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ER ordered to treat ‘VIPs’ faster: docs BY TIM COOK THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — An Alberta emergency room doctor says medical staff in a busy ER were once pressured to provide care for a “VIP” ahead of a waiting room full of very sick people. Dr. Paul Parks told a pub- SHERMAN DENIES lic inquiry Wednesday that BEING A ‘FIXER’ A3 the order came from an executive at the University of Alberta hospital in Edmonton in the fall of 2007. “The executive on call called down to the triage nurse and essentially indicated that there was a VIP in the waiting room and that VIP should be moved into an emergency bed immediately and taken care of,” testified Parks, who is now the chief emergency physician in Medicine Hat, Alta. The ER was snarled with patients and the nurse pushed back, Parks said. The best that could be done was to re-evaluate the person to see if the ailments merited being moved ahead. They didn’t. The executive called back. “The tone was definitely not friendly ... there was a repeated call again where the gist of the conversation was, ‘What the heck are you guys doing down there? What is that VIP doing still in the waiting room?”’ The executive ordered that the person’s family doctor be called to the hospital to provide treatment — something Parks said emergency staff would never do. Neither the VIP nor the executive was named at the inquiry. In the end, Parks said, no special care was provided. He said he and his fellow emergency room doctors agreed afterwards that they would never let anyone jump a queue for care. “We couldn’t take part in any .... requests for preferential access. We had to just see the next sickest patient in the queue,” he said. “It needs to be that we see patients based on their need, their medical need and the next queue would be the time that they came to see us.” The inquiry, called by Premier Alison Redford to look into allegations of queue-jumping in the health system, began hearing from witnesses on Monday. Executives have talked about preferential treatment being an accepted practice under the old regional health boards, but no one has been able to cite any examples.

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Marika Noordhoek readies her son Samuel, six months, to play the baby Jesus before the start of the Bethlehem Walk in Three Hills. Please see related story on page B1.

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Huron Carole fighting hunger one song at a time BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF You could say The Huron Carole is back by popular demand. While that’s glad tidings for anyone who enjoys hearing the charitable multi-performer Christmas concert, the fact is the Carole was reprised to help food banks meet a growing need — so it’s also sobering news. Singer Tom Jackson had taken a seven-year break from performing the concert that first started raising money for food banks two decades ago. He shelved The Huron Carole Tom Jackson in 2004 and instead brought Singing For Supper around to smaller communities, finding the more intimate show could sometimes fund rural food banks for an entire year. But in the intervening period, the scale of Canada’s national hunger problem had swelled to the point that 900,000 people are now using food banks every month — nearly half of them children. Discovering that statistic “was like cold water thrown in my face,” recalled Jackson. Red Deer’s food bank was among those that saw

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demand rise by more than 100 per cent since the 2009 recession, said deputy director Alice Kolisnyk. While client numbers recently dropped by an encouraging 10 per cent, the local charity still fed 2,100 adults and kids in the month of November. Jackson decided to relaunch The Huron Carole, which advocates an end to hunger. The concert named for Canada’s oldest Christmas hymn, written in the native Huron language by Jesuit missionary Father Jean de Brebeuf in 1643, is being performed this month in large and medium-sized cities from New Brunswick to Alberta. There’s a Monday, Dec. 17, performance at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre. Jackson will be accompanied by fellow musicians Sarah Slean, Matt Dusk and Susan Aglukark — artists who share his desire to help defeat hunger, while feeding the soul of listeners with music and stories that embrace the Christmas message of peace and harmony. The singers “are very socially conscious and they want to use their instruments for the better, to make a difference,” Jackson added. “With the strength of each artist’s voice on stage, this year’s Huron Carole will expand our ability to raise funds, awareness and hope, creating change one song at a time.” Three-time Juno Award winner Aglukark is best known for her massive hit O Siem, as well as being a motivational role model for aboriginal youths.

Talia Meguinis made a pact with her sisters and her female cousins as their babies started to grow. Disconnected from each other as children, the Meguinis girls vowed as young mothers that they would grow old together and watch their children become parents and raise babies of their own. That promise has weighed heavily on Deidra Meguinis’s heart since the day, late in February, when Red Deer City RCMP released the name of a Calgary woman whose body had been found in a recycling bin in Red Deer on Feb. 22. Talia Meguinis, 27, left three sons and a tight network of family and friends, for whom the hurt is as bad now as it was on the day they learned of her fate, said Deidra, who considers Talia her sister because their mothers were sisters. Deidra said she had felt something was wrong when she learned that a body had been found in Red Deer. Her fears were confirmed later that week, when police confirmed that Talia was the victim. “When she took her last breath, we all took that last breath with her. When her heart stopped, our hearts stopped,” Deidra said outside a Red Deer courtroom on Wednesday, where a Red Deer man is facing criminal charges in connection with Talia’s death. “We cry every night and every day for her. It still really hurts. This pain will never end.”

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Westerner Park expecting big things in 2013

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Westerner Park is anticipating 2013 to be a year of significantly higher revenues thanks to larger entertainment acts coming to an expanded Centrium. Outgoing president Michael Donlevy spoke to about 55 members at the annual general meeting on Wednesday, saying that Westerner Park was taking on an ambitious budget to do some big things next year. Revenues are expected to rise to about $7.5 million next year, up from $7.2 million. “We’ve grown to a $45-million a year operation,” said Donlevy. A net return invested back into the Westerner is projected at about $750,000. That’s a significant increase over last year, said Donlevy. Westerner Days Fair and Exposition, which experienced record-breaking attendance in 2012, will unveil some interesting announcements in the months to come. The Centrium’s expansion will be finished by the end of this month and includes 1,000 new spectator seats to make it into a 7,000-seat arena. The upgrade also includes 13 more luxury suites and a 40-seat club suite. “It’s now achieving what we thought it would,” said Donlevy. Larger acts, like Tragically Hip and Billy Talent, are coming to town. “We think now the venue — Westerner Park, Centrium, Agri-Trade fair, the (Westerner) fair — are really strong contenders to help support this region,” said Donlevy. Donlevy also told the crowd that Westerner Park has to meet the needs of its customers, particularly as its clientele are becoming more urbanized.

Westerner Park will be looking at ways to improve services, such as seeing whether food options at Red Deer Rebels hockey games are meeting people’s expectations. Technological advancements must be considered. The entire venue needs full wireless conference technologies. “Most significantly trade shows and exhibitions need to have all the technology they need in order for us to provide true technology and conference space,” said Donlevy. “That’s going to be a significant expenditure we’ll have to commit to in the next couple of years.” Westerner Park also wants to be at the table with the City of Red Deer, Red Deer County, Red Deer College and the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce in developing a comprehensive strategy for branding the region. “Over the years, I’ve heard from various community leaders the term, ‘best kept secret’. Red Deer needs to develop a strong brand and narrative so that we’re no longer Alberta’s best kept secret.” Westerner Park should be part of the conversations since it contributes $150 million a year into the region’s economy, Donlevy said. Westerner Park members also elected several people to the board and approved appointees, including city councillors Frank Wong and Cindy Jefferies and Red Deer County councillor George Gehrke. A new president will be appointed from within the board at the January meeting. Vice-president Kent Olson has let his name stand for that role. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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INQUIRY: ER gridlock Capital Health delivered care in the Edmonton area during the time Parks spoke about. All of the health regions have since been rolled into a provincewide superboard called Alberta Health Services. Parks painted a picture of an emergency room in gridlock — a dead canary in a coal mine of a system in crisis. While other departments in the hospital filled up, the ER could never lock its doors and the patients piled up like cordwood. People with crushing chest pain in need of being seen within minutes were waiting up to five hours for a doctor, he said. Stroke patients would lose control of their bowels in the waiting room. Their families would have to clean them up and continue to sit there. People with broken bones were waiting hours without pain medication. The problems stemmed from patients who had been admitted not being moved up into the hospital, Parks said. Just days before the VIP complaint, Parks said he counted 39 of 42 ER beds being blocked by patients who had either already been admitted to hospital or were going to be admitted after seeing a specialist. Three of those were intensive-care patients. The VIP request was the “straw that broke the camel’s back.” Parks and a fellow doctor drafted a note relaying what had happened and sent it up the chain. They received no feedback, although there

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Traci Edmondson gives her two horses a little loving outside the Bethany College Side Care facility in Red Deer on Wednesday afternoon as the horses are tied to an Ambulance Only Parking sign. Edmondson and her brother Richard and father Wayne brought the horses to the centre to give residents and staff the opportunity of getting up close to some animals. The residents really enjoy the horses said Wayne who is a maintenance worker with Bethany Care in Central Alberta. On Wednesday, Wayne McArthur of Spruceview also brought in his two Percheron horses and a wagon and volunteered to give residents and staff of the facility rides around the property.

Natural gas leak in Lacombe A natural gas leak in Lacombe County on Wednesday has crews working into the evening to try and restore service to 165 ATCO Gas customers. A natural gas super box station in the area of Range Road 27-4 between Hwy 12 and Township Road 40-2, about

was some suggestion that the letter was not well received, he said. In the fall of 2010, a letter Parks wrote as head of emergency care for the Alberta Medical Association was leaked to the news media. The missive warned that emergency rooms faced “potential catastrophic collapse” due to long waits and bed blockages.The letter opened a floodgate of stories from doctors and others. Parks testified that things have improved since then, although benchmarks for emergency room lengths of stay still aren’t being met. Parks added he has heard general things about queue-jumping since 2007, but doesn’t have any specific examples. “As far as I know ... I don’t know that it is still going on.”

CAROLE: An ‘up show’ Slean, is a piano-playing Ontario singer/songwriter, who has been inspired by cabaret music and contributed a song for a benefit album after the Japanese tsunami. Dusk is a Toronto jazz crooner, who has so far produced three radio hits, including Good News. He’s described by Jackson as “a star of the future” who has a Bing Crosby-like voice from the past. “It’s really an up show, with a lot of laughs,” said Jackson, a Calgary resident. “By the nature of the music, it will leave you understanding what harmony and joy are . . . and how the gift is in the giving.” The Huron Carole is a project of the Christmas & Winter Relief Association, whose mandate is to sup-

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port organizations who do hands-on work with the homeless and hungry in Canada. For more information, visit www.huroncarole.ca. Tickets to the 8 p.m. show are $51.85 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. (VIP tickets, including a pre-show reception, are $101.85.) Profits from the concert tour are split between local food banks. Donations of non-perishable food items or cash will also be accepted. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

MEGUINIS: Respected, hard -working Deidra described Talia as a respected, hard-working and well-educated woman, a strong Christian whose door was always open for anyone who needed a hand. She worked at the Tsuu T’ina health centre and she was a guard at the band’s police station. She said her own goals have changed because of what happened with Talia. A student at Bow Valley College, Deidra had plans to become a licensed practical nurse. She decided on the day she learned about Talia’s death that she wants to become a police officer. Nathan Michael Desharnais, 24, was arrested in September on charges of second-degree murder and interfering with human remains. In custody since his arrest, Desharnais made a brief appearance in Red Deer provincial court. The case was adjourned to Dec. 19 for a bail hearing and to enter a plea. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Council not supportive Sherman was not ‘fix it’ man of reality TV proposal VIP HEALTH-CARE QUEUE JUMPING

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Lacombe city council may not be onboard, but a reality TV show may soon set up shop in the Central Alberta community. The show, proposed by Force Four Entertainment out of Vancouver, poses the question of what would happen if a person didn’t have to pay taxes. Nicole Lawson, director of development, said the idea would be for a group of families, 20 to 100 potentially, to be given back the money they would typically pay in taxes. However, they would not have access to the services those taxes provide, and the group would have to work together to solve those problems. For items such as driving on a road or using the sewer or other government provided services, they would have to pay a penalty from their pool of money. Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie said he told the producers no, but there was enough support from community members for producers to short list Lacombe among five other communities in B.C., Alberta and Ontario. They would not specify which other towns are being considered. “Our decision will truly be affected by what we hear after this meeting,” said Lawson. “Will people reach out to us and say they support it now that they understand more of what the show is about.” Lawson and two of her colleagues were in Lacombe at the Memorial Centre yesterday discussing their ideas for the show with community members. From here, the production team will visit the other locations and reach a decision as early in the new year they have to return to shoot a demo for the, as of yet unnamed, major Canadian network. Christie was still tentative about having the show shoot in their town after the meeting last night. “I’m still nervous about it. The lack of information is a big thing,”

said Christie, adding sorting through who would be a part of it and how they would make it work for using roads or the memorial centre pose challenges. “They stated they contacted 24 different communities across Alberta, they’re only down to two. I believe then, the other ones, all said no. I said no, directly to them, and yet they are still here.” Lawson said if the network likes the demo, crews would be shooting the show in the chosen town by summer, at the earliest. “Their main point of entry has been through the Lacombe Taxpayers Association, but yet they say it’s not about embarrassing the community,” said Christie. “Lacombe is a great community, they talk about mowing each others lawns, giving each other rides to medical appointments. That happens every day here in Lacombe, we have a great volunteer system. We have great citizens here in Lacombe and I would hate to see them cast in a bad light across the nation.” Blaine Dushanek of the Lacombe Taxpayers’ Association said previously that the show would be a good change to make people realize the taxpayer has some power. However, Christie admitted there would also be an opportunity to show organizations like the taxpayers association how council handles it’s business. “The way taxes are spent here in Lacombe isn’t an issue,” said Christie. “It’s a public document, our budgets are public, our meetings are public, how we spent the money is public ... Come talk to us and get involved.” Lacombe residents who would like to see the show, tentatively titled Axe the Tax, can let the producers know by calling or emailing the production company or by liking the company’s Facebook page, Lacombe Project. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Duckett was called as a witness earlier this week by retired justice John Vertes, who is heading an inquiry into allegations of healthcare queue-jumping in Alberta. The hearing was called by Premier Alison Redford to respond to concerns about long waits and preferential treatment. Sherman, who is also an emergency room doctor, is slated to testify next week. His ties to the Tory government and eventually to Duckett date back to 2008, when he was elected as a member of the governing Progressive Conservatives under former premier Ed Stelmach. Sherman was immediately made the associate health minister. A report by the Health Quality Council has said those years were fraught with organizational confusion bordering on chaos as health nine regions were amalgamated into one superboard called Alberta Health Services, or AHS. AHS ran day-to-day operations under the auspices of the health minister. Duckett was picked as its first CEO

and came on board in the spring of 2009. On Tuesday, he told the inquiry that he soon learned he had inherited a culture of back-channel problem-solving. He said members of the legislature and other prominent people went through the CEOs in some of the larger health regions to fix problems up to and including getting well-connected people to the front of long waiting lists. Duckett said he immediately put a stop to it. The AHS board supported him, he said, but he added that several members of the legislature were critical and wanted the so-called “fix-it” people reinstated. “A number of MLAs (complained), but amongst others that I recall was Raj Sherman,” said Duckett, who spoke via video-link from his home in Australia. He was pressed for other names, but said he could only remember Sherman’s. The Liberal leader said he’s not surprised that Duckett remembered him because Sherman was the associate health minister at the time as well as a doctor.

Hundreds of Alberta government expense receipts released online BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta government has released hundreds of pages of photocopied taxi chits, food bills, hotel charges and parking receipts for all its cabinet ministers. Don Scott, minister in charge of accountability, says the move fulfils a promise made by Premier Alison Redford to deliver more information on government spending. The expenses date back from May to August of this year. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation,

a longtime critic of government spending and accountability, says release of the receipts sets a high bar that other provinces should follow. But the federation also says it’s disappointed that the expenses don’t include any from before the last election. It says Albertans have a right to see how politicians spent their money and the past shouldn’t be covered up. Further expense updates are to be made available online by the province every two months.

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EDMONTON — Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman says he was the goto guy to get answers on health-care problems when he was part of the government, but he was never a “fix-it” man to help VIPs jump waiting lists. “If that’s the allegation, it’s absolutely false,” Sherman said Wednesday about comments made by the former head of Alberta Health Services. Sherman, who at one time was associate health minister for the governing Tories, was asked whether he thought Stephen Duckett’s remarks were payback for Sherman once publicly saying Duckett ran “knucklehead” health care. “I’m not going to get into that,” said Sherman, who added he stands by his 2010 comments that Duckett ran a dysfunctional system by closing long-term care beds, reducing nursing ranks and demoralizing front-line workers by cancelling perks such as free Christmas dinners for staff working over the holidays. “There were many knucklehead decisions made by government and AHS.”

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A crisis of confidence INCREASINGLY, CANADIANS ARE LOSING FAITH IN THEIR LEADERS “It is by fortune . . . that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and wisdom never to use either.” — Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) The brilliant writer and humourist Clemens isn’t far from the point if one applied his quip to Canadian politicians today. Whether it’s due to a lack of wisdom, or politicians who don’t have the RICK insight to recZEMANEK ognize they’re slipping in their duties, a recent poll shows Canadians are losing faith in our democratic system. A recent flurry of political boondoggles suggests some of our governing representatives are not doing their job, spiriting a vote of non-confidence by Canadians. Scandal-plagued Toronto Mayor Rob Ford vowed he will not surrender his seat without a fight despite an Ontario judge’s order removing him from office after finding him in conflict of interest. The judge found Ford at fault for voting on a matter in which he had financial interest. Liberal leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau flip-flopped on the long-barrel gun registry, calling it “a failure.” Trudeau’s party authored the $2-billion white elephant, and in 2010 he voted against abolishing the registry. Besides that about-turn, he garnered no favours in the West with his anti-Alberta remarks in an interview two years ago. And closer to home, Alberta Premier Alison Redford has been awash in trouble, most recently over the government awarding of a $10-billion lawsuit contract to a law firm in which her ex-husband is a partner. Redford denies she was involved in the decisionmaking process despite documents provided by the CBC and Wildrose Party to the contrary. The premier was cleared on Monday of misleading the legislature, but the cloud lingers. What’s important is what Albertans believe. “The facts, the documents, and the statements by the premier make it very clear that she’s not being honest with Albertans, and I expect Albertans will reach that conclusion regardless of whatever’s decided within the assembly,” said NDP critic Rachel Notley. In Quebec, there’s the ongoing inquiry into alleged government involvement with the Mafia and the awarding

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of lucrative construction contracts to the mob. Can Canadians be blamed for losing faith in their governments? A poll by Samara Canada, a charitable organization focused on improving political participation through research and education, suggests Canadians are less satisfied with their democracy than they were eight years ago. Michael MacMillan, co-founder and chair of Samara, calls the loss of confidence “troubling.” “It might go some way towards explaining the apathy and disengagement we see reflected in Canada’s declining voter turnout,” said MacMillan. In 2004, Samara conducted a poll gauging Canadian’s confidence in our governments. Asking respondents

about their satisfaction “with the way democracy works in Canada,” 75 per cent expressed “some degree” of satisfaction. This year, when asked the same question, 55 per cent expressed some degree of satisfaction — a drop of 20 points from eight years ago. Of the 2,287 respondents across Canada, five per cent said they were “very satisfied,” 50 per cent said “fairly satisfied,” 28 per cent said “not very satisfied,” and nine per cent said “not satisfied at all.” The results were consistent across regions except for francophone Quebecers, who expressed the greatest level of dissatisfaction. Canadians vote in a federal election for an MP to serve their best interests in Ottawa. But are the MPs doing their job?

No, says the poll. More than 50 per cent were not “totally happy,” saying their MPs spent too much time working on behalf of their parties instead of their constituents. “MPs are an important link between Canadians and their politics. ... That relationship “seems to be overshadowed by political party messaging,” said Alison Loat, co-founder and executive director of Samara. Can we rely on our politicians to get the job done? Increasingly, it appears, the answer for many voters is no. And if voters don’t trust their representatives to help them, where do they turn? Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

The freedom to prosper ECONOMIC FREEDOM PUTS ALBERTA AT THE TOP OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PILE BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE On a recent trip to Kenya, my friend and his family crashed head on into an example of why some developing countries cannot grow and prosper. As they were about to board their flight from Nairobi, the clerk at the exit gate said there was a problem with their boarding passes. Before she returned them and before they could board the flight, they were told they must pay $800 to correct the “problem.” When my friend refused to pay, the clerk ordered the baggage handlers to remove the luggage; rather than miss their flight, my friend paid up and tried to settle the matter later with the airline. (I wish him good luck.) I note the problem of corruption in Kenya because corruption — or at least, perceptions of it — is something that can be measured. Transparency International does the latter and, of 183 countries, the contrast with Canada was telling: Canada does well at 10th highest (best) place. Kenya is down in the 154th spot. Canada is fortunate to rank high on such a measurement and that general lack of corruption is one reason why Canada prospers. Most people understand that corruption can be economically damaging and unproductive for society as a whole. But corruption is only the most obvious example of something that can impair personal and societal

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prosperity, economic freedom in other words. Other factors, plenty of them actually, also matter to the ability of a province or country to generate jobs, decent wages and a good standard of living. A recent Fraser Institute report measured a variety of indicators that allow Canadians and Americans to compare economic freedom among the 10 Canadian provinces and 50 American states. Economic freedom, like good health, is something many people take for granted until they don’t have it. But good economic health creates opportunities for families which need jobs and money to pay the bills; all of us in other words. Before explaining how my colleagues arrived at their conclusions, let’s jump to the great results for Alberta and Saskatchewan: Compared to 59 other competitors, Alberta tops every other province and state when it comes to economic freedom. Saskatchewan did nearly as well. It ranked as the third most economically free jurisdiction in North America, just behind the American state of Delaware. Doing well here means that Alberta and Saskatchewan are (obviously) in the top fifth of all the provinces and states. To illustrate one benefit of living in a more economically free place, consider how those provinces and states in the top fifth had an average per person GDP of $55,739 in 2010. That was far above those provinces and states in the lowest fifth, with per capita GDP of just $39,079 — an almost $17,000 difference. To understand how economically free a place might be, and thus its likelihood to prosper, one has to measure various indicators. They include: the size of government (a moderate government that allows you to be an entrepreneur and flourish is your “friend;” rapacious governments which elbow you aside by having government do too much are not).

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One also has to measure the size and type of taxes. Some taxes are necessary to a civilized society but too many and of the wrong sort can kill investment and jobs, among other negative effects. Critically, another important question to ask is how good are the courts and governments at protecting private property? Moderately-sized governments that protect people’s wallets, land, homes, RRSPs and other private property are integral to a prosperous society; overbearing governments have the opposite deleterious effect. Not all Canadian provinces do as well as Alberta and Saskatchewan. Quebec was in 50th place, for example. However, to be clear, Canadians in every province are much better off than if they lived in Kenya, where economic freedom is, as my friend found out, rather insecure. And problems still exist in Canada. In Alberta, the province scores well on the size of government relative to the economy but not very high (only 40th spot) on labour market freedom. (That category includes a look at whether a worker can easily refuse to join a union should they so choose). Saskatchewan also scores poorly on that indicator; it also has a large public sector, which means competition for the provision of goods and services is harmed by government favouritism for governmentowned and government-run businesses. Still, overall, Alberta and Saskatchewan are two of the most economically free places in North America. And every province and state in North America is preferable to the obstacles that regrettably face tourists and citizens alike in a country such as Kenya. Mark Milke is a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute and author of Stealth Confiscation, which looks at the issue of private property rights. This column is supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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Near-brawl erupts among MPs Hunt on for TORY MINISTER, NDP LEADER LOCK HORNS THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A verbal dust-up in the House of Commons almost wound up in a bench-clearing brawl. Peter Van Loan, the government’s House leader, appeared to set off the incident when he stormed across the floor of the Commons to confront his NDP counterpart, Nathan Cullen. Microphones were shut off but video tape shows Van Loan waving his finger at Cullen and speaking in a heated manner. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Cullen’s seat mate, stands up, whereupon a number of New Democrats surround Van Loan and appear to urge him to leave. Finally, Defence Minister Peter MacKay rushes over, puts his hand on Van Loan’s shoulder and ushers him back across the centre aisle of the Commons to the government benches. The contretemps was sparked by an NDP attempt to have a vote on the government’s omnibus budget bill ruled invalid because Finance Minister Jim Flaherty had been absent, even though he was named as the

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Government House Leader Peter Van Loan reads from a procedural book as he responds to a point of order following question period in the House of Commons Wednesday. mover of the motion to pass the bill. Speaker Andrew Scheer dismissed the matter Wednesday as a technical foul-up, but an angry Van Loan apparently felt compelled to register his annoyance directly with Cullen. In a statement issued Wednesday night, Van Loan said he walked over to the NDP benches to discuss the vote issue, a snafu he blamed on Deputy Speaker Joe Comartin, a NDP MP. “I conveyed my disappointment to the NDP House Leader for the hy-

pocrisy of his complaint which related to a mistake by a member of his own caucus last night,� Van Loan said. “It is normal for me to speak with the opposition House Leaders. I was however surprised how Mr. Mulcair snapped and lost his temper.� The New Democrats painted a slightly different picture. According to the NDP, Van Loan stormed across the aisle, loomed over Cullen as he sat at his desk and began swearing at him and waving his

finger in his face. Van Loan blamed Cullen for the procedural snafu and warned him to never do it again, the NDP said. At that point, Mulcair stood up and warned Van Loan not to threaten his House leader. Conservative MPs said Mulcair swore repeatedly at Van Loan. New Democrats conceded he might have done so but only after he was provoked by Van Loan. For his part, Cullen wouldn’t specify precisely what was said but indicated that Van Loan used “a lot of real bad language, threatening language.� “It was inappropriate and then Tom said, ‘Don’t threaten my House leader,’ and that’s when we all sort of stood up to make sure it didn’t go any further,� Cullen said. “You’ve got to get him away because nothing good happens if he stays there talking that way.� Cullen said Mulcair’s intervention was aimed at making Van Loan back off. “For the Conservatives to try to spin his out that somehow (Van Loan) was the victim, I mean, give me a break ... That’s ridiculous.�

smuggled Romanians BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The hunt is on for 45 Romanian nationals smuggled into Canada. Government officials said Wednesday the missing are among 85 people who entered the country illegally at intervals stretching back to February. Authorities have rounded up 40 of them so far and 30 of these were detained under new immigration law provisions that saw the entire group designated as part of an “irregular arrival,� which essentially means as part of a human smuggling operation. “We open our arms to true immigrants and true refugees who follow the rules and who wait for their turn in line,� Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said at a news conference in Stanstead, Que., a town that borders the United States and is believed to have been the entry point for the group. “We will not tolerate those who are abusing our generosity or who are tricking their way in.� Kenney said those involved in smuggling the individuals are part of the investigation. The first of five waves of Romanian nationals began arriving in Canada in February, officials said Wednesday. They were part of what was described as a sophisticated smuggling ring that saw people travel to Mexico, cross illegally into the United States, drive north to Canada and sneak in over unmarked border crossings in Quebec. Another group arrived in April and three more followed in October — three months after the government enacted new immigration laws they said would deter those seeking illegal entry into Canada. The new laws allow the minister of Public Safety to designate a group of immigrants as an “irregular arrival� which subjects them to immediate detention, a five-year wait to apply for permanent residency and restrictions on sponsoring their families to come to Canada.

