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Market on the move THE MARKET AT RED DEER’S NEW HOME COME 2016 WILL BE THE MEMORIAL CENTRE PARKING LOT

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ABOVE: Red Deer Market owner, manager Dennis Moffat will be hosting the Saturday Red Deer Market in the parking lot outside the Memorial Centre beginning next spring.

BELOW: Hank Pluister holds a cabbage he harvested out of his garden on his acreage west of Blackfalds this week. Pluister has been selling a variety of vegetables at the Red Deer Market since 1972.

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fter 30 years in the same schools and the City of Red Deer. location, Red Deer’s Moffat, 82, had spent his 45th season popular public market is of operation worried about where the on the move. market would end up. During the sumEvery Satmer he checked out numerurday from May to October, ous locations, running into thousands make their way various obstacles before downtown to the Red Deer being able to finalize the Arena parking lot to enjoy Memorial Centre location.

The Market at Red Deer, The new area will be run by the ever-smiling unsmaller so he promises to flappable Dennis Moffat. be more vigorous in paAt the end of today’s fitrolling what vendors take nal market of the season, for space, he said. hundreds of vendors — who “They’re allowed 10 feet hawk their wide variety of by 14 feet, and we’ll have food and wares from 8 a.m. to ensure that’s what they to 12:30 p.m. — will say take, instead of the way it is MARY-ANN goodbye to the long-held lonow. They kind of encroach cation in order to make way on their neighbours and BARR for construction of a new eventually they push them BARRSIDE arena in time for the 2019 out of the way and someCanada Winter Games. body’s always complaining The Market at Red that there’s no room for Deer’s new home come 2016 will be the them.”

Memorial Centre parking lot.

The actual Memorial Centre parkThis will take it northeast about ing lot is not that much smaller than 15 blocks from it’s current location the main part of the current market, at 43rd Street (between 47th and 48th he said.

Avenues) to 58th Street (beside 42A It’s the west part and road they have Avenue). The new location will be im- now where they will be losing a lot of mediately west of Lindsey Thurber vendor space. “We’re going to have to Comprehensive High School and north be creative and hopefully everybody of Ecole Camille J. Lerouge School. co-operates.”

A much-relieved Moffat said he The hope is to return to the Arewas finally able to determine the new na location in the future. Moffat said location a week ago after a meeting he was originally told it would be two with a number of the players involved, years before that could happen but the including representatives from the longest estimate is three years.

Memorial Centre, Central Alberta “I said how long does it take to Theatre, Festival Hall, the two high build an arena? They must be doing it

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between coffee breaks.”

He said he intends to do some public relations and visit every residence in the area next May before the market opens. He will invite residents in the area to the market, let them know about their new neighbours, and ask them to let him know if they have any problems.

There will be some events at the schools, including dance school performances, that could conflict with parking, so Moffat anticipates making adjustments as needed. There is a gravel parking lot behind the Memorial Centre that will be used, which is about the same size as the parking lot

now across the street from the Arena.

“No problem is unsolvable,” he said.

Moffat has a quick answer, accompanied with a chuckle when asked about when he plans to retire from the market: “When I die.”

He started the public market more than 40 years ago and three of the original vendors are still there — Hank Pluister, the Pine Hill colony, and the McArthur family.

Pluister, 77, said today’s market might be his last. “I’m getting up in age.”

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FOOD TRUCK WARS

Emotional memorial for slain father, daughter

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The owner of a dog that was declared aggressive by the City of Red Deer after it killed another dog in an off-leash park has dropped his appeal.

Erin Stuart, Development and Licensing supervisor for the city, said Friday that this means the dog, which had been removed from the city earlier by the owner, must follow a number of restrictions if the dog is to be licensed in Red Deer.

The dog must be muzzled when not at home and it is not allowed in off-leash parks. The owner must also have liability insurance for the dog.

An appeal of the aggressive designation was going to be heard Thursday by the owner before the city’s Appeal and Review Board but he withdrew the appeal.

The incident occurred on July 29 at the city’s Oxbow Off Leash Park off 40th Avenue and 19th Street.

Carla Rider was in the dog park with her small dog, a Pomeranian, chihuahua and Shih Tzu-cross named Vienna, when the owner of the other dog arrived at the park. His American Staffordshire terrier suddenly attacked and killed Rider’s dog.

The identity of the owner of the American Staffordshire has not been revealed.

COLEMAN — Friends and family of a father and daughter killed in the Crowsnest Pass area of southwestern Alberta last month released 100 white and lilac balloons into the sky following an emotional memorial service Friday.

The balloons, caught up in a blustery west wind, disappeared quickly through the mountains as mourners wiped away tears.

Terry Blanchette, 27, was found dead in his Blairmore home on Sept. 14, and a widespread Amber Alert was issued for two-year-old Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette, who had been abducted earlier that morning.

Her remains were discovered in a rural area days later.

“Such a short life but what a beautiful life,” said Hailey’s grandmother, Terry-Lynn Dunbar.

“There was never a moment in her life she wasn’t surrounded by love. Everybody loved her,” she added.

“Hailey brought love and light into our hearts and souls. Rest in peace sweet angel.”

Amanda Blanchette remembered her little brother Terry as a carefree and active child.

She said he was a lifelong fan of both the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Blue Jays.

Blanchette said her brother’s life changed the day he found out his girlfriend Cheyenne Dunbar was expecting a child.

“He said I have big shoes to fill. He decided on that day to be the kind of father his father was. He became a man and father that day.”

About 300 mourners and 100 family members attended the public memorial at the local high school.

There were photos of Terry and Hailey at the front of the gym along with the balloons.

A Montreal Canadiens jersey along with a Blue Jays hat were there to symbolize Terry’s passions.

Stuffed animals, a Little Mermaid dollar and a toy wand from the movie Frozen were there in memory of Hailey.

An RCMP honour guard attended the ceremony.

Mental health professionals were on hand encouraging people to seek help if they were having trouble coping with the loss.

“Grief is a full-body experience. Everybody grieves different,” said Lindsay Hope-Ross from Alberta Health Services.

Crowsnest Pass Mayor Blair Painter said he hoped this will help give residents of the close-knit mining community some closure.

“It’s really good for our community as part of the grieving process,” he said.

“It’s important that the families know that we are there for them and this is a good way of showing that.”

The shock of the crimes hasn’t worn off, said Painter.

5 a.m to set up, and doesn’t get out until about 1 p.m.

The market has changed locations over the years.

They started out on the east side of the Arena with about 25 vendors, kept moving to east of the old Bay downtown and south of the post office and once on Ross Street, he said.

The market is at least 10 times bigger than when it started, Pluister said.

There were two milestones in 2015, Moffat said.

“This year we had our best market ever, and our worst market ever, so it was kind of an interesting year.”

The cold, wet weather last weekend led to their fewest ever vendors. But they also hit a record of 300 vendors. The busiest Saturday is usually the September Labour Day weekend. Thanksgiving is the second busiest.

Past counts have shown as many as 15,000 people attending the market on a given Saturday, Moffat

said. People buy, sell and gawk, but it’s also very much a big happy social event where everyone is always assured of running into someone they know while munching on locally-made delicious pastry or tasty sausage.

About 60 per cent of the vendors sell farmer’s market products, such as baking, produce and meat, and the others sell jewelry, clothes and ready-to-eat food from booths, said Moffat.

“There’s a lady who as soon as she shows up, I know winter is on its way because she sells mittens and gloves.”

Today’s forecast is a high of 18C with some cloud.

“You’re going to see a crowd (today) you probably wouldn’t believe. And you’ll see everybody smiling I think.

“We look forward to seeing them, and hopefully they keep supporting us,” Moffat said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Mark Villasana keeps his customers cracking up with laughter as he cracks eggs during Food Truck Wars at École Notre Dame High School in Red Deer Friday afternoon. Villasana and his fellow cook, Jan Elopre, were preparing deep fried Ramen mozza sticks, wonton soup and fried banana cakes at their booth. Six other Foods Studies 30 groups also took part in the event over the lunch hour in support of Suicide Information and Education Services. Other food choices prepared at the event included calamari, extreme cookies, spring rolls, muffin style eggs benny, street skewers, and waffles.

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Owner of aggressive dog withdraws appeal

Sylvan Lake eyes downtown parking fees Sylvan Lake is considering charging for parking downtown.

But staff are recommending they get the public’s opinion first.

A report going to council on Tuesday sums up the pros and cons of charging visitors for parking in the lakeshore area. It is proposed that town residents will still park for free, their vehicles identified with a sticker.

Most businesses favoured the idea, although about 20 per cent “thought it was the worst idea in the world,” says the report.

Paid parking would generate about $140,000, which could be used for ongoing maintenace and upkeep of Centennial Park and Lakeshore Drive.

Various options are being considered, including a two-hour free parking limit in front of stores. In the past, business owners have expressed frustration that all of the parking spaces in front of their shops are filled up all day by beach-goers.

Those opposed to the idea believe it will reduce the number of visitors and lead to more parking problems in nearby residential areas.

Staff recommended council put off making a final

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MARKET: Not the first time it has moved Over the years he has sold various vegetables at the market, grown at his large acreage west of Blackfalds. He had a greenhouse until recently, and sells cabbages, beets, broccoli, beans, and his most popular product, cauliflower.

“I’m taking it one a year at a time. … I told Dennis maybe I’ll be back.” But “just for the heck of it” he did go look at the Memorial parking lot last week.

For vendors to get in and out it will be the same as it is now, Pluister said. He goes to the market at 4 or

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Judge acquits boy of murder HIGH LEVEL — An Alberta judge has found a boy not guilty of second-degree murder after he fatally shot his abusive father to prevent the death of his mother.

The boy, known as H because he can’t be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was only 13 when he shot his father twice with a rifle on Aug. 5, 2013, near a remote community in northern Alberta.

Court heard the boy’s home life was horrific and that his father was a drunk who ridiculed, demeaned and severely abused his wife and children.

The Crown argued that the amount of force the boy used was disproportionate to the danger his father presented.

Tests on the man’s body determined he had a blood-alcohol level more than three times over the

legal limit.

Justice Paul Jeffrey of Court of Queen’s Bench said the boy acted to protect his mother and did not intend to kill his father.

“The first shot taken by H was in defence of and to protect his mother, to avoid her imminent murder if he did not intervene,” Jeffrey said in written reasons released Friday of a decision made in court last month.

“I find the second shot was in defence of himself and also his mother, because the first was insufficient to restrain his father’s aggression, by that time headed towards him. There is far more here than a reasonable doubt having been raised.”

Court heard the father had a long history of viciously beating his mother, including knocking her front teeth out with a belt buckle, breaking her nose and choking her so severely that she almost died in hospital.

The man beat one his daughters, knocking her in-

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The CEO of a group that runs several venues, including the NHL arena where the Edmonton Oilers play, is defending his decision to fire all its parking lot cashiers amid allegations of rampant theft.

Tim Reid of non-profit Northlands said Friday that some of the 38 people let go were upright and exceptional employees, but had to go anyway.

“It was a very holistic change,” Reid said. “Not everybody was at fault in this. This was a reaction for the betterment of the company.”

The mass firing was necessary because tracking down and firing just those responsible would have taken four months at a cost of $400,000 in lost revenue, he said.

“What we know is that money has gone missing.

We know that for a fact.”

Reid wouldn’t say if any managers overseeing parking would also be held responsible, but admitted there was fault in the front office.

“We had breach of process that we had not been managing to the fullest of our abilities.”

He said Northlands will be outsourcing the parking to a third-party contractor.

“This may not seem like the most fair decision, but it was the most financially viable for the company.”

The Oilers are the primary tenants at Rexall Place and are not commercially linked to it in

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any way. The team is to move to a new downtown arena starting in the 2016-17 NHL season Northlands charges $20 for parking at major events. Many of the fired cashiers worked part-time making minimum wage.

Reid said two audits in the summer, which involved car counts and cameras in parking-lot booths, showed that about one dollar in five was either being pocketed or not collected by cashiers.

About half of employees checked weren’t following procedures, he added.

Northlands makes about $6 million a year in parking, so Reid estimated the annual lost revenue between $700,000 and $1.2 million.

Reid said if the Northlands board feels evidence of theft is compelling enough, it may turn the information over to police for possible criminal investigation.

Some of the fired cashiers said they are considering lawsuits for defamation.

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to a bathtub, causing her to miscarry.

He also whipped the boy and one of his brothers with an antenna and wire.

The father often locked the boy, his siblings and their mother in a room for up to two days.

“They lived in constant fear,” Jeffrey wrote. “He threatened them into silence.”

On the day of the shooting, court heard the boy’s father was beating the boy’s mother and the boy got a rifle from his grandfather’s room.

The father saw the boy with the gun and threatened to kill both him and the mother. That’s when the shots were fired.

Jeffrey said the Crown had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the boy was not acting in self-defence or in defence of his mother.

“I find, in all the circumstances, H had no other choice if he was to intervene to save his mother.”

Traffic stop on southern Alberta Blood reserve yields fentanyl, crack cocaine STANDOFF — An investigation by the Blood Tribe Police Service in southern Alberta has resulted in the seizure of crack cocaine and a drug believed to be fentanyl.

Officers with the tribal police, who also found $12,000 in cash, made the discovery during a traffic stop earlier this week.

Some weapons and a number of items believed to be stolen were also seized.

Police say two people have been arrested and face charges.

There have been several overdose deaths on the Blood reserve since the arrival of fentanyl in the community a year ago.

The chief and council declared a state of emergency earlier this year and directed all agencies in the community to work together to resolve the issue.

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Refugee policy not exclusionary: Harper

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadians voted at advance polls and two more party platforms were released in full Friday, but the real drama of the race to form Canada’s next government continued to revolve around the three Rs — religion, race and refugees.

With 10 days to go before the Oct. 19 election, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper asserted there is nothing “exclusionary” or political about his government’s decision to focus on accepting refugees from the most vulnerable religious and ethnic minorities in the Syrian and Iraqi conflict.

“The minority religious and ethnic groups in the Syria and Iraq area are in fact being targeted by ISIS (Islamic militants) and its allies for extermination,” Harper said on the campaign trail in Richmond, B.C. “And that is why we put a higher priority — it’s not exclusionary — but obviously why that is an important factor in making our refugee selection decisions.”

News this week that the Prime Minister’s Office quietly halted some Syrian refugee processing this summer while it conducted an “audit,” ostensibly for security purposes, has become the latest flashpoint in an election that’s been repeatedly roiled by allegations of xenophobia and Muslim-bashing.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau angrily denounced Harper’s political operatives Friday for what he characterized as partisan-motivated interference in the refugee application and approval process.

“To know that somewhere in the Prime Minister’s Office, staffers were poring through their personal files to try and see whether these families, or find out which families, would be suitable for a photo op for the prime minister’s re-election campaign? That’s disgusting,” Trudeau said in Toronto

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— JUSTIN TRUDEAU LIBERAL LEADER before flying to Yellowknife.

“That’s not the Canada we want that’s not the Canada we need to build.”

Trudeau’s incendiary charge mirrored some media reports, but is being hotly denied by the Conservative campaign.

Of the 11,300 Syrian refugees the government has committed to resettling since the start of the Syrian war, the vast majority are being resettled by private groups, mostly churches.

But the PMO audit that was carried out in June focused only on government-assisted refugee cases, including those already in Canada and those still in the queue, forcing a halt to processing those files for several weeks.

In the context of vicious Middle East factional fighting that has become an unlikely backdrop to Canada’s federal election, the PMO has effectively prioritized refugees of Christian and other minority faiths over the vast bulk of displaced families who are Shia or Sunni Muslims. An estimated 90 per cent of refugees in the region identify as Muslim.

Muslims make up roughly three per cent of Canada’s population.

Coming after weeks of bruising, divisive debate on Muslim face coverings at citizenship ceremonies, which in turn followed an emotionally charged allegation that a drowned Syrian toddler’s refugee family had aspired to

come to Canada but was rebuffed, the latest flare-up sends the campaign teams into the crucial Thanksgiving holiday weekend in fighting form.

“What we’ve learned in the last couple of days is that, despite his emoting when we saw the lifeless body of that child Alan Kurdi on a Turkish beach, Mr. Harper and his Prime Minister’s Office were in fact intervening to ensure that the neediest on earth — those Syrian refugees — would not make it to Canada,” NDP Leader Tom Mulcair charged in Montreal.

“This is the same Stephen Harper who has been playing the race card non-stop in this campaign …. He’s exploiting divisions among us.”

All but lost in the highly charged claims and counter claims dealing with race and religion was the release Friday of the full NDP and Conservative campaign platforms, not to mention new unemployment figures that showed Canada’s jobless rate rose slightly in September to 7.1 per cent.

Management of the economy was supposed to be the ballot box question this October as Canada struggles through years of slow growth and a technical recession in the first half of 2015 sparked by plunging global oil prices.

with Canadian officials to stop the city of Montreal from dumping eight billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River.

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said the weeklong sewage dumping would start Oct. 18 and is necessary as the city rebuilds a riverside expressway.

The sewage will head away from New York, but it has drawn condemnation from U.S. officials.

HALIFAX — A teenage boy was given a conditional discharge after being convicted of extortion and possessing child pornography he obtained by threatening a girl on Facebook.

The boy, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was 16 at the time of the offences in 2012. He was convicted of the offences, as well as possession of pornography for the purpose of distribution, on April 2 by Judge Anne Derrick.

In her verdict at the time, Derrick wrote that while the case was about allegations of criminal offences, it was also “about lonely, anxious teenagers and the harm caused by the callous exploitation of Internet anonymity.”

Outside court on Friday, Crown attorney Mark Heerema said the case has wider implications for society and the justice system.

“It is a troubling case on many levels,” he said. “It’s a case that certainly highlights an area of our society that will present increasing challenges for not just courts, but law enforcement, parents and teenagers themselves.”

In her written verdict, Derrick said it was alleged that the boy created two fake Facebook accounts and reached out to two teenage girls, luring them into a friendship with the fictitious characters.

The Crown said the boy then decided to kill off one of the fake characters and used the other fictitious Facebook persona to tell the girls that she killed herself by cutting her throat.

Court heard that the news prompted the girls to both attempt suicide, resulting in their hospitalization and a growing suspicion about whether the Facebook characters were real.

The Crown alleged that the boy said he would reveal one the character’s true identities if one of the girls sent him a topless selfie, which she did only to be threatened that he would publish them if she didn’t send more.

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MONTREAL — Five Hells Angels on trial on murder and conspiracy charges have seen the case dismissed because of lengthy delays in the disclosure of evidence by the Crown.

The five men — all members of the biker gang’s Sherbrooke chapter — were ordered released today in mid-trial

by Quebec Superior Court Justice James Brunton.

Claude Berger, Yvon Tanguay, Francois Vachon, Sylvain Vachon and Michel Vallieres were arrested in 2009 under a widespread police sweep against the biker gang dubbed Operation SharQc. Brunton was severe in his ruling, granting a defence motion for a stay of proceedings because the Crown only disclosed key information in September, while the defence had been seeking the evidence since 2011.

The Crown says it will consider appealing the decision.

Brunton is the same judge who ordered a stay of proceedings in 2011 for 31 Hells Angels members and sympathizers because of huge delays in brining them to trial.

‘TO KNOW THAT SOMEWHERE IN THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE, STAFFERS WERE PORING THROUGH THEIR PERSONAL FILES TO TRY AND SEE WHETHER THESE FAMILIES, OR FIND OUT WHICH FAMILIES, WOULD BE SUITABLE FOR A PHOTO OP FOR THE PRIME MINISTER’S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN? THAT’S DISGUSTING. THAT’S NOT THE CANADA WE WANT THAT’S NOT THE CANADA WE NEED TO BUILD.’

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Humbug and hypocrisy It’s a week since the Russians began their air-strikes in Syria, and the countries that have already been bombing there for over a year — the United States and some other NATO countries — are working themselves up into a rage about it. The Russians are not bombing the right people, they are killing civilians, they GWYNNE are reckless, DYER dangerous, and just plain evil.

INSIGHT A statement last weekend by NATO’s 28 members warned of “the extreme danger of such irresponsible behaviour” and urged Russia “to cease and desist.” When a Russian warplane attacking Islamist targets in northwestern Syria strayed across the frontier into Turkey for a few minutes, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Turks would have been within their rights to shoot it down.

The weather was poor, the target was close to the border, and the Russians apologized afterwards, but NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the incursion “does not look like an accident.” So what does he think the motive was, then? Russian pilots are getting bored, and are having a competition to see who can stay in Turkish airspace longest without getting shot down?

And the wicked Russians are killing civilians with their bombs, we are told. Yes, of course they are. So is the American-led coalition with its bombs.

Unless you are fighting at sea or in the open desert, there will always be civilians in the same area as the “legitimate” targets.

It’s particularly unbecoming for the United States to act holier-than-thou about the use of Russian air power in Syria, when it is simultaneously trying to explain why American planes bombed a hospital in Afghanistan last month and killed 22 civilians. Neither Americans nor Russians gain anything by killing civilians; it’s just an inevitable by-product of bombing.

But the biggest Western complaint is that the Russians are bombing the wrong people. Contrary to American and European assertions, they are indeed bombing the “right” people, the troops of Islamic State that Western air forces have been bombing for the past year. But the Russians are also bombing the troops of the Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham. They might even bomb the troops of the Free Syrian Army, if they could find any.

Don’t they realize that these people are trying to overthrow the evil Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, whereas the cruel and deluded fanatics who serve

Islamic State are trying — well, actually, they are trying to overthrow the evil dictator Assad too.

This brings us to the heart of the matter.

Western propaganda makes a systematic distinction between Islamic State (bad) and the “opposition” forces (all the other groups). The problem is that there is really little difference between them: they all want to overthrow the Syrian regime, and they are all Islamist jihadis except for the tattered remnants of the Free Syrian Army.

The Nusra Front was created in 2012 as the Syrian branch of ISIS (now Islamic State), and broke away early last year in a dispute over tactics and turf. It is now the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. Ahrar al-Sham was also founded by an al-Qaeda member, and is a close military and political ally of Nusra. And until the propaganda needs of the moment changed, even the United States admitted that the “moderate” elements of the Syrian opposition had collapsed.

There are no reliable statistics on

this, but a good guess would be that 35 per cent of the rebel troops confronting Assad’s regime belong to Islamic State, 35 per cent to the Nusra Front, 20 per cent to Ahrar al-Sham, and 10 per cent odds and sods including the Free Syrian Army. In other words, at least 90 per cent of the armed opposition are Islamists, and probably no more than five per cent are secular, pro-democratic groups.

There are not three alternatives in Syria. There are only two: either Bashar al-Assad’s regime survives, or the Islamists take over. Really serious Islamists, who hate democracy, behead people, and plan to overthrow all the other Arab governments before they set out to conquer the rest of the world.

They are probably being a bit over-optimistic there, but they would be seriously dangerous people if they commanded the resources of the Syrian state, and they would be a calamity for Syrians who are not Sunni Muslims. The Russians have accepted this reality, decided that it is in their own interests for Assad to survive, and are

acting accordingly.

The United States and its allies, by contrast, are hamstrung by their previous insistence that Assad must go on human rights grounds. They cannot change their tune now without losing face, so they don’t bomb Assad themselves, but they persist in the fantasy that some other force can be created in Syria that will defeat both Assad and Islamic State.

Moreover, the leaders of America’s two most important allies in the Muslim world, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, are determined that Assad should go (mainly because he is Shia, and they are Sunnis), and they would be very angry if the US helped him survive.

That, plus American anger at Russia over Ukraine and lingering hostility from the old Cold War, is why NATO is condemning the Russian intervention in Syria so vehemently. But it is all humbug and hypocrisy.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London. His latest book, Crawling from the Wreckage, was published recently in Canada by Random House.

Homelessness problem not unique to Red Deer Have you ever been asked a question in a meeting and you find out that your mind seems like it took a trip to another country?

Outside of that meeting, you envisioned that same question and had a thousand explanations and solutions and ideas, but when faced with presenting all those thoughts you had; gone, kaput, blank, nada!

