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Baby born on the roadside doing fine

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF A couple from Alix tried as they might, but their baby-to-be just wouldn’t have it.

Their little baby didn’t want to wait, no matter how close they were to Red Deer Regional Hospital.

On Thursday morning, Ryder Hayden Robert Gamroth was born on the roadside in Red Deer, near 40th Avenue and 19th Street near Westerner Park at about 2:40 a.m.

Kaila Smith, 26, woke up in Alix at about 2 a.m. and decided to get into the tub because her contractions were now coming at one and a half minutes apart. She wasn’t sure if she was in false labour so she called on commonlaw husband Kelly Gamroth, 22, to help her out.

They realized it was time to get moving and climbed into their vehicle, driving by Joffre towards Red Deer.

It’s about a 57-km drive.

Gamroth drove as quickly as he could.

“I was trying to breathe and I was

screaming,” said Smith. “By the second set of lights (along 19th Street) my water broke and I was trying not to push. He just came.”

Smith called on Gamroth to pull over, then she was able to get her pants down far enough to hold onto her baby. The umbilical cord was wrapped three times around his neck so she unwound it. She then placed him up on her chest.

Gamroth then headed to the Emergency Department of the Red Deer hospital. By then it was about 3 a.m.

He got a security guard who radioed fire-medics inside the hospital. They then rushed out to help the mother and her baby. They cut his umbilical cord, wrapped him up and gave him to Gamroth. They then placed Smith on a stretcher, taking her up to the obstetrics ward.

“I’m still in shock,” said Smith.

It’s a big surprise as her two other children — Taylor, 7, came after 15 hours of labour and Zachery, five, was delivered after 17 hours.

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Mother, Kaila Smith and father, Kelly Gamroth, with their newborn son Ryder at the Red Deer Regional Hospital.

Crime analyst another tool at the RCMP’s disposal

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Every file that comes into the Red Deer City RCMP detachment lands on Sandra Bibby’s desk.

The more serious the crime, the faster she’s brought in to assist with the investigation.

As the city’s first criminal intelligence analyst, Bibby plays a vital role helping the 131 police officers in the detachment do their jobs.

Bibby develops time lines, creates association charts and conducts general research for police investigations.

This frees up the investigators’ time, allowing them to do what they do best, which is to be out on the streets, talking to people, interviewing people, responding to calls, said Bibby.

“Instead of stuck in an office researching something on the Internet or reading hundreds of files from different police organizations.” That’s Bibby’s job.

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Province says it’s on track to reach goal

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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Red Deer City RCMP Cpl. Leanne Molzahn reviews information on a case file with Sandra Bibby, the city’s first criminal intelligence analyst. Bibby was hired in September and plays a key role in helping police officers solve crimes.

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Alberta has six years left to meet its deadline to end homelessness and the province says it’s on track.

In Red Deer a total of 520 homeless people received housing and supports between April 2009 and September 2012 as part of the city’s plan towards ending homelessness.

Across the province, 6,625 homeless Albertans were housed.

These statistics were released on Thursday along with a 2012 progress report on A Plan For Alberta: Ending Homelessness in 10 Years from the Alberta Secretariat for Action on Homelessness.

The creation of the Alberta Interagency Council on Homelessness was also announced on Thursday to enhance community input and participation in guiding the future direction of the 10-year plan.

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Constituents to join MLAs at economic forum

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BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF Constituents will accompany Central Alberta MLAs to the Alberta Economic Summit on Saturday.

Premier Alison Redford announced the summit during her televised address to the province last month. About 300 people will attend the event at Calgary’s Mount Royal University.

“Each MLA will bring along a constituent, stakeholder or community leader,” said Redford spokesman Stefan Baranski.

“We’re trying to be as open as possible.”

The province has also invited “key stakeholders” to participate, said Baranski.

Wildrose MLA Kerry Towle for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, who’s taking a Red Deer County resident, said the premier and cabinet already have economic experts at their disposal.

“The summit is just a way to convince those who go to their way of thinking. If it’s already pre-determined then it’s an exercise in futility — and I hope I’m wrong.”

A rural businessman will accompany Wildrose MLA Rod Fox for Lacombe-Ponoka.

“I think it’s designed to support the government’s assumption to raise taxes. We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.”

Wildrose MLA Joe Anglin for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre doesn’t know who is going with him.

“It was going to be a Rimbey town councillor, but he had to cancel. I have calls out to a bunch of people right now. There’s a lot of people who aren’t interested. Cynicism is running high.”

Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski and Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas, both Conservatives, did not return phone calls on Thursday.

The province announced the summit’s schedule Thursday. Four moderated panels will discuss the province’s financial challenges resulting from falling oil revenue. The panels will examine revenue vs. spending, Albertans’ service expectations, the province’s revenue mix and balancing needs and wants for responsible spending.

Panelists include high profile business, academic, non-profit and union leaders from Calgary and Edmonton. Journalists and an economist will serve as moderators.

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ANALYST: Putting the pieces of crimes together Since September, Bibby has been using her organization and research skills to put together pieces of the puzzle in everything from fraud, assault, homicide to robbery investigations. Her position was given the green light by city council in the 2012 operating budget.

Red Deer City RCMP Supt. Warren Dosko says one of the most cost-efficient ways of doing business is through the intelligence-led, evidence approach to policing. He said the intelligence work gives the officers an in-depth understanding of where and when the crimes are happening and allows the force to focus on those areas that will have the biggest impact on reducing crime in the community.

Most of the larger detachments in the province have at least one criminal intelligence analyst on staff. Dosko said intelligence is an essential part of core policing. Up until now, the Red Deer detachment relied on word of mouth between officers and a few intelligence tools that were not entirely effective. Often officers were often pulled off the street to conduct research.

“A lot of what she’s doing almost went undone,” said Dosko. “It is really a huge addition to our needs . . . As we move forward I will be looking for additional resources in this area.”

Not to be confused with a forensic analyst, a criminal intelligence analyst is rarely, if ever, at a crime

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Putting on his best Dr. Doogie Howser impression, Ryan Voice examines Elvis Presley, or Wes Giesbrecht as he was known prior to his entrance into the ball room at the Black Knight Inn on Thursday. Elvis and Doogie joined 15 other celebrity waiters serving tables at the fourth annual Alzheimer Society Making Sweet Memories Gala. Funds raised at the event will go towards local supports, services and programs offered by the Alzheimer Society Alberta and Northwest Territories.

Rescuers use crane to aid injured worker

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A construction crane came in very handy when a specialized rescue team in Calgary scrambled to the aid of a maintenance worker who had been struck in the head by a large plate-glass window.

Emergency authorities say the man was injured overnight while he was 12 metres up on a scaffold in a fourth-floor food court of a downtown building.

They say the pane in an arched ceiling let go on scene. Bibby spends her day pouring over files, watching video surveillance, researching online and talking to local police officers in the detachment or others across the province and other crime-fighting organizations.

“You want to make sure your members have as much information as they possibly can before they hit the streets,” said Bibby.

Her day begins with reading the files that have come in overnight. She will look for connections between arrests or new files with those already under investigation.

“It’s obviously easier to solve a series of crimes than it is solving one,” said Bibby.

Before moving to Red Deer, the northern Saskatchewan native worked at the Strathcona RCMP and Hobbema RCMP detachments and worked as a policy analyst with the province government. Bibby says no two analysts are alike. She holds a psychology degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a University of Leeds masters degree in strategic studies.

“The RCMP is evolving as technology evolves,” said Bibby. “As criminals evolve so will we. We have specialized units here. We do have forensics here and now we have added on the intel gathering side to it.”

Bibby said her job is to know what’s going on in Red Deer but also in Edmonton and Calgary and other parts of the province. Because Red Deer is in the middle of two major cities, it allows for a lot of movement of criminals.

Bibby said as crime continues to expand and criminals move around, her role becomes more vital in helping connect the pieces of the puzzle.

On her second day on the job, Bibby helped an analyst in Edmonton who was working on a bank

one side, causing it to swing down on its hinge before it hit the man and shattered.

The fire department’s high-angle rescue team was called in and loaded the worker onto a stretcher before the nearby crane was used to lift him through a window onto the roof prior to being taken down on an elevator.

The man remained conscious during the 30-minute rescue.

Officials say the crane was the safest and quickest way to aid the victim and save firefighters from having to carry out a higher-risk rescue using ropes. robbery investigation that had similarities to robberies in Red Deer.

“I took a look at their file and sure enough identified it as the same suspect who at that time was unknown,” said Bibby.

That suspect has been arrested and now faces five charges of robbing banks in Red Deer and Edmonton. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

BABY: Sleeping soundly “My daughter had her cord wrapped around her twice and she came out purple,” said Smith. “She wasn’t breathing. So we were really lucky with him.”

Gamroth said he was actually calm through the experience. The construction worker’s focus was on driving her to the hospital.

Baby Ryder was born at 7 lbs, 14 oz. and is 20 inches (51 cm) long.

The funny thing is she was supposed to be induced later that morning because she was five days past her due date, Smith said Thursday afternoon from her hospital room.

Little Ryder, sleeping soundly on the hospital bed, had other plans his parents will not forget.

They are happy that everything turned out so well.

The couple is grateful for the staff that helped.

On Jan. 4, a couple who live near Spruce View had a similar experience when they headed to Red Deer. Halfway to the hospital, the mother began to give birth in the couple’s van. Fire-medics were called, and soon after the couple’s son was born in an ambulance at about 1:30 a.m. as they all headed to hospital. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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FIRST THURSDAY PERFORMANCE

REPORT: Jablonski co-chair Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski and former president and CEO of the Edmonton YMCA Franco Savoia will co-chair the 33-member council that will meet every two or three months.

“We have six more years to try and implement the plan that the secretariat came out with.

Our job will be to advise the government on that plan and how to implement it,” said Jablonski from Edmonton where the council held its first meeting on Thursday.

Council members include service providers, community-based organizations that distribute government funding, and all levels of government. Roxana Nielsen-Stewart, program co-ordinator for housing with the City of Red Deer’s social planning department is a council member.

The three-year progress report had an update on Housing First programs which focus on getting people off the streets before dealing with their mental health or addiction issues.

Statistics showed 104 people in Red Deer graduated from Housing First programs to achieve housing stability. Throughout Alberta, a total of 1,702 individuals graduated from similar programs.

Between April 1, 2009 and March 21, 2012, there was a dramatic reduction in the contact housing first clients around the province had with health and justice systems: ● Interactions with ambulance personnel was reduced by 72 per cent. ● Emergency room visits fell 69 per cent. ● Days in hospital dropped 72 per cent. ● Interactions with police were reduced by 66 per cent. ● Days in jail fell 88 per cent. ● Court appearances dropped 69 per cent.

“We know that people who are homeless have more problems than just being homeless,” Jablonski said.

Providing housing for people through Housing First programs helps them to be healthier so they are less likely to require emergency health care and when they are off the streets they are less likely to become involved with the justice system, she said.

“Providing housing for people who are homeless, we help them to improve their lives and we also help the rest of the province.

“When we help people through the Housing First philosophy, we help ourselves.”

Seven communities, including Red Deer, have multi-year plans to end homelessness that align with the provincial plan and address local priorities.

Alberta’s homelessness plan is now shifting to making long-term changes that will prevent homelessness and strategies requiring co-ordinated action between government and local communities.

Rebekah McDermott, co-ordinator of Red Deer’s EveryOne’s Home Leadership Model, said preventing homelessness in Red Deer should include looking at putting affordable and appropriate housing in place and being able to sustain housing stock long term.

Planning is required for inclusionary zoning to ensure different neighbourhoods have affordable housing.

Prevention also means looking at training and education for employment, working with employers to ensure sufficient wages, and financial literacy for families and youth, she said.

Alberta NDP says the PC government has to put more money into ending homelessness if it’s serious about its 2019 promise.

Housing capital programs, which provide affordable housing units, have been cut from $193 million in 2010 to just $42 million in 2012 and the Direct to Tenant Rent Supplement Program has been cut. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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With Deb Protsack accompanying on the piano soprano, Wilmari Muburg performs in the Snell Auditorium at the Red Deer Public Library downtown branch on Thursday. It was standing room only in the theatre as the two performed favorite theatre love songs.

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The guest speaker is Jim Prentice, a former Calgary MP and current CIBC vice-president, who’ll talk about market access.

Albertans can participate on Twitter at #ABSummit. The event will be streamed live online and more information is available online at http:// alberta.ca/EconomicSummit.cfm.

The province also invites Albertans to “build your own provincial budget” online at www. budgetchoice.ca. rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

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Marios trying to turn back clock Parti Quebecois Premier Pauline How quickly they forget Canada’s Marois just doesn’t get it. Since her provinces have proven respect for victory, she’s embarked on a campaign the French language and culture and of intolerance against the non-French promotes it among younger citizens in Canada all in the name of a free through Francophone schools and Quebec and preserving a language and French immersion programs. In return, culture.

Marois continues to claim Marois is re-excavating Anglophones are intolerant a dinosaur era when her towards the French. party’s late founder René The Parti Quebecois is Lévesque shook his fist in no stranger to intolerance. victory and pledged laws Who can forget Lévesque’s which were a blatant attack Language Laws which at against the rights of Englishone time made education in speaking Canadians.

French compulsory for imThe premier needs to migrants attending Quebec take a reality check and ask schools, even those from herself do Quebecers really other provinces? Students want to separate today? were prohibited of speakLike Lévesque, Marois ing in their mother tongues RICK is proposing tough legislaeven on playgrounds.

ZEMANEK tion that treats non-FrenchNow Marois is hinting at speaking Canadians as secmaking French compulsory ond-class citizens. But she for immigrant children atshould wake up to the fact tending daycare. things have changed and Canadians, Then there’s the controversial including Quebecers, are tiring of the French-only sign laws which Marois is same old rhetoric. toughening in ludicrous proportions.

Justification for separatism turned Huge chain stores like Walmart have to plain stupidity recently when a re- been told to change its copyrighted port, funded in part by the Parti Que- name to Le Magasin Walmart (The Walbecois, alleges Francophones across mart Store, in English). Walmart has Canada are the “victims of soft ethno- joined other giants ordered to do the cide.” same like Costco, the Gap, Best Buy, The study by the Quebec pro-inde- Old Navy and Guess in a combined pendence group ‘Conseil de la sou- court action. verainete du Quebec’ identifies “92 The report claims Ottawa has always” in which “the Canadian system lowed Anglophone provinces to comhinders Quebec’s development against mit this alleged “ethnocide” on Acadithe interests and values of Quebecers.” ans and French-Canadian minorities.

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“We’re reminding people of the evolution of Canada when we systematically eliminated French at the start of the 20th century,” said Gilbert Paquette, head of the group that authored the study.

English-rights activist Beryl Wajsmann begs to differ, saying the report’s use of the word “ethnocide” is “immoral” and the report is “full of lies.”

In once instance, the report claims Quebec is losing money to the rest of Canada.

Quebec in fact collects billions of dollars in provincial tax and will receive $7.38 billion in equalization payments over the next year - twice as much as any other province.

“We have spent so much of our treasure and talent and time to be inclusive, however imperfect . . . while in Quebec every PQ government has spent their talent and treasure to do those injustices by rule,” Wajsmann said.

The report also fails to mention that of the 13 cities and towns surveyed in the study, 70 per cent of Quebecers rejected the sovereigntist option.

In January, the town Sainte-Agathedes-Monts, north of Montreal, population 10,000, was dismayed when the “language cops” ordered the community to stop including one page of English-language information in its monthly bulletin to ratepayers. There’s only 500 English speaking citizens in the community.

Their French-speaking neighbours were incensed with the order, and the

mayor subsequently provided the English version on the town’s website.

The order had absolutely no bearing on the preservation of the French language on a broader scale. It smacked of hatred and intolerance. To say otherwise, one has their head buried in the sand.

The key to preserving a culture and language comes through education and understanding, not threats or bullying.

Canada has responded in that regard.

French immersion school programs to promote bilingualism are available in all provinces and territories. More than 315,000 students are enrolled in the more than 3,000 schools offering French Immersion, according recent statistics.

The majority of these students come from families where French isn’t spoken at home.

Further, 120 French-speaking community colleges exist and about 20 Francophone or bilingual universities are open to enrolment.

Our Constitution recognizes the needs of the French, stipulating that all Canadian citizens who have French as their mother tongue have the right to full access to francophone schools, regardless of their province or residence of birth.

As Canadians, we must promote a unified country where all needs are met. Marois is turning back the clock, standing in the way of Quebecers who want to get on with the future.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

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Quebec separation — the issue that isn’t There are so many topsy-turvy fea- swords by proxy with the sovereigntures to the resurgent debate over the tists in the National Assembly. rules of a future Quebec referendum They are not even really trying to that it is hard to know where to begin. engage the federal government of the For one, it is playing out day in their discussion. mostly in the House of ComThe Liberals are so inmons and outside Quebec tent on trying to score — at a point when the soverpoints against the NDP on eigntist presence has faded the unity issue that they from Parliament Hill for the don’t seem all that interestfirst time in two decades. ed in lifting the veil of siBy contrast and notwithlence that cloaks the prime standing the presence in minister’s own position on Quebec of a sovereigntist the matter. government, the referenYet if there was a refdum issue is a non-starter in erendum tomorrow, it is a National Assembly domiPrime Minister Stephen nated by a federalist oppoHarper’s view that would CHANTAL sition majority. be paramount.

HEBERT Quebec and Ottawa have Then, there is the ashad long-distance argusumption that trying to raise ments on such matters in the bar of a pro-sovereignty the past. But this is not one referendum outcome higher of them. than the level of a simple majority is in The main federal protagonists in the the best interests of the rest of Canada. argument over the percentage of referAvoiding the disruption of the deendum support required to kick-start parture of a major province such as the negotiation of Quebec’s departure Quebec is the best-case scenario. from the federation are not crossing But suppose a majority of Quebec-

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ers did give a positive answer to a clearly posed invitation to separate, to what length would a federal government be expected to go to prevent the province’s departure?

And just how doable would it be to keep Quebecers in the federation against the stated will of a majority of them, especially in light of the fact that a sovereigntist victory obtained even by the narrowest of margins would be legitimate in the eyes of most of those who man the federalist front line in Quebec?

On that score, the NDP’s view that 50 per cent plus one is a clear enough answer (as long as the question is also clear) is closer to the Quebec federalist mainstream than the federal Liberal assertion that an unspecified higher level of support is required.

But perhaps the most glaring paradox is that it should be sovereigntists in Quebec and not federalists in the rest of Canada who fret about the perils of a narrow “Yes” victory and strive to avoid having to act on it.

Who in his or her right mind would want to show up for a tough negotiation

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on the basis of a paper-thin mandate?

It does not take an advanced degree in mediation to know that would be a prescription for getting fleeced at the negotiating table.

In one of the previous installments of the same debate shortly after the last referendum, here is how that very case was put to the House of Commons: “If the government of Quebec chooses to go into a negotiation in which it has 51 per cent or 52 per cent support, it puts itself into an extremely weak bargaining position with the rest of the country . . . .

“It will bring Quebec to the table in a position where Quebecers are extremely weak and divided.”

That’s an excerpt from a speech Harper delivered as lead critic on unity issues for the Reform Party in 1996.

Back then, the Prime Minister was convinced that a narrow “Yes” vote would translate into a solid negotiating edge for the Canadian side in any secession negotiation.

It is hard to imagine that he has changed his mind.

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Tories boot arrested senator

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Controversial Conservative senator Patrick Brazeau was turfed from his party’s caucus and believed to be behind bars Thursday after a 911 call summoned police to his home to investigate a complaint of domestic violence.

Brazeau, long a prominent and polarizing figure both within Canada’s aboriginal community and beyond, was swiftly removed from the Conservative caucus after police arrived at his home in Gatineau, Que., around 9 a.m.

About three hours later — with Brazeau believed to be in custody, a red police tape cordon around his house and a cruiser parked in the driveway — a letter was circulated among caucus that he was no longer a member.

“It’s known that in light of the serious events that have been reported today, I have removed Sen. Brazeau from the Conservative caucus,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the Commons.

“Our understanding is that these are matters of a personal nature rather than Senate business, but they are very serious and we expect they will be dealt with through the courts.”

House Leader Peter Van Loan later confirmed in the House that Brazeau’s departure was directly linked to reports of a domestic incident.

Brazeau, however, has been a thorn in the Conservative caucus’ side for months, most recently over allegations that he was using other people’s addresses in order to qualify for a Senate housing allowance and an aboriginal

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Senator Patrick Brazeau accepts the Bad Sport Award at the National Press Gallery Dinner Saturday in Gatineau, Quebec, Saturday November 3, 2012. tax exemption.

Police described Brazeau’s house as a crime scene, although they refused to confirm it was indeed the senator who was in custody, saying only that a man was arrested at the Gatineau address after a call to 911.

By the dinner hour Thursday, no charges had been formally laid. Police said they would keep the suspect in custody pending a possible court appearance Friday morning.

“There’s no charge right now at the moment, but we will continue our investigation,” said Gatineau police spokesman Pierre Lanthier.

Lanthier would not comment on the condition of the victim.

Brazeau’s office said Thursday that he would remain in the Senate as independent.

Were he to face charges, Brazeau would be placed on leave from the Senate, and though he could still attend sessions, his access to benefits would be curtailed. He would only be suspended if convicted of an indictable offence.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said he hoped the Senate scrutinizes those rules if it ever comes time to apply them.

“It’s one thing, his removal from the Tory caucus, but he’s still in the Senate so up until his retirement age, if he stays in the Senate, he will cost Cana-

Baird to be first foreign minister to meet Kerry

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — John Baird will be the first foreign minister to sit down with America’s newest secretary of state on Friday when he meets with John Kerry at the State Department to discuss an array of bilateral and international issues.

The two men will “discuss ways to deepen co-operation in the extensive Canada-U.S. relationship,” including efforts to streamline trade and travel at the border, Victoria Nuland, State’s spokeswoman, told the department’s daily briefing on Thursday.

Kerry, who was officially sworn in on Wednesday, insisted that he meet first with Canada’s foreign minister, she added.

“The secretary felt very strongly that our Canadian neighbour and ally should come first,” Nuland said.

In a statement, Baird said he was looking forward to working with Kerry “to find new ways to create jobs, growth and opportunity on both sides of our shared border.”

Baird’s visit to the U.S. capital

comes just five days after he and Kerry had a 15-minute phone call on Sunday.

During that conversation, Baird told reporters in Ottawa on Monday, Kerry expressed no concerns about allegations that Canadians were involved in last month’s terrorist attack on a gas plant in Algeria.

Since then, however, it’s emerged that a man who held both Canadian and Lebanese citizenship was involved in a deadly bus bombing in Bulgaria last July.

Baird hasn’t been able to provide details about the man’s activities in Canada.

Nuland said TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline will almost certainly be a key topic of conversation between the two men on Friday.

“I have no doubt that subject will come up, as it always does with our Canadian counterparts,” she said.

Baird made the case for Keystone approval during his weekend phone conversation with Kerry.

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Toronto residents can expect up to 15 centimetres of snow, while regions as far west as London and as far east as Kingston may see upwards of 30 centimetres.

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Keystone because it crosses an international border.

The $7 billion project would carry carbon-intensive bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast, and has become a flashpoint for U.S. environmentalists, who view it as a symbol of dirty oil.

Kerry has told Baird the State Department’s analysis of the pipeline will be completed soon.

But Nuland said Thursday there’s been no change in State’s timeline on Keystone, reiterating that a decision likely won’t come for several weeks.

The new Detroit-Windsor bridge is another probable area of discussion. Both Keystone and the bridge are awaiting the green light from the Obama administration.

Nuland wouldn’t bite on questions about who might become America’s next ambassador to Canada.

Several names are being bandied about by prognosticators in Canada-U.S. circles, including that of Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of assassinated former president John F. Kennedy.

dians $7 million,” Mulcair said after a speech to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations.

“I think that the reasons for that exclusion have to be analyzed properly under the rules of the Senate.”

Calls for Brazeau’s removal from the Senate began almost from the day he was appointed by Harper in 2008.

He was 34 when called to the red chamber, making him the third-youngest appointee in its history. Critics howled over his access to a salary of about $132,000 a year and a generous pension plan.

Brazeau joined the Senate while he was still national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.

He eventually resigned from CAP in January 2009 after news broke that a CAP employee had filed a sexual harassment complaint against him with Ontario’s human rights tribunal.

He was also linked to allegations of CAP misspending of federal funds that were supposed to pay for aboriginal health programs.

Conservatives argued, at the time, that the misspending happened before Brazeau took over as congress chief.

A member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation in Quebec, Brazeau was viewed by some as doing more harm than good to the state of federal-aboriginal relations from his position as a senator.

He has long been an outspoken advocate for greater transparency on reserves and reform of First Nations governance, often using Twitter — his handle is (at)TheBrazman — to describe his controversial and divisive perspective.

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Porter affair prompted stricter Harper, NDP critic vetting at federal spy watchdog confront each other in Commons

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, chats with Dr. Arthur Porter, left, at the Montreal General hospital in Montreal in 2006. The Harper government quietly introduced strict new security vetting for nominees to Canada’s federal spy watchdog after chairman Arthur Porter resigned amid concerns about his business dealings, The Canadian Press has learned.

He now runs a private cancer clinic in the Bahamas.

During question period Thursday in the House of Commons, the NDP urged the Conservatives to admit they made a mistake in appointing Porter to the spy watchdog.

Alexandre Boulerice, the NDP’s deputy ethics critic, pounced on news of the tougher screening procedures. “If that’s not owning up to their mistakes, I don’t know what is,” he said.

But the NDP and Liberal leaders were consulted ahead of time when Porter was first appointed and raised no objections, countered Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

Under the government security policy, there are three levels of security clearance — confidential, secret and top secret.

According to CSIS, top secret clearances require a full field investigation, which involves checking the intelligence service’s records, interviewing friends, neighbours and employers, consulting with local police and possibly interviewing the applicant.

Under the new process, CSIS looks into the background of prospective review committee members and provides an assessment to the Prime Minister’s Office.

The prime minister then decides whether to go ahead with the appointment.

It is the same security-clearance process that is applied to

Ottawa-based staff members who support the work of the intelligence review committee.

But before the Porter affair, political appointees to the review committee underwent a less thorough vetting, say those with knowledge of the process.

“I was not security-cleared at the time I was appointed,” said Ron Atkey, who served as intelligence review committee chairman from 1984-89.

Atkey, a lawyer and former cabinet minister, did later go through the top-secret security clearance process upon being appointed to a special role with the federal inquiry into Ottawa engineer Maher Arar’s imprisonment and torture in Syria.

He underwent another toplevel clearance upon becoming a special advocate in court cases involving national security matters.

“But strangely enough, when I was chair of SIRC, I was not,” Atkey said. “So it is an anomaly, and practice is catching up with what it should be.”

As political appointees, prospective review committee members have long been vetted — at least to some degree — by the Prime Minister’s Office. Parties with official standing in the House of Commons have traditionally been consulted on nominees, as Toews indicated Thursday, and the makeup of the committee has generally reflected the breadth of the political spectrum.

Two Manitoba sheriffs charged with off-duty sex assaults on drugged women THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Two Manitoba sheriffs face more allegations that they drugged and sexually assaulted women while off-duty.

Last October, two people were arrested in Winnipeg after a 30-yearold woman complained that she was given a substance at a couple’s home in April that made her unconscious.

She said when she woke up, she discovered that she had been sexually assaulted and contacted police.

Winnipeg police say three other women have come forward with similar allegations that go back as far as 2000.

“The three victims individually and on separate occasions had attended the accuseds’ res-

idence,” police spokesman Const. Eric Hofley said Thursday.

“During these incidents, two were administered a stupefying substance and at least one of the victims was rendered unconscious.

During these incidents all three of the victims were sexually assaulted.”

Richard Gordon, 45, and Jackie Burgoyne, 34, were arrested Wednesday and face multiple charges of sexual assault, forcible confinement and administering a stupefying substance to overcome resistance to sexual assault.

They have been released from custody and are to appear in court March 6.

In October, Gordon was charged with sexual assault and administer-

ing a noxious substance with intent to endanger life or cause bodily harm. Burgoyne was charged with sexual assault.

A Manitoba Justice official declined comment on their status.

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The Winnipeg Free Press says Gordon and Burgoyne filed a civil lawsuit over their appearance with a woman in a pornographic video called “Grey Cup Blond” that was available on the Internet in 2006.

The common-law couple was suspended for a few months but got their sheriff jobs back in 2007.

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A judge ordered an amateur porn star named Oshean de St. Claire de Guise to remove the video from her website.

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OTTAWA — Floor-crossing confrontations in the House of Commons rarely end well, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper and New Democrat Paul Dewar proved Thursday it needn’t come to blows.

Shortly after question period, Dewar complained to Speaker Andrew Scheer that Harper had falsely accused him of opposing a trade deal with Jordan.

Scheer waved off the complaint and suggested Dewar continue his debate with Harper elsewhere.

So he did — right there in the centre aisle of the Commons, which is meant to prevent unseemly confrontations by keeping government and opposition MPs at a safe distance.

Instead, in full view of parliamentary video cameras, the pair shook hands before engaging in a brief but animated discussion.

Dewar says he told the prime minister he was mistaken on the Jordan trade deal; Harper, he added, promised to review Dewar’s record on the deal.

Harper had earlier been forced to retract his accusation that Dewar wanted Canada to pull out of trade talks with the European Union.

“It’s not a good day for the prime minister, I guess,” Dewar said later.

The last time an MP crossed the floor of the Commons, it ended in an ugly verbal dust-up that nearly escalated into a brawl.

Shortly before Christmas, an angry Government House leader Peter Van Loan stormed across the aisle to confront his NDP counterpart, Nathan Cullen.

