicts upon the community, says a Red Deer judge.

Judge Jim Mitchell took the unusual step in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday of flatly rejecting a joint sentencing submission proposed by the Crown

and defence counsel. “I am acting in the community’s interest in rejecting this joint submission,� Mitchell said in addressing a proposal by Crown prosecutor Dave Inglis and defence counsel Kevin Sproule.

They had recommended an elevated fine for dairy worker Jed Richard Moore, 29, who had pleaded guilty to simple possession of cocaine, simple possession of marijuana and driving without being able to produce a licence.

Glendale students pay it forward

Brought before the court on Tuesday morning, Moore was ordered into custody while his lawyer and the Crown prepared reasons why he should not be jailed. “People like you must experience prison,� Mitchell said to Moore. “It’s the only way to deter this terrible plague on our community.�

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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Doing their part in the season of giving, a class of Grade 7s came up with creative and kind ways to lend a hand, or a cup of coffee.

After watching the trailer for the 2000 movie Pay it Forward, about a goodwill movement started by a boy, Grade 7 students at Glendale Middle school were asked to find a way to make a difference to somebody else. “We let them use their imagination and see what they came up with,� said Kaylene Hubley, a thirdyear Red Deer College middle years education program student.

Hubley has been working on her practicum at Glendale Middle School in Red Deer. She and Nicole Vikse, a fellow practicum student, have been working under two teacher mentors at the school — Heather Russell and Susan Douglas. Together they developed the pay-it-forward inspired project.

The Grade 7 class that was assigned the project has 21 students. Working in teams, they decided on their own to pay it forward in the school or in the community.

One pair of girls bought Tim Hortons coffee and hot chocolate, and some mittens. “They stood outside by Sobeys and gave the coffee and mittens to people who needed them,� said Hubley. “The girls were so excited to tell us about it. One of them got her parents and family involved, her younger brother handed out hot chocolate, her Dad pitched in and her Mom drove them around.�

Other examples include a couple of boys raising awareness about leukemia around the school; girls who baked cookies and handed them our at Loaves and Fishes; and two girls who started a homework club in the school. “They can work with kindergarten to Grade 3 students to help out with homework,� said Hubley. “Their first day was last Wednesday and they had 22 kids show up for the two of them. “They were a little overwhelmed.�

A pair of boys is assembling a care package of hygiene products to help out people who don’t have access to them, specifically the homeless. “When we explained the activity, lots of the students had the idea ‘Why do we have to help people we don’t even know,’ � said Hubley. “It has been interesting to see them change and buy into this.�

The two practicum students and their teacher mentors wanted to take an unconventional approach.

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Native friendship centre to launch fundraising campaign in ’15

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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The Red Deer Native Friendship Centre will kick off a capital fundraising campaign next year to raise an estimated $4 million to build a cultural community hub.

Tanya Schur, executive director of the friendship centre, said they also plan to ask for help from the City of Red Deer, and the provincial and federal governments.

The planned cultural community centre, to be called Asooahum Centre, will be east of Lions Campground on Riverside Drive.

Schur said the centre would be open to all residents and groups in the city, not just the Aboriginal community.

The Aboriginal community wants a cultural gath-

ering place for all nations to practise Aboriginal culture and to help Aboriginal people succeed.

Schur said the cultural centre would also enrich Red Deer as a tourist destination and will promote Aboriginal cultures including Cree, Blackfoot and MĂŠtis.

Schur said the cultural centre may meet the needs of some cultural or arts groups, individuals and business groups in the city.

The centre will be built next to the eight-plexes with 32 affordable housing units. Ground clearing is already underway for the $4.5-million housing project.

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Innisfail pharmacist back in court in January to announce intentions An Innisfail pharmacist accused of skimming ingredients from prescription painkillers returns to court in January to announce her intentions.

Karen Nevett, 35, was arrested by RCMP investigating the theft of drugs and creation of false entries into the computer at a Shopper’s Drug Mart store in Innisfail.

Police allege that Nevett removed a portion of the drug from each of an estimated 14,000 Dilaudid capsules over a period of two years. Investigators believe other drugs were also affected, including offthe-shelf remedies.

Nevett was scheduled to enter her election or plea in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday, represented by defence counsel Will Willms.

Willms advised the court, however, that his client has been taking treatment and he was not yet prepared to take action on the charges against her.

He and his client are due back in court on Jan. 9.

Alberta still looking at options for how to control wild horse population EDMONTON — Alberta Environment is looking at options to manage the province’s wild horses that include signing an agreement with a group trying to protect the animals.

Environment spokesman Duncan MacDonnell says the five-year agreement with the Wild Horses of Alberta Society came into effect Nov. 1.

It calls for the society to oversee a contraceptive vaccine program for mares to try to lower the wild herd population around Sundre.

It also allows the society to adopt out horses and foals that have been captured, abandoned or injured.

The projects are being funded entirely by the wild horses group, which must be able to document the results.

MacDonnell says the province will still be involved in controlling much of the population.

“We haven’t handed off all management responsibility for feral horses,” MacDonnell said Tuesday.

“We are considering other management activities on the remainder of that equine zone and the remaining five zones of the designated horse capture area.”

A roundup earlier this year upset animal rights activists, but others said the horses compete for grass with cattle and wild animals such as elk.

MacDonnell said the government is considering all its options and should have a better idea of its plan for next year by the middle of December.

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A couple embraces as mourners gather at the Sydney Cricket Ground to watch the funeral for cricketer Phillip Hughes in Sydney, Wednesday. The funeral for Hughes turned into a celebration of his life on Wednesday despite the grief and sorrow still evident from his death. Hughes died last Thursday, two days after he was hit in the head during a domestic cricket match when his score was 63, not out.

Plan identifies 180 potential projects for hospitals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services has released the first phase of its plan to deal with healthcare facilities in the Edmonton area over the next 15 years.

But critics say the documents show the system is already overwhelmed.

The agency expects the population of the area to grow by 33 per cent by 2030 and the number of seniors is expected to more than double, growing 121 per cent, during that time.

Chief health operations officer Deb Gordon says 180 potential projects were identified in the plan. supervision of a probation officer. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Back in court after lunch, having heard Sproule argue against a jail sentence, Mitchell said the few hours Moore had spend in custody may have been enough for him and his friends to get the message that he hopes to convey.

“This court is not friendly to cocaine, or any other hard drug. The damage cocaine does to our community is immeasurable.”

Mitchell said he does not have any precise data, but has 39 years of experience in criminal law including 15 years on the bench.

Hardly a day goes by that the court does not see people suffering from the affects of “cocaine, crystal meth, heroin, ecstasy or some other God forsaken rat poison,” said Mitchell.

He accepted Sproule’s argument that Moore had saved considerable expense to the state by entering an early guilty plea in a case that the Crown may not have been able to prove.

Noting Moore’s previous convictions for impaired driving and simple possession, Mitchell offered a sentence that he said should help the man with his substance abuse issues.

He suspended sentence, placing Moore on probation for 15 months, including an order that he take assessment, treatment and counselling under the

“A lot of them were unsure of what they could do and they said ‘We don’t have money, we’re only in Grade 7. What can we do?’ ” said Hubley.

“A lot of them have realized it’s cold outside and there are people who live outside, who don’t have homes, so there are things we can do for them.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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CAMPAIGN: Will apply for grants Schur said the cultural centre will be like the Golden Circle seniors centre, with programming like the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Schur said the centre will be an integral part of the new community on Riverside Drive. Residents will be able to book space for everything from a business meeting to an anniversary party.

She said they will apply for heritage and cultural grants at both the provincial and federal levels, in addition to the capital fundraising campaign.

The housing component of the project is well un-

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Crews began servicing the site in November, with plans to finish over the winter. Construction is expected to begin in May. In early October, volunteers transplanted about 200 trees to another part of the site before the servicing work began. Schur said the society has worked hard to preserve as much of the wooded area as possible. Members of the Community Action Group for the Environment (CAGE), who planted trees on the site about 10 years ago, helped move the trees.

Some of the trees that had to be removed will be used to make furniture for the centre, or to be sold at fundraising auctions. Some may be sold as firewood.

An official ground-breaking ceremony for the housing project is slated for May. Families could move in as early as next December.

Schur said a third party will manage the housing units. The society is looking at the Lethbridge Aboriginal Housing Authority, which manages 79 housing units, as a model.

Schur said the price on the site servicing was much higher than expected and that took money out of the project.

Schur said servicing on the proposed Clearview site cost an estimated at $900,000 compared to the $1.7 million it cost to service the area on Riverside Drive that was eventually chosen.

The city has been working with the society since 2012 to find a location for the housing/cultural development. A site was initially earmarked in Clearview Ridge but it was scrapped after backlash from the community. The Riverside Drive site was selected after a task force looked at 20 sites in the city. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Work is already underway on some, including expanding the neonatal intensive care unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, adding an acute stroke unit at the University of Alberta.

Medical director for northern Alberta, Dr. David Mador, says officials know there are a long list of problems with some of the older buildings, such as the Misericordia Hospital.

“That’s not necessarily a cause for alarm,” he said “These are large complex facilities that require ongoing maintenance and investment. And we are maintaining and investing in those sites.”

Gordon likened the situation to any home.

“As a building ages, it does have infrastructure issues,” she said.

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Prentice, Couillard talk Energy East TRANSCANADA URGED TO ABANDON PLANS FOR PORT TERMINAL IN BELUGA AREA

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Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard responds to reporters questions as Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, left, looks on following a meeting, at the legislature in Quebec City, Tuesday. the country,” he said. “It’s important for economic growth in Alberta and for the entire country.”

Late last month, Couillard and Wynne released a list of conditions for the pipeline to get the green light. They include emergency response measures, First Nation consultations and consideration of the impact on greenhouse gas emissions.

Prentice said he understands Quebec’s various concerns.

“We share the same objective,” said Prentice, who was elected in September.

“We want to see infrastructure in this country constructed in a safe way, in an environmentally responsible way. I think any province or proponent involved in the energy business has to be held to the highest possible standards.”

On Monday, Prentice used a speech to a Vancouver business crowd to urge the country to get behind several controversial pipeline projects linked to Alberta’s oilsands, warning that all Canadians will “feel the pain” if they aren’t approved and built soon.

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QUEBEC — TransCanada Corp. should abandon its plan to build an oil terminal in an area in eastern Quebec where belugas have been listed as an endangered species, Premier Philippe Couillard said Tuesday.

A federal government wildlife committee recently concluded that their numbers near Cacouna have dwindled to 1,000 from a high of 10,000.

That information will make the project harder for TransCanada (TSX:TRP) to sell the Energy East project at environmental hearings in Quebec and with the National Energy Board, Couillard told a joint news conference with his Alberta counterpart, Jim Prentice.

“It’s not my role to speak for the promoter or to answer for them but it strikes me it would be difficult to continue to see a port terminal at that site with that information,” he said.

“Whether they want to choose an alternative site for the port is for them to decide but it certainly adds to the level of difficulty in view of the process that is going to start soon.”

The Calgary-based company wants the terminal in Cacouna as part of its 4,600-kilometre pipeline, which would carry 1.1 million barrels per day of oilsands crude from Alberta to refineries in Quebec and New Brunswick.

On Monday, it announced it would halt all work on the terminal in response to concerns the project could hurt the beluga habitat.

TransCanada spokesman Tim Duboyce said the company will “review all viable options” after it analyzes the environmental report from the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.

Prentice, who is on a cross-country tour and will meet with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne on Wednesday, said his preferred option is for a terminal on the St. Lawrence.

“Clearly it’s very difficult if the belugas, as an endangered species, are dependent on the Cacouna site,” he told the news conference alongside Couillard.

“I hope there will be discussions between the proponents and Premier Couillard about other alternative locations. It would seem to me that the project will be stronger as a piece of nation-building infrastructure if there is a port facility in the province of Quebec.”

Prentice reiterated the financial benefits he believes Energy East would bring.

“It’s a very important project for the future of

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Prentice’s reason to panic IF THE PIPELINES AREN’T BUILT, ALBERTA WILL STAGNATE Let’s face it, the Keystone and Northern Gateway pipeline routes are not likely to go ahead soon — if ever. Energy East seems more promising, but there are still a lot of hoops to jump through before any of our province’s bitumen begins to flow through it — if ever.

In short, Alberta Premier Jim Prentice has good reason to panic.

In the coming months and years, we’re going to see the full impact of decades of government mismanagement of our energy reGREG sources, a virNEIMAN tual giveaway of one of the world’s biggest buried pots of money.

People are starting to ask: how can a jurisdiction producing more than 2.5 million barrels of bitumen a day not balance its rather modest provincial budget?

We already have the lowest spending per capita on government services in the nation. We have the second-lowest number of government employees per capita in the nation. We’re middle of the pack for total per capita spending.

Alberta is not a profligate spender of its revenue. The Alberta budget is in deficit because we just don’t claim the revenue that would rightfully be due in any other jurisdiction in the world.

Norway produces 40 per cent less oil than we do. But they post annual budget surpluses of about $44 billion a year, while spending way more on government services per capita than we do. Norway has a sovereign wealth trust fund worth over $650 billion (to be over a trillion dollars in five years), which currently spins about $25 billion a year in interest.

The same global energy companies at work in Alberta are at work in Norway. In Norway, they’re perfectly OK paying 70 per cent of their profits in royalties to the government.

In Alberta, those same companies begrudge us 10 per cent of the total market value of oil, gas and oilsands production. And if anyone talks about raising our royalties, it’s like somebody suggested an armed insurrection.

Oil rich Alberta? Not for all Albertans.

If you want a picture of how unequally energy wealth accrues in Alberta, consider that we have the high-

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est median income in Canada. Something to be proud of, right? But of the province’s total wealth, about six per cent is shared by Albertans earning less than the 50th percentile of income.

That’s half of all wage-earners.

Oil rich Alberta? Not so much for taxpayers, either. Alberta gets more revenue from selling lottery tickets and licensing slot machines than we do from developing our vast energy resources.

Without those pipelines, we’re still exporting a vast amount of oil and bitumen every day. Why isn’t Alberta just sitting back and posting surpluses every year on the royalties from that?

Because Alberta doesn’t prosper from oil production in the same way it prospers from investment in everincreasing capacity to export more.

We’re only rich when the oilpatch grows.

And therein lies the reason for Prentice to panic. Without those pipelines, our capacity to grow will soon reach its limit. If those oilsands plants aren’t growing, Albertans don’t get

much from them.

Royalties from our current production should be more than sufficient to buffer boom-and-bust cycles of global prices, considering how little (comparatively) our government spends.

In 2012 (when prices were quite a bit higher), total oilsands revenue was $49 billion. The province got $3.7 billion in royalties.

But $27.2 billion was spent building capacity to produce more bitumen for export. That’s the wages that drive up our median incomes, home values and our feeling of wealth.

That’s the figure Prentice fears may drop. But it has to drop someday. Albertans know this in their bones; no boom ever lasts. Eventually, expansion will stop completely, because there’s either no place left to expand and/or we can’t export the product anyway.

Even so, we’ll still be producing lots of oil, gas and bitumen. Every day. Taxpayers — the supposed owners of the resource — just won’t see very much revenue from it.

When Peter Lougheed was premier,

the government’s share of the total value of oil, gas and oilsands was 40 per cent. Pretty low, by world standards.

That’s how the Alberta Heritage Fund got started. By today, successive Conservative governments have cut our share to 10 per cent. That’s why the Heritage Fund is a global joke.

Here’s what the Parkland Institute reported in 2012: “The Alberta government will forego some $55 billion in potential revenue over the next three years as a result of overly-generous royalty cuts, and the government’s failure to meet even the modest goals set by the previous administration.”

Without new pipelines and continuous growth in the oilpatch, Albertans will feel in their own pockets how much has been given away by our government.

It’s quite possible those pipelines aren’t going to happen. That’s why Jim Prentice has reason to panic.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

Drifting toward civil war in Nigeria There’s going to be an election in Nigeria in midFebruary, and the weird thing is that it’s not going to be all about Boko Haram. The Islamist terrorists are now killing people at the rate of at least 500 a month — two 9/11s a year, in a country with half the population of the United States — but most Nigerians seem to regard Boko Haram as just one more problem, and a fairly local one at that.

Up in the three northeastern provinces of the country, where Boko Haram has now declared that it is setting up an Islamic “Caliphate” on the model of ISIL’s “Islamic State” in Iraq and Syria, they do care about terrorism. They are also now starting to worry about it more in the rest of the north, where Boko Haram attacked the central mosque in Kano, the biggest northern city, on Friday, and killed at GWYNNE least 100 people.

DYER But in the rest of the country, the terrorist threat has not really risen to the top of the political agenda. The forthcoming election will not focus on the stunning incompetence and sheer inertia of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government in the face of this threat.

Boko Haram’s rise to prominence has taken place entirely on Jonathan’s watch, and at no time has he shown much interest in fighting it. He spoke out strongly when Boko Haram attacked targets in the capital, Abuja, but did nothing. For the rest, he left the problem to the army and to his northern allies, the feudal emirs who still dominate politics there.

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These traditional rulers have managed to hang onto their power because the north’s population is more illiterate and far poorer than that of the southern states. In order to justify their wealth and political privilege, the emirs have always stressed their traditional religious roles. So when reformers began to criticize them from a radical Islamic standpoint in the 1990s, they tried to steal the radicals’ thunder by bringing in Sharia law right across the north.

That didn’t placate the growing Islamist opposition to the rule of the emirs. The opposition turned violent in 2009, with Boko Haram’s first attacks, and despite its extreme cruelty it enjoys some support across the north among both pious Muslims and the downtrodden. And the army, as usual, did nothing useful.

Friday’s attack on the Kano central mosque showed all these cross-currents vividly. The building is on the main square right next door to the palace of the emir of Kano, Mohammed Sanusi II, who frequently preaches in the mosque. Naturally, he always exhorts the populace to resist Boko Haram.

But the emir also urges people not to depend on the army, because it is useless. They should organize to defend themselves, for the soldiers cannot be trusted to protect them. “If people flee the villages (because the army hasn’t come),” he said, “the terrorists slaughter our male children and abduct our girls to force them into slavery.”

The Nigerian army is widely accused of corruption, brutality, and even cowardice. It rarely takes the fight to Boko Haram directly, but it often fires on the crowds who gather after terrorist attacks to protest at the government’s failure to protect them. Nigerian army troops did that again outside the Kano central mosque last week, and nobody even bothered to express their outrage. Nobody was surprised.

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This is how almost all of Borno state except the capital, Maiduguri, has slipped out of government control. So have large parts of neighbouring Yobe and Adamawa states, and Maiduguri itself, a city of two million, may fall before the election.

In these circumstances, you would expect the federal government, and especially President Goodluck Jonathan, to be under constant attack for having failed to act decisively against Boko Haram, but nothing of the sort.

When the four biggest opposition parties united two years ago to form the All Progressives Congress (APC), they gave Jonathan’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) its first serious opposition since democracy was established in 1999. But the APC’s charms have faded as the election nears. It attracted lots of prominent defectors from the PDP at first, but those new recruits brought their old reputation for corruption with them.

It is this new struggle for power at the centre, not the ugly and alarming developments in the far northeast, that monopolizes the attention of the political class, for the outcome of the February election matters greatly for them.

It will decide who gets their snouts in the trough for the next four years.

Voters’ expectation are so low that they are not even shocked by the quite plausible accusation that Jonathan has failed to fight hard against Boko Haram because the three northeastern states would probably vote against the PDP in the next election.

Whereas if there is enough chaos in the northeast, the election will be cancelled in those states.

And so the band plays on, as Nigeria drifts towards civil war and disintegration.

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E. coli prompts ground beef recall

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Federal health officials are recalling packages of ground beef produced by food giant Cargill due to concerns about E. coli.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Tuesday there have been no reported illnesses related to the recalled products, but advised people to throw out or return packages to the store where they were bought.

The meat carries the Your Fresh Market brand name and was sold at Walmart stores in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

The extra lean ground beef sirloin, extra lean ground beef, medium ground beef and lean ground beef was sold in 475-gram, 900-gram and 1.6-kilogram packages. All carry a best-before date of either Nov. 28 or 29.

Cargill spokeswoman Connie Tamoto said E. coli 0157 was found in a random sample of ground beef that had been packaged at a Calgary caseready facility on Nov. 19. She did not

know which slaughterhouse the beef came from.

Winnipeg-based Cargill Meat Solutions has two processing plants in Canada: one in High River, Alta., and the other in Guelph, Ont. “Obviously food safety is critical to us,� said Tamoto. “We’re doing everything we can to work with the CFIA and Health Canada to make sure they have everything they need as they continue to investigate the situation.�

She said the recall involves about 14,000 kilograms, or 14 tonnes, of ground beef.

The largest beef recall in Canadian history involved 4,000 tonnes of beef some 1,800 products - that were pulled from the North American market in 2012. XL Foods Inc. operated the meatpacking plant in Brooks, Alta., that was linked to the E. coli 0157 outbreak.

Eighteen people fell ill.