Well, that’s CHRIS the way it was at SALOMONS a recent meetSTREET TALES ing that I attended; actually it happens to me a lot. The question asked was dealing with the security downtown, with the homeless population, their activities and all the debris left behind wherever they go.

Every problem, activity, reaction, solution and other subject was on the table. We talked about the public’s reactions and comments, as well as those of the business community, City Hall,

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RCMP, and agencies working with this population.

We heard about some of the efforts of the different agencies involved and the ideas they were employing to try to make our downtown safer and a more enjoyable experience, but somehow felt their work was being almost negated because of other influences.

Sadly, the official line on dealing with the situation is less than satisfactory, and policing has shifted its focus from interaction to enforcement only over the last couple of years. This past summer, I never saw one foot patrol, maybe someone stole their Segways.

There is still a move to push all the services and agencies to a certain part of the city (ignorant, to say the least).

This in my opinion, is tantamount to putting all these folks and their issues on the five o’clock bus out of town.

In all the world, and I mean the entire world, every city that has ever experienced growth has had to deal with exactly the same issue with the homeless, the unemployable, the crime element, the handicapped (both physical and mental) and all others in-between.

So in light of this revelation, I am compelled to ask, why would Red Deer think it is so uniquely different?

Why do we treat the situation as if we are the only growing city that has

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Why do we let one or two vocal people with strong personal views dictate policy?

In conversations with a few business owners, although they do have a lot of concerns, by and large they are empathetic to the plight of the homeless, and are willing to take extra measures for their own security.

On only one or two occasions, we have experienced a real dislike or revulsion against the folks from the street.

Instead of spending thousands of dollars to send a city representative to Toronto to study the social dynamics of painting digital parking meters a silver color, why would we not instead find cities who have taken a positive and successful approach to the issues of street life, addictions, and crime so that we can either emulate them or utilize some of their efforts; I’m sure they would be happy to share their knowledge.

This is not a problem that we throw a few dollars at, find an out of the way, out of sight place to put the problem people, put up nice artful signage, etc.

Rather, this is an opportunity for responsible people to really study the problems, find a way to interact with said individuals so that they can find reasons to reduce their self-destruc-

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tive behaviours.

The people whom this article is about will not vacate downtown just because we place all their amenities out of the way; they will continue to populate places like the library, downtown parks and all the places that they now utilize, because that’s where life is happening.

In spite of their condition or addiction, they don’t want to be excluded.

We live in a country where we are free to pursue our dreams, make a living doing it, and create our own comfort zones.

But to do so without realizing the obligations that come with this comfortable freedom, is in my mind inviting disaster and chaos.

The obligations involved is to do our utmost to keep others from falling through the cracks that the media keep telling us about, in order that we might live in peace and enjoy security regardless of the location within our beautiful city.

But it will take all; and I mean all of us who call Red Deer home to be active in the pursuit of that security.

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

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Building a new kind of economy When Statistics Canada reported that there were now more Canadians 65 and older than Canadians 15 and younger, little attention was paid by our vote-seeking politicians to one of the most important implications.

With fewer workers in the future to support each Canadian headed for retirement, how will we generate enough economic activity to produce the wealth — including tax revenues — needed to sustain an aging society while also meeting the needs of the young? The answer is to build a new kind of economy that is much more innovative and which delivers a higher rate DAVID of growth in productivity. But CRANE how to do this is getting far too little attention in our elecINSIGHT tion campaign.

If there is a single indicator that shows the extent of the challenge we face it is our mediocre performance in productivity. It is through sustained gains in productivity that we raise living standards and generate the private and public wealth we need for a successful society.

The Conservatives have done the most to provide their answer on how to boost innovation and productivity. It is to cut business taxes, embrace free trade and minimize regulation. To be sure, there is support for university-based research, incentives for skills and modest direct support for companies.

The Conservatives have even developed a detailed manufacturing strategy, which has some worthwhile

provisions.

The main Conservative promises since the election have been to provided $100 million in funding over five years for a new Manufacturing Technology Development Fund and $30 million over five years towards a $100 million public-private Advanced Manufacturing Hub in Ontario.

But essentially the Conservative solution is to get the framework conditions right and for the most part leave the rest to the market.

Unfortunately, this approach is not working. Business has slashed spending on research and investment, despite tax incentives. It has underinvested in technology — machinery and equipment — despite lower taxes and other tax-based incentives. And many manufacturing plants have closed, and with them about 400,000 manufacturing jobs have vanished.

The latest World Economic Forum competitiveness rankings shows Canada at 23rd spot in business capacity to innovate, 26th spot in company spending on R&D and 22nd spot in business sophistication, all well below U.S. rankings despite higher taxes there.

But what of the NDP and the Liberals? Despite the urgent need for action, the NDP and Liberal focus is much more on income redistribution than on wealth creation.

Both are needed but wealth creation, through more innovation and better productivity performance, is the more critical factor and here the NDP and Liberals have little to say. There is an alternative to the Conservative approach, based on a more activist government working with the private sector, but neither party has come close to developing an alternative strategy.

The NDP has not offered any kind of innovation strategy at all. It proposes more tax breaks for small

business (as do the Conservatives and Liberals) despite a lack of evidence this will do anything to improve urgently needed innovation, competitiveness and productivity. It also promises a modest tax credit for companies investing in equipment for R&D. But that’s about it.

The Liberal plans, promising to invest $200 million a year for each of the next three years, to a large extent represent expansion of existing Conservative programmes, such as more money for commercialization incubators and accelerators and the Industrial Research Assistance Programme or IRAP. There’s no evidence of fresh thinking here.

Yet we are entering one of the most economically and technologically disruptive periods the world has faced. It is now a global economy and this world economy will become much more competitive. Canada sees this already with the loss of competitiveness in the auto industry to Mexico.

The world is also undergoing radical technological change, with huge implications for the types of jobs in the future and the ways in which production occurs, as well as what is produced in goods and services.

We are entering the fourth wave of technological advancement since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

What will this mean for Canada? Will we have the new knowledge, the capital, the companies and the skills to succeed in this new world? Will we be ready to seize new opportunities? We don’t hear much about these things on the campaign trail, but these are the big challenges our next government will have to deal with, ready or not.

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

Squinting through a veil of tears The pages of this and every newspaper today are plumb full of things to be thankful for, it being Thanksgiving and all. Mostly, unfortunately, in a reverse topsy-turvy ying-yang sort of way. In other non-hyphenated words — what I mean is, many stories and news items and reports in these pages you are looking at, and even all around this little column space are about places and events and people who have little or nothing to be thankful for. And not without some guilt and egocentric selfishness, it does make some of us feel grateful that the dealer in life’s big poker game has dealt us a better hand. I don’t even play poker, but I’m feeling pretty lucky that I have a full house, even when everything isn’t all aces.

So for most of the last five or so Thanksgivings that I’ve been scribbling in your SatHARLEY urday paper, (which I’ve been HAY very thankful for) there’s been a recurring theme: the patentHAY’S DAZE ly melodramatic fiasco called “a federal election”. No, sorry, that’s a different recurring theme — what I meant was, the pertinent question of the day (and every day) is: “What am I thankful for?”

This is a good question to ask oneself every night when you go to bed, every morning when you wake up and every time someone treats you to an ice cream sundae with chocolate syrup. And nuts. And whip cream.

So aside from the very important and obvious things in life that give this rich pageant meaning and purpose and the occasional migraine — the Better Half, the Rotten Kids, family, great friends, good people, excellent ice cream — I often think about the so-called little things in life that make even a tiny difference as I squint hopefully through this veil of tears.

For example, I’m thankful for Snarks. No, a Snark is not a Dr. Seuss character or a sub atomic nano-particle, a Snark is an excellent guitar tuner. A simple little clip-on device with a round screen that lights up and tells you what note you are plucking when you pluck. Also, they come in three different cool colors.

I’m grateful for bookmarks. Not just an old receipt or a piece of string or a grocery list, I’m talking about a nice sturdy correctly proportioned (5.8 cm by 16.5 cm) paper strip actual bookmark. Preferably decorated with interesting things. I don’t need one of those fancy oversized paper clips or plastic devices that mark your place in a book. Any high-quality professional bookmark with a nice photo of Shania Twain or Jennifer Aniston will do nicely.

I really like licorice pipes. The kind that only come in a box, and the black licorice is shaped like a small pipe, and it has red candies glued to the business end of the pipe to represent fire in the bowl.

Very clever, and, I’m told, very tasty. I don’t even like black licorice, but my Better Half certainly does, and she favours licorice pipes so I’m thankful that I can pick her up one or two once in a while. Also, my Mom used to pronounce licorice as “lick-or-iss” instead of “lick-or-ish” because “that’s the way it’s spelled.” So I’m thankful for licorice on account of it makes me think of Mom even though she’s been gone for nearly three decades.

I am always thankful for dogs, even though we don’t have one anymore. Still thinking about getting

a new one, one of these days, thankfully.

I am grateful for Triumph TR3s. The second car I ever owned was a venerable British sports car — a 1957 Truimph TR3 — the kind with the leather roof and the cutaway doors so low you could rest your elbow on the ground when seated. I sold that car in 1972 for $350 to buy some new skiis. Last time I checked (yesterday) that same car would be worth around $30,000 now. I still have the skiis.

I give thanks for Hercule Poirot — both the books and the movies. Apparently Agatha Christie used to think up those wonderful plots for her little Belgian detective whilst in the bathtub eating apples. So I’m also thankful for bathtubs and apples.

I am grateful for Miss Jane Marple (see above).

And sometimes, when I’m in a melancholy mood, or daydreaming, or working on an important project I find myself thinking about the moon, Ed Sullivan and the Edmonton Oilers. And, in my opinion the three greatest historical moments in science, entertainment and sports.

I thank the universe for the Ed Sullivan Show, February 1964. The Beatles. “All My Lovin,” “Till There Was You,” “She Loves You.” I sat on the couch

in our old house in Parkvale and at 8:05 on that Sunday night as I watched The Beatles in glorious black and white on the cabinet RCA the size of a refrigerator with a screen the size of a breadbox, I knew life would never be the same again.

I thank my lucky stars that the Eagle landed on the moon, and Neil Armstrong stepped out and said those immortal words: “Get me the hell outa here!”

No, seriously the moon landing in July 1969 was another one of those life-altering moments. I didn’t sleep for three weeks.

And, of course, there’s Wayne Gretzky and the amazing Oilers of the ‘80s. I don’t even watch hockey now — in fact, I haven’t since Gretzky was traded. I’m eternally grateful that I got to personally watch and meet the greatest player the world has ever seen, and I’m even more thankful that I wasn’t a Calgary Flames fan.

And by now I’m sure you’re thankful this column is finally over.

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.

COP21 is about the money, not the environment

BY MICHELLE STIRLING-ANOSH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE When it was revealed that Volkswagen had been duping diesel-emissions tests on some of its high-end environmentally friendly cars, people were outraged. The CEO resigned.

About the same time, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley told the Alberta Chambers of Commerce that her province had better get its environmental house in order or it would have measures imposed upon it.

She also said that Alberta has “bad air.”

Really? I challenge that statement. In 2011, Canada’s air was judged to be the third highest quality in the world. In 2006, Environment Canada reported that Red Deer was an unusual hot spot for poor air quality related to fine particulate matter, but this was said to be due to the transportation corridor emissions, nothing else.

Nav Canada’s handbook on weather conditions for flying around Alberta confirms that weather and terrain play a big role in air quality.

Likewise, transportation emissions, stagnant air and humidity are factors in making Paris – the site of the upcoming UN climate change talks – one of the dirtiest cities in Europe in terms of air quality.

Episodes of stagnant, damp air led to Paris air-quality pollution levels as high as 180 micro-

grams of particulate matter 10 microns or smaller per cubic metre – more than double the safe limit of 80. This spring, during such an episode, the French government forced people not to drive. (Albertans only experience levels like that during wildfire smoke or weather inversions.)

But what is the real reason for this terrible pollution? Faulty climate policy, of course. As Bloomberg View explains in Climate politics and the Volkswagen scandal on Sept. 23, Europe made a push for diesel on the claim that it uses less fuel overall, but diesel emits more smog-inducing soot and more nitrogen oxides. Preferential tax rates led to Europe now having more than half its cars on diesel, and in France, now more than 80 per cent, thus creating a much larger public health risk and not saving the planet. Does it not strike you as hypocritical that 50,000 people, intent on saving the planet, will be flying, driving, taking a fossil-fuelled boat, train or car to COP21 in December to reduce emissions?

Shall Canada impose solutions upon them? Economist Ross McKitrick pointed out to me that Canada never gets credit for the advances we have made in addressing real pollution.

From 1985 to 2011, our industrial carbon-monoxide emissions are down 26 per cent; industrial carbon particulate emissions are down 44 per cent; and industrial sulphur dioxide emissions are down 69 per cent. Total economic output: up by 89 per cent.

When we go to Paris for the Climate Change Summit (COP21), we should demand that every other nation meets these standards and, until they do, they should have nothing to say to Canada on emissions.

The UN is based on the principle of equal sovereignty. This is probably why Saudi Arabia can be elected to be head of the UN Human Rights Commission even though it has reportedly beheaded more people this year than ISIS. Point that out, if someone tries to impose environmental standards on us.

As Google engineers recently revealed, renewable is not doable, so let’s stop promoting it. Global warming has stagnated for over 18 years and eight months, with temperature rise being at values “very close to zero,” to quote German climate scientist Hans von Storch.

The real push behind COP21 is related to carbon trading – not climate change, not air quality, not saving the planet, but rather saving the financial backside of those who made rush-to-renewables investments and, like Volkswagen, have been caught out.

They’re hoping to impose a global carbon-trading system on us. Their bad investment decisions should not require us to pay their piper. There’s lots of foggy, smoggy hot air emitted by the whole climate change circus. Let’s clear the air in Paris.

Michelle Stirling-Anosh is communications manager of the Friends of Science Society and a Troy Media columnist.

A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015

A boost for democracy NOBEL PEACE PRIZE GOES TO TUNISIA’S NATIONAL DIALOGUE QUARTET

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TUNIS, Tunisia — It was the fall of 2013 and Tunisia’s newfound democracy was in grave danger. The assassination of a left-wing politician had prompted the opposition to walk out of the constitutional assembly. The government was paralyzed, the constitution unfinished and the country on the brink of war.

In nearby Egypt, which had followed Tunisia in a democratic revolution, a coup had just overthrown the Islamist government, and some sectors in Tunisia wanted to follow suit.

Then four civil society groups — the main labour union, the bar association, the employers’ association and the human rights league — stepped into the fray. Working together, they got the Islamists to agree to resign in favour of a caretaker government that would organize new elections, while the angry opposition returned to the table to complete the country’s constitution.

On Friday, that coalition — the National Dialogue Quartet — received the Nobel Peace Prize for its patient negotiating efforts, which carried Tunisia through an extended constitutional crisis and laid the groundwork for the only democracy that remains following the 2011 Arab Spring demonstrations.

The prize comes at an important time, as Tunisia faces a new crisis that is nearly as critical as the one it confronted in the fall of 2013: a pair of attacks against tourists earlier this year left more than 60 people dead, provoking fear and devastating Tunisia’s vital tourism sector, even as the faltering economy dragged support for the democratic process to historic lows.

The Nobel award also draws international attention to a region that is increasingly known more for the harrowing actions of the Islamic State group than the kind of compromise and negotiations that have allowed Tunisia to succeed.

The quartet was a long shot for the prize and none were more surprised than its actual members. Houcine Abbassi, the head of the labour union and the driving force in the 2013 negotiations, learned about the win from an Associated Press journalist. “I am overwhelmed by this,� he said, recalling how the country had been on the brink of war. “It’s a prize that crowns more than two years of efforts deployed by the quartet when the country was in danger on all fronts.�

For months, Abbassi and his colleagues tried to convince the Islamist-led government and the opposition to sit down together and agree on a new government of technocrats to end the crisis.

Several times talks broke down but Abbassi never seemed to lose faith. In November 2013, after another walkout by the parties, he said “we do not believe in failure because the dialogue has to succeed — it is our destiny.�

In the end, despite acrimonious negotiations, the two sides agreed on a caretaker prime minister and government. Elsewhere in the region, war raged on in Syria, militias battled each other in Libya as politicians looked on helplessly and thousands were jailed in Egypt. “(The quartet) established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war,� the Nobel Prize committee said in its citation.

In region known for violence and a belief in zero-sum power games, the quartet’s achievement in Tunisia stood out as a key Middle East exception,

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Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet received the Nobel Peace Prize for its patient negotiating efforts, which carried the country through an extended constitutional crisis and laid the groundwork for the only democracy that remains following the 2011 Arab Spring demonstrations. said Mohammed Fadhel Mafoudh, the head of the Bar Association that participated in the negotiations. “It’s a message to all parties present in certain political conflicts, to tell them that everything can be settled with dialogue and all can be settled in a climate of peace. And that the language of weapons leads us nowhere,� he said.

The chairwoman of the Nobel committee, Kaci Kullmann Five, said the selection of Tunisia was made with a regional context in mind: “These are different countries but some of the main root causes of social upheaval often resemble each other.�

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One killed, three wounded at school shooting in U.S. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A Northern Arizona University freshman told police he was hit in the face during a late night confrontation and then tried to render first aid after he opened fire on four fraternity members, killing one and wounding three, according to court documents released Friday.

Steven Jones, 18, was found alongside the four victims in a campus parking lot Friday shortly after the 1:20 a.m. shootings. Jones told a responding campus police officer that he had opened fire, the arrest report said.

Jones told investigators that several people approached him and two friends while they were outside a residence. A fight broke out between the two groups, and Jones said he was hit in the face. According to the suspect, a group came out of the house and chased him. He ran to his car and retrieved a handgun. Two of the victims had stopped following him but turned around when he yelled that he had a gun. Jones said he shot them both but then tried to help one of them.

A friend of Jones said the first victim asked Jones why he brought a gun before the suspect shot him multiple times, police said. The second victim was shot after taking a step in Jones’ direction, according to the witness. Both were standing no more than 10 feet away.

A group tried to subdue Jones, who fired a shot in the air. Jones said he then dropped his firearm, which had a flashlight attached to it.

University police chief Gregory T. Fowler identified Jones as the shooter and said he used a handgun in the 1:20 a.m. shootings.

Jones was booked Friday for one count of first-degree homicide and three counts of aggravated assault.

The victims were all members of the Delta Chi fraternity, the organization said in a statement. The university identified the student who died as Colin Brough. The victims being treated at Flagstaff Medical Center are Nicholas Prato, Kyle Zientek and Nicholas Piring. The hospital said it couldn’t release any information on conditions. “This is not going to be a normal day at NAU,� said school President Rita Cheng. “Our hearts are heavy.�

She called it an isolated and unprecedented incident and said classes would go on as scheduled Friday.

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LEFT: Mural at Bob Marley Museum.

BELOW: Bob Marley lived in Trench Town as a teenager. It was here that he learned to play the guitar.

WALKING THROUGH THE TRENCH TOWN CULTURE YARD, YOU GET A SENSE OF WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE IN BOB MARLEY’S DAY

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TRAVEL Jamaica’s Trench Town is arguably the most famous ghetto in the world, and as I wandered through the Trench Town Culture Yard, I was remarkably moved — a feeling that completely took me by surprise. Trench Town was the breeding ground for some of the world’s greatest reggae artists. It was here that Bob Marley learned to play guitar with Vincent “Tata” Ford as his mentor and co-wrote the song No Woman No Cry as a teenager. He formed his band the Wailers and recorded his first album while living in this ghetto. Other great Reggae artists also emerged from this place including Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.

Today the Trench Town Culture Yard is a Jamaican National Heritage site and a rustic museum is still located inside a rough area of Kingston. “Young men saw a chance for a way out through music,” explained Sophia Dowe, our guide. “This is where Bob Marley got his inspiration.”

Walking through this rustic site, you get a sense of what life was like for people who lived in Trench Town in Marley’s day. Entire families were squeezed into the tiny celllike rooms and shared communal toilets and kitchen facilities with the residents in the block. The first few rooms we walked into had pictures and information on the walls, but some had other decorations.

“This is our most prized possession,” said Dowe as she pointed to an old guitar inside a glass case. “This was Bob Marley’s first guitar.”

The acoustic guitar was previously owned by Vincent Ford and is so sacred that the museum does not allow visitors to photograph it. We also stepped inside Vincent Ford’s room, which is decorated as it was when he stayed there.

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ABOVE: Ricky Chaplin, our guide, stands beside a statue of Bob Marley at the Bob Marley Museum, which is located in his former home.

RIGHT (FROM TOP TO BOTTOM): Born in Trench Town, Ziggy Soul and his group still get their inspiration in the culture yard; This mural is outside the Trench Town Culture Yard; As a young man, Bob Marley had a room in an old kitchen facility in Trench Town.

His original Bible still sits on the nightstand next to the single bed and there are biblical verses on the wall that he wrote with his own hand. Bob Marley’s room is nearby — a single bed in an unused kitchen.

In the yard is a statue of Bob Marley and, on the day I visited, a group of musicians were practicing in the

yard. Their lead singer who called himself Ziggy Soul, was a prodigy of Bob Marley.

Born in Trench Town, he was an original member of the acclaimed reggae group the Earth Disciples and Marley produced the group’s first single.

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PROTESTERS, SUPPORTERS PACK MEETING OF AGENCY EYEING PLAN TO EXPAND WHALE TANKS AT SEAWORLD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONG BEACH, Calif. — Protesters and supporters filled a meeting room Thursday where a California commission was considering a vast expansion to the tanks that SeaWorld uses to hold killer whales in San Diego.

The commission that regulates land and water use along the California coast took up the issue of the $100 million expansion, which animal rights activists fear would pave the way for breeding more of the animals in captivity — something they say is cruel no matter the size of the tanks.

The 500 people who packed the meeting room included SeaWorld supporters wearing blue and white shirts and holding signs saying, “Educate, Inspire, Conserve,” and critics waving signs saying “Vote no on SeaWorld Tanks” and “SeaWorld hurts Orcas.”

Some groaned or snickered as staff testimony began.

Outside, hundreds of people who couldn’t get into the meeting room stood behind rope lines and watched the session on oversized screens.

SeaWorld San Diego President John Reilly told commission members they would hear numerous inaccurate statements from critics but asserted the project would provide a better living environment for the whales and open new windows for researchers.

No one is more passionate about caring for killer whales than SeaWorld, he said.

Matt Bruce of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the renovations would do nothing to improve conditions for the killer whales.

“We feel these newer tanks will just be more prisons for these orcas,” Bruce said. “These orcas are robbed of everything that is natural to them.”

The staff of the commission has recommended approving the expansion under nine conditions that include forbidding SeaWorld from housing recently captured orcas in San Diego.

SeaWorld says it has not collected any orcas in the wild in more than three decades, its animals are well treated and park shows help generate support for conservation.

Under the proposal, SeaWorld would demolish portions of a 1995 facility that included a 1.7-million gallon pool and replace it with a 5.2-million gallon tank and 450,000-gallon pool.

The Orlando, Florida-based compa-

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REGGAE: Marley home a museum Today he sings a kind of gospel reggae music with a group called LivynKulcha and he and his band members often hang out in Trench Town and work on their music. There’s something about this raw ghetto that inspires creativity.

I listened to Ziggy and his friends harmonizing and jamming for a long time before I had to move on. Truth be told, there isn’t much to the museum in Trench Town, but there’s something special about standing in the birthplace of reggae music and hearing it echo through the yard as it did when Bob Marley was a young man.

Exploring Music Culture in Kingston You won’t find much culture laying in a hammock at an all-inclusive beach resort. If you want to explore the music culture of Jamaica, a visit to Kingston is a good place to start. Kingston is not only the nation’s capital, it’s the island’s cultural and economic heart.

Here are three must-see sites for music lovers in Kingston.

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Under the proposal, SeaWorld would demolish portions of a 1995 facility that included a 1.7-million gallon pool and replace it with a 5.2-million gallon tank and 450,000-gallon pool. The Orlando, Florida-based company has said the orca population at the San Diego facility — which currently numbers 11 — would not significantly increase due to the “Blue World” project it wants to open in 2018.

