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End of an era

ADVOCATE REPORTER CRYSTAL RHYNO TAKES A LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THE RED DEER ARENA, WHICH WILL BE TORN DOWN NEXT YEAR TO CLEAR THE WAY FOR A NEW FACILITY

A small part of Red Deer’s history may be lost when the Red Deer Arena is demolished, but the memories will live on.

Next year, the 63-year-old rink will be torn down.

In its place, the City of Red Deer will build a new rink, since it has determined that it is much too costly to repair and maintain the existing building.

And if the walls on the Arena could talk, they would mention the controversial start to a building that has welcomed thousands of hockey games and practices, speed-skating competitions, concerts, political rallies, Remembrance Day services and much more over six decades.

In October 1951, city voters

decided in a plebiscite to build the Red Deer Arena at the then-fairgrounds.

The project tenders came in much higher than anticipated, causing a stir in the town of 7,115 residents.

Spending an estimated $165,000 on a hockey rink following the Second World War just did not sit well with some residents.

Others were opposed to the project because they felt the designated site in southeast Red Deer was too far away from the downtown.

Michael Dawe, a city archivist, said the voters approved a scaled-back version of the project.

He said they used a lot more wood in the building than originally planned.

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RCMP charge husband with seconddegree murder in 2006 death of wife AIRDRIE — RCMP have charged a southern Alberta man with murder in death of his wife more than nine years ago.

Police say they investigated a report of human remains found in a burned abandoned building in January 2006 near Exshaw, west of Calgary.

Weeks later Mounties announced that DNA tests had determined that the remains were of Ruth Degayo.

The 40-year-old woman of Airdrie had been reported missing by her husband.

RCMP say they have arrested Duane Redelback, who is 47.

He has been charged with second-degree murder and indignity to a human body.

“The historic nature and complexities in investigating these types of files is very challenging and our investigators from the RCMP Historical Homicide Unit took on this file with a determination to solve it”, Insp. Stacey Talbot said Friday in a release.

Redelback was being held in custody.

There was no immediate world on a court date.

Human resources company says province to have lowest salary increases in 2016 CALGARY — A human resources consulting company says next year Alberta will likely have the low-

est salary increases in Canada.

Toronto-based Morneau Shepell says employers it has surveyed across the country expect salaries to rise by 2.5 per cent next year.

But it says the figure for Alberta will be 2.2 per cent.

These forecasts come in the face of the drop in oil prices.

Last year the company said Alberta salary increases in 2015 would be around 3.4 per cent, among the highest in the country.

Province changing its U.S. representative, wants to move in different direction EDMONTON — Alberta’s new NDP government is changing its senior representative to the United States, saying it wants to move in a new direction.

Former Conservative MP Rob Merrifield was to do the job until Sept. 30, 2018, but is to leave at the end of the month.

The government says a replacement for Merrifield, who was appointed last year by former premier Jim Prentice, would be named soon.

A spokeswoman for Premier Rachel Notley’s office says Merrifield has a contract that does not include severance.

Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier is to take over some of Merrifield’s work in the interim, including efforts to persuade Washington to repeal its meat labelling law known as COOL that has hurt Canada’s beef and pork industries.

In a written statement Notley thanks Merrifield for his public service.

“I would like to sincerely thank Rob Merrifield for all of his efforts advancing Alberta’s economic and policy interests with our largest trading partner,” Notley said Friday.

“This change will allow the government time to

consider a new direction for the office, including the option of appointing a representative with a background as a professional diplomat.”

Notley noted that Alberta’s exports to the U.S. totalled $109.6 billion last year.

She said strong relations with the U.S. will play an important role in growing and diversifying Alberta’s economy.

When Merrifield was appointed to the Washington job he agreed to donate to charity part of his MP pension while he worked for the province, to allay any concerns about double dipping.

Merrifield’s Alberta salary is $243,000 per year.

Top City of Edmonton manager who oversaw delayed LRT line derailed EDMONTON — The man who has held the City of Edmonton’s top civic post for the past five years has been fired.

Mayor Don Iveson announced at a hastily called news conference Thursday that Simon Farbrother has been relieved of his duties.

Iveson says no one issue was behind the dismissal, but council was unanimous in opting to replace him.

The city is contractually obligated to pay Farbrother two years of salary plus benefits, which amount to $800,000.

Farbrother recently took responsibility for the long-delayed start of the city’s Metro light-rail transit line that runs to MacEwan University and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.

A city auditor’s report revealed a lack of communication played a major role in the delay.

Farbrother was hired in 2010 after serving as city manager for Waterloo, Ont., from 2005 to 2009 and Spruce Grove, west of Edmonton, between 1997 and 2005.

He played a major role in negotiating a plan for Edmonton’s new downtown arena.

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CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Red Deer Vipers Justin Van Tetering is slashed by Ponoka Stampeders defenceman Austin Ancion as he breaks in for a shot on Stampeders goalie Eli Falls in Heritage Junior B Hockey League action; Red Deer Royals member Erica Binder was chosen as bugler for Remembrance Day services, hosted by the Branch 35 of the Royal Canadian Legion; the interior of the Red Deer Arena. ed the roof had one to three years left in its lifespan.

The city installed a monitoring system to keep an eye on the roof.

Dawe said there was a lot of work invested in the Arena two decades ago, but now it has reached a point where there is only so much you can do.

Plans are in the works to give the old Arena a proper send off.

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Council budgeted $21.5 million to build the new rink. The project includes resurfacing the parking lots that serve the surrounding buildings.

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“Right from the start, the building was never a state-of-the-art, modern facility,” said Dawe. “Even with the renovations they did 25 years ago, it improved the exterior appearance, the lobby areas were fixed up. The basic thing was the building was still pretty old.”

The 2,800-seat Arena opened in December 1952 without an ice plant.

“They had to postpone the official opening because it was just too warm,” laughed Dawe. “The ice plant was improved when the curling rink was built several years later next door. They had a shared ice plant for a few years. That helped with proper temperature control.”

As the largest gathering place in Red Deer at the time, the Arena was the place for political rallies, meetings, sporting events and concerts.

“It’s been a community centre in many ways over the years,” said Dawe. “I think there’s a lot of sentimental attached to it. People have fond memories of it. I have fond memories as a high school kid going down with my friends and watching the Red Deer Rustlers.”

But it wasn’t always about hockey.

In 1955, the celebrations of Alberta’s 50th anniversary as a province were held at the Arena. It was standing room only as residents listened to Premier Ernest Manning speak.

“I remember in 1968 there was a very contentious nomination meeting because the national leader of Social Credit (Robert Thompson), who had been Red Deer’s member of Parliament, had switched to the Conservatives,” said Dawe. “When they had the nomination meeting, they filled the arena. He re-won the nomination as a Conservative. It was a really big event. We had a lot of these Conservatives say we spent all these years fighting him and now he says he’s one of us.”

These days, the Arena is the home of the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs, Red Deer Vipers, Red Deer College Queens and Red Deer Minor Hockey. It has hosted many national championships, including the Telus Cup and the Allan Cup. The Red Deer Legion hosts its annual Remembrance Day ceremonies at the facility. The Saturday Red Deer Public Market sets up in the parking lot of the Arena through the summer.

In 1995, extensive renovations to the Arena extended its life.

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Sentencing for a convicted robber was put on hold on Friday after she dropped her lawyer.

Jennifer Maychak, 34, of Red Deer, pleaded guilty in June on four robbery-related charges.

She was to be sentenced on all four on Friday afternoon in Red Deer provincial court, but she said she parted ways with her defence lawyer earlier this month and requested an adjournment to find new counsel.

Maychak was arrested in April in connection with a series of robberies in Red Deer from April 21 to 28.

She admitted to robbing the Candy Bags Sweet Shop at 6791 Ross St. on April 18, the Eastview Express 24 on April 20 and the Macs at 3801 Ross St. on April 28. She also pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in connection with an April 20 incident at the Fas Gas at 4023 Ross St. She was armed with a screwdriver during the robberies.

Maychak was arrested along with a male accomplice on the night of April 28 after an employee at the Mac’s managed to get the licence number of their vehicle and called police.

Judge Gordon Yake questioned Maychak closely to ensure she understood the implications of her guilty pleas.

Yake asked her if she agreed with all of the details of her crimes in the Crown prosecutor’s sixpage information document, which she had read and signed.

“I was still pretty high when I was being interviewed (by police),” she said.

On further questioning by the judge, she confirmed that she took no issue with the facts.

“I’m not saying it was not correct. I’m saying I was still high.”

Maychak also accepted the findings of a pre-sentence report prepared by a probation officer.

Yake set an Oct. 16 date for sentencing to give Maychak time to find a new lawyer.

Clark Manchester of Calgary puts the shine to his ’65 Nova SS he is selling at auction in Red Deer this weekend. Manchester, who has six cars to sell at the 8th Annual Electric Garage Fall Finale Collector Car Auction, has no reserve bid on this classic Nova. The auction began Friday night and goes through today at Westerner Park. The sale of 125 vehicles begins at 10:30 a.m. Gates open at 9 a.m.

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Some bail conditions eased for Khadr

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Judge in teen terror trial rules much of his interrogation inadmissible

EDMONTON — A judge has agreed to ease some bail conditions for former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr and is considering other changes that would increase his freedoms.

Khadr’s curfew is being eased so he can attend night classes at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, where he plans to study to become an emergency medical technician.

He can also leave home earlier in the morning for religious prayers.

The federal government is not opposing the changes, which also include allowing Khadr to stay with friends in Omar Khadr Alberta if permitted by his bail supervisor. He is currently required to live with one of his lawyers, Dennis Edney, and not leave Alberta except to stay at Edney’s vacation home in B.C. Khadr’s lawyers argued in court Friday that he has complied with his bail conditions for the last four months and most of the restrictions are no longer needed.

MONTREAL — A Quebec youth court judge has ruled that much of a police interrogation of a teenager facing terrorism-related charges is inadmissible because his rights weren’t respected.

As a result, many of the statements made by the teen last Oct. 20 cannot be used as evidence.

The judge said a provincial police officer told the teen during the three-hour interrogation that the boy’s opinion could not be used against him.

Judge Dominique Wilhelmy ruled the teen’s rights were not respected.

The adolescent, who cannot be named, faces two charges — committing a robbery for the benefit of an unspecified terrorist organization and planning to leave Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group abroad.

His father alerted police after fearing his son had been radicalized.

He is now 16 years old.

Fisherman’s catch causes RCMP to evacuate detachment ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The RCMP safely removed a suspected military shell on Friday from a detachment in Harbour Grace, N.L., that forced the building’s evacuation.

The detachment was evacuated when a fisherman dropped off the shell after it got caught in his fishing gear.

The Mounties say they evacuated the detachment and established a perimeter around the building as a precaution.

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A former medical technician who examined military recruits faces two more counts of sexual assault and 10 counts of breach of trust.

The Defence Department says retired petty officer James Wilks has been charged in connection with his work at two Ontario recruiting centres.

Alleged incidents occurred between 2004 and 2009 in London and Thunder Bay, involving eight complainants.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

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“Mr. Khadr is getting on with his life, as he should do,” Edney said outside the courthouse. “Overwhelmingly people stop him, speak to him. They’re not intrusive and they welcome him back. We have not had one single problem.”

Khadr stood beside Edney and smiled but declined to speak. Edney says the 29-year-old doesn’t want to be a public figure.

The Toronto-born Khadr was 15 when he was captured following a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002. He became the youngest prisoner and lone Westerner at the time to be held in Guantanamo.

In 2010, he pleaded guilty to several war crimes, including the murder of an American soldier. A United States military commission sentenced him to another eight years behind bars. He was transferred home to Canada in 2012.

Khadr later said he only pleaded guilty to get out of the notorious prison and appealed his conviction in the U.S. Justice June Ross agreed to bail in May, pending the appeal. On Friday, she reserved her decision on Khadr’s other requests to visit family in the Toronto area and to get rid of the electronic monitoring bracelet strapped to his left ankle.

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Mike Goertz of Blackfalds helps on Friday to set up for the Spartan Race in Red Deer. Goertz, who races three Spartan events annually, will take on the Red Deer course at Heritage Ranch this weekend with the multitudes of other competitors who will test themselves against the elements. Waves of 250 athletes will take to the trails every 30 minutes starting at 8 a.m. Saturday on a 12-km Spartan Super course.

Competitors on Sunday will take part in a Spartan Sprint distance event covering 5 km. Athletes will slog through mud, lift heavy objects, climb over obstacles and run through fire to reach the finish line.

Image of drowned boy sparks major increase in aid generosity

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Morley said his organization is also ramping up its appeal for emergency funding to help Syrian children in the mass exodus to Europe.

“We didn’t want to take advantage of that photograph, but we have a moral responsibility as UNICEF — if we’re galvanized by this, we have to move on it.”

The photo has also encouraged two private donors to pledge matching funds on future donations.

Maple Leaf Foods will match all new donations up to a ceiling of $25,000, starting Friday. And one wellheeled individual, who wishes to remain anonymous, has made the same $25,000 matching offer, said Morley.

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OTTAWA — A campaigning Conservative Leader Stephen Harper used Friday’s 14th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. to highlight his government’s national-security credentials.

Speaking to an election rally in Victoriaville, Que., Harper flatly asserted that voters face a choice between “security and risk” next month at the polls.

The incumbent Conservatives have been buffeted by an international refugee crisis over the past week, and Harper has been trying to stress the terrorist threat millions of displaced Syrian and Iraqi civilians pose, and hence the need for rigorous screening of newcomers to Canada.

“On Oct. 19, you will have to choose between experience and the unknown, between security and risk,” Harper told a crown of partisans.

“Security and experience, that’s what Conservative candidates offer.”

The New Democratic Party under Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have been hammering the government for failing to speed up the refugee-resettlement process, while Harper has countered by playing to fears of terrorist infiltrators.

With the 78-day election campaign now past its midpoint, the three major federal parties remain locked in a tight three-way battle in most public opinion polls and are trying to separate themselves from the field.

The anniversary of the world-shaking 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington gave Harper an opportunity to remind voters of the subsequent war in Afghanistan — a “difficult and costly campaign,” he said in French, but one that means Afghanistan is “no longer a base for terrorism against us.”

Nonetheless, he said, the threat remains — a reference to two deadly attacks on Canadian soldiers last fall in Canada. He then pitched his party’s wish to keep up air strikes against fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also commonly referred to as ISIS or ISIL. Canada has a half-dozen fighter jets flying bombing missions in Iraq and Syria, and several dozen special-forces military trainers working with Kurdish fighters in Iraq to fight the militants — a commitment that currently extends

‘ON OCT. 19, YOU WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN EXPERIENCE AND THE UNKNOWN, BETWEEN SECURITY AND RISK.’

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A new iPolitics poll Friday from Ekos Research suggested the Conservative message is in their supporters’ comfort zone — and may chew into the Liberal flank.

The survey found 69 per cent of respondents who identified as Conservative supporters felt Canada should “focus on the military mission against ISIS,” rather than on humanitarian aid. It’s noteworthy that 37 per cent of self-identified Liberal supporters agreed.

The automated telephone poll of 2,677 respondents, which carries a margin of error of 1.9 percentage points, also found that 88 per cent of Conservative respondents felt the current target for Syrian refugees is “about right” or too generous — and 49 per cent of Liberal respondents agreed.

It may help explain the message Harper continues to pound home.

“As long as the most violent and barbarous individuals in the world are committing massacres, as long as they’re happy to boast about it, and as long as they continue to threaten to do the same things to Canada and Canadians, this Conservative government will remain in the international coalition fighting ISIS,” he said in Victoriaville.

Mulcair, campaigning in Edmonton, said Canada does indeed have a role to play in combating terrorism, but said the government should focus on stopping the flow of arms and money to the region as well as combating radicalization at home.

He noted the Conservative government has made Canada the only NATO country that’s failed to ratify a United Nations treaty on the trade in arms.

Harper, it should be noted, pledged an additional $10 million over five years on Friday to the Kanishka project — a federal initiative aimed at countering “root causes” of terrorism and radicalization in Canada.

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VANCOUVER — Health Canada has threatened pot dispensaries with police raids, but at least one organization wants more information on what it has done wrong.

The health agency confirmed it has sent letters to 13 compassion clubs and dispensaries warning of possible RCMP raids if they don’t stop selling or advertising marijuana and comply with several demands.

The B.C. Compassion Club Society provides legally approved medical marijuana to more than 9,000 members and spokeswoman Jamie Shaw said it

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VANCOUVER — Canada is the only country in the world to charge interest to refugees on travel loans, saddling struggling newcomers with debt as they try to rebuild their lives, advocates say.

The federal government requires privately sponsored and government-assisted refugees to pay for their own travel costs and overseas medical exams and will loan families up to $10,000.

“Refugees are desperate and eager to repay the loan, as a small gesture of tremendous gratitude and appreciation to the government,” said Chris Friesen of the Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia. “But at what cost?”

Friesen said families are using more of their food money to pay down the debt.

He said some countries, including the United States and Australia, require refugees to pay back loans for travel costs but don’t charge interest.

About 91 per cent of refugees pay back the loans, including Samer Aldhmad, a Syrian father of five living in Surrey, B.C., who repaid $7,019.47 in less than a year using his child tax benefit.

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The comments targeting the school were posted by a user named “Kill Feminists” under an article that appeared on a Toronto blog, Const. Victor Kwong said.

The disturbing comments called for gun violence against Women’s Studies faculty and students.

Kwong said police are trying to identify the person who posted the comments, and security remained high at the Mississauga, St. George and Scarborough campuses Friday as the city’s CyberCrimes unit investigated.

The university’s provost issued a warning to more than 80,000 university community members Thursday, including students, faculty and staff.

The email cited threats made on a public blog, but didn’t go into any more detail.

University spokesman David Estok said the school’s administration chose not to detail the threats after consulting with experts, including police.

He added that the school has taken a number of measures to ensure students are safe, including making security more visible and calling for students to report anything suspicious or threatening to police.

But Celia Wandio, the fourth-year student who started the popular Facebook page “U of T Students against sexual violence”, said she thinks the school was trying to protect its reputation when the administration decided not to specify that the threats were targeted at feminists like her.

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Sometimes you just have to help Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada can’t simply open its doors to the flood of refugees fleeing the violence and chaos of Syria. Not without screening them first.

And of course, screening them will seriously begin whenever he says it will seriously begin. This is after all, a rule-of-law democracy and Harper believes he is elected to run it on his own terms.

Canada has formally committed to taking 10,000 refugees from Syria over the next three years. So far, GREG 2,300 have been NEIMAN settled here, and a great many of them will have their lives tangled in bureaucratic red tape for years, if not decades. Retired Canadian general Rick Hillier says that number should be boosted to 50,000, and they could all be safely in Canada by the end of December.

But we all know that’s not going to happen, no matter how guilty we all might feel right now after seeing the photo of the drowned boy lying face down in the surf.

Chris Friesen of the Immigration Services Society of B.C. told reporters this week that there are close to 400,000 people on the continent of Africa alone who are refugees waiting to be processed. Some have been waiting in refugee camps for as long as 30 years. There are 21 countries in Africa alone that are churning out refugees like it’s their main national export.

According to the United Nations, one of every 122 people on Earth is either a refugee, a person internally displaced in their home country with no place to go, or someone seeking asylum.

We can set targets for as many thousands of Syrian refugees as we want, and each one of them we process will push an existing refugee application to Canada from all these other countries that much further down the list.

Nancy Caron, of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, told CBC News that efforts are being made to streamline the application process, and that Syrian resettlement cases to Canada are all being processed within a year.

But private sponsors for refugees from other countries, where the re-

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gimes are just as violent and just as brutal as either side fighting in Syria’s civil war, have been waiting two and three years to see any evidence of progress in applications they themselves have put money and effort into moving forward.

I can tell you from personal experience that there is nothing as frustratingly slow as watching the bureaucracies of two countries handle one simple visa application for residence. For a person whose identity and history can easily be screened in minutes, if someone would just get off his bureaucratic butt and do it.

Now try it with someone who fled his home with nothing but his clothing and children on his back. From a country where nobody knows what tribal hatreds might be packed in his pockets.

My heart goes out to them. Some Syrian refugees who have resettled in Europe are beginning to tell their stories. They are university-educated in some cases, multilingual, leaving cities that once had Western standard power and water services, civil infrastructure, a working market economy — but which are now bombed-out pockets of rubble, patrolled by heavily-armed in-

sane people.

They have much to offer any country who would take them in.

Harper says Canada’s response must include adding to the rubble. That’s a far more expensive option than throwing some drowning people a lifeline.

It may not help for the other 400,000 people who are also looking for a lifeline, but it beats simply watching them drown and hoping that among them weren’t too many people who were not just, you know … Muslim terrorists.

Like that little boy in the photo.

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Why weapons without risk are bad One of my daughters once proposed that my T- ubiquitous and cheap for all significant military shirt should read: “I don’t support war, but war sup- powers to mass-produce. It will only be a matter of ports me.” And it’s true, I suppose. time until they appear on the black market and in I write about lots of other things too, but I have the hands of terrorists, dictators wishing to better been studying war, writing about wars, going to wars control their populations, warlords wishing to perpe(but never fighting in one) for the whole of my adult trate ethnic cleansing, etc.” life, partly because international rela“Autonomous weapons are ideal for tions are so heavily militarized, but also tasks such as assassinations, destabilizing because for anybody who is interested in nations, subduing populations and selechuman behaviour, war is as fascinating as tively killing a particular ethnic group. it is horrible.

