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THE HOBBIT IN BOWDEN Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Dwarf David Stacey, 13, is made up by Sophie Graff, 13, before a shoot of the Grade 8 Hobbit movie at Grandview School in Bowden.

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BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF BOWDEN — Lights, camera and action have come to Grandview School in Bowden.

Two Grade 8 classes are making a movie of The Hobbit as part of their language arts studies.

Filming the classic J.R.R. Tolkien novel was teacher Nathan Clark’s way to bring to life the story of Bilbo Baggins, a plump hobbit half the size of a human, whose adventures include dwarves, elves, trolls, wizards and a dragon.

“We have 80 minutes daily for language arts, but we don’t have drama,” Clark explained.

The nearly 40 students involved applied for production and acting roles because “learning job skills is part of the exercise,” said Clark, who acts as director.

They wrote the 10-minute movie’s script to cover a chapter where the main characters take refuge in a cave. A two-car garage behind the school became the set with painted Styrofoam blocks glued to cardboard the cave walls.

Red Deer College Motion Picture Arts students provided lighting and camera work advice.

Using option classes allowed time to make costumes such as chain mail armour fashioned from 40,000 rings cut from PVC pipe.

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A tight budget calls for serious improvisations such as halogen construction lights, donated leather for costumes and a tracking shot dolly made from a door mounted on inline skate wheels.

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer RCMP officer accused of sexual harassment, drinking in the office and driving impaired, is still on the job.

Sgt. Steve Black, who faces a police hearing over the allegations, “is working currently in the detachment and is on duty,” said Cpl. Sarah Knelsen, a spokesperson for Red Deer City RCMP. Knelsen said she couldn’t comment further until she gets more details of the case against Black, who’s in charge of Red Deer’s major crimes unit. “We don’t know the background. I haven’t been privy to that.”

Knelsen said the misconduct allegedly happened in the Red Deer detachment years ago. She said she doesn’t know the officer who made the complaints.

“They were not dealt with through this detachment.”

All further questions were to be directed through the main RCMP K-Division office. But a media spokesman said he could not get any further information on Friday and was hoping to learn more about the case on Monday.

The complaints came to light when Black went to court to try to derail a disciplinary hearing against him, arguing that too long a delay had occurred.

More than 10 months had passed by the time he was served with the notice of a disciplinary hearing.

His issue was that the delay violated a requirement under the RCMP Act that such notices be served “forthwith.”

But a federal judge said this week that it would be premature to rule on Black’s argument since his first avenue of appeal should be to the RCMP commissioner.

According to documents filed in Federal Court, an independent response team began investigating complaints against Black in 2009. The result was that no criminal charges were laid by the Crown.

But in 2010, the RCMP started formal disciplinary proceedings against him. The allegations are that the officer engaged in unwelcome behaviour of a sexual nature with a female subordinate in and out of the workplace.

It is also alleged that he drank alcohol in the workplace and permitted subordinates to do so, and operated an unmarked police car under the influence of alcohol.

Black denied all of the allegations at an initial two-day proceeding before the disciplinary board last April. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Normandeau school grade four teacher Dave Nicholson sports a purple beard on the last day of the month as he and his students put on their best mustaches on Friday. Through the month Nicholson challenged his students to raise at least $50 for the Movember prostate cancer fundraiser and if they did they could colour his beard any colour they wanted. Along with that the students took some time Friday to create mustaches of their own. Nicholson’s class raised a total of $66 while the total for the entire school was $735 which will go to the Canadian Cancer Society’s Movember prostate cancer awareness campaign.

Medical lawsuit in the hands of judge The evidence is “overwhelming” that something happened during dental surgery for a teen with cerebral palsy that left him severely disabled, said a lawyer during a civil trial on Friday.

Calgary lawyer Brian Devlin said there is no evidence of a stroke, tumour or disease that could have left Shawn Gallant, 18 at the time, in the condition he found himself after surgery at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre to remove his wisdom teeth in September 2004.

“What you have here is a young man who goes in for surgery and comes out the other side totally changed,” said Devlin, who is representing Shawn’s parents Paul and Sharon Gallant in a civil lawsuit against Red Deer anesthesiologist Dr. Alayne Farries.

Before surgery, Gallant, who also coped with scoliosis and spastic quadriplegia, attended school in Red Deer, could communicate and enjoyed taking in Red Deer Rebels games. Now, he can no longer communicate, is prone to outbursts and seizure-like events, and can’t operate his electric wheelchair or feed himself.

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oxygen at some point in the surgery or recovery, Devlin said in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Devlin also called into question the credibility of Farries’ testimony on Wednesday. Farries told the court she only became aware in 2008, following a discovery for the lawsuit, that she had given Gallant a typical adult dose of 0.6 milligrams per kilogram of body weight of a neuromuscular blocker anesthetic instead of a lower dose of 0.3 or 0.4 milligrams, which she would typically give a patient with Gallant’s level of cerebral palsy.

That amounts to a “breach of standard of care,” argued Devlin.

Farries’ Calgary lawyer Laurie Goldbach countered that evidence was given in court that the amount of the neuromuscular blocker given to patients can vary and is not always reduced. A larger dose of anesthetic can leave patients feeling weak as they wake up and some may try to dislodge their tracheal tube.

But there is no evidence higher doses cause brain or cognitive damage or that the effects of the anesthetic last, she said.

Goldbach also disputed suggestions that at some point Gallant didn’t get enough oxygen. That would have been a significant event noticed by the up to four people in the operating room and would have triggered monitor alarms. Farries testified that she closely monitored Gallant’s oxygen levels at all times

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and there were no problems, although he took longer to wake than usual.

If something had happened why were no other people who were in the operating room asked to testify, Goldblach asked, suggesting they would not have backed up the lack of oxygen theory.

Hospital records would have shown any evidence there was an oxygen problem, she said. “They don’t, because it didn’t happen.”

Further, there is no medical or scientific evidence pointing to brain damage from a lack of oxygen.

Also, no evidence from medical experts was presented that suggested the standard of care was inadequate.

Goldbach also disputed the claim Gallant’s condition after surgery immediately worsened. Testimony from several doctors who treated him later mentioned his condition getting progressively worse.

Lawyers also made submissions on how much in potential damages could be awarded.

Devlin suggested damages in the range of $2.3 million to $3 million depending on care needs.

The defence suggested a lower amount should be awarded for additional long-term care because Gallant was already receiving 24-hour-a-day care.

Justice Monica Bast reserved her decision until a future undisclosed date. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Above: Technical crew begin a shoot of the Grade 8 Hobbit movie at Grandview School in Bowden.

Below: Dwarf David Niemeyer, 13, is costumed by Chey Cooke, 13, before a shoot of the Grade 8 Hobbit movie at Grandview School in Bowden.

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HOBBIT: ‘Really cool’ A tight budget meant more improvisation: halogen construction lights illuminate the set, donated leather became costumes and Clark made a tracking shot dolly from a door mounted on inline skate wheels.

“I’m trying to get it as real as possible and still cover curriculum.”

Every student blogs their experiences as a learning journal and department heads such as the photography director evaluate themselves as well as their crews.

“It’s chaos, but we all know what’s going on,” said Gurneet Sidhu, 13, the movie’s assistant and casting director, while staging shots.

“This is the way it works. It’s not Hollywood, but it’s fun.”

Chey Cooke, 13, does a bit of everything: hair, makeup, costumes, even helping with lighting.

“It’s something I’ve never done before and it’s really cool. It’s like an extracurricular activity, not like school at all.”

Clark hopes to show portions of the movie before Christmas break, but final filming will take place next spring when he uses a remote control helicopter to shoot aerials near the West Country’s Ya Ha Tinda Ranch as an opening sequence.

Danny Bona, 13, who plays the title role of Bilbo, has found it all thrilling.

“I think this is the best language arts class in the world.” rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

Hobbit facts ● Written by author J.R.R. Tolkien between 1929 and 1936. ● Novel first published in 1937 by Houghton Mifflin. ● Novel is narrated in the third person almost exclusively from Bilbo Baggin’s point of view. ● Story is set in the Third Age of Middle-Earth ● Three films, based on The Hobbit story, are set for release in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The films are co-written and produced by Peter Jackson, who also produced The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy.

Journeys Learning Program hailed as a success

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF In just three months, Journeys Learning Program is making a difference for children with developmental and behavioural issues and their families in Central Alberta.

The classroom for students 11 to 18 years old that opened in September is a collaboration between five school jurisdictions — Red Deer Catholic and Public, Chinook’s Edge, Wolf Creek and Wild Rose — along with Alberta Health Services, Central Alberta Child and Family Services Authority, and Red Deer City RCMP. Blackfalds parent Loretta Hullmann said her 13-year-old son was constantly asked to leave school and had to attend institutional programs elsewhere because of his complex needs.

“His disabilities leave him with the inability to process and (he) becomes

unsafe for himself and others around him,” said Hullmann on Friday at the official launch of Journeys Learning, located at Red Deer Public Alternative School in downtown Red Deer.

“Here, my son is accepted for who he is. They provide a stable, safe and accepting place to be and to learn.”

He’s already made progress on his goal to control his anger.

“He’s my rose with thorns and that’s the reality of his world, yet he’s turning into a beautiful young man with the assistance of the wonderful staff here.”

Seven students attend Journeys Learning from Red Deer, Ponoka, Blackfalds and Red Deer County.

There is room for 10 students.

Staff include four educational assistants and a teacher. Help is available from a children’s mental health therapist, counsellor, psychologist, and a social worker from Child and Family Services.

“The whole wrap-around model of

education, community supports and family support is there and that’s why we’re having, I think, so much success,” said Jodi Goodrick, assistant superintendent of student services with Red Deer Public School District.

At school, these students can’t be in large groups. Their brains work differently so they don’t do well with too much sensory information from their environment, she said.

“The beauty of this space is the space. You’ll see the desks all lined up. They can’t handle anyone even standing behind them or sitting behind them or being behind them.”

Along with a strong focus on individualized programming, students have rooms they can use to calm themselves.

The goal of the program is to transition the youth back into the regular school system.

Journeys Learning cost about $500,000 to develop and run this year, and will operate on an annual budget

of $300,000 to $350,000.

The school districts are each contributing $50,000. AHS and Child and Family Services are providing support staff, and RCMP supply a school resource officer.

“We have a five-year commitment and we hope to grow it and extend it outwards,” Goodrick said.

Alberta Human Services Minister Dave Hancock attended the official launch.

“This program for these children is unique in this area, but you could find similar but different programs in other areas. What we’re trying to do is to make sure that it’s possible for every community to decide what it is that they need for the specific challenges they have,” Hancock said.

“It’s not so much putting money into creating a new program as working together and working in different spaces.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Mather sentencing adjourned until March 2013 Sentencing has been adjourned until March for a Gull Lake man found guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Friday of illegally removing vegetation from the shoreline on his property.

Dale Andrew Mather, who owns two adjoining properties along the waterfront, was charged under a section of the Water Act, which makes it an offence to knowingly or willingly remove vegetation from the bed and shore of a water body without proper approvals.

He was convicted under a section that carries a maximum penalty of $100,000 in fines and two years in prison.

Mather was charged in September 2009 by Alberta Environment investigators following up on information that an excavator had been working on the shoreline in front of his property.

Represented by lawyer Terrance Dawe of Calgary, Mather argued during his trial in June that he had asked

the company hired to work on his property to ensure that all permits were in place, including seeking permission from the village foreman.

Judge Gordon Deck, in reading his decision on Friday, said Mather withheld key information from the operator, including his knowledge that the village did not have the authority to issue permits for excavation or other work on that area of the beach.

The Summer Villlage of Gull Lake had approval from Alberta Environment to groom beaches at a number of specified sites along the lakeshore, Deck said in reading testimony from the trial. However, that approval did not include the section in front of Mather’s house.

The village foreman’s responsibility was limited to carrying out the tasks specified in the approval and did not extend to the rest of the beach, said Deck.

He then turned to Mather’s allegation that he had been a victim of entrapment, arising from an ongoing dis-

pute betweem himself and the summer village.

Deck said Mather’s allegation did not meet the legal definitions, pointing out that the Alberta Environment investigator had warned him a month earlier against damaging or removing shoreline vegetation without proper approval.

Special prosecutor Susan McRory told the court that she will need time to investigate Mather’s financial situation before she can develop a sentencing recommendation.

McRory said she and Dawe plan to negotiate a creative sentencing recommendation that they can then bring back to the court.

Mather is to return for sentencing on March 6.

He is not to be confused with Dale Peter Mather, former chief administrative officer for the Town of Innisfail. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Water system runs afoul of province

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Les’s Trailer Court has been ordered by the province to cease unauthorized groundwater withdrawals.

The trailer court must provide residents with an alternate supply of treated potable water from an approved source.

The enforcement order, dated Nov. 22, was issued under both the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act and the Water Act for unauthorized groundwater withdrawals and approval contraventions at the mobile home park located just west of Red Deer on Burnt Lake Trail.

Under the order, Brero Holdings Ltd. and owner Robert Bresciani of Les’s Trailer Court has three options — drill a new well, construct a new water treatment system, or reclaim the primary well on or before Jan. 31, 2013.

Government must be advised of the intention to abide by one of the options

by Thursday.

Brero Holdings and Bresciani can appeal the enforcement order through the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board.

Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development and Alberta Health Services have been working with the owner to bring the drinking water and wastewater systems into compliance.

Mike Nelson, manager of Les’s Trailer Park, said Friday the water is still

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Jennifer Stoltz clears snow from a car for her mother, Lynette Miller, outside their mobile home in Les’s Trailer Court on Friday. flowing and the issue is in the hands of the trailer park’s lawyer.

“The water is safe. It’s been tested for 30 years,” Nelson said.

On Sept. 13, residents were given one year to leave the premises because the owner said he cannot afford the costly upgrades to the sewer and water

systems.

A boil water advisory was issued Sept. 5 by Alberta Health Services saying the water in the park may be unfit for human consumption because surface water could be getting into groundwater used to supply the park.

The advisory was rescinded Oct. 11.

Nelson said the province is still demanding changes even though the water has been deemed safe.

Resident Myles Tripp said he drinks bottled water.

“The water that comes out of the taps, although the water quality says it’s safe to drink, that would be only if you could get it past your nose,” Tripp said with a laugh.

He’s trying to save money to move to an apartment.

The 72-unit trailer park has been a hot spot for complaints and controversies for more than three decades.

Residents have fought with the owner over park upkeep and safety and sewer concerns.

Tripp said there’s only about 25 residents left.

“A lot of the places in here have been abandoned.”

Resident Lynette Miller said she also drinks bottled water.

“When it smells like bleach we’ll use it. If it doesn’t smell like bleach, it smells like sulfur, and then we don’t use it,” Miller said.

The Advocate was unable to reach owner Robert Bresciani for comment on Friday. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

ATA walks away from tripartite bargaining process

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Public Schools is committed to reaching a deal with its teachers after discussions ended between the provincial government, school boards and Alberta Teachers’ Association.

The public school district issued a news release on Friday, just hours after learning discussions had stopped.

“The board of trustees was supportive of the tripartite process and hopeful that an agreement could be reached to ensure stability and financial certainty,” said the school district.

“Our board is committed to arriving at a contract through local bargaining that will ensure the best learning conditions for students in Red Deer.”

School boards and the Alberta government were surprised when the teachers’ association walked away from talks on Friday. The ATA has presented an offer directly to the provincial government.

Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) President Carol Henderson has called on Premier Alison Redford to accept an offer from the province’s teachers to secure labour peace in all of Alberta’s 62 public, separate and francophone school jurisdictions.

Their offer proposes four years of labour peace and includes two years of zero per cent salary increases.

Alberta School Boards Association President Jacquie Hansen expressed disappointment with the ATA’s decision to step away from the table.

“The ASBA and school boards have been preparing for the possibility that if these talks don’t achieve an agreement – we will be ready to revert to local bargaining – which is how contracts have been achieved and

settled in Alberta for years,” said Hansen in a written response on the ASBA website.

During these provincial discussions, Hansen said the school boards were looking for a deal that would have: supported improved student learning; be funded by government such that school boards would not have to cut other programs to pay for the agreement; and ensure that rural, urban,

metro boards have the flexibility they need to respond to unique local conditions.

Education Minister Jeff Johnson told news media in a conference call that he was disappointed and a little bit shocked with the ATA’s departure from the negotiating table because he had been working with the ATA and the ASBA over the last six months. The province still plans to reach out to the

ATA president, said Johnson.

“If this means that they would prefer to step away from the tripartite table and go back to local negotiations with local school boards, then I want to assure parents and every student out there that this is something we respect and has served us well for over 100 years,” said Johnson. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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Canadian melodic punk band Billy Talent will perform in Red Deer on March 19 as part of its Dead Silence Tour.

The multi-platinumselling group from Mississauga, Ont., has a couple of hits off its fifth Dead Silence album, including Viking Death March and Surprise, Surprise.

Lead vocalist Ben Kowalewicz, lead guitarist Ian D’Sa, bassist Jon Gallant and drummer Aaron Solowoniuk just completed a successful European tour.

Starting in March, Billy Talent will play in 17 centres across Canada, including Red Deer’s Centrium.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show range from $29.50 to $52.75, plus service charges, and go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday through Ticketmaster.

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Canada recalls diplomats over Palestinian vote OTTAWA — The federal government will not cut diplomatic relations with the Palestinians in response to their newly won recognition from the United Nations, but future aid funding could be on the chopping block.

Canada’s $300 million in aid spending to the Palestinians is under review, as Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird readies himself for meetings in Ottawa next week with his senior diplomats from Israel, the West Bank and the UN missions in New York and Geneva.

Baird temporarily recalled the envoys Friday to get their views on the implications of the UN General Assembly vote which granted status to the Palestinians as a non-member observer state.

The Harper government has made it clear, both privately and publicly, that the Palestinians would face repercussions for their pursuit of statehood.

The two most obvious options are severing diplomatic ties and suspending aid contributions to the Palestinian Authority.

“Canada is deeply disappointed but not surprised by yesterday’s result at the United Nations General Assembly,” Baird said in a statement. “Canada will now review the full range of its bilateral relationship with the Palestinian Authority.”

The Harper government has a track record using both diplomatic tools. It recently shuttered the embassies of Syria and Iran, sending their diplomats

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Quebec budget vote passes QUEBEC — Quebecers won’t have to worry about going to the polls in another provincial election in January.

That’s because Finance Minister Nicolas Marceau’s 2013-14 budget survived by a vote of 49-48 in the national assembly on Friday.

PQ members supported it, but the Opposition Liberals and the Coalition party voted against it.

The two parties could have toppled the minority government had their combined 69 members rejected the budget, but the Liberals had previously stated they didn’t want another election and that some of their members wouldn’t turn up for the vote.

As a result, only 28 Liberals voted. They were joined by all 19 members of the Coalition party and one of the two members of the left-leaning Quebec solidaire.

Liberal Sen. Joyce Fairbairn resigns OTTAWA — Liberal Sen. Joyce Fairbairn, who is afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, has resigned her seat in the upper chamber.

Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae announced her

packing and severing ties. One of its first foreign policy acts after winning power six years ago was to freeze its $300-million contribution to the Palestinians after the surprising election win by the political wing of terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza.

Despite Friday’s diplomatic recall, sources say Baird isn’t planning to tell the Palestinian delegation in Ottawa to abandon its mission.

“I can tell you we have no intention at this point of cutting off relations or sending Palestinian diplomats home,” said a senior government official, who would only speak on condition of anonymity.

Baird himself echoed that view in a televised interview with the CBC. But Canada’s five-year, $300-million commitment formally expires early next year, and is therefore under review.

The Palestinian aid money goes towards strengthening its justice system, private sector economic development, and health and education assistance.

Said Hamad, the chief Palestinian representative to Canada, issued a statement late Friday that offered an olive branch to Canada, Israel and the other countries that voted against it.

“The Palestinian Liberation Organization fully respects the votes cast by all member states in the General Assembly, irrespective of whether they were in favour of, abstained from, or were cast against the resolution,” the statement said.

“We will continue to engage all states in order to advance the objective of an independent Palestinian state, living in peace and security side by side with

Israel.”

Hamad also said the UN recognition “does not delegitimize any other state.”

While the government ponders its next moves towards the Palestinians, the aftermath of Thursday’s historic vote left Canada virtually isolated on the world stage.

Canada was joined by Israel and its key ally, the United States, and was among only nine of the UN’s 193 member countries to vote against the Palestinians. Forty-one countries abstained.

The rest of Canada’s voting bloc was rounded out by the Czech Republic, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Panama.

But the widening gap between Canada and the Muslim world was graphically illustrated when Baird scored a prime speaking slot at Thursday’s general assembly vote, delivering a forceful speech — and a No vote — on Canada’s behalf.

Baird was sandwiched between the only two other foreign ministers to get speaking time prior to the vote — his counterparts from Turkey and Indonesia, two key Muslim allies, whose ministers recently visited Ottawa.

Baird hosted Indonesia’s Marty Natalegawa in August and Turkey’s Ahmet Davutoglu in September.

Both countries have been identified as key allies in the Baird’s internal foreign policy review.

Unlike Baird, Natalegawa and Davutoglu offered passionate defences of Palestine’s right to statehood and spoke of its long suffering people.

departure in a release in which he said Fairbairn had served Canada with dignity, pride and devotion for more than four decades.

The 73-year-old former journalist was the focus of considerable controversy earlier this year when it was learned she had continued to vote in the Senate for months despite reports claiming she had been declared legally incompetent last February due to her degenerating mental health.

Fairbairn has been on an extended leave since the summer and will officially leave the Senate on Jan. 18.

in a council vote on an issue in which he had a financial interest, a violation of provincial law.

Hackland said Ford could not run again for the “current term.”

Some, such as the city’s top lawyer and Clayton Ruby, who acted for the businessman who brought the action against the mayor, took that to mean Ford could not run until the end of the current council term in 2014.

However, Ford — known for his combative style — and his supporters argued his term would end with his expulsion from office — if his pending appeal fails — meaning he would be eligible to run in any byelection.

“To put it plainly,” Ford’s lawyer Alan Lenczner wrote Hackland Thursday, “If city council were to hold an election for mayor in 2013, we respectfully submit that (Ford) could present himself as a candidate.”

In a duelling letter to Hackland, Ruby said he took Monday’s decision to mean Ford could not run in a byelection, and the mayor could challenge that in court if he wanted.

Hackland’s clarification Friday omits any reference to the “current term.”

In a brief interview, Ruby refused to comment.

Ford eligible to run in byelection

TORONTO — The embattled mayor of Canada’s largest city can have another shot at his job if his appeal of a judge’s ruling that ordered him from office over a conflict of interest violation fails and council calls a byelection to fill the vacancy.

The clarification by Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland came Friday amid confusion over his initial decision as to whether he had meant to bar Rob Ford from running until the next municipal election in 2014.

Hackland modified his decision to say there would be no “further disqualification from holding office” — beyond declaring the Toronto mayor’s seat vacated.

In his decision Monday, Hackland booted Ford 101 Burnt Lake Trail, Red Deer County, Alberta from office for taking part

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Education not a commodity WE MUST FUND MODELS RELATING TO HOW THEY TOUCH THE RIGHT OF EVERY CHILD TO AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR THE BEST GENERAL EDUCATION POSSIBLE Education is not a consumer commodity. When we start talking about how we fund our education system as if it were, Alberta is in trouble.

Kent Hehr, Liberal MLA for Calgary Buffalo, seems to go out of his way to avoid talking about education as a commodity in his private members bill to stop all public funding for private schools. But some of the arguments surrounding the issue do look at education as something we can buy or trade, while also looking at students as factory products.

We need to avoid that, and instead look at funding modGREG els relating to how they touch NEIMAN the right of every child to an equal opportunity for the best general education possible, plus the rights of parents to decide what’s best for their children — within the limits of the law.

The state need not dictate all the means, but the state must protect of the rights of children against parents, teachers and administrators who do not reach society’s standards in providing kids with the best chance they can get to succeed in life. For the vast majority, that is achieved through public funding of a public system.

First off, we need to acknowledge that despite the wide range of student abilities and the varying qualities of individual teachers and schools, Alberta is

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widely viewed as a top-quality place to send kids to school.

We teach our students better than most other places in the world — if you believe the results of global standardized testing.

Alberta also has the highest tax-paid support for private schooling in Canada.

About 25,000 students (or four per cent of the total school population) attend Alberta’s accredited private schools and receive 70 per cent of the per-pupil grant that public and Catholic school students get.

Only four other provinces give any public funding to private schools (the other Western provinces, plus Quebec), and they only provide 50 per cent of what a public system student would get.

Ontario experimented with a tuition tax credit for private schooling, but dropped it in 2003.

Along with our charter schools and a widelyaccepted home schooling option, Albertans have plenty of choice for providing an education for their children.

We also have broad government support for private schools designed for children with disabilities.

Plus, the outcomes of those choices are measured against broadly-accepted global standards.

Compared with the world, our system seems to be working for the vast majority of our children.

So why ask for as radical a change as the end to public funding for private schools?

Economic arguments should be ruled out; they are mostly too thin in the balance in any event.

Parents of children in private schools pay full school taxes, but only get 70 per cent of the benefit.

Tough.

People with no children at all pay full education taxes. It’s the price of civilization.

Parents of children in private schools “subsidize” the public system through both their tuition fees and the fact that public education would cost more if there were no private schools and every kid got full funding in a more universal public system. Both ways, that’s also the price of choice.

Not all kids in private schools are rich and spoiled.

A friend of mine taught for a time in an academy in Calgary, where Christmas gifts for teachers included expensive wines and NHL game tickets. In Grade 1.

But the majority of private schools are religion- or language-based, not income-based. Again, it’s the price of choice.

We should be more concerned with children from families who cannot afford any choices at all. And for children in families where parents don’t seem to care much at all.

How many private schools need breakfast programs, clothing exchanges or in-school laundries?

We have all of these in Red Deer public schools.

Our best investment is to raise the bottom, not to pad the top.

Therefore, my vote is to allow support for parents’ choices — and Alberta already does that in spades — and use whatever financial efficiencies we have to give more help to those who need help the most.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate.blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@gmail.com.

Modern separatists just dreaming In other parts of the world, separatist movements are usually violent (e.g. Kashmir, Sri Lanka, the various Kurdish revolts) and they sometimes succeed (South Sudan, Eritrea, East Timor).

Whereas in the prosperous, democratic countries of the West, they are generally peaceful, frivolous and unsuccessful.

A case in point is the various separatist movements in the European GWYNNE Union.

DYER Scotland will be holding a vote on independence from Britain in 2014, and both Catalonia and the Basque country in Spain have just elected nationalist governments that promise to hold referendums on independence.

But it will probably never happen.

The Scots, the Catalans and the Basques tend to see themselves as victims, but nobody else does.

They are self-governing in most matters except defence and foreign affairs, they have their own budgets, and they maintain separate education systems and cultural institutions.

The Scots get more money back from the central government in London than they pay in taxes, while Catalonia and the Basque country (Euskara, in the Basque language), claim that they contribute more to Madrid than they receive.

But the sums are relatively modest, and in any case it is not necessary to break up the country in order to renegotiate fiscal imbalances.

What really drives the separatism is emotion, which is why popular support for it is so soft. Rectifying the historic defeat of (insert name of centuries-old lost battle here) by declaring independence in the here-and-now has great emotional appeal, but most people put their economic interests first.

Nationalist leaders therefore always promise that independence will change nothing important on the economic front.

The way they do this in both Scotland and the separatist regions of

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People walk past torn electoral posters calling for the independence of Catalonia following the elections in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday. A day after voters in Spain’s economically powerful region of Catalonia dealt a punishing blow to the ruling party advocating independence from Spain, the pressure was on the party leader and regional president Artur Mas to form a new government that would carry out his promise.

Spain is by insisting that membership in the European Union would pass automatically to the successor state.

The opponents of secession, however, argue that there’s nothing automatic about it.

The arguments are not just directed at the home audience.

Last month, when Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, agreed the terms for the 2014 referendum with the British government, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo promptly declared that an independent Scotland would not automatically be an EU member, and that any one of the 27 EU member states (like Spain, for example) could veto it.

“In the hypothetical case of independence,” he said, “Scotland would have to join the queue (for EU membership) and ask to be admitted, needing the unanimous approval of all member states to obtain the status of a candidate country.”