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‘WE CARE FOR THESE ANIMALS AS IF THEY WERE FAMILY. WE HAVE NOTHING BUT THE WHALES’ BEST INTEREST AT HEART.’ — HENDRIK NOLLENS SEAWORLD VETERINARIAN ny has said the orca population at the San Diego facility — which currently numbers 11 — would not significantly increase due to the “Blue World” project it wants to open in 2018, even tafarian religious cloaks, his favorite denim stage shirt, and the Order of Merit presented by the Jamaican government. There’s a recording studio inside the house and a replica of his original record shop where you can purchase CDs and records. Another room is wallpapered with media clippings from his final tour. Marley’s bedroom has been left as it was, with his favorite star-shaped guitar by the bed and an open Bible with his ganja resting inside it. The former recording studio out back is now an exhibition hall with photos of the singer and a theatre where they show a 20-minute film at the end of the tour. Details: Admission is $20 USD. (www.bobmarleymuseum. com).

Jamaica Music Museum The Jamaica Music Museum is the latest addition to the Institute of Jamaica, the national museum of the country. The Music Museum is mandated to archive, research and exhibit the various Jamaican music forms to highlight the social, historic and musical values and aesthetics.

The Institute of Jamaica is housed in three separate buildings and there are fascinating temporary exhibits.

When we visited the temporary exhibit was devoted to reggae music — instruments and history. Details: Admission is 400 Jamaican (about $4.50 CAD), unless you visit on Saturday when the museums open their doors to the public for free. (instituteofjamaica.org.jm or jamm-ioj.org.jm).

Trench Town Culture Yard

though the capacity of the tanks would jump.

The panel said it had received some 200,000 emails and 50,000 postcards weighing in on the project.

Attendance at the California park has declined since the release of the population documentary Blackfish in 2013, which suggests SeaWorld’s treatment of captive orcas provokes violent behaviour. The company’s stock price also has dropped over the past two years.

The testimony from each side depicted sharply different conditions for the whales — one caring and nurturing, the other harsh and heartless.

John Hargrove, a former SeaWorld trainer in California and Texas who has written a book about his experi-

ences and appeared in the “Blackfish” film, said whales are heavily medicated and family structures that define life in the wild are broken.

The whales gnaw the edges of their pools, breaking or wearing teeth, and inbreeding has created “hybrid orcas who have no true social identity,” he said.

But SeaWorld veterinarian Hendrik Nollens disputed what he called “outlandish accusations” from critics of the park. The whales are enriched and stimulated, he said, not stressed or depressed.

“We care for these animals as if they were family,” Nollens told the panel. “We have nothing but the whales’ best interest at heart.”

safe to visit, but it’s not safe to wander around other areas of Trench Town on your own. Details: Admission is $10 USD. (www.trenchtowncultureyard. com) Writer’s Note: If you are using a cab to get to any of the above sites, you should negotiate the rate before getting inside the cab. Many cabs in Kingston don’t have meters. Be sure to

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

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Breaking from the herd NORTH DAKOTA

LOTS OF WILDLIFE AND NO CROWDS AT ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK

BY CHRISTINE DELL’AMORE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE “Want to see a rattlesnake?�

For this adventurous animal lover, there’s only one possible answer to that question. So I happily bounded down the hill after ranger John Heiser, coming face to face - from a safe distance, of course - with North Dakota’s only venomous reptile.

The muscular prairie rattlesnake coiled partly under a ledge, camouflaged by the surrounding sandstone.

It noisily shook the rattle at the end of its tail and began sliding back under the rock, black tongue flicking. “See, he wants to get away - he doesn’t want to threaten us,� Heiser said.

He should know. During four decades exploring Theodore Roosevelt National Park, a 70,000-acre refuge in the remote Badlands of western North Dakota, Heiser has had many a runin with park wildlife, which include bighorn sheep, elk, pronghorn, birds of prey, black-tailed prairie dogs and coyotes, as well as bison, perhaps the park’s most popular resident.

That woolly icon of the Wild West features in how the park’s story begins. In 1883, 25-year-old Theodore Roosevelt, a New York City tenderfoot wearing a Brooks Brothers suit, came to what was then Dakota Territory to hunt bison. It was at the time a rare species: Overhunting had rapidly shrunk the herds of the “mightiest of American beasts,� as he called it. Before long, Roosevelt became enamored with cowboy life in the Badlands and bought two cattle ranches, places he’d go to grieve the deaths of his wife and mother, who died hours apart on Feb. 14, 1884.

Concerned by the decline of big game and overgrazing of grasslands, he developed a passion for conservation.

Instrumental in halting the bison’s extinction, Roosevelt helped usher in an 1894 law that made it illegal to kill the animal in Yellowstone National Park.

In later years, as president, he would set aside 230 million acres of land. He came back to North Dakota once, in 1903, but didn’t live to see his muchloved landscape - including his home ranch, Elkhorn - declared a national park in his honor in 1947. At that time bison no longer roamed the area, so the park service began reintroducing the animals in the 1950s - gradually restoring it to the environment of Roosevelt’s day.

A nature enthusiast myself, I’d come to see critters without the crowds: Just over half a million people visited Theodore Roosevelt in 2014, compared with more than 3 million at more well-known parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite.

So on a July evening, my fiance, Brian, and I drove into the park’s South Unit - the biggest of its three sections - via Medora, a well-preserved 1880s town that touts itself as the state’s No. 1 tourist draw. It was prime time for wildlife viewing, and before long I spotted a giant black hump through the window: “Bison!� We stopped to watch the lone male graze through our binoculars - no Yellowstone-style bison jams here. Winding past the eroding plateaus of the Badlands, we soon saw another male, rolling joyously (or so it seemed) in the dirt. Later at the visitor center, I learned that many of

these bulls live alone, as the animals tend to become more solitary with age.

Continuing north, we passed prairie dog towns, open meadows where the comical little rodents live by the hundreds. I could spend hours watching them pop out of their burrows, paws tucked adorably to chests, or scampering awkwardly about, occasionally pausing to nuzzle a neighbor. A favorite meal for many predators, they’re constantly communicating dangers to one another with chirping noises that sound remarkably like squeaky toys.

Around us loomed a seemingly limitless expanse of striped, weathered rock, punctuated occasionally by splotches of green. The peaks’ reddish tones and barren look gave it a feeling of Marslike otherworldliness, and I could tell what Roosevelt meant by his description of the Badlands as “grim beauty� - a landscape that was mysteriously severe and inviting at the same time.

Eager to explore more on foot, we woke up early for a ranger hike in the Petrified Forest Loop, a part of the park that’s designated wilderness, meaning only limited, non-motorized activities, such as hiking and horseback riding, are allowed. At the gate, park ranger Erik Jensen encouraged us to consider how few people have treaded here in modern times: “It’s neat to get that feeling in this day in age.�

Yet any reverie was quickly interrupted by a steady drumming sound in the distance, which Jensen told us was related to the oil industry. North Dakota is in the midst of an unprecedented oil boom as many companies hydraulic fracture, or “frack,� the Bakken formation, one of the largest contiguous deposits of oil and natural gas in the United States. Evidence of it is everywhere in the region. On our hike, we could even see pump jacks nodding on distant hills.

The industrial sounds faded as we hiked farther across the hot, sunny prairie. The colors dazzled, from silvery sagebrush to dark green junipers to coppery reds and browns of the distant buttes. Bubblegum-pink prairie roses and yellow prairie coneflower, whose blossoms look like miniature sombreros, framed the path. At a trail intersection, Jensen stopped to point out a strangely blank metal plate on a wooden pole: Park bison, he explained, scratch themselves on the poles and rub the trail names and distances off in the process. (More on that later.)

We hiked into a wide valley littered with stumps of petrified wood, trees that had been buried and fossilized eons ago, when the Badlands were a giant swamp. Climbing a hill to see a particularly tall stump, I looked across the valley and noticed the rounded, telltale hulk of a bison, which, as usual, gave my heart a little boost. Jensen told me later that seeing bison never gets old for him, either: “Every time I see them,� he said, “it’s a reminder I’m in a wild place.�

Our day took a wilder turn at Cottonwood Campground - named for the tall trees that line the nearby Little Missouri River - during an evening park program called “Biological Bad Boys.� White fluffs of cottonwood seed blew about as ranger Jeff Zylland schooled our enthusiastic class of tourists and campers on North Dakota predators. Wolves and bears, the latter of which Roosevelt pursued in his day, had long ago been hunted out of the area, he told us, and only one mountain lion is thought to roam the park. But other wily characters remain: He put up an amazing picture of a coyote and badger hunting together in a prairie dog town, which he referred to as “the

refrigerator of the Badlands.� A tourist, I noted with envy, had taken the photo.

But he truly shocked the group with his slide of a prairie dog and the words: “Cute, cuddly, cannibal killers.� Female prairie dogs, scientists have discovered, will sometimes kill their close relatives’ babies, and can be seen fleeing the crime scene with blood-covered faces. “Did I ruin prairie dogs for anyone?� he asked. “Yes!� a girl shouted from the front row. Zylland ended the program with a reminder that Roosevelt ushered in the idea of conservation as protecting the whole ecosystem - as he puts it, “the good, the bad and the ugly.�

Driving back to our cabin that night, we got in a few more good-critter sightings: A male elk, antlers tiered higher than a wedding cake, trotted in front of our headlights, and a colorful herd of feral horses grazed near the road, a tiny jet-black foal with a white blaze romping among them. Our streak continued the next morning when a small herd of pronghorn - arguably North America’s fastest land animal - galloped across the grasslands. Laughing, Brian pointed out a male with some unusual headgear: a huge sagebrush tangled in his horns. “Looks like Lady Gaga of the prairie,� I said.

By our last day in the park, we’d seen many of the usual suspects, plus a bull snake, a mama mule deer with twins, goldfinches and a turkey. The only big-ticket item we had yet to see was bighorn sheep, which only live in the North Unit, about an hour’s drive

north, where the people are even fewer and the scenery more grandiose.

We set out along the forested Caprock Coulee Trail, dodging squishy bison “pies� as dragonflies darted overhead like little aerial bombers. Hiking up to a ridge, I was admiring the gorgeous Badland views when my stomach lurched: The trail marker had been rubbed blank, just like in the Petrified Forest. Studying the park map as best we could, Brian and I took one trail, only to discover it led to a cliff. After a few nervous minutes, we got back on track - no thanks to itchy bison.

Our final North Unit stop was the panoramic Oxbow Overlook, where we looked through our binoculars in vain for bighorn sheep that might be clambering among the rocky buttes. Maybe that’s because there were fewer of them, as many of these acrobatic animals have died recently because of pneumonia transmitted from domestic livestock.

But our luck hadn’t run out yet.

On our last drive through Theodore Roosevelt, we rounded a bend and exclaimed at the tableau laid out before us: A bison herd, with animals of all different ages and sizes, smattered across the valley. Cinnamon-hued babies played beside their mothers and massive bulls rested regally in the grass.

To top it off, a pair of feisty young males butted heads right in front of us. I struggled to find a word to describe my delight when “Bully!� came to mind. Teddy would’ve surely approved.

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Penalties cost Rebels

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Hitmen 4 Rebels 1 CALGARY — It was on Oct. 2 that the Red Deer Rebels were not assessed a single minor penalty during a 5-1 home-ice win over the Swift Current Broncos.

That infraction-free evening must now seem like two months ago to Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, whose club coughed up three power play goals Friday in a 4-1 Western Hockey League loss to the Calgary Hitmen before 6,370 fans at the Saddledome.

Not coincidentally, the Rebels — after four straight wins to open the season — suffered their first loss Tuesday at Lethbridge while surrendering three goals while short-handed.

“We’re taking bad penalties and our penalty killing is bad. Our penalty kill is not doing things right so we have to make some changes,” said Sutter.

The Hitmen struck first Friday as Travis Sanheim beat Rebels netmind-

er Rylan Toth at 11:19 of the opening frame with Red Deer forward Evan Polei off for hooking.

“The costly penalties we’re taking are stick infraction penalties,” said Sutter. “You can’t take the tripping and hooking penalties.

“The penalties are bad enough,

a tripping penalty, Hitmen rearguard Jake Bean notched the eventual winner at 15:25.

The Hitmen then potted back-toback power play tallies early in the second period, with Radel Fazleev and Bean pulling the trigger. The game was scoreless the rest of the way.

‘WE’RE NOT PLAYING SMART. WE TALKED THE LAST TWO DAYS ABOUT BEING MORE DISCIPLINED AND NOT TAKING BAD PENALTIES. AND THEN WE COME OUT TONIGHT AND TAKE STICK INFRACTION PENALTIES AGAIN.’ — BRENT SUTTER REBELS GM/HEAD COACH but when the (opposition) power play starts off the faceoff, we’re losing the draws. That’s a killer.”

Ivan Nikolishin drew the Rebels even with his fourth goal of the season at 12:55 of the first period, but just as Red Deer defenceman Colton Bobyk stepped back on the ice after serving

“Five-on-five, I thought we were right there,” said Sutter, identifying a positive. “The shots on goals were pretty close.

“During the first period and the last 10 to 12 minutes of the second, we were pretty good. It’s just the penalties you take, they shift momentum. You have

momentum then take a bad penalty and they score on it. It kills you. It kills your momentum.

“We’re not playing smart. We talked the last two days about being more disciplined and not taking bad penalties.

And then we come out tonight and take stick infraction penalties again.”

Hitmen netminder Lasse Petersen made 22 saves, one more than Toth.

The hosts were three-for-six on the power play; the Rebels zero-for-three.

The clubs tangle again tonight at the Centrium.

“We have to regroup, we have a chance to play the same team again,” said Sutter. “Obviously these series within the (Central) division are huge.”

The Rebels will head west Monday on a B.C. division road trip that will start Tuesday at Kamloops and will also include visits to Kelowna, Victoria and Vancouver. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Toronto digs itself a deep hole

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Texas 6 Toronto 4 TORONTO — From a game that had everything, the Toronto Blue Jays left with nothing.

After yielding two runs to the Rangers with two outs in the 14th inning in a crushing 6-4 loss Friday, the Jays headed to Texas knowing that one more slip-up will be their last in the best-of-five American League Division Series.

Texas won the opener Thursday 5-3, beating Jays ace David Price.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

Toronto strutted its way to the AL East title, hammering balls over fences wherever it went.

But the AL West champion Rangers have proven to be a formidable foe, with depth, character and good pitching.

“The task at hand is pretty simple — we have to win or we go home,” said Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson, who stirred the pot several times Friday. “That being said I like our chances just for the fact of the team we have in here.”

The action switches to Arlington for games Sunday and, if necessary, Monday. It’s up to Marco Estrada to keep the series alive in a matchup with Martin Perez at Globe Life Park.

“It won’t be easy, they got a great team over there,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons. “They outplayed us both games.

“Today was a great ball game … they outlasted us,” he added. “It doesn’t surprise me because they got that good a team. They can keep coming. Very balanced.

“They’ve got some real good arms they can keep in the bullpen.”

Toronto appears to have lost one of its top arms in reliever Brett Cecil, who pulled up lame after taking part in a rundown and was later seen wearing a walking boot. Gibbons said the left-hander had a “pretty significant

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Texas Rangers’ Rougned Odor, left, slides safely past the tag of Toronto Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin to score on a sacrifice fly during second inning game two American League Division Series baseball action in Toronto on Friday. tear in his calf, so that’s not very good.”

Neither bullpen blinked until the 14th inning of a game that came in three minutes shy of five hours.

Jays nemesis Rougned Odor beat out an outfield single off LaTroy Hawkins, the Jays’ seventh pitcher, to start

the two-out rally. Chris Gimenez then singled with Odor escaping a tag at second on the play after a video review.

Hanser Alberto’s single up the middle scored Odor, with Gimenez moving to third and Alberto to second. Deli-

Matthews throws three TDs to bury Riders

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Hamilton 30 Saskatchewan 15 HAMILTON — Jeff Mathews’ shoulders are feeling a little lighter.

The 24-year-old rookie quarterback threw the first three touchdown passes of his CFL career to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 30-15 over the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Tim Hortons Field in CFL action Friday night.

“It (feels) more like a little bit of weight off your back after playing three games,” said the Cornell product. “Now it’s been lifted, we can just go play and not think about it.”

It was his second CFL career start with the Ticats — and his first win — after having to take over for starter Zach Collaros in the second quarter of Week 13’s game against Edmonton, a 25-18 loss in which he threw two picks returned for touchdowns, one interception in the end zone and one fumble. Things weren’t much better last week in his first start — a 23-20 loss to Calgary in which he threw one interception and had one fumble.

This time Mathews had zero turnovers and completed 22-of-33 pass attempts for 385 yards.

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats running back Michael Ford (27) makes run as Saskatchewan Roughriders’ Marshay Green and Andre Monroe (99) defend during the first half of CFL football action in Hamilton on Friday.

“We finally got our execution level up,” he said, crediting the play-making ability of his receivers. “We were able, obviously, to… make some great plays.

It was a great day.”

Mathews’ first TD pass was a nineyard strike to fellow Cornell alumnus Luke Tasker midway through the second quarter that was set up by an Ed Gainey blocked punt recovered near the goal line. He followed that late in the half with a 91-yard drive ending with a six-yard strike to Tiquan Underwood and in the third with an 87-yard catch-and-run to Terrell Sinkfield — Hamilton’s longest play from scrim-

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mage this season.

Head coach Kent Austin had been saying all week his starter just needed to get some game experience.

“When he gets that experience, and has to face different situations and conditions and adversity and things, he’ll get a lot better, and he has,” said Austin. “He was very poised I thought today. We protected him well and the receivers really played well. They made some big catches, some big plays for him. But he was very accurate.”

Hamilton snapped a two-game losing skid to improve to 9-5 and take sole possession of first place in the CFL

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no DeShields then beat out an infield single off Liam Hendriks to drive in Gimenez.

Please see JAYS on Page B5 East. Saskatchewan fell to 2-13 and is eliminated from playoff contention for only the second time since 2002.

“At the beginning of the year, that’s the goal (making the playoffs),” said Roughrider head coach Bob Dyce.

“Now realizing (we are out), it’s a little disheartening. We now have three games and we are going to keep fighting. Obviously, our focus changes.”

Saskatchewan was down 20-0 at the end of the first half, so rookie pivot Brett Smith was sent in to replace starter Kevin Glenn to start the second. He hit Weston Dressler for a 79-yard catch-and-run TD and Ryan Smith with a 68-yard TD strike. He also threw one interception.

Glenn made 11-of-17 pass attempts for 67 yards and one interception in the first half. Smith completed 11-of-20 pass attempts for 243 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.

Smith’s opening drive ended with an interception by Courtney Stephen at the Saskatchewan 21 and returned to the 18. When Hamilton failed to get the first down on a botched fake 22-yard field-goal attempt, the Roughriders got the ball back on their own eight.

Three plays later, Smith found the wide-open Dressler downfield and the score was 20-7 4:53 into the second half.

Hamilton got that back four minutes later when Sinkfield escaped a tackle after a 10-yard pass from Mathews and ran it the rest of the way for an 87-yard score and the 27-7 lead.

Ticats kicker Justin Medlock’s 18-yard field goal with 4:34 left in the game followed by Smith’s 68-yard TD catch-and run, with a two-point convert with 1:57 left, finished the scoring.

Medlock hit all three field-goal attempts, from 25, 44 and 18 yards.

Saskatchewan kicker Paul McCallum missed from 27 yards out.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015 B5

RDC Kings finish strong QUEENS CAN’T TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Kings 88 Eagles 62 One problem that’s hurt the RDC basketball Kings so far during the exhibition season has been their lack of finish.

That wasn’t the case Friday as they started slowly, but finished strong in downing The Kings University Eagles 88-62 in the Ramada Inns and Suites RDC Basketball Classic.

“I was glad to see we finished well, but then we still have yet to put together four solid quarters,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger. “But then I actually though they (Eagles) played terrific. They were solid the whole way, out-rebounded us, especially in the first half, made shots and played well defensively. We were a bit sloppy, but they played well.”

The Kings trailed 9-4 early, before going on a 12-0 run and leading 16-12 after 10 minutes. The Eagles came back to tie the score at 16 early in the second quarter. The Kings only led 35-34 at the half, but a 3218 third quarter put the game away.

Two newcomers – Rodney Teal of Oklahoma City and Anthony Ottley of Toronto – led the Kings offensively finishing with 23 and 20 points respectively.

However, several of the bench players play a major role as the Kings pulled away. Lindsay Thurber grad Spencer Klassen nailed a pair of three-point shots to put the Kings up by 14 and first-year guard Michael Gini of Kelowna also drained a three.

“Spencer had some great minutes, as did Gini,” said Pottinger. “Last night we went nine players deep and tonight we used all 12. It was great to see the depth and the quality of the players coming in off the bench.”

The Kings face the University of Northern B.C. from Prince George today at 4 p.m. while the Eagles clash with Montana State University at 2 p.m.

In other play Friday MSU downed UNBC 70-59.

Astros tie series KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Every move Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch made seemed to work in Game 1 of the AL Division Series. Every move he tried in Game 2 seemed to go awry.

The Kansas City Royals took advantage, rallying from a three-run hole for a 5-4 victory Friday that evened their series at a game apiece as it shifts to Houston.

“We didn’t execute,” Hinch said. “That’s baseball.”

It didn’t work when Hinch pulled starter Scott Kazmir in the sixth inning, as Oliver Perez and the rest of the Astros bullpen melted down, allowing Kansas City to score twice and knot the game 4-all.

Nor when Hinch pulled his outfielders in to start the seventh, and Alcides Escobar lofted a triple off Will Harris (0-1) over their heads. Ben Zobrist followed with a go-ahead single.

And certainly not when Hinch pinch ran with Carlos Gomez in the ninth, and the speedster wandered too far off first base. Royals closer Wade Davis snapped a throw to Eric Hosmer, and he neatly snagged it on one hop as Gomez dived back to the bag. Gomez was initially ruled safe, but the call was overturned upon review for the second out of the inning.

Jose Altuve then grounded out to end it, giving Davis the save.

Griffins 74 Queens 36 The Queens looked tight, especially on the offensive end, as they dropped a 74-36 decision to the Grant MacEwan University Griffins in women’s tournament play.

“We certainly didn’t shoot the ball well and we didn’t defend as well as we want to either,” said Queens head coach Ken King. “I think there were a lot of nerves playing for the first time in our gym, but then I’m not going to make excuses either. We just didn’t take care of business.”

The Queens missed a number of layups in the first half as they fell behind 17-8 and 38-18 by quarters.

The third quarter saw them pick up the defence as they limited the CIS school to just 11 points, but they managed to score only three. They found some of their offence in the fourth quarter, scoring 15 points, but they did allow 25.

On the positive side was the play of newcomer Paige Sneed from Oklahoma, who played better and better as the game wore on and finished with 15 points. As well several players came in off the bench and didn’t look out of place.

“Our girls off the bench always come in hungry,” said King. “It’s important for everyone to come in as hungry as they are.”

Megan Wood, who is a fifth-year player and a former backup setter with the RDC Queens volleyball team, led the Griffins with 23 points.

The Queens meet Augustana Vikings of Camrose tonight at 6 p.m. and UNBC at 10 a.m. on Sunday.

In other action Friday UNBC downed Augustana 72-59.

• In men’s hockey action Friday at Edmonton, the RDC Kings fell 5-0 to the NAIT Ooks, who fired 52 shots at RDC goalies Devon Fordyce and Mike Salmon. The Kings directed 28 shots at the NAIT goal.

The clubs meet again tonight at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

It was a crucial victory considering what awaits Kansas City in Game 3 on Sunday: Astros ace Dallas Keuchel, who was 15-0 at home this season. Edinson Volquez will start for the Royals.

Lackey out duels Lester ST. LOUIS — John Lackey outpitched old teammate Jon Lester, allowing two hits into the eighth inning, and rookies Tommy Pham and Stephen Piscotty each homered late as the St. Louis Cardinals cooled off the Chicago Cubs with a 4-0 victory Friday night in the opener of their NL Division Series.

