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AS ALBERTA’S OIL ECONOMY TANKS, THE FORESTRY SECTOR IS QUIETLY THRIVING. ADVOCATE REPORTER PAUL COWLEY RECENTLY TOURED SUNDRE FOREST PRODUCTS’ HARVESTING AREA WEST OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN TO GET TO THE ROOT OF THE INDUSTRY

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Forestry is a $4-billion annual industry in Alberta that employs 15,000 workers directly and another 30,000 indirectly.

Forestry a ‘star performer’

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE — As Alberta’s oil economy tanks another important sector is quietly thriving — forestry.

In the forests between Hwy 11 and the North Saskatchewan River Sundre Forest Products contractors are busy.

“Our economy right now is doing very well,” said Tom Daniels, forestry superintendent for the company, which runs a sawmill and treated wood facility in Sundre and a laminated veneer lumber plant southwest of Rocky Mountain House.

Given rock-bottom oil prices and the resulting havoc in the province’s oil economy “forestry is certainly trying to help maintain that economy at whatever level we can,” says Daniels, during a recent tour of a company’s harvesting area west of Rocky Mountain House.

A couple of significant market forces are at work creating fertile economic ground for foresters, who are behind a $4-billion annual industry in Alberta.

Forestry employs 15,000 directly and another 30,000 indirectly.

Since most of Canada’s wood goes to the U.S., it is purchased in U.S. dollars which, because of our weak dollar, goes a lot farther in Canada, where wages and production costs are paid.

As well, low oil prices mean low-

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er fuel costs, which means significant savings in an industry that relies on gas-guzzling heavy machinery that is often running 24 hours a day.

ATB Financial’s first-quarter economic outlook for Alberta makes for grim reading with a half-per cent contraction in gross domestic product predicted for this year.

However, forestry is singled out as

facturing is expected to be one of the leading industries in the province this year and next,” says the bank.

While times are good now, the forest industry knows what Alberta’s oil and gas companies are going through.

Forestry was battered by economic forces outside its control in 2007.

“We went through a terrible time,” says Daniels.

forestry industry is across Canada and that industry is basically supplying lumber for the U.S. economy.”

When the bottom fell out, a lot of mills shut down and companies went out of business.

Sundre Forest Products, a subsidiary of Quesnel, B.C.-based West Fraser, was in for a rough ride.

“It was survival. We weren’t sure we were going to be able to outlast this downturn.”

However, the industry that emerged from the other side of the downturn was stronger than the one that went in.

“We came out of it in good shape,” he says. “We really got to focus on the core business. What is it that we have to do to make money and what can we strip out of that that we didn’t have to do?

“That really changed the way we look at our cost structure for sure.”

Nation-wide, the forestry industry has developed more flexibility.

“We’re fairly diversified from an economic base. We’re not reliant on just the Canadian economy. We’ve got the ability to move lumber around the world.

“So we’ll find those places where economies are doing well and are able to buy our product.

“There are not a lot of places in the world that are able to produce the product like we have here in Canada.

We have a good quality lumber we are able to make here.”

‘WE CAME OUT OF (THE DOWNTURN) IN GOOD SHAPE. WE REALLY GOT TO FOCUS ON THE CORE BUSINESS. WHAT IS IT THAT WE HAVE TO DO TO MAKE MONEY AND WHAT CAN WE STRIP OUT OF THAT THAT WE DIDN’T HAVE TO DO? THAT REALLY CHANGED THE WAY WE LOOK AT OUR COST STRUCTURE FOR SURE.’ — TOM DANIELS FORESTRY SUPERINTENDENT, SUNPINE FOREST PRODUCTS

one of Alberta’s “star performers.”

U.S. lumber prices slipped a little late last year because of increasing supply but remain close to the 10-year average. The dollar disparity has made a huge difference, but the oilpatch’s problems have also freed up labour supply for forestry.

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While the rest of the country experienced the worst in 2008, the Alberta forestry industry immediately felt the impact of the collapse of new home building in the U.S. a year earlier.

Typically, two million homes are built in the U.S. each year. That dropped below 200,000 in 2007.

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Confidence restored PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT INTRODUCES INDUSTRY-FRIENDLY OIL AND GAS ROYALTY SYSTEM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Pent-up anxiety over changes to Alberta’s oil and gas royalties dissipated Friday after the provincial government revealed it’s keeping the status quo for oilsands players and simplifying the system for conventional oil and gas wells.

A four-member panel led by Dave Mowat, head of Crown-owned bank ATB Financial, has spent the last five months studying Alberta’s royalty system — amid a worsening outlook for oil prices.

Rachel Notley’s NDP government accepted the panel’s recommendations.

“Our new royalty framework recognizes the reality of our economy today,” Notley said Friday.

“It responds to the pain and the uncertainty that workers and families are

feeling across our province. It is designed to encourage more investment and more jobs than we’d otherwise have.”

Oilsands projects in their early stages pay royalty rates on gross revenues of between one and nine per cent, depending on oil prices. Once they’ve recovered their upfront costs, they pay whichever is higher: the aforementioned formula, or 25 to 40 per cent of net revenues, which take into account certain costs.

Mowat said the focus of the panel was less on rates and more on how to make the system work better.

The formula for conventional oil and natural gas wells will be changed to look more like the one for oilsands, accounting for upfront costs.

The new system will take effect in 2017. Wells drilled prior to that will be subject to the existing rules for 10 years.

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A flat five per cent royalty rate will be applied on those wells until their revenues equal a cost allowance, after which rates will rise.

The province will determine in the coming months how those cost allowance numbers will be crunched, and is expected to announce more details before the end of March. The system is designed in such a way that companies whose costs are lower than the industry average will enjoy lower rates for longer.

The new system will also be more “agnostic” about resource type. Under the old system, oil and natural gas operate under two different formulas, making companies reluctant to explore if they don’t know ahead of time what kind of resource their drill bits will hit. The new one will apply the same rate regardless of whether oil, natural gas or natural gas liquids are coming out of a well.

Public school board approves boundary changes

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Public Schools’ plan to change elementary school attendance boundaries to make way for the opening of its new school in Inglewood in 2017 received final board approval this week.

The new $12.3-million Inglewood school will alleviate the space crunch the school district is experiencing in most of its schools.

Students living in Inglewood, Vanier and Vanier East will attend the new kindergarten to Grade 5 school built for 500 students.

Pines School will be closed and held in reserve and the Spanish bilingual program at Pines will move to Grandview School. Most English students at Grandview will be amalgamated at Mountview School.

Superintendent Stu Henry said with the plan now finalized, the district has 1.5 years to prepare for the shift in students.

He said grandfathering provisions will need to be figured out for Grade 5 students.

“We try to allow those students to stay and finish off their elementary schooling in the same school they started with and avoid two moves in two years,” Henry said.

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The weather is looking to be perfect for the 6th Annual Midget “B” Red Deer Minor Hockey, Tommy Guns, Winter Classic Hockey Tournament taking place at the Bower Kin rink in Red Deer this weekend. Four Red Deer Teams and four teams from Calgary, Bow Island / Foremost, Kneehill and Spruce Grove are participating in this year’s event that runs through the weekend. Round-robin action got underway Friday with the Red Deer Flyers taking on the Red Deer Canucks. Action continues today beginning at 8 a.m. Sunday championship games begin at 8:15 a.m. Above Red Deer Canuck Levi Elliott, right, chases down a loose puck with Red Deer Flyers Matthew Kohle in pursuit.

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“We have to create plans so that students can get over in person to their new building, that parents get a chance to get into the new schools and meet staff. Just start to build that excitement for the move and take away any anxiety.”

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“It was designed to handle lower prices and higher prices,” he said.

“We think that’s a very important message for Albertans to know and for the markets, as we’re trying to attract capital.”

For an industry beleaguered by dismal oil prices and political roadblocks in getting its product to markets, the results of the royalty review are welcome, said Trevor McLeod, with the Canada West Foundation.

“There was nothing really that they would do today that would put 50,000 people who lost jobs back to work. But they brought the confidence and the certainty that was needed.”

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Five snowmobilers killed

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MCBRIDE, B.C. — Five snowmobilers have died in a “very large� avalanche near the interior community of McBride, B.C., prompting a rescue and recovery operation.

The McBride RCMP said Friday evening it was co-ordinating the search for a number of snowmobilers who were involved in the fatal avalanche in the Renshaw area east of McBride, which is about 210 km southeast of Prince George.

Mounties said they were notified early Friday afternoon of two separate GPS beacon activations in the area and activated the Robson Valley Search and Rescue Team.

One helicopter was dispatched to

the area to assist, and two search and rescue technicians were on scene almost immediately as they were snowmobiling in the area just prior to the slide occurring, police said.

Rescue crews quickly confirmed that the incident involved at least three separate groups of snowmobilers caught in an avalanche, and they assisted with the rescue of several people throughout the afternoon and tended to the search for people believed to have been buried, RCMP said. “As of 6 p.m. the McBride RCMP is able to confirm that 5 snowmobilers are deceased and have been recovered from the avalanche area,� said Cpl. Dan Moskaluk in a statement.

“Efforts by the RCMP and SAR are continuing in making a determination that all other snowmobilers that were in the area are accounted for. Six to eight other snowmobilers lost snowmobiles in the avalanche and are being shuttled off of the mountain.�

He added that McBride RCMP were being assisted by Valemount RCMP and the B.C. Coroners’ Service has been notified.

Barb McLintock of the B.C. Coroners Service said Friday evening that two coroners had been dispatched from Prince George, B.C. Karl Klassen of Avalanche Canada said the “very large, significant� avalanche appears to be human-triggered,

but he did not elaborate. “There are layers of concern in the snowpack in many parts of this region (and others) and a fairly significant weather event added rain and snow to the snowpack over the last few days followed by clearing and cooling today,� he said in a statement. “This may have produced stresses in the snowpack capable of producing large avalanches and this condition could take several days to settle and bond.�

He is warning people to be cautious this weekend.

RCMP said no further information would be released pending the completion of the search effort and completion of notification of next of kin.

Veer to meet with Uber, cabbies in wake of info session Mayor Tara Veer will meet with Uber and local cabbies in the coming weeks.

Veer confirmed that both the ride-hailing company and the local taxi industry have asked to meet with her on the heels of an Uber information session in Red Deer on Wednesday.

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Red Deer man jailed for drug possession A Red Deer man caught trying to smuggle drugs into prison pleaded guilty to drug possession on Friday.

Cameron Glen Monkman, 31, had been in the Red Deer Remand Centre less than a day when guards found drugs in his cell last May. Cocaine, methamphetamines and marijuana were found hidden in socks in his cell.

Red Deer provincial court Judge Bart Rosborough sentenced Monkman to six months more in prison after he pleaded to three charges of drug possession.

The months will be added to a twoand-a-half-year sentence Monkman got on May 22, 2015. The sentence was connected to his minor role in a June 13, 2013 attempted murder near Benalto.

He was being processed and had begun his sentence at the Red Deer Remand Centre when guards found the drugs.

Defence lawyer Greg Gordon said Monkman has struggled with drugs but is trying to change his life behind bars.

He has volunteered for a screening unit in Drumheller Institution where prisoners agree to frequent drugs tests to help them stay clean.

The First Nations man is originally from Manitoba and is pursuing native spiritual-based treatment behind bars. He is in a long-term common-law relationship and has an 11-year-old son and two-year-old daughter.

Canadian Blood Services needs O-negative blood Canadian Blood Services is encouraging people with O-negative blood to make a donation.

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The city has been actively monitoring the situation in Calgary and Edmonton. “Given the discussions that Edmonton and Calgary had, we fully anticipated that Red Deer would be having a decision at some point,� said Veer.

Last week Edmonton became the first municipality in Canada to legalize the ride-sharing company. No decision has been made in Calgary.

Veer has requested a comprehensive briefing for council from city ad-

ministration. It should be completed within three weeks.

Following the briefing and the meetings, council will discuss the issue in the near future. “One of the key pieces of information that we are waiting for is the Alberta Finance Minister’s decision around policy for insurance catergories for ride-sharing companies,� said Veer. “The direction the Alberta government goes will have a direct impact in terms of the levers available to

municipalities.�

The city will also be keeping an eye on what is happening in other Central Alberta municipalities as Red Deer is a regional hub. “I look forward to a formal decision with council,� said Veer. “At this point I am just reserving judgement until we have fuller information.�

There was no formal city representation at the Uber meeting on Wednesday. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

demand by hospitals because it is the only type compatible with all other blood types. It is used in the most critical situations.

When there’s no time to check blood type, hospital patients in an emergency situation can all receive O-negative blood.

An estimated seven per cent of Canadians have O-negative blood.

Only about 41,000 of 410,000 active donors are O-negative. Canadian Blood Services wants to increase the existing pool of O-negative donors to 50,000.

Those with is O-negative can book an appointment to donate as soon as possible at blood.ca.

Those who are unsure what their blood type is and want to help can book an appointment to donate blood.

They receive a donor card confirming their blood type in the mail after donating. Canadian Blood Services also hosts blood-typing events. People can go to blood.ca to find out when there is one in their area.

To be eligible to donate you must be at least 17 years of age, in general good health and feeling well on the day of your donation.

Upcoming clinics at the Red Deer blood donor clinic, at #5 5020-68 St. are: Feb. 11, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Feb. 12, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.; and Feb. 13, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

a ball cap, a blue and white bandana, a black jacket, dark blue jeans, and white and blue running shoes. He was carrying a blue backpack.

RCMP ask anyone with information regarding this incident to 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.

Red Deer & District Foundation was established in 1989 with an inaugural donation of $1 million. The foundation’s assets have grown to more than $12.4 million.

Over the years the foundation has distributed more than $9 million to the community to support the charitable sector.

Last week the foundation’s board of director renamed the endowment fund the Smart and Caring Communities Fund in response to Gov. Gen. David Johnston’s call for all Canadians to build a smart and caring nation by 2017, and that every community across Canada will have access to a community foundation.

The Smart and Caring Communities Fund will have the same mandate and scope of the original fund and same criteria for its biannual grant programs.

The application deadline for the 2016 Spring Grants Program will be April 1 at 4:30 p.m.

Anonymous donor gives $1 million to endowment fund Red Deer & District Foundation’s operating endowment fund grew by over $1 million thanks to an anonymous donation made late last year.

The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, donated a total of $1,054,046.27 to the endowment fund which supports the operations of the organization.

RCMP looking for armed robbery suspect Red Deer RCMP are looking for the man who robbed an A&W Restaurant at gunpoint on Sunday evening.

Police say a man entered the A&W Restaurant located at 2004 50 Ave. carrying a handgun shortly after 11 p.m. on Jan. 24. He ordered the employees to the ground and demanded cash.

Before leaving the restaurant, the suspect demanded employees’ cell phones and smashed them. He then took one employee’s rental car keys, and fled in that car.

RCMP recovered the stolen rental car, a black Mitsubishi Lancer, on Jan. 26 in the Deer Park neighbourhood.

The suspect is described as Caucasian between the ages of 25 and 30, 1.75 metres (five-foot-nine) tall, medium build and 77 kgs (170 pounds).

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pauses for a moment as he lays a wreath outside the La Loche Community school in La Loche, Sask., Friday. A 17-year-old boy allegedly shot two people at the school last Friday after shooting two brothers to death earlier at a home nearby.

Justice Act, has been charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder. Friends have said he was an outcast at home and a victim of bullying at school.

RCMP Supt. Grant St. Germaine said Friday that investigators have yet to uncover a motive, but that the response by La Loche Mounties the day of the shooting was “textbook.”

“They followed their training to an exact T,” St. Germaine said. “They did what they were trained to do and …

Ghomeshi trial set to begin next week TORONTO — He was a broadcasting star with a wide and loyal following before he became engulfed in a scandal that sparked a nationwide conversation on sexual assault and the issues with reporting it.

Now, more than a year since the allegations against Jian Ghomeshi sent shock waves across the country, his highly anticipated trial is set to begin in Toronto on Monday.

Ghomeshi — the former host of CBC radio’s popular culture show “Q” — has pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking.

The judge-alone trial, which is expected to last several weeks, involves three complainants and will be closely watched by many across the country.

“Radio is a very intimate medium and he was going into people’s living rooms five days a week,” said Marsha Barber, a journalism professor at Toronto’s Ryerson University.

“He was very influential and he had a huge listenership. Anybody who listened to him regularly is going to feel that they have a stake in what happened.”

The controversy around Ghomeshi surfaced on Oct. 24, 2014, when the CBC first said he was taking time off from his duties “to deal with some personal issues.” Two days later, the public broadcaster said it had cut ties with the popular host.

In a lengthy Facebook message

posted on the same day, Ghomeshi said he’d been fired because of “a campaign of false allegations.” He also said that while he engaged in “rough sex” and “adventurous forms of sex that included role-play, dominance and submission,” he only participated in sexual practices that were “mutually agreed upon, consensual, and exciting for both partners.”

In a separate Facebook post, he vowed to meet the allegations against him “directly.”

Five days after he was fired from the CBC, Toronto police said they were investigating Ghomeshi after two women had come forward with complaints.

On the same day, the CBC issued a memo to staff saying it had seen “graphic evidence” that Ghomeshi had caused physical harm to a woman.

One of the women who contacted police was Lucy DeCoutere, an actress on the TV show “Trailer Park Boys,” who was the first to speak on the record about her alleged experiences with Ghomeshi.

DeCoutere, — the only one of the complainants at Ghomeshi’s trial who can be publicly identified — accused the 48-year-old of choking her “to the point she could not breathe” and slapping her “hard three times on the side of her head.”

On Nov. 26, a month after he was fired from the CBC, Ghomeshi was charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking. He was released on $100,000 bail and was ordered to live with his mother.

Standing under basketball nets in the elementary school gymnasium, as some children coloured drawings on the floor, Trudeau told the crowd they must not let last week’s shooting change what they hold dear.

“We will always denounce terrible acts of violence such as these, but we must remember this tragedy will not, must not, change who we are as individuals, who you are as members of a strong community.

“We must stay true to our values.”

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The Trudeau government is under increasing pressure to outline what sort of “meaningful commitment” it will make to the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant once CF-18 jet fighters are pulled back.

Impatience boiled over in the House of Commons this week during question period and is evident in the diplomatic community, which has been pressing Sajjan behind closed door for weeks for specifics of what the commitment actually means in terms of hardware and capability.

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The prime minister also said police and medical personnel “undoubtedly saved many lives that day.”

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LA LOCHE, Sask. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shook hands and gave hugs as he tried to assure a Saskatchewan community scarred by a mass shooting that his government will offer support for years to come.

“The federal government will be there not just now through the difficult time, but in the weeks, months and indeed the years to come as we look to grieve, to heal and to … thrive,” Trudeau said Friday after meeting with leaders and residents of La Loche.

He did not commit to a request from Mayor Kevin Janvier that Ottawa and the province fund infrastructure, health, housing and education in La Loche for the next 10 years.

“I was here very much to listen today,” he said. “There is much that we heard today that we entirely agree with and we look forward to working with municipalities and … the provinces to address these urgent challenges.”

He said the shooting highlights deep social issues facing many aboriginal communities across the country, adding his Liberals were elected after promising to work with indigenous people to make their lives better.

“I can’t speak for past governments, but I do know that governments of all stripes have not done enough to support and invest in northern and remote communities,” Trudeau said.

“This is a reminder that in Canada everyone should have a real and fair chance to succeed regardless of where they were born, regardless of where they live.”

Two teenage brothers were killed in a home and a teacher and an aide were shot dead at the high school in the Dene community on Jan. 22. Seven people were wounded.

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B.C. shaping energy debate Notwithstanding the political furor over Montreal’s opposition to the Energy East pipeline, the first test of Justin Trudeau’s government’s approach to the controversial pipeline file will take place in British Columbia.

To watch the backlash that has attended the news that Montreal-area mayors believe TransCanada project is too environmentally risky for the good of the more than four million people they represent, one would think they make up a fifth column that has just seized on an original idea to sabotage Canada.

In the House of Commons on CHANTEL Monday, the HÉBERT Conservatives rushed to the OPINION barricades calling on Trudeau to travel to Montreal to give his former Liberal colleague Denis Coderre a dressing-down in the name of national unity.

More than a few pundits opined the prime minister would ultimately have no option other than to force a pipeline to link Alberta’s oilsands to the coast of New Brunswick through his home province.

The CBC’s Rick Mercer joined the chorus. “This has nothing to do with Montreal. This has nothing to do with Quebec,” he ranted on this week’s show, arguing that Canada’s superior interest in getting more oil to market should supersede provincial or municipal considerations.

I was away from Canada on the second week of January and I might have missed a similar Mercer segment dealing with the so-called selfishness of British Columbia.

On Monday, I did not hear the Conservative opposition urging Trudeau to fly to Victoria to talk reason to Premier Christy Clark.

And yet, in a final written submission to the National Energy Board submitted on Jan. 11, just days before the Coderre news conference, the B.C. government came down hard against a pipeline expansion that many describe as just as vital to Alberta’s economic health as Energy East.

The Trans Mountain plan is different from Energy East in that it involves the tripling of the capacity of an existing pipeline. It links Alberta to the Vancouver area and the Pacific Coast.

But opposition to both plans has its roots in the same public health and environmental concerns. Inasmuch as the Quebec government — in contrast with its B.C. counterpart — has not yet come down against Energy East, opposition to the Trans Mountain is also of a higher order of political magnitude. Last May, Metro Vancouver

mayors lined up against the project.

At the time Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson was no less blunt than Coderre last week. Based on an expert report that concluded a spill could have dire consequences for the air quality of the million people who live in the area and the region’s wildlife, Robertson dismissed the project as a “bad deal for Vancouver.”

