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‘Tireless champion’ TRIBUTES POUR IN FOR DON GETTY, ALBERTA’S 11TH PREMIER, WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF 82

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Alberta Premier Don Getty, seen with his wife, Margaret, announces his plans to step down as premier at a news conference at Government House in Edmonton, Alta., Sept. 9, 1992. Don Getty, the Canadian Football League star quarterback who served as Alberta’s 11th premier, has died at the age of 82.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Don Getty, the broad-shouldered, bristle-topped kid who came west to champion Alberta in football and went on to the top job in provincial politics died Friday.

Getty’s family confirmed the former Progressive

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Conservative premier, who was 82, died in the early-morning hours of heart failure at an Edmonton long-term care centre.

His son, Darin Getty, said his father had been battling various illnesses for years.

“He fought right ‘til the bitter end and I could see him fighting,” said Getty, who talked to his father just hours before his death.

“He looked at me at one point and he said, ‘I’m just all worn out.”’

“Premier Getty was a foundational leader in building much of what we all love best about our province today,” Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said.

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GETTY: Lived a storybook life She noted that Getty served with her father, Grant Notley, who was leader of the NDP at the time.

“There was a tremendous level of mutual respect between both of them.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in a statement, said Getty “guided Alberta through challenging economic times, was a strong proponent of Senate reform and worked in close collaboration with indigenous peoples across the province.

“Mr. Getty was a tireless champion of strengthening Alberta’s presence in Canada.”

Ric McIver, interim leader of Alberta’s PC party, said Getty reached the peak of performance both as an athlete and in the world of politics.

“The fact that he hit the pinnacle … in two separate endeavours in his life really speaks to the drive and character of the man.”

Getty’s death is the final chapter in a storybook life: the kid from hard-scrabble roots who rose to become a football hero and marry his high school cheerleader sweetheart before reaching the peak of political power in Alberta.

The motif of his life was oil, the lifeblood of his adopted province, and it was the elusive black gold he tried to control that in the end dictated his fate.

Getty served as Alberta’s 11th premier from 1985 to 1992 after winning a bitter PC party leadership race on the second ballot.

He replaced the legendary Peter Lougheed, the man at the helm when the PCs dethroned the Social Credit dynasty to launch a four-decade dynasty of their own.

Getty was sworn into office on Nov. 1, 1985, at age 52.

The honeymoon was short.

Almost as soon as he took over, a global oil glut saw prices plunge by 60 per cent. Alberta’s economy tanked.

The province was saddled with what at that time was a record $3.3-billion deficit in 1986. Five more deficits followed and the accumulated debt topped $15 billion.

Getty intervened directly. His government pumped billions of dollars into oil and forestry initiatives, new pulp mills, loans and sweetheart incentives to encourage drilling.

But problems mounted.

He was blamed for the failure of a number of government-backed businesses, the most costly of which was a $600-million loss on a cellular phone company called NovAtel Communications.

The province took over money-losing meat-packer Gainers Inc. after owner Peter Pocklington defaulted on loan guarantees Getty had personally approved.

When the Principal Group investment empire collapsed in 1987, the premier’s office told reporters he was working “out of the office.” A news photographer tracked him down on the golf course and snapped what became, fairly or unfairly, the enduring image of an annoyed premier fiddling with his five iron while millions of dollars in seniors’ life savings disappeared.

But there were successes.

He defused a potentially violent land dispute with the Lubicon Cree in northern Alberta in 1988.

In 1989, he passed a law for a February holiday called Family Day. Several provinces have followed suit over the years.

In 1990, the new Metis Settlement Act set aside land and granted self-government to eight Metis settlements.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Along with his other accomplishments, former Alberta premier Don Getty was responsible for one of the most memorable media events held at the provincial legislature.

In an effort to reboot talks with the Lubicon Cree, whose unsettled land claim was giving Alberta an international black eye, Getty met with Chief Bernard Ominayak in the legislature parking lot in March 1989 and handed over the reins to a racehorse from his own personal stable.

The previous fall, Ominayak and Getty had thrashed out a cash and land deal that became known as the Grimshaw Accord.

“I had great respect for him,” Ominayak recalled Friday. “I could sense the decency in the man.”

The federal government, ultimately responsible for signing a settlement, shelved the accord in the following months over a dispute about band membership. Ottawa was prepared to recognize about half of the band’s 500 members and the Lubicon wouldn’t accept that.

In a bid to make the Senate more effective, Getty held the first senator-in waiting election in 1989. The winning candidate, Stan Waters, was appointed to the upper chamber a year later by then-prime minister Brian Mulroney.

Getty had a rocky relationship with Mulroney. He backed Mulroney’s bid for a free-trade deal with the United States but railed against the imposition of the GST in 1991.

He fought for the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords to embrace Quebec in the Canadian constitutional fold.

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“He guided Alberta through challenging economic times, was a strong proponent of Senate reform, and worked in close collaboration with indigenous peoples across the province … Mr. Getty was a tireless champion of strengthening Alberta’s presence in Canada.” — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

The gift of the horse to Ominayak was an attempt to get talks going again.

The original deal — involving 250 square kilometres of land, economic development funding, resource ownership and compensation for resources already extracted — remains the basis for current treaty talks with the Lubicon.

The land that was set aside at the time remains in trust.

Ominayak said he stayed in touch with Getty for years after receiving the retired thoroughbred named Magnificent Probe. “(His) initial question was, ‘What’s it going to take?’

“On that basis we started the discussion and at the end of the day we thought we found a way for the federal government to move in and finalize it.”

Ominayak said he remembers Getty as a gentleman.

“I had the good fortune of meeting one of the few people in government who had the integrity and honesty of a man who tried and understood the hardships that our people faced and still face,” he said.

“I’m very saddened to hear he’s left us.”

“Don was a kind man with a great sense of humour. His legacy as one of the architects of our party, as a cabinet minister and as premier, has played a major role in shaping Alberta into the strong and resilient province it is today.” — Ric McIver, interim leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives “Mr. Getty was a fiercely proud Albertan and Canadian with a remarkable ability to reconcile a strong voice on behalf of his home province with the best interests of the country as a whole.” — Rona Ambrose, interim leader of the federal Conservative party “He was a consummate team player. I don’t think Don actually wanted to be premier because he was personally ambitious. I think he was premier because a lot of the other guys said, ‘You should be the premier.’ So I respect him for that.” — Preston Manning, former leader of the Reform party “Today, Albertans lost a man whose dedication and love for his province shone brightly and will be fondly remembered … he stood up tall for our province on the national stage and served Alberta as premier with determination during difficult economic challenges.” — Brian Jean, Alberta Opposition Wildrose leader

tried,” he said after the Charlottetown pact went down to defeat. “Perhaps it doesn’t always work out, but not to have tried, now that would have been terrible.”

Getty led the Tories to majority governments in 1986 and 1989, but in the latter vote he was humiliated when he lost his own riding to the Liberals. Getty won a byelection two months later in a rural riding.

But things were never the same.

There was discontent in the ranks.

Rivals began pushing for a leadership change. Three years later, Getty stepped down.

“As a youngster, I remember watching him guide the Eskimos to the Grey Cup championship. He brought that energy and leadership to his career in politics.” — David Swann, Alberta Liberal leader

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Saretzky hearing set for June

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LETHBRIDGE — Family members of a slain twoyear-old girl and her father were in court for the first time Friday to witness the appearance of the man accused in the crimes.

Derek Saretzky appeared briefly via closed-circuit television from the Calgary Remand Centre. He is charged with first-degree murder in the September deaths of Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette and Terry Blanchette.

Saretzky, 23, is also charged with committing an indignity to the little girl’s body.

Hailey’s maternal grandmother, Terry-Lynn Dunbar, was one of the relatives at the Lethbridge courthouse, but declined comment.

A victims services member, who accompanied the family, said she was helping them navigate the court system.

Dunbar posted a statement in September after the bodies were found.

“As a mother and (formerly) grandmother my pain is unimaginable at the loss of my only grandchild in such a horrific manner,” she wrote.

“The Dunbar and Blanchette families will be forever broken.”

After a lengthy psychological assessment, Saretzky has been found fit to stand trial. A preliminary

hearing, which is to determine if there is enough evidence for a trial, is scheduled for 10 days starting June 20.

He was arrested after Blanchette’s body was found in his Blairmore, home in the Crowsnest Pass of southwestern Alberta on Sept. 14. Authorities couldn’t find Hailey and issued an Amber Alert that stretched across Western Canada and into the United States.

Her body was found a day later in a rural area near Blairmore.

News of the girl’s death broke during a candlelight vigil where residents of the tight-knit town had gathered to pray for her safe return.

Police have said Saretzky and Blanchette were acquaintances, but have not elaborated on how the two men knew each other.

The little girl’s mother, Cheyenne Dunbar, has described Saretzky as an old friend to whom she hadn’t spoken in years.

Saretzky’s family is well known in the blue-collar mountain town as owners of a dry-cleaning business.

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Victims Terry Blanchette and his daughter Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette are shown in this photo from Blanchette’s Facebook page.

Alberta invests millions in flood protection projects across province

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Alberta government has announced investments in flood mitigation projects across the province.

Premier Rachel Notley outlined $25 million in grants at a news conference on the banks of the Bow River in downtown Calgary.

The money is to go toward flood mitigation projects in Calgary, Drumheller, Chestermere, Turner Valley, the Siksika First Nation and the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8.

The province also announced $17 million for seven municipalities in southern Alberta and $6.5 million in grants to the city of Medicine Hat for flood barriers.

Much of southern Alberta was deluged in 2013 and the Insurance Bureau of Canada has pegged it the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history.

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi says that in addition to making communities more resilient to flooding, the projects will help put people to work during the economic downturn.

“This stuff’s really expensive, but it’s even more expensive not to do it,” he said.

Notley indicated there will be more announcements.

“The 2013 floods brought out the best in Albertans and now the best thing governments can do is reduce the threat of future flooding,” she said.

“Nature is unpredictable and we can never assume that we’ve tamed its raw power. We can only try to channel it in another direction.”

Edmonton hospital performing record number of lung and liver transplants

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton’s University of Alberta hospital says a record number of transplants were performed at the hospital last year.

Surgeons performed 61 lung transplants, eclipsing the previous record of 44 set in 2014.

They performed 83 liver transplants, besting the previous record of 80 set in 2007, and 22 of those were transplants involving living donors.

Dr. Norman Kneteman, director for Transplant Services with Alberta Health Services, credits changes in the lung transplant program.

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Alan Gold, Oland’s lawyer, said an application was filed Friday asking the Chief Justice for leave to appeal an earlier decision denying bail.

Earlier this month, Justice Marc Richard said Oland is not a danger to the public, but that’s not a good enough reason to grant him bail.

No convicted murderer has ever been granted bail while awaiting appeal in New Brunswick.

On March 7, defence lawyers will ask Chief Justice Ernest Drapeau for leave to appeal and if he grants it, Gold said arguments will be heard immediately.

He says new technology is allowing the recovery of lungs that might not have been able to be used in the past.

Kneteman says the changes he’s seen since he started in the program in 1989 have been remarkable.

Kneteman expects more organ donors to come on stream in the next few years after the government made changes to the donor program through drivers licence registration.

Currently there are 200,000 people registered, however, he cautions that one in three patients waiting on the list for a donor still dies because a suitable organ can’t be found.

If Drapeau refuses bail, Gold said an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada is unlikely.

The body of Richard Oland was discovered face down in a pool of blood in his Saint John office on July 7, 2011.

He had suffered 45 blunt and sharp force blows to his head, neck and hands.

Oland was convicted in December and has begun serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 years.

It will likely be October before the New Brunswick Court of Appeal will hear an appeal of the conviction.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — As conservatives gather to recharge their political batteries in the wake of their fall federal election defeat, businessman Kevin O’Leary is seeking to spark things up on his own.

Though he declares he’s a political agnostic, O’Leary is mulling a run for federal Conservative leadership and he made the rounds Friday at the annual Manning Centre convention of conservatives, posing for photos, shaking hands and offering some of this thoughts on the direction of the country.

While the conservatives at the conference are debating all manner of issues like medical marijuana and environmental policies, O’Leary told a panel for leadership hopefuls that the economy is broken and until it’s fixed, that’s all anyone should be thinking about.

But he said it’s not enough to be a critic, alternate paths need to be offered. He proposed one — a national referendum on the construction of new oil pipelines.

“Ask every Canadian to vote and if there’s a 51 per cent majority, it’s over, it’s done, no politician will have the moral right to stop it from happening,” he said.

“And I think we should do more of this in Canada.

We waste too much time bickering.”

O’Leary, a longtime businessman who shot to popular fame after getting into broadcasting, says it is still too early for him to formally throw his hat in the leadership ring.

He said his current goal is just to make existing economic policy more efficient and use the platform he has now to expose flaws in fiscal policies throughout the country, including those of the federal Liberals.

“I hope to make this a nightmare for politicians who think they can continue wastefully spending our money,” he said to applause from the crowd.

O’Leary was joined on the panel by longtime Tory MP Michael Chong, who is also considering a run.

Chong said if he ran, he’d be better at telling the Conservative story and putting forward innovative policy proposals in keeping with conservative values.

“If I run, I believe we need to broaden our tent,” he said.

He called for a debate around the issue of carbon pricing — a policy the previous government flatly rejected — and for a hard look at democratic reform, including making political parties more open.

Earlier Friday, O’Leary suggested he thinks the party system is finished.

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MDs group disappointed by referrals TORONTO — A parliamentary committee’s recommendation that doctors who object to assisted dying be required to at least refer patients to a willing colleague is not only disappointing, but has also led some physicians to consider leaving their practices, says the Canadian Medical Association.

The all-party committee, which released a set of recommendations Thursday aimed at helping the federal government draft new right-to-die legislation, said Ottawa should work with the provinces and territories to establish a process that respects a doctor’s freedom of conscience, while honouring the needs of patients who seek medical aid in dying.

“At a minimum, the objecting practitioner must provide an effective referral for the patient,” the committee said.

The CMA, which represents about 80,000 physicians across the country, had argued during hearings to the committee that doctors who oppose assisted dying on grounds of conscience should not be required to refer patients to a colleague willing to provide or administer drugs that would end their lives.

“We were very disappointed to see it not incorporated into the recommendations,” said Dr. Jeff Blackmer, the CMA’s vice-president of medical professionalism.

Referral has been a hot-button issue among members of the physicians group, with many arguing that doctors should not be coerced into providing the service, nor should they be required to ease the path to assisted death when it runs counter to their religious, moral or ethical beliefs.

“There are physicians who see making a referral as morally analogous to doing the act itself,” Blackmer said Friday from Ottawa.

Ottawa says some form of carbon pricing is coming

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government remains determined to set a national price on carbon emissions, despite the vocal opposition of Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall.

And a widely cited price of $15 per tonne will not be the starting point, according to federal sources who spoke to The Canadian Press.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sits down with provincial and territorial leaders next Thursday in Vancouver to discuss a national climate strategy, after which a series of working groups under a sixmonth deadline will begin hammering out common approaches.

Among the most contentious areas of discussion will be establishing a national floor price on greenhouse gas emissions.

Wall, who faces the Saskatchewan electorate on April 4, has already publicly denounced the plan.

After the Globe and Mail published a story citing a potential $15-per-tonne minimum carbon price, Wall said it would “kneecap” the economy and would not be part of his province’s climate policy mix.

Six other provinces, meanwhile, have already adopted carbon pricing, are in the process of doing so, or have announced their intention to pursue the policy.

Catherine McKenna, the federal environment minister, said Friday in an interview that setting a carbon price is just one climate measure among many, but called it “really important.”

“It’s interesting that large businesses are calling for a price on carbon because they see that as the most efficient way to reduce emissions, to foster innovation and also to provide certainty,” said McKenna.

“Most big energy companies have an internal price on carbon (already), because they know this is going to happen.”

Working groups coming out of next week’s first ministers meeting will “tackle some pretty tough issues,” she said, including carbon pricing, climate change mitigation, specific carbon reduction measures, adaptation, and clean technology development.

Transportation is a big source of Canadian emissions that needs to be addressed, said McKenna, citing electric vehicles as a “direction we want to be going.”

Buildings can be much more energy efficient, and there’s a role for governments in major green infrastructure projects and in fostering innovation.

“There’s going to be a package of measures at the end of the six-month process that will be real actions to reduce emissions,” said McKenna. “One of those is a price on carbon.”

One scenario being sounded out within the federal government envisions setting a one-year time frame for provinces to establish a minimum price on carbon emissions through their own provincial policies. Any province or territory not on board by the following year would face a federally imposed, B.C.style carbon tax.

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‘IT MEANS YOU KNOW WHAT WILL RESULT FROM THAT REFERRAL. SO FOR PHYSICIANS WHO FEEL VERY STRONGLY OPPOSED TO ASSISTED DYING, A NUMBER OF THEM SAY: ‘IF I REFER TO ANOTHER PHYSICIAN AND I KNOW THAT THEY WILL THEMSELVES UNDERTAKE THE ACT OF ASSISTED DYING, I’M AUTOMATICALLY MORALLY COMPLICIT BECAUSE I FACILITATED THE PROCESS.’’ — DR. JEFF BLACKMER, CMA’S VICE-PRESIDENT OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISM “It means you know what will result from that referral. So for physicians who feel very strongly opposed to assisted dying, a number of them say: ‘If I refer to another physician and I know that they will themselves undertake the act of assisted dying, I’m automatically morally complicit because I facilitated the process.”’

Blackmer said the CMA had proposed an alternative: the creation of a central information hub to facilitate access to doctor-aided death, which conscientious objectors could point out to patients who desired to terminate their lives.

Objecting physicians would be required to provide detailed information to a patient and their family “so they could access that central service readily and in a very timely fashion, with no barriers whatsoever,” he said. Physicians would also have to

transfer the patient’s records on request.

But Blackmer said the proposal was not even mentioned in the committee’s report, despite having the backing of Dying With Dignity Canada and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, two of the groups that spearheaded the legal battle to overturn the long-standing ban on assisted death.

“I in no way mean to sound alarmist, but I have heard from some colleagues that are near retirement age that if this does become enshrined in legislation, they will retire,” he said of the proposed requirement to directly refer patients. “I know some colleagues who have said they’ll move to a U.S. state.

“I don’t think those numbers are going to be huge, but certainly there is a subset of physicians who feel strongly enough about this that they would absolutely make changes in their practice, based on what the legislation might look like.”

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled a year ago that individuals with unbearable suffering from a grievous and irremediable condition could seek a doctor’s help to die. Ottawa has until June 6 to pass new legislation reflecting the court’s landmark decision.

In the meantime, the CMA hopes to meet with federal justice and health department officials to go through the recommendations and look for common ground on contentious issue.

“We’re more than convinced that common ground exists,” said Blackmer. “If the rationale for requiring mandatory referral is to ensure access, that’s very much a false dichotomy. There’s no need to require mandatory referral to ensure access.

“And you don’t need to look any further than other jurisdictions that have legalized assisted dying,” he said of such countries as Belgium and the Netherlands. “None of them has a requirement for referral and none of them has an issue with access.”

Group hopes to make Saskatoon park a UN World Heritage Site SASKATOON — A group hopes to have the Wanuskewin Heritage Park in Saskatoon designated as a United Nations World Heritage site.

Chief Felix Thomas of the Saskatoon Tribal Council says to achieve that goal the park will need to expand and be improved.

The plan also calls for re-introducing a small herd of bison to the park, which is designed to advance understanding of Northern Plains Indigenous peoples.

If the group’s application is successful, Wanuskewin would become Saskatchewan’s first UN heritage site.

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Police officer mourned

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SAGUENAY, Que. — Thierry LeRoux’s family and friends bid an emotional farewell to the slain Quebec police officer Friday, remembering him as a loving man who always saw the best in people.

LeRoux, 26, was just six months into his career in the Lac-Simon police force when he was shot Feb. 13 as he and another officer responded to a domestic call.

Hundreds of officers from Quebec and parts of Canada and the United States attended his funeral Friday, with his widow, brother and father among those who spoke about him fondly.

