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EVERY DROP COUNTS THE ISSUE OF WATER QUALITY AND SUPPLY IS INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT TO MUNICIPALITIES SUCH AS RED DEER. ADVOCATE REPORTER CRYSTAL RHYNO LOOKS AT WHAT THE CITY IS DOING TO PRESERVE A PRECIOUS RESOURCE. SEE RELATED STORY — PAGE A2

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Even in the coldest times of the winter this section of the Red Deer River near the Kerry Wood Nature Centre remains open running water.

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Nova Scotia’s RCMP say an alleged plan to carry out ‘mass killings’ of civilians in a public place has been foiled. Story on PAGE A5

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City monitors water quality, consumption

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This is part of a continuing series of stories on the City of Red Deer’s environmental programs and initiatives for the future. BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Water, water every where, Nor any drop to drink. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the famous lines in the The Rime of the Ancient Mariner about a sailor at sea who was surrounded by salt water. It’s a situation that no one wants to be in where there’s plenty of water but none fit for consumption. The issue of water quality and supply is increasingly important in Alberta, due to the threat of climate change combined with the province’s growing population and an often-booming economy that laps up water. “While potential impacts are uncertain, there is agreement that climate change will cause the water cycle to become more dynamic, leading to an increase of extreme events like floods, droughts and blizzards,” says Facts About Water in Alberta, an Alberta Sustainable Resource Development report. In Alberta, that could mean changes in location, duration and intensity of precipitation, overall decreases in river flows, changes in the timing of peak flows and the increased potential of scarcity of water. Governments at all levels have begun to address climate change through long-term strategy. At the municipal level, it has become an increasing point of emphasis. Improving water quality and reducing water consumption are two focus areas within the Red Deer’s Environmental Master Plan. A water quality study on the Red Deer River is underway. Water monitoring began in 2012. Tom Marstaller, City of Red Deer Environmental Planning superintendent, said the city wants to quantify the impact that the stormwater, water and wastewater treatment plants have on the river.

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Water information ● Red Deer River Watershed Alliance: www. rdrwa.ca ● Water and wastewater in Red Deer: www. reddeer.ca/city-services/water-wastewater-andstorm/ ● Alberta’s climate change strategy: www. environment.alberta.ca ● Water for Life strategy: www.waterforlife. alberta.ca ● Water conservation tips: www.wateruseitwisely.com ● Canadian Association for Rainwater Management: www.canarm.org ● Harvesting rainwater: www.harvestingrainwater.com

City of Red Deer potable water consumption ● Residential potable water used decreased to 204 litres per capita per day in 2013 from 210 litres per person per day in 2012, ● Industrial, commercial and institutional potable water decreased to 118 litre per capital per day in 2013, compared to 120 litres per day in 2012.

Murder trial centres on piece of pipe BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Testimony in the Brian Malley murder trial centred around a piece of pipe on Friday. Crown prosecutors contend that a 15-cm piece of galvanized pipe purchased by Malley was among the components used to construct the pipe bomb that killed Victoria Shachtay on Nov. 25, 2011. In opening statements in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench trial, the defence told the jury that all of the components purchased, including smokeless gunpowder and pipe, were standard items that an avid hunter and home builder like Malley would have. Crown prosecutor Todd Buziak tried on Friday to poke holes in the defence’s position that pipe Malley purchased was used as a sleeve to protect a gas line related to work done at Malley’s mother-in-law’s Edmonton home. ATCO gas fitter and inspector Timothy Rouault was involved with the May 2014 job to move a meter at the house, but did not specifically recall it. ATCO and its contractors use a plastic sleeve to protect gas lines, but Rouault testified he has seen juice or tomato juice cans used in older projects. Buziak showed Rouault a photograph of the sleeve that is evidence in the trial. Rouault said he had never seen one like that.

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EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services has a new policy for mobile and cellphone service. AHS came up with it partly in response to a Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act request that showed mobile device billing between June 2013 and November 2014 totalled $850,000, including roaming fees and data usage above and beyond standard packages.

A water quality monitoring program began in 2012 to assess key points along the Red Deer River and creek tributaries. Baseline data and targets are expected to be established in 2015. Source: Our Environment, Our Role, the City of Red Deer’s Environmental Master Plan Report to the Community 2013

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Defence lawyer Bob Aloneissi asked Rouault if the metal pipe in evidence could be used to protect a gas line’s integrity. He agreed it could. Rouault was also asked whether metal pipe is sometimes used as a sleeve. He answered he could recall only plastic or tin cans used. Aloneissi then questioned him closely about a statement he gave police about sleeves in which he said he may have seen pipe used. Rouault repeated he couldn’t recall other materials besides plastic and tins cans used. After repeated questioning on the point, he said he may have mentioned pipe but couldn’t recall specifically and may have been nervous at the time. Also testifying on Friday was retired RCMP Staff Sgt. Alexander White, who was responsible for checking out Malley’s shopping purchases at hardware and plumbing stores in Innisfail, Red Deer and Edmonton. His job was to connect bomb components to Malley purchases by reviewing transactions and receipts. Aloneissi asked if any effort was made to correlate similar purchases made by anyone else with the bomb components. “I wasn’t tasked with that,” said White. Malley’s first-degree murder trial will enter its fifth of an expected seven weeks on Tuesday. The Crown is expected to wrap up its case on that day with four final witnesses. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com Vickie Kaminski, president and CEO of AHS, says that number is too high and the agency is now ensuring that staff and physicians with mobile devices are accountable and using their devices appropriately. Kaminski says in some cases there are valid explanations for extreme roaming charges and going over data limits, such as a pediatric cardiologist transplant physician’s $20,000 bill for providing several consultations while travelling. She says in other instances, employees took their work phones on vacation, and the charges are a blend of personal and work-related usage, which they have now stopped. “To enable the phone for travel outside of the country, executive level approval will be required based on the fact the employee will be required to work and have access to documents, including those that are patient-related, while travelling outside the country,” Kaminski said in a new release.

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“We know we are having some sort of impact on the river,” said Marstaller. “We don’t know what it is but we felt we should start understanding what it is before it becomes a regulated thing and try to be more proactive.” The monitoring is being conducted in stages at key points along the Red Deer River and creek tributaries. It will help determine the city’s impact on waterways, analyze the river’s capacity to handle pollutants and eventually help to develop methods to mitigate impacts. A report on the initial testing results is expected to come to city council in the coming weeks. Baseline data and targets will be established in 2015. Marstaller said obviously the city has a vested interest in keeping the Red Deer River healthy, especially for those downstream. The city supplies water to more than 110,000 residents in Central Alberta, including Red Deer, Red Deer County (South Hills) and the North Red Deer Water Service Commission, which includes Blackfalds, Lacombe, Ponoka, Ponoka County and Lacombe County. The maximum demand on the system is roughly 90 million litres per day and that is expected to grow to 120 million litres per day by 2020. But the city believes with aggressive conservation measures, it can keep demand to 110 million litres per day in 2020, based on its current customer base. Both the water treatment and wastewater treatment plants are being upgraded to meet capacity needs and licence requirements. Some of the improvements will increase operational efficiencies, functionality, reliability and safety. In 2013, the city conducted water audits on some of the city facilities. Some recommendations included replacing high-flow toilets with low-flow toilets, upgrading waterless urinals and installation of low-flow aerator or restrictor for pressure and flow reduction at faucets. A residential water usage baseline of 242 litres per capita per day was established in 2009 for Red Deer residents. For industrial, commercial and institutional (ICI), the baseline is 135 litres per capita per day. The city’s 2015 target is to decrease consumption by eight per cent, or down to 223 litres for residential and 124 litres for ICI. Bailey Doepker, city Environmental Program specialist, said the 2014 measurements have not been completed. Residential usage was 204 litres per capita per day and ICI usage was 104 litres per capita per day in 2013. The city holds both special events and delivers ongoing programs to encourage residents to turn the taps off. The city will help mark World Water Day on March 22 and a booth will be set up with water-related information at the Eco-Living Fair at Red Deer College on March 21. Toilet rebate programs — where residents are encouraged to switch out their high-flow toilet with a dual flush toilet — are also offered through the city. And the Yellow Fish Road program educates residents on storm drains. Doepker said what goes in storm drains goes directly into the Red Deer River. She said there tends to be confusion because people think it is treated by the water treatment plant. The city also encourages residents to choose appliances such as water-efficient washing machines. They can save 40 to 60 per cent of water compared to conventional washing machines. Older dishwashers typically use between 12 and 45 litres of water per On the job training for: load. The newer waterefficient ones use about Dental Assisting & 13 litres per load. Dental Reception While the city is lookApply with letter ing at its water supply, of interest to: the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance is Bower Dental Centre working on an integrated Bower Mall, Red Deer watershed manageAttn. Michael Zuk ment master plan that addresses surface and groundwater quality issues in the Red Deer River Watershed. The watershed forms the largest sub-basin of the South Saskatchewan River basin. The Red Deer River originates in the Canadian Rocky

McQueen says spending on schools, health care and roads is still important, even though the province is facing economic challenges due to low oil prices. She says money from a municipal sustainability program announced in 2007 has only partly been spent. She says $6 billion of the $11.3 billion in the fund has gone to municipalities so far. McQueen wasn’t clear when the remaining $5 billion will be spent. McQueen also outlined to the mayors how the government plans to make up $7 billion in revenue it expects to lose this year because of low oil prices. She said internal savings will account for $2.3 billion, while increased revenue from other sources and money from the province’s contingency fund will

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015 A3 make up the rest. “The budget will be a third, a third, a third because we have to make sure that we actually are not causing problems in the economy as well,” McQueen told reporters after her address to the mayors Friday. “That’s why we’re stretching it out. We’ll continue to invest in infrastructure, our schools, our health care, our roads. Those are all important while looking at finding internal savings.” The mayors in turn gave McQueen a list of their ideas to help raise $2 billion in new revenue, including higher liquor, cigarette and gasoline taxes. Others suggested bringing back health-care premiums.

Mountains in Banff National Park and joins with the South Saskatchewan River just past the Saskatchewan border. At the same time, the alliance is working on Project Blue Thumb, a plan that addresses working together to maintain or improve surface and ground water quality in the Red Deer River watershed. Josée Méthot, an alliance planning co-ordinator, said the plan is a decision-support tool for people across the watershed to use as they work together on issues. The plan has been in the works for five years. A draft of the first phase is expected to be released some time in 2015. Covering the entire watershed, the recommendations will touch on areas related to monitoring, management and research. She said the plan is an opportunity to look at the whole picture. In the past, there have been attempts to address various parts of the system but not holistically. Méthot said there are some challenges related to water quality and water quantity in the watershed.

“We have seen degradation of riparian areas and lands,” she said. “People are genuinely concerned about that so we need to come up with ways to address those. “And Alberta is booming in many ways. We are seeing population and economic growth, which can be fantastic, but the flip side to that is we need to find a way to manage our resources in a way that can sustain the types of economies and societies that we desire.” Méthot said there’s a tendency when talking about environmental issues or sustainability to use a doomsday rhetoric. “In the last few decades, we have done a fairly good job of managing our watershed resources, although we do face some important challenges,” said Méthot. “It’s really about increasing our collective capacity and learning about what we have done right and what we have done wrong to move forward.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Fentanyl an issue provincewide BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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Fentanyl is believed to be 80 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 40 to 50 times more potent than heroin. was a cause or contributing factor, of which 16 were in Edmonton, 11 were in Calgary, and 34 were in the rest of the province (considered rural). In 2011, there were six deaths (three in Edmonton and three in rural areas. Information on the number of deaths Red Deer and Central Alberta was available on Friday, but officials confirmed there have been deaths here. Up until a few months ago, Bowler had only come across fentanyl patches. A fentanyl adhesive patch

Nomination date for Red Deer North, South ridings March 21

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Candidates for the Progressive Conservative Party nominations in Red Deer North and Red Deer South will stand for election on March 21. Both Red Deer ridings will have a new MLA after the next election. Veteran PC MLAs Mary Anne Jablonski (Red Deer North) and Cal Dallas (Red Deer South) recently confirmed they would not seek another term. Red Deer County Coun. Christine Moore and Matt Chapin are seeking the PC nomination in Red Deer North. Red Deer College business dean Darcy Mykytyshyn is seeking the nomination in Red Deer-South. The PC Party set four more dates for voting on Friday. Candidates in Battle River-Wainwright and Edmonton-Strathcona will also vote on March 21. Lesser Slave Lake will hold its voting day on March 14, Calgary Varsity PCs will vote on March 28 and EdmontonMcClung on March 29.

New day surgeries will be performed at Innisfail Health Centre starting this month. They include carpal tunnel surgery, breast reductions/augmentations, tendon repairs, palmar fasciectomy, abdominoplasty and retinal surgery. “The expansion of surgical capacity in Innisfail is great news for Central Alberta residents. Making better use of the capacity in a facility like this, and serving people nearer to where they live, are exactly the kinds of changes we want to see based on the input we’ve had so far to the Rural Health Review,” said Health Minister Stephen Mandel in a press release. About 450 required and elective procedures will be completed annually through Innisfail’s plastic surgery program, which includes carpal tunnel surgery, breast reductions/augmentations and tendon repairs. The program will run seven days a month, serving patients from across Alberta Health Services’ Central Zone. In the Central Zone, plastic surgery procedures are also completed at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. The new surgery to repair detached or damaged retinas will complement the existing retina clinic and ophthalmology program in Innisfail that was launched in 2013 with cataract surgery. New eye surgeries will be offered one day per month, starting on Thursday. Suzanne Telford, site manager at Innisfail Health Centre, said increasing surgical capacity helps decrease wait times for patients. “Our ophthalmology program serves a wide variety of eye health conditions, such as glaucoma, vision loss, retinal issues and cataracts. We do a large number of cataract surgeries here and we are continuing to see more as we are now able to do more complex procedures that require general anesthetic,” Telford said. Once fully implemented, nearly 100 retinal surgeries could be performed every year at the Innisfail Health Centre. More staff and new equipment have been added to support the expansion of surgical services. New equipment includes an operating table, an anesthetic machine, a cautery machine, additional surgical instruments and a nerve stimulator. A lot of the equipment was made possible by donations through the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation and annual fundraising initiatives, such as the Cattle Round Up and staff 50/50 lotto.

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HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s RCMP say an alleged plan by at least two suspects to carry out “mass killings” of civilians in a public place in the Halifaxarea on Valentine’s Day has been foiled. Asst. Commissioner Brian Brennan, the senior Mountie in the province, says a man who was found dead in a Halifax-area home early Friday intended to go to a public place with a woman and open fire on citizens before killing themselves. Police received information from the public on Thursday morning of a potential significant weaponsrelated threat. The information suggested a 19-yearold Halifax-area man and a 23-year old woman from Geneva, Ill., had access to firearms, Brennan said. “We received a threat that individuals were planning on targeting a public venue in Halifax, to go there and commit mass killings of civilians and to ultimately kill themselves,” Brennan said. “Given the public venue that we believe was to be targeted, there was the potential for significant casualties and injury to citizens.” Brennan would not say which venue was being targeted. He says two other male suspects, ages 20 and 17, were also involved, although he says investigators were still trying to determine what their role was. Brennan said firearms have been seized, although he could not say what kind, how many, or where the weapons were seized. “The weapons seized had the ability to inflict a lot of casualties if used in a populated area,” said Brennan. Police say they found the 19-year-old man dead at a home in the Halifax-area around 1:20 a.m. Friday. Brennan would not elaborate on the circumstances surrounding his death, saying the issue has been referred to the province’s Serious Incident Response Team, which reviews all serious incidents involving police in the province. A statement from the Serious Incident Response Team, known as SiRT, said police found the man dead when they entered the residence. He said the 20-year-old man and 23-year-old wom-

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an were arrested around 2 a.m. at the Halifax airport. Brennan said the woman was arriving on a plane and the man was there to meet her. The 17-year-old boy was arrested around 11 a.m. in the Halifax area, he said. Brennan said all three suspects remain in police custody and there’s no word on charges. Brennan would not characterize the alleged plot as terrorism, saying the views of the individuals “were not based in religion or culture.” “(These) people were of the same destructive mindset,” he said, although he would not elaborate on the nature of their mindset. Brennan said he’s “extremely confident” that all participants in the incident have been arrested. “We’re very, very confident that we got all those that we needed to get,” he said. “There is no further threat... to the general public.” Federal Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney applauded police efforts. “These arrests are a great example of the fine work they do on a daily basis to help keep Canadians safe,” he said in a statement on Friday. Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil also praised police. “On behalf of all Nova Scotians, I thank our police officials, here and in the United States, for their quick and professional work. We are grateful for their dedication and vigilance,” he said in the statement.

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Ukraine ceasefire? Angela Merkel grew up under communist rule in the old East Germany. She speaks fluent Russian. She has been the chancellor of Germany for the past 10 years. And for all that time she has been negotiating with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, on wide variety of subjects — including, for the past year, Ukraine. They may not like each other much, but they certainly know each other. So listen to what Merkel said about the debate in the U.S. military, in the Congress, and even GWYNNE in the White DYER House about sending direct American military aid to the Ukrainian government. “I cannot imagine any situation in which improved equipment for the Ukrainian army leads to President Putin being so impressed that he believes he will lose militarily,” she said. “I have to put it that bluntly.” Does anybody think that Merkel is wrong about this? Does any sane person think Putin would flee in panic if he hears that the U.S. is going to send Ukraine “defensive weapons” (antitank weapons, anti-artillery radar and the like)? If not, then this is crazy talk. Nobody in the United states is talking about sending state-of-the-art U.S. tanks and planes to Ukraine, and they’re certainly not offering to send American troops. Secretary of State John Kerry is merely talking about giving some sophisticated “defensive weapons” to an army that doesn’t even use the weapons it has very well. The Ukrainian army is poorly trained, badly led, and controlled by a government in Kiev that is as incompetent as it is corrupt. It sometimes wins when it is fighting the equally ragtag troops of the two breakaway “republics” of Donetsk and Lugansk. But if the Ukrainian government troops and the assorted volunteer battalions that fight alongside them start to win, then the Russians send in a few thousand welltrained soldiers and push the Ukrainians back. That’s what happened last August, and now it’s happening again. Putting more advanced “defensive weapons” in Ukrainian hands is not going to change this pattern, and military professionals in Washington know it. This proposal is pure, strategy-free tokenism. Of course, Putin’s stated concerns about Western plots to draw Ukraine into NATO are not very rational ei-

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ther. He’s exceptionally ill-informed if he thinks that Western European countries like France and Germany would let Ukraine join NATO, since that would mean they were taking on a treaty obligation to fight Russia on Ukraine’s behalf. He’s completely deluded if he takes his own military’s hoary arguments about Ukraine’s military importance seriously. It is 2015, not 1945, and Russia has lots of nuclear weapons. It simply doesn’t matter whether NATO’s tanks are far from Russia’s border or close to it. Wherever they are, nuclear deterrence still works. And Putin can’t really be worried about the example that a democratic and prosperous Ukraine might set for his own people. Ukrainian incomes are far lower than Russian ones (thanks mainly to Russian oil and gas), and the West shows no inclination to pour money into Ukraine in quantities large enough to change that. And although Ukraine is more democratic than Russia, its government is no less corrupt. What drives Putin, therefore, is a grab-bag of emotional motives. His

man in Kiev got overthrown, and he doesn’t like to lose face. Even if Ukraine has little strategic or economic importance, it was part of Russia for 300 years, and he hates the idea that it might just slide into the West on his watch. He shares the paranoia about the evil intentions of the West that every Russian inherits (for very good historical reasons). None of this is worth a full-scale war in Ukraine, let alone a serious military confrontation with the West or a new Cold War. Maybe if the United States were prepared to go in boots and all, showering Ukraine with weapons, money and even U.S. troops, Putin might back away, although it would be a terrible risk to take. But some token “defensive weapons,” basically to make Americans feel better? That involves less risk of a huge Russian overreaction, admittedly, but it would still be a big step towards a new Cold War, and for no possible gain. That is why Merkel and French President Francois Hollande flew to Moscow last week: to head Kerry off by

patching up some new ceasefire (or reviving the old one) in eastern Ukraine. And they met with Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Minsk on Wednesday in the hope that they can make it happen. At best, that would mean the effective loss of Ukrainian sovereignty over two more provinces (Crimea is already gone), and a semi-permanent “frozen conflict” on Ukraine’s eastern border. Not great, but realistically Ukraine has no better options anyway. We know that Putin is willing to settle for such “frozen conflicts” in order to cripple disobedient former Soviet republics, because he has already done it with Moldova and Georgia. We know that the victims of such tactics can thrive despite Moscow’s games. Georgia certainly does, and Ukraine could do even better with strong European Union and U.S. support. There is no satisfactory military solution for either side. Settle for a stalemate, and move on. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Employers waste money on inefficient drug coverage MONEY WOULD BE BETTER SPENT ON INCREASING SALARIES AND IMPROVING OTHER BENEFITS SUCH AS DENTAL CARE BY ALAN CASSELS AND SEAN O’BRADY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE There is certainly a lot of waste in health systems, but one area that seems to have escaped close scrutiny is the waste in private drug plans in Canada. Estimated at over $5 billion a year, this waste represents over half of the annual prescription drug bill paid by private insurers in Canada and is money that could be better spent on increasing salaries and improving other benefits such as dental care. The biggest part of an employee’s benefits package is their drug plan. And unlike public drug plans in Canada, private plans are notoriously inefficient, often covering higher-priced drugs that do not deliver better health outcomes for users or using sub-optimal renewal intervals. But why are private plans so inefficient in Canada? We can learn a lot about why companies squander tons of money on prescription drugs by looking at how they negotiate drug plans with their employees and other players in the insur-

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ance universe. Our new study in Health Policy analyzes how drug plans are negotiated in the private sector. By carrying out interviews with experts from private sector companies, unions, insurers and plan advisors, the study was able to drill down into the experience of the interviewees to understand the basics of “how things work” in negotiating drug benefits in unionized settings. Our findings show that everyone keeps each other in the dark about the drug plans they negotiate. Employers who understand the technical details of their drug plans withhold data on drug spending from employees, thus awarding them an advantage in the negotiating process. Union experts may understand that their drug plans are inefficient but they often lack sufficient detail of drug spending in order to convince employees about the need to introduce cost-containment measures. Employers want their drug plans to be as competitive as those offered by other employers. So what happens when the norm is to cover all new drugs at any cost, even if the drugs do not provide additional therapeutic value? Well, the end result is that ev-

eryone buys “generous” plans instead of increasing employee compensation. Everyone we spoke with agrees about the need to educate employees and employers alike. And, in fact, everyone agrees (even insurers) that exorbitant drug costs are a big issue for Canadians. Insurers could raise awareness to change this irrational norm of covering everything, since covered drugs often do not provide additional therapeutic value for money. One solution would be to proactively implement managed drug formularies. However, insurers’ financial incentives are not aligned with those of their clients because inefficient drug plans are unfortunately very profitable for insurers. The problem is that insurers are paid as a percentage of the drug bill. So the bigger the bill, the more they make — a principle that runs counter to the drive to root out and eliminate waste in the compensation package. Sometimes drug companies explicitly target private drug plans for their products because such plans do not implement restrictions to get value for money. During our study, we also learned

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Canada faces economic challenges Is Finance Minister Joe Oliver the present-day equivalent of Liberal Finance Minister Charles Avery Dunning? Dunning was appointed by William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1935 when the country was still reeling from the high unemployment and failing businesses of the Great Depression, but he saw elimination of the budget deficit as his real challenge. Dunning vowed to pursue “the old immutable laws of economics” and bring Canada back and “more into harmony” with them. This meant balancing the budget even if DAVID it meant limiting relief for the CRANE unemployed. His goal was a balanced budget, “the goal we must steadily keep in sight,” he said. Oliver, a great fan of Margaret Thatcher, may not be much different. To justify his pursuit of a balanced budget now, Oliver has fallen back on the discredited analogy between the federal government and the family household budget, arguing that just as Canadian families balance their household budgets each year, the federal government has to do the same. Leaving aside the fact that a large number of Canadian families have gone into debt to pay their bills, the federal government is not just the same as an ordinary household. What was needed then, as is needed now, is a budget focused strongly on economic growth and job creation. But now, as then, the focus is on a balanced

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budget, despite the need for more stimulus. To be sure, we are not in the same dire straits as Canada was in 1935. But our economy is not doing well in terms of full-time jobs, business investment in research and new technologies, new production capacity, or in rising incomes. Despite the weak growth forecast for the Canadian economy, the government is not budging in its pursuit of a balanced budget, despite an under-performing economy. As Prime Minister Stephen Harper put it last month, after the bank’s interest rate cut in response to a slowing economy, “in terms of fiscal policy, the appropriate action is to make sure that as the economy continues to grow, we balance our budget.” Even if growth is low and slow? In fact, the government slammed on the economic brakes far too soon after its short-lived stimulus budget. As Kevin Page, former Chief Parliamentary Budget Officer, said last month, “in the midst of a struggling world economic recovery, the government launches a very significant austerity exercise. It politically commits to a balanced budget in 2015, the election year. It freezes direct program spending for five years — looking for savings of $15 billion (about one percentage point of GDP) on a spending base of $120 billion.” From 2011 onwards, balancing the budget took precedence over policies that could spur additional growth and jobs. But what we need now is a much stronger effort to promote growth through productive spending. Canada faces huge economic challenges, but these are in danger of being ignored or downplayed. In its recent assessment of the Canadian economy, the International Monetary Fund underlined the

need for a growth agenda. Business investment continues to be weak and Canada’s technology industry exporters are not doing very well, it said. Canada’s economic recovery has been unbalanced, relying heavily on an inflated housing market and rising consumer debt. But business investment has been weak and productivity performance poor. “Further efforts are needed to strengthen (lagging) labour productivity, such as through improving skills-job matching and fostering business R&D,” the IMF said in its assessment. While government support for venture capital and R&D support for small and medium businesses, “more could be done to support innovative start-ups and firm growth,” it said. In the United States, President Barack Obama has just submitted his budget plans — they include significant measures to boost renewable energy and a low-carbon economy, support a major boost in infrastructure investment and bolster innovation. We need a bolder vision in Canada as well. While no serious person would ignore over time the level of debt compared to the economy, there is plenty of room for Canada right now to do much more than it is doing to build a more productive economy for future growth and prosperity We urgently need a budget focused on growth, productivity and jobs. These investments are a better recipe for eliminating the deficit than mindless cost-cutting and cutbacks in investment and the delivery of public services. Right now, we are getting short-term pain but no long-term gain. Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

Working with what we have In my semi-retirement, I have Wednesday to Sunday off. Talk about a long weekend! It’s Friday and as I sit at my computer, I look outside at the grey skies that are no different than yesterday, except that yesterday it was snowing as well as cold. These are days that if you don’t have to venture out, you don’t, so I didn’t. At least not initially. By early afternoon I started to get antsy and looked for something different to do, so I headed out to my workshop and puttered around out there. When I’d had enough of that, I came into the house and found something to do, of which there is always something that needs doing. Also, yesterday we went for a long walk. In other words, I have an escape from being bored. CHRIS So, as I sit at my computSALOMONS er this morning, I look outside and wonder: how are the folks downtown, and how do they cope with nothing to do? Like I mentioned earlier, I have many forms of escape from boredom, but these people don’t have any escape whatsoever. In the words of so many of them, they get ousted from the shelters about 7 a.m., go to the kitchen for breakfast, checking for cigarette butts along the way. While at the kitchen, a common sight is to see them extract unburned tobacco from the butts and save it to roll later into papers for a slim cigarette. From the kitchen (depending on the weather), they will go to the warming centre and wait there until the library opens, where they often will read books or magazines, or look in the want-ads for jobs. Many go to Diversified for day work somewhere. For every day job that is found, there are many applicants, so several will have nothing to do for that day. For the life of me, I can’t begin to imagine how they cope with the fact that they have nothing to do, no purposeful place to go, other than at mealtimes — in other words there is no escape for a lot of them. You may think, “Well then find something to do, don’t chose to do nothing.” If that was all there was to it, you would be right in saying that, but reality is much different. There are in a lot of cases, physical, mental, and many other reasons why they are where they are. Very seldom have they chosen to be where they are; there are some to be sure, but the percentage is very small.

