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Innovation tops wish list BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Balancing the provincial books is a must, but don’t do it at the expense of innovation and research investment, says the president of the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce. Gayle Langford was asked what direction the chamber wants to see Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner take in the next budget, which will be revealed on March 7. Horner has warned that tough deci-

PROVINCIAL BUDGET REDFORD TO ADDRESS ALBERTANS A2 sions will be made to keep the province’s finances in order. On Wednesday, Premier Alison Redford announced she plans to speak to Albertans in a televised address on CTV at 6:52 p.m. today. She will discuss the government’s long-term economic plan and how the province will cope with falling oil revenues.

Langford said balancing the budget and reining in spending must rank as top priorities. “It really is important in building investor confidence,” she said. “But having said that, our chamber would like to see some targeted funding to stimulate applied research in innovation and technology. That’s something where you really get a bang for your buck.” Langford said that kind of spending stimulates business investment. And with the Red Deer College, the city already has the perfect place to put the

money. When looking for investment targets, Langford believes the province must be careful to not to focus only on the oil and gas sector. Investing in innovation and manufacturing will also reap rewards. “I think agriculture is going to start to play a more important role in our economy. Having efficiency and innovation will become more important,” she said.

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‘Bulb Eater’ disposing of potential hazard BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer has a device for safely disposing of compact fluorescent bulbs, but city staff are looking at other ways to dispose of the popular new bulbs. The CFLs, which are replacing the incandescent bulb on store shelves, last longer but also contain a small amount of mercury. To accommodate the safe disposal of these bulbs, City of Red Deer Waste Management Department superintendent Janet Whitesell said the city has a Bulb Eater, a device that turns the bulbs into powder and removes the mercury. “It attaches to the top of a 55-gallon barrel and the mercury in those types of bulbs is actually in the powder inside them,” said Whitesell. “What the Bulb Eater does is it crushes the bulbs and as the glass is breaking, it has a vacuum that pulls the powder out of it. Then the powder gets captured in a filter and the glass and metal ends fall into the barrel.” However, the device only works on unbroken bulbs. If a bulb breaks before someone is able to take it to the city’s household hazardous waste dropoff site, there are different steps that can be taken (see the city’s website at www.reddeer.ca). Whitesell said the city has seen an increase in the number of bulbs brought to the household hazardous waste dropoff site. She said it costs the city to get rid of the bulbs but there is no charge to residents for dropping off CFLs. The city is examining alternatives to meet a growing demand for bulb disposal. “We haven’t decided if we need to change our program, but we have been looking at it,” said Whitesell. In 2012, Red Deer shipped 35 55-gallon barrels of crushed glass from CFLs that were dropped off at the household hazardous waste site. Next year, a new federal regulation will come into effect banning the sale of the standard incandescent bulbs, but a report by Environment Canada found that Canada’s mercury-waste facilities were lacking. The study also indicated there is no national or industry standard for handling mercury waste. The study surveyed 28 of the 123 places that store or manage mercury waste and found Canada lacks any facility to extract pure mercury from waste. Currently, mercury distillers in the United States are relied upon. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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A flock of hundreds of Bohemian waxwings converged in Red Deer Wednesday descending to eat the berries from Mountain Ash trees in Eastview. The Bohemian Waxwing can often be spotted in the winter flying overhead in large flocks in search of their next meal.

Symphony cancelling funding deal with AHS 49 CARE BEDS AFFECTED AT ASPEN RIDGE FACILITY BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Symphony Senior Living Aspen Ridge has announced it is cancelling its funding agreement to provide 49 care beds for Alberta Health Services just as the seniors facility prepares for Friday’s strike and lockout. Symphony Senior Living CEO Lisa Brush said all affected residents and families were alerted on Tuesday — the same day the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees announced its 130 health-care workers and staff at the facility would go on strike on Friday at 1 p.m. Symphony has also served AUPE with a lockout notice for Friday. “We are looking at transitioning out of the Alberta Health Services-funded

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beds. It’s not a sustainable business model given the wage demands by the Alberta Union of Public Employees,” said Brush on Wednesday. With only 49 AHS-funded beds, Symphony says it can’t capture economies of scale similar to other fully-funded operators. “We’ve had these discussion with them since last fall trying to come to a resolution that would work for everybody to maintain the beds. It does a great community service to have these beds.” Symphony, a privately owned and operated seniors living facility located at 3100 22nd St., has 152 suites with a total of 157 residents. These include 40 assisted living beds for dementia patients, four assisted living beds for non-dementia patients and five transition beds for people coming out of hos-

pital, all of which are funded by AHS. Brush said residents don’t have to worry about immediate eviction. “It’s not happening tomorrow. We are going to transition over a year period. We’ll do it slowly. We’ll assess situations. We’re going to be very focused on the resident.” Supportive living residents also have the option to remain at Symphony at private service cost, she said. Brush estimated assisted living for a non-dementia resident would cost between $3,800 to $4,500 per month for a basic studio at basic care levels. R. Dean Cowan, whose wife Doreen, 65, has been a supportive living Alzheimer’s patient at Symphony since last April, called the situation a crisis.

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Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence has agreed to end her hunger protest, and National Chief Shawn Atleo is coming back to work, but Ottawa-First Nations politics are certainly not returning to normal. A5

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The Edmonton Oilers are getting a new downtown arena. The NHL team and city councillors agreed Wednesday to resurrect a previous deal that collapsed three months ago. B6

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Premier to address Albertans about budget woes

A NOSE FOR PUPPETRY

TELEVISED ADDRESS ON CTV AT 6:52 P.M. TONIGHT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Premier Alison Redford is going to use a television broadcast to outline her government’s financial problems to Albertans. The premier’s office says Redford is to speak about the effect of rapidly falling resource revenues on Alberta’s long-term economic plan. Her eight-minute speech is to be broadcast on CTV stations Thursday night across the province. Redford’s Progressive Conservative government is to table its budget March 7. The premier has suggested Albertans will face a tough budget, but no tax or fee increases. In a letter to party members, Redford said her government will continue spending money on key infrastructure projects. “As Progressive Conservatives, you gave our government a clear mandate to keep investing in services that support our families and our communities,” Redford wrote in the letter released Wednesday. “You told us to continue building the new roads, schools and health facilities we need. And we are listening.” She also said her government will hold the line on spending and live within its means. Finance Minister Doug Horner has said soft oil prices are costing the province about $75 million per day in revenue.

Denis talks to top cops on protests, blockades BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Police forces won’t be told how to handle aboriginal protests, but Alberta’s solicitor general said Wednesday he’s made sure law enforcement officials understand how unhappy a lot of people are with Idle No More highway blockades. “I would say in more than nine out of ten cases, people are very

frustrated,” said Justice Minister Jonathan Denis. “People are very concerned for public safety, as am I.” Denis said he has spoken by phone to the police chiefs of Calgary and Edmonton, as well as the head of the RCMP in Alberta. “In no way do we expect to direct the police,” said Denis. “We respect the police’s independence.” But he added he has received

He said Symphony is not being socially responsible — which he believes is something companies can do while earning a reasonable profit. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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FUNDING: Great demand for beds “They’re taking 44 beds out of the market place. Right now your wait time in the province of Alberta to get a bed is up to 18 months,” said Cowan, 65, of Red Deer. He also chastised Alberta Health Services for not keeping up with the demand for beds. Cowan is not sure if his wife will even be able to stay in Red Deer. “I visit my wife twice a day, in the morning and afternoon. I don’t know how I’m going to do it if my wife is out of town.” His wife, who has progressed to later-stage Alzheimer’s, and other dementia patients will not react well to moving, he said. “This is their home. This is their life. You take them out of that environment and put them into another environment, it is a very detrimental situation.” Staff at Aspen Ridge joined AUPE in March 2011. Bargaining began in September 2011. Mediation began a year later and ended in November 2012. AUPE is arguing for industry standard wages for health-care staff. But Symphony says wage parity with a nursing home or hospital is unreasonable as Symphony is an independent and assisted living facility. Cowan said Symphony has had a very high staff turnover rate because of its lower wages. Thankfully, a stable core of wonderful workers have remained, he said. “I’m 100 per cent anti-union. But in this case I am extremely supportive of the workers.”

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Wearing a sponge nose, Kevin Florez peers over the shoulder of Yiting Han as she cuts out a paper puppet at the Dawe Branch of the Red Deer Public Library on Wednesday. The children joined 23 others for an afternoon of reading, crafting and performing their own puppet shows with a space creature theme. For information on other children’s programs at the Dawe Branch, call 403-3413822, or the Downtown Branch at 403-346-4688.

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BUDGET: Taking on debt not a bad strategy To get a sense of the opportunities to improve production one needs look no farther than Agri-Trade, Red Deer’s annual showcase for the farming industry. Investing in agriculture has offshoots far beyond the farm. That innovation spins off into more manufacturing opportunities, she said. “That’s an investment. It’s not just spending money. There’s actually a return on it. “And this is one of the key areas that we see that needs a little more targeted funding as an investment.” Red Deer Mayor Morris Flewwelling also has some advice for the province. “The one thing I would caution against is trying to balance the provincial budget on the backs of municipalities,” said Flewwelling, adding that has been the route chosen by some past provincial governments. The Alberta and federal governments have prided themselves on reducing taxes, but that’s not always the best way to go when money is tight. “We all know that we have to pay our way. That’s the challenge for municipal councillors because we’re right on the firing line.” Flewwelling also said taking on debt to maintain infrastructure is not such a bad strategy if the alternative is letting that slide. “We cannot have a strong economy with lousy

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highways and lousy airports.” Lacombe Chamber of Commerce president Keith Meyers said small business taxes are competitive in Alberta and his group does not want to see the government tinker with them. “We just to want to make sure those (taxes) are kept down,” he said. “We need to keep our business going here as efficiently as we can so we can get money turning over in this province.” People can’t spend money if it’s being taken through tax increases, he said. Meyers said there is also more that could be done to make it easier to recruit foreign workers. “It’s just so cumbersome to get employees here from overseas or the (United) States. We need employment and we’re just having a hard time getting them.” But the main message the chamber has for the government is be careful how you spend tax dollars. “It seems like our provincial government has been on a bit of a spending spree in the last little while.” Sylvan Lake Chamber of Commerce president Ken Somner said their key issue is the need for an urgent care centre in town. The chamber, civic officials, health professionals and local residents from Sylvan Lake and area have teamed up to lobby the province to fund a facility that’s open seven days a week with extended hours, laboratory and X-ray services, and medical care for non-life-threatening issues. “For us, that’s what we’ve been asking the provincial government for. As a chamber, there’s no other real issues that we’re going for right now (at the provincial level).” Redford has promised to build 140 family care clinics across the province over three years. It is unclear if Sylvan Lake’s concerns would be addressed by a clinic. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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more than 200 calls from Albertans expressing anger that protesters were able to slow traffic last week on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway, the main route between the two major cities. “There’s not been one person who has suggested we should not respect a person’s democratic right to peaceful protest,” said Denis. “But the overlying sentiment is that blockading a public roadway is going too far.”

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Many parts of nation shivering HOW COLD IS IT? LIGHTS SHUT OFF AT POWER UTILITY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Dennis O’Brien of Charlottetown dressed for the record-breaking cold temperature, Wednesday when he headed to the grocery store in Charlottetown, P.E.I. Environment Canada said it was the coldest Jan. 23 on record for for the island province and with the strong wind it felt more like -29C.

MONTREAL — A power utility shut off the lights on its iconic logo in order to save electricity Wednesday, on a frigid day marked by school closures and increased bunks in homeless shelters. Vast parts of the country were dealing with the onset of a lengthy cold snap that saw Hydro-Quebec turn off the lights on the logo outside its headquarters, which shines like a landmark on the Montreal skyline. The utility has had to buy additional power from Ontario and the United States, and is urging customers to cut usage in peak hours to save electricity. It says it’s reducing the heating and dimming the lights in its own administrative buildings. The utility says preliminary estimates indicate it broke a record for consumption Wednesday morning, with 38,900 kilowatts being used. That’s higher than the historic 37,717 megawatts that was reached on

Jan. 24, 2011. In Montreal, there were reports of burst city pipes as temperatures plummeted to -26 C, with the windchill projected at -38 C. Power failures were reported around the province. In Toronto, the city reported its coldest weather in two years as temperatures dipped to -21 C and additional beds were added in homeless shelters. People in Atlantic Canada bundled up and huddled against the cold as they negotiated sidewalks that shone with the glare from ice. Many schools in northwest New Brunswick were closed due to frigid weather, with the temperature dropping to -36 C in Grand Sault. Environment Canada predicted it could go as low as -41 C in some places. Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador were also in the deep freeze. Temperatures in the West were mostly warmer Wednesday although, in Winnipeg, the thermometer was set to drop to -32 C — with the windchill plunging below -40 C.

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Waste plan falls short Red Deer residents got their first whiff of the city’s 2013 Waste Management Master Plan this week. The plan’s goal is to cut the amount of waste sent to the landfill to 500 kg per capita from 812 kg per capita by 2023. To achieve that 40 per cent reduction in waste, the city has several residential initiatives coming down the pipe: enhancing curbside recycling programs, promoting backyard composting, developing a grasscycling awareness campaign, expanding food waste and soiled paper collection, shifting to bi-weekly garbage collection and reducing how much trash residents can dump at the curb. Other initiatives are proposed to target industrial, commercial and institutional waste. Sonnevera International Corp., the company hired to overhaul the city’s waste management system, says the 2013 Waste Management Master Plan is visionary because it tackles residential and commercial waste, which account for 30 and 63 per cent of Red Deer’s waste, respectively. The city acknowledges that more work needs to be done on the commercial end, because it does not know how much waste material is being diverted

OURVIEW CAMERON KENNEDY from the sector through recycling. Red Deer residents and business will have many opportunities to decide for themselves whether the city’s latest plan is as visionary as its boosters claim, hopelessly shortsighted or a bit of both, before the city administration brings it back to council for adoption later this year. From a residential perspective, the 2013 plan smells all too familiar: blue bins brimming with musty old newspapers, brown bags near bursting with pungent yard waste, fresh grass clippings scattered on summer lawns. Most of the initiatives mentioned in the plan are already in place. Is it really going to take the city 10 years to give them a tweak? Why not five? Backyard composting and food waste collection are interesting additions, yet both depend heavily on Red Deerians’ willingness to change their behaviour, and there is no guarantee of that happening. The furor over the bike lanes pilot project suggests the city may have a tough slog ahead. All in all, 2013 Waste Management Master Plan comes off as more of the

same old same old. That’s a little disappointing considering the city launched its first Solid Waste Master Plan in 1992 with the aim to make Red Deer a recognized leader in sustainable waste management. How are we doing 20 years later? Rather average, according to the statistics. In 2011, for example, nearly 75,000 tonnes of waste from Red Deer was disposed at the Red Deer Waste Management Facility, which equates to 812 kg per capita. That’s below the Canadian average of 777 kg per capita but better than the provincial average of 1,122 kg per capital. Those numbers are hardly worth crowing about. It begs the question whether reaching 500 kg per capita by 2023 will make Red Deer the leader of the pack or a merely average follower. To the city’s credit, it has been trying to be a leader and deliver on the public expectations for progressive environmental programs and services. For more than five years, the city entertained Plasco Energy Group’s plans to build a waste-to-energy plant in Central Alberta. The state-of-the-art plant would have used plasma technology to convert garbage into a syngas, which could be used to generate elec-

tricity. Ultimately, the nine municipalities on the Central Waste Management Commission, including the City of Red Deer, pulled the plug on the project because they could not guarantee enough garbage to feed the massive plant. There were also too many lingering questions about the project’s viability. The 2013 Waste Management Master Plan is no miracle plant but it is a good starting point that will challenge Red Deerians to reduce, reuse and recycle like never before. Janet Whitesell, the city’s waste management superintendent, says the plan is aggressive. However, she acknowledges that it will only succeed if the public buys into it. And that is a big if, especially with a program like composting, which requires a fair amount of commitment. That said, the city should not give up on finding alternatives to landfills. After all, even if the 2013 Waste Management Master Plan achieves all its goal, there will still be 500 kg of waste per capita entering the landfill. And that still stinks no matter how the city tries to dress up the numbers. Cameron Kennedy is an Advocate editor.

Hard questions about seniors care SHOULD BEARING THE COST OF QUALITY CARE FALL JUST TO GOVERNMENT? You can’t separate questions on the future of health care in Canada, from the reality of demographics. In the years to come, geriatric care is going to become a larger and larger portion of total spending. Where will the money come from to complete that portion? We’ll need to decide that in a hurry. Long-term care for seniors has become a leading wedge for increasing the level of private care in the total health care package. And the issues involved with that are playing out pretty well as predicted. Even though a single-payer GREG tax-funded health-care system is acknowledged to be the NEIMAN most efficient — and humane — method of seeing that the most people possible get the best general health care possible, universal health care can never really be universal in a public system alone. In a free society, there will always be people who want to choose something more. As Canada’s demographic bulge of baby boomers progresses into senior citizenship, a significant niche has grown to giving people the choices they want in long-term care. Large, well-funded private care providers have convinced the governors of the public system that they hold the answer to shortfalls in capacity. As predicted by critics for years, part of that answer involves paying workers less in the private system for the same work done in the public system.

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A corporation can’t ask investors for hundreds of millions of dollars to build long-term care centres across the country without those investors wanting a return. In fact, a lot of them are putting their own retirement savings into companies like Symphony, which now faces an imminent strike/lockout at Symphony Senior Living Aspen Ridge in Red Deer. There are 154 people living at Symphony Senior Living Aspen Ridge, and it takes 130 workers in a variety of jobs to care for them. The province currently funds 44 supportive living beds there, which includes beds for people with dementia. (Although Symphony now says it intends to cancel its contract with the province.) In order to operate within the provincial funding program — plus make a profit — private care companies need to pay their workers less than they would get doing the same work elsewhere. Up to 25 per cent less, if you ask their union, the AUPE. This is exactly what critics of privatized care have said would happen. The crux at Symphony is that we’re no longer talking about seniors and their families making choices in a free society. The public health-care system has come to depend on private care providers for long-term care for seniors. There is no publicly-funded place for these residents to go, other than back to the costly active treatment beds at hospitals that many likely started from. There are only four roads out of this impasse: ● Provincial taxpayers must increase the level of funding for these for-profit care facilities, sending tax dollars to pad the profits of investors. ● Symphony clients will need to pay significantly more to stay there, plus likely accept cuts to levels of service. ● Staff will need to accept wages far below what they could earn elsewhere.

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● The province will eventually need to take over facilities in financial trouble, or where investors have decided to take their money out and put it into areas that provide a better return. There is a fifth option, one proposed by the finance minister of a country whose demographic advance is somewhat farther along than Canada’s. Taro Aso, Japan’s new finance minister, has been quoted around the globe advising his nation’s elderly to “hurry up and die.” More, he referred to seniors who could no longer feed themselves as “tube people.” Aso said this on Monday during a meeting of a national council looking at changes to Japan’s total social security program. More than 40 per cent of Japanese households living on welfare are over 65, in the world’s 10th mostpopulous country. Almost a quarter of all Japanese people are over 60. In Canada, it’s just over 13 per cent. Aso is 72 himself, and wealthy enough to make the kinds of choices that Canada’s baby boomers want to make for that time of life when they need long-term care — which can last more than a decade. But not all Japanese seniors and not all Alberta’s baby boomers have that luxury of choice. In Alberta right now, if you have exhausted your savings and assets, and all you have left is Canada Pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement, you can live in long-term care with a small personal allowance, and the province picks up the rest of the tab for the bed provided for you. Should that kind of compassion rest on the willingness of caregivers to accept substandard wages, while investors make the profits they believe are their due? We need to hurry up and decide. Greg Neiman is a former Advocate editor.

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Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013

Spence to end hunger protest BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence has agreed to end her hunger protest, and National Chief Shawn Atleo is coming back to work, but Ottawa-First Nations politics are certainly not returning to normal. Spence agreed Wednesday to call a halt to her 44-day fast, during which she stayed in a teepee on a frigid island upstream from Parliament Hill — and managed to push First Nations issues to the top of the national political agenda. The protest commanded the attention of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his ministers and his top officials, and galvanized public opinion in Canada and around the world, revealing a stark division between people who want to see more help for First Nations and those who believe they already get too much. The protest also exacerbated a schism within the Assembly of First Nations, with many chiefs questioning Atleo’s leadership, and touched off a round of public soul-searching about what it takes to bring success to aboriginal people in Canada. “Our shared goal is simple and clear: to guarantee that our children can achieve the brighter future that they deserve. This is what every chief across this country, every member of the Assembly of First Nations, will continue to fight to achieve,” Atleo said in a statement Wednesday. “Our mandate is to advance the priorities of First Nations in those areas,

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Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, wearing a headdress, is shown in Ottawa, on January 11, 2013. and to achieve that justice for our children. “We have made real progress in recent weeks. Our journey — the chiefs, the AFN and mine — will not be over until we have won those guarantees.” Those sentiments aren’t new, but Spence’s protest — coupled with the thousands of people who marched in the streets and blocked highways in the dead of winter under the Idle No More banner — gave Canada a taste of the impatience aboriginal communi-

ties have with the status quo. On Thursday, First Nations leaders served notice that they don’t intend to fade away. “Chief Spence is a brave warrior and we commend her foresight and commitment to propel the First Nations agenda to the forefront, which governments have dismally failed to do since Confederation,” Manitoba chiefs said in a joint statement. “The chiefs in Manitoba agree to continue the fight that will bring expe-

dient fundamental change.” Spence has been subsisting only on fish broth and medicinal tea since Dec. 11 to push for a meeting between First Nations leaders, the prime minister and the Governor General. Both she and Elder Raymond Robinson, who has been engaged in a similar protest, have agreed to stop, spokesman Danny Metatawabin said in a statement late Thursday afternoon. The breakthrough comes after a coalition of Liberal and NDP politicians and First Nations chiefs agreed to a declaration spelling out 13 specific demands for continuing negotiations between First Nations and the federal government. The declaration calls for improvements to housing and schools on reserves, as well as an immediate meeting between the Governor General, the federal and provincial governments and all First Nations. It also says historic treaties that originally defined the relationship between many First Nations and Ottawa should be modernized and fully implemented within five years. “We fully commit to carry forward the urgent and co-ordinated action required until concrete and tangible results are achieved in order to allow First Nations to forge their own destiny,” the preamble to the declaration reads. Numerous other chiefs and band councillors from the northern Ontario region around Attawapiskat are travelling to the capital to be part of a Thursday procession that will celebrate Spence.

Weather hinders search for Workers exposed to carbon missing plane in Antarctica monoxide at assembly plant BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Rescuers looking for three Canadians aboard an airplane presumed to have gone down in Antarctica were grappling with bad weather conditions Wednesday, as low visibility and strong winds hampered search efforts. No information was available on the fate of the three men aboard the skiequipped Twin Otter, which is owned by Calgary-based Kenn Borek Air. A spokesman for the U.S. National Science Foundation — which operates a research station helping in the search for the missing plane — said the trio aboard the aircraft are thought to be Kenn Borek crew members — a pilot, a co-pilot and a flight engineer. “My understanding is that it was just the flight crew and no passengers,” said Peter West, who is based in Arlington, Va., and had been in touch with crews in Antarctica. The plane was flying from the South Pole to an Italian base in Antarctica’s Terra Nova Bay. “The flight was under the auspices of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development,” said West. “That’s who the flight was in support of.” Kenn Borek Air, which is experienced in Antarctic aviation, was not able to immediately provide a comment when contacted by The Canadian Press. Some Canadians discussing the incident on Twitter identified Kenn Borek pilot Bob Heath as one of those on board the missing plane. Calls to his residence were referred to the airline. “Fingers crossed bigtime for friend Bob Heath - pilot of missing Kenn Borek Twin Otter down in Antarctic...25+ years experience extreme flying,” tweeted one person. “Bob is an amazing pilot and a wonderful man. If anyone can get through

‘WE DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT’S HAPPENING OTHER THAN THAT THE BEACON IS STILL TRANSMITTING . . . WE DON’T KNOW THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE ON BOARD.’

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after one person collapsed and others complained of headaches and nausea. Terry Nowlan, a production manager with the company, said it was possible the illnesses could have been linked to a propane heating system that was running low on fuel. “Right now that’s just a possibility, but we can’t think of any other source at this point,” he said.

