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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A cattle producer from East Central Alberta has reopened debate on whether or not a highway should be punched through the Howse Pass.

Altario-based Rick Strankman, Wildrose MLA for Stettler-Drumheller, said on Wednesday that a transportation corridor running through Central Alberta and crossing the Continental Divide at Saskatchewan River Crossing could be a tremendous benefit to the economy of his riding with minimal impact on the environment.

Strankman envisions an east-west route that would divert freight from the Yellowhead and TransCanada routes, significantly shortening the distance from Saskatoon to ports on the West Coast. He suggested a route that would include Saskatchewan Hwy 51, which becomes Hwy 12 when it crosses the provincial boundary at Compeer. The route would then follow Alberta Hwys 12 and 11 through Rocky Mountain House and Nordegg to Saskatchewan River Crossing and continue west across the pass, exiting northwest of Golden.

A study commissioned in 2005 for a local economic partnership states that the Howse Pass route would shorten the distance from Red Deer to Vancouver by 95 kilometres.

The 2005 report, written for the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce, Clearwater County, Lacombe County and Alberta Economic Development, concluded that there would be a generous economic benefit that would significantly outweigh the costs of construction.

Conservative MPs Blaine Calkins for Wetaskiwin and Blake Richards for Wildrose riding raised the issue during recent discussions with councils for both Clearwater and Lacombe counties, offering their support if there is a renewed push to build the highway.

However, environmentalists have fought the notion from the get-go, stating that putting a fourth pass through the Rockies would not be worth the expense, both in real costs and in the amount of damage it would inflict on what is largely a wilderness area.

Red Deer activist Dorothy Dickson was among a group from the Red Deer River Naturalists who rode the pass on horseback in 1989 to gather information and to create an inventory of the wild plants and animals they found there.

While the route is relatively flat and easy to travel on the Alberta side, the B.C. side is as steep and treacherous as the Kicking Horse Pass, further south, Dickson said on Wednesday.

She stated that, while the 2005 push for a Howse Pass route eventually fizzled out, it never really went away.

“We always knew it would come back. If you win, you always know that they will come back. If you lose, you’ve lost forever.”

Regardless of the economic and environmental impacts, a route through the Howse Pass would face a number of obstacles, said Terry Hager, chief administrative officer for Lacombe County.

Technology is now available to build a highway through environmentally sensitive areas with only minimal disturbance, even putting it underground if needed, said Hager.

However, there are legislative obstacles as well, including an act of Parliament passed when Liberal MP Anne McLellan was Natural Resources Minister. McLellan’s bill made it illegal to put a road through the pass. Cutting across the boundary of Banff and Jasper National Parks, Howse Pass also runs through the centre of a vast area that has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Province of British Columbia would also need to be on board since it would likely be paying the bulk of the costs, said Strankman.

Debate over the area’s potential value as a transportation corridor started long before the Davd Thompson Highway reached Nordegg, said Red Deer historian Michael Dawe.

The issue was first raised in the 1940s, said Dawe.

Geographically, it would probably have been the most logical route for crossing the Rockies and would have made much more sense for the Canadian Pacific Railway when it was building its east-west route across the country.

However, the Canadian government wanted a route further south as a means of guarding Canada’s sovereignty from the perceived threat from the United States.

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Ty McArthur, 13, gets a face-first view as he anticipates the cooling effect of the Recreation Centre outdoor pool Wednesday. With the temperature once again nearing 30 C, the pool is jammed with families looking for relief from the sweltering heat.

Economic glass more than half full, says chief investment officer

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Europe is struggling to contain its sovereign debt crisis, the American economy continues to sputter, China’s trade growth has slowed and the Toronto Stock Exchange dropped nearly six per cent over the last 2 ½ months.

Yet ScotiaMcLeod’s chief investment officer doesn’t view the economic glass as half empty.

“It was half full, now it’s moving to more than half full,” said Shane Jones. “I’m feeling more and more optimistic.”

Jones, who was in Red Deer Tuesday evening to speak with ScotiaMcLeod advisers and guests, said prior to his presentation that Canadian investors appear to be holding firm.

“People are not running for the hills,” he said, adding that despite the recent decline in the equity markets, the year started strong and shows promise going forward.

“I would think by the end of

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the year we will be in positive territory. It could only be at five per cent plus, but you add that to your dividend and you’re getting 7 ½ to eight per cent. I think in a year like this, that’s not doing too bad.”

Jones, who grew up in the United Kingdom and frequently travels to Europe, expressed confidence that the eurozone’s problems will eventually be resolved.

Although the situation in Greece seems bleak, he said Portugal appears to be on the road to recovery, Italy’s debt problems relate to the government rather than individuals there, and much of the concerns related to Spain pertain to one of its major banks, which is on the verge of a bailout from the European Union.

But, he added, Europe remains volatile and a fix will be complicated, due to the many players involved.

“You’re actually dealing with 17 different countries who have to enact a similar policy.”

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Mosquitoes are hatching and on the hunt.

Ken Lehman, parks planning and ecological specialist with the City of Red Deer, said the mosquito population was on the low side until the temperature started rising.

“We’ve certainly seen some h a t c h ing, some e m e r g ing adults in the last couple of days since the weekend because of this heat wave,” Lehman said.

“It’s alarming people because we haven’t had real numbers up to this point.”

Lehman said hatching was delayed because of the cooler spring.

“If we get the wet-hot, wet-hot thing going on, we could have a pretty good mosquito population through the remainder of the summer.”

Typically, the mosquito population doesn’t drop off until later in the summer, he said.

Weather is the determining factor.

Hot and dry will kill off larvae. So far, wet pockets have stayed wet, he said.

“With the heat being what it is, if there’s any sort of a puddle with an egg mass, it’s progressing really quickly.”

The city was already targeting larvae in areas like ditches with bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti), a registered microbial pesticide that leaves other aquatic organisms and wildlife unaffected.

“We treat the bad spots we know of.

We don’t treat everything.”

Commonly used by municipalities to control mosquito populations, the nontoxic, microbial product is applied to the surface of the water.

“It more or less rips a hole in their gut. It takes them out.

“Where we’ve treated, it’s been a great impact. We’ve been able to stay on top of it for the most part up to this point because there hasn’t been the conditions.”

When conditions are right, untreated areas still produce mosquitoes.

They also migrate from surrounding areas.

City staff monitor both larvae and rainfall to determine when treatment is required.

Mosquito light traps in different areas of the city are also checked each Friday during the season to count mosquitoes and species.

Traps release carbon dioxide and mosquitoes are drawn to the traps.

“Typically we know what we’re going to see, more or less. But it will help us pick up any non-typical activity or allow us to quantify what we predict.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Council ponders cost recovery options for multiplex

BY JESSICA JONES ADVOCATE STAFF

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The question of how a multi-million-dollar recreation facility will recover and generate funds is still before the Town of Sylvan Lake council.

Council directed administration on Monday to look at the financial gains of three possible amenities that may be housed in the improved facility.

A feasibility study, commissioned over a year ago, suggested the town needed to re-develop its multiplex, located on 48th Street and 48th Avenue, to a larger multi-purpose facility to fit the needs of its young and growing population of 12,327 residents.

While Sylvan Lake has various recreational facilities, the Medican Multiplex has only a small meeting room and one ice facility.

A two-arena facility has been suggested, along with a gymnasium, indoor running track, sports courts, activity areas, meeting spaces, a child care area and a concession. It would cost about $21 million.

“The facility will never pay for itself but to be as financially efficient as possible we are thinking about the kinds of things that could generate mon-

ey,” said Mayor Susan Samson.

The task is proving difficult as she admits that council hasn’t “made the tough decisions.”

The cost-recovery options come in the form of hosting a senior centre, a curling rink or assembly area.

Council has a tough job deciding which of these three choices should be part of the facility, since they can’t have them all.

Samson says they are encouraging the Seniors Association to have a close look at moving to the redeveloped multiplex to share leasing costs but the group hasn’t committed to the idea.

But the development of an assembly centre could give the town the ability to host larger meetings, weddings, banquets, conferences and workshops.

“This is something we are really lacking in our community, those large area spaces that can be multi-purposed,” Samson said.

Also thrown into the mix is the idea of housing the curling club, which has identified a greater need than what council had planned in the scope of the re-development.

“So we are trying to come to a resolution that would be satisfactory to them as well as to us and our taxpayers,” Samson said.

Another element of complication is the fact that the Medican Multiplex would be torn down to build the project. The timing of that is critical, Samson said.

“We know we have approximately three years without spending any capital on the existing old facility but if it goes beyond three years we are going to have to start putting money into it.”

She says they are hoping ice users can run on one arena for one season by also utilizing facilities in surrounding communities.

As the costs haven’t been nailed down, a timeline for when the improvement could begin hangs in the balance.

Council will look at their options at their next meeting but Samson wasn’t certain if a decision would be made at that point.

The project will further be reviewed in the fall when the Town of Sylvan Lake mulls over its capital plan. jjones@reddeeradvocate.com

Wind gusts feed forest fire to massive size, residents of hamlet flee

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OUTLOOK: More confident now than months ago With respect to the United States, Jones is more confident now than he was a few months ago. Although partisan politics has discouraged Canada’s southern neighbour from implementing decisive

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If American GDP growth can be coaxed from its current rate of less than two per cent to something closer to three per cent, the broader outlook will improve significantly, said Jones.

“Being the world’s biggest economy, it will certainly benefit Canada, it will benefit China; and if it benefits China, that will also benefit Shane Jones Canada.”

Jones also noted approvingly that China has gotten inflation under control and is now cutting interest rates — albeit later than it probably should have.

Even if demand for its exports wane, the communist country has plenty of internal infrastructure projects it can focus on, he noted.

The outlook for Canada is “very good,” said Jones.

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ZAMA CITY — A tiny, remote community in a tinder-dry region of northwestern Alberta has been evacuated because of an encroaching forest fire that has already burned about 1,000 square kilometres of timber and bush.

A mandatory evacuation order was issued shortly after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday for the hamlet of Zama City, about 930 kilometres north of Edmonton.

Alberta wildfire officials say hot temperatures and gusty winds fuelled the fast moving flames.

John Klassen, director of operations for Mackenzie County, says the order came after the wind shifted and started pushing the blaze toward the hamlet about 10 kilometres away.

Klassen says it took about six hours for between 150 and 200 permanent residents and transient workers to be moved safely to High Level, Alta., about 140 kilometres to the southeast.

There were no reports or any injuries or healthrelated troubles.

“Our municipal people were the last ones to pull out of there. And then the road was closed, that’s Highway 35, so no one in and out ... other than emergency firefighters,” Klassen said Wednesday.

Highway 35 was open Wednesday, but the province has warned it may close again on short notice depending on smoke and fire conditions.

Residents of the Dene Tha’ First Nation were under a voluntary evacuation order.

The evacuees were asked to register at the town hall and were being put up in motels in High Level.

When the global economy does improve, commodityrich Western Canada should benefit.

He anticipates that both the Keystone XL and Northern Gateway pipelines will be built, as will liquefied natural gas facilities on the West Coast. That should close the gap between the prices of Alberta’s petroleum products and energy commodities elsewhere.

Canadian investors have been through a lot, acknowledged Jones, recalling the shock to the TSX that accompanied the onset of the recession four years ago.

“We went from 15,000 and change (on the S&P/ TSX composite index) in mid-July 2008 to 7,000 and change in March 2009.

“That’s a lot to deal with in a short period of time.”

But now, he repeated, there’s reason for optimism.

“Everybody is starting to enact policies to get the global economy going.”

ScotiaMcLeod is a full-service investment dealer owned by Scotiabank. It was formerly known as McLeod Young Weir Co. & Ltd. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Carbon capture storage project approved

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Regulators have conditionally approval the first proposal to pump greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta’s oilsands deep into the ground.

The $1.35-billion Shell Canada Quest carbon capture project calls for the permanent storage of up to 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from its Scotford upgrader.

Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board says it is in the public interest for the project, northeast of Edmonton, to go ahead.

“Shell is delighted with the ERCB’s decision to recommend approval,” John Abbott, Shell’s vicepresident of heavy oil, said in a release Wednesday.

“This is a really important milestone for the project and takes us one step closer to implementing the first carbon capture project for an oilsands operation.”

But Abbott also said Shell must review the economics of the project with its partners, Chevron

Canada and Marathon Oil, before deciding later this year if it will proceed.

Quest includes $745 million from the Alberta government over 15 years and $120 million from Ottawa’s Clean Energy fund.

The plan is to pipe liquefied carbon dioxide to injection wells north of the upgrader and store it more than two kilometres underground starting in 2015.

Shell says the liquefied gas would be permanently and safely secured under multiple layers of rock and mineral formations.

The idea is to hive off the CO2 so it doesn’t enter the atmosphere and contribute to global warming.

The Alberta government announced in 2008 that it would establish a $2-billion fund to promote carbon capture and storage technology and show the world that the province is serious about reducing greenhouse gases from the oilsands and its coal-fired power plants.

The province said its goal is to reduce CO2 emissions by five million tonnes per year by 2015.

The energy board has imposed 23 conditions on Shell’s Quest plan before work can begin and the

project must still be reviewed by Alberta’s Environment Department.

The board says the underground reservoir Shell wants to use is a suitable location for the long-term storage of carbon dioxide “and the combination of geological conditions, engineering design, operational practices and extensive monitoring program mitigate any potential risks the project might pose.”

The federal government, including Natural Resources Canada and the Canadian Transportation Agency, said the Quest project “is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects.”

Shell’s caveat about reviewing the economics of Quest follow an announcement in April by TransAlta Corp. (TSX:TA) that it was pulling out of the separate $1.4 billion Project Pioneer carbon capture project because of financial concerns.

At the time, TransAlta CEO Dawn Farrell said initial studies showed the technology works and that the capital costs were acceptable, but there were not enough customers to buy the CO2 generated from coal fired power plants and the price was not good enough.

Explosion in Calgary tower causes telecommunications chaos

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — An explosion in an electrical room on the 13th floor of Shaw Communications’ downtown headquarters caused telecommunications chaos across Calgary on Wednesday.

Bruce Berrell of the Calgary Emergency Management Agency said the blast and resulting fire affected fire stations, 911 operations, Alberta Health Services and corporate call centres as well as Shaw’s telephone and television services.

He described the building as “a hub of information for a number of clients, not just within the city of Calgary but some of them are provincial and some of them are, in fact, national companies.”

He said IBM occupies a couple of floors in the building and their services, too, were affected.

However, he said the scope of the problem had not yet been determined, although it appeared the

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Deputy premier province’s new military liaison EDMONTON — Alberta deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk is the province’s new ministerial liaison to the Canadian Forces.

Premier Alison Redford made the announcement at a western defence symposium in Calgary.

Lukaszuk takes over the post from Finance Minister Doug Horner.

Redford says Lukaszuk’s duties will be to develop, support, promote and sustain the government’s relationship with the military.

fire had been extinguished.

“We’ve activated the municipal emergency plan based on the recommendation of the deputy chief of the fire department,” he said.

“Alberta Health Services network is completely dead at the moment. We’re trying to determine whether or not the CP Rail information centre (is affected).

“It’s a significant network.”

The biggest problem was that no one in the downtown core could use a Shaw telephone to contact 911.

Berrell said that would be about 30,000 customers.

In the event of an emergency, he recommended people use their cell phones, contact a neighbour or if necessary, go to another location to seek help.

Another problem was in notifying the public of developments in the incident; Berrell noted that an emergency alert had been issued on local television stations but Shaw customers wouldn’t be receiving those signals.

He said his department has been sending out tweets and regularly notifying the media.

As for the impact on Alberta Health Services, he stressed that patient care was not being compromised “because there are paper records for all the patients that are in the hospitals. It does impact their data management system that they record the records in.”

He said declaring an emergency allows the city to call in the police, emergency crews, Enmax officials and “anybody that can help us with the issues.”

“We’re trying to get our head around what the actual magnitude of the outage is, and what the impacts are to Calgarians,” he said, adding the cause of the explosion is not yet known.

Shortly after the blast, employees were evacuated from the building due to thick smoke.

Fire department spokesman Jayson Doyscher said no one was injured. The building also houses three radio stations — CHQR, Country 105 and Q107.

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Transport Canada has given the Canadian Centre for Unmanned Vehicle Systems permission to apply for restricted airspace around Foremost to fly small planes, helicopters and possibly blimps from an airfield outside the village.

Bill Werny, a spokesman for the federally licensed non-profit company, believes cordoning off part of the sky for testing commercial drones would be a first in Canada. The plan is to attract corporations willing to pay to train operators and safely test-fly machines that could be as small as a laptop computer or as large as an ultralight.

“This will ultimately lead to the commercialization of unmanned vehicles in Canada,” said Werny, a retired Canadian Air Force colonel.

Unmanned aerial vehicles are increasingly being used by countries around the world for surveillance patrols and in some cases as weapons.

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A cut that will haunt us There are budget cuts you see right away, and there are others that you only feel later on. And while we’ve heard plenty about the cuts to the federal civil service, there hasn’t been the same focus on some of the other budget measures — measures that may come back to haunt provinces like this one that are trying hard to build tourism potential to replace other industries, especially in rural parts of the province.

It’s hard not to be familiar with this province’s tourism advertising. It pops up in television ads, on Air Canada flights, in full-page ads in the Globe and Mail and, as the provincial government loves to point out, fairly regularly at the top of the podium at advertising awards shows.

But those ads, designed to pull in Canadian visitors, are only part of the tourism marketing effort. The federal

OTHERVOICES government markets the country as an international tourism destination through the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) — and we used to be popular. In fact, we used to be ranked as the seventh most popular international destination.

But as money to the CTC shrank, so has our popularity — we’ve slid to 18th.

In 2001, there were more than 20 million international visitors. Last year, the number was just 16 million.

You can probably expect that number to get even smaller - the CTC took a massive hit in the last round of federal budget cuts, seeing its funding fall by $14 million — down to $58 million from $72 million.

You might argue that tourism marketing is a nice, safe place to save mon-

ey. After all, it’s neither Canadian jobs nor services, because the bulk of marketing money is spent abroad.

But if you don’t spend marketing money — and most of the top 20 international destinations are actually spending more money, not less — tourists don’t even know you exist.

A recent Ottawa Citizen article on the CTC points out that, after the next round of cuts is fully implemented, Mexico will be spending more on international marketing than Canada.

So, too, will South Africa, New Zealand and Switzerland. (Australia, in comparison, will spend two and a half times as much as Canada on tourism marketing next year, and the U.S. will spend almost $20 million in Canada alone.)

And, the article points out, Canada already has disincentives to travel, like high airport taxes and fees, along with

visa requirements for tourists from emerging nations.

The end result? Canadians spend more than $16 billion more travelling internationally than international tourists spend here. It’s money going right out of the economy.

The Tourism Industry Association of Canada puts the cuts to marketing this way: if we were still in the top 10 international destinations, we’d see an additional $5.2 billion in spending in Canada. If we were still in seventh place, both levels of government would share an additional $1.5 billion in taxes.

There’s an ounce of prevention and a pound of cure. There’s pennywise and there’s pound foolish.

And there’s robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Get the point? Apparently, the federal government doesn’t.

The race is on but nobody’s entered CANDIDATES FOR LIBERAL LEADERSHIP CAMP ON THE SIDELINES EXCEPT — MAYBE — JUSTIN TRUDEAU To run or not to run: while Justin Trudeau mulls his career options, other Liberal leadership contenders are quietly putting their own plans on ice.

Martin Cauchon is a case in point.

A month ago, his entry in leadership race was widely seen as a foregone conclusion. But if Trudeau does bid for the job, the former justice minister will almost certainly watch the campaign from the sidelines.

Moreover, Cauchon expects to have a lot of company.

In a recent conversation, he suggested that if Trudeau ran, most of the would-be aspirants who currently make CHANTAL up the top tier of the unofHÉBERT ficial leadership list could end up taking a pass on the campaign.

Among the first to do so would be those who, like him, failed to win a seat in the last election.

Cauchon notes that under any scenario, it would be difficult for anyone who has to earn a living outside Parliament to sustain a campaign as long as this one. To do so as a long-shot candidate would be next to impossible.

As the experience of recent Liberal and NDP leadership candidates demonstrates, raising the funds to finance even a minimalist campaign has become a significant challenge under the more restrictive rules that have come into effect over the past decade.

Cauchon would have preferred to see the leadership vote advanced to the fall for that reason and also to limit the period over which Thomas Mulcair has free rein to take advantage of an empty Liberal net.

That battle was lost last month when the party executive announced that the next leader would not be chosen until next April.

Trudeau’s simultaneous announcement that he was reconsidering his initial decision to stay out of the ring has - for all intents and purposes - put the race on hold until his intentions are clear.

Notwithstanding their elected status, Trudeau’s fellow MPs cannot hope to contend against him on anything approaching a level playing field.

At almost 140,000 subscribers, Trudeau’s Twitter following alone is larger than the post-leadership membership of the federal NDP. Not all of them are fans, of course, but Trudeau’s

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base remains many times larger than that of any other prospective contender. That translates into a formidable fundraising edge; one that is reinforced by favourable polling data.

It is not necessary to subscribe to the narrative of a near-miraculous Liberal recovery under Trudeau to find that none of the other would-be candidates generates a fraction of the popular interest that he attracts. For many attention-deprived Liberals, he offers an irresistible combination of leadership assets.

Even if the party’s elite was wary of succumbing to the untested charms of a Trudeau bid, under new rules that allow non-members to vote for the next leader, the preferences of the Liberal establishment will not count for much in the final outcome.

In any event, there is so far no sign of the kind of resistance movement that saw part of the NDP brass throw itself under the wheels of Mulcair’s leadership train last spring.

Asked whether he had picked a horse to back in the upcoming leadership race, a senior Liberal organizer’s recent tongue-in-cheek’s response was to ask

whether there was more than one to choose from.

Meanwhile, for a politician who has yet to come to a decision, Trudeau is very much acting like someone who is running for something.

Since Parliament adjourned for the summer, he has been a constant presence on the barbecue circuit. Over the weekend, he was one of only a handful of Liberals to attend the Calgary Stampede.

After the last election, the Liberals promised to open up their leadership process.

The party worked hard to ensure that Bob Rae would not seamlessly transit from interim to permanent leader, It opted to use up almost half of this Parliament’s natural life to look for a suitable leader.

It decided to open the leadership vote to all comers.

At this juncture, the irony is that every one of those moves stands to help turn the campaign into a walk in the park for Justin Trudeau.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer for the Toronto Star.

yet she had the right of way. ● Speeding in playgrounds and school zones — it’s open season on that. Then drivers are irritated as I slow down. Logical? ● Jaywalking puts me at risk as a driver yet there are no consequences for that. But if I am speeding on 67th Street, I am ticketed as I should be. Where is the bigger hazard? Stiffer fines and more points will get the message across. ● The justice system and especially judges need a massive dose of common sense. For example, two little boys were drowned in bath tub. It was premeditated, which the Crown proved. Yet the mom gets six months. Two hundred miles down the road, a mom gets 13 years for suffocating her baby and attempted murder on the other. This act was clearly insane, likely due to recent widowhood and postpartum depression — her journals indicated that. Explain this to me. Carla Homolka lives in the Caribbean and has three children. ● To AHS for trucking meals from all over the U.S. as well to feed our seniors. Shameful. As a nurse, I cringe when I offer it up. Phoning families to bring food in. The patient cringes as well as they look at the stuff — it’s green, white and brown, in foil dish and not even on a plate. Where is the nutrition

there? The push is to eat clean. Imagine the preservatives in that kind of food. I challenge Redford, Jablonski, Horne and all to them to eat it for a week. ● Our federal government needs a big dose for its global stance on the tarsands. Do a fact-finding mission and see the massive pollution in the Middle East and Europe with garbage and cigarette butts all over. I especially noticed it in Marseille and Toulon — plastic bottles and garbage in the Mediterranean and in Naples there was tons of garbage beneath the freeway overpass. It only makes sense when your backyard is clean to then go out and try to clean up somewhere else. Yet the world hammers away at us. ● Firing a teacher for giving a zero — try it as an adult. Don’t show up for work or try it at college or university; don’t do your homework and see what happens. I say fire the school board. We vote them in.

Some things defy logic and are contrary to common sense. I could go on for days writing about this.

I am looking for a way to invent this stuff; maybe some kind of chemical I can inject. We need to be able to provide logical explanations for ourselves.

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B.C. premier takes aim at Enbridge over spill

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KAMLOOPS, B.C. — If Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) plans to operate its planned pipeline in British Columbia the way it did in Michigan, where millions of litres of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River, the company can “forget it,� B.C. Premier Christy Clark said Wednesday.

The premier’s statements are her strongest yet in connection with the Northern Gateway project, but she is still refusing to take a position on the proposed 1,170-kilometre pipeline between Alberta’s oil sands and the B.C. coast.

The province has said it plans to remain neutral on the pipeline proposal until the ongoing environmental process is complete, and Clark’s comments on Wednesday did not represent a significant shift from what she and her Liberal government have already said.

Still, Clark had strong words for the Calgary-based energy company when asked about a report by U.S. investigators that concluded Enbridge handled a July 2010 oil spill in southwestern Michigan like the “Keystone Kops.�

Clark called the company’s actions “disgraceful.� “I think the company should be deeply embarrassed about what unfolded — we saw that in the report,� Clark told reporters in Kamloops, B.C. “If they think they’re going to operate like that in British Columbia, forget it.�

The head of the U.S. National Transportation Safe Board was highly critical of Enbridge’s response to the spill, allowing oil to gush into the area for 17 hours before it was stopped. Enbridge is still cleaning up the heavy crude.

Clark said she has safety concerns about the proposed B.C.-Alberta pipeline, and she said the company must alleviate those concerns if it wants to do business in the province.

She said her government is watching the review process currently underway at Canada’s National Energy Board. “We have intervener status, we will be engaged in it very directly as they go through their NEB process here,� she said. “But I think Enbridge has some pretty important questions to answer, because the results of that report are absolutely unacceptable.�

Enbridge spokesman Todd Nogier said the company is committed to learning from the Michigan spill to ensure something similar never happens again.

Nogier said the company has made numerous changes to its procedures and training. “I think the report underlines the importance of continuing the dialogue with all British Columbians, to hear their concerns with respect to the Gateway project, but also to have conversations around our plans around safety and environmental protections,�

Nogier said in an interview. “We would also like to continue the dialogue

around what benefits would flow to the community.

So it needs to be a full conversation with British Columbians.�

The American safety board said Enbridge failed to deal adequately with structural problems detected on the pipeline years before the rupture and then failed to respond appropriately to the catastrophe.

The board’s report said Enbridge didn’t realize the oil was pouring into the Michigan river until a worker from another company called in the alert, and during the time Enbridge control centre personnel twice pumped more oil into the ruptured line.

After the report was released Tuesday, Patrick Daniel, Enbridge’s CEO, said the company believed that the experienced personnel involved in the decisions made at the time of the release were trying to do the right thing.

Calgary is Canada’s ‘greatest city’: PM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Whether they’re being ranked on happiness, affordability, waste management or congested roads, Canada’s biggest cities often make the top 10 in a variety of international surveys.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has now weighed in with a ranking of his own, calling Calgary Canada’s “greatest city.�

Harper made the impromptu remarks while paying tribute to the founders of the Calgary Stampede on Friday. “I think if the founders could be here today and see the great city, see what has built up around this event, they would be amazed ... to see that their Stampede has been part of giving birth to the greatest city and the greatest country in the world,� Harper said just before the Stampede parade began.

Harper’s remarks now seem to have captured the attention of some Canadians, and some media outlets as well. “Harper’s ’Calgary is No. 1’ comment stirs the pot� read a CBC headline Wednesday. “Calgary is indeed the greatest city, thank you very much,� was the headline of a Calgary Herald opinion piece.

Many readers have disagreed with the prime minister’s comment. “I was born in Calgary and lived there as an adult for a while too,� read a comment posted by a reader on the CBC website. “I’ve also lived in Victoria and Edmonton. I like both the other cities better,� he wrote. “I have been in a lot of cities in Canada� wrote an-

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other. “I think our oldest, friendliest, most spectacular and welcoming city is St. John’s Newfoundland.�

A quick glance of recent polls shows Calgary did make the top 10 list of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s most livable cities index in 2011, coming in at number five, just behind Toronto and Vancouver.

Vancouver reigned for almost a decade on the coveted EIU livability index as the top city in the world to live in, but was bumped in a controversial decision to number three last year.

And Montreal took the fourth overall spot in the transport category with its public transit system deemed one of the best in the index, in addition to having the second highest share of non-automobile commuters at 29 per cent.

Surprisingly, Vancouver was also named both the country’s greenest city in 2011 on the EIU’s U.S. and Canada Green City Index and the most congested with traffic in a recent survey by a European globalpositioning-system company.

Toronto also made the Green City Index, earning a fourth-place ranking overall in the waste category, which the report said was driven by its 44 per cent recycling rate.

Ottawa took the top spot in Money Sense magazine’s list of the top 10 cities to live in Canada this month, while Calgary made it to number 14 and Toronto 47 out of 50 Canadian cities. Regina took number five in the same survey.

Meanwhile, Robert Reid, an editor with the popular travel guide Lonely Planet, declared Saskatoon the most “tunefully suggestive city�’ in the world in January, which prompted him to write a song with the lyrics “it’s got seven bridges, it’s got river trails, and it’s the place from which Joni Mitchell hails.�

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Climber from Quebec killed on Colorado mountain DURANGO, Colo. — The body of a Canadian climber has been recovered from a southwest Colorado mountain after he fell to his death in a rain and hail storm.

The La Plata County Sheriff’s Department says a helicopter retrieved the body of 45-year-old Martin Pigeon of Acton-Vale, Que., on Tuesday.

Authorities say Pigeon fell about 70 metres on the 4,300-metre Windom Peak on Sunday.

He and his climbing partner, Yves Marcoux, also from Quebec, were descending the mountain but had become separated in the storm at about 4 p.m.

When Marcoux reached their camp, Pigeon was not there, and Marcoux found Pigeon’s body at the base of a cliff at about 8:30 p.m.

Other climbers had contacted authorities by a satellite texting device. Bad weather prevented the recovery of Pigeon’s body until Tuesday morning.

PQ Leader Pauline Marois blasts Charest over idea of Sept. 4 vote TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. — Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois is blasting Jean Charest after a published report that he wants to plunge Quebec into an election campaign within weeks.

Montreal La Presse said Wednesday the premier is leaning toward calling an election that would be held Sept. 4.

That date holds a special significance for Charest — it is the 28th anniversary of his first election as an MP when Brian Mulroney’s Conservative team stormed to power in 1984.

The scenario would involve Charest announcing the vote on Aug. 1 — a date that has already been set aside for the next cabinet meeting.

Marois told a news conference it would be “cynical� for the premier to launch a campaign smack in the middle of summer. “This would deeply disappoint me,� Marois said. “We know that half of Quebec is on vacation and isn’t necessarily inclined to listen to what political parties have to say.�

Charest was last elected in 2008 and has until December 2013 to call the vote.

Prison population not increasing despite tough-on-crime laws: Toews WINNIPEG — Canada’s prison population has not exploded, contrary to opposition critics’ dire predictions about the government’s anti-crime laws, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Wednesday.

The number of inmates in federal prisons as of June 30 stood at 14,965, Toews said, almost 3,000 below the level predicted for this year in 2009 by the Corrections Service of Canada and far below what the opposition in Parliament has been warning.

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OTTAWA — The federal government has slammed the breaks on a multimillion-dollar program to replace the military’s aging trucks.

Companies had until 2 p.m. ET today to bid on a contract for new medium-sized logistics trucks for the Canadian Forces.

The trucks would have replaced the current fleet, dating from the 1980s and reaching the end of its service life.

But Public Works emailed bidders three minutes before the deadline to let them know the contract has been cancelled.

The department says “economic, marketplace and budgetary circumstances have changed� since the former Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor first announced the program in 2006.

Public Works told bidders the government needs to reassess the program “to ensure that the right equipment is acquired for the army at the best value for Canada� before going ahead with any purchase.

The Defence Department referred questions to Public Works, which was not immediately available to comment.

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“The influx of new inmates has simply not materialized,� Toews said in Winnipeg. “Contrary to predictions by our critics and the opposition, we have not seen the so-called substantive increase in offenders swamping the correctional system and creating untold new costs.�

The Conservative government has faced accusations that its tough-on-crime agenda, which includes more mandatory minimum sentences and longer sentences for some offences, will cause a boom in the inmate population that would require new prisons to be built.

Instead, the government is shutting down two older prisons — Kingston Penitentiary in Ontario and the Leclerc prison north of Montreal — and scrapping any plans to build new facilities.

That means the government will save $1.5 billion over the next seven years by foregoing capital spending requested by the department, Toews said.

The NDP dismissed Toews’ comments as premature. They pointed out many of the anti-crime measures were only approved by Parliament this spring.

Some provincial governments are also concerned.

Ontario and Quebec, among others, have said the number of inmates in jails, which are provincially run, could increase and drive up costs.

While the federal prison population this year is lower than expected, officials point out the number of people behind bars is still growing.

Howard Sapers, who fields complaints from federal inmates as his job as Canada’s correctional investigator, has said some 1,000 extra inmates have been added to the system in recent years.

The government has already promised to add 2,700 new beds to existing facilities to ease overcrowding.

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Assad talking transition: Annan

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — Syrian President Bashar Assad has discussed the possibility of forming a transitional government for his country as proposed by an international conference in Geneva last month, envoy Kofi Annan said Wednesday.

Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, said that during his discussions with Assad in Damascus this week the Syrian leader proposed someone who could serve as an interlocutor for the regime as it explores ways of forming a transitional government with the opposition.

Activists estimate that 17,000 people have been killed in the Assad regime’s crackdown on a popular uprising that began that began in March 2011. As the conflict has dragged on, the increasingly armed rebellion appears to be getting more radicalized and violent, complicating the goal of a peaceful resolution or transfer of power.

Annan spoke to reporters in Geneva after a private videoconference session with the UN Security Council in New York. The envoy did not identify the person whose name Assad put forward, but said: “He did offer a name and I indicated that I wanted to know a bit more about that individual. So we are at that stage.”

Annan urged the 15-nation council, the most powerful arm of the United Nations, to send a message to the Syrian government and the opposition that there will be “consequences” if they don’t comply with demands for an immediate cease-fire, Britain’s UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said.

Russia and China, key allies of Assad and vetowielding council members, have blocked repeated attempts by the United States and its European allies to even threaten “consequences” — a diplomatic code word for sanctions.

Annan was appointed the special envoy to Syria in February, and in March he submitted a six-point peace plan that he said the Assad regime accepted.

It led to an April 12 cease-fire agreement, which has failed to hold.

The UN sent a 300-strong unarmed observer mission to Syria for 90 days to oversee the cessation of violence and monitor implementation of the Annan plan. The team was forced to withdraw from key conflict areas because of escalating fighting and the council must decide what to do about extending its mandate, which expires on July 20.

At a conference in Geneva on June 30, Russia insisted that any political transition must have the “mutual consent” of both Assad’s government and the opposition, essentially handing a veto on the peacemaking process to both sides.

On the eve of Annan’s briefing, Russia circulated a draft resolution to Security Council members that would extend the UN observer force mission in Syria but refocus its activities on trying to achieve a political solution to the conflict.

Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and the United States have also been drafting possible texts for a new resolution but were waiting to hear what Annan had to say.

Annan briefed the council on his talks with Assad in Damascus and his visits to Iran and Iraq. He told reporters in Tehran and Baghdad on Tuesday that Assad agreed to a plan to contain the bloodshed in the most violent areas of Syria step-by-step and then expand the operation to the whole country.

Annan said Wednesday, however, that these steps would be incorporated into the broader six-point plan that he has insisted on all along.

“Within that framework the discussion we had was to take action at those locations where one has such horrific violence that you can’t get in humanitarian assistance, people who are trapped couldn’t get out, and work out cease-fire arrangements at these localities with possibly the help of UNSMIS,” Annan said, using the acronym for the UN truce mission.

“This does not free anybody from the broader obligation of the cease-fire as indicated in the plan,” he said.

Thousands attend massacre victims’ burial in Bosnia

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SREBRENICA — The pain that erupted 17 years ago in Srebrenica ripped open again Wednesday as tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims came to bury their dead in the town whose name is now synonymous with genocide.

In a ceremony broadcast live on television across the country, 520 coffins were placed in the ground as tears flowed like water from family and friends.

On the anniversary of Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War, 30,000 Muslims travelled to a memorial centre in Srebrenica to honour the thousands of Muslim men and boys slaughtered in July 1995 by Serb forces.