“You never saw bad in anybody,” his father, Michel, told the service in the Chicoutimi Cathedral in Saguenay, 250 kilometres north of Quebec City.

“You would tell me, ‘Get to know people and you will see there is good in all of them.’ What wisdom!

“Thierry, I already miss your clowning around at meals, your contagious smile and your beautiful blue eyes. To you, my man, my champion, my hero. I love you.”

After completing a police technology degree, LeRoux graduated from Quebec’s police academy in November 2013 — excelling in sports and physical conditioning.

Investigators have said officers did not return fire on the fatal night in Lac-Simon, a small Algonquin reserve in northwestern Quebec.

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Sympathetic judge jails N.S. man who shot son HALIFAX — Michael Paul Dockrill accidentally shot and killed his son with a rifle the young man had given him for protection during a 2011 drug robbery.

On Friday, he cried softly as he was sentenced to four years in prison by a judge who was sympathetic but cleareyed about where the blame lies.

“I truly feel terrible for you,” Justice Josh Arnold said as he

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Joannie Vaillancourt, left, wife of Lac-Simon police officer Thierry LeRoux, and LeRoux’s father Michel LeRoux follow the casket at the end of the funeral service for police officer Thierry LeRoux Friday in Saguenay, Que. LeRoux died tragically in a shooting in Lac-Simon, Que. on Feb. 13, 2016.

Anthony Raymond Papatie, 22, the man identified by police as the shooter, was found dead, inside the home, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

LeRoux’s widow, Joannie Vaillan-

court, struggled at times as she addressed the funeral service, which lasted about two hours.

‘This is an incredibly difficult day because I am forced to say goodbye to you,” Vaillancourt said. “You are, and

concluded his three-hour sentencing in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.

“You changed your world forever on June 12, 2011, when you fired that shot.

Hopefully, in the future drug dealers and the families with whom they live will be less likely to take the law into their own hands and arm themselves with guns.”

Dockrill hugged emotional relatives moments before sheriffs placed him in handcuffs and escorted him out of the Halifax courtroom in front of his remaining son and daughter.

Arnold’s decision upholds the minimum mandatory sentence for gun crimes. Dockrill was convicted in April of criminal negligence causing death for shooting his son 20-year-old son, Jason.

Court heard that the young man had been living with his father and dealing drugs out of their basement

when he was warned that someone was threatening to steal marijuana and money from the home.

Halifax pediatrician faces charges of possessing, sharing child pornography HALIFAX — An elderly pediatrician is facing child pornography charges after a raid on a Halifax home Friday morning.

Halifax police said Dr. William Richard Vitale, 72, was arrested around 6:25 a.m. at a house on St. Mar-

will be forever, the great love of my life.

“We had a beautiful future all mapped out….We were supposed to have children, grow old together and watch our grandchildren grow up. Today, I’m having trouble breathing.”

Vaillancourt said she and LeRoux had to overcome many obstacles, including being far apart geographically at times as he pursued his police career.

“You were, and still are, a great man,” she said, her voice cracking. “If everyone had just one ounce of your personality, your courage, your savoir faire, the world would be a better place.”

LeRoux’s brother, Steffan, also delivered an emotionally powerful tribute.

“I will no longer be able to protect you, as we had promised we would, because you have left us far too early,” he said. “But I will continue to serve and protect our family. Every morning, I will put on your bulletproof vest, your belt, your boots and your cap to look after our family.

“I have always spoken about you with so much passion and pride and I will continue to do that until it is time for my number to be retired. When that day comes, you better come and greet me and we will be able to write the second chapter of our life.

“I only have one request: send me a sign from time to time, a little gesture, anything, just to tell me, ‘I’m there, brother.”’

garet’s Bay Road, where officers seized computer equipment.

Const. Dianne Woodworth said investigators don’t believe the material allegedly seized involves any patients.

“It’s not believed any of the children are local children who have been victimized. There’s no indication at this point,” Woodworth said.

The arrest followed a one-month investigation by the Internet Child Exploitation Unit, she said.

Vitale, who has had a medical practice on Oxford Street, appeared in Halifax provincial court Friday afternoon to face charges of making available, possessing and accessing child pornography.

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Insecticide: taking down the Zika virus It was a typically anodyne statement by the World Health Organization: “Given the magnitude of the Zika crisis, WHO encourages affected countries and their partners to boost the use of both old and new approaches to mosquito control.” Anodyne, that is, until you realize what they mean by “new approaches.”

Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that is spreading panic around the world. It was first linked to hydrocephaly — a developmental defect in infants that results in abnormally small heads, severe learning difficulties, and often early death — only last year in Brazil. WHO estimates that it may infect 3 to 4 million people in the Americas alone GWYNNE this year — and its “new apDYER proach” is to exterminate the mosquitoes. Literally.

OPINION An alternative approach would be to develop a vaccine for the Zika virus — but that would take up to 10 years, and the crisis is now. Zika has already been detected in 30 countries, and Brazil is investigating more than 4,300 suspected cases of microcephaly.

The pressure is on to do something fast.

By the wildest of coincidences, something fast is available. It’s only 12 years since Austin Burt, an evolutionary geneticist at Imperial College in London, raised the idea of a “gene drive” that would spread some desirable quality (like immunity to malaria) through an entire population in a relatively short time. With a population of mosquitoes, whose generations are only a month long, you could do it in only a year or two.

Mosquitoes were the obvious first target for the new technology, since their bite transmits lethal diseases like dengue fever, chikungunya and, above all, malaria, which still kills 600,000 people a year. But “editing” a gene was a long, difficult process until CRISPR/Cas9, a fast, accurate, cheap gene-editing tool that was developed in 2012.

Scientists immediately set to work on mosquito genes, and by last year they had a genetically modified (GM) mosquito whose offspring do not survive into adulthood. They die as larvae, before they can breed.

By an even wilder coincidence, the species of mosquito whose genes they edited was Aedes aegypti, best known as a vector for dengue fever. But Aedes aegyti is also the main transmitter of the Zika virus, and Oxitec, the British-based company that was created to exploit this new technology, is already field-testing the GM version of the insect — in Brazil, as luck would have it.

In the town of Piracicaba, Oxitec has a “factory” that produces 800,000 mosquitoes each week that carry the OX513A gene, and a white van that sets them free all over town. In theory they should mate with the local females of the same species, whose children will never grow up to mate themselves, so the local population should go into steep decline.

And in practice, it works.

It’s actually a rather labour-intensive process, and the little prototype “factory” is only producing enough GM males to cover a town of 10,000 people.

To completely eradicate the local population of Aedes aegypti would take several dozen generations — that is, a couple of years — even if it was not replenished by fertile males from the surrounding area.

Obviously, the enterprise could be scaled up to cover all of Brazil, or even the whole world. The question is: should it be?

Human beings have wiped out entire species in the past, starting with the big animals that were wiped out in the “New World blitzes” when human hunters first arrived in the Americas, Australia and

various ocean islands. But we never actually intended to exterminate a species before. This time it’s different.

Some environmentalists have already attacked the idea, ostensibly on the grounds that removing an entire species of mosquito would upset the ecological balance and possibly cause further extinctions among the animals that feed on them, or maybe open up an ecological niche that would be filled by an even nastier species.

But one suspects that their real worry is the “slippery slope.” If we edit Aedes aegypti out of existence today, what species will we next choose to remove for our own convenience? That is a legitimate concern, but nothing can make mosquitoes cuddly, whereas healthy babies definitely are cuddly. The threat of Zika will trump all their arguments.

Besides, there are some 3,000 species of mosqui-

toes (only 200 of which bite human beings), so some other species will just fill the niche left empty by Aedes aegypti and no other bird, fish or insect will go hungry. If you are still upset about “playing God,” keep a small breeding population of Aedes aegypti alive in captivity so you can repopulate the planet with the little pests if you need to.

The great American biologist and champion of biodiversity E.O. Wilson gets the last word on this. In his book The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, he makes a exception for Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that spreads malaria in Africa. “Keep their DNA for research,” he writes, “and let them go.”

The same goes for Aedes aegypti. We are going to commit insecticide. And we should.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

The beauty of friendship and reaching one’s potential It is not uncommon that when people come to the kitchen for supper or even soup lunch, that they are greeted with a hug, a handshake, or even a touch on the shoulder. It’s a way to show that we care and that we are there to feed them, not to judge or to condemn them.

Over the past many years, we have been able to form relationships with many of these folks who come into the kitchen. In so doing we form many lasting friendships as well.

We have several in our group who are extremely dedicated to the well-being and CHRIS welfare of those who come to SALOMONS them with a variety of issues.

One of the benefits, for us, STREET TALES of these friendships is that we are able to see qualities in them, but the sad fact is that in many cases these qualities go undeveloped because of their addictions.

In one such case, that individual now has terminal cancer. I am sad for him, but not because he is about to die, but because his dominant quality was one of leadership; a quality which was totally undeveloped and unused all for the sake of “a good time.”

This man has become a very important person in my life, not that we spend time together, but we

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We all will die, no one gets out of this life alive, and that is sad enough in and of itself (I often get criticized for my view on death) but what is the saddest of all, is to see a life that is thrown away all for the sake of a high that is totally destructive.

Each and every one of us has a gift that when recognized and developed to its fullest potential becomes a permanent mark in the development of a community, whether we acknowledge it or not. To see that kind of a quality thrown away is the saddest testament of all in a person’s life.

There is a young woman who, when we first met, displayed to me an unusual capacity for caring and compassion along with a deep understanding of people with problems.

I have written about her a few times explaining the hope we have for her full recovery and the utilization of her gifts.

After several years of demonstrating to her that we do not judge but instead try to bring out their best, I have developed a strange and uneasy friendship with her. One moment she will fly me a bird, or she will tell me what to do with myself, but when she is sober, especially after detoxing, she is very friendly and displays a good intelligence, but only until she once again gets hooked on drugs; something she always swears that won’t ever happen again.

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one particular fellow whom I spent a lot of time with over the years, has more qualities than most people.

Some of these he has developed but others he waffles in his decision making; again because he follows that quote he gave me and so he continues to use pot; not excessively though.

Soon to be legalized, the negative effects of this drug are ignored, because in my mind and through the evidence I have witnessed, pot often leaves a person with a brain that only functions to about 70 or 80 per cent. Much like an elevator that won’t go all the way to the top floor.

Even this friend has made that same statement to me, so if they themselves acknowledge this fact it probably is so.

The real beauty of friendship though comes from several individuals, both male and female, whose efforts to detox and abstain from any drug or alcohol have given them a life of freedom and unexpected joy. In the words of one such friend, “I never imagined that life could be so much fun and that I would enjoy it so much; I feel a real joy just to be alive!”

A friendship takes a long time to form and requires a mindful commitment to love and care for a person regardless of situations that can and do arise that could easily destroy that relationship.

Our lives are much richer for that effort to maintain that which we can have in each other.

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Navigating the economic climate Thank you for the opportunity to submit a monthly column for the Red Deer Advocate. Over the course of the next year, I hope to address various issues that the citizens of Red Deer raise with city council throughout our conversations in the community.

Given the economic climate we are all navigating through, the fact that council recently completed our TARA 2016 budget deVEER liberations, and that budget sets LET’S TALK our direction for the upcoming year, I will begin by providing a general summary of the 2016 budget to set the stage for future columns.

When city administration first tabled the recommended 2016 Capital and Operating budgets to council in the fall of 2015, the proposed tax increase was 3.78 per cent. In the weeks following the tabling of the budget to the commencement of council’s budget deliberations, however, it became evident that provincially and locally we

are faced with a deeper and more protracted recession than what we were confronted with in 2008. In recognition of this sobering fact, council engaged in extensive debate on a line by line basis and administration revised some recommendations in a united effort to minimize the financial impact of the budget on Red Deer residents and businesses as much as possible. The final percentage council adopted was 2.9 per cent, which is the lowest increase to the city’s revenue requirement since 2001. This percentage allocation is comprised of the following: • 1.0 per cent for capital savings; shifting our reliance from predominantly debt financing alone and to protect our public from “sticker shock” in upcoming years for debt repayment.

• 1.53 per cent for general operating increase, which is below the inflation rate of 2.06 per cent and provides for service level improvements and priorities as identified for council by our citizens.

• 0.37 per cent download from the provincial government as a result of the cancellation of the Government of Alberta’s “grants in lieu” program, which essentially paid the property taxes for provincial properties throughout our community.

Council recognizes that there is competing sentiment in the community

about what the “right” number is, with views that 0 per cent is most appropriate in a recession to those who desire additional levies to see specific capital projects come to fruition. Ultimately, council endeavoured to find balance between many, often competing, objectives: to maintain stability in our local economy through what is undoubtedly a more challenging recession through public sector investment, to respond to citizen expectations for improvements and efficiencies to city services in priority areas, to fulfill our responsibility to move our community forward, and to do all of the above in a financially responsible manner that protects the affordability of living and doing business in Red Deer. Throughout our various consultations with our public, Red Deerians consistently identified three priority areas for service level improvements: community safety, transportation and core city services. The 2016 operating budget responds to this public feedback, specifics of which I will discuss more thoroughly in upcoming columns. Generally speaking though, the 2016 budget accomplishes the following: • Continues with the capital savings plan council established in 2015.

• Stabilizes utility rates after significant capital growth years. The utility budget also allows utility customers

opportunity for greater control over utility charges by shifting more of the “fixed” portion to “variable” rate.

• Substantial base budget savings through operational innovations and efficiencies without service reductions to our public.

• Transportation improvements in transit, preventative road maintenance (resolving a historical transportation infrastructure deficit), and additional improvements to snow and ice control.

• Community safety investment through crime prevention programming and reducing case load per officer through additions to RCMP. • Additional quality of life improvements for our public throughout various city operations.

One of council’s strategic principles is to build citizen-friendly local government, so as part of this commitment to our public we have adopted an organizational culture of “continuous improvement,” meaning that we will continue to be responsive to the changing needs of our public.

As always, Council thanks you for the ongoing opportunity to represent you. We look forward to seeing you all in the near future and hearing about what is important to citizens in our community.

Until next time …

Crossing on zebra with a yellow flag Some people in England call them “zebras,” we here in the colonies just call them “crosswalks.”

Although if we said to a little kindergarten kid: “Be careful. Make sure you cross the street on a zebra,” they would probably be quite excited. I know I would. But hey, I sort of believe in unicorns so that would explain that.

Thing is, I heard a little news item on my car radio whilst stopped at a crosswalk the other day. It mentioned that there is quite a problem with drivers ignoring crosswalks and, more to the point, quite a problem with people trying to cross the street on them and remaining alive. Apparently there is a particular area in West Vancouver near a HARLEY school where HAY there have been more HAY’S DAZE than a few near tragedies. This is solely due to a particular problem with inattentive drivers in that they are morons.

So the community and City Fathers and City Mothers came up with a plan.

They have placed a bucket at each end of the particularly dangerous crosswalks. And in those buckets are sticks, and attached to those sticks are yellow flags. So when a child or a normal person wishes to cross at the crosswalk, they pull one of the flags from the bucket and wave it until the moron drivers actually stop and it is theoretically safe to cross. Then, and only then, the petrified pedestrian flag person crosses and deposits the flag in the other bucket across the street.

“What a great idea!” I said right out loud to the radio reporter since there was just me in the car at the time. But here’s the thing: the reporter went on to report that there has actually been a swell of negative criticism (is there any other kind?) regarding the yellow flag idea. “Why?” I said right out loud again. “It’s a great idea!”

So it seems some people think that waving a yellow flag at a car is a terrible idea because it takes the responsibility for safety away from the moron drivers and puts it on the supposedly less moronic pedestrian. It is, after all, totally illegal to hit a pedestrian with your car. People always have the right of way, whether walking, biking, in a wheelchair or blind-drunk crawling

for that matter.

Still I’m surprised how vitriolic Tweets got from vitriolic Twitter people in response to the yellow flag pilot project. Here’s a sample: “This is victim blaming!”

“I thought this was a joke. Drivers responsibility to get off phone, stop applying makeup and look around.”

“It’s insane. Once again blaming the pedestrian for not being seen. Crazy, just crazy.”

“If we ever end up in West Van we promise to take all flags, cross at will, burn all flags.”

Yikes. Burn all the flags? Some people really like their crosswalks to be flag-free, apparently.

Maybe the West Vancouver Yellow Flag folks could take solace in the fact that they aren’t the only ones experimenting with crosswalks. According to the interweb, in Lisbon, Portugal they had the opposite problem. Jaywalking. You know, gambling with the person-versus-car scenario. And we all know who always loses when the inevitable finally happens.

So what did they do? They installed a dancing crosswalk signal. What?

Here’s how it works: instead of a sta-

tionary red silhouette of a person appearing on the Do Not Walk electronic sign, the figure dances. This “encourages pedestrians to watch the little guy strut his stuff instead of trying to dart across the street against traffic.” The really fun part about this is that the little figure on the Do Not Walk sign is activated by anyone who wants to bust a few moves. There is a little booth nearby with motion-capture cameras and anyone who feels like it can step in the booth and cut loose, and those movements will appear as a little red dancing figure on the sign.

How cool is that? It’s 81 per cent cool. In that statistics now show that 81 per cent of pedestrians don’t jaywalk at that intersection in Portugal.

But dancing crosswalk signals are a tad more expensive than yellow flag buckets. So there’s always the crosswalk placebo effect. In New York City (where else?) there are about 3,500 crosswalk buttons. Of these over 90 per cent do not work. At all. In fact they haven’t worked since 1980, when traffic lights became automated and the buttons were actually deactivated.

But people still press them anyway.

Wouldn’t you?

Apparently it would cost the city a cool $1 million to remove the dead crosswalk buttons. Besides, they say, the “placebo” effect is a positive one for people who like to think they have some miniscule level of control in their lives. And let’s face it; we humans just love to push buttons. Any kind of buttons. I know I do. It’s strangely satisfying. Like riding a zebra. Or a unicorn.

But of course the real solution is to have full-time crossing guards at every crosswalk in the world. I know because I once was one. It was Grade 7. Central School. The white belt over one shoulder; the miniature stop sign in your hand. A whistle around your neck. Most crossing guards figured they could change the world and make it safer.

Me? I just joined because Shawna Frizzell was a crossing guard. Best job I ever had.

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.

Conservative race could get crowded Depending on the day of the week Two of the leading candidates there are no less than eight and as ma- whose names are circulating have the ny as a dozen Conservatives testing the potential — should they both run — to federal leadership waters. turn the campaign into a succession Should they all enter the battle between the Tory race to succeed Stephen and the Reform branches of Harper, this could make the Conservative family. next year’s Conservative The first is Peter MacKleadership vote the most unay, the former leader of predictable federal contest the Progressive Conservain a decade. tive party. Based on a JanPast history suggests that uary poll, he is the poputhe more crowded the field, lar choice of Conservative the greater the odds that a sympathizers, with support dark horse will emerge as spread pretty evenly across the unlikely winner. the country.

There were eight canBut it is far from certain didates on the ballot when he wants the job, at least at CHANTAL Stéphane Dion won the Libthis juncture. MacKay reHEBERT eral leadership in 2006. Antired from politics to spend other four had withdrawn more time with his young INSIGHT prior to the vote. family a few months before Over on the Conservative the election. He has just side, joined a Toronto law firm. He could Joe Clark beat 10 rivals for the Tory decide to take a pass on this campaign, leadership in 1976. thinking there will be another opporNeither contest featured a consen- tunity to run later on. sual front-runner. Nor does, at this It is a rare federal party that does early stage, the campaign to succeed not earn a second mandate in governHarper. In contrast with the last Lib- ment. eral leadership campaign there is At a minimum, the Conservatives no heir apparent to the Conservative could be looking at almost a decade throne. in opposition. Over a similar period But there are crown princes in the of time, the Liberals disposed of two wings. leaders before Justin Trudeau led

them back to office.

Former defence minister Jason Kenney is also said to be mulling his options. His polling numbers are not as impressive as MacKay’s, especially in Central Canada, but those results underestimate his actual strength among the Conservatives members who will vote in the leadership election.