In its NEB submission, Clark’s government concluded the company had failed to prove it would meet stringent oil spill safety requirements. The Kinder Morgan project was on the drawing board before Energy East. It is further along in the regulatory process with the NEB scheduled — until Trudeau’s government came up with a longer timeline and an expanded con-

sultation process — to make a recommendation to the federal government in the spring with a final cabinet decision a few months later. That will now happen in December.

The board was always expected to make any approval of the Kinder Morgan plan contingent on a series of conditions. As things stand now, those conditions would be unlikely to sway B.C.’s municipal and provincial governments.

In a damning report published this week federal environment commissioner Julie Gelfand found that the NEB fails to follow up on whether its conditions are met in the case of half the projects it oversees. The hope in federal Liberal circles is that the extended review announced on Wednes-

day will restore confidence in the process.

It is hard to imagine that the federal government would bow to provincial opposition to a pipeline at the Pacific end of the country only to turn around and force an equally unpopular project on the Atlantic side. Trudeau’s success in turning the anti-pipeline tide in B.C. will go a long way to determine how far his government will push Quebec on Energy East.

In the meantime, what we have had so far from some of the proponents of the TransCanada pipeline is an unhelpful case of two-tier political indignation.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

We need a new way of analyzing economies There seems to be something terribly wrong with the needs of an aging society without sacrificing the the way central bankers and policymakers look at needs of the young. the economy. The latest example is the Monetary Then there is the big question mark surrounding Policy Report of the Bank of Canada, which, like ma- technology and employment. The development of ny of its earlier iterations, once again downgrades Industry 4.0 and the power of intelligent machines the outlook for the economy while assuming more of to replace humans in a fast-growing array of occupathe same old policies will eventually get tions raises serious questions about the things right. future of many middle-class jobs. Can we Some years ago, I questioned the judgeadjust fats enough to the next generation ment of senior editors in their choice of of technological change where machines stories for page one. “They must know will challenge humans for jobs? what they are doing, else they wouldn’t One worried observer is William be there,” was the supposedly reassuring White, who served as Deputy Governor reply. But did they really know what they of the Bank of Canada from 1988 to 1994, were doing and, more importantly, do the before moving to a senior position at the Bank of Canada, the Department of FiBank for International Settlements where nance and others really know what they he warned of the coming collapse of fiare doing? nancial markets and the Great Recession The collapse in oil prices, the tanking of 2008-09. White now chairs the Economof stock markets, the reliance for growth ic and Development Review Committee of DAVID on a continued rise in consumer debt bethe OECD. CRANE cause of ultra-low interest rates, with only White warns the global economy modest productive investment for good “could now be in an even more dangerOPINION jobs, should raise alarm bells. The poous situation than it was in 2007.” His big tential growth rate of the economy has concern is that central bankers and polshrunk and shows no sign of sustained icymakers are unaware “of how little we improvement. understand, or indeed can understand, about how The failure of record-low interest rates to spur the economy works.” With this lack of understanding investment suggests that investors do not see oppor- “come significant potential for unintended consetunities for innovation-led growth — that the poten- quences,” as he warned more than a year ago, Modtial rate of return on capital investments is seen to ern macroeconomics, White argues, is based on “a be so low that only with very low interest rates will fundamental misconception: namely, that it can be any investment occur. This has huge implications understood and therefore closely controlled. It is a for future productivity and our ability to address machine in the competent hands of its operator. That

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Removing spots, building a community In the quiet of the wee hours of day so pretty soon I won’t be waking the morning I’m sitting at my desk in in the dark. Our winter to this point contemplation of all life that is going has actually been mild and enjoyable, on around me. With a new blanket of and extremely pretty with all the hoar snow on the ground, the tufrost on all the trees. I even multuous world is silenced. bought some snowshoes so All I can hear is the hum of we can do a little ground the furnace and the occalevel sight-seeing. sional vehicle quietly drivSo in my reflections I ing by. So, it’s a good time to realize that I am comfortreflect on life. ably sitting in front of my When I watched the news computer in my PJs in our last night, I thought to myown home in a country that self that we have more than is relatively free of serious enough reason to despair; strife. There is bread on my the economy is in tatters, table, and I know that our refugees now in Canada are children are doing well; our desperate for work and a family is growing and reaCHRIS home; both ISIS and al-Qasonably happy.

SOLOMONS ida are still in the habit of This past week there destruction and murder (as were at least three individSTREET TALK a matter of fact, they are uals downtown who came now in competition with into the kitchen looking for each other); floods are devastating a backpack they had left behind somehuge portions of the world and if the where; they may have been too influflooding isn’t enough, earthquakes and enced to remember where they left it. mudslides level town after town; more That happens a lot, and I usually don’t and more folks are out of work and us- bother taking note of it, but now that ing the kitchen, and so, the list of bad I’m in reflection mode, I take a look news goes on and on. around me and realize just how blessOn the plus side, the days are now ed I am. getting longer by a few minutes every I sit in the midst of 60-plus years

of memories and associated memorabilia. On the other hand, these people looking for their backpacks, regardless of age, that is their life; that is their memories and accruements.

What I don’t often think of is how complacent I have become, and how easily that complacency can become intolerance; I worked hard for my possessions, and if you don’t have them it’s because you didn’t work hard enough for them, kind of intolerance.

I have a friend who once told me, “A leopard cannot change its spots.”

For some silly reason, that quote has always remained stuck in my mind; it’s one of those silly things that keep coming up in thought processes. Today is no different.

Working at the kitchen has made me realize that the quote is quite true except for one thing; God and the caring people around an afflicted individual.

You see, I believe we were created as a communal being; we need and desire each other. Yet we are influenced by increased demands on our time — TV especially — to distance ourselves from each other. Sadly, even our governments unknowingly promote that isolation by touting the importance of diversity.

That isolation creates more problems than it solves. The isolated individual in an effort to belong will often make choices that are harmful.

In other words they grow spots. In so doing they can become outcasts and rejects, often relegated to the streets, by the complacent ones; a leopard so to speak.

For the animal there is no need to remove the spots, in many cases its spots are its defence and or its camouflage when hunting, but for humans against whom the quote was made, spot removal is most times crucial to their existence within a community.

The care and resources of a community can indeed remove those spots.

At Potters Hands, we have seen spot removal in action and the results are impressive and dramatic.

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting quite tired of all the bad and negative news, so I think I will just continue to participate in the business of spot removal and building a sense of community thereby having my spirits lifted as a result instead of being weighed down by the news of the day.

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

Insomnia, nothing to lose sleep over I’ve always said I could sleep standing up. Perhaps that explains why people tell me I never make much sense during a conversation. It could be that I drifted off for a moment or two. But sometimes it just hits you like a frying pan to the face: INSOMNIA. From the Latin: “In”- I, “som” — cannot, “ia” — freaking sleep!” It’s like that old joke: insomnia is nothing to lose sleep over. But for many people, my Better Half included, difficulty falling asleep is no joke. For some, insomnia is not an occasional annoyance like it is for me, it’s practically pathological. Almost every night, it’s like the body is exhausted and the mind is so tired it’s like porridge and you flop down in bed and all of a sudden the mind says “Just kidding!” and you lie awake tossing and turning for four hours thinking about that dumb thing you said three years ago.

It’s like a little poster I saw. It said: “I wish I could HARLEY sleep but when my insomnia kicks in its ‘one sheep, HAY two sheep, cow, turtle, duck, HAY’S DAZE Old MacDonald had a farm … heeey Macarena!’” Oh, the misery of lying there in the dark obsessing about your bank account, that thing you have to do on Monday, that stupid thing you did last Monday, the infuriating fact that your spousal unit is snoring peacefully beside you, and wouldn’t know insomnia if it hit them in the face.

There are, of course, many “treatments,” “cures” and “highly ineffective and expensive remedies” for the deeply ingrained and well-practiced ability to not be able to sleep. From the popular doctor-prescribed scary psychotropic, hypnotic and psychosomatic medications with names like ‘benzonightmareium’ and ‘clonozombiebarbital,’ to white noise machines, to grandma’s timeless remedy consisting of a single glass of warm milk, a tried and true insomniac has probably tried them all. Some of them all at once.

It might be at first that recording of the gentle ocean surf or the softly babbling brook might actually help a person fall asleep after, say, an hour or two, but eventually the insomniac begins to count the number of waves breaking on the shore, starts to wonder how cold that water is and what kind of fish live in there. Are there any sharks? What kind of sharks? The kind with big teeth for sure. And that babbling brook. Why is it babbling? Just what causes a babble? Are there any snakes in that brook? And what’s the difference between a brook and a creek?

Or a stream, or ...

So you try “white noise” which is a machine that makes static, sort of like when the rabbit ears on your old TV used to go out of whack and the screen would turn to “snow” and you’d get this sound that sounded like, well, like static.

So the poor non-sleeper lays there in a room full of quiet static which is supposed to drown out other distracting noises like the guy out in the alley breaking into your garage, and the white noise is supposed to be quite calming. I’m not sure why it’s called “white noise,” but you can “rest” assured that when you are trying to fall asleep all awash in white noise you’re eventually going to be kept awake wondering: “Why do they call this white noise? Why isn’t it blue noise? I wonder what beige noise sounds like. I wonder what time it is now. Is that the sunrise?”

I remember a photo of four sheep staring at the camera with pure attitude. A don’t-mess-with-us

expression you don’t normally associate with sheep.

The caption under the photo read: “Insomnia Swat Team.” But we all know where counting sheep gets you. It gets you to 4 a.m. and losing count at around 8,000. Whereupon you get up and have a glass of milk and wonder if running a nice warm bath would wake up the entire household. That answer is yes, and you realize you’re much too tired to work a bathtub faucet anyway.

But hang on, there’s new hope in the sleep deprived world of insomnia. Maclean’s magazine called it “40 pounds of sheer bliss” — and no, it’s not the latest weight loss diet craze. The “new fix” is really an old idea, revamped and revisited, as so many ‘new fixes’ are. We’re talking about the latest trend in sleep-aid: weighted blankets.

That’s right. Blankets filled with plastic pellets, weighing in at four to 40 pounds, costing $40 to $400.

One company claims the weighted covers are the “ultimate security blanket” and “the best hug ever,” and that the deep-pressure sensation sparks a neurotransmitter that creates a feeling of calm and activates the hormones that regulate sleep. It’s also a real plus for people who like to feel that a cow is sleeping on their chest, and it’s a must for those who

really enjoy being wrenched awake with a severe case of sleep paralysis.

Apparently heavy blankets have been used for years by autism therapists, as treatment for menopause and by people who like heavy blankets, but now sleep-time heavy hug blanketing is becoming “mainstream.”

It all makes me think back to the best sleeps I ever had. Fifteen, 16 years old in a band bus on the way to and from a gig. An old converted school bus with a couch and a table and three bunk beds. Up there in my assigned bunk in a sleeping bag, rocking and bouncing with the rhythm of the road, the word ‘insomnia,’ Latin or otherwise certainly did not exist in my vocabulary.

So if 40-pound blankets don’t work for you insomniacs, I highly recommend getting an old bus, installing some Army Surplus bunk beds and climb in.

Your B.H. could drive. They aren’t sleeping anyway.

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.

Supreme Court has spoken on assisted dying

BY JULIET GUICHON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE In an odd twist of Canadian history and fate, a British Columbia lawyer is defending the Supreme Court of Canada against the federal government.

Almost a year ago, on Feb. 6, 2015, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that some Criminal Code sections were unconstitutional: it said that a very small group of people are entitled under constitutional law to a physician’s help to die.

The court then said its ruling would not come into effect for 12 months to give governments, if they chose, time to legislate on the matter.

But recently, the federal government went back to the Supreme Court to request a further six-month delay.

The government claimed that the “important and complex issues require extensive work” that “cannot reasonably be completed” before the looming deadline.

Perhaps a fair translation of this government request is: “The dog ate my homework.”

Ottawa had plenty of time to act.

After all, it has been a defendant in

the litigation since 2011, when the case was launched in the British Columbia Supreme Court. In the intervening five years, the federal government had only two possibilities for which to prepare: a win or a loss.

But the former Conservative government of Stephen Harper did little. And that left the political hot potato for the Trudeau government, which might amend the Criminal Code by the deadline, but says it cannot.

Both governments have put the Supreme Court in a very awkward position.

The people’s elected representatives gave Canada’s judges the power and duty to strike down legislation that violates human rights. The Supreme Court did. Now it lies ill in the mouths of governments to say, in effect, “We cannot adequately perform within a system that we created,” especially when government delay risks prolonging intolerable suffering.

So last Monday, Joseph Arvay, the lead lawyer for the original plaintiffs, had to argue that the court should uphold its own decision. He had to remind the court that its original judgment was sufficiently narrow and clear, that doctors could give effect to

it for the small group of people.

More importantly, Arvay had to name the elephant in the room: that federal government response seems focused on whether the court’s original decision should be implemented, when the only constitutionally legitimate question for governments is how.

No longer prime minister, Harper and his disdain for Charter of Rights limitations on government power continues to haunt the court, putting it in a near impossible political position. If the court grants the requested government extension, then the court might be seen to be endorsing dilatory government behaviour. If the court turns down the government request, then it might appear insufficiently deferential.

What’s more, the situation was avoidable. The federal government did not have to go to court. It could have invoked the notwithstanding clause (Section 33 of the charter permits governments to override a judicial decision and to violate a charter right).

But that route would have led to political awkwardness for the government.

Instead, the awkwardness has been transferred to the court.

In reminding the court that the

issue is continued unconstitutional, intolerable human suffering, Arvay made clear the court’s role. Although that role originated in political decision-making, it is not about politics.

The court’s constitutional duty is to decide when government violates human rights.

In weighing the failure of two successive federal governments to do their homework, the court is obligated to weigh also the terrible plight of a few Canadians. Some unfortunate souls have only limited and horrible options.

As Arvay argued, “No one wants to die if living is better.”

A government that can respond to the suffering and death of a little boy on a Turkish beach by admitting thousands of refugees rapidly can probably respond rapidly again. This time, the challenge is to permit a clearly-and-narrowly-defined, small group of Canadians suffering intolerably to exercise their constitutional right to physician assistance in dying.

Juliet Guichon is an assistant professor at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary and a Troy Media contributor.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Satellite images, video footage and witness accounts show that dozens of people allegedly killed by Burundian security forces in December were later buried in mass graves, Amnesty International reported Friday.

The news came as unrest in Burundi escalated with the arrest of 17 people in a security sweep, including two foreign journalists who were released later Friday.

The rights group reported five possible mass graves in the Buringa area on the outskirts of the capital, Bujumbura, which has been wracked by violence as the security forces go into neighbourhoods seen as opposition strongholds. Two journalists on assignment for the French newspaper Le Monde were among 17 people swept up in a military operation Thursday, said Moise Nkurunziza, a deputy spokesman for Burundian police.

Journalists Jean-Philippe Remy of France and British photographer Philip Edward Moore were released on Friday afternoon, Le Monde said.

France, which had called on Burundian authorities to free the journalists, suspended its security defenceco-operation activities in Burundi late Friday.

Witnesses described how police and local officials scoured Nyakabiga and other neighbourhoods in Bujumbura to retrieve the bodies of those who were killed late last year and took them to undisclosed locations, according to Amnesty International.

“The imagery, dating from late December and early January, shows disturbed earth consistent with witness accounts. Witnesses told Amnes-

ty International that the graves were dug on the afternoon of Dec. 11, in the immediate aftermath of the bloodiest day of Burundi’s escalating crisis,” the group said.

Earlier this month, U.N. human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein also called for an urgent investigation into the alleged existence of mass graves following the violence in December.

Zeid said the “increasing number of enforced disappearances, coupled with allegations of secret detention facilities and mass graves is extremely alarming.”

Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said Friday the reports of mass graves “underscore the futility of trying to cover up such crimes. Perpetrators of atrocities in Burundi must realize that the international community is watching and those responsible for such horrors will be brought to account.”

Burundi’s government has dismissed these allegations, saying they are based on false information supplied by the regime’s opponents.

In co-ordinated attacks, gunmen stormed three military installations in Burundi on Dec. 11. The next day, 28 people were found shot dead in three Bujumbura neighbourhoods. An witness told The Associated Press that some of the dead had their hands tied behind their backs. Another witness blamed government security forces, saying they went after the victims in door-to-door searches.

President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to seek re-election to a third term last April touched off street protests that led to a failed coup in May and a rebellion that has left the central African country on the brink of civil war.

Dutch join US-led airstrikes against IS in Syria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch government said Friday it plans to join the U.S.-led coalition targeting the Islamic State group in Syria with airstrikes.

The Dutch have for months been carrying out airstrikes in neighbouring Iraq using four F-16 jets, but have balked at extending the mission to Syria. But after requests from the United States and France, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s two-party coalition government decided Friday to broaden the jets’ mandate to eastern Syria.

“We will have our F-16s be more efficiently deployed by also having them be active in the Syrian part of the conflict, particularly hitting, for example, training centres and other facilities

which replenish the capacity of ISIL to be active in the Iraqi side of the conflict,” Rutte said, using an alternative acronym for the Islamic State group.

Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said the decision means the coalition will “make more progress” against IS. The Cabinet has sent a letter outlining Friday’s’ decision to Parliament, where it will likely be discussed in coming days. Most Dutch legislators support airstrikes in Syria.

In Washington, U.S. Secretary of Defence Ash Carter welcomed the move and praised the Dutch people for their commitment toward fighting extremists.

“The lasting defeat of ISIL must be a global undertaking, because it is a global threat,” Carter said in a statement.

France considers recognition of a Palestinian state

Attorney says Chicago officer didn’t tamper with dashcam

PARIS — France will recognize a Palestinian state if its efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at an international conference fail, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday.

He told French diplomats that the conference will aim to bring together the two parties and their American, European and Arab partners in order “to make happen a two-state solution.”

If this attempt faces a deadlock, Fabuis said, France will have to recognize a Palestinian state.

France’s Socialist government supports the idea of two states, but had previously argued that it was too early for outright recognition of a Palestinian state.

CHICAGO — A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times did not tamper with his squad car’s dashcam, his attorney said Friday in response to a Chicago news outlet’s report this week that the device was intentionally damaged.

DNAinfo Chicago obtained Chicago Police Department maintenance records through a public information request that show the dashboard video and audio recording device in officer Jason Van Dyke’s vehicle was damaged and repaired at least twice in the months leading up to the October 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. During the night of the shooting, the system recorded video but did not capture any audio.

Also Friday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office announced expanded police reforms that include enhanced training for police officers and 911 dispatchers on interacting with people in crisis, particularly those with mental illness. The training is in part a response to another fatal police shooting on Dec. 26, in which officers responded to a domestic disturbance.

Police have said 19-year-old Quintonio Legrier was “combative” toward police a neighbour who wasn’t involved in the disturbance, 55-year-old Bettie Jones, was also killed.

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Suicide car bomber attacks Yemen checkpoint 7 dead SANAA, Yemen — A suicide car bomber struck a checkpoint in the southern Yemen city of Aden, killing seven, security officials said.

The Islamic State affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack in a statement posted by the group’s supporters on Twitter. It was not possible to verify the claim.

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As I laid in bed on my first morning on Harbour Island, I heard the distinct sound of a rooster crowing sometime around 6 a.m. Shortly after the rooster wakeup call, I made my way over to the restaurant at Valentine’s Resort for an early breakfast. When lobster is in season, you can have it for every meal, and I decided to make that one of my goals. I started my day with lobster eggs benedict.

After the hardy breakfast, I was ready to explore and, given that the island is just under 5 km long and about 800 metres wide, I was pretty sure it wouldn’t take long. Like many out islands, Bahamians use a different name for the island.

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There’s really no sleeping late on Harbour Island.

When the sun comes up, the roosters start crowing and, depending where you are on the island, the roosters may have you outnumbered. On the other hand, watching the sun come up over the Bahamian island’s famous pink sand beach is something you really shouldn’t miss. Even the most nocturnal of humans are thankful for the island chickens — most of the time.

When you think of the Bahamas, most people picture the stretch of fancy hotels and busy casinos that line Nassau Beach, Cable Beach and Paradise Island. And while it is fun to visit the bustling capital city of Nassau, if that’s all you see of the Bahamas, then

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TOP: One of the island’s claims to fame is what they say is the world’s largest coconut; Be sure to enjoy a drink on the outdoor restaurant at the Pink Sands Resort. You can’t beat the views of the beach.

ABOVE: Take a walk out on the dock for a great view of the island.

RIGHT: The quaint marina at Valentine’s Resort.

BELOW: The pink sand beach on Harbour Island is its most famous feature. It gets its colour from ground up red coral.

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LEFT: The tree with many limbs is known as lone tree. It was washed up on the island after Hurricane Andrew. The other one was put there by a group of islanders who thought the Lone Tree needed company. It’s iconic on the island.

ABOVE: This is the oldest house on Harbour Island.

Dunmore Town has a long history and was once the capital city of the Bahamas.

Say “Harbour Island” quickly and you’ll understand where the local name “Briland” is derived.

You could walk the entire island, but we rented a golf cart to make it easier to get around. The first thing you notice about Dunmore Town, the only town on the island, is all of its wonderful historic buildings. It is one of the oldest communities in the Bahamas and was once the capital city. There are homes, churches and public buildings that are more than a century old and many of these old structures have been fixed up and painted in bright colours. A sign on the public library identified it as the second-oldest library in the Bahamas.

The historic architecture in the town is lovely, but it is Harbour Island’s quiet charms that are most captivating. We found ourselves stopping often to take in the lovely views. Pausing at the dock, we watched the fishermen and browsed at a small unmanned stand with sea shells for sale. Another stop brought us to Lone Tree, one of the iconic spots on the island. Lone Tree is a dead tree that washed ashore upright after Hurricane Andrew. Nobody knows where the tree came from, but it is a landmark on Harbour Island now.