Microphones were shut off but New Democrats later accused Van Loan of using profanity, prompting NDP Leader Tom Mulcair — Cullen’s seat mate — to warn him against threatening his House leader.

New Democrat MPs, including Dewar, surrounded Van Loan and urged him to leave. Eventually, Defence Minister Peter MacKay ushered Van Loan back to the government benches.

Conservatives claimed it was Mulcair who lost his temper but Van Loan subsequently apologized for using “an inappropriate word” during the contretemps.

GARDENS SEX ABUSE

New charges for Gordon Stuckless, convicted of previous sex abuse

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A man at the centre of the Maple Leaf Gardens sex abuse scandal is facing new charges relating to alleged assaults on young boys dating back to the 1970s.

Gordon Stuckless, 63, was convicted in 1997 for sex assaults on 24 boys while he was an usher at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto between 1969 and 1988.

Police in Toronto say two people, who are now grown men, have come forward to allege that Stuckless sexually assaulted them on several occasions.

“At the time of the offences they were younger, 11 or 13,” said Det.-Const. Roger Villaflor of the sex crimes unit.

Stuckless was volunteering at a local community centre and sports clubs at the time. Police allege the assaults happened at those places as well as “various other locations in Toronto.”

Police believe there may be more victims and are urging anyone with information to come forward.

Stuckless was charged Thursday with six counts of indecent assault on a male, assault and possession of a weapon or imitation.

In 1997 Stuckless was sentenced to two years less a day, but that was later increased to five years.

He was paroled in 2001 after serving two-thirds of his sentence.

Sanderson Layng, with the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness, set up the counselling program for victims in the Maple Leaf Gardens scandal. He said it can take decades for people, men in particular, to come to terms with sexual abuse they have suffered.

“There is a stigma, for men especially, who have been abused as children,” he said. “There’s a shame that’s been involved, that they take it on as if they must have done something wrong.”

Martin Kruze blew the lid off the hockey shrine with allegations that a pedophile ring was working inside and he was one of the victims.

Kruze testified at Stuckless’s trial that he was among the dozens of young hockey fans lured into the Gardens with free tickets, hockey sticks and player autographs, only to be sexually abused.

Despondent over the original sentence handed to Stuckless, Kruze committed suicide a few days later.

“The devastation of what this individual has created is enormous and extends far beyond what most people would imagine,” said Layng.

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OTTAWA — The Harper government quietly introduced strict new security vetting for nominees to Canada’s federal spy watchdog after chairman Arthur Porter resigned amid concerns about his business dealings, The Canadian Press has learned.

Appointees to the Security Intelligence Review Committee now must be security cleared to the top-secret level — a rigorous process that wasn’t in place when Porter joined in 2008 or became chairman in 2010.

Prior to Porter’s resignation in November 2011, potential appointees were subject to only a limited background check — even though review committee members see the most sensitive files held by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

The Prime Minister’s Office tightened the screening requirements following Porter’s abrupt departure, said Adam Green, a spokesman for the committee.

“All of these changes came from that office,” he said in an interview.

Former cabinet minister Chuck Strahl, who succeeded Porter as review committee chairman, was the first appointee to the spy watchdog to be screened to the top-secret level in keeping with the new procedures, Green said.

The other two members of the committee were named before the procedures came into effect.

It was five years ago when the Conservatives first appointed Porter — a medical doctor and cancer specialist — to the review committee, which keeps an eye on CSIS and investigates complaints about spy service. He became chairman less than two years later.

Porter, a native of Sierra Leone, quit the review committee after the National Post newspaper revealed he once made a deal — that ultimately fell through — with middleman Ari Ben-Menashe on a $120-million aid-for-development initiative from Russia. It would have given African Infrastructure Group, a firm owned by Porter and his family, the chance to manage infrastructure projects in his homeland.

Ben-Menashe is a controversial figure who has claimed involvement with Israel’s spy service. His Montreal consultancy has done work for iron-fisted Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.

Upon his resignation from the review committee, Porter said he was “a proud Canadian and man for whom integrity, honour and respect hold tremendous meaning.”

A short time later he stepped down as executive director of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal.

The university is suing him for more than $300,000 — the outstanding balance of a loan and a salary overpayment.

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Manhunt launched for ex-cop THREE PEOPLE KILLED IN SHOOTING RAMPAGE; MANIFESTO THREATENS ‘WARFARE’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Thousands of police officers hunted Thursday for one of their own: a former Los Angeles officer angry over his firing and sought in a deadly shooting rampage after warning he would wage “warfare” on those who wronged him, authorities said.

Authorities issued a statewide “officer safety warning,” and police were sent to protect people named in a manifesto that was believed to be written by the fired officer, Christopher Dorner, who has military training. Among those mentioned were members of the Los Angeles Police Department.

“I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform Christopher Dorner whether on or off duty,” the manifesto says. It also asserted: “Unfortunately, I will not be alive to see my name cleared. That’s what this is about, my name. A man is nothing without his name.”

Dorner has available multiple weapons including an assault rifle, said police Chief Charlie Beck, who urged Dorner to surrender.

“Nobody else needs to die,” he said.

The search for Dorner, who was fired in 2008 for making false statements, began after he was linked to a weekend killing in which one victim was the daughter of a former police captain who had represented him during his disciplinary hearing; the other was her fiance. Authorities believe Dorner also opened fire early Thursday on police in cities east of Los Angeles, killing an officer and wounding another.

Police said Dorner, 33, implicated himself in the killings with the multi-page manifesto.

In a Facebook post, Dorner said he knew he would be vilified by the police department and the news media, but that “unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name.”

Beck detailed Dorner’s alleged crimes in an usual

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Flowers are places on a police vehicle near the area where a shooting took place in Riverside, Calif, Thursday. Thousands of police officers searched Thursday for one of their own: a former Los Angeles officer, Christopher Dorner, who is angry over his firing and is sought in a deadly shooting rampage after warning he would wage “warfare” on those who wronged him, authorities said. press conference in an underground room at police headquarters, where extra security was deployed.

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Crisis deepens in Tunisia TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia sank deeper into political crisis Thursday, as the ruling Islamist party rejected its own prime minister’s decision to replace the government after the assassination of a leftist politician led to a wave of angry protests.

The murder of Chokri Belaid, a 48-year-old secularist and a fierce critic of hardline Islamists as well as the more moderate ruling party, laid bare the challenges facing this nation of 10 million, whose revolution two years ago sparked the Arab Spring uprisings.

Because of its small, well-educated population, there were hopes Tunisia would have the easiest time transitioning from dictatorship to democracy. But instead Tunisia — a staunchly secular state under exdictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali — is now a battleground pitting secularists, moderate Islamists, and hardline Islamists against one another.

The economy has struggled, power-sharing negotiations have stalled, and political violence is on the rise.

The rejection of the prime minister’s move to create a government of technocrats to guide the country to elections also made clear that divisions exist between hardliners and moderates within the ruling party, Ennahda.

Police used tear gas Thursday to drive off the few dozen protesters who tried to demonstrate in front of the Interior Ministry, averting a repeat of the large rallies that swept the capital hours after Belaid’s assassination Wednesday.

URGE KILLING OF OPPOSITION, JUSTIFY RAPES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — One hardline Muslim cleric on an Egyptian TV station justified sexual assaults on women protesters. Others issued religious edicts saying opposition leaders must be killed. Television screeds by ultraconservative sheiks are raising fears of assassinations here a day after a top anti-Islamist politician was gunned down in Tunisia.

Egyptian security officials on Thursday beefed up security around the homes of Egypt’s main opposition politicians, citing the possibility of a Tunisia-type killing after the edicts, or fatwas. The office of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and his prime minister denounced the edicts and the top prosecutor began an investigation into one of the clerics.

Two well-known ultraconservative clerics sparked an uproar with their edicts several days ago saying Shariah, or Islamic law, required the killing of opposition figures. A third fanned the flames by justifying a string of mob sexual assaults on women protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

“They are going there to get raped,” cleric Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah said, depicting them as loose women. He spoke of their curly hair, saying “these are dev-

ils named women ... They speak with no femininity, no morals, no fear ... Learn from Muslim women, be Muslims.”

On his TV show on the private Al-Umma station Wednesday, Abdullah, also known as Abu Islam, derided opposition statements that attacking women was “a red line” that must not be crossed.

“Does that apply to these naked women?” he said. “Nine out of 10 of them are Crusaders (Christians) and the rest are ... widows with no one to rein them in” to ensure they remain modest.

Sexual assaults on women protesters have spiked in Egypt’s wave of unrest since late January, with at least 19 reported on Jan. 25 alone. In many cases, mobs stripped women, penetrating them with knives and other objects, according to rights groups.

The TV screeds by the clerics reflect the fury with which some ultraconservatives have reacted to nationwide protests against Morsi, which turned into deadly clashes as police cracked down on the demonstrators.

Aides to Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood officials have depicted the protesters as thugs and criminals and have accused opposition politicians of condoning or even fueling violence in an attempt to undermine Morsi.

The hardline clerics took up that same rhetoric, but went further and declared

that protesters and opposition leaders must face punishments under Islamic law for those who cause chaos or try to overthrow the ruler, including death, crucifixion or amputations of limbs.

Their edicts took on a new light after Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid, a sharp secular critic of that country’s Islamist-led government, was gunned down outside his home Wednesday.

Belaid’s assassination “sounds danger alarms from Tunisia to Cairo, and warns of the cancerous growth of terrorist groups cloaked by religion and carrying out a plot to liquidate the opposition morally and physically,” Egypt’s main opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front, said.

A day earlier, the Front’s leader Mohamed ElBaradei denounced what he called the government’s silence “as another fatwa gives license to kill opposition in the name of Islam.”

On Thursday, Morsi’s office said in a statement that it “stresses its full rejection of hate speech cloaked by religion” and called on all national, religious and intellectual leaders “to stand as one line against unacceptable inciteful language.”

Prime Minister Hesham Kandil warned that such edicts could lead to “sedition and disturbance” and said they “are not related to Islam.”

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The brutal slaying of 20-year-old mother of one Kepari Leniata on Wednesday has been condemned by the nation’s prime minister, police and diplomatic observers.

Leniata was stripped naked by several assailants, tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in gasoline, then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen, police spokesman Dominic Kakas said.

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Flames burn Jackets in OT TANGUAY’S GOAL IN EXTRA PERIOD GIVES FLAMES WIN IN BATTLE OF WESTERN CONFERENCE CELLAR-DWELLERS TIM THOMAS

BRUINS TRADE THOMAS Veteran goalie Tim Thomas, who has said he won’t play this season, was traded by the Boston Bruins to the New York Islanders on Thursday for a conditional secondround draft choice either next year or in 2015. Thomas chose to take this season off following the NHL lockout and was suspended by the Bruins after he didn’t report to training camp last month. The 38-year-old goalie is in the final season of a four-year deal that counts for $5 million against the salary cap.

Thomas, a two-time Vezina Trophy winner as the NHL’s top goalie, has played in 378 regular-season games — all with the Bruins.

He has gone 196-12145 with a 2.48 goalsagainst average and 31 shutouts. Thomas ranks fourth on Boston’s career wins list and third in shutouts.

Today

● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, Red Deer Curling Centre. ● Curling: Southern Alberta juvenile playdowns, Innisfail Curling Club. ● Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament. ● College basketball: Olds at RDC; women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● College volleyball: RDC at Olds; women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● AJHL: Canmore at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Northstar, 7:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Elks, 8 p.m., Kin City A. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m. ● Senior AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, first game best-of-three Chinook League final, 8:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Seattle, 8:35 p.m. (The Drive).

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Tanguay scored on a one-timer 1:07 into overtime to lead the Calgary Flames past the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 on Thursday night in a battle of Western Conference cellar-dwellers.

Shortly after Columbus threatened on two shots by Fedor Tyutin, the Flames had an odd-man rush and Jarome Iginla saucered a cross-ice assist to Tanguay, who unloaded from the right dot.

Before that, however, Tanguay said he was almost the goat. He credited little-used goaltender Leland Irving, who picked up only his second career victory, for covering for him.

“Actually, it all started with Leland,” Tanguay said with a chuckle. “I lost my guy in the defensive zone and they made a great play and Leland made a stop. Then (T.J.) Brodie started the play off in the corner, beat one of their guys and we were off on a 3-on-2.”

Brodie, who had two assists, fed Jarome Iginla and he set up Tanguay for the winner.

“Iggy drove to the net and made a great pass to me,” Tanguay said. “I just had to shoot and it was pretty much if I hit the net then I’d get a good

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Calgary Flames’ Blake Comeau and Columbus Blue Jackets’ Nick Holden chase a loose puck during an NHL hockey game, Thursday, in Columbus, Ohio. chance to score. And the puck went in.”

Roman Cervenka, Mikael Backlund and Lee Stempniak also scored for the Flames, who won their second in a row. Jiri Hudler added two assists.

Tanguay extended his points streak to seven games in a row,

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Queens can’t get win despite solid effort

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Ooks 3 Queens 2 (OT) There are times when you simply have to shake your head and wonder why the hockey gods weren’t on your side.

That was exactly how the RDC Queens felt following a 3-2 overtime loss to the NAIT Ooks in Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League play at the Arena Thursday.

The Queens were simply the better team for most of the 61 minutes and one second of play, but in the end league scoring leader Sherri Bowles put an end to proceedings, snapping a shot past RDC’s Camille Trautman from the slot at 1:01 of overtime.

“That’s tough when you control most of the play in all areas for most of the game,” said Queens head coach Trevor Keeper.

“We outshot them (26-16) and probably deserved to win. We had opportunities in regulation to make it 3-1, especially in the third period, but didn’t convert. This was also our first overtime game of the season and we tell the girls to put the gas pedal down and try to put it away early and we had some opportunities, but it didn’t happen.

“They happen to get the puck into the

slot and league’s leading goal scorer has a chance and buries one.

“Four-on-four is different, although you still should be protecting the middle of the ice, you gamble a bit offensively and we did, leaving the slot open.”

The Queens led 2-1 after two periods, and had chances to make it 3-1, but couldn’t solve Ooks netminder Jill Diachuk, who stopped both Jena Holden and Laura Salmons on breakaways.

“She’s hard to score on the first shot,” said Keeper. “She takes up a lot of space especially down low. We have to shoot more and get more rebounds.”

The Ooks tied the game at 10:56 of the period when Trautman came out of her net to clear the puck and didn’t get it over the blueline. Jillian Mathieson took advantage and scored into the empty net.

“Overall we played well, but sometimes it just doesn’t go the way you want,” said Salomons, who scored the Queens second goal on a two-on-one at 19:06 of the second period. “The thing is if we learn from the loss, it’s not a bad thing. We haven’t been in OT before and I thought we were nervous and shouldn’t have opened up the slot for that player.

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Red Deer College Queen Jessica Anderson takes a shot on net during first period action against the NAIT Ooks at the Arena on Thursday.

Celtics stomp Lakers in rivalry match

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Saturday

● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel, Red Deer Curling Centre. ● Curling: Southern Alberta juvenile playdowns, Innisfail Curling Club. ● Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament.

during which he has four goals and five assists.

The teams came into the game with the fewest points in the Western Conference, Calgary (2-3-2) was last with six and Columbus (3-6-1) was 14th with seven.

But the Flames, unlike the

Blue Jackets, feel like they’re shaking off their slow start.

“A gutsy effort, that’s the first thing I’m going to say,” coach Bob Hartley said. “We scored the first goal and they came right back. We didn’t really get the first period that we wanted, but the second and third periods, we owned the puck. We made some great plays — like a great penalty kill at the end of (regulation). And then we got the winner with Tang.”

The Flames were without two of their top players. Goalie Miikka Kiprusoff is listed as day to day with a leg injury. Center Mike Cammalleri, tied for the team lead in assists with five, was a game-time decision with an undisclosed injury.

Irving took Kiprusoff’s place in net in just his ninth NHL game. He was making his first start since March 16, 2012, a 3-1 loss to Edmonton. His previous and only NHL win came on Dec. 23, 2011, a 3-1 win in Vancouver.

“There’s nothing better. It’s pretty exciting,” he said after the victory. “The boys really came through tonight and played great. I’m glad they were rewarded with two points.”

Mark Letestu had a goal and two assists for the first threepoint game of his 145-game career, while Vinny Prospal had a goal and an assist, and Matt Calvert also scored for the Blue Jackets.

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Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett reaches around for a steal against Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard during an NBA basketball game in Boston, Thursday.

Celtics 116 Lakers 95 BOSTON — The rivalry between the Celtics and Lakers keeps rolling even if they no longer dominate the NBA. And that brought some extra satisfaction to Boston’s Paul Pierce after he led a 116-95 rout of Los Angeles with 24 points on Thursday night.

“It always feels good when you can give them a little old-fashioned beatdown in your house, no matter what direction these teams are going,” he said.

“It’ll always be a rivalry.

Everybody’s always going to watch.”

It was even more special, and perhaps surprising, that the win gave the Celtics a 6-0 record since losing

point guard Rajon Rondo for the season with a torn knee ligament.

“We’re in a rhythm.

We’re moving the ball,” said Kevin Garnett, who had 15 points and became the 16th player in NBA history to reach the 25,000-point mark. “Some day when I’m rocking in a rocking chair having a cigar and thinking what I’ve done I’m sure it’ll make some sense to me, (but) the first priority was the Lakers.”

The teams have met a record 12 times in the NBA Finals, the last in 2010 when the Lakers won in seven games. Only four players on those teams were active Thursday — Kobe Bryant and Metta World Peace for Los Angeles and Pierce and Garnett for Boston.

Pau Gasol and Rondo also played in that series but

missed Thursday’s game.

In 2008, the Celtics beat the Lakers in six games for the championship.

“You can feel the energy every time the Lakers come into the building,” Pierce said.

“There’s always a little extra mustard you’re going to try to put out there when this type of setting is set up for you.”

The Lakers played with Dwight Howard after he missed three games with a sore right shoulder but without Gasol, who is out indefinitely with a torn plantar fascia in his right foot.

Bryant scored 27 to lead the Lakers, who had won their previous three games but suffered their worst loss of the season.

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Musil a sure bet for Rebels REBELS PROSPECTS CHRIS SMITH

TOP AWARD Kamloops Blazers F Chris Smith was named the Canadian Hockey League’s player of the week for the period ending Feb. 3. The 19-year-old Edmonton native, who is in his fourth season with the Blazers, accumulated 10 points on four goals and six assists in four games during the week. The three-time WHL player of the week helped the Blazers pick up three wins. Smith was selected in the seventh round of the 2012 NHL Draft by the Colorado Avalanche.

Smith shared weekly honours with Saskatoon Blades goaltender Andrey Mararov, who was the CHL goaltender of the week after posting a 3-0-0-0 record with a shutout. The 19-year-old native of Kazan, Russia, had a 0.67 GAA and a .982 save percentage.

WHO’S HOT Kootenay Ice C Sam Reinhart is riding a 16-game point streak dating back to Jan. 2. The six-foot, 182-pound 17-year-old native of Vancouver has accumulated 14 goals and 11 assists during the streak. He is 27th in league scoring with 27 goals and 31 helpers in 53 games heading into tonight’s meeting with the Spokane Chiefs.

CLUTCH PERFORMER Red Deer native and Tri-City Americans C Justin Feser has notched seven game-winning goals this season. The 20-yearold leads the league along with teammate Malte Stromwall, Brady Brassart of the Calgary Hitmen and Curtis Lazar of the Edmonton Oil Kings. Feser is also tied for fifth in the league scoring with 72 points, accumulated on 29 goals and 43 assists.

HE SAID “The shower thing was real big . . . If you wanted hot water, you had to get up early.”

— Tri-City Americans C Justin Gutierrez told the Tri-City Herald, concerning the fact the 17-year-old Anchorage, Alaska native is the third youngest in a family of 11 children.

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Forward Vukie Mpofu, selected in the 2011 draft, will definitely get a long look in training camp next fall. He was reassigned to the Saskatchewan Midget AAA League prior to the start of the season and has 58 points (27-31) in 35 games.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The Red Deer Rebels have previous experience at striking out in the first round of the Western Hockey League bantam draft.

Examples? Connor Redmond, just six years ago, and Kevin Labbe in 1997 come to mind.

Adam Musil, it is almost certain, will not slide into that rather unfortunate category — which, arguably, consists of at least two more names — and is a solid bet to be a full-time Rebel next season and a major contributor for the next few years.

“He’s had a really strong year. We’re really pleased with his development at this point,” said Rebels director of scouting/player development Randy Peterson. “At times we’ve felt that we needed him to use his size to more advantage and he’s definitely been doing that lately. At the Mac’s (Calgary midget AAA tournament) he was especially strong in that area.”

Musil, the Rebels’ first pick — sixth overall — in last year’s draft, is the second-leading scorer with the Greater Vancouver Canadians of the BC Major Midget League with 1 1 g o a l s a n d Adam Musil 31 points in 25 games. He has also racked up 24 minutes in penalties.

“The speed and skill he possesses for a big man are obvious,” said Peterson.

The six-foot-one, 185-pound centre has appeared in three games with the Rebels this season and should be in Red Deer for the entire 2013-14 campaign.

“We sure see it that way and I’m sure that’s the way Brent (Rebels GM/head coach Sutter) feels,” said Peterson.

Another prospect who could gain regular employment with the Rebels next season is netminder Taz Burman, taken in the second round of the 2012 bantam draft.

The six-foot, 152-pound stopper has a 9-7-1 record with Greater Vancouver, along with a 2.47 goals-against average.

Burman played with B.C. in the Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup last fall and was stellar at the Mac’s tournament in December.

Whether he’ll be with the Rebels next season remains to be seen, but senior scout Shaun Sutter is confident he’ll get that opportunity.

“You don’t normally expect a

16-year-old goalie to play in our league, but he’s put himself into the equation with his strong play,” said Sutter. “We feel he’s one of the best goaltenders currently outside of the WHL.” Forward Vukie Mpofu, selected in the 2011 draft, will definitely get a long look in training camp next fall. He was reassigned to the Saskatchewan Midget AAA League just prior to the start of the 2012-13 season and has starred with the Saskatoon Contacts, his 58 points (27-31) in 35 games placing him second in league scoring.

“He’s put up some great numbers,” said Peterson, marvelling at the manner in which the fivefoot-eight, 168-pound Saskatoon product successfully converted from a defenceman to a forward, a switch that came about in the Rebels camp last fall.

“Brent saw his skill level and thought maybe the only way he would have an opportunity to play in our league would be as a forward,” said Peterson. “Vukie and his family were in full support of that, and credit to the Contacts for his development.

He’s certainly shown what he can do at that position. He’s taken the ball and run with it.”

Following is a further list of Rebels prospects, including position, year of birth, size, 2012-13 statistics (games played, goals, assists, points and penalty minutes) and current team, with comments from Peterson and Sutter: Meyer Nell; forward; ‘97-born; five-foot-11, 165 pounds; 35-616-22-12, Southwest Cougars (MMAAAHL) “He’s a centre who’s playing left wing on a team that’s been up and down. We’re pretty pleased with his development, for sure, he’s coming along. We project him to be a big player down the road, a six-foot-one kid with power.” — Peterson.

Lynnden Pastachak; forward; ‘96-born; five-foot-11, 155 pounds; 35-23-22-45-63, Yorkton Harvest (SMAAAHL) “He’s fifth in league scoring and is definitely going to be pushing for a spot next season.

He has skill and good hockey sense. He has a few things he needs to work on, like strength and speed . . . he could be an extra step quicker. But he’s a highly-talented kid and he’s having a year good year in midget AAA.” — Peterson.

Austin Strand; defence; ‘97-born; six-foot-two, 160 pounds; 29-6-7-13-34; Calgary Northstars (AMHL) “Austin is getting huge minutes, he’s a go-to guy on his team. He’s a real lanky kid so he has to fill out a bit, but he’s had a real good year. We thought when we drafted him that he

was arguably the hardest guy in his age group to play against — that’s something that he brings to the table. He’s also a guy who makes a good first pass and makes good decisions. He just needs to fill out, but he has all the tools.” — Sutter.

Grayson Pawlenchuk; forward; ‘97-born; five-foot-10, 165 pounds; 28-9-14-23-18; Sherwood Park Kings (AMHL) “Along with Musil, he’s a guy who will probably step in next year. Since Christmas he has steadily progressed, he seems to get better almost every single game. He’s 15 playing midget AAA and I’ve seen games where he’s been dominant, the best player on the ice. He’s a guy who can contribute in all facets of the game.” — Sutter.

Mason McCarty; forward; ‘97-born; five-foot-eight, 140 pounds; 30-12-12-24-34; UFA Bisons (AMHL) “He injured a nerve at the (Alberta) under-16 tryouts and hasn’t had complete feeling in his hand most of the year, but is still almost a point a game guy.

He’s a guy who has done pretty well considering that and the fact he’s a smaller player. He’s had a pretty productive year.”

— Sutter.

Earl Webb; forward; ‘96-born; six-foot-two, 195 pounds; 27-8-513-60; Calgary Buffaloes (AMHL) “He’s a big power guy who has been a little bit inconsistent, but when he’s playing physical he’s capable of being a force out there because of his size. In the second half of the season, since the Mac’s tournament, he’s been more productive.” — Sutter.

Cole Chorney; forward; ‘96-born; six-foot, 166 pounds; 30-17-9-26-32; Edmonton Maple Leafs (AMHL) “He’s one of the top goal scorers in Alberta midget AAA and he’ll be pushing to make our team next year. He has good size and he’s really improved his overall game. He’s one of those guys who’s above average in everything.” — Sutter.

Grant Naherniak; goaltender; ‘96-born; six-foot, 170 pounds; 6-7-1-0 win-loss, 3.20 GAA, .888 save %; Moose Jaw Generals (SMAAAHL) “He’s had a bit of an up and down season. Last year he was among the leaders in the Saskatchewan midget AAA league but this year he has struggled at times. But we think he’ll be fine.” — Peterson.

Kaleb Denham; defence; ‘96-born; six-foot-one, 160 pounds; 24-0-3-3-39; Red Deer Optimist (AMHL) “He’s a kid who has steadily improved. He may be one of the most improved defencemen in his age group. He’s a huge kid who makes a good first pass and has pretty good feet. He’s a good skater for his size, has good hockey sense and has continued to develop an edge. We want him to be a big, rugged guy who’s tough to play against, and he’s continually progressed in that area.” — Sutter.

Brayden Burke; forward; ‘97-born; five-foot-eight, 130 pounds; 28-9-15-24-30; Edmonton CAC (AMHL) “Burkie has grown a couple of inches since the beginning of camp last fall and he’s worked extremely hard to get stronger and has also gotten a step quicker. He’s strong on the puck, strong on his feet and has good vision. During a game a couple of weeks ago, he was picked to take a penalty shot for his team.

That tells you what kind of a player he is as a 15-year-old on a midget AAA team.” — Sutter.

Jake MacLachlan; defence; ‘96-born; six-foot-one, 180 pounds; 31-2-11-13-17; Fernie Ghostriders (junior B) “He’s mobile and he moves the puck. We’d like him to be a little more assertive and use his size more, but he’s a signed player and will definitely be given every opportunity to play with us next season” — Peterson.

Chase Thudium; forward;

‘96-born; five-foot-nine, 155 pounds; 30-9-9-18-14; Red Deer Optimist (AMHL) “He’s a real honest player who always plays hard. He’s a character kid who can do a bit of everything.” — Sutter.

Rylen Toth; goaltender; ‘96-born; six-foot-one, 178 pounds; 7-10-4-0 win-loss, 3.31 GAA, .899 save %; Battleford Stars (SMAAAHL) “We listed him during the Mac’s tournament and he’s struggled a bit since then while playing on a weaker team. But he has some really good athletic abilities.” — Peterson.

Bryson Traptow; forward; ‘97-born; six-foot-one, 155 pounds; 24-14-27-41-48; Calgary NW Bruins (minor midget AAA) “He’s a kid who’s really grown and he’s one of the leading scorers in his league.” — Sutter.

Austin Shmoorkoff; defence; ‘97-born; six-foot-one, 160 pounds; 14-1-4-5-18; Edmonton CAC (minor midget AAA) “He’s a big kid who plays with an edge and he’s a good skater who thinks the game well. He’ll have a chance down the road, for sure.” — Sutter.

Matt Lapointe, forward; ‘96-born; six-foot-two, 185 pounds; 29-14-13-27-6; Edmonton K of C (AMHL) “He’s a 6-2 guy who plays a power game similar to (Earl) Webb, but is about a point per game this season. Even more impressive is that he got off to a slow start, so he’s kind of been on fire the last month and a half. He’s a guy who has gone up and played junior A games (with Spruce Grove of the AJHL) this season and he’ll definitely be knocking on the door here because we want to add some size next year.” — Sutter.

Tanner Laderoute; forward; ‘97-born; five-foot-six, 135 pounds; 20-13-15-28-8; Edmonton K of C (minor midget AAA) “Before he injured his shoulder, and he has since returned, he was one of the top scorers in his league, averaging almost two points a game.” — Sutter.

Connor Hamonic; defence; ‘96-born; six-foot-one, 188 pounds; 20-2-10-12-22; Winnipeg Wild (MMAAAHL) “He’s a puck-moving guy, the best defenceman on his team.”

— Peterson.

Nicholas Patterson; goaltender; ‘97-born; five-foot-11, 160 pounds; 3-7-3 win-loss, 4.19 GAA, .903 save %; Calgary Canucks (minor midget AAA) “He’s a goalie we really like, He plays on a weak team so the majority of the shots he faces are quality chances. He’s had an up and down year but in the games he’s played well he’s stood on his head.” — Sutter.

Holden Daley; defence; ‘96-born; six-foot, 180 pounds; 300-4-4-42; Edmonton CAC (AMHL) “He’s a stay-at-home, rugged defender. He’ll have to improve his skating in order to be knocking on the door here, but he has made progression.” — Sutter.