Legion fights over rejected claims to bury poor, homeless veterans organization, and veterans at large, dismayed. “There’s obviously a need out there. It’s obvious it has to be addressed, but we’re celebrating the War of 1812 more than we’re celebrating the lives of the people who are relevant today,� he said. Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney defended the rejection rate by noting that over 10,000 applications to the fund had been approved and the government had every intention to maintain the program. A spokesman for Blaney said there’s no reluctance on the part of the government to discuss the issue, and he expects it will come up. “This will be discussed at the meeting as will many other subjects important to veterans,� Niklaus Schwenker said. The Legion’s assertive public tone reflects a major shift for the organization, which has advocated on behalf of ex-soldiers since the 1920s. Throughout the Afghan war, it was increasingly seen by modern-day veterans as too compliant with government, an image White concedes they’re trying to change. “I don’t think we were ever quiet, we were just quiet in how we did our business,� he said. “We never did things too loudly. We were more in the backrooms working the deals, and for a lot years that kind of stuff worked.� The relationship has grown irritable because the Legion gets the sense Veteran Affairs officials Check out our new look! are “talking down to us� and that the institution wasn’t changing with the your entree times and adapting to From 3pm until 8pm the needs of Afghan solThis Monday to Thursday diers, White added. Red Deer - Gasoline Alley Despite the distance,

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Legion, once counted on by the government to be the voice of reason among veterans groups, is striking a more defiant tone and demanding federal officials address the issue of burial expenses for poor and homeless ex-soldiers. A major annual conference among veterans groups is set to get underway in Charlottetown today, but the issue of the Last Post Fund — and the fact it has rejected two-thirds of applications since 2006 — is not on the agenda set by Veterans Affairs. Brad White, an ex-army officer and the Legion’s Dominion Secretary, said his organization will not drop the issue of funeral coverage. “I can’t understand why they won’t fix that,� said White. Over the last six years, 20,147 applications were rejected by the Last Post Fund because the deceased veteran did not meet the eligibility criteria. To qualify a veteran must have earned less than $12,010 a year and served in Second World War, Korea, or been in receipt of a veterans disability pension. There was a public outcry prior to Remembrance Day over the fund, which is an independent agency that administers the burial program on behalf of the federal government. White says the fund was not even on the agenda for the meeting, but “we’re going to put it on the agenda.� The fund has petitioned the Harper government not only to overhaul the rules, but to increase the stipend given to those who do qualify for assistance — so far to no avail. White said the intransigence has left many in his

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Tribunal Same-sex marriage legalized in Washington state denounced for freeing Croatians BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A teary-eyed Gov. Chris Gregoire, left, speaks as Sen. Ed Murray, center, and his partner Michael Shiosaki applaud behind at an election watch party for proponents of Referendum 74, which would uphold the state’s new same-sex marriage law, in Seattle. Their marriages will be valid here as soon as the law takes effect. “This is a very important and historic day in the great state of Washington,” Gregoire said before signing the measure that officially certified the election results. “For many years now we’ve said one more step, one more step. And this is our last step for marriage equality in the state of Washington.”

Last month, Washington, Maine and Maryland became the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. They joined six other states — New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont — and the District of Columbia that had already enacted laws or issued court rulings permitting same-sex marriage. Nearly 54 per cent of voters approved the referendum in

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Washington state. The law doesn’t require religious organizations or churches to perform marriages, and it doesn’t subject churches to penalties if they don’t marry gay or lesbian couples. Maryland’s law officially takes effect Jan. 1, however couples can start picking up marriage licenses on Thursday, as long as the license has an effective date of Jan. 1. Maine’s law takes effect on Dec. 29. There’s no waiting period in Maine, and people can start marrying just after midnight. In addition to private ceremonies that will start taking place across Washington state this weekend, Seattle City Hall will open for several hours on Sunday, and several local judges are donating their time to marry couples. Washington state has had a domestic partnership law in place since 2007. The initial law granted couples about two dozen rights, including hospital visitation and inheritance rights when there is no will. It was expanded a year later, and then again in 2009, when lawmakers completed the package with the so-called “everything but marriage” law that was ultimately upheld by voters later that year.

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Residents cross a river in the flash flood-hit village of Andap, New Bataan township, Compostela Valley in southern Philippines Wednesday. Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest typhoons to hit the Philippines this year, barreled across the country’s south on Tuesday, killing scores of people.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW BATAAN, Philippines — Stunned parents searching for missing children examined a row of mud-stained bodies covered with banana leaves while survivors dried their soaked belongings on roadsides as the death toll from the southern Philippines’ powerful typhoon climbed to about 350 people Thursday with nearly 400 missing. The Office of Civil Defence reported that more bodies were retrieved from hardest-hit Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental as well as six other provinces. At least 200 of the victims died in Compostela Valley alone when Typhoon Bopha struck Tuesday, including 78 villagers and soldiers who perished in a flash flood that swamped two emergency shelters and a military camp. “Entire families may have been washed away,� said Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who visited New Bataan on Wednesday. The farming town of 45,000 people was a muddy wasteland of collapsed houses and coconut and banana trees felled by Bopha’s ferocious winds. Bodies of victims were laid on the ground for viewing by people searching for missing relatives. Some were badly mangled after being dragged by raging floodwaters over rocks and other debris. A man sprayed insecticide on the remains to keep away swarms of flies. A father wept when he found the body of his child after lifting a plastic cover. A mother, meanwhile, went away in tears, unable to find her missing children. “I have three children,� she said repeatedly, flashing three fingers before a TV cameraman. Two men carried the mud-caked body of an unidentified girl that was covered with coconut leaves on a makeshift stretcher made from a blanket and wooden poles. Dionisia Requinto, 43, felt lucky to have survived with her husband and their eight children after swirling flood waters surrounded their

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the day Wednesday, prompting residents to lay their soaked clothes, books and other belongings out on roadsides to dry and revealing the extent of the damage to farmland. Thousands of banana trees in one Compostela Valley plantation were toppled by the wind, the young bananas still wrapped in blue plastic covers. But as night fell, however, rain started pouring again over New Bataan, triggering panic among some residents who feared a repeat of the previous day’s flash floods. Some carried whatever belongings they could as they hurried to nearby towns or higher ground. After slamming into Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley, Bopha roared quickly across the southern Mindanao and central regions, knocking out power in two entire provinces, triggering landslides and leaving houses and plantations damaged. More than 170,000 fled to evacuation centres. On Thursday, the typhoon was over the

South China Sea west of Palawan province. It was blowing northwestward and could be headed to Vietnam or southern China, according to government forecasters. The deaths came despite efforts by President Benigno Aquino III’s government to force residents out of high-risk communities as the typhoon approached. Some 20 typhoons and storms lash the northern and central Philippines each year, but they rarely hit the vast southern Mindanao region where sprawling export banana plantations have been planted over the decades because it seldom experiences strong winds that could blow down the trees. A rare storm in the south last December killed more than 1,200 people and left many more homeless. The United States extended its condolences and offered to help its Asian ally deal with the typhoon’s devastation. It praised government efforts to minimize the deaths and damage.

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“I believe that people who come through here will never go through a church and Christmas is about that baby in that manger. All this . . . is about him.”

Olivia Noordhoek, two, and Casey Zabolotney, four, watch visitors enter the Bethlehem Walk.

Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus, played by John Wiebe, Kynder Leuf and Samuel Noordhoek, six months, are photographed by organizer Vicki Friesen.

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THREE HILLS — The village of Bethlehem is open in the town of Three Hills. The Bethlehem Walk recreates the hamlet so people can learn what life was like at the time of Christ’s birth. This is the fourth year the Three Hills Ministerial’s six area churches have provided volunteer actors and builders. “With a crew of 25, in two nights we build Bethlehem,” said Vicki Friesen, the event’s organizer. Shepherds warming themselves

at an outdoor fire welcome visitors as they enter and sign a census scroll. They receive a passport and collect stickers from actors along the tour. Although there’s no admission fee, tax collectors good naturedly harangue patrons, with the proceeds split between the town’s food bank and Compassion International, a faith-based charity working to end Third World child poverty. “We’ve raised about $8,000 in previous years,” said Friesen.

Top: Organizer Vicki Friesen dresses her husband, Darrell, as a Roman centurion. Middle: Autumn Rashleigh, 11, prepares flat bread dough in the bakery as visitors learn how it’s baked. Bottom: The cast of the Bethlehem Walk get their instructions from Friesen.

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WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM The village set is located in back of the Three Hills General Store, a town-owned public market and business incubator located on Main Street featuring vendors of art and handmade crafts. Its unheated storage area, which once held stock for a Beaver Lumber outlet, features many shops including the doctor, fishmonger,

carpenter, baker and grocer, all vying for attention by barking their wares and services. Above their din echoes a shofar’s high, thin call as a rabbi blows the ram’s horn from the synagogue. Roman centurions patrol a second-storey catwalk, eyes sharp for any problems in the populace. This year’s cast of 120 are all clad in period garb, much of it made by Friesen.

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Deer don’t move on dreary days FEW LIVE DEER SEEN BY HUNTERS THIS SEASON All deer season opening days are unique in different ways. But, once again this season, I have to admit that all closing days seem the same: sad, gloomy, grey, cold, snowy, ice-foggy and hoar- frosty, with not a deer to be seen, except for fewer road kills than usual. All of the too few days I got out this season were like that, and the deer just don’t move, unless moved. As I headed west on the last day, I realized that, for the first time since my first deer seasons back in the early ‘70s, I had not yet seen a deer on the hoof in November. BOB So, the objecSCAMMELL tive of this sloto no-motion last day was to find and photograph a live deer. Hunters who know the area well were assuring me there were lots of deer, maybe not so many in the usual places and, yes, they did not move on ugly days. I staked out and sat on many of the best places I know and saw nothing. I didn’t even bother with, my best spot to sit, because tracks in the fresh snow disclosed that a cougar and one of her young were hunting the bedding and feeding area and the trail from one to the other. For lunch I parked on a hump between two draws on a prime road through aspen sand hills. Nothing moved, except rigs of young road hunters cruising by. To find the deer, make them move, and get them, you have to get back in their hills, swamps and aspens; nowadays, apparently, that is hunting only for old folks. Vivian Pharis, titular queen of the Alberta Wilderness Association, with other survivors of the University of Calgary Light Infantry, got back in there on the two nice days that started the season, and took three white tails among them, including one ten-point buck. Vivian says that since the government is even giving away two “supplemental” tags with each whitetail tag in an effort to lower the whitetail population, she has started to campaign against the short, sharp, cold and miserable month of November general rifle season, and get back to the good old days when the season out there opened six weeks earlier, about Sept. 20. “I used to love hunting in October, she says, walking through, leaves rather than snow, and not bundled to the gills.”

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This year’s best picture: of a magnificent mule deer buck taken near Stettler. Below: Only a few road hunters were out. Yes, I remember those civilized days and the superb flavour of young, fat mule deer bucks taken in September and October. On the way home, I detoured to an area where deer come up out of the Clearwater River jungles to feed on fields of second-growth alfalfa. Right where they should be, a small herd of mule deer does and fawns fed almost in a farmyard, and a lone doe was a bedded sentinel on a power line. So, not skunked, I harvested her picture. Ahhh …. geezers! An anonymous octogenarian with whom I have had the pleasure of hunting many times, went

out one morning this season decidedly not “bundled to the gills.” He was in his jammies, in fact, when he noticed, out the window, a cow moose browsing one of his hillsides. So he jumped into his boots, took a rifle, slipped out, and shot considerable prime meat for what is looking like a long, hard winter. Then, as usual with moose, the fun ended and the hard labour started. Pajama Man vows this was his tenth and last moose. Many reader reports — from hunters, ranchers and farmers — have come to me from the Prairie Wildlife Management Units (100 Series),

where there were four Wednesday to Saturday big game seasons in November. In all my sporting travels, this is the only place where I have been flagged down on the road by landowners and begged to come to their place and do some meat — not trophy — hunting, and shoot some deer, especially does. There is always an aura of getting her done out there, but, that said, this appears to have been one of their best Novembers ever in terms of total deer harvested and large numbers of trophy bucks taken of both species. Two ranchers report more than four dozen deer taken on their places, including four mule bucks that will score 180 Boone & Crockett points, or better, and more than half a dozen white tails better than 160. This was the worst season ever for the quality of “hero” shots: pictures sent me of dead deer and live humans. All the usual mistakes were there: blood, lolling tongues, cluttered backgrounds. But this year, most shots were ruined simply because the flash did not fire and there is thus no detail in deer, antlers and human faces. Digital cameras have many flash modes: learn to use them! An example of cluttered background and no flash is a picture being widely circulated in cyberspace of a buck taken near Frontier, Sask., that may beat the current B&C world record typical whitetail, also taken in Saskatchewan, in 1993, by Milo Hanson. Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Functional or practical gifts for gardeners The countdown to Christmas is on with a little not to loose the smaller produce. tools. over two weeks to find the perfect gift for friends and People that container garden can try the new fabGardening with young children can be fun and family. ric pots. They are said to be superior to plastic pots rewarding. Gifts for gardeners need not be expensive but as they breathe allowing air to penetrate the soil. Give them their own set of gardening tools that are they do need to be functional or practical. Gift ideas Roots that touch the edge of the pot will die which small and light enough for them to use easily. below make the job easier or encourages the plant to fill the soil with roots as opWhen purchasing children’s tools test them to inmore enjoyable. posed to encircling the inside of the pot. sure they are strong enough to do the job. It can be easy to see who Garden tags are a must for people that have trouFinding gardening items at this time of a year can gardens by the look of their ble remembering the names of plants. They come in prove a challenge as for many stores gardening is hands. a variety of shapes and materials. considered seasonal. This can be diminished Yearly tags can be plastic but ones that need to Areas that once help plants and related items are with a good hand cream. last should be metal. now selling Christmas trees. Choose one that will protect With this gift add a marker that will stand the test Greenhouses and garden centers will have some the skin as well and help it of time. supplies on hand. heal. People with black thumbs might benefit from a Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near A soft nail brush will also moisture sensor. rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at www.igarhelp keep hands clean and These are placed in plant pots or baskets and dencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com free of ground in dirt or grim. give off sounds alerting Brushes should be soft enough people when the plants not to harm the skin but stiff need to be watered. enough to remove the dirt. Hose ends are a welLINDA Velcro plant ties are a must come gift. Rarely does TOMLINSON if plants need to be staked. one end work well for all The ties come in a roll with applications. A fan end is hooks on one side and loops easy to direct and gives a on the other. soft flow that is perfect This design allows people to cut the amount need- for watering flowers. ed and to wrap and secure it around plants and A nozzle with a strong stakes. flow removes soil from The material is sturdy enough to be saved and produce and garden reused. Hanging baskets are very attractive and add another dimension to the garden but they can be hard to water. A hanging basket pulley solves this problem. It will allow the pot to be lowered and raised as needed. The pulley also This feature contains stories and messages allows bird feeders to be kept at a higher level from the public as well as prominent making it harder for critmembers of our community. ters other than birds to feast. Watch for it in the: A perforated basket can prove very useful in harvesting vegetables. Produce can be placed in the basket and quickly rinsed removing extra soil before entering the house. Look for one with holes large enough to SEE THE allow dirt and leaves to FLYER IN TOMORROW’S PAPER! escape but small enough

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Season’s greetings! It’s the season to be very busy This past Friday evening I pulled up, sprinkle two or three drops of lavout of my downtown parking space and ender essential oil on the driver’s seat decided to take Gaetz Ave south. head rest. I needed a few groceries and Lavender is well known for creating thought Gaetz was my most efficient peaceful states of mind, lowering anxiroute. ety levels and easing aggresAt 32nd Ave I sat in trafsive tendency. fic for two full sets of lights. Under the influence of Thinking I was clever, I the lavender, the drive to scooted down the service mall and negotiating the road leading to 22nd Street. parking lot will be like a I thought the service road gentle summer’s breeze. would release me from the Once in the mall, take a grips of traffic. moment to pause and make It didn’t. a plan. A sad looking fenderless Plans are good to define white car sat huddled on one’s intentions and give the side of road. Blue lights courage. flashed, blocking the right But do not get too stuck hand lane. on the plan, as they almost Several changes of trafnever work. ABRAH fic lights later, I turned into Know that the plan will the grocery’s store parking be tossed during random ARNESON lot. bursts of spontaneous givThat was the moment HERBS FOR LIFE ing joy. This is also called this column popped into my impulse buying. frazzled mind. I recommend taking drops of the It’s shopping season! Bach Flower Essence, Rescue RemThe parking lots are bursting, the edy, when the reality of the impulse malls are bustling and budgets are for- buy settles in. gotten. Rescue remedy comes in small botAlong with sales, wrapping paper tles that easily fit in a winter coat’s and full recycle bins; the shopping sea- pocket. son can bring with it diverse of health Simply take four drops of Rescue challenges and disorders. Remedy under the tongue every twenty The underlying cause of many this minutes until the shock of the impulse season’s disorders, such as road rage, buy wears off. parking lot anguish and empty wallet This treatment may need to be resyndrome is frayed nerves. peated when the credit card bill comes Being a holistic herbalist, I will at- in. tempt to offer up a few helpful remeFinally it is late Saturday afternoon, dies to get to the root of these disabling the bags and parcels are hidden under conditions. the bed until they are wrapped in ribIn doing so, I wish your Christmas bons and bows. shopping to be a little more joyous and Shopping season’s mission is aca lot less painful. complished; you have made a full and Let’s begin with Saturday morning honourable contribution to the econbefore heading out Christmas shop- omy. ping. But your feet are aching. It is time I recommend fueling up with big for a foot soak. breakfast with protein rich foods in Fill up the roasting pan with hot order to provide substance for the day. water; add a ¼ cup of Epsom salts and Do I dare recommend easing off the five drops of lavender essential oil. coffee? Yes more lavender, it is indispensIt is a short term burst of energy at able throughout the holiday. best. Gently displace the cat from the One needs steady nerves for the most comfortable chair in the house shopping season. Coffee often has the and take your rightful place. opposite effect. Slip your tender toes into the roastMay I suggest a warm cup of dami- ing pan while the scent of lavender ana (Turnera diffusa) tea? fills the room. It is a spicy herb well known for Breathe as the stress drains from its ability to create an optimistic at- your body. titude. Shut your eyes and visualize a sanI particularly advise damiana tea dy beach and palm trees. Let go! Just for those who dread Christmas shop- don’t think about the baking. ping and collapse onto the couch, remote in hand, at the very thought of heading to the mall. Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Before leaving for the mall, fill your Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is water bottle with more damiana tea. intended for information purposes only. Sipping it throughout the day will Readers with a specific medical problem keep you focused on the task at hand should consult a doctor. For more inand you will not get too lost in the de- formation, visit www.abraherbalist.ca. partment store’s sales racks. Arneson can be reached at abrah@shaw. While waiting for the car to warm ca.

Alcohol myths smashed Blame it on craft beers, inexpensive wine or the down economy — North Americans are sipping more alcohol, more often. (Twenty-two per cent of you say you drink too much, up from 17 per cent a decade ago.) And while you all know that problem drinking is a serious health risk (any more than two drinks a day makes your RealAge older), the current hoopla about how wine is good for you may have led even the most abstemious sippers to believe there’s no harm in a good belt or two. So we’re going to blow the cork on the most common myths about alcohol. Myth No. 1: Seven to 14 drinks a week is a heart-healthy number, so there’s no harm in having them all in a day or two! Truth: Saving up your weekly quota in order to guzzle four to seven drinks on each weekend day could raise your LDL cholesterol by 40 per cent, and women who have seven to 14 drinks a week raise their risk for breast cancer between 30 per cent and 60 per cent. Better idea: If you’re not at high risk for breast cancer or alcohol-abuse/ dependency, having a half to one drink a day for women, and one to two a day for men keeps arteries supple and discourages impotence, wrinkles and even heartand brain-threatening blood clots. Myth No. 2: A little alcohol’s OK when you’re pregnant. Truth: Don’t risk it. There’s a lot of talk (and one study) saying that moderate sipping is harmless, but there are plenty of studies that show drinking in pregnancy increases risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, pre-term delivery, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and even sudden infant death syndrome. Better idea: We agree with the CDC: “There is no known amount of alcohol that is safe to drink

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DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN while pregnant.” Myth No. 3: Red wine is best for your ticker. Truth: Yes, red wine contains resveratrol — but in amounts too small to get any cardiovascular benefits. (Red grapes have more!) A second or third glass won’t get you to a beneficial level, either. Better idea: For real heart protection, take 900 milligrams of DHA omega-3 algal oil (from plants, not fish); walk 10,000 steps a day; keep good friends close; get your blood pressure to 115/75; learn to manage stress; and get plenty of sleep every night. Myth No. 4: Introducing kids to alcohol at home is the safest option. Truth: Kids who drink at 15 or younger are six times more likely to develop alcohol problems than those who start at 21 or older. And almost half of those youngsters report that they get alcohol at home. Better idea: Drink responsibly (occasionally act as the designated driver), and set a good example. Explain to kids just how dangerous drinking too much can be (lowers brain power, interferes with social development, impairs judgment and driving skills, and leads to obesity). Myth No. 5: Drinking instead of eating helps you lose weight. Truth: Alcohol boosts cravings by messing with levels of the appetitestimulating hormone ghrelin. You feel hungrier and

less-than-healthy foods look extra-tempting. In fact, a drink is twice as likely to fuel overeating as watching TV or skimping on sleep. Better idea: Sip a half to one drink with your meal, then leave the table before you reach for seconds. Myth No. 6: Alcohol’s OK with most medicines. Truth: Everyone knows, or should know, not to mix alcohol with painkillers — but any med can be risky. Alcohol alters how your body breaks down and absorbs everything from blood thinners to some heart and high blood pressure drugs. That means you may get a big, intense dose or not enough medication. Better idea: Skip alcohol when taking medications. Myth No. 7: Drinking keeps colds at bay. Truth: Alcohol weakens your immune system by making virus-fighting white blood cells 75 per cent less effective. This leaves you vulnerable to viral infections and more susceptible to catching colds and the flu. Better idea: Warm your bones in fall and the winter with hot coffee, hot tea or hot cider spiced with immuneboosting cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Medical Officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. For more information go to www. RealAge.com.

