Red Deer Advocate, January 31, 2015

RED DEER SOUTH MLA CAL DALLAS WILL NOT SEEK REELECTION PAGE A2

REBELS SUNK

BY OIL KINGS PAGE B4

Red Deer Advocate WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

www.reddeeradvocate.com

Your trusted local news authority

JULIETTA’S PLACE

A safe place to start over They are two women who are moving forward, leaving behind domestic violence and abuse, thanks to the only second-stage housing facility in Red Deer, known as Julietta’s Place.

Molly and Lily — not their real names — are dissimilar in ages and experiences. But in common, sadly, they both have suffered domestic violence, and some of the often accompanying other forms of abuse — financial, sexual, emotional and psychological.

As Lily points out, it’s not just violence. “Most people just think it’s about hitting.”

MARY-ANN When people don’t see the BARR physical violence, they don’t recognize it as bad. It’s harder BARRSIDE to prove things like the controlling and emotional abuse, she says.

Both women have resided at Julietta’s Place — a special housing project established by the Women’s Outreach in 2010. Women often end up at Julietta’s Place after their time at the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter runs out.

Julietta’s Place has 10 suites where women can stay for up to 18 months. There are suites of different sizes, from one-bedroom to three-bedroom units, to accommodate women with children.

The building is secure, and there are two staff at the facility to provide one-on-one support. Women are able to attend support and other programs to help them get on with their lives, and eventually into permanent housing. They pay rent ranging from $575 to $775, including utilities.

There is no lack of demand for this type of housing in Red Deer, or the rest of the province.

The Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters’ latest report said women are having to stay in emergency shelters longer across the province.

Please see SHELTER on Page A2

WEATHER Snow. High -13. Low -21

FORECAST ON A2

INDEX Four sections Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3 Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . B7,B8 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3 Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . D4-D6 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C7 Entertainment . . . . . . . . C4-C6 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4-B6

Design blamed for tailings dam failure A report on the tailings breach at Mount Polley mine found the design was inadequate, causing the foundation to fail.

Story on PAGE A4

BC’s #1 Destination

for Salmon, Halibut and Albacore Tuna Give us a call

1-800-429-5288

or email us at rodgersfishinglodge@yahoo.com

PS. forEarly Albacore is a&BLAST! AskFishing about our Bird Tuna Specials Save 25%

PLEASE

RECYCLE

A2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

STORY FROM PAGE A1

SHELTER: Women and children turned away for lack of space “The numbers of women and their children who could not be accommodated by shelters is at an alltime high. Gradually increasing turn-away numbers over the last two years reflects increasing levels of need and a lack of shelter capacity across the province,” said the report.

“When survivors of abuse are staying in shelter longer, there are fewer beds available. Survivors are staying longer because of a lack of second-stage (housing), coupled with a lack of safe and healthy housing in the community.”

The report, which covers the period from April 1, 2013, to March 31, 2014, also states that of the 5,710 women who were admitted by shelters, 4,371 cited seeking safety from abuse as the main reason for contacting a shelter.

According to Justice Canada (2012 statistics), family violence costs Canadians $7.4 billion every year, taking into account costs ranging from policing and health care to funerals and lost wages.

Fortunately for Molly and Lily, who agreed to speak with me, they were each able to live in the second-stage housing in Red Deer. It has offered them safe, secure housing and a supportive network, including things like income support and the help of outreach workers.

The second-stage housing in Red Deer is in high demand, and is not even the higher-security housing that local groups would like to see in Red Deer.

Lily, who has struggled with legal issues and costs, and the controlling behaviour of a former boyfriend, praises the help she’s received at Julietta’s Place.

“People I’ve been in contact with have been extremely supportive.”

In one of her relationships, she ended up suffering a serious act of violence. Even when police arrived after being called by a bystander, she denied anything had happened. “I was in denial.”

“I’m quite positive now. I’ve got my head on straight a lot more.”

However, both women admit that the domestic abuse they suffered may mean they will always have trust issues with other people.

Both say that the big money made in the oilpatch, and long periods of time away from home can lead to alcohol and drug abuse by the people who work in it, and high stress at home.

Molly suffered a series of traumatic events, from her childhood, a bad marriage and later.

Eventually, she hit a crisis point and ended up in touch with Women’s Outreach, and then at Julietta’s Place. In her marriage, “The violence was so extreme that he was planning to kill me.

“We left with our lives and one suitcase.”

When she hears about domestic violence now, “I think about the desperation of women, especially when there’s children, not knowing what will happen and the fear that it will be worse if you leave because there’s no pretending anymore.

“It’s not over once you’re gone, out of the situation.”

She’s getting her life back on track.

And she’s moving away from the thought of resolving her pain through suicide.

Julietta’s Place is a wonderful resource, she says.

And to others who face similar struggles, she makes this point: “Make sure you reach out and get help. It doesn’t get better on its own. I call it the crazy hope.”

Ian Wheeliker, executive director of the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter, said the average stay in the shelter five years ago was 11 days.

Now it’s 22 to 24 days, and there is very little affordable housing available for women who need it.

Some of the women at the shelter do end up at Julietta’s Place, which runs at capacity regularly.

A local group made up of several agencies — including the shelter, Women’s Outreach, Canadian Mental Health Association and others — is trying to get funding for affordable housing for people with a variety of needs.

Within that is the hope of establishing a 35-bed high-security second-stage facility. It would cost about $9 million.

There is a provincial effort to gather data that shows women and children escaping domestic violence are much more successful with getting on with their lives when they have second-stage housing.

Wheeliker says that raising money to build a facility is one thing, but having operating funds from government to keep it running is critical. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

LOTTERIES

FRIDAY Lotto Max: 1, 14, 15, 18, 26, 42, 48 bonus: 39

Photo by By SUSAN ZIELINSKI/Advocate staff

Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas announced he will not seek re-election on Friday. He made his decision public following a constituency board meeting.

Cal Dallas will not seek reelection

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

RED DEER SOUTH

Red Deer will get a new pair of MLAs in the next provincial election.

On Friday morning, Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas announced he would not seek a third term in the legislature.

His departure follows the announcement on Monday by Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski that she will not seek a sixth term.

Dallas has served as minister of Intergovernmental, International and Aboriginal Relations, and minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations.

He is now the legislative secretary for intergovernmental relations and a member of the Treasury Board.

“Right to yesterday morning, I wasn’t completely sure what I was going to do,” said Dallas, 58, about his decision to leave the legislature.

“I had no idea that nominations would arrive so soon, but they have and you’ve got to make decisions.

I’ll work hard to the finish line, then figure out what to do,” said Dallas following announcement at his constituency board meeting at the Black Knight Inn. He said making the decision to leave office was actually quite emotional.

“You’re always torn. You have a lot invested in it.

To be an MLA, you’re going to work consistently 75 to 85 hours a week over long stretches of time.”

But it was time to spend more time with family and think about what to do next, he said.

“There’s a little uncertainty. But I’ve come to realize that’s exciting, too.”

Dallas said being shuffled out of cabinet by Premier Jim Prentice had nothing to do with his announcement as cabinet shifts happen regularly.

“I’ve got complete confidence in our premier.

Every day, premiers make difficult choices. I enthu-

siastically debate what the choices might look like beforehand. But after that, I’m of full understanding my job is to make the premier’s choices easier, not harder.”

Dallas served under four premiers.

Dallas was executive director of the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce when he first ran under the Progressive Conservatives banner in 2008.

He won the Tory nomination when Victor Doerksen retired.

Dallas said he was happy with what he accomplished as an MLA. “It’s not a job. It’s not a career. It’s public service. I’ve done the very best that I could, and there’s always unfinished business, but this is the time to create new opportunities for representation for Red Deer.

“What I’ve got a real strong sense of is we’re going to have a very, very robust competition in both Red Deer North and Red Deer South. The very best in our community are going to step forward in a nomination process that I realized in 2007 was very thorough and is a very healthy process in terms of the Progressive Conservative Party.”

He said the next government will need to focus on a long-term fiscal plan that will reduce Alberta’s vulnerability.

“The statistics show very clearly our economy is more diverse than it was 24 years ago, by a wide margin actually. But ironically it’s been the fact that we had a very strong energy sector that has actually helped make that happen.”

He said Alberta’s strong financial services and advanced manufacturing sectors both developed thanks to the energy sector. But there are growing opportunities in agriculture and tourism. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Western Max: 1, 9, 14, 26, 39, 40, 43, bonus: 47 Extra: 2393868

Pick 3: 366

WEATHER LOCAL TODAY

TONIGHT

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

HIGH -13

LOW -21

HIGH -12

HIGH -13

HIGH -14

Periods of light snow ending in afternoon.

Clear.

Cloudy. Low -16.

Periods of snow.

Low -26.

Sunny. Low -24.

REGIONAL OUTLOOK

Olds, Sundre: today, light snow. High -10.

Low -23 Rocky, Nordegg: today, light snow. High -12 Low -22 Banff: today, 60% chance of flurries.

High-7. Low -12.

Lethbridge: today, snow. High -11. Low -16.

FORT MCMURRAY

Edmonton: today, snow. High -14. Low -21 Grande Prairie: today, 60% flurries.

High -14. Low -23 Fort McMurray: today, 40% flurries.

High -21. Low -28

Jasper: today, snow.

High-6. Low -17.

WINDCHILL/SUNLIGHT

-21/-28 GRANDE PRAIRIE

-14/-23

-14/-21 JASPER

-6/-17

Heated/Cooled Leather, 8” Color Touch Screen, Rear Vision Camera, 20” Rims/Wheel Pkg

Was $55,380 NOW

$

42,511*

SAVE $

12,869

RED DEER

-13/-21

*Demo-1850kms. Price includes $400 Doc. Fee, $6.25 AMVIC, $20 Tire Tax, Excludes GST

BANFF

-7/-12 Windchill/frostbite risk: Low Low: Low risk Moderate: 30 minutes exposure High -5 to 10 minutes: High risk in 5 to 10 minutes High -2 to 5 minutes: High risk in 2 to 5 minutes Extreme: High risk in 2 minutes Sunset tonight: 5:20 p.m.

Sunrise Sunday: 8:16 a.m.

EDMONTON

2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LTZ 4WD Stk#31153

CALGARY

-12/-15

LETHBRIDGE

-11/-16

3110 GAETZ AVE., RED DEER

LOCAL 403-347-3301 TOLL FREE 1-800-661-0995

www.pikewheaton.com

52604A26-31

Calgary: today, snow.

High -12. Low -15.

TONIGHT’S HIGHS/LOWS

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 A3

Jurors walked through DNA evidence

RETURN TO WINTER

RCMP BIOLOGIST TESTIFIES ABOUT DNA PROCEDURES MALLEY TRIAL

Jurors in the trial of an Innisfail financial advisor accused of killing a woman with a pipe bomb were walked through the DNA evidence in court on Friday.

RCMP biologist Dr. Gregory Litzenberger testified about the scientific procedures used to identify profiles using mere parts of a nanogram (onemillionth of a gram) of DNA. An invisible sloughing of skin can be analyzed to determine its DNA profile and compare with other DNA samples taken during an investigation.

A microscopic portion of DNA taken from a piece of paper at the scene of the explosion that killed Victoria Shachtay on Nov. 25, 2011 has been connected to Brian Malley.

Malley, 57, of Innisfail is charged with first-degree murder and is on trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Litzenberger said less than one nanogram of DNA was recovered from a piece of evidence including tape and a fragment of lined paper. Minute as that is, it was still enough to get an accurate result using RCMP standards.

Nine different portions of DNA (since increased to 15 using new test-

ing methods) are tested in RCMP labs.

An analysis of the DNA mixture determined there was the presence of male and female DNA and a third trace amount that was not analyzed.

The male DNA was consistent with a sample of Malley’s retrieved from a napkin he used at a Wendy’s restaurant. It was estimated the likelihood of that DNA matching a random Caucasian person as one in 490 million, once the intermixed DNA sample belonging to Shachtay is removed from the sample.

Malley’s lawyer Bob Aloneissi questioned Litzenberger about whether DNA could be transferred from one person to an object through another person, such as by shaking hands or handling paper.

Litzenberger said it is possible for someone’s DNA to show up on something they didn’t directly handle, however, it is very unlikely. DNA is fragile and easily degraded and it is not uncommon for commonly handled items, such as a doorknob or steering wheel, to have no traces of the owner’s DNA. The more “convoluted” the journey of the DNA is to its final resting place, the less likely that is what happened, he said.

Malley’s trial continues on Monday. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

One of the horses at Heritage Ranch was covered with a dusting of snow on Friday evening after a week’s worth of warm temperatures.

Red Deer was under a snowfall warning, with 10- 20 cm was expected to fall overnight.

EUROPEAN QUALITY PRODUCTS

#5 4324-54 Avenue, Red Deer)

403-347-7274

Monday-Friday 10-6 | Saturday 10-4 • GLUTEN FREE • NO MSG • NO ADDITIVES OR PRESERVATIVES

Specialty Meats, Sausages for BBQ, Cold Cuts, Smoked and Cured Fish, Cheese, Party Trays and much more 1805A31

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

vivadeli.kj

ALBERTA

BRIEFS

Richards appointed to Standing Committee on Finance Central Alberta Conservative MP Blake Richards will play a role in balancing the federal budget.

Richards, the MP for Wild Rose, was appointed to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance this week.

“Continued global economic turmoil, particularly volatility in the energy markets, is impacting our government’s flexibility,” said Richards in a news release. “Fortunately for Canadians, our government has taken precautionary steps, including a $3-billion contingency fund in the event of unforeseen circumstances.”

The federal budget is expected to be released sometime in April, at the earliest. It has been delayed due to the dropping oil prices that will no doubt impact the government’s bottom line.

The federal Wild Rose riding includes the Central Alberta communities of Caroline, Nordegg, Olds and Sundre. It also includes parts of the counties of Mountain View, Clearwater and Red Deer.

Police investigating homicide of fouryear-old girl in Calgary home CALGARY — Police have ruled the death of a four-year-old girl last month a homicide.

Emergency crews in Calgary responded to a call about a child in medical distress at an east-end home on Dec. 19. Olive Rebekah Oluwafemi wasn’t breathing and was in cardiac arrest. She was pronounced dead a short time later in hospital.

Staff Sgt. Colin Chisholm said Friday that there were initial reports that the girl had probably choked.

“We now know that was not the case. We know she did not die as a result of choking.”

He said he couldn’t reveal the cause of death, but said the girl suffered fatal injuries at the family home. The trauma was not the result of play or an accident, he said.

“We believe she died as a result of injuries inflicted upon her.”

The girl’s parents have been interviewed but are not being co-operative, said Chisholm.

Investigators have identified potential suspects, but he could not give more details.

HERITAGE LANES

s t n e v E g n i m o c p U JANUARY 30-31

MEAT DRAWS

DEW CARVER

FRIDAYS 5 PM • SATURDAYS 4 PM

WWW.HERITAGELANES.COM M

FEBRUARY 6

RANDY HILLMAN

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SENIOR DANCES & BUFFET

FEBRUARY 7

LAUGH SHOP FEBRUARY 13-14 AN EVENING WITH THE LEGENDS

MEMBERS & NON MEMBERS WELCOME

ROBERT LARABEE (TICKET EVENT)

KARAOKE

WISE CHOICE

FEBRUARY 20-21

THURSDAYS, 7 PM MOLLY B’S LOUNGE

DEW CARVER (MOLLY B’S)

OPEN TO PUBLIC

FEBRUARY 28TH

CALL

FEBRUARY 27TH

9PM TO CLOSE

403.309.6387 TO RESERVE

The answer is Comedy Night at Heritage Lanes.

54953L30

Red Deer 403-342-0035

THURSDAYS

Looking for a new and interesting way to earn some cash for your group?

DEW CARVER

2810 Bremner Ave.

LADIES BOWL FREE

How does it work? Your charity or group takes over Heritage Lanes Comedy Zone for an evening of dinner,laughs and libations. There’s not much to it.

We supply the tickets, you sell them and you make some good money for your cause.

Contact Heritage Lanes Group Bookings for more info.

1608A31

5 PM BUFFET - 7 PM DANCE

ALL-YOU Sundays CAN-BOWL 8pm - close

A4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

Sky palace Inadequate design blamed for failure revealed as of B.C tailings dam meeting room

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — The construction of a mine tailings pond on top of a sloped glacial lake at British Columbia’s Mount Polley mine weakened the foundation of the dam and was akin to loading a gun and then pulling the trigger, a report on the disaster concluded.

The independent, governmentordered report released Friday said the spill of 24 million cubic metres of silt and water into nearby lakes and rivers was caused by an inadequately designed dam that didn’t account for drainage and erosion failures associated with glacial till beneath the pond.

B.C.’s Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett immediately ordered B.C.’s Chief Inspector of Mines to require all operating mines with similar tailings ponds to confirm what kind of foundation material their dams rest on

by June 30.

There are currently 98 permitted tailings storage facilities in the province with 123 dams at 60 metal and coal mines in B.C. The pond at the Imperial Metals Corp. (TSX:III) open pit copper and gold mine burst without warning at 1 a.m. last August 4, hours after workers had been at the foot of the structure unaware of the impending devastation.

Norbert Morgenstern, chairman of the panel that investigated the spill, said evidence indicates that the glacial lake deposit under the foundation of the dam weakened as the tailings pond increased in size.

“The design did not take into account the complexity of the sub-glacial and pre-glacial geological environment associated with the perimeter embankment foundation,” he told reporters gathered for the release of the report.

Morgenstern, a geotechnical engineering who has worked on 140 dam projects worldwide, said not taking the glacial lake into account was like loading a gun.

“But if constructing unknowingly on this upper (glacial) deposit constituted loading the gun, building with a steep slope ... pulled the trigger.”

Morgenstern said the two factors together constituted the root cause of the failure.

He is among a panel of three geotechnical experts appointed by the province a few weeks after the disaster to investigate the cause of the collapse and the role of government regulation and oversight.

Bennett said he was relieved the cause of the disaster was pinpointed in

EDMONTON — Former Alberta premier Alison Redford’s so-called sky palace had its grand coming out party Friday, but in its revised role as a buttoned-down meeting room.

The penthouse suite was opened to the media as part of a tour of the renovated Federal Building on the legislature grounds.

The suite, on the 11th floor, does not have furniture or all the finishings yet, but is nevertheless an impressive series of rooms done over in wood and glass with panoramic views of the city to its outskirts.

Its legacy is a public relations headache for the government, going millions of dollars over budget and years past its deadline.

Infrastructure Minister Manmeet Bhullar admitted that if the government could do it all over again, it probably wouldn’t have renovated the 1950s art-deco style Tyndal stone structure.

“The needs and priorities of the people of Alberta are schools, health infrastructure or road infrastructure.

That’s where I would have made this investment,” Bhullar told reporters prior to the tour. “This is a fine building, I’m not arguing with that. “(But) it is what it is. The prudent thing now is limit cost increases.”

Work began in 2009 with an original end date for 2012.

The original $356-million budget was immediately ratcheted back to $275 million when oil prices dropped, then crept back up again over the years to the current price of $403 million on a budget of $410 million.

Those costs secretly took another bump starting in 2012, when Redford’s office began secretly ordering up changes to the penthouse to convert it from meeting rooms into a swank apartment retreat for her and her daughter.

The “premier’s den” — modelled after the blue chip Hay Adams Hotel in Washington D.C. — was to have bedrooms, bathrooms, a dining room, lounge area, room-by-room temperature controls, a fireplace, a powder room and a butler’s pantry.

Redford had quit as premier just before the project, later dubbed sky palace, became public last March.

The government said only preliminary work had been done on the penthouse before it was secretly cancelled in January 2014 at a total cost of almost $240,000.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A aerial view shows the damage caused by a tailings pond breach near the town of Likely, B.C., on August, 5, 2014. A government-ordered report says a tailings spill at a B.C. mine was caused by an inadequately designed dam that caused its foundation to fail. the report.

“Apparently, no one knew that the material was there or perhaps they knew it was there but they didn’t understand the characteristics of it, and that in and of itself caused the wrong dam to be designed and built,” he said.

“The loaded gun is under the ground.”

He said the government will act on the recommendations, including the requirement that all operating mines with similar facilities establish an independent tailings dam review board that provides third-party advice on design, construction, operation and closure of the facilities.

“This obviously was an unprecedented, disastrous event that we must do everything we can to make sure it never happens again.” Bennett said.

Opposition New Democrat Leader John Horgan said the report highlight’s

B.C.’s need for stricter mine inspection and review policies.

He said the current inspection system, which has endured government cuts, didn’t identify problems at Mount Polley.

“It’s a failure, I believe, of our regulatory process. It’s a failure of the deregulation that the B.C. Liberals brought into play in 2001 when they were first elected.”

Last month, B.C.’s chief inspector of mines allowed Imperial Metals to start repairs on the tailings pond. But Bennett said Friday there was no set date for the reopening of the mine.

“We are going to take the time that is necessary to review the application we have from the company and certainly the use of the existing tailingsstorage facility is not something that is planned for any time soon,” he said.

ORDER ONLINE GREATRIBS.CA

2595A31

Warm Up to

Winter Savings IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT!

until January 31, 2015

Our faces may have changed but you can still expect the same top notch service.

10

% on Best Home Furnishings

Sale pricing on last year’s models.

Scratch and dent units, up to 50% off!

From our From our Family Family ttoo Y Yours, ours,

Thank You

OPEN MONDAY TO FRIDAY 8 AM TO 5 PM • SATURDAYS 9 AM TO 5 PM

WHOLESALE FIREPLACE 4676 61 Street, Red Deer, AB • (403) 314-9400

53028A31

ffor or Y Your our B Business. usiness.

1660A31

Save

off Simply Amish

1661A31

15

%

We have over 25 Years Experience in the Fireplace Industry & a Helpful and Cheery Sales Team to Serve You.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 A5

Premiers urge Ottawa to do more on infrastructure, senior’s health care

IN

BRIEF Winnipeg Police mourn death of top service dog involved in more than 500 arrests Winnipeg Police are mourning the death of a top service dog that was involved in more than 500 arrests.

Judge, an 11-year-old Belgian Malinois, died this week after retiring last year.

Sgt. Dave Bessason of the Winnipeg Police K9 unit says Judge was a great tracker who loved to work.

Since his retirement Judge had been living with his handler.

Bessason says Winnipeg Police believe Judge was one of the best service dogs in Canada.

He says Judge has left a living legacy, siring 23 puppies over the years that are now working across the country and the U.S., with more to come through artificial insemination.

“We have samples from Judge for probably another 10 to 12 breedings,” Bessason said.

“We saw the abilities of that dog and wanted to make sure for the future that we produce the very best dogs possible.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

COUNCIL OF THE FEDERATION

OTTAWA — The country’s premiers presented a united front on everything from infrastructure and seniors’ health care to the need to protect Canadians from terrorism as they held their winter gathering on Friday without Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Wrapping up the Council of the Federation meeting, the premiers almost uniformly praised a presentation on the economy by Kevin Lynch, vice-chair of BMO Financial Group and former clerk of the privy council under the Harper government. Lynch’s presentation made it clear that investment in infrastructure is critical to economic prosperity, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said.

“It was very much focused on the kind of long-term investment and long-term thinking of which infrastructure is a perfect example and infrastructure investment was part of what Mr. Lynch talked to us about.”

Wynne criticized federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver, who issued a statement earlier in the day to express dismay that the premiers were seeking more federal money for infrastructure at a time when falling oil prices threaten Ottawa’s finances.

“The response that Mr. Oliver has given so quickly to our discussions really demonstrates, in my opinion, that the oblivion is not on the part of the premiers,” said Wynne, who has proposed a multibilliondollar, federal-provincial infrastructure partnership.

“The oblivion actually is on the part of the federal government that is apparently not listening to all of the voices at this table who have said that infrastructure and investment in infrastructure is very important on a number of fronts.”

Wynne got backup from B.C. Premier

Christy Clark.

“We can’t build a country if we don’t have infrastructure, because it’s that infrastructure that allows us to get our goods to market, whatever those goods are, and that’s why this investment is so important right now,” she said.

A spokesman for Infrastructure Minister Denis Lebel took issue with the premiers.

“Our government has introduced the largest and longest infrastructure plan in Canadian history with a $75-billion investment in public infrastructure over the next decade,” Vincent Rabault said in an email.

P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz, the host of the meeting, insisted that party affiliation was left at the door during the premiers’ gathering even as he ribbed Harper for meeting with Wynne on the sidelines of a hockey tournament earlier this month.

“If I had planned it a little bit better, maybe I would have planned this meeting around the World Junior Hockey championships and he would have been here, but, you know, hindsight is 20-20,” said Ghiz, who’s retiring in mid-February.

For all the chuckles, however, there was plenty of antagonism on display via some of the premiers’ remarks, particularly Wynne’s, and on the sidelines of the meeting. Six of the 11 premiers in attendance were Liberal; one is NDP. Some provincial officials griped off the record about the Conservatives’ terror bill announcement earlier Friday, suggesting the government timed it to steal thunder from their meeting. Perhaps not coincidentally, Ghiz told reporters at the end of the meeting that the premiers have agreed to work closely with law enforcement agencies in their jurisdictions to ensure Canadians are safe from

terrorism.

Although Harper’s absence at the meeting was a repeated complaint all day, Clark suggested the provinces are happy to take the bull by the horns.

“The premiers get a lot accomplished around this table, and we have since I’ve been here,” she said.

“It’s always better when we collaborate as broadly as we can in order to build a country, but I think we accomplish a lot without them here too.”

One of those accomplishments was a consensus on the need for a national strategy on seniors’ health care. Both the Canadian Medical Association and the Canadian Nurses Association had urged the premiers to address the issue at the meeting, and they heeded the call.

“There are many different avenues where an aging population is affecting us in terms of our economic ability but also in terms of cost,” Ghiz said.

Climate change was also a key topic of discussion at the gathering, the premiers said. Wynne and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said the provinces and territories are making progress on the so-called Canadian Energy Strategy, an initiative involving all 13 premiers and focused on climate change and clean energy.

Couillard said proposed pipeline projects like TransCanada’s $12-billion Energy East are important to the Canadian economy but “the environment and the security of communities must come first.”

New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant, meantime, reiterated his belief that Energy East will create jobs and stimulate the economy in an environmentally responsible way.

Body of 26-yearold B.C. man finally identified after four decades VANCOUVER — The body of an unknown man found in Vancouver almost four decades ago has finally been identified. Coroner Bill Inkster says the body was recovered in July 1975 and transported to Saint Paul’s Hospital for a forensic examination.

Inkster says despite extensive efforts by police and coroners, the man’s body remained unidentified.

He says Roy Howe was eventually reported missing to the RCMP who were told in 2008 that he was 26 years old when he disappeared.

Inkster says modern forensics and enhanced identification tools developed by the corner service’s disaster response unit finally linked the body and Howe. He says the exhaustive post-mortem investigation was assisted

by Vancouver police and RCMP missing persons units.

Better together.

Ottawa sues law firm for alleged legal fee fraud in residential schools case

Save up to $100 on any new smartphone when you bundle with Optik TV and Internet.

*

TM

Plus, save $ 5/month on each service.

†

+

+

Go to telus.com/bundleup or visit your TELUS store today.

54877A15&31

REGINA — The federal government is suing a Saskatchewan law firm, alleging lawyers fraudulently overbilled for their work with survivors of Indian residential schools. In a statement of claim filed this week in Regina, the government says a 2014 audit report shows the Merchant Law Group claimed tens of millions of dollars in work time entries that were “intentionally inflated, duplicated or simply fabricated.”

The suit alleges that some individual lawyers billed for more than 24 hours of work in a single day. Entries were also backdated, some by years, it says.

“The government is taking legal action to recover public money that was paid to this firm as a result of serious misrepresentations,” Andrew Gowing with the federal Justice Department said in an email Friday.

The allegations have not been proven in court.

The Regina-based law group said in a statement that the allegations have no “basis in reality” and the government is trying to avoid paying its bill.

“This week’s latest attempt by the federal government is just more legal jousting,” said Donald Outerbridge, the firm’s executive director.

TELUS STORES Red Deer Bower Place

Innisfail Parkland Mall

5125 76A St.

5301 43rd St.

7434 50th Ave.

5018 50th St.

*Offer available with any activation of a new TELUS smartphone on a 2 year postpaid consumer rate plan. Promotional discount is the lesser of $100 and the price of the eligible device before tax. The mobility and TELUS Home Services accounts must be in the same name. †Offer available to consumers and businesses operated by a sole proprietor. TELUS Home Services are TV, Internet and TELUS Home Phone. Linking of home services and mobility accounts required to receive the $5/month discount. Only one discount available for each mobility account.

The mobility and TELUS Home Services accounts must be in the same name. TELUS, the TELUS logo, Optik, Optik TV, telus.com and the future is friendly are trademarks of TELUS Corporation, used under licence. © 2015 TELUS.

FOCUS

A6 Why are politicians so stupid?

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

LACK OF WISDOM AND PRUDENCE AT THE TOP IS A REFLECTION OF A LACK OF WISDOM AND PRUDENCE AT THE BOTTOM

BY MICHAEL FLOOD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The premier of Alberta, Jim Prentice, recently announced that the province is facing a $6-billion deficit due to sharply declining oil royalties. He has also mentioned some options he is considering to patch the hole in the province’s finances, including a sales tax and a progressive income tax.

Low crude oil prices are also affecting the rest of the Canadian economy, causing economic downturns in the oil producing provinces and affecting federal tax revenues.

There are many people in Canada right now saying “I told you so!” Nothing is more predictable in a resource economy than an eventual downturn in the price of the key commodity.

Still, investors, corporations, and governments act on the mantra that “this time will be different” and overcommit. It’s happened to Alberta twice before and price booms and busts have been a feature of the petroleum industry as far back as the 1860s.

Why do politicians keep walking off these fiscal cliffs?

It’s tempting to blame governments for this problem and bemoan stupid, short-sighted politicians.

Unfortunately we live in a representative democracy and those stupid, short-sighted politicians were elected by us stupid, short-sighted voters.

Politicians are rarely rewarded (that is, re-elected) for forward thinking. They are, instead, rewarded

for giving short-term benefits to the voters, like tax cuts and increased public spending, contradictory as those two things are. Simply put, lack of wisdom and prudence at the top is an effect of lack of wisdom and prudence on the bottom.

Most people don’t save enough (or anything) for retirement, take on mountains of debt and put aside little or nothing for the proverbial rainy day (or week, or month, or year). So let’s rephrase the question: why are we so unwise?

A large part comes from our ability to adapt to the status quo and assume that it will continue. The philosopher Nassim Taleb calls this “Turkey Thinking” — the turkey’s confidence that he will get fed increases every day that he is fed by the farmer, until the day the farmer needs a Thanksgiving turkey and chops off its head.

Making the minimum payments on debt and having a steady income feel like security to most people and they don’t think about “what would I do if ...” questions until it is too late.

Not everyone is imprudent and unwise, of course.

There are a lot of people who save enough for emergencies and retirement. But it is clear there are not enough of them to make it worthwhile for politicians to cultivate their votes. What, then, are we to do?

I would suggest two things, one radical and one ordinary.

The radical suggestion is that we pass laws forcing governments to save a substantial percentage of all surpluses, placing those funds in the control of a non-partisan organization whose mission would be

to grow and shepherd the funds, releasing only a tiny portion of the revenue gains back to the government in any year, reinvesting the rest. Accessing the capital in this fund (as opposed to the dividends) would require a unanimous vote of the elected representatives, enabling the wise to prevent the foolish from squandering the savings for the future.

You are probably wondering how we could accomplish such a thing, given that governments have no incentive to be wise or restrain themselves. That’s where my ordinary suggestion comes in. Wisdom is not an inborn trait like hair or eye colour — it’s an acquired virtue, one that we gain through hard work and discipline. Those who desire to be wiser need to work to persuade their fellow citizens to think ahead and plan for the future. This is too important to be left to lobbyists, think tanks, and politicians (who, as I said, have no incentives to do so).

Our duties as citizens go beyond simply turning up to vote on election day: we must stay informed on the issues of the day and decide for ourselves how these issues should be handled.

We must then strive to influence others that our point of view is correct, because swaying just a few other voters at a time can make a world of difference on how we live and whether we have to put up with imprudence on the part of each other or our government.

Michael Flood is a marketing writer and communications consultant. He holds an MA in philosophy from the University of Alberta. This column was supplied by Troy Media (troymedia.com).

Faith and the gender gap Did you hear about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac? She lay awake all night wondering if there was a Dog. But she’s a pretty rare bird.

According to a large survey carried out in the United Kingdom by Prof. David Voas of the University of Essex, more than half of British men who are now in their early 40s (54 per cent) are agnostics or atheists, but only one-third of women of the same age (34 per cent) hold similar views.

The gender difference was even more striking when the 9,000 respondents were asked GWYNNE about their belief in a life after death. Only 35 per cent of DYER the men said they believed that there was some kind of individual survival beyond the grave; 60 per cent of women said they did. That’s a difference of almost two-toone in the level of belief, among people who otherwise have similar backgrounds.

Now, this is obviously a topic on which a wise commentator would be very wary of offering an opinion. Much safer to keep your mouth shut and write about something else. Which may explain why this whole question about gender differences in belief in God came as a surprise to me, because when I looked into the literature it turns out that the social scientists have known about it for ages.

There is a thriving academic industry dedicated to proposing reasons for this huge belief gap. One theory holds that men are just more likely to be risk-takers (except Blaise Pascal, the 17th-century French philosopher whose famous “wager” stated that we should live our life as if God exists in order to escape an eternity of torture in Hell. If He turns out not to exist, we haven’t really lost all that much.

It was a breakthrough in probability theory).

Another theory is that men who score relatively high on the autism scale are also more likely to be atheists or agnostics. But that doesn’t really get us very far, since the great majority of men are not autistic, and yet a majority of British men don’t believe in God. You will note that I am only quoting speculations on male character traits here. Some of the abovementioned social scientists also speculate on aspects of “female” socialization and character in their search for reasons for the great disparity in belief, but that is a minefield I do not plan to enter today.

Let us instead go beyond Voas’s statistics for Britain and see whether the same difference persists across cultures and continents.

