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BioRefinex wins U.S. patent BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The technology behind a proposed multimilliondollar plant that would process organic waste in Lacombe has been granted United States patent protection. Erik Schmidt, president of Ponoka-based Biosphere Technologies Inc., developed a system that converts material like livestock byproducts into nutrients for fertilizer, and biogas for power generation. It also destroys pathogens, including the organisms responsible for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and chronic wasting disease (CWD). Known as the BioRefinex process, it involves thermal hydrolysis and fractionation. The former uses high-pressure and high-temperature steam to break down tissue into its molecular components, and the latter relies on centrifugal separation to obtain fatty acids, amino acids and digestible minerals. Schmidt has been working on the technology for years, and hopes to see a commercial-scale plant in

Lacombe demonstrating the process. “The challenge is everyone says, ‘Hey, it looks great, but we want to see a plant running.’ ” A separate, broadly-owned company, BioRefinex Canada Inc., would own and operate the facility. In June 2011, Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp. — a non-profit organization that administers fees from large Alberta greenhouse gas emitters — pledged $10 million for the plant. At that time, the project’s cost was estimated at between $30 million and $35 million, so more money is needed. Schmidt said the U.S. patent should help with efforts to raise that capital. “If you don’t have an innovation you can protect, you don’t have much value,” he explained. Patents have also been issued in Japan, Australia and South Africa, with others pending in Europe, Asia, South America and Canada. The BioRefinex process has also been adopted by member countries of the World Organization for Animal Health as an acceptable method for destroying infectious microbiological pathogens, and certified

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by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency as a way to process specified risk material — cattle parts like brains and spinal cords where BSE-causing agents are more likely to exist. Livestock producers currently pay for the disposal of specified risk material, which must be incinerated or landfilled. The BioRefinex process would instead turn this material, as well as municipal and industrial food waste, into products with market value. In addition to this economic benefit, and the fact the process eliminates disease-causing agents, Schmidt believes his system could improve the global food system. With the world’s population growing, it’s essential that we minimize waste and work to enhance the productivity of farmland, he said. “I think in time, probably in the future, they’re going to say we cannot destroy any organic waste. We’ve got to recycle it all, because we’ve got to get it back into the nutrient cycle.” Despite a lengthy regulatory approval process, Schmidt hopes the plant will be operational by 2014. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY HEATHER SCOFFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Federal and provincial environment ministers are poised to announce a new deal to better control industrial air pollution and reduce smog. The Canadian Press has learned that officials from both levels of government have agreed in principle to the air-quality deal, and have the backing of almost all affected industries. Ministers are meeting today in Banff to sign the deal, barring last-minute objections, multiple sources say. “This is the first comprehensive national environment scheme that I can recall,” said Stephen Hazell, an Ottawa-based environment lawyer who has been involved in smog-reduction since 2007. “This is extraordinary in itself.” The deal would see the governments agree to higher standards on air quality, at first targeting fine particulate matter and ground-level ozone. Then they’ll move on limits to nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide and volatile organic compounds. “It’s a big improvement over the standards we have right now,” Hazell said. “You have Alberta, Ontario and the Government of Canada agreement on a national approach to deal with one of the big environmental problems of our time: smog.” Government sources cautioned that ministers still had to give a final stamp of approval Thursday. Quebec’s position was still unknown, given the recent change in government. Quebec often opts out of such agreements but implements them on its own terms. The federal-provincial environment ministers’ website said the changes were prompted because it became obvious that the current standards were too low. “With new science and research regarding the effects of air pollution on our health and the environment it has become apparent that the current Canada-wide standards need to be updated and more stringent ambient air quality standards are necessary,” says the website. In fact it was Prime Minister Stephen Harper who provided the political impetus in 2007, when he vowed to cut smog in half by 2015, Hazell said. This agreement won’t go nearly that far, he said, but it will likely result in sizable smog reductions over time. The new air-quality management system will specifically target industrial pollutants by setting minimum emissions requirements for each individual industry. “It’s not a one-size-fits-all,” Hazell said. Documentation on the ministers’ website says the requirements would affect a wide range of industrial activity related to mining, energy and oil sands, and would apply to boilers, heaters, turbines and engines.

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Tangle Caron takes Steve McClure, left, wearing a mountain goat costume and Tyler Jarand in a mountain sheep outfit by the horns as they perform at Mountview School in Red Deer on Wednesday afternoon. The three Parks Canada Interpretive performers brought their musical Mountain W.I.T. Theatre production “Wild Sings” to the school for two shows Wednesday performing for all the students and staff in the school in both French and English. Rocking and rapping their way through the production they introduced the school to some of the wild animals that call the Rocky Mountain Parks their home in Banff and Jasper National Parks.

Curling centre set to open by the end of the month BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Almost $9 million later, the Red Deer Curling Centre is nearly ready for curlers to throw the first stones. Renewal work began on the 57-year-old facility, located at 4725 43rd St., in mid-February and the bulk of the work is expected to wrap up later this month, said Rich Roberts, project manager. “We plan to be curling by the (Oct.) 29th,” said Roberts. On Tuesday, the compressors were tested and it is expected the ice will be ready by the end of October. “We’re moving along with the final stages of commissioning the ice plant. We hope to start making ice next week,” said Roberts. The $8.8-million expansion and renovation project will increase the number of sheets at the rink to 12 from eight and significantly upgrade the ice plant. Also included in the project are: upgrades to the viewing area and lounge on the second floor, including extending it to cover all 12 sheets; new dressing rooms; renovating the offices, storage area and small concession area and adding more seats. Almost 38,000 square feet were added to the building. “This is now a world class curling facility,” said Roberts. “Might well be the finest curling facility in

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the world, because of the technology we have and the viewing we have from the warm side where we have wall to wall glass overlooking the ice.” The upgrades will be put to the test very quickly after the ice is laid down as the curling centre is set to host a World Curling Tour event from Nov. 2 to 5. Roberts said about 20 of the top 25 women’s teams in the world will be there and a significant number of the men’s top teams as well. In total, there are 32 women’s teams and 28 men’s teams for the bonspiel, including teams from China, Japan, Russia and Switzerland. Construction crews are now cleaning the floor, putting cameras over the ice, drywalling, painting and getting ready for carpeting. Although the sheets will likely be ready in time for Oct. 29, there will still be work to do, which Roberts expects will wrap up by the end of the year. “There will still some finishes in some of the rooms,” said Roberts. “Not all of the flooring and not all of the painting will be done.” The old ice area was totally demolished in the renovation and the front end, which was built in 1995, was extended to line up with the 12 sheets. “People will be amazed at what they see,” said Roberts.

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NAVAL OFFICER GUILTY UNION SAYS BEEF OF ESPIONAGE WORK GOES TOO FAST A Canadian naval officer pleaded guilty to espionage, five years after he walked in to the Russian embassy and began a relationship that resulted in the sharing of a ‘vast amount’ of sensitive information. A5

The union for workers at an Alberta meat packer shut down over E. coli concerns says the pace of slaughter operations forces workers to take shortcuts around cleanliness and puts the health of beef-eating Canadians at risk. A3

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CHILDREN’S LIBRARY REOPENS SATURDAY

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Red Deer Public Library assistant Deb Isbister works with other staff to restock about 700 boxes full of books back onto library shelves on Wednesday. A renovation project to the Children’s Library space including a new coat of paint, new flooring and some new furniture in the downtown branch has been completed and the space is set to reopen this Saturday. During an opening celebration Saturday Children’s author Robert Heidbreder will give a presentation at 11 a.m. The public is welcome to attend.

Ben Affleck lauds Ken Taylor at reception for film ‘Argo’ BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Hollywood’s Ben Affleck lauded Canadian hero Ken Taylor and the Canada-U.S. relationship on Wednesday in the U.S. capital as he promoted his new film, Argo, about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Any apparent hard feelings between the actor and Taylor were a thing of the past as Ben Affleck Affleck spoke of the courage of Canada’s onetime ambassador to Iran after Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took dozens of

Americans hostage. “I consider Ken Taylor a very clear hero; he sheltered people who otherwise would have died,” Affleck said on the red carpet for the movie’s D.C. premiere. Taylor became an international hero following his success in sheltering the Americans for three months. The longtime diplomat moved the Americans around to various safe houses, finally managing to Ken Taylor secure fake Canadian passports for them from Ottawa. Argo highlights littleknown details about the escape of the six Americans. That story, declassified

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SMOG: Transportation also targeted by system Transportation is also targeted by the new airquality management system. But Hazell said the final, fine print with the oilsands industry was still under negotiation. While the federal government would set the country’s standards, provinces would be left to implement the agreement, with an eye on six regions in which smog may cross boundaries. If a province does not keep smog below the required levels, the federal government will have the power to step in and force industry to be more compliant, Hazell said. “The federal government can get involved and ba-

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in 1997, reveals a risky plan by CIA “exfiltration” expert Tony Mendez to get them out of Iran. Affleck stars as Mendez, who teams up with a Hollywood producer to concoct an elaborate scheme: the six U.S. citizens are disguised as a Canadian film crew scouting locations for a fake science-fiction film called Argo. The original postscript to the film suggested the kudos Taylor received for his role in the real-life drama were undeserved in light of the CIA operation. After outraged friends took in the film at the Toronto International Film Festival last month and alerted Taylor, Affleck was soon in touch. The postscript was subsequently changed to note that the CIA “complemented efforts of the Canadian Embassy.” “We had to pick a perspective

sically kick some ass,” he said. Negotiators have been working for years on the smog deal, in conjunction with industry and non-governmental groups. They hope to implement the new standards next year. One weakness with the agreement is that the flexibility makes it next to impossible to know how much smog will actually be reduced, Hazell added. “How much are we actually going to get out of this? It’s hard to figure out.” Pollution control is a life-and-death matter for tens of thousands of Canadians every year, according to research done by the Canadian Medical Association. In a 2008 study, the association produced data showing that 21,000 Canadians die prematurely every year because of the effects of air pollution. Most of those deaths are from accumulated exposure over years, but 3,000 are the result of short-term acute exposure, the study said. The CMA said that in 2008, air pollution was the cause of 9,000 hospital visits, 30,0000 emergency department visits and 620,000 doctor’s office visits.

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... this is the side we haven’t seen,” Affleck said Wednesday. “It was incredibly important to me, even using that perspective, that people get how appreciative we were of Canada and that people understand the message of international co-operation.” At an earlier reception at the Canadian embassy on Capitol Hill, Affleck celebrated the movie’s message. “What this movie is about is about co-operation,” he said Wednesday evening. “This is a movie about some people from one country who were in need, and folks from another country who stepped in and harboured them. This is about the great things that are possible from diplomacy ... it’s about how diplomats put themselves in danger, sacrifice themselves.”

CURLING: ‘Tremendous need’ “There was a tremendous need, we needed to do it several years ago. We were able to move forward because we got some funding from the City of Red Deer.” The project was funded through a significant contribution from the city, $5 million as part of the 2012 municipal capital budget and an additional $1.175 million that was approved previously. Additional funding came from grants, increased member dues and some money from the Scotties Tournament of Hearts 2012 revenues. At the end of last curling season, the curling centre had 1,200 members, but Roberts said this season they have already had 35 more teams register and 50 new juniors sign up, compared to last season. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Labour board allows NHL lockout to continue BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Doug O’Halloran, leader of the union representing workers at the XL Foods cattle processing plant, speaks to the media about food safety at the plant in Brooks, Wednesday.

Beef moves too fast at plant, cleanliness suffers: union workers during the shutdown. Mayor Martin Shields said there hasn’t been much of a ripple effect in the community since workers are still getting paid. A lot of the union’s complaints are not new, Shields added. “People have a short memory because I’ve heard this with the previous owner and the owner before that. To me this is a union lobbying for things that they want,” he said. “I’m optimistic the plant will be reopened soon.”

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BROOKS — The union for workers at an Alberta meat packer shut down over E. coli concerns says the pace of slaughter operations forces workers to take shortcuts around cleanliness and puts the health of beefeating Canadians at risk. Doug O’Halloran, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401, says the processing line at the XL Foods Lakeside plant in Brooks moves too quickly and he wants to see a public inquiry into the problems that led to the plant’s shutdown. O’Halloran told a news conference Wednesday that between 300 and 320 carcasses go by workers every hour and employees make between 3,000 and 4,000 cuts a shift. That has resulted in less time in which to make sure knives are sanitized after each cut. “It’s just not enough time,” O’Halloran said. “We are calling on Lakeside to take it seriously. You can replace all the aluminum, all the stainless steel you want at the plant, but if you don’t give your workers the tools to perform the job properly, we’re not going to solve this problem.” O’Halloran cited other examples of poor cleanliness. He said cattle are supposed to be washed before they enter to ensure their fur is free of manure. But sometimes the water is not hot enough to get all the excrement off. He also said sewage has backed up on the killing floor at times and forced workers to traipse through the waste and track it through the plant. O’Halloran said the plant’s increasing reliance on temporary foreign workers is also a problem. The company has not worked with the union to ensure the workers are properly trained and know what their rights are, he added. The union boss said whistleblower protection is needed for the workers who are afraid to speak out about problems for fear of reprisal. “Lakeside you’ve got one chance to get this correct. We understand you’re spending lots of money, but you’re still not listening to the people who are the most important in your food safety — the workers who are doing the job. “They are going to get you through this day and it’s time you woke up and listened to them.” No one from XL Foods was available for comment. The company has limited its communi-

cation to news releases since an expansive recall began. Earlier this week, coCEO Brian Nilsson issued a statement saying the company had fixed the problems that forced food safety officials to shut down the plant. He expressed regret over “the illnesses caused by the consumption of beef products.” Inspectors with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency were at the plant on Tuesday for what was termed a preinspection. A report from that visit was being reviewed Wednesday. Agency spokeswoman Lisa Gauthier said the pre-inspection is just one step in a multi-step process to determine if the plant is safe to resume operating. O’Halloran said the food agency and the federal government share some of the responsibility for what has happened. He said while the 46 agency staff the federal government says are positioned at the plant do a good job, they are overworked and don’t have the authority they need to shutter operations when things go wrong. “Somebody better wake up and put some teeth in the CFIA because they don’t have any teeth now.” Gil McGowan with the

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EDMONTON — The Alberta Labour Relations Board has decided that the NHL’s lockout of players from the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames can continue. The board said in a written ruling released Wednesday that forcing an end to the lockout for two members of a 30-team league would be unlikely to solve the contract dispute between the National Hockey League and the players union. “It is our expectation this is nothing more than an unhelpful distraction from their efforts,” the ruling said. “An order declaring the lockout to be in violation of the (Alberta Labour Relations) Code would have no positive impact on this dispute.” The National Hockey League Players’ Association had wanted the board to rule the lockout illegal in Alberta. Bill Daly, the NHL’s deputy commissioner, said the league was pleased with the ruling. “We are hopeful that this will enable both the league and the NHL Players’ Association to focus all our efforts and energies on negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement in order to get our game and our players back on the ice,” Daly said in a statement. A statement from the NHLPA said the union was considering its options. “The players are obviously disappointed with today’s decision. Unfortunately, the Alberta Labour Relations Board decided not to exercise its discretion to determine whether the owners’ lockout violates Alberta law.” The labour board held a hearing last month into the dispute. The union had argued that the Oilers and Flames are Alberta businesses and as such must abide by provincial labour rules. Those rules say a mediator must have 14 days to work with both sides in a contract dispute before a lockout vote can be held. The NHL had applied for a mediator in Alberta, but informed the board after three days that it didn’t believe meetings would have to be held. Lawyers for the NHL told the board that the league has always bargained as a unit and not through individual teams and argued that the league needs to operate under one set of labour laws to function. The labour board didn’t answer the question as to whether the league should come under its jurisdiction.

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Drugged drivers Drugged drivers are a deadly menace that must be removed from our roads. But recent proposals won’t get the job done. While it’s difficult under current laws to convict a drugged driver, we must be cautious that if the laws are revised, they do not become unreasonable. A recent report by two law professors from the University RICK of Western OnZEMANEK tario in London recommends changes in the law that teeter on the unreasonable. One recommendation is to give police the power to obtain roadside saliva tests — much the same as roadside breathalyzer tests for suspected drunk drivers. But it’s one thing to blow into a breathalyzer. Obtaining bodily fluids

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from a suspect is a different kind of intrusion — and it would be closely scrutinized by the courts, particularly because it also gives police the opportunity to build a DNA bank. Bill C-2 gives police authority to demand blood or urine tests from suspected drug drivers. But medical personnel recognized by the courts to conduct such tests are not obligated under the law to perform the tests despite an officer’s demand. And if such tests were taken, they likely shouldn’t be taken on unsanitary roadsides. So courts would be reluctant to accept roadside mucus tests. The possibility of contamination is too great. And delivering such evidence to laboratories again brings into question the possibility of contamination. The delicacy and complexity of any process precludes a police role in either taking, transporting or analyzing samples. It makes no sense to force officers who already have too much on their plates to take on these tasks, and to provide the training necessary to ensure samples are beyond reproach. A failure on the roadside breathalyzer test means an automatic driving suspension. But the same could not apply to suspected drugged drivers

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since no legal testing device has yet to be developed to give instant results. That proof is up to the medical labs to determine, and that could take days or even weeks. Then there’s the question of saliva heading to the DNA data banks, regardless of the results of drug testing. The law would have to specifically state that samples be used only for drug analysis purposes and nothing else. Likely, they would have to be destroyed after testing, to protect everyone. A recent Mothers Against Drunk Drivers report condemns the current laws, calling them inadequate in keeping drug users from driving. It noted that few convictions have been handed out, and cited an example where a Saskatchewan judge acquitted a suspect despite the driver having failed physical co-ordination tests and whose urine showed marijuana use. At this point, however, there are no guidelines to specify when a marijuana user is over the limit. And in fact, marijuana residual can remain in the body for a month, and heroin, as another example, lingers for a week. So the presence of drugs does not necessarily constitute proof of inca-

pacitation. In their report, university researchers Robert Solomon and Erika Chamberlain claimed enforcement of the law was “grossly under funded.” “While long overdue (for a change), the current enforcement approach is cumbersome, expensive and timeconsuming . . . federal and provincial governments need to restructure their approach to drug-impaired driving.” They are right: the system, as it exists, is not conducive to a crackdown on driving while drugged. “I think in their (the government’s) zeal to pass the law, they’ve simply put together an ineffective piece of legislation that has the advocates celebrating today because they don’t realize how threadbare it really is,” said Alan Young, a criminal lawyer and professor at Toronto’s Osgoode Law School. We want every kind of incapacitated driver off the roads. We want no more deaths because drunks and users made selfish, stupid choices. But we need to attack the problem of apprehending and convicting drugged drivers with a thorough, workable plan. To this point, we don’t have one. Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

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Mental health victims need our support Re: Judge lambastes woman for making downtown an unpleasant place to be for ordinary people According to a prominent story on Friday, Sept. 28, after hearing the plea of Robyn Longhorst, Judge Jim Mitchell declared that “ordinary people don’t want to go downtown because of people like (Robyn),” he was “not sure that we want (Robyn) in Red Deer,” and that “the good people of Red Deer are just fed up to their eyeballs with drug-addled creeps (populating) the downtown.” Notwithstanding that he is making his own beliefs known to the general public, Judge Mitchell’s comments highlight a greater concern of the impact of stigma, mental health, addictions concerns and the law. There is a well-recognized correlation between degrading mental health, addictions and involvement with the criminal justice system. Mental Health Diversion in our court and Mental Health Transition in our remand and correctional centres are just two examples of multi-disciplinary approaches that have been implemented by our courts and Alberta Health Services to address these concerns. At their heart, their success depends on community supports to work together, including the general public. Without this support and teamwork, many would fall through the cracks and end up in an all to common revolving door of incarceration and recidivism, an all too common occurrence. If we ask Robyn to leave her community, we rob her of any support, and leave it up to her new community to provide it. Contrary to Judge Mitchell comments, there are those who would reach out, support and help those like Robyn address the “deep seated, long-standing issues” that affect their daily lives. All you need to do is ask. Gordon Wright Client Intake and Liaison Caseworker The John Howard Society of Red Deer

Slow road to justice for Kenyans is worth the wait “I wish to make it clear before I cross-examine the three claimants that the (British government) does not dispute that each of the claimants suffered torture and other ill-treatment at the hands of the colonial administration (in Kenya),” said the British government’s defence lawyer, Guy Mansfield, QC. Damn right they did. One, Paulo Nzili, was beaten so hard he went deaf, and castrated in public with the same pliers used to geld cattle. British colonial officers commanded the African troops who did that and worse to Nzili and thousands of others in the concentration camps that Britain set up to hold suspected supporters of GWYNNE the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s. DYER Fifty years later, it has finally made it into the courts. About 70,000 people spent years in the British camps in Kenya. Some were murdered, and almost all were beaten, sexually abused and/or tortured. But it was a long time ago and only about 5,000 former inmates of the camps were still alive when three of them, Paulo Nzili, Jane Muthoni Mara and Wambuga wa Nyingi, decided to sue the British government for compensation. With financial support from Kenyan human rights organizations, they launched their case in the high court in London. The British government, while admitting the torture, claimed that the victims should sue the Kenyan government instead, since it had inherited the responsibilities of the former colonial administration at independence in 1963. Lawyers really do use arguments like that. They

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don’t even blush when they do it. But in June of last year, the high court rejected the British government’s defence — whereupon its lawyers shifted their ground and said that it was all far too long ago. The few surviving witnesses are too old, and there are no documents. Sorry, we’d love to help, but in the circumstances. ... A week ago, the same high court judge dismissed that argument, too. There are actually almost too many documents: the publicity surrounding the case led to the discovery that the British Foreign Office has been hiding 8,800 files about the Kenya abuses in a country house in Buckinghamshire for the past 50 years. Those files contain enough evidence to prove the truth of what the claimants say. The British government will appeal the judge’s ruling, probably in the hope of dragging things out until the claimants die (two are in their mid-80s) or become too ill to testify. But it’s likely that the actual lawsuit will be heard next year and will result in a victory for the claimants. That would open the floodgates for thousands more claims for compensation from other Kenyan victims of British atrocities. It would also allow many thousands of aging victims of British violence and cruelty elsewhere during the last years of the empire, especially in Malaysia, in Cyprus, and in Aden (now Yemen), to seek compensation in the British courts for their suffering. Good. Britain should offer generous compensation to them all, plus an abject apology for the great crimes committed in its name. It can afford to pay. In fairness, it should also track down the families of those victims who have already died and compensate them properly (even though that would be a legal and administrative nightmare). So if these half-century-old injustices can be acknowledged by the courts and at least partly com-

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pensated, how about more recent ones? What are the chances that a British or American court will one day offer compensation to innocent Arabs, Afghans and other Muslims who were swept up in the so-called “war on terror” and spent years in confinement without charge or trial, often being beaten or tortured? Very small, unfortunately. Under the pressure of events, even the governments of democratic countries readily abandon the rule of law, and they rarely apologize afterwards, let alone offer compensation. After 50 years, the British courts can address the horrors of the colonial past more freely, but even now Britain will not bring the men who ordered the abuse of these old Kenyan men to trial. Yet their names are known and some of them must still be alive, too. Most crimes go unpunished. It’s true in private life and it’s even truer for great states. But gradually, at the edges, the courts are making inroads on this ancient and brutal reality. As in, for example, Kenya itself. After the terrible post-election violence in Kenya in 2008, in which both the leading parties were deeply implicated, a Commission of Inquiry led by judge Philip Waki recommended that the Kenyan government set up a special tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the worst crimes. The National Assembly of Kenya, taking the British government as its model, refused. But the judge passed his evidence to the International Criminal Court, which opened a case against the senior officials of both parties held to be most responsible. The Kenya government did everything it could to stop the case but it is going ahead in the Hague anyway — and a majority of ordinary Kenyans support the ICC process. So there is progress, if only slowly. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Naval officer pleads guilty PQ tones down sovereignty to espionage charges rhetoric

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A Canadian naval officer pleaded guilty to espionage Wednesday, five years after a Crown lawyer said he walked into the Russian embassy, offered up military secrets for money and began a relationship that resulted in the sharing of a “vast amount” of sensitive information. Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle rose before a provincial court judge in Halifax, showing no emotion as he clasped his hands together, to acknowledge that he understood the consequences of his pleas to the unprecedented charges. When asked if he confirmed the guilty pleas, the 41-year-old threat assessment analyst merely said, “Yes sir,” before leaving the court to return to prison as he awaits sentencing in January. The surprising development came more than six months after federal Crown attorney Lyne Decarie outlined the case against Delisle during a bail hearing on March 28, saying he voluntarily approached Russian officials in 2007. There was a publication ban on evidence and arguments presented at the proceedings in the spring, but the guilty plea means there will not be a jury trial now. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 10. There has been no agreed statement of facts in the case. At the bail hearing, Decarie said in court that “following some personal problems, Delisle walked into the Russian embassy in Ottawa and offered his services. He offered to sell information to them.” Decarie read in court portions of a statement she said Delisle gave to police. She said he asked to speak with a security officer at the embassy. “I showed them my ID card and they asked me a bunch of ques-

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Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle leaves provincial court after pleading guilty to charges related to communicating information to a foreign entity, before his preliminary hearing in Halifax on Wednesday. tions, took my name and off I go,” said Decarie, reading from Delisle’s statement to police after he was arrested last Jan. 13. Delisle worked at Trinity — the name for the military’s intelligence centre on the East Coast — which experts have said would provide tactical assessments primarily to Canadian warships and aircraft, both at home and overseas. Decarie said in court that Delisle would have access to the facility’s secure and unsecured systems that contained information about Canada and its allies. Most of what he shared related to the military, Decarie alleged, but it also included material about organized crime, political players and the Chief of Defence

phone and contact list — something she described as a “who’s who of military personnel” with email addresses and phone numbers. Delisle, who joined the navy as a reservist in 1996, became a member of the regular forces in 2001 and was promoted to an officer rank in 2008. He had access to systems with information shared by the Five Eyes community that includes Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. In damage assessments read in court, officials in the Canadian intelligence community said the breaches from 2007 to 2012 could unmask intelligence sources and place a chill on the sharing of vital security information.

Ottawa ends clawback on veterans affairs pensions after court ruling BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s Department of Veterans Affairs has ended its long-standing, controversial policy of clawing back the benefit payments of disabled soldiers, sailors and aircrew — a move critics say has been far too long in coming. Effective immediately, the Harper government will no longer deduct the amount of a veteran’s pension from benefits for lost earnings and Canadian Forces income support, which were introduced in 2006 under the New Veterans Charter. Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney made the announcement Wednesday at a news conference at Valcartier Garrison, outside Quebec City.

“We have worked quickly to make these changes to put more money in the pockets of veterans and their families, including some who haven’t been receiving these benefits until now,” Blaney said. The move is a consequence of last spring’s Federal Court ruling, which rejected the clawback of disability benefits from eligible veterans in a case waged against the Department of National Defence. Back in July, Defence Minister Peter MacKay ended the deduction for most disabled soldiers, but it took a special cabinet order passed just recently to get the measure enacted for those affected under the veterans affairs system. Ending the clawback immediately will cost the federal treasury $177.7 million over the next five

years. Depending upon the severity of the injury and whether they receive the earnings loss or the income support benefit, the change could mean between $1,100 and $1,500 per month to individual veterans. More changes are on the way, affecting those veterans who entered the system prior to the introduction of the updated veterans charter. New Democrat veterans critic Peter Stoffer said he was pleased with the decision, but irritated by the government’s blatant politicking — including the claim it has “worked quickly” to help affected veterans. The Conservative government could have implemented Wednesday’s changes years ago, Stoffer said.

Shooting rattles sleepy Quebec cottage town the public. “I find it really unfortunate that such incidents occur in a community as peaceful as Ste-Marguerite-du-LacMasson,” Mayor Linda Fortier said. “It is not the kind of crime that suggests a rise violence... We continue to believe that these are isolated incidents and that our city remains a place safe.” It was the second

shooting in 10 days and the third this calendar year. On Sept. 29, a 28-yearold man was shot in the parking lot of a bar but he managed to get away. On Jan. 11, three men were shot in the town.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The winding saga of a man’s quest to prove former prime minister John Diefenbaker was his father seemed headed for the home stretch Wednesday with word of two new possibilities for genetic matching. An excited George Dryden said he’s found a company that can do DNA tests on hairs that belonged to Diefenbaker, even though they no longer have the roots. In addition, the museum in Saskatchewan that has the hair has also found a DNA report done on a tooth believed to have belonged to the former prime minister. “We’ve got two irons in the fire,” Dryden said. “This will prove it definitely, once and for all.” According to Dryden’s lawyer, the museum has opted to keep confidential the name of the person who requested testing of the tooth “some time ago.” Apparently the tooth was destroyed but the DNA report has now turned up. Both the hairs and DNA report are expected to be sent to a Toronto-based testing company early next week. “We should have an answer, hopefully, by next week,” he said. Last month, Dryden, 43, said he was giving up on further attempts to prove his paternity after a private investigator retrieved a used Q-tip from a distant Diefenbaker relative identified by a genealogist he had hired. Genetic testing of the swab revealed a link between Dryden and the relative — enough to show he was a Diefenbaker by blood, even if it didn’t conclusively prove the parent-son link.

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STE-MARGUERITEDU-LAC-MASSON, Que. — One man is dead and another is injured in a double-shooting that saw one bleeding victim stumble into a local town hall seeking help Wednesday. It was the second time in less than two weeks that Quebec provincial police were investigating a shooting in a sleepy town in cottage country, in the Laurentian mountain municipality of SteMarguerite-du-Lac-Masson, about 100 kilometres from Montreal. Police said they were alerted to a doubleshooting when a man wandered into the town hall, pleading for help The man arrived there around 9:45 a.m. He led authorities to another gunshot victim in a nearby luxury home — where the shootings are both suspected to have occurred. The man found in the home was later declared dead, said Quebec provincial police Sgt. Gino Pare. The survivor’s condition appeared to have

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MONTREAL — The new Parti Quebecois government is sounding a more conciliatory tone toward the Harper Tories and now wants to work with the federal government, not against it, to create a more decentralized Canada. Now that the PQ has only a minority government it is scaling down the forceful message from the recent provincial election, when it announced plans to pick fights with the federal government. Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Alexandre Cloutier told The Canadian Press that the PQ’s objectives are now modest enough that he even expects to find common ground with the Harper government in some areas. “We will definitely act in good faith with a lot of pragmatism,” Cloutier said in an interview Wednesday, referring to how the PQ plans to engage with the Conservatives. “I’m sure they are aware that Quebecers have elected a sovereigntist government and we will make sure we respect our program. “But at the same time, we will act with a reasonable approach and make sure that we can find agreements.” The message stands in contrast to the PQ’s recent election platform which announced attempts to take over powers as diverse as foreign aid and income-tax collection. Members of the party boldly declared that, if Ottawa refused any request, it would bolster their case for sovereignty. Since the election the federal government has shown little willingness to engage in any conversation about a rebalancing of federal-provincial powers. The PQ is now touting its more modest fallback position. Cloutier said it will seek control over Quebec’s financial share of federal programs that should, under the Constitution, fall under provincial jurisdiction anyway — such as infrastructure, culture and health care. “In each domain that falls under Quebec’s authority, we will reclaim the part that belongs to Quebec,” said Cloutier, a constitutional lawyer who also holds a master’s degree in public international law, from the University of Cambridge in the U.K. “And if we accumulate them, it will effectively be billions of dollars.” He believes that approach is perfectly compatible with the oft-stated message from the Conservatives that they want to put an end to paternalistic federalism. His comments come as Pauline Marois prepares to meet Prime Minister Stephen Harper face to face this week for the first time since she was elected premier last month. The leaders will both be travelling to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the Francophonie Summit.