In front of a standing room only crowd of 47,830 — the second-largest at 10-year-old Busch Stadium — thousands of Cubs faithful mixed into the red throng for the first post-season game between the two longtime rivals.

Lackey held the Cubs hitless for five innings, getting help from Kris Bryant’ double-play ball by to end the fourth. Addison Russell ended the suspense with a solid single up the middle to open the sixth and Kyle Schwarber’s bunt hit leading off the seventh was the only other hit allowed by Lackey in 7 1-3 innings.

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JAYS: A baseball smorgasbord Alberto, who was in for the injured Adrian Beltre, used one of DeShields’ bats for the key hit after taking a liking to it in batting practice.

“You look up and down the lineup and you track us throughout the year, it’s not surprising that somebody at the end of that bench or end of that lineup contributes to what we’ve got going on because that’s how we play the game,” said Texas manager Jeff Banister.

Russ Ohlendorf took care of the Jays in the bottom of the 14th, hitting Russell Martin with a pitch with two outs before striking out Kevin Pillar.

Five Rangers relievers combined to limit the Jays to two hits in seven innings.

Friday’s game ranks as Toronto’s longest post-season game by innings. The Jays, now 3-2 in playoff extra innings, have gone to 11 innings on three previous occasions.

The game was a baseball smorgasbord, with something for all tastes. Good pitching, great fielding, managerial moves and tactical hitting.

Not to mention drama.

The bench emptied with one out in the 13th after Donaldson hit a blast just foul to left-field with one out. Keone Kela, the fifth Rangers pitcher, took umbrage at Donaldson’s salty post-pitch comments and had to be held back. Nothing came of the incident, however.

“We made eye contact and exchanged a few words,” said Donaldson. “He didn’t back down and I didn’t back down.”

After Donaldson struck out and Jose Bautista walked, Edwin Encarnacion flied out to the warning track in centre field.

Donaldson, the Jays MVP candidate, had homered in the first inning just hours after going through a concussion check necessitated by a collision in Thursday’s game.

Both bullpens did their job as the innings kept coming.

Jays closer Roberto Osuna pitched a 1-2-3 ninth and 10th. Rangers left-hander Jake Diekman, hitting 99 m.p.h. at times, matched him both innings.

Texas had the winning run on third with two outs in the 11th after a pair of Mark Lowe walks but lefthander Aaron Loup rescued the former Ranger by inducing Josh Hamilton to fly out.

Pinch-runner Dalton Pompey made it to third with two outs in the 12th after Chris Colabello opened the inning with a single, but Shawn Tolleson shut down the Jays’ rally.

Texas’ Will Venable got on with a broken bat single off Aaron Sanchez with two outs in the 13th but nothing more came of it.

Neither team seemed too happy with umpire Vic Carapazza’s strike zone.

“There was complaining on both sides, but it’s behind us,” said Gibbons.

The game was a duel between Marcus Stroman and Rangers ace Cole Hamels for seven innings.

Stroman left with a 4-3 lead after yielding a leadoff single to DeShields in the eighth. But Cecil could not hold down the fort.

After a sacrifice bunt moved DeShields to second, Cecil struck out Prince Fielder.

Only

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Grizzlys drop OT thriller OKOTOKS — Carson Beers scored at 2:10 of overtime to nudge the Okotoks Oilers past the Olds Grizzlys 5-4 in an Alberta Junior Hockey League game Friday.

Carter Huber, with two goals, Nolan Thompson and Colin ONeill also tallied for the Oilers in front of 577 fans at Pason Centennial Arena.

The Grizzlys got first-period goals from Tristan Thompson and Riley Smith and second-period markers from Chase Olsen and Landon Kletke.

The Grizzlys led 2-1 after one period and the clubs were knotted 4-4 after 40 minutes. The Oilers were one-for-three on the power play, with the Grizzlys one-for-two with a man advantage.

Winning netminder Riley Morris made 19 saves.

Kurtis Chapman turned aside 30 shots for Olds.

The Grizzlys are in Drayton Valley tonight to face the Thunder.

Mariners fire McClendon after two seasons in charge SEATTLE — Given the opportunity that he didn’t get in his previous stop as a general manager, Jerry Dipoto decided the best move for the Seattle Mariners was to bring in his own field boss from the start.

That was reasoning behind Dipoto’s decision to fire manager Lloyd McClendon on Friday after two seasons. Instead of moving forward with someone who had differing baseball views, Dipoto will start his tenure in Seattle with someone he chooses.

“Everything we do is as a group,” Dipoto said.

“This isn’t an indictment of Lloyd. This is a representation of what we would like to build going forward. That is what we’ll do.”

McClendon’s firing was far from a surprise and came less than a week after the Mariners concluded a disappointing 76-86 season. Seattle started the year with expectations of contending in the AL West and reaching the post-season, but instead finished in fourth place in the division.

Dipoto was hired during the final week of the regular season to replace Jack Zduriencik.

Game 2 of the best-of-five series is Saturday. The Cardinals turn to lefty Jaime Garcia (10-6), who made 20 starts coming off risky thoracic surgery. Kyle Hendricks (8-7) makes his post-season debut for the NL wild-card winners.

Matt Holliday had an RBI single in the first, giving St. Louis a lead after just three at-bats. Pinch-hitting, Pham homered off Lester with one out in the eighth to snap a string of 13 straight outs for the lefty.

Piscotty had a two-run shot off Pedro Strop in the eighth.

The 36-year-old Lackey outdid Lester, with whom he formed a potent 1-2 punch on the 2013 Red Sox, the team that knocked off the Cardinals in the World Series.

Lackey is 3-0 with an 0.93 ERA in four starts against Chicago overall. Lester is 1-4, but he has a 2.79 ERA against St. Louis.

Including their wild-card victory at Pittsburgh, the Cubs had won nine in a row. They haven’t scored since the fifth inning of that 4-0 victory, however.

Lester, the Cubs’ big off-season free-agent pickup, settled in for an impressive night after the first. Piscotty doubled with one out and scored on Holliday’s single. Lester struck out nine and gave up three runs on five hits in 7 1-3 innings.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● Peewee AA hockey: West Central at Central Alberta, 11 a.m., Lacombe. ● Rodeo: Foothills Cowboys Association Finals, 1 and 7 p.m., Westerner Stockmens Pavilion. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Central Alberta, 2 p.m., Stettler; Calgary Canucks at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● College preseason basketball: Ramada Inns Classic at RDC — RDC Kings vs.

University of Northern B.C., 4 p.m., RDC Queens vs. Camrose Augustana, 6 p.m.; other games at noon and 2 p.m. ● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College hockey: NAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: High River at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday ● College preseason basketball: Ramada Inns Classic at RDC — RDC Queens vs.

University of Northern B.C., 10 a.m.; second game at noon. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Steel Kings, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Rodeo: Foothills Cowboys Association Finals, 1 p.m., Westerner Stockmens Pavilion. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.

Soccer GF 55 39 45 51 55 44 44 47 40 42

GA 39 40 45 53 53 43 54 53 51 52

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA x-FC Dallas 15 10 6 51 47 38 x-Los Angeles 14 9 9 51 53 39 Vancouver 15 12 5 50 42 34 Sporting KC 13 9 9 48 46 41 Seattle 14 13 5 47 40 34 San Jose 12 12 8 44 39 37 Portland 12 11 8 44 31 36 Houston 11 13 8 41 41 45 Real Salt Lake 11 12 8 41 37 43 Colorado 8 13 10 34 30 38 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. x- clinched playoff berth Wednesday’s Games New York 2, Montreal 1 Vancouver 0, FC Dallas 0, tie Saturday’s Games Montreal at Colorado, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 14 New York at Toronto FC, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at FC Dallas, 7 p.m.

Portland at Real Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

GA Pts 7 18 7 16 8 16 7 15 15 15 11 14 8 13 7 13 10 12 10 12 10 10 7 10 14 9 10 9 12 8 17 8 11 8 13 4 18 3 17 3

Sunday, Oct. 18 Newcastle vs. Norwich, 1500 GMT Monday, Oct. 19 Swansea vs. Stoke, 1900 GMT

W 4 3 3 3 3

MP x-New Zealand 4 x-Argentina 3 Georgia 4 Tonga 4 Namibia 3

x-Ireland x-France Italy Romania Canada

MP 3 3 3 3 4

GA 11 15 17 17 28 37

Pt 10 8 8 5 5 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Victoria 6 5 1 0 0 24 13 10 Kelowna 7 5 2 0 0 34 29 10 Vancouver 7 3 2 1 1 30 35 8 Prince George 3 1 2 0 0 6 7 2 Kamloops 5 0 5 0 0 12 24 0 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Spokane 5 3 2 0 0 16 17 6 Tri-City 4 2 1 1 0 17 18 5 Everett 3 2 1 0 0 6 6 4 Seattle 3 1 1 1 0 11 10 3 Portland 3 0 3 0 0 7 13 0 z-league title y-conference title d-division leader x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top two positions per conference regardless of points a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Friday’s results Brandon 13 Kootenay 1 Regina 6 Vancouver 5 (OT) Edmonton 4 Moose Jaw 3 (SO) Calgary 4 Red Deer 1 Lethbridge 7 Medicine Hat 0 Swift Current 5 Saskatoon 0 Tri-City at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Today’s games Edmonton at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

PF 126 105 73 84 27

PA 29 47 72 101 166

Pt 13 13 6 5 0

PA 176 100 70 36 32

56 60 82 88 128

Pt 16 10 8 4 0

PF 174 115 53 70 51

PA 49 51 123 130 110

Pt 19 10 8 6 1

PF 110 111 42 38 58

PA 26 39 66 97 131

Pt 14 14 5 4 2

Friday’s result New Zealand 47 Tonga 9 Saturday’s matches Samoa vs. Scotland, 9:30 a.m.

Australia vs. Wales, 11:45 a.m.

England vs. Uruguay, 3 p.m.

Sunday’s matches Argentina vs. Namibia, 7 a.m.

Italy vs. Romania, 9:30 a.m.

France vs. Ireland, 11:45 a.m.

U.S. vs. Japan, 3 p.m.

End of Preliminary Round

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Detroit 1 1 0 0 2 4 Montreal 1 1 0 0 2 3 Ottawa 1 1 0 0 2 3 Tampa Bay 1 1 0 0 2 3 Florida 0 0 0 0 0 0 Buffalo 1 0 1 0 0 1 Boston 1 0 1 0 0 2 Toronto 2 0 2 0 0 1 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Rangers 2 2 0 0 4 7 N.Y. Islanders 1 0 0 1 1 2 Philadelphia 1 0 0 1 1 2 Washington 0 0 0 0 0 0 Carolina 1 0 1 0 0 1 Columbus 1 0 1 0 0 2 New Jersey 1 0 1 0 0 1 Pittsburgh 1 0 1 0 0 0

GA 0 1 1 2 0 3 6 7

Red Wings 4, Maple Leafs 0 First Period 1. Detroit, Abdelkader 1 (Franzen, Zetterberg) 1:15 (pp).

2. Detroit, Abdelkader 2 (Larkin, Kindl) 8:20.

Penalties — Lupul Tor (hooking) 1:04, Marincin Tor (holding) 3:21, Det Bench (too many men) 4:14, Phaneuf Tor (roughing) 19:43, Ericsson Det (roughing) 19:43.

Second Period 3. Detroit, Larkin 1 (Zetterberg, Green) :20.

4. Detroit, Abdelkader 3 (Quincey, Zetterberg) 3:54.

Penalties — Quincey Det (roughing) 8:51, Nyquist Det (tripping) 11:59, Gardiner Tor (tripping) 19:36.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Phaneuf Tor (slashing) 12:56.

Shots on goal by Toronto 9 7 6 — 22 Detroit 8 8 6 — 22 Goal —

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Jets 3, Devils 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Merrill NJ (tripping) 9:49, Cammalleri NJ (tripping) 18:39.

Second Period 1. Winnipeg, Scheifele 2 (Ehlers, Perreault) 1:13.

2. Winnipeg, Wheeler 2 (Ladd, Myers) 3:56.

3. New Jersey, Tlusty 1 (Cammalleri, Stempniak) 12:53 (pp).

4. Winnipeg, Ladd 1 (Perreault, Wheeler) 16:21 (pp).

Penalties — Myers Wpg (interference) 12:08, Boucher NJ (delay of game) 15:21, Gionta NJ (slashing) 17:38, Wheeler Wpg (hooking) 18:29.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Perreault Wpg (tripping) 10:21, Byfuglien Wpg (tripping) 19:39.

Shots on goal by Winnipeg 12 11 7 — 30 New Jersey 4 7 10 — 21 Goal — Winnipeg: Hutchinson (W, 1-0-0) New Jersey: Schneider (L, 0-1-0).

GA 4 3 3 0 2 4 3 3

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Winnipeg 2 2 0 0 4 9 Dallas 1 1 0 0 2 3 St. Louis 1 1 0 0 2 3 Minnesota 1 1 0 0 2 5 Nashville 1 1 0 0 2 2 Chicago 2 1 1 0 2 5 Colorado 1 0 1 0 0 4 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF San Jose 1 1 0 0 2 5 Vancouver 1 1 0 0 2 5 Anaheim 0 0 0 0 0 0 Arizona 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edmonton 1 0 1 0 0 1 Calgary 1 0 1 0 0 1 Los Angeles 1 0 1 0 0 1

2. Columbus, Atkinson 1 (Dubinsky) 10:59.

Penalties — Fast NYR (slashing) 1:20, Boyle NYR (tripping) 4:09, Zuccarello NYR (roughing) 18:57.

Third Period 3. Columbus, Saad 1 (Murray, Johansen) 16:10 (pp).

4. NY Rangers, Lindberg 2 (Miller) 17:24.

5. NY Rangers, Hayes 1 (Girardi, Stepan) 17:41.

6. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 2 (unassisted) 18:41.

Penalties — McDonagh NYR (delay of game) 15:58.

Shots on goal by NY Rangers 6 10 9 — 25 Columbus 9 14 10 — 33 Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 2-0-0) Columbus: Bobrovsky (L, 0-1-0).

Friday’s Games Winnipeg 3, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Rangers 4, Columbus 2 Detroit 4, Toronto 0 Chicago 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, OT Arizona at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Montreal at Boston, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Florida, 5 p.m.

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

New Jersey at Washington, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Nashville, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Arizona, 8 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Montreal at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Tri-City at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Prince Albert at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Edmonton at Regina, 4 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 4 p.m.

Prince Albert at Everett, 5:05 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct.13 Regina at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Prince Albert at Portland, 8 p.m.

GA 3 0 1 4 1 5 5 GA 1 1 0 0 3 5 5

Blackhawks 3, Islanders 2 (OT) First Period 1. Chicago, Anisimov 1 (unassisted) 13:28 (sh).

Penalties — De Haan NYI (hooking) 8:33, Chi Bench (too many men) 11:59.

Second Period 2. NY Islanders, Tavares 1 (Boychuk, Cizikas) 5:22.

3. Chicago, Kane 1 (Toews, Keith) 15:11.

Penalties — Cizikas NYI (roughing) 3:03.

Third Period 4. NY Islanders, Zidlicky 1 (Nelson, Kulemin) 1:18.

Penalties — Toews Chi (interference) 10:41.

Overtime 5. Chicago, Kane 2 (Hossa, Keith) 1:49 (pp).

Penalties — Leddy NYI (slashing) 1:25.

Shots on goal by Chicago 12 10 10 3 — 35 NY Islanders 12 11 12 1 — 36 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (W, 1-1-0) NY Islanders:

RANGERS 4, Blue Jackets 2 First Period 1. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 1 (unassisted) 19:16.

Penalties — Boll Clb (roughing) 4:56, Boll Clb (cross-checking) 4:56, Staal NYR (roughing) 4:56, Bourque Clb (roughing) 12:52, Stoll NYR (stick holding) 15:26.

Second Period

Greiss (LO, 0-0-1).

Baseball 2015 Postseason WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 6: Houston 3, New York 0 Wednesday, Oct. 7: Chicago 4, Pittsburgh 0 DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5 x-if necessary) American League Houston 1, Kansas City 1 Thursday, Oct. 8: Houston 5, Kansas City 2 Friday, Oct. 9: Kansas City 5, Houston 4 Sunday, Oct. 11: Kansas City (Volquez 13-9) at Houston (Keuchel 20-8), 4:10 p.m. (MLBN) Monday, Oct. 12: Kansas City at Houston, 11:07 a.m. (FS1) x-Wednesday, Oct. 14: Houston at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m. (FS1) Texas 2, Toronto 0 Thursday, Oct. 8: Texas 5, Toronto 3 Friday, Oct. 9: Texas 6, Toronto 4, 14 innings Sunday, Oct. 11: Toronto (Estrada 13-8) at Texas (Perez 3-6), 6:10 p.m. (FS1) x-Monday, Oct. 12: Toronto (Dickey 11-11) at Texas, 1:07 or 2:07 p.m.(FS1) x-Wednesday, Oct. 14: Texas at Toronto, 2:07 or 8:07 p.m. (FS1)

St. Louis 1, Chicago 0 Friday, Oct. 9: St. Louis 4, Chicago 0 Saturday, Oct. 10: Chicago (Hendricks 8-7) at St. Louis (Garcia 10-6), 3:37 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12: St. Louis (Wacha 17-7) at Chicago (Arrieta 22-6), 2:37 or 4:07 p.m. x-Tuesday, Oct. 13: St. Louis (Lynn 12-11) at Chicago (Hammel 10-7), 2:37 or 6:07 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 15: Chicago at St. Louis, 4:37 or 8:07 p.m.

Los Angeles vs. New York Friday, Oct. 9: New York (deGrom 14-8) at Los Angeles (Kershaw 16-7), 7:45 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10: New York (Syndergaard 9-7) at Los Angeles (Greinke 19-3), 7:07 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12: Los Angeles (Anderson 10-9) at New York (Harvey 13-8), 6:07 or 6:37 p.m. x-Tuesday, Oct. 13: Los Angeles at New York, 6:07 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 15: New York at Los Angeles, 6:07 p.m.

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7 x-if necessary) American League Friday, Oct. 16: Texas-Toronto winner at Kansas

City or Houston at Texas-Toronto winner (FOX or FS1) Saturday, Oct. 17: Texas-Toronto winner at Kansas City or Houston at Texas-Toronto winner (FOX or FS1) Monday, Oct. 19: Kansas City at Texas-Toronto winner or Texas-Toronto winner at Houston (FOX or FS1) Tuesday, Oct. 20: Kansas City at Texas-Toronto winner or Texas-Toronto winner at Houston (FOX or FS1) x-Wednesday, Oct. 21: Kansas City at Texas-Toronto winner or Texas-Toronto winner at Houston (FOX or FS1) x-Friday, Oct. 23: Texas-Toronto winner at Kansas City or Houston at Texas-Toronto winner (FOX or FS1) x-Saturday, Oct. 24: Texas-Toronto winner at Kansas City or Houston at Texas-Toronto winner (FOX or FS1) National League Saturday, Oct. 17: Los Angeles-New York winner at St. Louis or Chicago at Los Angeles-New York winner Sunday, Oct. 18: Los Angeles-New York winner at St. Louis or Chicago at Los Angeles-New York

winner Tuesday, Oct. 20: St. Louis at Los Angeles-New York winner or Los Angeles-New York winner at Chicago Wednesday, Oct. 21: St. Louis at Los Angeles-New York winner or Los Angeles-New York winner at Chicago x-Thursday, Oct. 22: St. Louis at Los Angeles-New York winner or Los Angeles-New York winner at Chicago x-Saturday, Oct. 24: Los Angeles-New York winner at St. Louis or Chicago at Los Angeles-New York winner x-Sunday, Oct. 25: Los Angeles-New York winner at St. Louis or Chicago at Los Angeles-New York winner WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7) Tuesday, Oct. 27: at American Wednesday, Oct. 28: at AL Friday, Oct. 30: at National League Saturday, Oct. 31: at NL x-Sunday, Nov. 1: at NL x-Tuesday, Nov. 3: at AL x-Wednesday, Nov. 4: at AL

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Central Alberta High School League City Division W L T F 4 0 0 137 2 2 0 81 2 2 0 69 0 4 0 28

Stettler Wetaskiwin RM House Sylvan Lake Camrose Ponoka Dray Valley

Rural Conference W L T F 2 1 1 106 2 1 1 120 2 1 0 32 2 1 0 87 2 2 0 70 1 2 0 33 0 3 0 14

CFL East Division GP W L T PF Hamilton 14 9 5 0 460 Toronto 13 8 5 0 350 Ottawa 14 8 6 0 354 Montreal 13 5 8 0 280 West Division GP W L T PF x-Calgary 14 11 3 0 370 x-Edmonton 14 10 4 0 350 B.C. 13 5 8 0 314 Winnipeg 14 4 10 0 269 Saskatchewan 15 2 13 0 357 x — clinched playoff berth.

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Winnipeg at B.C., 8 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12 Toronto at Montreal, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville Houston

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PA 69 108 110 125

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 2 2 0 .500 95 N.Y. Giants 2 2 0 .500 102 Washington 2 2 0 .500 78 Philadelphia 1 3 0 .250 78

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PA 113 77 107 135

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PA 71 73 125 96

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FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Tiger-Cats 30, Roughriders 15 First Quarter Ham — FG Medlock 25 12:45 Second Quarter Ham — TD Tasker 9 pass from Mathews (Medlock convert) 5:58 Ham — TD Underwood 6 pass from Mathews (Medlock convert) 13:54 Ham — FG Medlock 44 15:00 Third Quarter Sask — TD Dressler 79 pass from B.Smith (McCallum convert) 4:53 Ham — TD Sinkfield 87 pass from Mathews (Medlock convert) 8:26 Fourth Quarter Ham — FG Medlock 18 10:26 Sask — TD R.Smith 68 pass from B.Smith (twopoint convert: R.Smith 3 pass from B.Smith) 13:03 Saskatchewan 0 0 7 8 — 15 Hamilton 3 17 7 3 — 30 Attendance — 24,222 at Hamilton, Ont. National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 3 0 0 1.000 N.Y. Jets 3 1 0 .750 Buffalo 2 2 0 .500 Miami 1 3 0 .250

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PA 70 55 92 101

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

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PA 71 93 117 104

Sunday’s Games Chicago at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Detroit, 2:05 p.m.

Denver at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

New England at Dallas, 2:25 p.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Giants, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Carolina, Miami, Minnesota, N.Y. Jets Monday’s Game Pittsburgh at San Diego, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 15 Atlanta at New Orleans, 6:25 p.m.

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Saturday, Oct. 17 Tottenham vs. Liverpool, 1145 GMT Chelsea vs. Aston Villa, 1400 GMT Crystal Palace vs. West Ham, 1400 GMT Everton vs. Manchester United, 1400 GMT Manchester City vs. Bournemouth, 1400 GMT Southampton vs. Leicester City, 1400 GMT West Brom vs. Sunderland, 1400 GMT Watford vs. Arsenal, 1630 GMT

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 6 4 1 0 1 34 Moose Jaw 5 3 0 1 1 22 Prince Albert 5 4 1 0 0 23 Saskatoon 6 2 1 3 0 25 Swift Current 5 2 2 1 0 11 Regina 5 2 3 0 0 10 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Calgary 6 5 1 0 0 18 Lethbridge 6 4 2 0 0 28 Red Deer 6 4 2 0 0 22 Edmonton 5 2 2 1 0 13 Medicine Hat 6 2 3 1 0 18 Kootenay 7 1 6 0 0 14

BASEBALL American League SEATTLE MARINERS — Fired manager Lloyd McClendon, bench coach Trent Jewett, third base coach Rich Donnelly, outfield coach Andy Van Slyke and bullpen coach Mike Rojas. Announced batting coach Edgar Martinez and infield coach Chris Woodward have been invited to return to the big league staff and pitching coach Rick Waits and coach Chris Prieto have been invited to return to the Mariners organization in different roles.