Belief in God is much higher in the United States, although it is dropping rapidly. A Harris poll in 2009 found that 82 per cent of Americans had never doubted the existence of God; the same poll in 2014 found that the number had fallen to 74 per cent.

This is due almost entirely to a fall in belief among younger Americans: a Pew poll of “millennials” in 2007 found that 83 per cent were believers; the same poll in 2012 found only 68 per cent.

But the gender gap in belief also exists in the U.S., although it is less dramatic: 77 per cent of American women say they have an absolutely certain belief in a God or universal spirit, but only 65 per cent of American men say the same. Indeed, the gap exists

INSIGHT

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER Published at 2950 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 1M9

by The Red Deer Advocate Ltd. Canadian Publications Agreement #336602 Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Fred Gorman Publisher John Stewart Managing editor Richard Smalley Advertising director

in every country of the developed world, although there are intriguing national differences in how wide it is.

In former West Germany, where 48 per cent of the population believe in God, the gap between men and women is eight per cent. In former East Germany, the cradle of the Protestant Reformation, where four decades of communist rule eroded the hold of Christianity on the population, only 16 per cent believe in God — but the gap between men and women is less than three per cent.

Fifty-eight per cent of Russians believe in God, but the gender gap is as big as it is in Britain: 25 per cent. Whereas in Turkey, a relatively developed Muslim country where almost 95 per cent of the population believe in God, there is no difference at all between the beliefs of men and of women.

What are we to make of all this?

Start with the fact that decisions of this sort are rarely made on an entirely rational basis. Just as the

Scott Williamson Pre-press supervisor

403-314-4337 Website: www.reddeeradvocate.com

Main switchboard 403-343-2400 Delivery/Circulation 403-314-4300

Advertising Main number: 403-314-4343 Fax: 403-342-4051 E-mail: advertising@reddeeradvocate.com Classified ads: 403-309-3300 Classified e-mail: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

News News tips 403-314-4333 Sports line 403-343-2244 News fax 403-341-6560 E-mail: editorial@reddeeradvocate.com John Stewart, managing editor 403-314-4328 Carolyn Martindale, City editor 403-314-4326 Greg Meachem, Sports editor 403-314-4363 Harley Richards, Business editor

twitter.com/RedDeerAdvocate

Alberta Press Council member The Red Deer Advocate is a sponsoring member of the Alberta Press Council, an independent body that promotes and protects the established freedoms of the press and advocates freedom of information. The Alberta Press Council upholds

great majority of believers everywhere never chose their original religious beliefs — they were just born into them — so any later changes in their beliefs are probably driven more by their personal circumstances than by conscious choice. Consider the difference between the two Germanies, for example.

So what are the differences between the personal circumstances of men and women that might lead to different outcomes in terms of belief? That will obviously vary from one country to another, but women still suffer from greater social and economic disadvantages than men almost everywhere.

If you have less control over the course of your own life, then belief in an all-powerful God who is just, and will ultimately put all the injustices right, is a very attractive proposition.

In that case, the gender gap in belief is neither intellectual nor emotional. It’s simply pragmatic.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

the public’s right to full, fair and accurate news reporting by considering complaints, within 60 days of publication, regarding the publication of news and the accuracy of facts used to support opinion. The council is comprised of public members and representatives of member newspapers. The Alberta Press Council’s address: PO Box 2576, Medicine Hat, AB, T1A 8G8.

Phone 403-580-4104.

Email: abpress@telus.net.

Website: www.albertapresscouncil.ca.

Publisher’s notice The Publisher reserves the right to edit or reject any advertising copy; to omit or discontinue any advertisement. The advertiser agrees that the Publisher shall not be

liable for damages arising out of error in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error occurs.

Circulation Circulation 403-314-4300 Single copy prices (Monday to Thursday): $1.05 (GST included).

Single copy (Friday and Saturday): $1.31 (GST included).

Home delivery (one month auto renew): $14.50 (GST included).

Six months: $88 (GST included).

One year: $165 (GST included).

Prices outside of Red Deer may vary.

For further information, please call 403314-4300.

facebook.com/RDAdvocate

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 A7

Continue to have hope If he ever stood up straight, he would measure somewhere from six foot one to six foot three.

He is always quite jovial, especially if he’s blitzed, and he never misses a chance to persistently ask for a cigarette or a toonie.

He doesn’t call it begging, he calls it pubCHRIS lic relations.

SALOMONS Laughingly, he states that he works for the City of Red Deer in the public relations department. Dumpster-diving is his vocation of choice.

But there are times when he is extremely annoying.

This past Tuesday, I had to kick him out of the kitchen for two weeks for taking a plate of food outside to give to someone else after repeated warnings

STREET TALES

not to.

He waited until we were occupied and then snuck out with it.

We have very few rules, but taking a plate of food out is one of them; if needed, we have takeout containers.

But once he has been drinking, he very seldom listens, so the only alternative is to pull back our services for a time.

After the meal, I got to thinking (dangerous occupation) that we have been feeding this fellow now for 15 years and he has done nothing to improve himself.

He did take on a job for a short while. But when the alcohol helps him realize that he is bored, he changes his mind and then he’s back.

This is the time when we question ourselves as to what good we are doing in feeding him. Are we giving him a hand up or are we enabling his lifestyle?

I can already hear the comments this article will produce, both pro and con. We have been debating this for 15 years.

This rest of society is geared to results; if the results are not in sufficient number, then whatever it is being done

is stopped.

I guess it is hard to explain why we believe the way we do, but if out of what we do we can help one or two people get back on their feet, or we can let a few know that they are loved unconditionally, we feel it is worth it.

In doing so, we have to tolerate many individuals who really don’t want help, they just want a free meal. This is definitely not a numbers game in our estimation, it’s a relationship game.

It was during one of our many conversations (and he is quite honest) that this alcoholic emphasized how being sober and industrious was just plain boring so he continues with his lifestyle.

In spite of what we think of him about his lifestyle choice, he actually has many positive attributes. But he chooses to think and live so that he doesn’t have to think about anyone but himself. What he won’t admit is that he is an addicted alcoholic.

So, regardless of what we sometimes feel we would like to do to individuals like this, the fact remains that there is hope and one day he may come to a realization that he has thrown away his

life, his family and many of his friends, and then make a choice to change his life.

I thought about his statement that life without alcohol is boring.

Then I realized that when we have a habit or an addiction that we have to change, it is only because we can’t fathom a life without what we are addicted to that we are held back from making any improvements.

I know that was one of the thoughts for me in quitting smoking: what will I do with my hands, etc.

I guess it is a matter of faith that life will go on with or without our addiction, and the boredom we felt was going to be all-consuming will be easily filled with many better things if we would just adopt them.

Regardless of his annoying drunken lifestyle, I have learned to appreciate his candor and his helpful and generous spirit.

It’s his alcoholism that frustrates me, but I continue to have hope that one day. ...

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

Reality TV? I don’t think so I don’t know if you get WGN on your E.R. and Honey Boo Boo’s Mom Goes to 325 channel cable/satellite television Jail. package, or whether you get the BS And if you know these shows I channel, which features nothing but just mentioned are more or less acpseudo-documentaries tual shows currently on TV, about global warming, or then you, like me, might be SMUT TV out of California spending a tad too much with its “adult” viewing (so time in front of what they I’ve heard), or the EXFX, used to call the “boob which features extreme tube.” (Which is now quite sports and specials on peoliterally the boob tube when ple with room-temperature you accidentally click on IQs looking for ghosts with one of those naked people fake electronic equipment. programs that seem to pop But if you do get WGN, up on your high definition perhaps you and your retelevision when you least mote clicker stumbled upon expect it.) a new reality show that inWhat’s next? Celebrity HARLEY vaded the already depressToe-Nail Clipping? Dog’s In HAY ing airwaves last week.

Heat? Or for a change in Maybe you surfed right pace: Watching Paint Dry? on past, and if so, congratWhich brings us back to ulations — you missed yet Wrestling With Death. It reanother ridiculously low point in the mains to be seen whether viewers will history of television. latch onto watching really bad scripted It’s called Wrestling With Death wrestling in a homemade ring with a and it follows the large and typical- few bored spectators (no doubt well ly whacked-out family (Big Daddy paid to be there) for a few wretched Latham’s family) who happen to be minutes before cutting back to unforprofessional wrestlers and who also tunate dead bodies being much too exhappen to own a mortuary business. plicitly worked on by those very same Now doesn’t that sound like the per- really bad wrestlers. fect premise for reality TV? Already the reviewers have weighed I can just imagine the production in on this low point in reality televimeeting at WGN: sion, and it’s not pretty.

Boss: “Gentlemen and our one token Flavorwire.com puts it this way: “At lady producer, what WGN TV needs is its core, Wrestling With Death is nothing totally fake reality show to add some more than another terrible entry into money-making sleaze to our otherwise the Southern hillbilly genre of reality fairly popular programming schedule. television. And it’s a big step backward Any ideas?” for WGN America.”

Producer 1: “How about a show The venerable New York Times rewhere celebrities have to do belly view went like this: “Wrestling shows flops in a Olympic size swimming pool are dumb by definition; Wrestling With from a high diving board, and there Death is dumb and dumber.” are judges and. …”

All I can say is, if this turns out to be Producer 2: “No, listen, I’ve got it. A hit, then it proves once again beyond a reality show about plastic surgery! We shadow of a doubt that the average get a bunch of really ugly women and viewer has about as much good taste they undergo a painfully and graphic and sensible judgment as an eggplant. face lift and some Botox injections and I was just about to whine that it then judges decide who is hottest and. couldn’t possibly get any worse than a …” reality show of wrestling morticians, Producer 3: “Sex! Sex sells! There’s but then I realized that I may, unfortuthis rapper dude who has fathered 11 nately, be quite wrong. Were you one children by 10 different women, and of the unfortunate few who remember we could follow the daily hijinks as he these cancelled reality shows? tries to figure out who’s who and there ● Tommy Lee Goes to College (the could be some judges and. ...” emotionally unstable drummer for Producer 4: “Or maybe … just maybe Motley Crue attends classes with kids there’s a family of questionable breed- at college). Review: “Mostly scripted, ing from Arkansas who embalm de- as fake as Lee’s ex-wife Pamela Anderceased people, and, oh, I don’t know, son’s breasts.” are also professional wrestlers?” ● Fat March (12 overweight people Boss: “Bingo! Let’s go with that last walk over 550 miles [10,000 km]. Finishone! Good meeting everyone!” ers share $1.2 million.) Review: “PoYou get the idea. I mean, just a brief tential health risks. More contestants couch potato channel surfing session dropped out for medical reasons than brings up (and I mean “brings up”) were voted out.” such riveting television entertainment ● Who’s Your Daddy? (A contestant as: Wives with Knives, Sex Sent Me to the who was adopted as an infant has to

HAY’S DAZE

“If this is a smart TV, then why does it show reality shows?” identify her biological father from a group of 25 men.) Review: Thank goodness the negative reaction was so vociferous this mess was cancelled after one episode.

I could go on, but in reality, it’s getting to the point where it’s just not that funny anymore.

Oh, and by the way, that pretend producers meeting I scripted earlier?

Every one of those suggestions turned

out to be an actual reality show.

So those people who say there’s nothing worth watching on television?

Now they’re for real.

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

The opposition doesn’t know what to do either One senses a state of panic in our The fundamental Conservative goal is nation’s capital, partly economic, part- to shrink the role and size of governly political. The main thing going for ment. The Conservatives have reduced the Conservative governthe capacity of government ment is that the NDP and through regressive tax meaLiberals don’t seem to know sures that too often favour what to do either. the highest income groups.

Faced with significant It also ended fiscal stimuslide in the price of both lus prematurely because of oil and liquefied natural its political goal of a 2015 gas, the government’s two balanced budget. Canadibig economic hopes, as well ans paid the price in fewer as growing uncertainty and jobs and less growth. slow growth in the world The government banked economy, Finance and the on a low-interest monetary Bank of Canada are busy policy and pursuit of its scrambling. Both the Interenergy superpower vision DAVID national Monetary Fund and to carry the economy. The CRANE the Bank of Canada have low-interest monetary pollowered growth projections icy contributed to a surge for our economy. The govin real estate investment, ernment’s game plan — Canincluding new construction, ada as an energy superpower — has but also had the effect of driving up been exposed for the high-risk gamble housing and other asset prices, which it always was. favoured existing home owners and The political panic is closely linked. owners of shares and other assets, addThe Harper government’s re-election ing to income inequality and forcing game plan of a balanced election bud- young families out of the housing marget and a surplus to spend on tax cuts ket. and other goodies for voters in next At the same time, low interest rates October’s federal election is now in have led to a surge in consumer debt. trouble. So the budget has been de- In his web-based letter asking Canadilayed until April. ans for their ideas for the next budget, The various follies in Conservative Finance Minister Joe Oliver stresses economic policy should have been his commitment to a balanced budget easy targets for the opposition parties. this year, arguing “we need to balance

INSIGHT

our budget, just like Canadian families do every day.”

But in fact, a large number of Canadian families can’t balance their budgets every day, which is why household debt is at record levels.

And by focusing on development of the petroleum industry as the other big driver of the economy, the Harper government counted on oil to boost government revenues.

As we can now see, its economic strategy was built on questionable foundations. But where is the opposition? Neither the NDP nor the Liberals appear to have a well-thought-out set of ideas or narrative on the fundamental challenges facing the Canadian economy in an increasingly globalized world, and one of fast-changing technology, let alone a set of credible policies for future prosperity and wellbeing. Nor have they even been adept at establishing a serious critique of the Harper government’s policies. They seem more concerned with tactics than with serious substance.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has promised not to increase personal income taxes and has pledged to retain the regressive child care expense deduction, unnecessarily limiting his future leeway. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau won’t even say whether he would run a 2015 budget deficit under current circumstances, arguing,

bizarrely, that it is fiscally responsible not to say anything.

From the beginning, the Conservatives have had a clear idea of why they wanted to form the government, and that is to change Canada by sharply reducing the size and role of government.

Unfortunately, this does not make sense since richer economies actually have more need for effective and active government than poor economies.

Canadians want good public transit and, more broadly, smart infrastructure. They want good education and health care. They want a clean environment. They want effective public institutions. And they want the capacity to build an economy and society based on innovation.

But neither of the opposition parties has effectively challenged the Conservatives by offering a credible and thought-out alternative view of the kind of Canada we could have. What is missing is intellectual clout that can address the big challenges we face.

We have a government that in many ways is headed in the wrong direction.

But we also have opposition parties that are failing to present a better direction for future prosperity and wellbeing. It’s time for voters to be more demanding of our politicians.

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

DAB_151002_B1A_Jeep_FBD.indd 1

LEGENDARY JEEP CAPABILITY

2015 JEEP CHEROKEE SPORT

$

138 3.49

$

225 3.99

@

BI-WEEKLY‡

$

Starting from price for 2015 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon with X Package shown: $46,385.§

@

BI-WEEKLY≥

OR

Starting from price for 2015 Jeep Cherokee Limited shown: $32,490.§

0

54881A15-31

example: 2015 Jeep Cherokee Sport with a purchase price of $24,998 financed at 4.99% over 60 months, equals 130 weekly payments of $217 for a total obligation of $28,270. Some conditions apply. Down payment is required. See your dealer for complete details. 3Based on 2014 Ward’s Small Sport Utility segmentation. »Jeep Grand Cherokee has received more awards over its lifetime than any other SUV. TM

The SiriusXM logo is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc. ®Jeep is a registered trademark of Chrysler Group LLC.

the 2015 Jeep Cherokee Sport FWD model through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Example: 2015 Jeep Cherokee Sport FWD with a Purchase Price of $24,998, with a $0 down payment, financed at 0.0% for 36 months equals 78 bi-weekly payments of $320; cost of borrowing of $0 and a total obligation of $24,998. §Starting from prices for vehicles shown include Consumer Cash Discounts and do not include upgrades (e.g. paint). Upgrades available for additional cost. 5Sub-prime financing available on approved credit. Financing

cost of borrowing of $3,669 and a total obligation of $28,667. ‡3.99% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Example: 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo with a Purchase Price of $39,998 financed at 3.99% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 208 bi-weekly payments of $225 with a cost of borrowing of $6,753 and a total obligation of $46,751. †0.0% purchase financing for 36 months available on

be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select new 2015 vehicles and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. *3.49% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2015 Jeep Cherokee Sport FWD through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Example: 2015 Jeep Cherokee Sport FWD with a Purchase Price of $24,998 financed at 3.49% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 208 bi-weekly payments of $138 with a

Wise customers read the fine print: *, *, ‡, †, § The First Big Deal Sales Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating dealers on or after January 3, 2015. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,695) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees, other dealer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Dealer order/trade may

A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

MAKE YOUR FIRST PRIORITY A BIG DEAL. 2014 JEEP CHEROKEE CANADIAN UTILITY VEHICLE OF THE YEAR

$

24,998 PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES FREIGHT.

FINANCE FOR

%

FOR 96 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWN

%

†

FO FOR F O 36 36 MONTHS M ALSO ALS LSO AVAILABLE A AV V

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

CANADA’S MOST AWARDED SUV EVER»

2015 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LAREDO

$

39,998

PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES FREIGHT.

FINANCE FOR

%

FOR 96 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWN

Starting from price for 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland shown: $62,840.§

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

THE MOST CAPABLE OFF-ROAD VEHICLE IN ITS CLASS3

2015 2 015 J JEEP EEP WRANGLER WRANGLER

GET G E

2,500

IIN N TOTAL DISCOUNTS*

jeepoffers.ca

REBUILDING YOUR CREDIT? SUB-PRIME RATES FROM ONLY 4.29% OAC≈

1/12/15 6:15 PM

TRAVEL

B1

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

TEACH SOME YOGA, GUIDE A FLY-FISHING GROUP, HELP PEOPLE LEARN TO SURF OR SNOWBOARD, DO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AND

YOU CAN LIVE AND WORK

ANYWHERE

Photos by PAUL GIRARDI and DANIELLE HACHEY/freelance

(Main photo) Paul Girardi and Danielle Hachey, sitting in front of their casita with their most important tools of the trade; (top photo) Danielle pauses in Tokyo’s largest public park for a quick yoga session; (inset photo) Paul casting a line in the Cariboo region working on the endless perfection of a fly cast.

How to mix business with a passion for travel At some point while Danielle Hachey was working on a bachelor of arts degree in global developmental studies with a focus on community sustainability, she realized that travel would play an important role in her future life — though she didn’t know exactly how.

As part of her degree program, she spent time studying in Cuba and in Mexico. And when she graduated, she went to work for the University of Alberta, Augustana campus in Camrose.

For a couple of years, she stayed put in Central Alberta, but since then the former Red Deer resident has been travelling and working all around the world.

“I always envisioned travDEBBIE elling, but I thought it would OLSEN be in the non-profit realm,” said Hachey.

“As it has turned out, I have spent a great deal of time working in the tourism industry — though I have used my skills in community development.”

It all began when Hachey saw a contest in SBC Surf Magazine that asked readers to write out a fiveyear plan for themselves that would help them live their dream life.

Hachey wrote the plan, submitted it to the contest and ended up winning the prize — a surfboard, wetsuit and accessories. Shortly afterwards, she quit her job and moved to the West Coast to implement the first part of her plan — learning to surf.

While living and surfing on the West Coast and becoming certified as a yoga instructor, Hachey met her partner Paul Girardi, an avid surfer and snowboarder with a degree in philosophy.

The pair soon realized they shared a passion for travel and began looking for ways to see the world on a budget.

They contacted a number of resorts in areas they were interested in visiting to see if they would be interested in a work trade agreement and ended up spending almost two years managing Los Cardones

TRAVEL

(www.loscardones.com), a surf and yoga ecolodge in Nicaragua.

“We had never managed a lodge before, but the owners and the staff were very patient with us as we learned our responsibilities,” said Hachey.

“About 30 local Nicaraguan staff worked at the resort. Paul gave surf lessons and I taught yoga and we managed the overall lodge operation.”

Hachey used her skills in global and development studies to help the local community by operating a community library from the resort. This library eventuYo no requerdo mi libro! (I forgot my book...): It’s library day, and one of the ally grew into a separate local ninos at the ecolodge in Nicaragua explains to Danielle how he forgot building within the commuhis library book this week, but promises to bring two books back next week! nity.

The couple also facilitat“Turtle eggs are considered a food source and ed a community awareness many local Nicaraguans had no idea that sea turtles program to prevent the poaching of turtle eggs.

A turtle hatchery had already been established at are endangered,” said Hachey. the resort and they helped to promote awareness of “Education is vital if we are to stop egg poaching turtle conservation by allowing guests and local area in poor communities in Nicaragua.” children to release the baby sea turtles once they hatched.

Please see OLSEN on Page B2

B2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

FROM PAGE B1

OLSEN: Now settled in Rossland, B.C.

Great jobs for people who love to travel

TRAVEL WITH

Tour guide: Popular travel destinations are always in need of knowledgeable guides.

Travel agent: Travel agents learn all about booking travel and may also go on familiarization trips to various destinations to gain first-hand knowledge.

Hospitality: Working at a resort or restaurant can allow you to live in an exciting destination rent free. If you work on a cruise ship, you’ll get to visit many destinations.

Nanny/au pair: If you like children, working as a nanny is a great way to get to live in a foreign country and become immersed in its culture.

Volunteer: Voluntourism is one of the fastest growing segments of the tourism industry. When you volunteer abroad, you help others and experience a country in a unique way.

Event co-ordinator: Co-ordinating large conferences, festivals and tradeshows can require an event co-

ordinator to visit venues in a variety of destinations.

Photographer: Some types of photography involve travel. Photojournalists and destination wedding photographers get to travel often.

ESL teacher: There are people all over the world who want to learn to speak English and teaching English in a foreign country is an easy way to get out and see the world.

Travel writer: Travel writers visit a variety of destinations and write about their experiences.

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

PARSON’S HOLIDAY TOURS

403-347-4990 | 1-888-LET-S-BUS (538-7287) www.frontierbuslines.com

FRONTIER “because we care”

Motor Coach Tour

Visit our website or call for details

MULTI-DAY TOURS

- 6TH DAY TRIP IS FREE

CASINO DAY TRIPS APEX CASINO, ST. ALBERT Jan. 27/15 Tues CASINO CALGARY Feb. 17 RIVER CREE CASINO, EDMONTON March 10 SUPERIOR SERVI CE AT AN AFFORDABLE PRI CE

BC HERITAGE COWBOY FESTIVAL KAMLOOPS BC Join our tour and enjoy the added bonus of onboard entertainment. We have the pleasure of one of the best Canadian Cowboy poets,and possible an Australian poet travelling on the coach with us.

Mar 11-16/15

VICTORIA

THEATRE TRIPS

FULLY ESCORTED 14 Days Days 6 Days Days for touring 4 Days free MARCH 11-24, 2015

JUBILATION DINNER THEATRE EDMONTON “Oh Boy, Buddy Holly” Attend the best Rock N Roll graduation party of all time

Butchard Gardens Duncan D uncan Chemainus Salt Springs Island Artists Colony Victoria’s Inner Harbour Plus much more

Sunday, Feb. 22/15

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE EDMONTON “Don’t Dress for Dinner” Wednesday Mar. 18/15

ROSEBUD DINNER THEATRE “The Miracle Worker”, the story of Helen Keller Thursday Apr. 9/15

DEPART RD ARENA OVERFLOW LOT EXCEPT FOR ** WHICH DEPART PARKING LOT SOUTH OF DENNY’S

$

1890 db

105223A30

PAY FOR 5 CASINO DAY TRIPS

54204A31

After almost two years working in Nicaragua, the couple moved on to work in the Nagano region of Japan managing two small ski resorts in Hakuba (www.hakubatourism.jp).

“I ran a family lodge with about eight suites and Paul ran a hostel that accommodated 65 people and had a little bar and restaurant,” explained Hachey. “I offered yoga lessons in the community and Paul did some snowboard instruction.”

After the peak winter season ended, the couple came back to Canada and worked at Siwash Lake Ranch (www.siwashlakeranch.com), a luxury dude ranch and wilderness resort in northern B.C. At this resort, Hachey worked as a yoga instructor, a gardener and a server in the dining room while her partner taught Top: Paul keeps it low in the surf to try to sneak fly fishing, shooting, hatchet throwinto a small barrel. ing, and worked as an Above: The fruits of Danielle’s labours in the all-around handyman rocky soils of the elevated plateau of the building fences and Cariboo region, B.C. making repairs as reRight: Danielle navigates her way down a rope quired.

There was a huge rappel on the infamous Nootka Trail on the far mill on the property west coast of Nootka Island, B.C. and lumber was harvested right on the spot.

Girardi learned to mill his own lumber said Hachey. “We hope to share our passions with our guests and for building and particularly enjoyed take them to extraordinary places this new experience. around the world that we have The couple is now settled in the visited and know well.” mountain town of Rossland, B.C., not Note: Hachey and Girardi far from Red Mountain Ski Resort found the following websites (www.redresort.com) in the west Koohelpful in their search for emtenay region of British Columbia. ployment abroad: workingcouHachey is working at a boutique ples.com and www.go2hr.ca (for B.C. shop at Red Mountain and teaching yoga while her partner works at the ski jobs). They also recommend contacting individual tourism operators in the resort. They hope to make Rossland a destination you would like to live and semi-permanent home. work in.

“We appreciate Canada more because of our experiences in other parts of the world,” said Hachey.

“Our dream is to spend winters here in Rossland and spend the off-season Lack of time and financial conleading guided surfing and yoga tours. straints make it difficult for many peoWe never saw our lives fitting into the ple to achieve their dream of jetsetting typical mould and we have come to around the globe, but some people get realize there are many different ways to do it as part of their work. Here are to live.”

10 career choices that could let you see They have started their own tour the world: company (www.feathersandfur.ca) and Flight attendant: The work isn’t plan to run summer surf and yoga reeasy and the hours may be erratic, but treats. working as a flight attendant can give “We’re in the process of establishyou a chance to visit different cities ing dates for our first surf and yoga around the world. You also get disretreat to Central America in 2015,” counts on personal travel.

Call For Details

403-782-6341 403-318-5700

Serving Central Alberta For

84 YEARS

Best Prices!!!

Consumer Cash Backs!

Immediate Memory Care Residence Available We offer Moments Neighbourhood for our Alzheimer and Dementia residents.

Come in today & let us help you find the vehicle to suit your needs.

Call today for your personalized tour

(We’ll even treat you to a complimentary lunch, wer’e proud of our food!)

3115 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer 403-346-2035 1-800-666-8675

1756A2-31 756A2 31

www.northwestmotors.autotrader.ca

ASPEN RIDGE

INGLEWOOD

3100 22 Street, Red Deer

10 Inglewood Drive, Red Deer

403-341-5522

403-346-1134

w w w. s y m p h o n y s e n i o r l i v i n g . c o m

2565A31

Premium Pre-Owned!

Red Deer’s #1 Premier Independent Assisted Living Residence & Memory Care

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 B3

Prop up your feet at a Japanese ryokan their stay, and the procedures are the same at all ryokans.

Upon arriving at Seikoro in Kyoto, we had to surrender our shoes and put on slippers.

(The ones provided were two inches too short for my son Jake’s size-10 feet.) We met our attendant, Aya, who was dressed in a colorful kimono, and followed her up the narrow stairs to our room. Ryokans typically do not have elevators, so don’t bring too much luggage, or risk watching a wisp of a lady carry your bags up narrow stairs and refuse all assistance, as we did.

We were instructed to leave our slippers in a specific place outside the room. I noticed that after we removed them, Aya always turned them around so they would point toward the inn’s door. Jake had to bend down to walk into our room. At 14, he is almost 6 feet tall and clearly too big for Japan.

Ryokans serve Japanese breakfast and dinner, which are often included in the rate and consist of between 10 and 20 separate dishes. All meals are served in your room on your low table, so you sit on the floor to eat. When we arrived, Aya brought us a pot of green tea and pancakes filled with a red bean paste. We were grateful that the legless chairs at the table were cushioned and had backs. (We’re supposed to embrace travel in our Golden Years, but I’m not yet 50, and I found it hard to sit so low.) Jake’s feet came out the other side of the table. Once we got comfortable, though, our afternoon snack was the perfect welcome.

After sitting on the floor, I appreciated the appeal of the onsen, an indoor hot spring on the bottom floor of the inn.

There are separate ones for men and women, and bathing suits are not allowed, which meant that my teens had no interest in going. The guest room provided yukata, traditional cotton robes with long belts, for each of us, which are very comfortable. I put on my robe and went shuffling off in my slippers to find the onsen.

Signs in English direct guests to rinse off in a space with shower sprays and little wooden benches to sit on.

BY PAULA SHOYER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE KYOTO, Japan — Traveling alone with two teenagers in Japan should have been enough of a challenge for me. Add to that the fact that we are kosher and eat only certain fish and vegetarian food when we travel, and we do not speak Japanese. Those factors alone should have dictated that we play it safe in choosing accommodations. Yet when my husband suggested that we stay in a traditional Japanese inn during our time in Kyoto, I was intrigued.

Japanese inns, called ryokans, are found all over the country, though they are typically in scenic areas and towns that feature hot springs. There are also ryokans in larger cities, but they are older and often not as pretty as those in smaller towns. Ryokans were developed in the 1600s to serve Japanese travelers journeying between Tokyo and imperial Kyoto.

Today there are more than 60,000 ryokans, ranging from small family-run inns to larger, modern ones. The buildings are often at least 100 years old and have the traditional Japanese architecture of wooden buildings, pointed roofs, bamboo and greenery.

Many have beautiful gardens.

Ryokans have simple and serene guest rooms with sliding paper screen doors separating sitting and sleeping areas, tatami (reed) mats, low tables and closets to hide the bedding. Linens cover the telephone and television, lest they upset the soothing environment.

I chose the Seikoro Ryokan in Kyoto because online reviewers mentioned that the staff spoke English, which was critical for us because of our dietary needs. Travelers often say, though, that the lack of English is not an obstacle to enjoying a ryokan. The level of hospitality at ryokans is so high, and the staff is so eager to please, that guests are able to communicate their needs even where the English skills are minimal.

Guests are expected to follow certain customs during

There are also small wooden buckets that I assumed were for rinsing yourself. Next you are told to soap up, rinse and then relax in the pool. The water was really hot and made all my traveling aches disappear. After only 10 minutes, however, I felt fully cooked.

After I dried off, I put the yukata back on and tied the belt.

On the way back to the room, a staff member told me that I had wrapped myself in the wrong direction. I learned later that you are supposed to tuck the right side under the left. Only corpses have the left side tucked under the right!

Jake should have gone into the onsen because he could fit into the tub in the guestroom only while in the fetal position. The shower head sprayed water no higher than the middle of his back, but he managed to get the job done.

At the lower end of the height scale, my daughter, Emily, and I had no problem showering.

Japanese bathrooms are extremely clean, and the toilets offer a full spa treatment. In Japan, even the toilets in public places have warmed toilet seats and a console with buttons to press to play music, spray water or activate a dryer. This fastidiousness was also in evidence at the inn: Guests are given separate slippers to wear into the toilet room and are forbidden to wear them anyplace else.

My son’s size was not the only challenge we faced in Japan. As kosher Jews, we had to be careful about food, so we were armed with a printout from the Web site of the Jewish Community Center of Tokyo that explained our dietary restrictions. I gave the printout to Aya, who told us it would not be a problem for us to have the traditional Japanese breakfast. It wasn’t always so easy: One night in Kyoto, we presented our sheet to a chef who, after reading it for 10 minutes, simply said “No.” Other restaurants were more accomodating, including a vegetarian eatery in Kyoto’s Gion neighborhood called Mitoko.

I slept nine hours straight on both our nights at the ryokan, something I haven’t done since college. The futon on the

Photo by ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

If you’re into cultural immersion, forgo a hotel room in Japan and book a ryokan such as Kyoto’s Seikoro Ryokan. The inns are often at least a century old floor was so comfortable, the linens made of the softest cotton and the duvets, luxurious.

Jake slept well, too, although the bed was too short for him.

Within minutes of our waking, Aya had cleared away all the bedding and set up our table for breakfast.

Don’t stay at a ryokan if you don’t like Japanese food; there is no other option. Each day started with Aya bringing us a lavish breakfast. We ate grilled salmon or mackerel, dried fish, grated radish, pickled turnip and eggplant, dried seaweed, tofu, miso soup and rice. The first day we had egg custard, the second day we had a barely poached egg that is mixed into the rice with chopsticks. Each food item came on a separate plate, which made me glad I was not a Japanese housewife. The food was prepared simply, yet everything

was delicious. No one missed their cold cereal.

The stay was extremely relaxing, and the ryokan was a true oasis for travelers like us, rushing to pack in a week’s worth of sightseeing in Kyoto and Nara into three days. Every time we returned to the inn, we were greeted by a team of people, our slippers, glasses of cold water and smiling faces.

Although staying in a ryokan is ideally suited to the nimble and petite, the experience was well worth any minor physical discomforts. We experienced travel the way the Japanese did 400 years ago, a far cry from staying at a Western-style hotel. And although I cannot imagine crawling across a tatami mat in my 70s, I noticed that the elderly people I saw in Japan were very spry.

Tips to keep problems out of your passport photos

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Of all of the snapshots required for government-issued ID, the passport photo can prove to be the most problematic.

There are strict requirements related to backdrop, lighting, head positioning and facial expressions to ensure the image is usable, resulting in a photo some may find less than flattering — and one that they’re stuck with for up to 10 years.

No need to settle for a subpar shot, here are some expert tips for putting your best face forward: ● Ensure the photo studio is wellequipped “If they’re using a little point-andshoot camera, I’d probably say it’s not the right place because it’s not going to give you that great picture that someone who uses a professional digital camera would be able to produce for you,” said Steve Lim of CanadianPassportPhotos.ca.

“Take a look at the print quality. If you can, even ask for an example, that would be even better. But the better equipment they have, it’s a better sign that they take the passport photo-taking a lot more serious than some other places.”

Lim is also manager of Rapid Photo in Toronto, which uses a calibrated LED panel as a backdrop offering bright white light without the shadows.

Mark Efford, store manager of Lens & Shutter in Vancouver, said they use a direct flash on the front of the camera to avoid highlights on the eyes.

