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LOCAL MAKEUP ARTIST ALLISON LUMLEY CREATES ZOMBIES,GHOULS, SUGAR SKULLS AND MORE

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Little zombies, creepy clowns and assorted superheros will be out in full force tonight.

There’s a chance the more authentic-looking ones that turn up on your doorstep for treats will have had some help from professional makeup artist Allison Lumley, of Red Deer’s Main Artery Designs.

She’s been busy creating a series of uncanny faces this month in her Inglewood home studio.

Whether it’s ripped skin, deathly pallor or an exposed jaw bone her clients are seeking, Lumley has been making gory effects appear real through her imaginative designs and custom prosthetics.

“I do quite a lot of zombies,” said Lumley, “but it’s starting to steer away from that now. It’s almost been over-done …”

With The Walking Dead TV series now in its sixth season, people start looking for the next unsettling thing — and the latest trend seems to be borrowing from a Mexican tradition.

“I’m getting requests for a lot of sugar skulls now,” said Lumley, referring to the decorative, jewel-encrusted altar decorations for Day of the Dead ceremonies. The annual Mexican family holiday remembers ancestors and helps them on their spiritual journey.

Requests for more usual skull faces continue for Lumley, as well as for scary clowns that will freak out anyone who’s read (or watched the TV version of) Steven King’s It. Characters from Hollywood movies and comics are perennially popular, especially from The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Lion King, The Corpse Bride, Frozen, Batman, Spiderman, and The Wizard of Oz. This Halloween, Lumley made a couple of clients look like Cheshire Cats from Alice in Wonderland and some as Incredible Hulks, a scarecrow, a glitter girl, as well as the motley crew of requisite zombies.

The latter was her 10-year-old son’s choice of Halloween character, so Lumley did a plaster cast of his face to assist her in creating the look of deteriorating tissue.

Photos by Jennifer George/Jennifer George Photography

TOP and RIGHT: Red Deer’s Allison Lumley of Main Artery Designs is busy during the Halloween season with many different takes on the undead.

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ABOVE: Makeup artist Allison Lumley puts the finishing touches on a design she describes as a shredded look on her model Krista Bussi

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MAKEUP: Effects The mold was later filled with latex and sculpted to create effects like exposed bone and torn skin.

These sorts of prosthetics are what film and television makeup artists apply to actors’ faces to achieve dramatic effects — but Lumley never took any formal training. She is self-taught, apart some workshops and online videos.

Her fascination with theatrical makeup started with her junior high school production of The Mikado. “I got addicted. I remember doing all these geisha girls …”

She later took hair and makeup classes, along with visual arts, at her Guelph, Ont., high school.

Lumley moved to Red Deer with her first husband in 1995, and worked in the hotel industry for a decade. After remarrying and becoming a mom of five, she sought more flexible work options and a way of using her creativity.

Word spread as she began doing professional effects makeup for clients out of her home on weekends, and painting murals and windows for homes and businesses during the week. Lumley said she’s now as busy as she wants to be. She does kids’ face-painting for birthday parties, festivals and trade shows, and does adult makeup for Mardi Gras, New Year’s Eve and Halloween masquerades — and even off-beat weddings.

“I had one couple who had a skeleton wedding,” she said — not only were the bride and groom married looking like bone racks — some of their guests also got into the macabre spirit too.

Her designs range from a five-minute snowflake or tiger face to a fourplus hour full-body makeup job, including contoured bones and muscles.

Some people really get into dressing up, she said, with a chuckle.

Some of Lumley’s most imaginative designs are done for comic-book fans who wanted something a little different to wear to comic conventions.

Her husband became hideously scared super-villain Two-Face with help from a half-face hand-carved prosthetic. Another client was outlined with black ink-like lines so he looked like a drawing of himself, while a third customer became a comic-book zombie, with Lumley lining intricate depictions of decay on his face instead of using prosthetics.

“I thought I had gotten in over my head on that one,” admitted Lumley, but she was pleased with how it turned out.

Other local makeup artists include Mia Palmer of Mia’s Face and Body Painting and Sharon Morigeau of Little City Designs. While neither create prosthetics, Palmer has painted some gear-driven steam punk characters for a pre-Halloween party her clients were attending earlier this month, while Morigeau’s replicated pixilated faces from video game characters for young clients, mostly at birthday parties.

“I break their whole face into little squares,” she said, referencing photos her clients show her on their smart phones.

Lumley has painted everything from bruised and battered faux-accident victims for firefighter training drills to “baby bumps” — a trend started by singer Mariah Carey, who had her pregnant belly decorated with a butterfly design. The Central Alberta makeup artist also works regularly with local photographers on imaginative requests. It’s funny the kind of family photos some people want, said Lumley, who noted one request was for a photo of relatives dressed up for a zombie tea party. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Central Alberta man who terrorized communities during meth-fuelled crime sprees was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday.

Lance James Peters, 25, of no fixed address, previously pleaded guilty to nearly two dozen charges in connection with a series of crimes including armed home break-ins on Oct. 9, 2014 in the Gleniffer Lake and Markerville areas.

Other guilty pleas related to an Oct. 11, 2014 incident when Peters evaded arrest by ramming a police vehicle.

Further guilty pleas were connected to a rash of break-ins and thefts in the Rocky Mountain House area.

Crown prosecutor Wayne Silliker had asked for a sentence of 13 years and 10 months for Peters’ criminal rampage beginning in late September of last year and finally ending with his arrest on Oct. 16, 2014.

Defence lawyer Calvin Barry, of Toronto, was looking for a sentence in the five-year, nine-month range.

Red Deer provincial court Judge Jim Hunter said two Oct. 9 residential break-ins amounted to home invasions.

In the first, he threatened a woman with a hammer, stole her vehicle keys and fled in the vehicle of neighbours who had responded to her call for help.

Half an hour later, he was at another home and threatened the owner with a pipe. Peters was cut in an alter-

cation with the house owner and then fled.

“It is clear that Mr. Peters’ actions frightened and traumatized people,” said Hunter.

Two days later, police pulled over Peters. Before he could be arrested, he put the Dodge Ram pickup in gear, nearly hitting a police officer before smashing into a police car and making his getaway.

Peters’ trail of mayhem finally came to an end in Edmonton, where city police arrested him without incident after he was found riding as a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over.

Hunter noted that a psychiatrist’s report indicated Peters suffered from untreated attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder, made worse by his drug use.

Mental illness played “some role” but was not the “sole primary cause” of Peters’ crimes, the judge said.

Hunter noted that despite Peters’ problems, including family issues and the death of a brother, he had worked much of his life, at one time owning his own landscaping business.

“He is not beyond any hope of redemption.”

Hunter gave Peters credit of oneand-a-half days for each day in custody, leaving him six years and just under six months to serve. On his release from prison, he will be banned from driving for five years.

He also has a lifetime weapons prohibition and must provide a sample of his DNA to a national database.

21-year-old woman stabbed in City Hall Park RCMP SEEK WITNESSES

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer RCMP are looking for witnesses to a stabbing in City Hall Park on Friday afternoon.

RCMP were called to the park after a woman was stabbed during an altercation with another woman around 1 p.m.

The victim, a 21-year-old woman, has been taken to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

RCMP and Police Dog Services remained in City Hall Park for an hour

while they investigated the incident.

The park was closed to foot traffic but has since been re-opened.

Police continue to investigate and are looking for public assistance to identify the suspect, who is described as a Caucasian woman in her 20s who was wearing a black hoodie with white writing on it. RCMP will release more information as it becomes available.

If you have information regarding this incident, please contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Westpark Middle School to be replaced

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The province has decided to replace Westpark Middle School instead of just modernizing the 48-year-old school.

A year ago, the province announced it would modernize the Grade 6 to 8 school, but a detailed evaluation showed it would be more cost-effective to reconstruct the school located at 3310 55th Ave. The school currently has 419 students and the new school will have the capacity for 500.

Red Deer Public Schools superintendent Stu Henry said a location in West Park for the new school still needs to be determined.

The neighbourhood has other possible school locations nearby.

“We certainly wouldn’t be moving across town. It will be in that area for sure,” Henry said on Friday.

“Westpark is a very full school right now and we need to serve the needs of that community.”

The new school will likely cost

about $13-million to build.

The old school will be demolished.

He said construction would start in about a year and be ready for students

by September 2018 or later.

“We’ll still be able to use our old school until it is ready. We could do a move during the school year, after Christmas break, at Easter.”

With approval in principle for the project, the school district will now move forward with development plans.

Henry said he will be reaching out for a school partnership.

The district partnered with Red Deer Public Library to locate a library branch at École Barrie Wilson Elementary School in Timberlands, and the new Inglewood school will include a partnership with the city to open the school up to the community.

“It’s been a great building for us.

It’s served us well for 50 years, but it’s exciting to get a new one,” Henry said. szielinksi@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Police are looking for a suspect who pulled a handgun on a woman after stealing a generator from a camper west of the Hwy 22 and Hwy 53 junction on Oct.13.

Rimbey RCMP were dispatched to a report of a man armed with a handgun who had stolen a generator from a camper in the gravel pit.

A 42-year-old female victim was alone in her camper in the gravel pit when a male suspect drove up in a pick-up truck. The suspect took a generator, which was near the camper, and placed it on a black flatbed trailer that was hitched to his truck. The victim came out of the camper to confront the suspect.

The suspect pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the woman, who ran back into the camper. The suspect drove north on Hwy 22 in his truck, towing the trailer with the stolen generator.

The victim’s husband realized that he had passed the suspect’s truck on the way back to the camper.

He returned to Hwy 22 in his own vehicle and caught up with the suspect vehicle and followed it until it turned off of Hwy 22 and into a cutline just south of Medicine Lake Road. The suspect drove a dark blue or dark green Ford F150 pickup truck.

RCMP Air Services conducted an aerial search.

The search turned up a trailer abandoned in the bush with the stolen generator still on it. The suspect and his pickup truck were not located.

The suspect is described as a Caucasian man with a dark complexion between 30 and 40 years old, with an average build. He has dark brown shaggy hair and 1.83 metres (6 feet) tall. He was last seen wearing black pants with brown patches on the knees and thighs and a grey sweater. He appeared to have soot on his clothing.

Anyone with information on this matter is asked to call the Rimbey RCMP detachment at 403-843-2223.

If you want to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), or at www.tipsubmit.com.

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Earth moving work has been going on for a few weeks now in what was a storm detention green space near the Collicutt Centre and Ecole Notre Dame in east Red Deer. In early 2015 Red Deer City Council gave approval to relocate the Fire Station #3 to the location at 30th Avenue and Lees Street. The current Fire Station #3 located o 32nd Street will continue to operate as a dispatch centre and administration offices after the new fire hall is built.

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Warrants issued after Oriole Park stabbing RCMP have issued warrants for a man and woman after a stabbing at an Oriole Park home early Tuesday morning.

RCMP and EMS were called to the residence on

Zared Trey Saddleback and Tara Lynn Lightning Ottawa Street at 12:30 a.m. in response to a report that a man had been stabbed.

The victim was taken to hospital and treated for serious but not life-threatening injuries. The suspects were known to the victim, and fled before police arrived.

Zared Trey Saddleback, 20, and Tara Lynn Lightning, 24, both of Red Deer, are wanted on a number of Alberta-wide warrants. They may be travelling to Wetaskiwin or the Edmonton area.

If you see Saddleback and or Lightning, please contact Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. Call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www. tipsubmit.com.

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Alberta to make antidote to fentanyl overdoses available at more places EDMONTON — An antidote used to save people from fentanyl overdoses could soon be available at universities, pharmacies and doctors’ offices.

Alberta Health Services launched its Emergency Command Centre last week.

It brings together specialists in addictions, public health and other fields.

One of its goals is to expand the availability of naloxone, which is used to treat people who overdose on opioids such as fentanyl.

The command centre was developed in response to the rising number of deaths from fentanyl use in Alberta. There’s been 145 deaths related to fentanyl use across the province in the first six months of the year. Alberta’s medical examiner is providing an update on those numbers at the end of December.

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A documentary shedding light on the payday loan industry will be screened at the the Welikoklad Event Centre on Nov.5.

Spent: Looking for Change is a film about people “without the financial options most people take for granted and the movement giving them hope.”

Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Alliance (CAPRA) will host the screening and a panel discussion on the pitfalls of payday loans following the film.

Tricia Haggarty-Roberts, CAPRA co-chair, will act as moderator. There will be people on hand to answer questions about financial literacy, planning, budgeting and money management.

Haggarty-Roberts said there has been many conversations in many municipalities about payday lending.

“As communities are growing larger, we are building out,” she said. “The banks are moving from the downtown core to the suburbs who are taking their place. When you look and compare that to poverty to where they are living, folks living in poverty typically are more in the downtown cores. They do not have access to banks the way we used to.”

The legislation governing the industry is up for renewal next year. A provincial survey is currently underway where the province hopes to learn how to better regulate the industry.

Haggarty-Roberts said talking about money is taboo in the community but there are so many people in the province using the services without full financial literacy.

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Notley sympathetic Home-school group takes second to energy woes but look at having TV Duggars speak no short-term lifelines contemplated NDP FOCUSED ON DIVERSIFYING ALBERTA ECONOMY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she sympathizes with the plight of energy companies and their employees due to low oil prices, but her government isn’t in a position to offer any short-term lifelines.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has estimated 36,000 jobs in the oil and gas sectors have been shed so far this year. “We know of course that where these jobs disappear that it’s very hard for families. It’s Rachel Notley very hard for communities. It’s very hard ‌ for the people who have lost their jobs,â€? Notley said in Calgary on Friday. “Quite frankly the energy industry is addressing and succumbing to pressures that are international in scale. “And as much as I would like to be able to inject some mechanism of ameliorating the price of oil, it’s quite frankly something that’s beyond the capacity of this government.â€?

There has been more bad news this week.

Calgary-based Cenovus Energy reported that it has reduced its workforce by 700 for the second half of the year — on top of 800 earlier job cuts.

And Husky Energy said Friday it is planning further job reductions and asset sales even though it has already cut 1,400 contract workers and full-time employees.

A Conference Board of Canada report this week predicted the oil extraction industry will post a $2.1-billion pre-tax loss in 2015 compared with profits of $6 billion last year.

Revenues are expected to fall by 22 per cent.

Notley said the only thing the New Democrats can do is attempt to help diversify and kickstart the economy to try to generate more jobs.

It’s her hope that some contractors currently working in the oil and gas sector will benefit from billions of dollars in capital expenditures announced in the Alberta budget this week.

The budget promises to use low interest rates and a downturn in the economy to ramp up construction and refurbishment of roads, schools and hospitals.

It projects $34 billion in capital spending over the next five years and $47 billion in total debt by 2020.

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ALBERTA HOME EDUCATION CONVENTION

EDMONTON — An Alberta home-schooling association says it is reviewing a decision to have a controversial reality TV couple speak at its annual convention.

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of Arkansas are to give a keynote address at the Alberta Home Education Convention in Red Deer next April.

The Alberta Home Education Association, which is organizing the convention, says in a statement that it’s aware of recent news stories and comments about the selection.

It says it is reviewing speaker arrangements and will make a decision early next week.

The Duggars’ long-running show 19 Kids and Counting chronicled the life of the religious couple and their home-schooled children.

The TLC program was pulled earlier this year after revelations that their oldest child had fondled four of his sisters and a family babysitter when he was a teenager.

The couple has stated that, instead of going to police, they put their son in a Christian rehabilitation program and the abuse was resolved and forgiven.

The Alberta Home Education Association said in a previous statement on its website that it had received a response of almost unanimous support for the family.

While it doesn’t condone the molestation, the group called it “old news� and said it “wishes to follow the example of the victims who have expressed a desire to ‘forgive and forget.�’

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The 23-year-old female grizzly is known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bear 88â&#x20AC;? and was last seen in Kananaskis in 2012 on a wildlife camera.

She hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t caused any other trouble in the past 13 years until now.

But John Paczkowski of Alberta Parks says DNA testing on Oct. 6 confirmed it was Bear 88. The grizzly was also responsible for trying to break into several trailers at Mount Kidd RV Park this week, damaging one. She received cuts while mauling the trailer, and lost some blood, but officers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the extent of her injuries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart-breaking to see a bear cross the line like that,â&#x20AC;? says Paczkowski. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a rare and unusual occurrence.â&#x20AC;?

Terry Sieben, owner of a Canmore auto body shop, was shocked to see the damage to the two cars attacked by Bear 88 in the past three weeks.

A worker in Kananaskis had left the vehicle in a parking lot while she worked, and the bear tried to break in.

The animal reached a paw through a vent and ripped the trunk apart, and also tore the bumper and one tail light off, causing about $5,600 in damage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very unusual,â&#x20AC;?

Sieben said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve only seen, back a few years ago, a bear doing maybe one claw mark â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not going around the car and really trying to demolish it to get into it.â&#x20AC;?

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Trudeau wins, now what?

Who will Justin Trudeau name as his Minister of Finance on Nov. 4? This will be a critical choice for, next to the Prime Minister himself, no one in the new government will face a more demanding task than the next Minister of Finance.

He, or she, will have to credibly deliver a fiscal strategy, including a multitude of wide-ranging tax cuts and tax increases, along with big spending increases as well as spending cuts, that were promised in the Liberal platform — and do so even though the economic growth projections that underlie the Liberal fiscal strategy may not maDAVID terialize, as the CRANE Bank of Canada has just warned.

INSIGHT But there is another cabinet choice that is also critically important for the economy, one that’s received much less attention, and that is who will be the next Minister of Industry, for Canada has to become innovative and competitive in a way that it has never had to before. We are entering a new Industrial Revolution — Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things — that will dramatically transform much of the economy.

Canadian industry has been slashing investment in innovation, despite generous tax incentives. Not only has Canada lost large numbers of industry jobs and seen many plant closures.

It is also losing out on attracting new international investment, as the auto industry shows.

Surprisingly, innovation, and manufacturing, were largely ignored in the Liberal platform, which was much more focussed on redistribution issues, including more generous child benefits, a tax cut for the middle class, more benefits for those on employment insurance, increased student grants, extra money for seniors and veterans and greater spending on aboriginals, as well as on immediate economic stimulus, mainly through an extra $5 billion a year on infrastructure.

While infrastructure spending will have long-term economic benefits, little else was said about building the future economy. This was a glaring oversight but something that cannot be ignored once the new government is sworn in.

Canada needs a stronger, more innovative and competitive economy, and if it fails here, then tax cuts won’t make much difference to the middle

class. It will still face poor prospects for a higher standard of living. If we are moving to a low-carbon economy and eventually a post-oil world, what will Canada produce to pay our way in the world?

The future of the automotive industry is one example of the need to address future investment. The future operations of Fiat-Chrysler and General Motors Canada, two of Ontario’s larger, if shrinking, manufacturing corporations are uncertain. The future of many auto parts suppliers also depend on new investment decisions

by Fiat-Chrysler and GM. The Liberal platform ignored the future of the automotive industry yet the next Industry Minister will have to give priority to an automotive strategy if a widespread loss of jobs and future industry are to be avoided. This is just one example of the need to take our future economy seriously.

But the change of government does provide an opportunity to improve how we develop an innovation-competitiveness strategy for the future. This would entail an overhaul of Industry Canada. Some critics, such as Peter Morand, former president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council, and the leadership of the Canadian Advanced Technology Association, have called for a merger of Industry Canada and the Ministry of Science and Technology into a new Ministry of Science, Technology and Business Innovation.

But Industry Canada is already too big, so that other activities — such as responsibility for competition policy and consumer protection laws ñ would have to be hived off into another department so that the new department could be much more focussed.

Likewise, I would, argue for a cabinet committee on innovation to cut

across departmental silos to raise the priority of innovation for Canada’s future well-being, including investment and good jobs.

So while the new Minister of Finance has to be from among the best and brightest among the new Liberal caucus, the same applies to the choice of the new Minister of Industry. Neither a high dependence on oil and other raw materials exports, nor a dependence on a very low exchange rate, are the answers for a successful future for Canada and Canadians. We need a smart, innovative economy based on new ideas and knowledge and their successful conversion into new industries and jobs. That will do more for a healthy middle class than anything else.

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

On misinformed, loudmouthed humanists On any given day of the week in Red Deer alone, hundreds of meals are prepared; clothing is distributed as are needles for ‘clean’ injection of drugs (still under debate), counselling is received and many other services are provided to those who are trapped in the world of addictions, poverty and the like.

CHRIS In our fair SALOMONS city alone, hunSTREET TALES dreds of caring people are employed and there are probably thousands of volunteers who provide these services; they do so out of loving hearts and authentic concern for those less fortunate.

For sure, some do this work purely for the remuneration, but over the years I have found that number to be extremely small; the rest do this work for various reasons, such as humanitarian concern, Christian ethical concern, and some simply because they want to be busy caring for other people.

I know that I am not supposed to age a lady, but I’ll take my life in my hands for the sake of adding to this article.

There is one 70-plus lady who about

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once a month stops at the kitchen with several dozen individually wrapped muffins that she has baked to put into the bag lunches that we make.

Also, there are another couple of ladies in their 70s who on a regular basis come to the kitchen to serve in any capacity required. For the one, although she herself suffers from physical conditions and periodic severe depression as well, finds that if she could not serve those less fortunate, she would not want to live.

Yet, we are called buffoons. A university professor by the name of Richard Dawkins, a humanistic atheist and his minions from the church of Insipid Enlightenment, forcefully inform us that life has no purpose, and if we have the audacity to claim the existence of a god and do things in that name, then we are a bunch of buffoons.

He also feels we should be ashamed of ourselves for our beliefs and devotion.

This man is, in all likelihood, responsible for a generation of university students and other young people who now make exactly the same claims (talk about capture-bonding). It is surprising the number of students who totally accept and live without purpose, because of what he states as truth, without even so much as a glance at reality.

If in fact we are no more than the result of pond scum on steroids, we are more to be pitied than others, because according to this misled group

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of free-thinkers all of the efforts gone into caring for those less fortunate are without purpose and a total waste of time.

In other words, what’s the use? Let them all live or die as a result of their condition or lifestyle. Furthermore we really don’t have the right to punish people for their wrongful behaviour; just let the chips fall where they may.

If you do not believe what I am writing, go and take a look at the words of Dawkins and the humanistic society of free-thinkers. These are the educators that we employ to teach our youth.

Again, if you don’t think I am being truthful, Google it.

So, according to this group of intellectual midgets, we should all dispose of any religious thinking, our beliefs, concerns for our fellow man, and then go and live without purpose.

As I write this, I look out my window and see an older mentally-handicapped person, head down, shuffling along in the park across the street. As he walks along, a flock of birds rises up and out of his way causing him to look up at the fleeing feathered friends as a huge smile spreads across his face.

Yet these same “intellectuals” will advocate for euthanasia for all under developed people.

All attempts at imposing standards of any kind by people who do not think this same way are constantly being attacked by even normal people who just

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blithely accept whatever these overly vocal pundits advocate.

So then, what’s the use? Well, just let this buffoon tell you “what’s the use!” When I see the smile on the face of a person who has just eaten a meal he otherwise would not have had; when I see the face of a young woman who has just received a hug, freely, without any expectation of any kind; when I see a person hold his or her head up high because we have been able to help them up from an addiction problem; when I see the incredible outpouring of empathetic support for a family torn apart by the death of three daughters, then I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that those humanistic views don’t and can’t hold water.

Because I am a Grade 10 dropout, I may not be able to debate well, but once able to reflect on a statement that someone imposes on me, I can refute as well as anyone.

In other words, I know “what’s the use.” I have not let the weariness of work or even the sometimes unfairness of life get to me. Not even misguided, loudmouthed professors or humanists.

The whole purpose in relation to other people is to care and help in any way I can to let everyone enjoy life as much as do I. Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

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Russian strategy in Syria It’s easy to define the American strategy in Syria, the Nusra Front, a clone of Islamic State that broke although it is more of a wish-list than an actual strat- away from it in 2013 as part of a turf battle. The Nusegy. It is “containment” of the nightmarra Front is not “moderates”; it is the Syriish Islamic State (IS) that now controls an franchise of al-Qaeda. eastern Syria and western Iraq, together If Assad’s regime were to collapse, Iswith the overthrow of the brutal regime of lamic State and the Nusra Front would Bashar al-Assad and its replacement by end up ruling all of Syria, so something “moderate” rebel forces. But what is the had to be done fast. That something was Russian strategy?

Russian air support for the Syrian army.

It is now a month since Russian planes But air strikes are not a strategy, just a began bombing both Islamic State forcstop-gap measure. es and the “moderate” rebels. For every Russian air power has stopped the rebRussian bomb that has fallen on IS troops el advance for now, but a strategy needs a ten have fallen on the “moderates,” beclear final goal. That cannot be an Assad cause it’s the latter groups that have made victory and the reunification of Syria unmost of the big advances against the Asder his regime; the Russians know that GWYNNE sad regime since last spring. The regime’s his army is too weak and fragile after four DYER troops have now taken some territory years of war to aspire to that. So it has to back, but they lack the strength to reconbe some kind of diplomatic deal, and the INSIGHT quer all of Syria. So what next? signs are emerging of what Russia has in Russia never fights without a strategy, mind. but in this case it was made up in a hurry. Moscow Putin insists that he will not accept the partition was not planning a military intervention in Syria un- of Syria between the Assad regime (which still contil last July, when the officer in charge of Iran’s mil- trols most of so-called “useful Syria”), Islamic State itary aid to Assad, General Qassem Soleimani, flew in the northeast, and another Islamist mini-state to Moscow to warn President Vladimir Putin that the run by the Nusra Front in the northwest. But that Syrian army was on the brink of collapse. partition has already happened on the ground, and a Soleimani knew this because he was hearing it ceasefire would freeze it without anybody having to directly from the Iranian military advisers who are admit that it is permanent. serving with Syrian army units. After four years of The United States cannot take the lead in brokerwar the Syrian army was down to half its pre-war ing a ceasefire because it is still formally committed strength, desertions and draft-dodging were going to the overthrow of the Assad regime. (That is why it up, and morale was sinking fast. goes on pushing the fiction that there is a meaningNeither Iran nor Russia wanted to see extremist ful “moderate” opposition among the Syrian rebels.) jihadi forces take over all of Syria, and both coun- The U.S. is further constrained by the fact that its tries understood that the so-called “moderate” reb- main Muslim allies in the region, Turkey and Saudi els barely exist. The dominant group in the “Army of Arabia, are determined to see Assad fall, come what Conquest” that has taken over northwestern Syria is may.