Blake Weyrick; goaltender; ‘96-born; six-foot-four, 185 pounds; stats unavailable; US Development Program “He’s on our college list and is one of the top goaltenders in the U.S. in his age group. He’s an outstanding goalie. It’s 50-50, at best, that we’ll get him here.”

— Peterson.

Wyatt Kalynuk; defence; ‘97-born; five-foot-10, 140 pounds; 41-1-15-16-32; Southwest Cougars (MMAAAHL) “He’s an extremely mobile kid who was able to convert to defence due to his skating ability. He moves the puck well and is very smart. We see him as a forward down the road.” — Peterson.

Cole Pierson; defence; ‘97-born; six-foot-three, 190 pounds; 32-4-6-10-32; Okanagan Hockey Academy varsity “He needs some time to develop, but he’s a big guy who shows some good signs.” — Sutter. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

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Hockey great Wayne Gretzky puffs on a cigar on the second green of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament Thursday, in Pebble Beach, Calif.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Hunter Mahan was bracing for the worst of Pebble Beach, his golf bag weighed down with rain gear and everything else to handle nasty weather.

Instead, he was reminded how much he loves this place.

It helps that Mahan drilled a 3-wood onto the 18th green for a two-putt birdie that gave him a 6-under 66 and a share of the lead to par with Russell Knox in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Better yet, the rain everyone was expecting early in the afternoon never showed up.

So when Mahan was asked about the most interesting part of the day, all he could think of was that it was boring — in a good way.

“I had a good time with my partner. The pace was great.

The weather was good,” he said. “I think the most interesting thing was we had perfect weather when it was supposed to rain at noon. We were all expecting rain. The bag probably weighs 100 pounds right now.”

Mahan took advantage of a gorgeous day by attacking Pebble Beach, the place to be when the conditions are calm.

He missed only two greens — one of those on the edge — and only had one birdie attempt longer than 20 feet.

It was a good start, but nothing more. With three very different courses in the rotation, weather than can change without notice and one course with a different par, no one has a good idea where they stand until after three rounds on Saturday.

Knox, who grew up in northern Scotland and has family roots in California, made the most of his limited starts on the PGA Tour. He had a 6-under 64 on the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula. Knox fin-

ished out of the top 125 on the money list last year as a rookie, so his opportunities will be limited this year.

“I came in here with a lot of confidence because I feel like I’ve been playing very well,” Knox said. “Just haven’t had the chance to play. It was nice to get off to a good start.”

The best round might have belonged to Seung-yul Noh of South Korea, who played at Spyglass Hill. It’s typically the toughest of the three courses when conditions are benign, and such was the case on Thursday.

Pebble and Monterey Peninsula played nearly a halfshot under par, while Spyglass was almost a half-shot over par.

Noh reached 7 under until making bogeys on the last two holes for a 5-under 67, which only slightly soured his day.

He still had the best score at Spyglass.

“Still a good score. I’m really happy with that,” Noh said.

Even more impressive is that he felt half-asleep. Noh played in Dubai last week and is still coping with jet lag.

Also at 5 under were Scott Langley (65 at Monterey Peninsula) and Matt Every, who had a bogey on his final hole at Pebble Beach for a 67.

Ottawa’s Brad Fritsch fired a 69 at Monterey Peninsula to sit at 1 under in a tie for 57th.

Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., shot 75 at Pebble Beach and is 3 over in a tie for 125th.

The day was not without a few adventures.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, among the newest members at Augusta National, beaned a spectator on the sixth hole. Dustin Johnson, a two-time winner at the Pebble Beach National ProAm, had a four-putt on his way to a 3-over 73 at Monterey Peninsula. John Daly had a threeputt from 3 feet on the seventh hole and took four to get down

from about 18 feet just off the ninth green. He had a 77.

Vijay Singh had a 72 at Pebble Beach, evidence that the PGA Tour still has not decided whether he will be suspended for using deer-antler spray, according to a Sports Illustrated and later confirmed by Singh’s statement last week in Phoenix. The spray is said to contain an insulin-like growth hormone on the tour’s list of banned substances. A decision is not expected this week.

Phil Mickelson, going after a record-tying fifth win in this tournament, couldn’t make as many putts at Monterey Peninsula as he did in his wire-towire win at Phoenix Open last week. He opened with a 69 at Monterey Peninsula.

“One of the things I’ve learned over the years here is you need to be patient,” Mickelson said. “There’s plenty of birdie holes throughout the three courses. Hopefully, I’ll get a good run tomorrow and try to shoot myself up into contention.”

Lee Westwood made his debut in this tournament by playing with his father, and while he had a 68, he’s not sure the score had any bearing on having a good time. Westwood was at Pebble Beach, and while it was a good start for him, he made up ground in the wrong places.

The scoring at Pebble comes on the opening seven holes. He played those in 1 under, missed three putts inside about 12 feet. Then, he picked up four birdies over his final 10 holes.

“But it was nice doing it all with Dad and being able to walk the fairways,” Westwood said.

“You sort of tick off bucket-list courses, and Pebble Beach would definitely be one of them. To actually play in a competition in the AT&T with your dad and tick that one off something really special.”

Alberta men, B.C. women advance to finals

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CANADIAN JUNIOR CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS

FORT MCMURRAY — Alberta’s men will be gunning for back-to-back junior curling gold medals, while B.C.’s women will be looking for the province’s first championship since 1987.

Edmonton’s Thomas Scoffin and Corryn Brown of Kamloops, B.C., each clinched byes to the gold-medal games with wins on Thursday night at the Suncor Community Leisure Centre, locking up first place in their respective championship round-robin pools.

Scoffin and Brown were teammates in 2012 on the Canadian mixed team that won a bronze medal at the inaugural Youth Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria.

The men’s final is Saturday, while the women’s final is Sunday.

Also, Nova Scotia’s Stuart Thompson wrapped up a berth in Saturday’s men’s semifinal with a victory on Thursday night.

Scoffin’s team features two members — lead Bryce Bucholz and his twin brother Landon, who plays second — of last year’s Canadian and world junior championship team, so they have experience with what they’ll face here on Saturday.

“Saturday night, it’s really just about controlling your nerves,” Landon Bucholz said after Alberta improved to 9-1 with a 8-3 win over Manitoba’s Matt

Dunstone. “You’ve practised all year and all your life for it, so you just have to settle down and throw like you practise. I’m so pumped. It’s really exciting.

That was a fun last game to play.”

The Nova Scotians, meanwhile, locked up their playoff berth with a 7-5 win over Ontario’s Aaron Squires. Nova Scotia improved to 8-2 with the victory, while Ontario dropped to 7-3.

Ontario will play a tiebreaker for the third and final playoff spot on Friday against either Manitoba or Saskatchewan’s Brady Scharback.

Saskatchewan improved to 6-3 with a 7-4 win over Quebec on Thursday night, and will play Manitoba to close out the championship round-robin draw on Friday morning, with the tiebreaker berth on the line.

In the other men’s championship-round game, New Brunswick was a 9-4 winner over B.C. On the women’s side, B.C. clinched its bye to the final in dramatic fashion when Brown made a double takeout to score three in the 10th end for a wild 11-10 win over Ontario’s Jamie Sinclair (7-2).

“I’m so proud of those girls,” said Brown, who finished with a 9-1 record. “We had a couple of unfortunate ends and misses, but we made it through and got the three in the last end.”

B.C. has nearly three full days to prepare for Sunday’s gold-medal game.

“I don’t really want to think about what’s at stake right now,” Brown said. “I just want to keep focused on what’s right now. We haven’t won anything yet and we haven’t lost anything. We just have to keep a level head.”

Manitoba’s Shannon Birchard saw her hopes of a bye to the final vanish with the stunning B.C. win, but the 2012 silver-medallist will play in the women’s semifinal Sunday thanks to her 9-4 win over Saskatchewan. Manitoba finished with the same record as B.C. (9-1), but lost out in the head-to-head tiebreaker.

The third and final playoff berth will be decided on Friday morning as Ontario plays Yukon.

The six teams in each competition that didn’t qualify for the championship round are playing a seeding round robin to determine final rankings for next year’s tournament in Liverpool, N.S. In the women’s seeding games, it was Newfoundland and Labrador 9 Northern Ontario 6 and Prince Edward Island 7 Alberta 6.

On the men’s side, it was Northern Ontario 9 Nunavut 1 and Yukon 8 Newfoundland 5.

Hernandez on verge of new Rams and Broncos split mega-contract with Mariners basketball doubleheader SEATTLE — Felix Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners are working on a $175 million, seven-year contract that would make him the highest-paid pitcher in baseball, according to a person with knowledge of the deal’s details.

The person spoke to The Associated Press Thursday on condition of anonymity because the agreement has not been completed. USA Today first reported the deal.

Seattle would add $134.5 million of guaranteed money over five years to the contract of the 2010 AL Cy Young Award winner, whose current agreement calls for him to receive $40.5 million over the next two seasons.

Hernandez’s total dollars would top CC Sabathia’s original $161 million, seven-year contract with the New York Yankees and his $25 million average would surpass Zack Greinke’s $24.5 million under his new contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hernandez’s new money would average $26.9 million over five years, which would tie him for the second-highest average in baseball with Josh Hamilton and Ryan Howard behind Alex Rodriguez ($27.5 million).

Hernandez agreed to a $78 million, five-year contract in January 2010 and has earned an additional $2.5 million in escalators and $300,000 in bonuses.

He is due $20 million this year and $20.5 million in 2014, which would be superseded by the new deal.

Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik said he could not comment when reached on Thursday, and Hernandez’s representatives didn’t immediately return messages. If the deal is finalized, it would leave Detroit’s Justin Verlander and the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw as the most attractive pitchers

eligible for free agency after the 2014 season. Tampa Bay’s David Price is eligible after the 2015 season.

Hernandez has become the face of Seattle’s struggling franchise, transforming from a curly haired 19-year-old who wore his hat crooked to one of the most dominant and exciting pitchers in baseball. Known as “King Felix,” he became the first Seattle pitcher to throw a perfect game in a 1-0 win over Tampa Bay last August.

His fiery enthusiasm on the mound and his willingness to first sign a longterm deal in 2010 have endeared him to fans in the Pacific Northwest who have gone more than a decade without seeing post-season baseball.

Hernandez, who will turn 27 on April 8, is 98-76 with a 3.22 ERA in eight seasons with the Mariners. He won a career-high 19 games in 2009 when he finished second in the Cy Young voting then won the award a year later when he went just 13-12 but had a 2.27 ERA and 232 strikeouts.

Hernandez appeared to be making another Cy Young push last year before going 0-4 in his last six starts, which left him at 13-9 with 223 strikeouts.

His career record would be even better if he didn’t play with one of baseball’s worst offences. Seattle had the lowest batting average in the major leagues in each of the last three seasons. Hernandez has taken 10 losses during that span when he’s given up two earned runs or less.

For his career, Hernandez has allowed two earned runs or less in 141 of 238 starts, but the team is only 99-42 in those games due to the offensive problems. Locking up Hernandez long-term won’t solve all of the problems that have left Seattle looking up at Texas, Oakland and the Los Angeles Angles in the AL West for most of the last 10 years.

HIGH SCHOOL The Lacombe Rams and Ponoka Broncs split a Central Alberta High School Basketball League twin bill Thursday.

The Rams took the girls’ contest 56-

39 with Ponoka winning the boys’ game 79-61.

Kristen Ramsey led the Lacombe girls with 35 points while Kendra Jones had 10 for Ponoka.

Ponoka’s McLaren Chandler dropped in 28 points in the boys’ contest with Keegan Cooke hitting 32 for Lacombe.

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Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W LOTLSOL GF d-Edmonton 56 40 11 2 3 213 d-Prince Albert 54 30 19 2 3 180 Calgary 54 34 16 1 3 187 Red Deer 55 28 21 4 2 154 Saskatoon 53 29 21 0 3 190 Lethbridge 57 25 24 1 7 178 Swift Current 53 25 23 3 2 156 Medicine Hat 54 25 26 2 1 184 Kootenay 53 24 27 2 0 139 Moose Jaw 54 18 27 3 6 141 Regina 55 19 30 3 3 138 Brandon 55 20 31 2 2 150

GA 114 173 148 162 164 188 151 190 169 190 202 218

Pt 85 65 72 62 61 58 55 53 50 45 44 44

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt dx-Portland 54 43 8 1 2 245 119 89 dx-Kelowna 55 40 11 3 1 244 136 84 Kamloops 55 35 15 2 3 198 153 75 Tri-City 53 31 19 1 2 174 157 65 Spokane 53 31 20 2 0 198 167 64 Victoria 53 30 19 1 3 174 174 64 Everett 54 21 28 1 4 132 190 47 Seattle 55 19 31 4 1 159 223 43 Prince George 54 16 30 2 6 135 193 40 Vancouver 53 13 40 0 0 142 229 26 d — division leader. x — clinched playoff berth.

Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Wednesday’s results Brandon 4 Lethbridge 1 Saskatoon 7 Prince Albert 1 Calgary 4 Portland 3 Red Deer 4 Prince George 3 (SO) Spokane 5 Kelowna 0 Victoria 4 Seattle 1 Thursday’s results Edmonton 7 Regina 0 Everett at Kamloops, Late Tuesday’s results Edmonton 4 Prince Albert 3 (OT) Lethbridge 5 Regina 2 Saskatoon 5 Moose Jaw 4 Victoria 4 Seattle 1 Friday’s games Lethbridge at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Victoria at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Calgary at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Red Deer at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 9 Prince Albert at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Lethbridge at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Hurricanes 3 Senators 2 (OT) First Period 1. Ottawa, Karlsson 5 (Silfverberg, Smith) 18:03 Penalties - Smith Ott (boarding) 11:45.

Second Period 2. Carolina, LaRose 1 (Bowman, Harrison) 12:59 3. Ottawa, Alfredsson 3 (Turris, Gonchar) 16:04 Penalties - Bowman Car (slashing) 17:09.

Third Period 4. Carolina, Semin 2 (E. Staal, Brent) 12:26 (pp) Penalties - Pitkanen Car (hooking) 3:38, Alfredsson Ott (delay of game) 11:18, Semin Car (tripping) 16:15.

Overtime 5. Carolina, Harrison 2 (J. Staal, Skinner) 2:19 Penalties - None.

Shots on goal Carolina 10 3 10 3 26 Ottawa 13 17 12 5 47 Goal - Carolina: Ward (W, 3-3-0); Ottawa: Anderson (L, 6-3-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Carolina: 1-2; Ottawa: 0-3.

Attendance — 17,337 at Ottawa, Ont.

Friday’s Game Anaheim at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay at Boston, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Edmonton at Detroit, noon Winnipeg at Ottawa, noon Phoenix at San Jose, 2 p.m.

Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Anaheim at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

NHL Scoring leaders TORONTO — Unofficial National Hockey League scoring leaders following Wednesday’s games: SCORING G A Pt Vanek, Buf 8 11 19 Stamkos, TB 7 9 16 P.Kane, Chi 6 9 15 Marleau, SJ 9 5 14 Pominville, Buf 6 8 14 Crosby, Pgh 4 10 14 St. Louis, TB 3 11 14 J.Thornton, SJ 3 11 14 Pavelski, SJ 5 8 13 Zetterberg, Det 5 8 13 Clarkson, NJ 7 5 12 Kunitz, Pgh 6 6 12 Conacher, TB 5 7 12 Enstrom, Wpg 2 10 12 Malkin, Pgh 2 10 12 Couture, SJ 6 5 11 Tavares, NYI 4 7 11 Lecavalier, TB 4 7 11 S.Gagner, Edm 3 8 11 Ribeiro, Wash 3 8 11 S.Koivu, Ana 3 8 11 E.Staal, Car 7 3 10 Parise, Minn 6 4 10 Hossa, Chi 6 4 10 Hodgson, Buf 5 5 10 Tarasenko, StL 5 5 10 Datsyuk, Det 3 7 10 Vrbata, Phx 3 7 10 Selanne, Ana 3 7 10 Hall, Edm 2 8 10 Elias, NJ 2 8 10 Purcell, TB 2 8 10 Parenteau, Col 7 2 9 Skinner, Car 5 4 9 Markov, Mtl 4 5 9 Toews, Chi 4 5 9 Turris, Ott 4 5 9 Moulson, NYI 4 5 9 Wheeler, Wpg 4 5 9 Letang, Pgh 3 6 9 Thursday’s summaries

Sunday, Feb. 10 Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Kelowna at Everett, 6:05 p.m.

Victoria at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF d-Pittsburgh 11 8 3 0 16 39 d-Boston 9 7 1 1 15 26 d-Tampa Bay 10 6 4 0 12 42 New Jersey 10 6 1 3 15 27 Ottawa 11 6 3 2 14 31 Montreal 10 6 3 1 13 31 Toronto 11 6 5 0 12 28 Carolina 9 5 4 0 10 25 N.Y. Rangers 10 5 5 0 10 24 N.Y. Islanders 10 4 5 1 9 30 Philadelphia 11 4 6 1 9 25 Winnipeg 10 4 5 1 9 29 Buffalo 11 4 6 1 9 35 Florida 10 4 5 1 9 25 Washington 11 2 8 1 5 25

Attendance — 15,004 at Winnipeg, Man.

Pittsburgh 5, Washington 2 Calgary 4, Columbus 3, OT Carolina 3, Ottawa 2, OT Toronto 3, Winnipeg 2 Detroit 5, St. Louis 1 Nashville 3, Los Angeles 0 Vancouver 4, Minnesota 1 Chicago 6 at Phoenix 2

GA 26 20 27 22 22 24 31 26 26 34 30 37 41 35 41

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA d-Chicago 11 9 0 2 20 39 25 d-Anaheim 9 7 1 1 15 32 23 d-Vancouver 10 6 2 2 14 28 23 d-San Jose 10 7 2 1 15 34 21 Nashville 10 5 2 3 13 23 21 St. Louis 10 6 4 0 12 33 30 Detroit 10 5 4 1 11 28 29 Dallas 11 5 5 1 11 23 27 Edmonton 10 4 3 3 11 24 27 Phoenix 11 4 5 2 10 31 33 Minnesota 10 4 5 1 9 22 28 Colorado 10 4 6 0 8 21 26 Calgary 8 3 3 2 8 24 28 Los Angeles 9 3 4 2 8 20 28 Columbus 11 3 6 2 8 23 36 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader Wednesday’s Games Boston 2, Montreal 1 Anaheim 3, Colorado 0 Dallas 3, Edmonton 2, OT Thursday’s Games Buffalo 5, Montreal 4, SO Florida 3, Philadelphia 2, SO New Jersey 4, Tampa Bay 2 N.Y. Rangers 4, N.Y. Islanders 1

Flames 4 at Blue Jackets 3 (OT) First Period 1. Calgary, Cervenka 1 (Wideman, Hudler) 4:19 2. Columbus, Calvert 1 (Prospal, Erixon) 4:44 3. Columbus, Letestu 4 (Brassard, Johnson) 9:37 (pp) Penalties — Tanguay Cal (interference) 8:52, MacKenzie Clb (high-sticking) 11:01, Johnson Clb (high-sticking) 15:41, Stempniak Cal (slashing) 15:56.

Second Period 4. Calgary, Backlund 3 (Brodie, Hudler) 13:06 Penalties — Boll Clb (interference) 2:23, Bouwmeester Cal (hooking) 7:27.

Third Period 5. Calgary, Stempniak 4 (Bouwmeester, Irving) 8:33 (pp) 6. Columbus, Prospal 3 (Letestu) 11:00 Penalties — Brassard Clb (hooking) 6:37, Stempniak Cal (interference) 18:10.

Overtime 7. Calgary, Tanguay 4 (Iginla, Brodie) 1:07 Penalties — None Shots on goal Calgary 8 13 8 1 — 30 Columbus 12 8 7 2 — 29 Goal — Calgary: Irving (W,1-0-0); Columbus: Bobrovsky (L,2-2-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 1-4; Columbus: 1-4.

Attendance — 10,484 (18,144).

Maple Leafs 3 Jets 2 First Period No scoring.

Penalties - Phaneuf Tor (hooking) 3:53, McLaren Tor, Thurburn Wpg (fighting) 14:26, Kane Wpg (closing hand on puck) 16:10, van Riemsdyk Tor (closing hand on puck) 17:25.

Second Period 1. Winnipeg, Redmond 1 (Little, Enstrom) 3:22 (sh) 2. Toronto, Bozak 3 6:21 (sh) Penalties - Antropov Wpg (cross-checking) 2:40, Orr Tor (roughing) 5:50, Kulemin Tor (interference) 15:08.

Third Period 3. Winnipeg, Clitsone 2 (Little) 3:46 4. Toronto, Frattin 6 (Franson, Kadri) 14:58 5. Toronto, Kessel 1 (Bozak) 15:52 (pp) Penalties - Stuart Wpg (holding) 6:30, Ponikarovsky Wpg (holding) 15:24.

Shots on goal Toronto 5 7 6 — 18 Winnipeg 7 9 9 — 25 Goal - Toronto: Reimer (W, 4-3-0); Winnipeg: Pavelec (L, 3-5-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Toronto: 1-4; Winnipeg: 0-4.

Canucks 4 at Wild 1 First Period 1. Vancouver, D.Sedin 3 (Burrows, Hamhuis) 9:18 2. Vancouver, Higgins 1 (Lapierre, Garrison) 14:31 Penalties — Minnesota bench (too many men, served by Bouchard) 3:19, Weise Vcr (fighting, major), Konopka Min (fighting, major) 7:17, Parise Min (roughing) 12:31, Ballard Vcr (interference), Heatley Min (cross-checking) 15:25.

Second Period 3. Vancouver, Raymond 4, 17:17 (pp) 4. Vancouver, Hansen 2 (Raymond, Edler) 18:52 Penalties — Weise Vcr (tripping) 9:35, H.Sedin Vcr (tripping) 13:17, Mitchell Min (interference) 15:35.

Third Period 5. Minnesota, Gilbert 3 (Brodin, Cullen) 7:25 (pp) Penalties — Weise Vcr (fighting, major), Konopka Min (instigator, fighting) 2:20, Bieksa Vcr (holding) 6:00, Setoguchi Min (cross-checking) 10:12, H.Sedin Vcr (tripping) 14:10, Heatley Min (closing hand on puck) 15:27, Burrows Vcr (slashing), Falk Min (slashing) 17:01.

Shots on goal Vancouver 9 7 6 — 22 Minnesota 3 12 8 — 23 Goal (shots-saves) — Vancouver: Schneider (W,32-0); Minnesota: Backstrom (L,3-4-1)(16-12), Harding (start third)(6-6).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Vancouver: 1-6; Minnesota: 1-4.

Attendance — 18,352 (17,954).

Red Wings 5 at Blues 1 First Period 1. Detroit, Cleary 1 (Tatar, Abdelkader) 5:14 2. Detroit, Kindl 1 (Emmerton, Miller) 11:50 Penalty — Backes StL (holding) 17:33.

Second Period 3. St. Louis, Pietrangelo 3 (Steen, Shattenkirk) 15:45 (pp) 4. Detroit, Emmerton 1 (Tootoo, Miller) 17:33 5. Detroit, Brunner 5 (Ericsson, Zetterberg) 19:04 Penalties — Abdelkader Det (hooking) 13:02, Backes StL (boarding) 13:09, Detroit bench (too many men, served by Bertuzzi) 14:10.

Third Period 6. Detroit, Filppula 3, 13:35 Penalties — Franzen Det (spearing, major-game misconduct), Perron StL (boarding) 12:38.

Shots on goal Detroit 12 15 2 — 29 St. Louis 9 8 10 — 27 Goal — Detroit: Mrazek (W,1-0-0); St. Louis: Elliott (L,3-4-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Detroit: 0-1; St. Louis: 1-3.

Attendance — 17,699 (19,150).

Kings 0 at Predators 3 First Period 1. Nashville, Bourque 2 (Legwand, Klein) 2:54 Penalties — Clifford LA (fighting, major), Clune Nash (fighting, major) 2:15, Clifford LA (tripping) 15:50.

Second Period 2. Nashville, Wilson 2 (Klein, Yip) 7:01 3. Nashville, Wilson 3 (Weber, Fisher) 13:02 (pp) Penalties — Williams LA (roughing) 12:57, Erat Nash (goaltender interference) 16:03.

Third Period No Scoring Penalties — Gaustad Nash (roughing) 8:28, Stoll LA (holding) 9:44, Fisher Nash (roughing) 14:07.

Shots on goal Los Angeles 8 20 4 — 32 Nashville 7 5 2 — 14 Goal — Los Angeles: Quick (L,3-3-2); Nashville: Rinne (W,4-2-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Los Angeles: 0-3; Nashville: 1-3.

Attendance — 17,113 (17,113).

Panthers 3 at Flyers 2 (SO) First Period 1. Florida, Skille 1 (Kulikov, Weaver) 10:52 2. Philadelphia, Voracek 2 (Timonen, Giroux) 11:44 (pp) Penalties — Giroux Pha (hooking) 7:39, Kuba Fla (interference) 11:24, Timonen Pha (tripping) 17:25.

Second Period 3. Philadelphia, Read 4 (Knuble, Couturier) 2:42 Penalties — Rinaldo Pha (interference) 6:03, Campbell Fla (tripping) 17:11.

Third Period 4. Florida, Weiss 1 (Fleischmann, Kulikov) 8:35 (pp) Penalties — Gervais Pha (tripping) 8:25, Weaver Fla (tripping) 11:06, Kulikov Fla (interference) 13:52.

Overtime No Scoring Penalties — None Shootout Florida wins 2-0 Florida (2) — Huberdeau, goal; Mueller, goal.

Philadelphia (0) — Read, miss; Giroux, miss.

Shots on goal

Florida 9 8 7 0 — 24 Philadelphia 11 11 5 5 — 32 Goal — Florida: Theodore (W,4-4-0); Philadelphia: Bryzgalov (L,4-5-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Florida: 1-4; Philadelphia: 1-4.

Attendance — 19,616 (19,538).

Canadiens 4 at Sabres 5 (SO) First Period 1. Montreal, Plekanec 5 (Bourque, Emelin) 4:11 2. Buffalo, Ott 2 (Hecht) 4:26 Penalties — Vanek Buf (interference) 7:15, Gallagher Mtl (roughing, boarding), Brennan Buf (roughing) 14:48.

Second Period 3. Montreal, Gallagher 4 (Prust, Diaz) 12:31 4. Buffalo, Ennis 4 (Foligno) 13:06 5. Montreal, Subban 2 (Markov, Pacioretty) 18:32 (pp) Penalties — Armstrong Mtl (unsportsmanlike conduct) 2:50, Bourque Mtl (hooking) 4:04, Cole Mtl (holding stick) 8:16, Gionta Mtl (holding) 14:57, Hodgson Buf (hooking) 17:06, Ott Buf (high-sticking) 17:39.

Third Period 6. Montreal, Plekanec 6 (Gionta, Bourque) 0:45 7. Buffalo, Vanek 9 (Ennis, Foligno) 7:57 (pp) 8. Buffalo, Vanek 10 (Ott, Ennis) 19:58 Penalties — White Mtl (roughing, double minor) 7:32, Hecht Buf (hooking) 13:37.

Overtime No Scoring Penalties — None Shootout Buffalo wins 2-1 Montreal (1) — Galchenyuk, goal; Bourque, miss; Gionta, miss.

Buffalo (2) — Vanek, goal; Ennis, miss; Pominville, goal.

Shots on goal Montreal 13 12 5 2 — 32 Buffalo 10 18 10 2 — 40 Goal — Montreal: Budaj (L,0-1-1); Buffalo: Miller (W,4-4-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Montreal: 1-4; Buffalo: 1-7.

Attendance — 18,866 (19,070).

Capitals 2 at Penguins 5 First Period 1. Washington, Ribeiro 4 (Kundratek, Ovechkin) 4:12 Penalty — Alzner Wash (holding) 12:05.

Second Period 2. Pittsburgh, Malkin 3 (Crosby, Martin) 6:59 (pp) 3. Pittsburgh, Pa.Dupuis 4 (Crosby, Kunitz) 12:49 4. Pittsburgh, Neal 7 (Kunitz, Malkin) 16:33 (pp) 5. Pittsburgh, Cooke 2 (Sutter) 16:44 6. Pittsburgh, Crosby 5 (Malkin, Neal) 19:38 (pp) Penalties — Alzner Wash (interference) 6:49, Ward Wash (delay of game) 15:42, Hamrlik Wash (hooking) 18:18.

Third Period 7. Washington, Ovechkin 3 (Ribeiro, Green) 8:34 (pp) Penalties — Ovechkin Wash (cross-checking), Bortuzzo Pgh (roughing) 3:59, Orpik Pgh (roughing) 6:48, Bortuzzo Pgh (interference) 18:00.

Shots on goal Washington 8 6 11 — 25 Pittsburgh 5 18 5 — 28 Goal (shots-saves) — Washington: Neuvirth (11-9), Holtby (L,1-4-0)(12:49 second)(17-14); Pittsburgh: Fleury (W,5-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Washington: 1-2; Pittsburgh: 3-4.

Attendance — 18,650 (18,387).

Lightning 2 at Devils 4 First Period No Scoring Penalty — Larsson NJ (interference) 9:36.

Second Period 1. New Jersey, Henrique 3 (Volchenkov, Elias) 3:28 2. Tampa Bay, Thompson 2 (St. Louis) 13:19 3. New Jersey, Kovalchuk 3, 17:34 (sh) Penalties — Mikkelson TB (tripping) 4:37, Salvador NJ (delay of game) 10:25, Barch NJ (tripping) 13:58, New Jersey bench (abuse of officials, served by Butler) 16:23.