We therefore believe that a military AI So you might assume that I would arms race would not be beneficial for huleap into action, laptop in hand, when I manity.” learned that almost 3,000 “researchers, Well, no, it wouldn’t be beneficial for experts and entrepreneurs” have signed humanity. Few arms races are. But are auan open letter calling for a ban on detonomous weapons really “the key quesveloping artificial intelligence (AI) for tion for humanity today?” Probably not. “lethal autonomous weapons systems” We have a few other things on our plate (LAWS), or military robots for short. Inthat feel a lot more “key,” like climate stead, I yawned. Heavy artillery fire is change, nine civil wars in the Muslim GWYNNE much more terrifying than the Terminaparts of the world (Afghanistan, Iraq, SyrDYER tor. ia, southeastern Turkey, Yemen, Libya, The people who signed the letter inSomalia, Sudan and northeastern Nigecluded celebrities of the science and ria) — and, of course, nuclear weapons. high-tech worlds like Tesla’s Elon Musk, The scientists and experts who signed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, cosmologist Ste- the open letter were quite right to demand an interphen Hawking, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, De- national agreement banning further work on autonomis Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind mous weapons, because we don’t really need yet anand, of course, Noam Chomsky. They presented their other high-tech way to kill people. It’s not impossible letter in late July to the International Joint Confer- that they might succeed, either, although it will be a ence on Artificial Intelligence, meeting this year in lot harder than banning blinding laser weapons or Buenos Aires. cluster bombs.

They were quite clear about what worried them: But autonomous weapons of the sort currently un“The key question for humanity today is whether to der development are not going to change the world start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from start- drastically. They are not “the third revolution in ing. If any major military power pushes ahead with warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms,” as one AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtu- military pundit breathlessly described them. They ally inevitable, and the endpoint of this technologi- are just another nasty weapons system. cal trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will What drives the campaign is a conflation of two become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow.” different ideas: weapons that kill people without a “Unlike nuclear weapons, they require no costly human being in the decision-making loop, and true or hard-to-obtain raw materials, so they will become AI. The latter certainly would change the world, as

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‘THEY ARE NOT ‘THE THIRD REVOLUTION IN WARFARE, AFTER GUNPOWDER AND NUCLEAR ARMS,’ AS ONE MILITARY PUNDIT BREATHLESSLY DESCRIBED THEM. THEY ARE JUST ANOTHER NASTY WEAPONS SYSTEM.’ we would then have to share our world for good or ill with non-human intelligences — but almost all the people active in the field say that human-level AI is still a long way off in the future, if it is possible at all.

As for weapons that kill people without a human being choosing the victims, those we have in abundance already.

From land mines to nuclear-tipped missiles, there are all sorts of weapons that kill people without discrimination in the arsenals of the world’s armed forces. We also have a wide variety of weapons that will kill specific individuals (guns, for example), and we already know how to “selectively kill a particular ethnic group,” too.

Combine autonomous weapons with true AI, and you get the Terminator, or indeed Skynet. Without that level of AI, all you get is another way of killing people that may, in certain circumstances, be more efficient than having another human being do the job. It’s not pretty, but it’s not very new either.

The thing about autonomous weapons that really appeals to the major military powers is that, like the current generation of remote-piloted drones, they can be used with impunity in poor countries. Moreover, like drones, they don’t put the lives of richcountry soldiers at risk. That’s a really good reason to oppose them — and if poor countries realize what they are in for, a good opportunity to organise a strong diplomatic coalition that wants to ban them.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015 A7

September: the good, bad and ugly According to a previous Hay’s Daze Halloween… October is definitely the column, for many people (me) the ar- month of many faces. Be that as it may, rival of September always seems like in keeping with a recurring feature the beginning of not just a change in that comes up occasionally when I reseasons, but the unofficial member it’s a recurring feastart of each and every year. ture, let’s look at September I blame it on all those years factoids, trivia and useless in school — six or seven in information from the pophigh school alone! Or maybe ular Clint Eastwood point it just felt like six or seven of view: The Good, the Bad — I’m sure I graduated after and the Ugly. four or five. I was never that good at math.

Thing is, what with school back in and the trees already starting to paint ● According to Express. themselves in autumn hues com (a British newspaper) and other non-summer HARLEY September is the ninth hues, and the various birds HAY month and the only month busy packing their tiny suitwith the same number of cases for their long migraletters in its name in Engtion to their all-inclusive lish as the number of the winter vacation resorts in month.

(Any useless trivia about anyexotic lands, the month of September always feels like something’s in the thing is a good thing, right?) ● Shakespeare did not mention Sepair. tember in any of his plays. (Ditto.)

And something is in the air: dust ● The famous ditty that helps everyfrom harvesting, millions of rampant germs from thousands of kids coughing one remember the number of days in and sneezing in school playgrounds at a month starts with September as in: recess, and various questionable rays “30 days hath September…” and that and radiations due to supposed cli- makes September pretty important. ● September has the Labour Day mate change. long weekend.

But aside from the down side, Sep● Alberta and Saskatchewan were tember is a month of many faces. Or perhaps I’m thinking of October … yes, established on Sept. 1, 1905.

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September — The Bad ● September is officially National Chicken Month. Also, it is National Potato Month. And National Rice Month.

And, according to the interweb it’s also National Cholesterol Month and National All-American Breakfast Month.

This is not good. It’s much too much for one month to take on by itself. ● September has three birth flowers: the forget-me-not, the morning glory and the aster. This is also not good (see above). ● The name “September” came from the Roman word “septem” which means seven, which makes very little sense until we realize that historically, counting wasn’t invented until 100 years later by the Greeks. Also, ‘septem’ makes everyone think of ‘septum’ which is the messy membrane part of your nose that separates your nostrils. ● September starts on the same day of the week as December each year, but does not end on the same day of the week as any other month in the year. This is bad because it is confusing. ● The Second World War started in September.

September – The Ugly ● To name just a few, Sept. 5 is

National Cheese Pizza Day, Sept. 9 is National Teddy Bear Day, Sept. 16 is National Play-Doh Day, Sept. 12 is National Chocolate Milkshake Day. Poor September. Do we really need special Cheese, Teddy Bear and Play-Doh and Chocolate Milk Shake “Days”? (Apparently the U.S. does.) ● Sept. 19 is “Talk Like A pirate Day” around the world — an International event. This is just getting embarrassing. ● Over-rated “actor” and full-time moron Adam Sandler was born in September. ● 9-11.

But just when you realize that September can be good, bad, ugly and even seriously depressing, it might help to know that various Septembers brought us the sewing machine, the novel Wizard of Oz, the birth of Mickey Mouse and the discovery of the planet Neptune.

And also, perhaps most important of all, Sept. 21 is National Day of Peace.

And, as it happens, the birthday of my Rotten Kid, the daughter one. No wonder it’s one of my favorite months.

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.

Mental illness requires empathy and compassion About 10 or 12 years ago, I was sitting in my chair trying to find a comfortable way to sit.

The pain in my abdomen was so severe, that I could not relax. My daughter came and asked if I could bring her to her doctor’s appointment, so I figured that I would bring her to her appointment and see if I could go to the walk-in to find out what was afflicting me so badly.

Three hours later I was wheeled into the operating room with a burst appendix. Then after a few days recovery, I went home a new man; weak, with a few changes in my body, but a new man.

Many friends and acquaintances have been diagnosed with cancer, gone through a time of treatment and have gone on to lead a normal life. Diabetes has now become so common that many, including myself, after having gone through a life changing regimen, also can lead a very active and full life. At the kitchen there are many who have had some sort of accident and now live with reduced mobility or they can no longer work, but they are usually quite functional.

Physical ailments, impairCHRIS ments of various types for the SALOMONS most part are curable or at least still livable, but there is one ailment that continues to baffle the brightest minds; mental illness.

A very large percentage of our clients deal with mental issues varying from very mild to somewhat extreme. Just the words (mental illness) have come to be a very demeaning description for any individual demonstrating even the slightest abnormal behaviour. The moment these words are spoken, we shrink away from these victims or anything to do with this illness, because to this point no one really has an answer.

When you consider that ‘Normal’ is only a setting on a dryer, you begin to question why we have any right to minimize anyone with a problem. In my opinion, there is nothing harder to observe than someone with a disorder of the mind forced into an isolated life simply because they are ‘different’.

The most common way to handle these issues is to give them a label or name which categorizes the individuals in question; then with little support, they tend to lose their place in society, eventually ending up on the street. With nothing to restrict them, influences from the street including drugs, alcohol, etc., can come into play, and so a different condition is created; loneliness.

I was reading a story about a man boarding a train in Australia. As he was boarding, he slipped and his leg got caught in a gap between the train and the platform. Unable to free himself before the train started to move, fellow passengers pushed on the side of the train to tilt it enough for the man to free his leg.

My question is, why when there is an apparent physical situation is everyone ready to jump in and help; yet, when we see an individual with a mental accident, or condition, we pull away? Is it because in the physical, a solution is readily visible and obtainable, while in the mental it is not? If that is the case, should we not learn?

In my limited understanding of depression and studies I’ve done on the subject, I have found that recovery takes on average two years. A person that I know went into a severe depression which lasted for just about that two years. In that time, that person lost all friends. They drifted away because they didn’t know what to do and were not interested enough to battle through with that person until recovery was complete. For those of us who stayed with that person, we saw a new but a slightly different individual develop.

When a man or woman has a physical injury and recovers, they are forever different; a slight to severe limp, saw-shortened fingers, a disfigurement of some type. All of these are not only accepted, they are often a source of conversation. But a mental disorder, even overcome or managed through medication, is often not talked about and in some cases is treated like a despicably contagious disease; best left in the closet.

Few people have done more to remove the negative stigma from mental illness than Olympian Clara Hughes. Her openness and candor relating to this subject is like a breath of fresh air. Sadly not everyone is like Clara, and their recovery is not accepted like hers was; but that is not their fault, it is ours.

Empathy and compassion can be learned through knowledge of these disorders, and it is incumbent on the rest of society to seek that knowledge, otherwise these beautiful people will always be marginalized outcasts.

And, that is just plain wrong.

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Focus on building economy, not arguing over recession Whether Canada has been, is, and development this year than it or will be in recession is not the did in each of the past two years issue. The important reality is and in fact less than it did 2006, that, recession or not, Canada has 2007 or 2008. In the case of manan underperforming economy and ufacturing, companies planned that is what should concern us. It to spend $6.4 billion, well below is why we should worry less about their 2001 peak of $9.2 billion. a budget deficit and focus more on The price we are paying for why we need a public investment poor innovation is evident in the strategy and other policies going latest Canadian trade figures. forward to improve our economic The widely-held assumption that potential. a declining Canadian dollar and A critical problem for Canada improving U.S. economic growth is its weak competitivewould translate into a ness in the global marsurge in Canadian nonketplace, and much of energy exports and that weakness is due a stronger Canadian to a mediocre comeconomy has not been mitment, especially borne out by reality, as by business, to the ina new report from TD novation necessary to Economics shows. bring forward new and For one thing, othhigher-value goods and er countries have also services and invest in benefited from a stronmore efficient ways to ger U.S. dollar, includproduce and distribute ing Mexico and China. those goods and serAnd it appears that DAVID vices. shifts in exchange rates CRANE The McKinsey Globhave become a less imal Institute sees “comportant driver of export petitiveness” as shortgrowth. hand for a range of “Canada has lost sigwhat it calls “success factors: the nificant market share in the U.S., ability to win share in export mar- while Canada and Mexico have kets; attract global investment; rapidly filled the gap,” the TD recreate dynamic new companies; port says. and draw a steady stream of talWhile there are factors that ented students and workers from should improve the near-term around the world.” growth of non-energy exports, On that test, Canada would get “over the longer term, structural low markets on all the “success issues, such as a lack of innovafactors,” with the possible excep- tion, are likely to constrain export tion of attracting talented stu- growth.” dents and workers from around In fact, Canada’s share of U.S. the world. non-energy exports has been in So it is not surprising that the continuing decline since 2000.

Conference Board of Canada, in In examining how product its latest innovation report card, shares have changed in the U.S. places Canada at ninth spot market among the 10 largest U.S. among 16 advanced economies, trading partners, TD Economics giving us a C grade overall. While found “a number of key Canadian in some areas, such as entrepre- industries stand out as underperneurial ambition and venture cap- formers.” ital, Canada scores well, in others, These include motor vehicles, such as investment in research where Mexican and European and development, filing of patents products have displaced Canaand training and hiring of new re- dian products; machinery, where searchers, Canada performs poor- the loss in Canada’s market share ly. has been matched by Chinese, KoAs Statistics Canada report- rean and Mexican gains; electried earlier this year, businesses cal equipment, where China has planned to spend less on research been the big winner; and plastic

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‘ONCE INFLATION IS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT, MANUFACTURING SALES IN 2014 REMAINED BELOW PRERECESSION LEVELS. THE GROWTH HAS COME FROM PRICE INCREASES, NOT INCREASES IN OUTPUT, WHICH CONTINUES TO RUN WELL BELOW PRERECESSION LEVELS.’ and rubber products where China.

Germany and Mexico have filled the falling Canadian share.

There are industries where Canada has improved market share, notably in pharmaceutical products, primary metals, aerospace and wood products. But as TD Economics indicates, Canada faces further competitive pressures as countries like China and Mexico become more competitive in higher-value products.

Another indication of our troubles comes in this year’s review of manufacturing by Statistics Canada. In 2014, it says, manufacturing sales, for the first time, surpassed the 2006 pre-recession high of $605.6 billion. But here is why there’s little reason to cheer in Canada: Once inflation is taken into account, manufacturing sales in 2014 remained below pre-recession levels. The growth has come from price increases, not increases in output, which continues to run well below pre-recession levels.

Rather than wasting a lot of time debating whether or not we are in recession, we should be turning our attention to a more fundamental challenge: How do we build an innovative and competitive economy that’s necessary for sustainable success, including good jobs? How do we become Innovation Nation?

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

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A visitor pauses at the Wall of Names after a Service of Remembrance at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa, Friday. Hundreds of victims’ relatives gathered for what has become a tradition of tolling bells, moments of silence and the reading of the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror strikes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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Man urinated on people, luggage aboard flight PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon man faces charges after authorities say he urinated on passengers on a flight from Anchorage to Portland, Oregon.

Jeff Rubin, 27, was arrested early Friday after JetBlue Flight 47 arrived at Portland International Airport, KOIN-TV reported.

A police report says passengers and airline employees told officers Rubin had been sleeping for most of the flight. About 30 minutes before landing, they said, he stood up and began urinating through the crack between the seats in front of him — and onto the passengers sitting there.

The report says he lost his balance and fell backward, splashing urine on passengers, seats and luggage.

The cabin remained pretty calm, said Suzanna Caldwell, an Alaska Dispatch News reporter who was sitting two rows in front of Rubin.

“It’s not like anyone was screaming.

I didn’t even realize anything had happened until the flight attendants came up to me and told me police were going to come on board,” she said.

Caldwell, who said she was not urinated on, said officers had to wake up Rubin when they got on board since he appeared to have fallen asleep again.

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Hundreds of victims’ relatives — fewer than thronged the ceremonies in their early years — gathered, carrying photos emblazoned with the names of their lost loved ones as they remembered the day when hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center’s twin towers, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

“We come every year. The crowds get smaller, but we want to be here.

As long as I’m breathing, I’ll be here,” said Tom Acquaviva, 81, who lost his son, Paul Acquaviva, a systems analyst who died in the trade centre’s north tower.

For Nereida Valle, who lost her daughter, Nereida De Jesus, “It’s the same as if it was yesterday. I feel her every day.”

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama stepped out of the White House at 8:46 a.m. — when the first plane hit the north tower — to observe a moment of silence. Later Friday, President Obama was scheduled to observe the anniversary with a

NEW DELHI — Twelve suspected Islamic militants were convicted Friday in the bombings nine years ago of seven Mumbai commuter trains that killed 188 people and wounded more than 800.

The trial in India’s notoriously slow justice system lasted more than seven years. It concluded in August last year, but Judge Yatin D. Shinde took one year to write the verdict.

He found 12 defendants guilty of murder and criminal conspiracy and acquitted one person for lack of evidence. Shinde said he would announce the sentences on Monday after hearing arguments from the prosecutors and defence attorneys. The defendants face possible death penalties or life in prison.

Seven bombs exploded within a span of 10 minutes during the evening rush hour on trains in Mumbai, the financial and entertainment capital of India, on July 11, 2006.

Prosecutors said the conspiracy was hatched by Pakistan’s Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, and carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives with help from the Students’ Islamic Movement of India, a banned militant organization.

The 12 convicted in the case were believed to belong to the Indian militant group.

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SINCE 2011, JASPER HAS BEEN CELEBRATING THE NIGHT SKY WITH AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL THAT HAS BECOME ONE OF THE LARGEST CELEBRATIONS OF ITS KIND

“Iff th “I the stars t should h ld appear one niight ht in a tth houu-sand years, how would men believe and adore…”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Es-sayss Have you ever gazed at a star-filled sky and d felt a kind of childlike wonder at the incredible e beauty of thousands of twinkling stars?

At the 2014 Jasper Dark Sky Festival while my husband and a night sky photography volunteer adjusted the settings on his camera to try to get a picture of the Milky Way, I laid on the grass beside Lake Annette and just looked up.

Even the most jaded city dweller would have a hard t ime denying the incredible beauty of a night sky that is untouched by light DEBBIE pollution.

OLSEN If you have ever paused to gaze up at a truly dark night sky, you know that it is almost a spiritual experience. What you might not know is that Canada has more designated dark k sky preserves than any other country in the world d and the world’s two largest dark sky preservess are both in Alberta. Wood Buffalo National Park k measures nearly 4.5 million hectares and is the e world’s largest dark sky preserve and Jasper Na-tional Park is the second largest at just over 1.1 1 million hectares.

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Bottom left photo By GREG OLSEN/Freelance Contributed photos by TOURISM JASPER

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: If you’ve always wanted to learn how to photograph the night sky, you won’t want to miss Beyond the Stars at Lake Annette. At one of the stations, photographers are available to help you figure out how to adjust your camera settings and capture a great shot.

This one is from last year’s event. It doesn’t have to be dark out to look at the stars. Daytime stargazing stations are great for families with young children. Looking through telescopes and speaking with astronomers is always a highlight of the festival. The evening activities at Lake Annette are always a highlight of the festival. Pathways are lit with red lights that do not interfere with stargazing.

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LEFT: Families get to make and launch their own bottle rockets at the Big Bang Expo.

RIGHT: Parks Canada staff were on hand with great displays and activities for the Dark Sky Festival.

SKY: Power down, look up “Canada was the first country in the world to recognize the importance of developing a national parks system, and a century later we are leading the world in protecting and preserving the dark sky,� said Greg Fenton, Jasper National Park’s superintendent in 2011 when Jasper was officially declared a dark sky preserve. “Parks Canada works hard to ensure that Canada’s natural and cultural heritage is preserved. Part of that role is in preserving the natural wonders of the night sky.�

Since 2011, Jasper has been celebrating the dark sky with an annual festival that has become one of the largest celebrations of its kind. The theme of this year’s festival is: “Power down. Look up.� Colonel Chris Hadfield and the former co-hosts of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters, Grant Imahara, Kari Byron, and Tory Belleci will be special celebrity guests this year.

There will be new dark sky adventures to enjoy, family-friendly events and a number of special ticketed events over the ten days of the festival.

My husband Greg and I attended the 2014 festival for a weekend and had a wonderful time taking part in many of the activities. Meeting Colonel Chris Hadfield and learning from experts how to photograph the night sky were definite highlights for Greg, but I think my best moment came on the shores of Lake Annette. Darkness is a rare commodity these days, but Jasper National Park has it in abundance. All you have to do is look up.

Highlights of the 2015 Dark Sky Festival Jasper’s fifth annual Dark Sky Festival will take place from Oct. 16-25 and will feature celebrity speakers, discounted hotel packages and special activities. For tickets or more details,

cal phenomenon.

visit: http://jasperdarksky.travel. Here are a few of the highlights.

Big Bang Expo by Telus World of Science Edmonton

Symphony Under the Stars The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Strings will play outside under the stars at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge on Oct. 3 from 7–10 p.m. Concert tickets start at $99 and packages are available for dinner and or accommodations.

The Sky is Not the Limit Colonel Chris Hadfield headlines this evening event at Centennial Park on Oct. 23 from 6-7:30 p.m. with a keynote address, sharing stories about his career, his time spent both on and off the planet and his experience aboard the International Space Station. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

Combo tickets for both this event and the Myth Busting Event are $125.

VIP Stargazing from the Top of the World This event at the top of the Jasper SkyTram includes a private photo session with Col. Chris Hadfield and a chance to mingle with the former cohosts of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters.

It’s also a great opportunity to see the splendor of Jasper’s dark skies from the peak of Whistler’s Mountain overlooking the town of Jasper. Tickets are $199.

This two-day event on Oct. 23 and 24 will feature hands-on activities that make learning about science and astronomy fun for all ages. Kids can make and launch homemade bottle rockets. There will also be science demonstrations and a mobile planetarium and the best part is it’s free.

A Night of Myth Busting and Science Grant Imahara, Kari Byron and Tory Belleci, the former co-hosts of the Discovery Channel hit show Mythbusters, will bring an exciting and entertaining evening of myth busting and science to Jasper on Oct. 24 from 6–7:30 p.m. Tickets are $65.

Special Dark Sky Tours Aurora-gazing tours, celestial speed dating, overnight stargazing adventures, night hikes and many other activities are on offer over the 10 nights of the festival. Below are just three of the newest adventures. Visit the official website to see the rest.

Jasper Planetarium: The Jasper Planetarium offers nightly astronomy interpretations under a large tented dome with Jasper’s resident “sky guy�,

scientist Peter McMahon. Following a 45-minute program, guests can access high-powered telescopes to gaze at planets and constellations. For the early birds, a morning solar program is also available. The planetarium is open until Oct. 15. See jasperplanetarium.com for full details.