Now that the Russians have stopped the rebel advance, a ceasefire becomes theoretically possible.

That’s why US Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to meet with Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, in Vienna last Friday. Even Turkey and Saudi Arabia showed up at the meeting before it ended, and a new session is planned for this Friday where even more countries may show up.

It is possible that a ceasefire may eventually emerge from this process, and Lavrov claims that he can deliver Assad’s agreement to it. So let’s leap ahead and consider what Syria would look like in this best possible scenario. It still wouldn’t be very pretty. Assad would keep control of all Syria’s big cities except Aleppo (which is in ruins), and would rule almost two-thirds of the population. Islamic State would go on controlling eastern Syria (and western Iraq), and would continue cutting heads off and crucifying people in the usual way. The Nusra Front would rule over the northwest with its allies, and impose a somewhat less extreme form of Islamist rule there. There probably would not be a complete ceasefire, because Islamic State is unlikely to agree to it, but at least the killing would stop in the rest of Syria — and everybody else could concentrate on attacking Islamic State, if they felt so inclined.

That’s as good as it might get.

If there is no ceasefire deal, the Russians will go on supporting Assad for a while, but they have no intention of taking large casualties themselves. No other outside player — the U.S., Turkey, Saudi Arabia, you name it — is willing to commit ground troops to the battle against Islamic State either. So in the end, the jihadis may conquer Syria anyway.

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.

The secret stash under the bridge Have you ever found a secret treasure trove under a bridge? I know I have. Or I should say “we” because it was a buddy of mine, who in the interests of anonymity I shall call Brian (because that was his name) who first stumbled across the booty (in more ways than one).

We were just a couple of young punks HARLEY playing footHAY ball with the rest of our repHAY’S DAZE robate friends down at Coronation Park near Brian’s house when, after a spirited game of tackle with no significant lethal injuries this time we all limped off in all directions. Suppertime was calling in the waning fresh fall afternoon. But since we both lived close by, Brian and I were in no hurry; we did what kids do when they are in a park and have a few extra minutes on a Saturday afternoon. It wouldn’t be a complete day at Coronation Park without noodling around in the creek, throwing rocks, poking at the water with sticks.

Truth be told, I can’t remember exactly how it happened, but I’m pretty sure it was Brian who discovered them.

We were climbing around under the bridge on the dark sandy creek bank and there they were. Stuffed under the base of the bridge, half buried in a hole: a pre-adolescent plunder of epic proportions. A highly seductive stack of forbidden fruit – a pile of prurient pristine Playboy magazines!

Back to the future, I was thinking about this the other day. I don’t normally think about Playboy magazines all that often (honest) but I happened upon a news article with a bold headline that said something like: “Playboy magazine will stop publishing pictures of fully nude women …” I probably would have fell over if I hadn’t been sitting at the time.

Of course the news story played with the old joke that everyone read Playboy “for the articles.” My first response was: “Articles? There are arti-

cles in there?”

Founder Hugh Hefner is now 89 years old. He still lives in the Playboy mansion, and he still has three or four 20-something silicone concubines — all buxom blondes as usual, and, by his own proud admission, an un-ending supply of Viagra. I would hope he also keeps a defibrillator and a registered nurse handy (another 20-something buxom blonde of course).

Good old Hugh has always claimed that Playboy was for the intellectual elite, the modern thinker, the “males between 18 and 80” who love to read insightful, thoughtful and stimulating articles on such erudite subjects as “Picasso, Nietzsche and jazz …” Oh, and by the way, there are also glossy colour photographs of naked women.

You know, just to fill up the pages.

Between all the educational literary articles.

It was quite an education all right.

All those years ago, under the bridge, carefully studying about two years’ worth of Playboys. Not all at once of course.

We hid the “stack” in a different place so that it could be revisited whenever we felt like reading another article about what to wear at a nightclub or why Salvador Dali paints melting watches.

It was like having our own public puberty library.

Except we didn’t tell anybody else.

Other than a few of our degenerate buddies of course.

You can only keep a significant secret like that for so long before you just have to brag a little bit, accept the hero-worship from your friends, and share the wealth.

Pretty well every red-blooded hormone ravaged boy has a Playboy story, it seems.

Like the time your mother found your copy under the mattress on your bed. Apparently none of us thought through the fact that mothers change sheets on beds.

Or the painfully awkward stories of buying your first Playboy at the corner store, after hanging around for 20 minutes to make sure the store was completely empty of customers. And when the time came to ask the clerk, in a squeaky quavering “nonchalant” voice: “I’ll have a Mars bar, three red licorice, a Playboy and a Fanta orange pop please.” And you don’t even par-

ticularly like Mars bars or Fanta pop.

But now Playboy claims the new cyber world where nudie fantasies are only a free click away on the internet has made fully naked pix “passé” for a magazine.

As of next March, Playboy will publish only “PG 13” photos of provocative women. And presumably, lots more articles. Which is good news, really.

After all, Brian and I and most of our friends really, really enjoyed all those articles we found stashed under the footbridge at Coronation Park. In fact, for some reason, I still clearly remember the covers of some of those

classic issues containing the best articles.

And wasn’t there, in the middle of each Playboy, a page that kind of fell vertically so that the page was three times the size of a normal one?

I remember quite a few of those.

The details of those, um, articles, were quite enlightening indeed.

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.

Trudeau is bound to break some hearts As we look ahead to the Justin Trudeau era, two lessons from his campaign can lead us to two probabilities during his first year in office.

He will break some conventional “rules.” He will also break some hearts.

The prime minister-designate broke hidebound campaigning rules regularly during his 78-day odyssey from potential also-ran to majority winner, beginning the day the election was called.

Convention had it that Trudeau, sagging in the polls and needing immediate exposure, was supposed to pick an Ottawa backdrop and respond to Stephen Harper’s campaign call. Instead, he flew to TIM Vancouver, made good on a HARPER promise to attend Pride Day events and responded from INSIGHT the West Coast.

He turned the “not ready” label from Harper around by defiantly breaking the rule that one doesn’t repeat opponents’ charges in your own commercials. He broke the unwritten rule that budgets must be balanced with a July decision to commit to short-term deficits which gave his campaign a huge infusion of oxygen. He even mused aloud about a majority, in French, before pulling back, as if this was too much of a third rail even for a man who sneered at the rules of convention.

He now has huge political capital and he should govern in the same unconventional way.

He can prove that Liberals do not always campaign from the left and govern from the right. He can

prove that this place doesn’t have to be a partisan cesspool. By inviting other leaders to a Paris climate summit, he has started on that path already.

He can, as he has promised, allow cabinet ministers the autonomy to make decisions and he should also give them the freedom to actually answer questions in question period.

He can actually let opposition members on parliamentary committees amend government legislation when required and, when wrong, he can break the convention in Ottawa that you stonewall rather than confess to errors of commission or omission.

Those are doable.

But more free votes, real Senate reform and an end to the first-past-the-post voting system are infinitely more difficult to achieve than to promise.

No matter how many conventions he discards, Trudeau will break many hearts when it comes to delivering on his platform.

That will be inevitable because some Canadians voted for him with their hearts, not based on his platform.

The parallels between the Trudeau win in Canada in 2015 and the Barack Obama campaign in the U.S. in 2008 are obvious, and not just because the Liberals accepted help and advice from veterans of that Obama triumph. The late campaign lineups to see Trudeau in Port Hope, Ont., Winnipeg or Calgary were the Canadian version of the long lineups I saw waiting for Obama in Baltimore or Richmond or Columbia, S.C. Turnout went up in both countries and the firsttime voters, those who had not bothered to cast a ballot before, showed up to vote for Obama in 2008 and Trudeau in 2015.

As with Obama in 2008, voters who flocked to Trudeau had only a passing knowledge of the plat-

form. A post-election analysis by Ensight Canada showed Canadians wanted a return to civility, inclusion and collaboration, which they saw as traditional Canadian values.

But their familiarity with specific Liberal policies — beyond a pledge to go into deficit to spend on infrastructure — was limited. In 2008, Obama sold hope and change, not a Democratic platform.

Both men were thought too young and audacious by their opponents who believed they needed to spend more time paying their dues before taking on their elders.

Obama peddled hope, but the die had long been cast. American voters were anxious to shed eight years of George W. Bush and it was his time and he appropriated the words of Martin Luther King in speaking of the “the fierce urgency of now.”

Obama’s “yes, we can,” was Trudeau’s “sunny ways.” Trudeau also understood that fierce urgency.

But Obama proved you can campaign from the heart, but you can’t govern from the heart.

His first glittering promise was the closing of Guantanamo Bay. Seven years later, it is still a promise awaiting fulfilment.

Trudeau is suddenly being expected to deliver big on climate change, health care, infrastructure and foreign policy.

Both men became vessels for a wide array of voters’ hopes and aspirations.

On balance, there is reason for huge optimism when looking forward to Trudeau. But “sunny ways” can only deliver so much. Those who voted for him should remember that, or risk major disappointment.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by the Toronto Star.

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Ambrose, Lake say they will seek Tory interim leadership

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Alberta Conservative MPs Rona Ambrose and Mike Lake are running for the interim leadership of the Conservative party — a wide-open contest that’s also showcasing the party’s debate about what went wrong in the federal election.

That makes six publicly declared candidates, including Diane Finley, Rob Nicholson and Erin O’Toole from Ontario, and Candice Bergen from Manitoba.

Ambrose said she has spent the last few days calling colleagues, and emphasizing a few key points about herself. She noted that she has held eight cabinet posts since 2006, and developed a reputation for civility in the House of Commons.

“A respectful tone and civil tone and working across the floor with other parties is something our members would welcome, that our caucus would welcome, and that Canadians would

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Use of deadly force must be ‘reasonable and necessary,’ cop’s trial told TORONTO — The trial of a Toronto officer accused of gunning down a knife-wielding teenager is hearing that police can use deadly force — only if it’s both reasonable and necessary.

Deputy Chief Michael Federico says officers are trained to use a thoughtful, planned approach in deciding to use force.

The objective, he says, is to ensure the safest possible outcome for all concerned.

Const. James Forcillo has pleaded not guilty to the second-degree murder of Sammy Yatim, 18, in 2013.

Forcillo gunned down Yatim, who was armed with a knife, as he stood on an empty streetcar.

Federico says training involves role-playing in likely scenarios but says officers are taught to consider the entirety of the circumstances when deciding on force options.

Large amounts of pot, cash seized, 13 arrested as police bust cross-country ring DARTMOUTH, N.S. — Mounties say they have smashed a drug trafficking

welcome as well,” Ambrose said in an interview.

Lake, who served as a parliamentary secretary in the last Parliament and was first elected in 2006, linked the party’s demotion to opposition status on Oct. 19 to a failure to communicate the Conservative record.

“In my riding, it was a message that was heard. For whatever reason, in other parts of the country it wasn’t,” he said in an interview.

“I think we have to rely on the 99 people that we have that are coming back here to give some real hard thought to that and develop a strategy that helps us to get our message through.”

Lake didn’t go into specifics, but in a note to colleagues declaring his intention to run, he pulled no punches in denouncing the party’s campaign efforts.

“Our major communications tools literally contained no substance, despite having a leader whose greatest brand strength was substance,” he

wrote.

“In the final two weeks, while the Liberals ran the ads we should have been running, Conservative ads — in their tone — were easy to confuse with life insurance and pre-planned funeral ads.”

Both Ambrose and Lake say outreach in Quebec in particular will be important — there are now 12 Quebec Conservative MPs, up from five in 2011.

Lake said he speaks some French, but isn’t proficient, though has travelled through Quebec several times in his past parliamentary roles and says he has good relationships there.

Ambrose, who notes she is able to speak French (in addition to Spanish and Portuguese), said she intends on spending time in Quebec as part of cross-country travel she would undertake as interim leader to rally supporters and to raise money.

“We’ve got make sure we’re prepared to welcome the next leader with money in the bank and a rejuvenated volunteer base, and a caucus that is

united and reinvigorated and empowered, so that when a leader takes over, things are in the best possible position to take us into the next election and continue to take on Justin Trudeau in the Commons,” she said.

Lake said he’ll also be seeking to combine the energy of newly elected MPs with the wisdom of the party’s veterans to build a renewed Conservative team.

“I think that as soon as Parliament resumes we want to create a level of energy that is going to carry through to a leadership race and beyond and build some momentum,” he said.

“We’ve got a long game to play here and we have a real opportunity for people to gain some valuable experience.”

Ambrose is taking the position that senators should be allowed to cast a ballot in the interim leadership race, while Lake said he thinks the answer to that question is best decided when caucus meets Thursday.

and money laundering ring that moved large amounts of cash and marijuana from British Columbia to Central and Eastern Canada.

Simultaneous raids were carried out Wednesday on six homes around Halifax and eight in Metro Vancouver, with five men and a woman arrested in Nova Scotia and seven men taken into custody in B.C. Police say nearly 78 kilograms of marijuana was seized, along with more than $117,000 in cash, weapons, ammunition, other drugs, and 14 vehicles.

The B.C. suspects have been flown to Halifax and charges against the alleged ringleaders include conspiracy to traffic marijuana, possession of the proceeds of crime and money laundering.

Police say the sophisticated ring has ties to organized crime and members travelled via commercial airlines, to Halifax, St. John’s, N.L., Toronto and Montreal, carrying drugs and cash in checked luggage.

The RCMP’s Federal Serious Organized Crime Group estimates, including the latest busts, it has seized more than $232,000 and almost 93 kilograms of marijuana since surveillance began five months ago.

He was sentenced today to life in prison without possibility of parole for 10 years.

The accused had pleaded guilty to three charges of premeditated murder and three of conspiracy to commit murder in June 2014.

The victims of the Feb. 11, 2014 slayings in a private home on Sicard Street were two sisters aged 22 and 17 as well as a 17-year-old boyfriend.

The teen, who was 16 at the time of the killings, was also found to have conspired to murder the mother of two of the victims as well as police responding to the rampage.

His co-accused, then 17, also pleaded guilty to the same charges in June 2015 and has yet to be sentenced.

Authorities say jealousy was considered to be a likely factor in the deaths.

Trois-Rivieres, Que. is located halfway between Montreal and Quebec City.

Turcotte has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the February 2009 slayings of Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie, 3.

He has admitted to causing their deaths but his lawyers are arguing he should be found not criminally responsible by way of mental disorder.

The Crown contends Turcotte is guilty of premeditated murder, however, Bourget says Turcotte’s brain was profoundly sick and he was unable to stop himself from killing his children.

Teen handed adult sentence in Quebec triple homicide case TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. — One of two teenagers who pleaded guilty to three counts each of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder has been handed an adult sentence by a Quebec judge.

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Psychiatrist testifies Turcotte too ill to stop himself from killing kids SAINT-JEROME, Que. — A psychiatrist testifying for the defence says Guy Turcotte was aware he was hurting his son when he began stabbing him with a knife, but was unable to control his ability to stop the action.

Dominique Bourget is back in court today and being cross-examined as a defence witness at Turcotte’s first-degree murder trial.

It is her third day on the witness stand.

Top senators to propose creation of arm’s-length spending oversight body OTTAWA — The Speaker of the Senate says the upper chamber is moving towards having an arm’s-length body that will oversee senators’ spending.

Leo Housakos says a proposal to create the independent oversight body will be before Conservative, Liberal and Independent senators when Parliament returns.

He says the Senate will soon hire a chief financial officer as a step in the process.

The move follows a recommendation from the auditor general that senators no longer have the final say about whether an expense claim by one of their peers falls inside or outside Senate rules.

Housakos also says he has yet to speak with prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau about the future of the Senate.

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Cabin B340 will be vacant tonight on the Queen Mary Cruise Ship Hotel in Long Beach, California, but that is nothing unusual. B340 has come to be known by staff as the cursed cabin.

Paranormal experts believe the Queen Mary is one of the most haunted places on earth and readers of Time Magazine voted it one of the top ten most haunted places in America. Once a cruise ship and later a war ship, this ocean liner is now permanently docked in Long Beach, California where cabins are rented out by the night. It’s ironic that the ship was nicknamed the Gray Ghost during WWII, because the owners of the retired cruise liner make almost as much from ghost tours as they do from overnight stays.

Haunted Hotel Tours and Ghost Walks have beDEBBIE come popular activities OLSEN year-round and not just at Halloween. You don’t even TRAVEL have to travel far to find a ghost tour. There are haunted tours in both Calgary (calgaryghosttours.com) and Edmonton (edmontonghosttours.com). No matter where you are, a ghost tour seeks to bring the past to life and explore the paranormal with thrilling storytelling and unique experiences. Here are a few of the best.

Queen Mary

The Queen Mary is a grand old ship with quite a history. Listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, the Queen Mary was built larger than the Titanic and was the fastest ship of its size when it was launched in 1934. This speed and size made it a real asset to the allies during WWII when it was converted into a military transport vessel and painted grey. After the war it was refurbished and served again as a luxury cruise liner until 1967 when it was purchased by the city of Long Beach, permanently docked, and converted to a hotel.

There are two different ghost tours offered onboard the ship. The “Ghosts and Legends” tour utilizes special effects such as lighting and sound to simulate a paranormal experience. It is the most popular and longest running tour of the ship, because it makes light of the haunted image of the ship. The second tour, “Haunted Encounters,” is a more serious venture into the paranormal. A Haunted Passport gets you into both tours as well as the ship’s historical exhibits costs for $31 USD per adult or $20 USD per child. (queenmary.com)

Please see GHOSTS on Page B2 Photos by DEBBIE OLSEN

ABOVE: The back of the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter of New Orleans. I think it’s a little creepy, but that’s just one opinion.

RIGHT: New Orleans is full of history and intrigue. You’ll even hear a few ghost stories on a horse drawn carriage ride.

BELOW :In 1930, two witnesses to a mob hit were shot inside a courtroom at the Supreme Court of Louisiana before they could testify in an important court case against the mafia. Some say they never left the building.

Photo by GREG OLSEN

BOTTOM RIGHT: Readers of Time Magazine voted the Queen Mary one of the top ten most haunted places in America.

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ABOVE: Rose Hall is one of the finest examples of colonial great houses on the island of Jamaica and according to local legend itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s haunted.

BELOW: The folklore surrounding Rose Hall relates to its infamous mistress Annie Palmer, who is said to have murdered three husbands and countless slave lovers in the ten years she lived on the plantation. Her grave is located on the grounds.

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Rose Hall, Jamaica

Rose Hall is one of the finest examples of colonial great houses on the island of Jamaica, but what truly makes it legendary is the fact that locals believe the house has been haunted for decades by the of the White Witch.

Spellbinding legends surrounding Rose Hall have been woven into Caribbean folklore and have been immortalized in at least a dozen Gothic novels including the H. G. De Lisser novel, The White Witch of Rose Hall, published in 1928.

Even if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe in ghosts or â&#x20AC;&#x153;duppiesâ&#x20AC;? as they are known in Jamaica, a visit to Rose Hall will open your eyes to another era in history when Jamaica was a land of sugar cane plantations, great houses, slavery, and sometimes cruel landowners and overseers. The folklore surrounding Rose Hall relates to its infamous mistress Annie Palmer, an eighteen-year-old English woman who arrived at the estate in the spring of 1820 after her marriage to John Rose Palmer. An expert in the black art of voodoo, Annie is believed to have murdered three husbands and countless slave lovers in the ten years she lived on the plantation, which is located 20-minutes outside the popular tourist destination of Montego Bay. You can experience the great house by day or by night on a guided tour that costs $20 USD per adult and $10 per child. (rosehall.com)

New Orleans Haunted History Tour

Perhaps it is the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sordid past filled with legends involving pirates, slaves, voodoo curses, vampires, and

murderers, but New Orleans is said to be one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most haunted cities. Most locals who spend time in the French Quarter have at least one ghost story to share and there are several haunted history tours on offer in the city.

Most tours include the key sites that have a dark history. My tour included many sites including a building that once served as slave quarters, the Supreme Court of Louisiana, the Pharmacy Museum and the Dauphine Orleans Hotel, where we used several â&#x20AC;&#x153;scientificâ&#x20AC;? instruments to measure paranormal activity.

The creepiest story was told at the Pharmacy Museum on Charles Street.

The building was originally owned by Dr. Louis Duffalo, a physician who was the first registered pharmacist in the United States.

After his death, the building was purchased by Dr. Dupas. Legend has it that Dr. Dupas conducted experiments on pregnant slaves and other people who had unknown conditions.

He made potions using voodoo ingredients, herbal remedies and other medicines and often gave his patients large doses with no consideration for the side-effects.

Many of the slaves died as a result of these experiments and their bodies were dumped through a trap door on the second floor and taken out of the city after dark.

There are many different ghost tours in New Orleans, but Haunted History Tours is one of the oldest and most popular (hauntedhistorytours. com). Tours cost $25 USD per adult.

Photos by Debbie Olsen

ABOVE: There are several ghost stories attached to Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous Castle in the Rockies.

BELOW: The Rosedeer hotel in Wayne, Alberta is a haunted hotel in a real ghost town.

of the castle for guests. While the tour isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t focused on ghosts, the subject often comes up. Local legend has it that a bride who died on her wedding day still haunts the hallways.

The Deane House in Fort Calgary is another building that is said to be haunted. Built in 1906 as the official residence for the Superintendent of the Royal North West Mounted Police, local legend has it that several unusual deaths took place at the residence.

Workers at the house sometimes see a man smoking a pipe, hear unusual sounds and occasionally smell pipe smoke.

Frank Slide also makes most top ten lists for haunted sites. In the spring of 1903, a massive mountain slide buried the Town of Frank. Some bodies were never recovered and today people occasionally see eerie apparitions. Many

believe the ghosts roam the site looking for their loved ones.

The Rosedeer Hotel is located in a little place called Wayne, about 16-km and 11 single-lane bridges southeast of Drumheller, Alberta. Once a vibrant coal mining community with more than 2,000 residents, Wayne is now a ghost town with an old hotel and a saloon.

It is worth the drive just to sit in a bar with actual bullet holes in the wall in a ghost town that is said to have actual ghosts.

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, PO Bag 5200, Red Deer, Alta., T4N 5G3.

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bought. I couldn’t resist buying a limegreen steam tram named Zephius and a black engine branded with the park’s name that can run on Zephyr’s wooden tracks at home.

Two days later, and two hours to the south, the next stop on our California Express was the San Diego Model Railroad Museum. Boasting 27,000 square feet of layouts, the collection is in a basement space inside the city’s culture-rich Balboa Park. There are plenty of dioramas and historical exhibits for adult Casey Jones wannabes, but the toy train gallery is the best option for little ones.

Volunteer members of the San Diego 3-Railers bring their own trains to operate while overseeing a sprawling 42-by-44-foot diorama with four separate tracks looping around it. The kinetic scene encompasses both town and country. Cars run on the roads, characters move in some scenes, lights flash, horns beep and smoke puffs out of some of the train engines.

One portion of the display was at Zephyr’s eye level. There’s a button to push that moves a Thomas the Tank Engine around the tracks. Zephyr probably pushed it a hundred times in our half-hour visit. Upstairs there is a whole playroom devoted to the little blue locomotive, but we didn’t have the opportunity to check it out. Guess we’ll be heading back there the next time we find ourselves in San Diego.

The final destination on our tour was Legoland, half an hour north of San Diego in Carlsbad. Admittedly, this stop was just as much for my inner child as it was for my child. The colorful, creativity-boosting bricks were a staple in my playrooms growing up, and I still buy the occasional mini-figure or small set to decorate my home office. After an extended visit to the “Star Wars” exhibit - the lifesize Darth Vader and the Death Star made of half a million pieces were the favorites - we ultimately ended up in the Duplo Playtown. The primary-colored playground is geared towards the park’s smaller visitors, packed with slides and climbable buildings.

In the far back corner sits the yellow-red-and-blue Legoland Express.

The tiny train for pint-size passengers circles, at a sedate speed, a small track surrounding a garden filled with Lego vegetables. For an adult, it’s an underwhelming experience, but for a 2-yearold it’s a dream come true.

“Again, again,” Zephyr insisted. So we did it again and again.

On his last ride, the attendant let him sit at the front in the miniature engine car. A broad smile arced across my son’s face as the train chugged out of the station. He couldn’t have been happier.

“Look, Mompa!”

I was glad to be wearing sunglasses at that moment, so no one saw the joyful tears queuing up in the corners of my eyes.

Coming around the curve, my son excitedly pointed at the red wooden bridge crossing over a small creek.

“Look, Mompa,” Zephyr said, collectively referring to his mother and me.