Izabela Hasanovic, 27, sobbed over one of the coffins before it was lowered into a freshly dug pit.

“My father, my father is here,” she sobbed. “I cannot believe that my father is in this coffin. I cannot accept it!”

Another woman dropped on her knees next to a coffin, pressing her lips against the green cloth covering the wood.

“It’s your sister kissing you. It’s me,” she whispered, caressing the coffin with both hands until others lowered it.

Then the valley echoed with the sound of dirt landing on the coffins from thousands of shovels, as a voice read out the names of the victims and their ages from loudspeakers.

Among them were 48 teenagers as well as 94-yearold Saha Izmirlic, who was buried next to her son who also died in the massacre. On the other side of her grave, an empty space is waiting for her grandson who has not yet been found.

Srebrenica was a UN-protected Muslim town in Bosnia besieged by Serb forces throughout Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. Serb troops led by Gen. Ratko Mladic overran the enclave in July 1995, separated men

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Imam who was public face of NYC cultural centre says life threatened NEW YORK — One of the leaders of the effort to build an Islamic community centre near the World Trade Center says someone threatened to kill him during the furor over the project.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf made the comment Wednesday at an annual pre-Ramadan conference held by the New York Police Department.

Rauf said he had to change homes, and praised the department’s help.

He said that despite criticism over NYPD surveillance of Muslims, he believes the department is doing a good job.

Rauf helped come up with the idea for the centre. He served as its public face, promoting it amid fierce controversy over its location.

He now has a reduced role in the project. He says it is still moving forward but nothing has yet been built.

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A woman cries next to the coffin of her relative at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica, some 160 kilometers east of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wednesday. Thousands gathered at the complex for the mass burial of 520 bodies, marking the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. from women and executed 8,372 men and boys within days. Dutch troops stationed in Srebrenica as UN peacekeepers were undermanned and outgunned and failed to stop the slaughter.

The bodies of the victims are still being found in mass graves throughout eastern Bosnia. The task has been made even more difficult by the fact that the perpetrators dug up mass graves and reburied remains in other areas to try to cover their tracks. The victims have been identified through DNA analysis and newly identified ones are buried at the Srebrenica memorial centre every year.

So far 5,325 Srebrenica massacre victims found this way have been laid to rest.

In Washington, President Barack Obama issued a statement honouring the memory of the “8,000 innocent men and boys” massacred in Srebrenica.

“The name Srebrenica will forever be associated

with some of the darkest acts of the 20th century,” Obama said, adding that the U.S. “rejects efforts to distort the scope of this atrocity, rationalize the motivations behind it, blame the victims, and deny the indisputable fact that it was genocide.”

In London, Prime Minister David Cameron said Srebrenica should never be forgotten or denied and called on the world to “prevent such atrocities from taking place.”

Mladic was arrested last year in Serbia and is on trial now at the tribunal in The Hague. He faces 11 charges, including genocide, for allegedly masterminding Serb atrocities throughout the war that left 100,000 dead, especially the Srebrenica massacre.

He denies wrongdoing.

Many Serbs still deny the Srebrenica genocide, including Serbia’s newly inaugurated president, Tomislav Nikolic.

of the band prior to Robert Champion’s death.

Champion died after fellow band members beat him during a hazing ritual aboard a bus parked outside a hotel following a football game in November against the school’s archrival.

Eleven band members face felony hazing charges and have pleaded not guilty. Their trial is scheduled to begin the same month as Ammons’ resignation, in October.

Champion’s death led to the suspension of the band until at least next year.

The lawsuit brought by Champion’s parents claims Florida A&M University officials did not take action to stop hazing even though a school dean proposed suspending the band because of hazing concerns three days before their son died.

could shut down the state’s only abortion clinic.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can’t place undue burdens or substantial obstacles to women seeking abortion.

U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III decided Wednesday to continue a temporary restraining order, but he did not say until when.

Judge still blocks Mississippi antiabortion law JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge is continuing to block a new anti-abortion law in Mississippi that

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The president of Florida A&M University resigned Wednesday, the same day the school was sued by parents of a drum major who died during hazing. It was unclear if the two events were related.

The school’s trustees had given James Ammons a vote of no confidence in June after questioning his management

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Penn State’s reputation, future hang on report TRUSTEES EXPECT PATERNO AUTHORITY TO BE PART OF FREEH REPORT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The team brought in by Penn State to investigate how the university handled molestation accusations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will release its highly anticipated report Thursday, with the school’s reputation and future direction hanging in the balance.

The university trustees who paid for the probe, led by former FBI director and federal judge Louis Freeh, will pore through it Thursday to see what it says about university employees, recommendations for policy changes and even their own knowledge about rumours Sandusky had abused children on campus.

Penn State alumni, college football fans and the family of Sandusky’s former boss Joe Paterno will look to see if it sheds new light on Paterno’s actions, particularly after a graduate assistant complained to him in 2001 about Sandusky showering in a team

locker room with a boy.

School administrators Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, awaiting trial on charges they lied to the Sandusky grand jury and didn’t properly report child abuse, will find out whether Freeh’s investigators uncovered anything that might help — or hurt — their criminal defence.

And former Penn State president Graham Spanier, who has not been charged with any crime, could discover whether emails or other records disclose more about his role.

Lawyers for the young men who testified against Sandusky, and others planning civil lawsuits, will be reading the report closely for what it might mean regarding litigation.

“I’m going to be looking for what we believe will be full and complete disclosure,” said Harrisburg lawyer Ben Andreozzi, who represents the young man described as Victim 4 in court records. “It’s going to be convenient for the university to release

certain information but to hold back on some of the details concerning potential information that could expose them to liability.”

Andreozzi said he also represents four other young men and is evaluating their potential civil claims related to the Sandusky scandal.

In announcing that the report will go online at 9 a.m. Thursday, Freeh took pains to say no one outside his team, including the trustees, will get copies beforehand. Investigators will hold a news conference that morning in Philadelphia. That day, trustees will start a two-day meeting in Scranton where they can respond to the report.

A spokesman for the trustees said Wednesday the board held an informational conference call Tuesday night, hours after Freeh announced the timing of the report’s release. David La Torre declined to discuss the call further when asked to confirm an ESPN report the trustees discussed how they would respond to the report.

Bureaucracy slows flow of NATO trucks across border ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Bureaucratic delays have held up shipments to troops in Afghanistan through Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, a week after Islamabad reopened U.S. and NATO supply lines.

So far, only a handful of supply trucks have crossed the border, which Pakistan closed to the convoys last November after American airstrikes accidentally killed 24 Pakistani border troops. Islamabad agreed to reopen the supply routes on July 3, after months of negotiations and a U.S. apology over the incident.

Two trucks carrying supplies to U.S. and NATO troops passed through the Chaman border crossing in the southern province of Baluchistan last Thursday. A Pakistani customs official said no other trucks

have crossed since then.

Four trucks from the port city of Karachi arrived at the border Wednesday and were expected to cross on Thursday, the official said. Chaman is one of two border crossings used to transport NATO supplies.

Trucks have yet to pass at Torkham, the second crossing, a regional official in northern Pakistan said. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.

Since the official resumption of the supply route, not a single fuel truck has left either of the two main ports in Karachi, said Israr Shinwari, president of the All Pakistan Tankers Association.

He blamed bureaucracy for the delay, saying that procedures and paperwork must be completed before goods and fuel can even be loaded on the trucks.

Goods shipments appeared likely to resume be-

PAKISTAN fore fuel supply, Shinwari said, and the tankers are expected to move in about a week.

Pakistan is a notoriously bureaucratic country where obtaining permits or processing paperwork can take a frustratingly long time.

Before the closure, 150 to 200 trucks carrying NATO supplies crossed the border daily.

Few expected shipments to reach those numbers immediately after Pakistan reopened the supply lines, and the delay did not appear to reflect a change of heart on the side of the Pakistani government. The trucks have been waiting in Karachi for months and need maintenance and proper customs clearance before any movement can take place, officials and drivers said.

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Julia Bluhm of Waterville, Maine, holds up a copy of Seventeen magazine as she leads a protest outside Hearst Corp. headquarters in New York in May. She says images of young girls in the magazine present an impossible ideal for today’s teens. Seventeen’s editorin-chief Ann Shoket responded to the campaign in the August issue with a letter acknowledging readers’ concerns and vowing never to alter girls’ bodies or faces, giving Bluhm more than she’d asked for. A sample photo of a fashion shoot for the magazine is pictured at right.

HIDDEN GEM Beautiful Ruins

By Jess Walter HarperCollins Every summer, the beach-read conundrum begins — whether to slog virtuously through Anna Karenina or Infinite Jest, or succumb to the kind of Fifty Shades of Tattooed Twilight genre pulp that practically shrieks: ‘Why, yes, I did buy this on layover at the airport!’ Bless the latest from Jess Walter (The Financial Lives of the Poets) for offering a near-perfect rendezvous between those distant poles — a novel whose decade- and continenthopping ingenuity expertly scratches the seasonal itch for both literary depth and dazzle. Beautiful Ruins opens less like a book than a Fellini-movie swoon: A gorgeous American starlet lands in a tiny village (really more of a rocky outcropping) on the Italian coast, circa 1962. What is she running from? And why is she sure that she’s dying? The answer, spooled out over nearly 350 pages, brings readers to modern-day Hollywood, with its harried assistants, silkpajamaed producers, and mercenary reality-show pitches; the grody punk squats of London and Edinburgh; the rural outreaches of Idaho; and beyond. That Walter is able to juggle his sprawling cast — including one legendary real-life movie star — and hopscotching timelines is an impressive novelistic trick. But it’s the beating heart in Ruins that makes it beautiful.

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Magazine vows it will only print the unvarnished truth about girls

BY LEANNE ITALIE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Score one for girl power.

A 14-year-old Maine ballet dancer who led a crusade against altered photos in Seventeen magazine now has a promise from top editor Ann Shoket to leave body shapes alone, reserving Photoshop for the stray hair, clothing wrinkle, errant bra strap or zit.

And when Shoket or her staff do manipulate images, she vowed in the August issue, they’ll post before and after shots on the magazine’s Tumblr page for full transparency.

Shoket’s promises are included in a “body peace treaty” that also commits the magazine to always feature healthy girls and models regardless of clothing size.

The young activist, Julia Bluhm, said Friday from her summer camp she’s “really excited.”

“I didn’t think it would get this big,” she said. “It’s a really great surprise for me.”

Julia and her mom, Mary Beiter, sat down with Shoket in New York in early May to discuss the thousands of signatures on the Waterville girl’s online petition at Change.org. Julia declared victory after Shoket’s announcement, ending with more than 84,000 signatures.

Now, two of her fellow bloggers from SPARK Summit, a group of girls and young women trying to end the sexualization of girls in the media, are targeting Teen Vogue to make the same commitment. They’ve collected more than 15,000 signatures since Tuesday.

Shoket did not identify Julia by name in her full-page declaration, which also denied the magazine ever changed the shapes of bodies and faces. She had no further comment Friday.

The editor did cite the support of the National Eating Disorders Association. The group’s president, Lynn Grefe, lauded the effort as a first step but said far more must be done to promote positive body image and a more attainable standard of health

and beauty in magazines and other media. research showing more than half of teen “I’m not saying it’s a total victory,” girls and nearly one-third of teen boys use Grefe said. “Seventeen, Teen Vogue, Vogue, unhealthy weight control behaviours, such Cosmo, every magazine still has ads for as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigadiet products and other things that we find rettes, vomiting and taking laxatives. problematic, but in terms of the PhotoshopGirls who diet frequently are 12 times ping stuff, I believe that Ann is sincere and as likely to binge as girls who don’t diet, wants to really educate the consumer and Grefe said, noting that most fashion models work with the girls and show them what has are thinner than 98 per cent of American been Photoshopped and how to recognize women. that.”

Izzy Labbe, a 13-yearJulia’s old from Waterville who mother also collaborated with Julia was pleased but on the Seventeen petition, agreed: “Cerwas thrilled at Shoket’s tainly there’s response but agreed she probably more could have gone further. that they could “The measures they’re do, but these taking are fabulous, don’t things probably get me wrong, but I feel like come in stages, they never admitted to doand something ing anything wrong,” Izzy is something. said.

Something is Audrey Brashich, a good. It opens former teen model and the door. That’s editor of the now-defunct always the bigteen magazine YM, said the gest hurdle.”

Seventeen pledge has far Julia had more potential for immediasked Sevenate, tangible changes in the teen to run at minds of girls than a vow least one unfrom Vogue editors around altered photo the world to ban models spread a month, under 16 or those of any age saying Sevenwith visible signs of eating teen and other disorders. magazines put Vogue didn’t address the This image released by Seventeen pressure on widespread industry pracmagazine shows the letter from the tice of digitally altering girls to emulate perfect-looking editor page from the August 2012 issue photos when it made the models without of the popular teen magazine vowing promise in May. realizing images Brashich, who in 2006 never to alter girls’ bodies or faces. have been docpublished a book called tored. ManipuAll Made Up: A Girl’s Guide lated images, to Seeing Through Celebrity Grefe said, contribute to eating disorders, Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty, said she depression and low self-esteem among girls hopes Seventeen lives up to its promise. as young as 8.

“And if the magazine doesn’t do all Grefe noted that 40 per cent of newly that,” she said, “I hope Julia Bluhm and identified cases of anorexia are in girls and her 84,000 supporters are right there to young women 15 to 19 years old. She cited point out its failures.”

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‘Holstein Pheasants’ ANNOYING, EGG-SUCKING, SONG-BIRD-KILLING MAGPIES BACK WITH VENGEANCE THIS YEAR; BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH THEM IS . . .

Long ago I learned that if you write anything — good or bad — about magpies or coyotes and that ilk, you’ll take flak either way; one man’s varmint is another woman’s puddy tat, to mention perhaps the worst varmint of them all, at least when it comes to songbirds and rose gardens.

Sometimes readers and events leave no option but to enter the fray yet again. This is a vintage year for magpies, apparently, all over the province. The usual complaints are the insufferable yakyakking (the Cree were onto something when they suffixed “kakakes” to their wonderful language’s every word naming the critter) and the egg-sucking, killing, and driving away of birds with songs that are worth listening to.

BOB The letter columns in the SCAMMELL Calgary Herald have been full for weeks with demands for a city magpie cull, then just as many decrying the very thought. Nobody even thinks about how a city-wide cull could possibly be carried Photos by BOB SCAMMELL out where most Calgary magpies live: in the perfect, private habitats Calgarians create for them in their Top left: Beau resting in the hot dog days between magpie hatches . . . and catches. own back yards; conifers to build nests in that are Top right: The friendly neighbourhood merlin that’s been AWOL since last fall. almost impossible to see, let alone tear down, free garbage and enriched dog food to eat.

The natural absurdities in the letters to the ediBeau just leaves the ones he jumps and crunches I attribute the high magpie population in my Red tor are stunning. My favourite is from the gent who where they crash.

Deer back yard to the fact that the friendly neighasserts that the magpie population peak is somehow No matter what we try, culls, bounties, even the bourhood merlin has been AWOL since last fall. I because of the scarcity of coyotes. Funny: all winter horrible “coyote-getter” poison campaigns we once know the little falcon cannot bring down a magpie, those same columns were full of letters demanding conducted, the one sure thing is that when the last but he does enjoy trying, chasing, stooping, and culls of the too-many coyotes in Calgary. The old living human passes on, it will be coyotes and magveering off at the last minute. That, and his constant saying is that this, or that “would give a coyote the pies that pick his earthly bones. killdeer-like call, seems to encourage magpies to heartburn.” My suspicion is the magpie may be the Bob Scammell is an award-winning outdoors writer evacuate and nest elsewhere. Of course, the songone thing on earth a coyote won’t eat. Certainly old living in Red Deer. birds also depart which a merlin can catch and kill, leaving us with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring without benefit of DDT. Red Deer readers email me with many practical questions about the legalities of doing their own magpie culling in their personal, perfect back yard magpie habitats. Suffice the answers are not as sleek, shiny and black and white as the detested Pica pica and their whining offspring.

Let me hasten to admit at the outset that, while I grudgingly admire the cruel cunning of magpies, I just don’t like them very much. Clearly magpies are legal “game” without licence, or limit under provincial legislation. I have exterminated hundreds of them, many by participating as a kid in the pheasant country programs that paid ten cents a pair for magpie feet and almost bankrupted the Alberta Fish and Game Association after the war. But these “Holstein Pheasants” compensated and thrived, merely by breeding bigger, better and oftener.

Some authorities direly note that the magpie is listed in a schedule to the federal “Migratory Bird Convention Act,” but nobody can tell me what that means, especially since the magpie, in fact, is not a migratory bird.

A gent I know very well quietly kept his yard’s magpie numbers under control with a superb aperture-sighted Sheridan Blue Streak pellet gun, but a nosy neighbour reported an “armed man” in his yard, and he got a visit from the SWAT squad and a reminder that the late Ald. Ethel Taylor’s “Anti-Projectile Bylaw” is in force in Red Deer.

Shucks; the gent errone™ ously thought it was just Ethel’s “Cat Belling Bylaw” that was passed.

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Country life tense for city slickers A lot of people choose the country life because they crave quiet.

They want to experience life far from screeching tires, honking horns and the neighbour’s lawnmower ripping to life at 7 am on a Sunday morning. And it’s true. Country life is pretty quiet but it isn’t without noise. It’s just a different kind of noise.

Our newest neighbours, whom I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet, have a donkey. While I can’t see their house from our place SHANNON and I have never seen the MCKINNON donkey, I can hear its heehawing. Just like it’s impossible to listen to the howl of a wolf without hairs standing up on the back of your neck, it is impossible to hear a donkey bray without breaking into a smile.

Some of our neighbours like to do a little target practicing, so every once in awhile the afternoon explodes with a battery of shots ringing out across the fields.

Others have cattle and their mooing takes me back to my childhood and the ranch I grew up on. On summer evenings there is the occasional wound-up moo of a cow with a full udder calling for her calf. That one doesn’t sound anything like the generic moos people are used to hearing from children’s books or cartoons. The cow sucks in her breath and wails

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forth with a series of high pitched screeching calls. If you hadn’t spent time around cattle you would never guess the noise had a bovine source. You would instead find the sound every bit as terrifying as a wolf howl. No wonder the calf comes running! Whenever I hear the mothers calling in their calves I find the sound comforting instead of alarming.

We make our own contribution to the neighbourhood noise, thanks to our roosters. There is a misconception that roosters only crow to greet the dawn, but unfortunately that isn’t true. Roosters do crow to greet the dawn, but they also crow at lunch time, they crow in the afternoon, they crow in the evening and if you get home late and have to close up and gather eggs with a flashlight in hand, they will crow at you then as well. With two of them on the place they hardly ever leave off egging each other on.

And then there is the wildlife; woodpeckers furiously stabbing at the bedroom wall at 4 a.m., coyotes howling on and off throughout the night, a robust evening chorus of frogs and the throaty shriek of a blue jay as the sun breaks over the eastern hills followed by a cacophony of assorted birdsong.

A few summers ago we had a couple staying with us who had never spent a night in the country before.

They arrived fresh from the city, waxing poetic about the chance to see stars and soak up the sounds of silence. When the coyotes started to howl they were so unsettled it took them hours to get to sleep. When the roosters awoke them at dawn they were charmed.

When they kept crowing they confessed to fantasizing about chicken soup. The woodpecker tapping outside their bedroom window followed by the arrival of the blue jay and then a bevy of songbirds,

sent them stumbling bleary eyed down the stairs in search of coffee.

In the afternoon they set off for a hike in the woods that back onto our house. I took advantage of the break in visiting to pull some weeds in the garden. In the distance I listened to a cow calling in her calf and then to the sounds of someone commencing target practice.

Humming happily to myself I pulled up a particularly fat dandelion that had managed to go for weeks unnoticed beneath the skirts of a cranesbill geranium.

The sun felt warm upon my back and the song of a nearby robin kept me company. I felt a rush of sympathy for our friends, stuck in the city with all that noise.

A few minutes later I heard an unfamiliar crashing sound. The couple exploded into the garden on the run.

Not only were they being shot at, they gasped, but some sort of horrific beast was on the prowl, shrieking its outrage as it pursued them through the woods.

When I explained that it was just the neighbours target practicing and a cow calling for its calf they looked skeptical and then exasperated.

“Peace and quiet my left eyeball! I don’t know how you country people get any rest. It’s all so noisy and stressful,” the wife burst out, while the husband vigorously nodded his agreement. “I can’t wait to get back to the city where we can relax.”

Shannon McKinnon is a humour columnist from Northern BC. You can catch up on past columns or check out her garden blog by visiting www.shannonmckinnon.com

Taking it to the limits Wild: From Lost to Found On the Pacific Crest Trail

By Cheryl Strayed Knopf Publishers This is a memoir of an PEGGY 1,100-mile solo trek on The Pacific Crest Trail, a jourFREEMAN ney that started on the Mojave Desert in California and ended In Washington State at the Bridge of the Gods.

I have to tell you straight off that the author of this book was a most unlikeable character at the beginning of her tale, and only slightly more tolerable by half-way. She did have her reasons for being a pill, but they do not become evident for some time; it was tempting to abandon the book.

She lost her 45-year-old mother to cancer when she was 22. Her family, one brother and one sister, grieving in their own ways, abandoned the idea of family. The loss of her mother and her family was devastating and sent her into a tailspin of bad decisions, divorcing the man she loved, using heroin and specializing in one night stands. She was grieving in a very self-destructive way, but somewhere in all that madness, she decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail.

There was no real preparation done for this difficult hike. She didn’t train, or do much investigation of conditions or needed supplies, other than to buy a book. When she had packed her backpack, its weight was more than half her own; the water container alone weighed 11 kilos.

She says, “As I hiked, I tried to force myself not to think about the things that hurt, my shoulders and upper back, my feet and hips . . .”

The hike on the spine of the Sierra Nevada, treated the author to 45C temperatures.

She is worn down by the terrible heat and in her mind she planned a trip to Alaska, to quit the PCT for good, but soon she meets fellow travellers, who are impressed with her guts.

They call her “Cheryl of the enormous backpack.”

She was obliged to by-pass areas with unseasonably high snow pack, but the journey proceeded, with more aches and pains and blackened toe nails, (which eventually dropped off.)

Running away from troubles has always been an iffy business, but there is no better place to think things through, apparently, than when you are all alone in a dark forest, chopping steps into an ice pack, or avoiding rattlesnakes on the trail.

The scenery, the survival, the characters that she meets on the trail are all well described and she is not a bit kind to herself, but she is gaining a bit of sense along the way.

The last chapter in her odyssey quotes Mary Oliver, the poet: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do . . .

With your one wild and precious life?”

She reads, she thinks, she aches, but she carries on and one day Cheryl Strayed finally has it figured out, and she’s not really a bad type at all, you know?

Peggy Freeman is a freelance writer living in Red Deer.

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What is the difference between a weed and a treasured plant?

Is it the cost or the plants origin? A weed has been described as a plant that is out of place. Using this definition means that all plants have the potential to be a weed.

Plants that spread slightly or produce a few seedlings are considered the norm.

Plants that produce a large number of viable seed or spread quickly through spreading rhizomes could easily be classed as a weed.

Quick-spreading plants have a LINDA place in the garden. They will TOMLINSON often thrive where nothing else will grow.

Even the prettiest garden plant is considered a weed once it escapes cultivation and becomes established in the wild. The Alberta Weed Control Act classifies problem weeds as prohibited noxious, or just noxious.

To make it into either classification the plants must be threatening to take over native ecosystems as well as agricultural lands. The variety of plants listed in the Alberta Weed Control Act is the same for all areas of Alberta. While this simplifies the act, plants on the list are not a problem in all areas.

Common babies breath that thrives in hot dry areas doesn’t always overwinter in heavier soils.

Prohibited noxious weeds are to be removed and disposed of as soon they are spotted. At present time these weeds are not wide spread and eradicating them is possible. There are 46 different weeds that are classified as prohibited noxious. Many of the plants are unknown to most gardeners in Central Alberta but a couple plants on the list are garden favourites.

A tall growing impatience plant that is known as Himalayan Impatience, Himalayan Balsam or snap

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plant grows fast and is colourful in the garden. Unfortunately the seed pods snap open when they become ripe and seeds explode in all directions. Vigilant gardeners can keep the plants under control with weeding but not all gardeners are vigilant. The plant thrives in moist areas.

Pale yellow iris also known as Yellow Flag Iris pseudacorus have made their way into the wild.

Given the correct conditions, the iris tubers expand rapidly taking over native wet lands.

Plants classified as noxious weeds are wide spread and well established. All areas will work at keeping these plants under control but some districts will work to remove these plants depending on how wide spread the infestation and how much economic damage it causes. Weeds that are on the list are often toxic to animals reducing the amount of pasture available.

On occasion domestic animals will eat the plants causing them to become sick or die.

The noxious weed list contains many plants that were once found in most farm gardens; dames rocket, common baby’s breath, common tansy, yellow clematis, scentless chamomile, oxeye daisy and creeping bellflower.

These plants added colour and civilization to the Prairie homesteads. Unfortunately they now add colour to large tracts of land crowding out native species and reducing the yield.

Pictures, plant and seed descriptions are available at Agricultural offices or on the internet. www. edmonton.ca/for_residents/Weed_Identification_ Book.pdf http://www.invasiveplants.ab.ca/index.html Weed inspectors are out looking for infestations of weeds but they can’t be everywhere. If you spot any of the plants on the prohibited noxious list report it immediately to the local agricultural office or the Department of Parks and Recreation. The more people that are on the look out for these plants the less chance they have of spreading.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist that lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at www.igardencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com

Health Canada advises cribs older than 10 years should not be used

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Health Canada is advising parents and caregivers that cribs more than 10 years old should not be used because they are more likely to have broken, worn, loose or missing parts, or to be missing warnings or instructions.

Health Canada previously instructed consumers not to use cribs manufactured before 1986, said spokeswoman Christelle Legault.

In 1986, Health Canada made significant changes to the Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Regula-

tions. Cribs made before 1986 are not safe and should not be used.

It is illegal to sell or give away cribs that do not meet the current safety regulations, Legault wrote in an email.

Health Canada has developed a series of publications aimed at educating parents, caregivers and the public regarding the safe use of consumer products intended for children.

The first booklet in the series is “Is Your Child Safe?” (http://www. hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pubs/cons/ child-enfant/safe-securite -eng. php), which focuses on safe sleep practices and other household dangers.

“Publications for ’Play Time’ and ’Bath Time’ are expected to be made available to Canadians in the coming months,” Legault said.

Health Canada says it has received reports of injuries and/or deaths related to the improper use of many products mentioned in the guide.

Health Canada advises parents and caregivers to check regularly for recalls of children’s toys, clothing, furniture and equipment by contacting the manufacturer or by visiting Health Canada’s Consumer Product Recalls web page: www.healthcanada.gc.ca/ cps-recalls.

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Thursday, July 12, 2012

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THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter will host a garage sale on July 13 and 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 55 St. and 47 Ave. All sizes for men, women, and children, house wear items and many toys are available.

Saturday Ellis Bird Farm Bluebird Festival will be on July 14 starting at 11 a.m. with a $5 luncheon hosted by the Lakeside Social Workers, featuring elk on a bun and other local products and produce. Jazz Explosion will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Cake cutting and the Blue Feather Award presentation will take place at 1 p.m. and door prize draws will be held at 4 p.m. There will be children’s activities, bird and bumblebee box building, MEGlobal Plant tours, a heritage chicken display, neighbour’s market, giftshop sale and Tea House special. For more information go to www.ellisbirdfarm.ca or call 403-885-4477.

Red Deer Public Library offers family drop-in storytime at the downtown branch at 11 a.m. and a “crafternoon of imagination” at the Dawe Branch from 1 to 2 p.m. For more information call 403-346-7470 or 403341-3822.

MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The July 14 session is called Mod Podge Collage with artist Carlen La Rue. All materials supplied.

Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405.

Free with admission.

Central Alberta Singles dance will be held July 14 at Penhold Hall. Music by Bob and Julie. Doors open at 8 p.m. Music starts at 8:30 p.m. Members and invited guests only; new members welcome. For information, call Elaine at 403-341-7653 or Bob at 403-304-7440.

Stettler Senior Drop-In Centre events include: Court whist on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; pool at noon Monday to Saturday; cards on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.; floor curling Thursdays at 1:30 p.m.; 500 card games every second and fourth Thursday of each month. To find out more, phone 403742-6556, or contact Fern at 403-742-3094.

Nature Savvy Saturdays at Kerry Wood Nature Centre are offered from 1 to 4 p.m. each week. Enjoy a nature-themed craft or activity. All ages invited to drop in and for a seasonal nature-inspired craft or activity.

Phone 403-346-2010.

Bower Place Shopping Centre Westerner Days Kick-Off Pancake Breakfast takes place on July 14 from 8 to 11 a.m. Join the mall’s Fare Fight For Food promotion in support of Red Deer Food Bank with food and money donations.

9’s By the River restaurant first anniversary block party celebration will be held on July 14 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 5012 58 St. All proceeds to Red Deer Food Bank Society, and Child Find Alberta. Enjoy live music by Slack Water Fever, Toxic City, Death Alley Driver, and Wes and The J’s, take in the bike and car show ‘n’ shine, and more.

Barbecue burgers and hot dogs available all day. Phone 403-986-8672.

Sunday Aebleskiver ‘N Jam Day will be offered at the Danish Canadian National Museum and Gardens in Dickson, on July 15 from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Muscians welcome to join in the jam.

Discovery Sundays are offered at Kerry Wood Nature Centre from 1 to 4 p.m. to learn something new about the natural world around us. Drop in, or phone 403346-2010 to find out more.

Monday Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre card games are played on the followCronquist House is open for afternoon teas and light lunches, Tuesdays to Fridays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Reservations preferred but not always necessary. Lunch is $15 and dessert and tea is $10. Cash only.

Phone 403-346-0055 for reservations.

Central Alberta Singles dance will be held July 28 at Penhold Hall. Music by Randy Hillman. Doors open at 8 p.m. Music starts at 8:30 p.m. Members and invited guests only; new members welcome. For information, call Elaine at 403-341-7653 or Bob at 403-3047440.

Whisker Rescue Fundraising Garage Sale is accepting donations starting July 2, every Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Armouries, north door entrance, 4402, 55th Street. Donation items exclude clothing, large furniture or electronics. Bottle donations are also accepted. Sale dates are July 27 to 29. For more information contact Diane at 403-347-1251.

The Golden Circle is having a day bus trip to Holmehus Antiques, Sylvan Star Cheese Farm and Pik-N-Pak Lacombe on July 24. The cost is $45 for members or $70 for non-members. Ticket price includes coach transportation and lunch in Lacombe and are available at the front desk of the Golden Circle. For more information call Diane at 403-343-6074.

Turn Your Empties into Community Support, a project sponsored by Cosmos Group of Companies, involves large donation bins placed around Red Deer and surrounding area to collect refundable beverage containers. All of the proceeds will be directed back into non-profit organizations in the community. If you are aware of a location that would be suitable to house a donation bin, call

ing days: Canasta — Mondays at 1 p.m., Singles Bridge — Wednesdays year round at 1 p.m., $2; Partner Bridge — second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m., $3. For more information on cards please call Diane at 403-343-6074.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly (T.O.P.S.) is a non-profit weight loss support organization which holds regular weekly meetings in Red Deer and Blackfalds. Learn about nutrition, portion control, food planning, exercise and more. Visit a meeting free of charge.

For locations and information call Gail at 403-340-1859 or toll free at 1-800-932-8677 or see www.tops.org. Meetings are held on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays in the evenings, and on Tuesday mornings.

Innisfail Library Learning Centre hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 8 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Phone 403-227-4407.

Tuesday Central Alberta Stroke Survivor’s Walk and Stroll Fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation will be on July 17 starting at noon at McKenzie Trails. Following a one kilometre walk, participants may enjoy a barbecue at the shelter. To find out more, contact Bryan at 403-887-4399, or 403-8480574.

Red Deer Legion Branch #35 offers karaoke at Molly B’s Pub on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m., and wing night on Thursdays from 5 to 10 p.m. Phone 403-3420035.

Lacombe and District Garden Club meets the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Lacombe Memorial Centre.

Phone Pamela at 403-782-5061 or email pamela.d.neumann@gmail.com.

Westerner Days Pancake breakfast sponsored by Mooney Insurance on July 17, from 7 to 9:30 a.m. in their parking lot located at 4910 45 St. in support of Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre.

Wednesday Westerner Days Fair and Exposition will be celebrated July 18 to 22.

Red Deer Public Library children’s summer reading programs cancelled at downtown branch due to Westerner Parade. Program at Dawe Branch will be held at 1:30 for children ages nine to 11 years.

Pancake Breakfast celebrating Westerner Days will be offered on July 18 from 7 to 9:30 a.m. at Eventide Funeral Chapel in support of Ronald McDonald House of Central Alberta. The menu features pancakes, juice, coffee. Complimentary parking, first come, first served. Enter to win an iPad2.

Phone 403-347-2222.

Westerner Days Pancake breakfast sponsored by Regional Mortgage Corporation on July 18, from 7 to 10 a.m. in their parking lot located at 102, 5229 50 Ave. in support of Build a Kid to Cure/Golf a Kid to Cure.

Westerner Days Fair and Exposition Parade takes place in downtown Red Deer starting at 9:30 a.m.

Westerner Days Pancake breakfasts sponsored by London Drugs will be held Wednesday to Saturday July 18 to 21, from 8 to 11 a.m., and Sunday, July 22 from 9 a.m. to noon in their parking lot for the following charities: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Red Deer Food Bank, Kerry Wood Nature Centre, Red Deer Search and Rescue, Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter.

Free Westerner Days Barbecue at Living Stones Church will be offered on July 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Phone 403-3477311.

Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre Westerner Days Barbecue will be offered from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 18. Phone 403-343-6074.

Red Deer Legion Old Time Dance with Randy Hillman is on July 18 from 1 to 3 p.m.

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Tea house co-ordinator Shelly Van Grinsven readies borscht for serving to customers at the Cronquist House. The house at Bower Ponds, operated by the Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society, offers light lunches from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily for $15 and tea and dessert from 2 to 4 p.m. for $10. Cash only is taken in payment and information and reservations are available by calling 403-346-0055. and from 7 to 10 p.m. Cost for evening is $6, or $11.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035.

Sylvan Lake to welcome Colin Fraser of Los Angeles Kings and Stanley Cup from noon to 2 p.m. on Main St. on July 18.

Colin and the cup will arrive via boat and local RCMP escort, and parade down the Pier to the stage and set up on Main St. which will be closed to accommodate street vendors, residents and visitors to help celebrate the former Red Deer Rebel captain’s NHL victory. To find out more, phone 403-887-1185 ext. 240, or see www.sylvanlake.ca, or email jgaudet@sylvanlakeca.

Penhold and District Library Summer Reading Program each Wednesday until Aug. 22 from 10:30 a.m. to noon for children ages four to six years, and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. for children ages seven to 12 years of age. See www.townofpenhold.ca

Thursday Bard on the Bower is offering the public an opportunity to help fund the festival’s productions of Macbeth and Taming of the Shrew from July 19 to Aug. 4 at Bower Ponds.Reward levels range from getting your name in virtual lights to commemorative DVDs. To donate, go to www.indiegogo.com/ bardonbower For more information contact Kylie at 587-877-0329 or email kylei.hately@ gmail.com.

Westerner Days Chili Cook Off sponsored by Big 105.5 and 106.7 on July 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the London Drugs parking lot in support of Kidney Foun-

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS Laura at 403-309-8642 or email cosmos02@ telus.net.

Homebound Readers’ Service, is a personalized service offered by the Red Deer Public Library to members who cannot visit the library due to age, illness or disability. For more information call Adult Services at 403.-342-9110 or go to www.rdpl.org Affirm — a group that provides safe and confidential support to people of all sexual orientation and their families and friends, from people that have walked this road before as sexual minorities, parents, siblings and friends. They meet once a month in Lacombe. For more information, call Ross at 403-782-3671 or Marg at 403782-1887.