When I stopped to take a picture of the tree, I found a woman in a jeep with her feet up on the dash reading a book. “This is one of my favourite spots on the island,” she said. “I come here all the time. I’m here to see the tree and watch the guy on the kite sail behind it. He’s my husband.”

Visiting with the friendly locals is also part of the fun, and our next stop brought us to Vik-Hum Club, a local bar and nightclub whose claim to fame is ownership of what is said to be the world’s largest coconut. At almost 84 cm (33 inches) in circumfer-

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Robert Frank makes brief remarks to mark new retrospective NEW YORK — At age 91, Robert Frank is happy to let others talk about his past.

Hundreds gathered at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts on Thursday night to celebrate the opening of a new retrospective for the renowned photographer and filmmaker.

Making a rare public appearance, Frank spoke briefly, saying he was gratified to see so many people turn out.

But Frank added that he preferred thinking about the future. That’s one reason he left ROBERT FRANK his native Switzerland and settled in the U.S. in 1947.

“I’m glad I stayed,” he said during a rare public appearance, his voice still bearing the rich accent of the country he left behind. “It’s a good thing not to go back in your life.”

“You could be free,” Frank added about the U.S. “You could become something you couldn’t become in Switzerland.”

“Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947-2016,” which runs through Feb. 11, was arranged very much in the unpretentious and improvisatory spirit that Frank brought to the visual arts.

Instead of a museum, his work hangs in the lobby and on the eighth floor of the Tisch school.

Unframed banners of his pictures and proof sheets from his landmark “The Americans” fill the walls and copies of his books dangle from the ceiling. The exhibit’s catalogue is designed like a newspaper, featuring essays about Frank and an interview in which he spoke of the bond he felt with the poor and working class people of “The Americans” and other works.

“It was very important that I could put myself in their shoes, so that I could feel something,” he said.

“It’s the same way for me now, maybe even more so. I know that life can be hard.”

The retrospective also includes copies of his

● Harbour Island is located just off the larger out island of Eleuthera. Most people fly into Nassau and then catch a 20-minute local flight to Eleuthera. The water taxi from Eleuthera to Harbour Island takes about 5 minutes. ● You can rent a golf cart to get around the island for about US$55 daily. Hotel prices start at about US$165 per night. Waterfront hotels will be substantially higher in price than those that are not directly on the water. ● I stayed at Valentine’s Resort and Marina. It is an upscale resort with an onsite marina and you can get the water taxi to pick you up and drop you off right at their docks. There are three excellent dining venues and a large swimming pool onsite. Rates start at about US$380 per night. For reservations or information, visit: valentinesresort.com ● The Bahamian dollar is equivalent in value to the U.S. dollar and you can use them interchangeably on the islands. If you pay for something in U.S. dollars, you may receive Bahamian currency back.

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

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“We think it’s about 35 years old,” said Humphrey Percentie Jr., proud co-owner of the bar and the coconut. “You need to tilt your head to see the measuring tape though. We had it for years before we realized we put the measuring tape on upside down.”

Our next stop was a lunch break at the Blue Bar Restaurant at the Pink Sands Sesort. Overlooking the spectacular pink sand beach for which the island is famous, this restaurant has a diverse menu with many different options. I enjoyed a lobster quesadilla and a glass of tropical punch before making my way down to inspect the pink sand beach close up.

In the morning light, they say the pink sand really glows, but by afternoon the bright light of mid-day gave it a gentle pink tinge.

“The sand gets its colour from ground red coral, which is abundant in this area,” explained Tom Parke, general manager of Pink Sands Resort. “It’s one of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean and is what really defines Harbour Island as a destination.”

As I walked along the soft pink sand a while later, I couldn’t help being moved by the simple beauty of this tiny island. Its pink sand beach has been attracting all kinds of accolades and with good cause. Travel and Leisure Magazine named it the best Caribbean Island for 2015.

I stayed until the sun went down before heading back to my hotel for a lobster dinner. As I rode the golf cart back down the road, I promised myself that I would get up at dawn and watch the sunrise on the pink sands. I was pretty sure I could count on a rooster wake up call.

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Rebels cruise to win over Ice

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 8 Ice 2 Call it a warm-up for what should be a battle royale tonight at the Centrium.

The Red Deer Rebels, who will host the Brandon Wheat Kings at 7 p.m., got in some shooting practice Friday evening while skating to an 8-2 WHL victory over the visiting Kootenay Ice before 5,451 fans. The Ice have won just eight games this season, including a mere two on the road, and were no match for their hosts who got a twogoal performance from Adam Helewka.

“I thought our performance was good for 60 minutes,” said Rebels assistant coach Steve O’Rourke. “It’s always tough when you play a team that has eight wins, but that team works hard and plays really hard against us every time we see them.

“We found a bit of energy in the first period and after that we sailed right through the rest of the way.”

The Rebels needed all of 34 seconds to strike as Jake DeBrusk beat Ice netminder Wyatt Hoflin from the faceoff circle. Grayson Pawlenchuk backhanded a rebound past Hoflin at 9:18 after Jeff de Wit had carried the puck to the net, and Adam Musil notched the eventual winner on a wrap-around 54 seconds later.

Zak Zborosky scored a short-handed marker at 14:17 of the opening frame to cut Red Deer’s lead to two, but the Rebels pretty much sealed the deal with three second-period tallies.

Adam Helewka potted his 27th of the season at 15:44 of the middle frame with a one-timer to the top of the net, and before the period expired rookie Austin Pratt gobbled up a turnover and scored on a quick release, and defenceman Austin Strand skated into the low slot and chipped a backhand past Hoflin.

While he didn’t look good on the game’s first goal, Hoflin was stellar in defeat, taking a sure goal away from Michael Spacek with a spectacular first-period glove stab and then denying the Rebels on numerous occasions through the remainder of the contest.

Hoflin, who was particularly sharp in the second period, finished with 41 saves and his play prevented the Rebels from easily hitting double figures.

Trevor Martin faced 23 shots in the Red Deer net.

“Hoflin is a very good goalie, we’ve known that,” said Rebels defenceman

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Red Deer Rebel Grayson Pawlenchuk tries to force his way past Kootenay Ice player Ryan Pouliot during first-period action at the Centrium Friday.

Haydn Fleury, who contributed two assists and was a plus-three on the evening. “We’ve played against him for awhile now.

“Just sticking to our game was the big thing tonight, no matter what the score. We had a game (tonight’s contest) to prepare for and even in the third period we wanted to keep getting better for Brandon tomorrow.”

Matt Alfaro accounted for Kootenay’s second goal, a power-play marker early in the third period, but the Rebels put it away with tallies from Helewka, on the power play, and Colton Bobyk, with a blast from the point.

“It was a good team effort for 60 minutes,” said Fleury. “We did a lot of good things offensively and didn’t really give them too much.”

O’Rourke was in complete agreement with Fleury’s ‘team effort’ assessment.

“It was great. The fourth line scored two goals tonight with Braden Purtill playing in the middle,” said O’Rourke.

“In the first period he was three-forthree on draws.

“Pratter (Pratt) got some points (one goal, one assist) tonight … everyone chipped in. It was a good effort all the way around.”

The Wheat Kings come into to-

night’s contest on a negative note, having lost 4-3 Friday at Edmonton, a result — coupled with Red Deer’s win — that dropped them three points back of the second-place Rebels in the Eastern Conference.

“I expect it to be a really good game,” said Fleury. “We owe them one, for sure. They beat us pretty bad in their building (4-0 Jan. 15) and we have to take it back in our building.”

The Lethbridge Hurricanes’ firstplace lead over the Rebels was reduced to five points when they lost 3-1 Friday at Victoria. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Veteran skip confident heading in to weekend

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Blessed with a new knee, Rob Armitage now has a new lease on his curling life.

The Red Deer skip, an Alberta and Canadian senior men’s champion in 2012 and a world champ a year later, is in charge of one of 15 rinks competing in the Southern Alberta Curling Association senior men’s playdowns which opened Friday at the Pidherney Centre.

“I wouldn’t be playing now if I hadn’t undergone surgery (in August),” said Armitage, following an opening-draw 6-2 win over Neil Gerrish of Calgary Inglewood.

“I took two years off (of competitive curling) after we won worlds. My knee was just gone,” continued the veteran skip, who has 50-year-old Wade Thurber at third, Randy Ponich at second and Keith Glover tossing lead stones.

“It doesn’t bother me now except it swells up once in a while. But I don’t know if that’s caused by curling because I still work for a living.

“I’m confident that I’ll be OK this weekend.”

Despite his knee problems Armitage continued to curl over the past two years, in a once-a-week men’s league at the Pidherney Centre. Following his surgery, he was back on the ice in mid-October and decided to take another shot at winning a provincial title.

The foursome practised regularly

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Rob Armitage of the Pidherney Curling Centre in Red Deer calls a shot during the opening end of a game against Neil Garrish’s rink from the Calgary Inglewood Curling Centre during senior men curling action in Red Deer on Friday. and warmed up for the southerns will a handful of games in January.

“It’s nice to be throwing rocks (in practice) but you need that game pressure to get your hands and fingers thinking together,” said Armitage.

His current rink is similar to his 2012 and ‘13 foursomes, the lone excep-

tion in personnel being Thurber. When the team captured the world crown, Glover was throwing third stones and Ponich and Wilf Edgar were manning the second and lead positions, respectively.

Edgar is currently skipping Rick Hjertaas’ Red Deer rink in the South-

ern Alberta finals. The other Red Deer entry is skipped by Lowell Peterman.

The SACA field is filled with familiar faces, including the likes of Ed Lukowich, Terry Meek, Wayne Heikkinen and Mickey Pendergast, all of Calgary, and Paul Gowsell of Airdrie.

“It’s a tough field, there aren’t a lot of pushovers here,” said Armitage.

The former Canadian and world senior men’s champ likes his team’s odds of grabbing one of the three available berths in the provincial finals, set for Feb. 17-21 at Coaldale.

“With this being on our home ice, I really like our chances,” he said. “I’d have to think we would be as co-favoured as anybody.

“The same goes for the other Red Deer teams. They’re going to be tough on their home ice.”

The Armitage crew is taking dead aim this weekend at earning a berth in the provincials and from there, who knows. There is a sense of urgency for at least three of the curlers, who are entering now-or-never territory.

“It would be great to experience some of the success we had three and four years ago. It was a fun time,” said Armitage.

“But it won’t be easy. The window for seniors doesn’t stay open for very long. Keith is 59 and Randy and I are 58. Keith will be eligible for masters next year and Randy and I the year after.”

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RDC Kings strong on offence, defence still a concern

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Kings 99 Lions 89 The RDC Kings have regained their offence, but it’s the defensive side that’s worrying head coach Clayton Pottinger.

“I don’t think we’ve played great defence yet this year,” he said following a 99-89 victory over the Ambrose University Lions of Calgary before a full house at RDC Friday.

“At the end of the first half we were the top defensive team in the conference according to points allowed, but if you watched the video we made a tonne of errors. We were scoring our way out of trouble.

“Now that games are tighter we seemed to find some offence again but we’re giving up 83, 84, 89 points. When we’re playing our best basketball we should allow around 70.”

The Kings started strong, taking a 25-13 lead after the first quarter, but were outscored 25-21 in the second.

They led 68-57 after 30 minutes and where then outscored 32-31 in the fourth quarter.

What they couldn’t do was stop Kyler Shula, who pumped in 41 points.

“Down the stretch he was bombing some shots and making them,” said Pottinger. “But in my mind it wasn’t so much Kyler, as you expect him to make some shots, he’s that talented, but we had breakdowns against other guys.

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one on two and their guy used a spin move and got a layup. That’s inexcusable.”

But while Shula was carrying the Lions, Anthony Ottley was doing the same for RDC as he finished with 35 points, 14 rebounds and five assists.

“Anthony put us on his shoulders, without him we’re not winning this game,” said Pottinger, who also liked the play of Matt Matear, who had 21 points and 10 boards.

“Matt was solid both halves, but without the 35 points we wouldn’t win.

What we have to do is work on more consistency. We’re not playing championship defence.”

Shayne Stumpf is beginning to feel more comfortable in the RDC system after joining the team at Christmas

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and finished with 11 points and seven boards. Matt Johnson had nine points and seven assists.

The Kings are alone in first place in the south with an 11-3 record while Olds is 10-3 and Medicine Hat dropped to 10-4, losing at SAIT. Queens 69 Lions 32 Despite not playing two of their top players the Queens were never in trouble against the Lions, rolling to a 69-32 victory.

Six-foot-two Emily White (flu) and point guard Maddi Whiting (ankle) both sat out and Morgan Dool, who is one of the team’s leading scorers has left the team for personal reasons.

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Bettman says enforcer Scott ‘welcome’ NASHVILLE — John Scott expects the NHL to change the fan vote for the all-star game to keep someone like himself from ever being picked again. For now, he is busy soaking up every minute of his very unexpected weekend with some of the world’s best hockey players.

“They should do something if they don’t want this to happen again,” Scott said Friday at media day. “I think it’s a good thing for the game. It’s gotten a lot of publicity. It’s gotten a lot of people excited to watch the game, so you never know. It could be a good thing.”

Fans voted the six-foot-eight Scott as captain of the Pacific Division, though Arizona traded him to Montreal and he is now at the Canadiens’ AHL affiliate in Newfoundland. In an

essay posted Thursday on The Players Tribune, Scott said someone at the NHL tried to talk him out of participating in the all-star game this weekend.

Hoping to defuse an awkward situation that has hovered over preparations for the league’s showcase event, Commissioner Gary Bettman talked with the career enforcer and told him he is welcome here. Bettman told The Associated Press he had a nice chat with Scott on Thursday night.

“And he’s more than welcome to be here,” Bettman said. “We’re happy he’s here. The fans spoke, and we’re happy to reflect their will.”

Scott called it a quick talk with the commissioner and that he felt Bettman was worried he would be uncomfortable.

“He said, ‘We’re happy you’re here.

We wanted you to be here and let’s go have fun and you know our sport’s be-

Queens can’t tame Lions Lions 3 Queens 0 CALGARY – Just when it appeared as if the RDC Queens were beginning to round into form they turn in a dismal performance in dropping a 24-26, 19-25, 19-25 decision to the Ambrose University Lions in Alberta Colleges Women’s Volleyball League play Friday.

The loss left the Queens with a 10-7 record and in fourth place while the lowly Lions sit at 3-16. ”I’m not really sure how to put it into words,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “Each set we were able to start well, but by the midpoint of the set we had very little confidence in what we needed to do.

“It will be our individual ability to find the fix and then stick with it.”

Miranda Dawe was the RDC player of the match with eight kills, two blocks and eight digs.

Kings 3 Lions 0 The first-place Kings, 16-1, turned in a strong performance at the net and recorded a 25-20, 25-21, 25-15 decision over the Lions, 8-11.

“We’ve been working at lot lately on our block defence and it looked pretty solid tonight,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “We had 10 stuff blocks and could have easily had 12 or more if not for the scrappy coverage of Ambrose.”

Middle Tom Lyon was the RDC player of the match with five kills, two blocks and an ace.

“He continually put them in trouble from the service line and got many quality touches at the net,” said Schulha.

The RDC teams host the Lions tonight beginning with the women’s match at 6 p.m.

Giesbrecht stops 31 in one goal loss Oil Barons 2 Grizzlys 1 FORT MCMURRAY — Jackson McKinstry’s third-period goal was the winner as the Fort McMurray Oil Barons edged the Olds Grizzlys 2-1 in an Alberta Junior Hockey League game Friday.

Quintin Sudom scored a first-period goal for the hosts in front of 1,178 fans at the Casman Centre.

Grizzlys forward Jeremy Klessens evened the count in the second period.

Winning netminder Eric Szudor made 26 saves, while Ben Giesbrecht blocked 31 shots in the Olds net.

The Grizzlys are in Bonnyville tonight to face the Pontiacs, then conclude their three-game road trip with a Sunday engagement with the Lloydminster Bobcats.

hind you.’ It was nice hearing that coming from him because there was a time when I was not really sure the league felt (that),” Scott said. “He kind of put those thoughts to rest.”

The NHL allowed fans to vote for the captain of each of its four divisions as the league switches to a 3-on-3 format for this all-star game. Last season, Latvian fans rallied the Internet to vote native son and Sabres forward Zemgus Girgensons into the all-star game in Columbus, Ohio.

Scott wrote that he accepted the league’s position that he didn’t belong in the all-star game — at first.

The enforcer has played for Minnesota, Chicago, the New York Rangers, Buffalo, San Jose and Arizona. He

Woodland, Choi tied for lead at Torrey Pines SAN DIEGO — Phil Mickelson had to leave the golf course to play one of his shots at Torrey Pines, an early sign of the mass exodus Friday in the Farmers Insurance Open.

By closing with three straight bogeys on the easier North Course, Mickelson missed the cut.

At least he was in good company.

Jason Day, the defending champion and No. 2 player in the world, missed the cut for the first time in nearly eight months. Also leaving early was Rickie Fowler, the No. 4 player in the world who was riding high from his victory five days ago in Abu Dhabi, Throw in Justin Rose (No. 7 in the world), and another gorgeous day along the Pacific bluffs felt like Black Friday.

Not losing sleep over the surprising departures were Gary Woodland and K.J. Choi, who shared the lead going into the weekend and Dustin Johnson, who made a risky escape on the one wild tee shot he hit and wound up one shot behind.

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Ranoic goes the distance, but loses to Murray MELBOURNE, Australia — Canada’s Milos Raonic fought through the pain of an adductor injury during his

played in a career-high 56 games with the Sabres two years ago, and scored a career-high three goals last season with the Sharks. Scott hasn’t averaged double digits in ice time during an NHL season.

Then Scott wrote someone with the NHL asked him: “Do you think this is something your kids would be proud of?”

The 33-year-old Scott has two daughters, and his wife is expecting twins within the next couple weeks.

That incident only strengthened his resolve to play Sunday.

Scott was asked if anyone with the league followed up with him about that comment about his children not being proud, and he said no. Asked if he expects anyone from the NHL to come forward over that comment, Scott simply said, “No.”

run to the title at the recent Brisbane International.

A flareup of the problem proved to be too much to overcome on a much bigger stage Friday.

Raonic missed a chance to become the first Canadian to reach a Grand Slam men’s singles final as he dropped a 4-6, 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2 decision to Andy Murray at the Australian Open. The 25-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., said he started having difficulty pushing off his right leg midway through the third set. Raonic managed to take the tiebreaker before fading over the final two sets in a match that lasted just over four hours.

“It’s unfortunate … probably the most heartbroken I’ve felt on court, but that’s what it is,” Raonic said. “I was going to play and try to do whatever I could.”

Murray, the No. 2 seed from Scotland, will face Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in Sunday’s final.

With a 2-1 lead in the fourth set, Raonic needed off-court treatment for his leg. When he returned, his power game was weakened and errors mounted.

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CURLING: Final goes at 3 p.m.

Armitage advanced to today’s 10 a.m. A-event semifinals with a 3-2 win over Duncan Chisholm of Calgary in Friday’s evening draw. The Red Deer foursome will face Lloyd Hill of Calgary, who was a 9-1 winner over Blaine Zubot of Cochrane and later downed Bryan Hill of Airdrie 6-3.

Peterman will take on Lukowich in the other A semifinal after posting a pair of convincing wins — 6-3 over Gowsell and 8-2 over Meek in the 7 p.m. draw. Lukowich advanced with 5-4 and 6-3 victories over Ian Wolsey of Lethbridge and Tarance Zak of Calgary.

The Hjertaas foursome opened with a 5-4 loss to Chisholm, then defeated Gerrish 8-2 in a B-event contest.

The A final goes at 3 p.m. today, with the B-event provincial qualifier set for Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and the C-event final scheduled for Monday at 1:30 p.m.

Other scores Friday: A event, 2 p.m. — Lloyd Hill 9 Zubot 1; Bryan Hill 7 Rick Bishop, Calgary 3; Meek 8 Scott Hellwig, Calgary 5.

B event, 7 p.m. — Bishop 7 Zubot 3; Gowsell 6 Wolsey 5. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Hockey

Today • Senior men’s curling: Southern Alberta Association playdowns, first draw at 10 a.m., A-event qualifier to provincials at 3 p.m.; Red Deer Pidherney Centre.

• Midget A hockey: Red Deer Outdoor Winter Classic, Bower community rinks.

• JV basketball: Lindsay Thurber boys/ girls tournament.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• Major bantam hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Arena.

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

• Bantam AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Cranbrook at Olds, 3:45 p.m.

• Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge White at Central Alberta, 2:45 p.m., Clive.

• Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

• College volleyball: Ambrose University College at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.

• WHL: Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena;

Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m.; Strathmore at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Blackfalds, 8 p.m.

Sunday • Senior men’s curling: Southern Alberta Association playdowns, first draw at 9:30 a.m., B-event qualifier to provincials at 2:30 p.m.; Red Deer Pidherney Centre.

• Midget A hockey: Red Deer Outdoor Winter Classic, Bower community rinks.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdire/ Cochrane at Red Deer North Star, noon, Arena.

• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 2 p.m., Lacombe; Bow Valley at Olds, 2:45 p.m.