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this it’s him,” tweeted another. Few details were available on the condition of the missing aircraft, which began transmitting signals from its emergency locator beacon late Tuesday night. “We don’t know exactly what’s happening other than that the beacon is still transmitting,” said Capt. Jean Houde of the Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Trenton, Ont., which has been in touch with the New Zealand authorities in charge of the search. “We don’t know the condition of the people on board.” Houde said the beacon’s ongoing signal was right on the plane’s scheduled flight path. The region is in New Zealand’s area of responsibility and that country’s Rescue Co-ordination Centre was organizing the search, working with U.S., Canadian and Italian authorities. New Zealand Search and Rescue Mission Co-ordinator John Ashby said a DC3 aircraft had been flying over the site of the beacon, but heavy clouds prevented crews from searching the terrain below. Ashby added that fixed wing aircraft and a number of helicopters were on standby, waiting for weather conditions to allow them to travel to the area where the plane was thought to have gone down. “Weather conditions are extremely challenging,” Ashby said.

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PM calls for consensus on Mali NDP BACKING MORE HELP BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Conservative government has cobbled together a nascent political consensus with the Opposition NDP that should permit an extended deployment of Canada’s heavy-lift military cargo plane, which is ferrying war equipment into Mali. New Democrat Leader Tom Mulcair agreed Sunday to allow the air force’s C-17 cargo plane to continue assisting French and African forces as they battle al-Qaida-linked militants, said NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday the government is looking at “whether and how” to extend its support of France, which launched an offensive Jan. 10 to dislodge the terrorist organization from northern Mali. Harper said he has reached out to colleagues and opposition parties to build consensus on the next steps in the unfolding crisis, but made it clear that “direct” military involvement in the form of troops is still not in the cards. “Anything we do, I would like a broad Canadian consensus behind that,” Harper told a news conference in Cambridge, Ont. “I do think that it is important to help this mission, but at the same time I think we’ve been very clear — and I think this reflects Canadian opinion — that while we’re prepared to help, we don’t want to see a direct Canadian military mission to Mali.” Mulcair told Harper he supports the decision to send the transport plane, and even favours the French intervention, Dewar said. But in exchange for that support, the prime minis-

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they do in other countries — is the way to go and is clearly the result of our experience in Afghanistan.” The Conservatives, who’ve been eager in the past to be seen as part of and even leading international military missions, have shown uncharacteristic pause over the conflict in Mali. Defence insiders have said there’s a fear of getting bogged down, the way the country did in Kandahar, and that once involved they would be a constant victim of “mission creep” as the demands of the operation escalated. Canada’s current commitment of a single C-17 transport plane is set to expire Thursday. The government is widely expected to announce an extension any day now. Defence sources have said that air force planners have already seconded the aircraft from regular duty in Canada and elsewhere for the next three months, a possible sign the Conservatives are poised to extend the commitment.

in 2006, has been creating “fiscal sustainability” reports since 2010 — reports that have drawn the ire of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. When Page first reported a long term “fiscal gap” in 2010, Flaherty dismissed the study as academic. After Ottawa unilaterally moved to cap health transfer payments to the provinces in December 2011, the PBO revised its long-term outlook to say federal finances were sustainable.

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OTTAWA — Canada was making little headway Wednesday in firmly establishing whether any of its nationals were part of a group of terrorists linked to al-Qaida who mounted a deadly siege at an isolated Algerian energy plant. The federal government still has no substantial information from Algeria to confirm claims that Canadians were among the hostagetakers at the Sahara Desert gas plant, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday. Canadian officials are still trying to get information from their Algerian counterparts, Harper told a news conference in Cambridge, Ont. Harper said he has not spoken to Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, who claimed two Canadian nationals were among the band of al-Qaidalinked militants who took hundreds of workers hostage at a natural gas complex. “People in our government are in contact with the government of Algeria,” Harper said. “We have no substantial information at the present time on these particular individuals, but obviously we will continue to work with the government of Algeria to find out more about this particular matter.”

ter will allow the House of Commons foreign affairs committee to monitor and debate Canada’s evolving role in the conflict, which experts say has the potential to be a protracted event. Dewar said parliamentary oversight should lead to less confusion, and hopefully clear up some of the contradictory signals coming from the government. Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird have been at odds publicly about what form Canada’s contribution would take. Whether preliminary support for the mission survives the slings and arrows of the approaching Commons session, however, remains an open question. Harper said he views the French military action in North Africa as a “very important anti-terrorist mission.” Dewar said he hopes the government is not seeking consensus as a pretext to ask for a troop deployment of some kind down the road. The government doesn’t necessarily need opposition support for either combat or non-combat missions. The authority to deploy troops rests solely with the federal cabinet, although Parliament has been asked to debate and approve sending soldiers into harm’s way since the Conservatives came to power in 2006. Indeed, throughout the mission in Afghanistan, both the Conservatives and the NDP used the war as a wedge issue. Former New Democrat leader Jack Layton admitted in a 2010 book interview that Harper never consulted him about Afghanistan at all. Dewar said the latest developments on Mali make him believe the Conservatives may have learned their lesson. “Providing this oversight — which, by the way,

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Wine dispute uncorked during divorce proceedings BETWEEN CANUCKS’ OWNER, WIFE

VANCOUVER — One of the owners of the Vancouver Canucks says he shouldn’t have to sell a wine collection worth $615,000 to pay for his estranged wife’s bills. Justice Nathan Smith has yet to decide what should be done with the 1,900-bottle collection of wine that has been the subject of arguments this week in B.C. Supreme Court between lawyers acting for Francesco Aquilini and Taliah Aquilini. Legal action began early last year after mediation efforts between the couple collapsed, and now pre-trial divorce hearings are under way. Taliah Aquilini has alleged in previous court documents that her husband “engaged in public adulterous conduct in his private life.” Taliah’s lawyer, Paul Daltrop, said Wednesday that his client was a stayat-home mom for more than 20 years and has no

income other than money given to her by the Aquilini family. In contrast, he said Francesco has had access to an investment fund worth more than $1 million and also secured

a personal line of credit worth $2 million. Daltrop said it’s a “puzzle” why assets from the sale of the wine would not be available to his client, noting the sale would “level the playing

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ffering multi-day mountain tours, and single-day tours to the mountains and ski trails throughout Central Alberta, the Parkland Ski Club has been a fixture in the cross-country skiing community since it was founded in 1972. Last weekend, a group from the club headed up to the Columbia Icefields Parkway to get in some back-country turns on the slopes below Parkers Ridge, just south of the Icefields Inter-

pretive Centre. Finding the conditions largely windblown with little new snow and the avalanche conditions at a considerable rating by the Canadian Avalanche Centre, the group was pulled into the treed areas where there were still pockets of powder snow and more stable conditions to carve out some turns. After a challenging day of climbing the hills and pointing the skis down for some quick turns and the occasional head plant, it was back to the

Ramparts Creek Hostel for most of the group, while six members of the party stayed at the more remote and rustic accommodation found at the Hilda Creek Hostel. After a potluck supper was finished, the sauna at Ramparts brought a warm end to the day. Sunday brought more of the same, searching out new slopes in the area, testing the snow for stability, and linking turns in fresh snow with no crowded liftlines.

Tour leader Vance Buchwald, left, digs a snow pit to determine the stability of the snow before the group skis the area.

Derry Armstrong lays down a telemark turn below Hilda Peak.

Jeff Stokoe transitions through a turn on telemark skis.

Dee Stokoe leads John and Linda Dickin to the top of a slope.

Trip leader Steve Bennett skis through the trees.

Derry Armstrong lays down a telemark turn in the trees through some deep snow.

MISSION STATEMENT The Parkland Cross Country Ski Club welcomes you to enjoy the beauty and splendour of our great winter wonderland in the company of experienced, well-trained, and like-minded folks. The club was formed by outdoor enthusiasts in 1972 and has ever since seen its membership enjoy back-country tours in our scenic Rockies, the staging of an annual loppet right here in Red Deer, and the numerous day tours to the many great cross-country skiing sites in Central Alberta. The Parkland Cross Country Ski Club’s mission is to “enjoy, enhance, facilitate and promote cross country skiing” in all of its various forms.

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With more daylight, plants can sense spring is on its way Increased daylight hours signal all plants that spring is coming. Inside plants that live in a warm climate will have started to break dormancy while those outside in the cold temperatures will stay dormant until the temperatures are favorable. In the next few weeks inside plants will require more moisture than they did last month. To insure that they are getting the correct amount, check the soil before watering by sticking a finger below the surface or using a moisture meter. Supplying the correct amount of moisture is important as too little or too much will cause the plant to wilt. If a soil becomes saturated LINDA with moisture, minus all air TOMLINSON pockets, roots can not rake in moisture and the plant will wilt, possibly rot and die. Today’s potting mixtures do not contain any soil. They are usually a mixture of peatmoss, vermiculite and perlite none of which contain much if any nutrients. For plants to grow well they need to be fertilized during their growing cycle. House plant or tropical fertilizer is available in liquid, powder, granular or solid form. Liquid fertilizer is already in a solution that can be added to the watering can and given to plants. Liquid fertilizer is often bulky to store and ship. Fertilizer that comes as a powder needs to be dissolved in water before given to plants. Typically a powder fertilizer dissolves easily. This type of fertilizer is usually light, compact making it easy to ship and store. Over time powdered fertilizer can absorb moisture and harden into a large block. Granular fertilizer can be applied to the top soil but it is more often mixed with soil when the plant is repotted. If the fertilizer is slow release, it will continue to give off nutrients for a period of time. This type of fertilizer is ideal for those that do not want to be bothered with fertilizing on a regular basis. When the fertilizer is placed on top of the soil it will leach into the soil each time it comes in contact with moisture. Fertilizer also comes in a solid form of a stick or pill. It is placed in the soil and will dissolve slowly each time it comes in contact with the correct amount of moisture. Proper placement of the fertilizer is essential. It must be placed in an area that receives enough moisture to leach some fertilizer on a regular basis. Solid fertilizer can be placed in the pot and forgotten. Before purchasing or using a fertilizer, read the instructions on the package. Instructions are based of research on the interaction of that particular fertilizer and plants. Given perfect conditions, inside plants will grow compact and shapely. If conditions are not perfect, plants might need to be pruned. As with all pruning, take into consideration the plant’s natural shape. Multi-stemmed plants can be pinched back to encourage new side growth. This is very effective in encouraging vines to become thicker and fuller. Pinching back a plant that has one stem will cause the plant to produce two stems upwards. If done at the ground level it can be attractive. A better method would be to add more of the same variety of plant to one pot to create the illusion of a full plant. Moving a plant into more of less light, dependent on the plants needs will encourage the plant to develop a attractive shape. Care taken with water, nutrients and shape will ensure plants are attractive additions to any room.

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It’s a vintage year for off-season reading This is a vintage off-season reading season, even for some of the more esoteric outdoors pursuits that interest this column and many of its readers. Stalking Trophy Brown Trout, A Fly-Fisher’s Guide to Catching the Biggest Trout of Your Life, by John Holt, Lyon Press, 2012, paperback, $27.50. The title says what I was doing for at least 40 years of my fly fishing life, so I just had to read this book to see how I did and what I had learned. Here we have gorgeous colour photographs of hot spots and water types on mostly unnamed rivers and streams, taken by Holt’s wife, Ginny. Some eerily seem to me to be shots of Prairie Creek, once a prime producer of trophy brown trout, before they turned it into a nursery for BOB tiddlers by the egregious manSCAMMELL agement error of imposing a zero kill limit on a brown trout stream that was already at its carrying capacity. Back in the good old days, Holt stayed at Terratima Lodge and fished Prairie. Considering that Ginny and cameras are generally with Holt when he fishes, it is curious, even disturbing, that there is not one photo in the book of Holt with any trout, let alone a trophy. That could either be Holt being modest, shy and self-effacing, which would be a first for a known maverick in person and in his other books, or the unthinkable for an angler telling other anglers how to catch trophy trout. In this book, Holt becomes the only angling writer I know of, other than myself, to advocate the unusual form of “ice fishing,” where, just after spring ice-out, you can take huge trout from under the ice shelves on the banks. Several of my former fishing buddies can hardly wait …. Holt declares he’s never been “a match the hatch person,” has scant use for dry flies for big trout, and that he “no longer fishes at night.“ (Nor do I). Yet the clear majority of trophy brown trout (better than 20 inches long) I have taken have been on dry flies that matched super hatches, often at night, and frequently in and around Holt’s home country near Livingston, MT. I took the biggest brown of my life, 76 cm long, and an estimated four kg, from the Red Deer tailwater, at night, on a #!4 caddis imitation of my own tying. On the contrary, Holt asserts, “buggers are best,” and in the end, this is Holt’s prescription for taking trophy trout: fish where trophy brown trout are known to be, and use a weighted Wooly Bugger, especially Holt’s own Cree-Hackled Wooly Bugger, for which he gives the recipe. 101 FISH: A fly Fisher’s Life List, by Lefty Kreh, Stackpole Books, 2012, hard cover, $24.95. Lefty Kreh, possibly the greatest living angler and fly caster, will be 88 on February 26th. He can’t remember, nor can I, how many books he has published, but this one has to be at least the sixth or seventh since he “flunked retirement” several years ago. This one is an enjoyable quick read, well illustrated, with Lefty’s short, poignant, yarns of catching some of the many species, world-wide, he has taken on a fly. The book expanded my own life list, by reminding me of species I have taken incidentally while fishing the salt for bonefish, permit, snook and tarpon. EATING DIRT: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life With the Tree-Planting Tribe, by Charlotte Gill, D & M Publishers, Inc., 2012, paperback, $19.95. Ever since I went back pipelining 50 years ago, instead of spending the summer trying tree planting, I have wondered what I missed. This book tells all, including what clear cutting and tree farming are doing to create a monoculture out of a formerly rich and fertile ecosystem. MYCOPHILIA: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms, by Eugenia Bone, Rodale, 2011, hard cover, $29.99. The many fungaphiles among my readers will be

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enthralled with this one. Early on the author writes: “Ultimately, I recognized that learning the biology of mushrooms was how I was going to increase my effectiveness as a mushroom hunter.” Later she writes: “indeed, my fascination with mushrooms had become a fascination with mushroom people.” IN PURSUIT OF GARLIC: An Intimate Look at the Divinely Odorous Bulb, by Liz Primeau, Greystone Books, 2012, paperback, $19.95. Growing good garlic is becoming a protest against the inferior Chinese stuff which is all you can buy in our supermarkets. Primeau tells how to grow your own and more: the stories of people in Canada, and abroad, who are A GEOGRAPHY OF OYSTERS: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North America, by Rowan Jacobsen, Bloomsbury, 2008, paperback, $16.00. I am slurping and savouring this guide to something I did not know as much about as I thought I did, including that, unlike so much aquaculture, oyster farming produces ethical, sustainable seafood, and the oysters actually clear and purify the sea estuary waters in which they grow. Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Hagfish slime could lead to ‘greener’ clothes BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GUELPH, Ont. — Thick slime slips between Atsuko Negishi’s fingers as she holds an eel-like hagfish that is producing the ooze with surprising speed. This jellylike slime could one day see you wearing greener, more Earth-friendly clothes. Negishi, a University of Guelph research assistant, is part of the search that’s underway to find an alternative to synthetic, petroleum-based fabrics such as polyester and nylon. “We’re not quite there,” Negishi says. “That’s our motivation — that it would be nice to be able to make protein-based textiles or fabric or material.” The homely hagfish, a bottom-dwelling, scavenging sea creature that has lived more than 300 million years virtually unchanged, might very well be an agent of change. All it has to do is slime. And at this moment, four small Pacific hagfish — placed temporarily in a bucket of salt water at the University of Guelph’s Hagen Aqualab — are doing that very well. They’re producing so much slime that Negishi is lifting handfuls of the slippery substance out of the bucket to keep the water clear. Then she gently returns the hagfish to one of the aqualab’s large vat-like tanks. Even after a few years of working with the hagfish, she’s impressed by its slime-making prowess. “You see it and you are just amazed,” Negishi says. Negishi, who works in the department of integrative biology, is not in the least put off by the

creature’s looks, including its barbell whiskers and snakelike body, or by having to hold the slippery critter. She has a healthy respect for the sea creature’s ability to survive. “It’s very similar to an eel, but by its face you can kind of understand why it would be called a hagfish, because it’s not very pretty-looking,” says Negishi, 39. “But here’s this creature that has been on earth for millions of years unchanged and obviously it has found a system that really works.” Sliming is a defensive tactic used by the hagfish when it feels threatened, Negishi says. Any predator that wants to eat a hagfish will get a face full of slime, which can clog the predator’s gills and discourage the attack. The slime is made up of two components, threads and mucin, or mucous component, Negishi explains. Mucous cells and thread cells — coiled in a way that resembles a ball of yarn — are inside glands that are located along the hagfish’s body. “When they feel threatened, they squeeze these components out,” Negishi says. And when the components are mixed with the sea water, the mucin and threads, now unravelled, become slime — lots and lots of slime. “It kind of excretes this milky substance. If you were able to . . . collect a quarter teaspoon of this milky substance, it could probably turn a huge bucket of water into slime.” Negishi is the lead author of a newly published paper about producing fibres from the protein in hagfish slime. Her co-authors are University of Guelph integrative biology professors Douglas Fudge and

Todd Gillis, and food science professor Loong-Tak Lim, as well as scientists from McMaster and Dalhousie universities. Negishi built on Fudge’s research that found hagfish slime contains tens of thousands of very strong protein threads. Each protein thread is 100 times thinner than a human hair. Using proteins from a slime thread, she was able to make a fibre with “decent” strength in the lab. “We are interested in the threads because they have very remarkable mechanical properties,” she says. “They can be processed in such a way as that they are almost as strong as spider silk. . . one of the strongest materials in the world that we know of in terms of its mass.” Other scientists have encountered obstacles in trying to produce artificial spider silk with the same strong properties as the real stuff, Negishi says. But since hagfish threads are produced in a different way from spider silk, scientists thought they would have more success with them in the laboratory. Negishi was able to harvest and purify the slime thread from hagfish. She dissolved it and broke it down in formic acid so that it was no longer a thread, but its individual proteins. Placing a drop of these proteins on top of a salt solution, she created a film. Then, using forceps, she touched the surface of the solution and drew a long, protein fibre out of it. She dried the fibre and tested its strength. Back in the laboratory in the University of Guelph Science Complex, Negishi stretches the fibre with both hands and gently tugs on it. It remains intact.

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Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013

Vitamin C ideal in battling flu MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ

DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN

Proofin’ ibuprofen: How to use it safely More than 20 million Americans and Canadians take ibuprofen every day, often popping the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) before they exercise or do heavy-duty chores — to prevent muscle aches and pains. But a recent report says ibuprofen plus strenuous activity may be bad news for your intestines; it seems to trigger what docs call “leaky gut.” Long periods of very strenuous activity reduce blood flow to your digestive system (your body needs that blood elsewhere!). This makes the lining of your intestines vulnerable to injury. Ibuprofen further reduces your body’s ability to protect and repair that lining. Combine these two effects, and the lining of the intestines becomes compromised, which can allow digestive enzymes and even bacteria to migrate from your intestines into your bloodstream. That’s what Dutch scientists recently concluded when they found that endurance athletes who take ibuprofen before they exercise had elevated levels of a protein that signaled intestinal leakage into the bloodstream. But they also found that the elevated protein levels disappeared about an hour after exercising stopped. So, no one is positive if this phenomenon does lasting damage. There’s even some thought that a short blast of unexpected visitors in the bloodstream could help prime your immune system to better fight off invaders. But considering that up to 90 percent of endurance athletes take ibuprofen before most workouts and that so many other folks rely on it from time to time or daily, we recommend a new approach to managing exercise-related discomfort or pain. Here’s our advice: Ease into heavy-duty activity. Weekend warriors, listen up. Instead of going from zero (you on the couch) to 100 mph (you doing a two-hour boot-camp exercise class or all-day yard work), make sure you get some exercise every day. Do a little bit (30 additional minutes of walking a day); then add a little bit more (each week, increase by 10 to 15 minutes per day); and then do even a little more (you’re aiming for a total of 10,000 steps a day). When you build strength and endurance gradually, your muscles will sustain less microtrauma — microscopic tears and swellings —which translates into major aches the day after. It’s the best way to minimize delayed muscle soreness. Reserve NSAIDs for swelling and pain. Over-thecounter NSAIDs are effective pain relievers, but they are intended for only short-term use. Never use an over-the-counter NSAID for more than 10 days, and make sure you take the dose as outlined on the label. Don’t take extra (more than 25 percent of you do). And don’t take these medications more frequently than recommended. Almost two-thirds of you do that! Already achy? Chill out. Use indirect cold on tired muscles as soon as you can after exercising. Applying an ice pack wrapped in a towel for 20 minutes or less discourages excess inflammation and reduces pain dramatically. Save heat for later on; using a heating pad set on low for a short time will increase circulation and encourage healing. Heat is also a good soother for aching joints. What if you’re taking aspirin daily? Many folks take aspirin for its benefits against cancer, heart attack and stroke; if that’s you, by all means, stay with it. (We take aspirin with a half-glass of warm water before and after; it helps the aspirin dissolve faster, reducing the risk of stomach and intestinal bleeding and your risk of distress.) Just make sure to take the aspirin more than two hours before or one hour after you exercise. We haven’t pointed it out recently, but aspirin really is a miracle pill, and so is ibuprofen. But taking the two together seems to cancel out their anticancer and anti-heart attack benefits, so stay with aspirin if your doc approves (since there are potential side effects, always check with your doc). If you must take ibuprofen also, do it 30 minutes before you take aspirin or eight hours afterward. Mehmet Oz, M.D. os host of the “Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Medical Officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. Visit wwwsharecare.com

Flu season has arrived with the ity to absorb the vitamin is limferocity of a winter’s storm. ited. So it time for the annual colLook for a vitamin C suppleumn on preventing the flu and ment that contains flavonoids. speeding one’s recovery from the Some vitamin C supplements innasty little virus. clude rosehips. The rosehips inMy favourite form clude both vitamin C of prevention this and its flavonoids. year, besides eating Some people find it and resting well, and really difficult to take looking for the simple supplements. In that pleasures every day case, a cup of rose hip presents, is Vitamin tea is just as rich in viC. Vitamin C has three tamin C as a capsule of things going for it. 1000mg. It’s effective, taste Add a teaspoon of fine and is cheap. freshly grated ginger In 1991, the National and a dab of honey to Health Institute ran a the rosehip tea, wrap clinic trail on vitamin up in a comfy blanket C. and that is a perfect Four hundred and remedy for colds and ABRAH sixty-three students, flus. ARNESON ages18 to 30, suffering Many people say to with cold or flu symp- HERBS FOR LIFE me, “But my multi has toms were given pain vitamin C in it.” I shrug relievers and decongestants as my shoulders, and continue to adtreatment. vise to purchase a separate vitaAnother 252 students took 1000 min C supplement and take it. mg of vitamin C every hour for A great remedy for children 6 hours and then 1000 mg three suffering with colds and flu is eltimes a day. derberry syrup. Those taking Vitamin C reElderberry syrup has signifiported an 85-per-cent decrease in cant amounts of vitamin C and flasymptoms to those taking decon- vonoids, stimulates the immune gestants and pain relievers. system and has anti-viral activity. I take 1000mg everyday, and It tastes great. I frequently comfeed it to my husband every morn- bine elderberry syrup with roseing. hip syrup. Both of us have jobs where we There is a traditional herbal interact with many people. Nei- tea that combines the actions of ther of us has even had a snuffle yarrow (Achillea millefolium), elthis winter. (Knock wood). der flowers (Sambucus nigra) and It is important to know that not peppermint (Menthe piperita) to all vitamin C supplements are battles the flu bug. made equal. This is a diaphoretic tea that Here are some points to re- warms the body. member when choosing a vitamin The body kills virus by increasC supplement. ing its temperature. In plants, vitamin C travels with This increase in body temperaa class of plant constituents called ture is called fever. flavonoids. Holistic practitioners believe When taken as a supplement, that when the body is battling a if it does not contain vitamin C’s cold or flu and does not break into pals the flavonoid, the body’s abil- a fever, perhaps it does not have

the resources it needs to fight. If the body temperature does not increase during a viral infection, the virus tends to linger longer and move deeper into the body leading to bronchitis or pneumonia. Teas that include diaphoretic herbs help the body bring on a fever. Paradoxically, they can also be used to control and bring down a fever. Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) is another traditional flu herb taken as a tea. It is not as pleasant tasting as the yarrow, elderflower and mint tea, but it will shorted the period of time and decrease the severity of the flu. It not only has diaphoretic properties, it stimulates the production of white blood cells needed to overcome the virus. One of the challenges in recovering from the flu bug, is often people have to be really sick before they stop and rest. And please do not think that drinking these teas and taking vitamin C while sick means one can keep up with the normal pace of life. Sometimes I am a bit tricky with my cold and flu preparations and add herbs like passionflower (Passiflora incarnata). Passionflower quiets down the nervous system and promotes a restful state of mind. In this way, rest becomes easeful and not a struggle. Passionflower is particularly useful for calming sick children and helping them sleep. Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is intended for information purposes only. Readers with a specific medical problem should consult a doctor. For more information, visit www.abraherbalist.ca. Arneson can be reached at abrah@shaw.ca.