Give the Gift of Life Fun Run and Walk, in support of organ and tissue donation awareness, takes place on Sept. 2. Register for this five km run or two km walk online at www.kidney.ab.ca Shake The Lake — presented by Sylvan Lake and Area Community Partners Association — Aug. 10, 11 and 12. Enjoy live music, BMX, skateboarding, family fun and vendor village. Free admission. Anyone interested in sponsoring the event or looking for more information can contact Sean at Sean@shakethelake.ca. For information on volunteering contact Jodi at jodi@shakethelake.ca or 403-

597-8750. Visit www.shakethelake.ca Red Deer Aboriginal Employment Services provides assistance to Aboriginal people including resumes, cover letters, research, and job postings. For more information call 403-358-7734 or drop in to #202, 4909 48 Street, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed noon to 1 p.m. or see www.rdaes.com Texas Connection Music Festival featuring Casey Donahew Band, Micky and the Motorcars and much more — Aug. 17 and 18 at Daines Ranch, Innisfail. This two day camping and country music festival featuring many great Texas and Alberta country-rock artists will bring the spirit of Texas to Alberta.

Bring your RV or tent and enjoy live music until midnight in the beer gardens. The local Ronald McDonald House will also be supported with a 50/50 draw and silent auction.

Tickets go on sale May 4 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.ca or by phone at 403-3404455.

Berry Architecture Wellness Bike Ride will take place on Aug. 25 in support of the local Canadian Mental Health Association and Central Alberta Brain Injury Society. Choose a 50 km or 100 km supported route in Central Alberta. This is an excellent ride for experienced and inexperienced cyclists. See www. wellnessride.ca or call 403-342-2266.

Pioneer Lodge can be rented for family

dation of Canada.

Westerner Days Fundraising Barbecue sponsored by Executive Home Building Centre on July 19, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in their parking lot located at 7894 48 Ave. in support of Canadian Cancer Society.

Red Deer Area Hikers meet on July 19 at the north side of the Red Deer Curling Club parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to depart at 9 a.m. for a four km hike at Dickson Natural Area/Medicine River Wildlife Centre. Hike will be cancelled if raining or about to rain, or if the temperature is too high for healthy hiking.

Bring a lunch. Donation of $0.50 per hike or $5 per season, with fuel costs to be shared for out-of-town hikes based on car pooling and km travelled. Phone Art at 403-3475778, or Mavis at 403-343-0091 or Sharon at 403-340-2497.

Central Alberta Prostate Awareness and Support Group meets the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church in the parlour. The next meeting is July 19. This group has a great deal of experience and information to share.

Knowing about the prostate, symptoms of prostate cancer, and other prostate diseases can save your life. Men and spouses are welcome. Phone 403-350-5511.

Innisfail Farmers Market is held at the Innisfail Arena from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Thursday until Sept. 20. The market is all indoor with live entertainment, and a coffee area to sit and visit. Lots of fresh vegetables, baking, pottery, crafts, bedding plants, etc.

Contact Christine at 403-896-5451. socials, group events and business meetings. The atmosphere is warm and inviting and is close to the downtown with off-street parking. The lodge has kitchen and presentation facilities and is wheelchair accessible.

For rental information call 403-346-3463.

Golf Tournament sponsored by the Alberta Sport Hall of Fame and Museum will be held at Innisfail Golf Course on Aug. 9 with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start. Cost is $225 per player and includes prizes, dinner and silent auction. To become a sponsor, contact Debbie at 403-341-8614, debbie@ ashfm.ca or visit www.ashfm.ca Babysitter’s Course will be offered at the Penhold Town Office on Aug. 16. For more information call 403-886-3288.

Penhold and District Library will offer a computer workshop day, July 21 from 10 a.m. to noon. Learn about eBooks, eReaders, eAudio, apps for you devices and more.

Pre-register for these workshops by calling the library at 403-886-2636 ore email penholdlibrary@libs.prl.ab.ca.

Readers’ Corner at the Penhold and District Library will discuss The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman on Aug. 1 at 1 p.m. Join us for friendship, conversation and coffee. Call the library at 403-886-2636 for more information.

Photo ID Clinic will be offered on July 18 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at #301, 5008 Ross Street. The Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic provides free Affidavits of Identification that are notarized by a lawyer. This ID does not replace government issued ID, but is intended to help people access basic service while replacing proper ID. To book an appointment, call 403.-314-9129.

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McDowell goes two-for-two RED DEER JUNIOR GOLFER WINS HIS DIVISION TWICE IN TWO EVENTS ON JUNIOR GOLF CIRCUIT TIM DUNCAN

SPURS BRING BACK THEIR BIG MAN The Tim Duncan era isn’t over yet. The San Antonio Spurs announced Wednesday that they had re-signed Duncan, bringing back the 36-year-old forward for at least a 16th season. Terms were not disclosed, though Yahoo Sports cited sources in reporting it was a three-year, $36 million deal. The first overall pick in the 1997 draft, Duncan in 15 seasons has led the Spurs to nine division titles and the playoffs every year, including four NBA championships.

The Spurs are 830-352 in the regular season during his tenure, the highest winning percentage over any 15-year span in NBA history, and Duncan has two league MVP awards with three NBA Finals MVP honours.

“Tim Duncan has established himself as one of the best players in NBA history,” coach Gregg Popovich said.

“He is an unselfish superstar who loves to compete and has only one goal when he steps on the court — to do whatever it takes to help his team win. We are all thrilled that he’ll spend his entire career as a San Antonio Spur.”

Duncan, a 13-time All-Star, has a career average of 20.3 points, 11.3 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.22 blocks per game.

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF LACOMBE — It’s been a productive three days for Red Deer’s Chandler McDowell.

The 12-year-old, who plays out of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club, captured his second straight 14-and-under division title on the McLennan Ross/Sun Junior Tour at the Lacombe Golf and Country Club Wednesday.

The Eastview Middle School student, who is going into Grade 8, shot a six-over par 78 for a four-stroke victory over Sikander Kaleka of Stony Plain.

On Monday McDowell and Kaleka finished one-two at Pine Hills in Rocky Mountain House.

“These are the only two events I’ve plays this year,” said McDowell, who has a five-handicap. “I played some in previous years.”

He played in the McLennan Ross tournament final last year at Wolf Creek Golf Resort, but wasn’t pleased with his score.

“I shot an 89 . . . not good,” he said.

McDowell’s 78 left him in a fifth-place tie overall, six strokes back of Ryan Caines of Sundre.

The Red Deer youngster got involved in the sport when he was eight.

“I was in Calgary visiting a friend and his dad took us to a driving range and I was hooked,” explained McDowell, who has seen a nice drop in his handicap this year as he travels twice a week to Calgary to work with a coach.

“I was asked to go and join a training program and it’s helped a lot,” he said. “(My coach) has got my handicap down . . . this is my third tournament win this year.”

His coach was helped him with his “iron play and putting” while he’s always “hit the ball well off the tee.”

McDowell will attend Hunting Hills after next year and hopes to play for the high school team.

“They have a good program,” he said.

He also wants to make golf a career.

“I really want to stick with it for a long time,” he concluded.

Caines edged Alex Philip of Wetaskiwin and Austin Biletsky of Strathmore by one stroke. He and Philip were also in the 1719 year-old division while Biletsky captured the 15-16 yearold category.

“I was pleased for the mostpart,” said Caines, who plays out of Coyote Creek, where has worked since he was 13.

“It’s nice, I get free golf,” he said with a smile.

The 18-year-old Caines got his first taste of the sport when he was eight, but didn’t get serious until he was 12.

His game has continued to progress, although he isn’t satisfied where it’s at.

“I would like to be three or four strokes better,” he said. “I have a 1.3 handicap, but I want it lower by the end of the year.”

Caines did compete in the Alberta Junior championship this year, finishing tied for 50th at 318.

“I wasn’t happy,” he said. “I had two good days and two not so good.”

It’s the last year he’ll get to play in the junior as he turns 19 by the end of the year.

He also tried to qualify for the provincial Amateur, but missed the cut with a 79.

As for his future he’s not positive.

“I attended Red Deer College last year, but didn’t play.

I’m planning on taking this year off and try to figure out what I want to do.”

One thing he will be doing is playing in the McLennan Ross tournament final, Aug. 27.

“That was one thing I really wanted to do,” he said.

“Plus I wanted to win one or two of these events.”

Michael Pruss of Red Deer shot a 77 which left him second in the 15-16 year-old division while his brother Allan had a 79, along with Jaxon Lynn of Sylvan Lake. In the 17-19 year-old class,

Today

Friday

● Parkland baseball: Irricana at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park; Rocky Mountain House at Innisfail, 7 p.m.

Saturday

● Junior B Tier II lacrosse: Red Deer Renegades vs.

Lethbridge, first game, best-of-three, Rocky Mountain South Division final, 3 p.m., Kinex. ● Bantam AAA baseball: Sherwood Park Gold at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Alberta Football League: Grande Prairie at Central Alberta Buccaneers, 6 p.m., Lacombe MEGlobal Athletic Park. ● Parkland baseball: League all-star game, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

Sunday

● Junior B Tier II lacrosse: Red Deer Renegades vs.

Lethbridge, second game, best-of-three, Rocky Mountain South Division final, 10 p.m., Kinex.; iof thrid game needed, 7 p.m., Kinex. ● Bantam AAA baseball: Edmonton at Red Deer, noon, Great Chief Park.

Brad Wiedmer of Lacombe had a 78 while Kolby Vold of Ponoka shot an 84 and Derrick Morrell of Red Deer an 85.

Jeremy Rietze of Lacombe and Jordan Biollo of Stettler came in with an 81, Grant Numrich of Red Deer an 85, Ryan Morrell of Red Deer an 91 and Justin Gelowitz of Sylvan Lake a 98 in the 15-16 year-old category.

Emily Creaser won the girls’ title with an 86 with Claire McMahon of Red Deer’s Balmoral, Shaye Leidenius of Ponoka and Sya Lee of Edmonton at 95.

Courtney Dickson of Innisfail shot a 100 and Dana Leidenius of Ponoka a 102.

The tour makes a stop in Ponoka Monday. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Alouettes look for revenge against Stampeders

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

● Senior men’s baseball: Sylvan Lake at The Hideout, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2.

Sunburst baseball: Fort Saskatchewan at Red Deer Stags, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

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Red Deer’s Derrick Morrell tees off on the Lacombe Golf and Country Club’s par 3 third hole during the McLennan Ross Sun Junior Golf Tour stop there Wednesday.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes breathed a sigh of relief when it turned out that Anthony Calvillo will not miss a game with a bruised left shoulder.

The Calgary Stampeders weren’t as lucky, but they’re happy to have a veteran like Kevin Glenn to step in for injured starting quarterback Drew Tate. Coach John Hufnagel said he expects Tate to be out for five or six weeks after the Calgary pivot suffered a left shoulder injury last week in Toronto.

So it will be Calvillo against Glenn when the Alouettes (1-1) and Stampeders (1-1) face off on Thursday night at Percival Molson Stadium.

The Stamps, with Tate behind centre, laid a 38-10 pounding on Montreal in the season opener for both clubs two weeks ago in Calgary. A much different game is expected this time after the Alouettes re-

bounded with a 41-30 victory at home over Winnipeg, when Calvillo passed for 443 yards and three touchdowns.

Calvillo took a hit in the first quarter against the Blue Bombers and went briefly for treatment, but was able to return to the game. He missed practice on Monday to have an MRI on the shoulder, which showed only a bruise, and was able to resume normal training the next day ”The shoulder’s fine,” the 39-year-old said Wednesday. ”It’s sore, but I was very happy I was able to throw every ball without the shoulder bothering me. ”That was a great sign. I’ve got one more day to rest, and overall it looks pretty good.”

Had Calvillo been more badly hurt, the relatively inexperienced Adrian McPherson would have been starting at quarterback.

Tate was forced out of Calgary’s 39-36 loss in Toronto on Saturday, which put Glenn on the hot seat in only his second

game with the team since he joined the Stampeders in the off-season deal that sent veteran Henry Burris to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Glenn competed 15 passes for 200 yards with two TDs and two interceptions against the Argonauts.

Coach John Hufnagel expects his backup quarterback to improve as he gets used to his new team. ”When (the Tate injury) first happened, it was a major shock because (Glenn’s) cadence is different,” said Hufnagel. ”Did we get caught out against Toronto? Yes we did. But the adjustment period is over. For the near future, it’s Kevin Glenn’s football team.”

Tate returned to Calgary for an MRI and is getting a second opinion before a definitive statement is made on his condition.

Hufnagel said there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of damage.

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Whitfield continues success at Calgary Stampede

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Fred Whitfield continued his success at the Calgary Stampede on Wednesday, winning Pool B’s tie-down roping event in 6.7 seconds.

Last year, the 44-year-old Texan became only the third cowboy in the world to have surpassed $3 million in career rodeo earnings.

“I really didn’t want to gamble, but that calf was right there in front of me,” said the eight-time World Champion of Wednesday’s event. “I got a great start and that calf was right there, and I roped him, and turned him around, and tried not to make any mistakes.”

Whitfield’s US$5,500 from this performance, plus his second place cheque on his opening day means he’s already won $10,000 to sit atop the standings.

“It’s a long deal and we got a couple more head to run here. My biggest deal is to get into the Sunday and not have to go in the Wildcard Round, because there’s a lot of pressure there,” said Whitfield. “They only take two guys, so your chances of getting out of that deal are slim to none with all the guys that are already seeded there.”

Also, William Lowe won the bareback event on Wednesday with 87.50 points. Dusty LaValley of Bezanson, Alta., was fourth with 84.00 points.

Caleb Sanderson took first in bull riding with 88.50 points, while Scott Schiffner of Strathmore, Alta., was third with 84.50.

Sydni Blanchard won the women’s barrel race with a time of 17.41 seconds and Cody Wright was victorious in the saddle bronc event with 86.00 points.

Stockton Graves and Casey Martin tied for first in steer wrestling with twin times of 3.8 seconds. Cody Cassidy of Donalda, Alta., was third in 3.9 seconds and Tanner Milan of Cochrane, Alta., was fourth in 4.2.

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Ty Pozzobon from Merritt, B.C., gets stepped on by bull Little Bit of Sugar during bull riding rodeo action at the Calgary Stampede Wednesday.

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Calgary Stampede Wednesday’s Calgary Stampede results CALGARY — Results and aggregate earnings following Wednesday’s sixth performance of the Calgary Stampede rodeo: Bareback 1. William Lowe, Canyon, Texas, Country Trail, 87.50 points; 2. Steven Peebles, Redmond, Ore., Starburst, 86.00; 3. Brian Bain, Redmond,Ore., Centennial, 85.50; 4. Dusty LaValley, Bezanson, Alta., Neutral Hills, 84.00; 5. Tilden Hooper, Carthage, Texas, Tee Pee, 83.50; 6. Cody DeMers, Kimberly, Ida., Alley Trail, 83.00; 7. Jake Vold, Ponoka, Alta., Double Dippin’, 78.50; 8. Clint Cannon, Waller, Texas, Trail Smoke, DR; 9. (tie), Colin Adams, Deloraine, Man., Trip Wired; and Wes Stevenson, Lubbock, Texas, Big Easy, DG. Pool B Standings 1. Lowe, $10,000; 2. (tie), Bain, LaValley and Peebles, $6,000; 5. Vold, $5,500; 6. Hooper, $1,500.

Bull Riding 1. Caleb Sanderson, Stephenville, Texas, Big Valley Black, 88.50 points; 2. Kody Lostroh, LaSalle, Colo., Everything Cowboy, 86.50; 3. Scott Schiffner, Strathmore, Alta., Turn Me Down, 84.50; 4. (tie), Jacob O’Mara, Prairieville, La., Safe Bet; and Robson Palermo, Tyler, Texas, Bomb Digity, 82.50; 6. Dusty Ephrom, Kenosee Lake, Sask, Cinnamon Twist, 82.00; 7. Ty Pozzobon, Merritt, B.C., Little Bit Of Sugar, 80.50; 8. (tie), Denton Edge, Marwayne, Alta., Commando; Luke Snyder, Ridgedale, Mo., Sweet Emotion; and L.J. Jenkins, Porum, Okla., Ghost, BO

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Snyder, $4,500; 4. (tie), Palermo and Schiffner, $3,500; 6. (tie), Pozzobon and Edge, $3,000; 8.

O’Mara, $2,000.

Ladies Barrel Racing 1. Sydni Blanchard, Albuquerque, N.M., 17.41 seconds; 2. Carlee Pierce, Stephenville, Texas, 17.51; 3. Tammy Fischer, Ledbetter, Texas, 17.77; 4. Jody Sheffield, Ogden, Utah, 17.84; 5. Savanah Reeves, Cross Plains, Texas, 17.88; 6. Lindsay Sears, Nanton, Alta., 17.92; 7. Gaylene Buff, Westwold, B.C., 17.96; 8. Cranna Roberts, Lacombe, Alta., 18.30; 9. Sue Smith, Blackfoot, Ida., 22.44; 10. Trula Churchill, Valentine, Nev., 22.66.

Pool B Standings 1. Blanchard, $9,000; 2. Fischer, $8,500; 3.

Pierce, $7,000; 4. S.Smith, $5,000; 5. Sheffield, $2,500; 6. Sears, $1,500; 7. Reeves, $1,500.

Saddle Bronc 1. Cody Wright, Milford, Utah, Breakaway, 86.00 points; 2. Jesse Wright, Milford, Utah, Seven Thirty Seven, 85.00; 3. (tie), Heith DeMoss, Heflin, La., Dark Shadow; Cody DeMoss, Heflin,La., Moving Shadows; and Wade Sundell, Boxholm, Iowa, Easy To Love, 83.00; 6. (tie), JJ Elshere, Quinn, S.D., Fu Manchu, and Bradley Harter, Loranger, La., Bookmark, 81.50; 8. Jesse Bail, Camp Crook, S.D., Royal Visit, 80.00; 9. Dustin Flundra, Pincher Creek, Alta., Cover Story, 78.00; 10. Kyreon Geiger, Calgary, Summer Trip, BO. Pool B Standings 1. J.Wright, $10,000; 2. C.Wright, $9,000; 3.

Sundell, $5,000; 4. Bail, $4,500; 5. (tie), H.DeMoss and Co.DeMoss, $2,500; 7. Harter, $1,500.

Steer Wrestling 1. (tie), Stockton Graves, Newkirk, Okla., and Casey Martin, Sulphur, La., 3.8 seconds; 3. Cody Cassidy, Donalda, Alta., 3.9; 4. Tanner Milan, Cochrane, Alta., 4.2; 5. Blake Knowles, Heppner, Ore., 4.3; 5. Curtis Cassidy, Donalda, Alta., 4.7; 6. Straws Milan, Cochrane, Alta., 4.8; 7. Billy Bugenig, Ferndale, Calif., 11.4; 8. (tie), Mickey Gee, Wichita Falls, Texas, and Rowdy Hays, Rocky Mountain House, Alta., NT. Pool B Standings 1. Co.Cassidy, $8,000; 2. Martin, $5,750; 3. Hays, $5,500; 4. Graves, $5,000; 5. S.Milan, $3,500; 6. (tie), T.Milan and Gee, $2,500; 8.

Knowles, $1,500; 9. Cu.Cassidy, $750.

Tie-Down Roping 1. Fred Whitfield, Hockley, Texas, 6.7 seconds; 2. Jake Hannum, Plain City, Utah, 7.0; 3. Jerome Schneeberger, Ponca City, Okla., 7.6; 4. (tie), Tyson Durfey, Colbert, Wash., andd Randy Smith, Pincher Creek, Alta., 7.8; 6. Adam Gray, Seymour, Texas, 8.1; 7. Steve Lloyd, Alix, Alta., 8.4; 8.

Alwin Bouchard, Scandia, Alta., 10.3; 9. (tie), Matt Shiozawa, Chubbuck, Ida., and Clint Cooper, Decatur, Texas, NT. Pool B Standings 1. Whitfield, $10,000; 2. Shiozawa, $5,500; 3.

Schneeberger, $5,000; 4. Hannum, $4,500; 5. Gray, $3,500; 6. Bouchard, $2,500; 7. (tie), R.Smith and Durfey, $2,000.

Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Sporting K.C. 10 5 3 33 D.C. 10 5 3 33 New York 9 5 4 31 Chicago 8 6 4 28 Houston 6 5 7 25 New England 6 7 4 22 Columbus 6 6 4 22 Montreal 6 11 3 21 Philadelphia 5 9 2 17 Toronto FC 3 11 4 13

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA San Jose 11 4 4 37 36 24 Real Salt Lake 11 6 3 36 31 21 Seattle 8 5 6 30 23 19 Vancouver 8 5 6 30 21 22 Los Angeles 7 10 2 23 28 29 Colorado 7 10 1 22 25 24 Chivas USA 5 7 5 20 11 18 Portland 5 8 4 19 16 24 FC Dallas 3 9 7 16 17 27 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Wednesday’s Game Toronto FC 3, Vancouver 2 Saturday’s Games Montreal at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

LOCAL

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Released LHP Brian Fuentes.

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

MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Assigned RHP Tim Dillard outright to Nashville (PCL). Recalled RHP Tyler Thornburg from Nashville (PCL). Called up SS Jeff Bianchi from Nashville.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Agreed to terms with OF Michael DeLaCruz on a minor league contract.

American Association AMARILLO SOX—Released INF Van Pope.

Signed INF Kevin Lusson.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS—Released INF Sergio Miranda. Signed LHP Jon Gulbransen.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS—Released OF Tommy Collaro and RHP Walker McKinven.

WICHITA WINGNUTS—Released OF Sean M. Smith and C Taylor Freeman.

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS—Traded C Orlando Mercado and RHP Julian Sampson to Newark for C Billy Alvino. Signed INF Melvin Falu.

BASKETBALL ATLANTA HAWKS—Acquired G Anthony Morrow, G Jordan Farmar, F Jordan Williams, F DeShawn Stevenson and F Johan Petro and a 2017 second-round pick from Brooklyn for G Joe Johnson. Traded G Marvin Williams to Utah for G Devin Harris BROOKLYN NETS—Re-signed G Deron Williams to a five-year contract and F Gerald Wallace to a four-year contract. Agreed to a contract extension with C Brook Lopez. Signed F Mirza Teletovic.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS—Signed F Luke Harangody to a one-year contract.

DETROIT PISTONS—Signed F Kyle Singler to a multiyear contract.

HOUSTON ROCKETS—Traded G Kyle Lowery to Toronto for F Gary Forbes and an unspecified first-round draft pick. Signed C Marcus Camby and traded him to New York for G Toney Douglas, C Josh Harrellson, C Jerome Jordan and two unspecified second-round draft picks.

LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS—Signed F Blake Griffin to a five-year contract extension. Signed F Reggie Evans and traded him to Brooklyn for the right to swap 2016 second-round draft picks. Signed G Jamal Crawford.

MIAMI HEAT—Signed G Ray Allen and F Rashard Lewis.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS—Signed G Doron Lamb.

NEW ORLEAND HORNETS—Traded G Jarrett Jack to Golden State.

NEW YORK KNICKS—Signed G-F James White. Re-signed G JR Smith.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER—Signed F Hollis Thompson and C Hasheem Thabeet.

ORLANDO MAGIC—Signed F Ryan Anderson and traded him to New Orleans for F Gustavo Ayon.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS—Re-signed F Lavoy Allen. Acquired F Dorell Wright from Golden State.

Acquired C Darryl Watkins from New Orleans for the rights to F Edin Bavcic.

PHOENIX SUNS—Signed G Steve Nash and traded him to the L.A. Lakers for 2013 and 2015 first-round draft picks and 2013 and 2014 secondround draft picks. Signed G Eric Gordon to an offer sheet.

PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS—Signed F Victor Claver. Agreed to terms with F J.J. Hickson on a one-year contract.

SACRAMENTO KINGS—Re-signed F Jason Thompson.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS—Re-signed F Tim Duncan.

TORONTO RAPTORS—Signed G Landry Fields to a three-year offer sheet.

FOOTBALL EDMONTON ESKIMOS—Signed OL Belton Johnson to the practice roster.

HOCKEY ANAHEIM DUCKS—Signed G Frederik Andersen to a two-year, entry-level contract.

BOSTON BRUINS—Signed D Garnet Exelby and F Lane MacDermid to one-year, two-way contracts.

CAROLINA HURRICANES—Agreed to terms with D Marc-Andre Gragnani on a one-year, twoway contract.

DALLAS STARS—Signed F Brett Richie and D Troy Vance to three-year, entry-level contracts.

EDMONTON OILERS—Reached a one-year affiliation agreement with Stockton (ECHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS—Agreed to terms with G Michael Houser and D Josh McFadden on entrylevel contracts.

NEW YORK RANGERS—Agreed to terms with F Brandon Segal.

PHOENIX COYOTES—Agreed to terms with F Joel Rechlicz on a one-year, two-way contract.

SAN JOSE SHARKS—Signed D Marc-Edouard Vlasic to a five-year contract extension through the 2017-18 season.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Re-signed C Zach Hammill to a one-year contract. Signed LW Wojtek Wolski to a one-year contract.

ECHL BAKERSFIELD CONDORS—Agreed to terms with F Robby Dee and D Scott Enders.

READING ROYALS—Agreed to terms with F Trevor Lewis.

OLYMPIC SPORTS USA GYMNASTICS—Named Tom Meadows men’s Olympic team assistant coach.

SOCCER

James, Griner named athletes of the year at ESPY Awards

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — LeBron James was the big winner at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday night, collecting three trophies including male athlete of the year for helping the Miami Heat win the NBA championship.

James wasn’t on hand for the 20th annual show celebrating the year’s best athletes and moments in sports. He was in Las Vegas with the rest of the U.S. national team preparing for the London Olympics.

James also won in the championship performance and NBA player categories.

He shared in the best team award, with Juwan Howard and Mike Miller accepting for the Heat.

Baylor basketball star Brittney Griner won two trophies, including female athlete of the year in which she beat out French Open champion Maria Sharapova, skier Lindsay Vonn and soccer player Abby Wambach.

Quarterback Robert Griffin III, who like Griner starred at Baylor, won male college athlete honours. Griner took female college athlete honours for leading the Lady Bears to a 40-0 record and the NCAA championship.

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here without Title IX,” Griner said backstage. “Everything is just coming together and it feels good to be here.”

Los Angeles was well represented, with Kings goalie Jonathan Quick winning best NHL player after helping the franchise win its first Stanley Cup title and Galaxy star David Beckham earning best MLS player honours. The Kings won for best upset after their run to the NHL championship as an eighth seed.

Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton won as best MLB player, while Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers won for NFL player.

Mario Gutierrez, who rode I’ll Have Another to victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, won as best jockey.

Skateboarder and snowboarder Shaun White won his fifth consecutive ESPY for male action sports athlete.

Host Rob Riggle of “The Daily Show” and “The Hangover” fame zinged some of the famous faces in his opening monologue. He touched on the New Orleans Saints’ bounty scandal in singling out quarterback Drew Brees, who won for record-breaking performance after shattering Dan Marino’s single-season passing mark. Brees and the Saints are haggling over his contract with a Monday deadline looming.

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CFL: miss five to six weeks Tate will likely miss five or six weeks, so he probably won’t have to go on the nine-game injured list.

He said Glenn was brought in for just such an emergency. ”It’s something we identified as soon we started talking about a trade; that we’d like to get a veteran quarterback in return,” said Hufnagel. ”I was very pleased it was Kevin Glenn. ”He’s started a lot of games and has had success.

I was hoping his role with this team would be to smooth over some rough spots, but injuries happen and he’s ready to play and accept this challenge.”

Glenn is no stranger to playing in Montreal, hav-

FC DALLAS—Named Skylar Richards athletic trainer.

MONTREAL IMPACT—Signed D Dennis Iapichino. Traded F Justin Braun to Real Salt Lake for a conditional 2014 draft pick.

PORTLAND TIMBERS—Recalled F Bright Dike from loan from Los Angeles (USL-PRO). Loaned D Andrew Jean-Baptiste to Los Angeles (USL-PRO).

TORONTO FC—Terminated the contract of F Nick Soolsma.

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS—Sold the contract of M Davide Chiumiento to FC Zurich (Swiss Super League).

COLLEGE NORTHEAST CONFERENCE—Promoted Michelle Boone to associate commissioner and Kevin Sanchez to director of events and operations.

BRIDGEWATER (VA.)—Named Ike Charlton assistant football coach.

FORDHAM—Named Tom Parrotta men’s assistant basketball coach.

GEORGE WASHINGTON—Named Kristy Black and Bria Eulitt women’s assistant lacrosse coaches.

MIAMI—Granted F Melvin Johnson a release from his National Letter of Intent, effective immediately. NORTH CAROLINA A&T—Named Duane Ross director of track and field programs PENN STATE—Named Jeremy Fallis and Tony Mancuso assistant directors of athletic communications.

QUINNIPIAC—Signed men’s basketball coach Tom Moore to a contract extension through the 2016-17 season.

SOUTH CAROLINA-AIKEN—Named Michael Kucharski assistant sports information director.

SPRING HILL—Announced it will add men’s and women’s bowling as varsity sports beginning in the 2013 academic year.

TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN—Named Farrah Manthei assistant athletic director for administration.

TULSA—Named Kelley Waters women’s basketball director of player development/team manager.

Ladies Fastball Red Deer Ladies League W L T 12 2 0 12 2 0 8 7 1 5 6 1 4 9 1 2 10 1 2 9 0

Budal Ice Topco Oil N.Jensen’s Snell&Oslund Firefly Rage Alta Highspeed Stettler

Tuesday Scores Topco Panthers 8 Rage 1 N. Jensen’s Bandits 9 Stettler 6 N. Jensen’s 8 Stettler 0 Budal Ice 8 Shooters 7 Thursday Scores Topco Panthers 2 N. Jensen’s Bandits 1

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BRIEFS Rage win provincial championship The Red Deer Collin Barrow Rage are the premier U12 A girls’ softball team in the province.

The Rage, who also won the Girls’ Prairie Softball League title, whipped the host Wetaskiwin Wild 16-3 in the gold medal game of the provincial championships during the weekend.

The Rage reached the final with a 15-0 win over the Edmonton Warriors.

In round-robin play the Red Deer squad beat the Wild 16-1, St. Albert 18-6 and the Warriors 21-6.

Alford second after two rounds St. ALBERT — Jennifer Ha of Calgary jumped over Red Deer native Jocelyn Alford to take the lead in the Sun Life Financial Ladies’ Amateur following the second round of the 72-hole event Wednesday.

Ha, who won the provincial junior title last week, shot a three-under par 69 to sit at 137, two strokes ahead of Alford, who plays out of Calgary’s Earl Grey. Alford shot a record 67 Tuesday before finishing with an even-par 72 Wednesday.

Christie Lin of Calgary had rounds of 71-75 and is third at 146 with Jessica Luciuk of Bar-

Toronto FC at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

FC Dallas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Portland, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Seattle FC at New York, 2 p.m.

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

Wednesday, July 18 Chicago at New York, 11 a.m.

Portland at Chivas USA, 2 p.m.

Colorado at Toronto FC, 5 p.m.

New England at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

FC Dallas at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 21 Philadelphia at New York, 12:30 p.m.

D.C. United at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Montreal at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

New England at Sporting Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at FC Dallas, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Real Salt Lake, 8 p.m.

Chivas USA at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Sunday, July 22 San Jose at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

rhead fourth at 74-73—147.

Cara Vanderham of Innisfail shot an 81 Wednesday and is in a tie for 14th at 160.

Braves keep rolling in provincial play The Red Deer Boston Pizza Braves ran their record to 3-0 in the third round of provincial bantam AA baseball league play with an 11-10 win over the Camrose Cubs.

Cole Simon picked up the win thanks to four strong inning of relief.

Jon Yasinski, the Braves starting pitcher, singled in the winning run in the top of the seventh. Parker Booth and Lynx Ledene had triples while Nathan Bergeson added a single and a double.

The Braves finish regular league play this weekend in Edmonton.

Teron fourth at Future Links championship SUNDRE — Jesse Teron shot an even-par 72 to grab the lead among the Central Albertans at the CN Future Links Western Championship Wednesday.

Teron has a two-round total of 146 to sit in fourth place, six strokes back of Jack Wood of Banff, who came in with a 70.

Brett Pasula of Red Deer is tied for 13th at 151 following a 73 while Matt Codd of Red Deer slipped from fifth into a tie for 16th at 152 after shooting a 79. Logan Hill of Red Deer had a 77 and is tied for 40th at 160.

The tournament concludes today.

Toronto score late to get victory over Vancouver MLS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It was a game that seemed destined to end in yet more Toronto FC disappointment. But this time there was a happy ending for the MLS cellar-dwellers.

Terry Dunfield scored five minutes into stoppage time to give Toronto FC a 3-2 win over Vancouver in a wild game Wednesday night that appeared headed for a heartbreaking tie after the home side had gifted a goal to the Whitecaps on an earlier injury-time mistake.

For Toronto manager Paul Mariner, it was a Tony Robbins-type lesson of a game.

“As I’ve said many times this week, the brain is an unbelievable thing that keeps those legs going as far as football is concerned,” said the former England international. “It’s all about the state of mind.”

If you keep telling yourself that you’re tired, then you are tired. But if you’re willing to drive on, as we did for 90-plus minutes tonight, then anything’s possible.

“I asked the players for a response from Philadelphia (a 3-0 loss Sunday) because that wasn’t us and I think that we all got it.”

Toronto (3-11-4) had pulled ahead 2-1 on second-half goals by rookie Luis Silva and captain Torsten Frings four minutes apart, only to see the bottom fall out one minute into stoppage time.

Goalie Milos Kocic tried to punch away a high cross and missed it, leaving Vancouver’s Darren Mattocks a clear header that sent the ball looping into the goal. It was the second goal of the game for the rookie striker from Jamaica, who looked dangerous all night.

While most of the 19,821 fans at BMO Field hung their heads at the 2-2 score, the Toronto

ing spent the past three seasons in Hamilton. His last visit to Montreal was for the East Division semifinal in November, which turned into a wild, end-to-end game won 52-44 in overtime by the Ticats. ”It was exciting,” Glen recalled. ”To be in a semifinal in Montreal at the Big O and for it to go back and fourth like that. ”And I don’t want to say the monkey was on Hamilton’s back, but for two years we hosted the semifinal and came up short. To come into Montreal and beat the defending champs in that type of game felt real good. I always felt it will go down as a CFL classic forever.”

Glenn said it will help that he knows the tendencies of some of Montreal’s defensive players, but mostly, he likes that the Stampeders have a lot of veterans on offence who will make it easier for him to perform. ”It’s the Calgary Stampeders, it’s not Kevin Glenn’s team,” he said. ”I’m the guy that tries to hold

players kept their eye on the prize and blitzed the Vancouver goal.

“I think we were all wide-eyed looking at that and amazed at just how high he got and how well he timed it,” Vancouver coach Martin Rennie said of the goal by the six-foot Mattocks.

“He outjumped a goalie who’s already six foot four who’s able to use his hands. So that was an amazing jump.”

Toronto won a corner and Dunfield, a former Vancouver player who scored against Toronto in the Whitecaps’ MLS debut last season, rose majestically and headed in the winning goal off a Frings corner in the fifth minute of injury time.

“Probably the best feeling in my soccer career. That was incredible,” said a delighted Dunfield, who may still be smiling after his first league goal for Toronto.

“It’s been a long, tough season for us at the bottom there but the guys showed a lot of character to come back twice today.”

There was supposed to be four minutes of injury time but the Vancouver score kept the clock ticking.

“I told Terry I owe him dinner,” said Kocic, whose blushes were spared by the late goal.

“He really stepped up for me and for the team and for everybody.

“We showed character tonight,” he added.

After collecting three points in the first 10 games of the season under Aron Winter, Toronto has now picked up 10 in eight games under Mariner.

And remarkably those eight games have been compressed into 26 days.

While Toronto remains at the foot of the standings, it still represents quite a turnaround for a defensively-challenged team that lacks depth in all positions.

Frings’ go-ahead goal came in the 72nd minute after goalie Joe Cannon hit the turf in the wake of punching away an Eric Avila cross.

the pieces together, the coach on the field that makes sure guys are put in situations to make plays. ”You don’t want to put added pressure on yourself. My focus is on going out and playing Kevin Glenn football.”

The first meeting between the teams was over early as Calgary jumped on a turnover-prone Montreal to build a big first-half lead. The Alouettes defence rallied in the second half, but their offence never got going.

They turned it around last Friday against Winnipeg, with no turnovers in a game they controlled from the outset.

The Alouettes want the same kind of effort in the rematch with Calgary. ”I don’t know who that team was in Week One, but we know who we are now and we’re going to play disciplined, take care of the ball and play fast, Montreal football,” said receiver Jamel Richardson, who confirmed he will play after experiencing knee trouble.

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Trio to join U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. — Eddie Olczyk remembers the series as if it was yesterday. It was the spring of 1994, and his New York Rangers outlasted the New Jersey Devils in a thrilling, seven-game series to secure the Eastern Conference title.