American Association AMARILLO THUNDERHEADS — Exercised the 2016 contract option on INF Juan Martinez.

Frontier League JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed RHP Kaleb Ort. RIVER CITY RASCALS — Sold the contract of 3B Taylor Ard to Miami (NL). Sold the contract of SS Johnny Morales to the Rojos del Aguila de Veracruz (Mexican). Signed INF Zach Tanner.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Acquired INF Alex Tomasovich from Traverse City to complete a previous trade. Sent INF Alex Tomasovich to Gary SouthShore (AA) to complete a previous trade.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Signed INF Josh Gardnier, INF Shane Kennedy and SS Francisco Rosario.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Sold the contract of LHP Austin Wright to Arizona (NL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Utah F Trevor Booker one game for striking Los Angeles Lakers C Roy Hibbert with an open hand to the head during an Oct. 6 game.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Buffalo DE Jerry Hughes $23,152 for abusive language toward an official and $8,681 for unnecessary roughness for head-butting New York Giants OT Ereck Flowers during an Oct 4 game. Fined New York Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr. $8,681 for throwing punches and striking Buffalo’s Duke Williams. Fined St. Louis WR Stedman

Bailey $8,681 for unsportsmanlike conduct after he used the football as a pillow after catching a touchdown pass at Arizona.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed OL Chris Barker to the practice squad. Released OL Sean Hickey.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Exercised the contract options on WRs LaMark Brown, Derrick Hector and Courtney Gardner DBs Nick Taylor, Emanuel Cook, Brian Smith and Arthur Hobbs DL Austin Brown, Monte Lewis and Tim Jackson and OL Will Maxwell and Erle Ladson Indoor Football League SPOKANE SHOCK — Traded DB Elijah Lee to Cedar Rapids for WR Justin Helwege.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Agreed to terms with D Simon Despres on a fiveyear contract extension.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled D Danny Biega from Charlotte (AHL).

American Hockey League CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Signed F David Wohlberg to a professional tryout contract.

Released F Ryan Rashid.

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Signed F Alex

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Jobs added, but unemployment rises PART-TIME OUT PACES FULL-TIME JOB GROWTH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canadian economy added 12,000 jobs in September, but the unemployment rate climbed to its highest level since February 2014 as more people entered the labour force.

The gains were entirely to increased part-time work, which added 74,000 jobs, while full-time employment fell by 62,000.

“This month’s Canadian labour force survey saw the bouncing ball land on green, but it was no winner despite a decent headline,” said BMO chief economist Doug Porter, calling the loss in full-time jobs the “biggest clunker.”

However, he noted that it was an “odd” report including the 51,000-plunge in the educational services sector, which contributed to the overall loss of nearly 34,000 jobs in Ontario.

Statistics Canada said the number of people working in the education sector increased, but less than typically observed, resulting in the drop in the seasonally adjusted result.

“The plunge in education employment looks plain weird, and is likely to partly reverse next month,” Porter said.

“Probably the single truest measure in this report is the slow upward grind in the unemployment rate — with the economy only managing to grow about one per cent in real terms over the past year, it’s no shock that the jobless rate is nudging higher.”

The September jobs report was the last major piece of economic data before the federal election on Oct. 19.

The economy has been a major topic on the campaign trail as it has struggled to find a footing after contracting in the first half of the year.

The Bank of Canada has cut its key interest rate twice this year in a bid to help an economy which contracted in the first half of the year due in large part to the drop in oil prices.

In its business outlook survey, also released Friday, the central bank said business sentiment remains tepid as firms’ expectations are diverging as they adjust to weaker commodity prices and a lower Canadian dollar.

The central bank says forward-looking indicators of business activity have improved, supported by a generally positive outlook for the U.S. economy and a weaker loonie.

However, persistent weakness in commodity prices are continuing to work their way through the

economy, dampening the outlook for firms tied to the resource sector.

TD Bank economist Diana Petramala said the worst of the economic soft patch is now behind us, but challenges remain.

“For one, we continue to expect a modest pace of hiring due to a lagged impact of past weakness in real GDP growth, with the unemployment rate holding steady relatively lofty at around 7.0 per cent through the next year,” she said.

“Second, the oil sector will continue to be a sore spot for the economy with oil prices remaining low.”

In its September labour force survey, Statistics Canada said the number of self-employed increased by 31,000 in September, while public sector employment fell 29,000. The number of private sector employees climbed by 10,000. Regionally, British Columbia and Alberta both posted gains of 12,000 jobs, while Manitoba increased by 4,000.

However, Ontario saw a drop of nearly 34,000 jobs in September as losses in full-time employment were partly offset by gains in part-time work. Quebec added 11,000.

For the third quarter, the economy added 31,000 jobs compared with 33,000 in the second quarter and 63,000 in the first three months of the year.

Big, but quiet crowd hears Notley’s first big business speech

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

However, those aspirations may not sit well with craft beer drinkers, who pride themselves in supporting local products made in small batches.

Some of them quickly took to Twitter to express dismay over the future of the Mill Street brand.

“Goodbye to craft. Hello average,” posted @ Simmsation on Twitter shortly after the announcement was made.

“Oh no! What a shame, I liked Tankhouse. I need to find a new beer,” added @nfitz1, referring to one of the company’s trademark brews.

Others decided to take a more creative approach, considering ways that Labatt could mesh its Labatt Blue line with the Mill Street reputation.

“Might I suggest ‘Mill Street Blues’ as their first hybrid ale?” said @jeremysale.

Mill Street itself will also lose some of its support from the Ontario government under the province’s initiative to help grow the market share of craft brewers.

While Mill Street will still be considered a craft brewer, it will not be a “small brewer,” which strips it of certain benefits, said a spokeswoman for Finance Minister Charles Sousa.

Press secretary Kelsey Ingram said in an email that Mill Street “will now be treated as any other Labatt-owned brand.”

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley delivered her first big speech Friday to a Calgary business community reeling from the slump in crude prices and scores of resulting layoffs.

It wasn’t clear if she managed to calm any jitters during her address to more than 1,500 people in the white-collar heart of the oilpatch.

A smattering of applause greeted one remark about Alberta remaining a relatively low-tax jurisdiction, but the room was otherwise quiet throughout the speech.

At the end there was polite applause but no standing ovation.

“I actually didn’t perceive that the crowd was cold in any way,” Notley told reporters. “I think that people were listening.”

Benchmark crude prices are flirting with the US$50 a barrel mark — an improvement from recent lows, but a far cry from the US$90 level it was at a year ago and below what many producers need.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has estimated that 36,000 oil and natural gas jobs have been shed so far this year, mainly in Alberta.

Notley’s message to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce echoed much of what she’s said recently in Toronto, Montreal and New York. She touted Alberta as an attractive place to invest and stressed the importance of tackling greenhouse gas emissions.

On her eastern tour, Notley said she heard from investors about how important it is to get it right on climate change.

“Failing to move on climate change will actually generate more instability than getting in line with where the rest of the world is going,” she said.

Notley, whose NDP government swept to power in May, also reiterated that she’d be casting her vote for the NDP in the upcoming federal election.

“I believe its principles and values are what the country needs now, as are the grit, the determination and the intellect of Tom Mulcair,” she said.

“But I want to say to you this. Whoever wins the election, as premier of Alberta, I intend to pick up our conversation with either Prime Minister Mulcair, Prime Minister Harper or Prime Minister Trudeau in pursuit of Alberta’s interests.”

Derek Fildebrandt, finance critic for Alberta’s right-of-centre Opposition Wildrose party, said it was odd for Notley to voice support for Mulcair during the speech.

“This was a chance to add something new to the conversation, something of substance and that was missing,” he said. “Inviting business leaders in Calgary to vote for Thomas Mulcair is like the fox inviting the hen to dinner.”

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Brewmaster Joel Manning draws a sample of beer from a vat in the Mill Street Brewery in Toronto on Friday.

Labatt Breweries of Canada announced its purchase of the Mill Street Brewery, a craft brewery based in Toronto.

Labatt Breweries buys craft brewer Mill Street for undisclosed sum

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The loyalties of craft beer aficionados were put to the test Friday with the announcement that Mill Street Brewery, one of Canada’s leading makers of craft beer, is being swallowed by the world’s largest brewing company.

Under the agreement, privately held Mill Street is to be taken over by Labatt Breweries, a subsidiary of Belgian-based Anheuser-Busch InBev — a prospect that has raised concern among some of the company’s longtime customers.

This is Labatt’s sixth acquisition of a North American craft brewer since 2011 and the deal immediately raised questions about how to define craft breweries in a multinational industry that’s purposely making the boundaries murkier than ever.

Mill Street will continue to operate as a standalone company as it looks for ways to expand production and capacity, said co-founder Steve Abrams.

Over the past few years, the craft brewer has seen average sales growth of more than 15 per cent annually.

“Many craft brewers in Ontario are experiencing this huge surge just to keep up with demand,” Abrams said in an interview.

“This immediate infusion of capital will assist us in getting tanks and more equipment.”

Avoid job fair mistakes when looking for new employees Dear Working Wise: I attend quite a few job fairs and I’ve noticed employers making the same mistakes over and over. Do you have any pointers for them? Signed, Job Fair Pro Dear Job Fair Pro: Job fairs are a great way for employers to pre-screen applicants and grab the attention of job seekers who might otherwise pass over their recruitment ads.

But you’re right. Some employers are not getting the most out of the time and money they spend participating in job fairs.

At your next job fair, don’t just collect resumés.

Use these face-to-face meetings to ask questions and create a short-list of your best candidates.

Here are some tips to make the most of your next job fair: ● Staff your booth with outgoing, enthusiastic people who want to help you find great new hires. ● Stand up and make your booth welcoming to job seekers. ● Make the first move — smile, make eye contact with job seekers, welcome them into your booth, and ask them if they are interested in learning more about your company and job opportunities. ● Wear a nametag and prepare a short introduction explaining your company, industry, the types of positions available and kind of people you are look-

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ing for. ● Attract visitors to your booth with a professional display, interactive demonstration, photos/videos and interesting give-a-ways. ● Bring lots of business cards and have a list of available positions handy. ● Be sure you have enough staff to avoid long lineups of job seekers and give your booth staff some much-needed breaks throughout the day.

CHARLES ● Be courteous of other STRACHEY employers, including volume WORKING WISE levels on your audio-visual equipment. ● Label and secure laptops and other valuable equipment so you can focus your attention on the job seekers. ● Wear comfortable shoes and take a short break every hour to relieve sore feet and backs. Bring a rubber mat if you are standing on concrete all day. ● Take a tour around to other booths and borrow ideas you like for next time. ● Don’t eat in your booth, leave your booth empty,

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or sit behind your table with your arms crossed and your eyes down.

The people in your booth make the biggest difference. Booth staff should be friendly ambassadors for your company who enjoy meeting new people. They should also be properly trained to answer common job-seeker questions, including: ● What positions are available and what do those people do? ● What are the working conditions, hours and compensation? ● What qualifications do I need for that position? ● Do you have any entry-level positions available? ● Will you provide training or support my training for this position? ● How would you describe your corporate culture? ● What do you like about your job/company? ● What sets your company apart from other employers? ● What is the growth outlook for your company?

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

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 123.91 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.93 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.53 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.59 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.65 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.38 Cdn. National Railway . . 80.43 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 203.69 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 37.18 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.77 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.52 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 47.08 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 55.22 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.94 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.83 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.95 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 24.41 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.19 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.54 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.60 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.56 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 7.06 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.05 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 113.60 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.05 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.11 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 66.27 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange registered a slight loss Friday but still finished the week up more than 600 points, making it the best week of the year for Canada’s largest stock market.

The S&P/TSX composite index gave back 14.30 points to close at 13,964.36, while the oil-sensitive loonie gained 0.48 of a U.S. cent to 77.30 cents US amid general U.S. dollar weakness.

The energy sector of the TSX was the biggest decliner, slipping 1.3 per cent, while financials lost 0.6 per cent. Gold stocks climbed 3.7 per cent following an increase in the price of the commodity.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 33.74 points to 17,084.49, while the broader S&P 500 climbed 1.46 points to 2,014.89 and the Nasdaq added 19.68 points to 4,830.47.

Kevin Headland, director of capital markets and strategy at Manulife Asset Management, said that after a massive sell-off stemming from concerns about lagging global economic growth, investors are now back in the game.

“People are realizing that maybe the reaction was oversold,” said Headland.

Commodity prices have recovered somewhat, with benchmark oil bouncing back to around the US$50-a-barrel mark thanks to lower rig counts.

However, Headland says investors should remain cautious, as it’s unlikely that the price of crude will climb much further.

“I don’t think oil is going to move back up to $60 in a straight line,” Headland said.

“We’re probably going to bounce around this level, around the 50 mark, for some time until we see some meaningful change in either supply or demand dynamics.”

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 21.52 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.44 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.69 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.27 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 9.84 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.33 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.63 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 18.75 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.22 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.88 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.40 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 28.12 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.060 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.63 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 21.78 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.76 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 56.44 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.96 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 24.65 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.04 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.83 Canyon Services Group. . 5.65 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 21.90 CWC Well Services . . . 0.2050 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 11.32 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.830 On commodity markets, the December gold contract rose $11.60 to US$1,155.90 an ounce, while December copper shot up seven cents to US$2.41 a pound.

The November contract for benchmark oil gained 20 cents to US$49.63 a barrel, while November natural gas added 0.4 of a cent to US$2.50 per thousand cubic feet.

European and Asian markets also enjoyed a banner week, with Germany’s DAX up 5.7 per cent, France’s CAC-40 up 5.4 per cent and London’s FTSE up 4.7 per cent this week. In Asia, markets in Japan, China and Hong Kong were all up about four per cent on the week.

In corporate news, shares in commodities group Glencore closed up seven per cent in London after the company said it was slashing its zinc production by a third and cutting jobs in response to a sharp fall in the price of the metal.

Airline stocks were among the biggest gainers on the S&P 500 after the companies said their flights flew nearly full last month. American Airlines rose 6.7 per cent and United Continental was up 6.6 per cent while JetBlue Airways and Southwest Airlines each gained three per cent.

In economic news, Statistics Canada reported the economy added 12,000 jobs in September, but that the unemployment rate still edged up a tenth of a percentage point to 7.1 per cent, its highest level since February 2014, as more people entered the labour force.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,964.36, down 14.30 points Dow — 17,084.49, up 33.74 points S&P 500 — 2,014.89, up

Vale Sudbury office raided by RCMP, Environment Canada SUDBURY, Ont. — Environment Canada and the RCMP raided one of Vale SA’s Sudbury, Ont., offices Thursday as part of an investigation into the company’s alleged violation of the Fisheries Act in 2012.

The two agencies were executing a search warrant as part of an active Environment Canada investigation that started in November 2012, said Environment Canada spokeswoman Natalie Huneault.

“The investigation relates to alleged violations of the general prohibition in the Fisheries Act, which prohibits the deposit of substances that are deleterious to fish into water frequented by fish,” Huneault said in an email.

Emily Robb, a spokeswoman for the global mining giant, said in an email that the company co-operated with the investigation and provided the information required.

Both Huneault and Robb declined

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 79.26 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.65 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.56 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 23.16 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.64 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.50 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.560 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.58 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.67 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.180 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.84 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 49.06 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2400 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.51 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 60.28 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.36 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 26.35 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.56 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.57 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.51 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.58 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 42.01 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.31 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.90 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.34 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.05 1.46 points Nasdaq — 4,830.47, up 19.68 points Currencies: Cdn — 77.30 cents US, up 0.48 of a cent Pound — C$1.9819, down 1.75 cents Euro — C$1.4691, up 0.13 of a cent Euro — US$1.1356, up 0.80 of a cent Oil futures: US$49.63 per barrel, up 20 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,155.90 per oz., up $11.60 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.451 oz., up 7.8 cents $689.65 kg., up $2.51 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $0.60 lower $469.50 Jan. ‘16 $0.60 lower $474.40 March ‘16 $0.10 lower $477.00 May ‘16 $0.20 higher $477.40 July ‘16 unchanged $475.50 Nov. ‘16 $1.20 higher $465.40 Jan. ‘17 $1.20 higher $463.60 March ‘17 $1.20 higher $465.30 May ‘17 $1.20 higher $465.30 July ‘17 $1.20 higher $465.30 Nov. ‘17 $1.60 lower $462.50.

Barley (Western): Oct. ‘15 unchanged $190.00 Dec. ‘15 unchanged $185.00 March ‘16 unchanged $187.00 May ‘16 unchanged $188.00 July ‘16 unchanged $188.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $188.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $188.00 March ‘17 unchanged $188.00 May ‘17 unchanged $188.00 July ‘17 unchanged $188.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $188.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 471,400 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 471,400.

to provide further details about the alleged violations because they are under investigation, but Robb said the company believes it was not in the wrong.

“The matter under investigation never posed a threat to health and safety in our community,” she said.

“When the issue that is presently the subject of investigation was discovered in 2012, in communication with government regulators, Vale immediately undertook measures to address it. We believed then, and believe now, that our actions were appropriate and responsible.”

She said the investigation has had no impact on the company’s operations.

Vale has had a string of safety issues at its Sudbury operations in recent years, including a 2011 incident at its Stobie mine where two workers died, a 2012 incident at its Coleman mine where one worker died, and a 2014 incident at its Copper Cliff facility where one worker died and another was seriously injured.

Judge OKs $446 million settlement for Lac-Megantic victims LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. — Lac-Megantic resident Robert Bellefleur has welcomed a U.S. bankruptcy judge’s approval of a $446-million settlement fund for victims of the deadly oil-train derailment in 2013.

“It’s good news for people who were hit hard, who lost loved ones, homes, businesses,” says Bellefleur, who knew about 25 of the 47 victims, including his cousin’s son, his daughter’s two babysitters and his contractor.

“It’s very good news. It doesn’t replace lives. It will provide comfort and maybe enable people to get back on their feet and live a more normal life, but without ever forgetting what happened.”

But Bellefleur, a member of a Lac-Megantic-based coalition that promotes rail safety, said the state of the rail track in the town, which he called a determining factor in the tragedy, still has not been addressed.

Judge Peter Cary announced his decision in Portland, Maine, on Fri-

day after Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) dropped its objection to the settlement plan and after a Canadian judge gave conditional approval Thursday.

The settlement was the result of negotiations with about two dozen companies.

Barring any surprises, payments could be made to victims of the disaster by year’s end, said Robert Keach, the bankruptcy trustee. About $110 million Cdn is being set aside to settle wrongful death claims.

“We don’t pretend to suggest that we made up for everything that happened,” said Keach. “But within the limits of the civil system, this is substantial compensation for the victims and they deserve it.”

A runaway train with 72 oil tankers derailed in Lac-Megantic on July 6, 2013, setting off powerful explosions and causing fires that wiped out much of the downtown.

Raymond Lafontaine, who lost his son, two daughters-in-law and one of his employees in the tragedy, said in an interview Friday it is “inconceivable” it has taken this long for the fund to be accepted.

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LABATT: $10 million invested into Mill Street This includes pulling Mill Street from the craft section of the LCBO and eliminating the favoured marketing support given to smaller players.

Meanwhile, beer drinkers will be cautious about assurances that Mill Street won’t change under the rule of a global brewer with a reputation for sweeping cost reductions to stay competitive.

Labatt bought discount beermaker Lakeport Brewery in 2007 when “buck a beer” was all the rage, and then shut down its Hamilton facility three years later after deciding it was cheaper to fold production into Labatt’s operations in London, Ont. While Labatt didn’t announce how much it will pay for Mill Street, it plans to invest $10 million into the company’s existing brewery operations, which it says will remain open.

“We think that this partnership will really help expand awareness of craft across the country,” said Charlie Angelakos, Labatt’s vice-president of corporate affairs.

The popularity of craft breweries has been on the rise across Canada for years. While overall beer consumption declined by six per cent in 2014, craft beer servings grew by seven per cent, according to recent findings from data research company NPD Group.

Stephen Beaumont, an industry watcher and author on beer trends, said the takeover didn’t come as a surprise because of the international buying spree for craft brewers at Anheuser-Busch InBev. Labatt has also played in the craft brew market itself, under a relatively low profile, positioning its Shock Top line of beers in the microbrew department at liquor stores.

Despite its reputation, Mill Street isn’t a stranger to corporate partnerships either.

The brewery opened a branded pub at Pearson Airport in Toronto three years ago, and paired with hotel chain Fairmont for a honey ale named after the company’s Royal York Hotel, be-

cause it harvested from beehives on the building’s rooftop.

“They will likely face a good deal of blow-back from the craft community, for all that relatively small percentage of the market means,” Beaumont said.

“I don’t think (Mill Street) will change their beers, but for a lot of people the cachet of buying craft beer will be lost.”

Mill Street was started in 2002 with modest aspirations by its three founders, but its success pushed them to move its facilities to a larger space four years later that could handle rising demand.

Since then, it has amassed a variety of accolades, including Canadian brewery of the year at Canadian Brewing Awards for three consecutive years starting in 2007.

Labatt — once an independent giant in Canada’s beer industry — was bought in 1995 by a Belgian group that has continued to grow by buying and merging with other companies around the world. The group, now called Anheuser-Busch InBev, is currently attempting to buy the world’s second-biggest beermaker SABMiller.

The founders of Mill Street are hopeful that despite early criticism, their beers will reach new markets, starting with Quebec — the only province that currently doesn’t have any distribution of the brand.

NOTLEY: Businesses want certainty Adam Legge, who heads up the chamber, said the business community is looking for certainty. He said they didn’t get that in Notley’s speech.

Legge acknowledged that Notley was in a “tough spot” because many of the answers businesses are seeking will be in the Oct. 27 provincial budget.

“I think people came away thinking that we have a very friendly, a very outgoing and a very true Albertan in our premier, but I don’t think business came away with any solid answers that the situation, the environment, is going to be any better.”

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Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015

Haynes Community Church Celebrates

100 Years The new Haynes Community Church with regular services Sunday mornings at 10 a.m.

About 100 people enjoyed a pancake breakfast, service, and lunch with many more stopping in the afternoon for the open house.

A lady from the early 1930’s came out. Another visitor donated a Bible from 1954 used by Rev. Randall of the United Church in Haynes.

Four sisters from the Hopkins family attended sharing many memories amidst much laughter.

During the service, Lacombe County counsellor Rod McDermand and MLA Ron Orr made presentations to Mrs. Louise Dobinson and Mrs. Karen Kromm; long standing members of the church representing four generations each in the congregation. Area MP Blain Calkins presented a commemorative certificate to Pastor Mac Parker from the Government of Canada. A power point presentation brought tears to the eyes of many. A rock donated by Richard & Karina Staudinger and bronze memorial plaque placed on the property will be a visual reminder to the “faithful little church on the corner that served so many for 100 years.�

The known history of the Hamlet of Haynes, Alberta and the history of the church established in 1915 was displayed on large posters amongst tables of relics of the past including items from the AWP Elevator, old soda bottles, furniture & kitchen items from the old days, a 70 year photo album from CGIT (also celebrating 100 years), Boy Scouts and numerous photos, letters and memorabilia collected from the community. Old hymnal books from the church were made available to the public and all but one were taken. A new church building was erected behind the old church for an expanding congregation that moved into it Thanksgiving Sunday 2008. Pastor R. M. (Mac) Parker has served the congregation for 28 years.

The Haynes Community Church holds regular Sunday services at 10:00am and all are welcome. A website for the church is being constructed at www.haynescommunitychurch.com

Above: A beautiful morning for pancakes and fellowship Below: Excellent weather permitted many to share memories over lunch

The Haynes Community Church has undergone few renovations beyond maintenance, a small front porch, and small room at the back 1st a coal bin and later a Sunday School classroom

MLA Ron Orr presen ts Mrs. Karen Kromm a commemorative certificate from the Province of Alberta

Many enjoyed a service and power point presentation celebrating the Haynes Community Church through the past 100 years

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Senseless killing at wildlife centre STUDENTS AND STAFF AT MEDICINE RIVER ON EDGE AFTER BIRDS SHOT

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Two ravens and four crows were shot dead at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre.