The European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, also said in September that an independent Scotland would be seen as a new state and would have to apply to join.

This was furiously disputed by Salmond, who knew that his chances of winning the 2014 referendum were nil if the Scots believed that they were voting to leave the EU. For months he insisted that he had sought the opinion of his government’s

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law officers, who had confirmed that Scotland would inherit EU membership automatically, and would not even have to adopt the euro.

Alas, he was lying.

Late last month, it became known that Salmond had not actually asked for the law officers’ opinion at all. Now he has been forced by public opinion to pop the question — and he may not like the answer.

An even bigger defeat for Salmond came in his negotiations with British Prime Minister David Cameron, where he had to agree that the referendum would ask a simple yes-or-no question: in or out?

This goes against the instincts of all separatist leaders, who prefer a fuzzy, feel-good question that doesn’t mention the frightening word “independence” at all.

The most famous formulation of this question was in the 1995 Quebec referendum on secession from Canada: “Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995?”

Not exactly clear, is it?

That referendum was very close, but in 2000 the Canadian federal government passed a law generally known as the “Clarity Act.”

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It said that negotiations between the federal government and any province on secession should only follow “a clear expression of the will of the population of a province that the province cease to be part of Canada.”

This requirement would not be met, it added, if the referendum question “merely focuses on a mandate to negotiate without soliciting a direct expression of the will of the population of that province on (independence),” or if the question “envisages other possibilities ... such as economic or political arrangements with Canada, that obscure a direct expression of the will of the population on (secession).”

This law drastically reduces the likelihood that the separatists could win any future referendum in Quebec, and it’s obviously what Cameron had in mind in his negotiations with Salmond on the Scottish referendum.

As for Catalonia and Euskara, the national parliament in Madrid must approve of any referendum on separation, and the current Spanish government has made it abundantly clear that it has no intention of doing that.

So it’s mostly just hot air and hurt feelings, really.

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Climate illustrates huge gap CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Nothing better demonstrates that in many facets of life there is a huge gap between what we know and what we do than our continuing failure to address the enormous challenge of climate change.

Canadians appear to recognize that the science of climate change is real and many want to do something about it.

David Suzuki, an established scientist, for example, attracted more than 1,000 DAVID people to an CRANE early-afternoon lecture here — the annual Symons lecture of the state of Confederation — where he warned about the impending threat to humans and the world they will inhabit if societies don’t soon take big steps to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

Yet our leaders behave as though this is something we can put off to another day.

The Harper government believes rapid energy development is more important, with Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver and Environment Minister Peter Kent extolling rapid develop-

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ment of fossil fuels while demonizing environmentalists.

More surprising, the Liberals seem to be joining the same bandwagon for rapid fossil fuels development. Liberal leadership candidate Justin Trudeau, for example, was recently in Calgary, where he contended that “not a country in the world would find 170 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there.”

Does he have a clue what would happen to human society if every country sitting on fossil fuels pursued allout development?

The International Energy Agency estimates that if all countries fully developed their fossil fuel reserves, they would release 2,860 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere with truly catastrophic consequences.

The visionary environmental commitment of former Liberal leader Stephane Dion was diluted by Michael Ignatieff and now seems to have been ditched altogether by his would-be successors while the Tories have never had a credible commitment to addressing climate change.

Politically, this gives the NDP and the Greens the opportunity to craft credible policies on climate change and a healthier environment.

Governments around the world, including Canada, did make a commitment to hold the long-term increase in average global climate to no more than two degrees Celsius.

But as the IEA argues, we are headed for a long-term increase in the average world temperature of close to four degrees Celsius because we are not pursuing the kind of policies needed to keep that promise to future generations.

A new report from the World Bank — Turn Down the Heat — warns that a four-degree increase would be “devastating.” It would mean “the inundation of coastal cities; increasing risks for food production potentially leading to higher malnutrition rates; many dry regions becoming dryer, wet regions wetter; unprecedented heat waves in many regions, especially the tropics; substantially exacerbated water scarcity in many regions; increased frequency of high-intensity tropical cyclones; and irreversible loss of biodiversity, including coral reef systems.”

But another recent report from the consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers — Too Late for Two Degrees? — argues that the ability of governments “to limit warming to two degrees Celsius now appears highly unrealistic.

This new reality means that we must contemplate a much more challenging future” with “much more pessimistic scenarios for global temperatures.”

However, both the IEA and the UNEP argue it is not too late to achieve the two-degree target.

But this would entail a high level of domestic and global leadership and truly bold actions to achieve success,

bearing in mind that in about 25 years, in 2035, the world will have another 1.7 billion people, all putting additional demands on our biosphere.

Key measures would have to include an all-out effort on energy efficiency, major investments in carbon capture and storage and a significant switch to renewable energy systems and nuclear power.

In the meantime, a group of climate experts, including Joseph Arvai of the University of Calgary, in a U.S. National Research Council report for the intelligence community — Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis — warns that we should anticipate that “over the next decade, droughts, heat waves, storms, or other climate events of surprising intensity or duration will stress communities, societies, governments, and the globally integrated systems that support human well-being.”

This could seriously impact globally connected systems “such as food markets, strategic commodity supply chains, and public health systems.”

Climate change, as Britain’s Ministry of Defence has warned, is “potentially the greatest challenge to global stability and security, and therefore to national security.”

So why the huge gap between what we know and what we do?

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

How about adding more colour to week?

I don’t really like to always be a step or two behind the rest of the world, but it seems that I am usually either behind a step or out of one.

Being out of step or behind one, for that matter, isn’t necessarily always a bad thing I suppose, but what would I know, being that I’m not stepping properly most of the time.

And if anyone understood any of that, it might mean that several faithful reader out there didn’t get this Black Friday thing either.

For those of you who don’t know that the so-called Black Friday was a week ago and that it refers, believe or not, to one of the biggest retail days in the United States of Shopping — you might be even more steps out of it than I am.

The name, as one might think, doesn’t have anything at all to do with pirates, and although it’s the name of an HARLEY excellent song by the excelHAY lent band Steely Dan, it actually supposedly refers to the fact that it’s the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, and that it is the time when retailers turn a profit or are “in the black.” Only in America would massive profit have a special coloured day, right?

Well, guess what? They’ve invaded us (again). The U.S., I mean. Last weekend marked the first time that Black Friday invaded what the American comedy magic duo Penn and Teller like to call their “poor, frozen, slower cousins to the north.” (That would be Canada.)

Yes, we had a Black Friday of our very own, which was either the best thing the States ever gave Canada or the worst thing the Americans could have foisted on us, depending on your point of view. Meaning, depending on your particular penchant for the full contact sport called ‘shopping.’

If you are now or ever have been one of those people who camp out in department store parking lots on a frozen Christmas night in order to be in line for the Boxing Day sales, then you must have been virtually ecstatic over Black Friday.

If, however, you are a normal person who thinks it’s quite lovely to be happily ensconced with your family on Christmas night, napping and eating chocolates and napping, then you probably hunkered down in your basement with the lights off and your credit cards stuffed in the freezer until Black Friday gave way to plain old colourless regular days of the week.

But just imagine if we had a whole entire week of days of colour, a veritable rainbow of blatant commerce. Shameless marketing campaigns created by some socio-economical juggernaut that controls our spending and creates robot citizens who are sucked a swirling spending frenzy called The Week of Colored Days. …

Brown Saturday: A day when the price of gasoline goes on sale. This would generate full-on price wars at the gas stations, causing widespread mayhem at the pumps. A veritable demolition derby would unfold as people scratch and dent their way in and

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out of competing gas stations faster than the rich oil companies can flip the price numbers on their neon signs.

White Sunday: Remember when there wasn’t such a thing as Sunday shopping? Can you vaguely recall the slower paced idyllic Sundays before stores like the one that rhymes with Rundon Rugs barged into the seventh day with open doors and positively sinful deals on what used to be a day of rest? Well, now you can enjoy White Sunday — a day where every drug store, movie theatre and adult beverage establishment slashes prices. Special deals on wine, bread, and books!

Yellow Monday: Forget the Cyber Monday that clever retailers piggybacked onto the Black Friday weekend and caused people to spend nearly an entire day on the Internet feverishly buying things they don’t need or even want on account of the massive Cyber Monday sales. No, this Yellow Monday would feature smokin’ bargains on computers, wireless routers, webcams and many other seemingly necessary hardware items related to the computer insanity. Mainly to enable shoppers to participate more aggressively in subsequent Cyber Mondays.

Green Tuesday: You would think a day like Green Tuesday would have something to do with the environment or conservation or perhaps salads. That would be much too meaningful and productive. After all, the Coloured Days are all about money. Specifically, separating as many of us hard-working, merchandise-obsessed, deal-searching citizens as possible from our coinage. And even more importantly, the big banks want retailers to get at the money helpfully lent to us by Mr. Visa and Mrs. Mastercard. So Green Tuesday is all about green, as in moola, and it would feature two-for-one deals on stock market speculation. What better way to have fun with your money than gambling away your last dollar in an imaginary world no regular non-rich person actually understands?

Beige Wednesday: Really, what’s more boring than beige? This hump-day economic invention is predicated on the fact that by Wednesday most people have had it up to here, and there’s still half the week to go. So to pry the maximum amount of inflated dollars and cents from your sweaty and depressed fingers, the powers-that-be have created a day when you can’t possibly resist spending your money. Line up in parking lots in the middle of the night for first dibs on super-duper deals on high-fat, high-sugar, high-dee-high-dee-hidy-hoe comfort food. Treat yourself to 50 per cent off mega bacon cheeseburgers, 65 per cent off pure caffeine energy drinks, and 80 per cent off anything deep fried. Why not destroy your cholesterol and your bank account at the same time?

Fuschia Thursday: a trendy, new-age bright spot before Black Friday. Out-of-this-world deals on miniature mystical pyramids, incense sticks and aromatic healing candles, expensive metaphysical merchandise, and Deepak Chopra books, tapes and DVDs. Fuschia Thursday will lovingly tap into your meditative soul, creating a mind-body experience that involves spending a great deal of money without noticing anything but your deep breathing and the sound of waves gently crashing into the distant shore.

And voila! Just like that the incredible Week of Coloured Days Shopping Extravaganza is suddenly over. But don’t worry, I’m sure someone will come up with something we can all needlessly spend our money on next month. It’ll probably be the Americans. They need the money.

Or, maybe the rest of weeks of the year will just be 51 Shades of Grey. Or, hey, how about this — how about enjoying as many days as possible without shopping. Now that would be golden.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Thinking hard about who deserves my vote “The race is on to become Red Deer’s 26th mayor” writes reporter Crystal Rhyno (in the Advocate on Wednesday).

Democracy is a wonderful thing in that we get to choose who will govern us; not that we always make the best choice, but we have the right to make that choice.

Not all countries do.

CHRIS Rhetorical SALOMONS speeches, flowery promises, outright lies, and also good and progressive challenges — we’ve heard it all before, and the easiest thing is to become cynical and critical; both about the statements and the

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promises made, and the people making them.

But I believe we also have to look at the past few years and review what all has happened in Red Deer, governance and population wise.

In a way, I live in two worlds here in Red Deer in that I am fortunate to own a home in a pleasant section of the city, and serve in a part of our community that many would prefer to sweep under the carpet.

We all would claim to be part of this community, but it includes all parts of Red Deer, not just the pretty segments.

Included in that community are the all the people on the street; the good, the bad, and the ugly, and there are plenty of each.

This city is growing, and the street segment is growing with it.

Like him or not, Mayor Morris Flewwelling, in my view, has demonstrated an understanding of all the parts that make up a community.

His leadership has left the legacy

of great infrastructure changes but it has also included the initiative to end homelessness in Red Deer by 2018. I have learned to respect him for that.

Having briefly served on one of the committees, I know that a tremendous amount of work has been done toward that end by a lot of caring people.

Will we ever end homelessness?

Not completely we won’t, but this much I do know: we cannot stop the fight because these people are an integral part of this beautiful city we call home.

Those of us who have been blessed with abundance have an obligation to those who have not been so fortunate, and we need the leadership of a mayor and city council to properly lead us in that responsibility.

Many will argue with me on that score, but when we realize that it is because of this community and the work we are able to do in it that we have the abundance that we do, refusal to acknowledge that responsibility then

is the very reason we need the leadership.

So what are the issues that we should expect our city council hopefuls to deal with?

There are always the regular issues like finances, infrastructure, recreation, maintenance and others. Each one of these is important in the efficient running of a growing city and we should pay close attention to what is being said.

But the one thing that I will be listening for is the well-being and the social aspects of community life that they will bring forward.

Business efficiency is the main item brought forward in just about all elections, and a term in office usually will authenticate the candidates’ promises, but if I don’t see and hear the heart of a candidate, I will be thinking twice about who I would support.

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

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CAIRO, Egypt — Protesters flooded Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday in the second giant rally this week, angrily vowing to bring down a draft constitution approved by allies of President Mohammed Morsi, as Egypt appeared headed toward a volatile confrontation between the opposition and ruling Islamists.

The protests have highlighted an increasingly cohesive opposition leadership of prominent liberal and secular politicians trying to direct public anger against Morsi and the Islamists — a contrast to the leaderless youth uprising last year which toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

The opposition announced plans for an intensified street campaign of protests and civil disobedience and even a possible march on Morsi’s presidential palace to prevent him from calling a nationwide referendum on the draft, which it must pass to come into effect.

Top judges announced Friday they may refuse to monitor any referendum, rendering it invalid.

If a referendum is called, “we will go to him at the palace and topple him,” insisted one protester, Yasser Said, a businessman who said he voted for Morsi in last summer’s presidential election.

Islamists, however, are gearing up as well.

The Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, drummed up supporters for its own mass rally Saturday.

Islamists boasted their turnout would show that the public supports the push by the country’s first freely elected president to quickly bring a constitution and provide stability after nearly two years of turmoil.

Brotherhood activists in several cities passed out fliers calling for people to come out and “support Islamic law.”

A number of Muslim clerics in Friday sermons in the southern city of Assiut called the president’s opponents “enemies of God and Islam.”

The week-old crisis has already seen clashes between the two camps that left two dead and hundreds injured.

On Friday, Morsi opponents and supporters rained stones and firebombs on each other in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and the southern city of Luxor.

The Islamist-led assembly that worked on the draft for months passed it in a rushed, 16-hour session that lasted until sunrise Friday.

The vote was abruptly moved up to pass the draft before Egypt’s constitutional Court rules on Sunday whether to dissolve the assembly. Liberal, secu-

lar and Christian members and secular members had already quit the council to protest what they call Islamists’ hijacking of the process.

The draft is to be sent to Morsi on Saturday to decide on a date for a referendum, possibly in mid-December.

The draft has a distinctive Islamic bent — enough to worry many that civil liberties could be restricted, though its provisions for enforcing Shariah, or Islamic law, are not as firm as ultraconservatives wished.

Protests were first sparked when Morsi last week issued decrees granting himself sweeping powers that neutralized the judiciary. Morsi said the move was needed to stop the courts — where anti-Islamist or Mubarak-era judges hold many powerful posts — from dissolving the assembly and further delaying Egypt’s transition.

Opponents, however, accused Morsi of grabbing near-dictatorial powers by sidelining the one branch of government he doesn’t control.

Anger at Morsi even spilled over into a mosque where the Islamist president joined weekly Friday prayers.

In his sermon, the mosque’s preacher compared Morsi to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, saying the prophet had enjoyed far-reaching powers as leader, giving a precedent for the same to happen now.

“No to tyranny!” congregants chanted. Morsi took to the podium and told the worshippers that he too objected to the language of the sheik and that one-man rule contradicts Islam.

Friday’s crowd in Tahrir appeared comparable in size to the more than 200,000 anti-Morsi protesters who thronged the central plaza three days earlier. Tens of thousands more marched Friday in Alexandria.

The atmosphere was festive, with fireworks going off and banners stretched over the crowd. One showed a popular pop star singing in a cartoon bubble, “Your constitution is void.”

More tents sprung up in the plaza’s central traffic circle, as protesters sought to increase their week-old sitin.

Large marches from around Cairo flowed into the square, chanting “Constitution: Void!” and “The people want to bring down the regime.”

Figures from a new leadership coalition took the stage to address the crowds. The coalition, known as the National Salvation Front, includes prominent democracy advocate Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, leftist Hamdeen Sabbahi and former Arab League chief Amr Moussa.

WASHINGTON — The running fight over gay marriage in the U.S. is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court.

Three weeks after voters backed same-sex marriage in three states and defeated a ban in a fourth, the justices for the country’s top court met Friday to discuss whether they should deal sooner rather than later with the claim that the Constitution gives people the right to marry regardless of sexual orientation.

The court also could duck the ultimate question and instead focus on a narrower but still important issue: whether Congress can prevent legally married gay Americans from receiving federal benefits otherwise available to married couples.

There was no announcement about the court’s plans on Friday. The next opportunity for word on gay marriage cases is Monday, although the justices also could put off a decision until their next private meeting in a week’s time.

That will be their last meeting until January.

Gay marriage is legal, or will be soon, in nine states — Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Washington — and the District of Columbia. Federal courts in California have struck down the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but that ruling has not taken effect while the issue is being appealed.

Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approved gay marriage earlier this month.

But 31 states have amended their constitutions to prohibit same-sex marriage. North Carolina was the most recent example in May. In Minnesota earlier this month, voters defeated a proposal to enshrine a ban on gay marriage in that state’s constitution.

The biggest issue the court could decide to confront comes in the dispute over California’s Proposition 8, the constitutional ban on gay marriage that voters adopted in 2008 after the state Supreme Court ruled that gay Californians could marry.

The case could allow the justices to decide whether the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection means that the right to marriage cannot be limited to heterosexuals.

A decision in favour of gay marriage could set a national rule and overturn every state constitutional provision and law banning same-sex marriages.

A ruling that upholds California’s ban would be a setback for gay marriage proponents in the nation’s largest state, although it would leave open the state-by-state effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry.

In striking down Proposition 8, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals crafted a narrow ruling that said because gay Californians already had been given the right to marry, the state could not later take it away. The ruling studiously avoided any sweeping pronouncements.

But if the Supreme Court ends up reviewing the case, both sides agree that the larger constitutional issue would be on the table, although the justices would not necessarily have to rule on it.

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The heavy snowfall combined with modern snowmaking has resulted in one DEBBIE of the earliest ski and snowOLSEN board seasons ever recorded in the Canadian Rockies. Banff’s Mount Norquay made history this year by officially opening on Oct. 25, making it the first hill in Canada to start its chairlifts in 2012. It was also the earliest opening in the history of the mountain.

The favourable early season snow conditions have resulted in historically early openings at other Canadian Rockies ski resorts. Nakiska, Marmot Basin, Sunshine Village and British Columbia’s Sunpeaks and Whistler resorts are also fully operational. Other ski resorts are scheduled to open soon.

With a 30-to-40-cm base at most resorts, early ski conditions are exceptionally good this year and skiers and snowboarders are stoked for an excellent 2012-13 ski season. Early openings and exceptional deals are drawing people to the slopes to enjoy being winter-active.

If you have no interest in skiing or snowboarding, you might consider other ways to enjoy the incredible new snow, such as snowshoeing, dogsled rides, tobogganing, skijoring, or snowmobiling.

Here are some highlights of just a few of the early-season specials that will save you money on a winter visit to the mountains.

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As snow sports have grown in popularity, so have the cultural trappings and to really become a part of this world, you need to know the lingo.

Après — A French word that literally means “after.”

In the ski and snowboard world, it refers to going out, having drinks, dancing and socializing after skiing.

Back country — To ski or board outside of ski resorts on unmarked slopes.

Bunny slope — An inescapable rite of passage for most beginner skiers, the bunny slope is the beginner hill. It almost always features a magic carpet, a tow rope or a T-bar for transporting skiers up its gentle slope.

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All of the Big Three ski resorts are up and running and early-season lift pass discounts and small crowds are expected to draw visitors to Lake Louise, Sunshine Village and Mount Norquay through early December.

Mount Norquay was the first resort to open this season, but was only open on weekends during November. The tube park will open in early December. Early-season lift passes at Norquay start at $25 per adult and $10 per child.

Lake Louise has received more than 100 cm of snow and its slopes are reported to be in excellent shape. Early-season lift ticket pricing is $57.95 for adults, $43.95 for youths and seniors and $20.95 for children. Louise Card holders can either use their first free day during the preseason or save it for later and get a $5 discount on early-season rates.

Sunshine Ski Resort also opened earlier than usual and has a snowpack that is more than a metre thick. At least eight of its 12 lifts are open and terrain park enthusiasts will find six brand new features at the park including a new seven-metre city arch bridge. Early-season lift passes are priced at $69.95 for adults, $55.95 for seniors, $53.95 for youths and $27.95 for children.

Early-season package deals that include accommodations and lift passes for Banff’s three area ski resorts start at $85 per person per night. You can check out all the deals at www.skibig3.com.

Sunshine/Marmot or Lake Louise Ski Cards represent a big savings if you plan to ski several times during the season, but not enough to warrant the purchase of an annual pass. The Sunshine/Marmot card can be used at either Banff’s Sunshine Village or Jasper’s Marmot Basin and offers free skiing on your first, fourth, and seventh visits, along with other season discounts. Cards retail for $85.95 and are only on sale until the end of December. Visit www. skibanff.com for details or to place an online order.

Louise Plus Cards are valid at Lake Louise, Castle, Panorama or Revelstoke and provide three free days on the first, fourth, and seventh visits, along with other season discounts. The Louise Plus card retails for $99 and is only available for purchase until the end of December. Visit www.skilouise. com/louise_cards.php to order the card online or get more details.

Free skiing for children The Canadian Ski Council’s Snowpass offers free skiing for kids in Grades 4 and 5 and is already available online for the 2012-2013 season. The pass gives kids born in 2002 or 2003 three free lift tickets at each participating ski area across Canada. The pass is valid at more than 150 ski areas across Canada, including 19 ski areas in Alberta and 33 ski areas in B.C. The application is available online at: www.snowpass.ca.

Corduroy — Freshly groomed packed powder that has a ribbed texture on the surface.

Dust on crust — A light dusting of fresh snow on top of a hard base.

Ego snow — Snow with such an ideal consistency it makes beginners look like pros.

Freshies — Untracked powder.

Gaper — Anyone who stands out in a bad way.

Jibber – Someone who skis rails, boxes and slides down the hill on anything but snow.

Heli-skiing — Helicopter-assisted skiing.

Mashed potatoes — Clumpy, thick, inconsistent snow.

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British Columbia The abundance of snow has not been limited to Alberta ski resorts. Slopes in British Columbia also have heaps of snow, diverse terrain and excellent après-ski adventures to enjoy.

Tourism British Columbia has just launched a new ski website to keep visitors up to date on snow conditions, special offers and insider information on B.C.’s winter resorts.

Early-season specials start at $99 per person per night for accommodations and lift tickets.

For more information, visit http://skiittobelieveit.com/.

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer.

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

Noob — A slang term for a novice or newcomer. It is one of the most damning terms in a skier’s vocabulary and can be used to describe true novices as well as someone who fails to execute a difficult trick properly.

Pow pow — Fresh powder.

Ripper — An accomplished, impressive skier.

Vertical drop — The skiable distance between a mountain’s peak and its base.

Yard sale — A fall so spectacular that a skier’s hat, gloves, skis and poles fly off and are scattered down the mountainside.

Zipper line — The fastest route down a trail of moguls.

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TOURIST TOWNS STRUGGLE TO KEEP THEIR HARBOURS OPEN AS WATER LEVELS PLUMMET

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ONEKAMA, Mich. — For more than a century, easy access to Lake Michigan has made Onekama a popular place for summer visitors and a refuge for boaters fleeing dangerous storms.

Now the community itself needs a rescue, from slumping lake levels that threaten its precious link to open water.

The Great Lakes, the world’s biggest freshwater system, are shrinking because of drought and rising temperatures, a trend that accelerated with this year’s almost snowless winter and scorching summer. Water levels have fallen to near-record lows on Lakes Michigan and Huron, while Erie, Ontario and Superior are below their historical averages. The decline is causing heavy economic losses, with cargo freighters forced to lighten their loads, marinas too shallow for pleasure boats and weeds sprouting on exposed bottomlands, chasing away swimmers and sunbathers.

Some of the greatest suffering is in small tourist towns that lack the economic diversity of bigger port cities.

Yet they are last in line for federal money to deepen channels and repair infrastructure to support the boating traffic that keeps them afloat. “How do you like our mud bog?�

Township Supervisor Dave Meister asked on a recent afternoon, gesturing toward the shoreline of Portage Lake, part of a 2,500-acre inland waterway that connects Onekama to Lake Michigan. A wide expanse that normally would be submerged is now an ugly patchwork of puddles, muck and thick stands of head-high cattails. A grounded pontoon boat rested forlornly alongside a deserted dock.

The Army Corps of Engineers has estimated that about 30 small Great Lakes harbours will need attention in the next couple of years.

In bygone days, friendly members of Congress would slip money into the federal budget to dredge a harbour.

But so-called earmarks have fallen out of favour, leaving business and civic leaders wondering where to turn. A desperate few are raising money locally for dredging but insist they can’t afford it on a regular basis.

Tourism has sustained Onekama since the early 1900s, when northwestern Michigan coastal towns became popular with wealthy visitors from Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit. On a typical summer day, the community’s marinas are crowded with yachts, speedboats and fishing charters.

But the falling water levels are taking a toll, illustrating how extensively the health of the Great Lakes affects the economy of a region that is home to more than 30 million people extending from Minnesota to New York.

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A sand bar is exposed by low water on Portage Lake in Onekama, Mich., which has made nearby docks and marinas largely unusable. The waterway is connected by a channel to nearby Lake Michigan, where levels are approaching record lows.

The Great Lakes, the world’s biggest freshwater system, are dropping because of drought and climbing temperatures, a trend that accelerated with this year’s almost snowless winter and scorching summer.

Lake Michigan’s level at the end of October was more than 2 feet below its long-term average. The Corps of Engineers says without heavy snowfall this winter, the lake may decline to its lowest point since record-keeping began in 1918.

The channel that connects Portage Lake and Lake Michigan is now about 7 feet deep at best. When the water is choppy, some vessels can hit bottom. If things get much worse, Onekama may be effectively cut off from the big lake. “Businesses would close. People would be laid off. It would be devastating,� said Jim Mrozinski, owner of Onekama Marine Inc., which services and stores pleasure craft and draws customers from across the Upper Midwest. He owns three marinas, one now unusable because of shallow water. If he’s lucky, the others will have enough depth to rent perhaps 10 of the 55 slips next spring.

Onekama’s year-round population is less than 2,000. Much of its tax base comes from expensive waterfront homes owned by summer residents who come for the boating and fishing. Without the link to Lake Michigan, property values would plummet, hammering local government budgets, Meister said. “You’re talking about schools, 911 emergency, library, fire protection —

everything,� he said.

Many places around the Great Lakes are having similar problems. At least a dozen boats have run aground this year in Lake Ontario around the harbour in Orleans County, N.Y. The state of Wisconsin warned boaters to watch for stumps, boulders and other hazards lurking just beneath the water. Boattowing services have done brisk business rescuing stranded craft in newly shallow stretches of Lake Erie.

What makes the situation particularly frustrating for small Great Lakes communities is that a fund for dredging and other harbour maintenance already exists.

It’s generated by a tax on freight shipped at U.S. ports and raises about $1.5 billion a year. But about half of the money is diverted to the treasury for other uses. Members of Congress from coastal states are pushing to change that policy.

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Top: Bighorn sheep are a common sight in the community of Radium.

Below: These large spiral horns can weigh up to 10 kg a pair. rutting action. They were cancelled due to lack of interest from fiercely independent Canadian travelers. Now, you need to make your own arrangements, but it is still possible to watch these charismatic ruminates.

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The answer might amaze you!

On a recent visit to B.C.’s Columbia Valley I was surprised to learn that while bighorn sheep have lived in the area for thousand of years, they only moved into the Radium townsite after Kootenay National Park was established.

It seems Parks Canada’s policy of suppressing forest fires for 85 years shrunk the open grasslands the sheep favor.

If you were lunch for wolves and cougars, you would want a long sightline so you could escape in time.

So the Radium-Stoddart bighorn sheep moved into town where they have good views of any threats, whether it is Canis lupus or a 2012 Camry.