The CFIA warns that food contaminated with E. coli O157 may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, mild to severe abdominal cramps and watery to bloody diarrhea.

Prentice defends gay youth bill as balanced

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice faced dissension from within his own ranks Tuesday over a controversial bill critics say erodes free speech and free assembly for gay youth.

Prentice said despite the concerns the bill is a strong and balanced piece of legislation. “Rights are never absolute,� Prentice told reporters in a conference call from Quebec City. “This provides for a balancing of three important rights in our society: sexual orientation, parental rights, and the important responsibilities of schools boards. “It will not make everyone happy, I recognize that. But I think it is the right balance for Alberta.�

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De Bever acknowledges the politics of introducing a provincial sales tax would be tricky for the governing Progressive Conservatives.

Indeed, Premier Jim Prentice has said there won’t be a sales tax in Alberta.

But it’s not a foregone conclusion that there would be widespread opposition to such a move, de Bever told reporters Tuesday.

Many “thoughtful Albertans� actually do “see the dilemma of relying on a very volatile source of revenue,� said de Bever, who will depart AIMCo early next year, handing the reins to investment industry veteran Kevin Uebelein. “At some point, we have to do what every jurisdiction in the developed and even in the non-developed world has concluded: We have to diversify the sources of revenue.�

A sales tax makes sense for Alberta because so many workers in the province actually report their income taxes elsewhere, de Bever said. For instance, the province captures no revenues from the many workers from Atlantic Canada who fly in and out of the oilsands epicentre of Fort McMurray, Alta., for stints of a week or two at a time.

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but didn’t see the descent happening as rapidly as it did. Prices are off by more than one third since the summer.

Meanwhile, a return to US$100 a barrel oil, even in long run, may be wishful thinking, he said. That means the oilpatch is going to have to adapt to the new reality by lowering its costs.

De Bever said that can be achieved through new technologies, such as ones that help reduce water use or boost the efficiency of upgrading oilsands bitumen into easier-to-refine crude. “We’re one of the highest cost producers in the world and I don’t think that can continue,� he said.

Once de Bever, 66, leaves AIMCo, he said he wants to work on helping those technologies along.

Many firms are reluctant to spend on technology during good times because they don’t need it, as well as during bad times, because they’re tightening their belts. “Well, when is a good time to invest in new technology if you take that view?� he asked. “If the end-game is to position yourself for a lower oil price, there are two possibilities: either I’m wrong about oil prices and the reduction in costs is going to increase margins or I’m right about oil prices and it’s going to allow you to survive. It seems to be there’s not much downside to that scenario.�

The same goes for spending on much needed infrastructure to serve Alberta’s growing population. Now is as good a time as any to invest in roads and bridges, said de Bever. “The downtime in the industry, when projects are getting cancelled, is the time to take the productive capacity of the construction industry to fix your infrastructure.�

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The bill passed second reading Tuesday night by a 42-10 vote.

The alliances are peer-support groups that have been shown statistically to reduce bullying and lower suicide rates among gay youth.

Instead, the bill gives schools and school boards the final say, with students free to challenge those rulings in court.

Prentice said he is allowing a free vote among his caucus members.

One of those caucus members, backbench Edmonton MLA Thomas Lukaszuk, voted against the bill Tuesday. “I don’t believe in bestowing human rights on people in an incremental manner,� Lukaszuk told reporters. “Either you grant it or you don’t.�

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Let’s talks about death SENATORS SEEK TO SPUR NATIONAL DEBATE ON ASSISTED SUICIDE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Thwarted in his efforts to force the House of Commons to debate the issue of assisted suicide, Manitoba Conservative MP Stephen Fletcher has gone down the hall for some help.

Two senators — one a Conservative, the other a Liberal — are taking over Fletcher’s bid to make physician-assisted death legal under Canadian law, introducing a bill on the subject in the upper chamber.

It’s an opportunity to spark a national debate on the contentious question — and also a chance for the Senate to burnish its tarnished reputation, Fletcher told a news conference Tuesday.

“This is an opportunity in fact for the Senate to shine, to demonstrate why the Senate is there,” said Fletcher, who became a quadriplegic after a car accident in 1996.

“They are dealing with an issue that obviously most elected representatives do not want to deal with. Moreover, I think the mere fact that it’s now going to be debated in Parliament will increase public awareness, people will have this discussion with their families around the dinner table, which will prevent a lot of heartache in the future for those families.”

Conservative Sen. Nancy Ruth is introducing the bill with the support of Liberal-appointed senator Larry Campbell. Both say they believe their parties will help move it forward.

“If you know Sen. Nancy Ruth and myself, we don’t fight on hills we don’t think we can take,” Campbell said.

Ruth said her aim to have it passed

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Senator Nancy Ruth listens as Member of Parliament Steven Fletcher discusses the next step with physician-assisted death legislation during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday. through the Senate by spring and then handed over to the House of Commons.

It’s possible that the Supreme Court, which is currently studying the constitutionality of the existing ban on assisted suicide, will have weighed in on the issue by then.

But there is only so far the court will be able to go, said Dr. James Downar, who is on the advisory board for the advocacy group Dying with Dignity.

“Ultimately the Supreme Court can only strike down a bad law,” Downar said.

“It cannot write a good law, it cannot create the safeguards needed, it can’t create the oversight needed and it cannot provide the funding required to improve end of life care for all Canadians.”

The government’s reluctance to wrestle with the thorny question of assisted suicide, meanwhile, has been well documented.

“It is our government’s position that the Criminal Code provisions prohibiting assisted suicide and euthanasia are in place to protect all persons, in-

Canadian teacher goes on trial accused of child abuse

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JAKARTA, Indonesia — A Canadian teacher and a teaching assistant went on trial Tuesday in Indonesia accused of sexually abusing a kindergarten student at an international school.

Neil Bantleman, of Burlington, Ont., and Ferdinant Tjiong maintain their innocence as do fellow teachers and the principal at the Jakarta International School.

Speaking to reporters from behind bars after appearing in the South Jakarta District Court, Bantleman appeared joking and relaxed but said he wanted the truth to be told.

“It’s time for justice,” he said.

“It’s time to end corruption in this country. We need all the international help and assistance that we can get,” he added.

“By exposing the truth ... we can go back to doing what we love to do, which is teach, and we can go back to our families that we love and miss,” he said before waving goodbye to his supporters.

Around 60 teachers and parents of pupils at the school were protesting outside the court in support of the pair.

“Free the innocents. We are here for you Neil and Ferdi. We believe in you,” they shouted.

The men, who have been in custody since July, are being tried separately in closed-door sessions.

A judge read the charges out against them in Tuesday’s session. They were not required to enter a plea.

Five janitors at the school are being tried over the same allegations. A sixth died in custody.

Guy Bantleman says while his brother had hoped the charges would be dropped by now, the prospect of being able to challenge the “wild allegations” is giving his brother grounds for

optimism.

He also says Bantleman’s legal team will move to have the case thrown out.

Bantleman says it’s expected to take up to three weeks for a decision on whether his brother will head to trial, a process he says would take another three to six months.

He said while the family is concerned about whether the court process will be fair and transparent, it will at least give his brother a chance to fight back.

“While we never thought we’d get to trial, it’s getting to a point where we can confront the accusers in a court of law, we can see their alleged evidence, we can start to understand more about the allegations and ultimately refuting them and clearing Neil’s name,” Guy Bantleman said Monday.

“Having the ability to know that there is something coming up on the horizon, something short term, that will drive Neil... he needs something to cling on to and have hope about.”

Bantleman’s legal team will also try to have him transferred out of prison and into home arrest, said his brother, adding that he has been harassed by fellow inmates and is concerned for his safety.

Guy Bantleman said while consular officials are providing assistance, the family last week received a letter from the office of Lynne Yelich, junior minister responsible for consular affairs, stating Ottawa won’t pressure Indonesia to release his brother from jail.

Supporters of Bantleman and Tjiong say the victim, who was six at the time the alleged abuse occurred, was subject to suggestive questioning by inexperienced police. The abuse was alleged to have happened at a room in the school during teaching hours.

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BRIEF RCMP doctored flight logs and flew overweight, says integrity commissioner OTTAWA — The federal integrity commissioner says RCMP pilots doctored flight manifests in order to fly over-loaded aircraft, but dismissed several other serious allegations from a whistleblower for lack of evidence.

Commissioner Mario Dion says he could not establish whether the RCMP flights posed a danger to the life, health or safety of anyone because the true weight of the flights is not known.

Dion’s report remains under a legal challenge from the federal government, which wanted to quash his findings before they could be made public.

However a judge rejected the bid by the federal attorney general and Dion says his mandate includes public disclosure of wrongdoing.

Dion says several other serious allegations from a whistleblower — including that RCMP planes were flown

cluding those who are most vulnerable in our society,” Justice Minister Peter MacKay said when the Supreme Court announced it would hear the appeal.

An online poll conducted for the group in August ahead of the Supreme Court hearing found a significant majority of respondents in favour of allowing a doctor to help end a person’s life, in certain circumstances.

The bill being put forward in the Senate would impose strict guidelines on those circumstances and how a request for assistance would be approved.

Among other things, it would impose a 14-day waiting period between a request being made and a doctor carrying it out.

“This bill is fundamentally about choice,” Ruth said.

“It doesn’t coerce anybody - not a physician, not a patient, not a family member, nobody. It is simply to provide a choice, another choice for Canadians, in how they choose to end their lives.”

The national association for Canadian doctors recently backed down from its long-standing opposition to against assisted death.

In August, the Canadian Medical Association changed its official policy to say it supports the idea of physicians — within the bounds of existing laws — following their conscience when asked to provide aid in dying.

Ruth said she wants to see the CMA take that discussion even further.

“The CMA is moving and this is exciting so the Senate is a good place for them to talk,” she said.

“And senators are close enough to death to want to do this,” she added, to laughter. without valid airworthiness certificates and that pilots with lapsed credentials were scheduled to fly — could not be substantiated on the balance of probabilities.

Big spike in aboriginal women behind bars, government study finds OTTAWA — A new report says there has been a big spike in the number of aboriginal women in Canada’s prisons.

A Justice Department study found the overall number of aboriginal women behind bars in federal institutions nearly doubled between 2002 and 2012, rising 97 per cent.

By comparison, the number of aboriginal men increased by 34 per cent during that time.

That steep, decade-long rise makes aboriginal women one of the fastest growing segments of Canada’s federal prison population.

The numbers were slightly higher in provincial and territorial facilities, where 41 per cent of all women were aboriginal, compared to 25 per cent of men. The report found nearly twothirds of aboriginal women serving federal prison sentences were admitted for violent offences.

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EATON CENTRE SHOOTING

Jury choice is between mental disorder, revenge

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A forensic psychiatrist has conceded under cross-examination by the Crown that the man who shot up Toronto’s Eaton Centre may have been motivated by revenge.

However, Dr. Julian Gojer says he believes Christopher Husbands was incapable of appreciating the nature of his acts when he gunned down two men and wounded five other people in June 2012.

The defence is calling on the jury to declare Husbands not criminally responsible by reason of a mental disorder — post-traumatic stress.

The Crown, by contrast, suggests Husbands may have been fabricating his condition — that he had no reason to fear for his life.

In fact, the prosecution points to some witness evidence that Husbands sparked the encounter with his victims.

Husbands has maintained he was suddenly confronted by men who had attacked him months earlier and he fired at them in a blind panic.

“His actions were more instinctive and reflexive,” Gojer testified.

Superior Court Justice Eugene Ewaschuk briefly outlined the defence of not criminally responsible for jurors.

Essentially, it comes down to whether the accused was suffering from a mental disorder and didn’t know that what he was doing was wrong.

“The burden in this case is on the accused to prove insanity,” Ewaschuk said.

In cross-examination, prosecutor Mary Humphrey got Gojer to concede that Husbands may have fabricated his symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

He also conceded Husbands may have had a mental disorder but been motivated purely by revenge when he gunned down Nixon Nirmalendran and his brother Nisan in the crowded mall food court.

Husbands has maintained he fired in a blind panic when he was suddenly confronted by the brothers — two men involved in a savage beating and stabbing of the accused months before the mall shooting.

Husbands, who has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, maintains Nirmalendran pointed to him and said to his brother, ‘Shoot him!’

“If Christopher Husbands is lying about those two words being said, then the whole house of cards falls down,” Humphrey said.

“Yes. But he could have been misperceiving. He might mishear,” Gojer responded. “If he lied, end of story.”

However, Gojer said he believed Husbands was in a disassociative state caused by his post-traumatic stress.

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Newly elected Mayor John Tory, right, presents a declaration of office to newly elected councillor and outgoing mayor Rob Ford during an inauguration ceremony in Toronto on Tuesday.

Woman kept dead husband’s body because she thought he would be resurrected: Crown

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HAMILTON — A devoutly religious Hamilton woman who kept her husband’s decomposing corpse in a bedroom for six months because she was convinced he would come back to life has pleaded guilty to failing to notify authorities of his death from an illness he was not getting treatment for.

Kaling Wald was originally facing criminal charges of neglect of duty regarding a dead body and offering an indignity to a body, which could have carried a sentence of up to five years in jail. Those charges were withdrawn and replaced by a charge under the Coroner’s Act. She received a suspended sentence and 18 months probation with counselling.

A summary read in court for Monday’s plea says Wald told police her husband Peter suffered diabetes but refused to seek treatment when his foot bement team launched a probe in July after a “thirdparty complaint,” said Maj. Robert Wuskynyk, who oversees drug cases. Military police from Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt also assisted in the investigation.

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came infected, believing God would cure him.

Wald told them he went into a coma sometime in March and died before the end of the month.

According to the summary, Wald said she and her five children - who are between 11 and 22-years-old — are devout Christians and “thought Peter would be resurrected and therefore kept the door locked and waited for him to come to life.”

She, her children and their seven housemates prayed daily for him to live again.

Wald “locked the door to keep the children out, as well as duct taped the door seams and vents throughout the house to keep the smell out,” the Crown’s summary reads.

Authorities only learned what had happened in September when they came to evict the couple, who had defaulted on their mortgage, the document says.

The sheriff then “discovered a body present on the bed in a state of decomposition and mummification,” it says. when a man and a woman entered the store in the city’s south end, both of them communicating on cellphones as they looked around.

It’s alleged the man took several items out of their packages and that the woman then stuffed the items into the side of the fake pregnancy belly she was wearing.

Police say the pair, who were captured on security video, left the store and were seen leaving in a silver Dodge Caravan before store security could stop them.

Officers who arrived to investigate decided to contact other electronics stores in the region to advise them of the incident and give them a description of the two suspects.

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Railways get poor grades SHIPPERS SAY SERVICE HAS DETERIORATED: RBC SURVEY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Freight service on North American railways has deteriorated significantly in the past year, according to an annual RBC Capital Markets survey of railway customers.

More than three-quarters of shippers surveyed labelled service as fair or poor, compared with 32 per cent who gave the railways such a grade last year.

Analyst Walter Spracklin attributed the widespread dissatisfaction to the impact of congestion and severe weather on deliveries last winter.

“We consider the decline in customer satisfaction to be a temporary sentiment shift caused by unforeseen factors that were largely out of carriers’ control,” he wrote in a report Tuesday.

Spracklin said the poor grade shouldn’t hurt the railways’ stock price because of the strong price and volume outlook by shippers for 2015.

Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) received the most positive ratings of the six large railways in Canada and the U.S. The next best performer was Union Pacific Railway.

Rankings for the other four, including Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP), were not given.

Montreal-based CN benefited from relatively

strong operating metrics such as train speeds and dwell time in terminals to beat rivals. Still, the proportion of shippers who gave CN just a fair or a poor rating doubled to 63 per cent this year. Just seven per cent rated CN’s service as excellent, down from 15 per cent last year and 22 per cent in 2013.

Criticism focused on capacity constraints, railcar shortages and transit time issues.

“Service has been terrible, but CN Rail has been the best of the group,” said one shipper, who was not named.

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Clean energy sector growing quickly: study

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian investments in clean energy totalled $6.5 billion last year, a 45 per cent increase from 2012, according to a new study released Tuesday.

More than half the Canadian investment - $3.6 billion — went into wind power, with another $2.5 billion invested in the solar sector, says Clean Energy Canada, an advocacy and research organization.

The investment spike moved Canada up to seventh place among the Group of 20 industrialized nations, from 12th spot a year earlier.

“We hear a lot of talk about pipelines and the oil and gas sector,” Merran Smith, the director of Clean Energy Canada, said in an interview.

“What we don’t hear is that Canada’s actually gone from a boutique clean energy industry to really big business.”

Over the past five years, $24 billion has been invested in clean energy, and the sector now accounts for almost 24,000 direct jobs, a total that includes manufacturing but not construction employment.

The report comes as Canadian officials begin two weeks of meetings in Lima, Peru, on the United Nations framework convention on climate change.

Greenhouse gas emissions are rising again in Canada, according to Environment Canada projections, and the country will not come close to meeting its 2020 international target for curbing emissions under the 2009 Copenhagen accord. The talks in Lima are part of negotiations for a post-2020 international agreement that is supposed to be completed next December.

The UN talks were given a jolt of adrenalin last month when the United States and China, the world’s two biggest emitters, announced a bilateral deal to curb emissions through 2030.

Both the Chinese and U.S. governments are investing heavily in renewables.

“There’s a clean energy transition underway globally already, and they’re backing their clean energy industries,” said Smith.

What makes the Canadian investment story more compelling is that it’s happening without much federal government interest.

Private sector financiers - many from abroad - and provincial governments are driving the investment boom.

Of the top five financiers of clean energy in Canada over the past five years, investing $3.44 billion among them, two are Japanese, two are German and just one is Canadian, says the study.

Clean Energy Canada would like to see a federal industrial policy, based on tax and research incentives, like the one that helped Canada’s aerospace and oil sands industries in their infancy.

“If the federal government got engaged we could be a real world leader in clean energy,” said Smith.

“But the federal government is really missing in action.”

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Groundwork has begun on the Liberty Landing development in Gasoline Alley Tuesday afternoon.

Groundwork underway on residential development in Gasoline Alley

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Long known as a place to grab a quick meal or top off a gas tank, Gasoline Alley could soon be home to hundreds of people.

Groundwork is underway on a 113-acre site west of Laura Avenue and north of McKenzie Road that’s earmarked for residential development. If all goes according to plan, said Scott Lamont, Central Alberta development manager with Calgary-based Lamont Land Inc., homes in the proposed Liberty Landing subdivision could be under construction within a year.

“We’re going to be doing underground construction as soon as we can in the spring and moving right through to get some houses started in the fall of 2015.”

Much of the same area was covered by a 2008 development permit issued by Red Deer County to Century Group Lands Corp. of British Columbia. But Century Group’s plans for Liberty Junction, which contemplated housing for approximately 3,500 people on 90 acres, never proceeded.

Liberty Landing isn’t expected to be as dense a development, with less emphasis on multi-family housing.

“The overall feel is the same but that was a pretty aggressive high-density project they were proposing,” said Lamont. “We’ve scaled that down to some-

thing that would be a little bit more like what people are used to seeing in Red Deer.”

He anticipates about 450 single-family dwellings: some with 40-foot frontages but many more that are 36 feet or smaller. There will also be duplexes, townhomes and apartment-style housing, said Lamont.

The subdivision will tap into regional utilities, he added.

“So it’s going to be full municipal water, full municipal sewer.”

Lamont Land is familiar with the Central Alberta market, having developed Ryders Ridge in Sylvan Lake and now working on the CrestView subdivision in the same town. Lamont said the company is happy to take over the Gasoline Alley project.

“We think the location is definitely one of the better ones in the Red Deer area. You have a high concentration of commercial, you’re five to 10 minutes away from the college, you’re 10 minutes into downtown Red Deer.

“Being able to offer some additional product choices on the south end of Red Deer, we thought was a great opportunity.”

Signage that went up in late summer attracted lots of interest in Liberty Landing, said Lamont, and this has increased with the start of groundwork there.

An outline plan for Liberty Landing will be presented at a public information session next Wednesday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the nearby Hampton Inn and Suites on Leva Avenue. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Proper planning can help you meet your needs once you retire Derek, what happens to my RRSP when I retire?

You’ve worked hard throughout the years and the time has finally come when you hang up your hat and take on retirement. You’ve also saved diligently over this same time frame and are now looking at a considerable amount of money in your registered retirement savings plan (RRSP).

Congratulations on both of these endeavors and I hope you’ve taken some time to think about what you’re going to do in retirement.

Your dream retirement, free of financial worries, is something we all aspire to.

Proper planning can help ensure you achieve your retirement goals.

This includes making plans to meet your needs once you DEREK are actually retired. In order FUCHS to make these plans, it is important that you understand WEALTH WATCH the alternatives for your retirement income.

RRSPs are a savings vehicle which acts as a tax shelter. Generally no taxes are paid on the growth or income in the account so long as the money stays within the RRSP. When the day finally comes when you walk out the door of your employer nothing really needs to change with your RRSP. Just because you’re not working anymore doesn’t mean that you

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can’t still have an RRSP, or even invest in the RRSP. In fact, you can continue to keep your RRSP right up until the year you turn 71.