Third Period 4. New Jersey, Greene 2 (Clarkson, Elias) 15:02 (pp) 5. New Jersey, Elias 3 (Kovalchuk, Greene) 15:16 (pp) 6. Tampa Bay, Carle 2 (St. Louis, Stamkos) 17:45 Penalties — St. Louis TB (tripping) 13:29, Hall TB (high-sticking), Tampa Bay bench (abuse of officials, served by Bergeron) 13:47, Hedman TB (hooking), Clarkson NJ (diving) 17:25.

Shots on goal Tampa Bay 8 4 7 — 19 New Jersey 11 11 5 — 27 Goal — Tampa Bay: Lindback (L,5-3-0); New Jersey: Brodeur (W,5-1-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Tampa Bay: 0-4; New Jersey: 2-4.

Attendance — 14,802 (17,625).

Islanders 1 at Rangers 4 First Period 1. N.Y. Rangers, Miller 1 (Kreider, Staal) 1:29 2. N.Y. Rangers, Gaborik 6 (Staal, Richards) 14:04 Penalty — Nash NYR (holding) 15:49.

Second Period 3. N.Y. Islanders, Tavares 5 (Moulson, Finley) 11:13 4. N.Y. Rangers, Miller 2 (McDonagh) 18:11 (pp) Penalties — New York bench (too many men, served by Miller) 3:50, Martin NYI (holding) 6:46, Moulson NYI (interference) 16:36, McDonagh NYR (roughing) 19:37.

Third Period 5. N.Y. Rangers, McDonagh 1, 17:52 (en) Penalties — Powe NYR (holding) 4:09, McDonagh NYR (interference) 11:28.

Shots on goal N.Y. Islanders 8 9 11 — 28 N.Y. Rangers 10 8 7 — 25 Goal — N.Y. Islanders: Nabokov (L,4-4-1); N.Y.

Rangers: Lundqvist (W,4-5-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — N.Y. Islanders: 0-5; N.Y. Rangers: 1-2.

Attendance — 17,200 (17,200).

Blackhawks 6 at Coyotes 2 First Period 1. Chicago, Stalberg 3 (Shaw, Bickell) 8:17 2. Chicago, Kane 7 (Toews, Sharp) 14:52 (pp) 3. Chicago, Bolland 4 (Kane, Sharp) 17:24 4. Chicago, Kane 8 (Sharp, Keith) 18:25 (pp) Penalties — Mayers Chi (fighting, major), Torres Pho (fighting, major) 2:35, Vrbata Pho (highsticking) 5:05, Ekman-Larsson Pho (interference) 13:52, Morris Pho (cross-checking) 14:31, Yandle Pho (unsportsmanlike conduct) 17:24, Michalek Pho (tripping) 17:58.

Second Period 5. Phoenix, Hanzal 5 (Vrbata, Boedker) 5:19 (pp) 6. Chicago, Toews 5 (Hossa) 12:42 7. Chicago, Bickell 2 (Stalberg) 15:08 Penalties — Saad Chi (interference) 4:20, Kruger Chi (hooking), Ekman-Larsson Pho (diving) 4:52, Hossa Chi (holding) 7:42, Doan Pho (interference) 9:15.

Third Period 8. Phoenix, Torres 1 (N.Johnson, Chipchura) 18:35 Penalties — Doan Pho (unsportsmanlike conduct) 6:40, Summers Pho (boarding) 10:00, Morris Pho (hooking) 15:12.

Shots on goal Chicago 17 6 10 — 33 Phoenix 4 10 10 — 24 Goal (shots-saves) — Chicago: Emery (W,3-00); Phoenix: M.Smith (L,2-3-1)(22-16), LaBarbera (15:08 second)(11-11).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Chicago: 2-9; Phoenix: 1-2.

Attendance — 15,096 (17,125).

American Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Portland 45 27 16 1 1 56 132 Providence 44 25 16 0 3 53 115 Worcester 46 22 18 1 5 50 116 Manchester 46 21 21 2 2 46 125 St. John’s 48 21 24 1 2 45 111

GA 132 114 130 122 137

East Division W L OL SL 28 12 1 3 25 12 2 4 24 18 2 1 22 19 3 2 18 23 2 1

Pts GF 60 135 56 146 51 110 49 115 39 106

GA 103 122 104 110 131

Northeast Division GP W L OL SL Springfield 44 27 11 3 3 Bridgeport 45 21 19 2 3 Connecticut 47 20 21 4 2 Albany 43 18 16 1 8 Adirondack 44 18 23 2 1

Pts GF 60 148 47 138 46 133 45 113 39 104

GA 107 146 148 118 130

WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Grand Rapids 45 27 14 2 2 58 144 Chicago 42 22 15 3 2 49 115 Peoria 45 20 19 4 2 46 115 Milwaukee 43 19 18 3 3 44 113 Rockford 46 21 23 1 1 44 139

GA 120 114 141 123 146

GP Binghamton 44 Syracuse 43 Wilkes-Barre 45 Hershey 46 Norfolk 44

Abbotsford Rochester Lake Erie Toronto Hamilton

GP 47 44 46 43 44

North Division W L OL SL 24 16 3 4 25 16 2 1 24 17 2 3 24 15 2 2 15 23 1 5

Pts GF 55 108 53 156 53 140 52 142 36 96

GA 103 132 138 117 143

South Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Texas 46 27 12 4 3 61 134 118 Charlotte 47 27 15 2 3 59 146 123 Houston 47 22 18 4 3 51 126 130 Oklahoma City 45 21 18 2 4 48 140 148 San Antonio 46 20 22 0 4 44 114 125 NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Thursday’s Games No games scheduled Friday’s Games Albany at Springfield, ppd.

Portland at Providence, ppd., Inclement weather Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Norfolk, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Adirondack at Syracuse, 5:30 p.m.

Grand Rapids at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Houston at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Rockford at Peoria, 6:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Chicago at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Connecticut at St. John’s, 4 p.m.

Portland at Bridgeport, 5 p.m.

Providence at Manchester, 5 p.m.

Texas at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Binghamton at Hershey, 5 p.m.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Norfolk, 5:15 p.m.

Albany at Syracuse, 5:30 p.m.

Grand Rapids at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Houston at Rockford, 6:05 p.m.

Lake Erie at Abbotsford, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Connecticut at St. John’s, 2:30 p.m.

Syracuse at Adirondack, 3 p.m.

San Antonio at Charlotte, 3 p.m.

Worcester at Bridgeport, 3 p.m.

Texas at Toronto, 3 p.m.

Portland at Springfield, 3 p.m.

Manchester at Providence, 3:05 p.m.

Peoria at Milwaukee, 4 p.m.

Norfolk at Hershey, 5 p.m.

Albany at Binghamton, 5:05 p.m.

Lake Erie at Abbotsford, 7 p.m.

Golf PGA-Pebble Beach Thursday Pebble Beach, Calif.

Purse: $6.5 million p-Pebble Beach GL; 6,816 yards; par 72 m-Monterey Peninsula CC, Shore Course; 6,838 yards; par 70 s-Spyglass Hill GC; 6,953 yards; par 72 First Round Russell Knox 31-33 — 64m Hunter Mahan 31-35 — 66p Matt Every 32-35 — 67p Seung-Yul Noh 34-33 — 67s Ted Potter, Jr. 32-35 — 67p Greg Owen 31-34 — 65m Ryuji Imada 31-34 — 65m Scott Langley 32-33 — 65m Lee Westwood 35-33 — 68p Kevin Na 33-35 — 68s Patrick Reed 36-32 — 68s Lee Williams 33-33 — 66m John Merrick 35-33 — 68p Patrick Cantlay 32-34 — 66m Brandt Snedeker 31-35 — 66m Luke Guthrie 34-34 — 68p Alistair Presnell 34-34 — 68s Kevin Stadler 35-34 — 69p Bob Estes 32-37 — 69s

Jeff Gove Jeff Maggert Brendon de Jonge Ben Kohles Matt Jones Heath Slocum Charlie Beljan Camilo Villegas Neal Lancaster Kevin Streelman Doug LaBelle II Dicky Pride Arjun Atwal Brian Stuard Aaron Baddeley Tim Petrovic Vaughn Taylor Jason Day Morgan Hoffmann Brendon Todd Eric Meierdierks Alex Cejka Nick Watney Jimmy Walker Billy Horschel Casey Wittenberg D.A. Points Jason Kokrak

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Cameron Beckman Chez Reavie Nick O’Hern John Mallinger Richard H. Lee Sean O’Hair Stuart Appleby Kevin Sutherland Brian Harman Jason Bohn Henrik Norlander Joe Durant Roberto Castro Fredrik Jacobson Tommy Gainey Pat Perez Justin Hicks Johnson Wagner Chris Kirk Todd Hamilton Ken Duke Kelly Kraft Jim Herman Cameron Tringale Retief Goosen Bill Lunde Phil Mickelson Tag Ridings

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Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Agreed to terms with RHP Joel Pineiro on a minor league contract.

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Agreed to terms with INF Mike Aviles on a two-year contract.

SEATTLE MARINERS—Agreed to terms with C Kelly Shoppach on a one-year contract. Designated RHP Shawn Kelley for assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS—Promoted Alex Sugarman to senior vice-president of strategy and development.

COLORADO ROCKIES—Agreed to terms with C Gustavo Molina and C Yorvit Torrealba on minor league contracts.

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Designated 2B Jeudy Valdez for assignment.

American Association EL PASO DIABLOS—Signed OF/RHP Victor Ferrante.

FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS—Signed RHP Alex Sunderland and RHP Kevin Fuqua.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS—Signed INF Yasutsugu Nishimoto.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES—Traded INF Jairo Perez to Grand Prairie for RHP Brad Furnish.

LAREDO LEMURS—Signed C Brian Peterson.

WICHITA WINGNUTS—Signed C Stephen Yoo. Released RHP Tony Marsala.

Can-Am League NEWARK BEARS—Signed INF Mike Richard.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHILADELPHIA 76ERS—Signed G Jeremy Pargo to a 10-day contract.

Women’s National Basketball Association

James Hahn Jason Gore Brad Fritsch Alexandre Rocha Vijay Singh William McGirt Shawn Stefani David Lingmerth Chris DiMarco Scott Brown Padraig Harrington Darron Stiles Jordan Spieth J.B. Holmes Justin Bolli J.J. Henry Charlie Wi Nathan Green Josh Teater Fabian Gomez Robert Garrigus Michael Letzig Geoff Ogilvy Webb Simpson Matt Bettencourt Tom Gillis Robert Streb Peter Tomasulo

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Nicholas Thompson Ricky Barnes Rafael Cabrera Bello Bryce Molder D.J. Trahan Brian Davis Scott Gardiner Billy Mayfair Rod Pampling Troy Kelly Erik Compton Rory Sabbatini Derek Ernst Ryan Palmer Cameron Percy Steve LeBrun James Driscoll Kevin Chappell Andres Romero Robert Karlsson Donald Constable Chris Riley Scott McCarron Si Woo Kim Mike Weir Jim Furyk Michael Bradley Gary Christian

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Basketball ATLANTA DREAM—Re-signed G-F Angel McCoughtry to a multiyear contract.

SEATTLE STORM—Signed G Temeka Johnson and G Noelle Quinn.

WASHINGTON MYSTICS—Signed C Avery Warley and G Ashley Corral.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL—Named Dean Blandino vice-president of officiating. Reinstated coach Gregg Williams from suspension.

BUFFALO BILLS—Announced they will not tender WR Donald Jones.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Named Chris DiSanto assistant strength and conditioning coach, Ken Flajole inside linebackers coach, Steve Gera special assistant to the head coach, Derik Keys assistant strength and conditioning coach and John Settle running backs coach.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Named Ron Middleton tight ends coach, Terry Richardson running backs coach, Matthew Smiley special teams assistant and Mike Rutenberg defensive backs assistant.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Re-signed DT Shaun Rogers.

NEW YORK JETS—Named Brian VanGorder linebackers coach and Bobby April III defensive quality-control coach.

TENNESSEE TITANS—Named Gregg Williams senior assistant defensive coach.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS—Traded G Tim Thomas to the N.Y. Islanders for a 2014 or 2015 second-round draft pick.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Activated D Nikita Nikitin from injured reserve.

NEW YORK RANGERS—Reassigned D Jyri Niemi from Greenville (ECHL) to Connecticut (AHL).

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS—Signed D Kimmo Timonen on a one-year contract extension through the 2013-14 season.

American Hockey League CONNECTICUT WHALE—Signed F Michael Pelech to a professional tryout agreement.

MANCHESTER MONARCHS—Signed LW Colton Yellow Horn to a professional tryout agreement.

NORFOLK ADMIRALS—Called up D Sacha Guimond from Gwinnett (ECHL).

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Signed D Mike Marcou to a professional tryout agreement.

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS—Signed D Mike Banwell to a professional tryout agreement. Released F Chris Collins.

ECHL IDAHO STEELHEADS—Added D Kory Scoran to the roster.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS—Signed F Alex MacLeod.

SOCCER Major League Soccer HOUSTON DYNAMO—Signed D Jermaine Taylor to a contract extension.

North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS—Named Carlos Llamosa assistant coach.

National Women’s Soccer League WASHINGTON SPIRIT—Signed G Chantel Jones and M Ingrid Wells.

COLLEGE WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE— Announced Missouri-Kansas City has accepted an invitation to join the conference, effective July 1.

OKLAHOMA STATE—Named Mike Yurcich offensive co-ordinator and quarterbacks coach.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 31 16 .660 — Brooklyn 29 20 .592 3 Boston 26 23 .531 6 Philadelphia 21 27 .438 10 1/2 Toronto 17 32 .347 15

Miami Atlanta Orlando Washington Charlotte

Indiana Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

Southeast Division W L Pct 32 14 .696 27 21 .563 14 35 .286 13 35 .271 11 37 .229

GB — 6 19 1/2 20 22

Central Division W L Pct 31 19 .620 29 19 .604 25 23 .521 18 32 .360 15 34 .306

GB — 1 5 13 15 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 39 11 .780 — Memphis 30 18 .625 8 Houston 27 24 .529 12 1/2 Dallas 21 28 .429 17 1/2 New Orleans 16 33 .327 22 1/2 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 37 12 .755 Denver 31 18 .633 Utah 28 22 .560 Portland 25 24 .510 Minnesota 18 28 .391

GB — 6 9 1/2 12 17 1/2

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

Pacific Division W L Pct 35 16 .686 30 19 .612 23 27 .460 17 33 .340 17 33 .340

Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 122, Charlotte 95 Indiana 88, Philadelphia 69 Boston 99, Toronto 95 L.A. Clippers 86, Orlando 76 Washington 106, New York 96 Atlanta 103, Memphis 92 Brooklyn 93, Detroit 90 Miami 114, Houston 108 New Orleans 93, Phoenix 84 Oklahoma City 119, Golden State 98 Dallas 105, Portland 99 Utah 100, Milwaukee 86 San Antonio 104, Minnesota 94 Thursday’s Games Boston 116, L.A. Lakers 95 Chicago at Denver, Late Friday’s Games L.A. Lakers at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Washington, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Houston, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 6 p.m.

New York at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Miami, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Utah, 8:30 p.m.

GB — 4 11 1/2 17 1/2 17 1/2

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 B5

Coach Todd Richards was perplexed by his team coming out strong in the first period but then getting manhandled in the second and for much of the third periods.

“We have to figure it out,” Richards said after Columbus’ third loss in the first four games of a franchise-record tying six-game home stand. “For 20 minutes it’s good and then we lose our game. And when it’s gone, it’s gone. It’s not one shift or two shifts; it’s for an extended period of time.”

Tied at 2 heading into the third period, the Flames carried over their domination from the second.

With 4 seconds left in a power play, Stempniak notched his fourth. He was racing along the right wing with the puck when he let go of a hard, rising slap shot that eluded goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. Irving picked up an assist for his first NHL point.

The Blue Jackets countered with 9 minutes left in regulation when Letestu forced a turnover with a check in the neutral zone and carried the puck into the offensive zone. He left a drop pass for Prospal, who found the net with a one-timer from just outside the left hash mark to tie it again.

Irving got enough of Tyutin’s hard shot early in the overtime to send it high into the air and behind the cage. Tyutin was then wide on a shot off a backdoor pass — with the Flames taking advantage at the other end almost immediately.

NOTES: The last three meetings had gone to a shootout with the visiting team winning each. ... The Flames had scored at least one power-play goal in six of seven games this season and came in fifth in the NHL at 26.7 per cent, but were 0 for 4. ... The Blue Jackets were 1 for 4. ... Extending points streaks for Columbus were Brassard (2-2-4 in four games) and Letestu (2-3-5 in three). ... Calgary improved to 8-14-1 in Nationwide Arena.

RDC: Not worried about it “So if we learn I’m not worried about it,” added Solomons.

The Queens held a 9-4 edge in shots in the first period, but came out tied 1-1. Rachael Hoppins scored at 6:36, converting a rebound on the power play, with Renata Mastna evening the count at 16:52 on a scramble.

The win gave the Ooks a one-point margin on the Queens in the battle for first place. Both teams have three games remaining, including a meeting between the two Saturday at NAIT. “That’s important as we want to finish first,” said Salomons. “We have a practice (today) and we’ll work on some little mistakes we made and come back Saturday and have a great game.”

Keeper knows the Queens will have to be on top of their game to win at NAIT. “They find ways to get the job done, but if we compete and finish our chances, we may not blow them out, but we’ll win,” he said.

One way the Queens can get an advantage is by using their overall edge in team speed.

“We have lots of speed and the line of (Jessica) Anderson, (Rikki) Leonard and (Angie) Hodgson were awesome and if we all take their lead we’ll have four lines going,” concluded Salomons. ● Bowles 13th goal of the season gave her 22 points, and a one point lead on RDC’s Gillian Altheim in the scoring race . . . NAIT took six of 10 minor penalties . . . Queens return home Thursday when they host SAIT. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

NBA: Disappointing Howard had nine points and nine rebounds in 28 minutes before fouling out with 5:07 left.

“There were a couple times where I felt (the shoulder pain),” he said, “but I just tried not to think about it. ” World Peace also was back after a one-game suspension for grabbing Detroit’s Brandon Knight around the neck and striking him in the jaw with the knuckles of his mostly open hand in the Lakers’ 98-97 win Sunday.

The Lakers cut a 58-44 halftime deficit to 72-61 with 5:07 left in the third quarter. Then the Celtics went on a 23-8 run and led 95-69 going into the fourth.

Pierce started the surge with a three-point play and ended it with a 3-pointer with 41 seconds left, giving him 12 points in the period.

“The first half was just as bad as the second,” said Lakers point guard Steve Nash, who had just nine points and five assists. “Disappointing performance, start to finish.”

The win was the Celtics’ biggest of the season and broke a tie with Milwaukee for seventh place in the East. They moved within 1 ½ games of sixth.

“The roof just kind of caved in on us,” Bryant said.

“It always just seems like whenever their backs are against the wall you know that’s when you really see the best from them.”

The Lakers had won six of their previous seven games and had moved three games behind the Houston Rockets for the eighth and final playoff spot in the West.

But they trailed by at least 11 points throughout the second half.

Previously, the Celtics’ biggest win was 94-75 at Indiana on Jan. 4, and the Lakers’ worst loss was 113-97 at Sacramento on Nov. 21.

Garnett reached 25,000 points with an 11-foot turnaround jumper that gave him six for the game and put the Celtics ahead 39-29 with 8:08 left in the half.

Jeff Green had 19 points and Jason Terry added 15.

Besides Rondo, rookie forward Jared Sullinger also is out for the season after having back surgery and sat out his fourth game.

“Our guys just think they’re good,” Boston coach Doc Rivers said. “We’re playing selfless and free.”

The Celtics led by 14 at halftime after hitting 51.1 per cent of their shots while the Lakers kept missing open jumpers and sank just 37.8 per cent of theirs, including just 2 of 12 from beyond the 3-point arc.

WHL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Michael St. Croix had a goal and two assists as the Edmonton Oil Kings shut out the Regina Pats 7-0 in the Western Hockey League on Thursday.

T.J. Foster and Henrik Samuelsson each had a goal and an assist and Cody Corbett added three assists for Edmonton (40-11-5). Keegan Lowe, Dylan Wruck, Martin Gernat and Stephane Legault rounded out the scoring for the Oil Kings with one goal each. St. Croix, a New York Ranger fourth round pick, and Samuelsson, a Phoenix first rounder, lead the team with 28 goals each.

Edmonton has won nine in a row. Regina (19-30-6) has lost 10 of its last 11. The Oil Kings came into the game with the best power play and penalty kill in the league and it showed. Edmonton went 4 for 7 with the extra man and shut down Regina on five power plays attempts.

NHL ROUNDUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PENGUINS 5 CAPITALS 2 PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby extended his points streak to six games with a goal and two assists and the Pittsburgh Penguins pounded the lifeless Washington Capitals 5-2 on Thursday night.

Evgeni Malkin also added a goal and two assists while Pascal Dupuis, James Neal and Matt Cooke scored for the Penguins, who have won five straight.

Pittsburgh’s revamped power play produced three goals, while Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 23 shots for the Penguins, who moved atop the Eastern Conference standings by beating Washington at home in regulation for the first time in more than five years.

Alex Ovechkin and Mike Ribeiro scored for Washington but couldn’t stop the NHL’s worst team from losing for the fifth time in its last six games. Michal Neuvirth made nine saves for the Capitals before getting pulled for Braden Holtby, who promptly let in three goals in his first seven minutes on the ice.

RANGERS 4, ISLANDERS 1 NEW YORK — Teenage rookie J.T. Miller scored his first two NHL goals in his second career game to lift the Rangers to their second win in three games.

Miller, who won’t turn 20 until March, gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead just 1:29 in and then pushed their advantage to 3-1 in the second period with a rare power-play goal for the club. Marian Gaborik also scored, defenceman Marc Staal had two assists and Ryan McDonagh added an empty-net goal for the Rangers.

The Rangers have an eight-game winning streak over the Islanders at Madison Square Garden, outscoring them 35-11.

DEVILS 4, LIGHTNING 2 NEWARK, N.J. — Ilya Kovalchuk broke a tie with a short-handed goal late in the second period and New Jersey won its third straight game by beating slumping Tampa Bay. Andy Greene and Patrik Elias iced the game with power-play goals 14 seconds apart with less than 5 minutes to play as the Devils (6-1-3) sent the Lightning to their third consecutive loss. Elias also had two assists.

Adam Henrique scored for the second game in a row and Martin Brodeur made 17 saves for New Jersey.

Nate Thompson and Matthew Carle scored for the Lightning, who have five goals during their losing streak. Tampa Bay scored 37 times in starting the season 6-1.

PANTHERS 3, FLYERS 2, SO PHILADELPHIA — Jonathon Huberdeau and Peter Mueller both scored goals in a shootout to lead Florida to the win.

Florida’s Stephen Weiss tied the game at 2 midway through the third period with his first goal of the season. Jack Skille also scored for the Panthers.

Matt Read and Jakub Voracek scored goals for the Flyers. Read continued to have his way with the Panthers.

Read notched his first career hat trick last month against the Panthers and his second-period goal against Jose Theodore was his sixth goal against them in six career games. He has 28 career goals.

Read was stopped by Theodore in the shootout.

Claude Giroux also came up short in the second round.

SABRES 5, CANADIENS 4, SO BUFFALO, N.Y. — Thomas Vanek scored twice in regulation, including the tying tally with 2 seconds left, and added a shootout goal to rally Buffalo past Montreal.

Jason Pominville also scored in the shootout and Ryan Miller clinched the victory by making a left pad save to stop Brian Gionta on Montreal’s final opportunity.

Buffalo rallied from a 4-2 deficit in the third period to snap a three-game skid and win for the second time in its past nine games. Vanek, the NHL’s leading scorer with 10 goals and 21 points, keyed the comeback by scoring both third-period goals, his second coming during a scramble in front at 19:58.

HURRICANES 3, SENATORS 2, OT OTTAWA — Cam Ward made 45 saves and Jay Harrison scored 2:19 into overtime to rally Carolina to victory.

Harrison’s winner came off a scramble in front as he banged a loose puck past Senators goalie Craig Anderson.

Chad LaRose and Alexander Semin scored in regulation for the Hurricanes, who have won five of their last seven.

Erik Karlsson and Daniel Alfredsson replied for the Senators, while Anderson stopped 23 shots in taking the loss.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detroit Red Wings’ Pavel Datsyuk shoots as St. Louis Blues’ Chris Stewart watches during the second period of an NHL game Thursday, in St. Louis.

PREDATORS 3, KINGS 0 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Pekka Rinne made 32 saves for his first shutout of the season and Colin Wilson scored two goals to lead Nashville to its fourth straight win.

The defending Stanley Cup champion Kings have dropped three of their past four.

Gabriel Bourque opened the scoring 2:54 into the opening period and Wilson added his goals in the second period.

From the left corner, David Legwand sent a backhand pass to Bourque in the high slot, and he beat Los Angeles goaltender Jonathan Quick with a onetimer low to the glove side.

CANUCKS 4, WILD 1 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Corey Schneider made 22 saves and Mason Raymond had a power-play goal and an assist in the second period to lead Vancouver past sputtering Minnesota for its fourth straight win.

Niklas Backstrom gave up two scores in each of the first two periods for the Wild, and Josh Harding was in the net for the final frame.

Daniel Sedin, Chris Higgins and Jannik Hansen also had goals for the Canucks, whose shutout was spoiled by Tom Gilbert’s power-play slap shot with 12:35 left.

MAPLE LEAFS 3, JETS 2 WINNIPEG, Man. — Phil Kessel scored his first goal of the season late in the third period to lift Toronto to victory.

Tyler Bozak scored short-handed and Matt Frattin added a goal for the Leafs, who won their second straight of a three-game road trip.

Kessel’s goal ended a frustrating drought for the top-line winger who had 37 goals last season.

Zach Redmond and Andrew Ladd scored for the Jets, who have lost four of their past five games.

RED WINGS 5, BLUES 1 ST. LOUIS — Petr Mrazek made 26 saves in his NHL debut and Detroit halted a two-game skid with the victory, beating St. Louis for the second time in three games this season.

The Blues dropped their third in a row, losing three successive games in regulation for the first time since Feb. 27 to March 5, 2011.

Daniel Cleary and Jakub Kindl scored first-period goals for the Red Wing,. Cory Emmerton and Damien Brunner added second-period goals 91 seconds apart and Valtteri Filppula added a goal in the third.

Alex Pietrangelo scored on a second-period power play for the Blues.

Mrazek, recalled from Grand Rapids on Monday, stopped the first 14 shots he faced. Jimmy Howard, the team’s No. 1 goalie, was given the night off after starting the first nine games of the season.

Generals to meet Chiefs in Chinook League final The Bentley Generals will meet the Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs in the bestof-three Chinook Hockey League final.

The Chiefs advanced with a 5-4 victory over the Stony Plain Eagles Wednesday, winning the best-of-three

semifinal 2-1.

The final opens tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Bentley with the second game Saturday at 8:15 p.m. in Fort Saskatchewan. If a third game is necessary, it’s Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in Bentley.

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Team British Columbia’s Nic Petan (white) tries to get the puck past Team Quebec goalie Philippe Desrosiers during the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Feb. 12, 2011. Petan is piling up points for the WHL’s Portland Winterhawks this season. other,” Petan said this week.

“I felt at that point that I wanted to just go for it with hockey.”

The decision has paid off so far, as the 17-yearold Petan continues to climb the draft rankings. A big January included a goal in the CHL Top Prospects Game and WHL Player of the Month honours.

He dismisses concerns that his size might make it tough to rise into the first round of the draft.

“I don’t think it’s a defect for me,” Petan said of his frame. “It’s actually been working for me, because I can work on things like getting stronger legs and creating more speed that help me get around the bigger guys.”

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Affiliated player Travis Mayan, who plays for Sylvan Lake in the midget AA league, had three goals and three assists for the Vipers, who used four affiliated players, including goaltender Cole Sears.

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It worked, and Petan credits Johnston for pushing him to become a better all-around player.

Johnston was suspended for the rest of the season as part of sanctions handed out by the WHL against the Winterhawks in late November.

The league charges that Portland provided illegal benefits to players in past seasons, and banned Johnston from all contact with the team through the post-season.

The team was also fined $200,000 and docked nine bantam draft picks over the next five seasons.

The Winterhawks have admitted to the violations, but dispute the heavy-handed punishment for things like providing flights for families to come watch their kids play in person.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s not a big shock that a member of the Portland Winterhawks leads the Western Hockey League in scoring. What is rather surprising is the name at the top of the list.

Many hockey observers expected the spot to be occupied by St. Louis Blues prospect Ty Rattie, whose 57 goals and 121 points last season were more than anyone returning to major junior hockey this season.

Instead, it’s Rattie’s teammate, Nicolas Petan, who’s piling up huge numbers in his second year with the Winterhawks. Petan, a native of Delta, B.C., has recorded 36 goals and 94 points in 54 games for a Portland team that’s ranked No. 1 in the CHL and has a 438-1-2 record.

Not bad for a guy who mostly served as a fourth-liner as a 16-yearold rookie and failed to record a point in 22 playoff games last season.

Petan’s meteoric rise has taken the five-footnine, 165-pound centre from off the NHL draft radar to a potential firstor second-round selection this summer. And to think, Petan nearly played soccer instead of hockey.

“I had to make a choice when I was 11 to go with one sport or the

Winterhawks made some trades to acquire veterans, he found himself on the fourth line.

Petan did contribute a respectable 14 goals and 35 points as a rookie, but went without a point in a post-season run that ended with a loss in Game 7 of the WHL final to Edmonton.

Petan now plays with Brendan Leipsic — who is a similar size — and the slightly bigger Rattie on a line that’s perhaps the smallest in the league, but also the most dominant at even strength. Petan’s plus-54 rating leads the WHL, and he’s on pace to threaten the Portland franchise record of plus-75 posted by Andrew Ference in 1997’98.