Health care for homeless challenging to deliver BUT MUST INCLUDE COMPASSION BY SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS It’s about 9:30 on an icy-cold January morning, and Dr. Stephen Hwang is greeting his first patient of the day at Seaton House, a 434bed shelter for homeless men on a quiet street in downtown Toronto. The man, in his early 50s, has been living at the shelter for about a month after returning home to Canada from a Caribbean island, where he had worked and raised his family for 25 years. He says he has come home seeking rehabilitation for alcoholism. He remembers the flight to Pearson International Airport, but admits that a subsequent twoweek stay in St. Michael’s Hospital and his arrival at Seaton House are foggy at best. Hwang asks if he is still drinking. “I had a beer the other day, last weekend,” the man says. “Any trouble holding your urine?” prods Hwang. “I did last week for some reason,” but just the once, he insists. The acrid odour emanating from his stained and rumpled clothes in the cramped examination room belies his words. “I’m not normally a coffee drinker, but around here I seem to be up to six cups a day.” Hwang puts the patient through a series of memory and cognitive tests — he does well on all but those related to immediate recall — then checks his blood pressure, listens to his heart and palpates his chest and abdomen. The doctor tells the man his drinking has affected his memory, and it may be reversible if he stops. Such are the challenges of providing health care to homeless and marginally housed Canadians across the country. “So often the chaos in people’s lives and the lack of stability in their lives interferes with their ability to maintain regular health care,” says Hwang, a general internist who is among a cadre of doctors, nurses, therapists and counsellors at St. Michael’s Hospital who specialize in reaching out to vulnerable populations in Toronto’s inner city. “Sometimes the lack of social supports and a lack of family and friends to help them seek care is a major factor.” At nearby St. Mike’s, known as Toronto’s “Urban Angel,” Frank Fournier is also starting his day in the hospital’s emergency department. Since 2010, Fournier has been the community support worker who helps the homeless and oth-

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Frank Fournier was once homeless and is now a community support worker at St. Michael’s Hospital helping homeless patients. ers on the economic fringe who come to the ER seeking care. He is perhaps the ideal person for the delicate job of shepherding sick and often anxious patients through what can be an intimidating experience for those living on the streets or close to it. Fournier has been where they are. More than 10 years ago, the IT systems analyst was severely injured after being hit by a car. In the process of recovering, he lost his income and ended up for a few years with no home to call his own. While living in a shelter, he began volunteering to help others in his situation, then began doing outreach work with Toronto Public Health before being recommended for the position at St. Mike’s. “It would have been hard for me to imagine what being homeless was like before it actually happened to me,” concedes Fournier, who says a lot of people who come to the ER recognize him from his previous work. “So it’s a familiar face when they come into the hospital and it’s someone they know that’s been in the same place that they are in.” Often, experience will red-flag a person in the waiting area: they may look agitated or confused; they may seem reticent. “I will go up and talk to them and assess whether they need my help or if they need anything else,” he says. “Sometimes they just need someone to listen to them, someone that they can vent on ... Sometimes it’s just a shoulder to cry on. “They feel isolated and vulnerable because of their economic status or their housing status. So really, you’re just giving more of a compassionate touch.”

The ER at St. Mike’s has about 72,000 patient visits a year, and about 17 per cent of them are by the homeless or under-housed. O’Neill estimates that about 30 per cent of these patients are dealing with a mental illness or addiction. “A lot of our homeless population have foot problems because of exposure,” adds Fournier. “You might not have a dry pair of shoes to wear. You might not have anywhere to dry your shoes out or your socks out. “I have clothing I can give to some of our more needy patients. Some of it’s brand new, some are donations,” he says, rhyming off the list of items: winter jackets, track suits, clean underwear, socks, boots, gloves and hats. Besides helping patients get their immediate health problems seen to by ER staff, Fournier asks if they want to shower, when they last ate and if they need a meal, whether they need help paying for transportation when they leave. “The big thing is to get the patient to almost buy into the system. They may feel reticent at first coming to a hospital. They may think, ‘I’m going to get lousy service because I’m homeless or because I’m a drug addict or drugdependent.”’ Many have felt stigmatized when dealing with the police, financial institutions and previous health providers, he says. “You know, when you’re homeless or under-housed, there’s lots of self-esteem issues ... not to mention the anxiety of not knowing where your next meal’s coming from, where you’re going to be sleeping that night. “So we try to put those patients at ease and let them know that they’re going to be treated with dignity and respect. And more importantly, they’re going to be treated like anybody else.”

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Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013

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RANDI BOULTON

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Red Deer performer Randi Boulton leads a group choir session at The HUB On Ross in Red Deer. Every Thursday afternoon from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Boulton leads the Randi Boulton Singers as they perform pop tunes together. New singers are always welcome for this ongoing choir. To get involved, call 403-340-4869.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Botha Old-Time Dances are held on the second Friday and the last Sunday of each month at Botha Community Hall, Sept. through June with some exceptions. No dances Sundays, Dec. 30 and June 30, 2013. Dancing is from 7:30 to 11 p.m. on Fridays, and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Sundays, both with admission of $10. Different popular old time bands each dance. On Friday, please contribute to and enjoy a pooled lunch served at 11 p.m. On Sunday, please contribute to and enjoy a pooled luncheon of buns/sandwiches and desserts to be shared by all, served at 5 p.m. For more information, call Doug at 403-742-3994. ● Central Alberta Dance Club monthly dances are held at Valley Centre Hall on the fourth Friday of each month starting at 7:30 p.m. Next dance is Jan. 25. Cost is $10 per person and includes lunch. For information phone Earl 403-3485015, or Irv at 403-986-7170. ● Robbie Burns Day celebration at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre will be featured on Jan. 25, starting at 5:30 p.m. for Scottish meal followed by interactive dancing by Scottish Country Dancers. Tickets cost $15 each and can be purchased at the front desk. Phone 403-343-6074.

Saturday ● Children’s Chess Club — at the Red Deer Public Library Downtown — will be held Jan. 26 from 2 to 3 p.m. Meet new friends and join in for an hour of instruction and fun. Phone 403-346-4688. ● The Gallery on Main in Lacombe featured artist will be Marianne Harris (Vanderdkley) from Jan. 26 to Feb. 9. Enjoy wine and cheese evening reception with Marianne from 5 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 26. Call 403-782-3402, or visit www.thegalleryonmain.com ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Jan. 26 session is called Pantomime Puppetry with artist Kaleb Romano. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission. ● Random Snowshoeing at Kerry Wood Nature Centre is available on Jan. 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. Drop in and give it a try, weather and snowlevels permitting. No high heels, please. Admission by suggested donation of $3 per person or $10 per family. Call 403-346-2010. ● It’s a Clifford Celebration on Jan. 26, 1 to 2 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Children’s Services at the downtown location. Come for stories, party games, and treats in celebration of Clifford, the Big Red Dog’s Fiftieth Birthday and in honour of Family Literacy Day. Costumes encouraged. No registration. Phone 403-346-4688. ● Puppet Family Storytime is offered on Jan. 26 at the Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library from 1 to 3 p.m. Bring the family for a fireside puppet show called The Mitten, and make your own puppets. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House musical jam session and dance for all musicians and music lovers are held the last Saturday of each month from 7 to 10 p.m. Next session Jan. 26. Admission $3, includes refreshments. Call 403-346-4043. ● Annual Red Deer City (Bob Johnstone) Ski Loppet takes place on Jan. 26 at Riverbend Golf and Recreation Area. Start time is 11 a.m. for 10, 20 and 30K, and 11:02 a.m. for 3 and 5 K. There are events for Jackrabbits, junior girls and boys, men and women, and families. Preregister by Jan. 23 at www.zone4.ca to be eligible for early bird prize pre-race entry. Hot lunch included. Jackrabbits pay $10, juniors pay $20, men and women pay $25, and families pay $50. Late entrants pay $10 penalty. To volunteer contact rkbogle@telusplanet. net. Classic or skate technique. ● Spruce View Lions Annual

Old-time Fiddle Jamboree and Dance will be held on Jan. 26 at Spruce View Community Hall. Happy Hour and Beef on a bun supper at 5:30 p.m. Fiddlers begin at 7 to 9 p.m. with dance to follow. Piano accompaniment provided. Adults cost $20. Fiddlers and preschoolers free. Net proceeds to S.T.A.R.S. Fiddlers are asked to preregister. Door prizes. Contact Darwin at 403-986-2004, Al at 403304-5486, or Ray at 403-728-3875. ● Sargent Annual Meeting and Potluck is set for Jan. 26. Contact George at 403-784-3654 for more information.

Sunday ● Sunday Cinema Film presents the 1965 Richard Burton thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold on big screen, free of charge at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on Jan. 27, 2 p.m. Phone 403-346-2100. ● Ruston Vuori Piano Recital will be featured on Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m. in Studio A at Red Deer College Arts Centre. Vuori explores the Theme and Variations form for solo piano through works of Handel, Mozart, Brahms, and Fauré. Free admission with donation to the food bank. See www.rdc. ab.ca. ● Annual Lacombe Fiddler’s Jamboree will be celebrated on Jan. 27, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Lacombe Upper Elementary School. Admission is $5 and free for performers and children ages 12 years and under . Contact Laurie at 403-782-5596. ● Visions Country Gospel Singers are performing at St. Andrew’s United Church in Bowden on Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $12 and are available at the door, or from Win at 403-227-2004. ● David Thompson SnowRiders is hosting a snowmobile rally on Jan. 27 with registration at the staging area south on Range Road 3.2 west of Benalto on Hwy. 11 with registration from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for loop approximately 40 km. Rally hands cost $5 each, or five for $20. All hands must be in by 4:30 p.m. An ASA trail pass is required, or purchase a day pass for $20 per snowmobile. Contact Clint at 403-392-3424 for more information.

Monday ● Innisfail and District Garden Club meets the fourth Monday of each month from Jan. to Nov. at 7 p.m. in St. Mark’s Anglican Church Hall. Please use the back door. Meetings feature speakers, tours, films, contests, plant exchanges and more. Call Davina at 403-598-9481. ● Cover 2 Cover Adult Book Club will meet on Jan. 28 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. January’s theme is classics. For a list of reading suggestions, visit www. rdpl.org/cover2cover. New members always welcome. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Monday Melodies at Kerry Wood Nature Centre will be on Jan. 28, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Seniors invited to drop in and celebrate nature inspired music, refreshments, and a take a short nature walk. Admission by suggested donation of $2 per person. Phone 403-346-2010.

Tuesday ● Lacombe Kozy Korner Senior Centre offers weekly noon hour dinners on Tuesdays. Dinners include a hot meal, dessert and coffee or tea for $7, payable at the door. For more information call 403-782-6216. ● Lacombe Seventh Day Adventist Food and Clothing Bank welcomes gently used items at 5025 53 St. in Lacombe. Hours of operation are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m., Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m., and Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m. Contact Millie at 403-782-6777. ● Bower Place Community Association seniors’ coffee and card party is cancelled for Jan.

29. The next one will be on Feb. 26 as usual on the last Tuesday of the month, at Bower Kin Place from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Call Marlene at 403-343-0632. ● Drop-in Pajama Storytime invites children aged two to six years to the children’s department at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch for stories, songs, finger plays, and crafts at 6:30 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays. Children under three years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Phone 403346-4688. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House dance, Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. with live music by Swing Kings. The cost is $6. Phone 403-346-4043. Lunch provided by donations.

Wednesday ● Lunch ‘N’ Learn About Wills at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch on Jan. 30, from noon to 12:45 p.m. Joe Sumiya, lawyer with Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic, will share information about the Wills and Succession Act and more. Bring a bagged lunch. Refreshments provided. Phone 403-346-2100. ● Our Democratic Deficit and What We Can Do About It with Dr. Steve Patten, political scientist, University of Alberta, will be presented by Fair Vote Canada (Red Deer Action Team), Public Interest Alberta, and Red Deer Public Library on Jan. 30, 7 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at the downtown public library. Free of charge. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Country Express is on Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Public Art 101 lecture is for anyone interested in getting involved in the realm of public art, from the application to the commissioning of public art. The moderator will be Pat Matheson, public art curator with City of Red Deer. Guest speakers will be Dawn Detarando and Brian McArthur of Voyager Tile, and Trent Leach of Altered Era Studio. The cost is $5 for Red Deer Arts Council members,

or $10 for general public.

Thursday ● Central Alberta Theatre (CAT) presents Culture Shock — a fast paced story about a young Newfoundlander bored with life, Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 at Nickel Studio on the second floor of the Red Deer Memorial Centre. Shows start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 and are available through Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre, www.blackknightinn.ca, or 403-755-6626 or 1-800661-8793. ● Red Deer River Watershed Alliance Open House will be held on Jan. 31, 2 to 4 p.m. at 4918 59 St. Join in the celebration of the Watershed’s new look in their expanded office space and learn more about the group. RSVP to info@rdrwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 by noon on Jan. 29. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Jan. 31, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Silver and Gold Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-346-3896. ● Billy Graham Evangelistic Association of Canada launches My Hope ministry in Red Deer and is recruiting churches to participate. Pastors and key leaders are invited to attend a training event on Jan. 31, 9 a.m. to noon at Deer Park Alliance Church. To confirm attendance, please contact Christy at cnova@bgea.ca, or phone 1-800293-3717. ● The Jungle Book will be presented by a cast of Hunting Hills High School students at Red Deer Memorial Centre on Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m. each night. Pre-show dinner at Festival Hall at 6 p.m. on Feb. 1 and 2. Tickets available at Hunting Hills until Jan. 30, and then at the door one hour prior to showtime. The world premiere of a new adaptataion of the Rudyard Kipling classic tale of the young orphan boy, Mowgli, who is adopted by a wolf family in the jungles of India. A highly stylized non-musical production. Phone 403-342-6655.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Life with Cancer free therapeutic yoga program will run for eight weeks beginning Feb. 1 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Breathing Room Yoga Studio. Each participant is invited to bring one family member or other support person to attend with them. Sign up online at www.breathingroomreddeer.com or phone 403-358-3542. ● Pennies for Programs at Innisfail Public Library will help the library fund new and existing programs. Rolled and unrolled pennies may be dropped off during library hours. Contact Melinda at 403-227-2620, or the library at 403-227-4407. ● Mirror United Church Valentine’s Tea and Bake Sale is on Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. Entertainment by Visions Country Gospel. Admission is $10. ● Groundhog Day Supper sponsored by Delburne United Church will be on Feb. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Delburne Community Hall. Adults $10, and children ages six to 12 years $5. Contact Lenora at 403-749-2083. ● Darren Johnson and Claude Godin Live in concert at The Hub on Feb. 1 from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission is $15 per person or $30 cash only at the door. Phone 403-340-4869. ● Annual Show Us Your Heart Fundraiser at Global Pet Foods in Red Deer will run from Feb. 2 to 16 and will support Whisker Rescue no-kill cat adoption organization. Donations for Whisker Rescue will be accepted at both the north and south locations and Global Pet Foods and Hill’s Science Diet will match the first dollar of each donation made in store. ● Singing Valentines by Wild Rose Harmonizers are available to serenade your loved one on Feb. 14. Four handsome men bearing a red rose will visit the recipient at home or work and perform two tender love songs. The cost is $40 and a photo of the occasion will be included. For bookings, contact Fran at 403-347-0436, or David at 403-342-

1318. Book early as limited spaced are available. The deadline is Feb. 12. Visit www.harmonizers.ca. ● Servus Credit Union Annual Bowl for Kids in support of Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Red Deer is seeking individuals, businesses, and groups to collect pledges, bowl, and join the festivities at Heritage Bowling Centre on March 3. This is the 100th anniversary of Big Brothers Big Sisters Canada and the goal is to recruit 100 teams and raise $100,000. To get involved, or find out more see www.yvc.ca, or call 403-342-6500. ● City of Red Deer is accepting applications for the use of Great Chief Park and community ball diamonds and sports fields for May until Oct. Application forms are available online at www.reddeer.ca/rpc or at the Collicutt, G.H. Dawe, and Recreation Centres. The deadline is Feb. 8. Address inquiries to Corina Ryan at 403-309-8421. ● Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame Fine Arts Department presents the musical production of Aida at Red Deer Memorial Centre on Feb. 14 to 16 at 7 p.m., and on Feb. 16 at 1 p.m. Shaeane Jimenez stars along with Michael Marcinek, and Tevra Plamondon in this tragic and inspiring love story. Tickets cost $20 for adults, and $15 for students aged 18 years and under. Tickets available at https://esnd.inviteright.com/aida. Aida is written by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang, with music by Elton John, and lyrics by Tim Rice. ● Dance Magic Zumbathon for Multiple Sclerosis will be held on Feb. 2 from noon to 3 p.m. at Notre Dame High School. The cost is $25 per person. Participants may register as individuals or in teams. Register online at reddeerdancemagic. com, or phone 403-347-9101 or 403-309-7319 to find out more.

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Wine consumption growing fast CANADIANS DRINKING 15 LITRES PER PERSON ANNUALLY: STUDY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wine producers will be proposing a toast to Canadian consumers: a new study shows wine consumption in this country is growing three times faster than globally and Canada is projected to be the fifth fastest-growing wine market in the next five years. Most of the wine consumed in Canada is imported but â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canada is now very strong on the production side and domestic wines are getting more popular,â&#x20AC;? said Vinexpo chairman Xavier de Eizaguirre in a telephone interview, speaking from Toronto. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the fact there is now a local industry, particularly here in Ontario, is helping the overall picture. Volume-wise itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly a country where consumption is going up. Our forecast is it will continue to go up in the next five years.â&#x20AC;? De Eizaguirre said Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s per capita wine consumption is around 15 litres a year, compared to about 12 in the U.S. â&#x20AC;&#x153;France, Italy, Spain, the traditional markets, consume somewhere around 50 litres per capita. England is about 25, Argentina is about 45, so there is a lot of potentialâ&#x20AC;? for Canada to increase its consumption, he said. Between 2007 and 2011, Canadian wine consumption increased by 14.55 per cent. Consumption hit 43.21 million cases in 2011; one case represents 12 bottles. Analysts said that between 2012 and 2016 Canadian wine consumption will go up 14.27 per cent, eventually reaching 50.7 million cases annually, which is three times greater than the global average. Between 2012 and 2016, China, the United States, Russia and Germany will be ahead of Canada in wine consumption. In the previous five years, Canada was third behind China and the U.S. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve dropped back because the others have gone quite crazy,â&#x20AC;? de Eizaguirre said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m personally amazed by the Canadian picture. This country is really growing in terms of consumption, which I think is due to a number of factors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course the population is growing and you guys have been in pretty good shape in this terrible economic crisis, so I think it is a combination of factors, but it is indeed a market that is growing in all categories.â&#x20AC;? Italy has taken over from France as Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading wine supplier. De Eizaguirre thinks the popularity of Italian food is the reason.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE B4 â&#x2014;? Making Sweet Memories Gala hosted by Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories will be held on Feb. 7 at the Black Knight Inn. Meet the celebrity waiters, take in the silent auctions, enjoy mood music by Just Gloverly (Erin Glover and Kyle Hansen), savour a glorious four-course meal, and find out who will win the grand prize trip. Tickets, $75 each, or $600 for a table of eight and are available by calling 403-342-0448. â&#x2014;? Yoga Alliance of Red Deer (YARD) registration is open now for the winter session, until March 17. Drop ins welcome. Visit www. reddeeryoga.ca, phone 403-350-5830 or email info@reddeeryoga.ca. â&#x2014;? Rimbey and District Victim Services Big Band Valentine Gala will take place Feb. 9 at the Rimbey Community Centre. Cocktails at 6 p.m., prime rib or salmon meal at 7, 17 piece big band dance

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Most of the wine consumed in Canada is imported b Canada is now very strong on the production side and domestic wines are getting more popular. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Italian cuisine has almost become a cuisine of the world and obviously the Italian wines are following. There is a demand here in Canada which is growing bigger and bigger and bigger, which is partially due to that phenomenon,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very aggressive and good marketers and they have very good products too. So pretty good value for the dollar, you know.â&#x20AC;? American, Chilean and Spanish wines gained ground in the Canadian market in the five-year period from 2007 to 2011 with growth of 42.75 per cent, 25.12 per cent and 26.82 per cent respectively. New Zealand has become the eighth-largest supplier of wines to Canadian consumers, almost doubling between 2007 and 2011. Canadian consumption of spirits, meanwhile, is rising moderately, with vodka being the tipple of choice. Canadians drank 1.73 per cent more spirits

in 2011 than in 2007 and growth in consumption is expected to reach a further 3.7 per cent between 2012 and 2016. De Eizaguirre said vodka is popular because it is an easy-drinking spirit, on the rocks or not, and mixes well in cocktails. Many coolers use vodka as their base and producers are also making flavoured vodkas. The Asia-Pacific region consumes the most spirits, with 61.5 per cent of global consumption in 2011. In Canada, consumption of sparkling wine is expected to grow, with an 8.52 per cent increase between 2012 and 2016. Although rose wines have a very small percentage (3.63 per cent) of the overall still wine market in Canada, they are booming â&#x20AC;&#x201D; consumption leaped 38.24 per cent between 2007 and 2011, and they are forecasted to grow 45.41 per cent between 2012 and 2016.

at 8:30, silent auction, prizes and more. Dress semi-formal. Tickets cost $60 per person, $110 per couple or $400 per table of eight before Jan. 1 or $70 per person, $125 per couple or $475 per table after Jan. 1. Tickets are available at Stationery, Stones and Sounds, 403843-4392 or sssounds@telus.net, as well as Blooms Flower Shop 403-843-2627. See AlbertaDanceNews.com for more information. â&#x2014;? Art of Friendship is a program for those who feel lonely or isolated and need to brush up on their friendship skills offered by the Canadian Mental Health Association for eight weeks on either Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library from Feb. 28 to April 11, or on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. beginning on March 6 to April 24. at CMHA on Gaetz Ave. Cost is $25. Scholarships may be available. For information visit www.reddeer.cmha. ab.ca for more information. Participants must speak with staff prior to enrollment at 403-342-2266. â&#x2014;? Free 90 day activity program â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Join the Red Deer Primary Care Network three month Trek around the virtual location of the Ha-

waiian Islands as a free and fun way to keep your New Years resolution. Watch the video 23 and 1/2 hours on You Tube and go to www. reddeerpcn.com or call 403-343-9100 for more information and to register for this free way to log your activity. Trek officially started on Jan. 11, but registration is open until the end of March. â&#x2014;? Fulfil your love of singing by joining the Red Deer Chamber Singers. Their repertoire consists of a diverse selection of choral arrangements, including classical, folk, and pop. You will receive training from seasoned professionals to enhance your vocal technique. Spring concert to take place the last week in May. For more information call Sadie at 403-347-5166. â&#x2014;? Parkland Harness Club Cutter Parade will take place on Feb. 9, 2 p.m. at the Lacombe Agricultural Grounds. The Alix parade will be on Feb. 10 with registration at 10:30 a.m. to noon at Alix Agricultural Grounds. For information call Norm at 403-782-6346, Lorne at 403-782-2647, or Bob at 403-784-3597.

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MARK HOLICK

COUGARS HIRE HOLICK One day after firing head coach Dean Clark, the Prince George Cougars of the Western Hockey League announced on Wednesday that Mark Holick will fill the post. Holick, who served as the head coach of the Syracuse Crunch of the American League the past two seasons, is the 10th bench boss of the Cougars, who relocated from Victoria to Prince George in 1994. Holick coached the Kootenay Ice for three years starting in 2007 and guided the club to a playoff berth each season, winning WHL coach of the year honours in 2010. Holick also had great success at the junior A level, leading the South Surrey Eagles to a Royal Bank Cup victory in 1997-98. Holick spent 13 years as either a head or assistant coach in both the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) and Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL). His teams included: Vernon (BCHL, 200607), St. Albert/Spruce Grove (AJHL, 2003-06), South Surrey (BCHL, 1996-2002), Langley (BCHL, 1995-96) and Penticton (BCHL, 1994-95). Holick also played professionally for four seasons with Adirondack (AHL), Louisville (ECHL) and Dallas (CHL).