Staff arrived early Friday morning to find the resident and soon-to-be released crows and ravens shot in the head in an outdoor pen attached to the main building.

Six birds were dead and two crows were fighting for their lives.

While the wildlife centre has had some incidents over the last few months with opened fences and cages, it was nothing too serious.

“It seems to have escalated by somebody coming into a cage attached to our main building and taking an air pistol to the back of the heads of my crows and ravens,” said Carol Kelly, executive director. “To come into a place like this and put a gun against all their heads to kill them all is pretty malicious.”

Kelly said the centre’s five students from Germany and Austria and staff now feel uncomfortable and worried about their own safety.

“They are visibly shaken that they are living on a property where somebody would come in and kill things,” said Kelly. “They are concerned for themselves.”

The centre prides itself on its education programs. For more than 30 years, the centre has provided information, attempted to abolish myths, provide humane options and encour-

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Medicine River Wildlife Centre hospital coordinator Brittany Ginter, left, and executive director Carol Kelly examine one of two surviving birds that staff discovered had been shot in the head Friday Morning. age a general respect for life.

“Generally speaking we have lived quite peacefully here,” she said. “We haven’t had problems. We promote respect. We promote living and working together.”

Kelly said some species may create challenges for humans at times but many times it only takes some simple changes in our lives to stop the problem.

The wildlife centre is currently

River access point to stay open

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A request to close a potential access point to Red Deer River was turned down by the county on Tuesday.

County council voted unanimously not to approve a landowner’s request to close an unused road allowance about six km northwest of Delburne because of safety concerns.

The road is not maintained by the county and has deteriorated over the years. It has a number of blind corners and nearby property owners ex-

COUNTY COUNCIL pressed concerns that walkers, horseback riders, snowshoers and other recreational users could be injured by vehicles.

However, councillors were reluctant to close an access point to the river that could provide a route in case of emergency. The county has long supported maintaining river access points in its planning.

In recent years, Alberta Transportation, whose approval is required for any road allowance closure, has been

increasingly reluctant to do so.

The province has told the county it would likely not agree to this closure.

The site falls within the division of Coun. Philip Massier. He consulted neighbours and found most did not favour closing the road, which is popular with horseback riders.

Coun. Connie Huelsman also said the route should not be closed and leased to neighbours.

“I believe we need to have access in case there is an emergency and just to enjoy nature.”

Council voted unanimously against the closure.

Judge to rule on sexual assault in December

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

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The defence of mental disorder was argued in Red Deer provincial court on Friday and the judge’s decision will be come down on Dec. 1.

Defence lawyer Michael Scrase and Crown prosecutor Jordan Petty made their closing arguments before Judge David Plosz for a case involving a man accused of groping women in public places in 2014.

Blaise Kambu-Ndengi, 24, was charged with five counts of sexual assault by grabbing women or touching

them in a sexual manner. Some of the incidents occurred at Red Deer grocery stores.

According to witnesses and evidence presented, Kambu-Ndengi’s exhibited irrational behaviour during an interview with police, as well as at Red Deer Remand and the psychiatric unit of Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre where he was treated.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Oluyemisi Ajeh, of Calgary, who assessed Kambu-Ndengi, diagnosed him with schi-

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“We will be set up at revolving locations throughout the city all weekend targeting those drivers who put the public most at risk.”

A four-day campaign in September caught 63 school zone speeders and 13 people who weren’t wearing seatbelts.

Another September traffic campaign by police caught 32 distracted drivers in an eight-hour period.

“Between continued education and enforcement, our goal is to make the streets of Red Deer safer for everyone,” said Nickolson.

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Salvation Army hosting Thanksgiving lunch People looking for a Thanksgiving meal this weekend are invited to the Salvation Army church, for a turkey dinner with all the fixings.

On Monday from noon to 2 p.m., the Salvation Army is hosting the dinner at their church, located at 4837 54th St. Major Larry Bridger said last year they served up 297 meals.

This year they are expecting to serve about 250 to 300 people, but will be prepared to serve up more if the demand is there.

Mounties on lookout for bad drivers The last time Red Deer RCMP embarked on a campaign to catch bad drivers, they nabbed 63 school zone speeders.

All Thanksgiving weekend, Mounties and Community Peace Officers will be out in full force partaking in Operation Impact, a national traffic operation. They will be looking for dangerous drivers, impaired drivers, seatbelt violations, speeders and distracted drivers.

“This initiative is timed for the long weekend because traffic collisions are more frequent on long weekends when the travelling public is out in large numbers,” said Sgt. Al Nickolson, Red Deer RCMP.

Lacombe looks into mini-park program Lacombe wants to know if its parklets have promise.

The city begin setting up miniparks in the downtown two years to lure more visits to the historic core.

Setting up temporary parklets on cityowned land was designed as a stop-gap measure until more permanent park spaces could be created.

Parking spaces and vacant lots were converted into rest areas with benches, picnic tables, flower pots, and even a ping-pong table.

One parklet was located at 50th Avenue and Hwy 2A and the another was set up in the parking lot next to the Blacksmith Shop on 49th Street.

Now that the summer is over, the city wants to get some feedback on whether the program is worth continuing, how it can be improved, and whether other locations should be considered.

Comments can be made on the city’s Facebook page under City of Lacombe or by emailing planner jkirchner@ lacombe.ca

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zoaffective disorder of a bipolar type, which is a type of schizophrenia.

She concluded he should not be held criminally responsible because of mental disorder based on reports of his behaviour, his mental history, a family history of mental disorders, psychological tests, and her own interviews of Kambu-Ndengi.

Both Scrase and Petty agreed Kambu-Ndengi met the requirements to be found not criminally responsible based on the psychiatrist’s diagnosis and Kambu-Ndengi’s inability to understand what he was doing was wrong.

Habitat for Humanity holds information night Habitat for Humanity’s Lacombe plans are moving ahead.

ATCO Gas presented a $3,800 cheque to the society at its Thursday meeting. The money will go towards installing gas lines in the four Lacombe units.

Prospective home owners were also given a presentation on the society and completed applications to become eligible for one of the homes.

A similar information will be held later this year to register other interested families.

Habitat’s approach is built on putting low-income people in homes and giving them a solid start.

Successful applicants must have family incomes in the $37,000 and $52,000 range, be without adequate housing already, and be willing to donate 500 hours of their time, either building their home or working with Habitat in some other capacity.

Correction Locations of two events from Thursday, Oct. 8 What’s Happening listings on page B6 were omitted. Story Yoga with Jamie de Koning of Spiritus Yoga will go Oct. 10, 11 to 11:45 a.m. at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Star Wars Reads Day! family event is on Oct. 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library.

Also, a photo that appeared in Friday’s Advocate in the Fitness section should have been credited to Found Light Photography.

building a new hospital. Kelly said they currently do not have a security system but there will be one when the new hospital is completed.

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Cops seek suspects in mugging

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A man was robbed last weekend and police are hoping for the public’s help in identifying the suspects.

Red Deer RCMP are looking for two men who assaulted and robbed the man in the early morning hours of Oct. 3 in downtown Red Deer.

Police said the victim was walking home after work at about 1:45 a.m. when an older model black Dodge car pulled up beside him in the area of 47th Avenue and 55th Street. Two men got out of the car and demanded his money.

According to a Thursday release from the RCMP, the two men assaulted the victim and took his wallet and were last seen driving southbound on 47th Avenue.

The victim was taken to hospital by EMS, treated for minor injuries and later released. He did not know his assailants.

The suspects were caught on camera shortly after the incident using the victim’s debit card at a Red Deer convenience store. They used the card again in Calgary at about 5:30 a.m.

Police describe the first suspect as a male Caucasian in his late teens. He has a slim build and a brush cut. He wore a white and black hoodie, jeans and running shoes. The second suspect is described as a male Caucasian in his late teens. He has a slim build and short brown hair. He wore a black hoodie, blue jeans and running shoes.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Motorcycle rider dies in collision

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A 64-year-old Stettler man is dead following a collision between a motorcycle and semi truck on Thursday afternoon.

Stettler RCMP said the collision on Hwy 11, one km south of the junction with Hwy 12, happened around 1 p.m.

The motorcyclist was pronounced dead on scene. The 43-year-old driver of the semi truck was not injured.

A preliminary investigation revealed that the motorcycle entered the oncoming lane of traffic in front of an oncoming semi truck, RCMP said.

Hwy 11 was closed for two hours while first responders were on scene.

The cause of the collision remains under investigation, however speed, traffic, and weather are not believed to be factors in the collision. No charges will be laid.

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Is there a biblical difference between happiness and joy?

MODERN DISTINCTIONS ARE COUNTERINTUITIVE

BY RANDY ALCORN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE An ungrounded, dangerous separation of joy from happiness has infiltrated the Christian community.

The following is typical of the artificial distinctions made by modern Christians: Joy is something entirely different from happiness. Joy, in the Biblical context, is not an emotion. . . . There is a big difference between joy and happiness.

Happiness is an emotion and temporary; joy is an attitude of the heart.

Judging from such articles (and there are hundreds more out there), you’d think the distinction between joy and happiness is biblical. It’s not.

John Piper writes, “If you have nice little categories for ‘joy is what Christians have’ and ‘happiness is what the world has,’ you can scrap those when you go to the Bible, because the Bible is indiscriminate in its uses of the language of happiness and joy and contentment and satisfaction.”

Here’s a sampling of the more than 100 Bible verses in various translations that use joy and happiness together: Esther 8:16 (NIV) — For the Jews it was a time of happiness and joy, gladness and honor.

Jeremiah 31:13 (HCSB) — I will turn their mourning into joy. . . and bring happiness out of grief.

Proverbs 23:25 (NLT) –Give your father and mother joy! May she who gave you birth be happy.

The relationship between joy and happiness in these passages refutes two common claims: (1) that the Bible doesn’t talk about happiness, and (2) that joy and happiness have contrasting meanings.

In fact, the Bible overflows with accounts of God’s people being happy in him.

Depicting joy in contrast with happiness has obscured the true meaning of both words. Joyful people are typically glad and cheerful — they smile and laugh a lot.

To put it plainly, they’re happy!

Opposition to the word happiness is a recent development in the church There’s a long rich, history of equating joy with happiness in Christ. For example, Jonathan Edwards cited John 15:11 (“that [Jesus’] joy might remain in you,” KJV) to prove this point: “The happiness Christ gives to his people, is a participation of his own happiness.”

Charles Spurgeon said, “May you so come, and then may your Christian life be fraught with happiness, and overflowing with joy.” Spurgeon’s views of happiness and joy, evident in hundreds of his sermons, are completely contrary to the artificial wall the contemporary church has erected between the two.

In stark contrast to believers prior to the twentieth century, many modern Christians have portrayed happiness as, at best, inferior to joy and, at worst, evil. Oswald Chambers (1874–1917), whom I greatly respect, is one of the earliest Bible teachers to have spoken against happiness.

In his book Biblical Ethics, Chambers wrote, “Happiness is no standard for men and women because happiness depends on my being determinedly ignorant of God and His demands.”

After extensive research, I’m convinced that no biblical or historical basis exists to define happiness as inherently sinful.

Unfortunately, because Bible teachers such as Chambers saw people trying to find happiness in sin, they concluded that pursuing happiness was sinful.

Chambers, a truly great Bible teacher and Christ follower, claimed that “there is no mention in the Bible of happiness for a Christian.”

Likewise, it’s common to hear people make claims like this: “Joy is in 155 verses in the KJV Bible, happiness isn’t in the Bible.”

The problem with these statements is that they simply aren’t true.

Happy is found in the King James Version, which Chambers used, a total of 29 times. For example, Jesus told his disciples, “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them” (John 13:17).

The apostle Paul wrote these words to Christians: “Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth” (Romans 14:22).

Just as holy speaks of holiness and joyful speaks of joy and glad speaks of gladness, obviously happy speaks of happiness!

Is it true that joy is not an emotion?

The idea that “joy is not an emotion” (a statement that appears online more than 17,000 times) promotes an unbiblical myth.

A hundred years ago, every Christian knew the meaning of joy.

Today, if you ask a group of Christians, “What does joy mean?” most will grope for words, with only one emphatic opinion: that joy is different from happiness.

This is like saying that rain isn’t wet or ice isn’t cold. Scripture, dictionaries, and common language don’t support this separation.

Some claim that joy is a fruit of the Spirit, not an emotion.

But in Galatians 5:22, love and peace surround the word joy.

If you love someone, don’t you feel something?

What is peace if not something you feel?

I Googled “define joy,” and the first result was this dictionary definition: “a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.”

This definition harmonizes with other dictionaries and ordinary conversations, yet it contradicts countless Christian books and sermons.

God created not only our minds but also our hearts.

It’s ill advised to pit happiness and joy against each other rather than embracing the emotional satisfaction of knowing, loving, and following Jesus.

Happiness is a synonym for joy Consult English dictionaries and you’ll see how contrived this supposed contrast between joy and happiness is. The first definition of joy in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary is “a feeling of great happiness.”

The American Heritage Dictionary defines joy as “intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness.”

What about Christian dictionaries?

The Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology defines joy as “happiness over an unanticipated or present good.”

The Dictionary of Bible Themes defines happiness as “a state of pleasure or joy experienced both by people and by God.” Happiness is joy. Joy is happiness.

Virtually all dictionaries, whether secular or Christian, recognize this.

Consider our common expressions: “He jumped for joy.”

“He is our pride and joy.”

“I wept for joy.”

According to the vast majority of the usages of these two words in (1) English history, (2) English literature, (3) Bible translations, and (4) English dictionaries, the words have far more in common with each other than not.

Modern distinctions between happiness and joy are completely counterintuitive For too long we’ve distanced the gospel from what God created us to desire — and what he desires for us — happiness.

We need to reverse the trend. Let’s redeem the word happiness in light of both Scripture and church history.

Our message shouldn’t be “Don’t seek happiness,” but “You’ll find in Jesus the happiness and joy you’ve always longed for.”

Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries and a New York Times bestselling author of more than 40 books including “Heaven” (over one million sold), “If God is Good,” “The Treasure Principle,” and the Gold Medallion winner “Safely Home.”

LOCAL EVENTS

Oct. 10 Perogy Supper at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church on Oct. 15 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Adults cost $13, children ages 10 years and under cost $6. Tickets available only at the door. Phone 403-347-2335.

Oct. 13 CrossRoads Church Seniors Gems monthly luncheon is offered on the second Tuesday of each month from noon to 2 p.m. in the Chapel, next Oct. 13. All seniors invited. The cost is $8 at the door. Phone 403-347-6425.

Oct. 14 Ponoka United Church Thrift Shop is open every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information call Mary at 403-783-5030, or Jessie at 403-783-8627.

Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Elnora Drop In Centre, next Oct. 14 and 28. Cowboy boots and hats welcome. For more information, call 403-749-3361.

Upcoming events Beef on a Bun Supper at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will be offered on Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. Adults cost $12, ages six to 12 years cost $6, and under six, free. Phone 403-347-5372 to reserve tickets by Oct. 21.

Innisfail United Church Harvest Turkey Supper goes Oct. 27, 4:30 to 7 p.m. at Royal Canadian Legion Auditorium in Innisfail. Costs are $14 for 11 years and up, $6 for six to 10 years, and free for five years and under. Take out orders are welcome between 9 a.m. and noon on supper day at 403-227-4159.

St. Cyprian’s Anglican Church Annual Fall Tea and Bazaar, Nov. 7, 2 to 4 p.m. in Lacombe.

There will be lots of cookies, baking, frozen perogies, crafts and more. Phone 403-782-4212.

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Aldean burns down Red Deer The second, more rockin’ round of this week’s duelling country concerts at Red Deer’s Centrium was an amped up, testosterone-fuelled affair.

Call it beer-commercial country if you like, but some 6,000 Central Albertans couldn’t get enough of Thursday’s Jason Aldean show with Tyler Farr and Cole Swindell.

The three American singers brought way more rock-star swagger to town than was evident at Tuesday night’s more earnest, pop-country concert by Canadians Paul Brandt, Dean Brody and Jess Moskaluke.

No Little Yellow Blanket-style quaint country songs here. This was country with great balls of fire — literally.

We’re talking actual threemetre-high flames shooting up around Aldean as he was lowered to the stage on a lit-up electric scaffold while singing Hicktown.

With a chain slung from the pocket of his jeans and another around his neck, the cowboy-hatted Aldean owed LANA part of his look to hip-hop and MICHELIN a large part of his fuzzy, distorted guitar sound to grunge REVIEW rock.

“I know Canadians like to raise some hell, so I wanna hear it — d’ya know what I’m sayin’?” said Aldean, to thunderous cheers from the crowd.

He launched into his cover of the Brantley Gilbert song My Kinda Party and the Centrium took on a nightclubby atmosphere, with girls in tight jeans and check-shirted guys with beers checking each other out around the stage.

Aldean followed up with Tattoos on this Town, with its heavy vibe and lyrics about leaving a mark in the world. Amarillo Sky, Tonight Looks Good on You, Big Green Tractor, Johnny Cash, Fly Over the States, and Take a Little Ride were some of the other hits the triple-platinum selling Georgia singer (with 21 No. 1 singles) delivered with characteristic intensity and no-nonsense demeanor.

The steely Aldean didn’t even crack a smile until he was in the middle of Night Train, his massive 2012 hit, which was performed just before a cover of Bryan Adams’ Summer of ‘69 — his musical nod to Canada. With two guitarists in Aldean’s crack five-piece band pulling off howling solos on speaker stands, there were no fans two-stepping in the aisles. Listeners bobbed along to the driving beat as if at a Pearl Jam concert.

Yes, country music and its audience have certainly come a long way since a beer bottle sailed over a railing and smashed onto the dance floor beside some foolhardy young cityslickers many years ago.

The group of us had dared to plug a Michael Jackson song into the jukebox during the Morris (Man.) Stampede — so naturally there was hostility.

Meanwhile on Thursday night, DeeJay Silver spun vinyls of everything from Ludacris to Kid Rock to AC/DC between sets, and nobody batted an eye. Go

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/ Advocate staff

Tyler Farr opened for Jason Aldean at the Centrium on Thursday night as part of the Burn It Down Tour. figure…

Before Aldean rocked out on stage, another rockin’ Georgian, Swindell, had performed his breakout hit Chillin’ It, as well as various songs about trucks, alcohol consumption and partying.

The amiable Swindell has a catchy way with a tune — as he demonstrated with This is How We Roll, Get Me Some of That and Ain’t Worth the Whiskey — the latter being a song about “exes”.

“All of us have been done wrong, hurt, treated badly, screwed over,” said the artist. “If you have an ex out there, I hope it’s not goin’ to ruin your good time … Hope you tell her, ‘You ain’t worth the whiskey!’”

Strong openers had been aggressively belted out by up-and-coming Missouri singer Farr, including A Guy Walked into a Bar and Redneck Crazy before he brushed palms with fans and nearly stumbled on his way off stage.

When Farr and Swindell later returned in front of the audience to join Aldean in performing The Only Way I Know, American flags were projected onto a video screen behind them, as they sang about “old red dirt” and “growing up on one of them old farm towns.”

It’s reassuring, I guess, that some things about country music don’t change. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Freeman waxes nostalgic in new book

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Stories from a kinder, gentler time are wrapped into Peggy Freeman’s new book, Don’t Tell the Dog. The Red Deer author applies some of the same wry wit to this prose and poetry collection as garnered her a Stephen Leacock Festival Award for her short story Of Bibles, Blue Bottles and Broken Hearts in 1993.

But there’s also a sense of wistfulness in stories such as It’s all Relatives, about aging siblings who have an early Christmas get-together after their parents have passed away and share memories about younger days.

And a strong sense of nostalgia permeates these tales that seem lifted from a more genteel time.

In The Reformation of Leland Rowat, for instance, a long-divorced, church-going bachelor learns something about flirting and non-conformity from a pretty widow he meets on a bus.

The story could be set in the 1960s or even 1950s.

Freeman, an Advocate book re- Peggy Freeman viewer and author of two previous self-published story collections, Nuts in May and The Prairie Christmas Quilt, said she sometimes draws on childhood memories of people, events and places. “It’s hard to be totally not autobiographical.”

One of the truer stories is the collection is The Bad Thing That Happened, about older boys and their casual cruelty.

Freeman said the plot involving birds’ eggs actually happened while she was growing up.

The author, who resided in Wetaskiwin, then Peace River Country before moving to Red Deer, explores various Christmas themes in seven short stories that evolved out of Church readings she gave on First Sundays in Advent.

“I’ve attacked Christmas from every side, to the point where I’m probably running out of ideas,” said Freeman, with a laugh.

Poems such as Let’s Do Lunch and Should the News Be Bad are lighthearted slices of life — even though the latter is based on an obituary for another

Peggy Freeman who died. “ Only four people phoned to see if it was me — I thought I had more friends than that!” she joked.

Freeman also includes some short, humourous essays on soon-to-be-discontinued home mail delivery and other topics.

She believes this collection that often references dogs, will particularly appeal to older readers who appreciate short, pithy stories “of a more considerate time.”

The author will sign copies of Don’t Tell the Dog from 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, at the Chapters store in Red Deer.

The book is available at the retailer for $15, or by calling Freeman at 403347-5372. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com.

A whimsical exploration of different aspects of love

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A forgotten wedding anniversary shakes a couple’s faith in the whimsical play Almost Maine, which opens Red Deer College’s theatre season.

As northern lights dance in the sky, coldness creeps into the relationship between husband and wife. “They think, maybe it’s not working anymore.

How do we resolve this?” said guest director Kevin McKendrick.

Almost Maine, by John Cariani (who happens to play forensic expert Julian Beck in the TV show Law & Order), is actually made up of nine short, mostly comic plays that examine all aspects of love.

“It’s about unrequited love, love that’s been put on hold for 15 years, falling in love, first live, rediscovering love,” said McKendrick of the production that opens on Thursday, Oct. 15, in Studio A of the Red Deer College Arts Centre.

Or as the New York Times put it in a 2006 review of the off-Broadway staging: Almost Maine’s “two-character vignettes (explore) the sudden thunderclap of love and the scorched earth that sometimes follows.”

Most of the stories turn out happily.

Others not so much. But a strong current of whimsy runs throughout.

In one scene, a woman finally reunites with the man who asked her to marry him 15 years ago — and finds him physically altered.

“If you were holding out hope your true love would return for all these years and she never did, you’d be a shadow of your former self,” explained

McKendrick.

The combination of magic realism and universal themes has contributed to the play becoming the most produced theatrical production in U.S. high schools, surpassing even Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

McKendrick believes this is because Almost Maine has good roles, easy-to-stage scenes and very relatable plot lines.

It also isn’t overly risque — although a conservative North Carolina high school decided to cancel the play because (according to students) one of the scenes involves a same-sex couple.

Even this aspect is underplayed, added McKendrick, since both males are “good ole boy red-necks” who can’t figure out why their dates with women fizzle, “while the people they’re happiest with are each other…

“I hope the audience will be entertained or provoked by the play,” said the director.

“I hope they will think about who they love, the communities we live in, and whether we are taking love for granted.”

McKendrick, who has worked for Ground Zero Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Vertigo and Lunchbox Theatres, said he’s thrilled to be back in Red Deer directing talented RDC students.

It’s the first time he was able to free-up his schedule to guest direct since helming RDC’s Lend Me a Tenor a decade ago.

He said the calibre of students was one of the biggest reasons he wanted a return engagement at RDC. Some local alumni have been making tracks in Calgary are Theatre

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer College performing arts students Layne Zazalak as Dave, and Bethany Monaghan as Rhonda, rehearse a scene from the RDC production of Almost Maine in Studio A at the Arts Centre.

BSMT founder Amy Dettling and Karen Johnson Diamond, who’s acting in an upcoming production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at TheatreCalgary.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $21.80 ($17.80 students/seniors) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Pan peters out: review Pan Two stars (out four) Rated: PG It appears all involved had a grand ol’ time making Pan, the latest and loopiest retelling of the story of Peter Pan. Too bad for the audience, though.