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Turkey forces Syrian jet to land at Ankara airport BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish jets on Wednesday forced a Syrian passenger plane to land at Ankara airport on suspicion that it might be carrying weapons or other military equipment, amid heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria that have sparked fears of a wider regional conflict. The Syrian Air jetliner was travelling from Moscow when it was intercepted by F16 jets as it entered Turkish airspace and was escorted to the capital’s Esenboga Airport, the staterun TRT television reported. Hours later, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the Airbus A320 with 37 passengers and crew would be allowed to leave, but its cargo had been confiscated. “There are elements ... that are not legitimate in civilian flights,” the staterun Anadolu Agency quoted Davutoglu as saying. He did not provide details

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but said authorities continued to examine the cargo. Davutoglu earlier told Turkey’s TGRT television that the plane was intercepted on suspicion it was carrying illicit cargo to Damascus. “If equipment is being carried under the guise of civilian flights or if they are not being declared, then of course we’ll inspect it,” he said. “We are determined to stop the flow of weapons to a regime that carries out such ruthless massacres,” Davutoglu added. “We cannot accept that our air space be used for such aims.” Hurriyet newspaper’s website, citing unidentified intelligence officials, said communications equipment, wireless sets and jammers were found on board. NTV television reported that authorities found “missile parts.” Syrian Information Minister Omran Zuabi declined comment. Davutoglu said Turkish authorities had also declared Syria’s airspace to be unsafe and were stopping Turkish

aircraft from flying over the civil wartorn country. The move comes as tensions between Turkey and Syria are running high. The countries, which were once close allies, have been exchanging artillery fire across the volatile border for days. Earlier Wednesday, Turkey’s military chief vowed to respond with more force to any further shelling from Syria, keeping up the pressure on its southern neighbour a day after NATO said it stood ready to defend Turkey. Gen. Necdet Ozel was inspecting troops who have been put on alert along the 565-mile (910-kilometre) border after shelling from Syria killed five Turkish civilians in a border town last week. Turkey has reinforced the border with artillery and also deployed more fighter jets to an air base close to the border region. “We responded and if (the shelling) continues, we will respond with more force,” the private Dogan news agency

quoted Ozel as saying during a visit to the town of Akcakale. U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that Washington has sent troops to the Jordan-Syria border to help build a headquarters in Jordan and bolster that country’s military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria. The revelation raises the possibility of an escalation in the U.S. military involvement in the conflict, even as Washington pushes back on any suggestion of a direct intervention in Syria. In Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, regime troops and rebel fighters exchanged fire for several hours in and around the historic 13th-century Umayyad Mosque, said local activist Mohammed Saeed. He said rebels were trying to drive out regime troops holed up in the downtown place of worship, and that by nightfall the shooting had stopped.

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Cuban missle crisis remembered ARCHIVED RECORDINGS OF JFK DURING CRISIS TO BE REPLAYED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the Cuban missile crisis, the National Archives has pulled together documents and secret White House recordings to show Americans how President John F. Kennedy deliberated with advisers to avert nuclear war. A new exhibit, “To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” opens Friday to recount the showdown with the Soviet Union. While the recordings have been available to researchers for years, this is the first public showcase of Kennedy’s recordings to replay tense conversations about national security from the Oval Office and Cabinet Room. In the fall of 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered a secret deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba that were soon detected by U.S. spy planes. On Oct. 16 that year, Kennedy was briefed on photographic proof of the missile sites being developed. U.S. officials determined from the size of the images that the medium-range missiles would be able to reach Washington, Dallas, Cape Canaveral, Florida, or other sites within 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) of Cuba, likely within minutes. Soon after they learned of longer-range missiles that could reach most of the country.

Kennedy’s team debated how to respond but agreed the missiles would not be tolerated. The ensuing standoff with Khrushchev over 13 days became “the most dangerous moments the world has ever faced, either before or since — the closest we came to nuclear destruction,” said historian and journalist Michael Dobbs, who helped preview the National Archives exhibit. Both Kennedy and Khrushchev had made mistakes leading to this point, Dobbs said. Khrushchev had gambled by deploying nuclear weapons so far from the Soviet Union on the U.S. doorstep. And Kennedy fumbled his first major foreign policy crisis at the Bay of Pigs with the failed effort to topple Fidel Castro. The Kennedy administration’s campaign called Operation Mongoose to overthrow Castro triggered a dramatic reaction from the Soviets. The archives is displaying some once-secret documents for the first time, including diplomatic cables in Russian with Khrushchev’s signature as he traded secret messages with Kennedy and personality sketches of Khrushchev and Castro by the CIA. Khrushchev is described as “an obtuse, rough-talking man” but shrewd and as having “a touch of a gambler’s instinct.” There were also emergency plans developed for White House staff in

case of an attack on Washington. One special assistant to the president was directed to go to Camp David in rural Maryland in case of attack. “You don’t really have to be an expert or Cold War historian to grasp the stark human drama that this story really is,” said Stacey Bredhoff, curator of the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston and organizer of the exhibit. The story from 50 years ago also could be a lesson for the future. “I think one thing that this exhibit points out is that a nuclear confrontation can happen and it almost did happen. This happened almost 50 years ago, and it ended well,” Bredhoff said. “But what we cannot take for granted is that these events can get beyond the control of leaders.” The archives lays out the crisis in chronological order with sounds of heated debates in the White House over whether to respond with military force. As Kennedy leaned toward a blockade order to prevent Soviet ships from sending more military supplies to Cuba, some military advisers thought it a weak response. Still, he prepared for the worst. A draft speech was prepared that began, “This morning, I reluctantly ordered the armed forces to attack and destroy the nuclear buildup in Cuba.”

It was never delivered. As the blockade went into effect, Soviet ships approached, along with submarines, leading to tense moments. Kennedy ordered small “depth charges” to be fired from U.S. ships to encourage the submarines to surface. What he didn’t know was they were carrying nuclear-tipped tactical missiles and came close to using them. “One of the things that struck me ... was the extent to which the president of the United States didn’t really know and didn’t fully control what was happening on the ground,” said Dobbs, who has written a book on the crisis. “He didn’t know that the Soviet Union had 42,000 troops on Cuba, ready to resist an American invasion.” On Thursday, the National Archives and Kennedy Library will release more than 2,700 pages of material from the Robert F. Kennedy papers that are newly declassified, including documents related to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Library Director Tom Putnam said they include the attorney general’s notes from national security meetings during the crisis and drafts of a memo he sent to the president after meeting with the Soviet ambassador. The exhibit is on view in Washington until February and then moves to Boston’s Kennedy Presidential Library in April.

Russia says don’t need U.S. money to secure and dismantle weapons NO INTENTION TO AUTOMATICALLY EXTENDING 20-YEAR DEAL

MOSCOW — Russia said Wednesday it had no intention to automatically extend a 20-year old deal with the United States helping secure the nation’s nuclear stockpiles, a move that comes amid a growing isolationist streak in Kremlin policy. Under the 1992 program initiated by Sens. Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar, the U.S. has provided billions of dollars in equipment and know-how to help Russia and its ex-Soviet neighbours deal with Soviet nuclear legacy. The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program provided reinforced rail cars to carry nuclear warheads, high-tech

security systems for storage sites and helped pay for the dismantling of mothballed nuclear submarines and other weapons. It played a major role in preventing the deadly weapons from falling into the wrong hands while the Russian government was facing a severe money crunch amid an economic meltdown and political turmoil that followed the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it wouldn’t accept a U.S. offer to extend the deal that expires in 2013 without a major overhaul. “American partners know that their proposal doesn’t correspond to our ideas about what forms and what foundation we need to develop fur-

ther co-operation,” it said in a statement. “For that, we need, in particular, a different and more modern legal framework.” While the ministry wouldn’t elaborate further on the motives behind Moscow’s decision, or spell out its demands, representatives of Russia’s top military brass have long complained that the NunnLugar program gives the U.S. too much access and information about the nation’s military technologies and weapons sites. Lugar said in a statement that during his trip to Russia in August, Russian officials told him that they would like to make changes in the original agreement instead of simply extending it.

“At no time did officials indicate that, at this stage of negotiation, they were intent on ending it, only amending it,” he said. He added that Russia’s space agency officials also welcomed prospects for future work during his visit to a facility dismantling mothballed missiles. Moscow’s move follows its decision last month to end the U.S. Agency for International Development’s two decades of work in Russia. Moscow explained that decision by saying that the agency was using its money to influence elections — a claim the U.S. denied. President Vladimir Putin, who was re-elected to a third term in March despite massive

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Where’s the beef? BABIES AT 6 MONTHS NEED IRON-RICH FOODS LIKE MEAT: GUIDELINES

BY SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When Carli Sussman’s son Oliver was five months old, she and her husband started giving him cooked meat to suck on as an adjunct to the breast milk he was getting as his primary diet. “The first thing we gave him was a strip of rib-eye steak,” recalls the Vancouver mom. “At that point, he wasn’t actually eating any of it. We were just giving him pieces of food that we had. And he was just sort of putting them in his mouth, which is what fivemonth-olds do with everything.” So there were no surprises for Sussman in updated infant-feeding guidelines recently released by Health Canada, which advise that babies at six months old need to start ingesting ironrich foods — including beef and poultry. Those guidelines, aimed at health-care providers for dissemination to parents, say that babies at that age need to start eating meat, meat alternatives like tofu and legumes, and even eggs and fish. The recommendations, posted without fanfare on Health Canada’s website, seemed to take some parents by surprise. “What probably really got the attention was the fact that some of these examples were new to people,” says Jennifer McCrea, a nutrition adviser for Health Canada who helped prepare the guidelines. But they would not necessarily be new to health professionals, she says. “Some would have been familiar with them. For some other people, this may be the first time that they’ve noticed that guidance.” McCrea, a member of the 14-person working group that drafted the slightly revised guidelines, says the document doesn’t represent a change from the 2004-05 recommendations, but is a reaffirmation of advice stressing the importance of introducing solid foods containing iron. “Meat can be one of those iron-rich first foods, but there are a whole range of options,” she says. “In this guidance, I think what we tried to do was just add more examples to add to the clarity ... that although (iron-fortified) infant cereals have been and really still are a popular choice, there are other options that are iron-rich as well.” The guidelines, penned by experts at Health Canada, the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS), Dietitians of Canada and the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada, say: “Infants should be offered iron-containing foods two or more times each day ... Breastfeeding continues to provide the main source of nutrition as other foods are introduced.” Dr. Jeff Critch, a pediatrician in St. John’s, N.L., who was also a member of the Infant Feeding Joint Working Group, says it’s essential for babies to start getting more iron into their diet starting at about six

months. “Iron is very important for our blood. It’s also important for child development” — especially neurological development, says Critch. During the last trimester of pregnancy, the fetus builds up a store of iron from the mother, which carries the child through the first half-year of life. And although breast milk contains iron, it’s only in small amounts, says Critch. “After six months of age, (the baby’s) iron stores are getting really depleted and we need to look for other sources because the breast milk at that point is not going to be sufficient to supply all the iron that’s needed.” Without the addition of certain foods, a baby can become iron-deficient, he says. McCrea says the recommendations don’t focus on

quantities of iron-providing foods — that detailed advice should be contained in updated guidelines for six- to 24-month-old children expected in 2013 or 2014. Parents, she says, should be guided by an infant’s appetite “and the cues back to you of when they want more and when they’re full, because you’re trying to nurture those natural hunger cues that they have that are really starting at that age. “We are talking about family foods for sure, but with young children you want to avoid a lot of salt or sugar, again sticking to more plain foods. But all those family foods can be textured-modified and can begin to be introduced.” So along with continued breastfeeding, ideally,

that means baby’s first solids should be iron-fortified cereals as well as meat, tofu, eggs, fish or legumes that have been cooked until tender and mashed with a fork or minced finely with a knife or food grinder. Well-cooked, pureed or mashed-up vegetables and fruits would then be added to the diet. Speaking of eggs and fish, parents were once advised to hold off giving them to their little ones because it was thought they might trigger allergies if started too early in life. But scientific research has laid that theory to rest, says Critch. “We don’t see any evidence to support delaying the introduction to prevent allergies.” It’s recommended that an infant be exclusively breastfed for the first six months. Parents should then start introducing solids like meat based on an infant’s signs of readiness. That could be a few weeks before or just after six months, he says. “It doesn’t mean 180 days plus one. There’s certainly biological variation and individuality ... You have to look at each individual infant on his own merits and make a decision as to when that child needs to be started on solids. “We look for signs of readiness. So is the child showing some interest in foods? Do they have the motor capacity to take foods?” Sussman says Oliver showed he was ready to take on solid foods at five months old — at least the taste of them, anyway. “In the very early months, from five months, we would give him really large pieces of the food, things he could hold in his hand and just suck on,” she remembers. “He wasn’t capable at that point of biting anything off. “He was just sucking the juices out of a piece of meat or sucking a piece of broccoli or carrot or whatever we had. “And then as he began to develop the ability to bite off pieces, which could then be potentially a choking hazard, we started to prepare the foods in a way that was good for him to swallow.” Now 13 months old, Oliver has grown molars that allow him to chew his food more, and he has graduated to larger pieces of meat and steamed vegetables like carrots on his plate. While Sussman was well-versed in the guidelines — so introducing meat to her son was an easy idea to digest — they also fit in with the paleo, or “caveman,” diet she and her husband had already adopted: meat, eggs, fish, vegetables, fruit, seeds and nuts — but no grains, dairy or legumes. “We’ve been doing that and we found for our health it’s really beneficial,” she says. “When we looked at the (research) evidence ... we believed that was going to be the best way to raise our kid. So we decided to basically just put him on that diet from Day 1.”

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Good news when a conk sweats A GOOD SIGN FOR A MEDICINE MAKER: WHEN A CONK SWEATS, IT IS ALIVE, BREATHING OXYGEN, AND MAKING MEDICINE My husband and I spent a morning preparing four artist’s conk (Ganoderma applanatum) I collected for medicine. I found them growing on a venerable rotting poplar balsam stub while forest bathing in the brilliant autumn colours. There were small beads of sweat on the conks’ fleshy white outermost ring. This is a good sign for a medicine maker. When a conk sweats, it is alive, breathing oxygen, and making medicine. I offered up a pinch of tobacco to the old stump, told the conk what medicine I wanted to make, and carefully separated them from their roost with my Swiss army knife. ABRAH I did not have a bag, so my ARNESON friend who had come along for HERBS FOR LIFE the walk, carried one for me. She does not like mushrooms. She does not like the way they smell. Stopping for a bite to eat after the walk, she washed her hands immediately. “I can’t get the smell off,” she complained. She is a good friend. This morning, my husband used the band saw to slice the conks like bread. With the sharpest knife in the house, I cut them into pieces the size of a fingernail. A kilo of conk is now simmering on the stove.

My husband, his last Monday off of the summer, is a bit distressed. He suggested I simmer the conk tomorrow. “It smells,” he complained. “you are going to go to work, and leave me in a house that smells like a mushroom farm.” I suggested he spend the day outside, it is beautiful after all. Being an herbalist can be a smelly job. In some ways, it is the many scents of herbal medicine that drew me to the art of making medicine. I remember living deep in the Yukon wilderness, an hour and half hike from the Alaskan Highway somewhere between Whitehorse and Haines Junction, and hitch hiking into town on a frozen January morning. I loved our bimonthly trips into Whitehorse, real food, real people and the loveliest herb shop in Western Canada, Aroma Borealis. In the tiny shop, I was bathed in the scents of the many green forests that are deeply rooted in this beautiful blue planet. I heard the hooting and hollering of monkeys in ancient Asian forests when I caught a scent of the sandalwood tree’s perfume. I swear I could hear waves crashing on the rocky pacific shore when I first inhaled the pungent, musky scent of bear root (Ligusticum porteria). Bev, she owns the shop and is now one of my herbal pals, stocks bags of lavender. Dipping my hands in the soft, blue flowers my mind travelled to the France: red wine, the sweet sounds of jazz on the west bank and tripping along cobblestone streets in high heels at dawn. The many scents of Aroma Borealis carried me away from the frozen, silent north.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved the Yukon, there are many days when I long to return to the bush. But the colourful scents in that little shop, on that dark January morning were like a Matisse painting hanging next to a dark, moody scene by Evard Munch. But I was not going to write about the Yukon and Bev’s inspiring herb shop, I was going to write about why I would fill my house with the scent of mushrooms so tough they had to be sliced with a band saw. The artist’s conk is an effective immune tonic. I am going to use it to ward off any colds and flus this winter and offer it up to my clients who need an extra immune boost. Like its cousin the reishi (Ganoderma lucidum), the artist’s conk is used to scavenge free radicals, kill many types of bacteria including e-coli and streptococcus pyogenes, limit the activity of the Epstein-Barr virus which is has been associate with many types of health challenges from herpes to autoimmune disease to cancer and enhance the spleen’s production of white blood cells. But Traditional Chinese Medicine says it best: artist’s conk improves a person’s chi. Chi is a person life force. The life force is what brings vigour, creativity and liveliness. It is a healthy glow. So in mid-February, after taking a tablespoon of artist conk every day, I will feel more like a bright Matisse painting, then a mournful character portrayed by Evard Munch. Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is intended for information purposes only. Readers with a specific medical problem should consult a doctor. For more information, visit www.abraherbalist.ca. Arneson can be reached at abrah@shaw.ca.

Why you’re eating too little IDEA OF EATING SMALLER MEALS MORE OFTEN AND PORTION CONTROL ENTIRELY VALID — BUT GREATLY MISUNDERSTOOD For well over a decade I’ve vour and calculate your BMR. educated local people that ● Women: BMR = 655 + ( 4.35 one of the biggest factors from x weight in pounds ) + ( 4.7 x preventing them from losing height in inches ) - ( 4.7 x age in weight or reaching years ) any fitness goal is ● Men: BMR = 66 that they are eating + ( 6.23 x weight in too little. pounds ) + ( 12.7 x The idea of eatheight in inches ) - ( ing smaller meals 6.8 x age in year ) more often and porNow times the tion control is ennumber of meals tirely valid but unyou’re consuming fortunately greatly at the averages I’ve misunderstood. listed and compare I can tell you it to your BMR. after seeing thouSome of you may alsands of people’s ready be on the low food journals over side, some higher the years that unand many thinking, CABEL less you are eating “Great I’m eating processed or fast the right amount!” MCELDERRY food multiple times Sorry to burst your per day as a female bubble but BMR is you are likely conthe bare minimum suming an average of 300 calo- to sustain current body funcries per meal and as a male tion in 24 hours with ZERO acapproximately 400-500 calories tivity. per meal. The fact that you’re reading An example of a 400 calorie this illustrates that consuming meal would be half a chick- the equivalent of your BMR is en breast, a fist sized potato not enough. and a fist of vegetables such To your BMR we consider as celery. You may be eating three things primarily: some larger meals and plenty 1) Digestion — Digestion is smaller than that which should one of the steadiest continual help you see that my approxi- energy drains on your body, mations are often generously each time you put something accurate. in your stomach it must be proWe can agree your body cessed and that takes fuel. We needs energy to maintain it- approximate this at 200-300 self, but for this moment we’re calories/day conservatively. only going to consider muscle 2) Daily Activity — Let’s and fat. face it we spend a lot of time Few people realize that to working, or grocery shopping, maintain each pound of fat or cleaning the house or whaton our body we only need a ever. We approximate this conmeasly 1 calorie/24 hours, by servatively at 400-500 calories/ comparison the same pound day; which would be the equivof muscle requires 50 times as alent of all daily activity burnmuch energy to maintain. Re- ing about the same as a brisk member this as you read on. one-hour walk. Below is the Basal Meta3) Exercise — Finally scibolic Rate calculation for both ence has shown the single men and women. Do me a fa- most important thing you can

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do to live a long healthy life is exercise. (Go to YouTube or our website and search 23 ½ hours a short great video citing all the research about the importance of exercise.) We assume most people will use resistance exercise a couple days a week and cardiovascular for 4-5 days/week, based on this we approximate an average daily caloric need for exercise at 400-500 calories. Add these three important elements to your calculated BMR and then compare them to the average calories you’re presently consuming. Now I suspect nearly all of you will be low. If you’re not good for you, if you are you need to eat more. Many of you will refuse to believe that so remember our discussion of energy required maintaining muscle and fat. If your employment situation changed today and you need to eliminate expenses you would likely choose the highest priced, non-essential items to eliminate, maybe something like satellite TV for example. Well essentially you’ve just described muscle mass, you’re body requires very little to survive and as illustrated above the expense to maintain it is 50 times as much, this is why when we’re consuming too few calories we may lose weight more likely in the form of muscle and water and very little body fat, it’s more efficient for the body. Inevitably if you begin consuming more calories your maintenance amount is now lower and we gain even more bodyfat. Restricting calories is almost never the answer.

Stroke drug looks promising in human trial BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A Canadian effort to develop a drug to limit the brain damage caused by strokes has made an important step forward. Scientists involved in the project reported Sunday that in a trial conducted on patients undergoing repair of brain aneurysms, the drug, called NA-1, reduced the number of post-procedure strokes by about half. This is rare good news in the quest to develop a neuroprotective drug, a field where over 1,000 compounds have been tested, and all failed. Researchers themselves have founded a biotechnology company — NoNO Inc. — to finance the work, because the pharmaceutical industry has essentially left the field. NoNO means “no nitric oxide,” the free radical produced during a stroke that damages brain tissues. “The issue with Pharma is that stroke has been such a wasteland for them that no one’s willing to invest,” said Dr. Michael Hill, a stroke neurologist with the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the Calgary Stroke Program at Foothills Hospital. Hill is first author on the scientific paper outlining the findings, published in the journal Lancet Neurology. The paper reports the results of a Phase II trial, which is the first level in the hierarchy of clinical trials where studies are designed to look for proof a drug or an intervention actually works. But Phase II trials are small; this one only included 185 subjects. In order to persuade Health Canada or the drug regulators of other countries that this drug should be brought to market, a larger, Phase III trial will have to be successfully conducted. That’s already in the planning stages, said

Dr. Michael Tymianski, who in addition to being a neurosurgeon at Toronto Western Hospital, is president of NoNO Inc. Tymianski was the senior author on this study. Still, the researchers are declaring their results proof of the principle that the brain can be protected from the cascade of damage a stroke touches off. And a commentary the journal published in conjunction with the study essentially concurred. “The door is now reopening for new neuroprotection trials in stroke,” wrote Markku Kaste, of Helsinki University Central Hospital. Kaste was not involved in the Canadian trial, but he was the principle investigator on a trial of another neuroprotective drug called edaravone (sold as Radicut). That drug, which is licensed for use in Japan, is made by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma. In his conflict of interest declaration, Kaste disclosed he consults for the company. In the study, people who had to undergo surgery to repair a brain aneurysm were randomly assigned to get NA-1 or a shot of salt water. Subjects got the injection at the end of their surgery, before the strokes would be expected to start occurring. Timeliness is a problem in stroke care. There is an existing treatment regime — clot busting drugs — but they can only be given after it’s been determined that a stroke is an ischemic one (caused by a clot) and is not the result of a bleed in the brain. To give these blood-thinning drugs to some whose stroke was caused by a bleed would make matters worse. Clot busters must be given within 4.5 hours of a stroke to have any effect. But few people make it to the hospital and through the testing needed to determine the cause of the stroke in time to benefit from the drugs.

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Get smart about herbal supplements A seemingly endless array of herbal supplements fills the shelves of drugstores, supermarkets, health-food stores and even gas-station quick marts. The appetite for these “alternative cures” has created a $5.2 billion market for everything from aloe vera to Zingiber officinale (that’s ginger). If any of that money’s coming out of your wallet, you owe it to yourself to tap into another herbal trend: Reliable research into botanicals (that’s another name for herbal supplements) that provides scientific evidence about which are safe, smart and effective — and which are dumb or even dangerous duds. Both types show up on the latest list of top sellers. You want to be sure you’ve got a winner. Best picks? According to our favorite herbal info resource — the Cleveland Clinic Wellness website’s (yes that’s Dr. Mike’s Cleveland Clinic!) Supplement Review — the following popular herbs are generally safe and have some scientific backing as effective remedies: ● Turmeric (the yellow in yellow mustard) for easing inflammation of ulcerative colitis in conjunction with standard medications. ● Aloe vera cream for healing mild skin burns (it may work better than some prescription preparations). ● Saw palmetto for benign prostatic hyperplasia; this herb seems to block hormones that makes a guys’ glands swell. ● Garlic to help control blood pressure and cholesterol, and slow down hardening of the arteries. Results are modest, but it could help you stay healthy. Thinking about popping an herbal product or wondering whether one you already take is worth continuing? Check the science. These days, you can get the latest, impartial 411 on an herb before you buy it or try it by logging on to some terrific websites that review and boil down the latest research findings. We already mentioned our favorite, The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Supplement Review. Two others are Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine website and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Talk with your doctor. If you plan to take anything for more than three days — and this applies to herbs, other supplements and over-the-

counter drugs, check with your doctor first. Why? If you’ve self-diagnosed a health problem, you probably should get medical confirmation before you treat it. In addition, lots of herbs interact negatively with medications — including some you may take now or might take later. Your doc may also suggest a more effective, better-studied or less-expensive way to reach your health goal. Case in point: You could take a red rice yeast supplement to lower high LDL cholesterol, or you could choose a statin drug that’s covered by your health insurance and get the same active ingredient (yup, exactly the same!) and the same results, while parting with less cash (up to $140 dollars less each month). Look for “USP” and “Made in the USA.” Choose products that have a gold, black and green emblem on the label that says “Verified Dietary Supplement — USP.” It means that the supplement maker meets quality standards set by the U.S. Pharmacopeia (an independent, nonprofit scientific group) and that the product really contains the ingredients listed on the label at the potency and levels promised, doesn’t contain harmful levels of other compounds and was made under safe conditions. We also like supplements made in the U.S. and are wary of products coming from overseas after a string of Food and Drug Administration warnings about contamination in imported remedies (everything from recognized drugs being added in without appearing on the label to toxic substances being substituted for benign ones). Stop before surgery. You should quit some herbs and EPA-containing brands of fish oil — not DHA though — at least three days before scheduled surgery. And stay off them for as long as your doctor says. Many herbs can affect blood clotting (especially the “ family, including garlic, ginger, gingko and ginseng) and can interact with drugs you may be given before, during and after surgery. Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Medical Officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. For more information go to www.RealAge. com.

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“Business as usual” — trashing public land — for “the bare bones of rapid development of our non-renewable natural resources.”

After Potatogate, what? MORE LAND — PUBLIC LAND, MOSTLY PRICELESS NATIVE PRAIRIE GRASSLAND, HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE COUNTIES OF VULCAN AND TABER, PROBABLY TO BE DESTROYED BY LOCAL POLITICAL PROCESSES Was it only in April that I went west a renewed government have come to. to look for signs and portents of what Recent government trends show a was going to happen on that day’s hot- continuation of the shedding of any ly-contested provincial election? and all concern or protection for the I came back as one of the few ob- environment and conservation of the servers even to suspect renewable natural resources a PC majority and exof the province, including pressed the hope that fish, wildlife, public land and Alberta’s first elected fewater, leaving them bare, exmale premier would reposed, and fending for themtain Hon. Frank Oberle as selves, while we concentrate minister of Sustainable on business as usual, the bare Resource Development bones of rapid development whom she had appointed of our non-renewable natural to that position in her resources. first cabinet following her Not only was SRD downautomatically becoming graded and left with no minispremier when she won ter, its Fish and Wildlife Divithe PC leadership in Sepsion, after more than a centutember last year. ry of achievement in fish and So much for the influwildlife management and conBOB ence of this column: the servation, has recently been SCAMMELL newly-elected premier wiped out, totally. not only turfed Mr. OberIn response, Gordon Poirile, but effectively SRD as er, president in waiting of the well, combining it with Environment Alberta Fish and Game Association under Hon. Diana McQueen as minis- mused on what could replace the deter. funct F and W Division that might “reThat alone was sufficient to drive move half the political baggage and me out west again to divine the signs infighting among the levels of bureauand meditate on the environmental cracy.” record of our government and Hon. A case in point was Ms. Redford Alison Redford in her first full year as scoring points during the last election premier, automatic and elected. campaign by slamming shut Potatogate, My favourite indicator aspen bluff the scheme to transfer 16,000 acres of that was not even in leaf in late April, priceless native prairie grasslands to was now in glorious gold, but shedding a PC supporter, allegedly to be plowed sufficient leaves at each slight breeze under and used to grow spuds for pothat you know the first real blow will tato chips. leave nothing but bare, gray trunk and What are the odds of it opening boughs: symbolic, somehow, of what again? Hon. Redford’s government has the hopes of many for real change with recently transferred, without any pub-

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lic input, 14,000 acres of public land mostly priceless native prairie grassland to the counties of Vulcan and Taber, probably to be destroyed by local political processes. Conservation organizations are excited that Bill 202, now in the legislature, might prevent this sort of thing by requiring ecological assessments and public discussion before such transfers of public land could take place. That excitement indicates how desperate people are getting for any environmental protection in Alberta: Bill 202 is a private member’s bill, and, even though introduced by respected PC MLA, Dr. Neil Brown, private Gordon Poirier member’s bills haven’t the slightest hope of passage. Premier Redford has a penchant for making an early supportive statement when she doesn’t know the full extent of the looming disaster. She hustled to Glennifer Lake on June 8 to say this about the just-discovered Red Deer River oil spill: “We are fortunate in this province that pipeline spills don’t happen very often and we can have some confidence that when they do happen, we have plans in place to deal with them.” Now, the government and industry’s own Energy Resources Conservation Board leaves it up to us to decide

whether more than 10 spills per week in 2010 is “very often,” and I can’t find a landowner along the affected shores of the river who are happy with the cleanup and the way they are being dealt with. Likewise, Hon. Redford recently stepped up to the plate, well before the full extent of the problems in the Brooks XL Foods beef recalls was known, to declare staunchly that she “stands behind Alberta beef.” This column humbly and respectfully advises that she not stand too closely behind; that pipeline may contain “product” far thicker and more harmful to humans even than the 3,000 barrels of light sour crude Plains Midstream spilled into the Red Deer River. We wend our way home through what is still Wild Rose Country. But apparently we’ll soon expunge that slogan from our licence plates so that we are not continually campaigning at public expense for the political party astute enough to appropriate our floral emblem for its name. Other than that strategic coup I can’t recall any position taken by our Wildrose opposition, let alone one that might show a way of navigating the dire straits in which Wild Rose Country’s environment and renewable natural resources are floundering. Beware Wildrose: oppositions that don’t do their job tend to fade away in Alberta. Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Fallen leaves: either a problem or a gold mine It has been a warm fall with only a few leaves on the ground but more are sure to come. To some dealing with all the fallen leaves is a problem, to others they are a gold mine. Leaves can be used as mulch to protect plants or in compost. Once most of the leaves have fallen, gather them with a bagging mower or by hand. A quick way to gather leaves by hand is to rake them onto a large tarp. Once the tarp is full, drag it to the desired location and dump. Eventually the tarp will need to be replaced but they usually last a number of years. Later in the season when the ground starts to freeze, pile leaves over tender plants. LINDA Leaves will act as an insuTOMLINSON lation keeping the plant and ground a constant temperature through out the winter. For best results use a minimum of 6 inches (15 cm) of mulch or leaves. In windy areas, place branches on top to defect the wind and hold down the leaves. Leaves also work to insulate tender shrubs but a cage must be put around the plant to keep the leaves in place. This can be as simple as a box, stakes and chicken wire or a purchased cover. When filling a cage, jiggle the leaves to ensure that all air pockets are eliminated. Expect the leaves to settle. Either start with excess mulch or be prepared to

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Fallen leaves colour the ground. To some, dealing with all the fallen leaves is a problem, to others they are a gold mine. add more in a couple of weeks. Once leaves have fallen they are the brown or carbon part of compost. They can be added as such to a traditional compost pile or they can be put into a bag to make bag compost. Start with a large garbage bag and stuff it full of leaves. Add some nitrogen and water then tie the bag shut. Cut a few slits in the bag and place it out of view, preferably in a sunny area. Turning the bags over until they freeze will speed up the process but it is not necessary. Come spring the amount of material in the bags will have shrunk substantially. Check the material to see if the process is complete if not add more nitrogen or moisture and set it aside for later. Nitrogen or the green part of compost can come in

many forms. Coffee grounds, grass clippings, compost starter or high nitrogen fertilizer all work well. The basic rule of thumb for compost is six parts carbon to one part nitrogen. Leaves that are left whole are very bulky. Running over leaves with a mower will diminish their size as will chopping them with a weed eater. For the latter, put them in a confined space such as a large garbage can and place the weed eater head inside. Be sure to wear safety goggles. Chopping the leaves will speed up the process and allow more product to be put in each bag. Instead of throwing out all you leaves this fall use them to make compost for next year’s garden. Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist that lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at www.igardencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com

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MYSTERIOUS MAPS

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Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery Magnificent Saturdays co-ordinator Tanya Zuzak Collard peers through a magnifying glass in the exhibits gallery of the museum this week. This Saturday, the museum is hosting a Mysterious Map Making event during its Magnificent Saturdays afternoon program. From 1 to 4 p.m., participants will create their own maps using the inspiration of the museum’s current exhibit of Profit and Ambition The Canadian Fur Trade 17791821, which is on display in the gallery. Magnificent Saturdays is a drop-in art-making program with activities for families. The museum supplies an artist, the inspiration and the materials, while the participants supply the imagination.