Exercising or doing The Exercise MANY DON’T LIKE TO EXERCISE BUT IN TRUTH IT WAS MORE OFTEN THAT THEY DIDN’T LIKE THE EXERCISE THEY WERE MOST USED TO DOING As a personal trainer I can’t tell you uct. Likely 9 out of 10 of my clients how many times someone has said to that learned my background was bodyme, “I really don’t like to exercise.” building would say they didn’t want I began working out when to be bodybuilders thinkI was 15; I remember in my ing I’d insist they workout early 20’s thinking, “I can’t or exercise the same way I imagine not liking exercise, did. or not working out.” Exercise can take many Well here I am in my 30’s forms; in fact it can take and it may come as a revelapretty much any form that tion but one of the reasons I provides steady movement stopped bodybuilding was I or action at an increased or no longer enjoyed my workaccelerated rate for duraouts. tion. If you like to run, run. The truth is our bodies If you like to stretch, are designed to move. With stretch. If you like yoga, a capacity for work our bodgolf, ball room dancing, ies actually improve in their skating, hockey or volleyability to function with periball, great! CABEL ods of extended activity. Do more of it. If you’re MCELDERRY Being the perfect cremoving at a faster rate or ations as they are they refacing a resistance greater ward us psychologically than the regular effort rewhen we provide that extended stimu- quired to getting through your day lus through activity. you’re exercising and you don’t even At around the 20-30 minute mark know it. of elevated heart rate and sustained Just find what you like to do and activity our bodies shift to create a make a commitment to do more of hormonal cascade. it, try to incorporate at least 30 minThis wave of primary hormones can utes of activity into every day and create a euphoric feeling of well being, research shows you’ll live longer, be stress dissipates, confidence may in- happier, and feel better, it really is crease, fatigue fades and mental clar- that simple. ity sharpens. Now that doesn’t necessarily mean But none of this really matters if you your gym membership or personal detest exercising; we all avoid what we trainer is obsolete, those tools can don’t like. help you discover the variety that you You might be wondering what the find enjoyable enough to sustain long heck I’m getting at. I am trying to say term. is in all these years and thousands of Additionally a knowledgeable trainpeople I’ve coached to reach weight er can assess movement and body funcloss and fitness goals; many said they tion and teach you that a little more didn’t like to exercise but in truth it movements of certain patterns and less was more often that they didn’t like of others may just eliminate those nagthe exercise they were most used to ging aches and pains, the protruding doing. tummy or the rounded shoulders. We’re all products of environment. Don’t force yourself to do things Most people’s education when it you hate instead embrace trying new comes to exercise is usually what things until you find the form of activthey’ve acquired from watching oth- ity that you enjoy, I’m certain you don’t ers, a magazine or some fitness prod- truly hate to exercise.

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Flora Smyth fries up a batch of bannock at the Red Deer Museum and Archives during a Curious Thursday event Nov. 29, 2012. Smyth joined about a dozen others for an evening of making the staple food with aboriginal elder Bertha Poor. This Weeks Curious Thursday will be a presentation by author Doris Jeanne MacKinnon who will share her recently published book entitled ‘The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith: Portrait of a Métis Woman 1861-1960’. MacKinnon will relate the story of this young French-Métis woman, sold into marriage to Norwegian trader, Charles Smith. Doris is a RDC alum. The program runs 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information, contact the Museum at 403-309-8405.

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Friday ● The Hub December Fundraisers: Dec. 7 and 14 from 12 to 3 p.m.: Christmas Poinsettia vouchers can be purchased. Voucher one is for a six inch pot for $20 each; voucher two is for a 10 inch pot for $50 each. You may have glitter prayed on and a bow added, as well as a decorative festive pot cover for no additional cost; Cowboy cookies and brownies in a jar will be sold for $12 with proceeds going to CARS Cougars for SelfAdvocate Fundraiser; For more information call 403-340-4869. ● Annual Benefit Concert for Loaves and Fishes will take place at The Hub on Dec. 7 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 cash plus a nonperishable food item, and are available at The Hub. Doors open at 6 p.m. For more information call 780-340-4869 or 403-340-4869. ● Spirit Seekers Christmas Gift Fair at the Red Deer Native Friendship Centre, 4808 51 Ave. on Dec. 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. Features beautiful Aboriginal and international art, crafts, jewelry and foods. Hot sandwiches, pop and hot drinks available by donation. Proceeds support cultural and recreational activities for Red Deer’s aboriginal youth. For details or to book a table call 403-3400020 or email youth@rdnfs.com. ● Red Deer River Naturalist and Kerry Wood Nature Centre present Dr. Glen Chilton at the Nature Centre on Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. Chilton, writer of The Attache of the Killer Rhododendrons, My Obsessive Quest to Seek out Alien Species will describe his globe-trotting adventures while researching the impacts of nasty invasive species in this presentation. Free admission. For more information visit www.rdrn.fanweb.ca or call 403-347-8200. ● Forshee Community Hall old-time family dance nights are the first Friday of each month starting at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10 per adult, children 17 years and under are free. Evening lunch is included. Live old time music with Country Gold Band. Next dance is Dec. 7. For more information, call Mary at 403-748-3378. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House pot luck suppers are held the first Friday of each month at 5:30 p.m. The next one will be on Dec. 7. Please bring a meat dish, salad or dessert to share. The cost is $5. Phone 403-346-4043. ● Christmas Karma Yoga Week — in support of the Sylvan Lake Food Bank will take place Dec. 3 to 8 at Studio Upstairs Yoga and Wellness. All classes this week will be free with a minimum two item donation to the Food Bank box. Visit www. studioupstairs.ca or call 403-597-3844 for more information. ● First Friday’s lineup on Dec. 7 includes: Connecting Places by Galia Kwetny at HarrisWarke Gallery from 6 to 8 p.m., Indigenous Impressions by Claudine Fleury at The Hub on Ross Gallery from 4 to 6 p.m., Members Only Show and Sale: A Juried Exhibition at Kiwanis Gallery (Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch) from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; Original Jewelry Works Wendy Meeres and Carol Nault from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Comforts The Sole; Art from the Streets from 6 to 8 p.m.; Time Travel by Wendy Meeres at Café Pichilingue from 5 to 6:30 p.m.; Gallery IS 4 Christmas with Susan Woolgar, Erika Schulz, Jeri Lyn Ing, and Victoria Schulz at Gallery IS from noon to 8 p.m.; The Importance of Line with Elena Rousseau at Red Deer College Library Four Corners

Gallery until 11 p.m.; Behind Glass: Relief Prints in the Style of the German Expressionists by Art 375 Visual Art students at RDC Library The Panels until 11 p.m.; Small Scale Work by Past Artists in Residence at RDC Library at PortHole Gallery located just outside the library front doors; Trent Leach and Holly Elliott at Velvet Olive Lounge. ● Silver Blades senior skating is offered on Fridays, 2:15 to 3:30 p.m. at Red Deer Arena. Enjoy exercise and fun with other skaters aged 50 plus. Phone the Recreation Centre for more information and to sign up for the program. ● Lacombe Christmas Farmers Markets will be held at Lacombe Memorial Centre on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. until Dec. 14. Features homemade baking, crafts, jewelry, woodwork, jams, perogies, Philippine spring rolls, local honey bedding plants and more. Phone 403-782-4772. ● Bowden Thrift Shop is open on Wednesdays and Fridays, 1 to 4 p.m., at the Bowden Pioneer Museum. The museum is closed for the season, but tours can be arranged by calling 403-2242122 or 403-224-3104 or email Bonny at bhs@ shawbix.ca. See www.bowdenpioneermuseum. com. ● Square Dancing at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre is held on Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m. Come out for fun and socialization. New dancers welcome. Drop in fee of $1. For more information please call 403-343-6074. ● Sounds of the Season will be featured on Mainstage, Arts Centre at Red Deer College on Dec. 7 starting at 7:30 p.m. Get into the Christmas spirit with the RDC Music program as they present their annual concert featuring the RDC Chamber Choir and Symphonic Winds. Tickets are available from www.bkticketcentre.ca or by phone at 403755-6626. ● Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch children’s programs are taking a break for the Christmas holidays. Drop-in Pre-school Storytime is offered from 10 to 10:45 a.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays, and from 2 to 2:45 p.m. on Wednesdays for stories, songs, and crafts for three to five year olds. The program stops on Dec. 14, and resumes on Jan. 9. Drop-in Time for Twos is offered on Thursdays from 11 to 11:30 a.m. and ends Dec. 10 and resumes Jan. 10. Drop-in Babytimes is offered on Fridays from 2 to 2:30 p.m., or on Thursdays from 10 to 10:30 a.m. for children from birth to 24 months of age along with their caregivers and will end on Dec. 14 and resume on Jan. 10. Drop-in Pajama Storytime for children aged two to six years at 6:30 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays will end on Dec. 11 and resume on Jan. 8. Phone 403-3464688.

Saturday ● Air Force Association of Canada 703 Wing members meet at noon every second Saturday of the month at the ABC Country Restaurant for a luncheon and business meeting. Next meeting is Dec. 8. The local association provides a forum for serving former participants in military and civil aviation, to preserve and perpetuate the traditions of the Royal Canadian Air Force and to advocate a proficient and well equipped air force in Canada. Contact Al at 403-341-3253, or email to amlow@ shaw.ca. ● Parkland Craft Show and Food Lane will be held Dec. 8 and 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at

Parkland Garden Centre. Craftspeople are invited to showcase their handmade crafts and offer them to customers in time for Christmas. Come out to purchase that one of a kind handmade gift you’ve been looking for. Admission is a donation to the Red Deer Food Bank. Visit www.parklandgarden. ca, email info@parklandgc.ca; or call 403-346-5613 for more information. ● Homemade Christmas Crafternoon will take place at the Red Deer Public Library Downtown on Dec. 8 from 1 to 4 p.m. for ages seven and up. Drop in and make handmade cards and gifts while watching classic Christmas cartoons. For more information call 403-346-4688. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House musical jam sessions are held the second Saturday of each month at 1:30 p.m. Next session Dec. 8. Admission $2.50. Phone 403-346-4043. ● Red Deer Legion Ladies Bake Sale will be held Dec. 8 at 12:30 p.m. at the Red Deer Legion. Please bring baking donations before 12:30 on Dec. 8. ● Knox Presbyterian Church Annual Christmas Lunch, Craft/Bake Sale will take place on Dec. 8 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Admission is $5 which includes lunch. Pre-schoolers free. A selection of baking, frozen pies, and Christmas treats will be available to purchase. Phone 403-343-2762. ● Delburne/Ardley Legion Snowflake Saturday will be celebrated on Dec. 8 starting at 1 p.m. with turkey draws at 3, 5 and 7 p.m. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Dec. 8 session is called Watery Worlds with artist Kaleb Romano. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission. ● Spanish Storytime with Muzzy will be on Dec. 8 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Listen to a story, play, speak Spanish, make new friends with Muzzy, the World’s #1 Language Course for Children. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Science Saturday Surprise — Play with your food! will be offered on Dec. 8 from 2 to 3 p.m. for children ages seven years and up. Messy, gooey, experiments, and activities with food at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Phone 403-341-3822.

Sunday ● The Red Deer Vasa (Swedish) Lodge #733 invites you to Santa Lucia. This is a traditional celebration of light that will take place Dec. 9 at 2:30 p.m. at the Chalet at Westerner Park. There is no charge. There will be a short program and candlelight procession led by Olivia Smith, followed by coffee and Swedish treats. Call 403-347-5303 or 403-347-1518 for more information or if you plan to attend. ● 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. ● Innisfail Public Library Film Circuit presents Winter’s Bone at the Innisfail Century Theatre on Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Cost is $9 per person, or get at Flexpass — $70 for nine movies. Both can be purchased at the door on movie nights by cash or cheque. Phone 403-227-4941. ● Discovery Sundays are offered at Kerry Wood Nature Centre from 1 to 4 p.m. to learn something new about the natural world around us. Drop in, or phone 403-346-2010 to find out more.

Monday ● Spirit Seekers Youth Program is offered Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. for youth aged 13 to 24 years old. Looking for fun, friends, or aboriginal culture or connections? Join in the activities, leadership development, swimming, movies, bowling, sledding, food, special events, and much more. Phone 403-340-0020, or email youth@rdnfs.com. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre card games are played on the following days: Canasta Mondays at 1 p.m., $1; Cribbage — Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., $2; Singles Bridge — Wednesdays at 1 p.m., $2; Partner Bridge — second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m., $3; Mixed cards — first and third Friday of each month, $1; Whist — second and fourth Friday of each month, $2; . For more information on cards please call Diane at 403-343-6074. ● Red Deer Legion Branch #35 year round events: carpet bowling on Mondays at 9:30 a.m., and on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.; Singles Bridge on Thursdays at 1 p.m. (all levels welcome, including beginners); Cribbage on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.; Texas Hold ‘Em on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and meat draws on Fridays at 5 p.m., and Saturdays at 4 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035.

Tuesday ● Central Alberta Historical Society Scandinavian Christmas Dinner will take place Dec. 11 at 6 p.m. at the Golden Circle. Tickets are $25 for members or $30 for non-members. Contact the Centennial Office at 403-340-2013 for tickets. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House dance, Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. with live music by Country Gold North. The cost is $6. Phone 403346-4043. Lunch provided by donations. ● The Tony Connelly Singers choral group invites singers and those with musical talents to join them on Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. at the Senior Citizens Downtown House. Musical instruments encouraged. The group runs from Sept. to June. Call Shirley at 403-342-5904, or Alice at 403-343-3688 for more information.

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CONTINUED FROM B4 ● Red Deer Legion Branch #35 offers karaoke at Molly B’s Pub on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m., and wing night on Thursdays from 5 to 10 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Spruce View Drop-in Centre activities: Tuesday — line dancing, 10 a.m. to noon, and Bridge 1 to 4 p.m.; first and third Wednesdays — West Country Ink, and fourth Wednesday — cribbage, 2 p.m.; first Thursday — general meeting at 2 p.m.; Friday, homeschoolers time out for parents and children; fourth Saturday — potluck dinner at noon. Coffee every morning at 7:30 a.m. For more information, call Lorna Jean at 403-227-7211. ● The Central Alberta Mopar Association (CAMA) Car Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Humpty’s Classic Restaurant in Gasoline Alley. Admirers and owners of Chrysler family vehicles are welcome. Yearly membership is $17 for new members and $12 for current members. For more information contact Glen at 403-318-8388 or visit www.centralalbertamopar.ca/ ● The Parkland Cross Country Ski Club meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 7:30 p.m. Novice to experienced cross country skiers welcome. Visit parklandxskiclub.org or phone 403-346-1311. ● Bower Place Community Association seniors are having a special pot luck lunch and card party on Dec. 11 at Bower Kin Place. Doors open at 11:45 a.m., with lunch at noon and cards to follow. Bring a pot luck lunch item to share. Plates, cutlery, and beverages will be supplied. The group will resume its regular schedule on the last Tuesday of each month — next Jan. 29 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Call Marlene at 403-343-0632.

Wednesday ● Bowden Christmas Sleigh Ride family event will be held on Dec. 12 beginning at 5 p.m. Enjoy hot dogs, hot chocolate, bon fire, with skating and horse drawn wagon rides starting at 6 p.m. Free of charge. Sponsored by Bowden Recreation and Culture Board. Phone 403-224-2289. ● Pickle-ball is offered Wednesdays from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at G. H. Dawe Community Centre. Pickle-ball is a cross between tennis and badminton. Rackets supplied. Regular facility admission applies. Contact Janice at 403-347-4195. ● Mezz Grinchmas Party for teens will be offered on Dec. 12 from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. in the Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library at the downtown location. Watch the classic film How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, nosh on gingerbread cookies, and create trash-totreasure gifts. Phone 403-755-1146. ● Fireside Readers book club will meet on Dec. 12 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. A special Skype interview with Alan Brennert — author of Molokai — will be featured. Phone 403-346-2100. ● Epilepsy Association of Central Alberta located at 4811 48 Street holds monthly support group meetings at 5:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. On Dec. 12, the group will have a special Christmas party. Phone 403358-3358 or email epilepsy.njaskela@telus.net. to suggest topics for discussion. ● Norwegian Laft Hus Society Museum is a handcrafted replica of a 17th century farmhouse from the Numedal District in Norway, including a sod roof and collection of antiques. Located in

Heritage Square behind the Recreation Centre, the museum’s hours are Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Phone 403-347-2055. ● Golden Circle Ho-Downers are a fun band of seniors who entertain other seniors in nursing homes, lodges and by special request. Practices are held on Wednesdays starting at 2 p.m. Everyone welcome. For more information call Bea at 403-346-5802. ● Inspirational Ladies Fun and Fellowship meets the second Wednesday of each month from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Innisfail Legion Hall. Cost is $4 per person including refreshments. The group hosts speakers and special guests each time. Contact Elsie Lee at 403-227-3508. ● Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Elnora Drop-in Centre. Call 403-7492047 or 403-773-3600. ● Central Alberta Pioneers meet old and new friends at Pioneer Lodge on the second Wednesday of each month at 2 p.m. Entertainment and lunch. For information, phone 403-309-4243. ● Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will entertain in Red Deer at the CP Station located at 6867 Edgar Industrial Drive at 9:45 a.m. and at Innisfail at 50 St., Highway 54 for a 20 minute show at 11:05 a.m. Please bring food and monetary donations for the food bank, and enjoy the brightly lit train and entertainment by Brothers Dube, Doc Walker, and Miss Emily. The event is free and all donations stay in the local community for local distribution. Christmas Memories with the Alzheimer Society will be celebrated on Dec. 12 from 3 to 6 p.m. at their new office located at 105, 4419 - 50 Ave. in Port ‘O Call shopping mall. Join in and make a few memories, and celebrate with friends. Contact Janice at fogarty@alzheimer.ab.ca, or phone 403342-0448. ● Ponoka United Church Thrift Shop is open every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is a large selection of clothing for the whole family available. Donations of clean, slightly worn clothing, bedding and linens welcome. No furniture, household appliances or toys, please. For more information call Betty at 403-783-2493.

Thursday ● Living Stones Church winter celebration of song will take place Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. Hear music ancient and modern, sacred and secular and join in singing Christmas carols. Tickets are $15 and are available through choir members or at the door. For more information visit www.dlwardmusic. com; email lisaward@me.com; or call Richard at 403-340-0050. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Dec. 13, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Five Plus One Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-346-3896. ● After School Club is offered on Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. for teens and pre-teens to take part in games, movies, music and more at Red Deer Public Library Dawe Branch. Enjoy Photo Fun Day on Dec. 13 — final day for 2012. Pose for a fun holiday picture and decorate a fab photo frame to take home. Come back for more fun when the program resumes on Jan. 17. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Singing in God’s Ear: Our Dutch, English and Afrikaans Christmas Sing Along will be presented on Dec. 13 at 2:30 p.m. at First Christian Reformed Church. Dr. Jack Hielema will be emcee. A collection will be taken for Salvation Army.

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REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Gifts for Grandparents program is coordinated by Family Services of Central Alberta and provides gift bags to seniors who are isolated and/or do not have family nearby to celebrate the Christmas season with. Donations of slippers, socks, toiletry items for men and women, prepackaged cookies, crackers, jams, gift cards for coffee shops or grocery stores, coffee, tea, hot chocolate and small gift items will be accepted until Dec. 14. Money donations can also be made to help with the ongoing costs of senior’s home support. Donations over $10 are eligible for a tax receipt. Volunteers are also needed to sort, package and deliver gifts. Call 403-348-6547. ● Memorial Society of Red Deer and District offers information on funeral options. An annual membership costs $25 and can be transferred to other societies in North America at little or no cost. To purchase a membership, phone 403-346-4636 ext. 109, or see www.memorialsocietyrd.ca, or email to info@memorialsocietyrd.ca. ● Visions Country Gospel presents Country Gospel and Christmas Concert on Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church. Tickets cost $15 each with half of the proceeds going to Nicaragua Education Fund. Call Debbie at 403-3463798, or David and Sharon at 403-347-1044. ● Heart Vise free, three-hour group workshop is offered by Alberta Health Services and will be offered on Dec. 14, 9 a.m. to noon in the Education Room of Bethany CollegeSide. The workshop is geared to local residents interested in developing a heathier lifestyle, especially those who have been diagnosed with high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol, or people diagnosed with risk factors for heart disease, such as diabetes or family history. Register by phoning 1-877-314-6997. ● Happy New Year 2013 sponsored by Kraze 101.3 in support of Women’s Outreach will be celebrated at iHotel on 67 St. on Dec. 31. Semiformal attire. Doors open at 8 p.m. Appetizers served at 9:30 p.m. Each guest will be served at glass of champagne, and enjoy party favours at their table. Other highlights include silent auction and 50/50 draws, music and dance. Tickets cost $60 each, or table of eight for $400 (limited offer). For more information, see www.KRAZE105.com or www.womensoutreach.com, or purchase tickets from Kraze at 403-358-3100. ● Support Habitat for Humanity with the purchase of gingerbread cookies from Good Earth Coffeehouse and Bakery at both Red Deer locations until Jan. 3. Phone 403-346-8555, or 403340-1028. ● Central Alberta Aids Network Society has put out the casting call for women aged 15 to 115 years to be in the February production of Vagina Monologues. A diverse group of cultural and ethnic backgrounds are required for actors who preferably have acting experience. The society is also looking for planners, technicians, and others. Performances take place Feb. 8 and 9 at the Memorial Centre. Casting will be done through interviews rather than auditions. To book an interview, women must send a brief email about why they are interested in the project and why they want to be involved to events@caans.org. Interviews run

She runs a costume store as well as directs children’s theatre and volunteers with the Three Hills adult community theatre. The cast’s ages range from a two-month-old baby Jesus to a carpenter who’s more than 80. Live donkeys, sheep and an alpaca have been donated by the GuZoo. Attendance has grown annually with about 3,000 touring the village last year.

Dec. 6 to 14. ● Red Deer River Watershed Alliance Special Holiday Ambassador Breakfast will be held on Dec. 21, 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at Quality Holiday Inn for a cost of $15 per person. A presentation by Nancy McAteer, public works foreman for the Town of Penhold will provide a brief overview of the town’s water and wastewater facilities, recycling and environmental initiatives, a review of Alberta Environment’s testing and reporting requirements. As well, Michael Dawe, historian, will talk about Christmas 125 years ago. RSVP to info@rdrwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 by noon on Dec. 19. ● Suicide Information and Education Services are offering a raffle with a grand prize of a weekend trip for two at Smokey Bear Campground Resort at Revelstoke, B.C. Other prizes include three hours of tattoo ink time, and a portrait session, and others. Tickets are $5 each from the office, or call 403-342-4966, or fax 403-342-4154, or see www.suicidehelp.ca, or email to office@suicidehelp.ca. Raffle closes Dec. 20 and draw date is Dec. 21. ● Central Alberta Team Penning Association Beginners Clinic will be offered on Feb. 16, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Rockin’ H Arena at Bowden. Cost is $60 per person. Clinic limited to 20 riders. Instructors will be CATPA members. Spectators are welcome. Contact Leanne at 403-358-8939 or email murraysacres@yahoo.ca. ● Living Well with a Mental Illness is an eight week course for people interested in learning more about mental illness and how people experiencing emotional distress can live productive lives will offered on Saturdays from Feb. 2 to March 23, from 10 a.m. to noon at Red Deer Public Downtown Branch. To register for this free course or for more information call 403-342-2266. ● Red Deer College Music Concert Series presents Faculty Jazz Cabaret on Jan. 12, and Ruston Vuori Piano Recital on Jan. 27, both in Studio A at 7:30 p.m. on Mainstage, Arts Centre. Tickets are available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, www.bkticketcentre.ca, 403-755-6626, or 1-800-661-8793. ● Red Deer College Theatre Productions presents Bram Stoker’s Dracula on Feb. 7 to 16 on the Mainstage, Arts Centre. Tickets are available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, www.bkticketcentre.ca, 403-755-6626, or 1-800-661-8793. ● The Salvation Army Red Deer Kettle Campaign is in need of volunteers. The campaign runs until Dec. 22. Volunteers are needed to ring the bells at the kettles in various locations in the city. For more information call Jane at 403-3462251. Funds raised are essential in providing much needed assistance to the less fortunate at Christmas and throughout the year. ● Turn Your Empties into Community Support, a project sponsored by Cosmos Group of Companies, involves large donation bins placed around Red Deer and surrounding area to collect refundable beverage containers. All of the proceeds will be directed back into non-profit organizations in the community. If you are aware of a location that would be suitable to house a donation bin, call Laura at 403-309-8642 or email cosmos02@telus.net.

Friesen, who has helped with previous walks, said this year’s version “is all her baby. “I love it. I believe that people who come through here will never go through a church and Christmas is about that baby in that manger. “All this . . . is about him.” The final 2012 Bethlehem Walks run from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

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Rebels keep on rolling DIENO GETS FOUR POINTS TO LEAD REBELS TO EIGHTH WIN IN A ROW JASON BAY

BAY SIGNS WITH MARINERS A person familiar with the deal said that free agent outfielder Jason Bay has reached a one-year contract with the Seattle Mariners. The 34-year-old Bay is hoping to resurrect his career with the Mariners after three disappointing and injury-plagued seasons with the New York Mets. Last month, Bay and the Mets agreed to terminate his contract with one guaranteed year remaining on his $66 million, fouryear contract. Bay hit .165 with eight home runs and 20 RBIs last season. He was slowed by concussions and rib injuries while with the Mets and played only 288 games in three years with them.