Scientists think that bighorn sheep came to Canada on a land bridge over the Bering Sea about 750,000 years ago.

It is estimated that over 3,000 sheep reside in British Columbia, but the people living with the RadiumStoddart band have a special relationship.

The seasonal cycle of the sheep’s life play out next to the rhythms of human life.

In spring, you watch the ewes nervously introduce their young to downtown traffic, summer means sharing your flowers with sheep culinary tours, and fall is a time to watch out when walking the dog.

In autumn, rams undergo a personality change, acting more like a teenager with his first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition than your uncle checking out his azaleas.

In November and December, the stocky 135-kilogram rams leave their bachelor groups and join the ewes to form large herds.

The rams are looking for love in all the right places, but they do not like to share.

It starts with a little shoving and if that does not resolve disputes over an ewe’s affections, the head banging starts.

Rams will charge each other head first, knocking horns until one cedes to the other.

Locals say “the collisions sound like gun shots.”

Mother Nature created this macho display so the genes of the strongest animals carry on.

Radium residents also want the sheep to carry on as they are a big tourism draw and a source of community pride.

A life-size sheep statue in front of the Visitor Centre guarantees visitors at least one great sheep photo!

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The seventh hole at the Radium Springs Course was host to over one hundred sheep lounging on the fairways and strutting through the sand traps, looking not for lost balls, but ewes entering estrus.

So to answer my earlier question, the golf course may be the favored place now for fall amour, but it will be Parks Canada work on research and conservation that will keep these sheep around for many more years to come.

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EVANECZ STRUGGLES LA QUINTA, Calif. — Red Deer golfer Mitch Evanecz shot a 1-over 73 on Friday and was tied for 132nd at the halfway point of the PGA Tour qualifying tournament.

Evanecz recorded three birdies and four bogeys on the PGA West Stadium Course and had a threeround total of evenpar 216 that included earlier scores of 74-69.

Meanwhile, Calgary’s Ryan Yip turned in a third-round 74 and was tied for 137th with a 1-over 217 total. South Korea’s Meen Whee Kim shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to maintain a one-stroke lead in the six-round tournament.

The 20-year-old Kim had an 18-under 131 total.

Sweden’s Robert Karlsson was second after a 65.

The final top 25 and ties will receive 2013 PGA Tour cards and the next 50 and ties will earn Web.com Tour cards.

TODAY ● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings at Red Deer Ramada, 12:30 p.m., Kin City A; Badlands at Innisfail, 5:50 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer TBS, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Northstar, 2 p.m., Arena; Airdrie/ Cochrane at Red Deer IROC, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Banff at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Innisfail, 8 p.m.

SUNDAY ● Major bantam hockey: Grande Prairie at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena.

Major bantam female hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45 p.m., Kin City A. ● Chinook senior hockey: Sylvan Lake at Bentley, 2 p.m. ● AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds, 2 p.m.

Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Innisfail, 2:10 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Northstar, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Banff at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs.

Carstar, Circle T Services vs. Rusty Chuckers, Triple A Batteries vs.

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 6 Tigers 5 The Centrium resembled the OK Corral on Friday night.

The Red Deer Rebels were OK with that, considering the outcome — a wild and thrilling 6-5 Western Hockey League win over the Medicine Hat Tigers in front of 5,008 spectators.

“We had one more goal than the opposition, so that’s a good thing,” said Rebels GM/ head coach Brent Sutter, with a slight grin. “It was a game where the flow went both ways.”

While the Tigers never led in the contest, they refused to go away and in fact fired 41 shots at Rebels netminder Patrik Bartosak and pulled to within a single marker when Elgin Pearce connected with 31 seconds remaining.

“I was pretty excited to hear the (final) buzzer go,” said Molson Cup first star Rhyse Dieno, who blamed himself for the Tigers final tally.

“I kind of coughed one up at the end to make it 6-5. My head was kind of down but I’m glad the boys finished strong.”

The Rebels snapped a 3-3 tie with two goals in the first 69 seconds of the third period. Turner Elson buried a centering pass from Brooks Maxwell just 35 seconds into the frame and Wyatt Johnson connected at 1:09 with a shot that was headed over the net but glanced off the glove of goaltender Cam Lanigan and in.

That spelled the end

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Shadowed by Medicine Hat Tiger Boston Leier Red Deer Rebel Tyson Ness takes a backhand shot on goal during second period action at the Centrium in Red Deer Friday. for Lanigan, who made a handful of dandy stops but otherwise had a rough outing.

The Tigers’ Trevor Cox made it 5-4 at 7:18, leaving the stage for Maxwell to notch the eventual winner nearly 10 minutes later. The Raymond product raced down the right side and ripped a shot over Tigers back-up Marek Langhamer.

Pearce made it inter-

esting in the final minute with Langhamer on the bench in favour of an extra attacker, but it was too little, too late for the visitors.

“We got those two quick ones in the third period and certainly got a break on one of them, but there are areas we need to continue to improve on,” said Sutter.

“They are things we work on daily and as you do them you need to

have the confidence to believe in yourself and your teammates and go out a find a way to win.”

The Rebels led 2-0 after one period on goals from Brandon Underwood, whose snapshot from inside the blueline somehow got past Lanigan, and Conner Bleackley, who one-timed a feed from Cory Millette.

Curtis Valk got the Tigers on the board early in the second frame, but

Millette restored the Rebels’ two-goal cushion midway through the period.

The lead didn’t last long, though, as defenceman Dylan Busenius beat Bartosak through a crowd with a shot from the blueline at 15:45 and Valk potted a power-play marker at 18:09, setting up an eventful final period.

See REBELS on Page B6

Kings dominate in win over Eagles

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 90 Eagles 77 There’s still some work to do before the RDC Kings are where head coach Clayton Pottinger wants them to be.

Still they’re not bad as they showed in a 90-77 victory over The Kings University College Eagles in Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League play at RDC Friday.

The Kings won three of the four quarters, but the second quarter — a 22-13 edge for the Eagles — was a disaster.

“We were waiting around for things to happen . . . far too passive instead of making them happen,” said Pottinger, who saw a similar style last week when the SAIT Trojans handed the Kings a 79-76 loss, which is the only blemish on their record after nine games.

“We saw what happened when we started to play a little more late in the third quarter.”

The Kings, led by Rob Pierce, picked up their defence and rebounding late in the third quarter, which allowed them to

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer College Queen Amrei Bondzio drives towards the basket as she is covered by Kings University Eagle Samantha Tennant during college basketball action at Red Deer College Friday. run their fast-break offence and they outscored the Eagles 30-18 to grab a 70-58 lead after three quarters.

“Our motto is defence and layups and when we defended the ball and controlled the boards we got layups at the other end,” said Pottinger, who

spent a good deal of time at practice during the week working on breaking some old habits.

“We did, but I still wasn’t happy with what I saw tonight,” he said.

“They came out in a zone and we should have been ready for it, but got standing around. We can’t just

wait for Sam (Lolik) and Rob (Pierce) to do all the work. There’s five guys on the floor and guys on the bench who have to do their job. We have to trust everyone and some of the guys aren’t giving us enough, which is part of the problem.”

Still Pottinger got

a good effort out of two of his veteran guards as Lloyd Strickland had 23 points and eight assists while Jacob Cusumano had his best game of the season with 17 points, seven rebounds and three assists.

“Jacob was in better form tonight,” said Pottinger. “He’s struggled a bit this season.”

Pierce, who ran into some unwarranted foul trouble in the first half, had 21 points and 19 rebounds. Brian Prenoslo had 10 points.

Ethan Wollmann had 20 points and Rimbey native Sander Lekas 19 for the Eagles.

Eagles 73 Queens 56 The RDC Queens went into their meeting with the Eagles at a distinct disadvantage in terms of overall height and experience.

The Eagles are ranked eighth in the country, and have three fifth-year players, two in their fourth season, two in their third and one in her second season while RDC was playing with one second-year player — guard Morgan Schultz.

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Raptors beat Suns to end six-game losing skid THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto 101 Phoenix 97 TORONTO — Dwane Casey walked into the post-game press conference and plunked down a bottle of Gatorade on the podium.

The coach joked that he didn’t drink beer, so Gatorade was his postgame celebratory drink of choice.

The beleaguered Toronto Raptors finally had something to celebrate Friday, beating

the Phoenix Suns 101-97 for their first victory in seven games — a muchneeded mental boost, they said, before departing on a tough five-game road trip.

“The way Kyle (Lowry) put it, we’re in a fourand-a-half feet hole, trying to stop digging,” Casey said of the Raptors’ early-season woes.

DeMar DeRozan scored 23 points to top Toronto (4-13), while Amir Johnson added 16, Jose Calderon contributed 13 points and nine assists and Lowry finished

with 15 points.

“It felt good, we definitely needed it mentally, we definitely needed it before we went on this tough road trip,” said Lowry.

The Raptors open this latest road trip on a gruelling early-season schedule Monday in Denver.

Marcin Gortat, Jared Dudley and Shannon Brown scored 14 points apiece for the Phoenix (6-10).

The Raptors found themselves in a situation all-too-familiar, watch-

ing a fourth-quarter lead all but disappear against a Suns team hungry to make up for a humiliating 117-77 loss in Detroit two nights earlier — the third worst margin of defeat in the Suns’ history.

DeRozan’s putback of his own blocked shot with 0.3 seconds left to go in the third gave Toronto an 80-76 lead with one quarter left in the game, and then Calderon carried the team for much of the fourth, either scoring or assisting on virtually every point for a Raptors squad desperate

to hold on for a victory.

A three-point play by Johnson gave Toronto a nine-point lead, but the home team’s advantage in front of 18,246 fans at the Air Canada Centre slowly disappeared, a bucket by Brown with 1:07 on the clock to make it a one-point game.

But that would be the Suns’ only two points in the final two minutes.

“Big-time defence down the stretch,” Casey said.

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Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012

Hockey

Basketball 19:29 Penalties — Dumba RD (roughing) 2:46, Ness RD (tripping) 17:19.

Shots on goal by Medicine Hat 13 10 18 — 41 Red Deer 10 12 9 — 31 Goal — Medicine Hat: Lanigan, out at 1:09 of third period, 24-19 (L, 9-7-1-0), Langhamer, 7-6. Red Deer: Bartosak (W,14-7-1-0).

Power plays (goals/chances) — Medicine Hat: 1-3. Red Deer: 0-2.

Referees —Sean Raphael, Derek Zalaski. Linesmen — Chad Huseby, Cory Lundquist.

Attendance — 5,008.

Pt 40 27 27 27 25 23 Pt 40 37 34 31 24 16

Chiefs 7, Broncos 2 First Period 1. Spokane, Gow 4 (Fiddler) 12:02 2. Spokane, Fiddler 19 (Aviani, Williams) 14:30 (sh) 3. Swift Current, Lund 9 (Derko, Cave) 16:21 Penalties — Nedomlel SC (roughing) 8:55, Whittingham Spo (roughing) 11:55, Gow Spo (roughing) 13:53.

Second Period 4. Spokane, Aviani 11 (King) 3:40 5. Spokane, Fiddler 20 (Kichton, Gow) 8:43 (pp) 6. Swift Current, Lund 10 (Lowry) 12:02 (sh) Penalties — Walchuk Spo (tripping) 5:43, Derko SC (high-sticking) 11:29, Whittingham Spo (unsportsmanlike cnd.), Heatherington SC (roughing) 15:40.

Third Period 7. Spokane, Gow 5 (Kalus, Stewart) 1:58 8. Spokane, King 4 (Wedman, Gow) 16:07 9. Spokane, Holmberg 14 (Walchuk, Kichton) 16:51 Penalties — Aviani Spo (roughing), Lowry SC (unsportsmanlike cnd.), Scarlett SC (roughing) 2:19, Proft Spo (roughing), Zinkan SC (slashing) 16:01, Whittingham Spo (fighting) 16:51, Proft Spo (fighting), Dale SC (slashing, instigating, fighting, game misconduct), Nedomlel SC (instigating, fighting, game misconduct) 18:19, Derko SC (high-sticking) 20:00.

Shots on goal Spokane 5 15 15 — 35 Swift Current 8 14 7 — 29

Pt 42 34 27 22 14 Pt 41 37 34 25 22

Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Friday’s results Edmonton 2 Kootenay 0 Prince Albert 5 Regina 3 Red Deer 6 Medicine Hat 5 Saskatoon 4 Calgary 0 Spokane 7 Swift Current 2 Tri-City at Kamloops Seattle at Portland Victoria at Prince George Moose Jaw at Kelowna Vancouver at Everett

Goal (shots-saves) — Spokane: Williams (W,146-0); Swift Current: Laurikainen (L,11-14-2)(10-7); Bow (3:40 second, 25-21).

Saturday’s games Spokane at Regina, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

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

Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Tri-City at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Kootenay at Calgary, 2 p.m.

Lethbridge at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Prince Albert at Regina, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Kamloops at Seattle, 5:05 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Tigers 5 at Rebels 6 First Period 1. Red Deer, Underwood 2 14:15 2. Red Deer, Bleackley 6 (Millette, Dieno) 15:57 Penalties — Pearce MH (tripping) 11:48.

Second Period 3. Medicine Hat, Valk 17 (Shinkaruk, Lanigan) 3:34 4. Red Deer, Millette 7 (Dieno, Doetzel) 10:24 5. Medicine Hat, Busenius 3 (Shinkaruk, Valk) 15:45 6. Medicine Hat, Valk 18 (Jensen, Pearce) 18:09 (pp) Penalties — Busenius MH (holding) 7:08, Underwood RD (hooking) 16:20.

Third Period 7. Red Deer, Elson 8 (Maxwell, Dieno) 0:35 8. Red Deer, Johnson 4 (Bleackley, Fleury) 1:09 9. Medicine Hat, Cox 10 (Leier) 7:18 10. Red Deer, Maxwell 2 (Elson, Underwood) 16:57 11. Medicine Hat, Pearce 10 (Valk, Shinkaruk)

Raiders 5, Pats 3 First Period 1. Regina, Theriau 1 (Mayor, Klimchuk) 16:05 (pp) Penalties — Fenske Reg, Perreaux PA (roughing) 2:06, Guenther PA (interference) 7:26, Rossignol Reg (hooking) 10:05, Perreaux PA (tripping) 13:34, Bardaro PA (delay of game) 15:47, Scheidl Reg, Theriau Reg (holding) 19:42.

Second Period 2. Prince Albert, Winther 10 (McNeill, Lange) 0:34 (pp) 3. Prince Albert, Bardaro 7 (Conroy, Morrissey) 10:42 (pp) 4. Regina, Theriau 2 (Brooks, Klimchuk) 12:04 (pp) 5. Prince Albert, Bardaro 8 (Lange) 16:12 Penalties — Christoffer Reg, Ruopp PA (fighting) 4:10, Klimchuk Reg (unsportsmanlike cnd.), Knutsen PA (unsportsmanlike cnd.), Morrissey PA (holding) 6:35, Mayor Reg, Lange PA (fighting) 8:54, Hak Reg (roughing) 9:34, Vandane PA (tripping) 11:54, Burroughs Reg (holding) 13:18.

Third Period 6. Regina, Brooks 2 (Gay) 5:27 7. Prince Albert, Winther 11 (Bardaro) 13:51 8. Prince Albert, Draisaitl 8 (Winther, McNeill) 17:21 Penalty — Scheidl Reg (inter. on goaltender) 15:09.

Shots on goal Regina 3 7 4 — 14 Prince Albert 19 21 13 — 53 Goal — Regina: Hewitt (L,7-10-2); Prince Albert: Siemens (W,18-7-2).

St. John’s

AHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA 21 11 9 0 1 50 55

Pt 23

Manchester Portland Worcester Providence

19 9 7 2 1 53 19 9 8 1 1 61 19 9 8 1 1 53 17 8 8 0 1 37 Northeast Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Springfield 18 11 3 1 3 64 Bridgeport 18 10 8 0 0 58 Connecticut 18 9 8 1 0 60 Adirondack 19 9 10 0 0 50 Albany 17 4 8 0 5 37 East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Syracuse 18 12 4 1 1 68 Binghamton 17 11 4 1 1 52 W-B/Scranton 19 12 7 0 0 53 Hershey 20 9 10 1 0 54 Norfolk 18 7 11 0 0 50 WESTERN CONFERENCE North Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Abbotsford 19 13 2 2 2 56 Lake Erie 20 10 8 1 1 62 Toronto 19 10 8 0 1 62 Rochester 18 9 8 1 0 61 Hamilton 17 6 9 1 1 35 Midwest Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Grand Rapids 18 10 6 1 1 63 Rockford 20 10 9 0 1 64 Milwaukee 19 9 8 1 1 54 Chicago 19 8 8 2 1 53 Peoria 18 6 9 2 1 43 South Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Charlotte 19 12 5 0 2 67 Houston 20 11 6 1 2 67 Okla. City 20 11 6 1 2 66 Texas 18 9 7 1 1 45 San Antonio 19 6 10 0 3 49

48 64 60 50

21 20 20 17

GA 40 62 61 57 50

Pt 26 20 19 18 13

GA 47 42 43 57 63

Pt 26 24 24 19 14

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Orlando Washington

GA 33 63 53 56 57

Pt 30 22 21 19 14

Milwaukee Chicago Indiana Detroit Cleveland

GA 56 64 58 61 66

Pt 22 21 20 19 15

GA 52 59 59 52 59

Pt 26 25 25 20 15

Note: A team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Friday’s results Abbotsford 5 Hamilton 1 St. John’s 1 Albany 0 Toronto 4 Rochester 1 Binghamton 7 Adirondack 4 Hershey 5 Bridgeport 2 Houston 4 Oklahoma City 3 Milwaukee 3 Chicago 2 Portland 4 Worcester 3 Providence 4 Connecticut 2 San Antonio 6 Lake Erie 2 Springfield 5 Manchester 4 Texas 3 Grand Rapids 1 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 5 Syracuse 3 Saturday’s games San Antonio at Lake Erie, 11 a.m.

Albany at Adirondack, 5 p.m.

Texas at Grand Rapids, 5 p.m.

Norfolk at Hershey, 5 p.m.

Manchester at Springfield, 5 p.m.

Rochester at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Providence at Portland, 5 p.m.

Worcester at Bridgeport, 5 p.m.

Syracuse at Connecticut, 5 p.m.

Rockford at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

St. John’s at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 5:05 p.m.

Peoria at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Hamilton at Abbotsford, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s games Portland at Manchester, 1 p.m.

Rockford at Charlotte, 1 p.m.

Lake Erie at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Worcester at Providence, 1:05 p.m.

Springfield at Connecticut, 3 p.m.

Norfolk at Bridgeport, 3 p.m.

Syracuse at Binghamton, 3:05 p.m.

Texas at Peoria, 4:05 p.m.

Football NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 8 3 0 .727 407 Miami 5 6 0 .455 211 N.Y. Jets 4 7 0 .364 221 Buffalo 4 7 0 .364 243

New Orleans Carolina PA 244 226 290 319

Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

W 10 7 4 2

South L T 1 0 4 0 7 0 9 0

Pct .909 .636 .364 .182

PF 327 230 238 188

PA 211 273 335 308

Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland

W 9 6 6 3

North L T 2 0 5 0 5 0 8 0

Pct .818 .545 .545 .273

PF 283 231 282 209

PA 219 210 247 248

Denver San Diego Oakland Kansas City

West W L 8 3 4 7 3 8 1 10

Pct .727 .364 .273 .091

PF 318 245 218 161

PA 221 237 356 301

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Giants 7 4 0 .636 305 Washington 5 6 0 .455 295 Dallas 5 6 0 .455 242 Philadelphia 3 8 0 .273 184

PA 226 285 262 282

Atlanta Tampa Bay

W 11 6

T 0 0 0 0

South L T Pct 1 0 .917 5 0 .545

PF 317 310

PA 229 254

5 3

7 8

0 .417 0 .273

321 214

327 265

Chicago Green Bay Minnesota Detroit

W 8 7 6 4

North L T 3 0 4 0 5 0 7 0

Pct .727 .636 .545 .364

PF 277 273 248 267

PA 175 245 249 280

San Francisco Seattle St. Louis Arizona

W 8 6 4 4

West L 2 5 6 7

Pct .773 .545 .409 .364

PF 276 219 205 180

PA 155 185 254 227

T 1 0 1 0

Sunday, Dec. 9 Chicago at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Washington, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Dallas at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Miami at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

New Orleans at N.Y. Giants, 2:25 p.m.

Detroit at Green Bay, 6:20 p.m.

Thursday’s Game Atlanta 23, New Orleans 13

Monday, Dec. 10 Houston at New England, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Seattle at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Arizona at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

New England at Miami, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 6:20 p.m.

NFL Odds (Favourites in capital letters; odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; NL-No line) Spread O/U Sunday Seattle at CHICAGO NL NL HOUSTON at Tennessee 6.5 47.5 NEW ENGLAND at Miami 8.5 50.5 Jacksonville at BUFFALO 5.5 45.5 Indianapolis at DETROIT 4.5 51.5 Arizona at NY JETS 4.5 36.5 SAN FRANCISCO at St. Louis 7.5 40.5 Minnesota at GREEN BAY 9.5 46.5 Tampa Bay at DENVER 7.5 50.5 Cleveland at OAKLAND NL NL CINCINNATI at San Diego 1.5 46.5 CAROLINA at Kansas City 2.5 40.5 Philadelphia at DALLAS 9.5 43.5 Pittsburgh at Baltimore NL NL Monday NY GIANTS at Washington 2.5 51.5

Monday’s Game N.Y. Giants at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 6 Denver at Oakland, 6:20 p.m.

Transactions Shaughnessy, $26,250 each for fighting in a Nov. 25 game. Fined Washington CB DeAngelo Hall $20,000 for a horse-collar tackle and $15,750 for a late hit in a Nov. 22 game at Dallas. Fined Green Bay S Jerron McMillian $21,000 for helmet-tohelmet contact with defenceless New York Giants tight end Martellus Bennett in a Nov. 25 game and Carolina RB Mike Tolbert $21,000 for a blindside block during a kickoff against Philadelphia in a Nov. 26 game. Fined New Orleans DT Brodrick Bunkley $20,000 for kicking the back of the helmet of San Francisco OL Alex Boone in a Nov. 25 game. Fined Houston DE J.J. Watt $15,750 for roughing the passer in a Nov. 22 game at Detroit, Kansas City OL Donald Stephenson $15,750 for unnecessary roughness in a Nov. 25 game against Denver, Chicago LB Brian Urlacher $15,750 for a horse-collar tackle on Minnesota RB Adrian Peterson; and St. Louis DE Chris Long $15,750 for striking Arizona QB Ryan Lindley in the head. Fined Chicago QB Jay Cutler $10,000 for throwing the ball at Minnesota CB AJ Jefferson in a Nov. 25 game and Baltimore WR Anquan Boldin $7,875 for a late hit in a Nov. 25 game against San Diego.

OAKLAND RAIDERS—Suspended LB Rolando McClain for two games for conduct detrimental to the team.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Named Anne Gordon senior vice-president of media and communications.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Promoted LB Michael Wilhoite from the practice squad and signed him to a two-year contract. Signed S Eddie Whitley to the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Signed LB Mario Addison to the practice squad.

Canadian Football League CFL—Fined Toronto DL Adriano Belli an undis-

closed amount for unnecessary rough play during the Grey Cup. HOCKEY AHL—Suspended Rockford RW Andrew Shaw one game for a boarding incident during a Nov. 28 game at Chicago.

ALBANY DEVILS—Loaned C Kelly Zajac Trenton (ECHL).

SOCCER NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION—Exercised the 2013 contract options on G Matt Reis, G Bobby Shuttleworth, D Kevin Alston, D Darrius Barnes, D Stephen McCarthy, D A.J. Soares, D Chris Tierney, MF Ryan Guy, MF Lee Nguyen, MF Sainey Nyassi, MF Clyde Simms, MF Juan Toja, F Diego Fagundez, F Dimitry Imbongo and F Saer Sene.

Declined the 2013 contract options on MF Fernando Cardenas, MF Benny Feilhaber, MF Blair Gavin and G Tim Murray.

GB — — 1.5 2.5 8

Southeast Division W L Pct 11 3 .786 9 5 .643 7 8 .467 5 10 .333 1 13 .071

GB — 2 4.5 6.5 10

Central Division W L Pct 7 7 .500 7 7 .500 7 8 .467 5 12 .294 4 12 .250

GB — — 1/2 3.5 4

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 12 2 .857 San Antonio 13 4 .765 Houston 7 8 .467 Dallas 7 9 .438 New Orleans 4 10 .286

GB — 1/2 5.5 6 8

Northwest Division W L Pct 13 4 .765 9 8 .529 8 8 .500

GB — 4 4.5

Oklahoma City Utah Denver

Golden State L.A. Clippers L.A. Lakers Phoenix Sacramento

7 6

8 10

.467 .375

5 6.5

Pacific Division W L Pct 9 6 .600 9 6 .600 7 8 .467 7 10 .412 4 10 .286

GB — — 2 3 4.5

Friday’s Games Philadelphia 104, Charlotte 98 Toronto 101, Phoenix 97 Brooklyn 98, Orlando 86 Boston 96, Portland 78 Cleveland 113, Atlanta 111 New York 108, Washington 87 Minnesota 95, Milwaukee 85 Memphis 90, Detroit 78 Oklahoma City 106, Utah 94 Indiana at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Portland at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Utah at Houston, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

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

Boston at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Phoenix at New York, 10 a.m.

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

Golf WORLD CHALLENGE At Sherwood Country Club Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Purse: $4 million Yardage: 7,023; Par: 72 Second Round Graeme McDowell69-66 — 135 -9 Bo Van Pelt 70-68 — 138 -6 Jim Furyk 69-69 — 138 -6 Keegan Bradley69-69 — 138 -6 Tiger Woods 70-69 — 139 -5 Rickie Fowler 73-67 — 140 -4 Nick Watney 67-73 — 140 -4 Jason Dufner 73-68 — 141 -3 Dustin Johnson74-68 — 142 -2 Matt Kuchar 73-69 — 142 -2 Brandt Snedeker75-68 — 143 -1 Webb Simpson70-73 — 143 -1 Zach Johnson 74-70 — 144 E Steve Stricker 73-71 — 144 E Hunter Mahan 71-73 — 144 E Ian Poulter 73-72 — 145 + Bubba Watson 71-74 — 145 + Jason Day 71-75 — 146 +

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PGA TOUR Q-SCHOOL s-PGA West’s Stadium Course; 7,300 yards; Par: 72 n-Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course; 7,204 yards; Par: 72 Purse: $1,057,500 La Quinta, Calif Third Round Meen Whee Kim 68n-63s-67n — 198 Robert Karlsson 66n-68s-65n — 199 Edward Loar 65s-69n-66n — 200 Billy Horschel 70n-65s-66n — 201 Steve LeBrun 64s-69n-68n — 201 Vaughn Taylor 68s-64n-69n — 201 Kyle Reifers 69s-68n-65n — 202 Kris Blanks 65s-70n-67n — 202 Eric Meierdierks 70n-66s-67n — 203 Heath Slocum 70s-66n-67n — 203 Jin Park 65s-70n-68n — 203 Ross Fisher 69n-69s-65n — 203 Camilo Villegas 70s-67n-66n — 203 Joseph Bramlett 68s-68n-68n — 204 Tim Kunick 67n-68s-69n — 204 Donald Constable 67s-70n-67n — 204 Brad Fritsch 72n-67s-66n — 205 Dong-hwan Lee 68s-72n-65n — 205 Erik Compton 67s-70n-68n — 205 Derek Ernst 68s-68n-70n — 206 Mathew Goggin 70s-66n-70n — 206 Matt Jones 71s-70n-65n — 206 Adam Crawford 66s-68n-72n — 206 Vince Covello 69n-70s-67n — 206 Nicholas Thompson69n-70s-67n — 206 Chez Reavie 72n-66s-68n — 206 Steven Bowditch 73s-67n-66n — 206 Jeff Gove 69n-69s-68n — 206 Fabian Gomez 70s-67n-69n — 206 Bryden Macpherson68n-69s-69n — 206 Si Woo Kim 67n-69s-71n — 207 Aaron Watkins 69n-67s-71n — 207 Zack Miller 68n-73s-66n — 207 Phillip Mollica 68s-68n-71n — 207 Alexandre Rocha 65s-71n-71n — 207 Andrew Svoboda 70n-72s-65n — 207 Richard H. Lee 66n-67s-74n — 207 Danny Ellis 70s-69n-68n — 207 Sung Kang 70s-69n-68n — 207 Jim Herman 68n-71s-68n — 207 Michael Letzig 71s-69n-67n — 207

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Friday’s results Eighth Draw MEN John Epping 6 Brad Gushue 4 Kevin Koe 7 Mike McEwen 4 WOMEN Chelsea Carey 9 Sherry Middaugh 7 Cathy Overton-Clapham 4 Stefanie Lawton 3 Crystal Webster 9 Heather Nedohin 6 (extra end)

Seventh Draw MEN John Epping 8 Jeff Stoughton 7 Glenn Howard 7 Kevin Martin 6 (extra end) WOMEN Jennifer Jones 9 Sherry Middaugh 8 Stefanie Lawton 8 Crystal Webster 4 Ninth Draw MEN Glenn Howard 7 Brad Gushue 3 Kevin Koe 6 Kevin Martin 3 Jeff Stoughton 7 Mike McEwen 5 WOMEN Jennifer Jones 7 Chelsea Carey 5 Heather Nedohin 10 Cathy Overton-Clapham 8 (extra end) PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games Tiebreakers MEN Kevin Koe vs. Mike McEwen, 7:30 a.m.