Friday

● Midget A hockey: Red Deer Minor Hockey Outdoor Winter Classic, games at 4, 5:30, 8 and 8:30 p.m., Bower rinks. ● College basketball: Calgary St. Mary’s at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Brandon at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer IROC, 7:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Stettler, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Innisfail at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Sylvan Lake, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Midget A hockey: Red Deer Minor Hockey Outdoor Winter Classic, games at 8, 8:30, 11 and 11:30 a.m., 1:50, 3:15, 4:30, 5, 7:30 and 8 p.m.; skills competition at 2 p.m.; Bower rinks. ● Peewee AA hockey: Innisfail at Red Deer Parkland, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena; Southeast at Red Deer Black, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Major bantam female hockey: St. Albert at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Kin City B. ● Major midget female hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kin City B. ● Bantam AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Ramada, 5:30 p.m., Kin City A.

Canucks 3 Flames 2 SO VANCOUVER — Zack Kassian scored in regulation and added the shootout winner as the Vancouver Canucks edged the Calgary Flames 3-2 on Wednesday night. Kassian scored the decisive shootout goal by deking Flames netminder Miikka Kiprusoff as the showdown session went to an extra shooter for each team. Alex Burrows also scored in the shootout for Vancouver. Mason Raymond chipped in with a goal for Vancouver in regulation. Alex Tanguay scored in regulation and had one in the shootout for Calgary while Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames. Canucks goaltender Cory Schneider secured the win by stopping Curtis Glencross on the final shootout attempt of the game. The Canucks (1-1-1) posted their first win of the lockout-shortened season. The Flames (0-2-1) remained winless after three games. There was no scoring in the first period, and the score was tied 2-2 after the second. The deadlock resulted as Vancouver squandered a 2-0 lead Schneider and Kiprusoff entered the game looking to redeem them-

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Vancouver Canucks goalie Cory Schneider makes the save as Calgary Flames’ Sven Baertschi looks for the rebound and Canucks’ Mason Raymond defends during first period NHL action in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday. selves. Despite a few gaffes, Schneider was much sharper than in his season-opening effort as he and Kiprusoff both recorded 34 saves. Schneider was pulled after allowing five goals on 14 shots in Vancou-

ver’s 7-3 loss to Anaheim on Saturday, and then watched from the bench as the Canucks lost Sunday in a shootout to Edmonton. Kiprusoff was sharp in a second period in which the Canucks badly

outshot the Flames until the late going. He had allowed nine goals in a pair of losses to the Ducks and San Jose. Schneider got off to a bit of a shaky start as he mishandled a slow

shoot-in that got tangled in his skates in the goal crease. He also caught a break during a Calgary power play after a Jay Bouwmeester shot rang off the post after deflecting off Canuck defenceman Alex Edler’s stick in mid-air. As part of some line juggling, Alex Burrows, usually a winger on the first line, played centre on the second line. Burrows showed some deft passing in the final six minutes of the first period as he sent Jannik Hansen in all alone on Kiprusoff, only to have the Calgary goaltender stop his shot. Burrows also set up Hansen for a one-timer in the high slot, but Hansen could not get much weight on the puck. In the final minute of the first period, Schneider stopped Blake Comeau from close range and then blocked three shots in succession, by Bouwmeester, Jarome Iginla and Tanguay, to keep the game scoreless after 20 minutes. The Canucks widely outplayed the Flames in the first half of the second period. Kassian opened the scoring 6:20 into the second period on a good third effort. He intercepted a Calgary handpass, retrieved the puck after his first shot was blocked, and then fired it home. It was Kassian’s second goal of the season.

Raptors burned by Heat duo in ovetime BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heat 123 Raptors 116 OT MIAMI — After sitting around for nearly a week, the Miami Heat expected to be a little less than razor-sharp. It took an extra session, but the reigning NBA champions eventually found their groove. Dwyane Wade scored 35 points, LeBron James got his 34th career triple-double and the Heat rallied from a 15-point deficit to beat the Toronto Raptors 123-116 in overtime on Wednesday. “It was typical for a team to come off a long road trip, have days off and try to get back in a groove, especially versus a team that offensively is one of the top 10 in the league in offence and scoring the ball,” Wade said. “It took us time to get our legs into it and get our rotations down, but as the game went on we were able to do that.” James finished with 31 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds for Miami, getting the last board on Toronto’s final shot of the night. Wade added seven assists, including the one that set up Ray Allen for the 3-pointer that clinched the win with 59.3 seconds left in overtime. Allen scored 18, Mario Chalmers scored 14 and Chris Bosh had a 12-point, 12-rebound night for Miami. The Heat finished overtime on a 13-2 run, erasing a four-point hole in their first game in six nights. “Just tried to keep wearing on them,” James said. “We knew it was going to take a little while to get the engines back started, but we got enough stops in the second half to give ourselves a chance to win.”

Alan Anderson scored 20 points for Toronto, leading seven Raptors in double figures. Jose Calderon scored 17, Terrence Ross had 16, and Amir Johnson finished with 15 points. Miami outrebounded Toronto 53-28, with Udonis Haslem also grabbing 10 rebounds for the Heat. “I cannot fault our guys’ effort,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. “They fought, they scrapped, they played with their hearts and they took one of the best teams in the NBA to the limit. That’s what I said before the game. This game is about respect. This game’s about going out there and not letting teams think they’re going to come out and get their numbers against you. And our guys fought.” Wade and Allen each had six points in overtime for Miami, which outscored Toronto 14-7 in the extra session. James had five rebounds in the final 5 minutes — after getting five in all of regulation. The path to overtime was frantic, with neither team leading by more than three in the final 6:51 of the fourth quarter. Calderon made a 3-pointer with 1:51 left to give Toronto a 105-103 lead; Bosh answered with a jumper to tie it. So Calderon connected on another 3, only to have that one rebutted by a 3-pointer by James, knotting the game once again. And for good measure, after DeMar DeRozan went 1 for 2 from the line to put the Raptors up by one, Bosh followed with a 1 for 2 from the stripe to tie the game for the 13th time. DeRozan missed a wild layup with 19 seconds left, and James’ 20-footer at the buzzer bounced off the back iron — sending it to overtime.

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Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade shoots against Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan during overtime on Wednesday, in Miami.

City and Oilers resurrect deal for new Edmonton arena BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers are getting a new downtown arena. The NHL team and city councillors agreed Wednesday to resurrect a previous deal that collapsed three months ago when Oilers owner Daryl Katz demanded $6 million more a year from taxpayers. Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel says the new deal is airtight. “It’s 100 per cent. A deal is done. Council has approved it. All the other stuff is just going through some steps,” Mandel told reporters after the 10-3 decision by councillors. “I’m absolutely confident that we will go ahead, and at some point in time all of us will go to a new arena with great pride. “It will be the nicest, most dynamic arena you’ve ever been to.” Katz was not at the decisive council meeting, but his negotiator, John Karvellas, said his boss recognized the negotiating logjam had to be smashed. “We were at the end of the

line,” Karvellas told reporters. “It was time that we needed to conclude a deal and I think Daryl felt exactly the same way. “I made the comment to him that we’re not going to have any more chances. If we’re going to make a deal with the city we have to bring it home, and I think he made some very significant compromises.” Katz dropped the demand for the extra $6 million a year and abandoned a demand that the city break its tendering policy and move its staff into a proposed new Katz office tower beside the rink. In return, city councillors agreed that taxpayers, instead of the Oilers, will be on the hook for major repairs and renos at the $480-million facility. That’s a $30 million boost from the original price tag of $450 million. When surrounding infrastructure is factored in, the bill for the entire project is to reach $601 million. Construction is slated to begin in the fall and the arena should be ready for pro hockey by 2016. The rink is a futuristic design of glass walls and wavy horizontal lines. Katz sent out a news release

after the vote. “This is a milestone agreement for a world-class facility that will drive the ongoing revitalization of downtown Edmonton,” he said in the release. “It also helps to ensure the Oilers’ long-term sustainability in Edmonton. This has been a challenging process for all concerned but we are confident we will all look back on the end result with pride and satisfaction at what we have achieved. “I want to thank city council and city administration for their work on this file. This is a great day for Edmonton and we are excited to get to work on realizing this incredible opportunity.” Coun. Kerry Diotte, one of the critics of the deal, said he wants a new arena, too, but said this deal is not good for taxpayers. “A lot of people run very successful businesses in this city, but they don’t get public money to build their factories, and essentially that’s what we’re doing for the Oilers,” said Diotte. “We’re building them a place to play (and) they get all the revenue from it.”

Edmonton taxpayers will pay $219 million toward the 18,559-seat facility. The Oilers’ share will be $143 million. Another $125 million will come from a ticket tax that wouldn’t exceed seven per cent of the total cost of a ducat. Another $107 million is still being sought from the province, along with $7 million from the feds. Coun. Tony Caterina said the missing $107 million is the elephant in the room. Premier Alison Redford’s government has been adamant in its refusal to promise any direct funding for an arena. “That’s sort of the big question mark here,” said Caterina, who wondered if alternative funding solutions, like a lottery, would work. “We tried a lottery once with Calgary (Flames) and Edmonton (Oilers) that was unsuccessful,” said Caterina. Mandel, however, said he’s confident that the money will be there, noting Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner has suggested alternative funding scenarios for all communities trying to build rinks or other public amenities.

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Central Division GP W LOTLSOL Edmonton 49 33 11 2 3 Calgary 47 31 12 1 3 Red Deer 50 25 20 3 2 Lethbridge 50 22 21 1 6 Medicine Hat 49 23 23 2 1 Kootenay 48 22 25 1 0

GF 179 167 138 160 168 127

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Kelowna 47 34 10 2 1 205 Kamloops 50 31 14 2 3 176 Victoria 45 25 17 1 2 146 Prince George 47 14 27 2 4 116 Vancouver 48 12 36 0 0 131

GA 142 131 156 172 196 172

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GA 106 124 150 163 165 155

Pt 71 66 55 51 49 45

GA 118 136 149 171 208

Pt 71 67 53 34 24

U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 46 37 7 1 1 208 105 76 Spokane 47 29 16 2 0 181 145 60 Tri-City 48 28 17 1 2 158 138 59 Everett 49 20 27 0 2 126 173 42 Seattle 48 18 27 2 1 142 193 39 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 Edmonton 7 Moose Jaw 0 Saskatoon 4 Brandon 1 Tri-City 5 Seattle 1

Boston Buffalo Ottawa Toronto Montreal

GP 3 2 2 3 2

Northeast Division W L OT Pts 2 0 1 5 2 0 0 4 2 0 0 4 2 1 0 4 1 1 0 2

GF GA 8 6 7 3 8 1 8 5 5 3

Tampa Bay Winnipeg Florida Carolina Washington

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts 3 2 1 0 4 3 1 1 1 3 3 1 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0

GF GA 13 8 6 8 6 9 2 9 5 10

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 3 3 0 0 6 14 8 Nashville 3 1 0 2 4 8 8 St. Louis 3 2 1 0 4 12 6 Columbus 3 1 1 1 3 7 11 Detroit 3 1 2 0 2 5 11 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts Minnesota 3 2 1 0 4 Vancouver 3 1 1 1 3 Colorado 2 1 1 0 2 Edmonton 2 1 1 0 2 Calgary 3 0 2 1 1

GF GA 6 5 8 12 5 5 6 8 7 12

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 2 2 0 0 4 12 7 Dallas 3 2 1 0 4 6 5 San Jose 2 2 0 0 4 10 4 Phoenix 3 1 2 0 2 12 11 Los Angeles 2 0 2 0 0 3 8 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Tuesday’s Games Winnipeg 4, Washington 2 Tampa Bay 4, Carolina 1 Montreal 4, Florida 1 New Jersey 3, Philadelphia 0 Dallas 2, Detroit 1 Nashville 3, Minnesota 1 Chicago 3, St. Louis 2 Colorado 3, Los Angeles 1 San Jose 6, Edmonton 3

Wednesday’s results Edmonton 4 Saskatoon 2 Kootenay 3 Medicine Hat 2 Prince Albert 3 Prince George 2 Everett 3 at Kamloops 4 Portland at Spokane, Late Thursday’s game Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA New Jersey 2 2 0 0 4 5 1 Pittsburgh 3 2 1 0 4 11 9 N.Y. Islanders 2 1 1 0 2 5 5 N.Y. Rangers 3 1 2 0 2 8 12 Philadelphia 3 0 3 0 0 3 11

Wednesday summaries Canucks 3 Flames 2 (SO) First Period No Scoring. Penalties - Schroeder Vcr (holding) 8:07. Second Period 1. Vancouver, Kassian 2 6:20 2. Vancouver, Raymond 1 (D. Sedin, Hamhuis) 8:20 (pp) 3. Calgary, Tanguay 2 (Glencross) 11:00 4. Calgary, Backlund 1 (Iginla, Kiprusoff) 16:03 (pp) Penalties - Tanguay Cgy (hooking) 0:17, Smith Cgy (high-sticking) 6:45, Garrison Vcr (slashing) 12:26, Bieksa Vcr (cross-checking) 13:23, Edler Vcr (concealing the puck) 14:43, Comeau Cgy (goaltender interference) 16:39. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties - Kassian Vcr (goaltender interference) 4:03, Jones Cgy (tripping) 14:10. Overtime No scoring. Penalties - None. Shootout (Vancouver wins shootout 2-1) Vancouver (2): Burrows, goal; Edler, miss; D. Sedin, miss; Raymond, miss; Kassian, goal. Calgary (1): Iginla, miss; Tanguay, goal; Cammalleri, miss; Stempniak, miss; Glencross, miss. Shots on goal Calgary 7 11 14 4 36 Vancouver 10 18 7 1 36 Goal - Vancouver: Schneider (W, 1-1-0-0); Calgary: Kiprusoff (L, 0-2-1). Power plays (goals-chances) - Vancouver: 1-5; Calgary: 1-4. Attendance - 18,910 at Vancouver, B.C. (SO) Maple Leafs 5 at Penguins 2 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Malkin 1 (Crosby, Letang) 18:51 (pp) Penalties — Orr Tor (fighting, major), Engelland Pgh (fighting, major) 5:58, Kunitz Pgh (boarding) 10:22, Gunnarsson Tor (interference) 15:18, Komisarek Tor (cross-checking) 17:53. Second Period 2. Toronto, MacArthur 1 (Kadri, Kulemin) 3:09 3. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 1 (Kulemin, Grabovski) 6:48 4. Pittsburgh, Crosby 1 (Pa.Dupuis) 7:17 5. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 2, 14:34 Penalties — Pa.Dupuis Pgh (hooking) 0:38, Engelland Pgh (tripping) 8:45, Cooke Pgh (slashing) 9:55, Letang Pgh (boarding) 11:48, Kostka Tor (holding stick) 15:57. Third Period 6. Toronto, Grabovski 1 (Kulemin, van Riemsdyk) 5:18 7. Toronto, Bozak 2 (MacArthur, Kostka) 18:59 (pp) Penalties — Kostka Tor (interference) 1:29, Riemsdyk Tor (hooking) 11:05, Kunitz Pgh (boarding) 11:51, Crosby Pgh (unsportsmanlike conduct), Pittsburgh bench (too many men, served by Kunitz) 18:09. Shots on goal Toronto 7 10 7 — 24 Pittsburgh 12 11 7 — 30 Goal — Toronto: Reimer (W,1-0-0); Pittsburgh: Fleury (L,1-1-0). Power plays (goals-chances) — Toronto: 1-8; Pittsburgh: 1-5. Attendance — 18,641 (18,387).

Wednesday’s Games Vancouver 3, Calgary 2, SO Toronto 5, Pittsburgh 2 N.Y. Rangers 4, Boston 3, OT Phoenix 5, Columbus 1

Friday’s games Kootenay at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Regina at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Brandon at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m. Prince Albert at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Everett at Prince George, 8 p.m. Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Medicine Hat at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Kelowna at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 5 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Montreal at Washington, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Carolina, 5 p.m. Ottawa at Florida, 5:30 p.m. Nashville at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Chicago at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Columbus at Colorado, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m. Phoenix at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Friday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Boston, 5 p.m. Carolina at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Washington at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Ottawa at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. Minnesota at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL National League COLORADO ROCKIES—Agreed to terms with INF Jonathan Herrera on a one-year contract. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Agreed to terms with OF Joe Mather on a minor league contract. American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES—Signed LHP Steve Kent. Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES—Released RHP Jamie Richmond. Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM—Signed RHP Brandon Mathes to a contract extension. JOLIET SLAMMERS—Signed INF Nate Wilder and 1B Jerod Yakubik to contract extensions. RIVER CITY RASCALS—Sent C Ben Hewett to Joliet Slammers to complete a previous trade. Signed SS Bo Cuthbertson and LHP Tim Dudley. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS—Signed RHP Cody Hall to a contract extension. TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS—Signed INF Sean Gusrang to a contract extension. WASHINGTON WILD THINGS—Sent RHP Albert Ayala to the Kansas City (AA) to complete a previous trade. BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES—Signed G-F Chris Johnson to a 10-day contract. MILWAUKEE BUCKS—Signed general manager John Hammond to a contract extension through the 2015-16 season. SAN ANTONIO SPURS—Assigned G Cory Joseph to Austin (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Named Ron Milus secondary coach and Kent Johnston strength and conditioning coach. Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS—Announced the resignation of Lyle Bauer president and chief operating officer. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Signed OL Glenn January to a contract extension. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL—Suspended Philadelphia F Brayden Schenn one game for charging New Jersey D Anton Volchenkov in a Jan. 22 game. MONTREAL CANADIENS—Assigned F Mike Blunden to Hamilton (AHL). SAN JOSE SHARKS—Signed C Scott Gomez to a one-year contract. American Hockey League

GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS—Signed D Erik Spady to a professional tryout contract. HAMILTON BULLDOGS—Released D Mike Commodore from his professional tryout contract. SPRINGFIELD FALCONS—Assigned G Paul Dainton to Evansville (ECHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer FC DALLAS—Waived MF Ricardo Villar and MF James Marcelin. NEW YORK RED BULLS—Announced they mutually agreed with D Wilman Conde in the termination his contract. SPORTING KANSAS CITY—Announced they have entered into a twoyear partnership with and Orlando City (USL PRO).

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RANGERS 4 BRUINS 3 OT NEW YORK — Marian Gaborik scored twice in the first period and then completed his hat trick 27 seconds into overtime as the New York Rangers overcame a pair of blown leads and beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Wednesday night for their first win of the season. Gaborik broke free and outraced Andrew Ference and Johnny Boychuk down the ice. His first shot was blocked by goalie Tuukka Rask, but Gaborik batted the rebound out of the air to end the game. Taylor Pyatt also scored for the Rangers (1-2), who squandered leads of 2-0 and 3-2 en

route to avenging a season-opening loss at Boston on Saturday. Henrik Lundqvist made 26 saves for the win. Brad Marchand and Milan Lucic erased Boston’s 2-0 deficit in the second period, and Nathan Horton got the Bruins even again at 3 with 4:23 left in regulation. MAPLE LEAFS 5 PENGUINS 2 PITTSBURGH (AP) — James van Riemsdyk scored twice, James Reimer stopped 28 shots as Toronto spoiled Pittsburgh’s home opener. Clarke MacArthur, Mikhail Grabovski and Tyler Bozak also scored for the Maple Leafs, and Nikolai Kulemin added three assists. Sidney Crosby and reigning NHL MVP Evgeni Malkin scored their

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Central Division W L Pct 26 16 .619 25 16 .610 22 18 .550 16 26 .381 11 32 .256

GB — 1/2 3 10 15 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 34 11 .756 Memphis 27 14 .659 Houston 22 22 .500 Dallas 18 24 .429 New Orleans 14 28 .333

GB — 5 11 1/2 14 1/2 18 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 33 9 .786 Denver 26 18 .591 Utah 23 19 .548 Portland 20 21 .488 Minnesota 17 22 .436

GB — 8 10 12 1/2 14 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct 32 11 .744 25 15 .625 17 25 .405 16 26 .381 13 28 .317

GB — 5 1/2 14 1/2 15 1/2 18

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Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 95, Boston 90 Detroit 105, Orlando 90 Milwaukee 110, Philadelphia 102

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BRIEFS Waddell lacing up for Team Canada Red Deer’s Gabrielle Waddell will compete for Team Canada at the final two World Cup short track events of the speed skating season as well as the world championships. The World Cups are set for Feb. 1-3 in Sochi, Russia and Feb. 8-10 in Dresden, Germany. The world championships are set for Mar. 8-10 in Debrecen, Hungary. Waddell is one of five skaters on the Canadian team with four picked to compete on the relay team.

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Wednesday’s Games Atlanta 104, Charlotte 92 Miami 123, Toronto 116, OT Chicago 85, Detroit 82 Denver 105, Houston 95 Memphis 106, L.A. Lakers 93 Brooklyn 91, Minnesota 83 San Antonio 106, New Orleans 102 Utah 92, Washington 88 Indiana at Portland, Late Phoenix at Sacramento, Late Oklahoma City at Golden State, Late Thursday’s Games Toronto at Orlando, 5 p.m. New York at Boston, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m. Friday’s Games Minnesota at Washington, 5 p.m. Boston at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m. Detroit at Miami, 5:30 p.m. San Antonio at Dallas, 6 p.m. Golden State at Chicago, 6 p.m. Brooklyn at Memphis, 6 p.m. Houston at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Utah at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Red Deer Women’s Basketball League Funk 43 Rampage 33 Funk: Braelynn Winter 14. Ram: Roxy Kratky 20. POG: Funk: Camille Bax. Ram: Kratky. Collins Barrow Storm 46 Spartans 45 Storm: Erika Pottage 15. Spart: Sam Eggink 13. POG: Storm: Kayla Newans. Spart: Eggink. The Bank 37 Shooting Stars 27 Bank: Erica Rude 10. Stars: Katie McIver 8. POG: Bank: Rude. Stars: Rachel Griesbrach. Hoosier Daddy 76 Vertically Challenged 29 Hoosier: Lindsay Morrison, Veronica Den Oudsten 15. Vert: Tracy Klaussen 9. POG: Hoosier: Veronica Den Oudsten. Vert: Bryony Stewart. Triple Threat 77 Nikes 31 TT: Tamara Rairdan 13. Nike: Michelle de Ruiter 8. POG: TT: Melissa Zieffle. Nike: de Ruiter.

Young sets provincial records at swim meet Josh Young of the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club set a pair of provincial records in the Edmonton Keyano Blue Bears Invitational meet during the weekend. Young established new provincial marks in the 11-12 boys 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 1:10.53 and the 200m breast in 2:32.21. Joining Young in setting new Catalina Club records were Rebecca Smith (11-12 girls 100m and 1,500m freestyle and 200m breast) and the 13-14 girls 4x100m free relay team of Rebecca and Madalyn Smith, Emma MacDermaid and Kristen Trepanier. Meet qualifying times were recorded by Chloe Grant, Maren Eberts and Ocean Roos.

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Southeast Division W L Pct 27 12 .692 24 18 .571 14 27 .341 10 32 .238 9 31 .225

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first goals of the season for Pittsburgh, but the Penguins struggled with Toronto’s speed and failed to play with the kind of discipline that highlighted opening weekend wins over Philadelphia and the New York Rangers. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 19 shots for the Penguins but Pittsburgh couldn’t get off to its first 3-0 start in 18 years.

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National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 25 14 .641 — Brooklyn 26 16 .619 1/2 Boston 20 21 .488 6 Philadelphia 17 25 .405 9 1/2 Toronto 15 27 .357 11 1/2

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Dubnyk confident he can rebound quickly BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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EDMONTON _ Devan Dubnyk didn’t look like he was just hours removed from being chased from the net in the Edmonton Oliers’ forgettable home opener. The Oilers goaltender appeared relaxed and confident at practice Wednesday afternoon, one night after being pulled after the first period of a 6-3 loss to the San Jose Sharks. The 26-year-old from Regina, who was handed the Oilers starting goaltender job this season, said was relieved by the forgiving reaction of Edmonton fans to his shaky performance. He said he’ll take his get-out-jail-free card and use it wisely. “The fans took it pretty easy on me for how it went down,’’ he said after an Oilers practice designed to purge their thoughts of Tuesday’s loss and get them prepared for Thursday’s game against the Los Angeles Kings. “Certainly they were a lot better to me than the fans in Vancouver were to (Cory) Schneider a I’ll take that as my get-out-of-jail-free card and make sure it doesn’t happen again.’’ It’s a little surprising that the fans were so accepting, considering they booed the Oilers off the ice at the end of the first period, have questioned whether Dubnyk is capable of being a No. 1 goaltender in the NHL and had a vocal and mixed reaction to reports that Edmonton is one of the team’s interested in Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo. Dubnyk, who has been in the Oiler system since he was drafted in the first round in 2004, admitted the questions can be frustrating but he doesn’t expect they’ll end any time soon.