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 5 Pats 1 REGINA — The Red Deer Rebels were never behind the eight-ball. Coincidentally, they chalked up their eighth successive Western Hockey League victory on Wednesday, skating past the Regina Pats 5-1 before 5,858 fans at the Brandt Centre. Rhyse Dieno turned in a four-point performance as the Rebels played the role of party crashers on a night when the Pats retired the jersey of former Regina and current Edmonton Oilers star Jordan Eberle. The final score probably flattered the hosts, outshot 49-20. “We stayed at it. We played a 60-minute game here tonight,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. The Rebels never trailed in the contest, taking an early lead on a goal by Tyson Ness and then breaking a 1-1 tie on Dieno’s third of the season at 11:59 of the second period. Joel Hamilton notched a power-play marker just over three minutes later and Dieno, off a fine feed from Turner Elson, and Filip Vasko — in the final minute — rounded out the mini-romp with third-period goals. Vasko, acquired from the Kelowna Rockets last week, notched his fourth goal

of the season and first as a Rebel. Dieno, who assisted on the goals by Ness and Hamilton, upped his points total to 11 (4g,7a). Impressive, considering Wednesday’s outing was just his eighth of the season since being plucked out of the junior A Saskatchewan League in mid-November. “He’s a skilled player. He loves to score and he gets himself into position to do that,” said Sutter. “He plays the game at a high tempo and he fits in well with how we want to play.”

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Votto wins third straight Tip O’Neill Award

Today

● Bantam AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 7 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Carpet Doctor, Grandview Allstars vs. Investors Group, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● AJHL: Bonnyville at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

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Friday

● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic girls tournament, games at 5 and 6:45 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Sylvan Lake, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. (The Drive) ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Canadians at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Stettler, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Pro Stitch, 8:30 p.m., Kin City A. ● Martial arts: Pure Fighting Championship, 8:30 p.m., Westerner Prairie Pavillion.

Saturday

● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic girls tournament, games at 9:30 and 11:15 a.m., 2 and 3:45 p.m.

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Toronto Raptors forward Mickael Pietrus drives against Sacramento Kings guard Aaron Brooks during the first quarter of a basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday. The Raptors came up short yet again as they were edged by the Kings 104-100.

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ST. MARYS, Ont. — Cincinnati Reds slugger Joey Votto is the winner of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s Tip O’Neill Award for the third straight year. The award is given to the Canadian player judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to baseball’s highest ideals. Votto, an all-star first baseman from Toronto, had a .337 batting average with 14 homers and 56 RBIs last season. “I thank the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame for recognizing my contributions to our division championship team,” Votto said Wednesday in a release. “This spring, I am very much looking forward to representing our country in the World Baseball Classic and having the opportunity again to play alongside the best baseball players in Canada.” The Hall does not release vote totals. Major leaguers Scott Diamond, Ryan Dempster, Justin Morneau, Brett Lawrie, Russell Martin, Jim Henderson and Michael Saunders were also considered by Hall voters and online supporters. “We had more Internet participation and debate about who should win this year’s award than any previous year and we were happy about that,” said Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame operations director Scott Crawford. “We were heartened to see so much passion for Canadian players. This year, we had at least 10 players who were legitimate contenders for this award. It was extremely close, but in the end, Joey Votto, who had another all-star season and helped lead the Reds to the post-season, was slightly ahead of the rest of the pack.” National team members Jimmy Van Ostrand and Stephanie Savoie also received consideration. Votto, who missed seven weeks of the season due to a knee injury, led all Canadian major-league players in several categories including batting average, on-base percentage (.474), slugging percentage (.567), walks (94) and doubles (44). Votto, who shared last year’s award with Milwaukee Brewers closer John Axford, is the first player to win the award three years in a row. He’s the third player to win the award at least three times, joining three-time winner Jason Bay and nine-time winner Larry Walker. Votto will be presented with the award in a pre-game ceremony in Cincinnati early in the 2013 season.

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Adam Rossignol potted Regina’s lone goal, allowing the Pats to get out of the opening period tied at one despite being outshot 18-4. Regina netminder Matt Hewitt did all he could for his team, stopping 44 shots. Rebels goaltender Patrik Bartosak made 19 saves to post his 16th win of the season. To say the Rebels are riding high at the moment would be an understatement and Sutter appreciates the manner in which his club is performing. “Obviously winning builds confidence, but it’s the way you play, too,” said the Rebels bench boss. “We’re playing a real hightempo game, a high-speed game. “When you play that way you have to make plays at top speed and you have the puck a lot. Puck-possession time was huge for us here tonight.” The Rebels will be gunning for their ninth win in a row when they face the Warriors on Friday at Moose Jaw. The team will close out its three-game East Division trip on Saturday against the Brandon Wheat Kings. The Rebels have three home games on tap for next week, with the Calgary Hitmen, Victoria Royals and Kelowna Rockets at the Centrium on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

NEW YORK — A wave of optimism gave way to tension as the NHL and NHL Players’ Association spent a second straight day trying to hammer out a collective bargaining agreement. The sides exchanged proposals during a series of meetings Wednesday that stretched past midnight Eastern, according to sources, in a bid to close the final gap in negotiations that have spanned more than five months. The urgency was evident as a group of six league owners shuffled between internal meetings and short sessions with players and union staff at a hotel in midtown Manhattan. At one point, Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs could be seen having an animated conversation with deputy commissioner Bill Daly outside the negotiating room. Meantime, players paced the halls while speaking on their

cellphones. Even though the specific details of the new offers weren’t known, one aspect revealed another hurdle the sides have to cross — the length of the deal. The league’s proposal called for a 10-year term while the NHLPA continued to favour a shorter contract, according to sources. With tensions rising, commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr kept themselves out of negotiation sessions for a second straight day. However, Bettman did provide a brief update to reporters after a two-hour gathering of the Board of Governors, saying he was “pleased” with how things were progressing. That was about all he was willing to reveal. “We are pleased with the process that is ongoing and out of respect for that process I don’t have anything else to say and I’m not going to take any questions,” said Bettman. The two sides have cleared their schedules for the rest of the week after successfully getting an adjournment from Quebec Labour Board hearings that

had been scheduled in Montreal for Thursday and Friday. That panel will only hear arguments about the legality of locking out members of the Canadiens if a deal can’t be reached in the near future. There was a sense that remained a possibility following the first gathering of NHL owners since the lockout was enacted in September. “We feel good about the information we got,” said Columbus Blue Jackets president John Davidson. Toronto Maple Leafs minority owner Larry Tanenbaum is one of six owners who became involved in the talks this week. “As long as we’re talking, we’re hopeful,” he said. According to sources, the owners discussed a possible season that would span 50-plus games. There had been talk of a 60-game schedule in the event of a labour settlement, but the feeling among the group was that it would be too ambitious at this stage. Progress appeared to be made during more than eight hours of meetings on Tuesday

that ended with NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr describing it as the best day yet in talks. It was difficult to carry that momentum through a second long day, especially with the league and union trading specific proposals and looking for compromise. After the NHLPA tabled an offer late last month, the sides were separated by $182 million over five years. Even though they had both proposed a 5050 split of revenues, the union had asked for $393 million in deferred transition payments, while the NHL was willing to give up $211 million. The two sides were also split on contract issues covering arbitration, unrestricted free agency, entry-level deals and term length. The NHL’s third lockout in the last 20 years has already resulted in the cancellation of 422 regular-season games through Dec. 14, plus the Winter Classic and all-star game. It remains the only North American pro sports league to lose an entire year to a work stoppage after having the 200405 season wiped out.

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Basketball Pt 42 29 29 27 26 24

Central Division GP W LOTLSOL Calgary 28 19 6 1 2 Edmonton 29 18 6 2 3 Red Deer 31 18 11 1 1 Lethbridge 33 15 14 1 3 Medicine Hat 31 13 16 2 0 Kootenay 27 8 18 1 0

Pt 41 41 38 34 28 17

GF GA 92 77 96 73 87 86 103 98 100 102 67 96

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Kamloops 32 22 7 1 2 113 79 Kelowna 29 18 9 1 1 117 74 Victoria 28 15 12 0 1 83 91 Prince George 28 10 14 1 3 76 101 Vancouver 27 7 20 0 0 73 112

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U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 28 23 4 1 0 132 61 47 Spokane 29 21 7 1 0 121 83 43 Tri-City 29 17 10 1 1 90 78 36 Seattle 28 14 13 1 0 90 104 29 Everett 32 11 19 0 2 81 120 24 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. Tuesday’s results Calgary 6 Kootenay 1 Kamloops 2 Swift Current 1 Portland 7 Everett 5 Prince George 2 Moose Jaw 1 Spokane 7 Prince Albert 4 Wednesday’s results Red Deer 5 Regina 1 Spokane 4 Saskatoon 1 Lethbridge 6 Edmonton 2 Swift Current 5 at Kelowna 6 Vancouver at Victoria, Late Thursday’s game Seattle at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Friday’s games Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Spokane at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Tri-City at Portland, 8 p.m. Swift Current at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Seattle at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Sunday’s games Saskatoon at Regina, 2 p.m. Kamloops at Vancouver, 5 p.m. Portland at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m. Wednesday summaries Rebels 5 Pats 1 First Period 1. Red Deer, Ness 9, (Dieno) 4:15 2. Regina, Rossignol 7, (Christoffer, Williams) 8:09 Penalties - Underwood R.d. (slashing) 13:34, Burroughs Reg (hooking) 18:15 Second Period 3. Red Deer, Dieno 3, (Elson) 11:59 4. Red Deer, Hamilton 2, (Dumba, Dieno) 15:03 (PP) Penalties - Hak Reg (holding) 14:48, Mayor Reg (goaltender interference, roughing) 19:55, Fafard R.d. (roughing) 19:55. Third Period 5. Red Deer, Dieno 4, (Elson) 7:50 6. Red Deer, Vasko 4, (Maxwell, Hamilton) 19:29 Penalties - Dumba R,d, (roughing) 11:29, Bellerive R.d. (interference) 14:32. Shots on goal Red Deer 18 13 18 — 49 Regina 4 9 7 — 20 Goal— Regina: Hewitt (L, 7-11-1); Red Deer: Bartosak (W, 16-7-1). Power plays (goals-chances) — Red Deer: 1-3; Regina: 0-3. Attendance — 5,858 at Regina, Sask. Chiefs 4 Blades 1 First Period 1. Spokane, Fiddler 23 (Aviani, Wedman) 4:04. 2. Spokane, Stewart 8 (Chartier) 6:53. Penalties - Stransky Sas (hooking) 4:19, Aviani Spo (cross-checking) 9:08, Dietz Sas (high-sticking) 11:10, Aviani Spo (spearing) 17:19. Second Period 3. Spokane, Gal 3 2:08. 4. Saskatoon, Stransky 12 (Walker, Pufahl) 5:09. Penalties - Kichton Spo (hooking) 5:53, Siemens Sas (slashing) 9:35, Fram Spo (interference) 16:17, Burns Sas (boarding) 17:19. Third Period 5. Spokane, Holmberg 16 (Walchuk) 10:39. Penalties - McIntosh Spo (tripping) 6:40. Shots on goal Spokane 13 3 6 — 22 Saskatoon 4 15 12 — 31 Goal — Spokane: Williams (W, 17-5-1); Saskatoon: Makarov (L, 13-13-0) . Power plays (goals-chances) — Spokane: 0-4; Saskatoon: 0-6. Attendance — 5,007 at Saskatoon, Sask. Oil Kings 2 at Hurricanes 6 First Period 1. Lethberidge, Maxwell 15 (Pilon, Yakubowski) 11:15 2. Lethbridge, Watson 8 (Sofillas) 11:32 Penalties – Edmonton, Lazar (hooking) 12:23, Lethbridge, Sutton (roughing) 16:52 Second Period 3. Lethbridge, McKechnie 13 (Yakubowski, Ramsay) 9:19 (pp) 4. Lethbridge, Merkley 13 (Erkamps, Sofillas) 10:28 5. Lethbridge, McKechnie 14 (un) 19:51 Penalties – Edmonton, Baddock (elbowing) 2:55, Edmonton, Legault (unsportsmanlike conduct) 6:37,

Saturday’s games Spokane at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Regina at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m. Red Deer at Brandon,6:30 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m. Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Vancouver at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Edmonton, Musil (slashing) 8:03, Edmonton, Mayo (roughing) 16:26, Lethbridge, Maxwell (roughing) 16:26, Lethbridge, Pilon (roughing) 16:26, Third Period 6. Edmonton, Lazar (Sautner, Legault) 3:55 7. Edmonton, Lazar (Foster, Legault) 10:58 8. Lethbridge, Estephan 1 (Topping, Johnston) 16:12 Penalties – Lethbridge, Axel Blomqvist (holding) 4:38, Lethbridge, Hackman (tripping) 11:53, Edmonton, Legault (interference) 14:48, Lethbridge, Sofillas (roughing) 19:52 Edmonton: 7 11 17 35 Lethbridge: 10 12 8 30 Goaltenders: Lethbridge, Rimmer (W-14-13-13), Edmonton , Brossoit (L-30:28-11-3-2-3), Jarry (29:32) Powerplays: Lethbridge: 2-for-5 Edmonton:0-for-5 Attendance: 3,239

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 13 4 .765 — Brooklyn 11 6 .647 2 Philadelphia 10 8 .556 3 1/2 Boston 10 8 .556 3 1/2 Toronto 4 15 .211 10 1/2

AJHL North Division GP W LOTL GF Spruce Grove 34 20 9 5 109 Grand Prairie 29 19 8 2 98 Bonnyville 32 17 10 5 92 Whitecourt 32 15 10 7 122 Drayton Valley 31 16 12 3 92 Sherwood Park 31 15 12 4 93 Fort McMurray 32 15 14 3 85 Lloydminster 32 9 17 6 82

Chicago Indiana Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

GA 96 79 96 120 82 105 100 119

Pt 45 40 39 37 35 34 33 24

South Division GP W LOTL GF GA Pt Brooks 29 28 1 0 148 55 56 Okotoks 30 17 11 2 86 79 36 Camrose 30 16 11 3 83 79 35 Drumheller 30 15 14 1 92 86 31 Olds 32 14 16 2 100 109 30 Cal. Canucks 32 13 18 1 84 107 27 Cal. Mustangs 34 11 18 5 98 127 27 Canmore 30 10 16 4 78 103 24 Note: Two points for a win, one for an overtime loss.

Southeast Division W L Pct 12 4 .750 10 5 .667 7 10 .412 7 11 .389 2 13 .133

GB — 1 1/2 5 1/2 6 9 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 9 8 .529 10 9 .526 8 9 .471 6 14 .300 4 15 .211

GB — — 1 4 1/2 6

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 13 3 .813 1/2 San Antonio 15 4 .789 — Houston 9 8 .529 5 Dallas 8 9 .471 6 New Orleans 5 12 .294 9 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 15 4 .789 Utah 10 10 .500 Denver 9 10 .474 Minnesota 8 9 .471 Portland 8 11 .421 Pacific Division W L Pct

Tuesday’s results Brooks 4 Olds 3 (SO) Spruce Grove 4 Grande Prairie 3 Wednesday’s results Sherwood Park 2 Fort McMurray 1 Calgary Canucks 3 Camrose 2 Bonnyville 3 Calgary Mustangs 2 (OT) Lloydminster 3 Drumheller 2 Thursday’s game Bonnyville at Olds, 7:30 p.m. Friday’s games Drayton Valley at Brooks, 7 p.m. Spruce Grove at Whitecourt, 7:30 p.m. Sherwood Park at Grande Prairie, 7:30 p.m. Okotoks at Olds, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8 Bonnyville at Calgary Canucks, 7 p.m. Calgary Mustangs at Canmore, 7 p.m. Brooks at Okotoks, 7 p.m. Spruce Grove at Camrose, 7:30 p.m. Sherwood Park at Grande Prairie, 7:30 p.m. Drayton Valley at Drumheller, 7:30 p.m. Lloydminster at Fort McMurray, 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9 Lloydminster at Fort McMurray, 2 p.m. Drayton Valley at Camrose, 2 p.m. Bonnyville at Drumheller, 2 p.m.

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NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF y-New England 9 3 0 .750 430 N.Y. Jets 5 7 0 .417 228 Buffalo 5 7 0 .417 277 Miami 5 7 0 .417 227

PA 260 296 337 249

W 11 8 4 2

South L 1 4 8 10

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .917 .667 .333 .167

PF 351 265 248 206

PA 221 306 359 342

Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland

W 9 7 7 4

North L 3 5 5 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .750 .583 .583 .333

PF 303 254 302 229

PA 242 230 260 265

y-Denver San Diego Oakland Kansas City

W 9 4 3 2

West L 3 8 9 10

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .750 .333 .250 .167

PF 349 258 235 188

PA 244 257 376 322

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 7 5 0 .583 321 243 Washington 6 6 0 .500 312 301

Dallas Philadelphia

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6 9

0 .500 0 .250

280 295 217 320

y-Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans Carolina

W 11 6 5 3

South L 1 6 7 9

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .917 .500 .417 .250

PF 317 333 321 235

PA 229 285 327 292

Green Bay Chicago Minnesota Detroit

W 8 8 6 4

North L 4 4 6 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .500 .333

PF 296 294 262 300

PA 259 198 272 315

T 1 0 1 0

Pct .708 .583 .458 .333

PF 289 242 221 186

PA 171 202 267 234

West W L San Francisco 8 3 Seattle 7 5 St. Louis 5 6 Arizona 4 8 x — Clinched playoff berth. y — Clinched division title.

Week 14 Thursday, Dec. 6 Denver at Oakland, 6:20 p.m. 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. Monday, Dec. 10 Houston at New England, 6:30 p.m. NFL Odds (Favourites in capital letters; odds supplied by SBGGLOBAL.com; NL-No Line) Spread O/U Thursday DENVER at Oakland 10.5 48 Sunday Philadelphia at TAMPA BAY 7 46 Dallas at CINCINNATI 3 45.5 St. Louis at BUFFALO 3 42.5 ATLANTA at Carolina 3 47 CHICAGO at Minnesota 2.5 39.5 Kansas City at CLEVELAND 5.5 37.5 Baltimore at WASHINGTON 1 47 Tennessee at INDIANAPOLIS 5 48 NY JETS at Jacksonville 2.5 38.5 Miami at SAN FRANCISCO 10.5 39 Arizona at SEATTLE 10.5 34.5 New Orleans at NY GIANTS 5 53.5 Detroit at GREEN BAY 6.5 51.5 San Diego at Pittsburgh NL NL Monday Houston at NEW ENGLAND 3.5 51.5

Chan gunning for GP hat trick in Russia Dylan Moscovitch of Toronto. Chan will face a stiff field that includes Fernandez, plus Japan’s fierce duo of Daisuke Takahashi and Yuzuru Hanyu. Notable absences are Russia’s Evgeni Plushenko and Evan Lysacek of the U.S. Both are making a comeback for the 2014 Games but both have undergone surgery in recent weeks. The Canadian team skaters said competing in the Sochi arena will provide some measure of comfort when they return a little more than a year from now for the Olympics. “Obviously it’s exciting to test out the Olympic venue, sort of get the lay of the land,” Virtue said. “We spent so much time in Vancouver before the 2010 Olympics, so I think this is an excellent opportunity for us to mentally and physically prepare ourselves for that specific venue.” Moir said he and Virtue are a different team than they were going into last year’s Grand Prix Final. Virtue was finally healthy last fall for the first time in years, after surgery on her lower legs derailed the better part of a couple of seasons. “Last year we were kind of out to prove to everybody that we were back, and that we were finally healthy and while that was true, we were trying a little bit too hard and we just tried to show everybody so much so that it kind of worked against us,” Moir said.

Patrick Chan left Skate Canada International earlier this season a little red-faced but allthe-more more determined. The two-time world figure skating champion said that, looking back now, suffering his first major international defeat in a year-and-a-half was a blessing in disguise and put him back on track for the rest of the season. He’ll have a chance to test his theory against the best in the world this week at the ISU Grand Prix Final. “It was a huge shock,” Chan said. “I haven’t lost in front of a home crowd in a long time, and it was definitely a wakeup call. I think that was the turning point in the season. “I got embarrassed, I was disappointed in myself. But it was great, I got back home and worked really hard.” The 21-year-old Chan, the two-time defending Grand Prix Final champion, finished runner-up to Spain’s Javier Fernandez at Skate Canada back in late-October, but rebounded to win the Rostelecom Cup in Russia a couple of weeks later. “You know what, sometimes it takes losing a competition to get you back on track, because you can’t win every competition there is for a long period of time. I needed Javier to beat me. I said ’Hey, I’m better than this, I can do better than this,”’ Chan said. “It was not a bad thing at all.” The Grand Prix Final is the culmination of the Grand Prix series that includes six stops. Skaters compete in two stops each, and the top six entries in each of the four disciplines based on points face off in the Final. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir — Canada’s Olympic gold medallists and Truck Decks, Welding Skids, Headache two-time defending world Rack & Rocket Launchers and lots more. champions — look for ice dance redemption after finishing second behind Ovens up to 37’ Long American rivals Meryl Davis and Charlie White last Small to large year in Quebec City. we can handle it all Canada also qualified two pairs teams — defendOver 250 ing Canadian champions stocked colors Meagan Duhamel of Lively, Ont., and Eric Radford 4617-63 St. Red Deer of Balmertown, Ont., and Kirsten Moore-Towers of www.metalstripcoating.com St. Catharines, Ont., and

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Tuesday’s Games Minnesota 105, Philadelphia 88 Washington 105, Miami 101 Oklahoma City 117, Brooklyn 111 Indiana 80, Chicago 76 Houston 107, L.A. Lakers 105 Memphis 108, Phoenix 98, OT Wednesday’s Games New York 100, Charlotte 98 Indiana 99, Portland 92 Boston 104, Minnesota 94 Golden State 104, Detroit 97 L.A. Lakers 103, New Orleans 87 Atlanta 108, Denver 104 Chicago 95, Cleveland 85 San Antonio 110, Milwaukee 99 Utah 87, Orlando 81 Toronto 100 at Sacramento 104 Dallas at L.A. Clippers, Late Thursday’s Games New York at Miami, 6 p.m. Dallas at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m. Friday’s Games Boston at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Denver at Indiana, 5 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. Golden State at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Cleveland at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Memphis at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Houston at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. Charlotte at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m. Toronto at Utah, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m. Orlando at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Agreed to terms with OF Lew Ford, OF Conor Jackson, OF Jason Pridie, RHP Daniel McCutchen, RHP Adam Russell, C Allan De San Miguel, C Jose Gil, C Chris Robinson and LHP Jan Novak on minor league contracts. DETROIT TIGERS—Traded LHP Andy Oliver to Pittsburgh for C Ramon Cabrera. TEXAS RANGERS—Agreed to terms with OF Chih-Hsien Chiang on a minor league contract. National League ATLANTA BRAVES—Exercised the 2014 option on manager Fredi Gonzalez. Named Dave Holliday and Brad Sloan special assistants to the general manager/major league scouts. Promoted Don Chiti to special assistant to the general manager/pitching development and special assignment. Agreed to terms with C Jose Yepez and C Matt Pagnozzi on minor league contracts. Minor League Baseball MLB—Named Tyler Funneman field evaluator/ instructor.