We were all aboard a miniature train looping around a woody patch of Griffith Park, 4,210 acres of greenery situated in the heart of northwest Los Angeles. In front of us, the cheery cherry-red, propane-fueled Stanley Diamond engine chugged along, the engineer occasionally tooting its whistle.

After crossing the bridge, we momentarily passed out of the bright sunshine into a short tunnel before whizzing through a mock Western town.

This late-morning railroad ride was the perfect amusement for our 2-yearold son, as trains fascinate and delight him no end. Some mornings I awake with the imprint of a Thomas the Tank Engine on my face. Zephyr often brings his favorite toy locomotive to bed and, because he sleeps with us, it somehow always ends up between my cheek and the pillow during the course of the night. Downstairs, our living room is ruled by an epic Brio-brand train table covered in wooden tracks, engines and train cars - plus plenty of plastic dinosaurs.

So when we started planning a week-long family trip to California, we decided to schedule several stops at train-related attractions. Our first destination was Griffith Park &amp; Southern Railroad, which has been running miniengines, such as the StanTOP; Volunteer members ley Diamond that carried us, since the of the San Diego late 1940s.

3-Railers bring their own Second on the itinerary was Travel Town Museum, located on the othtrains to operate while er side of Griffith Park, a 10-minute overseeing a sprawling drive away. Although there’s another diorama at the San miniature train to be ridden there, we Diego Model Railroad decided to simply walk through the outdoor collection. There are a dozen Museum. engines and nearly a dozen cars, as ABOVE; A train engine well as semi-related oddities, includon display at the Travel ing a horse-drawn car and a San FranTown Museum in cisco cable car.

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1899 weighing an impressive 70 tons RIGHT; One of the many was front and center in the rail yard model railroad displays that day. (Trains move around the at the San Diego Model tracks that crisscross the property frequently, so there’s no map for the Railroad Museum. park, and not all pieces may always be through a tunnel and over a truss www.sdmrm.org on display.). Charcoal-black, its round bridge. Open 10 a.m.-4:15 p.m. winter Twenty-seven thousand square feet face is bright silver that gleams in the weekdays, 10 a.m. -4:30 p.m. winter of layouts, complemented with histormidday sun. Number 664 once ran the weekends and holidays. Tickets are ical displays, railroad history library Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe route $2.75 for adults and children, $2.25 for and a Thomas the Tank Engine activity and has been a top draw here since it people older than 65. room. Open Tuesdays through Fridays was donated more than 60 years ago.

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Chiefs 3 Rebels 1 Superior special teams and goaltending are often the keys to success at any level of hockey.

Such was the case Friday night at the Centrium, where the Spokane Chiefs potted a pair of first-period power-play goals and rode the netminding of Tyson Verhelst to a 3-1 WHL win over the Red Deer Rebels before a recorded audience of 5,196.

Brandon native Verhelst turned aside 45 shots — including 26 in the final frame — in a spectacular performance, but Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter blamed his squad for a slow start that resulted in a 3-0 deficit after 20 minutes.

The visitors, playing their third game in three nights, were full marks for their first-period lead, seemingly beating the Rebels to every loose puck and scoring on their first two power-play opportunities.

While the Rebels carried the play in the second period and dominated the third, Sutter wasn’t letting his charges off the hook with his post-game comments.

“Well, we got what we deserved.

We played with no urgency at all in the first period,” he said. “We got outworked badly and took some bad penalties. In every phase of the game in the first period, we got outplayed.

“Their power play produced, their penalty killing was better than ours

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Spokane Chief Riley Whittingham scores on Red Deer Rebel goaltender Rylan Toth during first period action at the Centrium, Friday night. and their five-on-five play was better.

To a man, every players of theirs was better than ours from our goalies right on out.”

With Rebels rearguard Colton Bobyk serving a roughing penalty, Chiefs defenceman Jason Fram opened the scoring 5:25 into the con-

test with a point shot that eluded netminder Rylan Toth.

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Mets beat up on Royals’ pitchers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kansas City Royals’ Alcides Escobar steals second as New York Mets’ Wilmer Flores takes a high throw during the second inning of Game 3 of the Major League Baseball World Series Friday

Mets 9 Royals 3 NEW YORK — Two balls launched over the wall, one fired over an opponent’s head and just like that, David Wright and the New York Mets are right back in this World Series.

Wright homered and drove in four runs, Curtis Granderson also connected and rookie Noah Syndergaard set a nasty tone at the start of a 9-3 victory against the Kansas City Royals that trimmed New York’s deficit to 2-1 Friday night.

“We get our offence going a little bit, we play better baseball,” Mets manager Terry Collins said.

Shut down at the plate in Kansas City, the Mets broke loose with 12 hits from nine different players as they chased Yordano Ventura early during the first Series game at Citi Field.

Pitching on Halloween eve, Syndergaard recovered from a scary start and went six innings, giving the Mets the winning performance they didn’t get from fellow young starters Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom at Kauffman Stadium.

“Real big game for us,” Collins said.

“He delivered. He came through exactly as we expected.”

Another rookie, hometown favourite Steven Matz, tries to pull New York even Saturday night in Game 4 when he faces 36-year-old Chris Young and the Royals.

After the Mets fell behind in the first inning, Granderson started the bottom half with a single and Wright

hit his first World Series home run, recharging a packed crowd of 44,781 that included Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Dennis Miller.

The captain, who entered batting .182 without an RBI in his first World Series, added a two-run single on Kelvin Herrera’s first pitch during a fourrun sixth that broke it open. Pinch-hitter Juan Uribe, just back from a chest injury, had an RBI single in his first plate appearance since Sept. 25.

Slumping slugger Yoenis Cespedes added a sacrifice fly.

Hoping to rekindle the comeback spirit of 1986, when the Mets rallied from an 0-2 World Series hole to beat Boston for their most recent championship, the team played its highlight video from that year on the large scoreboard during batting practice.

Local boy Billy Joel sang the national anthem, same as 29 years ago at Shea Stadium, and Syndergaard caught everyone’s attention with his first delivery to aggressive leadoff hitter Alcides Escobar. Well aware of Escobar’s penchant for attacking the first pitch — the ALCS MVP opened Game 1 against New York with an inside-thepark homer — Syndergaard promised Thursday he had “a few tricks” up his sleeve for Escobar. That turned out to be a 97 mph fastball fired just off the inside corner and way over Escobar’s head, eliciting a huge cheer from fans.

The skinny shortstop went down to the dirt on his rear end and stayed there, legs splayed, catching his breath for several seconds.

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Queens, Kings trounce visiting Trojans

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Queens 82 Trojans 48 The RDC Queens knew they had the ability to be a contender in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Basketball League, it was a matter of proving it.

They took a major step in that direction as they whipped the SAIT Trojans 82-48 in their opening game of the regular season at RDC Friday.

“That was a great way to start the season,” said Queens head coach Ken King. “The girls deserved this. They worked hard and put in a lot of time in the preseason.”

The Queens trailed 7-4 early, but once they picked up their pace on offence and their defensive intensity they took command and led 19-11 after 10 minutes and 45-22 at the half.

“We’ve come a long way over the last three weeks,” said Queens veteran Dedra Janvier, who pumped in 20 points, 18 in the first half.

“We worked hard in practice. Conditioning definitely helped us tonight.”

The Trojans, who have been battling injuries and sickness, couldn’t stay with the quicker and deeper RDC squad, who used 11 players.

“Our bench played a big role for us,” added Janvier. “It helps when someone is struggling on the court and they come in and play that well.”

King agreed.

“We can go 10, 11 even 12 deep,” he said. “It’s nice to be able to trust the girls coming in off the bench.

You know when they come in they’ll work hard and the level of play won’t go down.”

Six-foot-two Danish import Emily White was the RDC player of the game with 20 points, eight rebounds, two assists and three blocked shots.

“She’s strong inside and it’s nice to have her there with the ball screens and she’s so good at finishing,” said Janvier. “Not only that, she does a great job of finding the open player.”

As well when White needed a break Janelle Kakakaway came on and grabbed seven rebounds and added three assists.

“We trust the people behind Emily and it was nice to see Janelle turn in a strong game,” said King, who feels the team should continue to improve.

“We took a step forward, but we focus on taking a step every game. So far it’s been baby steps and I believe we have another big step coming.”

Madison Whiting had 11 points, Eva Bonde nine and Morgan Dool eight. Kennedy Burgess added eight rebounds as the Queens held a 57-34 edge on the boards.

Kings 111 Trojans 70 The Kings were playing a bit shorthanded, but it didn’t look that way.

Despite playing with only eight players, and seven once JP LeBlanc went down with a suspected broken finger, the Kings rolled to an 111-70 victory over the Trojans.

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The Kings started without regular starters Matt Johnson and Tyler Wise and then lost LeBlanc. As well Benny and Henry Bankazo, Spencer Klassen, Dallas Hancox and Javin Binnendyk were out.

“We’ve had a lot of injuries,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger. “But a lot of other guys got a lot of valuable minutes tonight and they showed up and played well.

“Matt Mateur had one of his best games since he’s been here, Anthony (Ottley) had 35 points, Rodney (Teal) had a break out game and Ian (Tevis) showed how he can shoot.”

Mateur finished with 12 points, six rebounds and four assists while Tevis had 21 points, 10 rebounds, Teal 19 points, seven rebounds and two assists and Ottley added 10 boards and two assists to his 35 points. Kelvin Omojolo also chipped in with 12 points and three helpers.

“It shows our depth,” said Pottinger. “It’s a long season and you never know what can happen. You need that depth. I thought tonight we showed some of our offence and played good defence for the most part but could have rebounded a bit better. Still we got good team rebounding, which we need.”

The Kings held a 59-42 edge in rebounding.

The RDC teams travel to Olds next Friday.

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/atheticsblog.

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Habs shell Ortio with six goals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadiens 6 Flames 2 CALGARY — Dale Weise recorded the first hat trick of his career Friday night as the Montreal Canadiens returned to the win column with a 6-2 victory over the Calgary Flames.

After scoring the only goal of the first period, Weise broke a 2-2 tie with his second of the night at 6:57 of the second. On the game-winner, a trio of Flames failed to control the puck in their own end allowing Weise to steal it and beat Joni Ortio on a long wrist shot.

Weise’s third, from a scramble at 11:44 of the third period, resulted in hats raining down on the ice as if the game was being played at Montreal’s Bell Centre.

Nathan Beaulieu, Devante Smith-Pelly and former Flame Paul Byron also scored for Montreal (10-20), which salvaged the final game of its Western Canada road swing after losses in Vancouver and Edmonton.

Jiri Hudler and Josh Jooris scored for Calgary (2-8-1). The struggling Flames are winless in their last four and have yet to win a game in regulation.

Montreal made it 4-2 at 12:22 of the second, again capitalizing on slop-

py defensive play by Calgary. Dennis Wideman had the puck stolen from him along the end boards and Kris Russell lost his man, enabling Byron to set up Smith-Pelly for an open net.

Montreal put the game away 3:52 into the third, taking advantage of another turnover — this time allowing Byron to speed away and score on a short-handed breakaway.

With Carey Price getting the night off, rookie Mike Condon made his third career start for Montreal and improved to a perfect 3-0 with 30 saves.

Ortio had 25 stops to fall to 0-2-1.

Shaky goaltending continues to be the storyline in Calgary. Jonas Hiller, injured in his last game, is second-last in the NHL with an .861 save percentage. Opening night starter Karri Ramo, who was waived less than a week ago and sent to the minors, is at .879 after three starts. Ortio, a rookie, has struggled in both of his games.

Down 1-0, Hudler scored 27 seconds into the second period to tie it 1-1.

However, Beaulieu’s power-play goal two minutes later restored a 2-1 lead.

Jooris tied it again at 4:41, but it only remained that way for a couple of minutes.

Notes: Alexander Semin was a healthy scratch for the Canadiens for the second game in a row… Ortio

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Montreal Canadiens’ Devante Smith-Pelly, left, scores on Calgary Flames’ goalie Joni Ortio, of Finland, during second period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Friday. started at home for the first time since March 21, 2014. His last nine NHL appearances had come on the road…

Montreal’s Max Pacioretty was on the ice for Hudler’s goal. It was the first

opposition goal he’s been on the ice for this season. He’s been on for 20 Canadiens goals… Calgary’s Kris Russell was minus-3 and is last in the NHL at minus-16.

Barnstable leads Kings to shutout win over Trojans

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 1 Trojans 0 PENHOLD – It was closer than RDC Kings head coach Trevor Keeper would have liked, but he was thrilled with a 1-0 victory over the SAIT Trojans in Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League play Friday.

“We dominated the third period and should have been up more, but I told the guys after that this is the type of game you get in the playoffs and it’s good to know we can play this way,” he said.

Tyler Berkholtz scored the Kings lone goal at 19:22 of the first period and goaltender Kraymer Barnstable made it hold up, finishing with 32 saves.

• The RDC Queens strengthened their hold on

Kingsmen defeat Bulldog Scrap Metal Kyle Fairbairn netted 18 points Thursday to lead the Kingsmen to a 70-50 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over Bulldog Scrap Metal.

Enrique Vizcarra added 14 points for the winners.

In another game, The D Leaguers got 16 points from Jesse Liske in a 6155 win over the Vikings.

Jarret Gouw contributed 10 points for the winner and Les Winchester dropped in a game-high 22 for the Vikings.

Cougars set to face Lightning in division final Payton LaGrange scored a pair of touchdowns as the Notre Dame

first place in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League with a 2-1 victory over the host NAIT Ooks Friday.

Veronika Kuzelova opened the scoring for the Ooks at 2:36 of the first period, but Kaely McMurtry connected at 7:06 and Jade Petrie at 18:37 to complete the scoring. Alex Frisk finished with 21 saves for RDC, who had 20 shots on Shelby Audet.

• The two-time defending national champion RDC Queens got off to a slow start to the ACAC volleyball season, dropping a 19-25, 13-25, 25-11, 19-25 decision to the host Briercrest Bible College Clippers Friday.

“It was a rough match to play, we were fundamentally inconsistent which led to a lot of unforced errors,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “We know the solution, we just have to execute on our

Cougars downed the Lindsay Thurber Raiders 29-7 in a Central Alberta High School Football League City Division semifinal Friday at Great Chief Park.

The Cougars will face the Hunting Hills Lightning in the division final Nov. 7 at 5 p.m. at Great Chief.

LaGrange scored on runs of eight and 67 yards. Johannes Smith ran one yard for another major and Bedo Wande hauled in an 11-yard touchdown pass from Devin Desormeau. Parker Dahl booted three converts and the Raiders conceded a safety.

Brad Pope recorded a secondquarter touchdown for the Raiders on a 47-yard run. Jon Goulet added the convert.

Desormeau was three-for-eight passing for 44 yards, while Thurber quarterback Sean Vandervlis completed four of 12 passes for 53 yards.

Smith led all rushers with 154 yards on 22 carries. Pope was the Raiders’

primary skills.”

McKenna Barthel was the RDC player of the match with 11 kills, one ace, 10 digs and a block.

Meanwhile, the RDC Kings opened with a 21-25, 25-19, 25-19, 28-26 victory over the Clippers.

Nic Dubinsky was player of the RDC match with 16 kills and six digs. Tommy Lyon was strong in the middle with 13 kills and three blocks.

• The RDC soccer Kings playoff hopes quickly went out the door as they were whipped 6-0 by the NAIT Ooks in the ACAC quarter-finals Friday at Fort McMurray. It was 1-0 early when the Kings ran into trouble, losing two of their players to cards.

Meanwhile the Queens will face Concordia today in the women’s semifinals in Grande Prairie. Concordia edged Medicine Hat 2-1 Friday.

top ground-gainer with 96 yards on 17 trips.

The Cougars ran up 362 yards in total offence, as compared to 183 for the Raiders.

• Elsewhere Friday, the host Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody Lakers got past the Camrose Trojans 19-10 in a Rural Division semifinal.

Chase Allan caught a 17-yard scoring pass and Caleb Johnson accounted for the Lakers’ second major on a 65-yard pass-and-run play.

Dagan Slimmon booted two converts, two singles and a 12-yard field goal to round out the Sylvan Lake scoring.

Connor Pearson recorded the Trojans’ lone major on a 23-yard run, while Michael Davidse added the convert and kicked a 26-yard field goal.

Lakers quarterbacks Michael Smyth, Patrick Bennett and Tyrese Hamilton combined for 167 yards passing, with Johnson catching four balls for 96 yards. Pearson led all rushers with 107 yards.

The Lakers will face the Stettler Lightning in the division final.

Olsen scores OT winner CANMORE — Chase Olsen was the man of the hour Friday as the Olds Grizzlys recorded a 4-3 overtime win over the Canmore Eagles in AJHL action.

Olsen scored with one second remaining in the third period and then connected 3:36 into the extra frame.

Wyatt Noskey also tallied twice for the visitors in front of 440 fans at the Canmore Recreation Centre, while Landon Kletke picked up three assists.

Braden Saretsky, Lane Olson and Braiden Doucette scored for the Eagles.

Ben Giesbrecht was solid in the Olds net, making 39 saves. Canmore netminder Ryan Gilchrist turned away 31 shots.

The Grizzlys visit the Drumheller Dragons tonight.

Lions spoil Ray’s first start of 2015 season ARGOS RETURN HOME TO ROGERS CENTRE FOR FIRST TIME SINCE SEPT. 11

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Lions 27 Argos 25 TORONTO — Jonathan Jennings threw two TD strikes and a two-point convert as the B.C. Lions took advantage of Toronto penalties and held on for a wild 27-25 road win over the Argos on Friday night to spoil Ricky Ray’s 2015 starting debut.

B.C. (7-10) took sole possession of third in the West Division while eliminating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (511) from playoff contention. The Montreal Alouettes (6-10) are also in the running for the crossover but if they lose Sunday in Edmonton the Lions will clinch the post-season berth.

Jennings now has 15 TD strikes in his six starts with the Lions, who fin-

ish their regular season next Saturday hosting Calgary (12-4).

Ray’s first start of the season came before a Rogers Centre gathering of 14,236. That’s a far cry from the 3,401 and 3,741 fans who watched Toronto’s two home games at Tim Hortons Field.

Ray, in his 13th CFL season, spent the first half of the campaign recovering from off-season shoulder surgery before serving as Trevor Harris’s backup. He finished 26-of-38 passing for 227 yards with a TD and interception.

The turning point came in the third quarter after Toronto went ahead 1512 at 4:44 when Richie Leone gave up the safety. The Argos then proceeded to shoot themselves in the foot, being flagged eight times on B.C.’s next two scoring drives.

The Lions went ahead 18-15 at 9:08

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REBELS: Lessons to be learned Riley Whittingham struck for another man-advantage marker at 11:49, swooping the puck past Toth while falling to the ice, and Kailer Yamamoto made it 3-0 with 49 seconds remaining in the period, avoiding a check from defenceman Nelson Nogier and connecting with a quick, rising shot from the faceoff circle.

Trevor Martin replaced Toth at the start of the second period and stopped all 10 shots he faced the rest of the way. But Verhelst was the story, robbing Wyatt Johnson with a stupendous second-period glove stab and denying the Rebels at every turn until Bobyk — with Red Deer on the power play — worked in from the point and ripped a shot to the top corner at 12:39 of the third period.

“You don’t give yourself much of a chance when you play a first period like that and get down three goals,” said Sutter. “Then you get some urgency in your game after that, but it’s too late. Obviously we still have a lot of

lessons to be learned here.”

Chiefs head coach Don Nachbaur admitted his club wore down at the game progressed.

“We were hanging on through the last half of the game,” he stated.

“We’ve played three games in three nights and the last two teams we’ve played hadn’t played all week.

“I’m not sure if the Western Hockey League schedule is fair to us, but it’s making our team mentally tough. We battled tonight and came out with a win. We’re really proud of our guys.”

Nachbaur, who added his team is under-staffed due to injuries and players competing at the U16 Western Challenge in Calgary, was extra appreciative of Verhelst’s efforts.

“That was his best performance of the year against a very good team,” said the Spokane bench boss. “He was outstanding tonight. He’d be the first to say he could have been better last night (in a 6-3 win at Calgary) and could have been better in Medicine Hat (in a 6-2 loss Wednesday).

“But he’s a young goalie. He’s going to have good games and bad games and tonight he picked the right night to be solid.”

The Rebels are in Medicine Hat

when Jennings found Bryan Burnham on a three-yard touchdown pass before Harris scored on a one-yard run at 14:21, capping a drive that featured three penalties on the Argos (including two objectionable conducts) on one series. Then Jennings hit Burnham for the two-point convert, giving B.C. the 26-15 edge.

But following Leone’s single, Toronto rallied to within 27-25 in a hectic fourth. Travis Hawkins returned a punt he blocked 33 yards for the TD at 4:47 before Jake Rogers made it a twopoint game with a 25-yard field goal at 9:18.

Jennings drove B.C. to the Toronto 33 before Ricky Foley blocked Leone’s 43-yard field goal try, giving the Argos possession at their 37-yard line. But Ryan Phillips ended Toronto’s come-

back, intercepting Ray with 19 seconds remaining.

Toronto (9-8) remains third in the East Division, two points behind the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (10-6) and Ottawa Redblacks (10-6), who meet Saturday at Tim Hortons Field before finishing the regular season at T.D. Place.

Toronto played just its fourth home game at Rogers Centre but first since a 35-27 loss to Hamilton on Sept. 11 — a span of 49 days. The Argos were forced to play regularly scheduled home contests in Ottawa and Hamilton because the Blue Jays were in the American League playoffs.

The Pan Am Games and scheduling issues at Rogers Centre also forced Toronto to play its season-opening home contest versus Edmonton in Fort McMurra.

Sunday for a meeting with the Tigers and host the Seattle Thunderbirds Tuesday before embarking on a fivegame road trip. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

him 16 RBIs in 14 post-season games this year. Alex Rios had an RBI single in the second, and another run scored on Travis d’Arnaud’s passed ball.

But the Royals ran themselves out of a chance at a bigger inning when Alex Gordon was thrown out at third by rookie left fielder Michael Conforto, the safe call reversed following a replay review.

Syndergaard was a little shaky fielding his position but helped himself at the plate. He singled leading off the third ahead of Granderson’s second homer of the Series, a line drive off Ventura into the front row of seats in the right-field corner.

“He just wasn’t sharp,” Royals manager Ned Yost said about his starter.

“Fastball velocity was down. Made a couple mistakes.”

That put the Mets ahead to stay at 4-3, making it the first World Series game with three lead changes in the first three innings, according to STATS. WELCOME TO THE BIG SHOW Raul A. Mondesi, added to Kansas City’s roster Tuesday, became the first player to make his major league debut in the World Series.

The 20-year-old son of 1994 NL Rookie of the Year Raul Mondesi pinch-hit in the fifth inning and struck out on four pitches.

METS: Royals weren’t intimidated “That surprised me,” Escobar said.

“They said yesterday he said to the media, I have a plan for Escobar. That’s not a good plan. If you want to throw me inside, you can throw me down.

You don’t need to throw to my head.”

Kansas City players spent the next few innings shouting at Syndergaard from the dugout.

“I think the whole team was pretty upset. The first pitch of the game goes whizzing by our leadoff man’s head,” Mike Moustakas said. “I think all 25 guys in that dugout were pretty fired up.”

Escobar whiffed on a 99 mph heater, yet the Royals hardly looked intimidated as they scored three runs in the first two innings.

Ben Zobrist doubled and scored on a groundout by Eric Hosmer that gave

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SATURDAY, OCT. 31, 2015

Hockey

Today • Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament; first matches at 9 a.m., quarter-finals at 10:15 and 11:30 a.m., semifinals at 12:30 p.m., bronze matches at 2:30 p.m., gold matches at 3:45 p.m.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Rockyview at Red Deer Strata Energy, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A. • High school football: Playoffs, teams and times TBA. • Major bantam hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Arena.

• Major bantam girls hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Midget AAA hockey: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Cranbrook at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

• Bantam AA hockey: Taber at West Central, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

Sunday • Major bantam hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, noon, Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: West Central at Olds, 12:15 p.m.

• Bantam AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Central Alberta at Olds, 2:45 p.m.

• Major midget girls hockey: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Midget AAA hockey: Grande Prairie at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena.

• Midget AA hockey: Olds at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Blackfalds.

• Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Washed Up Warriors, Monstars vs.

Wells Furniture, Henry’s Eavestroughing vs. Sheraton Red Deer, 4:15 p.m.; Orangemen vs. Carstar, NWS Axemen vs. Lacombe All Sports Cresting, Triple A Batteries vs. Johns Manville, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

• WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

(The Drive).

Baseball WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7 x-if necessary) All games televised by Fox Kansas City 2, New York 1 Tuesday, Oct. 27: Kansas City 5, N.Y. Mets 4, 14 innings Wednesday, Oct. 28: Kansas City 7, N.Y. Mets 1 Friday, Oct. 30: New York 9, Kansas City 3 Saturday, Oct. 31: Kansas City (Young 11-6) at N.Y. Mets (Matz 4-0), 6:07 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 1: Kansas City (Volquez 13-9) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 13-8), 6:15 p.m. x-Tuesday, Nov. 3: N.Y. Mets at Kansas City, 6:07

p.m. x-Wednesday, Nov. 4: N.Y. Mets at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m.

Game Three Kansas City 120 000 000—3 7 0 New York 202 104 00x—912 0 Ventura, D.Duffy (4), Hochevar (5), F.Morales (6), K.Herrera (6), Madson (7), Medlen (8) and S.Perez Syndergaard, A.Reed (7), Clippard (8), Familia (9) and T.d’Arnaud. W—Syndergaard 1-0. L—Ventura 0-1. HRs—New York, D.Wright (1), Granderson (2).

