Red Deer Advocate, December 07, 2012

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Power line approved WESTERN ALBERTA TRANSMISSION LINE TO CUT THROUGH LARGE SECTION OF CENTRAL ALBERTA BY MURRAY CRAWFORD AND PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF After two years of public hearings, consultations, negotiations and scrutiny, the Western Alberta Transmission Line has been approved. The Alberta Utilities Commission approved route and tower options for the $1.5-billion project Thursday. The line will traverse a large section of Central Alberta. The 500-kilovolt line stretches more than 350 km from Genesee, west of Edmonton, to the Langdon area east of Calgary will be built and operated by AltaLink.

‘THIS IS THE CRITICAL BACKBONE IN OUR ELECTRICAL SYSTEM . . . . REINFORCING IT IS NOT ONLY GOOD TO ENSURE RELIABILITY FOR THE PROVINCE, BUT ALSO IT IS A KEY BACKBONE IN ENSURING WE GET COMPETITION OUT OF THE GENERATION SECTOR.’

— SCOT THON ALTALINK PRESIDENT AND CEO

“This is the critical backbone in our electrical system,” said Scott Thon, AltaLink president and CEO. “We have not reinforced it for 30 years and reinforcing it is not only good to ensure reliability for the province, but also it is a key backbone in ensuring we get competition out of the

generation sector.” Thon said a line like this will help power generators get their product to market, making every generator competitive in marketplace. “It’s about choice,” said Thon. “If Alberta customers have a robust transmission system, then they can get ac-

cess to the lowest cost producer.” Jim Law, Alberta Utilities Commission external relations director, said more than 60 per cent of the approved route parallels existing lines. According to a press release the hope is that will minimize the project’s visual and environmental effects and the disturbance of land. “On portions of the line, which were preferred, many instances there were alternatives developed from landowner suggestions prior to the hearing and throughout the hearing that were then incorporated and then approved,” said Law.

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City eyes banning smoking in parks

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there in an official capacity promoting the province. She said she took her family along because her daughter had a birthday during that time. Having family members around was not a distraction to her official government business, the minister said. “This job is all about balance (between family and work),” said the rookie legislature member for CalgaryCurrie. Among the other costs she repaid was $850 for “materials” bought at the Calgary Stampede. She declined to say what those materials were.

Protecting children at outdoor spaces and facilities from the harms of smoking will be up for discussion during Monday’s Red Deer city council meeting. City council will consider giving first reading to amending the Smoke Free Bylaw. Earlier this year, the city received three requests from members of the public regarding expanding the bylaw to further protect children. Concerns centred on places where food is offered and at events children are likely to be at, such as farmers’ markets, street festivals and sporting events. As well, there’s a call for smoking to be banned at outdoor places like playgrounds, sports fields and outdoor facilities. Coun. Tara Veer also asked administration to include cannabis, hashish, crack cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and herbal products into the mix. Should council move forward with amending the bylaw, administration suggests three potential impacts that must be looked at as well. Cost of signs could be significant. If signs were put up in every playground and sports field, the estimated cost is about $90,000 for 1,200 signs at $75 a sign, plus ongoing maintenance. The current Parks Department practice is that signs are only installed on a needed basis, which could drop that number to considerably less. Administration could also change the sign design to cut costs.

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Members of the Grandview Elementary School choir perform at the Golden Circle on Thursday afternoon. The choir performing their concert with a western theme entertained the seniors during the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre annual Cookie Walk fundraiser.

Tourism minister regrets expense misunderstanding EDMONTON — Alberta’s tourism minister admits she has not handled her personal expenses well, starting with billing taxpayers to fly her, her mother and daughter to the London Olympics. “I take my job very seriously. I came here to do good work. I didn’t come here to get a free meal. I didn’t come here to be able to misuse taxpayer dollars,” Christine Cusanelli said Thursday. Documents show she was ordered in August to pay back $10,600 for improper personal expenses racked up since

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joining the legislature and cabinet following the April 23 election. Cusanelli said the problem was a misunderstanding on what can be charged and how. Those questions have now been cleared up, she said. “There is not a dime of taxpayers’ money that has been used for my personal use.” Expenses for all Premier Alison Redford’s cabinet members were released Wednesday to meet her promise to be more open and accountable about how public money is spent. Cusanelli’s expenses included 31 separate items that needed to be repaid. The largest cost was $4,078 for two airline tickets to London during the Olympics. Cusanelli was working

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BRIEF Stuff-a-bus event raised about $42,000 for food bank, Christmas Bureau The Red Deer Food Bank and Red Deer Christmas Bureau each gained about $21,000 after the weekend’s Stuff-A-Bus event. The food bank also received about $20,000 in food donations, the best ever, said director Fred Scaife. He has a busy few weeks ahead with the Santa Claus Run by kinesiology students at Red Deer College today, the Red Deer Symphony concert at Gaetz United Church on Sunday, the CP Holiday Train visit at 9: 45 a.m. on Wednesday, the Huron Carole on Dec. 17 and the Central Music Festival’s Christmas Carol Project on Dec. 20. Donations to the food bank and Christmas Bureau are encouraged at all of them, just as they are at Parkland Garden Centre’s Craft Shows and Food Lanes Saturday and again on Dec. 15 and for select tattoos at a reduced rate with donation at Expert Body Modification Wednesday.

Rocky man charged with dangerous driving causing death Police in Rocky Mountain House have laid charges against a Rocky man in connection with a fatal collision on Hwy 11 in October. Dylan Redcalf, 20, died in hospital of injuries he suffered during a vehicle collision shortly after midnight on Oct. 13. RCMP allege that Redcalf and five others were seated in a vehicle that had stopped at the side of the highway about 11 km west of Rocky Mountain House when a pickup truck struck it from behind. Jacob Cable, 26, has been charged with one count of dangerous driving causing death and five counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm. Released on an undertaking, he was subsequently arrested by Innisfail RCMP making a traffic stop and charged with breaching conditions of his release. Cable pleaded guilty to the new charges in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday and was sentenced to the five days he served in the Red Deer Remand Centre awaiting his court appearance. He returns to court in Rocky Mountain House on

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BYLAW: Challenging to enforce A public awareness campaign would also be important. Avenues for informing the public include Facebook and the City of Red Deer’s webpage. Estimated cost is about $5,000. Administration reports that the bylaw offence of smoking within a 10-metre setback to designated areas is considered transient in nature, therefore making it challenging to enforce. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

LINE: Two deviations from the preferred route The utilities commission did, however, require two deviations from the preferred route submitted by AltaLink. The AUC has directed AltaLink to the ‘less obtrusive monopole structures’ in the 12-km stretch east of Gleniffer Reservoir. Thon said his company is very experienced in building those monopoles. “We use them in a variety of locations and that’s not a concern either,” said Thon. The other deviation from the preferred route was the Crossfield Tie Option, which Law said was developed in consultation from land owners. “We were prepared to build the alternative at Crossfield, that’s why we put it forward,” said Thon. “We had a couple options there, the fact the AUC picked the other one is a small adjustment. We’re prepared to build either one.” The transmission line will cross Hwy 2 just north of Crossfield before continuing on to Langdon.

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Carter Mather, 9, of Orlando, Fl., takes a sample bite of the cookies he collected at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre on Thursday. Mather was joined by his grandmother Pat Morris of Red Deer and many other people as their participated in the centre’s annual fundraising Cookie Walk where volunteers bake a variety of cookies that are sold by the box or bag. An estimated 3,800 cookies were baked for this years sale. Money raised will go towards funding ongoing programs at the centre. Dec. 19 to answer the dangerous driving charges.

Police catch robbers using truck to slam way into electronics store CALGARY — Calgary police say they found robbers in a truck trying to batter their way into an electronics store.

Public hearings ran for 24 days where numerous residents and land owners expressed their concerns about the line. But not everyone was pleased with the decision to build the transmission line. Vittoria Bellissimo, executive director, of the Industrial Power Consumers Association of Alberta, said approval was an “inevitability,” noting the matching Eastern Alberta Transmission Line was approved last month. “The government decided they wanted these things done, so there you are.” Bellissimo, whose association represents a coalition of large industries consuming about a third of the province’s power, said the line was approved despite the need for it never being proven by the province. The massive building project will come at a cost to industrial power users, who are already bracing for an anticipated tripling of power rates over the next six years. “It’s an unprecedented change in transmission costs,” she said. It could drive businesses not connected to the oil and gas industry out of the province, she said. Another industry concern is that all of the attention will be focused on building the power line mega-projects and much-needed regional transmission improvements will drop in priority. “There’s a bunch of regional projects right now that are needed to connect new consumers to the grid,” she said. The focus should be on those lines, not the two big transmission lines “that won’t be needed for a number of years if ever.” AltaLink and ATCO, which is building the eastern line, need to take another look at how they prioritize projects, she said. “It is difficult to please every interest and the commission’s job was to look at which, if any of what was submitted was the best in terms of being in the public interest from an environmental, social and economic impact perspective,” said Law. “What the decision does is to look at those impacts and to choose the one that would minimize

They say they saw a pickup truck repeatedly slamming into the Sony store in West Hills Shopping Centre early this morning. The driver of the pickup truck fled on foot, while an SUV took off. A police dog tracked the pickup truck driver hiding behind a garbage bin. Police are still looking for the driver of the SUV. They allege the same men tried to ram their way in at two other stores in Calgary. the landowner, agricultural and environmental impacts.” Thon said he was pleased the landowners engaged with AltaLink. “Today that doesn’t stop,” said Thon. “We’re going to be in the field and that’s going to require our teams to continue to talk to those folks and make sure we get it right as we build this line.” Construction of the transmission line will start early in the new year, with an estimated in-service date in Spring 2015.

EXPENSES: Corrective action taken Given that Cusanelli used to work as a school principal, it was hard to believe she didn’t understand what should and shouldn’t be billed to the public, suggested Opposition Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith. “She actually is a seasoned administrator,” said Smith. “I have to say I’m skeptical these were just honest mistakes. There were too many of them and the dollar amount was too high for it just to have been an oversight.” Liberal Leader Raj Sherman said Cusanelli’s “support team” should have been able to help her. “They know the rules. How did this happen?” he asked. “But I’m glad they’ve recognized 31 mistakes were made and they’ve taken corrective action.” NDP Leader Brian Mason said the whole Olympic trip was part business, part junket. The total bill for Alberta’s Games entourage, including Premier Alison Redford, was more than $518,000 — including $113,000 on unused hotel rooms. “This was not just a business trip to promote. People saw this as a nice holiday. A junket,” said Mason. “It was really presumptuous to assume the taxpayer would pay for (Cusanelli’s) family members on that trip.”

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Nasty legislature session ends BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The fall sitting of the Alberta legislature ended Thursday like it began — with insults, accusations, and finger-pointing. But there was also a little levity. “To the minister of energy,” said Wildrose MLA Jeff Wilson, rising to his feet near the end of the final question period. His colleagues then joined in as Wilson shouted, “Why are you so awesome?” Speaker Gene Zwozdesky couldn’t help but laugh, and said while questions in the house shouldn’t elicit opinion, he’d allow it. Energy Minister Ken Hughes stood up. “When you’re hunting big game, don’t get distracted by rabbit tracks,” said Hughes. “This government has been hunting big game for Albertans. We’ve been building the province. We’re building the future. We’re building the relationships and they (the opposition) would have us chase rabbit tracks!” he finished to cheers from all sides. The Wildrose wasn’t done yet. Congratulating Transportation Minister Ric McIver for building roads, they shouted: “Why are you so awesome?” And to Deputy Premier Thomas Lukaszuk, he of the famous flowing locks, the Wildrose shouted: “Why is your hair so awesome?” Underneath the levity, there was a bite of acidity. Wilson told the house his questions were parodying the softball questions routinely posed by Pro-

gressive Conservative backbenchers to government ministers. In response to the hair compliment, Lukaszuk chided them for spoofing on taxpayer time. “This is what (taxpayers) are getting from her Majesty’s Misguided Opposition,” said Lukaszuk. The humour was a striking counterpoint to a sixweek session that saw the government pass legislation to protect whistleblowers, reform election finance laws, and create a single regulator for oil and gas projects. The daily headlines, however, were dominated by controversy for Premier Alison Redford’s party. There were allegations that the Tories broke elections rules by accepting a $430,000 donation from Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz. The maximum individual contribution is $30,000 and the chief electoral officer is now investigating. Redford also had to deal with documents that showed her sister Lynn Redford, a health executive for the province, billed taxpayers to attend and host party events. Health Minister Fred Horne called it a dead issue because it happened when Lynn Redford worked for the now-defunct Calgary Health Region. The premier also faced calls to step down after documents revealed that as justice minister in 2010, she urged the province to award a multibillion-dollar lawsuit contract to a law firm that includes her ex-husband, Robert Hawkes.

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Documents showed that the winning and losing law firms for the $10-billion lawsuit contract were notified of the government’s decision while Redford was still justice minister. Redford, however, has maintained the deal wasn’t done until the final details were signed after she left cabinet in 2011 to run for the premier’s job. Redford said the opposition attacks on her integrity and on her family members was below the belt, but part of politics. “Some of that is political theatre, and in some cases it might be a little more mean-spirited than that,” she said. “What I knew before I got into public life was that I was proud of who I was. I was proud of my family. I’m proud of my own integrity and I know that no matter what is said that I can put my head down on the pillow at night and go to sleep.” However, opposition parties say the Tories brought the frustration in the house to a boil by twisting the rules and procedures of the house to shut down debate and kill opposition amendments. The opposition put forward 119 amendments to the bills but only two amendments were passed. “(The Tories) are just not accustomed to facing the kind of scrutiny that they’ve received from this official opposition,” said Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith. “But they better get used to it because there’s three and a half more years of this.”

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New F-35 figures in hands of Tories BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Ottawa was awash in speculation Thursday that the pricetag for the life-time cost of the F-35 fighter was about to take a huge jump. A government sponsored report — written by the accounting firm KPMG — is widely expected to show that the pricetag of owning 65 stealth fighters could stretch to $40 billion. The figure is higher than $25 billion estimates last spring by the auditor general, who in a scathing report blasted the Harper government for low-balling the purchase. Over the previous two years, the Conservatives insisted the all-in price for the multi-role, radar-evading jet was going to be up to $16 billion. Defence sources said next week’s KPMG report is expected to present a range of figures for cost ownership, depending on the number of years the Royal Canadian Air Force intends to fly the plane. The longer it’s in-service, the higher the cost. The report has been in the hands of the government for a week. One media report speculated that a cabinet committee had decided to scrap the F-35 purchase altogether and look at other alternatives — something several senior government officials flatly denied. One defence source, speaking on the condition of not being named, said the figure the government is watching closely is not the full life-cycle cost, but the pricetag per plane. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defence Minister Peter MacKay are both on-the-record saying the government is willing to spend no more than $9 billion on purchasing aircraft.

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Barbara McDonald stands at a candle light vigil for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on the anniversary of the of murder of 14 young women at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique in London, Ont., Thursday.

Auto parts thieves target converters EDMONTON — An expensive component in the exhaust system on pickup trucks has become a hot item for thieves in the Edmonton region. Police say there have been 60 suspected thefts of catalytic converters over the past year, primarily involving North American-made trucks. Diesel-powered models are particularly attractive to thieves but investigators are not sure where the parts are going, or whether they’re being sold in an underground market. The component converts pollutants into less harmful emissions before they leave the vehicle’s- exhaust system. Scott Held, a spokesman for a Chrysler Dodge Jeep dealership in Sherwood Park, says demand for the converters has outstripped the supply and victims may face a long wait.

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OTTAWA — The federal government has reached a deal with First Nations to get its education initiative back on track. But just because the two sides are talking again doesn’t mean they see eye to eye on how native education should be overhauled. “We’ve still got a hell of a lot of hard work to do here,” said one Assembly of First Nations official who spoke on the condition her name not be used. Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo issued separate statements on Thursday night outlining their new understanding. “Our meeting concluded with a firm commitment to continue seeking ways of working together to achieve our ultimate objective, which is improving the education and opportunities available to First Nation students,” Duncan said. Previous talks collapsed this fall because First Nations said they were not included as equal partners in designing legislation, and because federal documents suggested that funding was sufficient. With the new outline, Duncan commits to “intensive” consultations and to explore ways to ensure stable and sufficient funding. Those promises were also made in last spring’s budget, but were reiterated in more certain terms on Thursday. “This meeting provided an opportunity to present our views and this is the right place to start,” the AFN’s committee on education said in a statement. Since fewer than half of First Nations children graduate from high school, both sides were facing criticism for allowing politics to interfere with students’ future. “Through respectful dialogue, we must put our kids first and create every opportunity for their success as is owed to them. We must do this work together and we must do so immediately,” the AFN said.

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Put a lid on drug houses Three and a half years after Brandon Neil Prevey, 29, was murdered while he sat in his vehicle in Inglewood, a nearby drug house has been shut down by police. The neighbours can begin to relax, hoping that this will end the “constant criminal activity” on an otherwise well-maintained, peaceful street. But it is difficult to wash away the memories of a shooting. It is just as difficult to get out of the habit of looking warily at every unfamiliar vehicle that drives down the street. Such is the fear and uncertainty bred by the presence of a drug house, driven by the desperate, often dangerous people who come knocking at its door. When the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) task force announced that it had closed the house at 51 Ibbotson Close in Red Deer on Tuesday, officials also admitted that five similar houses are being investigated in the city. There are likely others in Red Deer that have yet to come to the attention of the SCAN task force. Certainly there are others in the communities surrounding Red Deer.

OURVIEW JOHN STEWART And that means that far too many Central Albertans live in fear because criminal activity is commonplace on their streets. SCAN is an initiative of the provincial government, created by 2008 legislation to “promote community safety by targeting properties that are chronically used for ongoing illegal activities.” Those activities include the drug trade, prostitution, child sex abuse and organized crime. The legislation allows the SCAN task force to close a house for up to 90 days — essentially ending the traffic and bringing peace to the neighbourhood. No charges are laid by the task force. Given the level of drug trade in this city, it is surprising that this is just the second drug house closed down in Red Deer since 2007. The lack of resources is likely to blame. In September 2008, it was announced that two SCAN teams of seven law enforcement officials would be

established, one in Calgary to cover Southern Alberta and one in Edmonton, for the northern half of the province. The teams of sheriffs would work with local bylaw officers and police, as needed. The intent was to focus on investigating the activity that draws concerns from neighbours rather than targeting individuals. At the time of the launch, the program had an annual budget of $4 million. That budget allowed for the creation of just two teams, but officials said that the program could be expanded to Red Deer, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Grande Prairie if warranted. Brian Simpson, Red Deer RCMP superintendent at the time, immediately started talking to officials about the need for a SCAN team in Red Deer. More than four years later, we still must rely on teams from Calgary or Edmonton to get the job done in Central Alberta. So for four years, the people of Inglewood have lived in fear, despite constant drug-related activity, and the shooting of Prevey in April 2009. Police work is rarely simple. In the spring of 2009, after shots were fired

near a drug house in Blackfalds, RCMP Staff Sgt. Gord Glasgow talked about how the criminal justice system must rely on due process to ensure fairness. Essentially, we can’t expect police to take the law into their own hands, and without adequate evidence, they can’t search or charge anyone who frequents a drug house. The SCAN legislation was intended to provide community safety without having to first resort to the laborious process of pursuing prosecution. “It certainly appears to be good, solid legislation that tries to strike the balance between property rights of a homeowner and property rights of the people who interact with that homeowner,” said Glasgow in 2009. He was right, it was and remains a good idea. But without enough teams to answer the need, the legislation does the neighbours of drug houses precious little good. Waiting in fear for a SCAN team to arrive, year after year, hardly seems like a solution to a growing, frightening problem. John Stewart is the Advocate’s managing editor.

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Freeman’s book reviews offer humour and insight The start of a good day is having a coffee and reading the Advocate. The next best thing is finding the book report written by Peggy Freeman. She reviews a wide variety of books with humour and insight. It makes you want to read the book to find out the rest of the story. Her advice to read A Nation Worth Ranting About by Rick Mercer “in small increments, perhaps one rant a day” was very entertaining. Peggy’s review of Into the Abyss by Carol Shaben found me heading to Chapters to buy the book. This true story of a plane crash in Northern Alberta is down to earth (no pun intended) and another piece of fascinating Alberta history. The book is now being read by my brother, a retired bush pilot who flew in Northern Canada. Thanks Peggy. Barbara Primas Red Deer County

The quality work of city staff has a value If I read the news report correctly, TV production company Force Four would put something like $400 in a bank account for me, if Red Deer were to be chosen as its venue to shoot their reality show Axe the Tax. That represents eight weeks of my municipal taxes, more or less. The company would then film me paying as I went about my life, over a course of eight weeks. A small fee for the use of the streets to ride my bike to work (or to drive when the weather is really bad), or to do my shopping. A little more every time I took a shower or GREG flushed the loo. A point here NEIMAN and there whenever I went to the library, a bit more on top of the entry fee for my morning swim. The cost of a stroll on our trail network? So little, that if I saw the change on the street, I probably wouldn’t stoop to pick it up (and I’m a notorious cheapskate). For the right to call police and complain about a neighbourhood drug house, I would pay just about anything. I already know what happens in some towns in the U.S. when people don’t pay their voluntary fire protection fees. Their house burns to the ground, while the firemen hose down the build-

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ings owned by those next door, to keep the fire from spreading. In all, it might be interesting for other people to find out if I get $200 a month value for the right to live in Red Deer. But for myself, I already know. (It’s why I haven’t left town.) As far as value for services goes at any level of government in Canada, municipal taxes are pretty well the best deal you can get anywhere. That must be why Penhold Mayor Dennis Cooper is so sanguine about a proposal that his town be chosen for this social experiment-cum-TV entertainment project. If he wasn’t as convinced as I am that municipal government is simply the most efficient means of delivering collective services in a democracy, then the stress of his job just wouldn’t be worth the pay. I wonder what portion would be taken from every Penhold resident’s “bank account” for a town meeting at the Penhold Multiplex. In fact, I wonder if Force Four paid anything at all to use the centre for their meeting Tuesday. Do they think multiplexes grow on trees? That, of course, is the shortcoming of an eightweek experiment of this type. Most of the benefits of living in Red Deer that I mentioned at the beginning of this article involve long-term infrastructure investments. People were outraged, yes, outraged, at the cost, the waste, the wanton profligacy of building Red Deer’s Collicutt Centre. Today, it’s a source of community pride — and too small at that.

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That’s the easiest, most obvious of examples. What I don’t see inside my $200 a month is the dedication, education and expertise of the staff who make my city work, even if the snow does get too deep on some city streets. Engineers, planners, clerks, bylaw officers, parks personnel, transit workers, librarians and more, these people are where the best value is achieved for my taxes. Yet these are the very people that tax complainers devalue and disparage whenever the cost of running a municipality gets discussed. The total dollar values are indeed high, but think about how great a deal this all works out to, for $200 a month (in my case). Even that ultimate evil — bike lanes — cost each household less this year than a ticket to Life of Pi, with popcorn and a soft drink. What’s the value of safe passage to work, even if it’s only used when the weather is better than it is today? The shortcoming of this experiment is that it cannot take a full measure of the value we get for our taxes. If some people don’t use certain services (and therefore don’t pay) during this experiment, should these services therefore not exist, or be priced out of reach of the people who need them? There is a value beyond mere taxes in a community where people take care of their neighbours. TV shows don’t measure that. So count me out of any experiments like Axe the Tax. You can keep the change. Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate.blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@gmail.com.

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Van Loan apologizes for foul language THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Government House Leader Peter Van Loan has apologized for using off-colour language during a verbal dust-up on the floor of the House of Commons with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair Van Loan acknowledged Thursday he used an inappropriate word during the confrontation. However, New Democrats weren’t satisfied, questioning how Van Loan can remain government House leader after displaying so little regard for proper conduct. The incident erupted Wednesday after the NDP unsuccessfully attempted to invalidate a vote on the government’s omnibus budget bill due to a procedural snafu. Microphones were shut off during the incident, but video tape shows Van Loan stormed across the centre aisle of the Commons, waving his finger at his NDP counterpart, Nathan Cullen, and speaking in a heated manner. Mulcair, Cullen’s seat mate, stood up, whereupon a number of New Democrats surrounded Van Loan and appeared to urge him to leave. Finally, Defence Minister Peter MacKay rushed over and ushered Van Loan back across the aisle to the government benches. New Democrats say Van Loan provoked the contretemps, repeatedly dropping the “F-bomb” as he wagged his finger in Cullen’s face. They say Mulcair came to Cullen’s defence, warning Van Loan to stop threatening his House leader. Not surprisingly, the Conservatives tell a different story. Van Loan initially said he merely crossed the floor to talk to Cullen about “the hypocrisy of his complaint” about the budget vote, since the procedural foul-up was the result of a mistake by a New Democrat, deputy Speaker Joe Comartin. “I was surprised, however, how Mr. Mulcair snapped and lost his temper,” Van Loan said in a statement Thursday night. Conservative MPs also said Mulcair swore at Van Loan.

Asylum deal driving Roma immigration BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DERBY LINE, Vt. — A Dodge Caravan with California license plates and a dozen passengers zipped across the border between Vermont and Quebec in October, heading north in a southbound lane unblocked by traffic. Border agents could only watch as the van disappeared into Quebec. But the vehicle and its occupants didn’t try to disappear. About 35 kilometres later, they stopped in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Magog, Quebec, and asked someone to call the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When the Mounties arrived, the Roma occupants of the vehicle applied for political asylum. “It’s as though they had it programmed into their GPS,” said Magog police spokesman

Paul Tear. That may not be far from the truth. Canadian authorities announced Wednesday that they had broken up a circuitous but ingenious human smuggling ring that shuttled Romanians from Europe to Mexico and across the U.S. to the famously porous border between the twin communities of Derby Line, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec. Interviews and statistics gathered by The Associated Press in the weeks before the announcement revealed that the Romanians are largely ethnic Roma people. Canadian officials say many of the immigrants move to Toronto and Montreal, which have large Roma communities. “Quite frankly, we really haven’t seen anything like this in our immigration system before,” Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said at a news conference Wednesday in Stan-

stead. The Roma are descendants of nomads who moved out of what is now India 800 years ago. They speak a distinct language, a variation of Hindi. They have faced centuries of oppression in Europe that many advocates — and some countries, like Canada — say continues today. They have been forcibly resettled through the ages and were imprisoned and executed in concentration camps during the Second World War. A 2004 agreement between the U.S. and Canada in how the two countries deal with asylum seekers is driving the latest migration, experts told the AP. If the Romanians were to present themselves at a Canadian border post, they would be refused entry and told to seek asylum in the United States, which has more difficult requirements and where asylum seekers are not eligible for wel-

fare benefits. Romanians seeking to enter the U.S. or Canada need pre-approved visas. They do not need visas to enter Mexico. Once in Canada, the asylum seekers are freed in most cases from detention while their asylum claims are pending, a process that can take years. At the same time, they are eligible to receive public assistance benefits. The appeal of the border crossing between Derby Line and Stanstead, as opposed to other points along the border with Canada, is apparent. The two towns are separate only in name and country — otherwise, they are essentially one community. The border runs through yards and buildings. Until recently, people could freely walk across quiet residential streets to visit neighbours in another country.