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

• Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Okotoks Black at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

Golf Greg Owen 73-69—142 Harris English 70-72—142 Patrick Reed 69-73—142 Hunter Mahan 72-70—142 Scott Piercy 73-69—142 Kyle Stanley 69-73—142 Jason Gore 70-72—142 Kelly Kraft 70-72—142 Brandon Hagy 71-71—142 Graham DeLaet 72-71—143 Jonas Blixt 77-66—143 Brandt Snedeker 73-70—143 Danny Lee 71-72—143 Colt Knost 70-73—143 Harold Varner III 67-76—143 Tyrone Van Aswegen 69-74—143 Carlos Ortiz 69-74—143 Matt Jones 71-72—143 Robert Streb 71-72—143 John Senden 73-70—143 Charley Hoffman 75-68—143 Kyle Reifers 69-74—143 Henrik Norlander 70-73—143 Ryan Ruffels 70-73—143 Jamie Lovemark 72-71—143GLF-Bahamas-Classic-Scores, 1st Writethru

PGA Farmers Insurance Scores San Diego Purse: $5 million Par: 72 Second Round Gary Woodland 68-67—135 K.J. Choi 68-67—135 Dustin Johnson 70-66—136 Martin Laird 69-68—137 Scott Brown 66-71—137 Billy Horschel 67-70—137 Freddie Jacobson 69-69—138 Kevin Streelman 69-69—138 Si Woo Kim 70-68—138 Chad Campbell 72-66—138 J.B. Holmes 70-68—138 John Huh 69-69—138 Rob Oppenheim 67-71—138 Brian Harman 69-70—139 Ben Crane 71-68—139 Derek Fathauer 74-65—139 Michael Kim 70-69—139 Jim Herman 69-71—140 Angel Cabrera 70-70—140 Smylie Kaufman 69-71—140 Jimmy Walker 69-71—140 Brendan Steele 68-72—140 Patton Kizzire 67-73—140 Paul Dunne 69-71—140 Bud Cauley 71-69—140 Bronson Burgoon 72-68—140 Michael Thompson 70-71—141 Steve Marino 69-72—141 J.J. Henry 70-71—141 Chesson Hadley 68-73—141 Adam Hadwin 71-70—141 Jhonattan Vegas 72-69—141 Charles Howell III 70-71—141 Hudson Swafford 70-71—141 Scott Stallings 68-73—141 Ollie Schniederjans 69-72—141 Andrew Loupe 66-75—141 Erik Compton 71-71—142 Tony Finau 71-71—142 Shane Lowry 71-71—142 James Hahn 73-69—142 Martin Piller 70-72—142 Hiroshi Iwata 69-73—142 Shane Bertsch 75-67—142 Aaron Baddeley 73-69—142 Robert Garrigus 70-72—142 Jason Kokrak 75-67—142

Bahamas LPGA Classic Scores NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Scores Friday in the Bahamas Classic, a US LPGA Tour event at 6,625-yard, par-73 (36-37) Ocean Club Golf Course: Second Round Megan Khang 70-68—138 Haru Nomura 68-70—138 Charley Hull 68-70—138 Sei Young Kim 71-68—139 Anna Nordqvist 70-69—139 Min Seo Kwak 69-70—139 Catriona Matthew 68-71—139 Hyo Joo Kim 70-70—140 Paula Creamer 68-72—140 Stacy Lewis 73-68—141 Brittany Lincicome 70-71—141 Alison Lee 68-73—141 Cristie Kerr 77-65—142 Austin Ernst 73-69—142 Kim Kaufman 73-69—142 Giulia Sergas 72-70—142 Moriya Jutanugarn 71-71—142 Laetitia Beck 70-72—142

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Brandon 48 30 14 2 2 183 136 64 Prince Albert 48 26 17 4 1 154 152 57 Moose Jaw 49 24 18 6 1 164 154 55 Regina 49 21 21 3 4 154 173 49 Saskatoon 49 17 28 4 0 140 202 38 Swift Current 48 16 27 4 1 121 162 37 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Lethbridge 49 36 13 0 0 208 138 72 Red Deer 50 32 15 1 2 190 143 67 Calgary 49 29 18 1 1 164 154 60 Edmonton 50 20 23 6 1 133 156 47 Medicine Hat 49 20 25 3 1 158 192 44 Kootenay 49 8 37 4 0 102 213 20 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 48 34 11 3 0 179 135 71 Victoria 50 30 15 2 3 175 120 65 Prince George 50 29 18 2 1 179 154 61 Kamloops 48 22 18 5 3 160 157 52 Vancouver 51 19 27 3 2 148 183 43 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 47 28 15 2 2 125 101 60 Seattle 46 26 17 3 0 144 132 55 Portland 49 25 22 2 0 161 155 52 Spokane 46 22 19 3 2 153 158 49 Tri-City 48 21 25 2 0 154 179 44 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 Swift Current 4 Prince George 3 (OT) Regina 4 Saskatoon 0 Calgary 4 Prince Albert 1 Edmonton 4 Brandon 3 Red Deer 8 Kootenay 2 Medicine Hat 3 Moose Jaw 1 Vancouver 4 Kamloops 3 (OT) Victoria 3 Lethbridge 1 Kelowna 5 Portland 3 Seattle at Spokane, late.

Tri-City 2 Everett 1 Saturday’s games Prince George at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Lethbridge at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Portland at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

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

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Medicine Hat at Moose Jaw, 3 p.m.

Prince Albert at Swift Current, 3 p.m.

Brandon at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Kootenay at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 5:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.

Tuesday, February 2 Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Prince George at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Wednesday, February 3 Prince George at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Spokane at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Friday, February 5 Medicine Hat at Regina, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Prince George at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Calgary at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Kamloops at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

NY Islanders 47

Rebels 8, Ice 2 First Period 1. Red Deer, Debrusk 15 (Polei, Fleury) :34.

2. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 18 (De Wit, Shmoorkoff) 9:18.

3. Red Deer, Musil 14 (Polei) 10:12.

4. Kootenay, Zborosky 19 (Alfaro) 14:17 (shorthanded-SH).

Penalties — Loschiavo Koo (delay of game) 12:30.

Second Period 5. Red Deer, Helewka 27 (Spacek, Fleury) 15:44.

6. Red Deer, Pratt 6 (unassisted) 15:51.

7. Red Deer, Strand 2 (Purtill, Pratt) 19:11.

Penalties — Fleury RD (roughing) 1:11, Alfaro Koo (tripping) 9:50, Beattie Koo (hooking) 13:43.

Third Period 8. Kootenay, Alfaro 14 (Lishchynsky, Zborosky) 2:34 (pp).

9. Red Deer, Helewka 28 (Bobyk, Nikolishin) 12:55 (pp).

10. Red Deer, Bobyk 14 (Doetzel, De Wit) 17:05.

Penalties — Hagel RD (holding) 1:53, Allan Koo (roughing) 6:56, Hagel RD (roughing) 6:56, Dymacek Koo (checking to the head) 11:06, Polei RD (inter. on goaltender) 11:27, Alfaro Koo (high-sticking) 12:01, Purtill RD (roughing) 19:30.

Shots on goal by Kootenay 6 8 9 — 23 Red Deer 17 16 16 — 49 Goal — Kootenay: Hoflin (L, 0-27-0) Red Deer: Martin (W, 0-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Kootenay: 1-3 Red Deer: 1-5.

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF GA Florida 49 29 15 5 135 108 Tampa Bay 49 27 18 4 130 117 Detroit 49 25 16 8 122 124 Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF GA Washington 47 35 8 4 158 104 NY Rangers 49 27 17 5 142 129

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25 16 6 130 118 56 WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA Pt Boston 49 26 18 5 147 131 57 Pittsburgh 48 24 17 7 121 120 55 New Jersey 50 25 20 5 114 118 55 Carolina 51 23 20 8 123 135 54 Montreal 50 24 22 4 136 134 52 Ottawa 50 23 21 6 139 155 52 Philadelphia 47 21 18 8 109 127 50 Buffalo 50 20 26 4 114 136 44 Toronto 48 17 22 9 114 134 43 Columbus 51 19 27 5 133 163 43 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt Chicago 53 33 16 4 147 122 70 Dallas 50 31 14 5 162 133 67 St. Louis 52 28 16 8 129 128 64 Pacific Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt Los Angeles 49 30 16 3 129 113 63 San Jose 48 26 18 4 142 129 56 Arizona 49 24 20 5 131 146 53 WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA Pt Colorado 52 27 22 3 143 142 57 Nashville 50 24 18 8 129 131 56 Minnesota 49 23 17 9 121 115 55 Anaheim 47 22 18 7 101 111 51 Vancouver 50 20 19 11 122 139 51 Winnipeg 49 22 24 3 126 140 47 Calgary 48 21 24 3 126 146 45 Edmonton 50 19 26 5 122 149 43 Note: 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. d — automatically qualifies for playoffs w — qualifies for playoffs through wild card Tuesday, February 2 Minnesota at NY Islanders, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 5 p.m.

NY Rangers at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Arizona, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, February 3 Buffalo at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 4 Minnesota at NY Rangers, 5 p.m.

Boston at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

NY Islanders at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Nashville, 6 p.m.

San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 31 15 .674 — Boston 27 21 .563 5 New York 23 26 .469 9 1/2 Brooklyn 12 35 .255 19 1/2 Philadelphia 7 40 .149 24 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 27 21 .563 — Miami 26 21 .553 1/2 Charlotte 22 25 .468 4 1/2 Washington 20 24 .455 5 Orlando 20 25 .444 5 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 33 12 .733 — Chicago 26 19 .578 7 Detroit 25 22 .532 9 Indiana 24 22 .522 9 1/2 Milwaukee 20 29 .408 15 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 39 7 .848 —

Boston 113, Orlando 94 Cleveland 114, Detroit 106 New York 102, Phoenix 84 Miami 107, Milwaukee 103 Oklahoma City 116, Houston 108 Dallas 91, Brooklyn 79 Utah 103, Minnesota 90 Portland 109, Charlotte 91 L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, late Saturday’s Games Golden State at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Denver at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Washington at Houston, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Chicago at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 4 p.m.

Boston at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Phoenix at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Golden State at New York, 8:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Portland, 7 p.m.

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

Memphis Dallas Houston New Orleans

27 20 .574 12 1/2 27 22 .551 13 1/2 25 24 .510 15 1/2 17 28 .378 21 1/2 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 36 13 .735 — Portland 22 26 .458 13 1/2 Utah 21 25 .457 13 1/2 Denver 18 29 .383 17 Minnesota 14 34 .292 21 1/2 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 42 4 .913 — L.A. Clippers 30 16 .652 12 Sacramento 20 26 .435 22 Phoenix 14 34 .292 29 L.A. Lakers 9 39 .188 34 Thursday’s Games Indiana 111, Atlanta 92 Denver 117, Washington 113 New Orleans 114, Sacramento 105 Memphis 103, Milwaukee 83 Toronto 103, New York 93 Chicago 114, L.A. Lakers 91 Friday’s Games

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Friday’s results Georgia 20 Toronto 17 Saskatchewan 12 Colorado 10 Saturday’s games Buffalo at New England, 5 p.m.

Georgia at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary,7 p.m.

Football NFL Playoffs Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 9 Kansas City 30, Houston 0 Pittsburgh 18, Cincinnati 16 Sunday, Jan. 10 Seattle 10, Minnesota 9 Green Bay 35, Washington 18 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 New England 27, Kansas City 20 Arizona 26, Green Bay 20, OT Sunday, Jan. 17 Carolina 31, Seattle 24 Denver 23, Pittsburgh 16

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC Denver 20, New England 18 NFC Carolina 49, Arizona 15 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 5 p.m.

Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Santa Clara, Calif.

Denver vs. Carolina, 4:30 p.m.

2016 Canadian Junior Curling Championships STRATFORD, Ont. — Standings and results Friday following draw 15 at the 2016 Canadian junior curling championships, to be held through Sunday at the Stratford Rotary Complex: MEN Championship Pool Team (Skip) W L x-Northern Ont. (T.Horgan) 9 1 x-Manitoba (Dunstone) 9 1 x-B.C. (T.Tardi) 7 3 Quebec (Asselin) 6 4 Alberta (K.Sturmay) 6 4 Saskatchewan (Hersikorn) 5 5 Ontario (Kee) 5 5 New Brunswick (A.Robichaud) 4 6 x — clinched playoff berth.

Friday’s results Draw 15 Championship Pool Manitoba 5 British Columbia 4 (extra end) Northern Ontario 5 Quebec 4 Ontario 10 New Brunswick 7 Alberta 7 Saskatchewan 6 Seeding Pool Nova Scotia 9 P.E.I. 2 Thursday’s results Draw 13 Championship Pool Manitoba 6 Saskatchewan 3 Quebec 10 New Brunswick 9 Seeding Pool Nfld. & Labrador 9 P.E.I. 8 Nova Scotia 10 Northwest Territories 3 Yukon 11 Nunavut 1

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Assigned OF Joey Terdoslavich outright to Norfolk (IL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with LHP Robbie Ross on a one-year contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Ian Kennedy on a five-year contract. Designated RHP Louis Coleman for assignment.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Assigned LHP Logan Darnell outright to Rochester (IL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with INF Maicer Izturis on a minor league contract.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Stephen Fife, Brandon Gomes, Jean Machi, Jonathan Pettibone and Drew Rucinski LHPs Luis Cruz and Jack Leathersich INFs Jesus Guzman, Munenori Kawasaki and Kristopher Negron OF Juan Perez and C Tim Federowicz on minor league contracts.

NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with 2B Neil Walker on a one-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Claimed LHP Bobby LaFromboise off waivers from the L.A. Angels.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed RHP John Brownell.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Traded LHP Francsico Gracequi to Sioux Falls (AA) for C Richard Stock.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed LHP Richard Salazar and INF Luis Gonzalez.

Frontier League RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed LHP Michael Gunn and 1B Willi Martin.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed RHPs Brandon Boyle and Tyler Murphy.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled F Montrezl Harrell and G/F K.J. McDaniels from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).

NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed F Thanasis Antetokounmpo to a 10-day contract.

PHOENIX SUNS — Signed G Jordan McRae to a 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League DETROIT LIONS — Named Michael McCarthy quality control-offensive line coach, Harold Nash Jr. strength and conditioning coach and Matt Harriss vice-president of football operations.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed TE Travis Kelce to a contract extension.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Agreed to terms with OT Lane Johnson on a six-year contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned D Mason Geersten from San Antonio (AHL) to Fort Wayne (ECHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned D Dalton Thrower from St. John’s (AHL) to Brampton (ECHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled G Ken Appleby from Adirondack (ECHL) to Albany (AHL).

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Assigned D Harrison Ruopo from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL) to Wheeling (ECHL).

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Assigned F Nikita Jevpalovs from San Jose (AHL) to Allen (ECHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Hershey LW Jakub Vrana two games.

BINGHAMTON SENATORS — Assigned F Alex Wideman to Evansville (ECHL).

ECHL ADIRONDACK THUNDER — Added G Joe Spadaccini as emergency backup.

ALLEN AMERICANS — Released F Casey Thrush.

BRAMPTON BEAST — Signed F Steve Mele.

ELMIRA JACKALS — Signed D Taylor Love.

SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Re-signed G Kyle Reynish. Signed D Connor Lade to a multi-year contract.

North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Signed M Yohandry Orozco.

COLLEGE BOISE STATE — Named Zak Hill quarterbacks coach and co-offensive co-ordinator. Promoted offensive line coach Scott Huff to co-offensive co-ordinator and wide receivers coach Junior Adams to passing game co-ordinator.

LIMESTONE — Named Jordan Manning assistant track and field coach for jumps.

MICHIGAN — Named Warde Manuel athletic director and signed him to a five-year contract.

NORTH CAROLINA — Named Chad Scott tight ends/hybrids coach.

Announced women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell will serve a onegame suspension by the school and an additional game by the NCAA for for making contact with an official Sunday’s game and women’s assistant basketball coach Tracey Williams-Johnson will be suspended for one game by the NCAA for the same incident.

NOTRE DAME — Agreed to terms with football coach Brian Kelly on a six-year contract.

SHENANDOAH — Named Jimmy Bowman assistant softball coach and Maddie Taghon women’s assistant lacrosse coach.

Draw 14 Championship Pool Alberta 6 New Brunswick 4 Saskatchewan 5 Ontario 1 Quebec 9 British Columbia 5 Northern Ontario 7 Manitoba 5 (extra end) Seeding Pool Nfld. & Labrador 17 Northwest Territories 4 PLAYOFFS Saturday’s game Semifinal Manitoba vs. British Columbia, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s game Final Northern Ontario vs. Manitoba-British Columbia winner, 1 p.m.

WOMEN Championship Pool Team (Skip) W L x-Nova Scotia (Fay) 9 1 x-B.C. (S.Daniels) 8 2 tx-New Brunswick (J.Comeau) 7 3 t-Manitoba (Ackland) 7 3 Alberta (S.Sturmay) 6 4 Quebec (L.St-Georges) 6 4 Ontario (Auld) 5 5 Saskatchewan (Ko.Kesser) 4 6 x — clinched playoff berth t — played tiebreaker.

Friday’s results Draw 15 Championship Pool Ontario 9 Quebec 4 Alberta 9 Saskatchewan 5

Nova Scotia 8 Manitoba 6 New Brunswick 5 British Columbia 2 Seeding Pool Northern Ontario 8 P.E.I. 3 Thursday’s results Draw 13 Championship Pool Manitoba 6 Saskatchewan 5 Ontario 10 New Brunswick 4 Seeding Pool P.E.I. 6 Nunavut 5 Northern Ontario 13 Yukon 6 Nfld. & Labrador 13 Northwest Territories 2 Draw 14 Championship Pool Quebec 8 Saskatchewan 5 Alberta 9 Ontario 2 British Columbia 8 Manitoba 5 Nova Scotia 11 New Brunswick 4 Seeding Pool Nunavut 11 Yukon 3 PLAYOFFS Friday’s result Tiebreaker New Brunswick 7 Manitoba 5 Saturday’s game Semifinal British Columbia vs. New Brunswick, 12 p.m.

Sunday’s game Final Nova Scotia vs. British Columbia-New Brunswick winner, 8 a.m.

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January 30 2004 — Supreme Court of Canada upholds a law allowing parents to spank their children within reasonable limits.

1991 — The Hudson’s Bay Company announces it is selling its fur business due to declining sales and auction competition. The HBC was originally founded as a fur trading company in 1670, and is the world’s oldest continuously operating joint stock company.

1990 — Finance Minister Michael Wilson gets seven per cent Goods and Services Tax bill through First reading in the Commons; GST to start January, 1991.

1948 — Canadian team attend opening of the fifth Winter Olympic games in St Moritz. Among those attending is Barbara Ann Scott, who will win the Gold in Figure Skating, and the RCAF Flyers ice hockey team, who will also take home the gold.

1923 — Canadian National Railways takes over the Grand Trunk Railway, starting the amalgamation of other lines to create what is now CN Rail.

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Economy showing signs of life 0.3% GROWTH IN NOVEMBER, FIRST GDP INCREASE SINCE SUMMER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian economic growth crawled back into positive territory in November, showing its first sign of life in the monthly data since the summer.

The latest reading for the country’s real gross domestic product showed that the economy expanded 0.3 per cent in November, an increase after zero growth in October and a contraction of 0.5 per cent in September, Statistics Canada said Friday.

It was the first time the economy grew since August, when there was a razor-thin increase of 0.1 per cent.

“It was a drama-free release — finally,” said Jimmy Jean, senior economist with Desjardins.

“After a couple of months of difficult economic performance, now we have finally a GDP report that we can deem as satisfactory.”

November’s GDP growth was mostly due to increased activity in retail and wholesale trade, energy extraction and manufacturing, the federal agency said.

Wholesale trade bounced back to expand 1.3 per cent in November after shrinking for four straight months.

Growth in retail trade increased 1.2 per cent following an October contraction of 0.2 per cent, while manufacturing saw an increase of 0.4 per cent after falling for two consecutive months, Statistics Canada said.

Jean pointed to all these gains as signals that the positives the Bank of Canada has been hoping for could be starting to materialize.

Overall natural resources extraction rose 0.6 per cent in November. Oil and gas extraction increased 2.1 per cent to help offset the weight of the mining and quarrying component, which declined 2.3 per cent.

Downward pressure on GDP — a broad measure of the economy — also came from the finance and insurance sector, which contracted 0.3 per cent for its fourth straight monthly decline.

The GDP reading was released as Canada limps through the net negative effects of a commodity price shock that began in late 2014.

The figure tees up a potentially weak GDP num-

ber for the fourth quarter amid downgraded expectations for the final three months of last year.

Experts are predicting feeble if any growth in the fourth quarter, but Desjardins’ Jean says the first quarter of this year could be headed in the right direction based on Friday’s data. “(The fourth quarter) has already been written off as a disappointment,” he said.

The Bank of Canada recently lowered its GDP forecast for the fourth quarter to 0.3 per cent, down from 0.7 per cent. Earlier this month, the central bank also decreased its GDP prediction for the first quarter of 2016 to 0.8 per cent and for the second quarter to 1.4 per cent.

Canada’s economy fell into the technical definition of a recession in the first half of 2015 when GDP fell for two straight quarters. It decreased at an annual pace of 0.7 per cent over the first three months of 2015 and again by 0.3 per cent in the second quarter.

In the third quarter, however, GDP rebounded by generating 2.3 per cent growth.

B.C. Hard-hit Alberta may qualify residents for federal cash relief

accused of $60-million fraud

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Alberta could be in line for financial relief from an obscure, seldom-used federal program in order to help ease the economic pain caused by falling commodity prices.

The Alberta government could be eligible for payments under the 50-year-old fiscal stabilization program, designed to compensate provinces that suffer steep drops in revenues from one year to the next, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Friday.

Now Saskatchewan, Alberta’s resource-producing neighbour, has taken notice.

The Prairie province has also been walloped by the commodity slump, but its finance minister acknowledged Friday it doesn’t quite meet the criteria to receive cash through the fiscal stabilization program — yet.