Golf

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Prince Albert 15 11 2 1 1 59 44 24 Brandon 15 10 3 0 2 63 40 22 Moose Jaw 13 8 3 1 1 52 36 18 Saskatoon 14 7 4 3 0 50 51 17 Regina 13 6 6 1 0 35 46 13 Swift Current 14 5 7 2 0 36 45 12 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Lethbridge 13 10 3 0 0 58 39 20 Red Deer 15 10 5 0 0 56 42 20 Calgary 15 7 7 0 1 38 54 15 Medicine Hat 12 5 6 1 0 43 47 11 Edmonton 15 4 8 3 0 38 53 11 Kootenay 16 3 11 2 0 36 66 8 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Victoria 15 9 5 0 1 45 32 19 Kelowna 14 9 5 0 0 54 45 18 Prince George 13 7 6 0 0 35 34 14 Kamloops 13 5 8 0 0 41 46 10 Vancouver 13 4 7 1 1 41 57 10 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Seattle 11 8 2 1 0 41 25 17 Spokane 15 6 7 1 1 41 57 14 Portland 12 6 6 0 0 38 31 12 Everett 9 5 3 0 1 21 22 11 Tri-City 13 4 8 1 0 42 51 9 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 Victoria 3 Prince Albert 2 (OT) Spokane 3 Red Deer 1 Brandon 3 Kootenay 2 (OT) Moose Jaw 5 Regina 1 Saskatoon 4 Swift Current 0 Kamloops 7 Lethbridge 3 Vancouver at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Prince George 2 Kelowna 1 Portland at Everett, late Thursday’s results Spokane 6 Calgary 3 Edmonton 3 Saskatoon 1 Saturday’s games Seattle at Kootenay, 2 p.m.

Regina at Moose Jaw, 2 p.m.

Swift Current at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Victoria at Saskatoon, 1 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 3 p.m.

Seattle at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Spokane at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Tri-City at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 6 p.m.

Chiefs 3, Rebels 1 First Period 1. Spokane, Fram 6 (Helewka, Andersen) 5:25 (pp).

2. Spokane, Whittingham 4 (Miske, Sozanski) 11:49 (pp).

3. Spokane, Stephens 3 (Miske) 19:11.

Penalties — Bechtold Spo (roughing) 1:11, Bobyk RD (roughing) 3:47, Pawlenchuk RD (holding) 10:28, Cardiff Spo (high-sticking) 11:53, Fiala Spo (hooking) 12:39, De Wit RD (delay of game) 14:52.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Whittingham Spo (roughing) 0:23, Bobyk RD (delay of game) 2:48, Nogier RD (cross-checking) 4:48, Johnson RD (fighting) 11:33, Fiala Spo (roughing) 11:33, Polei RD (roughing) 11:33, McIndoe Spo (fighting) 11:33, Fiala Spo (cross-checking) 11:33, Helgesen Spo (high-sticking) 17:44.

Third Period 4. Red Deer, Bobyk 6 (Hagel, Johnson) 12:39 (pp).

Penalties — Polei RD (10-minute misconduct) 0:25, Fiala Spo (fighting) 0:25, Polei RD (fighting) 0:25, Polei RD (instigator) 0:25, Bobyk RD (elbowing) 8:41, Zwerger Spo (high-sticking) 11:04, Zwerger Spo (high-sticking) 11:04.

Shots on goal by Spokane 13 6 4 — 23 Red Deer 10 9 27 — 46 Goal — Spokane: Verhelst (W, 6-5-0) Red Deer: Toth (L, 7-4-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Spokane: 2-7 Red Deer: 1-8.

Referees — Kyle Kowalski, Colin Watt.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts Montreal 12 10 2 0 20 N.Y. Rangers11 7 2 2 16 Washington 9 7 2 0 14 Ottawa 10 5 3 2 12 N.Y. Islanders10 6 2 2 14 Tampa Bay 11 5 4 2 12 Pittsburgh 10 6 4 0 12 Boston 9 5 3 1 11

GF 45 31 32 32 33 28 20 36

GA 23 21 22 31 25 28 20 30

Florida 10 5 4 1 11 31 21 New Jersey 10 5 4 1 11 25 27 Philadelphia 10 4 4 2 10 21 29 Carolina 11 5 6 0 10 23 30 Detroit 10 4 5 1 9 23 27 Buffalo 11 4 7 0 8 26 34 Toronto 9 1 6 2 4 20 31 Columbus 11 2 9 0 4 23 43 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 10 8 2 0 16 35 27 Vancouver 11 5 2 4 14 32 25 Nashville 9 7 1 1 15 27 17 Los Angeles 9 6 3 0 12 20 18 St. Louis 10 7 2 1 15 27 21 Arizona 11 5 5 1 11 30 32 Minnesota 10 7 2 1 15 33 29 Winnipeg 10 6 3 1 13 32 26 Chicago 11 6 5 0 12 24 24 San Jose 9 5 4 0 10 24 20 Edmonton 11 4 7 0 8 28 34 Colorado 10 3 6 1 7 24 29 Calgary 11 2 8 1 5 22 46 Anaheim 10 1 7 2 4 10 27 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

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

San Jose at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Nashville at Los Angeles, 2 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Washington at Florida, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Basketball

CIMB Classic Scores Friday At Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Purse: $7 million Yardage: 6,985 Par: 72 Second Round Justin Thomas 68-61—129 Brendan Steele 67-63—130 Spencer Levin 67-64—131 Hideki Matsuyama 65-66—131 Scott Piercy 62-69—131 Stewart Cink 68-64—132 Brian Harman 70-63—133 Kevin Na 67-66—133 Troy Merritt 68-66—134 Jason Gore 66-68—134 Adam Scott 68-66—134 James Hahn 70-65—135 Morgan Hoffmann 67-68—135 David Hearn 70-65—135 Kyle Reifers 70-66—136 Ryan Moore 67-69—136 Keegan Bradley 66-70—136 Jim Herman 70-66—136 Kevin Kisner 71-65—136 Patrick Reed 68-68—136 Scott Hend 67-70—137 Branden Grace 67-70—137 Daniel Summerhays 71-66—137 Paul Peterson 70-67—137 Alex Cejka 66-71—137 Sergio Garcia 70-67—137 Anirban Lahiri 70-67—137

Cameron Tringale Robert Streb Paul Casey Henrik Stenson Kevin Chappell Tony Finau Matt Jones Rory Sabbatini David Lingmerth Cameron Smith Charles Howell III Ryo Ishikawa Chad Campbell Brendon De Jonge Jon Curran Russell Knox Hudson Swafford Padraig Harrington Nick Watney Ben Martin Colt Knost John Senden Scott Brown Pat Perez Ben Crane Danny Lee Marc Leishman Zac Blair Ernie Els Andrew Dodt Danny Chia Harris English Scott Pinckney Greg Owen

70-68—138 69-69—138 69-69—138 71-67—138 69-69—138 71-67—138 67-71—138 69-69—138 73-65—138 66-72—138 66-72—138 69-69—138 68-70—138 69-69—138 69-70—139 70-69—139 70-69—139 68-72—140 70-70—140 70-70—140 70-70—140 70-70—140 68-72—140 71-69—140 71-70—141 73-68—141 71-70—141 70-71—141 72-69—141 72-70—142 71-71—142 71-71—142 69-73—142 70-72—142

Football CFL East Division GP W L T PF x-Hamilton 16 10 6 0 496 x-Ottawa 16 10 6 0 408 x-Toronto 17 9 8 0 417 Montreal 16 6 10 0 342 West Division GP W L T PF x-Edmonton 17 13 4 0 426 x-Calgary 16 12 4 0 408 B.C. 17 7 10 0 430 Winnipeg 17 5 12 0 342 Saskatchewan 16 2 14 0 381 x — clinched playoff berth.

PA 335 420 488 332

Pt 20 20 18 12

PA 319 320 458 481 497

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WEEK 19

Friday’s result B.C. 27 Toronto 25 Saturday’s game Saskatchewan at Calgary, 1 p.m.

Sunday’s games Ottawa at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Montreal at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

WEEK 20 Bye: Edmonton Friday, Nov. 6 Winnipeg at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 7 Hamilton at Ottawa, 2 p.m.

Calgary at B.C., 5 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 8 Saskatchewan at Montreal, 11 a.m.

End of regular season

Bye: Winnipeg

Transactions BASEBALL American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Traded C Charlie Valerio and cash to Amarillo for RHP Richie Mirowski.

LAREDO LEMURS — Signed INF Frank Martinez.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Released RHP Reyes Dorado.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Traded RHP Rett Varner to Amarillo for OF Logan Vick.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Traded INF Nick Giarraputo and RHP Drew Cisco to Sussex County for 1B Kenny Bryant.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Released RHP Scott Nickerson, RHP Brandon Shimo, RHP Kyle Vazquez, RHP Julio Rodriguez, C Rey Otero, INF Victor Lebron, INF Sergio Miranda and INF Devin Thaut.

Frontier LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Signed manager Chris Mongiardo to a contract extension.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed OF Matt Honchel.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Acquired INF Ricky Rodriguez from Amarillo (AA) to complete a previous trade. Released LHP Scott Silverstein.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBAPA — NBA Players Association named Erica McKinley chief operating officer.

CHICAGO BULLS — Exercised its fourth-year option for G Tony Snell and its third-year option for F Doug McDermott.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Exercised the thirdyear contact options on C Joel Embiid and G Nik Stauskas, and the fourth-year contract option on F Nerlens Noel.

FOOTBALL

National Football League NFL — Fined St. Louis Rams DT Nick Fairley and Jacksonville DE Andre Branch $17,363 apiece for illegal hits on quarterbacks last weekend. Fined New York Jets CB Darrin Walls, San Diego DE Corey Liuget and Oakland OT Donald Penn, $8,681 each for unnecessary roughness in their games.

NEW YORK JETS — Activated RB Stevan Ridley from the PUP list. Waived WR Chris Owusu, HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled F Ryan Hartman from Rockford (AHL).

American Hockey League SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Announced F Michael Bunting was reassigned to Rapid City (ECHL).

ECHL ATLANTA GLADIATORS — Announced D Max Iafrate and F Eric Neiley were assigned to the team

by Providence (AHL). Released D Drew Baker.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Announced F Austin Fyten was called up by Hershey (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended D.C. United D Bobby Boswell for one match and fined him an undisclosed amount for endangering the safety of an opponent during an Oct. 28 match against New England.

WINTER SPORTS USA LUGE — Named Tony Benshoof assistant coach for the Junior National Team.

COLLEGE PURDUE — NCAA has granted freshman F Caleb Swanigan full eligibility to play during the 2015-16 season.

SIENA — Announced F Javion Ogunyemi will not have to sit out this season.

WENTWORTH TECH — Named Cheryl Aaron director of athletics.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Detroit 3 01.000 — Toronto 2 01.000 1/2 Washington 2 01.000 1/2 Chicago 2 1.667 1 Atlanta 2 1.667 1 Cleveland 2 1.667 1 Boston 1 1.500 1 1/2 Miami 1 1.500 1 1/2 New York 1 1.500 1 1/2 Brooklyn 0 2.000 2 1/2 Charlotte 0 2.000 2 1/2 Indiana 0 2.000 2 1/2 Milwaukee 0 2.000 2 1/2 Orlando 0 2.000 2 1/2 Philadelphia 0 2.000 2 1/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Golden State 2 01.000 — L.A. Clippers 2 01.000 — Minnesota 2 01.000 —

Oklahoma City 2 01.000 — Portland 1 01.000 1/2 Dallas 1 1.500 1 Denver 1 1.500 1 Memphis 1 1.500 1 Sacramento 1 1.500 1 San Antonio 1 1.500 1 Utah 1 1.500 1 Phoenix 0 1.000 1 1/2 Houston 0 2.000 2 L.A. Lakers 0 2.000 2 New Orleans 0 2.000 2 Thursday’s Games Memphis 112, Indiana 103 Atlanta 112, New York 101 L.A. Clippers 104, Dallas 88 Friday’s Games Utah 99, Philadelphia 71 Cleveland 102, Miami 92 Oklahoma City 139, Orlando 136,2OT Detroit 98, Chicago 94, OT Toronto 113, Boston 103 Washington 118, Milwaukee 113

Atlanta 97, Charlotte 94 San Antonio 102, Brooklyn 75 Minnesota 95, Denver 78 Golden State 112, Houston 92 Sacramento 132, L.A. Lakers 114 Portland at Phoenix, late Saturday’s Games Utah at Indiana, 5 p.m.

New York at Washington, 5 p.m.

Golden State at New Orleans, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Charlotte, 12 p.m.

San Antonio at Boston, 1:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Toronto, 4 p.m.

Houston at Miami, 4 p.m.

Orlando at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Denver at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

Mike McEwen 8 Pat Simmons 2 Jim Cotter 5 Brendan Bottcher 4 (ee) Kevin Koe 7 Steve Laycock 6 Eighth Draw Reid Carruthers 7 Thomas Ulsrud 6 Ninth Draw Kevin Koe 6 Shawn Adams 2 Brad Gushue 6 Niklas Edin 2 Brad Jacobs 6 Brendan Bottcher 3 End of round robin PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games Tiebreaker Steve Laycock vs. Glenn Howard, 8 a.m.

Quarter-finals, 12 p.m.

Brad Gushue vs. Laycock-Howard winner Jim Cotter vs. Brad Jacobs Niklas Edin vs. Kevin Koe Mike McEwen vs. Reid Carruthers Sunday’s games Semifinals Quarter-final winners, 8 a.m.

Final Semifinal winners, 12 p.m.

WOMEN ROUND ROBIN Group A W L x-Homan 4 0 x-Tirinzoni 3 1 t-Kim 2 2 Fleury 1 3 Sigfridsson 0 4 Group B W L x-Arsenault 3 1 x-Sidorova 3 1 t-Jones 2 2 Middaugh 1 3 Paetz 1 3 Group C W L x-Sweeting 3 0 x-McDonald 2 1 x-Einarson 2 2 Muirhead 1 3

Feltscher 1 3 x — clinched playoff berth t — will play tiebreaker.

Friday’s results Draw 10 Mary-Anne Arsenault 8 Jennifer Jones 3 Val Sweeting 5 Eve Muirhead 2 Draw 11 Silvana Tirinzoni 8 EunJung Kim 1 Alina Paetz 5 Sherry Middaugh 4 Tracy Fleury 8 Margaretha Sigfridsson 3 Kerri Einarson 6 Binia Feltscher 4 (ee) Draw 12 Rachel Homan 6 EunJung Kim 2 Anna Sidorova 7 Jennifer Jones 6 (ee) Val Sweeting vs. Kristy McDonald Thursday’s results Sixth Draw EunJung Kim 7 Tracy Fleury 3 Val Sweeting 8 Binia Feltscher 2 Seventh Draw Jennifer Jones 9 Alina Paetz 2 Eighth Draw Rachel Homan 5 Margaretha Sigfridsson 3 Kristy McDonald 6 Kerri Einarson 3 Anna Sidorova 5 Sherry Middaugh 3 Silvana Tirinzoni 6 Tracy Fleury 3 Ninth Draw Mary-Anne Arsenault 4 Alina Paetz 3 Binia Feltscher 6 Eve Muirhead 5 End of round robin PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games Tiebreaker EunJung Kim vs. Jennifer Jones, 8 a.m.

Quarter-finals, 5 p.m.

Rachel Homan vs. Kim-Jones winner Kristy McDonald vs. Mary-Anne Arsenault Kerri Einarson vs. Silvana Tirinzoni Val Sweeting vs. Anna Sidorova Sunday’s games Semifinals Quarter-final winners, 8 a.m.

Final Semifinal winners, 5 p.m.

4. Kaetlyn Osmond, Canada, 59.21.

5. Polina Edmunds, United States, 56.85.

6. Joshi Helgesson, Sweden, 56.26.

7. Elizabet Tursynbaeva, Kazakhstan, 55.37.

8. Gabrielle Daleman, Canada, 54.13.

9. Veronik Mallet, Canada, 52.17.

10. Alena Leonova, Russia, 52.08.

11. Isabelle Olsson, Sweden, 50.23 12. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russia, 49.84.

Pairs Short Program 1. Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, Canada, 72.46 2. Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, Russia, 64.00 3. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro, Canada, 63.17 4. Marissa Castelli and Mervin Tran, United States, 61.85 5. Vera Bazarova and Andrei Deputat, Russia, 57.02 6. Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek, Italy,

54.00 7. Miriam Ziegler and Severin Kiefer, Austria, 49.95 8. Vanessa Grenier and Maxime Deschamps, Canada, 45.45 Ice Dance Short Dance 1. Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, Canada, 68.00.

2. Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani, United States, 66.00.

3. Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev, Russia, 64.38.

4. Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri, Italy, 61.29.

5. Alexandra Paul and Mitchell Islam, Canada, 57.55.

6. Ksenia Monko and Kirill Khaliavin, Russia, 57.44.

7. Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen, Denmark, 53.65.

8. Elisabeth Paradis and Francois-Xavier Ouellette, Canada, 47.77.

Curling Masters of Curling TRURO, N.S. — Standings and results Friday from the Masters of Curling, part of the 2015-16 Grand Slam of Curling MEN ROUND ROBIN Group A W L x-Koe 4 0 x-McEwen 3 1 t-Laycock 2 2 Simmons 1 3 Adams 0 4 Group B W L x-Cotter 3 1 x-Jacobs 3 1 x-Carruthers 2 2 Bottcher 1 3 Ulsrud 1 3 Group C W L x-Gushue 4 0 x-Edin 2 2 t-Howard 2 2 Epping 1 3 Murdoch 1 3 x — clinched playoff berth t — will play tiebreaker.

Friday’s results Draw 10 Jim Cotter 4 Reid Carruthers 3 (ee) David Murdoch 6 Niklas Edin 1 Steve Laycock 6 Shawn Adams 5 (ee) Draw 11 Thomas Ulsrud 10 Brendan Bottcher 7 Draw 12 Brad Gushue 7 David Murdoch 3 Brad Jacobs 6 Jim Cotter 3 Steve Laycock 7 Pat Simmons 1 Kevin Koe 5 Mike McEwen 4 Glenn Howard 8 John Epping 4 Thursday’s results Sixth Draw John Epping 7 David Murdoch 3 Seventh Draw Niklas Edin 5 Glenn Howard 4

Figure Skating ISU Grand Prix Skate Canada Results Friday At Lethbridge Men Short Program 1. Daisuke Murakami, Japan, 80.88 2. Patrick Chan, Canada, 80.81 3. Adam Rippon, United States, 80.36 4. Nam Nguyen, Canada, 76.10 5. Michal Brezina, Czech Republic, 75.46 6. Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan, 73.25 7. Alexander Petrov, Russia, 71.44 8. Kim Jin Seo, South Korea, 68.64 9. Sei Kawahara, Japan, 67.36 10. Keegan Messing, Canada, 67.13 11. Timothy Dolensky, United States, 62.46 12. Lee June Hyoung, South Korea, 47.19 Ladies Short Program 1. Ashley Wagner, United States, 70.73.

2. Yuka Nagai, Japan, 63.35.

3. Kanako Murakami, Japan, 59.79.

Eskimos look to complete turnaround from last season FROM WORST TO FIRST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — From 4-14 to 14-4.

The Edmonton Eskimos could complete their comeback from a disastrous 2013 season Sunday when they face the Montreal Alouettes in their CFL regular-season finale.

A win in that game will not only reverse their dismal record from just two seasons ago, when they hit rock bottom, it will also see the Eskimos clinch first in the West for the first time since 2003 and earn a bye into the division final. That is contingent on the 2-14 Roughriders not scoring an upset over the 12-5 Stampeders on Saturday. Should that happen, the Eskimos will go into Sunday’s game with the West locked up.

Edmonton’s showing this season is a vast improvement over the recent years of struggle.

It is, as veteran linebacker J.C. Sherritt put it this week, “a situation you dream about, fighting for first place, having a shot at the ultimate goal,” the Grey Cup that has eluded Edmonton since 2005.

A win Sunday will go a long ways towards erasing the memories of that 2013 season that led then rookie general manager Ed Hervey to clean out the

coaching staff and bring in a new crew headed by coach Chris Jones and begin a transformation of his player roster.

“I feel like this is a whole other team, there’s no comparison (to 2013),” said veteran receiver Adarius Bowman.

“There’s a few guys who have been around but as a whole a lot has changed. The coaching staff, a lot of new players. But we do have a great opportunity in front of us right now … .first place, and we could clinch home-field advantage for the West final so that’s a great opportunity for us.

“We’ve been working all year and I feel we deserve it, but we have to understand Montreal is in a position where they’re trying to get into the playoffs so we definitely have to honour that they’re a good team.”

The 6-10 Alouettes are in a fight with B.C. and Winnipeg for a playoff spot.

The Eskimos finished 12-6 last year. Despite that turnaround, they still failed to overcome what has become their biggest hurdle in the West, the Stampeders. For 12 straight games over four years the Stampeders had owned the Eskimos, until Sept. 12 when quarterback Mike Reilly, back after missing most of the season with a knee injury, engineered a

27-16 Edmonton win.

Since then, the Eskimos have added six more victories, including a 15-10 win over Calgary on Oct. 10 that finally put the team in control of its own destiny.

“We all realize what kind of game it is,” offensive lineman Simeon Rottier said of Sunday. “These games have been like this since we beat Calgary in the sense that we needed to keep winning to guarantee first. The mindset has been the same (since then) and everyone is pretty excited about what we have been doing.”

What they’ve been doing in finding ways to win in spite of an inconsistent offence. In five of their seven straight wins they have needed a strong defence and fourth-quarter offensive rallies to get the victories.

That, said Bowman, has become kind of the team’s motto — finish the fourth.

“We’ve been pretty good at it this year in terms of game to game so let’s put it all together and finish (the season),” he said.

“The guys do understand what we have ahead of us. We’re all pros here. We just happened we put ourselves in a better position than other teams, but it`s not over yet, one game left.

“We’re had a little success but now we`re near the final part so let just finish.”

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Economy grows, but at a much slower pace ECONOMIST SAID LOW OIL PRICES THE KEY HEADWIND TO GROWTH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canadian economy grew for the third consecutive month in August, but the pace of growth slowed from earlier in the summer, Statistics Canada said Friday.

The economy crept ahead by 0.1 per cent in August, matching the expectations of economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters.

However, the increase was smaller than the 0.4 per cent addition in June and 0.3 per cent growth in July.

“Canada’s economy may have snapped back into action in the third quarter, but clouds remain over the outlook,” said TD Bank economist Leslie Preston.

“The persistent low level of oil prices means that capital spending in the oilpatch is likely to decline again in 2016. That is a key headwind to growth in the overall economy, which we expect to remain quite modest over the medium term.”

The three months of increases followed five months of contraction in the Canadian economy to start the year.

Economists suggested the August figure puts the

third quarter on track for growth at an annual pace of about 2.5 per cent, in line with estimates by the Bank of Canada.

The central bank has cut its key interest rate twice this year in an effort to boost the economy, which was hit hard by a drop in the price of oil last year.

Although growth in August said was slower than in June and July, Scotiabank economist Derek Holt noted that those months were boosted by a number of one-time events, including an auto plant returning to full production and the end of some problems in the oil sector.

“What we’re seeing now in August is a bit of moderation from that temporary influence, but it is all about the trend more than the individual month,” Holt said.

For its part, Statistics Canada said the increase in June was largely attributable to the FIFA Women’s Soccer World Cup held in Canada while July and August were helped by other sporting events, including the Pan-American Games in Toronto.

The growth in August was mainly a result of gains in retail trade, manufacturing, mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction.

Retail trade rose 0.6 per cent for August, while

both the manufacturing and the mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sectors each grew by 0.4 per cent.

Holt said that while oil prices may be down, production remains strong, and manufacturers are benefiting from the lower Canadian dollar.

“We continue to increase energy output as a large number of big projects came online for the first time following the surge in capital spending into last year,” he said.

The arts and entertainment sector decreased 0.9 per cent in August, following a 6.9 per gain in June and a 2.0 per cent decline in July.

The finance and insurance sector fell 0.2 per cent in August.

The economic report came as the federal government reported a $2.3-billion deficit for August compared with a $300-million deficit last year.

The shortfall for the month cut the surplus for the April-to-August fiscal year to date by nearly half to $2.8 billion. That compared with a deficit of $1.1 billion for the same five-month period last year.

The spring federal budget forecast a surplus of $1.4 billion for the full fiscal year. However the economy has grown at a slower pace than expected, raising concerns Ottawa will fall short of that mark.

Regulator orders water delivery to farm contaminated by gas plant

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Oilfield pumpjacks belonging to Granite Oil work pumping crude on wells near Warner, Alberta

Husky posts $4.1 billion loss in Q3

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Husky Energy is planning further job cuts and asset sales as it looks to consolidate projects in Western Canada to help the company weather the ongoing downturn in the oilpatch.

“Basically we are transitioning from a business with a large number of small plays into a business with a focus on fewer but more material plays,” Husky chief operating officer Rob Peabody said during an earnings conference call Friday.

The company has already cut 1,400 jobs across its offices and field operations this year as it focuses on core assets.

The cuts — about 80 per cent involving contract workers and the rest full-time employees — amount to a 22 per cent overall reduction in the company’s workforce.

Chief executive Asim Ghosh said on the conference call that the job cuts were a “bitter pill” but were necessary as the slid in oil prices has continued longer than expected.

“The downturn has turned out to be more protracted and more severe than even our conservative assumptions,” he said.