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MEN Jeff Stoughton vs. Semifinal winner, 1:30 p.m.

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BASEBALL BOSTON RED SOX—Named Victor Rodriguez major league assistant hitting coach. Failed to offer RHP Scott Atchison, LHP Rich Hill and OF Ryan Sweeney 2013 contracts.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Failed to offer RHP Anthony Carter and INF Dan Johnson 2013 contracts. Announced RHP Philip Humber was claimed off waivers by Houston.

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Agreed to terms with RHP Blake Wood on a one-year contract and with RHP Fernando Nieve on a minor league contract.

Claimed INF Mike McDade off outright waivers from Toronto. Failed to offer INF Jack Hannahan, LHP Rafael Perez and LHP Chris Seddon 2013 contracts.

DETROIT TIGERS—Failed to offer LHP Daniel Schlereth a 2013 contract.

HOUSTON ASTROS—Claimed RHP Philip Humber off waivers from the Chicago White Sox and agreed to terms with him on a one-year contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Agreed to terms with 2B Chris Getz on a one-year contract. Sent LHP Ryan Verdugo and C Adam Moore outright to Omaha (PCL). Failed to offer OF Derrick Robinson a 2013 contract.

NEW YORK YANKEES—Agreed to terms with RHP Mariano Rivera on a one-year contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Announced RHP Jim Miller was claimed off waivers by the New York Yankees.

SEATTLE MARINERS—Announced OF Scott Cousins was claimed off waivers by the Los Angeles Angels.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Released RHP Brad Bergesen.

ATLANTA BRAVES—Traded RHP Tommy Hanson to the Los Angeles Angels for RHP Jordan Walden. Claimed RHP David Carpenter off waivers from Boston.

Failed to offer RHP Jair Jurrjens and RHP Peter Moylan 2013 contracts.

MIAMI MARLINS—Claimed 1B/OF Joe Mahoney off waivers from Baltimore.

NEW YORK METS—Failed to offer OF Andres Torres, RHP Mike Pelfrey and RHP Manny Acosta 2013 contracts.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Agreed to terms with C Russell Martin on a two-year contract. Acquired RHP Zach Thornton from Oakland for RHP Chris Resop.

Acquired RHP Jhondaniel Medina from Baltimore for INF Yamaico Navarro.

American Association WICHITA WINGNUTS—Released INF Jake Kahaulelio.

BASKETBALL NBA—Fined the San Antonio Spurs organization $250,000 for sending four players home before their Nov. 29 game in Miami.

HOUSTON ROCKETS—Assigned F Terrence Jones and reassigned G Scott Machado to Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).

TORONTO RAPTORS—Signed G-F Mickael Pietrus. Waived F Dominic McGuire.

FOOTBALL NFL—Fined Cincinnati OT Andrew Whitworth, Oakland DL Desmond Bryant, Oakland DL Lamarr Houston, Oakland DL Tommy Kelly and Oakland DL Matt

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Two stroke lead for Graeme McDowell in California

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Tiger Woods hits his second shot off of the 18th fairway during the second round of the World Challenge golf tournament at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. line clearly in his sights. Suddenly, though, he has something at stake.

The World Challenge doesn’t belong to any tour. It offers world ranking points, though he isn’t in dire need of them. But there’s a trophy, and McDowell hasn’t hoisted one of those since that birdie-birdie finish to beat Woods in a playoff at Sherwood in 2010.

“I would love to compete and play well this weekend, really to kind of put a little icing on what’s been a mediocre year,” McDowell said.

“Despite the fact that I feel like I’ve played some decent golf this year, I really don’t have a lot to show for myself, and this would be a nice way to finish.”

McDowell was at 9-under 135.

Russell Martin signs two-year deal with the Pirates

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — Canadian Russell Martin is going from a franchise that has won a record 27 World Series titles to a franchise that has endured a record 20 consecutive losing seasons.

Yet Martin, a catcher, said Friday he is excited about joining the Pittsburgh Pirates after signing a two-year, $17-million contract as a free agent.

Martin spent the last two seasons with the New York Yankees.

“It’s going to be different,” Martin said. “It’s going to be a challenge but I think the Pirates have a young and electric club. There is a lot of talent there and I don’t think we’re as far away as winning as maybe people outside baseball think we are.”

The Pirates are hoping Martin can help get them at least over .500. Their string of losing seasons continued this

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REBELS: Vasko debut “That’s my favourite kind of game,” said Dieno, who picked up three assists, of the old-fashioned, wide-open shootout. “It seemed like the puck was getting to the net for both teams tonight.”

The victory was Red Deer’s sixth straight and the Rebels will be gunning for seven in a row when the Saskatoon Blades — 4-0 winners at Calgary on Friday — visit the Centrium tonight.

“It’s not always going to be pretty and it’s not always going to be perfect, and a lot of nights it’s not perfect,” said Sutter. “But you just stay with it and be a mentally strong group and prevail.”

The game marked the debut of Slovakian forward Filip Vasko, whom Sutter acquired from the Kelowna Rockets on Thursday.

Vasko, quick on his feet, showed flashes and earned passing marks from the Rebels bench boss.

“I thought he was good,” said Sutter. “He’s strong with the puck, he’s good down low and he has some skills. He’s a player who adds a skill level to our team and is capable of playing in our top nine (forwards).”

Lanigan stopped 19 of the 24 shots he faced, while Langhamer blocked six of seven shots over the final 18 minutes and change. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

COLLEGE: Queens struggle “They’re older, more experienced and ranked nationally, but still we didn’t do a good job against them on the boards and were losing some of their shooters,” said Queens head coach Mike Woollard following a 73-56 loss.

“We let them shoot 50 per cent from the field in that first half and they outrebounded us 9-5 on our boards, which tells a story.”

The Queens trailed 2110 after the first quarter and 42-23 at the break.

They were outscored 2212 in the third quarter, but turned it around in the final 10 minutes outscoring the Eagles 21-9.

“We did a good job battling back and the girls on the floor at the end hit some shoots and moved the ball well,” added Woollard, whose team didn’t have an answer for fifth-year forward Tamara Deunk, who had 24 points and six rebounds.

“She’s six-foot and plays in and out and we have problems with players like that,” said Woollard. “If she was a six-foot post player or a six-foot outside player we’d be able to do a better job against her.”

One of the positives for RDC was in that they had less turnovers than the Eagles, 23-20.

Dedra Janvier had 14 points for RDC while De-

year when they went from 16 games over .500 at 64-48 on Aug. 8 to a 7983 finish by losing 35 of their last 50 games.

“There is a lot to like about Russell,” Pirates general manager Neal Huntington said. “He handles a pitching staff well, he calls a good game, he throws well, he is capable of hitting the ball out of the ballpark. We’re very excited to be able to add him to our club.”

sirae Peterson added 12 and Amrei Bondzio eight. ● The Queens were playing without second-year guard Sarah Williamson (concussion), which hurt them on the boards . . . RDC concludes their first half of the season tonight in Lloydminster against Lakeland . . . In other ACAC news Olds College swept a twin bill against St. Mary’s University in women’s play, winning 65-51 in Calgary Friday after taking a 72-42 victory Thursday in Olds. The Olds men lost to St. Mary’s 84-67 Friday after winning 85-77 at home. ● A day after one of their best performances of the season, the RDC hockey Queens dropped a 2-0 decision to the homestanding NAIT Ooks Friday.

The win moved the Ooks back ahead of RDC in the standings by one point heading into the Christmas break.

Michelle Pochapsky and Taryn McCormick beat RDC netminder Camille Trautman in the second period. Trautman finished with 19 saves while her mates had 21 shots on Jill Diachuk. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

NEW YORK — As promised, Mariano Rivera is staying with the New York Yankees for another season.

After missing most of the season because of a knee injury, Rivera accepted a cut in guaranteed money when he finalized a $10 million, one-year contract Friday.

The all-time saves leader, who turned 43 on Thursday, took a cut from his $30 million deal that had covered the last two years. But he can earn an additional $500,000 if he is MVP of the league championship series, $1 million if he is MVP of the World Series and $1 million if he wins the Rolaids Relief Award.

Rivera was limited to nine games this year after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee while tracking down a fly ball during batting practice in Kansas City on May 3.

“Like I’ve been saying, I didn’t want to go out like that,” Rivera said in a statement.

“I didn’t want that to be the last image.

But it wasn’t an easy decision because there’s more than just baseball with me. I have to consider my family and the church, too. But I feel like we have a great group of guys and a team that can compete for a championship. I’m not just coming back to play. I’m coming back to win.”

Rivera, with 608 saves in the regular season and 42 more in the post-season, is a 12-time All-Star. The Yankees say his recovery from knee surgery on June 12 will be complete by opening day.

With deals for Andy Pettitte, Hiroki Kuroda and Rivera in place, the Yankees will turn their attention to position players.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL CALGARY — The Lindsay Thurber Raiders dropped their second straight close game in the SAIT high school girls’ basketball tournament Friday.

The Raiders dropped a 47-45 decision to Springbank despite 16 points from Amy Whitesell and 13 from Mikayla Morneault.

The Raiders, who open their Central Alberta season Tuesday at home against Wetaskiwin, finish the tournament today.

2-of-19 shooting.

“He did an excellent job of moving his feet, sliding his feet and got the stop,” Casey said of Bargnani’s big rebound. “He did a great job down the stretch, free-throw wise, so he came in after struggling with a sore foot and everything and gave us something at the end.”

Mickael Pietrus, who made his Raptors debut just hours after the team announced his signing had kind words for Bargnani.

“Sometimes you’re not going to get 20 shots, so you’ve got to do whatever it takes to help the team,” Pietrus said.

The six-foot-six three-point specialist, acquired to help fill the void left by injured Landry Fields (arm), finished with six points, making two-of-five shots from three-point range.

The Raptors had a sluggish start falling behind by 10 points midway through the first quarter and trailed 25-19 heading into the second.

RAPTORS: Strong late effort Lowry scooped up a rebound on a Gortat miss and was fouled, draining one of two free throws.

Then Andrea Bargnani, back after missing Wednesday’s loss at Memphis with a sore left ankle, grabbed a huge rebound with three seconds on the clock and was fouled for two free throws to clinch the rare win for Toronto.

“Our other guys were doing a great job offensively so I didn’t need to take many shots, and I was trying to make myself useful on defence,” Bargnani said.

The strong late effort must have been welcome relief for the beleaguered big man who scored just four points on 1-for-4 shooting in 27 minutes. Bargnani, Toronto’s No. 1 draft pick in 2006, has drawn the ire of Raptors’ fans again this season, and last week against San Antonio scored just four points on

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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Graeme McDowell has done a lot right this year, except for win. He now has one last chance to fix that.

Back on the course that has provided two key moments in his career, McDowell opened with three straight birdies Friday and finished strong for a 6-under 66, giving him a three-shot lead going into the weekend at the World Challenge.

“A good day’s work,” said McDowell, whose day was not over until he was escorted away for a drug test.

Bo Van Pelt got up-and-down from the drop zone for bogey on the final hole that gave him a 68, leaving him tied for second with Keegan Bradley and Jim Furyk, who each had a 69. Tournament host and defending champion Tiger Woods was tied for the lead on the back nine until he stalled and settled for a 69. He was four shots behind.

This is the final destination of a whirlwind trip for McDowell, who spent two weeks in China, a short holiday in Dubai, a tournament in Australia, back to Dubai and then across eight time zones to California.

It’s also been somewhat of a whirlwind year, filled with opportunity, but no trophies.

He played in the final group in back-to-back majors, the U.S. Open and British Open, without winning.

He was on the winning Ryder Cup team again, only he concedes his game wasn’t there and he earned only one point.

McDowell always feels relaxed at Sherwood Country Club, with an 18man field and no cut and the finish

Yankee’s bring Rivera back for one more year

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NHL Lockout uncertainty impacts camp roster

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian junior hockey team’s selection camp roster to be announced Monday was constructed with the NHL lockout in mind.

Hockey Canada would have limited the number of players invited to 28 if the NHL lockout was certain to continue into January. Having all of the country’s top 18- and 19-year-old players at camp makes decisions simpler.

But the uncertainty over when the lockout will end, and how a sudden conclusion would impact the Canadian team, means between 35 and 40 players will be summoned to selection camp Dec. 10-15 in Calgary.

The Canadian team will be named Dec. 13 and departs for pre-competition camp in Finland two days later.

The 2013 world junior hockey championship opens Dec. 26 and closes Jan. 5 in Ufa, Russia.

The extra players at camp will be insurance, should the NHL lockout end later this month and clubs quickly call their top teenagers to their training camps.

“We’re bringing extra bodies right now,” Hockey Canada head scout Kevin Prendergast says. “We just don’t want to be scrambling on the 15th of December saying we’ve got to get 10 players in here right now.”

The NHL has cancelled its games until Dec. 14. The league and the players’ entered into mediation this week, but no progress was made towards ending the labour impasse.

All countries submit their world junior tournament rosters to the International Ice Hockey Federation on Dec. 25, which allows for the addition of players should some be lost to the NHL in the days prior to the tournament.

That’s a nightmare scenario, however, for a Canadian team trying to develop chemistry and cohesion in the few days it has to prepare, while ferrying players back and forth across the Atlantic.

“Anything that’s going to change is out of our control,” Hockey Canada’s senior director of operations Scott Salmond says. “As camp goes on, I think

WORLD JUNIORS we’ll have a pretty good feeling hopefully by the 13th that we’ll be able to name the 23 players who will go to our camp in Finland and those will be the guys we stick with.

“Is there a Plan B? Sure we’ve talked about it and thought about it. Things would really have to change for that to kick in.”

Salmond says 23 players will be named to the team instead of the usual 22 because Canada will take a third goaltender — an alternate — to the tournament.

That’s not about the NHL lockout, but because of the travel required to get a goaltender to central Russia in the event of a injury to one of the two goalies named to the squad.

“If something happens to one of our goaltenders, we’d never get a goalie in there in time,” Prendergast explained.

“He’s going to be told going over, ‘You’re the third goaltender. The only way you’re going to get to play is if one of the other two get hurt.”’

IIHF rules allows a goaltender to be added to a country’s roster during the tournament if one gets injured, but the same isn’t permitted at forward or defence.

At this point, the lockout means Canadian head coach Steve Spott and his assistants will have almost all of Canada’s best players born in 1993 and 1994 at selection camp.

That’s rare as a handful are often lost to the NHL. Canada dominated the 2005 world junior hockey championships en route to gold in Grand Forks, N.D., during the last NHL lockout. Canada also won gold in 1995 in Red Deer, Alta., during a lockout-shortened season.

Injured defenceman Ryan Murray will not be at this year’s camp and the status of centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is unclear. An Edmonton Oilers spokesman has said general manager Steve Tambellini will discuss the prospect of playing for Canada with Nugent-Hopkins this weekend in Houston.

Nugent-Hopkins, 19, was assigned to

the American Hockey League’s Oklahoma City Barons prior to the lockout and the Barons are in Houston this weekend.

Hockey Canada’s policy is that a player must participate in selection camp to play for Canada at the world junior hockey championships. Prendergast would like an answer from the Oilers by Monday so that Spott can plan selection camp with Nugent-Hopkins in it or out of it.

“We’d want to know,” Prendergast said. “We have to give Steve Spott every opportunity to put the best team together. Let’s be realistic. If NugentHopkins comes, he’ll be our best play-

er.”

Salmond, however, would be content if the NHL’s first overall draft pick in 2011 commits to the team the day camp starts.

“If the Edmonton Oilers call me the morning of the 10th and said Ryan is coming, obviously we’d want him,” Salmond said.

Each NHL club has submitted names to the Canadian Hockey League of players that would be called up in the event the lockout ended and training camps were hastily assembled, according to Prendergast. He could see six players come off Canada’s roster immediately in that event.

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This role calls for a professional with diversified knowledge of products developed through at least 3-5 years of progressive experience in an industrial/safety business and/or relevant post secondary education. Previous customer service/inside sales experience is required. Previous outside sales experience is desired. Your knowledge of the selling process is accompanied by the ability to work independently and manage your time and territory effectively. You are a team-player with excellent interpersonal, customer service, and presentation skills. A valid driver’s licence and the use of a reliable vehicle are essential.

The successful candidate’s compensation package will include a competitive base salary, sales commission, business vehicle allowance, a comprehensive benefits package and excellent potential for career advancement.

Interested applicants are invited to forward their resumé in person, via fax, or e-mail to: Acklands-Grainger Inc., 7630 Edgar Industrial Road, Red Deer, AB T4P 3R2, Attn: Mike Freed at: Email Address: freedm@agi.ca, Fax Number: 403-341-3990.

Acklands-Grainger Inc. is committed to the principles and practices of employment equity. We invite all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, visible minorities, and Aboriginal Peoples to apply for our career opportunities.

We thank you in advance for considering Acklands-Grainger Inc., but only those candidates being considered will be contacted.

No agency solicitation or phone calls please.

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At the very core of the organization are our corporate values and performance drivers: Wow the Customers, Have a Winning Attitude, Drive for the Best Results, Make the Team Better and Lead the Way. All our actions and initiatives are driven by these values.

Submit resumés in person to Olds Dodge or email manager@oldsdodge.com All resumés will be kept confidential

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Jeff Stoughton, Stefanie Bonds, Lawton rinks advance to final Clemens, Sosa likely to fall short

NEW YORK — The face of the New York Mets plans to stick around for quite a while.

All-Star third baseman David Wright and the Mets agreed Friday to a $138 million, eight-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

The deal, the richest in franchise history, replaces Wright’s $16 million salary for next season and includes $122 million in new money, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the agreement was not yet final.

A homegrown fan favourite, Wright is the club’s career leader in several major offensive categories including hits, RBIs, runs and walks.

Wright is to attend teammate Daniel Murphy’s wedding in Jacksonville, Fla., this weekend, then travel to New York for a physical. The contract with the All-Star third baseman probably will be announced at next week’s winter meetings in Nashville, Tenn., the person said.

The agreement, negotiated by agents Sam and Seth Levinson, was first reported by WFAN radio.

Some of the money in Wright’s deal will be deferred.

Wright, who turns 30 on Dec. 20, would have been eligible for free agency after next season. The Mets also are trying to reach a deal with Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey, who can become a free agent after next season.

Mets general manager Sandy Alderson had said that signing Wright and Dickey to multiyear deals were his top priorities this off-season. Alderson, however, would not rule out trading Dickey in a deal that could upgrade the roster.

Wright batted .306 with 21 homers and 93 RBIs last season as the Mets went 74-88 and finished fourth in the NL East for the fourth straight year. He also had a .391 on-base percentage to go with 41 doubles and 15 stolen bases.

Lindsay Vonn wins at Lake Louise

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAKE LOUISE, Alta. — Lindsey Vonn felt pressure to win the season-opening World Cup downhill at Lake Louise, even though she is the most dominant ski racer there.

When the American ski star crossed the finish line Friday in a blistering time that no one was going to beat, Vonn looked to the sky and pumped her fists in a gesture of both vindication and relief.

Vonn had upped the ante for herself at Lake Louise by asking the world governing body of skiing if she could race in the men’s World Cup last weekend.

She was denied by FIS, but hasn’t given up on that dream.

Vonn believes the best argument for her to race the men is to keep winning the women’s races at Lake Louise by large margins.

“When you say you want to race the men, you can’t really not win the women’s races,” Vonn said.

“I knew that and I definitely was trying to prove a point, I think mostly to myself, but to everyone else who doesn’t think I should race with the men.

“Hopefully it works out. Maybe it won’t, but I think my skiing will speak for itself.”

With a time of one minute 52.61 seconds, Vonn was a commanding 1.73 seconds faster than U.S. teammate and runner-up Stacey Cook, who earned her World Cup medal.

Required to manage a sales staff selling both new and used vehicles. Only candidates with a proven track record in vehicle sales and vehicle sales management will be considered. We are a process oriented dealership that believes strongly in sales staff development and high CSI scores as being essential to our long term success.

Do you want to work for an organization that puts FUN Àrst? As one of Alberta’s Top 55 employers we are looking for a FUN, DRIVEN, and ENTHUSIASTIC Personal Lines Advisor to join our team!

The successful applicant will enjoy meeting new people, be able to multi-task in a fast paced environment and be a strong team player. Computer skills are a must. All candidates with 1+ years of insurance experience and a Level 1 General Insurance License will be considered.

Full company benefits, excellent salary and bonus program.

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CIVIL PROJECT ESTIMATOR/ MANAGER We are a growing construction company that requires a Civil Project Estimator/Manager for our office in Red Deer.

The successful candidate will have experience in municipal infrastructure, earthworks, highway or underground utilities construction. Must be able to work in a fast paced environment, be proficient in Microsoft programs, written correspondence and plan reading. CET accreditation is an asset.

Pidherney’s offers competitive wages and benefits.

Please forward resumes to: hr@pidherneys.com Attention: Charlie MacDonald, in confidence.

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Please send your resume in confidence to the Operations Manager: doug@reddeer.toyota.ca or Fax: 403-346-4975

Please forward your resume to:

OFFICE ACCOUNTANT Passionate about service excellence? Interested in growing a career with a dynamic ¿rm? Then the CB Life could be for you. This is where talent meets opportunity.

At Collins Barrow we take your career as seriously as you do.

As our Oɷce Accountant you will report directly to the COO. Your duties will include: • Processing payroll, government remittances, T4’s, etc.

• Processing accounts payable • Maintaining the General Ledger • Performing account reconciliations • Banking • Preparing in-house ¿nancial statements • Preparation of various reports and execution of various projects at the direction of the Management group The successful applicant will possess: • Minimum three years’ experience in a similar role • Strong technical skills • Eɱective communication skills • Experience with Paymate and Adagio software (or other similar programs) • Ability to produce, and work with, complex Excel spreadsheets At Collins Barrow Red Deer LLP, our mission is to give our clients the leading edge through our teamwork, innovative advice and superior service. Currently comprised of approximately 70 professionals, our ¿rm is committed to developing its people as well as its clients.

We oɱer a competitive salary and bene¿ts package.

If you meet the above requirements, please forward your resume to: Cindy Risling, Human Resources, at crisling@collinsbarrow.com or by mail to: Cindy Risling, Human Resources Collins Barrow Red Deer LLP 300, 5010 – 43 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 6H2

We are The City of Red Deer

All applications will be carefully reviewed, however we will only contact candidates who are selected for interviews..

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MAKING IT HAPPEN! The City of Red Deer is a municipal government, eager to meet tomorrow’s challenges. Our employees are the cornerstone of our organization. We are always seeking creative and skilled individuals with the ability and desire to lead in our dynamic workplace.

Temporary

INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT BUSINESS COURSES

The following opportunity is currently available:

The School of Business is seeking an Instructional Assistant to provide support in its Business courses. This is a full-time position with 40 hours of work per week. The anticipated term of employment would be from January 2, 2013 to May 3, 2013.

9-1-1 Emergency Dispatcher Working in a team environment, the incumbent is responsible for receiving, evaluating, coordinating and dispatching various requests for assistance or response of local and/ or regional emergency services and other related agencies.

This position demands the use and operation of a variety of communications and computer equipment. Additionally, the incumbent provides required data entry and generates required reports.

Temporary

INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT OFFICE ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM

The School of Business has an opportunity available for a temporary part-time Instructional Assistant to provide support for approximately 20 hours per week in its Office Administration Program. The anticipated term of employment will be from January 2, 2013 to May 3, 2013.

Job Requirements:

Roster

• Successful completion of a grade 12 education (as a minimum).

BUSINESS INSTRUCTORS

• Must possess current certification as an Emergency Medical Dispatcher and Emergency Fire Dispatcher.

Certifications in Emergency Medical Responder (or higher), rescue, HAZMAT, fire and other related areas of emergency services work are an asset.

The School of Business is seeking contract Instructors in Accounting and Economics. The length of these contracts may vary from seven weeks to fifteen weeks and will be determined on an as & when required basis throughout the coming year.

• Must posses a valid Alberta Drivers license and have reliable transportation.

Temporary Full-Time

INSTRUCTOR

(2 Positions)

• Must successfully complete a hearing in noise test and demonstrate adequate hearing in the normal setting with corrective devices if required.

COMMUNICATIONS & GENERAL STUDIES

The School of Business has instructional opportunities available in the Communications and General Studies areas.

These are temporary full-time positions for the period of January 7, 2013 to May 3, 2013.

• Must successfully complete an emergency communications skills evaluation (Critical aptitude assessment) We welcome your application and look forward to discussing how The City of Red Deer can become your next career choice!

For more information and to apply online please visit www.reddeer.ca

Contract

INSTRUCTOR SPORTS MANAGEMENT

The School of Business has an opportunity available for a contract Instructor to instruct Introduction to Coaching Level 1 in the Business Administration – Sports Management Diploma Program. The term of employment will be from January 7, 2013 to May 3, 2013 for a total of 45 hours.

Please forward a resume quoting the appropriate competition number by the closing dates indicated on our website.

For information on these or other employment opportunities, please visit our website at www.oldscollege.ca/employment

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secured the spot with a 7-3 victory over winless Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L. It was a disappointing tournament for Martin, the defending Olympic and Canada Cup champion, who is going home with a paltry 1-5 record.

On the women’s side, Saskatoon’s Lawton locked up the top spot in the round robin despite losing 4-3 to Winnipeg’s Cathy Overton-Clapham (1-5). Lawton topped the round robin with a 5-1 record.

Saturday’s women’s semifinal was decided in the final draw.

Team Jennifer Jones will play Heather Nedohin of Sherwood Park, Alta., in the semi after both teams won their final matches to finish with 4-2 records.

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NEW YORK — Baseball’s all-time home run king and the most decorated pitcher likely will be shut out of the Hall of Fame in January. A survey by The Associated Press shows that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, as well as slugger Sammy Sosa, don’t have enough votes to get into Cooperstown.

With steroid scandals still very much on the minds of longtime members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America as they cast their ballots, the trio failed to muster even 50 per cent support among the 112 voters contacted by the AP — nearly one-fifth of those eligible to choose.

Candidates need 75 per cent for election So Bonds, the only seven-time MVP, and Clemens, the only seven-time Cy Young Award winner, are likely to remain outside the Hall along with career hits leader Pete Rose, who was banned for betting on baseball as manager of the Cincinnati Reds.

“I’m not going to vote for anybody who has been tainted or associated with steroids,” said MLB.com’s Hal Bodley, the former baseball columnist for USA Today. “I’m just not going to do it. I might change down the road, but I just love the game too much.

I have too much passion for the game and for what these people did to it.”

The current ballot was announced this week and Bonds, Clemens and Sosa were on it for the first time. Votes will be cast throughout the month and results will be released Jan. 9.

Among voters who expressed an opinion, Bonds received 45 per cent support, Clemens 43 per cent and Sosa 18 per cent. To gain election, Bonds and Clemens would need more than 80 per cent support among the voters not surveyed and Sosa would need to get more than 85 per cent.

MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Jeff Stoughton and Stefanie Lawton each advanced to the finals at the Capital One Canada Cup curling competition Friday.