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Friday ● Regular Square and Round Dancing at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre starts Oct. 12 from 1 to 4 p.m. Contact Helen at 403-3464525, or Bob at 403-227-8480. ● Trash to Treasure Swap Meet, Oct. 12 to 14 at Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Welcome Waste Reduction Week by bringing in usable, unwanted items and browse for something you need. Keep items out of the landfill! Phone 403-346-2010. ● Red Deer College Theatre program presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare in Studio A at the college with performances Oct. 11 to 13 and 17 to 20 at 7:30 p.m., and on Oct. 13 and 20 at 1 p.m. Tickets from Black Knight Ticket Centre, 403-755-6626 or online at bkticketcentre.ca ● Ponoka Drop-In Centre presents the Keister Family Fiddlers on Oct. 12, 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 per person and are available at Flowers for You, 403-783-8190, or from Mary at 403-783-5030, or from Doreen at 403-783-3805, or at the door. ● Catch the Dream: Neighbours Helping Neighbours. Shalom Counselling Centre’s Fall FriendRaiser will take place Oct. 12 at New Life Fellowship, 20 Kelloway Cres., with musical guests Potter’s Clay and Generations. Admission is a nonperishable item for the Food Bank. Doors open at 7 p.m. Freewill offering will be taken to support families with counselling. For more information Call 403-342-0339. ● Health Equipment Loan Program (HELP) sponsored by the Canadian Red Cross lends health equipment to the public. As well, volunteer opportunities are available for individuals providing customer service, assisting with data entry, organization and inventory control. Donations are also welcome. Call Donna at 403-346-1241 if you wish to volunteer, or to inquire about donations, or use equipment. ● Friends of the Red Deer Public Library low cost used book sale will be held at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Oct. 12 and 13 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Memberships are available at the door for $15 for single, or $20 per family. All proceeds to the library. Book donations are gratefully accepted at the downtown branch year round. Contact Lesley at 403-346-5721. ● Coats For Kids Campaign runs from Oct. 9 to the 27. Gently used winter coats for children and adults are needed and appreciated, and can be dropped off at the following locations: Classic Cleaners and Tailors, Sterling Cleaners, three locations of Ultra Cleaners, Mustang Laundry and Parkland Coverall Cleaning. The coats are cleaned free of charge and distributed through the Red Deer Clothing Bank. For more information call Teresa at 403-358-6555.

Saturday ● Senior Citizens Downtown House musical jam session are held the second Saturday of each month at 1:30 p.m. Next session Oct. 13. Admission $2.50. Phone 403-346-4043. ● Spanish Storytime with Muzzy at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library will be held on Oct. 13 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Listen to a story, play, speak Spanish, make new friends and be introduced to Muzzy, the World’s #1 Language Course for Children now available at RDPL. ● Science Saturday Surprise: It’s Alive! at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library, Oct. 13 from 2 to 3 p.m. It’s weird, its’s gross, it’s alive! Disgusting experiments and slimy shocking science fun! It could get ugly, so dress appropriately. ● Sanctuary Stroll and Social, Oct. 13, from 7 to 10 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Explore the night life at Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary with a guided four km. hike followed by refreshments. Adults only. Preregistration required. Costs are $15 plus GST for members, $17 plus GST for non-members. Phone 403-346-2010. ● 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 Oct. 13 session is called Mysterious Map Making. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission. ● Town and Country Dance Club Fall Dance, Oct. 13 at Royal Canadian Legion Ballroom in Innisfail from 8 p.m. to midnight with live music by B.C. band Transplant. Adult singles and couples, young and old welcome to dance to classic rock, country, jive, with waltzes, polkas, and fox trots. Light lunch included. Phone 403-728-3333, or email to doug140@airenet.com. Tickets in advance or at the door cost $15 each. ● Ponoka Senior Drop-In Centre Musical Jamborees are held Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is $2 at the door and includes refreshments and snack. For more information phone Linda at 403-783-8461 or Nell at 403-356-1589. No dance Oct. 27. ● Sacred Heart CWL Annual Tea and Bazaar will be held on Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parish hall. Admission is $5 including lunch. Highlights are crafts, baking, and tea for sale. Contact Lynette at 403-346-7682. ● Air Force Association of Canada 703 Wing members meet at noon every second Saturday of the month at the ABC Country Restaurant for a luncheon and business meeting. Next meeting is Oct. 13. The local association provides a forum for serving former participants in military and civil aviation, to preserve and perpetuate the traditions of the Royal Canadian Air Force and to advocate a proficient and well equipped air force in Canada. Contact Al at 403-341-3253, or email to amlow@ shaw.ca. ● Book signing of The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith — Portrait of a Métis Woman 1861-1960 by local author Doris Jeanne MacKinnon on Oct. 13, noon to 4 p.m. at Chapters. ● Blackfalds Optimist Club Garage Sale, Oct. 13, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Blackfalds Elementary School. Donations of good quality items to support youth appreciated. Contact Edie at 403-318-5782 to arrange drop off or for more information. ● Meet Canadian author Robert Heidbreder and check out the newly renovated Children’s Department of Red Deer Public Library downtown on Oct. 13 at 11 a.m. Heidbreder’s books include Drumheller Dinosaur Dance and Lickety Split. Phone 403-346-4688. ● Think to Ink — Youth Writers’ Club, meets on Oct. 13 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room at the Red Deer Public Library downtown. For details call Jenn at 403-342-5770. ● Ponoka Senior Drop-In Centre jam sessions are held Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is $2 at the door and includes refreshments and snack. For more information phone Linda at 403-783-8461 or Nell at 403-356-1589. No dance Oct. 27. ● Red Deer Danish Canadian Club Harvest Supper, Oct. 13 at Festival Hall. Cocktails at 5:30 p.m., supper at 6:30 p.m., dancing, prizes and more starting at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $45, or $40 for club members. Call Ellen at 403-845-6894. ● Pipe Organ Concert at Gaetz Memorial United Church will be on Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m. featuring local organist, and professor at Canadian University College, Wendy Markosky. Admission is $10 per person at the door, and free for children 12 years and under. Proceeds to the church’s outreach program and in celebration of the church’s 125 years, and the pipe organ’s 25 years. Phone 403-887-2885.

Sunday ● Family Sundays at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery will be held in conjunction with the exhibit Profit and Ambition: The Canadian Fur Trade, 1779-1821 on Sundays at 2 p.m. Make a Dreamcatcher with Bertha and Jennifer Poor will be offered on Oct. 14. Activities require adult supervision. Scissors and hot glue will be used. Program included with regular admission. Supply fee $5. Phone 403-309-8405.

● Sunshine Breakfast will be held on Oct. 14 from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at Blackfalds United Church. Breakfast includes eggs, pancakes, sausage, fruit, coffee, tea or juice. Donations will be accepted. See blackfaldsunitedchurch.com or phone 403885-4780. Church services will be held at 11:30 a.m. ● Indoor garage sale at College Heights Christian School, Oct. 14, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Approximately 45 table rentals available for $10 each. Contact Karyn at 403-782-2645. A pancake breakfast with proceeds to the Grade 9 class and a bottle drive for Parkland Pathfinders will also take place. ● Messages From the Bible, readings to listen with no obligation, will be offered Sundays, from 4 to 5 p.m. from Sept. 2 to Nov. 11 at the Blackfalds Community Centre. For information call 403-977-4150. ● Lacombe Kozy Korner weekly music is offered Sundays, 2 to 4 p.m. Come to play, sing or listen. Admission is $2 and includes coffee and cookies. Call Jack at 403-782-3525.

Monday ● Mental Health Awareness Month with Dr. Norm Costigan of the Department of Psychiatry, Alberta Health Services will speak on the following topics: Depression — Oct. 15; Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) — Oct. 22; Bipolar Disorder — Oct. 24; Borderline Personality Disorder — Oct. 29. All programs are held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Please register in advance by calling Canadian Mental Health Association at 403-342-2266. Free of charge. ● Spanish conversation group meets on Mondays at the Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch at 7 p.m. Phone Conversa Spanish, 403307-0210. ● Central Alberta AIDS Network Society Annual General Meeting, Oct. 15, 7 p.m. at Turning Point, 4611 50 Ave. Highlights of the International AIDS Conference, Washington, D.C. will follow the meeting. Light refreshments will be served. Phone 403-346-8858. ● Bargain Treasures Thrift Store welcomes gently used items, except large furniture, computers and monitors. Please bring items inside the back door at 5217 Gaetz Ave. during business hours, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and on Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The store is run by volunteers and all proceeds stay in the community. Call 403-347-9711. ● Red Deer Legion Branch #35 year round events: carpet bowling on Mondays at 9:30 a.m., and on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.; Bridge on Thursdays at 1 p.m.; Cribbage on Mondays at 7 p.m. (except holidays) and on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.; and meat draws on Fridays at 5 p.m., and Saturdays at 4 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035.

Tuesday ● Children’s storytimes resume at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch starting Oct. 16. Drop-in Pajama Storytime invites children aged two to six years for stories, songs, finger plays, and crafts at 6:30 on Tuesdays starting Oct. 16. Children under three years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Drop-in Pre-school Storytime is offered from 10 to 10:45 a.m. on Wednesdays beginning Oct. 17 and Fridays beginning Oct. 19, and from 2 to 2:45 p.m. on Wednesdays. Stories, songs, and crafts for three to five year olds. Drop-in Time for Twos is offered on Thursdays from 11 to 11:30 a.m. starting Oct. 18. Drop-in Babytimes is offered on Fridays from 2 to 2:30 p.m. starting Oct. 19 or on Thursdays from 10 to 10:30 a.m. beginning Oct. 18 for children from birth to 24 months of age along with their caregivers. Phone 403-3464688. ● Lacombe and District Garden Club meets the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Lacombe Memorial Centre. For more information, call Pamela at 403-782-5061 or email pamela.d.neumann@gmail.com. ● Seniors’ skating will be offered at the Red Deer Arena on Tuesdays from 2:30 to 3:30, $3. Ages 50 years plus. Warm up with a coffee following the skate. Phone 403-347-6883. ● Celiac Support Group meets in the coffee lounge at the south location of Sobeys Inc. on the third Tuesday of every month starting at 7 p.m. The next meeting will be on Oct. 16 with Dr. Shane Johnson ND as guest speaker. See www.celiac.ca, or contact Fay at 403-347-3248, or Clarice at 403-

341-4351 or email Red Deer Celiacs @yahoo.ca. ● Red Deer Chamber Singers meet Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church, and will perform on Nov. 29 and 30. Call Sadie at 403347-5166 for more information. ● Hula Hoop Jam @ the The Hub on Ross will run Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. All skill levels welcome to hoop to fine music. Free to attend. Donations to Aspire Special Needs Resource Centre encouraged. Hula hoops provided. See www. HulaHoopers.ca,or www.hubpdd.com, or phone 403-340-4869. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House dance, Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. with live music by Parkland Old Thyme Music Makers. The cost is $6. Phone 403-346-4043. Lunch provided by donations. ● Central Alberta Cystic Fibrosis Chapter meets the third Tuesday of every month at Bethany Care CollegeSide on the second floor at 7 p.m. No meetings in July and Aug. Phone 403-347-5075.

Wednesday ● Fireside Readers Adult Evening Book Club will meet on Oct. 17 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch, Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room. For discussion will be The Memory Place by Mira Bartok. Phone 403-346-2100. ● GrammaLink Africa Chili Lunch, Oct. 17, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at The Hub. Includes chili, buns, dessert, drink and handmade pottery bowl for $15 in support of Stephen Lewis Foundation supporting grandmothers in Africa raising their grandchildren. Contact Shirley at 403-347-5958. ● Norwegian Laft Hus Society Museum fall and winter hours are Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Check out the unique log house with the sod roof in Heritage Park, which houses a collection of historic and cultural objects from Norwegian Canadians or join in the weekly session of Norwegian Rosemaling, painting, Hardanger embroidery or other crafts. Lessons are available. Phone 403347-2055. ● Red Deer Legion Old Time Dance with Badlanders II is on Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Cost is $6, or $11.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic will hold a photo identification clinic on June 28 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at 301 5008 Ross St. The clinic offers 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 services while replacing their proper ID. To book an appointment, phone 430314-9129, see www.communitylegalclinic.net, or email to info@communitylegalclinic.net. ● Central Alberta Historical Society will meet on Oct. 17, 7 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Guest speaker Dr. Patricia McCormack, University of Alberta, on Thanadelthur, a Canadian Icon of Contact. Thanadelthur was a Dene woman linked as a cultural mediator to James Knight of the Hudson’s Bay Company and to fur trader, William Stewart. Everyone is welcome. Contact Iris at 403-3402588.

Thursday ● Perogy Supper will be offered at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church on Oct. 18, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tickets sold at the door for a cost of $11 for adults, and $6 for children 10 years of age and under. For more information call 403-347-2335. ● Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society Fall Tea, Oct. 18 at Cronquist House from 1 to 4 p.m. Enjoy pumpkin pie with whipped cream or apple pie and ice cream, hot spiced cider, tea and coffee for a cost of $10 per person (cash only). Reservations preferred but not necessary by phoning 403-3460055. Apple and pumpkin pies available for sale. ● Catch — Fetch —Release, to support the SPCA. On Oct. 18 help spring the jailbirds from the dog house by pledging your donations to post their bail. To register or for more information, contact Tara at 403-342-7722 or go to www.reddeerspca. com for online pledges. ● The Arthritis Society is accepting registrations for Understanding Arthritis on Oct. 18 from 7 to 8 p.m. to be held at Red Deer Regional Hospital. Register in advance by calling 1-800-321-1433 or email info@ab.arthritis.ca.

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CONTINUED FROM B4 ● Sharing Circle meetings, will be offered for individuals and groups to share with the Community Associations of Red Deer, the activities and events their groups are hosting. Meetings are held Thursdays from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Kinex Arena, second floor meeting room. Meeting dates for 2012 are Oct. 18 and Nov. 29. ● 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 Oct. 18. This group has 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. ● Red Deer and District Garden Club meets on Oct. 18 at Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 7 p.m. For more information call Noreen at 403-346-7728, or 403-357-4071. ● City of Lacombe Fall Community Clean Up Campaign runs Oct. 9 to 18. This is a special refuse pickup of household and yard refuse not normally accepted in regular garbage. Residents are asked to organize and separate items into piles for pick up in the front of the property by 7 a.m. All items must be sorted and neatly tied or bagged.

Trees, brush or limbs cannot be more than 10 feet long. Please do not set items out before Oct. 6. To find out more see www.lacombe.ca, or phone 403782-1261. ● 125 Years of Methodism in Red Deer Area, Oct. 18, 7 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church will be presented by Michael Dawe, historian and archivist. Admission by donation. Contact Linda at 403-347-6073. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Oct. 18, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Silver and Gold Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-346-3896. ● Piper Creek Lodge Fall Tea and Sale, Oct. 18, 1:30 to 3 p.m. features baked goods, craft table, raffle and more. Cost of tea is $3 with all proceeds to The Residents Council. Phone 403-343-1066, ext. 3. ● Canadian Cancer Society Jail ‘N’ Bail will go on Oct. 18 at Parkland Mall. Have your co-workers, friends, or family “arrested” for a good cause and raise funds to fight cancer. See cancer.ca/ab/jailnbail or call 403-347-1815. ● Philosopher’s Café meets on Oct. 18 at the Red Deer College Library at 7 p.m. for open, meaningful dialogue and sharing of ideas and perspectives. Discussion topic will be personal identity. Admission is free, refreshments provided. See www. rdc.ab.ca/library or phone 403-342-3152.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● A Mindful Eating Adventure, Oct. 27, 2 to 4 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Experience a symphony of celery, identify a food based on its smell, and use your senses and develop a greater awareness and attention to food. Registration required. Please list food allergies and sensitivities. Children and youth under 14 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Co-presented by Arts a la Carte. Contact Glynis at boultbee@ telusplanet.net or call 403-342-5582. ● Central Alberta Dancers Dinner and Dance, Oct. 26 at Valley Centre Hall. Cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., dance with music by Country Gems to follow, and late lunch. Tickets cost $30, or $15 for dance only. Contact Henry at 403-3471333, Earl at 403-348-5015, or Al at 403-347-0324. Cash Store Financial’s Freedom Run in support of Canadian Diabetes Association will be on Oct. 21 at Heritage Ranch. Participants may choose between three km or five km walk/run, and enjoy the family friendly activities, refreshments, prizes and more, all supporting diabetes research. For more event information, or to register, see www. thefreedomrun.ca ● St. Paul’s United Church in Trochu presents Ken Grambo — The Singing Pastor, Oct. 21, 7 p.m. at Trochu Community Centre. The cost is $15 and includes concert, and complimentary dessert. Limited tickets available at Trochu Dollar Store. ● Watershed Alliance Fall Forum and General Meeting will be on Oct. 25, at Olds College. Event is open to Alliance membership and general public for $15 per person. Limited space. Find information at www.rdrwa.ca and register at info@ rdrwa.ca or by calling 403-340-7379. ● Julestue Scandinavian Bazaar will be held on Nov. 3 at Spruce View Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. To book a vendor table, or for information call Joanne at 403-227-4917. Table rental is $35. ● Keith Kitchen Concert: Restless CD Release Tour, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. at Sylvan Lake Alliance Church. Tickets cost $12 in advance from the church or from Scott’s Parables Christian Store, or $15 at the door. See www.KeithKitchenMusic.com, to find out more about this solo acoustic Canadian

singer-songwriter. Phone 403-887-8811. ● The Huron Carole in support of food banks featuring Tom Jackson and other performers will be at Red Deer Memorial Centre on Dec. 17, 8 p.m. Tickets now on sale for $45. See www.HuronCarole.ca for tickets and to donate to food banks. ● Haynes Community Society Harvest Supper, Oct. 24, 5 to 7 p.m. Meals cost $10 for adults, $5 for children ages seven to 12 years, and free for children six years and under. Contact Brenda at 403-784-3474. ● Red Deer Watershed Alliance Ambassador Breakfast, Oct. 19, 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at Quality North Hill Inn. Cost is $15 per person. A presentation on permaculture along with conferring of new ambassadors will be held. Please RSVP to info@ rdrwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 by noon on Oct. 17. ● Parkland Regional Library —The Library Effect — story contest invites Central Albertans to submit personal stories about the positive effect libraries can have on individuals, families, and communities. Prizes include and iPad sponsored by Platinum Communications, and three Kobo eReaders. Contest deadline is Nov. 1. For information, or to submit a story, visit www.prl.ab.ca/libraryeffect or contact the library. Stories will be shared on the website, and used to advocate on behalf of libraries throughout the Parkland region. After the contest closes, submissions will still be accepted for the story bank. ● Red Deer Health Foundation Festival of Trees special event tickets now on sale from www.ticketmaster.ca, or by phone 1-855-985-5000 or from the Enmax Centrium box office. Santa Claus Parade will be held on Nov. 17 at 4 p.m. in conjunction with the new family oriented Festival of Lights Night. Float entries now sought with four prizes ranging from $2,000 to $500 donated by Bilton Welding and Manufacturing. The festival will be open Nov. 23 and 24, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Nov. 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds this year go to Laboratory Services, Department of Histopathology. See www.reddeerfestivaloftrees.ca, or email to foundation@albertahealthservices.ca. ● Soroptimist International of Central Al-

berta Pyjamas and Pearls Fundraising Dinner, Nov. 3 at I-Hotel 67th (formerly Holiday Inn on 67 St.). Come dressed in your favourite pyjamas and pearls, dance to the music of C.J. Berube — Elvis Presley Tribute artist. Tickets cost $75 per person, or $555 for a table of eight. Cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., raffles, pyjama contest, silent auction and more. Proceeds support women and girls locally and globally. For tickets, contact Sherri at 403-340-3924, or 403-343-6099. ● Seafood Supper Fundraiser to benefit Loaves and Fishes Red Deer, Oct. 20 at Valley Centre Hall, east of Red Deer on Hwy. 595 then left onto RR 260. Tickets available from Loaves and Fishes, or online (via PayPal) at seafoodsupperfundraiser@gmail.com. Cost is $30 per adults, children eat free. Bingo for all ages starting at 4 p.m. with cards and popcorn free., followed by cocktails, appetizers and kids stations at 5 p.m. featuring Al Aldinni — magician, Bricks4Kids craft station, tattoos, face painting, candy jar guess and more, $5 per child. Supper featuring lobster and shrimp pasta, salmon, halibut, and sweet and sour meatballs at 6 p.m. Silent auction, door prizes, and much more. See Facebook to find out more. ● Alzheimer Society National Coffee Break Campaign is in full swing. The society invites everyone in Central Alberta to host or take part in a Coffee Break event to raise awareness and funds for education and support programs. For more information or to order a Coffee Break Kit, contact Janice at 403-346-4636 or email jfogarty@ alzheimer.ab.ca, or go online to www.alzheimercoffeebreak.ca ● St. Patrick’s Community School Trade Fair will be held on Nov. 30. Vendor tables available for $40 with a donation to the raffle, or $60 without a donation. Set up at 2:30 p.m. Sale from 3:15 to 8 p.m. Contact Cheryl at cnichols@rdcrd.ab.ca. ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held Oct. 27 at Penhold Hall. Music by Wise Choice. 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 403-3417653 or Bob at 403-304-7440. ● 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 Laura at 403-309-8642 or email cosmos02@telus.net. ● Great Bend Community Ladies Aid/Dorcas Sewing Circle Harvest Turkey Supper, Oct. 19, 5 to 7 p.m. at Delburne Community Hall. Adults cost $10, children ages six to 12 years cost $5, and children ages six and under eat free of charge. Pay at the door. Contact Vickie at 403-749-2507 or Betty at 403-749-2035. ● The Great Big Night — featuring Brent Trout, liberty horse demonstration show at 5 p.m. and live music featuring Ty Hart and the Wylde Ryde, live from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Enjoy carriage rides from 4 to 6 p.m., free pony rides for children four to five years old, and a pig roast and 12-hour smoked brisket midnight buffet. This fundraiser for Brent Trout, who works with the horses at Heritage Ranch, and is waiting for a kidney transplant, will take place Oct. 27. at Heritage Ranch. The cost is $75 per adult and $20 per child, all inclusive. $30 per adult ticket goes straight to help Brent Trout and family with expenses incurred during down time from training. Tickets are available from the ranch at 403-347-4977 or by emailing bookings@ heritageranch.com. ● Ridgewood Hall Turkey Supper, Oct. 20, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Adults $12 per plate, children ages five to 12 years $6 per plate, and free for children under five years. Purchase tickets from Penhold Fas Gas west on 592, north on RR 10. Phone 403-886-4642.

Are older teens legit for trick-or-treating? BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Patti Woods-LaVoie loves Halloween and all things candy, but she has a hard and fast rule when it comes to teens and trick-or-treating. Show up at her door in Trumbull, Conn., with a costume — and she means something more than a baseball hat and jersey — and her candy bowl is your candy bowl. Ring her bell in street clothes and you’ll get teabags, ramen noodles, shampoo samples or some other discard from her pantry or closets. “Some come in cars,” she said. “They park and go from neighbourhood to neighbourhood. My husband is just waiting for the day our house gets egged by someone who got a teabag.” When it comes to big kids with pillow cases begging for candy on Halloween, there seem to be three camps. The sure, why nots say they overbuy and are happy to let teens scarf up the leftovers so they don’t eat it all themselves. The No’s find it overly cynical when older kids aren’t in costumes that took some planning. And the middle-grounders believe teens aren’t in

it just for the loot and still truly enjoy the ritual of dressing up and going door-to-door. So how old is too old for trick or treating? “I’m cutting mine off at 14, but if teens show up at my door and are polite I’ll give them candy,” said Betsy Tant in Knoxville, Tenn., mom to a 13-year-old daughter and two younger kids. Last year, when her daughter was 12, “someone said they felt it was inappropriate for her to be trick or treating, even though she was with her 4-yearold sister,” Tant said. “They assumed she was a teen because she’s tall. They were mad. I had to intervene and it was very uncomfortable.” Other candy givers who are also parents said it feels more like extortion than good fun when the older teens show up, especially hulk-sized boys mowing over toddlers to get to the door. “I also think it’s about adults not trusting older kids,” Tant said. “With teens, Halloween can be more about tricks. Teens tend to be more impulsive and less concerned with consequences.”

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Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 Sports line 403-343-2244 Fax 403-341-6560 sports@reddeeradvocate.com

Yankees get twice the heroics HOME RUNS FROM IBANEZ TO TIE, THEN WIN GAME PUT YANKEES IN CONTROL OF SERIES MORE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS B8

AUSTIN FERGUSON

REBELS TRADE FOR DEPTH The Red Deer Rebels have added a little more depth to their forward ranks. The Western Hockey League squad picked up 17-year-old forward Austin Ferguson from the Kelowna Rockets in exchange for a conditional sixth-round draft pick in the 2013 bantam draft. Ferguson is in his second full season in the WHL and has four points (1-3-4) in 58 career games. The six-foot-one 175-pound native of Abbotsford, B.C., was a 10th round pick by the Rockets in the 2010 bantam draft. Ferguson is expected to be on hand when the Rebels return to action Friday when they host the Medicine Hat Tigers at 7:30 p.m. at the Centrium.

Today

● High school football: Camrose at Stettler, 4 p.m. ● High school girls volleyball: Notre Dame at Lacombe, JVs at 6 p.m., seniors to follow; Central Alberta Christian at Camrose, seniors only, 6 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Lacombe, 7 p.m. ● College basketball: Royalty Classic, Canadian University College vs. Olds, 4 p.m., RDC Kings vs. Lethbridge, 8 p.m., RDC.

Friday

● High school girls/ boys volleyball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic senior tournament. ● High school football: Notre Dame at Lacombe, Lindsay Thurber at Rocky Mountain House, 4 p.m.; Sylvan Lake at Hunting Hills, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park; Ponoka at Wetaskiwin, 7:30 p.m. ● College basketball: Royalty Classic, men — Lethbridge vs. Canadian University College, 2 p.m.; RDC Kings vs. Olds, 8 p.m. Women — RDC Queens vs. St. Mary’s College, 6 p.m. WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium.

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Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York Yankees’ Raul Ibanez hits a solo home run to tie the game in the ninth inning in Game 3 of the American League division baseball series against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday, in New York. The Yankees went on to win the game 3-2 in the 12th inning.

Yankees 3 Orioles 2 NEW YORK — The highest-paid player in baseball could only sit and watch when Raul Ibanez pinch hit for him and tied the game with a bottom-of-the-ninth home run. Alex Rodriguez had another good view from the dugout three innings later when Ibanez homered to win it. Saved by manager Joe Girardi’s gutsy move — and Ibanez’s big swings — the New York Yankees rallied for a stunning 3-2 win in the 12th over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night for a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five AL division series. “You’re going to be asked a lot of questions if it doesn’t work,” Girardi said. The slumping Rodriguez, among the greatest power hitters in history, offered no complaint, telling Girardi: “Joe, you gotta do exactly what you gotta do.” “Maybe 10 years ago I would have reacted in a much different way,” A-Rod said. Ibanez then stepped up and hit a tying, solo shot to right-centre with one out in the ninth off major league saves leader Jim Johnson to make it 2-all. Yankees fans had been howling this week for Girardi to drop Rodriguez out of the No. 3 spot in the batting order. But Girardi was reluctant to move his fading slugger down in the lineup. Until he took him all the way out. “You have to make some decisions sometimes that are tough decisions. I just had a gut feeling,” Girardi said.

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Raiders have talent to win championship BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF The Lindsay Thurber Raiders have the talent to win the Central Alberta High School boys’ 4A volleyball championship, but they still have some work to do. “We have the skill but we need to work on our efficiency,” said Raiders head coach Terence McMullen. “The idea is to reach a level at practice and take that onto the court. We struggle from time to time in maintaining our efficiency. We still have some elementary errors we need to correct. But we also have over a month to be where we need to be.” The Raiders, Hunting Hills Lightning and the Notre Dame Cougars are battling for the top spot in the zone and with only one team advancing to the provincials, being on top at the end has that much greater meaning. “That certainly puts more pressure to do well and makes the league more worthwhile,” said McMullen. “It’s not the best situation, but it just means you have to be the better team.” If McMullen has his way the Raiders will simply be a tough team to play when it counts the most. “We want a team that keeps the ball in play and frustrates the opposition,” he said. “We certainly have some talent and guys who can go on to the next level, but they have to continue to advance. We have players coming our club volleyball

where they played at the U15 and U16 levels, but now they’re up against older guys and the game changes. They have to learn that style of play.” McMullen has five veterans on his roster with only two of them — libero Jacob Paterson and middle Erik Hoehne — in Grade 12. Right side Greg Chauvet, who moved up from the JV program, is the only other Grade 12 on the squad. The other returnees are setter Matt Graham and power hitters Cody Domoney and Tanner Rehn. The other newcomers are setter Tanner Shapka, middles John Lyvler and Jayden Halsey, left sides Gage Rehn and Brian Grenier and right side Scott Irvine. McMullen looks at Graham and Hoehne as the team leaders, although he sees some of that in is other three veterans. “The guys have been here a year and should show that leadership,” he said. The Raiders downed the Stettler Wildcats 3-0 to improve to 4-0 in league play Wednesday night. Meanwhile, the girls’ edition of the Raiders have a similar situation as the boys. Coaches Kirsten DeZutter, Barb Young and Kate Archer have five players back from last season. “It’s taken a while for us to come together,” said DeZutter. “Whenever you have a new group it takes time for them to get used to everyone’s tendencies.”

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Lindsay Thurber Raiders Matt Graham, left, and Erik Hoehne jump to the net to block a shot from a Stettler Wildcat during high school volleyball action at Lindsay Thurber on Wednesday night. The Raiders have shown signs of jelling, but are still a step away at times. “We’re right there, but we make that one error, or one mistake and it costs us,” added DeZutter. “But for the most part we’re pleased with our development.” Three of the veterans — setter Cara Vandervlis, power hitter Blyss Gellert and libero Madison Lee — are in Grade 12 as is setter Claire Wilson. Power hitter Rivver Flewell and outside hitter McKenna Barthel are also veterans and in Grade 11. The other new faces are out-

side hitters Erin Seater and Kennedy Graham, power hitter Jamie Cheney and middles Hope Fulton, Kelsie Smale and Emma Newton. Vandervlis started the season as the setter, but is sharing with Wilson of late. “They definitely challenge each other and are doing a good job,” said DeZutter, who has brought in former RDC Kings player Blake Henwood in to work with the setters. Henwood is also an assistant coach at RDC.