FOOTBALL NFL—Suspended Seattle CB Brandon Browner four games for violating the policy on performance enhancing substances. BUFFALO BILLS—Placed DE Chris Kelsay on injured reserve. Signed CB T.J. Heath and G Keith Williams from the practice squad. DETROIT RED WINGS—Reassigned D Gleason Fournier from Grand Rapids (AHL) to Toledo (ECHL). GREEN BAY PACKERS—Placed RB Johnny White on injured reserve. Signed RB Ryan Grant. Signed OL Shea Allard and S Chaz Powell to the practice squad. HOUSTON TEXANS—Signed CB Stanford Routt. Placed CB Brice McCain on injured reserve with a designation for return. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Signed LB Jamaal Westerman. Signed RB Alvester Alexander to the practice squad. Released TE Martell Webb and CB Isaiah Green from the practice squad. MIAMI DOLPHINS—Placed T Jake Long on injured reserve. Released DB Anderson Russell. Signed T Patrick Brown and DB Tyrone Culver. MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Placed WR Percy Harvin on injured reserve. NEW YORK JETS—Signed DT Tevita Finau to the practice squad. OAKLAND RAIDERS—Signed RB Jamize Olawale from the practice squad. ST. LOUIS RAMS—Released WR Saalim Hakim from the practice squad. Signed CB Quinton

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BRIEFS Cougar Classic starts Friday The four-team Notre Dame Cougar Classic senior high girls basketball tournament opens Friday with the host Cougars taking on the Lindsay Thurber Raiders at 5 p.m. The Hunting Hills Lightning will face the Lethbridge Catholic Central Cougars at 6:45 p.m. The round-robin tournament will resume Saturday with Lindsay Thurber meeting Hunting Hills at 9:30 a.m. From there, Catholic Central will clash with Notre Dame at 11:15 a.m. and with

Pointer to the practice squad. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Placed LB Antwan Barnes on injured reserve. Re-signed OL Reggie Wells. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Released DB Eddie Whitley from the practice squad. Signed LB Alex Hoffman-Ellis to the practice squad. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Signed CB DeShawn Shead from the practice squad, CB Ron Parker from Carolina’s practice squad and RB Derrick Coleman to the practice squad. TENNESSEE TITANS—Signed OL Kyle DeVan and T Daniel Baldridge. Signed G Chris Scott to the practice squad. Placed T David Stewart, S Robert Johnson and G Steve Hutchinson on injured reserve. Claimed G Mitch Petrus off waivers from New England. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Named Kyle Walters assistant general manager and director of Canadian scouting. HOCKEY PROVIDENCE BRUINS—Returned F Justin Courtnall to South Carolina (ECHL). Called up F Tyler Randall from South Carolina. SPRINGFIELD FALCONS—Assigned LW Wade MacLeod to Evansville (ECHL). ECHL ECHL—Suspended Stockton LW Kristians Pelss 21 games and fined him an undisclosed amount as a result of his actions during Saturday’s game. UTAH GRIZZLIES—Signed F Colby Armstrong. OLYMPICS IOC—Stripped the 2004 Olympic medals from Ukrainian shot putter Yuriy Bilonog, Belarussian hammer thrower Ivan Tskikhan, Russian shot putter Svetlana Krivelyova and Belarussian discus thrower Irina Yatchenko for doping. SOCCER SPORTING KANSAS CITY—Acquired D/M Josh Gardner from Montreal for a 2013 second-round draft pick, and exercised Gardner’s contract option. COLLEGE WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE— Announced it is adding Chicago State as a member in July. CALIFORNIA—Named Sonny Dykes football coach. Announced WR Keenan Allen will enter the NFL draft. EASTERN MICHIGAN—Announced offensive co-ordinator and quarterbacks coach Ken Karcher has left the football program. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL—Fired football coach Mario Cristobal. MARIST—Signed women’s basketball coach Brian Giorgis to a contract extension through the 2020-21 season. PURDUE—Named Darrell Hazell football coach.

Lindsay Thurber at 2 p.m., and the event will conclude with the Notre Dame-Hunting Hills game at 3:45 p.m.

Brown nets 40 in win over Carstar Jamie Brown poured in 40 points and Nathan Dixon hit for 30 as Carstar roared past Tiffany’s Fatboys 126-89 in a Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association contest Tuesday. Cameron Kusiek dropped in 39 points for the Fatboys, who got an additional 29 from Travis Struss. In another game, the Monstars got 23 points from Anthony Davidson and 22 from Shayne Stumpf in a 99-52 win over the Tagish Lakers. Darren Andrews and Andrew George each scored 10 points for the Lakers.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Prince Albert 31 20 9 0 2 110 92 Swift Current 32 12 15 3 2 94 93 Moose Jaw 31 11 13 3 4 78 96 Saskatoon 28 13 14 0 1 81 101 Regina 31 11 16 2 2 84 111 Brandon 30 10 16 2 2 82 122

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SEATTLE — A grim-faced Rory (Ares) MacDonald delivered a blunt message Wednesday. B.J. Penn is fighting for the wrong reasons and will pay for it Saturday when the two welterweights meet on a televised UFC card at KeyArena. Penn — a former lightweight and welterweight champion — is fighting for status or legacy, the young Canadian argued. “I’m fighting to hurt him,” MacDonald said. “Not fighting for someone’s opinion.” The two men were a study in attitudes at a public workout in a downtown hotel ballroom. A relaxed Penn posed for photos with fans and signed autographs before coming over to renew acquaintances with reporters. “B.J. Penn still holds court,” said the smiling Hawaiian, who has fought 21 times in the UFC. “Look at this,” he added as he pointed to the wall of media around him. “I’ve got everybody around me. I’m the centre of attention. And I’m having fun. I’m living the dream, I’m living it up.” Penn (16-8-2) offered reporters fist bumps and hugs. MacDonald, meanwhile, looked at the media like they were bugs, hardly moving a facial muscle as he endured an eight-and-a-half-minute scrum. “I’m just focused, that’s all,” he said. “It’s good,” said coach Firas Zahabi. “A young man that age usually would have his head spinning with all the attention he’s getting. He knows there is one thing to do and there’s one thing on his mind. That gives me a lot of confidence.” The bookmakers agree, making the 23-year-old MacDonald almost a 3-1 favourite. Penn is known as The Prodigy, for earning his black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu in just three years and becoming the first non-Brazilian to win the black-belt division of the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship. But MacDonald (13-1) is also a prodigy of sorts. He took his first MMA class at 14, learning all aspects of the sport from the get-go rather than coming over from wrestling or another speciality. MacDonald had his first pro fight at 16 — his parents had to sign a waiver to make it happen — and was the youngest fighter on the UFC books when he

signed a contract at 20. Now 4-1 in the UFC, he is the seventh-youngest fighter in the organization and Zahabi calls him “probably the hardest-hitting athlete pound-forpound I’ve ever trained.” The two fighters are worlds apart. Away from the cage, Penn is probably to be found in board shorts. MacDonald, who says he had one outfit growing up, is a bit of a clotheshorse. Penn is a father, part of a close extended family in Hilo, Hawaii. A single-minded MacDonald left home in Kelowna, B.C., to train in Montreal. Penn is playful. MacDonald is private. Macdonald lives, eats and breathes mixed martial arts — “He puts in a tremendous amount of training and study,” Zahabi says. The young fighter has no regrets about that single focus. “I’m living my life the way I want,” he says. Zahabi, for one, believes the sky’s the limit. “In the end, I think if Rory keeps on the track he’s on, he’ll become world champion,” he said. “I believe that.” Been there, done that for Penn. But his innate talent has sometimes not been matched by his training regimen. He has wondered openly about why his name does not come up when people talk of MMA legends. “Now that they’re not saying it, he’s upset about it,” said MacDonald. “Maybe he should have learned that it’s fickle.” At 33, Penn is giving up 10 years to MacDonald. And the six-foot Canadian looks like a different species compared to the five-foot-nine Hawaiian. On Saturday night, it may look like a Hobbit fighting a linebacker. But Penn is game. “Just two men going into the ring that night, and when we square off on the day of the weigh-in, he’s going to know something’s not right,” he said in his most threatening comment of the day. Penn has come out of retirement to meet MacDonald, who is seen by some as the heir apparent to current title-holder Georges St-Pierre. He asked the UFC to fight the Canadian, who quickly accepted the

challenge. “I don’t know who told him that I’m 50,” joked Penn. Penn normally walks around at 165 pounds, between lightweight (155) and welterweight (170) but says he has put on eight pound of muscle for this fight. MacDonald walks around at 185 or heavier. Some wonder why Penn would choose to return at the higher weight class — let alone pick such a welterweight stud. “I’m almost 34 now,” said Penn, “And I don’t see the point of eating chicken salad and training for six hours off that. “I always thought and I always knew if I prepared myself properly at 170 pounds, that I could do well at 170 pounds. I’ve never walked into a ring and had a guy just wipe me right out. It’s never, ever happened. So if I do it properly, I really feel like I could be a force in the division.” Opponents have worn him down at 170 pounds, however. St-Pierre, a training partner of MacDonald’s, wore him out and then hammered him at UFC 94 until Penn’s corner threw in the towel. Jon Fitch endured an early Penn attack and then had his way with him in the third round at UFC 127. And Nick Diaz sent him into retirement at UFC 137 in October 2011 with a 178-88 edge in significant strikes. Penn is 1-3-1 since beating Diego Sanchez in December 2009, incidentally the last fight MacDonald says Penn looked impressive. Penn said he walked away after that run, thinking “where’s this going, what’s the point?” But he decided to come back after training with top fighters who had come to Hilo to work with him. The two were slated to fight at UFC 152 in Toronto in September but MacDonald was forced to pull out after suffering a 38-stitch cut over his eye in training. Penn says he has used the extra time to his advantage. “You know what this is the most sparring I’ve ever done for a fight and I think this is probably the bestprepared that I’m going to be.” MacDonald doesn’t see a legend, just a victim in front of him. “He just has to show up Saturday night.” In the end, Penn doesn’t much care what MacDonald says. “Sticks and stones. Sticks and stones.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — David Wright wore a shirt with blue. His tie was bright orange. While Tom Seaver, Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry left, Wright is following through on his goal of playing his entire career with the New York Mets. “I’ve never pictured myself in a different uniform,” he said Wednesday at a news conference to talk about his $138 million, eight-year contract, the largest in team history. “It wouldn’t be as meaningful, I think, if I were to win somewhere else.” Playing in the shadow of the Yankees, the Mets have won just two World Series titles and none since 1986. Given their history, it seemed appropriate that Wright said, “I’ve wanted to be here though the good times, through the bad times,” echoing a line from the song “I’m Still Here” from the Stephen Sondheim musical “Follies.” Wright is a six-time All-Star who turns 30 on Dec. 20. He is the team’s all-time hits leader and has a .301 career batting average. The third baseman has never been to the World Series, falling one win short in 2006. He’s seen Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes and Francisco Rodriguez depart as the Mets slashed payroll during the fallout from the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme that cost the Wilpon family, which owns the team, hundreds of millions of dollars. “It just feels like there’s so much unfinished business and I’d like to finish what I’ve started,” Wright said. “Honestly, it wouldn’t mean as much to me winning somewhere else as it would obviously winning here.” Talks began during the first week of October, when the Mets played a season-ending series at Miami. Wright, like most everyone around the Mets, worried about the team’s finances. He wanted assurances the Wilpons wouldn’t sell the team. After the season, Wright met with general manager Sandy Alderson for a round of golf and a late lunch-early dinner at the Bayville Golf Club in Virginia Beach.

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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Tom Cheek, the original and long-time voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, has been awarded the 2013 Ford C. Frick award for broadcasting excellence by the Baseball Hall of Fame. Cheek, who died in 2005, called the first 4,306 regular-season and 41 post-season games in Blue Jays history, beginning with Toronto’s inaugural season in 1977. His widow Shirley Cheek thanked all the friends and family members who had worked so hard to get people to vote for him. Cheek has been one of the 10 finalists for the Frick award every year starting in 2005. She said she was sitting in her doctor’s office when the call came from hall of fame president Jeff Idelson. Her doctor was the first to find out that their campaign had finally succeeded. As for what her late husband would have said, she related a little speech she just gave to the Vermont Association of Broadcasters, who inducted him into their hall of fame and said at the time he should be in Cooperstown. “I said to them, first of all, if this was Tom, he would get before you and say ‘There are so many people more deserving than I.’ “The same thing with Cooperstown, if he ever gets in. . . I said, ‘I for one feel that Tom deserves to be there’.”

His call of Joe Carter’s championship-winning home run in the 1993 World Series — “Touch ’em all Joe! You’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life.” — highlighted a career that saw Cheek chronicle the Jays’ rise from struggling expansion team to back-toback world champions. “Maybe because I’ve heard it so many times, that really is my favourite call,” said Shirley Cheek. “Tom was just an off-the-cuff guy . . . It was how it happened.” He will be honoured as part of Hall of Fame Weekend 2013 July 26-29 in Cooperstown. Cheek becomes the second Frick Award winner whose career came primarily with a Canadian team, following former Expos broadcaster Dave Van Horne’s selection in 2011. “Tom Cheek was the voice of summer for generations of baseball fans in Canada and beyond,” Idelson said. “He helped a nation understand the elements of the game and swoon for the summer excitement that the expansion franchise brought a hockey-crazed nation starting in the late 1970s. He then authored the vocal narrative of a team that evolved into one of the most consistent clubs of the 1980s and 1990s. We are thrilled to celebrate Tom’s legacy with baseball broadcasting’s highest honour.” His widow said he lived his dream.

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Electoral changes supported VIGIL FOR LOST KIDS A candlelight vigil will be held on Sunday to remember lost children. The memorial service held in conjunction with The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting starts at 7 p.m. at Centennial Stage in the Scott Block at 4818 Gaetz Ave. in Red Deer. Enter through the back alley entrance. Participants are encouraged to bring a photo no larger than five-by-seven of your child and a poem or quote to be read. Bring your own candle or a tea light will be provided. Refreshments and sharing memories will follow. Contact Teresa at 403-755-7322 for more information or to assist with the memorial.

MANDATORY IDENTIFICATION AT THE POLLS AND FOUR-YEAR TERMS BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Several Red Deer city councillors back proposed changes to the Local Authorities Election Act that include mandatory identification at the polls and four-year terms. Coun. Lynne Mulder said the extra 12 months would allow councils to see projects through to the end. Mulder supported the motion at the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association convention in October. “It gives you a longer time to implement plans that you put in place,” said Mulder,

noting council put a lot of work into strategic planning and another year would allow for them to get it off the ground. “I think we made some really good progress so four years would have been beneficial.” The Election Accountability Amendment Act (Bill 7) is expected to pass third reading in the legislature this week. Some amendments under the bill include extending the term of office for elected officials to four years from three years, mandatory voter identification at voting polls, requiring all surplus municipal campaign funds to be donated to the municipality or to a charity and requiring candidates

to clear campaign deficits if they are not running in the next general election. The surplus donation to charity is already in place in Red Deer’s election bylaw. Mulder said she hopes mandatory voter identification does not affect community members such as the homeless or seniors who may be challenged with obtaining proper identification. Residents who are now not on the voters’ list can go into a poll and swear on oath they are a Canadian citizen before casting a ballot.

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HOLIDAY TRAIN The CP Holiday Train will roll through Central Alberta next week. The 14-car train lit with thousands of LED lights will make three local stops in its annual cross country trek collecting donations for food banks. On Monday, the train stops first in Lacombe at 2:15 p.m. next to the gravel lot next to Canadian Pacific Railway tracks between 46th Avenue and Hwy 2A. The train rolls into Ponoka at 4 p.m., stopping at 50th Street and 47th Avenue. On Wednesday at 9:45 a.m., the train comes to Red Deer’s CP yards at 6867 Edgar Industrial Dr. Those taking in the stops are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items and cash, all of which remain with community food banks. More information is available online at www.cpr.ca.

SANTA LUCIA The Red Deer Vasa (Swedish) Lodge No. 733 invites you to Santa Lucia, a traditional celebration of light, at the Chalet in Westerner Park on Sunday. The afternoon gets underway at 2:30 p.m. and features a short program with a candlelight procession. Coffee and Swedish treats will be served. Call 403-347-5303 or 403-347-1518.

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Toys for Tickets of Red Deer customer service agent Beth McLachlan holds up one of 126 toys donated to date for the City of Red Deer’s annual Toys For Tickets campaign. The campaign, which accepts toy donations in place of violators paying their parking tickets, winds up this week with Friday being the last day donations will be accepted. “It’s all about giving back to the community,” said Fred Dieno, parking co-ordinator. “The program has been a huge success with over 3,000 toys collected since it started.” All toys collected will go to the Red Deer Christmas Bureau to help in meeting its goal that no child in Red Deer wakes up without a new toy on Christmas morning.

County changes subdivision rules, rejects applications EMPHASIZE PRESERVATION OF AGRICULTURE BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer County Council didn’t waste any time giving a new approach to agricultural subdivisions a test run. Only moments after passing an updated Municipal Development Plan, which makes it more difficult to carve out small parcels from previously unsubdivided quarter sections, council rejected a pair of applications to do just that on Tuesday. Provisions for allowing quarter section owners to subdivide out small three-to-five-acre undeveloped portions was the most contentious part of the Municipal Development Plan. At a public hearing last month, council heard from about a dozen landowners who urged the county to close the door on the subdivisions. It was argued that they fragment valuable agricultural land and increase the likelihood of conflict between farmers and acreage owners. In changes approved unanimously on Tuesday, the section on first-parcel-out subdivisions emphasizes that “preservation of agriculture will be the primary objective” in reviewing applications. Successful applications must meet a list of criteria. One of the key tests is that the subdivision doesn’t have a negative impact on nearby agricultural operations. Council opted not to prohibit the subdivisions outright because some agricultural pro-

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ducers favour them as a way for the next generation of a farm family to get a toehold in the business. Mayor Jim Wood said it’s important that the county’s plan provides an opportunity for young farmers to get a start without having to come up with the cash to buy an entire quarter section. “I believe that we are trying to come up with a compromise here that works,” said Wood. The plan addresses that by noting that it is understood that in some “special circumstances” allowing subdivision helps preserve agricultural operations, “however, such circumstances are the exception rather than the norm.” Council had two first-parcel-out applications to consider later in the meeting. The first, a proposal to carve a five-acre parcel out of 155 acres was rejected after concerns were raised by a nearby beef operation owner about locating a residential acreage directly across the road. A future acreage owner may not understand the sounds and smells that are associated with a beef operation and their pets may disturb livestock, says a letter to the county. A second application, on the eastern edge of the county about 18 km northeast of Elnora, was also nixed. Coun. Dave Hoar questioned how allowing the property to be subdivided would benefit the agricultural community. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Roundabout planned to fix traffic snarls A roundabout is planned to fix traffic snarls in Gasoline Alley. The $6-million roundabout is planned for Leva Avenue to ease congestion at an intersection near Galaxy Cinemas. Mayor Jim Wood said the county has been looking for ways to keep traffic moving in the area, which is busy with local traffic and vehicles coming into the commercial area off Hwy 2. There is often so much traffic coming off the highway that vehicles trying to move north in Gasoline Alley on the way to the cinemas or Costco face frustrating waits. “We’ve got to see the traffic start to flow properly in that area,” said Wood. “A roundabout allows traffic to continuously flow.” The county has put aside the $6 million in its proposed 2013 capital budget. However, the county is also trying to line up some provincial funding help. Covering some of the cost through a levy charged to area businesses is also being considered. Construction is expected to take place in the summer.

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ELECTIONS: Four-year term causes concern “I do believe that may have an impact on future elections,” said Mulder. “Although I do believe enough social agencies will come forward for those (people) who don’t have ID to get it for them. That would be one thing that was questionable.” Coun. Dianne Wyntjes questioned whether expired identification like a driver’s licence or a passport would be acceptable at the polls. “Because we don’t want to put barriers in place for people to vote,” Wyntjes said. “We should be looking at processes that encourage people to vote and make it easier for them.” Wyntjes said there’s a time in politics called the “silly period” when you start to get into election mode and lose momentum. She agreed the extra year would allow more time to focus on the initiatives that need to be done. Coun. Frank Wong, however, said he does not support a four-year term because of the longer commitment and the possibility of having a dysfunctional or spendthrift council in power for longer. He said the four-year commitment may sway some people from putting their names on the municipal ballot. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Sewage line debt limit to be raised TO KEEP PACE WITH RISING COST AND TO COVER FUNDING HOLD-BACKS The commission behind the Olds-to-Red Deer sewage line is looking to boost its debt limit. Dennis Cooper, chairman of the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission, said the additional borrowing room is needed to keep pace with the rising cost of the project and to cover government funding hold-backs. First estimated at $107 million in 2007, the cost of the 90-km line from Olds to Red Deer is now expected to cost $135 million due to inflation and line route changes that added 16 km to the route. The province is covering 90 per cent of that and municipalities along the line are sharing the rest. That means the commission needs to borrow about $14 million for its share, up from the original $11 million. Another $7 million must be borrowed to cover the 10 per cent the government holds back until work is completed on each phase. Borrowed money will be paid off through sewage rates paid by communities along the line. When the line is in full operation in 2015, each community will pay the same rate. How much communities should pay until then became the subject of some debate at Innisfail recently, where the Anthony Henday Treatment Plant is located. The town argued it should not have to pay the full The awards are among Canada’s most prestigious, designed to raise the profile of arts in Alberta. They are made possible through a donor-funded endowment. For more information, or to make a nomination, please visit www.artsawards.ca.

BRIEFS New school, church near Spruce View Rezoning has been approved for a new school and church next to Spruce View. Red Deer Valley Mennonite Church is behind the project, which will also include a playground, cemetery and parking lot. On Tuesday, Red Deer County council agreed to rezone 21 acres of agriculture land for the project to serve the Innisfail-based church’s 20 or so families. Since the water reservoir in Spruce View is near capacity, onsite wells will be used to supply the development until the hamlet’s system is upgraded. Council also approved subdivision of the property into two parcels.

Distinguished artists sought Nominations are open for Alberta artists who can be honoured at the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta’s Distinguished Artist Awards, presented in Red Deer next June. Eligible artists can work in visual, performing, literary, cinematic or other media, including architecture and design. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 15. Adjudicators will choose up to three recipients for a $30,000 award, a handcrafted medal, and the opportunity for a residency at The Banff Centre’s Leighton Artists’ Colony. Recipients will be announced in May. They will receive the award from Donald Ethell, lieutenant-governor of Alberta, at a gala dinner in Red Deer on June 15.

Fatal crash case going to court A Lacombe man charged in connection with a fatal motor vehicle collision will return to court on Jan. 11. Matthew Lawrence Engelman, 24, is charged with impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving causing death, and refusing to provide a breath sample. Emergency crews were called to a crash at the intersection of Hwy 20 and Aspelund Road, northwest of Sylvan Lake, at 9 p.m. on Sept. 21. Police allege that a pickup truck crossed the centre line and struck an oncoming pickup truck. A Breton man, 41-year-old Randy Pinch, was extracted from his vehicle and rushed by STARS air ambulance to the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. Pinch died in hospital on Oct. 2.

Hospital cafe closing for renovations The Garden Court Cafe at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre will be closed for renovations for three months. Starting on Dec. 31, the lower level cafeteria will be closed to allow for upgrades to the storage and serving areas. Patient meals and patient services will not be affected by the closure. The 270-seating cafeteria is mostly used by staff. Hours at Cafe VA and Jolt N Bolt will be extended and more tables will be brought into atriums at select spots in the hospital. The cafeteria is expected to reopen on March 25.

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Dallas wants to talk policy NEW FOREIGN INVESTMENT RULES WILL KICK OFF FURTHER TALKS IN ALBERTA: MINISTER BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A federal decision on the CNOOC-Nexen deal and new guidelines for foreign takeovers are only the beginning of a necessary policy conversation, says Alberta’s intergovernmental affairs minister. First, Alberta wants to see more clarity and transparency in Ottawa’s next version of the foreign investment rules, Cal Dallas said in an interview on Wednesday. Then, the revised rules will serve as a basis for a discussion about how the province should handle the cumulative impact of foreign investment in the energy sector, especially by foreign state-owned enterprises. “I think that’s a reasonable conversation to be having,” Dallas said. “I’m looking forward to the release of the position and discussion around what that net benefits test looks like. It will be interesting to see if it begins to contemplate the impact of cumulative investments and where it goes from there. We can — and

will — have that conversation in Alberta as well.” He said the bid by China-controlled CNOOC to take over Calgary-based Nexen Inc. (TSX:NXY), has prompted some angst in Alberta and across the country, mainly because people are unsure how further acquisitions by state-owned foreign firms will affect the development of natural resources for Cal Dallas Canada’s benefit. That anxiety has to be balanced against Alberta’s need for about $120 billion in investment over the next decade, Dallas added. “We continue to invite investment,” he said. “We want to have a conversation more transparently about what constitutes a benefit of foreign direct investment. And we’re

AIR CANADA, WESTJET REPORT STRONG GROWTH IN PASSENGER DEMAND Canada’s two largest airlines reported strong monthly demand in November as they flew fuller planes and more travellers took to the air. Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) said its load factor grew 2.2 percentage points to 78.1 per cent as passenger traffic including its regional partners increased 4.6 per cent. Capacity increased 1.7 per cent. Meanwhile, WestJet Airlines Ltd. saw its planes fly 82.6 per cent full in the month, up from 77.6 per cent a year ago, and reported passenger traffic increased 8.3 per cent. Capacity at the Calgarybased airline increased 1.7 per cent. WestJet chief executive Gregg Saretsky said November’s load factor beat the previous record for the month set in 2010 by 4.9 percentage points. “Our airline partnership strategy and growing number of business travellers are contributing to our positive momentum,” he stated. Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu said his airline’s November’s load factor was the second highest ever for the month. — The Canadian Press

perfectly prepared to have a conversation with Albertans about what impacts continued cumulative investment may have, both positive or potentially, you know, with some impact for Albertans.” Dallas said the province has the power to influence foreign investment patterns through its tax regime, but he said he has no intention of wielding a big stick. “At any point, we control a piece of the tax scheme, that type of thing,” he said. “So can you influence investment on the basis of investment policies at a provincial level? Absolutely. Are we saying for a minute that that’s what we’re prepared to do? Absolutely not. “I’m saying that we listen to the people of Alberta. There have been some concerns expressed abut investments — whether proposed or transpiring — and it’s important to make sure that we’re prepared to have an open conversation with our constituents about that.”