“Our planned divestments will allow us to focus a much larger proportion of our capital investments that can earn the best returns.”

Ghosh said the company is looking to divest some of its legacy projects in Western Canada as well as

some third-party royalties as it concentrates on projects that can generate a 10 per cent return based on US$40-a-barrel West Texas Intermediate crude and gas priced at C$3 per thousand cubic feet.

The asset sale plans and job cuts come as the company reported a $4.1-billion net loss in the third quarter.

Adjusting to exclude $3.8 billion of impairments and a $167-million writedown, Husky’s loss for the third quarter was $101 million.

A year ago, prior to the collapse of oil and gas prices that began in November, Husky had third-quarter net income of $571 million or 52 cents per share on a diluted basis.

It has also decided to make its January 2016 dividend payment in common shares rather than cash.

The dividend rate will continue to be 30 cents per share.

Ghosh said the company’s priorities are maintaining a “bulletproof” balance sheet while preserving its dividend and maintaining growth.

On the possibility of a carbon tax, Ghosh said that he could support an across-the-board carbon tax if the will was there, but that Canada or Alberta as a jurisdiction cannot be disadvantaged.

“It would be politically suicidal for us to do a mea culpa and hang our neck out in a way that disadvantages the industry here,” said Ghosh.

Husky is an integrated oil and gas producer with refinery and retail operations in North America as well as exploration and production in Asia.

An Alberta energy company has been ordered to truck water to a family dairy farm where groundwater has been contaminated by chemicals from a nearby gas plant.

The lawyer for Ron and Lonni Saken says the plant’s current and previous owners still need to compensate the family for land that will be tainted for a generation.

“We can’t just leave them here,” said Keith Wilson. “If the companies have destroyed this, then the companies need to buck up and relocate this farm.”

The Alberta Energy Regulator ruled Thursday that Bonavista Energy must truck enough water to the Saken dairy farm near Edson for the family, their employees and all their cattle. That must total at least 9.5 million litres a year, said the regulator, which gave Bonavista until the end of Friday to come up with a plan to fulfil the order.

The family’s wells have been contaminated by sulfolane, a solvent used in treating sour gas. It has seeped from a plant Bonavista bought from Suncor (TSX:SU) in 2010.

Bonavista first discovered the problem and informed the family about the problem in March 2014.

The company’s investigation concluded the leak began before Bonavista purchased the plant.

The company has since drilled the family a new well, but that water is highly alkaline and has heavy concentrations of flouride. As well, the open tanks required to let dissolved methane vent have allowed bacteria in. “(The cattle) aren’t drinking the water,” said Lonni Saken. “They’re drinking half as much as they should be.”

The farm’s milk production is off by 20 per cent, she said. A similar percentage of the cows are aborting their calves — the source of future production on the farm, which has been in the family since 1929.

“We can see what’s happening to the cattle,” Saken said.

“We can see they’re getting bony and skinny. We just cannot get them to milk.”

Saken has been driving to Bonavista’s plant to pick up bottled water for the family and employees.

Wilson praised the regulator for requiring Bonavista to truck water to the farm. But he pointed out that the family can neither sell the farm nor use it to backstop loans.

The Sakens had hoped to expand their operation to allow their son and his fiancee to join them, but those plans are on hold.

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Out of work? A lot of resources available in Alberta Dear Working Wise: I’ve been looking for a job for three months now, but I haven’t found anything. I don’t want to sit at home, I want to work. Do you have any suggestions? Signed, Want to Work Dear Want to Work: There are a number of services available to help you find a job, including: ● 53 Alberta Works Centres located across the province: humanservices.alberta.ca/offices ● Dozens of job fairs in communities across the province: humanservices.alberta.ca/jobfairs ● The Career Information Hotline: 1-800-661-3753 (780-422-4266 in Edmonton) ● The ALIS careers web site: alis.alberta.ca These services can help you connect with employers who are hiring, access free job-search workshops, and pick up innovative new job-search ideas.

One idea that you might not have tried yet is networking. The ALIS website offers two tip sheets and a video on using networking to find unadvertised jobs.

Networking is one of the most effective ways to find work—more than 60 per cent of jobs are filled by people who heard about them through networking.

And networking is simple: 1. Contact people you know.

2. Tell them about the kind of job you are looking for and your qualifications.

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3. Ask them if they know of any jobs or can refer you to someone who might.

ALIS networking tips: ● Networking is not asking someone for a job—it’s gathering information and making connections to new people who know about unadvertised opportunities. ● Networking is a two-way street—be prepared to give as much information and support as you receive.

CHARLES ● Networking works beSTRACHEY cause most people want to be WORKING WISE helpful and trust referrals from people they know. ● Not everyone feels comfortable networking at first. If you are nervous, start with the people you know best, like friends, family and former coworkers or classmates. Networking is a skill: you will get better at it with practice. ● Expand your network by participating in workor profession-related social media channels like LinkedIn and attending professional association or union functions. ● Carry business cards with your name, creden-

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tials, phone number and e-mail address. ● When you call or e-mail referrals, tell them who referred you. Keep the conversation short and always thank them for their help. If they don’t have the information you need, ask them if they know someone who might.

At formal networking events: ● Bring lots of business cards with you and hand them out freely. ● Say hi to people you know, but keep it brief.

You’re there to meet new people. ● Approach people with confidence, a smile and a firm handshake. Introduce yourself, explain your occupation and talk briefly about your experience. ● Ask people for their business cards and ask if you can follow up.

Contact them within a few days. Ask a question about their field or offer them some information.

Tell them about your work search and ask if they know of any opportunities or can refer you to someone who might.

For more tips on job searches and networking, search the alis.alberta.ca website.

Good luck!

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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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 115.02 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.30 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.15 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 68.90 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market finished its last trading day of the month with a major loss amid a widespread decline in the gold and financial sectors and a further plunge in the stock price of trouble-plagued Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.

The S&P/TSX composite index was down 262.71 points at 13,529.17 — its second triple-digit drop this week and fourth negative showing in the last five sessions.

Meanwhile, the loonie rose 0.53 of a U.S. cent to 76.48 cents U.S. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 92.26 points to 17,663.54, while the S&P 500 gave back 10.05 points to 2,079.36 and the Nasdaq shed 20.52 points to 5,053.75.

Norman Raschkowan, senior partner at Sage Road Advisors, said earnings reports from Canadian energy companies this week have been poor, highlighting the struggles ahead for the resource-heavy TSX. “It reaffirms the broad narrative about just how difficult things are for commodity companies, and Canada is still very heavily commodity oriented,” Raschkowan said.

“But also, there is a growing concern that the challenges are going to persist for some time,” he added, noting that Husky Energy, which reported its results on Thursday, is using a US$40 benchmark oil price for planning purposes.

“If you had spoken to people during the summer, the majority probably would have expected that commodity prices would start turning up by the middle of next year. I think if you were to take a poll today you would find that would be the minority view, and that most people are expecting the challenges are going to persist for the majority of next year.”

Valeant (TXS:VRX), Canada’s largest drug company,

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In economic news, Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s gross domestic product rose 0.1 per cent in August — the third straight monthly increase and in line with economists’ consensus expectations.

South of the border, the U.S. Commerce Department said consumer spending inched up just 0.1 per cent in September — the smallest gain in eight months — partly because consumers were spending less on gasoline as energy prices fell.

On commodity markets, the December benchmark crude oil contract was up 53 cents at US$46.59 a barrel, while December natural gas advanced six cents to US$2.32 per mmBtu. December gold was down $5.90 at US$1,141.40 an ounce.

Raschkowan says that despite the recent losses on the TSX, November and December are typically good months on the stock markets, as investors look to the coming year with optimism.

“Hopefully it sets us up for a strong Christmas rally,” Raschkowan said. “I think that’s what everyone is hoping for that we’re giving this all up now just so we can have a lower base from which to launch our yearend rally.”

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,529.17, down 262.71 points Dow — 17,663.54, down 92.26 points S&P 500 — 2,079.36, down 10.05 points Nasdaq — 5,053.75, down 20.52 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.48 cents US, up 0.53 of a cent

New medical imaging facility coming to Sylvan Lake Central Alberta Medical Imaging Services is expanding into Sylvan Lake.

The medical imaging facility is slated to open up the new clinic tentatively in March.

“We are at capacity at our office here,” said Patty Simpson, office manager. “We’ve filled up every possible space that we can. We have an ultrasound clinic in Stettler and an ultrasound clinic in Olds so we thought if we had to expand we should try and service some of the west country.”

A radiologist will be on staff.

The centre does about 500 exams each day. There are 90 staff.

“We are just trying to spread out our services and help as many people as we can,” said Simpson.

The new clinic with two ultrasound rooms will take up a bay at 133 Beju Industrial Drive in Sylvan Lake.

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GAS PLANT: 30 years to safe groundwater Experts say it’ll be at least a decade and more likely up to 30 years before the groundwater is safe, Wilson said.

A spokesman from Bonavista was not immediately available.

But in a letter to Wilson earlier this week, the company said it has done everything it could.

“The work is clearly not complete,” wrote president Jason Skehar. “But the activities taken by Bonavista, and supported by the AER and other agencies, demonstrate the significant actions taken in addressing the complex issue.”

Wilson said Suncor should also acknowledge its role and help with compensation.

“The evidence is clear they were the initial cause of the contamination. They should step up to the plate and not hide behind some sale agreement they had with Bonavista about liability.”

A letter from Suncor lawyer Peter Duthie to the regulator says the company bears no further responsibility.

“It is our view that Bonavista, as the owner and operator of the Rosevear plant, is in the best position to resolve any contamination issues that may exist,” he wrote.

“Suncor’s participation is not required at this time.”

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Pound — C$2.0158, down 0.04 of a cent Euro — C$1.4377, down 0.77 of a cent Euro — US$1.0996, up 0.19 of a cent Oil futures: US$46.59 per barrel, up 53 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,141.40 per oz., down $5.90 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.348 oz., down 7.3 cents $686.34 kg., down $2.35 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $2.10 higher $462.70 Jan. ‘16 $2.20 higher $473.40 March ‘16 $2.20 higher $479.50 May ‘16 $1.90 higher $482.10 July ‘16 $2.00 higher $482.30 Nov. ‘16 $1.90 higher $473.90 Jan. ‘17 $1.90 higher $472.50 March ‘17 $1.90 higher $474.20 May ‘17 $1.90 higher $474.20 July ‘17 $1.90 higher $474.20 Nov. ‘17 $1.90 higher $474.20.

Barley (Western): 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 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $188.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 281,180 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 281,180.

CALGARY — A whistleblower’s concerns over TransCanada Corp’s (TSX:TRP) pipeline safety practices have been resolved, according to results of a National Energy Board investigation.

The federal regulator said Friday that six of the 16 allegations against the company were partially substantiated, but that TransCanada had taken the appropriate steps to fix the problems. The remaining 10 allegations could not be verified.

The environment and public safety were not at risk and no enforcement action was required, the NEB added. It said the matter is now closed.

The allegations were brought forward in 2014 and early 2015.

The partially substantiated concerns involved, among other things, a

pipe that was exposed for a year, the competence of welders working on an Alberta pipeline and a worker failing to wear the proper safety gear on site.

TransCanada spokesman Davis Sheremata said of the six partially substantiated allegations, four involved an infraction of TransCanada’s procedures.

“We want to stress that at any time an issue is brought to our attention — whether by an employee, a contractor, inspectors who ensure quality control for our pipeline, or a member of the public — we act appropriately, proactively and of our own accord, as we did in these instances, to ensure we are correcting confirmed issues and continually improving the safety performance of our pipelines and our operations,” said Sheremata.

The NEB says it has received 23 whistleblower reports since 2012.

Major pharma company faces long legal challenge

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Valeant Pharmaceuticals faces years of legal challenges despite cutting ties with a U.S. mail-order pharmacy at the centre of a controversy about how Canada’s largest publicly traded drug firm conducts its business, say industry observers and the company’s second-largest shareholder.

Quebec-based Valeant said it was ending its relationship with Philidor Rx Services after several major U.S. drug-benefit providers announced they were walking away from the specialty pharmacy.

Valeant (TSX:VRX) said it had lost confidence in the Hatboro, Pa.,-based company and was exploring relationships with other pharmacies to fill prescriptions for its drugs.

“We understand that patients, doctors and business partners have been disturbed by the reports of improper behaviour at Philidor, just as we have been,” CEO Michael Pearson said in a news release Friday.

“We know the allegations have also led them to question Valeant and our integrity, and for that I take complete

responsibility.

“Operating honestly and ethically is our first priority, and you have my absolute commitment that we will make it right.”

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Valeant’s shares closed down nearly 18 per cent to $122.04.

Valeant did not specify the allegations it was referring to in its statement and declined to clarify or provide additional comment.

However, the company’s announcement came after a Bloomberg story reported that former workers it did not identify said they were instructed to change codes on prescriptions so that it would appear that doctors required, or patients wanted, Valeant’s more expensive brand-name drugs — and not their cheaper generic versions.

Philidor declined repeated requests for comment on the allegations and would not confirm Valeant’s assertion that it will cease operations.

On Monday, when the committee was announced, Philidor issued a statement saying it welcomed the creation of the committee and it was “proud of the company we have built and value our working relationship with Valeant.”

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Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015

It’s more than the chili, it’s the cause. . .

Photos contributed by S Yaworski

Patrons line up in the basement of Gaetz Memorial United Church to enjoy home-made chili served with a home-made bun, in a handmade keepsake bowl.

(It’s also the handmade pottery bowl)

Chili, bread, bowls and crafts all helped Red Deer’s Gramma-Link raise $6,130 to support African granmothers who are raising children made orphans by HIV/AIDS.

Evidence of a good meal: happy customers and empty bowls.

The Sixth Annual Chili for a Cause Luncheon, presented by GrammaLink-Africa, was held Oct. 21 at Gaetz Memorial United Church. The luncheons began in 2010 and have always met with great success.

This year we served 266 people and were gratified to raise $6130.00.

Everyone enjoys the delicious homemade chili, homemade buns and African pumpkin cupcakes made by the Grandmothers.

The chili is served in a handmade pottery bowl, and each bowl is taken home by a happy customer.

For some people, the bowl to keep is the real reason they come. The bowls, in beautiful colors and shapes were donated by the Red Deer Pottery Club, Maureen Lewis and the Red Deer College Ceramics Club.We are indeed grateful for their yearly donation and support of our luncheon.

We also sold merchandise such as baby receiving blankets, infinity scarves, book bags, aprons and bookmarks, all handmade by the Grandmothers.

Thank you to teacher Mark Jones and students from Central Middle School for their assistance with set-up and take-down and to Gaetz Church for the venue.

Thank you to all the volunteers and donations received to make our luncheon another outstanding financial success.

All proceeds are donated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation in support of the African Grandmothers raising their grandchildren orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

African pumpkin muffins for dessert.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 31, 2015

Warming centre almost ready

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A place for Red Deer’s vulnerable residents to stay warm during the cold winter days is expected to open next week.

Crews are finishing up the final work on the Safe Harbour Society-operated temporary daytime warming centre at 5246 - 53 Ave. in order to have it open by Thursday.

“We are really pleased and thankful to know there is a spot,” said Tricia Haggarty-Roberts, Safe Harbour’s director of operations. “We are breathing a sigh of relief.”

In July, city council nixed the idea of setting up a daytime warming centre in an old Parks building in Riverlands after concerns about impacts on neighbouring businesses.

But in September council gave the go ahead to install three trailers on Safe Harbour’s site for the next two years. The three units connect together into one site.

The temporary centre will fill some of the gap left after Berachah Place closed its doors in 2014. Last year the Seventh Day Adventist provided a temporary warming centre which drew 451 unique visitors.

Roughly 80 people went through the site on a daily basis.

Haggarty-Roberts said this new centre will be larger, much larger than expected, and will have room for office space.

The hours will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. The site will always have staff on hand.

Warm beverages and snacks such as granola bars, fresh fruit and juice box will be offered.

“It is a long time between breakfast and where ever there is supper at night,” said Haggarty-Roberts.

“We don’t have lunch so it is the snacks that get them through.”

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Kris Sitter of Deckit works to install a ramp, railing and set of stairs to a new winter warming centre located in the parking lot just to the north of the Safe Harbour Society in Red Deer at 5446-53 Avenue. The Winter Warming Centre, made up of three connected modular units will provide space for about 80 people during daytime hours between November and April.

The agency is accepting donations to help with providing snacks.

Long-term care survey results released

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF When it comes to quality care, Central Albertans say that a few long-term care facilities in Red Deer, Sylvan Lake and Rocky Mountain House in particular could do better.

On Wednesday, Health Quality Council of Alberta released survey results of family experiences at 160 longterm care facilities across Alberta in 2014-15. Families were asked to rank: • How well facilities meet basic needs like helping residents with eating, drinking or toileting.

• Food for residents.

• Availability of staff, cleanliness of residents’ rooms and whether residents’ clothes or belongings were lost.

• Kindness and respect of staff towards residents.

• Providing information and encouraging family involvement.

• Whether they would recommend the facility to others.

In Central Alberta, Clearwater Centre in Rocky was ranked lowest in overall care with a rating of 7.4 on a scale of one to 10. Bethany Sylvan Lake was rated 7.5. In Red Deer, Extendicare Michener Hill came in at 7.7 and Bethany CollegeSide was at 7.8.

Consort Hospital and Care Centre, and Sundre Hospital and Care Centre received the highest overall care scores with each rated 9.6.

It’s the first time HQCA’s provincial report showed results for each facility.

“It’s a real positive step that facility-level results are being included in the report. I think it’s really helpful for residents and their families to have access to that information to know if their own experiences, whether they be positive or negative, are being shared,” said Joel French, executive director of Public Interest Alberta, on Thursday.

According to the report, families say the best way to improve care is for fa-

cilities to have more staff. They also recommend timely help and supervision with basic needs like eating and bathing; cleaner, better maintained facilities; access to other health care services like physiotherapy; and quality, varied and nutritious food.

French said under staffing is a big issue in facilities of all types, but private facilities provide less care per resident. That’s according to a 2013 study, From Bad To Worse, by Parkland Institute. Likewise, the HQCA report showed facilities run by Alberta Health Services had on average a slightly higher overall rating from families compared to private facilities. AHS facilities had a mean rating of 8.5 and private facilities were at 8.1.

On average, non-profit facilities ranked lower when it came to meeting basic needs compared to AHS and private facilities.

Among the lower ranked facilities in Central Alberta, Extendicare Michener Hill is a private facility. Clearwater Centre, Bethany CollegeSide and Bethany Sylvan Lake are run by nonprofits.

French said it’s extremely important that this report be taken seriously and it’s important to look at how much care per resident is happening in facilities.

“When family members raise concerns, they don’t do it for any other reason than wanting to see better care for their loved one. While this may not be the sort of report that gives empirical evidence about how much care is provided in a facility, the experiences of families and of the residents on how they perceive their care is very, very important.”

Brenda Corney, Friends of Medicare Red Deer chapter chair, said the HQCA report contains good data and provincial government has to decide how it’s going to improve care.

“We need to shine a light on it, and this does, but it doesn’t give practical answers. It just gives the snap shot,” Corney said.

Haggarty-Roberts said shelter numbers across the province have been up

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Non-violence conference next week in Sylvan Lake A one-day regional conference, focusing on non-violence will be held in Sylvan Lake on Nov. 3.

The conference “Creating a Vision for Non-Violence” will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and includes four guest speakers including Ian Wheeliker from the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter; Kelly Karius speaking about bullying; Karen Kuntz, Whisper for Now; and Carlia Schwab and Glenn Allen from the Canadian Red Cross.

The conference, with a registration fee of $20 that includes refreshments and a light lunch, will take place at the Sylvan Lake Family and Community Centre.

For registration, contact Karen Miller at 403-887-1137 ext 234.

North School site for sale The former North School site (6014 – 57th Ave.) in Riverside Meadows is on the market.

It is currently leased to the Koinonia Christian School.

Originally opened in 1954, the school served children in North Red Deer until it was closed in 1994.

The Red Deer Public Schools board of trustees agreed to put the school for sale by way of public tender. The property includes 13 classrooms, six portable classrooms to be removed, gymnasium, library and administration offices.

The site has been subdivided, creating a separate title to the North Cottage High School which will be retained and operated as an alternative high school program by Red Deer Public Schools.

The building and site is being offered for sale by public tender with a closing date of Jan. 6, 2016 and with possession to take place Sept. 1, 2016.

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ALS fundraiser coming up at Michener Hill Curling Club The annual Judy Schweitzer ALS Fundraiser Curl for a Cure will take place on Nov. 7 at the Michener Hill Curling Club.

The funspiel was started by Carrie Mellow in honour of her mother Judy who passed way from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurological disease.

Donations will be accepted at the funspiel and the ALS Curl for a Cure fundraising website www.alsab.ca.

Registration deadline for the event is Nov. 4. For more information about the curling event contact Mellow at 403-877-3860 or ALScurlforacure@hotmail.ca

Man accused of ramming police vehicles out on bail A Blackfalds man accused of ramming two police vehicles and injuring a pair of officers was released on bail on Friday.

Mitchell Thomas Huber, 21, was released on $3,000 no-cash bail with various conditions including an alcohol prohibition.

Sylvan Lake RCMP allege Huber was behind the wheel of a vehicle that they were trying to pull over on Oct. 21. Instead of stopping, it is alleged he rammed one police vehicle and then a second before losing control and slamming into a power pole in a rural area east of town. One officer was treated at the scene and the other did not require medical treatment. Huber is charged with possession of a prohibited weapon, possession of property obtained by crime, operation of a motor vehicle while being pursued, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and two counts each of assault with a weapon and failing to comply with a probation order.

He is due back in Red Deer provincial court on Nov. 13.

Villa Marie unionized staff considering strike action

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Unionized staff at Villa Marie seniors care facility will be considering their options — including strike action — now that mediation with their employer has failed.

Alberta Union of Provincial Employees applied for a mediator in June when negotiations broke down with Covenant Care.

AUPE negotiator Kevin Davediuk said mediation ended on Monday with Covenant offering a very small wage increase that did little to raise Villa Marie workers up to the industry pay standard for seniors’ care which is 25 per cent higher than what the Red Deer workers receive.

“To call it extremely modest would be a huge understatement,” said Davediuk on Friday.

He said AUPE members will meet to discuss their options in about two

weeks.

“It’s highly anticipated they’ll just tell us to conduct a strike vote shortly thereafter. We just haven’t had enough meaningful dialogue or movement from the employer.”

In a written statement, Dennie Hycha, senior director of operations with Covenant Care, said her organization was disappointed it wasn’t able to come to an agreement for Villa Marie and hoped to return to negotiations soon.

“Covenant Care is committed to providing our care staff with a fair, competitive compensation package. The total compensation Covenant Care is providing — inclusive of salary, health and dental benefits, pension, vacation coverage and the increases offered during negotiation — is aligned with the revenue we receive to provide care at the supportive living facility,” Hycha said in an e-mail.

AUPE represents about 80 workers at Villa Marie, mostly health care

aides and LPNs, who joined the union in October 2014 and are still negotiating their first contract.

Villa Marie, a non-profit, Catholic-based facility opened in early 2014 and has 100 supportive living Level 4 care beds, or beds that are one level below long-term care which is the highest care level for seniors.

Davediuk said AUPE will be speaking to Catholic organizations responsible for the governance of Covenant Care.

“This organization reports to the bishops of Alberta. I think they should be very alarmed about an organization that’s under control of the Catholic church that’s operating this way.”

Alberta Health Services directly funds Covenant Care to run seniors care facilities.

He said AUPE is hugely concerned that there is no oversight by government to ensure public dollars go towards direct care and will also raising the issue with the province.

Earlier this year AUPE filed a complaint with Alberta Labour Relations Board about Covenant Care, which AUPE calls a subsidiary of Covenant Health.

Covenant Health argues Covenant Care is not a subsidiary but rather a sister organization that is separate from Covenant Health.

The first hearing on the complaint will be held on Wednesday and will likely take more hearings to resolve.

“If you look at their board of directors, you’ll find the same 12 people on both boards. It’s the same organization. To try to create kind of a shell game and say, ‘we’re different because we have a different word in our title therefore we can pay people differently,’ is not going to work.”

AUPE has been in negotiations for both Villa Marie and Covenant Care’s Holy Cross Manor in Calgary.

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An abundance of arguments GALEN GUENGERICH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE I agree with the headline of Rebecca Traister’s article in New York magazine about the recent Democratic presidential debate: “It’s Time for Democrats to Stop Freaking Out About 2016.” What about Republicans?

The Wall Street Journal reports polling that shows neurosurgeon Ben Carson pulling even with self-styled tycoon Donald Trump. Maybe it’s not quite time for Republicans to stop freaking out.

Regardless of our political persuasions, all of us should be freaked out about the state of our democracy.

The current political strategy of polarizing and demonizing, which dominates Washington these days, damages those who wielded it as much as those targeted by it. Most of what passes for political discourse today sounds more like people standing with their hands over their ears, yelling at each other. It’s a cacophony.

In her recent novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, Rebecca Goldstein takes the five arguments for the existence of God famously proposed by the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas and adds 30 more — plus a final one.

The 36th argument, which she calls “The Argument from the Abundance of Arguments,” states that people believe in God not because of a single compelling argument, but because they want to believe and can cite many plausible reasons to do so.

It’s the experience of believing, rather than the logic of belief, which carries the day.

For my part, I think a similar dynamic has taken hold in our political life. Many people today cling to views — concerning climate change, evolution, sexual identity and orientation, among others — that are either patently false or manifestly misguided.