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For many, they grew up in homes where there was nothing to do; no chores or other duties with which to learn a work ethic. One fellow who has now been on the street for 15 years once told me that his parents would not ask him do anything around the house, they did it all, so all he had was video games and or whatever he could do to keep himself busy. They never even promoted sports or any other activity, they were too busy doing everything themselves. It makes me wonder sometimes, why you even had children if you’re not going take the time to teach them. These kids, as they grow older, then try different jobs, but not having learned anything, they soon are let go because the person they work for will not tolerate a zero work ethic, and they are not willing to teach these kids, so it’s back on the street. So when faced with a day of nothing, imagination will lead them into activities that in some cases involve theft, destruction, drinking, drugs, and the list goes on. As a society that has so many times demonstrated

that it cares, I find it strange that along with the legal and community care systems more is not being done to take these kids in, to teach them the very ethics that they did not grow up with, instead of giving them a monthly stipend or a hangout centre to keep them out of our hair. But then we first have to have a society that does not subscribe to a “We do not have the right to make them do anything they don’t want to” way of thinking. But when kids as young as 13 are out on the streets, something is seriously wrong. Some lessons in life are painful or just no fun, but then we survived that growing up training, and so will these kids if given half a chance. Gone are the days (at least for the most of us) when suggestions were made that they leave town before sunset. We have to embrace the fact that we have a responsibility as a society to work with what we have — both good and bad. Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

Canvas pants and magnets in your helmet When technology and sports collide, you never know what’s going to happen. Speedskaters suddenly started going faster after somebody invented a springloaded skate blade called the “clap skate” that sproings off the boot part when the skater launches into mighty ice-carving strides with thighs as big as sides of beef. Plus they get to go “clack clack clack” when they skate, which is a real bonus because who doesn’t like to go clackity clack? Hockey goalies got a lot better — and a lot better lookHARLEY ing — after Jacques Plante HAY introduced the goalie mask to the sport, which caused all subsequent goalies, even to this day, to genuflect in holy gratitude whenever anyone even mentions Saint Jacques. Baseball got a lot more interesting when Harold Q. Bat invented the baseball bat and tennis was much more fun when some technical wizard came up with the brilliant idea of adding strings to the racquets. Where would we be without sports technology? I clearly remember the day my Mom marched me down to Horsley’s Hardware to purchase a new hockey invention called the ‘mouth guard.’ This was an uncomfortable hunk of vaguely mouth-shaped plastic that you strapped onto your face to protect your precious 10-year-old teeth. Like my Cooper helmet, the mouth guard had rows of holes drilled in it, apparently to allow you to breathe, except when you were playing a game at night on the outdoor rink at -20F and your saliva filled your mouth guard and froze solid. Which happened every Tuesday and Thursday. Not that any of that mattered on account of, in a classic case of closing the barn door after the horse is gone, the reason Mom made me wear the gorky mouth guard was because the game before our trip

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to Horsley’s I got my front teeth smashed in and all chipped and broken by the butt end of Trevor Ready’s hockey stick. The technology gurus had yet to invent face shields for hockey helmets, you see. And just because I was born too late, I lived a life well into my adult years with broken front teeth. Such was my pathological fear of dentists. But that’s another story. And when we played city league tackle football back in the Mesozoic Age, let’s just say the sports equipment technology was about on par with amazingly modern technological developments featured on The Flintstones. Like some sort of trench warfare recruits, we football kids were issued helmets that would easily slip right onto your average beach ball, plus padded extra-large canvas pants (yes, you read that right, canvas pants). We provided our own running shoes and the black stuff that you smear under your eyes (Magic Marker). Also, shoulder pads. Mine, like everyone else’s, were designed for a large adult or possible a small gorilla and there we would be, a couple dozen excited kids flailing around the football field, the shukk shukk shukk rustling sound of our canvas pants echoing in the Saturday morning air, running smack into each other with no idea where the ball was on account of our helmets kept slipping over our eyes. All of us with shoulder pads so humongous we looked like a bunch of kids trying to smuggle full sized canoes on our shoulders underneath a onesize-fits-all football city-issued jerseys that were made for adult gorilla-shaped linemen instead of skinny, short 12-year-old shrimps in canvas pants. But boy, did we tackle. Sometimes at night, even now all these years later, when the world is asleep and all is quiet — once in a special while — I can still clearly hear the massive booming explosion of my helmet smacking into the helmet of my opponent, or perhaps someone on my own team who I tackled by mistake. After one particularly “huge hit” down at the field in the middle of the oval track in front of the Grandstand at the old fairgrounds downtown, I left the field with a distinctive, rather loud ringing in my

ears. This lasted well into my first three years of high school. But that’s another story. Thing is, I’m an avid football watcher now — Canadian only, thank you very much — and more and more these days I find myself cringing when a 300 pound athlete who can run the 100-metre dash in four seconds and crash through brick walls without slowing down or even noticing, when one of these behemoths sacks a quarterback who is half the size and whose only previous physical contact was when he and his girlfriend were made prom king and queen. You can tell when it’s a good hit when the helmets are dented and both hitter and hittee suddenly speak a foreign language for the next three plays. But now sports technologists may have finally come up with a brilliant idea. In a word: magnets. Honest. Science dudes put these super-powerful, thin, lightweight magnets inside the football helmets of crash test dummies and smack the dummies’ heads together and they’ve concluded that magnets are really fun to play with. Also, the risk of concussions is reduced significantly because as even those of us who slept through many, many science classes know, magnets can repel other magnets right off your desk. Testing with defensive tackles and then actual humans will take place this summer, and I sure hope it works. But I can’t help but wonder what it would have been like to have football helmet magnets back when we played city football. There we would be — a couple dozen kids all stuck together — helmet to helmet, head to head, locked in the powerful indisputable magnetic law of attraction for a couple of hours every Saturday morning. Because there’s absolutely no doubt that the cityissued helmet magnets would have been installed backwards. 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.

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Last-gasp battle SEPARATISTS FIGHT FOR KEY RAILWAY HUB AHEAD OF UKRAINE CEASE-FIRE DEADLINE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine — Russian-backed separatists mounted a vicious assault Friday in eastern Ukraine ahead of a weekend cease-fire deadline, pummeling a strategic railway hub with wave upon wave of shelling in a last-minute grab for territory. At least 26 people were killed across the region. The fiercest confrontations focused on the government-held town of Debaltseve, a key transport centre that has been on the receiving end of dozens of artillery and rocket salvos in the 24-hour period after the peace deal was sealed Thursday by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France. Associated Press reporters observed intense shelling Friday along the highway north of Debaltseve, which remains the town’s only land link with the rest of government-controlled territory. The deadline for the warring sides to halt hostilities is Sunday at one minute after midnight. Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted Petro Mekhed, Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, as saying that separatist forces had been tasked with hoisting their flags over Debaltseve, as well as the key port city of Mariupol, before the cease-fire takes hold. Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said 11 soldiers have been killed and 40 wounded across eastern Ukraine since the agreement was reached in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. At least eight civilians also have died in government-controlled territory, regional authorities loyal to Kyiv said, while the rebels said seven civilians were killed in artillery attacks on the separatist-held cities of Luhansk and Horlivka. Shells landed Friday as far as Artemivsk, a government-held town 25 miles behind the front line. Associated Press reporters saw the body of a child killed after rocket fire hit a kindergarten there, and regional officials said the child and one other civilian died in the attack. In recent days, separatist fighters have nearly completely encircled Ukrainian forces in Debaltseve, where all but a few thousand civilians have fled the fighting. Ukraine says Debaltseve should remain in government control under the terms of a September peace deal. A copy of that agreement leaked to Ukrainian media shows the town lying on the government’s side of the line of division agreed by both the rebels and Ukrainian officials.

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Russian-backed separatists wait for their transport, preparing to leave towards the frontline, in the village of Vergulivka, just outside Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, on Friday. Fierce fighting surged Friday in eastern Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists mounted a major, sustained offensive to capture a strategic railway hub ahead of a weekend cease-fire deadline. At least 25 people were killed across the region, officials reported. But even as Thursday’s peace deal was announced, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appeared to disagree over the town’s future. Putin said the rebels consider the Ukrainian forces there surrounded and expect them to surrender, while Ukraine insisted its troops have not been blocked. On Friday, Ukrainian access to the sole highway linking Debaltseve to government-held territory looked to have been compromised with the apparent capture of Lohvynove, a village just to the north. AP reporters on Friday saw the smouldering remains of two Ukrainian army trucks on a road nearby. The Donbass Battalion, a unit with Ukraine’s National Guard that is engaged in battles around Lohvynove, said in a statement that captured combatants had confirmed that Russian troops were actively involved in the battles.

Moscow vehemently denies that it provides manpower and weapons to the rebel forces, but the sheer quantity of powerful weapons at the separatists’ disposal belies that assertion. Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying Friday that Moscow would act only as a guarantor in the peace process, and could not affect developments on the ground. “We simply cannot do this physically, because Russia is not a participant in this conflict,” Peskov was quoted as saying. Elsewhere, by the Azov Sea in southeastern Ukraine, government troops said they had retaken a handful of villages. Troops there have denied reporters access to those operations, which aim to push rebel fighters back from the government-held port of Mariupol.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — The suspect in the deaths of three Muslim college students in North Carolina had at least a dozen firearms stashed in his home, according to search warrants released Friday as world leaders decried the shootings. Warrants filed in court listed an inventory of weapons seized by police from the Chapel Hill condominium of Craig Stephen Hicks, the 46-year-old charged with three counts of first-degree murder. The warrants list four handguns recovered from the home Hicks shared with his wife, in addition to a pistol the suspect had with him when he turned himself in about an hour after the shootings. The warrants also list two shotguns and six rifles, including a military-style AR-15 carbine. Police also recovered numerous loaded magazines and cases of ammunition. Eight spent shell-casings were found in the neighbouring apartment of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21. Also killed was the wife’s sister, Razan Mohammad AbuSalha, 19. Relatives say all were shot in the head. Authorities haven’t disclosed exactly how the victims died. “No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship,” President Barack Obama said in Washington. In New York, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was “deeply moved” by thousands thronging Thursday’s funeral. Jordan’s Embassy in Washington said its ambassador visited the families Friday. Yusor AbuSalha was born in Jordan, as where her parents. The younger sister was born in the U.S. Police in Chapel Hill said they have yet to uncover any evidence Hicks acted out of religious animus, though they are investigating the possibility. As a potential motive, they cited a longstanding dispute about parking spaces at the condo community where he lived in the same building as the victims. The FBI is now conducting a “parallel preliminary inquiry” to determine whether any federal laws, including hate crime laws, were violated. Family members of the slain students are pressing for hate crime charges against the alleged shooter, but legal experts say such cases are relative rare and can be difficult to prove. To win a hate-crime conviction, however, legal experts say prosecutors would have to prove Hicks de-

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A student from Georgetown University, who asked not to be named, sings the call to prayer as a group of Muslim people and their supporters prepare to say the Friday prayers outside the White House in Washington, Friday, in the wake of the murder of three young North Carolina Muslims. The gathering was in memory of the Chapel Hill shooting victims, and to press federal authorities for a hate crime investigation. liberately targeted those killed because of religion, race or national origin. North Carolina does not have a specific “hate crime” statute, though it has laws covering such acts of “ethnic intimidation” as hanging a noose, burning a cross or setting fire to a church.

U.S. governor to quit amid ethics scandal BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALEM, Ore. — One of the longest-serving U.S. governors announced his resignation amid allegations his fiancee used her relationship with him to enrich herself. Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber on Friday said he broke no laws and said in a lengthy statement that his resignation would be effective on Wednesday Secretary of State Kate Brown, a Democrat like Kitzhaber, was expected to assume the office and become the first openly bisexual governor in the U.S. Kitzhaber handily won re-election in November to a fourth term, a rare feat for American governors, who hold considerable power in most states. But the allegations surrounding his fiancee Cylvia Hayes’ work dominated headlines in the state follow-

ing his victory. The spotlight on Hayes led to her revealing that she accepted about $5,000 to illegally marry a man seeking immigration benefits in the 1990s. Later, she admitted she bought a remote property with the intent to grow marijuana. Kitzhaber’s decision capped a week in which he seemed poised to step down, then changed his mind, but ultimately bowed to calls from legislative leaders that he quit the state’s top job. The announcement is a stunning fall from grace for the longest-serving chief executive in Oregon history. By Thursday, the leaders of the state Legislature said he had to go. Other top officials in the overwhelmingly Democratic state also said Kitzhaber should resign.

MOUNDOU, Chad — Suspected Boko Haram militants staged their first attack in Chad on Friday, hitting the third country outside their home base of Nigeria in recent days as the region beefs up its military response to the armed Muslim extremist group. The assault took place in the village of Ngouboua on the shore of Lake Chad early Friday, and left a community leader, one Chadian soldier and at least two militants dead, Chad’s military said. Boko Haram has threated any nation contributing to the fight against them. The nation of Chad is contributing the most military muscle to the effort, with its soldiers already attacking the insurgents in the countries of Cameroon and Nigeria. “The assailants have scattered and the army is now pursuing them,” Chad army Col. Azem Bermandoa Agouna told The Associated Press by telephone. Ngouboua is already home to nearly 3,300 refugees who had fled Boko Haram-related violence back home in Nigeria, according to the United Nations. The UN refugee agency said Friday it had heard reports of the deadly violence there and was investigating. “Security is a major concern for all humanitarian agencies, and for the refugees themselves,” the agency said Friday at a briefing in Geneva. Boko Haram’s insurgency has forced some 157,000 people to seek refuge in Niger, while 40,000 others have gone to Cameroon and 17,000 are in Chad, the UN said. Almost 1 million Nigerians are internally displaced, according to the country’s own statistics. The United Nations special representative for West Africa said Friday that Nigeria’s military needs to show “greater resolve” in the widening fight against the extremist group Boko Haram. “I think we all expect more from the Nigerian military,” Mohammed Ibn Chambas said at the U.N. Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin all have pledged to send military support though Chadian soldiers are already fighting Boko Haram militants inside Cameroon and Nigeria. The multinational force to fight Boko Haram is expected to be formally launched in coming weeks.

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UN report says disappearances are widespread in Mexico MEXICO CITY — A UN commission reported Friday that disappearances are widespread in Mexico and authorities are often involved, most notoriously in the case of 43 students who went missing last fall, allegedly at the hands of local police. Criticizing what it called a failure to prevent and punish enforced disappearances, which involve kidnappings carried out or permitted by officials, the body urged Mexico to quickly pass a law specifically establishing that as a crime. “The information received by the committee shows a context of generalized disappearances in a great part of the country, many of which could qualify as enforced disappearances,” the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances said. The Mexican government, which last week presented a report to the committee in Geneva, said the recommendations “do not adequately reflect the information presented by Mexico,” since the country already committed to redouble its efforts to prevent and investigate disappearances and search for the missing. In a joint statement, the Foreign Relations and Interior departments said the committee’s findings contribute no “additional elements” to Mexico’s attempts to tackle the problem. The UN committee lamented what it called the “near inexistence” of convictions in enforced disappearances.

Venezuela officials say ex-general, 10 other soldiers implicated in coup plot CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan officials on Friday cheered the thwarting of what they said was a planned coup that involved a plot to blow up the presidential palace. President Nicolas Maduro announced Thursday night that a retired air force general had been arrested and 13 other people were implicated in a plot to overthrow the South American country’s 15 yearold socialist revolution. “We have foiled a coup attempt against democracy and the stability of our homeland,” Maduro said, speaking on the anniversary of the start of street protests that wracked the nation last year. Venezuela’s government has frequently alleged coup plots, often without providing much evidence or follow up. Congress president Diosdado Cabello said in a television broadcast that 11 soldiers were among those implicated, including a retired general, and that sev-

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The lift capacity at Whistler/Blackcomb is an unimaginable 65,507 skiers per hour. At that rate, the entire population of Red Deer could be boosted to the top of the mountain in about an hour and a half. Our Whistler ski trip in January had its genesis in — of all places — a golf course in New Zealand. We were teeing it up last March in Nelson, on the South Island, when a fellow-duffer approached us on the first tee. He was alone so Florence and I asked him to join us. He introduced himself as Russ, from Vancouver. We played a pleasant nine holes together, shook hands and parted ways. Two weeks later — and a thousand kilometres distant — we were hiking Mount Maunganui, on the North Island. As GERRY we arrived huffing and puffFEEHAN ing to the summit, there stood Russ and his wife Barb, chatting affably with a fit young Kiwi. We laughed at the coincidence, commented on the fine Austral weather, and moseyed off. Two weeks distant — and another thousand kilometres removed — we were examining a cross-

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section of New Zealand’s biggest and oldest tree — a 3,000-year-old Kauri — at the aptly named Kauri Museum in the tiny west coast village of Matakohe, when who to my wondering eyes should appear but good old Russ. “This is just too weird,” said our fellow Canuck. “Let’s have lunch.” So, over flat-white coffee and whitebait (a hideous Kiwi delicacy consisting of fried egg and a worm-like fish), the four of us sat, laughed and marvelled at the wonders of New Zealand — and our trifecta of coincidental encounters. The Feehans were — as usual — travelling without reservation, flying by the seat of their pants and scrambling daily for nightly accommodation. Russ and Barb were at the other end of the organizational spectrum. They were happily bunked in just two spots during their entire two-month sojourn to New Zealand. As members of Homelink, they had exchanged their house in Vancouver for accommodation Down Under. Russ and Barb travel in a sphere of gratis lodging, swapping their Vancouver abode — and Whistler condo — for digs the world over. I pondered the merits of our pleasant home in

Red Deer and looked at Russ, wondering whether he and Barb might enjoy a winter holiday in Central Alberta. (Anders can be lovely in January — don’t you think?) But Russ didn’t look like he’d been born yesterday. Then I remembered our condo in Kimberley. It’s a great spot in B.C.’s lovely Purcell Mountains. And that’s how we ended up in a quaint ski chalet for a week on Nita Lake, in Whistler. In return, Barb and Russ will be golfing and biking the Kootenays for a week in September, chez Feehan. We haven’t signed up for Homelink yet — but it is a great concept: why leave your home vacant and idle, spending a whack on hotels, when you can swap for free domicile across the pond (or at Whistler)? My only previous Whistler experience occurred in 1984, and although the 1980s weren’t exactly the 1960s, still I recall very little of that trip. I do remember a wild and crazy Doug and the Slugs concert, performed al fresco in the Whistler Village common. And I recollect that Bill Johnson won the World Cup downhill in one minute 54 seconds.

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LEFT: Each day thousands of skiers from around the globe share Whistler’s massive terrain. RIGHT: Florence prepares for a day of skiing outside chez Russ and Barb.

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WHISTLER: Impossible to mark every hazard (Billy was the quintessential American bad-boy. The great Franz Klammer derisively referred to him as a “nasen-borer.”) We skied that downhill run with our friends from Saskatoon in January. It took me just under nine minutes top to bottom — and I cheated, stopping the clock each time I paused to rest my weary legs — or discreetly probe my proboscis. Whistler is slightly more sophisticated than sleepy Kimberley. Kimberley’s Northstar Mountain has five chairlifts. Whistler and her sister mountain Blackcomb have 37, including the incredible Peak 2 Peak gondola that spans 4.4 km and whisks skiers between the two resorts in a matter of minutes. It is the longest and highest lift in the world. The lift capacity at Whistler/Blackcomb is an unimaginable 65,507 skiers per hour. At that rate, the entire population of Red Deer could be boosted to

the top of the mountain in about an hour and a half. Snow conditions throughout B.C. have been marginal this year. But thousands of undiscouraged skiers shared Whistler’s terrain with us each day. The 2010 Olympics ended nearly five years ago but the party carries on. The hills and streets echoed with languages and accents from around the globe. In particular, Americans swarmed the slopes, bars and restaurants — enjoying the cheap Canadian dollar and the Martin Luther King holiday. Our Saskatchewan friends are gung ho: first in line for the 8:30 a.m. gondola opening and last down the hill for après ski festivities. Joe and Carla frequent the blue runs (easily logging over 20,000 vertical feet in a day). I enjoy these cruising runs but find I lack speed restraint — and my aging bones aren’t up for a high-velocity crash. My new passion is tree skiing, a slower but more rewarding, methodical way of descending the hill. Whistler’s terrain is so massive it is impossible to mark every hazard (after all, one is on a mountain). I was on a black-diamond run toward the end of our last day. The path dropped precipitously through a steep mogul-field and the route narrowed to a single track. I veered hard right through a tiny opening between two Douglas fir trees. As I emerged blindly from the dark boughs, terra firma vanished. I was

hurtling off a 10-metre cliff, in free fall. Arcing headfirst, I careened off the snowy cliff-face, employed an unintended somersault and landed flat in the middle of the cat track. I lay still, a puddled mess, piecing together the previous few moments of my existence. Miraculously, I was unscathed. My skis and poles were jammed part way up the cliff, scathed. I climbed up, retrieved my battered equipment and tentatively skied down to the chairlift where my Saskatoon acquaintances awaited. It was they who had suggested I might enjoy that treacherous black trail. “How was the run?” asked Joe. “I wouldn’t recommend it,” I said, emptying snow from inside my goggles. That night we relaxed in front of a roaring fire, enjoying the view across Nita Lake and the glowing mansions fronting Whistler. In the morning we bid adieu to our prairie friends and our Whistler digs, packed the Subaru and, avoiding busy Vancouver traffic, took the alternate route home, north up Hwy 99 through Pemberton and down the narrow, perilous pass into Lillooet. En route I had a rather close call with a cliff. But that’s another story. Gerry Feehan is a retired lawyer, avid traveller and photographer. He lives in Red Deer. For more of Gerry’s travel adventures, please visit www.gnfeehan.blogspot. com.

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That usually means the bells are tolling almost constantly during daytime when tourists visit. A 6-kilometre (3.7-mile) stroll around the lake is the best way to see it. Most of the hotels — built in the 1970s and ’80s when Slovenia was part of communist Yugoslavia before declaring independence in 1991 — and restaurants and shops are located the small town of Bled, which has changed little since the communist days. There are no real attractions here for young partygoers, but the local cuisine has its specialties. The sweet to eat after hiking is Kremna rezina, or cream pie — found only in Bled — consisting of a thick layer of cream and an even thicker layer of vanilla custard sandwiched between slices of thin crispy pastry. Each restaurant in town touts its own slice, but Park Hotel

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Yellowknife’s amazing aurora borealis BY DUANE MCCARTNEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE If seeing the northern lights is on your bucket list, then Yellowknife is the place to go to, especially in mid winter. Solar flares, huge jumping flames on the sun, emit particles that take a half a week to travel to our atmosphere. When the solar winds with these charged particles hit the Earth’s magnetic field near the north and south magnetic poles, they create motion in the atmosphere, moving at hundreds of thousands of kilometres per hour. These ionized atoms create so much heat that they start to glow green, red and blue or pink. The Canadian Space Agency (http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/ eng/astronomy/auroramax/) develops a daily solar or northern light forecast giving the best time and the probability of actually seeing them. Yellowknife’s history goes back to the early 1800s, when the Dene people moved to the area. The name originates from the Chipewyan tribe who used copper-bladed knives. It is interesting to note that a yellow copper powder knife was used in the mining industry for opening up the dynamite boxes as a steel knife could cause sparks. Gold was discovered in the 1930s and Yellowknife became a boomtown, but the last gold mine closed in 2004. Diamonds are now the big mining industry and the “City built on gold” is now the “Diamond capital of North America.” Bryan and Dixie Dilts of Lacombe accompanied my wife Joan and I on our northern light Arctic adventure and for four days we explored Yellowknife on foot at -30C. “It was awesome,” said Dixie. “It was great to be outside walking around and we didn’t even feel cold. Mind you, we were well dressed for the frigid weather.” “We took the local bus to different parts of town but our evening walks along the many paths ere so peaceful,” added her husband Bryan. One of Bryan’s highlights was visiting the Northwest Territories legislative assembly. There are no political parties and all the representatives vote for the leader of the territory.

Visiting the nearby Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre is also something you don’t want to miss! For all of us, the real highlight was going by Becks Kennels dogsleds to an isolated cabin at the edge of a lake about 15 km outside of Yellowknife at 1.30 a.m. to see the Northern Lights. “It was awesome” said my wife Joan. “Definitely worth the trip on the rough trail through the bush.” “To feel the ‘rush’ of being pulled through the night by these great dogs, and enjoying the crispness of the night is something I will always remember,” said Dixie. “Visiting with our young lady musher from Australia was very different and added to the cultural diversity of the North.” The northern lights phenomenon is very important in the Japanese culture and thousands of Japanese visit Yellowknife annually. It was interesting seeing them on the streets at -30C in brightlycoloured parka’s rented from the outfitters. Bryan also found the cultural diversity quite interesting. “We walked the streets the first afternoon looking for a local restaurant and ended up in a small Somali eatery. It was so good we went back a second time. It made us aware that there are many different cultures and ethnic groups living here.” What would a trip to Yellowknife be without a meal at Bullock’s Bistro! This old log cabin in the Old Town has a very unique history. “Everybody and anybody who has ever eaten there has left their signed calling card. They are all posted on the wall and ceiling,” said Dixie. “There isn’t a square inch of space left for any more calling cards.” We feasted on great arctic char. The other highlight was a visit to the Weaver Devore General Store in the Old Town. Since the early 1930s, this store has supplied all the mining exploration, and hunting and fishing camps. They carry “everything from soup to nuts.” I have never seen so many heavy-duty parkas, mitts and winter boots, in addition to anything else you think that you might need for adventure in the North. Another unusual thing about Old Town Yellowknife

is the eclectic and very colourful houseboats on Great Slave Lake. These units are lived in during the winter even though they are frozen into the ice. During March, Yellowknife hosts the annual Snow King Festival with a gigantic ice castle built out on Great Slave Lake. The castle is an ice-walled fortress with courtyard, turrets, assembly hall and inner rooms completely built out of ice. Musical concerts are held in the ice concert hall. The performers are able to keep their fingers from freezing through the use of industrial radiant gas heaters. However, the audience stood on the ice and it was cold! The North is noted for its ice roads. We rented a car one day and drove north from Yellowknife to Cameron Falls, about 40 km north of town, then made the one-km hike to the falls. We came back on the ice road along the shores of Great Slave Lake, and it was an awe-inspiring experience.

If you go There is all sorts of great information on the northern lights and Yellowknife activities and accommodation online. ● Great information on northern lights: http://www.auroraborealisyukon.com ● Northern Lights forecast:

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Top: The Northern Lights at Yellowknife. Below: In the Great Hall inside the Snow King castle at Yellowknife’s winter festival.

http://astronomynorth.com/aurora-forecast/ ● Canadian Geographic magazine’s web site with best places to view the Northern Lights and related information: http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/jf13/solar_maximum.asp ● Information on photography and forecast: http://www. asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/ auroramax/ ● Dogsled northern lights

evening tours: http://www. beckskennels.com/ ● Our accommodation: http://www.capitalsuites.ca/ yellowknife/ ● The Yellowknife general store: http://weaverdevore.ca/ ● Yellowknife Snow Festival in March: http://snowking. ca/ Duane McCartney is a Lacombe-based creative landscape photographer and freelance agricultural and travel writer.

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Turnovers cost Rebels BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Hurricanes 2 Rebels 1 There was a time, and to the players and coaching staff it must seem like long ago, that the Red Deer Rebels were trending in the right direction. Way back when, the Rebels were headed north. But in recent weeks they’ve reversed direction. Friday’s Western Hockey League game was a prime example, as the upstart Lethbridge Hurricanes handed the Rebels a 2-1 defeat before a recorded gathering of 4,992 at the Enmax Centrium. The Rebels weren’t outplayed by any means, but a pair of first-period turnovers led to both Lethbridge goals and the hosts couldn’t find a way to come all the way back. “I thought we played a really good first 10 minutes. We played with speed and drew some penalties,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “But our power play was kind of the difference in the first period, in a negative sense. We had three power plays and gave up a goal.” The ‘Canes opened the scoring 16:25 into the contest when a Red Deer turnover led to a two-on-one break from inside the Rebels blueline and Jamal Watson’s 21st goal of the season. Just over a minute later and with Red Deer operating on their third power play of the night, the puck was turned over at the Lethbridge blueline and Florian Baltram buried a rebound after Rebels netminder Ryan Toth stopped a shot by Watson. “They (Hurricanes) had three quality chances in the first period,” said Sutter, referring also to a breakaway by Watson on which he fired the puck over the net. “(Brett) Cote, (Haydn) Fleury and (Brooks) Maxwell throw pucks away and two of those turnovers end up in our net. “Our older players know better, they know they can’t be playing that way. It just happens that some of those older players are our best players.” The Rebels carried the play through most of the middle frame but couldn’t get the puck past ‘Canes netminder and Red Deer product Jayden Sittler, who stopped all 13 shots he faced in the frame, finished with 26 saves and was named second star of the game. “I was telling the kids that was probably the best second period we’ve

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Red Deer Rebel Hayden Fleury wheels out of the corner with Lethbridge Hurricane Ryley Lindgren caught on his heels during first period action at the Centrium in Red Deer Friday night. played in the last two and half to three weeks, just how we controlled the play,” said Sutter. Former Rebels defenceman Devan Faford nearly gave the ‘Canes a 3-0 lead in the first minute of the third period when he pounced on yet another giveaway at the Lethbridge blueline, broke in alone and rang a shot off the post. The Rebels finally solved Sittler during a power play roughly four minutes later, as Colton Bobyk’s wrist shot

from the point was deflected in by Presten Kopeck. But the hosts mustered only seven shots in the period and despite some late pressure, couldn’t find the equalizer. “In the third period we never had the push we needed to have,” said Sutter. “We got one (goal) back and we needed to have more of a push to try and generate and create more, and yet we spent the first four minutes of the period in our zone.” For the Hurricanes, who have grad-

ually picked up steam since GM/head coach Peter Anholt replaced the former regime in December, the win was their fifth in their last six games. “I think we’re getting some goaltending, that where it all starts with us,” said Anholt, who gave 16-year-old phenom stopper Stuart Skinner the night off and promptly got a standout performance from Sittler.