Quebec to create its own long-gun gun registry BY THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC — The Quebec government marked the anniversary of Canada’s worst mass shooting by reiterating its intention to create its own gun registry. Public Security Minister Stephane Bergeron said in a statement Thursday it will happen once Ottawa turns over Quebec data that was in the now-defunct federal long-gun registry. Alexa Conradi, president of the Quebec Women’s Federation, welcomed the confirmation that the province will proceed with its own gun registry. “Controlling firearms is a really important and essential aspect of fighting violence against women,” she said at a rally in front of the courthouse. Conradi made her comments as several dozen people commemorated the 23rd anniversary of the killing of 14 women at the Ecole polytechnique in

1989. France Bourgault, one of the organizers, said the courthouse was chosen because, according to her, the judicial system and the state can’t guarantee the safety of women. While Conradi welcomed Bergeron’s statement, she was still worried about the impact of the Conservative government’s decision to abolish the federal registry. “We’re definitely concerned about women across Canada who will now be faced with the absence of sufficient controls of firearms and that might put them at greater risk for violence against women,” she said.

Bergeron later said he wasn’t sure if the legislation setting up the registry would be tabled before the resolution of an ongoing legal battle with the federal government. But he said it

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Insurance coverage for reservists boosted BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Part-time soldiers who lose limbs in the line of duty will now be treated the same as regular members of the Canadian military following insurance improvements passed Thursday by the federal Treasury Board. Government sources tell The Canadian Press that the changes will increase coverage for reservists, as initially recommended by the military ombudsman almost four years ago. The improvements take effect almost im-

mediately and a formal announcement is expected later. Sources say there are only a handful of cases — possibly less than 10 — every year and the cost to taxpayers is measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The insurance coverage under review applies to soldiers serving in Canada, and not to reservists who take up duty overseas in places like Afghanistan. They are covered under a separate, more comprehensive system. Two weeks ago, Defence Minister Peter MacKay promised swift action in the aftermath of ombudsman Pierre Daigle’s latest

PQ backtracks on appointment of former leader to double-job BY THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC — The Parti Quebecois government has swiftly rescinded a plan to provide two prestigious jobs to a former leader — including a guaranteed position for life. After that double-appointment caused a stir, and drew derision for a government elected on a stricter-ethics platform, Premier Pauline Marois announced the reversal Thursday. The change came after Andre Boisclair had been provided a secure deputy min-

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CAIRO, Egypt — The Egyptian army sealed off the presidential palace with tanks and barbed wire Thursday, a day after fierce clashes between supporters and opponents of the Islamist leader over a disputed constitution killed at least six people. Compounding President Mohammed Morsi’s woes, another member of his 17-person advisory panel resigned in protest of his handling of the crisis, bringing the total to seven in the past two weeks. Rafik Habib, the only Coptic Christian adviser, was the latest to resign. Protesters defied a deadline to vacate the area, demanding that Morsi rescind his Nov. 22 decrees giving himself near-absolute power and withdraw the disputed draft constitution passed by his Islamist allies that is headed for a Dec. 15 referendum. But the situation was calm throughout the day. Thousands of Morsi supporters camped overnight outside the palace after driving away opposition activists who had been staging a sit-in there, prompting the wild street battles that spread to upscale residential areas nearby. The Brotherhood, which had

erected metal barricades and manned checkpoints with rocks and empty glass bottles overnight, withdrew from the area by afternoon. “I don’t want Morsi to back down,� said Khaled Omar, a Brotherhood supporter who had camped out. “We are not defending him. We are defending Islam, which is what people want.� The violence on Wednesday was the worst since Morsi was elected in June. The crisis began with Morsi’s decrees setting himself above judicial oversight. That was followed by the hurried passing of a constitution draft by his Islamist allies, moves that deeply polarized the country and took political tensions to a height not seen since the uprising nearly two years ago that ousted authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak. Morsi remains determined to press forward with the Dec. 15 referendum to pass the new charter. The opposition, for its part, is refusing dialogue unless Morsi rescinds the decrees and shelves the disputed charter.

The intensity of the overnight violence, with Morsi’s Islamist backers and largely secular protesters lobbing firebombs and rocks at each other, raised the spectre that the country would grow even more polarized and violent. Mohamed ElBaradei, an opposition leader, said late Wednesday that Morsi’s rule was “no different� than Mubarak’s. “In fact, it is perhaps even worse,� the Nobel Peace Prize laureate told a news conference after he accused the president’s supporters of a “vicious and deliberate� attack on peaceful demonstrators outside the palace. Morsi’s moves over the constitution have re-energized and largely unified the previously fractious opposition. Inside the palace gates, Morsi held crisis meetings Thursday with Cabinet members and military leaders, including the defence minister, according to a presidential statement. “The president discussed ways to deal with the situation regarding the political, security and legal landscapes so that Egypt can achieve stability and preserve the gains of the revolution,� the statement said.

Duchess leaves hospital after treatment LONDON — The Duchess of Cambridge left a London hospital Thursday after being treated for acute morning sickness related to her pregnancy. Clutching a small bouquet of yellow roses, the former Kate Middleton smiled and posed briefly for a photograph alongside her husband, Prince William, before leaving King Edward VII Hospital. She stepped delicately into a waiting car. The couple’s office said she would head to Kensington Palace in London for a period of rest. She had been in the hospital since Monday. Officials from St. James’s Palace have said the duchess is not yet 12 weeks pregnant with the couple’s first child. William visited his wife at the hospital every day, while media from around the world camped outside, seeking any news on the royal pregnancy. Royal officials announced Monday that the Duchess was pregnant, their hand forced by her admission into the hospital. But the stay of one of the world’s most recognized women was complicated by a breach of her privacy. Two Australian radio disc jockeys impersonating Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles placed a prank call to the hospital early Tuesday, and persuaded an unwitting nurse to tell them all about the Duchess’ condition. The duchess is married to the queen’s grandson, Prince William. Australian radio personalities Mel Greig and Michael Christian later apologized for the hoax — sheepishly noting that they were surprised that the call was put through and that their Australian accents were not detected.

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BACK IN ACTION The Pittsburgh Steelers aren’t taking any chances with their franchise quarterback’s sprained right shoulder and dislocated rib. Though the Steelers confirmed Ben Roethlisberger will return to the starting lineup on Sunday against San Diego after missing three weeks due to injury, Roethlisberger will take the field with a little extra protection. Roethlisberger will play with a custom fit rib/chest compression shirt and a layer of Kevlar-lined composite in his shoulder pads to help absorb hits to his clavicle and shoulder joint regions. The padding — about a half-inch thick— in Roethlisberger’s shoulder pads is similar to the gear put in chest protectors for baseball catchers. Roethlisberger said last week his shoulder pads had been “juiced up” by the team trainers. Whatever he’s wearing, the Steelers (7-5) are eager to have him back on the field. Roethlisberger took “90 per cent” of the first-team snaps on Thursday.

Denver 26 Raiders 13 OAKLAND, Calif. — After overwhelming another overmatched division rival, Peyton Manning and the streaking Denver Broncos can turn their attention to much more meaningful opponents. Manning threw for 310 yards and had his 30th touchdown pass of the season on the game’s opening drive to help the Broncos roll to their eighth straight victory, 2613 over the Oakland Raiders on Thursday night. Knowshon Moreno ran for 119 yards and a score on a career-high 32 carries, and Matt Prater kicked four field goals to help the Broncos (10-3) move a half-game ahead of New England and Baltimore for the second-best record in the AFC. Denver visits Baltimore next week in a game that will help decide who gets a first-round playoff bye. Carson Palmer threw one interception that thwarted a possible scoring chance for the Raiders (3-10) and lost a fumble that set up a touchdown for the Broncos as Oakland lost its sixth straight game. This is the team’s longest skid since also losing six in a row in 2007. The Raiders played the game with heavy hearts as coach Dennis Allen’s father, Grady, died earlier in the week from cardiac arrest. Allen was away from the team for two days but returned Wednesday and coached the game. The Raiders players talked during the week about rallying around their first-year coach but came out flat against a fierce division rival and were swept in the season-series by the Broncos for the first time since 2006. The game was mildly competitive for only a brief time as the Raiders got on the board late in the first half on a touchdown pass from Palmer to Darren McFadden and then started with the ball in the third quarter down 13-7.

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Denver Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno carries the ball and leaps over Oakland Raiders linebacker Philip Wheeler during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game in Oakland, Thursday. The Broncos won the game 26-13.

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New York Knicks’ J.R. Smith goes to the basket as Miami Heat’s Mike Miller defends in the second half of an NBA game, Thursday, in Miami. The Knicks won 112-92.

Knicks 112 Heat 92 MIAMI — Another Knicks-Heat game, another 20-point Knicks win. And if that isn’t surprising enough, this one happened with Carmelo Anthony on the sideline. Raymond Felton scored a seasonhigh 27 points, and the Knicks connected on 18 3-pointers to more than offset the absence of Anthony while dominating Miami for the second time this season, beating the Heat 112-92 on Thursday night. “It was fun. It was fun the whole game,” Felton said. “Everybody contributed tonight. Everybody did something amazing. We played a great game minus our superstar.” Steve Novak scored 18 points, J.R. Smith added 13 and Tyson Chandler scored 13 for the Knicks, who won their fifth straight and moved 1 ½ games clear of Miami for the best record in the Eastern Conference. The Knicks made eight 3-pointers in the third quarter alone, the most by any NBA team in any quarter so far this season. Anthony sat out, one night after needing five stitches to close a cut on the middle finger of his left hand. “You’ve got a key guy that goes down and the other guys get an opportunity to play and step up and make plays,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. “I thought it was a total team effort from

everybody across the board. I thought our defence was solid and then we kind of broke it open at the end.” LeBron James nearly picked up his second straight triple-double — 31 points, 10 rebounds, nine assists — in Miami’s second straight loss, the first of those coming on the road against lowly Washington on Tuesday. Dwyane Wade scored 13 points, Chris Bosh had 12 and Udonis Haslem added 10 for the Heat, who fell to 8-1 at home. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra devoted most of his postgame remarks to the theme that Miami has to “own” its shortcomings right now, and how they would be addressed starting in practice on Friday. “We’ll stay connected,” Spoelstra said. “We’re going to own this. We’re not going to brush this off. And we’re going to fix it.” James — who said the Knicks “smashed” the Heat — didn’t wait that long. The league’s reigning MVP worked out immediately after the game, sweating at his locker more than an hour after the final buzzer. “I’ve got to be better. I’ve got to be better,” James said. “It’s that simple. So I’m here, and I’m the last one to leave.” Rasheed Wallace scored 12 and Jason Kidd added 11 points for the Knicks, who finished 18 for 44 from 3-point range.

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NHL talks break down after two days of optimism BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — With a deal that would save the season tantalizingly close, the NHL’s collective bargaining talks broke down in spectacular fashion on Thursday night. A bizarre series of twists and turns played out in front of reporters and saw the sides taking pointed shots at each other. It was a shocking end to a day that began with some close to the situation believing a deal was at hand — and raised serious questions about why the league and the players can’t close with seemingly so little now separating them. Donald Fehr, executive director of the NHL Players’ Association, raised hopes after tabling a new proposal during an hourlong meeting on Thursday night and claiming the sides were “clearly very close, if not on top of one another in connection with most of the major issues.” The optimism didn’t last long. A voicemail left on union special counsel Steve Fehr’s cellphone during the press conference carried an important message: Not only was the NHL flatly rejecting the union’s offer, it was also pulling all the concessions it made earlier this week off the table.

By the time commissioner Gary Bettman met reporters, he was in a rage over the enthusiasm Fehr expressed while characterizing the status of negotiations. “I find it almost incomprehensible he did that,” said Bettman, who shook as he spoke. He and deputy commissioner Bill Daly made it clear the league would need the union to include three key elements before any deal is signed: ● a 10-year term for the CBA, with a mutual reopener after eight years (the NHLPA offered eight years, with an option to opt out after Year 6). ● no compliance buyouts. ● contract term limits of five years, which Daly described as “the hill we will die on.” “What we got today, quite frankly and disappointingly, missed the mark on all three respects,” said Daly. “So for the union to suggest somehow we are close, is cherry picking and it’s unfortunate.” The dramatic session capped a fascinating three-day stretch unlike any other during these negotiations. With Bettman and Fehr relegated to the sidelines, owners and players held marathon negotiating sessions Tuesday and Wednesday that saw both take steps towards the other.

Not only did the NHL drop proposed changes to unrestricted free agency, entrylevel contracts and arbitration, it also made a significant financial jump. It offered to increase the amount of deferred transition money paid to the players to US$300 million — which sat directly between what it had previously tabled ($211 million) and what the NHLPA had asked for ($393 million). However, the league viewed its offer as a total package and seemed puzzled by the NHLPA’s counter-offer on Thursday, which included a shorter term, more flexibility on contract limits and left the door open for the sides to negotiate on compliance buyouts and escrow caps. Fehr seemed puzzled by the NHL’s swift rejection of the proposal. “What can we tell the hockey fans of Canada? You can tell them that it looks like this is not going to be resolved in the immediate future,” he said. “I hope that turns out to be wrong. But that’s certainly the message that we have today.” There are no new talks scheduled. “We’re going to take a deep breath and look back at where we are and what needs to be accomplished,” said Bettman.

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Byron Froese arrived in Red Deer in the fall of 2010 after being acquired in an offseason deal with the Everett Silvertips that sent Landon Ferraro the other way. After two fine seasons in Everett, the solid two-say centre was a major hit during his only campaign with the Rebels, scoring 43 goals and collecting 81 points in 70 regularseason games and contributing five goals and seven points in nine playoff contests. He was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the fourth round of the 2009 NHL entry draft and turned pro in 2011, spending most of last season with the Rockford IceHogs of the AHL and recording 10 points (4g,6a) in the process. Froese is currently skating with the Blackhawks’ ECHL affiliate, the Toledo Walleyes and has five goals and 17 points in 20 games.

WHO’S HOT Logan Nelson has recorded at least one point in each of the Victoria Royals’ last 10 games. The 19-year-old C from Rogers, Minn. — selected by Buffalo in the 2012 NHL entry draft — has scored four goals and added nine assists for 13 points since Nov. 10 and has 29 points (7-22) in 29 games this season.

THEY SAID IT “Sometimes you have to have a throwaway game and maybe that’s our throwaway. I’m not surprised by it. Let’s face it, the dam was going to burst. You know what? No one feels sorry for you. It was a good lesson for our kids. You can’t ever go ‘woe is me.’ (The Raiders) were pounding us over there and the coach kept throwing out their No. 1 power play against us. Maybe I’m from a different school of thought or maybe a different era but I just said to them, ‘Remember that! Put that in your memory bank for the next time.’” — Regina Pats head coach Pat Conacher, to the Regina Leader-Post, following his team’s 8-2 home-ice loss to the Prince Albert Raiders last Sunday.

The Regina Pats’ bad dream is Colten Mayor’s recurring nightmare. While his Pats teammates marvel at their unprecedented run of bad luck, Mayor can only shake his head as he recalls a similar experience last season with the injury-ravaged Red Deer Rebels. “Maybe it’s me who brought it over here,” chuckled Mayor, whose new team fell 5-1 to his old club on Wednesday at the Brandt Centre. “First there was one injury (for the Pats), then two, then three. I was like, ‘Holy! This is déjà vu for me.’ It’s not fun at all.” The Pats were missing a season-high eight skaters due to injuries or illness last weekend. In total, the team has had 18 players sit at least one game over the first 10 weeks of the regular season, losing more than 100 man games overall. “I went through it last year,” noted Mayor, who was acquired from Red Deer on Oct. 18, along with defenceman Stephen Hak. “(The Rebels’ issues) started out early in the season and it kind of got worse. I broke my wrist and I was playing with a cast for about three weeks. Then I ended up breaking my thumb on the same hand. I missed the last 20 games. It was like nothing could go right. Every game you almost felt like, ‘who are we going to lose tonight?’ “We were kind of laughing because there wasn’t anybody who was going to play the full 72 (games). Chad Robinson was the last guy and he ended up hurting his knee and missed the last two games.” Mayor is the first to admit the Pats’ predicament is no laughing matter, but he does believe it’s an experience that could make the team stronger. In Red Deer, the string of injuries led to a 13-game losing streak and ultimately cost the team a playoff berth, but the players never

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Former Red Deer Rebel and current Regina Pat Colten Mayor is feeling a little like a bad luck charm. Having gone through a season full of injuries with the Rebels last year, he is seeing the Pats struggle with injuries this season. The Pats have had 18 players sit at least one game this season, losing more than 100 man games overall. quit and somehow managed to stay in the race until late in the season. “You can learn from it, just the adversity part,” said Mayor. “We were playing with like 15 guys in Red Deer and we were getting by. You have to believe in the guys you have and the younger guys are going to get opportunities. When Jesse (Wallin) was coaching he really harped on that, ‘We can’t shut down right now. We need to let our character shine through. We can’t use it as an excuse. We have to get through this as a team and everyone has to start pulling their weight and you have to even go beyond that.’ You can’t just be like, ‘we’re missing all these guys, let’s just write this season off.’ We

pushed through and kept going. In the end it benefitted us all as hockey players.” Hak was one of them. “I got a lot of icetime for it,” he recalled. “Around this time of year we had six guys out or so. After the Christmas break most guys came back but the same thing happened, most guys got injured again. We had about seven or eight guys out for the last two months of the year.” At the time, Hak had never seen anything like it. Now, he can hardly believe it’s happening all over again. “It’s a little ridiculous,” he said with a laugh. “I was thinking it’s a curse or something. “Going through it last year, it feels like the same thing. All

you can do is play. You can’t feel sorry for yourself. You can’t use any excuses.” Mayor has responded accordingly, notching three goals and two assists in the past three games. He has eight goals and 15 points in 20 games with the Pats after notching three points (all goals) in 11 outings with Red Deer to start the season. “As a player you always want to step up to the plate,” Mayor added. “I’m trying to do that as best I can. You can’t ever be happy with how you’re playing. You have to keep wanting more and pushing more. “We obviously miss (the injured players). We need them but we can get through this.” gharder@leaderpost.com

Team first mentality been working for Rebels Regina Pats head coach Pat Conacher — substitute for hard work. There’s definitely in conversation with Greg Harder of the Re- no equal for the combination of talent/efgina Leader-Post — said it best following his fort and Sutter has elevated the club’s skill club’s one-sided 5-1 loss to the visiting Red level with the recent acquisitions of Dieno Deer Rebels on Wednesday. and forward Filip Vasko and the “That Red Deer team, I tip my earlier additions of Matt Belhat to them. You can go out and lerive and Brady Gaudet. give a valiant effort and lose the None of this is should be congame but that game tonight I’m strued as a slight to Wallin, who going to take that (as an example is a fine coach in his own right for his own squad). I look at that but had apparently — for whatRed Deer team, their top point ever reason — lost his voice with getter has 20 points. Not one guy the club. is doing it or two guys or three Again, for whatever reason, guys, 20 guys are doing it. That’s it wasn’t working with Wallin in much like what we have to put charge. together here. It’s not pretty but With Sutter in command and it’s effective.” newcomer Jeff Truitt and Bryce GREG And so it is that the Rebels Thoma as the right-hand men, MEACHEM have adopted the old all-forit’s working well, although the one-and-one-for-all mentality, a team will face a new challenge if mindset that has been front and — as expected — Bartosak is lost centre during the club’s eightfor the better part of a month game winning streak. to Team Czech Republic for the world juIt’s just the way they roll, or have been nior championship and — quite possibly rolling since Brent Sutter replaced Jesse — Dumba earns a spot on the Team Canada Wallin in the dual role of GM/head coach in roster. mid-November. Toss in the absence of impressive rookWith the exception of defenceman ies Haydn Fleury and Conner Bleackley, Mathew Dumba and netminder Patrik who will play in the World Under 17 ChalBartosak, there are no prospective WHL lenge after Christmas, and the Rebels’ all-star selections on the Rebels roster, depth will be severely tested for an extendalthough Medicine Hat Tigers castaway ed stretch. forward Ryhse Dieno will be in line for For now, though, the club is thriving. such an honour if he continues to produce And who’s to say Sutter won’t further tinker at his current pace — 11 points (4g,7a) in with the roster if he sees the Rebels as at eight games since being plucked from the least an outside contender with all hands Laronge Ice Wolves of the SJHL. on deck? Captain Turner Elson leads all Red Deer On the move: The Kamloops Blazers are scorers with 22 points (9-13), with Joel Ham- confident they filled two needs with Thursilton next with 20 (2-18). The Rebels, how- day’s acquisition of rugged, two-day deever, have 12 players who have reached fenceman Joel Edmundson from the Moose double figures in points and with Elson Jaw Warriors. The Blazers, in need of toughleading the way, have fallen in line and — ness and a rearguard with offensive capaas Conacher pointed out — adopted a true bilities, got both qualities in Edmundson, a team philosophy. second-round pick of the St. Louis Blues in The Rebels have been a livelier bunch the 2011 NHL entry draft. The Blazers also with Sutter at the helm, a team that over got a fourth-round pick in the 2015 bantam the past three weeks has become faster and draft while sending 18-year-old defenceman more potent offensively. They have basi- Tyler Bell, 15-year-old prospect Jayden Halcally been re-invented, although there’s no bgewachs — Kamloops’ first-round pick in

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Big names still unsigned as teams head home from winter meetings BASEBALL BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — As baseball’s new Mr. Moneybags, Ned Colletti gets mentioned when almost any free agent is discussed this off-season. “There’s a perception that we’re in on a couple dozen starting pitchers, three dozen outfielders and infielders, 17, 18 catchers,” the Los Angeles Dodgers general manager said. “People like to have us in. I guess it doesn’t hurt to have us in, even though we’re not in. We may have to hire somebody next year just to tell everybody who we’re not in on,” he said. As teams headed home from the winter meetings Thursday, the biggest free agents were still on the market. The availability of slugger Josh Hamilton and pitcher Zack Greinke held up decisions on other signings and possible trades involving Rangers infielder Michael Young and Mets Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey. The New York Yankees, quiet thus far, were pursuing former Boston star Kevin Youkilis and also met with the agent for Mark Reynolds. With most clubs already packed up and leaving the sprawling, 2,881-room Opryland hotel, Philadelphia acquired outfielder Ben Revere from Minnesota for right-handers Vance Worley and Trevor May. Hamilton could remain with Texas, and Seattle seemed to be interested. Greinke’s options include staying with the Los Angeles Angels, moving up the coast to the Dodgers or signing with the Rangers. Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik said that after taking in information from other clubs and agents, it was time to return home and “cool your jets.” “There can be a domino effect,” he said. “I think when clubs are focusing on a certain position, a certain need, there’s options out there. And once one option goes away, then that changes the landscape of what a club would want to do. Everybody’s

got their ducks lined up in a row, and it’s just a matter of how things fall. And there’s timing involved.” The annual meeting wasn’t much of a swap session. The Phillies-Twins deal was just the fourth trade over the four days. Atlanta announced a one-year deal with outfielder Reed Johnson on Thursday, and Texas said reliever Koji Uehara had reached an agreement with Boston. Minnesota agreed with reliever Jared Burton on a $5.5 million, two-year contract that includes a club option for 2015. Third baseman Ian Stewart said he is re-signing with the Chicago Cubs, confirming the move on Twitter. But the 25-foot wide dais with a podium backed by MLB logos was used just three times: Yankees general manager Brian Cashman discussed Alex Rodriguez’s hip injury; Major League Baseball announced an auction benefiting Stand Up to Cancer; and the Mets talked about David Wright’s $138 million, eight-year contract, which had been agreed to last week. The Yankees have been laying back, watching as catcher Russell Martin agreed with Pittsburgh last week and backup third baseman Eric Chavez went to Arizona during the meetings. Wanting to get under the $189 million luxury tax threshold in 2014, New York was being cautious. Still, Cashman maintained it hasn’t been a rough week for him. “Because I don’t read the papers as much as I used to,” he said. “This year’s marketplace, it might be strong in terms of the dollars being thrown around, but I don’t think it’s a strong market in terms of the available talent.” As the meetings ended, Cashman had made a $12 million offer to Youkilis, who would play third base while A-Rod recovers. The Phillies were trying to obtain Young, who has been with the Rangers for his entire 13-season career and would have to approve a trade. Arizona was listening to offers for outfielder Justin Upton. “It seems like when people leave the winter meetings, there’s a bit of a quiet period,” Red Sox GM Ben Cherington said. “People kind of get out of the frenzy, maybe take a step back and realize that maybe

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NFL: Drive stalled McFadden, returning from a four-game absence for a sprained right ankle, broke off a 36-yard run on the first play from scrimmage, but the Raiders drive stalled in Denver territory after that and the Broncos took the game over. Manning, who joined Brett Favre as the only quarterbacks in NFL history with 5,000 career completions, converted a third-and-11 with a perfectly placed 22-yard pass to Demaryius Thomas. Manning followed that with a 29-yard completion to Eric Decker, but the drive stalled after a pass-interference call on Matt Giordano gave the Broncos a first down at the 1. Prater’s 20-yard field goal made it 16-7. Mike Goodson then made the ill-advised decision to return a kick from 8 yards deep in the end zone, forcing Oakland to start a drive at the 8. Von Miller then beat Khalif Barnes for a sack on third down, stripping the ball from Palmer. Mitch Unrein recovered at the 2 and Moreno scored two plays later to make it 23-7. Prater added another field goal later in the third quarter and Manning went on to his record 12th season with 10 wins as a starting quarterback. The only remaining drama was whether quarterback project Terrelle Pryor would get his first action of the season for Oakland. He didn’t, giving the frustrated Raiders fans yet another reason to be upset even though Palmer added a 56-yard TD pass to Darrius Heyward-Bey and finished with 273 yards passing. The Raiders won the coin toss but decided to defer until the second half. The decision backfired as Manning converted three third downs on a 68-yard drive that was capped by a 6-yard pass to Joel Dreessen that was Manning’s 30th touchdown pass of the season. Prater added two field goals after Broncos’ drives stalled inside the Oakland 20 as Denver extended the lead to 13-0. The momentum shifted after Phillip Adams’ intercepted an underthrown pass from Manning to Matthew Willis in the end zone. Oakland responded with an 80-yard drive capped by a 6-yard screen pass to McFadden.

something they were talking about isn’t such a good idea. Sometimes things get close and never end up happening.” For all the talk, the Dodgers have made only one big move since the end of the season, re-signing closer Brandon League. But they’ve been quite busy throughout 2012. After they were bought in May for $2 billion by a group headed by Mark Walter and Stan Kasten, Los Angeles added stars Hanley Ramirez, Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett. The Dodgers face a Sunday deadline to reach a deal with South Korean pitcher Ryu Hyun-Jin, whose rights they gained for a $25.7 million bid. Quite different from the days under previous owner Frank McCourt. “You couldn’t get an agent to return a phone call,” Colletti said. “Now you’ve got them lined out the door.” Texas GM Jon Daniels was popular, too, given his interest in Hamilton and Greinke, and talks involving Upton and a possible multi-team trade. “It just makes it tougher, more than two clubs,” he said, adding he had a variety of trade and free-agent options. “There are a couple of big decisions that are going to impact the direction. We’ve narrowed it down, but there’s still a couple ways we can go. Some of that is up to us, and some of that is up to the guys on the other side of the table.” After exploring trades involving Dickey, Mets GM Sandy Alderson said it was possible the team could keep the knuckleballer without the sides agreeing to a new contract that runs beyond 2013. “I don’t think it’s necessarily the optimum result, but it’s a possible result,” he said. Some teams worry about overpaying this early in the off-season. Other clubs conclude they must. “You run into people, like, ’Man, I didn’t want to do that, but I had no choice,”’ Cashman said. “So they’re getting a problem solved, but they’re not happy with their solution and what they had to do to solve it. I don’t want to be in that position. I’d rather feel good about what I’m doing.”

the last of them with 3:25 left in the third, and a pair of free throws by Chandler moments later gave New York — again, without its best player — an 18-point lead on the road against the reigning NBA champions. Now losers of two straight, and having been beaten badly twice by the Knicks, the Heat know the outside “noise” — their word for the buzz that always seems to surround Miami — will start ramping up again. “It’s a little earlier than expected, but we knew there were going to be different challenges this year,” Bosh said. “Controversy, adversity, whatever ’ersity’ you want to use. We’re smart. We’re not joking ourselves. We’re here.” There was one run late in the third, a 13-3 burst by Miami that got the Heat within eight in the final seconds of the quarter. It was the last — and really, the only — gasp for Miami, as the Knicks just kept firing away in the fourth. “We understood it was a 10-point game and we had to make our move,” Novak said. “We’ve got a few stops and hit a bunch of shots. That was really the key for us — hitting those shots and being aggressive.” Felton finished 10 for 20 from the floor, adding seven assists and four rebounds. He was 6 for 10 from beyond the arc, Novak was 4 for 9, while Smith and Kidd were each 3 for 8 from long range. Miami had two field goals in the first seven minutes of the final quarter, and when New York decided to put it away, it was with 3-pointers, of course. Novak made one for a 100-84 lead, another to stretch the margin to 19 and then Chandler got all alone for a dunk to push the lead to 109-88 and send most of the building’s occupants to the exits. Smith hit a 3-pointer with 3:04 left to play, gestured toward the Heat bench, and the benches were cleared for subs moments later. “We’ll be fine. We’ll be fine,” James said. “But we can’t act like what happened tonight or in Washington or some of the games that we even won that we probably shouldn’t have won, we can’t act like, ’OK, we made those things happen.’ We haven’t played like we’re capable of playing.”