Once of the best options available to retired investors is a registered retirement income fund (RRIF).

The purpose of a RRIF, as opposed to an RRSP, is to provide a source of income during retirement. Accumulated funds in your RRSP are simply rolled over into a RRIF at age 71, providing you with the same tax sheltering as before.

One of the big advantages of holding a RRIF is that it allows you to continue with the investment program that you had established thereby providing you with the most flexibility of your retirement income options. This also means you can change your investments over time or as market conditions change.

A big difference with an RRSP is that a RRIF requires that you take out a minimum amount each year as income. There is however, no maximum amount that you can withdraw, but all amounts are withdrawn as taxable income.

Even though you have to collapse your RRSP into a RRIF before age 71, there’s no reason you can’t do it earlier. In fact, you can technically do it anytime, just keep in mind that the RRIF requires that you take a minimum payment from the account. In short, if you don’t need the money quite yet, don’t convert to a RRIF. You can also transfer just part of your RRSP if you want. Put another way, if you’re not quite 71 and wanting to take some income from the account,

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you could open a RRIF and transfer just part of the RRSP. This way, you have the flexibility of taking the minimum payment required from the RRIF, and leaving the remainder in the RRSP for further deferred growth and contributions.

Keep in mind that once you open a RRIF you’re no longer able to make contributions to that account.

Unlike the RRSP you can’t deposit money to your RRIF on an annual basis — this usually isn’t a factor as most people who convert to a RRIF are doing so because they need the funds, and not usually because they are still putting money away.

Be aware that when you convert to a RRIF you have the option to use your spouse’s age to calculate the minimum payment required. Generally speaking, the younger your spouse is, the smaller the minimum payment will be. This may be beneficial particularly if your spouse is younger than you and you want to ensure that your RRIF is providing income for their entire lifetime.

Finally, enjoy your retired years to the fullest extent, but be sure to speak with a professional who can provide advice on taxation and your investments.

Wealth Watch is written by Derek Fuchs, a wealth advisor with ScotiaMcLeod in Red Deer. It is provided for informational purposes only. Readers are urged to consult a wealth advisor for help with their personal investment circumstances. Fuchs can be contacted at derek. fuchs@scotiamcleod.com.

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Track to produce spin-offs

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

CENTURY DOWNS RACETRACK AND CASINO

Century Downs Racetrack and Casino will be a long way from Red Deer, but the horse-racing and gambling facility near CrossIron Mills shopping centre north of Calgary should have a big impact on Central Alberta.

Scheduled to open April 1, 2015, the Class A track — which will operate at least 100 days a year — will mark the return of racing to Calgary following the closure of the Stampede Park track

in 2008.

“We’re pretty excited about that,” said Shirley McClellan, CEO of Horse Racing Alberta.

Horse Racing Alberta is a not-forprofit corporation that regulates the horse racing industry in Alberta and reports to the Alberta Ministry of Finance and Agriculture and Rural Development.

“One A track is not enough in the province, especially in a winter prov-

ince like we are. We don’t have a long season.”

The loss of Stampede Park has resulted in many horses going elsewhere to race, with an associated decline in economic spin-offs for Alberta.

McClellan said the horse-racing industry generated more than $400 million in revenues before the Calgary track closed. Even now, it creates about 7,000 direct and indirect jobs, she said.

“To the agricultural economy, it’s huge,” said McClellan, adding that Central Albertans are among the beneficiaries.

On Monday, Horse Racing Alberta announced that Century Casino and Max Gibb, who are developing Century Downs, will operate the two off-track betting outlets in Red Deer and all others south of the city, as of 2015. Northlands Park will look after those north of Red Deer.

Previously, Gibb had the southern jurisdiction and Northlands the north. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

BMO falls short of analysts’ predictions

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Weaker than expected revenues at the Bank of Montreal’s (TSX:BMO) capital markets and wholesale banking divisions contributed to the bank missing analyst expectations in the fourth quarter, despite strong growth at its Canadian and U.S. operations.

The bank said it earned $1.070 billion or $1.56 per share in the fourth quarter of its 2014 financial year, compared with $1.074 billion or $1.60 per share a year earlier.

On an adjusted basis, BMO earned $1.111 billion or $1.63 per share — five cents below estimates of $1.68 per share but up $23 million or two per cents from a year earlier.

Revenue was $4.34 billion for the three months ended Oct. 31, up from $4.138 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013. Analysts had estimated $4.34 billion of revenue, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters.

Barclays analyst John Aiken said BMO’s capital markets results were the weakest they have been in two years, with advisory fees, trading and commissions all down.

During the third quarter, gains on the stock markets boosted profits in the capital markets segments of many of the big banks. But Aiken said BMO’s fourth-quarter results could set the tone for the weaker capital markets earnings across the sector as a whole this quarter.

“The weaker capital markets reported by BMO provides incremental concern for (Royal Bank) and (National Bank), which have the greatest relative exposures, but this will likely impact the entire group, given the lift each received in the third quarter,” Aiken said in a note to clients.

BMO also raised its quarterly dividend Tuesday by two cents to 80 cents per common share with the first-quarter payment on Feb. 26, 2015.

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RAILWAY: Weaker speed and dwell times Spracklin said CN has suffered a bit from its success in achieving record volumes as extreme weather exacerbated network congestion. He said the railway was addressing capacity concerns with targeted capital investments that should manage volume growth and severe weather.

Shipper sentiment on Canadian Pacific Railway was mixed as the proportion of negative responses jumped to 79 per cent from 48 per cent last year, reflecting weaker speed and dwell times. But the Calgary-based railway also received positive comments for shorter transit times and better ontime performance.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Online shoppers set a set a single-day spending record on Cyber Monday, despite deals being stretched out this holiday season.

Online sales Monday jumped 17 per cent from last year, totalling nearly $2.04 billion, research firm comScore Inc. said Tuesday. That represents the heaviest online spending day in history and the first to surpass $2 billion in sales, said the firm, which tracks online sales.

Retailers from Target to Amazon have been offering online deals since the beginning of November, and are promising “cyber” deals all week.

Some anticipated the extended period would hurt Cyber Monday sales.

And the lacklustre start to the holiday shopping season in brick-and-mortar stores also lowered expectations. But shoppers appeared to be eager to go The federal government responded to service concerns of Prairie grain farmers by introducing minimum grain volume requirements in March to increase the movement of a bumper crop to international markets. Those thresholds were extended last week until March 31, 2015.

CN and CP have blamed the backlog on the size of the harvest and extremely cold weather.

They survey highlighted mixed views by shippers on the rail regulations. About 40 per cent had a negative view, while 15 per cent supported Ottawa’s move.

Criticism included that the grain volume mandate disadvantaged other sectors while supporters said it put service issues in the spotlight.

Shippers want an ongoing review of the Canada Transportation Act to recommend holding the railways accountable for service by imposing financial penalties for poor performance.

Service was the leading factor for shippers in deciding which carrier to use this year, with freight rates not playing a prominent role, the survey

mand,” Fulgoni said.

Other organizations measured a more muted response for the day: IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark reported that online sales rose 8.5 per cent this year compared to last on Cyber Monday. That is less stellar growth than last year’s, when IBM says online sales jumped more than 20 per cent by its measure.

“As the holiday shopping season becomes less concentrated on a single day, retailers and marketers took advantage by making it easier for consumers to find the best deals on the go, whenever and wherever they chose to shop,” said Jay Henderson, director of IBM Smarter Commerce.

Still Cyber Monday is the busiest U.S. online shopping day of the year - a title it has held since 2010.

The name Cyber Monday was coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation’s online arm, called Shop.org, to encourage people to shop online.

said. Service and price were equally important to shippers who shifted their business between the two Canadian railways last year.

Meanwhile, the survey of 51 large customers found that more expect higher prices and volume growth in 2015 because of an improved economy and tighter railway capacity.

A majority expect rail freight price increases of four to six per cent, up from about a quarter of respondents who expected such a price increase last year.

About 80 per cent also expect trucking prices to increase by up to six per cent next year, compared with last year’s forecast for flat or modest rate increases.

Most expect rail volumes are forecast to increase 1.4 to 5.1 per cent next year.

BMO Capital Markets analyst Fadi Chamoun said rail demand to move heavy crude from Western Canada is unlikely to be impacted by the recent

decline in crude prices.

“With limited pipeline capacity available until 2018 or later, ... (the) projected production ramp-up over the next two years is expected to be shipped by railroads,” he wrote in a report.

Chamoun said frac sand is most vulnerable if lower prices curtail drilling.

But reduced demand for crude or frac sand shipments would help the railways restore overall service levels.

Low crude prices would need to stick around for six to 12 months before there is any major change in production or capital expenditure plans, added Turan Quettawala of Scotiabank. He estimates flat energy volumes would result in a five per cent EPS hit for CP and two per cent for CN. On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian National shares closed up $1.14 or 1.48 per cent at $78.23 on Tuesday, while Canadian Pacific stock was up $7.83 or 3.68 per cent at $220.51.

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The weekend after Thanksgiving was popular for online shopping too, with sales up 26 per cent compared to the same weekend last year. The twoday period raked in $2.01 billion in online sales, according to comScore.

“Any notion that Cyber Monday is declining in importance is really unfounded, as it continues to post new historical highs and reflects the ongoing strength of online this holiday season,” comScore Chairman Emeritus Gian Fulgoni said.

This may be part of a larger shift toward online buying as mobile phones spur the practice known as “showrooming,” Fulgoni said in a statement.

The term describes the practice of a consumer going into stores to see an item but then buying it, or a similar product, online.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 109.70 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.75 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.71 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.11 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.34 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.18 Cdn. National Railway . . 78.23 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 220.51 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.18 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.88 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.25 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 48.81 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.59 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.26 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.18 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.26 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.11 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.54 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.09 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.11 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.83 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 10.91 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.10 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 128.68 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.47 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.99 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 61.04 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market ended flat on Tuesday as the price retreat by key commodities continued.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed 5.25 points lower at 14,620.07 with both the gold and metals sectors lower. Over the past three sessions, the TSX has fallen more than 400 points.

The Canadian dollar slipped 0.51 of a cent to 87.77 cents US. The energy sector made small gains, rising 0.4 per cent even as the January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed down $2.12 at US$66.88 a barrel.

Mining and metals stocks fell 0.1 per cent, as March copper lost 6.5 cents to US$2.892 a pound. February gold bullion moved down $18.70 to close at US$1,199.40 an ounce.

“The volatility is still very high, which keeps a lot of traditional portfolio managers out of the complex for the time being,” said Sid Mokhtari, a market technician at CIBC World Markets in an interview “You’re probably going to see some bargain hunting as you go into year-end, especially after the tax-loss selling season typically ends within the first two weeks of December.”

TSX financials slid 0.7 per cent after Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) kicked off the banks’ earnings season with fourthquarter profits that were weaker than analysts expected.

The bank reported $1.07 billion of net income in the fourth quarter, essentially unchanged from a year earlier. On an adjusted basis, it had $1.111 billion of earnings or $1.63 per share five cents below estimates.

Its main Canadian banking operations showed strong 14 per cent growth but that was offset by declines at BMO’s capital markets and wealth segments.

BMO shares closed down $1.87, or 2.25 per cent, at $81.42.

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The S&P 500 index gained 13.11 points to 2,066.55.

General Motors (NYSE:GM) reported stronger U.S. sales last month, which provided a boost to the automaker’s stock, while shares of Avanir Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:AVNR) soared 13 per cent after the company agreed to be acquired by Japan’s Otsuka Pharmaceutical for $3.5 billion in cash.

In the energy sector, TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) says it will halt all work on an oil terminal in eastern Quebec in response to concerns the project could hurt a beluga whale habitat. The Cacouna terminal was planned to be one of the last stops for the crude from the proposed Energy East pipeline before being loaded onto oil tankers and shipped overseas.

TransCanada shares were up 90 cents at $55.10.

On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada makes its next announcement on interest rates.

Canada’s central bank is universally expected to leave its key rate unchanged at one per cent, where it’s been for more than four years. The Bank of England and European Central Bank make their rate announcements on Thursday.

The week ends with November job creation numbers from both Canada and the United States.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index 14,620.07, down 5.25 points Dow — 17,879.55, up 102.75 points S&P 500 — 2,066.55, up 13.11 points Nasdaq — 4,755.81, up

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 94.19 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.34 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.77 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 24.15 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 51.76 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.45 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 3.77 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.025 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.15 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.60 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 5.30 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.01 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.54 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.55 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 81.42 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 68.94 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.48 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 34.08 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.19 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.10 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 46.49 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 79.49 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.65 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 51.83 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.75 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 81.42 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.26 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.81 28.46 points Currencies: Cdn — 87.77 cents US, down 0.51 of a cent Pound — C$1.7819, down 0.10 of a cent Euro — C$1.4106, down 0.22 of a cent Euro — US$1.2380, down 0.92 of a cent Oil futures: US$66.88 per barrel, down $2.12 (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,199.40 per oz., down $18.70 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.377 oz., down 3.6 cents $622.97 kg., down $1.16 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ‘15 $5.50 lower $416.90; March ‘15 $6.70 lower $415.30; May ‘15 $6.70 lower $416.90; July ‘15 $6.70 lower $418.10; Nov ‘15 $5.60 lower $415.00; Jan. ‘16 $6.30 lower $419.90; March ‘16 $6.40 lower $428.40; May ‘16 $6.40 higher $430.10; July ‘16 $6.40 higher $430.10; Nov. ‘16 $6.40 higher $430.10.

Barley (Western): Dec. ‘14 $2.00 lower $172.00; March ‘15 $2.00 lower $175.00; 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.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 546,200 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 546,200.

The Tli Cho, who are supported by the territory’s other land-claim groups, say that violates hard-won treaties that now have the force of constitutional law.

The government has said the socalled “superboard” it’s trying to create does conform to land-claim agreements.

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Northern aboriginals start court fight with federal government over resources Northern aboriginals are expected to fire the first shot Wednesday in a fight against the federal government’s plan to centralize decision-making over resource development.

The Tli Cho government, which oversees a patch of the central Northwest Territories, is asking the territory’s Supreme Court for an injunction against a federal bill.

The bill would replace regulators created by various land-claim settlements with a single board headed by a federal appointee.

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Protesters play drums as municipal employees demonstrate in front of city hall during a one day strike against proposed changes to their pension plans Tuesday in Montreal.

Russian government warns of the economy slipping into recession next year MOSCOW — The Russian government has acknowledged that the country will fall into recession next year, battered by the combination of Western sanctions and a plunge in the price of its oil exports.

The news caused the stock market to drop and pushed the ruble to a fresh record low against the dollar.

The economic development ministry on Tuesday revised its GDP fore-

Truck sales help boost November auto sales

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadian drivers looking for a new truck help push auto sales up 3.6 per cent in November to set a record for the month, according to DesRosiers Automotive Consultants.

Meanwhile, DesRosiers noted that sales through the first 11 months of the year were just shy of the total sold in all of last year.

“It is a rare occurrence to be just 24,901 units short of last year’s overall total in November but here we are,” the firm said in a note to clients.

DesRosiers said Tuesday that light vehicle sales in Canada reached 138,694 last month, up from 133,860 in the same month last year.

The increase came as light truck sales increased 10.2 per cent to 84,826 compared with 76,949 in November 2013. Car sales slipped 5.3 per cent to 53,868 from 56,911 a year ago.

Sales for the year to date totalled 1,718,211, up 5.4 per cent from 1,630,076 a year ago.

Chrysler Canada claimed the top spot among the automakers with 20,922 vehicles sold last month, up from 19,206 in November 2013 as a gain in truck sales outpaced a drop in car sales.

Truck sales at the automaker totalled 18,961 for the month, up 17.4 per cent from 16,153 a year ago, while the company’s car sales amounted to 1,961 vehicles, down 35.8 per cent from 3,053 in November last year. cast for 2015 from growth of 1.2 per cent to a drop of 0.8 per cent. Russian households are expected to take hit, with disposable income seen declining by 2.8 per cent against the previously expected 0.4 per cent growth.

Russia’s economic outlook is at the mercy of the global market for oil, a key export that finances the bulk of the state budget. Sanctions over Moscow’s role in eastern Ukraine are making things worse, hurting Russian banks and investment sentiment in particular.

“With a broad portfolio of competitive and desirable vehicles . . . (we) continue to gain momentum in the market as evidenced by our streak of five full years of monthly sales growth,” said David Buckingham, Chrysler Canada’s chief operating officer.

Meanwhile, Ford sales totalled 20,067, putting it second place for the month, up two per cent from 19,668 a year ago.

Ford truck sales were up 9.3 per cent at 16,341 compared with 14,951 a year ago, while car sales fell 21 per cent to 3,726 from 4,717.

“The much-anticipated all-new 2015 F-150 is beginning to hit showrooms and set a new standard for trucks,” Ford Canada president and chief executive Dianne Craig said in a statement.

GM said its November sales were up 10.2 per cent from a year ago at 19,264 compared with 17,482 in November 2013. The increase came as GM truck sales rose 8.8 per cent to 13,458 from 12,368, while car sales gained 13.5 per cent to total 5,806, up from 5,114 a year ago.

Total GM Canada sales for the year to date totalled 230,553, up six per cent from 217,908 for the same period last year.

The market share held by the three automakers was 43.3 per cent last month, up from 42 per cent a year ago.

Toyota topped the import automakers as it sold 13,367 vehicles last month, down from 13,952 a year ago.

The national currency, the ruble, has dropped by more than 40 per cent this year as the economic troubles mounted. That in turn risks spawning more problems, such as a spike in inflation that would pinch consumers.

While Russia’s troubles could do some economic damage to Europe, they are unlikely to have much impact on the U.S. economy, the world’s largest. Russia is the 28th-biggest market for the United States, absorbing $11.1 billion worth of U.S. goods last year.

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B4 Rebels assassinated by Hitmen

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Hitmen 9 Rebels 5 The Red Deer Rebels recovered from a slow start in Saturday’s 6-2 win over the visiting Swift Current Broncos; they weren’t so fortunate Tuesday.

The Rebels coughed up five unanswered goals in a brutal first period, and although they were the better team the rest of the way, the disastrous start was too much to overcome.

The end result was a 9-5 Western Hockey League loss to the Calgary Hitmen before a recorded audience of 4,168 at the Enmax Centrium.

“The first period was terrible, a reflection of the same kind of start we had the other night,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We had to take a timeout six minutes into that game and instead of doing that tonight I thought I’d change our goalie.

“Obviously that didn’t work.”

The Hitmen connected on their first two shots, with Beck Malenstyn and Chad Lang pulling the trigger barely three minutes into the contest. Rebels starting netminder Rylan Toth was yanked in favour of Taz Burman at that point, but the visitors struck for three more before the first intermission, two by Connor Rankin and another by Adam Tambellini.

Both teams had 10 shots in the opening frame, yet the visitors went into the first break with a huge lead.

The hosts got one back when newcomer Riley Sheen, acquired from the Lethbridge Hurricanes Monday, connected at 5:05 of the middle stanza, but Rankin completed his hat trick three minutes later when the puck bounced off his body and past Toth, who was back in net when the period started.

Brook Maxwell cut the deficit to 6-2 late in the second frame and Presten Kopeck, on the power play, and Sheen, with his second of the night and fifth of the season, got the Rebels back into the contest with goals in the first seven minutes of the third period.

“We battled and got ourselves back into it, but as soon as we got close they’d come down and create some pressure in our end, get a shot on net and it would go in,” said Sutter.

Calgary’s seventh goal was a reflection of the way the night went for the Rebels, as defenceman Jake Bean wristed a point shot that drifted past a half dozen bodies and found the top of the net, putting a large dent in Red Deer’s momentum.

Red Deer, though, didn’t fade away and Brett Cote made it a 7-5 game with a power-play point shot, but Terrell Draude notched an emptynet goal at with 1:10 remaining and Malenstyn scored his second of the night 22 seconds later.

Toth stopped 13 of the 18 shots he faced and Burman blocked five of the eight directed his way during his 17-minute stint.

“There was no fire here tonight. You have to play with a level of passion in a divisional game and we just didn’t play that way,” said Sutter.

“Defensively we were horrendous. We didn’t get saves, but you can’t put it on the goalies. They (Hitmen) had some top-notch, quality scoring chances. You look up at the clock and see three goals on four shots, but they were all quality chances.

“We didn’t do a good job defensively tonight, our defence really struggled. To a man, they all had a terrible night.

We also had a few forwards that way and I think both of our goalies would have liked

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 2014

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Evan Polei of the Red Deer Rebels tries to screen Calgary Hitmen goaltender Mack Shields during Tuesday night WHL action at the Enmax Centrium. Rebels lost to the Hitmen 9-5. to have some (goals) back.”

On a positive note, Sheen, with two goals and an assist, was highly impressive in his Rebels debut and was arguably the best player on the ice.