“Maybe when I’m 39 or 40 and ready to hang them up,’’ he said. “I’m sure there’ll still be some trade rumours and questions about games I’ve played. It’s certainly frustrating some times but I’ve always said I feel confident in myself and confident I can do the job and I feel my teammates and the organization feel the same way. It’s not for me to worry about and I won’t. I’ll just go play.’’ Dubnyk and head coach Ralph Krueger had a long chat before practice. While neither was saying what words were exchanged, Krueger was confident his goaltender will bounce back. “He’s in a good space,’’ the first-year head coach said. “We’re in a process here and he’s in a process to take on this responsibility (to get the team into the playoffs). We feel good about him bouncing back. He’s done it in the past and I think he’s going to give us a great game against L.A.’’ Krueger said Dubnyk, who will start against the winless Kings, will learn from the first-period disaster. “We use the word experience but what is experience? Experience in going through tough situations and reacting to them in the right way, learning from then,’’ he said. “He’s going through that and he needs this experience to be a No. 1 goaltender. In a short season like this we all need to manage the disappointments as well as the games we enjoy.’’ Dubnyk, who had a strong start in the Oilers 3-2 shoot-out win in their season opener in Vancouver on Sunday, said Krueger told him to forget about the outing and move on. That’s easier said than done admitted Dubnyk,

who said the excitement of the team’s home opener probably contributed to a poor start for the young Oilers. “It’s a challenge you face once a year, really, that home opener,’’ he said. “You face that unique situation every year when you open at home, everyone’s fired up, you have the opening ceremonies and everybody’s standing around ... you’re excited and you want to be great in front of everybody and you end up chasing the puck around. It’s something you have to find a way to deal with.’’ It’s not just the Oilers who suffered through humbling home opening losses this season. About half the teams lost their home openers. “You go around the league and there’s been some interesting results in the home openers,’’ Dubnyk said with a smile. “I don’t know, maybe they’ll start to skip the opening ceremonies to start the season.’’ With the home opener out of the way, the Edmonton coaching staff took steps Wednesday to ensure the Oilers don’t have a similar start against the Kings. “We purged before practice,’’ Krueger said. “There was a mental purge for the coaches first of all, for three or four hours. Then we passed on a condensed version to the players. With this skate we were moving forward already.’’ NOTES: Krueger said F Ben Eager suffered a concussion in his fight Tuesday in Vancouver with Zack Kassian and will be out at least a week. ... G Nikolai Khabibulin still hasn’t been cleared to play. Krueger said he’s been working on his fitness daily but doesn’t know when he’ll be ready to play. ... D Theo Peckham underwent his physical Tuesday night but Krueger hadn’t yet seen the results so didn’t know when he will be ready.

Federer advances with win over Tsonga at Aussie Open BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Serena Williams was only thinking out loud when she muttered this Australian Open had been “the worst two weeks.” Not long after a courtside microphone picked up those comments during her quarterfinal with 19-year-old American Sloane Stephens, things got a whole lot worse. Stephens outplayed Williams, whose movement and serves had been slowed by a back injury, and beat the 15-time Grand Slam champion 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. It marked Williams’ first loss since Aug. 17, and her first defeat at a Grand Slam tournament since last year’s French Open. Four-time Australian Open winner Roger Federer, a 17-time Grand Slam champion, looked for a while like he might join Williams on the sideline. But Federer eked out a 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-3 win over 2008 finalist Jo-

Wilfried Tsonga in a match that lasted 3 hours, 34 minutes. Federer, who broke Tsonga in the fourth game of the deciding set, converted his fifth match point while serving after Tsonga saved four match points in the previous game. Federer, who advanced to the semifinals for the 10th consecutive year at Melbourne Park, will play U.S. Open champion Andy Murray on Friday. “I thought he played very aggressive,” Federer said. “I love those fourset or five-set thrillers and I was part of one tonight.” Murray beat Jeremy Chardy of France 6-4, 6-1, 6-2. The other men’s semifinal has defending champion Novak Djokovic playing David Ferrer on Thursday Williams’ downer of a Grand Slam Down Under started badly when she turned her right ankle in her opening match at Melbourne Park. “I’ve had a tough two weeks between the ankle ... and my back, which

started hurting,” Williams said. “A lot of stuff.” While Williams packed for home — she and sister Venus have also lost in doubles — Stephens advanced to her first Grand Slam semifinal Wednesday night against defending champion Victoria Azarenka. The top-seeded Azarenka beat Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-1 in the early quarterfinal at Rod Laver Arena. Maria Sharapova, who has lost only nine games in five matches, plays Li Na in the other semifinal. Williams hurt her back in the eighth game of the second set and things got progressively worse. She yelled at herself on several occasions, and smashed a racket into the court, earning a $1,500 fine from tournament officials. “I was running to the net for a drop shot,” said Williams, describing the injury. “As I went to hit it, it was on the backhand. I even screamed on the court. I totally locked up after that.” She reiterated after the match that

her injuries had made this Australian Open difficult for her. “Absolutely, I’m almost relieved that it’s over because there’s only so much I felt I could do,” she said. “I’ve been thrown a lot of (curve) balls these two weeks.” Stephens has coped well this week, and the magnitude of her accomplishment only hit her while she was warming down after the match. “I was stretching, and I was like, ’I’m in the semis of a Grand Slam.’ I was like, ’Whoa. It wasn’t as hard as I thought,”’ she said. “To be in the semis of a Grand Slam is definitely a good accomplishment. A lot of hard work.” The No. 29-seeded Stephens hadn’t been given much of a chance of beating Williams, who lost only four matches in 2012 and was in contention to regain the No. 1 ranking at age 31. Williams’ latest winning streak included a straight-set win over Stephens at the Brisbane International this month.

St. Pierre gets who he wanted in Diaz THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — If there is unfinished business between welterweight king Georges StPierre and bad boy Nick Diaz, it will be settled at UFC 158 at the Bell Centre on March 16. UFC boss Dana White wanted to pit St-Pierre against Anderson Silva, a bout many fans have waited for, but the champion from Montreal asked for Diaz. “Georges has been a great champion and he’s been great for the company and if he wants another fight, we’ll make it for him,” White said Wednesday at a news conference attended by a throng of media and about 100 fans. “We knew Nick wanted the fight, so it worked out.” It will be the main event on a card that features six of the top-10 ranked welterweights. The co-feature between St-Pierre’s training partner Rory (Ares) MacDonald (14-1) and Carlos Condit (28-6) and another 170-pound bout pitting Johny Hendricks (14-1) against Jake Ellenberger (28-6) may help decide who St-Pierre’s future opponents will be, if he stretches his winning streak to 11 by defeating Diaz. “This is the big fight

that people wanted to see, more than any other guy,” said St-Pierre (232). “For me, Nick is the No. 1 contender. “There’s a history between us. We both wanted this fight for a long time. Let’s do it.” The two were scheduled to square off nearly two years ago, but Diaz (27-8-1) was dropped from the bout when he failed to turn up at two

promotional events. St-Pierre mentioned he was glad to see Diaz present and accounted for. “I’m just happy to get the show on the road,” said Diaz, the former Strikeforce champion. “I didn’t make it to the last press conference. “It wasn’t very professional on my part. I wanted to fight, but I had to learn my lesson.”

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SPECIAL VALENTINES DINNER AT CRONQUIST HOUSE History meets romance at Cronquist House for Valentine’s Day this year. Enjoy an evening with that special someone as the Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society hosts a five-course meal, featuring prime rib or maple chipotle salmon. Located at Bower Ponds, the historic house offers a wonderful atmosphere for the meal, as well as entertainment and more. The event costs $120 per couple with limited seating. For more information, call 403-346-0055.

Capital fund explored COUN. VEER WANTS CITY TO LOOK AT GRANTS OR LOANS FOR COMMUNITY PROJECTS BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer city councillor wants to explore setting up a community capital fund to respond to financial requests from local organizations. Tara Veer will introduce the motion at the next council meeting on Feb. 4. She said that over the last three years, city council has received numerous requests from community organizations like Red Deer College and the Westerner for capital grants or loans for community projects. Sometimes council has responded with “yes,” “no” or simply “not yet.”

But Veer said council does not have a clear policy for granting or denying community grants or loans. Veer said her hope is that a fair, equitable and transparent process be established so both the community groups know what to expect when they go to council for small and large requests. Veer said this would provide accountability to the public and provide greater transparency of the municipality. “It also helps towards the broader financial substantiality picture of the city,” said Veer. “There’s a limit to how much debt the city can take on. Yet we don’t have any dedicated community capital reserve. When these grants or loans requests have come

forward, there’s not really a dedicated area in the budget for community capital.” Determining where the money will come from will be part of the discussions. Veer said council needs to strive for a balance. “My motion isn’t prescriptive exactly on what we need to do because I think there’s a couple different strategies that we could look at,” said Veer. “But I think it’s imperative that we have the discussion sooner rather than later. Regardless of the strategies we employ, we have to find the right balance between the amount that is allocated to reserves without placing onerous financial expectation on the community.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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WOMEN’S WELLNESS DAY AT PENHOLD For more than six hours, women in Penhold, and from across Central Alberta, can find their bliss at the Women’s Wellness Day. On March 2 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Penhold multiplex, the Women’s Wellness Day features a catered lunch, shopping, burlesque and a fashion show. Early-bird tickets are available for $40 up until Jan. 31, after which regular tickets cost $45. For tickets, more information or to be a vendor, contact Jazmyn at 403-8863269.

PENNIES DOUGHT FOR SOMALIA FOOD PROGRAM Put your copper pennies to good use. Start collecting them now before they go out of circulation on Feb. 4. The Hungry for Change Penny Drive will provide nourishing meals for young students in Somalia through a Food for Hope program. In the Red Deer area, pennies can be dropped off before March 31 at the Hub on Ross Street at 4936 Ross St. For more information, email Emily at emily@ globalenrichment foundation.com.

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Emily Bowen holds up her Steampunk clock during a crafting workshop at the Red Deer Public Library downtown branch on Wednesday. Bowen along with Amy Trepanier, left, a teen services librarian and others were working together on their clocks with a Steampunk theme. Steampunk refers to the club’s activities which form a hybrid of Industrial Revolution era ideas with futuristic elements which can apply to fashion, movies, literature and art says Trepanier. For more information on Teen Services programs at the library call 403-755-1146.

Last accused sentenced in vicious attack MAN BEATEN IN FRONT ENTRY OF DOWNTOWN APARTMENT BUILDING Sentencing is now complete for four young men who viciously beat another man last April. Cameron Coles, 26, was sentenced in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday to 18 months in jail, minus 290 days he has already been in custody, after pleading guilty for his role in an attack at the front entry of a downtown apartment building shortly before 11:30 p.m. on April 9, 2012. Coles appeared agitated, scowling and rocking back and forth in his chair in the prisoner’s box as defence counsel Paul Morigeau and Crown prosecutor Tony Bell discussed the attack, which was captured by video cameras in the building’s lobby. Morigeau said he and Bell reviewed

the video numerous times in the last three weeks, during which he could see that the victim was armed with a knife and was trying to fight back. It is clear from the videos that the most serious injuries were caused by co-accused, Joshua Severin, who was previously sentenced to two years for aggravated assault, said Morigeau. Coles pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of assault causing bodily harm. Crown prosecutor Tony Bell acknowledged that while Coles struck the man from behind with the machete, it was Severin, 19, who delivered the more severe injuries, including cutting a nerve in the victim’s face. Also sentenced earlier after pleading

Sports Awards and Banquet postponed DUE TO LACK OF NOMINATIONS

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The 2013 Red Deer Community Sports Awards and Banquet has been postponed because of a lack of nominations. Set for Feb. 24, the banquet will now take place on April 21 at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel. Nominations will be accepted until March 25. Rob Meckling, the city community and program facilitator for sport, said no nominations were received in some categories, including those reserved for masters athletes, officials, lifetime achievement and business contributor of the year, among others. Youth athlete categories were also under represented with only half a dozen nominations in each, compared with around 20 in past years. Meckling said they know there are many more athletes and supporters out there worthy of recognition so they decided to give people more time to submit

nominations. “It’s important to do the event correctly,” he said. “We want this to be a gala, a great celebration of support in this community.” Sport Council of Red Deer members have already been going out to local sporting events to deliver packages and encourage groups to take another look at some of their standout achievements and contributors. Meckling said the event has been building in recent years, but an earlier nomination deadline and banquet date this year may have been factors in reducing the number of nominations. “I think maybe just our short time frame coming out of the Christmas break may have had something to do with it,” he said, adding for most winter sports it’s mid-season and the focus is on upcoming championships.

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guilty were Victor Bricker and Morgan Riley, 20 and 18, at the time of the attack. Bricker was sentenced to two years for aggravated assault. Riley received time served for common assault. Court heard at the time that he was part of the group but was not an active participant in the beating. Judge Darrell Riemer ordered that Coles serve 255 more days in jail and submit a sample of his DNA. Coles is also prohibited from owning firearms or other dangerous weapons for 10 years after his release.

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Second Lacombe Teen charged BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A second Lacombe teen has been charged in connection with a spray-painted bomb threat that led to hundreds of students being evacuated from Ecole James S. McCormick School on Monday. The 18-year-old man was arrested and is co-operating with police, said Lacombe Police Service Insp. Steve Murray in a news release on Wednesday morning. Murray says the teen “is believed responsible for some of the messages that were painted on the walls at the school, however police are not alleging that this male is responsible for the specific message that a bomb was in the school.”

He is facing several charges, including mischief to property and breach of release conditions. He has been released from custody on bail and is scheduled to make a court appearance in Red Deer provincial court next month. Another 18-year-old was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the incident. That teen, who has also been co-operative, is facing a number of charges, including uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, conveying false messages, mischief to property and causing police to enter into a false investigation. He has been released from custody and will be in court next month.

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BRIEFS RCMP seeking teen drug-free videos The RCMP wants videos made by teens for teens to promote drug-free lifestyles. The national contest invites videographers in Grades 7 to 12 to submit 30- to 60-second films in English or French that talk about the benefits or successes of being drug free and deal with peer pressure to try drugs. The videos will be shown in schools as part of the RCMP’s Canadian Champions program to encourage drug-free lifestyles. Prizes include Canadian Olympic hockey jerseys signed by Sidney Crosby, Toronto Blue Jays T-shirts signed by Brett Lawrie and Adam Loewen, and iPod Touches. Videos will be judged for content, creativity, public feedback, quality of video and technical skill. The deadline for entries is April 28 and winners will be notified via e-mail or telephone May 29. More information and full contest rules are available online at www. rcmp-grc.gc.ca (follow the video contest links).

Man facing over 200 fraud charges Charges continue to mount against a Red Deer man accused of keeping money that donors believed was being collected for the Canadian Cancer Society. Phillip Wiggins, who is in custody at the Red Deer Remand Centre, now faces 237 counts of fraud under $5,000. Wiggins, 37, made a brief appearance in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday, accompanied by defence counsel Walter Kubanek. During a previous court appearance, when the total number of charges had reached 61, Crown prosecutor Murray McPherson said that as many as 1,200 people are believed to have been affected in the alleged scheme. Pleas have been reserved on all charges, with Wiggins to return to court on Jan. 30, when it is anticipated that he will have a bail hearing.

New operator sought for Lions campground The City of Red Deer needs a new operator for Lion’s Campground. A tender for this year’s operation and maintenance at the Riverside Drive facility has gone out. The city terminated its operator and assumed direct operation of the campground last September until its closure Oct. 1. “They weren’t able to meet the obligations under the contract,” said Deb Comfort, the city’s neighbourhood facilities and community development supervisor. A site visit for prospective operators takes place on Friday. The campground is open annually from May 1 to Sept. 30. It includes 126 full- and semi-serviced sites, washrooms, showers and laundry facilities. Tender information is available online at www.purchasingconnection.ca. Tenders close on Feb. 7. “The request for proposals is an

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First annual Red Deer Open Chess tournament Would-be chess masters are invited to test their skills against others at tournament this weekend. The Alberta Chess Association sponsors its first annual Red Deer Open on Saturday and Sunday at the Red Deer Lodge. Entry fees are $30, juniors $20 and women $25. Onsite registration runs from 9:15 to 9:45 a.m. on Saturday, with games at 10 a.m., 2 and 6 p.m. Sunday games are at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Chess Federation of Canada membership is also required to play and will be available onsite. Adult memberships are $43 and juniors $28. Cash prizes will be awarded. More information is available by emailing Alexey Taranik at taranik1978@yahoo.ca.

Proper disposal of fats, oils and grease urged The City of Red Deer reminds residents to properly dispose of fats, oils and grease. The notice comes after a weekend incident where a Riverside Meadows home’s sewer line backed up and the cause was found to be excess grease and oil. “It was unfortunate, but could have easily been prevented,” said Barry Brookes of Environmental Services. “Pouring fats, oils and grease down the drain can block the main sewer lines, as well as those on private property.” Fats, oils and grease should be stored in a disposable container and discarded with other garbage. Hot water and soap won’t remove drained fats from sewer pipes and due to the cold, fat in in-ground lines solidifies and can build up enough to cause blockages. Brookes said anything draining down sinks, toilets and storm drains also impacts the environment.

Property assessments mailed This year’s property assessments are in the mail to city property owners. The City of Red Deer recommends homeowners review the information to ensure it’s correct. Property tax notices are based on the assessed property value, multiplied by the tax rate set by city council on May. Those not receiving a property assessment by Jan. 31 should contact the city’s Revenue and Assessment Services at 403-342-8126 or by email at either tax@reddeer.ca or assessment@ reddeer.ca. Because property tax notices mailed to property owners in May cannot be disputed, residents are encouraged to resolve their concerns well before. If a discussion with an assessor isn’t successful, they can formally appeal to the clerk of the Regional Assessment Review Board. Appeals must be received by no later than March 18. Those appealing should submit their appeals as soon as possible since they are processed in the order they’re

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SPORTS: Groups change Last year, the event was in March, and the year before it was April. Some groups also cited changes in their organizations for letting the nominations slip under their radar. Local residents can nominate a coach, official, volunteer, athlete or business supporter at www. scord.ca. Nominations made to date do not have to be resubmitted. Beckie Scott, who won gold and silver Olympic medals as well as 17 World Cup medals in her cross-

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Kevin Thomson watches his Pickle-ball return shot against opponent Joann Lynn go awry at the G.H. Dawe Community Centre Wednesday. Pickle-ball combines tennis, badminton and ping pong elements using a wiffle ball and paddles and a lower net. The centre offers drop-in games between 9 and 11 a.m. Wednesday mornings with staff willing to set up courts during regular drop in gym times weekdays from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. — adult only times 9 to 10 p.m. weeknights except Wednesdays — and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Regular admission is in effect for all days and times. received. Appeals information is available from the Regional Assessment Review Board clerk on City Hall’s second floor. More information is available online at www.reddeer.ca/tax.

Quinn Contracting workers help charities A large number of Central Alberta charities are better off thanks to Quinn Contracting employees. The company provided eligible employees within its Parkland and Foothills Districts with giving allocations last month. The charities that benefited from a total of $12,125 on behalf of 485 employees in the Parkland District located in Blackfalds are the Blackfalds, Lacombe and Red Deer Food Banks, Canadian Diabetes Association, Canadian Cancer Society, Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Red Deer Christmas Bureau, Red Deer Hospice Society, STARS Air Ambulance, Salvation Army, Red Deer and District SPCA and the Central Alberta United Way. The charities that benefited from a total of $3,200 on behalf of 128 employees in the Foothills District located in Rocky Mountain House are the Canadian Cancer Society, Children’s Wish Foundation, Clearwater Boys and Girls Clubs, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Lord’s Food

Pleas expected in case of missing $1 million Pleas are to be entered next month for a former employee accused of altering the books at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club. Bonnie Howell, 65, was charged late in October by Red Deer City RCMP, who investigating a complaint that nearly $1 million was missing from the golf club’s accounts. A former bookkeeper for the club, Howell is charged with theft, fraud and altering documents. Her lawyer appeared for her at the case management office of Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday to set a date to enter her pleas. Howell is to return to court on Feb. 22. She faces one count of fraud over $5,000, one count of theft over $5,000 and one count of falsification of books and records.

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SCHOOL: Evacuated About 500 students and 50 staff were evacuated at the start of the school day after a message that there was a bomb inside the school was discovered scrawled on an outside wall about 8:30 a.m. Police were called and Wolf Creek Public Schools decided to evacuate staff and students. The school was searched with the aid of an RCMP dog team but nothing was found. Police have taken the unusual step of not naming the suspects at this time, partly because emotions have been running so high in the community. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Still very much Tragically Hip “It’s Tuesday night in Red Deer! Hip concert I attended. What trouble . . . can we get ourselves The then-up-and-coming band from in?” shouted Gord Downie to growing Kingston performed for a mostly blotcheers from about 4,500 fervent fans of to-ed student crowd at the Ryerson The Tragically Hip at the Centrium. Picnic on Toronto’s Centre Island, cirIt’s been six long years since the ca 1988. Toronto-based group last Mental images linger of performed in Red Deer — the group’s grungy black but this week’s concert reafclothing, its spinning singer firmed that certain things and joy of music — so it was don’t change. a thrill to feel the same elaThe Hip’s fabulously tion at the Centrium, The eccentric frontman still band is now 25 years older, thrashed about on stage definitely tighter, and just as he delivered new songs, as enthusiastic. such as At Transformation, Lots of students still and old favourites, includmake up The Hip’s maleing New Orleans is Sinking. heavy audience (many born He waved a white handafter the band formed in kerchief as if flies needed 1983) — as well as former LANA swatting. students, now in their midMICHELIN Downie also spun like an dle years, who need a good LP, conducted stream-ofreason to temporarily cut consciousness monologues loose from their work-a-day during guitar solos, and dralives. matically blotted his foreOn Tuesday night, plenty head with aforesaid hankie. of fists were pumped in the air, rock He smoothed his eyebrows with fingers raised, and beer-fuelled brawetted fingers, and bounced the mike vado shown (one out-of-hand fan got stand off the floor as if it were a punch- chased off the stage and was later esing bag clown. corted out of the Centrium by secuBeing the walking, breathing piece rity). of performance art that he is, Downie, The Hip played a string of songs at the brink of age 49, is still an unpre- from its 1996 Trouble at the Hen House dictable force of nature. album, including Flamenco, Don’t Wake His edgy, overwrought renditions Daddy, Gift Shop and the massive hit of songs including Gus: The Polar Bear Ahead By A Century. from Central Park, Grace, Too, and the Although brand-new tunes, includnew Man Machine Poem, showed he’s ing Streets Ahead and We Want to Be undiminished by time and endless It, lack the catchy hooks of The Hip’s touring (this time out the group is pro- older material, the group didn’t skimp moting The Hip’s 13th album, Now For on favourites, delivering flat-out renPlan A). ditions of Poets, Courage, My Music At It’s obvious that Downie still loves Work, Wheat Kings, At The Hundredth making music and sharing it with fans. Meridian, Nautical Disaster, and BobAnd the same euphoric spirit possess- caygeon. (Downie explained the latter es the rest of the band, which encom- enigmatic song is about a love affair passes guitarists Paul Langlois and between a boy from the city and a girl Rob Baker, bassist Gord Sinclair, and from the country, saying “The hour drummer Johnny Fay (who was so im- and 15 minute commute causes a dimersed in the beat he couldn’t stop lemma.”) grinning). Even after blowing out his voice The exhilaration is what I most re- about one and a half hours in, the hatmember about the first The Tragically ted Downie, clad in white shirt and

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Vocalist and guitarist Gord Downie performs with the Tragically Hip at the Centrium on Tuesday. Promoting the Hip’s 13th studio album, ‘Now For Plan A,’ the band headlined the show with Special guests the Arkells opening the concert. black vest, continued to give it his all, rasping and shouting out his songs for another half an hour. But then, The Tragically Hip didn’t become one of Canada’s favourite bands by wimping out. “Thank you music lovers!” said

Two Vikings struggle to adjust to life in 2013 in the latest edition of Bull Skit in Red Deer. The lovable nerdy girls, foulmouthed Harry and Ralph, and the world’s worst driver will also be part of the sketch comedy and improvisation show that runs at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at the Scott Block Theatre.