“This isn’t the story you’ve heard before,” we’re advised at the outset, and don’t you dare doubt it. Delightful to look at yet baffling to contemplate, it’s a feast for the eyes but famine for the brain.

Director Joe Wright lets his freak flag fly, in ways he apparently couldn’t for his more sober literary adaptations Atonement and Pride & PrejPETER udice. He and screenwriter HOWELL Jason Fuchs obviously didn’t feel bound by much more AT THE MOVIES than the character names in their frantic imagining of a prequel to the J.M. Barrie novel classic about the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. The actors, done up like Christmas baubles by excitable production designers and costumers, proceed as if good taste and restraint are impediments to fantasy. Hugh Jackman’s pirate Blackbeard looks like a Mad Max villain designed by Terry Gilliam, with his shaved head, Snidely Whiplash mustache and flying ship. Brains rattle as he and his Neverland stooges are weirdly introduced by way of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Rooney Mara’s warrior Tiger Lily is done up with every hue of the rainbow, perhaps to deflect criticism that an actress of color wasn’t chosen for a role that Barrie wrote as a native American Princess.

Garrett Hedlund’s James Hook is an Indiana Jones wannabe in dress and voice, missing only the whip but still retaining both hands. Kathy Burke is almost unrecognizable as Mother Barnabas, the greedy nun who operates a child snatching operation masquerading as an orphanage in the London of the Second World War. Then there’s Aussie newcomer Levi Miller as Peter, an energetic lad who at least is within shouting difference of Barrie’s original concept.

Of course, there’s no law that says you can’t take liberties with a source story, as Steven Spielberg

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Levi Miller as Peter in “Pan.” happily demonstrated in Hook, the 1991 film that among other things helped introduce Gwyneth Paltrow to an unsuspecting world.

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This time out, Dear Rouge is touring with Prairie rock ensemble Rah Rah. The Regina group released an energetic, emotional album called Vessels. The five-member band’s music conjures nostalgia, with wistful harmonies and moving folk melodies.

Tickets for the show are $15 from the venue or www.ticketfly.com. Doors open at 7 p.m., show ends at 11 p.m.

Check out the filmmakers of tomorrow this week at Red Deer’s Welikoklad Event Centre.

The third-annual Student Alumni Film Festival is on at 7 p.m. on tonight and Saturday, Oct. 16 and 17.

The festival showcases works created by Red Deer College Motion Picture Arts graduates since leaving RDC. There’s a violence and language warning.

Tickets are $10 at the door for the 120-minute presentation.

Jesse Roper touring Central Alberta next week

Red Deer’s namesake band Dear Rouge will be back in the city to throw a dance party this week, before touring in the U.S. and Europe.

The electro-pop band made up of husband and wife duo Danielle and Drew McTaggart will appear on Wednesday night at the International Beer Haus and Stage.

Critics have described Dear Rouge’s hits as “catchy beyond belief” as the group picks up momentum, drawing from ’80s influences to create a powerhouse layered guitar/synth sound.

The Vancouver-based duo’s sound is characterized by Red Deer native Danielle’s powerhouse vocals and Drew’s sonic guitar palette.

Both were heard earlier this year at the Summer Sensations Beach Music Festival in Sylvan Lake.

The Dear Rouge song Black to Gold, from the group’s same-titled album, has since hit No. 3 on the alt rock charts.

The McTaggarts’ music has achieved more than four million hits on Spotify, and the duo earned the 2015 SOCAN songwriting prize for the tune I Heard I Had. Along with Best Look Lately, it’s also soared into the Top Three on radio charts.

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B.C. musician Jesse Roper has wrapped up a summer of festivals and is set to play at house concerts around Central Alberta.

The blues singer and rock guitarist from Victoria will be performing on Oct. 17 in Red Deer, Oct. 18 in Rimbey, Oct. 20 in Rocky Mountain House, and Oct. 21 in Olds.

Central Alberta music fans are invited to come see what made Roper a finalist in this year’s Peak Performance Project.

Tickets for the house concerts are $20 from www.homeroutes.ca. Kids 12 and under are free. Addresses and times will be sent out after tickets are purchased.

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After driving us crazy for nearly two hours, Pan just peters out.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto star movie critic

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My daughter is reachCHILDREN RESIDENTIAL SUPERVISOR ing out to other groups to make friends plus othLEAVE OF ABSENCE COVERAGE; er girls on the team. But ENDING NOVEMBER 21, 2016 she’s struggling with beParkland CLASS is currently seeking an active and creative Children’s Residential Supervisor to manage the overall ing with these girls all the program delivery for 2 individuals with developmental disabilities living in a residential home. The ability to play, the time.— Struggling willingness to get dirty and the desire to get out and be active are factors that will ensure good job fit. Responsibilities Dear Struggling; The include: providing direct care, participation & implementation of personalized plans, training & supervision for a team game for these girls is to of 8 to 12 employees, & budget management. Hours are 40/wk., Mon to Fri; however some evenings & weekends are required. put other people down to make themselves feel betQualifications: A degree/diploma in Human Services, Social Work or a related field. Preferably you will have 3 - 5 years’ experience with developmental disabilities, experience/knowledge in early childhood development and ter. excellent team building and leadership skills. Experience responding to behaviours of concern, assisting with personal I’m so sorry your care, working with seizures/medical issues and knowledge of Inuit culture would be ideal. daughter is on the receivSalary: $4,004.15 - $4,073.49 ing end. It happens. This A valid class 5 driver’s license and your own transportation are required. is all part of the transiWe offer an RRSP Plan, a Group Benefit Plan, a Health & Wellness Plan and an Employee tion. This is the stuff no Assistance Plan after 3 months of employment. one tells her or you about.

We look forward to hearing from you; please forward your resume by October 19, 2015 quoting competition She needs someone to #5377SUP to: find her people, places Parkland CLASS, Human Resources, 6010-45th Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3M4 Fax: 403-986-2404 email: hr@ and patience. She needs pclass.org you to remind her that We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. this is a transition. It can Competition will remain open until all positions are filled. be like this. Direct her www.parklandclass.org to people, places and patience.

Patience is the hardest That’s all it takes to part. It will get better, but deliver for the Red she has to believe it will get better. Remind her Deer Advocate, and that she needs to work to the money you earn is get comfortable with the enough for uncomfortable.

To do this, she needs more people and more places. Encourage her to find an older teammate or peer leader on campus who can help her with this.

In addition to a peer, she needs a therapist or counselor on campus. Also, suggest reaching out to a professor, adviser or residence life staff. Suggest she align herself with other girls on the team who are in her corner.

She also needs other places besides the team and her room.

Maybe she can switch rooms with another teammate. Suggest she find a spiritual club or organization. It can be an academand talk to a district ic club or organization.

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With unlimited earning potential, the candidate will contribute to the success of Black Press by growing our business, maximizing revenue streams with existing and potential clients.

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We are always seeking creative and skilled individuals with the ability and desire to lead in our dynamic workplace.

OPPORTUNITY: We are currently seeking the right person to fill the position of HR Specialist - Security in our Human Resources Department. The HR Specialist – Security will support a corporate-wide comprehensive security program providing a secure environment for employees and public visitors while protecting publicly owned assets (both physical infrastructure and information) from loss, theft, or damage. This position will also provide security advice and recommendations, respond to and investigate security incidents, assesse security risks, develop corporate standards and assist departments in implementation and compliance, promote security awareness, and will serve as the City’s security liaison.

As our preferred candidate you will have: • Certificate in Security Management • Eligible for registration in a security or security administration designation (PSP Physical Security Professional preferred) • Five years’ experience in a corporate security program • Familiarity with CPTED – Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and other prevention theories • Must have proven technical knowledge of risks and cost-effective delivery of physical security and systems including: Barriers, Hardware, Lock/Key, Protective Lighting, System Design (preferably integrated/multi-site) CCTV, Access Control, Alarm Systems, Duress and Panic Systems – planning, design, procurement and implementation • Must possess and maintain a valid Class 5 Alberta Motor Vehicle Operator's License with an acceptable driving record.

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Bad kisser can be taught to get better Dear Annie: I am in my 50s, and beyond the impotency issue if he were have been dating a 65-year-old friend a decent kisser, but he is not, and I am finding our intimate times together for three months. less and less appealing.

“Joseph” is financially I would hate to break up well-off and a perfect genover this, but I don’t know tleman. We have a lot of fun what else to do. Any addoing things and going placvice? — Frustrated in the es each weekend. We text Midwest each other or call several Dear Midwest: A poor times a day, and I see this kisser can be taught, if he relationship continuing for is willing to put forth the the long term. effort.

The problem is, Joseph is Joseph’s dentures may, a very chaste kisser. Whenin fact, be the real problem. ever we are intimate, he He may be terribly self-conkisses with his lips closed. scious about them or afraid I find kissing someone to MITCHELL they will come loose. be the best part of being to& SUGAR There is no reason you gether. When I asked him cannot reassure him. Genabout it, he blamed his denANNIE tly say, “Let me show you tures. He also has problems what I like,” and then give with erectile dysfunction. him some lessons. If he isn’t He has Viagra, but says he doesn’t like taking it because it makes him groggy interested in improvement or doesn’t get any better regardless of your efthe next day.

Everything else about our relation- forts, then there may be other things ship is great. I could probably even get going on. But we understand that if

your partner is a lousy kisser, it can limit the relationship.

Dear Annie: I can’t believe “Daughter of a Vet in Poughkeepsie” said her dad’s flag carried no sentimental value. The man was a World War II veteran. Surely she can find a corner to store it in or nook to display it. She said she already had a smaller flag.

Someone should tell her it’s OK to have more than one. — Stunned Daughter of a WWII Vet in Massachusetts Dear Stunned: Many readers agree with you. Here are more suggestions: From Louisville, Ky.: If anyone has a flag that they no longer need, they can contact the nearest Elks lodge. We have a yearly flag retirement ceremony that is both wonderful and emotional.

Daily Reader: I left my daddy’s American flag packed away for 62 years, until my sweet granddaughter suggested framing it. Now it is proudly displayed in my den alongside my only picture of Dad in his World War I uniform.

Danville, Virginia: My grandfather was in a veterans hospital in Richmond. In the lobby was a wall with a glass-encased bookshelf containing hundreds of flags. I was told that families donate them and request that theirs be flown on a day of their choice. I thought it was a great way to honor our veterans.

Honolulu: The National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, where my father is buried, welcomed our flag.

They fly them all the time and seek replacement flags for the ones that become worn. Whenever I see the flags flying at the cemetery, it makes me proud to know that one of them was my father’s.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

ing to you to come up with some smart solutions so put on your thinking cap Lions. Don’t stick with old ways of doing things — try to come up with some novel new ideas.

Saturday, October 10 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The next few CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Tanya Tucker, 56; David Lee Roth, 59; Bai weeks is a good time to apply for a loan, buy shares, sign contracts or revamp your budget Ling, 48 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Mercury is now as Mercury moves forwards in your money moving forwards, so communication should zone. Be proactive about your financial future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You have the start to improve.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have many cre- ability to express what’son your mind Libra, as Mercury moves forwards in your ative talents but are you ussign. Choose your words wisely, as ing them? Don’t be afraid of they have the power to move others making mistakes, as they can in emotional ways. lead you into exciting new terSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): ritory.

You’re in a generous mood as you ARIES (March 21-April offer emotional support to those 19): Communication should around you. It’s also time to step start to improve, as Mercury outside your usual weekend routine moves forwards in your partand do something that’s adventurnership zone. So do all you ous and fun. can to smooth over disagreeSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. ments and gets things mov21): With Mercury now direct, group ing in a positive direction. activities are set to improve as you TAURUS (April 20-May JOANNE MADELINE all work together to achieve a satis20): Serious Saturn stymies MOORE factory outcome. Plus take the time communication this weekend, to really listen to what others have as you feel emotionally disSUN SIGNS to say. connected from a loved one.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you are patient and underResist the temptation to retreat and be moody standing, things will gradually turn around.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Mercury — this weekend, in order to cover up your emoyour ruler — is moving forwards again. So tional insecurities. Clear and honest commuactivities involving communication, computers nication will get you a lot further than sulky and travel should all improve as you gradually behaviour.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Expect get your Gemini mojo back in spades!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Mercury is theunexpected; where relationships surprise now in direct motion but it will take a couple you and things are not quite what they seem. of days for communication with loved ones Plus start planning your next holiday, as Merto improve, so you’ll have to be patient. Good cury moves forwards in your travel zone. things come to Crabs who wait!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t waste LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Others are look- precious time procrastinating Pisces! Mercury

is now moving forwards, so tell it like it is.

Plus make sure you are 100 per cent honest with others, and keep them up-to-date with your plans.

Sunday, Oct. 11 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Emily Deschanel, 38; Michelle Trachtenberg, 29; Joan Cusack, 52 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Make sure you capitalize on the good luck that is around today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born on the zodiac’s Day of Gracious Ease, you have a natural charm that is hard to resist. Don’t use it as an excuse to become lazy or complacent though!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Use the power of your imagination — plus some strategic research — to get to the bottom of a problem that’s got you stumped. Plus listen to your intuition — it will point you in the right direction.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The more time and commitment you channel into relationships, the more rewards you’ll receive further down the track. When it comes to a group you’re involved with, follow your gut instincts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Work, business and finances are all favoured today Twins, as the stars boost your determination to complete a professional project, or help you find a welcome second stream of income.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Fabulous opportunities are all around you today — especially if you’re involved in areas like education, sport, commerce, publishing or travel.

It’s time to strike while the iron is hot Crabs!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t limit yourself Lions. Jupiter encourages you to stretch yourself outside your comfort zone, as you investigate adventurous new options. The only

person holding you back is you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Communication is highlighted as you converse with a wide range of people including family, friends and acquaintances. You’re keen to talk issues through until they are properly sorted out.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you experiencing money problems Libra? The more financially literate and creative you are, the more you will be able to capitalize on lucky opportunities that come your way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Super aspects make for a passionately productive day Scorpio, as you inspire others with your disciplined and determined demeanour. Longterm friendships are also favoured.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The more time and attention you put into family matters, the better you’ll feel today Sagittarius. There’ll also be plenty of opportunities to share interesting new insights with loved ones.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Attached Capricorns — it’s a terrific time to learn something new with your partner. Single Goats — love and the internet are linked, so start joining some online dating sites ASAP! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Even though it’s Sunday, there’ll be plenty of opportunities to make pleasing progress with finances, work or business. The more professionally proactive you are, the more successful youíll be.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Wonderful aspects make for a productive and lucky day so get out there Pisces and get things moving and shaking! But avoid being rash with cash.

Stick to a solid financial plan.

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 — Some teen boys may be reluctant to express their feelings, but a new national support service is hoping to make the process easier for youngsters wanting to open up and share their struggles.

Kids Help Phone has launched BroTalk, an online and phone service for teen boys aged 14-18. Visitors to the newly launched website will be able to connect to a counsellor through a live chat function available Wednes-

days through Sundays from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. ET, or by phone 24/7 by calling 1-866-393-5933. Teens will also be able to access information on the site about pertinent topics including depression, fitting in, school, sex, relationships and dating, and can read real-life stories from their peers.

Kids Help Phone president and CEO Sharon Wood said there are common concerns raised by youth using the service, including peer pressure and anxiety around school and living up to family expectations. There are also feelings expressed about mental and emotional health, suicide and suicide-related issues, she noted.

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Sitting pretty Do you have a favourite chair? It’s the one that welcomes you and comforts you as you relax, chat, read, and daydream. It’s the one that fits you perfectly. Sometimes it’s serendipity finding that chair, it could have been a family heirloom that you inherited, or a lucky discovery at your local home furnishings store. But obtaining a suitable seat can DEBBIE be a challenge.

TRAVIS Categorized as occasional HOUSE TO HOME chairs or accent seating, there are plenty of options to fit any budget.

When one catches your eye, test-drive it before you buy, and ask some questions. Looks can be deceiving. Is that comfy seat going to deteriorate into a flat, lumpy perch assigned to the dog, or the curb in a few years?

Well-made furniture, pieces that last for generations, are created using the best of materials and skilled workmanship, backed by a comprehensive understanding of design, individual differences in size, and fashion. I spoke to Karen Ottenbrite, VP of Sales and Design at Barrymore Furniture, a world class leader in custom furnishings. There are key elements that equate to long life and comfort. Here’s how Barrymore does it, from the frame and springs to the finishing details.

They start with kiln-dried hardwood, either maple, oak, ash or birch.

Joints are dowelled, glued and screwed, then corner blocks are positioned to disperse weight equally.

Eight-way, hand-tied coils deliver a superior spring bed that promises lasting comfort.

For cushions, pre-stressed foam core is wrapped in luxury high-loft polyester fiber.

Top of the line upholstery fabrics deliver stylish options from classic to contemporary. With custom made pieces you have a selection of trims, valances, and cushion styles. Also the shape of the legs, the height and depth of the seat and arms ensure a perfect fit.

While trends come and go, there are classics that hold their own over the decades. Ottenbrite explains, “Just as you do in the fashion world, you might choose a sofa with the go anywhere look of a camelhair or grey flannel coat.

The accent chair is the stylish scarf, purse or hat.” Barrymore’s William chairs shown here are on trend and timeless. Marsala is a hot hue, a soft purple shade that warms up grays, black and white. Prints with an attitude are also popular, like the modern damask pattern on the William chair that combines marsala, purple and gold on a white background.

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Barrymore produces top-quality custom furnishings that are both stylish and timeless.

In other colour news, Ottenbrite says the iconic 70s duo of avocado green and harvest gold is still a big influence but the shades have changed.

Harvest gold has transitioned to brandy, cognac and camel; avocado has given way to celadon, drab khaki and bright Kelly green. Rusty oranges and coral remain popular, a warm and inviting choice for the autumn season.

Visit an on-line showroom to discover the many shapes, styles and sizes that are available, and the broad selection of fabrics too. www.barrymorefurniture.com is a good place to start. Custom made furniture is an investment that delivers quality that enriches your personal lifestyle, taste and comfort.

Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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21 25 Lazaro - Red Deer Fully developed energy efficient Built Green home. The Maxim has a large open floor plan ideal for family gatherings & entertaining. Features: solar panels, hardwood floors, quartz countertops, second floor laundry, spacious ensuite with dual sinks, tile shower & exquisite fixtures.

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22 Tindale Place - Red Deer Space for the whole family, 2533 Sq. Ft. 3 bedrooms + den, 3 bathrooms, bonus room. Spacious home with all the modern amenitites

10 67 Cameron Close - Sylvan Lake Superior value in this 2 storey that boasts 1376 Sq. Ft. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Bright & spacious floor plan with open kitchen & great room.

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23 174 Noreseman Close - Penhold-lake Open concept living & dining space on the main floor. Master ensuite complete with glass walk-in tiled shower, his & her sinks, and soaker tub. Trayed ceiling

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From casual to formal

Q — 0ur new home has a sunken family room that is a featured part the open plan.

The step-down has a beautiful rounded arch detail that keeps the openness of this large space feeling cozy.

Adjoining this space is a bright dining room and a large foyer that features a sweeping staircase.

The family room’s windows face west.

The wall-to-wall carpet is called French Rose and the walls are painted in a pale rose shade with all the trim and mouldings painted crisp white.

This room also features a black, white and brown-flecked granite fireplace and an adjoining wet bar built of red mahogany.

We also keep a large aquarium here in which we keep spectacular tropical fish.

DAVID Although this is a family FERGUSON room, we don’t watch teleCREATIVE SPACE vision and will not have one here, in fact, we would like the room to feel more formal than it does.

We plan to buy a new sofa and love seat, both in beige ultrasuede, one or two wing back chairs, as well as new end and coffee tables.

A — When I see a space for the first time, whether or not it is furnished, I see an empty room.

Existing furnishings, and to some extent, interior architectural details finishes, really don’t play a part in the first stage of the design process.

The things that do matter are the permanent architectural features and how they will affect the final design.

These are the room’s orientation and natural lighting sources, and the traffic flow patterns that run through the space.

Each of these will have a direct impact on how I will choose the appropriate furnishings in a room and how these pieces are arranged.

A part of what makes your family room feel like a casual space is its openness.

A more formal feeling can be had by using more formal materials and generally, soft and shiny materials contribute to a formal feeling.

Already, the architectural use of granite and the cabinet’s mahogany finish begin to set a tone for a more formal space.

When considering wood pieces for end or coffee tables, it is a good idea to continue using the rich tone of mahogany wood.

Adding a complementary colour to the colour scheme will keep the room from being too low-key.

A soft ultra-suede sofa and love seat featuring a light solid tone can be accented with colourful and patterned throw pillows will give this room a much-needed jolt.

That, along with the deep-toned wing chairs, will make your colour scheme cosy yet sophisticated.

The room is replete with beautiful and interesting features, including the large fireplace, a wall of windows, a classic wet bar and, of course, an aquarium.

In a room with abundant wall space, these built-in features would be a welcome relief from huge expanses of wall.

The resulting affect in your room’s furniture arrangement however, is that the furniture must be

A casual space can be made more formal by establishing symmetry and choosing more formal fabrics and finishes. pulled away from the walls and the basic layout of the room doesn’t allow many options.

A traffic route through the room at the rounded corner step restricts furniture in that corner, and a heavy traffic area at the dining room connection means that area should be kept clear.

Rather than quantity of furnishings, I recommend concentrating on the quality.

Large, overstuffed pieces will contribute to a comfortable feeling in the space.

Soft, luxurious fabrics will give a more formal feeling.

Whether you choose to keep the existing wall-towall carpet or install new wood floor, a decorative rug centred in the room will appear to anchor the furnishings and contribute to a cosy environment.

The room’s western exposure will provide bright sunlight throughout the day and your complementary colour scheme of red and green tones will fare very nicely in these surroundings.

David Ferguson is a regular contributor to CBC Radio’s Ontario Today. Write to David at: david.ferguson@ hotmail.ca.

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Blowing in additional attic insulation is the fastest, easiest and least disruptive way to boost the energy efficiency of most Canadian homes.

Not only will it help make your home cozier, but it will also help you save money so you can afford other things in life — especially if you are provided with free money from the government or your utility company.

All it comes down to is something as simple as “at least 22 up top.”

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It’s getting cool again, and before long most of Canada will become cold enough to kill you.

While your house will almost certainly keep you alive this winter, the cold, cruel blast will likely do damage to your finances and your comfort level.

Insulation is your main defence against winter, of course, but it comes with a lot of questions.

Where should it go?

What kind should you use?

How much will it cost?

There’s still time before winter arrives to build defenses around your pocket book and your extremities by installing more insulation, and the process is simpler than it seems.

STEVE All you need to remember MAXWELL is this simple phrase: “At least 22 up top.”

HOUSEWORKS Of all the places to apply more insulation in a home, attics usually offer the biggest bang for the buck.

No location is easier and faster to upgrade, and the attic insulation industry is mature, well equipped and experienced enough to do a good job in a short time.

Investing less than $1,000 and hiring a professional for a few hours could result in significant cost savings to heat and cool many Canadian homes, year after year.

While it’s true that some homes need extra insulation in walls, basements, and floors, more likely than not, boosting attic insulation is the lowest hanging fruit on the tree.

So how much attic insulation is enough? As much as you can afford.

I disagree with the experts who believe there’s an upper limit for attic insulation. I’ve seen many super-insulated houses that use tiny amounts of energy with R60, R70, and even R90 in the attic.

Minimum levels of attic insulation vary across the country, but if there’s anything less than 22 inches of depth on the floor of your attic, you need more.

You should have at least R60 up top, but as I said, more is better.

It goes without saying that everyone wants to spend less money to heat their homes.

Governments and utility companies across Canada want to help make things as affordable as possible, so they’ve introduced financial incentives and rebates to help reduce the energy consumption of Canadian homes, including programs for insulation upgrades.

Trouble is, it’s not easy to discover what kind of programs are available, when they’re available, and how to apply.

Provinces and utility companies each offer different programs.

New incentives show up and old ones disappear.