Stoughton, who entered the ninth and final draw tied atop the round robin with fellow Winnipeg native Mike McEwen, defeated McEwen 7-5 in 10 ends to secure first place on the men’s side with a 5-1 record.

The loss was McEwen’s second of the day after falling 7-4 to Calgary’s Kevin Koe in the afternoon draw at Mosaic Place. McEwen (4-2) will now play a rematch against Koe (4-2) in a tiebreaker Saturday after Koe beat Edmonton’s Kevin Martin 6-3.

The winner will face world champion Glenn Howard of Coldwater, Ont., in the semifinal. Howard (4-2)

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From Red Deer Rebels to rigworkers to Red Deer Advocate editors, Movember continues to be a rousing affair in Central Alberta.

The annual November campaign, in which men grow moustaches and raise funds to forward prostate cancer research, was started in Australia in 2003.

Seven years later, in 2011, the Canadian campaign was the second largest in the world. More than 246,000 participants raised $42.3 million for Prostate Cancer Canada.

According to the Canadian Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian men (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer).

In 2012: • An estimated 26,500 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and 4,000 will die of it.

• On average, 73 Canadian men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer every day.

• On average, 11 Canadian men will die of prostate cancer every day.

• One in seven men will develop prostate cancer during his lifetime and one in 28 will die of it.

For more information, visit the Canadian Cancer Society site at http://www.cancer.ca or Prostate Cancer Canada at www.prostate cancer.ca. For more information on Movember, visit ca.movember.com.

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AUTHOR AT MUSEUM Hear the fascinating tale on Thursday of a Métis woman whose nearly century-long life saw Alberta changed to a modern state. The North West Company Tradition: The history of Marie Rose Delorme Smith starts at 7 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery as part of its Curious Thursdays presentations.

Smith was born in 1861 and lived until 1960.

In between, she was sold to a Norwegian fur trader, homesteaded a ranch near Pincher Creek, raised 17 children, penned many articles and stories about her life and was a close friend of renowned missionary Father Albert Lacombe.

The presentation is by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon, a former Red Deer College instructor and author of I Am Alone in this World: The Identities of Marie Rose Smith.

MEET SYLVAN COUNCIL Sylvan Lakers can have coffee with their town council this month. On Thursday, the mayor and councillors will be at the Lakeshore Drive A&W from 7 to 9 a.m., on Dec. 8 at Waves Coffee House from 9 a.m. to noon and on Dec. 11 at the Sylvan Lake Arena from 6 to 8 p.m. The meetings are for residents to discuss issues with their municipal leadership.

This year’s meetings take place before council discusses the draft 2013 budget.

MIGRAINE SEMINAR Migraine and other headache sufferers can take in a free seminar on Friday.

Dr. Jennifer Bestard, a neurologist at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, will speak at an introductory session for patients from 9:15 a.m. to noon at Carnival Cinema at 5402 47th St. The session is open to the public. Doors will close at 9:30 a.m. and seating is limited to 200 people. The event is a presentation of Central Alberta Migraine Support. Register for the event via email to drbestardoffice@gmail. com.

GIVE US A CALL The Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta.

We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages.

We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit.

Call 403-314-4333.

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Red Deer Emergency Services deputy chief in charge of EMS Greg Adair uses a hybrid Ford Escape on the job. Emergency Services also uses a hybrid Toyota Camry.

Greening the city fleet ELECTRIC CARS, BIODIESEL ON THE HORIZON, BUT CITY PLANS TO MOVE CAUTIOUSLY

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s fleet will be a shade greener when an electric car drives into the city next year.

While the city is expected to roll out its Greening the Fleet action plan in 2013, efforts to reduce the carbon footprint are already underway.

Tom Marstaller, City of Red Deer fleet superintendent, said the city is taking small steps to ensure the route taken is headed in the right direction. He said that’s part of the reason the city isn’t jumping head first into the new technology pool.

“We do want to get the fleet a lot greener than it is but it could take us a few years,” said Marstaller. “We want to make sure we are heading into well-developed areas before we just jump and we end up with a technology that doesn’t work.”

Marstaller added the difficulty with being an early adopter is sometimes the technology is not as far along as it should be.

Pending approval, the department will conduct a review of available fleet-related technologies, a situation assessment and eventually establish goals, targets and measures in its action plan.

The city fleet of 600 vehicles, including 52 transit buses, already includes two hybrids (an SUV and a car) used by two deputy fire chiefs in the Emergency Services Department.

The city is monitoring what’s happening in the hybrid vehicle industry and has considered purchasing hybrid transit buses.

“There have been some recent reports of some large difficulties with some of the hybrid buses out there,” said Marstaller.

“There are so many variables. At this point in time, we have backed away from buying a hybrid bus right now. We’re going to buy

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BRIEFS School boundaries examined Red Deer Public School District trustees will receive administration’s recommendation on proposed attendance boundaries for elementary schools on Dec. 12.

The school district had gathered public input at open houses regarding boundaries for elementary schools. The changes would come into effect in September 2014, the same time that a new elementary school in Timberlands opens.

The district is looking at changes based on how the school in Timberlands would run.

It could end up being an English-program only, a dual-track French immersion program, or Mountview could end up being a single-track French immersion program. There are various scenarios for each theme.

“The Timberlands school gives us the opportunity to look at changing some of the attendance boundaries for other schools,” said superintendent Piet Langstraat earlier.

Youths charged after crash Two youths were charged and a police warrant was issued for a third youth after a stolen vehicle crashed into a home in a Red Deer neighbourhood on Thursday.

RCMP were called to a collision in Timberlands at 3 p.m. on Thursday. A vehicle struck a home and the vehicle’s occupants had fled on foot.

some regular plain jane transit buses and watch what the marketplace is doing and see where we go.”

From time to time, the idea of purchasing smaller transit buses comes up but the current plan is to keep buying the same 40-foot buses.

The approved electric vehicle in the 2013 capital budget, possibly a Nissan LEAF, will be used as a pilot in the Electric Light and Power Department. The Nissan LEAF is a 100 per cent electric vehicle that produces no emissions.

The vehicle’s performance will be tested and tracked. From this data, the city will determine whether the existing electrical distribution network is able to meet these types of operational demands or whether upgrades would be needed should electrical vehicles become more common in the community.

The electric vehicle is expected to join the fleet by the end of 2013.

In 2009, the idle free project was launched, encouraging reduced idling to lower emissions.

“We are starting to see our fuel leveling off even though our fleet is growing,” said Marstaller. “So that’s a good sign.”

Drivers are encouraged regularly to turn off the ignition instead of idling their vehicles.

The city is also considering a Natural Resources Canada fleet fuel sense program where drivers learn new habits to become more fuel-efficient.

“We look at trying to find things that are more fuel efficient but once you get to a certain size of vehicle, vehicle efficiency data isn’t readily available,” said Marstaller. “It becomes less of a factor at that point.”

In 2014, a tank that will dispense biodiesel for the city fleet will be installed at the civic yards. The fleet currently uses some biodiesel depending on the season

but mostly uses regular diesel. The onsite fuelling system for the fleet currently has three tanks: one for unleaded fuel, one for clear diesel and one for marked diesel. But with advances in technology, there may be opportunities to increase biodiesel concentrations, which has the potential to reduce emissions.

“We have a lot of great opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint with bigger things like reducing methane at the wastewater treatment plant,” said City of Red Deer environmental program specialist Lauren Maris.

“We are doing some renovations to the plant and that will involve co-generation, which means that the methane being emitted will be used for heat and electricity.

Those are bigger opportunities but Greening the Fleet is a small but important piece of our plans to reduce our carbon footprint.”

The city is working on goals and targets as part of the Environmental Master Plan.

Greening the Fleet falls under the air section of the plan.

Part of the plan is to determine the city’s carbon footprint as a corporation and later the community as a whole.

The city is wrapping up its corporate greenhouse gas inventory, which involves converting things like natural gas used in the facilities, electricity use and methane emissions from the landfill into carbon dioxide equivalents and adding them up to determine the carbon footprint.

From the carbon footprint, the city will be able to set reduction targets and goals.

For the city at large, the greenhouse gas inventory still needs to be conducted and the footprint information is expected to be completed in late 2013 or early 2014. Goals for the city as a corporation should be released in early 2013. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

There were no injuries but RCMP discovered the vehicle involved had been reported stolen from Canmore.

Police officers searched the area and found youths who matched the description of the suspects. They were arrested in the vicinity of the crash.

A 14-year-old female from Canmore was charged with possession of stolen property and mischief.

A 17-year-old male from Red Deer was also charged with possession of stolen property, mischief and dangerous driving.

The two were released from custody and are slated to appear on Jan. 17 in Alberta provincial youth court.

A warrant was also issued against a 15-year-old male from Red Deer for several offences, including possession of stolen property.

The youths cannot be named under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

tion.

“With the wait times reaching upwards of three to five minutes, it is very frustrating as well as dangerous to exit from Ironside as well as Sunnybrook,” he said earlier. “There have been some close calls and near incidents as well.”

Traffic lights on 40th Avenue Traffic lights will be ready next week for a busy southside intersection that was creating safety hazards for drivers and pedestrians.

Drivers will be alerted to the new lights that will begin flashing at the intersection of Southbrook/Ironside Street and 40th Avenue. The flashing lights will continue until Thursday, when the lights become fully operational.

Earlier this year, council approved installing the lights, with money to come out of municipal reserves. The plan was to have them installed by next year.

Council was told the lights could be installed sooner, but it depended on when the materials would arrive.

Robert Schneider was among residents who wrote to city council, saying traffic lights were badly needed at the intersec-

Bomb threat empties Olymel Police say that the bomb threat heard Friday morning at Olymel in Red Deer was in fact left as a message on Thursday night.

Red Deer city RCMP allege that an employee at the pork processing plant left a voicemail on the answering machine at 10:45 p.m. Thursday.

Staff at the plant in Riverside Industrial Park didn’t retrieve the message until about 10:15 a.m. Friday morning. They then contacted police.

The male caller said there was a bomb in the plant and that everyone should get out of the building, according to police.

RCMP evacuated all employees, who were moved to a building in the City of Red Deer civic yards across the street.

Police searched the building, with the help of RCMP police dog services, but no bomb was found.

Once the search was completed, the building was deemed safe and all employees were allowed back into the plant.

A suspect has been arrested and charges are pending.

Missing girl found A Red Deer girl missing since Nov. 16 has been found.

City RCMP said that Sommer Currie, 16, was located on Friday, two weeks after she was last seen in the Deer Park area of Red Deer.

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LOCAL EVENTS MONDAY, DEC. 3 Ring in the season with a Christmas experience featuring over 200 creche displays from around the world, peaceful seasonal music, and beautiful Christmas artwork. Hot chocolate and light refreshments will be served. The free event is offered Monday, Dec. 3 through Wednesday, Dec. 6 from 6 to 8:30 p.m., and also from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 8 Keast Way. TUESDAY, DEC. 4 Heartland Cowboy Church is held on the first and third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Stettler Agriplex. Cowboy church will be held Dec. 4 and 18. Call 403-742-4273.

SATURDAY, DEC. 8 Steve Bell Trio in concert: Keening for the Dawn CD release tour stops at Sylvan Lake Alliance Church on Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $20 from the church (403-887-8811) or from Scott’s Parables (403-342-7477) or online at www.stevebell.com, or toll-free at 1-800-8543499. Enjoy songs from Advent and Christmas, and more.

SUNDAY, DEC. 9 Kiwanis Christmas Carol Festival will be held Dec. 9 at Gaetz Memorial United Church starting at 2 p.m. There is no admission charge, but donations to the Red Deer Food Bank and the Red Deer Christmas Bureau will be gratefully accepted. Phone 403-340-1109 for details.

Candle Lighting Memorial Service in conjunction with The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting will take place to remember children who have been lost at any age, through any cause on Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at Centennial Stage located at the back alley entrance of Scott Block (through small court yard).

If possible please bring a photo of the child, (up to five by seven inches) and a poem or a quotation to be read, and a candle or a tea light will be provided. Sharing and refreshments to follow. For more information, to participate or assist, contact Teresa at 403-755-7322.

INSTEAD OF CORRECTING SUPERSTITION, THE CHURCH OFTEN OVERPLAYED ITS HAND In this season of hope, Christians example, her servants emptied every count on the providence of a benevo- water container in the house to prolent God. tect her soul from drowning.

But just five centuries ago, many Before burial, her body was probelievers thought God to tected from any cat or dog be ineffective against, or that might run across her inattentive to, a bewildercoffin and transform her ing array of sinister spirits remains into a vampire. that contributed anxiety to A personal note: Should daily living. any such superstitions have Not only did angels and survived the centuries, my devils lurk in the air, but wife and I take measures to malevolent spirits were keep our black cat, Ginger, thought to reside in every indoors on Halloween. object in nature.

Although monastic manPhysicians consulted uscripts in the age of suastrologers before surgery perstition repeatedly heror bloodletting, and people alded the imminent arrival DAVID traced plagues to unfortuof the Day of Judgment, YOUNT nate configurations in the many peasants ignored the heavens. alarms and spent the SabIn his book, A World Lit bath, after church, in recOnly by Fire, William Manreation. chester painted a depressing picture Life, they concluded, was difficult of credulous religious life in the past. enough for them without anticipating Medieval Europeans, unlike an- Armageddon. cient pagans, persuaded themselves Still, a permanent cloud of concern that they were at the mercy of forces hung over daily living, which was conbeyond their control. sidered to be fraught with danger.

They credited sorcery, witchcraft, There were endless taboos: to don hobgoblins, werewolves, amulets and a clean white shirt on a Friday, to witspells for life’s setbacks. ness a shooting star in the heavens, to Daily living at the end of the Middle see a will-o’-the-wisp in the swamps or Ages was a perpetual Halloween full a vulture overhead were believed to of tricks rather than treats. invite an early death.

In those times, fear often trumped A woman foolish enough to do her faith. laundry during Holy Week was neiWhen a wealthy woman died, for ther long for this world nor a promis-

ing candidate for the next.

Should 13 persons dine at the same table, one of them — like Judas at the Last Supper — was expected to disappear from life before the next meal.

Likewise, anyone unlucky enough to hear a wolf howl through the night was not expected to see the dawn.

Comets and eclipses — natural wonders to contemporary Christians — were portents of doom to superstitious believers then.

Superstition made Satan seem more real and his power more pervasive than that of the Redeemer.

Devils were believed to be more numerous than the heavenly host and more eager to wield their power for good.

Instead of correcting superstition, the Church often overplayed its hand, exploiting fear of the devil as a more potent motive than the love of God to keep believers faithful.

Faith, in short, was lopsided and hope teetered on the brink of despair.

In the modern world, we are inclined to attribute evil to the ravages of nature and the cruelty of humankind.

But evil remains, as does our need for redemption.

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Centre for Spiritual Living 11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service Rev. Judy Andersen www.cslreddeer.org #3 - 6315 Horn Street

Balmoral Bible Chapel 403-347-5450

Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.) 10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Fred Thomson

"Abrahamic Covenant" Genesis 13 Children's Sunday School 2-1/2 - Grade 5 www.balmoralchapel.ca

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Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

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Mayor adding voice to concert FLEWWELLING WILL LEND HIS SPEAKING TALENTS TO RDSO’S CHRISTMAS FROM THE BRITISH ISLES

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF He’s used to public speaking, but Red Deer Mayor Morris Flewwelling is finding that public reading takes a little getting used to — especially with orchestral accompaniment.

Being a high-profile local citizen of Welsh descent, Flewwelling was asked to read Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales at the next Red Deer Symphony Orchestra concert — Christmas From the British Isles, on Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Gaetz Memorial United Church.

RDSO music director Claude Lapalme has written an original orchestral score to go with the literary work.

And Flewwelling is whole-heartedly embracing his role with at-home rehearsals critiqued by his wife, Hazel.

“She’s my coach,” said the mayor, who is buoyed by Dylan’s “exquisitely” nuanced language, alliteration and humour, which is interwoven throughout his nostalgic reminiscences about childhood Christmases.

Flewwelling particularly likes reading the passage about the eternal snowfall, which Thomas later qualifies by saying “eternal, ever since Wednesday.”

“Now if I only had Dylan Thomas’s plummy accent,” the mayor regretfully added.

But in Lapalme’s estimation, the mayor has a great voice and so was an obvious choice for the job.

“I called the office and said, ‘Can you think of a certain Welsh-named mayor with a really beautiful voice who could do this?’ ” said Lapalme, with a chuckle.

As necessity breeds invention, so did the RDSO’s limited season budget spark a winning, yet thrifty idea — why not get a local celebrity to read from a well-loved piece that’s orchestrated by an original score written by Lapalme?

The music director couldn’t find pre-existing orchestrated music for

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City of Red Deer Mayor Morris Flewwelling practises reading a story by Dylan Thomas while listening to the author recite the tale on his office computer this week. Flewwelling will read the story A Child’s Christmas in Wales by the celebrated author during a performance of the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 8. the prose, so decided to compose it himself.

He already has a reputation for pulling off orchestral adaptations of popular music, such as tunes written

by Ian Tyson and Joni Mitchell.

In the case of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Lapalme looked to various Christmas carols for inspiration and settled on a traditional known as The Welsh Carol, as well as Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Good King Wenceslas and

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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

He cautions that not all the carols will be easily recognizable because “they have been transfigured into happy Christmas music.”

Along with the 20-minute reading of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, the Calgary Boy’s Choir will sing the 11 works that comprise Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols.

Lapalme believes this presentation, along with solo harp accompaniment,

will be a special treat for the audience in the acoustically excellent church setting. But listeners probably won’t realize how hard Britten’s pieces are to sing.

“Britten was just merciless,” said Lapalme, noting that many of these tunes are actually Mid-English texts he set to original music.

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Brad Pitt in a scene from Killing Them Softly: it’s a movie full of vacant eyes, zero conscience and zombie hearts.

Killing Them Softly Three stars (out of four) Rated: 18A This is the dead land This is cactus land — T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men They are indeed empty vessels, these drained gangsters of Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly.

They’re guys who would steal a waiter’s $1 tip, and for whom $1,000 might as well be $1 million. They drink to excess and whore around, but achieve little satisfaction from either escape.

They have vacant eyes, zombie hearts and zero conscience. They will pull a trigPETER ger, smash a face or betray HOWELL a pal, but there’s no serious intent. There’s just opportunity, money and, above all, business.

Business has been bad lately. It’s the fall of 2008 in post-Katrina New Orleans, and despite the constant chatter about “the American promise” from presidential candidate Barack Obama, few people are dreaming big.

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It’s a time of hesitation, doubt and fear. Gangsters drive around in 40-year-old gas guzzlers and walk tiny dogs. They’re feeling the pinch as keenly as the bankers who have driven the economy into the dirt.

“This country is ----ed, I’m telling you,” says mob hit man Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), who is disgusted by what he sees. He still possesses a modicum of selfrespect, but it’s started to fade. He has to clean up the mess of incompetent dirty work.

He sees idiots like Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and Russell (Ben Mendelsohn) doing idiotic things like knocking over a backroom poker game between

members of the mob. The game is run by another idiot, Markie Trattman (Ray Liotta), who previously arranged to have another of his mob games robbed and bragged about it. Guess who is going to be blamed for this one?

There are elements of Scorsese’s grime and Tarantino’s wit in Killing Them Softly, and the story source is the 1974 novel Cogan’s Game by George V. Higgins.

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Hitman: where else would you find goon squad of nuns?

Hitman: Absolution Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC Genre: Action Publisher: Square Enix ESRB Rating: M, for Mature Grade: 4.5 stars (out of five) The word “absolution” is loosely defined as receiving forgiveness via an act of penance. When you encounter a group of female assassins dressed as nuns, I’m not enCHRIS tirely sure who needs forgiveCAMPBELL ness — our anti-hero Agent 47 or the world in which he operates.

Now entering the fifth game in the Hitman series, we can agree that few people Agent 47 encounters are worth saving.

Dirty cops, underhanded criminals, organized crime and that goon squad of killer nuns add up to a pack of characters who don’t just deserve an exit from this mortal realm, but a distinctively painful one.

But Absolution is not a run-and-gun shoot fest.

Appreciate this game’s subtle genius by sneaking around and discovering creative ways to eliminate

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your targets. Don one of the multitude of costumes and use it to infiltrate an area and cozy right up to someone before slipping the garrote around his neck or a bullet in the noggin for an even more satisfying takedown. The costumes blend well into the game’s scenery.

Much like the characters, the places they inhabit are covered in grime and lack any pretense of humanity.

There is no online multiplayer Hitman: Absolution, but after the 10 hours or so it takes you to finish the story mode, you’ll want to return to this game often. Replaying missions is just as exciting, whether you amp up the difficulty level (a must for veteran gamers, anyway) or you want to ferret out more innovative ways to kill someone. There are a variety of execution methods to be found if you are patient enough to discover them.

In a game full of unredeemable characters, I’m

not sure penance is possible. But you’ll have a hard time finding another game as creative and interesting in doing it as Hitman: Absolution.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC Genre: Shooter Publisher: Activision ESRB Rating: M, for Mature Grade: four stars Unlike other longrunning shooter franchises (yes, I am pointing at you, Medal of Honor: Warfighter), Activision and Treyarch wisely decided not to rest on their laurels. Instead, with interesting tweaks in storytelling and game play, Black Ops II makes confident strides toward a more compelling future of shooting games.

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Local playwrights have chance to hone craft at workshops

Spirited Yule concert coming to The Hub Run, run Rudolph — straight to The Hub on Ross.

Nine talented Alberta singer/songwriters are gearing up to perform Run, Run Rudolph, O Holy Night, Hot Buttered Rum and other traditional and original tunes at The Hub at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7.

It’s an upbeat program guaranteed to get the most grinchy of us into the Christmas spirit, said staff worker Bev Randers.

The cost of admission is $15 plus a nonperishable food item. As usual, this fourth-annual A Gift of Music concert will donate all proceeds towards the Loaves and Fishes free lunch programs.

The special guest is

Area playwrights have more opportunities to hone their craft, thanks to Scripts at Work.

The non-profit mentoring group is giving local playwrights a chance to register for three “circles” that run from Dec. 2 to April 14, as well as an opportunity to submit new plays to the annual play competition.

Circle One for beginner playwrights will be held with guidance from professional writers/dramaturges Mieko Ouchi and Brian Dooley. Participants will develop the first draft of a one-act play in six sessions over five months. The cost is $100.

Circle Two for emerging playwrights is led by Ouchi. Those familiar with the basics will receive input and support through the writing of a full-length play. Participants will meet six times over five months. The cost is $100.

Circle Three for experienced playwrights writing a full play will be led by Dooley in six sessions over five months. The cost is $100.

Registration is at www.scriptsatwork.com/circles.

The play competition deadline for submissions is Dec. 15 at midnight. The fee is $10 per play.

The plays must be one to 45 minutes in length (maximum 30 pages). A jury of professionals will select some original plays for further development.

Winning playwrights will get guidance and a chance to have their plays publicly read at the Festival of New Plays in Red Deer in April.

The competition registration is www.scriptsatwork.com/competition.

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And Randers said a fantastic lineup of musicians are slated to perform, including former Red Deer resident Donna Durand, who Photo contributed now lives in EdThe June Bugs are just one of the many artists lined up for a monton.

She will sing, Christmas concert at The Hub on Ross on Friday, Dec. 7. as well as read from her “family heritage story,” Christ- Rob Hollis, Darren John- Maybe This Christmas by mas When Grandma Edna son, Ruth Henderson Ron Sexsmith), as well and Emily Rowed. as original seasonal comwas Small.

R a n d e r s s a i d t h e positions by the artists.

Also on the program are Carolyn Harley and family-oriented concert For more information The Davidson and The will feature some famil- about the concert at 4936 June Bugs from Calgary, iar tunes (You’re a Mean Ross St., call 403-340and Back Porch Swing One Mr. Grinch, Rudolph and Bob Jahrig from Ed- the Red-Nosed Reindeer) 4869. monton. and not-so-familiar ones Rounding out the bill (Song for a Winter’s Night are singer/musicians by Gordon Lightfoot and

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MOVIES: A lot to feel But writer/director Dominik has his own methods. He’s brilliant at using atmosphere and attitude to set up a scene, as he also showed in Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

This is a deeply cynical movie, with not much to say but a lot to feel.

Everything sinks into your bones, like the watered-down colours of cinematographer Greig Fraser’s palette. Like the deep funk of Pitt’s disillusioned Cogan. Like the economic meltdown that siphons wallets and then souls.

Obama’s talk of “hope” and “change” blares from every blurry barroom TV screen, as well as George W. Bush’s final excuses, but nobody here is feeling energized.

There’s an election coming, but also a reckoning: Johnny Cash’s apocalyptic The Man Comes Around plays on the soundtrack, and that man isn’t Jesus, it’s Cogan.

He’s been hired to settle a few scores regarding the poker-game robbery. He gives the film’s title meaning as he describes his technique: “I like to kill them softly, from a distance. Not close enough for feelings.”

But he’s feeling something: frustration. His fellow enforcer (James

GAME: Whole new playing field Implementing flashbacks breaks no new ground, but by focusing on how actions and decisions shape the life of the primary villain, the game gets players invested in the outcome rath-

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Performed by the Symphonic Winds and Chamber Choir this concert is full of your favourite traditional carols plus a spattering of lesser known pieces and the traditional Christmas carol sing-along.

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The orchestra will perform other pieces from the British Isles, including John Henry Gauntlett’s Anglican standard, Once in Royal David’s City, Gustav Holst’s See Amid the Winter’s Snow, and two traditionals from Ireland and Scotland — Curoo Curoo — Carol of the Birds and Auld Lang Syne.

“I think it’s going to be a very beautiful concert, with some warm, cosy, nostalgic aspects to it,” said Lapalme.

The performance will also feature harpist Gianetta Baril of Calgary.

She regularly accompanies the Calgary Boys Choir, and also teaches at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University.

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er than merely fighting against another random bad guy with a foreignsounding name.

Once you enter online play, the new ranked leagues provide a whole new playing field that other titles should mimic. The other standard modes of play exist, and while the ability to play against similarly skilled players has been done before, it has not been at this level of competence.

The game suffers from a least-likely source: the expanded zombies mode. Normally a source of joy for gamers, this previously “bonus” content gets large billing but lacks focus and a reason for existing. The first Black Ops featured a fun divergence starring JFK, Nixon and Castro.

This time, the humour is sporadic and replaced mostly with boring maps and shooting.

A few inconsistencies don’t detract from the otherwise stellar offerings of Black Ops II. The risks it takes with modifications to game play and online matches allow this franchise to remain the class of the militarythemed shooter genre.

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Gandolfini), whom he’s summoned to town for assistance, seems more interested in getting smashed and laid.

Cogan’s mob contact Driver (Richard Jenkins) keeps sweating the details of the planned hits, and also the cost (“Fly coach”).

Bullets will eventually fly and blood will flow.

The victims will hardly have time to feel pain.

It’s nothing new, but it’s smartly done, with slow-motion scenes mirroring the blurred states of mind.

“Crime is the business of America,” Cogan says, but we’ve already noted that business ain’t good.

Killing Them Softly, however, is very good.

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1969 — Canadian police forces bring in breathalyzer testing to take blood al-

cohol levels of suspected impaired drivers.

1939 — A group of 7,500 Canadian Army volunteers sails from Montreal for England to serve in the Second World War. 1930 — The NHL drops 20-minute slashing-about-the-head penalty.

1920 — Ottawa declares that no immigrant can enter Canada with less than $250; plus $125 per family.

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The economy slumped to 0.6 per cent in the third quarter — below even the gloomy 0.8 consensus and about one third what the Bank of Canada had predicted as recently as the summer — as trouble loomed on the export side, housing and business investment.

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FLAHERTY IN NO RUSH TO UNLOAD GM SHARES VICTORIA — Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty may be facing years of deficits, but says he’s not about to engage in a public fire sale of General Motors stock for Canadian taxpayers.

Ottawa and Ontario contributed $13.7 billion to help bail out North American automakers more than three years ago and combined own about nine per cent of its common shares, but on Friday during budget consultations in Victoria, Flaherty said it’s not the right time to sell.

To recoup taxpayers’ money the governments would have to sell their GM shares at twice their current price. Flaherty said when he was in private business he didn’t sell stocks at half their price, but added Ontario is welcome to do what it wants. The minister’s words follow a report in the Globe and Mail that said Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan is calling on Ottawa to unload the shares.