“If you use an umbrella or soft box, it would be a big, giant reflection in the eye which detracts from the ID aspect of the photo.” ● Choose clothing and accessories wisely Both Efford and Lim advise against wearing

white to avoid blending into the photo backdrop.

Also steer clear of patterns or advertisements on shirts, which can prove distracting, noted Efford. Ditto for fluorescents.

“Neon colours don’t reproduce correctly and they’re extremely bright,” said Efford. “They take away from the facial features, and an ID photo is all about the facial features, identifying them distinctly, quickly.”

Efford said they recommend people opt for medium-tone grey or light blue hues which are more complementary.

“They’re more neutral and they photograph that way,” he said. “They don’t detract. They’re actually putting the emphasis on the face.”

Lim said any dangling earrings or big baubles should be removed as they can prove distracting. ● Reduce glare from glasses — or ditch them Efford said glasses should be pushed up right up against the face.

The photo subject should then lean forward and tilt their face down just slightly to allow the light to go through the top part of the glass to create little to no glare in the lens.

“Ninety-nine per cent of the time that works perfect,” he said.

Lim said they always try to take pho-

It’s not just a tour....

It’s a Holiday...

CASINO TOURS River Rock Resort & Casino Las Vegas 9 days $489 Mar. 21, Apr. 25, May 9

Laughlin, NV 9 day tours $529 April 11, Oct. 3 12 day tours $679 Feb 9, March 9, Apr. 27 7 days $349 Mar. 29, May 3

Northern Lights Casino 4 days $299

April 12 and Sept 20

Stateroom Upgrades

*Plus, enjoy up to 10% off select shore excursions *50% Reduced Deposit *FREE or reduced fares for 3rd/4th guests

11 night Mediterranean Cruise Zuiderdam / July 22, 2015 Oceanview fare from From CAD $2289 p/person FREE Upgrade to Balcony

b Casinos of Winnipeg 6 days $464 May 24

6 days $589 April 26

Coeur D’Alene Casino 6 days $489 April 15 & Oct. 7

Deadwood, SD 7 days $559 May 9 & Sept. 13

Kootenai River Inn & Casino 4 days $339 May 11 and Sept 28

Temple Gardens Mineral Spa & Casino Moosejaw 4 Days $339 May 31, June 28, July 26

ee s ceive f r e r d n a West Coast Holiday family d n a s 10 Days April 11 $1329 iend 7 night Alaska Cruise their fr Deadwood Summer Special d n a NoordamF/iMay ily ll y9, o2015 7 Days June 6, July 11, Aug 8 $589 ds, fam ur ow n Oceanview fare from e i r f ! th Our Deparp/person nbubsuswiJoin e c i o h From CAD $1632 t frrow withoffyour c Yellowstone National Park & Deadwood, SD Online u mn FREE Upgrade rie nds iioonsContest!

Fill ytooBalconym 22llooccaattYou , fam 10 Days Sept 10 $1029 nscould o r o ily an f f Yellowstone National Park t r y De p a d thei WIN our choic r e ! friend 5 Days June 25 $559 $250.00 s an worth of famITINERARIES CHECK OUR WEBSITE FORdTOUR ily an travel. d re www.a-startours.com 1-888-883-9114 ve frsea Fill your own bus with friends, family and their friends and family and receiveceifree ee r d n Depart from 2 locations of your choice! a ly i m a f s and

Fares are CAD per person, non-air, cruise-only, based on double occupancy and apply to the first 2 passengers in a stateroom. Airfare, transfers, taxes, fees and port expenses are additional and subject to change. Fares for other dates may vary. This offer is capacity controlled and may not be combinable with any other promotions.UNIGLOBE Bonus shipboard credit is per stateroom in U.S. dollars, has no cash value, and will expire on the last evening of the cruise if unused. © 2014 Ships’ registry: The Netherlands.

#120, #120,3020-22 3020-22Street Street , Red Deer VacationsYQF@UniglobeOne.com VacationsYQF@UniglobeOne.com Phone: Phone:403-342-2022 403-342-2022

Velasquez opted for matte makeup, kept natural tones for the eyes, and wore neutral lipstick.

“You basically want to do something that you would do for a job interview,” she said. “You still want to look like yourself. Obviously, if your everyday look is a red lipstick then go for it; but I wouldn’t do party makeup for an ID photo.” ● Relax “We’ll always tell people to relax, because when you’re kind of in that stiff mode you look very nervous,” said Lim. “If we ask people to give us a neutral expression or a pleasant expression, you can actually get a half-decent picture out of that. There is no need to give that stern, angry look.

“Even if it’s a half-pleasant smirk, that is usually very effective, and it makes the picture look so much better on paper.”

Online: www.canadianpassportphotos.ca www.glittergeek.ca www.lensandshutter.com www.rapidphoto.ca

Wendover, NV

Book select 2015 Europe, Canada & New England, Bermuda, Alaska Cruises or Land+Sea Journeys and receive these exceptional offers*:

FREE

+ A-STAR TOURS

UNIGLOBE Bonus! $50 US/Cabin Shipboard Credit

One Travel

tos with people wearing their glasses, but there are some instances where they can’t prevent glare. In those cases, they recommend that people take the photo without them to save time and ensure the photo isn’t rejected.

But it’s not just glare from glasses that can prove problematic — shiny skin is also a passport photo no-go.

“Any half-decent passport photo studio would have something called rice paper which is an absorbing paper and they will provide it for you. Use it to dab skin for excess oil,” said Lim. ● Keep makeup neutral After receiving compliments on her passport photo shared on Instagram, Arianne Velasquez decided to share her beauty tips and tricks on her blog, Glitter Geek.

While she usually wears more makeup for ID photos, she opted for a more minimalist approach.

“Contouring was definitely a big thing, for sure,” said the Toronto makeup artist. “Contouring on the cheeks and maybe even down the nose and the eyelids just to make all the shadows kind of more pronounced.”

TRAVEL TOURS

wond vel b holiday and l Park ends ationa one N llowst

SPORTS

B4

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

Chiefs holding out hope for playoffs JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Scott Feser of the Red Deer Rebels lines up Brandon Baddock of the Edmonton Oil Kings for a hit during Friday night WHL action at the Enmax Centrium.

Rebels come up empty OIL KINGS OUTSHOOT REBELS 19-6 IN THIRD PERIOD

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Oil Kings 4 Rebels 0 In artistic terms, the Red Deer Rebels’ performance Friday night at the Centrium did not qualify as a Rembrandt.

In fact, it barely represented a paint-by-numbers effort.

The Rebels, on the whole, were lacking in basically every department except goaltending in a 4-0 Western Hockey League loss to the Edmonton Oil Kings before a recorded crowd of 5,213.

“We didn’t play hard enough. The team that worked, the team that competed and won a lot of battles and puck races and played a more structured game was the team that won tonight,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We just didn’t have enough guys play to the level that we expect them to play at and what they should expect of themselves.

“It’s disappointing, yet the outcome wasn’t surprising the way we played.

Our goaltender kept us in for two periods to give ourselves us a chance in the third, but we just continued to play the same way we had.”

On a night that neither team was impressive through 40 minutes, the visitors kicked it into another gear in the

third period, scoring all four of their goals while outshooting their hosts 196. The shot count was due partly to Red Deer being assessed four of five penalties in the frame, but the Oil Kings were easily the better team down the stretch.

Andrew Koep broke the scoreless tie with the eventual winner 4:49 into the third, his shot from the top of the left faceoff circle finding the far side of the net behind a screened Rebels goalie Rylan Toth.

Brent Pollock connected six minutes later, his shot from the low slot glancing off a Red Deer stick and past Toth, and Pollock potted his second of the evening at 16:30, cutting to the net and beating Toth high. Defenceman Ashton Sautner added a power-play tally at 17:32.

“You look at the goals they got, they just weren’t smart plays on our part,” said Sutter. “They were battle and compete plays and we just lost a lot of those tonight for whatever reason.”

The Rebels are right back at it tonight against the visiting Prince Albert Raiders.

“We have to regroup. We have another game tomorrow night and we have to make sure that our focus is a lot different than it was here tonight,” said Sutter.

Forgiving souls would suggest that the Rebels, who have been on a re-

cent tear, were due for a bad game.

Red Deer captain Conner Bleackley, though, was having none of that.

“They (Oil Kings) kind of play a trap game and they don’t give up much,” said Bleackley. “But it didn’t really matter what they did tonight, we weren’t good enough to a man. A lot of guys, including myself, weren’t where we need to be and that’s unacceptable at this time of the year.

“You want to keep improving every day, there are no excuses for a bad game. I don’t think we were prepared for tonight, but at the same time we have another game here in 21 hours or whatever it is, so we can’t dwell on this for too long. We have to get ready for tomorrow night and I think we’ll be a lot better.”

• Toth finished with 33 saves, none better than the pad stop he made on Edgars Kulda during a two-on-on shorthanded break by the visitors in the second period. Toth also took a goal away from Luke Bertolucci in the opening period . . . Oil Kings netminder Tristan Jarry stopped 20 shots for his third shutout of the season, making splendid second-period saves on Scott Feser and Brooks Maxwell . . . The Calgary Hitmen pulled into a second-place tie with the Rebels in the Central Division with a 10-1 thumping of the visiting Raiders Friday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Royals 5 Chiefs 3 The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs missed out on an opportunity to move back into playoff position on Friday night.

Despite taking a two-goal lead in the first period, they fell 5-3 to the Calgary Royals (16-9-5), leaving them in seventh place in the Alberta Midget AAA Hockey League. The loss leaves them one point behind the Calgary Flames (9-13-8) for the sixth and final post-season berth.

But with one game in hand and a showdown with the Flames on Sunday in Cowtown, Chiefs (10-14-5) head coach Brandin Cote is confident they will find a way in.

“We have some games we are definitely capable of winning coming down the stretch, we’re still in control of our own destiny,” he said. “They way it has gone up and down like this, yeah it’s frustrating, but you can look at many examples of teams that get hot at the right time, get into the playoffs and roll. I’m not giving up on this team by any means.”

Reed Morison, Reece Soukoroff, Shane Allan, Liam Motely and Josh Giacomin scored for the Royals while Caiden Kreitz made 26 saves for the win.

The Chiefs responded with goals from Ryan Vandervlis, Chase Olsen and Tyler Graber. Branden Bilodeau made 26 saves in the loss.

The Chiefs opened the scoring with goals from Vandervlis at 10:15 and Olsen at 14:55 of the first period, but Morison’s tally at 17:51 of the period killed Red Deer’s momentum heading into the intermission.

The Royals continued to roll in the second frame, scoring three goals to take the lead and full control of the game.

The Chiefs played better in the third period but struggled to get much going until the final minutes with Bilodeau on the bench.

Graber scored a rebound goal at 17:32 giving the Chiefs life, but then they gave the goal right back off a draw at 19:15. Red Deer won the draw to the left of Kreitz but turned the puck over immediately, giving Giacomin an open lane to the empty net at 19:21.

Cote says they played well, but they have to be better.

“At this time of the year you have to have everyone giving everything they have, and we don’t have that for some reason,” he said. “It’s been one of those never ending battles all year where we have good stretches and then we revert to the not so good stuff.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Key matchups to watch at the Super Bowl

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Matchups for the Super Bowl on Feb. 1 between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots at University of Phoenix Stadium: When the Seahawks (14-4) have the ball: If the Patriots can tame the Beast, they will have a big head start toward a fourth NFL championship since 2001. RB Marshawn Lynch will try to impose his will on a solid but not overwhelming defence led

by DT Vince Wilfork, DE Rob Ninkovich, LBs Jamie Collins and Dont’a Hightower. If Lynch is slowed, that leaves the onus for running on QB Russell Wilson. While highly capable — he rushed for 849 yards and six TDs in 2014 — Wilson would prefer balance on offence.

When he throws, he must avoid the interceptions that plagued him vs. Green Bay for the NFC title.

Not that Wilson was always off-target, with two of his picks being off tips by WR Jermaine Kearse. But he was not nearly as precise as usual.

Kearse, who caught the winning TD pass in the past two NFC title matches, was targeted on all four interceptions against the Packers. He’ll see plenty of CBs Darrelle Revis and Brandon Browner, a Seahawk last season, and could struggle getting open deep. S Devin McCourty also will help in coverage on WR Doug Baldwin and TE Luke Willson.

One thing Seattle won’t do is lose faith even when things aren’t working on offence. And behind an unsung offensive line led by LT Russell Okung and C Max Unger, they won’t back off, either.

When the Patriots (14-4) have the ball: Unquestionably the key matchup, as it often is these days when the Patriots are on the field, will be All-Pro TE Rob Gronkowski against the legions trying to cover him. However, for Seattle’s Legion of Boom, much of the assignment will fall to S Kam Chancellor. Chancellor has the size (6-3, 232), speed and tackling skills to somewhat neutralize Gronkowski.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady warms up during practice Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, in Tempe, Ariz.

The Patriots play the Seattle Seahawks in NFL football Super Bowl XLIX Sunday, Feb. 1.

If he can do that, it frees All-Pro S Earl Thomas to help with versatile WR Julian Edelman, who mostly will draw All-Pro CB Richard Sherman in coverage.

QB Tom Brady is particularly comfortable throwing to Gronk and Edelman, and the Seahawks want to force him to look at others instead.

But even if the coverage is strong, Seattle must

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

>>>>

get pressure from pass rushers DEs Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril and LBs Bobby Wagner, an All-Pro, and Bruce Irvin. Brady is most vulnerable — which isn’t very vulnerable — when he has to throw before he wants to and can’t set his feet.

Please see SUPER BOWL on Page B6

SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

SCOREBOARD

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

Hockey

Local Sports

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Tampa Bay 50 31 15 4 66 163 Montreal 47 31 13 3 65 127 Detroit 49 28 12 9 65 145 Boston 49 26 16 7 59 131 Florida 46 21 15 10 52 114 Toronto 50 22 24 4 48 144 Ottawa 47 19 19 9 47 129 Buffalo 50 14 33 3 31 94 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Islanders 48 32 15 1 65 157 Pittsburgh 49 28 13 8 64 145 Washington 48 25 14 9 59 144 N.Y. Rangers 46 27 15 4 58 135 Philadelphia 50 21 22 7 49 139 Columbus 47 21 23 3 45 119 New Jersey 49 18 22 9 45 110 Carolina 48 17 25 6 40 104 WESTERN CONFERENCE

GA 132 108 128 123 129 155 134 179 GA 135 125 124 111 151 148 137 125

Central Division Nashville St. Louis Chicago Winnipeg Colorado Dallas Minnesota

GP 48 48 49 50 50 48 48

W L OT Pts 31 11 6 68 31 13 4 66 31 16 2 64 26 16 8 60 21 18 11 53 22 19 7 51 22 20 6 50 Pacific Division

GF 145 156 155 140 131 152 131

GA 115 117 113 127 141 157 138

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 50 32 12 6 70 147 134 San Jose 49 26 17 6 58 137 135 Vancouver 47 27 17 3 57 129 120 Calgary 49 26 20 3 55 140 127 Los Angeles 48 21 15 12 54 133 129 Arizona 48 17 25 6 40 111 161 Edmonton 49 13 27 9 35 113 162 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s Games St. Louis 5, Nashville 4, SO Boston 5, N.Y. Islanders 2 Montreal 1, N.Y. Rangers 0 Philadelphia 5, Winnipeg 2 Arizona 3, Toronto 1 Dallas 6, Ottawa 3 Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 1 Florida 3, Columbus 2 Minnesota 1, Calgary 0 Edmonton 3, Buffalo 2 San Jose 6, Anaheim 3 Friday’s Games St. Louis 3, Carolina 2, SO Pittsburgh 2, New Jersey 1, OT Colorado 3, Nashville 0 Chicago 4, Anaheim 1 Vancouver 5, Buffalo 2 Saturday’s Games Washington at Montreal, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Detroit, 12 p.m.

Arizona at Ottawa, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

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

Florida at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Boston, 5 p.m.

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

Edmonton at Calgary, 8 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Arizona at Montreal, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Washington, 11 a.m.

Nashville at Pittsburgh, 12 p.m.

Minnesota at Vancouver, 1 p.m.

Western Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE

EAST DIVISION W L OTLSOL 36 9 3 2 26 17 4 2 23 22 1 4 20 26 3 1 20 28 1 0 14 31 2 1

Brandon Regina Swift Current Moose Jaw Prince Albert Saskatoon

GP 50 49 50 50 49 48

GF GA 225 160 179 158 151 166 146 184 140 177 136 207

Pt 77 58 51 44 41 31

Medicine Hat Red Deer Calgary Kootenay Edmonton Lethbridge

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA 50 36 12 1 1 206 139 49 27 15 3 4 171 156 50 28 17 1 4 214 150 51 27 23 0 1 172 184 51 24 21 4 2 153 142 48 12 30 3 3 135 207

Pt 72 61 61 55 54 30

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 50 38 8 3 1 217 128 Victoria 51 27 20 3 1 175 158 Kamloops 51 19 26 3 3 149 189 Vancouver 50 20 28 1 1 144 174 Prince George 52 20 30 1 1 157 227

Pt 80 58 44 42 42

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 49 31 14 3 1 174 129 64 Portland 52 30 19 0 3 186 169 63 Seattle 49 24 19 3 3 136 138 54 Spokane 48 23 21 3 1 135 145 50 Tri-City 51 24 25 0 2 141 155 50 z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; xclinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Friday’s results Swift Current 6 Saskatoon 2 Brandon 6 Moose Jaw 4 Kelowna 6 Lethbridge 3 Calgary 10 Prince Albert 1 Kootenay 4 Regina 3 (OT) Edmonton 4 Red Deer 0 Seattle 9 Prince George 2 Portland 6 Kamloops 2 Medicine Hat 4, Tri-City 1 Victoria 3 Spokane 0 Everett 7, Vancouver 1 Saturday’s games Edmonton at Calgary, 2 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 8 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Oil Kings 4, Rebels 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Robertson Edm (tripping) 0:06, Musil RD (inter. on goaltender) 6:46, Baddock Edm (highsticking) 6:50.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Donald Edm (cross-checking) 3:15, Benson Edm (hooking) 9:07, Bender Edm (tripping) 10:52, Orban Edm (holding) 19:03.

Third Period 1. Edmonton, Koep 11 (Donald, Benson) 4:49.

2. Edmonton, Pollock 23 (Koch, Bauer) 10:37.

3. Edmonton, Pollock 24 (Mayo, Bauer) 16:30.

4. Edmonton, Sautner 11 (Bauer, Mayo) 17:32 (pp).

Penalties — Doetzel RD (cross-checking) 12:45, Kulda Edm (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 15:38, Fleury RD (interference) 15:38, Johnson RD (roughing) 17:20, Bobyk RD (roughing) 17:54.

Shots on goal by Edmonton 10 8 19 — 37 Red Deer 5 9 6 — 20 Goal — Edmonton: Jarry (W, 18-17-3); Red Deer: Toth (L, 21-12-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Edmonton: 1-4; Red Deer: 0-6.

Referees — Adam Bloski, Adam Byblow.

Linesmen — Chad Huseby, Ross Welner.

Attendance — 5,213 at Red Deer.

Ice 4, Pats 3 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 1. Kootenay, Alfaro 7 (King, Descheneau) 15:19.

2. Kootenay, Reinhart 12 (Murray, Fleury) 15:58.

3. Kootenay, Vetterl 8 (King, Alfaro) 17:44 (pp).

4. Regina, Christoffer 16 (Hobbs) 18:51.

Penalties — D’Amico Reg (hooking) 11:22, Smith Reg (holding) 17:36.

Third Period 5. Regina, Wagner 14 (Hobbs, Christoffer) 13:30.

6. Regina, Padakin 16 (Steel, Cooper) 14:01.

Penalties — Zborosky Koo (holding) 6:52.

Overtime 7. Kootenay, Valiev 7 (Reinhart, Philp) 3:27.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Regina 7 6 14 0 — 27 Kootenay 10 17 13 3 — 43 Goal — Regina: Wapple (LS, 22-11-4); Kootenay: Hoflin (W, 26-19-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Regina: 0-1; Kootenay: 1-2.

Referees — Kyle Kowalski, Derek Zalaski.

Linesmen — Michael Boisvert, Jim Maniago.

Attendance — 2,152 at Kootenay.

Rockets 6, Hurricanes 3 First Period 1. Kelowna, Draisaitl 5 (Kirkland, Martin) 1:26.

2. Kelowna, Draisaitl 6 (Southam, Kirkland) 10:59.

3. Kelowna, Bowey 13 (Stadel, Chartier) 14:04.

4. Kelowna, Quinney 11 (Baillie, Draisaitl) 14:27 (pp).

Penalties — Johansen Kel (slashing) 5:29, Goulbourne Kel (roughing) 14:04, Fafard Let (roughing) 14:04, Fafard Let (roughing) 14:04.

Second Period 5. Kelowna, Quinney 12 (Morrissey, Baillie) 8:46.

6. Lethbridge, Nielsen 6 (Wong, Reagan) 11:39 (pp).

Penalties — Wong Let (tripping) 5:01, Martin Kel (Penalty Shot) 10:05, Gatenby Kel (hooking) 10:09.

Third Period 7. Kelowna, Kirkland 18 (Chartier, Merkley) 8:57.

8. Lethbridge, Estephan 12 (White) 12:03.

9. Lethbridge, Watson 17 (Winther, Estephan) 14:26.

Penalties — Kirkland Kel (interference) 9:56, Fafard Let (elbowing) 19:10, Fafard Let (elbowing) 19:10, Braid Kel (slashing) 19:37, Braid Kel (roughing)

Tuesday, February 3 Prince Albert at Regina, 6 p.m.

Lethbridge at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, February 4 Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Friday, February 6 Spokane at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

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

Portland at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Curling

B5

19:37, Nielsen Let (roughing) 19:37.

Shots on goal by Kelowna 14 19 18 — 51 Lethbridge 11 7 7 — 25 Goal — Kelowna: Herringer (W, 5-0-0); Lethbridge: Skinner (L, 8-15-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Kelowna: 1-4; Lethbridge: 1-4.

Referees — Ryan Benbow, Matt Cassidy.

Linesmen — Aidan Henderson, Jared Mackey.

Attendance — 3,277 at Lethbridge.

Hitmen 10, Raiders 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Fazleev 15 (Stallard, Draude) 2:49.

2. Calgary, Zipp 7 (Tambellini, Bean) 5:57.

3. Calgary, Peterson 8 (Sanheim) 14:07.

4. Calgary, Helgesen 15 (Rankin, Tambellini) 14:58 (pp).

Penalties — Stewart P.A. (holding) 0:19, Zipp CAL (cross-checking) 3:49, Karnaukhov CAL (roughing) 12:38, Tkatch P.A. (interference) 13:54, Heffley P.A. (boarding) 18:38.

Second Period 5. Calgary, Tambellini 34 (Sanheim, Virtanen) :38.

6. Calgary, Helgesen 16 (Karnaukhov, Sanheim) 13:42.

7. Calgary, Tambellini 35 (Rankin, Virtanen) 15:47.

Penalties — Kanzig CAL (roughing) 9:28, Lang CAL (roughing) 10:48, Stewart P.A. (hooking) 18:33, Peterson CAL (slashing) 19:52.

Third Period 8. Prince Albert, Montgomery 2 (unassisted) 2:44.

9. Calgary, Fazleev 16 (Bean, Malenstyn) 4:14.

10. Calgary, Lang 21 (Karnaukhov, Morrison) 10:05 (pp).

11. Calgary, Karnaukhov 17 (Stallard, Zipp) 11:35 (pp).

Penalties — Fazleev CAL (tripping) 0:15, Stewart P.A. (cross-checking) 8:22, Stewart P.A. (MajorCross Checking) 8:22, Stewart P.A. (game misconduct) 8:22, Kanzig CAL (10-minute misconduct) 8:22, Rankin CAL (slashing) 8:22, Hart P.A. (highsticking) 11:23.

Shots on goal by Prince Albert 8 7 9 — 24 Calgary 14 10 11 — 35 Goal — Prince Albert: McBride (L, 6-15-0); Calgary: Burke (W, 3-9-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Prince Albert: 0-6; Calgary: 3-5.

Referees — Jason Cramer, Colin Watt.

Linesmen — Sean Donnelly, Michael Roberts.

Attendance — 8,559 at Calgary.

Tigers 4, Americans 1 First Period 1. Tri-City, Sandhu 12 (Morrison, Carlo) 4:18 (pp).

2. Medicine Hat, Bradley 11 (Quenneville) 9:51 (pp).

3. Medicine Hat, Cox 22 (Sanford) 19:53.

Penalties — Cox MH (slashing) 3:35, Hillis TC (roughing) 8:22, Quenneville MH (holding) 17:16, Bradley MH (delay of game) 19:17, Hamonic TC (interference) 19:49.

Second Period 4. Medicine Hat, Butcher 16 (Bradley, Eisenschmid) 2:39.

Penalties — Nejezchleb TC (hooking) 12:26.

Third Period 5. Medicine Hat, Sanford 41 (Cox) 10:56.

Penalties — Labelle MH (unsportsmanlike cnd.)

5:01, Hillis TC (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 5:01, Nickles TC (hooking) 8:39, Hamonic TC (cross-checking) 17:29, Stanton MH (10-minute misconduct) 17:36, Carlo TC (roughing) 17:36, Hunt MH (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 19:21.

Shots on goal by Medicine Hat 11 12 16 — 39 Tri-City 10 10 8 — 28 Goal — Medicine Hat: Schneider (W, 12-4-0); TriCity: Comrie (L, 14-10-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Medicine Hat: 1-5; Tri-City: 1-4.

Referees — Dexter Rasmussen, Jason Nissen.

Linesmen — Nathan Van Oosten, Jacob Hill.

Today

● Midget A hockey: Tommy Gun’s Outdoor Winter Classic at Bower rinks, games at 7, 7:15, 9:30 and 9:45 a.m., 1:45 p.m. (skills), 5, 6:15, 7, 7:30, 9:30 and 9:45 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Curling: Alberta Scotties provincial women’s championship at Lacombe Arena, draws at 1 and 6:30 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Okotoks at Olds, 4:45 p.m., ● Junior women’s hockey: Edmonton at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Minor midget AAA: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Gold at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m., Eckville; Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Calgary Canucks at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● WHL: Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: NAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Coaldale at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● Midget A hockey: Tommy Gun’s Outdoor Winter Classic at Bower rinks, games at 7 and 7:30 a.m., B final at 10 p.m., championship final at 10:15 p.m.. ● Curling: Alberta Scotties provincial women’s championship at Lacombe Arena, semifinals at 9:30 a.m., final at 2 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Southwest at Sylvan Lake, 2:45 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Major midget girls hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Bantam AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Airdrie at Stettler, 3:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Elks, 5:30 p.m.; Airdrie at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

Golf

2015 Canadian Junior Curling Champion CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Final standings and results Friday after Draw 20 at the 2015 Canadian junior curling championships from Jan. 24-Feb. 1 (all times Eastern): MEN Championship Pool Team (Skip) W L x-Manitoba (Calvert) 9 1 x-New Brunswick (R.Comeau) 8 2 t-Alberta (Sturmay) 7 3 t-Quebec (F.Asselin) 7 3 t-Saskatchewan (Hersikorn) 7 3 B.C. (Henderson) 5 5 Northern Ont. (T.Horgan) 5 5 Ontario (Ma.Calwell) 2 8 Seeding Pool Team (Skip) W L P.E.I. (T.Smith) 5 4 Nova Scotia (Manuel) 4 5 N.L. (G.Smith) 3 6 Yukon (Wallingham) 3 6 N.W.T. (Mat.Miller) 2 7 Nunavut (K.Komaksiutiksak) 0 9 x — clinched playoff berth; t — will play tiebreaker.

CHAMPIONSHIP/SEEDING ROUND Friday’s results Draw 19 Manitoba 7 Alberta 3 Saskatchewan 12 Ontario 4 Northern Ontario 6 Quebec 4 Draw 20 Nova Scotia 9 N.W.T. 3 P.E.I. 14 Nunavut 3 Thursday’s results Draw 16 Saskatchewan 12 Quebec 5

Seeding Pool Team (Skip) P.E.I. (V.Smith) Northern Ont. (Burns) N.W.T. (McKay-Saturnino) Yukon (Horte) N.L. (Hill) Nunavut (Pinksen)

Alberta 8 Ontario 2 Draw 17 Quebec 2 Alberta 0 Northern Ontario 8 B.C. 2 New Brunswick 6 Ontario 5 Yukon 7 Nunavut 3 N.W.T. 9 N.L. 8 (extra end) Draw 18 New Brunswick 7 B.C. 5 Manitoba 5 Northern Ontario 4 P.E.I. 10 N.L. 5 End of championship/seeding round PLAYOFFS Friday’s result First Tiebreaker Quebec (Asselin) 5 Alberta (Sturmay) 3 Saturday’s game Second Tiebreaker Saskatchewan (Hersikorn) vs. Quebec (Asselin), 12 p.m.

Sunday’s games Semifinal New Brunswick (R.Comeau) vs. SaskatchewanQuebec winner, 12 p.m.

Championship Manitoba (Calvert) vs. Semifinal winner, 6:30 p.m.

WOMEN Championship Pool Team (Skip) W L x-Alberta (Rocque) 9 1 x-B.C. (Brown) 7 3 x-Ontario (C.Brandwood) 7 3 Manitoba (Peterson) 6 4 New Brunswick (J.Comeau) 6 4 Nova Scotia (Fay) 6 4 Saskatchewan (Streifel) 6 4 Quebec (E.Gagne) 4 6

W 5 3 3 3 2 0

L 4 6 6 6 7 9

x — clinched playoff berth.

CHAMPIONSHIP/SEEDING ROUND Friday’s results Draw 19 Ontario 7 Nova Scotia 6 (extra end) New Brunswick 8 Alberta 7 (extra end) Draw 20 N.W.T. 8 Northern Ontario 7 (extra end) P.E.I. 7 Yukon 5 N.L. 9 Nunavut 3 Thursday’s results Draw 16 New Brunswick 10 Quebec 5 Ontario 9 B.C. 6 Manitoba 6 Saskatchewan 5 Draw 17 Nova Scotia 8 Manitoba 3 B.C. 4 Alberta 1 Draw 18 Saskatchewan 8 Quebec 7 Alberta 8 Nova Scotia 3 New Brunswick 9 Ontario 7 (extra end) End of Championship/Seeding Round PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games Semifinal B.C. (Brown) vs. Ontario (C.Brandwood), 12 p.m.

Championship Alberta (Rocque) vs. B.C.-Ontario winner, 6:30 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Atlanta 39 8 .830 — d-Toronto 32 15 .681 7 Washington 31 16 .660 8 d-Chicago 30 19 .612 10 Cleveland 28 20 .583 11 1/2 Milwaukee 24 22 .522 14 1/2 Miami 20 26 .435 18 1/2 Charlotte 19 27 .413 19 1/2 Brooklyn 18 28 .391 20 1/2 Detroit 17 30 .362 22 Boston 16 29 .356 22 Indiana 17 31 .354 22 1/2 Orlando 15 34 .306 25 Philadelphia 10 37 .213 29 New York 9 38 .191 30 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Golden State 36 8 .818 — d-Memphis 34 12 .739 3 Houston 33 14 .702 4 1/2 d-Portland 32 15 .681 5 1/2

L.A. Clippers Dallas San Antonio Phoenix New Orleans Oklahoma City Denver Utah Sacramento L.A. Lakers Minnesota

32 31 30 28 25 23 19 17 16 13 8

15 17 17 20 22 23 28 30 29 34 38

.681 .646 .638 .583 .532 .500 .404 .362 .356 .277 .174

5 7 7 10 12 14 18 20 20 24 29

1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

d-division leader Thursday’s Games Milwaukee 115, Orlando 100 Indiana 103, New York 82 Memphis 99, Denver 69 L.A. Lakers 123, Chicago 118, 2OT Friday’s Games Philadelphia 103, Minnesota 94 Atlanta 105, Portland 99 Houston 93, Boston 87 Toronto 127, Brooklyn 122, OT

Phoenix Open Friday At TPC Scottsdale, Stadium Course Scottsdale, Ariz.

Puse: $6.3 million Yardage: 7,266; Par: 71 Partial Second Round Martin Laird 66-66 — 132 Daniel Berger 65-69 — 134 Justin Thomas 67-68 — 135 Bubba Watson 65-71 — 136 Ryan Palmer 64-72 — 136 Ryan Moore 69-67 — 136 Zach Johnson 66-70 — 136 Robert Streb 66-70 — 136 Angel Cabrera 67-69 — 136 Geoff Ogilvy 68-69 — 137 K.J. Choi 68-69 — 137 Graham DeLaet 67-70 — 137 Brendon de Jonge 67-71 — 138 Jordan Spieth 70-68 — 138 Brendan Steele 71-67 — 138 Jon Rahm 70-68 — 138 Keegan Bradley 65-73 — 138 Brandt Snedeker 70-68 — 138 Morgan Hoffmann 72-67 — 139 Billy Horschel 69-70 — 139 Rory Sabbatini 68-71 — 139 Ben Martin 66-73 — 139 Patrick Reed 71-69 — 140 Hideki Matsuyama 69-71 — 140 Mark Wilson 70-70 — 140 Chad Campbell 70-70 — 140 Andrew Svoboda 70-70 — 140 Tony Finau 72-68 — 140 Kevin Chappell 75-65 — 140 James Hahn 67-73 — 140 Hunter Mahan 69-71 — 140 Matt Kuchar 70-70 — 140 Russell Henley 69-71 — 140 Justin Leonard 67-73 — 140 Boo Weekley 69-71 — 140

70-70 68-73 68-73 70-71 70-71 71-70 67-74 71-70 69-72 68-73 70-71 70-71 74-68 72-70 71-71 73-69 67-75 70-72 71-71 72-70 70-72 69-73 70-72 69-74 72-71 71-72 68-75 70-73 71-72 68-75 71-72 70-74 69-75 71-73 75-69 74-70 75-69 74-70 73-71 71-73 72-72 72-72

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

140 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144

-2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 E E E E E E E E E E E +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2

Football

Cleveland 101, Sacramento 90 New Orleans 108, L.A. Clippers 103 Dallas 93, Miami 72 Utah 110, Golden State 100 Phoenix 99, Chicago 93

NFL Playoffs

Saturday’s Games Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Portland at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Denver, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 3 Carolina 27, Arizona 16 Baltimore 30, Pittsburgh 17 Sunday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 26, Cincinnati 10 Dallas 24, Detroit 20 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 10 New England 35, Baltimore 31 Seattle 31, Carolina 17 Sunday, Jan. 11 Green Bay 26, Dallas 21 Indianapolis 24, Denver 13

Sunday’s Games Miami at Boston, 11 a.m.