Dark Sky Hikes: Daring souls can join local guides in the centre of town and make their way to Old Fort Point as the sun sets. Blankets, fondue, and hot drinks await guests at the top of the lookout, accompanied by dark sky interpretation. Tours run through the first week of October. See canadianskylineadventures.com for full details.

Rockaboo Dark Sky Rappel: If you thought rappelling was exciting during the daytime, you’ll love the thrill of doing it after dark. This unique rock climbing experience runs from 10 p.m. to midnight through the end of October. Visit rockaboo.ca for full details.

Hotel Packages Hotel packages start at $99 per night during the Dark Sky Festival and some combine accommodations with other activities.

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

Beyond the Stars This free evening event along the shores of Lake Annette on Oct. 23 from 8–11 p.m. is one of the highlights of the festival and one of the most memorable stargazing experiences in the World. There are a variety of interactive stations with programming from TELUS World of Science Edmonton, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Dark Sky Photographers, Parks Canada Interpreters and other special guests. There are also telescopes set up with astronomers on-site to assist you in identifying various astronomi-

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TO THE LAND OF SHAKER FURNITURE AND COVERED BRIDGES

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Covered bridges are common in Shaker country some of them harkening back to the late 1700’s.

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BY DUANE MCCARTNEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

● Covered bridge festival: www.kentuckytourism.com/ events/details/fleming-countycovered-bridge-festival/19905/ ● Location of bridges: www. nkytourism.net/attractions/covered_bridges.aspx ● Pleasant Hill Shaker Community: www.shakervillageky. org/the-historic-centre/

Exploring old covered bridges is a popular tourist activity, and many communities in the eastern U.S. have festivals highlighting their history and importance to the area.

In Kentucky, covered bridges were first built in the 1790s, and by the early 1800s there were more than 400 covered bridges in the state. Now only a few remain. was very interesting to see a special Flemingsburg, founded in 1797, is field of sorghum or broom corn grown about 90 km northeast of Lexington, specifically for making the Shakers Ky. It’s a delightful little town with old famous corn brooms in their village historical buildings. It is surrounded shop. by beautiful rolling farmlands with The Pleasant Hill Shaker Village some of the old wooden covered bridg- continues their tradition of sustainable es. Some of these bridges are between agricultural practices through their 60 and 90 feet long. Most of the remain- management of their very large veging bridges are not open to traffic but etable garden, orchard, livestock and stand as majestic structures from the apiary operations. In addition, they past. Their design consists of large providing fresh produce for their comsquared timbers joined by wooden munal style public restaurant which pegs on redstone foundations. features classic Southern menu items, The highlight of our trip was visit- such as fried chicken, corn pudding, ing the Pleasant Hill Shaker historical tomato celery soup, cole slaw and corn village, 40 km southwest of Lexington. sticks. The farm also shares lessons in Shakers were a Christian group that sustainability with guests of all ages. combined Quakerism and Charismatic Shakers wasted nothing, and folworship practices. lowed sound, environmentally friendly Shaker communities were estab- organizational practices. The Pleaslished in the U.S. beginning in 1784 ant Hill Shaker Village is committed in the New England states and then to sustainable agricultural practices, spread to the Midwestern states. sound ecological land management Within the communities, individuals and public environmental education. were grouped into family units and It is well worth a visit. worked together to manage daily acDuane McCartney is a Lacombe based tivities. They strictly believed in celi- landscape photographer, travel and agribacy. Shakers acquired their members cultural writer. through conversion, apprenticeship of children and adoption of orphans. As the number of living Shakers diminished, Shaker villages ceased to exist.

The restored village at Pleasant Hill is a living example of the Shaker style of life.

Shakers are best known for their simplistic style of furniture cabinetry and inventions. As an active woodworker, I was particularly interested in the woodworking shop at Pleasant Hill.

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Lightning win slugfest

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Lightning 29 Raiders 14 The Hunting Hills Lightning didn’t expect anything less than a battle Friday night.

That’s what they got from the Lindsay Thurber Raiders before scoring a pair of late touchdowns to prevail 29-14 in a Central Alberta High School Football League game played before an overflow gathering of 1,041 fans at Great Chief Park.

“They always put up a good fight,” said Lightning workhorse and star running back Brandt Burzuk, who gained 213 yards on 29 carries and scored two touchdowns.

Hunting Hills head coach Kyle Sedgwick was in total agreement, and then some.

“This is my seventh year at Hunting and it doesn’t matter what each team had as far as personnel . . . when we play that team it’s a true rivalry, a street fight,” said Sedgwick. “Both teams try and establish the run, and obviously that’s where we are now, and the defences always play hard.

“That was just a street fight. You have guys laying on the ground not just because they’re tired, but they’re literally exhausted. You have two public schools in the city, so that’s how it should be.”

The Raiders trailed 9-0 early but closed the gap to 12-7 at halftime, then grabbed their only lead of the game early in the third quarter when quarterback TK Kunaka hit receiver Jonathan Goulet over the middle for a 67-yard pass-and-run play for a touchdown that Goulet converted.

But the Lightning regained the lead on a 37-yard field goal by Eder Arias just over a minute later and never looked back, overcoming a late thirdquarter fumble by Burzuk at the Raiders three-yard stripe with a fumble recovery for a touchdown by linebacker Edward Kim on the first play of the final quarter.

Burzuk scampered 25 yards around the left end for a major with 1:56 remaining and teammate Zech Pilgrim followed with an interception of a Kunaka pass at midfield to nail down the victory.

The Lightning got on the board 3:23 into the contest on a conceded safety, then got a major from Burzuk — on a six-yard run — 68 seconds later. Ku-

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Lindsay Thurber Raider Dawson McCrea protects the ball as Hunting Hills Lightning Dexter Lubchenko makes a tackle during first half action at Great Chief Park Friday. naka tossed an 11-yard scoring pass to David Dunbar to get the Raiders off and running before the end of the opening quarter, and Arias, who booted three converts on the evening, replied for the Lightning with a 24-yard field goal with 5:12 left in the first half.

Burzuk left the game twice with leg cramps.

“I’m a little sore, but I can tough it out,” he said. “I just ran behind our Oline tonight. I have a great line.”

The Raiders’ ground game was good for only 69 yards — with Bradley Pope gaining 48 on 12 carries — but they gained 131 yards through the air, with Kunaka completing eight of 13 pass-

es for 119 yards and one interception, and Sean Vandervlis going one-for-two for 12 yards and a pick. Goulet hauled in two balls for 71 yards and Dunbar grabbed three passes for 15.

Hunting Hills quarterback Eric Thomson completed three of seven passes — all to Pilgrim — for 20 yards.

Raiders head coach Dave Smith was impressed with the intensity shown by both teams.

“That was a slugfest, back and forth,” he said. “Our defence played really well in the first half, we had their number, then we got a little tired in the second half and they got some breaks on us, for sure.

“Offensively, we have to work on moving the ball more consistently and controlling the line of scrimmage, which we didn’t do like I wanted to today.

We had some bright spots with Jonathan Goulet and TK, who played a good game, but it all starts and stops at that line of scrimmage.” ● Raiders quarterback Ben Pasiuk, who suffered an injury while playing for Team Alberta at the Football Canada Cup in July and is expected to be out until late fall, has committed to the University of Alberta Golden Bears for the 2016 season. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Martin homers twice to rout Yankees

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Toronto 11 New York 5 NEW YORK — David Price sauntered through the clubhouse in that plush new robe several Toronto players were wearing — sharp blue with the team logo and his name and number on the back.

Manager John Gibbons had his feet propped up on his desk as he carved into a juicy rib-eye steak that sat in his lap.

No doubt about it, after blowing out their closest challengers in the AL East on Friday night, the Blue Jays are beginning to look pretty comfortable.

Russell Martin homered twice and drove in four runs against his former team, and Toronto went deep five times to beat the New York Yankees 11-5 in the opener of their weekend showdown for first place.

“We definitely feed off one another, for sure. It’s just our lineup, it just has a lot of depth,” Martin said. “I don’t think the opposing pitchers feel like they have any breathing room out there. It’s just one after the other.”

Josh Donaldson and Justin Smoak hit two-run shots in a five-run first inning to build a big lead for Price. Edwin Encarnacion added a titanic drive after the Blue Jays chased rookie starter Luis Severino in the third.

Seeking its first playoff appearance in 22 years, Toronto increased its division lead to 2 1-2 games over New York.

The teams play a rare single-admission

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New York Yankees catcher Brian McCann waits for the throw as Toronto Blue Jays designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion (10) scores on Troy Tulowitzki’s firstinning RBI single in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Friday. double-header at Yankee Stadium on Saturday to make up Thursday night’s rainout. The four-game series concludes Sunday.

“Any win from here on out is the biggest win of the year,” Price said.

A vocal contingent of Toronto fans made themselves heard all night,

with Yankees supporters attempting to drown out chants of “Let’s go Blue Jays!” after the crowd of 40,220 had dwindled by the eighth inning.

Didi Gregorius hit a three-run homer and knocked in four for the Yankees, who can fall back on their lead in the wild-card race. But they want to

win the AL East and avoid the win-orgo-home scenario of a wild-card game.

Handed an 8-1 lead, Price (15-5) lasted only five innings because he needed 96 pitches to get that far.

“We figured, you know what? If we can’t protect a seven-run lead, we don’t deserve to win,” Gibbons said. “And our bullpen was rested.”

The ace left-hander struck out seven and improved to 6-1 with a 2.28 ERA since the Blue Jays acquired him in a July 30 trade with Detroit. He has defeated the Yankees twice in three starts with Toronto.

Price is 6-0 with a 2.01 ERA in his last eight starts at Yankee Stadium.

Severino (3-3) gave up a double to his first batter and stumbled to his knees on his fifth pitch. He flexed his left leg as manager Joe Girardi and a trainer came out to check on him, but Severino threw one warmup pitch and remained in the game.

“I just think he caught his spike. It scared me probably more than it probably scared him,” Girardi said. “You can have some pretty bad thoughts go through your mind in a situation like that, but he’s OK.” Then the 21-year-old right-hander really took a tumble.

Donaldson hit a mammoth drive into the elevated concrete bleachers in left field for his 38th homer. Encarnacion doubled and scored on Troy Tulowitzki’s single before Smoak homered to right.

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Venezuela shatters Canada’s hoop dreams in semifinals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Venezuela 79 Canada 78 MEXICO CITY — The Canadian men’s basketball team will have to take the long road to Rio. Canada failed to earn a berth in the 2016 Olympic Games after falling to Venezuela 79-78 on Friday in the semifinals of the FIBA Americas basketball championship.

The Canadians will now play for bronze against Mexico, which lost 78-70 to Argentina in the other semifinal.

“Canada is a great team, but we thought that a big one can fall. It was David versus Goliath and we came on top, we leave everything out there,” said Venezuela coach Nestor Garcia.

‘CANADA IS A GREAT TEAM, BUT WE THOUGHT THAT A BIG ONE CAN FALL. IT WAS DAVID VERSUS GOLIATH AND WE CAME ON TOP, WE LEAVE EVERYTHING OUT THERE.’ — NESTOR GARCIA VENEZUELA COACH

“This is a historic day for Venezuela.

Many people doubted that we were capable of this. I’m proud of this team.”

Tied 78-78, the game looked to be headed to overtime, but Canada’s Aaron Doornekamp picked up a loose ball foul with less than second remaining in regulation that sent Jose Vargas to the line for two free throws. Vargas hit the first and intentionally missed the second, leaving the Canadian side no time on the clock to return the ball up

the floor for a final shot.

Kelly Olynyk had 34 points and 13 rebounds for the Canadian team that missed a big opportunity to return to its first Olympics since 2000. Andrew Wiggins had nine points for Canada, which will have another shot next year during the world qualifying tournament.

The Canadians had won seven straight games after dropping their tournament opener to Argentina, in-

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cluding a convincing 82-62 victory over Venezuela in first-round play.

Canada needed to advance to Saturday’s championship match to qualify for the Rio Games through the FIBA Americas.

Windi Graterol led Venezuela with 20 points while Heissler Guillent added 19 — including eight in the final minutes of the fourth quarter.

In the other semifinal, Toronto Raptors off-season signing Luis Scola had 18 points and 10 rebounds for Argentina, and Facundo Campazzo added 15 points.

Argentina reached the Olympics for the fourth straight time, advancing with a team featuring only two members of the teams that won the gold medal in 2004 and a bronze in 2008.

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TICATS SWEEP ARGOS IN REGULAR-SEASON SERIES Tiger-Cats 35 Argonauts 27 TORONTO — The third one was the most difficult for Zach Collaros and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Collaros threw two TD passes as Hamilton earned a hard-fought 35-27 decision over the Toronto Argonauts on Friday night to sweep the season series for the first time since 2010. It was the tightest margin of victory this season for the Ticats.

“We had to battle for it,” said Collaros. “We really haven’t won a tight one since Saskatchewan (a 31-21 win over the Roughriders on July 26).”

Hamilton (8-3) won all three meetings with Toronto, including a 42-12 decision Monday at Tim Hortons Field. The Ticats took the opener 34-18 at Rogers Centre in August.

“They came ready to play, they played really hard,” said Kent Austin, Hamilton’s head coach/GM. “We knew they’d be ready and it was going to be a fight.

“I give them a lot of credit, we had to play 60 minutes to try to beat these guys.”

Austin might have some explaining to do with the CFL head office. Television replays showed Austin walking along the sidelines in the third quarter and lowering his shoulder into the back of Argos receiver Dave Stala. As Stala, a former Ticat, jogged back to Toronto’s bench, he turned around and saw Austin and appeared to say something to him. Austin reacted by waving Stala back to his bench.

Afterwards, Austin downplayed the incident.

“Me putting my shoulder into Dave? When was that? I don’t know,” Austin said. “I’m going up and down the sidelines, my head is in the game, I’m emotional.

“You’d have to show me the play. Dave was on our football team, I love Dave.”

Stala was unavailable for comment following the contest.

Stala had to replace Toronto kicker/punter Swayze Waters (groin) in the second half. Waters missed six games with a knee injury earlier this year and did tackle Hamilton’s Brandon Banks on a punt return earlier in the contest.

Stala had a punt partially blocked in the fourth quarter by David Caldwell that Adrian Tracy returned 19 yards to the Toronto 23-yard line. But Hamilton could only manage Medlock’s 41-yard field goal at 4:18 to increase its lead to 32-20.

Toronto (6-5) suffered its first home loss in six games and third straight defeat overall to fall four points behind front-running Hamilton in the East Division. But after being decidedly outplayed in the first two meetings, a more tenacious Argos squad took to the field Friday night.

“Hamilton had to earn what they got,” said Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich. “The last two weeks (Toronto lost 38-15 in Edmonton on Aug. 28) have been too easy.

“That’s the thing I was proud of, the guys fought hard and had a chance to win. We proved something to ourselves.”

After rolling up over 500 nets yards Monday, Hamilton had 360 on Friday night, including 96 yards rushing. Collaros finished with 400 yards passing and four TDs in the 30-point victory but was held to 254 yards and the two touchdowns Friday.‘ “They were dropping eight, nine guys 20 yards deep,” Collaros said. “We’re going to take what the defence gives us and tonight they didn’t want to get torched with the long ball.”

Brandon Whitaker’s one-yard TD run — his second touchdown of the game — at 9:40 of the fourth cut Toronto’s deficit to 32-27. But Collaros marched Hamilton 58 yards on 11 plays to set up Justin Medlock’s 17-yard field goal at 13:48.

Trevor Harris took Toronto to the Hamilton 24-yard line but was intercepted by Emanuel Davis in the endzone on the game’s final play. Harris finished 20-of-35 passing for 257 yards with two TDs but also two interceptions.

“I played an abysmal first half, I let my team down,” an emotional Harris said. “In the second half I thought we moved the ball well, we were effective.

“Just not effective enough.”

Toronto’s Tori Gurley had seven catches for a game-high 107 yards and a touchdown.

Jeff Matthews’ one-yard TD run just 1:36 into the fourth quarter to put Hamilton ahead 29-20 after Harris’s 10-yard TD strike to Anthony Coombs at 13:02 of the third pulled Toronto to within 22-20.

Harris hit Gurley on a 42-yard touchdown pass at 3:58 of the third to cut its deficit to 19-13. The Argos converted on third-and-eight and second-and-20 situations, and with Waters ailing went for the two-point convert, which was unsuccessful.

Hamilton countered with Medlock’s 38-yard field goal at 7:42.

Matt Coates and Luke Tasker had Hamilton’s others touchdowns.

Teixeira out for season with broken leg

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Mark Teixeira will miss the rest of the season after tests revealed the New York Yankees first baseman has a broken right leg.

Teixeira fouled a ball off his shin Aug. 17 and has started only once since. He had trouble running in that game and was not improving much, so the Yankees sent him for a third round of tests Friday that finally showed a fracture.

“Actually, not surprised,” Teixeira said. “It’s been really painful. I know the difference between pain and soreness. It’s been painful since day one. We were just kind of trying to figure out why it wasn’t healing and today we figured it out.”

Though not entirely unexpected, it’s certainly a blow to the Yankees at an important time in their push for the playoffs. New York was 1 ½ games behind first-place Toronto in the AL East going into their four-game series Friday night. The Yankees have a comfortable lead in the wild card race.

“You can’t really put into words how disappointed I am,” said Teixeira, who will remain on crutches for the next month. “I feel like this team has a chance to win a World Series. I really do. And not to be able to be on the field during that run is really tough to take.”

The original diagnosis was a deep bone bruise.

Teixeira was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sept.

4, retroactive to Aug. 27, but he and the team had been holding out some hope he might be able to return this season.

“Really just kind of wishful thinking,” Teixeira said. “I was trying to play every single day. That’s the way that you have to go after it as an athlete. Until you know that it’s broken, you’re going to try to play every day.”

Rookie first baseman Greg Bird will keep filling in for Teixeira. Bird was batting .241 with five home runs and 17 RBIs in 83 at-bats.

“The word for Bird is professionalism. He just seems like such a pro,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. “There’s just no emotion. He’s just cool, calm and collected. And that’s pretty impressive. You’re born that way, I think. You just don’t see it in 22-year-olds. That will serve him well in a market like this.”

When he got hurt, the 35-year-old Teixeira was enjoying a resurgent season that had put him in the AL MVP discussion. Heading into Friday night’s game, he was still leading the Yankees with 31 home runs and ranked second on the team in RBIs (78). He had a .357 on-base percentage and scored 57 runs.

“It’s really disappointing news. I feel bad for Mark. One of the reasons we’re where we’re at is because of everything that clearly Mark did this year for us,” Cashman said.

Martin, who had three of Toronto’s 16 hits, added an RBI single in the third.

“My location with my fastball wasn’t there,” said Severino, who had a wrap on his lower right leg. “Not cut, just hurt a little bit.”

Encarnacion, who has reached base safely in a club-record 40 consecutive games, took a long look at his two-run clout in the fourth off Chris Martin that landed in the rarely reached second deck in left.

Alex Rodriguez struck out all four times up for the Yankees, drawing boos.

RIGHT AT HOME Toronto won its fifth straight at Yankee Stadium for the first time since 2003 and improved to 9-4 against New York this year. ... Each of the top seven batters in Toronto’s lineup had at least two hits.

MVP NUMBERS Donaldson has hit 13 homers in the first inning, a team record. All but 12 of his long balls this season have tied the game or given Toronto the lead.

MIGHTY IN THE ’PEN

Toronto lefty Brett Cecil struck out three in 1 1-3 innings, extending his scoreless streak to a career-high 23 2-3 innings — the longest current run in the AL and the best by an AL reliever all season.

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: Rookie 2B Devon Travis (left shoulder) was transferred to the 60-day DL when Toronto activated RHP Marcus Stroman (knee) from the 60-day DL and recalled RHP Chad Jenkins from Triple-A Buffalo. Eligible to return on Sept. 27, Travis has been taking dry swings and making some progress, a Blue Jays spokesman said. But the team isn’t sure Travis will make it back this season.

Yankees: 1B Mark Teixeira will miss the rest of the season after a third round of tests finally revealed a broken right leg.

UP NEXT Blue Jays: RHP Marco Estrada (12-8) starts the opener Saturday, with Stroman making his season debut in the second game. The 24-year-old Stroman, who had surgery in March to repair a torn ACL in his left knee, went 11-6 with a 3.65 ERA as a rookie last season. He grew up on Long Island, about 55 miles from Yankee Stadium, and said he’s leaving around 20 passes for friends and family Saturday. Stroman completed his sociology degree this

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Kodiaks 5 Grizzlys 3 OLDS — The Olds Grizzlys opened their 2015-16 Alberta Junior Hockey League season on a negative note Friday, falling 5-3 to the Camrose Kodiaks before 890 fans at the Sportsplex.

Ryley Smith scored twice in a losing cause, with Landon Kletke notching the other Olds goal. Cam Gotaas, with a pair, TJ Brown, Cole McBride and Stefan Danielson tallied for the Kodiaks, who led 4-2 after two periods.

Brodan Salmond made 31 saves as the winning netminder. Kurtis Chapman stopped 27 shots for the Grizzlys, who were zero-for-four on the power play while the visitors were two-for-seven.

The Grizzlys return to action Tuesday versus the host Calgary Canucks.

Votto appeals two-game suspension for home plate tantrum Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto appealed a two-game suspension Friday for his home plate tantrum, saying that he didn’t deserve to be ejected from a game let alone suspended.

Major League Baseball also fined Votto an undisclosed amount Friday before the Reds’ game against the St. Louis Cardinals. By appealing the suspension, Votto could stay in the starting lineup.

The Toronto native was ejected by plate umpire Bill Welke during the eighth inning of a 5-4 loss to Pittsburgh on Wednesday night at Great American Ball Park. He took a second called strike during the at-bat and asked for timeout, but was denied.