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Kings battle back to sink Trojans BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Kings 3 Trojans 0 The way the RDC Kings started their match against the SAIT Trojans it made you wonder how they could be considered one of the premier college teams in the country. But once they settled down they were just fine as they downed the Trojans 34-32, 25-21, 25-20 in Alberta Colleges Men’s Volleyball League play at RDC Friday. ‘The first 22 points we made 17 unforced errors,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha shaking his head. “That was an incredible amount. To even be in that game and have a chance to win it was unbelievable.” The Kings trailed 24-21 in the first set, but battled back to tie it at 24. Four times the Trojans were serving for game point before RDC finally took the lead at 29-28. Once they settled down, especially serving — they missed eight serves in the first set — it appeared only a matter of time for the Kings would take control of the match. “If you forget about the first half of that first set that was as crisp as we’ve looked in a while,” said Schulha. “We did have a chance to bury them in the third set and got too cute with our at-

tack, although we’re asking Luke (setter Brisbane) to run a few different things offensively and it showed. “Our attackers need to do a better job of identifying when to take a full swing and when to tip. Coming, but it’s been a slow process.” The Kings, who are ranked No. 2 in Canada, lead the ACAC South Division with an 18-3 record and sit two games up on the Medicine Hat Rattlers. SAIT is in a battle to make the playoffs. Lethbridge is third at 13-9 with SAIT and Briercrest at 12-9. The Kings host Briercrest next Friday and Saturday. “Finishing first is in the back of our minds, but the biggest concern is getting better,” said Schulha. “We have the physical pieces but we have to make sure we look after the easy stuff, such as the first contact. When you miss that many serves and don’t pass well you open up a lot of opportunities for good teams and that’s what SAIT is and Briercrest is. We’re going to see good teams the rest of the way and we have to be crisp throughout.” When the Kings were rolling, everyone was contributing. Tim Finnigan led the way with 17 kills, 11 digs and four aces but Regan Fathers and Nic Dubinsky are settling into the offence after joining the team at Christmas.

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Red Deer College Queen Miranda Dawe makes a soft shot over the defending Sait Trojan player Danika Ferguson at Red Deer College Friday night.

Bad penalty kills hope of comeback for Kings BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Trojans 5 Kings 4 PENHOLD — A lack of discipline snatched defeat from the jaws of victory for the Red Deer College Kings men’s hockey team on Friday night in Penhold. Despite one of their better efforts of the year, the Kings (10-12-0-3) could not stop the SAIT Trojans (22-5-1-0) power play and then a bad penalty late all but killed any hope of a miracle comeback as the Trojans escaped with a 5-4 Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference win.

“They got three power-play goals and that was basically the difference tonight,” said Kings assistant coach Cody Reynolds. “It was a hard-fought game, our guys battled extremely hard, proud of the way our guys played tonight, it was a tough game, we just didn’t get the result we wanted.” Riley Paterson scored twice for SAIT while Dalton Olsen, Sam Lawson and Brenden Forbes added singles and Austin Smith made 39 saves in net for the win. RDC replied with goals from Joel Topping, Clay Petrie, Greg Lamoureux and Doug Jones. Kraymer Barnstable made 40 saves in the loss. The Kings managed to fight their

way back from two goals down to tie twice during the game. SAIT opened the scoring at 10:13 on the power play with Olsen’s goal and then 1:17 later Lawson made it 2-0 for the Trojans, tipping a point shot over Barnstable from in close. But Topping got RDC back into the contest at 13:06, blasting a loose puck past Smith from the point. Petrie then tied the game at 2-2 at 3:42 of the second period shovelling home a rebound off a Riley Point shot from the side boards. The Trojans bounced back, as Paterson scored twice at 8:15 and then 12:36 on the power play to re-establish a two-goal lead.

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Again the Kings responded, just as the game was turning chippy. With RDC on a power play, Riley Simpson was rocked behind the SAIT net, but the Kings regrouped outside the Trojans’ zone, and Lamoureux scored on a tic-tac-toe passing play at 14:33, to cut the score to 4-3. Less than a minute later and tempers boiled over as RDC’s Pat Martens and SAIT’s Cody Castro dropped the gloves. Unfortunately for Martens, the linesman held him back as Castro got in a few free shots before they were able to get on their own, but the damage had already been done.

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Grizzly among nominees for rookie of the year 19-YEAR-OLD ROOKIE BROKE OUT AFTER PLAYING TWO YEARS OF JUNIOR B HOCKEY BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The Olds Grizzlys are looking for their second consecutive rookie of the year award. Defenceman Kodi Schwarz was the team’s lone nomination as the Alberta Junior Hockey League announced its award finalists on Friday, following in the footsteps of Red Deer’s Christopher Gerrie who won the award last year. “We had a feeling right away he was a special player and we’re very happy we ended up having the opportunity to get him,” said Grizzlys head coach Brett Hopfe. Schwarz, 19, is second in scoring among AJHL defencemen with 37 points (six goals, 31 assists) in53 games. Though six-foot, 185-pound blue-liner is an older rookie at 19 years old, he was a virtual unknown when he came to camp on a tryout, coming off of two seasons with his hometown Aldergrove Kodiaks in the Pacific International Junior B Hockey League in B.C. “He brings something that we haven’t had in a very long time in our program, and that’s a defenceman that’s an offensive threat,” said Hopfe. “He can really see a play develop and that’s why he’s got most

Winners take all Both best-of-three Heritage Junior Hockey League Northern Division quarter-final series will be decided tonight. The Red Deer Vipers will host the Three Hills Thrashers in the third game of their series at 8 p.m. at the Arena, while the Stettler Lightning will face the host Mountainview Colts at 8 p.m. in Didsbury. The Thrashers and Colts were winners in Thursday’s second games of their respective post-season sets, with Three Hills erasing an early 2-0 deficit en route to a 5-4 win over visiting Red Deer, and Mountainview slipping past the host Lightning 4-3. The Lightning, on two goals from Mark Deitz and another from Jacob Bottomley, held a 3-1 lead over the Colts before giving up a pair of secondperiod goals — both scored by Drew

of his points, he see plays break down probably better than almost anyone I’ve seen before.” He is up against three other players for the award, including Red Deer native Trey deGraaf of the Okotoks Oilers. The 19-year-old forward has 30 points (17-13-30) in 46 games to go with 45 penalty minutes. Brandon Biro (20-30-50) of the Spruce Grove Saints and Brinson Pasichnuk (8-20-28) of the Bonnyville Pontiacs are also up for the award. “I think it’s an honour for Kodi as someone who may have got overlooked last year and came in this year and made a statement,” said Hopfe. “We’re hoping for the best for him, but every player in that category is well deserved.” League leading scorer Austin Plevy (28-52-80) of the Brooks Bandits leads the finalists for the most valuable player award. The list also includes the Saints’ Jarid Hauptman (23-46-69), Fort McMurray oil Barons Jetlan Houcher (35-28-63) and Okotoks Oilers goalie Nic Renyard (28-6-3, 2.08 goals against average, .926 save percentage). Renyard also leads the top goaltender category, followed by Tommy Nixon (12-3-3, 2.23 G.A.A., .923%) of the Sherwood Park Crusaders, Zach Fortin (1813-4, 2.73 G.A.A., .923%) of the Oil Barons, and Devin McDonald (23-4-2, 2.23 G.A.A., .921%) of the Camrose Kodiaks.

Kocur — and Evan Thompson’s thirdperiod winner. Winning goaltender Thomas Della Siega made 28 saves, while Simon Thieleman turned aside 26 shots.

Lakers sink at Hunting Hills Nicole Fischer and Kelsey Kolesnik each netted 14 points as the Hunting Hills Lightning zapped the visiting Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody Lakers 77-19 in senior high girls basketball play Thursday. Kristen Loney and Sarah Steward each had 10 points for the winners. Marley Ojala scored six for the Lakers.

Raiders open series with win Duncan Hughes made 39 saves in a losing cause as the Red Deer Rebels White fell 3-2 to the Rocky Mountain Raiders in the first game of a best-of-

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REBELS: Look to snap losing skid “Most nights we’re getting outshot, although we didn’t give up as many shots tonight as we have been, so maybe we’re making some strides forward in that regard. The kids play hard and they’ve done what we’ve asked them to do, and that gives us a chance.” With Sittler on board — he was acquired from the Victoria Royals in January — the ‘Canes don’t have to rely on Skinner on a nightly basis. “He’s been a great pick-up,” said Anholt. “The one things about Sitts is he competes so hard so the team plays hard in front of him because of that. He’s just been a pleasure, a good partner for Stuey. He gives him some confidence and a security blanket, you might say.” The Rebels will attempt to snap a three-game losing streak when they host the Prince George Cougars tonight. The Cougars upset the host Medicine Hat Tigers 4-2 Friday. “We’re going through a situation right now where we’ve experiencing a bit of adversity, but if we handle it the right way and everyone stays focused we’ll get ourselves out of it and we’ll be a better team for it,” said Sutter. “But we need everybody going. Your best players have to be your best players and in reality that wasn’t the case tonight. “We have to find a way to get these guys back to where they were three to four weeks ago and get them dialed in. Their hearts are in the right place, they’re great kids, but they’re going through a bit of adversity right now and we have to help them through that.” ● Toth made 17 saves while suffering his 14th regulation-time loss of the season . . . As well as Sittler played, he also had his posts on his side as former ‘Cane Riley Sheen struck iron in each of the first and third periods . . . On a positive note, the Rebels didn’t lose any ground in the Central Division standings. Besides Medicine Hat’s loss, the Calgary Hitmen, who were riding a nine-game winning streak, were shocked 4-2 by the visiting Saskatoon Blades and the Moose Jaw Warriors downed the Kootenay Ice 5-2 at Cranbrook. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

AJHL Linden Springer of the Bandits leads the outstanding defenceman nominees while leading all defencemen in scoring with 38 points (17-21-38) in 50 games. Ryan Black (5-31-36) of the Pontiacs, James Vermeulen (0-7-7) of the Whitecourt Wolverines and Ryan Suchorab (3-15-18) of the Drumheller Dragons are also nominated. Four players are also nominated for most dedicated, including Fort McMurray’s Mitchell Vanderlaan, Spruce Grove’s Parker Mackay, Okotoks’ Tanner Ockey and Canmore Eagles’ Connor Wilson. The coach of the year finalists are headlines by reigning coach of they Jason McKee in Spruce Grove, Bonnyville’s Rick Swan, Camrose Kodiaks’ Boris Rybalka and Okotoks’ James Poole. While the Grizzlys were shut out the rest of the way in awards, Hopfe is certain there are other Grizzlys like Gerrie (22-29-51), Jade McMullen (33-2053) and goalie Jesse Gordichuk (12-13-5, 3.45 G.A.A, .905%) who will have their name called when the year end all-star teams are named. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

three Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League playoff series Thursday at Okotoks. Josh Tarzwell and Caileb Berge scored for the Rebels, who were outshot 42-18. The second game of the divisional quarter-final is scheduled for today at 2 p.m. at the Red Deer Arena. A third game, if necessary, will be played Sunday at Okotoks.

Grizzlys maul Mustangs OLDS — Brad Forrest scored in overtime to lift the Calgary Mustangs past the Olds Grizzlys 4-3 in an Alberta Junior Hockey League game Friday. Netminder Ravi Dattani was the man of the hour for the visitors, turning aside 40 shots before 576 fans at the Sportsplex. Mason Mitchell, Adam Berg and Joe Mahon also tallied for the Mustangs, who trailed 1-0 after one

led SAIT with 10 kills and six digs. Queens 3 Trojans 1 The Queens, much like the Kings, started slowly. In fact they looked like they were still in the change room for most of the first set before finding their rhythm and recording a 19-25, 25-15, 25-19, 25-19 victory. “I’m not sure why we started so slowly,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “We talked about it before the game, but we also can’t take anything away from SAIT. Their kill percentage in that first set was high and they scored at will.” The Queens had gained a little momentum toward the end of the first set, which carried over to the second. The Trojans had four blocks in the first set and three the rest of the way. The Queens had one block in the first set and six in the final three sets. “We started playing more our style and once that happened we got into a groove and worked hard on siding out and scoring on the serve,” said Walton. The Queens also did a better job of handling SAIT left side Megan Brennan, who had five kills in the first set and five the rest of the way. “She hits with velocity and is hard to stop, but we did a better job of serving to her and slowing her down. We also changed a bit and had Alex (Donaghy) against her more.” Donaghy finished with three blocks to go with seven kills and five digs. Miranda Dawe had 12 kills and eight digs, Lauren Marshall 10 kills and 12 digs and Kelsey Tymkow eight kills and eight digs. Megan Schmidt added seven kills and five digs and RDC player of the match, setter Bronwyn Hawkes, had 40 assists, 11 digs, two blocks, an ace and four kills. Alex Panemko had 10 kills and 11 digs for the Trojans. RDC is at SAIT today and Leah Koot will start at power after returning from an ankle injury. The Queens have a 19-2 record with Briercrest at 17-4. Olds and SAIT sit at 12-9. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can

period but led 3-2 after 40 minutes. Cale Brown, Colton Sheen and James Miller, who forced the extra time with a goal at 18:29 of the third period, replied for the Grizzlys. Olds goaltender Jesse Gordichuk made 23 saves. The Mustangs were two-for-seven with a man advantage and the Grizzlys converted one of five power-play opportunities. The Grizzlys return to action Monday against the host Brooks Bandits and entertain the Okotoks Oilers Friday.

Scrap Metal scrape by Bulldog Scrap Metal got 15 points from Luc Stevenson and 13 courtesy of Travis Rasmussen in a 69-62 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over Sheraton Red Deer Thursday. Troy Normand scored 12 points in a losing cause, while Jeff Diep added 11.

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KINGS: Queens clinch second The Kings then tied the game up again on another power-play goal, this time by Jones at 3:21 of the third period, as he chipped a beautiful feed from Nick Bell past Smith. “I’m proud of the way the guys handled it tonight, they didn’t shut down, they kept going, kept going, kept going, it was good to see,” said Reynolds. But it was all for not. At 13:35 the Kings’ Ryan Hoult was called for boarding, and 20 seconds later Forbes tipped a screened point shot past Barnstable. With 20 seconds left and the goalie pulled, the wheels fell off completely. As the ref was calling coincidental minors on the Trojans’ Mike Puddifant for cross checking and the Kings’ Simpson for holding deep in the SAIT zone, Topping was called for unsportsmanlike conduct as he chirped the ref. Not only did this give the Trojans the man advantage, but it moved the face off all the way back into Kings’ zone. RDC never got the puck beynd their blue-line again. The Trojans finished 3-for-4 on the power play while the Kings were 2-for-3. The two teams will battle again tonight in Calgary at 7 p.m. ● The RDC Queens clinched second place in women’s hockey with a 4-3 win over SAIT on Friday in Calgary, sweeping this week’s series with the Trojans. Kaylea McMurtry, Rachael Hoppins, Jayna Kitchen and Nikki Connor scored for RDC while Moriah Andrews stopped 18 of 21 shots for the win. Cora Sutton scored twice for SAIT while Lindsey Rose got their other goal and Cheyenne Eagle stopped 22 of 26 shots in the loss. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Scotties draw filling up with familiar faces DEFENDING CHAMP HOMAN FACES A GAUNTLET OF TALENT IN QUEST FOR REPEAT THE CANADIAN PRESS MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Two games, two losses, and one early exit. The Scotties Tournament of Hearts experience ended the same day it began for Yukon skip Sarah Koltun on Friday at Mosaic Place. Koltun dropped a 7-5 decision to Northern Ontario’s Tracy Horgan in the morning before being outscored 11-10 by Kerry Galusha of the Northwest Territories later in the day. Koltun’s 0-2 record in the threeteam round robin eliminated her from contention in the battle for the last spot in the 12-team main draw. “It sucks,� she said with a chuckle, before breaking down in tears. This is the first year that the women’s national curling championship has used a qualification round. The new setup gives all member associations a chance to participate but it also means two teams will be leaving just as the competition is getting underway. Koltun made her exit Friday evening and another team will be knocked out Saturday afternoon. Galusha and Horgan will play in the qualification final as the opening draw of the main round robin begins. “It’s just hard,� Koltun said. “We just worked hard all year for it. It’s unfortunate that we have this fate and someone else does too. We just wanted to come here and represent our territory and the fact that we don’t get a chance to is really unfortunate.� This is the first time that there are separate entries for the territorial rinks. Nunavut could have participated but it declined to send a team this year. It was a particularly tough loss for

Koltun, who scored four in the 10th to force an extra end. But Galusha took advantage of the hammer in the 11th and came through with a hit and stick for the decisive point. “It’s a big relief,� Galusha said. “Our goal was to get into the final tomorrow. Team Horgan is going to be really tough to beat. We’re still not playing sharp. We played better today but I’ve seen my teammates play way better than what we’re doing. “I guess hopefully we’re building for tomorrow.� The traditional pre-tournament routine is much different for teams in the qualifier. They have to worry about high-intensity games while other rinks are getting settled in with practice sessions and a skills competition. Horgan, meanwhile, has looked strong from the outset. She opened with a win over Galusha on Thursday night and played well again Friday. “It’s hard not to look forward to the rest of the week,� Horgan said. “But we’ve got to get through these important games.� It’s also the first time that Northern Ontario has its own team at the women’s event. Ottawa skip Rachel Homan is back to defend her title as the Team Canada entry. Other favourites to make it to the playoffs next weekend include reigning Olympic champion Jennifer Jones of Manitoba, Alberta’s Val Sweeting and Stefanie Lawton of Saskatchewan. The rest of the field includes Nova Scotia’s Mary-Anne Arsenault, Patti Knezevic of B.C., Julie Hastings of Ontario, Quebec’s Lauren Mann, Prince Edward Island’s Suzanne Birt, Heather Strong of Newfoundland and Labra-

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Canada’s skip Rachel Homan directs the shot as they play Switzerland in playoff action at the Ford World Women’s Curling Championships in Saint John, N.B. on Friday, March 21, 2014. Homan is looking to join a select list of women’s curlers who have skipped their teams to three straight national titles. dor and New Brunswick’s Sylvie Robichaud. The medal games are scheduled for Feb. 22. The winner will represent Canada at the March 14-22 world women’s curling championship in Sapporo,

Japan. The victor will also return as Team Canada at the 2016 Scotties in Grande Prairie, Alta., and lock up berths at the 2015 Canada Cup and next year’s Continental Cup.

Snedeker enjoying sunshine, birdies and a share of the lead a 65 at Spyglass Hill and was part of a large group two shots behind. The biggest move of the day belonged to Torrey Pines winner Jason Day, who wasn’t ever sure he would play. Day said he took his son to the emergency room with a stomach ailment, which then was passed to his wife and then to him. The Australian wasn’t sure he could play 30 minutes before his tee time, and then he posted a 62 at Monterey Peninsula. That put him only three shots out of the lead, along with Jim Furyk (70) and Nick Watney (69), who both played at Spyglass. No one needs to get it in gear like Snedeker. When he won at Pebble Beach two years ago, he moved to a careerhigh No. 4 in the world, the highest-ranked American behind Tiger Woods. He now is one spot behind Woods in the world ranking, except that’s not a good thing. Snedeker is No. 63 and can’t count on the tournaments he regularly plays, particularly the Masters. He had only four top 10s all of last year and fell out of the top 50. After missing the cut in his 2015 debut at the Humana Challenge, Snedeker has taken baby steps in Phoenix and San Diego and appears to be hitting his stride. “It’s no fun not being eligible for the Masters

and not playing World Golf Championships and stuff like that,� Snedeker said. “So it’s a huge motivating factor, not that I need any more to be motivated for, but I definitely want to make sure that I qualify for the Masters and Match Play and WGCs and all that kind of stuff. And to do that, I need to play good. So it’s nobody to blame but myself. I need to get out there and get it done.� It helps when his putter is co-operating, always the best part of his game. That’s what he has been working on the most, believing that everything revolves around his short game. Now he feels like he is putting

the way he should, and he put his old putter back in the bag in November after replacing it toward the second half of the season.

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● Soccer: Red Deer City Soccer Association Sheraton Family Day tournament, 8 a.m. start, Westerner AgriCentre. ● JV basketball: Notre Dame girls tournament. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● Major bantam hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer Rebels White, second game of best-of-three AMBHL division quarter-final, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Olds, 2:15 p.m.; Cranbrook at Red Deer Parkland, 3 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Ramada, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Lacombe at Olds, 4:45 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Lacombe, 3:15 p.m., Blackfalds; Cranbrook at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Red Deer Elks, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Calgary Gold at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● WHL: Prince George at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Red Deer, third game of best-ofthree Northern Division quarter-final, if necessary, 8 p.m., Arena; Stettler at Mountainview, third game of best-ofthree Northern Division quarter-final, if necessary, 8 p.m., Didsbury.

Sunday

● Soccer: Red Deer City Soccer Association Sheraton Family Day tournament, 8 a.m. start, Westerner AgriCentre. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Olds, 12:15 p.m.; Cranbrook at Lacombe, 2 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Ramada, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Olds at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Airdrie at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 5:30 p.m., Arena.

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Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Tampa Bay minor league OF Spencer Edwards (Bowling Green-MWL) and Cleveland minor league OF Brian Ruiz (Lake County-MWL) 80 games each after testing positive for performance-enhancing substances; and free agent minor league RHP Joseph Gardner-Prophet 50 games following a second positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Matt Albers on a minor league contract. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Greg Holland on a one-year contract and with RHP Joe Blanton on a minor league contract. Purchased the contract of RHP Derek Gordon from Kansas City (AA). SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with INF-OF Rickie Weeks on a one-year contract. Designated LHP Edgar Olmos for assignment. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with RHP Addison Reed on a one-year contract. ATLANTA BRAVES — Announced the resignation of minor league hitting co-ordinator Ronnie Ortegano. Agreed to terms with OF Eric Young Jr. on a minor league contract. CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with LHP Aroldis Chapman on a one-year contract. Announced LHP Ismael Guillon cleared waivers and was sent outright to Louisville (IL). HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with LHP Joe Thatcher on a minor league contract. American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Acquired RHP Chase Boruff from Florence for a player to be named. JOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed OF Yasser Gomez. SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Signed OF Jason Repko. Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Signed RHP Ethan Elias. Frontier League FRONTIER GREYS — Signed 1B Scott Carcaise. GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Traded INF Michael Wing to the Sioux Falls (AA) for INF Tyler Forney and two players to be named. SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed C Chris Matthews, RHP Hideyoshi Otake and OF Tillman Pugh. WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed LHP Drew Bradshaw and RHP Cameron Giannani. FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed LB Allen Bradford. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Terminated the contract of OL Paul McQuistan. DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed LB Cameron Lawrence and DT Davon Coleman. DENVER BRONCOS — Named Marc Lubick assistant wide receivers coach and Samson Brown as assistant defensive backs coach. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed LB Shane Horton and WR-KR Eric Page. HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled D Michal Jordan from Charlotte (AHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled F Viktor Stalberg from Milwaukee (AHL). Reassigned D Taylor Aronson to Milwaukee. NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Reassigned G Maxime Clermont from Albany (AHL) to Orlando (ECHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Waived MF Eric Stevenson. SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Signed MF Soni Mustivar. North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Signed D Samuel Caceres on loan from Nueva Chicago (Argentina). COLLEGE HAWAII — Named Tom Mason defensive coordinator and Don Bailey offensive co-ordinator. ILLINOIS — Named Mike Phair co-defensive coordinator/defensive line coach. ST. ANDREWS — Named Aaron Wood women’s soccer coach.

Blue Jays beat All-Star Josh Donaldson in salary arbitration ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — All-Star third baseman Josh Donaldson has lost to the Toronto Blue Jays in salary arbitration. He was awarded $4.3 million on Friday by Steven Wolf, Robert Herzog and Gary Kendellen rather than his $5.75 million request. The 29-year-old Donaldson hit .255 with 29 home runs and 98 RBIs in 158 games last season for Oakland and was traded to Toronto in December.

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Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Brandon 56 41 9 4 2 257 174 Regina 55 30 18 4 3 202 176 Swift Current 55 26 24 1 4 165 177 Moose Jaw 55 22 29 3 1 160 203 Prince Albert 56 23 31 2 0 161 198 Saskatoon 54 16 35 2 1 153 229

Pt 88 67 57 48 48 35

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Medicine Hat 56 36 17 1 2 222 170 Calgary 55 32 18 1 4 233 161 Red Deer 54 28 18 3 5 186 177 Kootenay 56 28 27 0 1 184 206 Edmonton 57 25 26 4 2 162 161 Lethbridge 55 17 32 3 3 159 231

Pt 75 69 64 57 56 40

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 56 43 9 3 1 245 141 Victoria 55 30 21 3 1 189 170 Kamloops 57 22 29 3 3 165 206 Vancouver 56 23 30 1 2 159 195 Prince George 58 22 32 2 2 171 245

Everett Portland Seattle Spokane Tri-City

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U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 35 16 3 2 32 20 1 3 28 20 3 4 27 24 3 1 26 27 0 3

GF GA 200 149 205 183 156 150 157 167 152 174

Pt 90 64 50 49 48 Pt 75 68 63 58 55

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 5 Regina 0 Spokane 5 Brandon 4 (OT) Saskatoon 4 Calgary 2 Moose Jaw 5 Kootenay 1 Lethbridge 2 Red Deer 1 Prince George 4 Medicine Hat 2 Kamloops 3 Seattle 2 (SO) Portland 7 Tri-City 1 Kelowna 7 Victoria 3 Everett 6 Vancouver 0 Saturday’s games Spokane at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Regina at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Prince George at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Calgary at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Moose Jaw at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Vancouver at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Sunday’s games Prince Albert at Brandon, 3 p.m. Saskatoon at Kootenay, 6 p.m. Victoria at Seattle, 6:05 p.m. Monday’s games Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 1 p.m. Brandon at Regina, 1 p.m. Prince George at Edmonton, 2 p.m. Tuesday, February 17 Moose Jaw at Victoria, 1 p.m. Red Deer at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Medicine Hat at Calgary, 7 p.m. Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Portland at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Wednesday, February 18 Moose Jaw at Vancouver, 1 p.m. Red Deer at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Friday, February 20 Red Deer at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Brandon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Saskatoon at Regina, 6 p.m. Edmonton at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Moose Jaw at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Portland, 8 p.m. Calgary at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Kelowna at Victoria, 8:30 p.m. Lethbridge at Seattle, 8:35 p.m. Tri-City at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

3. Red Deer, Kopeck 16 (Bobyk, Johnson) 4:18 (pp). Penalties — Walters Let (checking to the head) 3:48, Fafard Let (high-sticking) 12:02. Shots on goal by Lethbridge 6 7 6 — 19 Red Deer 7 13 7 — 27 Goal — Lethbridge: Sittler (W, 4-11-0); Red Deer: Toth (L, 22-14-3). Power plays (goal-chances) — Lethbridge: 0-3; Red Deer: 1-6. Referees — Kyle Kowalski, Derek Zalaski. Linesmen — Chris Carlson, Cody Huseby. Attendance — 4,992 at Red Deer. NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 54 35 15 4 74 146 Tampa Bay 57 34 17 6 74 184 Detroit 53 31 13 9 71 156 Boston 55 28 20 7 63 144 Florida 54 24 19 11 59 134 Ottawa 53 21 22 10 52 145 Toronto 56 23 29 4 50 159 Buffalo 55 16 36 3 35 103

GA 122 154 134 141 151 150 173 191

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Islanders 55 36 18 1 73 173 Pittsburgh 55 32 15 8 72 160 N.Y. Rangers 53 32 16 5 69 163 Washington 55 29 16 10 68 162 Philadelphia 55 23 22 10 56 149 Columbus 53 24 26 3 51 139 New Jersey 55 21 25 9 51 123 Carolina 53 19 27 7 45 117

GA 153 139 130 139 161 164 151 141

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Nashville 55 37 12 6 80 167 St. Louis 55 36 15 4 76 176 Chicago 56 34 18 4 72 170 Winnipeg 57 28 19 10 66 155 Minnesota 54 27 20 7 61 147 Dallas 55 26 21 8 60 174 Colorado 55 22 22 11 55 140

Anaheim San Jose Vancouver Calgary Los Angeles Arizona Edmonton

GP 56 57 54 55 54 56 56

Pacific Division W L OT Pts 35 14 7 77 29 20 8 66 31 20 3 65 30 22 3 63 24 18 12 60 20 29 7 47 16 31 9 41

GF 166 162 153 159 149 128 129

GA 130 136 130 149 146 175 158 GA 155 160 142 142 147 184 184

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Friday’s Games Columbus 4, Philadelphia 3, OT Chicago 3, New Jersey 1 Dallas 2, Florida 0 San Jose 4, Arizona 2 Vancouver 5, Boston 2 Saturday’s Games Edmonton at Ottawa, 12 p.m. Toronto at Montreal, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Detroit, 5 p.m. Columbus at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. New Jersey at Nashville, 6 p.m. Carolina at Minnesota, 6 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Arizona, 6 p.m. Dallas at Colorado, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Calgary, 8 p.m. Washington at Los Angeles, 8 p.m. Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh at Chicago, 10:30 a.m. St. Louis at Florida, 3 p.m. Philadelphia at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. Washington at Anaheim, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at San Jose, 6 p.m.