L.A. Lakers at New York, 12 p.m.

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 18

Seattle 28, Green Bay 22, OT New England 45, Indianapolis 7 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 25 At Glendale, Ariz.

Team Irvin vs. Team Carter, 6 p.m.

Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1 At Glendale, Ariz.

New England vs. Seattle, 4:30 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by SportsBetting.ag; favourites in capital letters) Super Bowl, Feb. 1 Spread O/U NEW ENGLAND vs. Seattle 1 48

When “That will never happen to me” happens.

Happy To Be Back.

After being on maternity leave, I would like to invite existing and new patients to see me for all your denture needs.

1004A23,31

Give Me A Call

Danielle Wagner, DD

David Allin Ins Agcy Ltd David Allin, Agent Unit 101 3622 50th Ave Red Deer, AB T4N 3Y6 Bus: 403-358-5995

I'm ready to help.

There’s never a good time for an accident to happen. But when it does, you can count on State Farm® to be there quickly so you can get your life back to normal.

GET TO A BETTER STATE™. CALL ME TODAY.

2566A2-31

403.343.7266

-10 -8 -7 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -5 -5 -5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -3 -3 -3 -3 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2

Lucas Glover Freddie Jacobson J.B. Holmes Charles Howell III Stewart Cink Michael Putnam Shawn Stefani Jason Bohn Martin Flores Jamie Donaldson Retief Goosen Matt Jones Brian Davis Harris English Nick Taylor Kevin Na Michael Thompson Luke Guthrie Ricky Barnes Bryce Molder Rickie Fowler Charley Hoffman Kevin Streelman Charlie Beljan Jason Kokrak Jhonattan Vegas Brian Harman Cory Renfrew Troy Merritt Seung-Yul Noh Bill Haas Robert Allenby Nicholas Thompson Ryo Ishikawa Chez Reavie Kyle Stanley Sang-Moon Bae Derek Ernst Spencer Levin Scott Harrington Bo Van Pelt Kevin Kisner

#100, 4918 - 46 Street, Red Deer thedenturecentre.net | dentalimplantsreddeer.net

Scan this

1201022CN

State Farm Canadian Head Office, Aurora, Ontario

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

Raptors blow big lead, but come through in OT Toronto 127 Brooklyn 122 (OT) NEW YORK — A Navy SEAL spoke to the Toronto Raptors before the season, reminding them there is never an easy day.

This started out looking like one, before the Raptors’ fifth consecutive victory turned awfully difficult.

DeMar DeRozan scored 26 points, Amir Johnson made the tiebreaking basket with 41 seconds left in overtime, and Toronto beat the Brooklyn Nets 127-122 on Friday night.

Lou Williams finished with 25 points and Johnson had 24 for the Raptors, who led 12-0 and were ahead by 17 in the second half before needing some big plays from Johnson in the final minutes.

“In this league there is never an easy day,” Toronto coach Dwane Casey said. “Our guys found a way.”

Johnson made the tying dunk with 12 seconds left in regulation, and scored inside after DeRozan’s shot was blocked to make it 124-122, making him 10 for 11 from the field.

“Amir and DeMar held it down tonight,” Raptors point guard Kyle Low-

SPORTS

BRIEFS

Grizzlys lose first half of home-and-home DRUMHELLER — Colton Sheen scored the lone goal for the Olds Grizzlys — a third-period power-play marker — in a 3-1 AJHL loss to the Drumheller Dragons Friday.

Mitchell Cook, Ryan Jevne and Connor Boyd tallied for the Dragons in front of 628 fans, while winning netminder Jonny Hogue made 28 saves.

Jesse Gordichuk stopped 37 shots for the Grizzlys, who were one-for-four on the power play. The Dragons were zero-for-seven with a man advantage.

The teams meet again tonight in Olds.

ry said. “They made all the winning plays.”

Jarrett Jack scored a career-high 35 points while playing 52 minutes for the Nets, and had 13 assists and eight rebounds. Brook Lopez came off the bench for 35 points and 12 boards.

Brooklyn lost its fourth straight and finished a miserable 3-12 January with its seventh straight home loss. The Nets are winless here since a Dec. 29 victory over Sacramento.

Toronto had a series of double-digit leads during the first three quarters.

But it turned into a tight game over the final 10 minutes, and the teams, which played a seven-game playoff series last spring, traded big shots — until Lopez missed a wide-open jumper on the final play of regulation.

He made up for that with a threepoint play that tied it at 120, and Jack tied it for the final time at 122-all with 56 seconds to play. The Nets nearly got the ball back after Mason Plumlee stuffed DeRozan, but Johnson came up with it and put it in.

Brooklyn missed a couple jumpers on the next possession before DeRozan made two free throws, and Lowry added one more to finish it out.

“Jack and Brook played unbeliev-

able,” Plumlee said. “They really willed us, kept us in the game. Overtime we made some poor fouls.”

A year after the Nets beat them in a Game 7 on their home floor, the Raptors extended the NBA’s largest division lead to 13 ½ games in the Atlantic over Brooklyn, which fell to 18-28.

Trying to solve their home woes, the Nets held a game-day morning workout here for the first time this season, but the Raptors sure seemed more comfortable at the start.

Toronto opened a 12-0 lead before the Nets even had a rebound and remained in control behind Williams, who had 18 points at halftime on just four shots.

He was 10 for 10 at the free-throw line and made both of his 3-point attempts in just 10 minutes.

Toronto had a 17-point cushion in the third, but Jack sparked a 12-0 run early in the fourth while the Nets held the Raptors without a field goal for nearly the first 6 minutes.

“We could’ve folded, we could’ve tucked our tails a number of times throughout this game,” Jack said.

“They handled the game the majority of the game in the first half, and to come out and fight and put up an

effort against a team that’s a damn good team, I thought we just represented ourselves well tonight, came out, fought hard and we just came up short a couple of possessions.”

TIP-INS Raptors: Center Jonas Valanciunas hurt his right ankle in the first half and returned to the locker room to get re-taped. ... Forward James Johnson missed the game after hurting his right hamstring earlier Friday. He will be evaluated Saturday.

Nets: Coach Lionel Hollins said the Nets had only had one other practice here this season, an open practice in the preseason that wasn’t even much of a workout. He said he would like to practice here at least once a week, but acknowledged that would be difficult because Barclays Center hosts so many events. The Nets still practice in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

TOO CLOSE TO CALL The Raptors took a 38-37 lead in the all-time series. The teams meet again Wednesday in Toronto.

UP NEXT Raptors: Visit Washington on Saturday.

Nets: Host Los Angeles Clippers on Monday

game-high 19 points while second semester addition Justin Jarvis had 13 points and 15 rebounds. Benny Bankazo added 17 and Jacob Cusumano 12 points.

Michael Farion led the Rattlers with 17 points while Brandon Karl had 16 points and Lewis Brown 11 points and 11 rebounds.

• The RDC Queens women’s basketball (2-15) team fell 59-42 to the Medicine Hat College Rattlers (9-8).

The Queens fell behind 31-22 at the half and never did get back in the game.

Dedra Janvier and Morgan Dool led the Queens with 12 points each.

Kennedy Werre led the Rattlers with a game-high 18 points and nine rebounds while Cierra Matsalla added 10 points.

• The RDC Kings men’s hockey (912-0-2) team tied the Keyano Huskies (11-8-1-3) 2-2 in Fort McMurray. Stats were not available at press time.

probably cost him the fourth, but the four-time Australian Open champion recovered with three service breaks in the fifth set to beat defending champion Wawrinka 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0.

“Sometimes these things happen, you get carried away by a moment,” Djokovic said, trying to explain his perplexed expression after he’d taken a lead of two sets to one. “I was very confused when I saw the security on the court.

“The circumstances, obviously playing Grand Slam semifinals against the defending champion ... a lot of emotions going around. Sometimes you can’t keep track of the score.”

Djokovic has a 100 per cent winning record in finals at Melbourne Park, claiming his first Grand Slam here in 2008 and winning three straight titles from 2011 before losing in the quarterfinals last year to Wawrinka. Only Roger Federer and Stefan Edberg had reached five men’s finals at the Australian in the Open era.

Also gone is Phil Mickelson, who had his worst round on the TPC Scottsdale in six years.

Martin Laird carried on nicely without them.

Once the rain stopped, Laird played his best golf and he doesn’t think that was a coincidence. He ran off four birdies in a five-hole stretch until making his first bogey of the tournament on his final hole for a second straight 5-under 66.

That gave him a two-shot lead over Daniel Berger (69), with Justin Thomas (68) another shot behind. Both 21-yearold rookies received sponsor’s exemptions. A trio of Masters champions — Bubba Watson (71), Zach Johnson (70) and Angel Cabrera (69) were in the group four shots behind.

That’s not who the crowd came to see.

Woods was playing the Waste Management Phoenix Open for the first time in 14 years. “Welcome back!” the gallery shouted to him on Thursday.

“Thanks for coming!” was the refrain on Friday as he walked off his final green with an 11-over 82.

It was his highest score in 322 official tournaments in his career.

“We all have days like this,” Woods said after a day unlike any other he has had in his career.

Mickelson had a 76, his highest score in this event since he opened with a 76 in 2009 and missed the cut.

Neither are going to the Super Bowl.

Mickelson flew home to San Diego, Woods to Florida, and both will meet up next week in Torrey Pines.

Still Kings of the castle

Djokovic reaches fifth Aussie Open final, faces Murray

MEDICINE HAT —The Red Deer College Kings (14-3) maintained their hold on first place in Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s basketball with an 84-68 win over host Medicine Hat College Rattlers (12-5) on Friday.

The Rattlers led 38-29 at half, but the Kings outscored the Rattlers 55-30 over the final two quarters for the win.

JP Leblanc led the Kings with a

MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic reached a fifth Australian Open final, avenged a long and arduous loss to Stan Wawrinka and ensured he’d renew an old rivalry with Andy Murray.

The top-ranked Djokovic was so absorbed in the moment, he lost track of the score during Friday’s semifinal.

His mental lapse after the third set

STORIES FROM B4

ed footballs in the AFC championship contest, he is known as an innovator — just as much as he is known for stretching the parameters of the rulebook.

Belichick keeps things fresh by finding new ways to exploit the opposition.

He will have something unusual lined up for Carroll and the Seahawks.

Intangibles: Seattle seeks to become the first repeat winner since the Patriots managed it a decade ago. A victory would stamp these Seahawks as an all-time great team, particularly having beaten Peyton Manning and Brady in successive Super Bowls. The Seahawks also come off a mediocre performance in the NFC title game, which should spur them on.

New England, of course, doesn’t want to add a stigma of Super Bowl loser by dropping three in a row after winning in its first three trips with Brady and Belichick. Brady can equal Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana with four Super Bowl rings, w h i l e Belichick can tie Chuck Noll with four.

SUPER BOWL: Carroll preceded Bellicheck as Patriots head coach

That means an unheralded offensive line featuring tackles Sebastian Vollmer and Nate Solder needs to be steady.

Green Bay showed the Seahawks can be run on, so RB LeGarrette Blount could wind up being a featured player.

Special Teams: Although the Seahawks were not great on special teams this season, they were spectacular in beating Green Bay. A fake field goal pass for a TD by holder Jon Ryan — one of the NFL’s most accurate punters — and an onside kick that kept them alive for the NFC title won’t be forgotten in the Pacific Northwest.

Generally, though, New England has the edge here. Coverage is very good on punt and kickoff returns, led by Pro Bowler Matthew Slater. Edelman was second in the NFL with 12 yards per punt return and had one for an 84-yard TD. Stephen Gostkowski missed only two field goals and led the NFL with 156 points.

Coaching: Pete Carroll’s revenge? It’s not a major story line, but it should be recognized that Carroll preceded Bill Belichick in New England. He wasn’t a bad coach there, either, going 28-23, but that pales compared to Belichick’s numbers.

No team brings more energy to the field than the Seahawks, and it stems from Carroll. He always has the pulse of his team: Carroll saw how Seattle was suffering from a Super Bowl hangover early in the schedule. He not only got the Seahawks to snap out of it, but reach peak form down the stretch — at least until last week, when they got lucky, too.

Belichick just surpassed Tom Landry’s Enmax Centrium mark for postseason vicTickets at ticketmaster tories (21). Regardless of the findings of the NFL’s probe into under-inflat-

Mickelson, Laird take lead at Phoenix Open, Woods missing SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Rain wasn’t the only thing that put a damper on the Phoenix Open on Friday.

The rowdiest event on the PGA Tour goes into Super Bowl weekend without Tiger Woods, who had the worst score of his career and missed the cut by 12 shots.

Thank You

to all supporters of the Red Deer Minor Hockey $55,000 Raffle.

GRAND PRIZE DRAW IS THURSDAY, FEB. 5.

RAFFLE IS NEARLY SOLD OUT. LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN. Tickets available at the RDMH Office D1, 4725 43 Street (East Side, Red Deer Arena) The following ticket has been lost and will not form part of the draw: 5275

For further information phone our office at:

403-347-9960

54095A31

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

License number is #388026

403-309-2233 2310 Gaetz Ave, Red Deer

Red Deer Rebels vs

Prince Albert Raiders

WORLD GYM AND THE RED DEER ADV0CATE WANT 2015 TO BE YOUR BEST & HEALTHIEST YEAR!

Sat., Jan. 31 7:00 pm

Visit the World Gym facilities at 2310 Gaetz Avenue to fill out an entry form today! Keep that New Year’s resolution for no extra cost!

Visit www.worldgym.com for a full listing of all fitness options.

VALUED AT OVER $1,700!

Contest closes: Tuesday, February 17, 2015.

Contest will run from January 14 to February 17, 2015. All entries must be received by closing date. Limit one entry per person per day. Draw date is Wednesday, February 18, 2015. Entry forms available only at World Gym. Prize winner will be notified by telephone. Prize must be accepted as awarded and has no cash value. The contest is open to anyone except employees of the Red Deer Advocate and World Gym. See www.reddeeradvocate.com/contests for full terms and conditions.

52143B16

• 12 FREE personal training sessions • 1 year FREE membership to World Gym in Red Deer

51748A31

1.855.985.5000

We’re giving away the ultimate “GET FIT! GET STRONG!” package:

BUSINESS

B7

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

Red Deer firm hires Mexican architects

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR If you’re designing a building and would like to give it a little Mexican flavour, Berry Architecture & Associates would be a good place to start.

The Red Deer firm recently added Carlos Gamez and Ileana Gonzalez to its staff. The married couple, who worked as architects in the State of Sonora for nine and eight years respectively, moved to Red Deer last March and are now learning about the industry here and working toward certification in Alberta.

“They are both great workers that strengthen our firm through their talents,” said George Berry, a partner in the firm. “Carlos is extremely strong in graphic design and presentations while Ileana will be adding depth to our interior design team and look closely at the use of materials and how they influence the feel that people have in a space.”

He added that the pair are able to look at projects a different perspective.

“They still have a very strong Mexican influence.

“We explore many areas when we work on a new project and this new international examination is very much of a positive contribution.”

Gamez, who is 33, has done everything from drafting to project management. Much of his time in Mexico was spent on government institutional projects.

Gonzalez, who is a year younger, has worked as a project co-ordinator, including in the area of urban design. She also participated in university research into environmental protection and sustainability.

Gamez is also interested in the environmental aspects of architecture.

“A key factor for them joining with us is their passion and studying in environmental features and the reduction of energy usage,” said Berry. “This is very important to us, and they bring another skilled direction to this important area.”

Gamez and Gonzalez said they were keen to study architecture outside of Mexico.

“We were looking for the opportunity to learn more,” said Gamez.

Gonzalez describes building design in Red Deer as conservative. What’s really impressed her is how well the city has been planned, with urban areas integrated into green space.

Gamez agreed, citing Red Deer’s expansive trail system — which he and Gonzalez have taken full advantage of — as an example.

“It’s very interesting for us.”

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Carlos Gamez and Ileana Gonzalez, two architects from Mexico, take a moment to chat on Friday afternoon in the boardroom of Berry Architecture where they now work.

While there are many similarities between building design and construction in Canada and Mexico, there are also differences. Gamez and Gonzalez marvel at the amount of wood used here, pointing out that concrete and brick are the building materials of choice in Mexico.

Gonzalez has also been intrigued by the use of insulation her. She would like to share some of these practices with her colleagues in Mexico.

“I think many things that are being done here could be done there.”

In both countries, a goal of building design is to minimize the transfer of heat. Only in Mexico, the focus is on keeping the heat out to minimize airconditioning usage They think Canada has made good progress when it comes to environmentally sustainable building practices. But Mexicans are also pursuing advancements in this area, said Gamez, with increasing attention being paid to solar and wind energy, as well as water conservation.

“We are doing good things back there.”

The couple have adjusted well to the northern climate, and weren’t deterred by a visit to Red Deer in December 2013 when temperatures were in the -30

range. Hustling from heated space to heated space here is not much different from darting between air-conditioned enclosures in Mexico, pointed out Gamez.

The transition to life in Red Deer was eased by the fact Gamez and Gonzalez already had friends here. And Gonzalez got a taste of the culture and language a decade ago when she spent a year at Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills.

They like Canadian culture, including the fact it’s influenced by so many ethnic groups.

“In Mexico, you only deal with Mexicans,” said Gamez.

“Here in Canada, it’s kind of amazing that different cultures are mixed.”

He’s been surprised by the number of Spanishspeaking people in Central Alberta, with immigrants from a variety of Latin American countries in constant evidence.

Less than a year after arriving in Red Deer, Gamez and Gonzalez are working in their profession again and living in a “beautiful city” that they enjoy.

“We already have what we wanted,” said Gonzalez. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Employers can’t deduct for lost property

Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C. remain free of PED

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A year after the first case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus was confirmed in Canada, Alberta pork producers have reason to celebrate — cautiously.

Industry officials confirmed during an Alberta Pork teleconference on Friday that Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia remain free of the disease that has killed millions of pigs in the United States, and infected barns in Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec and Prince Edward Island.

“While we certainly can pat ourselves on the back for fantastic success so far in keeping this virus out, we certainly can’t let down our vigilance at this time of year,” said Julia Keenliside, a veterinary epidemiologist with Alberta Agriculture & Rural Development.

The ongoing threat was illustrated on Jan. 21, with the discovery of a new case at a Manitoba feeder operation, noted Egan Brockhoff, a swine veterinarian with Prairie Swine Health Services in Red Deer.

Another case was confirmed on Jan. 26 in Ontario, bringing the number of infected sites in that province to more than 100.

Keenliside noted that the count in Manitoba is now up to five, and in Quebec the tally has reached 10.

However, Brockhoff also pointed out that nearly 40 of the PED-infected barns in Ontario have been returned to negative status. He added that Canada’s successful efforts in containing the virus are being noted around the world.

“We have successfully found ways to control and eliminate in pig barns — back to negative.”

In Alberta, enhanced biosecurity is being credited for the success in stopping PED. A provincial surveillance program has conducted more than 6,000

tests of trucks and trailers, wash bays, assembly yards and abattoirs during the past year, said Keenliside. There has been only one positive result, with that associated with an office area.

United States producers continue to be hit hard by the virus, with 30 states infected, said Brockhoff.

However the rate of spread has slowed from a year ago.

Market analyst Kevin Grier described how PED has impacted the pork industry. He said slaughter numbers in the U.S. were down about six per cent last year due to the loss of animals. That equates to about six million to eight million pigs.

“We knew it was serious, but we had no idea of just how serious it was gong to be,” he said.

These losses contributed to a 15 to 20 per cent increase in pork prices over 2013 levels, said Grier, and resulted in a “phenomenal year” for producers who escaped PED. Going into 2015, prices are down substantially, he noted. This is likely due to traders on the futures market assuming that the worst is over and that supplies will rebound.

Grier thinks this could be overly optimistic.

On the processing side, he suggested that Olymel’s plant in Red Deer is benefitting from improved hog numbers, which allows it to operate more efficiently.

“I’m sure they’d like more pigs there, but at the same time the situation appears to me — in terms of capacity utilization, which is crucial — to have improved. That’s good news.”

However, Grier doesn’t anticipate a boost in pig numbers in Canada. Producers are still recovering financially from a series of bad years, and also face high construction costs and cautious lenders, he said.

“So, from a variety of different perspectives, I don’t know that we’re going to see much growth or expansion in Canada, especially relative to the United States.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

WHEELHOUSE GARAGE

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Workers continue to work on the Wheelhouse Garage condominiums in McKenzie Industrial Business Park just south of Red Deer. The project consists of 27 garage condominiums, ranging in size from about 1,200 to 2,200 square feet, which will be sold to individual owners and can be customized to their tastes. Similar projects have been undertaken in Sylvan Lake and Blackfalds.

S&P / TSX 14,673.48 +36.20

▲

TSX:V 676.81 +9.70

▲

NASDAQ 4,635.24 -48.17

▼

DOW JONES 17,164.95 -251.90

▼

Harley Richards, Business Editor, 403-314-4337 E-mail hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Dear Working Wise: My employer demands that we pay for beer shortages at the restaurant where I work.

We pay three dollars for every bottle that is not accounted for.

Is this legal? — Steamed Server Dear Steamed: No, your employer likely cannot ask you to pay for the missing beer.

Alberta’s Employment Standards Code allows certain deductions to be made from your earnings. These include income tax, Canada pension plan, employment insurance and Alberta health care premiums, as well as deductions resulting from a court judgment or order. If your employer wants to make other deductions from your paycheck, they CHARLES must get your written permisSTRACHEY sion. Examples could include company pension plans, denWORKING tal plans, personal charges to WISE company credit cards, and so on. Usually these deductions are discussed and permissions are provided before the employee starts their job. Alberta Employment Standards prohibits employers from taking deductions from an employee’s earnings for cash shortages or lost property if any individual other than the employee had access to the cash or property (e.g., beer).

This could include customers, other employees, administrative staff, supervisors or owners. It may be difficult to find a time when only one person has exclusive access to the cash or property.

The only way your employer can deduct money from your paycheck for shortages is if they can show that you were the only person with access to the property; and you give them written authorization prior to the deduction.

There are some deductions that are not allowed, even with written authorization from the employee.

Employers can not take deductions for faulty workmanship, which can include things like accidental damage to an employer’s equipment, a “walkout” in a bar, a gas station “pump & dash,” broken dishes in a restaurant or mistakes in production.

Of course, some restaurant and bar owners might get around Employment Standards by taking the shortages out of your tips. Tips are not covered under Employment Standards. Beer shortages could indicate some other issues that might require further investigation. Your restaurant may need better security and staff training to prevent losses. For more information on what employers are allowed and not allowed to deduct from your paycheck, read the Paycheck Deductions fact sheet at http://work. alberta.ca/documents/Deductions-from-Earnings.pdf.

If you have more questions about your situation, call the toll-free Alberta Employment Standards contact centre at 1-877-427-3731.

If you would like information on how to file an Employment Standards complaint visit http://work. alberta.ca/es.

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

NYMEX CRUDE $48,24US +3.71

▲

>>>>

NYMEX NGAS $2.69US -0.03

▼

CANADIAN DOLLAR ¢78.67US -0.63

▼

SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

MARKETS

CIBC lays off workers as banks face slowdown in borrowing

COMPANIES

OF LOCAL INTEREST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Friday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market chalked up a modest advance Friday despite an unexpected decline in Canada’s economy in November as the energy sector ran ahead amid a sharp gain in oil prices.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 36.2 points at 14,673.48 as Statistics Canada said gross domestic product in November declined 0.2 per cent, worse than the flat showing that economists had expected after a 0.3 per cent increase in October.

The Canadian dollar plunged to fresh six-year lows on the data, down 0.63 of a cent to 78.67 cents US. Worries that lower than expected fourth-quarter economic growth in the United States could herald an economic slowdown pushed New York indexes lower.

GDP for the period came in at 2.6 per cent, down sharply from five per cent in the third quarter.

Economists had generally expected a reading of 3.1 per cent.

The Dow Jones industrials tumbled 251.9 points to 17,164.95, the Nasdaq fell 48.17 points to 4,635.24 and the S&P 500 index lost 26.26 points to 1,994.99.

The American GDP report was of particular concern as the U.S. economy has been the top global economic performer for many months.

Growth in China has stalled and the European Central Bank is just now embarking on a program of quantitative easing aimed at stabilizing the eurozone economy and boosting inflation.

“The U.S. is seen as the one bright light globally that has been doing very well and the question mark is: (Is) that going to continue” said Scott Vali, vice-president, Canadian equities, CIBC Asset Management.

Strength on the TSX came primarily from the resource sectors with the energy group moving ahead almost five per cent as oil climbed $3.71 to US$48.24 a barrel.

Traders looking for a bottom to the plunge in prices reacted positively to news of a big drop in U.S. rig counts as producers respond to oversupply.

Investors also drove up

NEWS IN BRIEF

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 16.25 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.88 First Quantum Minerals . 11.59 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.69 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.25 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.31 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.34 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 46.26 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.14 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 16.45 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 23.00 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.60 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 57.99 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 39.75 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.84 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 7.85 Canyon Services Group. . 7.05 Cenovus Energy Inc. . . . 24.07 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3450 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 15.54 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.31 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.42 stocks in companies taking strong measures to deal with the drop in prices, including slashing spending plans and in some cases cutting dividends.

A major gainer was Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. (TSX:COS), which said Thursday that it was slashing its quarterly dividend to five cents a share.

It had already announced a cut in the payout in December to 20 cents from 35 cents at a time when oil was about US$67 a barrel. COS shares gained $1 or 14.7 per cent to $7.85.

The base metals sector rose 4.2 per cent as March copper rose four cents to US$2.47 a pound.

The gold sector was ahead four per cent as April bullion gained $23.30 to US$1,279.20 an ounce.

The TSX financial sector was the major weight, down 2.25 per cent after Barclays Bank downgraded several of the major Canadian banks, saying that “slower than anticipated economic growth will weigh on the earnings growth and valuations of the group.”

Barclays downgraded the stock of Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO), Royal Bank (TSX:RY) and TD Bank (TSX:TD) — three of the Big Six — plus Quebec-centred Laurentian Bank (TSX:LB) to underweight from equal weight.

Barclays called last week’s surprise quarter-point cut to a key Bank of Canada rate “a net negative” for the banks.

“If it’s not energy, it’s the financials that will move the market and right now, investors are concerned rate cuts will squeeze margins,” Vali said.

The TSX finished the week with a gain of 113 points or 0.8 per cent, led by gains in the energy, tech and consumer staples groups.

Base metals were the biggest losers as demand concerns continued to push copper down to fresh six-year lows.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.99 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.76 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.35 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 47.24 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.40 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 1.92 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 0.02 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.49 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.90 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.58 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.90 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.27 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 55.97 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 72.93 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 61.06 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.18 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.77 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.53 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.21 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.61 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 84.92 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.38 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.21 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.76 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 71.74 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.86 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.60

— 14,673.48, up 36.20 points Dow — 17,164.95, down 251.90 points S&P 500 — 1,994.99, down 26.26 points Nasdaq — 4,635.24, down 48.17 points Currencies: Cdn — 78.67 cents US, down 0.63 of a cent Pound — C$1.9145, up 1.45 cents Euro — C$1.4363, up 0.81 of a cent Euro — US$1.13, down 0.25 of a cent Oil futures: US$48.24 per barrel, up $3.71 (March contract)

TORONTO — CIBC has become the latest Canadian bank to trim its head count at a time when all of the country’s top lenders face a slowdown in consumer borrowing.

Analysts say they expect more costcutting from the country’s top lenders as they look to improve earnings amid slowing revenue growth.

“The reality is that the revenue growth expectations for the Canadian banks in 2015 are nowhere near as strong as they had been over the last several years,” said John Aiken, a Barclays analyst who on Friday downgraded the stocks of four Canadian banks to “underweight,” the company’s lowest rating.

“In an environment where revenue growth is slowing, in order to try to maintain earnings growth, one of the levers that’s available is to try to control the growth on your expense side,” Aiken said. “This is a lever that all of the banks are going to be taking a look at, not necessarily just on employment but total expenses overall.”

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSX:CM) has laid off 500 employees over the past two weeks.

A bank spokesman said the cuts reflect CIBC’s efforts to realign its resources and the bank plans to hire an additional 5,000 staff over the course of the year.

CIBC currently has about 44,500 Ca-

D I L B E R T

Gold futures: US$1,279.20 per oz., up $23.30 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.928 oz., up 88.7 cents $737.14 kg., up $28.52 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $4.30 higher $453.40; May ’15 $3.30 higher $449.40; July ’15 $4.00 higher $447.80; Nov ’15 $3.80 higher $435.20; Jan. ’16 $3.20 higher $436.80; March ’16 $3.10 higher $441.30; May ’16 $3.10 higher $445.20; July ’16 $3.10 higher $449.10; Nov. ’16 $3.10 higher $448.30; Jan. ’17 $3.10 higher $448.30; March ’17 $3.10 higher $448.30.

Barley (Western): March ’15 unchanged $195.00; May ’15 unchanged $197.00; July ’15 unchanged $199.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $190.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $190.00; March ’16 unchanged $190.00; May ’16 unchanged $190.00; July ’16 unchanged $190.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $190.00; Dec. ’ 16 unchanged $190.00; March ’17 unchanged $190.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 553,920 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 553,920.

From banquet rooms to pavilions, Westerner Park has the spaces you need for your next corporate event.

Contact us today to book your dates!

403.343.7800 sales@westerner.ab.ca westernerpark.ca

TRUST

SERVICE & PRODUCTS YOU CAN TRUST 1991 SINCE 1991

Loonie slides as economic growth grinds to a halt in November TORONTO — The Canadian dollar hit fresh, multi-year lows Friday as November’s economic data came in worse than expected.

The loonie finished well off early lows but still down 0.63 of a cent to 78.67 cents US as gross domestic product in November declined 0.2 per cent, worse than the flat showing that economists had expected.

The currency had gone as low as 78.14 cents US, its lowest level since mid-March 2009.

Statistics Canada said the one-month drop between October and November extended across major sectors including manufacturing and mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction.

Canadian GDP had risen 0.3 per cent in October, starting Canada’s fourth quarter on a positive note, but since then there’s been a major decline in the price of oil that is expected to have a major negative impact on the economy.

Statistics Canada issues its fourth-quarter GDP reading March 3.

Other data out Friday showed the American economy also slowing at the end of last year.

54462L30

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 117.19 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.90 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 19.15 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.13 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 20.38

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.79 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.98 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.42

www.cellutel.ca

TELUS OPTIK TV

TWO WAY RADIO

TELUS HIGH SPEED INTERNET SERVICES

WIRELESS DATA DEVICES

• • • • •

TELUS Optik TV Smartphones 2-Way Radios/Rentals Business Solutions Vehicle Fleet Tracking

• • • • •

TELUS High-Speed Internet GPS Systems Mobile Service Van Installation & Repairs Satellite Communications

403-346-2355 authorized dealer

Email: sales@cellutel.ca l 5125-76A Street Close l Red Deer, AB T4P 3M2

MONEY WON IS TWICE AS SWEET AS MONEY EARNED... come alive at

ffood d | music i |d drinks i k GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GO NORTH 6350 67 Street Red Deer | 403.346.3339

1011A31-E5

2559L2-31

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 135.57 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 49.19 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.36 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.91 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.90 Cdn. National Railway . . 83.72 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 221.47 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 42.13 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.29 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.13 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 45.16 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 61.55 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 20.95 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.91 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.62 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.89 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.21 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 42.05 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.25 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.59 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.12 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 56.54

nadian employees.

Back in November, Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) announced plans to cut 1,500 jobs worldwide, roughly twothirds of them in Canada. Scotiabank said the Canadian job cuts were due to plans to centralize and automate several branch functions, among other things.

No Canadian branch closures were expected but Scotiabank did plan to reduce the number of locations outside the country by 10 per cent.

About the same time, Royal Bank (TSX:TRY) announced it was exiting its wealth management business in the Caribbean, following the sale of its Jamaican operations earlier in 2014.

RBC did not say how many jobs would be lost as a result of its sale of the Caribbean wealth management business, but noted that international wealth management teams in Toronto, Montreal and the U.S. would be affected. Meanwhile, Barclays downgraded its stock ratings of three of Canada’s big five banks — Royal Bank (TSX:RY), TD Bank (TSX:TD) and Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) — along with Laurentian Bank (TSX:LB).

In downgrading them to underweight, Barclays cited concerns about how they’ll be affected by a slowdown in Canada’s economy as a result of the recent drop in global oil prices.

Analysts say the Bank of Canada’s surprise interest rate cut Jan. 21 to 0.75 per cent from one per cent has put pressure on the commercial banks’ lending margins, which will hamper earnings growth.

Showcasing the extraordinary volunteer spirit of Central Alberta

C1

Send your NEIGHBOURS submissions to editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

It’s Malanka:

Everyone zabava!

Kvitka celebrates Ukrainian New Year

54185A31,B7

Kvitka Red Deer Canadian Ukrainian Dance Club hosted Malanka, a Ukrainian New Year’s dinner and dance on Jan. 17 at Festival Hall. This social culture event has been held annually for approximately 40 years.

Malanka is an ancient celebration pre-dating Christianity. This evening is dedicated to chasing out the old Photos contributed year and welcomTop photo: The Suzuria professional dance group from Calgary. ing in the new year.

Above: Members of Red Deer’s Kvitka Ukrainian dancers.

The village people Left: Bread is a symbol of welcome, and these breads, made by Shelly Van Grinsven and prepared for the Martha Goruk, served as lavish decorations. evening in costume as represented in the old folklore, and wished each other health, happiness and prosperity.

Malanka is called ‘shchedryj vechir,’ meaning a bountiful evening. We had a ‘zabava,’ a party, an evening full of food, music, dance entertainment and prizes. After a bountiful meal catered by Bob Ronnie Catering, the guests were treated to a spectacular, lively Ukrainian dance show.