The 2010 National League MVP had declined to talk about the matter until he received notice of his suspension Friday. Votto said he politely asked for timeout, using the word “please” three times, but Welke twice said no.

Votto said he’d never been refused a timeout in the major leagues.

“I’ve played for nine years now,” Votto said during his 10-minute explanation to the media outside the Reds’ clubhouse. “I’m granted a little bit extra time as long as I’m not showing up the umpire. There was no behaviour along those lines. We have a good relationship, myself and umpires in general. I’ve got a great track record.

“He said no, you can’t have time.”

During the loud disagreement that followed, Votto waved his arm and yelled at Welke.

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Rebels 5 Americans 3 KENNEWICK, Wash. — Red Deer Rebels rookie forward and Minnesota native Austin Pratt made a triumphant return to his home country Friday.

Pratt scored once and assisted on a Reese Johnson goal as the Rebels downed the host Tri-City Americans 5-3 in a Western Hockey League preseason game viewed by 2,318 fans at the Toyota Centre.

Presten Kopeck and defenceman Colton Bobyk each notched a goal and added two helpers for the Rebels, who got an additional marker from Ivan Nikolishin, who also picked up an assist.

The clubs were tied 1-1 and 2-2 by periods before Red Deer took over in the third with three consecutive goals.

The Rebels’ power play was in fine form, scoring twice on five opportunities. The Americans were one-for-seven with a man advantage.

Rylan Toth was sharp in the Red Deer net, turning aside 32 shots. Tri-City goaltenders Evan Sarthou and Beck Warm combined to make 24 saves.

Red Deer’s second and final game in the Americans’ preseason tournament is today at 3 p.m. versus the Spokane Chiefs.

The Rebels, who evened their exhibition record at 1-1 with Friday’s win, close out their preseason schedule next week with Friday and Saturday games against the Edmonton Oil Kings at the Centrium and Medicine Hat Tigers in Stettler.

Red Deer’s regular-season opener is Sept. 26 versus the visiting Oil Kings.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● College soccer: Olds at RDC; women at noon, men at 2 p.m. ● WHL preseason: Red Deer Rebels vs.

Spokane Chiefs at Kennewick, Wash., 4 p.m. ● Major bantam preseason hockey: Leduc Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Stettler Lightning at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Arena.

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● College soccer: SAIT at RDC; women at noon, men at 2 p.m. ● Minor hockey: Red Deer minor midget AAA tryouts, 2:15-4:30 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Red Deer Vipers at Stettler Lightning, 3 p.m.

Hockey 2015 WHL PRESEASON Friday’s Games Everett 3, Portland 1 Kootenay 3, Seattle 2 Brandon 6, Regina 2 Swift Current 2, Lethbridge 1 Medicine Hat 5, Moose Jaw 1 Saskatoon 6, Prince Albert 3 Kamloops 3, Kelowna 1 Red Deer 5, Tri-City 3 Today’s Games Kootenay at Prince George, 12 p.m.

Red Deer at Spokane, 4 p.m.

Victoria at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Edmonton at Calgary, 3 p.m.

Vancouver at Victoria, 3 p.m.

Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Toronto New York Tampa Bay Baltimore Boston

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 80 60 .571 77 62 .554 69 71 .493 68 72 .486 66 74 .471

GB — 2.5 11 12 14

Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit

Central Division W L Pct 83 57 .593 73 67 .521 69 70 .496 66 73 .475 64 76 .457

GB — 10 13.5 16.5 19

Friday, Sept. 18 Everett at Portland, 4:30 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

Victoria at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Pct .543 .529 .504 .482 .426

GB — 2 5.5 8.5 16.5

Friday’s Games Baltimore 14, Kansas City 8 Toronto 11, N.Y. Yankees 5 Tampa Bay 8, Boston 4 Detroit at Cleveland, ppd., rain Texas 4, Oakland 0 Minnesota 6, Chicago White Sox 2 Houston at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Colorado at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Kansas City (Cueto 2-5) at Baltimore (Tillman 9-11), 11:05 a.m.

Toronto (Estrada 12-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 6-7), 11:05 a.m., 1st game Toronto (Stroman 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 108), 2:35 p.m., 2nd game Boston (Porcello 7-12) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 1-3), 4:10 p.m.

Detroit (Wolf 0-3) at Cleveland (Bauer 11-11), 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Milone 8-4) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 8-10), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Nolin 0-1) at Texas (Gallardo 12-9), 6:05 p.m.

Houston (McCullers 5-5) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 8-9), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Flande 3-2) at Seattle (Elias 4-8), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

GP 11 11 9 10

CFL East Division W L T PF 8 3 0 392 6 5 0 277 5 4 0 193 4 6 0 207

PA 221 322 241 196

Pt 16 12 10 8

New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 80 61 .567 71 69 .507 60 81 .426 56 86 .394 54 88 .380

GB — 8.5 20 24.5 26.5

Central Division W L Pct 88 52 .629 84 56 .600 82 58 .586 62 79 .440 58 81 .417

GB — 4 6 26.5 29.5

St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati

West Division W L 80 59 72 68 67 73 67 74 58 82

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

Pct .576 .514 .479 .475 .414

GB — 8.5 13.5 14 22.5

Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 5, Philadelphia 1, 1st game Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 3 Miami 2, Washington 1 Cincinnati 2, St. Louis 2, tie, 8 innings, susp., rain N.Y. Mets 5, Atlanta 1 Chicago Cubs 7, Philadelphia 3, 2nd game L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Colorado at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Today’s Games St. Louis (Lynn 11-9) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 8-10), 11:05 a.m.

Cincinnati 2, St. Louis 2, tie, 8 innings, comp. of susp. game, 10:30 a.m.

Chicago Cubs (Haren 9-9) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-3), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Z.Davies 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Locke 7-10), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 8-6) at Atlanta (W.Perez 5-6), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Roark 4-4) at Miami (Fernandez 4-0), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 6-3) at Arizona (R.De La Rosa 12-7), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (Kennedy 8-13) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 17-7), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Flande 3-2) at Seattle (Elias 4-8), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games St. Louis at Cincinnati, 11:10 a.m.

Washington at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Colorado at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games Washington at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Miami at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

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Price, Hawkins (6), Cecil (6), Lowe (8), Loup (9) and Ru.Martin; L.Severino, Ch.Martin (3), A.Bailey (5), Shreve (7), Cotham (7), Pinder (9) and B.McCann.

W—Price 15-5. L—L.Severino 3-3. HRs—Toronto, Donaldson (38), Smoak (15), Encarnacion (31), Ru.Martin 2 (19). New York, Gregorius (9).

K. City120 001 1 1 Baltimore 001 1011(10)x

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D.Duffy, Hochevar (6), Madson (6), C.Young (7), K.Herrera (7), F.Morales (8), Chamberlain (8) and S.Perez; M.Wright, Brach (6), Matusz (8), Givens (8), Roe (9) and Joseph, Clevenger. W—Givens 2-0. L—K.Herrera 4-3. HRs—Kansas City, L.Cain 2 (16), Rios (3). Baltimore, Darie.Alvarez (1), Reimold (4), M.Machado (28), Clevenger (2).

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Miley, Tazawa (8), Layne (8), No.Ramirez (8) and Hanigan; Archer, E.Romero (6), B.Gomes (6), Geltz (7), Bellatti (8), Boxberger (9) and Rivera, Arencibia.

W—Bellatti 3-1. L—Tazawa 2-7. HRs—Tampa Bay, A.Cabrera (12), Arencibia (5).

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Chavez, Otero (7), Abad (7), Fe.Rodriguez (8) and Phegley; Lewis and Gimenez. W—Lewis 15-8. L— Chavez 7-15.

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E.Santana, May (8), Jepsen (9) and K.Suzuki; E.Johnson, D.Webb (6), N.Jones (8), Putnam (9), Da.Jennings (9) and Brantly. W—E.Santana 5-4.

L—N.Jones 1-2. HRs—Minnesota, Plouffe 2 (20), Edu.Escobar (10). Chicago, Eaton (13).

Chicago Phila.

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Arrieta, Grimm (9) and D.Ross; Morgan, Neris (6), J.Gomez (8), Murray (9) and Ruiz. W—Arrieta 19-6.

L—Morgan 5-6. HRs—Chicago, St.Castro (8). Philadelphia, Altherr (3).

Chicago Phila.

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Hendricks, Strop (7), T.Wood (8), Rodney (9), H.Rondon (9) and M.Montero; Asher, De Fratus (6), Roberts (6), Hinojosa (7), Loewen (8), N.Ogando (9) and Rupp. W—Hendricks 7-6. L—Asher 0-3.

Sv—H.Rondon (28). HRs—Chicago, Schwarber 2 (15), Bryant (24).

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7 9

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Nelson, Cravy (6), Goforth (7) and Maldonado; Morton, Soria (7), Caminero (8), Watson (8), Melancon (9) and Stewart. W—Morton 9-7. L—Nelson 11-12.

Sv—Melancon (45). HRs—Milwaukee, Lind (19).

GP Calgary 10 Edmonton 10 B.C. 9 Winnipeg 10 Saskatchewan 10

West Division W L T PF 8 2 0 271 6 4 0 245 4 5 0 204 3 7 0 187 1 9 0 255

PA 197 181 250 310 313

Pt 16 12 8 6 2

FRIDAY’S SUMMARY

WEEK 12 Bye: Montreal Friday’s result Hamilton 35 Toronto 27 Today’s games Saskatchewan at Winnipeg, 4:30 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game Ottawa at B.C., 2 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 19 Tri-City at Spokane, 3 p.m.

Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

WEEK 13 Bye: Toronto Friday, Sept. 18 B.C. at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 19 Edmonton at Hamilton, 4 p.m.

Ottawa at Saskatchewan, 9 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 20 Winnipeg at Montreal, 1 p.m.

End of 2015 WHL Pre-season

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W Vancouver 15 Los Angeles 13 FC Dallas 13 Seattle 13 SK City 11 Portland 11 San Jose 11 Houston 9 Colorado 8 Real Salt Lake 8

GA 28 33 30 31 35 32 31 34 29 40

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Wednesday’s Games Vancouver 2, Colorado 0 Portland 0, Sporting Kansas City 0, tie Friday’s Games New York 3, Chicago 2 Saturday’s Games Columbus at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

New York City FC at FC Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

D.C. United at Colorado, 7 p.m.

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

Montreal at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games New England at Toronto FC, 3 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City at Orlando City, 5 p.m.

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PA 0 0 0 28

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

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PA 0 0 0 0

PF 0 0 0 0

PA 0 0 0 0

PF 0 0 0 0

PA 0 0 0 0

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 0 0 0 .000 N.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000 Philadelphia 0 0 0 .000 Washington 0 0 0 .000 W 0 0 0 0

Atlanta y-Carolina New Orleans Tampa Bay

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PA 0 0 0 0

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PA 0 0 0 0

Thursday’s Game Pittsburgh 21, New England 28 Sunday’s Games Green Bay at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Houston, 11 a.m.

Seattle at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

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

Indianapolis at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Miami at Washington, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Arizona, 2:05 p.m.

Detroit at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Baltimore at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Tennessee at Tampa Bay, 2:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Philadelphia at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m.

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Basketball FIBA AMERICAS MEN’S OLYMPIC QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT PLAYOFFS Friday’s results Semifinals Venezuela 79 Canada 78 Argentina 78 Mexico 70 Saturday’s games Third Place Canada vs. Mexico, 5 p.m.

Championship Venezuela vs. Argentina, 7:30 p.m.

(Note: Venezuela and Argentina qualify for 2016 Olympics)

The Lacombe Golf and Country Club, represented by Ian Stang, Tom McKinlay Jr., Steve Mello and Ken Kuehn, finished ninth in the Alberta Men’s Interclub Championship Thursday at Canmore.

The Lacombe foursome turned in a score of fiveover 218 and finished 16 strokes behind winners Airdrie Woodside.

The team of Matt Berry, Jesse Visser, Myle Neilson and Chris Fisher posted a score of seven-over 220 for the Innisfail Golf Club and placed 10th.

Forest Heights, with Dave Bach, Dalan Milbradt, Doug Reid and Darryl Lockren, tied for 24th with a 38-over count of 251.

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BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended Cincinnati 1B Joey Votto two gamews and fined him an undisclosed amount for his inappropriate actions following his ejection during a Sept. 9 game against Pittsburgh.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Claimed RHP Roman Mendez off waivers from Texas. Transferred RHP Koji Uehara to the 60-day DL. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reinstated RHP Zach Putnam from the 15-day DL. MINNESOTA TWINS — Activated RHP J.R. Graham from the 15-day DL. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Acquired LHP Daniel Coulombe from the Los Angeles Dodgers for cash considerations.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Reinstated RHP Marcus Stroman from the 60-day DL. Recalled RHP Chad Jenkins from Buffalo (IL). Transferred 2B Devon Travis to the 60-day DL. National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed C Nick Hundley on the 60-day DL. Called up C Tom Murphy from Albuquerque (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled RHP Taylor Jordan from Syracuse (IL).

American Association WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Traded RHP Edwin Carl to Lancaster for a player to be named.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed OF Lew Ford.

Acquired LHP Joe Bircher from Sioux Falls (AA) for a player to be named. Placed OF Steve McQuail and RHP Bobby Blevins on the inactive list.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Promoted Jesse Buss to assistant general manager/director of scouting, Ryan West to director of player personnel and Clay Moser to assistant coach/director of basketball strategy.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Named Sam Mitchell interim coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed DE IK Enemkpali from the practice squad.

Signed DE Cedric Reed to the practice squad.

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Reached an injury settlement with WR Deonte Thompson. Released DT Andre Fluellen.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Agreed to terms with WR A.J. Green on a four-year contract extension.

Waived LB Jayson DiManche and RB Mark Weisman from injured reserve.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Traded DL Billy Winn to Indianapolis for a conditional 2017 draft pick.

HOUSTON TEXAS — Waived-injured LBs Lynden Trail and LB Tony Washington.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed LS Carson Tinker to a four-year contract extension.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed C Sam Brenner and RB Jonas Gray from the practice squad. Released C-G Jacques McClendon and QB Logan Thomas.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed QB Eli Manning to a four-year contract extension.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed LB Aldon Smith.

Canadian Football League B.C. LIONS — Placed QB Travis Lulay on the

six-game injured list. Signed QB Greg McGhee.

Signed QB R.J. Archer to the practice roster.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Signed senior vicepresident of hockey operations David McNab to a contract extension through the 2018-19 season.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Acquired D Dennis Robertson, D Jake Massie and a 2017 fifthround draft pick from Carolina for F Kris Versteeg, F Joakim Nordstrom and a 2017 third-round draft pick. Agreed to terms with F Marcus Kruger on a one-year contract.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Fined Vancouver F Octavio Rivero an undisclosed amount for embellishment during the Sept. 9 match against Colorado.

COLLEGE BAYLOR — Suspended offensive co-ordinator Kendal Briles for one game for committing an NCAA recruiting violation.

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Detroit at Cleveland, 11:10 a.m., 1st game Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

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Houston at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

Colorado at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

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Monday’s Games Boston at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

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Detroit at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

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Reilly looking to ignite Esks’ offence QB RETURNS FROM INJURY INTO LABOUR DAY CLASSIC REMATCH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Calgary Stampeders got a sampling of a healthy Mike Reilly in their Labour Day win over the Edmonton Eskimos. The Stampeders will get the full-on effect in Saturday’s rematch.

Reilly will start at quarterback for the Esks for the first time since tearing ligaments in his left knee in the season opener June 27 in Fort McMurray, Alta. His projected recovery time was said to be 10 to 12 weeks.

Reilly’s knee held up Monday when the 30-year-old relieved James Franklin early in the fourth quarter. His Eskimos trailing by nine points, Reilly was five for 12 passing for 90 yards. He had three carries for 25 yards, including one rush of 15 yards.

The Stampeders held Edmonton without a touchdown for a 16-7 win. After the game, Calgary head coach John Hufnagel expressed some surprise at Reilly’s sudden appearance.

“I was also surprised to see him so fleet-footed,” Hufnagel said. “Obviously he’s healthy and ready to go.”

Reilly didn’t have any setbacks in practice this week.

“It’s felt good since before the game and really no changes afterward,” the quarterback said Friday at Commonwealth Stadium.

“To get out and get tackled a few

times in the game was a good test. The knee passed that test so (I) feel confident about it going from here.”

The Stampeders (8-2) intend to put some distance on their provincial rival atop the CFL’s West Division and extend their winning streak to six games.

The Eskimos (6-4) want to stay within striking distance of first place.

“We could be six points back, we could be two points back, so absolutely that is a big difference,” Reilly said earlier this week. “At this point in the season every game is very important, every game against a divisional opponent is important, every game against a divisional opponent your chasing is the most important, right?

“We didn’t perform so well the last time we played against them, at least on the offensive side of the ball.”

Calgary extended its win streak against Edmonton to 12 in a row dating back to 2011, but Reilly doesn’t believe that record is weighing on his team.

“We can control what’s going to happen in the future, but not what’s happened in the past,” he said.

“A lot of guys weren’t even in the CFL when this streak started. The majority of our team doesn’t really know what it is outside of the questions they get from the media.”

Saturday’s rematch again pits two of the top defences in the league against each other. Neither offence mustered more than 50 net rushing yards Mon-

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Edmonton Eskimos’ Adarius Bowman, right, juggles a pass as Calgary Stampeders’ Joe Burnett looks on during second half CFL football action in Calgary. day.

“When you have 40-something yards rushing, you’re never happy with where your run game is,” Eskimos head coach Chris Jones said. “We’ve got to do a better job of controlling the line of scrimmage and giving our run-

ning backs an opportunity to get out there and help us win.”

Calgary hasn’t given up a touchdown in nine quarters and has allowed just one rushing touchdown this season.

Stampeders defensive end Charleston Hughes was awarded a third sack after

Dyce looking for second win as interim head coach

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File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Saskatchewan Roughriders’ interim head coach Bob Dyce looks on during the CFL’s Labour Day Classic against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Regina, Sask.,

WINNIPEG — When Matt Nichols takes the first snap for the Blue Bombers in Saturday’s Banjo Bowl against Saskatchewan, it’ll mark a season high for the CFL team.

Nichols is the fourth different starting quarterback for Winnipeg (3-7), the most of any team during a campaign that features only three lucky clubs without injuries to their main pivots.

It’s a distinction Bombers head coach Mike O’Shea never imagined his team would hold.

“When you build your roster, you look at contingency plans,” O’Shea said Friday after his team’s walk-through.

“You have to build and have a plan for that kind of stuff, but you don’t sit there at home at night thinking about four quarterbacks. Hey, teams are going through it. It’s not something you really dwell on as a coach.”

O’Shea is also handling special teams co-ordinator duties after Pat Tracey was fired this week. The Bombers have lost four in a row and six of their last seven games.

With Brian Brohm under centre last weekend, the Blue Bombers dropped a 37-19 decision to the Roughriders (1-9) as Saskatchewan earned its first win of the season.

That outcome sparked the Bombers to get Nichols in a trade with Edmonton for a conditional seventh-round pick in next year’s CFL draft. Original starter Drew Willy (knee) is on the six-game injured list for three more games, while recent starter Robert Marve hurt a knee a couple weeks ago and is done for the season.

After five full practices with the Bombers and Friday’s walk-through, Nichols was happy to be at the helm of

a team fighting to make the playoffs.

“I’ve had the most fun playing football this last week than I have in the last few years,” said Nichols, who joined the Eskimos in October 2010.

The Bombers announced 34,250 tickets had been sold so far for Saturday’s game, including extra seats installed for November’s Grey Cup game.

Riders quarterback Brett Smith will making his sixth straight start. Kevin Glenn (torn pectoral) was practising this week and is eligible to play next week while Darian Durant is out for the season. Calgary, Hamilton and Ottawa are now the only clubs using the same quarterback who started the season after B.C.’s Travis Lulay was injured last week and put on the sixgame injured list.

“You wouldn’t think that you’ve been through this many quarterbacks,” Bombers receiver Clarence Denmark said of Winnipeg’s quartet. “We believe in Matt. He came out and showed some good things. In his career, he’s shown some good things so we trust him.

“He’s a good quarterback. It’s plug and play.”

Nichols started seven games for the Eskimos this year (5-2), but James Franklin finished two of the wins. One of Nichols’s victories was a 30-5 home win over the Riders on Aug. 31, which was Smith’s first start.

“I think it helps that we played against him earlier in the season and have an idea of how he plays, how mobile and everything he is,” Saskatchewan interim head coach Bobby Dyce said.

The Winnipeg native and former Bomber and University of Manitoba assistant coach will have his own cheering section at the game, including 20 to 25 family members and friends.

Lions QB, defence looking to shine against visiting Redblacks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SURREY, B.C. — B.C. Lions quarterback John Beck is gearing up for two different types of pressure in his first CFL start Sunday against the Ottawa Redblacks.

Beck will face pressure to excel in the absence of injured No. 1 Travis Lulay (knee), who was placed on the six-game injured list Friday, and elude a tenacious Redblacks pass rush.

“They’re going to be wanting to run at our guys, so I’m going to have to make some contested throws,” said Beck, a 34-year-old former NFL journeyman who is in his second season with the Lions. “That’s the way they play the game. They’re gonna try to put pressure on the quarterback.”

The Redblacks (5-4) recorded 10 sacks in their previous game as they beat Saskatchewan on Aug. 30 prior to a bye on the Labour Day weekend.

Beck’s mobility has been questioned this week, but Lions receiver Austin Collie, who also played with him 11 years ago with the Brigham Young Uni-

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“I would appreciate it if people treated me as not mobile,” said Beck.