Despite clear evidence to the contrary, they insist on believing in their views, and they can produce an abundance of arguments in their favor, maybe as many as 36.

As with the existence of God, these arguments are convincing only to the already convinced. Here, too, it’s the experience of believing, rather than the logic of belief, which carries the day.

As a citizen, I find this situation disturbing — and I will do everything I can as a citizen to help science triumph over superstition.

But as a religious leader, I have a different responsibility. It has to do not with the acrimonious arguments that divide us, but rather with the shared humanity that unites us.

The current issue of the New York Review of Books contains a conversation between President Obama and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson.

The conversation takes place in Iowa, Robinson’s home state and the setting for her novels that focus on a pastor named John Ames. Obama tells her that he read Gilead, the first of the Ames novels, while campaigning in Iowa.

Not surprisingly, their conversation centers on the intersection of politics and religion.

Robinson says at one point that “the basis of democracy is the willingness to assume well about other people.” She says, “I think that you can look around society and see that basically people do the right thing. But when people begin to make these conspiracy theories and so on, that make it seem as if what is apparently good is in fact sinister, they never accept an argument for a position that they don’t agree with — you know?”

The president agrees, going on to observe that the “us versus them” voices are sometimes the loudest voices.

He then asks Robinson, “How do you reconcile the idea of faith being really important to you, and you caring a lot about taking faith seriously, with the fact that, at least in our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously sometimes are also those who are most suspicious of those who are not like them?”

On these terms, the spiritual — as opposed to po-

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litical — challenge seems clear. In spiritual terms, we need to view others from the perspective of our shared humanity.

We need to begin, however, not by looking at other people, but at ourselves.

If I look at myself openly and honestly, I see a person who is both gifted and flawed, both selfish and selfless, both faithful and fickle, both mediocre and magnificent.

But so is everyone else, even people who disagree with me, and maybe especially them. They too are both gifted and flawed, both selfish and selfless, both faithful and fickle, both mediocre and magnificent.

This doesn’t mean I need to agree with them or respect their views. But I do need to acknowledge their humanity and, in so far as it’s possible, treat them with dignity.

The only way we can meet this challenge, however, is if we have developed the ability to look honestly at ourselves.

Then we can listen to other people in a different way — listen for the human experience beneath the cacophony of arguments. If we can reach their hearts, we may eventually be able to change their minds.

And even if not, we will know that we have been true to our faith — our faith in ourselves, our faith in other people, and even our faith in our democracy.

Robinson replies that when people close themselves in and arm themselves against an imagined “other,” then they are not taking their faith seriously.

And if you take your faith seriously, she adds, you have to understand that your neighbor is as worthy of love as you are.

Galen Guengerich is Senior Minister of All Souls Unitarian Church, a congregation located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College (BA, 1982), Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1985), and the University of Chicago (PhD, 2004). His doctoral dissertation is titled “Comprehensive Commitments and the Public World: Tillich, Rawls and Whitehead on the Nature of Justice.” Dr. G is author of “God Revised: How Religion Must Evolve in a Scientific Age” (Palgrave Macmillan) and writes a regular column on “The Search for Meaning” for psychologytoday.com.

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Vatican Radio said Thursday that the decree was approved following a request by the current Legion superior, the Rev. Eduardo Robles-Gil. Robles-Gil has been leading the Legion since the Vatican signed off on its process of reform following revelations that Maciel sexually abused seminarians.

Indulgences are the ancient church tradition related to the forgiveness of sins that roughly amounts to a “get out of Purgatory free” card. Catholics seeking them must be contrite and have a moment of deepening faith.

Legion members must also renew their vows, evangelize and perform works of mercy.

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Francis devoted his usual Wednesday general audience to explaining to the Catholic faithful in St. Peter’s Square the importance of the “Nostra Aetate,” or “In Our Time” declaration, which revolutionized the church’s relations in particular with Jews. The statement was one of the most important documents to emerge from the Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that brought the church into the modern world. It said Christ’s death could not be attributed to Jews as a whole, recognized the shared spiritual patrimony between Christians and Jews and decried all forms of anti-Semitism.

Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists were in the VIP seats in the piazza and were treated to a meetand-greet session with the pope after the general audience ended. The World Jewish Congress had a particularly large delegation, given that its leaders decided to hold their annual conference in Rome to coincide with the anniversary.

In his remarks, Francis said the declaration had transformed Catholic-Jewish relations from “indifference and opposition to collaboration and good will. From enemies and strangers we became friends and brothers.”

He lamented that the rise of terrorism had fomented suspicion and condemnation about religion in general. He said that while no religion is immune from fundamentalists, the world must look instead at the “positive values” that religions promote, especially in caring for the neediest.

“We can walk together, taking care of one another and of creation,” he said.

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Enterovirus outbreak more widespread than first thought EV-D68 HAS DISAPPEARED FOR NOW, BUT IT COULD COME BACK AT SOME POINT 2014 OUTBREAK STUDY

B.C. couple hoping for one baby gets one-in-50-million triplets surprise

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SALMON ARM , B.C. — A British Columbia couple who’ve waited years to become parents are expecting three babies at once — identical triplets, which doctors say come along only once in 50 million births.

For Mahalia Meeuwsen and her husband Mike, just having one baby seemed like a miracle.

Meeuwsen, 42, is 30 weeks pregnant with identical triplet girls — conceived naturally without the use of fertility treatments.

“To look on the ultrasound and see the three of them growing, to see their hearts beating, it is simply amazing,” the mom-to-be said.

“And to know how rare this is, it’s staggering.”

Meeuwsen said all the babies appear healthy.

“There are so many complications and so many worries and yet, Looking for every appointment we’ve heard nothing but good news, so my plan is to just try and stay calm and each day they grow a little bit more.”

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Bring your resumé A normal singleton pregnancy is around 40 weeks.

The couple from Salmon Arm married Government in 2005 with hopes of becoming parents. B y 2011, they were still waiting and visited a fertility clinic to try and discover the cause of the infertility.

“They really found Associated Ambulance & Services is looking to hire professional, nothing,” Meeuwsen said. energetic and customer service driven individuals to work in our “It was simply termed new non-medical transport service. unexplained infertility.

We looked at options like The successful candidate(s) will be responsible for providing in-vitro, but we decided non-medical transport of clients between health facilities within not to go that route.” central Alberta, predominately in and around the Red Deer area.

A month later, The operational base for this service will be located in Sylvan Lake Meeuwsen was pregnant, Alberta. but an ultrasound a Successful candidates will be expected to be available for a one month later detected no (1) week training and orientation process scheduled for early heartbeat.

December 2015 “That was devastating to us but, at that point, we QUALIFICATIONS: just decided we were not • Current registration as an Emergency Medical Responder going to be parents and (EMR) with the Alberta College of Paramedics or certiƓcation in were going to love our Advanced First Aid with CPR, Oxygen Therapy and AED furry kids, our English • Valid Class 4 driver’s license or equivalent bulldog, and that would be that.”

• Ability to operate large and small vehicles safely and However, in April, effectively in all situations Meeuwsen was • Ability and willingness to work in a team environment experiencing some • Above average interpersonal and critical thinking skills unusual symptoms she • Ability to meet the physical demands of the job chalked up to early menopause — until a This competition will remain open until all available positions call from her doctor’s have been Ɠlled. office confirmed she was Interested applicants are asked to submit a resume to: pregnant.

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revealed what medical staff thought was twins.

Two weeks later, the shock multiplied.

“I had another ultrasound and the tech goes, `There’s a heartbeat here and here and here.’ And I thought he was joking,” Meeuwsen said.

“But, he showed me — and there they all were. I was dizzy.”

When they brought her husband in for the news, they propped him up between the bed and the wall.

“They figured he’d need something to lean on,” Meeuwsen said with a laugh.

“Just look at that stroller,” she said showing the $1,500 purchase. It’s like a train.”

The expenses will multiply for the couple while their babies remain in a neonatal intensive care unit, perhaps in Kamloops, where the new parents would have to stay in a hotel.

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— DR. DANUTA SKOWRONSKI, INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST AT THE B.C. CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL, Control reported more than 1,150 confirmed cases in 49 states and the District of Columbia from mid-August 2014 to Jan. 15, 2015, most of them among children.

“Additionally, there were likely millions of mild EV-D68 infections for which people did not seek medical treatment and/or get tested,” the CDC says on it website.

Skowronski said ongoing surveillance in both community and hospital settings is needed so researchers can learn more about EVD68’s incidence, who’s most at risk of contracting the disease, and why some people develop neurological symptoms and others don’t.

“We shouldn’t let it go. We shouldn’t forget about it because we’re not experiencing it this year,” she said.

“There may be several years between the last and the next cyclical peak and so we want to be ready to be able to address some of those why-type questions when we get another wave.”

of hospitalization, including care in the ICU and sometimes assisted ventilation.

“It may be that children are at higher risk for severe disease because they lack the kind of pre-existing immunity that adults have acquired from other enterovirus infections that may attenuate adult illness,” she said.

A frightening aspect of last year’s outbreak was that some patients developed neurological symptoms, including a condition called acute flaccid paralysis, which causes muscle weakening.

Of more than 200 EV-D68 cases confirmed in B.C. alone between Aug. 28 and Dec. 31, 2014, five patients developed neurological deficits which had not completely resolved nine to 11 months later, Skowronski said. Three other patients, all with underlying health complications, died after contracting the virus.

While national statistics from the 2014 outbreak aren’t available for Canada, the U.S. Centers for Disease

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TORONTO — What a difference a year makes.

In late summer and fall of 2014, doctors were reporting clusters of children across the U.S. and Canada being hospitalized with severe respiratory distress due to enterovirus D68, a bug that hadn’t caused an outbreak in North America for years.

This year, it appears EV-D68 has disappeared from the mix of cold viruses giving people runny noses and congested lungs — but how long it will stay quiescent is anybody’s guess.

“I think we’re not going to see it this year,” said Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an infectious disease specialist at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, who is involved in the tracking of pathogens like EV-D68.

“We found no enterovirus D68 detections between Aug. 1 and the end of September this year,” she said, referring to testing of patients with respiratory illnesses. Last year at this time, B.C. had already recorded 18 patients with EV-D68, 13 of whom needed to be hospitalized.

“I don’t say it’s been eliminated, but I don’t think it’s going to circulate at the kind of widespread epidemic levels” seen last year, Skowronski predicted.

And widespread it was — even more so than initially thought, suggests a study led by Skowronski and published online Thursday in the journal EuroSurveillance.

While most studies of the 2014

outbreak looked at only cases requiring hospital admission to determine incidence and prevalence rates, the B.C. study included both hospital- and community-based patients to get a more accurate picture of EV-D68’s effect on the population, using surveillance data from B.C., Alberta and Quebec.

Overall, researchers found an eightfold increase in detections of the virus from October to December 2014, compared to the same period a year earlier.

They also found that an equal proportion of children and young adults who saw a community-based doctor for a respiratory illness tested positive for EV-D68, suggesting that a wide range of age groups was susceptible to the virus — not just children.

However, children infected with the virus were admitted to hospital at a rate 15 to 20 times higher than adults, Skowronski said. As well, kids under age 10 had a four- to five-fold higher rate of hospitalization related to EV-D68 than did those age 10 to 19.

“There were also interesting differences based on sex,” she said. “So boys had higher rates of hospitalization than girls, among children, but that wasn’t seen in adults.”

“And that might be tracked to one of the risk factors, which is asthma, and asthma rates are higher in prepubescent boys than in girls.”

During the outbreak, doctors found that patients with asthma who contracted EV-D68 had a higher risk

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Acclaimed folk-rock band headed to Bo’s

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

GOOD FOR GRAPES

When it comes to getting your parents’ blessing for a music career, it helps to keep winning accolades and getting your songs on the radio.

Those are the happy circumstances surrounding Daniel McBurnie and other members of Good for Grapes, the B.C. band that performs on Thursday at Bo’s Bar and Grill in Red Deer.

McBurnie was planning to get a practical business degree after graduating from high school in Surrey.

Instead, he was diverted in a more creative direction by a weekend busking trip he took to Victoria with his Grade 11 theatre friends.

McBurnie recalled drawing a big crowd as he and his pals “free-styled” music on the ferry across the Juan de Fuca Strait.

The reaction was so amazing, that McBurnie — along with fellow musicians Graham Gomez, Alexa Unwin and Robert Hardie — decided to see where starting a band would get them.

It was pretty far, actually.

Their first Good for Grapes EP and live shows became so popular, the group was asked to open for Mother Mother and Paper Lions. This led to performances at Rifflandia and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, and getting featured on YouTube’s Green Couch Sessions.

Good for Grapes also made it through the Vancouver auditions for Canada’s Got Talent, and the band’s catchy Skipping Stones song became the “Check This Out” tune for the local The Peak radio station.

The winning streak culminated in beating dozens of other bands to land the top prize of $102,700 in B.C.’s The Peak Performance Project in 2014.

With so much momentum, the young musicians never had to justify their career choice to their parents or anyone else, said McBurnie, Good for Grapes’ singer and acoustic guitarist. “We’ve been lucky that we’ve had just enough success that other people did the convincing.

“When your songs are put on the radio, it’s perceived that we’re doing pretty well …”

The prize money from the Peak project was used to make a couple of music videos and record the group’s latest album, The Ropes, released a couple of weeks ago.

The new folk-rock tunes, with added country flavour, seem to be going over great with the band’s old followers, and hooking new ones too. “Fans are pretty stoked,” said McBurnie, with the first single, Show Me the Ropes, which is getting played by various radio stations.

The Good for Grapes musicians never had any particular direction in mind when making the re-

cording — “we just did what feels right,” he added.

“We used some pedal steel guitar. We weren’t afraid to take that leap. And we were trying some new weird sounds on the electric guitar …”

As the group’s main songwriter, McBurnie had the freedom of going with whatever ideas occurred to him. On this album, the lyrics are relationship-related, with several songs focusing on the choices people make between partnerships and other obligations — “like spending time on the road.”

McBurnie admitted he had a lot to say on that topic. “I’m single right now, so that probably explains a lot!”

He grew up in a family that listened to a lot of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Simon and Garfunkel. Although McBurnie was sidetracked as a teenager into metal and hard rock, “I slowly found my way back to folk music … I liked how human it seems … how authentic its lyrical contents is.”

Although no one else in his family performs professionally, his uncle, in particular, was hugely supportive about his guitar playing. “He bought me my first guitar, and my second — and third!”

McBurnie said he’s really looking forward to appearing again at Bo’s in Red Deer, calling it “one of the funnest places in Canada to play … They’re really pro-artist and really nice to you.”

Tickets for the show are $10 from the venue or www.ticketfly.com. Doors open at 8 p.m. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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This image released by Warner Bros Pictures shows Joaquim de Almeida, left, and Reynaldo Pacheco in a scene from Our Brand is Crisis.

Film can’t decide if it’s comedy or drama LIKE THE RUTHLESS POLITICAL STRATEGISTS THE FILM BOTH SATIRIZES AND CELEBRATES, OUR BRAND IS CRISIS WANTS TO HAVE IT BOTH WAYS Our Brand is Crisis Two stars (out of four) Rated: 14A Like the ruthless political strategists the film both satirizes and celebrates, Our Brand Is Crisis speaks out of both sides of its mouth.

David Gordon Green’s bumpy enterprise, co-produced by its star Sandra Bullock (with her Gravity pal George Clooney), wants us to laugh PETER at the lengths to which spin HOWELL doctors and other campaigning weasels will go to get their MOVIES candidates elected.

It also wants us to feel some sympathy for these ballot-box Beelzebubs and to perhaps hope for their redemption, whatever that might involve.

This approach rarely works in the real world, and it doesn’t here, especially with Green setting his story — scripted by Peter Straughan (TV’s Wolf Hall) and loosely adapted from a same-name 2005 doc — in Bolivia, of all places.

As the story goes, despised former Bolivian president Pedro Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida) is seeking to regain office, in the face of withering opinion polls and a likeable opponent who sees victory at hand.

Enter Sandra Bullock’s “Calamity” Jane Bodine, a one-time political rainmaker whose life is now as disconnected as the remote mountain cabin where she’s been holed up, drying out and regretting some bad choices.

Faster than you can say “Ay, caramba!” she’s in La Paz, with the patented Bullock shtick in full effect, as she shocks her conservative campaign coworkers — thanklessly played by Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd, Zoe Kazan and Scott McNairy — with her cynical antics.

She at first doesn’t really care if Castillo wins, and

neither do we.

Her initial few days are spent dragging an oxygen tank around as she adjusts to the high altitude. Jane finally rises to the challenge when her snakelike old rival Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton) shows up to shill for the other side, restoring Jane’s will to fight — and also to fight dirty.

Had Green really gone in for the laughs, as he did with his drug caper Pineapple Express, the absurdity of two unscrupulous Americans fighting tooth and nail to elect a shady Bolivian might have hit the bull’s eye.

But he doesn’t, instead approaching the bull’s hindquarters with an unearned redemption saga that’s as phony as a stuffed ballot box.

That’s politics for you, but it doesn’t make for a great movie.

Peter Howell is a syndicated movie critic for the Toronto Star

Bocelli celebrates his favourite film songs on new album Cinema THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Andrea Bocelli’s new album Cinema, a collection of songs from movies, is the culmination of a longtime dream.

The classically inspired singer fell in love with many songs as a child that he didn’t know came from the movies.

Now he has gone back to his childhood memories and recorded some of those songs, including classics like Moon River and Cheek to Cheek.”Pop star Arianna Grande also appears on the song E piu ti penso.

Bocelli, , fresh off a performance for Pope Francis in Philadelphia and ahead of a U.S. tour in December, sat down with The Associated Press to discuss the album and more this week.

AP: Why an album of movie songs?

Bocelli: The music of the movies is a very inspired and free and beautiful music.

It’s a music of freedom — like a big field where the composers can gather and run wherever they

want. And, finally, it is inspired by emotion.

AP: You’ve had a real crossover career — alternating between classical and pop music. Is there a big difference in how you approach the different forms of singing?

Bocelli: There is a difference from the point of view of expression. Because when you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close — the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.

AP: What’s your favourite movie song?

Bocelli: There are many masterpieces. I love very much for example “Moon River” (from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”) But I can’t choose, it wouldn’t be fair.

AP: You recently sang for Pope Francis in Philadelphia. What was that experience like?

Bocelli: The pope is a very special man. (Even) apart from religion, he’s a wonderful soul.

AP: Did your children inherit a love of music from you? Can it be inherited?

Bocelli: Virginia, the last (youngest) one, sings every day. All day.

The other two study piano. I think you do (inherit it), but also there’s the possibility of educating people to listen to music. Because if you don’t have the possibility of listening to music, you can’t know if you love it.

AP: If you hadn’t become a singer, what career would you have chosen?

Bocelli: I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country (Italy).

Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.

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Akon opts for app-based albums

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; On the cusp of his first album release since 2008, Akon wants to steer his considerable fan base away from services like YouTube to a new â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Akon-branded â&#x20AC;&#x201D; app where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give away music for free, supported by ads.

That might strike you as a head-scratcher, given Akonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s millions of album sales. But with digital downloads falling and streaming on the rise, it makes sense to the hip-hop star.

Akon spoke exclusively with The Associated Press about his plans. This interview was edited for brevity.

Q: Back in 2010, you said Stadium would come out that year.

A: Unfortunately there was a lot of changes happening within the Universal (Music) building. They were restructuring. And my project unfortunately got caught up in the midst of it.

In the meantime, I was building the

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Classic country to be performed at Louisiana Hayride tribute Take a trip down memory lane with the timeless music of Hank Williams, Roy Orbison and Patsy Cline, performed at the Louisiana Hayride tribute show in Red Deer.

The live country music extravaganza also includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;indelibleâ&#x20AC;? tunes popularized by Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn and Burl Ives, delivered by singing musicians costumed as some of the characters.

Little bits of trivia about these artists will also be interspersed in the live stage show presented Saturday, Nov. 7 at Red Deerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Memorial Centre.

This successful production has been selling out across Canada for more than 170 shows over the last five years.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a music history lesson from a bygone eraâ&#x20AC;? that resonates with a generation that experienced the rise of country music.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $42.50 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

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ably release off the platform, which will create more marketing to lead you back to the app itself.

Q: So the pop version will be downloads?

A: The pop version will be released through a record company (Atlantic).

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way of tying the app in with the majors.

Q: How did the label feel about the idea?

A: From the moment I explained it, they were all in. There were like, well at least just give us one so we can be attached to this thing somehow.

They understand the power of digital.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re like, the fans are the ones who create this success in the first place, so if you have the fan base, then guess what, you have the buyers. As long as you have buyers, you can sell them anything, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be music.

It can be headphones. Just ask (Beats co-founder) Jimmy Iovine.

Q: What about Apple Music? Does the pop album go there as well?

A: Yeah, the pop album will go to all

the traditional sources. The way I look at it is, as long as we can capitalize on all those resources, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be the way to market and promote four albums.

One hand washes the other and both hands wash the face.

Q: How do you feel about how artists are compensated through streaming platforms?

A: No artist is happy with how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting paid from the streaming platforms. Outside of subscription models, there are other models. Look at Facebook.

How do they make billions? When you look at this app, my fans are doing exactly what people are doing on Facebook. The only difference is theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be on my app a lot longer.

Q: Other artists like Karmin are on this platform.

Ads churn through and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to do anything.

A: The crazier part of it is it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t interrupt anything. You can actually choose if you even want to see the ads.

Guest, Something There and the title track.

The musical runs Nov. 6, 7 and 13, 14 at 20 Kelloway Crescent. Evening performances are at 7 p.m. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a 3 p.m. matinee on Nov. 7 and 14.

Tickets are $14 at the door or from $10 to $12 in advance from www.CornerStoneYouthTheatre.org or by calling 403-986-2981. (Advance tickets are all $10 on Sat. Nov. 7, for the 3 p.m. show).

ed by the Red Deer Arts Council.

Madeley, of Edmonton, stated her exhibit was â&#x20AC;&#x153;inspired by people, architectural details, and animals that are part of my surroundings.â&#x20AC;? The First Friday reception is from 6 to 8 p.m.

Scapes, Stills and Martha is the mixed-media exhibit at the white gallery, next to Sunworks. Artists David More, Doug Williamson and Vivian Bennett are displaying their works in this show that goes from Nov. 6 to Dec. 31. A reception will not be held this First Friday, but a month later on Oct. 2, from 6 to 9 p.m.

As well more art can be seen at the Corridor Community Gallery downstairs at the Red Deer Recreation Centre. Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wild Horses, a photography exhibit by Cara Brown continues there until Nov. 27. And Jeri Lynn Ingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s display of oil and acrylic paintings, Flower Talk â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Full Bloom, are still up at the Coconut Room, upstairs at Sunworks/

cital will go from 12:15 to 1 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium, downstairs at the downtown library.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no admission charge, but donations will be accepted at the door.

Tea and coffee will be provided by Cafe Noir.

First Friday openings to benefit charities Art for a good cause will be displayed and sold at Novemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Friday gallery openings in Red Deer.

The Magdalene House Exhibit at The Hub on Ross consists of donated art pieces (as well as fair trade items, and fresh fruit pies and refreshments) to benefit MagdaleneHouse, a recovery home for victims of human trafficking.

The exhibit runs to Nov. 30. Its reception and sale will be on Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.

This will be followed by a ticketed 7 p.m. fundraising concert at The Hub for Magdalene House, featuring musicians Dave Grobe (who has played in St. James Gate and the Boom Chucka Boys), Dan Zepick, Johanna Hannaford, A.J. Cerenzie and Ben Rogers.

Admission is $20, cash at the door.

Prints and drawings that examine the thinking process as well as the integration between organic and manufactured environments are displayed at the Kiwanis Gallery in downtown public library. The etchings and screen prints are part of Second Thoughts: Works by Joanne Madeley, which is on until Nov. 22 and is curat-

Kathleen Van Mourik to entertain at the Snell Pianist Kathleen Van Mourik will entertain at a noon-hour concert Thursday at the Red Deer Public Library.

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Scottish sensation Johnny McCuaig will perform some new tracks from his latest album Hold Fast tonight at the Red Deer club.

Along with his four-piece band, McCuaig makes music thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;fresh, heavy, experimental and popularâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all while playing the bagpipes and wearing a kilt. He mashes up the blues with â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s groove, and meshes chugging rock guitar with some stirring Highland drone.

The musician has shared stages with Bif Naked, Wide Mouth Mason and Econoline Crush and is looking forward to creating a â&#x20AC;&#x153;memorable experienceâ&#x20AC;? for a Red Deer audience.

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All the music, magic and mystery of Beauty and the Beast will be enacted this month by Cornerstone Youth Theatre.

The cast of 62 talented young actors will bring to life the classic romantic tale of good-hearted Belle and the enchanted Beast, who must make her love him, despite his ferocious appearance, or his household staff will be doomed spend eternity as talking clocks, teapots, candlesticks and other sundry items.

Can Belle see beyond the Beastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fur and fangs?

Families are invited to come see the musical that opens on Friday, Nov. 6 at New Life Fellowship Church in Red Deer, to find out. Audience members will enjoy such favourite songs as Be Our

Konvict Africa brand, releasing artists such as P-Square and Wizkid. As that was happening I also got involved in energy, and started the Akon Lighting Africa project. I started realizing how much the music played a role and offered me the opportunity to branch off outside of music to become successful in other areas. So it was about that time that I wanted to focus on the album. I recorded so many songs. The biggest challenge was: How am I going to release this?

Q: So, you decided to release them via an app. How did that idea get started?