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Kings start Royalty Classic with victory OPEN WITH WIN OVER CANADIAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AURORA OF LACOMBE BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

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Kings 109 Aurora 73 Although the score may not indicate it the Canadian University College Aurora of Lacombe were no pushovers as the RDC Kings opened the Ramada Inns Royalty Classic men’s basketball tournament at RDC Wednesday. “They’re very good. Last year we played a practice game with them here and won by six and then up there in December and they beat us by one,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger following a 109-73 victory. “We have a lot of respect for them and they came out hard in the first quarter. But we’ve been working hard on our defence and turnovers were huge in this game. We probably scored 30 points on our transition game and that was the difference.” While CUC also had the ability to push the ball on offence they didn’t have the depth of the Kings and after a close opening quarter the RDC crew extended the lead to 51-31 at the half. CUC managed to narrow the gap to 18 in the third quarter and trailed 76-58. “They’re a good team and I would have loved to have been sitting over there (in the stands) and watch them,” said CUC head coach Peter Ford with a laugh. “But we don’t see this level of competition on a con-

RDC BASKETBALL sistent basis. But it’s a lot of fun playing them.” CUC, which is a religious school, has players from across Canada and the United States and play in the ACAL (Alberta Colleges Athletic League). “It’s a developmental league, but we do try to play as many exhibition games against ACAC (Alberta colleges Athletic Conference) teams as we can,” explained Ford, who would like to move into the ACAC. “This is the fourth year for our program and we’re looking at it (ACAC),” he said. CUC also has women’s basketball, which is in it’s second year, as well as men’s and women’s volleyball and soccer. The Kings were able to use their complete bench, something Pottinger knows will only help down the road. “We have more depth this season and we want to make sure everyone gets a chance to get that playing time. The experienced guys, who played a lot of minutes last year, are comfortable in giving up some of those minutes for the greater good,” he said. Joel Carroll led the Kings with 15 points while Rob Pierce added 14, David Poole 13, Matt Johnson 12, Jacob Cusumano 11, Ashunti Hogan and Brian Prenoslo 10 each,

Sam Lolik nine, Daniel Bass eight and Lloyd Strickland seven. Courtney Fleurantin had 18 for CUC with LaDerrius Watford adding 12, Jeremy Porviance 11 and Vic Boss 10. The Kings meet Lethbridge College today at 8 p.m. while CUC takes on Olds College at 4 p.m. On Friday, CUC and Lethbridge clash at 2 p.m., the RDC Queens meet St. Mary’s College out of Calgary at 6 p.m. and the Kings take on Olds at 8 p.m. The Queens and Ambrose College of Calgary clash at noon on Saturday with Olds and Lethbridge meeting at 2 p.m. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Kamloops 7 6 0 0 1 31 Victoria 9 6 3 0 0 28 Prince George 7 5 1 1 0 34 Kelowna 8 3 4 1 0 32 Vancouver 7 2 5 0 0 19

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Notes — a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL (overtime loss) or SOL (shootout loss). Wednesday’s results Kamloops 5 Victoria 2 Spokane 6 Kelowna 4 Prince George 5 Kootenay 4 Edmonton 4 Medicine Hat 2 Portland 4 Saskatoon 0 Today’s games No Games Scheduled. Friday’s games Everett at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Spokane at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Saskatoon at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Prince George at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Portland at Prince Albert, 7 p.m. Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m. Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m. Seattle at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Saturday’s games Tri-City at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m. Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Prince George at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Everett at Regina, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Swift Current, 7 p.m. Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Sunday’s games Kamloops at Calgary, 4 p.m. Edmonton at Kootenay, 6 p.m. Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m. Tri-City at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Wednesday Summaries Kamloops 5 Victoria 2 First Period 1. Kamloops, Lipon 4 (Ranford, Bell) 17:51. Penalties - Stahl Vic (interference) 8:12; Hrbas Kam (tripping) 8:23; Bozon Kam (kneeing) 9:30, Zgraggen Vic; Lipon Kam (roughing) 11:56; B.Walker Vic (interference) 13:54; Magee Vic (cross-checking), Ranford Kam (diving) 19:22; Zgraggen Vic, Hrbas Kam (unsportsmanlike conduct) 20:00. Second Period 2. Kamloops, Smith 4 (Lipon, Bozon) 15:24. 3. Kamloops, Ranford 3 (Trzonkowski, Willick) 19:41. Penalties — Trzonkowski Kam (cross-checking)

Spokane 6 Kelowna 4 First Period 1. Spokane, Holmberg 8 (Walchuk, Kichton) 14:45 (pp). 2. Spokane, Stewart 2 (Kichton, Gal) 15:55 (sh). Penalties — Rigby Kel, Proft Spo (fighting) 0:15, Fiddler Spo (elbowing) 6:06, Aviani Spo (boarding) 11:13, Baillie Kel (holding) 13:56, Helewka Spo (holding) 15:42, Sissons Kel, Wedman Spo (roughing) 16:58. Second Period 3. Spokane, Walchuk 1 (Valcourt) 4:51. 4. Kelowna, Olsen 4 (Bell, Lees) 14:44 (pp). 5. Kelowna, Sissons 4 (McKinlay, Severson) 18:36. Penalties - Proft Spo (boarding) 14:35, McKinlay Kel (interference) 15:05. Third Period 6. Kelowna, McKinlay 3 (Bell) 8:46. 7. Spokane, Aviani 5 (Gal, Fiddler) 9:53. 8. Spokane, Holmberg 9 (Stewart) 15:04. 9. Kelowna, Olsen 5 (McKinlay, Bell) 18:11. 10. Spokane, Valcourt 3 (Gow) 19:17 (en). Penalties — Bowey Kel (tripping) 1:37, Nyberg Kel (checking from behind) 15:28. Shots on goal Spokane 9 12 12 — 33 Kelowna 20 13 10 — 43 Goal - Spokane: Williams (W, 4-0-0); Kelowna: Cooke (L, 3-4-1). Power plays (goals-chances) - Spokane: 1-4; Kelowna: 1-4. Attendance — 4,781 at Kelowna, B.C. Edmonton 4 Medicine Hat 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Pollock 1 (Benson, Baddock), 8:48. 2. Edmonton, Samuelsson 3 12:38 (sh). 3. Edmonton, Wruck 2 (Geertsen, St. Croix), 14:57. Penalties - Lowe Edm (cross-checking), 3:28; Corbett Edm (cross-checking), 4:09; Leier M.H. (slashing), 6:16; Lowe Edm (tripping), 11:33; Foster Edm (roughing), 20:00. Second Period 4. Edmonton, Reinhart 1 (Corbett, Benson), 7:59 (pp). 5. Medicine Hat, Koules 4 (Shinkaruk, Busenius), 9:36 (pp). 6. Medicine Hat, Pearce 1 (Cox, Valk), 11:56. Penalties - Corbett Edm (high-sticking), 0:53; Leier M.H. (tripping), 6:47; Ewanyk Edm (cross-checking), 9:03; Geertsen Edm (fighting), Doty M.H. (fighting), 16:52. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties - Lowe Edm (roughing), 2:10; Wilson Edm (fighting), Jensen M.H. (fighting), 2:10; Sautner Edm (interference), 3:35; Corbett Edm (delay of game), 4:29; Doty M.H. (unsportsmanlike conduct), 11:33. Shots on Goal-Edmonton 9-7-5-21. Medicine Hat 12-15-9-36. Shots on goal Edmonton 9 7 5 — 21 Medicine Hat 12 15 9 — 36 Goal - Edmonton: Brossoit (W, 4-1-1); Medicine Hat: Langhamer (L, 2-3-1). Power plays (goals-chances) - Edmonton: 1-3; Medicine Hat: 1-9. Attendance — 4,006 at Medicine Hat, Alta.

(instigator, fighting, misconduct), 11:42; Bourke P.G. (hooking), 16:54. Second Period 4. Prince George, Belter 3 3:34. 5. Kootenay, Benoit 2 (Philp, Descheneau), 5:56. 6. Kootenay, Shirley 1 (Thomas, Leach), 11:40. 7. Prince George, Roulston 1 17:20. Penalties - Gibb P.G. (fighting), Wand Ktn (fighting), 5:34; Shirley Ktn (interference), 7:16; Ehrhardt P.G. (unsportsmanlike conduct), 17:42. Third Period 8. Kootenay, Leach 1 2:49. 9. Prince George, Erricson 1 10:39. Penalties - Hubic Ktn (boarding), 7:40; Pochiro P.G. (roughing, roughing, checking from behind, misconduct), 11:38; Czerwonka Ktn (roughing), 11:38; served by P.G. (bench), 18:56. Shots on goal Prince George 7 4 6 — 17 Kootenay 11 17 12 — 40 Goal (shot-saves)- Prince George: Zarowny (W, 4-1-0); Kootenay, Skapski 1- 2-0-0 (11-7); Hoflin (L, 0-3-0) (start third; 6-5). Power plays (goals-chances) - Prince George: 0-4; Kootenay: 1-4. Attendance — 2,135 at Cranbrook, B.C. Portland 4, Saskatoon 0 First Period No Scoring Penalties - Leier Por (high sticking) 1:49, Zajac Sktn (hooking) 4:24, De Champlain Por (roughing, fighting), Pufahl Sktn (fighting) 6:34, Rattie Por (inter. on goaltender) 10:15, Baker Por (instigating, fighting, misconduct), Astles Sktn (fighting) 17:18. Second Period 1. Portland, Kopeck 1 (Bjorkstrand, Hanson) 1:22. 2. Portland, Kopeck 2 (Rattie, Wotherspoon) 1:47. 3. Portland, Bjorkstrand 4 (Jones, Wotherspoon) 12:22. 4. Portland, Jones 1 (Bjorkstrand) 17:32. Penalties - Astles Sktn (tripping) 10:34, Petan Por (interference) 11:50, Baker Por (unsportsmanlike conduct) 16:59, Stransky Sktn (cross-checking) 16:59. Third Period No Scoring Penalties - Pouliot Por (fighting), McColgan Sktn (fighting) 4:03, Leier Por, Kambeitz Sktn (roughing) 11:43, Sutter Sktn (cross-checking) 11:47. Shots on goal Portand 7 17 7 — 31 Saskatoon 10 15 1 — 26 Goal - Portland: Carruth (W, 1-0-0); Saskatoon: Makarov (L, 2-5-0). Power plays (goals-chances) - Portland: 0-3; Saskatoon: 0-5. Attendance — 4,439 at Saskatoon. AJHL North Division GP W L OTL Bonnyville 12 8 2 2 Sherwood Park 12 8 4 0 Whitecourt 11 7 3 1 Spruce Grove 12 7 4 1 Drayton Valley 13 6 5 2 Grand Prairie 11 6 4 1 Fort McMurray 12 4 7 1 Lloydminster 11 2 8 1 South Division GP W L OTL Brooks 9 9 0 0 Olds 13 7 5 1 Camrose 13 6 5 2 Cal. Mustangs 12 6 5 1 Canmore 10 4 3 3 Okotoks 11 5 5 1 Cal. Canucks 13 5 7 1 Drumheller 11 3 7 1

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Wednesday’s result Sherwood Park 4 Grande Prairie 0 Today’s game Okotoks at Camrose, 7:30 p.m. Friday’s games Drayton Valley at Bonnyville, 7 p.m. Drumheller at Brooks, 7 p.m. Calgary Mustangs at Calgary Canucks, 7 p.m. Lloydminster at Canmore Eagles, 7 p.m. Whitecourt at Sherwood Park, 7 p.m. Grande Prairie at Fort McMurray, 8 p.m.

Prince George 5 Kootenay 4 First Period 1. Prince George, Ehrhardt 1 (Siwak, Erricson), 1:10. 2. Prince George, Jacobs 7 6:29. 3. Kootenay, O’Connor 1 (Muth, Philp), 18:40 (PP). Penalties - Lishchynsky P.G., Montgomery Ktn

Montreal Toronto Hamilton Winnipeg

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West Division GP W L T x-B.C. 14 10 4 0 Calgary 14 8 6 0 Sask. 14 8 6 0 Edmonton 14 6 8 0 x — clinched playoff berth.

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Week 16 Friday’s game B.C. at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m. Saturday’s games Calgary at Winnipeg, 11 a.m. Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 2 p.m. Sunday’s game Montreal at Toronto, 11 a.m. Week 17 Friday, Oct. 19 Winnipeg at Toronto, 5 p.m. Edmonton at B.C., 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20 Montreal at Saskatchewan, 1:30 p.m. Hamilton at Calgary, 5 p.m. NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 3 2 0 .600 165 N.Y. Jets 2 3 0 .400 98 Miami 2 3 0 .400 103 Buffalo 2 3 0 .400 118

PA 113 132 103 176

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PA 73 110 138 181

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PA 89 129 89 139

San Diego Denver Oakland Kansas City

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PA 102 114 125 145

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 3 2 0 .600 80 N.Y. Giants 3 2 0 .600 152 Dallas 2 2 0 .500 65 Washington 2 3 0 .400 140

PA 99 111 88 147

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PA 93 91 125 154

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PA 79 71 111 114

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PA 78 68 94 70

Today, Oct. 11 Pittsburgh at Tennessee, 6:20 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14 Oakland at Atlanta, 11 a.m. Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m. Indianapolis at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 11 a.m. Detroit at Philadelphia, 11 a.m. St. Louis at Miami, 11 a.m. Dallas at Baltimore, 11 a.m. Buffalo at Arizona, 2:05 p.m. New England at Seattle, 2:05 p.m. N.Y. Giants at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m. Minnesota at Washington, 2:25 p.m. Green Bay at Houston, 6:20 p.m. Open: Carolina, Chicago, Jacksonville, New Orleans Monday, Oct. 15 Denver at San Diego, 6:30 p.m. NFL Odds

(Favourites in capital letters; odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery Corp.) Spread O/U Thursday PITTSBURGH at Tennessee 5.5 42.5 Sunday St. Louis at MIAMI 2.5 37.5 Dallas at BALTIMORE 3.5 44.5 Detroit at PHILADELPHIA 4.5 47.5 CINCINNATI at Cleveland 2.5 44.5 Indianapolis at NY JETS 3.5 42.5 Kansas City at TAMPA BAY 3.5 40.5 Oakland at ATLANTA 9.5 48.5 NEW ENGLAND at Seattle 4.5 44.5 Buffalo at ARIZONA 4.5 43.5 NY Giants at SAN FRANCISCO 5.5 44.5 Minnesota at Washington OFF OFF Green Bay at HOUSTON 4.5 48.5 Monday Denver at SAN DIEGO 1.5 50.5 NFL Injury Report NEW YORK — The updated National Football League injury report, as provided by the league: PITTSBURGH STEELERS at TENNESSEE TITANS — STEELERS: OUT: S Troy Polamalu (calf), LB LaMarr Woodley (hamstring). PROBABLE: LB James Harrison (knee), RB Rashard Mendenhall (knee), LB Stevenson Sylvester (knee). TITANS: OUT: QB Jake Locker (left shoulder), T Mike Otto (knee), RB Javon Ringer (knee). QUESTIONABLE: S Jordan Babineaux (knee), LB Patrick Bailey (hand), LB Colin McCarthy (ankle), DE Scott Solomon (hamstring). PROBABLE: WR Kenny Britt (ankle), CB Ryan Mouton (knee), CB Alterraun Verner (thigh). OAKLAND RAIDERS at ATLANTA FALCONS — RAIDERS: No Data Reported FALCONS: DNP: LB Stephen Nicholas (ankle), TE Michael Palmer (shoulder), RB Antone Smith (hamstring). LIMITED: DT Jonathan Babineaux (groin), WR Kevin Cone (knee), WR Drew Davis (knee), DT Peria Jerry (thigh), C Todd McClure (pectoral), S William Moore (hip), G Garrett Reynolds (back), CB Dunta Robinson (shoulder). KANSAS CITY CHIEFS at TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — CHIEFS: DNP: QB Matt Cassel (concussion), DE Glenn Dorsey (calf), RB Peyton Hillis (ankle), WR Devon Wylie (hamstring). LIMITED: WR Jon Baldwin (hamstring), RB Shaun Draughn (ankle), G Ryan Lilja (back). FULL: CB Jalil Brown (hamstring), S Kendrick Lewis (shoulder), DE Ropati Pitoitua (elbow). BUCCANEERS: LIMITED: CB Eric Wright (head, illness). FULL: G Carl Nicks (toe), T Jeremy Trueblood (illness). INDIANAPOLIS COLTS at NEW YORK JETS — COLTS: DNP: LB Pat Angerer (foot), RB Donald Brown (knee), CB Vontae Davis (ankle), LB Dwight Freeney (ankle), LB Robert Mathis (knee), DE Fili Moala (knee), G Joe Reitz (knee), NT Martin Tevaseu (ankle). FULL: RB Mewelde Moore (ankle), C Samson Satele (knee). JETS: OUT: CB Darrelle Revis (knee). DNP: RB John Conner (hamstring), DT Kenrick Ellis (knee), WR Clyde Gates (shoulder), S LaRon Landry (heel), C Nick Mangold (ankle), DT Sione Po’uha (back). LIMITED: CB Aaron Berry (ribs), WR Stephen Hill (hamstring), TE Dustin Keller (hamstring), LB Bart Scott (toe), LB Bryan Thomas (hamstring). FULL: LB Nick Bellore (shoulder), CB Antonio Cromartie (shoulder), TE Jeff Cumberland (ribs), T Austin Howard (back), WR Jeremy Kerley (finger), G Brandon Moore (hip), LB Calvin Pace (Achilles), QB Mark Sanchez (back), G Matt Slauson (knee), S Eric Smith (hip, knee). CINCINNATI BENGALS at CLEVELAND BROWNS — BENGALS: DNP: CB Terence Newman (groin). LIMITED: CB Jason Allen (quadriceps), WR A.J. Green (knee), CB Dre Kirkpatrick (knee), T Andrew Whitworth (knee). BROWNS: DNP: WR Travis Benjamin (hamstring), S Tashaun Gipson (knee), LB D’Qwell Jackson (head), WR Mohamed Massaquoi (hamstring), WR Jordan Norwood (foot), CB Dimitri Patterson (ankle), DT Ahtyba Rubin (calf). LIMITED: TE Alex Smith (head), S Ray Ventrone (hand, calf), S T.J. Ward (hand). FULL: DE Frostee Rucker (shoulder). DETROIT LIONS at PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — LIONS: DNP: DT Corey Williams (knee), WR Titus Young (knee). LIMITED: DE Cliff Avril (back), DT Sammie Hill (toe), TE Brandon Pettigrew (knee), S Amari Spievey (groin). FULL: LB Travis Lewis (quadriceps). EAGLES: FULL: S Colt Anderson (knee), WR Jason Avant (wrist), RB Bryce Brown (shoulder), WR Riley Cooper (collarbone), C Jon Dorenbos (ankle), T King Dunlap (hamstring), RB Stanley Havili (quadriceps), LB Akeem Jordan (hamstring), LB Mychal Kendricks (ankle), DT Derek Landri (knee), DE Darryl Tapp (foot). ST. LOUIS RAMS at MIAMI

New York 2, Baltimore 1 Sunday, Oct. 7: New York 7, Baltimore 2 Monday, Oct. 8: Baltimore 3, New York 2 Wednesday, Oct. 10: New York 3, Baltimore 2, 12 innings Thursday, Oct. 11: Baltimore (Saunders 9-13) at New York (Hughes 16-13), 5:37 p.m. (TBS) x-Friday, Oct. 12: Baltimore at New York, 3:07 or 5:07 p.m. (TBS) National League Cincinnati 2 San Francisco 2 Saturday, Oct. 6: Cincinnati 5, San Francisco 2 Sunday, Oct. 7: Cincinnati 9, San Francisco 0 Tuesday, Oct. 9: San Francisco 2, Cincinnati 1, 10 innings Wednesday, Oct. 10: San Francisco 8, Cincinnati 3 Thursday, Oct. 11: San Francisco (Cain 16-6) at Cincinnati (Latos 14-4), 11:07 a.m. (TBS) St. Louis 2, Washington 1 Sunday, Oct. 7: Washington 3, St. Louis 2 Monday, Oct. 8: St. Louis 12, Washington 4 Wednesday, Oct. 10: St. Louis 8, Washington 0 Thursday, Oct. 11: St. Louis (Lohse 16-3) at Washington (Detwiler 10-8), 2:07 p.m. (TBS)

x-Friday, Oct. 12: St. Louis at Washington, 6:37 p.m. (TBS) Wednesday’s Major League Linescores Baltimore 001 010 000 000 — 2 7 0 New York 001 000 001 001 — 3 7 0 (12 innings) Mig.Gonzalez, O’Day (8), Ji.Johnson (9), Matusz (11) and Wieters; Kuroda, Logan (9), R.Soriano (9), D.Robertson (11) and R.Martin. W—D.Robertson 1-0. L—Matusz 0-1. HRs—Baltimore, Flaherty (1), Machado (1). New York, Ibanez 2 (2). Detroit 001 100 010 — 3 10 1 Oakland 000 001 003 — 4 8 0 Scherzer, Dotel (6), Coke (6), Alburquerque (7), Benoit (8), Valverde (9) and Avila; Griffin, Blevins (6), Doolittle (8), R.Cook (8) and D.Norris. W—R. Cook 1-0. L—Valverde 0-1. HRs—Detroit, Fielder (1). St. Louis 130 001 120 — 8 14 1 Washington000 000 000 — 0 7 0 C.Carpenter, Rosenthal (6), Salas (8), J.Kelly (9) and Y.Molina; E.Jackson, Stammen (6), C.Garcia (7), Mattheus (8), Storen (9) and K.Suzuki. W—C. Carpenter 1-0. L—E.Jackson 0-1. HRs—St. Louis, Kozma (1). San Fran. 120 020 300 — 8 11 1 Cincinnati 101 001 000 — 3 9 0 Zito, Kontos (3), Mijares (4), Lincecum (4), S.Casilla (9) and H.Sanchez; Leake, LeCure (5), Arredondo (7), Hoover (7), Simon (9) and D.Navarro. W— Lincecum 1-0. L—Leake 0-1. HRs—San Francisco, Pagan (1), G.Blanco (1), Sandoval (1). Cincinnati, Ludwick (2).

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Assigned INF Ray Olmedo outright to Charlotte. Olmedo chose to become a minor-league free agent. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Named Doug Henry bullpen coach. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Reinstated RHP Jesse Litsch from the 60-day DL, who refused outright assignment and elected to become a free agent. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Deactivated RHP Johnny Cueto. Activated RHP Mike Leake. BASKETBALL CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Waived G Kevin Anderson and G/F Justin Holiday. PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Waived F/C Mikki Moore and G Xavier Silas. Chinese Basketball Association QINGDAO DOUBLESTAR EAGLES — Signed G Tracy McGrady. FOOTBALL CLEVELAND BROWNS — Released DL Marcus Benard from injured reserve. Released LB Benjamin Jacobs from the practice squad. Signed WR Rod Windsor to the practice squad. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed RB Cedric Benson on injured reserve. HOUSTON TEXANS — Released KR Trindon Holliday. Signed LB Barrett Rudd. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released CB Neiko Thorpe. Signed C Bryan Mattison.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed LB Josh Kaddu from the practice squad. Signed DE Louis Nzegwu to the practice squad. NEW YORK JETS — Placed LB Josh Mauga on injured reserve. Signed DL Daniel Muir. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed LB Mario Addison from the practice squad. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DB Vincent Agnew to the practice roster. HOCKEY CALGARY STAMPEDERS — Signed DE Anwar Stewart to the practice roster. HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Returned D Etienne Boutet to Rimouski (QMJHL) and D Kevin Gagne and F Stephen MacAulay to Saint John (QMJHL). Signed D Antoine Corbin to a one-year contract. SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Assigned F Mattias Lindstrom, F Anthony Luciani, F David Pacan, F Garrett Wilson, D Brian O’Hurley and G Brian Foster to Cincinnati (ECHL) and D Rasmus Bengtsson to Muskegon (USHL). Released F Francois Bouchard, D David MacDonald and D Andrew Hotham. ECHL UTAH GRIZZLIES — Signed G Andrew Engelage. LACROSSE COLORADO MAMMOTH — Signed F Colton Clark, T Jaeden Gastaldo and F Alex Demopoulos. OLYMPIC SPORTS USA LUGE — Named Tony Benshoof and Fred Zimny junior national team coaches.

Note: Two points for a win, one for an overtime loss.

Football CFL East Division W L T 8 6 0 7 7 0 5 9 0 4 10 0

Postseason Baseball DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) American League Detroit 2, Oakland 2 Saturday, Oct. 6: Detroit 3, Oakland 1 Sunday, Oct. 7: Detroit 5, Oakland 4 Tuesday, Oct. 9: Oakland 2, Detroit 0 Wednesday, Oct. 10: Oakland 4, Detroit 3 Thursday, Oct. 11: Detroit (Verlander 17-8) at Oakland (Parker 13-9), 7:37 p.m. (TNT)

DOLPHINS — RAMS: DNP: WR Danny Amendola (shoulder), LB Mario Haggan (thigh), RB Brit Miller (ankle), T Rodger Saffold (knee). LIMITED: DT Matthew Conrath (knee), DE William Hayes (back), DE Eugene Sims (head). FULL: S Matthew Daniels (thigh). DOLPHINS: DNP: CB Richard Marshall (back), RB Daniel Thomas (concussion). LIMITED: CB Nolan Carroll (Achilles). FULL: WR Brian Hartline (quadriceps), S Reshad Jones (back, heel). DALLAS COWBOYS at BALTIMORE RAVENS — COWBOYS: DNP: C Ryan Cook (hamstring), P Chris Jones (left knee), P Brian Moorman (right groin), LB Anthony Spencer (shoulder). FULL: LB Alex Albright (neck), WR Miles Austin (hamstring), DT Kenyon Coleman (knee), C Phil Costa (back), S Matt Johnson (hamstring), NT Jay Ratliff (ankle), DE Marcus Spears (knee). RAVENS: LIMITED: DT Haloti Ngata (shoulder). FULL: T Jah Reid (calf). BUFFALO BILLS at ARIZONA CARDINALS: No Data Reported NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS at SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — PATRIOTS: DNP: WR Julian Edelman (hand), S Steve Gregory (hip), TE Michael Hoomanawanui (concussion), LB Tracy White (foot). LIMITED: RB Brandon Bolden (knee), QB Tom Brady (right shoulder), DE Brandon Deaderick (ankle), DE Justin Francis (ankle), TE Rob Gronkowski (hip), TE Aaron Hernandez (ankle), LB Dont’a Hightower (hamstring), G Logan Mankins (calf, hip), G Nick McDonald (shoulder), S Sterling Moore (knee), RB Shane Vereen (foot), T Sebastian Vollmer (back, knee), WR Wes Welker (ankle). FULL: DT Kyle Love (knee). SEAHAWKS: OUT: G John Moffitt (knee). DNP: DT Jaye Howard (foot), DT Clinton McDonald (groin), C Max Unger (hip). LIMITED: RB Marshawn Lynch (back). NEW YORK GIANTS at SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — GIANTS: DNP: TE Martellus Bennett (knee), DT Rocky Bernard (quadriceps), LB Chase Blackburn (hip), RB Andre Brown (concussion), WR Hakeem Nicks (foot, knee), S Kenny Phillips (knee), CB Corey Webster (hand, hamstring). LIMITED: LB Michael Boley (hip), T David Diehl (knee). FULL: WR Ramses Barden (concussion), CB Jayron Hosley (hamstring), LB Keith Rivers (hamstring), S Antrel Rolle (knee). 49ERS: No Data Reported MINNESOTA VIKINGS at WASHINGTON REDSKINS — VIKINGS: DNP: RB Adrian Peterson (ankle), S Mistral Raymond (ankle), WR Jerome Simpson (lower back, foot), DT Kevin Williams (illness). LIMITED: G Charlie Johnson (low back), LB Marvin Mitchell (calf), S Andrew Sendejo (ankle), CB Antoine Winfield (knee). FULL: QB Christian Ponder (knee). REDSKINS: OUT: S Brandon Meriweather (knee). DNP: DE Doug Worthington (calf). LIMITED: QB Robert Griffin III (head), CB Cedric Griffin (hamstring). FULL: RB Evan Royster (knee). GREEN BAY PACKERS at HOUSTON TEXANS — PACKERS: DNP: TE Jermichael Finley (shoulder), S M.D. Jennings (groin), DT B.J. Raji (ankle), S Sean Richardson (hamstring). FULL: CB Davon House (shoulder). TEXANS: DNP: S Quintin Demps (thumb, forearm). LIMITED: CB Alan Ball (ankle), G Antoine Caldwell (ankle, foot), NT Shaun Cody (back), RB Arian Foster (knee), WR Lestar Jean (knee), WR Andre Johnson (groin), DE Antonio Smith (ankle), RB Ben Tate (toe). FULL: RB Justin Forsett (thigh), K Shayne Graham (right calf), S Shiloh Keo (neck), LB Jesse Nading (foot), G Wade Smith (foot). DENVER BRONCOS at SAN DIEGO CHARGERS: No Data Reported

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Ottawa return closer CFL THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The CFL moved closer to returning to the nation’s capital Wednesday after Ottawa City Council voted to proceed with plans to redevelop Lansdowne Park. The city voted 21-3 in favour of the plan to refurbish Frank Clair Stadium and add new retail and residential developments to the park. “Today’s positive City of Ottawa council vote means a beautiful new stadium and as early as 2014, a proud new franchise that will make its community proud and our league even stronger,” CFL commissioner Mark Cohon said in a statement.

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BRIEFS Wranglers down Stampeders Jared Kambeitz scored twice as the Blackfalds Wranglers downed the visiting Ponoka Stampeders 7-2 in Heritage Junior B Hockey League action Tuesday. Adding single goals for the winners were Jordan Freake, Taylor Mulder, Trent Hermary, Jared Guilbault and Jason Bell. Replying for the Stamps were Sean Emes and Cole Pritchard. Thomas Isaman stopped 24 shots for the win. Eli Falls was a workhorse in the Ponoka net, turning aside 65 shots. The Stampeders were assessed eight of 16 minor penal-

“This is a great day for our league and, for all of us who understand its important place in the culture of Canada.” The league said that as long as stadium construction remains on schedule, Ottawa will be eligible to select four underclassmen from the NCAA in the 2013 CFL Canadian draft, while an expansion draft will be held in December 2013. Ottawa will be eligible to have a representative join the league’s board of governors and fully participate in the CFL Canadian draft in 2014. The $300-million project has faced a series of legal challenges. The final hurdle was cleared Aug. 29, when the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled against the Lansdowne Park Conservancy, a group opposed to the redevelopment plans. ties and the lone major.