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“I try to be more back, work from the pocket, understanding that’s where my protection is at, and that anytime you leave that pocket you’re going to leave your protection. I’ve learned throughout my time that you’re better off working from it. But if I do have to make a play with my feet, I make sure that I keep up on that skill and use it at the right time.”

Beck will try to lead the Lions to their second straight win after he came off the sidelines to spur a victory in Montreal last week following Lulay’s injury. Although Beck threw for two first-half touchdowns, he also tossed a pair of interceptions, including one the Als returned for a TD. After penalties hurt drives, he wants the Lions to show more discipline against the Redblacks.

“We had some plays that were made out there that would have gotten more

first downs, but they were annulled because of penalties,” said Beck.

While much of the attention will be on Beck, the Lions’ much-maligned defence will also face considerable scrutiny as it attempts to prove that a five-interception performance against Montreal was no fluke.

“We proved that we can make some strides last week, and now is the time to make sure that we exceed those expectations again this week,” said Lions defensive back Ryan Phillips.

The Lions’ defence ranks last in the CFL with an average of 399 total yards allowed per game.

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Main photo: Children surround a poster setting out the week-long camp’s theme; top left: Storyteller Jeff Challoner illustrates how Jesus created a community of caring; top right: Children create figures for the Circle of Friends craft; a change to operate a firehose during a visit to Red Deer Emergency Services Firehall 3.

Call, Care , Share.

United Kids Camp, held August 10-14, 2015 was presented by Sunnybrook United and Gaetz United Churches sharing resources and working united to create a great program for youth ages 5-11 years of age.

This year’s theme was Call, Care, Share. Each day the theme was explored through storytellers, drama, dance, music, crafts and games. The youth heard stories of Jesus creating a caring community as well as sharing what we have with our neighbors.

At the Red Deer EmergenRCMP Cst. Turner, of the city’s Community Policing division, leads children in a talk cy Services Fire Station 3 the about safety in the community. children learned about safety

and what happens when we call in an emergency. As well, Constable Turner from Community Policing talked about Safety in our Community and the youth were thrilled to be able to ask him many questions about safety and his role as a Police Officer.

The week ended with singing, playing chimes for the parents, video of photos of the week and lighting a candle around the Circle of Friends art project that the youth had created. A hot dog lunch followed for all youth, volunteers and their families.

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Eating disorder support established

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Help is on the way for Central Albertans suffering from eating disorders and their families.

The Eating Disorder Support Network of Alberta (EDSNA) will begin holding support group meetings in Red Deer in October. Those battling a disorder will meet at Red Deer College.

Parents, partners and loved-ones will meet at Collicutt Centre.

Moyra McAllister founded EDSNA in 2014 in Edmonton.

“Having been a parent with a child with an eating disorder, I know about the fear, the confusion and the panic that comes with the illness,” said McAllister who is also the president of EDSNA. “When my daughter was diagnosed with anorexia, I spent countless hours on the Internet searching for answers and searching for support. It was a desperate and lonely time. As my daughter

Moyra McAllister, president of the Eating Disorder Network of Alberta. began to heal, I vowed that no family should go through this journey alone.”

EDSNA, a non-profit organization, runs six-week, professionally-facilitated support groups 12 times a year in

Edmonton and will also run groups 12 times a year in Red Deer.

“We empower people by building their coping skills and providing strategies to help them face this complex illness. We bring people together so they don’t feel alone, so that they can learn from one another, and we change lives,” McAllister said at the announcement held at Red Deer College on Friday.

Mayor Tara Veer said statistics show that eating disorders affect one to five per cent of the population.

“That likely means for the City of Red Deer that 1,000 to 5,000 of our citizens are contending with an eating disorder this very day,” Veer said.

Red Deer North MLA Kim Schreiner said the expansion of EDSNA to Red Deer is a significant step.

“It is important that we are aware of this new network and its commitment to safeguard our vulnerable. Central Alberta has experienced huge growth in recent years. However, health care and mental health care hasn’t always

kept pace and the rates of eating disorders have also increased, making the need even more urgent,” Schreiner said. The province contributed more than $300,000 to assist in EDSNA’s expansion to Red Deer.

A young Red Deer woman who did not want to be named said she got help by seeking treatment for her eating disorder outside Alberta and would have benefited from a local support group.

“There were very few people in the community I could turn to who could understand what I was experiencing and how I was feeling. This made my recovery significantly harder than if I had support returning home,” said the woman, who spent a significant portion of her life dealing with an eating disorder.

Registration is now open for the first two support groups in Red Deer.

For more information, visit www. edsna.ca and follow the links for Red Deer. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

SUNNYBROOK FARM MUSEUM

Co-operative merchant history comes alive at new store exhibit

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Sunnybrook Farm Museum’s newest building — the Cooperative Mercantile Store — will be filled with displays and exhibits by next spring.

A ‘twine cutting’ was held on Thursday for the building that will be divided into a farm equipment shop and a general store to provide the history of the first farm co-operatives and the businesses they established.

“The construction is complete.

We’re working on an interior exhibition, the storytelling piece behind it,” said Ian Warwick, museum executive director.

He said The Cooperators have offered the museum the original bank desk from the first credit union in Central Alberta. Red Deer Museum is able to loan some artifacts. Sunnybrook Farm Museum also has many donated pieces to display.

“We’re going to work on that over the next six months and then when the museum opens up in the spring, it will be full.”

The building’s concrete foundation was poured last October. The bulk of construction was started in March by a core group of volunteers.

The mercantile is the largest building the museum has built.

Construction of Rosneath Garage was finished in 2013.

Museum volunteer Jeremy Moore said well over 75 volunteers worked on the low-maintenance mercantile.

“The intention of the building was to simulate a 1920s-style building.

From the front, it looks like two buildings built side-by-side, even though it’s one building,” Moore said.

Central Alberta Co-op, Servus Credit Union, Concentra Financial, The Cooperators, and the UFA partially funded the project to celebrate the Year of the Cooperatives in 2012. A matching grant was provided by Alberta Culture

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Innisfail RCMP are looking for suspects who used chocolate to kill a family pet.

Police say a suspect dropped a bundle of chocolate in a backyard in the area of 47th Avenue between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. on Aug. 27.

Police are asking the public’s assistance for any information that may identify a vehicle description or person responsible for the death of the pet. Police did not say whether the pet was a dog or cat.

Red Deer and Blackfalds are in the running to be among the great places to live in Canada.

Little Gaetz Avenue in Red Deer is nominated for best street while the Abbey Centre in Blackfalds was tapped in the best public space category.

The Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) created the contest for Canadians to share their favourite places and to recognize the work accomplished by professional planners to make these

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Joan Joberty, right, and Lorraine Corsiatto serve up pie and ice cream for Sunnybrook Farm Museum volunteer Ross Smith and interpretive co-ordinator Nicole Parson during the celebration marking the completion of the new Cooperative Mercantile Store building. and the City of Red Deer.

The project cost a total of $350,000 and included major upgrades to the museum’s water and sanitary services to give the museum its first handicapped-accessible washrooms operating at the back of the mercantile.

All the buildings at Sunnybrook are now closed for the winter season, but

the grounds remain open. Exhibits can be viewed by appointment only.

“I just want to thank such generous donors and volunteers who helped us put another building on the site that will store artifacts and provide museum quality storage and preservation for us,” Warwick said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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As soon as a nomination has been reviewed, it will be posted on the website and will immediately be eligible to receive votes.

The place in each category with the most votes wins the title of People’s Choice, plus a prize for the nominator.

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stemming from the Truth and Reconciliation report on Monday.

In June, the federal government released the report with 94 recommendations following six years of hearings from thousands of residential school survivors, their families and members of the Aboriginal and First Nations communities.

Five recommendations in the report are directed specifically to municipalities.

Council will also hear a presentation on the long-awaited Social Policy Framework, a document to evaluate and address community needs.

The purpose of the document is to help the city sustain the well-being of the community.

A notice of motion submitted by Coun. Dianne Wyntjes regarding a national inquiry into the murdered and missing women and girls in Canada will be on the table.

City council to examine Truth and Reconciliation Red Deer city council will consider taking action on recommendations

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RELIGION

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 2015

The Catholic boom and struggle in Atlanta

LOCAL EVENTS

Sunday

CAN POPE FRANCIS HELP KEEP LATINOS IN THE CHURCH?

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GAINESVILLE, Georgia — The St. John Paul II Pastoral Center, a Roman Catholic mission, sits at the rough end of a former strip mall in the shadow of a chain sandwich shop. The space, church leaders say, was once used as a nightclub and movie theatre, a history now hidden by multiple coats of paint, pews brought in from other congregations, and a stone-and-wood shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of the Americas especially revered by Mexicans.

This mission, in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, was built in a hurry, to serve the many Latinos who labour at the poultry processing plants that form the economic backbone of Gainesville. On a recent Sunday, worshippers spilled onto the sidewalk in rows two and three deep, and by the end of the weekend, 5,000 people had attended Mass here.

Evangelicals have set up shop here, too. Georgia is Baptist country and a Bible Belt stronghold where Catholics had a small footprint until the latest immigration boom. The Rev. William Canales, the cherubic, Nicaraguan pastor of the mission, noted with a twinkle in his eye that a Protestant preacher in the same mall had recently moved on.

“The Catholic Church in Gainesville — we are waking up now,” Canales said, on the eve of the first visit to the United States by Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff.

Francis will arrive in the U.S. on Sept. 22, carrying the hopes of many for what he might do for American Catholicism. But few of these goals have as much urgency for church leaders as affirming the place of Latinos in the church and inspiring them to stay in the fold.

About 38 per cent of adult Catholics in the U.S. are Latino, according to the CARA research centre at Georgetown University, and they are already the majority in several dioceses.

Their numbers are increasing at the same time a steady stream of American Catholics overall are leaving the faith. Immigration and the high birthrate for Latino Catholics have more than made up for the losses, helping the 68-million-member denomination continue to grow.

Yet, Latinos aren’t sticking with the church the way they once did. In 2006, about eight in 10 Latinos who were raised Catholic stayed in the tradition as adults. That figure dropped to seven in 10 last year, according to CARA. Like many Latin Americans back home, U.S. Latinos are joining Pentecostal movements, or abandoning organized religion entirely.

Georgia is one of the more dramatic examples. The Catholic population here had been so small historically that the state for decades only had one diocese — in Savannah. The Atlanta diocese was created in 1956 with just 24,000 parishioners.

Now, Peter Faletti, Atlanta archdiocese director of research and planning,

is scrambling for space. He has been renting schools, former movie theatres and defunct car dealerships so he can turn them into worship sites. Even so, he says services fill to capacity within weeks. In Lilburn, an Atlanta suburb, Our Lady of the Americas draws 10,000 mostly Latino Mass-goers each weekend and is still growing.

Non-Hispanic professionals relocating to the Atlanta area from the North and Midwest have helped increase Catholic numbers in recent years, but Latinos are the main drivers of the boom. From 2000 to 2011, the Latino population doubled in Georgia, putting the state in the Top 10 for Latino growth in that period, according to Pew. Latinos and whites each make up about 44 per cent of the 1 million members of the Atlanta archdiocese, and Latinos are on track to eventually become the majority.

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, the highest-ranking Latino in the U.S. church, whose archdiocese, 70 per cent Latino, has been at the forefront of advocating for immigrants, said the role of Latinos “is a big part of the story of the pope’s visit.” In Washington, the pope will canonize 18thcentury Spaniard and Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra, who evangelized the territory that would become California. Gomez called the canonization a “historic moment in the life of the Hispanic people” in which the pope is calling on Americans to reflect on “our legacy as immigrants.”

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. See www.livingfaithlcrd.org, contact Ralph at 403347-9852 or John at 403-341-4022.

Seniors Church meets at 11 a.m. on Sundays at Bower Kin Place for hymns and gospel preaching. Phone 403-347-6706.

Upcoming events St. Andrew’s United Church Beef Supper will be offered on Oct. 16 at Bowden Lion’s Hall from 5 to 7 p.m. Admission for adults is $12, and $5 for children ages 10 years and under. Phone 403-559-8141.

African Children’s Choir will perform at First Baptist Church in Lacombe on Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. Phone 403-782-3110.

Blackfalds United Church Turkey Supper will be held on Sept. 27.

Two sittings — 5 and 6:30 p.m. — are available and advanced tickets are required. Prices are $15, adults, $7 for children and free for those under five. Contact Bev at 403-38854861 for more information and tickets. Leave a message and calls will be returned.

Pope speeds up, join us this simplifies marriage annulment process

Sunday

DROPS AUTOMATIC APPEAL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis radically reformed the process for annulling marriages Tuesday, overhauling 300 years of church practice by creating a new fast-track annulment and doing away with an automatic appeal that often slowed the process down.

The move, which came a week after he said he was letting all rank-and-file priests grant absolution to women who have had abortions, was further evidence of his desire to make the church more responsive to the needs of ordinary faithful.

The new law on annulments goes into effect Dec. 8, the start of Francis’s Holy Year of Mercy, a yearlong jubilee during which the pope hopes to emphasize the merciful side of the church. It will speed up and simplify the annulment process by placing the onus squarely on bishops around the world to determine when a fundamental flaw has made a marriage invalid.

A Catholic needs a church annulment to remarry in the church, and a divorced Catholic who remarries civilly without one is considered an adulterer living in sin and is forbidden from receiving Communion. The Communion issue is at the centre of debate at the upcoming synod of bishops, a three-week meeting that gets underway in October. Progressive bishops favour a process by which these Catholics could eventually have access to the sacrament if they repent; conservatives say there can be no such wiggle room and that church teaching is clear that a marriage is indissoluble.

Catholics have long complained that it can take years to get an annulment, if they can get one at all.

Costs can reach into the hundreds or thousands of dollars for legal and tribunal fees, though some dioceses have waived their fees.

“With this fundamental law, Francis has now launched the true start of his reform,” said Monsignor Pio Vito Pinto, the head of the Roman Rota, the church’s marriage court. “He is putting the poor at the centre — that is the divorced, remarried who have been held at arms’ length — and asking for bishops to have a true change of heart.”

Reasons for granting annulments vary, including that the couple never intended the marriage to last or that one spouse didn’t want children.

The new law also says that “lack of faith” can also be grounds for an annulment, conforming to the belief of Francis and Pope Benedict XVI before him that a sacramental marriage celebrated without the faith isn’t really a marriage at all.

Francis’ biggest reform involves the new fasttrack procedure, which will be handled by the local bishop and can be used when both spouses request an annulment or don’t oppose it.

Previously, most people seeking annulments needed to go before a three-judge panel unless a regional bishop’s conference gave a bishop permission to hear the case himself or to appoint one judge to handle it. The new law makes that an immediate option, meaning annulments should be easier to obtain in dioceses that don’t have enough priests to make up a three-judge panel, which is especially common in poor countries.

The fast-track procedure can also be used when other proof makes a more drawn-out investigation unnecessary, such as medical records indicating that the wife had an abortion, that one spouse hid infertility or some other grave contagious disease from the other, or that violence was used to coerce a spouse into marriage.

The law calls for the process to be completed within 45 days. The longer, regular process should take no more than a year.

Another reform is the removal of the appeal that automatically took place after the first decision was made, even if neither spouse wanted it. An appeal is still possible, but if one of the sides requests it.

11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service

RCCG Upper Room Assembly

Sunday Worship 10:00am Pastor Femi Babalola 4807 50 Avenue Unit 102. 403-962-2444

Rev. Doug Craig www.cslreddeer.org

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The Anglican Church LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER of Canada WELCOME YOU Sunday, Sept. 13

Sunday, Sept. 13

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL “A Church For All Ages”

Everyone’s welcome here!

Sunday, September 13 Every Living Thing: Good 9:00am, 11:00am & 6:30pm CrossRoads Kids (for infant to grade 6)

32 Street & Hwy 2, Red Deer County 403-347-6425

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AFFILIATED WITH THE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH OF CANADA

43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769

GOOD SHEPHERD 40 Holmes St. 403-340-1022 Rev. Dr. Marc Jerry

www.stleonardsonthehill.org

Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

9:30 a.m.

Sunday School Youth & Adult Forum 10:30 a.m. Worship Holy Communion at all Services Everyone Welcome

Inviting Sunday September 13 8:00 a.m.

Holy Communion 10:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist

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Sunday, Sept. 13

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UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Gaetz Memorial United Church

“Sharing Faith, Serving Community” 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer 403-347-2244 www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Programs weekly

Rev. Wayne Reid Worship Service 10:30 am “The Uncontrollable Tongue” Special Guests Caleb & Tom Cameron www.knoxreddeer.ca

www.mclcrd.org King Kids Playschool

Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

Living Faith

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN 26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road)

Cowboy Church Sunday 10:00 am Speaker Jim Deboan Inspirational Hymns with Steve & June Potter, Lynda & Rob Purdie Everyone Welcome

9:00 a.m.

Divine Service 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School & Bible School 11:00 a.m.

Divine Service

Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.

Pastor: Jonathan Aicken Bethany Collegeside, RDC www.livingfaithlcrd.org

Sunnybrook United Church Caring - Dynamic - Proactive - Inclusive 12 Stanton Street 403-347-6073

10:30 a.m. Worship Service

“Who Are We?”

Babyfold, Toddler Sunday www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Room,Room Sunday Club Club www.sunnybrookunited.org

Bahá’í Faith “People have grown weary and impatient of rhetoric and discourse, of preaching and sermonizing. In this day, the one thing that can deliver the world from its travail and attract the hearts of its peoples is deeds, not words; example, not precept; saintly virtues, not statements.”

To learn more about the Bahá’i Faith, please check out the Public Library, or the web site www.ca.bahai.org., or come to neighborhood devotions Sun. morning in Bower. Call 403-343-0091 for more information.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

Sundays at 9:30 am and 11:15 am

SUNDAY SCHOOL & SERVICE — 11:00 A.M. 2nd Wed. each month - Testimonial Meetings noon Christian Science Reading Room: Wed., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Thurs., 12 Noon-3:00 p.m.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 2015

TREND SETTERS

Photo contributed

Red Deer’s Alexx White will make her New York runway debut next week, modelling two dresses for Penhold designer Beth Anne Pedersen, including the black gown she’s wearing in the photo above.

CENTRAL ALBERTA MODEL AND DESIGNER SET TO MAKE A SPLASH AT NEW YORK’S FASHION WEEK

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF From the volleyball court to a fashion runway, Red Deer model Alexx White is New York-bound.

The lithe, five-foot-nine Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School graduate has signed on to model two gowns created by Penhold designer Beth Anne Pedersen at a catwalk show during New York’s Fashion Week.

The sporty White admitted she’s more at ease on a volleyball court or baseball field.

“This is so artsy, I am totally out of my comfort zone, but it was a once-ina-lifetime opportunity, so I took it!” she said.

The 19-year-old Red Deer resident was drawn into modelling by her mom’s friend, a photographer, who wanted to use her as a portfolio sub-

‘I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE IDEA OF MAKING CONNECTIONS DOWN THERE ... I’M SO EXCITED, I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S ONLY (A FEW) DAYS AWAY.’ — ALEXX WHITE RED DEER MODEL

ject. White had been with the Numa agency in Calgary for about a year when she heard Pedersen was looking for a group of models to accompany her to New York City.

White met with Pedersen in August and is now among 15 statuesque Albertans, mostly from Edmonton and Calgary, who are headed to the Big Apple to model her flowing haute-couture and fantasy gowns.

“It’s absolutely wonderful,” said

White, who looks forward to the show at the Microsoft Technology Centre on Monday.

She will then spend two days posing for photo shoots around New York City for Prolific Quarterly and Perspective Magazine.

Although White is enrolled in the nursing program this fall at Red Deer College (“I like logical things,” she admitted), she remains open to something unexpected happening in New York.

“I’m looking forward to the idea of making connections down there ... I’m so excited, I can’t believe it’s only (a few) days away.”

Pedersen, who previously made a connection with Deborah Cardona, the CEO of New York’s Deja Vu Models, was featured in a new designer fashion show in the biggest city in North America last April.

Cardona later invited Pedersen to participate in the emerging designer

show during fashion week this month.

Although it was a time-consuming and costly undertaking for the pregnant Pedersen, she felt she couldn’t miss such a high-profile opportunity.

The Central Alberta designer will be flying to New York next week with about 20 new gowns for the show that will be seen by fashion media, celebrities and store buyers. Pedersen said she also made an additional 20 dresses for magazine fashion shoots that she hopes will bring her line international attention.

“This is more exciting than last time,” added the designer, who noted that only 100 people saw the pop-up fashion show, whereas there will be an audience of 800 this time.

“I’ve already gotten a call from the chief editor of one fashion magazine (Prolific Quarterly) calling dibs on my gowns” for a photo spread, she said. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

LOCAL

BRIEFS Parkland Library sponsoring comic strip contest

Contributed photo

Red Deer’s Bull Skit comedy group is set to host Sketchfest from Sept. 24 to 26.

Sketchfest casts wide net for comedy groups

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF If the federal election attack ads haven’t tickled your funnybone, there’s always Bull Skit’s Sketchfest to look forward to.

Political sketches will be among three competitive categories at the invitational sketch festival that runs Sept. 24-26, at the Scott Block.

Nine comedy groups from across Alberta and as far as Los Angeles will be coming to Red Deer to compete against each other in musical, political and parody categories.

Politics was thrown into the Sketchfest mix because the Canadian federal election is overlapping with the runup to the U.S. election — and it was too good an opportunity to pass up, said Jeremy Robinson, one of the festival’s organizers. “It’ll be interesting to see what everyone comes up with.”

Robinson believes “short comedy is an art form.” For it to be successful, a lot of things need to

click into place.

Scripted sketches, like those associated with Saturday Night Live or the old Carol Burnett Show, need to be smart, funny and zip along, with strong characters anchoring them.