As the top social conservative in the last cabinet, Kenney has strong connections to the religious right. And his ethnic outreach on behalf of the party has allowed him to build networks within many cultural communities.

But while the Conservative party may be ready to elect a social conservative as its leader, the country may not be so disposed.

The second tier consists of a gaggle of former federal ministers, none of whom could be described as a national household name. Of course, that was also true of Harper when he became leader and he still beat Paul Martin, albeit only on his second attempt.

Doug Ford — of Toronto municipal fame — and businessman/TV personality Kevin O’Leary complete the list.

Neither speaks French fluently or has any federal experience.

Both enjoy as much or more name recognition than most outgoing Harper ministers.

But if that were a major asset, former hockey star Ken Dryden would not have finished a distant runner-up in the 2006 Liberal leadership campaign.

He used to top the notoriety charts.

Most of the would-be leadership candidates will be working the corridors of this weekend’s Manning conference in Ottawa, making it a warm-up session for a marathon race that will stretch well into the first half of next year.

Former ministers Tony Clement and Maxime Bernier, MP Michael Chong and O’Leary will all be hosting so-called meet-and-greet sessions.

Kenney, Lisa Raitt and Kelly Leitch are among the former cabinet members expected at the conference.

So are ex-MPs Brian Jean and Patrick Brown, who lead the official opposition in Edmonton and at Queen’s Park, respectively. By any other name this could be a class reunion for Harper alumni.

The state of Canada’s conservative movement is the overriding theme of the conference. The fact that this year’s gathering of the clans that make up the Canadian right is bringing together a record number of people who toil in provincial and federal opposition tells that story.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

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Iran votes in first elections since landmark nuclear deal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — Iranians voted Friday in the country’s first election since its landmark nuclear deal with world powers, deciding whether to further empower moderates backing President Hassan Rouhani or support hard-liners long suspicious of the West.

The elections for Iran’s parliament and a powerful clerical body known as the Assembly of Experts are tightly controlled by the establishment headed by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which ultimately determines who can run.

But within the range allowed by the Islamic Republic, the voting may provide a referendum on Rouhani’s policies — and his promises that the nuclear deal, the lifting of most international sanctions and a greater degree of opening to the West can help boost a battered economy — a top concern for most voters.

Nearly 55 million of Iran’s 80 million people were eligible to vote. Participation figures and other statistics were not immediately available, though Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli predicted late Thursday there would be a turnout of 70 per cent.

Polls had been scheduled to close at 6 p.m., but the Interior Ministry said it would extend voting time until 11:45 p.m. in the capital. Authorities said election workers had begun counting ballots after that.

In Tehran, voter Hossein Gerami said he backed reformists to support Rouhani.

“The country suffered under hard-liners,” he said.

“Today is the time to change Iran for the better.”

Sakineh Mamoudi, who backed hard-liners, said she worried about Western influence growing in Iran.

“I voted for those who protect the values of the revolution and oppose foreign domination of the country because I don’t want pro-West figures to get control of the parliament,” Mamoudi said.

The nuclear deal has been the centerpiece of Rouhani’s policies since he was elected in 2013 — and the sealing of the deal won Iran the lifting of most international sanctions against it. Throughout, he and the negotiating team had to push against hard-liner opposition. Supreme leader Khamenei eventually gave his consent to the final result.

Now reformists want to build on that opening to the world, promising improvements in the economy.

Despite the nuclear deal, Iran and the West have a long history of enmity, fueled by the 1953 Britain and U.S.-engineered coup that installed the shah and the 1979 Islamic Revolution and takeover of the American Embassy. A billboard put up in Tehran before the election showed the face of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II replaced with that of a camel, warning voters about “foreign meddling.”

The hard-line camp is largely made up of loyalists of Rouhani’s predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who during his two terms in office avidly stoked tensions with the U.S. and cracked down on internal dissidents.

The vote is unlikely to radically change Iran, but reformists and moderates peeling away seats from hard-liners could help Rouhani push through his domestic agenda. Reformists say that about 200 of its 3,000 would-be candidates were allowed to run after the unelected Guardian Council vetted and disqualified many, often on the grounds of insufficient “loyalty” to the Islamic Republic.

That means they are unlikely to attain a majority but could still win a substantial bloc of parliament’s 290 seats with their allies. Lawmakers serve fouryear terms.

Christie endorses Trump for president

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Republican front-runner Donald Trump won the backing Friday of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, himself a former presidential candidate, in a jolt to one of the wildest primary contests in recent memory.

Christie is one of the first establishment Republicans to endorse Trump in a nominating race where many in the party have been distressed by the billionaire New York businessman’s campaign tactics and policy proposals.

“I’ve gotten to know all the people on that stage and there is none who is better prepared to provide America with the strong leadership that it needs both at home and around the world than Donald Trump,” Christie said at a news conference in Texas.

Trump shared his reaction when Christie notified his campaign: “I said, ‘Wow, this is really important.”’

The endorsement is yet more momentum as Trump moves into the critical Super Tuesday primary elections next week and was followed by a nod from Maine Gov. Paul LePage.

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The officer who took the shooter’s call went to the home across Puget Sound from Seattle with another deputy. Authorities negotiated with the man for about three hours before a SWAT team entered the house in a heavily wooded area and found the bodies.

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Do you remember those brief and fleeting days when the Canadian dollar was at par with the American dollar?

The world was our oyster. Canadians could travel almost anywhere and get a lot of bang for our buck.

The falling loonie definitely makes travel more costly and challenging, but it doesn’t mean you have to completely cancel your holiday plans. There are plenty of places where the Canadian dollar still has good value and there are ways DEBBIE to get more bang for your OLSEN travel buck — even when TRAVEL that buck is only worth about 70 US cents.

Explore Canada

If you have never taken the time to explore your own country, there is no better time than now. With low gas prices, the cost of a road trip is way down.

Even if you fly to a far flung Canadian destination and then rent a car to explore the area, you’ll pay less for the gas to explore and you won’t have the painful need to exchange your money.

Canada is so diverse both culturally and scenically. Whether you are exploring close to home, relaxing on a sandy beach in Prince Edward Island, driving along a rocky shore in Newfound-

land or you are enjoying a city break, there’s much to see and do. Besides that, travelling within Canada helps to support Canadian businesses and the Canadian economy.

Go Where the Canadian Dollar Goes Further

Many countries have been affected by low oil prices and have seen a drop in the value of their currency. Some countries have had their currency devalued for other reasons. The fact is there are places in the world where the loonie stretches farther these days.

Right now, South Africa is a bargain for Canadians. Ten years ago, 100 rand would have cost $18.38 Canadian dollars.

Today you can get 100 rand for about $8.78 Canadian dollars. Those savings can translate into more dollars for hotels and touring. 2016 could be a good year to drive the Garden Route, visit Cape Town or explore Kruger National Park.

Brazil is also a good bet these days. Five years ago, 100 Brazilian real would have cost $58.92 Canadian dollars.

Today you can get 100 real for $34.61 Canadian dollars. Those extra savings mean that this might be a good year to see Rio de Janeiro, visit Iguassu Falls or practice your best Barry Manilow impression on the real Copacabana Beach.

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TIPS: Budget conscious Argentina is also on sale. Ten years ago, 100 pesos would have cost $42.34 Canadian dollars. Five years ago 100 pesos would have cost $26.16 Canadian dollars. Today 100 pesos will cost $8.93 Canadian dollars. Maybe it’s time to learn to tango in Buenos Aires, see the wilds of Patagonia or see the Andes.

As we all know, currencies can change at any time, but if you want to get more bang for your Canadian buck, look for countries that are in the same boat when it comes to devalued currency. Another plus is those countries typically appreciate tourists who help to boost their economy.

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Flights can be costly for destinations like Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, but once you get there the cost of accommodations, meals and activities is often substantially lower than what you would typically pay in North America. If you are planning a trip of a longer duration, Southeast Asia can be a bargain.

Travel in the Shoulder Season

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Destinations serviced only by scheduled airlines like Delta, Westjet, Air Canada and United will tend to go up in price at the last minute, so it’s a bad idea to wait.

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Rebels clip ’Hawks in OT

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 4 Winterhawks 3 (OT) Red Deer Rebels forward Adam Helewka is a big fan of the WHL threeon-three overtime format.

And when you’re successful, why not?

Helewka set up Ivan Nikolishin for the game-winner in overtime Friday as the Rebels prevailed 4-3 over the Portland Winterhawks in front of 5,674 entertained fans at the Centrium.

“It’s so much fun. It’s tiring if you get caught in your own end but it’s a lot of fun to be wheeling out there,” said the 20-year-old winger. “We need every point we can get right now and we just found a way to win at the end.”

The Rebels appeared to be on their way to a regulation-time triumph until Portland captain Dominic Turgeon connected at 14:57 of the third period.

“We gave up a goal late but it didn’t demoralize us,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We just stayed with it and obviously we have some skill three-on-three. Anything can happen but you trust your skill at that point.”

Helewka worked out of the corner and slipped a perfect feed out front to Nikolishin, who found the back of the net at 4:07 of the five-minute extra frame.

“It was good on him to get open,” said Helewka. “I saw the opening under the D-man’s stick. I just had time to make the pass and he (Nikolishin) did the rest.”

The visitors led 1-0 after one period on a goal by Blake Heinrich, his first of two on the evening. The ‘Hawks were arguably the better team in the opening 20 minutes but the Rebels, for the most part, carried the play the rest of the way.

“As the game went on we got better and better,” said Sutter. “We didn’t have a great start, we never seemed to get our legs under us until five minutes left in the period.

“But we just had to get sharper and get our feet moving and I thought in the second period we were at least moving and doing some better things … creating more offensively.”

Defenceman Haydn Fleury, from low in the left faceoff circle, blew a slapshot past ‘Hawks netminder Adin Hill at 5:52 of the second period to pull the Rebels even, but Heinrich scored just 41 seconds later to restore Port-

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Red Deer Rebels forward Adam Helewka chips the puck past Portland Winterhawks forward Colton Veloso during first period WHL action Friday night at the Enmax Centrium. land’s lead.

From there, Helewka pounced on a turnover at the Red Deer blueline, broke in alone and slipped the puck under Hill at 7:28 and the clubs were knotted at two after 40 minutes.

Grayson Pawlenchuk’s 20th goal of the season bolted the Rebels back in front barely two minutes into the third period, but the ‘Hawks got the late equalizer and eventually had to settle for a single point.

“In the third it was a tight game and a lot of games at this time of the year are,” said Sutter. “You have to find a way to win a tight game.”

The Rebels have struggled on the penalty kill for much of the season but erased all five Portland power plays.

“With our penalty kill, we wanted to start over,” said Sutter. “When you’re behind the eight-ball and battling to get your percentages up while you’re in the bottom two or three teams in the league, you have to start fresh, you have to hit a reset button.

“We talked about that, about getting our penalty killing up into the top 10 over the final 15 games of the season, within that span. Let’s also be better on our power play and let’s be better with our goals against and tight-

en games up. We’ve been better in all those areas the last three games and tonight our penalty kill was critical for us.”

Rebels netminder Trevor Martin kicked out 31 shots to post his 11th win of the season. Hill made 39 saves at the other end.

The Rebels host the red-hot Victoria Royals tonight. The Royals have won four straight and did the Rebels a favour Friday by thumping the host Calgary Hitmen 6-2. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Carey vaults into final with 7-5 win over Jones

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Alberta skip Chelsea Carey, right, bumps fists with second Jocelyn Peterman during the page playoff against team Canada at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Grande Prairie Friday.

Alberta 7 Team Canada 5 GRANDE PRAIRIE — Alberta skip Chelsea Carey and third Amy Nixon have different histories at the Canadian women’s curling championship.

Past disappointments make them hungry to win a title together.

The host province will play for a Scotties Tournament of Hearts championship on Sunday in Grande Prairie, Alta.

Alberta downed defending champion Jennifer Jones 7-5 in Friday’s Page playoff between the top two seeds from the preliminary round.

Nixon was Shannon Kleibrink’s third when they lost the 2008 final to Jones in Regina.

“I am so excited to get a chance to play in it again because I got too tight in 2008,” Nixon said. “I have way more experience behind me now than I did then. So I’m just going to bring it all.”

Carey skipped Manitoba to a 9-2 record two years ago in Montreal. Her team lost the one-two Page playoff game and then the semifinal.

“It really hurt not to be in that final,” the Alberta skip said.

Carey, Nixon and front end Jocelyn Peterman and Laine Peters were a new team this season. Carey took over at skip when former Canadian cham-

pion Heather Nedohin decided to step back from the sport.

“It’s sort of surprising to be honest with you,” Nixon said. “Chelsea and I have come together in a way I wouldn’t have anticipated back in September.

I can’t say how impressed I am with the four of us tonight for that kind of a game.”

Alberta shooting accuracy as a team was 92 per cent to Jones’s 80.

With the exception of Jones’s three-pointer in the ninth, Alberta controlled the game. The Calgary rink scored two in the first, fifth and eighth ends and stole a point in the sixth en route to victory.

When Carey doubled off a pair of Jones counters with her first shot in the 10th, it negated any chance of a steal of two for Jones, so she shook hands.

Jones drops to Saturday’s semifinal to face the winner of the afternoon playoff between Kerri Einarson of Manitoba and Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville.

Jones and second Jill Officer have 12 years of playoff experience at the Tournament of Hearts behind them, including five wins. Lead Dawn McEwen was in on four of them and third Kaitlyn Lawes one.

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Queens show team pride in victory over Huskies

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Queens 3 Huskies 1 The RDC Queens have enough pride in themselves and their program not to let disappointment get them down.

Less than a day after losing their opening game of the Alberta Colleges Women’s Volleyball League championships, the Queens came back with a 25-14, 16-25, 25-22, 25-15 victory over the Keyano College Huskies in the 5/6th place semifinal Friday afternoon at RDC. “It’s always our culture here to win … we’re a program of excellence for a reason,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “It doesn’t matter if it’s the

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP first match of the season or the last if we don’t have the character to succeed we’re not doing our athletes justice.

“At times you lose games, which sucks … it hurts, but you have to get up the next day. It’s just like a daily job where some days you’re not your best, but you still get up and go to work the next day. We’re trying to help them understand it’s just one day and you have to be better the next.”

The Queens were solid the first set, but seemed to let down the second set, at least mentally.

“I thought we had enough kills that second set, but we misfired a few times on some things and it was set over.

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But after that we passed the ball well enough to stick to the game plan. Set the ball to where we wanted so we could put good swings on it. “ The Queens also did a good job of keeping Niki Friesen, who is the player of the year from the North, under control.

“She is a physical kid and can do some scary things, but we did a lot of good things against her despite being a bit undersized,” said Walton.

Both RDC middle blockers — Hanna Delemont and Whitney Zylstra — are five-foot-nine. However, both played well again. Zylstra finished with 11 kills, three aces, three digs and

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three stuff blocks while Delemont had nine kills, two aces, three digs and two blocks.

Miranda Dawe was the player of the match with 17 kills, 15 digs and a block while Kelsey Tymkow added 11 kills, two aces and 10 digs. Setter Meagan Kuzyk had 49 assists along with two kills and seven digs.

Friesen finished with 10 kills, two aces, nine digs and three blocks.

The Queens meet the Olds Broncos in the fifth-sixth place game at 11 a.m. today.

Olds advanced with a 26-24, 33-31, 25-17 win over Lakeland College Rustlers.

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• College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship, RDC • Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland cvs, West Central Tigers, 12:30 p.m., Kin City.

• College hockey: RDC Queens vs. SAIT Trojans, third game, best-of-three ACAC semifinal, if necessary, 1:30 p.m., Arena.

• Bantam female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Calgary Rangers, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada vs.

Bow Valley, 2:30 p.m., Kinex.

• Minor Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Northstar Chiefs vs. Lethbridge Hurricanes, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

• College basketball: RDC vs. Briercrest, women 7 p.m., men to follow.

• WHL: Red Deer Rebels vs. Victoria Royals, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• AJHL: Olds Grizzlys vs. Calgary Mustangs, 7 p.;m., Olds Sportsplex.

• Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy v s. Central Alberta Selects,. 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland vs. Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kin City.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Strata Energy Chiefs vs. Lethbridge Hurricanes, noon, Arena.

• College basketball: RDC vs. Briercrest, women 1 p.m. men to follow.

• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings v s. Foothills, 1:45 p.m., Kin City.

• Senior men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Chillibongs Orangemen, Monstars vs. Wells Furniture, Aiken Basin Drillers vs. Rusty Chuckers, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. Washed Up Warriors, Lacombe All Sports Cresting vs. NWS Axemen, Triple A Battreries vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, 5:30 p.m.; LTCHS. • Chinook hockey: Bentley Generals vs.

Innisfail Eagles, fifth game of best-ofseven CHL semifinal, 5 p.m., Lacombe Arena.

• Midget AA hockey:n red Deer Elks vs.

Bow Valley. 5:30 p.m., Arena.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Cleveland 41 16 .719 — Toronto 39 18 .684 2 Boston 34 25 .576 8 Miami 32 25 .561 9 Atlanta 32 27 .542 10 Indiana 31 27 .534 10 Charlotte 30 27 .526 11 Chicago 30 27 .526 11 Detroit 29 29 .500 12 Washington 27 30 .474 14 Orlando 25 32 .439 16 New York 25 35 .417 17 Milwaukee 24 34 .414 17 Brooklyn 16 42 .276 25 Philadelphia 8 50 .138 33 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Golden State 52 5 .912 — San Antonio 49 9 .845 3 Oklahoma City 41 17 .707 11 L.A. Clippers 38 20 .655 14 Memphis 34 23 .596 18 Dallas 31 28 .525 22 Portland 30 28 .517 22 Houston 29 29 .500 23 Utah 28 29 .491 24 Sacramento 24 33 .421 28 New Orleans 23 34 .404 29 Denver 23 36 .390 30 Minnesota 18 40 .310 34 Phoenix 14 44 .241 38 L.A. Lakers 11 49 .183 42

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San Antonio at Houston, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Oklahoma City, 6:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Utah, 7:30 p.m.

Memphis at Phoenix, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cleveland at Washington, 11 a.m.

Charlotte at Atlanta, 1:30 p.m.

Portland at Indiana, 4 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Miami at New York, 5:30 p.m.

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Golf Davis Love III Morgan Hoffmann Russell Knox Ian Poulter Sung Kang Darron Stiles Chesson Hadley Stewart Cink Alex Cejka Padraig Harrington Ryan Palmer Will MacKenzie Sean O’Hair Tyrone Van Aswegen Daniel Summerhays Camilo Villegas Jason Dufner Brooks Koepka Robert Streb Jeff Overton Mark Hubbard Francesco Molinari Si Woo Kim Brendan Steele Luke Donald Derek Fathauer Erik Compton Andy Sullivan

Honda Classic Scores At PGA National Resort and Spa, The Champion Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Purse: $6.1 million Yardage: 7,140 Par 70 Second Round Rickie Fowler 66-66—132 Jimmy Walker 67-66—133 Sergio Garcia 65-69—134 Adam Scott 70-65—135 Hudson Swafford 71-65—136 Blayne Barber 70-66—136 John Senden 71-66—137 Scott Brown 70-67—137 William McGirt 66-72—138 Michael Thompson 65-73—138 Justin Thomas 69-69—138 David Lingmerth 67-71—138 Luke List 73-65—138 Vijay Singh 69-70—139 Patton Kizzire 75-64—139 Andrew Loupe 71-68—139 Jamie Donaldson 72-67—139 Dawie van der Walt 71-68—139 Brett Stegmaier 72-67—139 Ken Duke 75-65—140 Greg Owen 69-71—140 Graeme McDowell 71-69—140

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EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts x-Brandon 62 39 18 3 2 255 179 83 x-Prince Albert 62 34 20 7 1 192 189 76 Moose Jaw 61 31 22 7 1 214 195 70 Regina 61 30 24 3 4 207 215 67 Saskatoon 60 23 33 4 0 188 253 50 Swift Current 61 21 32 5 3 158 207 50 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts x-Lethbridge 62 40 20 1 1 251 187 82 x-Red Deer 61 37 21 1 2 218 175 77 Calgary 62 35 23 2 2 205 192 74 Edmonton 62 27 28 6 1 174 192 61 Medicine 62 23 34 3 2 184 251 51 Kootenay 61 10 46 5 0 129 270 25 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Victoria 63 41 16 3 3 232 147 88 Kelowna 61 42 16 3 0 226 184 87 Prince George 61 32 25 3 1 216 191 68 Kamloops 60 27 24 5 4 197 197 63 Vancouver 62 23 32 5 2 180 228 53 U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Everett 60 35 20 3 2 161 140 75 Seattle 59 33 23 3 0 190 170 69 Spokane 60 29 23 5 3 196 204 66 Portland 62 31 27 4 0 199 195 66 Tri-City 59 29 27 2 1 197 208 61 x — clinched playoff berth Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column.