CANADIAN OIL SANDS SEES CONTINUED VOLATILITY IN LIGHT OIL PRICING CALGARY — Growing North American light oil production is expected to cause crude from the Syncrude oilsands mine to fetch a discounted price, says Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., the largest partner in the massive development.

The company’s 2013 outlook released late Thursday predicts its synthetic crude — light oil that has been upgraded from tarry oilsands bitumen — to get a price US$5 lower than West Texas Intermediate, a key U.S. light oil benchmark.

Canadian Oil Sands expects WTI to average US$85 per barrel next year. In the past, WTI and light synthetic crude have been relatively close in value. “It’s an area where we probably have the least science behind our predictions, so we’ve tried to be conservative,” Canadian Oil Sands CEO Marcel Coutu said on a conference call with analysts Friday to discuss the company’s budget and outlook for next year.

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of the third quarter, was flat, meaning the handoff to the current fourth quarter was weak.

Opposition MPs blasted the government’s economic management in the Commons on Friday, but speaking in Victoria, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he remains opposed to any big spending.

That doesn’t mean he isn’t open to redirecting funds toward measures that promote economic growth, he added.

“It’s not as if I don’t expect to hear good ideas, I do,” Flaherty said of the pre-budget meetings he’s holding across the country.

“It’s not as if there won’t be new initiatives and reallocating of resources. What there won’t be is any large, multi-billion dollar spending initiatives which would create a structural deficit for the govern-

ment of Canada.”

Economists said Flaherty likely won’t veer off course sharply unless Canada falls back into recession. That is dependent not on domestic factors, but on whether the U.S. avoids its fiscal reckoning in January, and Europe manages to keep the debt wolf at bay.

Still, the third quarter performance is worrying, they said, and not least because, if anything, the details were worse than the bottom-line numbers, which were bad enough.

“Certainly we are seeing strong headwinds. There’s not many cylinders firing at all except for the consumer and we don’t know how long the consumer can continue to carry the load,” said Peter Buchanan, a senior economist with CIBC.

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AMALGAMATION TO TAKE EFFECT JAN. 1

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Members of Central Alberta Rural Electrification Association Ltd. have voted in favour of a merger with South Alta Rural Electrification Association Ltd. Approximately 300 CAREA members participated in a special meeting in Innisfail on Wednesday and voted 94 per cent in favour of the merger, said CAREA chairman Jim Towle. The next day, a similar gathering of SAREA members in Lethbridge drew about 200 people, with 88 per cent giving their support.

“I think it’s a good victory for rural Alberta,” said Towle, praising the province’s member-owned rural electrification associations (REAs) as an important alternative to for-profit power distributors like FotisAlberta and ATCO Electric.

CAREA and SAREA’s amalgamation, which is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, will result in the creation of the largest member-owned utility in Canada.

To operate as EQUS REA, it will serve more than 11,000 member-customers in 28 counties and cover an area from the County of Barrhead to the United States border.

CAREA currently has more than 8,300 members in 16 counties, including Red Deer County, Lacombe County, Ponoka County, Mountainview County, Clearwater County and Kneehill County. It employs about 55, with its main office in Innisfail.

Towle, who operates a dairy farm east of Innisfail, said EQUS will benefit from greater resources, more buying power and a broader geographic area that will reduce the impact of localized problems like weather-induced power outages. It will also have a stronger voice with which to lobby government, he added.

Members will receive the same level of service — or higher — that they do now from CAREA or SAREA, he said.

Towle said merger discussions took place over a seven-month period. FotisAlberta campaigned against the change, he said, using flyers, visiting REA members and advertisements.

REAs represent an important alternative to for-profit distributors in rural Alberta, said Towle. This includes price competition, with CAREA calculating that it saved its members $4.2 million last year.

“REAs set a benchmark of what it really costs for power to be delivered in rural Alberta.”

Jennifer MacGowan, FortisAlberta’s director of corporate communications, said her company wanted to ensure REA members understood the merger proposal and were aware of their options. One of those options was for FortisAlberta to operate the systems — something it’s already doing for many other REAs. “We operate them at cost,” she said, adding that the result is actually lower distribution costs for customers.

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Paper Crane Gallery owner Betty Hattori and Downtown Business Association’s Sabrina Samuel prepare for today’s North Pole Stroll, which is taking place today in downtown Red Deer. In addition to a passport promotion with hourly prizes and a grand prize, the downtown merchants are offering a variety of entertainment and in-store specials. Many will remain open until 9 p.m. this evening.

Alberta ‘nicely balanced’: Hirsch to problems in Central Canada’s manufacturing sector. And with Americans not in a buying mood these days, the outlook for 2013 isn’t much better.

While speaking in Red Deer Travel a few thousand kiloon Thursday evening, ATB Fimetres west, however, and the nancial senior economist Todd picture brightens considerable.

Hirsch speculated as to what “You’d have to look pretty Canada’s real GDP rate would hard in the industrialized world be when Statistics Canada anat the moment to find an econonounced the figure the next my that is as nicely balanced — morning. the labour market is balanced, He guessed something in the real estate is balanced — as Al1.2 to 1.5 per cent range — calberta and Saskatchewan,” said culated on an annualized basis Hirsch.

— which Hirsch acknowledged Farm cash receipts are on would be “pretty weak.”

Todd Hirsch track to set a new record for The truth was revealed about 2012, and retail activity in Al12 hours late, when the national berta set records in July, August and Sepstatistical agency reported that annualized tember. But the province’s economic forgrowth in the third quarter was just 0.6 per tunes depend on another industry. cent.

“Energy is still, without question, the Hirsch, who was presenting at Central dog that wags a lot of tails in the province, Alberta Economic Partnership’s fall gen- either directly or indirectly.” eral meeting, said the Canadian economy’s sluggishness can be attributed in large part Please see HIRSCH on Page C8

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

CAEP board members elected

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The composition of Central Alberta Economic Partnership’s board of directors changed slightly at the economic development organization’s fall general meeting on Thursday.

Rod McDermand, a councillor with Lacombe County, was elected as a county representative to the board. Re-elected for another term were Red Deer County

Mayor Jim Wood, as a county representative; Blackfalds Coun. Will Taylor, who will serve as a town/village rep; and Olds businessman Harvey Walsh, who is a business representative with CAEP. CAEP’s board consists of 13 directors, with these representing the organization’s 42 municipal and First Nations members, and its 15 associate members.

CAEP is scheduled to select a new executive at a Dec. 13 organizational meeting.

Employers can cut their staff’s pay — with notice Dear Working Wise: Is my company allowed to reduce my rate of pay when my job responsibilities haven’t changed and I haven’t had any disciplinary issues?

Does it matter if the company or franchise has come under a new owner?

Are they still allowed to cut my pay?

— Upset at Work Dear Upset: I wish I had better news for you, but yes, your employer can reduce your rate of pay.

Your compensation is a matter that CHARLES you, or in some cases STRACHEY your bargaining unit, negotiate with your WORKING WISE employer. The only

exception might be if you are working under a contract that guarantees you a certain minimum wage.

Alberta’s Employment Standards, however, do require employers to give you adequate notice of the pay change and comply with Alberta’s minimum-wage laws. An employer who wants to reduce an employee’s pay must notify the employee before the pay period begins.

If you would like to learn more about protections for workers and their earnings, visit http://humanservices.alberta.ca/ working-in-alberta and read the Employment Standards fact sheets on Payment of Earnings and Minimum Wage.

If you have any other questions, I encourage you to call the Employment Standards contact centre, toll-free, at 1-877-427-3731.

Everyone wants to feel like they are being treated fairly at work. Knowledge is power. If you do not feel that you are being

offered a competitive salary at your current job, do a little research.

Check out the 2011 Alberta Wage and Salary Survey, which covers more than 400 occupations, at http://www.alis.alberta.ca/ Wageinfo. Visit www.monster.ca and use their online salary wizard, which allows you to check salary ranges by occupation and geographic location.

Check current job postings or try talking to someone in a similar job or field. You can also try checking to see if your professional association conducts salary surveys or tracks the trends.

Your research might help you build a compelling case for a raise or help you decide if it is time to look for a job elsewhere.

Good luck!

Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a regional manager with Alberta Human Services (charles.strachey@gov.ab.ca), for general information.

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COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Friday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 101.44 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 76.15 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.06 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.51 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.58 Cdn. National Railway . . 89.34 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 92.70 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 6.22 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 67.24 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.83 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.36 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 30.19 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 40.22 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.76 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.38 General Motors Co. . . . . 25.88 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.65 Research in Motion. . . . . 11.59 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 39.40 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 37.26 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.84 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.95 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.98 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.35 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 65.90 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.60 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 33.47 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 11.00 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.64

Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.81 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 46.20 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.02 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 18.84 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 34.49 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.12 First Quantum Minerals . 20.40 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 38.71 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.61 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 67.75 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . 10.06 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.43 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.09 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 33.63 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 24.88 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 30.81 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 43.15 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.48 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 44.02 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 28.59 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.16 Canyon Services Group. . 9.97 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.36 Central AB Well . . . . . . . 0.660 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 21.70 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.96 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.14 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 33.35 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.85

Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.88 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.35 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.40 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.39 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.17 Penn West Energy . . . . . 11.10 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.69 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.44 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 32.46 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.18 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.28 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.74 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.54

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed slightly higher amid a mixed bag of economic data while traders kept a close eye on how U.S. budget negotiations are progressing.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 36.19 points to 12,239.04. The TSX Venture climbed 2.52 points to 1,220.9 with traders unwilling to make big commitments while Democrat and Republican leaders wrangle over ways to avoid steep spending cuts and significant tax increases from kicking in automatically in January if there’s no

deal.

“No one is wanting to step in and take a position ahead of seeing if there’s a resolution with the fiscal cliff,” said Jennifer Dowty, portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management.

“In order to get the markets moving, we need to see a fiscal cliff resolution. Until that time, the markets, I think, are just going to lack momentum and continue to trade sideways.”

The Canadian dollar was down 0.09 of a cent to 100.64 cents US as the economy stalled out during September. Statistics Canada reported there was no

growth in gross domestic product during that month following a 0.1 per cent dip during August.

That translated into third quarter economic growth of 0.6 per cent on an annualized basis, versus expectations of 0.8 per cent growth.

The agency said the disappointing performance reflected exports, which fell two per cent in the third quarter.

New York markets were little changed amid a mixed bag of economic data.

The Dow Jones industrials added 3.76 points to 13,025.58 after a government report

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 59.67 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 56.00 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.20 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 29.10 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.92 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 23.52 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 40.60 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 64.10 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 12.78 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 77.58 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.74 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 58.90 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.19 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.98

showed that consumers cut back on spending last month with no growth in personal income.

U.S. consumer spending dropped 0.2 per cent in October.

That’s down from an increase of 0.8 per cent in September and the weakest showing since May. Like previous economic reports, the Commerce Department’s consumer spending report was skewed by superstorm Sandy which struck the northeast coast.

That report was tempered by a positive reading of the manufacturing sector in the American Midwest. The Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for November moved into expansion territory, rising to 50.4 from 49.9 in October.

Other data showed eurozone unemployment at a record high.

The Nasdaq was 1.79 points lower to 3,010.24, while the S&P 500 index edged up 0.32 of a point to 1,416.27.

Markets have been volatile this week as top Republicans and Democrats offered differing views on what’s holding up a deal to avoid a fiscal cliff at the end of the year.

Economists believe that the combination of spending cuts and tax increases would take a big bite out of economic growth and likely send the U.S. economy back into recession.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner said Friday that negotiations to surmount the impasse are going “almost nowhere.”

President Barack Obama took his case to an audience in a Philadelphia suburb, saying Republicans should extend existing Bush-era tax rates for households earning $250,000 or less, while allowing increases to kick in for the wealthy.

His comment came a day after his administration proposed

US$1.6 trillion in new taxes over 10 years and savings of about $400 billion in entitlement programs like Medicare. Republicans rejected the offer as unreasonable.

But despite the volatility, both the TSX and the Dow closed essentially flat for the week.

The utilities led advancers, up 0.77 per cent with Algonquin Power & Utilities (TSX:AQN) ahead 11 cents to $6.74.

The industrials sector also provided lift as Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B) ran up 11 cents to $3.51.

The TSX mining sector moved up 0.65 per cent while March copper gained four cents to US$3.65 a pound. Inmet Mining (TSX:IMN) climbed $2.25 to $67.75.

Inmet said Friday the Toronto Stock Exchange has deferred its review of the miner’s recently announced shareholder rights plan.

Inmet adopted the plan earlier this week after it announced it had rejected an unsolicited takeover offer from First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM) worth $4.9 billion in stock and cash.

The financials group was ahead 0.44 per cent as Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) gained 78 cents to $56.

The telecom sector rose 0.37 per cent as Telus Corp. (TSX:T) voting shares rose 27 cents to $64.84 on very heavy volume of million shares as it said the non-Canadian ownership of its common shares is down, leading it to suggest that Mason Capital may have reduced its stake in the company. Telus has been embroiled in a fight with the U.S. hedge fund over a plan to convert the telecommunication company’s non-voting shares into voting shares.

The energy sector was flat as the January crude contract on the New York Mercantile

Exchange gained 84 cents to US$88.91 a barrel and the energy sector was down per cent.

Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO) fell 85 cents to US$42.03.

Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) shares were 29 cents higher to $33.36 while Environment Minister Peter Kent refused to approve an Alberta gas project planned by the Calgary-based company.

The proposal involves a project in the CFB Suffield national wildlife area. Kent says the gas project would put wildlife at risk and he had to turn it down.

The gold sector led decliners, down per cent with February bullion off $16.80 to US$1,712.70.

Kinross Gold Corp. (TSX:K) faded 13 cents to $10.06.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan ’13 $2.90 lower $594.30; March ’13 $3.10 lower $594.10; May ’13 $3.10 lower $592.60; July ’13 $2.90 lower $589.10; Nov. ’13 $0.30 higher $543.40; Jan. ’14 $1.10 lower $544.70; March ’14 $1.10 lower $545.00; May ’14 $1.10 lower $545.00; July ’14 $1.10 lower $545.00; Nov. ’14 $1.10 lower $545.00; Jan ’15 $1.10 lower $545.00.

Barley (Western): Dec. ’12 unchanged $245.00; March ’13 unchanged $248.00; May ’13 unchanged $249.00; July ’13 unchanged $249.50; Oct. ’13 unchanged $249.50; Dec ’13 unchanged $249.50; March ’14 unchanged $249.50; May ’14 unchanged $249.50; July ’14 unchanged $249.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $249.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $249.50.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 232,180 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 232,180.

Republicans blame Obama on lack of progress WASHINGTON — Washington politicians have one month to step back from the so-called “fiscal cliff,” across-the-board tax hikes and austerity-driven spending cuts likely to return the country to recession, and a top Republican declares there has been no real progress after two weeks of talks between President Barack Obama and a divided Congress.

The president has called for settling the issue before Christmas and headed Friday to Pennsylvania to campaign for his demand that any deal include higher tax rates on U.S. couples earning more than $250,000 a year.

He also wants to keep in place the smaller tax burden that lower income earners have had for about a decade.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner argued that Obama’s latest offer — to raise revenue by $1.6

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MERGER: More possible in the future A single large operator like FortisAlberta can bring benefits related to reliability, safety and efficiency, said MacGowan, explaining that this was the message the company was trying to get out.

She noted that only about 4.5 per cent of the REAs’ members turned out for the votes.

Rural electrification association co-operatives were created decades ago as a way to bring power to rural residents. Many have since amalgamated, with CAREA resulting from the joining of 14 REAs between 1992 and 2005.

It supplies electricity to farms and homes, as well as industrial and commercial facilities, in the rural areas it covers.

Towle thinks EQUS could grow even more.

“Our doors are open to other REAs to go into negotiations.”

Towle said Innisfail will serve as EQUS’s main office. Administrative details, including the appointment of a new chair and vice-chair, will be addressed during the next month, he added. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

HIRSCH: Still risks At about $88 a barrel, crude oil is still priced high enough to support existing drilling programs and projects in the oilsands. But that number could tumble if Europe’s financial system collapses or, even worse, the slowing Chinese economy suffers a “hard landing” down to a two or three per cent growth rate.

“Then all bets are off for global commodity prices,

FISCAL CLIFF trillion over the next decade — would be a “crippling blow” to an economy that is still struggling to find its footing. The Ohio Republican told reporters he would continue working with Obama on the issue but gave a gloomy assessment of the talks so far.

“There’s a stalemate. Let’s not kid ourselves,” Boehner said. “Right now, we’re almost nowhere.”

Democrats have said that any delay was the fault of Republicans who refuse to accept Obama’s call to raise tax rates on the richest Americans.

“There can be no deal without rates on top earners going up,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday.

The austerity measures that automatically would take effect Jan. 1 unless a deal is made is the looming punishment for Washington’s inability, or unwillingness, in recent years to deal decisively with the country’s spending far more than it has been taking including crude oil,” said Hirsch. “And this province could find itself in a much different situation.”

However, he doesn’t think Europe will unravel to that extent, and he believes the Chinese government has enough monetary and fiscal tools at its disposal to prevent a crash there.

That’s not the case in the United States, where the Federal Reserve has slashed interest rates to nearly zero and is now into its third round of quantitative easing — the process of injecting money into the economy. Looming on the near horizon is a host of federal budget cuts and tax increases that are scheduled to take effect early next year: the “fiscal cliff.”

“If they can’t arrive at a consensus of how to lift their debt ceiling once again . . . the U.S. economy will go flying off the fiscal cliff Thelma-and-Louise style,” said Hirsch.

A big challenge for the U.S. economy is an unemployment rate of around eight per cent, he said. And many working Americans are stuck in part-time jobs or in positions that don’t fully utilize their skills.

On a brighter note, said Hirsch, the U.S. housing market has been picking up momentum. The resulting price gains could encourage consumers to spend

in.

Politicians in both major U.S. parties are showing no signs of giving up on the deep partisan divisions that have crippled legislative action in Washington despite Obama’s strong victory for a second White House term.

White House officials believe Obama’s trip Friday would build momentum for his case, even as Republicans describe it as an irritant and an obstacle to productive talks. Obama insists on higher taxes for the top 2 per cent of earners and casts Republicans as an obstacle to a deal. Republicans have said they are open to new tax revenue but not higher rates.

Obama said both sides need to “get out of our comfort zones” to reach an agreement.

Obama toured and spoke at the Rodon Group manufacturing facility, showcasing the company as an example of a business that depends on middleclass consumers during the holiday season. The company manufactures parts for K’NEX Brands, a construction toy company.

more, which in turn might prompt corporate America to use some of the cash it’s sitting on to increase production.

As for Europe, Hirsch noted how central banks there have also exhausted their arsenal of policy weapons, and countries are bickering over the desirability of further austerity measures.

Although Alberta’s economy has slowed from a 2011 rate of about 5.1 per cent real GDP growth, Hirsch is not concerned. In fact, he thinks slower growth is desirable because it adds an element of stability.

“Faster is not always better.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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The ‘hotel look’... with plenty of amenities, and marble counter and wall tiles. Below, that ‘70s brocade and awful yellow hue, now faded with the rest of its fixtures into history.

A feeling of indulgence BATHROOM STYLE DEFINED BY A WELCOMING FEELING As gentlemen who navigate the globe with the same vigour as Kim Kardashian rushing to the nail bar (are we the only ones who find the TV family tiresome?), we’ll go crazy if we have to listen to one more commentator squawk on about ‘boutique hotel’ this or ‘hotel style’ that.

Matching night stand lamps, a cushion stack and an artfully arranged bed throw does not create an elegant hotel vibe (in either the domestic or corporate setting) and, if you ask us, it takes COLIN & more than a waxy chocolate JUSTIN positioned daintily on a pillow sham to conjure up the spirit of luxury.

There. We said it.

For us, hotel style means so much more; it’s defined by a welcoming room that’s been perfectly preheated and illuminated to ‘cosy.’

It’s a feeling of indulgence that settles as a thick towelling gown is plucked from its hanger and draped across travel-weary shoulders.

It’s the fresh flowers, the bedside ‘next day weather’ note, or the friendly concierge who calls to establish that everything is tickety-boo. Little things, huh?

Sure, but played properly they make such a difference.

But hold it a moment. We’re not getting ideas above our station.

Nor are we suggesting that proper hotel style is the exclusive domain of expensive hostelries.

We’ve stayed in many a three-star where enthusiastic staff has gone that extra mile to make us feel thoroughly at home.

Conversely, we’ve camped out in five-star outposts where disappointment settled from the moment we arrived.

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warrant its five-star rating.

In Tofino, on Vancouver Island, we’re all about The Wickaninnish, a beautifully appointed outpost whose position on Chesterman Beach is undeniably one of Canada’s most arresting locations.

In Ottawa, we’ve felt indulged at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier; positioned next to the government buildings it’s a joy to behold. We could go on and on ...

And the common denominator that links our favourite hotels?

In a word, the bathroom. OK, that’s two words but you get the gist.

A good bathroom, for us, is an utter necessity, both at home and on the

road.

This considered, what does your bathroom say about you?

Is it a tranquil, organized home spa or a chaotic scene awash with soap scum, razor blades and squeezed tubes of toothpaste?

If your answers favour the latter category, it’s time to rinse off the past and embrace a glossier future.

For the purposes of today’s column we’re going to focus on the vanity area; more wash ‘n’ NO than wash ‘n go, we had our work cut out to bathe it clean of the past.

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Aye, it’s less about spend and more about how interested your host actually is in making your stay a night to remember . . . for all the right reasons.

The good news is that Canada, from our experience, knows better than most how to proffer a tremendous welcome.

Arriving in Toronto several years past, we lodged at the Four Seasons and, though its grandeur was certainly fading, the Canadian gem still retained a luxurious feel courtesy of wonderfully competent staff.

It comes as no surprise to note that the new Four Seasons in Yorkville is similarly appealing with a welcoming team and stunning esthetics that amply

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 cloths will give your bathroom a hotel/spalike feel and is a great way of storing grooming paraphernalia without overcrowding your airing cupboard.

Here, towel storage works particularly well due to the modesty wall which we constructed between the sink and the WC — you don’t want towels too close to the loo, for obvious reasons.

Luxe up for less Collect free perfume miniatures and store in clear glass jars, wrap bars of soap with organic twine or decant budget supermarket bath oil into junk store crystal de-

canters to make a luxurious statement.

In our quest for cute accessories you’re as likely to find us wandering the aisles of Dollarama (dollarama. com) as you are Holt Renfrew (holtrenfrew. com); we’re not shy when it comes to tracking down the optimum deal at either end of the retail spectrum.

Our final vanity fare?

‘Check it all out when you check in’ — when visiting new hotels, get into the habit of taking notes and pictures and become sufficiently inspired to make your bathroom a luxury destination, one you’ll be happy to visit time and time again.

The best hotel souvenir we ever enjoyed wasn’t a dressing gown or a pair of terry towelling slippers, rather a wealth of ideas which we employ to this day in our clients’ domestic settings. Now go reflect on that!

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WALLS: Logs dominate Chinked log walls dominate, but some spaces have walls faced with bark and twig details.

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Snowshoes, fishing items and photos, vintage signage, basketry, crockery, folk art, old flags, and antique rustic furniture fill the home with memories and great stories that have taken years to accumulate and will last for years to come.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Configence in good foods or nice material goods can Sunday, Dec. 2 dential sharing, heart-rending talks and a need make you feel overly confident about yourself CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Brit- to fulfil your spiritual desires will bring you the or a close someone. Set your own realistic limits and realize what is healthy and what is ney Spears, 31; Nelly Furtado, 34; Lucy Liu, 44; much needed peace. You need a buddy to conTHOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Sun in Sagit- fide in and you won’t trust just anybody. What not for you both. You will harness the best in tarius will oppose the sign of justice, Jupiter. you truly desire is emotional affection. yourselves.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your soGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today you may Our wants will be challenged by a need to over feel somewhat perplexed about your own meth- achieve. Conflicts can arise in terms of our own cial gathering and the need to be with someone ods of organizing and of establishing schedules free will versus what is considered right. Our today will come into strong focus today. You that are in line with the new processes and out beliefs will be tested thus showing us how true won’t want to stay in, unless it’s an environment with the old. You seek a certain freedom of we are towards ourselves. Moderation is the that provides you with an exciting, stimulating key ingredient. energy. Catch up with your pals and create leadership within your set of goals.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The weekAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A sudden end finds you in a lazy, sweet mood and you day, in the upcoming year you will want to seek to unleash your mental strains by doing connect your true desires towards more private idea to carry out domestic obligations will push something delightful. You are connected to oth- matters. You seek intimacy and you security you towards innovative ways to accomplish ers today; your agenda is full of activities. It is within the world of finances. You will tend to them. You are feeling rather stimulated and possible that you will be solicited to go out and keep thoughts and ideas to yourself and main- anything but bored by the ongoing tasks and tain your affections rather private. Your relation- your new methods prove to be even more efhave some well-deserved fun.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Quiet days can be ships come into strong focus in the upcoming ficient.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Fun and joy inspiring days for Leos. It’s a time where you year while testing your true intentions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have so especially with your children will prove to be a will desire to recollect your thoughts and ideas and to restore your mood by involving yourself much to benefit from today’s energy and fulfil rewarding experience today. They will harness in Zen-like activities. Today you’re just in one of your emotional desires if you let yourself go, your essential contentment in your life. Feeling explore new territory and break old patterns. creative and the need to express your individuthose tranquil moods...

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are analyz- Be open to discussions and topics you wouldn’t ality will bring you a certain sense of freedom. ing a contract or an agreement and you cannot normally initiate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Surprising Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated quite grasp its unique processes. You realize confidential talks can open up your mind to new astrologer columnist. that there’s more thinking and work to be done and, or that you need to get additional counsel- spheres today. You may find yourself discovering interesting news from others if you let A L T A A T S S ling in regards to that matter.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t overes- yourself express what is on your mind. SharI R O N M D E A L timate your level of freedom. Indeed, you are ing will undeniably unite you closer.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A sense of much more self-sufficient with your finances S E P A R A and you have a stronger sense of your belong- well-being is like a security blanket to you to- O A R S ings. Today you are in an indolent mood, you day. You need to feel safe and secure while A S P E C are quite inactive, but you still want to look as if at the same time, you welcome a completely B R O O M fresh new approach to envisioning your fuyou are facing your responsibilities.

S A K SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You crave in- ture. You are in control of your senses and E N T R A P

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Does your Group or Activity have an event you’d like listed this Christmas Break?

2012 CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY GUIDE If your event happens on or after Dec. 23, send it to:

specialsections @reddeeradvocate.com Distributed in the Sunday, Dec. 23 “Red Deer Life” This Annual favorite features Games & Puzzles and a listing of activities for you and your family to take part in during this Holiday Break.

To Advertise, call Pam Beardsworth at

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Separate bills at dinners not poor manners Dear AnMITCHELL nie: We have & SUGAR two groups of friends with whom we dine about every other month in restaurants. There is always someone who suggests separate bills. I find this to be poor manners, since all of these people have been to our home for lunch, dinner or holidays at some point during the year. I also believe it is a burden on the server.

What is your opinion? — RLS Dear RLS: We aren’t sure what you object to. Are these restaurant dinners supposed to be a way of reciprocating for your home meals? If so, they are not doing the job. But in general, it is neither poor manners nor a burden to ask for separate bills, provided you do so when you order.

Dear Annie: I understand “Concerned Grandpa’s” pain. He noticed things on his granddaughter’s Facebook page that disturbed him, and his subsequent comments created a rift.

I’m 50 and have two kids in college. All four of their grandparents are in their mid-70s and on Facebook. We have found that sometimes it is best for our kids to block not only Grandma and Grandpa, but also us, from their posts. No one wants to see their child or grandchild at a party playing beer pong, doing shots, dirty dancing or taking off clothing.

Honestly, they are not doing anything much different from what their mother and I did when we were in college 30 years ago.

But thankfully, that was before the digital age and social media, and we weren’t broadcasting our behaviour to the entire world. — Scott in Northern California

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The holidays are a wonderful time filled with the sounds of beautiful music, the laughter of children, and warm conversations with close friends and loved ones.

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• Does your family complain that you play the radio or TV too loudly?

• Do you have difficulty hearing when the speaker is not facing you?