This month’s special musical guest is The Dirrty Show, which offers “adult musical comedy at its finest” and has been featured on CJSR Radio in Edmonton. Tickets are $23 ($18 students and seniors) and are available in advance from Sunworks at 4924 Ross St., or by calling 403-341-3455. Doors open at 7 p.m. and there’s a

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PARK CITY, Utah — The Sundance Film Festival isn’t home to many shoot-em-up movies, but action-oriented actors at the festival are facing questions about Hollywood’s role in American gun violence. Guy Pearce and Alexander Skarsgard are among those who say Hollywood shares in the blame. Pearce is in Park City, Utah, to support the family drama Breathe In, but he’s pulled plenty of imaginary triggers in violent films such as Lockdown and Lawless. He says Hollywood may make guns seem “cool” to the broader culture, but there are vast variations in films’ approach to guns. “Hollywood probably does play a role,” Pearce said. “It’s a broad spectrum though. There are films that use guns flippantly, then there are films that use guns in a way that would make you never want to look at a gun ever again — because of the effect that it’s had on the other people in the story at the time. So to sort of just say Hollywood and guns, it’s a broad palette that you’re dealing with, I think. “But I’m sure it does have an effect. As does video games, as do stories on the news. All sorts of things probably seep into the consciousness.” Skarsgard, who blasted away aliens in Battleship, says he agrees that

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1971 — Panarctic Oils caps a natural gas well on King Christian Island that had burned out of control for three months. 1955 — The first Canadian nuclear power plant, at Des Joachims, Ont., is started. 1903 — Britain and the United States refer the Alaskan boundary dispute to a commission that sits from Sept. 3 to Oct. 2. The result of the Anglo-American Convention will be largely in favour of American interests, enraging the Canadian public.

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Horticulture draws interest FORUM DETAILS OPPORTUNITIES TO PRODUCE, DIRECT-MARKET FRUIT AND VEGETABLES BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR There could be a strong appetite for fruit and vegetable production in Central Alberta, based on attendance at a horticulture workshop in Lacombe on Tuesday. About 30 people from throughout the region attended the one-day session, which was presented by Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. “We drew from a pretty good circle around Lacombe,” said Rob Spencer, a Stettler-based commercial horticulture specialist with the department. The purpose of the workshop — one of five being held across the province over the next few weeks — was to inform people about opportunities to produce and directmarket fruit and vegetables. Spencer said his office gets plenty of inquiries about this niche industry, and decided it made sense to take the information onto the road. With many producers

approaching or at retirement, he added, it’s also important to attract younger people to the industry. Those in his Lacombe audience ranged in age from their 20s to their 60s, and beyond, said Spencer. But the average age was lower than it is for farmers generally, he observed. The industry is a promising one, with many consumers eager to buy from producers, said Spencer. “People do seem to want more of a direct contact, more so than they may have needed before. They want to understand better where their food comes from.” Market options include U-picks, farmgate sales, farmers markets and CSAs (community supported agriculture), he said. As for crops, choices include less-common fruits like sour cherries and saskatoons, said Spencer, adding that it’s a good idea to include some staples, like strawberries. “I’ve heard them referred to as the locomotive of the direct market operation,” he said. “They’ll draw people like nobody’s

business.” On the vegetable side, options extend to leafy greens and ethnic crops. “But you can still get by on really good quality carrots or baby potatoes or those types of things. Those are staple standbys for any direct-market operation.” The Lacombe-Red Deer region has already established itself as a fruit and vegetable hotbed. “We’ve got potatoes, we’ve got greenhouses, we’ve got some good nurseries and a number of really nice market garden operations too.” Those considering fruit and vegetable production include traditional farmers looking to diversify, direct-market producers of meat and other products who want to expand their offerings, acreage owners keen to put their property into production, and even urban dwellers with no existing ties to the land.

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Lexus plant gets $34 million Toyota will receive nearly $34 million from the federal and Ontario governments as it retools an assembly line at its plant in Cambridge, Ont., for the first Lexus hybrid produced outside of Japan. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the government is proud to partner with Toyota. “The rebound of Canada’s auto-sector is one of this country’s biggest economic success stories of the past five years,” Harper said. Ottawa will kick in $16.9 million from the Automotive Innovation Fund, while the province will match that with an investment from its Strategic Jobs and Investment Fund. Toyota will put $125 million toward the new assembly line to increase production of Lexus luxury cars, including the RX450h hybrid sport-utility vehicle. In addition to the Cambridge operation, Toyota has a newer factory in Woodstock, Ont.

House OKs debt increase Retreating with a purpose, Republicans sped legislation through the House on Wednesday to avert the imminent threat of a government default but pointing the way to a springtime budget struggle with President Barack Obama over Medicare, farm subsidies and other benefit programs. The current legislation, which cleared the House on a bipartisan vote of 285-144, would permit Treasury borrowing to exceed the limit of $16.4 trillion through May 18. Speaker John Boehner pledged that Republicans would quickly draft a budget that would wipe out deficits in a decade, and he challenged Democrats to do the same. The Democraticcontrolled Senate is expected to approve the debt bill as early as Friday or perhaps next week. Under the U.S. system, the two houses of Congress must pass identical bills before they’re sent to the president.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — More than half the Senate on Wednesday urged quick approval of TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, ramping up pressure on President Barack Obama just days after he promised in his inaugural address to respond vigorously to the threat of climate change. A letter signed by 53 senators said Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman’s approval of a revised route through his state puts the longdelayed project squarely in the president’s hands. “We urge you to choose jobs, economic development and American energy security,” the letter said, adding that the pipeline “has gone through the most exhaustive environmental scrutiny of any pipeline” in U.S. history. “There is no reason to deny or further delay this long-studied project,” said the letter, which was initiated by Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and signed by 44 Republicans and nine Democrats. Another Democrat, Jon Tester of Montana, supports the pipeline but did not sign the letter. Calgary-based TransCanada is seeking approval for a $5.3-billion pipeline that would carry crude from Alberta’s oilsands and U.S. shale formations to Steele City, Neb. That pipeline would link up with another $2.3-billion conduit line to Texas refineries, which is 40 per cent complete. That segment does not require a U.S. federal permit. The two projects were originally part of one big pipeline proposal that the Obama administration rejected last year. TransCanada opted to cut it up into two projects while the Nebraska issues were sorted out. The southern leg should be in service later this year, while TransCanada (TSX:TRP) expects the northern portion to start up in late 2014 or early 2015. At a news conference Wednesday, senators said the pipeline should be a key part of Obama’s “all of the above” energy policy, in which he has expressed support for a range of energy sources from oil and natural gas to wind, solar and coal.

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Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman delivers the annual State of the State address to lawmakers in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday. Gov. Heineman added his signature to a letter signed by 53 senators addressed to President Barak Obama pushing for approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Obama administration has twice thwarted the 2,700-kilometre (1,700 mile) pipeline, which TransCanada first proposed in late 2008. The State Department delayed the project in late 2011 after environmental groups and others raised concerns about a proposed route through environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska. Under pressure from congressional Republicans to make a decision on the pipeline, Obama blocked it in January 2012, saying his concerns about the Nebraska route had not been resolved. TransCanada submitted a new ap-

Most space taken in spring job fair The spring edition of the Central Alberta Career and Job Fair is still 2 ½ months away, but much of its exhibit space has already been spoken for. The April 3 event, which is scheduled to take place at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Centre from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., has 46 exhibitors to date, according to the job fair website. Held twice-yearly, the Central Alberta Career and Job Fair is organized by Outbound Productions on behalf of Alberta Human Services. Attendees are able to speak with prospective employers and service providers, and even apply for positions on site. The deadline for exhibitors to register is March 3. Information about this and the job fair generally can be found online at www. jobfair.me.

Cease-trade order made against Digagogo The Alberta Securities Commission has adopted a British Columbia cease-trade order with respect to a company with connections to Red Deer. The British Columbia Securities Commission ordered in August 2010 that trade

plication last spring. The State Department said Tuesday it does not expect to complete a review of the project before the end of March. The State Department has jurisdiction over the pipeline because it crosses a U.S. border. The renewed focus on the pipeline comes as Obama pledged during his inaugural address to respond to the threat of global warming. Environmental groups and some Democratic lawmakers argue that approving the pipeline would directly contradict that promise.

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BRIEFS in securities of Digagogo Ventures Corp. be halted. It said some of the company’s filings and a news release were not completed in accordance with securities laws. The Alberta commission announced on Wednesday that it had also concluded that it would be in the public’s interest to prohibit trade in Digagogo securities until the B.C. order is revoked. It referred to evidence that Digagogo is operating in Red Deer through a licensee and that at least one Albertan has invested in the company. The Red Deer licensee, Carman Bessey, told the Advocate that the cease-trade order has “zero effect” on his business, Red Deer Dogo Net. He explained that the licence agreement has been completed. Red Deer Dogo Net allows participating businesses and households to buy and sell goods and services online, using a regional advertising platform and search engine. Bessey said it’s currently supplying services to more than 2,500 businesses and households a month in Red Deer County, and has submitted an app to iTunes operator Apple Inc. that would provide users

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is lowering expectations when it comes to Canada’s economy, saying a global financial slowdown is affecting the country’s growth. The prime minister spoke after the Bank of Canada downgraded its economic growth outlook for the country to 1.9 per cent for the year just ended and 2.0 per cent for this year. The central bank also said it will likely have to keep interest rates at super-low levels for longer than expected in the face of the surprisingly weak economy. Harper says his government downgraded its own growth forecast in the fall due to changes outside its borders. “There has been a general slowing of the global economy over the past half-year so it is obviously a concern to us. “And...it’s going obviously to have some fiscal impact on us, will have some impact on the pace of job creation.” But Harper says despite the setback, Canada continues to create jobs and is faring relatively well compared to other countries. “Families and businesses and ourselves as government should try and look past the fluctations we’ve had over the past several years and are likely to continue to have, and look instead at what we need to do to continue to create jobs, growth and prosperity in the long term for this country.”

with detailed information about local restaurants. Digagogo Ventures is an American company that is an over-the-counter (OTC) or off-exchange issuer of securities.

Rimbey council approves development Rimbey town council has approved first reading of a bylaw to adopt an area structure plan for 61 acres of land on the community’s southeast corner. The plan, which was prepared for Brix Construction Inc. of Rimbey, contemplates the creation of five country residential lots as an initial phase of development. Four of these lots would be two acres in size and the fifth would be 2.51 acres. Subsequent development is expected to involve a dozen industrial/commercial lots. “There’s going to be anywhere from 2 ½ to five- or six-acre lots available,” said Brix Construction owner Steffen Olsen. The property, which is west of Hwy 20, is bounded by industrial and commercial land to the north and east, and agricultural and residential land to the south. Olsen said work on one and perhaps two homes in the plan area could begin this year. The matter is scheduled to be discussed at a public hearing in Rimbey on Feb. 11.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 110.65 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 83.80 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.92 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.13 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.96 Cdn. National Railway . . 93.64 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 111.04 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 75.39 Capital Power Corp . . . . 23.31 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.90 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 34.08 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 43.86 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.80 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.27 General Motors Co. . . . . 28.57 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 19.33 Research in Motion. . . . . 17.30 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 45.26 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 39.78 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.65 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 16.53 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.03 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.33 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 69.10 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.08 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.20 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 11.92 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.11 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.03 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 50.30 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.49 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.66 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 34.09 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.35 First Quantum Minerals . 20.55 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 37.22 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 12.03 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 70.77 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 9.48 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 41.90 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.78 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 37.52

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.86 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 33.16 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.21 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.41 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 46.20 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 30.18 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 21.17 Canyon Services Group. 10.95 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.05 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.690 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.34 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.17 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 90.70 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 37.79 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.36 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 31.42 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 44.18 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.32 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.94 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.79 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.70 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.39 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.22 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.98 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.06 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.72 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.30 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 51.56

MARKETS CLOSE The Toronto stock market closed lower Wednesday as investors looked to another day of mixed earnings reports and a vote by Congress to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. The S&P/TSX composite index declined 30.59 points to 12,794.05 while the TSX Venture Exchange edged 0.46 of a point higher to 1,241.53. The Canadian dollar dropped 0.64 of a cent to 100.1 cents US after the Bank of Canada said economic growth has been weaker than expected and indicated that the anticipated need to raise rates is now less imminent. The bank’s key overnight lending rate remained unchanged at one per cent, as expected. The change in the guidance from last month likely means the central bank won’t move to tighten borrowing costs until some time in 2014 or until it has more compelling evidence the Canadian economy is ready to re-engage. U.S. indexes were higher amid solid reports from Google Inc. and IBM Corp., with the Dow Jones industrials up 66.96 points to a fresh fiveyear high of 13,779.17. The Nasdaq rose 10.49 points to 3,153.67 while the S&P 500 index also closed at its best level in five years, up 2.22 points to 1,494.78. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday to permit the government to borrow enough money to avoid a first-time default for at least four months. Republicans backed away from their previous demand that any increase in the government’s borrowing cap be paired with an equivalent level of spending cuts, a condition that had cast a cloud of uncertainty over markets. The measure now goes to the Senate for a vote in the next few days. In Toronto, Celestica (TSX:CLS) reported a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profits as the electronics manufacturer was hit by restructuring and other charges and lower revenue as it wound down work for Research In Motion. Its shares dipped 34 cents to $8.22 even as president and chief executive officer Craig Muhlhauser assured analysts there is a plan to improve profit this year. In the U.S., McDonald’s reported Wednesday that quarterly earnings were US$1.38 a share, five cents better than analysts’ forecasts. Revenue of US$6.95 billion beat projections of $6.889 billion and its shares were up 54 cents to US$93.49 even as the world’s biggest hamburger chain also warned that a key sales figure is expected to drop this month. After the close Tuesday, IBM handed in results that beat for earnings and revenue. Earnings per share for the quarter were $5.39, versus the $5.25 that analysts expected. Revenue came in at $29.3 billion against the $29.09 billion expected and IBM shares gained 4.41 per cent to $204.72. Google’s fourth-quarter earnings rose seven per cent to nearly $2.9 billion, or $8.62 cents per share. If not for the costs of employee stock compensation and certain other accounting items, Google said it would have earned $10.65 per share, which exceeded estimates of $10.54. Revenue surged 36 per cent to $14.4 billion and its stock ran ahead 5.5 per cent to $741.50. The results added increasing optimism about fourth-quarter earnings. “So far, things are looking pretty good,” said Luciano Orengo, portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management. “One hundred companies out 498 on the S&P 500 have reported — about 20 per cent or so — and 77 per cent of them have come up with positive earnings surprises, versus 22 with negative (which is) better than the historical average.” After markets closed Wednesday, Netflix reported a 78 per cent drop in fourth-quarter profits to US$8 million or 13 cents per share even as revenue climbed eight per cent to US$945 million as it added two million subscribers in the period. However, investors had been braced for a loss as expenses of the Internet video services provider rose and the results appeared to validate recent investor confidence in Netflix Inc., whose volatile stock had surged by more than 30 per cent since early December. The stock jumped another 29 per cent after the fourth-quarter numbers came out. Traders were also taking in earnings from Apple Inc. after the close on Wednesday. Its stock gained $9.23 to US$514. The gold sector led TSX decliners, down about two per cent while February bullion on the New York Mercantile Exchange ticked $6.50 lower to US$1,686.70 an ounce.

Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) faded 81 cents to C$37.22 while Iamgold (TSX:IMG) dropped 14.55 per cent to $9.22, a day after the Toronto-based miner said it has reduced exploration activity in Mali as a precaution due to unrest in the west African country. The tech sector also contributed to weakness, down 0.5 per cent with Research In Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM) giving back some of its recent strong gains, down 44 cents to $17.30. It unveils its new BlackBerry 10 product on Jan. 30. The base metals component fell 0.39 per cent as March copper was down two cents at US$3.68 a pound. First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) shed 37 cents to C$20.55. Oil prices registered the biggest decline in about a month on reports that the amount of oil moving through a key pipeline to the Gulf Coast had been cut in half. The February crude contract on the Nymex dropped $1.45, or 1.5 per cent, to US$95.23 a barrel. Analysts say losses picked up in the early afternoon after reports surfaced that the Seaway pipeline, which takes crude from Cushing, Okla., to the Gulf Coast, was constrained and could only work at about half its 400,000 barrel-per-day capacity. That will likely mean growing supplies at Cushing, the trading hub for U.S. benchmark oil, and lower prices. Last year, Enbridge and partner Enterprise Products Partners reversed the flow of the Seaway pipeline and earlier this month expanded its capacity from 150,000 to 400,000 barrels a day. The energy sector was flat as Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO) rose 17 cents to C$44.18. The telecom sector provided lift, with BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) ahead 35 cents to $43.92. A major decliner in New York was luxury handbag seller Coach Inc. Its shares plunged 16.36 per cent to US$50.75 after it said a challenging economy and heavy price cutting by competitors weighed on its fiscal second-quarter results. Net income was $352.7 million, or $1.23 per share, while net sales rose four per cent to $1.5 billion. The results were short of expectations for earnings of $1.28 per share on revenue of $1.6 billion.

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 64.16 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 58.22 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.36 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 30.12 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 30.56 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 26.16 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.20 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 65.60 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.67 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 79.38 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.67 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 61.44 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 29.40 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.15

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Wednesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,794.05 down 30.59 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,241.53 up 0.46 point TSX 60 — 734.74 down 2.04 points Dow — 13,779.17 up 66.96 points S&P 500 — 1,494.78 up 2.22 points Nasdaq — 3,153.67 up 10.49 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 100.10 cents US, down 0.64 of a cent Pound — C$1.5830, up 1.14 cents Euro — C$1.3305, up 0.85 of a cent Euro — US$1.3318, up 0.98 of a cent Oil futures: US$95.23 per barrel, down $1.45 (March contract) Gold futures: $1,686.70 per oz., down $6.50 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $33.345 per oz., up 13 cents $1,072.04 per kg., up $4.18 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 1,241.53, inching up 0.46 point. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 176.91 million shares. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: March ’13 $0.80 higher $605.80; May ’13 $0.10 lower $594.40; July ’13 $1.50 higher $583.80; Nov. ’13 $1.50 higher $551.50; Jan. ’14 $0.50 higher $550.20; March ’14 $0.60 lower $549.70; May ’14 $0.60 lower $547.60; July ’14 $0.60 lower $549.70; Nov. ’14 $0.60 lower $547.40; Jan ’15 $0.60 lower $547.40; March $0.60 lower $547.40. Barley (Western): March ’13 unchanged $241.50; May ’13 unchanged $242.50; July ’13 unchanged $243.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $243.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $243.00; March ’14 unchanged $243.00; May ’14 unchanged $243.00; July ’14 unchanged $243.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $243.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $243.00; March ’15 unchanged $243.00. Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 725,340 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 725,340.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada said Wednesday interest rates will need to stay at super-low levels longer — likely until 2014, say analysts — after conceding it misjudged the strength of the economy and reduced its outlook for inflation. For the 19th consecutive decision date, the central bank’s policy setting team kept the trendsetting interest rate at one per cent Wednesday, where it has been for almost two-and-a-half years. But the statement and accompanying monetary policy review contained plenty of surprises, the

biggest being a new advisory to Canadians and financial markets that the anticipated need to raise rates in the future is now “less imminent.” It felt free to issue such an advisory, the central bank said, in part because it is less worried about record levels of consumer debt and the housing market, both of which appear to be moderating. And inflation pressures, with evidence the consumer price index will stay around one per cent for some time, are at the lowest since the recessionary period. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the government has already pencilled in weaker growth for the Canadian economy, adding

that the lower level of activity is hurting government revenues. “There has been a general slowing of the global economy over the past half-year so it is obviously a concern to us. “And...it’s going obviously to have some fiscal impact on us, will have some impact on the pace of job creation,” he said. According to the central bank, Canada’s economy inched along at only one per cent in the last three months of the year — not the 2.5 per cent it had expected. As well, the bank downgraded growth expectations for 2012 and 2013 by three-tenths on both counts to 1.9 per cent and 2.0 per cent respectively.

IMF sees hopeful signs despite lowering global, Canadian growth predictions BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canadian and global economies will continue struggling to maintain momentum this year, but in a relatively hopeful new outlook, the International Monetary Fund says it sees light at the end of the tunnel. The IMF now expects Canada’s economy will expand by a modest 1.8 per cent this year — two-tenths of a point weaker than it forecast three months ago — and by 2.3 per cent in 2014, off one-tenth of a point. For the global economy as a whole, the international financial

organization says growth will hit 3.5 per cent in 2013, slightly lower than its October forecast but still stronger than last year’s 3.2 per cent advance. In 2014, the world economy will rebound to 4.1 per cent, the strongest rate in three years, it says. However, the IMF adds the global economy is coming out of the doldrums and that recent actions taken by governments and central banks around the world could pay quick dividends and produce stronger numbers starting this year. “Policy actions have lowered acute risks in the euro area and

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GROWERS: A real mix “Its a real mix,” said Spencer. They can start with a simple operation, and expand from there, he pointed out. That could even include the addition of a greenhouse. “It really depends on what they’re interested in doing, how they want to stretch their season.” Hurdles facing prospective growers include finding quality, affordable land with access to water, said Spencer. Having a large population base nearby is also important.

the United States,” the Washington-based fund says in a release issued Wednesday morning. “If crisis risks do not materialize and financial conditions continue to improve, global growth could be stronger than projected.” The IMF cautions that many of the troubles that have plagued the world since the 2008-09 recession remain. The eurozone recession will carry into 2013, the report predicts, although it won’t be as deep as last year’s. Meanwhile, the U.S. could still stumble if policy-makers too aggressively tackle the country’s long-term budget hole.

Because fruit and vegetable farms are labourintensive, the associated costs can be high, he added. Return on investment can take time, especially in the case of perennial plants that take years to mature. And bankers who don’t understand the industry may be reluctant to offer support. Still, Spencer is optimistic that some of the people attending the workshops will pursue the opportunity. “We’ll be following up with these groups down the road, and if they want more help we’ll work with them.” Information about fruit and vegetable production for direct sale can also be obtained by calling Alberta Agriculture’s Ag-Info Centre toll-free at 310-3276. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Kerry divests holdings in Canadian oil companies BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — John Kerry and his wife have agreed to divest holdings in a Canadian oil company, as well as dozens of other investments, in an effort to avoid conflicts of interest as the Massachusetts senator prepares to become America’s next secretary of state. The Canadian Press reported last week that Kerry had as much as US$750,000 invested in Suncor, a Calgary-based oil company whose CEO has urged the Obama administration to greenlight TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. But federal ethics officials, acting independently of the White House, have determined the Suncor (TSX:SU) stock poses no conflict D of interest threats. Kerry I has also agreed to divest L B of as much as $31,000 in E Cenovus Energy — anR other Calgary firm that T has pushed for Keystone XL approval — within 90

days if he’s confirmed secretary of state. Financial disclosure records show that Kerry and his wife, Heinz ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry, hold a vast array of international investments that could have placed the senator in an ethical quandary at the State Department. Kerry’s office said last week that many of those investments were in family trusts managed by an independent trustee, and that the senator was unaware of the contents. The senator is one of the wealthiest lawmakers on Capitol Hill with an estimated net worth of $193 million.