Dances were showcased by Red Deer’s own Kvitka adult and senior girls group, and Suzuria, a professional dance group from Calgary. The high energy, beautiful costumes, grace and poise by the ladies and acrobatic moves by the men delighted the crowd.

Worth the price of admission: the As for the past 25 years, The Northern Kings Guests and dancers enjoy The Kolomayka, a fast-paced energetic children’s candy table, set out for the band from Edmonton kept the dance floor full all folk dance, at the Saturday event.

Sunday party. evening with lots of traditional Ukrainian dance numbers. A fun-filled evening ended with a late lunch.

The celebration continued Sunday, Jan. 18, with the children’s party. Instructors Kayla and TJ showcased all the children groups with a colourful Ukrainian dance recital, ending with the circle dance The Kolomayka. Parents, family and friends were proud and delighted! Excitement filled the air with laughter and squeals of delight were heard as the children enjoyed prizes, candy table, DJ, games, face painting and a delicious lunch.

Thanks to all the donors and volunteers who helped make this event successful!

Coming up, Kvitka will celebrate with their Year End Concert at Red Deer Memorial Centre on Sunday, May 3. See www.KvitkaRD.ca.

Children dance The Kolomayka at the Sunday children’s party.

LOCAL

C2

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

Winter returns to region

A HELPING NUDGE

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Gustavo Nogareda gets a helping push out of the hack from Randy Ponich during a learn-to-curl session at the Pidherney Centre on Friday afternoon, as part of the fourth annual Freeze the House Charity Bonspiel. The bonspiel runs until Sunday at the Red Deer curling centre, with proceeds going to Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta.

A blast of winter is expected to bring snow and cold temperatures over the next few days.

Snow fall warnings were issued for Red Deer, Rocky Mountain House, Caroline, Nordegg and Stettler on Friday afternoon.

Environment Canada meteorologist Brian Proctor said Central Albertans would face the bulk of the snowfall overnight Friday, as a southern arctic front moved into the region from Edmonton.

“It’s going to develop some significant snow over the Central Alberta area, especially along the Rocky Mountain House/Red Deer area, over the next 24 hours,” he said. “It’s not going to be a great sort of night for many portions of the area but there will be an improvement through the day tomorrow.”

Red Deer was expected to receive 10 to 15 cm of snow overnight. Proctor said two to four cm more will fall early today but the snow is expected to end by early this afternoon.

Central Albertans can also expect seasonal winter temperatures for the next few days. The temperatures were to plunge to -15C overnight on Friday, -14C today and -22C on Sunday.

“It won’t be until the end of the work week that we start to see rebounding temperature wise towards the zero points,” said Proctor. “People are going to see normal temperatures over the next five to six days. ... We have been a little spoiled over the last little while.”

Proctor said the warmer than usual temperatures may return Thursday or Friday of next week. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

A master in the kitchen ... except for cookies A Rimbey veterinarian learned to cook as a matter of survival.

Ian Gielbelhaus, one of the 50 people selected to be on the reality cooking show CTV’s MasterChef Canada Season 2, said on Friday that he had gained 18 kg (40 pounds) eating French fries in residence during his first year of university.

So the second of year, when he had his own place, he started to cook for himself.

“I grew up in a household where my mom was a fantastic cook and we wouldn’t eat the same thing twice in a month. When I went off to college and university I said ... maybe this is how I can feed myself. Also, it helped to meet girls if you knew how to cook.

“That’s how I trapped my wife. I offered to make her a fancy meal on a fluffy bed of rice one night. The rice was awful.”

Gielbelhaus, 48, said his mother is still the best cook he knows.

He loves to cook, but doesn’t get to every day because he often works late.

His wife hates cooking, he said. The deal is when he cooks, she cleans up.

He likes to watch cooking shows and when he first saw MasterChef, he thought to himself, “I can do that.” So when the show came to Canada, he applied.

Gielbelhaus admits he is not much of a baker because he doesn’t generally like to follow rules about measuring.

“I’ve cooked more calf testicles, or prairie

RIMBEY VET ON MASTERCHEF oysters, than I have cookies. People don’t believe me. ... I like to eat cookies, I’m just not a big baker of cookies.

“I make everything. Whether it’s Mexican, I love wild game ... that’s something that I harvest myself. There’s nothing like putting a dinner on with meat or fish you’ve caught yourself. ... I always strive to do that a few times a year where absolutely everything on that plate is something that I harvested.”

Gielbelhaus compared being on MasterChef to climbing Mount Everest. “There’s times of pure joy and there’s times of probably pure pain in there. It’s the adventure. And that was awesome.”

Gielbelhaus was competing for $100,000 on MasterChef Canada.

Another local person, Meg Tucker from Red Deer, who co-hosts 100.7 Cruz FM morning show, was also one of the competitors.

The taping for the CTV show was done in Toronto, and the first episode of Season 2 will air on Sunday, right after the Super Bowl.

The second season wasn’t to begin until Feb. 8. Instead, the sitcom Spun Out was supposed to air on Sunday. But CTV decided to delay that show after an actor in it, Jean Paul Manoux, was charged with voyeurism by Toronto police.

The event is free and runs from noon to 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 16.

Crimson Lake Provincial Park is located about one hour from Red Deer, northwest of Rocky Mountain House.

To get there, take Hwy 11 west and then Hwy 756 west of Rocky.

For more information, call 403-8458309.

IN

BRIEF Chapin joins race for Red Deer North PC nod Matt Chapin, a young Red Deer resident who keeps throwing his hat into political races, so far without success, wants to seek the Progressive Conservative nomination for Red Deer North.

The 28-year-old ran for Red Deer city council in 2011, and 2013, and he ran for mayor in 2007.

Chapin said wants to see younger people represent Alberta, which is why he wants the PC nomination.

No one has officially declared they are seeking the nomination, although city councillor Buck Buchanan has said he is considering it and Christine Moore, a Red Deer County councillor, said she will be making an important announcement on Monday regarding the nomination.

Red Deer North has been held by Mary Anne Jablonski since 2000. The five-term MLA has decided she will not run again in the next provincial election.

Credit card thief sought by Red Deer police Red Deer RCMP are searching for a suspect in a credit card theft.

RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance to identify a man who sneaked into the staff room at Plato’s Closet on

Photo submitted

Rimbey veterinarian Ian Gielbelhaus, one of 50 people selected to be on MasterChef Canada this season.

Arson charge in P.E.I. faces Red Deer man An image taken from a surveillance camera shows the suspect in the credit card theft from Plato’s Closet.

Jan. 21 shortly before 11 .am. and went through an employee’s belongings.

The suspect stole several credit cards.

Anyone with information that may assist the police in identifying this suspect is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1.800.222.8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Family Day fun at Crimson Lake park A variety of fun activities are scheduled for Crimson Lake Provincial Park on Family Day. Some of the action includes building snow forts, riding bikes with big tires (fatbikes) designed for things like snow and mud, and the always popular food fun — making s’mores over a campfire and drinking hot chocolate.

MONTAGUE, P.E.I. — A 28-year-old man from Alberta has been charged with arson after a fire last year that burned down a building in Prince Edward Island.

The fire on Nov. 26 caused extensive damage to the Co-operators Insurance building in Montague.

A police and Fire Marshall’s Office investigation determined the fire started in an apartment in the building.

Michael Allan Gilbert of Red Deer has been charged with arson and is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 19.

The RCMP say they believe Gilbert and a woman who lived in the apartment know each other.

Police say the woman wasn’t home and no one was injured in the fire.

Yoga athletes in Red Deer for provincial competition Yoga athletes will display their grace, and strength of mind and body in an Alberta championship in Red Deer on Sunday.

The fifth annual Alberta Hatha Yoga Asana Championships will be at the

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Scott Block Theatre at 4816 50th Ave. Hatha yoga demands strength, flexibility and mindfulness, in order to create a series of standard poses that are considered good for mind and body health.

Asanas, or poses, help practitioners of yoga to restore, and maintain physical and mental well-being, improving flexibility and vitality.

The doors open at 12:30 p.m. and the competition starts at 1.

Tickets are $8 each. Children 12 and under get in free.

Pianist Schlosser performs at library The Red Deer Public Library presents First Thursdays in the Snell, featuring Canadian pianist and University of Alberta music professor Milton Schlosser on Feb. 5 from 12:15 to 1 p.m.

A noted pianist and award-winning professor, Schlosser will perform a provocative program that features piano works by Beethoven and Debussy.

As well, he plays one of his own works entitled Blue Virgin, a piece inspired

by France’s Chartres Cathedral and based on a blues-infused rendering of the hymn Praise to the Lord.

He will offer a range of styles, from Viennese classical and French impressionism to even a bit of the blues.

The Red Deer event is part of a fivecity tour for Schlosser that begins in Grande Prairie and ends in Honolulu on Valentine’s Day. There is no admission charge but donations will be accepted at the door.

Coffee and tea will provided by Cafe Noir.

Red Deer Public Library is located at 4818 49th St.

WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

RELIGION

C3

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

Is God a football fan?

Many think the answer is yes CATHY LYNN GROSSMAN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Did God lift Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson’s overtime pass into the end zone on Jan. 18, rewarding the prayerful Christian player with a championship victory and a trip to the Super Bowl on Sunday?

Millions of Americans may think so.

“One in four Americans believe there will be a 12th man on the field, and that the hand of God will be seen before the final whistle blows in the Super Bowl,” said Robert Jones, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute.

And 53 per cent agree God “rewards athletes who have faith with good health and success,” according to a new PRRI/RNS Religion News Survey released recently.

Indeed, not only did majorities of all but one major religious group put faith in God’s rewarding the faithful, so did 27 per cent of the those who claim no religion, the “nones.”

The survey of 1,012 U.S. adults, conducted by PRRI in partnership with Religion News Service, measures how people interweave team spirit and spirituality — and moral wrath, too.

Nearly one in three Americans would slap a lifetime ban on players convicted of domestic violence, even for someone on their favourite team.

Most Americans (64 per cent) have a favourite team, with football leading the way as the preferred sport for 40 per cent, no matter what their pro-

fessed faith.

However, NFL love is not blind.

It stops at the Ray Rice elevator door — the one the Baltimore Ravens player dragged his fiancee through after knocking her unconscious last February.

The survey was conducted from Jan. 14 to 18, after months of intense media coverage of Rice and the NFL’s response to domestic violence.

Rice was initially suspended by the Ravens, then by the NFL, but ultimately reinstated on appeal and is now eligible to sign with another team.

“I was surprised at how seriously Americans are taking domestic violence in sports. Nearly one in three (29 per cent) would support a lifetime ban for a player convicted of domestic violence,” said Jones.

“That’s a heavy penalty.”

Most (59 per cent) would allow such a player to return after a temporary suspension.

But few would make that easy.

Nearly two in three Americans (64 per cent) would oppose a professional sports team’s hiring a player “who has been convicted of domestic violence but is not in current legal trouble.”

Contrast that with a hiring choice once thought to be too hot to touch: signing an openly gay or lesbian player.

University of Missouri star Michael Sam became big news for his openly gay status, which became public just months before the NFL draft last year.

He was drafted by the St. Louis

LOCAL EVENTS

Sunday

Bentley United Church holds services on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Coffee and fellowship are offered following the service. Call Rev. Brenda Kersell at 403-885-4780, or Gail at 403-748-2935.

Rams and had a tryout with the Dallas Cowboys but did not make either team.

Contrast that with a hiring choice once thought to be too hot to touch: signing an openly gay or lesbian player.

Survey respondents greeted the issue with a shrug: 73 per cent say they would favour a team’s drafting a gay or lesbian player.

Even so, there’s an overwhelming sense that this is not an easy road for these athletes: 88 per cent, including majorities of every major religious group, say gay and lesbian athletes face discrimination in professional sports.

For all the controversies, Americans are still captivated by football.

Eighteen per cent of Americans — led by 45 per cent of white evangelical Protestants and 30 percent of Catholics — say they are more likely to watch football any given Sunday than go to church.

But overall, men and women of all major faiths are mostly alike: About a quarter of both genders choose church, and about another quarter say they devote the day to both God and gridiron.

Who’s missing from football frenzy?

One in three Americans overall (32 per cent), including 60 per cent of “nones.”

Monday

Delburne United Church Ground Hog Supper will take place on Feb. 2 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Delburne Hall.

Tuesday

Heartland Cowboy Church is on the first and third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Stettler Agriplex. Call 403-742-4273.

Cowboy Church will meet on Feb. 3 and 17.

Saturday, Feb. 7

Sacred Heart Church Used Book Sale will be held on Feb. 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the church hall for 50 cents to $1. Book donations accepted on Feb. 6 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Phone 403-346-9013.

Upcoming events

St. Andrew’s United Church Pancake Supper will be offered on Feb. 17, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Lacombe. Costs are $7 for adults, $4 for youth, and $20 for a family with proceeds to Camp Kasota. Contact Dennis at 403-7826890.

CrossRoads Church Seniors Gems monthly luncheon is offered on the second Tuesday of each month from noon to 2 p.m. in the Chapel. All seniors invited. The cost is $8 at the door. Phone 403-347-6425. Visions Country Gospel will perform on Feb 10 for a Valentine’s Luncheon.

Cathy Lynn Grossman is a senior national correspondent for Religion News Service, specializing in stories drawn from research and statistics on religion, spirituality and ethics, and manager for social media.

Schedule of Services The Anglican Church of Canada Sunday, February 1

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL “A Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769 www.stleonardsonthehill.org

Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Celebration Service 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Sunday School/Nursery

LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER WELCOME YOU

Sunday, February 1

Balmoral Bible Chapel Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.) 10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Terry Wiebe “Resurrection” Mark 12:18-27

Sunday School Ages 2 1/2-Grade 5

www.balmoralchapel.ca

GOOD SHEPHERD 40 Holmes St.

11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service

403-347-5450

403-340-1022 Rev. Dr. Marc Jerry

Rev. Judy Andersen

Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday School

www.cslreddeer.org #3 - 6315 Horn Street

Youth & Adult Forum

10:30 a.m. Worship Holy Communion at all Services

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA

Everyone Welcome

Saved by grace - called to serve

MOUNT CALVARY

Sunday, February 1

KNOX

Established 1898

4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560

(LC-C)

#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk

SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. Divine Service 10:15 a.m. Sunday School 7:00 p.m. Divine Service

“Freedom in Christ” 10:30 am Worship Service www.knoxreddeer.ca

Kings Kids Playschool

West Park Presbyterian

www.mclcrd.org

Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

3628-57 Ave. 403-346-6036

Living Faith

SUNDAY WORSHIP

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Gaetz Memorial United Church “Sharing Faith, Serving Community” 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer 403-347-2244

New Time: 9:00 am Speaker: Rev. Bert deBruijn

Lutheran Church

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN

Family Ministry

26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road)

Bethany Collegeside 99 College Circle RDC Everyone Welcome Rooted in the word of God. Growing in the likeness of Christ, Reaching out by the power of the Holy Spirit.

www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Speaker: Rev. Fred Lane

Children’s Programs weekly

Sunnybrook United Church

Everyone Welcome

Caring - Dynamic - Proactive - Inclusive 12 Stanton Street 403-347-6073

10:30 a.m.

Worship Service Babyfold, Toddler“As Room,One SundayWith Club Authority” www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Room Sunday Club www.sunnybrookunited.org

Helping people encounter the goodness of God Corner of 55th St & 46th Ave 10:30 am Contemporary Worship

streamschurch.com 403.342.7441

Streams Christian Church afÀliated with the PAOC

JOIN US THIS SUNDAY - There’s a place for you here!

February 1 - 9:00am, 11:00am & 6:30pm

Message: Not by Bread Alone - #16 Blessing • CrossRoads Kids (infant to grade 6)•

SW Corner of 32 Street & Hwy 2, Red Deer County

WWW.CROSSROADSCHURCH.CA AFFILIATED WITH THE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH OF CANADA

Bahá’í Faith

Sundays at 9:30 am and 11:15 am

“On the election day, the friends must wholeheartedly participate in the elections, in unity and amity, turning their hearts to God, detached from all things but Him, seeking His guidance and supplicating His aid and bounty.” Shoghi Effendi Today Bahá’is across Canada will elect delegates to attend National Convention in Toronto in April. For information about the Bahá’i Faith, call 403-343-0091 www.ca.bahai.org

Need to advertise your religious event here?

Call Pam 403.314.4350

ENTERTAINMENT

C4

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

Not exactly a tribute show STEPHEN HARPER: THE MUSICAL

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Stephen Harper will regale a Red Deer audience with such ditties as Get a Job You Lazy Bum and (I Want Some) Big-Ass Fighter Jets next month.

Of course, Canada’s “prime minister” will only be a metre or so high when he appears in Stephen Harper: The Musical or How to Survive and Thrive in the Dying Days of the Empire of Oil. The one-man “not exactly a tribute show” that runs on Thursday, Feb. 12, in the Red Deer College forum will feature a familiar-looking ventriloquist’s dummy sitting in the lap of the show’s star and creator James Gordon.

The custom-made Harper puppet will sport a helmet-like silver hair-do, wire glasses and a conservative suit and tie.

“I try to make him speak the lines that Harper, himself, would say,” said Gordon. But he admitted that getting the prime minister’s voice right has proven tricky. “I mean no offence to the man, but his voice is very bland. It’s not really high or low. ...

There’s no character to it.”

Unlike U.S. President Barack Obama’s abrupt stop-and-start speech pattern, Harper’s vocal delivery has no idiosyncrasies either. Gordon said he can only do so much with the vocalization — so he throws his Harper puppet a few snarky one-liners about Gordon’s lack of ventriloquist talent, for good measure.

The Guelph, Ont., musician used to be known as an innocuous children’s entertainer and singer on the folk circuit, before becoming subversively political about two years ago.

The change came with the passage of the first of the Harper government’s “omnibus bills.” The massive legislation was so “laden with things” that it would have been be impossible for the MPs voting on it to become familiar with everything it contained, recalled Gordon, who was appalled by this tactic.

“There were hidden aspects. (The bill) wasn’t open and transparent. I thought, wait a minute.

Somebody’s trying to pull something over on us. ...”

Gordon was concerned that important environmental clauses were being pushed through without everybody knowing about them. “I thought: how is this an open democracy?”

He began pondering how he could get other Canadians to pay more attention to this kind of thing happening in Ottawa.

Gordon came up with the idea of the Harper musical, figuring that even non-political folks might listen if he created an entertaining parody, complete with accompanying video slide show.

And there was no shortage of Harper actions to rail against — Gordon ended up writing 19 rant-ish songs for the musical, including a rap about the need for proportional representation.

The final step was studying ventriloquism after ordering a Harper doll from a German-born puppet maker living in Elora, Ont. Gordon recalled, “She takes her craft very seriously — so seriously that when she gave me (the puppet) she told me, ‘He’s a person now, don’t put him in a suitcase.’ ” Unfortunately, the carved styrofoam Harper does have to travel in airport luggage when the entertainer flies out West to tour Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Contributed photo

James Gordon and his Stephen Harper puppet will be in Red Deer on Thursday, Feb. 12, for Stephen Harper: The Musical But “if I’m driving, I’ll strap him into the passenger seat,” said Gordon, who once took the mini prime minister to Ottawa. “I took the puppet for a walk along Rideau Street and it created a lot of attention.

A lot of people wanted to have a few words with Stephen. ...”

He maintains it’s not the prime minister’s character he takes issue with, but his politics. “I wouldn’t be doing the play if I wasn’t against his policies.”

Whether other Canadians think Harper is doing a good job depends on which vantage point they are viewing him from, Gordon added. “I think his policies favour the one per cent — well-to-do people and larger corporations. Struggling smaller businesses have been hugely affected by things like free trade.”

So far, he said there’s been ample support for Stephen Harper: The Musical. Gordon has played to packed houses across the country.

Some of his two-hour shows, including the Red Deer one, are being presented by the Council of Canadians.

“We always believe in being critical of government, regardless of who’s in power,” said the council’s Red Deer and area chair Derrick Callan, who hopes the “fun” stage event will encourage more

people take an interest in Parliament and question federal policies.

Callan feels it’s fitting that Gordon’s musical focuses on the oilsands and the prime minister giving his ear to lobbyists and oil company executives, since “a lot of people think Harper is just a puppet because he’s influenced by these groups.”

Lately, Canada’s leader seems a little more open minded on the question of future resources.

Gordon said he was heartened to hear the real Harper say in a recent speech that, with falling oil prices, it might be timely to look at other energy sources.

“You see, everybody’s learning,” added Gordon, who joked that Harper must have seen his musical because “he’s figured it out.”

Tickets to the show are $15 ($5 for students and the “unwaged”) from canadiansredeer.org/musical.

Some free hot food will be served and information booths will be available from 6 p.m. The show is at 7 p.m. (Donations to defer cost of food and show gladly accepted.)

The musical is also being sponsored by the RDC political science and sociology student societies. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Time-hopping Project Almanac doesn’t transport us FOUND-FOOTAGE TEEN TIME TRAVEL DRAMA HAS A LIKABLE CAST BUT MISSES OUT ON ITS POTENTIAL TO GO DEEPER AND DARKER

At the

BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Project Almanac Two stars (out of four) Rated: PG Thank goodness for undiscovered basement labs and dusty video cameras. Otherwise Project Almanac’s generally likable cast would have to be content with lousy grades and weak love lives.

Initially, it appears this frenetically filmed teen time-travel drama could be a better-than-average adventure. But bizarre camerawork and that laziest of all plot devices, the stash of found footage, soon slots it in the “unrealized potential” category.

Socially awkward high school science whiz David Raskin (Jonny Weston from surf drama Chasing Mavericks), desperate for a shot at an MIT scholarship, finds a freaky image from his seventh birthday party on his dead father’s video camera, stashed in the attic since his death 10 years earlier.

Convinced it proves his dad had built a time machine, David sets out to replicate the experiment using his father’s remarkably well-equipped basement lab, which comes complete with time machinebuilding instructions. He’s aided by fellow outcast high school pals Adam (The Secret Life of the American Teenager’s Allen Evangelista) and mouthy Quinn (Sam Lerner, channeling early Miles Teller).

David’s giggly younger sis Christina (Ginny Gardner) is entrusted with operating the camera to document the process — and not much else — which is standard in this movie, where boys run the action and girls are for ignoring, ogling or kissing, if they’re lucky.

The escalating experiments come complete with levitating tools and exploding power sources that somehow fail to bring cops or suburban neighbours running. But hooking the machine up to the car battery belonging to school siren and David’s secret

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jonny Weston as David Raskin in a scene from the film Project Almanac, from Insurge Pictures: occasionally smart dialogue and likable characters, but the plot fizzles and the shaky-cam wears thin. crush Jessie (Gossip Girl’s Sofia Black-D’Elia) creates a new set of sparks.

They skip the testing phase and get right into time travel, with David making them pledge they won’t time “jump” solo, a rule we know he’s destined to break as soon as he says it.

They make jumps back for all the reasons any teen would, including classroom do-overs, Lollapalooza and revenge — all carefully video recorded with various devices. Yet when writers Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan come to the consequences part of the story, Project Almanac misses its potential to go deeper and darker.

There are vague, unpursued hints of what really happened to David’s dad. What could have been a

poignant onscreen reunion is quickly dealt with and discarded. Produced by Michael Bay and held for a year before being released, Project Almanac’s chief annoyance is the way it was filmed, using jerky shaky-cam, jump cuts and handheld shots where extras wander in and out of the frame in front of actors.

It’s a ploy to evoke realism that annoys and distracts from the action rather than enhancing it.

Occasionally smart dialogue — a character asks “when are we?” after a jumping marathon — hints at what Project Almanac could have brought to the multiplex. But we have to go Back to the Future for that kind of time-travel staying power.

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 C5

COMEDY CLUB ON THURSDAYS

Bowling for laughs at Heritage Lanes

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Behind the noise of bowling strikes at Heritage Lanes is the sound of jokes and sporadic laughter.

A back room at the Red Deer bowling alley turns into a comedy club every Thursday night at 8:30 p.m., as up-and-coming comedians try out new material in front of an audience.

Sometimes crowds are sparse — as in only a handfull of people. But sometimes there are 30 people in the room— especially after a bowling league plays, said Red Deer stand-up comic Josh Earl. “The patrons who come to bowl don’t expect to hear comedy, so sometimes they chime in!”

Open-mike comedy nights have been held around Red Deer, including at the International Beer Haus and Stage, The Olive, Slumland Theatre and The Vat — but Earl wants more people to know about the Heritage Lanes events because he feels it’s a good space to perform.

When bowlers and others stay for comedy sets, they actually listen to the jokes and not just to talk to friends, said Earl. It’s a pretty respectful crowd, he added, although there are sometimes hecklers.

LOCAL

BRIEFS First Friday art lineups set Art based on maps, the great outdoors and imaginary “friends” will be displayed during Red Deer’s First Friday gallery openings for February.

I am Here, an exhibit by Red Deer artist Carol Lynn Gilchrist is showing from Feb. 1 to 28 at The Hub on Ross Street. The watercolour and acrylic paintings are inspired by maps and connections to certain places and communities. Gilchrist said, “It’s about being still and being fully present in that moment. I wish to communicate that feeling, so I paint as honestly and as simply as I can.”

I am Here has its First Friday opening reception on Feb. 6, from 4 to 6 p.m. Gilchrist will also help visitors make their own I am Here postcards on Wednesday, Feb. 4, from 10 a.m. to noon at The Hub. It’s a free activity and everyone is welcome.

The 4 Painters, 4 Perspectives exhibit continues at the Harris-Warke Gallery. The Alberta landscape paintings by Jeri Lynn Ing, Larry Reese, Judy Sutter and Susan Woolgar show what happens when four painters tackle the same four landscapes. The show runs to Feb. 12. There will be a First Friday on Feb. 6 reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

Dear Little Friends, a ceramics exhibit depicting imaginative letter carriers by local artist Alysse Bowd, is on at the Kiwanis Gallery in the Red Deer Public Library until Feb. 22.

A First Friday reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. It will feature entertainment from musicians Dominique Adams and Craig Gomez playing a variety of genres, including blues, jazz, soul and R&B. The two sets will go from 6:15 to 6:45 p.m. and then 7 to 7:30 p.m.

Glass work, paintings and ceramic sculptures from Darren Peterson, Susan Woolgar, and Robin Lambert are showing for the month of February at the Viewpoint Gallery in the City of Red Deer’s Culture Services Centre, 3827-39th St. There will be no First Friday reception for the show, but the gallery is open for viewing weekdays from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m.

Photo submitted

From left to right, Danny Flexhaug, Ryan Short (an Edmonton comedian who’s been on MTV), Simon King (who’s had his own comedy special), Danny Martinello (from Edmonton, who has won comedy competitions) and Josh Earl.

The 23-year-old Red Deer labourer tells semi-autobiographical stories about growing up and dating (or trying to get sex, as the case may be). He is one of about a half-dozen regular comedians at Heritage Lanes. Some of the comics come from as far as Edmonton for the chance to get a laugh in Red Deer.

Earl began writing jokes about two years before summoning the nerve to stand up and tell them in front of strangers. The thing he most enjoys about performing is “I don’t have to rely on anyone else to be successful. ...

“I also like the rush I get on stage when I’m doing really good,” he added.

Even if the wise-cracks come from real-life expe-

rience, most comedians wear a “mask” when performing, said Earl, who thinks of his onstage persona as a more confident version of himself. “I’m socially anxious in big groups of people, but I can loosen up when I’m up there.”

Earl is clearly very committed to comedy. He even looks for day jobs that are flexible enough to allow him to “pursue my comedy dreams.”

As for attending open-mike events, you never know when you’re going to see someone who’s destined for greater things.

There’s a $5 cover charge for the Thursday comedy nights at Heritage Lanes bowling alley. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Artwalk Festival folds

RDC variety show on Thursday

An annual outdoor festival that showcased the visual arts in Red Deer has folded.

The Artwalk Festival had run for 26 years, rain or shine, in Rotary Recreation Park south of the Red Deer museum— save for one June when it was cancelled due to flooding.

But it will not run again.

Volunteers are getting older and suffering from a degree of burnout, said chair Diana Anderson, for the Red Deer Artwalk Society Committee.

“People were getting way too busy,” she added, to organize a festival that was often complicated by rain or inclement weather. “There was no indoor venues big enough, so there was never any alternate space.”

Anderson hopes a new group of volunteers will come forward to plan another way of celebrating the visual arts in Red Deer, perhaps in tandem with another summer festival.

“It’s time for new people to see this with fresh eyes and plan another way of supporting the visual arts.”

Anderson said the committee decided to channel money left in the Artwalk reserve fund to the Red Deer Arts Council’s Emerging Artist Award, for visual artists.

Fiddlers gather in Lacombe on Sunday Young and old fiddlers from across Central Alberta will perform in Lacombe this weekend.

The 38th annual Fiddlers’ Jamboree will be held on Sunday at the Lacombe Upper Elementary School at 5414 50th St. Veteran fiddlers and fiddling students will play everything from old standards to new compositions, said Laurie Maetche, a violin instructor and one of the organizers.

This year’s theme is a tribute to late Lacombe fiddler Eilert Rebne, who co-founded the jamboree and played at 37 of the annual events before dying last month. Maetche said some of Rebne’s favourite musical selections are included in the program.

Everyone is invited to attend. Admission is $5 at the door.

Red Deer College students will entertain at the next musical variety show on Thursday.

The public is invited to hear everything from classical to contemporary tunes performed by RDC music students in Studio A of the Red Deer College Arts Centre.

Admission is $2 at the door. The event begins at 1 p.m.

The proceeds from these live concerts are donated to various charities throughout the year.

GALAXY CINEMAS RED DEER 357-37400 HWY 2, RED DEER COUNTY 403-348-2357

SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY JANUARY 30, 2015 TO THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2015 THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN,FRIGHTENING SCENES,VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 3:00 THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES 3D (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN,VIOLENCE,FRIGHTENING SCENES) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI,SUN 6:20, 9:40; SAT 11:30, 6:20, 9:40; MON-THURS 9:30 THE WEDDING RINGER (14A) (NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN,COARSE LANGUAGE,SEXUAL CONTENT) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI,SUN 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40; SAT 4:30, 7:10, 9:40; MON-THURS 7:20, 9:50 PROJECT ALMANAC (PG) (COARSE LANGUAGE) NO PASSES FRI-SUN 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15; MONTHURS 7:30, 10:15 PADDINGTON (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; MON-THURS 6:50 THE BOY NEXT DOOR (14A) (SEXUAL VIOLENCE,GORY VIOLENCE,SEXUAL CONTENT) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI 3:10, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20; MON-THURS 7:40, 10:10 THE BOY NEXT DOOR (14A) (SEXUAL VIOLENCE,GORY VIOLENCE,SEXUAL CONTENT) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30 TAKEN 3 (14A) (VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 10:10; MON-THURS 9:20 MORTDECAI (PG) (COARSE LANGUAGE,CRUDE CONTENT) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20; MON-THURS 6:30, 9:20 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI 3:50, 7:00, 10:00; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00; MON-THURS 7:00, 10:00 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) (MATURE SUBJECT MATTER) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI 3:50, 6:50, 9:40; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40; MON-THURS 6:50, 9:40 AMERICAN SNIPER (14A) (COARSE LANGUAGE,VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED

FRI 4:00, 7:20, 10:30; SAT-SUN 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:30; MONTHURS 7:10, 10:10 DICK TRACY () FRI 1:00; SUN 7:20 THE ROCKETEER () FRI 3:30; SUN 1:00; TUE 7:35 THE MONSTER SQUAD () FRI 5:40; SUN 5:35 BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (14A) FRI 7:30; SUN 3:15; TUE 9:45 DARKMAN () FRI 9:45; MON 5:25 STRANGE MAGIC (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI,SUN 2:30, 5:00, 7:40; SAT 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40; MONTHURS 6:40 STRANGE MAGIC (G) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN () SAT 10:55 X-MEN (PG) (MAY FRIGHTEN YOUNGER CHILDREN) SAT 9:55; TUE 5:30 X2: X-MEN UNITED (PG) (MAY FRIGHTEN YOUNGER CHILDREN) SAT 7:20; WED 5:10 X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (PG) (VIOLENCE,MAY FRIGHTEN YOUNG CHILDREN) SAT 5:15 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST () SAT 12:00 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN,VIOLENCE,COARSE LANGUAGE) SAT 2:35; THURS 5:05 AN AMERICAN TAIL () SAT 11:00 HELLBOY (14A) (VIOLENCE) SUN 9:30; MON 7:20 PAN’S LABYRINTH (14A) (NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN,BRUTAL VIOLENCE) MON 9:50 KILL BILL: VOL. 1 (18A) (GORY VIOLENCE) WED 7:45 KILL BILL: VOL. 2 (18A) WED 9:50 ALIEN () THURS 7:40 ALIENS () THURS 9:55

RED DEER COLLEGE SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS presents 2014/15

THEATRE SEASON rdc.ab.ca/showtime

ADAPTED BY JON JORY | NOVEL BY JANE AUSTEN DIRECTED BY THOMAS USHER In a society where manners and birth mean everything, can Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy look beyond their pride and prejudice?

Jane Austen’s classic romantic comedy is given a unique and accessible treatment by renowned playwright and director Jon Jory. High-spirited and heartfelt, RDC’s production will delight Austen supporters and win new fans with this story of improbable love.

PRESENTING SPONSOR

abc blt

SEASON SPONSORS

2538A28,31

80¢ a day will save a life.

Save Because

Give

For just 80¢ a day, can provide food, shelter and veterinary care for an animal until they are adopted into their forever home.

Please visit reddeerspca.com to become a donor and start saving lives today.

1023A31

P rejudice

EVENINGS Feb. 5-7 & 11-14 | 7:30 pm SATURDAY MATINEES Feb. 7 & 14 | 1:00 pm SCHOOL MATINEES Feb. 6 & 11 | 12:00 pm TICKETS & INFORMATION Black Knight Ticket Centre bkticketcentre.ca rdc.ab.ca/showtime 403.755.6626 | 1.800.661.8793

54176B4

&

Mainstage, RDC Arts Centre Age Group: Teens & Adults

1755A2-31

P ride

C6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

Make your business a

star 1 x 3” ad

cover

STORY It’s the end of ‘Parenthood’ as NBC series concludes

By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it Fans of “Parenthood” are sorry to see the series end, but its creative talents are happy they got one more season to end it properly.