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Carpenter pitches gem in Cards’ win this year’s new format. But the Cardinals become a different bunch in the high-pressure playoffs — no matter that slugger Albert Pujols and manager Tony La Russa are no longer around. Carpenter still is, even though even he didn’t expect to be pitching this year when he encountered problems during spring training and needed an operation in July to correct a nerve problem. The top rib on his right side was removed, along with connecting muscles. He returned Sept. 21, going 0-2 in three starts totalling 17 innings, so it wasn’t clear how he’d fare Wednesday. Yeah, right. “I’m not going to go out there and compete,” Carpenter said. “If I’m not good enough to compete.” Carpenter allowed seven hits and walked two across his 5 2-3 innings to improve to 10-2 over his career in the post-season. That includes a 4-0 mark while helping another group of wild-card Cardinals take the title in the 2011 World Series, when he won Game 7 against Texas. With the exception of Ian Desmond — 3 for 4 on Wednesday, 7 for 12 in the series — the Nationals’ hitters are struggling mightily. They’ve scored a total of seven runs in the playoffs and went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base in Game 3. Rookie phenom Bryce Harper’s woes, in particular, stand out: He went 0 for 5, dropping to 1 for 15. He went to the plate with an ash bat and no gloves in the first inning, tried wearing antiglare tinted contact lenses on a sunsplashed afternoon — nothing helped. “Carp’s been a dominant pitcher his whole career. Big-game pitcher. He showed up,” Washington’s Jayson Werth said. “He pitched well today. We had him in some spots. We had him on the ropes a couple of times. We were just one bloop away from a totally dif-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cardinals 8 Nationals 0 WASHINGTON — Chris Carpenter was every bit the post-season ace he’s been in the past for the St. Louis Cardinals. Taking the mound for only the fourth time in 2012, missing a rib after surgery to cure numbness on his right side, the 37-year-old Carpenter pitched scoreless ball into the sixth inning, rookie Pete Kozma delivered a threerun homer, and the defending champion Cardinals beat the Washington Nationals 8-0 Wednesday to take a 2-1 lead in their NL division series. “If the baseball world doesn’t know what an amazing competitor he is by now, they haven’t been paying any attention,” Carpenter’s teammate Matt Holliday said. “Every guy on this team has watched him work his way back, watches him in between starts. He’s a stud. Just a guy that you want out there.” All in all, it was quite a damper on the day for a Nationals Park-record 45,017 red-wearing, towel-twirling fans witnessing the first major league postseason game in the nation’s capital in 79 years. Three relievers finished the shutout for the Cardinals, who can end the best-of-five series in Thursday’s Game 4 at Washington. “We’re not out of this, by a long shot,” Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. “Shoot, I’ve had my back to worse walls than this.” Kyle Lohse will start for St. Louis. Ross Detwiler pitches for Washington, which is sticking to its long-stated plan of keeping Stephen Strasburg on the sideline the rest of the way. The Cardinals won 10 fewer games than the majors-best Nationals this season and finished second in the NL Central, nine games behind Cincinnati, sneaking into the post-season as the league’s second wild-card under

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St. Louis Cardinals’ Carlos Beltran slides into home plate past Washington Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki for a run on a single by Matt Holliday in the eighth inning of Game 3 of the National League division baseball series on Wednesday, in Washington. ferent ballgame.” Carpenter was pretty good with a bat in his hands, too, collecting a pair of hits, including a double off the wall that was about a foot or two away from being a homer. When he reached second base, he raised his right fist. Similarly, neither club could be sure which Edwin Jackson would show up for NL East champion Washington, a year after he was part of the Cardinals’ championship team: The one who struck out 10 and allowed one unearned run in eight innings against St. Louis on Aug. 30, or the one who lasted only 1 1-3 innings in a loss to the Cardinals on Sept. 28. Much closer to the second version,

it turned out, although he did recover from a rough start to retire eight of his last 10 batters Wednesday. Still, Jackson was done after five innings and four runs. “I didn’t feel like I was out of rhythm. I didn’t feel like I couldn’t throw strikes. I just missed across the plate with a couple of balls and it cost me,” Jackson said. The Cardinals tacked on four runs off relievers Craig Stammen, Christian Garcia and Ryan Mattheus. Not since the original Senators lost to the New York Giants in the 1933 World Series had big league baseball stretched past the regular season in Washington.

A’s get comeback win to stay alive in series SCORE THREE IN BOTTOM OF NINTH FOR COME-FROM-BEHIND WIN BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Athletics 4 Tigers 3 OAKLAND, Calif. — Seth Smith, Coco Crisp and the never-say-die Oakland Athletics forced a Game 5 of their AL division series against the Detroit Tigers with their most memorable comeback yet. Smith hit a game-tying two-run double off closer Jose Valverde in the ninth inning and Coco Crisp capped Oakland’s most dramatic comeback yet with a two-out RBI single as the A’s staved off elimination for a second straight night with a 4-3 victory in Game 4 Wednesday night. The A’s rode 14 walkoff wins in the regular season to an improbable AL West title. Those paled in comparison to No. 15, which set up a win-or-go-home Game 5 against Justin Verlander and the Tigers. Josh Reddick started the rally with a single just under the glove of diving second baseman Omar Infante. Josh Donaldson followed with a double off the wall in left-centre and both runners scored on Smith’s double. Two outs later, Crisp lined a single and Smith scored easily when right fielder Avisail Garcia couldn’t handle the ball. That set off a raucous celebration near first base

as the A’s poured out of the dugout to mob Crisp, who was the recipient of a whipped cream pie that became a regularity in this remarkable season in Oakland. This marked the second time the A’s erased a two-run deficit in the ninth inning to win a postseason game, the other coming in Game 5 of the 1929 World Series. The A’s, who have the lowest payroll in baseball, need just one more surprising result to win their second post-season series since 1990. Rookie Jarrod Parker will take the mound in Game 5 on Thursday night against Verlander, the reigning AL Cy Young winner and MVP. The Tigers looked to be in prime position to advance to their second straight ALCS and have a rested Verlander for Game 1 when they took a 3-1 lead into the ninth behind a strong start from Max Scherzer and a homer from Prince Fielder. Now the A’s are one win away from repeating last week’s three-game sweep of Texas that gave them the AL West title on the final day of the regular season. After losing the first two games in Detroit, the A’s won 2-0 in Game 3 and are looking to become the eighth team to rally from two games down to win a best-of-five series. Scherzer, who was dealing with shoulder, deltoid

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Posey said. “When you’re down 0-2 you see what you’re made of. We’re not done.” It wasn’t all about the offence. San Francisco’s overlooked Cy Young winner played a starring role, too. Lincecum was relegated to the bullpen for the playoff series because of his dreary season — 15 losses, 17 wild pitches. He entered in the fourth inning, pitched out of a threat that kept the Giants up 3-2, and kept going. The right-hander struck out six while allowing just one run in 4 1-3 innings. “I knew he would play a huge role in this,” manager Bruce Bochy said. “And I know of other situations where starters have been in the ’pen and really done a great job to help their team.”

Rodriguez has 647 career home runs — he’s chasing the all-time record of 762 by Barry Bonds — and is making $29 million this year. But was just 1 for 12 with no RBIs and seven strikeouts in this series when Girardi pulled him. “It kind of caught me off-guard, hitting for a guy who’s half-a-billionaire,” Orioles centre fielder Adam Jones said. It was the first time Rodriguez had ever been pinch-hit for in a post-season game, according to STATS LLC. And it worked. Rodriguez immediately turned to injured Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, raised one arm, then both arms and traded high-fives with his star teammate. When Ibanez returned to the bench, Rodriguez was the first player to greet him. “He said great job. A-Rod is a great teammate and great team player,” Ibanez said. “He’s the first one on the top step congratulating you. It’s about winning. It’s about the Yankees and continuing.” Ibanez remained in the game and connected on the first pitch from Brian Matusz in the 12th. Ibanez became the first player to

homer twice in a post-season game in which he didn’t start, STATS said. Phil Hughes will try to clinch it for the Yankees on Thursday night in Game 4. Joe Saunders will start for Baltimore. Baltimore had won 16 straight extrainning games, and had been 76-0 when leading after seven, before the Yankees stung them. “It was a great experience. We do it as a team. We stay after it,” Ibanez said.

LTCHS: Raiders way “He certainly helps and both players have responded well,” said DeZutter, who, along with Young, added Archer to the staff this season. “When we had success we did it the Raiders way and that’s something we want to instill in all our players and somehting Kate will help with. We feel that’s an important part of our team.” DeZutter can see the potential, but also sees some areas that need work on. “But they’re things we can fix,” she said Both LTCHS squads will compete in the Super South tournament in Lethbridge this weekend, then host their own tournament, Oct. 19-20. drode@reddeeradvocate.coms

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Giants 8 Reds 3 CINCINNATI, Ohio — Angel Pagan connects on the second pitch of the game. A Giants team that finished last in homers goes on to hit three. Tim Lincecum pitches like a two-time Cy Young winner — this time, out of the bullpen. So many unusual things moved San Francisco to the verge of an unprecedented comeback. Pagan hit the first leadoff homer in Giants post-season history, and Gregor Blanco and Pablo Sandoval connected later for an 8-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday that evened their NL division series at 2-all. No team has recovered from a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-five series by winning three on the road, according to STATS LLC. This one can do it with a victory on Thursday at Great American Ball Park. “Thanks to the win today, there will be a tomorrow,” Pagan said. “And we are ready for that.” Matt Cain, who lost the series opener and has yet to beat the Reds in three tries this season, will start Game 5 against Mat Latos. Facing elimination, the Giants’ slumping hitters came out swinging and extended Cincinnati’s playoff misery. The Reds haven’t won a postseason game at home in

17 years. One thing in the Reds’ favour — they haven’t dropped three straight at home all season. “I’d like to think that we still have the advantage,” Reds outfielder Jay Bruce said. “We’re at home. I expect Mat to come up with a big game. I’m looking forward to it.” So are the Giants, who were down after losing the first two games at home while getting outscored 14-2. They were barely able to get a hit, let alone a win. The pressure pulled them closer. Hunter Pence gathered them for inspirational speeches before the two games in Cincinnati, challenging them to play like champions. “We feel good,” NL batting champion Buster

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and ankle injuries late in the season, looked in top form against the A’s. He allowed just one baserunner in the first four innings and struck out seven of the first 15 batters before running into his first trouble in the fifth. Smith worked a two-out walk and went to third on Derek Norris’ opposite-field blooper down the rightfield line. But Scherzer responded by getting Cliff Pennington to chase an offspeed pitch in the dirt for his eighth strikeout. The A’s finally got to Scherzer for an unearned run in the sixth. Crisp reached when Fielder misplayed a hard grounder to first base into a two-base error. Crisp advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Stephen Drew’s double to right-centre. But the A’s ran themselves out of a potential big inning when third-base coach Mike Gallego waved Drew around to third, where he was easily caught on the relay for the first out. Octavio Dotel and Phil Coke both retired a batter to get out of the sixth and Al Alburquerque pitched a perfect seventh in his first appearance since his memorable kiss of the baseball on a comebacker by Yoenis Cespedes in Game 2. Joaquin Benoit escaped a first-and-second jam in the eighth by striking out Brandon Moss, but Valverde couldn’t close it.

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MP backed fetus motion FIRE SAFETY LESSON Some area school children will get a fire safety lesson courtesy of a Juno award nominee. Mary Lambert brings her Sing Out Fire Safety show to John Wilson Elementary School in Innisfail on Friday. The Calmarbased performer teaches kindergarten to Grades 3 students about the importance of fire prevention and safety through music, dance, drama, costumes and fun. The show includes an interactive component. Lambert will perform at other area schools including Poplar Ridge Elementary; River Glen School; and Bowden, Elnora, Spruce View and Delburne schools. Sponsors include the Innisfail Fire Department, Red Deer County Fire Services and Chinook’s Edge School Division. The events mark Fire Prevention Week, which runs from Oct. 7 to 13.

SAYS CONSTITUENTS SUPPORTED HIS DECISION TO VOTE YES TO A CONTROVERSIAL MOTION TO EXAMINE WHETHER A FETUS IS A HUMAN BEING BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen says his constituents supported his decision to vote yes to a controversial motion to examine whether a fetus is a human being before birth. Three of Central Alberta’s four Conservative MPs said voted yes to the motion. Dreeshen, Wetaskiwin MP Blaine Calkins and Crowfoot MP Kevin Sorenson voted in favour of Motion 312 on Sept. 26, while Wild Rose Conservative MP Blake Richards voted against it. Put forward by Ontario Conservative backbencher Stephen Woodworth, the motion called for a parliamentary committee to examine the definition of a human being and was supported by 87 of the 163 Conservative MPs. The motion, considered by many to be a back door to reopen the abortion debate, was defeated 203 to 91 in the House of Commons. Dreeshen, who would not discuss his personal views on abortion, said his con-

stituents were in favour of the motion three to one, judging by cards and emails he received. “There was a considerable amount of support for the motion. I felt it was my responsibility to follow their wishes,” Dreeshen said. He said he didn’t consider it an antiabortion motion, but rather a way to look at all aspects of a 400-year-old definition of what constitutes a human being. “Our party has said it won’t be introducing anything dealing with the abortion debate,” Dreeshen said. Sorenson said support for the motion in a mail survey of his constituents during the summer was also clear. “Overwhelmingly, my constituents asked that I would support Motion 312,” Sorenson said. “There was a group who felt that it was a discussion to be had. “When does (life) begin? That’s the question.” He said a lot of constituents supported the motion, but at the same time a lot of people did not reply to the survey. Earlier this year, Woodworth acknowl-

edged his motion was relevant to the abortion issue, but argued it had wider implications. Sorenson said the motion wasn’t about abortion and he wouldn’t discuss his opinion on abortion. “I will not comment because that’s exactly what a lot of people want to do, make every discussion an abortion issue.” But focus should be on the growing problem of people terminating pregnancies in favour of male children, he said. “Do we ever have that discussion or do we say it’s fine to terminate based on gender?” British Columbia Conservative MP Mark Warawa has since introduced a motion to condemn discrimination against females occurring through sex-selective pregnancy termination. Richards was unavailable to comment on Motion 312. An official for Wetaskiwin’s Calkins said the MP will not comment on the motion to the media. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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OPTOMETRIST TO DONATE A Red Deer optometrist will mark World Sight Day today by donating portions of eye exam fees to helping give the gift of sight. Dr. Jason Holtom of The Eye Studio will give about $600 to Optometry Giving Sight, an international effort to eliminate avoidable blindness. The World Sight Day Challenge is a major fundraiser for the program. Appointments can still be made and donations dropped off at his office at #510, 3020 22nd St. or by calling (403) 352-8846. More information is available online at www.givingsight.org.

UNITED WAY CHALLENGE RAISES OVER $10,000 The United Way Meinema Cup Challenge raised over $10,000 for the United Way of Central Alberta’s 2012 campaign. The organization’s first ever street hockey tournament, held Sept. 28 at Parkland Mall, attracted 10 teams that had to raise a minimum of $300 per team to compete. United Way of Central Alberta has set a $1.99-million goal for its 2012 campaign to help fund community agencies that assist Central Albertans. Last year, 107,000 people in Central Alberta were helped by programs and services supported by United Way.

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Friends of the Red Deer Public Library volunteer Colin McLeod sorts through some of the thousands of books and magazines available for purchase at the Red Deer Library starting today. (Thursday) The Annual Used Book Sale in support of the library opens Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. for Friends of the Library members and for the public Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Friends of the RDPL memberships will be available for sale at the event all three days for $15 single and $20 for a family membership. For more information contact Lesley Caddy at 403-346-5721. from long periods of warm weather if there are nutrients in the water from agricultural activities like fertilizer and animal waste, or human waste from cottage activity.

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Algae advisories for lakes lifted Alberta Health Services lifted blue-green algae advisories for Pine Lake and Pigeon Lake on Wednesday. AHS originally issued an advisory for Pigeon Lake on July 27 and for Pine Lake on Aug. 21. Blue-green algae produce a toxin that can cause serious illness to animals or humans who drink or have skin contact with water containing this toxin. Boiling water does not eliminate the toxins. Advisory signage posted around the lakes has been removed. Blue-green algae can develop

Six top-selling, well-respected professionals will lead a monthlong speakers series at Olds College. Ian Henderson, integrated solutions manager for the agricultural division of Cervus Equipment Corp., will talk on “closing the sale” on Friday from noon to 1 p.m. The Learning from Successful Sales Professionals series runs from Friday until Nov. 23 in the Duncan Marshall Place Lecture Hall (main administration building) on the Olds College campus. The talks are open to the public and are free. For more information, check out the business section at www.oldscollege.ca.

Well rules obeyed BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer has long complied with incoming provincial rules on residential developments around abandoned oil and gas wells. Starting on Nov. 1, the province requires municipalities and developers to ensure inactive wells are checked for and any construction has a minimum setback of five metres from any well. Since 1996, the province only encouraged such standards. Angus Schaffenburg, the city’s major projects planner, said identifying such sites is a routine part of

neighbourhood planning. “We’d identify that at the stage when the area structure plan is being prepared.” There’s no chance homes would be built on top of such sites. “We certainly don’t want anything on top of them and that’s what the legislation mandates.” The new regulations also apply to development permits for new buildings larger than 500 square feet or additions that would make a building larger than 500 square feet. rfiedler@reddeeradvocate. com

Robbery suspect caught A 51-year-old man charged in two armed robberies at local Servus Credit Union branches is also alleged to be responsible for other robberies in Alberta. Branches of the credit union were robbed on July 9 and Oct. 4. P h i l i p Glen Noel is charged with two counts Philip Glen Noel of robbery, two counts of committing an offence while

masked, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public, possession of property obtained by crime and four counts of breach of a recognizance. Noel has been remanded in custody. His first appearance in Red Deer provincial court is set for Oct. 22. Police are asking for the public’s assistance to identify the businesses where Noel has been purchasing his disguises. RCMP are not disclosing the locations of the credit union branches that Noel is charged with robbing. Anyone with information on where he purchased clothing or other accessories should con-

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Disguised suspect in robberies recorded on security cameras. tact Const. Ian Ihme with the RCMP’s serious crime unit at 403-406-2436.

RCMP are circulating photographs of a man in several disguises.

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BRIEFS Moose member awarded highest honour A city 50-year Loyal Order of Moose member has received the organization’s highest honour. Les Peters of Red Deer Lodge No. 1369 was awarded the Pilgrim Degree of Merit at a ceremony earlier this year at the fraternal organization’s headquarters in Mooseheart, Ill. The order beLes Peters stows the award for exceptional community and lodge service above the call of duty. Peters, the fifth Red Deerian to be so recognized, has held all of his lodge’s positions of responsibility, many numerous times. He’s also served often at the district and provincial level. He was instrumental in setting up Moose Cottage, a kitchen-like tea room at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre that has provided respite for patients and families for almost 20 years. Other projects he’s had a hand in include the lodge’s support of a girls soccer team and oldtimer hockey club, its three-times monthly bingos and its fundraising casinos. “I’m really humbled by this,” said the 80-year-old, who’ll receive the Pilgrim’s coveted gold blazer at a local ceremony on Oct. 27 at the group’s Gasoline Alley East building. The Loyal Order of Moose is a service organization founded in 1888 with nearly 800,000 men in about 1,800 lodges in four Canadian provinces, all American states plus Great Britain and Bermuda. Members are dedicated to caring for seniors and children.

Snowbirds to fly at Sylvan in 2013? The Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds may buzz Sylvan Lake next summer as part of centennial celebrations. Town council agreed on Tuesday to write a letter of support for a Snowbirds flyby on July 17. Permission was also granted to the famous aerobatic team to take their trusty Tutor jets down as low as 150 metres above the lake. Council support was necessary to get the flyby on to the Snowbirds’ schedule, which is booked two years in advance and already 98 per cent full for next year, says a staff report to council. July 17 was the only date left available for the flyby. The request must still be approved by the Snowbirds.

Four honoured for community safety Four Central Albertans have been honoured by Safe Communities Central Alberta for making the community safer. Ambassador for Safety Awards have been given to Ken Williamson of the Optimist Club of Red Deer, officer Bob Dixon of Red Deer County Patrol, officer Randy Smith of the city’s municipal enforcement and Suzanne Jubb of the city’s Better Biking Red Deer. The quartet were chosen for voluntary or work contributions in the areas of education, encouragement and enforcement and for having enhanced and improved injury prevention. The awards were presented at a recent ceremony at Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School.

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West Park Lodge licensed practical nurse Wanda Fitzer smiles as Alberta Health Services public health nurse Sharon Dayman administers an influenza vaccine at the lodge on Tuesday. Through this week and last, Alberta public health nurses have been travelling to seniors lodges in Central Alberta and to health-care facilities to vaccinate residents and caregivers. On Monday, Alberta Health Services will begin offering the vaccine at public clinics throughout the province. For a full listing of clinics, go to www.albertahealthservices.ca or contact HEALTHLink Alberta at 1-866-408-5465

Grand opening for Innisfail fire hall The public can get a look at Innisfail’s new fire hall during a grand opening celebration on Saturday. Construction on the fire hall began in October 2011 and was completed this summer. The fire hall, at 4949 49th St., was built on the site of the former Mary Morton Library, which was renovated and expanded as part of a $1.8-million project to create bays for fire equipment, a hose-drying tower, change rooms and office space. Celebrations begin at 9 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon. There will be barbecue, and highangle rescue and vehicle-extrication demonstrations. Sparky the Fire Dog will be on hand and there will door prizes and activities for the children. Festivities wrap up about 3 p.m.

Commentator Chantal Hébert to speak at RDC National political commentator Chantal Hébert comes to Red Deer on Oct. 25 as part of Red Deer College’s Perspectives: Canada in the World speaker series. Hébert is a Toronto Star national affairs writer syndicated to the Advocate as well as a Le Devoir and L’Actualité guest columnist. She’s also an At Issue panelist on CBC-TV’s The National. She’s covered Ontario politics, national news and politics for Radio-Canada and was Parliament Hill bureau chief for Le Devoir and La Presse. Her presentation Canada: What’s Next? goes at 7:30 p.m. in the college’s Arts Centre Main Stage. Tickets are $39.20 for the public, and $29.20 for college students and staff. They’re available through the Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre in person, by phone at 403-755-6626 or toll free 1-800661-8793 or online at www.bkticketcentre.ca.

The decade-old Perspectives lecture series by the RDC Humanities and Social Sciences Department features internationally recognized speakers on topics important to the community, country and world. Past speakers include Gary Doer, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., international affairs journalist Gwynne Dyer, Inuit speaker and singer Susan Aglukark and kidnapped journalist Amanda Lindhout, the founder and director of the Somali Women’s Scholarship Program.

leadership to the foundation in supporting donors, fund recipients and many projects. The board also said her strong organizational and administrative skills enabled the foundation to connect with donors on a regular basis, ensuring their ongoing confidence in the management of funds entrusted to the foundation. The board will meet in the next week to develop plans for the operation of the foundation during the transition period and in going forward.

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Murder accused to return to court A Saddle Lake Cree man charged in an August murder returns to Wetaskiwin provincial court on Nov. 6. Members of the Hobbema and Wetaskiwin RCMP were called to investigate a fight between two men near the Summer Village of Ma-Me-O Beach at about 11 p.m. on Aug. 30. Officers found Perry Johnson, 17, suffering from life-threatening injuries. Emergency crews transported the youth to hospital, where he died of his wounds the following day. Chris Norbert, 22, is charged with second-degree murder.

Foundation CEO decides to step down After almost a year as the chief executive officer of the Red Deer and District Community Foundation, Michelle Sluchinski has decided to step down. Hired in 2011 as the CEO of the foundation, the Community Foundation Board regretfully accepted her resignation effective Nov. 1. The foundation attracts and manages gifts of cash, bequests, memorials, life insurance and other assets and then invests these funds and uses the earnings to make creative grants to area non-profit organizations, supporting all types of charitable activities. The board said in a release that Sluchinski has provided outstanding

The Town of Sundre is holding a byelection to fill a council spot. First-term Coun. Michael Baird decided to step down because of course load demands for a SAIT program he is taking. Council voted last week to fill his spot on council by holding a byelection on Nov. 21. Nominations will close on Oct. 24. Council had the option of not filling the seat because the next municipal election will be held within 18 months. Sundre has a seven-person council headed by Mayor Annettee Clews.

Park washrooms closed for season With the prospect of winter looming, running water facilities in Red Deer’s Waskasoo Park have been shut down. Effective immediately, all Waskasoo Park washrooms with running water are closed for the season. This includes washrooms at Rotary Park, Kin Canyon, Plaza Park and Kiwanis Picnic Park. These washrooms will remain closed until next spring, when temperatures rise above freezing. Washroom facilities without running water, such as outhouses, will remain open during the winter months throughout Waskasoo Park. There are outhouses located throughout the system, including the McKenzie Trails, Lower Heritage Ranch and Great West Adventure Park.

Ottawa rolls out funding for small business to hire people with disabilities BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The federal government is rolling out a new phase in its program to encourage the hiring of people with disabilities. Human Resources Minister Diane Finley was in Calgary Wednesday to announce a call for proposals that will see $30 million spent over the next three years. The money is expected to create 1,600 jobs at small and medium-sized businesses, providing employment to people who have had a tough time cracking the labour market. “Through discussions with employers from across the country, it is clear that skills shortages are top of mind,” Finley said in a news release. “In order to support Canada’s continued economic growth, we must ensure that everyone who wants to work has the opportunity to do so, including under-represented groups such as people with disabilities.” A recent Bank of Montreal survey says more than half of small businesses in Canada have never hired a person with a disability. The $30 million in funding was first announced in the 2012 budget, adding three years of life to the Opportunities Fund program that has been around since 1997. The money will go to projects designed to give people with disabilities a range of skills and work experience. The employment rate for working-age people with disabilities is about 53.5 per cent — significantly lower than the 75.1 per cent rate for workers without disabilities, according to the federal government’s 2010 annual report on disabilities.

Classic Vegas Show On Tour in Alberta… Frankie, Sammy and Dean, the Las Vegas “Rat Pack” production on tour in Alberta is a satisfying trip back in time. Whenever and wherever you were at your most romantic, most silly, most relaxed and optimistic, these three gifted actor/singer/comedians who are also credible impersonators of their respective legends... will take you there, in 90 entertaining minutes. In one of their classic routines, Sammy is presented to Frank as an award statuette from the NAACP which oddly morphes into Sammy being a Barack Obama doll. Very funny, to those who aren’t offended to their core. But the original Rat Pack, was all about testing the limits of what constituted mainstream entertainment. Throughout it all, they remained just outside the radar of understanding... the most distant stars in the firmament. Dean Martin’s biographer (Nick Tosches) once noted, these guys are what the Italians call a menefreghista... “one who simply doesn’t give a f---.”

By night’s end, when Gary Anthony sings “My Way” with a studied balance of originality, imitation and homage, the show approaches a spiritual experience as the show’s musical director, Lon Bronson, together with the cast and talented “Sin City Orchestra,” seem to embrace the music with an almost religious zeal. Andy DiMino as Dean Martin provides most of the comedy in the show and Lambus Dean gives us a glimpse of Sammy Davis Jr.’s incomparable grace. And, all the guys can really sing… every song, even those that post-date the Rat Pack period… are tunes we’re delighted to hear. The show builds momentum naturally, as each singer delivers a solo set; often interrupted, hilariously by another; sometimes they’ll do duets together; and sometimes all three friends will harmonize together... around a well-stocked bar cart of course. Catch this show, kids. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore.

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Open for oil business ONTARIO TO INCREASE ATTENTION TO ALBERTA TO MAXIMIZE BUSINESS BYTHE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The province of Ontario has gone from criticizing the oilsands to increasing its efforts to capture their economic benefits. Brad Duguid, Ontario’s minister for economic development, says he plans to increase his department’s attention to Alberta by adding more staff to deal with trade issues. “I think we have a recognition that our relationship could be stronger. I think that we want to now move forward with the knowledge that the oilsands are important to Ontario’s economy,” Duguid told The Canadian Press on Wednesday. He said he understands the value of the oilsands to Ontario business and estimated

that value at $63 billion over the next 25 years. “It may be a time for Ontario to increase our presence in the province of Alberta in terms of our business supports here,” he said from Calgary. “We may want to look at having some more presence here in terms of staffing.” The Ontario government doesn’t currently have an office in Alberta. A bureaucrat at the Ontario legislature spends part of his time dealing with Alberta files. “The intent is move that to a full-time contact so that we’ve got more of a personal contact here — a good liaison between the business community in Ontario and Alberta.” A spokeswoman for Duguid’s office later clarified the Ontario government is looking at many ways to boost its profile in Alberta,

which may or may not include opening an actual office in the province. Duguid said it’s time to help businesses in his province that are looking for oilpatch opportunities and Alberta companies that are looking for skilled labour. “There’s a recognition that that’s important to Ontario’s economy and it makes sense to look at ways we can work closer together, both in providing opportunities for our respective businesses and at the same to work together as governments,” Duguid said. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said earlier this year that the booming energy sector was driving up the Canadian dollar and hurting the manufacturing and export sectors in Central Canada. Duguid said his government wants to move past that debate.

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S&P downgrades Spain’s credit rating NEW YORK — Standard & Poor’s downgraded its rating on Spain’s debt Wednesday by two notches, leaving it on the cusp of junk status. A grinding recession, high unemployment and social unrest are limiting the government’s options for stemming the country’s financial crisis, S&P said. The credit-rating agency now rates debt issued by Spain BBB-, its lowest investmentgrade status. It had been BBB+. S&P also assigned a negative outlook to the rating, saying it could be further downgraded if Spain’s economic conditions erode further. “Overall, against the backdrop of a deepening economic recession, we believe that the government’s resolve will be repeatedly tested by domestic constituencies that are being adversely affected by its policies,” S&P said. Investors are worried that Spanish banks could collapse under the weight of an imploding real-estate market.

Fed: U.S. economy expands WASHINGTON — Stronger housing markets helped boost economic growth at the end of the summer in nearly every region of the United States, according to a Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday. The Fed said growth improved in 10 of its 12 regional banking districts from midAugust through September, while levelling off in one region and slowing in another. Rising home sales helped lift home prices in most districts. The report, known formally as the Beige Book, also cited an increase in auto sales in most parts of the country. Consumer spending was flat or up only slightly. — The Associated Press

Enbridge grilled on leak technology BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — The ability to detect leaks along the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline won’t be known until the pipeline is built and pumping oil through the remote wilderness of northern British Columbia, a lawyer for the province noted at a hearing deciding the pipeline’s fate. Chris Jones grilled a panel of company experts on the design of the 1,100-kilometre pipeline that would deliver oil from the Alberta oilsands to a tanker port on the B.C. coast. “So is what you’re telling me that the actual sensitivity of a pipeline — perhaps this pipeline, along with other ones — can only be determined when it’s actually been constructed and you’re able to test that actual pipeline in operation?” Jones asked on the second day of environmental assessment hearings in Prince George, B.C. “We have a quite an operating history.... It’s not an issue of trust us, wait ’til construction,” answered Barry Callele, director of pipeline control systems and leak detection for Enbridge Pipelines Inc. Testing is and has been under way, Callele said, and test results show the esti-

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Member of the Enbridge panel Barry Callele, left, answers questions at the Joint Review Panel looking into the Northern Gateway Pipeline in Prince George, B.C. Wednesday. mates provided in the project proposal are conservative. “But I guess the answer to my question is still: We don’t know until it’s been built. Isn’t that right?” Jones asked. “I think we know what we know today. We’ll know more at every phase along the pipeline construction project and we’ll know emphatically or empirically at the time that fluid withdrawal tests are done at different sections of the pipeline.” Callele said there would be five overlapping leak detection systems on the twin pipelines that would carry diluted bitumen to the tanker port in Kitimat, B.C., and condensate from Kitimat back to Bruderheim, Alta., including aerial surveillance, foot patrols, and 132 monitored pressure valves along the route.

“We will have one of the best instrumented pipeline systems not only in North America, but probably the world,” Callele told the panel. Jones pointed out that according to U.S. data, there were 31 leaks from Enbridge pipelines in that country since 2002, and six of the 10 largest spills by volume in that time were from Enbridge pipelines. Of those six, none were detected by Enbridge leak detection systems, Jones said. B.C. Environment Minister Terry Lake issued a statement late Wednesday saying the government is “extremely concerned” about the answers heard at the hearings.