NHL: Leaves a month For the first time, he laid out the parameters for saving the season. Bettman indicated the league would not consider a schedule of fewer than 48

NBA: Tied at the half It was tied at 53 at the half, and the third quarter changed everything for the Knicks. Kidd made a 3-pointer, Felton followed with consecutive 3s and New York was up by nine with 9:42 left in the period and the Heat seemed stunned. New York was only getting started. In all, it was an eight-3-pointers-in-eight-minutes barrage that decided this one, with five different players getting in on the act for the Knicks. Smith hit

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games — the same length it had after the 1994-95 lockout — which leaves roughly a month to reach an agreement. Many had hoped that was going to be accomplished this week instead. A surge of optimism was injected into talks after four new owners joined negotiations on Tuesday, each of them viewed as moderates who travelled to New York in an effort to broker a deal. When that failed to happen, the league lifted its gag order on owners and allowed each of them to release a statement. “We needed a response on key items that were important to us, but we were optimistic that we were down to very few issues,” said Pittsburgh Penguins owner Ron Burkle. “I believe a deal was within reach. We were therefore surprised when the Fehrs made a unilateral and ’non-negotiable’ decision — which is their right — to end the player/owner process that has moved us farther in two days than we moved at any time in the past months.” The union walked away from the sessions with complaints of its own. Winnipeg Jets defenceman Ron Hainsey, an influential member of the NHLPA’s negotiating committee, said that players were told by the NHL on Wednesday night that it would be a potential “deal-breaker” if Fehr was brought back into the negotiating room. At that point, the players felt it was a necessary move to make in order to finish off the agreement. Fehr took part in Thursday’s meeting. “We were definitely moving towards each other and as confident as some of our players are in the issues, we cannot close deals,” said Hainsey. At this point, it appears no one can. The NHL’s third lockout in the last two decades has been much tougher to gauge than the ones that preceded it. Coming off record revenues, the fight simply seemed to be about money and for a time this week the sides finally started to agree on how it would be split. Despite the strong rhetoric on Thursday night, there seems to be plenty of common ground to work off once negotiations restart. The biggest challenge for those closely involved is finding a way remain even-keeled following 72 hours of extreme ups and downs. “I’m trying not to get too optimistic,” said Penguins captain Sidney Crosby. “I’ve been optimistic at different points in this, but I can say that at any point this is by far the best deal we’ve had (on the table). There’s no reason why this can’t be good for everyone.”

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Sparks fly before UFC in Seattle MACDONALD AND PENN CONTINUE TO STEAL THE SHOW FIRING OFF VERBAL JABS TO EACH OTHER DURING NEWS CONFERENCE

SEATTLE — Rory (Ares) MacDonald and B.J. (The Prodigy) Penn continue to steal the show in the buildup to this weekend’s UFC show, the tension between the two welterweights positively sizzling at Thursday’s pre-fight news conference. There was a definite yin and yang as the show began in the Seattle Centre Pavilion, adjacent to the KeyArena. A stone-faced MacDonald, dressed impeccably in suit and tie, stared at the audience as if he was attending a sentencing hearing rather than promoting an MMA card. Penn, whose wardrobe selection consisted of finding a bjpenn.com T-shirt to wear, was the picture of relaxation until midway through the news conference when asked about his reaction to comments from MacDonald. “Rory said he took this fight because he really wants to hurt me. He said I’m probably going to die in the ring and he better be ready to back up everything he said,� said Penn, his eyes burning like a laser in MacDonald’s direction. Asked if he felt disrespected, the 33-year-old Penn didn’t bite but repeated that the 23-year-old Canadian had better back up his comment on Saturday in the cage. “I’m ready,� replied an icy MacDonald. “Don’t worry about that.� The debate went downhill after that. “We’ll see,� said Penn. “We will see,� answered MacDonald. “Can’t wait, buddy,� said Penn.

Penn’s took some licence with his quoting of MacDonald, a native of Kelowna, B.C., who fights out of Montreal. Asked Wednesday about his thoughts on Fox’s “Road to the Octagon� preview show. MacDonald said Penn, a former lightweight and welterweight champion, is fighting for the wrong reasons and will pay for it Saturday. Penn (16-8-2) is in search of status or legacy, the young Canadian said. “I’m fighting to hurt him,� MacDonald said. “Not fighting for someone’s opinion. When Penn and MacDonald went to pose for the traditional photo after the news conference, White wasted little time sticking a hand between the two to prevent any physical contact. The two fighters kept their cool but there was no handshake. McDonald (13-1) did not back down Thursday on the issue of Penn fighting to get his legacy back. “I don’t know if that’s his motivation to fight or not but if that is true, you’re fighting for someone’s opinion, for status, it’s the wrong reason to fight. But his motivation may be something else altogether. “If that is his motivation, I think it’s going to get him hurt.� White said what he took out of Penn’s statement on the TV show was that the Hawaiian could have enjoyed even more success if he had taken his sport more seriously. “B.J., he’s at this point now where he’s like ‘All right, I get it. The (championship) belt, I didn’t appreciate the belt when I had it. Now that it’s gone, I get it. And I’m not too old, I’m still young enough to go on one of these type of (winning) streaks and claim my spot in history.’ That’s how I took it.� Is that right, White then asked Penn.

GSP wants next fight to be against Diaz BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SEATTLE — Georges St-Pierre is putting a proposed super-fight with Anderson Silva to the side to pursue “unfinished business� with Nick Diaz. UFC president Dana White says the Montreal mixed martial arts star has asked to fight Diaz next. White told reporters Thursday that St-Pierre (23-2) made the request after returning from vacation following his welterweight title defence against Carlos Condit at UFC 154 in Montreal. “We were talking about Anderson Silva,� White said. “He (St-Pierre) said ’I want Nick Diaz. Me and Nick Diaz have unfinished business. We were supposed to fight. That’s the fight that I want.’ “Georges St-Pierre has been a phenomenal champion, a phenomenal human being, just a great guy to deal with for us. And he doesn’t ask for things. So if he wants to fight Nick Diaz and Nick Diaz wants to fight him, then that’s probably the fight we’ll make.� St-Pierre and Diaz were slated to fight last year but White yanked Diaz, who does not play well with others, for being a no-show at news conferences in Toronto and Las Vegas. Diaz was replaced by Condit but St-Pierre injured his knee in training. Condit then beat Diaz in February for the interim title, earning the right to meet the Canadian champion in Montreal last month. Diaz (27-8-1) was hit with a one-year suspension after the Condit fight for testing positive for marijuana. White said he has yet to talk to the 29-year-old Diaz about a GSP fight.

But that may happen this week since Nick is in Seattle to watch his younger brother Nate take on Benson Henderson for the lightweight title Saturday. St-Pierre’s coach Firas Zahabi raised Nick Diaz’s name in talking to reporters Wednesday, saying more fans in Canada ask him about a GSP-Diaz fight then GSP-Silva. He said it was the other way around in the U.S. The St-Pierre camp has said their fighter is up for a lucrative Silva fight. But they have said they will only do it in the right circumstances — and at the right weight. St-Pierre is currently in Europe. Reached by The Canadian Press by text, he declined comment until he returned home. The 31-year-old Canadian champion has to cut to weigh in at 170 pounds as a welterweight. Silva, the middleweight title-holder, has to make 185 as a middleweight and has fought at lightheavyweight (205). Silva is a bigger man. And the StPierre camp wants to make the playing field as even as possible. A fight with Diaz gives them more time to negotiate the super-fight. And GSP-Diaz is seen as a crowd-pleaser. Asked if such a fight could take place at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, White paused. “It’s a good question. Yeah, I think it’s a big fight. It’s a fight that everybody wants to see. Its an interesting fight.� St-Pierre helped fill the domed stadium when he beat Jake Shields in the UFC’s first visit to Ontario at UFC 129 in April 2011. The UFC boss said he had no timetable for the bout.

“Yes sir,� was the reply. The Penn-MacDonald interplay overshadowed the other fighters on the podium: lightweight champion Benson Henderson and challenger Nate Diaz in the main event, and former light-heavyweight champion Mauricio (Shogun) Rua and Alexander (The Mauler) Gustafsson in the co-main event. Penn has not fought since retiring in the cage in October 2011 after a lopsided loss to Nick Diaz, Nate’s older brother. At five foot nine, he is giving up three inches, 10 years and probably close to 20 pounds fight night to the Canadian young gun. Penn may be the underdog but, as White noted, fans still have a special place for Penn. “The fans love B.J. Penn. You know why they love B.J. Penn? Because of what you saw up here today (at the news conference).� “He called Rory out,� added White, who got a text from the Hawaiian to ask for the matchup. “B.J. Penn is a maniac, man. He loves to fight. He’s a warrior.� The choice of MacDonald continues Penn’s competition with Montreal’s Tristar Gym, home to welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. Penn, who once fought Lyoto (The Dragon) Machida at heavyweight, has lost twice to GSP. “Whatever this kid wants to do,� White said of Penn. “He’s proven himself time and time again, he can hang with anybody. “Has he taken a couple of beatings? Yes. And I blame him for that. Not his talent. ... He was so talented he never took this thing seriously, never trained and applied himself as hard as he could have. If he would have, he would have been the guy with the 10-, 15-, 20-fight win streak and he would be still be talked about as one of the greatest ever.�

UFC crowns first female champion, debut fight to happen in February THE CANADIAN PRESS SEATTLE — Wearing a little black dress and a shiny championship belt, (Rowdy) Ronda Rousey was ready for her UFC close-up Thursday. UFC president Dana White used a news conference for Saturday’s televised card in Seattle to announce Rousey’s UFC launching pad. He bounded on stage with a spare championship belt, declining to say why until he ended the mystery some 20 minutes later. “Bring the champ out here,� White said. A smiling Rousey (60) emerged from behind the curtain to receive her championship belt while White announced her debut fight in his organization. The 25-year-old California fighter will meet Liz (Girlrilla) Carmouche (6-2) in the main event of UFC 157 on Feb. 23 at the Honda Center in Anaheim. “She’s like Chuck Liddell, that’s who she reminds me of,� White said of his new poster girl champion. “She just wants to fight and fight and fight ... She’s definitely better looking than Chuck Liddell.� “She’s a mean, nasty fighter and she likes to finish people and that’s

what I look for and that’s what I care about,� he added. Rousey’s success and appeal prompted the UFC boss to change his mind on women’s MMA. He previously had argued that there wasn’t enough depth of talent to warrant women fighting in the UFC. The five-foot-seven Rousey has single-handedly changed that. White moved her from Strikeforce to the bigger UFC stage and signed her to an eight-fight deal. “It means a lot,� Rousey said. “I feel like we have a lot to prove at this event. And no one’s going to be disappointed. I think the women are here to stay and we’re going to prove it.� For the time being, however, the UFC is focusing its female spotlight on Rousey and the

135-pound bantamweight division. Should Rousey lose, the UFC will have a void to fill. While Rousey has already shown significant star power — she has been profiled in Sports Illustrated, and appeared on the cover of ESPN The Magazine as well as visits to the Conan and Jim Rome on Showtime TV shows — other female fighters have yet to join her in the spotlight. “I don’t know how the whole women’s thing is going to go, how it’s going to go over or what it’s going to do,� said White. “But I can tell you this. She’s the champ. The (UFC 157) card’s going to be stacked with serious fights and she deserves to be the headliner.� “This could last for years,� he added. “This could last a year.�

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Hockey 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

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 29 15 13 0 1 85 98 Prince George 28 10 14 1 3 76 101 Vancouver 28 8 20 0 0 80 114 GP 28 29 29 28 32

Portland Spokane Tri-City Seattle Everett

U.S. Division W LOTLSOL 23 4 1 0 21 7 1 0 17 10 1 1 14 13 1 0 11 19 0 2

GF GA 132 61 121 83 90 78 90 104 81 120

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 Kelowna 6 Swift Current 5 Vancouver 7 Victoria 2 Thursday’s game Seattle at Tri-City, Late

Pt 47 38 31 24 16 Pt 47 43 36 29 24

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. 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. Prince George at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Swift Current at Victoria, 8:05 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. American Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OL SL Pts Worcester 21 11 8 1 1 24 Manchester 21 10 8 2 1 23 St. John’s 22 11 10 0 1 23 Portland 21 10 9 1 1 22 Providence 19 9 8 0 2 20 GP Syracuse 20 Binghamton 18 Wilkes-Barre 20 Hershey 22 Norfolk 21

East Division W L OL SL 13 5 1 1 12 4 1 1 13 7 0 0 10 11 1 0 9 12 0 0

Pts 28 26 26 21 18

GF GA 60 65 55 53 53 60 67 69 44 55 GF GA 74 55 57 44 58 46 57 63 60 67

PA 260 296 337 249

x-Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

W 11 8 4 2

South L T 1 0 4 0 8 0 10 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 T 3 0 5 0 5 0 8 0

Pct .750 .583 .583 .333

PF 303 254 302 229

PA 242 230 260 265

W 10 4 3 2

West L 3 8 10 10

Pct .769 .333 .231 .167

PF 375 258 248 188

PA 257 257 402 322

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Giants 7 5 0 .583 321 Washington 6 6 0 .500 312 Dallas 6 6 0 .500 280 Philadelphia 3 9 0 .250 217

PA 243 301 295 320

y-Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans Carolina

Green Bay Chicago Minnesota Detroit

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South L T 1 0 6 0 7 0 9 0

W 8 8 6 4

North L T 4 0 4 0 6 0 8 0

Pct .667 .667 .500 .333

PF 296 294 262 300

PA 259 198 272 315

West L 3 5 6 8

Pct .708 .583 .458 .333

PF 289 242 221 186

PA 171 202 267 234

W San Francisco 8 Seattle 7 St. Louis 5 Arizona 4 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

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Abbotsford Lake Erie Toronto Rochester Hamilton

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North Division W L OL SL 13 3 4 2 12 9 1 1 12 8 0 1 9 8 2 0 7 9 1 1

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GF GA 73 67 67 60 56 62 55 60 49 74 GF GA 60 42 73 72 70 59 63 59 38 57

South Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Charlotte 22 12 8 0 2 26 72 64 Houston 20 11 6 1 2 25 67 59 Oklahoma City 20 11 6 1 2 25 66 59 Texas 21 11 8 1 1 24 53 59 San Antonio 22 8 11 0 3 19 57 67 NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Thursday’s Games Lake Erie 3, Charlotte 2 Hershey 2, Norfolk 1 Friday’s Games

Springfield at St. John’s, 4 p.m. Lake Erie at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Manchester at Providence, 5:05 p.m. Portland at Binghamton, 5:05 p.m. Adirondack at Rochester, 5:05 p.m. Hershey at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 5:05 p.m. Hamilton at Syracuse, 5:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Rockford, 6:05 p.m. Houston at Texas, 6:30 p.m. Grand Rapids at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Bridgeport at Albany, 3 p.m. Springfield at St. John’s, 4 p.m. Providence at Worcester, 5 p.m. Syracuse at Adirondack, 5 p.m. Rochester at Toronto, 5 p.m. Hamilton at Hershey, 5 p.m. Connecticut at Manchester, 5 p.m. Portland at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 5:05 p.m. Norfolk at Binghamton, 5:05 p.m. Peoria at Texas, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 6 p.m. Chicago at Rockford, 6:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games Worcester at Manchester, 1 p.m. Abbotsford at Toronto, 1 p.m. Syracuse at Bridgeport, 1 p.m. Milwaukee at Charlotte, 1 p.m. Albany at Connecticut, 1 p.m. Rockford at Grand Rapids, 2 p.m. Adirondack at Providence, 2:05 p.m. Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 3:30 p.m. Peoria at Houston, 4:05 p.m.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division GP W L OL SL Pts Rockford 22 12 9 0 1 25 Grand Rapids 20 11 7 1 1 24 Chicago 20 9 8 2 1 21 Milwaukee 20 9 8 2 1 21 Peoria 21 7 10 2 2 18

Northeast Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Springfield 20 12 4 1 3 28 70 42 Connecticut 21 10 9 2 0 22 67 72

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Bridgeport Adirondack Albany

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PF 317 333 321 235

PA 229 285 327 292

Week 14 Thursday’s Game Denver 26, Oakland 13 Sunday’s Games 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’s Game Houston at New England, 6:30 p.m.

Week 15 Thursday, Dec. 13 Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 6:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16 Green Bay at Chicago, 11 a.m. Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 11 a.m. Minnesota at St. Louis, 11 a.m. Indianapolis at Houston, 11 a.m. N.Y. Giants at Atlanta, 11 a.m. Washington at Cleveland, 11 a.m. Jacksonville at Miami, 11 a.m. Denver at Baltimore, 11 a.m. Carolina at San Diego, 2:05 p.m. Detroit at Arizona, 2:05 p.m. Seattle vs. Buffalo at Toronto, 2:05 p.m. Kansas City at Oakland, 2:25 p.m. Pittsburgh at Dallas, 2:25 p.m. San Francisco at New England, 6:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17 N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 6:30 p.m. NFL Odds (Favourites in capital letters; odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; NL-No Line) Spread O/U Sunday Philadelphia at TAMPA BAY 7.5 47.5 Dallas at CINCINNATI 2.5 45.5 St. Louis at BUFFALO 3.5 42.5 ATLANTA at Carolina 3.5 47.5 CHICAGO at Minnesota 2.5 39.5 Kansas City at CLEVELAND 5.5 37.5 Baltimore at WASHINGTON 1.5 46.5 Tennessee at INDIANAPOLIS 5.5 48.5 NY JETS at Jacksonville 2.5 38.5 Miami at SAN FRANCISCO 9.5 38.5 Arizona at SEATTLE 10.5 34.5 New Orleans at NY GIANTS 4.5 53.5 Detroit at GREEN BAY 7.5 51.5 San Diego at Pittsburgh NL NL Monday Houston at NEW ENGLAND 3.5 51.5 College Football FBS Bowl Games Saturday, Dec. 15 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Nevada (7-5) vs. Arizona (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Toledo (9-3) vs. Utah State (10-2), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 20 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego San Diego State (9-3) vs. BYU (7-5), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 21 Beef ’O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Ball State (9-3) vs. UCF (9-4), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 22 East Carolina (8-4) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (7-4), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Las Vegas Bowl Boise State (10-2) vs. Washington (7-5), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu SMU (6-6) vs. Fresno State (9-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Central Michigan (6-6) vs. Western Kentucky (7-5), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Washington Bowling Green (8-4) vs. San Jose State (10-2), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl Duke (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Holiday Bowl Baylor (7-5) vs. UCLA (9-4), 7:45 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 28 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Louisiana-Monroe (8-4) vs. Ohio (8-4), noon. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Rutgers (9-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Meineke Car Care Bowl Minnesota (6-6) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 29 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Rice (6-6) vs. Air Force (6-6), 9:45 a.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl Arizona State (7-5) vs. Navy (7-4), 1:15 p.m. (ESPN2) Pinstripe Bowl Syracuse (7-5) vs. West Virginia (7-5), 1:15 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl Texas (8-4) vs. Orgeon State (9-3), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl Michigan State (6-6) vs. TCU (7-5), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 31 Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn. Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. N.C. State (7-5), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl Georgia Tech (6-7) vs. Southern Cal (7-5), noon. (CBS) Liberty Bowl Iowa State (6-6) vs. Tulsa (10-3), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl LSU (10-2) vs. Clemson (10-2), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 1 At DallasPurdue (6-6) vs. Oklahoma State (7-5), 10 a.m. (ESPNU) Gator Bowl Mississippi State (8-4) vs. Northwestern (9-3), 10 a.m. (ESPN2) Capital One Bowl Georgia (11-2) vs. Nebraska (10-3), 11 a.m. (ABC) Outback Bowl South Carolina (10-2) vs. Michigan (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Rose Bowl Stanford (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (8-5), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. Florida State (11-2), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Florida (11-1) vs. Louisville (10-2), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 3 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz. Kansas State (11-1) vs. Oregon (11-1), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 4 Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Texas A&M (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (10-2), 6 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 5 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Mississippi (6-6), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 7 BCS National Championship At Miami Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Alabama (12-1), 6:30 p.m.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 14 4 .778 — Brooklyn 11 6 .647 2 1/2 Philadelphia 10 8 .556 4 Boston 10 8 .556 4 Toronto 4 15 .211 10 1/2

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Orlando Washington

Chicago Indiana Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

Southeast Division W L Pct 12 5 .706 10 5 .667 7 10 .412 7 11 .389 2 13 .133

GB — 1 5 5 1/2 9

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 10 .444 6 1/2 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

L.A. Clippers Golden State

Pacific Division W L Pct 12 6 .667 11 7 .611

GB — 5 1/2 6 6 7 GB — 1

L.A. Lakers Phoenix Sacramento

9 7 5

10 12 12

.474 .368 .294

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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 Sacramento 107, Toronto 100 L.A. Clippers 112, Dallas 90 Thursday’s Games New York 112, Miami 92 Dallas at Phoenix, Late 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. Saturday’s Games Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m. San Antonio at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Golden State at Washington, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Detroit at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m. New Orleans at Miami, 5:30 p.m. New York at Chicago, 6 p.m. Dallas at Houston, 6 p.m. Atlanta at Memphis, 6 p.m. Sacramento at Portland, 8 p.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL BOSTON RED SOX—Acquired RHP Kyle Kaminska from Pittsburgh to complete an earlier trade and assigned him to Pawtucket (IL). Agreed to terms with RHP Koji Uehara. DETROIT TIGERS—Acquired 2B Jeff Kobernus from Boston Red Sox for INF-OF Justin Henry. MINNESOTA TWINS—Acquired RHP Vance Worley and RHP Trevor May from Philadelphia for OF Ben Revere. Agreed to terms with RHP Jared Burton on a two-year contract. TAMPA BAY RAYS—Agreed to terms with 1B James Loney on a one-year contract. TEXAS RANGERS—Sent RHP Wilfredo Boscan to San Diego to complete an earlier trade. Agreed to terms with 1B-DH Brandon Allen, RHP Jake Brigham, RHP Evan Meek and RHP Randy Wells on minor league contracts. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Agreed to terms with C Wil Nieves and INF-OF Eric Hinske on oneyear contracts. ATLANTA BRAVES—Agreed to terms with OF Reed Johnson on a one-year contract. Frontier League

RIVER CITY RASCALS—Traded RHP Alex Sunderland to the Fargo-Moorhead (AA) for INF Max Casper and to complete an earlier trade. Signed RHP Casey Barnes to a contract extension. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS—Sent LHP Shawn Gilblair to River City Rascals to complete an earlier trade. WASHINGTON WILD THINGS—Signed RHP Tanner Hamilton, INF Coty Pate, and OF Mario Yepez. BASKETBALL TORONTO RAPTORS—Assigned F Quincy Acy to Bakersfield (NBADL). FOOTBALL BUFFALO BILLS—Signed OT Chris Scott from Tennessee’s practice squad. Placed OT Chris Hairston on injured reserve. CINCINNATI BENGALS—Signed K Josh Brown. Waived C Jeff Faine. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Placed DL Allen Bailey on injured reserve. Signed LB Leon Williams. NEW YORK GIANTS—Placed OT Sean Locklear on injured reserve. Signed OL Selvish Capers from the practice squad. Signed OL Paul Fenaroli to the practice squad.