Hurricanes 2, Rebels 1 First Period 1. Lethbridge, Watson 21 (Lindgren, Winther) 16:25. 2. Lethbridge, Baltram 5 (Watson) 17:38 (shorthanded-SH). Penalties — Burke Let (tripping) 6:12, Skumatov Let (holding) 9:01, Grman RD (interference) 11:41, Nielsen Let (holding) 17:20. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Estephan Let (fighting) 2:59, Adamson RD (fighting) 2:59, Fafard Let (roughing) 9:40, Musil RD (roughing) 9:40, Winther Let (hooking) 11:35, Kopeck RD (inter. on goaltender) 11:57, Maxwell RD (high-sticking) 18:34. Third Period

Goal — Philadelphia: Emery (LO, 9-9-3); Columbus: McElhinney (W, 8-9-1). Canucks 5, Bruins 2 First Period 1. Vancouver, Matthias 11 (Kassian, Dorsett) 1:41. 2. Vancouver, Matthias 12 (unassisted) 5:03. 3. Boston, Bergeron 16 (unassisted) 9:38. Penalties — Bergeron Bos (tripping) 7:21, Campbell Bos (high-sticking) 12:30, Hamhuis Vcr (boarding) 16:54. Second Period 4. Vancouver, Vrbata 21 (Higgins, Vey) 9:26. Penalties — None. Third Period 5. Boston, Kelly 7 (unassisted) 5:41. 6. Vancouver, Matthias 13 (Kassian) 6:05. 7. Vancouver, Hansen 11 (Horvat, Tanev) 18:00 (en). Penalties — Hamhuis Vcr (high-sticking) 6:23, Clendening Vcr (delay of game) 14:25. Shots on goal by Boston 10 4 9 — 23 Vancouver 7 12 6 — 25 Goal — Boston: Rask (L, 23-15-7); Vancouver: Miller (W, 26-14-1). Stars 2, Panthers 0 First Period 1. Dallas, Ja. Benn 19 (Fiddler) 9:27 (sh). 2. Dallas, Spezza 11 (Cole, Demers) 17:09. Penalties — Eaves Dal (high-sticking) 8:30. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Bjugstad Fla (hooking) 0:44, Hayes Fla (roughing) 0:44, Fiddler Dal (roughing) 0:44, Hayes Fla (roughing) 14:10, Fiddler Dal (roughing) 14:10. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — Jokinen Fla (tripping) 6:51, Kulikov Fla (game misconduct) 13:05, Kulikov Fla (Clipping Major) 13:05. Shots on goal by Florida 9 11 17 — 37 Dallas 7 7 14 — 28 Goal — Florida: Montoya (L, 4-5-2); Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 24-12-8).

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3. Philadelphia, Couturier 12 (Simmonds) 17:47. Penalties — Streit Pha (holding) 2:40, Atkinson Clb (holding) 20:00. Third Period 4. Philadelphia, Simmonds 21 (Giroux, Voracek) 5:04 (pp). 5. Columbus, Boll 1 (Tropp, Letestu) 8:38. 6. Columbus, Atkinson 12 (Hartnell, Dubinsky) 15:20. Penalties — Tropp Clb (goaltender interference) 4:32, Connauton Clb (interference) 16:18. Overtime 7. Columbus, Anisimov 3 (Wisniewski, Foligno) 2:17. Penalties — None. Shots on goal by Philadelphia 7 8 9 1 — 25 Columbus 11 11 8 3 — 33

Blackhawks 3, Devils 1 First Period 1. New Jersey, Harrold 2 (Gomez, Merrill) 15:30. Penalties — Toews Chi (tripping) 9:14, Henrique NJ (slashing) 13:22. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Jagr NJ (hooking) 13:14, Ryder NJ (interference) 19:56. Third Period 2. Chicago, Hossa 17 (Saad, Seabrook) 1:27 (pp). 3. Chicago, Toews 16 (Hossa, Seabrook) 4:10. 4. Chicago, Versteeg 10 (Kane, Keith) 19:16 (en). Penalties — Sharp Chi (hooking) 6:12, Gelinas NJ (hooking) 15:43. Shots on goal by New Jersey 8 9 7 — 24 Chicago 8 10 15 — 33 Blue Jackets 4, Flyers 3 (OT) First Period 1. Philadelphia, Simmonds 20 (Read) 10:33. Penalties — None. Second Period 2. Columbus, Dubinsky 4 (Connauton) 8:09.

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Pt 94 64 60 59 57 51 50 35

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GF GA 200 117 205 143 156 133 164 163

Pt 89 80 71 63

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x — clinched playoff berth; y — clinched division. Friday’s results Drayton Valley 3 Sherwood Park 1 Spruce Grove 3 Lloydminster 1 Camrose 2 Okotoks 1 Calgary Mustangs 4 Olds 3 (OT) Whitecourt 4 Grand Prairie 2 Canmore 4 Drumheller 0 Brooks 3 Fort McMurray 1 Saturday’s games Drumheller at Okotoks, 7 p.m. Calgary Mustangs at Canmore, 7 p.m. Lloydminster at Whitecourt, 7:30 p.m. Grand Prairie at Drayton Valley, 7:30 p.m. Brooks at Bonnyville, 7:30 p.m. Calgary Canucks at Fort McMurray, 8 p.m. Sunday’s games Calgary Canucks at Bonnyville, 2 p.m. Grand Prairie at Sherwood Park, 2:15 p.m. AHL EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Manchester 47 30 11 4 2 148 106 Providence 50 25 19 5 1 134 128 Worcester 47 25 17 3 2 135 126 Portland 49 26 20 3 0 126 112 St. John’s 51 22 22 5 2 120 156

Pt 66 56 55 55 51

NORTHEAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA 49 29 13 7 0 137 137 50 28 18 4 0 138 137 48 26 15 4 3 133 138 49 22 18 4 5 126 136 49 21 22 5 1 151 159

Pt 65 60 59 53 48

Syracuse Springfield Hartford Albany Bridgeport

Pt 63 61 49 45 44

WESTERN CONFERENCE NORTH DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Utica 47 28 13 5 1 128 111 Adirondack 49 25 20 3 1 142 136 Hamilton 49 24 19 6 0 130 126 Toronto 47 20 18 9 0 109 126 Rochester 51 22 26 3 0 154 164

Pt 62 54 54 49 47

Milwaukee Rockford Chicago Grand Rapids Lake Erie

GP 48 51 48 49 48

EAST DIVISION W L OTLSOL 28 13 5 2 28 18 2 3 22 21 4 1 20 24 3 2 19 23 5 1

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Hershey W-B/Scranton Lehigh Valley Norfolk Binghamton

MIDWEST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL 49 28 14 3 4 49 27 16 4 2 50 26 18 5 1 48 25 17 5 1 47 22 18 4 3

GF GA 144 119 130 114 143 123 150 126 131 152

Pt 63 60 58 56 51

WEST DIVISION W L OTLSOL 30 12 3 3 28 16 4 0 22 16 10 1 17 26 5 1 17 32 1 1

GF GA 151 130 160 153 145 143 103 146 118 167

Pt 66 60 55 40 36

GP Oklahoma City 48 San Antonio 48 Texas 49 Charlotte 49 Iowa 51

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 Manchester 4 Springfield 2 Hershey 1 Albany 0 San Antonio 5 Grand Rapids 4 (OT) Providence 6 Bridgeport 3 W-B/Scranton 3 Portland 0 Binghamton 3 Lehigh Valley 2 Rochester 7 Adirondack 4 Norfolk 2 Syracuse 0 Toronto 4 Hamilton 2 Chicago 1 Oklahoma City 0 Rockford 2 Milwaukee 1 Texas 3 Iowa 1 Saturday’s games Bridgeport at Manchester, 1 p.m. Worcester at St. John’s, 4 p.m. Portland at Hershey, 5 p.m. Providence at Springfield, 5 p.m. San Antonio at Grand Rapids, 5 p.m. Lehigh Valley at W-B/Scranton, 5:05 p.m. Utica at Rochester, 5:05 p.m. Syracuse at Norfolk, 5:15 p.m. Albany at Hartford, 5:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Rockford, 6 p.m. Texas at Iowa, 6 p.m.

Curling 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts QUALIFYING Friday’s results Northern Ontario (T.Horgan) 7 Yukon (Koltun) 5 N.W.T. (Galusha) 11 Yukon (Koltun) 10 (extra end) Thursday’s result Northern Ontario (T.Horgan) 10 N.W.T. (Galusha) 5 Saturday’s game (winner claims final berth in round robin) Northern Ontario (T.Horgan) vs. N.W.T. (Galusha), 1 p.m. ROUND ROBIN Saturday’s games First Draw, 1 p.m. British Columbia vs. Saskatchewan, Canada vs. Quebec, Nova Scotia vs. Newfoundland & Labrador. Second Draw, 6 p.m. New Brunswick vs. P.E.I., Manitoba vs. Ontario, Alberta vs. Qualifier, Saskatchewan vs. Canada. Sunday’s games Third Draw, 8 a.m. Alberta vs. Nova Scotia, Quebec vs. British Columbia, New Brunswick vs. Newfoundland &

Labrador. Fourth Draw, 1 p.m. Quebec vs. Qualifier, Newfoundland & Labrador vs. P.E.I., Ontario vs. Nova Scotia, Manitoba vs. British Columbia. Fifth Draw, 6 p.m. Canada vs. Ontario, Alberta vs. New Brunswick, Manitoba vs. Saskatchewan, Qualifier vs. P.E.I. Monday, Feb. 16 Sixth Draw, 8 a.m. Manitoba vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia vs. Qualifier, P.E.I. vs. British Columbia, Ontario vs. Quebec. Seventh Draw, 1 p.m. Saskatchewan vs. Quebec, British Columbia vs. Canada, Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Alberta, New Brunswick vs. Nova Scotia. Eighth Draw, 6 p.m. Qualifier vs. New Brunswick, P.E.I. vs. Alberta, Saskatchewan vs. Ontario, Canada vs. Manitoba. Tuesday, Feb. 17 Ninth Draw, 1 p.m. Ontario vs. British Columbia, Quebec vs. Manitoba, Nova Scotia vs. P.E.I., Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Qualifier. Draw 10, 6 p.m.

Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Canada, Saskatchewan vs. Nova Scotia, Quebec vs. New Brunswick, British Columbia vs. Alberta. Wednesday, Feb. 18 Draw 11, 8 a.m. Nova Scotia vs. Manitoba, Ontario vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, British Columbia vs. Qualifier, Quebec vs. P.E.I. Draw 12, 1 p.m. Quebec vs. Alberta, New Brunswick vs. British Columbia, Canada vs. Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan vs. Newfoundland & Labrador. Draw 13, 6 p.m. Saskatchewan vs. Qualifier, Canada vs. P.E.I., Ontario vs. Alberta, Manitoba vs. New Brunswick. Thursday, Feb. 19 Draw 14, 8 a.m. British Columbia vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia vs. Quebec, P.E.I. vs. Manitoba, Qualifier vs. Ontario. Draw 15, 1 p.m. P.E.I. vs. Ontario, Qualifier vs. Manitoba, New Brunswick vs. Saskatchewan, Alberta vs. Canada. Draw 16, 6 p.m. Canada vs. New Brunswick, Alberta vs. Saskatchewan, Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Quebec,

Nova Scotia vs. British Columbia. Friday, Feb. 20 Draw 17, 8 a.m. Alberta vs. Manitoba, Ontario vs. New Brunswick, Qualifier vs. Canada, P.E.I. vs. Saskatchewan. End of round robin Tiebreakers (if required)

Robert Garrigus Troy Matteson Danny Lee Tommy Gainey Oscar Fraustro Kenny Perry Benjamin Alvarado Zack Sucher Carlos Sainz Jr Charlie Wi Tim Herron Scott Brown Derek Ernst Troy Merritt Greg Owen Richard S. Johnson Roberto Castro Ben Curtis Nick Taylor Cameron Beckman John Merrick Trevor Immelman Oliver Goss David Duval Ricky Barnes Steven Bowditch Blake Adams Jason Gore Nathan Green Paul McGinley Len Mattiace Mike Weir Chris Smith Michael Weaver Roger Sloan Scott Pinckney Andrew Putnam David Carr

Fuzzy Zoeller Brad Bryant Rod Spittle Mike Goodes Bob Tway Greg Kraft John Riegger Olin Browne David Frost Mark O’Meara Jeff Hart Bernhard Langer Jerry Smith Kevin Sutherland Mark Brooks Gary Koch Gene Sauers Jeff Maggert Rocco Mediate John Cook John Huston Joey Sindelar Duffy Waldorf Billy Andrade John Harris Jeff Coston Tom Purtzer Loren Roberts Scott Hoch Jeff Sluman Jay Haas Chien Soon Lu Frank Esposito Gary Hallberg Gil Morgan Tom Byrum Wayne Levi Russ Cochran Brad Faxon Jay Don Blake Corey Pavin David Eger Blaine McCallister Tom Pernice Jr. Roger Chapman Bill Glasson Larry Mize Mark Wiebe Hale Irwin Curtis Strange Peter Senior Bob Friend Peter Jacobsen Sonny Skinner Jim Rutledge Grant Waite Steve Pate Ben Crenshaw Dana Quigley Craig Thomas Hal Sutton Nolan Henke Steve Lowery

PLAYOFFS Friday, Feb. 20 One Draw - 1 p.m. Two Draws - 1 and 6 p.m. Three Draws - 1, 6 and 10 p.m. Page Playoffs One vs. Two, 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21 Page Playoffs Three vs. Four, 9 a.m. Semifinal One-Two Loser vs. Three-Four winner, 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22 Third Place Semifinal Loser vs. Three-Four Loser, 1 p.m. Championship One-Two Winner vs. Semifinal Winner, 6 p.m.

Golf PEBBLE BEACH At p-Pebble Beach Golf Links (6,816 yards, par 72) At m-Monterey Peninsula CC, Shore Course (6,838 yards, par 71) At s-Spyglass Hill Golf Club (6,953 yards, par 72) Pebble Beach, Calif. Purse: $6.8 million Second Round Matt Jones Brandt Snedeker Justin Hicks Charlie Beljan Michael Putnam Chez Reavie Daniel Berger Alex Prugh Will Wilcox David Hearn Billy Horschel Chesson Hadley Jon Curran Nick Watney Jim Furyk Pat Perez Jason Day Daniel Summerhays J.J. Henry Alex Cejka Kevin Chappell Chad Collins Glen Day Jordan Spieth Dudley Hart Vijay Singh Rod Pampling Brian Stuard Chris Stroud Shane Lowry Vaughn Taylor Dustin Johnson Spencer Levin Greg Chalmers Whee Kim Derek Fathauer Colt Knost Matt Bettencourt John Daly Ken Duke Kyle Reifers Max Homa Andres Gonzales Tim Wilkinson Bryce Molder Andrew Loupe J.B. Holmes Patrick Reed Byron Smith Fabian Gomez David Lingmerth Jimmy Walker Ian Poulter James Hahn

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S.J. Park Stuart Appleby Hudson Swafford Bill Lunde Billy Hurley III Heath Slocum Brendon Todd Chris Kirk Cameron Smith Jim Herman Hunter Mahan Bo Van Pelt Jason Bohn Brandt Jobe Johnson Wagner Aaron Baddeley Padraig Harrington Davis Love III Kevin Na Jonas Blixt Brian Davis Billy Mayfair Zac Blair Sean O’Hair Kyle Stanley D.A. Points Dicky Pride Cameron Wilson Ryan Palmer Kevin Streelman Steve Flesch Marcel Siem Graham DeLaet Eric Axley Blayne Barber William McGirt John Huh Josh Teater Steven Alker Brandon Hagy Scott McCarron Rory Sabbatini Steve Wheatcroft Alexander Levy Scott Gardiner Tyrone Van Aswegen Jonathan Byrd Ernie Els Cameron Percy Mark Hubbard Scott Langley Jason Kokrak Ryan Armour Kevin Kisner Tom Hoge Michael Thompson Seung-Yul Noh Richard Sterne Sam Saunders Jim Renner John Rollins Tom Lehman Ryuji Imada Jonathan Randolph

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ACE GROUP CLASSIC At TwinEagles GC (Talon) Naples, Fla. Purse: $1.6 million Yardage: 7,193; Par 72 First Round Colin Montgomerie Tommy Armour III Lee Janzen Kirk Triplett Bobby Wadkins Marco Dawson Wes Short, Jr. Esteban Toledo Scott Dunlap Paul Goydos Michael Allen Brian Henninger Jose Coceres Bart Bryant Dan Forsman Sandy Lyle Stephen Ames Bob Gilder

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B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015

Argos play home opener in Fort McMurray UNABLE TO PLAY IN TORONTO OR EDMONTON, TEAMS START SEASON IN NORTHERN ALBERTA BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Argonauts are listed as the host team, but they will be almost 2,600 kilometres from Toronto when they open their 2015 CFL season — and it will be well into August before they finally return to Rogers Centre. The CFL released its 2015 schedule on Friday, and what was expected to be a messy timetable because of the Pan American Games and the FIFA Women’s World Cup still delivered some surprises. Several CFL clubs are impacted, but none more so than the Argos, who burn a home date hosting the Edmonton Eskimos at Shell Place in Fort McMurray in the season opener for both teams on June 27. The Eskimos need to vacate Commonwealth Stadium that day because of a pair of World Cup quarter-final matches, but the situation is not nearly as dire for Edmonton, which doesn’t lose a home date and gets to play an away game close to home. “It’s not an ideal situation obviously,” Argonauts executive chairman and chief executive officer Chris Rudge said. “It’s not ideal for our fans, it’s not ideal for our football team in terms of it being our home game in Edmonton’s backyard. So let’s not kid ourselves, it’s not what we would have chosen to do under normal circumstances.” After the Argos play their opener in what is sure to be a hostile environment, they play four more games on the road as southern Ontario hosts the Pan Am Games before finally returning home to host the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Aug. 8. Rudge said the Argos were hoping for a more balanced schedule, but the

list of available dates provided by Rogers forced the team to bunch up its home games in the second half of the season. “We couldn’t get in there until Aug. 8, and then we had six weeks in a row in October and November. And so, when you look at that, and we discussed it with the league, that’s not an ideal situation,” Rudge said. “I mean we’ve got lots of weekend games in there, but you would like to have a more balanced schedule. We do recognize the Rogers facility is in great demand for any number of activities, not just baseball, and we had to work around the 10 dates we were given.” The Argos play five of their last six games at home. Rudge said the team gave up one of the home dates offered late in the season to avoid being bumped if the Toronto Blue Jays, the primary tenant at Rogers Centre, make the baseball post-season. The 2015 schedule is the latest hurdle for the Argos. The CFL team’s lease at Rogers Centre expires after the 2017 season and won’t be renewed, and owner David Braley has been actively trying to sell the club. Rudge is hopeful schedule relief will come in the future if the Argos can move into BMO Field, home of Major League Soccer’s Toronto FC. “This is not the best situation for our fans, let’s not candy-coat it,” Rudge said. “I know Mr. Braley and others are having conversations, and we hope something will happen in the not-toodistant future that will see us affect a lease with (Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment) to play in BMO Field. If that happens, that’s probably the biggest piece of good news our fans could get.” The July 10-26 Pan Am Games al-

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The Argonauts are listed as the host team, but they will be almost 2,600 kilometres from Toronto when they open their 2015 CFL season — and it will be well into August before they finally return to Rogers Centre. The CFL released its 2015 schedule on Friday, and what was expected to be a messy timetable because of the Pan American Games and the FIFA Women’s World Cup still delivered some surprises. so affected Hamilton, which opens its season against the Grey Cup champion Calgary Stampeders and plays its first four games on the road before coming home to Tim Hortons Field to host the Argos on Aug. 3. The regular season kicks off with the Ottawa Redblacks visiting the Montreal Alouettes on June 25 — the first

of 10 regular-season Thursday night games during the summer months. Winnipeg opens its season in Regina against rival Saskatchewan, while the B.C. Lions have a Week 1 bye before opening in Ottawa. The 2015 season culminates with the 103rd Grey Cup on Nov. 29 at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg.

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Milos Raonic returns the ball to Russia’s Andrey Kuznetsov during their first round match of the 42nd ABN AMRO world tennis tournament at Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015. Raonic won in three sets 6-7, 6-1, 7-5.

Raonic off to semifinals BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Canada’s Milos Raonic advanced to the semifinals at the World Tennis Tournament with a three-set win over Ukraine’s Sergiy Stakhovsky on Friday. Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., came back from a tough start and fired five of his six aces in the decisive third set in a 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Stakhovsky. The second-seeded Raonic will face Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka in Saturday’s semifinal round. Wawrinka advanced with a 7-6 (3), 6-3 quarter-final win over Gilles Muller of Luxembourg. Earlier Friday, Gilles Simon secured his first win over top-seeded Andy Murray in nearly eight years to set up a semifinal with defending champion Tomas Berdych. Since Simon’s previous win over Murray in 2007 on clay at the Rome Masters, the Frenchman had lost 12 matches against the former Wimbledon champion. Simon saved four of the six break points he faced, and capitalized on Murray’s unforced errors to win 6-4, 6-2 on his third match point.

Earlier, Berdych escaped unscathed from a heavy fall and romped to a 6-1, 6-4 victory over another Frenchman, Gael Monfils. The Czech hit a flurry of baseline winners and served extremely well, winning 88 per cent of the points on his first serve. The third-seeded Berdych needed just 23 minutes to seal the first set, and broke for 2-1 in the second soon after calling the trainer to have his left wrist checked following his tumble when chasing a drop shot. “It was a nasty fall,” Berdych said. “I’ll have to see how it evolves, but hopefully I will fully recover for the semifinals.” Monfils attended to the hard-hitting Czech after he slipped, stepping across the net to help him back on his feet, and picking up his racket. “The score may give the impression it was an easy victory, but it was a tough fight,” Berdych said. “I really had to go all out.” Berdych has been in impressive form since the start of the year under the helm of new coach Dani Vallverdu, reaching the final in Doha before making the Australian Open semifinals.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Hockey might be the streakiest of all the major professional sports, a mystery exemplified no better than by the Minnesota Wild this season. One month ago, they were a self-defeating mess summed up succinctly at the time by All-Star defenceman Ryan Suter: “I don’t know what the heck is going on. Every day’s a bad day.” Buoyed by the acquisition of goalie Devan Dubnyk, the Wild have now gone 9-1-2 in their last 12 games to zoom back into contention for the playoffs. Their record was third-worst in the Western Conference on Jan. 14, with a 2-8-4 mark in their previous 14 games, the day they traded for Dubnyk. Now they’re in ninth place, one spot out. The contrast in confidence cannot be overstated. “You learn to win in every different kind of way and every different kind of situation,” Dubnyk said after a 2-1 win over Florida on Thursday. “We’ve been doing that through this run here, and it just makes you feel like going into every game like you can win every game. That’s a fun way to play hockey. That’s a really nice feeling, and we’re going to hold onto it and keep working to keep that feeling.” So what’s the difference with this team that advanced to the second round last spring and returned with the experience, talent and potential to make another run? Well, Dubnyk has been nothing but brilliant, starting all 12 games in the net since his arrival in a trade with Arizona and allowing only 17 goals. The old NHL adage about a hot goalie being a team’s best asset has never been truer here. Dubnyk has deftly controlled rebounds and played loose pucks, while freezing them at the right times to give the thriving penalty kill unit a rest. In eight games since the All-Star break, covering 22 power plays by their opponents, the Wild have not allowed a goal while playing short-handed. The penalty killers and the net-minder have been playing off of each other. “I think the further we go in the season, the 5-on-5 is going to get tougher and tougher,” captain Mikko Koivu said. “Teams are tight. Teams know how to play their systems, so special teams are huge.” The power play group, while ranked 26th in the league at a scoring rate of a mere 16.1 per cent, has been sharper lately, too.

NBA All-Star game takes over the bitterly cold Big Apple BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The NBA’s All-Star show has arrived on Brrr-oadway. After years of performing only in warm-weather cities in the South and West, the midseason spectacle has come back to the bitterly cold Big Apple, where the most popular person at the player hotel Friday may not have been LeBron James or Stephen Curry, but the one handing out complimentary hot chocolates in the lobby. Players love being in New York and can’t wait for the curtain to rise at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, but the bright lights in the big city aren’t doing anything to help the teeth-chattering chilly temperatures down below. “New York is cold as hell, man. But it’s nice, it’s cool,” Miami’s Dwyane Wade said. “I feel like the AllStar had to be in New York one of these years. Since I’ve been in the league, 12 years now, it hasn’t been in New York and it’s mind-boggling that it hasn’t, but I think it’s cool that it’s finally here. There’s just a different vibe in New York than anywhere else.” Wade is injured and can’t play Sunday, but the guys who will say it will be a special night because it will be on one of their favourite stages. “It’s going to be the best All-Star Game for me, to be able to be in the Garden,” James said. “I love my fans back in Cleveland. I loved my fans when I was in Miami. But if I could have 82 regular-season games in the Garden, you know I would, because it’s the

mecca of basketball. You get a great feeling when you walk in there because there is so much history. It’s going to be fun.” The game hasn’t been in New York since 1998, Michael Jordan’s last with the Chicago Bulls and the first of many for Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan. The NBA’s preference has been places where it’s warm in February, and cities such as Houston and New Orleans have hosted it multiple times in recent years. But when the Garden underwent a three-year renovation and Barclays Center in Brooklyn was built, both with $1 billion price tags, the league decided the venues would share the weekend. The Rising Stars challenge and All-Star Saturday night went to the home of the Nets, with the game set for the Knicks’ home court. Players arrived to find painfully cold temperatures in the teens, feeling much lower with the wind, and snow possible on Sunday, when the forecast was for a low near zero degrees. Sacramento’s DeMarcus Cousins, who usually spends All-Star weekend back home in Alabama, was still wearing his winter hat when he conducted his media day interviews in a hotel ballroom. The Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony wasn’t worried about showing players around the city because “nobody wants to be in this cold anyway.” “You talk about people that’s in other cold climates that’s complaining that they’re cold,” he added. That would include Wade, who grew up in Chicago and played in Milwaukee at Marquette, making him

somewhat of an expert on frozen tundras. “It’s cold, but Milwaukee is COLD,” he said. “I think Milwaukee is colder than Chicago. Seriously, when I was in Milwaukee, there was a couple of days I thought about not playing basketball ever again. I didn’t want to walk to class it was so cold. I was like, I don’t know if this life is for me. But this is cold, but it ain’t got nothing on Milwaukee cold.” Still, Wade said, he would play outdoors as a kid because he loved the game, just as kids were doing outside a community centre where James, Curry and Commissioner Adam Silver appeared at an NBA Cares clinic, one of the 100 the league conducted Friday around the city’s five brrr-oughs. Silver had said earlier this week the weather was always the biggest All-Star concern for the league. “I’m very happy so far that while it’s a little colder than I would have liked, most importantly we don’t have a lot of snow, and the latest I’ve heard is that the airports are clear and people are able to get around easy in the city,” he said after the event. The game will be a vintage New York show, featuring performances by the Rockettes and some Broadway musical actors. Anthony is battling a knee injury that could end his season after the All-Star break, but he’s continued playing to take part in a weekend he says New Yorkers will never forget. “This is one of the cities that I think most guys look forward to coming to,” added Portland’s LaMarcus Aldridge. “It’s a fun city. There’s always a lot going on. It’s the fashion capital. I think guys love coming here.”