The Rangers went on to win the Stanley Cup. The Devils went home.

But Olczyk figured the latter would be back soon.

“You just knew it,” Olczyk said. “With Lou Lamoriello in charge, and because of his leadership, you knew they were on the verge of something special.

There was no question about it.”

He was right. And on Wednesday, the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame honoured both for their accomplishments.

Lamoriello, New Jersey’s longtime general manager, who has led the Devils to three Stanley Cup titles and five Eastern Conference crowns, was named to this year’s induction class. Joining Lamoriello as part of the class that will be enshrined in the fall, is Olczyk, now an analyst for NBC Sports, as well as Mike Modano, who won a Stanley Cup with the Dallas Stars.

“Without a doubt, it’s a great honour,” Olczyk said.

“To be in the same class as professionals like Mike and Lou certainly makes it a great day.”

Since Lamoriello took over in 1987, the Devils have secured nine division titles and won the Cup in 1995, 2000, and 2003. New Jersey, as a No. 6 seed this

season, defeated the Panthers, Flyers and Rangers to advance to their fifth Cup final last month.

“The common denominators there are the defence, (goaltender) Marty Brodeur, and Mr. Lamoriello,” Olczyk said. “He has proven over the years, through a lot of change, that he can keep the Devils in contention every year.”

Modano, who lost the Cup finals to New Jersey in 2000 as a member of the Stars, played in 21 NHL seasons. He finished with 561 goals and 1,374 points, and holds the record for most post-season points (145) by an American. His Stars defeated Buffalo in the 1999 Cup finals.

Olczyk was the third overall pick of the 1984 draft

by Chicago, and played for 16 years with the Blackhawks, Maple Leafs, Jets, Rangers, Kings and Penguins.

“This is definitely one of the highlights of my career,” Olczyk said. “Fortunately, for me, I’ve been very lucky to wear a bunch of different hats in this game, and I still feel like I have a lot more to give.”

Olczyk finished with 342 goals and 794 points in 1,031 games. His Rangers defeated Vancouver in 1994 to win the Cup. In 1985-86, with Chicago, he had 29 goals and 79 points as a 19-year-old.

“Eddie’s positive impact is felt through the entire organization, starting from the youth hockey level all the way to our players, coaches and front office staff,” Blackhawks president John McDonough said.

“He is a great ambassador for the game of hockey and the city of Chicago.”

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Aug. 4, 2005 photo, Dallas Stars center Mike Modano discusses re-signing with the NHL team during a news conference in Dallas. Modano was named Wednesday to this year’s induction class of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.

Miami Heat add three-point threats Allen and Lewis

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Boston Celtics guard Ray Allen shoots a three-point basket over Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade during the first quarter of Game 4 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoff series in Boston. Allen told the Miami Heat that he has decided to leave the Celtics and join up with the reigning NBA champions.

MIAMI — Ray Allen’s role in Miami is yet to be totally determined. And that clearly doesn’t bother the NBA’s leading 3-point shooter.

Allen and Rashard Lewis signed their free-agent contracts with the Heat on Wednesday, giving the NBA champions a pair of veterans who bring tons of experience and versatility to a lineup already featuring LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.

And both wasted no time saying they want to adapt to the Heat way.

“Whatever’s going to be best for me in this situation is going to figure itself out,” Allen said, flanked by Heat President Pat Riley and coach Erik Spoelstra for his introductory news conference. “This team won a championship without me. I’m not going to come in and expect for coach to cater to who I am and what I do. I’ve got to make that work on the floor with my new teammates.”

Allen agreed to join the Heat on Friday, deciding to leave Boston after five wildly successful seasons and the 2008 NBA championship. Lewis agreed to terms with Miami on Tuesday.

Allen will make just over $3 million this season. Lewis will earn about $1.35 million from the Heat, plus another $13.7 million after getting a buyout from the New Orleans Hornets earlier this off-season.

“I’m at a point in my career where I’ve been on the All-Star team, played for 13, 14 years and I’ve made a pretty good amount of money over my career,” Lewis said. “Everybody sets goals over their career and my next goal is obvi-

ously to try to win a championship. The ball can’t bounce forever. I’m sure you all see the grey hair on my head.”

For Lewis, coming to Miami is a new beginning. For Allen, coming to Miami wraps up a month of unexpected twists and turns.

The Celtics’ season ended in Miami a little over a month ago, with a loss in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals. Allen was unusually emotional after that defeat, then insisted that even after an injury-marred season — he’s recovering from surgery to remove bone spurs from his right ankle — he has basketball left in his legs.

Boston tried to keep him, offering him twice as much as he’ll make per year in Miami. Nonetheless, Allen found himself drawn to the Heat.

“You come into the summer, and you don’t know what potentially can happen,” Allen said. “And you take the process a step at a time, try to figure out what’s best for you and your family.

And here I sit.”

Allen said that Celtics coach Doc Rivers and general manager Danny Ainge were disappointed by his decision. Allen said he reached out to Kevin Garnett — he was particularly close with Garnett and Paul Pierce in Boston — when he began leaning toward Miami, telling Garnett in a text message that the move was likely.

Garnett’s responded by saying that he was sure Ainge would do whatever it took to keep Allen in Boston.

Days later, Allen was signing in Miami. And on Wednesday, Allen downplayed the notion that the move came in part because of a perceived rift with Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo.

“I can’t say that it factored in my

decision,” Allen said. “As teammates, we were brothers. ... There’s differences. We all have differences. Paul eats corn flakes. I might not like corn flakes. That’s just part of kind of who we are as individuals.”

Lewis has already thought plenty about what it could mean to share the court with James, Wade, Bosh and Allen. In short, he knows defences could be a bit confounded.

“You’ve got to double-team LeBron. You have to double-team Dwyane Wade. You’ve got to double-team Chris Bosh. And then you think they’re going to leave Ray Allen open?” Lewis said.

“They’ve got to leave somebody open.

So I have to go shoot a million jumpers tonight and be ready to knock them down.”

A few moments later, Lewis posed with Riley and Spoelstra, holding his new No. 9 jersey in Miami colours.

“He’s played in a great program already. He’s been to the finals. He’s a winner,” Spoelstra said. “We’ve had some great battles against him.”

Spoelstra simply raved about Allen as well.

“There’s only a handful of players, really, in this league that absolutely strike fear into their opponent. And Ray is one of those players,” Spoelstra said.

Allen and Lewis were Seattle teammates for five seasons, from 2003 through 2007 — and both figure to fit perfectly into Miami’s plan to surround James, Wade and Bosh with even more shooters who can stretch defences.

Allen’s 2,718 made 3-pointers are the most in NBA history, and Lewis ranks fifth among active players with 1,690 makes from beyond the arc.

Brees and Saints not close to new deal Bills tickets cut in PERSON FAMILIAR WITH NEGOTIATIONS SAYS SIDES ARE MORE THAN $10 half for Toronto game MILLION APART NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints still must close a significant gap in guaranteed money if they are to agree on a five-year contract worth about $100 million by Monday’s looming deadline for a longterm deal, said a person familiar with the negotiations.

The sides were more than $10 million apart in the guaranteed portion of the contract on Wednesday, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because talks are ongoing.

The stakes are high for both sides and the negotiations have lasted for months, including long gaps in communication between the two camps.

Brees, who is 33 and entering his 12th season, has never before had the chance to negotiate a contract on par with the elite quarterbacks of the game. The Saints, meanwhile, risk alienating the best quarterback in franchise history, not to mention their fan base, by failing to make an offer to his satisfaction by Monday — the deadline for players with the franchise tag to sign long-term deals.

Several months ago, Brees first raised the possibility that he would not report to the opening of training camp if all that was on the table at that time was the oneyear franchise tag of about $16.3 million. People familiar with the quarterback’s plans say that remains the case.

Brees has said he does not want to play under a one-year contract with no long-term security in the coming seasons. He did it once before, with costly consequences, when he played under the franchise tag for San Diego in 2005 and wound up with a careerthreatening injury to his throwing shoulder.

That injury led him to accept a six-year, $60 million deal with New Orleans in 2006, which left him playing for well below market value in the past few seasons, even as he was setting club and

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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and wife Brittany arrive at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday, in Los Angeles. league records.

Brees had hoped that an extension would be done before 2011, but when it was not, he decided not to hold out and played without the security of a long-term contract.

He remained healthy the entire season and passed for an NFL single-season record 5,476 yards.

Brees considered that an act of faith in the Saints, and now he is insistent that that faith be returned in the form of a contract that not only would give him the highest average annual salary in the game, but also guarantee a significant portion of his salary.

General manager Mickey Loomis has said he understands that Brees’ contract is the most important deal on which he has worked in his career.

However, he has stressed that such a deal, with the potential to affect the team’s ability to sign other players, must be entered into with caution.

Both sides have offered proposals that would give the Saints more flexibility under the NFL’s salary cap than New Orleans would have if Brees played for the franchise tag the club has placed on him.

In those proposals, a relatively low base salary number in the early years would be offset by guaranteed signing bonuses that are pro-rated, for salary cap purposes, over the life of the contract.

Such a contract structure would increase the salary cap burden of Brees’ contract significantly in the final years, but the salary cap likely will be higher by then.

The current salary cap is about $120 million, but could rise substantially under a new NFL TV deal that will begin in 2014. Under the league’s current labour agreement, players are supposed to receive about 55 per cent of TV revenues.

If the two sides can narrow their differences on the guarantees, the remaining portions of the contract should be easier to figure out.

The two sides are working from a framework of five years. The difference in the annual average pay is about $1.25 million, with the Saints’ last offer at about $19.25 million and Brees’ last proposal at about $20.5 million.

However, it is not yet clear how much Brees is willing to come down from a $20.5 million annual figure that some in his camp have argued is low, based on past trends.

Peyton Manning recently signed a five-year, $96 million deal, which averages $19.2 million. Manning is three years older than Brees and did not play last season because of neck surgery.

Meanwhile, teams have had a history of offering new contracts to elite players which represent annual multimillion dollar increases over the previous top contract for a player at that position.

Detroit receiver Calvin Johnson’s last contract averages $16.2 million a year, which exceeds Larry Fitzgerald’s pay by more than $1 million per year.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Tickets for Buffalo’s “home” game against Seattle in Toronto have been reduced from past Bills contests at Rogers Centre.

Buffalo will take on the Seahawks on Dec. 16, and tickets in every section have been cut up to 51 per cent, as both Rogers Media and the Bills look to increase awareness and atmosphere around a team that made an off-season splash in its attempt to get back to the AFC playoffs.

As a result of the new pricing structure, 58 per cent of tickets are less than $100, and 88 per cent of tickets are less than $150. Those who have already purchased tickets as part of the “Bills in Toronto Series” will have the option to receive a refund for the price difference or have their seats upgraded.

“The reduced price-point is fantastic value for a premium sporting event.

These ticket prices are now more in line with the average NFL ticket price and are the right pricepoint in this market,” Rogers Media senior vicepresident Dale Hooper said. “After four seasons of the Bills in Toronto, we were able to establish some significant key learnings. We have adjusted our ticket prices every year, and have made good on a new price package, one that’s right for today’s environment.”

The Bills finished 6-10 last season, but defeated Washington, 23-0, in Toronto in front of an announced crowd that was about 3,000 short of the stadium’s 54,000-seat capacity.

“This is a significant step in the right direction to help us re-engage with our fans who attend our games at Rogers Centre,” Bills executive vice-president Mary Owen said.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS Mike Benevides is 2-0 as a CFL head coach, thanks to the B.C. Lions special teams.

The defending Grey Cup champions haven’t skipped a beat with their rookie head coach. But Benevides says the Lions wouldn’t be undefeated if not for the play of Tim Brown, the CFL’s top punt returner.

“There’s no way we would’ve won the last two games without our special teams in terms of our return game,” he said. “For us, it was a huge huge part of the wins.”

The play of Brown and other returners was indeed special last weekend as three punts and a missed field goal were taken back for touchdowns. That gives the CFL four special-teams TDs so far, which is already half of last year’s total.

Winnipeg’s Demond Washington had the first return TD, taking a punt back 82 yards in a 41-30 loss to Montreal on Friday night. In the nightcap, Brown had an 81-yard punt return for a touchdown in B.C.’s 3936 home win over Hamilton, a game that also saw Chris Williams of the Tiger-Cats score on a 67-yard punt return.

On Saturday, Calgary’s Larry Taylor returned a missed field goal 125 yards for a touchdown in a 39-36 road loss to Toronto.

“That (four return TDs the same weekend) is probably a surprise when you look at it but overall you can see why,” Benevides said. “It’s one of those things that’s exciting for the fans and is a huge part of the CFL. It drives coaches crazy but when it’s in your favour it’s a huge part of why you win.”

Hamilton rookie head coach George Cortez agreed. Well, sort of.

“I don’t think anybody in the league is happy about the state of their special teams,” Cortez told reporters Tuesday.

“Let me rephrase that.

“Everybody is happy with the return game and nobody is happy with their coverage game.”

Brown certainly gave Benevides plenty to smile about Friday with six punt returns for 157 yards and seven kickoff returns for 139 yards. He also had a 59-yard punt return in B.C.’s seasonopening 33-16 home victory over Winnipeg.

However, that paled in comparison to the club-record 441 all-purpose yards Taylor rolled up against Toronto, second only in CFL history to the 474-yard performance Winnipeg’s Albert Johnson III had in 2000.

Taylor had eight kickoff returns for 222 yards, two missed field goal returns for 136 yards and two punt returns for 70 yards in addition to a 13-yard catch.

But after Calgary rallied to tie the score 36-36, Argos rookie Chandler Williams had a crucial 34-yard kickoff return to the Toronto 47-yard line.

Ricky Ray’s completion to Andre Durie to the Stampeders’ 27-yard line set up Noel Prefontaine’s winning field goal on the game’s final play.

Benevides, a former special-teams coach, says return teams usually have the early advantage on cover squads.

“At this point and time it’s Week 2, there’ still a feel-out process in terms of the personnel on rosters and where guys play on certain positions,” he said.

“The other thing is cover teams is very much about getting live action.

You can’t simulate the speed of tackling and covering kicks in practice.”

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SILVIS, Ill. — Looking for advice on how to win the same golf tournament four years in a row, Steve Stricker went to the authority: Tiger Woods.

Woods has won four straight times at the same tournament twice. Stricker goes for a fourth straight in the John Deere Classic, which starts Thursday at Deere Run. Woods’ advice was more of an order.

“He told me to get it done,” Stricker said.

“And he also threw me a jab, saying ’Only one of us has won four in a row.’ ” Stricker’s victory last year was the most dramatic of the three. He birdied the last two holes, the 18th by rolling in a 25-footer from the fringe after a difficult approach shot, to overhaul Kyle Stanley.

Stricker, among the most mild-mannered pros, celebrated with a first class fist-pump.

Winning three in a row at a PGA Tour tournament has been accomplished only 26 times, most recently when Woods captured a third, and then fourth, title in San Diego from 2005-2008. Now Stricker tries to equal that.

“I know it’s going to be hard, a big challenge, but I’ve got a lot of good vibes com-

ing here,” Stricker said. “This has been a great ride. I like to deer hunt, and I see that deer (statue) every morning coming in here.

If there’s any tournament I’ve been meant to win, I guess it’s this one.”

Stricker, 23rd on the Tour’s money list, called himself more relaxed than he has been as defending champion the last two years.

“But there’s still a nervous energy,” he added. “So I don’t know if being more relaxed is good or bad. I don’t feel the pressure that I have to go on and win this week.

I’ve had a great run, and I’m going to try like mad to do it again.”

At the least, Stricker can draw on memories of past successes, plus the gallery. The Madison, Wis., native went to Illinois, and now has fans in the Quad Cities.

“You start to make a birdie here and there, you can go with the energy the crowd is providing you and get on a good roll,” Stricker said.

The run to three straight titles probably wouldn’t even have begun but for the tournament’s charter jet to the British Open site, which started in 2008.

“The year before, seven players went

from our tournament to the (British) Open, and they all lost their luggage at Heathrow,” said tournament director Clair Peterson. “We felt we had to do something.”

It boosted the depth of the John Deere field considerably, Stricker included. While only 16 of the top 50 on the Tour’s money list are playing, 34 players in the field have won in the last two years.

“I was leaving Friday night and getting there Saturday, then have four days to prepare,” Stricker said. “Then the charter came. It was always hard not to come here because it’s so close to home. I finally decided to give it a rip.”

That was 2009. Stricker beat a trio that included Zach Johnson by three strokes. He repeated in 2010, beating Paul Goydos by two strokes. Last year’s dramatics gave him three titles.

“When you have a world-class player in Steve, it’s not all that surprising to me,” Johnson said. “His chances of winning this week, I don’t have any idea, but it wouldn’t surprise me.”

Stricker wasn’t alone in finding the charter the clinching reason to play the week before the British Open. This week, 25 players are expected to take the non-stop flight.

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Whistles remain INNISFAIL COUNCIL DECIDES NOT TO SPEND $1 MILLION ON TRAIN CROSSING SIGNALS

LOTTERY WINNERS A Penhold couple has won $100,000 on a lottery ticket. Darcy Milligan and Michael Strelbisky received an extra surprise when Darcy checked their LottoMax with Extra entered. The couple won $100,000 on the June 22 draw. Darcy discovered their win when she went to the store to check her lottery tickets, as she does each Wednesday.

She scanned them at the ticket checker first.

When she saw the amount, she handed her ticket to the clerk to check saying, “I think I’ve won some money.” Once the retailer verified the win, Darcy said “Oh my god, we’ve won.”

The couple’s ticket had exactly matched the last six numbers drawn on the Extra game. “This is very exciting,”’ said Michael.

They purchased the $6 winning ticket at the Gasoline Alley Petro Canada, located at 146 37400 Hwy 2 in Red Deer County. They plan to share their winnings with family and save for their retirement.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Trains rolling through Innisfail will continue to blow their whistles.

Innisfail town council decided on Monday not to pursue whistle cessation.

A meeting on June 27 between Canadian Pacific Railway representatives and town council determined the requirements and the costs have not changed since the town considered the option in 2007.

Mayor Jim Romane said it would cost

the town $1.07 million to bring the five train crossings up to safety codes, including road work and signage.

“There’s such a load on the taxpayers right now as it is with the growing utilities costs, infrastructure costs and everything else,” said Romane. “It’s just not in the books right now.”

The other part is the safety aspect of not having a train whistle at the town’s five crossings. Council did not want to jeopardize public safety.

Romane said there has been a fatality on the train tracks in Leduc since that commu-

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CURRENT SITES Red Deer City RCMP has photo radar set up in several locations around the city to keep an eye on drivers. Enforcement is underway at playground zones on Davison Drive, Jewel Street, Lancaster Drive, 55th Avenue and McLean Street. Police are also checking traffic corridors on 32nd Street, 40th Avenue, 30th Avenue, 49th Avenue, 50th Avenue, Taylor Drive, 22nd Street and 19th Street. Enforcement will continue at these sites until July 15.

RCMP reserve the right to change locations without notice.

CORRECTION A story in the Advocate on Wednesday about bike lanes had inaccurate information.

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nity underwent whistle cessation in 2006.

“A young fellow was on the tracks,” said Romane. “The community was very, very upset. It really impacted the community. That’s the last thing I want on my conscience.”

There has been a mixed bag of public response about the train whistles.

“It’s not an unanimous thing in the community,” said Romane. “Until we see a larger impact on the whole scenario . . . at this point in time council does not feel it has enough to react to.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Volunteer Esther Kienholz races to serve cold lemonade to a full house of thirsty diners at the Sunnybrook Farm Museum on Wednesday. Lunch runs daily from noon to 3 p.m. and costs $10, including a tour, while the cost drops by half for children aged six to 10 and is free for pre-schoolers. Ice cream, pie and tea are available anytime for $5.

Two concepts for the future skatepark to be located on 76th Street and Taylor Drive were unveiled to an eager group on Tuesday.

Many people turned out to the G.H. Dawe Community Centre to provide feedback on the design concepts by New Line Skateparks.

City of Red Deer project manager Jerry Hedlund said at least 50 people viewed the concepts in the first 20 minutes of the open house.

The future skatepark, costing about $1.2 million, will be twice as large as the park located in Red Deer’s downtown.

Logan Henderson, 16, said he was very pleased with the terrain and bowls but liked option one as it would allow for both BMXers and skateboarders to be in the park at the same time.

He said option two would be a one-run park, similar to that in downtown.

“With this there are so many things to do and you won’t be in the way,” he said as he pointed at the option one concept.

Jay-C Crawford, an avid BMXer, also preferred option one.

“They had a tough job to start,” he said.

“With the amount of feedback and a restrictive budget, they had to be creative.”

Both options cater to all ages and abilities, said New Line Skateparks project manager Trevor Morgan.

He said option one incorporates a central green space in the middle of the park, to will allow for spectators and visitors.

Following the feedback received on Tuesday, managers will move towards a detailed design and get ready to begin construction this fall.

For more information about the skatepark, visit www.reddeer.ca. jjones@reddeeradvocate.com

Fair creates week-long boom

BY JESSICA JONES ADVOCATE STAFF

WESTERNER DAYS EVENTS

If Westerner Days Fair and Exposition is anything like last year, with people pouring through the turnstiles, the local economy will reap millions of dollars in benefits next week.

Attendance was way up last year, so much so that a new record of 94,000 fairgoers was set, said Westerner Park marketing manager Erin Gobolos.

And 43 per cent of those visitors came from outside the Red Deer area.

“Anytime we get an influx of visitors into our city, it certainly creates a boom for our local businesses, particularly for the hospitality and retail sector,” said Red Deer Chamber of Commerce president Maureen McMurtrie.

“Each year gate attendance records seem to have been broken, and that is indicative of the calibre of acts that they are bringing in now,” she said.

It is anticipated that Westerner Days, with the slogan of “Break Away from the Everyday,” will generate a gross economic impact of $7.3 million.

Gobolos says they hope to reach the 100,000 attendance mark this year.

“That is definitely our goal and we are not far from it,” she said. “We have increased our attendance every year so we are looking to do the same this year.”

Westerner Days, running from July 18 to

22, kicks off with the parade on Wednesday and winds up on Sunday.

The parade starts at 9:30 a.m. on 48th Avenue and wraps around to 47th Avenue, 53rd Street and to 51st Avenue. The route will then follow around to 48th Street and back to 48th Avenue. The route is approximately 3.4 km in length and the parade takes about one hour.

Gobolos said every year about 30,000 people flock to the downtown core for the parade, which has numerous agricultural livestock entries. The marshalling area for the parade will be open at 7:45 a.m.

The Canadian Forces SkyHawks will parachute in formation and land into the bowl of the pony chuckwagon track on Wednesday and Thursday evening at the fair. The North American Pony Chuckwagon Championships, one of the most popular events at Westerner Days, will feature 56 drivers competing for the championship buckle and trophy. On the other nights, the Stars of Tomorrow, who are the children of the chuckwagon drivers, will open the show with a race themselves.

“That is something we have never done before and it will be really great,” Gobolos said.

There are 17 confirmed offsite events, including pancake breakfasts, barbecues, a chili cookoff and show and shine. For more

information, visit www.westernerdays.ca/ off-site-events. ● On Wednesday night, the SkyHawks team will be available for autographs and pictures. ● Thursday is McDonald’s Kids Days, where children 12 and under get gate admission for free until 6 p.m. Ride coupons are reduced by $1 until 7 p.m. ● Sunday is Service Credit Union Family Day, where a carload of up to six people get gate admission and parking for $20. The Ride-All-Day pass will also be featured for $12 for kids 10 and under. ● The Northern Lights Fireworks Show will brighten the night sky on Friday evening. ● Hedley, Sawyer Brown, Nazareth and Terri Clark will be performing on different nights. Visit www.westernerdays.ca/entertainment for more information.

• Midway boulevard acts are Bandaloni, Copper Cowboy, Doo Doo the Clown, Movie Stunt Adventure, My Antique Portrait Ltd., Spandy Andy, Wobbly Water Balls and XTreme Wild. ● Living Wild with Safari Jeff, Dale Murdock Sand Sculpture and Under the Sea will be featured at Adventure Alley. ● The North American Midway will feature 16 thrill rides, 15 family rides and 11 kiddie rides.

For detailed information, including times and locations, visit www.westernerdays.ca. jjones@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Controlled fire delayed; firefighters sent elsewhere Provincial foresters and the Alberta Wild Sheep Foundation have postponed a prescribed burn that was planned for the Ram Mountain area, southwest of Rocky Mountain House.

Barry Shellion, public information officer and wildfire ranger for the Clearwater forestry area, said on Wednesday that a burn planned to start today has been put off until further notice.

Conditions are excellent for the burn, which was planned to last for a week and to cover about 465 acres of forest.

However, wildfires burning elsewhere in the province have diverted the people and equipment needed to manage the burn, Shellion said.

While there are no new fires in the Clearwater, a number have broken out in northern areas, including the Peace River and Fort McMurray regions, he said.

The Ram Mountain prescribed burn was set up to enhance bighorn sheep habitat, encourage diversity in the landscape and increase knowledge about fire and its benefits to the ecosystem.

Downtown Red Deer work includes lights, crosswalk Construction continues downtown as the City of Red Deer works to install catch basins, street light bases and electrical conduits.

Crosswalk installation between Ross Street and 49th Street also continues.

The intersection of Gaetz Avenue and Ross Street will be open to traffic on Friday.

The intersection of Gaetz Avenue and 49th Street is to reopen to traffic on Monday.

Work continues between 46th Avenue and 47th Street and 47th Avenue to 48th Street. Pedestrian access will be maintained at all times.

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Amanda Fagan threatens to pull Jakobe Moore, 11, into the Red Deer River as they and friend Treasure Badger set out on rafts this week. The river has been a popular draw recently for people seeking a little fun, and relief, in the heat. And the forecast calls for continued warmth through the weekend in Central Alberta.

51st Street to 52nd Street remains closed to traffic until work on the road base is complete.

During construction, Gaetz Avenue

will be closed to vehicle access.

For more information on parking downtown, visit www.reddeer.ca/parking.

Residents and business operators who have questions or concerns during the construction are advised to contact the city at 403-342-8750.

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Art show, sale to help fund African school

BY JESSICA JONES ADVOCATE STAFF At the stroke of a brush or creative inspiration, Red Deer artists will be raising funds to help children in Africa.

Artists have joined forces in Create 2 Educate — a fundraiser in the form of silent auction art show that will raise funds for the charity Home of Hope.

The organization helps kids in Africa by providing funds for children’s tuition, teacher’s wages, school fees, supplies and food and housing programs.

The art show and auction is on July 21 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Hudson Madison, at 4824 Gaetz Ave. The works of art, from 10 to 12 local artists, will include photography, paintings, locally hand-designed purses and much more.

Lani Ledingham decided to hold Create 2 Educate after she was informed that Home of Hope has started to build schools in Africa but doesn’t have enough funding for teachers or students.

She is hoping to raise at least $2,000 as it would pay for a teacher for a year.

“What we see as little can do so much there,” she

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Africa children appeal to Home of Hope members for help in establishing a school. said.

Other local artists are welcome to donate their art, which will be distributed through Hudson Madison.

For more information about Create 2 Educate,

contact Ledingham at 403-597-4311.

For more information about Home of Hope, visit www.homeofhope.ca. jjones@reddeeradvocate.com

Bowden prison policies would prevent repeat of suicide: report blister packs with a 35-day supply and did not take the medication for an extended period of time in order to attempt suicide.

In 1998, he attempted suicide but he was considered a low risk for suicide in 2009.

The Medicine Hat man was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder.

He was convicted in 1998 for the murder of his 15-year-old daughter in 1997.

Amber Dickson’s body was found in his apartment, four days after she had left to spend the weekend with her father.

She had been sexually assaulted, bathed and wrapped in a blanket.

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A fatality report into a Bowden Institution prisoner who committed suicide in 2009 was released on Wednesday with no recommendations to prevent similar deaths.

Gerald Ernest Mayhew, 51, was found dead by prison staff at 1:40 p.m. on Sept. 27, 2009.

No recommendations were made as changes in policies and practices were put in place after his death.

Institution policy on counting inmates required the prisoner to stand up for a count at 4:15 p.m. That policy was changed effective Sept. 21, 2009, to require two stand up counts, including one at 11:45 a.m.

Staff on duty in Mayhew’s unit on the day he died were not aware of the policy change so the 11:45 a.m. count was not a stand up count.

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found, Mayhew turned himself into police.

His sentence included no parole eligibility for 14 years, a term he later fought unsuccessfully.

The public fatality inquiry was held on May 23 before provincial court

Judge Gordon Deck in Red Deer.

An inquiry is held to establish the cause, manner, time and place, and circumstances of death. It does not include findings of legal responsibility.

Bowden Institution has about 645 inmates.

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KEARL OILSANDS MINE NEARLY COMPLETE, SAYS IMPERIAL CEO CALGARY — The first phase of Imperial Oil Ltd.’s Kearl oilsands mine is nearing completion, with all of the gargantuan pieces of equipment having finally made their way from South Korea to Alberta, the company’s CEO said Wednesday.

Bruce March told the TD Securities Energy Conference the $10.9-billion mine is now 92 per cent complete and on track to start up later this year. Calgary-based Imperial (TSX:IMO), which is majority-owned by U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), ran into legal trouble transporting giant modules manufactured in Korea to Alberta through the United States.

The enormous shipments moved across the Pacific and along rivers to Lewiston, Idaho, where they were to be transported by truck the rest of the way to northern Alberta.

The initial plan was to move the shipments along two-way highways through Idaho and Montana, but legal challenges arose because local residents and conservation groups didn’t want the megaloads moving along those scenic routes.

CONSUMER SPENDING UP 4.67% IN Q2 TORONTO — Consumer spending increased in the second quarter compared with a year ago but that figures for June point to a slowdown, according to a report by credit and debit card processor Moneris Solutions.

Moneris said Wednesday that overall, consumer spending increased 4.67 per cent year-over-year in the quarter, but that the smallest amount of growth, 3.72 per cent, occurred in June. “While the Canadian economy continued to experience healthy growth in the second quarter of 2012, some signs point to a potential reduction in spending,” said Jim Baumgartner, president and CEO, Moneris Solutions.

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‘A crucial moment’ for Spain COUNTRY IMPOSES ANOTHER ROUND OF AUSTERITY, AIMING TO SHAVE $79B OFF BUDGETS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID, Spain — Spain’s government imposed more austerity measures on the beleaguered country Wednesday as it unveiled sales tax hikes and spending cuts aimed at shaving C65 billion ($79.85 billion) off the state budget over the next two and a half years.

A day after winning European Union approval for a huge bank bailout and breathing space on its deficit program, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warned Parliament that Spain’s future was at stake as it grapples with recession, a bloated deficit and investor wariness of its sovereign debt.

“We are living in a crucial moment which will determine our future and that of our families, that of our youths, of our welfare state,” Rajoy said to catcalls from the opposition socialists and other parties as he revealed the biggest single amount of projected deficit savings in modern Spanish history.

He spoke as thousands of miners stung by a huge cut in government subsidies were joined by protesters to demonstrate outside the Industry Ministry in Madrid. The protests later turned violent with riot police firing rubber bullets on crowds after they were pelted with fireworks and rocks.

The spending cuts, designed to cut C65 billion off state budgets by 2015, include a wage cut for civil servants and members of the national parliament and a new wave of closures at stateowned companies. Spain will also speed up a gradual increase in the retirement age from 65 to 67. They are to be approved officially Friday at a Cabinet meeting.

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Demonstrators shout slogans condemning recent austerity measures announced by the Spanish government during a demonstrations in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday. Spain’s government imposed more austerity measures on the beleaguered country Wednesday as it unveiled sales tax hikes and spending cuts aimed at shaving euro 65 billion ($79.85 billion) off the state budget over the next two and a half years.

Several ‘high-quality’ tenants interested in leasing space

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

EXECUTIVE PLACE

The long-vacant floors of Executive Place should soon start to fill.

The 12-storey office building at 4900 50th St. in Red Deer received a boost last month when Stantec Inc. moved its local operations into the top 5 ½ floors.

Now Chad Brennand, an associate with Executive Place’s leasing agent DTZ Barnicke in Edmonton, says he’s negotiating on most of the remaining 55,000 square feet.

“We have enough interest in the building that the remaining vacancy would be full,” Brennand said Wednesday. “And that’s not with a single occupier; that’s with a number of groups.”

He said interest has come from a number of “high-quality national tenants.”

These include Nova Chemicals Corp., confirmed Rick Van Hemmen, Nova’s Joffre site leader. (See related story.)

Brennand said DTZ Barnicke has also gotten queries from smaller local businesses, but wants to accommodate the needs of big lessees before carving out space for others.

This is particularly true for the first floor, which is desig-

nated for retail use.

“What we’ve been doing is getting interest from a number of different parties and trying to get the best mix of tenants for the main floor,” said Brennand.

That could include medical or dental professionals, and/or various other businesses.

“We haven’t ruled out a large restaurant — somebody that could service both the coffee side as well as the sit-down restaurant side.”

As the tenant mix on the floors above become known, it should be easier to get commitments for the higher-priced space on the ground level, said Brennand. That’s because they’ll likely rely on trade from Executive Place’s occupants, as well as customers from the outside.

Executive Place was developed at a cost of about $40 million by Beca International Ltd. and Clark Builders. Completed two years ago, it suffered from the poor appetite for lease space that accompanied the recession.

Brennand thinks the resurgent energy sector, and the absorption of surplus office space

in Red Deer, are now driving prospective tenants to Executive Place.

“It’s just over the last six to nine months we’re starting to see some renewed interest in it and some traction with new tenants to the market.”

Another factor has been Stantec’s commitment to Executive Place, he suggested.

“As soon as you put a large tenant and a respected tenant like Stantec into a building, it doesn’t matter what market you’re in, it adds credibility to the project.”

Brennand has no doubt that a building of comparable quality in Calgary or Edmonton would have filled long ago.

“I think the dynamics of the Red Deer market are a little bit different. In the tenant base there’s not as much depth.”

Stantec relocated from its existing space about a block east on Ross Street. It spent more than $3 million renovating the seventh to 12 floors of Executive Place to meet its needs, including extending a open staircase between the 11th and 12th floors down to the 10th. hrichards@reddeeradvocate. com

Nova eyes moving staff back to city Red Deer might soon be welcoming back a former corporate residents.

Nova Chemical Corps. is investigating the local lease market with an eye to moving some of its staff away from the its complex at Joffre.

Rick Van Hemmen, Nova’s site leader at Joffre, confirmed on Wednesday that his company is considering a number of options to address space shortages.

“From a long-term perspective, we’re trying to decide if we should think about building some additional buildings on site, or should we think about moving back into town.”

Even if the former alternative is chosen, Nova would probably still relocate some of its staff elsewhere while the new facilities are being built.

Van Hemmen said Executive Place in downtown Red Deer is one of the building’s that’s being considered.

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Global weakness hitting exporters as trade deficit widens

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s merchandise trade deficit with the world expanded more than expected to $793 million in May, suggesting global economic difficulties are taking a toll on Canadian producers.

It was the second consecutive big monthly setback after some steadily improving trade results, and was made worse by a revision to April’s data, which pushed that month’s deficit to $623 million from a previously reported $367 million.

The surprisingly strong downturn worried even normally bullish analysts that a trend to weaker numbers may be setting in.

Economists said the trade performance will drag down economic growth in the second quarter, which ended in June but has yet to be released.

“There’s not much that’s bright about these numbers.

It’s generalized weakness any way you cut it,” said Peter Hall, chief economist with the Crown agency Export Development Canada.

As expected, given the European recession and slow growth in the United States, exports to most advanced countries were weak during the month. But, the big shocker was that exports to Japan fell a massive 25.7 per cent.

“That is mystifying,” Hall said. “I’m still trying to figure out what is going on there. Is that the end of reconstruction (from the tsunami and earthquake) as far as Canada is concerned, or is that the volatility of a period of extraordinary stimulus?”

Overall, exports held steady at $38.9 billion, while imports rose 0.4 per cent to $39.7 billion.

But Bank of Montreal econo-

mist Robert Kavcic notes that in real terms —a measure with direct bearing on economic output, exports fell in May by 0.6 per cent, with negative implications for second-quarter growth.

“We don’t like to see trade being a subtraction for growth at this point, especially with consumer spending and housing slowing,” he said.

Another surprise, said Emanuella Enenajor of CIBC, is that imports of machinery and equipment again declined and are down on a year-to-year basis, flying in the face of Bank of Canada surveys suggesting firms will continue to up investments.