“Unfortunately we played like we did as a group but you could see the importance of having a player like that on our team,” said Sutter. “He’s

tremendously gifted, tremendously skilled. We made a trade to make our team better.

He’s going to bring that skill set that we needed and he’s also a guy who can quarterback our power play” ● Hitmen netminder Mack Shields finished with 31 saves . . . With the win, Calgary moved a point ahead of Red Deer and

into a second-place tie with the Edmonton Oil Kings in the Central Division . . . The Rebels are idle until Friday when they host the Moose Jaw Warriors. Red Deer travels to Lethbridge Saturday to face the ‘Canes. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

RDC sticks it to SAIT heading into break

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Alex Donaghy of the Red Deer College Queens puts the ball past Samantha Carpenter of the SAIT Trojans during Tuesday night ACAC action at the RDC gym.

Kings 3 Trojans 1 Few first place teams are looking forward to a Christmas break more than the Red Deer College Kings men’s volleyball team.

Despite a swath of injuries the Kings have rolled up an 11-1 (34-10) record thanks to a 3-1 (19-25, 25-21, 25-11, 25-11) win over the SAIT Trojans (7-5; 24-17) on Tuesday in Red Deer.

They enter the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference break as the No. 1 ranked team in the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association, an accomplishment also accomplished by the RDC Queens women’s volleyball team.

“I’m pleased with our record based on how many injuries we’ve had and the stuff we’ve battled through in the first half,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “I can’t remember a semester like this where guys have been down and out. We’ve had all three of our outside hitters down for a significant amount of time and we haven’t had a second setter to speak of. We’ve battled through a lot of things and I think that will make us tougher in the second half.”

The Kings’ mark looked to be in jeopardy early on Tuesday after looking out of synch and trailing 1-0 in sets while struggling to gain any momentum. They eked out an 18-15 lead as SAIT called a time out

and RDC never looked back taking the set 25-21 then the final two sets 25-11 each.

“We had a bunch of things go wrong in the first, it was pretty ugly,” said Walton.

“When you don’t serve or pass the ball (well) it makes things difficult and we had no one to really step up in that first game.”

All-Canadian outside hitter Tim Finnigan lead the Kings with 17 kills and six digs, while Scott Irvine had 13 kills, five digs and Justin Lukacs had 10 kills and three digs.

Rookie setter Luke Brisbane continued to impress with 47 assists, three service aces and five digs.

The Kings have been with out incumbent starting setter Tegan McGraw while the Finnigan brothers — Tim and Anthony — have also been banged up most of the semester. Anthony finally returned to play on Saturday, but he left eight points into Tuesday’s match after aggravating a knee injury originally suffered in practice on Monday. “(Anthony) and Tim are both playing at about 70 per cent at best,” said Schulha.

The Kings are off for most of December, returning to the court to train at MacEwan University in Edmonton before the New Year and then heading to Camrose for a tournament at Augustana University the following week — the site of this season’s ACAC championship.

“Since we went to a North/

South alignment this year, it’s good for our guys to play there and see some teams from the north and hopefully get used to being there, because I plan to be there in a couple of months,” said Schulha.

Queens 3 Trojans 0 The RDC Queens went into the ACAC Christmas break looking like the defending national championship they are.

They completed their weather delayed sweep over the SAIT Trojans on Tuesday with a 3-0 (25-21, 25-17, 25-20) win, struggling early and then rolling through the last two sets.

“I’ glad it’s done and to put those ones in the books and be happy we are where we are and have played as well as we have,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton.

“Our learning curve has been pretty steep so far and we can tell we’re a little bit tired and want to have a little bit of a rest. That’s a good thing because it tells me they’re full, they full understand what we need to do right now; they just need some time to digest it in their heads and that break will set us up well to do that.”

The Queens trailed 19-16 in the first set when Walton called a time out, and RDC rolled to nine of the next 11 points to win the opening set.

The next two sets were never really in question.

Please see RDC on Page B5

Thousands of Calgarians salute Grey Cup Stamps with rally THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY - The Calgary Stampeders basked in the adulation of more than 2,000 screaming fans Tuesday as Calgarians celebrated the team’s Grey Cup victory with a public rally at city hall.

Most of the attention was on Canadian running back Jon Cornish, defensive star Juwan Simpson and quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, who was named the outstanding player of the Stampeders’ 20-16 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Sunday in Vancouver.

“Now get to fulfil a dream

I’ve wanted to do for a long time - pass it to Mayor (Naheed) Nenshi. The trophy’s pretty heavy,” laughed Cornish, who was holding tightly to the Grey Cup as the festivities began.

“The most important part of our organization is our fans so I’d like to thank each and every one of you for your support today and throughout the season. If it wasn’t for you we wouldn’t be standing here today.”

Mitchell appeared embarrassed when the crowd starting changing “MVP, MVP” in reference to his performance during the Grey Cup.

“Y’all are amazing. Obviously I’ve got to thank every single person here and everybody in this city for being a part of this,” he said.

The players, wearing white cowboy hats, stayed on the stage after the rally, talking to fans and throwing foam footballs into the crowd.

It was a bittersweet moment for slotback Nik Lewis, who becomes a free agent.

Lewis, at one point the top receiver for the Stamps, was a 1,000-yard receiver in each of his first nine CFL seasons.

He suffered a broken fibula in August 2013 and has totalled just 69 catches for 777 yards

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and three TDs over the last two years.

“I wouldn’t want to go anywhere else but it’s a game, it’s a sport,” Lewis told reporters.

“Right now I am just enjoying this but next week before I go back to Texas I’ll sit down with Huff and sit down with Dave and we’ll figure something out.”

“Personally it wasn’t the greatest year but I grew up a lot this year I’ve had to learn to grow and I think that just made me a better person, a better teammate and it’s a special day to be a part of this,” he added.

“Up until August 17th, 2013,

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my life was great. It was easy.

I could put up 1,000 yard seasons. It was easy but when I got hurt that day it changed a lot. Just to fight to get back to this moment is awesome.”

Nenshi paid tribute to the team, its success and fans and declared Dec. 2, 2014 Calgary Stampeders Day. “I love Canadian football. I love the CFL. This is Canada’s game,” Nenshi said.

“This folks is a team of destiny. This is the best team the CFL has seen in years ... OK the best team ever.”

Fans bundled up and put on their Stampeder colours to show their support.

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Jooris hat trick leads Flames to win

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 5 Coyotes 2 CALGARY - Josh Jooris continued his terrific rookie season with a three-goal game Tuesday night to lead the Calgary Flames to a 5-2 victory over the Arizona Coyotes.

Jooris’ second of the night, the game-winner breaking a 2-2 tie, came at 7:13 of the second period on a neat set-up from fellow rookie Johnny Gaudreau.

Up against the end boards, Gaudreau threaded a perfect centering pass to Jooris skating through the slot and with the puck on his forehand, Jooris got just enough of his shot for the puck to trickle up and over Coyotes goaltender Mike Smith.

That same combination then struck again with Jooris scoring into an empty net with 46 seconds left to send a bunch of hats onto the ice.

David Jones and Sean Monahan also scored for Calgary (16-8-2), which opened a three-game homestand. Jiri Hudler had two assists to extend his points streak to five games (five goals, five assists).

Winners of seven of their last nine, the Flames are one point back of the Western Conference-leading Anaheim Ducks.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Sam Gagner scored for Arizona (10-13-3). The Coyotes dropped their second game to the Flames in four days, having lost 3-0 to them at home on Saturday.

The clincher was the eighth goal of the season for Jooris, 24, who is in his first NHL season and just his second year as a pro. The Flames signed him out of Union College in the summer of 2013 and last year as an AHL rookie, he had only 11 goals in 73 games.

While Jooris is tied for third in rookie goal scoring, Gaudreau, after being scoreless his first five games, is up to 19 points to sit second in the league, four behind Nashville’s Filip Forsberg.

Calgary got an insurance goal at 8:46 of the third with Monahan taking a pass from Dennis Wideman and firing a shot into the top corner for his ninth of the year. The sophomore is having another terrific year after scoring 22 as a rookie.

Trailing 2-1 entering the second period, Arizona tied it at 2:02. It wasn’t a power-play goal officially but it came shortly after a penalty to Mark Giordano expired and after a stretch of continuous Coyotes pressure.

Keith Yandle’s shot from one side of the ice was stopped but Ramo kicked the rebound out the other

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Arizona Coyotes’ Tobias Rieder tries to get the puck past Calgary Flames goalie Karri Ramo as Josh Jooris tries to defend during NHL action in Calgary, Tuesday. The Flames won the game 5-2. side and right onto the stick of Gagner, who fired his third of the year into the open net.

It was Gagner’s first goal in 14 games.

Calgary took a 2-1 lead at 18:36 of the first on a neat set up from Kris Russell. From the side boards, Russell sent a backhand saucer pass across the crease that landed right on the stick of Jooris, who hammered the puck past Mike Smith.

Flames goaltender Karri Ramo entered the night coming off consecutive shutouts on the road having blanked San Jose and then Arizona.

However, his quest to break Mike Vernon’s team record shutout streak of 164:40 set in December 1992 would fall well short as Ekman-Larsson’s high shot from the blue-line eluded the screened Flames goaltender at 8:25, tying the score 1-1.

Ramo finished with 27 saves to improve to 7-2-1.

Smith had 19 stops to fall to 5-12-2. The veteran

was making back-to-back starts after beating Edmonton on Monday night. Devan Dubnyk was in net for the Coyotes loss to Calgary on Saturday.

It took only 1:12 for Calgary to take the lead with Jones, from the slot, blasting a slapshot past Smith, beating him high on the glove side.

Notes: Arizona D Connor Murphy (upper body) did not play. Chris Summers drew in for him after sitting the past six games... Back skating and nearing a return for the Flames are C Matt Stajan (knee) and Mason Raymond (shoulder). They have missed 15 and 16 games respectively... The Flames led after the first period for just the fourth time. They are 4-00 in those games... Calgary improved to 10-1-2 when scoring first... Ramo, 28, has 24 career wins for the Flames, which is the same number Miikka Kiprusoff had when he was Ramo’s age.

Blues sign goalie Martin Brodeur to 1-year deal for help while Brian Elliott sidelined

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RDC: Don’t panic “Sometimes you get in those games where it’s back and forth and teams go on small little runs,� said Walton. “As long as you don’t panic too much and keep it close to that 20 (-point mark), we always feel we’re pretty good after those 18-20 points and that’s what it was tonight in that first set.�

Miranda Dawe led the Queens with 11 kills and five digs, Leah Koot had seven kills and 11 digs, setter Bronwyn Hawkes had 31 assists while star libero Maddi Quinn had 22 digs.

The Queens are off for most of the break. They will be hosting a team from Japan from Dec. 12-16 as they train along side each other and then will be heading to Edmonton for a tournament before the start of second semester. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

OLDS GRIZZLYS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS - Martin Brodeur wanted to keep playing and the St. Louis Blues needed some help in net.

So one of the best goalies in league history will stick around for at least one more season.

The Blues signed the 42-year-old Brodeur to a oneyear contract, picking up the NHL’s leader in games, wins and shutouts while Brian Elliott is out with a knee injury. Coach Ken Hitchcock has said Elliott is week to week.

Brodeur joined St. Louis late last week and participated in his first full practice on Monday. He played 21 seasons for the New Jersey Devils, leading them to three Stanley Cups, and had been looking to resume his career since the off-season.

Brodeur said he knew before practice Tuesday that he’d be signing. “I’ve been waiting for a great opportunity and it came from the Blues,� Brodeur said. “I feel good in

Grizzlys 6 Dragons 0 OLDS — The Olds Grizzlys (15-12-4) newest addition looked right at home in his debut with the club as they blanked the Drumheller Dragons 6-0 at the Olds Sportsplex in Tuesday night Alberta Junior Hockey League action.

Jade McMullen was the Grande Prairie Storm’s leading scorer when he was acquired on Monday for three players, and he scored on a power play in the first period. Colton Sheen added two goals and an assist while Kodi Schwarz, Christopher Gerrie and Austin Kernahan also scored. Jesse Gordichuk made 32 saves for the shut out.

Curtis Skip started for Drumheller (17-9-5) but was pulled after allowing three goals on 14 shots, Jonny Hogue replaced him and allowed three goals on 24 shots in 40 minutes.

The Grizzlys host the Calgary Mustangs (7-23-2) on Friday at 7 p.m.

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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Keegan MacDonald netted 16 points and added 10 rebounds as the Notre Dame Cougars opened their senior high basketball season Tuesday with a 108-39 thrashing of the visiting Lacombe Rams.

Josh Ballantyne added 15 points for the winners, who got 14 — as well as 10 rebounds — from Nelson Martin. Cody Knight had 11 points for Lacombe.

In the girls contest, Notre Dame blasted Lacombe 75-13. Cierra Stephens led the winners with 14 points, while Gemma Davies and Glennikka Kubaron each had 12 and Hayley Hollings added 11.

Davies and Hollings also had 12 rebounds apiece.

Meanwhile, the Lindsay Thurber Raiders kicked off their senior girls season with a 60-9 thumping of visiting Ponoka. Lizzy Morneault paced the hosts with 11 points, while Kelsey Lalor scored 10.

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Elliott is out indefinitely and Brodeur likely will share duties with 24-year-old Jake Allen. Allen is likely to start Wednesday at Chicago and Brodeur is expected to make his Blues debut Thursday at Nashville. “This is a big change for me,� he said. “I spent the last four days enjoying my time here and really putting everything in perspective if I was ready to do this. I talked to friends and family. This is the right move for me to do.�

Elliott was tied for second in the NHL with a 1.82 goals-against average, going 8-4-1. Allen was 8-2-1 with a 2.16 goals-against average.

New Jersey made Brodeur the 20th pick in the 1990 draft. He won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 1994, appeared in 10 All-Star games and led the NHL in wins nine times, shutouts five times and games played six times. Brodeur is a four-time Vezina Trophy winner, the last time in 2008, and a five-time Jennings Trophy winner.

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Thursday

● Senior high basketball: Rocky Mountain House at Hunting Hills; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Men’s basketball: Carstar vs.

Kingsmen, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs.

Henry’s Eavestrouging, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m. Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic girls tournament. ● WHL: Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium. ● AJHL: Calgary Mustangs at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Buffaloes at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Stettler, 8 p.m.; Banff at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.; Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 8:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Lacombe, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic girls tournament. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Rockyview at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Calgary Rangers at Red Deer

Northstar, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Ramada, 12:20 p.m., Kinsmen A; Medicine Hat at Lacombe, 8:15 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 3:30 p.m. ● Junior women’s hockey: Medicine Hat at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Major midget girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● WHL: Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

(The Drive). ● College men’s exhibition hockey: Bentley Generals at RDC Kings, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Strathmore at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Banff at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● Major midget girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Medicine Hat at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Bentley. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m., Eckville; Wheatland at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 5:30 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview vs.

NWS, All Sports Cresting Lacombe vs.

Johns Manville, Alken Basin vs. Triple A Batteries, 4:15 p.m.; Orangemen vs.

Carstar, Sheraton Red Deer vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, Driven vs. Silver Spurs, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Brandon 28 21 5 2 0 133 92 44 Regina 27 16 10 1 0 98 74 33 Swift Current 30 14 12 0 4 88 94 32 Moose Jaw 27 12 12 2 1 80 91 27 Prince Albert 27 13 14 0 0 84 92 26 Saskatoon 27 7 18 2 0 73 126 16 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Medicine Hat 27 19 6 1 1 102 Calgary 29 15 11 1 2 110 Edmonton 29 14 10 3 2 89 Red Deer 29 14 11 3 1 105 Kootenay 28 13 15 0 0 85 Lethbridge 27 6 17 3 1 63 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 28 22 3 3 0 129 Victoria 30 15 13 2 0 97 Kamloops 29 11 13 3 2 88 Prince George 27 13 14 0 0 82 Vancouver 28 10 18 0 0 84

GB 5 1/2 8 10 13 GB 1 2 1/2 5 1/2 8 GB 1 1 1/2 4 8

GB 2 2 2 6 1/2 GB 5 9 9 9

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

14 12 11 9 5

2 5 8 8 13

.875 .706 .579 .529 .278

2 1/2 4 1/2 5 1/2 10

Monday’s Games San Antonio 109, Philadelphia 103 Washington 107, Miami 86 Denver 103, Utah 101 L.A. Clippers 127, Minnesota 101 Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 111, Milwaukee 108 Atlanta 109, Boston 105 L.A. Lakers 106, Detroit 96 Brooklyn 98, New York 93 New Orleans 112, Oklahoma City 104 Dallas 132, Chicago 129,2OT Phoenix 116, Indiana 99 Portland 105, Denver 103 Toronto at Sacramento, late Orlando at Golden State, late Wednesday’s Games L.A. Lakers at Washington, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Utah, 7 p.m.

Orlando at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Cleveland at New York, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Portland, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

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Red Deer’s Lutz finishes 19th at Athletics Canada cross-country championship Hunting Hills student Eric Lutz turned in the best time among Central Alberta runners competing in the Athletics Canada cross-country championship at Vancouver during the weekend.

Competing in the youth men’s category, Lutz covered the sixkilometre course in 20 minutes, 50 seconds, good for 19th place.

The winner finished in 19:49.

Noah Mulzet of Lindsay Thurber and Jadon Bernatsky of Lacombe placed 86th and 103rd in the youth men’s category with respective times of 23:00 and 23:36.

Former Hunting Hills students Matt Hope and Derrick Evans finished 26th and 48th in the junior men’s eight km division with times of 28:10 and 28:51, while Innisfail’s Emily Lucas placed 37th in the four km youth women’s class in 16:30.

Other Central Alberta runners competing in youth women’s included Dina Iatrou (55th, 16:37), Jill Stewart (74th, 17:04) and Haley Kitt (106th, 18:13) of Hunting Hills, and Amy Severtson (103rd, 18:01) of Innisfail.

Jodi Nesbitt of Red Deer finished 28th in the eight km senior women’s division with a time of 31:42.

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U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt 25 16 5 3 1 86 66 36 25 14 8 3 0 70 69 31 29 14 12 0 3 96 105 31 27 15 12 0 0 75 70 30 27 11 12 2 2 70 75 26

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Tuesday’s results Calgary 9 Red Deer 5 Saskatoon at Kamloops, late Portland at Victoria, late

Friday’s games Lethbridge at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Saskatoon at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Portland at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Tri-City at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 26 17 6 3 37 Montreal 26 17 7 2 36 Detroit 25 14 6 5 33 Toronto 24 13 8 3 29 Boston 25 14 10 1 29 Florida 23 10 7 6 26 Ottawa 24 10 9 5 25 Buffalo 25 9 14 2 20

GF GA 92 69 69 66 77 65 81 72 63 61 50 58 63 66 45 77

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 24 17 5 2 36

GF GA 82 55

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 9 3 0 .750 Miami 7 5 0 .583 Buffalo 7 5 0 .583 N.Y. Jets 2 10 0 .167 South W L T Pct Indianapolis 8 4 0 .667 Houston 6 6 0 .500 Tennessee 2 10 0 .167 Jacksonville 2 10 0 .167 North W L T Pct Cincinnati 8 3 1 .708 Baltimore 7 5 0 .583 Pittsburgh 7 5 0 .583 Cleveland 7 5 0 .583 West W L T Pct Denver 9 3 0 .750 San Diego 8 4 0 .667 Kansas City 7 5 0 .583 Oakland 1 11 0 .083

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 24 16 6 2 34 St. Louis 24 16 6 2 34 Chicago 24 15 8 1 31 Winnipeg 25 12 9 4 28 Minnesota 23 13 9 1 27 Dallas 25 9 11 5 23 Colorado 25 9 11 5 23

80 71 68 58 61 56 54

67 70 69 72 74 69 84

GF GA 65 48 66 51 74 48 52 56 65 55 73 89 67 79

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 25 17 7 1 35 79 69 Anaheim 26 15 6 5 35 71 68 Calgary 26 16 8 2 34 83 66 Los Angeles 24 12 7 5 29 65 57 San Jose 25 11 10 4 26 68 70 Arizona 26 10 13 3 23 64 81 Edmonton 25 6 15 4 16 56 87 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Rangers 3 Columbus 2, Florida 1 Montreal 4, Colorado 3 Arizona 5, Edmonton 2 Anaheim 3, Boston 2

Shots on goal Dallas 15 10 13 - 38 Toronto 14 16 10 - 40 Goal - Dallas: Lehtonen (L, 9-6-5); Toronto: Bernier (W, 9-5-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Dallas: 0-5; Toronto: 1-7.

Panthers 4, Red Wings 3 First Period 1. Detroit, Tatar 10 (Datsyuk, Weiss) 6:47 (pp).

2. Florida, Hayes 6 (Trocheck, Kulikov) 15:11.

Penalties - Quincey Det (hooking) 1:32, Mitchell Fla (high-sticking) 4:25, Mitchell Fla (roughing) 4:25.