“I’d say it’s the writing that’s the biggest challenge,” said Robinson. “You’re trying to tell a whole story in such a short amount of time, and you’re trying to make it funny as well — consistently funny.”

Bull Skit’s Sketchfest invitational challenge is being taken up by various sketch comedy groups.

The Kinkonauts, The Late, Late Breakfast Show and Home School Crush are coming from Calgary.

The Debutantes are travelling from Edmonton. And .38 Delight is flying in from Los Angeles — a member of this team got to know Bull Skit co-founder Jenna Goldade at a Chicago sketch workshop and was thrilled to participate with a duo partner, said Robinson.

The out-of-town groups will join a burgeoning array of Red Deer sketch comedy groups — the Oxeemorons, The Strapping Young

Lads, Bull Skit and its up-andcoming group, Veal Skit players.

Robinson, who performs monthly with Bull Skit, but will be participating in Sketchfest with his other duo, the Oxeemorons, said everybody is very excited to be part of the inaugural festival that will also include non-competitive original sketches along other themes.

“It’s like a communal thing,” he added since the groups get to show off their own material and check out what their comedy colleagues are doing.

It should be a fun three days for the Red Deer audience, said Robinson, who believes attending Sketchfest will be a great opportunity to catch some eclectic comedy without leaving town. He would like it to become an annual thing.

Show time is at 7 p.m. on all three evenings. Musical sketches will be shown on Thursday, political sketches on Friday and parodies on Saturday, when an audience vote will be held. A festival pass is $30 or a day pass is $15 from www.BullSkitComedy.com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Calling all young comic book artists.

The Parkland Regional Library is sponsoring a comic strip contest to promote library card sign-up month.

Comic artists between the ages of 10 and 18 are invited to submit their four-panel strips (which must be done in marker or some other permanent medium — no pencils). The deadline is Sept. 25.

A panel of judges will choose the top five submissions, then public voting will take place on Facebook the week of Oct. 5-9.

The grand-prize winner will get a Wacom Intuos Tablet, and a set of Copic Markers is also up for grabs.

Entries should be submitted to your local public library or online. For more information, please visit www.prl.ab.ca/comic_contest.

Tom Savage set to play solo show at Gilmore Guitars Ontario troubadour Tom Savage will perform his story songs in Red Deer on Wednesday.

The Kingston, Ont. singer/songwriter has put out a half-dozen albums in country rock and blues genres.

In 2012, he challenged himself to write, record and post online a new song for every week of the year.

Savage, who’s in the band Foley Mountain Boys, will perform an 8 p.m. solo show at Gilmore Guitars, #6, 4676-61st St. For ticket information, please call 403-872-0006.

Crystal Plamondon serving up two local concerts Crystal Plamondon will serve up some sizzling Cajun-country and gospel music in two Central Alberta concerts next week.

The singer from the Franco-Albertan town of Plamondon is celebrating the release of her latest album, Half Gospel, Half Heartbreak. She will perform at 9 p.m. Friday at Fratters in Red Deer. There’s a $15 cover charge. For more information, please call 403-356-0033.

Plamondon will also perform on Saturday, Sept.

19, on the Grandview Stage in Rocky Mountain House. Tickets are $20. For more information about this concert, please call 403-845-6404.

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BRIEFS Red Deer Library hosting RDSO Maestro Lapalme in lecture series Red Deer Symphony Orchestra Maestro Claude Lapalme is the next guest speaker in the Red Deer Public Library’s lecture series.

Lapalme will draw on his vast experience to discuss the relevance and growing popularity of symphonic music in Alberta at the Snell Auditorium in the downtown library on Tuesday.

During his quarter-century with the RDSO, Lapalme has collaborated with the CBC, Alberta Ballet, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and choirs throughout the province. He is also become one of the province’s go-to musical arrangers, adapting popular tunes for symphonic performance.

A former instructor at the Universities of Toronto and Calgary, Lapalme continues to be a frequent clinician and music festival adjudicator. He’s the founder of Choir Kids that pairs elementary school choirs with the RDSO, and has received recognition awards from the City of Red Deer and Government of Alberta.

Tickets for this 7 p.m. fundraiser, sponsored by Friends of the Red Deer Public Library, are $10, and are available at any library branch, or at the door.

Photo by Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

This blown glass, silver-leaf fish by Red Deer artist Darren Petersen is being exhibited as part of the Hooked: Fish, Water and Angling in Art show at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. Petersen’s 2009 work, titled Passage, is among the fish-related paintings, photographs and sculptures in the show that goes to Oct. 4. Also included are wood prints by fellow Red Deer artist Jim Westergard and works by Tom Thomson, Ted Godwin, Jack Cowin, Walter May and others.

Time to take the flag down: Earle

Quist to read at Sunworks on Friday

COUNTRY ROCKER’S NEW SONG IMPLORES MISSISSIPPI TO REMOVE CONFEDERATE EMBLEM FROM STATE FLAG

Jennifer Quist will be back in Central Alberta to read from her latest novel, Sistering, next week.

The award-winning former Lacombe resident, who now lives in Edmonton, wrote a black comedy about “birth, death, love, marriage, mothers-in-law — and five sassy sisters.”

Excerpts from Sistering will be read at 7 p.m. Friday at the Sunworks store on Ross Street.

Quist, who happens to be the oldest of five sisters, previously wrote Love Letters of the Angels of Death, for which she won an emerging artist award in 2014 from the Alberta Lieutenant Governor.

Red Deer’s Yates collaborates on international project

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. — Country rockers Steve Earle & The Dukes have released a new song exhorting Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

The single, It’s Time, Mississippi, went on sale Friday as a fundraiser for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Virginia native Earle sings that he comes from a “long, long line / of a Rebel strain / but the wind has changed.”

Old South symbols have been widely debated since the June 17 massacre of nine black worshippers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The man charged in the slayings had previously posed for online photos, holding the Confederate battle flag.

Soon after the killings, the Confederate battle flag was removed from state capitol grounds by lawmakers in South Carolina and by the governor in Alabama. But Mississippi continues to fly the state flag it has used since 1894, with the rebel emblem in one corner.

The song is posted to the Southern Poverty Law Center website (http://bit.ly/1KIP7g1), with a statement from Earle, who said he lived in the South for the first 50 of his 60 years.

“I know that I’m not the only Southerner who never believed for one second that the Confederate battle flag is symbolic of anything but racism in anything like a modern context,” Earle said.

Mississippi leaders, and the public, are divided on whether to keep the flag or ditch it.

Jeppie Barbour, a brother of Republican former Gov. Haley Barbour, is helping organize efforts to keep the Confederate emblem on the Mississippi flag. He said Friday that he had not heard the new song.

“I am hesitant to pay too much

University strips Cosby name from building THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WILBERFORCE, Ohio — A historically black college in southwest Ohio says it is permanently removing the name of comedian Bill Cosby from its communications building.

In a statement Friday, Central State University in Wilberforce says the Camille O. & William H. Cosby Communications Center has been renamed the CSU Communications Center. The school had been temporarily covering Cosby’s name since July while it made a final decision.

The Cosby family has donated more than $2 million to the university.

Cosby has been the target of sexual assault allegations by dozens of women. He has acknowledged that he obtained quaaludes with the intent of giving them to women before sex.

attention to musicians,” Jeppie Barbour told The Associated Press. “But they have the right to believe what they want to believe and say what they want to say. And so do I, and I say, ’Keep it.”’

The Republican speaker of the Mississippi House, both Republican U.S. senators, the state’s only black congressman and many state lawmakers from both parties have said the state flag should be redesigned without the divisive symbol.

But Gov. Phil Bryant and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, both Republicans, have said if the issue is reconsidered, it should be done by a statewide vote rather than by the Legislature. In a 2001 election, Mississippi voters decided by

nearly 2-to-1 to keep the Confederate emblem on the flag.

The flag’s defenders see it as a symbol of history and heritage, while critics say it’s a stark reminder of slavery and segregation.

In lyrics and melody echoing the strains of “Dixie,” Earle sings in the new song: “I wish I was in a land that never / held a soul in bondage ever.”

The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center tracks racial hate crimes and files lawsuits to challenge conditions in schools and jails.

Concerning the SPLC, Jeppie Barbour said, “There are a lot of people who I would not pay any attention to, and they are high up the list.”

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Country rockers Steve Earle & The Dukes in a new song are exhorting Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. The single, It’s Time, Mississippi, went on sale on Friday as a fundraiser for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Red Deer-raised musician Murray Yates has lent his talents to a global song that’s involved songwriters from six continents.

Yates, a musician with the alt-rock band Forty Foot Echo, now based in Vancouver, was one of the songwriters of the tune To the Moon, to be released Wednesday through an online music video.

The project brought six compete strangers together from different parts of the world to write a song that promotes unity, co-operation and understanding through music. Other participants were from Argentina, South Korea, Congo, New Zealand, and Sweden.

The project was instigated by the international organization Global Rockstar. Yates was known to the Vienna, Austria company because he previously participated in Global Rockstar’s international song writing competition with the song Brand New Day. Yates spent a week in Vienna with the five other artists last month to create To the Moon. “Something like this has never been done before … We want to state that in the world of music, there are no borders, no enemies and no wars,” said Christof Straub, founder and CEO of Global Rockstar.

To find out more about the music video and a Making Of … film on the project, please visit www. globalrockstar.com

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Household debt ratio grows in Q2 DEBT INCREASED FASTER THAN INCOME

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The amount owed by Canadians compared with their paycheques hit yet another record in the second quarter as households increased the amount they borrowed faster than incomes rose.

Statistics Canada said Friday that the ratio of household credit market debt to disposable income climbed to 164.6 per cent from 163.0 per cent in the first quarter.

That means Canadians owed nearly $1.65 in consumer credit and mortgage and non-mortgage loans for every dollar of disposable income.

The increase came as total household credit market debt grew by 1.8 per cent in the quarter while disposable income grew 0.8 per cent over the same period.

Bank of Montreal senior economist Benjamin Reitzes said hot housing markets in British Columbia and Ontario are pushing mortgage growth, despite

softness in oil-producing regions.

“Canadians are just responding to the incentives that are out there,” said Reitzes, pointing to the low interest rates being offering to borrowers.

“Low rates make you want to borrow more, which mean you can afford to borrow more, and people do.”

The Bank of Canada has cut its key interest rate twice this year, and while the country’s big banks have passed on only a portion of the central bank reduction on to consumers, lending rates have come down.

The increased debt has been identified as a point of vulnerability, but in cutting its rate in July the central bank focused on the risks to the economy caused by the drop in oil prices and on preventing a widespread economic downturn.

Reitzes noted the household debt service ratio, which measures the amount of interest and principal as a share of disposable income, increased 0.2 percentage points to 14.1 per cent.

However, he said interest payments as a share of

disposable income hit a record low at 6.37 per cent in the quarter.

TD Bank economist Jonathan Bendiner noted that growth in mortgages has been the main factor in increasing household debt.

“Looking ahead, while our forecast for decent economic growth over the second half of this year will boost incomes, it will still likely be outstripped by debt growth,” Bendiner wrote in a report.

“As such, we expect the household debt-to-income ratio to trend up over the second half of 2015 before stabilizing in 2016 along with a moderation in housing activity.”

Overall, total household credit market debt amounted to $1.874 trillion at the end of the second quarter.

Household net worth increased 0.9 per cent in the second quarter as non-financial assets, primarily real estate, rose 1.8 per cent while net financial assets edged down 0.1 per cent.

On a per capita basis, household net worth increased to $243,800.

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Drilling company PHX Energy Services cuts half of workforce

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A highway loops around the southeast end of Mildred Lake at a Syncrude facility as seen from a helicopter tour of the oilsands near Fort McMurray. A General Electric executive said the oilsands needs more innovation to deal with the environment and costs.

Oilsands needs more innovation says GE exec COSTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT SERIOUS CONCERNS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Costs and environmental pressures are making innovations in the oilsands more necessary than ever, says the CEO of GE Oil & Gas. Lorenzo Simonelli, who leads the hydrocarbons division of the industrial giant, says the oil-and-gas industry should be moving faster on both fronts.

“If you look at different industries, you would say that the energy sector is one that is slower in adopting new technologies, and also tends to take longer to make decisions,” Simonelli said at a Calgary Chamber of Commerce event earlier this week.

He encouraged the industry to think big-picture when looking for ways to improve environmental and cost performance.

“This oil-and-gas industry is a very proud industry. It is also very siloed, and it tends to look at itself with respect to how it improves itself, and there are opportunities to look at other industries and new technologies, and actually adopt them at a faster rate.”

He said GE has already used health-care diagnos-

tic tools to improve pipeline inspections and leak monitoring, jet engine technology in gas plants, and pumping technology from their water division in oil and gas fields.

But producers also need to become more technologically aware, he added, as improvements in sensors and data supplies provide new opportunities but also challenges.

“An industrial company needs to be a software company at the same time,” said Simonelli.

Oil-and-gas producers elsewhere in the world have managed to achieve two to five per cent increases in production from electric submersible pumps, he pointed out, which are used to help increase flow rates in wells, thanks simply to better use of information from sensors on the machines.

“That comes from data, and that’s a whole new world of opportunity.”

But at the same time, too much equipment is still providing too little information, said Simonelli, noting “there is a lot of dumb metal.”

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Calgary-based drilling company PHX Energy Services Corp. has laid off nearly 50 per cent of its workforce, putting more than 500 people out of work.

The company, which provides drilling technology and services to oil and gas companies in Canada, the United States, Albania and Russia, says most of the job cuts affected people living in Alberta.

PHX said in a statement that the layoffs were necessary due to “current market challenges and uncertainty with respect to future oil commodity prices and drilling activity.”

The job cuts, announced Thursday, came despite company-wide salary reductions earlier this year of between five and 20 per cent.

The cuts follow an Alberta government report that more than 12,700 people have lost their jobs in the province in group layoffs as of Sept. 4.

And it says more than 75 per cent of them have been in the energy sector, while the remaining 25 per cent were related to the retail, food and financial services sectors.

In Alberta, employers are required to provide notice to the province when 50 staff or more are let go.

As of Sept. 4, the government had received a total of 84 group layoff notices, Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour spokeswoman Erin Gregg said in an email.

Petronas confirms safety audit VICTORIA — Malaysian energy-giant Petronas says it introduced a program to improve health and safety at its global oil-and-gas operations following an audit that reported serious safety issues at its offshore operations.

The state-owned company said in a statement issued Friday that a 2013 asset-integrity audit, initiated to improve best practices, included recommendations to enhance safety standards.

Wee Yiaw Hin, the company’s executive vicepresident, said the audit prompted the company to implement its ongoing safety-focused program.

“We acknowledged the gaps identified in the report and we have executed a comprehensive program to resolve the issues and ensure the safety of our people, environment and our facilities,” he said.

The audit reported competence and training issues with employees and made numerous references to corrosion threatening the structural integrity of facilities. Pacific NorthWest LNG, of which Petronas is the majority backer, plans to build a $36-billion liquefied-natural-gas export plant and terminal at Lelu Island, near Prince Rupert on British Columbia’s northwest coast. Last July, the B.C. government passed its Liquefied Natural Gas Project Agreements Act. The law intends to give potential LNG investors, including Petronas, certainty from targeted tax increases and environmental regulations.

The government said the law gives Petronas a 25-year, assurance-specific LNG-related income and ensures environmental taxes do not increase, although corporate and sales taxes could rise.

In exchange, the project is expected create up to 4,500 construction jobs and generate billions of dollars in revenues, the government said.

B.C.’s Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman was not immediately available to comment on the Petronas audit.

Passed over for a promotion? Ask your boss why Dear Working Wise: I’ve worked for the same company for five years, and I haven’t gotten a promotion.

I get good job reviews, and no one complains about my work, but other people around me have been promoted while I’ve been left behind. What can I do?

Signed, Frustrated Dear Frustrated: It’s hard to know why you have been overlooked for a promotion, but I’ll bet your boss knows why.

Wait until your anger has passed and then ask your supervisor for a meeting to discuss your career path. Explain to your supervisor that you like your job and that you are interested in taking on more responsibility.

Then, ask for their advice on CHARLES what you need to do to earn STRACHEY a promotion.

Be prepared for criticism WORKING or suggestions you won’t like.

Don’t get defensive or critiWISE cal of your supervisor’s comments. Instead, listen with an open mind because they will tell you what you need to hear.

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Your performance might not be as good as you think. The way you interact with other people may need improvement. You might need more training.

Or, you might have stepped into a workplace trap that’s holding your career back.

The four most common workplace traps are: 1. Complaining - Every workplace has problems.

Complaining will not solve them. Complaining lowers morale, wastes time and gives you a reputation for negativity that can hurt your career. In fact, in a recent survey, the top workplace pet peeve is people who complain too much. Do what you can to change the situation. If that’s not possible, accept it and move on. If the situation is unacceptable, and you’ve done everything in your power to change it without success, then look for a different job.

2. Gossiping – Gossiping reduces productivity and undermines teamwork by creating mistrust and suspicion between co-workers. If a co-worker starts gossiping, you should: ● Leave the conversation, e.g., “Sorry, I’ve got to make a call.” ● Change the subject, e.g., “How was your weekend?” ● Steer the conversation in a positive direction, e.g., “Gee, we can’t do much about that, but what can we do to make things better?”

3. Inappropriate online activities — Many employers provide their staff with email and Internet ac-

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cess. They also keep track of their employees’ Internet use. Be sure you are using your computer and Internet access for work-related purposes. Check with your supervisor before you use these resources for personal use, and never send an email or visit a website that you wouldn’t want your supervisor to see.

4. Comparing — Dwelling on how much faster your co-workers were promoted than you is a waste of your time. It destroys your morale and keeps you from taking positive action. Have a conversation with your supervisor about your goals. Make a plan that you both agree will take your career in the right direction and follow it. Catch your supervisor’s attention by learning new skills or volunteering for a project.

Bringing a positive and professional attitude to work with you every day is the best way to avoid workplace traps and give your career a lift.

For more career tips, visit the Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) web site at: www.alis. alberta.ca.

Do you have a work-related question? Send your questions to Working Wise, at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca. Charles Strachey is a manager with Alberta Human Services. This column is provided for general information.

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

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 121.26 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.49 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.00 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 68.31 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange finished the trading week with a triple-digit loss in the wake of a pessimistic report from Goldman Sachs that said crude oil prices could dip as low as US$20 a barrel next year.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed off its worst levels of the day but was still down 108.42 points at 13,461.47, with energy by far the leading decliner as the sector fell just over three per cent.

The Canadian dollar lost 0.15 of a U.S. cent to 75.45 cents US. South of the border, major indexes turned solidly positive after recovering from a morning swoon over oil prices as traders increasingly turned their attention to next week’s interest rate meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The Dow Jones industrial average shot up 102.69 points to 16,433.09, while the broader S&P 500 advanced 8.76 points to 1,961.05 and the Nasdaq added 26.09 points to 4,822.34.

On commodity markets, the October crude oil contract fell $1.29 to US$44.63 a barrel, while October natural gas advanced a penny to US$2.69 per thousand cubic feet. December gold lost $6 to US$1,103.30 an ounce.

The pessimistic report on crude prices from Goldman Sachs came out on the same day as the International Energy Agency predicted that overall production outside OPEC countries would drop sharply in 2016 because prices are so weak.

However, Goldman analyst Damien Courvalin said the world already has more oil than previously believed and that the nonOPEC cuts may not be enough.

He lowered his forecast for 2016 to US$45 per barrel from $57, but added that prices could collapse to around $20 if production decreases too slowly.

Markets also reacted to the latest reading on U.S. consumer confidence, which saw the University of Michigan’s preliminary index for September unexpect-

Cheap gas offset price increase for U.S. producers WASHINGTON — The prices charged by U.S. manufacturers, farmers and other producers were unchanged in August, the latest evidence that inflation is tame.

The Labor Department said Friday the producer price index, which measures price changes before they reach the consumer, was flat after a 0.2 per cent increase in July. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 0.3 per cent last month.

In the past year, wholesale prices have actually fallen 0.8 per cent, the seventh straight 12-month decline. Core prices have risen just 0.9 per cent during that time.

With oil and gas prices falling and most other costs little changed, American consumers are enjoying mild inflation. Yet tepid price increases pose a dilemma for the Federal Reserve.

It wants to see inflation closer to its 2 per cent target before raising interest rates, potentially as soon as its meeting next week.

The Fed targets 2 per cent inflation as a cushion against falling prices, or deflation, which can drag down wages and is hard to counteract.

Wholesale gas prices fell 7.7 per cent in August, the government said, the biggest drop since January. Home heating oil prices fell 11 per cent.

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edly fall sharply to 85.7 from 91.9 in August.

“Reading through the report, it seems people are focused on the market’s volatility and the potential impact of a slowing China (economy),” said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors. “I understand why folks are nervous.”

Traders were also looking nervously to next week’s two-day meeting of the Fed amid conflicting signals from the U.S. central bank over whether it will finally move to raise interest rates from historically lower levels near zero.

Lower interests rates are considered a major factor in helping markets stage an almost uninterrupted recovery since the Great Recession.

Meanwhile, a batch of economic reports are scheduled for this weekend in China, including retail sales and industrial production.

“If recent data is anything to go by, it will most likely point towards yet more trouble in the beleaguered Asian powerhouse,” said IG market analyst Joshua Mahony.

That means trading on Monday “is likely to start with a bang,” he added.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,461.47, down 108.42 points Dow — 16,433.09, up 102.69 points S&P 500 — 1,961.05, up 8.76 points Nasdaq — 4,822.34, up 26.09 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.45 cents US, down 0.15 of a cent Pound — C$2.0447, up 0.08 of a cent Euro — C$1.5032, up 1.10 cents Euro — US$1.1341, up 0.60 of a cent

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MONTREAL — The maker of SkiDoo snowmobiles is delivering inventory to dealers a couple of weeks earlier this season to ensure customers have their products well ahead of the first snowfall, in what could be a more challenging winter market.