“I can’t foretell right now what’s going to happen next fiscal year, but we may get to a point where we might be eligible,” Saskatchewan Finance Minister Kevin Doherty told The Canadian Press in an interview.

Doherty, who hadn’t heard of the program until very recently, suggested the formula behind fiscal stabilization could be ready for an update because of the severity of the resource-related shock in several provinces.

It also has the potential to drag on, he added.

“Maybe now is the time to take a look at some type of a stabilization fund or re-tweaking of that legislation such that it recognizes the significance of those downturns in those provincial economies,” said Doherty, whose province has particularly felt the squeeze of low prices in oil, potash and uranium.

“We’re kind of being hit by the perfect storm in commodities right now.”

He did acknowledge, however, that Alberta is facing a considerably bigger financial challenge than Saskatchewan.

Last fall, Alberta projected large revenue declines for 2015-16. Since then, resource prices have slipped even further.

Provinces can make claims under the program when economic shifts cause their revenues to tumble by more than five per cent from one year to the next. Declines in resource revenues of more than 50 per cent are also accounted for.

They can receive up to a maximum

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Minister of Finance Bill Morneau responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday payment of $60 for every provincial resident, an amount set in the late 1980s.

Morneau said Alberta, which has a population of about 4.1 million, could receive up to $250 million from Ottawa.

Doherty estimates Saskatchewan would receive as much as $70 million if it qualified.

“Which is not a great deal of money on a $14-billion-plus budget, but it certainly would be helpful,” said Doherty, who’s also calling on Ottawa to expedite its promised infrastructure spending.

Doherty said he hadn’t had a closeenough look at the formula to specifically suggest whether its eligibility requirements or the cap should be re-examined.

For his part, Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci said Friday that he didn’t have any problems with the $60-per-person maximum.

Ceci did confirm that he spoke with Morneau and that a decision on the fiscal stabilization could be made in the coming days.

“We’ve had some discussion about the difficulties Alberta is in right now and the support federal assistance would mean for this province,” Ceci told reporters in Calgary.

“Anything would be helpful. As a population, as an economy, as an industry it is challenging right now for

all Albertans.”

Morneau said Friday that Ottawa would work “expeditiously” to move forward on any claim made by Alberta.

Alberta’s situation has become a priority for the federal government.

A senior federal government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a fiscal-stabilization payment was just one of several possibilities Ottawa is exploring as it scrambles to find ways to help the hard-hit province.

In preparation for the spring budget, the federal government has also instructed bureaucrats across many departments to generate “innovative ideas” that could help provide specific relief for the Alberta economy, said the source, who wasn’t authorized to disclose details publicly.

Alberta’s woes are “dragging down the entire Canadian economy,” the source warned.

Potential solutions include fast-tracking infrastructure spending and tweaking the usual, per-capita infrastructure funding disbursement formula to reflect economic need, the source noted. Another idea being examined is a boost to direct transfers to individuals, perhaps through modifications to the employment insurance program.

Trudeau is scheduled to visit Alberta next week.

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia brother and sister committed US$60-million in fraud in a far-reaching scheme stretching to Taiwan, China and the Rupublic of Georgia, the B.C. Securities Commission alleges.

The commission issued a notice of hearing against Winter Huang and his sister Vicky Dancho and two B.C.-incorporated companies alleging fraud and illegal securities distribution.

Huang was a director and controlling mind of Pegasus Pharmaceuticals Group Inc., and Careseng Cancer Institute Inc., while Dancho was a director, CEO and president of Careseng Cancer, according to the commission.

It alleged that between 2008 and 2012, Pegasus Pharmaceuticals issued $36.4 million in bonds to Taiwanese investors that included guarantees from Careseng Cancer of repayment of principal at maturity.

“Huang and Dancho knew, or ought to have known, that these guarantees were false as Careseng Cancer had no operations, no employees, no revenue, and less than US$50,000 in assets,” the commission said in a news release Friday.

Hearing dates have not been set so the allegations have not yet been tested at a hearing before the commission nor in court.

The commission said that between 2011 and 2012, Pegasus fraudulently raised about US$15.4 million purportedly for projects in the Republic of Georgia and US$11.1 million for a project in China.

Only about US$2 million went toward the projects, the commission alleged.

“Instead, Pegasus Pharmaceuticals used the remaining investor funds to make payments to earlier investors, pay commissions to Pegasus Pharmaceuticals bonds sales agents, and for Pegasus Pharmaceuticals’ operational costs unrelated to the projects.”

Number of options to help with high cost of higher education Dear Working Wise: My son is working part time while he completes Grade 12, but he’s not saving any money for college. We’ve saved some money for his education, but not enough for four years. How can we encourage him to start saving? Signed Anxious Dad Dear Anxious: Higher education is not getting any cheaper – that’s why it’s important for your son to start thinking about how he’s going to pay for his education.

Fortunately, there are a number of different ways he can help pay for his education, including savings from part-time work.

First, in addition to Registered Education Savings CHARLES Plans and gifts from parents, STRACHEY scholarships and bursaries are a great source of educaWORKING WISE tional funding.

Many scholarships are awarded on academic achievement while others are awarded for athletic involvement, leadership, community service, area of interest and the school you are attending.

Bursaries are awards based primarily on finan-

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cial need, but may also require additional criteria such as community involvement or proven leadership skills.

There are a vast number of different awards. For more information on scholarships and bursaries, including a searchable list of awards, visit alis.alberta. ca/scholarships.

Second, students can apply for government student loans through Student Aid Alberta which can help cover basic costs of learning and living. The goals of the program are to reduce financial barriers and enable access to post-secondary education. Students can apply online at www.studentaid.alberta.ca.

Third, students can work while they are in post-secondary. Research shows that most students can work 10-15 hours per week without any noticeable impacts to their studies.

Working a few hours a week helps post-secondary students learn time management and employability skills. It can also save years of repaying loans for not only tuition and books, but pocket money for movie tickets and pizza.

Fourth, your son might want to consider an education that allows him to earn while he learns.

Apprenticeships and co-op education programs allow students to earn an income for part of the year while they learn on the job. For more information on Alberta’s 50 registered trades, visit tradesecrets. alberta.ca.

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Finally, working part time while in high school is a fantastic way for students to save for their post-secondary education. But it’s the kind of good idea that’s hard to sell until Frosh Week begins.

Discussing with your son what his education is going to cost, showing him what you can contribute and what he will need to pay through scholarships, loans, working and saving might help him understand why it’s important to start saving now.

Setting goals and coming up with a plan might also make university seem a little more real and get him excited about saving for post-secondary.

The Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) web site has a whole section devoted to advising high school students on post-secondary costs, ways to pay, and how to manage their money at alis.alberta. ca.

Good luck!

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

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

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets continued their late-month rally Friday, with Canada’s main index now having clawed back most of the big losses it suffered at the start of the year.

“The early part of this year got off to a very negatively tilted sentiment,” said Colum McKinley, vice-president and portfolio manager of Canadian Equities at CIBC Asset Management.

“And, I think, we’re seeing some relief over the last — not just today — but over the last week or so from that negative slant.”

The S&P/TSX composite index closed 230.20 points higher at 12,822.13 on Friday, leaving it down 1.4 per cent or 187.82 points since the start of the year, as oil prices continue to improve.

The March contract for North American benchmark crude oil closed up 40 cents at US$33.62 a barrel.

It has now risen 18.5 per cent since finishing as low at US$28.36 last week. McKinley said there will be continued volatility in oil prices, but they will improve in the longrun as production growth slows.

The commodity-sensitive Canadian dollar also continued to trend higher on the strength in oil, up 0.22 of a U.S. cent at 71.40 cents US after having rebounded from below 69 cents US early last week.

In New York, markets were sharply higher. Good earnings reports from American companies like Microsoft, after others disappointed, helped propel the markets, said McKinley, as did rising oil prices.

The Dow Jones industrial average soared 396.66 points to 16,466.30. The S&P 500 rose 46.88 points to 1,940.24 and the Nasdaq added 107.27 points to 4,613.95.

But January was a tough month for U.S. markets, as well, despite recent gains.

The beginning of the year was the worst in the history of the Dow and the S&P 500 as both indexes fell into a correction or a drop of at least 10 per cent from a recent peak. Both are down around six per cent this month, while the Nasdaq is off about eight per cent.

Some of today’s steep gains came after the Bank of Japan announced it would impose a 0.1 per cent fee on some new commercial bank deposits with the central bank, effectively a negative interest rate.

The bank said it hopes the move will encourage commercial banks to lend more, thereby stimulating in-

Flying tire kills former CEO TORONTO — Paul Philip Koenderman, the former CEO of Aecon Industrial, has been identified as the motorist killed Wednesday morning when his SUV was hit by wheel that flew off a truck on Highway 400 north of Toronto.

Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry Schmidt identified Koenderman, 69, as the driver of the SUV who was taken to hospital after the accident. The company confirmed his death.

Schmidt said a southbound tractor-trailer lost a set of tandem tires from its right rear side and they bounced into the northbound lanes, hitting Koenderman’s SUV, causing him to lose control and drive into a ditch.

The impact crushed the hood, shattered the windshield and crumpled the SUV’s roof.

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.93 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.01 First Quantum Minerals . . 3.03 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 15.96 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 2.76 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.31 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.88 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.84 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.700 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 5.23

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 77.85 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 31.79 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.36 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 13.94 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.95 Pengrowth Energy . . . . 1.1700 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.010 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.77 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.18 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.690 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.96 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 37.46 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1100

Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.83 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.11 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 43.51 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.92 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 16.21 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 29.99 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.39 Canyon Services Group. . 4.29 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.26 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 6.15 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.540

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.22 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 57.39 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.24 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 22.96 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.72 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.91 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 84.00 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.47 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 39.97 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.200 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 72.55 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.18 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.15

vestment and growth in the world’s third-largest economy.

“People are interpreting that as potentially contributing to reinvigorating global growth,” said McKinley.

Japan’s Nikkei 225, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and the Shanghai composite all rose on the news, as did European indexes.

Elsewhere in commodities, March natural gas shot up 11.6 cents to US$2.298 per mmBtu, while April gold added 30 cents to US$1,116.40 an ounce and March copper rose 1.55 cents to US$2.067 a pound.

Cdn — 71.40 cents US, up 0.22 of a cent Pound — C$1.9959, down 2.07 cents Euro — C$1.5173, down 1.96 cents Euro — US$1.0833, down 1.07 cents Oil futures: US$33.62 per barrel, up 40 cents (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,116.40 per oz., up 30 cents (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.795 oz., up 5.9 cents $668.56 kg., up $1.90

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,822.13, up 230.20 points Dow — 16,466.30, up 396.66 points S&P 500 — 1,940.24, up 46.88 points Nasdaq — 4,613.95, up 107.27 points Currencies:

ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $2.50 lower $475.40 May ‘16 $2.30 lower $485.00 July ‘16 $2.30 lower $490.60 Nov. ‘16 $1.80 lower $489.70 Jan. ‘17 $2.40 lower $491.20 March ‘17 $2.40 lower $491.40 May ‘17 $2.40 lower $490.10 July ‘17 $2.40 lower $490.10 Nov. ‘17 $2.40 lower $490.10 Jan. ‘18 $2.40 lower $490.10 March ‘18 $2.40 lower $490.10.

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Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 582,920 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 582,920.

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Parkland C.L.A.S.S.. has grown over Äve decades to become one of the largest disability based service providers in Alberta. Parkland C.L.A.S.S. exists to improve the quality of life of children & adults with developmental disabilities through individual choice, dignity and rights. We strive to empower the people we serve, measuring our success against the goals they set for themselves.

COMMUNITY BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR – 1 YEAR TERM POSSIBILITY OF EXTENSION We are looking to fill a key position on our Services Management Team. This challenging role will require a selfdirected, team-orientated professional with proven behavioural management skills, in addition to strong problem solving, communication, relationship building, teaching and consensus decision making skills.

In exchange we offer a dynamic Servant-Leadership based working environment where your opinion and expertise are both valued and included in our decision making. We will provide you with a supportive, encouraging and challenging growth opportunity.

You will collaborate with the management team to assess and develop positive behaviour management strategies; manage and mentor residential supervisors and proprietors by providing training and support to both frontline and supervisory staff. Developing positive behaviour strategies will necessitate working very closely with the behavioural team, frontline staff and those in service.

A degree in Rehabilitation or a related field with a focus in behaviour management and several years of directly related experience assessing, developing and implementing behaviour programs is necessary. In addition you will have several years’ experience in a Program Supervisor role, ideally with teaching experience.

Average hours will be 40 per week. Candidate must be able to work evenings and weekends if required.

Must have driver’s license and own vehicle and be available for on call duties. Salary: $4,969.00/month Please forward cover letter and resume quoting competition #5441CBMC by Feb 9, 2016 to:

HUMAN RESOURCES, PARKLAND CLASS 6010 – 45th Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 3M4, Fax: (403) 986- 2404, email: hr@pclass.org We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Competition will remain open until position is filled.

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Central Alberta’s career site of choice.

The incumbent manages and continuously strives to improve loan documentation related service levels; coordinates relationships with external solution providers; serves as the key administrator and expert for lending related systems; oversees process improvement projects; helps guide the development of policy and standards; and guides the development of credit administration team members.

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Role requirements include experience in commercial, agriculture and retail lending/ credit administration. Preference will be given to candidates with management experience and those who have completed relevant advanced education.

Please visit the career page at mvcu.ca for full details on this exciting career opportunity.

Red Deer Mini Job Fair Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016 9:30 a.m. - Noon Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4911 - 51 Street, Red Deer Bring your resumé

RDC IS HIRING: It’s Not Just Students Who Have Dreams To Fulfill Red Deer College is seeking community-minded individuals who would like to take part in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help write our next chapter and participate in the Shaping Our Future fundraising initiative.

Government

If you are an exceptional leader with superior relationship building skills who is interested in joining Shaping Our Future, a fundraising initiative tasked with the responsibility of raising $25 million towards the capital costs of RDC’s new Gary W. Harris Centre for Health, Wellness & Sport, you may be the right fit for one of our current vacancies:

Chairperson Board of Governors The Rupertsland Institute Métis Centre of Excellence seeks a distinguished Métis professional to serve as Chairperson of the Institute’s Board of Governors.

An undergraduate, graduate, or professional designation from a post-secondary institution is required with proven management and Ànancial experience; along with a record of accomplishment and demonstrable skills related to Àeld of expertise. Background knowledge of the Métis Nation of Alberta and its governing structures is mandatory.

Knowledge of the Alberta education system, and private and public sector institutions and their objects is considered an asset.

Please apply to:

Campaign Manager: The Campaign Manager is responsible for ensuring all elements of the Fund Development Strategy are mobilized, implemented and delivered to successful completion. The Campaign Manager will work closely with the Operations Manager, key volunteers, senior administrators and division staff to help achieve the College’s fundraising targets and objectives linked to the components of the Shaping Our Future initiative.

Major Gifts Officer: The Major Gifts Officer is responsible for developing and executing strategies designed to achieve the financial goals of the Shaping Our Future Fund Development Program within the major gifts and philanthropic donations acquisitions. The Major Gifts Officer will direct prospect research, proposal preparations, presentations, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship.

Manager Sponsorship/Business Development: The Sponsorship/Business Development Manager is responsible for serving as the operational leader for sponsorship acquisition and fulfillment. The Sponsorship/Business Development Manager will lead the planning, implementation and evaluation of all Red Deer College sponsorship programs, and will work toward capital expansion plans of Shaping Our Future, program support, equipment or scholarships and awards.

employment@rupertsland.org Visit: www.rupertsland.org for details.

Associate Director Métis Education Edmonton, AB To enhance outcomes in Métis education, we are seeking M.Ed/Ph.D designation or closely related discipline working with policy under the Alberta K-12 system.

This is a rare opportunity to help lead Red Deer College towards a bright future that will benefit all of central Alberta. For more details and to apply on-line visit rdc.ab.ca/employment.

Strong background in historical/contemporary Métis Nation is required along with minimum 5 yrs. experience in admin./negotiation/communityrelations/exceptional research and policy development.

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Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $190.00 May ‘16 unchanged $194.00 July ‘16 unchanged $196.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $196.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $196.00

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Burns Day in Bowden

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Piped in by Michael McLetchie, Bill Whitehead, Grade 4 teacher at Bowden Grandview School, bears the haggis for the class, to celebrate Robert Burns Day.

For 19 years now, Bill Whitehead, Grade 4 teacher at Bowden Grandview School, has helped the class celebrate Robert Burns Day. The students memorize and recite some Robbie Burnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; poetry. The two they recited this year were Scots Wha Hae and Red Red Rose.

They also recited the last stanza of the Address to a Haggis. Michael McLetchie from Innisfail always does a very

dramatic Address and invites the children to come in on the last verse. Michael also pipes in the haggis.

Of the 26 students, only two chose not to try it and only one of the 22 tasters said that he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enjoy it. The sashes the students wore are the provincial tartans of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, and New Brunswick.

As well, the kids really do try to wear a tartan, or a plaid shirt, or their best shirt and tie for the celebration. This year, Emily Smith wore her kilt and so did her dad, Thomas.

The children recited two poems written by Robert Burns, and joined Michael McLetchie in the famous Address to the Haggis, before sampling.

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Mother-of-two gets two years for drug charges

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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A young mother-of-two who fell into the Red Deer drug scene was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday.

The 23-year-old Valleyview woman pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Friday to 13 charges, including possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking, drug possession, theft, obstructing a police officer and failing to do community service among other charges.

She is not being named to protect the identity of her children.

Federal Crown prosecutor Dave Inglis said the drug charges stemmed from last July when she was found by police behind a Red Deer grocery store. Cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy, meth were seized by police along with digital scales, small bags and 10 cellphones. Stolen Visa cards, driver’s licences and health cards from two people were also recovered.

Other charges related to a December incident when police came upon a suspicious vehicle. When they approached, the woman threw the vehicle in reverse and backed into an SUV, narrowly missing a police officer.

In May last year she was arrested after stealing a bottle of vodka from a Rocky Mountain House liquor store.

Four months later, she was also found by police in a stolen vehicle.

She also has numerous breaches of court orders.

Defence lawyer Paul Morigeau said the woman’s life spiralled out of control after she got involved in the drug

scene, where she was a “bit player.”

Before her descent into drugs, she was trained as a nail technician and hopes to pursue that when she gets out of prison. She also hopes to regain custody of her children.

Judge Bart Rosborough sentenced the woman to two years on the drug charges and 225 days on the other charges to be served concurrently.

She must also provide a DNA sample to a national database and is prohibiting from owning firearms for 10 years upon release. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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MEETING HONDO

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Hondo an 11-week-old German Shepherd gives up some love to kindergarten student Alexis Blackman at École Mountview Elementary in Red Deer on Friday afternoon. Born at the RCMP Police Dog Service Training Centre at Bowden, Hondo will not make the cut and go on to becoming a police dog says Sgt. Chris Browne who brought the puppy into school to meet students. Officers brought the dogs into the school to help socialize them and help to make them behave in a neutral manner in different environments as well as to educate students about the police service dog training program at Bowden.

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Redevelopment hearing set A public hearing is slated for the Waskasoo Area Redevelopment Plan on Monday.

Those who want to speak in favour or against the proposed plan can do so starting at 6 p.m. in council chambers.

The plan is the statutory portion of the Waskasoo Neighbourhood Plan.

Its policies address identity, land use, and movement. Within the plan are four character are statements — historic core, A-20 Camp, 55th Street and environment — that capture the defining attributes of a specific area and determine the compatibility of a development or redevelopment proposal. The proposed plan is available at www.reddeer.ca

Road closure in Sylvan Lake

trafficking operation one week before executing a search warrant on the home on Cooper Close on the afternoon of Jan. 22.

Police then seized approximately 217 grams of cocaine, 48.9 grams of methamphetamine and almost $2,100 cash. Two men in the residence were arrested without incident.

While police were searching the residence, a third man entered carrying approximately 111 grams of cocaine. He was also arrested without incident and those drugs, as well as $33,547 in cash, were seized from him.

Damon Rhys Meidinger, 22, of Red Deer and Justin Davis Yakimchuk, 23, of Blackfalds face charges involving stolen property and trafficking.

A third man, from Lloydminster, age 32, also faces similar charges.

His name will be released once those charges have been sworn before the courts.

Cops investigating waste disposal container theft

The Town of Sylvan Lake will close a portion of Sylvan Drive on Saturday to allow for emergency utility repairs.

Between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Sylvan Drive between Garden Court and Lakeview Crescent will be closed.

Obey all construction signs and follow the detour route.

RCMP make drug bust Three men have been charged after drugs and a large amount of cash and were seized from a Clearview Ridge home in Red Deer last week.

Red Deer RCMP began their investigation into a suspected drug

Red Deer RCMP are investigating the theft of a waste disposal container worth $30,000.

RCMP said the theft occurred Jan. 21 at about 10:30 p.m. from a locked compound at Wasteco Disposal, at 235 Spruce St. The suspect broke into the compound and stole a custom-made waste disposal container that sits on the back of a waste truck.

Since the waste truck was not stolen, the suspect would have required a large truck to transport the container.

Surveillance footage showed a male suspect in the compound at the time of the theft.

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RCMP are looking for the public’s assistance to locate the container.

Anyone who has seen the container, or has information about the theft, is asked to contact 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.

Red Deerians are reminded that individual signs are not placed on Grey Routes during plowing.

Instead large signs are placed at the entrances to Snow Zones.

Green Routes are signed with red “no parking” signs that are placed approximately every 50 metres, a minimum of 12 hours in advance of plowing.

Greg Sikora, Public Works manager, said putting signs on individual Grey Route streets takes resources away from plowing operations. Parking restrictions are in effect when a Snow Zone and Route are scheduled.