Friday’s results Medicine Hat 2 Swift Current 0 Prince Albert 3 Regina 1 Victoria 6 Calgary 2 Red Deer 4 Portland 3 (OT) Edmonton 6 Kootenay 2 Brandon 5 Lethbridge 2 Seattle at Tri-City Prince George at Spokane Kelowna at Vancouver Kamloops at Everett Thursday’s results No Games Scheduled.

Saturday’s games Calgary at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Regina at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Victoria at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Portland at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.

Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Prince George at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.

Third Period 4, Brandon, McGauley 20 0:45. 5, Brandon, Patrick 37 (Hawryluk, Coulter), 2:13. 6, Brandon, Quenneville 22 5:41. 7, Brandon, Coulter 20 19:44 (SH EN).

Penalties — Clague Bdn (cross checking), 6:25 Quenneville Bdn (checking from behind), 18:13.

Shots on goal by Brandon 8 8 10 — 26 Lethbridge 8 10 6 — 24 Goal — Brandon, Papirny 24-17-3-2 (24 shots-22 saves). Lethbridge, Sittler 19-11-0-1 (20 shots-16 saves) Skinner 21-9-1-0 (5 shots-5 saves).

Tigers 2, Broncos 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Pederson SC (boarding), 16:16.

Second Period 1, Medicine Hat, Bradley 20 (Shaw, Quenneville), 10:48 (SH). 2, Medicine Hat, Butcher 21 (Quenneville), 18:16.

Penalties — Butcher MH (tripping), 9:53 Butcher MH (tripping), 16:08.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Adams SC (hooking), 7:22 Pederson SC (cross checking), 11:50 Shaw MH (roughing, roughing), 17:44 Martin SC (slashing, roughing, roughing, 10-minute misconduct), 17:44 Quenneville MH (interference), 19:17.

Shots on goal by Medicine Hat 14 6 11 — 31 Swift Current 13 11 10 — 34 Goal — Medicine Hat, Schneider 14-23-1-0 (34 shots-34 saves). Swift Current, Burman 14-11-1-2 (31 shots-29 saves).

Royals 6, Hitmen 2 First Period 1, Victoria, Soy 35 0:33. 2, Victoria, Phillips 33 (Forsberg, Walker), 15:24 (PP). 3, Victoria, Gagnon 4 (Forsberg), 17:26.

Penalties — Platt Cal (interference), 6:29 Hicketts Vic (roughing), 7:33 Ta. Sanheim Cal (roughing), 14:52.

Second Period 4, Calgary, Platt 3 (Kastelic), 5:37. 5, Victoria, Fisher 11 (Nagy), 7:02. 6, Victoria, Gagnon 5 (Fisher, Nagy), 11:40.

Penalties — Stallard Cal (high sticking), 8:58 Ta. Sanheim Cal (slashing), 14:45.

Third Period 7, Calgary, Stallard 18 (Houck, Twarynski), 17:02.

8, Victoria, Soy 36 17:56. Penalties — Phillips Vic (interference), 1:56 Ibragimov Vic (roughing), 6:39 Stukel Cal (tripping), 11:34 Walker Vic (interference), 11:49.

Shots on goal by Victoria 9 13 12 — 34 Calgary 7 5 11 — 23 Goal — Victoria, Vollrath 27-13-0-2 (23 shots-21 saves). Calgary, Amundrud 11-11-1-0 (9 shots-6 saves) Porter 20-9-1-1 (25 shots-22 saves).

NHL

Sunday’s games Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 2 p.m.

Tri-City at Everett, 4:05 p.m.

Seattle at Kamloops, 6 p.m.

Wheat-Kings 5, Hurricanes 2 First Period 1, Brandon, Clague 6 (Duke), 8:32. 2, Lethbridge, Burke 22 (Babenko, Wong), 12:53. 3, Lethbridge, Babenko 26 (Atwal, Millette), 18:24. Penalties — Babenko Let (hooking), 4:49 Clague Bdn (hooking), 5:34 Burke Let (hooking), 6:45 Erkamps Bdn (interference), 7:02 Folk Let (boarding), 10:25.

Second Period No Scoring.Penalties — Higson Bdn (roughing), 3:58 Folk Let (charging), 3:58 Clague Bdn (tripping), 6:32 Duke Bdn (high sticking, high sticking), 10:49 McGauley Bdn (high sticking), 18:32.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 60 35 18 7 77 Tampa Bay 61 35 22 4 74 Boston 62 34 22 6 74 Detroit 61 30 20 11 71 Ottawa 62 29 27 6 64 Montreal 61 29 27 5 63 Buffalo 62 25 30 7 57 Toronto 59 21 28 10 52 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Washington 60 45 11 4 94 N.Y. Rangers 61 35 20 6 76 N.Y. Islanders 59 33 19 7 73 Pittsburgh 59 30 21 8 68 New Jersey 63 30 26 7 67 Carolina 63 28 25 10 66 Philadelphia 60 27 22 11 65 Columbus 62 25 29 8 58

GF 167 169 194 153 179 167 147 145

GA 139 149 171 158 192 168 168 176

GF 200 175 170 155 139 153 148 162

GA 139 156 146 156 153 168 163 191

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 62 38 18 6 82 202 178 Chicago 63 38 20 5 81 177 151 St. Louis 63 35 19 9 79 157 152 Nashville 62 30 21 11 71 162 158 Colorado 63 32 27 4 68 169 176 Minnesota 62 27 25 10 64 161 158 Winnipeg 60 26 30 4 56 158 179 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 60 36 20 4 76 161 139 Anaheim 60 33 19 8 74 149 142 San Jose 60 32 22 6 70 178 164 Vancouver 60 24 24 12 60 147 171 Arizona 61 27 28 6 60 166 188 Calgary 60 26 30 4 56 162 184 Edmonton 63 22 34 7 51 153 192 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s Games Philadelphia 3, Minnesota 2 Columbus 6, New Jersey 1 Toronto 3, Carolina 1 Florida 3, Arizona 2 N.Y. Rangers 2, St. Louis 1 Nashville 3, Chicago 1 Winnipeg 6, Dallas 3 N.Y. Islanders 2, Calgary 1, OT Vancouver 5, Ottawa 3 Los Angeles 2, Edmonton 1 Friday’s Games Tampa Bay 4, New Jersey 0 Washington 3, Minnesota 2 Boston 4, Carolina 1 Anaheim 2, Edmonton 1, OT Buffalo 3, San Jose 1 Saturday’s Games Arizona at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Florida at Columbus, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Dallas, 2 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Detroit vs. Colorado at Denver, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Buffalo at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Washington at Chicago, 10:30 a.m.

St. Louis at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Florida at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Boston, 4:30 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Ducks 2, Oilers 1 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Letestu Edm (holding) 2:52 Bieksa Ana (elbowing) 8:41 Silfverberg Ana (slashing) 15:11.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Hall Edm (tripping) 3:27 Khaira Edm (holding) 19:06.

Third Period 1. Anaheim, Getzlaf 9 (Perron, Fowler) :42 (pp).

2. Edmonton, Eberle 20 (Pouliot, Talbot) 1:53.

Penalties — Despres Ana (holding) 7:40.

Overtime 3. Anaheim, Rakell 16 (Vatanen, Getzlaf) 1:24.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Edmonton 5 10 3 0 — 18 Anaheim 13 8 12 1 — 34 Goal — Edmonton: Talbot (L, 12-22-4). Anaheim: Andersen (W, 16-8-6).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 0-3 Anaheim: 1-3.

Referees — Chris Rooney, Ian Walsh. Linesmen — Vaughan Rody, Kiel Murchison.

Attendance — 17,174 at Anaheim.

Curling 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Glance GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — Final standings and playoff results Friday at the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women’s curling championship to be held through Sunday at Revolution Place: ROUND ROBIN Team (Skip) W L x-Alberta (Carey) 9 2 x-Canada (Jones) 9 2 x-Manitoba (Einarson) 7 4 x-Northern Ont. (McCarville) 7 4 Nova Scotia (Brothers) 6 5 Ontario (Hanna) 6 5 Saskatchewan (Campbell) 6 5 Quebec (Larouche) 5 6 P.E.I. (Burt) 4 7 Nfld. & Labrador (Curtis) 3 8 B.C. (Thompson) 2 9 New Brunswick (Robichaud) 2 9 x — clinched playoff berth.

Friday’s results Draw 17 Manitoba 7 New Brunswick 6 Ontario 6 Northern Ontario 4 Canada 11 B.C. 4 Quebec 7 P.E.I. 2 Thursday’s results Draw 14 Alberta 8 Nova Scotia 2 New Brunswick 6 Quebec 5 Northern Ontario 10 B.C. 3 Saskatchewan 8 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Draw 15 Northern Ontario 7 Quebec 2 B.C. 7 New Brunswick 5 Ontario 8 P.E.I. 5 Canada 8 Manitoba 4 Draw 16 Canada 7 Ontario 4 Manitoba 8 P.E.I. 7 Alberta 6 Saskatchewan 5

Nova Scotia 7 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 End of Round Robin PLAYOFFS Friday’s result Page Playoffs One vs. Two Alberta (Carey) 7 Canada (Jones) 5 Saturday’s games Page Playoffs Three vs. Four Manitoba (Einarson) vs. Northern Ontario (McCarville), 1:30 p.m.

Semifinal Canada (Jones) vs. Manitoba-Northern Ontario winner, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Third Place Semifinal loser vs. Three-Four loser, 1:30 p.m.

Championship Alberta (Carey) vs. Semifinal winner, 6:30 p.m.

ALASKA ACES — Added G Tate Maris as emergency backup. Claimed D Zach Sarig off waivers from Atlanta.

ALLEN AMERICANS — Added G Nathan Bowker as emergency backup.

ATLANTA GLADIATORS — Added G Alex Zion as emergency backup.

BRAMPTON BEAST — Claimed F Mike Hammond off waivers from Cincinnati. Loaned F Brandon Marino to Utica (AHL).

ELMIRA JACKALS — Signed G Alain Valiquette.

EVANSVILLE ICEMEN — Signed D Bo Driscoll and F Daniel Turgeon.

FORT WAYNE KOMETS — Signed D Gentry Zollars.

INDY FUEL — Loaned D Nick Petrecki to Chicago (AHL).

MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Signed Fs Tyler Gjurich and Ryan Patsch.

SOCCER FIFA — Elected Gianni Infantino president.

COLLEGE DAYTON — Named Chantae McMillan volunteer

assistant women’s track and field coach.

DOANE — Promoted men’s assistant basketball coach Ian McKeithen to head coach.

IOWA — Named Kelvin Bell recruiting co-ordinator and defensive assistant coach.

KANSAS — Named Joe DeForest special teams co-ordinator/assistant defensive coach.

WISCONSIN — Named John Stocco director of development in a partnership with the UW Foundation and Derek Steinbach director of development for premium seating and major gifts.

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Cleveland OF Abraham Almonte 80 games for a WINNIPEG JETS — Recalled Fs Axel Blomqvist violation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Preand Jimmy Lodge from Tulsa (ECHL) to Manitoba vention and Treatment Program.

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American League American Hockey League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Asssigned F OF Will Venable on a minor league contract.

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MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms with ST. JOHN’S ICECAPS — Returned F Evan SS Agustin Marte on a minor league contract.

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National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with OF Shane Victorino on a minor league contract.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ducks 2 Oilers 1 (OT) ANAHEIM, Calif. — Rickard Rakell scored 1:24 into overtime to give the Anaheim Ducks a 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Friday night.

Rakell put a backhander past Cam Talbot seconds after a change on the fly, using some gorgeous puck handling to keep Oilers centre Leon Draisaitl flatfooted and leave the goaltender baffled.

Ryan Getzlaf scored in regulation and Frederik Andersen stopped 17 shots to give Anaheim its seventh straight win.

Jordan Eberle had the lone goal for Edmonton, which dropped its sixth in a row. Talbot made 32 saves and had an assist.

With the Ducks and Oilers going in

Fowler takes lead at Honda Classic PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Rickie Fowler isn’t setting any course records at the Honda Classic. He’ll gladly settle for more great golf, and the 36-hole lead.

Fowler got back to work last week in Florida after his big disappointment in the Phoenix Open and shot the course record at The Medalist (66). The next day, he went an hour north to The Floridian and shot 60 to break the course record held by Justin Thomas.

He set a more obscure record Friday with his 4-under 66 to build a one-shot lead over Jimmy Walker.

Fowler became the first player to go

opposite directions, no one at Honda Center would have been blamed for expecting an easy home win. Anaheim came in with 13 wins in its last 15 games, while Edmonton had all of 50 points for the season, punctuated by its longest losing streak of the campaign.

Instead, the outcome was always in doubt.

Getzlaf put Anaheim ahead 42 seconds into the third period, lifting a shot over Talbot’s right shoulder for the Ducks’ eighth power-play goal in their last seven games. The Anaheim captain has recorded a point in 10 straight games, the team’s longest streak since Getzlaf had a goal or assist in 14 in a row in late 2013.

But Eberle tied it up 73 seconds later with a blistering wrist shot over Andersen’s glove hand, his 20th goal of the season, matching Taylor Hall for the team lead. bogey-free over the opening 36 holes in the Honda Classic since it moved to PGA National in 2007.

“That’s a big accomplishment around this golf course — not just one day, but back-to-back,” Fowler said.

“So pleased with how I’ve managed my game.”

In his first start since Fowler lost a two-shot lead with two holes in Phoenix, he put himself right back in position to win.

Fowler was at 8-under 132, one shot ahead of Jimmy Walker, who finished his round of 66 with a 25-foot birdie on the 17th and a 40-foot eagle putt on No. 18. Sergio Garcia, playing with Fowler, stayed with him until the final four holes. Garcia had a 69 and was two shots behind.

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SCOTTIES: Jones rink outplayed The reigning Olympic champions from Winnipeg were outplayed Friday, but they know what it takes to gain a rematch on Sunday.

“I’ve always said playing in the semi is a good thing if you know you’re going to win,” Jones said. “We don’t know we’re going to win yet, but we’ll sure give it a shot.

“They played really well tonight and we were kind of — I hate saying it because it’s a cliche — we were on the wrong side of the inch. We rubbed (on guards) a couple of times.

“If we had those by maybe it’s a different story, but they played great and we’ll have to play well tomorrow and hopefully have another shot on Sunday.”

The challenge for Alberta is sustain their confident play into Sunday when all the chips are on the table and there isn’t a second playoff life for the loser.

“In a lot of ways all the chips are on the table tonight,” Carey said. “Losing that game is scary. It was very real to me if we lost that game we’re very likely not ending up in the final.”

“Can I guarantee I’m going to play like that again? No. All I can do is control what I can control and keep my emotions in check and let the training take over.”

Alberta and Jones capped the

preliminary rounds with 9-2 records ahead of Manitoba and Northern Ontario at 7-4.

Ontario’s Jenn Hanna, Saskatchewan’s Jolene Campbell and Nova Scotia’s Jill Brothers finished just outside the playoffs at 6-5. Quebec’s Marie-France Larouche finished with a 7-2 win over Suzanne Birt of Prince Edward Island. Quebec’s record was 5-6 and P.E.I.’s was 4-7.

Stacie Curtis of Newfoundland and Labrador finished 3-6. New Brunswick’s Sylvie Robichaud and B.C.’s Karla Thompson ended up 2-9. New Brunswick is relegated to next year’s pre-tournament qualifier to get into the main draw.

The Jones team swept first all-star team honours for the tournament with Jones, Lawes, Officer and McEwen posting the best shooting percentages in their respective positions in the round robin.

Carey, Saskatchewan third A s h l e y Howard, Manitoba second Liz Fyfe and Northern Ontario’s Sarah Potts were named to the second all-star team.

QUEENS: Kings sweep Vikings Naomi Jardine led the Broncos with 23 kills and 15 digs while Jamie Craig had 39 assists. Shelby Becker had nine kills and 11 digs for Lakeland.

The top two teams during the regular season will play for gold today at 3:30 p.m.

The Briercrest Bible College Clippers, who finished first in the South, downed the Grande Prairie Wolves 27-25, 23-25, 25-19, 22-25, 15-8 in a thriller. The Kings University Eagles, who were first in the North, stopped the SAIT Trojans 25-18, 31-29, 25-17.

Samantha Zacharias had 22 kills, five aces, 20 digs and one block for BBC while setter Ashley Zacharias had 52 assists, two aces, a kill and seven digs.

Kailtlyn Cordingley had 13 kills and 19 digs for the Wolves.

Keri Alcorn led the Eagles with 14 kills and 16 digs while Shantelle Jonassen had nine kills and 12 digs for SAIT. The Wolves and Trojans meet for bronze at 1 p.m.

Kings 3 Vikings 0 The Kings advanced to the national championships by stopping the Augustana Vikings 25-20, 25-23, 25-17 in the men’s semifinals at NAIT. The boys played well,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “The first set went smoothly and we got down 17-15 in the second before coming on and we stayed the course the rest of the way.

“Overall we made few errors after the early part of that second set and we’re starting to play at a higher level.”

The top two teams advance to the nationals, but the Kings still have one goal to reach today.

“We set three goals heading into the season,” said Schulha. “One was to win the South, which we did, two was to win the ACAC and three was to win the CCAA. So we still have some work to do.”

Setter Luke Brisbane was the RDC player of the match with 32 assists, two aces and four digs.

Nic Dubinsky had 13 kills, four digs and a block, Riley Friesen 10 kills, two aces, two digs and two blocks, Tom Lyon eight kills and four blocks and libero Michael Sumner 11 digs.

The Kings face Keyano in today’s 5:30 p.m. final.

Keyano advanced with a 27-29, 25-22, 25-22, 25-23 win over Medicine Hat. On the other side. TKU Eagles edged SAIT 3-2 and NAIT stopped Lethbridge 3-1.

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

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The Queens needed 71 minutes to TK Kunaka netted 14 points in a down the Trojans 1-0 at SAIT Friday. losing cause as the Lindsay Thurber Morgan Fraser notched her second Raiders fell 69-63 to the host Sylvan goal of the playoffs one minute into Lake H.J. Cody Lakers Thursday in the second overtime period to give the the final senior high boys basketball Queens a 2-0 sweep of the best-of-three regular-season game for both teams. semifinal series.

Andrew Mah scored 12 points for They face the winner of the NAIT the Raiders, who also got eight from Ooks and the Grant MacEwan Univereach of Vince Barbuco and Kade Best. sity Griffins series which NAIT leads Thurber finished second to the Lakers 1-0 heading into today’s second game. in league play but placed first among Alex Frisk recorded the shutout for 4A teams and will have home-court the Queens, finishing with 25 saves. advantage in zone semifinal action Jen West was in goal in a 6-0 win starting Tuesday.

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The Queens had 37 shots on Jocelyn Wynnyk.

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Men’s Basketball Association game The Kings turned in a solid two-way Thursday. disciplined effort. They took only one Enrique Vizcarra added 18 points penalty against the top power play for the winners, while Bulldog got 13 team in the league. The Vikings were from Travis Rasmussen and 10 from assessed five penalties with the Kings Tyler Bennet. scoring twice.