Sometimes others know you have a hearing loss before you do.

Complimentary hearing test with a food bank donation for month of December.

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Answer: BEDSHEET, MOLECULE

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Is holding it’s Annual Christmas Open House & Sales Sat. Dec. 1, from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

COME AND VISIT SANTA 10- NOON. See Brys Bears full line of greeting cards.

2 miles E on 39th Street from 30th Ave.,Red Deer.

“Babies On Parade”

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“oh baby ... we’re on parade!”... “oh goody, when?”

In the Red Deer Advocate If you would like your baby featured in this very special section, a great keepsake, look for forms in the Red Deer Advocate & Life Papers, or call 403-309-3300 for more info

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Description: Our Group operates several properties in Alberta in the Hotel & Entertainment Industry. The Head Office in Red Deer is currently looking for an Executive Assistant/Receptionist to provide support to the CEO as well as being a resource to the administrative/ accounting staff in the office.

Key Responsibilities: • Maintain Calendar & emails • Coordinate meetings • Coordinate travel arrangements • Prepare correspondence as required • Process & Sort Mail • Process Bank Deposits • Answer Phones • Manage Front End Duties • Simply Accounting data entry • Enter Daily Sales • Manage Visa receipts • Data Entry as required This is a full time position with a competitive salary and benefits package. Hours will be Monday-Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, with a 1 hour lunch.

Please email your resume and cover letter to winns@ willinns.com or Fax to 403-309-3505 274465L2

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SMITH Congratulations to Samantha (nee Braun) and Christopher Smith married August 4, 2012 in Water Valley, Alberta!

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Circle T Service & Rental Ltd. is a privately owned, Canadian based company providing services & equipment to the Oil & Gas industry since 1963.

RECEPTION / ADMINISTRATIVE APPRENTICE Due to our growth in facilities and expanding inventory we

require a full time receptionist /administrative apprentice.

This is a permanent position with numerous opportunities for individual advancement within the position and the company. The position is integral to the company and requires a proactive, energetic individual able to focus on the customer at all times. The primary function of this position will be the initial point of contact for our company, which will include incoming phone calls and greeting visitors.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES: • Manages the company’s reception area (keeping it clean, organized and professional at all times) • As the initial point of contact, this candidate will receive incoming phone calls and direct to the appropriate person or department • Greets and directs all visitors while ensuring proper sign-in and company security procedures are adhered to • Announce visitors to appropriate person or department • Process incoming and outgoing mail • Preparation of appropriate paperwork for courier services • Key person of contact for all vendors and maintain vendor contact list • Accounts payable coding and data entry QUALIFICATIONS: • Minimum 2-3 years Office Administration experience including multi-line phone systems • Effective communication skills including an excellent telephone manner, clearly spoken, helpful and pleasant.

• Motivated self-starter who can follow instructions and work independently or with a team • Highly organized with attention to detail and accuracy • Positive attitude, integrity, fast learner and reliable • Must be proficient in Microsoft Office applications • Administration Diploma, other Post-Secondary education and Apple Application Technology are considered assets.

We offer a safe, dynamic workplace with a team oriented culture, Competitive benefit package Salary to be based on experience and accreditation level Must have valid Alberta drivers license Hours will be 8:00am - 5:00 pm (1hr lunch) Monday - Friday Please submit resume with a cover letter. In cover letter please state the number of times the word ‘position’ appears in this ad and where you first viewed this ad.

Email in confidence to: info@circletrentals.com

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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CENTRAL AB FEEDLOT seeking year round F/T employee. General farm work and farm machinery operation.

Phone 403-556-9588 fax 403-638-3908 or email dthengs@hotmail.com

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F/T RDA Level II assistant req’d. for Family Dental practice dedicated to exceptional patient care.

Contact Kelly with resume at the Lacombe Dental Clinic, 5015-51 St. Lacombe, AB T4L 2A3 (403)782-3755, (403)782-4081 by email: info@lacombedental.com Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr.

Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

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Casual Dietary & Housekeeping positions available. Visit www.mvsh.ca or send resume to HR@mvsh.ca

RDA LEVEL II.

Experience required.

We need an outgoing dental assistant to assist a solo practitioner in our restorative and cosmetic dental practice.

Our emphasis is on comprehensive dental care for our clients.

A four day work week with 4 weeks paid vacation and a generous bonus plan makes this an excellent opportunityfor an outgoing dental assistant who is excited to provide quality comprehensive dental care.

To arrange for an interview, please submit resume and contact Dr. Brian Saby #100 3947-50a Ave. Red Deer.

Phone 403-340-3434 Fax 403-347-1377, E-mail: brian@saby.com

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#3, 4664 Riverside Dr., Red Deer

JENNIFER ALLAN Sept. 10, 1982- Dec. 1, 2003 This day is remembered and quietly kept, No words are needed, we shall never forget. ~Lovingly remembered by Dad and Barb

THE Red Deer Vasa (Swedish) Lodge #733 invites you to Santa Lucia.

This is a traditional celebration of light. It will be held on Sunday, Dec. 9th at 2:30PM at The Chalet at Westerner Park. There is no charge. There will be a short program and candlelight procession led

by Olivia Smith. This will be followed with coffee & Swedish treats. Phone 403-347-5303 or 403-347-1518 for more info or if you plan to attend.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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LOST set of keys near Vil- Clerical l a g e M a l l , e a r l y N o v. keychains sentimental valLegal Assistant ue, (heart shaped beads), Experience in Real Estate call 403-347-6318 and Corporate Commercial McElhaney Law office (403 ) 346 -2026

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ROY Joseph Gerald 1930 - 2012 Mr. Joseph Gerald Roy of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at home on Thursday, November 29, 2012 at the age of 82 years. Gerald will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 54 years; Carole, two sons; Tom (Dawn) of Red Deer County and Rod (Claudia) of Red Deer, two daughters; Jeannine Stuart (Rick Coley) of Rocky Mountain House and Deanne of Red Deer. Gerald will also be greatly missed by his eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, as well as by his five brothers. In honor of Gerald’s life, a Memorial Service will take p l a c e o n W e d n e s d a y, December 5, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

For those who so desire, donations in Gerald’s name may be made directly to Ronald McDonald House, 5002 - 39 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 2T2. 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.

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CLINIC MANAGER ASSISTANT/ BILLING CLERK

Required for Rocky Medical Clinic Rocky Mtn. House, AB See website for full posting www.rockymedical.com Email resumes to: rockymed@telusplanet.net

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Oil & Gas Well Testing Supervisors, Night Foremen, Exp’d/inexp’d Junior Day/Night Operators.

Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license.

Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages.

Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca or by fax to (403) 783-8004 Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted

A RED DEER BASED Pressure Testing Company req’s. Operators for testing BOP’s throughout AB. Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email mikeoapt@gmail.com Only those selected for interview will be contacted.

APEX OILFIELD SERVICES IS HIRING! Available positions are based out of Red Deer:

F/T / P/T Pharmacy Technicians. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer

Journeyman Electrician or Electrical Technologist -

PHARMACY TECHNICIAN- The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy is looking for a part-full time Pharmacy Technician. No evenings or Sundays.Kevin 403-343-8088

Must be highly motivated and able to work independently. VFD and PLC exp. would be an asset.

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must be highly motivated and able to work independently and with others.

Knowledge of general home repairs req’d.

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Applications are invited for:

8 HOUR CLEANING PERSON

Location: Eckville Elementary School Benefits: Wolf Creek Public Schools offer all full-time cleaning staff a comprehensive benefit package which includes three weeks of paid vacation after the completion of one year of service.

Hourly salary range: $15.95 - $19.07/hr. based on experience with opportunities for annual wage advancement.

Qualifications: • Willingness to perform tasks and to remain flexible in the performance of duties • Previous history of excellent work habits and attendance record • Previous experience with all aspects of cleaning and maintaining a school would be a definite asset, “on the job” training will be provided as well • The ability to cooperate with staff and students • Physically fit so as to perform all required duties • Ability to understand and follow instructions Deadline for Applications: December 7, 2012 Interested candidates are invited to submit applications to: Mr. Mel Henderson Custodian/Grounds Foreman, Wolf Creek Public Schools 6000 Highway 2A, Ponoka, Alberta T4J 1P6 Phone: 403-785-0728 Fax: 403-783-3155 Email: mhenderson@wolfcreek.ab.ca Please Note: We appreciate the interest of all applicants, but advise that only

candidates selected for an interview for this competition will be contacted.

The successful applicant will be required to provide a current criminal records check statement at their own expense as well as a Child and Family Services Intervention Record Check.

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$2500 Bonus Every 100 days

Must be highly motivated individual with previous derrick or solids control exp. Must be capable of working independently and with others.

To apply, send your resume via email to hr@apexoil.ca or fax 403-314-3285 by December 1, 2012

ARE YOU THE ONE?

COMPANY DRIVER Required for busy Red Deer based Hot Shot Company.

Oilfield exp. preferred but willing to train the right individual. Company benefits & scheduled days off.

Fax resume & drivers abstract to: 403-342-2152

CALNASH TRUCKING LTD PONOKA, ALBERTA (Regular and winter camp jobs) REQUIRES PICKER, WINCH TRACTOR, BED TRUCK & PILOT CAR OPERATORS

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Office/Phone Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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COLTER PRODUCTION TESTING SERVICES INC

Send resume to Attention: Linda Robinson gmar@symphonyseniorliving.com or drop off in person at: 3100 - 22nd Street SENIOR LIVING In concert with your life

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Field Operators - Valid First Aid, H2S, driver’s license required!

is excited to offer temporary employment opportunities to

Please see your website @ www.colterenergy.ca or contact us at 1-877-926-5837

Enhance your hours/supplement your income!

Your application will be kept strictly confidential LOCAL Oilfield Company seeking experienced Wireline Tool Salesman.

Vehicle mileage paid as well as commissions and benefits. Please forward resume to: btopcanada @hotmail.com or fax 403-340-8581 Attn: Manager EXP. LINE LOCATOR, H2S PSTS, 1st aid req’d.

Min. 3 yrs. exp. Resume by fax 403-227-1398 or email info@accutechcanada.ca

RNs/LPNs/LAB TECHS Skills/Requirements: • Proof of Active Registration • Training and mentoring skills • Clinical presentation skills • Leadership and coaching skills • Reliable transportation Submit your resume to:

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Landcore Technologies Inc. located in Ponoka is currently seeking energetic, motivated team players for the following positions:

DISPATCHER

Calnash Trucking, Ponoka, Alberta has an opening for a DISPATCHER. Duties: coordinating equipment and personnel for rig moves and service work.

Computer skills and knowledge of the trucking industry, drilling rigs and oilfield equipment, transportation rules and regulations would be an asset. Will train right candidate.

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Drillers and Driller Assistants with a Class 1 driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license.

Apprentice or Journeyman Mechanics Pile Drive Operators Pile Drive Assistants Field Supervisor All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Safety tickets are an asset but we are willing to train the right candidate.

We offer exceptional pay, excellent benefit package and a positive work environment.

Please email resumes to info@landcore.ca or fax 403-783-2011.

The right candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Please no phone calls.

Fax Resume to: 403 783 3011 Email: hr@ calnashtrucking.com

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is looking for experienced class 1 drivers with winch experience. Please fax resume complete with abstract to (403)343-1922.

LOCAL SERVICE CO. REQâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

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QUALIFIED DAY AND NIGHT SUPERVISORS

All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug screen. We offer exceptional wages and benefits for exceptional people. Fax resume and abstract to 403-314-2340 or email to safety@ providencetrucking.ca

(Must be able to Provide own work truck)

FIELD OPERATORS Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers License required!!

Please contact Murray McGeachy or Jamie Rempel by Fax: (403) 340-0886 or email mmcgeachy@ cathedralenergyservices.com jrempel@ cathedralenergyservices.com

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TANKMASTER RENTALS requires CLASS 1 BED TRUCK and TANK TRUCK Operators for Central Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions!

Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

based, home every night!

Qualified applicants must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Emai: hr@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Tired of Standing?

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Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

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Oilfield

We are currently seeking the following positions to join our field team.

- Electrical Inspectors - Mechanical Inspectors - Projects Control - Safety Personnel - Administration

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Quinn Pumps Canada Ltd. located in Red Deer, Alberta has an opening for an:

Accounting Technician

Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

Key Responsibilities:

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Paid technical and leadership training Career advancement opportunities RRSP Matching Program

Only qualified candidates need apply in confidence to:

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

Attn: HR Email: hr@quinn.com Fax: 403-343-3210

email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

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ARE YOU a recent FULL-TIME post-secondary grad who ADMINISTRATIVE has been unable to secure SUPPORT employment in your field due to lack of experience? Chinookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge School Division No. 73 invites Would you like to be paid applications for a full-time to gain experience?

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Big Horn Electric and Controls Ltd.

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ELECTRICAL and INSTRUMENTATION JOURNEYMAN and APPRENTICES We are currently recruiting for: Central and Northern Alberta.

Required Safety Certificates: H2S Alive / First Aid PST / Fall Protection.

Successful candidates will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Oilfield experience is an asset.

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LOOKING for a few good Apples! Hiring part time and full time kitchen line CARPET COLOUR cooks... great flexibility, CENTRE weekends a must! is currently looking for Apply in person between 2 TILE INSTALLERS. 2 pm and 5 pm and ask for Applicant must have ability Angie or Amy. to lay out tiles, be familiar with setting materials and Sales & products. This is a F/T position with a wage of Distributors $25/hr.

Submit resume att`n: METALSMITHS Andrew @ Carpet Colour Bower Mall Centre 1100, 5001 - 19 St. is looking for Red Deer, AB T4R 3R1 or Assistant Manager, email : awiebe@ carpetcolourcentre. com and 1st. Key

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Clark’s Plumbing & Heating is now hiring

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to start immediately for the following position:

Journeyman Plumbers Journeyman Gas Fitters Starting wage of $36/hr, 10% Vacation/Holiday Pay and benefits.

Please fax resumes to 780-623-7451or email to sales@cpandh.ca DRYWALL helper req’d.

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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 ESTABLISHED well known company looking for exp’d. steel stud/drywall person to work F/T hourly.

Please fax resume to 403-782-0610 email: ben@tpil.ca EXP’’D drywall tradesmen & laborers req’d, immed Phone 403-348-8640 EXPERIENCED repair person req’d for local truck company. Work involves all aspects of heavy truck and trailer repair and dismanteling. Must be physically fit. HD Mechanic or equivelant experience We offer competitive wages, benefits weekends off. Fax resume to 1-855-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501

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Fluid Experts Ltd.

Is looking for experienced Trucking Dispatcher to start immed.

Good Verbal, Writing, Texting and Computer skills. Company Pickup, benefits, above avg. salary and great atmosphere.

Clean Class 1 drivers license c/w abstract.

Completed Basic Training Courses. Will train the right individual.

Fax Resume w/all tickets and Driver`s Abstract to 403-346-3112 or email to roger@fluidexperts.com

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SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters Helpers, and Labourers.

Competitive Wages & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca Start your career!

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BUSY CENTRAL AB company req’s exp’d. Class 1 drivers to pull decks.

Assigned truck, exc. wages and benefits pkg. Paid extras. Family orientated.

Resume and abstract fax to 403-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501 Mon,. - Fri,. 8 a m to 6 pm CLASS 1 driver with oilfield experience, local runs.

403-373-3285 or fax resume and copies of all valid tickets to 403-986-2819

Gary Moe Volkswagen

ADULT & Youth Carrier Needed For Delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in

Hwy 2, Westside Gasoline Alley

FULL TIME PARTS PERSON

JOHNSTONE CROSSING Jennings Crsc & Joa Ave. ALSO Jack & Jenner Crsc.

Please send resume to:

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

EXPERIENCED

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

JOURNEYMAN or 3rd Yr. Apprentice Plumber/Gas Fitter

req’d for small shop in Westaskiwin area.

Competitive wages & health plan. Submit resumes to: willplmb@xplornet.com or fax to: 780-312-2889 or call 780-387-6087

TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s FULL TIME

APPRENTICE MECHANIC

Send resume to m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

Wabasca Area 5 month term Camp Job Started mid-Aug, 2012 BIG Horn Electric and Controls Ltd.

Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed.

CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q All oilfield safety tickets req’d. Clean drivers abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy.

References Req’d.

Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net F/T. Class 1 drivers to haul NGL butane Super B’s, must be over 25 yrs., EMAIL: dreaddriving@gmail.com

ELECTRICAL and Business INSTRUMENTATION JOURNEYMAN and Opportunities APPRENTICES Required Safety INCOME Certificates: MACHINIST/ OPPORTUNITY H2S Alive / First Aid AREA SUPERVISOR PST / Fall Protection.

FOR EVERYONE!!

The ideal candidate would Successful candidates will that has a desire, determipossess excellent written nation, time and effort. have knowledge of Oil and verbal Please phone Country Tubular Products, communication skills.

403-343-2853 or supplemented with previous Oilfield experience is an 403-318-4236 Meeting pipe manufacturing asset.

Sat. Dec. 1, 2 p.m,. experience in a unionized Qualified applicants are Refreshment ist provided. industrial environment. invited to fax or email their CNC Lathe experience CELEBRATIONS resumes: would be an asset.

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JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN Red Deer Public Schools Please see:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

As North America’s leading provider of energy and industrial services and one of the largest, most modern operations in Western Canada, our employees are benefiting from our success. In addition to stable work in a fast-growing company, we offer state of the art equipment, extensive training and a safety-conscious environment.

JOURNEYMAN MECHANICS The Licensed Mechanic is responsible for the maintenance and repair of all Heavy Handling units including Tractors, Trailers, and loaders.

This position will be responsible to maintain company equipment both in the branch office/yard as well as to respond to service calls in various remote locations and client sites.

Requirements for this position include: journeyman mechanic certificate and a valid, clean class 5 license.

Clean Harbors offers a complete benefits package.

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER

Clean Harbors is an equal opportunity employer.

Visit us online for more information.

We require a process driven person for this position.

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

Please send resume to:

daveturnbull@ garymoe.com

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE

For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

DEER PARK Dempsey St. area $45/mo.

ALSO Duston St. Donnelly Crsc., area Densmore Crs. Dale Close $270/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

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Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. continues to grow!

We are currently expanding staff levels in all of our departments to meet the demand of our productions facilities.

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Adams Close/ Adair Ave. BOWER AREA Baile Cl. /Boyce St. Beatty Crs./Barrett Dr. Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St

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For delivery of Red Deer Advocate by 6:30 a.m.

Mon. through Fri. & 8:00. .am. on Saturday in LANCASTER AREA 77 papers $412/mo.

Scott St./Somerset Close.

Sunnyside Crsc.

VANIER AREA Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

ROSEDALE AREA 72 papers $386/mo.

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

DEER PARK Dempsey St. area 79 papers $423/mo.

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MICHENER West of 40th Ave. North of Ross St. area $245.00/mo.

Good for adult w/a small car .

CARRIERS NEEDED

INGLEWOOD AREA

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

LANCASTER 1/2 of Lampard Crsc $65/mo.

ALSO Lenon Close, Lacey Close, Landry Bend area $76/mo.

ALSO Logan Close Lee St. & Lawrence Crsc. area $158/mo.

Employment Opportunities - Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

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Competitive plus renumeration

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Required Immediately

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

Red Deer Public Schools

or send your resume to: canadiancareers@cleanharbors.com.

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

KENTWOOD Kirkland & Kidd Close ALSO Kilburn & Krause Crsc

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

Invites applicants for:

Clean Harbors is looking for talented individuals to join our team.

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CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life in the towns of Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

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GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

CIRCULATION Service Runner (Part Time)

ALSO Clearview Ridge Timberlands area 59 papers $376/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

Do You: - Want extra income - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hours per week)

As part of our customer service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to delivery newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A Career Opportunity delivery vehicle is pro$18.36/hr. + bonuses. Red vided.

Deer distribution company Hours of shifts are Monday beginning 2nd. successful through Friday 5 a.m. to year of growth in the Red 9 a.m. or longer, and/or Deer area. We are current- afternoon shifts Monday to ly seeking energetic Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.. individuals looking to get Saturday and Sunday, 7 ahead. Positons include: a.m.-11 a.m. or longer Water quality advisers, customer service and gen- Submit resume, indicating eral labor. P/T & F/T “Service Runner Position”, positions avail. Rapid adalong with your drivers vancement avail. Please abstract immediately to: call Sat. Mon. & Tues. careers@ 10-6 403-356-0330 reddeeradvocate.com or mail to: Human Resources DISPATCHER req’d.

2950 Bremner Avenue Knowledge of Red Deer Red Deer, AB. T4N 5G3 and area is essential. or fax to: 403-341-4772 Good communication, skills both verbal and writWe thank all applicants for ten. Must have effective their interest, however, time management skills only selected candidates and able to multi task in a will be contacted. fast paced environment.

Experience preferred, but F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk. will train suitable applicant.

Apply in person Send resume by fax to w/resume: Highland Green 403-346-0295 Value Drug Mart.

If you would like to be a part of our growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking:

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best 50 Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN

Extensive experience with the maintenance and repair of the electrical systems in buildings and general shop equipment is an asset.

This is a full-time permanent shop position with competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Please Fax resume to 403-227-7796, or Email to hr@bilton.ca

PROJECT HSE ADVISOR (Blackfalds Mod Yard) The ideal candidate will have the following: • Minimum of 3 years field safety experience in the Oil & Gas / Electrical Construction Industry • Industry recognized certification – NCSO, CRSP, CHSC, etc.

• Strong Communication/ Presentation Skills • Computer skills and the ability to use a variety of office equipment • Ability to read, understand and interpret legal terminology found in such documents as benefit contracts and government regulations • A demonstrated Knowledge of Alberta OH&S Regulations and Code Problem solving and organizational skills • Preference will be given to those with electrical background

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We are currently hiring for the position of:

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your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

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Parts People Excellent benefits and wages based upon experience.

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Please respond by email to the following:

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“People Pride & Service”

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REAL ESTATE RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333

SHOPPING www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONS www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

COMPUTER REPAIR

WEB DESIGN

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AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

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PART/FULL TIME COOK Apply at East 40th Pub. 3811 40th Ave.

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TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

GREENHOUSE Workers wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold 14 F/T seasonal positions.

Training provided. Start Feb. 2013. $9.75/ hr, 44 hrs./ 5 days per week, 4 month period. Fax resume 403-886-2252 LOOKING for a dynamic individual with superior organizational skills to fill a position within a fast paced business environment. A person with Simply Accounting, Parts, Shipping & Receiving an asset. Fax resume to: 403-314-9011.

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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 in Town of Penhold!

Also afternoon delivery in Town of Springbrook 1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

Please contact QUITCY

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

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

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. (across from Totem)

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SUBWAY All Red Deer Locations Hiring Immediately

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Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

Special Antique Auction

Sat. Dec. 1 @ 11 am Bay 4, 7429 49 Ave. Red Deer.

PREVIEW 9 am Sale Day Snack Bar Open Collection Ron & the Last Clara Dancer of Calgary Furniture, over 40 telephones, 80 lamps, collectable’s!

Catalogue on the web www.budhaynesauctions.com Ph: 403-347-5855 Eves. 403-343-2929

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BOB the Builder sleeping bag and pillow, like new, $20, 403-314-9603

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

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OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

offers a variety of

SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis.

As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

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Household Appliances

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS FISH TANK

60 gal. tank with black storage cabinet.

Complete with: Cichlids, all accessories, decorations and food.

New Fluval 405 filter, canopy with lights, & heater all replaced within the last year.

Great Christmas Present!!

Cost for everything if buying new would be over $1400. Asking $500.

403-346-7778 or 403-506-7117 Red Deer

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Cats

5 FREE KITTENS,3 black, 2 grey,Blue Russian Tuxedo X, very cute, ready for good home/farm/acreage, good mousers, litter trained 403-886-4852 403-588-6505

SIAMESE ALSO BELANISE (3) KITTENS FOR SALE $60 each obo.

403-887-3649

Manufactured Homes

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Houses/ Duplexes

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Sharon 403-550-8777

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Suites

LOVELY Duplex ORR Dr. $1425 + utils., 2 bdrm. + den, 2 1/2 baths, no pets, Avail. Dec. 403-741-6309

1 & 2 BDRM. APTS.

Main Flr. Hewson Ave.

YOU LOOKING?

3 bdrm. 2 bath, No pets.

NOW $1475 incl UTIL. Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Condos/ Townhouses

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3 BDRM. 1 1/2 baths, 5 appls, fenced, n/s, no pets, avail. Dec. 1, Deer Park 403-391-1740

Clean, quiet bldg.

Call 318-0901.

2 bdrm. suites.

Heat/water/parking incl., adults only. NO PETS. Call 403-342-2899

3060

Suites

Large, bright townhouse.

3 bdrms 1.5 baths, bsmt. yard. 5 appls. In-suite laundry, NO PETS. VAILABLE NOW! $1350 & UTIL. Hearthstone 403 314 0099 or 403 396-9554 www.hpman.ca

Kirsch Cl. 2 Bdrm.

Townhouse. Sm. Pet. Deck, 5 appls. NOW $1295 + UTIL. Hearthstone 403-314-0099

3040

A MUST SEE!

2 BDRM. bsmt, shared kitchen, prefer employed or student. Avail. Nov. 30.

403-342-7789, 358-0081 CLEAN quiet responsiblel furn. $450, s.d. same, , 347-6865, 403--201-0305

20,000with Intro

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4090

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner $7,000.

Sharon 403-550-8777

New Executive

3 bdrm. 2 bath HOME in Red Deer. Immediate possession 10 yr warranty.

Own it for $1345/mo. OAC 403-346-3100, 347-5566

4160

Lots For Sale

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

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5030

Cars

1 & 2 bedroom suites

• Great location • 6 appliances (fridge, stove, dishwasher, washer & dryer, microwave).

• Balcony • Window Coverings • Adults only 21+ • No Pets

modular/mobile homes

BED ALL NEW,

Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325.

302-0582 Free Delivery

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SUV's

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Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

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CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

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Houses For Sale

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Email: info@timberstone.com timberstonevillage.com

FREE Cable

2 SETS OF IKEA nesting tables, $40 per set or $70/pair.

Call 403-346-1735

At

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STOVE, black, Frigidaire, self clean oven $200 403-342-6945

4000-4190

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2005 AVALANCHE 1500, loaded, Viper command start, 161,000 kms., exc. cond. Must See. $17,900.

3 bdrm., 2 bath townhouse 403-342-4909 in Lacombe. Walk-out, 1997 GRAND Cheriokee front att. garage. 1 left.

4x4 a.t., loaded, p.sunroof, $240,000 incl. all fees. been stored, new tires.

Lloyd Fiddler orig.100,750 kms.,$2700 403-391-9294 obo call 403-505-3113

NOW RENTING

Sharon (403) 550-8777

Renter’s Special

CLASSIFICATIONS

2007 FORD Fusion, SE, V6, black, excellent cond., original owner, A/C, PW, PL, 4 dr. 117,000 kms. $10,900. o.b.o.

403-348-9009

HOLIDAY SEASON SPECIAL RISER HOMES DON’T MISS OUT!

Red Deers newest Apartment Homes

Rents from $800 - $1375

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Condos/ Townhouses

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable www.lansdowne.ca

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FURN. working M. preferred FREE Weekly list of $475/mo. $200 s.d. , incl. utils., internet, 403-346-1390 properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s ROOM in Westpark, n/s, phone #, etc. 342-7355 no pets. Furnished. TV & Help-U-Sell of Red Deer utils incl. 403-304-6436 www.homesreddeer.com ROOMS Highland Green RISER HOMES fully furn., 6 appls, basic NOV. SPECIAL. 1 only cable and utils. incld., bdrms. keyed, $500/mo., + 1100 sq. ft. 2 bdrm. 2 bath bungalow w/front att. dbl.

SD, working only. Avail. garage, many upgrades in immed. 403-342-4604 new McKay Ranch, Blackfalds. $325,000 inclds. all legal fees, GST. and appls.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

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3090

6 Chalmers Close.

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

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Manufactured Homes

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Newly Reno’d Mobile Cable + more WANTED • 3250-3390 FREE Shaw $899/month

Newly Renovated Mobile Home

1710

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042

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1810

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1 8 C U . F T. , K e n m o r e fridge, glass shelves, fully loaded, like new, $200, 403-307-4223 after 6 p.m.