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Business confidence slipping

CP PLAN TO CUT WORKFORCE, REDUCE COSTS DRIVES STOCK UP 4% CALGARY — Investors are welcoming a new plan by Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. to drive down costs, while a union representing 5,000 of its employees is awaiting more details on major job cuts. Shares in the Calgary-based company (TSX:CP) closed up about four per cent to $96.82 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, marking a new 52-week high. Shareholders are reacting to a presentation by new CP chief executive Hunter Harrison on Tuesday evening outlining his vision for the troubled railroad. The most striking change will be a 23-percent reduction in the railway’s 19,500-member workforce by 2016. About 1,700 of the 4,500 cuts are expected to take place by year-end. Much of the reduction is expected to come through attrition as older workers retire and aren’t replaced.

Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012

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Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer College president Joel Ward in the new college Marketplace.

Marketplace increasing sales BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Institutional food has plenty of detractors. But you won’t find many at Red Deer College these days, where students and staff can lunch on the likes of pitas, pizzas and smoothies. In fact, said RDC president Joel Ward, revenues from the college’s food services during the past six weeks are up more than 40 per cent from the same period last year. Much of that business is being done in the college’s new Marketplace, where Extreme Pita, 2matos, Reds Grill, Reds on the Go, Pureblendz and Starbucks operate. Also located in the Marketplace is another success story: the college’s bookstore. Now selling products like RDC-branded clothing and Rebels wear — as well computers and related equipment at a nearby Tech Store — its revenues jumped 186 per cent during that same time frame, said Ward. The changes didn’t come cheap, with the renovations needed to create the Marketplace costing approximately $5 million. Fortunately, it wasn’t Red Deer College footing the bill.

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Target renos worth millions in building permits Target Corp. won’t open its Red Deer store until spring, but the retail giant is already having an impact on the local economy. The City of Red Deer issued a building permit last month for $7.1 million worth of renovations to the former Zellers premises in Bower Place Shopping Centre. PCL Construction has been preparing the site for Target since mid-November, when Zellers ceased operations there. The Target approval accounted for more than a third of the $21 million in building permit values authorized by the city last month. It helped boost the commercial tally to $10 million, while residential permits came in at $7.5 million, industrial permits at $2.7 million and public project approvals at $790,000. By comparison, the total value of construction approved by the city in the same month last year was $13.6 million. That was made up of $9.3 million in residential work, $2.7 million in the commercial category, $1 million for industrial work and $470,000 for public projects. With one month remaining in 2012, Red Deer is on track for its highest building permit total since 2007. It’s already approved

Ward described how he met with the presidents of Follett of Canada and Compass Group Canada, which operate the bookstore and food services facilities respectively, just over a year ago. He proposed a three-way partnership to improve their shared facilities, and revenues. “That’s the unique piece of this,” said Ward of how Follett, Compass and the college took on the project together. “The concept was that we were going to take the old bookstore space, the old cafeteria space and that dingy hallway, and blow it all open and turn it into an open concept Marketplace with a campus store that sells more than simply textbooks.” That vision became reality this fall, with the Marketplace celebrating its grand opening last Friday. Follett and Compass paid for most of the work, excluding core infrastructure like mechanical and electrical systems. They now have approximately five years remaining on their contracts to operate the bookstore and food services, after which time they’ll have to bid on renewals.

Please see COLLEGE on Page C4 $256.8 million in construction, up from the $169.7 million for all of last year, $113.7 million for 2010 and $141 million for 2008. In 2008 the city authorized $258.4 million in work, which marked a sharp drop from the pre-recession high of $421 million in 2007. Residential construction during the first 11 months of 2012 has generated $65.7 million worth of permits, up from $71.3 million for the same period last year. Commercial approvals have accounted for $65.7 million in work, up from $53.5 million; industrial permits have jumped to $72.8 million from $15.3 million; and the value of work on public projects has dropped to $11.2 million from $20.2 million.

Toronto home sales down from year ago, prices edge up TORONTO — The Toronto Real Estate Board says November home sales fell 16 per cent compared with a year ago, however selling prices edged higher. Board president Ann Hannah says stricter mortgage lending guidelines have prompted some buyers to move to the sidelines.Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area totalled 5,793 for November, down from 6,908 a year ago. The average selling price was up 1.6 per cent at $485,328, compared with $477,582 in November 2011. The board says the moderate price growth compared with previous months was largely due to a different mix in detached home sales this year. The share of detached homes over $1

A survey of Alberta business owners last month indicates that their confidence has waned. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business calculated that the level of optimism among its members slipped nearly four points on the organization’s business barometer index — decreasing to 68.3 out of 100 in November, as compared with 72.2 in October. It’s the lowest the index for Alberta since August. “The slide in confidence among Alberta’s entrepreneurs last month reflects what has been happening across much of the country,” said Richard Truscott, the CFIB’s Alberta director. “A lot of the drop can be attributed to significant declines in specific sectors, such as natural resources, manufacturing and business services.” In the case of businesses active in the natural resources sector, the level of confidence was only 47.9. An index level above 50 means that the number of business owners who expect their business’s performance to be stronger in the next year outnumber those who expect weaker performance. Index levels normally range between 65 and 75 when the economy is growing, said the CFIB. Nationally, the index dropped 2.7 points in November, to 62.9. Newfoundland business owners were the most optimistic, with an index of 74.1. Next was Alberta, followed by British Columbia (67.1), Saskatchewan (66.4), Ontario (63), New Brunswick (61.4), Manitoba (61.3), Nova Scotia (60.8), Quebec (60.2) and PEI (52.1). Despite the decline in overall confidence among Alberta respondents, the percentage of small business owners who said they plan to hire in the next three to four months jumped four points in November, to 35 per cent. Fifty-four per cent expected their employment levels to remain the same, while 10 per cent anticipated a decrease. The biggest concern among the Alberta independent business owners surveyed was labour, with 51 per cent citing a shortage of skilled labour as their main operating challenge. That was up seven points from the October survey. million was down substantially, brought down the overall average price. On Monday, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he was pleased housing was moderating in Canada, a shift in the mortgage market he attributed in part to his decision to tighten borrowing rules in July. Flaherty made mortgage payments more expensive by dropping the maximum amortization period to 25 years. Nationally, the housing slowdown was a big part of the disappointing economic downturn recorded in the third quarter, with the sector falling 3.5 per cent annualized.

KingSett consortium offers to buy Primaris REIT for $4.4B TORONTO — A consortium led by KingSett Capital and including the Ontario Pension Board has launched a $4.4-billion takeover offer for Primaris Retail Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:PMZ.UN), one of Canada’s largest shopping mall owners. “This is a strong and compelling offer, providing unitholders with a premium price at a time of peak valuations in the sector,” said Jon Love, managing partner of KingSett Capital. “The all-cash offer provides Primaris’ unitholders with an attractive opportunity to obtain immediate liquidity in the face of economic uncertainty and volatile markets. We firmly believe that this offer will be very appealing to unitholders.” Primaris said Wednesday that an official offer had yet to be made, and urged unitholders to sit tight.

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 99.41 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 76.53 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.48 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.28 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.16 Cdn. National Railway . . 89.42 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 96.82 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 6.15 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 68.06 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.39 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.20 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 29.49 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 40.02 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.59 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.34 General Motors Co. . . . . 25.00 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.81 Research in Motion. . . . . 11.84 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 36.93 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 38.67 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 65.16 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.66 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.62 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.32 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 65.80 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.62 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 33.60 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 11.24 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.15

Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.92 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 45.40 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.65 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 19.87 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 33.12 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.45 First Quantum Minerals . 20.85 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 36.61 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.96 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 66.52 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 9.44 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.24 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.04 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 34.20 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 24.55 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 31.60 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 42.00 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.56 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 43.48 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 27.78 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.20 Canyon Services Group. . 9.93 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.44 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 21.53 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.98 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.73 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 33.50 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.78

Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 28.80 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.90 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.40 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.26 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.04 Penn West Energy . . . . . 11.04 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.60 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.48 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 32.68 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.14 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.56 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.84 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.50

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed modestly higher Wednesday amid optimism about the Chinese economy and cautious hopes about the pace of negotiations aimed at heading off a serious U.S. fiscal crisis. The S&P/TSX composite index was 20.11 points higher to 12,157.29 as the market also found support from major acquisition activity in the real estate sector and significant cost-cutting moves from Canadian Pacific Railway(TSX:CP). The TSX Venture Exchange was down 8.32 points to 1,184.54. The Canadian dollar rose 0.16 of a cent to 100.84 cents

US. Traders also looked to possible progress on a deal to avert the so-called U.S. “fiscal cliff” of automatic spending cuts and tax increases at the start of the new year. Without a deal, the U.S. could well fall back into recession and push much of the world down with it. “That’s what markets are focused on, will the U.S. careen off the fiscal cliff or not?” said John Stephenson, portfolio manager at First Asset Funds Inc. He observed that the laser-like focus on the fiscal issue has resulted in markets, “whether they be oil markets, gas markets, bond markets, equity markets, moving together instead of moving by their fundamentals.”

“(The cliff) is the main story right now and everything else is secondary.” New York markets were mainly higher after Bloomberg reported that some 40 Republicans have signed a letter calling for exploration of “all options” on taxes and entitlement programs, a signal that some rank-and-file members could be ready to bargain. House Republicans have so far proposed a 10-year, US$2.2 trillion blueprint that calls for increasing the eligibility age for Medicare and lowering cost-ofliving hikes for Social Security benefits. But the White House has dismissed the GOP plan since it fails to raise the top two tax

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 59.62 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 55.84 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.52 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.74 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 27.68 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 23.35 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.87 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 63.97 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 12.86 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 77.77 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.87 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 58.80 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.11 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.58

D I L B E R T brackets for upper-income earners — a core promise of President Barack Obama’s election campaign and a central demand in the current talks. The Dow Jones industrials ran ahead 82.71 points to 13,034.49, the Nasdaq declined 22.99 points to 2,973.7, paced by a 6.4 per cent drop in Apple Inc. shares, while the S&P 500 index was up 2.23 points to 1,409.28. Markets had started the session off on a positive note on hopes that China’s new leadership will back new measures to stimulate the world’s second-biggest economy. The catalyst to the optimism had been a Chinese government pledge to maintain policies intended to strengthen the economy and an expression of willingness to “fine tune” them and make them more effective. There were also reports that the government lifted investment limits for insurance companies and that the new Chinese leadership will remain focused on urbanization, which could ramp up infrastructure spending. China has been a major prop for a global economy still trying to recover from the financial collapse and subsequent recessions of 2008. Signs of stimulus are welcome because the Chinese government had to take steps to weaken the economy over the last couple of years to deal with higher than acceptable inflation. A group led by KingSett Capital is proposing a $4.4-billion takeover of Primaris Retail Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:PMZ.UN), one of Canada’s largest shopping mall operators. At the same time, industry leader RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:REI.UN) has conditionally agreed to buy five regional malls and three other shopping centres currently owned by Primaris. RioCan values that part of the Primaris portfolio at $1.1 billion. Primaris units surged 14.58 per cent to $26.40

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The increased sales in the Marketplace are good news for them, but Red Deer College also receives a percentage of the revenues earned. “The contribution to our bottom line, given our new concept, has increased dramatically from what we were getting before,” said Ward. “This is a model that generates revenue. At the end of the day, every penny we make goes back into

while RioCan units rose 34 cents to $27.30. Canadian Pacific Railway plans to bring down operating costs by cutting about a quarter of its workforce, or 4,500 employees, by 2016. The cuts are part of a plan to increase annual revenue growth between four and seven per cent from 2012 levels as well as reduce its fullyear operating ratio, a closely watched measure of how much revenue is required to run the business, to the mid-60s range by 2016. CP shares ran ahead $3.82 or 4.11 per cent to $96.82. Commodity prices were mixed and the mining sector led advancers, up 1.79 per cent as March copper edged up three cents at US$3.66 a pound on the Chinese reports. The country is the world’s biggest consumer of the metal, viewed as an economic bellwether because it is used in so many industries. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) gained 95 cents to $34.20 while First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) climbed 47 cents to $20.85. The energy sector gained 0.67 per cent with the January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange down 62 cents to US$87.88 a barrel. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) was ahead 35 cents to $27.7. The gold sector was the leading decliner, down 2.74 per cent while February gold fell $2 to US$1,693.80 an ounce. Iamgold (TSX:IMG) dropped 78 cents to $10.66 and Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) was off $1.24 to $36.61. Traders also took in some weak jobs data. Payroll firm ADP reported that the private sector created 118,000 jobs during November. The U.S. government releases its non-farm payrolls report for November on Friday and economists expect the economy created only about 95,000 jobs. But they agree that job creation was impacted by Superstorm Sandy.

Other data showed increasing expansion in the U.S. service sector. The Institute for Supply Management says its index of nonmanufacturing activity rose to 54.7 from 54.2 in October. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion. A measure of employment fell sharply but still showed companies added workers last month. In other corporate news, resource giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold says it is buying oil companies Plains Exploration & Production and McMoRan Exploration for about US$9 billion. The additions of the oil and gas drillers are expected to create a natural resources conglomerate with assets ranging from oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to mines in Indonesia and Africa. Freeport shares tumbled 16 per cent to US$32.16 in New York. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan ’13 $12.40 higher $602.20; March ’13 $10.80 higher $600.00; May ’13 $10.40 higher $598.70; July ’13 $10.50 higher $595.20; Nov. ’13 $10.00 higher $548.40; Jan. ’14 $10.00 higher $550.60; March ’14 $10.00 higher $550.90; May ’14 $7.90 higher $548.80; July ’14 $5.00 higher $545.90; Nov. ’14 $7.00 higher $547.90; Jan ’15 $7.00 higher $547.90. 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. Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 428,780 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 428,780.

serving our students.” Ward also thinks it makes good sense to entrust companies like Follett with operations like the bookstore. “They have access to inventory we could never have gotten; we don’t ever have to worry about stale merchandise and having to write off merchandise. “They get the best prices.” Officials from a half-dozen other post-secondary institutions attended the Marketplace opening, most with an eye to duplicating the project, said Ward. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the federal government will announce new guidelines for foreign takeovers “fairly soon.” The minister said the government is aware of the need to clarify the rules for approval of big acquisitions, but is taking the time it needs because the issue is important. “I can say it’s being given priority ... It will be fairly soon,” he said. Ottawa is considering two controversial acquisitions in the energy sector — the $15-billion bid for Nexen Inc., and the $6-billion purchase of Progress Energy Resources (TSX:PRQ) by Malaysia’s national oil and gas company. While Flaherty didn’t give a specific date for the new guidelines, the government has a Dec. 10 deadline on the Nexen deal. However, Industry Minister Christian Paradis said Wednesday the Nexen review could be extended a third time, but added not to read too much into that. “This is a deadline that could be extended, but once again, I won’t speculate ... I don’t want to send a signal. Don’t interpret anything from what I’m saying here.” Ottawa has previously delayed its decision on both deals in part because it wanted to establish new rules under the Investment Canada Act. That move anticipates that Nexen and Progress are just the tip of the iceberg of growing foreign interest in Canada’s rich resource sector. Paradis said he could not go even as far as the finance minister about when the decisions are coming down or whether he will issue new guidelines before ruling specifically on the company bids. “I can say stay tuned, ” he said. “I don’t want to go further than this. The markets are sensitive and I prefer not to elaborate.” When it comes to heating up your investment plans, you needn’t look any further than snowbird Last week, Paradis sugsenior financial advisor Jackie Mawer. A self-professed golf lover, she’s passionate about helping gested the new guidelines could come separately people plan for a warmer future—because saving for that second home down south isn’t as difficult as from the decision on the it may seem. atb.com/jackie two bids, and that the Nexen and Progress Energy review is based on the existing definition of the “net benefit” to Canada test in the act. The Alberta government came out in favour Jackie Mawer, Financial Advisor of the CNOOC bid soon after it was announced, but has since submitted a list of requirements to federal SAVING І BORROWING І INVESTING І KNOW-HOW regulators that detail how the deal should benefit Alberta.

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Quebec filmmaker vies for Oscar nod 21-MINUTE FILM “HENRY” IS AMONG 11 SHORTS BEING CONSIDERED IN THE LIVE ACTION SHORT CATEGORY “He had an amazing memory. He could remember every single detail of everything,” England said Wednesday from the set of the francophone TV drama “Yamaska.” “When he turned 92, at some point I was having coffee with him and my mom ... and he looked at us and he asked us if he had been a good man.” England, a former child actor, says he cried when he learned late Thursday that he’d made the Oscar shortlist. The race started with 125 pictures in the category. “It’s amazing,” he said. “All of a sudden I had this email and I started crying all over the place and I was thrilled about everything and it was just an amazing feeling to have this great opportunity.” For his film, he assembled a cast of veteran Quebec performers including Gerard Poirier as Henry and Louise Laprade as Henry’s wife Maria. England said he’s been acting since age eight but always hoped to one day write, direct and do everything in between on a film set. “I’ve always dreamed of doing it all,” said England, noting that Charlie Chaplin was his childhood idol. “It was such a thrill to do this project from A to Z.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A short film by Quebec actor Yan England is in the running for an Oscar nomination. England’s 21-minute film Henry is among 11 shorts being considered for a nod in the live action short category. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says Henry will compete against contenders with considerable star power: actress Bryce Dallas Howard directs “when you find me,” executive produced by her famous Oscar-winning dad, Ron Howard. Meanwhile, the Dutch-language Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) features Rust and Bone hunk Matthias Schoenaerts; and the Italian-set The Night Shift Belongs to the Stars stars Nastassja Kinski and Julian Sands. Henry is about an 84-year-old concert pianist whose life is thrown into turmoil when his wife mysteriously disappears. The 29-year-old England says it was inspired by the experiences of his own grandfather, who developed Alzheimer’s disease and died three years ago at age 96.

The Academy’s branch for short films and feature animation will now whittle the field down to between three and five nominees. Nominations will be announced Jan. 10, 2013. The awards bash will air Feb. 24 on ABC. “This is just beyond what I had expected,” England said. “I was thrilled to submit it to the Academy Awards. It was a great opportunity. Now to be in the top 11 is just like: Really? Thank you very much. Thank you so much.”’

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Jazz legend Dave Brubeck performs at the 30th edition of the 2009 Montreal International Jazz Festival. Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as “Take Five” caught listeners’ ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91. time — nine beats to the measure instead of the customary two, three or four beats. A piano-and-saxophone whirlwind based loosely on a Mozart piece, Blue Rondo eventually intercuts between Brubeck’s piano and a more traditional 4/4 jazz rhythm. The album also features Take Five — in 5/4 time — which became

the Quartet’s signature theme and even made the Billboard singles chart in 1961. It was composed by Brubeck’s longtime saxophonist, Paul Desmond. “When you start out with goals — mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically — you never exhaust that,” Brubeck told The Associated Press in 1995. “I started doing that

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in the 1940s. It’s still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.” After service in the Second World War and study at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., Brubeck formed an octet including Desmond on alto sax and Dave van Kreidt on tenor, Cal Tjader on drums and Bill Smith on clarinet. The group played Brubeck originals and standards by other composers, including some early experimentation in unusual time signatures. Their groundbreaking album Dave Brubeck Octet was recorded in 1946. The group evolved into the Quartet, which played colleges and universities.

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Dear Annie: My incredible husband As she gets older, she will recognize of two years has a four-year-old daugh- her mother’s bitterness, so please don’t ter with his ex-wife. I have actively play into that drama. helped raise “Christie” since she was Dear Annie: I am a recent widow in barely a year. my mid-70s. I decided after the death We haven’t communicatof my husband a couple of ed with the mother since the years ago that I would live time we took her to court for out my life alone. refusing visitation, but my I don’t have much of a husband and I have always social life, but I do attend provided for Christie in evchurch services regularly. I ery way possible, above and find myself sitting next to a beyond the court-ordered man who once spoke to me child support. This little girl after the service. After sevloves me. eral weeks, I could tell he I have never tried to reseemed interested in me. place her mother, encourAfter a few conversations, I aged or expected her to call realized I am 10 years older me “Mom,” or even so much than he is. MITCHELL as talked badly about her He seems like a kind and & SUGAR mother in front of her. polite man, and his wife has But lately, Christie has been dead for many years. I been questioning my relaam flattered by his attentionship with her father, saytion and shocked at this ing the reason her mommy and daddy chain of events. I would appreciate are not together is because of me. your input on the age difference. I am When I ask her to do something she basically a happy, healthy woman, but doesn’t want to do, she says her mom- this is a situation I could take or leave. my says she doesn’t have to listen to So if you tell me to come to my senses, me because I am not her mother. Even I will say “Goodbye, Columbus.” — Calworse, she’s been told that when my ifornia husband and I have a baby of our own, Dear California: The age difference Daddy won’t love her as much as the is irrelevant as long as you don’t misnew baby. lead him about it. If you enjoy his comChristie is obviously too young to pany, we say go for it. There is nothing draw these conclusions on her own, so wrong with a companionable friendMom is giving her these impressions or ship, and if either of you is looking for telling her these things outright. I don’t something more, just be sure you are know why any mother would want to both comfortable with it. hurt her child this way, but I worry it Dear Annie: You printed several reis going to cause Christie to resent me. sponses to “Looking for a RelationHow can we handle this? — Stepmom ship, Too” and included one from “El in the Middle Paso, Texas,” who suggested that womDear Stepmom: Many courts now en take up shooting because “guys like recognize parental alienation. Suggest a gal with good aim.” that your husband speak to his lawyer I laughed, thinking of a song from about this possibility. the Broadway musical Annie Get Your In the meantime, when Christie is Gun, which was titled, You Can’t Get with you, do your best to counter the a Man with a Gun. Thanks for a good negative brainwashing. Let her know chuckle.— Musical Lover how much you love her and always Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy will; that a new baby means she will Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edibe more important than ever, and the tors of the Ann Landers column. Please new baby will need a big sister; that email your questions to anniesmailbox@ everyone in the household has chores comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, to do, and you want her to learn to be c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, a big girl. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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LYTLE Lawrence Deane Lawrence Deane Lytle of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre with his wife, children and grandchildren by his side, on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at the age of 86 years. Deane will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by all of us. Deane is survived by his wife, Nina and their children together, grandchildren and great g r a n d c h i l d r e n ; Ti m ( L i l ) , Marylin, children, Jerrod (Meagan), great grandchildren; Raquel, Halli and Judy (Dan), child, Michelle, Gayle (Don), children; Kimberly, Tyson and Byron(Brenda), children; Madison, Spenser, Cassidy, CJ Lacy and Brenda (Stu), children; Chelsea and Brayden. Deane was also survived by many nieces, nephews and cousins. He will be greatly missed by sisters; Adele(Art) and Faye, brother-in-law, Burton and sister-in-law, Edith. Deane was predeceased by his first wife, Helen, granddaughter, Shannon, daughter, Wendy, two brothers, one sister and one sister-in-law. A Memorial Service in celebration of Deane’s life will be held at First Christian Reformed Church (16 McVicar, Red Deer) on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 2 p.m. Cremation took place at the Eventide Funeral Chapels. Deane’s cremated remains will be interred at a later date. Please no flowers by Dad’s request. A donation in L a w r e n c e D e a n e Ly t l e ’ s honor may be made directly to the Alberta Cancer Foundation, c/o Tom Baker Cancer Centre, 1331-29 Street NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N2, Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre Foundation P.O. Box 5030, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 9Z9, or to a charity of your choice. Many thanks and hugs to all of Unit 21 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital for what they did for Dad. Condolences for the late Lawrence Deane Lytle may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Craig Kanngiesser EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222.

McLUHAN Betsy June 19, 1930 - Nov. 30, 2012 Betsy McLuhan passed away on November 30, 2012, at the age of 82 years. Betsy will be dearly missed by Dr. William John McLuhan, her loving husband of 60 years; children Bruce McLuhan, Jean McLuhan (Ron Zegil), Jo-Anne McLuhan (Kevin Baldwin) and Sandra (Guy); grandchildren Graham McLuhan (Raelyn Buggera), Neal and Amy; sister Anne Watts, brother Jim Hunter and extended family and friends. Betsy was born in Edmonton and won the Board of Governors prize in nursing when she graduated as an R.N. from the University of Alberta Hospital in 1952. John and Betsy married that year and Betsy worked as a nurse while John was finishing his medical studies. They moved to Red Deer in 1959 when John joined the practice at the Associate Clinic. In her spare time while raising four kids, Betsy liked to golf, play bridge, do aerobics and attend concerts. The family would like to express its thanks to Dr. Hovan and the staff at the Red Deer Hospice and Unit 32P at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Friends and family are invited to celebrate Betsy’s life at a memorial service on Friday, December 7 at 1 p.m. at Eventide Funeral Chapel, followed by a gathering at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club from 2 to 4 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Betsy’s memory to the Red Deer Hospice, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra or the charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Rebekah Sealock EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222.

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Arts & Crafts Shows

Annual

Qualified Day & Night Supervisors - (Must be able to provide own work truck.) Field Operators - Valid First Aid, H2S, driver’s license required! Please see your website @ www.colterenergy.ca or contact us at 1-877-926-5837 Your application will be kept strictly confidential

EXP. LINE LOCATOR, H2S PSTS, 1st aid req’d. Min. 3 yrs. exp. Resume by fax 403-227-1398 or email info@accutechcanada.ca

50 and

Market Show

“oh goody, when?”