YOUTH

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Girl put in ‘friend zone’ wants explanation Dear Harlan: I was talking to this I don’t know if I’m controlling or guy exclusively for a month or so, and just being concerned, but they hang out of nowhere, he put me in the friend out a lot late at night and she’s becomzone without telling me how he felt. ing more distant. Should I confront him about it, or She told me they had a history in just let it go? — Friend Zoned the past and it makes me uncomfortDear Friend Zoned: What able that they’ve been going is “talking exclusively for a out. month”? Did he know that What’s the best way to he was in an exclusive talkapproach her and not look ing relationship with you? insecure? — Too Close for Did you sign a “talking exComfort clusively” agreement? Dear Too Close: Some I know you felt like you women don’t get why this is had something special, and a problem. it was, but he didn’t do anyI get it, but I’m not your thing that deserves a congirlfriend. I’m also not insefrontation. He doesn’t owe cure, controlling, jealous or you a relationship. stupid. I wouldn’t want my He can offer you an exwife sharing deep secrets planation sharing why he with a man she’s kissed in decided to end the excluthe past. I especially don’t HARLAN sive talking arrangement, want her sharing intimate COHEN but that’s all. secrets with a man she’s Your question tells me been naked with in the that you’ve put a lot into past. this relationship. Maybe you shouldn’t I know how relationships from the be in an exclusive talking relationship past can reignite years after fizzling with anyone at the moment. Maybe the out. Because I respect my wife and fact that you’re so upset is a reflection our relationship, I purposefully avoid of something you’re lacking in your close relationships with women from own life. my past. It’s not about control — it’s It’s a big emotional investment for about respect. I don’t want to do anysomething that was never romantic. thing to jeopardize my relationship. Attacking him or accusing him of doing I also wouldn’t expect my wife to something wrong will push him away spend time with an ex sharing secrets. from anything more. If you’re not controlling, then don’t There’s nothing wrong with explain- tell her what to do or what not to do. ing how much you enjoyed talking to Lovingly explain that this is about sethim and you’re disappointed it ended. ting healthy boundaries and respectAsk him what changed. If he tells you ing your current relationship. You he’s talking to another girl, don’t con- can sensitively ask her to not spend so front or accuse him of cheating. Tell much time with her close male friend him you hope you can be friends, and because you’re too emotionally investrespect him and his boundaries — as- ed. You can suggest that you all go out suming you can do it without blaming, as a group (or not). hating or resenting him. If this is upsetting to her or she feels Dear Harlan: How do I tell my girl- like you’re controlling, decide what to friend that I feel uncomfortable with do next. She might choose the friendher close friendship with another guy? ship over you — it might be that im-

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portant to her. If she can’t respect your feelings she should be with a man who encourages her to spend late nights with a man she used to date. Dear Harlan: I want a deeper commitment. My boyfriend doesn’t want to commit. I’ve asked him to explain why it’s so hard for him, and he tells me he just doesn’t have the time to invest in something bigger. What advice do you have for relationships where the level of commitment is different between the partners? — Miss Matched Dear Miss Matched: The mistake is sticking around if he can’t give you what you want. When your boyfriend tells you he doesn’t want a deeper commitment, it means he’s NOT looking for a deeper commitment with YOU. When he tells you he doesn’t have the time to invest, it means he does NOT want to take the time to invest with YOU. Let me simplify this: You want something he can’t give you. It’s disappointing, frustrating and sad. But it’s not complicated. The only question is if and when he’ll be ready. The biggest mistake is thinking you can persuade him to be in a serious relationship. You can only be with someone who can give you what you want. Ask him if and when he will be ready for something deeper. If he’s not in a place to know if or when, be prepared to end it. Once you move on, he’ll have more than enough free time to think about how much he misses you. Maybe then he’ll be ready to invest the time and emotion. Dear Harlan: My boyfriend likes to make me mad by telling me negative things about our relationship. He’ll tell me, “We should not be together” and “We should break up.” He knows it upsets me. Should I take him seriously when he talks about breaking up with him, or is

he just being a guy? — Tired of Threats Dear Tired: It’s not called “being a guy” — it’s called “being emotionally abusive.” Purposefully upsetting you isn’t loving, it’s manipulative. He does this because he knows that it upsets you and that you’ll put up with it. He does it so you are constantly afraid he’ll end it. He does it for control. Why do you put up with it? You can do SO much better than him. Healthy guys in loving relationships don’t treat women like this. It’s cruel. This is a weak man trying to break you down so you’ll never find the power to demand the respect you deserve. Dear Harlan: There’s a girl I’ve been sleeping with, and I don’t want to take it any further than that — but I also don’t want her to feel like I just want sex. Sometimes I want to not have a sexual relationship with her, and even though I’ve told her so multiple times, I can’t say no to her. What do I do? — Know Better Dear Know Better: If you’re so powerless that you can’t do what you feel is right and say what you think, it’s time to get professional help. Figure out the real problem — and it’s not sex. My guess? There’s something bigger that you’re trying to avoid. Sleeping with this girl keeps you from having to face it. Sleeping with her puts you into a cycle of shame. Instead of facing your real problems, you can focus on your dysfunctional, unhealthy and disruptive relationship with her. You need a therapist and a support system in place so that you can say “no” and face the bigger problem. 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.

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The monsters in Evolve (2K Games, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, $59.99) don’t seem that scary at first glance. Ugly, yes, but nothing your arsenal of flamethrowers and rocket launchers can’t handle. Unfortunately, if you leave the critters alone for just a few minutes they mutate into bone-crushing behemoths that can make short work of a bunch of puny humans. It may not be what Charles Darwin had in mind, but evolution on the planet Shear really does come down to survival of the fittest. That tension is the key to Evolve, a five-player slugfest that brings some clever innovations to the popular but somewhat stale realm of online combat. It starts with the video-game industry’s latest buzz phrase, “asymmetric multiplayer”: Evolve is a fourversus-one contest, with four human hunters ganging up on one particularly vicious creature. The Wraith is a Lovecraftian horror that mows down enemies with razor-sharp blades, teleports across long distances and summons decoys to distract the hunters. The Kraken backs up swings of its deadly tentacles with bursts of chain lightning. The Goliath is a musclebound monstrosity that also breathes fire. There are four types of hunters. Assault units have the biggest guns. Trappers are good at figuring out where the monster is and making it stay put once you have it surrounded. Medics keep teammates healthy. Support units have an assortment of talents, such as cloaking fellow hunters, calling down bomb strikes and deploying turret guns. As you gain experience, you can unlock more hunters with fresh talents. Each mission in Evolve takes about 10 minutes, provided you survive that long. The core mode is Hunt: Find the beast and kill it. In Rescue, the hunters need to find and protect human survivors; in Nest, they search for and crush monster eggs. Defend mode sets up generators that the hunters need to protect from rampaging minions. All those mission types are combined in Evacuation, a five-match challenge in which each scenario is affected by the successes and failures of the one before it. All this runs fairly smoothly, and in the few days since the game launched, I haven’t had any trouble finding the type of competition I wanted with the

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Study confirms approach to stroke care BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian and international researchers have shown a new approach to treating some devastating strokes could dramatically lower the toll these brain attacks cause. The new technique, which involves extracting large clots from the brain arteries they block, should substantially lower the number of deaths caused by stroke and make an enormous difference in poststroke quality of life, several research teams reported at the American Stroke Association conference in Nashville, Tenn. “Basically we saw that people who would end up in a nursing home were walking home back into their lives,” Dr. Michael Hill, director of the stroke unit at Calgary’s Foothills Hospital and senior author of one of the papers, said in an interview. Hill, a neurologist, is also a professor at the University of Calgary. “So it’s a pretty big deal for us in the stroke world.” Hill’s study, which reports results of a clinical trial testing the procedure in five countries, was published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, which also published an Australian paper investigating the same technique. Both were presented at the Nashville conference, along with a third that found similar results. All three were stopped early when it became clear that the new procedure was more effective than the treatment it was tested against, the standard of care for strokes caused by clots. The standard treatment is to use a drug, tPA, which breaks up the clot. It must be used as quickly as possible and is not effective if it is not given within 4 ½ hours of a stroke occurring. “This is a once-in-a-generation advance in stroke care,” the head of one study, Dr. Jeffrey Saver, stroke chief at the University of California, Los Angeles, told The Associated Press. An independent expert, Dr. Lee Schwamm of Massachusetts General Hospital, called it “a real turning point in the field.” For many patients, “this is the difference between returning home and not returning home,” although only certain types of patients can be offered it, he said. Stroke care “needs to be completely changed” to make the treatment more widely available, said Dr.

More travellers returning with painful new mosquito virus BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thousands of travellers to the Caribbean and nearby regions are coming home with an unwanted souvenir: a mosquito-borne virus that recently settled there. The virus, called chikungunya (chih-kihn-GOON’yuh), causes severe, often disabling joint pain, and few U.S. doctors are prepared to recognize its signs. At one New York City hospital, a woman arrived in such agony she had to be admitted just to control her pain. “Thinks she has chicken virus??” the mystified staff wrote on the medical chart after interviewing the patient. Since it spread from Asia and Africa in late 2013, chikungunya has infected a million people in the Caribbean, Latin America and parts of South America and Mexico. Actress Lindsay Lohan recently said she got it while in French Polynesia. In the U.S. alone, more than 2,300 travellers since last May have brought home the virus, which has nothing to do with chickens. About a dozen people have gotten it from mosquito bites in Florida. The virus can cause fever, a rash, headache and joint pain, mostly in the arms and legs, that can lasts for month and in some cases, even years. Symptoms usually start three to seven days after the mosquito bite. It happened to Marisa Hargrove, who went to a Miami emergency room with joint pain so bad her husband had to help her to the bathroom. A doctor ran tests for common illnesses “and basically called me his mystery case of the day,” she said. Back home and getting sicker, she searched her symptoms on the Internet and returned to the hospital. “Is it possible it’s this new chikungunya?” she asked. “The doctor looked at me like I was crazy and said, ’What the heck is that?”’ A blood test confirmed she had it, and the 42-yearold Miami woman became one of the first Americans to have caught chikungunya from local mosquitoes. State health officials say at least 11 people have been infected in Florida, and they worry the virus will become established there. Florida is not the only state at risk. The mosquitoes that spread chikungunya live throughout the South, West and Eastern seaboard of the U.S. Local mosquitoes that bite a traveller infected with the virus can pass it on when they bite others. “We’re very concerned” about travellers because Tennessee has the mosquitoes and climate to let the disease take hold, Abelardo Moncayo of that state’s Department of Health told an audience at an American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference in New Orleans in November. “Anywhere that’s warm and humid and can sustain mosquitoes year round. So Florida, Texas, any of those Southern states, it could happen,” said Stephen Higgs, a Kansas State University infectious disease expert and an editor of a scientific journal on mosquito-spread diseases.

Walter Koroshetz, acting director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The new procedure requires doctors to work swiftly to diagnose the cause of the stroke. Some are caused by bleeding in the brain and cannot be treated this way. Once the cause is determined to be a clot, the clotbusting drug is administered. But with really large clots — which cause the most damage in survivors — the drug sometimes isn’t enough to open the artery and re-establish blood flow to the brain. With this new technique, doctors made an incision in the patient’s groin and snaked a catheter up into the brain, to the site of the clot. They threaded a retrievable stent — a small tube — over the clot, trapping it inside. The stent was then removed. In the Canadian-led study, people who had their clots removed were nearly 50 per cent less likely to die from their stroke, and survivors had substantially fewer consequences of the brain attack. Still, this is a technique that cannot be rolled out overnight. Even getting hospitals to use tPA on all patients who would benefit from it has been tough slogging, said Dr. Stephen Phillips, a Halifax-based stroke neurologist who was an investigator in the Canadian-led trial. The new technique involves more sophisticated imaging and requires the skills of highly trained interventional radiologists, Phillips said. Even at his institution — the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, which took part in the trial — adjustments will need to be made to be able to offer this level of care around the clock. Talks have been underway to try to find ways to extend this type of care to the rest of Nova Scotia, he said, but “we don’t have a clear plan of action yet about how we’re going to do it.” “It’s not straightforward. There are lots of logistical hurdles.” The Canadian-led study was funded in part by Medtronic, which makes the retrievable stent.

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This photo provided by Covidien shows their stent used to clear blood clots in the brain that cause strokes. Patients treated with these brain stents were far more likely to be alive and able to live independently three months after their stroke, doctors said at an American Stroke Association conference in Nashville.

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The Red Deer Arts Council kicked off what may become a new tradition with its first ever fundraiser on Jan. 31. Three hundred people packed into Festival Hall for the soldout event to raise money for the organization’s Emerging Artist Award and general operations. The Arts Council is a Red Deer charity with a mandate to lead the celebration and appreciation of visual, performing and literary arts in the community. It was formed in 2010 through the amalgamation of several existing arts and culture non-profit organizations. It provides arts scholarships, provides public education and workshops, and operates the Kiwanis Gallery in the Red Deer Public Library. The Emerging Artist Award was created with legacy funds from the Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Artist Awards Gala held in Red Deer in 2013. The first ever winner, Alysse Bowd, gave a special pre-recorded presentation at the Jan. 31 fundraiser. In addition to enjoying samples of more than 30 recipes of craft beer and a variety of appetizers, the crowd bid on a wide array of “experiential” arts and culture auction items and danced elbow-to-elbow to St. James’ Gate late into the evening. The highlight auction item was an opportunity to build an acoustic guitar under the guidance of master guitar maker David Gilmore. Other live auction items included an al fresco barbecue with hosts Morris and Hazel Flewwelling, learning to make Peking duck and a full menu of accompanying dishes from Chef Peter Lao for a party of eight friends, and picking up four tickets to the sold-out 2015 Sheraton Celebrity Dance Off. The Arts Council appreciates the support of the many, many donors, volunteers and supporters who made this spectacular event possible.

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NEW BUILDING PLANNED, FUNDS BEING RAISED BY GROUP DEDICATED TO HELPING SINGLE PREGNANT WOMEN COPY ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING HAS BEEN EMAILED,SZ BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre has purchased one building and three empty lots in downtown Red Deer to develop a housing project for young, single pregnant women. In April, the non-profit agency will begin renovating the top floor of the Central Alberta Trade and Labour Society building, at 5116 47th St., as the first phase of the project to create living space for four women and onsite staff, ready for occupation in the fall. A new building will be constructed by 2017 for the second phase of the project. It will be attached to first phase and will include seven small suites on the second and third floors. The care centre, currently located at 4610 48th Ave., will move its offices onto the main floor of the facility located between 51st and 52nd Avenues. Anne Waddell, executive director of Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre, said providing a safe and healthy supportive housing environment for young women has always been part of centre’s vision. “In Alberta there are some other housing projects, but they’re not linked to pregnancy care centres so we’re

kind of a leading centre in that way. Edmonton and Calgary are interested in watching what we’re doing,” Waddell said. “We’re excited. There is such a need for it and our clients are speaking the loudest. Not a week goes by when we don’t have a client that could use it.” The Christian agency provides support and education to individuals and families impacted by unplanned pregnancy, regardless of age, gender or religion. “Regardless of what they choose to do, we’re here for them.” The centre sees over 300 new clients a year. Services are confidential and free of charge. They include prenatal education, counselling, parenting programs, adoption support, programs about healthy relationships, and male mentorship. In March 2014, the centre opened an office in Olds. Waddell said the housing program is about removing barriers for women, age 17 to 25, to carry their pregnancy to term and equip them with life and parenting skills. Mothers will be able to stay until their baby reaches the age of two to give the women an opportunity to prepare for the future and provide a stable environment during a critical time in a child’s development. Rental costs to the mothers at the

An artist’s rendering of the planned new home of the Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre. facility are still being determined. “Although there is subsidized housing for our clients, the environments are not always a very healthy place for them to go through a pregnancy, or to bring a newborn back to.” The capital cost for the total housing project is about $5 million. To date, $2 million has been raised. Fundraising begins in March and will include the Easter production That

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Karli Kendall, Paul Sutherland and Nicole Leal react after Kendall has a turn at playing Bopit Extreme during the Retro Gaming Night at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library on Thursday. The special one-night event had participants playing a variety of video, board and handheld games. Some of the games featured included Pac Man, Space Invaders, Wii, XBox 360, Mario Starcatcher and others. It’s a fun way to get people into the library, said adult services manager Briana Ehnes.

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will tell about how he turned his life’s tribulations into something positive. This will be followed by a Hub party, with DJ Dread rocking the house. Everyone is welcome to the free event, sponsored by the Central Alberta FASD Network. It starts at 7 p.m.

Another flu death in region, bringing total to eight

Two women face charges of health claim fraud

The number of flu-related deaths in Central Alberta has climbed to eight. Statistics released by Alberta Health Services on Thursday showed flu-related deaths in AHS Central Zone this flu season increased from seven as of Feb. 5. Across the province, flu-related deaths rose to 73 from 65. The number of Albertans admitted to hospital with the flu this season now stands at 1,330, up from 1,258. In Central Zone, hospitalizations are now at 136, up from 119. So far, Central Zone has confirmed 510 cases of influenza A and 57 influenza B. Across Alberta, there have been 3,819 lab-confirmed cases of influenza A and 289 of influenza B. In Alberta, 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine have been administered, including 113,640 in Central Zone.

Two Red Deer women face charges in connection with more than $119,000 worth of fraudulent health insurance claims. Red Deer RCMP began their investigation in August 2010 after a large number of fraudulent claims were discovered during a Blue Cross audit of employee coverage at Olymel between Jan. 1, 2007, and Jan. 31, 2010. The fraud involved over 100 employees and has taken years to piece together due to the large number of small invoices involved. Police allege two women encouraged a number of employees to sign blank claim forms that the women then submitted to Alberta Blue Cross with false receipts. The women then received a significant percentage of each claim payout. Numerous interviews and the examination of hundreds of files show that most of the claims were for massages and used business names that were similar to those of local businesses. Donna Nast, 41, is charged with fraud over $5,000, drawing or executing a document without authorization to defraud, and use of a forged document. Nast is scheduled to appear in Red Deer provincial court on March 3. Noralyn Zadrozny, 42, is charged with fraud over $5,000 and use of a

Fetal alcohol discussion, then a party at The Hub First some inspiring talk, then the party. The Shake the Blues event on Tuesday at The Hub on Ross features motivational speaker Blair Charters, who will speak about living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Charters

Towering Cross, by Andrew Kooman, with music by Kimberly Messer, on March 26, 27 and 28 at the Memorial Centre. “Through the choir we have over 20 churches being represented, coming together to help with a family musical production,” Waddell said. For more information, visit www. pregnancycare.ca or call 403-343-1611. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

forged document. She is scheduled to appear in court on March 5.

Beware of romance when it blooms online: police Red Deer RCMP are warning people about romance scams that sometimes spring up even on legitimate online dating sites. Beware of scammers who push into a whirlwind romance full of promises and claims of love. Sometimes scammers purchase gifts or flowers, often with stolen credit cards. But the real steal happens when the predators descend into tales of hardship and desperation for money. They often don’t leave until the victim or victims have no money left. Then the scammer leaves the victim hurt, confused and out of a lot of money. Scammers create fake profiles on legitimate dating websites. Police advise never to send money or give credit card or online account details to someone you don’t know. Don’t give out personal information in emails or when chatting online. Police say people who make frequent trips to the bank, withdrawing unusually large sums of money ($500 to $3,000) may be scam victims. Large wire transfers to countries in Eastern Europe, Africa or Asia may also be indications of scams. If you know you have been a victim of an Internet romance scam or any other type of fraud, contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-4958501 or www.antifraudcentre.ca. If you want to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit. com.

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Central Alberta’s regional Priority Crimes Task Force is making some headway in the area of vehicle theft. From Jan. 26 to Feb. 8, police have charged at least eight people in relation to stolen property found, including five stolen vehicles in Sylvan Lake, Red Deer and Calgary. On Jan. 26, Red Deer RCMP received a report of a suspicious vehicle and located it in an alley north of Jordan Parkway, where the vehicle had become stuck in a snowbank. Two men who had been in the vehicle fled on foot when police arrived. The driver was located in his residence nearby, while the passenger was found by another officer a short distance away. The vehicle had been reported stolen from Calgary. Police charged a 33-year-old Red Deer man with two counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000 and failure to comply with a probation order. A 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old face charges related to stolen property and drugs stemming from a traffic stop also on Jan. 26. On Jan. 28, Red Deer police received a complaint of a suspicious vehicle on Welliver Street. Police heard that the occupant of the vehicle was attempting to get into the caller’s home. RCMP confirmed the vehicle was stolen and arrested the suspect without incident. Police also seized several stolen licence plates and break-in tools. A 44-year-old man from Gull Lake faces several charges, including possession of stolen property, possession of breakin tools and driving while disqualified. On Feb. 5, Red Deer police were called to the Comfort Inn to deal with suspicious persons in the parking lot. A man and woman were taken into custody. The black Toyota Sequoia they were in was stolen from Calgary. Stolen property was also seized from the vehicle. A 38-year-old Calgary man was charged with use of a forged document, avoiding arrest, possession of stolen property under $5,000, possession of stolen property over $5,000 and failure to comply with undertaking or recognizance. A 23-year-old Red Deer woman is charged with possession of stolen property under $5,000 and failure to comply with undertaking or recognizance. On Feb. 8, police received a report of a suspicious female in a Honda Accord on Queensgate Crescent. The vehicle had been stolen from Sylvan Lake. RCMP discovered the woman was also wanted on several warrants. A 33-yearold woman is charged with possession of stolen property under $5,000, resisting or obstructing a peace officer. The task force is made up of police officers from Red Deer RCMP general investigative section (GIS), Sylvan Lake, Innisfail and Blackfalds RCMP detachments and is supported by Lacombe Police Service.

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A different side of Big Sugar BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Fans used to the big, booming Big Sugar sound are in for something richer and mellower when frontman Gordie Johnson brings his blues-rock band — plus additional “Rasta elders” — to Red Deer this month. “No one needs to bring any ear-plugs,” said Johnson. At the same time, don’t expect a minimalistic MTV Unplugged experience at the acoustic Big Sugar concert on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Red Deer College Arts Centre. A minimum of eight musicians will be on stage, playing everything from a horn to a goat-skin-covered African nyabingi drum “with some fur still on it. That’s roots music for you, right there!” said a chuckling Johnson. He describes a percussion-heavy, acoustic reggae sound with some blues grooves. “The people on stage each night are really impressive — like an acoustic orchestra. ... There’s a very spiritual feeling,” added the now Texas-based local singer/guitarist. The band will be playing some new songs, as well as re-interpretions of Big Sugar standards. Acoustic performances aren’t new for Big Sugar — only for the band’s listeners, said Johnson. “This is how we play the songs for ourselves,” informally, on the tour bus or while jamming in the backstage lounge. “For us, it’s a real treat to play the songs this way for an audience. We’re very comfortable doing it and sharing it with people is very gratifying.” The 13 languidly-paced tracks on the band’s latest acoustic album Yardstyle encompass classics like Turn The Lights On and the new cuts, Calling All the Youth and Police Bway the Vampire. The album features the talents of reggae legend Willi Williams and an extended family of “brethren,” some of which might appear live in Red Deer as supporting musicians. Johnson, who was raised in Medicine Hat and still has family in Red Deer along with horses and cattle at an area ranch, promised a concert “like the sound of Negril (Jamaica) at night.” But the exact musical lineup will be a surprise. The core of Big Sugar (bassist Garry Lowe, drummer Stephane “Bodean” Beaudin, horn player Kelly “Mr Chill” Hoppe and toastmaster DJ Friendlyness) will play in Red Deer, along with members of Johnson’s extended musical family. “We’ll be bringing some Rasta elders ... and people from other bands will be guesting on different nights,” said the singer.

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Gordie Johnson brings his blues-rock band — plus additional “Rasta elders” — to Red Deer this month for an acoustic show. Who the extras are will depend on availability. “They’ll try to work it into their schedules so they can play with us.” This kind of loose approach was also taken with Yardstyle, which was recorded while the musicians basically jammed. “It wasn’t done like in a modern recording studio where first they record the drums, then the bass and guitars, and the singing last. We just played and let them record us,” said Johnson. The way the songs came out on the album was pretty much how they were played: “That was us.” When it came to picking songs for acoustic reinterpretation, “we just did the ones that are a lot of fun to play,” said Johnson. He believes listeners will to surprised to hear how well hard-rocking songs like

Digging A Hole work with an acoustic rendering. “They probably don’t know that song was originally worked out on a banjo.” A 70-to-90-year-old banjo will be used during the concert because Johnson believes antique, thoroughly worn-in instruments produce a mellower “more complex and rich sound.” Of course, there will also be the hand-stretched nyabingi drum. “It’s the first great acoustic instrument,” Johnson has stated. “That’s the heartbeat sound, you know?” Tickets to the 8 p.m. concert, presented by the Central Music Festival Society, are $54.60 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Central Alberta musician Bill Bourne comes to the Golden Circle on Feb. 21.

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Red Deer College visual art technician Dan Anhorn holds his piece titled Feast, which will be on display during the Red Deer College School of Creative Arts faculty and staff art exhibit at the Welikoklad Event Centre at the City Centre Stage.

A chance to see the artistic side of RDC Creative Arts faculty and staff BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A cyclone, cattle and cubic designs are all part of a Red Deer College art show being held in downtown Red Deer. RDC School of Creative Arts art exhibit at the Welikoklad Event Centre gives the public a chance to see some paintings, prints, sculptures, installation works and ceramics pieces created by faculty and staff at the college.

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Red Deer College visual art instructor Robin Lambert sets up his ceramic piece titled I Should Like to Give You a Kiss‚ which will be on display during the Red Deer College School of Creative Arts faculty and staff art exhibit at the Welikoklad Event Centre.

Bourne brings his soulful style to the Golden Circle BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

“Even some of the students don’t know what their instructors do. This gives us a chance to put our money where our mouth is, and let the community see what we do,” said Robin Lambert, a visual arts instructor at the college. Visual arts staff aren’t the only ones with works in the exhibit — creativity spills over to several departments. Carrie Hamilton, a designer for RDC Theatre Studies productions, shows three of her costume sketches for The Country Wife restoration comedy. Larry Reese, an acting instructor for Motion Picture Arts, shows three of his paintings of cattle, a landscape, and a nude couple. And School of Creative Arts dean Jason Frizzell displays a couple of his sculptural works, including a tiny cyclops in business attire and a larger piece depicting a vessel about to topple into an abyss called Ship of Fools. Most of the artworks are contributed by visual arts instructors and technicians, however. They include an abstract painting by James Trevelyan, a tornadolike bronze sculpture by Ian Cook, ceramic vessels by Trudy Golley and Matthew Boyd, an art book by Megan Bylsma, and a superhero or villain figure created with a 3-D copier by Avery Andrykew. Marnie Blair, who teaches printmaking, is showing two of her untitled aqua-tint etchings. The sparse cubic designs, created with charcoal and light peach colours, appear translucent when portions overlap. The printing process used is the same as was employed by Rembrandt and Goya, said Blair, but her modernist works are more inspired by architectural elements. “Is it something that’s being built or taken apart?” questions Blair, who leaves it up to viewers to decide.

Some old songs, new songs, dance songs and spurof-the-moment songs are in the lineup when Bill Bourne performs in Red Deer. The Central Alberta troubadour is returning to familiar turf to entertain at the Golden Circle on Saturday, Feb. 21. “It’s always good to come home,” said Bourne, who lives in Edmonton but was raised on a farm west of Penhold. As a child, Bourne remembers his parents would find him sleeping behind the piano at rural dances. He said the love of nature he developed from his Central Alberta upbringing and his early appreciation of dance music played in community halls has stayed with him all of his life. The Juno Award-winning singer has become known for experimenting with various roots music influences — Celtic, Cajun and gypsy — to create blues tunes stamped with his own indelible, soulful style. The most recent genre that’s piqued Bourne’s interest is flamenco. But he’s clear that it just influences some of his songs, which are still more about the blues. “Gypsy and flamenco influences are very potent to me: I’m attracted to the intensity, the passion and the rhythms of this music. It seems primal, yet very sophisticated,” said Bourne. “Also it’s music that’s communal, and that tends to bring down the barrier that the stage sometimes imposes on music. “I like that in music,” he added. Bourne has been perfecting Spanish-style guitar fingering over the last couple of decades — ever since someone gave him a 90-minute flamenco music tape. “I must have listened to it three or four hundred times while travelling,” said the musician, so the style was bound to seep in. Bourne’s 2012 album, Songs From a Gypsy Caravan, sprang out of his flamenco fascination. The crowd at his Red Deer show might hear Spanish influences in such songs as Ode To Darlin’ Cory, his version of the Darling Corey Appalachian tune.

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A Red Deer artist needs local support after her image was selected as a finalist for a nationwide advertising image contest. Jessica Pettit’s depiction of a check-shirted man is among 35 finalists in the ArtHere contest, sponsored by the Newad online advertising website. If she gets enough public votes, her work will be among 15 images that can be seen by thousands of businesses across Canada, along with her name and home city. “Red Deer has really started to emerge and take an active role in the art scene,” said Pettit, who sees her win as “the perfect chance to get Red Deer’s name known in the art community nationwide. ... I’d like for people across the country to see Red Deer as more than an oil city.” No one from Red Deer has ever won the contest, said Pettit. To vote for Pettit’s work, visit arthere.ca/vote. Individuals get to vote once a day for the next week.