Leipsic (92 points) and Rattie (75 points) are second and fourth in the WHL in scoring, respectively, and each member of the trio seems to know where the others will be at all times. Their chemistry is astonishing for a group that hadn’t played together until this season.

“The three of us started staying after practice and working on our passing and just developing a familiarity with each other,” said Petan. “Our physicality isn’t quite there, but we make up for it by playing mentally strong.”

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Ravens expecting to re-sign Flacco GM NEWSOME SAYS TEAM WON’T MORTGAGE FUTURE TO REPEAT AS SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS NEXT SEASON

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The last time the Baltimore Ravens won a Super Bowl, they mounted an all-out charge to pull off an encore.

That won’t happen again. “You have to make sure that the excitement of the day doesn’t cloud what we promised to build, and that was a consistent winner,� Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti said Thursday. “I’m just proud for Baltimore, and there is a great pressure off of us.�

Although the Ravens have placed a high priority on signing quarterback Joe Flacco to a long-term deal, the team has no intention of overpaying potential free agents or having several players restructure their contracts in order to keep the current roster intact.

That’s what happened 12 years ago, when general manager Ozzie Newsome sacrificed the future to mount another run at a championship. The Ravens backed up their 34-7 Super Bowl win over the New York Giants by returning to the playoffs, but they didn’t get back to the Super Bowl.

And then, after the season, they suffered the salary-cap blues. “We’re not going to get caught up in the moment and do things to our salary cap and make decisions in the euphoria of winning that could hurt us in 2014 and 2015, like we did in 2001,�

Bisciotti said. “Every single veteran (in 2001) was restructured so that, I think, every single veteran could stay, then we ended up losing so many people the next year. We don’t want to do that.�

Newsome feels the same way. “We will not repeat what we did in 2001,� he said. “We’re trying to build where we can win Super Bowls more than just one more time. I think our team is structured differently this time, also. We do have some veterans that will probably be retiring (linebacker Ray Lewis and possibly centre Matt Birk) but we have a great nucleus of young players and players that are just heading into their prime that we’re go-

Williams says sorry for his role in bounty scandal THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — Gregg Williams knows he’s got to prove himself every day.

The former Saints defensive co-ordinator said he received a “great rebirth� Thursday when he was reinstated by the NFL and hired by the Tennessee Titans after serving a nearly yearlong suspension for his role in the New Orleans bounty scandal.

But now that he’s back in the league, he’ll have to change the way he’s done things in the past. “I’ve got a very positive outlook on things,�

Williams said. “I understand and respect the game an awful lot, and the past is the past and what I’m talking about doing right now is creating a resume from this day forward.�

Williams took the first step when the Titans hired him as a senior assistant coach for defence. Williams thanked Commissioner Roger Goodell for reinstating him while speaking at a news conference. “I take full responsibility and apologize for my previous actions, and I’ve used this year to reorganize my life and put focus on positive energy and positive ways to inspire and coach and motivate in this profession,�

Williams said, reading from a statement. “I’m grateful for this opportunity.�

The league issued a statement saying that Goodell cited several reasons for reinstating Williams, including Williams accepting responsibility for his role in the bounty program, his commitment to never be involved in any pay for performance system and pledging to teach safe play and respect for the rules. “The commissioner emphasized that Williams must fully conform to league rules and will be subject to periodic monitoring to confirm his compliance,� the NFL said in its statement.

ing to build this team around. “We’re not going to be restricting contracts, do all of those different things just to be able to maintain this team just to make another run. We’re not doing that. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t want to repeat.�

The first step in that process is getting Flacco on board. The Super Bowl MVP’s contract expired after Baltimore’s season-ending 34-31 win over San Francisco last Sunday. “I’m coming away today thinking that we can get a deal done,� Newsome said, noting that in similar situations the team signed Haloti Ngata, Jonathan Ogden, Ray Lewis, Ray Rice, Ed Reed and Terrell Suggs. “I’ve got a very good owner who understands the business, who understands the importance of certain positions,� Newsome said. “So I’m optimistic.�

If the sides don’t reach an agreement, the Ravens can slap the franchise tag on Flacco. But they would prefer to avoid that scenario because it would take up salary cap space.

There are plenty of other issues to deal with during the off-season, so much so that Newsome, Bisciotti, coach John Harbaugh and other high-ranking team officials met for 10 hours Wednesday to discuss virtually every player on the roster. Six starters become unrestricted free agents, including Flacco, linebackers Dannell Ellerbe and Paul Kruger, and safety Ed Reed.

Reed, 34, basked in the glow of his first Super Bowl title Sunday night.

He remained giddy during the parade Tuesday, which gives Newsome hope of getting the nine-time Pro Bowl star under contract for 2013. “I think he wanted to let some time clear and at that point, he and I will sit down,� Newsome said. “I think he realizes there may be some other options out there, but I think if you watched him, if you watched his body language over the course of the last eight to 10 days, (it’s apparent) that he loves being here in Baltimore. I think we can use that to help make that relationship last a little bit longer.�

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Baltimore Ravens president Dick Cass, from left, head coach John Harbaugh, general manager and executive vice president Ozzie Newsome and owner Steve Bisciotti speak alongside the Vince Lombardi Trophy at a news conference on Thursday, in Owings Mills, Md. Although they won the Super Bowl, the Ravens are still looking to fill some holes. The retirement of Lewis, along with the potential loss of Ellerbe and free agent defensive tackle Ma’ake Kemoeatu, has not escaped Newsome’s attention. “We think we’ve got to get better at defensive tackle,� Newsome said. “We know that we have one linebacker retiring and one that’s a free agent.

We’ve got a safety that’s a free agent and some young guys that have yet to step up. So we would say the middle of the defence is probably the one area that we will concentrate on.�

Winning a Super Bowl is a tough task. Doing it in succession is far more difficult. So the Ravens have decided

to start anew next year instead of looking to repeat. “The word repeat means nothing,�

Harbaugh insisted. “You go back to work.�

The Ravens are the only team in the NFL to reach the playoffs in each of the past five years. Their task next year will be to extend the streak to six, then hope the post-season drive ends with a victory. “I don’t really believe in the defending champ thing,� Harbaugh said. “It’s not boxing. They don’t give you a belt and you fight for the title. The 2012 champions were the Baltimore Ravens.

Next year’s champion depends on who plays the best, who handles adversity the best, who comes out on top.�

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS He’s still waiting for Cooperstown to call, but Tim Raines can finally say he’s a Hall of Famer.

The former Montreal Expos outfielder was named for induction Thursday into the Canadian Baseball of Fame. Also included in the class of 2013 are former outfielders George Bell and Rob Ducey as well as former announcer Tom Cheek and longtime minor-league owner Nat Bailey.

No players were elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year. Raines was fifth in voting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America with 297 votes (52.2 per cent), finishing short of the 75 per cent required for induction.

“Definitely different types of emotions,” Raines said during a conference call. “The emotions of not getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame is something I’ve been dealing with for five years.

“Getting into the Canadian (Baseball) Hall of Fame . . . is the highest honour I’ve gotten since I played professional baseball so this is a great moment for me and my family. I was ecstatic about it.”

Raines, 53, played left field for six major-league teams from 1979 to 2002 but is best known for his time in Montreal (1979-’90). Nicknamed ”Rock”, Raines was a seven-time all-star and two-time World Series champion as a player — he added a third in ’05 as a Chicago White Sox coach — and retired with a career .294 average with 2,605 hits, 170 homers and 808 stolen bases.

Last month, Raines joined the Toronto Blue Jays as a baserunning and outfield coach.

Raines, a native of Sanford, Fla., said while he’ll

CLASS OF 2013 continue to hold out hope the call from Cooperstown will come one day, at least he can draw solace from already being in one baseball Hall of Fame.

“I’ll just keep hoping and keep praying that it will happen,” he said. “If not, I’m a Canadian Hall of Famer now and I feel pretty good about that.”

Bell, 53, spent 12 seasons in the majors with Toronto, the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox but enjoyed his best success with the Blue Jays. The native of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, was a three-time all-star and won the American League MVP with the Jays in 1987.

Bell enjoyed his best season that year, hitting .308 with 47 homers and 134 runs-batted in. However, Toronto fell two games short of Detroit in a stirring division title race, which Bell said tarnished his individual accolade.

“I remember winning the MVP but was very, very disappointed,” Bell said. “We came so close, I think it was one of the best teams we put on the field in our time and we got beat so bad.

“To win the MVP was nice but coming so close and not coming through, I think, was very painful.”

Bell said a regret was leaving Toronto after the 1990 season to sign as a free agent with the Chicago Cubs. A year later, he was dealt to the White Sox for Sammy Sosa and Ken Patterson.

“I was disappointed to leave Toronto but my profession was a baseball player and I just liked to go as a free agent to Chicago,” he said. “But the experience I had with the Toronto Blue Jays was the best I

ever had in my life.

“I grew up as a player in Toronto and to leave Toronto when I did for the 1990 season was kind of disappointing.”

Ducey, a Toronto native who grew up in Cambridge, Ont., had the chance to play for both Toronto and Montreal over his 13-year professional career.

He fondly remembers playing his first game in a Blue Jays uniform at Exhibition Stadium in 1987.

“I remember getting three standing ovations from the crowd that night,” Ducey said.

“A young man growing up an hour west of the city can be very intimidating but emotionally I was on Cloud 9.

“It was like it was two weeks ago, that day. I will always remember that first game.”

Cheek, who died in 2005, broadcast 4,306 consecutive Jays games from the franchise’s first contest until June 2, 2004. The Hall of Fame induction is the third recent honour for Cheek, who was inducted into the Vermont Association of Broadcasters in December before being selected as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award.

“It really was a trifecta to find out about the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame,” said Cheek’s widow, Shirley “I will accept the award and be proud for him and our family will be there to be proud.”

Bailey, who died in 1978, purchased the tripleA Vancouver Mounties in the mid-50’s and helped raise the sport’s interest in the city. Mark Bailey said his grandfather’s passion for baseball made for a very fun upbringing.

“I grew up with players like Brooks Robinson, Sal Bando, Tony La Russa, Dave McKay,” he said. “It was all before hockey came to town.”

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EPL clubs agree to cost-control measures, face penalties if rules are breached THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — English Premier League clubs agreed Thursday to restrain spiraling player salaries and rapid spending through financial controls that would see rule breakers face heavy point deductions.

The move, which is designed to ensure that the expected $8 billion being generated by a new television rights deal isn’t frittered away, comes days after UEFA warned that escalating player costs were jeopardizing the future of clubs in Europe.

Teams with wage bills exceeding 52 million pounds ($82 million) would only be able to increase them by 4 million pounds ($6 million) per season for the next three years if the rise is funded through TV revenue.

And clubs would only be able to record a loss of 105 million pounds ($165 million) from 201316 — a rule Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool would have breached recently if it was already in place.

The regulations are more lax than UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules, which are forcing teams entering European competitions to eventually make teams break even on their footballrelated business.

“The clubs understand that if people break the 105 million pounds we will be looking for the top-end ultimate sanction range, a points deduction,” Pre-

mier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said.

Scudamore said the regulations will prevent teams emulating Chelsea and Manchester City by embarking on turbocharged spending sprees under new ownerships to quickly win silverware.

“You can still build a very decent club with substantial owner funding that over time can challenge anybody but ... it’s just going to mean doing that is going to take a few years longer, which is not at all a bad thing,” Scudamore said.

Scudamore believes that the spending by Chelsea and City has contributed to wages rising across the league.

Player costs at City hit 200 million pounds ($315 million) last season as the team won the English title for the first time in 44 years after investment of about $1 billion since being taken over by Abu Dhabi owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan three years earlier.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich had to fork out 171 million pounds ($269 million) last season on salaries as the team won the Champions League. The west London club won the Premier League in 2005, two years after Abramovich’s took over and started spending heavily to strengthen the squad.

Such rapid spending will be curtailed by the new regulations approved by 13 of the 20 Premier League clubs on Thursday.

Messi signs contract extension with Barcalona

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BARCELONA, Spain — Lionel Messi signed a twoyear contract extension with Barcelona on Thursday, tying him to the Spanish club for the better part of his already stellar playing career.

With his previous contract set to expire in 2016, Messi will now remain at Barcelona until June 2018.

The 25-year-old forward joined Barcelona when he was 13, and debuted with the first team three years later. He has gone on to become Barcelona’s all-time leading scorer en route to helping the team lift numerous trophies and winning four FIFA world player of the year awards.

“I’m very happy at Barcelona, I have always said so. It’s a great day,” said Messi, who is now set to remain a Barcelona player until he is 31 years old.

“I don’t know how I will be when I reach 31. I just go forward day by day and try to enjoy playing football here,” he said.

Barcelona first announced in December that Messi, along with midfielder Xavi Hernandez and defender Carles Puyol, had agreed to extend their contracts. Messi said that he wanted to play for Barcelona until possibly ending his career back in his native Argentina.

“I have said before that as far as Europe goes I would like to end my career at Barcelona,” he said.

“I don’t think about playing for any other team on the continent. That said, I don’t rule out ending my playing career in Argentina.”

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ANTLER NIGHT Hunters are encouraged to have the antlers of their prizes measured on Wednesday, Feb. 13. The Red Deer Fish and Game Association holds its annual antler measuring night at the Moose Lodge at 140 Petrolia Drive in Gasoline Alley east from 6 to 9 p.m. More information is available by calling Venny at 403-347-3767.

No GPS eyes on city workers CITY ‘HAS FAITH IN ITS EMPLOYEES AND TRUST THEY ARE GETTING THE JOB DONE’

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer has no plans of playing Big Brother with its public works employees.

In October, the City of Hamilton used video surveillance and GPS devices to investigate its workers who were accused of not doing their jobs.

As a result, 29 public works employees were axed and two others were suspended without pay for 30 days earlier this year.

Paul Goranson, Director of Development Services, which oversees the Public Works

department, said the city has more faith in its employees and trust they are getting the job done.

Goranson said the city tries to foster a positive atmosphere with its staff.

“Most staff understand what the expectations are,” said Goranson. “They are motivated and do a great job. And they care about their community so that drives what they do.”

The approximately 100 employees working within the Public Works department are responsible for the roads, bridges, lanes, sidewalks and signs throughout the year.

Most of the city’s 600 vehicles, including 52 transit buses, are equipped with radios

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RESTORE

NDP SEEKING CONCERNS INTO BUDGET New Democrat MLAs will visit Red Deer on Wednesday to hear concerns about the upcoming provincial budget. Four MLAs are prepared to hear presentations from city councillors, school boards, business organizations, union locals, post-secondary institutions and cultural groups during the Broken Promises Budget Tour, which will visit six other cities this month.

“We’re expecting this budget to be full of service cuts that will hurt Alberta families and frontline workers,” said party leader Brian Mason in a release. The public is welcome to attend the session which starts at 2 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium of the Red Deer Public Library downtown branch. Albertans can also submit their thoughts on the March 7 budget online at www.albertandp.ca/ budget2013.

RDC STUDENT FILM NIGHT Movies by Red Deer College student filmmakers will screen to the public Monday.

Film Works is a onenight only viewing of works by fourth-year students in the Motion Picture Arts Applied degree program who acted in, directed and shot the five- to 20-minute films.

Admission is $10 at the door at Galaxy Cinemas located in Gasoline Alley west.

Tom Nguyen shops for some lighting fixtures at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Red Deer Thursday. Habitat for Humanity held an open house Thursday welcoming guests, donors and shoppers to come in and meet board members and the new executive director Paula Madu. The ReStore brings in donated building materials, tools, household furnishings and appliances to resell.

Funds raised in the ReStore go to funding the Habitat for Humanity administration while 100 percent of cash donations fund the construction and renovation of affordable housing projects in the community.

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Penhold opens books to review

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

‘IT’S ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND GIVE AN OPINION ON IT.’

The Town of Penhold is opening its books to scrutiny as part of a provincial inspection.

Council requested a review last fall after residents complained about a 4.75 per cent tax increase and hundreds signed a petition calling on the province to take a look at town operations.

Consultants have already been in to talk to town staff and council and will be meeting with local residents.

Mayor Dennis Cooper was interviewed last month by an inspector and welcomes the process.

“I’m looking forward to seeing this review come through because this is going to tell us things were doing right, tell us things we should improve on,” Cooper said.

“It’s always a good idea to have someone else take a look at what you’re doing and give an opinion on it.”

— MAYOR DENNIS COOPER

Cooper said every community that has gone through a similar process has been better for it. Recommendations from the inspection will be compiled in a report expected to be done in the early summer.

Council will share results with the public.

Some of the local unrest stems from the need to fund services in a growing community at a time when people were weathering a recession, believes Cooper.

“When it came to the taxes, it got a lot of people very upset and concerned, and I respect that,” he said.

“We’re growing and with that growth there is a cost attached to it.”

A similar inspection was done in Donalda in 2011. It was ordered after residents

in the tiny community signed a petition asking for an inquiry — a higher level of review — because of a lack of confidence in administration.

That inspection found the community of 230 had been mismanaged for a decade and eight directives were ordered to fix shortcomings.

Under the Municipal Government Act, if an inspection leads the minister to believe the municipality is managed in an “irregular, improper or improvident manner” the minister can order changes in operation.

If that doesn’t happen, the minister can dismiss members of council or the chief administrative officer. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Hwy 791 upgrading dropped from province’s plan

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

BUDGET CUTS

A project to upgrade a highway in Red Deer County that was counted on to ease congestion on a local service road has been dropped from the province’s three-year plan.

The $16.4-million project was first announced in 2010 and involved extending Hwy 791, which currently ends at Hwy 590, eight km east of Innisfail, where the road continues north as an unpaved route.

Mayor Jim Wood was not surprised by the delay given the cuts the province is making to its budgets.

“I do feel some confidence it will happen in the future, but there’s a reality right now that the province has a huge deficit and they’re trying to figure out how they are going to handle it.”

Wood said paving the route is important

to county residents who must now use an unpaved service road running next to Hwy 2.

“That road cannot handle the traffic,” he said.

The county has been talking to Alberta Transportation about getting some funding to help with the cost of maintaining the service road, which is now seeing about 600 vehicles a day, or cash to improve Hwy 791.

Wood said upgrading Hwy 791, which extends as far south as a connection west of Airdrie, also serves as a useful alternate route if Hwy 2 is closed.

Alberta Transportation spokeswoman Nancy Beasley Hosker confirmed that the project was no longer in the three-year plan, but it remains on the books.

“Nothing has really changed in terms of

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and some have GPS devices. Goranson said they are in direct contact via radio with outdoor employees every day.

He said the city will get the odd call from someone in the community if they see someone resting in a city vehicle but they have not had any problems with employees slacking on the job.

In Hamilton, the supervisors noticed irregularities on the job paperwork and decided to take a closer look into the situation.

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the scope of the project and the work that was committed to,” said Beasley Hosker.

“We actually haven’t acquired all of the land that is required for this project. So, there is still a fair amount of front-end work to do.”

About $1.9 million has been spent on the project so far, much of that spent on buying the necessary land.

“I can tell you work continues on the project.”

The plan to upgrade the highway includes putting in a curve to replace a right angle where the road jogs east 1.6 km.

A flyover across Hwy 2 at Old Pole Road, about five km north of Innisfail, is also still in the works, although it is no longer in the three-year plan.

“The projects are still on the books to be done and we are moving forward with them, but perhaps not as quickly as we had originally hoped,” she said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Man appears on charges after confrontation A Red Deer man arrested after a confrontation with police on Feb. 1 made his first court appearance on Thursday from a prisoner’s box in Red Deer provincial court.

Richard Allan Parkhurst, 48, was arrested by Red Deer City RCMP at a metal recycling plant in the Edgar industrial subdivision.

A slough of charges were laid amidst allegations that Parkhurst rammed police cars with a heavy-duty pickup truck in a bid to escape capture and that two Mounties were injured as a result.

The charges include two counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm; two counts of mischief relating to allegations of damage to plant property and three police cars; possession of property acquired by a criminal offence, including a one-ton pickup truck, copper wire and metal roadsigns; resisting arrest; being unlawfully at large, and operating a motor vehicle while disqualified.

Represented by Red Deer lawyer John MacNaughton, Parkhurst reserved plea on all charges and remains in custody pending his next court appearance, set for Feb. 12.

More witnesses heard in fatal accident case The lineup of witnesses continues in the trial of a former Manitoba man accused of impaired driving causing the death of his best friend and roommate.

Nathan Michael Medwid, 19, died in the early hours of Dec. 5, 2006, after being ejected from a vehicle that rolled off Hwy 20, about five kilometres north of Sylvan Lake.

Preston Clifford Hanson, now 26, is being tried by judge alone before Justice Monica Bast in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Crown prosecutor Tony Bell has called a number of witnesses to support his theory that Hanson was behind the wheel of the car.

Witnesses called earlier in the week testified hearing various versions of where Hanson had been seated and who was driving, including suggestions that there may have been a third person driving the car.

Police witness Cpl. Kevin Halwa, a supervisor with the Sylvan Lake RCMP at the time of the crash, testified on Thursday afternoon in a voir dire currently underway to determine the admissibility of certain evidence.

The trial opened on Tuesday and is scheduled to take three weeks.

Defence counsel Bob Sawers told the court at the outset that he anticipates it may take less time since Hanson is being tried by judge alone rather than judge and jury, as he had originally elected.

Child porn trial coming A Lacombe man accused of making and selling drugs, voyeurism and possessing child pornography goes to trial in July.

Kyle James Bracken, 21, was arrested by Lacombe Police making a drug bust a house in Lacombe on Jan. 3.

Insp. Steve Murray alleged at the time that officers involved in the raid seized a variety of soft and hard drugs, cash, immitation firearms, machetes and videos from the house.

Bracken is charged with multiple counts of producing controlled substances; possession of drugs for trafficking; possession of proceeds of crime; possession of dangerous weapons; voyeurism; and possession of child pornography.

Released earlier on bail, Bracken has pleaded not guilty to the chargest.

His trial is set for July 8 in Red Deer provincial court.

Air quality risk moderate Red Deer’s air quality remains at a moderate risk for people with diabetes, lung disease, heart disease, seniors and children.

On Wednesday, Alberta Health Services issued an air quality advisory for Edmonton because of the poor air quality caused by a temperature inversion. In Red Deer, there was a slight haze over the city in the afternoon.

Dr. Digby Horne, a medical officer of health for Central Alberta, said the Air Quality Health Index showed that Red Deer was at 5 on Thursday but

average of 531,257 acres.

It also cautions recreational users to fully put out wildfires since nearly 80 per cent of last year’s fires were humancaused compared to the average of 60 per cent.

Clearwater County reported 13 wildfires last May, most started by careless people.

In May 2011, Crimson Lake Provincial Park was evacuated after a wildfire burned out of control.

Central Albertans looking to minimize fire risks near their homes are encouraged

was expected to improve to a 4 by evening.

“There was a temperature inversion, which is warm air on top of cold air, which is trapping the dissipation of pollutants,” said Horne.

That puts the air quality at a moderate risk (4 to 6) category, which suggests people within the at-risk population should take it easy when outside.

The general population should not modify their regular outdoor activities unless they are experiencing coughing or throat irritation.

AHS continues to monitor the situation.

Second show added for Vagina Monologues Another show has been added to The Vagina Monologues in Red Deer.

Today there will be a pay what you can show at the Memorial Centre. The Central Alberta AIDS Network Society (CAANS) wants to ensure those who cannot afford the regular ticket price can take in a performance. Tickets are $30 for the next performance which is on Saturday.

This year the show has joined forces with the Dirrty Show, a local musical comedy duo, who will sing between 7 and 8 p.m.

The show gets underway at 8 p.m. each night. Rush seatings and doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the door.

For the Saturday show, tickets are available at the door, or by calling the Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre at 1-800-661-8793 or online at https://tickets.blackknightinn.ca

Funeral held for murdered youth A funeral service was held Thursday morning for a Hobbema youth who was murdered last weekend.

Hobbema RCMP identified the 16-year-old as Levonne Baptiste.

Spokesman Const. Perry Cardinal estimated that more than 100 people attended the services of the youth who was shot on the Samson Cree Nation on Saturday.

RCMP upgraded the death of the boy to murder after an autopsy was conducted.

The Red Deer RCMP Major Crimes Unit, Hobbema RCMP Community Response Unit and Wetaskiwin/ Hobbema RCMP General Investigation Section continue to investigate the shooting.

Late Saturday, police said they believed the killing may not have been a random act and that they were checking into whether gangs may have been involved.

Cardinal said they are continuing to investigate and that they have “a lot of suspects.”

Police say they continue to followup on all and any information in regards to this investigation and are encouraged by the cooperation of community members.

Anyone with information is asked to call RCMP at 780-585-3767 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-422-TIPS (8477).

to try FireSmart preventive measures.

“Even if you’re not within the Forest Protection Area, you can still practice FireSmart measures,” said ESRD spokesperson Whitney Exton.

“Anyone can cut dead grass, prune the first two metres of tree branches from the ground up and move woodpiles from next to your home.”

In addition to ESRD doing the work itself, such as clearing deadfall in the Crimson Lake Provincial Park and Nor-

or the territory of the European Union will be exempted.

The 10-year expiration period begins from the date (whichever is later) of the last passport or statement of possession of Dutch nationality is issued, or the date you required foreign nationality, or your main residence is no longer in the aforementioned places for at least one year.

The citizens are encouraged to apply at the nearest Dutch Embassy or Consulate no later than March 29.

Go to www.rsonac.org for more information.

Salute to Senior Service award nominations sought Nominations are now being accepted for the Salute to Senior Service award.

The national program honours the contributions of adults that are 65 years old and older who volunteer at least 15 hours a month.

The nominations will be accepted until March 31.

A winner from each province (except Quebec) will be selected by popular vote at www.salutetoseniorservice. ca.

Online voting will take place between April 15 to April 30.

Forms are available online. A panel of senior care experts will choose the winner from the provincial semifinalists.

Sponsor Home Instead Inc. will do-

degg areas, the province offers FireSmart grants to municipalities.

Mountain View County received $15,000 last year for a FireSmart training exercise.

More information on the FireSmart program and wildfire prevention is available online at www.firesmartcanada. ca and srd.alberta.ca/Wildfire/ FireSmart/ rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

nate $500 to each of the provincial winners’ favourite nonprofit organizations and their stories will be posted on the Salute to Service Wall of Fame.

The winner will earn $5,000 for his or her non-profit charity of choice.

For more information call 780-4399990.

Symphony workers wages will improve significantly Wages for Alberta Union of Provincial Employee members working at Symphony Senior Living Aspen Ridge will significantly improve by the end of their new three-year contract.

AUPE says the new contract brings wages up to the industry standard by the end of the agreement.

Compensation for licensed practical nurses will increase by 18.4 per cent, health care aides by 38.3 per cent, and support employees by 17.2 to 18.2 per cent, depending on the classification.

Licensed practical nurses who now earn $22 an hour will make $30.33 by the end of three years.

Wages for certified health care aides qualified to dispense medicine will increase from $16 an hour to $22.35.

Certified cooks making $18.76 will see wages increase to $21.95.

Certified maintenance staff who earn $19.01 will climb to $23.62.

All wages examples are for workers at the top of their pay grid.

NOW OPEN BLACKFALDS VETERINARY HOSPITAL

Plans for the Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital in Red Deer to open a sister hospital in Blackfalds have been achieved with the recent opening of the Blackfalds Veterinary Hospital. This state of the art facility builds on the solid reputation and history of the Cedarwod Veterinary Hospital. The expanding community of Blackfalds will now enjoy its own Veterinary facility with a dedicated team to fulfill its mission of “Improving the health, wellness and quality of life of your pet by providing exceptional Veterinary care and services in a kind and compassionate manner”.

A relaxed reception area awaits pets as they enter the hospital as well as providing for a large selection pet food. Three exam rooms, a large pharmacy and a spacious treatment area provide an excellent setting for the health care team. The Blackfalds Veterinary Hospital is proud of its modern digital x-ray, complete in house laboratory, state of the art

surgical suite and modern dental center.

The Veterinarians, Dr. Elaine Degrandes and Dr. Lisa Loewen bring years of dedication and experience to the practice. As well Dr. Ken Hubbard, the owner and senior Veterinarian at the Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital will spend some time at Blackfalds to assist and oversee the practice. In addition to all the regular services provided at Blackfalds, its affiliation with Cedarwood provides access to Veterinarians with advanced training in Canine Reproduction, Rehabilitation, Dermatology as well as Surgery including abdomen, open chest and complicated orthopedic fractures. Dr. Degrandes also brings expertise in acupuncture and advanced oncology treatments.

The entire team at the Blackfalds Veterinary Hospital look forward to serving the Blackfalds community and providing “Excellence in Compassionate Pet Health Care”

Dutch nationals may lose citizenship Dutch nationals who live outside the European Union are in danger of losing their citizenship.

Starting on April 1, Dutch citizens over the age of 18 will automatically lose their nationality if they lived 10 continuous years outside the Netherlands or outside the territory of the European Union and hold dual nationality, according to the Dutch Nationality Act of 2003.

In order to retain Dutch nationality, citizens must obtain a Dutch passport or a Declaration of Possession of Dutch nationality no later than March 31.

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The province’s wildfire season starts early by requiring permits for fires in the Alberta Forest Protection Area after March 1.

Permits are free and available at any Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) office.

They are not needed for campfires.

The permits result from a recommendation to prepare

for fire season earlier contained in last year’s review of the provincial response to the three fires that entered and destroyed much of Slave Lake in May 2011.

The Alberta Forest Protection Area covers about 60 per cent of the province including from Rocky Mountain House west and south to the national parks and most for the West Country.