The Bank of Canada had expected second-quarter economic growth to come in at 2.5 per cent, but most economists believe the central bank will cut that projection next week.

The exports performance was generally negative in May,

with the exception of an impressive 8.7 per cent increase in shipments of machinery and equipment, including a 46 per cent jump in exports of aircraft, engines and parts.

But exports in energy products fell 4.3 per cent, and there were also declines in forest products, agriculture and fishing, industrial goods and automotive products.

By destination, Canada’s trade surplus with the United States slipped to $3.2 billion in May from $3.6 billion the previous month, with a 1.8 per cent rise in imports more than offsetting a small 0.2 per cent gain in exports.

Meanwhile, the trade deficit with other countries narrowed to $4 billion from $4.2 billion in April, as imports declined 1.9 per cent while exports were down 0.7 per cent.

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Wednesday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 91.33 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 72.35 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.49 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.01 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.85 Cdn. National Railway . . 86.77 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 73.68 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 3.56

Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 68.04 Capital Power Corp . . . . 23.77 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.75 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 30.29 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 40.92 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.15 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.93 General Motors Co. . . . . 19.90 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 14.78

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Wednesday with the market finding support from energy stocks on a solid jump in crude prices.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 32.42 points at 11,544.64. The TSX Venture Exchange gave back 6.57 points to 1,192.79.

Rising oil prices helped push the commodity-sensitive Canadian dollar up 0.26 of a cent to 98.05 cents US amid data showing a widening of the trade deficit in May. Statistics Canada said the trade deficit with the world was $793 million, up from $623 million in April. Merchandise imports increased 0.4 per cent on the strength of energy products while exports were relatively unchanged in May. New York markets were listless, reflecting investor disappointment that the minutes from the latest U.S. Federal Reserve meeting didn’t deliver a strong hint that another round of economic stimulus is on the way.

The minutes showed Federal Reserve policymakers agreed last month that they might need to take more action to support growth if the U.S. economy loses momentum.

They showed Fed officials

signalled their concern that the struggling U.S. economy could worsen if Congress fails to avert tax hikes and across-the-board spending cuts that kick in at the end of the year.

But “on balance, the minutes do not on the surface suggest a sizeable body of support for further immediate action,” said CIBC World Markets senior economist Peter Buchanan.

“Although it should be borne in mind that the comments were made prior to recent data disappointments, including another sub-100 payrolls print in June,” he added.

The Dow Jones industrials declined 48.59 points to 12,604.53.

The Nasdaq composite index fell 14.35 points to 2,887.98 and the S&P 500 index dipped 0.02 of a point to 1,341.45.

Hopes for more action from the Fed had risen in the past week amid disappointing readings on the American manufacturing and service sectors and job creation numbers for June that were below even modest expectations.

Other central banks have moved recently to help keep the recovery on the rails.

The European Central Bank and the People’s Bank of China cut lending rates last week. But

Research in Motion. . . . . . 7.57 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 38.47 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 28.29 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 62.23 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 17.44 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 43.16 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.94 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 68.28 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.05 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 33.31 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 11.16 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.05 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.69 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 54.16 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.26 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 16.34

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 35.66 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.51 First Quantum Minerals . 17.84 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 33.80 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.77 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 38.35 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 8.00 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 45.31 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.67 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 30.54 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 22.55 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.85 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 39.46 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.04 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 44.53 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 26.46 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 19.40

Canyon Services Group. . 9.41 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.28 CWC Well Services . . . . . 0.70 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.07 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.95 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 84.38 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 28.53 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.63 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 25.75 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.18 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.28 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.72 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.13 Penn West Energy . . . . . 13.00 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.63 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.85 Pure Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 6.98 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 29.25 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.07

slowing trade growth in China and weak jobs creation in the U.S. have investors worried that markets could languish until the Federal Reserve implements another round of Treasury bond purchases known as quantitative easing.

But some analysts questioned the need for another round of QE. “We thought at the end of the year they were going to come out with (more quantitative easing), not because we thought it was needed but because that was going to be the sentiment of the market because of where Europe was going to drive things,” said Gareth Watson, vice-president, investment management and research at Richardson GMP Ltd. “Let’s be honest: what is quantitative easing? It is when a central bank steps in to provide liquidity when there is no liquidity available. And ... there is no liquidity issue in the U.S. when it comes to financial institutions.”

The energy sector ran up 1.75 per cent as oil prices gained ground after weak Chinese trade data sent prices lower on Tuesday. Prices took off Wednesday after China’s auto industry said sales jumped a solid nine per cent in June despite a slowing economy. China is the world’s biggest market for new vehicles.

Also, the U.S. government said oil supplies fell last week by 4.7 million barrels, triple the decline expected by analysts, which signals higher demand.

The August crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained $1.90 to US$85.81 a barrel, pushing the energy sector up 1.75 per cent.

Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) gained $1.03 to C$33.28 and Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) rose 53 cents to $29.25.

The consumer staples sector also made headway. Quebec-based convenience store and fuel station chain operator Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. (TSX:ATD.B) gained $2.20 to $48.10 on top of a gain of $1.66 Tuesday in the wake of a strong earnings report.

Financials were also supportive with Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) ahead 14 cents to $11.10 while Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) climbed 56 cents to $53.06.

The gold sector was the leading decliner, down about 2.3 per cent amid lower gold prices and a production warning from one of the biggest miners. Bullion declined $4.10 to US$1,575.70 an ounce and Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) faded 71 cents to C$35.66.

Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) tum-

bled $3.83 or 10.18 per cent to $33.80 as the miner cut its 2012 production guidance, blaming operating delays at its Red Lake mine in Ontario and inadequate water supply at its Penasquito mine in Mexico. The Vancouverbased gold miner said it expected to produce between 2.35 and 2.45 million ounces of gold for the year, down from an earlier estimate of 2.6 million ounces.

Mining stocks were weak amid worries about a global economic slowdown.

The base metals sector dipped 0.83 per cent with copper ahead five cents at US$3.45 a pound. Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) shed 20 cents to C$8.80 and Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) shed 12 cents to $3.99.

The telecom sector was also a weight as Telus Corp. (TSX:T) eased $1.01 to $62.23.

In corporate news, Vancouver-based miner South American Silver Corp. (TSX:SAC) is protesting Bolivia’s decision to revoke its licence to mine a rich silver deposit in the country and nationalize the project. The licence was cancelled Tuesday following opposition from Quechua Indians who had seized workers employed by the company to press their case.

The stock has lost about half its value in the last two sessions,

Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 10.75 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.45 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 45.43 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 57.61 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 53.06 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.02 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 26.03 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 25.44 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 22.99 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.36 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 62.99 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 11.10 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.67 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.90 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 52.80 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 22.36 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.82

closing Tuesday at 49 cents on the TSX. It fell another 12 cents Wednesday to 37 cents.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: July ’12 $4.00 lower $687.10; Nov.’12 $4.00 lower $627.10; Jan ’13 $4.80 lower $630.00; March ’13 $6.20 lower $628.60; May ’13 $3.30 lower $624.70; July ’13 $3.70 lower $621.40; Nov. ’13 $8.90 lower $560.00; Jan. ’14 $8.90 lower $554.80; March ’14 $8.90 lower $554.80; May ’14 $8.90 lower $554.80; July ’14 $8.90 lower $554.80.

Barley (Western): July ’12 $10.00 higher $257.00; Oct. ’12 $10.00 higher $251.00; Dec. ’12 $10.00 higher $255.00; March ’13 $10.00 higher $258.00; May ’13 $10.00 higher $260.00; July ’13 $10.00 higher $260.00; Oct. ’13 $10.00 higher $260.00; Dec ’13 $10.00 higher $260.00; March ’14 $10.00 higher $260.00; May ’14 $10.00 higher $260.00; July ’14 $10.00 higher $260.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 379,580 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 379,580.

Corn farmers begin mowing down fields as drought worsens

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DES MOINES, Iowa — Some cornstalks in fields around the farm where David Kellerman works stand tall, but appearances can be deceiving. When the husks are pulled back, the cobs are empty. No kernels developed as the plants struggled with heat and drought.

The soil in Kellerman’s part of southern Illinois is like dust after less than an inch of rain since midApril. This week, he and the farmer he works with packed it in. They cut and baled the withered plants to use as hay for their cattle.

As the worst drought in nearly 25 years spreads across the nation, farmers in Illinois and Indiana are finding themselves among the hardest hit. But they are not alone, and conditions are likely to get worse throughout the middle of the country with an unusually hot summer in the forecast.

Almost a third of the nation’s corn crop is already showing signs of damage, and on Wednesday, the

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SPAIN: Hard reality

U.S. Department of Agriculture released yet another report predicting that farmers will get only a fraction of the corn anticipated last spring when they planted 96.4 million acres, the most since 1937.

It’s too soon to say how that will affect food prices.

The cost of meat is most likely to be affected because corn is used to feed cattle, and its price is usually passed along in the cost of hamburger and steak. But meat prices were already rising and were expected to stay high after last year’s drought in Texas forced many ranchers to reduce their herds.

Corn also is widely used as an ingredient — in corn flakes to ketchup, bread and soda pop — but it accounts for a small fraction of their costs compared to such things as transportation and marketing.

A rule of thumb is that food prices typically climb about 1 per cent for every 50 per cent increase in average corn prices, said Richard Volpe, a USDA food markets research economist.

The government has already predicted food prices will increase this year by as much as 3.5 per cent.

It won’t be clear until the fall, when all the damage is known, how much the crop loss will add to that, Volpe said.

Kellerman, 28, farms near Du Bois, Ill., with his neighbour Gerald Kuberski. He said they had been holding out hope for rain, but gave up last week after more than a week of 100-degree or hotter days.

Temperatures over 95 degrees while corn is pollinating can stunt the growth of ears and prevent kernels from fully developing.

“Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we had 108 degrees. It just pretty much fried the corn,” Kellerman said.

He and Kuberski considered selling 20 cattle because they expect feed costs to be high, but so many farmers are trying to sell animals that prices in their area have plummeted.

“You can’t really give them away so we decided to keep them and feed them this baled corn,” Kellerman said. “We don’t know how it’s going to work.”

largest economy in the eurozone — has been struggling to keep a lid on its government deficit in the midst of a recession while trying to support its troubled banking industry. There are fears that should Spain need a bailout of its own as did Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the eurozone would struggle to finance it, pushing the region further into recession.

However, said Mark Miller of Capital Economics in London, markets are concentrating on the planned bank bailout, which could get the economy up and running again by providing businesses and households.

So if the bailout works, it should eventually compensate for the bitter cocktail of the new austerity package. “’It is the classic case of short-term pain for longer-term gain,” Miller said.

administrative staff worked. Two years ago, it moved those employees to Joffre.

“At that point in time the business was sliding a little bit here in Alberta, with a lot of concerns,” said Van Hemmen.

Nova has since enjoyed strong revenues, secured new sources of feedstock for its operations, and plans to add a third polyethylene production line to its Joffre facilities.

“We’re looking at growth projects and just a different future,” said Van Hemmen.

“We’ve been restaffing a whole lot of core positions and we’re suddenly busting at the seams here at the site.”

Staff could be moved from Joffre as early as next year, he said. The number of people affected would likely be between 50 and 100, said Van Hemmen, with most of these in administrative positions and not directly tied to the plant’s day-to-day operations. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Spain has had to digest round after round of austerity measures since Rajoy’s conservative government took power in December. Until now, there have been C60 billion ($73.71 billion) in spending cuts and tax hikes by the central government or regional administrations. If you include measures taken by the previous, Socialist government, the number goes up to C75 billion. Now, albeit spread over two-and-ahalf years, comes another C65 billion.

“This is the reality. There is no other, and we have to get out of this hole and we have to do it as soon as possible and there is no room for fantasies or off-the cuff improvisations because there is no choice,” Rajoy told Parliament.

But he stressed that The measures are in exchange for the bank bailit’s one of many alternaout of up to C100 billion ($122.85 billion) granted to Spain by the other 16 countries that use the euro and tives.

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She only recommends using an oscillating sprinkler if the space is wide enough — there’s no point wasting precious water on the sidewalk or driveway. Water for about 20 minutes. But keep an eye on it to ensure the soil doesn’t become saturated, causing runoff.

The contents of rain barrels can be used to water containers and other plant material.

Concentrate on watering perennials and annuals.

“Just with the nature of lawns they do tend to go dormant and then as soon as the cooler weather comes they start to green back again with a little bit of rain,” Drake Nightingale said.

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Some heat-tolerant annuals are petunias, marigolds, snapdragons, zinnias and dahlias.

“Portulaca is so colourful, so beautiful, spreads nicely and blooms constantly,” she said. “You can put it next to the sidewalk and it doesn’t burn. It’s so hardy it takes like a sledgehammer to kill it.”

Drake Nightingale also likes dragon wing begonia and annual euphorbia, which can withstand hot dry conditions.

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TORONTO — The hot days of summer have settled into many areas of the country. Add a lack of rain into the mix and gardens are wilting under the soaring temperatures.

Gardeners who did a lot of backbreaking work in the spring and spent money on plant material may be dismayed to see their investment withering. But the solution is relatively easy — proper watering is key to preventing your plants from becoming scorched, says gardening guru Lindsay Drake Nightingale.

Water evaporates quickly when it’s very hot so she advises watering containers and gardens in the cool of the morning or evening, though she prefers early morning.

“It gives you a chance to enjoy your garden at its best — it’s always really nice in the morning — and then the garden appreciates it if you water it first thing. It’s better for the plant material too. It can absorb the water easier if it’s not so stressed by the heat,” she said.

Plants become perfect fodder for pests in the heat because they become more tender with lack of water absorption.

Another advantage of morning watering is that “you can spot the pests and it’s easy enough to pull a snail off of your hosta or slugs off of whatever or other nasty things that are out there eating your plant material,” Drake Nightingale, 50, said in an interview from Newmarket, Ont. Bump up watering to twice a day — morning and evening — for newly planted material, including young trees, and make sure water goes into the soil surrounding the plant rather than on its foliage.

“This gives it a chance to establish its roots and survive the heat,” said Drake Nightingale, owner of Yorkshire Garden Services, a small firm specializing in garden care, renovation and containers.

Water just until the soil is damp to the touch and not so it is pooling on the soil’s surface.

A hose with a nozzle that showers is the best way to give plants a drink.

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Any of these can be used as infill where spring perennials have died back.

Mulch holds in moisture.

“You lift up mulch and it will be nice and damp underneath and that’s a great environment for plants to have their roots stay cool and stay damp,” Drake Nightingale said. It also holds the weeds back.

“Weeds are so prevalent when there’s moisture so the spring is always weedy, but at this time of year they tend to die back a little bit. That’s the advantage of the hot weather.”

Rain will run off smooth compacted soil. Gently turning soil will help keep moisture where you want it.

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Sigourney Weaver sinks her teeth into ‘Political Animals’ TORONTO — As the ambitious and coldly calculating Elaine Barrish, Sigourney Weaver oozes a steely determination to get the job done in Bravo’s new serie Political Animals.

This, despite the moral quagmire the failed presidential candidateturned-secretary of state faces at every turn — including from within her own dysfunctional family.

Weaver says it’s a juicy TV part she relished diving into, even as she juggles several weighty film and stage projects, including two expected Avatar sequels.

“One of the reasons I wanted to do the show was it portrayed a woman who is like a breath of fresh air, frankly, in the White House,” Weaver says in a recent phone interview from New York, a few days after wrapping the series, which kicks off Sunday.

“She says what she thinks, she’s not afraid to ask questions, she has a very strong moral compass, she never loses sight of the big picture and she doesn’t play all these games that a lot of the entrenched politicians play. And she really hates these games.”

Although Political Animals marks Weaver’s first regular TV role, the movie veteran notes this is not her first taste of Washington’s unsavoury elements.

The Alien star says she spent time on Capitol Hill when she was in college, and developed a hefty dose of cynicism in the process.

“I worked for a New Jersey congressman and I was put in charge of his gun control mail,” recalls Weaver, a registered Democrat who has lobbied Congress on behalf of the arts, environment and human rights.

“And to my horror — because I was a fierce gun control person — I had to send out one letter to people who wanted gun control and another letter, similar but quite different, to the people who didn’t want it. I think it’s called ‘straddling the fence.’ So it made me a little cynical.”

There’s a healthy dose of skepticism and distrust among the embattled deal-makers of Political Animals, which show creator Greg Berlanti has acknowledged is partly inspired by Hillary Clinton’s own rocky road to national office.

Elaine’s fractured inner circle in-

cludes her womanizing ex-husband Bud Hammond (CiarDan Hinds), whose massive popularity as former president of the United States drove Elaine’s hard-fought campaign just shy of snagging the presidential primary.

The six-part series kicks off with Elaine conceding defeat to her scrappy rival Paul Garcetti (Adrian Pasdar), who ultimately takes office and appoints her secretary of state.

Then there’s Elaine’s drug-addicted gay son (Sebastian Stan), another straightlaced but ambitious son who serves as her righthand man (James Wolk) and a feisty former Vegas showgirl mother (Ellen Burstyn) with a tendency to speak her mind, even when reporters are around.

Complicating matters are Oval-office dealings that take place behind her back and a muckraking newspaper reporter who has uncovered a dark family secret Elaine is eager to suppress.

Weaver says none of this drama compares to the actual antagonism that seems to pervade the real Washington.

“One of the reasons I hope the show will be popular is frankly it’s a lot less painful to watch a fictional political story on television than it is to watch these debates and these speeches. It just is too painful for us now because there is so little progress and yet we have so many problems. And problems that we need to work together to solve,” she says.

“We do need more feminine energy in Washington, because as a mother, I looked around over my life and if you want to get something done you go to mothers. And they get it done. And so I feel that we need more mother energy in Washington.”

Weaver says she hopes the series offers a glimpse of what could be: “Personally, I feel like I wanted to see someone getting it done who is a woman and I can’t be alone in that feeling.

How can that not be a good thing for us to see?”

On a professional note, Weaver says her venture into TV has allowed her to explore a character in a way she hasn’t been able to do on the big screen.

She describes the film sets she’s been on as as “very much a director’s medium and it’s a director’s vision.”

“There isn’t a lot of extra stuff. And with TV, it changes its shape. There’s a lot more detail about life than you ever get in movies,” she says, noting “Politi-

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From left to right: James Wolk, CiarDan Hinds, Sigourney Weaver and Sebastian Stan star in ‘Political Animals’. cal Animals” will jump around in time and include a look at Elaine’s time as First Lady.

The movie star says she was “floored” to be offered the part because so many of her past roles have been women “sort of on the periphery of things.” Weaver’s varied film credits include Working Girl, The Ice Storm,” Galaxy Quest, Dave” and Ghostbusters.

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Then there is Avatar 2 and 3, the much-anticipated follow-ups to James Cameron’s 3D spectacle. Weaver says she has yet to see a script but has spoken with the Canadian director about his plans for two sequels: “We would do that next year.”

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The new rule was issued jointly by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) and the State Internet Information Office.

SARFT said this week in a statement on its website that the rule is in response to the rapid growth in online video programs, some of which

it said contain vulgar content, excessive violence or pornography. It said the rule would protect younger people and promote high-quality online programs.

China has a longstanding practice of censoring traditional television programs and films, and it bans access to several popular foreign websites, including the video-sharing site YouTube. The government relies on domestic web service providers to scrub the Internet of what Beijing considers to be offensive content.

The government statement said online video providers should bear responsibility for web programs and must prescreen content before it is posted, though it did not offer specific standards or mention penalties.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Lionel Richie had tremendous success as part of The Commodores before his solo career made him a legend. You might be allied with a group now. Focus on all you’re learning by being where you are now. Once the lesson is grasped, you naturally move on.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The infrastructure of a country includes its highways, railroads, and bridges, all acting as the skeletal structure. You have pathways you take to get from one place to another, but a need for repair is being shown.

Make the investment to ensure continued momentum.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You’re gonna make it after all” was in the theme to Mary Tyler Moore. Entertaining, yet the show presented a single woman in her thirties, revolutionary for that time. You come across a ground breaking representation, giving you permission to do what you most want.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Everything we do has an effect on others, but there’s only so far we can take it. There does come a point when even the most empathetic soul needs to put his or her needs first, as you note now. Healthy selfishness ensures you have more to give.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The creators of “South Park”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Your friends act as a conduit for empowering change and greater clarity, especially where it comes to your understanding of love and partnership. It’s not a good time to lend NADIYA money to friends. It will be a great SHAH year, enjoy!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The formula for the wholesale price involves purchasing a large enough quantity to bring the wholesaler’s price down. You might be in a bargaining mood, but make sure you’re offering something more in return, ensuring your position is strong and especially persuasive.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Moon moves into your sign for its monthly visit, and then reaches out to Pluto in harmony. The last year was meant to change the trajectory of

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ANDERSEN Ben O n F r i d a y, J u l y 6 , 2 0 1 2 Mr. Ben Andersen of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the age of 73 years. A graveside service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 14th at the Killam Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 14th at the Streams Church, 5350 - 46 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta.

Memorial donations in memory of Ben may be made to the Streams Church.

FEE & SONS FUNERAL SERVICE of Killam, Alberta in care of arrangements.

BOORMAN John Gregory John Gregory Boorman of Red Deer, Alberta died July 8, 2012 after a hard fought battle with cancer. He will be greatly missed by all of his family and friends. A Memorial Service will be held at the First Christian Reformed Church, 16 McVicar Street, Red Deer, on Friday, July 13, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to the Melanoma Network of Canada, Suite 324, 99 Bronte Road, Oakville, ON L6L 3B7 or to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, c/o Unit 32Palliative Care, 3942 - 50A Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 4E7. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222.

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MOHR Michelle Kathleen June 14, 1962 - July 1, 2012 On July 1st, 2012 our precious ray of sunshine went to be in the arms of those she loved who have passed before her.

Her loving husband, Don, her pride and joy, her children, Christel, Michael, Davis and Megan, along with the rest of her dear family are grateful for the beautiful life Michelle shared with them. Everyone who ever encountered Michelle, even for the briefest instant, benefited by receiving the warmth of her inner light. We will always remember her fabulous smile, her infectious laugh and her ability to bring joy to those around her. We are awed by the number of people she touched with her gracious spirit. In keeping with Michelle’s wishes, cremation has taken place and a family celebration of her life will be held at a later date. To help her family celebrate, please take a moment to spread a little more happiness into the world as Michelle always did.

Michelle’s family would like to thank everyone, near and far, for their kind thoughts and warm wishes. In lieu of flowers, we ask that you make a donation to your favourite charity in Michelle’s name.

To send condolences, please visit www.westlawnmemorial.com HOWARD & MCBRIDE WESTLAWN CHAPEL (780) 484-5500

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

LANA LIEBIG Mar. 29, 1970 - July 12, 2003 Gone but not forgotten and although we are apart your spirit lives within us.

Forever in our hearts ~Love your Family

Births

54 LANGFORD CRES. July 12, 13, & 14 Thurs. 4-8, Fri. 12-8, Sat. 9-2 Kids stuff, books, household. Lots for Free!

Deer Park

Lancaster Meadows

92 DUSTON STREET Thursday, July 12th 12 -9 & Friday, July 13th 9-8 HUGE SALE!!

MOVING SALE 152 DORAN CRES July 12th,13th, 14th & 15th Starting at Noon King bdrm. suite, 2 sets of couches w/loveseats, antique cabinet, 9x12 wool carpet & more.

99 LORD CLOSE (ALLEY) July 12, 13 & 14 Thurs. & Fri. 1-8, Sat. 10-6 Lots of household misc.

Lonsdale 86 LANTERMAN CLOSE Saturday, July 14th only!!

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Doll house, kids toys, books and clothing. Sports equipment, seasonal items, sectional sofa and glider rocker.

Inglewood

Mountview

35 ISBISTER CLOSE July 12th & 13th, 5-8 & 14th, 9-3 Tools, plumbing supplies, artwork, sports equip & more

3522 45TH AVE July 12 & July 13, 2-9 Something for everyone!

Toys, air hockey table, kids clothes, etc.

Johnstone Park MOVING OUT SALE 43 JUDD CLOSE July 12, 13 & 14 10-6 p.m.

Misc. Furn. big & sm., lawnmower & more.

Oriole Park MULTI FAMILY yard sale 25 OHIO CLOSE July 12 noon - 9, July 13, 9-9 Something for everyone!

Riverside Meadows

Victoria Park 167 ALEXANDER CRES. July 12, 13 & 14 Thurs. & Fri. 5-7, Sat. 9-12 Desk, bar stools, books, antiques, toys, clothes, etc.

MULTI-FAMILY YARD SALE

July 12 & 13 Thurs. & Friday 2 - 8 pm 5826 57 Ave. (Back Alley) Loads and loads of items, too numerous to list!

Sunnybrook 5 STIRLING CLOSE July 12 & 13, 5-9. Sat. 8noon. Reno material, small fridge, tires, automotive, furniture, sporting, etc.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Timberland HUGE MULTI-FAMILY 187 TIMBERSTONE WAY Back Alley July 12th, 12-8, 13th, 11-7 & 14th, 10-6 Children’s clothes, baby monitor, strollers, room dividers, new in box car seat, bassinet, oak TV stand w/shelves, Xmas ornaments, dishes & more.

West Park 3822 - 58 AVENUE (Back Alley) July 12, 13 & 14 Thurs., 12-7 & Fri. Sat. 9-7 Lots of quality items!

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager)

MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE

38 WISHART STREET July 11th, 12th 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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RED DEER BINGO Centre 4946-53 Ave. (West of Superstore). Precall 12:00 & 6:00. Check TV Today!!!!

GODDARD Don Parr and Raquel Goddard We would like to say, seven days ago today God blessed us in a special way .

He gave to us a bundle of joy, into our arms we held a boy.

Dallon Kelsey born on the fourth of July, 2012 weighing 6 lbs. 13 ozs.

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Celebrations

ROY & Marion Brown July 14, 1952 Come celebrate with us and our family as we mark our 60th Wedding Anniversary Sun. July 29, 2012, 2-5 pm.

At the HUB Community Centre, Pine Lake.

No gifts please.

Announce your

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THURSDAY NIGHT’S BBQ NIGHT 6-9 p.m. or while quantities last.

Steak/Ribs, Potato, Salad, Bun & Choice of Drink for $10.50 NOW PLAYING VLT’S AT

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LOST CHIHUHUA IN BURNT TIMBER. Pepper is Tanned color wearing a black color with spikes with a tag with my phone number and his name. If found call Shyla at 403-991-5474 REWARD$$ LOST: 4 mo. old male dog, tan with white under neck.

Went missing in downtown Red Deer. His name is Remmington. He is a cross between a Red Nosed Australian Pit Bull & Rottweiler. If found, or if you have seen him, please call 403-314-9911 or 403-597-4995 MISSING CAT IN Clearview, diabetic, solid grey domestic short hair, missing since July 2, 5 p.m. answers to “Tripper” FOUND

LOST Blue Point Himalayan Cat in Aspen Ridge. Will offer $100 for his return.

You can contact us at sdallas@telusplanet.net (403) 346-1442

To prepare month end invoices, compile payroll information, assist with communication to employees and clients. Must have working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and Power Point. Position is to work from home with own required equipment to complete tasks. Send resume to: archtrans@shaw.ca F/T Clerical Position req’d.

General office duties, experience with Accpac, A/R. and inventory an asset.

Fax resumes attn: Sandy 403-343-7922 email: sandy@pumpsand pressure.com No Phone Calls Please

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BOOKKEEPER

RESPONSIBILITIES: - all related payroll duties - GST returns and WCB reporting - monthly financial statements REQUIREMENTS: - high standard of confidentiality req’d - 5 or more years working experience - strong working knowledge of Simply Accounting - strong computer skills and very proficient with spreadsheets - extremely organized with attention to detail - able to work independently with minimum supervision - able to follow directions and meet deadlines Reply to Box 995, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, T4R 1M9 Only those selected for interview will be contacted

NEWSPAPER ROLL ENDS 50¢ PER POUND

Great For covering Tables, Art Work, Clean Packing Paper, Painting, Playschool, Banners, and Lots More.

VARIETY OF SIZES Pick Up At: RED DEER ADVOCATE Circulation Department 2950 Bremner

HERITAGE FAMILY SERVICES

is accepting resumes for a fulltime clerical/accounting position in Red Deer, AB, to commence Aug 1/12.

The successful candidate will have strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills as well as a skilled accounting background. Minimum requirements are Grade 12, several years office experience and proficiency in Simply Accounting, Word, Excel & Outlook.

Benefit package available.

Please submit resumes to: Human Resources Heritage Family Services 300 4825 47 St Red Deer AB T4N 1R3 Fax: 403-343-9293 Email: hr@ heritagefamilyservices.com For more information call 403-343-3422 Closing Date: When suitable candidate is found

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Apex Oilfield Services is looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Desktop Support Technician that enjoys working with people, is very organized and has a keen eye for detail.

Candidates with 1-2 years of experience in desktop support are preferred, but recent grads are encouraged to apply. For more information visit our website at www.apexoil.ca.

Resumes can be submitted attention Steve Shaw to sshaw@apexoil.ca in PDFformat no later than July 13, 2012. No phone calls, please.

MICROAGE

DISPATCH COORDINATOR REQ’D Our rapidly growing Red Deer location is looking for a dynamic & personable individual. Candidate will create work orders to fulfill client requirements. Track & update status of all work orders. Ability to communicate effectively. Proficient computer user with knowledge of PC components.

Good communication, documentation & organizational skills. Preference will be given to those candidates with computer & service industry experience. For further details visit www.microage.cc Please forward resume to: jdrummond@microage.cc

740 BIRCHLAND DENTAL CLINIC is looking for a

FULL TIME REGISTERED DENTAL ASSISTANT II (RDA II)

LADIES ELLE WATCH, silver links, bigger face with dark trim lost Thurs.

July 5. May be around the Dawe Centre. If found please call 403-347-3470 LOST / STOLEN - from Westpark backyard 2 Kids POP UP TENTS (pink Hippo) & (brown / tan Puppy).

2 little girls are heartbroken over the loss of their play tents that were a gift for the summer from their Grandma. $50.00 Reward for information leading to the return of the 2 tents.

Please call 1-250-334-4582

Owen Oil Tools, a leader in the oilfield perforating industry, is seeking a professional, friendly, and courteous individual to take on the role of Administrative Assistant.

The successful candidate must have a minimum of 1 - 3 years related experience and be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. Post secondary training in Office/Business Administration would be an asset.

Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.

Primary duties will include: operating a multi-line phone system in a professional and courteous manner, data entry, filing, customer invoicing, managing incoming and outgoing mail, assisting with accounts payable, and other clerical duties as requested.

Qualified applicants may fax their résumé to 403-340-1415, or e-mail to Darcy.Petherbridge@ corelab.com. Only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

PART TIME ASSISTANT REQ’D

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111 ALLAN STREET (Alley) Fri. 13th, 1-6 Toys, garden items, household items & more.

FOUND small dog, Victoria Park, owner call to claim 403-343-6757

WHITE M N/S, Non Drinke r, 4 2 , h a s v a r i e t y o f interests, seeks SF (any race), easy going for marriage, no players please.

Reply to Box 997, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

CONGRATULATIONS to Jessica and Nolan on the safe arrival of my 2nd Great Grandchild, ~Papa G

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FOUND ring on Weddell Crsc. in Red Deer. Owner can claim by identifying call 403-350-5172

Companions

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BIKES FOUND black boys and small blue girls bikes found. Call to identify. 403-896-0127

In Memoriam

WILLIAMS Dennis Morton Sept. 1, 1920 - July 9, 2012 Dennis was born on the family farm near Delburne, AB. to Raby and Sybil Williams, the fourth son in their family which would eventually grew to six boys and two girls.

Dennis took his schooling at the Great Bend School, near Delburne, then attended Baptist Bible College in Calgary for two years. His Bible school education was interrupted by 4 1/2 years in the RCAF, Western Air Command - “Sector Control”.

Based at Tofino, on Vancouver Island most of his Air Force career, he honed his skills in combat service and control fighter aircraft. Dennis was a very versatile worker, after finishing another 2 1/2 years of Bible School training he found employment in a variety of jobs just to pay the bills: construction, gas jockey, janitor, sawmill worker, store clerk, he even found work in the labor field with the Manitoba government for a time, as well as farm work on his parent’s farm and in the surrounding community. He taught school for a short period while in Manitoba. He met and married Muriel Reed, December 24th, 1969.

It was during this time work took them for an extended period to work in Child Care at High Prairie, AB. They eventually moved to Vancouver and settled a year later in Creston. After a twenty year marriage they parted ways.

Muriel resides in Penticton, B.C. Dennis carried on living on his beloved piece of beautiful B.C. in Creston until his poor health prohibited him from doing so. He sold his little acreage and moved into the dedicated care of friend and confidant - Terry Miller who has been his extended family. Terry cared for Dennis until his move to Swan Valley Lodge, were she continued to visit and care about him until his passing.

Dennis is predeceased by his father, Raby Wells Williams and mother, Sybil Winnifred (Knights) Williams; his three brothers, Robert, Donald and Eric Williams. He is survived and will be greatly missed by his brothers, Keith (Mary) of Pincher Creek, AB., Arthur (Mary Ellen) of Delburne, AB.; and sisters, Thelma of Red Deer and Sylvia Hansen of Delburne, AB.; plus numerous nieces and nephews; and a dear sister-in-law, Julia Hanson of Red Deer. AB. Funeral Services will be held from G.F. Oliver Funeral Chapel, Creston, B.C. on Friday, July 13th, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. with the Pastor Doug Stapleton officiating. Interment will follow at Creston Cemetery, Erickson.

Lunch and a time of fellowship will follow at the Lutheran Church, Creston.

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The successful candidate must have good work ethic, interpersonal and computer skills.

Be able to operate in a paperless office Be a team player MISSING from KENTWOOD since May 7.

Answers to PUFF. Long haired, light orange/ beige & white. Any info or sightings appreciated.

Please call 403.392.8135 or 403.350.9953 OFF WHITE RING NECK DOVE Lost in the Pines area.

Very friendly bird and his partner misses him. His name is Paapaw. If you hear his unique coo, please pick him up and call 403-348-8794

Hours of work are Monday to Thursday 8am – 4:30pm We offer fair compensation and bonus Please mail resume to Dr. Hugh Porter Box 4128 Ponoka, AB T4J 1R5 Or email to dr.hporterdental@gmail.com We appreciate the interest of all applicants, but advise that only candidates selected for an interview for this competition will be contacted.

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AURORA DENTAL GROUP is looking for a

DENTAL ASSISTANT We are looking for a level II RDA who is excited about dentistry and wants to help us provide excellent high-end dental care for our patients.

Must be willing to learn new skills and perform at an accelerated level. Must have good communication skills and be organized.

4 day work week with generous bonus plan.

6 week paid vacation.

This is a great career opportunity.

Please submit resume to Dr. Brian Saby, #100-3947 50A Ave. Red Deer, T4N 6V7 or email: info@saby.com 403-340-3434 or 403-348-7069

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ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs.

Starting wage $13/hr. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

Oilfield

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PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D BONUS INCENTIVE PROGRAM, BENEFITS!!

Join Our Fast GrowinTeam!!

QUALIFIED DAY AND NIGHT SUPERVISORS

(Must be able to Provide own work truck)

DENTAL LAB TECHNIA RED DEER BASED C I A N p / t , f l e x i b l e h r s . Pressure Testing Company Submit resume to Dr. JE req’s. Operators for testing Scalzo 4602-50 St. Red BOP’s throughout AB. Deer, AB T4N 1W9 Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email mikeoapt@gmail.com Only those selected for interview will be contacted.

FIELD OPERATORS Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers License required!!

Please contact Murray McGeachy or Kevin Becker by Fax: (403) 340-0886 or email

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Exciting changes approaching and we are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic team players! Please forward resumes to: resumes@yes-inc.ca WA N T E D R D A I I M o n . Thurs. for General dental practise in Rimbey. Previous exp. preferred. Please fax resume to 403-843-2607 WANTED: Sterilization Technician for Rimbey Dental Care.

Must be meticulous & work well in a team setting.

Starting wage $12-$15/hr depending on exp.

Please fax resume to 403-843-2607

with flare stack building experience. Must be able to read blueprints and do material take off. Stainless welding ticket would be an asset. Merit program.

Great rates and hours.

Please email resume to: info@dynamicprojects.ca or fax: (403)340-3471 DEX Production Testing req’s exp. day night supervisors & assistants.

Competitive wage & benefit pkg. Email resume to: office@ dexproduction.com or fax 403-864-8284

HAULIN’ ACID INC. Is currently seeking exp. Class 1 Drivers.