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Grandparents getting taken advantage of with babysitting Dear Annie: My husband’s parents months, Dan and Jane strolled in well are wonderful people in their late 70s, after 1:00 a.m. and my in-laws had to but I am concerned that their kind- drive themselves home in the wee ness is being abused by hours. my brother-in-law, “Dan,” Saturday, Dan dropped the and his wife, “Jane.” kids off at Grandma’s while My in-laws have always he went golfing with a neighbeen involved in their bor. Yet he complains that grandchildren’s lives, but they don’t have enough money lately it has become taxto hire a sitter. ing for them both physiI have taken Dan’s kids cally and mentally. Dan when my schedule allows, but and Jane call on them I think it is irresponsible for for baby-sitting day and them to expect his parents to night. Often they drop the be their children’s caregivers. three kids off the evening I have been biting my tongue, before. My in-laws always but it is obvious to everyone MITCHELL oblige, even though the that they are taking advan& SUGAR youngest is not even a tage of his parents. Should year old.

I speak up? I don’t want to ANNIE Last spring, Dan lost cause a family feud. — Fumhis job. He now is home ing Over Freeloaders all day, but the kids are Dear Fuming: Your husstill with Grandma and Grandpa a band should talk to his brother, exlot of the time. Twice in the last two plaining that it’s becoming difficult

for Mom and Dad to take care of such young children, and urge him not to count on them so often. You are a caring daughter-in-law, but to a great extent, this is up to your in-laws. Until they decide they’ve had enough, there’s not much you can do.

Dear Annie: My brother “Tim” passed away from cancer two months ago. He had never married.

Within hours, my younger brother and his wife actually went through Tim’s house and took what they wanted. My own mother kept all the money from his sympathy cards instead of using it to help pay for a headstone.

Even before the funeral, several family members took over Tim’s house and property and went through his personal things. Whatever they didn’t want, they handed to whoever was around.

I live several states away, and right now, I don’t ever want to speak to these relatives again. Your thoughts, please.

— It’s Hard Enough To Lose a Loved

One Dear Hard Enough: Some people behave in appalling ways when a loved one dies. What seems like greed could also have been a way for family members to keep something of Tim’s to remember him by, although your mother’s behavior is hard to excuse. Please try to find a way to forgive them.

Dear Readers: Happy Halloween.

Please dress your trick-or-treaters in flame-retardant costumes that don’t obstruct walking or vision, and be sure an adult accompanies them. And when you tuck them into bed, don’t forget to change your clocks back one hour and replace the batteries in your smoke alarms.

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Vanilla Ice, 47; Peter Jackson, 53; Willow VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With Venus Smith, 14 visiting your sign, it’s time for Virgos to shine!

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: If you can morph from worried to The stars favour conversing, wonderful, and frustrated to fabucaring and creating. lous, then youíll have a productive HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You and pleasant day. have great powers of obserLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The vation. 2016 is the year to be focus shifts to outdoor adventures. less stressed and, if you want Attached Librans — love is in the to get ahead, don’t dismiss the air, asyou do something special for help of loved ones. your partner. Singles — you could ARIES (March 21-April fall for someone with a mysterious 19): If you balance being perpast. sonally creative with reaching SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): out and helping others, then Creativity and compassion are you’ll have a stimulating and highlighted today, as delicious dayJOANNE MADELINE satisfying day. Make sure dreams whisk you away into fantaMOORE there’s time for rest, relaxation sy land. When it comes to an issue SUN SIGNS and rejuvenation. with a child or friend, follow your TAURUS (April 20-May Scorpio intuition.

20): You’re keen to catch up SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. with close friends today, as you tune into how 21): Clever Sagittarius — you’ll come up with others are feeling. Group activities are also a creative solution to a pressing problem but favoured, as you connect and celebrate with keep your powder dry, and donít tell others like-minded creative souls. until you are ready and able to put your plan GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you have to into action. work today, then strive to do so in the most CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a creative and compassionate way possible, as wonderful day to post a creative piece online; you reach out to a friend or colleague who’s communicate with others in a compassionate in need of some extra TLC. way; or lend a helping hand to a local comCANCER (June 21-July 22): Your cre- munity project. You have much to offer. ativity and compassion are sparked, as you AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Others will connect with your inner muse or help a friend. notice your efforts today Aquarius, so make Some Crabs will experience deja-vu, as you sure you’re putting on a good show. Ongoing meet someone special or go somewhere money problems? Use your imagination to “new.” find creative ways to boost your cash flow.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll feel very PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Some crepositive today Lions, as the stars stimulate ative visualization and brainstorming, you can your confidence and boost your abundant get your goals and dreams up and running

again.

out the window as old habits and prejudices confuse your thinking. A relationship with a child, teenager or friend becomes intense and complicated. Resist the urge to criticize.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Expect some conflict between your professional and personal responsibilities today. Perhaps your partner feels neglected, or you’ve been so busy working that your private life is suffering?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Take the time to communicate clearly and concisely.

If you don’t, expect emotional conflict and intense encounters with others. Laying guilt trips on loved ones will get you nowhere fast.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Be extra patient with others today as emotions will be high — and rational thinking low. And don’t try to second-guess the behaviour of loved ones. They’ll continue to perplex you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a juggle to get the balance right between all your competing responsibilities. Keep calm and don’t lose your Capricorn cool! You’re focused — but are you focusing on the right things?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Avoid making major decisions about money matters today Aquarius, as you’re not seeing the current financial situation clearly. Instead, listen closely to what a family member has to say.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Close relationships will be confusing today, as Pluto scrambles your emotions and intensifies communication. Just remember not to take things at face value — all is not as it seems.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Sunday, Nov. 1 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Anthony Kiedis, 52; Lyle Lovett, 57; Toni Collette, 42 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Expect an emotionally intense day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: It’s hard for others to ignore your energetic and self-confident spirit!

The next 12 months is the time to bring more order into your restless world.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Even though it’s Sunday, the pressureís mounting as you tackle challenging tasks and overdue chores.

You’re in a hurry but wait for others to catch up. Not everyone is in a rush like you!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Moon’s in Cancer and you have much to learn from this sensitive, emotional sign. Like not being afraid to get in touch with your feelings, or of showing the world your caring side.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It will be hard to think objectively so put off making important decisions for another day. Conversations about sex or money could quickly descend into intense arguments so choose your words wisely.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There’s no gilding the lily — today will be tricky, as powerful Pluto bombards you with relationship challenges and emotional intensity. Nothing that a canny Crab can’t handle though.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lions are impatient creatures ñ you want everything done your way, now! Today’s stars will teach you patience, as routine tasks proceed with complications, confusion and dramas.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Logic goes

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SATURDAY, OCT. 31, 2015

Consider the creative possibilities of painting your floors

BY MELISSA RAYWORTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Worn and faded hardwood floors can drag down the look of a room. But having scuffed floors sanded down and re-stained can be expensive, messy and can upset your home life for a good period of time.

One alternative that’s gaining popularity: painting older hardwood floors. You can add solid colour, stripes, or any imaginable stenciled or hand-drawn patterns to a floor.

There’s actually a long tradition of painted wooden floors in today’s homes, says Tom Silva, general contractor on the long-running PBS television series This Old House. One hundred years ago, paint was considered a practical way to protect floors and add some beauty in the process.

In a survey done this month of more than 1,200 users on the home-improvement website Houzz.com, 15 per cent said they’re ready to make the leap to painting while 85 per cent were still more comfortable with stained wood floors.

But Houzz editor Sheila Schmitz says some of the site’s members who have embraced painted floors have done so with real creativity.

“We’ve seen homeowners reinvent their floors with glossy white paint, oversize stripes, checkerboards with alternating natural and painted finishes, and even more fanciful shapes,” Schmitz says.

It’s a DIY project that requires effort but little experience.

So how do you do it, and what are some of the boldest, most interesting approaches you can take?

PREP SMART Fans of painted floors point out that the process is less labour-intensive than staining because you don’t have to sand away every old scratch or stain. But that doesn’t mean you can skip the step of prepping your floors.

Clean the floor well, says Silva, then scuff it with sandpaper just enough to create a slightly rough surface. That prep work is the key to making sure the first layer of paint or primer will adhere. Primer isn’t required if the floor already has some finish on it. But putting down a few thin, clear coats of primer can make it easier if you decide years from now to remove the paint.

If you do prime the floor, use sandpaper to lightly scuff that clear coat after it dries to help subsequent painted coats adhere well.

BOLD FLOOR, NEUTRAL WALLS Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this photo provided by Houzz.com, a white and gray checkerboard pattern painted on this hardwood floor brings the elegance of a tile floor to this otherwise casual, unpretentious hallway. Although many homeowners still opt to stain their hardwood floors, painting has become increasingly popular as an inexpensive, easy way to give worn floors a fresh dose of style.

Interior designer Camila Pavone was ahead of the trend in painting her kitchen floor in 2010. The room previously had green walls and a stained wood floor.

Pavone switched the walls to a creamy white (she used Martha Stewart’s Glass of Milk) and covered the wood floor with jade green paint. She considered using marine paint but chose a formula called Break-Through!, which dries quickly and creates a harder surface than many other types of paint.

Five years later, Pavone is still thrilled with the result. The floors “always get a ‘Wow’ when new people come to my house,” she says.

“The only thing I didn’t take into account was the wear and tear of two dogs and now two kids. The claws on the dogs do scratch the floors up a bit. But I try to pretend that if I saw that in a store display in Anthropologie, I would think it was fabulous. So I don’t stress.”

Because the kitchen is a high-traffic area, Pavone has repainted the floors once every two years to keep them looking shiny and scratch-free. But that work is relatively easy.

“It’s a really fast project and normally only takes around two hours,” she says. “I would totally do it again!”

PICK ANY PATTERN Paint can also be perfect for entryways.

Thick stripes, diamond or chevron patterns can make a small foyer seem bigger, drawing attention to an otherwise ignored space.

Once the floor is cleaned and prepared, simply lay out your design with painters’ tape. Be careful to measure the width of stripes or the angles of diamonds or chevrons to make sure you’ve laid the tape in the proper places.

Consider using large stencils to add a pattern to the floor of a larger space, like an enclosed porch. Or paint a brightly colored “rug” in the centre of a room by first painting a solid rectangle, then adding a pattern once that solid coat is completely dry.

Another option: Coat the floor with a semi-transparent stain or paint that allows the grain of the wood to show through. Once it’s dry, use painters’ tape to create a border around the room that you’ll fill with a contrasting or complementary colour or pattern.

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Rich red paint on the hardwood floor brings warmth and color to this stylish, gender-neutral nursery.

Painting hardwood floors can be an inexpensive and easy solution, especially in rooms where the floors has become worn and scuffed after many years of use.

Once you’ve finished your painted masterpiece, add one or several clear coats on top for protection.

Patience between layers is the key: You may be tempted to paint again as soon as one thin coat feels dry to the touch, but you’ll get a much stronger and more attractive result if you leave extra time.

Silva points out that oil-based topcoats “may add a little bit of a goldish colour to it, because of the oil.

Water-based will give you the true colour of the paint.”

And, obvious as it may sound, remember: “Know where to start and where to end,” says Schmitz, “so you don’t literally paint yourself into a corner.”

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Finishing grimy interior stairs Q: How should I prepare dirty, interior wood stairs for finishing? I’m remodeling my parents’ home and part of the work involves finishing a staircase that was left bare and unprotected after it was built 10 years ago.

A: Dirty wood looks ugly, but you’ll be encouraged by how beautifully it cleans up.

The only option for removing ground-in dirt like you’ve got is sanding, but you must start by vacuuming.

Remove all the loose dirt, then wash the stairs with hot water and a little dish soap added.

STEVE Let the stairs dry for a couple of days without using MAXWELL them, then sand.

HOUSEWORKS Open areas could be done with a 5” random orbit sander using a 180-grit disk.

For corners and hard-to-reach places you’ll need a power tool called a detail sander. It has a small, triangular sanding pad that allows you to get into nooks and crannies.

As for what to finish the stairs with, urethane over stain looks nice at first, but it’ll get scratched and worn out. And the problem is, you can’t repair a urethane-and-stain finish easily either, unless the scratches are very small.

This is why a better option for stairs is urethane only.

Coloured finishing oil also works well if you want to add colour plus protection. Although oil doesn’t shine like urethane, its beautiful and repairable.

When the finish looks tired, just add another coat and things are as good as new.

be smaller than you’ve heard.

Another thing to consider is intended use of your place. If its a seasonal dwelling or sleeping bunky, municipal rules for floor area might not apply. Another option is to apply for a variance. This is a special exception from a bylaw for a special case.

Ultimately, each township decides on things like minimum dwelling sizes, and you might find the

folks in charge quite flexible.

Verandah area or deck space might also be considered part of the floor area of the house for planning purposes, too.

Steve Maxwell is Canadaís longest running home improvement columnist. Ask questions, win great tools, and read more from Steve at SteveMaxwell.ca

Q: Did you ever have trouble with zoning bylaws when you built the tiny house you’ve written about?

I want to follow your plans, but the 550 square foot floor size is smaller than the 800 square foot minimum I hear about where I live. What should I do?

A: The tiny home movement is gathering momentum across North America, and some governments are revising minimum dwelling sizes downwards accordingly.

You should start by finding out exactly what the current minimum size really is in your area. It might

How to get past the worries and roadblocks and start composting

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Compost is the stuff of great gardens, the stuff that fuels dinner-plate-size heads of broccoli and traffic-stopping dahlias. Compost is also good for trees, shrubs and lawns, making plants happier by keeping the soil around their roots moister and more nutritionally balanced. The odd thing is that compost is also something that gardeners sometimes skimp on.

Most of us have more than enough materials to create all the compost our hearts and plants could desire. After all, compost is essentially what’s left when organic materials — anything that is or was living — decomposes. Look around and see how many organic materials just get thrown away.

THE CONVENIENCE OF COMPOSTING A few roadblocks — besides that old bugbear, habit — keep people from composting.

One is the perception that composting is less convenient or more work than bagging up trash.

Not really, if you keep a small container by the kitchen sink and dump its contents once daily on your compost pile if you rake leaves into an out-ofthe-way pile or beneath trees and shrubs and if you just dump anything else compostable as it becomes available on your compost pile. Any of this is less trouble than lining garbage pails with plastic bags, stuffing in garbage, then tying the bags up and hauling them to where they can cause pollution or gobble up land at a landfill. Some people fear that a compost pile will attract animals or smell bad. Putting out fresh foods will attract animals, but that can be averted by composting with an animal-proof bin. Or get composting started indoors in a larger bucket by sprinkling a mix of sawdust and soil over each meal’s kitchen trimmings and plate scrapings. The contents will be odour and fly-free, and after a few weeks unattractive to scavengers then dump it in your compost bin.

COMPOST BASICS Without becoming a compost maven, you can make odour-free compost in a reasonable amount of time by doing only three things.

First, make compost in some sort of enclosure. It doesn’t need to be fancy, but it should hold a minimum of 1 cubic yard of material. Make your own or buy one — even better, two — locally or by mail order. Second, balance nitrogen-rich ingredients with carbon-rich ingredients. Nitrogen-rich materials include kitchen waste, grass clippings, and other green, younger plant parts, as well as manures and nitrogen fertilizers, such as soybean or alfalfa meal.

Carbon-rich things include wood chips, straw, paper and other older, usually dry plant materials. A bucket of soybean meal (high in nitrogen) and a pile of wood chips or straw (high in carbon) next to a compost pile keeps these materials handy, ready to balance out seasonal excesses of either. Third, be patient. You can get finished compost in a couple of months or less, but what’s the rush? Millions of years of evolution are supporting you when you make compost no matter what you do, the raw materials will eventually rot into compost.

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Q: Why do my chopsaw cuts bind? I’m building the workbench you offered free plans for a while back, and some of the cuts seem to pinch the blade of the saw, causing friction and burning. What should I do?

A: I hope my bench plans works out for you. Lots of people have built it.

One of the most common reasons chopsaw cuts bind is if the piece of wood is warped and not fully supported on both sides of the fence at the back of the table underneath.

As the blade nears completion of the cut, the wood starts to bend along the cut line, narrowing the width of the groove made by the saw and binding on the blade.

Many pieces of wood are bent in some way, but the trick is to orient them so the cut opens up more as the cut nears completion, rather than closing down and pinching the blade. Your problem is nothing unusual.

Learning to deal with challenges like these is what mastering the chopsaw is all about.

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ADVANTAGE............. 304-8939 .... $334,900....... Oriole Park 13 Mitchell Avenue .........12:00 ......... 12:00 2:00 p.m......Margaret ..... Margaret Comeau ...... RE/MAX................................................. 391-3399 .... $324,900....... Morrisroe 57 Kentwood Drive .........1:00 ......... 1:00 -3:00 p.m. ......Len ...... Len Parsons .................. RE/MAX................................................. 343-3020 ........... .................. Kentwood 106 Viscount Drive ..........1:00 .......... 1:00 -3:00 p.m. ......Mitzi ...... Mitzi Billard................... RE/MAX................................................. 396-4005 .... $439,900....... Vanier East 3634-41 Avenue ...............1:00 ............... 1:00 -3:00 p.m. ......Allan ...... Allan Melbourne......... RE/MAX................................................. 343-3020 ........... .................. Eastview 106 Voisin Close ...............2:00 ............... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. .....Paul ..... Paul Jones ..................... RE/MAX................................................. 343-3020 ........... .................. Vanier East 65 Asmundsen Avenue ..1:00 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. .....Mike ..... Mike Snell...................... RE/MAX................................................. 352-9280 ........... .................. Anders Park 7 Veer Place........................2:00 ........................ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Rick Rick Burega................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 350-6023 .............................. Vanier East 13 Rupert Crescent .........2:00 ......... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Gerald Gerald Dore .................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 872-4505 .... $304,900....... Rosedale Estates 35 Kemp Avenue .............2:00 ............. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Christina Christina Siemak ......... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 896-3605 ... $324,900....... Kentwood 24 Kershaw Close.............2:00 ............. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Keri Keri Jensen Jensen.................... .................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 304-2707 ... $479,900....... Kingsgate 332 Timothy Drive ...........2:00 ........... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Alex Alex Wilkinson ............. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 346-8900 ............................. Timberlands 36 Irving Crescent ...........2:00 ........... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Jamie Jamie Berg .................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 346-8900 ... $489,900....... Inglewood 6 Thompson Crescent .... ....12:00 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. ..Aaron .. Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016............................... Timberstone 22 Tindale Place ...............12:00 ............... 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. ..Samantha .. Samantha ...................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6261............................... The Timbers 105 Lazaro Close ..............1:00 .............. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. p.m. .....Aisha ..... Aisha Geary-Arnault .. MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550 .............................. Laredo 17 Lazaro Close ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Kyle ..... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Laredo

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ADVANTAGE............. 506-7552 .... $310,000....... Springbrook 161 Westridge Estates.... ....2:00 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. .....Carol ..... Carol Clark..................... COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK .. 350-4919 .............................. Westridge Estates 54 Henderson Crescent ..2:00 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. .....Nicole ..... Nicole Dushanek ........ ROYAL CARPET REALTY................... 342-7700 ........... .................. Penhold 4617 Westbrooke Road ..2:00 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Sena Sena Walker .................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 358-0077 ... $318,900....... Blackfalds 119 Morris Court ..............2:00 .............. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Jeff Jeff Glover ..................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 350-9700 ... $482,900....... Blackfalds 14 Mitchell Crescent .......2:00 ....... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Kevin Kevin Glover ................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 350-9700 ... $448,900....... Blackfalds 91 Mitchell Crescent .......2:00 ....... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Lori Lori Loney ..................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 350-9700 ... $333,900....... Blackfalds 189 Sabre Road ................2:00 ................ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m...... p.m......Jan Jan Carr .......................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 396-1200 ... $469,900....... Springbrook 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Jocelyn ..... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612............................... Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd..1:00 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Lyle ..... Lyle Kellington ............ MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2231............................... Sylvan Lake #102 639 Oak Street .......1:00 ....... 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Jessica ..... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Springbrook

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The bronze effect Dear Debbie: I am quite taken by the metallic look and would like to paint my walls with golden-brown metallic paint, but would it be too much? — Frank Dear Frank: When applied with care, metallic paint will produce a stunning result. It is robust and dramatic, but does not have to be overwhelming.

There are a few tips to help you make the most of your decorating. In the vignette shown DEBBIE here I enviTRAVIS sioned a restful space that perHOUSE TO HOME sonified a rich and adventurous lifestyle. I painted the walls metallic bronze.

When left alone it appeared garish, but by ragging dark brown glaze over the top, the effect is softened as bronze peaks through and catches the light.

To reproduce the look, apply a base coat of metallic bronze. Mix a glaze, one part brown paint to 4 parts glazing liquid. Roll it over the base coat and immediately pounce over the glaze with a stippling brush. Periodically remove the wet glaze from the brush.

Play around with this technique until you have light and dark areas that show the bronze peeking through.

Walls this grand should be matched by trim and doors that carry the same weight as well as substantial furnishings to keep the room in balance. A simple, dark brown fireplace surround was given the royal treatment with small inlays of faux tortoiseshell.

The brown and black tones come alive with several coats of high-gloss varnish. Cork floors are warm, comfortable and durable. They can be stained any colour so that you can customize a

design, or come already sealed. Enjoy decorating in your own personal style Dear Debbie; I enjoy reading your column and the many helpful hints.

A friend wants to paint her kitchen and family room a dark brown with white trim around windows and sliding door.

What would you think about this?

Its an open kitchen, light painted cupboards, light coloured floor tiles. Family room has brown carpet. † Inez Dear Inez; Personal tastes differ, and I shy away from imposing rules or trends on anyone. But if asked, I would say that chocolate brown is a bit dated now. However, a mouse grey brown is very chic and looks wonderful with white accents.

This choice will complement the kitchen cabinets and floor and transform the entire open concept space.

Dear Debbie; Can you recommend a paint colour for a small bedroom that faces north so gets no sun light.† When our son was young he wanted the walls white but the white paint we used doesn’t really look white in this room.

We are happy to have the walls white again but are open to new suggestions. Thanks —Eileen Dear Eileen; As you have experienced, the presence and direction of the sun’s rays have a big effect on how we perceive colour.

There are warm and cool shades of white, and here you want a warm shade of cream or antique white.

Use a bit of sheen in the paint, eggshell or a step down from semi-gloss.

This will create some depth. Or, why not brighten up his room with a pale but sunny butter yellow?

A dark, rich palette and stunning fireplace transform a plain room into an adventurous den.

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 Debbieís new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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MOFFAT Elsie 1919 - 2015 Elsie was born May 18, 1919 in Milnerton, AB to William and Amelia Calvert and passed away on October 22, 2015 at Sunset Manor at the age of 96 years. She was active in the community until her health prevented her from doing so. She took her LPN training in 1961 and worked at the Innisfail Hospital for 15 years retiring in 1976. She was a member of the Knee Hill Valley Club 51 and was a life member of the Hospital Auxiliary. She enjoyed travelling, bowling, knitting and was involved in the Drop in Centre and the Historical Village. She is survived by her children Donna (Wallace) Seifried and Floyd (Edna) Wacker; grandchildren Shawn (Wanda) Seifried, Sheldon (Chrystal) Seifried, Billie Wacker and Sandy Wacker (Michael Milne); great grandchildren Gabe Seifried, Poppy Seifried, Cameron Seifried, Zach Bodman and Dylan Milne; sister in law Dorothy Calvert as well as the entire Ken Moffat family and her nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, brothers Joe, Lewis, Gordon and Delbert Calvert, sister Ellen White, brother in law Bud White, sisters in law Marion Calvert and Lil Calvert, great grandson Jackson and her spouses Ken Moffat, Charles Smith and Christopher Wacker. A memorial service will be held at the Innisfail United Church on Monday, November 2, 2015 at 11:30am. Memorial donations may be made to the Charity of One’s Choice.

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DIETZ Raphael “Ralph” Ralph passed away Monday, October 26, 2015 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 89 years. Ralph was born on May 12, 1926 at Kindersley, Saskatchewan to Anton and Theresa Dietz. He grew up on the family farm and has always loved the country life! Ralph came to Alberta in 1958 and worked at various jobs in the oil patch and at the Kabob gas plant at Fox Creek before settling in Red Deer where he was employed at St. Thomas Aquinas school as a maintenance man (Mr. Fixit) until his retirement. Ralph always had many fond memories of the pupils, teachers and staff. He enjoyed having coffee at McDonald’s with his coffee buddies, traveling, curling, fishing and having a good game of cribbage. He always thought of others and handled life’s difficulties with determination. Ralph will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his wife of 53 years, Mary; cherished grandchildren, Shawn (Chris) and Dennis (Sierrena); great grandchildren, Joshua, Rorke, TJ and Colton; sisters-in-law, Margaret, Katie and Bertha; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and friends. He was predeceased by his parents; nine brothers; and six sisters. Ralph was also predeceased by his stepdaughter, Diana, whom he loved and missed so very much. A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer with Reverend Bert de Bruijn officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Alberta Lung Association, PO Box 4500, Station South, Edmonton, AB T6E 6K2, or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 4C4 or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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NOLAN Beverley May 1936-2015 Beverley May Nolan (Ames) passed away on October 28, 2015 at 79 years of age while surrounded by her loving family. She was predeceased by her parents Cardiff and Helen Ames, the love of her life, Glen Nolan, and her brother Robert Ames. She leaves behind her sister Marilyn (Robert) Wilkes; her brother Ray (Patti) Ames; and sister-in-law Verna Ames; her three sons, Dale (Blanche), Dana (Della), Joseph (Angie); nine grandchildren; and twelve greatgrandchildren. A Funeral Service will be held on November 3, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at Lacombe Evangelical Free Church, 4619 C&E Trail, Lacombe, AB. The family would like to thank the professional and extremely caring staff at the RDRH ICU. If friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to the ICU of the Red Deer Regional Hospital Center, PO Bag 5030, Red Deer, AB, T4N 6R2.