Dealers wanted earlier deliveries to better accommodate their buyers who placed orders last spring, BRP chief executive Jose Boisjoli said Friday during a conference call about its second-quarter financial results.

“We shipped earlier to help the dealer not to have the bottleneck in the shop,” Boisjoli said.

BRP (TSX:DOO) expects global snowmobile sales will be down a little this coming season as ongoing challenges in Russia and a weak Alberta economy more than offset strength in the United States and Western Europe.

Ski-Doo orders from Western Canadian dealers were significantly lower

in the second quarter, contributing to a 20 to 25 per cent reduction in overall sales from the oil producing region in the second quarter. The rest of Canada was “flattish” for a 10 per cent reduction in Canadian sales, Boisjoli told analysts. The Quebec-based company, formerly part of Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B), said dealer inventories are 12 per cent higher than at this time last year.

North American shipments from BRP (TSX:DOO) will continue through October and November for orders placed last spring. Deliveries through January will fulfil later orders.

BRP beat analyst expectations even though its net loss surged to $68.3 million from $3.6 million a year ago due to a $71.6 million foreign exchange loss on its long-term debt.

Excluding one-time items, it earned $4 million or three cents per share in adjusted profits.

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GE: Greenhouse gas innovation challenge returns

Oil futures: US$44.63 per barrel, down $1.29 (October contract) Gold futures: US$1,103.30 per oz., down $6.00 (December contract)

Earlier this week, GE Oil & Gas also announced the results of the second round of its greenhouse gas innovation challenge, where the winners will have the opportunity to create a codevelopment plans with GE and other potential partners that will draw on a $475,000 directed development grant pool.

The competition focused on innovative ways to improve efficiencies in steam generation in the oilsands, and the winners were Sid Abma of Sidel Systems and Sumon K. Sinha of Sinhatech, both U.S. based, and Sylvain Lalot of University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis in France.

Simonelli said while GE has made cuts amid the oil price slump, it hasn’t reduced its $1 billion in spending on new products and engineering, adding “taking a long-term view” is critical to the company’s success.

The oilsands industry has been making efforts in recent years to improve innovations, including with the creation of Canada’s Oil Sands

Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.847 oz., down 46.8 cents $638.08 kg., down $15.05 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ’15 $2.90 higher $469.80; Jan. ’16 $2.80 higher $473.10; March ’16 $2.50 higher $476.00; May ’16 $2.40 higher $476.70; July ’16 $2.20 higher $476.00; Nov. ’16 $1.30 higher $456.80; Jan. ’17 $1.30 higher $458.00; March ’17 $1.30 higher $459.70; May ’17 $1.30 higher $459.70; July ’17 $1.30 higher $459.70; Nov. ’17 $1.30 higher $459.70.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’15 unchanged $184.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $184.00; March ’16 unchanged $186.00; May ’16 unchanged $187.00; July ’16 unchanged $187.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $187.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $187.00; March ’17 unchanged $187.00; May ’17 unchanged $187.00; July ’17 unchanged $187.00; Oct. ’17 unchanged $187.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 371,880 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 371,880.

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If you are regularly consulting with clients, and have lots of samples to show them, a large room dedicated to your home enterprise may be in order. shown here, is interior Designer Sarah Fortescue in her office in the family home, Boconnoc House in Cornwall.

Go big to stay home?

Small can be everything you need

BY MELISSA RAYWORTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Maybe you dash off work emails while making dinner, or you squeeze in a half-hour of work on a spreadsheet before bedtime. The line between “at work” and “at home” has become a blurry one for many people, and for others it has disappeared entirely. That makes a home workspace more necessary than ever.

Not every home includes a spare room available for use as an office, but design experts say that’s not a problem: Today’s streamlined technology means that just about any space can be transformed into an appealing and organized area for working.

“Walk into any creative corporation and you’ll find the CEO sitting right smack in the middle of a large, open space along with almost every other key player,” says designer Brian Patrick Flynn of Flynnside Out Productions.

“This relaxed, informal atmosphere has become the norm, not just in corporate settings but also in the home.”

Here, Flynn and two other interior designers — New York City-based Young Huh and Danielle Colding — offer advice on creating a home work area that’s both practical and inspiring.

they have a drop-down tabletop that allows you to work, and drawers for storing things,” Huh says, “but then you can close everything up when you are entertaining or want to hide your work mess.”

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Unless your work required total concentration and silence, don’t give up an entire room even if you have one available.

PART OF A ROOM IS PERFECT With today’s smaller computers and wireless connections, there’s less need for a boxy desktop and connecting cables. A desk built into a wall of shelving and cabinets can often serve as a fully functioning home office.

So unless your work requires total concentration and silence, don’t give up an entire room even if you have one available.

And built-in pieces don’t have to be expensive.

“I turned dead space into a minihome office by configuring Ikea kitchen cabinets and a laminate countertop as a tall workstation,” Flynn says. “You can assemble it all yourself and have the counter cut to size at a local home improvement store.” Once the pieces are installed, “it looks architectural, almost like it’s always been part of the home.”

Or installing these items in a bedroom closet creates a mini-office that can easily be closed off for privacy.

In a New York City apartment, Colding opened up the wall between the living room and a small bedroom that had been used as an office. She filled one wall with built-in shelving, cabinetry and a desktop, so the now-larger living room still offered a complete workspace. And she added a Murphy bed along that wall so the room could still accommodate an overnight visitor.

Another option: Buy a “secretary,” a large piece of furniture with doors that conceal shelves and drawers.

“I love using secretaries because

GO BOLD

Offices outside the home are often decorated in neutral or drab colours.

But Flynn recommends bold or bright hues and fun patterns for home workspaces.

“There’s something inviting that draws you in and even excites you about getting some work done if the overall look is fun,” he says.

In a small space, white walls can help.

“All white can make any cramped ’bonus room’ instantly feel like a light and bright home workspace,” says Flynn.

Huh says dark or intense colours also work in small rooms because they can make it feel like the walls are receding rather than crowding you.

CONSIDER MULTIPLE WORKSPACES Start with a main space in a living room or family room where you keep files and items like a printer and landline phone. Then create convenient mini-spaces elsewhere in your home with just a small work surface, a chair and charging capability.

For example, Huh suggests replacing your nightstand with a tiny desk and chair next to your bed. Include a power strip and extra charger. And don’t forget the analog option: Keep a paper and pen for scribbling down brilliant ideas that strike you during downtime or when you wake up.

In the kitchen, add a family workstation for emails, schedules, bills, etc.: “It ends up being the most-used area in the whole house,” Huh says. “I usually install a bulletin board or magnetic board above the work space, and a drawer to hide papers, pens and an emergency Band-Aid or two.”

Be sure each space has ample lighting, especially if you’ll be working at night.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this photo provided by Brian Patrick Flynn, the designer Flynn installed a desktop and plenty of shelving for storage and organization to turn this closet into a fully functioning home office space that can easily be hidden away.

“Layered lighting is extremely important in a work space,” Colding says.

“You want a combination of overhead and task lighting.”

And, she adds, “late at night, a great desk lamp is invaluable.”

DON’T USE OFFICE FURNITURE

For a desk that will be integrated into a living room or bedroom, look for pieces “that don’t look like they belong in an office,” says Huh. “Nothing from Staples or Office Depot. For a bedroom, consider a Parsons desk or a mirrored desk, because it’s simple, and clean lines look like a vanity table.”

A streamlined desk will look great

in a modern living room, but Colding says contrast can be striking: “I do veer more modern with my selections,” she says, but “there is also something to be said for mixing in a really lovely antique desk into a more modern setting.”

All three designers recommend choosing items that express your personality and delight you.

“The key to creating a good home workspace is to make that space feel as though it’s not really even meant for working,” Flynn says. “Keep it decorative and fun and practical, and you’ll never really feel like you’re ’working’ when you’re working from home.”

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Finishings that can customize a room I am often asked for ideas that will customize a room, what details can be added to personalize a home and take it to the next level.

One solution that works for all styles is to create interest with trims and mouldings.

Even the sparsest décor plans can accommodate some framing and a bit of trim. The challenge is how much trimwork will suit and what choices do you have.

Begin by looking at pictures of rooms that are decorated with crown mouldings, deep baseboards, window trim and door details. www.metrie.com is a great site to visit.

Metrie has introduced their Then and Now Finishing Collections that include five styles that blend past and present architectural styles, which makes them both modern and timeless. Each element in a Collection has been carefully designed to match the other pieces, trim matches baseboard, mouldings and even doors, so that all your decorating details flow together seamlessly. And the Collections include elements in a range of sizes to complement the proportions of any room.

To help you visualize the impact of different styles and placements, Metrie shows five Collections from which to choose: French curves, True Craft, Very Square, Fashion Forward, and Pretty Simple, which is the style shown here.

Their dining room vignette features paneled walls with a chair rail located in the lower third to elongate the wall.

Continuity is achieved by using tone on tone oak stained pieces, from the seven inch baseboards to the crown moulding.

You can use casings to trim mirrors as well as windows and doors.

The elegant fireplace surround and mantel is built using standard pieces, oak crown and casings, a flat, square edged oak board and the corners finished with 6î icons.

Trim has also been used creatively to decorate the ceiling.

The octagonal shapes DEBBIE are centered around TRAVIS the chandelier. To add depth to the outer sections, chair rail is layered over baseboard.

The ceiling trim is MDF, the ceiling painted flat white and the trim highlighted with semi-gloss paint.

The display cabinet was originally a hutch fitted into the wall with glass doors. You can find instructions on how Metrie transformed it to become a spectacular centerpiece for the dining

room using mouldings and doors from their Collections.

There are many of my favourite DIY projects featured on the site. Folding screens have many uses from hiding a work station or wall space you would rather not see to providing a movable partition so that you can define your own spaces. The Then and Now Collections includes doors designed for each style.

Make a folding screen simply by hinging four doors together. The fun part is painting the doors.

Here’s an opportunity to try distressed paint effects, or tie into your Country or Folk Style with milk paint, or add wallpaper to the insets for a romantic mood.

Frames are a natural made from mouldings. Finish with stain or paint.

Dress up with gilded edges, or stay minimal with flat black paint. Think outside the box — you can frame anything, or nothing, hang an empty frame or two that you have finished brilliantly, a great conversation piece.

Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com.

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ABOVE; Layer trim and moulding with the same designs for a stunning mantel from Metrie.

BELOW; Simple yet elegant mouldings elevate a dining room’s style.

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Add interest and warmth to the space by choosing accessories that reflect your tastes and personalities.

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Q — Our new home is a typical As you can see from my drawing, builder’s townhouse of which there this can be successfully handled by loare many similar designs in the neigh- cating two casual chairs in the centre bourhood. of the room.

We chose it because of its someYour challenge will be to find two what unusual interior features, such chairs that are comfortable enough to as a beautiful stone-face curl up in, but they should also fireplace and wall, and be a small-scale design. a stunning vaulted ceilWithout compromising coming. fort, each chair should have a But, we are having fairly low back since the goal difficulty choosing the here is to define the areas and appropriate furnishings not eliminate the visual integfor the main living arrity of the overall space. eas.

The second requirement is I would like to keep to bring the fireplace into the the space feeling and living room portion of the area. looking as spacious as One method would be to possible simply because paint the fireplace wall in a it is not very large, but colour slightly darker than the DAVID I don’t want to sacrifice other walls.

FERGUSON comfort and ambience.

This should make the fireMy husband and I place appear to recess into the live alone here, but we wall and frame the views from do anticipate a family the windows, precisely what some day. you need to do.

We also like to enterThis wall colour should detain on occasion, often having as many tract from this focal point’s imbalance as six people at a time. and instead integrate it into the overall Would you be able to suggest an space adding warmth and ambience. arrangement in the living area that Two major traffic patterns dissect would focus somewhat on the fire- the living room. place but is still capable of seating six The awkwardly-located sliding door adults? to the patio has one path that runs to Because we have a walk-out fin- the kitchen, and a second that cuts ished basement, there is no need for a through to the front hall. television in this space.

This means that one corner of the A — For a small home, it certainly living room in front of the patio door has some beautiful features and I can must be kept clear for traffic coming easily see why the design captured and going to the outside. your imaginations, but I am not surIt might also mean that an unobprised that you are having problems structed path must run diagonally determining an appropriate furniture across the living room. arrangement.

One solution is to keep a minimal One of the issues I see is the lack amount of furniture in the living room. of visual boundary between the living Aside from the two easy chairs, the and dining areas. plan I have established offers place for The fireplace’s central location, a love seat and two armchairs, giving along the outside wall, makes the eye you seating for at least four in the livwant to read the entire space as one ing area, with ample space to increase room, but the vaulted ceiling clearly the seating to six when required. demarks the living room are without In the dining room, the space is the fireplace. open enough to accommodate a full While both the living room and din- complement of six chairs. ing room areas are large enough to An armoire along the back wall of accommodate your needs, the way they the living room can house your elecare joined, the location of the fire- tronics and its accompanying paraplace, and the traffic patterns through phernalia, as well as any additional the room, all create their own separate storage which you may need now, or problems. for a future brood.

The first task at hand is to visually Remember that individualizing a define the two spaces. space is something that only you can

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but if you want a lighter, golden-brown look, then an exterior oil or outdoor varnish would be a better choice.

Connecting a Generator Q: What’s the best way to connect a portable backup generator to our house?

I’m looking at something called the Generlink. It fits under the meter base and has a port for a cable that connects to a generator.

A: Generators need to connect to electrical systems so that either the

generator is feeding a home or the grid, but never both at the same time.

Traditionally this involves installing a transfer switch, but this can be troublesome and expensive. Generlink takes less than 15 minutes for an expert to install after the power is switched off by the utility company.

I’ve been watching neighbours and friends use their Generlink units for a few years now, and I’ve decided to install one at my own place.

Steve Maxwell has been helping Canadians with home improvement advice for 27 years. Learn from him online at SteveMaxwell.ca

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These shingles have been treated with a one-time wood-darkening treatment that has created an even, weathered colour all over. Products like these also protect against mold and mildew growth. spring.

Log Cabin Finish Q: Is Eco Wood Treatment something that would work on a new log cabin I’m building?

I know you’ve written about this product before, but never for log homes.

A: It sounds like you have a great project planned, and Eco Wood Treatment could work well.

It really depends on your expectations. This product is a powder you mix with water and spray on bright, bare wood. Although the liquid doesn’t have much of a colour on its own, it weathers the wood by chemical reaction over a period of hours and days.

The result is an even, grey colour that looks something like barn board.

You only need to apply this product once and there’s no surface film to peel.

All this is great, but only if you like the casual, antique look of weathered wood.

It works well on cedar shingles too,

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Muscular. Brawny. Disruptive. They don’t sound like descriptors for home decor, do they?

Yet they perfectly describe one of the most interesting new directions in furniture and accessories: Brutalist decor.

Brutalist architecture was popularized by Le Corbusier in the 1950s. A departure from the intricate Beaux Arts building style, it was all about spare geometric forms, and materials like unfinished concrete, steel and glass. New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art is a Brutalist design by Marcel Breuer. Paul Rudolph designed the Art and Architecture Building at Yale.

The style moved into interior decor that also played with abstract forms and rough textures, adding an earthy colour palette and incorporating other materials like wood, plaster and marble. Furniture by designers like Paul Evans and Curtis Jere found fans, and the style caught fire during the ’60s and ’70s. There are nice examples on the sets of the movie “American Hustle” and TV’s “Mad Men.” So why is Brutalism once again having a moment?

“Brutalism is derived from the French word ’brut,’ or raw, and I think it’s that sense of rawness that design lovers are attracted to today,” ventures Anna Brockaway, co-founder and curator of the online vintage-design marketplace Chairish. “Because of their brawny heaviness, imperfect finishes and rough, uneven dimensions, Brutalist pieces deliver gutsy gravitas to a space.”(www.chairish.com ) Jeni Sandberg, a modern-design dealer and consultant in Raleigh, North Carolina, adds, “Brutalist works make perfect high-impact statement pieces, and collectors are snapping up pieces like wall sculptures and chandeliers.”

And New York designer Daun Curry says, “Design should challenge us, and creating contrast in an environment gives urgency, interest and dimension.

Brutalist design is fascinating because it balances delicacy with harsh materiality.” (www.dauncurry. com ) Curry’s favourite sources include 1st Dibs and Flair Home Collection. The former offers vintage pieces like a 1967 Paul Evans patchwork steel cabinet, and a Lane dresser with a Brutalist sculptured wood mosaic. Flair has a collection of Brutalist objets d’art in various metals and gilded plaster. (www. flairhomecollection.com ) Kelly Wearstler’s Apollo stool is an artful stack of black or white marble circles; her Elliott chair is a sexy mix of curvy bronze and exotic fish leather; and her Array, District and Astral rugs bring Brutalist imagery to the floor. (www.kellywearstler.com ) James Bearden’s blackened steel Skyscraper floor lamp for Studio Van den Akker combines architecture and function. (www.studiovandenakker.com ) At Arteriors, long a source for Brutalist style, round slabs of forged iron form the industrial-chic Potter lamp. The Payne chandelier is a kinetic arrangement of hand-cut, gold-leafed iron shards, while a copse of welded iron sticks forms the Ecko lamp. Armor-like metallic circles and squares form the Ulysses and Monty pendants. (www.arteriors. com) “I recommend picking one statement-making piece to anchor a space, like a chandelier, credenza, cocktail table or wall sculpture, and then mixing in pieces from other eras and styles,” advises Brockaway, of Chairish.

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I’ve just bought a new place in Ontario and want to get some fruit growing.

A: I’ve been growing raspberries for more than 20 years and they happen to be one of my specialties.

A good patch can last for 10 years or more without replanting, but you need to start with four key things: clean ground; healthy transplants; lots of mulch; and an irrigation system.

Whenever I start a new patch, I till the ground every week or so for an entire growing season, to get rid of all grass and weeds.

When it comes time to plant the next spring, I put one raspberry plant every 18” in a row, alongside a trickle irrigation hose that will remain with the plants as long as they’re there. I turn the hose on for a minute to mark the place where water drips onto the soil, then I plant each cane right where they will get water. I always buy certified disease-free raspberry canes from a commercial supplier.

As soon as the plants are in the ground, I cover the row STEVE with a thick bed MAXWELL of cedar bark mulch. Make the mulch about 2 feet wide and 3 inches deep. This feeds the soil, preserves moisture and stops weeds from moving in.

I consider mulch essential for raspberries grown without the herbicides used to keep raspberries weed-free on most commercial farms. It takes about 3 years for a new raspberry patch to bear significant fruit and topping up the mulch is something you need to do each spring.

Raspberries produce fruit on canes that are two years old. This means they grow up the first year with only leaves.

These same canes leaf out again the next year, but also form flowers that eventually turn into berries. After a particular cane has born fruit, it will die the next winter and won’t grow again. That’s why maintenance of every raspberry patch involves pruning out dead canes at ground level each

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BRAITHWAITE Thomas Robert Jan. 8, 1926 - Aug. 12, 2015 It is with great sadness that our family announces the death of Tom Braithwaite in his eighty-ninth year at home in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Born at the C.R. Braithwaite farm near Red Deer, Alberta, Tom was one of six children of Hazel (nee Jones) and Clifford Braithwaite.

He is survived by his brothers George and John, sisters Eva and Dorothy, and sister-in-law Edith (predeceased by his brother Jim). Tom is the beloved husband of 65 years of Carol Fay Braithwaite (nee Beauchamp), West Vancouver, and loving father of Carol Puri, Waterdown, ON, Hazel Braithwaite, Vancouver, BC and Pearl Braithwaite, Calgary, AB. He was a wonderful grandfather to his three grandchildren: Sarah (Graham) Calgary, AB; Anisa (Mark), Burlington, ON; and Janeen (Bryce), Port Moody, BC. Dad always teased that the gender balance in the family was tilted and was happy late in life to become a greatgrandfather to James Chernecki and Miles Houston. Educated through the No. 2 CAUC Army University program, he served overseas in the Education Division in World War II. He returned to graduate as a Professional Engineer, Mining from the University of Alberta in 1949. CAUC reunions were always a special event.

He enjoyed a dynamic career as a mining engineer using innovation and common sense to address issues. His career took Mom and Dad to Yellowknife, NWT; Virginia Town, Wawa, and Elliott Lake, ON; Esterhazy, Saskatchewan; Brampton, Mississauga, ON; Lexington, Kentucky; and North Vancouver.

Mom and Dad made good friends in the many places they called home. A very dignified man who will be missed for his steadfast love of family, quick wit, appreciation of the natural world and broad knowledge about just about anything.

His true character shone through as he managed his cancer diagnosis and death under his own terms and we ran to keep up. The family held a celebration of life evening in Vancouver in August.

A private interment will be held in Alberta at a later date.

Remembrances in Tom’s honour can be made to the Lion’s Gate Hospital, Vancouver.

THOMPSON James Frances Thompson (Jim) went home to be with his Lord and Savior on September 8, 2015 at the age of 95. Jim was born in Rumsey, Alberta on December 30, 1919. His parents were Oatis and Fretta Thompson. He had two sisters. Jim married Olive Thomas on October 30, 1940. They farmed in the Rumsey area before moving to Pincher Creek where Jim worked for Alberta Gas Trunkline. Jim and Olive enjoyed an active lifestyle playing golf, tennis, fishing, camping, playing cards, reading, dancing, and spending their winters in Arizona, and most of all their family. Jim was a whistler and played the mouth organ in his earlier years. Jim and Olive enjoyed their retirement years in Victoria Park and Symphony Senior Living (SSL). Olive passed away in May, 2015.