Baseball Free Agents Signings NEW YORK — The 33 free agents who have signed, with name, position, former club if different, and contract. AMERICAN LEAGUE BOSTON (3) — Re-signed David Ortiz, dh, to a $26 million, two-year contract; signed David Ross, c, Atlanta, to a $6.2 million, two-year contract; signed Jonny Gomes, of, Oakland, to a $10 million, twoyear contract. DETROIT (1) — Signed Torii Hunter, of, Los Angeles Angels, to a $26 million, two-year contract. KANSAS CITY (1) — Re-signed Jeremy Guthrie,

rhp, to a $25 million, three-year contract. LOS ANGELES (1) — Signed Ryan Madson, rhp, Cincinnati, to a $3.5 million, one-year contract. NEW YORK (3) — Re-signed Hiroki Kuroda, rhp, to a $15 million, one-year contract; re-signed Andy Pettitte, lhp, to a $12 million, one-year contract; re-signed Mariano Rivera, rhp, to a $10 million, one-year contract. OAKLAND (1) — Re-signed Bartolo Colon, rhp, to a $3 million, one-year contract. SEATTLE (1) — Re-signed Oliver Perez, lhp, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract. TAMPA BAY (2) — Re-signed Joel Peralta, rhp, to a $6 million, two-year contract; signed James Lo-

ney, 1b, Boston, to a $2 million, one-year contract. TEXAS (2) — Re-signed Colby Lewis, rhp, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Joakim Soria, rhp, Texas, to an $8 million, two-year contract. TORONTO (2) — Signed Maicer Izturis, inf, Los Angeles Angels, to a $10 million, three-year contract; signed Melky Cabrera, of, San Francisco, to a $16 million, two-year contract. NATIONAL LEAGUE ARIZONA (1) — Signed Eric Hinske, 1b, Atlanta, to a one-year contract. ATLANTA (3) — Signed Gerald Laird, c, Detroit, to a $3 million, two-year contract; signed B.J. Up-

ton, of, Tampa Bay, to a $75.25 million, five-year contract; re-signed Reed Johnson, c, to a one-year contract. CHICAGO (4) — Signed Scott Baker, rhp, Minnesota, to a $5.5 million, one-year contract; signed Dioner Navarro, c, Cincinnati, to a $1.75 million, one-year contract; re-signed Shawn Camp, rhp, to a $1.35 million, one-year contract; signed Scott Feldman, rhp, Texas, to a $6 million, one-year contract. CINCINNATI (1) — Re-signed Jonathan Broxton, rhp, to a $21 million, three-year contract. LOS ANGELES (1) — Re-signed Brandon League, rhp, to a $22.5 million, three-year contract. MIAMI (1) — Signed Juan Pierre, of, Philadel-

phia, to a $1.6 million, one-year contract. NEW YORK (1) — Re-signed Tim Byrdak, lhp, to a minor league contract. PITTSBURGH (1) — Signed Russell Martin, c, New York Yankees, to a $17 million, two-year contract. SAN DIEGO (1) — Re-signed Jason Marquis, rhp, to a $3 million, one-year contract. SAN FRANCISCO (1) — Re-signed Jeremy Affeldt, lhp, to an $18 million, three-year contract. WASHINGTON (1) — Re-signed Zach Duke, lhp, to a one-year contract.

Notre Dame’s Te’o keeps winning hardware BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — From Notre Dame’s unbeaten regular season to college football’s biggest awards, Manti Te’o just keeps winning. Now the linebacker needs two more victories to cap an unforgettable senior season. Te’o was honoured three times at the 22nd Home Depot College Football Awards show Thursday night at Disney World, including the Maxwell Award for the nation’s most outstanding player. Te’o has now won six major awards since the end of Notre Dame’s regular season, also taking home the Bednarik Award for top defensive player and Walter Camp Foundation player of the year award on Thursday. He became the first defensive player to win the Maxwell Award since 1980, ending a string of nine straight quarterbacks. Next up is the Heisman Trophy ceremony on Saturday night, with Te’o and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel considered the favourites. Then Te’o will try to help the Fighting Irish dethrone defending champion Alabama in the BCS national championship game. “I’m at a loss for words,” he said of winning the Maxwell. “The last time I ever dreamt of winning that award was on a video game. So to win it is a mindblowing experience.” Wearing a black beaded lei representing his native Hawaii, Te’o said

coming back to play football following the deaths of his grandmother and girlfriend just four days apart this season makes everything he’s achieved since then more worthwhile. “I never thought that me coming back for my senior year would be the best situation for me with the tragedy,” Te’o said. “It’s a testament that the Lord answered my prayers and that I had 80-plus brothers there with me, sacrificing for me.” Te’o finished the regular season with 103 tackles and seven interceptions. Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly, who was presented with the Coach of the Year award after leading the Irish to their first 12-0 regular season since 1988, said Te’o is an example of the family culture he’s tried to build in his three seasons in South Bend. “Everybody knows you don’t do it with one guy,” Kelly said. “Collectively, everybody just bought in. ... We still got one (game) left. We want to finish it off the right way.” While Te’o and Notre Dame certainly had a big night, so too did Texas A&M. Manziel won the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award and junior offensive lineman Luke Joeckel took home the Outland Trophy for the nation’s best interior lineman. Other players honoured Thursday were Southern California’s Marqise Lee (Biletnikoff Award for top receiver), Tulane’s Cairo Santos (Lou Groza Award for top kicker), Louisiana Tech’s Ryan Allen (Ray Guy Award for

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Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o chases the action during the second half of an NCAA college football game earlier this season. Te’o won three awards during the College Football Awards show Thursday and is a finalist for the Heisman Trophy which will be awarded on Saturday. top punter), Mississippi State’s Johnthan Banks (Jim Thorpe Award for top defensive back), and Wisconsin’s Montee Ball (Doak Walker Award for top running back). Manziel acknowledged he will be nervous Saturday knowing he has a chance to win college football’s most hallowed individual honour. Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein is the third finalist for the Heisman Trophy. Three sophomores have won the

Heisman, including Tim Tebow in 2007, Sam Bradford in 2008 and Mark Ingram in 2009. The best a first-year player has ever done is second. “I had high expectations, but I never would have expected this for myself,” said Manziel, a redshirt freshman. “I’ll be with two of the best players in the country, all eyes are on you. It’s the biggest award in college football. I think you’re gonna have a few butterflies.”

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Patriots’ defence faces challenge against Texans MONDAY NIGHT GAME BILLED AS POSSIBLE AFC FINAL PREVIEW BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Vince Wilfork’s biggest challenge when he lines up against the Houston Texans’ powerful offence could come before the ball is even snapped. Will they pass or run? The offensive line isn’t likely to give much of an indication against New England on Monday night. “They do a real good job up front of showing you the same look on run and pass,” the Patriots defensive tackle said Thursday, “so we’re just going to have to rely on technique, good fundamentals.” Then, once Matt Schaub hands the ball to Arian Foster or throws it to Andre Johnson, the hard work continues for the Patriots (9-3) against the Texans (11-1) in the matchup of teams with six-game winning streaks and designs on first-round playoff byes. Foster leads the NFL with 15 touchdowns and the AFC with 1,102 yards rushing. Johnson is tied for fourth in the NFL with 1,114 yards receiving and is alone in fourth in the AFC with 74 catches. “They’re a very well balanced team,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. “If you’re stopping the run, you’re light on the play-action (passing attack). If you’re stopping the play-action, you’re probably light on the run. They do a good job of tying those plays together, complementing each other and making you defend all of it.” Foster has rushed for more than 100 yards in six

of Houston’s 12 games. He’s also the Texans’ third leading receiver with 30 catches, two of them for touchdowns. “I had him out in the Pro Bowl a couple years ago,” Belichick said. “Impressive kid, strong, good balance. ... You’ve got to be able to tackle his quickness and his athleticism, but also have to be able to tackle his size and power to run through arm tackles. He’s got a good set of skills.” Very much like Johnson. The 6-foot-3, 230-pound receiver is averaging 78 catches in his 10 NFL seasons since being taken with the third pick of the 2003 draft out of Miami, where he played with Wilfork, who was drafted with the 21st pick the next year. “He has the heart of a champion,” Wilfork said. “I just remember playing with him in college. He was always quiet, but he was a fireball on the field. He gave us his all. (He’s) big, physical, strong, fast, can catch, can run. He’s well put together. He’s a specimen. He’s special.” Schaub also can throw to tight end Owen Daniels, second on the team with 50 catches, and Kevin Walters. And he can hand the ball off to Ben Tate and Justin Forsett, who are part of the NFL’s sixth most productive running game. “The quarterback will get the ball to the appropriate receiver based on coverage or based on read for that particular play so he’s not always targeting one

Bradely, Steele back to defend title at Shootout THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAPLES, Fla. — Keegan Bradley and Brendan Steele are defending their title in the Franklin Templeton Shootout, and Dustin Johnson and Ian Poulter also are back for the first time since winning the team event. “It’s big,” said Bradley, coming off a secondplace finish Sunday in Tiger Woods’ World Challenge in California. “I get to play with Brendan, which is really fun, and I’m defending, which is even more fun.” Last year, Bradley and Steele became the first PGA Tour rookies to win the Greg Normanrun tournament. They shot a 13-under 59 in the final-round scramble for a threestroke victory. “It’s rare that a plan goes that well, especially with golf,” Steele said. “You can do everything

guy,” Patriots defensive co-ordinator Matt Patricia said. New England’s secondary was vulnerable to big plays early in the season and has allowed the fourth most yards passing in the NFL. But it has improved since Devin McCourty moved from cornerback to safety for the past six games and Aqib Talib was acquired from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and played in the last three games. But Talib is still adjusting after being suspended four games for violating the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances and then adjusting to a new defensive system. “I could be a lot better,” he said. “I can just go down the list on things I can do better.” On Monday night he might be running downfield alongside Johnson, trying to shut down one of the NFL’s best receivers. He and his defensive teammates probably won’t get much of a hint of whether the Texans will run or pass on a particular play. “The biggest challenge is how they run and they pass, everything looks the same,” Talib said. “Linemen come off one way on the run and they come off the exact same way on the pass. So you’ve just got to just be technique-sound and have your eyes in the right spot.” LG Logan Mankins and DE Chandler Jones participated in practice on a limited basis. Mankins has been sidelined the past three games with ankle and calf problems, while Jones has missed the last two with an ankle injury.

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Sabres employees head back to ‘school’ BUFFALO HEAD COACH LINDY RUFF JOINS REST OF STAFF IN GOING TO ‘SABRES UNIVERSITY ‘ DURING LOCKOUT BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUFFALO, N.Y. — Having never attended college let alone taught a class, Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff wasn’t familiar with the tweed jacket dress code favoured by some professors. “I went with the track suit,� Ruff said, with a chuckle. “You know: the coach’s uniform.� That’s fine, because this wasn’t your conventional course he was teaching. Season or no season, Ruff and the rest of the team’s 100-or-so employees went back to school last month to attend what was called “Sabres University.� It featured a series of courses spread over two weeks to help everyone better appreciate how the entire operation works, and to boost morale during the ongoing NHL lockout. The courses ranged from “The Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media,� to “The Scouting Process,� headed by general manager Darcy Regier. There was a seminar from the ice-making crew in detailing techniques required to create a smooth sheet of game-ready ice. And even Kim Pegula got involved by outlining the team’s mission under her and husband Terry Pegula’s ownership. As for Ruff, he taught a class explaining how he gets his defenceman involved in the offensive rush. Though he’d prefer to be coaching, Ruff found the two-week session enlightening and worthwhile, and something that has the potential to strengthen the entire organization whenever the NHL gets back to business. “I think it was more than a good idea,� he said. “I think when you do something like this, it gives everybody a better understanding of what everybody’s

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trying to get done. And the goal is all the same. We want to entertain fans. We want to win hockey games. At the end, everybody in the organization is pulling to win a championship.� The idea behind the university-style project was sparked in September when Sabres vice-president Brent Rossi attended a social media training seminar, team president Ted Black said. Rossi returned with so many good ideas that he wanted to make a presentation to other employees. That idea then mushroomed into getting others involved to share their own expertise, and a “course curriculum� was then designed. It helped that Sabres staff had plenty of time on their hands and was readily available. Unlike some NHL teams who have laid off employees or cut back on schedules and pay, the Sabres have kept everyone on board during the labour dispute. “Terry challenged us as an organization, by saying, ’We’re not going to lay anyone off or have salary reductions, but use this time to find ways to improve how we do things,�’ Black said, referring to Pegula. “And I think the opportunity for all of us to sit together and learn from each other will carry forward and make us a stronger organization.�

At the very least, it can’t hurt in having provided staff something engaging to look forward to during an uncertain time. “I’m not going to lie about that. It’s been challenging for each of us,� Black said. “There are days you sit around saying, ’Geez, I wish we were playing hockey.’ But you can’t let that consume you. And, as an organization, you can’t let that drag us down. There’s too many good people here, too many smart people here.� The university-style project was so well received that the Sabres are planning to conduct similar sessions annually during the off-season. Black added another professional sports team and a college athletic department caught wind of the idea. Both have contacted the Sabres in an effort to duplicate it. Kim Pegula considered the two-week project both enlightening and empowering for staff, because members of every department were able to provide insight into what they do in a group setting. “I thought it was great that there was no hierarchy or management levels,� Pegula said. “This exercise put everybody on the same floor as students.� That included Ruff, who acknowledged being nervous when making his presentation. It didn’t matter to him that he stood in the same team meeting room, where he’s conducted hundreds of similar sessions in front of his players. “Yeah, I was a little nervous,� he said. “It was my first official class.� As enjoyable as it was, it wasn’t lost on Ruff on how much he missed coaching. “That did cross my mind, to be honest with you,� Ruff said. “It’s almost like you’re looking around at players, but you’re not. And that’s just kind of how it felt.�

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL The Notre Dame Cougars got a 20-point performance from Keegan MacDonald en route to a 75-38 JV boys basketball season-opening win Wednesday over the host Camrose Trojans. The Notre Dame JV girls didn’t fare as well, falling 57-32 to Camrose after trailing by four points at halftime. Chelsea Antonio and Mackenzie Creed each had eight points for the Cougars.

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Eagles’ Brown showing he was worthy of more than 229th pick ROOKIE RUNNING BACK HAS BEEN FILLING IN NICELY FOR THE INJURED LESEAN MCCOY, RUSHING FOR 347 YARDS AND FOUR TOUCHDOWNS IN TWO GAMES

PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Brown watched 228 players get selected in the 2012 NFL draft before the Philadelphia Eagles took a chance on him in the seventh round. There are 31 other teams wishing they chose Brown much earlier. The rookie running back has been outstanding in his first two starts filling in for injured All-Pro LeSean McCoy. Brown has 347 yards rushing — the secondhighest two-game total in team history — and four touchdowns. “I was high on him when I first put the film on with the few plays that he had while in college,� Eagles offensive co-ordinator Marty Mornhinweg said Thursday. “With natural ability, he’s a big, strong man that has speed. You put that natural ability and natural feel and instincts to it, and you generally have a good player there. “He has done well in the pass protection, and the pass protections are the most concerning thing with those young rookies playing. He has done a very good job playing that way as well.� Brown had 178 yards and two scores in a loss to Carolina on Nov. 26 in his first start since his senior year in high school in 2008. He followed that up with 169 yards and two more TDs against Dallas. Both games were on national television, so Brown really showcased his skills to a wide audience. To put those numbers in perspective, Brown already has more 160-yard rushing games than Bo Jackson had in his career. Former Eagles greats Brian Westbrook and Duce Staley had one. Wilbert Montgomery had two. McCoy also has one so far. But Brown hasn’t been flawless by any stretch. He’s lost three fumbles in the two games, helping run the Eagles’ losing streak to eight. “We’re doing a lot of stuff at practice, scout guys are going after it a lot more, trying to gamesimulate it because we don’t really do contact,� Brown said. “It’s making me work a lot harder, too.� McCoy, who has been sidelined by a concussion, wasn’t a fumbler his first three seasons. He lost just two fumbles before losing one in each of the first two games this season. Brown received some advice from McCoy about ball-security this week. “He told me, ’Don’t change a thing, keep playing with confidence and don’t pay attention to what everybody else is saying. Play your game and keep doing what you’re doing,�’ Brown said. “Protecting the ball and things like that, that’ll come.� When McCoy returns, the Eagles will have a welcome problem. Two high-quality running backs are no longer a luxury given injuries. It’s uncertain whether McCoy will be back this season since the Eagles are playing out the string and he hasn’t passed the required concussion tests yet. “There is a lot of exciting things, and certainly for the future it’s one of them,� Mornhinweg said of two elite-level backs. “Our focus right now is this next game. The past is important to learn from and the future is important for playing in, and that’s an exciting thing no question about it. Our focus right here and right now is on Tampa and the players that we have on the field.� The Eagles (3-9) visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (6-6) on Sunday, hoping to get their first win since Sept. 20. The Bucs present a challenge for Brown.

yards in his first game with the Volunteers and finished with 460 yards rushing and three touchdowns on 101 carries. When coach Lane Kiffin left for USC after that year, Brown transferred to Kansas State. He sat out 2010, and carried the ball only three more times in college. Brown suffered an ankle injury early in the season and played in just one game before leaving the program.

They have the top rushing defence in the NFL, allowing 82.3 yards per game. “I think it’s a great challenge for us as a unit offensively and we’re excited for it,� Brown said. Brown was the nation’s highest-ranked running back coming out of Wichita East High School four years ago. He chose Tennessee and had an impressive freshman year backing up Montario Hardesty. Brown rushed for 104

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Philadelphia Eagles running back Bryce Brown carries the ball against the Dallas Cowboys during an NFL football game Dec. 2, in Arlington, Texas. The rookie running back has been making good use of his time filling in for injured starter LeSean McCoy scoring four touchdowns in the last two games.

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SAO PAULO, Brazil — Roger Federer says he won’t play as often in the next few years and hopes to compete in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The 31-year-old Federer says he’ll be more mindful about the tournaments he plays in the future to make sure he can continue playing at a high level. “I have to make sure that I take care of my schedule, of my body, of my mind,” he said on Thursday. “Hopefully I can still stay on tour for many more years and hopefully play the Olympics here in three and a half years or so, so I have to look far ahead and not just the next six months.” The winner of 17 Grand Slams is in Sao Paulo hosting exhibition matches involving Maria Sharapova, Victoria Azarenka, Serena Williams, Caroline Wozniacki, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Tommy Robredo, Tommy Haas and Thomaz Bellucci. The Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, are also participating. Federer plays Bellucci, Brazil’s top-ranked player, on Thursday. The Swiss player has competed in four Olympics for a doubles gold in 2008 and singles silver this year, and he said he would love to make it to the Rio Games. “There is a lot of passion for sports here,” he said. “It’s a hot place to play

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PHOTO RADAR LOCATIONS Red Deer City RCMP have photo radar set up in several locations around the city to monitor drivers. Enforcement is underway in school zones on Lawford and 43rd Avenues, Nolan Street, Lancaster Drive and 69th Street Drive. Enforcement is also underway at playground zones on Vanier Drive, Glendale Boulevard and Dempsey, Boyce and Oak Streets. Police are also checking out traffic corridors on 40th, 48th, 49th and 50th Avenues, Taylor Drive, and 49th Street. Enforcement will continue at these sites until Dec. 15. RCMP reserve the right to change locations without notice.

BRIGHT STARS Two Central Albertans are among six of Alberta’s brightest volunteer stars. Beverley Toews of Olds and Samantha Sperber of Rimbey joined Edmonton’s George Heidt and Calgary residents Jocelyn Davis, Wendy Birdsey and Norm Brownell at the Stars of Alberta awards gala on Wednesday. “The remarkable stories of community service, authored through the selflessness of these volunteer stars, serve as a reminder that within each of us is the power to affect positive change in our own communities,” said Premier Alison Redford. Six provincial awards are handed out annually: two in each category of youth, adult and senior. Since the inception of the Stars of Alberta Awards program in 2000, 85 Alberta volunteers have received this honour.

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Frost creates winter wonderland BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta was a winter wonderland on Thursday thanks to a thick coat of hoar frost. Below-average low temperatures with just high enough daytime highs to create overnight fog are perfect conditions for hoar frost creation. The frost clings to items colder than the ambient air, leaving exposed surfaces coated with rime. Environment Canada meteorologist Louis Kohanyi said Tuesday’s low of -22C is abnormal compared to the -14C average for this period. Those cold nights will continue until next week, when a warming trend arrives on Monday and hangs around until Friday, when it will dip again to -20C. Hoar frost on power lines may look lovely but creates a “double whammy,” according to Fortis Alberta spokesperson Jennifer MacGowan. “Ice buildup . . . wreaks havoc on overhead lines. “It can cause lines to go down and when ice begins to fall, the line gallops,” she said, referring to the suddenly iceless lines snapping back with risk of hitting nearby lines. She said when lines went down near Olds last month, some had as much as 12 cm of ice on them. Volatility issues can also appear due to ice buildup. The cold temperatures have the City

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Thick hoar frost makes plants look lovely, but can cause severe problems on power lines. of Red Deer’s Steve Davidson smiling because outdoor rink flooding is just about done. “We’re the only ones who like this stuff,” said the parks amenities supervisor. Bower Ponds, Anders on the Lake and

West Lake rinks will all open this weekend. Community rinks with shelters are already ready for skaters and the rinks without shelters should be set by Monday. rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

Properties to be sold unless taxes paid BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF Four Red Deer property owners face possible sale of their land on Dec. 14 because they haven’t paid their taxes in recent years. But if they are like other property owners in the last several years, they’ll pay their bills quickly so they don’t lose their land. Deb Stott, controller for the Property Taxation Department, said that in the six years that she’s worked with the City of Red Deer, there hasn’t been one property sold through the city’s public auction. Surrounding municipalities have experienced this as well, she added. “We’ve come really close to having a sale, within 12 hours,” said Stott. “It’s really reassuring when they’re cancelled. It’s not

really a comfortable feeling selling somebody’s home.” The auction is normally scheduled annually around this time of year. This year’s affects duplex property 36 Arnold Close and manufactured homes at 321 5344 76th St., 913 8834 59th Ave. and 18 6834 59th Ave. The sale begins at 11 a.m. in the Crimson Star meeting room at City Hall. The sale is regulated according to the Municipal Government Act. In March 2011, those properties and a number of others would have been put on the city’s taxation notification listing. “If they are properties with land and buildings on them, we would have registered that with a caveat at Land Titles,” said Stott. “If the properties are manufactured homes, then we would have placed a lien through the Personal Property Registry.”

In March 2011, they had to have more than one year of taxes outstanding. Stott said the city works hard with those property owners to try to get the taxes paid so that they can be removed from the sale. Sometimes people renew their mortgage and don’t realize the mortgage company isn’t paying the taxes anymore, Stott said. “We end up sending notices and they ignore them because they assumed the mortgage company was paying (the taxes),” said Stott. “We connect with them when we send them a copy of either an ad that the property is going to be sold, or we connect with them by phone. Then they realize it’s serious.” She said the four properties listed for this sale actually represents a low number. If the sale is cancelled, an announcement is posted at the east entrance of City Hall. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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Children are invited to spend the night of Jan. 3 in the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. The Winter Night at the Museum event for children aged seven to 11 offers the opportunity to learn more about winter sports and Alberta sport history, plus other activities. Cost is $40 per child, room for 30 children. More information from camp co-ordinator Debbie Brigley, 403-341-8614 or emailing her at debbie@ashfm.ca or on the museum’s website at www.ashfm.ca.

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Dwayne McArthur and his wrangler helper Richard ‘Hoss’ Edmondson drive a team of Percheron horses named Heart and Fornia on a walking path outside the Bethany College Side Care facility at Red Deer College. McArthur volunteers his team and his time each year to give residents and staff of the care facility the opportunity to go for a winter wagon ride.

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Drugs and a handgun were found when police executed a search warrant at a Red Deer residence on Monday. The Red Deer RCMP street team seized cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, marijuana and oxycontin. A .38-calibre handgun and a stun gun were also seized, along with drug trafficking paraphernalia. The items were found at the residence of Rudy Christianson, 32, who was charged with three counts of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and one count each of possession of a prohibited firearm and possession of a controlled substance. Police also charged Llana Holt, 33, with three counts of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, and one count each of possession of a prohibited weapon and possession of a controlled substance. Christianson was released from police custody and is scheduled to appear in Red Deer provincial court on Dec. 20 and Holt was released to appear in court on Dec. 14.

Red Deer’s Parker Thompson achieves a first at go-karting PLACES THIRD IN CATEGORY AT ROTAX WORLD FINALS; FIRST CANADIAN TO DO SO BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF After six years of hard work, Parker Thompson accomplished something no Canadian, or even North American, has done before. The 14-year-old Red Deer native placed third in the junior category at the 2012 Rotax World Finals of go-karting in Portimao, Portugal, which ran from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1. “It gives you a feeling of accomplishment and you make your country proud,” said Thompson. “Words can’t describe how good it felt on the podium.”

He started the event, which he called the Olympics of his sport, finishing his practice rounds in the top five. Then in his heats he fell a little back and was slotted 20th in the grid for the pre-final. During the pre-final, knowing he had to make a move, but trying to keep his nose clean, he ended up getting into two incidents with other drivers, but didn’t crash out and as a result he managed to move up to 18th heading into the final. “Not where I wanted to be, but considering all the stuff that went on in that race to not damage the car in any way and bring it home in one piece, it was OK,” he said. As the race started, Thompson was able

to make some key moves up the grid early and was in the mix with the top group. Although the leader had pulled away, Thompson said there were three competitors fighting for second in the race. He was in second place for a period of time but Thompson ended up in third. Another highlight of the race for Thompson was he was able to put together the fastest lap of the race. He is now ranked third in the world, which he said is a tremendous feeling. “I’ve been working at it since I was eight and I finally was recognized at the world stage,” said Thompson. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

C2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 plaint that her boyfriend assaulted her. The woman told police on Sunday, Oct. 23, that she feared for her safety because he had access to firearms. Sagal was arrested two days later after being pulled over while driving inside city limits. A search was conducted at his home in a rural area outside of the city. Police allege that a number of weapons were seized, including rifles, pellet guns, crossbows, a hunting bow and some knives, as well as ammunition and 7.65 kg of marijuana. Released earlier on $15,000 cash bail, Sagal is to stand trial on Sept. 13, 2013.

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Youth arrested in Sask. homicide

Trial ordered into organized crime case A three-day trial has been ordered for a man arrested in connection with an organized crime investigation in Sylvan Lake and Red Deer. Wesley Allan Morphy, 31, was among six people arrested in connection with raids at four homes in Red Deer and one in Sylvan Lake in January 2011. Morphy was charged with production of illegal drugs, possession of a illegal drugs, possession of drugs for trafficking, possession of proceeds of crime at a value of more than $5,000, possession of a firearm with ammunition, possession of a restricted weapon, unsafe storage of a firearm, possession of a weapon without a permit, failing to comply with conditions of an undertaking and child endangerment. His trial is scheduled for Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, 2013, in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench, with judge alone.

A male youth from Rocky Mountain House was arrested in connection with a homicide in Prince Albert, Sask. He is the third person arrested following the death of Dakota Nayneecassum, 18, on Sept. 15. The Rocky teenager cannot be named under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Co-accused Blake David Norman, 22, and Kyle Goodrich, 23, remain in remand and face charges of first degree murder and attempted murder. Prince Albert Police Service continue to investigate.

ment Award to Mark Lantkow of Calgary. His mission is to improve the quality of life for persons with disabilities by promoting, advocating and implementing the principals of universal design for City of Calgary projects. The Premier’s Council Award of Excellence in Education went to EASE, a preschool for children, aged two-and-a-half to six, who have severe disabilities. The school is part of Aspire Special Needs Resource Centre, a non-profit organization offering various programs and services for children with unique needs, their families and communities that support them. The City of Red Deer was one of two Alberta recipients of the Council Awards of Excellence in

Community. The city has become a more accessible city for individuals with disabilities by listening to the community and working together to support and provide services to citizens with disabilities. The city has supported projects and initiatives led by those with disabilities, plus it’s also created accessible transportations services. All Red Deer Transit buses are low floor ones, plus bus stops are paved. It also made changes to the application process and cost of city recreational facility passes to include all citizens. When the 2010 Olympic torch came to Red Deer through the International Day of Persons with Disabilities planning committee, the city waived the facility costs.