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Cement association More Canadians offers concrete living debt free, alternative for roads save mortgages BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The hum of tires on cement is music to Michael McSweeney’s ears. And the president and CEO of the Cement Association of Canada was in Red Deer on Wednesday to promote that sound. McSweeney is in the midst of a nearly year-long campaign to encourage the use of cement across Canada. On Tuesday, he met with municipal officials from Edmonton, St. Albert and Strathcona County, and after chatting with Red Deer councillors and administration, he was heading north to Fort McMurray. Next week, he’s slated to visit Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. “Our target audience is municipal officials, architects and engineers,” said McSweeney, describing his pitch as one that touches on the economic and environmental advantages of concrete over other building materials. At first glance, he acknowledged, concrete may seem a more costly option to alternatives like asphalt. But concrete roads last much longer — up to 35 to 50 years — and require less maintenance work, he pointed out. “I’m trying to advocate that municipal councillors should be looking at what’s called life-cycle assessment when they do capital projects.” McSweeney added that concrete

typically uses more local inputs: labour, sand and aggregate, with a pair of Alberta plants producing cement. This means reduced transportation requirements and fewer greenhouse gases. Vehicles travelling on concrete roads also experience less friction than they do on asphalt, he continued. “You can save about three per cent in fuel costs, on trucks.” And because concrete roads are light-coloured, they reflect more light, he said. “You require 22 per cent less lighting on concrete pavement than you do on asphalt pavement.” McSweeney is also pitching concrete as a desirable material for municipal buildings, from sports arenas to libraries. That’s because its insulating factor is about eight per cent better than is the case for wood frame construction, which reduces energy costs and greenhouse gases. Concrete buildings also last longer, he said. McSweeney, who is a former Ottawa city councillor, thinks the Cement Association of Canada’s message is getting out. “It’s becoming more and more common,” he said of concrete. “If you look at the United States, I think 60 per cent of the U.S. highways are concrete. Winnipeg uses concrete in the majority of their roads. In Ontario, the 400-series of highways is done in concrete.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

BUT POLL FINDS THAT ON AVERAGE CANADIANS ARE CARRYING $13,141 IN NON-MORTGAGE DEBT, UP FROM 2011 BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A new poll suggests more Canadians are living debt free this year compared to 2011. The annual RBC survey found that 26 per cent of respondents had no personal debt — excluding mortgage debt — in 2012, up from 22 per cent last year. However, the poll found that on average Canadians are carrying $13,141 in nonmortgage debt, up $84 from last year. Ontario residents were carrying the heaviest load at $15,361 while Quebecers had the least at $10,171. Some 40 per cent of those polled said they were comfortable with their current debt level, down from 45 per cent last year. And one-in-three respondents said their debt levels are a source of anxiety — up slightly from 2011. Richard Goyder, vice-president of personal lending at RBC, says it’s “encouraging that the results show more Canadians have become debtfree over the past year.” The poll also found a majority of respondents — 51

per cent — said it’s more important right now to pay down debt rather than save and invest for the future. And 76 per cent said they’re in better financial shape than their neighbours. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney have repeatedly warned Canadians about borrowing too much and identified household debt as a key risk to the economy. The International Monetary Fund also raised concerns in a report this week about the amount of borrowing in Canada and how it could affect the economy. Canadian average household debt, which includes mortgage debt, in relation to disposable income rose to a record 152 per cent at the end of 2011. The online poll of 2,041 Canadian adults was conducted from July 27 to August 2. The polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Deteriorating global economic prospects continued to weigh on the Toronto stock market Wednesday amid a weak outlook from resource giant Alcoa Inc. and a pessimistic assessment from the International Monetary Fund. The S&P/TSX composite index fell for a third session, down 61.15 points to 12,212.42 while the TSX Venture Exchange dropped 25.66 points to 1,302.15. The Canadian dollar was off 0.22 of a cent to 101.97 cents US. New York indexes were also negative even as the U.S. Federal Reserve said that stronger housing markets helped boost economic growth at the end of the summer in nearly every region of the United States. The Dow Jones industrials racked up a second consecutive triple-digit loss, falling 128.56 points at 13,344.97. The Nasdaq shed 13.24 points at 3,051.78, and the S&P 500 index edged down 8.92 points to 1,432.56. The Fed noted in its most recent regional survey that the economy “expanded modestly” across all 12 districts during September. But CIBC World Markets senior economist Peter Buchanan noted that in contrast, “the August Beige book used the slightly stronger term ’moderate’ for three of the 12 districts, implying some slight softening in momentum in several districts.” Markets were firmly in the red all day after Alcoa predicted after the close Tuesday that aluminum demand would grow six per cent this year, down from seven per cent in the previous quarter, primarily because of slower growth in China. The aluminum producer is viewed as a broad economic bellwether as its products are used in a wide variety of industries, from vehicles to appliances. Alcoa shares were down 4.6 per cent as the company kicked off the start of the third-quarter reporting season by posting a loss of US$143 million, largely on one-time charges, while adjusted results beat estimates. Revenue of $5.83 billion also beat expectations. On top of that, the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday reduced its growth forecast for the world economy to 3.3 per cent this year from its previous estimate of 3.5 per cent. Expectations for third-quarter earnings have been ratcheted lower because of global growth concerns. Analysts expect earnings for Standard & Poor’s 500 companies to be lower than a year ago, the first time that has happened in almost three years. The energy sector led decliners, down one per cent as the November crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange gave up early gains, declining $1.14 to US$91.25 a barrel on diminished demand prospects. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries lowered its forecast for global oil demand in 2012, and said that world oil demand will grow by 800,000 barrels a day in 2012, down 100,000 barrels from its previous forecast. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) fell 56 cents to C$29.80 while Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) gave back 52 cents to $33.68. The base metals lost 0.8 per cent as the IMF also downgraded growth prospects for China while December copper was unchanged at US$3.72 a pound. Taseko Mines (TSX:TKO) gave back 11 cents to C$3.01 while Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) declined 56 cents to $29.90. Losses spread to most sectors with the financials down 0.6 per cent as Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) shed 41 cents to $53.37 and Sun Life Financial (TSX:SLF) stepped back 30 cents to $23.27. The gold sector limited TSX losses, rising about 0.75 per cent as December gold inched up a dime to US$1,765.10 an ounce. Kinross Gold Corp. (TSX:K) gained seven cents to C$10.25. Shares in AuRico Gold Inc. (TSX:AUQ) were up 21.4 per cent to $7.60 after the company said it was selling its troubled Ocampo mine and other assets to a company owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim for US$750 million. AuRico president and chief executive Scott Perry said the deal would strengthen the company’s balance sheet and allow AuRico to focus on its two core assets, the El Chanate mine in Mexico and the Young-Davidson gold mine in northern Ontario. In other corporate news, pharmacy chain franchisor Jean Coutu Group (TSX:PJC.A) said its quarterly net profit was $51.2 million or 23 cents per share. That compared with $66.4 million or 20 cents per share in the comparable year-earlier period when it recorded an unusual gain on the sale of U.S. assets. Revenue for

its fiscal 2013 second quarter rose to $658.7 million from $635.2 million and the Quebec-based company’s shares were up four cents to $14.57. Bauer Performance Sports Ltd. (TSX:BAU) is buying team uniform maker Inaria International for $7 million. The hockey and lacrosse equipment company said the deal will help expand its business to include uniforms and its shares were down 11 cents to $10.84. MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Wednesday: Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,212.42 down 61.15 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,302.15 down 25.66 points TSX 60 — 697.08 down 3.79 points Dow — 13,344.97 down 128.56 points S&P 500 — 1,432.56 down 8.92 points Nasdaq — 3,051.78 down 13.24 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 101.97 cents US, down 0.22 of a cent Pound — C$1.5699, up 0.55 of a cent Euro — C$1.2650, up 0.57 of a cent Euro — US$1.2899, up 0.31 of a cent Oil futures: US$91.25 per barrel, down $1.14 (November contract) Gold Futures: US$1,765.10 per oz., up $0.10 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $34.541 per oz., up $0.149 $1,110-49 per kg., up $4.79 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 1,302.15 down 25.66 points. The volume was 159.89 million shares at 4:20 p.m. ET. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov.’12 $3.80 lower $607.40; Jan ’13 $4.00 lower $606.30; March ’13 $5.30 lower $601.00; May ’13 $5.90 lower $593.10; July ’13 $5.70 lower $585.50; Nov. ’13 $3.30 lower $531.40; Jan. ’14 $3.30 lower $533.60; March ’14 $3.30 lower $533.70; May ’14 $3.30 lower $533.70; July ’14 $3.30 lower $533.70; Nov. ’14 $3.30 lower $533.70. Barley (Western): Oct. ’12 unchanged $245.00; Dec. ’12 unchanged $250.00; March ’13 unchanged $253.00; May ’13 unchanged $254.00; July ’13 unchanged $254.50; Oct. ’13 unchanged $254.50; Dec ’13 unchanged $254.50; March ’14 unchanged $254.50; May ’14 unchanged $254.50; July ’14 unchanged $254.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $254.50. Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 282,200 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 282,200.

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PIPELINE: Questions ‘legitimate’ “The responses from Enbridge/ Northern Gateway to cross-examination by our legal counsel are too often incomplete and lacking in commitment,” Lake said. “Their answers suggest that the company is not taking the very real concerns of British Columbians seriously.” The government took issue in particular with the company’s reliance on manual shut-down, instead of automatic action in the case of a leak being detected. “One thing that is crystal clear after the last two days is that Enbridge/ Northern Gateway is putting off making commitments about including these systems in the pipeline design until after they get approval to proceed,” Lake said. “We believe that the only way to protect British Columbia’s interests is to ensure that these commitments are made up front, so that everyone will understand how they intend to run this project.” John Carruthers, president of Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, said outside the hearings that people have concerns about whether the pipeline can be built and operated safely, and the questions being raised in the

hearing room are “very legitimate.” But Northern Gateway is a state-ofthe-art system, he said. “Whatever industrial activity you have, it has some element of risk,” Carruthers told reporters. “The real key is to try and get that as low as possible. In our case, we’re trying to get that to zero. So that’s the direction you’re going and you try and do the best you can with processes, with people and with technology.” His sentiments were echoed 800 kilometres away at a conference on pipeline safety organized by the B.C. Chamber of Commerce in Vancouver. Ziad Saad, a vice-president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, said data collected from members shows there’s been about three spills annually for the past decade. That’s better than a decade ago, he said, although zero is the goal. “We don’t pretend that we are here today at zero incidents and we don’t pretend that we’re going to be there next year,” he said. “But that remains the goal. Period. We’re always going to strive to have zero incidents of releases or leaks.” Janet Holder, executive vice-president of western access for Enbridge, told the Vancouver meeting the technology to detect leaks has continued to evolve, especially over the last five years. “There are new technologies we’re testing actually as we speak that will find a tiny pinhole leak in a pipeline that could not possibly be found before,” she said.

Oil and gas online job fair set Upstream energy companies have a high-tech option in their quest for workers. The Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada will conduct an Oil and Gas Services Online Career Fair next Tuesday and Wednesday, with job-seekers able to obtain career information and leads via the Internet. They’ll be able to watch company presentations and videos, speak directly with employers and other job seekers, download company brochures, upload their resumés, visit an online job board and apply for positions. “For employers, the fair is a cost-effective and innovative way to find the skilled labour they need and might not have been able to access before, like

workers on EI or the underemployed,” said Cheryl Knight, CEO and executive director of the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada. “Meanwhile, job-seekers will be able to target their efforts and connect directly with employers who are looking for workers.” The fair will focus on the oil and gas services sector, which includes seismic, petroleum services and drilling and completions services. That sector alone will need at least 5,500 new workers by 2015. The Oil and Gas Services Online Career Fair website can be accessed at servicescareerfair.careersinoilandgas. com.

Recall hampers Toyota comeback THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — The largest recall in Toyota’s 75-year history is threatening to undermine the carmaker’s comeback from natural disasters and embarrassing safety problems. The company on Wednesday recalled 7.43 million cars, trucks and SUVs worldwide — including some 240,000 in Canada — to fix faulty power window switches that can cause fires. The recall affects more than a dozen models produced from 2005 through 2010 around the world including the Camry, the top-selling car in the U.S. It’s bigger than the 7 million vehicles recalled two years ago for floor mats that can trap accelerator pedals and cause unintended acceleration. The problem centres on the power window

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switch, which is inside the driver’s door and controls when a window is opened or closed. Toyota said grease wasn’t applied evenly to the switch during production, causing friction and sometimes smoke and fire. The flaw raises questions about whether Toyota Motor Corp. has solved quality and safety issues that embarrassed the company in 2009 and 2010. It also could jeopardize Toyota’s impressive rebound from last year’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Those disasters hobbled factories and left dealers short of models to sell. Toyota said initially the window problem hasn’t caused any crashes or injuries. But documents filed by U.S. safety regulators show customers have reported 161 fires and nine injuries. No deaths have occurred.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began looking into window problems with two Toyota models in February after noticing a higher than normal number of complaints.

THE CANADIAN PRESS Surging ebook sales now represent an estimated 16.3 per cent of the overall book market in Canada, a figure that caught even some industry watchers by surprise. A new report by the non-profit industry group BookNet Canada finds more and more people are buying ebooks, and when they do purchase hardcovers and paperbacks they are increasingly getting them outside of conventional book stores. The trends are outlined in a first-of-itskind report by BookNet, which is based on several consumer surveys conducted over the first half of the year. The results are considered accurate within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. “We were a little taken aback — even though we are in the industry and on the technology side of the industry — at just the sheer quantity of the shift in behaviour in regards to digital and online (shopping),” said BookNet CEO Noah Genner. “We all knew it was happening ... but just the sheer volume and the amount of change that’s happened in the last couple of years is a big surprise.” The report suggests one in three Canadians is a regular book buyer and purchases an average of 2.8 titles per month. While ebook sales are growing, print sales still dominate, with paperbacks representing an estimated 56.7 per cent of the market and hardcovers making up 23.6 per cent. Only seven per cent of readers said they bought both ebooks and print books, but they bought more titles overall — an average of 4.5 per month. When it came to where purchases were made, only about a third were in book stores. About 27.5 per cent of purchases were online and about 30 per cent were at nonbook retailers, including big box stores and grocery stores.

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Ann Taylor brings classic womenswear to Canada BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When Ann Taylor decided to open a storefront outside the U.S., the famed brand didn’t have to travel far when settling on its first international location. The New York-based retailer and creators of classic womenswear opened for business at Eaton Centre in Toronto on Friday. The store joins the everswelling ranks of American and international chains that have set up shop here. Canada is proving to be fertile ground for foreign retailers seeking to broaden their customer base beyond their home countries. Whether through advertising, visits abroad or online purchases, many prospective consumers in Canada have previous exposure to their brands long before they establish bricks-and-mortar locations closer to home. Ann Taylor spokesman Andrew Taylor said the retailer sees Canada as a great market and it was a “natural first step” to launch their first international store north of the border. “We’re really excited by the growth opportunities in expanding beyond the United States, and we think Ann Taylor enjoys strong consumer awareness here — and demand,” Taylor said in a phone interview. “So, the store opening is a wonderful opportunity for us.” Lisa Axelson, Ann Taylor’s head designer, said she never isolates the brand’s clientele to one specific woman or demographic. “I think that we are relevant to young women in their 20s coming out of business school, I think we’re relevant to 30-somethings established in their career, and we’re dressing women who are in their 40s and 50s,” Axelson said during a preview event at the Toronto store. “It’s really about a point of view around being polished and feminine; being able to dress in a versatile way and be appropriate for the different demands of your life whether it be work, a big powerful meeting, a presentation or a black tie event.” While images of actress and celebrity spokeswoman Kate Hudson and other models are featured throughout the sleek new Toronto store, don’t expect to see any of Ann Taylor — because she doesn’t exist. Interestingly, the origin of the store’s famed moniker isn’t drawn from an actual person. Richard Liebeskind, the late founder of Ann Taylor, opened his first shop in 1954. As a gift, Liebeskind’s father gave his son rights to one of his bestselling dress models named “Ann Taylor” — a design embodying the well-dressed woman. By 1983, Ann Taylor had expanded from being a regional to countrywide brand with nearly 50 stores across the U.S. Currently, New York-based parent company, Ann Inc., operates both the Ann Taylor and LOFT brands under its umbrella. Axelson said Ann Taylor is more about style rather than trends, with the brand’s foundation built on what she calls “perfect pieces” — classic elements in the closet updated each season to ensure they remain modern and relevant. Separates steeped in rich shades including blue, purple, pink and burgundy were dotted throughout the store, with blouses in silk and lace, floral print blazers, knits and coats colouring the shelves and racks. Necklaces, colourful scarves and animal-print heels were among the range of accessories on display. Taylor said the pricing in Canadian stores will be the same as the U.S. The Ann Taylor and LOFT MasterCards will be accepted as a form of payment north of the border, Taylor said. He added that Canadian clients could theoretically apply for the cards either online or while visiting U.S. locations. The Ann Taylor private label credit card cannot be used in Canada. Taylor said the retailer is looking at other ways to ensure current Ann Taylor and LOFT non-MasterCard carrying card members will be able to enjoy their benefits in the store’s Canadian locations. The retailer is currently developing its global shipping capability through its e-commerce site which will allow for shipping to countries outside of the U.S., specifically Canada. They expect this to be live by next spring. Ann Taylor is set to open its second Canadian location at Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto on Nov. 16.

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The front of the Ann Taylor store in Palm Beach, Florida. The U.S. retailer is opening its first international location in Canada.

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Film has infectious vibe CRONENBERG ARGUES HIS ANTIVIRAL ABOUT CELEBRITY OBSESSION ISN’T A BIG STRETCH BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — In the dark satire Antiviral, the debut feature film from Brandon Cronenberg, celebrity-obsessed consumers pay top dollar to be infected with viruses that once thrived deep inside their favourite Hollywood hunk or starlet. Other consumers line up to buy meat that’s been bred from celebrity cells. Sound a bit far-fetched? Maybe just a bit. Cronenberg, the 32-year-old son of auteur David, didn’t think it was that much of a stretch when he dreamed up the concept, while himself suffering through a terrible bout of sickness. “I started obsessing over the physicality of illness and how I had something in my body and in my cells that had come from someone else’s body, and there seemed to be a weird intimacy to that connection,” Cronenberg said during an interview before the Toronto International Film Festival, where the film shared the best Canadian first feature award with “Blackbird.” He was validated after watching a clip of Jimmy Kimmel Live! from last November, when a slightly ill Sarah Michelle Gellar sat in as a guest. During a segue in the interview, Kimmel mentioned Gellar agreed to be on the show even though she was fighting a cold. “Let me infect all of you now,” Gellar then says with a smile, as the audience hoots and cheers deliriously. “That was a little spot on,” Cronenberg says. “Everyone started cheering like they wanted to have her virus and it was all funny, but at the same time, you could imagine there was one person in that audience who would’ve gone for it if she’d said, ’I’ll spit in your mouth and get you sick.’ Somebody would’ve done it. “(Antiviral) is meant to be a satire and it’s meant to be a caricature of our own society ... but I don’t think it’s a very large exaggeration.” Sarah Gadon, whose biggest projects involve the Cronenberg clan (she also starred in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis), stars as Hannah Geist, the world’s most desirable female star. When she gets sick, virus peddler Syd March

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Actor Sarah Gadon poses for a photo as she promotes the movie Antiviral during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. In the dark satire Antiviral, the debut feature film from Brandon Cronenberg, celebrity-obsessed consumers pay top dollar to be infected with viruses that once thrived deep inside their favourite Hollywood hunk or starlet. (played by Caleb Landry Jones) is assigned to collect her germs for the mass market. To help get into their characters, Jones and Gadon agreed they wouldn’t meet before filming the movie. Gadon wouldn’t even speak to him on set in between takes. “It allowed me to build her up,” Jones says, “what Syd was supposed to think of her, I got to do that. And it was very easy to (portray) that because of the way we went about it.” “I think dynamics between actors are really important,” adds Gadon.

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Owls by Nature at The Vat “Whiskey-fuelled” party band Owls By Nature will perform some energetic tunes on Friday at The Vat in Red Deer. The Edmonton folk-rock group, known for putting on frenetic live shows, has been capturing the collective ear of innovative music fans since 2010. Owls By Nature’s sophomore album, Everything is Hunted, attempts to capture the band’s “electrifying” energy on such songs as Heartbreaking Ways. For more information about the show, call 403-346-5636.

Rockers to play at Rebels game Friday’s Red Deer Rebels game at the Centrium will be spiced up with some music when One Bad Son performs between periods. The West Coast rockers will play three songs at the WHL game from the band’s self-titled album. The single Rustbucket is being played by various radio stations, as is Retribution Blues. One Bad Son originally formed in Saskatoon and was signed to 604 Records/Universal Music Canada in 2010. The band, which has opened for Godsmack, Default and Buckcherry, is on a Western Canadian tour.

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education, is also part of the weekend. Music Conference Alberta has been co-produced since its 2007 inception by the Alberta Choral Federation, the Alberta Band Association and the Alberta Music Education Foundation. More information about the event, including schedules and registration details, is available online at www.albertachoralfederation.ca or by emailing info@amef.ca.

MOSCOW — One jailed member of the punk band Pussy Riot unexpectedly walked free from a Moscow courtroom, but the other two now head toward a harsh punishment for their irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin: a penal colony. The split ruling by the appeals court Wednesday added further controversy to the case. All three women were convicted in August of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison. They argued in court on Wednesday

that their impromptu performance inside Moscow’s main cathedral in February was political in nature and not an attack on religion. The Moscow City Court ruled that Yekaterina Samutsevich’s sentence should be suspended because she was thrown out of the cathedral by guards before she could remove her guitar from its case and thus did not take part in the performance. Defence attorney Nikolai Polozov said the two women would receive copies of their sentences within two weeks. Once convicted, all Russian prisoners serve time in penal colonies.

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Art classes and two new exhibits are being offered this fall at Lacombe’s Gallery on Main. The first special event is a pen and coloured ink class taught by Doug Strickland It runs on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. To register, call 403-782-3402. More classes are on in November and early preregistration is encouraged. Learn to paint big beautiful flowers with Dee Poisson on Nov. 17, and learn about acrylic painting on watercolour painting in a class by Marianne Harris on Nov. 24. The fall art exhibit season at the gallery starts on Oct. 20, with the opening of Mosaic, new works by more than 80 Alberta artists. Receptions for the exhibit will be held on the evenings of Oct. 20 and 21. On Nov. 17, an evening reception will be held for Gail Scheuring, the gallery’s featured artist for a threeweek period. Everyone is invited to check out Scheuring’s new work and meet the artist. For more information, call 403-7823402 or go online to the galleryonmain. lacombe@gmail.com.

Music educators from across the province will gather in Red Deer from Nov. 1 to 3 for the annual Music Conference Alberta. Specific sessions are for elementary music teachers, choral and band directors, children’s choir conductors, church musicians and studio instructors. A gala concert will feature the Alberta Youth Where Bowling Meets Entertainment! Choir and Alberta Honour Band. Looking for a different way to A trade fair is also enjoy some holiday cheer while planned. relaxing in a warm and comfortable setting? Jonathan Govias, who’s Our exciting Holiday Party Packages include: guest conducted numer• 3 games of fun bowling. ous prestigious North • Sirloin Steak Dinner Only American orchestras, - Includes 8 oz. Premium Cut and Jeff Nelsen, former $ 95 - Bake Potato, Caesar Salad, Canadian Brass horn Garlic Bread + tax player and now a music - Dessert per person professor at Indiana UniBook Your Space Today versity, will give keynote Easy To Learn ... Easy To Play Healthful Social Activity speeches. The Alberta Choral 403.309.6385 Symposium, a forum for #8, 6200 - 67A St. (Located in the Heritage Plaza behind and NE of Cash Casino) sharing academic rewww.heritagelanes.com search on choral music

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“And I like to work hard at preserving whatever I can to keep things at a level of authenticity or realism. It all helps.” Gadon didn’t agree with Cronenberg’s suggestion that “Antiviral” is almost realistic but did call it very relevant to today. “It’s certainly a film that makes you step back and think about (celebrity obsession) and why we do that, and that’s what I love about the film.” Antiviral opens on Friday in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg.

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ELEASON Wes 1955 - 2012 Wes Eleason of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the Red Deer Hospice, surrounded by the love of his family on Sunday, October 7, 2012 at the age of 57 years. Wes will be lovingly remembered by his wife Sheila and children Jeff, Claire and Tim, as well as by his brother Ken and his sisters Pat, Sonjia, Peggy, Brenda and Janice and their families. Wes was predeceased by his parents Margaret and William and eldest brother Larry. In honour of Wes’ life, a memorial service will take place on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. Memorial contributions made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 2S6 would be greatly appreciated. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

In Memoriam James Courtney May 3, 1929 - Oct. 11, 2009 Sadly missed along life’s way Quietly remembered every day No longer in our lives to share But in our hearts You’re always there.

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STARK Cristina 1952 - 2012 Cristina Stark of Red Deer passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on October 8, 2012 at the age of 59 years. Cristina will be lovingly remembered by Johana Stark, Caroline Stark, Annabelle and Aron Wehage and their three children, Keegan, Riley and Jake. For those who wish to pay their respects, viewing will be held at the church from 11:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 13, 2012. A Funeral Service will follow at 12:00 p.m. at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 19 Selkirk Boulevard, Red Deer. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Cristina’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to Anne-Marie Roy RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319.

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SIM It is with great sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Irene Sim on October 3, 2012. Irene began life on a farm near Daysland, Alberta in 1924. Irene moved to Red Deer where she met and married Keith Sim. A devoted and kind mother, grandmother, great grandmother, Aunt and a friend too many. A passion our mother shared was her special culinary abilities. Anyone who had the privilege to enjoy a meal at her table would acknowledge her talent. She is survived by her brother Michael and sister Josephine; daughter Jill; sons Greg and Terry, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. At her request there will be a private family service only. If friends or family wish to make donations in her memory they can be made to the Red Deer Hospice.

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UCHYTIL Lari Mrs H. A. (Lari) Uchytil was born on December 14, 1936 and passed away peacefully on October 9, 2012 at the age of 75 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital. She was pre-deceased by her husband Don and her son Dennis as well her parents Peter and Stephie Sokulski, her brother Rudy Sokulski and her sisters Sue Goettler and Iris Sokulski, She is survived by her two children; Rod (Iris) and Carol, her grandchildren Anthony, Shandra Leckie (Fernando) and Carine Alvim (Peter) and her two brothers Moe (Helen) and Joe (Rita). A funeral service will be held on Friday October 12th at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillian Ave, Red Deer Alberta, at 1:30pm, a private family interment following the service at Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer Alberta. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Red Deer SPCA, Red Deer & District SPCA, 4505 77 Street, Red Deer AB, T4P 2J1. Condolences for the family may be made by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapel.com Arrangements entrusted to Rebekah Sealock EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222.

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LOOKING FOR EXPERIENCED CASED HOLE SUPERVISOR Knowledge of the Lee Specialties system is an asset. Competitive wages & benefits with an RRSP program and other incentives. E-mail: careers@voltagewireline.com OILFIELD Equipment Fabricator hiring several positions Shop located in Stettler AB hiring for the following positions: EXPERIENCED: * QC/QA manager/ inspector for pressure vessels and piping * PIPEFITTER * Instrumentation tuber * Skid welder * Helper/painter/general labor Please fax resumes to 403-228-4009

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– Honouring Memories – – Celebrating Lives – WE are looking for Drillers, Derrick and Floorhands for the Red Deer area. Please email your resume to: stiffin@galleonrigs.com

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 Professionals

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Project Administrator

Restaurant/ Hotel

Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73 invites applications for a full-time Project Administrator at SERVICE RIG Facility Services DepartBearspaw Petroleum Ltd ment in Innisfail, effective is seeking an exp’d immediately. The FLOORHAND successful candidate will Locally based, report directly to the home every night! Director of Facility Qualified applicants must Services, ensuring the have all necessary valid effective and efficient tickets for the position operation of the Facility being applied for. Services team on a Bearspaw offers a day-to-day basis. very competitive salary Responsibilities will include and benefits package maintaining project along with a steady documentation, performing work schedule. accounting tasks related to Please submit resumes: Capital, IMR and OperaAttn: Human Resources tions and Maintenance Emai: hr@ projects, communication bearspawpet.com with suppliers and division Fax: (403) 258-3197 or staff, maintaining Asset Mail to: Suite 5309, Management program, 333-96 Ave. NE assisting with Project Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Charters, Change Management, Resource STEAM TRUCK operator Engagement and Reporting, req’d. Must have experiand other duties as ence and have clean assigned. Preference will driver’s abstract, all req’d be given to individuals with tickets and reliable a minimum of Grade 12 transportation. Fax resume education, supplemented 403-348-2918 or email with additional accounting gelliott@telusplanet.net training; and who possess strong computer skills, and excellent interpersonal, communication, and problem solving skills, as well as the ability to tackle challenges with an entrepreneurial attitude. URS FLINT TUBULAR Experience in construction MANAGEMENT and/or projects is an asset. SERVICES requires Tubing Inspection Cover letter and resume, complete with the names operator, manual lathe and telephone numbers of operator, Shop & Yard Laborers. Exp. an asset three current work related references, should be but will train to suit. forwarded to: Competitive wages and Shawn Russell benefits. Apply w/resume Chinook’s Edge School to: 4115 Henry St. Division No. 73 (Blindman Industrial Park) 4904 - 50 Street TOO MUCH STUFF? Innisfail, Ab. T4G 1W4 Let Classifieds Telephone:(403) 227-7070 help you sell it. Fax: (403) 227-2291 email: careers@ chinooksedge.ab.ca For information on Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73, please check our website We are a busy and (www.chinooksedge. progressive snubbing / live ab.ca) well service company with Applications will be an awesome 15 day on and 6 day off shift rotation accepted until 12:00 noon, Wednesday, October 17, and we are rapidly 2012. The successful expanding. We need Operator Assistants applicant will be required to provide a criminal record (entry level position) check and a Child and experienced Intervention (Welfare) OPERATORS. Check. While we thank all We offer excellent wages, applicants for their interest, a great benefits package only those individuals and an awesome working selected for an interview environment with many will be contacted. advancement opportuResumes of applicants not nities. Class 1 or 3 driver’s granted an interview will license and all oilfield not be kept on file. tickets are preferred, but we will train the right individuals for our Restaurant/ entry level positions. Hotel THIS IS A LABOUR INTENSIVE POSITION BARTENDER/SERVER Fax resumes to: req’d for neighborhood 403-347-3075, Attn. Judy. pub, F/T P/T 30-40 hrs. Zubar Production per wk. Must be flexible with availability. Services Exp. preferred but not a is currently taking resumes must. Proserve certificate for experienced req’d., Apply in person with Production Testing resume to Cheers Pub, Supervisor 6017 54 Ave. Night Operators & or call 403-506-2229. Assistant Operators Email resume to: Classifieds rdzubaroffice@telus.net Your place to SELL or fax to (403)346-9420. Your place to BUY Must have all valid tickets.

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MANAGERS – COOKS DISHWASHERS – SERVERS HOSTS – BARTENDERS CONVENIENCE STORE ATTENDANTS

Our completely redeveloped Smitty’s Restaurant, Lounge, Convenience Store, New Husky Gas Bar and Car Wash on Gasoline Alley in Red Deer, A.B. will reopen in October. Don’t miss your opportunity to apply.

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CUSTOM Energized Air is a leader in compressed air technology and requires an

Outside Sales Rep

$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

for our solutions driven sales team. Experience in air compressors and pneumatics a definite asset, but will train the right candidate. Base + commission + mileage + benefits. For Red Deer & area. Apply: del.trynchuk@cea-air.com You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you! SOAP STORIES is seeking Retail Sales Supervisor for our Parkland Mall location, Red Deer. $17.40/hr. Email resume: premierjobrd1@gmail.com

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GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

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F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! JOURNEYMAN Mechanic wanted for work in Olds area. Must have experience working on natural gas compressors and engines and a valid drivers licence. Please email resumes to AmandaS@ flomaxcompression.com

RED DEER

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 stardands $14.00/hr. All positions are Shift work & weekends Fax Resume to: 780-702-5051

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

QUEENS DINER REQ’S P/T WAITRESS Hours are Mon.- Fri. 6:30-4 & Sat. 8-2:30 pm Drop off resume any time after 1 & before 4, Mon-Fri. 34 Burnt Basin St, Red Deer Fax: 403-347-2925 email: accuracyonlineoffice @gmail.com WAI’S RESTAURANT at 4916 Ross Street, Red Deer now hiring permanent F/T Chinese Cook. Over 3 yrs experience required. $12-$14/hour, depending on exp. Call 403-340-3366

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DNR Powerline Construction requires Labourers/apprentices Journeyman & Foreman for various projects in Alberta. Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages. Fax resume to 403-742-5759 or email dnrwelding1@xplornet.com Attention : Noel. No phone calls please. Drug and alcohol program in effect.