Kingsman a gleeful spy thriller BY BRUCE DEMARA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

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Kingsman: The Secret Service Three stars (out of four) Rated: 14A It’s been a long time, since we’ve seen an action hero — The Avengers’ John Steed in the swinging ’60s — wield an umbrella for anything other than warding off the wet stuff. Then there’s Gazelle, clearly inspired by James Bond movies of decades past, a supervillain henchwench who uses her super-sharpened blade runner prosthetic legs to slice and dice with lethal efficiency. But just when you’ve got Kingsman: The Secret Service pegged as an homage to the campy spy thrillers of yesteryear, director Matthew Vaughn, who co-wrote the screenplay, takes the film to some unexpected places. Sure our hero gets the girl in the end. But in Kingsman, you’re never going to guess exactly how it’s going to happen. One of the best things about the film — based on the 2012 comic series by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons — is how thoroughly and gleefully Vaughn revels in subverting the form and conventions of the genre. Yes, there are scenes that feel clunky, and much of the dialogue certainly could have upped its wit and banter quotient. And at nearly two hours and 10 minutes, the film occasionally tries one’s patience. But there’s enough action, suspense and allaround fun to make Kingsman: The Secret Service an unexpectedly enjoyable ride. The film opens with a bit of necessary back story involving the death of a Kingsman agent during a Middle East misadventure before arriving in the present day with Harry Hart, aka Galahad, seeking to recruit the dead agent’s son into the super-secret “independent international intelligence agency.” That turns out to be Gary “Eggsy” Unwin, a lowermiddle class no-account (played by Taron Egerton) who’s only discernible skills appear to be pickpocketing and driving backward at high speed. At the same time, Eggsy is competing with a cadre

of upper-middle class toffs for a coveted spot at the agency, supervillain Richmond Valentine is hatching a plot to save the Earth from the effects of climate change and the virus that threatens to destroy humanity. It’s a pleasure to see Samuel L. Jackson dial down the volume, portraying Valentine with a comically over-the-top lisp, a villain who plots mayhem on a global scale but has no stomach for violence. The reliably watchable Colin Firth is both Savile Row suave and in trim fighting form as Galahad. He needs to be since the role requires two very energetic action scenes. Vaughn has done well in casting relative newcomer Egerton (who bears a resemblance to Ewan McGregor) as Eggsy. He’s not too obviously goodlooking, and he manages to convey the protagonist’s personal growth as he graduates from sneering callow youth to budding superspy. Providing solid backup is Mark Strong playing Merlin (the Bond equivalent of gadget master, Q) with a Scottish burr and Michael Caine in his umpteenth-and-counting role as spy chief Arthur. Vaughn has constructed some dazzling and memorable action scenes, and the film’s protracted conclusion is both suspenseful and satisfying. Sure there’s a lot of codswallop about class differences and what defines a real gentleman and a subplot involving Eggsy’s hated stepfather that feels unnecessary. But with its engaging cast and unexpected plot twists, Kingsman displays enough energy and playfully subversive wit to please action and nonaction fans alike.

B.C. theatre owners tie up Fifty Shades showing because of 18A rating SECHELT, B.C. — Owners of a small-town theatre on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast have thrown a kink into the plans of movie goers bent on seeing Fifty Shades of Grey. Deborah Proby of the Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt, B.C., says in an email she won’t show the film. The black-and-white decision that’s receiving coverage in B.C. media outlets appears to be tied to the movie’s 18A rating, which Proby says would have forced her to sell tickets to minors. She says adults can still find many other ways to see the movie, just not at her theatre. Proby says she doesn’t wish to “save the world,” and did not intend to trigger a reaction. The move, which opens in theatres on Friday, is an adaptation of the E L James book about a college student and her torrid affair with a 27-year-old billionaire with a penchant for bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism.

Bruce DeMara is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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BOURNE: Improvised He promises other familiar material will also be on his set list when he performs here, including Old Buffalo, The House and Dance and Celebrate, the title track from his 1990 Juno Award-winning Bourne & MacLeod album. The audience could also hear some less predictable music created on the spot. Bourne has lately been testing his spontaneity by coming up with instant melodies in the recording studio or on stage in front of audiences. The tunes are improvised on his guitar and Bourne chimes in vocally, so the music “comes alive,” he said — which is more engaging for him than repeating songs played hundreds of times before. “I’m more interested in the energy of the music and being creative

than (thinking of it) as this song goes like this. ...” The singer/songwriter has performed with many different musical “friends” and bands over the years, including Shannon Johnson, Wyckham Porteous in the Bop Ensemble, Alan MacLeod in Bourne & MacLeod, and Lester Quitzau and Madagascar Slim in Tri-Continental and The Free Radio Band. His next project is contributing to the soundtrack for an Edmonton-made movie, about which he can’t yet reveal any details. Bourne said he’s looking forward to his intimate Red Deer show. The singer and his guitar will perform an acoustic concert that’s laced with a few stories and the rich musical traditions he’s drawn from over the years. Tickets to the 7 p.m. event are $15 in advance from the Golden Circle, or $20 at the door at 4620 47A Ave. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Dan Anhorn, a technician in the Visual Arts Department, has created two smallish picnic tables —a bronze sculpture and a slightly larger one made of painted foam core and covered with a forest of trees he created from pipe cleaners. The more sizable model, called Feast, might be seen as a picnic table that encapsulates the outdoor experience, or the table could be in the process of being reclaimed by nature. Anhorn sees picnic tables as iconic shapes everyone can relate to from personal experience. He envisioned the forest-covered piece as a maquette for a potentially larger-scale version. Lambert’s installation, I Shall Like to Give You a Kiss, was recently shown at the Garner Museum in Toronto, where it won Lambert a $10,000 Emerging Artist Award from a people’s choice contest sponsored by the RBC and the ceramics museum. This is the first time Red Deer viewers can see the 1,000 white porcelain thimbles lined up across 10 shelves. The work is named for a quotation from J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan story. When Peter tells Wendy that he doesn’t know what a kiss is, the flustered girl places a thimble in his hand and calls it a kiss. Lambert, who ordered the thimbles from England and signed the inside of each one, invites viewers to take a thimble home with them. In that way, the random spaces created by missing thimbles eventually become part of the design. “Once they start being taken it’s like missing

teeth,” said Lambert, who heard from the Gardiner Museum staffers that viewers liked the interactive part of his installation. “(Local) people have been asking me, ‘How do I get a thimble?’ and I’ve been saying, ‘You have to wait ’til February.’ ” Now’s the chance. The show is on until Feb. 27, and can be seen whenever the Welikoklad Centre is open. Some firm opening hours are from 5 to 7 p.m. from Feb. 17 to 20. An opening reception will also be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 24. This will be followed by local artist Dawn Candy speaking about her ceramic works at 7 p.m. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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CRAIGIE Verne Allan With regrets, we announce the passing on Verne Allan Craigie on Saturday February 7, 2015. The memorial service is Wednesday February 18th at 1:00 pm at the Sunnybrook United Church in Red Deer.

SPEIRS Arthur 1932 - 2015 Art passed away surrounded by his loving family at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Tuesday, February 11, 2015 at the age of 82 years. Art was born and raised in Sydney Mine, NS. This is where he entered the Military Service in 1952. He served our country for 27 years. Art comes from a family of thirteen. He leaves behind to cherish his memory, his loving wife of 61 years, Bev, their four children: Steven (Noreen) Speirs of SaultSaint Marie, ON, Shawn (Charlane) Speirs of Red Deer, Bev (Ole) Johansen of Pine Lake, and Kim (Doug) Morgan of Calgary; five grandchildren: Jason, Tracey, Angela, Coryne, and Brittany; and eleven great-grandchildren. Art had a passion for fishing. He loved his get-togethers with his grandchildren. He taught them all how to fish. He enjoyed many trips he took with his wife and best friend, Bev. Art’s family and friends may honour him at an Afternoon of Remembrance at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 1:00 p.m., followed by a light luncheon. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer Phone (403) 347-2222

HILLS HOANG Jean 1950 - 2015 Emily Mrs. Jean Elizabeth ‘Jeannie’ Feb. 4, 1994 - Feb. 11, 2015 Hills of Red Deer passed Emily Hoang of Red Deer away after a courageous passed away at the Red battle with cancer, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Deer Regional Hospital Wednesday, February 11, Centre on Monday, February 2015 at the age of 21 years. 9, 2015 at the age of 64 A Funeral Service will be years. Jeannie was born as held at Eventide Funeral one of two sets of twins on Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red March 27, 1950 in Kimpton, Deer, on Tuesday, February England to her loving 17, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. parents, Hugh and Gwen Memorial donations in Hills. She attended Kimpton Emily’s honor may be made Primary School and for all directly to the Canadian indications was happy Cancer Society, 101 6751 52 making a life in the village. It Ave. Red Deer, Alberta, T4N wasn’t until she met and 4K8. Condolences may be forwarded married Ian Hills, who would to the family by visiting be her husband for thirty- www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. eight years, that she Arrangements entrusted to ventured outside. After EVENTIDE FUNERAL marrying on July 24, 1977, CHAPEL the couple moved across the 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. ocean to Red Deer where Ian Phone (403) 347-2222 had begun a career as an accountant. It is here that they raised three children, five dogs, and a host of other pets and ‘adopted’ children. Jeannie had a natural smile and ease about her that drew people in. She made friends wherever she went; whether it was the ‘Three Mile Bend Crew’, Northern Reflections or Heywood Holmes coworkers, or countless friends made through her kids’ activities and everyday life. In Memoriam She started and ended the day with a coffee and was selfless in whatever she did. Her life was serenaded by music, particularly that of Rod Stewart, and she counted Christmas and vacationing in Hawaii as her favourite occasions. Jeannie is survived by her partner in life and loving husband, Ian; her sons, Christopher (Tracy) and Logan (Jen); her daughter, Kelly (Matt); her siblings, Les (Susan), Sandra (John), and Steve (Margaret); her many nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles, and countless friends whose lives she touched; as well as her dog, BLANCHE JAYES Jasper. Family and friends 1926-1995 may honour her at her May the God of hope Memorial Service at Parkland fill you with all joy and peace Funeral Home and as you trust in Him Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Romans 15:13 Street (Taylor Drive), Red We miss you Mom (Grandma) Deer, Alberta on Sunday, Pat, Sheila and families. February 15, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Jeannie’s honour may be made directly to the Funeral Directors Alberta Cancer Foundation at & Services www.albertacancer.ca/donate or the Red Deer Hospice Society at www.reddeerhospice.com Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

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KORCHINSKI Welcomed with Love! Brent Korchinski and Jaime Grabowski are delighted to announce the birth of their daughter EVANGELINE NICOLE on January 12, 2015, 8 pounds, 22 1/2 inches. Jack loves his little baby sister. Proud grandparents are Ron and Leona Korchinski, Keith and Debbie Glover and Dwayne and Lori Falk. Love, joy and wonderful dreams. All the sweetest things that a baby girl brings. She’s a heart-full, a hug-full of joy and delight a sweet little bundle of love at first sight. Cute and cuddly, full of charm and custom made to fit our arms!

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Hourly salary range: $16.35 - $19.55/hr. based on experience with opportunities for annual wage advancement. Qualifications: • Willingness to perform tasks and to remain flexible in the performance of duties • Previous history of excellent work habits and attendance record • Previous experience with all aspects of cleaning and maintaining a school would be a definite asset, “on the job” training will be provided as well • The ability to cooperate with staff and students • Physically fit so as to perform all required duties • Ability to understand and follow instructions

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PART-TIME MEDICAL OFFICE BILLING CLERK required immediately in Lacombe. Billing experience is a must, strong computer skills and Medical Terminology is required. fmala@shawbiz.ca

Oilfield

Please Note: We appreciate the interest of all applicants, but advise that only candidates selected for an interview for this competition will be contacted.

Oilfield

COLTER ENERGY LP IS NOW HIRING

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 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Professionals

810

HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity. Training provided. Flexible hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave @homesreddeer.com

820

Growing Service Company Seeking Fleet Manager Major Responsibilities: • We require a fleet manager to be at the helm of maintenance and repair, organize and delegate the repairs required. • Supervise, train and verify that the repairs are done to company policy and identical in all areas • Keep updated recorded of the maintenances and work with the management. Preferred Qualifications: • Ability and desire to work in a positive, fast paced and high energy environment • Hold a valid journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic Designation. • 3 or more year experience in a leadership role required • 5 or more years fleet maintenance management experience preferred • Strong customer service, leadership and organizational skills required • Proficiency with computers including Microsoft Office and web based applications preferred • Must be able to travel within Alberta • Paid expenses • Retirement plan

Interested applicants please submit resumes to: Human Resources employee.management.hr@gmail.com Fax: 403-347-3406

Sales & Distributors

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for WELL EXPERIENCED

RED DEER BINGO CENTRE has an immediate opening for a

PART TIME COOK for the weekend evening shift of 4pm - 9pm Fri thru Sun. You will be reliable and organized with the ability to work in a busy environment. If you would like to join our happy team, please apply in person w/resume at 4946 - 53rd Ave between the hours of 10am to 4pm. Resumes may also be emailed to ognib@telus.net

830

Truckers/ Drivers

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much! Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

860

Are You Friendly & Outgoing?

HOSTESS Like Meeting New People? Mature professional Would you like to... familiar with maitre d’ Get back into the workcapabilities. Would be an force when children start asset to have a current school? Get extra spendProServe Certificate and ing money after retirement? familiar with wine service. Work around your family’s Professional busy schedule? Get to know appearance is a definite your local community requirement. better? Contribute valuable Must have Ref’s & Exp. community service. Apply within: 2079-50 Set down your own hours? Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. GET PAID?!! Fax 403-347-1161 Phone Welcome Wagon is calls WILL NOT be Now Hiring accepted. Only candidates Apply online at selected for an interview www.iamlovingit.ca will be contact. or

Professional Truck Driver Position

Available www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products are expanding and are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years experience. ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company equipment and provide a high level of customer service, delivering our call 1-844-299-2466 products within Alberta. ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and maintain legal transportation paperwork and driving Teachers/ practices. This position Tutors requires a valid Class 1 License; with previous off PART-TIME road forklift and shipping /receiving experience a EDUCATIONAL definite asset. We offer ASSISTANTS quarterly safety bonuses Chinook’s Edge School as well as a comprehenDivision No. 73 invites sive medical plan. applications for two partBenefits include: time (Tuesday/Thursday) * Company provided Educational Assistants at Canadian Benefits Package Jessie Duncan School (Pre-kindergarten - Grade * Voluntary Dental Plan * Life Insurance Option 2) in Penhold for the Plan remainder of the * Short-term/Long-term 2014-2015 school year. Disability Policy The successful candidates * Retirement Savings Plan will provide educational (RSP) and Deferred Profit support to students in a Sharing Plan (DPSP) kindergarten setting. * Paid Vacation Preference will be given to * Quarterly Safety Bonus individuals who are certified teacher All applicants are subject assistants and have to a pre-employment experience in a physical and MVR check. kindergarten or a primary Interested Applicants may setting. submit a resume, along Cover letter and resume, with a current drivers complete with the names abstract to: and telephone numbers of Advanced Drainage three current work related Systems Of Canada Inc. references are accepted 4316 Gerdts Ave. by email only and should Blindman Ind. Park be forwarded to: Red Deer County, AB. Shawn Russell, Associate T4S-2A8 Superintendent - People Fax: (403) 346-5806 Services E-mail ken.mccutcheon Chinook’s Edge School @ads-pipe.com Division No. 73 Position closing date: Email: careers@ Feb. 23rd. 2015 chinooksedge.ab.ca For information on Chinook’s Edge School Misc. Division No. 73, please Help check our website (www.chinooksedge.ab.ca) Applications will be 1699960AbLtd is looking accepted until 12:00 for 2 F/T permanent shift midnight, Tuesday, supervisors for days, February 17, 2015. The evenings, wknds. 120 - 47 successful applicant will be Clearview Market Red required to provide a Deer, AB. must have exc. criminal record check and customer service, cash a child intervention handling, and supervisory (welfare) check. While we related. wage $13.75 w/at thank all applicants for least 1 year exp. email: their interest, only those restuarantbusiness@ individuals selected for hotmail.ca interviews will be ACADEMIC Express contacted. Resumes of individuals not granted an ADULT EDUCATION interview will not be kept AND TRAINING on file.

840

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for 4 F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE:

Wolf Creek Public Schools invites applications for the following position:

School Social Worker West Country Outreach School Rimbey, AB For further specifics on the above position, please visit Wolf Creek Public Schools’ website at www.wolfcreek.ab.ca, or contact the Division Office at 403-783-3473. You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave. Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

• RED DEER BINGO CENTRE is seeking a

CONCESSION CASHIER. We offer 35+ hours per week and a fun fast paced work environment. If you are a friendly, reliable & outgoing individual we want to hear from you Please apply in person w/resume at 4946 - 53rd Ave between the hours of 10am to 4pm. Resumes may also be emailed to ognib@telus.net

★

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

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. 733644 Ab Ltd. O/A The Rusty Pelican 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.

CALL:

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now! Trades

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it. Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

880

850

EAST SIDE MARIO’S HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS Full Time & Part Time. Apply after 2 p.m. Ask for the manager on duty. Hampton Inn & Suites 128 Leva Ave. Red Deer AB, CA T4E 1B9 Housekeeping Supervisor $20.00/hour Full Time: M-F 7am to 5pm * Supervise team of cleaners and janitors * Inspect sites to ensure safety and cleanliness * Arrange for services required such as painting, renovations or replacement of furnishings * Hire and train cleaning staff * Prepare work schedule , budget, estimate costs and keep financial records Apply in person 8am-4 pm Monday - Friday 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

Field Service Mechanic Needed Gas Pro Compression, located in Three Hills, AB, is a manufacturing & fabrication shop, which produces & services single well gas compressors ranging from 10 to 80HP. Currently we are looking to fill a position for Field Service Mechanic. Successful candidate must possess strong work ethics. Experience with natural gas compression is an asset but not essential. Trade Certification is required and preference will be given to those having experience. Please fax resumes to 403-443-5288, apply in person at 227, 17th Ave N, Three Hills AB, or email to Peter.Pattison@gaspro.ca.

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

SPRING START • GED Preparation

• GED Preparation

•

Women in the Trades Program

•

Math and Science for the Trades Program

•

Women in the Trades Program Math and Science for the Trades Program Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available. 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

514312B13-21

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

Truckers/ Drivers

860

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. Experience an asset. 403-341-7619

OWNER OPERATORS

Trades

SPRING START

ACADEMIC Express •

Steve’s Livestock Transport is looking for

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Waitress’s Fri. - Sun. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

850

Trades

to join our our fleet! Excellent home time Full benefits package available Fuel surcharge updated weekly Excellent buy down rate Call and ask us about our new pay package! Call 1-855-SLT-JOBS or email recruiter@slt.ca

850

•

800

Benefits: • Lucrative Safety Bonus Program • Excellent Benefit Plan

820

•

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The successful applicant will be required to provide a current criminal records check statement at their own expense as well as a Child and Family Services Intervention Record Check.

800

800

Deadline for Applications: February 18, 2015 Interested candidates are invited to submit applications to: Mr. Mel Henderson Custodian/Grounds Foreman Wolf Creek Public Schools 6000 Highway 2A, Ponoka, Alberta T4J 1P6 Phone: 403-785-0728 • Fax: 403-783-3155 Email: mel.henderson@wolfcreek.ab.ca

Oilfield

Restaurant/ Hotel

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees. We are currently hiring for the position of:

JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN

Gas Utility Operator/gasfitter or apprentice Diamond Valley Gas Co-op Ltd. located in Eckville, Alberta is currently accepting applications for a Gas Utility Operator/Gasfitter. Consideration will also be given to those applicants interested in apprenticeship in these occupations. Applicants require a valid Class 5 driver’s license. This is a full time position with an on call rotation requirement. The position offers a complete benefit and pension package. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Please send resume to: Attention: Manager Box 159, Eckville AB. TOM OXO Or Email: john@ diamondvalleygas.com

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

(Full-Time; Red Deer Area)

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

The ideal candidate will have the following: • Journeyman Instrumentation • Fall Protection, CSTS (Version 0.9) • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Committed dedication to safety; reflected in practice and experience • Strong focus on customer satisfaction • A team player with strong people skills

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER with class 3, air. All safety tickets required. Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Truckers/ Drivers

40 Hour Week / Monday – Thursday Starting Rate: $43.06/hour

860

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment. Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Recruiting Fax # 403-342-6505 Email hr@studon.com

513950B6-14

WHAT’S HAPPENING

710

Restaurant/ Hotel

515150B14-20

54

Lost

Caregivers/ Aides

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

CONTRACT DRIVERS in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

CASH CASINO is hiring a

F/T CLEANERS 3 am - 11 am shift. Need to be physically fit. Must have reliable transportation. Please send resume attn: Greg Tisdale greg@cashcasino.ca or fax 403-346-3101 or drop off at Cash Casino, 6350 - 67 St. DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential. Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk. Apply in person w/resume: Highland Green Value Drug Mart. FT and PT shunt truck drivers needed in Innisfail, AB. Fax resume to 403-227-2743 or call 403-227-2712 for more information.

HELP WANTED The Assistant Property Manager, under the direction of the Property Manager, is responsible for coordinating all aspects of apartment community operations and to act as main point of contact in the absence of the Property Manager. The right candidate must be a team player with a positive can-do attitude. Send Resume to: brandybhatt@outlook.com Post available for F/T and P/T Tel.: 647-609-1926 ASSISTANT PROPERTY MANAGER RANCH farm requires two people to work part-time processing and working with cattle plus other farm related work. Full days, wages neg. Apply (403) 350-4089. No texts. SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift. 11 pm -7 am. e-mail resume to: nwoods1976@ hotmail.com, fax to: 403-346-9099 or drop off at: 3301-Gaetz Avenue SPARTEK SYSTEMS INC In Sylvan Lake, AB is seeking qualified * ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS *ACCOUNTING CLERK - AP/AR Please refer to our website at www.sparteksystems.com for company information. Applicants please forward resume to: keri.lee@ sparteksystems.com or fax to 403-887-4050 Please state which position you are applying for in your cover letter.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015

880

Employment Training

UFA/BAR W

SAFETY

has an opening for:

WAREHOUSE SHIPPER/RECEIVER The successful candidate will have warehouse experience, preferably with electrical and mechanical background as well as forklift exp. Strong computer skills is an asset. Please fax resumes to 403-347-9301 or email: administration @barwpetroleum.com Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Advocate Opportunities

900

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

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. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Advocate Opportunities

920

Career Planning

Interested in a career change? Pre-Employment Trades programs at Red Deer College prepare you to start working as a welding or electrician apprentice. Scholarships available. Call 403.356.4900 or visit rdc.ab.ca/ continuing-education.

JACKET, London Fog, Wool, sz. 10 regular, Cranberry color. $50. 403-227-2976 JEAN JACKET, Tommy Hilfiger, good cond. sz. medium, $20; 403-314-9603

Electronics

1605

ATARI with games, $140. 403-782-3847

wegot

INTELLIVISION with games, $140. 403-782-3847 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

stuff

N-64 with games, $160. 403-782-3847

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Advocate Opportunities

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

Hill Cres. & Hermary St.

1 day a week in:

For more information or to apply call For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308 CARRIERS NEEDED

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Ahlstrom Close Andrew Close Asstlee / Ansett Cres. Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres. Anderson Close Anquetel Close BOWER AREA Beatty Close Broughton / Brookes Boyce St. / Byer Close INGLEWOOD AREA Isbister Close Inglewood Dr. Isherwood Close Iverson Close MORRISROE AREA

89 papers daily $477.00/mo.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in 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 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

1760

5 HP snowblower, $300. 403-782-4543

For more information or to apply call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306 INGLEWOOD / VANIER AREAS Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

COPPER clad aluminum #2, booster cables $40. 403-343-6044 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 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

For INGLEWOOD Area With 69 papers, approximately: $362.25/mo.

HONDA 5 hp snowblower $350. ***SOLD***

For VANIER Area with 54 papers, approximately: $283.50/mo.

MATCHING rocking chair and rocker recliner, dusty rose fabric, exc. con., $50/ea. 403-348-6449

For both of these routes: at least $645.75/mo.

TWO queen quilts, one green floral and one burgundy floral, $20 each. 403-348-6449

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres. Savoy Close / Sydney Close

VANIER AREA Vickers Close Victor Close Viscount Drive Vincent Close

JEWELRY incld’s necklaces, bracelets, earrings. All for $15. 403-314-9603

Misc. for Sale

Clearview Area

Metcalf Ave. Martin / Muldrew Close

LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Long Close Lord Close Lougheed Close

1750

SILVER pierced earrings, made in Israel, never been worn, appraised $135, asking $100. 403-227-2976

Monday through Saturday. Delivery to be done before 6:30 am. Reliable vehicle needed.

ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

Jewellery

DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle provided by company! Work 3 to 4 shifts a week. Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer. Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

1860

Sporting Goods

NOMA black Super GT snow racer sled, new cond., $40. 403-348-6449

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.

1720

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

3 days per week, no weekends

1710

WANTED

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

1830

Cats

1 SIAMESE, 3 Balinese LOGS kittens, $50/ea. Semi loads of pine, spruce, 403-887-3649 tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. BEAUTIFUL tabby kittens, Lil Mule Logging F, (2), spotted and striped 403-318-4346 free to good home Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner 403-782-3130 BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / MOVING. Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 Looking for home for 4 yr. old neutered brown Tabby, free to good home Household 403-342-1484 after 3 pm.

NIGHT Tables, (2) Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $70 ea. 403-352-8811

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

Household Furnishings

CARRIERS REQUIRED

HIGHLAND GREEN

63 Ave.

1660

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

GLENDALE

MUSTANG ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK

VACUUM, wet/dry Stinger, new in box, 2.5 gal. $25; (2) new plastic saw horses, $20. pr.; 2 new swivel padded, moving dollies, 30”x18”, $35; dble. stainless steel sink, $15; pr. of Firewood (NEW in box) Steel toed, lined work boots, sz. 11/12, $30.; 1 pr. new AFFORDABLE Homestead Firewood winter, side zip, boots, sz. Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits 11/12, $20; 403-358-5568 avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LG WHITE over the range microwave oven, 1000 watts, Model MV-1510M, exc. cond., $175 403-352-8811

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

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Misc. for Sale

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

DRYER, Inglis HD, white ext. large capacity, $100. 403-309-4518

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

Good Cres. & 59 Ave.

1630

DISHWASHER, Kenmore, good cond. $80. Ceiling fan, 52”, white $25; 403-358-5568

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE

EquipmentHeavy

Appliances

CARRIERS REQUIRED

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

Westpark Cres. & 35 St.

1590

Clothing

Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet. 278950A5

Misc. Help

wegot

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils. Avail. Mar. 1. from $1100. to $1300. 403-880-0210.

WEST PARK Just completly reno’d. 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1750. mo. incld’s utils. $1000. d.d. Avail. now or Mar. 1. 403-304-5337

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

SEIBEL PROPERTY www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs. N/S, no utils. incl. Avail. immed. & Mar. 1 References required.

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION MUST SELL! REMAX, Margaret Comeau 403.391.3399

★

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner! CALL:

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now!

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield 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

Contractors

1100

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 flooring, roof snow removal? Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your International Ladies reno needs. 403-506-4301 Elite Retreat, Finest DOORS, windows, siding, in VIP Treatment. soffit, fascia and custom 10 - 2am Private back entry cladding. Call Dean @ 403-341-4445 403-302-9210.

Massage Therapy

1280

Painters/ Decorators

1310

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. WALK-INS WELCOME Free Est. 403-872-8888 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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

Misc. Services

1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $790 rent/d.d. 403-346-1458

2003 DODGE Dakota crew cab. 403-318-3040

5070

Vans Buses

2007 MONTANA V6 3.1L, new tires/windshield, 166,000 kms, tow hitch, like new inside/out, $4900 obo 403-505-3113

Holiday Trailers

5120

2 BDRM. Apt., lower level,free laundry, heat/ water incl. 5910-55 Ave. Ph: 403-341-4627. GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR 1 & 2 bdrm. Adult bldg. only, N/S No pets 403-596-2444

2003 KUSTOM Koach, 278 BKS, Jack & Jill bunk, hard wall, fully loaded, clean shape. $13,500. Trades Cons. 403-598-0682

Utility Trailers

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, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955

THE NORDIC

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444

5140

19’ CAR TRAILER, factory made, exc. con., $2,500 firm. 403-343-0687

Tires, Parts Acces.