We offer competitive wages, benefits & on-site training.

Requirements: current oilfield certificates, oilfield driving exp., class 1 drivers license, clean drivers abstract. Fax resume to 403-314-9724 or call Dean 403-391-8004

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Further Smitty’s Franchise rights to the city of Red Deer are also negotiable.

For more information, contact Scott Amberson SMITTY’S CANADA LIMITED #600 – 501, 18th Ave SW Calgary, AB T2S 0C7 (403) 229-3838 Fax (403) 229-3899 Email: samberson@smittys.ca www.smittys.ca

BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley Red Deer County Food & Beverage Server

$12.25/hr.

To provide Food & Beverage service, handle cashiering, arrange and setup the outlet. maintain cleanliness and hygiene.

Cook

$14.00/HR. To prepare and cook all food up to standard, clean kitchen and maintain hygiene follow recipes, assist in receiving and storing

Kitchen Helper

$11/hr To clean kitchen following safety and hygiene standards. Clean utensils, cutlery, crockery and glassware items.

Clean floors.

Assist in prep.

All positions are Shift Work & Weekends.

Fax resume 780-702-5051 F/T Housekeeping and F/T servers with experience in serving seniors.

Must be flexible, work within a team environment, take initiative and work without supervision.

Must be available to work weekend. We offer a competitive salary.

Fax: 403-341-5613 Attention: ARAMARK e-mail: margery_becker@ aramark.ca

HOLIDAY INN Red Deer South, Gasoline Alley Is Seeking

FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations * Check in/out Guests * Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $ 14.00/hr HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms public areas pool etc. * Replenish amenities, linens & towels * Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards $ 14.00/hr All positions are Shift Work & weekends Fax resume 780 - 702-5051

NIGHT WAIT STAFF & BUS PEOPLE NEEDED. Apply after 2 p.m. @ New Year Restaurant 6712 - 50 Avenue.

P/T COOK, Fri., Sat. Sun. and holidays. Sylvan Lake.

Call 403-396-5031 SUBWAY RESTAURANT Innisfail, AB needs F/T Food Counter Attendant.

Must be Mature and willing to work any shift. $11.00/hr. Fax resume to 403-227-6176 or email d_merkley@telus.net

Restaurant/ Hotel

SOUTHPOINTE COMMON LOCATION. Positions for COOKS OR CASHIERS, F/T & P/T. There are opportunities for advancement with experience. Uniforms are provided. On the job training. Email resume to awsp@rttinc.com THE BIG MOO in Sylvan Lake is looking for ICE CREAM SERVERS. F/T or P/T positions avail. $10/hr. Contact Stephanie at 403-887-5533.

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IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR P/T EXP’D

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Sales & Distributors

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Alberta Sport & Import Ltd. require an experienced sales consultant.

Knowledge of high end vehicles and finance would be an asset. We offer Company Benefits and flexible work schedule.

Apply in person to 7620 Gaetz Ave. or fax your resume to 403-347-9551, email to rjacobson@ albertasportandimport.com

B.C.’S friendliest home provider is looking for experienced Sales staff for our second location in Kamloops, B.C. opening August 1, 2012. Please contact Trudy Reese at Countryside Manufactured Homes, 1-250-832-6699, or fax resume to 1-250-832-2418.

Also visit our web site at countrysidemanufactured homes.com.

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds CASHIER NEEDED. Drop resume off at Liquor Crossing, 5250 22 St., Red Deer.

PREMIER Spa Boutique is seeking Retail Sales Supervisor for our Parkland Mall location, Red Deer. $16.00/hr.

Email resume premierjobrd1@gmail.com

StoreSmart Self-Storage

seeking P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSOCIATE for 16-24 hours per week.

For job description and how to apply, please go to…www.StoreSmart.ca/ careers.

No phone calls please.

Trades

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AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE TECHNICIANS (Hyundai Master Technician Required) Two full time, permanent positions in Red Deer, AB From $29.75/hr to $33.00/hr

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

Vehicle maintenance service, replace, fix, adjust systems and components, steering, brakes, suspension, transmission, electronics, electrical, engines and accessories.

FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE • Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks Apply in person at West Side Gasoline Alley or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

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Apply in person with resume and Hyundai certification to: Dave @

Gary Moe Hyundai 7652 Gaetz Ave Red Deer

403-350-3000 ATTENTION: Sheet Metal Apprentice

Well established Heating, Refrigeration & Plumbing Company of 51 years, has a full time position available for first or second year sheet metal workers.

We are offering top wages, j o b s e c u r i t y, v a c a t i o n / holiday pay, health & dental packages, paid training and a safe & enjoyable place to work. If you would to join our team of top technicians please fax your resume to: 403-347-5530 or email Mcmullens@mcmullens.ca Attn: Dennis Shannon

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FULL TIME SALES POSITION

General Manager or Operating Partner Position Available for completely redeveloped Smitty’s Restaurant, Lounge, Convenience Store, New Husky Gas Bar and Car Wash on Gasoline Alley in Red Deer, A.B.

One of Alberta’s premium used vehicle operations is looking for a full-time sales consultant.

Experience is an asset, but not a requirement.

Minimum 3 years Full Service Restaurant experience as a General Manager is required.

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Here’s what we offer: • Large Inventory – 2 locations to sell from • Flexible Hours • Excellent Reputation • Excellent Pay Structure • Excellent Benefit Plan

Further experience in Lounge, Convenience Store & Gas Bar is an asset.

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Restaurant/ Hotel

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This location includes the completely redeveloped Smitty’s Restaurant, Lounge, Convenience Store, New Husky Gas Bar and Car Wash.

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Apply now at www.worleyparsons.com or call +1 403 885 4209

800

Oilfield

WE ARE SEEKING MOTIVATED HARD Professional Drivers for WORKING PERSONNEL Field Based Equipment TO PROVIDE QUALITY Wanted SERVICE TO THE Duties and responsibilities OIL & GAS INDUSTRIES include the following: *Safely driving and spotting *3 years experience in the The following positions mobile/semi-permanent oil and gas industry in an are available equipment in a field HSE role and formal operations setting education in a college/ * BED TRUCK * Onsite locating and university Safety program rigging in of mobile Oil & DRIVERS or an equivalent combinaGas tractor/trailer units tion of both. * SWAMPERS * Performing minor regular *Must have experience * PICKER OPERATOR and preventative with auditing, incident root * WINCH TRACTOR maintenance on Fleet vehicles cause analysis, behavioral The successful candidate DRIVERS based safety concepts, should possess the regulation interpretation following skills and attributes: and implementation, risk Please submit your *Oil & Gas background assessments, trend analysis. resume, current driver’s *Mechanical & technical abstract (5 year) and aptitude Skill set must include current safety certificates. *Clean/current 5 year *Excellent communication Competitive wages driver abstract and public speaking, profiwith benefit and salary *Proficient with National cient in computer skills, options available.

Safety Code Pre-trip and autonomous, must work en-route inspections with little supervision, must Email: *Experience transporting have ability to multi-task scornell@completeenergy.ca hazardous products or and prioritize.

Fax: 403-887-4750 dangerous goods *Must be able to visit well *Ability to perform emergency site locations for field We would like to thank all roadside repairs inspections those who apply. Only *All Oil & Gas industry All resumes should be qualified candidates will be safety tickets emailed to contacted for an interview. *Class 1 drivers license slb1927@hotmail.ca required *Experience and under TEAM Snubbing Services standing of Micro Soft now hiring exp’d snubbing Professionals Word, Excel, and email operators and helpers.

Email resume to nicole@ Only those WITH experiamperageenergy.com or by ence need apply. Email: fax to 403-932-4276 with a janderson@ current/clean 5 year drivers teamsnubbing.com abstract & safety tickets. or fax 403-844-2148 www.amperageenergy. com ALSTAR is a long standing VALVE TECHNICIAN/ and quickly growing SHOP ASSISTANTS EQUIPMENT Gas & Oilfield Construction JOB HUNTING? Read the ISOLATION Company and is looking to SERVICES INC. Classifieds. 309-3300. fill the following position: an expanding Oil Service Company is willing to train Human Resources QUINN PUMPS the right candidates as Coordinator CANADA Ltd. valve technicians and/or Successful candidate will Is looking for a Pump shop assistants in its fast & be required to relocate to Technician in their Red mechanical environment.

Hinton, Alberta Deer location. Apply within Duties include but not For complete Job Description with resume 6788-65 Ave. limited to the following: & Application Form, Red Deer. No prior experi- - Assembling and repairing please go to our website ence is necessary control valves/frac heads www.alstaroilfield.com - Calibration, testing and Please Quote Job troubleshooting of valves as #61719 well as measurement and valve related instruments - Disassembly, cleanup and Restaurant/ evaluation of parts SAVANNA Well Servicing - Signing and documenting Hotel is seeking enthusiastic date compliance sheets individuals to join our - Pressure testing HOLIDAY INN growing company. The processes with EXPRESS following opportunities are experience, will train available in Alberta and RED DEER Forklift experience/loader Saskatchewan as well as Is seeking experience, will train long term local work.

FRONT DESK CLERK - Must be 18 years of age or * Answer phone calls RIG MANAGERS older to apply * Take reservations DRILLERS - Must supply driver’s abstract * Check in/out Guests Benefits: DERRICKHANDS Balance cash out Excellent hourly wage FLOORHANDS & Attend to guest needs - Lucrative Safety Bonus $14.00/hr. and Christmas bonus `Come join our growing - Excellent benefit plan HOUSEKEEPING ROOM - Retirement plan family ATTENDANT Fax or email your resume make the connection` * Clean and vacuum and driver’s abstract to: rooms, public areas, pool Fax: (403) 347-3406 Savanna offers competitive etc.

Email: l.enzie@ rates and a comprehensive Replenish amenities, isolationequipment.com benefits package linens & towels or drop by #239-37428 effective on your first day * Adhere to Holiday Inn RR273 of work. safety stardands Clearview Industrial, Submit your resume : $14.00/hr.

Red Deer County Include Industry certificate All positions are Shift work and driver`s license & weekends WANTED Online: http: //savanna.

Fax Resume to: EXPERIENCED appone.com 780-702-5051 CLASS 3 Email: VAC/steamer Truck driver savannacareers@ Lacombe area, Fax savannaenergy.com Restaurant/ resume to 403-782-0507 CALL US: Hotel 780-434-6064

Franchise Available for Location on Gasoline Alley in Red Deer, A.B.

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800

The HSE Specialist supports local Management in establishing and continuously improving the HSE culture within the worksite.

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Oilfield

SCHLUMBERGER HSE SPECIALIST

Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

SUREPOINT GROUP Provides a complete range of services to the upstream oil and gas industry.

Our RED DEER Location is looking for Instrument Technicians and Electricians of all Apprentice Levels!

We offer: - Competitive wages - Comprehensive Group Benefits - Outstanding Safety Program. It is our job to ensure we all go home SAFE EVERY DAY Please forward resumes to Voltage Wireline Inc. is careers@surepoint.ca or seeking an FAX: (780) 830-5115.

Electronic Technologist Visit our website: www.

The successful candidate: surepoint.ca - Completes preventative maintenance on downhole wireline tools by following standardized procedures.

- Troubleshoot and repair of electronic components, parts, switches, panels, electronic equipment, and systems.

- The physical ability to immediately respond to emergency situations.

- The successful candidate will be required to participate in the on-call rotation.

- Formal completion of 2 year diploma in Electronic Technology - Mechanically inclined - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Please send resumes to jvalliere@voltagewireline. com

We are currently hiring for the following positions in our Blackfalds mod yard and throughout Alberta:

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800

Oilfield

820

B-PRESSURE Shop kbecker@ Welder cathedralenergyservices.com

RED DEER Orthodontics is seeking a

Oilfield

800

We are looking for a Dental Manager. This is a fulltime position in Red Deer for a multi clinic office.

Previous dental and office management experience is NOW ACCEPTING a must.

Resumes for: Must be highly organized, DRIVERS/HELPERS, detail-oriented and great w/Class 1 or 3. time management capa- Must have drivers abstract. bilities. Have the ability to Looking for deal with stressful situa- SNUBBING OPERATOR tions, and provide work HELPERS leadership, guidance and Must fax resume & driver’s motivation to staff. abstract to: 403-314-5405.

If your organized, efficient Quattro Energy Services and personable, then this may be the opportunity for PRECISION Geomatics you. requires a SURVEY Please forward resume to ASSISTANT in the debms@shaw.ca Innisfail or Red Deer area.

Two years Oil & Gas P/L & W/Survey exp. and safety tickets preferred but not required. Requires good Farm Work physical condition,works outdoors, ability to work LOOKING FOR SOMEONE out of town for up to two to bale 2 quarters between weeks at a time. Email Rocky & Caroline. careers@ 60/40 Split. precisiongeo.ca.

403-845-3501 or 844-1954

Dental Hygienist

3 days/week, starting Aug. 8 Fax: 403-782-6326

Oilfield

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MARKETING PROFESSIONAL REQ’D Our rapidly growing Red Deer location is looking for a dynamic & personable individual. Must be a self starter, who has a successful track record in implementation & follow through of a marketing plan. Preference will be given to those candidates with marketing education & experience. For further details visit www.microage.cc Please forward resume to: jdrummond@microage.cc

740

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MICROAGE

Dental

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730

SMITTY’S CANADA LIMITED #600 – 501, 18th Ave SW Calgary, AB T2S 0C7 (403) 229-3838 Fax (403) 229-3899 Email: sfee@smittys.ca www.smittys.ca Canada’s Largest Full Service Family Restaurant Chain - Since 1960

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Computer Personnel

Contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview. Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, July 12, 2012 D3

Two full time, permanent positions in Red Deer, AB From $29.75/hr to $33.00/hr Vehicle maintenance service, replace, ďŹ x, adjust systems and components, steering, brakes, suspension, transmission, electronics, electrical, engines and accessories.

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403-348-8882

KCB Cabinets has an opening!

We are looking for a

with Ag experience.

We offer year round employment, exemplary benefits package, competitive pay scale and continuous professional training in a positive, friendly team oriented work environment.

If you have a great attitude and integrity, Future Ag Inc is offering you an exciting career opportunity.

Carpenter/Handyman

Strong solid experience in carpentry is essential.

Experience in plumbing, drywalling, taping and mudding will be considered a definite asset. Must be able to ensure quality workmanship and own the tools necessary to do the work. If interested please drop off resume or call

To apply, forward your resume to: Future Ag Inc. Attn: Barry Groves Box 489 Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1 Fax to (403) 342-0396 Email: barryg@futureag.ca

Rick at KCB Cabinets #2 4648 Riverside Drive Red Deer.

Phone 347-3334

Must have Residential experience. Fax resume to 403-347-5745

EXP’’D drywall tradesmen & laborers req’d, Phone 403-348-8640

ATTENTION: Journeyman Plumber Well established Heating, Refrigeration & Plumbing Company of 51 years, has a full time position available for journeyman plumber (mainly service).

We are offering top wages, job security, vacation/ holiday pay, health & dental packages, paid training & a safe & enjoyable place to work. If you would to join our team of top technicians please fax your resume to 403-347-5530 or email Mcmullens@mcmullens.ca Attn: Glen Ewen.

EXPERIENCED repair person or HD Mechanic to work in Clive area shop.

Exp. working on highway tractors and trailers, Class 3 an asset. We offer an 8:30-5 work day. All tools supplied. Health and dental benefits. Fax resume to 1-855-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501

LOOKING FOR A CAREER? KAL TIRE

F/T PAINTERS REQ’D Painting exp. necessary.

Must have vehicle.

Must be task orientated, self motivated & reliable.

Recognized as a top safety award winning company.

Phone 403-596-1829

BWS FABRICATION INC. Is looking to fill the position of

B Pressure Welder

vessel experience an asset

FINISHING CARPENTER The successful candidate req’d in Central Alberta. shall possess the following Sub-Contract or hourly. skills and abilities: Competitive wages. • Experience in the Experience req’d. Send Oilfield and related resume to: admin@ equipment davcointeriors.com • Works well with others or fax: 403-887-7589 • Must be dependable, reliable, and loyal FRAMERS and helpers • Exercise good req’d, m/f, own transportaorganizational skills tion 403-350-5103 on the shop floor Those individuals with the appropriate qualifications may respond in strictest confidence to careers@bwsfabrication.com or Fax 403-343-6006 CASE IH EQUIPMENT DEALER IN STETTLER is now accepting applications for

3rd and 4th year Apprentices or Journeyman / Heavy Duty Mechanics with Ag experience.

We offer year round employment, exemplary benefits package, competitive pay scale and continuous professional training in a positive, friendly team oriented work environment. If you have a great attitude and integrity, Future Ag Inc is offering you an exciting career opportunity.

To apply, forward your resume to: Future Ag Inc. Attn: Markus Stadelmann Box 1510 Stettler, AB T0C 2L0 Fax to (403) 742-5626 Email to markuss@futureag.ca

has an opening for a JOURNEYMAN LIGHT DUTY MECHANIC Preference will be given to those w/alignment exp.

Great pay, profit share and full benefits.

Bring your resume to: 5139 - 50 Street, Innisfail NEED P/T eavestrougher, you set your hours 1-403-347-2522 P/T SMART BOARD AND Cedar shake installer req’d. Call 403-347-2522

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

PARTS PERSON

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

SAFETY & QC MANAGER Apply online at pmcl2000.com or fax resume to 403-342-1549

DRAFTSPERSON

LACOMBE BASED BUSINESS Seeking Shop Hand For fabrication & mechanical shop. Individual with direct experience in welding, fabrication, and power tools needed. Must be reliable, punctual and have a valid drivers licence.

Applicants with a Class 1 Drivers Licence preferred.

Please fax resume including two references to: 403-342-7447

EXPERIENCED Concrete Cribbers Required. Please call Ryan for details.

403-845 6332

Seeks individuals for civil concrete work in the construction of oil and gas facilities.

REBEL METAL FABRICATORS

DRYWALL helper req’d.

Exp. an asset. Must have own transportation.

403-341-7619

ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE

850

Trades

PASQUALE MANCUSO CONSTRUCTION PARTNERSHIP (48 Years Of Service)

3rd & 4th year Apprentices or Journeyman / Heavy Duty Mechanics

2ND and 3rd. year.

Truckers/ Drivers

850

We have a Parts Person position available in our Parts Dept.

MGM PARTS is the largest Valid Driver’s Licence Ford Parts volume dealer preferred. Fax or email in Central Alberta. info@goodmenroofing.ca Previous years in the Parts or (403)341-6722 Industry is preferred.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! This is a full time position with excellent JOIN THE BLUE company benefits.

GRASS TEAM! Drivers abstract is required.

BLUE GRASS SOD Please email resume to: FARMS LTD is seeking parts@mgmfordlincoln.com F/T heavy duty journeyor fax 403-346-1751 man mechanic with No phone calls please. experience in managing SIDING INSTALLERS people, parts and equipneeded immediately. ment. Benefits. $31-$40/hr.

We offer competitive rates bluesod@xplornet.com or & a fantastic benefit fax to 403-342-7488 package. If you have JOURNEYMAN WELDER siding installing experience AND OR APPRENTICES & your own reliable Required Immediately. transportation, please call Please call 403-318-6262 Darcy at 403-391-6293. or email resume to: Tools are an asset but not dave@kodiakent.com necessarily a requirement.

Immediate Opportunity.

This position is responsible for ABSA drawings and shop layout drawings for truck mounted vacuum systems using Autodesk Inventor. Production Bonuses Comp. wages & benefits.

Long term employment Please email resume to hr@rebelvac.ca or fax to: 403-314-2249 SABLE ELECTRICAL SERVICES LTD. is looking for 3rd or 4th yr & Journeyman Electricians.

Benefits, competitive rates.

Fax resume 403-342-2133 or call 403-358-4640 STUCCO LABOURERS needed Immed. Exp’d but will train. Drivers License pref’d. Call 403-588-5306

AES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD. looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Fax resume to 403-342-0233

TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS Residential exp. only Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599 WELDERS, MILLWRIGHT or Millwright Welder Apprentices to work in the Ag. Industry.

Must be willing to travel Ab. & Sask. Email to tracous@yahoo.com WESTERN PAINTING is looking for exp. commercial/residential painters.

Call 403-342-1514

860

Truckers/ Drivers

BUSY CENTRAL AB company req’s exp’d. Class 1 drivers to pull decks.

Assigned truck, exc. wages and benefits pkg. Paid extras. Family orientated.

Resume and abstract fax to 403-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501 Mon,. - Fri,. 8 a m to 6 pm

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CLASS 1 and 3 drivers req’d for road construction.

Water truck and truck and pup exp. preferred. Living allowance incld. Fax 403-309-0489

Blue Grass Sod Farm is in need of Class 1 and/or 3 driver. Min. 1 yr. driving exp. and clean drivers abstract are necessary.

Please fax resume and abstract to 403-342-7488 or email to margaret. siudem@bg-rd.com

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PET ADOPTION

www.ultralife.bulidingonabudjet.com MLM’ers attract new leads for FREE!

CLUBS & GROUPS www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

COMPUTER REPAIR

UPS is now hiring for Part time Early Morning WAREHOUSE AND FULL TIME DRIVING. Applicants must be physically fit and be able to lift up to 70 lbs.

P/T Warehouse, Mon. to Fri. 15 - 20 hrs/wk.

Driving Mon. to Fri, 10 to 12 hours per day.

Alberta Class 5 license, clean abstract. This is fast paced, physically demanding environment.

All candidates are subject to criminal record checks.

Apply by online @ www.upsjobs.com or fax resume to: 403-648-3312

Business Opportunities

870

CENT AB CHILD SAFETY Franchise for sale. <40K 403-638-8635

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DEER PARK

ROUTES AVAIL.

Dunning Crsc.

Depalme St.

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ADULT CARRIERS REQUIRED for Early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate in Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

* MUST speak fluent English * Excellent work experience For further information please contact CHRIS MCGINNIS Red Deer and area Team Leader Phone 1-780-716-4202 **************************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

ADULT UPGRADING

Alberta Government Funded Programs Student Funding Available! * GED Preparation * Trades Entrance Exam Preparation * Women in the Trades

Academic Express

Adult Education & Training

340-1930

www.academicexpress.ca

860

CARRIER RECRUITER

The candidate should have an outgoing personailty, along with the ability to multi task.This should be complimented with excellent written and oral presentaion skills.

The position requires very good organizational skills, the ability to work independently and in a group setting. For this position you must have good comptuer skills, a valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license with good driving record. A company car is available during working hours.

The candidate must be able to pass a criminal background check.

The hours for this position would be Monday to Friday 2:00 to 8:00 p.m. Starting at 30 hours a week and may lead to full time.

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

EASY! The easy way to find a

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in WEST PARK 77 Advocate $400/mo. $4800/yr

Apply to: HUMAN RESOURCES Red Deer Advocate Fax: 403-341-4772 or careers@reddeer advocate.com

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$1000.00 SIGNING BONUS. SAFETY BONUS. REFERRAL BONUS. GREAT WAGES AND BENEFITS. Northwest Tank Lines seeks qualified truck drivers with at least three yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience in tank truck driving, heavy oil-field hauling, or a related field.

The ideal candidate will have a history of safe-driving, and seek a long-term and rewarding career.

REAL ESTATE www.homesreddeer.com Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333 www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

SHOPPING www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONS www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

WEB DESIGN

www.albertacomputerhygiene.com

affordablewebsitesolution.ca

AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

careers@nwtl.ca http://nwtank.hgcareers.com DRIVE.EARN.GROW

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 CRYOGENIC INDUSTRIES Canada requires a full time shipper parts person.

Must be very organized and used to working in a faster paced environment.

Please send resumes to fax 403-352-4439 DENTAL TECHNICIAN In Red Deer, AB. F/T, $21/hr, must have dental technician college training & certification.

Fax 403-347-8881 peacedental@yahoo.ca

DENTOOMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GREENHOUSES Greenhouse laborers, F/T. Wage $10/hr.

Must be willing to work Mon. to Sat. 48+ hrs./wk.

Apply by email at sales@dentooms.com or fax 403-309-7701

F.T. WAREHOUSE

Needs a Drivers licence, some heavy & light lifting, friendly, personnel.

Monday-Friday, with some Saturdays, exc. wages & benefits.

Fax to: 403-309-3000.

Drop off: #9 - 7619 50 Ave Red Deer, AB

F/T YARD LABORER

Please forward resumes Attention Manager to fax # 403-887-3625 Or email to: resumes@ lakesiderona.com Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Call Rick at 403-314-4303

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SUNNYBROOK AREA: Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close

We thank all applicants; * Great customer service however, only those * Must have a valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s selected will be contacted. license * Clean drivers abstract * Ability to work unsupervised * Ability to work with others CARRIERS * Lumber experience an asset but not a REQUIRED requirement to deliver the * Physically demanding * High pace Central AB. Life * Must be able to work twice weekly in weekends

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

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ANDERS AREA: Anders Close Ackerman Crsc.

Asmundsen Ave/ Arb Close

INGLEWOOD AREA: Imbeau Close

314-4307

The position would require interviewing, screeing and signing up carriers for delivery, along with cold calling.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

CARRIERS NEEDED For Advocate routes

Must have a reliable vehicle .

Please contact Rick at 403-314-4303

The candidate would be responsible for the recruitment of carriers for delivery of Advocate, EMC and Central Alberta Life routes by various methods incorporated by the Circulation Deparment.

This would include telephone calls, distribution of recruitment flyers, posters, networking , group presentations, advertising, use of social media, along with various other methods.

Robinson Crsc., Reinholt Ave.

buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

WANTED

www.reddeerspca.com Many Pets to Choose From

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LOCAL ACID Transport company looking for expdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; F/T Class 1 truck driver.

Top wages and exc. benefit pkg., Fax resume and driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abstract to 403-346-3766

ROSEDALE

880

Earn $500.mo. for 1--1/2 hrs. per day 6 days a week.

For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in ROUTES AVAIL.

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for details

FOR recycling company in Central Alberta. Must be able to work independently and enjoy sales. Class 3 license needed. Call 403-635-4123 or fax 403-329-1585 or email tdtren@telus.net

TANK TRUCK DRIVERS

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

www.air-ristocrat.com Gary 403-302-7167

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 403-346-7273 www.albertanewhomes.com Stevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for Morning Newspaper delivery in the Town of Stettler

HOUSE CLEANERS wanted, Days, Residential.

Work as a team, n/s environment. Must be bondable, weekends off.

Call Pam 403-346-4464.

SERVICE WRITER

Interior Designer

Duties include: - Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow Attributes: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

Very busy Red Deer Flooring Company is seeking Interior designer (male or female). Must have an eye for design and professional attitude.

Commercial & Residential Estimating: Floor & Wall Tile, Hardwood, Laminate and Carpet. Wages are negotiable based on experience & benefits avail. Fax 403-309-3000

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Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

LOOKING for laborers and flaggers for road construction. Fax 403-309-0489

NEEDED IMMED.

GENERAL LABORER Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

www.greathealth.org Cancer Diabetes DIET 350-9168

BALLOON RIDES

www.fantahomes.com 403-343-1083 or 403-588-9788 www.masonmartinhomes.com Mason Martin Homes 403-342-4544 www.truelinehomes.com True Line Homes 403-341-5933 www.jaradcharles.com BUILDER M.L.S

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

880

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BUILDERS

Truckers/ Drivers

www.liveyourlifebetter.com Lose weight naturally with Z-Trim

PINES Pearson Crsc.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

314-4300

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300 ASSOCIATIONS

MUSTANG ACRES Galbraith St. & Gray Dr.

* Training is provided Central AB based trucking company reqires

Class 1 and/or 3 Company Driver

www.centralalbertahomebuilders.com Central AB Home Builders 403-346-5321 www.reddeer.cmha.ab.ca Canadian Mental Health Assoc. www.realcamping.ca LOVE camping and outdoors? www.diabetes.ca Canadian Diabetes Assoc. www.mycommunityinformation.com /cawos/index.html www.reddeerchamber.com Chamber of Commerce 403-347-4491

Employment Opportunity. * Class 3 license a must. *Class 1 preferred * Picker experience a plus Distribute precast concrete in central AB area, Fax resume with clean driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abstract to: 886-4853 or drop off resume at: 930 Fleming Ave. Penhold. Inquiries 403-588-6505. Gary

* Only 4 hrs./night & 3-7 days per wk.

Top wages paid based on experience Benefit package â&#x20AC;˘ Assigned units â&#x20AC;˘ Scheduled days off Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

JOHNSTONE PARK James St., Johns St. Jacob Close, Joice Close

* Paid Weekly + bonuses

capilanotrucktraining.

Valid safety tickets an asset

Wanted for delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life In

DRIVERS & SWAMPERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

* Work in a FUN environment

Reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d in Sylvan Lake Immediately.

Phone 1-877-463-9664 or email resume to info@

Pidherneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is growing and requires experienced Class 1 & 3 drivers to join our busy team: - Water Truck Drivers - Truck and Wagon Drivers - Lowbed Drivers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to haul our heavy equipment

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIER NEEDED

51 Street & 43 Ave. area

CLASS 1 DRIVING INSTRUCTOR

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

CLASS 3 WATER HAULER needed. Only those with Drilling Rig Water Hauling experience need apply.

Need H2S & First Aid tickets.TOP WAGES PAID Fax clean drivers abstract and resume between the hours of 9 am to 6 pm to: 403-746-3523 or call 403-304-7179

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ROUTE AVAIL.

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

860

860

MICHENER

Shipper / Receiver

LOOKING for a Journeyman Welder with fabrication exp. Brake and Shear knowledge an asset. Only faxed resumes accepted. Fax 403-343-3548 SCOTTS STEEL FAB R.D.

Truckers/ Drivers

252652G18

(Mazda Master Technician Required)

Hwy 2, East Side Gasoline Alley

Trades

CASE IH EQUIPMENT DEALER IN RED DEER is now accepting applications for

AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE TECHNICIANS

Gary Moe Mazda

850

Trades

Pidherneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is busy and requires the following positions to join our team:

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

EQUIPMENT OPERATORS To run excavators, dozers, graders, rock trucks & scrapers

Please contact QUITCY

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403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com NOMADâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SURF nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; SNOW SHOP in Sylvan Lake, needs F/T and P/T clothing sales person.

Starting wage $11/hr.

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Please apply at 6722 50th Ave or fax 403 309 0354

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Misc. for Sale

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Houses/ Duplexes

WE’RE GROWING AGAIN!

2 PA I R S m e n ’ s b l a c k SENIOR DOWNSIZING ENJOY THE Oxfords, size 12, like new, 2 old glass fruit bowls, $12 WHOLE HOUSE! 1 pair, $10 1 pair, $20 obo each, 1 old glass salad Are you an energetic person Large 5 bdrm home, room 403-347-1501 bowl, $12; 2 old glass pickwith great people skills? for the whole family in Now Hiring le dishes, $5 each 2 gravy We need a strong team Westpark. 5 appls.

Pickers / Packers boats $3 each,, 2 old glass Close to College. Call player who can work on Receivers / Shippers their own, and has reliable Event candy dishes $4.50 each, Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Full Time Positions 1 heavy pot $8; 1 heavy transportation. If you can Tickets or 403-896-1193 stainless steel pot $12 handle somewhat flexible www.hpman.ca Very clean atmosphere, 1 elec. heavy cooking pot PRIME pr. of UFC 149 hours, have common sense user friendly equipment & w/deep fryer rack $10 ; 1 tickets, S, Flr. Row 9 seats and are a quick learner, technology. old figurine lamp $20; 2 are side by side. Face Value Condos/ this could be for you.

Benefits, competitive brass candle stands w/3 $1400.00. 403-346-8243 We offer training, wage Townhouses wages, perks. candle holders, $4.50 plus bonus and benefits Experience an asset. each, new compression after 3 months.

Equipment3 BDRM. FAMILY socks $8, cutting board for Fast paced Property Submit resume to: sewing $2, counter top TOWNHOUSE Management firm is looking Heavy Email: careers@ ironing board $2; 6 compain Eastview. 6 appls., for the right people to show chatters.ca ny coming cookbooks 1.5 baths. Will accept TRAILERS for sale or rent suites, inspections, etc.

Fax: 1-888-742-9036 $2 each, 403-346-2231 a well behaved Job site, office, well site or Email: info@hpman.ca pre-approved cat! Call storage. Skidded or SET of Ram golf clubs and wheeled. Call 347-7721. cart $100; Dynateck mtn. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Personal Assistant or 403-896-1193 bike w/helmut lock and Central Alberta Tile One is www.hpman.ca chain $75; GE microwave Farmers' Employment looking for a Personal $20 403-343-2719 GILMORE TOWNHOUSE Assistant.The office is Market Training 3 bdrm., 1.5 bath, 5 appl. very busy and the ideal ST. EUGENE Golf Passes HEARTHSTONE person would need to be ALBERTA Spring lamb, cut two green fees & cart.

403-314-0099 able to multi task while and wrapped by the piece, Good any time 2012. $150. handling a number of 1/2 or whole carcass.

403-346-0093 TRAINING CENTRE Halman Heights different projects. Team Come see our 100 mile OILFIELD TICKETS 3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse STYLING CHAIR oriented, effective verbal radius store. Brown Eggs Industries #1 Choice!

5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, FOR SALE. $100. and listening skill, and Lamb 403-782-4095 “Low Cost” Quality Training no pets, n/s, rent $1350 403-347-3010 proficient computer skills SD $1000 avail. July 31.

HONEY FOR SALE 403.341.4544 (MS Office) email: SUN SHELTER, 8 x 10 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 Liquid & natural creamed Shannon@catile1.com or 24 Hours with 4 fancy steel structure (raw honey) 1kg $15.98. drop off resume at #9 Toll Free 1.888.533.4544 LUXURY main Flr. 1 bdrm. posts, canvas top.

TRY THE BEST, 7619 50 Ave Red Deer. adult condo., avail. Aug. 1, $50. obo 403-309-1838 R H2S Alive (ENFORM) TASTE THE DIFFERENCE bright, airy, spacious, 6 R First Aid/CPR 403-347-6994 WEAREVER sauce pans, appls., underground parkReal Enterprises Ltd (3). $50. set; Dutch Oven ing, $1200. rent/d.d. Call R Confined Space NOW HIRING $30.; 2 Plates, Norman Angie 403-343-2588 R WHMIS & TDG Exp Landscape Foremen/ Rockwell, The Story Teller, Firewood Labourers R Ground Disturbance SOUTHWOOD PARK $20, The Resurrection, Benefits - Bonuses 3110-47TH Avenue, $20. 30” Pullman suitcase, R (ENFORM) B.O.P. Must have valid drivers AFFORDABLE 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, black.

New! $50.

Baby #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. license generously sized, 1 1/2 monitor, like new, $30.

Homestead Firewood (across from Totem) Also Hiring: -PT Mechanic baths, fenced yards, 403-346-7991 Spruce, Pine, Birch (Semi Retired Welcome) Spilt, Dry. Pickup or Del. WINE & BEER MAKING full bsmts. 403-347-7473, -Carpenter’s Helper Sorry no pets.

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 EQUIPMENT. Aprx. $600 Fax or email resumes: www.greatapartments.ca Career Fax 403-314-2214 FIREWOOD. All Types. value. Everything needed Email realltd@telus.net P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 f r o m s t a r t t o f i n i s h f o r Riverfront Estates Planning www.reddeerlandscaping.net birchfirewoodsales.com $200. 403-343-6253 Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, RED DEER WORKS blinds, large balcony, Build A Resume That ROOFING LABOURER Garden no pets, n/s, $1150 Works!

REQ’D. 403-314-9516 Cats Supplies or $1175 along the river.

APPLY ONLINE please leave a message. $1000. avail. Aug. 1.

SD www.lokken.com/rdw.html or 403-350-1520 LANDSCAPING mulch, 3 K I T T E N S TO G I V E 403-304-7576 347-7545 Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com $ 1 0 . 0 0 y a r d . P h o n e AWAY and 1outside adult WESTPARK 403-3413800 weekdays or cat, great for farm or as Career Programs are 11/2 blocks west of hospital!

4 0 3 - 3 4 3 - 6 1 8 2 e v e s . & pets, 403-343-0730 FREE 3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. wknds.

BEAUTIFUL kittens to give for all Albertans balcony, no pets, n/s, away to loving home rent $1150 SD $1000 Health & 403-782-3130 avail. July 15.

Beauty 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 BURMAN kitten for sale. $75 obo.

CHI PRO mini Set NEW, 403-887-3649 Symphony Senior Living Manufactured incl. Flat iron, Hair dryer, Inglewood req’s Travel bag & 4- 2oz.