Vehicles parked on Green Routes will be ticketed $155 and towed, and vehicles parked on Grey Routes will be ticketed $85 and plowed in.

Last year the city offered a grace period and did not ticket vehicles on Grey Routes to give residents time to learn about the program.

Move your vehicle when your Snow Zone is scheduled. Plowing takes place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday to Saturday for Green Routes and Monday to Friday on Grey Routes.

To avoid getting a ticket, residents are asked to: Know your Snow Zone and Route – www.reddeer.ca/snowzone.

Check the schedule using one of the following methods: View the map and schedule at www. reddeer.ca/snowzone.

Sign up for Snow Zone email alerts at www.reddeer.ca/snowzone.

Follow The City of Red Deer’s Facebook and Twitter pages.

Call the Snow Zone Hotline at 403406-8796.

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Love thy neighbour HERE’S WHAT JESUS SAYS ABOUT WELCOMING REFUGEES

BY RYAN GEAR ADVOCATE NEW SERVICES At last count, 30 governors (29 Republicans and one Democrat) have issued statements that they will not allow Syrian refugees to settle in their states.

Nevermind that governors probably don’t have the power to enforce state borders, their statements have come under fire from many, including evangelicals who usually support conservative political leaders.

Why? Because this latest example of xenophobia conflicts with the details of Jesus’ life a little too closely.

First, Jesus and his parents were Middle Eastern refugees. The nativity scene, after all, is about a Middle Eastern family looking for a place to stay. Matthew tells us that after Jesus’ birth, Mary and Joseph fled with the baby to Egypt. Turning away refugee families is too ironic even for those who often miss the irony of their political views and professed faith.

Second, Jesus gives an ominous description of the Last Judgment in Matthew 25 that directly speaks to the issue of welcoming the foreigner. In Matthew 25:40, Jesus declares, “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”

Conversely, “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

While one could argue over the definition of “brothers and sisters,” Jesus is known for universalizing the love of neighbour. It is perhaps one of Jesus’ unique contributions to moral teaching in human history. In his depiction of the Last Judgment, Jesus is the King, and He clearly states that how we treat who He calls “the least of these brothers and sisters of mine” is how we treat Him. Who are “the least of these?”

Jesus says that those who reject “the least of these” will face eternal punishment.

In verse 28, we learn that one category of “the least of these” is the “stranger.” How does Jesus define “stranger?” Matthew was originally written in Greek, and the Greek word that we translate as stranger is xenos. Xenos can be translated into English as “foreigner, immigrant, or stranger.”

In other words, when we don’t welcome the foreigner, Jesus takes it personally.

Let us acknowledge that even though it’s an unpopular thought in twenty-first-century America, Jesus says that those who reject “the least of these” will face eternal punishment. Needless to say, that statement should give pause to all of those who claim to follow Jesus Christ, yet quickly reject the stranger.

We are wise, of course, to ask questions about public safety and the possibility of terrorists embedding themselves within refugee groups. I understand the apprehension that some feel who are sincerely concerned about the safety of U.S. citizens, and I do not dismiss their concerns as trivial. There is another view, however, for us to consider.

Turning away families in their time of need could prove to be a powerful recruiting tool for ISIS. In addition to Jesus’ warning about the afterlife, conceivably there are earthly consequences to not

God keeps surfacing in GOP debate

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — On this particular debate stage, God’s presence was never in doubt.

Republican presidential candidates offered stirring professions of faith during their final debate before the election season begins Monday.

It was an example of the role religion plays in U.S. politics — particularly in a Republican nomination contest, and especially in the first-voting state: in Iowa, evangelical and born-again Christians comprised almost 60 per cent of the party’s caucus-goers last time, and their votes will likely be critical in anointing next Monday’s winner.

Marco Rubio addressed them at length.

Three times during Thursday’s prime-time debate, the senator steered the conversation to his spiritual beliefs. The first was when a moderator brought up a Time magazine piece that called him the Republican party’s saviour.

“Let me be clear about one thing: there’s only one saviour and it’s not me,” Rubio replied.

“It’s Jesus Christ who came down to earth and died for our sins.”

During a debate about ethanol fuel, two other candidates referred to the Lord having blessed the United States with an abundance of natural resources. In his closing statements, Rubio quoted Matthew 5:16.

And he interjected during a discussion about same-sex marriage to promise that faith would guide his actions as president, and to proclaim America the world’s most generous country because of its religious values.

“If you do not understand that our Judeo-Christian values are one of the reasons why America is such a special country, you don’t understand our history,” he said.

The greater place of religion in U.S. politics reflects the broader society, with 19 per cent higher monthly attendance of religious services in the U.S. than in Canada in 2012, according to Pew.

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A boy hugs a young child after their arrival aboard a dinghy with other migrants from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, on Friday. A migration monitoring agency says deaths of refugees and migrants crossing the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece are “increasing at an alarming rate” as 218 people have died in January on that eastern Mediterranean route. welcoming the stranger. Perhaps not welcoming refugees would create more terrorists who would seek to harm the United States. Turning away families in their time of need could prove to be a powerful recruiting tool for ISIS. If a mother and father seeking a safe land for their children are denied hospitality, they will not feel goodwill towards the country that rejected them. Furthermore, if their children were to die because of hardship, why would be surprised if grieving parents were to act in revenge?

Finally, one could easily make an argument that rejecting the refugees allows the terrorists to win.

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Their most powerful weapon is, well, terror. If we fear an attack so intensely that we are willing to deny hospitality to refugee children, who could argue that the terrorists haven’t won? Not only have they taken human lives, they will have succeeded in taking away our humanity.

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ENTERTAINMENT C4 ROOTS MUSIC OUTLAWS

SATURDAY, JAN. 30, 2106

THREE OF CANADA’S TOP SINGING FIDDLE PLAYERS ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO BRINGING THEIR EXPLOSIVE LIVE SHOW TO RED DEER

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Fiddlers Stephanie Cadman of Ottawa, Kendel Carson of Victoria, and Miranda Mulholland of Guelph, will bring their unique brand of folk music to Red Deer for the first time when Belle Starr performs on Friday, Feb. 5, at Fratters Speakeasy. There’s a $15 cover for the 9 p.m. show.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Belle Starr is a tour-de-force band made up of three of Canada’s top singing fiddle players — one of whom step-dances for a percussion effect.

The roots group defies musical expectations — but then it is named for a rule-breaking American female outlaw.

Fiddlers Stephanie Cadman of Ottawa, Kendel Carson of Victoria, and Miranda Mulholland of Guelph, will bring their unique brand of folk music to Red Deer for the first time when Belle Starr performs on Friday, Feb. 5, at Fratters Speakeasy.

The three pack a wealth of experience: Carson also plays in Alan Doyle’s Celtic-flavoured band that just wrapped up a major tour opening for the Barenaked Ladies; Cadman is an award-winning step-dancer, who just co-starred in the Mirvish musical Once in Toronto; And Mulholland just finished cross-country performances with her other band, the Great Lake Swimmers.

Performing together as Belle Starr,

“is sort of a nice home for all of us, when we aren’t accompanying other musicians,” said Mulholland, whose group draws on genres that include Tom Petty-style rock, Americana, and country-Celtic.

“It’s exciting,” she added, to be in a band with two other women.

“All of us are used to being the only girl in (various) other bands. … It really helps that we’re such good friends.

Television, which actually bankrolled the band’s past two studio albums — the EP The Burning of Atlanta and the full length 2013 Belle Starr — to help fill its need for fresh Canadian talent.

The trio won critical praise for covers of Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Dolly Parton songs, as well as those from Fred Eaglesmith and the Skydiggers. But the musicians feel it’s now time to put out an album of

‘ALL OF US ARE USED TO BEING THE ONLY GIRL IN (VARIOUS) OTHER BANDS. … IT REALLY HELPS THAT WE’RE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS. THERE’S A REAL TRUST BETWEEN US. IT’S LIKE A SISTERHOOD.’ — MIRANDA MULHOLLAND, BELLE STARR

There’s a real trust between us. It’s like a sisterhood.”

The musicians — Carson also plays the guitar and Cadman step-dances to the music as the group’s rhythm section — get to bring their own ideas to the table and choose songs they’ve always wanted to play.

Some of their tunes have already been making waves on Country Music

all-original music, so they are hoping to do some live-off-the-floor recordings at concerts during this tour.

“I think there’s an explosive energy in our live shows,” said Mulholland, who like Cadman, is now based in Toronto. “We’re hoping to be able to capture some of that, but we’ll see how it goes on the road. Some (venues) have more capabilities for sound recording

CAT dramedy pits idealism against convention

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Easy-going Catholic priest Father Tim Farley is popular with parishioners because of his entertaining, but unchallenging, sermons.

When he encounters firebrand deacon Mark Dolson, who wants to shake the congregation out of its complacency, both men are forced to examine their own moral choices and approach to duty.

Mass Appeal is a two-actor play by American playwright Bill C. Davis that pits idealism against convention.

The Red Deer Players dramedy that opens on Friday, Feb. 5, at the Scott Block theatre in Red Deer, takes place within the Roman Catholic Church.

But the play isn’t about religion, said director Lori Lane.

She feels the story could just as easily have been set in a hospital, law office or classroom — any place where young people with new ideas clash with older mentors with entrenched attitudes.

Like many a medical intern, articling lawyer, or student teacher, priest-in-training Dolson, wants to change the world into a more tolerant and enlightened place, said Lane.

He challenges Farley about his people-pleasing, homily-filled sermons in order to get the older priest to take a moral stand.

Although the older priest is initially outraged by Dolson’s brash support for controversial issues, like the ordination of women into priesthood, he gradually warms to the younger man. For Dolson’s own good, Farley tries to get him to temper his zeal so he doesn’t make enemies instead of allies.

“Each character has something to

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Paul Boultbee, left, playing Father Tim Farley and Jason Steele as Deacon Mark Dolson rehearse a scene from the Central Alberta Theatre production of ‘Mass Appeal’ in the Centennial Theatre at the Scott Block. offer the other,” said Lane, who enjoys the script of Mass Appeal, which combines dramatic moments with comic ones. “It’s a richly written play of substance and a good dose of humour.”

The 1980 stage play was so popular with audiences it was turned into a 1984 movie, starring Jack Lemmon as Father Farley.

Members of the Red Deer production sought advise and insight from Catholic leaders at Sacred Heart Church. Lane also cast two veteran

community actors: Paul Boultbee as Father Farley and Jason Steele as Dolson.

“Both of them are just so experienced, (the rehearsal process) was a joy,” said Lane, who’s working for the first time with Steele, and is reuniting with Boultbee who last appeared with her about 20 years ago in a production of Camelot.

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than others …”

Carson, Cadman and Mulholland will be testing out some original new songs on audiences. The more popular ones could also later be recorded in studio, making the new CD an interesting mix of both live and studio efforts.

One of the tunes written by Mulholland is Garrison Creek, about a park she knows with an outdoor hockey rink and underground creek flowing beneath it.

When a shy girl in her song develops a crush on one of the hockey players, “the (creek) becomes a metaphor for all the feelings that lie underneath the surface.”

Belle Starr was formed in 2011 when the three fiddlers, who met on the music circuit, realized they had all been playing as the only women in otherwise male bands.

Mulholland remembers thinking wouldn’t it be fun to play together as an all-female band? “We brought Kendel over from Vancouver and we all got together for a week of playing in Toronto — and it was perfect.”

There’s a $15 cover for the 9 p.m. show. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

RDSO celebrates Handel with help from VoiceScapes

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Turn your dial to 1685 and get set for the all-Handel, all-the-time concert, joked Red Deer Symphony Orchestra conductor Claude Lapalme.

Some of the composers greatest hits, Italian style, will be delivered at The Handel Celebration on Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Gaetz Memorial United Church in Red Deer. RDSO musicians will be performing them on period instruments along with the Calgary choir VoiceScapes.

Although George Frideric Handel is often considered an English composer as he spent the bulk of his career in London, Lapalme calls him a “chameleon” for his ability to absorb different musical styles, including French, English, German and Italian.

Handel was born in Germany in 1685, but moved to Italy, the birthplace of opera, while in his 20s. While living in Rome for three years, the Lutheran composer had no problem writing sacred music for other denominations, and was soon patronised by the Catholic church.

Two of his early works, Nisi Dominus and Dixit Dominus, both from 1707, will be performed at the concert by choir and orchestra. Both pieces are very Italianate, said Lapalme. “They are like mini operas, extraordinarily melodious.”

Nisi Dominus is set to Psalm 127.

Handel composed six “flamboyant” movements set to verses that urge devotion to God: “If the Lord does not guard the city, in vain will the watchmen guard it.”

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Superhero-themed exhibit opens on First Friday

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Some local superheroes will make surprise appearances at Red Deer’s First Friday art gallery opening for February.

Gotham in Red Deer is an exhibit of acrylic paintings by local artist Mike Villasana. His show with a superhero theme runs all month next at the Hub on Ross, but its opening reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday, with the artist attending.

Red Deer landscape artist Susan Woolgar is featured at the white gallery, accessed from Sunworks on Ross St. Her display of mixed media works, The Edge of Reflection, will run until March 30. Woolgar will meet members of the public at the show’s First Friday reception, from 6 to 9 p.m.

We Have Our Inheritance, a display by Edmonton printmaker Vanessa Mastronardi, is showing at the Harris-Warke Gallery, upstairs at Sunworks until Feb. 13. Mastronardi will attend a closing reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday.

The local trombone and guitar duo of Andrew Ludtke and Jeremy Doody will perform classical, jazz and contemporary selections in the Snell Auditorium at the Red Deer Public Library. It’s adjacent to the Kiwanis Gallery, operated by the Red Deer Arts Council, which is featuring the Urban Moves Photography exhibit by Arto Djerdjerian until Feb. 21.

Ludtke is a Humber College graduate and former member of the Toronto All-Star Big Band. He and Doody teach music at Red Deer College and perform with a number of Alberta groups. Electric guitar player Doody is a University of Alberta alumnus who composes as well as plays. The duo will perform two 45-minute sit-down sets at 6:15 and at 7 p.m. during

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Jazz at the Lake Festival running as four-part concert series Sylvan Lake’s Jazz at the Lake Festival is running once again as a four-part concert series in 2016.

The “Festival for all Seasons” will present four concerts this year — starting with a dance show featuring The Alberta Big Rocks Band on Feb. 20, at the Sylvan Lake Community Centre.

This “little big band” contains some of the province’s finest players. With a screaming horn and rhythm section, The Alberta Big Rocks Band will perform tunes from the ’60s to the ’80s, including songs from Blood, Sweat and Tears, Tower of Power, Lighthouse and Colin James. Mike Sullivan (Blueseros, Blueprint) provides the group’s power-house vocals. Admission is $25.

The other 8 p.m. shows in the concert series are:

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Photographer Arto Djerdjerian poses in front of some of his photographs on display in the Kiwanis Gallery in the basement of the Red Deer Public Library’s downtown branch. the First Friday reception for Djerdjerian’s show (which goes to 8 p.m.)

The Marjorie Wood Gallery in the Kerry Wood Nature Centre is continuing to show the Cracks and Crevasses exhibit of mountainous oil paintings by Innisfail artist Ruth Moore. The display can be seen until the end of February, but a First Friday reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m.

Other shows around Red Deer include Photogra-

phy Alive, an exhibit from the Central Alberta Photographic Society in the Corridor Gallery, downstairs in Red Deer’s Recreation Centre. It runs to March 31.

The Viewpoint Gallery in the Red Deer Culture Services Building at 3827-39th Street is showing rotating works by local artists Brian McArthur, Sally Smith, Alysse Bowd and Robin Lambert. This show also runs to the end of March. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

● A Swing into Spring dance concert with the Johnny Summers Little Big Band on May 21, at the Sylvan Lake Community Centre ($25 admission). ● A Sounds of Summer show with Juno Award-winning pianist Tommy Banks on Aug. 20, at the Alliance Community Church in Sylvan Lake ($35 admission). ● An Autumn Leaves Concert featuring Juno Award-winning roots-rockers The Brothers Landreth on Sept. 23, at the Alliance Community Church in Sylvan Lake ($35 admission).

A special offer of $100 for tickets to all four concerts is available until Feb. 20 from www.jazzatthelake.com.

Music lovers can also enter a contest on the festival’s Facebook page to win a season pass. Those who “like” or “comment” on the posting pinned to the top of the page will be entered to win. The winner will be notified after the contest closes on Feb. 18.

Deer Arts Council.

The third-annual scholarship is designed to help young artists at the start their careers, while also promoting the arts in the Red Deer area. Artists of all genres can apply until 4:30 p.m. on March 4.

For criteria, applications, and more information, please visit https://reddeerartscouncil.wordpress. com/ under the scholarship and awards tab.

The funds for this award are a legacy from the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta’s Distinguished Arts Awards, which were held in Red Deer in 2013.

Visual artists encouraged to apply for Emerging Artist Award Up-and-coming visual artists from the region can apply for an Emerging Artist Award from the Red

MASS APPEAL: Pushpull conversations

HANDEL: Choir founded by two couples Lapalme called the Nisi Dominus a more compact work, compared to the dramatic and elaborate Dixit Dominus, which is incredibly demanding, vocally.

This eight-movement, 35-minute choral composition is one of Handel’s finest, and was written to be a showpiece for singers and players, and Lapalme.

The Dixit Dominus is a setting for Psalm 110, which speaks of the Lord’s wrath: “He shall judge the nations, fill the places with destruction, and shatter the capitals in many lands.” Handel’s music matches the intensity of the psalm, said Lapalme. “It’s very dramatic… there’s anger.”

VoiceScapes was founded by two couples — Christina Jahn and Paul Gindlay, as well as Julie Harris and Jerald Fast. Through the Early Music Voices

The Bright Light Social Hour will share some expansive psych-rock music in Red Deer on Thursday.

The Texas group will perform songs from its latest album, Space is Still the Place at Bo’s Bar and Grill.

The Bright Light Social Hour is becoming known for creating intriguing, infectious and “gutsy” music while shifting smoothly between different genres.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. concert, also with the band Swimm, are $15 from www.songkick.com or the venue. Call 403-309-2200.

Celebration.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. concert at the Gaetz Memorial United Church are $67.35 ($57.35 seniors/$47.35 students or first three rows) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Lane, who last helmed the large-cast production of 12 Angry Men for the Red Deer Players, was looking for a more intimate play this time around. “I wanted a small cast so we could really unearth who these characters are, and bring real characters to life…”

She hopes audience members will enjoy the pushpull conversations between Farley and Dolson. “Neither of them is 100 per cent right, and neither is 100 per cent wrong… They have to learn to look at things from somebody else’s perspective.

“For me, this play is all about their relationship, and the understanding that we can all learn from one another.”

Mass Appeal runs Feb. 5,6, 11-14, and 18-20 at the Scott Block. All shows are at 8 p.m., except a 2 p.m. matinee on Feb. 14. Tickets are $25 on weekends and $17.50 during weekdays from Sunworks on Ross St., or www.reddeerplayers.com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Concert Society, the group tours performing early vocal music ”in a stylish, historically informed way.”

The Red Deer concert will involve 17 choir members singing Latin verses. Soloists for Nisi Dominus are Fast, Gindlay and Aoife Donnelly. Dixit Dominus will feature soloists Jahn, Harris, Celia Lee, and Hannah Pagenkopf.

As well, the RDSO will perform Handel’s dreamlike instrumental Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 2, involving two violin solos from RDSO musicians Naomi Delafield and Diane Lane.

The concerto is also Italian in character, although written late in the composer’s career and encompassing some English and French dance forms.

Lapalme said the concerto was published as sheet music that ordinary people could purchase to play at home.

“This is exciting stuff,” added the conductor, who believes the RDSO audience will be moved and inspired by The Handel

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The most you can do is reassure I think sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delusional. I am five her that you love her and that she is years older than she is, but she insists beautiful in your eyes. Then ignore that she looks older. She claims she her complaints as best you can. Imis fat and ugly, so she no proving her health is a dolonger wants to go out with it-yourself project. If she friends, go to a movie or is ever ready to tackle it, out dancing or attend famplease be as supportive as ily functions. you can.

She is the only one who Meanwhile, you do not sees herself this way. I have to curtail family functhink she looks fine. Nonetions and other activities theless, she will do nothwith friends because your ing to change her appearwife refuses to go. Go on ance. She wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exercise your own. or eat healthier foods. She Dear Annie: My dad redrinks alcohol excessivetired from his job in his ly, smokes too much and early 60s.

MITCHELL rejects the idea of cosmetMom (now 90) was a stay& SUGAR ic surgery. Instead, she at-home wife and mother. wants to stay behind closed She did all the cooking, ANNIE doors. cleaning, grass cutting, The real problem is that painting, sewing, mending, she also expects me not to attend any shopping, paying bills, chauffeuring, family functions, go out with friends, school conferences and just about etc. anything else that needed to be done I have stayed in good shape and for the household. have taken some measures to slow the For three days after retiring, my aging process. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had hair replace- dad (now 88) just laid around watchment and done dental work. I exercise ing television and asking my mom to daily and maintain a healthy diet. So â&#x20AC;&#x153;get me this and that,â&#x20AC;? not lifting a now she wants me to go bald, give up finger. Three days was enough for exercise and snack on junk food be- her. She promptly sat down next to tween meals. She said then I would him in her recliner and announced, know how she feels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sweetheart, starting today I am reI have never been critical of her tired, too!â&#x20AC;? and still love her very much, but I They never looked back. They think she could help herself if she share in everything and are still marwanted to. ried after nearly 69 years. My mama Should I let myself go to please her made her point: If Mama isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happy, and make her feel better about her- no one is happy. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; B. self? I think not, but what say you? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dear B.: Your mama certainly Confused by Wife didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t beat around the bush. Kudos Dear Confused: This shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be to her. about looking younger, which only Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mailbox is written by Kathy goes so far. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about a healthier life.