F/T. Class 1 drivers to haul NGL butane Super B’s, must be over 25 yrs., EMAIL: dreaddriving@gmail.com LOCAL ACID Transport company looking for exp’d’ F/T Class 1 truck driver & pressure truck operator. Top wages and exc. benefit pkg. Fax resume and driver’s abstract to 403-346-3766 NEED experienced Class 1 drivers for short and long haul. Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743

Town and Country Supplies & Rentals

Mechanic Required at Town and Country Supplies in Ponoka. Apply today attention Kelsey. Email: tcsltd@telusplant.net Fax: 403-783-6575 In Person: 6305-48ave Ponoka AB

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DNR Pressure Welding requires B Pressure Weld- Drivers ers, CWB Welders and Apprenticeship welders. Busy Central Alberta Grain Excellent opportunity for Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers. We apprenticeship. Excellent offer lots of home time, benefit packages. Email benefits and a bonus resumes to ryan@dnrweldprogram. Grain and super ing.ca. B exp. an asset but not No Phone calls please. Drug and alcohol program necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers in effect. abstract and would like to DNR Pressure Welding start making good money. requires Journeyman fax or email resume and Heavy Duty Mechanic. comm.abstract to Excellent benefit pack- 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net ages. Email resumes to BUSY insulation company ryan@dnrwelding.ca. No Phone calls please. looking for Class 5 driver Drug and alcohol program for F/T permanent employment. Please fax resume in effect. to 403-782-0610 email: ELECTRICAL COMPANY ben@tpil.ca Looking for Journeyman, 3 & 4th. yr. Apprentices needed for commercial construction or industrial maintenance. Please fax resume to 403-346-6334 or email: mooremaintenance @shaw.ca Ellis Fabrications Inc is looking for experienced welders to join our team. Day and evening shifts available. Competitive wages and benefits. Fax 403-347-3661 or email Jobs@EFIattachments. com ESTABLISHED well known company looking for permanent f/t hourly tapers and p/t piece work tapers. Please fax resume to 403-782-0610 email: ben@tpil.ca EXP’D SIDER , must have truck and tools. $93.50/sq. we pay compensation Call 403-347-2522

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OWNER OPERATORS in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

DRIVER with clean Class 1 or Class 2 motor coach experience preferred Must be availl eves. and wknds. Looking for both P/T & F/T Fax resume to 347-4999 or email to: frontbus@platinum.ca Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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* SANDBLASTER *POWDER COATER *GENERAL LABORER WE OFFER:

* Full Time hours * Great benefit program after 3 mos. * Most weekends off * Competitive Wages Hardworking need only apply. Bring resume to: Metal Strip & Coatings 4617 63rd Street Mon-Fri 8-5. No Phone Calls Please. 806621 AB. Ltd. o/a Mac’s Store, 6888 50 Ave. Red Deer, AB T4N 4E3, 403-755-7065 requires 2 F/T Night Cashier $10-12/hr. Hrs are flexible, weekends & holidays. Apply in person or email: balvr131@yahoo.ca

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in GRANDVIEW 79 Advocate $404/month $4851/year

for delivery of morning paper 6:30 a.m. 6 days a wk For GLENDALE

SOUTH HILL 42 Advocate $220/mo. $2646/yr 45 Mins. per day

Adult & Youth Carrier Needed For Delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in JOHNSTONE PARK Jones Crsc Jackson Close & Jarvis Close KENTWOOD Kendrew Dr.

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Red Deer Advocate by 6:30 a.m. Mon. through Fri. & 8:00. .am. on Saturday in Deer Park area. $584/mo. Reliable vehicle needed. Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info ARE you a handy person looking for p/t work? Framing Nook is looking for an intelligent quick learner having both skilled hands and a good eye. We have a p/t position including training for the right person. If you think you are the one, let us know why. qaz@telus.net

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

NO EXP. NECESSARY!! F.T. position available IMMEDIATELY in hog assembly yard in Red Deer. Starting wage $12/hr. Call Rich or Paul 403-346-6934 CARPET COLOUR CENTRE is currently looking for a P/T SHIPPING /RECEIVING

POSITION. Hours will predominately be Saturday but may include some mornings and/or afternoons. Duties include checking in product preparing orders to leave the warehouse and use of a forklift. Submit resume att`n: Andrew @ Ccarpet Colour Centre 1100, 5001 - 19 St. Red Deer, AB T4R 3R1 or email : awiebe@ carpetcolourcentre. com

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick at 403-314-4303

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Anders St. Addinell Close Abbott Close Ainsworth Crsc. Asmundsen Ave. Archibald Crsc. BOWER AREA Barrett Dr. Bettenson St. Best Crsc./ Berry Ave. NGLEWOOD AREA Ingram Close

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LANCASTER AREA

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for Morning Newspaper delivery in the Town of Clive Earn $200.mo. for 20 houses 6 days a week. Must have a reliable vehicle . Please contact Rick at 403-314-4303

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Lancaster Drive Lindsay Ave. Langford Cres. Law Close/ Lewis Close SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. VANIER AREA Viscount Dr./ Violet Place Visser St. Vanson Close Vincent Close Vickers Crsc. Victor Close Vold Close

Must have the following abilities and experience: • Blueprint reading, stair calculating, framing, finish carpentry, etc. • Individual must have a clean drivers abstract and their own transportation to and from work. • This is a Full Time, year round position. Only those persons with the before mentioned skills need apply. Please reply and attach resume and references to

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

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HYDRAULIC TECHNICIANS JOURNEYMEN or APPRENTICE MECHANICS MILLWRIGHTS

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300

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MOUNTVIEW 83 Advocate $435/mo. $5229/yr 1-1/2 hrs. per day

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ASSOCIATIONS

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EASTVIEW WEST LAKE

ORIOLE PK WEST Ogilvie Close & Oldring Crsc

Pumps & Pressure Inc. Hydraulic Division is currently accepting applications for

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LOCAL COMPANY ROSEDALE IS SEEKING A FLOORING ESTIMATOR. Robinson Cres./ Measurements will take Reinholt Ave. area place in New and Lived In $173/MO Trades Homes, throughout Central SNOW plow drivers(2) . Alberta. Professional, neat, req’d for winter season friendly and works well ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK ANIMAL FACILITY based out of Lacombe, with others or alone. MANAGER exc. wages. Must have Experienced in Tile, Instinct is looking for a Class 3 w/air. Call Toll Call Jamie Hardwood, Laminate, CANADIAN Pizza King Inc. Business Manager to run Free 1-877-787-2501 Mon. lino†and Carpet are an asset. in 5 locations in AB. it’s Canadian Branch. 403-314-4306 Fri. 9 am. 5 pm. only or Experience, wages are Airdrie , Didsbury , Instinct supplies & trains for more info fax resume to: 403-784-2330 Lacombe, Blackfalds , domestic and exotic animals negotiable with experience, benefits package is avail. Rocky Mountain House for the film industry. ADULT WANT A JOB WITH Please contact by email: requires kitchen helpers. Applicant must have at UPGRADING $11/hr., 40 hrs/wk for 15 WEEKENDS OFF? least 10 yrs. exp. working morethentile@hotmail.com Alberta Government days. No experience req’d. FULL TIME DRIVER with animals in the film NEW EMPLOYMENT Funded Programs Apply by email: REQ’D. production industry. OPPORTUNITY Student Funding Available! canadianpizzaking Candidates must have a Required hands on exp. @hotmail.com driving record and be w/ bears & wolves are First year apprentice/ clean NOVEMBER START able to drive a standard essential. Manager will be CORK’D Journeyman Mechanic transmission vehicle. responsible for the daily • GED Preparation TAPHOUSE & GRILL running of the company & Excellent customer service Fax resume to: Now accepting applications and communication skills • C o m m u n i t y S u p p o r t general facility manageWorker Program (403) 885 5137 for: F/T Evening are required. Applicants ment. Must have exp. in E-mail resume to: Cook Supervisors. must be physically fit and conducting film production Morning, Afternoon And office@ccal.com Please apply within. be able to lift up to 70 lbs. meetings, employee Evening P/T Classes Ask for Darren They must be 21 years of scheduling, script breakTILE SETTER age or older. This is fast downs & budget Req’d immed. Exp’d tile DAD’S PIZZA Academic Express paced, physically preparation, advertising installer, for very busy PART/FULL TIME COOK Adult Education & Training demanding environment. campaigns, veterinarian Central AB company. Apply at East 40th Pub. All candidates are subject 340-1930 checks & surgery schedulMust be neat, clean, 3811 40th Ave. to criminal record checks. ing, on-the-spot decision professional, friendly and www.academicexpress.ca The Full Time position making & coordinating with works well with others or DOMINO’S PIZZA Mon.to Fri. 40-50 hrs/wk. overseas international alone. Driver’s license NOW HIRING starting wage $19/hr. + projects. Applicant must req’d. Excellent wages, F/T and P/T DRIVERS. bonus. All candidates are have clean criminal record benefits & great working Great wages and cash subject to criminal record ADULT & YOUTH & driver’s license. Salary is environment. Please email paid nightly. checks. Apply by online @ $30.78/hr., 40 hrs./wk. CARRIERS resume to: Apply within, 5018 45th St. www.upsjobs.com Please mail resume to: tileisit@gmail.com NEEDED or fax resume to: INSTINCT HOLIDAY INN 403-648-3312 R R 3, Site 15, Box 18 for delivery of EXPRESS Innisfail, AB. T4G 1T8 Flyers

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Canada’s Largest Full Service Family Restaurant Chain – Since 1960

BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley Red Deer County Food & Beverage Server

LUAU Investments Ltd. (O/A Tim Hortons) Food Counter Attendant F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) Must be avail. weekends $11.00 per hour. 4217 - 50 Ave. 6721 - 50 Ave. 7111 - 50 Ave. timhire@telus.net

Friday, October 12 & Saturday, October 13 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Hampton Inn & Suites Gasoline Alley

SMITTY’S CANADA LIMITED #600 – 501, 18th Ave SW Calgary, AB T2S 0C7 Fax: 403-229-3899 Email: reddeer-hwy2south@smittys.ca www.smittys.ca

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EQUIPMENT REPAIR NEEDED OLYMEL RED DEER PLANT - Experience in a plant/manufacturing environment is an asset. - Alberta recognized trade certiﬁcate required. - Responsible for general maintenance and repair of Power-Jacks and small equipment. - Training will be provided.

CHOCOLATE-LOVING Manager Wanted for Bower Place! Send us your resume by emailing resumes@purdys.com or visiting our shop!

With a job at Olymel you enjoy... - Comprehensive Health and Beneﬁt Plan - Public Transportation to and from the plant. - Possibility of progression within the company. - Paid work and safety orientation. - Discount on retail prices for Olymel products (fresh and frozen pork/poultry and clothing). - Starting at $34.68/hr.

Join The Team! Phone: (403) 343-8700 Fax: (403) 309-7547 Email: apply@olymel.com

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CLEARVIEW SUBWAY Hiring Immediately

Food Counter Attendants Are you looking for a career opportunity with excellent benefits, a mature working environment and opportunity to advance? If so, Subway has a position for you! Please apply online @ mysubwaycareer.com or Drop resume off in person at 180, 6900 Taylor Drive Or email to careers@rdsubway.com or Call us at 403-342-0203 DISPATCHER REQUIRED Experience preferred, but will train suitable applicant. Please fax resume to 403-346-0295

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CHRISTMAS CASH “BONUSES” The Red Deer Advocate is looking for friendly and outgoing telephone sales people to join our team. Work 4 days per week 4:00 - 8 :00 p.m Great earning potential for the right person. If this is for you please drop off your resume at: The Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer or email to: d.sibbet@ reddeeradvocate.com or rholt@

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SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature F/T help for days and grave shifts. Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

Auctions

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms. Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

STORESMART SelfStorage seeking MAINTENANCE/ Children's GROUNDSKEEPER for 16-24 hours per week. Items Flexible hours. Medical/ dental coverage via BOB THE BUILDER sleepprivate health services ing bag & pillow, $25; call plan. For full job descrip- 403-314-9603 tion, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/careers. SNOW pants and jacket, Applicants, please submit size 5, “Jupa” like new, r e s u m e s v i a f a x $45, call 403-314-9603 (403.343.7512) or email W I N T E R S H O E S n e w (info@storesmart.ca). Columbia, size 13, $25, No phone calls please. call 403-314-9603

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DENTOOM’S Greenhouses

Greenhouse Labourers

F/T Wage $10/hour Must be willing to work Mon to Sat 48+ hrs/week.

Christmas Store Seasonal Retail Sales Personnel Available to work flexible hours

Please apply by email to sales@dentooms.com Or in person at Hwy 11A - 1/2 km West of Hwy #2 HOUSEKEEPING/ CLEANING SUPERVISOR. Bluebird Motel, permanent /full time. Salary $20/HR.. 40 hrs./wk. Innisfail. Ab 1 position avail. 403-227-3334

Req’d. F/T employment. Carpentry or flooring installation exp. is an asset (carpet, tile, lino & hardwood) but not necessary. Must be neat, clean, professional, friendly, works well with others or alone. Drivers License req’d. Exc. wages, benefits & great working environment. Please fax résumé to 403-309-3000 or drop off at 9-7619 50 Ave Red Deer, AB MOBIL 1 Lube Express Gasoline Alley req’s an Exp. Tech. Fax 403-314-9207

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail. Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for The Town of Olds No collecting! Packages come ready for delivery! Also for the afternoon & morning delivery in the Town of Penhold! Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

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HIGHLAND GREEN, reno’d, 3 bdrm. bi-level, fridge, stove, balcony, fireplace, No pets. 403-506-1276, 403-885-4912 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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UMBRELLA AND PATIO 2 BDRM. condo, new reno, Suites SET w/4 chairs, $35; 1500 lb. 12 volt winch, new no pets, $900. rent/d.d. in box $60; elec. snow Avail. now. 587-377-3322 thrower, new in box $75; 1 & 2 BDRM. APTS. HALMAN Heights wheelbarrow $20, Clean, quiet bldg. 3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 403-887-4981 Call 318-0901. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, WOOD burning art work no pets, n/s, rent $1395 1 BDRM. apt. in Penhold, picture, Moose in a MeadSD $1000 avail.Nov. 1 $740/mo. Avail. immed. ow, one of a kind $60; tree 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 Incl. most utils, no pets. pruner, extends to 11’, like Call 403-886-5288 KITSON CLOSE new $20; 42 cups and newer exec. 3 bdrm. steins collectables, must 2 BDRM. adult bldg, free bi-level townhouse 1447 take all, new, $40; 25 on laundry, very clean, quiet, the go mugs and bottles, sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, lrg. suite, Avail Nov. 1 collectables, must take all blinds, lg. balcony, fenced $850/mo., S.D. $650. in rear, front/rear parking, new $40 403-314-2026 Call 403-304-5337 no dogs, rent $1395 CLEARVIEW bi-level. 2 bdrm., SD $1000. n/s Avail. Music 1 bath, 5 appls, balcony. Nov. 1 Close to park & bus. Lessons 403-304-7576 / 347-7545 $850+utils. 403-210-1360

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Warehouse Space

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BRAND new 9900 sq. ft. ready for lease fall 2012 on Golden West Ave 358-3500

3160

Storage Space

NEW RV Storage Facility Gravel pad, 6’ security fence, 6 kms. E. of R.D. Call 403-347-4425.

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm. Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

KYTE CRES.

4020

3070

LEATHER (dress-style) jacket, woman’s Size 12, black, hip-length, exc. cond i t i o n . $ 1 5 0 . THE TASTY BAKERY (403) 342-7908

PACKAGING & COUNTER SALES

P/T OPPORTUNITY No early mornings, No late nights No Sundays, Apply in person at: Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive (directly behind Nutters)

895

Positions Wanted

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Tools

1640

10” CRAFTSMAN Contractor Saw. Cast top w/extensions. Table size 60”x27”. Must be seen. Also has mobile base & 3 inserts. $500 obo. 403-309-9232

Firewood

1660

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544 24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

920

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works! APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

KITTENS TO GIVE AWAY TO GOOD HOME 403-786-8691 KITTENS, cute To Give Away 403-396-7368

1840

Dogs

F1 ($700) F1B ($900) LABRA DOODLES Ready late Oct. Price incl. delivery. 306-792-2113 or 403-919-1370 www.furfettishfarm.ca

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 birchfirewoodsales.com

1700

*NEW!* Asian Relaxation Massage Downtown RD 587-377-1298 Open Mon.Fri. daily 10 am - 6 pm.

Household Appliances

1710

Manufactured Homes

3040

4050

Acreages

HOUSE on Burnstick Lake 45 mins west of Red Deer. For weekend fun or retirement. Watersports, fishing, wildlife at doorstep. All comforts built-in. $895,000 OBO welist.com #48548 Owner: (403) 282-2268

Picturesque Recreational River Hobby Farm. Ideal for horses or cattle. Corrals, fenced, heated barn & shop. Open concept custom built bungalow. $465,000. 403-843-6182 (Rimbey)

4090

Manufactured Homes

14X68’ TO BE MOVED, appraised at $8000. Will sell for $1000. 403-314-9363

New Executive

3 bdrm. 2 bath HOME in Red Deer. Immediate possession 10 yr warranty. Own it for $1275/mo. OAC CALL 403-346-3100 N I C E LY M A I N TA I N E D MFG. HOME for sale, go to Property guys.com ID#102192 for details.

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

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Red Deers newest Apartment Homes

2000-2290

1 & 2 bedroom suites available Nov. 1st.

• Great location • 6 appliances (fridge, stove, dishwasher, washer & dryer, microwave). • Balcony • Window Coverings • Adults only 21+ • No Pets

2 & 3 bedroom

2140 modular/mobile homes

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly. 403-651-5912

2190

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rentals

CLASSIFICATIONS

in pet friendly park

Starting at

849

NOW RENTING

264155J1-K30

FREE Cable

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS

Grain, Feed

3 bdrm. heritage home on beautiful private lot in Woodlea, backing onto Waskasoo Creek. Reno or Build. 416-918-0195

3060

Suites

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

Renter’s Special Horses

Call for more info call 403-342-4544

NEW HOMES! 403.342.4544 MasonMartinHomes.com RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 4 bdrms, 2 bath, large fenced yard, $265,000 403-342-6165

Newly Renovated Mobile Home

Only

8 Brand New Homes starting at $179,900

ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & utils incl. 403-304-6436

Lana (403) 550-8777

1720

Be the ﬁrst tenants to move into our brand new building

Rents from $800 - $1375

/month

Lana (403) 550-8777 www.lansdowne.ca

CALL: 403-302-7896 Email: info@timberstone.com timberstonevillage.com

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

DESK and with leather swivel chair $50; 27” tv in Houses/ Antiques good working cond. $30; Duplexes dining room lamps $40/pai, & Art bdrm lams $30/pair, tv 2 BDRM. house in Lacombe 3 G A L L O N “ W e s t e r n stand $20; 403-340-0675 $1000/mo. + d.d., single Stoneware” crock. Mint att. garage, large fenced DISPLAY CABINET. condition. $50. yard, no pets, n/s, avail. New, with glass door. (403) 342-7908 immed. 403-391-6512. 2’x4’. $50. 403-314-0804 Tired of Standing? D R E S S E R w / m i r r o r, 3 2 STOREY house, 1510 Find something to sit on drawers 42” x 15 3/4” x sq.ft., 2-1/2 baths, 3 bdrm.. in Classifieds 30”h $70; night table w/2 w / d b l e . a t t . g a r a g e , 5 Accounting drawers $40 403-314-2026 appls., large deck, master bdrm, w/walk in closet, INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Antique “Johnston Grain avail. Nov. 1, rent $1700, Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. Picker”. A great outdoor WANTED d.d., $1700, undev.. bsmt., display item. $145. Antiques, furniture and with oilfield service Call 403-358-8263 (403) 342-7908. estates. 342-2514 companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

1520

3090

Rooms For Rent

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. Hay selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 80 BALES, FAIR COND FOR COWS, $22/bale, 87 403-342-1042 bales, good cond. cow hay, $25/bale; 80 extra Household large round perfect cow hay, $35/bale; 36 grass Furnishings bales, good cond., horse hay, $30/bale; 102 grass BED ALL NEW, bales, pefect horse hay, Queen Orthopedic, dble. $35/blae. Call Jeremy at pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr. 403-418-6342 Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325. 302-0582 Free Delivery BED: #1 King. extra thick orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr. warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice @ $545. 403-302-0582. BLACK couch and loveseat set, $150;, Upright small apt. size deepfreeze, $50, 403-746-2456

Riverfront Estates

Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, blinds, large balcony, no pets, n/s, $1195 or $1220 along the river. SD $1000. avail. Nov. 1 & 15 403-304-7576 347-7545

RARE OPPORTUNITY

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

Health & Beauty

(across from Totem) BECOME a tax preparer at Liberty Tax Services tuition free school & earn income. mandyleej@yahoo.com

Career Planning

1630

AFFORDABLE

TRAINING CENTRE

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

EquipmentHeavy

FREE KITTENS Four - 8 weeks old, Three - 4 months old. Call 403-887-2743

4020

Houses For Sale

3190

Mobile Lot

1830

217865

Maintenance Person

1590

Start your career! See Help Wanted

MICHENER, 4 bdrm., single garage, . 2 baths, family room, 5 appls. yard, no pets, n/s, $1350, 318-0136 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

3050

GUITAR LESSONS GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, Houses Lovely 3 level exec. 3 M mens shirts, 2 pair Experienced musician/music D.D. $825, 1 BDRM., 3 bdrm. townhouse casual pants 42”/32”, 7 teacher accepting new For Sale $740, N/S, no pets, no 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, pairs mens work socks all students for guitar lessons. partiers, avail immed.. concrete patio, blinds, THE TASTY BAKERY for $10; brown M. Wran- For more info call Mark BLACKFALDS By Owner, 1-403-200-8175 front/rear parking, no dogs, F/T OPPORTUNITY gler (Boulet) jacket $40; 4 403-340-1619 New Starter Home. Unique n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Production Person knitted toques $8/ea; 4 bi-level, walk-out bsmt. LARGE, 2 & 3 BDRM. Avail. Nov. 1. knitted slippers $7/ea; CaEXP. PREFERRED. FOR SALE OR SUITES. 25+, adults only 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 bella bib pants L, orange 5 DAY WK. RENT TO OWN. Cats $20 403-314-2026 No early mornings, 403-348-9746, 746-5541 SOUTHWOOD PARK No late nights 3110-47TH Avenue, HANDMADE NORTHERN FREE Weekly list of No Sundays. 3 BREEDS OF FANCY 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, Cottage/ parka, size 16, teal with fur properties for sale w/details, Apply in person at: KITTENS. 403-887-3649 generously sized, 1 1/2 Seasonal lined hood and outer purprices, address, owner’s Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive ple shell, knee length, exc . baths, fenced yards, BEAUTIFUL kittens , beauphone #, etc. 342-7355 (directly behind Nutters) full bsmts. 403-347-7473, cond., $75, Nygard blazer, tiful colors, need loving PALM SPRINGS 2 bdrm Help-U-Sell of Red Deer Sorry no pets. women’s size 18, dark homes, Also White & gold g a t e d c o n d o N o v D e c www.homesreddeer.com purple, 70% wool, like new kitten to give away call www.greatapartments.ca $1600/mo No pets, N/S , Mason Martin Homes has $25, 403-347-5846 utils incl . 403-986-4119 403-782-3130

PROFESSIONAL CABINET INSTALLER: 10 yrs. cabinets & countertops 30 yrs. carpentry exp. Req’s contract employment. Dean 403-350-0315 LOOKING for laborers and flaggers for road construction. Fax 403-309-0489

1530

WOOD DINING TABLE. 2 Leafs, 4 matching chairs. Good shape. $150. 403-347-5912

3020

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

264152J1-K30

Misc. Help

1720

Houses/ Duplexes

263817I27-J28

Household Furnishings

3020

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classiﬁeds 403-309-3300 classiﬁeds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

Cleaning

1070

LET ME CLEAN FOR YOU!!

Eavestroughing

1130

WINTER PREP SPECIAL Starting @ $100. 403-391-2169

Escorts

1165

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT BEAUTIFUL college girl ROXY 403-848-2300

EDEN

I’ll condition your fine leath- 587-877-7399 10am- 2am ers, oil your furniture, do EROTICAS PLAYMATES dishes and laundry too!! Girls of all ages I’ll bring supplies, $25/hr., www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-746-3525 Noella 403-598-3049

Contractors

is expanding its facility to double production.

Black Cat Concrete

Sidewalks, driveways, garages, patios, bsmts. RV pads. Dean 403-505-2542

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269

MIKE’S Refresh Painting Interior specialist. (403) 350-6958

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE

Feeling overwhelmed? Hard work day? Come in and let us pamper you. Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave.(rear entrance if necessary) www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels 403-986-6686

Misc. Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal. No household appliances 403-396-8629

DALE’S Home Reno’s. Free estimates for all your reno needs. 755-9622 cell 506-4301 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.

Handyman Services

F & J Renovations. We do it all. Good rates and references available so call John at 403-307-3001 jbringleson@shaw.ca GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch. Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. On holiday- reopen Sept. 28 348-5650

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations. 403-342-7801.

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. We do fencing, decks, reno’s CONCRETE work. Over landscape and more. Give 25 yrs. exp. 587-877-2934 us a buzz @ 403-598-3857 Free quotes. WCB, insured. Kitchen renovations Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648

265251J30

TIM LLOYD. WETT certified. Inspections, installs, chimney sweeps & service 403-340-0513

Painters/ Decorators

Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned. 403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

COUNTERTOPS

Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

1175

1280

1200

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

- Concrete Batch Plant Operator - Concrete Finishers - Carpenters/Woodworkers - Steel Reinforcement Labourers - Overhead Crane Operators - General Labourers - Site Supervisor - Quality Control Personnel

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

1100

Fireplaces

Massage Therapy

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

PAINTING BY DAVE Interior, Exterior, New Construction. Comm/Indust. 2 Journeyman w/over 50 yrs exp. %15 discount for seniors. Free estimates. All work guaranteed. 403-307-4798

Personal Services

1315

Sylvan Lake Respite Care Services Forrest Services Ltd. 4910-47th Ave S. L. Private Rms, full baths, meals, snacks, laundry, rec, etc. Call Rob - Aspen House 403-864-4910 403-506-1177

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small reno’s or jobs, such as, new bathroom sink, toilets or trimming small trees. Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship in home or in facility. Call 403-346-7777 Better For Cheaper with a Low Price Guarantee. helpinghandshomesupport.com

Yard Care

1430

SECOND 2 NONE Fall Clean-up & odd jobs, 403-302-7778

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 Cottages/Resort Property

4130

5030

Cars

2005 MINI COOPER FWD, REDUCED! LAKE FRONT PROPERTY 77596 kms., $17888 348-†2300 sqft home on 10 acres 8788 Sport & Import $395,000. 10 min from Ponoka. Fishing, swimming & boating at your back door. See welist.com #47984.† MLS C3526876. Call 403-519-6773† Email: brettie@platinum.ca

Businesses For Sale

4140

SUV's

5040

2011 TRAVERSE LTZ AWD 19472 kms., $35,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2005 HONDA ACCORD 2009 FORD FLEX SEL EXL sunroof, $12888 348- AWD $18888 7620 - 50 8788 Sport & Import AVE Sport & Import

HUGE GARDEN BUSINESS LIQUIDATION AUCTION.

5050

Trucks

1986 CHEV 1/2 TON 4X4, new tires, rally rims, all new body panels, muffler, shocks, 350 crate eng., 350 turbo tranny, frame off resto, exc. paint, undercoated box and cab, offers, call 403-357-4076.

Vans Buses

5070

2001 CHRYSLER Caravan, exc. . loaded, $2900, obo owner, 403-396-9369.

Sat. Oct. 13, 20 km west of Olds on hwy#27. Landscape supplies, greenhouse equipment, tools, pots, statuary, trees, bagged soil, water barrels, antiques, much more 2004 IMPALA SS FWD, Viewing Thur 11th - Fri 12th supercharged V-6, $10888 348-8788 Sport & Import

Lots For Sale

4160

FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe. Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820

2008 MITSUBISHI Outlander XLS $12888 1998 GMC Safari. 153,503 348-8788 Sport & Import km. AWD, V6, tow pkg. Exc. Central Alberta’s Largest cond. $4500. 403-343-9366 Car Lot in Classifieds 1998 FORD Windstar 7 passenger, 3.8, 144,000 kms, very good cond. $2900 SOLD! SOLD!

2008 JEEP LIBERTY Sport 4X4 $16,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5020

2004 BMW 330 convertible lthr.,$13,888 7620 - 50 Ave Sport & Import

2007 PATHFINDER LE AWD, lthr., $18888 3488788 Sport & Import

I LOVE ARIZONA! 2005 Gulf Stream. 1 owner. Beautiful cond. $84,000. 780-372-2079 1980 21’ BRAVE. New tires, awning, hot water heater & fridge. $5500. 403-340-8964

Tires, Parts Acces.

1977 Lincoln Continental mint, new cond, only 7000 orig. miles. “You won’t believe your eyes” $27,500 Call Keith 403-350-5346

2001 MERCEDES-BENZ S430 $17,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

1984 CORVETTE new engine , alum.heads, $ 11 8 8 8 7 6 2 0 - 5 0 Av e , Sport & import

1968 CORVETTE 427, auto, documented, RARE, bronze/orange, 348-8788 Sport & Import

2011 CAMARO RS/2SS , LS3, 2104 kms., $41,888 348-8788 Sport & Import 2009 CHRYSLER 300C 5.7 litre Hemi LIKE NEW! Loaded 70,000 kms $19,500. 403-782-5070

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

2005 ESCALADE AWD l t h r. d v d $19,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 MERCEDES-BENZ ML 320 AWD, turbo diesel, nav., $39888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

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 WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

PUBLIC NOTICES

www.garymoe.com

has relocated to

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519 SCRAP ATTACK, auto salvage & scrap metal. 403-598-6536, 4845 79 St.