Tyler Berkholtz scored in the first period and Tanner Butler in the second with the man advantage. RDC led 1-0 and 2-1 by periods.

Pat Thompson-Gale tied the game at 2-2 for Augustana at 1:41 of the third AIRDRIE — The Red Deer Vipers before Pat Martens scored the winner fell 5-4 to the Airdrie Thunder in Friat 8:15. Jody Sick then connected at day’s seventh and deciding game of a Heritage Junior Hockey League North- 9:11 and 12:50.

Mike Salmon picked up the win in ern Division semifinal.

Declan Johnson scored twice for the goal, finishing with 22 saves while the Kings had 34 shots on Andy Williams.

Vipers, who got single goals from Tye Munro and Dustin Spearing.

The Vipers are idle until they host the provincial junior B championship March 31 to April 3 at the Arena.

The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs defeated the visiting Foothills Bisons 4-2 Friday to even their best-of-five Alberta Midget Hockey League South Division semifinal at a game apiece.

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‘A menu of bad options’ ALBERTA LEFT WITH FEW CHOICES AFTER CRUDE COLLAPSE: NOTLEY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Adding to an already hefty deficit is one of the unattractive choices Alberta has as it contends with the worst oilpatch slowdown in decades, Premier Rachel Notley said Friday.

Notley said she’s not pleased that Alberta is on track to run a deficit of $10 billion or more in the upcoming fiscal year.

A more precise figure is expected when Finance Minister Joe Ceci outlines the province’s 2016-17 budget in April.

“Quite honestly, it’s been a series of making a selection from a menu of bad options because we’re in that situation right now,” Notley told a news con-

ference.

“But the … way we make those choices will continue to be driven by the values that we talked to Albertans about in the last election, which is supporting communities, supporting resilience and giving Albertans the tools to come through this and working together with partners — not by taking a situation and making it worse.”

The U.S. benchmark price of oil is hovering just above US$33 a barrel — a staggering drop from its mid-2014 high of US$108 a barrel.

Alberta’s coffers suffer a $170-million hit with every $1 drop in the average price of oil over the course of a year.

Energy industry players say conditions are the worst they’ve seen since the painful trough in the

1980s. The Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors estimates 100,000 industry jobs have been lost so far in the downturn.

Notley said there is some room to reduce spending, but she’s not willing to cut so deeply that it damages Albertans’ well-being or the province’s longterm economic health.

“I think that we are in a position to have the backs of Albertans for a period of time and, yes, that means growing the deficit,” she said.

“There is not a single economist in the world that will say that firing teachers and nurses is the way to bring back the price of oil or the way to grow the economy.

“That’s simply not the way it works and that is not the way we are going to go forward.”

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Doubts cast about crucial CSeries order

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An unidentified worker passes a truck owned by Halliburton at a remote site for natural-gas producer Williams in Rulison, Colo. Halliburton Co., which provides well-drilling services for oil companies, is cutting 5,000 more jobs as the industry continues to struggle with slumping oil prices, the company announced

Halliburton cuts another 5,000 jobs amid oil slump

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Halliburton Co., which provides well-drilling services for oil companies, is cutting 5,000 more jobs as the industry continues to struggle with slumping oil prices.

A company spokeswoman said Thursday that the latest cuts will amount to about 8 per cent of the Houston-based company’s global workforce.

Oil prices have tumbled about 70 per cent since peaking above $100 a barrel in mid-2014. That has led to less drilling activity and to widespread layoffs in the oil fields. Halliburton rival Schlumberger cut 10,000 jobs in the fourth quarter.

Benchmark U.S. crude settled at $33.07 a barrel on Thursday, up 92 cents or nearly 3 per cent.

Halliburton spokeswoman Emily Mir said the company was reducing its workforce “due to ongoing market conditions.”

Mir said the company regretted the decision, “but unfortunately we are faced with the difficult reality that reductions are necessary to work through this challenging market environment.”

When the layoffs are completed, Halliburton will have reduced its workforce by between 26,000 and 27,000 employees since the peak in 2014, she said.

Halliburton grew from 58,000 employees in 2010 to more than 80,000 during 2014. It slashed that number to 65,000 by the end of 2015, according to regulatory filings.

Halliburton declined to say where the layoffs would fall, saying that such details were competitive information. The company’s operations stretch from the U.S. through Africa and the Middle East to Asia.

Last month, CEO David Lesar said that when the company began looking to cut costs, “it started with where we work.” Halliburton consolidated facilities in more than 20 countries and closed operations in two, he said.

Lesar said that “2016 is shaping up to be one tough slog through the mud.” He said Halliburton was trying to work with the financially strongest oil companies that will do best when the industry recovers.

In November 2014, Halliburton announced that it would buy U.S. rival Baker Hughes Inc. for $34.6 billion. The companies are divesting assets as they seek approval from antitrust regulators, and Baker Hughes also has cut thousands of jobs.

Halliburton shares rose 4 cents to close at $32.50 on Thursday. They are down 4.5 per cent in 2016 and more than 25 per cent in the past year.

MONTREAL — A big buyer of Bombardier’s CSeries planes says it intends to streamline operations by using a single fleet of Embraer aircraft, heightening doubts about the fate of its firm order with the embattled Canadian transportation giant.

The chairman of Republic Airways Holding Corp. said in a bankruptcy court filing that its restructuring plan includes operating Embraer E170/R175s under a single operating licence and moving up plans to unload its Q400 turbos.

“Republic expects to sell its remaining related assets and complete the wind-down of its smaller regional jet and turboprop aircraft,” Bryan Bedford said in a 70-page filing Thursday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

The airline, which provides regional service for larger U.S. carriers, filed for relief under Chapter 11. It reported US$3.56 billion in assets and US$2.97 billion in liabilities.

Bedford said the company has attempted over the last several months to restructure its operations to address a loss of revenue from the grounding of aircraft due to a shortage of pilots.

Republic is the only U.S. airline to have made a CSeries order. In 2010, it placed a firm order for 40 CS300 planes and options for 40 more of the aircraft, represent 16 per cent of the CSeries firm orders.

Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) spokesman Marianella de la Barrera said the Montreal-based manufacturer has spoken with Republic since the filing but has no new information about the fate of the CSeries order.

“We have a firm order in place and see no immediate impact (from the filing),” she said in an interview.

She declined to confirm an analyst’s report that Republic had stopped making pre-delivery deposit payments.

Industry observers have long questioned the viability of the order with Republic since it changed its business model. The planes were originally intended for former subsidiary Frontier Airlines. But that was sold in 2013, leaving the 120- to 160-seat planes too large for its remaining operations.

Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said Republic has several options to rid itself of the CSeries order, but can ask a judge to cancel “unprofitable contracts without penalty.” That would switch the onus in placing the aircraft back onto Bombardier, he wrote in a report.

Republic’s first CSeries planes were slated to be delivered starting in the second quarter of 2015 through 2017. The CS100 is expected to enter into service in the coming months, followed about six months later by the CS300.

Republic said it hasn’t entered into financial commitments for the planes because of delays in the CSeries and general uncertainties.

De la Barrera added that Bombardier has no exposure to Republic’s plans to speed up the disposal of its leased Q400s. Republic began last year to shed its 31 Q400s by subleasing 24 of the 71-seat planes to Flybe.

Trouble picking a career that fits personal interests Dear Working Wise: I’m trying to decide what I want to do for a career. I know that I want to help people and I’d like my job to be stable—not dependent on the price of oil. Do you have any suggestions? Signed, Thinking about the future Dear Thinking: There is a wide variety of careers that provide the stability that you’re after along with the opportunity to help other people.

You might want to try using the free careerinsite.alberta.ca career-planning tool to help you narrow your search.

CHARLES CareerInsite walks you STRACHEY through the career planning process from getting to know WORKING WISE your wants and needs, to exploring your options, making a choice and planning how you’re going to make it happen.

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Social workers help to build stronger, healthier communities by helping people craft better lives through counselling, training and social programs.

They help Albertans improve their employment, finances, marriages, personal relationships, and parenting skills.

Social workers also help Albertans overcome substance abuse, prepare for life changes, escape abusive relationships, overcome their disabilities, and stay out of trouble with the law.

They can work in schools, hospitals, employment centres, child-protection offices, correctional centres, or community agencies focused on specific challenges ranging from homelessness to poverty to domestic violence to welcoming immigrants.

The hiring outlook remains positive for Social workers. Alberta’s Occupational Demand and Supply outlook 2013 – 2023 predicts a two per cent shortage (200 total) of social workers in Alberta over the next decade. Wages ranged between $20 and $52 per hour in 2013 and averaged $40 per hour.

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Social work is a regulated occupation. Social workers must have a diploma or degree from an approved social work program, 1,500 hours of practical experience, and be registered with the Alberta College of Social Workers.

If this sounds like an interesting career, you can learn more about it by searching the Occupational Info database at http://occinfo.alis.alberta.ca. The OccInfo database has profiles on more than 500 different occupations.

You can also learn more by visiting the Alberta College of Social Workers at http://acsw.ab.ca or attending one of the Social Work Week events that are being held February 28 – March 5, 2016. To learn more, visit acsw.ab.ca/site/social-work-week.

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.

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B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed with a modest gain Friday but remained in the red for the week as a whole after an early triple-digit advance evaporated.

Canada’s main market was well off gains earlier in the day as oil prices turned negative.

The Toronto Stock Exchange S&P/TSX composite index finished the day’s trading up 44.19 points at 12,797.79, giving it a slight loss for the week of 15.61 points.

The commodity-sensitive loonie rose slightly as well, up 0.15 of a U.S. cent to an even 74 cents US. Michael Greenberg, a portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton Solutions, said higher oil prices early in the day helped drive up the S&P/TSX as energy stocks rose significantly.

However, those gains began eroding as the April contract for benchmark U.S. crude oil began falling from near US$34 a barrel to close down down 29 cents at US$32.78.

The rise in oil prices may have come from expectations that the G20 meeting in Shanghai could lead to some fiscal policy co-ordination, Greenberg said.

It’s unclear what caused the oil to fall later in the day, but energy markets have been very volatile recently, something Greenberg expects will level out as expected investment and production cuts by oil companies bring supply and demand more into balance.

Base metals miners were among the biggest gainers as the May copper contract advanced 5.2 cents to US$2.125 a pound.

Elsewhere in commodities, the April contract for natural gas was unchanged at US$1.79 per

mmBtu, while April gold shed $18.40 to settle at US$1,220.40 a troy ounce.

U.S. indexes were mixed, with the Dow Jones industrial average losing 57.32 points to 16,639.97 and the S&P 500 falling 3.65 points to 1,948.05. The Nasdaq gained 8.27 points to 4,590.47.

Still, all three indexes closed up about 1.5 per cent for the week, their second straight weekly gain.

The relatively flat showing in New York came despite encouraging economic news from the Commerce Department, which said U.S. gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of one per cent in the fourth quarter.

That was an improvement over earlier estimates of 0.7 per cent and better than the 0.4 per cent growth economists had expected. However, it remained only half of the third quarter’s two-per-cent growth rate.

In a separate report, Commerce said consumer spending increased 0.5 per cent in January, the best showing since May and far higher than December’s 0.1 per cent gain.

Also at the G20 meeting, the governor of China’s central bank, Zhou Xiaochuan, said China would not devalue its currency for the sake of export competitiveness. The potential for China to devalue its currency has remained a source of concern for investors.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,797.79, up 44.19 points Dow — 16,639.97, down 57.32 points S&P 500 — 1,948.05, down 3.65 points Nasdaq — 4,590.47, up 8.26

points Currencies: Cdn — 74.00 cents US, up 0.15 of a cent Pound — C$1.8736, down 1.73 cents Euro — C$1.4784, down 1.46 cents Euro — US$1.0940, down 0.86 of a cent Oil futures: US$32.78 per barrel, down 29 cents (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,220.40 per oz., down $18.40 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.795 oz., down 72.4 cents $668.56 kg., down $23.28 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $0.80 lower $447.00 May ‘16 $0.40 lower $452.80 July ‘16 $0.50 lower $458.80 Nov. ‘16 $2.30 lower $465.40 Jan. ‘17 $2.20 lower $470.00 March ‘17 $1.10 lower $472.60 May ‘17 $1.10 lower $471.30 July ‘17 $1.10 lower $470.80 Nov. ‘17 $1.10 lower $464.40 Jan. ‘18 $1.10 lower $464.40 March ‘18 $1.10 lower $464.40.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $182.00 May ‘16 unchanged $184.10 July ‘16 unchanged $185.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $185.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $185.00 March ‘17 unchanged $185.00 May ‘17 unchanged $185.00 July ‘17 unchanged $185.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $185.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $185.00 March ‘18 unchanged $185.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 330,320 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 330,320.

N.B. fracking study creates hurdles: opposition

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

“To achieve those things it will require an extended period of time and by that time we’ll be far down the road to a green energy economy in this province and shale gas energy won’t even be a thought,” he said in an interview.

Interim Tory leader Bruce Fitch says while the Liberals passed the fracking issue off to the commission, the opportunity to create a new industry slipped away.

“The reality of the situation is the whole energy sector has changed so much that the opportunity has been missed … It’s almost a moot point what the government does,” he said.

Fitch said due to the crash in oil prices, most potential development companies have packed up and left the province.

The report acknowledges that with natural gas prices so low, shale gas development in the province is unlikely in the short-term.

Arseneault said the Liberals will use the opportunity to keep pondering the issue, but he offered no timeline on when the province might act on the report’s recommendations.

Former clerk of the executive council Marc Leger, former University of New Brunswick president John McLaughlin and Cheryl Robertson, a former board chairwoman at the New Brunswick Community College, spent the past year on the three-volume study.

The report’s cautious approach stands in contrast to the approach of the previous Tory government, which was eager to proceed with the new industry as a response to unemployment in the heavily indebted province.

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Ontario releases capand-trade details

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ontario’s Liberal government has released details of its cap-and-trade program, which is expected to increase the price of gas and homeowners’ natural gas bills, but gives some of the biggest polluters a four-year “holiday.”

The government is putting a price on carbon of about $18 a tonne and capping emission allowances at roughly 142 metric tonnes per year in 2017, when the plan rolls out, according to a series of details contained both in Thursday’s budget and in draft regulations posted by the environment ministry.

The cap is expected to decline 4.17 per cent each year to 2020, when the Liberals hope to have achieved a 15-per-cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over 1990 levels.

Cap and trade, which requires emitters to pay for greenhouse gases released into the air, is projected to generate $1.9 billion in revenue next year.

Revenue from cap and trade will be dedicated to green initiatives, the government says.

The cost of gasoline will rise about 4.3 cents per litre and residential natural gas bills will likely go up about $5 per month due to cap and trade. But Environment Minister Glen Murray acknowledged that as the cap declines and pressure increases on industry to meet emissions targets, those costs to consumers “may” increase.

During that same time, some of Ontario’s largest industries get free allocations. The regulations list such facilities as Essar Steel Algoma Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie, Vale Canada Ltd. in Sudbury, and Imperial Oil’s Sarnia

chemical plant.

“Big industry gets a four-year holiday on this and I think that’s a real problem,” said NDP critic Peter Tabuns. “I think there’s a huge perception that it’s unfair. If families and commuters have to pay right up front and big polluters get a four-year break, that doesn’t seem fair.”

Keith Brooks, with Environmental Defence, praised the cap-and-trade system and believes it will help the government meet its emissions reduction targets, but called it “regrettable” that large polluters get allowances.

Murray said 14 per cent of the heavy emitters have been excluded from paying for the first four years. The free allocations are to protect Ontario jobs in industries that are competing with jurisdictions without a carbon pricing system and to recognize industries that have made significant emission reductions already and need time to invest in new technology, he said.

“You don’t want to force them to be non-competitive,” Murray said.

“If a company relocates outside your jurisdiction, not only do you lose the jobs, but you’re not reducing emissions. You’re just relocating those emissions.”

Though the cost of gasoline and natural gas heating will rise, cap and trade actually drives the consumer price index down over time, Murray said, and people can end up paying less money under the plan “if you’re taking any reasonable number (of steps) to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions.”

But most people will not be able to rush out and buy an electric car or retrofit their homes, Tabuns noted.

The first carbon auction will take place in early 2017.

FREDERICTON — A study of a fracking moratorium in New Brunswick has endorsed a series of steep pre-production hurdles laid out by the Liberal government that opposition parties say will likely cause the industry to evaporate in the province.

In a report released Friday, the three-member commission acknowlthe report said. But after examining edged the province is in desperate a random sample of safety violations need of jobs and economic developover five years, the inspector general’s ment, but avoided any firm declaration office found 17 cases it said the agency on whether the threshold the Liberals should have referred for criminal inWASHINGTON — Federal regulahas set to make fracking viable can be vestigation. tors are failing to refer serious safety met.

“As a result, penalties have little violations involving freight rail shipThe government has put five condideterrent effect, and criminal penments of crude oil and other hazardous tions in place for lifting a moratorium cargo for criminal prosecution, accord- alties aren’t being pursued,” wrote which include a plan for regulations, Mitchell Behm, assistant inspector ing to a report Friday by a government waste water disposal, a process to congeneral for surface transportation. watchdog. sult First Nations, a royalty structure Concern about rail shipments of The Federal Railroad Adminisand a so-called social licence. hazardous cargo has been heightened tration routinely applies only modest “The independent report does state in recent years by a series of fiery oil civil penalties for hazardous materials that it’s tough to meet those five contrain explosions in the U.S. and Canasafety violations, even though inspecditions that we put in place,” said Enda, including one just across the bortors request penalties for serious or ergy Minister Donald Arseneault in a der in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. repeated infractions, telephone interview Friday. said the report by the “It confirms putting … a moratoDepartment of Transporrium in place was the right policy to tation’s inspector genermake.” al. Instead, the agency’s The commission’s report, released attorneys have made it a Friday, calls on the province to be priority to process penmore diligent in consulting aboriginal alties quickly and avoid communities and to set up a plan to legal challenges, the redeal with fracking wastewater before port said. And, although any production begins. the agency processes It also calls for an independent reghundreds of safety violaulatory body as a first step in rebuildtions each year, it appears ing lost public trust in oversight of the that not a single case has industry, and suggests in the long-term ever been referred for New Brunswick should shift developcriminal investigation, ment policies to areas that rely less on fossil fuels and more on the “knowledge economy.”

“The world is shifting towards integrated energy systems that will be supported by a variety of advanced technologies, most of which will not reOvens up to 37’ Long quire fossil fuels,” says the report.

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Winterfest!

Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016

Blackfalds welcomes guests to a fun party – indoors and out On Monday, Feb. 15, community members and visitors were treated to warm, sunny weather and many fabulous free Family Day activities, plus free transportation to and from the busy event venues provided by BOLT Transit.

Popular family-focused activities included free admission to the Abbey Centre indoor play space and field house, where youngsters bounced off some of their energy in a variety of inflatable castles.

Outdoor amusement included ice carving demonstrations and workshops, horse drawn sleigh rides, a snow dig where prizes could be unearthed, and an ice slide. To warm people’s insides, a BBQ, hot chocolate, and marshmallow roast was served up.

Local charities benefitted from several of the Winterfest activities, with the Penguin Dip participants raising approximately $2,300 for Stars, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Iron Ridge Society playground fundraiser, and the Blackfalds Food Bank. Food Bank shelves also received a substantial boost from food donations made by attendees, and $600 was generated for the PASS program to assist eligible individuals to access municipal programs, memberships, and admissions.

Celebrations for the day wrapped up at the Mufti-Plex with free skating to DJ music and a family bingo where participants played for a chance to win popular family board games.

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Left: Playground slides don’t get this fast in summer! Lacie Jeskie tests the track at the ice slide. below left: Ice on Whyte carvers demonstrate tools and techniques for ice sculpture.

Below right: heryl Chase wasn’t afraid to take a dip to raise funds for a local cause.

The horse-drawn sleigh rides were a big hit with young and old

The outdoor fire pit and hay bales provided the perfect setting for a marshmallow roast.