Loosely inspired by the same-named 1989 movie, NBC’s saga of the Braverman family concludes its sixseason run Thursday, Jan. 29. While showrunner Jason Katims and the cast members understandably have hesitated to detail what happens just before the end credits appear for the last time, it’s no secret — thanks especially to their social-media accounts — that filming the finale drew tears from virtually everyone involved.

“Our last days were very emotional,” confirms Lauren Graham, alias the show’s Sarah Braverman, “plus, without giving too much away, we were in a lot of unfamiliar places.

This is a show with a real family feeling, and as we began to wrap, the physical pieces were being pulled away. We were literally losing the sets that have been our homes, so it was very symbolic.”

So were the dismissals of other cast members after they did their last scenes ... from Peter Krause (Graham’s significant other in real life), Monica Potter and Erika Christensen to Dax Shepard, Sam Jaeger and Mae Whitman, who has played Sarah’s daughter Amber.

“A lot of people got ‘wrapped’ at the same time,” Graham reports. “They announce when it’s someone’s final day, so there were a lot of families there, with people taking pictures. I quickly had to come to New York for work afterward, so it all felt strange.”

As for the way “Parenthood” does end, Graham — whose Sarah has been romantically involved with photographer Hank (Ray Romano) — maintains she’s “very happy with it. I apologize for weeping through much of the last two episodes, but it felt unavoidable because there were so many things resolved, and so many truly emotional things going on.

“For fans who like a good cry, I don’t think they’ll be disappointed, but it’s earned.

You don’t want the story to feel manipulative, and to me, it’s a very real ending.”

A “Parenthood” series was tried by NBC and executive producer Ron Howard before, in 1990, with a cast that included David Arquette and a thenteenage Leonardo DiCaprio.

Graham originally wasn’t set for the second, ultimately more enduring attempt; Maura Tierney (“The Affair”) was to play Sarah, but health matters led to the part being recast.

Graham didn’t get the same sense of series finality from “Gilmore Girls” after her seven years on that WB/CW show. “We shot a finale that could have worked as a series finale, but also had some loose ends,” she recalls. ”I was at a restaurant and the waiter said, ‘Your agent’s on the phone’ ... which tells you how long ago it was, because I hardly carried my cell phone on me.

“I went to the bar and picked up the phone, and my agent was like, ‘It’s over.’

There was some negotiating going on, and conflicting pieces of information, so it was a very different feeling.

(With ‘Parenthood,’) this was definitely satisfying, and it has closure.”

SATURDAY EVENING 7:00

7:30

JANUARY 31, 2015 8:00

8:30

9:00

9:30

10:00

10:30

11:00

11:30

NHL Hockey Edmonton Oilers at Calgary Flames. (N) (Live) Å Post Show CBC News Al (4) CBXT NHL Hockey Vikings “Answers in Blood” Vikings “Unforgiven” Parenthood Å (DVS) News Final SNL (5) CITV 16x9 “In Harm’s Way” (N) Monsieur Selfridge (SC) Dre Grey, anatomie TJ 10:35 Pour l’amour du country 11:22 Infoman (SC) (6) SRC En direct de l’univers (N) Package Deal Liquidator Package Deal Liquidator Family Seed Murdoch Mysteries (7) CKEM NHL Hockey: Stars at Jets Big Bang Anger NFL Honors (N) News-Rinaldo CTV News (8) CFRN W5 Å (DVS) Flashpoint Å (DVS) Motive Å (DVS) Saving Hope Å (DVS) Way Off Broadway (9) CTV2 The Listener Å (DVS) Big Bang Two Men Big Bang Backstrom “Dragon Slayer” Red Band Society (N) News Most Wanted (11) KAYU Two Men NBA Basketball: Clippers at Spurs Highlights Highlights of the Night Å The Final Score Å (12) SN360 Basketball Marketplace Apple’s Broken Promises Doc Zone Å (DVS) The National Mansbridge Apple’s Broken Promises (13) NW The National Charmers Caillou Å Mike-Knight Big Friend Max & Ruby Backyard Bubble Team Umiz.

Fresh Beat (14) TREE Trucktown Cook’d Assembly Max & Shred } ››› Big (’88) Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins. Å Chucks Open Heart (15) YTV Cook’d (N) Keeping Up As Time... } ›››› Network (’76) Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch.

11:04 Front and Center Å (16) KSPS The Lawrence Welk Show Blue Bloods Å Super Bowl Saturday Night Live-Sports NFL Honors (N) (18) KHQ News Paid Program White Collar “Point Blank” Hawaii Five-0 Å Criminal Minds “X” 48 Hours (N) Å (19) KREM News The Insider Entertainment Tonight (N) To Be Announced (20) KXLY 4 News at 6 Simpsons } ›› Get Over It (’01) Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster. Å Simpsons Simpsons Simpsons Simpsons (21) MUCH Simpsons SportsCentre (N) (Live) Å SC Top 10 E:60 Å SportsCentre (N) (Live) Å SportsCentre (N) (Live) Å (22) TSN Curling Sportsnet NHL Hockey Chicago Blackhawks at San Jose Sharks. (Live) Å Sportsnet Central Å (23) SNW NHL Hockey Chrisley Funniest Home Videos Reba Å Reba Å Chrisley Chrisley Funniest Home Videos (24) CMT Chrisley Leave-Bryan Leave-Bryan Timber Kings “High Rollers” Fixer Upper Å House-Bryan House-Bryan (25) HGTV Income Property Å CNN Special Report CNN Special Report Forensic File Forensic File Forensic File Forensic File (27) CNN Morgan Spurlock Inside 8:01 The First 48 Å 9:02 Nightwatch Å 10:01 The First 48 Å 11:01 The First 48 Å (28) A&E The First 48 Å Sex Sent Me to the E.R. (N) All About Sex All About Sex Sex Sent Me to the E.R. (N) Untold Stories of the E.R. (29) TLC Untold Stories of the E.R. } ›› The Switch (’10) Jennifer Aniston. Å (30) W 5:30 } ››› Marley & Me (’08) } ›› Along Came Polly (’04) Ben Stiller. Å } ›› Men in Black 3 (’12) Will Smith. Å } ››› The Amazing Spider-Man (’12) Andrew Garfield.

(31) SHOW 6:00 } Ghost Storm (’12) Misfit Garage Ice Lake Rebels Å Street Outlaws Misfit Garage (32) DISC Street Outlaws } ››› Up in the Air (’09) George Clooney, Vera Farmiga. Å (33) SLICE } ›› The Dilemma (’11) Vince Vaughn, Kevin James. Å The Mentalist (N) Å } ›› Dorian Gray (’09) Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Ben Chaplin. Å Gothika (’03) (34) BRAVO 19-2 Ben gets suspended. } ››› The Usual Suspects (’95) Stephen Baldwin. Å 10:50 Places in the Heart (’84) (36) EA2 7:15 } › Excess Baggage (’97) Alicia Silverstone. Å Cops Å Commercials 2014 Cops Å Cops Å Vegas Cops Å Commercials 2014 (37) SPIKE Vegas } ›› Wayne’s World 2 (’93) Mike Myers, Dana Carvey.

(38) TOON 5:30 } Knockout } ›› Parental Guidance (’12) Billy Crystal, Bette Midler. Premiere.

Liv & Maddie Girl Meets Austin & Ally I Didn’t Do It A.N.T. Farm Next Step Wingin’ It } Jump In! (’07) Å (39) FAM K.C. Under.

Family Guy Family Guy Seinfeld Å Seinfeld Å King King (40) PEACH } › The Tuxedo (’02) Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt.

LOL :-) Å Big Bang Big Bang Just for Laughs: All Access Just for Laughs Å (DVS) Joe Rogan Rocky Mtn. (41) COM LOL :-) Å 7:45 } ››› Counsellor-at-Law (’33) 9:15 } ›› Night Flight (’33) John Barrymore. 10:45 } ››› Svengali (’31) John Barrymore.

(42) TCM 20th Century Guy’s Grocery Games (N) Chopped “Every ’wich Way” Chopped Canada Å Guy’s Grocery Games Å (43) FOOD Chopped Canada (N) Å Liquidator Liquidator Liquidator Mantracker Å Dog and Beth: On the Hunt Conspiracy Theory-Ventura (44) OLN Storage Can UFOs Declassified Å UFOs Declassified Å } ››› War of the Worlds (’05) Tom Cruise.

(45) HIST Dino Hunt Canada 9:10 } Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (’12) Bill Oberst Jr. 11:10 } Zombie Night (’13) (46) SPACE } › Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (’12) Å } ››› Gladiator (’00) Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen.

(47) AMC 6:00 } ››› Coach Carter (’05) Samuel L. Jackson.

Motorcycle Racing Monster Energy Supercross: Anaheim. (N) (Live) Å UFC Post Fight Show (N) (48) FS1 UFC Fight Night The Dead Files (N) Å Ghost Adventures Å Ghost Adventures Å The Dead Files Å (49) DTOUR Ghost Adventures (N) Å 7:20 } › The Right Kind of Wrong (’13) } ›› The Grand Seduction (’13) Brendan Gleeson. Å 10:55 } ››› Gabrielle (’13) (55) MC1 August } ››› Django Unchained (’12) Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz. Å (56) MC2 5:30 } ›› Red 2 } ›› 47 Ronin (’13) Keanu Reeves. Å Seinfeld Å How I Met How I Met The Office The Office Paid Program Paid Program (59) WSBK 6:00 } ›› The Game Plan (’07) Seinfeld Å News at 6:30 Two Men Two Men Two Men Two Men Family Guy Family Guy KTLA 5 News at 10 (N) Å (60) KTLA KTLA News } ›› 10,000 B.C. (’08) Steven Strait, Camilla Belle. Å } › Wild Wild West (’99) Will Smith, Kevin Kline. Å (61) WGN-A Blue Bloods Å Two Men News at Ten PIX11 Sports Honeymnr Honeymnr The Pinkertons (N) Å Alien File Alien File (62) WPIX Two Men 9:40 } ›› 10,000 B.C. (’08) Steven Strait, Camilla Belle. Å Hollow Man (63) EA1 6:05 } ››› Girlfight (’00) Å } ››› Drag Me to Hell (’09) Å Aikam Taur Punj.

Lashkara Waqt 4 U Success (70) VIS Des-Pardes NHL Hockey Edmonton Oilers at Calgary Flames. (N) (Live) Å Post Show CBC News Al (71) CBRT NHL Hockey Big Bang Anger NFL Honors (N) News-Rinaldo News (72) CFCN W5 Å (DVS) Roxanna: Exotica Austin City Limits (N) Å Live From the Artists Den (81) WTVS Ethan Bortnick Live in Concert: Power WHAM News Community Animation Domination Ring of Honor Wrestling Anger Paid Program (82) WUHF Red Band Society (N) News 9:29 Saturday Night Live (N) Å News 11:32 Paid Program (83) WDIV NFL Honors (N) News Castle “Vampire Weekend” Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program (84) WXYZ To Be Announced 48 Hours (N) Å The Good Wife Å The Good Wife Å Leverage “The Office Job” (85) WWJ Criminal Minds “X” Paradise Lost Encounters Mediums Surviving Evil “Killer Smile” Cold Blood “In Plain Sight” (101) OWN Surviving Evil “Killer Smile” Medical Medical } ›› Heaven and Earth (’93) Tommy Lee Jones, Hiep Thi Le. Blackstone (115) APTN Longmire “Ashes to Ashes” Degrassi Å Degrassi Å 1 girl 5 gays 1 girl 5 gays Ridiculous.

Ridiculous.

Ridiculous.

Ridiculous.

(116) MTV The Challenge: Battle Vikings “Answers in Blood” Vikings “Unforgiven” Parenthood Å (DVS) News Hour SNL (118) GBL 16x9 “In Harm’s Way” (N) 48 Hours (N) Å Evening News at 11 (N) Å The Watchlist Å Spin Off Å The Watchlist _ E! 6:00 The Pinkertons Å CityNews Weekend (N) Å CityNews Weekend (N) Å The Beat Glenn Martin CityLine Å 6 CITY NHL Hockey: Stars at Jets 16x9 “In Harm’s Way” Å Vikings “Answers in Blood” Vikings “Unforgiven” Parenthood Å (DVS) > GBLBC 6:59 News Hour (N) Å

SUNDAY EVENING 7:00

7:30

FEBRUARY 1, 2015 8:00

8:30

9:00

9:30

10:00

10:30

11:00

11:30

Life Story “Power” (N) Å Winnipeg Comedy The National (N) Å CBC News Al fifth estate (4) CBXT Heartland (N) Å (DVS) Simpsons 8:15 The Blacklist Red is arrested. (N) Å Simpsons Family Guy Burgers News Final Block (5) CITV Prod. Parker Tout le monde en parle (N) (SC) TJ } ››› Malcolm X (’92) (6) SRC 6:30 Découverte Ici Laflaque 8:01 Revenge Å Brooklyn Brooklyn Package Deal Family Murdoch Mysteries (7) CKEM Murdoch Mysteries TBA Goldbergs Once Upon a Time Å Resurrection Å News-Rinaldo CTV News (8) CFRN Super Bowl XLIX } Life With Murder (’09) } ››› Hunt for Justice: The Louise Arbour Story (’05) Way Off Broadway (9) CTV2 W5 Å (DVS) Simpsons Burgers Simpsons Simpsons Brooklyn Family Guy Burgers News How I Met (11) KAYU Name Game Highlights of the Night Å Highlights of the Night Å Highlights of the Night Å The Final Score Å (12) SN360 European Poker Tour The Passionate Eye The biggest house in the U.S. (N) The National (N) Å The Passionate Eye (N) Å (13) NW The National (N) Å Charmers Caillou Å Mike-Knight Big Friend Max & Ruby Backyard Bubble Team Umiz.

Fresh Beat (14) TREE Trucktown Chucks My Babysitter Open Heart Open Heart Haunting Haunting (15) YTV } ››› The Iron Giant (’99) Voices of Jennifer Aniston.

Masterpiece Classic Masterpiece Classic (N) Masterpiece Mystery! (N) Midsomer Murders Å (16) KSPS Great British Baking Show 8:15 The Blacklist (N) Å 9:15 KHQ News 11 Primetime (N) Mark Few Jeopardy!

Tonight Show-J. Fallon (18) KHQ Super Bowl XLIX 60 Minutes (N) Å 9:01 NCIS “Twenty Klicks” CSI: Crime Scene Criminal Minds “Burn” (19) KREM KREM 2 News at 6 (N) Å Estate Funniest Home Videos Funniest Home Videos Shark Tank Å Shark Tank Å (20) KXLY 4 News at 6 Finding Carter “Drive” Å Eye Candy “HBTU” Å Finding Carter “Drive” Å Bang!

Bang!

(21) MUCH MuchCountdown Å That’s Hcky SportsCentre (N) (Live) Å NFL PrimeTime (N) Å SportsCentre SportsCentre (N) (Live) Å (22) TSN Curling Plays/Month Sportsnet Central (N) Å NHL Classics Å Pokerstars.net NHL Alumni Sportsnet Central Å (23) SNW NHL Count Exterminator Shipping Shipping Deal With It Deal With It Exterminator Exterminator Shipping Shipping (24) CMT Exterminator House-Bryan Timber Kings “Active Duty” Holmes Makes It Right Å House-Bryan House-Bryan Timber Kings “Active Duty” (25) HGTV House-Bryan Anthony Bourdain Parts Anthony Bourdain Parts Anthony Bourdain Parts Anthony Bourdain Parts (27) CNN Anthony Bourdain Parts 8:01 Criminal Minds “JJ” Å 9:02 Criminal Minds Å 10:01 Criminal Minds Å 11:01 Criminal Minds Å (28) A&E Criminal Minds Å Sex Sent Me to the E.R. Sex Sent Me to the E.R. Sex Sent Me to the E.R. Sex Sent Me to the E.R. (29) TLC Sex Sent Me to the E.R. Property Brothers Love It or List It Vancouver (30) W 6:30 } ››› War Horse (’11) Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Jeremy Irvine. Å Rizzoli & Isles Å NCIS “Lost at Sea” Broadchurch Å (31) SHOW 6:00 } The Hazing Secret (’14) Broadchurch (N) Å Alaska: The Last Frontier MythBusters Å Alaskan Bush People Å Alaskan Bush People Å (32) DISC Alaska: The Last Frontier Friends to Lovers? (N) Å A Stranger in My Home Å Housewives/Atl. Friends to Lovers? Å (33) SLICE Housewives/Atl. } ›› Out of Time (’03) Denzel Washington. Å 11:15 } ››› The Client (’94) (34) BRAVO } ›› From Paris With Love (’10) John Travolta. Å 7:20 } › Race the Sun (’96) Halle Berry. } ›› The Replacements (’00) Keanu Reeves. Premiere. } ››› Any Given Sunday (36) EA2 Fly Away Cops Å Cops Å Cops Å Cops Å Cops Å Cops Å Cops Å Cops Å Cops Å (37) SPIKE Cops Å Dr. Dimen Camp Total Drama Packages-X The Day My Fugget Fugget Futurama Futurama (38) TOON Johnny Test Liv & Maddie Girl Meets Austin & Ally I Didn’t Do It A.N.T. Farm Next Step Wingin’ It Jessie Å Good-Charlie (39) FAM K.C. Under.

The Closer “Fool’s Gold” The Closer “Drug Fiend” Time M (40) PEACH } ››› The Family Man (’00) Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni, Don Cheadle.

LOL :-) Å LOL :-) Å Big Bang Big Bang Just for Laughs: All Access Just for Laughs Å (41) COM Just for Laughs: All Access } ››› Wings (’27) Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy” Rogers. Å } ›››› All Quiet on the Western Front (42) TCM 6:00 And the Oscar Goes To...

Cutthroat Kitchen (N) Å Chopped Canada Å Chopped “Offal Surprise” Cutthroat Kitchen Å (43) FOOD EAT: The Story of Food Storage Can Liquidator Liquidator Mantracker “Mike & Becka” Haunted Collector Å MeatEater MeatEater (44) OLN Liquidator Restoration Dino Hunt Canada Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Search for the Lost Giants Mississippi Men Å (45) HIST Restoration } › The Collector (’09) Josh Stewart. Å (46) SPACE } ››› Face/Off (’97) John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen. Å The Walking Dead Å The Walking Dead Å The Walking Dead Å The Walking Dead Å (47) AMC The Walking Dead Å UFC UFC UFC FOX Sports Live (N) Å FOX Sports Live (N) Å FOX Sports Live Å (48) FS1 UFC Mysteries at the Castle Å Museum Secrets Å (DVS) Mysteries at the Museum Mysteries at the Castle Å (49) DTOUR Mysteries at the Museum } ››› Captain America: The Winter Soldier (’14) Chris Evans. Å 11:20 Riddick (’13) (55) MC1 5:40 Draft Day Avengers Confidential: Black Widow 9:35 } ››› Prisoners (’13) Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal. Å (56) MC2 5:45 } ››› Pacific Rim (’13) } ››› Gravity (’13) Sandra Bullock.

Criminal Minds “Burn” Two Men Two Men Mike & Molly Mike & Molly Raising Hope Raising Hope (59) WSBK Blue Bloods “Working Girls” News at 6:30 Name Game Name Game Friends Å Friends Å 5 News Sunday KTLA 5 News at 10 (N) Å (60) KTLA KTLA News How I Met How I Met How I Met Salem “Lies” Å Bones Å Bones “Finder” Å (61) WGN-A How I Met Two Men News at Ten PIX11 Sports Honeymnr Honeymnr Family Guy Make Love Futurama Futurama (62) WPIX Two Men 9:45 } ›› Osmosis Jones (’01) Bill Murray, Chris Elliott. Å 11:25 Bottle Rocket (63) EA1 5:40 } ›› Proof of Life (’00) } ››› Groundhog Day (’93) Bill Murray.

Joyce Meyer Joel Osteen Prince Quick Study Peter Popoff Jewish Voice Armor of God J. Van Impe Tomorrow’s (70) VIS Leading the Life Story “Power” (N) Å Winnipeg Comedy The National (N) Å CBC News Al fifth estate (71) CBRT Heartland (N) Å (DVS) TBA Goldbergs Once Upon a Time Å Resurrection Å News-Rinaldo News (72) CFCN Super Bowl XLIX Masterpiece Mystery! (N) Variety Studio: Actors Great British Baking Show Masterpiece Classic (81) WTVS Masterpiece Classic (N) Burgers WHAM News Ring of Honor Wrestling Paid Program Seinfeld Å Seinfeld Å Paid Program Ring of Honor (82) WUHF Family Guy 8:15 The Blacklist (N) Å 9:15 Local 4 News at 11 (N) Tonight Show-J. Fallon Inside Edition 11:20 Paid Program (83) WDIV Super Bowl XLIX Shark Tank Å 7 Action News Castle Å Paid Program Paid Program (84) WXYZ Shark Tank Å Criminal Minds “Burn” Blue Bloods Å Blue Bloods “Working Girls” White Collar “Point Blank” (85) WWJ CSI: Crime Scene Medium Mediums Cracking the Case Oprah: Where Now? Celebrity Damage Control (101) OWN Oprah: Where Now? Cashing In Cashing In Mohawk Girls Mohawk Girls Blackstone “Truth or Dare” The Nature of Things Å (115) APTN Arctic Air “The River” Degrassi Å Degrassi Å Degrassi Å 1 girl 5 gays 1 girl 5 gays 16 and Pregnant “Nicole” 16 and Pregnant “Leah” (116) MTV Degrassi Å Simpsons 8:15 The Blacklist (N) Å TBA Simpsons Family Guy Burgers News Hour Block (118) GBL Prod. Parker Evening News at 11 (N) Å The Watchlist Peter Popoff Paid Program Pool Party E! 6:00 } ››› Erin Brockovich (’00) Julia Roberts. Å _ Family 8:01 Revenge Å CityNews CityNews The Beat Glenn Martin CityLine Å 6 CITY Family 8:15 The Blacklist Red is arrested. (N) Å Prod. Parker Family Guy Burgers Simpsons Simpsons > GBLBC 6:59 News Hour (N) Å

Increase your profile by being the EXCLUSIVE advertiser on our new daily TV view page Ask your Advocate sales consultant how we can help you achieve business stardom!

CALL 403.314.4343

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 C7

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI & LOIS

PEANUTS

BLONDIE

HAGAR

BETTY

PICKLES

GARFIELD

LUANN Jan. 31 1971 — Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blast off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.

1958 — James Gladstone takes his seat as Canada’s first native senator. The Albertan was appointed by PM John Diefenbaker.

1957 — Canada’s government makes Thanksgiving Day a statutory holiday as the second Monday in October.

1901 — Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montreal Shamrocks in two games for the Stanley Cup. 1893 — The trademark Coca-Cola is first registered in the United States Patent Office.

1839 — John ‘Radical Jack’ Lambton, Lord Durham, hands his Report on the Affairs of British North America to the British prime minister. The former governor of the colony recommends uniting the Canadas under one responsible government.

1606 — Guy Fawkes is executed for his role in the “Gunpowder Plot” against the English Parliament and King James I.

ARGYLE SWEATER

RUBES

TODAY IN HISTORY

TUNDRA

SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.

SHERMAN‛S LAGOON

Solution

C8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

Spy service to get stronger anti-terror powers OTTAWA - Canada’s spy agency could soon have the power to derail terrorist plots — not just gather and analyze information about them — as the government moves to confront radical threats with an array of new legal tools.

Legislation tabled Friday would allow the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to thwart a suspected extremist’s travel plans, disrupt bank transactions and covertly meddle with jihadist websites.

The plan to boost the spy service’s ability to counter terrorism flows from a review of fatal attacks on two Canadian soldiers last October - incidents the government believes were fuelled by Islamic extremism.

The Conservatives say the new powers are needed to help keep Canadians safe in an increasingly dangerous world.

Initial reaction from opposition parties was cautious and muted. Privacy advocates and civil libertarians expressed fears about trampled rights and inadequate oversight.

The proposed expansion of CSIS powers also conjured memories of past misdeeds — such as burning a barn to prevent a meeting of radicals — by the old RCMP security service, the scandal-plagued outfit from whose ashes CSIS rose three decades ago.

As expected, the bill would also make it easier for police to obtain a peace bond to restrict the movements of a suspect and it extends the period for preventative arrest and detention.

In addition, the legislation would expand the nofly regime to cover those travelling by air to take part in terrorist activities, whereas currently there must be an immediate risk to the plane.

The bill proposes giving the RCMP power to seek a judge’s order to remove terrorist propaganda from the Internet. It would also create a new criminal offence of encouraging someone to carry out a terrorist attack.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a gathering in Richmond Hill, Ont., the Conservative government is prepared to both condemn and confront extremism.

“Jihadist terrorism is not a future possibility, it is a present reality,” Harper said.

“It seeks to harm us here in Canada, in our cities and in our neighbourhoods through horrific acts.”

Existing law requires a fear that someone “will commit” terrorism before police can obtain a peace bond - a tool that can mean jail unless a suspect abides by strict conditions, for instance that they surrender their passport and regularly report to police.

The new, lower threshold would be reasonable grounds to fear a person “may commit” a terrorism offence.

Current anti-terrorism law allows police to arrest someone without a warrant and hold them for up to three days before a hearing. Under the bill, the maximum period would be seven days.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said there must be a balance between security and civil liberties. “We are capable of doing both at the same time and we’ll make sure that this bill ensures that and we’ll ask the appropriate questions.”

Under existing law, CSIS may interview someone with the sole aim of collecting information, not dissuading that person from, for example, travelling to Syria to join militants.

With its new mandate, CSIS would need “reasonable grounds to believe” there was a security threat before taking measures to disrupt it. The spy agency would require a court warrant whenever proposed disruption measures violate the charter of rights or otherwise breach Canadian law.

Threat disruption warrants would be limited to 120 days, with the possibility of limited renewal if a judge agreed.

The new powers would allow CSIS to engage in a joint operation with a foreign partner to divert a shipment of dangerous chemicals, keeping it out of extremist hands.

CSIS could also ask the overseeing court to issue an “assistance order” that would, for instance, require a landlord to allow the spy agency to plant listening devices in a tenant’s apartment. Currently CSIS cannot force a building owner to comply with such a warrant.

In addition, the spy agency could provide online “counter-messaging” or even “disrupt radical websites and Twitter accounts” to protect impressionable young Canadians, says a federal background document.

The Security Intelligence Review Committee, which keeps an eye on CSIS, would report annually on threat disruption warrants.

The government is giving CSIS more powers less

than three years after abolishing another watchdog - the inspector general’s office — meant to be the minister’s early-warning system on CSIS, noted Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa law professor.

“The combination of more power — and explicitly disruptive power — but less oversight for CSIS is ultra-dangerous.”

Other proposed measures would: — Allow for more information-sharing when the material —such as passport or immigration information —is relevant to an agency’s national security mandate; — Give the government more power to object to disclosure of classified information in immigration proceedings.

DISCONTINUED, DINGED AND DENTED

INVENTORY SALE

80

%

UP TO

Selection to vary by stores

BACKPACKS, GOING SOMEWHERE LUGGAGE, SANDALS, LOTIONS

HOT?

Canadian Tire #329 C 2510 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer, AB 403-342-2223 4

AND MORE for all your

TRAVEL NEEDS

Canadian Tire #645 300, 6380 - 50 Ave. Red Deer, AB 403-346-1497

Canadian Tire #655 #200 62 Industrial Trail, Sylvan Lake, AB 403-887-0581

Bold rocks your world.

CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES

VibrAcoustic® baths by Kohler combine sound waves with water for a bathing experience like no other. Rock out to your favorite song. Or simply unwind in the vibrations of complete relaxation.

100,000 new blood donors needed in Canada this year.

KOHLER.com/VibrAcoustic

TUESDAY & THURSDAY 11:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY 3:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.; FRIDAY & SATURDAY 9:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.

#5 5020 68 STREET

54468L31

4605 61st Street Red Deer, AB T4N 6Z2

Plug into the VibrAcoustic experience at Emco - Bath & Kitchen Showroom. http://www.emcoltd.com/

HEAR BETTER FEEL BETTER

It can take up to 50 blood donors to help serve one accident victim.

Please Give Blood

UP TO 25% OFF

Since 1955

Hearing Aids for Legion Members, Family and Friends!

403-343-1177

Contact us for a FREE Hearing Consultation

CALL 403.346.4647

Adanac Insurance Services Ltd.

TO BOOK AN APPOINTMENT FOR YOURSELF OR A LOVED ONE!

Hearing Sense is a family owned and operated business with Hearing Sense is a family owned and operated business with a focus on service and helping people listen to life for 9 years. We are a focus on service and helping people listen to life for 18 years. We are dedicated to helping you improve your quality of life through innovative dedicated to helping you improve your quality of life through innovative communication technology in harmony with professional and friendly communication technology in harmony with professional and friendly service. At our clinic, you will be treated like a friend, we will answer service. At our clinic, you will be treated like a friend, we will answer any and all questions about the best solutions available to adapt to any and all questions about the best solutions available to adapt to your lifestyle and budget.

Authorized Provider

2339A15-B13

your lifestyle and budget.

2-5116 52nd Street Red Deer, AB www.hearingsense.ca

• Arby’s North (403) 343-6623 • Golden Circle Seniors’ Centre CALL • Subway 1-888-2 DONATE • The Loyal to book an Order of appointment.

Moose #1639 • Red Deer Advocate #115, 5114-58 Street Red Deer

HEARING helpingpeople peoplehear hearthe thesounds soundsofoflife lifesince since 1996.

2005.

HEARINGSENSE SENSE helping

Thank You to our Community Partners and Supporting Businesses for keeping our blood system strong.

NORTHSIDE CONSTRUCTION PARTNERSHIP

6500 - 71 Street Red Deer

403-347-8544 403-346-2496 Call Pam to Advertise here 403-314-4350

403.343.2400 53152L20

1112A31

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

HOMES

D1

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

Two become one

Contributed photos

The blue and white theme in this bathroom is a livened up with touches of black. With pastoral images and shell designs for art, this bathroom is tasteful and fresh.

A major upgrade from the gloomy double rooms in the before shot below.

AS FAR AS COLIN AND JUSTIN ARE CONCERNED, ONE GOOD ROOM IS OFTEN BETTER THAN TWO INFERIOR SPACES Glance, if you will, at the double toilet configuration in our gloomy before shot. Are the twin loos perhaps part of some olde worlde train carriage?

Or perhaps two perilous powder rooms, assembled with no regard for style, in some bleak corporation workspace?

On closer inspection, it transpired one of the diminutive spaces also housed a shallow sit bath but neither ‘roomette’ boasted component parts that could ever be described as contemporary. Not by a long shot.

Walls come tumbling down COLIN & Aside from the (distinctly JUSTIN bizarre) convenience of being able to converse with whomever happened to be using the throne through the wall, we could see no advantage in having two WCs with such immediate proximity.

Especially given that this was a tiny two-bedroom house with another full bathroom on the floor below.

Our plan formulated, we tore down the wall (code and structural issues respected) that connected both compartments and then, excited by the emerging square footage, we moved our plan to the next stage.

DESIGN

Flooring Achieving success with monochrome can be difficult due to the fact that the eye gets easily bored (in decorative terms) when there aren’t complimentary tones to keep it occupied.

That’s why we enlivened our blue and white scheme with shots of dramatic black via checkerboard floor tiles: this bolstered the esthetics and added much needed visual depth.

Timber cladding to half height

Bath and shower Positioning a rolltop in the same spot as the previous shallow tub meant we didn’t have to alter drainage: this saved our project considerable time — and several hundred dollars — in man-hours.

Tip: When opting for a roll top bath with a shower above, you’ll need to protect wall surfaces with some type of screening. In this application, we hung a hoop shaped track above the bath and added crisp white waterproof curtaining to allay attendant flood worries.

Vanity unit With significant money saved on plumbing, we indulged our scheme with a shiny metal sink stand.

Tip: When choosing chrome pieces, look out for what we call ‘wobble’ in the metal finish. Inferior chrome — which is also prone to peeling — can have a hall-of-mirrors effect, so bear this in mind as you select items.

Artwork Using a combo of shells and shop-bought pastoral

images, we peppered the bathroom with just enough accessories to bring it alive. Too much and it might have appeared cluttered and over planned. The secret, as always, is our ‘less is more’ mantra.

So, all things considered, not a bad little before and after. And, while we know self-praise isn’t a virtue, come on — just look at the results.

Our client was more than thrilled and, as we revealed the magic, she almost levitated.

Hey, we love our job. Making ordinary homes extraordinary. And decorating Canada, one needy room at a time. Or, as is the case today, decorating Canada, two needy rooms — into one perfect room — at a time.

Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts in print and on TV. Find their international product range in stores like HomeSense, Winners and Marshalls. facebook.com/ColinJustin, twitter.com/colinjustin, colinandjustin.tv.

52648A31

Whilst typical of the modern beach look, tongue and groove is also redolent of the Victorian era, the mood our client had expressly asked us to elicit, albeit dressed up with contemporary flair.

In most cases, rooms benefit from different textures, but, this observed, these layers don’t have to be pricey.

Our simple look was achieved by affixing lengths of pine planking under a chunky wooden display shelf and then painting everything to create a ‘period feature’ that can be easily recoloured should tastes subsequently change.

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

Grey: the powerful neutral Dear Debbie: We have decided to end fashion and design. Its popularity rip up our carpets and put down hard- continued to explode, building every wood floors. It’s a big investment and year.” we want them to last a long This colour has longevity time. There are so many and Morrow predicts that it choices of colours and will last for five more years. even the size of the planks.

Why so popular?

Have you any suggestions?