ESRD says in a release last year’s forest fires burned about 926,612 acres, about 1.5 times more than the five-year

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Pipeline squeeze ‘devastating’ OVER INABILITY TO GET WESTERN CANADIAN CRUDE TO THE RIGHT MARKETS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The inability to get western Canadian crude to the right markets is costing the country’s economy dearly, according to a new report paid for by the Saskatchewan government.

Each stalled pipeline project means a loss to the Canadian economy of between $30 million and $70 million every day, said the report penned by the Canada West Foundation, a Calgary-based thinktank.

“The economic impact is just devastating,” foundation CEO Dylan Jones said in an interview Thursday.

The Saskatchewan government paid $50,000 to commission the report.

Premier Brad Wall has been an outspo-

ken supporter of new pipeline projects, most recently signing a letter, along with 10 U.S. governors, urging U.S. President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Alberta’s oilsands, the third-largest reserves on the planet, get most of the attention when it comes to the pipeline debate.

But Saskatchewan, which has considerable oil resources of its own, is affected by the pipeline pinch as well, Wall said in Regina.

“We hope that this helps get the message out, even to a greater degree than it is now, that we have a pipeline capacity issue in western North America and that’s costing Saskatchewan people a lot of money,” he said.

“Because of the pipeline capacity issue,

we’re losing up to 19 to 20 per cent return on the taxpayer’s resource.”

In recent months, oilsands crude has been trading at a painfully steep discount to both U.S. and global light crude benchmarks.

It’s a trend that has both eroded oilpatch profits and caused the Alberta government to warn of a $6 billion revenue shortfall this year.

At the heart of the problem is a lack of adequate pipeline capacity to get that crude to the markets that want it most. Proposals of eastbound, westbound and southbound pipelines are in varying stages of development, but environmental opposition and political wrangling makes their fates uncertain.

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Value of permits drops Statistics Canada says the value of building permits issued by municipalities declined 11.2 per cent to $5.7 billion in December, following a 14.5 per cent drop in November.

The agency says the December decrease reflected lower construction intentions in both the residential and non-residential sectors. Every province except Quebec showed a decline in December, with Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario posting the largest decreases.

Construction intentions in the residential sector fell 13.1 per cent to $3.3 billion, with Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba accounting for much of the decline and Newfoundland and Labrador as the lone province with an increase. The value of permits issued in the non-residential sector dropped 8.5 per cent to $2.5 billion in December, the third decrease in four months. Manitoba posted the largest decline, followed

by Alberta, while Quebec had the largest increase with Ontario a distant second.

New house prices rise Statistics Canada says its new housing price index rose 0.2 per cent in December, following a 0.1 per cent increase in November. The agency says the combined metropolitan region of Toronto and Oshawa, as well as the Calgary region, were the top contributors to the advance. It says market conditions were the primary drivers for higher prices in Toronto and Oshawa, while increased material and labour costs contributed to the increase in Calgary.

The largest monthly price advances in December came in Winnipeg and St. Catharines—Niagara, with prices up 0.8 per cent in both regions.

The Winnipeg increase was largely the result of higher land development costs.

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Rimbey Auction Mart has been sold to Sekura Auctions of Drayton Valley.

Rimbey Auction Mart sold OWNER ‘HAS OTHER THINGS ON THE GO’

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR RIMBEY — After some 50 years in the auction business, Allen Olsen is stepping off the sales podium — sort of.

The owner of Rimbey Auction Mart confirmed on Thursday that he’s selling the business to Sekura Auctions of Drayton Valley. The deal is scheduled to close March 1.

“Sekuras approached me about buying it, and I just felt when there’s a ready and willing buyer I should maybe take the opportunity to sell it,” said Olsen, who is 67.

Located within the town, Rimbey Auction Mart dates back to

the early 1960s.

Olsen and his father Elmer and brother Glen bought the business in 1968, with Olsen the only one of the three with an auctioneering licence.

They sold the auction mart in 1979, although Olsen remained on the scene.

“After it was sold, I sold there for many years.”

In 1996, Olsen reacquired the business with three partners, whom he eventually bought out.

The industry has undergone a great deal of change over the years, he remarked.

“We’ve seen some very good times and we’ve seen some tough times.”

Still, it’ll be tough to walk away from Rimbey Auction Mart.

“I know I will miss it, but then I’ve got lots of other things on the go,” said Olsen.

Those other things include Allen B. Olsen Auction Services Ltd., which specializes in farm machinery and real estate sales. Olsen also farms.

Sekura Auctions is a family-operated business that was founded in Drayton Valley in 1966. It now has offices in Drayton Valley and Westlock.

An official with Sekura was not available for comment on Thursday. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

BoC governor Carney tells U.K. hearing: ‘No political ambitions’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Mark Carney wanted to make one thing perfectly clear Thursday before submitting to his unofficial, and ultimately successful, job interview for governor of the Bank of England — “I do not have political ambitions.”

The proof, Carney said, is in his choice of taking on the extremely challenging post as England’s top banker.

The statement before his hearing in London was perhaps the most categorical disavowal of any political interest for now, or when he is expected to return to Canada in five years.

The issue arose after it was revealed in December that Carney had been courted for — and in some eyes appeared somewhat interested in — the Liberal leadership, as well as having vacationed in the summer home of the Liberal finance critic during the summer.

The speculation in Canada is that Carney would be ready to jump into the political ring after returning from England in 2018.

“I’m surprised it has been suggested that taking one of the most challenging jobs in central banking in another country would be politically advantageous in my

home country,” he told the Treasury Select committee.

“If I had political ambitions, I would have pursued them in Canada and so I think this is revealed preference. I do not have political ambitions.”

The committee confirmed Carney’s appointment just hours after hearing his testimony.

“The committee wishes Dr. Carney every success for his term as governor, and looks forward to its future meetings with him,” it said in a release.

In a written submission to the committee, released simultaneously to his testimony, Carney said he considers the Bank of England position the “pinnacle of my career.”

In what appeared a shocking decision last fall, Carney was hand-picked by U.K. chancellor George Osborne to take charge of the storied, 319-year-old institution on July 1, the first foreigner to ever do so.

But unlike in Canada, Carney at first needs to pass through the gauntlet of the Treasury Select Committee. Although the committee does not have veto powers over Carney’s selection, it could still make it difficult for the government to proceed with the unconventional choice.

The session began with some

uncomfortable questions from chairman Andrew Tyrie, a Conservative MP, including why the Canadian changed his mind after first refusing the offer and whether he was worth his estimated 874,000-pound ($1.36 million) pay packet, including a 250,000-pound ($390,000) housing allowance.

Carney was asked if he realized that Bank of England staff were under a pay freeze, and would he have taken the job for less?

The outgoing Bank of Canada governor responded he did not know about the wage freeze, but added he did not feel the remuneration was excessive.

“It is consistent with many executives who move to this country or other countries and in order to equalize in broad terms from where they live to where they arrive,” he said.

“I’m moving from one of the least expensive cities in the world, Ottawa, to one of the most expensive.”

As for changing his mind, Carney said it came after he was told the term of the office could be shortened to five years rather than eight to suit him.

He had personal reasons for wanting to return in 2018 to Ottawa, where he has kept his home in the affluent Rockcliffe Park neighbourhood — his family.

Despite an ominous start, Thursday turned out to be a pretty good day for Rifco Inc. The Red Deer company, which is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX.V: RFC), learned early in the morning that trade in its shares had been halted by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) — pending the equity market watchdog contacting Rifco.

The company hastily issued a news release, stating that it was unaware of any material change that might affect it.

As it turned out, said Rifco chief financial officer Lance Kadatz, IIROC officials had reacted to a surge in bidding pressure for Rifco stock.

They wanted to determine if that demand was being stimulated by some undisclosed news about the company.

The folks at Rifco had an explanation.

“The reason this happened is on BNN (Business News Network) Market Call the day before, an analyst by the name of Jason Donville from Donville Kent was on and made Rifco his top pick,” said Kadatz.

The president and CEO of Toronto-based Donville Kent Asset Management — who lived in Red Deer as a young child — had offered a glowing assessment of Rifco and its potential during an evening broadcast.

“Obviously he has a huge following when he speaks,” said Kadatz, noting that 592,000 Rifco shares traded on Thursday and their price jumped 14 per cent — from $3.70 to $4.22.

“It was one of our biggest trading days on record.”

The halt trade order was lifted at about 10:45 Eastern Time, but not before the disruption had raised a few eyebrows.

“I got a lot of calls from shareholders and a lot of different people wondering what was going on,” said Kadatz. “It was a very busy morning.”

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

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 113.91 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 84.13 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.43 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.13 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.87 Cdn. National Railway . . 96.24 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 113.31 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 74.10

Capital Power Corp . . . . 23.18 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.10 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 32.20 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 44.67 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.77 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.24 General Motors Co. . . . . 28.47 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 19.97 Research in Motion. . . . . 16.91

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed little changed Thursday as traders sorted through a mixed run of earnings reports from some of Canada’s biggest corporations.

The S&P/TSX composite index was off 5.68 points to 12,755.92 while the TSX Venture Exchange slipped 5.61 points to 1,206.11.

The Canadian dollar finished the session down 0.25 of a cent to 100.2 cents US as the greenback strengthened against other currencies, particularly the euro, after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi pledged to keep a close eye on the recent rise of the continental currency. Some of the region’s leaders worry the advance has the potential to weaken the region’s economy further.

The dollar also fell amid a worse than expected report from the housing sector and ahead of the January employment report coming out Friday morning.

Statistics Canada said that Canadian building permits fell by 11.2 per cent in December. That was much worse than expectations for a 2.5 per cent rise.

U.S. indexes were negative amid data showing productivity contracted at an annual rate of two per cent in the October-December quarter, the biggest drop since the first quarter of 2011. Other reports showed lower jobless insurance claims and a positive reading on same-store sales from American retailers.

The Dow Jones industrials lost 42.47 points to 13,944.05, the Nasdaq composite index was 3.35 points lower at 3,165.13 and the S&P 500 index edged down 2.73 points to 1,509.39.

Markets have moved largely sideways this month following a strong start to the year, with the TSX gaining two per cent and the Dow jumping six per cent in January.

On the Canadian earnings front, Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX:TCK.B) was a major drag on the TSX even as the miner reported earnings for the latest quarter were $354 million or 61 cents per share, 13 cents above the consensus estimate. But its shares fell $2.19 or 5.98 per cent to $34.45 as Teck also warned that copper production is expected to fall to 340,000 to 360,000 tonnes in 2013, compared with 373,000 tonnes in 2012. It cited declining output at the Quebrada Blanca mine in Chile and lower ore grades at Highland Valley Copper in Canada.

In the meantime, improved economic performance in China, reflected in recent data showing stronger

expansion in the country’s manufacturing sector, should help the miner in the future.

Telecom BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) said adjusted earnings rose at a more moderate 4.8 per cent to 65 cents per share, a penny short of analyst estimates. BCE also raised its dividend by six cents to $2.33 per common share annually and its shares dipped nine cents to $44.43.

Manulife Financial Corp.

(TSX:MFC) gained 14 cents to $14.55 as the insurer’s net profit soared to $1.06 billion in the fourth quarter, more than double analyst expectations. However, Manulife’s core earnings were disappointing at $537 million or 28 cents per share in the quarter, which was four cents below the consensus estimate. All-in revenue, including investment and other items, was just under $7.2 billion, $2.5 billion below analyst estimates.

Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) edged a penny lower to $2.44 as the carrier posted a fourth-quarter profit of $8 million, or three cents per diluted share, reversing a year-earlier net loss of $60 million. Operating revenue rose to $2.84 billion from just under $2.7 billion.

The metals and mining sector was the leading decliner. It was down almost two per cent, reflecting Teck’s decline, while March copper on the New York Mercantile Exchange gave up early gains and was down one cent at US$3.73 a pound. Elsewhere in the sector, HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) declined 35 cents to C$11.22.

The energy sector dropped 0.42 per cent with the March crude oil contract down 79 cents at US$95.83 a barrel. Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) lost 48 cents to C$32.90.

The tech sector was the leading advancer with BlackBerry (TSX:BB) ahead 93 cents or 5.82 per cent to $16.91, reflecting high hopes for the new Z10 smartphone and an upgrade in the stock to outperform from market perform from U.S. bank Wells Fargo.

Consumer staples stocks gained 0.45 per cent with Shoppers Drug Mart (TSX:SC) ahead 46 cents to $42.10 after Canada’s largest pharmacy retailer reported its net income was $175 million in the fourth quarter, or 85 cents per share, down slightly from $176 million in the year earlier period. Shoppers is also raising its quarterly dividend by 7.5 per cent to 28.5 cents per share.

The gold sector was up about 0.4 per cent as April bullion finished the session down $7.50 to US$1,671.30 an ounce. Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) improved by 24 cents to C$36.06.

Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.15 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 47.49 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 39.68 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 67.01 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 16.34 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.25 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.27 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 68.90 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.09 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.85 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.10 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.24 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.10 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 49.33 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.23 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.43 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 32.69 MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Thursday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,755.92 down 5.68 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,206.11 down 5.61 points TSX 60 — 731.32 down 0.75 point Dow — 13,944.05 down 42.47 points S&P 500 — 1,509.39 down 2.73 points Nasdaq — 3,165.13 down 3.35 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 100.20 cents US, down 0.25 of a cent Pound — C$1.5675, up 0.83 of a cent Euro — C$1.3370, down 0.91 of a cent Euro — US$1.3397, down 1.25 cents Oil futures: US$95.83, down 79 cents (March contract) Gold futures: $1,671.30 per oz., down $7.50 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $32.849 per oz., down 18.3 cents $1,056.10 kg., down $5.88 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 1,206.11, down 5.61 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 189.07 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA Canola: March ’13 $9.20 higher $647.40; May ’13 $3.30 higher $627.50; July ’13 $0.50 higher $612.10; Nov. ’13 $0.60 lower $559.90; Jan. ’14 $0.60 lower $559.80; March ’14 $0.40 higher $558.80; May ’14 $0.40 higher $556.70; July ’14 $0.40 higher $554.80; Nov. ’14 $0.40 higher $543.60; Jan ’15 $0.40 higher $543.60; March ’15 $0.40 higher $543.60.

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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 637,640 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 616,260.

Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.66 First Quantum Minerals . 20.32 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 36.06 Horizons BPRO . . . . . . . . 4.25 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.22 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 70.13 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 8.23 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 42.00 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.75 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 34.45 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 24.66 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 35.75 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.84 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.00 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 48.58 Calfrac Well . . . . . . . . . . 26.61 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 29.98

Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 21.11 Canyon Services Group. 10.80 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 32.90 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.650 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.28 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 12.11 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.25 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.83 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.64 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 30.84 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.26 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.37 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.60 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.64 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.69 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.28 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.17 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 32.23 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.59

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PIPELINE: Right directions Most pipeline capacity out of Western Canada heads to the U.S. Midwest, which Jones calls “the worst place in the world to be selling oil” as booming production from areas like North Dakota floods the market.

The Canada West Foundation says new pipelines need to be built in the right directions.

A massive expansion to Trans Mountain and Enbridge’s Northern Gateway proposal would enable crude to be transported to Asia via tankers from the West Coast, but they face stiff opposition within B.C. on environmental grounds.

TransCanada Corp. is awaiting final U.S. government approval for the northern leg of its Keystone XL pipeline, which would allow Canadian crude to flow to refineries on the Gulf Coast that are thirsty for heavy oil. Construction on the southern leg between Oklahoma and the Gulf is underway.

Refineries in eastern Canada and the U.S. Eastern Seaboard rely on pricey imported crude from overseas, which is hurting their economics.

Both TransCanada and Enbridge have projects in the works to send western crude eastward through reconfigured pipes that are already in the ground.

It’s possible those lines could extend all the way to New Brunswick, home to Canada’s largest refinery.

“If pipeline project proposals such as Trans Mountain, Keystone XL and Northern Gateway don’t move forward, Canada will be foregoing $1.3 trillion in economic output, 7.4 million personyears of employment and $281 billion in tax revenue between now and 2035,” said Michael Holden, the foundation’s senior economist and author of the report.

Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.25 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.17 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.69 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 62.69 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 58.90 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.42 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 31.31 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.26 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 25.87 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 42.93 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 64.15 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.55 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 78.39 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.22 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 62.66 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 29.01 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.86

While most of the benefits would accrue to Alberta, Holden said those three projects would add a combined $84 billion to economies elsewhere in Canada.

The report calls on provinces to work together to tackle the problem, the way Alberta Premier Alison Redford and New Brunswick Premier David Alward did earlier this week in touting an eastbound oil pipeline.

Keith Stewart, climate and energy campaign co-ordinator at Greenpeace, says the Canada West Foundation report “misses the point.”

“If we want to avoid climate chaos, we have to stop building fossil fuel infrastructure like new tar sands pipelines,” he said.

“Canada can, and should be a winner by building the climate-safe, green energy economy that our kids need and deserve.”

The Alberta Federation of Labour also has a different view of the issue.

The group said in a report earlier this week that Alberta should require energy companies to upgrade oil in the province before they are allowed to ship it.

Federation president Gil McGowan said the Alberta government continues to approve in situ oilsands projects without requiring associated upgrading, which converts bitumen from the oilsands into light oil refineries can use. That’s flooding the U.S. market and driving down the price.

Environmental opposition has been particularly strong to pipelines that would ship oilsands bitumen, the thick, tarry stuff that needs to be diluted in order to flow.

And that alone might force governments to take a hard look at upgrading and refining opportunities at home, said Wall.

“There’s all manner of politics, some of it based on reality, some of it not,” said Wall.

“If we can’t get pipelines built because of it, we just have to start not moving bitumen, but moving a refined product.”

Cineplex profit soars as Canadians find alternatives to hockey

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Euro takes a dive after ECB indicates bank monitoring impact of currency

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS European Central Bank President Mario Draghi pledged Thursday to keep a close eye on the recent rise of the euro, which some of the region’s leaders worry has the potential to weaken the region’s economy further.

Draghi, who spoke after the ECB’s monthly policy meeting, said the recent appreciation of the euro was a sign of rising confidence in the region’s finances, though he hinted the ECB was prepared to respond if there was a material impact on the economy.

The ECB kept its main interest rate unchanged at a record low of 0.75 per cent, which is intended to stimulate growth by encouraging businesses and consumers to borrow and spend.

Draghi’s comments about the euro surprised markets and helped drive down Europe’s single currency from $1.355 to $1.34. The euro has been steadily appreciating since July 25 last year, when it stood at $1.21 amid concerns that the currency would break up.

A rising exchange rate could have a negative impact on the eurozone economy, which is already in recession. It could be bad for automakers, aircraft manufacturers and other businesses that depend on exports for growth.

Several European leaders, notably French President Francois Hollande, have highlighted this as a potential problem.

“The exchange rate is not a policy target but it is important for growth and price stability,” Draghi said in re-

sponse to a reporter’s question.

“We will closely monitor money market developments.”

Analysts were impressed by Draghi’s ability to send a clear message to markets.

“Draghi’s biggest challenge was to show his magic skills of verbal interventions and to talk down the euro exchange rate,” said Carsten Brzeski, senior economist at ING. “He succeeded.”

While the euro has risen because of the region’s easing financial crisis, analysts also point to actions by other central banks around the world as having an effect. The new government in Japan has indirectly pushed up the value of the single European currency in relation to the yen and other currencies by following a more aggressive economic policy.

The yen has fallen sharply in response to Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe insisting that the country’s central bank target a higher rate of inflation.

Bundesbank President Jens Wiedmann warned last month about the impact of the shift in Japan’s policy on the foreign exchange markets.

“Until now, the international monetary system got through the crisis without competitive devaluations and I hope very much it stays that way,” he said.

The idea of a currency war raises the spectre of the 1930s when countries around the world pursued tit-for-tat policies with their exchange rates in order to get an edge.

TORONTO — A slate of Hollywood hits featuring superheroes and a secret agent helped exhibitor Cineplex Inc. deliver the best full-year results in its history, and an almost 200-per cent increase in fourth-quarter profit.

Chief executive Ellis Jacob said the NHL hockey lockout left Canadians with fewer options for Saturday night entertainment. He thinks that was at least part of the reason Cineplex saw quarterly attendance jump 23 per cent.

“I keep saying (it) helped us, but it’s hard to quantify,” Jacob said in an interview Thursday after the company reported its results.

“All I can tell you is personally when I asked people, ’What are you doing?’ everybody on a Saturday night seemed to be going to a movie. When we checked the numbers it was hard to tell.”

Fourth-quarter net income rose to $32.7 million, or 52 cents per diluted share, compared to $10.9 million, or 19 cents per share, in the 2011 quarter, the company said.

On an adjusted basis earnings were 51 cents per share, beating analyst estimates of 42 cents, according to a poll

by Thomson Reuters.

A combination of high-adrenaline action movies like James Bond entry Skyfall and broadly appealing adventures like The Hobbit and the finale of the Twilight series gave hockey fans plenty of alternatives.

Quarterly attendance rose to 18,577 patrons who spent 2.9 per cent more at the concession stand per person compared to a year earlier.

Revenue was up 23.6 per cent to $298.7 million from $241.7 million, with part of the increase coming from more money spent at the concession stands.

The total revenues for food, drinks and other treats rose nearly 27 per cent to $86.4 million.

Cineplex is by far the country’s biggest exhibitor and owns movie theatres from Quebec to British Columbia. The company draws about 70 per cent of Canadian box-office revenue, with its competitor Empire Theaters ranking a very distant second place with about 14 per cent.

The Toronto-based company has ramped up the expansion of its higher priced “VIP” theatres that cater exclusively to adults by offering larger seats, menu service, and a licensed auditorium and lounge.

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Beckham an action hero, briefly RITCHIE HELPS DAVID BECKHAM BECOME AN UNDERWEAR-WEARING ACTION HERO IN H&M ADS

BY SAMANTHA CRITCHELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — David Beckham has a knack for keeping his name in the news, and his face — and well-sculpted body — in front of the cameras. The newest ad campaign for his bodywear collection for global retailer H&M is being released on the heels of the announcement that he’s joining the French Paris-Saint Germain soccer club.

The ad campaign, directed by Guy Ritchie, is more like a film short. Beckham stars as an action hero, saving the day in Los Angeles in his boxer briefs and bedroom slippers. (Beckham, who was born in London, left Europe to join the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007.)

Beckham launched a line of undergarments and loungewear in partnership with H&M a year ago, debuting in a Super Bowl ad that featured Beckham in a tank top, boxers and his many tattoos. Over the summer came the next wave of ads, with Beckham in his boxers and a different view of the tattoos.

The 37-year-old Beckham said he’s committed to this for the long haul, but is still a little startled looking up at a billboard and seeing a giant version of himself. “No matter how many campaigns I do with H&M, I will never get used to seeing myself on billboards,� he said. “It’s always a surprise to me when I see them. I’m lucky to work with such great photographers and stylists, so the images are always the best they can be.�

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Photovoltaic panels can help pump water Pumping water using photovoltaic panels is common in ranching country.

Direct water pumping uses the sun’s rays to lift water into water tanks from wells, dugouts, ponds, or streams, and away from the source.

This provides easy access to the water for the livestock and eliminates some problems caused when animals have to wade into their water source, such as erosion of stream banks.

Direct photovoltaic pumping systems are not limited to the role of stock watering.

Pumping from wells to elevated cisterns and then using gravity to provide water pressure for the house or cabin can provide for human consumption.

Irrigation operations also benefit from direct solar LORNE pumping systems, pumping OJA water when the sun shines, and thusly when it is needed most.

If the property has significant elevation change, direct water pumping can be used for energy storage, filling tanks that can use the water to run turbines for those dark or foggy hours encountered in off grid systems.

Considerations for installation of a photovoltaic direct pumping system take into account the distance and elevation between source and tank, friction losses in system piping caused by that distance, the amount of water required to be moved, and design intent of the system.

Lift capacity for specific pumps is provided by the manufacturer, and is calculated from the surface of the water, dugout, stream, or the draw down level in the water well.

Pressure generated by elevation change or TDH, total dynamic head, is calculated at 1 lb. per 2.3 feet of lift or 9.8 kPa / meter. To determine friction losses incurred by the piping charts are available at plumbing suppliers or online.

Power requirements are calculated from the amount of water needed on a daily basis, the total lift from source to tank, and the distance between pump and tank.

In stock watering, cow calf units and days of service are also necessary to calculate the size of the system.

Switching equipment is necessary to shut down the pump when the tank is full, or in the case of irrigation systems, when the amount of moisture required has been pumped.

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Closest Earth-like planet ‘stroll across park’ away

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Earth-like worlds may be closer and more plentiful than anyone imagined.

Astronomers reported Wednesday that the nearest Earth-like planet may be just 13 light-years away — or some 77 trillion miles (124 trillion kilometres). That planet hasn’t been found yet, but should be there based on the team’s study of red dwarf stars.

Galactically speaking, that’s right next door.

If our Milky Way galaxy were shrunk to the size of the United States, the distance between Earth and its closest Earth-like neighbour would be the span of New York’s Central Park, said Harvard University graduate student Courtney Dressing, the study’s lead author.

“The nearest Earth-like planet is simply a stroll across the park away,” she said at a news conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Small, cool red dwarfs are the most common stars in our galaxy,

numbering at least 75 billion.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics team estimates 6 per cent of red dwarf stars have Earth-like planets. To qualify, the planet must be roughly the size of Earth and get as much light from its star, as Earth does from the sun.

This high rate of occurrence should simplify the search for extraterrestrial life.

As the report’s co-author, David Charbonneau, noted, he’s an astronomer, but hopes to become a biologist if that search succeeds.

These planetary candidates are quite different than Earth because of the differences between their red dwarf stars and the sun, Charbonneau told reporters.

Because the red dwarfs are so much smaller, potentially habitable planets would need to orbit much closer than the Earth does to the sun.

They likely would be rocky, the astronomers said, but different types of atmospheres could lead to different types of life.

Red dwarf stars also can be old — far older than our sun — which

means their planets could be much older than Earth and their potential life forms much more evolved.

Our solar system is 4.5 billion years old, for instance, while some red dwarf stars are 12 billion years old.

One of these target planets could be 12 billion years old as well, the scientists said.

Future spacecraft should be able to locate these planets and provide environmental clues.

California Institute of Technology astronomer John Johnson, who was not involved in the study, called the proximity of the nearest Earth-like planet “extraordinarily exciting.”

“It’s right within reach,” Johnson said, and future efforts will put scientists “hot on the trail of finding life elsewhere in the galaxy.”

These newest findings are based on data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009.

They will be published in The Astrophysical Journal.

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The African Showboyz perform Thursday, Feb. 21, at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The African Showboyz from Ghana have never toured in Canada before — never mind in frigid February.

But group founder Napoleon Sabbah isn’t worried about the Alberta winter, saying his band of brothers perform such energetic music and dancing that they work up a sweat during shows, anyway.

“Even if it’s (below) zero degrees, it heats up,” said Sabbah, whose African Showboyz is performing on Thursday, Feb. 21, with the Mickey Hart Band at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

Sabbah is very excited to be playing in Canada — especially with Hart, a percussionist and musicologist who’s best known as one of two drummers in the rock band Grateful Dead.

Hart, along with fellow Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann earned the nickname “the rhythm devils,” for their eclectic beats that helped fuse elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz and psychedelia.

The two-time Grammy Award winner’s reputation as a musical heavyweight is known in Ghana, said Sabbah, whose godfather first told him about Hart, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “We did not know the Grateful Dead, but we saw on the Internet that Mickey Hart is a big star,” said Sabbah.

The African Showboyz will open the Red Deer concert with their upbeat, infectious, rhythm-driven music played on traditional African instruments, including the kone, a two-string African guitar.

Then the eight-member Mickey Hart Band will play its rhythm-based tunes that encompass western and world music. The ensemble will feature original

IN CONCERT Who: Mickey Hart Band, with special guests the African Showboyz When: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 21 Where: Red Deer’s Memorial Centre Tickets: $49.90 from Black Knight Ticket Centre tunes by Hart and lyricist Robert Hunter, along with some covers of Grateful Dead songs and tunes from Hart’s album Mysterium Tremendum.

This “musical history of the universe” was created by taking light, radio waves, and other electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun, planets, stars, and galaxies, and using computers to transform them into sound waves. Hart has stated, “I have combined sonic images of the formation of our universe with sounds drawn from musical instruments. It’s all about the vibrations that make up the infinite universe.”

Before the evening’s done, both the African Showboyz and The Mickey Hart Band will perform together. Sabbah said the African and western sounds blend beautifully. “It sounds very good together.

Mickey Hart is very, very unique and we play without our African instruments . . . people love it.”

People have been flocking to see the African Showboyz since the group formed in 1983.

Sabbah said he had a vision of his grandfather, during a juju ceremony, telling him to go on a journey to share the musical culture of Ghana with the world.

Sabbah initially got three of his brothers together

as a band. But by 1987, it was five brothers — Joseph, Moses, Isaac, Francis and J.J. They made their own instruments from the bones and hides of animals killed to honour their grandfather, who was the village chief. And Isaac was taught village dances to accompany the music from traditional percussive and string instruments from Ghana — the kone, siyak, bind douk, bin bill and ton ton sanson.

The African Showboyz began touring neighbouring countries, including Sengal, Togo, Nigeria, Chad, Burkina Fasso and Sierra Leone.

Sabbah said eventually his group got so well known that they attracted enough backing for European and Australian concerts.

In recent years, a U.S. booking agency has contacted the group for North American tours, including the latest with the Mickey Hart Band that will stretch from New Mexico to Alberta.

The African Showboyz have performed at the Joshua Tree Festival, the Sierra Nevada Music Festival, Earthdance and many others. In 2009, the group was featured in the documentary 1 Giant Leap.

Sabbah admitted that coming to America is “difficult” because of complicated visa requirements, “but the people you meet here are very, very good people.”