3190

Mobile Lot

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

3260

Houses/ Duplexes

WANTING TO RENT: house w/Main Floor bath, bdrm. & laundry, 3 bdrms. if possible, garage. No pets, N/S. 403-782-6865

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

4020

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015 C9 others on independent projects much easier today, especially own it. There will be some challenges with mental discipline, if you are leading others. Don’t jump to conclusions, as today such as simply focusing on a thought to its proper conclusion. is set for you to figure out those intricate details and discipline PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When approaching your asyour mind to explore further than you have before. pirations, go it alone today. Yes, it will be difficult to steer othSaturday, Feb. 14 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What you say now will be ers to your methods and understanding, so simply sort things CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Hazel McCallion, tinged with others’ influence, as you will be pick- out on your own today. Through friends, you will be able to 94; Enrico Colantoni, 52; Meg Tilly, 55 ing up on what they aren’t saying, but feeling. understand greater holistic health treatments that can help! THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Happy Valentine’s So, if you are starting to feel off, then remove Monday, Feb. 16 Day! Today there will be a pleasant feeling, as yourself from the situation. It’s a good day to go it CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Ice T, 57; LeVar you feel more in balance with what you think alone, at work and with your health routine. Burton, 58; Christopher Eccleston, 51 and the actions you are taking to get you movLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There’s more truth THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today is an excellent day to ing forward. There is a conundrum today as you coming about for you today. Your ideas of what discuss your feelings. Yes, you will have a serious outlook, but sort through feelings that leave you unsure of is fun for you might not be fully understood by by simply sharing this with another, you will be able to reach a your own beliefs. Sage wisdom is close, as you others, especially your spouse. Sometimes, it is resolution. By standing your ground within those interactions, acknowledge the truth of what is preventing you good to do it alone. You are sensitive to others’ you will gain respect from others in your life. Spend time with from self-knowledge. moods. If you are feeling off, then remove your- friends, as all relationships will be helped by this transit. Just HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, self from that person. watch for overspending! this year will help you develop in ways that you SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Whatever you HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year — didn’t think possible. Your finances will increase are going through will most likely be independent speak your mind and stand your ground. Your personal truth as you truly get to grips with what has prevented LARISA MAIRA from those within your family or household. It’s is just as important as others’ knowledge, but knowing youryou to living a life full of joy and abundance. This not the day to jump to conclusions and share self will get you everywhere now. Where your energy goes, so OZOLINS can be through your own company or from your whatever your truth is to them. You will be feel- will you. So, focus on the positive energy towards implementcareer. You are definitely feeling in tune with ing quite intense. Look to non-traditional ways to ing those plans you have and watch as your finances increase yourself this year, more than ever before. Feel express yourself. this year! blessed now! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your perARIES (March 21-April 19): Share your wisdom, even if you are scared to do so. Let others catch up with your truth sonal value will ring high now, as you venture forward with Please see HOROSCOPE on Page C10 and you do the same for them. Share that unique voice that your own concepts and truth. Non-traditional healing methods you have within this world and shine bright. Avoid minor irrita- will benefit you tremendously now, especially when it concerns your family and those within your household. Make an tions by truly trying to understand another individual now. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): To simply believe the phi- effort today. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are definitely molosophy of your family is good, but to expand beyond that truth is divine. Learn to trust your own instincts more at this stage. tivated to act it alone. You’re going through an intense emoPowered by They will not only help you come across more sincere, but you tional experience now which will cause you to want to jump to conclusions. Take it slow and properly sort through your true will finally understand yourself in all your glory. Central Alberta’s GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Let go of others’ beliefs sys- values. Let go of the past which no longer serves you. career site of choice. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It is a day to avoid negative tem and simply embrace your own truth now. The more you people as they will influence your mood. The more self-reliant do this, the better life will be for you now and in the future. Opportunities will truly come out of nowhere. Simply define your you are, the better you will fare today. Know your truth and personal innovation within this world. Express your passion! CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are still reviewing and analyzing your beliefs with regards to health, work and the service you will provide others in your life. The trick is simply to understand what prevents you from seeing your own truth Powered by and what you truly value. Then, do something about it! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You should be feeling in balance Central Alberta’s today. Although, yes, there will be some minor irritabilities with career site of choice. those you have share close bonds with. These can be your The City of Lacombe is currently recruiting for: business partnerships or your spouse. Having them show you their weaknesses will only make you stronger. Utilities Operator 2 - Solid Waste/NRDRWSC VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You should be feeling in bal-Application Deadline is February 27, 2015 ance now, but there could be some minor irritants as you progress throughout the day. Others will be reflecting your Gardeners/Parks Mower Operators/ truth back onto you now. Release yourself from the perspecLabourers/Trail Maintenance tive your family has towards healing. You know your truth. -Application Deadline is March 6, 2015 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s great to trust what’s in your heart. Allow your knowledge to put a smile on your face and For full job descriptions and other employment opportunities make sure you are in line with your truth now. Yes, there will please visit the City of Lacombe website at be minor irritability when dealing with those within your daily www.lacombe.ca/employment life, but rest assured, they will see the truth soon. Visual-Eyes® is the premium practice management software Please Apply To: SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Through family, opportuniHuman Resources of the eye care industry in Canada and is based in Red Deer ties will arise that will expand your horizon, especially when Employment Opps.indd 1Employment 06/02/2015 9:27:12 AM 06/02/2015 1 - 5432, 56th Ave, Lacombe AB, T4L City ofOpps.indd Lacombe 1E9 Alberta. Founded in 1996, we have grown to over 350 clinics it comes to finances and your personal confidence. Simply humanresources@lacombe.ca across Canada and are looking for skilled and experienced avoid needless disputes when thinking that your truth is the applicants to join our team. one and only. Think more of a redemptive quality as the truth. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For you, it is hard to The Trainer's primary focus is streamlining clinic office truly understand that you don’t see the whole picture. Trust processes through successful implementation of Visual-Eyes. me, you don’t know everything. Today will be one of those This is accomplished through consultation, data preparation, days when you sense that others know more. This is fine. and formal training. The successful candidate will be required Trust in your own beliefs, but know they are not for everyone! EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY to travel extensively across Canada approximately 50% of the CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a good day to face time. your fears and let them go, one by one. Others will show you The Technical Support Agent's primary focus is to provide their truth and this might not be something you like within We are currently accepting applications for the permanent full-time technical support solutions via phone to customers related to yourself. So, there could be some irritability coming to light. All position of Assessor. Responsibilities include: property inspections; their Visual-Eyes implementation. Other focus areas include: in all, you will feel in balance. Opportunities will come to light. collection and analysis of information pertaining to the value of performing software updates, report development and client AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you are feeling irritable property or business; determine market value assessment; provide training. today, then realize that you are seeing parts of yourself that accurate and timely information for the County’s assessment roll; you don’t like reflected through other individuals who you have and, explaining and discussing assessments, related legislation, Visual-Eyes offers a relaxed corporate atmosphere and each regulations, and policies to taxpayers, agents, and valuation come across. Through this understanding, opportunities will member of our team is a highly driven and innovative person, professionals. arise! All in all, it will be a very pleasant and light hearted day. looking to do what's best for our clients. We enjoy several PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today could welcome in For complete details for this employment opportunity, please staff and family events each year, encourage a good work-life some minor disputes with others within your career. Trust that visit our careers page on our website www.clearwatercounty.ca. balance, offer group RSP, and health benefi ts. once you overcome and balance out that energy, the more This competition will remain OPEN until a suitable candidate is you will be able to trust in your own instincts. What is preventFor further information, please visit us at www.visual-eyes.ca selected. ing you from truly understanding your service to the world? 54611B14

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DH I F ie ld Te c h n ic ia n CanWest DHI is currently accepting applications for an AB Field Technician in the Central and Northern area of Alberta . This position is an hourly contract position. The successful applicant will be responsible for the regular weighing and sampling of milk from cows in DHI herds, keeping records and statistical data, and promoting Dairy Herd Improvement. Applicants should have a thorough knowledge of the Dairy Industry and excellent interpersonal skills. In view of our commitment to Electronic Data Capture, PC skills would be a definite asset as well as having high speed internet capabilities. A degree/diploma in agriculture would also be an asset. The above position could require occasional heavy lifting up to 65 lbs.

Please forward written applications containing qualifications and experience by February 20, 2015 to: Mr. Larry Ouimet Director - Human Resources CanWest DHI 660 Speedvale Avenue West, Suite 101 Guelph ON N1K 1E5 Fax: 1.519.824.1330 Email: humanresources@ canwestdhi.com Only successful candidates for an interview will be contacted.

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considered for an interview will be contacted. Sunday, Feb. 15 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Amber Riley, 28; Jane Seymour, 64; Mario Garcia, 68 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will highlight more sensitivity to others in your life. You will be encouraged to be more self-reliant now. It will be an easier route for you to take. Try not to jump to any Apply now to provide value in the conclusions and do try to simply allow the truth to emerge Human Services Industry now. It will take some effort We are recruiting for the following positions: to assert yourself mentally, so P a r k l a n d again, work it alone if you can C.L.A.S.S. has grown CHILDREN & ADULT DISABILITY and move at your own pace. over five decades to SUPPORT WORKERS HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If to- become one of the day is your birthday, this year largest disability based CHILDREN & ADULT PROPRIETORS will be the year to heal any issues that you have been hav- service providers in Experience, knowledge of First Nations Culture and related education Parkland ing on a subconscious and in- Alberta. would be an asset, however not required, as we provide comprehensive ternal level. Profound changes C.L.A.S.S. exists to training at no cost. High school diploma, criminal record check, child will happen and you will be improve the quality of intervention record check and a positive attitude are required. Most wiser to have experienced life of children & adults positions, but not all require a driver’s license and a vehicle to transport them. Your confidence will go with developmental the individuals. up as well as your finances. disabilities through We offer a variety of appealing benefits and a friendly, caring and Others in your life will provide choice, helpful working environment. To get detailed information regarding you with ideas in regards to individual any vacant positions, please visit our website at non- traditional healing meth- dignity and rights. www.parklandclass.org – Job Opportunities We strive to empower ods. Learn about them now! Please check back often; vacancies are updated every Wednesday & Friday. ARIES (March 21-April the people we serve, 19): When approaching your measuring our Feel free to contact us or submit a cover letter and resume to: dreams and aspirations, this success against the is the time to go it alone. It is 6010 45 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 3M4 Email: hr@pclass.org goals they set for not that you have not met inFax: (403) 342-2677 Phone: (403) 347-3333 dividuals who share the same themselves. knowledge. It is simply a time when you will begin to assemble your own future. With their influence, you might be career opportunities at distracted. TAURUS (April 20-May the fairmont jasper park lodge 20): Try not to jump to conclusions now. You will have We are currently hiring for: a profound, emotional experience that will trigger a greater Restaurant Manager Assistant Housekeeping Manager need for you to see and reAssistant Restaurant Manager Water Treatment Operator lease anything that has held Restaurant Sous Chef Housekeeping Room Attendants you back. Non-traditional healAssistant Front Office Manager F&B Servers ing methods will appeal to you Guest Services Supervisor Bell Persons now. Ask a friend if they know Assistant Laundry Manager Culinary of anyone. Assistant Director, Food and Beverage GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are very much connected today. You will sense the greater realization of your fears and will now know why they created such a block for you in the first place. Before you move forward, make sure you know the truth about yourself, your innate knowledge. CANCER (June 21-July 22): It is a great day for independent thought and going Subsidized Accommodation Available, it alone. You will have some To formally apply or to view additional Competitive Wages, Full Benefits, opportunities please visit fairmontcareers.com intense interactions with othOpportunities for Advancement, For further details contact us at 780.852.6062 ers today that will create some & Employee Travel Program poignant feelings for you. Truth will come out and you feel more bonded with those individuals within your life. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will find that working with

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you do nothing else today, stand your ground. Embrace change, but know your personal boundaries. Others will respect you for that. It is a good time to formulate a plan going forward. Make those aspirations a reality. Discuss all with friends now — enjoy the day! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Watch your spending today. Other than that, it should be a relatively pleasant day. Do stand your ground when it comes to your personal wishes. Others will respect you for the proper boundaries you create today. You will be having serious thoughts about family life today. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are definitely going to have a serious outlook on life today. You will attract more respect by standing your ground and truly stepping forward in your own belief and truth now. You might struggle to find that mental connection with others, but that will temporary. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are going to want to sort out what’s on your mind. Discussing it with others within your daily life will be helpful today. They might not see your perspective, but that does not mean that their view is invalid or your view is truth. Be open to discuss and share now! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Others will be very vocal and will want to share exactly what is on their mind. The conversations will take on a more serious note now. You will struggle to understand where they are coming from, but that is okay. The interactions will be rewarding and truth will prevail! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You will be very keen to share your truth and you will be eager to express your feelings even more now. Go and socialize with friends and stand your ground when you know the truth of the matter. Do not let others side

Be aware of the high cost of putting a ring on it this Valentine’s Day BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Popping the big question with an engagement ring on Valentine’s Day may sound spontaneous and romantic but financial experts advise doing some legwork before getting down on one knee. “Remember, Cupid can shoot an arrow through your heart but also through your wallet,” says Sun Life financial adviser Brian Burlacoff. Burlacoff said the purchase of an engagement ring should be made with the bigger picture — the wedding — in mind. According to a recent analysis by rate comparison website RateSupermarket. ca, the average price of an engagement ring is $4,000, while a wedding in Canada, including a venue, dress and a honeymoon can cost as much as $32,000. “If you go crazy on the ring, you might be paying for it for 15 years and giving up other parts of your wedding, for example, or even a down payment on a home,” said Burlacoff. “It’s important to know where you want to prioritize spending your money.” Burlacoff suggests coming up with a wedding budget and examining your financial priorities for the next three to five years after the wedding. Do you want save for a down payment on a house? Do you want to put money into RRSPs? Do you plan on having children and have you considered how you will pay for daycare? For some, the top priority may be a bigger, more expensive rock. Others may opt for a less expensive ring with a gemstone or a Cubic Zirconia instead of a diamond. Couples can also decide to buy a smaller diamond first and upgrade it later when there is more financial stability. While it’s prudent not to buy

a ring you can’t afford, temptation may win out. In that case, it’s best to consider taking out a line of credit with a bank rather than signing up for a high-interest financing plan. In some cases, this can mean the difference between paying four per cent in interest with the bank versus paying 19 to 29 per cent with a credit card or with a merchant. “The number one reason why couples break up is still for financial reasons,” said Burlacoff. “While that engagement ring is very symbolic of a marriage, that can be the tip of the iceberg if it’s not done properly. It can set a positive pattern or a negative pattern for the rest of the marriage.” Newly engaged Chris Stasiuk said he popped the question to his girlfriend Melissa in January after months of saving. He recommends going to a jeweller understanding what is known in the diamond industry as the four Cs — colour, clarity, cut and carat weight — for an idea of how quality is determined and how much you want to pay. Stasiuk, who owns a video production company, had a budget in mind but admits he went over what he wanted to pay when he started looking at the rings. “I wanted to give her something that she was proud of,” he said. “I got caught up in the whole thing. She’s going to wear the ring forever and that obviously played in my mind as well. What’s an extra few grand over the course of a few years?” An old adage has long been that engagement rings are expected to cost about three months of salary, a benchmark that was created by the De Beers diamond cartel. But jeweller Chris Shortt says there are rings out there in all price ranges.

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Lacombe and District

COMMUNITY OUTREACH COORDINATOR

Lacombe and District

We are recruiting for the Healthy Families Program, a service of Lacombe FCSS which provides preventive social programs. Healthy Families Home Visitors offer information and longterm support to parents of infants and toddlers on positive parenting, child development, literacy and play as well as facilitating connections with community resources to support healthy family development. Qualifications: • Post-secondary education in a related Human Services field is preferred • Demonstrated ability to build helping, professional relationships with families • Must have own vehicle as considerable travel in Lacombe/Ponoka area is required. • Security checks are required This position is based out of the Lacombe and District FCSS office, with daytime hours, a competitive salary and ongoing training opportunities This family support program is made available through a partnership with Family Services of Central Alberta and Child and Family Services, and is part of a provincial network of home visitation programs. See www.fsca.ca or www.ahvna.org for more information.

Lacombe & District FCSS is a non-profit organization dedicated to the strengthening and enhancing of family and community life by offering preventive social services. The Community Outreach Coordinator will assist individuals and families with decision making and goal setting in order to create meaningful change while preventing crisis, fostering greater independence and increasing capacity. The successful candidate will: • Develop personal support plans using a case management model • Help individuals to access basic needs within the community and region • Coordinate and follow up on community referrals • Work closely with other community services to promote collaborative approach • Participate in outcome evaluation and reporting Qualifications: • Diploma or degree in related field, preferably human services • Direct experience working with individuals & families with complex needs • Excellent communication skills and basic computer proficiency • Demonstrated passion for assisting people to move toward positive life changes

The successful candidate will have experience preparing month ends and associated working papers, as well as, managing and performing the daily Ànancial accounting and reporting functions of the accounting department. Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills are a requirement along with resilience and the communication skills to make recommendations to both drive and lead change as appropriate. A wide breadth of knowledge of IT hardware and Accounting software are deÀnite assets as this person will support the IT function and work alongside third party consultants as appropriate.

Interested applicants can forward a resume to:

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Competitive salary and benefits. Closing date: Friday, March 6, 2015 Please forward your letter of interest and resume to: Susan MacDonald Executive Director Lacombe and District FCSS 201-5214 50 Avenue, Lacombe, AB T4L 0B6 403-782-6637 (phone) or Fax 403-782-6639 Email: smacdonald@lacombefcss.net www.lacombefcss.net

Our client offers you a chance to work with an industry leader, in a fast-paced environment, along with an excellent remuneration package which includes beneÀts and proÀt sharing.

Lacombe FCSS thanks everyone for their interest in this posting; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Cindy Risling; Human Resources Manager Collins Barrow Red Deer LLP Email: crisling@collinsbarrow.com

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Our client is a respected leader in the retail sector and seeks a dynamic individual to fulÀll an important role in providing Ànancial information, interpretation of the information and the leadership to help senior management to excel in their departmental roles. This individual will also be responsible for managing and supervising an Accounting Department of between 5 and 10 individuals.

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Please submit a cover letter and resume by Friday, February 27, 2015 to: Donnie Tafts Family Services Co-ordinator Lacombe and District FCSS 201-5214 50 Avenue, Lacombe, AB T4L 0B6 403-782-6637 (phone) dtafts@lacombefcss.net or Fax 403-782-6639 www.lacombefcss.net Lacombe FCSS thanks everyone for their interest in this posting; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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step you into thinking their way is the only way. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It is an excellent day to speak your truth and allow others to do the same. Your thoughts will be more sober and realistic now. You will be better able to understand friends and loved ones that you run into today. Own and know your truth. This will help you evolve further. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today is an excellent day to stand up to family members or those within your household. Speak your mind but avoid those who tend to be illogical. You will be better off with staying away from people who give you bad vibes or feelings. Stand your ground — you’ll earn respect! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You will have more respect from others if you speak your truth today. This is not the day to convince others of your theories, as it will be difficult to clearly express it, but it is a lovely day to take action in the direction that is true for you. Go out and have fun! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are going to have a serious outlook on life today. It is a good day to discuss your feelings, although your mood will take over your logical thoughts. This is not to say that you will not have poignant opinions, but psychic energy is high so stay away from negative energy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today is the day to speak your mind and stand your ground. Others will respect you for it, whether they share the same perspective or not. If you are not feeling like yourself, then remove yourself from those who are creating stress for you. Psychic energy is high. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It is a good day to discuss what’s on your mind. This might transpire throughout your daily life. Listen to your subconscious instincts, trust yourself now. You are now discussing all of your truth within your career, with coworkers, and with your mother today! Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Design and coordinate marketing communication activities and processes. • Create brochures, pamphlets, infomercials and other marketing and promotional materials. • Monitor the implementation of marketing activities and processes. • Monitor and report on the performance of ongoing promotional campaigns and modify as required to achieve better effectiveness. • Monitor and address customer responses by providing them with timely, clear, concise and convincing responses to their observations. • Design and update on a timely basis the contents of the website and social media. • Develop presentations as required for management. • Produce a quarterly newsletter. • Monitor blogs and respond as required to maintain the Habitat For Humanity brands online. SKILLS AND SPECIFICATIONS • Computer proficient with Microsoft Office and relevant software applications. • An understanding of marketing concepts. • Strong presentation skills and ability to work under stress and meet deadlines. • Good content writing skills and ability to get into the skin of any product. • Ability to work within a team. • Confident, energetic, and creative self-starter. • Strong communication and interpersonal skills. EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS Business or marketing-related degree or equivalent professional qualification and experience. Note. Forward your resume, with cover letter, by email no later than 23 February to info@habitatreddeer.ca. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only candidates chosen to be interviewed will be contacted. 54548B14,17

Licensed Practical Nurse

We are currently accepting applications for Parttime (FTE 0.56 and 0.52) and Casual Licensed Practical Nurses. Qualifications: • Graduate of a recognized Practical Nursing Program • Current License with CLPNA • Current Criminal Record Check/working with vulnerable sector

Health Care Aide

We are also currently accepting applications for Part-time (FTE 0.52 and 0.76) and Casual Health Care Aides to join our team. Under the direction of a Licensed Practical Nurse, you will provide safe, quality personal care to residents. All shifts are unionized and scheduled for 8 hours. Qualifications: • Graduate of a recognized Health Care Aide Program or Foreign trained health professional (RN) • Current Criminal Record Check/working with vulnerable sector • Good communication skills • Able to work independently Please send your confidential CV to greatjobs@chantellegroup.com or fax to 403-227-8201 - Attn: Administrator. All applicants will be kept confidential.

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Sunset Manor is a Supportive Living Facility that teams with Alberta Health Services to provide a home-like experience for our residents in the community of Innisfail.

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It’s hard to be anything less than with a textural grid effect. enamored by The Royal Britannia We recently showcased some of Trading Company. Any firm that saves these gems on TV and the audience — and subsequently re-interprets — went crazy: after the episode aired, our items destined for landfill is a sure social media channels were deluged fire winner in our books. In a world with requests for extra information. so often motivated by ‘fast gain’ and Working, as we do across the globe ‘quick fix’ manufacture, it’s (no rest for the wicked: we refreshing to see product just started a three-week created with real heart. Australian filming block) Real creativity. And real we’re increasingly aware of passion. demand for ‘second chance’ Cue British-born Lawhome décor. If you’re simirence Ewing, a talented larly exited, you’ll love Royglass artist who landed, al Britannia’s square glass several years past, on Canacoasters, each of which has dian soil with his TV execuan original champagne lative partner Philip Whelan. bel heat sealed into its While Philip busied himstructure: a lovely marself masterminding screen riage of form and function, successes in the reality and they’re quirky and fun. COLIN & home decorating genre, In an adjunct to the JUSTIN Lawrence saw opportunity ‘slumped’ and ‘heat fused’ — and a gap in the market range, there’s also an an— within the world of home cillary collection of vintage accessories. And an idea wooden storage ‘trug’ boxwas born. es. Historically, the ‘trug’ was a carrier Having lived and worked in New in which delivery staff would transYork, Lawrence decided the time was port items from factories to stores and right to develop his brand in Canada. homes. An ancient precursor to cardSettled in Stratford, he rose to his own board boxes and plastic bags, their challenge and, two years since launch- rustic edge makes them infinitely coling, production has grown to include lectible. all manner of inspired home accessoDeveloping his wooden inventory ries. Visit www.royalbritanniatrading. further, Lawrence recently added a com for a host of tabletop inspiration. bespoke range of fresh herb storage Take, for instance, the Double Wine boxes: way prettier than the plastic Bottle Platter that retails at just $34.99. tubs in which most herbs are sold, Rich product is hand manipulated they’re vented at the side (with chickusing a technique called ‘slumping,’ en wire) and would work just as well in a heating and softening process that a cottage environment as they would a makes glass mouldable. Heat ‘fused,’ condo or town home. thereafter, to connect two pieces, the Stylistic appetites ever fuelled by results are wonderfully unique. And to the joys of yesteryear, we predict furthink this trivet started life as a pair of ther expansion for The Royal Britanredundant bottles: genius! nia Trading Company. Via ‘slumping,’ Very pretty, too, is the company’s ‘fusing’ or the construction of ‘trugs,’ Balsamic Crostini Dish, a large cobalt the landscape is becoming prettier as blue bottle that’s been ‘slumped’ with more stuff that might otherwise have two sections. A larger depression is been dispatched to landfill is redirectdesigned to accommodate bread while ed, by Lawrence, towards a joyously a smaller area is pressed to house ol- bright born-again future. What’s not to ive oil or balsamic. love? Visit www.royalbritanniatradAs an eye catching table accent, this ing.com to scan inventory and scope piece would rock! We’re similarly smit- retail sources across Europe, Canada ten by a selection of ‘squashed’ glass and America. condiment bottles: reborn with shiny Colin and Justin are regular home chrome pouring nozzles, they’re won- and design experts in print and on TV. derfully unique. Also the company’s Find their international product range in Cubic Sandwich Platter ($19.99) — an- stores like HomeSense, Winners and Marother piece that uses a single bottle, shalls. facebook.com/ColinJustin, twitter. again ‘slumped,’ but this time stamped com/colinjustin, colinandjustin.tv.

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Fixing a bad paint job

HOUSEWORKS

Cathedral ceiling insulation Question: How can I insulate a cathedral ceiling properly? I’m a new homeowner and looking to do this correctly but at low cost. Answer: There are two main ways to get the job done. You can have the entire rafter cavity filled with spray foam, as I discussed last month, or you

can insulate with fibreglass or rock wool batts between rafters in combination with baffles that create an open ventilation space from eaves to peak. This is the least expensive option if you’re doing the work yourself, but my research and experience has shown me that this continuous ventilation space is important for allowing moisture to escape while also keeping the roof surface cold. You’ll get best results if you use the newer high-density batts. They pack more insulation value into a given space, and they better resist the movement of air that causes loss of effectiveness.

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The black sump pump drain line set just below the grass surface. In time, the pipe will disappear completely.

Sump pump drain line Question: How should I run a sump pump drain line away from my house? It used to be connected to the sewer line in the basement, but the town has ordered me to run the sump pump outdoors. There is a slope away from my house that drops two or three feet over a 70-foot distance. Answer: Running the sump pump drain line up to the ceiling of your basement then out the wall will work, but you’ll need to be careful when installing the horizontal pipe as it travels away from your home. There are two dangers. First, to keep the pipe safe from lawn mowers and out of site, you might consider burying it just below the soil surface. Make a slit in the soil when it’s soft and moist, place some one-inch ABS pipe in position, then tap it into the soil so it’s just below the surface. The real challenge with a surfaceinstalled sump pump line is keeping it from freezing solid during winter. If the slope of the pipe is continuous enough to allow all the water to drain away, then you’ll be fine. But if there’s any dips in the pipe that hold water, this will freeze and stay frozen until spring. The shorter the run of drain line, the easier it is to make it drain reliably. Just to be safe at my place, I installed an electric heating cable right inside my sump pump drain line. I plug it in when it gets super-cold, just to make sure the pipe stays clear. Steve Maxwell has been helping Canadian homeowners deal with winter and other home challenges since 1988. Get answers from Steve at SteveMaxwell.ca.

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Question: What can I do to correct a paint fix-up gone wrong? My real estate agent recommended a painter to paint patched areas before putting our home on the market. His work shows shiny, blotchy results and looks terrible. Aside from a $3,000 complete repaint job, what can we do? Answer: First of all, the painter is morally responsible for fixing this in my book, STEVE and any decent MAXWELL painter will accept this. Have you spoken to the painter about things yet? Regardless of whether the painter does the honorable thing or not, repainting the bad areas with a lower sheen, better-matched paint is an option. I know a number of professional painters, and when they need to match existing paint perfectly, here’s what they do: Using a sharp knife, the painter removes a two-inch-by-two-inch section of drywall surface paper off the wall in an inconspicuous place. Professional paint shops have people who can match existing paint surfaces closely, and the good ones will match small samples like this — both for sheen and colour. The sample area is then repatched and sanded, and all touch-up work is done on the wall. This approach can work well, but it takes skilled people. Other than this, a complete paint job is really your only option. It might not come to this though, so a proper matching job is worth at try.

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Dear Debbie: We have some fabulous landscape photos of our property that we would like to use as art for our walls. Do you know of an interesting way to do this? Simple frames just don’t work. Thanks for your great ideas. — James Dear James: We are all becoming amateur photographers these days due to the simplicity and the high quality of digital cameras. Even cellphones can take outstanding shots. There are also a variety of options for displaying your favourite photos. You can now make books online, or set up a page for groups of photos that capture your latest vacation or special family event. I discovered another option that will suit your desire to showcase your landDEBBIE scape photos in a manner TRAVIS that is both captivating and simple. Aluminyze.com lets you upload any photo and have it printed onto aluminum. The photo is infused into a sheet of aluminum. Their raw silver aluminum surfacing adds a semitransparent appearance to the picture. Whites become metallic silver, and colours shine with metallic hues. If you choose their standard white surface, you will see greater depth of saturated colours and stronger contrasts. Check out their website www.aluminyze.com to view their gallery and your choice of shapes, sizes and mounts, everything from traditional rectangles, squares and circles to heart shapes, ornaments and even the letters of the alphabet. You will want to ensure that the photo/s you send are high quality so that they can be enlarged, edited and cut to make whatever display you like. These aluminyzed photos are durable, waterproof and UV resistant. They don’t wrinkle like paper so can stand in easels or self-mounted onto the wall as shown here. Enjoy the creative process and be proud of your own masterpiece/s hanging for everyone to view. Dear Debbie: We have lived in a traditional home for many years, with dark wood paneling in the dining room and wood floors throughout the main floor. I love the house, but am tired of all the dark. It feels heavy and I am looking for light without ruining the home’s style. What can I do? — Ilianna Dear Ilianna: I know that you have a difficult decision to make, because there is much push-back when it comes to painting over dark wood paneling. Many people deem this step as a sacrilege, and that’s not right. This is your home, you make decisions that work for you. My advice is to paint the paneling white. Not only will it lift the room immeasurably, but it will also show off the handiwork in the panels themselves. Choose an interesting colour for the wall space between or above the panels.

HOUSE TO HOME

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PICTURE: Pastel shades are popular Pastel shades such as pale pink and violet are popular right now. Or look at the new wallpapers. Traditional florals have been blown up to invigorate any space. Stripes are always in style. Your floors are easily lightened with area rugs, and won’t feel heavy once the dark panels are gone. And don’t forget lighting. Chandeliers and pendants come in an exciting array of historic meets contemporary designs. It will feel like a brand new old home. Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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A custom cut image of a Japanese maple tree has been aluminized to add majesty and depth to this photo display.

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From retro to midcentury modern, trends in outdoor furniture

Global style Global elements stay as strong in outdoor furnishings as they are in indoors: Those Asian ceramic stools show no signs of disappearing, and are offered in more colours and pat-

terns than ever. Look for Moroccan influence in lanterns, Mediterranean motifs in textiles, and Silk Road accents like elephant-shaped tables, daybeds and handcrafted accessories.