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City holding Vanier Woods Neighbourhood meeting City council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by proposed changes to the Vanier Woods Neighbourhood Area Structure plan on March 14.

The public hearing gets underway at 6 p.m. in council chambers at City Hall.

The changes are proposed to allow commercial development at 2506-19th Street.

If you wish to submit a letter about the proposals, the deadline is March 4.

You may also submit your letter at the public hearing. For more information, contact Legislative Services at 403-3428132.

Building permit values in Red Deer remain strong Commercial and public building permit values in Red Deer remained strong in January 2016 compared to the same month last year.

In part, the values were driven by permits for the Red Deer Golf and Country Club Maintenance Shop and for Premier Building Solutions’ new manufacturing/processing facility, located in Queen’s Business Park.

Public sector permit values are close to last year’s numbers, mostly due to a permit valued at approximately $5,245,000 issued to Shunda Consulting and Construction Management Limited for renovations to the Red Deer Regional Hospital’s obstetrical operating rooms.

Building permits in other sectors are lagging behind 2015 values with the exception of the commercial sector.

In January 2016, there were 48 permits with an estimated value of

$13.7 million, of which there were six commercial, 32 residential, seven industrial and three public.

Weather forcing closure of outdoor rinks Warm weather has forced the early closure of several outdoor ice rinks for the season.

Bower Ponds will remain open as the ice is still in good condition.

Crews will be monitoring the ice daily to ensure it is thick enough for public use.

Signs will be placed around the natural water body ice surfaces at West Lake and Anders on the Lake to notify users of the poor ice conditions and safety risk.

The public is asked to stay safe by obeying all signs and barricades and to keep off areas which are posted as unsafe.

Workshop to dispel myths about refugees on March 3

Penhold’s tap water may sometimes look unappetizing but it’s safe to drink, MAYOR DENNIS COOPER assures the mayor.

Some of the town’s residents have been taken aback when they turn their plumbing’s age. There have been taps and a noticeably brownish water streets where three houses were tested runs out for a short while before turn- and only the middle home had probing clear. lems.

Mayor Dennis Cooper said the prob“It’s so hard to figure out why some lem has been traced to iron sediments have it and some don’t.” in the town’s water supply pipes. When Cooper said the town is already air gets into the system because of a looking for another water source to rebreak — as happened just a couple place the high-iron well. of days or ago — or the sediment is “At this present time, we’re doing stirred up and clouds the water.

“It doesn’t come out brown every hydrology reports and starting to look time,” said Cooper on Friday. “It’s just towards that.”

Even when a new well is hooked when you have these water breaks that up, it could take years before all of the cause it to happen.

“This particulate is very distressing sediment is flushed out of the system.

In the meantime, residents who because it looks like tea. It’s not a pretty colour,” he acknowledges. have murky water have been told to Despite its appearance the water is call the town. Crews will come out and safe, he said. flush the line through the closest fire “Everybody is obviously concerned hydrant. about the safety and the quality of the Some residents, including Cooper, water. We’ve had our water tested nu- have installed their own filter systems, merous times. which work well.

“Alberta Environment came out Several people on a community and we went through the whole (water system) and checked where this brown Facebook page questioned why the was coming from. They have given us a town didn’t hook up to Red Deer’s waletter saying our water is safe in that ter system. That would be prohibitivearea but it does have this particulate ly expensive at this time, said the mayor. in it when it’s stirred up.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com A few separate factors have come together in Penhold to make the problem worse.

One of two wells that serve Penhold has a high iron content so there is more of it than usual to settle out. Cooper doesn’t FOR THE RETURN OF 1 OR BOTH believe it’s a coincidence that the problems first OF THESE RINGS! began to appear 10 years when that well started pumping.

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“THIS PARTICULATE IS VERY DISTRESSING BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE TEA. IT’S NOT A PRETTY COLOUR.”

Dispel the myths about refugees and immigrants with a new workshop on March 3.

Jan Underwood, a Central Alberta Refugee Effort public awareness co-ordinator, will facilitate the workshop with a Catholic Social Services representative at the CARE office (#202 5000 Gaetz Avenue) from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Underwood said this workshop is offered in light of the recent influx of Syrian refugees and the need to raise awareness about the imminent issues and challenges facing refugees in Red Deer. The workshop will also provide information on the Refugee Assistance Program.

Participants will also gain knowledge about different cultures and improve cross-cultural communication skills. The workshop is for anyone but also for people who have colleagues or clients of different cultures or those who are simply curious and want to hear the facts.

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Why evangelicals should care about animals

BY MARK RODGERS ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES When I mention that my firm, The Clapham Group, works on faith and animal welfare, I often get a quizzical look, followed by a line of questioning.

Why does a conservative evangelical care about animals? Why should any of us worry about animals?

For starters, prominent evangelicals have long cared for animals. John Wesley, William Wilberforce, C. S. Lewis, Hannah More, and Billy Graham all thought animal welfare was worth worrying about. In fact, William Wilberforce, the great nineteenth-century British abolitionist, founded the first organized animal welfare movement in England in 1824, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The RSPCA still exists today and is the oldest and largest animal welfare organization in the world.

In her most recent work, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More — Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist, Dr. Karen Swallow Prior of Liberty University introduces readers to Hannah More, another member of Wilberforce’s community who cared for animal welfare. In the chapter “Burdened for the Beasts,” Prior highlights a holistic commitment to animal suffering motivated by evangelical faith: As More’s Christian convictions grew, so, too, did her conviction that benevolence toward animals was part of a holistic Christian worldview, and her writings came to reflect these evolving views. She and her fellow reformers considered reading in particular as central to moral reform because of the ability of reading to cultivate empathy deeper than what the senses can communicate, whether the issue was slavery or animal welfare . . .

Although animal welfare was never a central focus of her work, More shared Wilberforce’s conviction against cruelty to animals, most dramatically in her Cheap Repository Tracts. The tracts explicitly correlated kindness toward animals with Christian piety and virtue.

Although the individual reasons for evangelicals’ involvement may vary, it seems that respecting animal welfare is a universal moral law. Hunters recognize this through “fair chase,” as do farmers through “husbandry.” Animals are not commodities, and our pets remind us of this daily.

Because of this, and the fact that there is no unified evangelical creed on animal welfare, we have developed The Evangelical Statement on Responsible Care for Animals. But why have we devoted time and effort to develop a biblical statement on animal ethics?

A biblical framework for animal ethics First, we grow as disciples of Christ when our daily choices are founded in a biblical framework.

To that end, we felt a guide on animal stewardship would help our own spiritual maturity. The Bible gives us principles for living, and we daily prescribe them in our lives. As theologian Abraham Kuyper said, “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!” This, of course, includes the animals we interact with daily in our homes, our meals, and our environment.

Gathering statements from various faith communities exposed a need for a more thoughtful, comprehensive, and collective summary of biblical principles regarding the biblical admonishment to “have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Genesis 1:28).

Second, a large part of the Christian witness to the world is how we treat the world. “You will recognize them by their fruits,” Jesus warns us in Matthew 7:16. What kind of witness is it if we abuse our livestock or neglect our pets? And what kind of witness is it if, instead of expressing understanding toward others who have made eating choices different from ours, we dismiss them as “earth worshippers.” A well-formed biblical framework will allow us to live respectfully with creation and with others.

Third, we live in an interconnected world, and the way we view and treat animals is connected to other issues that affect us all. For example, overfishing leads to a decline in the population of productive fish, thus lowering the number of fish available to eat. Similarly, administering antibiotics to animals to keep them disease-free leads to dangerous strains of resistant bacteria that humans then consume.

Abuse of creation signals a larger problem One of the ways the treatment of animals is connected to society is reflected in the growing coarsening of the culture. If we knowingly allow for the abuse of animals in factory farms and are implicated in it, we create permission for one more area of the society to become desensitized to suffering at large — possibly even human suffering.

This is akin to the broken-windows theory that suggests allowing for small violations in the law eventually leads to a permissive society and an overall atmosphere of lawlessness. The Roman circus included not only wild and exotic animals tearing each

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Baby polar bear twins head outside for the first time, at the Dierenrijk Zoo, in Nuenen, Netherlands, Thursday. The twin brothers were born in November, 2015. Mark Rodgers says as Christians we must apply our God-given right to rule creation to our daily choices. other apart, but humans as well.

Finally, disregarding animal welfare and tolerating animal cruelty, whether through animal fighting or abusive factory farming practices, affects our souls. Wilberforce wrote that these practices foster, “every bad and base principle of human nature.”

Hopefully reading through this statement at www. everylivingthing.com will help Christian pastors and congregations apply the right to rule creation to

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday urged Catholic leaders to show “exemplary” courage by not allowing executions this year, while expressing hope that eventually the death penalty will be abolished worldwide.

Francis told tourists and pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square that “the commandment ‘do not kill’ holds absolute value and applies to both the innocent and the guilty.”

He added that there is “an ever more widespread opposition in public opinion to the death penalty, even only as an instrument of legitimate social defence.”

“I appeal to the conscience of those who govern so that international consensus is reached for the abolishment of the death penalty,” the pope said. “And I propose to all those among them who are Catholic to make a courageous and exemplary gesture: may no execution sentence be carried out in this Holy Year of Mercy.”

Francis is using the church’s Holy Year, which runs through Nov. 20, to encourage efforts for more reconciliation and mercy in the world.

their daily choices. I was blessed and deeply affected by helping to draft its message.

Mark Rodgers is one of the drafters of The Evangelical Statement on Responsible Care for Animals and principal of The Clapham Group, a public-policy consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. It consults with the Humane Society of the United States and is named after the influential Christian community led by William Wilberforce.

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At the core of creativity

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Larry Reese invites you to watch his film about creativity — and then see the fruits of his own inspired labours.

His documentary, Mapping Creativity, and an exhibit of his visual artwork are both showing next week at the Welikoklad Event Centre in downtown Red Deer.

The Eclectic Eccentric is a display of Reese’s paintings, illustrations, sketches, sculptures that runs from 7 to 9 p.m. from Monday to Sunday, March 6, in the WEC gallery.

Those who come on March 4 or 5 can also see the 2012 film Reese made with fellow Red Deer College film instructor James Wilson. The 45-minute doc will be shown at 7 p.m. both nights in the adjacent movie theatre.

Reese believes that watching Mapping Creativity will add to the experience of seeing his art exhibit since the film searches for what inspires creativity in all forms.

Reese not only analyses his own inspirational process, he tracks down other artists to find how they find their muse.

Mapping Creativity includes interviews with film director Francis Damburger, jazz legend PJ Perry, film star Kari Matchett, and others.

On Friday, March 4, a public reception will be held for the multi-disciplinary exhibit that will also feature jazz music performed by local musicians Craig and Corey Gomez and free refreshments.

Besides his teaching job at

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Larry Reese poses in front of “The Shield Awakens” in 2015. It’s inspired by the Canadian Shield just outside of Yellowknife.

RDC, Reese is perhaps best known locally for appearing in some TV and big-screen movies, including Brokeback Mountain. But he’s also a longtime painter who produces landscapes, abstractions, illuminations and other interpretations of “all-encompassing

life.”

Four distinct “categories” of his recent art are in this show: scenery paintings, including Northwest Territories landscapes painted while he was running a film workshop in Yellowknife; abstracted wood-panel paintings that he

calls the “solid colour series;” paintings inspired by European art, and a fantasy series.

“I never get bored,” said Reese, who likes to experiment with brush and palette knife. “It feeds into my exploration of creativity, testing out new things… “

He hopes viewers will see their own stories in artworks that often try to convey a sense of hope. “I’m happy if (the paintings) give people a sense of serenity, of respite from all the tensions life presents.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate. com

Breaking down barriers through comedy

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The Dirrty Show’s been on a shameless mission to puncture stigmas about sex through explicit music and “double R-rated” comedy.

Judging by some of the public reaction to the poster for the new album, Cream, Kayla Williams and Melody Stang still have a long way to go.

In the controversial image, the Red Deer-area singers are captured from their bare shoulders up, showing a bit of cleavage, while two upward sprays of milk are aimed at their emotive faces.

Some merchants were so taken aback they didn’t want to display this poster for the duo’s CD release party on March 5, at the Scott Block in their stores.

But Stang wonders what’s the big deal? Larger-than-life, sexualized pictures of nearly nude models have been prominently shown at the entrance of a mall lingerie store.

By comparison, The Dirrty Show photo barely shows any body parts and Williams and Stang’s facial expressions reveal they are clearly in on the joke.

There’s a sense of parody and “everyday sexuality” in the pose — but maybe that’s the problem, said Stang. “If it’s a model, it’s OK, but if it’s two local women, there’s a backlash …”

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The Dirrty Show release their new CD on March 5 at the Scott Block.

Stang and Williams enjoy pushing boundaries to try to bring hidden human activities out into the open. While they don’t see themselves as sexual educators or advisers, the women are strong advocates of open sexual communication.

It’s like a new Alberta Health ad states: “If you don’t talk about sex with your kids, who will?” said Stang.

Topics of discussion can be gleaned from the titles of new tunes from Cream, such

as Morning Wood, 53X (Sex), and Man Buns. (The latter is the least explicit song in The Dirrty Show’s repertoire, said Williams. It’s about men — usually bearded men — who put their hair up in buns.)

Other selections from the new album, recorded at Red Deer’s The Space studio by Heath West of Melodious Designs Co., are as bluntly sexual as fans of The Dirrty Show have come to expect.

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Stang and Williams to mention the unmentionables.

Even when a tune is not profane, it has strong adult themes, said Williams — who noted mainstream radio won’t play the first single, Morning Wood (about erections) because the context is seen as “crossing the boundaries.”

But Stang and Williams hope it’s picked up by college radio stations.

The women are planning to add a new theatrical ele-

ment to their live show at the Scott Block that was inspired by their 2015 trip to Australia.

While at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Stang and Williams noticed short sketches and improvisations were part of many musical acts.

Upon returning to Canada, they developed over-the-top alter-egos based on exaggerated aspects of their own personalities. Stang’s character is described as a “superhero lesbian,” while Williams’ is a rubber-legged dancer who’s more bizarre than provocative. “It’s not sexy,” said Williams, with a chuckle.

“She has noodle legs,” added Stang.

The show will include appearances by Bull Skit cast members as well as special guest musicians.

The duo developed a theme of female empowerment while touring in Alberta and British Columbia late last year.

This will fuel a new fringe act called Flaps of Steel (the female equivalent of cajones) that Stang and Williams are writing to perform at festivals in Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg this summer.

Cream is available at the show at the Scott Block, and also from CDBaby.com. Tickets to the 9 p.m. show (presented by Bull Skit) are $12 in advance from bullskitcomedy. tixato.com or $15 at the door. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate. com

Canadians to be highlighted at Oscars

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Oscars red carpet will be Maple Leaf red this Sunday with Canadian talent competing in big categories including best song, best adapted screenplay and best picture.

This year’s bash is rife with homegrown talent, including high-profile nominations for actress Rachel McAdams, chart-topper the Weeknd and author Emma Donoghue.

At least one of those contenders was trying to not take Hollywood’s biggest night too seriously.

London, Ont.-based author Donoghue, up for adapting her own book Room into a screenplay, said her children had already decided what to do with the Oscar if she won.

“They want to use it as a toilet roll holder,” Donoghue quipped when reached in Nice, France earlier this year.

“We’ve decided that that would be the most unpretentious way to display it in our

home.”

The Canadian film industry has much to be proud of this year. The best picture race features a rare appearance of not one, but two homegrown co-productions — Brooklyn and Room — while leading nominee The Revenant includes several craft nominations for Canadian talent in makeup, production design and visual effects.

Brooklyn heads into the bash with the distinction of being the highest grossing Canadian film released in 2015.

Its star, Saoirse Ronan, also competes for best actress, while scribe Nick Hornby faces off against Donoghue for best adapted screenplay.

It’s a remarkable showing from the Great White North, beamed Pierre Even, one of Brooklyn‘s Montreal-based producers.

“We’re very, very thrilled,” he said of the period romance, a Canada-U.K.-Ireland co-production about a young woman who finds love when she emigrates to New York.

“We have worked a lot, we wanted to make sure that (director) John Crowley had the best team possible in Montreal, the best conditions to shoot here, the best actors, the best crew. I think we delivered that and we’re extremely proud to be part of it.”

Toronto-bred Room producer David Gross noted that his Irish-Canadian co-production hits the Oscars as a late-blooming contender that struggled to find audiences.

“We didn’t catch on in the same way,” he said, comparing the slow burn of Room to the steady climb of Brooklyn.

“It’s a challenging film that people, before they see it, they think it’s going to be a tough fit.”

Based on Donoghue’s 2010 novel of the same name, the Toronto-shot drama centres on a five-year-old boy who gradually learns he’s spent his entire life in captivity. The film’s U.S. star, Brie Larson, is considered a front-runner in the best actress category for her turn as a resilient mother

who was abducted as a teen.

Vancouver’s nine-year-old Jacob Tremblay, who plays the precocious Jack, wasn’t nominated but has emerged as a media darling and is set to appear as an Oscar presenter.

Other races feature plenty of Canucks to root for: McAdams for best supporting actress for playing a journalist in Spotlight animator Richard Williams and producer/ director Imogen Sutton for their animated short Prologue and the Weeknd for best song for the Fifty Shades of Grey track Earned It, a nomination he shares with Stephan Moccio, Ahmad Balshe and Jason Quenneville. Then there’s Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy for A Girl In the River: The Price of Forgiveness, which competes for a best short doc trophy against Toronto-based journalist Adam Benzine and his film Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah.

The Revenant can thank several Canucks for helping it collect a leading 12 nomina-

tions: Cameron Waldbauer is up for best visual effects, Robert Pandini for best makeup and hairstyling, Chris Duesterdiek for sound mixing, and set decorator Hamish Purdy is up for best production design.

Waldbauer noted that filming conditions were far from ideal when tackling The Revenant, a brutal survival tale starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a 19th century frontiersman.

“It was crazy. We were in minus 40 degree Celsius trying to make a movie and not have all the equipment freeze and people freeze and all that stuff, so it was a very difficult movie to make,” said the B.C.based effects guru.

“But in the end it was really good.”

Sound mixer Paul Massey will compete with his seventh nomination, this time for work on the Matt Damon outer space thriller “The Martian.”

The 58-year-old said he expected to plan a speech with his co-nominees — just in case — since winners only get 45 seconds at the podium.

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Anthony Mackie delves into police corruption

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Actor Anthony Mackie is well familiar with the issue of police corruption, which frames his new starpacked heist film, Triple 9.

“I’m from New Orleans. The question of police corruption never went away,” Mackie, whose other credits include 8 Mile, The Hurt Locker and several Marvel films, said in a recent interview.

“New Orleans is infamous for its police corruption.”

Yet Mackie, who still lives in New Orleans and was recently featured in its Mardi Gras parade, didn’t see such corruption growing up.

The 37-year-old said when he was young, cops there policed the neighbourhoods in which they lived.

“When you know the mother of the kid that you’re arresting or you know the wife of the guy that you’re questioning or arresting, it makes it different,” Mackie said.

“So growing up when I did, I knew all the cops in my neighbourhood,” he continued. “ They were on my brother’s bowling team or their parents worked with my parents or stuff like that. So it was a different time, cops were cool. When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and be a cop or a fireman because they were the cool guys.

“But it’s different now.”

It was that kind of neighbourhood-respecting cop that Mackie aimed to portray in Triple 9.

Mackie plays Marcus, a gang-unit officer with an upstanding reputation who gets caught up in corruption on

the force. The Russian Mafia blackmails the group of corrupt cops, demanding that they pull off an elaborate heist that involves instigating a “999,” code for an officer-down scenario.

The ace cast also includes Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aaron Paul, Woody Harrelson and Kate Winslet.

John Hillcoat directed the script by Matt Cook.

Mackie already had the weapons training for the role down, having learned it from a sniper while playing a sergeant on The Hurt Locker.

He also frequents the gun range as a hobby.

“I find it very soothing and calming and so I’m very comfortable with handguns,” he said.