Homes part time/full time Products, $75.

Maintenance Assistant Dogs 403-309-0411 Building operator exp.

Newly Reno’d Mobile preferred along with pool FREE Shaw Cable + more AUSTRALIAN Shepherd maintenance exp. and $899/month CLASSIFICATIONS Household pups, mini. & toy blue merles, certification. The ideal Lana 403-550-8777 1500-1990 Appliances $250-$500. 1st shots, candidate will also be de-wormed. 780-372-2387 mechanically inclined and 4 Plexes/ 9 CUBIC FOOT be able to handle all F1 B GOLDEN DOODLES, DEEP FREEZE. $50. aspects of building ready now, health guaran- 6 Plexes Working cond. maintenance including teed, shots, vet checked, 403-986-2849 painting and drywall repair. Auctions 2 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. $900 delivered, Please reply to D. Booth $800/mo. + d.d.

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. www.furfettishfarm.ca #10 Inglewood Drive or fax 403-343-6609 selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. or call 306-792-2113 Bud Haynes & to 346-1109 or email warr. Riverside Appliances 403- 919-1370 ACROSS from park, bsciw@ Co. Auctioneers 403-342-1042 3 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, symphonyseniorliving.comon Certified Appraisers 1966 GERMAN Shepherd P.B. KENMORE HD washer 4 appls. Rent $950/mo. or before May 22, 2012. pups. Ready to go!

Estates, Antiques, $75 403-340-2727 d.d. $650. Incl. water , Thank you for your interest 587-377-3388 Firearms. sewer, and garbage and only short listed candiBay 5, 7429-49 Ave. GOLDEN RETRIEVER Avail. Aug. 1, dates will be contacted.

347-5855 Household P.B. puppies, 1st. shots.

403-304-5337 Vet checked. Born May 13.

Furnishings 403-773-2240 or 304-5104

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BED ALL NEW,

Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325.

302-0582 Free Delivery BED: #1 King. extra thick orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr.

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice @ $545. 403-302-0582.

COFFEE table, octagon To Advertise Your Business shape, w/storage under, or Service Here oak color, $15, 403-46-9006 Free standing display unit, 96” w, center part is classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com 32”w x 44”h x 22”d.

Has several shelves on both sides. $200.

Massage 403-314-2026 Accounting Therapy GLIDER ROCKER $45 403-755-3556 INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS VII MASSAGE Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.

IKEA entertainment unit Feeling blue, under the with oilfield service $50; seaside villa picture weather? Come in and let companies, other small 42” x 31 1/2”; rustic stairus pamper you. businesses and individuals way with plants picture 44” Pampering at its best.

RW Smith, 346-9351 x 36” $50 ea.; wedding #7 7464 Gaetz Ave. card chest www.viimassage.biz $20 403-309-4133 In/Out Calls to Hotels 403-986-6686 Cleaning KITCHEN items, dishes, pots & pans, mugs, candle Misc. holders, assorted items QUALITY CLEANING $25 403-343-6253 Services 403-755-7570 RECLINER $50 obo. 403-986-2849 5* JUNK REMOVAL Contractors Property clean up 340-8666 ROCKING slider w/stool $100; desk and chair, nevFREE removal of all kinds e r u s e d $ 8 0 ; t e a s e t Black Cat Concrete of unwanted scrap metal. $20 403-340-0675 No household appliances Sidewalks, driveways, 403-396-8629 garages, patios, bsmts. RV WANTED pads. Dean 403-505-2542 Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, Stereos 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980 TV's, VCRs IRONMAN Scrap Metal COR CONSTRUCTION Recovery is picking up ~Garages ~Decks scrap again! Farm machin- 2 TV’S older style 27” So~ Fencing ~ Reno’s. ery, vehicles and industrial. ny, and one Samsung to 35 years exp. 403-598-5390 gvie away, both working, Serving central Alberta. call 403-343-0730 403-318-4346

services Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

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1290

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1730

Kitchen & renovations and wall removal.

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s.

Free estimates for all your reno needs. 755-9622 cell 506-4301 RENO’S Countertops, decks, etc. 403-346-9477 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Prefering non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 302-9210.

TAPER for hire Phone 403- 391-6733

Escorts

1165

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT Busty Babe w/My Own Car!

EDEN

587-877-7399 10am- 2am EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049 ROXY 26 Hot Blonde 403-848-2300

Massage Therapy

1280

Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 ZEN RELAXATION Walk-ins welcome *NEW OWNERS* to re-open soon

SHELTIES, 2 F, 1 - 15 wks old, 1- 2yrs old, $500, 403-722-3204 or 403-846-0198

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1280

1070

COUNTERTOPS

P.B. JACK RUSSELL puppies. $350.

403-896-9998 or 348-1810

Yard Work / Reno / Tree / Junk Removal 403-396-4777

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Roofing

1370

NEW and re-roofing, siding, decks, repairs, etc.

WCB insured 348-1128

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for an honest reliable person to help on small renovations or jobs around your house? Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship, helping you/helping your family. Call 403-346-7777 Low Price Guarantee. www. helpinghandshomesupport.com

Yard Care

1430

Tree Pruning,Topping and Removal by a Certified Arborist,Hedges too! Call Randy at 403-350-0216 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Misc. for Sale

1760

2006 COBRA 4 wheel scooter, red, mint cond., $1500, 403-748-4181 8 Track tape holder, holds 18, $5.

Antique pickle crock, no lid $10.

Decorative flower vase, $12.

3 lamp shades, 2 beige, 1 pink, aprx. $7” high $5/ea.

No stick fry pan & spatula $9.

Copper bottom stainless steel pot, 2 qt, $5.

Xmas snack tray, ceramic, 13” diameter, 5 dividers, $7.

8 white ceramic napkin holders, $8.

Metal wine rack, holds 6 bottles, $9.

Metal record holder, 17 3/4” l x 6” h, $8.

2 clear glass jars, each has 3 decorative eggs $8/ea.

Cooler/warmer c/w ac power adapter, $80.

Fondu set w/6 forks - new, $15. 403-314-2026 BIG red wagon $30 83 NYMAN CRSC PHONE 403-346-6908 DEHUMIDIFIER Kenmore, capacity 18L per 24 hrs. $30. 403-347-4366 HAIRDRESSER MAT New, $100. 403-307-7542 No phone calls after 9 p.m.

LAWNMOWER, manual push mower, $40; rubberized canvas hunting bag, $50. Electric lawn mower, $40., Church Pew, 4’ wide, $50. 403-342-1752 PEDESTAL SINK, bone c o l o r, l i k e n e w $ 6 5 , 403-346-9006 PORTABLE Air Conditioner.

Kenmore Elite model A100E, 10,000 BTU. $350. 403-350-0383

3060

Suites

1 & 2 BDRM. APTS.

Clean, quiet bldg.

Call 318-0901.

1 BDRM. furn. bsmt. suite, single, working person, N/S. $850/mo. utils. incl.

403-341-6224

Manufactured Homes

3060

Suites

KERRYWOOD DR.

1 bdrm suite. Balcony with a view. Large Living room w/fireplace. In-suite laundry.

Mature adults only. Call Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-350-8152 www.hpman.ca

Horses

2140

MORRISROE MANOR

2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

Only

Grain, Feed Hay

LARGE ROUND BALES Suitable for horses.

No rain. Only $25/ea. if you can move them.

403-845-3501 or 844-1954 STANDING MIXED GRASS for sale, $30/acre, you swath and bale, 300 acres, 4 hrs. E of Red Deer on AB /Sask border.

No weeds, voluptuous standing virgin hay.

Contact Wiliam Frederick Weinkauf cell 1-306-460-9671 or Linda Susan Weinkauf, cell 306-460-9672 home msgs eves. 1-306-968-2713

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

3020

BIG 5 BDRM., 3 BATH 1800 sq.ft. 4-level split in Deer Park, close to school.

Newly painted, 5 new appls.

Hardwood, dbl. att. garage, n/s, no pets. 6 appls. $1700 + utils. Avail. immediately.

403-598-3718

GLENDALE 3 bdrm., good cond. 4 appls., fenced yard, no pets, n/s, 403-318-0136

Farms/ Land Penhold - 4 bdrm bi-level, fully finished, fenced yd, decks, 24’x26’ heated det. garage, fluorescent lighting, storage shed, RV parking. Near school.

Seller related to Realtor. $285,900 Colleen Watson (Associate Broker) Realty Executives Apex (403)443-0509

2 bdrm. adult building, n/s No pets. 403-596-2444 VERY large 1 BDRM. apartment in Ponoka $750/mo. inclds. all utils. plus laundry facilities.

Avail. Aug. 1. 403-993-3441

4070

1/4 SECTION with mountain view west of Sundre, clear title. Contact 1-902-843-5141 or 902-986-8882 for more info

Farms/Land Wanted

4080

LOOKING for good quality grain land, S of Red Deer, call 587-877-1159

4090

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner $7,000.

Lana 403-550-8777

Steps away from school. 4 bdrm.. (2 up, 2 down) 2.5 baths, fully dev., 5 appls., garage 32x22, 220 power, Cottages/Resort new updates inside and Property out of home, underground BRAND new 9900 sq. ft. sprinkler system.

STUNNING LAKEFRONT ready for lease fall 2012 on $364,000.

HOME IN ALBERTA. Golden West Ave 358-3500 Open house, July 9-13.

Visit: www.

5 p.m.8 p.m. July 15, 1-4. centralalbertalakefront.com 87 Perry Dr. Sylvan.

Garage Immed. poss.

Space 403-887-2554 or Rick Lots For 403-588-9401 60’ x 32’ heated, 2 doors Sale 12’ x 12’ $1700/mo. Sylvan Lake area 780-434-0045 FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe.

Condos/ Builders terms or owner Mobile Townhouses will J.V. with investors or Lot subtrades who wish to become 2 BDRM. new Michener home builders. Great LACOMBE new park, C o n d o 11 9 0 s q . f t . 5 returns. Call 403-588-8820 animal friendly. Your mobile appls, amenity filled, heator ours. 2 or 3 bdrm. ed underground parking Excellent 1st time home Pinnacle Estates w/storage room, $317, 500 buyers. 403-588-8820 (Blackfalds) Lots From No GST 403-986-5060 $83,900 .You build or bring MOBILE HOME PAD, in your own builder. Terms Red Deer Close to Gaetz, avail. 403-304-5555 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Lana 403-550-8777 Acreages SYLVAN LAKE big lot, nice location, well priced.

403-896-3553 138 ACRES, Oras Rd., county of Clearwater, services, springs, views.

Price reduced. MLS

Warehouse Space

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Houses For Sale

APPROX. 1800 sq. ft.. 2 storey, Deer Park home, 4 bdrms. w/loft, 4 baths. For info. call 403-343-8509 VIBRANT ADULT Community coming soon to Sylvan Lake. Call Lorraine 403-896-3553 www.brightwaterliving.ca

3040

5.436 ACRES N. Rocky.

Great acreage, trees, high game fence. Building sites Good potential for water.

MLS

FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS

Call Ken Hedley, Royal LePage South Country Associate, 403-553-3576

4400-4430

Money To Loan

4430

PRIVATE LENDER: Mortgage money available on all types of real estate.

We lend on equity.

Fast approvals, Ron Lewis 403-819-2436

23 ACRES

OF RIVER PROPERTY WEST OF RIMBEY 1440 sq.ft. open concept home. Shop, barn & outbuildings, corrals & fenced.

Pride of ownership.

Owners retiring.

403-843-6182

19,900with Intro

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Cars

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399/month lot Rent incl. Cable Lana (403) 550-8777 www.lansdowne.ca

246653F6-G31

Renter’s Special FREE Cable 2 & 3 bedroom in pet friendly park

$

2001 NEON, 4 dr., auto., red, clean. 403-342-6995 1992 CADILLAC V8 good cond. $3000 403-346-6214

Premium Package Grab it While it’s HOT

“THE WHEEL DEAL”

/month

Lana (403) 550-8777 www.lansdowne.ca Suites

5030

2009 Corvette Auto Nav H/ Up display glass roof sport suspension $45,888 AS & I 7620 Gaetz Ave 348-8788

FORMULA 1

Starting at

849

3100 sq. ft. bungalow fully dev. walkout on 69 acres on Hwy. 587. Built in 2010 has bonus room, att. garage, summer kitchen, heated shop 26 x 28, shed 12 x 20, cabin. Exc. family home. Century 21 Advantage Dan Wind 403-341-0294

Cars

modular/mobile homes

3060

LONSDALE APARTMENTS FOR RENT

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69 Leonard Crescent

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BASHAW, CASTOR, CENTRAL AB LIFE PONOKA, RIMBEY,STETTLER, WEEKENDER, SYLVAN, ECKVILLE

403-346-5907

PLUS

• Window coverings • Balcony

www.lonsdalecourt.com • email: info@lonsdalecourt.com To download an application form or view suite plans, visit us on-line

*WEDNESDAY’S FASTTRACK PHOTO AD and

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CAMPBELL AVE. 3 bdrms, 1.5 baths, 5 appls, Den. †HEARTHSTONE† 403-314-0099† DELBURNE 2 bdrm. house, n/s, no pets, $1000/mo. utlls incl. except phone & cable, 2012 23 AVE. 780-968-4018 780-850-4018

& 10 acres $175,000.

10 min from Ponoka.

Fishing, swimming & boating at your back door.

See welist.com #47984, #47993, #47994.

Call 403-519-6773 brettie@platinum.ca

Call for more info call 403-342-4544

THE NORDIC

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

PRICE REDUCED!

$

2190

50 ACRES of standing hay, fertilized this spring of 2012, good crop, price negot., 2 miles N of Blackfalds on 2A call Dave.

403-885-4462

4050

3 LAKE FRONT PROPERTIES:

A MUST SEE!

PASTURE for rent, 3 min.

East of R.D. city limits.

403-347-0293 WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Mason Martin Homes has

Acreages

8 Brand New Homes 30 acres (2300 sqft home), starting at $179,900 $495,000. 37 acres $195,000.

LARGE & BRIGHT!

2 bdrm suite with balcony in a well maintained adult only building. Close to Hospital. Easy access to city amenities. Avail. Aug 1.

Sorry, no pets. Call Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-896-1193 www.hpman.ca LARGE 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

Newly Renovated Mobile Home

AGRICULTURAL 2000-2290

4020

1 BDRM. with balcony, no FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, kids/pets, $625 rent/s.d., prices, address, owner’s Call 403- 227-1844. phone #, etc. 342-7355 2 BDRM. adult bldg, free Help-U-Sell of Red Deer laundry, very clean, quiet, www.homesreddeer.com lrg. suite, Avail Aug. 1 $850/mo., S.D. $650.

Call 403-304-5337

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

CLASSIFICATIONS

Houses For Sale

246655F6-G31

880

Misc.

Help

only

475 Lancaster Drive

1 & 2 BEDROOM SUITES FOR RENT

• 6 appliances • Window coverings • Balcony • Underground parking • Adults only • Feature Wall

403-872-5600 www.lonsdalegreen.com • email: info@lonsdalegreen.com To download an application form or view suite plans, visit us on-line 251509G5-28

$84.21

Includes GST - additional lines extra charge (REGULAR PRICE $141.14)

CALL 309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

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SUV's

Utility Trailers

SAN FERMIN

5140

18’ CAR Hauler with 9500 lb. super winch, 2’ beaver tail. $5000. 403-704-3714

Boats & Marine

5160

14’ ALUMINUM BOAT with 9.9 Mercery Motor, 4 stroke. C.W trailer & canvas boat cover.

Best offer. 403-845-3299

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

87 TERCEL FOR PARTS. Motor, transmission and front wheel drive all good.† Body fair.†$150 obo.

780-877-3979 TELESCOPIC TRAILER TOW MIRROR

By Schefenacker.

Electric heat & light.

Fits Chev/GM, 99’ - 06’. $199 obo. 403-346-9006

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

2007 Audi Q7 AWD 4.2L Pano roof loaded $30,888 7620 Gaetz Ave 348- 8788

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585 2005 GMC Yukon XL SLT. 4x4. Loaded with 5.0 L V8 gas engine, 244,000 km. $8700 o.b.o 403-302-3438.

2005 Cadillac Escalade AWD DVD loaded $19,888 Sport & Import 348-8788

5050

Trucks

2007 DODGE Laramie 1500 full load, 4 dr $14,900 403-346-9816

2004 CHEV DIESEL leather, loaded $11,600.

403-348-9746

5060

Heavy Trucks

CAT DIESEL 1986 Fords F700. 5 speed hi/low range. Everything in great working order. $13,800. 268,000 km.

403-348-9746

Motorcycles

5080

HARLEY VEST WITH EAGLE ON BACK. XXL. BRAND NEW. $125.

403-314-0804

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HOUSTON — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told skeptical civil rights leaders he would do more for African-Americans than Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president. He didn’t flinch when he got booed in response.

The former Massachusetts governor doesn’t expect to win a majority of black voters in November — 95 per cent backed Obama in 2008. But his speech Wednesday before the country’s oldest civil rights group was designed to show independent and swing voters that he’s willing to reach out to diverse audiences.

“If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him,” Romney told the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Pausing as some in the crowd heckled, he added, “You take a look!”

“For real?” yelled someone in the crowd.

The stakes are high. Romney’s chances in highly contested states such as North Carolina and Virginia, which have huge numbers of blacks, will improve if he can cut into the president’s advantage by persuading black voters to support him.

The U.S. president is not chosen by a nationwide popular vote but in state-by-state contests. That makes battleground states — which are neither reliably Republican nor Democratic — especially important in tight elections, as the November vote is expected to be.

Romney was also booed when he vowed to repeal the Obama administration’s health care overhaul.

“Dumb,” a member of the NAACP board, Bill Lucy, said later.

James Pinkett, a retired utility worker, said: “He must not know how much support there is in the African-American community for health care, and he comes in and calls it Obamacare. ... We just think it should be given a chance to work.”

While more Americans oppose the law than support it, blacks are a notable exception. More African-Americans say in polls that they strongly support the law than strongly oppose it.

At other points, Romney earned scattered clapping for his promises to create jobs and improve education. His

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Soon, court papers say, she was at a shelter with a horrifying tale: She had been held captive for the better part of a decade — beaten, burned and even shackled during childbirth.

Investigators said they have 45 photographs showing burns on her back and breasts from irons and frying pans, and scars on her wrists and ankles. Now her husband, a native of the Czech Republic, is in jail and authorities are investigating what Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Tony Boggs called one of the most terrible cases he’s seen.

“This appears to go beyond abuse to what I would consider torture,” he said Wednesday.

Authorities said Peter Lizon, 37, was in jail Wednesday on $300,000 bond. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Friday on a malicious wounding charge, they said.

The criminal complaint says 43-year-old Stephanie Lizon told another woman at a shelter that her husband smashed her foot with a piece of farm equipment, among other things.

But Shawn Bayliss, Peter Lizon’s attorney, said the allegations are “the fabrication of a fertile imagination or a feeble mind, one of the two.”

“The alleged victim didn’t make these accusations. It was a third party,” Bayliss said. “ ... Stephanie would say this story is absolutely untrue, and the charges levied against her husband are blatantly false.”

He compared it to the childhood game of “telephone,” where something whispered from one person to another ultimately bears no resemblance to reality.

“This is a situation where a person has taken a nugget of information, taken an acorn and tried to turn it into a tree,” he said. “And the tree won’t support this story.”

Clinton makes historic visit to Laos as US looks to expand its influence VIENTIANE, Laos — Decades after the U.S. gave Laos a horrific distinction as the world’s most heavily bombed nation per person, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged Wednesday to help get rid of millions of unexploded bombs that still pockmark the impoverished country — and still kill.

campaign described it as “thunderous applause.”

In an interview with Fox News after the speech, Romney said he had expected the negative reaction to some of his comments. “I am going to give the same message to the NAACP that I give across the country, which is that Obamacare is killing jobs,” he said.

Obama spoke to the NAACP during the 2008 campaign, but he has dispatched Vice-President Joe Biden to address the group on Thursday.

For the past year, Romney’s campaign has sought to avoid any overt discussion of race. The campaign is mindful both of the sensitivities of Romney being a white man looking to unseat the nation’s first black president and of Romney’s Mormon church’s complicated racial history, having barred men of African descent from the priesthood until 1978.

But on Wednesday, Romney confronted race head-on.

Within minutes of taking the stage, Romney made note of his opponent’s historic election achievement — and then accused him of not doing enough to help African-American families on everything from family policy to education to health care.

“If you understood who I truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what I believe is in the real, enduring best interest of African-American families, you would vote for me for president,” Romney said, to murmuring from the crowd.

Romney got a better reception when he spoke about the economy, which remains the top issue in this election.

He vowed to help put blacks back to work. He noted that the 14.4 per cent unemployment rate among blacks is much higher than the 8.2 per cent national average. Blacks also tend to be unemployed longer, and black families have a lower median income, Romney said.

Looking to heal wounds on civil rights, he added, “The Republican Party’s record, by the measures you rightly apply, is not perfect.”

Romney also highlighted his personal connection to civil rights issues. His father, George Romney, spoke out against segregation in the 1960s and, as governor of Michigan, toured the state’s inner cities as race riots wracked Detroit and other urban areas across the country. The elder Romney went on to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he pushed for housing reforms to help blacks.

The U.S. dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on the North Vietnamese ally during its “secret war” between 1964 and 1973 — about a ton of ordnance for each Laotian man, woman and child. That exceeded the amount dropped on Germany and Japan together in World War II. Four decades later, American weapons are still claiming lives. When the war ended, about a third of some 270 million cluster bombs dropped on Laos had failed to detonate. More than 20,000 people have been killed in Laos since then by ordnance, according to Laos’ government, and agricultural development has been stymied.

Clinton, gauging whether the nation can evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia, met with the prime minister and foreign minister, part of a weeklong diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia. The goal is to bolster America’s standing in some of the fastest growing markets of the world, and counter China’s expanding economic, diplomatic and military dominance of the region.

Clinton said she and Laotian leaders “traced the arc of our relationship from addressing the tragic legacies of the past to finding a way to being partners of the future.”

Laos is the latest test case of the Obama administration’s efforts to “pivot” U.S. foreign policy away from the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The efforts follow a long period of estrangement between Washington and a former Cold War-era foe, and come as U.S. relations also warm with countries such as Myanmar and Vietnam.

Mexican army says gang killings in border city of Ciudad Juarez down 42 per cent CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Killings by criminal gangs in the drug violence-wracked border city of Ciudad Juarez fell by 42 per cent in the first six months of this year from the same period of 2011, Mexico’s army said Wednesday.

Gen. Emilio Zarate, the local army commander, attributed the drop to the weakening of the local Juarez drug cartel and the rival Gente Nueva gang, which is allied with the powerful Sinaloa cartel. The two cartels have fought turf battles since 2008 that made this city across the border from El Paso, Tex., the most violent city in Mexico.

Ciudad Juarez recorded 952 killings by gangs in the first half of the year, compared to 1,642 in the first half of 2011, according to Zarate, who said the gangs have been diminished by a multi-pronged offensive that includes army patrols, police reforms and social programs.

He told reporters the Juarez cartel has become so weak that it is having trouble paying its members.

“They have been forced to reorganize and opt for other activities, like kidnapping and extortion,” he said. But he warned that the leaders of the Sinaloa-backed Gente Nueva (or New People) “have economic power because they have constantly received funds from other states.”

Numbers released by the Chihuahua state prosecutors office indicated a similar decline, though its numbers are lower because civilian prosecutors track murders differently.

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‘WE WANT TO SEE THE LEARNING CURVE IN THE SIMULATION THEATRE. TALKING ABOUT LEARNING CURVES OF PROCEDURES ON PATIENTS — I THINK IT’S UNETHICAL.’ — DR. TEODOR GRANTCHAROV

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Simulation theatre helps surgeons make their first cuts

BY HELEN BRANSWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS It’s a pivotal event that comes in the education of all would-be surgeons. At some point, students who plan to make a career of opening up and fixing other human beings have to make that first cut.

If Drs. Teodor Grantcharov and Vanessa Palter have their way, however, that first application of scalpel to skin will occur on a computer screen, not on the torso of a living, breathing person.

And not just the first cut. They believe surgical residents ought to achieve an established level of proficiency in a virtual operating room before they start plying their scalpel in a real OR. “There are studies that show that in the first 50 cases, the risk of major complications is significantly higher than after the next 30 cases. And all these studies are done on real patients,” says Grantcharov, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and a surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive procedures at St. Michael’s, one of the university’s teaching hospitals.

To Grantcharov, the idea of allowing surgical residents to operate before they’ve met a set skill level in a virtual OR is outdated.

Simulation tools are now available and are found with increasing frequency in medical schools across North America. They provide an alternate route for surgical residents to climb the early — and riskfilled — part of the learning curve.

“I always found it ridiculous to talk about learning curves on real patients,” says Grantcharov, a towering figure decked out in clogs, scrubs and a Toronto Maple Leafs surgical cap. “We want to see the learning curve in the simulation theatre or on the computer. Talking about learning curves of procedures on patients — I think it’s unethical.”

And inefficient. Grantcharov and Palter — a surgical resident who is also working on a PhD — recently published a study showing that surgical residents who train first in a simulation lab significantly outperform colleagues who receive only standard surgical training.

The study compared University of Toronto surgical residents who completed a five-month long simulation training module to residents who received conventional surgical training. All the residents performed a laparoscopic right hemicolectomy — an operation where a tumour is removed from the right side of the colon using small incisions, not the large cuts commonly used for operations in the past.

The procedures were videotaped and graded by outside experts. Residents who had trained on the simulators scored an average of 16 points (out of 20) where surgical residents who didn’t get the additional virtual training scored an average of eight.

The findings were published this month in the journal Annals of Surgery. But the results were so persuasive the University of Toronto’s medical school made the virtual training program mandatory even before the study was published.

Grantcharov says the program was first offered in February and was hugely popular among students.

The module they’ve developed compares students’ efforts to those of expert surgeons, allowing residents to see where they need improvement. “So that way, instead of just mindless practice on the simulator, you’re actually practising to a specific goal, to essentially be as good as the expert,” Palter says.

Dr. Steve MacLellan took the virtual training course. He says it made a difference to be able to practise in a lower stress environment.

“Not having a patient on the table, being able to think through the steps of an operation and physically do it with the simulators — I think it gives you a leg up in the operating room when it comes to actually operating on real patients for sure,” says MacLellan, who is now a clinical fellow at the University of Toronto studying a surgical sub-specialty.

For him, the biggest gain was in developing muscle memory, learning how the instruments worked and practising different tasks.

“I think it helped expand the repertoire of skills and provided an ability to test out some techniques that I may not have tried on a patient before.”

He acknowledges some surgical residents may never reach that level. A study he co-authored a few years ago in Denmark found that eight per cent of

surgical residents did not show a learning curve.

“They did not get any better,” he says. “And I checked five years later ... what happened to these people because you can check it on the website of the Danish Medical Association, and none of them is a practising surgeon now.”

The simulation labs themselves offer a range of training opportunities.

Some allow residents to practise laparoscopic procedures, using tools connected to computers. On the screen are realistic looking computer graphics displaying, for instance, an appendix that needs to be removed. Manipulating the instruments, the residents can run through all the steps required to remove the organ laparoscopically.

Missteps provoke the types of problems they would in an operating room. If a student nicks surrounding tissue, the area will be infused with virtual blood. The program measures how much blood loss the error triggered and how much discomfort the virtual patient would experience as a result.

In addition, simulation theatres contain what are known as full body simulators — life-like mannequins like Harvey, who belongs to St. Michael’s.

The simulators have a pulse that can speed or slow. Their chests rise and fall as if they are breathing. They can sweat. They can bleed. They can even die — though Grantcharov says instructors monitoring a simulation will stop it before the virtual patient meets its virtual maker.

Studies have shown residents who “kill” their virtual patients can suffer a real crisis of confidence.

Palter says it’s easy to forget in these exercises that you aren’t working on a real patient — the lessons are that true to the real-life experience. “It’s very stressful,” she says.

Instructors watch simulations from behind oneway mirrors. They can intervene, tossing a wrench into the proceedings by programming in an unexpected finding or complication.

“I think knowing that you can do something already, in a dry run and a safe environment and knowing that you’ve been able to do it once certainly gives you the confidence in the operating room,” she says.

A cold way to burn off fat under the skin

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Just a little bit around the bellybutton. That’s all Lisl Ewing wanted to lose.

She was well on her way, too, eating right and exercising regularly. But that persistent tummy fat didn’t want to budge. So the Naples, Fla. resident decided to try something else. Called “CoolSculpting,” the procedure promises to reduce persistent areas of fat through a process of controlled cooling.

“The alternative is to go under the knife, and this is a lot better solution,” said Ewing, 45.

Pieces of fat are suctioned between two plates, which then cool the fat to a temperature just above freezing. The freezing causes a natural death in the fat cells and, over a period of weeks and months, the body processes out the dead cells.

Results can be seen as early as a few weeks, although most patients peak around three or four months.

It’s especially effective for patients who want to lose four to six kilograms around their midsection or, like Ewing, are struggling to lose a few final pounds of exercise-resistant fat, explained Dr. Daniel I. Wasserman, of Riverchase Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery in Naples, Fla. Of the fat that’s cooled, about 20 to 25 per cent is likely to be removed with each treatment, Wasserman said. Because the body processes out the fat, there are no known negative health effects.

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A patient undergoes the Coolsculpting process to remove some belly fat. and throughout and they’ve found that your lipids don’t go up,” Wasserman said. The process received FDA approval in 2010.

CoolSculpting technology was pioneered as early as the 1970s, when scientists found that some children who ate Popsicles ended up with dimples in their cheeks.

That observation led to the discovery that cold can damage fat cells.

Riverchase Dermatology has been offering CoolSculpting at its downtown Naples office since August and began offering the procedure at its Fort

Myers, Fla., office last month. About 200 to 300 clients have undergone the procedure since Riverchase began offering it, said Meghan Ahearn, patient coordinator.

Each treatment starts at $700, but the average cost is $1,400 and up.

Part of CoolSculpting’s appeal is that it’s nonsurgical, Ahearn explained.

The cooling process doesn’t harm the skin, she said.

“It doesn’t do any damage to the dermis,” Ahearn said.

Although the procedure is consid-

ered most effective for patients who want to lose four to six kilos, Ahearn said it’s also suitable for clients who want to shed more weight as well. She does caution that CoolSculpting, unlike a surgical procedure such as liposuction, is not a quick fix, since it takes time for the body to naturally process out the dead cells.

“This is not an overnight thing,” Ahearn said.

In addition to midsections, Ahearn has performed the procedure on all parts of the body, including arms and thighs. Each treatment takes one hour, and the patient can read or watch television during the procedure.

Some patients even fall asleep, she added.

After the fat has been frozen, there’s a short massage to break up the crystallized fat, and that may cause a bit of discomfort; Ewing likened it to pushing on a bruise. Post-procedure, the frozen fat returns to its normal appearance in about 1½ hours.

Patients can resume their regular activity as soon as they would like.

That’s another reason the procedure appeals to clients, Ahearn said. The day after her CoolSculpting treatment, Ewing went shopping and worked out.

She started noticing a change in her midsection three weeks after the procedure, and Ewing eventually went on to drop a couple of pant sizes.

Not only has she noticed a change in the way she looks and her clothes fit, she’s more motivated to stick with her healthful habits, she said.

“With the exercise and eating right, it’s been a huge result,” Ewing said.

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MISSING CAT IN Clearview, diabetic, solid grey domestic short hair, missing since July 2, 5 p.m. answers to “Tripper” FOUND

Caregivers/ Aides

710

COMMUNITY DISABILITY WORKER supporting outgoing young lady who loves her cat. Must be able to work weekends. james211@shaw.ca

Clerical

720

Computer Personnel

730

Apex Oilfield Services is looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Desktop Support Technician that enjoys working with people, is very organized and has a keen eye for detail.

Candidates with 1-2 years of experience in desktop support are preferred, but recent grads are encouraged to apply. For more information visit our website at www.apexoil.ca.

Resumes can be submitted attention Steve Shaw to sshaw@apexoil.ca in PDFformat no later than July 13, 2012. No phone calls, please.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

ARE YOU EXPECTING A BABY SOON?

Welcome Wagon

has a special package just for you & your little one!

For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556

EAST 40TH PUB

Friday Night Featuring

Donny Smith

7 - 10 p.m.

Come join the gang!

EAST 40TH PUB

MISSING from KENTWOOD since May 7.

Answers to PUFF. Long haired, light orange/ beige & white. Any info or sightings appreciated.

Please call 403.392.8135 or 403.350.9953

Found

56

FOUND ring on Weddell Crsc. in Red Deer. Owner can claim by identifying call 403-350-5172

presents DOIN-IT-WITH-DEW Mon. 7 pm -11 pm. Come FOUND small dog, Victoria for comedy and sing along Park, owner call to claim with the oldies but goodies 403-343-6757

EAST 40TH PUB SPECIALS

Tuesday & Saturday’s Rib Night Wednesday Wing Night Thursdays Shrimp Night

EAST 40th PUB BLUES JAM Sunday’s 4-8 p.m.

EAST 40TH PUB

THURSDAY NIGHT’S BBQ NIGHT 6-9 p.m. or while quantities last.

Steak/Ribs, Potato, Salad, Bun & Choice of Drink for $10.50 NOW PLAYING VLT’S AT

EAST 40TH PUB

Personals

60

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager)

64

JULY 7 & 8, 10 A.M.- 8 P.M. 38 FERN RD. Sporting goods, furniture, household items, clothing toys, electronics, etc.

Normandeau 83 NYMAN CRES Thurs. July 5, Fri. July 6, Sat. July 7, Sun. July 8, 10-5/ household items, big red wagon and misc.

Proceeds to Missions.

Seeking IT SUPPORT TECH Position based in Red Deer corporate office.

Provide remote support to staff in our chain of retail stores, and onsite support to our corporate office.

Support Windows XP Pro/7, network routers, switches, printers, scanners and various software products such as MS Office and Shortcuts, the POS software.

Implement & manage rollout of Canada wide point of sale software.

Candidate must have a Computer Systems Technology diploma or equivalent in experience.

Excellent customer service, communication & organizational skills required.

Remuneration based on experience and education.

Excellent benefits package, competitive wage, perks.

Apply in confidence to careers@chatters.ca or fax resume to 1-888-409-0483

F/T Physiotherapy Assistant

Needing young, energetic, motivated individual to join our team. Drop off resume Bingos at: Weber Physiotherapy Clinic 5420 45 Street.

RED DEER BINGO Centre (South of Carnival Cinema) 4946-53 Ave. (West of Superstore). Precall 12:00 AN EXCELLENT & 6:00. Check TV Today!!!!

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Fairview - Upper

Owen Oil Tools, a leader in the oilfield perforating industry, is seeking a professional, friendly, and courteous individual to take on the role of Administrative Assistant.

The successful candidate must have a minimum of 1 - 3 years related experience and be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. Post secondary training in Office/Business Administration would be an asset.

Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.

Primary duties will include: operating a multi-line phone system in a professional and courteous manner, data entry, filing, customer invoicing, managing incoming and outgoing mail, assisting with accounts payable, and other clerical duties as requested.

Qualified applicants may fax their résumé to 403-340-1415, or e-mail to Darcy.Petherbridge@ corelab.com. Only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

CHOICE WHERE YOUR AD REACHES RURAL READERS

CALL 1-877-223-3311 CLASSIFIEDS HOT-LINE WHATEVER YOU’RE SELLING...

Dental

740

AURORA DENTAL GROUP is looking for a

Dental Hygienist

3 days/week, starting Aug. 8 Fax: 403-782-6326 RED DEER Orthodontics is seeking a

F/T RDA

with or w/o ortho module.

Exciting changes approaching and we are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic team players! Please forward resumes to: resumes@yes-inc.ca

Dental

740

WA N T E D R D A I I M o n . Thurs. for General dental practise in Rimbey. Previous exp. preferred. Please fax resume to 403-843-2607

Oilfield

800

Oilfield Labourer (Oil and Gas Servicing Drilling and Related Labourer)

WANTED: 633515 Alberta Ltd. o/a Sterilization Technician Lockhart Oilfield Services for Rimbey Dental Care.

Type of Employment: Must be meticulous & work Full time - Permanent well in a team setting.

Estimated Start Date: Starting wage $12-$15/hr As soon as possible depending on exp.