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30, 2013

$2500 Bonus Every 100 days

RED DEER BINGO Centre 4946-53 Ave. (West of Superstore). Precall 12:00 & 6:00. Check TV Today!!!!

Medical

Red Deer

60

Personals

Farm Work

Chambers, Terry May 2, 1939 - Dec 6, 2003 Found a penny today sent from up above, a small, but powerful, reminder of your unending love. Small reminders you leave for us to let us know that you are near, small gifts to give us comfort with each passing year. Your memory has lived on in us since the day you went away. We honor your life, your love, your dreams and cherish every day. Your loving wife, Aurea and daughters Koren, Charlie, Shannon and Swamper

Births

STUD EARRING, light blue Topaz, silver backing. Lost Fri. Nov. 30 at Bower Mall. If found please call 403-342-4097

Just had a baby boy?

Saturday, December 8th 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Parkland Garden Centre

Tell Everyone with a Classified Announcement

A non-perishable donation to the Red Deer Food Bank would be greatly appreciated. Watch for upcoming show on Dec. 15

309-3300

271886K15

www.parklandfuneralhome.com

GROH Margot Anna 1933 - 2012 On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Margot Anna Groh passed away with family by her side at the Lacombe Care Centre at the age of 79 years. Margot was born in Dudenhofen, Germany on April 14, 1933. In 1968 she moved with her husband and four children to Ontario, Canada to pursue a new life. She went on to have two more children. In 1982 life changed and Margot came to Red Deer with her younger children to start a new life. Mom got a job with Red Deer Regional Hospital, where she worked until her retirement. She was a kind and loving woman who didn’t have the easiest life, but always made the best of everything and we loved her dearly for it. Margot is survived by her children and their families; Gabriele (Robert) Cameron, Chris, Adam and Lindsay (predec e a s e d ) o f R e d D e e r, Reinhold (Sue) Groh, Brian, Jason, Mike and Tracy of Ontario, Andrea (Daryl) Jarvis, Corey and Jared of Red Deer, Marika Solmes (Fred Doughty), Joshua and Jessica of Ontario, Susi Groh, Cole and Eric of Red Deer, Christina Groh (predeceased), Dustin and Amanda of British Columbia as well as fourteen great grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister; Brigitte (Heinz) of Germany and sister-in-law; Roswitha of Germany, as well as nieces and nephews both in Canada and Germany. Margot was predeceased by her parents and brothers Heinz and Ewald all of Germany. A celebration of mom’s life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. Interment to take place at Alto Reste Cemetery, Hwy 11 East, Red D e e r, A l b e r t a . I n l i e u o f flowers donations may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, #202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red D e e r, A l b e r t a , T 4 N 4 C 4 . Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

42379

BOWNESS Don (Donald) Arthur Bowness of Rimbey passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Friday, November 30, 2012 at the age of 67 years. Don was born in Olds, AB., and raised in the James River area until moving to Alhambra. Later moved to the Didsbury/Olds area where he met Sharon (Brinson), his wife and love of his life, to pursue a career in the drilling industry for 17 years, which built up his true passion of owning his own farm. In their later years they enjoyed traveling to Scotland to discover Don’s heritage, as well as Alaska, Panama and sunny Yuma, AZ. Don also enjoyed working for Allen B. Olson’s Auction Service in Rimbey. His memory will be cherished by his beloved wife, Sharon, two daughters, Connie (Larry) of Gull Lake, Lori (Randy) of Sherwood Park and 4 cherished grandchildren, Nicole, Aaron, Sara and Megan. He will also be remembered by his very special mother-in-law, Eileen Brinson of Rimbey, brotherin-law, Wayne Brinson (Linda) and family of Rimbey; as well as numerous family, friends and neighbours. The family would like to thank the Red Deer and Rocky Dialysis Units, Unit 31 Staff at the Red Deer Hospital and an extra special thank you to the Red Deer College Student Nurses. A celebration of Don’s life will take place at a later date. If friends desire, and in lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Rocky Mountain House Hospital Dialysis Unit or the Red Deer Hospital Dialysis Unit (labeled for “patient comforts”) or STARS Air Ambulance. Arrangements and cremation were provided by Parkland Funeral Home, Red Deer. Condolences may be forwarded to the family at

near City Hall. If found please return to Council Chambers.

Location: 3 miles east of 30th Avenue on Hwy 11. Call 403.346.5613 for more information.

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012

800

Oilfield

800

Professionals

810

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Trades

850

BAMSS Contracting Inc.,

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. COMPETITIVE WAGES & BENEFIT PACKAGE INCLUDED Fax Resume to: 403 783 3011 Email: hr@ calnashtrucking.com JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Day Supervisors, Night Operators, and Helpers. Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com or mikeg@jagareenergy.com

Landcore Technologies Inc. located in Ponoka is currently seeking energetic, motivated team players for the following positions:

Drillers and Driller Assistants with a Class 1 driver’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. 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 LOCAL SERVICE CO. REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND and DERRICK HAND. Locally 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

Providence Trucking Inc

HIRING Clark’s Plumbing & * Gas station Manager Heating * $25/hr, full time 1 person a Lacombe based transis now hiring * The day to day operap o r t a t i o n c o m p a n y, i s Camp Shifts tions of filling station and looking for a full-time to start immediately for the administrative professional. convenience store, managfollowing position: i n g s t a ff , w o r k i n g w i t h Key responsibilities for this vendors and monitoring sales. Journeyman Plumbers position include: * Providing administrative * Completion of University Journeyman Gas ( Economics). Over 1 yr support to Management Fitters business experience. * Maintenance of IFTA Starting wage of $36/hr, Leeoh Holdings Inc. reporting program 10% Vacation/Holiday Pay o/a Rimbey Gas & Splash. * Responding to staff and benefits. Box 659 4630 50 Ave. inquiries Please fax resumes to Rimbey, AB T0C 2J0 RETIREMENT & * Data entry & maintaining 780-623-7451or email to cookplus@naver.com SAVINGS PLAN document files sales@cpandh.ca Phone 403-843-2360 BENEFITS * Reception including ESTABLISHED well known answering telephones, HOLIDAY INN company looking for exp’d. and greeting visitors EXPRESS steel stud/drywall person *Maintaining supplies and RED DEER to work F/T hourly. office equipment Is seeking Please fax resume to * Open, sort and distribute FRONT DESK CLERK 403-782-0610 email: correspondence (including * Answer phone calls ben@tpil.ca fax and email) * Take reservations QUALIFIED EXP’’D drywall tradesmen * Check in/out Guests The successful candidate DAY AND NIGHT & laborers req’d, immed Balance cash out will have: Phone 403-348-8640 SUPERVISORS & Attend to guest needs (Must be able to Provide * Strong organizational $14.00/hr. skills EXPERIENCED own work truck) * Proficiency in using Technician or HOUSEKEEPING ROOM Microsoft Word, Excel, Apprentice ATTENDANT FIELD OPERATORS and Outlook required for GM * Clean and vacuum Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers * Excellent oral and written dealership in Drumheller rooms, public areas, pool License required!! communication skills Medical benefits, good etc. * High degree of working conditions. Replenish amenities, Please contact professionalism Must have clean driving linens & towels Murray McGeachy or * The ability to work record. Please fax * Adhere to Holiday Inn Jamie Rempel independently or as part or email resume to safety stardands by of a team service manager. $14.00/hr. Fax: (403) 340-0886 Email: All positions are Shift work or email QUALIFICATIONS: bob.thomas@ & weekends High school diploma and 3 westerngmdrumheller.com Fax Resume to: mmcgeachy@ years of related experience Fax: 403-823-7237 780-702-5051 cathedralenergyservices.com in an office environment. A diploma in Office AdminEXPERIENCED repair HOLIDAY INN jrempel@ istration will be considered person req’d for local truck Red Deer South, cathedralenergyservices.com an asset. Equivalencies company. Work involves Gasoline Alley will be considered. all aspects of heavy truck website: and trailer repair and disIs Seeking www. Fax resume to: manteling. Must be FRONT DESK CLERK cathedralenergyservices. Human Resources physically fit. HD Mechan* Answer phone calls com 403-782-1044 or Email: ic or equivelant experience * Take reservations careers@bamssinc.com * Check in/out Guests We offer competitive Your application will be wages, benefits weekends * Balance cash out kept strictly confidential. off. Fax resume to & Attend to guest needs 1-855-784-2330 or call $ 14.00/hr Snow Cat Operators 1-877-787-2501 HOUSEKEEPING ROOM Must have tickets and ATTENDANT equipment experience. GEMINI is Hiring for * Clean and vacuum rooms 403-348-1521 or Ponoka Fabrication public areas pool etc. 403-391-1695 * Replenish amenities, Shop linens & towels * Adhere to Holiday Inn JOURNEYMAN safety standards MILLWRIGHT OPTICIAN $ 14.00/hr Mechanical experience All positions are Experience in welding IRIS is expanding and Shift Work & weekends manufacturing we are looking for Fax resume Plant maintenance an outgoing, energetic 780 - 702-5051 Experience in maintenance Optician in our Red Deer of Overhead Cranes location. We will also TANKMASTER RENTALS consider training appliPlease send resumes to requires CLASS 1 BED Hmorrow@geminicorp.ca TRUCK and TANK TRUCK cants as opticians provided they possess sales experiOperators for Central ence and can demonstrate Alberta. Competitive GOODMEN enthusiasm and passion wages and benefits. for what they do in their LOOKING for a few good ROOFING LTD. m.morton@tankmaster.ca work and community. Also Apples! Hiring part time Requires or fax 403-340-8818 greet customers, book and full time kitchen line appointments & various cooks... great flexibility, SLOPED ROOFERS TREELINE other tasks. weekends a must! LABOURERS WELL SERVICES Apply in person between & FLAT ROOFERS Has Opening for all Drop resume off to: 2 pm and 5 pm and ask for positions! Kayla Macaulay, Manager Angie or Amy. Valid Driver’s Licence Immediately. All applicants preferred. Fax or email must have current H2S, THE RANCH HOUSE IRIS is Canada’s largest info@goodmenroofing.ca Class 5 with Q Endorserequires F/T & P/T eyecare provider with over or (403)341-6722 ment, First Aid dining room servers 165 locations across the NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! We offer competitive Call David 403-358-4100 country. IRIS features the wages & excellent benefor interview/appointment finest fashion frames, fits. Please include 2 work or fax resume lenses from the world’s reference names and 403-358-4116 leading manufacturer’s and numbers laser vision correction. Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: Restaurant/ tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. Hotel THE RUSTY PELICAN is JOURNEYMAN TREELINE now accepting resumes for BOULEVARD OR APPRENTICE WELL SERVICES a well experienced Midas is looking for Restaurant & Has openings for F/T SERVER ambitious, dedicated & Lounge Boiler Hands. Apply within: 2079-50 professional Journeyman Gasoline Alley Immediately. All applicants Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. or 3rd. and 4th year must have current H2S, Fax 403-347-1161 Phone apprentices in our Red Red Deer County Class 5 with Q Endorsecalls WILL NOT be accepted. Deer location. if you pride Food & Beverage ment, First Aid yourself on quality work, Server We offer competitive customer servicea and are Sales & $12.25/hr. wages & excellent benelooking for a career in To provide Food & Bever- Distributors fits. Please include 2 work automotives we would like age service, handle reference names and you to consider a position cashiering, arrange and numbers with us. Please drop off or F/T setup the outlet. maintain Please fax resume to : send a resume to 5804 50 retail sales position, cleanliness and hygiene. 403-264-6725 Ave. Red Deer, Alberta downtown, experience Cook Or email to: preferred but not neces- T4N 4C2 email to: $14.00/HR. tannis@treelinewell.com sary. Apply Wei’s Western midas58@telus.net or fax To prepare and cook all No phone calls please. to 403-314-9631 Wear 5115 Gaetz Ave food up to standard, clean kitchen and maintain hyJOURNEYMAN or giene follow recipes, assist 3rd Yr. Apprentice Trades in receiving and storing

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D

Join Our Fast Growing Team!!

WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floor hands for the Red Deer area. Please contact Steve Tiffin at stiffin@galleonrigs.com or (403) 358-3350 fax (403) 358-3326

Professionals

810

Picker Operator F/T Accountant Bed Truck Operator req’d to start immed. MonWinch truck operators Fri. The successful candi-

Oilfield

850

Kitchen Helper

Is now hiring experienced:

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

RISLEY MACHINING LTD. (Grande Prairie, AB) has the following position available for immediate employment: ALUMINUM BOAT FABRICATOR/WELDER Must have previous experience. Risley Machining offers a good benefits program and wages to commensurate with experience. Please reply with resume to: Jay Stojan 9620-109 St Grande Prairie, AB T8V 4E4 Phone: (780) 538-8256 Fax: (780) 539-5447 Email: jay.stojan@gorisley.com

SERVICEMAN POSITION

Mechanically inclined or heavy duty equipment apprentice Year round employment Clean driver’s abstract Fax resume to (403) 885 5137 Email resume to office@ccal.com

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters Helpers, and Labourers.

Truckers/ Drivers

date will oversee the accounting for several small companies and should have a minimum of 5 years experience. Knowledge of Simply Accounting is an asset. Please e-mail resumes to jdrummond@microage.cc

$11/hr To clean kitchen following safety and hygiene standards. Clean utensils, cutlery, crockery and glassware items. Clean floors. Assist in prep. All positions are Shift Work & Weekends. Fax resume 780-702-5051

CARPET COLOUR CENTRE is currently looking for 2 TILE INSTALLERS. Applicant must have ability to lay out tiles, be familiar with setting materials and products. This is a F/T position with a wage of $25/hr. Submit resume att`n: Andrew @ Carpet Colour DOOR SECURITY Centre 1100, 5001 - 19 St. X-Static is now accepting Red Deer, AB T4R 3R1 or applications for email : awiebe@ Experienced P/T carpetcolourcentre. com door security Apply in person, after 3 pm ESTABLISHED well known company looking for perTHE RANCH HOUSE manent f/t hourly tapers requires an exp’d P/T and p/t piece work tapers. evening line cook. Please fax resume to Call David 403-358-4100 403-782-0610 email: for interview/appointment ben@tpil.ca or fax resume ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE 403-358-4116 2nd. or 3rd. yr. Must have Residential experience. You can sell your guitar Fax resume to for a song... 403-347-5745 or call or put it in CLASSIFIEDS 403-588-6001 and we’ll sell it for you!

800

Trades

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 LARGE commercial . project, drywall, , steel stud, t-bar, taping , long term work. Benefits, 403-588-4614, 588-4615

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

APPRENTICE MECHANIC

Send resume to m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

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

DEER PARK Dempsey St. area $45/mo. ALSO Duston St. Donnelly Crsc., area Densmore Crs. Dale Close $270/mo.

ALSO SOUTH HILL 83 Advocate $435/mo. $5229/YR. 1 Hr. per day.

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.

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

MICHENER West of 40th Ave. North of Ross St. area $245.00/mo. Good for adult w/a small car .

860

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

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.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

ROSEDALE AREA 72 papers $386/mo. DEER PARK Dempsey St. area 79 papers $423/mo. ALSO Davison Dr. area 101 papers $541/mo.

ADULT & Youth Carrier Needed For Delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in GLENDALE Gunn St. & Goodacre Close

EXPERIENCED

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 HOT SHOT DRIVER. REQ’D. Scheduled days off. Company benefits. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-342-2152 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Misc. Help

NORMANDEAU Nash St. & Norris Close ALSO Nichols Crsc & Nyberg Ave.

Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life in the towns of Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

880

Adult Education and Training

Winter 2013 •

Community Support Worker program GED classes evening and days 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

ACADEMIC Express

•

ALSO Clearview Ridge Timberlands area 59 papers $376/mo. Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

KENTWOOD Kirkland & Kidd Close ALSO Kilburn & Krause Crsc

LOOKING for Dispatcher/ Dock worker. Must have Class 1. Contact Darrel at 403-341-2340 for appt.

DISPATCHER req’d. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential. Good communication, skills both verbal and written. Must have effective time management skills and able to multi task in a fast paced environment. Experience preferred, but will train suitable applicant. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

F/T Assistant Manager req’d for busy convenience store. Please apply in person with resume to Express 24 EASTVIEW. 140 Erickson Drive

DOOR SECURITY

X-Static is now accepting applications for Experienced P/T door security Apply in person, after 3 pm

Call Rick at 403-314-4303

880

Misc. Help

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

880

Misc. Help

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s FULL TIME

880

Misc. Help

Competitive Wages & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

820

830

850

Trades

Invites applicants for:

COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL HEALTH COORDINATOR Contract Term: Jan. 7-June 30, 2013

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Please see:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca Employment Opportunities

Start your career! See Help Wanted

- Classified Staff for complete posting.

274935L3-8

Oilfield

850 TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300 Invites applicants for:

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Red Deer Public Schools Please see:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

BALLOON RIDES

EAGLE OPPORTUNITIES:

t Floorhands

274920L3-8

Employment Opportunities

- Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

t Derrickhands t Drillers t Rig Managers Learn more at www.eaglerigjobs.com

Invites applicants for:

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN

Email resumes to eaglejobs@iroccorp.com

Red Deer Public Schools

274919L3-8

www.dontforgetyourvitamins.net The greatest vitamins in the world www.matchingbonus123.usana.com the best...just got better!! www.greathealth.org Cancer Diabetes DIET 350-9168

JOB OPPORTUNITIES www.workopolis.com Red Deer Advocate - Job Search

PET ADOPTION

www.reddeerspca.com Many Pets to Choose From

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 403-346-7273 www.albertanewhomes.com Stevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

Employment Opportunities

www.liveyourlifebetter.com Lose weight naturally with Z-Trim

www.homesreddeer.com Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

CLUBS & GROUPS

www.rdpsd.ab.ca 274263K30-

BUILDERS

www.antlerhillelkranch.com Peak Performance VA 227-2449

www.fantahomes.com 403-343-1083 or 403-588-9788 www.masonmartinhomes.com Mason Martin Homes 403-342-4544 www.truelinehomes.com True Line Homes 403-341-5933 www.jaradcharles.com BUILDER M.L.S

www.ultralife.bulidingonabudjet.com MLM’ers attract new leads for FREE!

Please see:

- Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

www.air-ristocrat.com Gary 403-302-7167

HEALTH & FITNESS

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

www.albertacomputerhygiene.com

affordablewebsitesolution.ca

AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

19166TFD28

ASSOCIATIONS

www.centralalbertahomebuilders.com Central AB Home Builders 403-346-5321 www.reddeer.cmha.ab.ca Canadian Mental Health Assoc. www.realcamping.ca LOVE camping and outdoors? www.diabetes.ca Canadian Diabetes Assoc. www.mycommunityinformation.com /cawos/index.html www.reddeerchamber.com Chamber of Commerce 403-347-4491

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 D3

Misc. Help

880

920

Career Planning

Household Furnishings

1720

RED DEER WORKS BED: #1 King. extra thick

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

ANDERS AREA Adams Close/ Adair Ave. BOWER AREA Baile Cl. /Boyce St. Beatty Crs./Barrett Dr. Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St INGLEWOOD AREA

Isbister Close Issard Close LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive Lindsay Ave. Lagrange Crsc SUNNYBROOK AREA Scott St./Somerset Close. Sunnyside Crsc. VANIER AREA Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 Start your career! See Help Wanted

CIRCULATION Service Runner (Part Time)

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 delivery vehicle is provided. Hours of shifts are Monday through Friday 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. or longer, and/or afternoon shifts Monday to Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.. Saturday and Sunday, 7 a.m.-11 a.m. or longer Submit resume, indicating “Service Runner Position”, along with your drivers abstract immediately to: careers@ reddeeradvocate.com or mail to: Human Resources 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB. T4N 5G3 or fax to: 403-341-4772 We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted. 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

Hiring Part Time

COUNTROOM

(counting money). 15-25 hrs per week. Must be available to start as early as 7 am and finish as late as 2 pm and be available any days of the week. Must be physically fit as this is a physically demanding position. Send resume to vickib@cashcasino.ca, or fax 1-403-243-4812.

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

Misc. Help

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for

FREE

In Town of Trochu Morning Delivery 1 hour per day 6 days per week No collection No Sundays

for all Albertans

wegot

stuff

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

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

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com RETAIL STORE SUPERVISOR C-store Gas Cwash Apply ABA Investments Inc oa Heritage Esso,FT $14.38/ hr Supervise, train staff, prep schedule, sales reports, merchandising, inventory mgt, HS grad, computer literate, 2 yrs exp. Mail Resume 6020 67St Red Deer, AB T4R2K4. Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Employment Training

900

SAFETY TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

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)

Employment Training

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

900

JOIN THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM TODAY!

This project is funded by the Government of Canada’s Youth Employment Strategy.

Are you between the ages of 16-30 years • Unemployed , not attending school • Facing multiple barriers to achieving your potential and personal independence • In need of a chance to get your life back on track • Ready, willing and committed to making positive life changes • Wanting to expand your network of supports • Looking to improve your life and or employability skills • Willing to learn • A Canadian citizen • Not receiving Employment Insurance Benefits or have not received regular benefits within the last 5 years If any or some of the above points apply to you please feel free to give us a call to see if the youth employment program may be a fit for you. Please contact us at: The Youth and Volunteer Centre of Red Deer 403-342-6500 ext 118 or 342-7521 Or email info@yvc.ca This is a 6 month project providing youth/young adults with an opportunity to enhance personal growth learn life skills and employability skills through classroom activity and work experience. Eligible participants will receive minimum wage while attending this project. Childcare costs and transportation funds may be available. The Next Program will begin in January 02, 2013.

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ANTIQUE ESTATE AUCTION Sunday December 9

11 am Sharp *Viewing 9 am Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Partial List only: Antiques & Collectibles - China Cabinets - Antique Queen Bed - Retro Table & Chairs - Dressers - Queen Ann Furniture - Gate Leg Dining Table & 6 Chairs (Professionally Restored) - Autographed Gretzky Jersey - 1937 Cedar Chest with Key - 1957 Lethbridge El Bronco Menu - 1914 Spurs - Egyptian Mummy - Set of 3 Buddha’s - Sword - Crystal - China - Tea Set - Hudson Bay Blankets (One in Original Packaging) - Humidor with Cigars - Tea Service - Coke Trays - Collector Coins, Stamps & Bills - Porcelain Dolls - Furniture - Deep Freeze - Engraving Shop Supplies and Equipment - AND MORE For a complete list and Directions visit www.cherryhillauction.com Terms of Sale: Cash, Cheque, C/C, Everything must be paid for & removed on sale day (NO EXCEPTIONS) 15% buyer’s premium. Sale subject to Additions, Deletions, Errors and Omissions.

Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals Phone 403-342-2514 or 403-347-8988

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

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

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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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BROWN EGGS AND LAMB now has free range pork : gourmet hams and sausage. Great selection of warm woolies. Phone 403-782-4095

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orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr. warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice @ $545. 403-302-0582. COFFEE table 58” x 22” x 15h with center closed cubical $200 403-314-2026 LOVESEAT RECLINER & ROCKER, 3-in-one. asking $400. 403-391-3936

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*NEW!* Asian Relaxation Massage Downtown RD 587-377-1298 Open Mon.Fri. daily 11am - 6 pm.