Second Period 3. Florida, Bergenheim 4 (Jokinen, Boyes) 12:21.

Penalties - Fleischmann Fla (goaltender interference) 16:36.

Third Period 4. Florida, Trocheck 2 (Hayes) :27.

5. Florida, Ekblad 4 (Huberdeau, Trocheck) 8:00.

6. Detroit, Datsyuk 10 (unassisted) 9:32.

7. Detroit, Nyquist 12 (Franzen, Zetterberg) 19:01.

Penalties - Huberdeau Fla (tripping) 5:28.

Shots on goal Florida 14 7 10 - 31 Detroit 13 11 17 - 41 Goal - Florida: Luongo (W, 8-5-5); Detroit: Howard (L, 11-5-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Florida: 0-1; Detroit: 1-4.

Sabres 2, Lightning 1 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Kucherov TB (interference) 0:35, Paquette TB (high-sticking) 5:43.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Weber Buf (delay of game) 17:51.

Third Period 1. Tampa Bay, Palat 7 (Johnson, Kucherov) 9:52.

2. Buffalo, Girgensons 8 (Myers, Gorges) 16:06.

Penalties - Gionta Buf (hooking) 4:35.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties - None.

Shootout - Buffalo wins 2-0 Tampa Bay : Palat miss, Callahan miss.

Buffalo : Hodgson goal, Ennis goal.

Shots on goal Tampa Bay 2 16 7 2 - 27 Buffalo 7 4 8 3 - 22 Goal - Tampa Bay: Nabokov (LO, 2-3-1); Buffalo: Enroth (W, 6-9-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Tampa Bay: 0-2; Buffalo: 0-2.

Thursday’s Games Vancouver at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Washington at Carolina, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

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

Columbus at Florida,5:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Arizona, 7 p.m.

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

Tuesday’s summaries Flames 5, Coyotes 2 First Period 1. Calgary, Jones 4 (Glencross, Giordano) 1:12.

2. Arizona, Ekman-Larsson 5 (Erat, McMillan) 8:25.

3. Calgary, Jooris 6 (Russell, Wideman) 18:36.

Penalties - Giordano Cgy (high-sticking) 19:52.

Second Period 4. Arizona, Gagner 3 (Hanzal, Yandle) 2:02.

5. Calgary, Jooris 7 (Gaudreau, Hudler) 7:13.

Penalties - Doan Ari (interference) 16:35.

Third Period 6. Calgary, Monahan 9 (Wideman, Glencross) 8:46.

7. Calgary, Jooris 8 (Gaudreau, Hudler) 19:14 (en-pp).

Penalties - Vitale Ari (interference) 2:55, Hanzal Ari (charging) 18:52.

Shots on goal Arizona 10 11 8 - 29 Calgary 10 9 5 - 24 Goal - Arizona: Smith (L, 5-12-2); Calgary: Ramo (W, 7-2-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Arizona: 0-1; Calgary: 1-3.

Maple Leafs 5, Stars 3 First Period 1. Toronto, Bozak 12 (Phaneuf) :27.

2. Toronto, Kadri 6 (Santorelli, Franson) 15:16.

Penalties - Fiddler Dal (roughing) 7:46, Panik Tor (hooking) 13:00, Phaneuf Tor (tripping) 17:20, Hemsky Dal (slashing) 19:27.

Second Period 3. Toronto, Kessel 12 (Phaneuf, Kadri) :56 (pp).

4. Dallas, Spezza 5 (Cole, Oleksiak) 5:06.

5. Toronto, Lupul 4 (Franson, Santorelli) 9:31.

Penalties - Spezza Dal (high-sticking) 7:00, Eakin Dal (high-sticking) 16:03, Roussel Dal (roughing) 16:51.

Third Period 6. Dallas, Garbutt 4 (Goligoski, Klingberg) 2:11.

7. Toronto, Lupul 5 (Kadri, Santorelli) 5:20.

8. Dallas, Hemsky 2 (Horcoff, Goligoski) 15:25.

Penalties - Eakin Dal (high-sticking) 1:12, Santorelli Tor (tripping) 2:07, Robidas Tor (holding) 6:53, Holland Tor (high-sticking) 7:23, Ja. Benn Dal (highsticking) 19:10.

Canucks 4, Capitals 3 First Period 1. Vancouver, Dorsett 3 (Horvat, Hansen) 17:58.

Penalties - None.

Second Period 2. Washington, Carlson 3 (Backstrom) 2:45.

3. Vancouver, D. Sedin 5 (H. Sedin, Vrbata) 10:01 (pp).

4. Vancouver, Vrbata 11 (Edler, D. Sedin) 12:47 (pp).

5. Washington, Carlson 4 (Chimera, Ward) 14:43.

Penalties - Brouwer Wash (holding) 8:51, Beagle Wash (hooking) 11:45, Bieksa Vcr (slashing) 16:54.

Third Period 6. Washington, Laich 1 (Fehr, Carlson) 4:39.

7. Vancouver, D. Sedin 6 (H. Sedin) 9:39 (pp).

Penalties - Wilson Wash (interference) 3:54, Dorsett Vcr (Embellishment) 3:54, Schmidt Wash (delay of game) 9:03, Ovechkin Wash (interference) 12:26.

Shots on goal Vancouver 12 13 7 - 32 Washington 5 13 7 - 25 Goal - Vancouver: Miller (W, 16-4-0); Washington: Holtby (L, 8-7-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Vancouver: 3-4; Washington: 0-1.

Hurricanes 2, Predators 1 First Period 1. Carolina, Skinner 6 (Nestrasil, Liles) 18:59.

Penalties - None.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - None.

Third Period 2. Carolina, Rask 4 (Skinner) :55.

3. Nashville, Ribeiro 7 (Josi) 15:14.

Penalties - Fisher Nash (tripping) 2:09, Ribeiro Nash (hooking) 7:38, Nash Car (tripping) 19:00.

Shots on goal Nashville 8 10 15 - 33 Carolina 6 13 6 - 25 Goal - Nashville: Rinne (L, 16-4-1); Carolina: Ward (W, 8-8-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Nashville: 0-1; Carolina: 0-2.

NHL Scoring Leaders Sidney Crosby, Pgh Jakub Voracek, Pha Tyler Seguin, Dal Steven Stamkos, TB Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Claude Giroux, Pha Rick Nash, NYR Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Tyler Johnson, TB Patric Hornqvist, Pgh

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Pts 33 32 31 29 29 27 26 26 26 25

PF 378 301 264 190

PA 253 232 217 319

PF 382 287 213 186

PA 283 247 338 329

PF 260 328 320 252

PA 247 242 298 245

PF 361 279 277 176

PA 276 249 224 337

PF 375 302 257 244

PA 285 273 319 322

Atlanta New Orleans Carolina Tampa Bay

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Green Bay Detroit Chicago Minnesota

W 9 8 5 5

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PA 267 207 337 257

Pct .750 .667 .583 .417

PF 258 298 231 261

PA 224 221 244 285

Monday’s Game Miami 16, N.Y. Jets 13 Thursday, Dec. 4 Dallas at Chicago, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 7 N.Y. Giants at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Carolina at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

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

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Washington, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Miami, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Houston at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Arizona, 2:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Seattle at Philadelphia, 2:25 p.m.

New England at San Diego, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 8 Atlanta at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

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Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

Hitmen 9, Rebels 5 First Period 1. Calgary, Malenstyn 3 (Stallard, Bensmiller) 2:24.

2. Calgary, Lang 12 (Kanzig) 3:06.

3. Calgary, Rankin 9 (Tambellini, Sanheim) 6:55.

4. Calgary, Rankin 10 (Lang, Bean) 11:37 (pp).

5. Calgary, Tambellini 15 (Rankin, Shields) 15:25.

Penalties - Feser RD (tripping) 10:17, Morrison CAL (tripping) 18:17, Nell RD (slashing) 18:58.

Second Period 6. Red Deer, Sheen 4 (Sandhu, Strand) 5:05.

7. Calgary, Rankin 11 (Lang) 8:04.

8. Red Deer, Maxwell 8 (Strand, Cote) 14:03.

Penalties - Virtanen CAL (slashing) 0:39, Virtanen CAL (holding opp. stick) 8:50, Donald CAL (interference) 12:21, Polei RD (inter. on goaltender) 12:56, Kanzig CAL (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 13:30, Doetzel RD (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 13:30, Bleackley RD (cross-checking) 15:36.

Third Period 9. Red Deer, Kopeck 9 (Fleury, Sandhu) 1:27 (pp).

10. Red Deer, Sheen 5 (De Wit) 7:10.

11. Calgary, Bean 1 (Fazleev, Sanheim) 11:05.

12. Red Deer, Cote 5 (Sheen, Musil) 12:55 (pp).

13. Calgary, Draude 3 (Rankin) 18:50 (-EN).

14. Calgary, Malenstyn 4 (Stallard, Donald) 19:12.

Penalties - Rankin CAL (hooking) 0:43, Malenstyn CAL (hooking) 3:46, Rankin CAL (roughing) 11:43, Draude CAL (hooking) 16:03, Virtanen CAL (boarding) 18:44, Dixon RD (roughing) 18:44.

Shots on goal Calgary 10 9 8 - 27 Red Deer 10 9 17 - 36 Goal - Calgary: Shields (W, 11-8-0); Red Deer: Toth (L, 13-8-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Calgary: 1-4; Red Deer: 2-8.

Pittsburgh

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Tuesday’s Games Buffalo 2, Tampa Bay 1, SO N.Y. Islanders 3, Ottawa 2, OT Pittsburgh 1, New Jersey 0 Vancouver 4, Washington 3 Carolina 2, Nashville 1 Toronto 5, Dallas 3 Florida 4, Detroit 3 Calgary 5, Arizona 2 Philadelphia at San Jose, late Boston at Los Angeles, late

Wednesday’s games Brandon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Saskatoon at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 9 3 0 .750 Dallas 8 4 0 .667 N.Y. Giants 3 9 0 .250 Washington 3 9 0 .250

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Lake Louise the launching pad in Vonn’s second comeback from injury

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - Lindsey Vonn put her arms in the air and gave a cheer in the finish area Tuesday in Lake Louise, Alta.

It’s been a while since the world’s most recognizable woman on skis felt that happy after crossing the finish line.

Vonn finished a modest 18th in the first of three scheduled training runs for the season-opening women’s World Cup downhill Friday. The American was 1.82 seconds back of leader Lotte Smiseth Sejersted of Norway.

Tina Maze of Slovenia was second and Mirjam Puchner of Austria was third. The lone Canadian, Larisa Yurkiw of Owen Sound, Ont., was 40th.

What Vonn celebrated was her knee feeling its strongest since her highspeed crash during a super-G race at the 2013 world alpine ski championships. The four-time overall World Cup champion will race for the first time in almost a year Friday.

Another downhill is scheduled for Saturday followed by Sunday’s superG. “This is really the first race back that I’ve been 100 per cent,” Vonn said Tuesday at the mountain resort west of Calgary.

“All my ligaments are intact right now and I feel really good. I’m just having fun and enjoying being back on the World Cup.” Vonn tore a pair of ligaments in her right knee and broke a bone in that leg when she crashed Feb. 5, 2013. With

the 2014 Sochi Games on the horizon and a desire to defend her Olympic downhill title, Vonn rushed her return following surgery.

Her comeback was on track until she tore one of the reconstructed ligaments just prior to the Lake Louise World Cup a year ago.

On a mountain where she’s won 14 times in her career, Vonn finished 40th, 11th and fifth in the two downhills and a super-G respectively in Lake Louise. Spraining a knee ligament two weeks later in Val-d’Isere, France, forced Vonn to give up on competing in Sochi and undergo surgery again.

The 30-year-old says she did not push her return or take major risks this time. Vonn is racing with a brace on her right knee.

“I was very cautious with my progression on snow,” Vonn said. “I found the rhythm pretty quickly. I’m taking it a little bit easier than I did last year.

I’m not pushing it very much in training.

“I haven’t had a lot of race training where I’m pushing myself 100 per cent.

I’ve only had about two days of that.”

If there’s any woman who can throw her skis into high gear at Lake Louise, it’s Vonn. She’s twice achieved a Lake Louise hat trick of wining both downhills and the super-G in 2011 and 2012.

Her sweep in 2011 came a few days after she announced she was divorcing Thomas Vonn, her husband of four years. Vonn has been in a relationship for two years with Tiger Woods, who is golfing this week in the Hero World Challenge in Florida.

With a win streak of seven in a row

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Lindsey Vonn races the course in the first training run for the World Cup women’s downhill ski race in Lake Louise on Tuesday. at Lake Louise prior to her initial knee injury, the resort was dubbed “Lake Lindsey.”

“I haven’t been back here racing healthy for two years now and I finally feel really good,” Vonn said. “I feel confident and I love Lake Louise. It’s always been a place with amazing memories.

“I just have more confidence than last year obviously because of my health. I just feel a lot stronger than I was last year having blown out my knee for a second time.”

At 59 World Cup victories, Vonn is three away from matching the record of 62 held by Annemarie Moser-Proell of Austria.

Vonn once felt so confident in Lake Louise she’d asked the world governing body of the sport to let her compete in the men’s World Cup on the same mountain. FIS denied her request.

Her expectations are more modest for Friday.

“The first race, I’m not really sure what to expect,” Vonn said.

“I’m hoping for a top-five. That would be great and then on the weekend hopefully progress and get a little bit faster, but it’s hard for me to set expectations because I haven’t been racing in so long.

“I’m just going to focus on good execution of my race and good skiing and hopefully that will be enough.”

UFC will issue fighter uniforms next year with Reebok deal THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - UFC fighters will wear uniforms made by Reebok next year after the promotion agreed to a sponsorship deal with the sports apparel company.

UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta said the six-year deal will change the esthetics and economics of the world’s dominant mixed martial arts promotion by creating a professional, standard look for fighters’ shorts and additional gear in a famously individualistic sport. The uniforms will be revealed shortly before the fighters don them in July.

“It elevates the sport,” UFC President Dana White said. “For everybody to be dressed the same, to look the

same, it just makes everything more professional. Every year, we take this thing to another level.”

The UFC will no longer allow its fighters to sell sponsorship patches on their trunks, a time-honoured tradition in MMA and boxing. White and Fertitta said the new deal largely will make up for the lost revenue, and the fighters still can have sponsorship deals outside the octagon.

Fertitta said the promotion is distributing the “vast majority” of the money from its Reebok deal directly to its fighters, partly in a tiered system based on divisional rankings. White said the UFC itself will make almost no money from the deal for the first few years.

“We’ve done a lot of research in

the last two to three years,” Fertitta said. “We feel like we’ve created a program that’s going to be worth at least as much, and in some cases more, than they’re making (with sponsorships).”

Some fighters have criticized the prospect of UFC uniforms when the idea was floated by White in recent years, concerned about the interruption of sponsorship deals that sometimes pay the fighters more than their UFC contracts. Other fighters welcome their piece of a major sportswear deal while fighting in uniforms comparable to the gear worn by athletes in the other major sports.

“I think it’s good for the UFC brand,” welterweight title contender Robbie Lawler said. “I think it’s going to be nice for the fighters to get a little

extra money, and I think in the end it’s going to be a little easier. We’re going to be getting some of the sponsorship money that the UFC is already getting.

It’s going to be big for the sport.”

Yet the UFC will eliminate many of its fighters’ current methods of making money in a sport that’s notoriously unprofitable for up-and-coming fighters.

For instance, the UFC also is doing away with those garish, sometimes amateurish sponsorship banners typically hung behind competitors.

“It makes me physically sick to my stomach when I see those guys rolling out that banner, but I never stopped it because I didn’t want to take money away from guys when I couldn’t supplement that money,” White said. “Now we can give them something better.”

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WINDERMERE, Fla. — Tiger Woods is making his latest comeback in golf with an eye to the past.

Equipped with a new teacher and a stronger body, Woods said Tuesday he is working on a swing that incorporates previous moves that date as far back as his amateur days.

He referred to it as “new, but old,” and the 14-time major champion will start testing it this week against an 18man field of elite players at the Hero World Challenge.

How old were some of those videotapes he watched of his previous swing?

“Actually, it’s pretty interesting trying to find a VHS recorder,” Woods said.

“I have a lot of tape like that. Fortunately, my mom is of age where she has that still in the house. So that was very beneficial to look at some of the old tapes.”

Otherwise, it’s another new beginning.

This is the fifth time Woods has returned from injury - the back, this time - over the last five years. The breaks have ranged from four weeks to four months. He last competed on Aug. 9 when he missed the cut at the PGA Championship, ending his shortest season (eight tournaments) since his 2008 knee surgery and the first time he did not have a top 10.

Woods said he had enough time off to let his body heal and to think about where he wants his game to go.

First, he split with swing coach Sean Foley, ending a three-year relationship that produced eight PGA Tour wins but no majors.

“I think that physically, I just wasn’t able to do some of the things that we wanted to do in the golf swing,” Woods said.

Woods said there was no reason to look back at old swings at the time because he felt he was headed in the right direction - three victories in 2012, and five wins in 2013 in which he was voted PGA Tour player of the year for the 11th time. Those two years were relatively free of injuries.

“But unfortunately, physically I was getting damaged doing it,” he said.

“So in retrospect, you look at it. Was I ever hurt when I was little? Granted, I don’t think we all were. I think we all could jump off roofs and nothing would break.

But playing detective and looking back on it, you have to somewhat have an understanding physically of where you are at the time.”

He announced just over a week ago that he had hired Dallas-based Chris

Como as a swing consultant, after longtime friend Notah Begay put them together.

Woods said he had a plan, and that Como was on the same page.

“I was very surprised and very excited to see what he felt my swing should look like, and should look like going forward,” Woods said.

“Because that was very similar to the vision I had.”

Woods did not delve into specifics of his swing, which he rarely did when going through an overhaul with Butch Harmon, then Hank Haney and Foley.

“It is new, but it’s old,” he said. “I say that because I haven’t done it in a very long time. We looked at a lot of video from when I was a junior, in junior and amateur golf. ... And it was quite interesting to see where my swing was then and how much force I could generate with a very skinny frame. How did I do that? How do I generate that much power? That’s kind of what we are getting back into it.”

Even so, Woods concedes that age - he turns 39 at the end of the month has kept him from overpowering golf the way he once did.

Along with four operations on his left knee, and problems with his Achilles tendon in 2011, Woods lately has been coping with back problems. He had surgery a week before the Masters and missed two majors. Upon his return in the summer, he had his worst 72-hole showing in the British Open and missed the cut in the PGA Championship.

“I’ve gotten stronger. I’ve gotten more explosive. I’ve gotten faster,” he said.

“I now just need to hit more balls.

But the body is good. I don’t have the sharp pain like I used to at the beginning of the year. I don’t have that anymore. I still have some aches and pains, just like anybody else who is my age and older.”

It took Woods about 18 months to work out the big change under Harmon, and about a year to adapt to changes under Haney. He won his first tournament just over a year after working with Foley. He doesn’t know how long this change will take, although he said the motor patterns are vaguely familiar.

“Am I game ready? Probably not quite as I would like to be,” Woods said.

“How long does it take me to get back into the flow of a round? Sometimes it takes me a shot, sometimes it takes me three or four holes after a long layoff. I don’t know. We’ll see on Thursday.”

Kris Medlen, Brandon Beachy, Eric Young Jr let go ahead of deadline

NEW YORK — Move over, Sid. Step aside, P.K. There’s a new leading vote-getter in the 2015 NHL all-star fan vote and it’s not one of the usual names. Buffalo Sabres centre Zemgus Girgensons zoomed to the top of the overall leaderboard Tuesday with a whopping 399,356 votes, the NHL said in a release.

Subban, the Montreal Canadiens’ star defenceman, led all blue-liners but fell to second overall with 240,362 votes. Teammate Carey Price led all netminders with 204,923 votes.

Girgensons, a 20-year-old Riga native, had 13 points in 24 games entering play Tuesday night.

After the first week of voting via the

NHL’s website and app, Girgensons was a distant 22nd among forwards with 21,059 votes — about one-quarter of Crosby’s first-week total (87,858).

Crosby, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ captain, dropped to second among forwards and fourth overall with 218,672 votes.

Voting concludes Jan. 1, with the top six vote-getters by position — three forwards, two defencemen and one goaltender — locking up spots in the Jan. 25 all-star game in Columbus.

Girgensons was selected by the Sabres with the 14th overall pick in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. The six-footone 190-pounder played five games for Latvia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Entering play Tuesday, the 8-14-2 Sabres were 14th in the 16-team Eastern Conference with 18 points.

Nine of 30 players on preliminary U.S. world junior roster come from CHL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Nine of the 30 players named to the preliminary U.S. world junior roster come from the Canadian Hockey League, and it’s likely the final team will have significant influence from there.

Forwards Michael McCarron (OHL London), Sonny Milano (OHL Plymouth), Chase DeLeo (WHL Portland), Cole Cassels (OHL Oshawa) and Adam Erne (QMJHL Quebec), defencemen Anthony DeAngelo (OHL Sarnia) and Brandon Carlo (WHL Tri-City) and goaltenders Brandon Halverson (OHL Sault Ste Marie) and Alex Nedeljkovic (Plymouth) will attend the Dec. 16-19 camp in Boston.