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Kitchens Engineered for Real Life

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Outdoor living spaces have come a long way from the days when “outdoor furnishings” meant a few inexpensive folding chairs around a flimsy plastic table. Today’s outdoor chairs might be wrought iron or wrought aluminum, with upholstered seats. The table might be stone or wood or an elegant faux version of either, and would not look out of place inside in the dining room. Add outdoor sound systems, carpets and lighting, and the backyard or balcony can look and feel like an extension of the home. That notion gets ramped up this spring and summer; manufacturers are offering new furniture, textiles and materials that resemble indoor furnishings yet can withstand the elements. Getting the right look can be tricky; you don’t want it to seem like you just plunked a sofa from the living room down onto the patio. Here’s a look at what’s hot for Warm Weather 2015:

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Watch for midcentury modern styling in outdoor pieces to co-ordinate with this popular interior style. Gloster’s Dansk collection includes a chair with marine-grade, leather-look upholstery and teak tables, designed by Dane Povl Eskildsen. (www.gloster.com ) After World War II, California designer Walter Lamb was helping salvage sunken Navy warships at Pearl Harbor when he started messing around with the brass tubing and fittings. His prototypical outdoor furniture collection was put into production by Brown Jordan, the Pasadenabased company that pioneered outdoor furniture. Today’s iterations of Lamb’s pieces are still crafted from brass, which you can leave alone to develop a patina or polish to retain the shine. The seats are marine-grade cording. (www.dwr. com ) Luxe looks evoking old Hollywood are also in. Beautiful on an urban terrace, these pieces are chic and sophisticated, with tailoring details on upholstery, elegant finishes and striking colours. Frontgate’s Grayson Jade collection comes in a fashionforward bright green, in a powder-coated finish that looks lacquered. Here too, a zebra-print outdoor rug and pillows with exotic botanical prints. (www.frontgate.com ) Gloster’s Wedge seating has a stainless-steel base and waterproof fabric over a new type of outdoor foam that breathes well and resists mould. And Candace Olson designed a collection for Century that includes slipcovered furniture, and a smart accent table crafted of brass-finished aluminum and topped with a faux-croc surface. (www.centuryfurniture.com )

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can be grouped or separated, with ottomans, side tables and coffee tables that can also be used for casual dining. Watch for new, portable fire pits, bars and coffee tables. Agio, the world’s largest outdoor furniture supplier, introduces their Kolea collection this year featuring a fire pit and a sofa with built-in bar. Burnt orange fabrics and a lower profile are on-trend.

LIFESTYLE Family trips no longer a source of stress and frustration Dear Annie: May I add another solution for disgruntled family members trying to visit the hometown? A decade ago, with four young children, we often traveled great distances to visit my family every year. We had to use vacation time from work and pay for plane tickets, hotels and a rental car, and often arrived to discover that no one had time to spend with us, MITCHELL even though we planned & SUGAR our visits around their schedules. Worse, when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d stay with my parents, their home wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t childproofed, so we would spend the entire time following the kids everywhere to keep them safe. After several years of this frustration, we made some decisions that have made family visits so much better. We no longer go yearly. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made it clear that they are welcome to come here, and we would even pay their travel expenses. So far, no one has accepted. Now we visit every two or three years and use websites that offer vacation rentals in homes that fit our budget. Because there is a kitchen, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to eat out all the time. We tell our family that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in town and leave it up to them to make plans to spend time with us. We then spend our vacation actually vacationing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; seeing the sights, visiting old friends and relaxing. While our trips home to see family are still pricey, they no longer are a source of stress and frustration. Treating those visits like the vacations they truly are has helped all of us enjoy the time. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Older and Wiser Traveler Dear Annie: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking for an essay that appeared in your column a few years ago. It was about an elderly man who was celebrating a birthday. He spent the whole day waiting, but no one came to see him. I visited my mother today in a nursing home. She brought up this column in our conversation, and I promised to try to track it down. Can you help? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Loving Daughter Dear Daughter: Happy to. Here it is: It Was Grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Birthday by Rudy Joe Mano (reprinted with permission) It was Grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday. He was 79. He got up early, shaved, showered, combed his hair and put on his Sunday best so he would look nice when they came. He skipped his daily walk to the town cafe where he had coffee with his cronies. He wanted to be home when they came. He put his porch chair on the sidewalk so he could get a better view of the street when they drove up to help celebrate his birthday. At noon, he got tired but decided to forgo his nap so he could be there when they came. Most of the rest of the afternoon he spent near the telephone so he could answer it when they called. He has five married children, 13 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. One son and a daughter live within 10 miles of his place. They hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t visited him for a long time. But today was his birthday and they were sure to come. At suppertime, he left the cake untouched so they could cut it and have dessert with him. After supper, he sat on the porch waiting. At 8:30, he went to his room to prepare for bed. Before retiring, he left a note on the door that read: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be sure to wake me when you come.â&#x20AC;? It was Grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday. He was 79. Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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: Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Team Houston Aeros, represented by the Red Deer Baker Hughes midget A squad, won the recent fifth annual Tommy Guns Outdoor Winter Classic: Head coach Jason Volk. Assistant coaches Leon Oosterhoff, Neil Swensrude, Gerry Schoen. Team manager Kevin Swanson. The players: Jeremy Pohl, Ousten Larter, Aaron Volk, Liam Stalwick, Cory Owens, Connor Stalwick, Nick Vall, Hunter Gallant, Graham Swanson, Ryan Kaczmar, Ryan Bergheim, Jordan Volk, Quinn Swensrude, Dylan Huhn, Trevor Schoen, Dylan Oosterhoff and Gavin Jewan. Missing from photo: Jason Pezzella.

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Breast cancer, prostate cancer, and even routine infections. A new report ties these and other maladies to smoking and says an additional 60,000 to 120,000 deaths each year in the United States are probably due to tobacco use. The study by the American Cancer Society and several universities, published in Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New England Journal of Medicine, looks beyond lung cancer, heart disease and other conditions already tied to smoking, and the 480,000 U.S. deaths attributed to them each year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smokers die, on averHUB INTERNATIONAL age, more than a decade before nonsmokers,â&#x20AC;? and PHOENIX INSURANCE BROKERS in the U.S., smoking accounts for one of every five deaths, Dr. Graham Colditz, an epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis wrote in a commentary in the journal. The report shows that current estimates â&#x20AC;&#x153;have substantially underestimated the burden of smoking on society,â&#x20AC;? he wrote. About 18 per cent of U.S. adults smoke. Where do the numbers come from? Researchers looked at nearly 1 million Americans 55 and older taking part in five studies, including the National InstiLeft to right: Alison Dechant, Brittany Shaw, Colin Haggarty, tutes of Health-AARP Diet Derek Johnson, Mark Robertson, Amber Buchanan. and Health Study, since Front Row: Pam Cameron, Tina Brenner, Amanda Hawboldt. 2000. They tracked the participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; health for about 10 years and compared deaths from various causes among smokers, Let one of our professionally trained staff help you with all your insurance needs. n never smokers and former smokers, taking into #204 7803-50th Ave., 403-309-3770 account other things that can influence risk such as

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Tonga celebrates 1st Catholic cardinal BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Churches dot the heavily Christian, tiny island of Tonga everywhere and choirs can be heard singing on any day of the week. So many in the Pacific nation of 106,000 are overjoyed that the Catholic Church is making a Tongan a cardinal for the first time even though a majority of islanders are Protestant. The island’s king, a Wesleyan Methodist, is hoping to attend the ceremony Saturday at the Vatican and later has a private meeting scheduled with the pope. Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi is one of 20 cardinals being elevated by the pope and is an outlier not only in geography but also in age: At 53, he will be the youngest member of the College of Cardinals. Just getting to the Vatican has proved a challenge for Mafi. He needed to first fly about 800 kilometres (500 miles) to Fiji and wait there several days to get his visa, because Tonga is too small to issue them. “Well everybody here in Tonga is just so surprised,” said the Rev. Lutoviko Finau, who is responsible for the Tongan Catholic church in Mafi’s absence. “We are so happy about it. So grateful as well.” Mafi represents a church and region grappling with climate change, which is one of the major concerns of Pope Francis. In a recent interview with the Jesuit magazine America, Mafi spoke about the “permanent vulnerability” low-lying Pacific islands such as Tonga face from global warming. Francis has said climate change is mostly manmade and is expected to lay out his call for greater stewardship of God’s creation in an upcoming encyclical that has elated environmentalists and alarmed climate change skeptics, including those within the church. Mafi, who was travelling and could not be reached for comment, on his resume lists paying attention to the needs of the disadvantaged and women as a priority. He grew up in a religious family, and both his grandfather and father were church catechists. The

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Rev. Sepa Maka said there was no electricity in Tonga when Mafi was young. He said before turning to the seminary, Mafi was a free spirit “who did what he was doing according to the wind.” Mafi attended a year at St. Patrick’s College in Wellington in part to improve his English. New Zealander Peter Gregan said Mafi boarded with his late mother, who had suffered a stroke, and helped her cook and clean. He then entered the Pacific Regional Seminary in Fiji. The Rev. Michael O’Connor, the rector, said that like the other students, Mafi would help in the plantations, harvesting cassava, talo and bananas. He said Mafi was a keen sportsman, playing rugby, a sport which has now been banned from the seminary because of the number of injuries. “He’s a very warm person, gentle,” O’Connor said. “He’s doesn’t go for a lot of show. He’s very humble.” Mafi also studied pastoral counselling at Loyola College in Maryland. He became a vice rector at the seminary in Fiji and was consecrated coadjutor bishop for Tonga in 2007, taking over as bishop the following year. He recently told the SIR news agency of the Italian bishops’ conference that his church represents the periphery that Francis often speaks about, and that the church has to reach out in particular to the poor, those on the margins, and those who are often overlooked because they aren’t big players in the world. “I think the Pope is probably trying to make the point that the church is composed of all four corners of the globe and not just one,” Mafi told SIR. “The pope is trying to make people understand the existence of the ’small ones’ and show that the ’small ones’ can make a contribution.” Suka Otukolo, a senior assistant for Tonga’s monarch, King Tupou VI, said the king, who is on a preplanned trip to London, was hoping to make it to the Vatican for the ceremony. The Vatican schedule calls for Pope Francis to receive Tupou in a private audience on Monday. “It’s a huge thing here in Tonga,” Otukolo said, adding that most of Mafi’s family was travelling to the Vatican.

Living Faith Lutheran Church invites everyone to Sunday Worship at Bethany CollegeSide at 10 a.m. Contact Ralph at 403-347-9852. Coffee and fellowship follow service. Living Faith is a North American Lutheran Church Congregation.

Tuesday Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper at Memorial Presbyterian Church Sylvan Lake, Feb. 17, 5 to 7 p.m. Cost is $7.50 for adults, $5 for children ages six to 12 years, and free for children under six. Contact mametcal@gmail.com or 403-887-2098. Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper at St. Leonard’s Anglican Church Hall will be offered on Feb. 17, 5 to 7 p.m. Admission is $7, free for children ages six years and under, and $15 for a family. Sausages, pancakes, beverages are on the menu. Phone 403-346-5744. 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 403-782-6890. Blackfalds United Church Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper takes place on Feb. 17, 5 to 7 p.m. The menu features pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and juice. Costs are $7 for adults, $4 for children ages six to 12 years, and free for children ages five and under. See www.blackfaldsunitedchurch.com, or phone 403-8854780.

Upcoming events Perogy Supper at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church will take place Feb. 26 5:30 to 7 p.m. Adults are $11, children 10 years and under are $6. Tickets are available at the door. For more information call 403347-2335.

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onds to do calculations that previously took hours. 1927 — Conn Smythe takes over the Toronto St. Patricks team and renames them the Maple Leafs. 1876 — Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both apply for U.S. patents related to the telephone. The Supreme Court will rule that Bell is the rightful inventor. 1826 — Lt. Colonel John By of the Royal Engineers arrives in Hull to plan construction of the Rideau Canal from Ottawa River to Lake Ontario.

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Mad cow disease found in Alberta cattle FEDERAL AGRICULTURE MINISTER SAYS IT WON’T AFFECT BEEF TRADE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Mad cow disease has been confirmed in a beef cow on an Alberta farm, but the federal agriculture minister says the discovery won’t affect Canada’s international beef trade. “We don’t change from our controlled risk status ... so we don’t see this interfering with any of our trade corridors at this time,” Gerry Ritz said Friday after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed the case. Canada works under international protocols that allow for up to a dozen cases a year of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, Ritz said in Calgary. “We have stayed well below that.” Alberta did initial testing on the cow and Ottawa was informed a few days ago, Ritz said. The CFIA followed up with further tests. The agency said no part of the animal’s carcass entered the human food or animal feed systems. It’s the first case to be reported in Canada since 2011 when a six-year-old dairy cow tested positive. Ritz said the infected animal was not born on the farm where it was discovered. The CFIA said it is working to confirm the cow’s history and how it became infected. It will focus on feed supplied to the animal in the first year of its life. One key question is how old the animal was. “That investigation is just underway and we are not yet in a position to confirm an animal age,” Paul Mayers, a CFIA vice-president, said from Ottawa.

Canada continues to be designated a “controlled BSE risk” country by the World Organisation for Animal Health. To move up to “negligible BSE risk” — the same designation as the United States, Australia and other major beef producers — there can be no BSE in domestic animals born in the last 11 years in Canada. The earliest Canada could qualify would be next year, but only if the latest sick cow turns out to be 11 or older. Mayers said other questions include how many other cattle the BSE cow was in contact with and at how many farms. He said the cattle herd at the Alberta farm is not large, but it’s not yet known where the cow lived over its lifetime. Any cattle that came into contact with the same feed or the infected cow when it was young will be destroyed, he said. Doug Gillespie, president of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association, said the new case isn’t surprising. “They expect to find one of these from time to time ... It really shows our system is working, that beef is safe,” he said from his farm near Swift Current. BSE is a fatal and untreatable wasting disease of the brain and nervous systems and is caused by rogue proteins called prions. Humans who eat infected beef can develop a fatal disease called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Fewer than 250 human cases have been reported worldwide. Canada’s first known case of BSE was discovered in 1993 in a cow from a farm near Red Deer, Alta. The animal had been imported from Britain. The first instance of BSE in a Canadian-born beef cow was in May 2003,

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A case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in a beef cow from Alberta. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says no part of the animal’s carcass entered the human food or animal feed systems. also in Alberta. It’s suspected that animal became infected through contaminated animal feed that contained a protein supplement made with ground meat and bone meal. That case devastated Canada’s beef industry. About 40 markets immediately closed their borders to Canadian cattle and beef products, although many of those markets have since reopened. The year before the crisis, Canada exported 518,000 tonnes of beef products worth $2.1 billion. In 2014, Agriculture Canada said the numbers were

317,000 tonnes worth $1.9 billion. John Masswohl of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association said the new case should not have much of an effect on the beef trade. “Very minimal, if any. We don’t expect much impact from this on the international side,” Masswohl said from Ottawa. Testing of cattle was strengthened following the mad cow crisis and specified risk materials, such as brains and spinal columns, were banned for use in feed and other products.

Retail giant RioCan hit hard TransCanada to BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — An unusually high number of store closures, particularly in Canada’s struggling fashion sector, has left RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust scrambling to find new tenants to fill vacant locations. “The current retail environment is challenging in some sectors,” president and chief operating officer Raghunath Davloor said during a conference call after the company reported its earnings Friday. “At the end of December we started to see ... an increased level of activity in abandonments and bankruptcies, which has continued into the first quarter of 2015. The mid-level fashion sector has produced the most turnover.” RioCan (TSX:REI.UN), one of Canada’s largest landlords, has been impacted by a number of recent closures, including the recent announcement by U.S.-based discount retailer Target that it will be shuttering all 133 of its Canadian stores. RioCan has 26 Target locations, representing less than two per cent of the company’s rental revenue. The store closures are expected to have minimal direct impact in the short term, since the leases are mostly guaranteed by Target’s U.S. parent company. “While we certainly could have done without Target’s sudden withdrawal from Canada, which is tragic for many of their employees and small suppliers, for RioCan it is just a bump in the road generating a lot of work, and at the end of the day with no real impact,” chief executive Edward Sonshine said. A smaller chain, fashion chain Mexx, filed for bankruptcy in December, leaving RioCan with 18 empty stores. In total, the real estate investment trust more

than 200,000 square feet of space in its portfolio become vacant during the three months that ended on Dec. 31, 2014. That figure doesn’t include closures announced in the first quarter of this year, such as 13 locations of the Cash Store that are in RioCan’s portfolio. Sony and Jones New York have each left RioCan with two stores to fill, while RadioShack is closing seven locations in RioCan’s U.S. portfolio. Although RioCan says it expects to find new tenants for all of its vacant stores, Davloor said there will be a lag between the outgoing retailers and new tenants moving in, which will dampen how much income is generated from its existing properties. In some cases, RioCan has been able to replace outgoing tenants with new ones who are able to pay higher rent rates. For example, the company has leased out eight former Jacob stores to retailers such as Sephora, Swarovski and Shoppers Drug Mart, and in doing so has increased the average rent per square foot on the spaces by 45 per cent to $44, from the $30 previously paid by Jacob. The Montrealbased women’s clothing chain announced last fall that it was abandoning its restructuring efforts and closing all 92 of its Canadian stores. RioCan reported Friday a fourth-quarter profit of $172 million or 54 cents per unit, down from $265 million or 86 cents per unit a year ago due to a number of factors including a smaller gain in the fair value of its property portfolio. The fair value of its portfolio at the end of December was up $38 million, but that was less than the $134-million gain recorded in the fourth quarter of 2013. RioCan’s funds from operations — a key measure for real estate companies — rose to $130 million or 42 cents per unit in the fourth quarter of 2014, up from $124 million or 41 cents per unit a year earlier.

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FOURTH QUARTER PROFIT OF $458 MILLION BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. says it’s still pursuing its plans to get into the oil-by-rail business, despite the fact that crude prices are expected to remain at depressed levels for some time. Paul Miller, TransCanada’s (TSX:TRP) president of liquid pipelines, says rail transportation would help oil producers get product to market while they await approval of the company’s Keystone XL pipeline, which has been mired in legal and regulatory delays for six years. In the latest setback, the company agreed to a temporary injunction this week preventing it from expropriating land in northern Nebraska for the controversial project. TransCanada said it agreed to the injunction, issued in response to a lawsuit by a group of landowners, in the hopes of getting an accelerated trial schedule. Alexander Pourbaix, TransCanada’s executive vice-president, said he expects the legal process to be concluded in about a year. “Because the only issue at stake is this issue of constitutionality, it should be able to be concluded very quickly,” Pourbaix told investors during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call Friday.

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Sun News Network blames regulations for abrupt demise BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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An on-air anchor reads the news live at the Sun New Network television news studio at in Toronto on Thursday, August 8, 2013. The Sun News Network went off the air at 5 a.m. ET Friday after negotiations to sell the troubled television channel were unsuccessful. No on-air announcement was made as the screen went dark and was replaced moments later with the Sun TV logo.

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OTTAWA - The first journalist hired by Sun News Network says its demise had more to do with regulatory hurdles and shrinking resources than with the size of Canada’s appetite for a conservative-minded TV channel. Shortly after Sun News hit the lights for good Friday, Parliament Hill bureau chief David Akin suggested the outfit’s failure had more to do with the shifting plates on the media landscape it had pledged to shake up. Sun News Network took to the airwaves nearly four years ago with a promise to counterbalance what it considered the left-leaning bias of traditional media, a mandate that earned it the nickname “Fox News North.” Akin, a veteran Ottawa reporter, said the turning point came in 2013 when the federal broadcast regulator refused the network’s request for mandatory carriage, which would have included the channel in basic cable and satellite packages across Canada. A guaranteed spot on the dial would have generated significant revenue for the Quebecor-owned network, which had struggled in the ratings since its creation. “Had we got that our way, we’d still be around,” Akin said in an interview. Akin expects the network’s critics to blame its downfall on controversies created by outspoken, conservative Sun News hosts like Ezra Levant. But it wasn’t about the content, said Akin, who added he believes Canada still has a viable market for a channel like Sun News.

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Although he acknowledged the network could have invested more in how the final product looked on TV, Akin remains convinced the market was there to support his former employer. “Was Canada ready for a conservative news network? I think, sure.” Not everyone agrees. “I think in the end it was their own ideas and their own ridiculous rhetoric that did them in,” said Jeffrey Dvorkin, director of the journalism program at the University of Toronto. Canadians have different values than Americans, particularly when it comes to freedom of speech, said Dvorkin - a dual Canadian and U.S. citizen who’s intimately familiar with the Fox News dynamic that served as the Sun News model. “Canadians are uncomfortable with those rather extreme expressions of free speech.” Levant, the outspoken, often controversial on-air columnist whose notoriety made him the de-facto face of the broadcaster, disagreed that the problems were linked to its editorial or ideological views. “If we had a liberal point of view, that wouldn’t have done us any better if we didn’t have the cable deals,” Levant said in an interview. “If you have a favourable cable deal, that’s the most important thing from a business perspective, right?” Christopher Waddell, a journalism professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, agreed mandatory carriage would have allowed Sun News to turn a profit - even if nobody watched.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 135.36 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.12 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.80 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.56 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.58 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.78 Cdn. National Railway . . 87.29 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 231.85 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.79 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.21 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.00 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.44 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 61.52 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.24 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.32 General Motors Co. . . . . 37.62 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.57 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.22 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 44.17 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.61 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.45 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 10.91 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 57.23 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 116.70 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.81 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.60 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.02

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market advanced for a fifth straight session Friday amid data showing solid economic growth in Europe and an unexpectedly strong performance by Canadian manufacturers. The S&P/TSX composite index was ahead 36.29 points to 15,264.81, its highest close in almost five months. “Who wants to go into the weekend in a sour mood, especially when it’s Valentine‘s Day tomorrow?” said John Stephenson, president and CEO of Stephenson and Co. Capital Management. The Canadian dollar rose 0.19 of a cent to 80.25 cents US as Canadian manufacturing sales rose 1.7 per cent in December. That was far higher than the 0.5 per cent reading that economists had expected. New York indexes were positive despite slipping consumer confidence. The University of Michigan’s consumer confidence index came in at 93.6 in February, lower than the 98.5 reading that economists expected. The Dow Jones industrials was ahead 46.97 points at 18,019,35, the Nasdaq gained 36.23 points to 4,893.84 and the S&P 500 index was up 8.51 points at 2,096.99. The German economy grew by 0.7 per cent in the fourth quarter, much better than the 0.3 per cent increase that had been expected. Overall economic output across the eurozone was 0.3 per cent higher in the quarter compared with the previous three months. That equated with an annualized growth rate of just 1.2 per cent, but still better than the 0.2 per cent increased anticipated by investors. There was also optimism that Greece will come to an agreement with its eurozone creditors. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to allow government officials to start technical discussions with debt inspectors. The results

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 21.78 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.92 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.81 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.57 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.12 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.52 First Quantum Minerals . 13.69 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 29.35 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.38 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.51 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.85 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 46.14 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.33 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 19.15 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 25.06 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 27.63 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 64.31 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.07 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 45.49 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 39.40 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 11.95 Canyon Services Group. . 8.05 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 24.18 CWC Well Services . . . 0.4400 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 17.56 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.39

will inform a meeting of the eurozone’s finance ministers on Monday. Tsipras says a “mutually acceptable” deal is possible while German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country is ready to compromise. “What would be acceptable to the Greek government, I think, is just a little bit of forgiveness,” added Stephenson. “They need more money. They have to come to some sort of deal. But they want the terms to be a little less onerous.” The TSX found support from the energy sector, up 0.9 per cent as March crude advanced $1.57 to US$52.78 a barrel. The base metals sector climbed 2.75 per cent while March copper was unchanged at US$2.60 a pound. April bullion advanced $6.40 to US$1,227.10 an ounce and the gold sector rose about 0.15 per cent. The financials sector also lifted the Toronto market, up 0.45 per cent. TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP), which is trying to get approval for its stalled Keystone XL pipeline, reported comparable earnings at $511 million or 72 cents a share in its latest quarter, beating forecasts of 61 cents a share. TransCanada also upped its quarterly dividend eight per cent to 52 cents, but its shares shed early gains and fell $1.27 to $57.23. RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:REI.UN) reported fourth-quarter net income plunged 35 per cent to $172 million or 54 cents per unit. Its units ticked three cents higher to $29.06 . The TSX gained 181 points or 1.2 per cent this week, its fourth straight weekly gain. It’s a shortened trading week next week as the TSX is closed Monday because of Ontario’s Family Day, while New York is shuttered for President’s Day. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading. Stocks:

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 93.37 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 44.19 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.75 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.35 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 51.29 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.33 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 3.04 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.020 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.51 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.40 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.49 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.08 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.42 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 58.66 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.69 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 67.20 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.90 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.97 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.61 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.87 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 45.20 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 90.61 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.56 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 47.71 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.40 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.54 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.98 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.50

S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,264.81, up 36.29 points Dow — 18,019.35, up 46.97 points S&P 500 — 2,096.99, up 8.51 points (record high) Nasdaq — 4,893.84, up 36.23 points Currencies: Cdn — 80.25 cents US, up 0.19 of a cent Pound — C$1.9194, down 0.45 of a cent Euro — C$1.4204, down 0.48 of a cent Euro — US$1.1399, down 0.12 of a cent Oil futures: US$52.78 per barrel, up $1.57 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,227.10 per oz., up $6.40 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.536 oz., up 43.2 cents $724.53 kg., up $13.89 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $4.20 higher $467.40; May ’15 $3.50 higher $463.10; July ’15 $2.90 higher $458.80; Nov ’15 $2.60 higher $448.40; Jan. ’16 $2.80 higher $451.30; March ’16 $2.90 higher $455.30; May ’16 $2.80 higher $458.60; July ’16 $2.70 higher $462.00; Nov. ’16 $2.70 higher $456.00; Jan. ’17 $2.70 higher $456.00; March ’17 $2.70 higher $456.00. 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: 433,220 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 433,220.

Federal agriculture minister hopes strike can be averted CALGARY — Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says he is hopeful that mediators will be able to avert a strike by workers at Canadian Pacific Railway. The union representing 1,800 safety and maintenance workers has issued a strike notice for early Sunday morning. That’s the same deadline given by another union which represents 3,300 locomotive engineers, conductors, trainmen and yardmen across Canada. Ritz says a prolonged rail strike by CP (TSX:CP) would have a significant impact on the agriculture, forestry, potash and coal sectors. He says there is never a good time for rail service disruption, because producers always need to get their goods to market. Ritz says it’s too early to think about whether the federal government should get involved. In 2012, the federal government passed legislation to force an end to a nine-day strike by 4,800 striking mem-

bers of the Teamsters union and CP Rail employees.

Company behind Swiss Chalet, Harvey’s to offer IPO TORONTO — The company that owns Harvey’s, Swiss Chalet and several other restaurant chains is planning a return to the public stock market after an absence of more than a decade. Financial details have yet to be determined, but Cara Operations announced Friday that it’s planning to sell subordinate shares through a public offering. Cara’s multiple-vote shares will be owned by members of the Phelan family and Fairfax Financial Holdings.. Cara — which has restaurants under banners that also include Milestones, East Side Mario’s, Casey’s, Kelsey’s and Montana’s — was taken private in 2004. The number of shares to be sold and the offering price has not been determined.

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SUN NEWS: Timing part of the problem The problem was Quebecor’s timing, Waddell said. The push to land such a critical base of funding ran up against a growing subscriber revolt against the traditional model of paying for bundles of TV channels, which often include unwanted content, he noted. What’s more, fewer and fewer young people are signing up for cable and satellite TV. All of that has been adding up to pressure on the regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, to start limiting the number of mandatory channels, not increase it, he said. Sun News also suffered from quality issues, Waddell acknowledged. Case in point was a chronic shortage of video footage to accompany stories, a symptom of the fact Sun News had few local stations providing supplementary images. “You’re really left with people sitting around talking about stuff,” he said. “That’s not very compelling television.” Unlike Dvorkin, Waddell said he didn’t think the network’s aggressive approach or the political leanings of its commentators had much - if anything - to do with its fate. Everyone agrees on one thing, though: the network’s closure means fewer journalists keeping an eye on Canadian politics.

Sun News was the only national TV network with reporters on all the major party campaign buses during provincial election campaigns across Canada in recent years, Akin said. “We made a real serious commitment to covering politics in this country.”

TRANSCANADA: Rail transport needed Meanwhile, Miller says rail transport will be needed even after new pipelines are built. “We do believe rail will be a permanent part of the producer’s transportation solution, in part to access niche markets and in part to manage around the lumpiness, if you wish, of pipeline implementation,” Miller said. The pipeline company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $458 million or 65 cents per share Friday, up from $420 million or 59 cents per share a year earlier. Revenue increased to $2.62 billion from $2.33 billion a year ago. TransCanada also announced it is raising its dividend by eight per cent. The dividend will increase to 52 cents per share with the April 30 payment, up from 48 cents. The company also announced Friday that it’s seeking regulatory approvals for the shorter, $600-million Upland pipeline between Saskatchewan and North Dakota, that the company expects to be in service in 2018.

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