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BAKER Joyce Elaine Joyce Baker passed away January 17, 2013 surrounded by her family. Joyce was born August 4, 1937 to Walter and Clara Svedberg. She grew up on a farm near Hendon, Saskatchewan. She married Walter Baker September 19, 1955, and relocated to Alberta to raise their family, finally settling in Bowden, Alberta. Joyce was not one to sit still therefore was actively involved in the Bowden c o m m u n i t y. S h e w a s a founding member of the Bowden Thrift Shop, was a part of the Ag Society, Town Council, Order of Eastern Star and U.C.W, to name a few. As a mother to not only her own four children but also many others, Joyce designed and created many figure skating costumes, laced up skates, sat through recitals, and always had a full table every night at 6 o’clock. Known for her cooking, Joyce then operated a small catering company, where nobody in the family escaped from helping. There were very few people Joyce did not know and she reached out to everyone with her compassion and friendship. She was always sending a meal or baking to a family or senior, taking the time to visit with anyone who needed an ear. She was called upon often to “help”, and never turned down a request. At the end of the day, Joyce was happy to be home with her family, and as it grew she relished her time with her grandchildren. Family was important to Joyce and we were often all together for birthday’s and every holiday. She loved her family, her church and her community, and it was evident in how she lived her life. Joyce re-located to Red Deer in 2006 with her husband. Joyce was predeceased by her son R a y m o n d B a k e r. S h e i s survived by her husband, Walter; her children, Dale (Joni) Baker, Elaine (Martin) Baker-Rowe, Karen (Tim) Baker; her grandchildren and her sister, Yvonne Dmetrichuk. A Celebration of Joyce’s Full Life will be announced at a later date. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca

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LINDSKOG Hazel Lydia Hazel Lydia Lindskog of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at Red Deer Hospice on January 18th, 2013 at the age of 86. She was born at home near Eckville on January 27th, 1926. Hazel grew up near Eckville, attended high school in Lacombe and completed her R.N. Degree from the Edmonton General Hospital in 1948 and nursed in Central Alberta for several years after graduation. She was united in marriage to Harry Victor Lindskog of Lacombe in 1951. Hazel enjoyed curling and golfing in her earlier years, was a member of the Red Deer Kinnettes, K-40 Ladies and was an active volunteer for the Canadian Cancer Society. Hazel was predeceased by her husband Harry in March, 2005, her parents, two sisters and her granddaughter Loni. She will be truly missed by her family and friends. She is survived by her two loving sons, Tom (Christy) Lindskog of Bragg Creek, Doug Lindskog (Wendy) of Cremona, and loving daughter Joan (Garry) Hermary of Sylvan Lake; her grandchildren Jessica, Kelly (Nick Kaprowski), Hayden, Erin, Whitney Lindskog; Erika Lindskog; Dan (Marcy) Hermary and great grandson Drew, and many nieces and nephews. A special thank you from the family to Janet, her devoted caregiver, and to all who helped in Hazel’s final years. Dear friends and family are welcome to join in a celebration of Hazel’s life February 16th, 2013 at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsons’sfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements. 403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

NORTH Laura Bernice 1919 - 2013 Mrs. Laura B. North of Red Deer passed away peacefully at home on January 18, 2013, at the age of 93 years. Laura loved to laugh. She leaves a legacy of joyful compassion that has touched the lives o f s o m a n y. L a u r a w a s predeceased by her loving husband and companion of 45 years, Roy A. North and her sister, Dorothy Lowry of Barrie, Ontario. She will be lovingly remembered by her brother-in-law, Robert (Denise) North of Richmond, British Columbia; sister-in-law, Beverly (Con) Macht of Richmond, British Columbia; special nieces, Gwen (Harold) Johnston of Barrie, Ontario and Marie (Rob) Brown of Morningside, Alberta; special nephews, Brian (Cathy) McCloskey of Calgary, Alberta and Doug (Dorothy) Lowry of Minesing, Ontario. Laura’s memory will be further cherished by numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, and devoted friends. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church (6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, AB). In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Laura’s name to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Valeri Watson EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

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Catherine Douglas (nee Ramage) July 27, 1927 Markerville Jan. 24, 2009 Forever in our hearts Brothers Gordon, Donald, Stephen & sister Annie, nieces, nephews, son James and grandson Connor.

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TUCKER Jean Carol May 30, 1939 - January 18 2013 Jean Tucker of Elnora lost her long battle with cancer January 18, 2013. Join her friends and family in a celebration of her life at the Elnora Community Center, Friday, January 25, 2013 @ 2pm.

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CALKINS Allan Dale Calkins was born in Ponoka, Alberta, November 24, 1929 at rest January 17, 2013. He was 83. One of six children born to Grover Cleveland Calkins and Frances Mary Bush, Allan was raised in Lacombe Alberta where he had a notable history in hockey playing goaltender for the Olds Elks; setting Allan up for coaching hockey in Calgary with the Bantam AA Blackhawks winning the City Championships in 1975-76. During these early years playing hockey in Central Alberta, Allan met and married Jacqueline Desharnais of Wetaskiwin on June 27, 1953. They celebrate their sixtieth anniversary this year. The young couple moved to Calgary where Allan worked in the Oil and Gas business, first at Western Geophysical, then Triad Oil and Gas and later British Petroleum. Allan bravely branched out to start a successful seismic data company by the seventies developing business acumen that followed him later into his farming career and somewhere along the line he became known simply as Al. Al demonstrated his strong values of community as he actively led the Kingsland Community Association in the late sixties and seventies as well as raising his three children, Glen, Michelle and Neal. Al’s love of sport permeated their lives with Glen actively skiing and pursuing a career first in marketing with the Canadian Alpine Ski team and then as an owner of Tim Horton restaurants; daughter Michelle honed her skills in the pool with the Calgary Aquabelles; and Neal played ice hockey and lacrosse throughout high school and now actively coaches. Al challenged everyone to be the best they could be. Al’s grandparents, Clyde and Mary Bush travelled from the eastern United States to Alberta in a covered wagon to farm near Ponoka. This strong maternal family influence overtook Allan and by the early eighties he was searching for farmland and a new adventure. In 1982 Al purchased farmland near Tees, Alberta where he actively raised cattle and enjoyed the country life with wife Jackie. This was a prolific time for Al as he set about ordering his life with farming, tree planting, animal husbandry, gardening, bird watching and family. Al further directed his attention to a more unusual quest for knowledge about the Knights Templar, taking him to England, Scotland and Wales. His thirst for history also included the pioneers of Alberta driving many country roads and cemeteries in search of learning and this inquiry stretched to everyone he met. Al never tired of meeting life with courage and with pride. Al’s family includes brothers, Jack, Cork, Wes; sisters, Joan and predeceased Beth; wife, Jackie; children, Glen, Michelle (DeFilippi) and Neal; grandchildren, Dale, Anna, Paul, Ryann, Cori, Molly and Jack. Al was a son, man, husband, father, grandfather, farmer, gardener, bird watcher, crossword puzzler, historian, reader and a thinker. Funeral Services will be held from Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe on Friday, January 25, 2013 at 12:00 noon. Interment will take place at the Earlville Rutherford Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please give to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB., T4R 3S6, www.reddeerhospice.com where Allan passed away with dignity, and the honor and pride he always carried with him. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca. WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements. 403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

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Morley & Kathy Spelman On Saturday, January 26, 2013 we will be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary at Gaetz United Church (where we were married) downstairs in the Pioneer Hall for an afternoon get together from 2-5 p.m. No gifts please, your presence is our gift! I am asking you to bring a short piece poetry that has special meaning for you or make up a silly limerick when you get there to share with us.

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Card Of Thanks WEDDELL The family of Jean Mary Weddell would like to thank all those who in the last month and a half have been so thoughtful in remarks and deeds regarding Jean toward and during the end of her life’s remarkable “dash”. The staff and her many friends (family) at Symphony at Aspen Ridge were very important to her and a great motivator and support throughout her seven and a half years in residence. In the last few weeks of Jean’s life, the staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital (Emergency and Unit 22) cared for her professionally and kindly. We are very appreciative.

Engagements

Jodi Robertson and Cameron Steele along with their parents, are excited to announce their engagement. The wedding will take place on August 3, 2013.

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F/T Live-In Caregiver for elderly male. $1834 salary less room & board. Send resume to: brushells_888@yahoo.com

Clerical

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BOOKKEEPER

RESPONSIBILITIES: - all related payroll duties - GST returns and WCB reporting - monthly financial statements REQUIREMENTS: - high standard of confidentiality req’d - 5 or more yrs. working exp. - strong working knowledge of Simply Accounting - strong computer skills and very proficient with spreadsheets - extremely organized with attention to detail - able to work independently with minimum supervision - able to follow directions and meet deadlines Reply to Box 1029, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

IMMED. F/T Administrative Assistant, Req’d for busy Lacombe based Business. This position supports the accounting dept. with general accounting duties, as well as general administrative duties. Familiarity with ACCPAC, Simply Accounting, Word & Excel an asset. Fax resume to 403-342-7447

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for one year maternity leave coverage. Hours & salary negotiable. REQUIREMENTS: Outgoing personality, excellent telephone skills, Office Administration Certificate or equivalent work experience, team player, proven computer organizational and data entry skills. Simply & Excel skills an asset. Please forward your resume to: welcan@telusplanet.net by 01/31/13.

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Dental

BUSY Dental Office requires Dental Hygienist for full time schedule. Bus: 403-845-3200 Fax: 403-845-4440 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Janitorial

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CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr. Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463

Johnston Ming Manning LLP has a full time Legal Assistant position available in our real estate department. This position requires someone who displays a team player outlook, effective communication skills, the ability to multi-task, and the ability to work in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will have prior experience working in a law firm, and a minimum of 3 - 5 years experience working as a Legal Assistant in residential real estate. We offer an excellent working environment, a great benefit package, and the opportunity for personal and professional growth. Please respond in confidence with a cover letter and resume to: Human Resources Johnston Ming Manning LLP 3rd Floor, 4943 50th Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y1 Fax: (403) 342-9173 Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca We would like to thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Medical

Nelmar Cleaning Services Ltd. is hiring workers for evening shifts. No experience is req’d. Will train. $14/hr. to start. Duties and responsibilities: Clean bathrooms, sweep, mop, wash and polish floor, pick up debris and empty garbage containers from parking lots. Call 403-598-3350 or email resume to: marthaxabs @yahoo.com

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Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrender Glass LLP Requires the services of a Senior/Intermediate Corp/Comm Legal assistant. Cores and PPR accreditation will be an advantage. Please email resume to ssimmons@ altalaw.ca or fax to the attention of Office Manager on 403.343.0891.

Computer Personnel

Medical

GREYWOLF ENERGY SERVICES LTD. is now hiring experienced Well Testing Operators, Night Supervisors, and Day Supervisors. We are one of the largest testing companies in North America. We pay top wages, have an excellent benefits package, and an RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan) program.

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Pharmacy Technician F/T position avail. Exc. salary, good benefits. Email applicaton to: westparkida@shaw.ca or fax 403-343-2556

Oilfield

DEX Production Testing req’s exp. day night supervisors & assistants. Competitive wage & benefit pkg. Email resume to: office@ dexproduction.com or fax 403-864-8284 GLOBAL Tubing is opening a service center in Red Deer. We’re currently looking for shop floor personnel with or without experience. Call 403.346.9231 for more information. Fill out an application at: 7754 47th Avenue Close Red Deer, AB T4P 2J9

Anticoagulation Clinician 0.8 FTE

Candidates must have H2S, First Aid training, and the ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening. A valid class five driver’s licence with a clean driver’s abstract is an asset.

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A RED DEER BASED Pressure Testing Company req’s. Operators for testing BOP’s throughout AB. Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email mikeoapt@gmail.com Only those selected for interview will be contacted.

INSTREAM INTEGRITY INC. is a pipeline integrity company specialising in underground pipeline inspection is currently looking for an indivdual to join our team. Applicant must be at least 21 years of age with a clean driving record. Also must be willing to travel. Please submit resume with a drivers abstract to admin@ instreamintegrity.com. 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

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Oilfield

OPHTHALMIC TECHNICIAN/ ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT req’d for Ophthalmology office. No previous experience req’d. as full job training is provided. Please fax resume to 403-342-2024 or drop off in person at #120, 5002-55 St. Red Deer. Only those considered will be contacted.

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The Rocky Mountain House Primary Care Network requires the services of a clinician to manage the Rocky PCN Anticoagulation Program. Professional Requirements: Registered Nurse or Pharmacist Current registration with applicable professional college Clear Criminal record check For further information please visit our website at rockymedical.com/pcn. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to jsandstra@ rockymedical.com or in person to Rocky PCN at 5127-49th Street, Rocky Mountain House in the lower level. Closing Date: Open until suitable candidate found. Only candidates chosen for an interview will be contacted.

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Southern Alberta residents, submit resumes to: Email: jliesemer@ greywolfsystems.ca Fax: 1-866-211-0338 Northern Alberta residents, submit resumes to: Email: mstoddard@ greywolfsystems.ca Fax: 780-539-0946

HSE COORDINATOR

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2-5 yrs experience as a HSE Practitioner Valid Driver’s License

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Flexible work schedule - possible evening and weekends required Travel throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan, BC. Accident Investigation Reports Field and Facility Audits

This position reports direct to our Corporate HSE Manager! Please visit our website at: www. cathedralenergyservices.com or apply by email to: HRCanada@Cathedral EnergyServices.com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

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We require a full time IT Technician for our Red Deer and Rocky Mountain House operations. MCSE/MCSA, CompTIA Network, Server, Security Certifications are preferred.

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CompTIA A+ Certification and experience are the minimum requirements for all applicants.

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Please contact Murray McGeachy or Jamie Rempel by Fax: (403) 340-0886 or email

Proflo Production Separators is currently seeking energetic, motivated PRODUCTION TESTERS with valid tickets, drivers license, alarm clock & a watch. Candidates must have their own cell phone, transportation and be able to pass a pre-employment drug screen. No lazy testers need apply. Send resume to: info@proflo.net or fax: 403-341-4588 References are a must.

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SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d LEASE and FLOORHAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for. Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: tmorris@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Site Safety Services Inc.

Currently accepting resumes for the following personnel. HSE Advisors Safety Supervisors Shutdown Personnel All applicants must have current safety tickets for position applied for. Email resume and safety tickets to: sitesafe@telusplanet.net or fax 403-887-8864

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

TOPCO OILSITE PRODUCTS Req’s. Repair and Service staff. Applicant will be req’d. to perform repairs, ultrasonics, high pressure testing, sand blasting and various other jobs on high pressure iron. Mechanical skills and reliable transportation req’d. Pre offer drug alcohol testing will be provided. Fax resumes to 403-309-9276

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RECRUITMENT COORDINATOR, RED DEER Eagle Well Servicing, a division of IROC Energy Services Partnership, is a dynamic, growing public company focused on addressing the diverse needs of the oil and gas industry. IROC combines cutting-edge technology, state-of-the-art equipment and depth of experience to deliver a product and services offering that is unrivaled in the oilﬁeld services business. We have an immediate opening for an individual who enjoys a challenging, fast-paced and team orientated environment.

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The Recruitment Coordinator will be responsible for all Field Recruitment duties in the Red Deer location. Duties include all aspects of ﬁeld recruitment, scheduling New Hire Orientations, and maintaining all new hire documentation to ensure a seamless operation of all service and coil Tubing rigs. Duties to include but not limited to:

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

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OUR LandSolutions’ office in Bentley is accepting resumes for our Int. & Sr. Land Administrator positions. Candidates will have 5 - 10 years’ experience, full time position, Must have Surface Land education. Please submit resumes online at www.landsolutions.ca

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ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN SAFETY ADMINISTRATOR FIELD ADMINISTRATOR/COST CONTROLLER

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Accounting technician responsibilities & qualifications: Duties include but not limited to: • Process and maintain A/R & A/P. • Skills in payroll/ROES • WCB requirements and reporting, and GST remittances. • Working knowledge of MS Office & Simply Accounting (2013) program is essential • Able to work with minimal supervision. • Must have an accounting designation. • Min of 3+ years of payroll & accounting related experience. Safety administrator responsibilities & qualifications: Duties include but not limited to: • Experience in the planning and implementation of safety policies & procedures in compliance with provincial rules, regulations and regulatory agencies. • Manage and keep up to date company safety program and manual. • Monitoring incidents to ensure accidents are properly investigated and corrective actions implemented. • Oversee all of the administration for the health and safety department (documentation, C.O.R certifications, & training certificates). • Working knowledge of MS Office, PICS, ISNET & Complyworks program is essential. • Min of 3+ years of corporate safety related experience. Field administrator responsibilities & qualifications: Duties include but not limited to: • Maintains sign in/out sheets, payroll sheets and cost control data entry. • Works closely with head office to ensure proper and timely flow of information. • Prioritize and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment. • Proficiency in EXCEL, S.A.P, CORTEX, & A.D.P. • H2S & CSTS tickets would be an asset. • Must be willing to travel, work weekends and overtime in the field. Preference will be given to candidates who are highly organized, able to multi task, discreet, complete tasks in a timely fashion & are team players. Please email resumes and a minimum of 3 references to:

Duties include health & safety support and advisement, fielding of paperwork, safety statistics, maintenance of the company Safe Work Manual, field site audits, incident investigations and other duties as required. Previous health & safety experience in a civil construction industry preferred. Strong computer skills are a must. NCSO designation an asset.

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

Suitable candidates should have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, strong computer and communication skills, must be proficient at multi-tasking. Human Resource education would be an asset, all applicants must have previous Human Resource experience.

PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR

The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of a complete in house payroll for approx. 100-150 employees. The position requires that you have the Payroll Management Certification or equivalent or be working towards certification. Must have previous payroll experience combined with exceptional computer skills. Please e-mail resumes to:

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CIVIL EARTHWORKS SAFETY ADMINISTRATOR & ADVISOR

Qualiﬁed applicants are invited to submit a cover letter and resume quoting job reference number IROC03-13 to: Attention: Human Resources Manager Email: careers@iroccorp.com Fax: (403) 699-1110 Website: www.iroccorp.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

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We require individuals for our New Blackfalds office who enjoy being busy and can adapt to a constantly changing environment. The following positions are available starting in February.

We offer competitive pay and beneﬁts and opportunities for advancement.

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Pidherney’s is a progressive company that offers competitive wages, benefits and a pension plan.

Qualifications: • Recruiter designation and/or 2 – 3 years related drilling Industry recruitment experience • Office Administration diploma or equivalent is considered an asset • Strong interpersonal skills and behaviorial/competency interviewing skills • Able to multi-task, prioritize and organize • Excellent customer service skills • Excellent working knowledge of MS Office Word and Excel • Excellent communication (verbal and written) • Able to work independently and in a team environment • Demonstrated competencies in customer service orientation, problem solving, adaptability and planning/monitoring

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Please fax HOLIDAY INN motivated professional, your resume to EXPRESS possessing excellent 403-348-8109. or email RED DEER communication and interkayla@furixenergy.com Is seeking personal skills. Applicants FRONT DESK CLERK must enjoy working in a * Answer phone calls very busy team oriented * Take reservations environment. Salary to * Check in/out Guests commensurate with experiBalance cash out ence. Please forward & Attend to guest needs resumes to: $14.00/hr. Carol Peterson Box 6039 AFTERNOON SHIFT HOUSEKEEPING ROOM Innisfail, AB T4G 1S7 CNC Operators ATTENDANT Fax: 403- 227-3910 DAYSHIFT * Clean and vacuum cpeterson@ & AFTERNOON SHIFT rooms, public areas, pool innisfailinsurance.com etc. QC Person Replenish amenities, LAND SURVEY linens & towels Nexus Engineering is ASSISTANT * Adhere to Holiday Inn Currently looking for Beta Surveys safety stardands C.N.C OPERATORS. $14.00/hr. Limited As a member of a two All positions are Shift work DUTIES INCLUDE, & weekends p e r s o n c r e w, y o u w i l l • Set up of Mazak C.N.C Fax Resume to: assist the Party Chief in lathe and running 780-702-5051 locating survey evidence, production runs, min. 3 preparing Real Property years experience. HOLIDAY INN Reports, completing subRed Deer South, divisions and building Also currently hiring Gasoline Alley stake outs. dayshift & afternoon shift Must be physically fit and QC PERSON Is Seeking enjoy working outdoors. • Must be able to read FRONT DESK CLERK Previous land surveying * Answer phone calls measuring devices experience an asset, but * Take reservations and blueprints for not required. inspection of machined * Check in/out Guests Please reply in confidence * Balance cash out parts. to: & Attend to guest needs Chris Beaumont, C.E.T. We offer competitive $ 14.00/hr Email: Chris.Beaumont wages, benefits and HOUSEKEEPING ROOM @betasurveys.ca a RRSP plan. ATTENDANT Fax: 403-342-5334 * Clean and vacuum rooms Please forward resumes to resume@ public areas pool etc. nexusengineering.ca * Replenish amenities, linens & towels CLARK BUILDERS * Adhere to Holiday Inn Now Hiring safety standards CAREPENTERS & $ 14.00/hr LABORERS All positions are for work in Red Deer Shift Work & weekends Apply at: Email: Fax resume careers@ MAPLE Leaf Environmental 780 - 702-5051 clarkbuilders.com & Safety Ltd. is a Fax: 1-888-403-3051 proactive, dynamic and www.clarkbuilders.com progressive company. We are currently recruiting for DRYWALL helper req’d. the position of EMT’s, Exp. an asset. Must have EMR’s, and Plant shutown transportation. down personnel for 403-341-7619 projects throughout HIRING experienced Western Canada. Please Dozer and Excavator LUCKY’S KITCHEN fax or e-mail resume & Operators and Labourers located in Jackpot Casino qualifications to: for local, commercial and req’s a F/T or P/T exp. Keith Anderson oilfield construction. Comshort order cook. Fax: 403-637-2024 petitive wages and Please drop resumes off at kanderson@ benefits. Fax resume to 4950-47 Ave. after 2 pm. to mapleleafsafety.com or 403-347-6296 Eric. No phone calls please email kevin at klilley@ mapleleafsafety.com

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Key Accountabilities: • Develop and Implement a variety of methods of sourcing prospective employees for well servicing rigs and Coil Tubing rigs. • Ensure Eagle Well Servicing remains competitive from an external perspective. • Attend and participate in external groups to address issues of attraction. • Work with and coordinate with Crew Coordinator to ensure crewing of rigs • Collect and Review resumes and contact applicants • Interview, orient and process new hire documentation • Maintain Resume Tracking spreadsheet • Responsible for Advertising rig positions and maintaining tracking of media. • Additional responsibilities as required

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those who will be interviewed will be contacted.

PRODUCTION TESTING SUPERVISORS & OPERATORS Day & Night Must have tickets. Top paid wages. Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca

JOIN OUR FAST GROWING TEAM!!

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D

Requires an

800

is looking for journeyman picker operator.Top wages/ benefits. Safety tickets req’d. Fax or drop off resume 403-346-6128 No phone calls.

730 DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Oilfield

hr@pidherneys.com or fax to 403-845-5370

281947A18-31

720

Clerical

resumes@newcartcontracting.com Or fax resume to: 1-403-729-2396

Please specify which position you’re applying for. *No phone call inquiries please

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 D3

850

Trades

850

Trades

Truckers/ Drivers

860

880

Misc. Help

880

Misc. Help

880

Misc. Help

wegot

stuff

First Choice Collision

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

PARTS MANAGER DRIVER req’d. for city & deliveries, must be & PARTS ASSOCIATE rural able to work alone and Country Road RV

• •

Requires

•

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

• •

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email • info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 • NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! • •

junior Purchaser must have basic knowledge of oilfield construction supplies. Please fax your resume to 403-348-8109 or email kayla@furixenergy.com

Junior QA/QC must have welding inspector level 1 and knowledge of B31.3 Piping is an asset. Please fax your resume to 403-348-8109 or email kayla@furixenergy.com

Junior Safety Consultant must have valid safety tickets, principles of health and safety, and train the trainer is an asset. Please fax your resume to 403-348-8109 or email kayla@furixenergy.com Looking for 2nd, 3rd, 4th year apprentices and journeymen plumbers for full time work. Need to have experience with service and new home construction. Must have valid drivers license and be dependable. We offer competitve wages, benefit package and company vehicle. Please fax resume to 403-347-4539 or email to galaxyadmin@telus.net Millard Trucking Ltd. is looking for a 3rd year apprentice/journeyman heavy duty mechanic.We offer competitive wages and performance based bonuses. All interested persons are invited to apply by Fax: 403-638-4987 or email: jmillard@ enerchem.com

SANDBLASTER CRIMTECH SERVICES LTD. provides engineering, drafting and custom fabrication for the petroleum industry. We offer above average wages plus health & dental benefits.†We†have an immediate opening for†an experienced Sandblaster.† Please forward resumes to cslhr@crimtech.com

QUALITY Painters/Coaters must have 5 years’ experience in the field. Please fax your resume to 403-348-8109. or email kayla@furixenergy.com

Shipper / Receiver

AES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD. looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department. Fax resume to 403-342-0233

Truckers/ Drivers

with others. Duties incl. driving, shipping/receiving and customer service. Class 3 with air ticket and abstract is req’d. Drop resume off at Weldco #11, SKILLS: 7491 49th Ave. or fax to Self-Motivated Work well in a team 403-346-1065. No phone calls please. Only applienvironment cants selected for an Computer skills (preference to IDS or PBS) interview will be contacted. Customer Service Skills Career Oriented with a Positive Attitude

in Sundre is currently seeking a Parts Manager & a Parts Associate for their growing dealership.