Centre Jack Eichel from Boston University and defenceman Noah Hanifin from Boston College, who are expected to be picked just behind Connor McDa-

vid in next year’s NHL draft, are shooins to make the team, barring injury.

Boston College goaltender Thatcher Demko, a second-round pick of the Vancouver Canucks, will also be at the camp.

The six-foot-five 245-pound McCarron was the Montreal Canadiens’ firstround pick in 2013. Cassels was picked in the third round in 2013 by the Canucks, and DeLeo went in the fourth round to the Winnipeg Jets this year.

Canada has just two 2015 draft-eligible players (McDavid, Kingston’s Lawson Crouse) among the 29 players coming to next week’s camp in Toronto. The United States has five: Eichel, Hanifin, Carlo, Zach Werenski and Jeremy Bracco.

The Americans also have one 2016 draft-eligible player on their preliminary roster: forward Auston Matthews.

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Los Angeles Angels infielder Gordon Beckham and Oakland first baseman Kyle Blanks also were among the players let go.

More than 200 players entered Tuesday eligible for salary arbitration this

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Oakland agreed to one-year contracts with first baseman Ike Davis ($3.8 million) and right-hander Fernando Rodriguez ($635,000). In addition, Seattle finalized its $100 million, seven-year deal with All-Star third baseman Kyle Seager, an agreement from last week that had been pending completion.

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A slight bump in the road has not stalled Red Deer’s small bus pilot.

While a 18-seater commuter bus has been on the road since September, the original pilot proposed two small buses that would service low ridership routes and areas of the city that conventional buses could not reach.

Transit manager George Penny said one of the buses was “written off” after it was in an accident on its way to Red Deer from the United States.

A new bus, which the city will lease, is expected to arrive later this month.

The first bus has been running off peak hours on Route 6 (Timberlands) and Route 50 (Edgar Industrial Area), while the city’s regular 40-foot buses have been on the road during peak and other hours.

Penny did not have ridership numbers available but he said the ridership has been good.

“We haven’t come to a point where we had too many people,” said Penny.

“It really shows us that it is the type of service that we can implement.”

The bus has seating for 18 people and enough room for 12 people to stand.

The second bus will likely service areas around Michener Centre and the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. The service is expected to start by the end of December.

Penny said the city has met with people from the Kerry Wood Nature Centre to determine their ridership needs.

Penny said they will run the bus a couple times a day to do some pickups and dropoffs near Kerry Wood and Michener Centre.

City council approved the $72,600 expenditure ($35,000 lease cost, $15,000 maintenance and $22,600 fuel) for the pilot at the mid-year budget review in August. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Criminal harassment charges stayed against man undergoing assessment Criminal harassment charges have been stayed against a Red Deer man now who is undergoing to mental health assessment after admitting to killing his father.

Aaron Timothy Guilbault, 33, was declared not criminally responsible

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Rayshell Daz is assisted by Elgzoli Ahmed in decorating her gingerbread house during the Ultimate Gingerbread Build-off at the Red Deer Public Library’s downtown location Tuesday. The Snell Auditorium was packed with kids building gingerbread houses and eating a fair amount of candy, too.

Missing cat reunited with owners A Sylvan Lake cat who went missing about three months ago is back home after being discovered 25 km away in Red Deer.

Katie Kat was taken to Alberta Animal Services on Monday after she was found in West Park.

Dezerae Jenkins, animal care manager with Alberta Animal Services, said being able to reunite a cat with its family is very rare — less than one per cent of cats turned into the Red Deer shelter — even for those with a microchip implanted beneath their skin or a tattoo in their ear.

“A lot of times if we get a pet in with a tattoo or microchip it’s unreadable or

untraceable. You can always scan the chip but the owners need to update the information if they’ve moved, changed phone numbers, with the microchip company,” Jenkins said on Tuesday.

Within half an hour of contacting Dawn and Duane Bennie from information traced through Katie Kat’s tattoo, she was back with her family who couldn’t be happier.

“We just can’t believe she is still alive. There were a couple of cougar sightings in Sylvan. We thought it was a coyote or a cougar,” said Duane Bennie, of Sylvan Lake.

One morning, the cat just didn’t show up for breakfast.

Bennie said Katie Kat never wandered far from home before.

“For her to venture even three doors down, she would have had to

hold her brother’s hand,” he said with a laugh about their cat Jaxon who became depressed after Katie Kat went missing. They even adopted another cat, Miss T, to cheer him up.

Bennie said it’s a mystery how Katie Kat made it to Red Deer.

“She’s in beautiful health. Someone must have been taking care of her.”

The family welcomed her home with one of her favourite meals — pineapple pizza.

“She loves pizza toppings,” Bennie said about Katie Kat who also enjoys peanut butter and jam sandwiches.

“She’s got a weird sweet tooth.”

The three-cat family is now looking into GPS microchips for their felines. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

for killing his father, Timothy Bruce Guilbault, 58, at a family cabin west of Bowden on Nov. 3, 2012.

After hearing evidence in the Court of Queen’s Bench, Justice Monica Bast ruled that the younger man was suffering a mental disorder making him incapable of understanding the nature of his offence or that it was morally wrong.

At the time of his arrest, two days after his father’s death, Guilbault was already facing criminal charges in

connection with complaints from two women that he had been stalking them.

Court heard during his murder trial that Guilbault felt that God had promised him two women to be his soulmates in his quest to save the world.

Represented by defence counsel Patty MacNaughton, he was scheduled to stand trial next week on the criminal harassment charges and a single charge of breaching release conditions.

The Crown stayed all three charges

in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday, meaning they remain in limbo for one year and are deemed dismissed if no action is taken within that time frame.

Guilbault is undergoing a mental health assessment at the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre in Calgary.

His father was a senior employee for the Nova Chemicals plant at Joffre and was on Red Deer city council from 1986 to 1995.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

Volunteer firefighters donating refurbished truck to Paraguay A small city in Paraguay with a new fire hall is getting its first fire truck, thanks to the Lacombe Firefighters Association.

Volunteer firefighters have taken a decommissioned fire truck that previously served Clive and are refurbishing and re-equipping it before giving it to the City of Caazapa in southern Paraguay.

Firefighters association president Drayton Bussiere said they were pointed towards Paraguay by Lacombe firefighter Uwe Kurth, who is from the South American country and was there earlier this year visiting family.

“While he was there he kind of did a little bit of recon work for us,” said Bussiere. “Using the information about Caazapa, we decided they were good candidates for what we were doing.”

Well-known local international charity A Better World has also provided support, with help from Lacombe

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Volunteers are are refurbishing and re-equipping a fire truck donated by Lacombe County before giving it to the City of Caazapa in southern Paraguay. firefighter and charity member Rob Weich, and Lacombe County donated the truck.

A key consideration was finding a community that had the people and resources to make good use of the pumper truck. As it turns out, Caazapa, a

community of about 24,000, had recently built its first fire hall but still has no equipment, let alone a truck.

The Clive truck, which is more than 20 years old, had been retired in keeping with Canadian fire standards.

“It’s a truck that’s still in very good shape and has little mileage,” Bussiere said. “It’s still a very good truck. For firefighters in Paraguay, it’s got a lifetime of service yet.”

To make it fully operational, local volunteers are donating their used equipment, such as breathing apparatus, and fundraising for other costs, including the shipping bill, which could be in the range of $20,000.

“Our biggest expense is going to be the actual shipment of the truck. We want to send them a truck that we can give to them and they can use right away.”

The plan is to truck the pumper to Vancouver, where it will be put on a ship. It will likely be unloaded in Chile before being driven or trucked to its new home.

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some time. A team of volunteer firefighters is also planning to go to Caazapa to train their Paraguayan counterparts on how to maintain and operate the truck, and in the latest firefighting techniques.

“They do have some members who have graduated from some fire training down there, but they still need more training,” he said.

Lacombe’s Firefighters Ball, which takes place on Saturday, is being used as a fundraiser. Another fundraiser will take place next summer and in the meantime donations can be made to the project through the firefighters association.

Tickets to the Firemans Ball costs $70 per person or a table of eight costs $500. It takes place at the Lacombe Memorial Centre and the doors open at 5:30 p.m., followed by a dinner, dance and live music.

For more information on the fire truck, project call Bussiere at 403-3581697 or email draytonbussiere@hotmail.com. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Fundraiser for cancer victim Saturday A fundraiser in Red Deer on Saturday will raise money for a young father diagnosed with cancer who has been told he has only a few months to live.

The event is aimed at helping Jason Tom-Kong, 35, seek special cancer treatment in Arizona. The treatment cost ranges from $75,000 to $175,000.

Jason and Bambi Tom-Kong live in Red Deer and have two young children, Zackary, six, and Kisenya, four.

Jason Tom-Kong was diagnosed with tongue cancer and has had extensive surgery and treatment at University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.

He has undergone tongue reconstruction using arm and leg muscles, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Then he had a second surgery to remove his tongue, and a reconstruction again using his own muscles. His lower jaw was removed. He has had to learn how to walk again because a bone from his lower leg was used to reconstruct his jaw.

Bambi Tom-Kong, 32, said Monday that her husband was diagnosed in 2013, and was recently told he has only three months to live. They hope that the special treatment for cancer in Arizona will give him a chance.

Saturday’s event is at Bo’s Bar and Grill, at 2310 50th Ave. For tickets, which are $15 each, contact Cherise Verbonac at 403-872-8084. The event runs from 7 to 11 p.m. and includes a silent auction and live band.

More information can be found on Facebook at Kom-Tong Cancer Cause Fundraiser at Bo’s.

Also, online fundraising is underway. People can donate by going to gofundme.com/hdrsdw.

Sylvan assault suspects sought Sylvan Lake RCMP are looking for three suspects who assaulted a man after robbing his apartment on Sunday.

Police say the victim was going up the stairs at his apartment at 59 Hinshaw Drive in Sylvan Lake when a man attacked him around 1:45 a.m.

The suspect struck the victim in the face multiple times, causing a large gash to his chin area. Three suspects then fled the apartment with jewelry, the victim’s car keys and his car.

One suspect is described as a Caucasian man with long straight blond hair and a full beard. He wore a beige jacket with a green crest on the left chest, blue jeans and brown boots.

A second suspect is described as a Caucasian man with short hair, very muscular and wearing a jacket.

The third suspect is described as a short and thin Caucasian female. She wore a red tank top, had a full sleeve tattoo down her arm and wore blue or navy sweat pants, and running shoes. She did not wear a jacket.

The victim’s car is a four-door 2014 Mazda 2, dark black in colour, bearing Alberta licence plate K65217.

For information on the suspects, call the Sylvan Lake RCMP at 403-858-7200 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Community grants handed out More than $83,000 in grants has been handed out to more than 15 organizations this year by the Red Deer and District Community Foundation.

The recently announced recipients of the spring and fall grant programs include organizations such as the Red Deer Neighbourhood Watch Association, the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, the Ellis Bird Farm and more.

The size of the grants ranged from $11,350 for the Association of Central Alberta Youth Unlimited and their Stepping Stones program, which provides assistance to pregnant and parenting youth, to $2,500 to the Red Deer Action Group Society’s ride subsidy program.

Also announced were the recipients of the Sylvan Lake Community Endowment Fund grants. Among the six who received grants were the Sylvan Lake and area community partners association, Bethany Sylvan Lake, Red Deer Symphony for their in school program for Sylvan Lake schools and the Butt Ugly Anti-Tobacco Society’s Butt Ugly program.

For a complete list of the grant recipients, visit the community foundation’s website at www.rddcf. ca.

The deadline for the community foundation’s 2014 spring grants program is April 1, 2015, at 4:30 p.m.

Grant application and criteria will be posted to the foundation’s website www.rddcf.ca.

For more information, call 403-341-6911.

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A track hoe operator with Bettenson’s Sand and Gravel works to dig up earth on the site of a new fivestorey, $44-million parkade outside the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Construction is expected to cause some difficulties for traffic around the facility and visitors to the hospital are advised to use public parking lots rather than on-street parking, if possible. For the duration of the project, additional public parking has been made available in the lot south of the hospital, along 39th Street.

Judge Jim Mitchell in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday instead.

Crown prosecutor Maurice Collard read an agreed statement of facts outlining an incident in which the man slashed at the child with a fork that had been sitting in hot oil and then pushed the mother backward into the bathtub as she attempted to block his access to her children.

Mitchell pronounced a global sentence of seven days on two charges of assault and one charge of uttering a death threat, with the sentence satisfied by the year the man had served in pre-trial custody before being released on bail.

Penhold man awaits appeal A former Penhold man accused of groping his 13-year-old stepdaughter remains in prison, awaiting a decision by the Alberta Court of Appeal in Calgary.

The 40-year-old man, a former British soldier, was convicted of a single count of sexual touching before Justice Keith Yamauchi in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Nov. 8, 2013. His name is withheld to protect the girl’s identity.

Yamauchi said when he announced his decision that he did not have sufficient evidence to convict on additional charges, including sexual assault, revolving around allegations of two separate incidents during the summer of 2011. An appeal of the man’s conviction was heard on Tuesday, but the panel has reserved its decision to a later date.

communities will see the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train in their communities next week.

The train offers free concerts and seasonal festivities from a boxcar turned into a travelling stage as it accepts non-perishable food or cash donations while travelling through 150 communities across Canada.

All donations collected stay in the community.

On Monday the Holiday Train will be in Lacombe at 2 p.m., adjacent to the CP tracks between 46th Avenue and Hwy 2A; and in Ponoka at 3:45 p.m., at 50th Street and 47th Avenue.

On Wednesday the train will arrive in Red Deer at 12:30 p.m. at 6867 Edgar Industrial Drive; and in Innisfail at 2 p.m., at 50th Street and Hwy 54 crossing.

Roxanne Potvin and Odds will perform at all four locations.

More information on the train, including other Alberta locations where it stops, can be found at www. cpr.ca/holiday-train.

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The 26-year-old oilfield worker, originally from Newfoundland, was arrested on June 16, 2012, by Red Deer City RCMP investigating reports that a man had been kicking a small child in front of a home in the Glendale subdivision.

The man’s name is withheld to protect the boy’s identity.

Investigators eventually laid almost 20 charges, including two counts of uttering death threats and multiple counts of assault and assault with a weapon.

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Study says concussions costly in future TEENS WITH HISTORY OF CONCUSSION MORE LIKELY TO USE DRUGS, ALCOHOL TORONTO - Teenagers who have suffered a concussion or other traumatic brain injury are more likely to report using alcohol and drugs compared to peers with no history of such an injury, researchers have found.

Use of non-prescribed tranquilizers and opioids as well as illicit drugs like cannabis, cocaine and even crystal meth was two to four times higher among Ontario high school students who had experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI) than classmates who hadn’t had a serious blow to the head, the researchers report in a study published Wednesday in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.

The study, which analyzed data from the 2011 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey, found that one in five of the Grade 9 to 12 students reported they’d had a previous TBI. Besides having a higher rate of alcohol and drug use, students in this group were also 2.5 times more likely to have smoked one or more cigarettes daily during the previous year and nearly twice as likely to have engaged in binge drinking - consuming five or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting - in the previous month.

“It’s a really toxic combination when you have the two together,” co-principal researcher Dr. Michael Cusimano said of mixing a head trauma with alcohol or drug use. “And it’s alarming how early this is occurring. This is Grade 9 to Grade 12.”

“We know that people who have alcohol or substance use problems don’t recover as well from a brain injury,” said Cusimano, a neurosurgeon at

Blood can show ‘pre-cancer’ MANY OLDER FOLKS HAVE SIGNS THAT LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA ARE A RISK

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Many older people silently harbour a blood “precancer” - a gene mutation acquired during their lifetime that could start them on the path to leukemia, lymphoma or other blood disease, scientists have discovered. It opens a new frontier on early detection and possibly someday preventing these cancers, which become more common with age.

The discovery was made by two international research teams working independently, decoding the DNA of about 30,000 people.

The gene mutations were rare in people under 40, but found in about 10 per cent of those over 65 and in nearly 20 per cent of folks over 90.

Having one of the mutations does not destine someone to develop a blood cancer, but it raises the risk of that more than tenfold. It also increases the chance of a heart attack or stroke, and of dying from any cause over the next four to eight years.

“We are hopeful that someday we would be able to use this as a screening test and identify individuals who are at risk,” said one study leader, Dr. Benjamin Ebert of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

However, “nobody should go out tomorrow and look for these mutations,” because there’s no treatment for having one or way to prevent cancer from developing, he said.

The studies are to be presented next month at an American Society of Hematology conference but were published ahead of time, online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, because of their importance. They were led by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard-affiliated groups, and mostly funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Each year in the United States alone, about 140,000 people are diagnosed with a blood cancer.

All cancers are caused by bad genes, but most of them are not inherited - they pick up flaws during someone’s lifetime for a variety of reasons. It usually takes several mutations for a cell to become so abnormal that cancer results.

Researchers wanted to see if they could find the first step in that process, the initial mutation, and detect a pre-malignant state long before cancer develops and symptoms appear.

One group looked at more than 17,000 people in a study of diabetes and heart disease risks. The other looked at more than 12,000 people in a study of mental disorders. All of their genes had been sequenced, which takes about a week and now costs less than $1,000. That produced a trove of “big data” that can be mined to study new things, Ebert said.

The teams independently found three genes whose mutations accounted for most of the blood cancer risk they saw.

About 1 per cent of people with one of the mutations went on to develop a blood cancer within a year, or 10 per cent within a decade.

“These are exciting” findings, because they reveal the origins of some of these cancers, said Dr. Janis Abkowitz, blood diseases chief at the University of Washington in Seattle and past president of the American Society of Hematology. But people who have their genes analyzed for other reasons and accidentally discover one of these mutations should not panic, because “the odds are they won’t develop cancer at all,” she said.

The studies also found that people with one of the blood gene mutations had more than twice the normal risk of heart and strokes.

“That is a little bit of a surprise,” said Dr. Parameswaran Hari, a blood cancer specialist at Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin. “We don’t know why but I think we’ll figure it out soon.”

Dr. Wyndham Wilson, a senior scientist at the National Cancer Institute, said it is way too soon to consider screening certain age groups because there is no evidence it would do any good or prolong survival.

“The number of people being harmed by all the tests, the anxiety, would far outweigh the benefits,” he said.

St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. “They can’t participate as well in the rehab, and they don’t recover their original abilities as well as people who have not been using drugs and alcohol.”

As well, adolescence is an age when the brain is still developing - and having a TBI and exposing the brain to the effects of alcohol or drugs may “greatly impair” that development, he said.

Researchers defined a TBI as any hit or blow to the head that resulted in a student being knocked unconscious for at least five minutes or spending at least one night in hospital due to symptoms associated with the injury. Some of these brain injuries could have been classified as concussions, which are mild to moderate forms of brain injury.

The study looked at reported TBIs and substance use among Ontario students, using responses from a representative sample of 6,383 respondents who took part in the survey. Data allowed researchers to determine substance use habits and TBI history, but not which came first - the brain injury or the alcohol and/or drug use.

“People with these injuries may be using these substances more, but the effects of the injury may be such that it may predispose them to use the substances more often as well, ” said Dr. Robert Mann, a senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health who co-led the study.

“On the other hand, we also know that people who are substance users may be more likely to have these kinds of injuries,” said Mann.

“The classic example is alcohol. Alcohol impairs psychomotor performance, so you’re more likely to have an injury, perhaps more likely to have a head injury.”

Many recreational drugs also can affect physical performance and judgment, setting up a person for potential harm, he said.

In any given year, about five per cent of teenagers will suffer a concussion or other brain injury, and about 60 per cent of them will occur while participating in sports.

“What we found in this research is that these injuries are more common than we would have thought ... and that also there does appear to be a cluster with these injuries of problematic behaviour, substance abuse and mental health concerns,” said Mann.

“And we know that substance use problems and mental health problems in adolescence can result in problems later on in life.”

Concussions and other brain injuries can cause dizziness, confusion, memory loss, headache, nausea or vomiting. Depending on the severity of the injury, symptoms can persist for some time. Concentration and the ability to remember may be impaired; the person can be irritable, depressed and have marked personality changes; sensitivity to noise and light, along with disturbed sleep, are also common.

Cusimano said it’s possible some teens with a traumatic brain injury turn to alcohol or drugs to deal with such symptoms, trying to make themselves feel better by self-medicating.

“I think parents, coaches, teachers and guidance counsellors need to be aware of this toxic combination of drugs, alcohol and brain injury, and they need to at least inquire about (them),” he said.

“So if they have a TBI, they need to inquire about drugs and alcohol. And if they use drugs and alcohol, they need to inquire about brain injury. Both things need attention.”

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BRIEF Kiesza, Shawn Mendes and Magic among first Juno performers announced TORONTO — Calgaryreared dance breakout Kiesza is among the first performers announced for next year’s Juno Awards.