The world of travel is now very different than when his band first started. He recalled that in the early 1980s, he and his brothers carried no documentation, but simply performed for immigration officials at the borders of various African countries and were permitted to cross. “There are passport rules now.”

Sabbah looks forward to sharing his music with Canadians for the first time. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

The Dirrty Show strictly for the 18+ crowd

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF When they perform as The Dirrty Show, Kayla Williams and Melody Stang sing about stuff that was described as “totally inappropriate” by your elementary school teachers.

From The Titty Shake to Hairy Balls, some of their titillating tunes deal with exactly the kind of sexual/ anatomical subject matter a younger, more immature you might have snickered over.

But then The Dirrty Show gets dirrtier still.

The bulk of the Red Deer duo’s material features X-rated titles that can’t be named in a family newspaper, presumably without sending the coffee cups of our more sensitive readers clattering to the floor.

From describing masturbation to virtually every other known sex act (and some you had no idea existed), Williams and Stang plunge headfirst into hard-core erotic musical comedy that’s only for the 18-plus crowd.

But the Ponoka natives, who teach music in their regular jobs, would strongly argue that this doesn’t mean their act is inappropriate. In fact, they believe it’s highly appropriate to bring some of this deep, dark, murky, Freudian stuff out of the closet/bedroom/bathroom and into a live concert venue near you.

And plenty of people would agree, judging by The Dirrty Show’s sold-out CD release party at The Vat last month, and the duo’s appearance at the fullhouse Bull Skit comedy nights at the Scott Block.

Despite a foul language barrier, the group that performs in Edmonton and has plans for Calgary gigs, is getting some after-midnight airplay on an Edmonton campus radio station. Stang and Williams were even asked to sing on radio in Red Deer — although the DJ had to bleep out all the F-words.

And on Saturday, The Dirrty Show opens for and appears in The Vagina Monologues at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

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Kayla Williams, left, and Melody Stang are The Dirrty Show.

All this interest shows “people really get a kick out of (provocative songs) that you don’t hear every day,” said Williams, 26, who along with Stang is a Red Deer College music grad with a silly, provoking sense of humour.

“None of this stuff is new. We’re just putting it into a song and singing about it. But everything is

truthful, we don’t make it up — although we might exaggerate a bit,” said Williams, a singer/pianist who started performing in musical theatre roles in high school.

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EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● Red Deer College Visual Art Faculty and Staff Exhibition —Conversations with the Collection — features new work to be exhibited beside pieces from the Red Deer College Permanent Art Collection at the library until March 28. ● Art from the Heart by Judy Weismiller Berger will be featured at The Hub until Feb. 28. ● Celebrating Alberta by Members of the Alberta Society of Artists will be on display at the Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre until March 12. Phone 403-3462010. ● Works by Marianne Harris (Vanderdkley) will be featured at Gallery on Main in Lacombe from Jan. 26 to Feb. 9.

There will be a reception on Jan. 26 from 5 to 8 p.m. to open the show. Phone 403-782-3402. ● The Art of Peace travelling exhibit presents work by 20 works by 18 artists from Alberta’s Peace River Country and will be featured at Harris-Warke Gallery until Feb. 9. The show consists of media pieces, sculpture, and ceramics. Phone 403-597-9788. ● The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates Red Deer Centennial with the opening of the exhibit Red Deer Sport History. Take a look at over 100 years Sports History and discover the impact that sport had on Red Deer and its citizens. For more information contact Debbie at debbie@ashfm.ca or visit www.ashfm.ca or call 403-341-8614. ● Borrowing Art: The Red Deer Public Library Art Lending Program — Red Deer Arts Council and Red Deer Public Library present this art lending program in the Kiwanis Gallery of the Red Deer Public Library until Feb. 19. Borrow

original, framed artwork in a variety of two-dimensional media by local artists with your library membership. For details contact Diana at the Red Deer Art Council, 403-348-2787, Monday to Thursday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

To be included in this listing, please email event details to editorial@reddeeradvocate.com, fax to 403-341-6560, or phone 403-314-4325.

Live Dates ● Elks Lodge presents Stephen Fearing on March 7 as part of his cross-Canada tour. ● Farside Bar and Grill welcomes Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra on Feb. 19. ● The Vat welcomes Shane Philip on Feb. 15. Legendary punk band D.O.A. is here as part of their farewell tour on Feb. 21. ● Enmax Centrium presents Billy Talent on March 19 with guests Ottawa indie-rockers Hollerado, Sum 41, and Indian Handicrafts. On April 17 punk/emo rock band from Vancouver — Marianas Trench — performs. Special guests are Down With Webster, and Anami Vice. Doors open at 6 p.m. and show gets going at 7 p.m. Ticket sales are through Livenation. com or from Ticketmaster. Ticket prices are $29.50 and $45 (plus FMF and service charges). Reserved seating for this all ages show.

To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.

‘Buckwild’ picked up for a second season

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Buckwild, MTV’s West Virginia-set Jersey Shore replacement, has snagged a second season.

Running in the Thursday-at-10 p.m. time slot that was once home to the hit Jersey Shore, Buckwild is the night’s No. 1 television program among MTV’s target audience: 12- to 34-year-olds.

In that age bracket, Buckwild is this year’s thirdranked cable program, behind only ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars and MTV’s Catfish: The TV Show.

Among viewers of all ages, Buckwild has been averaging 3 million viewers per episode — which puts it on par with Do No Harm, which NBC unveiled last Thursday at 10 p.m.

We wondered how news of the Buckwild pickup had been received by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. Before the show’s unveiling, Manchin wrote to Viacomowned MTV, demanding that the show be canceled because, among other complaints, it “plays to ugly, inaccurate stereotypes about the people of West Vir-

ginia.”

We called Manchin’s office to seek comment; at press time, we had received no response.

In fairness, Manchin’s been busy this week, giving an interview to USA Today in which, the paper reported, he seemed surprised when asked whether he owned a gun, pointing out that he is from West Virginia.

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At this exact moment, Tim McGraw is the third most-popular country artist of the Soundscan era, behind only George Strait (whom he will one day eclipse) and Garth Brooks (whom he won’t). But he’s also 45 years old, badly dinged by a drawn-out legal battle with his former record label and dogged by younger — but by no means superior — hat acts such as Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan, who are hard on his heels.

This all goes a long way toward explaining Truck Yeah, a musical speed bump on his otherwise great new album, Two Lanes of Freedom. The song is a shiny ode to chicks, trucks, chicks in trucks, beer, football and general redneckery. If it sounds familiar, it’s because it’s one minor chord away from being a 1989 Bon Jovi song, and because almost every male artist in Nashville has recently released a song just like it.

And it raises a question: These days, is it possible for a country singer to avoid the obligatory, shameless pander about how country-proud he is, and also how much he loves his truck? Even if he’s one of the most successful musicians of all time? Pose this question to an otherwise good-natured McGraw, and he’ll say, in a state of semi-exasperation, “Look, you take all those things into consideration.”

Which is another way of saying no, you can’t avoid it.

“Truck Yeah for me was very reminiscent of the things I did that sort of broke my career out, stuff like Indian Outlaw or I Like It, I Love It,” he says on the phone from Nashville. “Just things that were sort of fun.”

Truck Yeah is the first single from Freedom and one of the biggest hits of McGraw’s career. Big enough, he hopes, to power a post-lawsuit career reboot. The album is an encyclopedic guide to everything McGraw has historically done well — classic Top 40 honky tonk, romantic ballads, ingratiating Dad Country.

“It’s like a 360 album in a lot of ways,” McGraw says. “I certainly can see and hear and feel elements of what I’ve done throughout my career, but at the same time it opens the door and looks out to the future of where I’m headed for. It’s a pivotal album in my career, and an invitation to the things I’m gonna do.”

Freedom is McGraw’s first release for Big Machine Records (home to Taylor Swift) under a contract he describes as “not album by album, but not long term.” His former longtime record label, Curb, sued him for breach of contract for recording new music too quickly, in order, it was alleged, to free himself from his deal. McGraw sounds positively liberated on the album’s title track, in a way he hasn’t in years, or maybe ever.

“That song set the whole tone for the album. Once we recorded that song, then it was like we put our stake in the ground in terms of what we wanted this record to sound like, and what the vibe was going to be.”

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‘Broker King’ finds outlet writing novels

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — The Three Billion Dollar Man has something to say.

Always has.

When Marvin H. McIntyre III came back from Vietnam, tooling around in a convertible Corvette he won in a poker game, he tried to say it in song.

He drove down to Nashville to become a star.

The radio DJs played anti-establishment anthems, screeds against the war, songs about love-ins and peace-ins and hippie picnics. But McIntyre was having none of that. He penned patriotic melodies, with titles such as “In the Face of a Child” and “A Soldier’s Story.” And he flopped.

The Corvette is long gone. It has been replaced by the sleek car-service sedans that collect McIntyre each weekday morning at his Potomac, Md. home and squire him to his downtown Washington brokerage office. There, he invests $3 billion for an astounding array of wealthy clients that has included best-selling authors and nearly 100 professional athletes, such as basketball stars Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Joakim Noah, and tennis legends Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith.

McIntyre’s friend and client Kitty Kelley, the celebrity biographer, calls him “Wizard.” Business types have called him the “Broker King.”

Yet in the back seat of those comfy sedans, a convenience that he’s enjoyed for the past three decades but is bashful about discussing, he’s still working through those same creative urges that drove him to Nashville.

Scribbling in longhand on legal pads, he conjures thrillers set in the darker recesses of the financial and regulatory worlds, the latest of which, a page turner called “Inside Out,” came out in late January.

McIntyre embodies a kind of Washington archetype. In a town preternaturally attuned to the men and women who occupy a single building on Capitol Hill and another on Pennsylvania Avenue, he represents a sort of durable power impervious to the vagaries of election cycles. Inside all those shapeless downtown office buildings are masters of various universes, business powerhouses who make millions of dollars, discreetly control industries and move markets but hardly draw any notice.

“You can be a rock star in this industry and be unknown here except to your family and friends,” McIntyre says one afternoon in the conference room of his tastefully appointed suite of Pennsylvania Avenue offices, a short walk from the White House.

McIntyre, a ruddy 69-year-old with an informal manner and a master pitchman’s quick, rascally wit, springs from a family with Washington bona fides to spare. His grandfather Marvin

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Although his main job involves giving financial advice to famous people, Washington-based Marvin McIntyre also writes novels.

H. McIntyre, a onetime newspaperman who did a stint as The Washington Post’s city editor in the early 1900s, served as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s personal secretary. The Navy named a Second World War attack transport ship after him. McIntyre’s father, later an IBM executive, used to splash around in the White House pool.

As a young man, McIntyre thought it might be fun to go by his middle name, Hunter, but opted for his stodgier full name because he thought it would stand out more. He followed his father’s footsteps to The Citadel, a “brutal” place he despised but has

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DIRRTY: Perform ‘regular’ music, too Whether people like The Dirrty Show’s lyrics (and several have registered disapproval — including an older man who “aggressively” weighed in via the Internet that nobody wants to hear songs about women’s “monthlies,” read: menstruation), they tend to appreciate the duo’s lush musical production, as well as William’s soulful voice.

Both musicians perform less controversial “regular” music as well, with Williams’ vocals showcased to great effect in YouTube covers of Beach Boy tunes.

(Williams recalled this is how she met her idol, Brian Wilson, who liked her online renditions so much he asked to meet her after one of his concerts.)

Guitarist/pianist Stang, 25, has known Williams since childhood, but was the quieter one growing up. She was more into the underground music scene, listening to artists such as Hawksley Workman and Royal Wood.

Although Williams’ mother is eager to see a live performance of The Dirrty Show (her daughter is less sure about wanting to see her mom front and centre in the audience), Stang’s Christian parents had more of an issue with the duo’s material.

Stang said she’s still talking it through with her mom and dad. But she believes it helps her case that so many men and women are receptive to hearing two women singing funny, catchy, ice-breaking songs

come to appreciate now as a member of its business school advisory board.

He became a first lieutenant in the 1st Infantry Division and ran night patrols in Vietnam, but he figures he never managed to hit anyone with the shots he fired. “My main goal was to hide,” he cracks.

After his return from Southeast Asia and his dalliance with music, a friend steered him to the financial world by posing a simple question: “You can BS?” “Yeah, I can BS,” he responded.

Decades later, he’s fond of saying he has a Ph.D.

in BS. He can get away with a wisecrack (or a dozen) because he brings in the megabucks, routinely placing in the upper echelon of the Barron’s list of the nation’s biggest brokers. He is such a behemoth that a few years back his blessing was widely considered a key indicator of whether the corporate marriage of Legg Mason, where he was the star broker, and Citigroup would go through. In a now legendary dinner before the deal at Shula’s in Baltimore, Charlie Johnston, the head of Citigroup’s Smith Barney brokerage division, planted himself next to McIntyre all night.

“Charlie Johnston sure wasn’t going to leave until he had his blessing,” says Donald Metzger, a top financial adviser on McIntyre’s team.

For all his bonhomie, McIntyre, the broker king, sometimes has to watch what he says, lest the corporate compliance folks fuss and grumble. But his alter ego, McGregor, the hero of his novels, can blast away.

In McIntyre’s first novel, Insiders, published in 2011, McGregor channels McIntyre’s pique at largely unregulated corners of the markets that contributed to the financial apocalypse of 2008. The villain in Insiders and in McIntyre’s new book is a rogue billionaire hedge fund manipulator who taunts the hero/broker with pathological phone calls and holes up in a mansion in Cuba.

It helps to have uber-best-selling authors, such as David Baldacci, as clients. At his first-ever book party, Baldacci’s wife, Michelle, leaned over and whispered to him about which page he was supposed to sign, McIntyre recalls.

One recent afternoon at Equinox, the upscale downtown Washington power-lunch hub, celebrity chef Todd Gray comes out of the kitchen to greet McIntyre at his table, naturally.

“I thought I might get a free lunch since I mentioned the restaurant in my book,” McIntyre yuk-yuks to him.

Gray, whose cousin is on McIntyre’s brokerage team, just smiles.

Once he’s talking about his books, McIntyre allows himself a bit of latitude, complaining about the “misuse of power” he’s observed over the years in Washington.

“You see sort of the climbers that are seeking power,” he says. If you talked with almost any members of Congress, he says, they would be likely to vouch for entitlement reforms. But they worry and do little, he says, because they know “you’re going to have AARP on your back.”

What would grandpa, a right-hand man of the father of the New Deal, think about all this?

“Do you think he’s turning over in his grave?” McIntyre asks.

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about bodily functions.

Recently, the duo was even invited to play at a local wedding and a 50th birthday party.

“We’ve come a long way since the ’70s,” in terms of folks being open and comfortable with their sexuality, “but there’s still a long way to go,” added Stang.

And that’s a shame, because “sex is such a big part of who we are as people — (yet) you could be married to someone for 25 years and still be afraid to say what your favourite sexual position is.”

Although the duo wrote a few tunes with seemingly serious undertones — including one about the futility of rape whistles — Stang maintained there’s no advocacy intended in any of the song’s lyrics.

“The only advocacy is to get people to be more open-minded and more expressive. It’s like there’s some kind of taboo not to bring up sex.”

Williams recalled how scary and secretive it felt getting her period for the first time. She believes that girls shouldn’t be ashamed of what happens to their bodies. “We should be able to talk about the things we all go through — things that make you laugh, the things that make you cry. . . . ” The Dirrty Show’s self-titled CD is available at live shows or from iTunes.

Doors to Saturday’s performance at the Memorial Centre open at 7 p.m. The Dirrty Show will play from about 7:15 to 7:45 p.m., and The Vagina Monologues begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Mother shows no compassion for grieving son Dear Annie: I lost my beautiful daughter to suicide nothing wrong with me. I simply need time to heal. six months ago. A strong and able firefighter, she was She thinks my mother is acting unreasonably. also extremely active in her community.

Not only did I lose my only child, but I also lost my Naturally, I leaned on my mother for mother when I needed her most. Is there consolation, but I didn’t find it. Instead, anything I can do to make her understand my mother was distant and uninterested how painful this is? — Heartbroken in my pain. It was an effort even to get her Dear Heartbroken: Our deepest condoto attend my daughter’s memorial service. lences on the loss of your daughter. Your She said it would be hypocritical to go, mother sounds incapable of showing symbecause she hadn’t spoken to my daughpathy or providing consolation. She may ter for years. I can’t recall what hurt my also be feeling guilty for never having mother so much that she decided never to reconciled with her granddaughter, bespeak to my daughter again. Now she says lieving that there was plenty of time to do she doesn’t want to hear from me until I so. We cannot make your mother a more am feeling better. compassionate human being. We can only I am well aware of my mother’s inabilirecommend that you get grief counseling ty to talk about things that cause her pain. and find support through The CompasMITCHELL However, I don’t believe pushing me out sionate Friends (compassionatefriends. & SUGAR of her life solves anything. My mother org) at 1-877-969-0010, an organization for told me she doesn’t approve of the way I parents whose children have died. expressed myself angrily to people who Dear Annie: My parents have always claimed to be friends of my daughter but favored my oldest brother. My other two proceeded to spread ugly lies about her past. In my siblings and I all feel this way, so it’s pretty much a grief, I confronted these people and protected my given. daughter as any parent would have. My mother told My parents and I have never had an easy relationme to get mental health assistance, and she refuses ship. While I’ve obeyed their rules, maintained their to speak to me. standards and respected their wishes, I have never I sought advice from a psychologist, who said I conformed to their ideals, so I’ve been branded as seem very aware of everyone’s feelings and there is “rebellious.” When I confronted them about their fa-

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You enjoy Friday, February 8 your current public standing and you welcome CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: opportunities abundantly. It is a great feeling Seth Green, 39; Brooke Adams, 64; Nick knowing you are accepted by Nolte, 72 others and seen from a posiTHOUGHT OF THE DAY: tive perspective. Your reputation This will be a mentally fiery day. shines.

Mercury is in close proximity to GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Mars and when these two planets Your mind is on fire and you meet, we will have little patience might be more expressive and and discipline when it comes to argumentative right now. You speaking out our minds. We will may find yourself under the have a say in everything and we limelight and having to fight for will be strongly-opinionated. Cauyour rights. Your public image tion should be exerted on the may change now depending on road and we need to slow down your proofs. our mental energies.

CANCER (June 21-July HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today ASTRO 22): This is a day when you will is your birthday, this will be a be focusing on rather private DOYNA year where you will need to focus matters. It turns out that there on any unfinished business and are concealed sources that are concentrate on your next move in willing to lend you a hand with life. You seek solitude and isolayour tax, government or shared tion and you are not particularly emotional finances issues. Help is heading your way. or demonstrative with your feelings. You will LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You need to go manifest a greater need to withdraw yourself out or simply enjoy some pleasurable time from others in order to face your main rewith a loved one. Tensions have been mountsponsibilities. ing for you lately and today you yearn to be in ARIES (March 21-April 19): Finish incoma good company. It is not healthy to be alone plete tasks during the day and then you can now. Reach out to your closest friends. have some fun activities with your friends. Be VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The modest careful of any advice you receive now as your Virgo will show its sharp teeth today. You will

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voritism, they absolutely denied treating my brother any better than the rest of us. They also told me I have a rebellious heart. How can I make them realize that they do indeed show favoritism, and that I am not rebellious? — Tired of Favoritism Dear Tired: Those are tough challenges and will likely take a while to accomplish. Parents are reluctant to admit when they favor one child over another and often don’t see it. And it takes time and effort — from all of you — for parents to alter their perceptions of a child’s “nature.” Talk to your parents politely and calmly. Explain that you aren’t looking to be confrontational. Ask them to tell you more specifically what they need from you so you can work on it. We hope the honest question will open their minds and allow the relationship to improve.

Dear Annie: I got a kick out of the comment from “Midwest Cook,” who exempted Brussels sprouts and sauerkraut from the “required” list of kids foods. Admittedly, sauerkraut can be hard to make appealing, but Brussels sprouts can be cooked in chicken broth to make them delicious. Our kids still request them.

And kraut can be made exciting with just a bit more imagination. — Mike in Hawaii Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

be outspoken and very argumentative due to the fact that you feel the need to defend yourself. You might make an important decision regarding your relationship.

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Call it a day and find yourself something more satisfying to do. Fun is waiting for you whenever you are ready.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your relationship with one of your children can become real handful today. They might prove to be quite irritating or quarrelsome. As soon as you intervene, you will manage the situation and maintain a stable atmosphere.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Finding a common ground between you and your family might be a challenge today. It is possible that they may be too domineering over you and you will need to find peace elsewhere. You can count on your siblings for support.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are able to control and manage a frustrating situation between your siblings. Arguments may arise, but your presence can alleviate the heaviness between them. Luckily, you have many valuable points to prove in such circumstances.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Finish tasks and assignments in the early part of the day. Be especially meticulous with numbers and your personal budget. Calculate everything multiple times. You might have to make some important financial decision. Later on, put your dancing shoes on and enjoy yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You appear strongly opinionated and confrontational. You have an opinion about everything and everyone around you. Ensure that your words are carefully chosen as you may be inclined towards exaggeration. You might have to defend your standing.

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BRUIN Carol Rose 1948 - 2013 Carol Rose Bruin of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on February 7, 2013 at the age of 64 years.

Carol was born December 7, 1948 in Edson, Alberta. On August 21, 1966, Carol married Herman Bruin. Carol will be forever lovingly remembered by her husband; Herman, along with her two sons; Troy (Diane) Bruin of Millet, Alberta and Marty (Catherine) Bruin of Red D e e r, A l b e r t a , a n d h e r daughters; Corinna (Roger) Tewson of Innisfail, Alberta, Rebecca (Chuck) Steele of Penhold, Alberta and Heidi Bruin of Olds, Alberta. Carol is also survived by her brothers; William (Juanita) Barnes of Winnipeg, Doug (Amanda) Barnes of Hinton, Alberta and Rodney (Angela) Barnes of Calgary, Alberta; her four sisters; Loretta Carlson, Teresa Bouten and Charlene (Andy) Timis, all of We t a s k i w i n , A l b e r t a a n d Colleen Schmidt of Gwynne, Alberta. Carol was predeceased by her son; Cameron Bruin, her parents; Ella and Robert Barnes, her motherin-law; Ariea Bruin and her brother; Vernon Barnes. A Celebration of Life will be held at the First Christian Reformed Church, 16 McVicar Street, Red Deer on Sunday February 10, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Gary Bonhoff officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian C a n c e r S o c i e t y, S u i t e 101-6751 52 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 4K8. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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SCHATZKE Ronald Clifford It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Ron Schatzke on February 5, 2013. He passed away peacefully at the age of 68, with his wife at his side after a valiant battle with cancer.

Ron leaves behind his loving wife of 44 years, Irene, his daughter, Rhonda Sapsford (Terry), his son Rick (Shirley), four grandchildren, and one great grandson. He is also survived by his twin brother Don Schatzke (Bev); his sister Sylvia Townsend (Bill); and his other brother Albert (Diane); and numerous nieces and nephews. Ron was born in Edmonton and grew up in the Stoney Plain area. He spent most of his married life in Lacombe, where he raised his family. He spent many happy years in his retirement in Arizona with Irene, where they met many wonderful friends who mourn his passing greatly. To honour Ron’s wishes there will be no funeral.

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SMITH Virginia Virginia Ruth Smith (Lamb) passed away on February 2, 2012 in Sylvan Lake, Alberta.

Virginia was born on August 14, 1917 in Edmonton, Alberta oldest child of Edgar and Lottie Lamb. Virginia grew up in Youngstown, Alberta. The family then moved to Moosejaw where Virginia completed her schooling. Virginia received her B.A. In 1938 she moved to Edmonton where she received her teaching degree.

Virginia then married Will Smith on March 22, 1940.

They began their journey together in Edmonton then to Ye l l o w k n i f e f o r 4 y e a r s .

Will and Virginia took their journey to Corner Brook, Newfoundland. They settled back to the west to Edmonton.

Virginia enjoyed books, sports, gardening, bridge, nature, and many years enjoying the cabin at Sylvan Lake. One of Virginia’s favored pastimes was a good game of bridge (a player to be reckoned with). Virginia’s last years brought her to Sylvan Lake.

Virginia was predeceased by her parents Edgar and Lottie Lamb; brother Donald; husband Will. Virginia is survived by her daughter Brenda (Gord) Humble; son Doug Smith; daughter-in-law Iris Smith and nephews Bryon Lambe (Darlene); 5 grandchildren Jeannine (Dave) Bennie, Grant Davis, Melanie Smith, Shayne Smith (Pauline), Miranda Smith; 5 great grandchildren Lance Bennie, Caitlyn Bennie, Spencer Smith, Madelyn Smith, Hannah Smith; 3 great nephews Ryan Lambe (Shelly), Jonathan Lambe (Sarah), Eric Lambe. Virginia left a message for all “I loved my family and was fortunate enough that they returned that love and care for me. I am grateful thank you all”.

The family would like to thank her lodge family and friends. As per Virginia’s wishes a private family gathering will take place at her cottage. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Virginia’s name to the Sylvan Lake Lodge.

Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

RUNGE Laura Pearl Oct. 5, 1920 - Jan. 28, 2013 Pearl will be lovingly remembered by her daughter, Connie (Alex); grandchildren: Becky (Ron), Lou, Allan (Jackie), Cecil (Margaret), Patty (John): great grandchildren: Todd (Karissa), Jeana, Kurt (Sandra), Daniel and Jack; great great granddaughter, Claire. She is also survived by a sister, Velma Lowen.

Pearl was pre-deceased by her husband, Bill and sons Dale and Reid. She was kind, loving and spoke her mind! She loved to read, dance, knit and crochet. She especially loved toddlers. A Memorial Tea will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Alberta Heart & Stroke F o u n d a t i o n , S TA R S A i r Ambulance or charity of choice. Arrangements in care of Creech’s Funeral Home, Lloydminster, AB/SK Phone: 780-875-3200.

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STAUFFER Hazelle Sebley (Lewis) Oct. 2, 1916 - Feb. 1, 2013 Hazelle Sebley Lewis was born Oct. 2, 1916 in Hawley, Minnesota, U.S.A., to Joseph Henry and Rosa (Shave) Lewis. At the age of two years her family moved to a homestead north and east of Monitor, Alberta. When she became school age they moved into Monitor. After three years they moved to Altario, where her brother and father ran a garage. In a few years time Hazelle and her mother moved back to Monitor, where she completed her schooling. Her father, brother and family, and a sister and family moved to Freeman River, near Fort Assiniboine, AB and built their homes there. Hazelle and her mother moved there, too, in 1934. In Oct. 1938 she married Allan Ernfred Stauffer. They homesteaded in that area until 1942 when they moved to Castor and took over Allan’s uncles farm, which they farmed until retiring into Castor in August of 1969, due to poor health.

After her health had improved, Hazelle worked at the Paintearth Seniors Lodge for a period of 10 Ω years. After retiring again she became involved in several volunteer activities and enjoyed Floor Curling at the Golden Age Circle for several years. She was predeceased by her husband Allan in 1985, both of her parents, a brother Maurice, two sisters; Muriel and Genevieve and two brothers-in-law and a sisterin-law. Hazelle is survived by her daughter Donna and son-in-law Norman Haney of Red Deer and two granddaughters, Susanne Haney of Calgary and Brenda (Jim) Gilray and great granddaughter S a r a h o f R e d D e e r, a n d several nieces and nephews.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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SOVDI Darwin Todd 1968-2013 Darwin Sovdi of Red Deer, AB passed away suddenly from an aneurysm on Monday, February 4, 2013 at the age of 44 years. Darwin was born in Estevan, SK, on June 11, 1968 to his loving parents, Cliff and Shirley Sovdi. Darwin grew up in Estevan and as a teenager began his career in the oilfield; through years of hard work and dedication, Darwin created a number of businesses which eventually lead him and his family to Red Deer. One of his many accomplishments was the creation of his business Custom Fiberglass Contractors in Red Deer; due to his dedication and hard work, Custom Fiberglass became and continues to be extremely successful. Darwin was passionate about the outdoors, he enjoyed quading, camping, travelling, family gatherings, but especially loved riding his horses with his children.

Darwin was a loving father who always took time to spend with his three children.

His generosity was felt by all who knew him as he was constantly helping out family, friends and strangers, sharing his good fortune with a number of charities. Along with his parents, Darwin leaves to cherish his memory, his wife, Michelle; son, Dylan; daughters, Jessica and Catherine; brother, Shawn (Stephanie); sister, Susan (James); nephews, Braden, Josh, Cody, Dustin, Deagan, and Leland; nieces, Tairyn and Meadow, as well as numerous extended family and friends. Darwin was predeceased by his brother Darren in 2012. Darwin always made people laugh with his jokes and pranks, we will miss his wonderful smile and crystal blue eyes. A Prayer Service will take place at Eventide Funeral Chapel (4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer) on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. with viewing to follow until 9 p.m. A Funeral service will take place at the CrossRoads Church (38105 R.R. 275, Red Deer) on Friday February 8, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. Memorial donations in Darwin’s name can be made to the Wild Pink Yonder: www.wildpinkyounder.com.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Anne-Marie Roy EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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NEWTON Bessie Bessie Jean Newton, nee Hilditch, passed away peacefully at Red Deer, January 31, 2013, at the age of 91. She was predeceased by her husband, Harry Newton in 1985. She is survived by her five children: Mary, Shirley, Charlie, Lynda, and Sharon and their families; as well as many nieces, nephews, and in-laws. Bessie grew up on the farm just SE of Penhold, and stayed within 2 miles of it most of her life. Her father passed away when she was just 6 years old, but her mother continued to farm with the aid of hired men. Bessie grew up walking or riding a horse to school, and drove a car at an early age. When her brother, Chester, briefly took over the farm, Bessie’s mother had a new house built on the North quarter of the farm, and Bessie and her mother moved there. It had a lovely view, but it was hard to get out of in the winter, so the house was moved to Penhold. Bessie attended Olds College, and worked at the P.T.S., later called Michener Center. She spent a memorable summer working in the dining room at the Hotel Vancouver before she was married, staying with Chester and Gladys, who had moved to Vancouver. Bessie travelled back from Vancouver by train, carrying her wedding cake which she and Gladys had made. She married Harry Newton in October, 1943, and they bought the Hilditch farm and raised their family there. Their house was often a gathering place for their children’s friends, and she was happy to just count the number of people there and cook for everybody.