Household Appliances

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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. APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 STOVE, black, Frigidaire, self clean oven $200 403-342-6945

Household Furnishings

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2 SETS OF IKEA nesting tables, $40 per set or $70/pair. Call 403-346-1735

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

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2 BDRM. small cozy house, Sylvan Lake, lrg. yard. $750. Avail.jAN. 1. 403-304-9581

Riverfront Estates

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

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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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2 F Blue Russian tuxedo cross, one all charcoal, one charcoal w/white socks, while bib & white whiskers. very cute, ready for good home/farm/acreage, good mousers, litter trained 403-886-4852 403-588-6505 CALICO F. cat found in Innisfail, had been abused, now healthy, looking for loving home, free cat condo as well to give away 403-307-1350 SIAMESE ALSO BELANISE (3) KITTENS FOR SALE $60 each obo. 403-887-3649

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3 F. WEST Highland Terrier puppies, ready to go Nov. 30. 403-346-8788

LABRA DOODLE PUPS F 1 $700; F1 B $900 2 YR health Guaranteed. awesome bloodlines, ready now until Christmas Hold with deposit. Ph. 403-919-1370 306-792-2113 www.furfettishfarm.ca

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newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s Avail. immed. & 2 for Jan. 2 403-304-7576 / 347-7545

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2 bdrm. suites. Heat/water/parking incl., adults only. NO PETS. Call 403-342-2899

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Adult Bldg. bachelor unit. Heat/Water/parking incl’d Call 403-342-2899 GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, 1 BDRM., Kyte/Kelloway Cres. $740, N/S, no pets, no Lovely 3 level exec. partiers, avail immed.. 3 bdrm. townhouse 1-403-200-8175 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. Jan. 2 SUNNYBROOK 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 2 bdrm. apt. Water & heat SOUTHWOOD PARK incld, clean and quiet, 3110-47TH Avenue, great location, no pets. 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, 403-346-6686 generously sized, 1 1/2 Wanted Tenant baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Large 1 bdrm. adult suite. Heat/water/parking incl’d. Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca Call 403-342-2899

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MOBILE HOME PAD, in SYLVAN LAKE 2 bdrm. bsmt. suite, private en- Red Deer Close to Gaetz, trance, shared laundry, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl. Sharon 403-550-8777 avail. Jan. 1, $700/mo., $700 s.d., ref’s req’d., 403-224-3819

Roommates Wanted

SHARE very nice 2 bdrm. n/s, working, mature, M. preferred, avail. immed. $530 + $500 DD 403-986-3165

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2 BDRM. bsmt, shared kitchen, prefer employed or student. Avail. immed. 403-342-7789, 358-0081 ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & utils incl. 403-304-6436 ROOMS Highland Green fully furn., 6 appls, basic cable and utils. incld., bdrms. keyed, $500/mo., + SD, working only. Avail. immed. 403-342-4604

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FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

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MUST SELL By Owner $7,000. Sharon 403-550-8777

DO YOU WANT Stores/ Commercial 3120 YOUR AD TO BE READ BY Warehouse 100,000 Space 3140 Potential

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Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr. Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325. 302-0582 Free Delivery

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AUSTRALIAN Shepherd, Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. miniature pups, 6 mos. 1M, 1F, shots and dewormed. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 $250/ea. 780-372-2387 FIREWOOD 347-7211 bluegrassnursery.com ENGLISH Mastiff puppies for sale. Certified, FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, first shots, microchipped. Poplar. Can deliver CKC. All colours available. 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 May be viewed on our Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner website at BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / www. del. Lyle 403-783-2275 doublepjsenglishmastiffs. net SPLIT Dry Firewood. Decall 403-652-3429 livery avail (403)845-8989 pcrowder02@gmail.com $2500.00 well worth it.

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4 BDRM. 3 bath older house in Grandview, 4 2 BOXES of Wildlife books appls, n/s, $1600/mo. /SD, utils, incld, 403-350-4230 ea.$10; box of assorted indoor flower pots $15; Central Alberta’s Largest 4 Plexes/ med. spider plant, $7; Car Lot in Classifieds 6 Plexes rubber plant variegated green leaves $10; 30” bow 3 BDRM. 4 plex, Innisfail, saw and case $15; 3 pc. heat included, $795 unit w/liquor cabinet $55; Condos/ w/laundry connection 6 cubical unit, great for 403-357-7817 Townhouses books, pictures, etc. $70 403-314-2026 ORIOLE PARK 3 BDRM. 1 1/2 baths, 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975 BLUE Flame Heater, 5 appls, fenced, n/s, no rent, s.d. $650, incl water thermo controlled, 10,000 pets, avail. Dec. 1, Deer sewer and garbage. avail. BTU, $75; electric oil Park 403-391-1740 Jan. 1.. Call 403-304-5337 heater, $30; Woodwork Something for Everyone patterns $10; 6 fireplace Everyday in Classifieds tools, $10; Star Choice Receiver, $5; Gimme-Five AVAIL. Jan. 1, 3 bdrm. Suites game, $20; Sequence townhouse, 4 appl., hardgame $20; 2 vanity light wood, 2 parking stalls, fixtures and 3 track satin c l o s e t o s h o p p i n g & 1 & 2 BDRM. APTS. light fixtures, $30. Clean, quiet bldg. schools. $1075 + util. + d.d 403-358-5247 Call 318-0901. 403-506-0054

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

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LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

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BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. Res/Comm.Reno’s, repair Contractors and more. Give us a buzz @ 403-598-3857 BRIAN’S DRYWALL Free quotes. WCB, insured. Framing, drywall, taping, F & J Renovations. We do textured & t-bar ceilings, it all. Good rates and 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980 references available so call DALE’S Home Reno’s John at 403-307-3001 Free estimates for all your jbringleson@shaw.ca reno needs. 403-506-4301 GREYSTONE Handyman JNM CONSTRUCTION Services. Reasonable Home Improvements, rates. Ron, 403-396-6089 From Demolition to finish! 30 yrs. Exp. Free Est. Massage 403-505-3409 Therapy

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* NEW * Executive Touch. Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Prefering non- combustible Mon-Fri 11am-6pm 348-5650 fibre cement, canexel & Gentle Touch Massage smart board, Call Dean @ 4919 50 St. New rear entry, 302-9210. lots of parking 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269 Escorts LINDA’S CHINESE MASSAGE Grand Opening #3 4820-47 Ave. 403-986-1550 BEAUTIFUL college girl ROXY 403-848-2300 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME EDEN 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 587-877-7399 10am-midnight TRADITIONAL CHINESE EROTICAS PLAYMATES MASSAGE, new girls, Girls of all ages 4606 48 Ave. Open 7 www.eroticasplaymates.net a.m.- 9 p.m. 7 days a wk. 403-598-3049 Phone 403-986-1691

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- 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.

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. Call Roger 403-348-1060

is expanding its facility to double production.

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

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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

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“Printing Press numbering machines brand LEIBENGER OR ATLANTIC ( Convex or straight) reverse or forward suitable for GTO or large press for sale. $275.00 each, or if you purchase all 8, it will be $250 each. 2 GTO PERFORATION ARMS with wheels $300 FOR BOTH .call 403-346-4263 ( pictures can be viewed on kijiji ID436440237)

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned. 403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal. No household appliances 403-396-8629 YARD maintenance, snow shovelling, 403-318-7625

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BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

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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

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Lebanese killed in Syrian war cause violent spillover by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRIPOLI, Lebanon — The families of Lebanese men killed in Syria last week say their relatives were more interested in nice clothes and vacations than fighting a civil war. Yet Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime branded them foreign jihadists — and their deaths set off three days of new spillover violence. Gunmen loyal to opposite sides in Syria’s civil war battled Wednesday in the streets of the Lebanese city of Tripoli. The fighting has killed six people and wounded nearly 60 since Monday, security officials said. The bloodshed is a sign of just how vulnerable Lebanon is to getting sucked into the Syrian crisis. The countries share a porous border and a complex web of political and sectarian ties that is easily enflamed. Among the 17 Lebanese men who turned up dead in Syria last week were Bilal al-Ghoul and his childhood friend, Malek Haj Deeb, both 20. Malek’s older brother, Jihad, said the two men sympathized with the rebellion, but they were not fighters. “Malek used to see the videos of dead Syrians and cry,” Jihad Haj Deeb told The Associated Press in Tripoli, as gunfire and explosions echoed near his home in the poor neighbourhood of Mankoubeen. “He used to say, ’May Bashar fall soon, God willing.”’ A giant poster hung in the entrance of the home, with photos of three of those killed in Syria and a sign that read: “Our dead are in heaven, and yours are in hell.” Haj Deeb and Bilal al-Ghoul’s older brother, Omar, said the men must have been kidnapped and handed over to Syrian authorities by a pro-Syrian Lebanese group. They said their brothers were not members of any political or Islamic group but were observant Muslims. “My brother doesn’t know how to hold a rifle,” Haj Deeb said. The Lebanese men killed in Syria were Sunni Muslims, like the majority of rebels trying to overthrow Assad’s regime. Assad and much of his inner circle belong to the Alawite sect, which is an offshoot of Shiite Islam. The fighting in Lebanon comes at a time of deep uncertainty in Syria, with rebels battling government troops near Assad’s seat of power in Damascus. In Brussels, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated concerns that “an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical weapons” or lose control of them to militant groups. She also said NATO’s decision on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to Turkey’s southern border with Syria sends a message that Ankara is backed by its allies. The missiles are intended only for defensive purposes, she said. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted Wednesday in the Turkish newspaper Sabah as saying that Syria has about 700 missiles, some of them long-range. Syria has been careful not to confirm it has chemical weapons, while insisting it would never use such weapons against its own people. But as the regime wobbles, there are fears the crisis will keep spiraling outside its borders. Fighting has spilled over into Turkey, Jordan and Israel since the uprising began more than 20 months ago, but Lebanon is particularly susceptible.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lebanese army soldiers patrol in armored vehicles after clashes erupted between pro and anti-Syrian regime gunmen in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Wednesday. Gunmen loyal to opposite sides in neighboring Syria’s civil war battled in the streets of northern Lebanon at a time of deep uncertainty in Syria, with rebels closing in on President Bashar Assad’s seat of power in Damascus. Seventeen times bigger than Lebanon and four times more populous, Syria has long had powerful allies there, including the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. For much of the past 30 years, Lebanese have lived under Syrian military and political domination. That grip began to slip in 2005, when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in Beirut. Widely accused of involvement — something it has always denied — Syria was forced to withdraw its troops. But Damascus has maintained power and influence in Lebanon. Syria’s state-run news agency, SANA, reported that 17 Lebanese “gunmen” were killed inside Syria last week, and on Sunday, Syrian TV aired footage of the dead. Bassam al-Dada, a political adviser for the rebel Free Syrian Army, said the group believes the Lebanese men were the victims of a “complicated Syrian intelligence operation” aimed at showing that foreign fighters are involved in fighting in Syria. According to their relatives, Malek Haj Deeb and Bilal al-Ghoul left their parents’ homes a week ago saying they were going to downtown Tripoli. Hours later, the families grew concerned and started calling the men’s mobile phones. There was no sign of them until two days later, when local media reported that a group of Lebanese citizens had been killed while fighting in Syria.

Pictures of the men, shown to the AP by their families, showed them clean-shaven and playing in the snow in one of Lebanon’s mountain towns, and in front of Tripoli’s Crusader-built citadel. “We want their bodies back,” Omar al-Ghoul said. On Wednesday, Syrian Ambassador Ali AbdulKarim Ali told Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour that Damascus has agreed to repatriate the men’s bodies. Lebanon’s National News Agency said the countries would soon discuss how to hand them over. Members of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited the dead men’s families on Tuesday and took details about the men, their brothers said. Jihad Haj Deeb said his brother was about to resume his college studies and would not have jeopardized his future to fight in Syria. “He registered at the university four days before he went missing,” Haj Deeb said, adding that his brother took 500,000 pounds ($335) from their father to pay his tuition at Lebanese University, where he was a third-year mathematics student. Haj Deeb’s father, a school bus driver, makes $400 a month and has nine other children. “Had he been planning to go to Syria, he wouldn’t have registered,” added Jihad, saying his father had to borrow the money. Meanwhile, the unrest inside Syria shows no sign of slowing down.

U.S. and Asian allies to seek Four charged in scheme to ship substance used to enrich uranium Security Council action if North Korea launches rocket by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The U.S. and key Asian allies have agreed to seek U.N. Security Council action if North Korea launches a long-range rocket this month, the State Department said Wednesday. Pyongyang plans the launch between Dec. 10 and 22 in defiance of a U.N. ban. Washington sees such launches as veiled tests of missiles designed to strike the United States. North Korea says it is trying to put a communications satellite into orbit. U.S. envoy for North Korea policy Glyn Davies met with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Washington on Tuesday. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said they were calling for the North to comply with its international obligations and refrain from a launch using ballistic missile technology — although he conceded there was no sign Pyongyang was willing to listen. “All three countries also affirmed that if North Korea does, in fact, proceed with a launch, we would seek action by the U.N. Security Council,

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but I’m not going to get into what that might be,” Toner said adding that “there’s always ways to toughen enforcement of sanctions.” The council condemned a failed North Korean launch in April and ordered seizure of assets of three North Korean state companies linked to financing, exporting and procuring weapons and missile technology. Two U.S. officials said Wednesday the Navy has begun moving several ships into the western Pacific in preparation for the planned launch of a long-range rocket by North Korea. The officials said shifting the ballistic missile defence capable ships into the region is part of a routine process aimed at reassuring U.S. allies there. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. They said no more than three or four ships are being repositioned. It was third time in six years that the Security Council imposed sanctions against North Korea. The council blacklisted eight entities — six trading companies, a bank and the General Bureau of Atomic Energy — and five individuals after nuclear tests in 2006.

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NEW YORK — Four men have been charged with arranging shipments to China and Iran of weapons materials or a substance that can be used in uranium enrichment, officials announced Wednesday after indictments containing the charges were unsealed. Three of the men have been arrested while the fourth is in being sought to face charges described in court papers in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Those charges include allegations that they broke embargo and export laws, with two of them accused of arranging to send a shipment of carbon fiber to Iran, where U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said it “most assuredly had the potential to end up in the wrong hands.” Authorities said carbon fiber can be used in gas centrifuges that enrich uranium and in military aircraft and strategic missiles. “Whether motivated by greed or otherwise, these defendants allegedly violated the law, including by arranging for the export of carbon fiber that can be used in uranium enrichment,” said George Venizelos, head of the New York FBI office. James T. Hayes Jr., head of Homeland Security Investigations at the New York office of U.S. Immigration

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and Customs Enforcement, said the arrests occurred as part of a daily “catand-mouse game with individuals who will go to great lengths to circumvent U.S. Customs law to export sensitive military grade technology to countries like Iran and China.” “If in the wrong hands,” he said, “carbon fiber can be used to manufacture dangerous products that threaten our national security and the security of other nations.” In court papers, the government said Hamid Reza Hashemi since 2007 had successfully arranged for the shipment of carbon fiber to his company in Tehran. The dual U.S. and Iranian citizen, who lives in Iran, was arrested at JFK International Airport as he entered the United States on Saturday. Peter Gromacki, a U.S. citizen who lived and worked in Orange County, was arrested Wednesday and charged with arranging the export of more than 6,000 pounds of carbon fiber from the U.S. to Belgium for shipment to China. Authorities said he made false statements on where the shipments were headed. Amir Abbas Tamimi, an Iranian citizen and a resident of Iran who was arrested at JFK airport as he entered the country on Oct. 5, was accused of attempting to arrange for the export from the U.S. to Iran of helicopter parts.

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spending� - everything from how much cash you have on hand to the pressures in your day and how much time you have. The condition of the currency is but one factor and it’s not the No. 1 thing, he says. Noseworthy says it can be tricky being a researcher and not in control of how your findings are used by others. For example, his research on pathological gambling once initiated a call from a casino operator who wanted to use the findings to boost gambling. But the research, in fact, was intended to suggest policy on how to curb gambling, not increase it, he says. “I just stick to my guns.� In the case of the money study, “some people raise the concern: what happens if an economy did exploit an effect like this? You’re now playing . . . with something that people aren’t aware that they’re doing.� The question will be academic once Canada has adopted polymer bills for all paper currency. Obviously, we won’t be keeping all the new-looking bills in our pockets because that’s all we’ll have. In the meantime, Noseworthy is surprised that the money study results have been reported by so many news agencies, ranging from the Financial Times newspaper to the Forbes and Smithsonian magazines - with varying “spins.� Some articles have suggested that “maybe you can help yourself save on some psychological level by asking for crisp, new bills,� Noseworthy says. “A lot of other releases are actually taking the spin: how do you make people spend?� Noseworthy, who describes himself as a “hyper-saver,� says his own behaviour hasn’t changed with the findings because, well, “I actually don’t carry cash, ever.� He uses debit or credit cards.

TORONTO — A day after revoking the licence of a Toronto-area chemical testing lab following the discovery of falsified test results, Health Canada says the number of possibly affected products is less than initially believed. Paul Glover of the department’s Health Products and Food Branch said Wednesday the number of products it is “concerned about� at Chemi Pharmaceutical Inc. has dropped by 23 since Tuesday. The agency announced Tuesday it had yanked the lab’s licence, saying it found falsified results in tests involving a “wide range of products,� including medications and natural food products. It alleges that bogus results were provided to companies that had contracted Chemi’s services. Chemi says records were falsified not by the company, but by a recently fired employee at the Mississauga, Ont., lab. Health Canada initially said it had uncovered 53 products that needed to be retested. It was also waiting to hear from manufacturers about another 25 products, which could also need to be re-analyzed. Appearing on CTV’s “Canada AM� early

Wednesday, Glover said the list has been whittled down “through the co-operation of the companies� whose products were involved. “They’ve either had other tests done or had other testing done in the interim and that gave

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worn $20.� “We even found that people, if they could pay exact change with crisp bills, they will break a higher denomination that’s old and incur change, which is rather interesting.� “If I can see that you touched a product that I’ve had, I actually devalue it. I don’t like things that are necessarily touched by others.� So, given that we don’t like old bills and we like to hold on to new ones - unless a dinner date with our future in-laws pries them out of our hands - how can people use this information to our advantage? Noseworthy, who has a PhD, a master of science degree in marketing consumer studies and a master of business administration degree as well, says he cares more about why people do things than what they do with the information. If you press him, however, he says he wonders what would happen to domestic spending if a government left worn bills in circulation. Or, from another perspective, will the durable, fresh-looking polymer bills - of which only a few denominations have been released so far - hurt spending because we might hold on to them? He’s not the only one thinking about this. The wheels are turning in a number of financial brains. Noseworthy is cagey about saying who, or from what country, but people with “influence in monetary policy� have contacted him, he says. “I would say I’ve had . . . someone in charge of the money of an economy talk to me. I wouldn’t know if they’re in charge of the money. They’re in the building that’s in charge of the money.� Business people have also called him, mistakenly thinking there’s a “massive effect� on spending, he says. He has told them that there are “a million things that change your

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Sheepdogs becoming rare WITH THE RISE OF SMALL DOGS, HIGH MAINTENANCE BREEDS LIKE ENGLISH SHEEPDOGS DIFFICULT TO FIND

LOS ANGELES — There was a time when old English sheepdogs dominated television screens and newspaper comic strips. Now it’s hard to find one beyond a dog show. Numbers of the highmaintenance longhaired breed, which can weigh close to 100 pounds, are dropping as more owners choose pocket pets and designer puppies that are smaller, travelready, easy to care for and cost much less to feed. “People have more to do and less time to do it, and they have lost interest in old English sheepdogs,” said Doug Johnson of Colorado Springs, Colo., the president of the Old English Sheepdog Club of America. Breeders in the United States and England are concerned about the drop in the number of purebred sheepdog puppies registered in the two countries each year. At the height of the breed’s popularity in 1975, when the sheepdog was named best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, nearly 16,000 puppies were registered by the American Kennel Club, said Lisa Peterson, who went through club archives for The Associated Press. But that number dropped within 10 years to fewer than 5,600 dogs and three years ago, the last time AKC numbers were available, there were just over 1,000, she said. London’s Kennel Club, which put the breed on the club’s watch list, registered just 401 sheepdog puppies in 2011, said representative Heidi Ancell. The list is reserved for breeds that number between 300 and 450 registrations a year. But the kennel clubs say they have never lost a breed to extinction. Johnson said it would be up to those clubs to generate interest to prevent the sheepdog from disappearing. “There are too many of us old die-hards that will go ahead and keep this breed alive,” said Johnson, who has 22 sheepdogs under the Bugaboo kennel banner. David Frei, director of communications for the Westminster Kennel Club and co-host of Purina’s annual National Dog Show, said he wasn’t too concerned that the breed is in danger. “If you have a dog that can have six, eight or nine puppies, is that a horribly endangered species? Endangered animals are those that have single offspring in a litter,” he said. “We aren’t going to lose any of these breeds. But we might have to go to shows to see them,” he said. Most historians believe the dog’s origins were in Sussex, England, where they drove sheep and cattle to market. They were called Sussex sheepdogs then, Smithfields when they took ponies to Smithfield Market and bobtailed because their tails were traditionally docked or cut off, Johnson said. The tails were docked to prove their occupation and to exempt owners from taxes because of their working status, he said. The dogs are smart, adaptable, obedient and agile, and they have a distinctive bark, like two pots clanging together, Frei said. Pittsburgh industrialist William Wade introduced the dog in the United States in the late 1880s. The breed’s club claims five of the 10 wealthiest American families owned, bred and were showing the dogs by 1900. But, Johnson pointed out, the Morgans, Vanderbilts, Goulds, Harrisons and Guggenheims all had kennel managers and staff to care for the dogs. Sheepdog hair can grow up to 10 inches, which meant grooming could take hours. Sheepdogs later entered popular culture through Hollywood,

which featured them in movies such as 1959’s “The Shaggy Dog,” and on TV in “My Three Sons” (1960-1972) and “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” (1965-1967). Looney Tunes paired one — Sam Sheepdog — with a wolf (Ralph Wolf) in cartoons depicting them clocking in and on duty as predator and guard: “Mornin’, Sam.” ”Mornin’, Ralph.“ But by 1982, when Lynn Johnston’s newspaper comic strip “For Better or For Worse” added a sheepdog named Farley to the Patterson family, the breed’s popularity was already sliding. It still caused a hoopla though, when the real Farley died in 1995 and Johnston wrote his death into the comic strip. When Jere Marder started breeding sheep-

dogs 35 years ago, the Valparaiso, Ind., resident said there were 40 instantly recognizable sheepdog breeding kennels across the country. Only about 20 remain, and specialty clubs in cities such as Dallas and Detroit have closed, she said. Marder, who keeps three show sheepdogs at home, understands the breed can be a burden. “Breeders that are really dedicated are getting older and we don’t have as many young breeders coming into the game,” she said. Her business, Lambluv OES, breeds only one litter every couple of years, but she co-owns about 100 sheepdogs around the country. “The breed is a labour of love. You have to love the breed to labour so much,” Johnson joked.

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Manufacturer Rebates can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford of Canada at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. Manufacturer Rebates are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. **Until December 13, 2012, receive 0%/1.49%/0% annual percentage rate (APR) purchase financing on a new 2013 Focus SE Sedan/2013 Escape SE FWD with 2.0L EcoBoost engine/2013 F-150 XLT Super Cab 4x4 with 5.0L engine for a maximum of 72 months to qualified retail customers, on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest APR payment. Purchase financing monthly payment is $250/$401/$481 (the sum of twelve (12) monthly payments divided by 26 periods gives payee a bi-weekly payment of $115/$185/$222 with a down payment of $1,000/$1,900/$1,900 or equivalent trade-in. Cost of borrowing is $0/$1,269.17/$0 or APR of 0%/1.49%/0% and total to be repaid is $17,999/$28,868.17/$34,599. Offers include a Manufacturer Rebate of $750/$0/$2,500 and freight and air tax of $1,650/$1,650/$1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after Manufacturer Rebate deducted. Bi-Weekly payments are only available using a customer initiated PC (Internet Banking) or Phone Pay system through the customer’s own bank (if offered by that financial institution). The customer is required to sign a monthly payment contract with a first payment date one month from the contract date and to ensure that the total monthly payment occurs by the payment due date. Bi-weekly payments can be made by making payments equivalent to the sum of 12 monthly payments divided by 26 bi-weekly periods every two weeks commencing on the contract date. Dealer may sell for less. Offers vary by model and not all combinations will apply. ▲Offer only valid from December 1, 2012 to January 31, 2013 (the “Offer Period”) to resident Canadians with a Costco membership on or before November 30, 2012. Use this $1,000CDN Costco member offer towards the purchase or lease of a new 2012/2013 Ford vehicle (excluding Fiesta, Focus, Fusion HEV & Energi, C-Max, Raptor, GT500, Mustang Boss 302, Transit Connect EV & Medium Truck) (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). The Eligible Vehicle must be delivered and/or factory-ordered from your participating Ford/Lincoln dealer within the Offer Period. Offer is only valid at participating dealers, is subject to vehicle availability, and may be cancelled or changed at any time without notice. Only one (1) offer may be applied towards the purchase or lease of one (1) Eligible Vehicle, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales per Costco Membership Number. Offer is transferable to persons domiciled with an eligible Costco member. This offer can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford Motor Company of Canada at either the time of factory order (if ordered within the Offer Period) or delivery, but not both. Offer is not combinable with any CPA/GPC or Daily Rental incentives, the Commercial Upfit Program or the Commercial Fleet Incentive Program (CFIP). Applicable taxes calculated before $1,000CDN offer is deducted. Dealer may sell or lease for less. Limited time offer, see dealer for details or call the Ford Customer Relationship Centre at 1-800-565-3673. ††When properly equipped. Max. towing of 11,300 lbs with 3.5L EcoBoost 4x2 and 4x4 and 6.2L 2 valve V8 4x2 engines. Max. payload of 3,120 lbs with 5.0L Ti-VCT V8 engine. Class is Full-Size Pickups under 8,500 lbs GVWR vs. 2012/2013 competitors. †††Max. horsepower of 411 and max. torque of 434 on F-150 6.2L V8 engine. Class is Full–Size Pickups under 8,500 lbs GVWR vs. 2012/2013 comparable competitor engines. ©2012 Sirius Canada Inc. “SiriusXM”, the SiriusXM logo, channel names and logos are trademarks of SiriusXM Radio Inc. and are used under licence. ©2012 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

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