Also added to the performance roster are Toronto pop group Magic, Vine sensation Shawn Mendes and Hedley.

The Junos will be held March 15 at Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre and broadcast on CTV. Tickets for the Junos go on sale on Friday, ranging in price from $39 to $149 (not including service charges).

Cosby leaves Temple board PHILADELPHIA —Bill Cosby, the popular face of Temple University in advertisements, fundrais-

ing campaigns and commencement speeches, has resigned from the board of trustees following renewed accusations that he drugged and sexually assaulted more than a dozen women over many years.

Cosby, 77, resigned Monday from the seat he had held since 1982.

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The hardest I’ve ever cried in public was when I saw Cathy Rigby in it the summer before my senior year of high school. I had spent so many years wishing I was 16 so I could drive and 18 so I could vote, but now here I was, telling myself, ‘I grew up! I didn’t mean to do that!”’

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“People who have nice things to say keep it to themselves,” said Zadan, “and the people who have nasty things to say don’t, so they’re out there tweeting away. But it creates massive audiences. Social media drove viewership last year with people following Twitter and saying, ‘Oh! This I have to see for myself.”’

What they’ll see in Peter Pan Live! is “a beautiful story about finding the child in you and trying to hold onto that while you grow up,” said its stage director, Rob Ashford, confidently.

This Peter Pan is housed on a huge Long Island soundstage that last year was transformed into pre-Second World War Austria.

“The Sound of Music was more straightforward: one room, then another room, then another,” said live TV director Glenn Weiss. “We’re trying to immerse the viewer into this show.

Cameras will be inside the scenes.

There may even be a camera capturing a flying point of view.”

While Peter gets to fly, Captain Hook will have ample chance to demonstrate he’s light on his feet.

Tap dancing in boots? “I asked them to make my clothing as light as possible,” said Christopher Walken, “‘cause there’s a lot of stuff to wear: a wig and a hat and swords and muskets!”

A show business veteran at 71, Walken isn’t typically thought of as a song-and-dance man, despite his memorable hoofing in Pennies From Heaven.

But however much identified with serious drama (his breakout, Oscar-winning role was in the chilling 1978 film The Deer Hunter ), he is anything but dismissive of musicals — neither as an actor nor as an audience member.

“Musicals are my favourite!” he declared. “If somebody says, ‘I’m taking you to the theatre,’ I say, ‘OK. Just make sure it’s a musical.’ I have deep respect for musicals — and for this one in particular.”

“Peter Pan just appeals to something in a kid’s imagination,” said Allison Williams — “a boy flies through your window and everything’s different forever.

“And if you revisit Peter Pan periodically as you grow up, it means

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NEW YORK — The boy who refused to grow up: it sounds like men today in this youth-obsessed culture. But nearly a century before his name found its way into pop psychology, Peter Pan was born as the high-flying hero of a play by Scottish writer James M. Barrie.

Many adaptations later, 1954’s Broadway musical version of Peter Pan came to TV in a live NBC telecast in 1955, then was re-staged a year later with Mary Martin yet again in the title role.

Now NBC is recapturing its youth for a revival of Peter Pan, broadcast live Thursday and starring Allison Williams (Girls) as Peter, the cocky young champion of Neverland, and Christopher Walken as the deliciously evil pirate, Captain Hook. The cast also includes Christian Borle, Kelli O’Hara and Minnie Driver as the narrator.

Officially titled Peter Pan Live! this three-hour event is a follow-up to last year’s live The Sound of Music, which drew an astonishing 18.6 million viewers.

Why Peter Pan this go-around?

“It’s a classic, a really great musical, that has its DNA in live television,” said Neil Meron, who with his partner, Craig Zadan, are back as executive producers. “To follow The Sound of Music and create some sort of beachhead for a holiday tradition, you look for titles that can fit into that little box,” he said, pointing to a nearby TV, “and Peter Pan fits very snugly.”

More than snug, Peter Pan will be bursting wide open with more subtext to the characters and narrative than its Broadway forebear, Meron said. Its glorious score (including I Won’t Grow Up, I’m Flying and Never Never Land) is supplemented with additional tunes by the team of Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, including a song dropped from the original Peter Pan before it reached Broadway.

“It’s much bigger and much more challenging than The Sound of Music last year,” said Zadan. “A lot more musical numbers, a lot more dancing, plus the sword fights and flying. And a live dog.” With no do-overs allowed.

But maybe the biggest difference between this year and last: everyone knew and cherished the 1965 Julie Andrews-starring film of The Sound of Music, which made tampering with it a dicey proposition.

“We had a gigantic shadow over us last year,” said Meron. “This year, the shadow isn’t as big.” Then he added with a smile, “Peter Pan DOES find his shadow in the show.”

That’s a fact. Early in the action, we see Wendy with a needle and thread reattach Peter’s shadow, which he had left behind on a previous visit to the Darling children’s nursery. Then he teaches Wendy and her two little brothers how to fly. Then off they fly to Neverland!

NBC is hoping viewers take the trip too — and they don’t need to wait until Thursday’s broadcast.

The social media buzz around #peterpanlive had already started Tuesday. Some of it was fueled by a “leaked” tape of Tony winner Jane Krakowski “auditioning” for Peter in a manner not appropriate for children in a parody posted on funnyordie.com.

NBC also released a mashup video of the show’s cast, fans, singer/songwriter Alex G. and DJ Tay James singing a decidedly pop version of I Won’t Grow Up. Come Thursday night, the Twittersphere could be jammed with momentto-moment scrutiny of the show — at least, if there’s any lesson to be drawn from last year’s live telecast, when the Web was alive with snark.

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ANDERSON Jarret James 1984 - 2014 It is with heavy hearts, the family of Jarret James Seniuk Anderson announce his sudden passing on November 27, 2014 at his home in Red Deer Alberta.

Jarret was born in Fort Nelson, B.C. with heart complications and spent the first six weeks of his life at the Vancouver children’s hospital, where he had heart surgery. After his recovery David and Edwina were thrilled to take him home. He would be the first of their four children. As a child Jarret was active in Boy Scouts, Junior Forest Wardens, and spent many weekends at the family cabin on Tetsa River.

At the age of 15 the family moved to Lacombe, AB, where Jarret attended Lacombe Composite High School. Jarret enjoyed life and brought smiles to all that knew him. He loved to follow the NHL, hunting and fishing and spending time with friends and family. Jarret will be sadly missed by his parents David and Edwina, his siblings April (Dean), Lauren and Scott, as well as his niece Bailey and nephews Mitchell and Dryden. He also leaves his maternal grandparents Edwin and Audrey Seniuk of Drayton Valley and several Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and friends.

A celebration of life for Jarret will be held at Royal Canadian Legion (5138- 49 St, Lacombe, Alberta) on Friday, December 5, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. The family is encouraging those attending to wear their favorite hockey jersey to commemorate Jarret’s love of the game.

During the afternoon there will be an open mic for those who would like to share their favorite memories of Jarret and his funny, gentle soul.

Donations in memory of Jarret can be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta #202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

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Obituaries

BETTENSON Shirley Mae 1927 - 2014 Shirley Mae Bettenson of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at her home, after a lengthy illness, on Thursday, November 27, 2014 at the age of 87 years. Shirley was born on July 10,1927 to Don and Ruth Jellison, the second of five daughters.

She grew up on a farm in the Coronation District and later moved with her family to Red Deer, where she completed High School. In 1947, Shirley married the love of her life, Carl and together they raised their family and built a successful business. Mom lived a full life. Over the years, she had been active in her church and the U.C.W., and was a Lioness in Association with the Lions Club. She enjoyed golfing and visiting and having fun with her many wonderful friends.

She and Carl traveled the world and spent many warm winters in Arizona.

Shirley will be lovingly remembered by her husband of sixty-seven years, Carl Bettenson; her children, Lee Conklin, Doug (Jane) Bettenson and Carol Bettenson; her grandchildren, Jeff (Danielle) Conklin, Parker (Pam) Bettenson and Joe (Heather) Bettenson; and her great grandchildren, Jessica and Payton Conklin, Emily, Kessler, Ryan and Daxon Bettenson and Jack Bettenson. Shirley was predeceased by her parents, Don and Ruth Jellison; sisters, Sandra Jellison and Irene Barker; and a son-in-law, Ken Conklin.

A Funeral Service will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, December 5, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.

A Private Family Interment will be held at Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. If desired, Memorial Donations in Shirley’s honor may be made directly to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and N.W.T. at www. alzheimer.ab.ca or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Ashley Paton, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

Clerical

RAU Harriette 1926 - 2014 Mrs. Harriette Rau of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, at Bethany CollegeSide, Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, November 30, 2014 at the age of 88 years. Harriette was born on May 3, 1926 at Dog Pound, Alberta. She married Vernie Rau on October 7, 1950.

The couple was blessed with six children and eventually moved to Red Deer in 1977.

Harriette and Vernie were active in both the Gaetz Memorial United Church and the Living Stones Church in Red Deer.

After Vernie’s passing in 2010, Harriette continued on her own until finally moving to Bethany CollegeSide in November of 2012.

Harriette will be lovingly remembered by her three sons, Eugene (Sharon) Rau of Lethbridge, Alberta, Sydnie (Virginia) Rau of Medicine Hat, Alberta and Cecil (Susan) Rau of Cochrane, Alberta; her three daughters, Alice (Wes) Jerome of Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Lois (George) MacLeod and Miriam (Trevor) Gamelin, all of Red Deer, fourteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. She will also be sadly missed by her brother-in-law, Harold Ball of Regina and three sisters, Marie Smith and Teunisje Harrison, both of Calgary, Alberta and Johanna (Nick) VanVeen of Abbotsford, British Columbia. Harriette was predeceased by her beloved husband, Vernie on April 1, 2010, and siblings, Wanda, Alice, Jeanette, Steven and Henry. Relatives and friends are invited to come and pay their respects at Parkland Funeral Home, Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 9:00 a.m.

A Celebration of Harriette’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

WELL established land surveying firm has an employment opportunity for a full-time RECEPTIONIST/ SECRETARY. Successful candidate will have strong organizational and communications skills, and enjoy working with clients in a fast paced environment. Preference will be given to those with post-secondary education.

We offer a competitive wage and benefits package and positive work environment. Please submit resume in confidence to: Snell & Oslund Surveys (1979) Ltd. 1, 5128 - 52 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 6Y4 Fax: 403-343-7025 Email: info@ snellandoslund.com Thank you in advance for your interest, however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Dental

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IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR EXP’D. DENTAL RECEPTIONIST. We offer competitive wages & flexible hours.

Must be willing to work days, evenings & some Saturdays.

Please drop off resume ATT’N: Marina at Bower Dental Centre or email: marina@bowerdental.com

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$2500 Bonus Every 100 days IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Oil & Gas Well Testing Supervisors, Night Foremen, Experienced/ Inexperienced Junior Day/Night Operators Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license.

Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages.

Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted

Oilfield

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5240

800

NEWCART is looking for a fulltime

to start as soon as possible in the Red Deer area.

JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR

DUTIES: This position will require

in our Stettler Field.

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

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

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

Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1 Start your career!

See Help Wanted TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Human Resources Administrator/ Recruiter,

1. Recruiting manpower as jobs come up, setting up interviews and screening applicants, reference checks 2. Record Maintenance accurate and timely processing of hire packages, rate changes, employee files 3. Organizing logistics for travel 4. General Office duties etc.

REQUIREMENTS 5 years minimum in the oil and gas industry, 3 years in a Recruiting/ Human Resources Admin position Highly organized, detail orientated, capable of multitasking Proficient in Microsoft Office; including word, excel and Outlook Motivated and have the ability to maintain strict confidentiality as well as a professional attitude Able to be on call, work some evenings and weekends Able to work independently and as part of a team; encourage excellence through positive contributions Please submit cover letter and resume to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com or fax to (403) 729-2396 Attn. HR. No phone calls Please.

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. Red Deer County. Fax 403-341-9996 or email: info@hamptoninnrd.com

NOW HIRING Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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

PRODUCTION TESTING EXPERIENCED SUPERVISORS and TESTERS Day & Night Must have tickets.

Top paid wages.

Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca

TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive salary and job bonuses. Resume to terry@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

800

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

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

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

See Help Wanted

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.

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for experienced F/T SERVERS Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Trades

850

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

HIRING SERVER Apply in person at Shiso Japanese Restaurant, 3731 Gaetz Avenue No Phone Calls Please!

Winch Truck Drivers & Swampers

Oilfield

810

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

JOIN us at Aveda Transportation and Energy Services as a

We are a young, energetic company that provides specialized transportation and rental equipment to the oil and gas industry.

Please email resumes to careers@ avedaenergy.com

Professionals

Restaurant/ Hotel

LICENSED MECHANIC & AUTO BODY TECH. Reasonable rate.

A.J. Auto Repair & Body 11, 7836 49 Ave. Call 403-506-6258

820 KFC requires

DELIVERY DRIVERS

Daytime, Evening, FT & PT Shifts Available

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

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

CLASSIFICATIONS 50-70

Coming Events

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All Visits are Free.

No Obligation.

Compliments of Local Businesses.

Are you new to the neighbourhood?

Expecting a Baby?

Planning a Wedding?

Call or visit us online!

1-844-299-2466 welcomewagon.ca

EVERGREEN GREENHOUSES Is holding it’s Annual Christmas Open House & Sales Sat. Dec. 6, from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

COME AND VISIT SANTA 10- NOON. 2 miles E on 39th Street from 30th Ave., Red Deer.

FREE FLU SHOTS Highland Green Value Drug Mart 6315 Horn St.

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THE Red Deer Vasa (Swedish) Lodge #733 invites you to Sankta Lucia, a traditional celebration of light. It will be held on Sunday, December 7th at 2:30 PM at The Chalet in Westerner Park. There will be a candlelight procession & a short program. This will be followed with coffee & special Swedish treats.

Silver collection at the door. Phone 403-347-5303 or 403-347-1518 for info.

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

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Central Alberta Personals LIFE COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 & Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to Red Deer find the purrfect pet.

ADVOCATE Tired of Standing?

CLASSIFIEDS Find something to sit on in Classifieds 403-309-3300

VALVE TECHNICIAN/SHOP ASSISTANTS

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jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

710

F/T LIVE IN caregiver position, private household, $11/hr., in Innisfail, highschool diploma and criminal check req’d, child care and household duties caregiverposition6@gmail.com Live in Nanny needed for 7 and 1 1/2 year old must be able to commute from sylvan lake to Red deer 403-505-9935 LIVE-IN Nanny required for infant to start September 1st, 2015. Must have child care experience or training. 403-341-0302 P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

403-505-7846

Now Hiring

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.

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

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

FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE • Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

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: Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop by #239 Clearview Drive Clearview Industrial Park Red Deer County

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

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Coming Events

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Coming Events

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014

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Trades

MILLARD TRUCKING LTD. is looking for a 2 Licenced Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanics.

The successful applicant must be able to work well in a high paced environment. We offer a great working environment, very competitive wages and performance bonuses.

All interested person are invited to apply to: Millard Trucking Ltd. Box 960, Sundre, AB T0M1X0 Fax: 403-638-4987 email: mbrodie@enerchem.com

860

Truckers/ Drivers

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

880

Misc.

Help

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.

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Firewood

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WINTER START

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Misc. for Sale

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

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Household Appliances

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

Landscape Labourer,

SALES ASSOCIATE REQUIRED: Side Street Fashion is looking for an outgoing individual on a part-time basis. Retail experience an asset, but not necessary. Submit resume to 3310 50 Ave (located in the Sheraton Hotel) or sidestreet@ sidestreetfashion.com

ACADEMIC Express

GED Preparation

NEWCART is looking for a full time

880

Misc.

Help

KENMORE washer and Maytag dryer, large capacity, both $75 403-782-7439

Household Furnishings

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1760

479 ASSORTED post cards, some vintage. $15 for all; 2 country roses serving dishes, $15. ea.; antique nesting hens, $25 ea.; 12 red rose tea figurines, $1.50 ea.; 10 vintage Vogart transfer patterns, $5 for all; 3, mother-in-law tongue plants, $3 ea.

403-342-1980 CHRISTMAS Tree, Blue Spruce, 4’. LIVE in ground.

Not yet cut, Perfect tree for small space. $60. obo 403-227-2976 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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Pets & Supplies

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

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Cats

2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649 2 KITTENS black/white to give away. 403-782-3031

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

2 BDRM. Avail. Jan. 1 Newer home Vanier Woods, gas fireplace, 6 appls. $1600. 403-341-5005 SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

Avail. Now! $1200.

403-880-0210.

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QUEEN patchwork quilt, Collectors' Condos/ • Red Deer pillow, hand towels, face- Items 2 DUSTY ROSE • Rocky Mtn. House Children's Townhouses upholstered arm chairs, cloths, beige throw rug all • Rimbey for $25; Damask table VINTAGE record storage Items 1 rocker, 1 recliner, • Caroline cloth 60” round, 8 match- footstool, beige, good INGLEWOOD POINTE 2 bdrm, $60/ea. or both for $90.; • Castor ing napkins, new in pkg, cond. $25 403-314-9603 2 bath condo. Heated parkLITTLE TYKES castle, Sewing machine cabinet, $15 403-314-9603 • Sylvan Lake ing & all utils. incl. $1450. dark oak, 3 large side 4 1/2 ft high, $100; wooden • Innisfail 403-350-3722/780-479-1522 drawers, fits any size play kitchen set, 5 ft. long, VACUUM, Rainbow, older Travel • Stettler machine. $85.; ROAST$75. 403-227-5306 model from Estate, works Packages • Ponoka SEIBEL PROPERTY ER, electric, large well. Good for allergies, • Lacombe www.seibelprperty.com aluminum, $20; uses water, no dusty TRAVEL ALBERTA EquipmentPh: 403-304-7576 403-348-6449 filters. $200.

Gov’t of Alberta Funding Alberta offers or 403-347-7545 Heavy 403-227-2976 may be available.

SOMETHING 2 END TABLES 28” x 28” 6 locations in Red Deer for everyone.

Solid wood, opening doors ~ Halman Heights TRAILERS for sale or rent in front. $10 each; colonial 403-340-1930 Make your travel ~ Riverfront Estates Musical www.academicexpress.ca Job site, office, well site or plans now. style wooden rocker ~ Westpark storage. Skidded or Instruments w/cushions $25 Something for Everyone wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Classifieds...costs so little ~ Kitson Close 403-782-7439 Everyday in Classifieds ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres.

Saves you so much!

CORNET (Trumpet) ~ Holmes St. 2 HIGH back chairs, new, F.E.OLDS & Son, made in LABORERS NEEDED F/T WINTER in VEGAS S.D. $1000 rayon material, small Los Angeles, $89.

FOR SNOW REMOVAL Firewood 2 bdrm., 2 bath condo.

Rent $1245 to $1445 stripes $100/ea 403-877-0825 & MAINTENANCE WORK. 1 mo. $1000. or 403-347-2046 3 bdrm. townhouses, Must have driver’s license.

3 mos. for $2750 Looking for a place 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, AFFORDABLE Call 403-506-8928 403-986-4340 to live?

WANTED lrg. balconies, no dogs. or Fax 403-886-5814 Homestead Firewood Take a tour through the Antiques, furniture and N/S, no utils. incl.

SOURCE ADULT VIDEO Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits Red Deer CLASSIFIEDS estates.

342-2514 Avail. immed. & Jan. 1 requires mature P/T help avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 References required.

ADVOCATE Sat. & Sun. 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.

FIREWOOD, birch, spruce Employment Fax resume to: SOUTHWOOD PARK CLASSIFIEDS & pine. North of Costco 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3110-47TH Avenue, 403-346-7178, 392-7754 Training 403-309-3300 3301-Gaetz Avenue 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, Truckers/ full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Drivers Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

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1900

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1660

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Suites

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 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 UNIQUE 1 bdrm. + small room for den, downtown, $825/mo., d.d. $825, no pets, n/s, 403-346-0824

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

900

860

Truckers/ Drivers

CLASS 1 DRIVER with super B and grain hauling experience for Central AB. Call Wayne 403-341-9113 F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

860

Truckers/ Drivers

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.

WINTER 2014

860

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER

OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY THU

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.

880

Misc.

Help

Call (403) (4 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue

Advocate Opportunities

CARRIERS REQUIRED

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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)

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

Accounting

1010

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

Contractors

1100

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

1200

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

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

CHINESE massage therapy. Direct bill. Gift card.

403-986-1691 4606-48 Ave

FANTASY SPA

International ladies Elite Retreat, finest in VIP treatment. 10-2am Private back entry.

403-341-4445 ********** MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666 SNOW shoveling/dump runs /odd jobs 403-885-5333

1290 1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301 NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

Johnstone Crossing Jenner Cres. & Judd Cl.

DOWNTOWN AREA South East Downtown and Parkvale area $212.28 mo.

DEER PARK AREA Dixon Cres. $100.20/mo.

Dunning Cres, Cl., and Depalme St. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $136.24/mo.