“It’s practical. Greys are Thanks. — Dan and Allie forgiving, they don’t show Dear Dan and Allie: every little footprint, perOver the last 15 years, we fect when you have kids and have seen a big swing from pets.” wall to wall carpets to One of the colour themes wood flooring. Engineered I chose for 2015 I call Indusfloors, floors that could be trial Neutrals. Grey plays laid down without nails or a big role in this style as it glue, bamboo, cork, all the complements utilitarian sethard and soft woods, have tings. become familiar and acShaw’s grey is a warm DEBBIE cessible, and there are so grey that co-exists with TRAVIS many options it is difficult cool shades of blue, such as to settle on one. Popular teal and aqua, and also hot floor colours expanded as shades like coral. The tranwell, from basic wood tones quil bedroom shown here to bleached out shades of from Shaw Floors combines white and grey. medium and pale greys with I suggest you look at photographs of dreamy blues in a gentle blend of hues different floor styles on the Internet, in that are soothing, yet fresh. From their magazines and books. When you have Castlewood Collection, the seven-inchnarrowed your choices down, most re- wide planks of the White Oak veneer tailers are happy to allow you to bring floor show lots of graining, with a low home samples, and live with them for sheen finish that provides an attraca few days. See if the change comple- tive, distressed look. When planning ments the furniture and décor you al- for your new wood floors, take into ready have, or if you want to make a consideration what other materials more radical switch in paint colours they will butt up against. as well.

For the kitchen, grey porcelain floor You may notice while you are do- tiles work well. They look good with ing your research that one of the most the popular commercial appliances predominant colours showing up in in- in stainless steel as well as the more terior products right now is grey. This traditional white. Then add colour and shows up in soft furnishings, cabinetry, texture with the backsplash areas and paint colours and fabrics. Shaw Floor’s the counters. Wallpaper is back and colour of the year for 2015 is Lady in provides more opportunity to boost Grey. This grey theme doesn’t just hold your decorating with the grey giving for their wood floors, but also their you all the balance you need. porcelain tiles, their luxury vinyl and, Is grey the new black? Grey tells a yes, carpets too (www.shawfloors.com). softer story, and we are all loving it I spoke with Emily Morrow, direc- today. tor of colour, style and design at Shaw Debbie Travis’s House to Home column Floors, to see if she thought the popu- is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara larity of this neutral shade was going Dingle. Please email your questions to to last. house2home@debbietravis.com. You can Morrow notes that “grey is not a follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. trendy colour, rather it has eased its com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new way in beginning in 2007 with high- website, www.debbietravis.com.

Photo courtesy of Shaw Floors

This grey plank flooring from Shaw Floors provides a quiet mood that enhances all styles.

105221B13

HOUSE TO HOME

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 D3

Photos by STEVE MAXWELL/freelance

These recessed lights take up almost no ceiling space and can be directed to different areas of the room. Fitted with LED bulbs, these lights run cool and last a long time.

Basement rec room lighting choices

HOUSEWORKS

Learning how to build a home

Reducing home heating costs

2338A31-B14

is a big job, and it will stretch you and your marriage in lots of ways.

Steve Maxwell has been delivering Canadian home improvement and maintenance advice since 1988.

Visit him online for articles, videos and know-how at SteveMaxwell.ca.

YOUR HOME OPEN HOUSES YOURHOUSE

CHECK HERE FOR INFORMATION ON RED DEER & CENTRAL ALBERTA’S OPEN HOUSES AND FIND YOUR DREAM HOME! SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 - RED DEER

82 Robinson Crescent 21 Sisson Avenue 96 Vincent Close 26 Lawson Close 84 Keith Close 109 Gilbert Crescent 314 Viscount Drive 12 Askin Close 7 Sorensen Close 274 Teasdale Drive 318 Teasdale Drive 4762 56 Street 31 Hill Crescent 6 Thompson Crescent 6 Terra Close 17 Lazaro Close 9 Caribou Crescent 5 Lazaro Close

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

12:00 - 6:00 p.m.

12:00 - 6:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Dena Arnold Ed Katchur Rick Burega Gerald Doré Janice Morin Michelle Trithart Beata Wojtasiewicz Greg Martens Tim Maley Bett Portelance Bett Portelance Brenda Bowness Kim Fox Aaron Samantha Kyle Lygas Laura Murphy Shellie Williams

CIR REALTY 597-5450 MAXWELL REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS 506-7171 ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK 350-6023 ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK 872-4505 ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK 396-0004 ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK 348-1341 SUTTON LANDMARK 304-3845 RE/MAX 391-8849 RE/MAX 550-3533 CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE 307-5581 CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE 307-5581 CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE 350-9509 CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE 346-0021 LAEBON HOMES 396-4016 LAEBON HOMES 392-6261 MASON MARTIN HOMES 588-2550 ABBEY MASTER BUILDER 587-877-7199 ABBEY MASTER BUILDER 352-9431

$474,900 $949,000 $449,900 $599,900 $299,900 $339,900 $399,900 $739,000 $639,900 $339,900 $399,900 $745,000 $599,000

$562,000 $518,655

Rosedale Southbrook Vanier Woods Lancaster Kentwood Glendale Vanier East Anders Park East Southbrook Timberstone Timberstone Downtown Highland Green Estates Timberstone The Timbers Laredo Clearmont Laredo

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 - OUT OF TOWN 19 Morris Court 4908 49 Avenue 4713 Brentwood Drive 19 Fawn Meadows Dr. 11 Brookstone Drive 199 Robinson Avenue 639 Oak Street 4286 Ryders Ridge Blvd 3 Rowberry Court

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Rob Levie Bob Gummow Janice Mercer Bill Hogg Jennifer Jocelyn Jessica Mercereau Chantal Decker Diana Emick

ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE LAEBON HOMES LAEBON HOMES MASON MARTIN HOMES MASON MARTIN HOMES ABBEY MASTER BUILDER

505-4358 598-7913 598-3338 346-0021 392-6841 302-9612

10 Aurora Heights

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Jeremy McPherson

ABBEY MASTER BUILDER

598-0449

5 Cole Way

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Casey Kabel

ABBEY MASTER BUILDER

348-9315

CIR REALTY RE/MAX ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK SUTTON LANDMARK LAEBON HOMES LAEBON HOMES MASON MARTIN HOMES ABBEY MASTER BUILDER ABBEY MASTER BUILDER

597-5450 357-9514 358-0077 307-5581 307-5581 350-4919 304-3845 392-6261 396-4016 588-2550 587-877-7199 352-9431

$574,900 $539,900 $269,900 $618,800 $578,800

$429,900 $314,900 $320,000 $151,500

588-2231 587-377-0128

$474,900 $269,900 $289,900 $314,900

Blackfalds Morningside Blackfalds Delburne Sylvan Lake Pallisades - Penhold $188,900 Springbrook Sylvan Lake $274,900 Ryder’s Ridge, Sylvan Lake $331,905 Aurora Heights, Blackfalds $517,727 Crestview, Sylvan Lake

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 - RED DEER 84 Garrison Circle 56 Vancouver Crescent 5426 37 Avenue 100 Timberstone Way 78 Lalor Drive 3749 43A Avenue 314 Viscount Drive 6 Terra Close 6 Thompson Crescent 17 Lazaro Close 9 Caribou Crescent 5 Lazaro Close

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

12:00 - 6:00 p.m.

12:00 - 6:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Dena Arnold Paul Jones Sena Walker Bett Portelance Bett Portelance Carol Clark Beata Wojtasiewicz Samantha Aaron Kyle Lygas Laura Murphy Shellie Williams

$399,900

$562,000 $518,655

Garden Heights Vanier Woods West Park Timberstone Laredo Mountview Vanier East The Timbers Timberstone Laredo Clearmont Laredo

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 - OUT OF TOWN 38 Cambridge Close 19 Fawn Meadows Dr. 5258 49 Street 301, 5007 - 52 Avenue 11 Brookstone Drive 199 Robinson Avenue 639 Oak Street 4286 Ryders Ridge Blvd 3 Rowberry Court

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Janice Mercer Bill Hogg Kim Fox Lisa Suarez Jennifer Jocelyn Jessica Mercereau Chantal Decker Diana Emick

ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE ROYAL LEPAGE LIFESTYLES LAEBON HOMES LAEBON HOMES MASON MARTIN HOMES MASON MARTIN HOMES ABBEY MASTER BUILDER

598-3338 346-0021 346-0021 782-3171 392-6841 302-9612 588-2231 587-377-0128

$274,900

10 Aurora Heights

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Jeremy McPherson

ABBEY MASTER BUILDER

598-0449

$331,905

5 Cole Way

1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Casey Kabel

ABBEY MASTER BUILDER

348-9315

$517,727

$188,900

Blackfalds Delburne Lacombe Ponoka Sylvan Lake Pallisades - Penhold Springbrook Sylvan Lake Ryder’s Ridge, Sylvan Lake Aurora Heights, Blackfalds Crestview, Sylvan Lake

54187A31

Question: What light- of the gas appliance ining system should I in- volved, but one thing’s stall in the basement rec for sure. The difference room I’m building? It’s between your $5,000 an open concept space a year and your neighmeasuring 18 bour’s $1,200 by 36 feet. Are has way LEDs bright more to do enough? Rewith heat cessed fixloss than tures? Track it does the fixtures? source of Answer: heat you’re LED bulbs using. are definitely Your next bright enough. best step is I like them a to arrange lot. Besides the an energy fact that LEDs audit for really do last your home. a long time, You need to STEVE they operate at look at the MAXWELL a much lower big picture temperature to achieve than traditionthe kind of al incandescent bulbs. gains you need. Google This makes them perfect “home energy audit canfor the recessed light ada” and it will lead to fixtures that I prefer for a number of companies basement installations. that provide this service.

Basements tend to Energy auditors will have low ceilings, so also tell you about govany fixture that doesn’t ernment grants available hang down is best. There where you live. Tackle are some wonderful re- insulation and air sealcessed fixtures that take ing first, then consider either MR16 bulbs, or moving to gas. the higher voltage MR16 GU10 bulbs.

As you shop, pay attention to the different light colours offered. The favourite of most people Question: What’s the I know is called Warm best resource for learnWhite. This is less harsh ing how to meet the and clinical looking than building code for house the brighter forms of construction? My huswhite, and makes quite a band and I bought a difference in how a room dream property and our feels. plan is to build mortgagefree, bartering, salvaging and reusing as much material as we can.

Answer: What a terrific adventure you’re planQuestion: Should I ning. Building a home switch from electricity yourself is an excellent to gas to cut my heating option for the right kind bill? My annual power of people, and it’s what costs are $5,000 while I did in my own life. I’m similar homes I know also helping one of my with gas heating cost on- kids do the same thing ly $1,200 per year to heat. now that he’s grown up.

Answer: The main The issue of building thing to understand is code details aren’t as that the cost of heating complicated as you might a home has more to do think. Although building with the energy lost from codes are a provincial the building shell than it matter, the fundamendoes from the source of tals don’t vary a lot from energy used for heating. province to province.

Sure, the cost of the That’s why one of my faenergy matters, and it vourite building resourcdoes vary somewhat es is the Canadian Woodfrom option to option. Frame House Guide. It’s That said, the first thing got a lot of technical inyou should do is assess formation on wood frame the insulation levels, house construction. You air leakage and window can download a copy at quality in your home, or stevemaxwell.ca/how-tohave a professional do it build-a-house if you’re not able.

Your local building The relative cost of inspector will also be an heat delivered by gas is excellent resource. Ask about 30 per cent less about technical details than the same amount of as they come up in the heat delivered by elec- next phase of your projtricity. The exact num- ect and you’ll get the ber depends on current information you need. prices and the efficiency Building your own home

TO PLACE AN AD

403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Office/Phone Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mon - Fri Fax: 403-341-4772

CLASSIFIEDS

2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Circulation 403-314-4300 DEADLINE IS 5 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

Red Deer Advocate

wegotads.ca

wegotjobs

wegotservices

wegotstuff

CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1940

wegotrentals

wegothomes

wegotwheels

CLASSIFICATIONS 3000-3390

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4310

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5240

announcements Obituaries

HEINZIG Frederick James Feb. 4, 1951 - Jan. 25, 2015 Fred died peacefully in the arms of his beloved Sweatie Pie after a brief but dignified battle with Pancreatic Cancer. Freddy is survived by the love of his life and wife, Melodie Anne; sister Pat (John) Wood; sons Steve (Krista) Heinzig; Matthew (Kenda) Heinzig; Kevin Johnston (Tracy); Andrew Jaeger (Tanya); daughter Jamie Huson (Kelly); and special Mom Mrs. Ina Malm.

Always a kid at heart, Fred was an amazing and doting grandfather to Nicolas, Lilia, Kyle, Lucus, Jase, Morrighan, Avery, Xavier, Gwenivere, Keenan and Corbin. A large extended family of aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews also share the loss of Fred, yet celebrate the joy of loving him. He was predeceased by his parents, Frederick Sr. and Alvina.

Fred was a gentleman and a gentle man. He grew up in Regina and as he often said “had the perfect childhood.”

Family and honour were Fred’s mantra and he lived it on a daily basis. A handshake was as good as a contract and he never reneged on a promise if it was within his control. After a successful 26 year career at Ipsco (Evraz), he set out to travel the world as a Third Party Pipe Inspector. He relished the opportunity to experience new people, cultures and food. Fred was a great ambassador, a dedicated employee, brilliant metallurgist, a gifted teacher, a knowledgeable resource on everything (it was almost scary), he had the best sense of humour and quickest wit.

Always ready to step up when most wouldn’t, show up when most couldn’t, and speak up when most didn’t.

Fred was a man amongst men who will be greatly missed. A celebration of Fred’s life will be held at a later date. Donations may be made to: The Tourette Camp Fund c/o Centre for Outdoor Education C.O.E., info@coe.ca, Box 7, Nordegg AB TOM 2H0 Phone 1-403-721-2208

D4

Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

Obituaries

MACNAMEE Henry “Kenny” Aug. 8, 1946 - Jan. 26, 2015 Born in Jamaica Henry Dwight Rodriques McNamee (Kenny to his friends and family) was born August 8, 1946 to Kermit and Nora McNamee. Kenny was the youngest of five children.

He leaves behind two sisters, June McNamee and Barbra Hamilton and two brothers, Geoff and Tony McNamee.

Kenny has two nieces, Tanya Hamilton and Sarah McNamee, and three nephews, Michael Hamilton, and Justin and Jason McNamee. He also has two great nieces, Sydnee and Marley. The world lost one of its special people on January 26, 2015. Kenny, we hope you’re getting your fill of Ackee, salt fish, and green banana! May heaven be kinder to you than this world was. Kenny marched to the beat of his own drum and that’s what made him so special. Ya always knew he cared about his friends and family. Kenny had a huge heart, and we miss him everyday! We love you Bredren!! Kenny came to Canada 35 years ago from Jamaica. To all his friends from Red Deer and everywhere, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Toronto.

Kenny made his way all over.

He was a great carpenter, drywaller, basically, a jack of all trades. Red Deer seemed to be the place that Kenny would always come back to.

All the women in his life were all his girlfriends. He was quite the charmer, a ladies man to say. He will be sadly, sadly missed from his family and friends. Kenny will leave this world with integrity, respect, and his intelligence.

A memorial of Kenny will be at Loaves & Fishes on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 11 a.m.

Just had a baby girl?

Tell Everyone with a Classified Announcement

Obituaries

NELSON Roland Lyle Apr. 30, 1920 - Jan. 19, 2015 It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Rolly Nelson at the great old age of 94 years. He is predeceased by his loving wife Ruth, brothers Earl, Donald and Vernon, sisters Jane and Florence and sonin-law Alex Munro. Rolly is survived by his daughters Renora (Peter) Wakefield, Joanne (Ian) Hewlett, Christine (Tony) Riedner and son Randy (Kathleen) Nelson. He is also survived by his grandchildren Alex (Tammy) Munro, Colin (Kerrianne) Munro, Erin (Neil) Nelson, Stacey (Sussanne) Hewlett, Ryan (Chrissie) Hewlett, Adam Riedner and Janine Riedner and great grandchildren Rylee, Alex, Eric, Lauren, Savannah and RJ. Rolly was born in Boharm, Sk. After serving in the Air Force for 5 years, he and Ruth moved to Vancouver, BC in 1947. Rolly spent 35 years working for Woodward’s Stores in Vancouver, Kamloops, Prince George and Calgary. He retired in 1983 and he and Ruth travelled all around North America before settling in Surrey, BC where they had many wonderful friends and were able to enjoy their golden years. Rolly returned to Calgary, AB in 2010. He always had a smile on his face and loved and was loved by all who met him. A friend was a friend for life.

Rolly was proud of his whole family and was happy to say he lived his life with no regrets. He will be missed by all who knew him. A Celebration of Rolly’s Life will be held on Friday, February 13, 2015 at Northwood United Church, 8855 - 156 St, Surrey, B.C. at 1:00 pm.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations in Rolly’s name to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, the Alzheimer’s Society or the Royal Canadian Legion. Expressions of sympathy may be forwarded to the family via the website www.fostersgardenchapel.ca FOSTER’S GARDEN CHAPEL FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM Telephone: 403-297-0888 Honoured Provider of Dignity Memorial

309-3300

CLASSIFICATIONS 50-70

Obituaries

Funeral Directors & Services

54

Lost

MacKENZIE John Robert “Murray” June 29, 1929 - January 24, 2015 Murray MacKenzie of Lacombe, Alberta passed away peacefully in the Red Deer Hospice at the age of 85. Murray was the youngest child of Robert and Amanda MacKenzie, and younger brother of Isabel and Viola. Murray grew up in Lacombe, and was active in central Alberta hockey, playing with numerous junior teams and finally the Lacombe Rockets. As a young man he joined his father in the livestock industry, and in 1953 he studied in Iowa to become an auctioneer. At this time he met his wife to be, Mona Creighton, and they were married in 1953. They moved to a farm just south of Lacombe where they raised their three children Stephen (Betty), Laura (Andrew) and Maureen (Bob). Murray travelled to eastern Alberta as a cattle buyer, visiting many farms and ranches where he made life-long friends. He was the owner/operator of the Coronation and Hanna auction markets. The Lacombe Bull Sale was one of his favourite sales to work. The farm was sold in 1988 and Murray and Mona moved into their current home in Lacombe. Murray co-founded the Lacombe Kinsmen Rodeo, and the Western Canada School of Auctioneering, the first of its kind in Canada.

Murray was dedicated to service in his community, and was active in the Kinsmen, Lions, Masons, and was a Legion member until the time of his passing. Murray loved the game of golf, and spent many afternoons at the Lacombe Golf and Country Club. Murray, Mona and their friends travelled to various courses in Alberta, the US, Mexico, and New Zealand. They enjoyed camping and fishing the lakes of Alberta. For 21 years they headed south to their winter home in McAllen Texas to be with their many snowbird friends.

Murray led by example and was a loyal and dedicated husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, friend, and well respected cattleman. Murray enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren Katie, Sarah, Genevieve (Shane), and Scott, and his great-grandchildren Sareen and Augustus. A celebration of Murray’s life will be held at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Hwy 2A, Lacombe on Monday February 2, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, his family asks that memorial donations be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6, or at http://www.reddeerhospice.com. Condolences to the family may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone 403-782-3366 or 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

In Memoriam

MISSING DOG, BLACKFALDS, white, male, intact, Irish wolfhound/sheepdog, very thin, brown collar, last seen Jan. 21 near FasGas. Recent rescue, shy/timid, may be lured with food.

Info to AARCS emergency line 403-554-0893

MILLER, Lucy March 2, 1940 - Feb. 2, 2014

Announce your

A year ago today, God took you to his side.

We said our goodbyes, with tears we could not hide.

Wife, Mom and Grandma, all in one.

Your gifts to us will never be undone.

During the year, events have come and gone.

Your presence isn’t here, but your spirit lives on.

Lovingly remembered by your children, Brenda (Darcy), Craig (Audrey), and grandchildren: Payden, Chase and Nolan

Card Of Thanks McINNIS Many thanks to all the family, friends and neighbours who stopped by to wish Dorothy McInnis a happy 90th birthday! Your care and thoughtfulness were much appreciated by Dot and her family!

SWITZER/WRIGHT FAMILIES We would all like to express our sincere gratitude for all the love and support we have received. Maddy is and was truly a blessing. Thank you.

Announcements

Daily

Classifieds 309-3300

58

Companions

58 YR. old attentive established hard working farmer in the Red Deer area is looking for his country girl to share his life with him.

She must be healthy, slim to medium build, healthy 47-65 yrs. Please enclose photo and phone number to Reply to Box 1101, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

60

Personals

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 Is someone’s drinking causing you problems?

AL-ANON 403-346-0320 WOULD Kelvin Perez please phone Alison or Tandela on a personal matter. 1-877-256-3224.

wegot

jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

710

FT child caregiver in Red Deer. HS grad w/ First Aid & CPR. Supervise and care for 1 yr old. $10.66/hr, 44hrs/wk. Live-in optional. pret_lady@yahoo.ca FT CHILDCARE help in Penhold HS grad supervise in absence of parents, meal prep., housekeep, $10.66/hr; 44hrs/wk. Exp. an asset genedith2004@yahoo.com FULL-TIME IN-HOME caregiver for employer ejabagat at 36 Jamieson Ave., Red Deer for four children: newborn, 20 mo. old, 3 yrs. old and 9 years old. Duties; bathe, dress, feed and meal prep. and some light housekeeping. $10.20/hour; 44 hours per wk, benefits pkg. Compl. of high school, and 1 to 2 yrs. exp.

Call (403) 986-4154 or e-mail jabagate@yahoo.com

Clerical

Special Day

Say more with an Announcement

WHAT’S HAPPENING

720

Administrative Assistant (part-time) opportunity available at Our Lady of Victory Camp. For more information please go to www.olvc.ab.ca or www. caedm.ca/careers Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Dental

740

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 ATTN: Marina at Bower Dental Centre or email: marina@bowerdental.com UNIQUE exp. HYGIENIST required.

New grads welcome. P/T to F/T position.

Please drop off resume ATTN: Marina at Bower Dental Centre or email: marina@bowerdental.com

Janitorial

770

Full Time Cleaners required for day’s at Nova Joffre Site.

ST $15.00 Per Hr. Must be able to pass drug & alcohol testing & fit test.

Excellent spoken & written English communication required. Send resume to aramark6685@gmail.com or fax @ 403-314-7504

Oilfield

800

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 D5

820

Trades

850

880

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting applications for a

JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR in our Stettler Field.

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

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

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

Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for 4 F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE:

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Waitress’s Fri. - Sun. Please apply in • person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s.

ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred. Also BREAKFAST ROOM ATTENDANTS, early morning shifts, flexibility req’d. Only serious inquiries apply.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433 THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for WELL EXPERIENCED

SERVERS Must hold a current ProServe Certificate and be fully exp. in wine service. Professional appearance is a definite requirement.

Must have Ref’s & Exp. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contact.

2 yrs. relevant exp., completion of High School, be reliable, self motivated, work well under limited supervision in fast paced environment.

Salary is $14 - $18./hr. 40 hr. wk. dependant on exp.

WELL TESTING: Supervisors Night Operators Operators •

Have current Safety certificates including H2S • Be prepared to work in remote locations for extended periods of time • Must be physically fit • Competitive wages, benefits and RRSP offered Please email resume with current driver’s abstract to: jbecker@colterenergy.ca 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

Location of employment: 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 email: bennett2014.bkkp@ gmail.com or Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Sales & Distributors

SERVICE RIG Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a FLOORHAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

Truckers/ Drivers

Are You Friendly & Outgoing?

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for WELL EXPERIENCED

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

Trades

Owner Operators & Contract Drivers in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

F/T Permanent Truck Driver Required for Rocky Fast Express (1790810 AB Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 axles and van Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs exp. $25 per hr/ with OPEN availability Duties: pick up/deliver freight, pre-trip truck inspection, communication with customers. Physically demanding position. Time management skills required. Apply at: 8004 Edgar Industrial Green, Red Deer, T4P3S2 Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: 587.997.7719 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

call 1-844-299-2466

850

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

SPRING START

• GED Preparation

•

Women in the Trades Program

•

Math and Science for the Trades Program

for our Kuusamo facility.

The plant is located 4-5 kilometers west of Sylvan Lake on Hwy 11.

This is an entry level position working mainly outdoors that can lead into the Plant Operator positions. Duties will include assistance of Plant Operators in the transfer of chemicals, movement of product within the plant, truck and rail car loading/unloading, and chemical blending as well as housekeeping and light maintenance. We are looking for hard working, flexible, safety conscious people with equipment experience, some basic mechanical abilities, driver’s license, and own transportation. We offer an excellent benefits plan and a company matching RRSP savings plan.

Please forward your resume via email to the address attached. Please have ‘Plant Laborer’ in the subject line. Drug and alcohol policy in effect and pre-employee testing.

Inquiries regarding careers with CFR should be directed to hr@cfrchemicals.com Fax: 346-2299 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (acrossfrom from Totem) (across Rona North)

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

1500-1990

1520

PAINTING, 8.5 x 28 Chief Crowfoot signing Peace Treaty. $200.

403-347-7405 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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

720 Pidherney’s

KENTWOOD & PINES

CIVIL SAFETY ADMINISTRATOR

505728A31,B2

We are a progressive company and require an individual for our Blackfalds office who enjoys being busy and can adapt to a constantly changing environment. Duties include health and safety support and advisement, fielding of paperwork, safety statistics, maintenance and addition to Safe Work Manual, field site audits and other safety duties as required. Previous health & safety experience in a civil underground utility construction industry preferred. NCSO designation an asset.

Electronics

1605

PANASONIC SC-HC3 ultra-slim, ipod docking speaker system with CD player, AM/FM radio, clock, alarm, remote, and instruction manual. $95.

Call (403) 342-7908.

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD, Spruce & Pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Health & Beauty

1700

PRIDE Mobility Products Go chair and Go-Go Elite Traveler.

Brand new. 403-396-2396

Household Appliances

1710

APARTMENT size fridge $100 or trade for small apt. size deep freeze, 403-348-1905 LG WHITE over the range microwave oven, 1000 watts, Model MV-1510M, exc. cond., $175 403-352-8811

Household Furnishings

1720

1610

2 JOHN STONE LTD. Edition prints and 15 misc. pictures 403-350-1124

TRAGICALLY HIP concert Mon. Feb. 9 in Calgary, good seats, pair for $155 403-391-3335

COFFEE TABLE, hexagon shaped, heavy oak look 15’ high, 38” wide. $25.

403-347-5316

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

Ahlstrom Close Andrew Close Asstlee / Ansett Cres.

Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres.

Anderson Close Anquetel Close

CARRIERS REQUIRED

BOWER AREA

To deliver the

Beatty Close Broughton / Brookes Boyce St. / Byer Close Baile Close / Boyce St. Brown Close / Barrett Dr.

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

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START

INGLEWOOD AREA

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

Isbister Close Inkster Close Isaacson Close Inglewood Dr. Isherwood Close Iverson Close

CARRIERS REQUIRED

MORRISROE AREA

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

• • • • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

GREENHOUSE WORKER wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold.

3 Full Time Seasonal Positions. No Exp, training provided. Starting Feb 2015. $10.20/hr, 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 3 month period. Fax resume to 403-886-2252.

TURPLE BROS. LTD. Is taking resumes for: Accessories Dept. with experience in clothing or power sport industry.

F/T positions avail.

Please email resume to HR Department brenda@turplebros.ca

Trades

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

LADIES shoes, size 9 1/2 - 10, 10 pairs, $30.

403-314-9603

EquipmentHeavy

Advocate Opportunities

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

ACADEMIC Express

Sunterra Meats in Trochu, 45 minutes South East of Red Deer is looking for enthusiastic, hard working individuals to join their team at their processing plant. Experience in the meat industry a definite asset. Training provided.

Starting wage $14.00 per hour, increases based on skill and experience.

Benefit package, travel allowance and a signing bonus. For more information, contact Trish at 403-442-4202 or trish.hyshka@sunterra.ca 504960A28-B5

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

1590

COVERALL ALLS, men’s dark green, sz. 44. $10.

403-347-5316

Event Tickets

Metcalf Ave. Martin / Muldrew Close

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres.

Savoy Close / Sydney Close

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lord Close Lougheed Close Lyons Close

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

MORRISROE AREA:

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

VANIER AREA Vickers Close Victor Close Viscount Drive Vincent Close

With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo.

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

LEAPSTER L-MAX, extra game, tv cables, $20.

403-314-9603

Clothing

RED DEER ADVOCATE

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk.

Apply in person w/resume: Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

Now Hiring

1580

Children's Items

LEGO system by Samsonite 717 Junior constructor $200 403-347-3849

wegot

Antiques & Art

March 13-15, 2015 Westerner Park, Red Deer Special Guests Rick & Kelly Dale: American Restoration Dan & Laura Dotson: Storage Wars Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 Ext 102 consign@egauctions.com EGauctions.com

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Pidherney’s offers competitive wages and benefits.

Fax resume to Human Resources: 403-885-9122 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

403.341.4544

Advocate Opportunities

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave.

Clerical

Plant Laborer

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK

P/T COOK WANTED ~ Weekends & evenings. also Till/Coffee cart person, P/t to F/T. Phone Donnetta @ Red Deer Bingo Centre 403-347-4504

9th Annual Speed Show & Collector Car Auction

• GED Preparation

SPRING START

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, $10.25/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

TRAINING CENTRE “Low Cost” Quality Training

880

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

820

EAST SIDE MARIO’S HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS Full Time & Part Time.

Apply after 2 p.m. Ask for the manager on duty.

EG Auctions

OILFIELD TICKETS

WE are looking for a

1530

Auctions

SAFETY Industries #1 Choice!

ACADEMIC Express

810

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

900

CARRIERS NEEDED

Misc.

Help

ACADEMIC Express

• Women in the Trades must have all necessary Program Classifieds valid tickets for the position Your place to SELL being applied for.

• Math and Science for Your place to BUY Bearspaw offers a the Trades Program very competitive salary THE RUSTY PELICAN is and benefits package Gov’t of Alberta Funding now accepting resumes for along with a steady may be available.

Exp. Bartenders, work schedule.

Full knowledge of all Please submit resumes: 403-340-1930 cocktails, inventory control, Attn: Human Resources www.academicexpress.ca must be of professional Email: payroll@bearspawpet.com nature and be capable of GOODMEN working all shifts.

Fax: (403) 252-9719 or ROOFING LTD. Apply within: 2079-50 Mail to: Suite 5309, Requires Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.- Fri. 333-96 Ave. NE Fax 403-347-1161 Phone Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 SLOPED ROOFERS calls WILL NOT be LABOURERS accepted. Only candidates & FLAT ROOFERS selected for interview will Professionals be contacted.

Valid Driver’s Licence Buying or Selling preferred. Fax or email HIGH PAYING Real Estate your home? info@goodmenroofing.ca Career opportunity. or (403)341-6722 Training provided. Flexible Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email Restaurant/ resumes to Dave Hotel @homesreddeer.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

860

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

830

Like Meeting New People?

Would you like to...

Get back into the workforce when children start F/T DISHWASHER school? Get extra spendMust maintain work ing money after retirement? station to sanitary Work around your family’s measures and be capable busy schedule? Get to know of working all shifts. your local community Apply within: 2079-50 better? Contribute valuable Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. community service.

Fax 403-347-1161 Phone Set down your own hours? calls WILL NOT be GET PAID?!! accepted. Only Candidates Welcome Wagon is selected for interview will Now Hiring be contacted.

Apply online at www.iamlovingit.ca Looking for a place or to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Mature professional familiar with maitre d’ capabilities. Would be an asset to have a current ProServe Certificate and familiar with wine service.

Professional appearance is a definite requirement.

Must have Ref’s & Exp. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contact.

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

733644 Ab Ltd. O/A The Rusty Pelican

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for

COLTER ENERGY LP IS NOW HIRING

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Employment Training

502790A14

820

Misc.

Help

278950A5

800

Restaurant/ Hotel

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)

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle provided by company!

Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.

Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

850

Apprentice Required You will perform maintenance and repairs on our well-maintained fleet of buses. You possess a valid driver's licence and are a licensed Apprentice, ideally with diesel experience.

We offer a friendly work environment, day shifts and competitve wages and benefits.

E-mail sheldon.goers@firstgroup.com or visit www.firststudentcanada.com An equal opportunity employer that values diversity.

DEER PARK AREA Dixon Cres.

Dunlop St., Dixon Ave. & Close $107.00/mo Durand Cr. & Drummond Ave. $69.00/mo. also Drummond Cl. & Dowd Cl. $59.00/mo. also Dunning Cres. Cl., and Depalme St. $103.00 GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area MOUNTVIEW AREA Between 35 St. and 39 St. and 43A Ave. and 41, Ave. area $189.00/mo.

MICHENER AREA

505140A31

Oilfield

Restaurant/ Hotel

50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area. $209.00/mo.

TIMBERSTONE AREA Trimble Cl. Traptow Cl. Tallman Cl. Teasdale Dr. Truant Cres. & area $224.00/mo. also Timberstone Way, 2 blks. of Timothy Drive and Trump Pl. $97.00/mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

D6

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

1720

Household Furnishings

DINING ROOM SET with 4 chairs & leaf, exc. shape. nice top with light wood around side, brass legs on chairs. $150 403-346-4155 FIVE ft. dresser $60, coffee table $20, 2 night tables, $20 each, kitchen table, $20. 403-392-5657 NIGHT Tables, (2) Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $70 ea.

403-352-8811

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1730

Stereos TV's, VCRs

STEREO, JVC mini hi-À am/fm radio, single cassette, single CD player, 4 speakers, remote control, $30. 403-342-4898

PUP TENT, nylon, $5; 2 canvas duffel bags, $5.

403-343-1503 SKIS, 205 Mega Sport Tyrolia, and boots Sz. 10, Memo Salomon. $40. ea. or both for $70 or offers 403-346-2070

1870

Collectors' Items

BRADFORD exchange plate, 1995, limited edition, winter solstice, plate no.

3140B, comes with certiÀcate of authenticity, beautifully framed, $40.

403-342-4898

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1750

Jewellery

1860

Sporting Goods

NECKLACE, beautiful tiger claw. $200. 403-347-7405 SILVER pierced earrings, made in Israel, never been worn, appraised $135, asking $100. 403-227-2976

1760

Misc. for Sale

BACK PACK, $8 QUILT, Queen size pink Áoral $10; 403-347-5316

HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $35; 3 Clean wool accent matching 3x5 oval carpets from SEARS, $35 for all 3; and David Winter Collector’s houses in original boxes, $15/ea.