Jim will be lovingly remembered by his four children and their families Cliff (Agnes) Thompson, Doug (Beth) Thompson, Linda (George) Capton, Stan (Nancy) Thompson, and by his friends and caregivers at SSL. A memorial service will be held at a later date.

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BYLSMA Sadie Sadie Bylsma of Red Deer passed away at the Foothills Hospital on Thursday, September 10, 2015 at the age of 69 years. Sadie enjoyed camping, crafts, and golfing. She spent a lot of time outdoors and doing yardwork. She also enjoyed spending quality time with her grandchildren. Sadie is survived by her loving husband, Wes, children; Mike (Holly) Bylsma and Christina (James) Guynup, and eight grandchildren; Daxton, Brett, Lucas, Shawn, Amy, Katie, Kyla, and Steven. She will also be lovingly remembered by her mother, Barbera Hoogstra, siblings; Hattie, Ena, Mary, Klaas, Max, and Caroline, and many nieces, nephews, and extended family. A Memorial Service will be held at the First Christian Reformed Church, 16 McVicar Street, Red Deer, on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Memorial donations in Sadie’s honour may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, 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.

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ECKENSWILLER Michael Charles Feb. 26, 1936 - Sept. 10, 2015 Michael Charles Eckenswiller of Red Deer passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Thursday, September 10, 2015 at the age of 79 years.

A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Friday, September 18, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. An extended obituary will be published on Tuesday, September 15. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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DALWOOD Rose Mae Dalwood of Red Deer, beloved wife of Clayton Dalwood passed away on September 9, 2015. Rose will be sorely missed by family, friends and everybody that knew her. Besides her loving husband Clayton, Rose is survived by her son Miles Clayton Dalwood, and daughter Cheryl Ann Dalwood. She was predeceased by daughter Debra Lynn Wesley. She is also survived by numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Memorial will be announced at a later date.

Is now accepting applications for the following full time position: ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN RECEIVABLES in our Rocky Mountain House location Accounting Technician Responsibilities & Qualifications: Duties include but not limited to: Process and maintain A/R Sap Business One experience mandatory Working knowledge of MS Office & Simply Accounting (2013) program is essential Able to work with minimal supervision Must have an accounting designation Min of 3+ years accounting related experience Preference will be given to candidates who are highly organized, able to multi task, complete tasks in a timely fashion & are team players Please email resumes and a minimum of 3 references to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com or fax resume to: 1-403-729-2396 *NO PHONE CALL INQUIRIES PLEASE

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WEISNER Florence 1923 -2015 It is with heavy hearts the family of Florence Weisner announce her passing on September 3, 2015 at the age of 91 years. Florence will be lovingly missed by all who knew her. At Florence’s request, there will be no service held. The family will have a private inurnment at a later date. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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JJAM Management (1987) GOODMEN ACADEMIC Express Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s ROOFING LTD. ADULT EDUCATION Requires to work at these full time/part time/casual Requires AND TRAINING Red Deer, AB locations: req’d for 5111 22 St. Oilfield Paramedics Inc, SLOPED ROOFERS NOV. START 37444 HWY 2 S Joffre.

LABOURERS 37543 HWY 2N HOURS: & FLAT ROOFERS • Community 700 3020 22 St. evenings, nights, Manager/Food Services Support Worker weekends Valid Driver’s Licence Permanent P/T, F/T shift.

SALARY: preferred. Fax or email Program Wknd, day, night & eves.

Similar to UNA with shift info@goodmenroofing.ca Start date ASAP $19.23/hr. differential or (403)341-6722 • GED Preparation 40 hrs/week, + benefits , REQUIREMENTS: NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! 8 Vacancies, 3-5 yrs. exp., * ITLS & CSTS required Gov’t of Alberta Funding criminal record check req’d. * Preferred critical care may be available.

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DUTIES: Knowledge of Red Deer Grain Trucking Company timhortons.com OHS Duties and area is essential. looking for Class 1 Drivers Posting Date: Verbal and written JJAM Management (1987) and/or Lease Operators.

Sept. 9, 2015 communication skills are Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s We offer lots of home time, Closing Date: req’d. Send resume by fax Requires to work at these benefits and a bonus when position filled to 403-346-0295 Red Deer, AB locations: program. Grain and super email resume to: 5111 22 St. B exp. an asset but not Sunterra Meats in Trochu, glen.carritt@ 37444 HWY 2 S necessary. If you have a 45 minutes South East of opfireandrescue.com 37543 HWY 2N clean commercial drivers Red Deer is looking for 700 3020 22 St. abstract and would like to Start your career! enthusiastic, hard working FOOD ATTENDANT start making good money.

See Help Wanted individuals to join their Req’d permanent shift fax or email resume and team at their processing weekend day and evening comm. abstract to Tired of Standing? plant.

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Deer. For more informato Key Towing 4083-78 St. Apply in person or fax tion, contact Trish at resume to: 403-314-1303 Cres. Red Deer.

BUSY Oil & Gas Service 403-442-4202 or Company is seeking to hire trish.hyshka@sunterra.ca JJAM Management (1987) Fluid Experts Ltd. a well-connected field Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Of Red Deer is seeking salesman for central experienced Alberta and area. The ideal Requires to work at these Employment Red Deer, AB locations: candidate would preferably Class 1 Operators Training 5111 22 St. have several years’ to join our team of drivers 37444 HWY 2 S experience in local field hauling clean fluids for the 37543 HWY 2N sales in Central Alberta.

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R Confined Space Oil and Gas producers for abstract to: Apply in person or fax upcoming work and R WHMIS & TDG 403-346-3112 or email to: resume to: 403-314-1303 bidding process. This roger@fluidexperts.com R Ground Disturbance position is based out of R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. NOW HIRING Red Deer but will be R D&C (LEL) TRUCK DRIVER $25/HR required to spend most of #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. Full Time , 44hrs/wk their time performing sales (across from Totem) (across from Rona North) min 2 years experience req at the field level. Company Please email resume pickup, expense account tankmasterrd@gmail.com and competitive compenWAITER / WAITRESS, or drop off at sation package. Please HOST & BUS PEOPLE Tankmaster Rentals forward your resume to COOKS (2012) LTD oil.gasfieldsales@ Full Time & Part Time 117 Poplar St Red Deer gmail.com Varying shifts. Excellent Looking for a new pet? wages & benefits.

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Rick at 403- 314-4303

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403-346-1458 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 403-348-7445

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BEAT THE RUSH! Book MOVING? Boxes? Appls. Hay now for your home projects. removal. 403-986-1315 Reno’s, flooring, painting, WANTED: couple of straw small concrete/rock work, Painters/ bales 403-782-3031 landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking. Decorators Call James 403-341-0617 LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

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Pilgrims and first responders gather at the site of a crane collapse that killed dozens inside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday. The accident happened as pilgrims from around the world converged on the city, Islam’s holiest site, for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, which takes place this month.

Crane collapses at Mecca’s Grand Mosque DEATH TOLL RISES TO 107

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A towering construction crane toppled over on Friday during a violent rainstorm in the Saudi city of Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, crashing into the Grand Mosque and killing at least 107 people ahead of the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage later this month.

Images posted by social media users showed a grisly scene, with police and onlookers attending to numerous bodies lying amid pools of blood on the polished mosque floors.

Saudi Arabia’s civil defence authority provided a series of rising casualty numbers on its official Twitter account as ambulances whisked the wounded to area hospitals. As of early Saturday, it said those injured in the disaster numbered 238.

A photo released by the authority showed police and workers in hardhats inspecting a pile of collapsed concrete slabs inside a part of the sprawling, ornately decorated mosque. Another showed the base of the toppled red-andwhite crane tilted upward at a sharp angle.

Images aired on Saudi state television showed the crane’s metal boom smashed through what appeared to be the roof of the mosque.

Ahmed bin Mohammed alMansouri, the spokesman for the presidency of the Mecca and Medina mosque affairs, said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency that the accident happened late Friday afternoon during a severe storm carrying strong winds and heavy rain.

Authorities did not provide details on the victims’ nationalities, but it was likely that the tragedy will touch several countries.

The Grand Mosque and the cube-shaped Kaaba within it draw Muslims of all types from around the world throughout the year, though numbers increase significantly in the run-

up to the hajj. The mosque is Islam’s holiest site to which Muslims face in daily prayers and a central site among the hajj rituals.

Performing the pilgrimage once during one’s lifetime is a duty for all able-bodied adult Muslims. This year’s pilgrimage is expected to start around Sept. 22.

Al-Mansouri said the crane, which was being used in construction work at the mosque, struck a circular area around the Kaaba and a nearby walkway.

Pan-satellite Al-Jazeera Television broadcast footage from inside the mosque compound said to be from the aftermath of the accident, showing the floor strewn with rubble and what appear to be pools of blood.

Another video, on a Twitter posting, captured the apparent moment of the red-and-white crane’s collapse during a heavy rainstorm, with a loud boom, screams and confusion.

The governor of the Mecca region, Prince Khalid al-Faisal, quickly called for the formation of a committee to investigate the cause of the accident.

He directed all appropriate authorities to provide support for all of those injured, according to a statement from Mecca principality public affairs head Sultan al-Dosari that was carried on SPA. Other Saudi officials could not immediately be reached or referred queries to the civil defence statements.

Several cranes surround the mosque to support an ongoing expansion and other construction work that has transformed the area around the sanctuary.

Steep hills and low-rise traditional buildings that once surrounded the mosque have in recent years given way to shopping malls and luxury hotels — among them the world’s third-tallest building, a giant clock tower that is the centerpiece of the Abraj al-Bait complex.

The construction giant Saudi Binladin Group is leading the mosque expansion and also

Kentucky clerk, just out of jail, appeals gay-marriage licence order

The RFP will define the content of the proposal. You are urged to structure your responses accordingly with sufficient details to ensure it is complete, appropriate and competitive.

MOREHEAD, Ky. — A Kentucky county clerk who was recently jailed for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses has filed an appeal that would allow her to continue blocking the licenses.

Kim Davis filed the motion Friday with the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

Davis objects to gay marriage on religious grounds. She argues all the same-sex couples who sued her for a license received one from her deputies while she was in jail, so her office should not be required to issue them to any more couples once she returns to work.

U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning wrote that his mandate to issue licenses applied to all couples, not only those who filed suit. But Davis’ lawyers allege that order was issued improperly and again have asked for a delay.

All interested parties are invited to view and print the full Proposal from the Alberta Purchasing Connection website www. purchasingconnection.ca or on the City of Lacombe website www.lacombe.ca/doing-business/rfps-tenders.

California lawmakers approve right-to-die legislation

All updates and addendums will be issued through those sites only. Any interested parties must submit sealed proposals and confirm City of Lacombe’s receipt of them no later than 2:30 PM local time on Wednesday, September 23, 2015. Proposals shall be clearly marked RFP – Consulting Services for Employee Group Benefits Plan.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives.

The measure to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication succeeded on its second attempt after the heavily publicized case of 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, the woman with brain cancer who moved to Oregon to legally take her life. Her relatives tearfully watched the debate from the Senate floor.

The measure faces an uncertain future with Gov. Jerry Brown, a former Jesuit seminarian who has not said whether he will sign it.

Senators approved the bill on a 23-14 vote

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built the Abraj al-Bait project.

The Binladin family has been close to the ruling Al Saud family for decades and oversees major building projects around the country. The Binladen family disowned one of its many members, late alQaida leader Osama bin Laden, in the 1990s.

It was not immediately clear who owned the crane that collapsed.

During the week of the hajj, Muslims converge on Mecca to perform a series of rituals, including the circling of the cube-shaped Kaaba, praying and holding vigil at Mount Arafat and perform the symbolic stoning of the devil by throwing pebbles at the three pillars in Mina.

Prayers on and around the mount are a climactic emotional and spiritual moment in the hajj. The faithful believe that on that day the gates of heaven are open, prayers are answered and past sins are forgiven.

All male pilgrims, regardless of wealth or status, wear seamless terry white cloths to symbolize equality before God during the hajj.

Women cover their hair and wear long loose clothing, forgoing makeup and other adornments to help them detach from worldly pleasures and outward appearances. It was on Mount Arafat, marked by a white pillar, where Islam’s Prophet Muhammad is believed to have delivered his last sermon to tens of thousands of followers some 1,400 years ago, calling on Muslims to unite.

While following a route that the prophet once walked, the rites are believed to ultimately trace the footsteps of the prophets Ibrahim and Ismail, or Abraham and Ishmael as they are named in the Bible.

The millions of pilgrims who visit the country’s holy sites each year pose a considerable security and logistical challenge for the Saudi government, and large-scale deadly accidents have occurred on a number of occasions in years past.

after an emotional debate on the final day of the legislative session.

“Eliminate the needless pain and the long suffering of those who are dying,” urged Sen. Lois Wolk, one of the bill’s co-authors.

Opponents said the measure could prompt premature suicides.

“I’m not going to push the old or the weak out of this world, and I think that could be the unintended consequence of this legislation,” said Sen. Ted Gaines.

The revised measure includes requirements that the patient be physically capable of taking the medication themselves, that two doctors approve it, that the patient submit several written requests, and that there be two witnesses.

Doctors in Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Montana already can prescribe life-ending drugs.

Clinton had right to delete personal emails WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is affirming that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the right to delete personal emails from her private server.

Government lawyers made the assertion in a court filing this week in a public records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, an advocacy group.

The legal filing says “there is no question” that Clinton could have deleted personal emails without agency supervision and could have done so even if she’d been using a government server.

Judicial Watch had asked a federal judge to issue an order ensuring that all Clinton’s emails were preserved.

The Justice Department said there was no need for such an order given that Clinton had the right to delete personal emails and that those messages are not subject to the public records law.

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‘Crazy’ neighbour making life miserable Dear Annie: My husband and I live not even on weekends, so playing a in a single-story condo that is adjacent radio is out of the question. I had three to another condo. We have been deal- contractors look at the walls, and they ing with a horrible neightold her that there are about bour for seven months. two inches between our units.

When I moved here She is really making me three years ago, the neighmiserable. I should be able to bor’s son was taking care relax in my home and do my of her condo, since she laundry and cleaning without travelled a great deal for worrying. work. Now she has decidThe police told me she ed to work at home, and has “every right to complain she is a tyrant. about noise,” but they also She is constantly comtold her that she should explaining that she hears pect to hear sounds coming our garage door, that our from our home and the noise vacuum is too loud and is not unreasonable.

MITCHELL that we run our dishwashI think this woman is crazy, & SUGAR er too often. She has haand she’s trying to chase me rassed us about going up away. I’m tired of walking on and down our steps to the eggshells. What can I do? — basement. She has even W. called the police on us for Dear W.: If you are not mak“door slamming.” We don’t slam our ing excessive noise, you should ignore doors, but it does make a normal sound her. when it closes.

She is obviously very sensitive to This woman never leaves her home, sound and should take the necessary

steps to insulate her home, such as adding carpeting and wallpaper, and using white-noise machines or soundcancelling headphones.

If you are willing, you could put on your kindest, most sincere face and pay her a visit. Say, “Louise, I’m so sorry that our noise levels bother you, but there is nothing we can do about the thin walls.

Maybe a white-noise machine would help to drown us out. Or perhaps wear some noise-cancelling headphones.

It must be hard to be so sensitive to sound.”

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Mother-in-Law from Hell,” who thinks her daughters-in-law don’t show her respect because they only call her when they want her to babysit.

I’m the mother of three boys, now men with families of their own. I have three daughters-in-law, some of whom came to our families with children.

Here’s what I’ve learned: If you put 100 people in a room and ask them to define respect, you will get 100 differ-

ent answers. Her daughters-in-law may be respecting her by their definition, just not hers.

As for her complaints about the grandchildren, grandchildren are a gift, whether they are blood-related or gifted through marriage.

Every minute we spend with them, whether picking them up from school, taking them to the doctor or just hanging out, is an opportunity to love and encourage them, and let them know they are valued people.

Life is too short to miss the chance to make a difference in the life of another person. — Grandmother and Inlaw Dear Grandmother: You have the right attitude and a generous heart.

Bless you.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Solar Eclipse shines a spotlight on your goals and dreams for the future. The Sun encourages you to go for gold, while the Moon Saturday, Sept. 12 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: helps you follow through with purpose and Jason Stratham, 48; Linda Gray, 74; Jen- persistence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): nifer Hudson, 33 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Solar There’s a lot going on at school or work so Eclipse is a magical time of exciting begin- step back and look at the current situation nings, so start putting your dreams into from a fresh perspective. Clear communication is the secret to boosting your profespractise. sional productivity.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: HeadCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. strong and humorous, you like 19): When it comes to your amto be noticed. The next 12 bitious aspirations for the future, months is the time to be more don’t push things Capricorn. Inselective about how you spend stead, have a smart and strayour money — and your leitegic plan, as you wait for the sure time. most opportune time.

ARIES (March 21-April AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19): Pay close attention to your 18): The Solar Eclipse indicates health and fitness today Rams, a shift of gear in an important as the Solar Eclipse activates area of life. The heavens sigyour wellbeing zone. A regular JOANNE nal a fresh start for adventurous routine will lead to more enMADELEINE Aquarians involving an intimate ergy and much less stress.

MOORE relationship or money matters.

TAURUS (April 20-May (Feb. 19-March 20): With the Solar Eclipse SUN SIGNS 20):PISCES Jupiter and the New Moon energizing your entertainment/ are both visiting your partnerhobby zone, you need to do more of what you love. Get physical, cre- ship zone, so love is in the air. With clear ative, musical, sporty — whatever you pre- communication you can find — or maintain — a successful and satisfying relationship. fer — it’s time to get to it!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you Sunday Sept. 13 been having trouble connecting with a fracCELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: tious family member? The Solar Eclipse encourages you to get talking, as you work Jacqueline Bisset, 71; Stella McCartney, 43; Fiona Apple, 37 to keep the lines of communication open.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The cool art CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Solar Eclipse urges you to get up-close-and-per- of compromise will take you far today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You need to be sonal with a relative or neighbour, as you get to the bottom of a problem. But rela- needed, and thrive on supporting those tions with a child, teenager or friend may be around you. But don’t sacrifice your own dreams, talents and emotional life in the strained.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With the Solar process.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Moon’s Eclipse in your money sector, take stock of your financial situation. And don’t forget in peace-loving Libra, so aim to be as diploto do an inventory on your inner wealth — matic as possible with fractious family memwhich includes your self-esteem and core bers. You’re in the mood to morph from a roaring Ram into a loving Lamb! values.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s the best time of the year to start a project or initi- feeling extra precious about possessions ate important changes in your life. Devise and possessive about loved ones? Today’s a practical plan Virgo — and then follow soothing stars encourage you to loosen through with plenty of confidence and com- your tenacious Taurus grip and be more inclusive. mitment.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Avoid beLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): With the Solar Eclipse stimulating your solitude zone, ing bored today Twins. You’re hungry for strive to get some peace and quiet some- fresh ideas and exciting experiences. It’s where wonderfully private today Libra. Spe- also time to nurture your friendships — cial solo time is soul food for you at the plus make connections with a creative new crowd. moment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Venus blesses financial matters at the moment — as long as you don’t put your head in the sand and spend more than you earn. A creative approach brings great benefits at home and work.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Communicating with loved ones should be satisfying today, as you take a chance and say what’s really on your mind. The more sensitive your approach, the better the results will be.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There’s plenty of earthy energy around today so you’ll feel right at home. Tasks that require hard work and ingenuity are favoured, then you can breathe easy after a job well done.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Moon’s moving through Libra, so it’s time to put your romantic nature to work via creative pursuits or a relationship renaissance. For some singles, true love is waiting online.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have you been running on empty? The stars encourage you to slow down and smell the roses today Scorpio, as you find an enjoyable way to relax and reboot for the busy week ahead.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s the perfect day to dream fabulous dreams, as you fantasise about your preferred future. Make sure your goals and aspirations include plenty of romance and tonnes of travel!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Even though it’s Sunday, roll up your sleeves and get to work Capricorn. The more intuition, enthusiasm and creativity you put into professional projects, the more successful you’ll be.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Foreign friendships are favoured, as the stars highlight your overseas connections. It’s also time to tap into your artistic side, so make sure you touch base with the creative child within.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will have the opportunity to repair a shaky relationship today Pisces, either with a family member or a friend. Creativity is also high, as you tap into some divine inspiration.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A new report suggests the number of Canadians who visited hospital emergency rooms for anaphylaxis doubled in the last seven years.

Anaphylaxis is a serious allergic reaction that is potentially fatal without quick treatment.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information says the number of ER visits for anaphylaxis rose to almost 6,500 in 2013-14, up from about 3,100 in 200607, with the biggest jump among teens aged 13 to 17.

The report also says that during that period, the dispensing rate for prescription epinephrine autoinjectors rose by 64 per cent.

Children age four and younger had the highest annual rate of ER visits for allergic reactions, primarily related to food or from unspecified sources.

Visits for anaphylaxis and other allergic reactions were highest in the summer months, with food-related allergies also spiking in December.

“Our data indicates that hospital visits for allergic reactions increase during times of the year when people may not be in their regular routines,” said Kathleen Morris, CIHI’s vice-president of research and analysis.

“Visits for insect stings and snake bites spike in the summer months, and food-related reactions are slightly higher during the winter holiday season when many Canadians attend holiday parties.”

About one per cent of all ER visits each year are attributed to allergic reactions.

In 2013—14, this represented more than 85,000 visits in Ontario and Alberta alone. CIHI extrapolated these numbers to all of Canada and determined there were approximately 170,000 allergy-related hospital visits in 2013—2014. Anaphylaxis was the reason behind about eight per cent of all visits for allergic reactions.

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