Household Furnishings

Stores/ Commercial

2140

Food Counter Attendants Are you looking for a career AFFORDABLE opportunity with excellent Homestead Firewood benefits, a mature working Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. environment and opportunity 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 to advance? If so, Subway FIREWOOD 347-7211 has a position for you! bluegrassnursery.com Please apply online @ mysubwaycareer.com or FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Drop resume off in person Poplar. Can deliver at 180, 6900 Taylor Drive 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 Or email to Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner careers@rdsubway.com or Call us at 403-342-0203 BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

Employment Training

3060

3190

BROWN EGGS AND LAMB now has free range pork : gourmet hams and sausage. Phone 403-782-4095

Firewood

Suites

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C H O C O L AT E b r o w n suede coat, w/hood, wom- CALICO F. cat found in Ine n ’ s s i z e M , $ 4 0 , nisfail, had been abused, now healthy, looking for 403-314-9603 loving home, free cat condo as well to give away 403-307-1350 Equipment-

Heavy

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Condos/ Townhouses

1900

BUD HAYNES & CO. AUCTIONEERS

Children's Items

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Dogs

BED: #1 King. extra thick 3 F. WEST Highland TerriCondo in 2 Bdrm. Apt. Lawford LACOMBE DOWNTOWN orthopedic pillowtop, brand er puppies, ready to go COMMERCIAL LEASE SPACE. Balcony. No pets, 5 appl.

Inglewood 3225 sq.ft. Avail. Jan. 1, 2013 new, never used. 15 yr. Nov. 30. 403-346-8788 NOW $1295 incl UTIL. 2 bdrms. 1 bath, in-suite Well maint. space. Incl. warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice Hearthstone 403-314-0099 laundry, No smoking, NO AUSTRALIAN Shepherd, separate office/kitchen, @ $545. 403-302-0582.

PETS. only $1225. Incl. miniature pups, 6 mos. 1M, A Great Location back storage/shipping Utils. Available NOW! CHINA Cabinet, Teak, 1F, shots and dewormed.

Adult Bldg. bachelor unit. receiving room. glass top, 3 doors, 9 glass $250/ea. 780-372-2387 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Heat/Water/parking incl’d Self contained bathroom or 403-396-9554 shelves, bottom has 4 Call 403-342-2899 & 2 parking spaces. www.hpman.ca drawers & 2 doors. Exc. LABRA DOODLE PUPS Call Linda 403-782-5117 cond. at least 50 yrs. old.

LARGE 2 bdrm. $850 F 1 $700; F1 B $900 KITSON CLOSE Best Offer. 403-340-2046 incld. most utils.

2 YR health Guaranteed. newer exec. 3 bdrm.

403-314-0209 awesome bloodlines, Warehouse KITCHEN table (white) 4 bi-level townhouse 1447 ready now until Christmas chairs, EXC. COND. $200 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. sq. ft.

5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, Space Hold with deposit.

403-886-4309 SUITES. 25+, adults only blinds, lg. balcony, fenced Ph. 403-919-1370 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 in rear, front/rear parking, BRAND new 9900 sq. ft.

LARGE chesterfield and 306-792-2113 no dogs, rent $1395 ready for lease fall 2012 on chair, forest green, good www.furfettishfarm.ca Riverside Apts.

SD $1000. n/s Avail.

Golden West Ave 358-3500 cond. $100 403-346-4049 2 bdrm., balcony. 3 appl., Dec. 1 No pets. Only $995 + Elect.

LIGHT oak color desk 403-304-7576 / 347-7545 Travel Hearthstone 403-314-0099 w/hutch, matching filing Garage Kyte/Kelloway Cres. cabinet, and Canon scan- Packages SUITES WITH Space ner, $200/all, Lovely 3 level exec.

TRAVEL ALBERTA BALCONY 403-341-3698 3 bdrm. townhouse Alberta offers 2 bdrm, 1 bath. 3 appls. GARAGE - cold storage 403-505-5326 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, SOMETHING Shared laundry. No pets. $175/mo. 343-6615 concrete patio, blinds, for everyone. $995 & elect.

WANTED front/rear parking, no dogs, Make your travel Available NOW Antiques, furniture and n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 plans now.

Hearthstone estates. 342-2514 Storage Avail. Dec. 1.

403-314-0099 or 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 Space 403 319 4225 Misc. for www.hpman.ca LAKEFRONT CONDO: 1600 square foot workshop Sale 1 bdrm. + pullout couch, / storage. Clean, dry, high SUNNYBROOK Pine Lake, fully furn., N/S, ceilings. (403)227-6759 $800 utils. incl. 403-440-9013 2 bdrm. apt. Water & heat 20 METAL sheet pans and lornaj@airenet.com incld, clean and quiet, rack with cover for baking SOUTHWOOD PARK great location, no pets. products $100.00 call TH 3110-47 Avenue, AGRICULTURAL 403-346-6686 403-728-3485 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, Mobile CLASSIFICATIONS SYLVAN LAKE 2 bdrm.

21” SNOWTHROWER, generously sized, 1 1/2 Lot bsmt. suite, private en3 HP, $200. 403-348-7619 baths, fenced yards, 2000-2290 full bsmts. 403-347-7473, trance, shared laundry, BOX of Christmas decoraLACOMBE new park, avail. Jan. 1, $700/mo., Sorry no pets. tions incl. 2’ pre-lit tree, www.greatapartments.ca $700 s.d., ref’s req’d., animal friendly. Your mobile $20, 403-314-9603 or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

403-224-3819 Horses Excellent 1st time home Riverfront Estates BUFFALO HEAD, Wanted Tenant buyers. 403-588-8820 Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, BEADED, HORSES WANTED: bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, Large 1 bdrm. adult suite. $195.00 403-347-7405 broke, un-broke, or unHeat/water/parking incl’d.

MOBILE HOME PAD, in blinds, large balcony, wanted. 403-783-0303 CHINA, Old country rose, Call 403-342-2899 Red Deer Close to Gaetz, no pets, n/s, $1195 priced individually.

2 car park, Shaw cable incl. or $1220 along the river.

WANTED: all types of WEST PARK 403-986-6324 Sharon 403-550-8777 SD $1000. avail. horses. Processing locally Dec. 1, 2 bdrm bsmt.

Dec 1 in Lacombe weekly. suite, new reno’s, 4 appls, 403-304-7576 347-7545 Pets & 403-651-5912 private entry, n/s, no pets, SYLVAN, 2 bdrm. condo, rent $750 + utils. 845-2926 Supplies w/private entrance and 5 appls., near shopping, avail today. 403-341-9974 Rooms

REMINDER

Clothing P/T GRAVEYARD shift Person req’d. immed. Must be 18 yrs. old. Please apply in person with resume to Express 24 EASTVIEW. 140 Erickson Drive

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Career Planning

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3140

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F/T Assistant Manager req’d for busy convenience store. Please apply in person with resume to Express 24 EASTVIEW. 140 Erickson Drive

Household Furnishings

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880

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Accounting

/month

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

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

COUNTERTOPS

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 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.

is expanding its facility to double production.

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

Escorts

- Concrete Finishers - Carpenters/Woodworkers 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.

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

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

Escorts

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EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049 Need a playmate?

403-550-0732 mydiamondgirls.org

Handyman Services

1200

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. Res/Comm.Reno’s, repair and more. Give us a buzz @ 403-598-3857 Free quotes. WCB, insured.

F & J Renovations. We do it all. Good rates and references available so call John at 403-307-3001 jbringleson@shaw.ca

Massage Therapy

1280

TRADITIONAL CHINESE MASSAGE, new girls, 4606 48 Ave. Open 7 a.m.- 9 p.m. 7 days a wk.

Phone 403-986-1691

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

GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

1280

FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629

Massage Therapy

Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up LINDA’S CHINESE MAS- scrap again! Farm machinSAGE Grand Opening #3 ery, vehicles and industrial.

EDEN 4820-47 Ave. 403-986-1550 Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346 587-877-7399 10am-midnight MASSAGE ABOVE ALL LEXI, Blonde, Babe, 27. No WALK-INS WELCOME YARD maintenance, snow Agency Fees 403-396-8884 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 shovelling, 403-318-7625

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

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

Seniors’ Services

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ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small reno’s or jobs, such as, new bathroom sink, toilets or safety bars in bath tubs. 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

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SUV's

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Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

NEW TAKE OFF TIRES 245-75R-17” General Grabber E rated 10 ply tires. $100/ea. 403-341-9315

CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 2000 TOYOTA 4 RUNNER 196,000 kms., $10,400. obo 403-597-5972

Trucks

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Auto Wreckers

5190

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A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519

PUBLIC NOTICES

6010 REQUEST FOR PRE-QUALIFICATION FOR CONTRACTING WORKS

2008 GMC Sierra 2500 4x4, 39000 kms $23888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 FORD F-350 LARIAT 4x4, turbo diesel, htd. lthr., sunroof, nav., $35,888, 348-8788 Sport & Import

1.0 INTRODUCTION Red Deer County (the County) is accepting Statement of Qualification submissions from Contractors that are interested in prequalifying for the provision of contracting works on construction and/or maintenance projects within the Country that are tendered in 2013. The Pre-qualified Contractors List will be determined by the County after evaluation of all submissions.

The scope of contracting works to be provided to the County includes, but is not limited to: 1. Road Grading - Road Construction - Earthworks - Road related including gravel pit stripping and reclamation

2007 LINCOLN MARK LT 4x4, lthr., nav., $26,888 348- 8788 Sport & Import

2. Drainage works - Ditching - Culvert Installation 3. Bridgeworks - Standard Bridge Construction - Bridge Repair and/or Maintenance

2001 DODGE Ram 1500.

Q/cab. loaded 403-596-6995 1997 GMC 3500 h.d., w/metal flat deck, 2WD, 203,000 kms., good cond., $8900 obo, 403-340-8777

Motorcycles

5080

WINTER SPECIAL

2009 HERITAGE Soft Tail Classic, low mileage.

15,000 kms. Must Sell! $16,000. 403-877-1170

Public Notices

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4. Underground Utilities - Water Supply Mains - Sanitary Mains - Storm Mains The Statement of Qualification submissions must be received by the County on or before 2:00:59 p.m. January 4, 2013. Only Contractors intending to offer services on these types of projects need to respond to this call.

NOTE: Submissions will NOT be opened publicly.

Only one submission per Contractor or corporate entity will be accepted.

Submission Packages available on APC or www.rdcounty.ca 274467L1

Sealed Tenders clearly marked “Leva Avenue Roadway Improvements 2013 – Tender No. T26/12”.

DELIVERED OR MAILED TO: Red Deer County 38106 Range Road 275 Red Deer County, AB, T4S 2L9 and received before 2:00 P.M. local time on December 20, 2012, will be opened in public immediately thereafter at Red Deer County Operations.

Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Tenderer(s) without consideration. Tender Documents or Tender Amendments received via Facsimile machine will not be accepted.

The Work is comprised of approximately: 7,350 Tonnes Asphaltic Concrete Pavement 15,800 Square Metres Asphaltic Concrete Pavement Removals 370 Square Metres Asphaltic Concrete Pavement Milling 500 Cubic Metres Import Structural Fill 20,400 Cubic Metres Import Granular Fill 1,350 Cubic Metres Import Topsoil 4,430 Linear Metres Concrete Curb Work 1,640 Linear Metres Concrete Curb Removals 2,070 Linear Metres Concrete Sawcutting Asphalt/Concrete 1,450 Square Metres Concrete Exterior Flatwork 30 New/Relocated Sewer Structures 360 Linear Metres Sewer Mains 110 Linear Metres Corrugated Steel Pipe Culverts Miscellaneous Water Main Appurtenance Adjustments 600 Square Metres Rip Rap 160 Linear Metres W-Beam Guardrail 6,280 Linear Metres Line Painting 1,200 Linear Metres Line Painting Removals 26,400 Square Metres Fine Grading Topsoil and Grass Seeding 0.6 Hectares Tree Clearing and Grubbing Miscellaneous Building Demolition and Removals

Israel to build 3,000 new settlement homes in response to UN decision

Tenders must be accompanied by: - Bid Bond or Certified Cheque in the amount of 10% of the Tender Price.

- Consent of Surety in the amount indicated in the tender package.

- Proof of Insurance, WCB Clearance and Safety Certification will be required at the time of contract execution.

The Owner may decide, at its sole discretion, that no bid submitted will be accepted and no Contract will be awarded pursuant to this Tender process.

In that event, all Tenderers will be notified and the Owner will have no liability to any Tenderer. If the Owner decides to accept a Tender and award a Contract, the selection of the successful Tenderer will be based on a number of criteria which will include, but not limited to, price, delivery date, and qualification of the Tenderer. Receipt of an Invitation to Tender and evaluation by the Owner of a bid does not imply that the Tenderer is qualified. The Owner reserves the right to waive informalities in, reject any or all Tenders, or to accept the Tender deemed most favourable in the interest of the Owner.

The successful Tenderer shall be the Principal or Prime Contractor for the Project pursuant to the applicable construction safety legislation and shall have primary responsibility for the safety of all workers and equipment on the Project in accordance with such legislation.

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Inquiries regarding this Project shall be directed to: Mr. Marty Campbell Red Deer County 38106 RR 275 Red Deer County, AB, T4S 2L9 Ph. (403) 350-2150 Fx. (403) 346-9840

JERUSALEM — Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied lands that the world body overwhelmingly said belong to the Palestinians.

The plans also include future construction in a strategic area of the West Bank where critics have long warned that Jewish settlements would kill hopes for a viable Palestinian state.

Israel’s moves served as a harsh reminder to Palestinians — euphoric over the UN upgrade — that while they now have a state on paper, most of it remains very much under Israeli control.

“This is a doomsday scenario,” Daniel Seidemann of Ir Amim, a group that promotes coexistence in Jerusalem, said of the building plans.

Israel’s decision was bound to embarrass the United States, which was among just nine countries in the 193-member General Assembly to vote against accepting Palestine as a nonmember observer state.

Accelerated settlement construction could also set a more confrontational tone as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas weighs his next moves.

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland criticized the Israeli announcement. “These actions are counterproductive and make it harder to resume direct negotiations or achieve a two-state solution,” she said.

Friday’s decision was taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and eight senior Cabinet ministers, according to the Israeli news website Ynet.

The plans include 3,000 new apartments in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, as well as

preparations for new construction in other large West Bank settlements, including Maaleh Adumim, near east Jerusalem, said an Israeli government official.

Among the projects is an expansion of Maaleh Adumim, known as E-1, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the decision with reporters.

Successive U.S. administrations have pressured Israel not to build in E-1 because it would effectively cut off east Jerusalem from the West Bank, and split the northern part of the territory from the southern part. Israel has said in the past it envisions 3,500 apartments there.

“E-1 will be the death of the two-state solution,” said Seidemann, referring to the establishment of a state of Palestine alongside Israel. “If the pronouncements are to be treated seriously, we are months away from the implementation of E-1. This is very serious and very problematic.”

Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former foreign minister and chief negotiator with the Palestinians, warned that “the decision to build thousands of housing units as punishment to the Palestinians only punishes Israel . . . (and) only isolates Israel further.”

Since 1967, the number of Israelis living in settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem has risen to half a million, compared with 2.7 million Palestinians in those areas, and continued construction makes partition of the land increasingly unlikely.

The new UN observer state status could enable the Palestinians to pursue possible war crimes charges against Israel at the International Criminal Court over settlement construction on war-won land.

Obama could announce new Secretary of Defence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Copies of the Tender Documents may be obtained by General Contractors from AL-Terra Engineering Ltd. on or after December 4, 2012 upon payment of a $50.00 non-refundable fee, made payable to AL-Terra Engineering Ltd.

Mr. Dan Gilbertson, P.Eng. AL-Terra Engineering Ltd. #202, 4708 – 50th Avenue Red Deer, AB, T4N 4A1 Ph. (403) 340-3022 Fx. (403) 340-3038

Photo by The Associated Press

Palestinian protesters attached a placard on a wall in front of Israeli soldiers, not seen, during a demonstration in the West Bank village of al-Masara near Bethlehem, marking the recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state by the United Nations, Friday. The United Nations General Assembly on 29 November voted 138-9 with 41 countries abstaining to upgrade the Palestinian status at the world organization to a non-member state.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INVITATION TO TENDERERS

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

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REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585

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Vehicles Wanted To Buy 2010 DODGE Power Wagon 2500 SLT 4x4, winch $26,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama could name his next defence secretary in December, far sooner than expected and perhaps in a high-powered package announcement with his choice for secretary of state, several senior administration officials tell The Associated Press.

The personnel moves, coupled with Obama’s coming choice for a new leader of the Central Intelligence Agency, will be viewed by U.S. allies and enemies alike as signal of how he will pursue national security in a second term. All of his choices will be subject to Senate confirmation, which itself is a significant factor in his decisions.

The top names under consideration for defence secretary are former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, former top Pentagon official Michele Flournoy, Deputy Defence Secretary Ashton Carter and Democratic Sen. John Kerry.

Among those, Kerry is seen as desiring the secretary of state’s job more.

While Obama has made no final decisions on Cabinet vacancies, announcements could come as soon as next week.

Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has made clear he did not intend to stay for a second term but he has never publicly discussed the timing of his departure, widely thought to be down the road in 2013. Yet Obama’s thinking on Panetta’s replacement has quietly advanced, aided by a strong list of candidates, officials said.

One senior U.S. official said Panetta is expected to stay on the job at least through the Jan 21 inauguration ceremony for Obama, another sign that the president is close to naming a new defence chief. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss internal White House thinking.

Far more political attention has centred on the chief diplomatic job of secretary of state.

Obama is believed almost certain to pick Kerry or U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, with Obama’s considerations of his choice so closely held that even members of his innermost circle

are asking each other which way he may go. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has long announced her plans to leave and hopes to do so soon.

The White House is considering packaging the state and defence choices with the flourish of a unified announcement, if the pieces come together. The president wants to choose nominees not just on their merits, the officials said, but on how well their styles and philosophy mesh with other members of the Cabinet who will hold overlapping portfolios.

That is particularly true for the leaders of state and defence. They are the top faces of his security apparatus, the leaders who bracket Obama at Cabinet meetings, the ones central to an integrated approach toward coping with international crises. Officials close to Obama said a joint announcement could present a stronger message.

For the State job, Obama has strong ties to both candidates. Rice is a close friend, and aides say the two are in lockstep on foreign policy.

Kerry was an early backer of Obama during his 2008 presidential bid, a valuable envoy abroad, a help in his re-election bid and a contender to be his first secretary of state.

A big factor in Obama’s decision is how much early capital he would have to spend on a confirmation fight.

While Kerry has the backing of his longtime Senate colleagues, Rice is facing withering criticism from some Republicans for her initial account of the deadly attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, in September.

A contentious confirmation fight could send Rice into the job with weakened support and use up some of the tough votes he may need from allies in the Senate later. Still, Obama has already set a tone that he may choose Rice regardless.

A decision on new leadership for the CIA is not as urgent. That’s partly because Acting Director Michael Morell is still dealing with the fallout of David Petraeus’ resignation over an extramarital affair and the battles with lawmakers over the events that led to the death of four Americans in Libya.

Morell is highly respected within the administration and seen as a top contender.

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Single woman needs to advertise she is looking for man Harlan, guys hit on her or want to hang out with her.

I’m a single woman looking for a man. I’m very We hooked up a lot after we broke up because we social, and I put myself in a lot of rooms with people felt comfortable with each other. who share similar interests.

I don’t want to tell her what to do and I know My problem is that the things I am interested in things will never happen between us again, but I just draw an almost entirely female crowd. The men who feel jealous. What’s wrong with me? — Friend Not share my interests tend to be gay.

Getting More My life is full of way too many women!

Dear Not Getting More, Do you have any advice for putting myNothing is wrong with you. self in rooms with men while still engagYou just shouldn’t have sex with friends. ing my own interests and sense of self?

Because it’s not just sex. Never was. Never — Girls’ Girl will be.

Dear Girls’ Girl, There are emotions attached to this act.

ATTENTION: Advertise that you want That’s why you’re feeling something. Cleara man. Tell all your female friends that ly, you care about this friend and have a you want help finding a man. Tell all strong emotional connection. your gay friends. Say it loud and say A few suggestions - stop having sex with it proud. Let them all know. Get them her. It’s going to ruin your friendship. If working. you’re jealous and have feelings for her, They’ve got brothers, cousins, friends, think about dating her. exes, neighbors and colleagues who will If not, learn how to be a friend - that want you. means not having sex with her and encourHARLAN The catch - you have to be the one aging her to find someone else. If you can’t COHEN to advertise that you want help finding get over feeling jealous and don’t want to a man. Use the people in the rooms to date her, find other friends. It’s the friendwork for you. Ask them to fix you up. liest thing you could do.

Make it clear what you want. Ask them to deliver.

Harlan, Then go on lots of dates with lots of men.

I have finally realized that I only date people I am If you don’t want to get set up, go online and set not actually attracted to. yourself up. Again, make it clear what you want. Give I date people I’m only mildly attracted to because men access to you. Help make it easy for them to see it’s easier. People I am really interested in I either that you’re hot, single and searching. scare away because I come on too strong, or don’t If you aren’t open to either of these ideas, you do even bother approaching because I’m too terrified to not really want to meet men. talk to them. Or I just clam up when they talk to me!

Whether it’s intentional or accidental, any woman I get nervous and don’t know what to do with mywho creates a life void of heterosexual men and self. I know I’m a very fun person and I have a lot of won’t get set up or go online to date doesn’t want to wonderful qualities that I would love to share with a date. significant other.

Therefore, the problem isn’t being in the wrong How can I be more comfortable talking to people rooms, it’s a fear of taking risks and allowing men to I’m attracted to? find you and date you.

I feel like a total doofus when I talk to attractive There are millions of men looking for interest- men, but I have lots of friends who date very attracing and attractive women, but they need to find you. tive men but are no more attractive than I am.

Help them and advertise it loud and clear - single I feel like it’s my turn to be able to date goodfemale, hot, interesting and interested in meeting a looking men! Help me, Harlan! Why do I keep selling man. myself short? — Short Sell Then, watch them come running.

Dear Short Sell, Harlan, Being a gorgeous geek is not the problem. That’s My best friend and I dated for about a year and a hot. half. We know everything about each other and have The problem is you. I have the simplest advice for been sexually active. you to follow if you want this to end: Embrace being We broke up just because things were easier as a doofus. Aim high. friends and she was moving away to school, and I’m Give yourself permission to get hurt. Work to totally cool with that. But I feel jealous when new build emotional stamina so you can feel your best

HELP

and have the best support.

The more you work to be your best physically, emotionally and spiritually, the easier it will be to approach quality men or have them approach you.

Appreciate your inner doofus, and you’ll find a life partner. If you can’t embrace it, get some professional help and learn to love yourself.

Harlan, What would cause a man to just “stop”? I’ve recently had two relationships where we broke up, but he forgot to tell me.

With the first one, we had just started dating, were getting along great, having good conversations, laughing, etc. — then, wham! He canceled plans and stopped communicating. Ever since then, there was no calling, no texts, he never responded to my calls or texts, and offered no explanation (I asked what happened, and received no response).

The second was a “friend with benefits” (his idea, mind you). We worked together, so we didn’t really want to date, but there was flirting, texts, an occasional kiss or tousle of the hair (and yes, getting naked). Then, he just “stopped” — stopped texting, flirting, talking, communicating. Again, no explanation, no “I don’t want to do this anymore.” I’m a big girl, I can handle it — but just be an adult and tell me.

I would like your opinion of what lies behind this action - why can’t they just give a reason? — Feared Dear Feared, A man hits STOP because of another woman, an ex, lack of attraction, hospitalization or incarceration.

In the future, assume that all men who stop talking to you are in jail or in a coma.

As for the rejection by silence, people who stink at receiving rejection are equally horrible at handing it out.

He’s afraid of making you uncomfortable because he’s uncomfortable. Want the truth? Make it safe for men who reject you to share it.

Tell them it’s OK for them to share the truth, even if it hurts your feelings — you respect honesty. Then, if someone remains silent, assume he’s in jail or unable to speak.

Accept that you were far too good for the guy and move on.

Harlan is author of Getting Naked: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed and Totally Sober) (St. Martin’s Press). Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

More awareness, better enforcement help cut child sex abuse

BY BETH J. HARPAZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Increased public awareness of how child predators operate, along with better law enforcement and policies to protect children, may be helping to reduce child sex abuse despite this year’s headlines about cases connected to institutions like Penn State University, the Boy Scouts and the BBC. A recent report from the University of New Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Research Center found incidents of child sexual abuse have been declining in the U.S. for 20 years, with some statistics showing decreases as steep as 60 per cent.

The findings may be surprising given the high-profile cases in the news.

But many of those incidents took place years, sometimes decades, ago. Ironically, experts say, publicity surrounding such scandals may help reduce the problem.

“One or two or even five or 10 high publicity cases are not going to stop the problem in its tracks,” said David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center and a UNH sociology professor.

“But there is a lot of evidence that the greater awareness and actions taken to improve safety in the wake of these things does reduce the amount of abuse.”

The October report from the Crimes Against Children Research Center showing a decrease in child sexual abuse since the early 1990s is based on information from government agencies, FBI crime reports and national surveys. It includes data from state child protective agencies showing a 62

per cent decline in substantiated sex abuse claims between 1992 and 2010, and a national crime survey that found a 69 per cent decline in sexual assaults against teens from 1993 to 2008.

Finkelhor said that in decades past, pedophiles often behaved with impunity: “They thought nobody would ever detect them because they never heard of people getting caught, but nowadays they get caught, they get prosecuted, they get incarcerated,” which “has a big deterrent effect.”

In addition, said Finkelhor, “we’ve increased guardianship. Parents and leaders and staff people working in organizations are much more aware of the problem than they used to be and therefore take steps to reduce the likelihood that this will occur.”

In some cases that made headlines, parents allowed children to have sleepovers or go on trips with adults who later turned out to be pedophiles. At Penn State, the school’s former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of molesting children he met through a charity he founded. Revelations also emerged this year about a prestigious New York City private school, Horace Mann, where students said they were molested in teachers’ homes and on school trips.

Michele Galietta, director of clinical psychology training at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and a researcher on a 2004 report

by John Jay about sex abuse by Catholic priests, agreed that public awareness has a major impact on child sex abuse: “Publicity around big scandals like Penn State, the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, sensitizes people to the fact that a predator is more likely to be a neighbour, family friend, or familiar person” than the old stereotype of a

creepy stranger or kidnapper.

Galietta added that while child sex abuse remains a serious problem, “because the stories are everywhere, it forces people to have conversations.

Especially with boys, it used to be such a shameful thing, they could never tell anyone. Now if someone were to approach them, they wouldn’t feel like they had to keep it secret.”

At the BBC in England, the late Jimmy Savile, a popular children’s entertainer, has been accused of molesting dozens of young girls in the 1970s and ’80s. Victims say their original complaints were ignored, and police said the case has created a “watershed moment,” with many adults reporting other claims of sex abuse they suffered as kids.

Kelly Clark, a lead attorney in a successful $20 million lawsuit over the Boy Scouts’ failure to report sex abuse accusations against Scout leaders from 1959 to 1985, cited the Catholic Church as an example of an institution where reforms changed a culture that once protected molesters.

“The fact is, we don’t see a Catholic priest getting arrested once a month these days,” he said. The Catholic Church is undoubtedly a safer place than it was 20 years ago. It’s not be-

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cause the bishops got the holy spirit but because they got sued over and over again and the insurance company said, ’We can’t have this.”’

The program used by the Catholic Church, VIRTUS, is a three-hour course that trains individuals to recognize signs of behaviour that suggest potential sexual abuse and intervene.

(The word VIRTUS is Latin for moral excellence.) VIRTUS was developed by the church’s insurance company, the National Catholic Risk Retention Group, and it’s mandatory for anyone who interacts with kids in churchsponsored activities.

Sister Pat Hudson, a therapist and VIRTUS consultant, says that “after people are trained, they have a keen awareness. So many times, cases have come forward where people have said they noticed something,” such as adults who are overly affectionate or who single certain kids out for gifts.

Behaviours like that can be signs of “grooming,” where adults cultivate children’s trust as a gateway to sexual activity. VIRTUS stresses the importance of communicating concerns both to the perceived offender and to those in charge.

Many children’s organizations also now mandate screening.

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