Please fax resume to JOB DESCRIPTION: 403-843-2607 -Manipulate sections of pipes or drill stems at rig floor during drilling and during removal and Janitorial replacement of pipes, drill stems and drill bits -Assist other workers to ARAMARK at (Dow maintain drilling equipment Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red on drill floor Deer needs hardworking, -Handle, sort and move drill pipes, tools, cement reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work and other materials 40/hrs. per week w/some -Clean up rig areas -Assist in setting up, taking weekends, daytime hrs.

Starting wage $13/hr. Fax down and transporting drilling and service rigs and resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black service equipment -Drive trucks to transport materials and well service equipment

770

Oilfield

800

B-PRESSURE Shop Welder

with flare stack building experience. Must be able to read blueprints and do material take off. Stainless welding ticket would be an asset. Merit program.

Great rates and hours.

Please email resume to: info@dynamicprojects.ca or fax: (403)340-3471

HSET Coordinator

Qualifications Req’d * CRSP or equivalent * 2-5 years work experience as a HSE practitioner * Valid Drivers License

Looking for a great place to grow with a leading company!!

Please contact us by: Fax: (403)340-0886 Email: jrempel@ cathedralenergyservices. com For full detail on this position, Please log onto our website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com PRECISION Geomatics requires a SURVEY ASSISTANT in the Innisfail or Red Deer area.

Two years Oil & Gas P/L & W/Survey exp. and safety tickets preferred but not required. Requires good physical condition,works outdoors, ability to work out of town for up to two weeks at a time. Email careers@ precisiongeo.ca.

REQUIREMENTS: Education: Completion of high school Experience: No experience Salary: $23.00 to $27.00 Hourly, 40.00 Hours per week Apply by fax: (403) 347-7398

SCHLUMBERGER HSE SPECIALIST

The HSE Specialist supports local Management in establishing and continuously improving the HSE culture within the worksite. *3 years experience in the oil and gas industry in an HSE role and formal education in a college/ university Safety program or an equivalent combination of both. *Must have experience with auditing, incident root cause analysis, behavioral based safety concepts, regulation interpretation and implementation, risk assessments, trend analysis.

Skill set must include *Excellent communication and public speaking, proficient in computer skills, autonomous, must work with little supervision, must have ability to multi-task and prioritize. *Must be able to visit well site locations for field inspections All resumes should be emailed to slb1927@hotmail.ca TELL it all! Tell it well! Make your ads sell for you by giving full description of goods or services offered. Include prices and terms. Phone 1-877-223-3311 for a friendly ad taker.

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

Professional Drivers for Field Based Equipment Wanted Duties and responsibilities include the following: *Safely driving and spotting mobile/semi-permanent equipment in a field operations setting * Onsite locating and BONUS INCENTIVE rigging in of mobile Oil & PROGRAM, BENEFITS!!

Gas tractor/trailer units * Performing minor regular and preventative maintenance on Fleet vehicles The successful candidate should possess the QUALIFIED following skills and attributes: *Oil & Gas background DAY AND NIGHT *Mechanical & technical SUPERVISORS aptitude (Must be able to Provide *Clean/current 5 year own work truck) driver abstract *Proficient with National FIELD OPERATORS Safety Code Pre-trip and Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers en-route inspections License required!! *Experience transporting hazardous products or Please contact dangerous goods Murray McGeachy or *Ability to perform emergency Kevin Becker roadside repairs by *All Oil & Gas industry Fax: (403) 340-0886 safety tickets or email *Class 1 drivers license required mmcgeachy@ *Experience and under cathedralenergyservices.com standing of Micro Soft Word, Excel, and email kbecker@ Email resume to nicole@ cathedralenergyservices.com amperageenergy.com or by fax to 403-932-4276 with a website: current/clean 5 year drivers www. abstract & safety tickets. cathedralenergyservices. www.amperageenergy. com com

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D

Join Our Fast GrowinTeam!!

Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

SAVANNA Well Servicing is seeking enthusiastic individuals to join our growing company. The following opportunities are available in Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as long term local work.

RIG MANAGERS DRILLERS DERRICKHANDS FLOORHANDS `Come join our growing family make the connection` Savanna offers competitive rates and a comprehensive benefits package effective on your first day of work.

Submit your resume : Include Industry certificate and driver`s license Online: http: //savanna. appone.com Email: savannacareers@ savannaenergy.com CALL US: 780-434-6064

SUREPOINT GROUP Provides a complete range of services to the upstream oil and gas industry.

Our RED DEER Location is looking for Instrument Technicians and Electricians of all Apprentice Levels!

We offer: - Competitive wages - Comprehensive Group Benefits - Outstanding Safety Program. It is our job to ensure we all go home SAFE EVERY DAY Please forward resumes to careers@surepoint.ca or FAX: (780) 830-5115.

Visit our website: www. surepoint.ca TEAM Snubbing Services now hiring exp’d snubbing operators and helpers.

Only those WITH experience need apply. Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com or fax 403-844-2148

WANTED

EXPERIENCED

CLASS 3

VAC/steamer Truck driver Lacombe area, Fax resume to 403-782-0507 WATER & VAC DRIVER needed. All oilfield tickets req’d. Call 885-4373 or fax resume 403-885-4374

Thursday, July 12, 2012 MARKETPLACE 3

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

Voltage Wireline Inc. is WATTS PROJECTS seeking an INC. Electronic Technologist is a Pipeline & Facility The successful candidate: Construction Company - Completes preventative based in Red Deer and maintenance on downhole Edson serving the wireline tools by following surrounding areas. We are standardized procedures. looking for experienced - Troubleshoot and repair personnel to join our team of electronic components, as the company expands. parts, switches, panels, We are looking for: electronic equipment, and *Field Safety - entry level systems. *Class 1 Heavy Haul Driver - The physical ability to *Class 1 Hotshot Driver immediately respond to *Welders emergency situations. *Apprentice Pipefitters - The successful candidate *Heavy Equipment will be required to Operators participate in the on-call *Pump Jack Installer rotation. *General Laborers - Formal completion of 2 Competitive wages, year diploma in Electronic Benefits and Living Technology Allowance provided.

- Mechanically inclined Please forward Resume, - Excellent communication Tickets and References to and interpersonal skills cody.howitt@telus.net or Please send resumes to fax 1-403-358-7763 jvalliere@voltagewireline. com

ZUBAR Production Services

is currently taking resumes for experienced Assistant Operators.

Must have all valid tickets.

Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net

EASY!

800

Professionals

810

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

WE ARE SEEKING MOTIVATED HARD WORKING PERSONNEL TO PROVIDE QUALITY SERVICE TO THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRIES The following positions are available

ALSTAR is a long standing and quickly growing Gas & Oilfield Construction Company and is looking to fill the following position:

Human Resources Coordinator

Successful candidate will * BED TRUCK be required to relocate to DRIVERS Hinton, Alberta * SWAMPERS For complete Job Description & Application Form, * PICKER OPERATOR please go to our website * WINCH TRACTOR www.alstaroilfield.com DRIVERS Please Quote Job Please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract (5 year) and current safety certificates.

Competitive wages with benefit and salary options available.

Subway is a super team to become a part of, especially if you are interested in pursuing a fast paced working environment. If you are interested in this position please apply online @ mysubwaycareer.com or drop resume off at #180 6900 Taylor Drive or fax to 403-343-0268.

Restaurant/ Hotel

Email: scornell@completeenergy.ca Fax: 403-887-4750 NIGHT WAIT STAFF & BUS PEOPLE NEEDED. Apply after 2 p.m. @ New Year Restaurant 6712 - 50 Avenue.

We would like to thank all those who apply. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview.

SOUTHPOINTE COMMON LOCATION. Positions for COOKS OR CASHIERS, F/T & P/T. There are opportunities for advancement with experience. Uniforms are provided. On the job training. Email resume to awsp@rttinc.com

810

HEALTH & FITNESS

www.greathealth.org Cancer Diabetes DIET 350-9168

www.air-ristocrat.com Gary 403-302-7167

PET ADOPTION

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES www.ultralife.bulidingonabudjet.com MLM’ers attract new leads for FREE!

CLUBS & GROUPS www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

COMPUTER REPAIR

Successful candidates will be responsible to provide personal support, supervision, and training in accordance with individuals needs and aspirations, within their home and community.

www.reddeerspca.com Many Pets to Choose From

Applicants should posses prior experience in the human service field, ideally providing community based supports.

Experience with dual diagnosis, dementia, unique challenges or personal care are definite assets.

Hours of work vary, with shift work and alternating weekends generally required.

REAL ESTATE www.homesreddeer.com Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333

• • • • • • •

www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

SHOPPING www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONS WEB DESIGN

www.albertacomputerhygiene.com

affordablewebsitesolution.ca

AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

What some of our employees say about their work: Focus is on the individuals served Everyday is different; everyday is fun Excellent & supportive coworkers Respected and valued for the work I do Opportunity to provide input, have say in service delivery Making the day meaningful for people Flexibility If this sounds like a place you can see yourself working, contributing to the “Quality” support provided, we would like to hear from you.

www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

19166TFD28

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 403-346-7273 www.albertanewhomes.com Stevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

We are currently seeking to fill a number of positions which are necessary in order to maintain the level of supports we have come to be known for.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

BALLOON RIDES BUILDERS

Central Alberta Residence Society, a CARF accredited agency has long been recognized for providing “Quality” support services to individuals with developmental disabilities.

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www.workopolis.com Red Deer Advocate - Job Search

www.fantahomes.com 403-343-1083 or 403-588-9788 www.masonmartinhomes.com Mason Martin Homes 403-342-4544 www.truelinehomes.com True Line Homes 403-341-5933 www.jaradcharles.com BUILDER M.L.S

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

www.dontforgetyourvitamins.net The greatest vitamins in the world

X-STATIC

APPLY IN PERSON AFTER 3 PM.

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300 www.liveyourlifebetter.com Lose weight naturally with Z-Trim

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a well experienced F/T SERVER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

DOOR PERSONNEL

820

Direct resumes/applications to: C.A.R.S. #101 - 5589 47 St. Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 Fax: 403-346-8015 Email: markw@carsrd.org

Trades

850

CASE IH EQUIPMENT DEALER IN STETTLER is now accepting applications for

IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR P/T EXP’D

#61719

Professionals

www.centralalbertahomebuilders.com Central AB Home Builders 403-346-5321 www.reddeer.cmha.ab.ca Canadian Mental Health Assoc. www.realcamping.ca LOVE camping and outdoors? www.diabetes.ca Canadian Diabetes Assoc. www.mycommunityinformation.com /cawos/index.html www.reddeerchamber.com Chamber of Commerce 403-347-4491

820

POSITION: SUBWAY COUNTER ATTENDANT

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Classified want ad. Phone 1-877-2233311

ASSOCIATIONS

Restaurant/ Hotel

Sales & Distributors

830

Alberta Sport & Import Ltd. require an experienced sales consultant.

Knowledge of high end vehicles and finance would be an asset. We offer Company Benefits and flexible work schedule.

Apply in person to 7620 Gaetz Ave. or fax your resume to 403-347-9551, email to rjacobson@ albertasportandimport.com

B.C.’S friendliest home provider is looking for experienced Sales staff for our second location in Kamloops, B.C. opening August 1, 2012. Please contact Trudy Reese at Countryside Manufactured Homes, 1-250-832-6699, or fax resume to 1-250-832-2418.

Also visit our web site at countrysidemanufactured homes.com.

CASHIER NEEDED. Drop resume off at Liquor Crossing, 5250 22 St., Red Deer.

FIREPLACE PERSON required for sales in Red Deer. Light office duties.

Must have drivers license.

Top wages. Call or email John, 1-780-993-2040 firegall@telusplanet.net PREMIER Spa Boutique is seeking Retail Sales Supervisor for our Parkland Mall location, Red Deer. $16.00/hr.

Email resume premierjobrd1@gmail.com

StoreSmart Self-Storage

seeking P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSOCIATE for 16-24 hours per week.

For job description and how to apply, please go to…www.StoreSmart.ca/ careers.

No phone calls please.

Trades

850

FINISHING CARPENTER req’d in Central Alberta.

Sub-Contract or hourly.

Competitive wages.

Experience req’d. Send resume to: admin@ davcointeriors.com or fax: 403-887-7589

3rd and 4th year Apprentices or Journeyman / Heavy Duty Mechanics FRAMERS and helpers

req’d, m/f, own transportawith Ag experience. tion 403-350-5103 We offer year round employment, exemplary GOODMEN benefits package, ROOFING LTD. competitive pay scale and Requires continuous professional training in a positive, SLOPED ROOFERS friendly team oriented work LABOURERS environment. If you have a & FLAT ROOFERS great attitude and integrity, Future Ag Inc is Valid Driver’s Licence offering you an exciting preferred. Fax or email career opportunity. info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 To apply, NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! forward your resume to: Future Ag Inc. JOIN THE BLUE Attn: Markus Stadelmann GRASS TEAM! Box 1510 BLUE GRASS SOD Stettler, AB T0C 2L0 FARMS LTD is seeking Fax to (403) 742-5626 F/T heavy duty journeyEmail to man mechanic with markuss@futureag.ca experience in managing CASE IH people, parts and equipEQUIPMENT DEALER ment. Benefits. $31-$40/hr.

IN RED DEER bluesod@xplornet.com or is now accepting fax to 403-342-7488 applications for

3rd & 4th year Apprentices or Journeyman / Heavy Duty Mechanics with Ag experience.

We offer year round employment, exemplary benefits package, competitive pay scale and continuous professional training in a positive, friendly team oriented work environment.

If you have a great attitude and integrity, Future Ag Inc is offering you an exciting career opportunity.

To apply, forward your resume to: Future Ag Inc. Attn: Barry Groves Box 489 Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1 Fax to (403) 342-0396 Email: barryg@futureag.ca

DSM INC.

looking for laborers, in the Innisfail area.

Salary is $14.30/hr. Fax resume to: 403-314-0676.

EXP’’D drywall tradesmen & laborers req’d, Phone 403-348-8640 EXPERIENCED Concrete Cribbers Required. Please call Ryan for details.

403-845 6332 F/T JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER NEEDED Most weekends off (dependent on weather), competitive wages. Must have own transportation.

Call 403-598-3857 F/T PAINTERS REQ’D Painting exp. necessary.

Must have vehicle.

Must be task orientated, self motivated & reliable.

Recognized as a top safety award winning company.

Phone 403-596-1829

KCB Cabinets has an opening!

We are looking for a

Carpenter/Handyman

Strong solid experience in carpentry is essential.

Experience in plumbing, drywalling, taping and mudding will be considered a definite asset. Must be able to ensure quality workmanship and own the tools necessary to do the work. If interested please drop off resume or call

Rick at KCB Cabinets #2 4648 Riverside Drive Red Deer.

Phone 347-3334 LOOKING FOR A CAREER? KAL TIRE

has an opening for a JOURNEYMAN LIGHT DUTY MECHANIC Preference will be given to those w/alignment exp.

Great pay, profit share and full benefits.

Bring your resume to: 5139 - 50 Street, Innisfail NEED P/T eavestrougher, you set your hours 1-403-347-2522 P/T SMART BOARD AND Cedar shake installer req’d. Call 403-347-2522 STUCCO LABOURERS needed Immed. Exp’d but will train. Drivers License pref’d. Call 403-588-5306

4 MARKETPLACE Thursday, July 12, 2012

Trades

850

Truckers/ Drivers

860

Misc.

Help

880

880

Misc.

Help

880

Misc.

Help

880

Misc.

Help

Misc.

Help

880

Misc.

Help

880

ADULT UPGRADING

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIER NEEDED REBEL METAL FABRICATORS

MIG WELDERS 2nd, 3rd Yr. APPRENTICES, JOURNEYMEN, B PRESSURE

Production Bonuses Comp. wages & benefits.

Long term employment Please email resume to hr@rebelvac.ca Or fax to: 403-314-2249

Shipper / Receiver

FOR recycling company in Central Alberta. Must be able to work independently and enjoy sales. Class 3 license needed. Call 403-635-4123 or fax 403-329-1585 or email tdtren@telus.net

Misc.

Help

880

AES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD. looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Fax resume to 403-342-0233

Truckers/ Drivers

860

* Work in a FUN environment * Paid Weekly + bonuses * Only 4 hrs./night & 3-7 days per wk.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

Wanted for delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life In

For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

JOHNSTONE PARK James St., Johns St. Jacob Close, Joice Close

Alberta Government Funded Programs Student Funding Available! * GED Preparation * Trades Entrance Exam Preparation * Women in the Trades

Academic Express

ROSEDALE

Adult Education & Training

Robinson Crsc., Reinholt Ave.

www.academicexpress.ca

DEER PARK

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life twice weekly in

ROUTES AVAIL.

Dunning Crsc.

Depalme St.

PINES Pearson Crsc.

ROUTE AVAIL.

MICHENER

51 Street & 43 Ave. area

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

HOW CAN YOU MAKE YOUR PHONE RING? & Make Some Quick Cash?

Place your ad HERE...

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick at 403-314-4303

* Training is provided * MUST speak fluent English * Excellent work experience Central AB based trucking company reqires

OWNER OPERATORS in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

For further information please contact

DRIVERS & SWAMPERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 Employment Opportunity. * Class 3 license a must. *Class 1 preferred * Picker experience a plus Distribute precast concrete in central AB area, Fax resume with clean driver’s abstract to: 886-4853 or drop off resume at: 930 Fleming Ave. Penhold. Inquiries 403-588-6505. Gary EXPERIENCED and Qualified Picker truck Operator required. Must have Class 1. Fax Resume to (403)340-8686

MOUNTVIEW Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Must have a reliable vehicle .

Please contact Rick at 403-314-4303

CRYOGENIC INDUSTRIES Canada requires a full time shipper parts person.

Must be very organized and used to working in a faster paced environment.

Please send resumes to fax 403-352-4439

DENTAL TECHNICIAN In Red Deer, AB. F/T, $21/hr, must have dental technician college training & certification.

Fax 403-347-8881 peacedental@yahoo.ca

HOW can you make your phone ring and make some quick cash?

Place your ad here . . .

Phone 1-877-223-3311

TO FIND OUT MORE HOW can you make your phone ring & make some quick cash? Place your ad here. . .

Contractors

1100

Black Cat Concrete

COR CONSTRUCTION ~Garages ~Decks ~ Fencing ~ Reno’s.

35 years exp. 403-598-5390

COUNTERTOPS

Kitchen & renovations and wall removal.

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s.

Free estimates for all your reno needs. 755-9622 cell 506-4301 RENO’S Countertops, decks, etc. 403-346-9477 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Contractors

1100

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Prefering non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 302-9210.

Escorts

1165

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT Busty Babe w/My Own Car!

EDEN

587-877-7399 10am- 2am EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049 ROXY Independent 403-848-2300

Fencing

1169

P.W. FENCING

Wood, Vinyl & Ornamental Fencing. 403-598-9961

Massage Therapy

1280

Misc.

Services

1290

Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE

Feeling blue, under the weather? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave. www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels 403-986-6686 ZEN RELAXATION Walk-ins welcome 5003Ross St. 403-348-5650

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 Yard Work / Reno / Tree / Junk Removal 403-396-4777

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

for details

314-4307

CARRIERS NEEDED For Advocate routes INGLEWOOD AREA ANDERS AREA VANIER AREA LANCASTER AREA FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA: Anders Close Ackerman Crsc.

Asmundsen Ave/ Arb Close SUNNYBROOK AREA: Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close INGLEWOOD AREA: Imbeau Close

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

MORRISROE

Please call Debbie

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

Sidewalks, driveways, garages, patios, bsmts. RV pads. Dean 403-505-2542

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

Earn $500.mo. for 1--1/2 hrs. per day 6 days a week.

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

****************************

314-4300

ADULT CARRIERS REQUIRED for Early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate in Sylvan Lake

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

CHRIS MCGINNIS Red Deer and area Team Leader

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for Morning Newspaper delivery in the Town of Stettler

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Phone 1-780-716-4202

CLASS 1 and 3 drivers req’d for road construction.

Water truck and truck and pup exp. preferred. Living allowance incld. Fax 403-309-0489

WEST PARK 77 Advocate $400/mo. $4800/yr

340-1930

ROUTES AVAIL.

MUSTANG ACRES Galbraith St. & Gray Dr.

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for an honest reliable person to help on small renovations or jobs around your house? Call James 403- 341-0617

HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship, helping you/helping your family. Call 403-346-7777 Low Price Guarantee. www. helpinghandshomesupport.com

Yard Care

1430

Tree Pruning,Topping and Removal by a Certified Arborist,Hedges too! Call Randy at 403-350-0216

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 INDUSTRIAL DRYCLEANING PLANT requires energetic, detail oriented, responsible, team oriented individual for F/T employment.

Fax resume to 403-314-1422 or email: jeremy@thecoverallshop.ca RED-L DISTRIBUTORS, an industrial hose & fitting supply store, is currently hiring for 2 F/T warehouse/ order desk worker. Duties include order picking, assembly, & general shop duties with opportunity for advancement.

Please fax resumes to (403) 340-0690

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Misc.

Help

880

Misc.

Help

880

Computers

1600

Household Furnishings

1720

WE’RE GROWING AGAIN!

LOOKING FOR newspaper carrier in the Town of Trochu 1 Day a week.

Perfect for youth of seniors.

Please call Quitcy for details

314-4316

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

M O V I N G , L A P TO P , 8 COFFEE table, octagon mos. old, still under war- shape, w/storage under, Are you an energetic person ranty, $200, 403-347-0104 o a k c o l o r , $ 1 5 , 403-46-9006 with great people skills?

We need a strong team ENTERTAINMENT centre, Equipmentplayer who can work on 48x40 high, medium oak, Heavy their own, and has reliable like new cond. $60, transportation. If you can 403-341-3393 TRAILERS for sale or rent handle somewhat flexible LOVESEAT, Job site, office, well site or hours, have common sense comfy and from storage. Skidded or and are a quick learner, nonsmoking, nonpet home. wheeled. Call 347-7721. this could be for you.

Owner downsizing. $50.

We offer training, wage 403-340-1365. plus bonus and benefits Farmers' See wegotads.ca after 3 months.

Market RECLINER, Fast paced Property Lazy Boy brown/red.

Management firm is looking HONEY FOR SALE From nonsmoking, for the right people to show Liquid & natural creamed nonpet home. Owner suites, inspections, etc. (raw honey) 1kg $15.98. downsizing. $90.

Email: info@hpman.ca TRY THE BEST, See wegotads.ca or TASTE THE DIFFERENCE 403-340-1365 or 403-347-6994 Career mooreme@telus.net Planning WOODEN night stand $10; youth study desk & bookFirewood shelf $30; Panasonic RED DEER WORKS 1200w microwave $80; Build A Resume That wooden computer desk Works!

AFFORDABLE $20; octopus floor lamp APPLY ONLINE Homestead Firewood $30 403-885-5847 www.lokken.com/rdw.html Spruce, Pine, Birch Call: 403-348-8561 Spilt, Dry. Pickup or Del. Email inford@lokken.com 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Stereos Career Programs are TV's, VCRs FIREWOOD. All Types.

FREE P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 for all Albertans 2 TV’S older style 27” Sobirchfirewoodsales.com ny, and one Samsung to gvie away, both working, Garden call 403-343-0730

1630 1650

920

1730

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PILING CONST. CO. looking for Laborer positions available. Fax Resume to (403)340-8686 Real Enterprises Ltd NOW HIRING Exp Landscape Foremen/ Labourers Benefits - Bonuses Must have valid drivers license Also Hiring: -PT Mechanic (Semi Retired Welcome) -Carpenter’s Helper Fax or email resumes: Fax 403-314-2214 Email realltd@telus.net www.reddeerlandscaping.net

Symphony Senior Living Inglewood req’s part time/full time Maintenance Assistant Building operator exp. preferred along with pool maintenance exp. and certification. The ideal candidate will also be mechanically inclined and be able to handle all aspects of building maintenance including painting and drywall repair.

Please reply to D. Booth #10 Inglewood Drive or fax to 346-1109 or email bsciw@ symphonyseniorliving.comon or before May 22, 2012.

Thank you for your interest and only short listed candidates will be contacted.

1660

stuff

Supplies

1680

FREE USED, WHITE LANDSCAPE ROCK. In alley behind 114 Douglas Ave. along fence.

Just come & pick it up.

No call required.

403-340-1305 LANDSCAPING mulch, $10.00 yard. Phone 403-3413800 weekdays or 403-343-6182 eves. & wknds.

LAWNMOWER 21” Homelight, rear bagger. $75.

403-347-6183

Misc. for Sale

1760

Misc. for Sale

1760

SENIOR DOWNSIZING 2 old glass fruit bowls, $12 each, 1 old glass salad bowl, $12; 2 old glass pickle dishes, $5 each 2 gravy boats $3 each,, 2 old glass candy dishes $4.50 each, 1 heavy pot $8; 1 heavy stainless steel pot $12 1 elec. heavy cooking pot w/deep fryer rack $10 ; 1 old figurine lamp $20; 2 brass candle stands w/3 candle holders, $4.50 each, new compression socks $8, cutting board for sewing $2, counter top ironing board $2; 6 company coming cookbooks $2 each, 403-346-2231 SENIOR DOWNSIZING Kitchen items for sale 403-346-2231

Cats

1830

3 KITTENS TO GIVE AWAY and 1outside adult cat, great for farm or as pets, 403-343-0730 LITTER TRAINED, spayed, beautiful long hair, very affectionate female cat. Free to the right home.

Well behaved, if away from other pets. 403-392-5630

Dogs

1840

2 0 0 6 C O B R A 4 w h e e l AUSTRALIAN Shepherd scooter, red, mint cond., pups, mini. & toy blue merles, $250-$500. 1st shots, $1500, 403-748-4181 1500-1990 de-wormed. 780-372-2387 BIG red wagon $30 F1 B GOLDEN DOODLES, 83 NYMAN CRSC ready now, health guaranPHONE 403-346-6908 Auctions CERAMIC flower piots, in- teed, shots, vet checked, $900 delivered, door or outdoor, variety of www.furfettishfarm.ca BIG STRAPPER sizes and colors, 11 for or call 306-792-2113 AUCTIONS $20, 403-314-9603 403- 919-1370 4625-46 Street, Lacombe, HAIRDRESSER MAT south of Tim Horton’s.

GOLDEN RETRIEVER New, $100. 403-307-7542 We buy for cash P.B. puppies, 1st. shots.

No phone calls after 9 p.m.

SALES WED. @6 pm.

Vet checked. Born May 13.

ITEMS FOR SALE 403-773-2240 or 304-5104 ANTIQUE SALE 2008 FORD 1 ton dually 1st SUN. OF THE MONTH Household long box Triton V-10 only PUGGLES vet checked AT 1 P.M. 403-505-6837 28,500 kms, $24,900 Appliances 403-782-5693 SHELTIES, 2 F, 1 - 15 www.bigstrapperauctions.net APPLS. reconditioned lrg. 2008 Montana 43hp diesel wks old, 1- 2yrs old, selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. tractor with snow blade $500, 403-722-3204 or Bud Haynes & warr. Riverside Appliances only 1800 hrs. $15,000 403-846-0198 Co. Auctioneers 403-342-1042 Certified Appraisers 1966 1997 International Diesel Estates, Antiques, 2 1 / 2 t o n s i d e d u m p e r Sporting Household Firearms. garbage truck $9900 Goods Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. Furnishings 347-5855 6 station computer system DUMBELL WEIGHTS new server $4000 Full set for $10 obo.

BED ALL NEW, 403-347-6183 Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr. 6 camera security system Bicycles w i t h n i g h t v i s i o n a n d ORBRITREK eliptical exerCost $1300. Sacrifice $325. computer $1500 ciser, new cond., $50.

302-0582 Free Delivery BICYCLE, Renegade Call Dean or Marg at BED: #1 King. extra thick 11 station 4 line complete 403-341-3393 12 Speed. $15 obo. orthopedic pillowtop, brand t e l e p h o n e s y s t e m w i t h 403-347-6183 RH golf clubs, c/w bag and new, never used. 15 yr. spare phones $1000 h a n d c a r t , $ 4 5 , warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice @ $545. 403-302-0582.

Assortment of printers, fax 403-347-5749 Clothing machines, office furniture, CEDAR CHEST etc.

WITH DRAWER, Travel 403-505-2942 ask for Jerry 2 PA I R S m e n ’ s b l a c k lots of storage space, Oxfords, size 12, like new, approx 46L x 20W x 28H. 4 3 4 0 H w y . 1 2 e a s t Packages Lacombe 1 pair, $10 1 pair, $20 obo $199. 403-340-1365 TRAVEL ALBERTA 403-347-1501 mooreme@telus.net LARGE HOUSE PLANT, Alberta offers Pictures on wegotads.ca 5’ tall, $25, 403-314-9603 SOMETHING SIZE 8-10 ladies’ summer for everyone. c l o t h e s , g o o d q u a l i t y, PEDESTAL SINK, bone WANTED Make your travel variety of items, all for $25, c o l o r, l i k e n e w $ 6 5 , Antiques, furniture and plans now.

403-314-9603 403-346-9006 estates. 342-2514

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1710 1720

1860

1540

1590

1900

Condos/ Townhouses AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Farm Equipment

2010

24’ HEAVY Duty Free Standing panels, windbreaks, gates, shelters, feeders and more for SALE. Please call 403-704-3828 for more info. RIMBEY

Horse Boarding

2150

ALL YEAR pasture, scenic rides $150/mo. 350-7421

3030

3 BDRM. FAMILY TOWNHOUSE

in Eastview. 6 appls., 1.5 baths. Will accept a well behaved pre-approved cat! Call Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-896-1193 www.hpman.ca AVAIL. Aug. 1, 3 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appls, fenced yard, close to all amenities, $1050/mo. + utils., SD same Call 403-506-0054 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Riverfront Estates

Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, blinds, large balcony, Grain, Feed no pets, n/s, $1150 or $1175 along the river.

Hay SD $1000. avail. Aug. 1.

403-304-7576 347-7545 50 ACRES of standing hay, fertilized this spring WESTPARK of 2012, good crop, price negot., 2 blks N of Black- 11/2 blocks west of hospital!

3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. falds on 2A call Dave. balcony, no pets, n/s, 403-885-4462 rent $1150 SD $1000 avail. July 15.

STANDING MIXED GRASS for sale, $30/acre, 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 you swath and bale, 300 acres, 4 hrs. E of Red Manufactured Deer on AB /Sask border.

Homes No weeds, voluptuous standing virgin hay.

Contact Wiliam Frederick Newly Reno’d Mobile Weinkauf cell FREE Shaw Cable + more 1-306-460-9671 or Linda $899/month Susan Weinkauf, cell Lana 403-550-8777 306-460-9672 home msgs eves. 1-306-968-2713

2190

3040

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

3050

2 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. $800/mo. + d.d.

403-343-6609 ACROSS from park, 3 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $950/mo. d.d. $650. Incl. water , sewer, and garbage Avail. Aug. 1, 403-304-5337

3060

Suites

3060

LARGE 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

NOW RENTING 1 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/ onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat and hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL Large 2 bdrm. apt. with balcony. Rent $775.

403-346-5885

THE NORDIC

2 bdrm. adult building, n/s No pets. 403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

3090

1 BDRM. bsmt, own kitchen, preferred employed.

403-358-0081, 342-7789 SE house, n/s working M, no kids/pets, internet, $450/mo., 403-318-5139

Industrial

3130

COMMERCAIL bay Bowden, 403-346-1825

Warehouse Space

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3140

Suites BRAND new 9900 sq. ft.

DELBURNE 2 bdrm. ready for lease fall 2012 on house, n/s, no pets, Golden West Ave 358-3500 $1000/mo. utlls incl. except 1 & 2 BDRM. APTS. Clean, quiet bldg. phone & cable, 2012 23 Call 318-0901.

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780-968-4018 Garage 780-850-4018 1 BDRM. with balcony, no Space kids/pets, $625 rent/s.d., ENJOY THE Call 403- 227-1844.

60’ x 32’ heated, 2 doors WHOLE HOUSE! KERRYWOOD DR. 12’ x 12’ $1700/mo. Sylvan Large 5 bdrm home, room 1 bdrm suite.

Balcony with Lake area 780-434-0045 for the whole family in a view. Large Living room Westpark. 5 appls. w/fireplace. In-suite laundry.

Close to College. Call Mature adults only. Call Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Mobile Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-896-1193 Lot or 403-350-8152 www.hpman.ca www.hpman.ca LACOMBE new park, LARGE & BRIGHT! animal friendly. Your mobile Condos/ 2 bdrm suite with balcony or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Townhouses in a well maintained adult Excellent 1st time home only building. Close to buyers. 403-588-8820 Hospital. Easy access to Halman Heights 3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse city amenities. Avail. Aug 1.

Sorry, no pets. Call 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, MOBILE HOME PAD, in Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Red Deer Close to Gaetz, no pets, n/s, rent $1350 or 403-896-1193 SD $1000 avail. July 31.

2 car park, Shaw cable incl. www.hpman.ca 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 Lana 403-550-8777

3150 3190

3030

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Houses For Sale

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4020

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

2 BDRM. new Michener C o n d o 11 9 0 s q . f t . 5 appls, amenity filled, heated underground parking w/storage room, $317, 500 No GST 403-986-5060 Steps away from school. 4 bdrm.. (2 up, 2 down) 2.5 baths, fully dev., 5 appls., garage 32x22, 220 power, new updates inside and out of home, underground sprinkler system. $364,000.

Open house, July 9-13.

5 p.m.8 p.m. July 15, 1-4.

87 Perry Dr. Sylvan.

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Acreages

4050

Acreages

4050

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CLASSIFICATIONS Houses For Sale

4020

CLASSIFICATIONS PRICE REDUCED!

3 LAKE FRONT PROPERTIES: 30 acres (2300 sqft home), $495,000. 37 acres $195,000. & 10 acres $175,000.

10 min from Ponoka.

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Call 403-519-6773 brettie@platinum.ca

Farms/ Land

4070

Cars

5030

2009 Malibu 2LT 28,305 km $17,888 AS&I 348-8788

5050

Heavy Trucks

5060

2004 CHEV DIESEL leather, loaded $11,600.

403-348-9746

23 ACRES

Farms/Land Wanted

4080

2009 Corvette Auto Nav H/ Up display glass roof sport suspension $45,888 AS & I 7620 Gaetz Ave 348-8788

2006 HONDA Accord LOOKING for good quality Coupe. 98,000 km. V6, grain land, S of Red Deer, stnd. $14,000. 403-318-2438 call 587-877-1159

4090

MUST SELL

By Owner $7,000.

Lana 403-550-8777

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

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CAT DIESEL 1986 Fords F700. 5 speed hi/low range. Everything in great working order. $13,800. 268,000 km.

403-348-9746

Holiday Trailers

5120

5120

Auto Wreckers

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2007 TIMBERLODGE 28’, fully loaded, sleeps 9, rarely used, moved only twice, some extras included. Can be viewed 1/2 km. east of Red Deer on Hwy. 11 near Balmoral Golf Course. $14,500 obo phone 403-391-2586

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5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585 2007 DUTCHMEN 30’ 2 slides, rear bunks, air, exc. cond. $16,000 no gst 403-318-5356

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2005 GMC Yukon XL SLT. 4x4. Loaded with 5.0 L V8 gas engine, 244,000 km.

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5180

2007 TIMBERLODGE 28’, 87 TERCEL FOR PARTS. fully loaded, sleeps 9, Motor, transmission and rarely used, moved only front wheel drive all good.† twice, some extras Body fair.†$150 obo. included. Can be viewed 780-877-3979 1/2 km. east of Red Deer TELESCOPIC TRAILER on Hwy. 11 near Balmoral TOW MIRROR Golf Course. $14,500 obo

By Schefenacker. phone 403-391-2586 Electric heat & light.

Fits Chev/GM, 99’ - 06’. $199 obo. 403-346-9006

2007 TIMBERLODGE 28’, fully loaded, sleeps 9, rarely used, moved only twice, some extras 2005 Travelaire 5th Wheel included. Can be viewed 26.5 ft. 1 Slide. A/C Sleeps 6. 1/2 km. east of Red Deer $15,000 obo 403-896-3111 on Hwy. 11 near Balmoral Golf Course. $14,500 obo phone 403-391-2586

2004 HOLIDAIRE 25’ good cond., 403-358-5800

Tires, Parts Acces.

5040

THRIVING CLOTHING STORE FOR SALE! Successful high-quality 2007 Audi Q7 AWD 4.2L womens’ consignment clothing boutique in bustling Pano roof loaded $30,888 7620 Gaetz Ave 348- 8788 Uptowne Olds. Wellestablished consignor and customer base. For more info (403) 863-6307 or (403) 586-2863 info@reFindclothing.com

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Pride of ownership.

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403-843-6182

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