403-352-8811 KNITTING MACHINE, portable, in case, large quantity of wool, knitting needles, various sizes. $15. for all. SOLD NEW tote bags, 3, zippered, red and gold satin, and black croc. paten, $20 each or 3 for $50. 403-227-2976 RUG: Fantastic 4’ diameter (all inlayed colored) used for wall or Áoor decor. $200. 403-347-7405 TWO blankets, electric kettle, 2 Corningware casserole dishes, small picture, $20. 403-342-4898

1810

CANARIES, cages.

403-314-9451

1830

Cats

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

BEVELED glass mirror, oak frame, 19” x 32”, $35.

403-314-9603

Pets & Supplies

wegot

1 SIAMESE, 3 Balinese kittens, $50/ea.

403-887-3649

FOR LEASE, Executive style 1/2 duplex in Lacombe on large lot.

4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. garage, no pets, N/S. 403-588-2740 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

MOUNTVIEW 3 bdrm. house, main Áoor, 5 appls., fenced yard, large deck, rent $1500 incl. all utils. $900 s.d. Avail. now or Feb 1. 403-304-5337 Older 2 bedroom 1 bath home 5820-60A St. $995.00 month plus utilities- to view email steelpper@hotmail.com

WEST PARK 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1550/mo. $1000. d.d. just reno’d, Avail Feb . 1.

403-304-5337

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

wegot

homes

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 BEAUTIFUL kittens, F, (3), 6 locations in Red Deer Calico, tabby, spotted, free to good home ~ Halman Heights 403-782-3130 ~ Riverfront Estates

4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

1860

5000-5300

3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1125. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. March 1 403-304-5337

3060

1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $790 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458 2 BDRM. suite across from hospital. Own washer & dryer, N/S. No pets 403-392-8197

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

LRG. 1 BDRM. bsmt. suite, separate entrance, 4 piece bath, oak kitchen, lino Áooring, washer & dryer, $950/mo., incld. utils., mature location., no pets, no kids, N/S, avail. Mar. 1, 587-437-7970

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

THE NORDIC

4020

Houses For Sale

Utility Trailers

A lifestyle you have more than earned Stunning new Laebon home in the Timbers-Red Deer 1426 sq.ft. 3 bdrms/2baths, large private master suite $499,900 Call Samantha 403.392.6261

Amazing new Laebon Home 1452 sq.ft. modiÀed bi-level with large private master suite 3 bdrms/2baths $394,599 Call Jocelyn 403.302.9612

3090

$575/mo. 403-343-0974 Call between 9 am to 9 pm

Misc.

For Rent

4280

SE Red Deer

3200

★

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

5180

COPPER clad alum. booster cables 25’ $70; 20’ $40. 403-343-6044

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

3080

3190

Tires, Parts Acces.

Auto Wreckers

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Rooms For Rent

5140

19’ CAR TRAILER, factory made, exc. con., $2,500 Àrm. 403-343-0687

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Tour These Fine Homes

MUST SELL! 1977 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL 2 door, Condition - As New Mileage - 7,000 orig. miles Price - Greatly Reduced Phone 403-350-5346 or 403-887-6413

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. 1/2 DUPLEX, Kentwood apartments, avail. immed, area, bi-level, 2 bdrm, 1.5 baths, 5 appls, deck, 2012 DODGE AVENGER, rent $875 403-596-6000 $10,500. 403-896-9942 fenced yard, shed, for sale by owner, $247,600. Move 1999 BUICK Regal, loaded in ready 403-505-6742 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. 154,000 km.403-352-6995 SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

Mobile Lot

Directory

5030

Cars

~ Westpark

Open House

wegot

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS

Avail Immed, lrg fully furn ~ Kitson Close bdrm for rent c/w working Huge pie shaped lot in Red ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres.

Deer New 2bdrm/2bath gas Àreplace - $300DD ~ Holmes St. Laebon home in $600/mth. Working / S.D. $1000 Timberstone Student Male.

Call BASEBALL Bat Rent $1245to $1445 $339,900 call Aaron 403-396-2468 and 2 gloves. $3.

3 bdrm. townhouses, 403.396.4016 403-343-1503 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

MATTRESSES, Foam MOVE IN TODAY CLEAN, quiet, responsible, N/S, no utils. incl.

Camping, 5 sleeping bags, 1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl.

Furn. $575. 403-466-7979 Avail. immed. & Mar. 1 5 air mattresses, $25. att. garage References required.

403-343-1503 $499,900 403-588-2550

Sporting Goods

HOME BASED TRAVEL BUSINESS. Call 403-877-7269 for details.

GLENDALE

Suites

4140

CLASSIFICATIONS

Drive a little save a lot Brand new 2135 sq.ft.

Roommates Laebon home 3 BDRM., 2.5 baths, 3 bdrms/2.5 baths Deerpark, N/S, no pets, 2 Wanted $431,599 parking spots, washer/ dryer, $1600. 403-391-7978 RENO’D 2 bdrm. in North- Call Jocelyn 403.302.9612 wood Estates to share, OVER 50, 2 bdrm., single ref’s req’d, smokers ok, DD FREE…LIST OF HOMES with owners phone garage, N/S, no pets, $500, $600 rent, utils. numbers, addresses and washer/dryer, $1300. incld. 403-352-3311 prices. Call Help-U-Sell of 403-391-7978 Red Deer at 403-342-7355

SEIBEL PROPERTY

Businesses For Sale

RISER HOMES Spec Homes now ready. to move into!

Go to riserhomes.com Click on quick possession home to see whats avail.

Call LLOYD FIDDLER for appointment info 403-391-9294

SPECIAL WEEK END PRICE ONLY! RISER HOMES Blackfalds 2-2 bdrms. 2 bath, starter homes. Upgraded Ànishes.

Price reduced to $320,000 inclds. all legal fees, GST, front sod, tree and 4 appl. package.

Call LLOYD FIDDLER for appointment info 403-391-9294

If you think an ad with a

LARGE HEADING grabs your attention

the 4040 REVERSE wegotservices is also true Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

OPEN HOUSE Sun. 3 pm - 5 pm 2 ARDELL CLOSE An Immaculate Executive Home w/4 Bedrooms 3 Baths w/bonus room & lots of features MLS CA0050955 $575,000 Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399

CALL:

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now!

MOBILE ofÀce trailer 240 rent by day/month, c/w toilet, satellite dish, TV, Stereo, fridge. Call B & L Enterprise 403-346-6106 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Condos/ Townhouses

OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

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

Beauty/ Cosmetic

1040

NEW Elizabeth Arden red hot croc. make-up bag, with make-up, $195 value, asking $50. 403-227-2976 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Contractors

1100

DOORS, windows, siding, sofÀt, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

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

Contractors

1100

A.R.C Builders Agricultural Residential Commercial Builders .We look after all your new construction needs as well as all of your renovation and repair needs as well as rooÀng sidling and Áood or Àre repairs.With over 35 years in business its hard to beat our experience. To contact us call 4037283734 or 4033184510 or email us at philbieganek@gmail.com

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or Áooring, roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA International Ladies Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Snow Removal

1380

GARAGE DOOR SERVICE SHOVELLING AND snow Save 50%. All yard & bob- blowing 403-318-7625 cat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds SNOW blowing/dump/junk runs/odd jobs 403-885-5333

CALL

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS to find out more...

ISIS shows new tactics in latest hostage taking GROUP’S PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES EVOLVING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — The latest Islamic State hostage drama involving a veteran Japanese war correspondent and a young Jordanian pilot marks the first time the group has publicly demanded prisoner releases. It also signals a change in the extremist group’s propaganda technique.

Far from the high-tech, slickly edited videos involving beheaded Western hostages through which the group impressed supporters and terrorized opponents, recent messages purporting to be from Japanese hostage Kenji Goto have been through digitized, audio dispatches featuring either still photos or text.

A change has been noted even before.

The first video involving the Japanese, released on Jan. 20, conformed to previous Islamic State group videos and bore the logo of its al-Furqan media group, showing both Goto and Haruna Yukawa, another Japanese hostage, kneeling next to a masked militant holding a knife. A $200 million ransom demand was made.

At first glance the video appeared to be filmed in the same location as those showing American hostages James Foley, Steven Sotloff and Peter Kassig, and British captives David Haines and Alan Henning.

Experts who examined the video, however, said it was more likely filmed in an indoor studio with a false backdrop.

“There’s a chink in the armour,” said Veryan Khan, editorial director for the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium.

“The Islamic State’s media arm is a full-fledged wing of their government... the United States doesn’t even put as much effort into their media wing as the Islamic State does. There’s been something messing up in their video production machine,” she said.

The following two videos, released Saturday, Jan. 24 and Tuesday, Jan. 27, did not conform to previous Islamic State group videos and did not bear the logo of alFurqan. In those audio messages, the group dropped its demand for ransom and demanded instead that Jordanian authorities release an Iraqi woman prisoner, Sajida al-Rishawi. The message also said that Yukawa had been beheaded.

The Associated Press could not independently verify the messages’ contents, though Japanese government officials said it was highly likely they were legitimate, without elaborating.

The messages have raised questions on why the group was changing tactics, resorting instead to what appeared to be unprofessional rush jobs.

“This is typical in hostage situations like this where videos are being produced at a rapid pace in response to unpredictable events,” said Ben Venzke, CEO of IntelCenter, a company that provides counter-terrorism intelligence.

Khan said the way the group has communicated its message has been changing since American aid worker Peter Kassig was beheaded in September. He was the last of the Western hostages to be killed.

Previous videos showed the hostages delivering a message with the same militant man standing next to them, before they are killed. Their severed heads were then showed placed on top of the body.

The beheading of Kassig was tacked at the end of a full feature-length, high-definition video showing foreign fighters beheading more than a dozen Syrian soldiers simultaneously. The same video then showed the same militant, a man speaking with a British accent, standing near Kassig’s head.

Kassig’s body is never seen nor is there any message from him.

Some experts said the changes may be a reflection that the group is feeling squeezed. The U.S.-led coalition began targeting IS militants in Syria in mid-September, and has gradually intensified its aerial bombardment of suspected IS infrastructure in both Syria and Iraq.

U.S. officials say thousands of Islamic State militants have been killed in both countries since then. Intelligence gathering efforts have also improved. In response, the group has largely melted into urban areas to elude the threat.

It could also be a way for the hostage-takers to further cover their tracks and not give experts any reliable signals to indicate their location.

The group is also being squeezed online, where companies are actively trying to remove the group’s gruesome videos and close down their Twitter accounts.

Venzke said the fact that the last three releases featuring audio statements from Goto lacked the same sophistication as others did not suggest an overall degradation in the Islamic State group’s video production capability.

“The Islamic State has and continues to grow one of the most sophisticated video production efforts by any jihadi group. It is unmatched in sheer volume and speed,” he said.

IN BRIEF

Greece, EU creditors in dispute over debt ATHENS, Greece — Greece and its European bailout creditors were in open dispute Friday, with Germany bluntly rejecting suggestions the heavily-indebted country should be forgiven part of its rescue loans and warning against “blackmail” from Athens.

Greece’s five-day-old radical left government insists it will honour pre-election promises to seek a cut on most of the country’s rescue debt and scrap painful budget measures that were demanded in exchange for the loans.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, however, warned Athens against strong-arm negotiating tactics in its effort to win debt relief. Rules need to be kept, and trust and reliability were the basis for further solidarity, the dpa news agency reported him saying.

“There’s no arguing with us about this, and what’s more we are difficult to blackmail,” Schaeuble was quoted saying in Berlin.

“We are prepared to offer all co-operation and solidarity,” he said, but only if Greece abides by its agreements, under which it received 240 billion euros ($270 billion) in rescue loans.

Without the loans from its fellow eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund, Greece would struggle to service its debts and avoid bankruptcy.

“The discussion about a debt cut or a debt conference is divorced from reality,” Martin Jaeger, a German finance ministry spokesman, said in Berlin earlier.

Greece’s Parliamentary Budget Office, which makes quarterly recommendations to lawmakers, warned that the country faces default unless a deal with creditors is reached soon. Greece’s next government debt obligations are due in March.

Shares on the Athens Stock Exchange closed down 1.6 per cent Friday, capping total losses of 13 per cent for the week, while the interest rate on three-year bonds — a gauge of short term risk of default — rocketed to 19.3 per cent.

YOUTH

D7

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

Fear strikes when striking up a conversation Dear Harlan: I don’t have a problem ed to split the four-pack. She laughed. striking up a conversation with a guy We chatted. I asked if she wanted to I am interested in if we’re in the right get coffee. She said she would, but she social setting. had a boyfriend. I asked if he liked cofSome people say I have a masculine fee. Then I asked if she was interested personality because I am outgoing, in being friends. She said she could confident and take charge. With that always use more friends. I never purbeing said, what do I do if I see a cute sued the friendship. I wanted a girlguy in a store or out in public, but am friend. The sponge experience was a not in his vicinity? good interaction among many not-soI saw this cute, tall guy walk by me good ones. at the store the other day. It Talk to people you find was a breath of fresh air to interesting and attractive. In see someone I was finally this situation, there would attracted to! But I didn’t have been nothing creepy or want to hunt him down and uncomfortable about shopthen stand near him and ping near the tall, attractive then try to start a conversaman and interacting with tion about towels. him. If you had interacted What do you suggest with him, you wouldn’t be someone do in this situaasking me this question betion? Stalk them down or cause you’d already know just let it be? the answer.

The thought of walking Dear Harlan: I’m a guy after him and just asking with decently long hair. Can him out does scare me. you do a quick poll of the feHe’d either be flattered or male readers who like guys HARLAN super creeped out. Plus, it with long hair? — Hairy Guy COHEN would feel embarrassing if Dear Hairy Guy: Readhe rejected me in public, ers, please let me know your and he might be uncomfortthoughts on long hair on able. men.

I do understand the Universal ReIn the meantime, here’s what you jection Truth, but do you have any do when a woman tells you she doesn’t other advice? — Stalking in the Towel like long hair: Ask her if she’s dated Section a man with long hair. When she says Dear Stalking in the Towel Section: “no,” explain that she might actually Most men hanging out in the towel sec- like it. tion usually aren’t shopping alone.

Then you make her a deal — if she There’s typically a significant other doesn’t like it, but loves you, you’ll conaround the corner. sider changing your hair after dating Listen, there’s nothing wrong with for several months. At that point, she’ll starting a conversation with an attrac- love you and won’t want to change you. tive stranger in a store during your Now, if she says she’s dated a guy with daily routine. long hair, none of this will work.

I once started a conversation with a Dear Harlan: I read your column evwoman in the sponge aisle of the gro- ery week. You have a heart for people cery store (cleaning sponge, not con- who write to you. traceptive). The only sponges were in I don’t doubt your sincerity. But a four-pack. I asked if she saw a single- your advice to those dating in today’s pack sponge. Then I asked if she want- world lacks credibility, and it is even

HELP

dangerous because you embrace the cultural norm that sex outside marriage is not wrong and harms no one.

All the evidence is contrary. STDs are at an all-time high. Thousands upon thousands of single women are having abortions every year. The single mothers who choose life for their unborn children are in for a very hard time. More than 40 per cent of all children born in the United States are born to mothers out of wedlock. Government assistance barely makes a dent in providing them with the basic necessities of life.

The sexual revolution has not freed women, but has made us even more objectified by men. Prior to the 1960s, society frowned upon premarital sex.

This was great protection for women.

Pressure was put upon men to respect women while dating, to get married, to grow up and be responsible members of society.

The research proves that marriage makes men out of boys. Promiscuity ruins women’s lives. You are in a position to give good advice or keep perpetuating the lie that sex outside of marriage is not wrong and harms no one. — Jan Dear Jan: I’m not interested in telling women to not have sex. Women don’t like it when men tell them what to do with their bodies.

The minute you tell people to stop having sex is the moment they go out

and have it. It works the same with avoiding marriage. Your letter actually is going to cause people to have sex and stay single.

Please don’t target me. I advocate responsible, honest, clear-minded, smart, safe choices in alignment with people’s values. If it’s sex before marriage, then people should use birth control, get tested for STDs and do it for the right reasons. Consent is always a must.

As for your facts, they fall short.

Teen pregnancy is at a record low, abortion rates are the lowest since 1973 and divorce rates are down. Yes, fewer people are getting married and more are choosing to have children out of wedlock, but we can’t assume it’s going to lead to the downfall of women.

A lot of single women make a conscious choice to be single parents.

These women have a support system in place other than relying on the government. I’m betting a lot of these parents don’t want to get married because they fear becoming the dysfunctional parents they knew as children — their own parents, who married too young, stayed married too long or should have never gotten married at all.

Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

Employment Opportunity

Grader Operator (Permanent, Full-Time)

REWARDING Career?

Apply via e-mail to: hr@lacombecounty.com or via fax to: 403.782.3820.

Additional details of this position may be found under Employment Opportunities on our website at www.lacombecounty.com.

54201A31,B7

Seeking a

Our Operations department is seeking an experienced, permanent, full-time Grader Operator. Responsibilities include: maintaining roads in a safe and logical order to maximize efficiency, summer gravel road maintenance and dust control applications. Winter road maintenance includes snow removal on paved and gravel roads. x Applicants must be dependable, willing to work 10-hour days (additional overtime may be required) & have a valid class 3 operator’s license with air endorsement. x Bring your experience, strong work ethic, positive attitude, and strong mechanical aptitude and join our team.

Apply now to provide value in the Human Services Industry We are recruiting for the following positions:

CHILDREN & ADULT DISABILITY SUPPORT WORKERS CHILDREN & ADULT PROPRIETORS

1614L20-30

Experience, knowledge of First Nations Culture and related education would be an asset, however not required, as we provide comprehensive training at no cost. High school diploma, criminal record check, child intervention record check and a positive attitude are required. Most positions, but not all require a driver’s license and a vehicle to transport the individuals.

We offer a variety of appealing benefits and a friendly, caring and helpful working environment. To get detailed information regarding any vacant positions, please visit our website at www.parklandclass.org – Job Opportunities Please check back often; vacancies are updated every Wednesday & Friday.

Feel free to contact us or submit a cover letter and resume to: 6010 45 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 3M4 Email: hr@pclass.org Fax: (403) 342-2677 Phone: (403) 347-3333

1803B7

P a r k l a n d C.L.A.S.S. has grown over five decades to become one of the largest disability based service providers in Alberta.

Parkland C.L.A.S.S. exists to improve the quality of life of children & adults with developmental disabilities through individual choice, dignity and rights.

We strive to empower the people we serve, measuring our success against the goals they set for themselves.

$

BRING ON THE FINNS

HOME OF THE

0 ,00 10GIVEA WAY

CASH

GUARANTEED MONTHLY WINNER

To qualify purchase vehicle. any new or pre-owned

29 years Ros deo still fruitful after BluandeKeelor’ musical partnership

PAGE B1

D1

The Red Deer Advocate is looking for a

ocate Red Deer Adv

403-

Cuddy

346- 5577

senior graphic artist

FRIDAY, JAN. 3, 2014

Your trusted local

www.reddeeradvocate

Nutter’s Bulk and Natural Foods in Red Deer Alberta has an immediate opening for a

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

CASTOR FIRE DEATHS DEEMED SUSPICIOUS

Nutter’s has a reputation of over 30 years of retail leadership.

This current opening requires a team leader and knowledge of the vitamin and supplement industry, along with extreme customer service skills.

If you enjoy the challenges and rewards of a busy retail environment, we may have a position for you.

Don Chartrand email: dchartrand@nutters.com We thank all applicants in advance but only those considered for the position will be contacted.

POLICE PROBE TRAGEDY PAGE A7

to be a It’s a bad time l Alberta. roof in Centras n o w f a l l s Record few roofs in claimed a mid-Decemthe region in the year ber, and before ndous was out, a “treme lated accumu snow load” of snowy over many days another weather caused down, this roof to come Deer. time in Red during the Sometime 30, snow night on Dec.about half staff down STOKOE/Advocate brought Photo by JEFF top covere of one of of the canvas the south to the collaps at Park this ing Tent D Weste rner A heavy load of snow lead the Westerner end of the Crews novinyl tents at s. several large Park ground se the week. ticed the collap g. next mornin when “It was there and it m e an home h entt hom e ey went they ey hey the th n they hen when wasn’t theresaid Westback,” sa id John ot back, got O CEO C k CE er Park erner Harms. ure, The tent struct ted estima which Harmst 20 metres

w ow plo ce pl ace rffa urfa ur Su S blitz begins

BOGGED DOWN BY SNOW

View All Our Product At www.garymoe.com

RECORD-SETTING SNOWFALL PAGE A4

Gaetz Ave. North

Now Now located Now located at located atat

CentralAlbertaLife

HwyGasoline 2 South,Alley East Side Hwy 2 South, East Side

THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 2014

|| NEWS || SPORTS || CENTRAL ALBERTA BUSINESS || FEATUR ES || ENTERTAINMENT

DELIVERING DAN

GER

D E E R

FRIDAY, JAN. 16,

|| ENTERTAINMENT || HOMES || FOOD ES || SPORTS 2015 || FEATUR

Mac-based Adobe InDesign and Adobe Creative suite experience are definite assets.

Deadly Murder

Forward resumes stating “Senior Graphic Artist”

by Friday, February 13 to: swilliamson@reddeeradvocate.com Photo by ASHLI

Staff BARRETT/Advocate

a dinner theatre, Deadly Murder, n of Deadly Murder. (Sunday brunch is at 12:30 p.m., Theatre’s productio is at 7:30 p.m.

Stage column, of Central Alberta is at 6 p.m., play Deer, see our On during a scene ent events in Red runs to Feb. 7. Dinner at Ted (Perry Mill) Deer. The show coming entertainm Orr) points a gun North Hill in Red a complete list of Camille (Nicole at the Quality Inn Ticket Centre. For opened on Thursday from the Black Knight Tickets are $65 show is at 2 p.m.).

13. beginning on Page

n Event preciatiofrom 9:00 - 8:00 Customer Ap Jan. 23 ay, Jan. 22 & Friday, 6:00 from 9:00 Saturday, Jan. 24

Over $15,000.00 in merchandise to give away!!

freedomRail® Closets

5250 - 22nd St., Gaetz Avenue Crossing (Located next to Chapters)

(403) 347 - 4211

-

Door Crasher Specials!!

household) a $20 gift card (1 per card each day will receive & receive a $50 gift • First 10 customers Screen Installation your spring Phantom • Pre-book & pay for January 31st, 2015 l Closet Systems until • 25% Off all freedomRai e in-stock merchandis • Up to 75% Off select off Displays up to 50% • Select Floor Model

St St. t Lantern #108 409 L #108, Gasoline Alley One block South

of Costco

403.309.6894 Please visit

et.ca

www.canadianclos

for more great specials

105145A16

Thursd

Bulk & Natural Foods

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and processing ads. Deal effectively and work co-operatively with all managers, advertisers, other supervisors and prepress staff as well as employees from other departments. Work towards maintaining efficient production workflow and customer service.

They must possess a strong work ethic, be well organized and able to assign and prioritize work based on deadlines.

T E A D V O C A

FRIDAYforward

R E D

The Red Deer Advocate is accepting applications for a full time Senior Graphic Artist. The successful candidate will be expected to work Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week.

Red Deer

Volkswagen

West Side Gasoline Alley East Side Gasoline Alley

Gasoline Now Gasoline Gasoline Alley East located Side Gasoline Alley Alley at Alley Now Hwy located 22Gasoline Hwy Hwy 2South, Locally South, East South, at Side Owned East East Alley & Family Side Side Operated

104088A2-L28

Vitamin and Supplement Manager

Apply with resume to the attention of

.com

Snow collapseser roof at Western

news authority

CARE SKATING WITH

Drop off or mail to: Scott Williamson, Production Supervisor Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.

LIFESTYLE

D8

SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 2015

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Venus will conjunct Neptune in Pisces today. This will highlight spiritual unity and love. So really, it will be a good day, but in order for you to tap into this blissful energy you must simply gain more knowledge in the area of Saturday, Jan. 31 your emotions. Become more expressive, even if criticized, and this area might need a big dose of truth to be revealed.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Justin Timberlake, HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will 34; Portia de Rossi, 42; Minnie Driver, 45 promise and emphasize joining in with others to THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will be the increase your resources and propel you towards day whereby new and untried, or perhaps ancient, your dreams and aspirations. You might see your healing methods are brought back into the mainfinances with rose coloured glasses this year. Be stream. You will definitely be seeking new ways to careful with spending. You might be criticized at make your daily life more peaceful and less violent work or by friends who don’t think your lifestyle is and, by actively participating with this positive enhealthy enough. Learn to be in Balance. ergy, you will see a healing take place. Your subARIES (March 21-April 19): Epiphanies and conscious thoughts are brought to the forefront. great inspirations will come, when you are least HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, expecting it, to help you fuel your creative projects. this year will be the year to start living out an orDo make sure to write out your thoughts today, as ganic lifestyle. That can be anything from changthere is such a lovely emphasis on reaching your ing your diet or understanding who and what you aims through ideas that come to mind today. allow close to your physical body and aura. By takTAURUS (April 20-May 20): Very lovely and ing full responsibility for your life, inner and outer close bonding with friends today. If you are not LARISA MAIRA realm of your spirit, your finances will increase and around friends, then expect networking interacOZOLINS you will build your confidence to approach all life’s tions to be excellent. You’ll feel like everyone is on challenges. the same page. This is not to say there will not be ARIES (March 21-April 19): There will be a mistakes, minimize them. Family is a support now. healing for you taking place outside of the public GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Expect some eye today. Perhaps, you have taken up some sort of healing breakthroughs on a professional and public level today. Don’t modality and now it is finally creating the positive shift in your sign any new contracts or put your stamp of approval on anylife. Take the time you need for yourself to heal and feel balthing right now, as you will most likely change your perspective anced. when the retrograde is completed, but do express yourself TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your dreams and aspirations today. are coming true, but first, just a little shift in the energy you CANCER (June 21-July 22): I am not going to lie — there place towards them. You will feel that you are around like mindwill be some conflict with others in your life today. Deep emoed individuals and true friendships will make you feel that you tions will be brought up in you now. This is a time to reflect and are at home in the world. This will help you accomplish all! review your personal issues with expressing your emotions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will know what to do in orYou might be slightly confused, take time to think it over. der to make your professional life more in line with the balanced LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today, you will feel confident life that you seek today. Your true values will emerge now and enough to release any past issues, such as fears. You will be will be addressed. able to resolve any challenging thoughts you might be having More value will placed upon your worth at work and within with your thoughts. This is the reason you are feeling certain the public now. feelings today. Relax, discuss all with romantic and business CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your perspective has shifted partners. into a more pleasant and sought after destination now. You will VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today, you are really going to notice that shift in energy, as you approach all that you do on a feel that positive energy from others in your life. Closer bondprofessional level. You will have more insight into what is going ing and significant understandings about relationships will be on than most others. Share your wisdom! discussed. There is still a review about health, work, and daily LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The healing that will take place activities, but all in all, it will be great news! for you will happen on a deeper level than most and perhaps LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There will be bonding and breakunderneath your own radar. There will be a shift in energy throughs at work and with your health today. This will make between you and those that you have formed business partneryour daily activities quite blissful and relaxed, although it will still ships with or with your spouse. Allow positivity in now! be challenging to clearly think through your thoughts about beVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What others are thinking will ing in the public eye. Rest more, if needed. become quite obvious to you today. This will no doubt help you SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Stand your ground today, but integrate and heal those relationships with the present moment. do not let others take advantage of you in any way. Hang out You will have conversations with others throughout your daily with friends and celebrate your successes and do something life with how to improve your health and work. Listen! physical to release any pent up anger or energy today. Others LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Others in your life, more like work will praise your creative voice and your free spirit today! colleagues, will notice that your health has improved and that SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There will be a strong you seem more at peace within your everyday existence. Expull and bonding with family and those within your home enviplain what you are doing. ronment today. Perhaps it will be a little too close for comfort for Express that wisdom with them and allow your truth to you, as it will instigate some much needed space. Assert yourcome to light now. self positively towards expressing your emotions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What you are acting out today CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Most conversations will be will benefit others. excellent today, but there will still be a need for you to hold back Express yourself just as you see fit, as others will surely feel on certain topics. Do consider reflecting a little more before you blessed and balanced by your entertainment. You will also feel share everything with everyone. Certain people will have a critirejuvenated by being able to be yourself and a profound healing cal eye towards your behaviour. will transpire now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today will emphasize group SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A healing will come effort towards some valued vision that you have with work colabout with those within your family and those within your home leagues. It could also indicate a good day with your personal environment today. That area of life will feel blessed and you trainer. Either case, there will be some challenges, especially of will be more able to relax and find true appreciation for those the emotional nature. Stick to the plan at hand! individuals. You will feel like you are on the right path now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will be quite confident CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are going to feel in yourself now and will blend and fit in nicely with all those blessed out today. Interactions with others will be healing and you meet. Perhaps a love interest will reveal their emotions to you will know those individuals are there to make sure you feel you, in some shape or form, and this will have you feeling quite great! Today is an absolutely wonderful day for you and those deeply about yourself today and in serious thought. you encounter within the local environment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today will herald in a time Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrolowhen your finances will start to turn around for the better. Your ger and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate. bank account will become healthier and so will your health, as this will indicate your diet will improve as well. Trust your instincts today. They will not lead you wrong now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A great healing will happen for you today. You will be feeling very much in tune with yourself and will instinctively do what you know needs to be done in order to create that positive energy for yourself today. Others will be asking you for health advice — be prepared!

HOROSCOPES

SUN SIGNS

Powered by

Sunday, Feb. 1 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Harry Styles, 21; Lisa Marie Presley, 47; Michael C. Hall, 44

Central Alberta’s career site of choice.

Central Alberta’s career site of choice.

Looking for

The Good Samaritan Society is one of Western Canada’s largest voluntary, not-for-profit, care giving organizations. For more than 65 years The Society has provided quality health and community services for seniors and adults with disabilities.

www.gss.org

54592A31

Please submit your resume and covering letter to Dave Gutscher at dgutscher@gss.org or call (403) 845-6033, ext. 63222 for more information.

Employers:

Central Alberta’s career site of choice.

CANADIAN PACIFIC (CP)

Koch Fertilizer Canada, ULC is a major employer in Brandon, Manitoba, which is a progressive community, nestled along the Assiniboine River in the heart of Southwestern Manitoba. Brandon continues to prosper without forsaking the high Quality of Life our 46,000 resident’s work diligently to maintain. Being the second largest city in Manitoba, Brandon covers approximately 74 square kilometres and is located 197 km west of Winnipeg and 100 km north of the United States border. Our business continues to grow at an amazing rate, and we’re looking for top performers who can embrace our guiding principles and want to make a difference as part of a winning team. If this sounds like you, we are seeking candidates for roles including: ¾ Reliability Engineering Leadership ¾ Civil, Process, Instrument, Reliability, 1st & 2nd Power Engineers ¾ Production Supervisors ¾ Maintenance Shop Leads ¾ Maintenance Planner ¾ Buyer ¾ Internship Roles in Engineering, Quality Control and Environment

For additional information on Canadian Pacific and this career opportunity, visit us online at www.cpr.ca.

Only those candidates contacted will be considered. All communication will be directed to the email address you use on your online application form.

The journey has begun but is far from over.

54564A24-B7

53146A31

Government

Visit www.kochagenergy.com to learn more.

51450A24-B7

54605A31

If you have the qualifications and skills that put you above the rest, please apply via www.kochcareers.com/kaes, forward your resume to HRBrandon@kochind.com or fax to (204) 729-2944 Please note that third party submissions will be treated as if submitted by the candidate.

You don’t need: Railroading experience Connections You do need: Great attitude Willingness to learn To work in and around Red Deer

Red Deer Mini Job Fair Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 9:30 a.m. - Noon Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer Bring your resumé

Powered by

CP is one of Canada’s most iconic companies.

We move the goods that keep the world turning, and we’re on our way to doing it better than anyone else. To get there, CP is looking for some adaptable, hard-working, safety-conscious, and results-driven people to join our force of conductors.

We are currently inviting applications at our Clearwater Centre in Rocky Mountain House for:

Full-time, part-time and casual opportunities available.

a job?

CARE Tim Hortons Action Group Sears Canada Westerner Park Baker Hughes Inc JBS Food Canada Greatway Financial Canadian Armed Forces McDonald’s Restaurants Sungold Specialty Meats Canadian Blood Services

ANNIE ANNIE

Tired of the same old thing?

At CP you can be part of something historic.

You have a chance to make a difference, to see Canada, and build a future.

REGISTERED NURSES

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

Dear Annie: My recently widowed 74-year-old mother is now dating. She met “Paul” less than a year ago and is already talking about marrying him. Paul has been married several times, hasn’t held a steady job in more than 30 years and lives with his 97-year-old mother.

Mom is naive, lonely and desperate. She has already spent close to $10,000 on this man since she met him. Everyone in my family sees Paul for the con man he is, but I am the only one who strongly vocalizes my feelings. Family functions are now very awkward, and I have stopped attending all events where Paul MITCHELL is present.

Needless to say, my rela& SUGAR tionship with my mother is strained. I am worried that she is going to be bankrupt, both financially and emotionally.

I don’t want to alienate her, but I cannot pretend that I am OK with her marrying this lowlife. What can I do? — California Dear California: Very little. Please stop fighting with Mom about Paul.

The more you attack him the more she will defend him. Instead, tell her you love her and want to be sure she is protected financially.

Say that you understand how much she cares for Paul, and that you will stop objecting to the marriage if she will first go with you to speak to a lawyer.

She also should get a prenup. And if she does these things, please keep your word and accept Paul to the best of your ability. We hope things turn out better than you believe they will.

Dear Annie: I am a retired book mender and library worker. I sometimes see a happy reader thanking you for reprinting a favorite article. Often they say it is yellowed with age.

Please tell them to do themselves a favor and immediately copy any interesting newspaper articles on a copy machine.

They will last so much longer, and the paper is sturdier than newspaper. (Love your column. )—Bobbie Dear Bobbie: It’s true that a newspaper clipping will eventually yellow and crumble.

Copying an article or storing it online will help it last longer. And these days, many people have access to printer/scanners in their home, so it should be easier. (Thanks.)

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

CONDUCTORS RED DEER REQUISITION # 35945 Choose a career where people matter!

Powered by

Worried that mother will marry a con man