Vehicles Wanted To Buy 2006 LAND ROVER HSE AWD, lthr., nav., $28888 7620-50 Av Sport & Import

5180

CAR TOP Carriers for car. (2). $25. pr. 587-272-0937 Red Deer FOUR 265 70R 17 Michelin Ice Tires. As new. $600. 403-347-7806

Auto Wreckers 2007 BMW X5 AWD,heads up, lthr., sunroof, $31,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

5030

2007 HONDA CR-V LX Sport $14888 348-8788 Sport & Import

1999 PONTIAC Grand Am loaded, clean 403-348-2999

1976 NOVA 2 DR. 400 small block, $8000, 403-704-3714

Cars

5100

2004 CELICA GT FWD, lthr., sunroof, $12,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

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Antique & Classic Autos

Motorhomes

2004 HUMMER H2 lthr., nav., $19888 348-8788 Sport & Import

Public Notices

6010

NOTICE To Creditors And Claimants Estate of 2007 LINCOLN MARK LT 4X4, lthr., sunroof, nav., 89083 kms, $26,888 3488788 Sport & Import

216751

SUV's

5040

2010 WHITE Chev Traverse 62,000 kms, $21,900 command start, blk. cloth interior, n/s, exc. cond. 403-885-5262 2006 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2.0T FWD, 4 cyl turbo $13888 348-8788 Sport & Import

Cars

2004 ESCAPE LTD. lthr., AWD, sunroof, $9888 348-8788 Sport & Import

5030

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Premium Package Grab it While it’s HOT

“THE WHEEL DEAL”

2 0 0 3 H y u n d a i Ti b u r o n FWD106300 kms., $7888 7620-50 Av Sport & Import 2002 FORD EXPLORER, Eddie Bauer edit. fully loaded, exc, shape, $7500 obo 403-340-2042

Trucks

5050

EDWARD ALLEN TRAUTMAN who died on the 2nd day of October 2010 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by November 19, 2012 with Siewert Bothwell at 200, 4922 52 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 2C8 and provide details of your claim. If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

Notice to Creditors and Claimants In the estate of

MERLYNN MARVIN HECK

(also known as MERLE HECK), late of the City of Red Deer, in the province of Alberta, who died on the 16 day of February, A.D. 2011 2007 GMC Sierra SLE I f y o u h a v e a c l a i m 1500 4X4 $19,888 against this Estate, you 348-8788 Sport & Import must file your claim by November 10, 2012 with

Messrs. Ross, Todd & Company,

5 LINE PHOTO AD (1 Line in BOLD print) 1 WEEK IN THE RED DEER ADVOCATE & 1 Insertion In These Community Papers: BASHAW, CASTOR, CENTRAL AB LIFE PONOKA, RIMBEY,STETTLER, WEEKENDER, SYLVAN, ECKVILLE

PLUS *WEDNESDAY’S FASTTRACK PHOTO AD and

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$84.21

Includes GST - additional lines extra charge (REGULAR PRICE $141.14)

2003 F150 Sport trac 4x4 Crewcab, fully loaded, leather seats, sun roof & box cover. Good shape, mech. inspected $6800. 403-348-9746

Barristers & Solicitors, P.O. BOX 1330, 124 2nd Avenue West, Hanna, Alberta, T0J 1P0 if you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Find the right fit. Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

CALL 309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

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CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

Republicans insist Libya security was inadequate THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Four weeks before the U.S. elections, Republicans used a politically charged House hearing to confront State Department officials about security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya and assail the Obama administration’s early response to the killing of the ambassador and three other Americans there. Republican lawmakers refused to accept the department’s explanation Wednesday that protection judged adequate for the threat was overwhelmed by an unprecedented assault in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. They also rejected Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy’s explanation that officials were relying on the best intelligence available in characterizing the attack afterward as stemming from a protest over an anti-Islam Internet video rather than a deliberate, planned act of terrorism. A top State official acknowledged she had declined to approve more U.S. security as violence in Benghazi spiked, saying the department wanted to train Libyans to protect the consulate. “I made the best decisions I could with the information I had,” said Charlene R. Lamb, a deputy assistant secretary for diplomatic security. Regardless of allegations of blame, there is no dispute over the tragic result. U.S. Ambassa-

dor Chris Stevens and three other Americans — including two former Navy SEALs — were killed in what administration officials now describe as an act of terrorism. In statements immediately after the attack, neither President Barack Obama nor Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton mentioned terrorism. And both gave credence to the notion that the attack was related to protests about the privately made anti-Islam video. “Some have sought to justify this vicious behaviour as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet,” Clinton said on the night of the attack. “The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.” Five days later, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said her best information at the time was that the attack stemmed from a protest that became violent. President Barack Obama, asked on ABC about the changing accounts of what instigated the attack, said the information was evolving. “As information came in, information was put out, the information may not have always been right the first time,” he said.

“These are people I know, and if there is something to be fixed, it will get fixed.” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday that in hindsight “there is no question that the security was not enough to prevent that tragedy from happening. There were four Americans killed.” Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee tried to blame Republicans for cutting more than $300 million in diplomatic security funds worldwide. “The fact is that, since 2011, the House has cut embassy security by hundreds of millions of dollars below the amounts requested by the president,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee’s senior Democrat. Lamb, the official in charge of protecting U.S. embassies and consulates, told the committee, “We had the correct number of assets in Benghazi at the time of 9-11.” Rep. Dan Burton, a Republican, asked Lamb if she turned down requests for more security in Benghazi. “Yes sir, I said personally I would not support it,” she replied. “We were training local Libyans and army men” to provide security, a policy in force at U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world. Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, a Republican, retorted there was “as much as 30 per cent turnover in the people you were training.”

Korean authorities searched man but didn’t inspect luggage by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — South Korean security officials screened a man with a bulletproof vest before he got on a flight to Los Angeles, but they never detected a banned smoke grenade concealed in his checked luggage with a cache of knives, handcuffs, a gas mask and other weapons, a U.S. official said Wednesday. Yongda Huang Harris and his carryon luggage were thoroughly searched, but authorities found nothing suspicious and he boarded the flight, said a Homeland Security official briefed on the investigation. Harris, 28, was arrested in Los Angeles last week during a stopover on a trip from Japan after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers noticed the bulletproof vest. A search of Harris’ checked luggage uncovered the smoke grenade and an array of suspicious items, including leg irons, body bags, a hatchet, billy clubs, a collapsible baton, duct tape and a biohazard suit. U.S. officials were working with South Korean authorities to determine how the grenade slipped through screening. Harris is not co-operating with federal officials who are trying to determine why he was headed to Boston with the cache of weapons, authorities said. The smoke grenade was X-rayed by police bomb squad officers, who said the device fell into a category that is prohibited on board passenger aircraft. Tom Blank, a former deputy administrator at the Transportation Security Administration, said the U.S. will likely look at whether the failure to detect the grenade on a U.S.-bound jet was a one-time lapse or part of a wider security vulnerability. If the U.S. determines a country’s airport doesn’t meet U.S. standards, it can ask for stronger security measures and even prohibit flights from flying directly to the U.S. from that country. “This clearly looks like an error. Something slipped through that should not have slipped through,” Blank said of the grenade. Many of the other belongings authorities say they found in Harris’ luggage — including the hatchet and knives — wouldn’t violate TSA guidelines for property in checked luggage. Also, bulletproof vests and flameresistant pants like the ones Harris was wearing aren’t listed among prohibited items aboard flights. There is no indication that Harris, who does not have a criminal record, is linked to a terrorist organization or planned to damage the plane, and it’s not likely a smoke grenade could bring down the aircraft, the federal official said. But the smoke grenade is banned from planes under the United Nations’ explosives shipping rules. Depending on the conditions when it is ignited, the grenade could fill the cabin with smoke or cause a fire, officials said. Customs officers believed that the lead-filled, leather-coated billy clubs

and collapsible baton might be prohibited by California law, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court. Rules, or the lack of them, that govern what passengers can do, carry or wear on flights can seem alternately reasonable or unfathomable. Increased airline security after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks sought to armour flights against terrorist threats, but they can also test credulity for those getting on board. An intrusive pat-down by security or the discovery of a too-big bottle of tanning lotion can leave a passenger feeling violated, while Harris, outfitted in a bulletproof vest, flame-retardant pants and knee pads underneath a trenchcoat, with a concealed arsenal in his luggage, appears to have triggered no suspicion before arriving in Los Angeles. Harris has been charged with one count of transporting hazardous materials, an offence that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. He made a brief court appearance Tuesday but his arraignment was delayed until Friday and he was ordered held until then. Harris is a U.S. citizen whose permanent residence is in Boston, though he recently started living and working in Japan, officials said. Attempts to reach Harris’ family in Boston were unsuccessful. His attorney, Steven Seiden, was unavailable, said spokesman Chris Williams, who described Harris as very intelligent, earning A’s in high school and college calculus. Harris travelled from Kansai, in western Japan, to Incheon, South Korea, before landing in Los Angeles. Security at Japanese airports is similar to the U.S. They use metal detectors and X-ray screening on every person and every bag, both checked and carry-on. Airport and immigration officials at Kansai International Airport said Wednesday that airlines are primarily responsible for luggage inspection, but no problematic cases have been reported recently. An immigration officer at Kansai, Masahiro Nakamoto, said authorities did not report anything suspicious at the time Harris boarded, but arriving passengers are checked more closely than those leaving the country. Spokesman Keisuke Hamatani said Kansai security officials had not reported any suitcases containing the hazardous materials U.S. authorities say they found in Harris’ luggage. Yasunori Oshima, an official at Japan’s Land and Transport Ministry’s aviation safety department, said there had been no official inquiry or request from U.S. authorities to look into the case, which he said would have been more of a concern if the hazardous materials were brought on board rather than checked. “The case does not seem to pose any immediate concerns about aviation security measures in Japan,” he said. Airport police said they do not believe the case constitutes illegal conduct under the Japanese domestic criminal code, but Japan may co-operate at the request of U.S. investigators.

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Court frees Egypt ‘camel attack’ loyalists BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — An Egyptian court on Wednesday acquitted 24 loyalists of ousted President Hosni Mubarak who had been accused of organizing one of the most dramatic attacks on protesters during last year’s uprising, the “Camel Battle,” in which assailants on horses and camels charged into crowds in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The 24 were found innocent on charges of manslaughter and attempted murder. The defendants included some of the biggest names of Mubarak’s regime, including the former parliament speaker and the head of the now-dissolved ruling party, along with government ministers and businessmen. A 25th defendant died during the course of the trial. The Feb. 2, 2011 assault left nearly a dozen people killed and was a major turning point in the 18-day wave of protests that led to Mubarak’s downfall. It came a day after Mubarak spoke on national television, saying he would eventually step down. The emotional speech won him sympathy and drained the numbers of protesters in a days-long sit-in in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the heart of the uprising. But then the attack came. A crowd of Mubarak supporters waded into the young activists at the sit-in. Amid the melee, a number of men on horses and camels swept in, trying to beat and trample protesters. The assault, widely aired on TV, turned into an all-out battle that lasted two days, with more protesters flooding into the square to defend it in clashes that saw the two sides pelting each other with stones, bricks and firebombs. In the end, the Mubarak supporters were driven away. The attack and the images of young protesters fighting back reversed sympathies and galvanized the uprising. Many Egyptians who were sitting on the fence saw it as a desperate last ditch attempt to crush the revolt, and many accused Mubarak officials and pro-regime businessmen of paying thugs to carry out the attack. The wave of protests grew and on Feb. 11, 2011, Mubarak was forced out. Judge Mustafa Abdullah said the defendants were acquitted because the testimony of the witnesses was weak and “driven by grudges between witnesses and the defendants due to partisan differences.” Abdullah also said some of the witnesses had criminal records, including one who had a record of perjury. Despite the list of known victims, the judge said he trusted the testimony of a general who was a member of the council that ruled Egypt during the transition, who said that no one was killed in the square during the battle. The defendants’ lawyers had asked for an acquittal because they said there was not enough evidence incriminating their clients. An official in the prosecutor general’s office said an attorney has been commissioned to review the reasons for the verdict, a sign it will likely ap-

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In this Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, pro-government demonstrators, some riding camels and horses and armed with sticks, clash with anti-government demonstrators in Tahrir square, the center of anti-government demonstrations, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s state news agency said Wednesday that a Cairo court has acquitted 25 loyalists of ousted President Hosni Mubarak loyalists who had been accused of organizing an attack in which assailants on horses and camels charged into crowds of anti-regime protesters last year. peal. A senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed el-Beltagi, said in comments published on its party’s online newspaper that the acquittal is a “farce” and called on Egypt’s new president, the Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi to intervene to retry the defendants. Gamal Eid, a human rights lawyer whose centre was involved in the case, said some evidence presented to the court was not taken into consideration and other evidence was tampered with. Some witnesses in the case changed their testimony from what they had given earlier to investigators, Eid said, blaming pressure from still powerful ex-regime loyalists. Activists are planning a large rally on Friday criticizing Morsi’s 3-monthold rule, and the acquittals of some of the most hated figures of Mubarak’s regime are likely to fuel calls for justice. Nearly 1,000 protesters were killed in the uprising against Mubarak, mostly during clashes with security forces in the early days of the protests, which began on Jan. 25, 2011. But almost none of the officials and policemen brought to trial for the deaths have been found guilty. Most were released for lack of evidence and poor investigation. Mubarak

was sentenced to life in prison for failing to stop the violence. Lawyers and activists have questioned the impartiality of the investigations into the killings, which were conducted in the days following the uprising by Mubarak-era officials who still held their posts and by police officers embittered by the protests. The multiple acquittals have fueled calls for reforming the judiciary, which is still made up of judges appointed under Mubarak. Morsi has promised to hold new trials on new evidence and appointed a new fact-finding mission to investigate the deaths of protests. Ahmed Ragheb, a human rights lawyer who is participating in the factfinding mission, said Wednesday’s verdict was not a surprise, considering numerous flaws in the procedures leading up to the trial and reported pressures on witnesses and investigating judges from ex-regime officials. “The acquittal doesn’t mean this didn’t happen or that so and so did not commit the crime. It means the evidence is not enough,” he said. “This is the case in most of the other trials concerning the killing of protesters, because the police, who are accused in the killings, are the ones collecting evidence.” Ragheb said the fact-finding mission has collected new evidence, but

that anything short of an overhaul of the judicial system would not mete out justice for the protesters. “The current judicial system is not qualified to try the state. It is part of it,” he said. “We need a new justice system that can protect the revolution,” and implement a system of transitional justice to bring former regime officials to trial. Chief among the defendants in the “Camel Battle” trial was Safwat elSherif, one of Mubarak’s most trusted aids and secretary-general of Mubarak’s National Democratic Party, and Fathi Sorour, who served for decades as speaker of parliament. Last year, a government-appointed commission investigating the Feb. 2 events released findings, based on testimony from 87 witnesses. The commission said el-Sherif masterminded the attack, making phone calls to ruling party lawmakers and their supporters and telling them to “curb anti-Mubarak protests in Tahrir Square with violence.” “The eyewitnesses said that there was a specific assignment to clear the square by any means,” the report said. Sorour paid thugs anywhere from 50 to 500 Egyptian pounds ($9 to $90) and provided them with meals and drugs to attack the crowd, the commission said.

Report refutes belief rape increaingly used as weapon BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A new report by Canadian researchers challenges the widespread belief that rape is increasingly being used as a “weapon of war.” The report released Wednesday by a research team from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver said there is no compelling evidence to support this belief or claims by senior U.N. officials, U.N. reports and others that sexual violence in wartime is increasing. There is also no compelling evidence that the extreme level of sexual violence in a small number of war-affected countries including Congo, Liberia and Sudan is shared in other conflict zones, the report said. But Sebastian Merz, associate director of the project that produced the 2012 Human Security Report report, told reporters at a news conference that there is evidence, which is largely overlooked, that the most common perpetrators of sexual violence in wartime are husbands, partners or other family members — not combatants. While the majority of perpetrators in wartime sexual violence are men and the vast majority of victims are women and girls, he said recent studies have shown that both male victims and female perpetrators may be more numerous than is generally believed, which is almost never mentioned. The report said there is a minimal amount of data on wartime sexual violence despite the huge increase in international attention in the past two decades. As a result, it said, “highly misleading assumptions about the scope and intensity of sexual violence in war-affected countries have become widely

accepted in the media, in the U.N. and other international agencies, and in the advocacy community.” The researchers urged the international community to become more serious about collecting and using reliable data on sexual violence in conflicts. Professor Andrew Mack, the project director, said it’s astonishing that 12 years after the U.N. Security Council passed a landmark resolution calling for increased protection of women and girls during war and prosecution of perpetrators responsible for rape and other crimes against women “the U.N. has no idea of how widespread sexual violence is in today’s wars — nor whether it is increasing or decreasing.” Merz stressed that the report does not question the important of the issue or suggest that less attention or resources should be devoted to wartime sexual violence which he said “constitutes a very severe assault on human security and poses a grave threat to all those living in conflict-affected areas.” “But we need a better understanding of the nature and extent of wartime sexual violence,” he said. Nonetheless, Merz said, even the limited evidence available poses serious challenges to the widely accepted views on the problem. While there is a huge amount of literature on the intentional use of rape as a weapon of war by governments and rebels to advance military and political goals, the report said, “no evidence has been produced to support assertions that it has increased.” On the contrary, it said, “some evidence suggests that its incidence is less prevalent than claimed, and that it may have declined in recent years.” The report cited the Serbian rape campaign in Bosnia in the early 1990s as “perhaps the most notorious recent case” but said overall “the evidence suggests that strategic rape is the exception rather

than the rule in most conflicts.” In Congo, for example, the report said there have been frequent assertions by high-ranking U.N. officials and others that rape is being used as a weapon of war. But it cited a 2010 study by Sweden’s Nordic Africa Institute where government soldiers and officers made clear that sexual violence wasn’t part of any military strategy. The report said that in Congo “a major part of the reason for the high levels of sexual violence appears to be that the military command system is too dysfunctional, disorganized, fragmented, and corrupt to prevent undisciplined, and often unpaid, troops from indulging in opportunistic looting and rape on a large scale.” The disproportionate attention on the small number of countries with high levels of sexual violence perpetrated by combatants has created the impression that these extraordinary high levels of rape are characteristic of all war-affected countries, but the report said they are not. The majority of war-affected countries, with much lower levels of sexual violence, just aren’t discussed, it said. As for reports that sexual violence is increasing worldwide, the researchers said, “hardly any evidence has been produced to support the claim.” “However, some of the limited indirect evidence available suggests that the level of combatant-perpetrated sexual violence in war-affected countries has declined worldwide,” it said. “But to the best of our knowledge, no U.N. report or senior official has ever hinted that this is even a possibility.” The report was funded by the governments of Britain, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland and the UBS Optimus Foundation.

Tainted shot blamed in 2002 meningitis outbreak BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The compounding pharmacy suspected in a deadly meningitis outbreak settled a lawsuit alleging it produced a tainted shot that caused a man’s death in 2004, while a pharmaceutical firm with common owners was accused this summer of failing to separate sterile and non-sterile supplies. Officials have identified Framingham, Massachusetts, based-New England Compounding Center as the source of steroid shots suspected in the outbreak of rare fungal meningitis that has killed

at least 12 people and made more than 130 others sick. Allegations of a shot tainted with a different form of meningitis were at the heart of a lawsuit filed against the company over the 2004 death. An 83-year-old man died about a year and a half after receiving a shot produced by the company. And another drug company that has some of the same owners, Ameridose LLC, was accused by a business customer this year of failing to separate sterile and non-sterile products in its warehouse. Ameridose, based in Westborough, Massachusetts,

agreed to temporarily stop its compounding and manufacturing operations as a precaution while regulators inspect its facilities, but the measure is being done as a precaution, not because of evidence of contamination, officials said Wednesday. Andrew Paven, a spokesman for both companies, said: “Ameridose is a separate entity from New England Compounding Center, with distinct operational management.” “We have separate production facilities, separate processes and operate at separate locations in different cities. Although there is common

ownership, the two companies operate under separate registrations and different licensure,” the statement from Paven said. A 2004 lawsuit filed in upstate New York’s Monroe County claimed that New England Compounding Center produced the shot that infected William Koch with bacterial meningitis at Rochester General Hospital on July 17, 2002. Koch died Feb. 28, 2004, at the age of 83. The lawsuit complaint said the shot was the source of Koch’s meningitis, but did not explain how that determination was made.

Bacterial meningitis is contagious and much more common than the fungal meningitis involved in the current outbreak. Fungal meningitis is more difficult to catch, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The compounding pharmacy reached a settlement with Koch’s widow in 2007 before the case went to trial, according to her lawyer Mark S. Nunn. He declined to elaborate Wednesday because the terms were confidential. “Really all I can say is that the case settled prior to trial,” Nunn said.

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Road rage used to bully, abuse Dear Annie: My husband is a wonderful man in almost every respect. But when we are in the car together, he uses road rage to manipulate me into agreeing to things I don’t want. He’ll drive threateningly if I don’t say it’s OK for him to take that fishing trip or go to a movie. When he is MITCHELL the driver, & SUGAR he controls everyone because we are dependent on him. I have pointed this out to him, but it always ends in a terrible fight. Worse, he punishes me by saying, “I will never take that trip again,” or “I won’t go to that movie with you.” He accuses me of provoking him. My husband’s nephew was the target of the same abuse when we traveled together recently. The boy was behaving like an angel, when suddenly my husband became enraged and demanded all sorts of concessions from his nephew. For the longest time, I didn’t realize what was going on. I thought he just couldn’t handle driving. What I didn’t understand is that he uses road rage as a form of bullying and abuse. I don’t know how I was so blind for so many years. It is the perfect tool to get away with whatever he wants. It also is a form of torture, because he makes us feel responsible should he have an accident. I don’t know whether we will ever go on another trip together or even to a movie, but I am willing to go by myself or with a friend -- and my husband knows it. I have no idea where our marriage is headed after 24 years, but I am preparing myself to do whatever it takes. I don’t believe he would go for counseling, but I refuse to let him drive me anywhere ever again. — Virginia Wife Dear Virginia: You are wise not to get into a car with this maniac. Since your husband is “wonder-

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ful” when he isn’t driving, however, please reconsider counseling. You don’t know how he will respond until you ask and make it clear how unhappy you are about such manipulative, controlling behavior. (But go in separate cars.) Dear Annie: Members of my family love to extend invitations to birthday parties at a restaurant of their choice, and they expect you to bring a gift and pay for your own meal. It is my understanding that the host handles the food bill in expectation that the guests will bring gifts and have a great time. This is the way I have known it to be done. Now that I live in the South, social etiquette among my family members has become strained and has caused me to decline invitations. — Confused in N.C. Dear Confused: The hosts should pay for the food. Unfortunately, many folks don’t realize this or don’t care. In your case, however, you already know that your relatives expect you to foot your own bill, so consider these invitations “pot luck” and accept or decline according to your preference. Dear Annie: I’m sorry it has taken me this long to reply to “Clueless on Cancer Etiquette.” It is refreshing to hear from someone who cares enough not to ask the wrong questions. I’m an 87-year-old WW II veteran with stage 4 cancer. I’d suggest “Clueless” be friendly, caring and cheerful, and not ask about their illness. Let them open the conversation about cancer if they want to discuss it. We want our friends to behave the same as always so we can enjoy each other’s company. When my wife was sick with cancer, her so-called “friends” stayed away as if she were contagious. Only one made any attempt to cheer her up by having breakfast with her every day. That was the only food my wife would eat, as she was otherwise too depressed. Thank you, “Clueless,” for your thoughtfulness. — Mike Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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As the days get shorter and the temperatures get cooler, many migratory birds are beginning to get a little restless. The Pond at McKenzie Trails Recreation Area in Red Deer is a natural staging area for geese and other water fowl as they prepare to make the trip south for the winter. There should, however, be another few weeks of bird watching to do before the waterways freeze up and the bulk of the birds make their flight to warmer climes.

place or attend one at someone else’s place. Familiar surroundings and social events are strongly linked right now. You may wish to beautify your home environment as well. Thursday, Oct. 11 GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A female relaCELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: tive, most likely your mother, the bond beStephen Moyer, 43; Jane Krakowski, 44; tween you two will be pleasant and you’ll Joan Cusack, 50 each enjoy each other’s comTHOUGHT OF THE DAY: pany. You’ll feel emotionally nurMidday, the Moon will move from tured. Your sensitivity and care Leo into Virgo. The emphasis will will be pretty deep. be on our orderly lives, habits, CANCER (June 21-July 22): hygiene and health. An opposYou will feel like taking your time ing aspect from Neptune in Piand relaxing today. A beautiful sces will provoke us not to folpoem or some nice flattering low this pattern and deviate from words cool easily woo you. Howreality. Let’s remain focused and ever, work responsibilities and grounded. obligations will remind you that HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You love such persuasion is just a satisfyto love. Sacrifice will be required ing break from your usual tasks. more in a relationship you deDon’t get too overwhelmed by cide to engage in. You will give ASTRO the office tasks and do take a more than receive. Private and DOYNA well deserved break by doing clandestine affairs appeal to you. something different today. Your intuition and your imaginaLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your tion are very pronounced this communication sector is highly coming year. illuminated these days. Interactions will be ARIES (March 21-April 19): Following a multiple, abundant and very resourceful. Build particular diet or a health routine could prove new relationships and keep up with the old to be more challenging than you thought. ones as they can open up new opportunities You will be tempted to put aside your proper in the long run. Pick up the phone and catch habits, break a schedule and indulge yourself up with the childhood folks or learn a new skill in unhealthy behaviours. Remind yourself that of your interest. what you do now will have consequences in VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Behind closed the years to come. doors you are thinking of shielding your TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s possible wealth and protecting your possessions. For that you might host a small gathering at your now, you prefer to keep a low profile and just

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focus on what is really of value to you. Stability and reassurance is what counts at this point. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The typical Libra loves to show their affection to others. These days, you prefer to keep your love life private and intimate and perhaps, be tempted to engage yourself in some forbidden love affair. Be careful not to hurt yourself in the end. You deserve a real partnership. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will not take anything at face value. You require honest and transparent communications with the others. Superficial words and false promises turn you off. You require others to be as straightforward as you are. Do not get stingy if others don’t seem too receptive to your commands. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Great initiative and a sense of bravery could lead you to become an activist and associate your-

self with more assertive groups of people. You are affirming your ideals and believe deeply in your causes. A pioneering attitude will empower others to follow your lead. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Appealing to your emotions won’t prove as fruitful as appealing to your common sense, your judgment and your responsibilities. Discipline is your forte point. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Emotionality is not your strong trait, yet today, you will find it hard to detach yourself from money related issues or possessions. Deep experiences will mark this day by aligning yourself with meaningful alliances. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your partner will not share the same point of you as you are. Try to compromise as tendencies will be towards confusion and evading the truth. Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer/columnist.

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It’s said that no news is good news. But what’s the effect of bad news in the media? For women, exposure to negative news stories may make them more reactive to subsequent stressful situations, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One, which did not see that same response in men. Researchers also found that women had a better recollection of information learned from those so-called bad news stories. “Nowadays, we are constantly bombarded with news in the newspaper, the radio, on the TV. “And now with Facebook and online press and Twitter, you are constantly bombarded with information,” said lead author MarieFrance Marin, a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the University of Montreal. “It’s difficult to avoid the news, considering the multitude of news sources out there. “And what if all that news was bad for us? It certainly looks like that could be the case.” To conduct the study, researchers recruited 56 subjects, aged 18 to 35, and divided them into four groups, two for each gender. Each group was given several articles to read from two daily Montreal newspapers. One group of men and a group of women read “neutral” news stories, about subjects such as the opening of a new park or the premiere of a film, while the other two gender-segregated groups read “ bad news” stories, about such events as murders or traffic accidents. Saliva samples were taken from each participant and their levels of the stress hormone cortisol were measured within minutes of having read the stories. The researchers found that cortisol levels were stable in all groups right after reading the articles — no matter the subject matter. Then each participant was put through a series of stressful tasks and their cortisol was measured again. Researchers found the women who had been exposed to negative news were more reactive to this psychosocial stressor, as indicated by elevated cortisol levels, compared with men exposed to bad news and to the males and females who read neutral stories. The next day, all participants were given memory recall tests, said Marin. “The women were able to remember more of the details of the negative stories,” she said. “It is interesting to note that we did not observe this phenomenon amongst the male participants.” The differences between how men and women react when exposed to negative news may be evolutionary, say the researchers. Scientists have speculated that an emphasis on the survival of offspring may have influenced the evolution of the female stress system, leading women to be more empathetic. “So this might be one reason why women were more affected,” Marin said.

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Biweekly payments based on a purchase price of $16,845 on 2012 Chevrolet Orlando LS with $0 down equipped as described. x $750 manufacturer to dealer delivery finance cash available on the 2012 Cruze LS Air & Auto. $4,500 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit available on the 2012 Orlando LS. $11,500 manufacturer to dealer delivery cash credits available on the 2012 Silverado Crew (tax exclusive) for retail customers only. Other cash credits available on most models. See your GM dealer for details. **Cruze LS equipped with 6-speed manual transmission. Based on Natural Resources Canada’s 2012 Fuel Consumption Ratings for the Compact Car class. Excludes hybrid and diesel models. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. *^Based on retail registrations in the 12 months following launch. +The Best Buy seal is a registered trademark of Consumers Digest Communications, LLC, used under license. † Based on most recent competitive data available. †~ For more information visit www.motoringtv.com. †* 2012 Chevrolet Orlando and competitive fuel consumption ratings based on Natural Resources Canada’s 2012 Fuel Consumption Guide. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. †¥2012 Chevrolet Silverado, equipped with available Vortec™ 5.3L V8 engine and 6-speed automatic transmission and competitive fuel consumption ratings based on Natural Resources Canada’s 2012 Fuel Consumption Guide and WardsAuto.com 2012 Large Pickup segment. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. Excludes hybrids and other GM models. ^Whichever comes first. Conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ^^Based on latest competitive data available. ‡‡ To qualify for GMCL’s Cash For Clunkers incentive, you must: (1) turn in a 2006 or older MY vehicle that is in running condition and has been registered and properly insured in your name for the last 3 months (2) turn in a 2006 or older MY vehicle that is in running condition and has been registered and properly insured under a small business name for the last 3 months. GMCL will provide eligible consumers with a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) to be used towards the purchase/finance/lease of a new eligible 2012 or 2013 MY Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon, Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra, or Chevrolet Avalanche delivered between October 2, 2012 and January 2, 2013. Incentive ranges from $1500 to $3,000, depending on model purchased. Incentive may not be combined with certain other offers. By participating in the Cash For Clunkers program you will not be eligible for any trade-in value for your vehicle. See your participating GM dealer for additional program conditions and details. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate program in whole or in part at any time without notice.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

BOSTON — Combined results from two studies of an experimental Alzheimer’s drug suggest it might modestly slow mental decline, especially in patients with mild disease. Taken separately, the studies missed their main goals to significantly slow the mind-robbing disease. But pooled results found 34 per cent less decline in mild Alzheimer’s patients compared to those on a dummy treatment for 18 months. Doctors say the results do not seem strong enough to win approval of the drug now. But they show researchers are on the right track by trying to clear the sticky deposits that clog patients’ brains. The drug is being developed by Eli Lilly & Co. and is called

solanezumab (sol-ah-NAYZ-uhmab). Results were reported Monday at an American Neurological Association conference in Boston. About 35 million people worldwide have dementia, and Alzheimer’s is the most common type. In the U.S., about 5 million have Alzheimer’s. Current medicines such as Aricept and Namenda just temporarily ease symptoms. There is no known cure. Solanezumab is one of three drugs in late-stage testing that seek to alter the course of Alzheimer’s. The two studies each had about 1,000 patients, about twothirds with mild disease and one-third with moderately severe Alzheimer’s, in 16 countries. Their average age was 75.

The main measures were two tests, one reflecting language, memory and thinking and the other, ability to perform daily activities such as eating and grooming. The combined results on the mild disease patients showed a nearly 2-point difference in the roughly 90-point score on thinking abilities. “It’s a small difference,” said Dr. Rachelle Doody of Baylor College of Medicine. She heads a nationwide research network funded by the National Institute on Aging that did an independent analysis of Lilly’s results on the studies and presented them Monday at the conference. Still, “you slow the decline” with the drug, she said. Independent experts agreed. “It’s certainly not the home run we all wanted,

but we’re very encouraged by these results,” said Maria Carillo, senior director of medical and scientific relations for the Alzheimer’s Association, which had no role in the research. A Lilly official said the company will discuss next steps with the Food and Drug Administration. The price of Lilly shares rose more than 2 per cent, or $1.22, to $49.45 in heavy Monday afternoon trading while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell slightly. The shares set a new 52-week high price of $49.78 before retreating slightly. Online: Alzheimer’s info: http://www. alzheimers.gov Alzheimer’s Association: http://www.alz.org

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