Cowgirl hall of famer to present lecture child with autism, a disorder of neural development. At age two, she had no speech and had all the signs of severe autism. Her mother defied the advice of doctors, kept her out of an institution and devoted many hours instead to speech therapy and intensive teaching. As a teen, through mentoring by her high school science teacher and her aunt on her ranch in Arizona, Temple was motivated to study and pursue a career as a scientist and livestock equipment designer. Grandin would later get her PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois in 1989. Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development reports that half the cat-

tle in the U.S. and Canada are handled in equipment she has designed for meat plants. She’s a professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University, where she continues her research while teaching courses on livestock handling and facility design. Her book Animals in Translation was a New York Times bestseller and she’s written six other books, including Animals Make Us Human. HBO recently premiered a moved about Temple’s early life and career with the livestock industry. The Red Deer conference features 16 internationally recognized speakers. Tickets are $105 per person, $90 for additional registrants from the same farm with pre-reg-

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Regional birdwatchers are asked to keep their eye on the sky — or tree branches or bird feeders — on Dec. 16. The 2012 Central Alberta Annual Christmas Bird Count will officially be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. that day by the Red Deer River Naturalists and the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. But birdwatchers can also count just before or after that period — there’s no minimum time limit. Any interesting or unusual birds can also be noted three days before and three days after the official count. But be sure to mark down where and when you saw the bird and what it was doing. The tally sheets are due by Dec. 29. For more information and to register for the count (to avoid overlap), please call Judy Boyd at 403-3424150. The day will end with a potluck 6 p.m. supper at the nature centre. All bird count participants are invited.

Nominations are being sought for people who can sit on a regional property assessment review board. The Central Alberta Regional Assessment Partnership is seeking people with board experience and, preferably, some expertise — from retired assessors to those with writing, legal or valuation skills. Since 2009, the board has ensured that 20 Central Alberta municipalities have access to qualified, experienced and unbiased people who can make decisions on property assessment disputes. Once selected for the board by a nomination review committee, the new members will receive training through Alberta Municipal Affairs. They will be remunerated for their responsibilities, and have the chance to network with like-minded residents in the region. All applicants will be considered. Those interested must be available during the day for training and hearings and must live within one of the partner municipalities to be eligible. The application dead-

A Red Deer County man arrested on drug and weapons charges more than a year ago will wait almost a year to go to trial. Jason Sagal, 39, was arrested in October 2011 by police investigating a West Park resident’s com-

A woman who was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 2011 and who was profiled recently in an HBO cable movie is coming to Red Deer next month. Temple Grandin will present the Fred Pearce Memorial lecture at the 31st Horse Breeders and Owners Conference, which runs from Jan. 11 to 13 at Sheraton Red Deer Hotel. She’ll speak on understanding horse behaviour and how people working with horses and other animals need to think more about how the animals perceive the situations they are being put in. She is one of at least 14 speakers scheduled at the event. Grandin’s achievements are said to be remarkable, particularly since she grew up as a

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Red Deer is making headlines this week for improving the lives of individuals with disabilities. The provincial government announced that two of its awards through the Premier’s Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities will go towards the City of Red Deer and Early Access to Supportive Education School (EASE). Plus, a new award has been named after Red Deer’s Marlin Styner, a man who became a quadriplegic in 1981 and has been a strong advocate in helping people with disabilities. He’s been a member of the Premier’s Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities since 2005 and was council chair from 2008-2011. The Premier’s Council gave the Marlin Styner Achieve-

line is Jan. 11. Please visit www.reddeer.ca for more information about nominations, or call 403-342-8132.

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Bank warns of risk SAYS ITS OWN LOW INTEREST RATE POLICY POSES RISK TO FINANCIAL STABILITY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is warning that its own low interest policies and those of central banks around the world are adding another layer of risk to the already stressed global financial system and economy. The Canadian central bank said Thursday near record level interest rates in place since the 2008-09 recession are taking their toll on insurance companies, pension funds and even increasing the appetite of investors to take risks in search of higher returns. In Canada, they have been a prime mover to the other major domestic risk — an overheated housing market and high levels

of consumer debt as Canadians take advantage of cheap money to buy real estate. Bank governor Mark Carney has warned about the dangers of low interest rates — which many Canadians consider a good thing — sporadically in the past, but this time the bank’s governing council has thought the concern grave enough to add it to the list of risks facing Canada and the world. “The low interest rate environment in major advanced economies represents another risk to the financial system, both in Canada and globally,” the bank’s governing council says in its semi-annual financial systems review paper issued Thursday. “This risk involves increased vulnerability for financial institutions with long-duration liabilities (life insurance companies

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Oilsands land rights sold in Sask. REGINA — For the first time in more than five years, oilsands rights have been sold in a Crown land sale in Saskatchewan. Ed Dancsok, assistant deputy minister in the Ministry of Energy, says the two parcels of land are in the northwest. The parcels were picked up by a land agent likely for an exploration company that is not named. Dancsok says the company will have to be named when they want to start doing physical activity on the land. He says before now, the first and only time oilsands rights were sold in Saskatchewan was in 2007. It’s harder to get oil out of the oilsands in Saskatchewan than those in Alberta and so far, nothing is being produced out of the oilsands in Saskatchewan. —The Canadian Press

and pension funds), and increased incentives for excessive risk taking in a search for yield, which could distort the pricing of both real and financial assets.” And in a repeat of past alerts, the bank warned that construction of new condos, particularly in Toronto, is outstripping traditional levels of demand. “If the upcoming supply of units is not absorbed by demand as they are completed over the next 18 to 36 months, the supplydemand imbalance will become more pronounced, increasing the risk of a sudden correction in prices,” it said. The report, had no perceptible effect on money markets.

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Auto parts sector strong OTTAWA — The Conference Board says Canada’s auto parts sector is expected to post a record increase in revenues this year along with impressive production and profit gains. And although 2013 won’t be as strong, the Ottawabased think-tank forecasts it will still be another good year. The Conference Board notes the auto parts industry fell a staggering 43 per cent between 2007 and 2009 during the global recession. But with pent up demand building and a more stable economy, the North American auto sector as a whole has rebounded strongly. Conference Board analyst Michael Burt says North American vehicle sales are on track to post their best performance in five years, with some parts makers operating six days a week to meet demand. Along with a 22.4 per cent production increase, revenues are projected to rise 22.7 per cent this year and profits are expected to surge 37 per cent to $1.4 billion.

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Swinomish Nation Chairman Brian Cladoosby greets President Barack Obama as he arrives to speak at the 2012 Tribal Nations Conference this week in Washington. Native American tribal leaders are concerned that steady progress on their issues might be undermined if President Barack Obama and Congress make deep spending cuts to avoid the fiscal cliff.

Obama putting personal touch on fiscal cliff talks KEEPS HARD LINE ON TAXES ON WEALTHY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FALLS CHURCH, Va. — President Barack Obama, trying to put a personal touch on “fiscal cliff” negotiations, visited a northern Virginia family’s basement apartment Thursday to press his hard line on tax rate increases for the wealthy. “We’re in the midst of the Christmas season,” Obama said, sitting at a table in the Santana family’s Falls Church home. “I think the American people are counting on this getting solved. The closer it gets to the brink, the more stress there is going to be.” Obama and lawmakers have until the end of the year to avert across-theboard spending cuts and tax increases. The president reiterated the firm stance he has taken in recent days, warning that he’s willing to let that economy-rattling double whammy take effect if Republicans don’t drop their opposition to higher tax rates for the wealthy. “Just to be clear, I’m not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for the folks in the top 2 per cent,” Obama said. “But I do remain optimistic that we can get something done that is good for families like this one and is good for the American economy.” The president’s quick trip — just a 15 minute drive from the White House — was part of an effort to rally public support for his tax proposals. The family whose home he visited is one of many that shared their stories

online, at the White House’s urging, of how they would be hurt if their taxes went up at the end of the year. The president will also travel to Detroit on Monday. Obama and House Speaker John Boehner spoke on the phone Wednesday, their first known conversation in nearly a week. Neither side provided details of the call, but the White House said the lines of communication with Capitol Hill Republicans were open and there had been multiple conversations between staff. Unless the president and Republicans reach a deal, George W. Bushera tax rates will expire on all income earners on Jan. 1. Obama wants to continue them for 98 per cent of Americans, while letting them expire on the upper income earners. If Republicans try to block that effort, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said, the administration will “absolutely” let the country go over the fiscal cliff. The size of the problem is so large it can’t be solved without rates going up,“ he told CNBC on Wednesday. Geithner drew a fierce response from Republicans. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah called his statement “stunning and irresponsible.” He added, “Going over the fiscal cliff will put our economy, jobs, people’s paychecks and retirement at risk, but that is what the White House wants, according to Secretary Geithner, if they don’t get their way.” Economists inside and outside the government warn that failing to reach agreement on taxes and spending could land the economy back in recession.

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Westerner Days has come up big on marketing awards in Las Vegas. At the recent International Association of Fairs and Exhibitions Convention, Westerner Park was the recipient of seven 2012 Hall of Honor Communications Awards in recognition of Westerner Days Fair and Exposition’s 2012 marketing campaign for fairs with attendance less that 100,000 (based on previous year). Westerner Park submitted marketing and advertising campaign materials to the Communications Awards Program and placed in the following categories: First — Category 1: Newspaper Ad (black and white) First — Category 7b: Brochure Series (daily schedules) First — Category 13: Media Guide/Press Kit Second — Category 7a: Single Brochure (direct mail postcard) Second — Category 19: Best Advertising Campaign Third — Category 2: Newspaper Ad (colour) Third — Category 17: Web Advertising “Our Breakaway from the Everyday campaign was a huge success as we broke the 100,000 attendance record this year,” said John Harms, CEO and general manager of Westerner Park. “This is the most awards that we have ever won. We are very excited to receive these awards in recognition of our marketing efforts, especially the Best Ad Campaign Award, as this is the first time we have placed in this category.” Westerner Park generates $150 million annually in economic activity, hosting over 1,500 events.

Enbridge boosting oil shipments THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Enbridge Inc. and its U.S. affiliate are spending $6.2 billion on a series of projects to bring growing volumes of Alberta and North Dakota light oil to market. The Calgary-based company (TSX:ENB) says it has enough shipper support to go ahead with its light oil market access program, which will see an additional 400,000 barrels per day of light oil flow to refineries in Ontario, Quebec and the U.S. Midwest. “These market access initiatives reflect changing North American supply and demand fundamentals and will create significant value for our customers,” said CEO Al Monaco in a release Thursday. Refineries in the eastern part of the continent currently rely on imported crude, which is more expensive than the do-

mestic oil that Enbridge aims to send their way. A supply glut of inland crude has been dampening producers’ profits, so those companies have been eager to find more lucrative markets for their oil. The program includes a $2.5-billion expansion to a pipeline system in North Dakota, the heart of the booming Bakken shale formation. Production in the Bakken has grown from 200,000 barrels per day to 700,000 barrels per day in the last five years. That rate could expand to 1.2 million barrels if there were enough pipelines out of there, Enbridge said. Another 100,000 barrels per day are expected to flow from Alberta light oil pools such as the Cardium and Viking, which have experienced a renaissance of sorts thanks to advances in drilling technology.

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TD Bank reports $1.6B Q4 profit, U.S. acquisition BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — TD Bank Financial Group (TSX:TD) reported a fourth-quarter profit of $1.6 billion Thursday as it announced a deal to buy U.S.-based money manager Epoch Holding Corp. for US$668 million in cash. “We’ve been looking for an opportunity to acquire a U.S. asset manager to build our North American Wealth business, which is a key growth area for TD,” said Mike Pedersen, who runs TD’s wealth management and insurance business. “This acquisition makes strategic sense for TD. It will broaden our offer for institutional and retail clients in Canada and will

immediately and significantly strengthen our U.S. wealth business.” Shareholders of Epoch (Nasdaq:EPHC) will receive US$28 per share under the deal that will see the company continue to operate under its current brand name and operating structure. With the acquisition, TD said it expects to add approximately US$24 billion in assets under management to the US$207 billion already under management by TD Asset Management. The purchase was announced as TD released its fourth-quarter and full-year results for 2012. TD reported a profit for the three months ended Oct. 31 of C$1.66 per diluted share, compared with a profit of $1.59 billion or

$1.68 per diluted share the same time last year. Revenue totalled $5.89 billion, up from $5.66 billion. On an adjusted basis, TD had $1.83 per share of diluted earnings — up from $1.75 per share a year earlier and two cents a share above analyst expectations. Analysts on average expected TD would have adjusted earnings of $1.81 per share and revenue of $6 billion, according estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters. “The fourth quarter earnings contributed to a strong year for TD,” TD chief executive Ed Clark said in a statement. “We achieved those results despite a tough operating environment, demonstrating the strength and resilience of our business model.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 99.70 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 77.09 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.39 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.33 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.84 Cdn. National Railway . . 89.58 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 99.28 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 6.13 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 68.13 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.24 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.21 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 29.64 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 39.99 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.53 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.35 General Motors Co. . . . . 24.57 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.86 Research in Motion. . . . . 11.81 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 36.85 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 38.46 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.90 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.56 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.40 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.34 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 37.31 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.74 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.20 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 11.27 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.45

Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.08 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 46.52 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.59 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 19.94 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 33.12 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.59 First Quantum Minerals . 20.20 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 36.48 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.84 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 66.10 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 9.55 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.01 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.01 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 35.00 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 24.67 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 31.49 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 41.98 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.20 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 41.61 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 27.96 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 19.86 Canyon Services Group. . 9.88 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.21 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 21.25 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.00 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.00 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 33.58 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.90

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed slightly lower Thursday despite strong earnings reports from TD Bank (TSX:TD), CIBC (TSX:CM) and National Bank (TSX:NA). The S&P/TSX composite index drifted 6.16 points lower to 12,151.13. The market did get some lift from grocer Loblaw Companies Ltd. (TSX:L). Its stock soared 13.69 per cent to $38.20 on very heavy volume of 10.3 million shares after the company said it wants to unlock shareholder value by creating one of the largest real estate investment trusts in Canada. Units of the REIT are expected to be sold in an initial public offering to be completed in mid-2013, subject to regulatory approvals. Shares in Loblaw majority owner George Weston (TSX:WN) ran up 6.78 per cent to $67.71. The financials sector was the biggest decliner as TD Bank’s (TSX:TD) quarterly profit amounted to $1.66 per share before adjustments, down two cents per share from the same time last year. On an adjusted basis, TD had $1.83 per share of diluted earnings, up from $1.75 per share a year earlier and two cents a share above a consensus estimate. Its shares dropped $1.46 to $81.12 as revenue totalled $5.89 billion, slightly less than the $6 billion that analysts expected. TD also announced it is buying the U.S.-based Epoch investment management business for US$668 million in cash. CIBC (TSX:CM) shares dipped 38 cents to $80.14 as the bank had $852 million or $2.02 per share of net income in the fourth quarter, an increase of nearly $100 million from the same time last year. On an adjusted basis, CIBC’s fourth-quarter profit amounted to $2.04 per share, six cents above estimates. Revenue totalled $3.16 billion, slightly missed analyst forecasts of $3.2 billion. And National Bank’s (TSX:NA) quarterly earnings ran ahead 20 per cent from a year ago to $351 million or $1.97 per share. Ex-items, the bank earned $1.93 a share, which matched expectations. National is also upping its dividend by five per cent to 83 cents a share but its shares gave back $1.11 to $76.66. The TSX Venture Exchange gained 2.16 points to 1,186.7. The Canadian dollar was up 0.06 of a cent at 100.9 cents US. U.S. indexes were modestly positive as traders hoped that lawmakers are getting closer to an agreement that would avert a fiscal crisis at the end of the year. The Dow Jones industrials rose 39.55 points to 13,074.04, the Nasdaq was up 15.57 points to 2,989.27 while the S&P 500 index was up 4.66 points to 1,413.94. Traders were encouraged by reports that a substantial number of Republicans had 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. President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Speaker

John Boehner spoke Wednesday for the first time in days in a telephone discussion on the so-called “fiscal cliff.” That’s the name for the automatic spending cuts and tax increases that would kick in at the start of next year if no budget deal is reached. Economists think the subsequent sharp drop in economic activity would send the U.S. back into recession. Obama said a compromise was “not that tough” and could even be done quickly, raising the possibility that broader negotiations might soon resume between the White House and congressional leaders. But Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner warned Wednesday after markets closed that the administration would “absolutely” let the double whammy take effect as scheduled unless Republicans give in to Obama’s demand to raise tax rates at upper income levels. The industrials sector was up about one per cent amid a major deal by transport giant Bombardier Inc.’s (TSX:BBD.B) Aerospace division. American carrier Delta Air Lines has placed a firm order for 40 of its CRJ900 NextGen regional jets. Delta has also taken options on an additional 30 planes. Montreal-based Bombardier said that, based on the list price, the firm order is valued at approximately US$1.85 billion and could reach approximately $3.29 billion if the 30 options are exercised. Its shares gained five cents to $3.33. The consumer discretionary sector was up 0.42 per cent as Dollarama Inc. (TSX:DOL) posted quarterly net profits of $51.5 million or 68 cents per diluted share, up from $41.8 million or 55 cents a year earlier. Revenues soared to just under $458 million from $400.3 million but its shares dipped $1.51 to $61.09. And Rona Inc. (TSX:RON) shares gained 30 cents to $10.45 as it said it is planning to sell non-core assets to focus the business and improve profitability. Rona is Canada’s largest home-improvement retailer. The gold sector was up about 0.4 per cent as February gold moved $8 higher to US$1,701.80 an ounce. Kinross Gold (TSX:K) gained 11 cents to C$9.55. Other commodities were lower as the March copper contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange shed four cents to US$3.64 a pound after rising three cents Wednesday amid rising hopes for more economic stimulus in China, the world’s biggest consumer of the metal. The base metals sector was off 0.14 per cent and Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) lost 83 cents to C$35.03. The energy component was off 0.47 per cent as the January crude contract extended losses from Wednesday that resulted from data showing a sharp run-up in U.S. gasoline inventories last week. Crude lost $1.62 to US$86.26 a barrel. Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) says unplanned maintenance work at its oilsands plant led to lower than expected production in November. Full-year production is expected to fall in the low end of its target range of 325,000 to 340,000 barrels per

day. Its shares declined 20 cents to C$32.48. In other corporate news, Lululemon Athletica Inc. (TSX:LLL) earned $57.3 million or 39 cents a share in its latest quarter, up from $38.8 million a year ago. Revenue grew by 37 per cent to $316.5 million. Its shares were $4.85 higher at $72.89.

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 59.53 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 55.56 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.14 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.62 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 27.77 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 23.47 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 40.03 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 63.90 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 12.86 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 76.66 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.97 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 58.49 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.06 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.12

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Thursday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,151.13 down 6.16 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,186.70 up 2.16 points TSX 60 — 697.49 down 0.85 point Dow — 13,074.04 up 39.55 points S&P 500 — 1,413.94 up 4.66 points Nasdaq — 2,989.27 up 15.57 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 100.90 cents US, up 0.06 of a cent Pound — C$1.5906, down 0.50 of a cent Euro — C$1.2854, down 1.09 cents Euro — US$1.2969, down 1.02 cents Oil futures: US$86.26 per barrel, down $1.62 (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,701.80 per oz., up $8 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $34.043 oz., up 10 cents $1,094.48 kg, up $3.21 code:2 INDEX: Finance HL:TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 1,186.70, up 2.16 points THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 1,186.70, up 2.16 points. The volume was unavailable. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan ’13 $2.80 lower $599.40; March ’13 $2.90 lower $597.10; May ’13 $3.20 lower $595.50; July ’13 $3.70 lower $591.50; Nov. ’13 $4.30 lower $544.10; Jan. ’14 $4.30 lower $546.30; March ’14 $4.30 lower $546.60; May ’14 $4.30 lower $544.50; July ’14 $4.30 lower $541.60; Nov. ’14 $4.30 lower $543.60; Jan ’15 $4.30 lower $543.60. 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. Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 262,340 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 262,340.

BANK: Risk taking grows Risk-taking, a major contributor to the 200809 financial meltdown, remains moderate, but is increasing, the bank says. “Evidence of excessive risk-taking behaviour by pension funds and life insurance companies, and in global financial markets more generally, remains limited, although there have been some indications that investor tolerance for risk is increasing.” Insurance companies are impacted, the report states, because they are forced to reinvest cash flows at a lower yield that they thought would be the case. Canadian insurance firms are affected more than those in the U.S. because of the higher accounting standards here, the bank said. The solvency of defined-benefit pensions funds are also jeopardized because as “long-term interest rates decline, the present value of the plans’ future liabilities increases.” The council says central banks have kept interest rates low because the alternative is worse — that is increasing the cost of borrowing and undermining an already fragile recovery. What’s more, it says it expects rates to remain low for an extended time. Earlier this week, the Bank of Canada kept its overnight rate at one per cent for the 18th consecutive policy announcement meeting, a stretch that goes back to September 2010. Although Carney kept in place his mild tightening bias, most economists believe neither out-going Carney, nor his successor who takes the helm in June, will be in position to make good on the bias until 2014, and then only to implement very modest hikes. Meanwhile, the U.S., China and some other important countries continue to ease in an effort to keep their economies from falling back into recession. But the bank warns that policy-makers must also be wary of the sideeffects of the medicine they are administering, especially since those super-low rates are

likely to stay in place for some time. Overall, the Bank of Canada’s new financial systems review finds that the risks in the world remain “very high,” as they were in the last report in June. Despite the headwinds, Canada’s financial system remains robust, the Bank of Canada says. But the country is also in a sense prisoner to external circumstances, including whether the U.S. is able to resolve its budget impasse early next year and Europe can keep muddling along without triggering a new crisis.

ENBRIDGE: Expanding pipelines Enbridge is also expanding its U.S. mainline system, boosting Canadian mainline terminal capacity and scaling up projects to ship more crude to Ontario and Quebec. The projects are expected to come in service between 2014 and 2016. Enbridge’s U.S. affiliate, Enbridge Energy Partners (NYSE:EEP) will contribute $3.4 billion to the program. Also Thursday, Enbridge boosted its quar-

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge appears ready to reduce a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc. won over Samsung Electronics. During a hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh told lawyers for both companies that jurors appeared to miscalculate damages and she was inclined to trim the award. A jury in August found 26 of Samsung’s smartphones and computer tablets were built with technology owned by Apple.

Beyond his insistence that taxes increase on the wealthy, Obama has also warned Republicans not to inject the threat of a government default into negotiations over the fiscal cliff as a way of extracting concessions on spending cuts. “It’s not a game I will play,” he said Wednesday, recalling the brinkmanship of last year in which a budget standoff pushed the Treasury to the edge of a first-ever default. The White House reaffirmed Thursday that it did not believe the president had the authority through the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling by executive order. Democrats have previously suggested Obama could take that step. Both sides say they want a compromise, although the administration’s hand in bargaining is strengthened by polls showing public support for Obama’s position on taxes, as well as by his re-election last month. The president is also working to rally the public to his side and has a trip scheduled to Detroit next week.

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NASA: Lost in space? WASHINGTON — NASA, the agency that epitomized the “Right Stuff,” looks lost in space and doesn’t have a clear sense of where it is going, an independent panel of science and engineering experts said in a stinging report on Wednesday. The report by a panel of the distinguished National Academy of Sciences doesn’t blame the space agency; it faults the president, Congress and the nation for not giving NASA better direction. At the same time, it said NASA is doing little to further the White House’s goal of sending astronauts to an asteroid. In one withering passage, the panel said NASA’s mission and vision statements are so vague and “generic” that they “could apply to almost any government research and development agency, omitting even the words ’aeronautics’ or ’space.”’ The space shuttles were retired in 2011 and are now museum pieces. Few people are paying attention to the International Space Station, and American astronauts have to rely on Russian spaceships to get there and back. Meanwhile, rocketbuilding is being outsourced to private companies, and a commercial venture plans to send people to the moon by the end of the decade. Academy panel member Bob Crippen, a retired NASA manager and astronaut who piloted the first space shuttle mission, said he has never seen the space agency so adrift.