“It’s more about the focus. You basically close everything else out. You focus on yourself and the target and you really go within yourself, almost like being underwater, like scuba diving.

It’s a very cerebral experience.”

Mackie’s next role is his biggest yet: Martin Luther King, Jr., in the film All the Way. “A life highlight,” he said.

“It was definitely life-affirming.”

Also a highlight is his role as the comic book character Falcon, which he’s played in Captain America and Avengers films as well as Ant-Man. “Getting that role was like winning the lottery. It really changed my perspective on my career and everything around,” he said.

Mackie loves the costume (“It’s dope,” he said with a laugh), Marvel fans’ passion and the guarantee that “the movie’s going to be well-received and it’s going to be a hit.”

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The Wailers bringing Bob Marley’s musical legacy to Red Deer Iconic reggae band The Wailers will be keeping Bob Marley’s musical legacy alive in Red Deer next week.

The most successful reggae group in history performs on Sunday, March 6, at Bo’s Bar and Grill.

After the death of band co-founder Bob Marley in 1981, The Wailers was led by Junior Marvin and Aston Barrett, who wanted to continue performing Marley’s music for a world audience.

“My life with The Wailers has been an odyssey…

We’ve come so far. Sharing this music with so many people… was my last promise to Bob and here we are,” said Barrett.

The Wailers have toured consistently over the last 40 years, selling 250 million albums, and playing to about 25 million people around the globe.

The 1984 compilation album Legend was rated No. 46 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. It sold over 30 million copies worldwide and its re-release in 2014 topped Billboard’s Top 5 chart.

The Wailers also released Exodus in 1977, called “album of the 20th-Century by Time Magazine.

The group has performed with Stevie Wonder, Sting, the Fugees, Carlos Santana and Kenny Chesney — along with reggae greats Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Burning Spear and many others.

Tickets to the 8-11 p.m. show with The Steadies are $32.95 from the venue or ticketfly.com.

Bounty of art on display at First Friday gallery receptions

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This photo shows Anthony Mackie, left, and Casey Affleck in a scene from Triple 9.

“All you gotta do is show up,” he said.

“Just make it from the bed, to the car, to the set, to your wardrobe, to set.

That’s all you gotta do and it’s going to be a good movie.”

The Marvel world was actually foreign to Mackie before he signed on as Falcon.

media works by Larissa Blokhuis are showing in the Awaken exhibit at the Harris-Warke Gallery, upstairs in Sunworks on Ross Street until March 26.

A reception will be held Friday from 6-8 p.m.

And in the white gallery, accessed from Sunworks, is The Edge of Reflection, mixed-media landscape paintings by Red Deer artist Susan Woolgar. The show runs to April 29, but a reception will be held from 5-8 p.m. Friday, with the artist in attendance.

Other art (without First Friday receptions) can also be seen around the city.

Paintings by local artist Paul Boultbee will be shown March 2 to May 2 in the Storm Warnings exhibit in the Marjorie Wood Gallery at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

Reason to Travel is a photography exhibit by David Dinan that runs from March 1-31 at The Hub on Ross, which is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Central Alberta Photography Society presents the Photography Alive joint exhibit in the Corridor Gallery downstairs at the Red Deer Recreation Centre until March 31.

Vivian Bennett’s abstract portrait paintings are being shown in the Coconut Room upstairs at Sunworks until March 31.

And new works from Red Deer artists Alysse Bowd and Robin Lambert are displayed in the Viewpoint Gallery in the City of Red Deer’s Culture Services building, 3827-39th Street, to the end of March.

First Friday Red Deer is sponsored by the Red Deer Downtown Business Association for the Red Deer Arts Council. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Hunting Hills High School presents Big: The Musical Bring out the dancing keyboard — Big: the Musical is being presented by Hunting Hills High School in Red Deer.

This 1996 stage musical adaptation of the 1988 Tom Hanks film, Big, features music by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. The production tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who grows up overnight after being granted a wish by a Zoltar Speaks machine at a carnival.

With the aid of his best friend, the suddenly large Josh must cope with his new-found adulthood while trying to find the machine so that he can wish himself back to being a kid again.

Big is memorable for Hank’s dance across a giant keyboard to perform Chopsticks at a New York toy store.

The Hunting Hills High School production will be held March 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 at 7 p.m. at Red Deer’s

A bounty of art — from glass and fibre works to film and paintings — is on display for Red Deer’s First Friday gallery receptions in March.

Out of the Cupboard is a mixed-media exhibit by visual art members of the Red Deer Arts Council in the Kiwanis Gallery. Paintings, ceramics and fibre artworks can be seen in the gallery downstairs at the Red Deer Public Library from to April 25. The First Friday reception is from 6 to 8 p.m.

Multi-disciplinary artist Larry Reese presents his paintings and film work in The Eclectic Eccentric at the Welikoklad Event Centre. His landscapes, abstractions and fantasy scenes can be seen from Monday until March 6.

Reese’s documentary Mapping Creativity, coproduced with James Wilson, can also be seen at 7 p.m. during the First Friday reception.

(It continues with refreshments and jazz music by Craig and Corey Gomez to 9 p.m.) Reese’s film about finding artistic inspiration can also be viewed at 7 p.m. on March 5.

The Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery is hosting two displays featuring artifacts and 2-D art from the museum’s permanent collection until March 20.

A joint reception for both exhibits — In the Eye Of… and From the Collection — will be held from 5-7 p.m.

GREAT THINGS Friday.

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He said he didn’t read comic books growing up, preferring “The Hardy Boys” and cartoon mysteries instead.

“My brother had boxes of comic books. I mean, hundreds of them, and I used to just rip them up and made airplanes. He hated me,” Mackie said with a laugh. “‘Scooby Doo’ was my jam.”

Memorial Centre.

Tickets are $20 ($15 students, children and seniors) from www.huntinghills.rdpsd.ab.ca, and also at the door if still available.

Tickets to optional dinner theatres on March 11 and 12 are $40.

On Thursday, March 17, all seats will cost $12.

Joachim Segger to perform on piano, organ as part of concert series He’s played at Carnegie Hall, now he’s set to entertain in Lacombe.

Joachim Segger will perform on piano and organ on March 13 at the College Heights Seventh Day Adventist Church as part of Burman University’s Sundays at Seven concert series.

Segger is a versatile musician who has played keyboard solos, duos and chamber recitals and concertos throughout North America, Europe and South Africa. As winner of the prestigious Canadian Women’s Club Competition in New York City, he made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut. His music is also regularly heard on CBC Radio.

Tickets to the 7 p.m. concert are $25 ($15 seniors. $10 students) at the door.

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Physicians pushing prescriptions on elderly mother Dear Annie: I am livid about my 72-year-old mother’s physicians. Over the past few years, they kept writing her more and more prescriptions for opioid pain medication, despite our expressions of concern.

When she ran out of pills before she could get another preKATHY MITCHELL scription, she AND MARCY SUGAR experienced ANNIE’S MAILBOX full-blown psychosis.

Patients need hospital care in order to withdraw safely from some of these medications.

We have spent uncountable, stressed-out hours over Mom’s opioid addiction. Medicare has spent thousands of dollars, as have we.

Last year, we were twice forced to

hospitalize Mom involuntarily. In the interim, despite our clear communications, a psychiatrist wrote another prescription for one of the offending drugs.

We thought that having it written in big letters on all her charts was enough. It wasn’t.

Needless to say, we changed all of her doctors. Again.

I know my mother is equally at fault, but she could not have gotten the prescriptions without a doctor who ignored our pleas. Mom now lives in an assisted living facility, where the staff understands our concerns. She is not completely pain-free, but she manages her pain effectively now with simple over-the-counter pain medication, heat, ice and rest.

We’ve learned that opioid drugs sensitize the nerves in such a way as to fool the body into craving more. This “rebound” pain is worse than the original. Why don’t doctors tell their patients to come in if they have trouble discontinuing their meds? Shouldn’t asking for higher and higher doses in-

HOROSCOPE Saturday February 27, 2016 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t be CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: a lone Capricorn today. Joint ventures are faChelsea Clinton, 35; Josh Groban, 34; Jo- vored as you spark ideas off others and pool anne Woodward, 85 your talents to create something special. The THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Imaginative, power of the group is on your side! innovative thinking will take you AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. far today.

18): Today’s aspects are great HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Your for making pleasing professional motto for 2016 is from birthday progress. Don’t expect perfect regreat Elizabeth Taylor “Give. sults though - sometimes messy Remember always to give. mistakes lead you off in marvelThat is the thing that will make lous new directions. you grow.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): ARIES (March 21-April It’s a good time to share your 19): If you get the balance ideas and aspirations with friends right between being prepared from far and away. The more you and being spontaneous, then open up and talk about your expeyou’ll have a great day. When riences, the more satisfying your it comes to fitness, leave room relationships will be.

JOANNE MADELINE for plenty of variety in your exercise routine.

MOORE Sunday February 28, 2016 TAURUS (April 20-May CELEBRITIES BORN ON HOROSCOPE 20): Consider the consequencTHIS DAY: Mira Sorvino, 48; Naoes of the words you use today mi Watts,47; Bernadette Peters, Taurus. If you take the time to 67 communicate clearly with others — and lisTHOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today is all ten to their concerns — then you’ll reap the about being creative, kind and compassionrewards. ate.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Fabulous asHAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a zest for pects put you in the mood for fun, enter- life. But don’t isolate yourself in 2016 - make tainment, sport and adventure, plus making sure you involve loved ones in your plans and contact with local and overseas friends. Don’t dreams for the future. be all talk and no action though!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Energy and CANCER (June 21-July 22): Positive as- spirits are high, as the Sun boosts your conpects promise a pleasing day. Activities in- fidence and put some extra pep in your step. volving communication, education and travel So it’s a terrific time to tackle ambitious projare highlighted. So make the most of the ects and take on physical challenges. opportunities that come your way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some quiet LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Home is where reflection will help you come up with creative the heart is, as you face a steady stream of ways to improve your current work or domesrequests from loved ones. If you are patient tic situation. It’s essential to clear out the clutwith an emotional family member, then they ter; Bulls need room to move. will open up and confide in you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Financial and VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With Jupiter business matters are favoured — as long in your sign, be adventurous! Your motto as you have done your homework and have for the moment is from birthday great Eliza- your business hat on. Socialising with colbeth Taylor There are so many doors to be leagues or clients brings fringe benefits. opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s a wonthem.” derful day to pluck creative ideas from your LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re primed imagination and then present them to the for shopping, socializing and having a good world via social media. Under the influence time today Libra. But theres a tendency to of lucky Jupiter, your message could go viral! avoid making an important decision, as you LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s the perfect procrastinate on the side-lines. day to study a topic that has always fasciSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Accept do- nated you, or plan a heavenly holiday somemestic duties with a spring in your step today where off the beaten track.

Scorpio. A loved one may turn to you for Single Lions — love and travel are linked some insightful words of wisdom. If you listen in surprising ways. to your intuition, you’ll know what to say.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Local commuSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Many nity connections are highlighted, as you share Sadges have an uncanny sixth sense. It’s your hopes and dreams for the future with time to follow your gut instincts, especially in- those around you. Connecting with friends volving family and friends. The more you uti- and family from around the world is favoured lise your intuition, the more successful you’ll too. be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There could

dicate a problem?

We were fortunate that the physicians and nurses in the second psychiatric setting listened and worked with us to properly address Mom’s complex medical needs.

I want to shout from the rooftops: Doctors! Listen to your patients’ families! — Exhausted and Healing in Florida Dear Florida: When taken as directed, opioids can be effective in dealing with chronic pain, even though the patient can develop a tolerance and even a dependence on the drug. But when you cannot function without it, or when you try to obtain the drug illegally or through multiple physician prescriptions, it is a full-blown addiction.

Millions of people in the U.S. suffer from substance use disorders related to prescription opioids. We appreciate your warning and hope doctors are paying attention. For more information, readers can go to samhsa.gov.

Dear Annie: I have to respond to “A Daily Reader,” who did not like her

smile and wanted to know how to get people to stop asking her to smile.

I also did not like my smile. My parents divorced when I was a small child, and I was kept from my father until well into my 30s.

When we finally found each other, I commented on the crooked way he smiled.

He got out a picture of his grandfather and told me, “I have my grandfather’s crooked smile and so do you.”

It warmed my heart to know this trait was passed to me and no one could take it away. I am very proud of my crooked smile! — Daddy’s Girl Dear Girl: That’s a lovely reaction — and it made us smile, too.

be some friction — or surprises — to do with money today Libra. With gung-ho Mars firing up your finance zone, it’s time to bite the bullet and boost your cash flow.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When it comes to an artistic project, hobby or sporting activity, don’t take the safe path today Scorpio. The Sun and Neptune encourage you to be creative and bold and go for gold!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Confidence and self-belief will take you far, as you tackle tasks with extra energy and enthusiasm. All types of physical activity are favoured as you walk, run, hike, swim or cycle up a storm.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Have you got an ongoing family problem or relationship issue? Are you placing all the blame on others? Things won’t start improving until you are proactive about initiating a solution.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll be under extra scrutiny today, as other people critique your performance.

Thankfully the stars give you a welcome confidence boost, so approach challenges with extra gusto.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When it comes to a personal project or problem, have you been procrastinating Pisces? The Sun and Neptune encourage you to look within for the answers you are searching for.

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BRIEF Homeless gnomes: Pennsylvania state park evicts tiny houses NEWPORT, Pa. — Nearly 40 gnome homes have been evicted from a Pennsylvania state park after a decision change sent them packing.

Pennlive.com reports that park management at Little Buffalo State Park gave permission for Steve Hoke to create the mini, magical houses in December. Since then, he has made 38 tiny houses in tree roots, hollow logs and on stumps around the forest near Newport, about 25 miles northwest of Harrisburg.

He says the houses were a major attraction for children. Park Manager Jason Baker tells the news site he gave the OK originally, but it was later decided the homes could affect wildlife habitat. Hoke removed the little abodes Monday after being told he had until Feb. 29. Duncannon and Millerstown have both offered to house them in local parks.

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BY GREG BROWN SPECIAL TO THE ADOVCATE When planning a kitchen or bathroom remodeling project, a lot of people are unaware they can simply and easily replace their cabinet doors with a new door style and colour instead of tearing them out and replacing everything.

At Granite Transformations, we believe that unless a customer is doing a major renovation (such as a wall being moved) your project may lend itself well to doing a reface on your cabinets versus tearing them out and starting from scratch.

The first benefit of refacing over replacing is that it comes at a cost in many cases of less than half of what it would cost to tear-out and start over — typically up to 50 per cent savings when comparing like quality products.

The second major benefit is that it’s really convenient.

In a tear-out, one often goes days without cabinets which means no running water and no ability to prepare meals. This of course also adds cost as you are more likely to be eating out while the renovation is underway.

With a reface, you can maintain the use of your kitchen through the process. During the day while the technicians are working it may be a little cumbersome but you can still grab a glass of water and use your fridge.

When the workers go home for the day, you get back the full use for preparing dinner for your family. That’s a huge benefit.

As well, resurfacing is a greener choice; you are recycling the cabinet boxes themselves, otherwise known as the carcases.

This keeps what is otherwise a healthy material out of the landfill. This too saves money and helps us sleep at night.

You might be saying about now that well, yes, that makes sense but in my remodel I want 42-inch tall upper cabinets instead of the standard 30-inch I have now.

No problem, we just add new 12-inch boxes on top, order 42-in tall doors and presto, you have overheight uppers, exactly what is in style these days.

At Granite Transformations you’re not limited to simple upgrades like that either, we move microwaves from being on a shelf to being over the range and refashion that shelf to be part of a the cabinet.

We go even further, we can modify what you need to allow for things like a built-in dishwasher or even a larger fridge, making two doors into pots-and-pan drawers with soft close slides. There is really no

Above: The same kitchen, before the reno. Note that the appliances, island and counters have been retained, saving the homeowner money, time and the aggravation of living with a long in-home construction project.

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Staining and sealing a pine floor bit more difficult to get good results than with oil-based urethanes. This is another reason to ‘practice’ on a small area of floor. The danger you face is two-fold. First, waterbased stains and urethanes always make wood get quite a bit rougher after the first few coats.

You’ll need to sand lightly after the first coat of urethane dries using 180or 220-grit sandpaper, then vacuum.

And second, waterbased urethane dries so quickly that it can be challenging to get a smooth, bubble-free application. The trick is to brush the wet urethane as little as possible. One initial brushing in a given area, then that’s it.

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This formerly-rusty woodstove door was cleaned and sprayed with high-heat paint.

Refinishing a Fireplace Door Q: How can I make my fireplace door look nice and black again? Do I need to have it professionally repainted?

A: You can certainly succeed on your own. Every hardware store sells black paint in spray or brush cans that’s formulated for high heat applications. That’s the stuff to use. Start by removing the old paint from the flaking area with a wire brush or sand paper. When everything loose has been removed, and all solid paint is dull from sanding, mask adjacent areas and give the surface two or three light coats of black, high-heat paint. I prefer the matte formulation because it shows fewer defects than gloss.

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Q: How can I stain and seal a newly sanded pine floor? I want to darken the wood so it matches neighbouring laminate better, but I’m worried about fumes.

A: You can use a waterbased stain and a low-odour urethane. This will give you the colour you need and the protection, too. That said, there are several dangers to be aware of.

STEVE First, it’s vital MAXWELL that you experiment with HOUSEWORKS your finishing methods in a test area. You don’t want to go to a lot of trouble on the whole floor, only to find that you don’t like the colour of what you’ve achieved. Finish a small area using the same methods you plan to use on the whole floor, just to see what you’ll be getting.

Also, pine is susceptible to blotchy staining results because its absorbency varies. This is why prestain conditioner is important. It goes on clear, but evens staining results later.

Another issue is the difficulty of applying today’s low-odour, fast-drying urethanes correctly. It’s quite a

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You might want to do this next spring, when the windows can be opened for ventilation. High heat paint is not low odour. There will also be an odour from the paint the first few times you use the fireplace, but this will stop after a couple of good fires.

I know high heat paint works well because Iíve used it many times on entire woodstoves that get very hot.

Energy Source for Infloor Heating Q: What’s the best replacement for two electric water heaters we use to energize the radiant infloor heating in our basement? We have them set to operate from 11pm to 7am to get the best rates, but the heaters are getting old. We’re in the country, so there’s no natural gas.

A: Have you ever considered propane? Even in rural areas it’s cheaper than electricity for each unit of heat delivered. Also, if you ever have an extended power failure, your propane system can keep you warm with just the addition of a small generator to keep the controls and pump going. When you rely on electricity as a heat source, you’re out of luck unless you have a whopping-big generator. A couple of heavy duty propane water heaters could easily replace your current electric heaters.

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Vancouver goes mobile with movable, modular housing in bid to fight homelessness Vancouver is going mobile in its latest approach to end homelessness.

The city is looking for a company to design a series of transportable housing units aimed at getting some of the municipality’s most vulnerable people off the streets and into temporary accommodation.

A tender posted online says the units are to measure about 150 square feet, about the size of a shipping container, with sleeping quarters and a washroom. They should also be able to stack together and connect to a 1,000- to 1,5000-square-foot communal area with a cooking facility, says the tender.

“What we’d like to do is put these modular housing units up quickly and cheaply and have people move off the street into them and start their process of recovery,” said Coun. Kerry Jang, who first floated the idea of portable housing for the homeless in 2009.

“These units are not meant to replace permanent housing. They’re simply interim housing,” he added.

“They can be moved around and come and go as we need them.”

The idea is to cycle the mobile housing every few years between plots of unused land around the city, whether owned publicly or privately. Tax incentives would be offered to developers whose idle properties are made available for the temporary dwellings, Jang said.

“It makes use of land just sitting there,” he said.

“It’s just sitting there. What else are you going to do with it, right?”

The city hopes to have between 30 and 40 units up and running by the end of the year. One homelessness advocate applauded the announcement as a step in the right direction, but tempered that praise by describing the housing strategy as “a very small piece of the puzzle.”