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Wisconsin police recover another load of stolen cheese MARSHFIELD, Wis. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; For the second time in a week, police in Wisconsin have recovered a stolen load of cheese worth thousands of dollars.

Marshfield Police Lt. Darren Larson says 41,000 pounds of parmesan cheese worth $90,000 was stolen from a Marshfield distributor Jan. 15. A semi picked up the cheese that day, but it never reached its intended des-

tination in Illinois.

Larson says investigators received a tip Thursday that the cheese was likely in Grand Chute. Police in Grand Chute found the entire shipment intact. It had already been unloaded into a warehouse.

On Monday, police in Germantown said $70,000 worth of cheddar and other cheeses stolen from a distribution centre there last week had been recovered in Milwaukee on Friday.

Police havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t said whether the cases are connected.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 30, 2106 Saturday, Jan. 30 Sunday, Jan. 31 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Vanessa Redgrave, 78; Phil Collins, 64; Chris- Minnie Driver, 45; Justin Timberlake, 34; Portian Bale, 41 tia de Rossi, 42 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Mercury/ THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Emotions will be Pluto conjunction encourages getting deep deep and intense today. and meaningful with someone HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Others special. admire your generous heart and HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Astute poetic soul. 2016 is the year to and organized, you love to step nurture close friendships â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and in and take charge of situations. give false friends the flick.

2016 is the year to be less strateARIES (March 21-April 19): gic and more transparent.

Group activities are favoured ARIES (March 21-April 19): today, as you join forces with Resist the temptation to be a ramlike-minded people to achieve a bunctious Ram; antagonize loved successful outcome. Draw up a ones; or say things that unintenwish-list of your Aries hopes and tionally hurt others. Words are dreams for the future. powerful weapons so use them TAURUS (April 20-May 20): wisely today Aries.

Attached Bulls â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mars is in your JOANNE MADELINE TAURUS (April 20-May 20): romance zone, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to fire MOORE Single Bulls â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are you sick and up the passion in your relationHOROSCOPE tired of being on your own? With ship. Singles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; love is likely with dynamic Mars charging through someone who is much more adyour partnership zone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; until venturous than you.

March 6 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you need to be proactive about GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a looking for love. sociable mood today Twins, as you enjoy the GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Get your company of family and friends. Singles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; love skates on Gemini â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wonderful day for and travel are linked, as you explore partnersport, shopping and socializing. But it will also ship possibilities from other countries. be very intense, as Mercury and Pluto stir up CANCER (June 21-July 22): Venus is hidden relationship issues. visiting your relationship zone so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to CANCER (June 21-July 22): Relation- forgive and forget, as you extend the olive ships will be intense and complicated today branch of peace. The key to peaceful partnerCrabs. The more you try to manipulate others, ships at the moment is calm cooperation. the more difficult things will be. So take a chill LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Shake up your pill and try to go with the flow. usual Sunday routine with some spontaneous LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the exercise. Perhaps a walk in the park; a run mood to spend up big, binge on sweet things, around the block; or an outdoor expedition or give away sensitive secrets. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overdo it with your favourite four-legged friend? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; try to get through the day without too many VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the perfect indulgences and indiscretions. time to get creative â&#x20AC;&#x201D; via writing, singing, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With proactive dancing, painting, performing or playing muMars moving through your neighbourhood sic. Or take the time to appreciate the artistic zone, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to do more around your home talents of those around you. and within your local community. You have a LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Listen closely wide variety of Virgo skills to share! to loved ones today Libra â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and to your own LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today the Ve- inner voice. If you combine intuition with clever nus/Neptune connection encourages creativi- communication, then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll move ahead in ty, cozy companionship and romantic reveries. leaps and bounds.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also time to get to the bottom of a frustratSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Curiosity is ing family issue. high for studious Scorpios today. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fabSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mars is in ulous time to study, research and learn someyour sign, which encourages fast thinking thing new. Focus intently on what a creative and unusually speedy decision-making. But child or teenager is telling you. you could also become completely obsessed SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about something â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or someone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; today. more in touch with your feelings today SagitSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You tarius, and able to express them more easily can be careless with cash and credit, and â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially with family members. Explore todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obsessive aspects encourage comfort creative projects to do around the home. shopping and impulse buys. So avoid going CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t on a spending spree â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in person and online. keep things to yourself! Communication is the CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): With buzz word for busy Capricorns today. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time Venus in your sign, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at your charm- to speak up and say whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on your mind, esing Capricorn best. As writer Albert Camus pecially when dealing with loved ones. wrote,â&#x20AC;?Charm is the way of getting the answer AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Sun yes, without having asked any clear question.â&#x20AC;? is shimmering through your sign. So thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Sun never been a better time to get what you want boosts your confidence and charisma, as you â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the most delightful way â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as you flirt fabmake the most of lucky opportunities that ulously and charm the birds out of the trees. come your way. Just make sure you follow PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at through on any promises you make. your sociable Piscean best as you chat and PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The current communicate; mix and mingle. ItĂ­s also time to planetary positions increase your desire to research a favourite topic, study up a storm or pursue challenging goals. And Mercury and release the creative artist within.

Pluto urge you to be extra thorough, as you Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationcarefully put plans and dreams into action. ally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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ABOVE: Author and tidying guru Marie Kondo; LEFT INSET AND BELOW: Before-after views of a room Kondo helped tidy for a client. Which room makes you happier?

MARIE KONDO WRITES A MASTER CLASS ON TIDYING YOUR HOME, YOUR LIFE – AND THE WORLD

A baby’s bab bento box of joy. Kondo suggests folding each item with absolute precision, and storing them in arranged in an open box. arran

BY KATHERINE ROTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Marie Kondo is back.

Author of the international bestseller The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Ten Speed Press, 2014), Kondo became faw mous for advising readers how g to transform their lives by sifting y through their belongings one by k one, embracing those that “spark ty joy” and bidding a fond but hasty farewell to the rest.

Her new book, Spark Joy: an Illustrated Master Class on the Art en of Organizing and Tidying Up (Ten Speed), provides illustrations and more detail. ook, “After I published my first book, ot of a lot of readers came with a lot k questions,” the petite, soft-spoken Kondo told The Associated Press, in Japanese, after a presentation to a packed auditorium at the Japan Society in New York.

Kondo is still communing lovingly with socks and blouses, folding clothes like origami and bowing in gratitude to her home. She also has a fresh perspective as a new mother.

“My daughter is only 6 months old, so my method hasn’t changed … She cannot make a mess yet. What has surprised me most is the amount of stuff a baby needs,” Kondo said, sitting primly at the edge of her seat in an impeccable white top over a pale blue print dress.

“Once she gets older, I’m sure there will be a little bit of adjustment.”

With an understated sense of humour, she notes in her new book that one of the people with whom she has had to share her storage methods is her new husband, himself so minimalist that he moved in with only four

how tightly wound it was then was, tucked t h e m ne neatly into what resembled a lidless s h o e b box.

cardboard boxes of belongings belongings.

“I am learning that unspoken family rules differ from one household to another, and that storage methods I had assumed were obvious need to be properly shared and explained,” she writes.

Kondo’s earlier book had no illustrations Spark Joy is full of her charming, child-like drawings of everything from organized kitchen cupboards, to folding techniques for clothes ranging from underwear to frilly blouses.

“It is very important that you know how to fold clothes in the correct way,” she informed the crowd at the Japan Society, before daintily approaching a demonstration table where a small pile of unfolded clothing awaited. For one thing, “make sure you put a lot of love through your palms,” she said.

The audience — die-hard fans and those new to her KonMari Method — applauded as Kondo quickly folded one item after another into a tiny cube, balanced each on edge to show

“Wow, H that’s so cool. How did seco she do that?” a man in the second row whispered to his neighbour. b Kondo suggests setting the boxes of origami-esque parcels in drawers so that each is a joy-provoking bento of delights.

What about those pesky possessions that fail to spark joy yet are undeniably useful? Well, functionality can be beautiful too.

“After discarding a hammer because the handle was worn out, I used my frying pan to pound in any nails,” Kondo writes. But after she threw out a screwdriver, “I tried using a ruler to tighten a loose screw, but it snapped down the middle. This almost reduced me to tears as it was one I really liked.”

“All these incidents stemmed from youthful inexperience and thoughtlessness,” she continues. Things that make life simpler, “the recognition that a possession is useful in our lives — these, too, indicate joy.”

Spark Joy includes advice on moving, packing and decorating with tiny, cheerful knickknacks (this is smile-in-

ducing minimalism).

She even gives a nod to those who don’t thrill to tidying up. Kondo admitted to her New York audience that she regrets some of her earlier zeal in discarding her family’s belongings.

Or, as she says in the new book, “Only when we accept unconditionally people whose values differ from our own can we really say that we have finished tidying.”

That said, her tidying empire is gaining ground. Kondo’s books have been translated into numerous languages, her speaking engagements draw crowds and her waitlist for clients is over three months long.

She recently published a blank journal, Life-Changing Magic (Ten Speed), to help readers “spark joy every day” she runs the Japan Joy-Sparking Tidying-Up Association (with two levels of membership fees) and she offers courses in Japan in tidying up and becoming a tidying consultant.

In the United States, Kondo told the AP, she has an app coming out this spring that “features a checklist of tidying, and also shows your progress in tidying.” And she is preparing to open a U.S. branch of her consultancy.

While she may have mellowed in some respects, her goals are in no way diminished. Proper tidying up, she happily announced to the rapt audience, brings not only life-changing magic but a sense of joy that can spread from household to household, country to country.

“I believe my method will lead to world peace in the end,” she said, smiling sweetly.

Or at least a lot of astoundingly well-folded socks.

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STEVE Tankless water heaters are MAXWELL wall-mounted appliances that HOUSEWORKS heat water only as it’s needed. Between uses they just sit there, using no energy at all until a hot water tap somewhere is turned on.

As soon as water flows through the heater, it fires up the heating system, raising the temperature of water as it flows through the heater. There is no tank of hot water sitting there between uses cooling off, as is the case with your current heater. Elimination of these ‘stand-by’ losses is one reason why tankless heaters were invented.

All this said, if you have a large household and use lots of hot water, standby losses from a tank-style heater become less significant.

Also, today’s best tank-style heaters are well insulated with foam, so standby losses are smaller than they used to be. Then there’s the issue of an energy source. The only tankless water heaters worth installing use either propane or natural gas.

Forget electric ones. If your home currently only has electricity, getting gas piped in adds cost to the installation.

Here’s the bottom line: If you need a new water heater, tankless is worth considering, especially if space is at a premium in your house. Be sure to choose a tankless heater that has more than enough heating capacity for your household. And finally, choose a brand with a reputation for quality.

Tankless water heaters are much more complex than tank-style heaters, so it takes an experienced company to make them reliable. Bosch, Rinnai and Rheem are three trustworthy names. Watch and learn more about tankless heaters on my website at baileylineroad.com/tankless-tour.

Boring Holes in Wall Frames Q: What’s the best nail-resistant tool to use for drilling holes in wall frames for wiring? I just bought a new spade bit and hit a nail in the first minute.

Now the bit won’t work.

A: You can buy nail-resistant auger bits for boring holes in framing lumber, but these are expensive and not widely available.

A better option is to try and avoid nails and screws as much as possible, then sharpen your spade bit when it does hit something hard and loses its edge.

Sharpening takes just a few minutes and restores the bit to like-new performance.

Spade bits rotate clockwise when seen from above during use, and it’s the leading edge of each side that must be sharp and crisp to make the holes.

Take a look at a new bit and you’ll see that the metal edge on both sides of the central spur are angled about 5∫ to 10∫ from square when viewed from the side.

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Close.............. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Rick .... Rick Burega................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 350-6023..... $329,900....... Ironstone 37 Holt Street .................... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Lori .... Lori Loney ..................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ........... 350-9700..... $309,900....... Highland Green 176 Allwright Close......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Steve .... Steve Cormack ............ ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 391-1672..... $549,900....... Aspen Ridge 168 Andrews Close ......... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Bob .... Bob Gummow ............. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 598-7913..... $339,900....... Anders Park East 236 Illingsworth Close ... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Larry .... Larry Hastie .................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 550-3984............................... Ironstone 21 Downing Close ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Norm .... Norm Jensen ................ ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 346-8900............................... Devonshire 118 Oaklands Crescent .. 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ....Samantha .... Samantha Prosser ...... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ........... 587-876-1167 ..................... Oriole Park West 28 George Crescent ........ 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. .Angela . Angela Stonehouse ... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 598-4342............................... Glendale 1 Lowden Close ................ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Beata .... Beata Wojtasiewicz .... SUTTON, LANDMARK ...................... 304-3845..... $429,900....... Laredo 91 Timberstone Way ....... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Ernie .... Ernie Sandstra ............. RE/MAX................................................. 877-9144............................... Timberstone 212 Jenkins Drive ............ 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Allan .... Allan Melbourne......... RE/MAX................................................. 304-8993..... $277,500....... Johnstone Park 197 Ireland Crescent....... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Tim .... Tim Maley...................... RE/MAX................................................. 550-3533..... $314,900....... Inglewood West 13 Mitchell Ave ................. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Ivan .... Ivan Busenius............... RE/MAX................................................. 350-8102..... $319,900....... Morrisroe 102 Ivany Close ................ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Melissa .... Melissa Morin .............. CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE.............

ADVANTAGE............. 318-5665............................... Inglewood 113 Crawford Street........ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Christine .... Christine Bourke ......... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE.............

ADVANTAGE............. 350-3985..... $284,900....... Clearview Meadows 22 Chalmers Close ........... 3:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Bob ..... Bob Wing ....................... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE.............

ADVANTAGE............. 391-3583..... $226,900....... Clearview Meadows 52 Jarvis Avenue .............. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Kim .... Kim Fox .......................... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE.............

ADVANTAGE............. 506-7552..... $364,900....... Johnstone Park #105, 60 Jacobs Close .... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....BENEDICT .... BENEDICT DEVLIN REAL ESTATE..............................................

ESTATE.............................................. 307-3737..... $159,900....... Johnstone Park 6325 61 Avenue ............... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Bob .... Bob Pelletier ................. SERGE’S HOMES ................................ 505-8050............................... Highland Green 105 Lalor Drive ................. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Kyle .... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Laredo 6 Thompson Crescent .... ....12:00 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. ..Aaron .. Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016 .............................. Timberstone 22 Tindale Place ...............12:00 ............... 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. ..Samantha .. Samantha ...................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6261 .............................. The Timbers

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 - OUT OF TOWN 38 Parkridge Crescent .... 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. .Angela . Angela Stonehouse ... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 598-4342............................... Blackfalds 4804 Westbrooke Road . 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Peggy .... Peggy Lane ................... COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK .. 343-3344..... $279,500....... Blackfalds 63 Crestview Blvd ............ 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Doug .... Doug Carr...................... ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 597-6764..... $273,500....... Sylvan Lake 14 Rowberry Court.......... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Casey .... Casey Kabel .................. ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 348-9315..... $286,900....... Sylvan Lake 56 Henderson Crescent . 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Shaun .... Shaun Heidt ................. BLACK BEAR QUALITY HOMES ..... 392-6919..... $489,900 $489,900...... ...... Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Jessica .... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Sylvan Lake 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Jocelyn .... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612 .............................. Penhold

SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 - RED DEER 10 Jenner Crescent Crescent.......... .......... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Alison .... Alison Richardson ...... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE.............

ADVANTAGE............. 358-1557..... $369,900....... Johnstone Crossing 18 Chalmers Close ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Bob .... Bob Wing ....................... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE.............

ADVANTAGE............. 391-3583..... $227,900....... Clearview Meadows 124 Valentine Crescent .. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Beata .... Beata Wojtasiewicz .... SUTTON, LANDMARK ...................... 304-3845..... $549,900....... Vanier Woods 2821 - #23 Botterill Cres 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Natalie .... Natalie Schnell ............ SUTTON, LANDMARK ...................... 391-6422..... $349,900....... Bower North 815 Mustang Acres ......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Tim ... Tim McRae .................... MAXWELL REALTY ............................ 350-1562..... $59,333 ......... Glendale 21 Welliver Street ............. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....BENEDICT .... BENEDICT DEVLIN REAL ESTATE..............................................

ESTATE.............................................. 307-3737..... $319,900....... West Park 125 Lampard Crescent... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Ivan .... Ivan Busenius............... RE/MAX................................................. 350-8102..... $424,900....... Lancaster Green 26 Denison Crescent ...... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Tim .... Tim Maley...................... RE/MAX................................................. 550-3533..... $609,900....... Deer Park Village #2 6220 Orr Drive Drive............. ............. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Margaret .... Margaret Comeau ...... RE/MAX................................................. 343-3020............................... Oriole Park West 9 Victor Close.....................

Close..................... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Les .... Les Anderson ............... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 350-1932............................... Vanier Woods 236 Illingsworth Close ... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Larry .... Larry Hastie .................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 550-3984............................... Ironstone 372 Timothy Drive ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Jan .... Jan Carr .......................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ........... 396-1200..... $369,900....... Timberlands 348 Lancaster Drive ........ 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Rick .... Rick Burega................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 350-6023..... $329,900....... Lancaster Green 98 Timberstone Way ....... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Bob .... Bob Gummow ............. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 598-7913..... $565,900....... Timberstone 176 Allwright Close......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Robert .... Robert Gallaway ......... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 304-7981..... $549,900....... Aspen Ridge 101 Timberstone Way .... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Janice ... Janice Mercer............... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 598-3338..... $359,900....... Timberstone 118 Jaspar Crescent ........ 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Gerald .... Gerald Dore .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 872-4505..... $284,900....... Johnstone Crossing 105 Lalor Drive ................. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Kyle .... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Laredo 6325 61 Avenue ............... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Bob .... Bob Pelletier ................. SERGE’S HOMES ................................ 505-8050............................... Highland Green 6 Thompson Crescent .... ....12:00 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. ..Aaron .. Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016 .............................. Timberstone 22 Tindale Place ...............12:00 ............... 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. ..Samantha .. Samantha ...................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6261 .............................. The Timbers

SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 - OUT OF TOWN 5207 Waghorn Street ..... 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. ....Alex .... Alex Wilkinson ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-318-3627 . $261,000....... Blackfalds 9 Falcon Ridge Drive....... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Darlis .... Darlis Dreveny ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 358-4981............................... Sylvan Lake 56 Henderson Crescent . 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Chris .... Chris Forsyth ................ MAXWELL REAL ESTATE .................. 391-8141..... $489,900....... Penhold 49 Westview Crescent .... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Kim .... Kim Fox .......................... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 506-7552..... $260,000....... Blackfalds 63 Crestview Boulevard 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Doug .... Doug Carr...................... ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 597-6764..... $273,500....... Sylvan Lake 14 Rowberry Court.......... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Casey .... Casey Kabel .................. ABBEY MASTER BUILDER BUILDER................ ................ 348-9315..... $286,900....... Sylvan Lake 9 Mackenzie Avenue ...... 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Shaun .... Shaun Heidt ................. BLACK BEAR QUALITY HOMES ..... 392-6919..... $399,900....... Lacombe 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Jessica .... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Sylvan Lake 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Jocelyn .... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612 .............................. Penhold

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Dear Debbie; I am a nervous decorator. I don’t want to make any expensive mistakes, but I’ve seen some unique interior staircases and would love to go for it in our new home. What’s your advice? — Cathy Dear Cathy; When you enter a home, one of the first elements to catch your eye is the staircase.

It is an integral part of the overall design. Today we are DEBBIE enjoying the freedom of mixTRAVIS ing styles and personalizing HOUSE TO HOME our homes to suit our lifestyles and what makes us happy.

It sounds like you are on the lookout for something other than the traditional wood staircase, and there are many variations that will satisfy your desire for a custom look.

A good way to review your options is to visit a railing store near you or check them out on line. Euro Forgings, www.euroforgings.com has a gallery of exciting interior and exterior staircases, and show all the distinct parts so that you can experiment in their ‘design your own staircase’ section. Pickets are available in a variety of colour finishes depending on the style and type of baluster, as are the accessories.

A popular style mixes wood and steel posts and balusters. Accessories such as collars that fit on the balusters, and shoes for the base take the design process further.

Stainless steel is a favourite today, according to Euro Forgings, Shown here is a modern take on an open stair plan. Stainless steel posts connect with a gleaming wood handrail stained to match the steps.

The homeowners opted for glass to take the place of pickets for a clean, minimal outline.

Another contemporary option would be to employ CableRail, 1/8’ thick stainless steel cables that run horizontally between wood posts.

As long as the materials and style that comprise the staircase are connected in some way with your home’s overall design, you won’t go wrong with a custom look. In fact, it will up the wow factor.

Dear Debbie; I was wondering if wallboard (fancy printed drywall) can be painted?

More than half my home has it and I am tired of the same pattern but can’t afford to replace it with regular drywall. What can I do? — Deb Dear Deb; There are different types of wallboard/ drywall.

If the product in your home has a thin paper veneer which carries the pattern, then painting could lift up the paper, making a mess that is difficult to fix.

U.S. new-home sales soar in December WASHINGTON — Americans rushed to buy new homes in December at the strongest pace in 10 months, with 2015 marking the strongest year for this segment of the housing market since 2007.

The Commerce Department said Wednesday that new-home sales surged 10.8 per cent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 544,000. It was the third consecutive monthly gain since sales collapsed in September. The increase nearly pulled the sales rate even with the level of 545,000 in February 2015 and points to continued momentum for real estate and construction in the opening months of this year.

“This is a promising sign for the housing market as we move into 2016,”

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said Tian Liu, chief economist at Genworth Mortgage Insurance. “We expect the strong increase in new home sales to continue as the fundamentals in the housing market remain strong and newer vintage homes are in short supply.”