WE OFFER: Excellent Wages (above average) Friendly, team oriented environment Training Benefit Package If this position sounds like a good fit for you, please fax your resume to 403-638-9007 attention Nick or Ella or e-mail ella@countryroadrv.ca

PLUMBER WANTED 2ND/3RD/4TH/ JOURNEYMAN Residential experience an asset. Please fax resume to: 403-887-2208

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

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 LOCAL ACID Transport company looking for exp’d’ F/T Class 1 truck driver & pressure truck operator. Top wages and exc. benefit pkg. Fax resume and driver’s abstract to 403-346-3766

requires

F/T Safety Officer

to help implement & maintain safety programs. Fax resume to: 403-343-1248 or email admin@shunda.ca

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

Misc. Help

For local work. Competitive Wages & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop. MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913 STUCCO Plasterers, & Labourers. Needed Immed. Exp’d but will train. Drivers License pref’d. Call 403-588-5306

Western Masonry Structures

F/T bircklayers and f/t bricklayer helpers Must have own transportation. Please fax resume to 403-340-0762 or emai l resume to tom@westernmasonry.com

Truckers/ Drivers

860

Blue Grass Sod Farms Ltd. BOX 11, SITE 2, RR 1 Red Deer, AB Req’s Truck Drivers for 2013 season (April-Oct) in Red Deer. Duties include driving semi truck w/end dump trailer or super b, and some paperwork. Day/night shift avail. Class 1 license req’d. Will train/exp. an asset. Wage $24.27 hrly, 44 hrs weekly. Email resume debbie.lefeuvre@bg-rd.com Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

CLASS 1 driver with fluid hauling experience, local runs. 403-373-3285 or fax resume and copies of all valid tickets to 403-986-2819

860

Adult Education and Training

• GED classes evening and days

• Women in the Trades • Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be avail. 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

ADULT Carriers Needed For Early morning delivery of the Red Deer Advocate 6 days/wk in GLENDALE area. ALSO 4 days a week Flyers & Sun. Life in ORIOLE PARK Oak St. & Olympic Crsc JOHNSTONE CROSSING Jennings & Joa Also Jack & Jenner Crsc

to join our busy team.

Top wages based on experience. Benefit package. Assigned units - Scheduled days off. Valid safety tickets an asset.

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE WEST PARK

Fax resume to Human Resources at 403-845-5370 or email:

hr@pidherneys.com

Misc. Help

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in EASTVIEW 100 ADVOCATE $525/MO. $6300/YR 2 HRS./DAY

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

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

ANDERS AREA

GRANDVIEW 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr. 1-1/2 hrs. per day WESTLAKE 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr. 1-1/2 hrs. /day Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

LANCASTER AREA 77 PAPERS $412/MO.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

BOWER AREA

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

INGLEWOOD AREA

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for

Isbister Close Issard Close LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive Lindsay Ave. Lagrange Crsc SUNNYBROOK AREA Scott St./Somerset Close. Sunnyside Crsc.

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 Customer Service Sales / Reception / Office duties / Shipping Receiving .Mon Fri 8:00-4:00. Must be able to lift/move boxes of clothing in addition to other duties. $14.00 - up... depending on abilities. Please apply IN PERSON to Grand Central Stitchin’ Inc. @ #7 7439 49 Ave. Cr. Red Deer Ellis Bird Farm is looking for a Tea House operator (May to September). For more information contact mpearman@ellisbirdfarm. ca. Guidelines at www. ellisbirdfarm.ca

Huntwood Custom Cabinets

is currently seeking the following positions, to start immediately:

Cabinet Installers

Min. 2 yrs experienced installer contractors for the Red Deer Location. Supply your own liability insurance, tools, and reliable vehicle.

Field Service Technician

At least 2 yrs. qualified experience including cabinet repair, finished carpentry and working with various finishes. Huntwood offers excellent compensation, great benefit program and signing and performance bonuses. Please drop resumes Attn: Debbie to Huntwood Showroom, Bay 4, 6782 50th Ave Red Deer, T4N 4E1. or email: dhenderson@ huntwood.com

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1730

1630

Heavy

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

1640

MAKITA 10” CHOP SAW with stand. $150. 587-877-3744

1660

Firewood

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help for weekend grave shift. Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

900

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

920

1710

Household Appliances

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 COMFORT Zone electric heater oak cabinet 15” x 17 1/2” x 15 1/2”h $200 403-314-2026 DRYER orig. price $500, asking $150 call 403-782-5818 KENMORE HD dual action top load washer; Kenmore HD dryer,white, good shape $125/pair 403-347-2374 R E F R I G E R AT O R o r i g . $500 , asking $100, 403-782-5818 UPRIGHT freezer 14 cu. ft. white, 2 yrs. old, like new $200 403-307-4223 WASHER/DRYER, Whirlpool. HD super cap. 8 cycle washer, 3 temps, 3 load sz. HD extra lrg cap, 4 cycle dryer, 3 temps. Aprox. 7 ys old. Very good cond. $325. 403-309-2051 WASHING MACHINE orig. $600 , asking $150 403-782-5818

Household Furnishings

5 stacking chairs, metal frames, all for $25; tall wood clothes pole $20; roundtop wooden stool $15; box assorted flower pots $10; wine decanter w/6 glasses $20; oval bowl (mother of pearl) frosted leaf pattern $45; 4 pc. desert goblets (pedestal) diamond cut pattern $25; 4 wine and 4 cocktail glasses diamond cut all $15; Calgary Olympic glasses 8 beer, 8 old fashioned $25 403-314-2026 60 PEACOCK FEATHERS $1.50 each 7 Company’s Coming Cookbooks, $3 each. 5 Books - Chicken Soup for the Soul, $3 each. 4 Cup Electric Coffee Pot, $3. Large Glass Bowl w/12 large artificial vegetables, $20; large spider plant $6 Call 403-346-2231 7 INDOOR fountains, all working order, $195 for all 587-272-0937 PICTURE frames, various sizes, some new, $20; 403--314-9603

1830

Cats

5 MONTH OLD KITTEN & ADULT FEMALE. To Give Away 403-396-7368 KITTENS 2 yellow, to give away, healthy and litter trained, 587-377-1522

1840

Dogs

P.B. PIT BULLS. 1st shots, vet checked. Ready to go Jan. 28. Call 403-845-0249 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

1900

Travel Packages

1720

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

BED ALL NEW,

Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr. Build A Resume That Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325. Works! 302-0582 Free Delivery APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html BED: #1 King. extra thick Call: 403-348-8561 orthopedic pillowtop, brand Email inford@lokken.com new, never used. 15 yr. Career Programs are warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice @ $545. 403-302-0582. FREE for all Albertans CHESTERFIELD, Chair Classifieds...costs so little a n d c o v e r s $ 5 9 , 403-347-6994 Saves you so much!

RED DEER WORKS

1760

Misc. for

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

1010

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

Construction

1085

1100

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

COUNTERTOPS

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648

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

- Batch Plant Operator - Carpenters/Woodworkers - General Labourers

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia preferring non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

279425A2-31

OFFICE DESK, 5’4” wide x 3’ x 29” $200. 403-347-7405

APROX 20 PAIRS OF Sale LADIES SIZE 16 NAME BRAND JEANS & DRESS 16”x3” BIRCH BARK PANTS. $5/ea. BASKET COVERED WITH 403-346-0093 PORCUPINE QUILLS & LADIES” winter coat, size FUR TRIM. $100. M, chocolate brown suede, 403-347-7405 w/hood, like new, $25, 2 MEDICINE MAN SHIELDS 403-314-9603 Very detailed. Cree and Blackfoot. $75/ea. Equipment403-347-7405

Tools

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

Career Planning

1590

Clothing

Please contact QUITCY

(across from Totem)

KIDNEY shaped bar set 3 tier smokey glass/chrome trimmed c/w 2 matching bar stools all for $150 403-314-2026

C H I L D R E N S ’ w i n t e r Stereos shoes, new, Columbia, TV's, VCRs s i z e 1 3 , $ 2 5 ; 403-314-9603 53” SONY, Rear projection incl. 4 speakers & tuner, $250, 403-346-8065

1 day per wk. No collecting!!

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.

1580

Children's Items

HOMESTYLE 2 stainlesssteel elec. buffet server, $20; 3 ceramic buffet serve r, h e a t e d b y t e a l i g h t candles, c/w 20 pack tealight candles, $10; call bettween 10-5 p.m. 403-309-4643 No evening calls please.

CLASSIFICATIONS

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www.eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

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

1720

wegotservices

Contractors

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

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

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

Employment Training

1530

Auctions

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

LOOKING FOR A FURNACE REPLACEMENT OR INFORMATION ON A MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT HEATING/COOLING SYSTEM? We handle all aspects of your residential ventilation requirements. Tropical Heating and Cooling 403-506-4418

is expanding its facility to double production.

1500-1990

For afternoon delivery once per week

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

X-Static is now hiring P/T female search personnel. Apply in person, after 3 pm

880

CLASSIFICATIONS

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

SEARCH PERSONNEL

Blue Grass Sod Farms Ltd. BOX 11, SITE 2, RR 1 Red Deer, AB Req’s. Landscape Labourers for 2013 season (April-Oct) in Red Deer. Duties include lay sod, plant flowers, grass, shrubs, trees. Will train but exp. an asset. Wage $16.00 hrly, 44 hrs weekly. Email resume to debbie. lefeuvre@bg-rd.com Start your career! See Help Wanted Blue Grass Sod Farms Ltd. BOX 11, SITE 2, RR 1 Red Deer, AB Req’s Farm labourers for 2013 season (April-Oct) in Red Deer. Duties include sod farming and tree nursery. Tree nursery will involve planting, pruning and digging trees. Will train/exp. an asset. Wage $9.75 hr, 60 hrs weekly. Email resume to steve. richardson@bg-rd.com CUSTOMER SERVICE A locally owned industrial supply company is looking for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ aesreddeer.com

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

In the towns of: Adams Close/ Adair Ave.

**********************

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Lancaster Area West half of Lampard Crsc. & Leung Close $85/mo. Michener East of 40th North of Ross St. Michener Green Cresc. area. $268/mo. Good for adult with small car.

CARRIERS NEEDED

VANIER AREA

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

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

EXPERIENCED CLASS 1 DRIVERS

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

Pidherney’s is growing and requires

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

For delivery of Red Deer Advocate by 6:30 a.m. Mon. through Fri. & 8:00. .am. on Saturday in

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

DEER PARK * Dempsey St. area $61.00/mo. * Dempsey St. Dumas Crsc. & Duffy Close area $94.00/mo. * Dunham Crsc Dandell Close area $141/mo. * Donnelly Crsc. Densmore & Denmark area $170.00/mo. * Doran Crsc. Dunn Close $68/mo. * Dixon Crsc. area $121/mo. * 2 blks of Duston St. & Dale Close $90/mo. * Dowler St. Detlor Close & Dillion Close $134/mo. * Dawson St. & 1 blk of Davison Dr. $82/mo. Doran Crsc. Doan Ave area $72/mo.

ACADEMIC Express

Requires Full Time

Carpenters & Carpenter helpers.

880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

278950A5

Seeking Journeyman or 2nd /3rd year apprentices. Positions for body, prep and refinishing technicians needed for our car and light truck division. Top wages, bonus programs and benefit package. Fax resumes to (403) 343-2160; e-mail choice2@telusplanet.net or drop off in person @ #5, 7493, 49th Avenue Crescent, Red Deer.

Household Furnishings

Escorts

1165

EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight

Escorts

1165

EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages 598-3049 www.eroticasplaymates.net LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car PERFECT 10’s. Have it done right the 1st. time mydiamondgirls.org 403-550-0470 ROXY INDEPENDENT 403-848-2300

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. TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. 587-876-4396 or 587-272-1999

Health Care

1210

FOOT CARE Handled With Care Licensed, mobile foot care. Call 403-350-7595

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch. Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. Mon - Fri 9 am -6 pm & Sat. 10am - 3 pm 348-5650 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Massage Therapy

1280

Misc. Services

1290

Gentle Touch Massage

4919 50 St. New staff. Daily Specials. New rear entry, lots of parking. 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269 LINDA’S CHINESE MASSAGE Grand Opening. Insurance receipts. Home service. Daily 9 am-9 pm. #3 4820-47 Ave. 403-986-1550 NEW HOURS Asian Relaxation Massage Open 6 days a week starting from 9 am. 587-377-1298

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 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned. 403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal. No household appliances 403-396-8629 JUNK REMOVAL, Yard/ Garden Serv. 588-2564 Start your career! See Help Wanted

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial. Serving central Alberta. 403-318-4346

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

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

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the house such as roof snow removal, bathroom fixtures, painting or flooring Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship in home or in facility. Call 403-346-7777 Better For Cheaper with a Low Price Guarantee. helpinghandshomesupport.com

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013

2140

Horses

Manufactured Homes

Mobile Lot

3040

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

Newly Reno’d Mobile

Pasture/Land Wanted

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

2180

WANTED - PASTURE LAND TO RENT OR LEASE. Required for 2 Load Pastures to 1000 Head Pastures. Area: Alberta & Saskatchewan. Term: May to September, 2013. Please contact Ed 403-546-2278 Ext 3.

FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Sharon 403-340-0225

3050

CLASSIFICATIONS

3020

PET FRIENDLY HOUSE IN WEST PARK

Houses For Sale

3060

COZY SUITE ON HEWSON AVE.

Bsmt suite 2 bdrms, 1 bath w/5 appls, In-suite laundry. Adult only, no pets. Only $875 INCL. UTIL. SD $875 Available FEB 1st. Call Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or Nicole 403-318-4225 www.hpman.ca

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, www.homesreddeer.com D.D. $825, N/S, no pets, Mason Martin Homes has no partiers, avail immed. 8 Brand New Homes 1-403-200-8175

3030

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. 403-304-7576 / 347-7545

VACANCY IN CARRIE APT.

Reno’d apt 2 bdrms w/ balcony, 1 bath, 2 appls, coin-op laundry. Sorry n/s, no pets. Starting at $895 + electricity. Available NOW! Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or Nicole 403-318-4225 www.hpman.ca

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One guilty plea, two others arrested over virus that infected more than one million computers by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A computer virus that spread to more than a million computers worldwide, including some at NASA, and produced at least $50 million in illegal profits or losses to victims should be a “wake-up call” for banks and consumers unaware of the threat posed by Internet criminals, a prosecutor said Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and George Venizelos, head of the New York FBI office, warned of the growing threat to financial and international security as they announced that a 2 1/2-year probe had resulted in three arrests, two of them overseas, and the seizure of vast amounts of computerrelated evidence that will take months or years to fully analyze. They said the Gozi virus had infected 40,000 computers in the United States since 2005, including 190 at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, along with computers in Germany, Great Britain, Poland, France, Finland, Italy, Turkey and elsewhere. “This case should serve as a wakeup call to banks and consumers alike because cybercrime remains one of the greatest threats we face, and it is not going away anytime soon,” Bharara said. “It threatens individuals, businesses and governments alike.” He told a news conference that cybercriminals “believe that their online anonymity and their distance from New York render them safe from prosecution, but nothing could be further from the truth.” Venizelos said law enforcement had seized 51 computer servers in Romania, along with laptops, desktops and external hard drives, accumulating more than 250 terabytes of information. “That vast pile of data is almost certain to aid criminal investigation at FBI offices around the country as well as law enforcement agencies around the world,” he said. “It is more than standard boilerplate to say that this investigation is

very much ongoing.” So far, the investigation has produced three arrests, including that of Nikita Kuzmin, a 25-year-old Russian who pleaded guilty to computer intrusion and fraud charges in Manhattan in May 2011, admitting his role in creating the virus. The plea by the Moscow resident was followed by the arrest in November of a co-conspirator in Latvia and another in Romania last month. Extradition proceedings are under way against both on various criminal charges, including conspiracy. The NASA breach occurred from Dec. 14, 2007, to Aug. 9, 2012, with the most damage occurring between May and August last year, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The infected computers sent data without user authorization, including login credentials for an eBay account and a NASA email account, details of visited websites and the contents of Google chat messages. Mihai Ionut Paunescu, 28, who was arrested in Romania, set up online infrastructure that allowed others to distribute destructive viruses and malicious software, including ones dubbed Zeus Trojan, SpyEye and BlackEnergy, according to a criminal complaint filed against him. The document said Paunescu, a Romanian national residing in Bucharest, was also known as “Virus.” The Gozi virus was designed in 2005 and distributed beginning in 2007, when it was secretly installed onto each victim’s computer in a manner that left it virtually undetectable by antivirus software. Deniss Calovskis, 27, was arrested in Riga, Latvia, where he is a citizen and resident, on charges including bank fraud conspiracy. Extradition proceedings had begun to bring them to New York for trial. Charges against Kuzmin carry a maximum penalty of 95 years in prison while charges against Calovskis carry up to 67 years and charges against Paunescu have a maximum penalty of 60 years.

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Husband’s ‘midlife crisis’ leaves wife with trust issues Dear Annie: After 44 years of mar- her company. How do I tell her that we riage, I can no longer trust my hus- are tired of her constant complaining band. “Steve” reconnected with a high while still remaining her friend? I’m school flame, and the end result was taking out my hearing aids at our next late-night emails, texts and calls. He encounter. — Florida even bought throwaway phones so they Dear Florida: Some people, as they could stay in touch and meet out of age, turn into chronic complainers. town. Sometimes there are mediWe went for counselling, cal reasons, but often, it’s and Steve took a stack of simply how they are. You note cards to the first sescould nicely mention to sion with ultimatums for your friend that she seems me. He accused me of beterribly unhappy because ing a lesbian and having afnothing pleases her these fairs with women at work days, and then suggest she and in our neighbourhood. see her doctor for a thorHe then shared the intimate ough checkup. We hope it details of our sessions with helps. his old flame and invited Dear Annie: “Worried her to come along! He wrote Grandma” was concerned long multiple-page letters about her granddaughter, MITCHELL and slipped them to my “Kelly,” who had difficulty & SUGAR therapist when he thought I modulating her voice and wasn’t watching. Recently, felt that men were turned Steve spent $12,000 of our off by her loud personality. money on a facelift, and he Please tell her to look has set up at least 10 email into whether Kelly has accounts to hide things from me. Asperger syndrome, a form of highHe finally promised to cut off com- functioning autism. Asperger’s often munication with this woman unless it goes undiagnosed until later in life, was about the upcoming high school but its primary symptom is extreme reunion. We began to put things back social awkwardness and an inability to together, and then he again initiated appropriately “read” the social cues of intimate contact with her and went to others. our high school reunion without me. With special training, Kelly can Is there any hope of trusting this learn how to modify her behavior and man again? Or at age 64, am I looking pick up on these social cues. But it’s at moving on? — The Faithful Wife unlikely she can do it on her own. A Dear Faithful: Steve seems to be go- correct diagnosis can go a long way toing through a major midlife crisis. The ward repairing her self-esteem. I hope old flame makes him feel as if he’s a her parents will get Kelly the help she teenager again. And the facelift was in- needs to succeed in this world. — Vertended to make him look like one. Will mont Professor he ever return to Earth? There are no Dear Vermont: Thanks for your guarantees. Please don’t plan your life input. It is possible that Kelly has a around what Steve may or may not do mild form of Asperger’s, although she in the future. Get some counselling on should see a medical professional to your own, see a lawyer about protect- find out whether this is the case. If it ing yourself, and figure out whether is, she can contact aspergersyndrome. you are better off with or without him org for more information. right now. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Dear Annie: I live in a small commu- Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edinity where many people volunteer for tors of the Ann Landers column. Please countless jobs, giving of their time and email your questions to anniesmailbox@ talents. I have a friend who is becom- comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, ing increasingly critical of everyone’s c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, efforts, and it is depressing to be in Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Clinton fires back at criticism of Libya attack BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered fiery rejoinders Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, facing off with lawmakers who included potential 2016 presidential rivals. At times emotional and frequently combative, Clinton rejected Republican suggestions in two congressional hearings that the administration tried to mislead the country about the Sept. 11 attack that killed Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans. She insisted the State Department is moving swiftly and aggressively to strengthen security at diplomatic posts worldwide. In her last formal testimony before Congress as America’s top diplomat — but perhaps not her last time on the political stage — Clinton once again took responsibility for the department’s missteps and failures leading up to the assault. But she also said that requests for more security at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi didn’t reach her desk, and reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to fund security-related budget requests. Her testimony followed more than three months of Republican charges that the Obama administration ignored signs of a deteriorating security situation and cast an act of terrorism as mere protests over an anti-Muslim video in the heat of a presidential election. U.S. officials suspect that militants linked to alQaida carried out the attack.

Three weeks after her release from a New York hospital — admitted for complications after a concussion — Clinton was at times defiant, complimentary and willing to chastise lawmakers during more than 5 ½ hours of testimony before two separate committees. She tangled with some who could be rivals in 2016 if she decides to seek the presidency again as she did in 2008, losing the Democratic nomination to President Barack Obama. Her voice cracking at one point, Clinton said the attack and the aftermath were highly personal tragedies for the families of the victims who died — Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty — as well as herself. “I stood next to President Obama as the Marines carried those flag-draped caskets off the plane at Andrews. I put my arms around the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters and the wives left alone to raise their children,” she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a packed hearing. Clearly annoyed with Republican complaints about the initial explanation for the attack, she rose to the defence of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who was vilified for widely debunked claims five days after the attack that protests precipitated the raid rather than terrorism. Clinton said, “People were trying in real time to get to the best information.” And she said her own focus was on looking ahead on how to improve security rather than revisiting the talking points and Rice’s comments. As Republican criticism of her mounted, Rice was forced to withdraw her name as a possible successor to Clinton.

Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican, pressed her on why “we were misled that there were supposedly protests and something sprang out of that, an assault sprang out of that.” “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans,” she said, her voice rising and quivering with anger as she and Johnson spoke over each other. “Was it because of a protest? Or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided they would go kill some Americans? “What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator.” If Johnson’s comments drew an irritated response from Clinton, she notably ignored Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican, when he said he would have fired her if he had been in charge and found that she had not read cables from her team in Libya asking for more security. Paul is a potential 2016 presidential candidate. “Had I been president and found you did not read the cables from Benghazi and from Ambassador Stevens, I would have relieved you of your post,” Paul said. “I think it’s inexcusable.” Clinton and other officials have testified that requests for additional security did not reach her level, and a scathing independent review of the matter sharply criticized four senior State Department officials who have been relieved of their duties. “I did not see these requests. They did not come to me. “I did not approve them. I did not deny them,” she said.

Panel sends recommendations for amending India’s rape laws BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI — A government panel recommended India strictly enforce sexual assault laws, commit to holding speedy rape trials and change the antiquated penal code to protect women after a fatal gang rape in New Delhi last month galvanized the public. The panel received more than 80,000 suggestions for a complete overhaul in the criminal justice system’s treatment of violence against women since the government set it up a month ago to help quell street protests sparked by the rape. The suggestions included banning a traumatic vaginal exam of rape victims to ending political interference in sex crime cases. Women say they feel under siege and are so frightened they have structured their entire lives to protect themselves from harassment and attack. Many travel in groups, go out of their homes only during the day and carry sharp objects to stab men who grope them on public buses. Those who are raped are often blamed by their families for the attack. If they report the crime, the po-

lice often refuse to file a report or try to get the victim and attacker to reach a settlement. If it reaches court, the case can drag on for years in the overburdened justice system. “Failure of good governance is the obvious root cause for the current unsafe environment, eroding the rule of law and not the want of knee-jerk legislation,” said retired Chief Justice J.S. Verma, who headed the three-member panel. The panel recommended to the government Wednesday that police and other officials who fail to act against crimes against women be punished. It called for a crackdown on dowry payments to enhance women’s status, since families are often forced into massive debt to get their daughters married. It also suggested the government appoint more judges to lessen the backlog of cases and ensure swift justice, and it called for updating the law to include crimes such as voyeurism and stalking. “We hope the Parliament will take the legislative suggestions given by the committee,” and translate these into law, Verma said.

Verma advocated strict punishment to prevent sexual harassment and assaults against women and sought reforms in how police treat rape victims. He called for speedy justice and the setting of a time frame to deal with cases of crimes against women. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s office had no immediate comment about what it would do with the recommendations. More than 100 women’s rights activists, lawyers and ordinary citizens appeared before the commission during a recent hearing to offer suggestions for removing loopholes in the existing laws and scrapping some of its most offensive provisions. Activists and lawyers have criticized the existing laws on crimes against women as so archaic and riddled with loopholes that they end up further traumatizing victims and allowing perpetrators to get away lightly. Women’s groups say the most egregious problem is the medical test that a victim has to undergo, which includes a vaginal exam to determine if the woman is sexually active. In the so-called “two-finger test,” doctors probe the vagina to determine if a hymen is present and to try to de-

termine if the vagina is lax, which is taken as evidence the woman routinely has sex and thus consented to intercourse. Often, the doctor is male. “The two-finger test, which has been found to be not only unscientific and unnecessary but also subjects the complainant to further trauma and humiliation should be immediately stopped,” said Kirti Singh, of the All India Democratic Woman’s Association. Indian law only targets three crimes against women, rape, using force to “outrage her modesty,” and making rude sounds or gestures aimed at “insulting the modesty of any woman.” Lawyers say those laws needs to be updated to include crimes such as sexual harassment, groping, stalking and acid attacks. “Groping and stalking should be viewed as sexual assault. Stalking is a psychological terror on the victim. It should be specifically defined,” said Mukul Mudgal, a former chief justice of the Delhi High Court. Rebecca John, a criminal lawyer who spoke with the commission, said the “very lexicon of the law” needs to be changed to remove euphemistic and outdated terms.

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