He said that includes the decade between the end of the Apollo moon landings in the early 1970s and the beginning of the shuttle program. “I think people (at NASA) want to be focused a little more and know where they are going,” Crippen told The Associated Press. NASA spokesman David Weaver defended the agency, saying in an emailed statement that it has clear and challenging goals. He listed several projects, including continued use of the International Space Station and efforts to develop a heavy-duty rocket and crew capsule

capable of taking astronauts into deep space. President Barack Obama told the space agency in 2010 to plan to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025 as a training ground for an eventual Mars landing. But the 80-page panel report and its authors said there is little support for that idea within NASA and the international space community. The agency hasn’t done much to determine an asteroid target, and its strategic plan avoids mention of an asteroid mission, the report said. Also, panel members said NASA hasn’t allo-

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Making sense of the chaos RON JAMES PROMISES THAT THE JOKES ON THIS TOUR ARE ‘100 PER CENT NEW’ BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer apparently has a thing for Ron James. This is the only stop on the standup comic’s Western tour where sheer audience demand regularly prompts James to perform twice. The 54-year-old admits that his special relationship with this city hasn’t gone unnoticed. A few years ago, one of his two daughters gave him a birthday card with a photo of two celebrities who share his Jan. 31 birth date, Justin Timberlake and Carol Channing. Inside, she wrote: “Sure, they’re more famous, but do they get six shows out of Red Deer?” recalled James, who performs on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 13 and 14, at the Memorial Centre. Despite his colloquial jokes about Sylvan Lake being “the redneck Riviera” and Alberta “the only place where the opposition to the Conservative party is another conservative party,” he figures he must be doing something right. “Out West, people always give me a fair shake,” said James — “which is a pretty nice achievement.” He believes this means that he’s hitting everyone equally with his rapid-fire, alliterative humour — from past Liberal Party leaders (“potted plants have more personality”), to universally frustrating service providers (“You have to go to Jedi Knight levels to get your Internet fixed.”) “I love looking out at the audience and seeing people take their glasses off in the first row, so they can wipe their eyes,” said James. “I live by a simple rule: If the ushers haven’t been wiping down some

seats down at the end of each show, I feel I haven’t done my job.” The Nova Scotia-born, Torontobased comedian is all fired up to try out his new material. He promises that jokes on this tour are “100 per cent new.” Well, OK, some are borrowed from the yet-to-be-seen new season of this The Ron James Show CBC TV series. (It premieres with a one-hour special on Dec. 31 at 9 p.m., then moves to a half-hour on Monday evenings at 8:30 p.m.) But James doesn’t want his fans to think they can just sit around at home and wait for his show to air. “You get more of a visceral hit when you see live comedy performed in a theatre. It’s like nothing else — a real carnal experience.” As usual, James, who reads three daily newspapers and watches the TV news to get primed for his rants, will be riffing on “everything and anything” that gets under his skin — from polarized politics, to personal perils, such as being middle-aged and suddenly single after his 23-year marriage ended a few years ago. James admitted he had to wait a while before he was ready to put the end of his marriage into the act. “As Woody Allen said, ‘comedy is tragedy plus time.’ . . . “I’m 54 and at this age, you start to see your line in the sand a little clearer,” he said. In other words, there’s less time for stupidity — and everything else. “My show will be real and fundamental and elemental. I’m always trying to figure out this world . . . to make sense of the chaos we’re all living in.” Tickets to his 8 p.m. performances are $57.50 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Zeppelin embodied empathy, adventure BY CHRIS RICHARDS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE NEW YORK — Maybe you know this one. It’s March 1975, and Led Zeppelin is in the middle of conquering America, rock ’n’ roll and the future, so Robert Plant slips out onto the balcony of his Sunset Strip hotel room with a proclamation for the traffic puttering down below: “I’m a golden god!” Thirty-seven years later, John Paul Jones remembers another hotel balcony. Same tour, different city. Plant is out on the terrace, sucking up all the oxygen and sunshine, jittery in his jeans, wanderlust humming in his bone marrow. Jones points to a building on the horizon and brags, “I walked there this morning.” Plant’s chest hair wilts. A golden god can have all the money, women, powder and pills he desires, but he can’t walk down the street and explore. Wearing the right hat, his less-conspicuous bassist can. Jonesy gives his front man a squeeze on the shoulder. Not an exultant Led Zeppelin moment by any stretch, but one that captures the two elements that make any novel worth reading and every Led Zeppelin album worth owning: empathy and adventure. Across the ’70s, the members of Led Zeppelin spent countless afternoons like that, champing at the bit in their chandeliered cages, yearning to burst into sold-out arenas where they could triumph as the greatest rock band on Earth. They lacked the glamour of the Rolling Stones but had all of their lust. They couldn’t eclipse the humanity of the Beatles but had all of their courage. Of any band that ever made rock ’n’ roll — that gloriously imperfect American music that so many British groups hurled back across the ocean in unbelievable shapes — Led Zeppelin was the most perfect. “Everyone was a superstar,” says guitarist Jimmy Page. “The key was that we played as a band.” Where other rock troupes shook the landscape by grinding tectonic egos, the Led Zeppelin members listened to one another. Cue up their music today, and you’ll hear amplified thunder, snowflake balladry, drum fills that feel like your bones snapping in ecstasy, odes to the pleasures of the flesh and the mysteries of the universe — but you’re ultimately hearing the simple magic of four men listening to one another. “We knew when to shut up and let somebody else lead and enunciate,” Plant says. “So for every big, strong, flamboyant moment, there would be, within it and around it, some kind of subtlety that set us

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2012 Kennedy Center Honorees and members of the band Led Zeppelin, from left, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Robert Plant chat on the red carpet after arriving at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Performance and Gala Sunday, Dec. 2, at the State Department in Washington. apart.” Apart and above. Trailing only the Beatles, Led Zeppelin became the second-highest-selling rock band in history, even more popular after they broke up than when they were together. The death of drummer John Bonham in 1980 brought the music to an unexpected halt, sending Jones, Page and Plant in disparate directions. But the three reconvened at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington last weekend, where they were feted for songs that exploded rock’s possibilities, for concerts that devoured superla-

tives, for albums that have sold an estimated 300 million copies worldwide and for their ability to listen. Every band is its own first audience, and at Led Zeppelin’s first rehearsal in the basement of a London record shop on Aug. 19, 1968, they knocked themselves out. Jones remembers walking down the stairs with only one concern: “The first thing you think is, ‘I hope the drummer is good.’ ”

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Left to right: Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Jason Bonham perform a one-off reunion concert at London’s 02 Arena Dec. 10, 2007. show it a huge amount of respect.” With Page, Bonham and Jones often brandishing their instruments like heavy weaponry, Plant continuously struggled to find a place to set his high, keening voice. He says some of Led Zeppelin’s most exquisite moments — The Rain Song, Achilles’ Last Stand, The Song Remains the Same — would have been better off without his singing. “The last thing I wanted to do was get in the way of some beautiful playing,” Plant says. For Plant, the group’s finest balancing act came with Kashmir, perhaps the most expansive rock song ever recorded, an eight-and-a-half-minute opus inspired by trips to Thailand, India and Morocco. “Just listening, and hearing, and smelling, and the occasional taste of fear in the back of your throat” — Plant snaps his fingers as if to wake himself from the reverie — “it’s magnificent! I think we did very well travelling and eavesdropping on other worlds.” And when Led Zeppelin ended, Plant was the most eager to move to other worlds. “I can’t stand to see the grass grow under any artist’s feet,” he says. “I want them to constantly create and re-create. So I suppose I became quite analytical.” That meant forcing himself onto alien turf, from a series of brittle pop solo albums in the ’80s (“I’m not embarrassed by them, but I think they’re cute,” he says) to 2007’s Raising Sand, a gorgeous folk collaboration with singer Alison Krauss that won album of the year at the 2009 Grammy Awards. “He is all about the next tune, the next arrangement,” Krauss told Rolling Stone in 2008. “He is about tomorrow night’s show. And when we get to tomorrow, he’ll be about the next one.” The further along he goes, the stranger the old songs feel in his lungs. “I’m not there anymore,” Plant says of his relationship to the Zeppelin songbook. “I could be somewhere else with them, but who knows where that would be? . . . A new world has to beckon. We’re all too long in the tooth to just lean back on the old stuff for another day.” ••• In the roaring ’70s, he’d try to get a new haircut before every tour. Today, anonymity comes a little easier. “I still get people coming up to me saying, ‘Do people ever tell you you look like John Paul Jones?’ “ the 66-year-old says, grinning. “ ‘Yeah, yeah. I get that a lot.’ ” The eternally modest bassist could vanish into the wallpaper at Led Zeppelin’s flashy live concerts, but his contributions coursed through the music like blood. While his mates preened and bashed, he supported their most breathtaking manoeuvres with subliminal melodies, rhythms and textures, anticipating whatever sound might pounce into the air next. “I’ve always said that Led Zeppelin was the space between all the members,” Jones says, tracing an imaginary square on the Bowery Hotel room tabletop. As a child, Jones owned a radio that could pull Radio Algiers out of the air, an invaluable resource that supplemented the steady diet of jazz supplied by his parents, who were vaudeville performers. After countless young Sundays spent improvising on the organ at church, Jones found work as a session man in London’s recording studios, where he first caught Page’s ear.

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“I gave up a hugely lucrative career to join Zeppelin,” Jones says. “I was at the top of the session world.” But it was boring. He remembers his boss seeing him off: “You’re either a fool or a rich man.” It turned out to be the latter. In 1968, Atlantic Records approached Led Zeppelin with a record-setting advance, and the group would soon bask in the freedom that came with being a bestseller. “We had a manager [the storied Peter Grant] that kept everyone away. The label weren’t allowed to come near us,” Jones says. “I spoke to Ahmet [Ertegun] afterward, and he told me, ‘We weren’t allowed within 20 paces of you.’ “ With a pipeline of cash and no leash, Zeppelin spent endless hours in the studio, mapping new territory. And to Jones, everything was new territory. Even today, launching into Stairway to Heaven for the 10,000th time feels like a crusade. “You have to approach it like this is the first time you’re playing it,” Jones says. “What does the room feel like? What is the dynamic? Is the tempo a little bit quick?” “The instant we started playing, it felt like a band,” says Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, Nirvana and Them Crooked Vultures, the supergroup he persuaded Jones to join in 2008. “He’s a musical giant and he makes other people sound great. . . . You couldn’t be in that band without really reaching for something great. And that’s what it was like every night. We never had a bad show.” Grohl is one of many collaborators Jones has buddied up with since Zeppelin, a sprawling cast that includes R.E.M., Diamanda Galas, Brian Eno and Chris Thile. With every partnership, Jones says he tries to stay out of

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Page handpicked each of them. A bassist he’d met on the session circuit, a maniac drummer from the Midlands and his howling childhood friend. Time to see what they’re made of. The guitarist called for Train Kept A-Rollin’, a mutilated jump blues his recently disbanded Yardbirds used to play. What came out was the sound of four men hitting some cosmic lottery. The colossus behind the drum kit would one day be recognized as the greatest rock drummer of all time, but for now he was shoving his pals off into the unknown, a place where Led Zeppelin would eventually redraw the grand contours of rock. “It was our job to explore,” Page says of his band. “And we had no fear.” At Manhattan’s Four Seasons, the 68-year-old’s soft eyes search the hotelsuite carpet for other memories. His hair has faded into snowy strands, cinched in a ponytail, and he scootches around in his chair whenever he gets excited, which is often, because Jimmy Page likes talking about Led Zeppelin. He speaks briskly and affectionately, more like a scholarly superfan than the band’s founder. He’s also Led Zeppelin’s self-deputized custodian and has spent big chunks of 2012 preparing the band’s back catalogue for re-release. And when he finds time to play the guitar, brawny little riffs — not unlike the ones that delineated Led Zeppelin’s extraordinary musculature — still materialize beneath his fingers. “They sort of visit you like new friends,” Page says. Raised an only child in the town of Epsom, southwest of London, Page took up the guitar as a tween, found session work in London’s recording studios and eventually ran off on tour with the Yardbirds, a mythic rock group that launched kindred guitar gods Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. The experience stoked his taste for high volumes and bold improvisation, two envelopes he would push in Zeppelin. But Page’s jumbo-size ambitions were initially dismissed as pomp. In an early review, Rolling Stone took a club to Page’s “weak, unimaginative songs.” Other adjectives used in the magazine’s now-infamous review of Led Zeppelin I: “prissy,” “dull,” “redundant.” “Led Zeppelin was always the people’s band — they were never the critics’ band. That, I think, was part of their allure,” says Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. “When it comes to the majesty of rock, there’s no band that comes close. . . . They set the standard in songwriting, in musicianship, in aura, that really lit the fire under millions of young aspiring musicians.” Page would probably second that. He calls Led Zeppelin’s nine studio albums “a textbook” for the generations that have followed. “If you want to learn anything about Led Zeppelin, don’t read any silly books,” he says. “Just listen to the music.” Then his mouth curves into a sad smile. Like any Zep fan, he seems heartbroken by the fact that there probably won’t be any more of it. ••• Before you ask anything about broken levees or misty mountains, Robert Plant needs a place to sit. So the towering 64-year-old grabs onto a sofa and drags it across the empty events room at Manhattan’s Bowery Hotel like he’s taking a loaf of bread out of the cupboard. He still has some sun on his face from a recent road trip to Big Bend National Park, down on the Mexican border, where the weather and the people are very warm. It’s a seven-hour drive from Austin, where the singer lives part-time and as quietly as possible. “I keep away, mostly, from the cliche or self-congratulatory stuff,” Plant says. “I just go out and find the world.” His curious heart was beating fast at age 17 when he stepped onto a U.S. Air Force installation in Scotland to perform with Listen, one of a handful of groups he fronted before joining Led Zeppelin the day before his 20th birthday. “I was trying to sing blue-eyed soul,” Plant says of his rookie seasons. “Trying to squeeze my throat and do that, ‘Oooh, baby.’ ” This gig was different. Surrounded by American soldiers dropping American coins into an American jukebox that spit out American songs, Plant’s world suddenly felt vast. “I didn’t realize how much of a wanderlust I would develop,” he says. “My eyes are so wide open, and I write because of that. I write, sometimes, with an eternal and wondrous naivete, because there are so many things I don’t know.” That naivete felt acute in the early days of Led Zeppelin. The band’s youngest member had the most to prove as his fellow alchemists transformed gritty Americana into electric futurism. “We were taking aspects of the Chicago blues, and we were pulverizing it,” Plant says. “We didn’t have to

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DODGES CALLS FOR DISSIDENT’S RELEASE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM, Sweden — This year’s Nobel Prize in literature winner, Mo Yan, who has been criticized for his membership in China’s Communist Party and reluctance to speak out against the country’s government, defended censorship Thursday as something as necessary as airport security checks. He also suggested he won’t join an appeal calling for the release of the jailed 2010 Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, a fellow writer and compatriot. Mo has been criticized by human rights activists for not being a more outspoken defender of freedom of speech and for supporting the Communist Partybacked writers’ association, of which he is vicepresident. His comments Thursday, made during a news conference in Stockholm, appear unlikely to soften his critics’ views toward him. Awarding him the literature prize has also brought criticism from previous winners. Herta Mueller, the 2009 literature laureate, called the jury’s choice of Mo a “catastrophe” in an interview with the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter last month. She also accused Mo of protecting the Asian country’s censorship laws. China’s rulers forbid opposition parties and maintain strict control over all media. Mo said he doesn’t feel that censorship should stand in the way of truth but that any defamation, or rumours, “should be censored.” “But I also hope that censorship, per se, should have the highest principle,” he said in comments translated by an interpreter from Chinese into English. Mo is spending several days in Stockholm before receiving his prestigious prize in an awards ceremony next Monday. He won the Nobel for his sprawling tales of life in rural China. In its citation, the jury said Mo “with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” In addressing the sensitive issue of censorship in China, Mo likened it to the thorough security procedures he was subjected to as he travelled to Stockholm. “When I was taking my flight, going through the customs ... they also wanted to check me — even taking off my belt and shoes,” he said. “But I think these checks are necessary.” Mo also dodged questions about Liu Xiaobo, the jailed Peace Prize winner. Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 for co-authoring a bold call for ending China’s single-party rule and enacting democratic reforms.

Lockout throws wrench into Underwood, Fisher’s plans BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Carrie Underwood and her NHLer husband Mike Fisher don’t see each other as much as they’d like, so she had him in mind when she scheduled her fall tour such that it would kick off right around the time Fisher was due to report for camp with the Nashville Predators. Then, of course, the NHL lockout came along. Suddenly, Fisher was grounded in Tennessee while his 29-year-old wife played the arenas he was supposed to — including Ottawa’s Scotiabank Place and Toronto’s Air Canada Centre this weekend. “I’m jealous,” Underwood said with a laugh this week while in Toronto, preparing for a gig in London, Ont. “I’m like: ‘Now you’re home and I’m not and you’re supposed to be running around — that’s why I scheduled my tour for this time. But now you’re home.” ’ The five-time Grammy-winning country singer says Fisher can’t join her on tour because he has an obligation to keep himself in shape in preparation for a potentially sudden solution to the lockout (“the places we stay, they don’t always have the best fitness equipment,” she explains). And while Underwood has become pretty wellversed in the winter sport — particularly for someone who grew up in the hockey-free environs of Oklahoma — she mostly wants the NHL to return for Fisher’s sake. Red Deer College Conservatory of Dance presents

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RED DEER GALLERIES ● Time Travel by Wendy Meeres is on display at Café Pichilingue until Dec. 31. ● The Importance of Line by Elena Rousseau will be featured at Red Deer College Library Four Corners Gallery until Jan. 9. ● Behind Glass: Relief Prints in the Style of the German Expressionists by Art 375 Visual Art students at RDC Library The Panels will open for viewing until Dec. 11. ● Small Scale Work by Past Artists in Residence will be on display at RDC Library at PortHole Gallery located just outside the library front doors until Jan. 11. ● Works by Trent Leach and Holly Elliott is featured at Velvet Olive Lounge until Dec. 31. ● Original Jewelry works exhibit/sale by local artists Wendy Meeres and Carol Nault will be at Comforts The Sole until Dec. 31. ● Santa Claus is Coming To Town special Santa Claus collection is now on display at the Mountain View Museum in Olds until Dec. 31. Hours are Tuesday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission by donation. Call 403-556-8464 for more information. ● Indigenous Impressions by Claudine Fleury will be on display at The Hub during the month of December. Fleury is an artist of Metis heritage whose art reflects impressionistic and aboriginal styles and speaks to her vision of sustained recovery and wellness. ● Members Only Show and Sale: A Juried Exhibition will be on display at Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from Nov. 27 to Jan. 1. Artwork is from emerging to professional artists in various media including acrylic, naked raku, hand-painted silk, watercolour, and more. ● Connecting Places by Galia Kwetny of Red Deer will be highlighted at Harris-Warke Gallery from Nov. 19 to Dec. 29. Kwetny, who was born in former Soviet Union, produces large paintings of coded landscapes or imaginary places with the energy and urgency evoked by memory through the use of dramatic colour and gesture. ● Rural Travel by Gail Scheuring will be featured at Gallery on Main in Lacombe from Nov. 17 to Dec. 17. Check out

Scheuring’s examination of rural environments and wildlife. Phone 403-782-3402. ● oktober by Staff and Volunteers of Kerry Wood Nature Centre continues in the Marjorie Wood Gallery until Dec. 12. ● Profit and Ambition: The Canadian Fur Trade, 17791821 continues to Dec. 9 at the Red Deer Museum and Archives. This travelling exhibition produced by the Canadian Museum of Civilization traces the span of the North West Company from its formation in 1779 to the amalgamation with the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821 through maps, documents and artifacts. Phone 403-309-8405. To be included in this listing, please email event details to editorial@reddeeradvocate.com, fax to 403-341-6560, or phone 403-314-4325.

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music. Fans can now access 30 years of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band’s recordings. The move is significant for the band. Metallica was among several acts who sued Napster in 2000, eventually forcing a settlement that required Napster to evolve into a pay-for-use service that became something of a model for today’s streaming companies. Drummer Lars Ulrich says in a news release the band has waited a long time to see how the music streaming service model would evolve and is “beyond psyched to unleash our music through” Spotify.

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LIVE DATES ● The Hideout welcomes Jimmy Rankin, Dec. 9. ● The Centrium will host The Tragically Hip with special guests the Arkells on Jan. 22. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. All ages show. Tickets go on sale from Livenation.com, Ticketmaster, and Rogers Wireless Box Office, and charge by phone at 1-855-985-5000. ● The Vat will host Picture the Ocean on Dec. 22. ● Red Deer College presents Bill Bourne on Dec. 20. ● Red Deer Memorial Centre welcomes Ron James Live! on Dec. 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $51 (taxes included plus applicable charges). Visit www.ronjames.ca for info. Tickets for shows are on sale from Black Knight Inn at 403-755-6626 or 1-800-661-8793, www.bkticketcentre.ca. Support the homeless and hungry when you take in The Huron Carole — a project of the Christmas and Winter Relief Association — with Tom Jackson and guests Sarah Slean, Matt Dusk and Susan Aglukark on Dec. 17, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $45. To donate or purchase tickets, visit www.HuronCarole.ca To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.

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Husband doesn’t think flirtatious behaviour wrong Dear Annie: Three months ago, my husband said maybe we should work husband and I were introduced to a on our marriage, we went for couples couple through mutual friends. My counselling. That’s when I brought it husband could not take his eyes off the up, showing the counsellor all of the woman all evening. They arphotographs and emails I ranged to go on an all-day found. seminar course together. My husband says he did The course leader took a nothing wrong, that I ruined suggestive photo of them a good friendship, and that that he circulated to all his he feels “violated� because male friends. Shortly after, I snooped on his computer. he asked for a divorce out of He has since changed all of the blue, saying I criticized his passwords. But he still him too much. wants to work on our marI snooped on his comriage. puter and found the photo If he thinks he did nothalong with other highly fliring wrong, it makes me betatious emails, one of them lieve he will do it again, MITCHELL arranging to meet this womand who knows where it & SUGAR an during the day. will lead? How can I work Both of them made excuson our marriage if he won’t es, telling her boyfriend and acknowledge his actions our mutual friends that they were more than “friendly�? had accidentally bumped into each — In Limbo other. Shortly after that, she broke up Dear Limbo: Your counsellor should with her boyfriend while he was un- be addressing these issues during dergoing chemotherapy. your sessions. If that hasn’t happened, I never told my husband that I knew please go back and try again. about their flirtation, as I wanted to Your husband needs to admit that see where it was headed. When my his interest in this woman was inap-

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support of their families. How long has he claimed to be drug-free? Is there any evidence that he has relapsed? You might consider stopping by Grandma’s house without your children to check on the situation and say hello, and then have your Christmas dinner elsewhere. Dear Annie: This is for “North Carolina,� who does not appreciate his boss’s language. Since the boss is willing to work on it, I suggest he place a “Fine Jar� on the table with a list of words and their corresponding fines. Every time anyone says one of the words, he has to pay the fine. The money can go toward refreshments at the next meeting or to charity. This game makes light of the problem while reinforcing better behaviour. It worked for me in a highly sensitive job where the boss had an enormous ego. -— Neighbor in Kentucky Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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SUN SIGNS esting and creative ideas. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Sometimes you have a feeling that getting closer to your dreams is a simple challenge. You want to give up, but don’t go that way! Focus on compromising your wants with your expectations. Set realistic goals and you will be back in the game. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Surprising news concerning the money being owed to you can be possible today. Or, an unusual arrangement or agreement regarding your finances from other sources will bring you much hope and promises. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today you are in your own element as the Moon is in your own sign. Utilize this energy to accomplish as much as possible as odds will most likely be in your favour. Things will turn out to work in your advantage. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You crave privacy and you are better off being in your own little corner today.

You’re not in the mood to necessarily expose yourself today, nor socialize. Work on your own psyche and do some meditation. Yoga will heal your innermost needs. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): In the afternoon, your focus will turn from career demands towards your circle of friends. Expect some unforeseen events to happen within your social scene which might give you some emotional hardships. A friend might be too hard to deal with right now. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): As long as you are aware that there’s a certain time you need to allocate to your domestic life and your professional life, you will be able to cope with today’s unpredictable circumstances stemming from your family life. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): Opening those new doors may seem backbreaking at times, yet do not let that put you down. Agreements and contracts should work in accordance with your desires. Your communication with higher ups is both serious and promising. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the afternoon, you will crave more intimacy and oneon-one time. At the same time, unanticipated money shortages will give you cause for concern. You have not seen this coming; your possessions no longer bring you that sense of security. Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist.

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propriate and put your marriage at risk. There are also trust and communication issues. This is what counseling is for. The two of you have a lot of work to do, but it requires honesty all around. Dear Annie: My aunt’s son is a drug addict. He has been in and out of jail and treatment centres, and she has not spoken to many of us over the years. My aunt is planning on coming to my grandmother’s home for Christmas dinner and bringing her son. I do not feel comfortable around my cousin. I think he is dangerous. My relatives say it’s time for the family to heal, and I should forgive him. They are all willing to sit down with him because they think he is clean and drug-free. I don’t trust that he is, and I don’t want my children in his presence. What do you think? — Niece Dear Niece: You should protect your children from anyone who poses a danger. But you aren’t giving your cousin a chance to reintegrate himself into the family if he is, in fact, clean. We understand your reluctance to be around him, but addicts who are making a sincere effort need the emotional

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Music icons’ lives chronicled through books Rod Stewart has lost track of the women he’s slept with, but he can recall every car he’s ever owned. There’s been a Marcos, a Porsche and many Lamborghinis, he writes proudly in Rod: The Autobiography (Crown Archetype). Stewart gets credit for being candid, but many of these stories don’t make him look very good. The singer, who’s fathered eight children and been married three times, put his first daughter up for adoption when he was 18. He explains that he didn’t have any money or a regular job. Eighteen years later, she turned up at his home, along with a tabloid reporter. Stewart was shocked but agreed to see her — without the reporter in tow — and they are now close, he says. Revelations on the day job are few

The Who’s Pete Townshend spends a lot of time in Who I Am (Harper) trying to explain some Internet browsing that attracted police attention. He acknowledges registering on a site that advertised child pornography, but says he was doing research, pointing out that he was publicly campaigning against such images in reaction to his

and far between. Stewart discloses that he first had an idea of doing an album of standards way back in 1983 and was advised to put it on ice for a while. Now his Great American Songbook series has made this past decade his most commercially successful. Stewart includes photos of his toy train set, saying: “A man should always have a hobby to be well rounded. Don’t snigger.” He’s in good company: Neil Young also has a mini railroad, which we learn about in his memoir, Waging Heavy Peace (Blue Rider). Young spends a lot of time chronicling his green obsessions, such as an electric car that caught fire when it was left plugged in too long while still in development. There is some music here. Young says he has to write when he’s moved by events, such as the Kent State University shootings in 1970. He wrote Ohio when he heard the news, recorded it the next day and it was on the radio within a week.

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Ecksteins, Fowler make BC National award, Charles Taylor Prize lists THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Authors Modris Eksteins and Robert R. Fowler doubled up on prize prospects this week as the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction released its short list and the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction put out a long list. Eksteins’s Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age and Fowler’s A Season in Hell: My 130 Days In the Sahara With Al Qaeda were named to the BC National Award list. Other books named included A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape by Candace Savage

and Pinboy by George Bowering. Savage’s book recently won the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The BC prize is now in its ninth year. It carries a $40,000 paycheque. The winner will be announced in February. Meanwhile, the Charles Taylor Prize, worth $25,000, announced a long list of 15 titles. The nominees for the prize include Ross King’s Leonardo and The Last Supper, which recently won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Other books in the running for the Charles Taylor include Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada’s World Wars,

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by previous prize winner Tim Cook of Ottawa and What We Talk About When We Talk About War, by Toronto’s Noah Richler. Meanwhile, Sandra Martin of the Globe and Mail received a nod for Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives That Changed Canada. So did the Globe’s Jeffrey Simpson for Chronic Condition: Why Canada’s Health-Care System Needs to be Dragged Into the 21st Century. This is the second year that the Charles Taylor Prize has issued a long list. The full Charles Taylor long list can be viewed at: www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca

WINFREY SAYS BOOK ABOUT TEENAGER’S JOURNEY FROM MISSISSIPPI TO PHILADELPHIA IN THE 1920S ‘TOOK HER BREATH AWAY’ BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Add another book for possible holiday gifts: Oprah Winfrey’s latest 2.0 selection. Winfrey announced Wednesday that she has chosen Ayana Mathis’ debut novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, for her book club. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf moved up publication from early next year to this week, and an author interview will be aired Feb. 3 on the Super Soul Sunday program on Winfrey’s OWN network. Twelve Tribes is the story of a teenager’s journey from Mississippi to Philadelphia in the 1920s and the large family she ends up raising.

“The opening pages of Ayana’s debut took my breath away,” Winfrey said in a statement. “I can’t remember when I read anything that moved me in quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison.” Winfrey revived her club, now called Oprah’s Book Club 2.0, this year with Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild. Winfrey’s clout, along with her ratings, might have dropped from a decade ago, but she is still a major commercial force in the book world. Also published by Knopf, Wild has sold around 500,000 copies, most of that coming after Winfrey’s announcement. Dozens of books over the past 20 years have become bestsellers, thanks to the talkshow host’s endorsements.

era houses, African villages. Byrne says the way we’re listening to recordings is changing: “There have never been more opportunities for a musician to reach an audience.” Mark Beech is a Bloomberg News book reviewer.