Sales of new homes accelerated sharply in 2015, rising 14.5 per cent on the entire year to 501,000. Steady job growth that cut the unemployment rate to a healthy 5 per cent has given many homebuyers increased confidence, while relatively low mortgage rates improved affordability. Yet sales of new homes continue to run below the 52-year historic average of 655,200, a sign of the severe hit absorbed by the market after the housing bubble burst.

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COOPER Denise 1960 - 2016 Denise Cooper passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at the age of 55 years. She leaves behind her loving husband Russell and her “pet” children, Pepper, Kelti and Kiwi. Denise will be lovingly remembered by her father Ken Armstrong; brothers, Ray (Lorna) and Lee (Dixie); mother Audrey Silvester; in addition to a large extended family. Denise was the manager of the Parkvale Lodge in Red Deer and devoted over 35 years of her life to work with seniors for the Piper Creek Foundation.

A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 11:00 a.m.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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METZ Elizabeth (Betty) Katherine Nov. 19, 1924 - Jan. 26, 2016 Elizabeth (Betty) passed away peacefully at 91 years of age at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on January 26, 2016. She leaves to mourn her son Allan (Rose Marie) Metz of Calgary; daughter Marcie (Ted) Sherback of Sylvan Lake; grandchildren Mindy Metz, Lee and Mark Sherback; great-grandchildren Jordyn, Kaitlyn and Austin Sherback; and sisters Rose Stein and Sheila Rollack. Elizabeth was predeceased by her beloved husband of 68 years, Peter, and granddaughter Crystal Metz. The family would like to thank the staff at Revera Retirement Living, and RDRH for their care and support.

PARAMA Alfred (Al) Frank Martin Parama passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on January 23, 2016 at the age of 88 years. He was born in Poland and immigrated to Canada at a very young age. Left behind to mourn Al’s passing are his children, Alfred, Valerie (Juergen), Cathy (Mark), Robert (Da), Michael (Carrie), and Karen; grandchildren, Kelly, Jesse, Nicky, Chelsea, Kristen and Robin; as well as numerous great-grandchildren.

Al is predeceased by his wife, Damaris; sister, Jenny; brother, Walter; and grandchildren, Jeff and Jamie.

Al had an unquenchable spirit of adventure and loved the open road. He was truly the happiest when family would join him on camping and motorbike trips, as well as hiking places such as The Grand Canyon…anywhere that he could live life to the fullest. He was an avid hunter and fisherman so being outdoors was where he felt the most alive. Al was a cowboy at heart and being a “people person” would entertain everyone with tall tales and stories. Above all, he was devoted to his family and his children thought the world of him. He fought bravely through pain and suffering to the very end with jokes and smiles. A private family burial will take place at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Al’s honour may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Riding into the sunset, Stopping once to rest.

The old cowboy knew, He’d given his best.

Tired now and weary, He should really sit a spell.

But the road stretched before him, And he had a story to tell!

-by Val Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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SCHAERER Elfrieda 1926 - 2016 It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of Mrs. Elfrieda Emma ‘Frieda’ Schaerer at Villa Marie Covenant Care, Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at the age of 89 years. We take comfort in knowing that she now rests with her Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Frieda was born on August 23, 1926 at Scheuba, Germany. She immigrated to Canada at the age of three and spent her childhood growing up on a farm west of Ponoka, Alberta. On December 22, 1951, she married John Schaerer at Bismark Lutheran Church and they made Red Deer their lifelong home. While raising her family, Frieda held many jobs - grading eggs at Alpha Dairies; working at the old Met Store; and selling Fuller Brush. Frieda was always active and had many pastimes including crocheting, knitting, playing piano and organ, tending her flower garden, walking and playing board games with her grandkids. She was an accomplished cake decorator, as well as a talented pianist and shared her love of music playing organ at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church for several decades, and entertaining seniors in extended care facilities. She was an avid volunteer and spent many hours assisting at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and several retirement homes. Frieda will be lovingly remembered by her two sons, Harvey (Terrie) and three children, Taylor, Logan (Sheena) and their twin daughters Ariana and Everly, and Fontaine; and Gerry (Queen) and two children, Bryan and Stephanie.

She will also be sadly missed by sister-in-law, Myrtle; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Frieda was predeceased by her husband, John; parents, Rudolph and Wanda Brachmann; brother, Teophil; sisters, Hulda and Erna; and brother, Otto. A Funeral Service will be held at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd., Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, February 1, 2016 at 11:00 a.m., with visitation one hour prior. Interment will be held at the Bismark Cemetery, west of Ponoka, Alberta.

Memorial Donations in Frieda’s honor may be made directly to the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church Building Fund or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke. ab.ca. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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• Graduate of a recognized Health Care Aide Program or Foreign trained health professional (RN) • Current Criminal Record Check /working with vulnerable sector • Good communication skills • Able to work independently • A passion for working with active seniors Sunset Manor is a Supportive Living Facility that teams with Alberta Health Services to provide a home-like experience for our residents in the community of Innisfail: “the perfect blend of small town charm and big city opportunity”.

Please send your confidential CV to:

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All applicants will be kept confidential.

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CAPEL, Margaret 1917 - 2016 Mrs. Margaret May Capel passed away peacefully at Bethany Sylvan Lake, Sylvan Lake, Alberta on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at the age of 98 years. She married Richard Ray Capel on December 2, 1939 and they spent many happy years together. Margaret will be lovingly remembered by her children; Pricilla (Kim) Spenceley, Douglas Capel, Michelle (Don) Finley and Kathy (John) Hext; as well as numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Margaret was predeceased by her husband, Ray Capel on July 6, 2001. A Private Memorial Service will take place at a later date. The family would like to express their sincere thanks to all the doctors and nurses at Bethany Sylvan Lake for all of the compassion, kindness and care given to Margaret over the years.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

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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

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

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JOURNEYMAN Millwrights needed for Northern and Local Projects. Must Produce: OSSA Orientation/BSO, H2S Alive, CSTS, OSSA Confined Space Entry, OSSA Fall Protection, Current Drivers Abstract.

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WIRELESS 360 degree M6 mode speaker from Veho. Connect with any electronic device, 1800 ma, rechargeable battery, built-in microphone with auto music interrupt, $100. 403-352-8811

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Pets & Supplies

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Condos/ Townhouses

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LUXURY Condo in Aspen Ridge (Easthill) for mature/retired adults, 2 bdrms, 2 baths, 6 appls., a/c. Heat incld., n/s, no pets, underground heated parking, $1500/mo. 403-343-7485

3060

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THE NORDIC

3080

1630

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3090

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ACADEMIC Express

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ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Winter/Spring Start GED Preparation

3190

3040

Morning, afternoon , evening classes in Red Deer and Central Alberta Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

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GOLF CLUB Travel Case, WELL-MAINT. 2 & 3 bdrm.

TO ORDER Restaurant/ PEST CONTROL TECHS Health & hard-sided, on wheels. mobile homes close to Joffre REQ’D. cpest@shaw.ca Beauty Hotel wegot Only used twice (mint $825 & $850 inclds. water, HOME Call 403-373-6182 condition). $40 firm.

5 appl. 403-348-6594 homes DELIVERY OF Call (403) 342-7908.

EAST 40TH PUB Celebrate your life REQ’S EXP’D with a Classified HOCKEY SKATES, THE 4 Plexes/ P/T COOK sizes 5 1/2, 8, 8 1/2, ANNOUNCEMENT 6 Plexes CLASSIFICATIONS With Food Safe ADVOCATE $10.00 each Apply in person with resume 403-728-3485 4000-4190 1 BDRM., no pets, CALL OUR 3811 40th Ave. Employment $850 mo. 403-343-6609 Training CIRCULATION Travel Realtors 2 BDRM 4 appl 4plex near Packages 67 St, Dawe, heat, water, & Services DEPARTMENT Trades Like new power wheelchair enviro. incl’d. $900. N/S, SAFETY large 21” seat width. AskTRAVEL ALBERTA 403-314-4300 no pets. 780-220-4527 ing $3500 - make an TRAINING CENTRE

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Requires SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

Household Furnishings

OLDER end tables and coffee table, $25; and 3 wooden bar stools, $25.

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Stereos TV's, VCRs

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Valid Driver’s Licence Clothing preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca LADIES London Fog, reg. or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! 10 size, cranberry pea coat Length $50. 587-876-2914 TOO MUCH STUFF? LADIES size 4 1/2 Italian Let Classifieds chocolate leather knee help you sell it. high boots, soft fits like a glove, $200 587-876-2914 RETIRED jouneyman plumber to live in to take Tired of Standing? care of small maintenace repairs at our rental apart- Find something to sit on in Classifieds ments. 403-342-4923

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COSTUME jewellery: retro/vintage/fun.

20 pieces at $10 each.

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100 VHS movies, $75.

For All 403-885-5020

SMALL Curio cabinet w/approx. 22 assorted small Holland brass $65, 50 peacock feathers, some white, for home decor or fly fishing hooks $1/ea, large Currier & Ives cookie cans $1.50/ea. 403-346-2231

Sunnybrook United Church requires the services of a Choir Director.± Practice time: 9:00 am. Sunday morning, Church Service starting at 10:30 am. ± Small, senior aged choir, music and accompanist provided.± No choir July, August. ± Honorarium included. ±

AGRICULTURAL 2000-2290

THREE sewing machines, Kenmore, Elna and Singer, all in working order, $25 each; and 2 ironing boards to give away.

403-309-4260 WATER cooler $50.

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24’ HEAVY DUTY PANELS and WINDBREAKS, Free standing, made out of 2 3/8” or 2 7/8” pipe. Can custom build. Bale Feeders, bunk feeders, gates and other requests available.

Delivery available. Please call or text 403-704-3828.

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Makeup, from New York, red hot crocodile bag, 12 eye shadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss.

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CHOIR DIRECTOR

Submit one page resume to the Sunnybrook Church office, 12-Stanton Street, Red Deer. T4N 0B8

1730

2 - 10” THUMP subwoofers in box $25.00 call 403-728-3485

Jewellery

CLEARVIEW 3 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls., 1 1/2 baths, Rent $1025. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail.

Feb.1 403-304-5337

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1720

DOUBLE bed box spring mattress and bed frame, seldom used, $150; and large ornate dresser, 9 drawers and mirror, $80.

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Boundary Technical Group Inc. Is a land survey company based out of Airdrie, Alberta. We are now hiring for experienced Technologists (Crew Chiefs) and Technicians (Assistants) for work in Central Alberta.

Boundary offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as an RRSP program Email your resume to Tanya.dowie@btgi.ca Or fax to 403-948-4924

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offer!!! Can be viewed at 144 Dowler St Red Deer. call Paula or Dallas 403-347-0716.

OILFIELD TICKETS

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PARKVALE 2 bdrm.

4 plex, 4 appls, n/s, no pets $850 + utils., 403-346-4297

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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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Clean, quiet, newly reno’d 1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main adult building. Rent $925 floor of house, c/w 5 S.D. $800. Avail. immed. & appls, dble. att. heated Mar.1 Near hospital. No garage, Lacombe, July pets. 403-318-3679 1st, n/s, $1350/mo. inclds.

DELUXE Innisfail 2 bdrm. all utils. 403-782-2007 n/pets, balcony, inclds. water 4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, $860 + utils. 403-348-6594 single car garage, 5 appls, EASTVIEW, 1 bdrm. bsmt. $1695/mo. in Red Deer. suite, fully furnished, n/s, no 403-782-7156 pets, $800/mo., for single 403-357-7465 $875 for dbl. Utils. incld.

LACOMBE 2 bdrm. house Avail. immed. w/1 bdrm. bsmt. suite, sin- 403-782-9357 or 352-1964 gle car garage LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. $1395 403-782-7156 SUITES. 25+, adults only 403-357-7465 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 STETTLER older 3 bdrm.

2 storey, 4912-53 St. large fenced yard, single car garage, 1 blk. from school, 1 & 2 bdrm., 3 blks. from main street, Adult bldg. only, N/S, $1000/mo. + utils. $500 No pets. 403-596-2444 DD avail. immed. Call Corrinne to see NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 403-742-1344, call Don bdrm. apartments, rent 403-742-9615 to rent. $750, last month of lease SYLVAN Lake, 3 fully furn. free, immed. occupancy. rentals, garage, inclds.

403-596-6000 all utils., $1100 - $1600. + Private room. $550/ mo. READ the classifieds and find just what you’re looking for. “w/cable” 403-880-0210

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ESTATE SALE 30’ Winnebego 2 slides, 19,000 miles, everything incld. dishes, bedding, bbq. Bring clothes and go camping. $59,500. Call Harold 403-350-6800

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

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1000-1430

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(INNISFAIL)

Wonderful, modern, Innisfail, Alberta seniors home is in need of a people-friendly “handyperson” to coordinate internal maintenance staff and external contractors.

Duties: Performing routine maintenance jobs and repairs including troubleshooting on heating, cooling, ventilation systems; minor repairs to plumbing, electrical, appliances, & furniture. Handle minor painting, repairing drywall, and building upkeep. Provide oversight of outside contracted repair companies, snow removal.

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1100

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1200

Moving & Storage

1300 1310

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Position Requirements: • Must comply with Alberta OH&S Act, regulation and code.

• Must work co-operatively with Management, staff and other Departments.

• Must be able to work in physically demanding environments.

• Must be physically fit and able to lift heavy objects Additional Skills: • Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.

• Ability to identify and prioritize facility maintenance needs.

• Ability to communicate effectively with clients/staff in a Patient care setting.

• Competent with computer use • Must have good trouble shooting and analytical skills.

Cleaning

1070

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DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

DUST BUNNIES BE GONE! CLEANING SERVICE. $10 discount for seniors. Flooring Bondable, fast, efficient & affordable cleaning.

NEED FLOORING DONE? Environmentally & pet Don’t pay the shops more. friendly products. Call us Over 20 yrs. exp. today for your free quote!

Call Jon 403-848-0393 (403) 307-7792

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UN-hosted peace talks off to shaky start SYRIAN CIVIL WAR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — Peace talks aimed at ending Syria’s five-year civil war got off to a shaky and chaotic start Friday, with the main opposition group at first boycotting the session, then later agreeing to meet with U.N. officials — while still insisting it would not negotiate.

That small commitment by the group known as the Higher Negotiating Committee came just minutes before U.N. special envoy Staffan de Mistura met with a delegation representing the government of President Bashar Assad.

The developments gave a glimmer of hope that peace efforts in Syria might actually get off the ground for the first time since two earlier rounds of negotiations collapsed in 2014.

The conflict has killed at least 250,000 people, forced millions to flee the country, and given an opening to the Islamic State group to capture territory in Syria and Iraq. It has drawn in U.S. and Russia, as well as regional powers such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The HNC, a Saudi-backed bloc, had previously said it would not participate in the U.N.-sponsored talks without an end to the bombardment of civilians by Russian and Syrian forces, a lifting of blockades in rebel-held areas and the release of detainees.

An HNC statement said the opposition decided to take part in the talks after receiving assurances from friendly countries about those humanitarian issues, and that a delegation headed

by HNC chief Riad Hijab will leave Saudi Arabia for Geneva on Saturday.

Only once the conditions are met will the delegation negotiate, the statement added.

“We have decided to participate in a political process to test the seriousness of the other side through talks with the United Nations team about the implementation of international and humanitarian commitment as an introduction to the negotiations process and to move toward forming a transitional governing council with full executive powers,” the statement

said.

De Mistura said he had “good reason to believe” the HNC would join the talks Sunday but refused to react formally until he got an official notice from its leadership.

“As you can imagine, I have been hearing rumours and information already,” de Mistura told reporters after meeting with the delegation led

by Syria’s U.N. ambassador, Bashar Ja’afari.

“What I will react to — that’s why I said I have reasons to believe — I will only react when I get a formal indication of that,” de Mistura said, “But that is a good signal.”

Speaking almost simultaneously at a hotel across town, HNC member Farah Atassi told reporters its delegation would arrive Saturday only to talk to U.N. officials about its demands after receiving some reassurances from the U.N., but “not to negotiate.”

Western governments praised the HNC action.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington welcomes the HNC’s “important decision … to attend negotiations hosted by the United Nations in Geneva.”

“The United States further expects that both sides in these negotiations will participate in good faith and achieve early, measurable progress in the days ahead,” he said in a statement.

French President Francois Hollande’s office called for quick enactment of humanitarian aid measures for Syria under a U.N. Security Council resolution The decision by the HNC came after many Western powers and Saudi Arabia — a major backer of the group — had pushed hard for the it to attend, diplomats said.

Disputes have arisen over which opposition parties will attend, with the HNC coming under criticism for including the militant Army of Islam group, which controls wide areas near the capital of Damascus, and is considered a terrorist organization by the Syrian government and Russia.

The largest Kurdish group in Syria, the Democratic Union Party or PYD, is not invited to the talks. Turkey con-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Indirect peace talks aimed at resolving Syria’s five-year conflict began Friday at the UN, headquarters in Geneva, without the participation of the main opposition group. siders the PYD to be a terrorist organization. Also not invited are the Islamic State group and the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front.

Opposition figures from outside the HNC also are in Geneva, but they were invited as advisers.

The meetings, billed as multiparty talks, are part of a process outlined in a U.N. resolution last month that envisions an 18-month timetable for a political transition in Syria, including the drafting of a new constitution and elections.

De Mistura has decided that these will be “proximity talks,” rather than face-to-face sessions, meaning that he plans to keep the delegations in separate rooms and shuttle in between.

He has tamped down expectations by saying he expects talks to last for six months.

U.N. spokesman Ahmad Fawzi reflected the chaos and confusion earlier in the day when he told reporters that “I don’t have a time, I don’t have the exact location, and I can’t tell you anything about the delegation.”

The initial refusal of the HNC to attend was slammed by Syria’s official Tishrin newspaper as reflecting “the

collective flight of terrorist groups backed by Saudi Arabia and Turkey from the political table, following their collapses on the battlefield.”

Ja’afari, the Syrian envoy, declined to speak to reporters as he left the meeting with de Mistura.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the moderate opposition was not attending because Russia continues to bomb rebel-held areas in Syria, and that it is a “betrayal” to the moderates to ask them to attend without a cease-fire.

Qadri Jamil, a former Syrian deputy prime minister who has become a leading opposition figure but is not part of the HNC, told The Associated Press that the priority was to allow aid into besieged areas.

A Western diplomat in close contact with the opposition said in Geneva that the HNC’s “main message to us has been, ‘while we are under sustained attack by Russia and the regime and other states and militants and other groups, we cannot justify to Syrians why we are going.”’ The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters on behalf of the opposition.

Prosecutors use occupiers’ own words against them BUNDY BROTHERS, OCCUPATION LEADERS DENIED RELEASE FROM FEDERAL CUSTODY PORTLAND, Ore. — Ammon Bundy and his followers made ample use of social media and videos to summon armed recruits to join their takeover of a wildlife refuge and to declare their readiness to stand their ground. Now federal authorities are using the occupiers’ own words against them.

Court documents against the 11 occupiers under arrest show that FBI agents have carefully scrutinized social media postings, interviews and online talk shows that were broadcast from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge during the standoff that began nearly a month ago.

Bundy and several other jailed leaders appeared Friday in federal court in Portland, where a judge denied their release. U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman said Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and Ryan Payne pose a danger to the community and she is concerned they would not follow orders to return to Oregon for criminal proceedings.

Beckerman said she would release them only if the standoff ends. Four holdouts continued to occupy the refuge in the snowy high country near Burns, and they posted a YouTube video Friday demanding pardons for everyone involved in the occupation.

A speaker believed to be David Fry said he asked the FBI whether it was possible to “get out of here without charges,” but “they keep saying that’s not possible.”

Ammon Bundy’s lawyer, Lissa Casey, said her client is not aligned with

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Law enforcement personnel block an access road to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, near Burns, Ore. Authorities were restricting access on Wednesday to the Oregon refuge being occupied by an armed group after one of the occupiers was killed during a traffic stop and eight more, including the group’s leader Ammon Bundy, were arrested. those remaining at the refuge and wants to go back to his family in Idaho.

“He is done in Harney County his message has been sent,” she said.

Casey said Bundy didn’t recognize Fry’s name and that he was not a core member of the group. Hearings continued for others who were apprehended, and the Bundys will be back in court next week.

Bundy and his followers took over the refuge Jan. 2 to demand that the federal government turn public lands over to local control.

They have complained about what they say are onerous federal rules governing grazing and mining rights across the West.

Court documents detail some of the evidence against the occupiers, includ-

ing a memorandum filed by prosecutors Friday arguing against releasing defendants before trial.

“As the armed group’s unrepentant leader, he (Ammon Bundy) has consistently and publicly expressed support for an armed occupation that has endangered, and continues to endanger, many people,” the document states.

A criminal complaint filed earlier in this week makes reference to an online video that showed Bundy saying the group planned to stay for several years. He called on people to “come out here and stand,” adding: “We need you to bring your arms.”

A video posted Jan. 4 showed another defendant, Jon Ritzheimer, saying he was “100 per cent willing to lay my life down.”

In a video posted a day later, Ritzheimer talked about Robert “LaVoy” Finicum and other occupiers taking up a “defensive posture” at the refuge against a feared FBI raid.

“Right now underneath the tarp right there — LaVoy Finicum is sitting underneath the tarp, and he’s not going to let them come through,” Ritzheimer said in the video.

That raid never came.

Finicum was killed Tuesday night in a confrontation with the FBI and Oregon State Police on a remote road.

Bundy and four others were arrested during the encounter, and more followers were taken into custody by the next day.

At one point, a couple of dozen ranchers and other protesters were holed up at the refuge, but they began clearing out after the arrests and killing.

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