4400 Block of 41A Ave., 4000 Block of 46 + 47 St. Area.

BOWER AREA

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

Illingworth Close Ingram Close Iverson Close Isbister Close MORRISROE AREA Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Stirling Close Sherwood Cres LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lougheed Close Lyons Close VANIER AREA 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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Houses For Sale

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

MOVE IN TODAY

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

Condos/ Townhouses

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Security shakeup in Kenya

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IN

BRIEF Teenage suicide bomber caught in northern Nigeria BAUCHI, Nigeria — A teenage female suicide bomber was caught heading toward the Maiduguri market, which has already been hit twice recently by female suicide bombers, said witnesses.

The young woman was stopped at a roadblock run by a civilian defence group and when searched she reluctantly lifted her hijab to reveal explosives strapped to her abdomen, Muhammed Abbas, an official of the Nigeria Vigilante Group in Maiduguri told The Associated Press by phone.

Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, has increasingly been using young female suicide bombers and has accelerated their violence in northeastern Nigeria.

At least 77 people died in attacks by suspected Islamic extremists who struck two northeast Nigerian state capitals, health workers said Tuesday.

The deaths from Monday’s attacks bring the toll to at least 247 people reported killed in a week of increasing violence from an Islamic uprising in the northeast of Africa’s biggest oil producer.

Sierra Leone doctor who survived Ebola will return to battle the outbreak DAKAR, Senegal — For eight weeks, Dr. Komba Songu-M’briwa worked at the understaffed Hastings Ebola Treatment Center outside Sierra Leone’s capital. When he began feeling sick, he thought it might be exhaustion but on Nov. 26 he got dreadful news: He had tested positive for Ebola.

Songu-M’briwa and just two other doctors, along with 77 nurses, work at the 120-bed treatment centre.

It was the “most difficult, most pitiful” work of his life, the 32-year-old said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his isolation room.

Even so, he vowed to return to that crucial work if he recovered.

“I do enjoy the work here and I hope and pray once I’m out of here, I’ll take a bit of rest, and I’ll come back and fight,” Songu-M’briwa said on Sunday.

On Monday, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brima Kargbo announced that Songu-M’briwa had tested “completely negative” for Ebola after three tests came back clear.

Songu-M’briwa - Ksong to his friends - doesn’t know when or how he became infected. Sierra Leone has lost seven doctors to the disease; on Tuesday, the Health Min8010 Edgar istry announced that yet another one had fallen ill with the disease.

The country had only about 135 doctors to be-

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Kenya said the airstrike was in response to a Nov. 22 al-Shabab attack on bus passengers in Mandera County that left 28 people dead. In that attack, nonMuslims also were separated from other passengers and shot if they could not recite the Shahada.

After the bus attack, about 100 non-Muslims sought refuge at the Mandera army base, demanding that the government evacuate them.

Kenyatta’s chief of staff, Joseph Kinyua, tried to persuade non-Muslims from leaving Mandera County, whose population is predominantly Kenyan Muslims of Somali origin.

The Kenyan military was deployed to Somalia in

2011. Since then, there has been a series of attacks in Kenya blamed on the militants, including last year’s siege at Nairobi’s upscale Westgate shopping mall in which 67 people were killed.

In his speech, Kenyatta said the Kenyan military incursion in Somalia has been largely successful. He said al-Shabab is depleted and in retreat, although it remains a threat.

“The obvious intent is to create hostility and suspicion across ethnic and religious lines and to drive non-Muslims from certain parts of this country. The ultimate aim of this atrocious campaign is to establish an extremist caliphate in our region,” Kenyatta said.

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porting ousted President Mohammed Morsi’s, killing hundreds in the process.

The Tuesday decision requires the opinion of Egypt’s top religious authority, after which the court will issue a final verdict.

Militants ambush Lebanese army patrol, kill 6 soldiers BEIRUT — Militants ambushed a Lebanese army patrol near the border with Syria on Tuesday, killing six soldiers and wounding one, the military said.

The attack occurred in a remote region of Ras Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, and the military responded by rushing in reinforcements, the Lebanese army said in a statement.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack, but Lebanese troops have been battling Syria-based Islamic militants, including the extremist Islamic State group and the Nusra Front, in areas near the border.

Local media said dozens of militants took part in the attack.

Ireland says British tortured IRA suspects in 1971, asks human rights court to review case DUBLIN — Ireland has accused Britain of torturing 14 IRA suspects in Northern Ireland in 1971 and has formally asked the European Court of Human Rights to review its original findings on the case.

Tuesday’s move reopens one of the biggest legal disputes from the Northern Ireland conflict. Ireland says it hopes to overturn the court’s original 1978 ruling that British forces in Northern Ireland used “inhumane and degrading” interrogation tactics which fell short of legal definitions of torture.

Egyptian court sentences 188 people to death, pending approval of top religious official CAIRO — An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced 188 people to death pending approval from the country’s top religious official.

They are accused of involvement in a “massacre” of eleven policemen last August in the town of Kerdasa, west of Cairo, in one of the country’s grisliest assaults on security forces.

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The bodies of the 36 were flown to Nairobi, where relatives gathered at the city morgue to identify their kin.

Al-Shabab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage said the attack was a response to Kenya’s troop presence in Somalia and to alleged atrocities committed by the Kenyan army there. Al-Shabab said a recent airstrike killed innocent people and destroyed their

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bodies of the victim of the quarry killing in Mandera County, are being offloaded from the hearse and taken inside the city mortuary in Nairobi Kenya, Tuesday. Kenya police said that at least 36 quarry workers were killed in an attack in northern Kenya by suspected Islamic extremists from Somalia. Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo confirmed the workers were killed early Tuesday in Mandera County.

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Islamic extremists killed 36 non-Muslim workers in northern Kenya early Tuesday, prompting the president to shake up his security team, firing his interior minister and accepting the resignation of the national police chief.

Pressure had been mounting for President Uhuru Kenyatta to replace the two officials following a series of extremist attacks, including one 10 days ago on bus passengers in the same area.

The militant group al-Shabab, which has been battling for years to establish hard-line Islamic rule in Somalia, claimed responsibility for the killings at a quarry in Mandera County near the Kenyan-Somali border. Al-Shabab has vowed to attack Kenya for sending its troops into Somalia to fight the al-Qaidalinked group.

“I know we are all under a lot of pressure, but I appeal to each one of us: This is not a time to be cowed by the enemy,” Kenyatta said in a nationwide television address.

“This is a war we must win,” he said. “We will not flinch or relent in the war against terrorism in our country and our region.”

Kenyatta named an opposition politician and retired army general, Joseph Nkaissery, as the new interior minister, in charge of security. Police Chief David Kimaiyo said he was taking “early retirement” for personal reasons.

Earlier Tuesday about 50 heavily armed men walked into a tented camp next to the quarry at 12:30 a.m. as the workers were sleeping and fired warning shots, said Peter Nderitu, a worker at the site in the Koromey area on the outskirts of the town of Mandera.

When he heard the shooting, Nderitu ran and hid in a trench. He said he heard his colleagues being asked to recite the Shahada, an Islamic creed declaring oneness with God. Gunshots followed.

He said he only rose from his hiding place two hours later, when he was sure there was no more movement. The bodies of his colleagues were in two rows and nearly all had been shot in the back of the head, he said. The gunmen escaped.

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‘There’s no future’ SASKATCHEWAN FAMILY LOSES THREE CHILDREN IN FARM ACCIDENTS

Photos by THE CANADIAN PRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS RAVENSCRAG, Sask. — When one of her children was killed six years ago, Anne Arnal never dreamed she would have to go through the same pain again.

And again.

Three of her six children — her freckle-faced, youngest boys — have died in separate accidents on the family’s farm.

Arnal says most people can’t fathom the grief she and her family are suffering. “I could never imagine how or why I would be asked to have to do this,” she says.

“You try to figure out whether you’re supposed to gain something or whether you’re supposed to change somehow or what you’re being tested for ... and I don’t have the slightest idea.”

Clifford Arnal grew up on the family homestead near the tiny community of Ravenscrag in southwestern Saskatchewan, where flat prairie turns into rolling hills and valleys. He and his wife raised their children there, and it’s where he and his brother and father spent decades harvesting crops and herding cattle.

Now the place is a reminder of his dead boys.

He hasn’t been back to the farm since he buried two of his sons last summer. He took a construction job and his wife, who has stayed at the farm, makes the five-hour drive east to visit him in Estevan.

He doesn’t know if he’ll ever be able to go back home, he says. The loss is too much to bear.

“It destroyed an entire generation that should be running that farm ...

There’s no future there now that they’re gone.”

Blake Arnal was the kind of kid who broke up fights on the school playground, played volleyball and badminton and, when he was home, worked hard to help out with the farm. He owned some of his own cattle and, in his early teens, started saving money so he could one day study agriculture at university.

On March 25, 2008, he was on an allterrain vehicle, trying to tag a newborn calf, when the quad went over a ridge and crashed onto an icy creek below.

He died instantly from a blow to the chest. He was 14.

Sean and Lyndon Arnal grew up best buddies, two peas in a pod, who chased rabbits and raised pigs and often fell asleep together on a basement couch, once while keeping watch over a box of chirping newborn chicks under a heat lamp.

Sean, with a keen interest in cattle genetics, could often be found reading livestock catalogues. He bought his first pickup truck a year before he got his driver’s licence.

Lyndon was a goofball and a chatterbox, an aspiring baseball player who practised pitching by aiming at an old tire standing on home plate. Once, during a family trip to Toronto, he was so struck by seeing homeless people that he asked to tour a Salvation Army shelter and handed over the $60 he had in his pocket.

The two brothers were together on July 23, 2014, riding a tractor towing a baler toward home. The machinery was going down a hill when it crashed and the two died.

Sean had just turned 16. Lyndon was 10. They were buried together in the same coffin.

Cliff Arnal says all his children were part of the farm from a young age - Sean swung from a Jolly Jumper attached to the roof of a combine as a baby. He started driving a tractor at 11.

Blake was running a combine by the time he was eight, the same age Lyn-

TOP: Sean, Blake and Lyndon Arnal pose with a rugby ball in this undated family handout photo. When one of her children was killed six years ago, Anne Arnal never dreamed she would have to go through the same pain again. And again. Three of her six children — her freckle-faced, youngest boys — have died in separate accidents on the family’s farm.

BOTTOM: Anne, Lyndon, Sean and Clifford Arnal pose in this undated handout photo. don was when he first got behind the wheel of a semi-trailer.

When Blake died in 2008, the father heard rumblings in the community that he, as a parent, was to blame. He says he had hired a farm worker to supervise Blake, who was a careful driver.

Anne Arnal says keeping her kids from farm work wasn’t an option, even after Blake’s death. Sean and Lyndon were energetic boys and she didn’t want them growing up a bubble, playing video games in the basement. They wouldn’t have been the people they were supposed to be, she says.

Cliff Arnal believes the computer on the tractor Sean was driving failed so that when the machine went into neutral, he was unable to steer it. RCMP say they investigated but found no suspicious circumstances.

The family’s sad story reflects statistics of farm deaths involving children — most are boys killed by tractors and all-terrain vehicles. A study by the Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting program shows an average of 104 farm deaths each year, 13 of them children.

Wayne Bircham, who owns a nearby ranch and knows the Arnal family well, says his two boys grew up doing the same farm work as the Arnal children.

His business is holding a cattle sale at Heartland Livestock in Swift Current on Dec. 8, and proceeds from three animals are to go to the Arnal Boys Memorial Bursary For Young Farmers.

The surviving Arnal siblings came up with the idea to fund projects for future farmers and have already received donations from strangers who’ve heard about the family. They’re also planning to start annual fundraisers around the three boys’ birthdays - a hockey tournament and skeet-shooting competition - that will contribute to the bursary.

Chantal Henderson, a 26-year-old nurse in Swift Current, Sask., is the oldest of the Arnal children. Dylan Arnal, 24, lives in East End, Sask., and does farm work for a neighbour. Olivia Arnal, 18, is studying business at the University of Regina.

With no children at home, and a husband who can’t stand to be there, Anne Arnal says days on the farm can be quiet.

When Sean and Lyndon died, a friend who’s a doctor visited her every day for two weeks to see if she was suicidal. She says she has learned to keep busy and find purpose.

On the first day of school, she bought a pizza lunch for Sean’s and Lyndon’s classmates to help them adjust to a new year without them. And she drove a combine for weeks at harvest because she wanted see the crops off that Sean had helped seed.

She doesn’t know if she’ll leave the farm for good. For now, she’s dealing with her grief the best she can - by keeping it in an imaginary box.

“I open it a little bit every day and I have my little bit of sad time and crying and whatever I need to do. Then I shut that box ... I don’t have to throw it open and cope with it all right now.

“I’ll carry that box forever.”

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We gratefully thank our sponsors for 2014: Alberta Education AltaGas Anonymous Donor APEGA Bower Place Shopping Centre- venue to host the fair Chinook’s Edge School Division #73 Clearview Public Schools (Stettler) Devon Energy Ellis Bird Farm Genome Alberta Good Earth Coffee Imperial Oil- Volunteer Involvement Program

Johns Manville Kerry Wood Nature Centre Lions Club- Innisfail Office of the Mayor of Red Deer Psychologists’ Association of Red Deer Red Deer Advocate Red Deer River Naturalists’ Society Red Deer Rotary Club Red Deer Rotary Club - Centennial Branch Red Deer Public School District #104 Red Deer College Servus Credit Union

Team Central Alberta for 2014- representing our region at the Canada Wide Science Fair in Windsor, ON.

2014 CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY GUIDE If your event happens on or after Dec. 19, send it to:

specialsections @reddeeradvocate.com Distributed in the Friday, Dec. 19 “Friday Forward” This annual favourite features games & puzzles and a listing of activities for you and your family to take part in during this Holiday Break.

To Advertise, call Pam Beardsworth at

For more information and a contact email address, see our website at http://www.centralalbertasciencefair.ca Photos are posted there of student projects from previous years.

We welcome the participation of new schools or individuals and there is information available for download on the website.

In 2014, the CWSF was held in Windsor, ON. In 2015, it will be held in Fredericton, NB from May 9-16. In 2016, it will be held in Ontario or Quebec, and 2017 will see the CWSF hosted in Western Canada.

Come join us at this year’s fair at Bower Place on March 6/7, 2015, and if you would be interested in assisting us as a volunteer or as a sponsor in any way, we welcome your involvement!

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 2014

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ANNIE ANNIE

Wednesday, Dec. 3 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Amanda Seyfried, 29; Ozzy Osbourne, 66; Brendan Fraser, 46 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: You will definitely be more sensitive to the moods of others today. Emotions and emotional reactions will have a strong impact on you as well, as they might seem to be challenging your sense of security and finances. Truth will be revealed by others and this will happen because not many will be able to hide their true intentions now.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will prove to be a year whereby there will be powerful changes to your financial situation. If you have been thinking about starting a website, then do it. It will be wonderfully successful for you. Just make sure to be true to yourself, rising to all challenges and accept all opportunity for further personal growth. It will be a wonderful year — Enjoy!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There’s a real opportunity for you to use your intuition and artistic talents to increase your finances. Today, it will leave you feeling empowered and wonderful in a professional sense. Take the time needed to properly express the knowledge you want to share with others now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You should be feeling great today! You’ll no doubt have the support of the group when setting out on any course of action. You will be keenly aware of all that has been learnt through interactions with others and will set out to make some solid and practical changes with them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There is a great chance that your intuition will be absolutely helpful for you today.

Others will be there to support you as well as you move forward. Others have taken a keen interest to make sure you are properly represented for your soul’s worth on a public realm — Enjoy!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are intuitive enough to know that your dreams will come true. Today will highlight that ability as well, but it will also show you some truth of what might postpone that from happening right away.

Take the time needed to clear the path before moving forward.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your true feelings will be

LARISA MAIRA OZOLINS

SUN SIGNS revealed today. Now, if you are working within an environment that you do not like, be careful. But, I see you are very happy within the present. Take the time to set the ground work. Soon you’ll be able to incorporate your creative flare!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): The more you become aware of others’ intentions with you, the more you will be able to understand yourself more. Now, that is to say, if they are not overreacting to what’s actually going? It might just be a day of calming others down, this includes children too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today you will start to sense a shift within your personal worth. Perhaps you are finally putting your foot down and learning your proper value to others and to yourself.

You will genuinely care for others today, so do express that emotion. It will be beneficial for all.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23Nov. 21): Today, you will be challenged to incorporate a spiritual understanding into a practical plan. Perhaps your values have shifted. Now you will need to create a complete perspective of your true creative and personal voice for the world.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The emotional current at home will trickle into your daily life. It will actually make you feel more grounded, knowing that you can take positive actions now to create the outcome you would like. This will change the dynamics of your daily life and health as well.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): You will be speaking a lot of truth today. Others might even think you are reading their minds, just because you are so in touch with the undercurrent vibe. It is an excellent day to have a heart to heart with that special someone. Your children also will benefit from this en-

ergy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): You will not be able to stop from expressing your truth today. Spiritual values of compassion and empathy will trickle into all you do and whomever you interact with today. Do express all that is on your mind as it will help ground you in the present and help you relax more.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): This is a wonderful day to have a heart to heart with a friend. Release all past issues and move on beautifully. Truth will be revealed but it will be expressed in a very sensitive and compassionate way. The spring in your step should be happening right about now - Enjoy!

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

ODDITIES

Firewood contains Second World War grenade, explodes in wood stove, no one hurt VIENNA — Austrian police investigating a grenade blast were less puzzled by the explosion and more by where it took place — inside a wood stove that appeared to contain nothing but firewood.

The woman who owned the wood burner also had no clue at first. After

all, she only put firewood inside.

Or so she thought.

Police spokeswoman Petra Datscher said Monday a Second World War grenade apparently landed on a tree during fighting.

It was then enveloped by wood growing around it to the point that it was invisible when the tree was chopped down for firewood and sold to the supermarket where the unidentified 22-year-old woman bought it.

The blast Sunday in the lakeside town of Gmunden shattered the stove’s glass panel, but the sturdy wroughtiron stove prevented injuries.

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Dear Annie: I am a 23-year-old man. gun dating again, and is a casual girlI served in the army and deployed friend of six months entitled to tell you to Afghanistan. I was medically dis- to remove it? charged for PTSD about two years ago.

Wearing your wedding ring gives the I’m going to school to be a firefight- impression that you are still connected er, but I’m afraid I’ve picked this field to your first wife and not ready to move not because it interests me, but be- on. Nonetheless, wearing it is your decause I cannot go back into the mili- cision, not your girlfriend’s. Widows oftary. ten remove a wedding band and wear I’m working in an office now, and it on their other hand or have it reI hate my job. Before this, fashioned into a necklace I worked at a department or other piece of jewelry, store and as a machinist. allowing them to continue But, Annie, I can’t see mywearing it in a less promiself anywhere but with the nent location. You might military. What should I do? consider this when you are — Lost Soldier ready.

Dear Lost: Those who Dear Annie: I’d like to have been in the military address this to Unhappy sometimes have difficulty Mother of a Son: You are accepting a job that is less not alone. I haven’t seen exciting or challenging. The my son since Mother’s intensity of the military exDay, when I got my annual perience and the bonding 30-minute visit. Yet every MITCHELL with one’s fellow soldiers week, my son goes to din& SUGAR can make everything else ner with his wife’s parents. pale in comparison. For Last month, they went on a some, it takes a great deal of family vacation with his intime to readjust. Check out laws. On Thanksgiving, my military.com for other job opportuni- daughter-in-law didn’t even take her ties for veterans, and also Career One coat off or sit down when they came by.

Stop (careeronestop.org) at 1-877-348I am totally excluded from my son’s 0502. Military OneSource offers sugges- life except for a few text messages that tions and website links for transition- he sends when I suspect his wife isn’t ing military members that might also around. be helpful for you (militaryonesource.

I am not a nasty person. I am quite mil/transition). nice to my daughter-in-law. I buy her Dear Annie: I have been a widower lovely presents for her birthday and for almost three years. For the past six Christmas and make special cakes for months, I’ve been seeing a nice lady her birthday. for a friendly relationship. She also I text her and send her messages on lost her spouse several years ago.

Facebook, but she never responds. She My lady friend and I have dined out tells my son that my messages never a few times, and she has questioned get through, but we both know that why I still wear my wedding ring. An- can’t possibly be true. Everyone else nie, my wife was my only love. We were gets my messages. together more than 60 years. I will nevNot every mother-in-law is a moner love anyone like that again. Is it ster, and not every daughter-in-law is a right for me to wear my wedding ring? daughter. — Another Unhappy Mother Or if I am seeing someone, should I put of a Son it away? My friend says she is uncomAnnie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy fortable when I have it on. I care about Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edithis woman, so please tell me what I tors of the Ann Landers column. Please should do. — Widower Out East email your questions to anniesmailbox@ Dear Widower: You actually have comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, two issues: How long should you wear c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, your wedding ring once you have be- Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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