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announcements CROWE Pauline Germaine After an incredible journey of 88 years Mom left us on November 30, 2012. She was predeceased by her husband Ken in 1969, her grandson Jason in 1981, her dear daughter Michelle in 1997 and her great grandson Adam in 2010. She leaves her beloved children, Ron, Dennis and Terry (Spence), David and Terry (Rokosh), Sharon, Larry and Peggy (Hilsenteger), Kathleen and Vi c ( L u m ) , M a u r e e n a n d Doug (Backhouse), 23 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. In keeping with her wishes she is to be cremated. A mass in celebration of her life will be held this summer at Sacred Heart Church, Red Deer. If friends desire donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.

FRANCIS Melva Melva passed away suddenly at home on December 2, 2012 at the age of 77. There will be a Celebration of Life i n h e r h o n o r o n F r i d a y, December 7, 2012 at 1:00 pm at the Church of Christ in Davenport, 68 Donlevy Ave. Red Deer.

LAWRENCE Eileen Celia (1948-2012) On November 30 th Eileen Celia Lawrence (nee Cunningham) passed away at the age of 64. She is survived by her family; husband Arthur, children L e i t a , Ta n y a a n d J a r r e t (Karen); grandchildren Jordan, Kaitlyn, Jessica and Ilan; sister Doreen Storck (Graeme) and brothers Derek (Audrey) and Glenn (Arlie). It is Eileen’s wish that there be no formal service. Our family would like to invite friends, family and neighbours to join them for snacks and refreshments at an Open House on Sunday, December 16th, from 2-4pm at the Chalet at Westerner Park in Red Deer (4847A 19 Street). Guests are welcome to share memories, prayers or words between 2:30-3 pm if they so wish. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Eileen’s name to a charity of the donor’s choice.

SHARP Robert Hugh “Bob” Bob Sharp passed away on December 1, 2012. He is survived by his wife Marilyn, sons Graham (Cheryl), Gavin (Cathy), Colin (Lisa) and eight very special grandchildren Sydney, Riley, Sarah, Kyle, Kayla, Julie, Michael and Erik. He is also survived by his brother Harvey (Darlene) and three sisters Norma (Stan), Jeanne (Cliff) and Margaret and their families. Friends and family are invited to a Celebration of his Life on December 9, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. in the Lacombe Memorial Centre Main Hall, 5214-50 Ave, Lacombe. Donations in Bob’s memory may be made to Cross Cancer Institute (Prostate Cancer Research) c/o Alberta Cancer Foundation, 11560 University Ave, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2. Condolences may be made through www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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SCOTT Velda Myrl (Edgar) Velda Myrl Scott passed away peacefully surrounded by her five children at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on December 4, 2012 at the age of 86. Born July 6th, 1926 to Robert and Veda Edgar. She was raised with her three older brothers, Bill, Les and Bob, on the Edgar farm west of Red Deer. After high school, she entered Nurses’ training at the Holy Cross Hospital in Calgary, graduating as a Registered Nurse in 1948. Following graduation, Velda returned to Red Deer and began her devoted nursing career which spanned four decades and touched the lives of many. Her generous heart knew no bounds when it came to her family and friends, as well as many charitable organizations. Velda married Ron Scott in 1951 and together they raised their five children as part of a wonderful extended family. Velda was predeceased by her husband in 1998. She will be lovingly remembered by her five children; Rick and Diane Scott, Debbie Perepelitza, Pam and Dale Reid, Bev and Don Neufeld, Brad Scott and Heather Brake, eleven grandchildren, three great grandchildren, in-laws; Pat and Bob Cathro, Ned Burgess, Bjorn Pederson, Dave Grove, numerous nieces, nephews and many friends. Words cannot express our gratitude for the loving care and compassion that Mom received from Dr. Robert Mulder, the staffs of the 1400 Household Extendicare Michener Hill, Valley Park Manor and Westpark Lodge. Mom’s strong will helped her face life’s challenges with grace and d i g n i t y. A C e l e b r a t i o n o f Velda’s life will be held at the Knox Presbyterian Church (4718 - 50th Street, Red Deer) on Monday, December 17, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. In honor of Velda’s memory, memorial tributes may be made to the Knox Presbyterian Church 4718 - 50th Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1X2 or to the Red Deer Salvation Army 132-2325 50 Avenue, R e d D e e r, A B T 4 R 1 L 2 . Condolences for the late Ve l d a S c o t t m a y b e 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

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

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SOLEY Donald 1944-2012 Mr. Donald Soley of Eckville, YOUNGER Alberta passed away after a John (Lee) Leland Younger t w o y e a r l o n g a n d h a r d passed away at the Red fought battle with cancer at Deer Hospice on Saturday the Red Deer Hospice on the December 1, 2012 after a m o r n i n g o f W e d n e s d a y, short battle with cancer, at December 5, 2012 at the age the age of 70. He is survived of 67 years. Don will be by his wife Marguerite, his lovingly remembered by his s i s t e r L o r e n e R o s e , s o n wife Elaine, five children; Gail Jeffrey (Melolyn), Younger, (Brian), Kevin (Brenda), Troy Step-children Joe (Gwen) (Treena), Shane (Donna) Winter, Doug (Nicki) Winter, and Cindy (Dayn), fourteen Maurice(Colleen) Winter, grandchildren and two great- R i c h a r d ( D i a n e ) W i n t e r, grandsons. Don’s memory will Jamie (Rose) Winter, Barbara also be cherished by his (Jim) Schoonmaker, Jean b r o t h e r J a c k ( S w a n c i e ) , (Craig) Speidel, numerous s i s t e r s ; D o n n a a n d P a t grand and great grandchildren. (Bert), sister-in-law Esther, John (Lee) is predeceased as well as by Elaine’s family; by his parents Pete and Jean Betty (Glen), Verna (Jack) Younger, daughter Jacqui, and Nancy (Wes), his many and brother Larry. Memorial extended family and co- Service will be held at workers at R.S.C. Don was Wilsons Funeral Chapel & predeceased by his parents Crematorium 6120 Highway J o h n a n d M a r g a r e t , t w o 2A, Lacombe, Alberta at 1:00 sisters and their husbands; p.m. on Monday December M a r y ( B l a n d ) a n d E v a 10, 2012. Memorial donations (Clayton), brother Byron, can be forwarded to the Red brother-in-law Tom, mother-in-law Deer Hospice Society at 99 Virginia, nephew John and Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, great-niece Jennifer. In honor Alberta T4R 3S6 Expresof Don, a Memorial Service sions of sympathy may be will be take place at Parkland made by visiting Funeral Home, 6287-67A www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca Street (Taylor Drive), Red WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, Deer, Alberta on Monday, of Lacombe and Rimbey in December 10, 2012 at 11:00 charge of the arrangements. a.m. Interment will follow at 403-782-3366 Alto Reste Cemetery, Hwy 403-843-3388 11 East, Red Deer, Alberta. “A Caring Family, Caring for In lieu of flowers, donations Families” made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 2S6, would be greatly appreciated. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040 Births

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LUNDALL - ARCHER The countdown is on! Evan and Charmaine Lundall along with Kirk and Joanne Archer are excited to announce the upcoming marriage of their children CARMEN LUNDALL AND JEFF ARCHER. The wedding will take place on Dec. 23, 2012 in Red Deer. It certainly will be “Happy Holidays!”

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F/T / P/T Pharmacy Technicians. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you! MEDICAL Office Assistant with Health Unit Coordinator Instructor required. Must have 3 years industry experience as either a LPN or Unit Clerk and related diploma. This is a part time position for 3 hours per day Monday to Friday. Submit resumes to resumes@ academyoflearning.ab.ca

800

Oilfield

AXIOM WELL SOLUTIONS is seeking experienced slickline operators. Email resume to jneal@axiomwell.com Busy Oilfield Company looking for an experienced winch truck class 1 driver to operate a newer Peterbilt truck and new trailer to haul equipment between the Fox Creek/Edson area and Innisfail, Alberta. Offering very competitive wages and bonus structure. Please email resume: orion@orionrentals.ca

CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

720

Clerical

WEIS Western Wear looking for exp’d bookkeeper. Please apply with resume to 5115-50 Ave. Red Deer

740

Dental

BUSY dental office req’s exp. dental receptionist. Please drop resumes off at Southpointe Dental, Mon. through Thurs. 8 - 8 DAY DENTAL requires a P/T (with potential for F/T) RDA. Innisfail’s brand new dental clinic, located just off highway 2 in the COOP Mall. Please email resumes to admin@daydental.ca PERIOPARTNERS DR. PATRICK PIERCE DR. JANEL YU requires RDA LEVEL II 2-3 days per wk maximum. Email resume to reddeer@ periopartners.com OR fax (403) 314-5486

Arts & Crafts Shows

CALNASH TRUCKING LTD PONOKA, ALBERTA (Regular and winter camp jobs) REQUIRES PICKER, WINCH TRACTOR, BED TRUCK & PILOT CAR OPERATORS

Production Testing Personnel: Day & Night Supervisors & Field Operators •

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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 Qualified Day & Night Field Supervisor 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

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 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 Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Oilfield

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 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

JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Day Supervisors, Night Operators, and Helpers. Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com or mikeg@jagareenergy.com 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

Annual

and

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

Parkland Garden Centre

A non-perishable donation to the Red Deer Food Bank would be greatly appreciated.

SERVICE RIG

271886K15

RETIREMENT & SAVINGS PLAN BENEFITS

Join Our Fast Growing Team!! QUALIFIED DAY AND NIGHT SUPERVISORS

(Must be able to Provide own work truck)

FIELD OPERATORS Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers License required!! Please contact Murray McGeachy or Jamie Rempel by Fax: (403) 340-0886 or email mmcgeachy@ cathedralenergyservices.com jrempel@ cathedralenergyservices.com

Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

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

Snow Cat Operators Must have tickets and equipment experience. 403-348-1521 or 403-391-1695

Providence Trucking Inc

Is now hiring experienced:

Picker Operator Bed Truck Operator Winch truck operators 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

800 The Company (Copp’s Services Inc.), is a progressive and growing industrial services company and is looking for a Contracts Manager to be an integral part of their team.

CONTRACTS MANAGER Reporting to the Business Operations Manager, the Contracts Manager will be a dynamic self starter that will oversee and ensure the Company’s project contract(s) are completed and are in compliance with our clients’ requirements. This individual will work with the administration team and be responsible for ensuring the administration of project billing and document control for all project contracts. - This individual has a minimum of 7 years of contract administration and/or project management experience in an industrial services or construction background, preferably related to the oil & gas or energy sector. - This individual has an understanding of unit rate contracts and has experience in material procurement and project costing. You will have extensive knowledge and experience in various commercial contracts including understanding contract terms and conditions. - This individual will be responsible for contract management including client communication, project progress monitoring and reporting, change order control, payment applications, contract document control, supplier performance, and contract closeout. - This individual will work with the contract administration team providing leadership, input, and advice in creating and administering appropriate systems, procedures, and plans in helping the Company achieve continued growth. - Ethical business practices are of the utmost importance to the Company. This individual will share these ethical principles and have the ability to apply sound judgment in identifying and resolving contract disputes. - Post secondary education would be considered an asset however all candidates with aligning experience and values would be considered. - Excellent analytical, administrative, and organizational skills are a must. Excellent compensation program available to the selected candidate....

Watch for upcoming show on Dec. 15

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

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D

website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com

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

COMPETITIVE WAGES & BENEFIT PACKAGE INCLUDED Fax Resume to: 403 783 3011 Email: hr@ calnashtrucking.com

800

Oilfield

800

275643L7-9

Please submit your resume to hr@coppsinc.ca

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

Has openings for

Start your career! See Help Wanted

URS FLINT TUBULAR MANAGEMENT SERVICES requires Tubing Inspection operator, manual lathe operator, loader operator and Shop & Yard Laborers. Exp. an asset but will train to suit. Competitive wages and benefits. Apply w/resume to: 4115 Henry St. (Blindman Industrial Park)

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Proven client service experience

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Strong organizational skills

•

Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines

Qualified applicants are invited to submit a cover letter and resume quoting job reference number IROC18-12 to: Attention: Human Resources Email: careers@iroccorp.com Mail: IROC Energy Services Partnership 8113 – 49 Ave. Close Red Deer, Alberta T4P 2V5 Fax: (403) 346-9770 For further information on this position and other opportunities within our company, please visit our website at www.iroccorp.com We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those who will be interviewed will be contacted.

820

DOOR SECURITY

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

Oilfield

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a well experienced F/T SERVER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Sales & Distributors

830

F/T

retail sales position, downtown, experience preferred but not necessary. Apply Wei’s Western Wear 5115 Gaetz Ave

850

Big Horn Electric and Controls Ltd.

Join our team of professionals! ELECTRICAL and INSTRUMENTATION IRIS is expanding and JOURNEYMAN and we are looking for APPRENTICES an outgoing, energetic We are currently recruiting Optician in our Red Deer for: location. We will also Central and Northern consider training appliAlberta. cants as opticians provided Required Safety they possess sales experiCertificates: ence and can demonstrate H2S Alive / First Aid enthusiasm and passion PST / Fall Protection. for what they do in their Successful candidates will work and community. Also possess excellent written greet customers, book and verbal appointments & various communication skills. other tasks. Oilfield experience is an asset. Drop resume off to: Qualified applicants are Kayla Macaulay, Manager invited to fax or email their resumes: IRIS is Canada’s largest Fax: 403-638-3688 Email: eyecare provider with over careers@bighornelectric.com 165 locations across the country. IRIS features the CLARK BUILDERS finest fashion frames, Now Hiring lenses from the world’s CAREPENTERS & leading manufacturer’s and LABORERS laser vision correction. for work in Red Deer Apply at: Email: Looking for a place careers@ to live? clarkbuilders.com Take a tour through the Fax: 1-888-403-3051 www.clarkbuilders.com CLASSIFIEDS

OPTICIAN

Trades

850

Invites applicants for:

800

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN Red Deer Public Schools Please see:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca Employment Opportunities

- Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

Invites applicants for:

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Red Deer Public Schools Please see:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca Employment Opportunities

Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

- Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you. Now hiring Canyon Champions for the following positions:

Rocky Mountain New Holland Dealership is looking for an experienced:

Class 1 Driver / Operators: Nitrogen, Coiled Tubing, Cement & Acid, Fracturing Supervisors: Nitrogen, Coiled Tubing, Cement & Acid, Fracturing Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety—focused

f Team oriented f Clean Class 1 license f Oil and Gas experience an asset

Why Canyon? f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New equipment

f f f

PARTS PERSON Knowledge of Agricultural business Experience in Ag. Dealership an asset

Paid technical and leadership training

Team Player

Career advancement opportunities RRSP Matching Program

Helping Techs, Customers and all related duties

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

Please Email Resume to:

rstacey@rockymtn.com How to apply: email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

Or bring one into the store

275262L9

Sound accounting background, and 1-3 years of accounts receivable experience

Restaurant/ Hotel

Trades

Boiler Hands.

Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

IROC Energy Services Partnership is a dynamic, rapidly growing public company focused on addressing the diverse needs of the oil and gas industry. We have an opening for an individual who enjoys a challenging, fast-paced and team orientated environment.

•

F/T Accountant

req’d to start immed. MonFri. The successful candidate 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

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

MATERNITY LEAVE – 1 YEAR COVERAGE

Qualifications:

Fax resume to: Human Resources 403-782-1044 or Email: careers@bamssinc.com

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

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE CLERK, RED DEER

Reporting to the Accounts Receivable Supervisor, the Accounts Receivable Clerk will provide coverage for a 1 year Maternity leave position, starting approximately January 15, 2013. This person will be responsible for processing large volume of accounting invoices. Working in a team environment, the successful candidate will contribute to the efficient operation of the accounting department.

810

X-Static is now accepting applications for a Lacombe based transExperienced P/T p o r t a t i o n c o m p a n y, i s door security looking for a full-time administrative professional. Apply in person, after 3 pm HIRING Key responsibilities for this * Gas station Manager position include: TANKMASTER RENTALS * Providing administrative * $25/hr, full time 1 person * The day to day operarequires CLASS 1 BED support to Management tions of filling station and TRUCK and TANK TRUCK * Maintenance of IFTA convenience store, managOperators for Central reporting program i n g s t a ff , w o r k i n g w i t h Alberta. Competitive * Responding to staff vendors and monitoring wages and benefits. inquiries m.morton@tankmaster.ca * Data entry & maintaining sales. * Completion of University or fax 403-340-8818 document files ( Economics). Over 1 yr * Reception including business experience. answering telephones, Leeoh Holdings Inc. and greeting visitors o/a Rimbey Gas & Splash. *Maintaining supplies and Box 659 4630 50 Ave. office equipment Rimbey, AB T0C 2J0 * Open, sort and distribute cookplus@naver.com correspondence (including Phone 403-843-2360 fax and email) TR3 ENERGY is at the forefront of The successful candidate reclamation and will have: remediation in the * Strong organizational oil & gas industry. skills We are currently * Proficiency in using recruiting for: Microsoft Word, Excel, LOOKING for a few good *Equipment and Outlook Apples! Hiring part time * Excellent oral and written Operators & and full time kitchen line communication skills Labourers cooks... great flexibility, * High degree of REQUIREMENTS: weekends a must! professionalism *Valid driver’s license Apply in person between * The ability to work * H2S Alive 2 pm and 5 pm and ask for independently or as part * Standard First Aid Angie or Amy. of a team *WHMIS and/or CSTS THE RANCH HOUSE or PST QUALIFICATIONS: requires F/T & P/T * Pre-Access A& D Testing High school diploma and 3 dining room servers years of related experience Call David 403-358-4100 Please email or fax your in an office environment. for interview/appointment resume to: A diploma in Office Adminor fax resume hr@tr3energy.com istration will be considered 403-358-4116 Fax: 403-294-9323 an asset. Equivalencies www.tr3energy.com will be considered.

720

Clerical

Professionals

BAMSS Contracting Inc.,

HORSE barn requires chore person weekday mornings, 1 mi. E. of R.D. Suitable for retired farmer. 403-343-6547

50-70

Oilfield

274919L3-8

CLASSIFICATIONS

800

Oilfield

274920L3-8

WHAT’S HAPPENING

800

275630L20

Farm Work

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 E3

850

Trades

850

CARPET COLOUR GEMINI is Hiring for CENTRE Ponoka Fabrication is currently looking for Shop 2 TILE INSTALLERS. Applicant must have ability JOURNEYMAN to lay out tiles, be familiar MILLWRIGHT with setting materials and Mechanical experience products. This is a F/T Experience in welding position with a wage of manufacturing $25/hr. Plant maintenance Submit resume att`n: Andrew @ Carpet Colour Experience in maintenance of Overhead Cranes Centre 1100, 5001 - 19 St. Red Deer, AB T4R 3R1 or Please send resumes to email : awiebe@ Hmorrow@geminicorp.ca carpetcolourcentre. com

CLARK BUILDERS

Now Hiring LEAD HAND OR CARPENTER FOREMAN for work in Red Deer Apply at: Email: careers@ clarkbuilders.com Fax: 1-888-403-3051 www.clarkbuilders.com

is now hiring

JOURNEYMAN OR APPRENTICE

ambitious, dedicated & professional Journeyman to start immediately for the o r 3 r d . a n d 4 t h y e a r apprentices in our Red following position: Deer location. if you pride on quality work, Journeyman Plumbers yourself customer servicea and are Journeyman Gas looking for a career in Fitters automotives we would like Starting wage of $36/hr, you to consider a position 10% Vacation/Holiday Pay with us. Please drop off or and benefits. send a resume to 5804 50 Please fax resumes to Ave. Red Deer, Alberta 780-623-7451or email to T4N 4C2 email to: sales@cpandh.ca midas58@telus.net or fax ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE to 403-314-9631 2nd. or 3rd. yr. Must have JOURNEYMAN or Residential experience. 3rd Yr. Apprentice Fax resume to Plumber/Gas Fitter 403-347-5745 or call req’d for small shop in 403-588-6001 Westaskiwin area. ESTABLISHED well known Competitive wages & company looking for perhealth plan. Submit manent f/t hourly tapers resumes to: and p/t piece work tapers. willplmb@xplornet.com or Please fax resume to fax to: 780-312-2889 or 403-782-0610 email: call 780-387-6087 ben@tpil.ca Something for Everyone ESTABLISHED well known company looking for exp’d. Everyday in Classifieds steel stud/drywall person RISLEY MACHINING to work F/T hourly. LTD. (Grande Prairie, AB) Please fax resume to has the following position 403-782-0610 email: available for immediate ben@tpil.ca employment: ALUMINUM BOAT EXP’’D drywall tradesmen FABRICATOR/WELDER & laborers req’d, immed Must have previous Phone 403-348-8640 experience. EXPERIENCED Risley Machining offers a Technician or good benefits program and wages to commensurate Apprentice with experience. required for GM dealership in Drumheller Please reply with resume to: Jay Stojan Medical benefits, good 9620-109 St working conditions. Grande Prairie, AB Must have clean driving T8V 4E4 record. Please fax Phone: (780) 538-8256 or email resume to Fax: (780) 539-5447 service manager. Email: Email: jay.stojan@gorisley.com bob.thomas@ westerngmdrumheller.com SERVICEMAN Fax: 403-823-7237 POSITION EXPERIENCED repair Mechanically inclined or person req’d for local truck heavy duty equipment company. Work involves apprentice all aspects of heavy truck Year round employment and trailer repair and disClean driver’s abstract manteling. Must be Fax resume to physically fit. HD Mechan(403) 885 5137 ic or equivelant experience Email resume to We offer competitive office@ccal.com wages, benefits weekends off. Fax resume to SHUNDA 1-855-784-2330 or call CONSTRUCTION 1-877-787-2501 Requires Full Time LARGE commercial . proCarpenters Helpers, ject, drywall, , steel stud, and Labourers. t-bar, taping , long term Competitive Wages work. Benefits, 403-588-4614, 588-4615 & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 Classifieds...costs so little or email to: Saves you so much! admin@shunda.ca

Trades

850

Truckers/ Drivers

860

WANTED Class 1 drivers with propane, butane, LPG mix in Central AB. Must have all tickets Fax resume to 403-887-6110 or Call Dennis at 403-588-5836 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s FULL TIME

APPRENTICE MECHANIC

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

Wabasca Area 5 month term Camp Job Started mid-Aug, 2012 BIG Horn Electric and Controls Ltd.

Clark’s Plumbing & Heating Midas is looking for Camp Shifts

Trades

ELECTRICAL and INSTRUMENTATION JOURNEYMAN and APPRENTICES Required Safety Certificates: H2S Alive / First Aid PST / Fall Protection. Successful candidates will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. Oilfield experience is an asset. Qualified applicants are invited to fax or email their resumes: Fax: 403-638-3688 Email: careers@bighornelectric.com

Truckers/ Drivers

Misc. Help

ACADEMIC Express Adult Education and Training

Winter 2013 • •

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in DEER PARK Dempsey St. area $45/mo. ALSO Duston St. Donnelly Crsc., area Densmore Crs. Dale Close $270/mo.

DRIVERS-LONG HAUL. $1500 Sign-on! Join an industry leader! US Runs, 5-14 days out. Heyl Truck Lines 800-973-9161 www.heyl.net

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 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

SNOW plow drivers(2) req’d for winter season based out of Lacombe, exc. wages. Must have Class 3 w/air. Call Toll Free 1-877-787-2501 Mon. - Fri. 9 am. - 5 pm. only or fax resume to: 403-784-2330

850

CALLING ALL TRADES!!

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

NAC is an extremely successful heavy construction company, specializing in large municipal, industrial and private sector projects. We are currently seeking the following experienced, dedicated and driven trades to join our team at our Red Deer WWTP project:

MILLWRIGHTS PLUMBERS PIPEFITTERS FORMSETTERS ELECTRICIANS TRADE APPRENTICES

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

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

You must have heavy construction experience in a municipal and/or industrial construction environment. Excellent communication skills are required. Proven team players will have the opportunity for future work on projects across Canada.

MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE

Adams Close/ Adair Ave.

Baile Cl. /Boyce St. Beatty Crs./Barrett Dr. Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

INGLEWOOD AREA

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Isbister Close Issard Close LANCASTER AREA

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED 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.

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

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life in the towns of Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick at 403-314-4303 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 Start your career! See Help Wanted

KENTWOOD Kirkland & Kidd Close ALSO Kilburn & Krause Crsc

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

BOWER AREA

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

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

Misc. Help

Misc. Help

880

Misc. Help

880

CARRIERS NEEDED

ALSO

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

GLENDALE Gunn St. & Goodacre Close

880

ANDERS AREA

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

ADULT & Youth Carrier Needed For Delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in

Misc. Help

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

ROSEDALE AREA 72 papers $386/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

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

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

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.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

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

www.nacsworld.com

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

860

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

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. Position: Head Caretaker of Subs Location: Facility Services/Various Locations Start Date: To be determined. Work Days: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Candidates will be required to have: Valid Class 4 Drivers License, Minimum 5 years Janitorial/housekeeping supervisory experience preferred. Effective written and oral communication in the English language required. To carry out administrative tasks relating to dispatching subs, training subs, assisting and directing specialty cleaning projects for permanent and substitute caretakers. A current criminal record check and vulnerable sector check is required for all new employees. Be advised that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. This competition will remain open until a suitable candidate is found, although Applications forwarded by 12:00 noon on December 18, 2012 will be given careful consideration. Forward to Red Deer Public School District No. 104, 4747-53 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 2E6 Fax: 403-342-3780 Email: humanresources@rdpsd. ab.ca

********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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

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

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. You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you! 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 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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

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

Employment Training

900

Misc. Help

880

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 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.

Employment Training

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.

OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

offers a variety of

SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis. As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses. For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500. You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs. Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much! Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

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Please apply online at: www.nacsworld.com or e-mail your resume to: careers@nacsworld.com Fax: 519-780-4660

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Misc. Help

Trades

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Trades

Invites applicants for:

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

www.rdpsd.ab.ca - Classified Staff for complete posting.

Millwright 1st Class / Refrigeration Operator Needed! General Duties: • Experience in a plant/manufacturing environment is an asset. • Alberta recognized trade certificate required. • You will be responsible for general, light maintenance and monitoring of Our Ammonia Based Refrigeration System / Training will be provided. With a job at Olymel you enjoy ... • Comprehensive Health and Benefit Plan • Public Transportation to and from the plant. • Possibility of progression within the company. • Paid work and safety orientation. • Discounts on retail prices for Olymel products (fresh and frozen pork/poultry and clothing). Wage - $34.68 / hr.

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Employment Opportunities

is expanding its facility to double production.