Getting free money for home insulation is not as simple as it may seem, and that’s why a one-stop source for a Canada-wide home insulation incentives program was created.

This past summer, NAIMA Canada, an association representing Canadian insulation manufacturers, launched an online tool (naimacanada.ca/en/ incentives—rebates) for discovering how to get financial help insulating homes, businesses and institutions.

After clicking on the type of building you’ve got, the province it’s in, and perhaps the utility company that provides you with service, you’ll then get a detailed list of all the programs available to you, with clickable links, email addresses and phone numbers to help you find more information and sign up.

There’s never been anything else like this online information database in the country, and it’s constantly updated as programs change.

Insulation may not be top of mind when deciding which home improvement upgrades you’ll invest in, but it’s one of the wisest for improving the energy performance of your home.

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announcements Obituaries BAILEY Myrtle Frances Sept. 11, 1922 - Oct. 7, 2015 Myrtle Frances Bailey, beloved wife of Fred Bailey, passed away peacefully and suddenly in her Red Deer home, October 7, 2015 at age 93. Myrtle’s sons are Mel, Larry, Wes, Ernie and Bob Bailey. Myrtle’s daughters are Dawn and Donna. She will be dearly missed by her grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. Also remembering her will be the spouses of her children and friends of Myrtle. She is predeceased by her sister Flo, and her husband Fred. Myrtle was the loving and generous mother/grandmother of the Bailey family since Fred’s death in 1995. She loved to host holiday dinners in her home until her passing.

Incredibly she was still reading Western and Romance novels and solving circle word puzzles. A short graveside memorial service will be held Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at Mountain View Funeral Home located at 1605 - 100 Street SE (17 Ave. SE) at Garden Road, Calgary, Alberta. Telephone 403-272-5555.

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RODRIGUE Roger Henri July 23, 1936 - Oct. 12, 2014 A beautiful soul travelled beautiful memories remain Loved forever Carol and Family.

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CHILD caregiver needed for 2 children in Red Deer.$11/hr. willing to do split shifts,days and nights rotation 44 hrs/wk. high school graduate,1-2 yrs exp. in child care. apply at frh1951@outlook.com Looking for: In Home Caregiver/Nanny for 2 children(12 yrs old and a 6 yrs old with special needautism) FullTime ($11.50 40/44hrs/week) Must be reliable,experience is not required but must be willing to train. Located in Red Deer, AB. Email to limpinnoel@yahoo.ca

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PART TIME SALES ASSOCIATE for our Red Deer location If you love fashion? Have great people skills? Want to be part of an awesome team? Send a resume to The Travelman Luggage And Swimwear Warehouse! We offer job and bonus incentives, “No” nights, Sundays or holidays! Drop off a resume in person or email to tannbarnes@ hotmail.com. Please address resumes to Tannis Crawford.

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Kristie Ann Doucet (Forster) Oct. 10, 1973 - April 16, 2009 Though we miss you always Each and everyday It seems to hit us even more Because it is your birthday.

We send wishes to heaven Carried to you upon a prayer To the place where you are now With sweet tender love and care.

Love Mom, Dad and family

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ROGER H. RODRIGUE July 23, 1936 - Oct. 12, 2014

LAWRENCE The Honourable Judge Nigel Patrick Feb. 17, 1935 to Aug. 26, 2015 Friends are invited for remembrances and refreshments at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club on Thursday, October 15th from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Short program at 3:00 p.m. Anyone wishing to make a memorial donation is encouraged to consider Dying with Dignity Canada at 55 Eglinton Ave. E., Toronto, Ontario M4P 1G8 (dyingwithdignity.ca) or the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation at 3942-50A Ave., Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4E7 (rdrhfoundation.com).

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• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities • Medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

The successful candidate will be responsible for the recruitment of carriers and the successful delivery of the Red Deer Express in Red Deer.

The ideal candidate will have an outgoing personality, the ability to multi-task and good written and verbal communication skills.

Basic computer skills, a valid driver’s license, and use of a car and are required. Candidate must pass a vulnerable sector criminal records check.

This is a full-time position, five days per week.

Please forward your resume to: Red Deer Express Attention: Debbie Reitmeier 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 dreitmeier@reddeeradvocate.com

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Clothing

1590

LADIES chocolate brown coat w/fleece lining and hood, size M, very good cond., $15; UGG slippers size 5, new cond. $30 403-314-9603 LADIES London Fog, reg.

10 size, cranberry pea coat, $50, 403-227-2976

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

1640

Tools

ELECTRIC DRILLS, 3/8”, (5) $20. Each.

403-314-0804 LADIES size 4 1/2 Italian chocolate leather knee SKILL SAW, Craftsman high boots, soft fits like a 7.25, $50. 403-314-0804 glove, $200 403-227-2976 TABLE SAW, DELTA 10” Contractors Series 2000, NURSES’ uniforms, with biasemeyer fence. pants & tops. med. to 403-350-6589 large size. $5 each. (approx. 25) good shape.

403-347-2526

Electronics

1605

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Aspen - Split.

Avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 FIREWOOD, North of Costco. 403-346-7178 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 SEASONED split poplar firewood, $50.00 1/2 ton load call 403-728-3485

GRUNDIG am/fm shortwave field radio, model #S450DLX w/owners manual, used 2x, $50 403-896-9246

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

GULL LAKE HOUSE WITH LAKE VIEW 3 bdrm., 2 bth., fully furn. with dbl. att. garage and games room, hot tub, n/s, no pets, ref. req., $2,800/mo. plus util.

780-514-0129

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

Rooms For Rent

3090

AVAIL Immed: 1 Lrg fully furn bdrm c/w gas fireplace - $275 dd $550/mo..

Call 403-396-2468 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Warehouse Space

3140

COLD storage garage, 3 BDRM, 3 bath, 3 flr, 3 parking, 5 appls, fenced 14’ x 24’, $200/mo.; heated yard, pets allowed to over big truck space, $775/mo.

30ish parents with family at VARIETY SHOP SPACES 7316-59 Ave. Rent/S.S. ~ offices ~ fenced yards ~ Big or small, different $1590.Ph 403-341-4627. locations. 403-343-6615 INGLEWOOD 2 bdrm.

2 bath condo. Heated parking & all utils. incl. $1450.

403-350-3722 SEIBEL PROPERTY 6 locations in Red Deer, 3 bdrms, 1 1/2 bath, appls, starting at $1100. For more info 403-347-7545 or 403-304-7576 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4020

Houses For Sale

FOR LEASE

2006 FREESTAR, 7 passenger, fully loaded, DVD, exc. shape, 94,000 km, $6,500 obo. 403-318-1878

Tires, Parts Acces.

RISER HOMES 1 ONLY! Must See! Blackfalds Bungalow walkout backing onto valley view. A must see. This 2 bdrm. 2 bath has many upgrades.

This weekend only $399,000. GST, legal fees and 4 appl. package included. LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

Household Furnishings

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

1720

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Storage Space

3040

DOUBLE/queen size heavy duty steel bed frame 72”L, adjust to 54-60-78” wide, 6 casters (2 locks) $40 403-346-6539

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $975/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. Nov. 1.

403-304-5337

3160

This is a three bedroom two bath modified by level walk out, backing onto green area and alley great for trailer .Many upgrades. $419,900 includes GST legal fee, front sod. Tree.

LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

4040

3190

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

conditioning -large walk-in wardrobe closet in bedroom, -modern bathroom -well appointed kitchen and dining area spacious utility room off of hallway -roomy coat closet hallway, -comfortable livingroom area, -external deck off of living room -Easy Access near main entrance-Parking -Storage Amenities Special Features PHONE 403.783.

6756 FOR VIEWING APPOINTMENT, Was asking $239,000, REDUCED by $5,000

WANTED Antiques, furniture and wegot For delivery of Flyers, estates. 342-2514 Suites homes Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK Misc. for 2 BDRM bsmt suite avail.

Nov. 1, $850/mo. + 1/3 util.

CLEARVIEW RIDGE Sale CLASSIFICATIONS Call Bob 403-872-3400 CLEARVIEW 100 VHS movies, $75.

4000-4190 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets.

For All 403-885-5020 TIMBERSTONE $875 rent/d.d.

ANTIQUE coal/wood free 403-346-1458 Realtors LANCASTER standing heater $60 obo ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious & Services 403-342-0754 VANIER suites 3 appls., heat/water wegot CAKE Decorating Set, WOODLEA/ incld., ADULT ONLY Wilton, $100.

BLDG, no pets, Oriole wheels WASKASOO Several decorating books Park. 403-986-6889 and assorted baking pans.

DEER PARK AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 $50 for all. 403-346-9899 bdrm. in clean quiet adult CLASSIFICATIONS GRANDVIEW ELECTRIC skillet new in building, near downtown box $22; oak top dining 5000-5300 EASTVIEW Co-Op, no pets, table w/leaf, 6 chairs $30; 403-348-7445 MICHENER misc. end tables w/lamps $10/ea, accent table 18” x Antique & CITY VIEW APTS. MOUNTVIEW 13” w/drawers, shelf, lamp Clean, quiet, newly reno’d Classic Autos ROSEDALE $55 computer table adult building. Rent $900 HERE TO HELP w/office chairs S.D. $800. Avail. Oct. 15.

GARDEN HEIGHTS & HERE TO SERVE 1969 NOVA 2 dr., 5 spd. $80 403-346-2192 Near hospital. No pets. standard, lots of upgrades, Call GORD ING at MORRISROE 403-318-3679 HOTWATER TANK Asking $2500 o.b.o.

RE/MAX real estate 50 gal. Waterford Defender GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. central alberta 403-341-9995 403-704-3714 Call Prodie at Safety System - Gas. apartments, avail. immed, gord.ing@remax.net 403-314-4301 Only used for a couple of rent $875 403-596-6000

3060

1760

5180

GOOD Year Wrangler, set of 4, P235-75R16. $100. 403-350-1562 TULSA winch Chelsea PTO. 403-343-2058

Misc.

Automotive

5240

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Rosedale

Oriole Park 3 ORWELL CLOSE ESTATE SALE Oct. 10 & 11 Sat. & Sun. 10 - 5 Something for Everyone!

SAT. OCT. 10, 10:30-4:30.

27 Ruttan Cl. Wide variety of household and garden items.

GUARANTEED DELIVERY If your paper is wet, torn or missed, call our Circulation Dept. and we’ll gladly replace your paper.

Riverside Light Industrial 4614-61 St. (directly behind Windsor Plywood) 2400 sq. ft. large 55 x 85 compound 403-350-1777

TO ORDER RENT or sale, storage unit HOME at Sylvan Lake, all concrete const., 24 x 48 DELIVERY OF w/water/power/heat, 16’ door, no GST THE Manufactured Condos/ 403-347-0016 Homes ADVOCATE Household Townhouses Appliances 2 BDRM. mobile, 5 appls., Mobile CALL OUR SIERRAS OF MICHENER lrg. fenced yard, $1050/mo.

SPACIOUS, MODERN, CIRCULATION FRIDGE, Danby 3.2 cu. ft. incl water. 403-872-2532 Lot LIKE NEW, ONE Brand New, still in box.

PADS $450/mo.

BEDROOM, Something for Everyone DEPARTMENT $150. 403-346-9899 Brand new park in Lacombe.

APPROXIMATE 776 sq. ft.

Everyday in Classifieds Spec Mobiles.

3 Bdrm., CONDOMINIUM ON 2nd 403-314-4300 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

FLOOR WITH: -air-

1710

5070

Vans Buses

314-4300

MOBILE office trailer 240 for sale c/w toilet, satellite dish, TV, Stereo, fridge.

Call B & L Enterprise 403-346-6106

Celebrating the birth of your child?

Share your happy news with family & friends with a special announcement in the Red Deer Advocate Classifieds “Announcement” section.

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

4010

5020 5030

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

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

1840

PUPPY Pee Pad for training looks like grass, $25; 403-346-9899

Sporting Goods

1860

TRAVELING GOLF BAG, black. $45. 403-885-5020

Travel Packages

Wanted To Buy

For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. INGLEWOOD LANCASTER ANDERS

1900

1930

WANTED TO BUY: old lead batteries for recycling 403-396-8629

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rentals FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

CARRIERS NEEDED

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Houses/ Duplexes

For Sale

Opposite Hospital 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875.

403-346-5885

4020

SERGE’S HOMES

SYLVAN: 4 fully furn. units avail. immediately $1200. to $1400. inclds. utils., details 403-880-0210.

THE NORDIC

Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050 3 BDRM main fl. house for rent, avail. imm., $1,250/mo. + 2/3 util. Call Bob 403-872-3400

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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VANIER WOODS NOW OPEN

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CLASSIFICATIONS 1 CHANCE ONLY! (1)BLACKFALDS 1200 sq. ft. bi-level walkout 3 bdrm.

2 bath, open floor plan, fireplace $339,000 Legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. incld. LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

UP/DOWN DUPLEX - live up and have renter pay mortgage or use as income property. Sun and Mon, Oct 11 and 12, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 45 Inglewood Drive. 403-352-2722 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Farms & Acreages

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Tour These Fine Homes

4280

1000-1430

RISER HOMES

Open House

SE Red Deer

To ond out more about MS or make a donation, please call 403.346.0290 or visit mssociety.ca.

2008 CHEV Colorado 4x4, auto, Vortex 3.7, factory canopy, new glass, winter tires, command start, 232,000 km, $6900 obo.

403-505-3113

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Brand new rental community.

Reserve now for your choice of suite!

1&2 BDRMs from $1170.

In-suite laundry. Dishwasher.

Balcony. Pet friendly.

Elevator. Parking avail.

Gym. Community garden.

Non-smoking. On-site mgmt.

39 Van Slyke Way, Red Deer

We can help them cope with this disease.

5050

Trucks

“COMING SOON” BY

3020 Directory

4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1695/mo. 403-782-7156 403-357-7465 AVAIL. Nov. 1, 3 bdrm. house for rent in Parkvale.

4606 47 St. R.D. No pets.

Apply in person or call 403-347-2943 AVAIL. now. Mountview reno’d and charming, 2 bdrm. main floor, ultra quiet, $1350 403-392-2488 IMMEDIATE - bsmt. suite, legal, 2 bath, 5 appl., $925/mo. + util. 403-343-1010 INNISFAIL townhouse, 2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appl., $1095/mo. + util. 403-343-1010

We understand that to some MS patients, it feels like a part of their body is disconnected.

MORRISROE MANOR

403.392.6751

CLASSIFICATIONS

Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

Call Rick at 403- 314-4303

5040

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Call Rhonda at 403-314-4306

For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA

months - like new!! Reason LARGE 2 bdrm. suite Cars for selling is we switched w/balcony, $995/mo. to direct venting unit. inclds. heat and water.

New was $850.

MOVING - Priced for Quick 403-314-0209 $425. 403-318-4653 Sale - 1977 Lincoln Town Car, Only 7,000 original LARGE collection of Model LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. miles, mint condition, as Toys, every tool made to SUITES. 25+, adults only new. 403-887-6413 or n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 run a household. Guns, 403-350-5346 gun cabinets etc. Selling LIMITED TIME OFFER: due to health reasons.

First month’s rent FREE! 2011 DTS CADDY, 51,000 Viewing by appt. only.

1 & 2 Bedroom suites HERE TO HELP km, $38,000. 403-346-6108 403-343-2722, 391-1796 available. Renovated & HERE TO SERVE suites in central location.

PROPANE heater for inCall GORD ING at Cat friendly. leasing@ side travel home, works RE/MAX real estate SUV's rentmidwest.com good $150 obo central alberta 403-341-9995 1(888)679-8031 403-314-0804 gord.ing@remax.net 2014 SUBARU WATER cooler $50.

Tired of Standing?

FORESTER XT (turbo) 403-885-5020 Find something to sit on loaded, mint, 27,000 kms. in Classifieds $31,500 403-341-5104 1 & 2 bdrm., 350-5524 Adult bldg. only, N/S, Dogs No pets. 403-596-2444 Houses

Contractors

4300

BUSINESS/FAMILY acreage, 1 mile SE of city, 1,756 sq. ft. house, 40’ x 60’ shop, fenced w/waterer, orchard, playground, and much more. Sun. and Mon. Oct. 11 and 12, 2 to 5 p.m. 37540 Range Road 270. 403-352-2722

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197

1160

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Handyman Services

1200

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

BEAT THE RUSH! Book DUMP RUNS, ODD JOBS, now for your home projects. METAL P/U 403 550 2502 Reno’s, flooring, painting, GARAGE Doors Serviced small concrete/rock work, 50% off. 403-358-1614 landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617 Moving &

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest

in VIP Treatment.

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your 10 - 2am Private back entry 403-341-4445 reno needs. 403-506-4301

Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Window Cleaning

1420

ROBUST CLEANING SERVICES - Windows, eavestroughs, vinyl siding.

Pckg. pricing, free quotes.

403-506-4822 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Yard Care

1430

FALL cleanup. Tree/junk removal. Snow removal contracts welcome.

403-358-1614 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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¯ ROUTES AVAILABLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

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Sylvan Lake Lacombe

call: 403-314-4394 or email:

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D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Demonstrators watch as President Barack Obama’s motorcade leaves Roseburg High School after a visit with families of victims of the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. The protesters were angry about Obama’s calls for gun restrictions in the wake of the shooting rampage that killed eight students and a teacher at the college.

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President Barack Obama and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, walk back to the motorcade following their meeting with families of the victims of the Oct. 1, shooting at Umpqua Community College, Friday in Roseburg, Ore.

‘It’s about the families’ OBAMA MEETS WITH VICTIMS OF DEADLY OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROSEBURG, Ore. — President Barack Obama, faced with protests over his meeting Friday with victims of an Oregon shooting, held to his view that something must be done about deadly gun crimes. But given the freshness of the week-old tragedy, he said, “Today, it’s about the families.”

At Umpqua Community College in Roseburg last week, a gunman killed eight students and a teacher before using the weapon to take his own life. On Friday, fatal shootings were reported at colleges in Arizona and Texas.

“We’re going to have to come together as a country to see how we can prevent these issues from taking place”

so regularly, Obama told reporters following the approximately hour-long, private meeting with grieving relatives of those who were killed and injured. “But today, it’s about the families, their grief and the love we feel for them.” The White House did not say how many people Obama met with.

Immediately after the Oregon shooting, a visibly angry Obama appeared at the White House to declare that thoughts and prayers are no longer enough in the aftermath of such incidents and that the nation’s gun laws needed to be changed. He said the issue is one “we should politicize.”

But his message didn’t sit well in Roseburg, where gun ownership is popular and some area residents began mobilizing against his visit almost

as soon as the White House announced he was coming. Hundreds of supporters and protesters gathered near the local airport where he arrived by helicopter, and signs welcoming the president were mixed with other signs advocating for gun rights.

Obama said the families wanted him to know how much they appreciated the outpouring of support from around the country.

Staunchly conservative Douglas County is bristling with gun owners who use their firearms for hunting, target shooting and self-protection. A commonly held opinion in the area is that the solution to mass killings is more people carrying guns, not fewer.

“The fact that the college didn’t permit guards to carry guns, there was no

one there to stop this man,” said Craig Schlesinger, pastor at the Garden Valley Church.

Referring to potential protesters, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said no one should fear Obama’s visit.

“The fact is the president has made clear that the goal of his visit is to spend time with the families of those who are so deeply affected by this terrible tragedy,” Earnest said.

Some of the most poignant moments of Obama’s presidency have occurred in his role as consoler in chief. Just a few months ago, he led the grieving after nine worshippers were gunned down inside a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, singing Amazing Grace at a funeral service.

Stolen gun used to kill backpacker SAN FRANCISCO — Three young transients used a handgun that was stolen from an unlocked car to rob and kill a backpacking Canadian tourist in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco then a yoga instructor two days later on a hiking trail north of the city, authorities said Friday.

The handgun was reported stolen on Oct. 1 from the Fisherman’s Wharf neighbourhood in San Francisco, police commander Toney Chaplin said.

“We believe the same weapon was used in both crimes,” Chaplin said.

The body of Audrey Carey, 23, was found Oct. 3 in Golden Gate Park. She had been shot in the head.

Yoga instructor Steve Carter, 67, was discovered dead on Monday near

a popular hiking trail in Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge. He had been shot multiple times while walking his dog.

Police identified the suspects as Morrison Haze Lampley, 23 Sean Michael Angold, 24 and Lila Scott Alligood, 18. They were being held without bail and it was unclear if any of them are represented by a lawyer.

They were arrested Wednesday at a soup kitchen in Portland, Oregon. Police say the stolen gun was recovered during the arrest and they believe it’s the weapon used to fatally shoot Carey and Carter.

Police also said the suspects were in possession of Carter’s car and some of Carey’s camping gear was found inside it.

Valerie Chapman, administrator of St. Francis Church in Portland, said

Banks pledge to boost funding to mitigate climate change effects

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LIMA, Peru — The world’s top development banks pledged Friday to boost their funding to lessen climate change’s impact, aiming for the goal of $100 billion a year that rich countries have pledged to transfer to developing countries by 2020.

The pledges were made as finance ministers met in Lima less than two months ahead of a climate conference in Paris considered pivotal if the brakes are to be put on global warming.

“This is a positive outcome and I think we can say with some certainty that we will reach the $100 billion commitment” that was made at the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters.

“It is the beginning of what you need, because if the international community doesn’t roll up it sleeves and get to work this thing is just too big for us,” said Rachel Kyte, the World Bank vice-president for climate change.

For the World Bank alone, that will mean boosting climate financing by a third, potentially making $29 billion a year in additional funding available by 2020.

Also pledging lending increases were the Asian, European, African and European development banks.

A report issued this week by the 29-country Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimated $62 billion was spent last year, up from $52 billion the previous year, with multilateral development banks accounting for 40 per cent of climate financing.

The charity Oxfam estimates only about 16 per cent of that money — or $2 billion — is directly invested in helping poor countries hit hardest by global warming to cope with extreme weather it is already causing.

“The poorest countries are still being short-changed,” said Oxfam climate policy expert Isabel Kreisler.

Most of the money is going to green

energy investments for reducing the burning of fossil fuels that cause global warming.

The finance ministers of 20 countries most vulnerable to climate change’s impact held their inaugural meeting in Lima and called on developed countries to boost by 50 per cent the financing for adaptation, which includes everything from building sea walls to more heat-resistent highways and relocating low-lying communities where sea levels are rising.

The countries include the Philippines, Bangladesh, Costa Rica and island nations and are home to nearly 700 million people.

The V-20 ministers also proposed the creation of an international financial transaction tax to raise more money for fighting climate change.

“Climate finance is going to be a dealmaker or deal-breaker in Paris, so unless there is a credible roadmap on the table on how these imbalances are going to be addressed, we do see developing countries putting a Paris agreement potentially at risk,” Kreisler said.

“The $100 billion is a very important political commitment that developed countries made in Copenhagen but it’s really the tip of the iceberg,” said Jennifer Morgan of the World Resources Institute. “The real question is about the shifting of the trillions.”

The International Energy Agency has estimated an additional $1.1 trillion will be needed annually through mid-century to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, the goal of international climate negotiations of which Paris will be the 21st round.

“The $100 billion is a political number,” Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the U.N.-run talks. “It was pulled out of a hat. But it must be respected.”

During the annual gathering of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund at which the finance ministers met, the heads of both lenders called for an end to subsidies on fossil fuels, which the IMF says amount to more than $5 trillion a year.

she had to admonish the three for smoking in a no-smoking area just outside the dining hall. Some of the hall’s regular diners told her the three suspects were asking if anyone wanted to buy a Volkswagen Jetta station wagon, Chapman said.

“We serve low-income and homeless people, many of them with mental illness,” Chapman said.

“It’s not the smartest place to sell a car.”

The suspects have waived extradi-

tion proceedings in Portland and will be returned to the San Francisco Bay Area to face charges in the shooting deaths, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said.

Chaplin said San Francisco detectives spotted similarities in the shooting deaths of Carey and Carter, including the locations in wooded areas.

Chaplin said the two agencies collaborated and soon traced the three suspects to Portland using the navigation system in Carter’s car.

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