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ADVANTAGE.............. 587-679-5674 587-679-5674.... $529,900....... Vanier Woods 7 Veer Place........................ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Norm .... Norm Jensen ................ ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900............................... Vanier East 13 Keast Way ..................... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Rick .... Rick Burega................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 350-6023..... $339,900....... Kentwood West 59 Reighley Close ............ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Larry .... Larry Hastie .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 550-3984..... $474,900....... Rosedale Meadows 18 Depalme Street .......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Steve .... Steve Cormack ............ ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 391-1672..... $414,900....... Deer Park Estates #50, 6300 Orr Drive ......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Cam .... Cam Ondrik .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 596-3909..... $249,900....... Oriole Park West 62 Larsen Crescent ..........1:00 .......... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Angela .... Angela Stonehouse ... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 598-4342..... $418,000....... Lonsdale 6325 61 Avenue ...............1:00 ............... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Bob .... Bob Pelletier ................. SERGE’S HOMES ................................ 505-8050............................... Highland Green 6 Lagrange Crescent....... .......1:00 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Tim .... Tim Maley...................... REMAX .................................................. 550-3533..... $399,900....... Lancaster Green 5816 43 Avenue ...............12:00 ............... 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. p.m. .Margaret . Margaret Comeau ...... REMAX .................................................. 343-3020..... $333,500....... Waskasoo 13 Mitchell Avenue .........3:00 ......... 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Margaret .... Margaret Comeau ...... REMAX .................................................. 343-3020..... $314,900....... Morrisroe 4 Haliburton Crescent .... ....1:00 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. p.m. ....Kile .... Kile Meiklejohn ........... KILE MEIKLEJOHN HOME SELLING TEAM 872-9178..... $269,900....... Highland Green 31 Oliver Street .................1:00 ................. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Kile .... Kile Meiklejohn ........... KILE MEIKLEJOHN HOME SELLING TEAM 872-9178..... $239,900....... Oriole Park 4528 Waskasoo Crescent 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Carol .... Carol Clark..................... COLDWELL BANKER ONTRACK .... 350-4919..... $429,900....... Waskasoo 74 Dobler Avenue ...........2:00 ........... 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Tracie .... Tracie Windsor ............. COLDWELL BANKER ONTRAC ONTRAC....... ....... 396-1361..... $469,900....... Deer Park Village 234-18 Averill Street ....... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Lana .... Lana Clubine ................ SUTTON LANDMARK ....................... 347-0751..... $278,888....... Aspen Ridge 105 Lalor Drive ................. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Kyle .... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Laredo 22 Tindale Place ............... 12:00 – 6:00 p.m. .Aaron . Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016............................... The Timbers

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 - OUT OF TOWN 135 Heartland Crescent 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. .Bill . Bill Hogg ........................ CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 872-3670..... $290,000 ...... Penhold 49 Westview Crescent .... ....1:00 1:00 – 3:00 p.m ..... Kim Fox ........................ CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 506-7552..... $260,000....... Blackfalds 56 Henderson Crescent ..1:00 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. p.m. ....Shaun .... Shaun Heidt ................. BLACK BEAR QUALITY HOME ....... 392-6919..... $487,500....... Penhold 607 Maple Crescent ........2:00 ........ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. p.m. ....Tim .... Tim McRae .................... MAXWELL REAL ESTATE .................. 350-1562..... $230,000....... Springbrook 9 Mackenzie Avenue ...... ......1:00 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. p.m. ....Chris .... Chris Forsyth ................ MAXWELL REAL ESTATE .................. 391-8141..... $399,900....... Lacombe 20 Emily Crescent ............2:00 ............ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Carrie .... Carrie Giffen ................. REMAX .................................................. 304-0828..... $415,000....... Lacombe 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Jessica .... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Sylvan Lake

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 - RED DEER 10 Michener Place ........ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m ... Melissa Morin ............. CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 318-5665.... $489,900....... Michener Hill 10 Grove Close..................1:00 .................. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Kim .... Kim Fox .......................... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 506-7552..... $790,000....... Garden Heights 52 Jarvis Avenue .............. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Kim ..... Kim Fox .......................... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 506-7552..... $364,900....... Johnstone Park 142 Vancouver Crescent 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Avril ..... Avril Evans.....................

Evans..................... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 348-6303..... $259,900....... Vanier East 100 Timberstone Drive .. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Bett ..... Bett Portelance ........... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 307-5581..... $559,900....... Timberstone Way #1222 31 Jamieson Avenue ... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Christina ..... Christina Courte.......... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 505-6194..... $170,000....... Johnstone Park 133 Crawford Street........ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Larry ..... Larry Hastie .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 550-3984..... $329,900....... Clearview Meadows 176 Allwright Close......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Steve .... Steve Cormack ............ ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 391-1672.... $529,900....... Aspen Ridge 153 Van Slyke Way ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Norm .... Norm Jensen ................ ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900............................... Vanier East 92 Ayers Ave ...................... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Carol .... Carol Clark..................... COLDWELL BANKER ONTRACK .... 350-4919..... $429,900....... Anders Park 6325 61 Ave .......................1:00 ....................... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.... p.m.... Bob Pelletier ................. SERGE’S HOMES ................................ 505-8050......................... .........................Highland Highland Green 11 Lamar Close ................. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Anjali ..... Anjali Evanoff............... REMAX ................................................ 848-0883..... $449,900....... Lonsdale 6220 Orr Drive #2 #2............. .............12:00 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Margaret Comeau..... REMAX .................................................. 343-3020 .... $237,000....... Oriole Park West 287 Lancaster Drive ........ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Nadine ..... Nadine Merchand ...... ROYAL CARPET REALTY................... 342-7700..... $329,900....... Lonsdale 2660 22 Street #5320 .... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Tim ..... Tim McRae .................... MAXWELL REALTY ............................ 350-1562..... $255,000....... Lancaster Green 128 Kentwood Drive.......

Drive....... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m .....Tracy ..... Tracy Thody .................. SUTTON LANDMARK ....................... 347-0744..... $304,000....... Kingsgate 5804 44 Avenue ............... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .... Craig Mackenzie ........ REALTY EXECUTIVES ........................ 342-4455..... $529,900....... Waskasoo 105 Lalor Drive ................. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Kyle .... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Laredo 22 Tindale Place ............... 12:00 – 6:00 p.m. .Aaron . Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016............................... The Timbers

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 - OUT OF TOWN 56 Henderson Crescent ..1:00 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.... p.m.... Chris Forsyth ................ MAXWELL REAL ESTATE .................. 391-8141..... $487,500....... Penhold 9 Mackenzie Avenue ...... ......1:00 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Shaun .... Shaun Heidt ................. BLACK BEAR QUALITY HOMES ..... 392-6919.... $399,900....... Lacombe 7117 Henner’s Road........ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m .....Ivan ..... Ivan Busenius............... REMAX .................................................. 350-8102..... $487,500....... Lacombe 142 Red Ash Cove ............ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Cam .... Cam Ondrik .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 596-3909..... $439,900....... Springbrook 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Jessica .... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Sylvan Lake

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Obituaries BURUMA Sye (Syd) May 22, 1927 - Feb 16, 2016 One day a small plant grew in a pond in a farmer’s field, the next day there were two plants. On the third day there were four; on the fourth day there were eight. Each day the number of plants doubled, 16, 32, 64, 128 and so it went until on the 30th day the pond was full. Not even one more plant would fit. What day was the pond half full? “You quickly voiced your answer with certainty.

Did you think about the question or did you want to be the first with the wrong answer?* Born in Blija, Friesland, Holland, he spent his teenage years during the war in occupied Holland.

Then a few years in Indonesia fighting for his country? Hogan’s Hero’s was not allowed on the TV if he was in the room; “they make fun of war and there is nothing fun about it”. At 26 he immigrated to Canada with his wife to be Reimke (Pam); first to PEI for a year and then to Red Deer, Alta … “you have to go where the opportunity is, it isn’t likely to come to you”. Initially as a carpenter, then a successful contractor and businessman, he retired to Victoria, B.C. in 1980 at age 53. Retirement included travel and cruising but above all an opportunity to devote more time to investing in the stock market.

“Find the best broker you can get, write down everything he tells you and do the opposite; 80% of the time you will make money”. He wasn’t perfect. He had his demons but he loved his wife and son until he died. He was a man, just a man, my father and the best teacher I ever had.

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Obituaries PHILIP Barry Neil May 10, 1951 - Feb. 23, 2016 Mr. Barry Neil Philip passed away peacefully at his longtime home of Michener Centre, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at the age of 64 years. Barry faced many challenges in his life but there was always a twinkle in his bright blue eyes. Barry is survived by his brother, Gareth (Sheryl) of Innisfail, Alberta and sister, Linda (Roger) Johns of Calgary, Alberta. He is also survived by his four nephews, and one niece and their families. Barry was predeceased by his parents; Andrew and Catherine. The family would like to express their heartfelt thanks to the staff that cared for Barry over the years, especially those who were with Barry the last few months when he faced so may health issues. There will a graveside service for Barry at a later date.

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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SIMPSON (nee Anderson) Annie Mae Mar. 4, 1918 to Feb. 20, 2016 Annie Simpson passed away on February 20, 2016 in Calgary at the age of 97 years. Annie was born March 4, 1918 on the family farm near Benalto, Alberta. After attending one room schools at Melita and Kuusomo, she completed high school in Red Deer.

She continued her education by attending Calgary Normal School receiving her first class teaching certificate in 1936.

She taught at Melita and Carritt School before marrying Max Simpson in 1940. After living in Sylvan Lake for a year they moved to Edmonton where Max worked for Aircraft Repair, repairing airplanes that had been damaged in the war. He volunteered for the Canadian Navy and after basic training was sent to Eastern Canada. Annie and her infant son Jack lived at her parent’s home for the duration of the war. In 1944 they moved to Benalto where Max started work as an electrician. In Benalto they were blessed with two more sons, Bill in 1946 and Ken in 1951. Annie was a stay at home mom until 1954, when a shortage of teachers resulted in her resuming her teacher’s career for the next 25 years. That meant she had to return to school. By attending many winter classes in Red Deer and many summer schools in Edmonton (and later in Calgary) she received her B of Ed degree in 1966. This was a memorable occasion for her as her son Jack received his B of Ed at the same convocation.

She went on to get her second degree - a “methods course” from the University of Calgary in 1972. Her first priority was her family but she was also active in the Benalto Presbyterian Church, the Ladies Aid, the Home and School Association, the Royal Purple and the A.T.A. She also enjoyed camping, hiking, and fishing trips with her family and friends. For many years Annie enjoyed square dancing, round dancing, traveling Canada and touring Europe with a stop in Sweden to visit relatives. After Annie retired in 1980 they moved to Red Deer. They also enjoyed five winters in Mesa Arizona until Max passed away in 1986. She then moved to Parkdale Estates in Red Deer. While at Parkdale Estates she helped audit the books, volunteered at the Golden Circle and Red Deer Museum, and canvassed for many organizations. Travelling continued to interest her as she enjoyed a number of cruises, visits to Alaska, Hawaii, continental USA and all parts of Canada. After living in Parkdale Estates for 14 years, she moved to Parkvale Lodge in 2002 where she enjoyed the many activities available.

After a series of falls started to tax her health, more care was required and she moved to a Health Care Facilities in Olds, Alberta in 2012 and then Calgary in 2014 until her passing.

Annie was the loving wife to Max (deceased ‘86) for 46 years and the beloved mother of Jack (deceased ‘09) (Jill), Bill (Marj) and Ken (Peggy). She was also the cherished grandmother of 8 grandchildren and the proud greatgrandmother of 14: Dave (Lorelie) Simpson -Connor, Aidan; Hilary (Sean) Antonson -Riley, Declan; Tania (Doug) Dunlop -Tadhg, Fiona; Andrea (RJ) Jacobsen -Zoe, Chase; Ryan (Karilynn) Simpson -Coral, William; Mark (Nikki) Simpson Judah, Cole; Tanis (Les) Harms -Kiana, Ainsley; Christa Simpson. She was predeceased by her parents, Swan (‘72) & Elma (‘74) Anderson, her brother Arnold Anderson (‘57), and her sister Mildred Niemi (‘04). A memorial service / celebration of life will be held at Centre Street Church, 3900 2nd Street NE, Calgary, Alberta on Friday, March 4, 2016 at 1:30 pm. In lieu of flowers, if friends so desire memorial donations may be made to the Alberta Diabetes Association or the Alberta Cancer Society.

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CHALIFOUX Robert Joseph Aug. 24, 1920 - Feb. 19, 2016 Robert passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Bethany Care Centre at 95 years of age. Born to Henri and Louise (Dubord) in Beaumont, Alberta, he was part of a large extended French Canadian family. He spent his childhood in Beaumont, raised his family in Edmonton (Calder) and retired in Edmonton and then Red Deer. Robert will be profoundly missed by his children: Connie (Dick) Pawloff of Red Deer, Ron Chalifoux (Sue) of Edmonton, Paula Roberts of Red Deer and Denis (Doris) Chalifoux of Spruce Grove; grandchildren: Rob Pawloff, Brian (Cherie) Chalifoux, Karen (Brent) Miller, Darin (Ashley) Chalifoux, Julian Chalifoux and Simona Chalifoux; and his precious great-grandchildren: Laurel, Jordan, Paige, Nolan and Hannah.

Robert was predeceased by Alice, his cherished wife of 70 years; his sister and brothers: Rachelle (Nedelec), Rudy, Lawrence and Andy; and his daughter-in-law, Gloria (Fitzner). Respected for his determination and loyalty in caring for his wife and family, Bob was indeed a special man. He also instilled in his children a high work ethic: that “anything worth doing is worth doing right.” To respect the family’s wishes, a private family Memorial Service was held Thursday, February 25th in Edmonton with his youngest son Denis officiating.

Interment took place at Holy Cross Cemetery near St. Albert. The family extends its sincere thanks to the staff at the Bethany Care Centre, Red Deer. Memorial donations may be sent directly to the Alzheimer Society Canada http://alzheimer.ca/en or to the charity of your choice. To send condolences please visit www.connelly-mckinley.com.

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VALLI Maurice Mar.17, 1938 - Feb. 23, 2016 It is with much sadness that we announce the passing of Maurice. Maurice is survived by his loving sister Bonnie and niece Keli. He was predeceased by his father Walter Valli, mother Hilda Bystrom and step-father Ollie Bystrom.

Cremation has taken place. Interment Holy Cross Mosoleum, Edmonton.

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HAAKONSON Arnold Thomas 1942 - 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Arnold Haakonson, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He passed away February 21, 2016 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, at the age of 73 years, surrounded by his family. Arnold was born in Lacombe, Alberta, the youngest son of Barney and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Haakonson on June 18, 1942. He took his schooling in the Lincoln and Iowalta districts and then in Lacombe. After graduating he went to work at Lacombe Feed Services working for Allan Hodge. In 1966, along with two partners, he started Lacombe Fertilizer and Farm Supply where he worked until he retired in 2009. In 1964 he met the love of his life, Shirley Moore, and on May 8, 1965 they were married.

Arnold lived his entire life on the farm with the exception of three years that he and his family lived in Lacombe. In 1971 they moved back to the farm and in 1980 they bought their own farm where he lived until his passing. Arnold loved working with his cows, the smell of fresh cut hay and newly turned soil; whether it was in the field or the garden he loved to watch things grow. His children and grandchildren were his pride and joy. He loved passing on his wisdom and teaching them new or different ways to do things. Arnold is survived by his loving wife, Shirley, of 50 years, his children: Angie (Allan) Vanderzwan and their children Garret (fiancé Victoria), Mitchel and his son Treyce, and Cole, all of Sundre, AB; Edmund Haakonson of Edmonton, AB; Treena Cox and children Matthew, Emily and Stephanee of Lacombe, AB; Leslie (Sam)(Shannon) Haakonson and their children Ryan, Tristan and Chris of Lacombe, AB. He is also survived by his siblings, Gladys Jeglum of Clive; Elmer (Linda) Haakonson of Lacombe and Adeline (Richard) Bellerive of Lacombe; his mother in law Freda Gillespie of Innisfail, AB; numerous nieces and nephews, extended family and many friends.

Arnold was predeceased by his father Barney in 1994; his mother Lizzie in 2006; his father in law Les Moore in 1977; his step father in law Delbert Gillespie in 2000; six brothers in law and one sister in law. Funeral Services will be held Tuesday March 1, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. the Lacombe Memorial Centre, 5214-50 Ave, Lacombe. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families for 40 years”

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Card Of Thanks I would like to thank all of my relatives and friends who came to my 100th birthday party on January 24th, and also to the celebration on my actual birthday Jan. 26.

Thank you to my son Sam who flew up from Costa Rica and for the beautiful floral display. A special to my family for everything, and making it a memorable occasion.

A big thanks also to those relatives who ventured to Alberta in the middle of winter from Texas, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Costa Rica. And to those who came from northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and BC. Thanks everyone for the beautiful cards, and to those who brought flowers and gifts.

Thanks for sharing a wonderful milestone and bringing back lots of memories.

Grace MacDonald

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THACKERAY Lillian May Lillian May (Lil) Thackeray (nee Brister) passed away peacefully on February 5, 2016 at the age of 97. Lil was born in Elgin, Manitoba and became a teacher. She married Bernard (Brick) in 1944 and the two of them moved to Alberta the next year where Brick began his Ministry in the United Church. Over the years they lived In Saddle Lake, Bentley and Lacombe and eventually retired to Red Deer. Lil was deeply involved in both church and community affairs wherever she lived. She was a Cub Leader for over 40 years, was a dedicated teacher, taught Sunday School Kindergarten and was a Life Member of the United Church Women. In 1973 Lil and Brick were named Lacombe’s Citizens of the Year. She was predeceased

by Brick in 2010 and by her parents, Jesse and Maud, and three siblings, Edgar, Roy and Kae. Lil will be missed by her children: Sandra (Al) Quirt, Ruth (Dale) Roedler and Tom (Kathy) Thackeray; seven grandchildren: Brian Quirt (Rivka Gates) and Lyanne Quirt (Edward Pullman); Rhonda Roedler and Chris (Leah) Roedler; and Laura (Gerry) Beaudin, Dan (Michelle) Thackeray and James Thackeray; and eight great-grandchildren: Blake and Emily Roedler; Tate and Grace Beaudin and Spencer, Liam, Nolan and Paisley Thackeray.

Lil is also survived by Isabelle Brister (sister-in-law) and many nieces and nephews. A Memorial service for Lil will be held at St. Andrew’s United Church in Lacombe on Monday, February 29 at 1:00 PM. Donations in memory of Lil may be made to the St. Andrew’s United Church Memorial Fund or a charity of choice.

Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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WALKER Lyman E Sept. 15, 1929 - Feb. 19, 2016 With Sadness, the family of Lyman E. Walker announces his peaceful passing at the age of 86 at the Fairview Hospital, his family by his side. A Funeral Service for Lyman will be held on Monday, February 29th at 11:00 am at the Sylvan Lake Funeral Home located at 5019 47Ath Avenue.

Immediately following the service a lunch will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion at 4916 50th Avenue.

A private family interment service at the Sylvan Lake Cemetery will follow the luncheon. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations can be made in Lyman’s name to the Stollery or Alberta Children’s Hospitals.

Condolences can be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.com SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

In Memoriam

MANLEY In loving memory of our dear daughter, Shannon Dawn, who joined her sister, Tricia in Heaven on Feb. 28, 1994 Silent memories keep you near As time unfolds another year No longer in our lives to share But in our hearts you’re always there.

May you and Trish always walk in sunshine Forever in our hearts and in our minds.

Mom and Dad In Loving Memory of Our Son, Brother & Uncle JAMIE RADKE Loving and kind in all his ways, Upright and just to the end of his days, Sincere and kind in heart and mind What a beautiful memory he left behind.

We miss you!

Dad and Sue, Cheryl & Tyson, Nicola & Chris, Michelle, Duncan & Jax, Ruby & Grace

STYNER, Marlin Ernie 1963 - 2014 Memories have a lovely way of bringing back our yesterdays Each of us in our own way have special thoughts of you today Always remembered, always loved Roy, Nora and family

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