Expressions of sympathy may be made by v i s i t i n g www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca.

WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

LOST CAT: Elly is a orange female medium hair tabby, with white chest and white feet. She went missing from the parking lot area at London Drugs/Home Depot/Walmart area in late June.

There have been sightings of her in the Bower area.

Please call 403-318-7521 if you see her. Missed greatly, we would like her home safe. Please check Red Deer Advocate online ad for photos.

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BIKE, Cherokee found at McKenzie Trail area. phone 403-343-8327 must identify.

FOUND in West Park full CD case. Call 403-309-2070 to identify.

Based in Blackfalds, Alberta, Blackfalds Law Office has been serving clients throughout central Alberta since 2008.

We are currently seeking up to 2 junior associates to join our real estate, wills and family law practice.

Blackfalds is a thriving community, with record population growth, nearing 9000 residents. Only a few short minutes to Red Deer, with all the benefits of small town living, Blackfalds is a great place to work and live. If you have strong interpersonal, organizational and problem solving skills, combined with at least 1 year experience as a junior associate, we encourage you to apply. Please send resumes by fax to 403-885-4509, or by email to reception@ blackfaldslawoffice.ca Tired of Standing?

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Oilfield

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SERVICE RIG Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a FLOORHAND

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LOSS PREVENTION INSPECTOR Wynward Insurance Group has an opening for a Loss Prevention Inspector for the territory of Central Alberta, Northern Alberta and the Peace River District of BC to inspect and evaluate physical conditions and safety and risk management practices on risks we insure. This is a full time home based position with a company vehicle provided. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. For a full description of the position visit us at www.wynward. com.

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DRIVER with clean Class 1 or Class 2. Bus driver or semi driver exp. preferred Must be availl eves. and wknds. Looking for both P/T & F/T Fax resume to 347-4999 or email to: frontbus@platinum.ca Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

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SWM SEEKING petite woman late 50’s or early must have all necessary 60’s who enjoys swim- valid tickets for the position being applied for. ming, biking, horse back Bearspaw offers a riding. I have 40’ motovery competitive salary rhome for travel and own and benefits package home in resort area near along with a steady lake. Please reply with work schedule. phone number to Box Please submit resumes: 1114, c/o RED DEER ADAttn: Human Resources VOCATE, 2950 Bremner Email: payroll@ Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 bearspawpet.com Classifieds Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Your place to SELL Mail to: Suite 5309, Your place to BUY 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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Registered Massage Therapist Part or full-time with 2,200 hours of training Sylvan Steam & Spa Sylvan Lake Please email resume to contactus@ sylvansteamandspa.ca

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1699960 Alberta Ltd is looking for 2 F/T permanent shift supervisors, varied schedule. At 120 47 Clearview Market Red Deer, AB. Must have exc. customer service, cash handling, and more supervisory related. Starting wage $13.75. College education, 1 + years experience req’d. email: restuarantbusiness@hotmail.ca Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds Start your career!

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• Red Deer • Rocky Mtn. House CLASSIFICATIONS Apply in person with resume •• Rimbey Caroline 3811 40th Ave. • Sylvan Lake 700-920 • Innisfail JJAM Management (1987) • Stettler Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Caregivers/ Requires to work at these • Ponoka • Lacombe Red Deer, AB locations: Aides 5111 22 St. Gov’t of Alberta Funding 37444 HWY 2 S EXPERIENCED caregiver may be available.

37543 HWY 2N for senior needed. Position 403-340-1930 700 3020 22 St. involves light housekeepwww.academicexpress.ca FOOD ATTENDANT ing. First aid/CPR certified.

Req’d permanent shift $11.50/hr,40hr/wk.

F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. weekend day and evening Call 403-314-0700 Knowledge of Red Deer both full and part time. and area is essential.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + You can sell your guitar Verbal and written benefits. Start ASAP. for a song... communication skills are Job description or put it in CLASSIFIEDS req’d.

Send resume by fax www.timhortons.com and we’ll sell it for you! to 403-346-0295 Education and experience not req’d.

GREENHOUSE Laborers Apply in person or fax are required for our resume to: 403-314-1303 Farm Work greenhouse operation located near Blackfalds, Celebrate your life Alberta. Responsibilities FEEDLOT in Central with a Classified include transplanting, Alberta seeking F/T ANNOUNCEMENT watering, handling and employee for feed truck caring for plant material operator and machinery and preparation of maintenance. Send customer orders. This resume to fax: Trades position is labor intensive 403-638-3908 or e-mail to: and entails working in both dthengs@hotmail.com hot and cold environments.

GOODMEN FULL-TIME position on a Laborers are required to ROOFING LTD. mixed farm operation. work a minimum of 40 Requires Some exp. nec. House can hours per week. Laborers be provided. Mail resume must be available to work SLOPED ROOFERS to: McComish Ranch, different shifts, 7 days a LABOURERS Box 2170 , Stettler, AB week. Positions are & FLAT ROOFERS T0C 2L0 or e-mail available starting mid claytonmccomish@gmail.com January and last until late Valid Driver’s Licence June. No previous work Buying or Selling preferred. Fax or email experience or qualificayour home? info@goodmenroofing.ca tions are required. Starting or (403)341-6722 Check out Homes for Sale wage is $11.20 an hour.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! in Classifieds Please email resumes to Kevin@cagreenhouses.ca or fax resume to Coming Coming 403-885-4147 Events Events (Attn. Human Resources.)

Resumes may also be mailed to Box 100, Blackfalds, Alberta, T0M 0J0.

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WOOD R. David Jan. 1, 1956 - Oct. 29, 2015 It’s with a heavy heart today that we let you know that Dave passed away on Thursday. We are grateful to have his mother, youngest brother, and sister here with us. David is survived by his children; Everett and Leatina as well as their spouses Amy and Shawn and his grandchildren Sarah and Elijah. In lieu of flowers please consider a memorial donation in David’s name to enhance internet access for patients in Ward 32 of the Red Deer Regional Hospital through the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation at 3942 58A Ave Red Deer, AB T4N 4E7. We will be hosting a Celebration of David’s life on Sunday November 1, 2015 from 1pm to 5pm in the Banquet Room at Moxie’s Restaurant.

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CLASSIFIEDS - REMEMBRANCE DAY Hours & Deadlines Office & Phones CLOSED Wednesday November 11, 2015

SUTHERLAND Avery Bruce, born at Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, on Monday, March 9th, 2015 weighing 8 lbs. 1 oz. Welcomed by parents Neal and Michelle and older siblings Kessie and Nolan.

Proud Grandparents are Loretta and Andy Humbke of Red Deer and Anna and the late Bruce Sutherland of Red Deer.

Red Deer Advocate Publication Dates: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Thursday, November 12, 2015 Deadline is: Tuesday November 10 @ 5 p.m.

Central Alberta Life Publication Date: THURSDAY November 12 Deadline is: Monday November 9 @NOON CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Greenhouse workers wanted for Blue Grass Nursery & Garden Center in Red Deer, Alberta We are looking for 10 full time seasonal employees.

No experience needed, training will be provided Starting in February 2016.

Duration is for 4 months Wage is $11.20 per hour at maximum 44 hrs. per week.

Please fax resume to 403-342-7488 Or by email: edgar.rosales@bg-rd.com

SHOP HAND / BUS CLEANER Must be avail. to work eves./wknds. and have own transportation. Fax resume to 403-347-4999 email: frontbus@platinum.ca

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LITTLE Chief Smoker, $30; medium size suitcase, $20; small tote bags, various styles, $5 each; and top quality ironing board, $15. 403-346-3086 MAILBOX Red Barn-shaped Brand new. Durable weather-resistant vinyl.

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Call (403) 342-7908.

JOKER Halloween costume childs Large $10; Tae Kwon-do shirts and TABLE TOP of very solid pants, several sizes construction, 8 foot x 4 foot $10/ea; 403-314-9603 Set on sawhorses and use indoors or out. Covered in LADIES London Fog, reg. vintage grey arborite.

10 size, cranberry pea $25. Call (403) 342-7908. coat, $50. 403-227-2976 VINTAGE Royal Doulton LADIES size 4 1/2 Italian Beswick horse, brown chocolate leather knee shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high high boots, soft fits like a $40; Merrell Ortholite glove, $200 403-227-2976 shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $25.

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

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AIR HOCKEY by Sportscraft was $900 new, exc. cond, $200. 403-352-8811

TRAVELING GOLF BAG, 6” X 42” JOINTER c/w black. $45. 403-885-5020 base $200 obo Central Alberta’s Largest 403-342-0754 Car Lot in Classifieds

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Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Aspen - Split.

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PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 FIREWOOD, North of Costco. 403-346-7178 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

HEAVY duty Coleman single burner stove from 1950s, called the Sunshine of the Night, chrome base, $200. 403-896-9246 PORCELIN tea cup from Italy in presentation box $15 403-314-9603

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WANTED TO BUY: old lead batteries for recycling 403-396-8629

2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458 2 bdrm. suite downtown area, above store, at 5115 Gaetz Ave. Quiet person preferred $950/mo., $950 d.d. all utils., except electricity.

Avail. immed. 347-3149 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 403-348-7445

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BLACKFALDS 2 bdrm. house plus den, 2 baths, fenced yard. $1500. Rent is negotiable. No Kids, no pets, N/S. Rent to buy incentive. 403-556-1186 NORTH RD, clean 3 bdrm. exc. cond., good storage, 5 appls., blinds, fenced yard, high berm behind unit.

403-347-6081 or 396-1269

MOVING. All home furnishings and major appls. 403-346-2192 to view and make an offer.

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THE NORDIC

3 BDRM., no pets, $1000 mo. 403-343-6609

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Now or Nov. 1.

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VANIER WOODS NOW OPEN Brand new rental community.

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Steam carpet cleaning, move out, bi-weekly residential. 587-377-0109

Contractors

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

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Police officers escort a man detained in alleged connection with Islamic State militants, in Konya, Turkey.

Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained some 30 people in pre-dawn raids in connection with a police investigation into suspected Islamic State militants, a day after a similar operation left seven militants and two police officers dead.

Anti-Islamic State activists found slain in southern Turkey

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Two Syrian activists, including one belonging to a collective that reports on Islamic State atrocities were found slain in a city in southern Turkey on Friday, the group said, in a rare attack in Syria’s northern neighbour.

The Raqqa-based activist collective — called “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently — did not say when Ibrahim Abdul-Qadir and Fares Hamadi were killed. It blamed IS for the killings, which took place in the city of Sanliurfa.

Another Syrian activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, said the two were known activists from Raqqa.

There was no immediate comment from Turkish authorities.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said Abdul-Qadir worked as the executive director and Hamadi as head of the production department for Eye on the Homeland, a Syrian media collective. CPJ added that Abdul-Qadir was a founding member of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.

“We call for an immediate and thorough investigation by Turkish authorities into these heinous murders and to bring the culprits to justice,” said CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia Program co-ordinator, Nina Ognianova. “The risks to journalists operating in Syria are well documented. These murders show how the grave risks journalists face in Syria have metastasized across the porous border with Turkey.”

Islamic State militants captured the provincial capital of Raqqa in northern Syria two years ago and the city later became the de facto capital of the territory the IS controls, which encompasses a third of both Syria and neighbouring Iraq. Since then, the activist collective has been releasing reports and photographs from inside Raqqa.

An activist with the group refused to speak about the killings of the two activists, saying only that “our wound is still fresh.” The activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity fearing for his own safety, added that they are still waiting for the results of an ongoing police investigation.

The group later issued a statement saying that Abdul-Qadir was a member of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently and only identified Hamadi as “our friend.”

Abdul-Qadir’s Facebook page was last updated at around 4 p.m. Thursday with a video posting showing the commander of rebel group that fights against IS declaring the northern Syrian province a military zone. In the video, Abu Issa, the commander

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of Raqqa Revolutionary Brigade, vows to launch an attack soon to cleanse the province of IS fighters.

Earlier on Thursday, Abdul-Qadir also posted that Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently won an America Abroad Media award.

The young man has photos of himself with friends inside a mall and another having breakfast in a restaurant. Abdul-Qadir posted a photo taken while he was giving a TV interview identifying himself as Raqqa-based activist Abu Khalil.

IS did not claim responsibility for the killings, although some of its supporters praised it. One posted their photos on Twitter and tweeted: “The slaughter occurred silently, as they used to lie silently.”

In July, IS shot dead two activists in the head inside Raqqa after accusing them of sending information to Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently and taking pictures of IS positions.

The killings came as activists are saying that some rebel groups, as well as the main U.S.-backed Kurdish militia known as the YPG, are preparing for an offensive against IS in Raqqa. Earlier this month, U.S. cargo planes dropped small arms and ammunition to Arab groups fighting IS in northern Syria in what appeared to be preparation for the attack.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that has a network of activists around the country, said dozens of families have fled Raqqa for villages outside the city, fearing an imminent attack.

IS has carried attacks in Turkey, including two suicide bombings earlier this month that killed 102 people at a peace rally in the capital, Ankara.

Meanwhile, the Islamic State group released a graphic video later Friday showing the beheadings of several purported Kurdish peshmerga hostages at a site raided by U.S. commandos in northern Iraq earlier this month.

The video, which was circulated on Twitter, shows four militants in hoods standing in front of the prison where U.S. special forces and Iraqi forces together helped free 70 hostages from captivity earlier this month. The militants then kill the hostages, all of whom are dressed in the trademark orange jumpers.

One of the militants speaks English in the video, with a message to President Barack Obama, saying “you did not gain anything, you returned to your bases and with losses and humiliation.”

One American soldier died in the raid in the Iraqi town of Hawija.

U.S. and Iraqi Kurdish officials had said that the raid was initially intended to free peshmerga hostages held by IS, but in the end, no Kurds were freed.

The authenticity of the video could not immediately be verified, but it was posted on Twitter accounts with known links to the Islamic State group.

rected by God because of the victim’s resistance to his belief in polygamy.

Attorneys for Lafferty did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

26 dead, 88 hurt in nightclub Resolution aimed at reviving Israeli-Palestinian talks gets explosion mixed reaction BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s interior minister says an explosion in a Bucharest nightclub has left 26 people dead and 88 hospitalized with injuries.

Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea said the explosion occurred Friday night at a club in downtown Bucharest, a city of 3 million people.

Digi 24 television station cited witnesses who say the explosion came after a spark on a stage where a band was performing ignited some of the polystyrene decor.

Oprea arrived at the Colectiv club.

The ministry says there were 60 ambulances and fire engines sent to the scene and a mobile hospital had been set up outside.

Judge denies death row appeal on firing squad SALT LAKE CITY — A judge has denied an appeal from a Utah death row inmate who argued that his sentence of death by firing squad is cruel and unusual punishment.

U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said in a ruling handed down Friday that the U.S. Supreme Court has never declared a state’s chosen method of execution cruel and unusual.

Ron Lafferty argued that the firing squad will cause a lingering, unnecessarily painful death. His attorneys say Lafferty wasn’t legally competent when he chose the method at his sentencing 30 years ago.

Lafferty was convicted of killing his sister-in-law, Brenda Lafferty, and her baby. He claimed the killings were di-

Russia says New Zealand should move forward with a draft U.N. resolution aimed at reviving long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, but Israel says it’s “destructive” and the Palestinians say it’s not tough enough.

The deeply divided Security Council hasn’t adopted a resolution on the decades-old conflict in six years.

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Moscow has always maintained that the U.N.’s most powerful body “should get closer involved.”

“I think we should seriously look at it,” he told reporters Friday. “I don’t see anything controversial about that text.”

But Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon did, dismissing the draft resolution and saying the only way to peace is through direct negotiations.

Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour supported New Zealand’s efforts but said the resolution is too weak to stop Israel’s “aggression.”

Police, prosecutors launch campaign to reform death penalty LOS ANGELES — California prosecutors, police officers and family members of murder victims have launched a campaign to speed up executions for murderers sentenced to death.

Members of the group said Friday that the death penalty reform initiative is aimed at the inefficient process that has left hundreds of killers lan-

LOS ANGELES — U.S. border authorities fired stun guns at least 70 times over four years at people who were running away, even though there was no struggle or clear indication that agents were in danger, a newspaper reported Friday.

At least six times, agents used the weapons against people who were trying to climb a border fence and get back into Mexico.

The Los Angeles Times also said three people had died after being hit by Tasers wielded by border agents or customs officers.

Two people were shocked while they were handcuffed, and two were hit with five cycles of the weapon, even though the agency’s policy says no one should receive more than three.

The Times examined 450 uses of Tasers from 2010 to 2013 that were documented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

It found that most of the people subjected to Tasers had been caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border or were suspected of being in the country illegally, not fleeing arrest on more serious charges.

The nation’s largest law enforcement agency, which oversees the Border Patrol and inspectors at ports of entry, decided in 2008 to supply agents with the hand-held devices that deliver a paralyzing electric charge as a way to end confrontations quickly and safely.

The program started with a pilot project in Texas and devices were widely distributed to agents beginning in 2010.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske issued a new use-of-force policy last year. Now, agents are instructed to use Tasers only when a suspect poses an imminent threat and to be particularly cautious when subjects are running.

The Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies have become more restrained in using Tasers, Kerlikowske said, even though he still believes “the good far outweighs the bad” with the weapons.

“You’re seeing much less of the Taser being used when someone is in a precarious position, or fleeing,” said Kerlikowske, a former police chief in Seattle. “I think we’ve learned a lot, and so has law enforcement.”

Four UN staffers dismissed for child porn Four U.N. staff members were dismissed for sending and storing child pornography on U.N. computers — and another was dismissed for using a U.N. vehicle to transport approximately 173 kilograms of marijuana, according to a U.N. report obtained Friday.

The report on U.N. disciplinary matters and cases of criminal behaviour, covers a year-long period through June 2015, and documents about 60 cases that resulted in disciplinary measures, among the organization’s worldwide staff of about 40,000.

It does not identify any of the staffers or where they worked, nor does it include the over 100,000 U.N. peacekeepers, who are under the jurisdiction of their home countries.

The report, circulated late last month, states that during the year-long period eight cases involving “credible allegations of criminal conduct by United Nations officials or experts on mission were referred to member states.”

It provided no further information and didn’t say whether any of the unidentified countries sought to prosecute the individuals.

The disciplinary cases range from a senior staff member’s demotion for harassing a subordinate to dismissal of a staffer caught trying to steal money from the wallet of another staffer, and termination of the contract of a staffer performing security and screening duties at an airport who took $2,200 from the luggage of a passenger travelling on a U.N. flight.

guishing on death row for decades.

San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos says voters who rejected a ballot measure to eliminate the death penalty in 2012 showed they support the punishment.

Ramos says appointing appeals lawyers to the process and other proposed reforms could shorten the time from conviction to execution from as long as 30 years to 10 to 15 years. The initiative is likely to duel with another proposed ballot measure that seeks to abolish capital punishment.

Egypt election turnout at 22 per cent CAIRO — Egypt’s election authority said Friday that the turnout in election runoffs held in half of the country’s provinces earlier this week was just under 22 per cent.

Almost half of the parliament’s 596 seats were up for grabs in first round, which took place in 14 provinces, including Cairo’s twin city of Giza and the port city of Alexandria.

The High Elections Committee said that the “For the Love of Egypt” pro-government candidates won all 60 seats designated for lists.

Voting in the remaining 13 provinces will be held next month. Parliament is to hold its inaugural session in December.

The election’s first round earlier this month in the 14 provinces had a turnout of 26.56 per cent — about half of the turnout in the last parliamentary election held in late 2011 and early 2012, which produced a chamber dominated by Islamists.

The next Egyptian parliament, widely expected to be subservient to President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, will be the first since the Islamist- dominated chamber was dissolved in 2012 by a court ruling.

Egypt has been ruled by decree since then.

These also the first parliamentary election since el-Sissi, as military

chief, led the 2013 overthrow of Egypt’s first freely elected president, the Islamist Mohammed Morsi, following mass street protests against his rule.

Transgender woman sent to men’s prison loses appeal LONDON — A transgender British woman jailed in a men’s prison lost an appeal of her sentence Friday, but judges urged the prison service to consider moving her to a women’s facility.

Tara Hudson, who has lived as a woman all her adult life, was sentenced last week to 12 weeks in prison for head-butting a bar manager.

The 26-year-old makeup artist was sent to HMP Bristol, a men’s prison in southwest England, where her lawyer, Nicholas Wragg, said she was separated from other inmates and “locked in a cell 23 hours a day.”

Wragg argued she should be released to do community service.

Three judges at Bristol Crown Court rejected Hudson’s appeal against the sentence, noting that she had eight previous convictions.

The judges said it was “for the prison service and not the court” to decide where the sentence should be served, but urged “sensitive consideration” of where Hudson should be held.

The Prison Service said it was “longstanding policy to place offenders according to their legally recognized gender.” Hudson has had gender reassignment surgery but is still legally classified as male.

The service said its guidelines allowed “room for discretion and in such cases, medical experts will review the circumstances in order to protect the emotional well-being of the person concerned.”

The Press Association news agency and other British media, citing government sources, said that following the court ruling, Hudson was being moved to a facility for women. The Prison Service said it could not comment on individual cases.

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Redecorating from scratch Q — I have been reading Creative Space for many years and have fantasized about redecorating a room from scratch, but somehow other priorities always got in the way.

Well, guess what?

I could really use some help choosing and arranging the furniture in my family room and I know you’re the person to help.

While I am currently just shopping around, I now completely empathize with your readers because I find that I am really not sure what to buy given the nature of this room.

It is a long and narrow space, and has a wall-to-wall fireplace with a raised hearth on one end.

The other end of the room is a busy foot traffic area, as it is the main entry point to the kitchen from the front hall.

We need seating for a family of six (and growing).

I have seen a beautiful and reasonably-priced cabinet that fits all the electronics but it is a fairly commanding piece and I don’t want it to take over the decor.

The sliding glass doors are never used and will be replaced next year with a bay window.

I have considered buying a sectional sofa, but I am not sure if two sofas would be better.

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FERGUSON I examine when door, and I would covering to be stain resistant be neatly housed directly CREATIVE SPACE working out a opposite the seating. h a v e p l a n n e d and easy to care for.

David Ferguson is a regular good furniture You can increase the Toddlers also need a a furniture contributor to CBC Radio’s Onarrangement. a r r a n g e m e n t reasonable amount of clear seating capacity of the room in tario Today. Write to David at: Y o u ’ v e play area, necessarily within any number of ways. accordingly. already done the analysis, An additional chair could david.ferguson@hotmail.ca.

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OnTuesday, November 10, the Advocate, with the generous support of the local business community, will pay tribute to those who have answered Canada’s call in time of need by publishing a very special pictorial section honouring our veterans.

In Search of Pictures and Stories . . . of yourself, your family, loved ones or friends who have served in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War I, World War II, the Korean Conflict, Desert Storm, Afghanistan or any of Canada’s Peacekeeping Missions.

THE RED DEER ADVOCATE ATTENTION: SPECIAL SECTIONS COORDINATOR 2950 BREMNER AVE. RED DEER, AB T4R 1M9 OR EMAIL: SPECIALSECTIONS@REDDEERADVOCATE.COM We will run as many photos as possible, but space is limited. Those individuals whose photos have been submitted, but for whatever reason are unable to be reproduced and do not run, will be named in our special “Honour Roll.”

The Red Deer Advocate would like to thank participating businesses and families of veterans for their assistance in the publication of this very special section.

Advertisers: Please call Display Advertising at 403-314-4392 for information on how to be included in this event.

PLEASE INCLUDE COMPLETED FORM WITH YOUR PHOTO(S).

Name of veteran(s) _______________________________________________________________________________

Please ensure your photos are clearly marked with your name and address so we can return them to you.

We can reproduce black & white or colour photos of almost any size; however, we do require an original.

We cannot reproduce photocopies of pictures.

Mail or bring in your photos before Wednesday, October 21, and completed write-up to:

_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Branch of Service _______________________________________________________________________________ Unit _______________________________________________________________________________ Years Enlisted _______________________________________________________________________________ Served In Which Theatres _______________________________________________________________________________

Medals Awarded __________________________________________________________________ A brief biography relating unique experiences: ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________

At the going down of the sun.

And in the morning.

COURAGE

IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED

ON JUNE 6, 1944

14,000

5,500 359

CANADIANS TOOK PART IN THE ALLIED INVASION OF NORMANDY, FRANCE CANADIANS DIED DURING THE CAMPAIGN

Respect Gratitude to our Veterans.

With deepest

CANADIANS LOST THEIR LIVES ON THE FIRST DAY

and

Remembering

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Troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade (Stormant, Dundas, and Glengarry Highlanders) go ashore from LCI (L) 299 (Landing craft infantry) at Bernieres-sur-mer, Normandy, France om June 6, 1944 Photo: Gilbert Alexander Milne/Canadian Dept. of National Defence/ Library and Archives Canada/ PA-122765

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Photo courtesy of: Combat Camera

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The Advocate has archived all the photos and biographies from our previous editions in 2014, 2013 and 2012. We plan to continue our tribute and memory of the veterans from those editions in our 2012 edition. In order to assist our composing department in this special publication, please indicate if the veteran’s photo appeared in either the 2014, 2013 or the 2012 edition.

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