Did you know that Olymel is the biggest employer in Red Deer

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

JOIN THE TEAM! Please apply with your resume to: Ph: (403) 343-8700 Fax: (403) 309-7547 Email: apply@olymel.com

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Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included. Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

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- Concrete Finishers - Carpenters/Woodworkers

E4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 7, 2012

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

(across from Totem)

217865

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

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Career Planning

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

FREE

for all Albertans

Household Furnishings

1720

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

BED: #1 King. extra thick orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr. warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice 11 am Sharp *Viewing 9 am @ $545. 403-302-0582. Location: Ridgewood COFFEE table 58” x 22” x Community Hall 15h with center closed cuPartial List only: bical $200 403-314-2026 Antiques & Collectibles LIMITED Edit. pink Dyson - China Cabinets - Antique Firewood upright vacuum cleaner Queen Bed - Retro Table $150, 403-346-9899 & Chairs - Dressers AFFORDABLE - Queen Ann Furniture Homestead Firewood LOVESEAT RECLINER & - Gate Leg Dining Table & Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. ROCKER, 3-in-one. asking 6 Chairs (Professionally 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 $400. 403-391-3936 Restored) - Autographed FIREWOOD 347-7211 Gretzky Jersey - 1937 WANTED bluegrassnursery.com Cedar Chest with Key Antiques, furniture and - 1957 Lethbridge El Bronco FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, estates. 342-2514 Menu - 1914 Spurs Poplar. Can deliver - Egyptian Mummy - Set of 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 Misc. for 3 Buddha’s - Sword - Crystal - China - Tea Set Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner Sale - Hudson Bay Blankets (One BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 in Original Packaging) 2 BOXES of Wildlife books - Humidor with Cigars ea.$10; box of assorted SPLIT Dry Firewood. De- Tea Service - Coke Trays livery avail (403)845-8989 indoor flower pots $15; - Collector Coins, Stamps med. spider plant, $7; & Bills - Porcelain Dolls rubber plant variegated - Furniture - Deep Freeze Health & green leaves $10; 30” bow - Engraving Shop Supplies Beauty saw and case $15; 3 pc. and Equipment - AND MORE unit w/liquor cabinet $55; For a complete list 6 cubical unit, great for *NEW!* Asian Relaxation and Directions visit books, pictures, etc. Massage Downtown RD www.cherryhillauction.com 587-377-1298 Open Mon.$70 403-314-2026 Terms of Sale: Cash, Cheque, Fri. daily 11am - 6 pm. BLUE Flame Heater, C/C, Everything must be thermo controlled, 10,000 paid for & removed on BTU, $75; electric oil sale day (NO EXCEPTIONS) Household heater, $30; Woodwork 15% buyer’s premium. Appliances patterns $10; 6 fireplace Sale subject to Additions, tools, $10; Star Choice Deletions, Errors APPLS. reconditioned lrg. Receiver, $5; Gimme-Five and Omissions. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. game, $20; Sequence Cherry Hill Auction warr. Riverside Appliances game $20; 2 vanity light & Appraisals 403-342-1042 fixtures and 3 track satin Phone 403-342-2514 light fixtures, $30. or 403-347-8988 403-358-5247 Household COACH purse and wallet, Furnishings set, $100; Louis Vuitton Equipmentpurses $50 each, Heavy 2 SETS OF IKEA nesting 403-346-9899 tables, $40 per set or HUGE crystal, fossil and TRAILERS for sale or rent $70/pair. meteorite sale. Nov. 22 Call 403-346-1735 Job site, office, well site or Dec. 16. Thousands of storage. Skidded or BED ALL NEW, items. 403-347-3674 for wheeled. Call 347-7721. Queen Orthopedic, dble. times to view. HOW can you make your pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr. NEVER USED, genuine phone ring & make some Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325. Ugg boots, size 7, $125; 2 quick cash? Place your ad 302-0582 Free Delivery here. . . Liz Clairborne purses $30 each, 403-346-9899

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

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Auctions

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Farmers' Market

ANTIQUE ESTATE AUCTION Sunday December 9

Industries #1 Choice!

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.

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

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

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Pets & Supplies

1810

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300 ASSOCIATIONS

HEALTH & FITNESS

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

www.antlerhillelkranch.com Peak Performance VA 227-2449 www.liveyourlifebetter.com Lose weight naturally with Z-Trim 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

BALLOON RIDES

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

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

www.workopolis.com Red Deer Advocate - Job Search

BUILDERS

PET ADOPTION www.reddeerspca.com Many Pets to Choose From

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.homesreddeer.com Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

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

www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

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

CLUBS & GROUPS

RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333

SHOPPING www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONS

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

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.

wegot CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

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

Contractors

1100

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 JNM CONSTRUCTION Home Improvements, From Demolition to finish! 30 yrs. Exp. Free Est. 403-505-2248

1200

GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089 TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. 587-876-4396 or 587-272-1999

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch. Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. Mon-Fri 11am-6pm 348-5650 Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269

LINDA’S CHINESE MASSIDING, Soffit, Fascia SAGE Grand Opening #3 Prefering non- combustible 4820-47 Ave. 403-986-1550 fibre cement, canexel & MASSAGE ABOVE ALL smart board, Call Dean @ WALK-INS WELCOME 302-9210. 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Escorts

1165

BEAUTIFUL college girl ROXY 403-848-2300

EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049 LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. Res/Comm.Reno’s, repair and more. Give us a buzz @ 403-598-3857 Free quotes. WCB, insured.

TRADITIONAL CHINESE MASSAGE, new girls, 4606 48 Ave. Open 7 a.m.- 9 p.m. 7 days a wk. Phone 403-986-1691

VII MASSAGE

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

Misc. Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

Misc. Services

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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Dogs

services Handyman Services

1830

Cats

REAL ESTATE

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

FISH TANK

60 gal. tank with black storage cabinet. Complete with: Cichlids, all accessories, decorations and food. New Fluval 405 filter, canopy with lights, & heater all replaced within the last year. Great Christmas Present!! Cost for everything if buying new would be over $1400. Asking $500. 403-346-7778 or 403-506-7117 Red Deer

1290

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

ENGLISH Mastiff puppies for sale. Certified, first shots, microchipped. CKC. All colours available. May be viewed on our website at www. doublepjsenglishmastiffs. net call 403-652-3429 pcrowder02@gmail.com $2500.00 well worth it. 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

Sporting Goods

1860

GOLF travel bag, black w/wheels, very good cond. $40, 403-346-0093 IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial. Serving central Alberta. 403-318-4346

Moving & Storage

1300

Travel Packages

1900

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

ORIOLE PARK

Avail Jan 1, 3 bdrm, 2 bath 1/2 duplex, 6 appl, $1400 + util, $1350 SD, N/P, N/S PM 260 6042 Orr Dr - Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

3 BDRM. 1 1/2 baths, 5 appls, fenced, n/s, no pets, avail. Dec. 1, Deer Park 403-391-1740 AVAIL. Jan. 1, 3 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., hardwood, 2 parking stalls, close to shopping & schools. $1075 + util. + d.d 403-506-0054

BOWER

Avail Jan 1, 1 bdrm, 1 bath condo-suite, 2 appl, pets ok w/ pet fee, N/S, $ 8 7 5 + p w r, $ 8 2 5 S D PM374 206, 41 Bennett St - Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

DOWNTOWN

Avail Jan 1, 1 bdrm, 1 bath condo-suite, 5 appl, Adults only, $925 + pwr, $875 SD, N/P, N/S, PM 488 302, 4415 48 Ave Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

HIGHLAND GREEN

Avail Feb 1, 3 bdrm, 2 bath townhouse, 4 appl, $1050 + util, $1000 SD, small dog ok w/ fee, N/S, PM 544 88, 5935 63 St Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

KITSON CLOSE

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

Kyte/Kelloway Cres. Lovely 3 level exec. 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. Jan. 2 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Riverfront Estates

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

Manufactured Homes

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

Riverside Meadows

Avail Dec 15, 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath townhouse, 4 appl, $1150 + util, $1100 SD, N/P, N/S, PM 294 11, 5943 60A St - Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

Newly Reno’d Mobile

PENHOLD lrg. 1 bdrm., incl. heat water. $675 avail. Jan. 1 403-348-6594

FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Sharon 403-550-8777

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3 BDRM. 4 plex, Innisfail, heat included, $795 w/laundry connection 403-357-7817

Printing

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small reno’s or jobs, such as, new bathroom sink, toilets or safety bars in bath tubs. Call James 403- 341-0617

Wanted Tenant

ORIOLE PARK

3060

Suites

2 BDRM. bsmt, shared kitchen, prefer employed or student. Avail. immed. 403-342-7789, 358-0081

1 & 2 BDRM. APTS.

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

YOU LOOKING?

ROOMS Highland Green fully furn., 6 appls, basic cable and utils. incld., bdrms. keyed, $500/mo., + SD, working only. Avail. immed. 403-342-4604

Clean, quiet bldg. Call 318-0901.

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

A Great Location

Adult Bldg. bachelor unit. Heat/Water/parking incl’d Call 403-342-2899

DOWNTOWN

3110

Offices

Stores/ Commercial

GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, 1 BDRM., $740, N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed.. 1-403-200-8175

SHOP for rent 50x80, big truck wash bay, & 2 small offices, 403-346-0890, 403-302-0169

HOSPITAL NORTH

Storage Space

3160

Mobile Lot

3190

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm. Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820 MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl. Sharon 403-550-8777

20,000with Intro

$

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400/month lot Rent incl. Cable

homes

Sharon (403) 550-8777

CLASSIFICATIONS

$

www.lansdowne.ca

4000-4190

274500L1-31

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

FREE Cable 2 & 3 bedroom

Condos/ Townhouses

modular/mobile homes

2000-2290

Horses

2140

HORSES WANTED: broke, un-broke, or unwanted. 403-783-0303 WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly. 403-651-5912

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Trucks

5050

2005 AVALANCHE 1500, loaded, Viper command start, 161,000 kms., exc. cond. Must See. $17,900. 403-342-4909

2001 DODGE Ram 1500. Q/cab. loaded 403-596-6995 1997 GMC 3500 h.d., w/metal flat deck, 2WD, 203,000 kms., good cond., $8900 obo, 403-340-8777

Vans Buses

5070

2004 PONTIAC Montana 7 pass, cloth, V6, pw, pdl, DVD, remote sliding door, new tires/front suspension, $4900 403-357-8811

Motorcycles

5080

WINTER SPECIAL

2009 HERITAGE Soft Tail Classic, low mileage. 15,000 kms. Must Sell! $16,000. 403-877-1170

Motorhomes

in pet friendly park

5100

Starting at

849

BRAND NEW

/month

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

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Introducing... roducing...

townhouse in Clearview Ridge, $245,500 Walk to Clearview Market Square. 2 bdrm. 2.5 bath 1091 sq. ft., 6 appls. included, 2 parking stalls. Call 403-392-8999 email: 1504.30carleton@ gmail.com

2000 TRIPLE E, 28’. Fully equipped. 403-442-3815

Auto Wreckers

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519 O OU O YOU can sell it fast with a per3 bdrm., 2 bath townhouse son-to-person want ad in the in Lacombe. Walk-out, Red Deer Advocate front att. garage. 1 left. Classifieds. Phone 309-3300 $240,000 incl. all fees. Vehicles Lloyd Fiddler Wanted 403-391-9294

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

NOW RENTING

New Executive

3 bdrm. 2 bath HOME in Red Deer. Immediate possession 10 yr warranty. Own it for $1345/mo. OAC 403-346-3100, 347-5566

1 & 2 bedroom suites

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

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

Rents from $800 - $1375

403-302-7896 3020 CALL: Email: info@timberstone.com timberstonevillage.com

5190

HOLIDAY SEASON SPECIAL RISER HOMES DON’T MISS OUT!

To Buy

Be the first tenants to move into our brand new building

rentals

216751

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Houses For Sale

Renter’s Special

has relocated to

3140

Avail Now, 2 bdrm, 1 bath main floor, 4 appl, $775 + 60 % util, $725 SD, N/P, 1600 square foot workshop N/S PM 261 4803A 46 Ave / storage. Clean, dry, high - Sim Mgmt & Realty ceilings. (403)227-6759 403-340-0065 ext 412 lornaj@airenet.com www.simproperties.ca

3040

At www.garymoe.com

3120

Avail Jan 1, 1 bdrm, 1 bath Warehouse suite, 2 appl, $725 + pwr, Space $675 SD, NO PETS, N/S, PM 479 7, 5110 43 St - BRAND new 9900 sq. ft. S i m M g m t & R e a l t y ready for lease fall 2012 on 4 0 3 - 3 4 0 - 0 0 6 5 e x t 4 1 2 Golden West Ave 358-3500 www.simproperties.ca

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VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

DOWNTOWN RD. 4910-50 Ave. Joe 403-358-4131 598-4131

Avail Jan 1, 1 bdrm, 1 bath suite, 2 appl, $700 + pwr, $700 SD, No pets, Adults only, PM 242 - Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

Red Deers newest Apartment Homes AGRICULTURAL

5030

Cars

3090

4090

CLASSIFICATIONS

5000-5300

3080

A MUST SEE!

Suites

CLASSIFICATIONS

Large 1 bdrm. adult suite. Heat/water/parking incl’d. Call 403-342-2899

Manufactured Homes

1335

“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)

SUNNYBROOK

2 bdrm. apt. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets. 403-346-6686

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wheels

Avail Jan 1, 3 bdrm, 1.5 Roommates bath 4-plex, 4 appl, $950 + util, $900 SD, No pets, Wanted 2007 FORD Fusion, SE, N/S, PM 506 42A Onaway V6, black, excellent cond., Ave - Sim Mgmt & Realty SHARE very nice 2 bdrm. original owner, A/C, PW, 4 0 3 - 3 4 0 - 0 0 6 5 e x t 4 1 2 n/s, working, mature, M. PL, 4 dr. 117,000 kms. preferred, avail. immed. www.simproperties.ca $10,900. o.b.o. $530 + $500 DD 403-348-9009 403-986-3165 ORIOLE PARK 2005 FORD Escape, AWD 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975 auto., blue, 173,000 kms. rent, s.d. $650, incl water Rooms $6900. 403-346-4795 sewer and garbage. avail. Jan. 1.. Call 403-304-5337 For Rent

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

$

4160

Lots For Sale

FULLY SERVICED INNISFAIL Avail Now, 2 bdrm, 1 bath res & duplex lots in Lacombe. Builders terms or owner suite, 2 appl, laundry in bldg, new flooring, $680 + will J.V. with investors or pwr, $635 SD, N/P, N/S, subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great PM 34 301, 5604 50 Ave S i m M g m t & R e a l t y returns. Call 403-588-8820 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

Newly Renovated Mobile Home Only

3060

Suites

3040

Manufactured Homes

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship - Houses/ Duplexes in home or in facility. F & J Renovations. We do Call 403-346-7777 it all. Good rates and Better For Cheaper with a 2 BDRM. small cozy house, references available so call Sylvan Lake, lrg. yard. $750. YARD maintenance, snow Low Price Guarantee. John at 403-307-3001 shovelling, 403-318-7625 helpinghandshomesupport.com Avail.jAN. 1. 403-304-9581 jbringleson@shaw.ca CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned. 403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

274499L1-31

SAFETY

Auctions

274445L30

900

Employment Training

5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585 WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

BRAND New townhouse in Clearview Ridge, $245,500 Walk to Clearview Market Square. 2 bdrm. 2.5 bath 1091 sq. ft., 6 appls. included, 2 parking stalls. Call 403-392-8999 email: 1504.30carleton@ gmail.com

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 E5

Pearl Harbor survivor helps identify victims SAILORS, MARINES BURIED AS UNKNOWNS AFTER 1941 ATTACK BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU — Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater. And so he set out to restore names to the dead. Emory, a survivor of the attack, doggedly scoured decades-old documents to piece together who was who. He pushed, and sometimes badgered, the U.S. government into relabeling more than 300 gravestones with the ship names of the deceased. And he lobbied for forensic scientists to exhume the skeletons of those who might be identified. On Friday, the 71-year anniversary of the Japanese attack, the Navy and National Park Service will honour the 91-year-old former sailor for his determination to have Pearl Harbor remembered, and remembered accurately. “Some of the time, we suffered criticism from Ray and sometimes it was personally directed at me. And I think it

was all for the better,” said National Park Service historian Daniel Martinez. “It made us rethink things. It wasn’t viewed by me as personal, but a reminder of how you need to sharpen your pencil when you recall these events and the people and what’s important.” Emory first learned of the unknown graves more than 20 years ago when he visited the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific shortly before the 50th anniversary of the attack. The grounds foreman told him the Pearl Harbor dead were scattered around the veterans’ graveyard in a volcanic crater called Punchbowl after its resemblance to the serving dish. Emory got a clipboard and walked along row after row of flat granite markers, making notes of any listing death around Dec. 7, 1941. He got ahold of the Navy’s burial records from archives in Washington and determined which ships the dead in each grave were from. He wrote the government asking why the markers didn’t

note ship names and asked them to change it. “They politely told me to go you-know-where,” Emory told The Associated Press in an interview at his Honolulu home, where he keeps a “war room” packed with documents, charts and maps. Military and veterans policy called for changing grave markers only if remains are identified, an inscription is mistaken or a marker is damaged. Emory appealed to the late Patsy Mink, a Hawaii congresswoman who inserted a provision in an appropriations bill requiring Veterans Affairs to include “USS Arizona” on gravestones of unknowns from that battleship. Today, unknowns from other vessels like the USS Oklahoma and USS West Virginia, also have new markers. Some of the dead, like those turned to ash, will likely never be identified. But Emory knew some could be. The Navy’s 1941 burial records noted one body, burned and floating in the harbour, was found wearing shorts with the name “Livingston.” Only two men named Livingston

were assigned to Pearl Harbor at the time, and one of the two was accounted for. Emory suspected the body was the other Livingston. Government forensic scientists exhumed him. Dental records, a skeletal analysis and circumstantial evidence confirmed Emory’s suspicions. The remains belonged to Alfred Livingston, a 23-year-old fireman first class assigned to the USS Oklahoma. Livingston’s nephew, Ken Livingston, said his uncle and his father were raised together by their grandmother and attended the same oneroom schoolhouse. They grew up working on farms in and around Worthington, Indiana. Livingston remembers his dad saying the brothers took turns wearing a pair of shoes they shared. When the family learned Alfred was found, they brought him home from Hawaii to be buried in the same cemetery where his grandmother and mother rest. About a third of the town showed up for his 2007 memorial service in Worthington, a town of just 1,400 about 80

miles (129 kilometres) southwest of Indianapolis. The local American Legion put up a sign welcoming home “Worthington’s missing son.” “It brought a lot of closure,” said Ken Livingston, 62. John Lewis, a retired Navy captain who worked with Emory while assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command between 2001 and 2004, said the command is fortunate someone like Emory has the time and initiative to painstakingly connect the dots on the unknowns. “Without Ray Emory I don’t know if this ever would have been done,” Lewis said from Flowood, Mississippi. Emory says people sometimes ask him why he’s spending so much time on events from 70 years ago. He tells them to talk to the relatives to see if they want the unknowns identified. He’ll keep working after he’s formally recognized during the Pearl Harbor ceremony today to remember and honour the dead. He has names of 100 more men buried at Punchbowl he believes are identifiable.

Legalization of marijuana more complicated than seems WASHINGTON AND COLORADO NOW LOOK TO ISSUES AFTER POSSESION BECAME LEGAL THURSDAY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — People openly lit joints under Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and on sidewalks — then blew the smoke at TV news cameras. To those looking to “get baked,” the city’s police department suggested pizza and a Lord of the Rings movie marathon. What, exactly, is going on in Washington state? Marijuana possession became legal under state law Thursday, the day a measure approved by voters to regulate marijuana like alcohol took effect. It prompted midnight celebrations from pot activists who say the war on drugs has failed. But as the dawn of legalization arrives, Washington and Colorado, where a similar law passed last month, now face some genuinely complicated dilemmas: How on Earth do you go about creating a functioning legal-weed market? How do you ensure adults the freedom to use pot responsibly, or not so responsibly, while keeping it away from teenagers? And perhaps most pressingly, will the Justice Department just stand by while the states issue licenses to the growers, processors and sellers of a substance that, under federal law, remains very much illegal? Few people question the states’ ability to simply remove all penalties under their own laws for marijuana. The federal government would remain free to raid state-licensed growers or stores and prosecute those involved

in federal court, just as they remain free to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries in states with medical marijuana laws. Whether a state can regulate an illegal substance is another question. Many constitutional law scholars say the answer is no: Washington and Colorado’s regulatory schemes obviously conflict with marijuana’s prohibition in the federal Controlled Substances Act, and when state and federal laws conflict, the feds win out, they say. So the Justice Department could likely sue to block the regulatory schemes. But will it? What’s better, from the administration’s perspective — an ounce of weed legalized with regulation or an ounce of weed legalized with no oversight? The department has given no hints about its plans. “We’re building this from the ground all the way up,” said Brian Smith, spokesman for the Washington Liquor Control Board, which is charged with regulating the drug. “The initiative didn’t just wave a magic wand and make everybody here an expert on marijuana.” The measures approved on Nov. 6 have two main facets. First, they OK the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by adults over 21. That took effect Thursday in Washington, though it remains illegal — for now — to buy and sell pot, so people have to keep getting it from the marijuana fairy. In Colorado, where pot fans will also be able to grow their own plants, the

law takes effect by Jan. 5. The other part of the measures, the regulatory schemes, are trickier. Washington’s Liquor Control Board, which has been regulating alcohol for 78 years, has a year to adopt rules for the fledgling pot industry: How many growers, processors and stores should there be in each county? Should there be limits on potency? How should the pot be inspected, packaged and labeled? To help answer those questions, officials will turn to experts in the field — including police, public policy experts and some of the state’s many purveyors of medical marijuana. Smith anticipates undercover monitoring operations to make sure the private, state-licensed stores aren’t selling to minors. With legalization, officials need to look at some of the measures that have been shown to reduce teen drinking, said Derek Franklin, president of the Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention. That includes public education about the risks of pot use and driving while stoned, emphasize patrols to look for stoned drivers, and encouraging cities to adopt laws that hold parents accountable if they host parties at which kids are provided marijuana. “We’re really going to need to get all hands on deck to sort through this,” he said. The marijuana will be taxed heavily, with revenues possibly reaching hundreds of millions of dollars a year for schools, health care, basic govern-

ment services and substance abuse prevention. While pot fans wait for answers, they are partying. Though Washington’s law prohibits smoking in public, about 200 gathered under the Space Needle, the 605-foot-high (184-meter-high) tower that is the symbol of Seattle, for a New Year’s Eve-style countdown to 12 a.m. Thursday. A few dozen gathered on a sidewalk outside the north Seattle headquarters of the annual Hempfest celebration and did the same, offering joints to reporters. “I feel like a kid in a candy store!” shouted Hempfest volunteer Darby Hageman. “It’s all becoming real now!” The Seattle Police Department emailed its 1,300 officers, telling them not to write any citations for smoking pot in public until further notice. A voter initiative passed in 2003 made marijuana enforcement the department’s lowest priority, and for years officers have looked the other way while thousands light up at Hempfest. Officers will nevertheless advise people not to smoke in public, police spokesman Jonah Spangenthal-Lee wrote on the SPD Blotter. “The police department believes that, under state law, you may responsibly get baked, order some pizzas and enjoy a Lord of the Rings marathon in the privacy of your own home, if you want to.” He offered a catchy new directive referring to the film The Big Lebowski, popular with many marijuana fans: “The Dude abides, and says ‘take it inside!”’

NY mayor says city is working on UN chief urges Assad not to better storm, climate preperation use chemical weapons in Syria THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — New York City will work on upgrading building codes and evacuationzone maps, hardening power and transportation networks and making sure hospitals are better prepared for extreme weather after Superstorm Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday. As a start, utility Consolidated Edison has agreed to spend $250 million toward getting its electrical, steam and gas systems in shape to withstand a Category 2 hurricane, Bloomberg said. City officials, meanwhile, will work on more comprehensive plans to help Sandy-ravaged areas recover and prepare the city for future weather disasters. That will include examining the pros and cons of building berms, dunes, levees and other coast-protection structures, Bloomberg said, though he remains cool to the idea of massive sea walls. “Let me be clear: We are not going to abandon the waterfront,” the mayor said in a speech Thursday at a meeting sponsored by the Regional Plan Association and the League of Conservation Voters. But “we have to build smarter and stronger and more sustainable.” The city is still focused on recovering from the Oct. 29 storm, but officials have started to think about what lessons to draw from Sandy

in preparing for future natural disasters. Those considerations are overlaid with the prospect of more extreme weather and higher seas because of global warming, Bloomberg said. He has long been outspoken about the perils of a changing climate, teaming up at times on environmental initiatives with former VicePresident Al Gore, who praised Bloomberg’s efforts before his speech Thursday. While Gore said Sandy “was related to global warming,” Bloomberg was less explicit in drawing a connection. “Whether or not one storm is related to climate change or is not, we have to manage for risks,” he said, noting that severe storms, rainfalls and heat waves in recent years show “that the dangers from extreme weather are already here.” Before Sandy, the city had already made and touted its efforts to prepare for global warming and storms. Measures have included requiring some new developments in flood zones to be elevated, restoring wetlands as natural barriers and examining other coast-protection strategies, which the city says it now will study in more depth. But Sandy’s storm surge, a modern record, flooded beyond the area officials had expected — emergency managers had figured there was only a 1 per cent chance of the 14-foot (4.3-meter)

stack of water Sandy sent into the Battery in lower Manhattan, Bloomberg said. The experience made it clear that utilities, hospitals and transit systems need to be better prepared. Toward that end, Bloomberg said he has instructed economic development and planning officials to assess what it will take to make power grids, transportation networks, telecommunications systems and hospitals able to handle a Category 2 hurricane, record-breaking heat wave or other natural disaster. He called on phone companies to provide more than eight hours of backup battery power for cellphone towers and said the city would look for ways to encourage hospitals and big buildings to create their own power-generation systems. Con Ed said its $250 million effort would include raising key equipment higher off the ground, installing stronger flood barriers and pumps and possibly putting some major overhead power lines underground. While those steps are planned in the coming months, the utility said it expects more measures will be needed over the longer term. Bloomberg says officials also will take another look at evacuation zones — the most vulnerable area, called Zone A, already was expanded after Tropical Storm Irene last year.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon is again urging Syrian President Bashar Assad to refrain from using chemical weapons under any circumstances. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Ban also underscored in a letter to Assad “the fundamental responsibility of the Syrian government to ensure the safety and security of any such stockpiles.” The U.N. chief called Ambassador Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of

the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, on Thursday to discuss his concerns about recent reports of Syrian plans to possibly use chemical weapons, Nesirky said. Ban reiterated to Uzumcu “that any use of such weapons would be an outrageous crime with dire consequences,” Nesirky said. Uzumcu told Ban the organization is monitoring developments and has made numerous approaches to Syria to join the Chemical Weapons Convention, Nesirky said.

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