When their son, Charlie, was married in 1973, Bessie and Harry moved to Penhold. Bessie lived there until 2011, when she moved to a room in the Bethany Collegeside, Red Deer.

Her music always played a big part in her life. When she was young, she and her mother travelled to Calgary to buy a piano which she learned to play and achieved grade 8, in Toronto Conservatory. She began playing the church organ at Chalmers Presbyterian Church in Penhold when she was 17 and continued until she was nearly 80, having a break only when her children were very young. Her years at Chalmers were busy teaching Sunday School, Ladies Aid, Vacation Bible School and choir practice. She was an Elder when very few women in this area were Elders, and attended a convention in Toronto in the 70’s. After Chalmers in Penhold closed, Bessie joined St. Andrews in Innisfail. The W.I. was also an important part of her life. In her later years, she loved to go on drives, particularly to the farm or to Sylvan Lake. Also visits to restaurants, and occasional stays at her house in Penhold gave her great pleasure. Thank you to all involved in her care: Carmella, the staff at Bethany, and also the staff at the CCU in Red Deer. She was treated wonderfully by everyone. If desired, memorial donations can be made to Camp Kannawin, Box 9240, Sylvan Lake. T4S 1S8. Her funeral will be held at 12:00 noon, Saturday, February 9, 2013 at Innisfail United Church.

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SISSONS Florence Feb. 21, 1918 - Jan. 20, 2013 It is with great sadness that The families of we announce the passing of our Larry and Dorothy Long dear mom, Florence Sissons, of Lacombe invite you to join at the age of 94 years. Florence us in celebrating their was predeceased by her 50th Anniversary! husband Art Sissons. She is Open House on survived by sons, Reg (Barb) Saturday, February 9, 2013 and Ian (Dallis), and daughter, 2 - 5 pm Elaine; grandchildren, Shelley in the County Room at the Lester, Kelly Sissons (Jennifer) Lacombe Memorial Centre. and Sean Sissons, as well as ~ No gifts please ~ great grandchildren Oliver and Joshua Lester, and Lauren, Ashlyn and Killian Sissons.

She is also survived by her sister, Grace Allen (Calgary), Card Of Thanks and brother, Frank Heslop (Alix), as well as numerous LONG nieces, nephews and friends. We wish to thank the Knights Florence will be remembered of Columbus and the Stettler for her kind heart and wonderful Funeral Home for all the help sense of humor. Relatives and arrangements in the loss and friends are invited to a of Ian. Also to all his coffee Celebration of her Life at friends and all the other Kozy Korner, 5024 - 53 Street, friends as well. Thanks also Lacombe at 1:00 pm on for the cards, masses, Saturday, February 16, 2013. f l o w e r s a n d m e m o r i a l In lieu of flowers, donations donations. ~Mom, Gordon, Paulette and may be made to the Heart Family, Wayne, Karen and and Stoke Foundation of family.

Alberta, Suite 100 - 119 14th Street NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1Z6, or another charity of choice.

Engagements

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KEBER/HOMENUK Whitney Keber and Juris Homenuk along with their parents are thrilled to announce their engagement.

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Announcements

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E2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 Caregivers/ Aides

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ASHLEY & FRIENDS PLAYSCHOOL Accepting Fall Registrations 3-5 yr. olds. Limited Space avail. 403-343-7420

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Coming Events

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EAST 40th PUB BLUES JAM Sunday’s 5-9 p.m.

FAMILY DAY HOURS & DEADLINES

IN HOME/COMMUNITY SUPPORT WORKER to assist a 20 yr. old young lady with Cerebral Palsy.

P/T 30 hrs./week, a F/T live in caregiver could also be considered. We are 20 min. from Lacombe and 30 mins. from Red Deer. $15-$16/hr. Call Linda 403-782-5117

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REGISTRY AGENT - CSR Work for a company that gives you respect, recognizes your achievements and supports your efforts to succeed. We require customer-minded people that are motivated, reliable and quick learners. Deliver resumes to: One Stop Licence Shop #7-5105 76A Street Close or e-mail to: cherdav@telus.net

Hair Stylists

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Dental exp. valuable

F/T Dental Receptionist

SEEKING a Receptionist for General Office Duties.

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Dental

BUSY Dental Office requires Dental Hygienist for full time schedule.

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Monday February 18. 2013

We Have a New Beautiful Location opening March 15 And We Need You!

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Legal

RED DEER FISH & GAME ASSOCIATION ANNUAL ANTLER MEASURING NIGHT Wed. Feb. 13, 6-9 pm. Moose Lodge 140 Petrolia Dr.

Caregivers/ Aides

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LOOKING for live out nanny for Mon, Tues. Fri. days for 3 children Call 403-346-6521

Oilfield

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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.

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BARDEN Oilfield Hauling Ltd. is looking for ticketed picker operators, exp’d Texas bed operators and exp’d. Swampers. All applicants must possess all Is looking to fill the oilfield tickets and positive following position: attitude. Email or fax your resume to: FIELD SAFETY bardentrucking@telus.net 403 341 3968 OFFICER The successful applicant will have a NCSO designation and will have: * Actual hands on oilfield construction experience. * Good computer skills. * Extensive travel is required.

BOILER OPERATOR NEEDED FOR PROJECT * Excellent people skills. * H2S Alive and First Aid. IN CENTRAL ALBERTA * Certified D&A tester, to finish out season. an asset.

Must have all tickets, * Drivers License, with EMAIL: clean Abstract. careers@GTChandler.com * Must relocate to Hinton.

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Outside Sales Position

Avail. for local Oilfield Manufacturing and Supply House. Established sales territory, salary, commission, paid health insurance and retirement. Applicant must live in Red Deer area or willing to relocate.

Please forward resume to: btopcanada @hotmail.com

SAFETY PROFESSIONAL

Alstar is looking for a Safety Professional to help expand our safety program through projects and auditing.

Minimum requirements “NO SAFETY COPS include: WANTED” We want to build a safety * CRSP * 5 + years’ experience in culture, NOT enforce one.

Oil & Gas as a Safety Please submit resume to Professional or fax to * Strong Safety program Road Train Oilfield hr@alstaroc.com development - skills & 780- 865- 5829 Transport Ltd experience Please quote job is looking for journeyman # 68629. on your resume. * Excellent computer skills picker operator.Top wages/ * Internal and external benefits. Safety tickets req’d. auditing experience LOCAL SERVICE CO. Fax or drop off resume * Strong interpersonal REQ’S EXP. VACUUM 403-346-6128 No phone calls. skills TRUCK OPERATOR * Attention to detail; must Must have Class 3 licence Looking for a place be very organized w/air & all oilfield tickets. * Requires little supervision; to live?

Fax resume w/drivers Take a tour through the works well in a team abstract to 403-886-4475 CLASSIFIEDS environment Weekends Off

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RELOCATION TO HINTON MANDATORY

Safety Coordinator - Watts Projects Inc. is a progressive Oilfield Construction Company based in Red Deer and Edson serving Alberta and Saskatchewan. We are hiring a Safety Coordinator to manage the Health & Safety Program, the position will coordinate with the HSE Manager.

The Candidate would be responsible for a combination of field safety & safety administration activities. Safety Tickets required and Alberta Construction Safety Association training courses would be an asset. Watts offers excellent wages, benefits and a safety conscious working environment. Email cody. howitt@telus.net or Fax 1-403-358-7763 Start your career!

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

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

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 as a Legal Assistant, and a minimum of 3 - 5 years experience in residential real estate.

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

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:

JOHNSTON MING MANNING LLP 3rd Floor, 4943 50th St., 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.

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PLEASE QUOTE JOB # 68630 ON RESUME

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Please submit email to hr@alstaroc.com or fax to 780- 865- 5829

Johnston Ming Manning LLP has a full time Legal Assistant position available in our Real Estate Department.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

CLASSIFICATIONS

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

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H2S Alive, First Aid and an In-House Drug & Alcohol test are pre-requisites.

LEGAL ASSISTANT

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ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs.

Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

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EAST 40th PUB MONDAYS AT EAST 40th PUB “Name That Tune”

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SUNDRE DENTAL CLINIC Come work with us!

We are looking for an RDA II to come, and join our practice part-time.

Our office is newly renovated, which is located in rural Alberta.

The successful candidate must be great with people and a team player.

Please fax resume to 403-638-3604 or e-mail to sundent2@telus.net or drop off resume.

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All vacations will be honored.

RSP, Benefits, Education, Great location.

Very flexible shifts available.

Please send resume to:

GOOD MUSIC ALL NIGHT, OPEN JAM & DJ MUSIC. TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS @

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager)

PHARMACY TECHNICIAN Lidia’s Pharmacy in Lacombe is looking for 2 Pharmacy Technicians.

1-F.T. 9-5:30 pm M-F and 1-P. T. Sat. & Sun. 6 Hrs /day. Immediate position and we offer competitive wages. Please send resume by email to: TAKECAREMEDS@ SHAW.CA

Janitorial

• Estheticians • Massage Therapists • Receptionists • Hostesses

Deadline is Friday Feb, 15 at 5 p.m.

Personals

Desirable benefit package.

Priority given to applicants with assisting, lab and/or sterilization exp.

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CASUAL P/T patient recall Coordinator

Office & Phone Lines Closed

Advocate Publication date & deadline Sat. Feb. 16 Tues. Feb. 19

Dental

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

SERVICE RIG

f Team orientated f Clean Class 1 drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset f f f

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a DRILLER. Locally based, home every night!

Paid technical and leadership training Career advancement opportunities RRSP Matching Program

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

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

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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: hr@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Oilfield

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Helix Coil Services, a division of IROC Energy Services is currently hiring to work with newly built state-of-the-art Coil Units based in Red Deer. We offer higher hourly pay rates and scheduled days off.

• PUMP OPERATOR SUPERVISOR

Email: helixjobs@iroccorp.com Call: 403-358-5001 Fax Resume: 403-342-1635

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Email resumes to eaglejobs@iroccorp.com

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Restaurant/ Hotel

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Sales & Distributors

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PARKINSON ALBERTA SOCIETY

SAVANNA Well Servicing is seeking enthusiastic individuals to join our growing company. The following opportunities are available in Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as long term local work.

RIG MANAGERS DRILLERS DERRICKHANDS FLOORHANDS `Come join our growing family make the connection` Savanna offers competitive rates and a comprehensive benefits package effective on your first day of work.

Submit your resume : Include Industry certificate and driver`s license Online: http: //savanna. appone.com Email: savannacareers@ savannaenergy.com CALL US: 403-782-0719 STREAMLINE INSPECTION LTD is seeking HELPERS/TRAINEES Exp. in NDE is an asset, but not req’d. Must be self motivated & have valid drivers license.

Send resumes to: cgraham @streamlineinspection.com

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires CLASS 1 BED TRUCK Operators for Central Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

WANTED

EXPERIENCED

CLASS 3

VAC/steamer Truck driver AND Swamper. Lacombe area, HOME EVERY NIGHT. Fax resume to 403-704-1442

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

FUND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Responsible to fundraise, plan events & coordinate volunteers. Perm. P/T, 2 days a wk. 403-346-4463 or mherron@ parkinsonalberta.ca Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced P/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

Buying or Selling your home?

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A professional desig- RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s. F/T front desk nation such as CHSC, agents. Flexibility req’d.

CRSP, CIH, CSP, NCSO. Shift work including.

Minimum of 8 years wknds and eves. Incentive experience in Canada. and bonus programs.

Familiarity with Alberta Starting rate at $12/hr.

Workplace Safety, the Exp. not essential OH&S Act, regulations Drop off resume to and Codes.

6853 - 66 Street Self motivated team or fax 403-342-4433 player with the ambition or email: info@ to grow professionally. ramadareddeer.com Good verbal & written English communications THE RANCH HOUSE skills are critical. requires F/T & P/T Experience working for a host/hostess.

Call David consulting engineering 403-358-4100 for intercompany will be an asset. view/appointment GENIVAR is committed Tired of Standing? to the principles of Find something to sit on employment equity. in Classifieds

Please apply online: careers.genivar.com; job #27-0412

Restaurant/ Hotel

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1349300 AB LTD O/A TROCHU GAS & SNACKS WANTED full time service station attendant,food counter attendant,retail store supervisor & food service supervisor.wage from$11.50/hour for service station attendant. $11.50/hour for food counter attendant.$16.00/ hour for retail store supervisor.$14.00/ hour for food service supervisor. APPLY IN sungmina74@gmail.com or MAIL po box488 trochu ab t0m 2c0 1442968 AB LTD O/A RIMBEY GAS & SNACKS WANTED Full Time Food Counter Attendant & Food Service Supervisor. Wage from $11.50/hour for Food Counter Attendant. $14.00/ hour for Food Service Supervisor. $16.00/hour for Retail Store Supervisor.

APPLY IN sungmina@hotmail.com or FAX 403-843-3871 OR MAIL: PO BOX 2069 5134 50 AVE RIMBEY AB T0C 2J0

Sales & Distributors

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for P/T bus personne and line cooks.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

JORDANS FLOOR COVERINGS IN RED DEER has an opening for a full time

SALES PERSON

An eye for design and colour is a definite asset.

Experience in retail sales floor covering industry is a plus, but we will train the right candidate. The successful applicant will be a motivated, careerminded individual with excellent people skills.

Opportunity for professional & financial growth is available.

Please fax resume attn: Louis Hamonic, Manager, 403-347-8824 or email: lhamonic@jordans.ca

NEXUS Engineering is currently looking for a Technical Individual to fill the role of

INSIDE SALES

Duties will include, taking calls from customers, quotes, entering orders and technical assistance.

The individual will also be responsible for maintaining our high level of customer service.

We offer a competitive wage, benefits and a RRSP plan. Please forward resume to resume@ nexusengineering.ca

Trades

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CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

X-STATIC

IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR

P/T EXPERIENCED DOOR SECURITY PERSONNEL

Apply in person after 3 pm.

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Mechanical Designer / Drafter

Skilled and adept in pressure vessel and piping design.

Candidate can demonstrate proficiency with AutoCAD/ AutoCAD Inventor, compress and has proven record of successful projects.

Strong computer skills and technical aptitude is req’d.

We offer above industry wages and comprehensive benefit package.

Please email resumes to careers@fusionpro.ca or fax 403-347-7867 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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OUR LandSolutions’ office in Bentley is accepting resumes for our Int. & Sr. Land Administrator positions. Candidates will have 5 - 10 yrs’ exp., f/t position, Must have Surface Land education. Please submit resumes online at www.landsolutions.ca Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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NOW HIRING

PART-TIME SALES STAFF All Shifts Must be enthusiastic, hardworking, flexible and positive. You must have a passion for Fabrics, Sewing, Crafts and Home Decor.

Basic sewing skills are a must.

Apply in person to: #2, 2119 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer or Fax resume to: 403.346.4320

ARMOR INC is looking for licensed diesel and suspension mechanic for light duty performance shop.

Diesel and transmission exp. preferred.

Bring resume to: 106 -6439 67 St. RD Phone 403-346-9188 or emal donavan@armorinc.ca

Custom Energized Air Req’s MECHANIC exp’d In air compressors, dryers, Control systems, electrical A/C D/C circuits, 1-3 ph.

Piping, fabrication, & Welding an asset. Email: Del.trynchuk@cea-air.com Fax: 403-348-8765 D. LESLIE WELDING LTD. We are currently resume for B Pressure, Journeyman and Contract Welders. Valid safety tickets req’d. Rig welding exp. asset. Fax your resumes to: 403-729-2771 or send by email to: dlesliewelding @hotmail.com

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Furix Energy Inc. is looking for F/T Contract B-Pressure Welders or F/T B-Pressure Welders.

Indoor shop work in Red Deer. Competitive rates & benefit packages.

Fax resumes to 403-348-8109 or call Darryl @ 403-396-2104.

No calls after 9 pm.

F/T Apprentice Welder must have vessel and piping experience.

Email resume to Darryl@furixenergy.com or fax 403-348-8109

3rd year Apprentice and/or Journeyman Parts Person

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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.

Furix Energy Inc. is looking for a Coating-Installer.

Must have minimum 5 years’ experience with Devoe products. Painting experience required. Fulltime position w/benefits.

Fax resumes to 403-348-8109 or call Darryl @ 403-396-2104. No calls after 9 pm.

Furix Energy Inc. is looking INSTRUMENTATION f o r a F / T J o u r n e y m a n Instrumentation TechniJOURNEYMEN Our ideal candidate must be cian. Competitive rates & a team player, committed to benefit packages. Fax resafety, and have experience sumes to 403-348-8109 or call Darryl @ in the Oil & Gas plant 403-396-2104. construction. H2S Alive No calls after 9 pm. and CSTS safety tickets are mandatory. ABB offers Start your career! competitive wages and an See Help Wanted extensive benefits package. Individuals HEAVY DUTY interested in a rewarding MECHANIC career with ABB Ber-Mac Apprentice 1st or 2nd year please forward resumes & required for an oilfield queries to 403-357-3736 service company. We offer or: careers.ber-mac competitive wages and @ca.abb.com benefits. Fax resumes to Classifieds...costs so little 403-347-3443 or email to judy.hum@powerstroke.ca Saves you so much!

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Job duties and responsibilities include: Assist customers and answer customers inquiries Read and interpret parts diagnostics & diagrams Use of computerized inventory system Order and receive parts for customers Excellent communication skills Customer service experience Experience with computerized inventory system Experience with Agricultural equipment Must be reliable, highly organized & team oriented

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NEED experienced Class 1 drivers for short and long haul. Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743

Hiring Immediate FT & Casual

EMR or EMT Security Personnel for Dispatching Position

WHY SECURITAS: *Extended Health and welfare plan *Above average wages *Fully Paid uniform *All training time paid *Dedicated quality group. *Room to learn and grow.

Business Opportunities

Adult Education and Training

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BRICAR CONTRACTING LTD. now hiring Class 1 drivers for local oilfield and commercial hauling. **Position Filled**

Class 1 Drivers

ADULT Carriers Needed For Early morning delivery of the Red Deer Advocate 6 days/wk in NORMANDEAU & GLENDALE area.

ALSO 4 days a week Flyers & Sun. Life in GLENDALE Gunn St. & Goodacre Cl. PINES Patterson Cres. & Pamley Ave. Piper Dr. & Pennington Cres.

Pallo, Payne & Parsons Cl. Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

Openings available for lease operators butane propane AB BC SK also company drivers positions available 4/4, 5/3, 6/2 scheduled shifts reply to main. office@bamssinc.com

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

CLASS 1 drivers req’d to pull flat deck, exc. wages, safety bonuses, benefits.

We run the 4 western provinces. Please contact 1-877-787-2501 for more info or fax resume and abstract to 403-784-2330

EASTVIEW 100 ADVOCATE $525/MO. $6300/YR 2 HRS./DAY

Please forward resume to D. Homme, Assistant Service Manager via e-mail: service1 @mgmfordlincoln.com or by fax 403-346-8321 MiLo Electric & Plumbing Ltd requires Journeyman and Apprentice Plumbers immediately for full time, local commercial work.

Excellent pay and benefits.

Fax resume to 403-3414721 or email: miloelectric@telus.net

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Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be avail.

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

LICENSED FORD DIESEL & AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS

We offer attractive pay rates as well as full benefits package and profit sharing bonuses.

880

ACADEMIC Express

How to apply: Apply on line at: http://www.securitas. com/ca/enca/Career/ On this web site you can click on “On line Application” and submit it to the Edmonton Branch.

Email: Dillicj@Novachem.com Fax: 403-314-8475 Integrity - Vigilance Helpfulness

Truckers/ Drivers

Ford & Lincoln experience is a definite asset, however is not essential.

We are one of the busiest Ford service departments in Western Canada, and we will soon be opening our fully modernized, brand new facility.

870

VOORTMAN COOKIES has a distributorship available in Red Deer and surrounding area.

This is an established and protected territory.

Grocery/DSD experience is a plus.

Delivery vehicle and investment isrequired.

Please submit resume to mycareer@voortman.com

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Pressure Piping & Steel We offer a competitive pay fabrication shop scale, exemplary benefits package, annual work boot Only experience personnel need apply reimbursement, RRSP -Journeyman Pipefitter plan, sick days, monthly preferred bonus and continuous professional training in a -Must be able to organize men and projects positive environment.

-Background & experience with Acorn Piping program Forward your resume to: Understanding and Future Ag Inc. implementation of QC for Attn: Paula Martin structural & Piping Box 140 -Oversee all material Rimbey, AB T0C 2J0 ordering, handling & Fax: 403-843-2790 receiving Email to -Competitive Wage & paulam@futureag.ca Benefits Please apply to info@ Hoerbiger Canada Ltd is a leader in Technology in the dynamicprojects.ca or fax 403-309-3471 Natural Gas Compression Industry. We are looking SIGN INSTALLER for experienced Natural req’d for local sign shop..

Gas Engine & Gas ComMust have at least 5 yrs pressor Field Service exp. with sign fabrication Mechanics. We are also & installation, and be able seeking a 1st year Apprento work independently or tice. These opportunities as part of a team. Valid are currently available at driver’s license a must. our Calgary Service cenComputer skills an asset. ter. Please email your Wage to be negotiated. resume to hoerbigercalgary Apply by fax 403-341-4014 @gmail.com or email only: office@questsigns.ca.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

MGM FORD LINCOLN SALES IS SEEKING

860

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

FURIX Energy Inc. is looking for F/T Journeyman Minimum Qualification: Pipe-Fitter. Will consider * Alberta Security License 2-3 year apprentice fitters. *EMR- ACP certified Competitive wages & *Class 4 license benefits. Consists of some *Bondable field work. Fax resumes to *Good interpersonal skills 4 0 3 - 3 4 8 - 8 1 0 9 o r c a l l *Good communication skills Darryl @ 403-396-2104. *Computer knowledge, No calls after 9 pm. previous emergency experience, previous FUTURE AG INC. security experience, your Central Alberta Case client interaction IH Agricultural Equipment experience an asset dealer is looking for a full time

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F/T Skilled Labourer must have tank dressing and testing experience.

Email resume to Darryl@furixenergy.com or fax 403-348-8109.

Trades

Securitas Canada is looking for qualified Security Staff for a Petro-Chemical plant outside of Red Deer.

for their Rimbey location.

Farming background an asset.

ABB has an immediate opening at one of our ALBERTA locations for an

285426B20

is currently taking resumes for experienced Assistant Operators Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420.

Must have all valid tickets.

850

First Choice Collision • A growing, well established ASME fabrication facility Is hiring for the position of

The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

Trades

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

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 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300 ASSOCIATIONS

HEALTH & FITNESS

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

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BALLOON RIDES

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

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

www.workopolis.com Red Deer Advocate - Job Search

BUILDERS

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

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

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

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

www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

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

CLUBS & GROUPS www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

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

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

VACATIONS www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

COMPUTER REPAIR

WEB DESIGN

www.albertacomputerhygiene.com

affordablewebsitesolution.ca

AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

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Misc.

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Employment Training

900

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

2 JVC stereo speakers $15. Call 403-728-3485

CARRIERS NEEDED

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

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.

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

ANDERS AREA

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE WEST PARK

Adams Close/ Adair Ave. BOWER AREA

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

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

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

Isbister Close Issard Close LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive Lindsay Ave. Lagrange Crsc SUNNYBROOK AREA

LANCASTER AREA

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

VANIER AREA

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc

Huntwood Custom Cabinets

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

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.

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.

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

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY WORKER part-time evenings and weekends Honest, friendly, hardworking only need apply. $11.00/hour. Bring resume to Mustang Laundry, 6830-59 Avenue or email mustanglaundry@ airenet.com.

Cust Service/Office/Ship/ Rec fast paced Mon-Fri 8-4 Apply @ Grand Central Stitchin 7, 7439 49 Ave Cr

DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Good communication, skills both verbal and written. Must have effective time management skills and able to multi task in a fast paced environment.

Experience preferred, but will train suitable applicant.

Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

NO EXP. NECESSARY!!

F.T. position available IMMEDIATELY in hog assembly yard in Red Deer. Starting wage $12/hr. Call Rich or Paul 403-346-6934 ATTN: I need 29 people now to lose weight & EARN $! Sherry 1-889-4635 Visit www.cashforlbs.com

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

BEN

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Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

RV MECHANIC Duties include:

Attributes:

• All aspects of RV Service work • Seasonal extended hours • Customer interaction

PARTSOURCE

Previous experience Organized & Reliable Outgoing Physically fit Mechanically inclined

Req’s P/T parts person who can work evenings/weekends. Please apply at 6722-50 Ave. Red Deer or fax 403-309-0354 or send to ps791@cantire.ca

Employment Training

This is a career position.

Salary based on experience and ability Company benefits Top industrial wage for right person

1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis.

As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Please contact QUITCY

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

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

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

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

RED DEER WORKS

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

Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

FREE

SEEKING

for all Albertans

Purchaser

† Responsibilities include: managing input & tracking of purchase orders, tracking shipments, administering price lists, organizing promotional information from vendors & stores, generating monthly sales & purchase advice reports. † Strong computer skills, with proficiency using Microsoft Office and proven ability to create and maintain complex analysis reports in spreadsheets.

Attention to detail, multitask oriented, strong communication & superior organizational, time management & problem solving skills required. † Remuneration based on education and experience.

Excellent benefits. † APPLY NOW! Email resume to careers@chatters.ca Fax resume to 1-888-409-0483 Online @ www.chatters.ca SENIOR lady needing help with house work.

Call 403-347-8697 SYNIK CLOTHING, Gasoline Alley. F/T - P/T Great pay for right person.

Apply within w/resume.

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

wegot

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

BUD HAYNES

SPRING FIREARMS AUCTION Sat., March 2 @ 9 am Bay 4, 7429 49 Ave R.D. Estate: George Huebner of Sask. & Estate: George Stawn of Cochrane.

Over 500 items.

Taking consignments.

Ph: 403-347-5855 www.budhaynesauctions.com

Clothing

1590

Computers

IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR

P/T EXPERIENCED DOOR SECURITY PERSONNEL

1630

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

Apply in person after 3 pm.

900

1600

COMPUTER/BRIEF CASE on wheels. As new. $80. obo 403-302-4422

EquipmentHeavy

X-STATIC

Firewood

1660

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

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

LOGS

BEN

’S

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

PARTS

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

PERSON

Household Appliances

ATTRIBUTES: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience a Must

280038A4-C4

DUTIES INCLUDE: - Customer Service Rep - Receiving - Shipping - Inventory Control

or drop off resume, Attn Bill in Service

DISH WASHER, Inglis, white, $100. Good working condition 403-356-9276, 896-9276 285126B6-12

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: 403-346-1055

1710

APARTMENT sized counter top GE dishwasher Works good. $125 obo. 403-347-0104 APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042

• Willing to train or apprentice successful candidate.

• Full-time position.

• Must be able to work weekends.

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STOVE, Kenmore w/hood fan, white. $150.

MICRO WAVE, Kenmore, white, both in good working condition, $50.

403-356-9276, 896-9276

880

Household Furnishings

1720

BED ALL NEW,

Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325.

302-0582 Free Delivery BED, twin with headboard, box spring & mattress.

Good condition. $75.

403-227-2653

is expanding its facility to double production.

BED: #1 King. extra thick orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr. warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice @ $545. 403-302-0582.

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

Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included. Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www.eaglebuilders.ca.

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

279425A2-31

- Batch Plant Operator - Carpenters/Woodworkers - General Labourers

CHINA, Fine Bone, Lady Alexander Rose, England, 2 cups, 2 saucers with cream & sugar, $25; cream colored large ceramic, tea pot with blue trim and rooster decal with two matching mugs, made in Portugal, $25; table sized water fountain, 12” diameter and 6” high, water falling over rock scene, $40. 403-227-2653

DUVET, twin size, white with poly fill. Exc. cond. $20. 403-227-2653

2 bdrms & den, 1.5 bath, Balcony 5 appl, In-suite laundry. NO PETS. Avail MARCH 1st. $1095 & Elect.& Gas, SD $1095.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554

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 March 1st.

403-304-7576 / 347-7545

Kyte/Kelloway Cres.

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. Immed. & March 1.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545

LUXURY CONDO In Royal Oaks at 39 St.

1840

WESTPARK

1860

Sporting Goods

SPEED skates ladies older style shoe size 5-6 $75 very good cond.

403-346-0093 STICK FIX Central Alberta.

Composite Hockey Stick Repair & Sales. Incredible prices on refurbished sticks, c/w Warranty.

Randy 403-346-8935

11/2 blocks west of hospital!

3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. balcony, no pets, n/s, rent $1195 SD $1000.

Avail. March 1.

403-304-7576, 347-7545

Manufactured Homes

3040

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

Collectors' Items

1870

BRADFORD Exchange Plates, Wolf & Eagle series, Wolf Pups, Puppies, Wild Animals, all have certificates, $12/ea, must buy whole set 403-885-5720

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975 rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. Now or Mar. 1.

Call 403-304-5337

Manufactured Homes

Beautifully Reno’d Apt. in Hawkwood

Close to downtown! 2 bdrm, 1 bath. 2 appls, coin-op laundry. NO PETS, Avail NOW! $1025 & Elect., SD $1025 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403 396 9554 GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed.

1-403-200-8175 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/ onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat and hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

QUIET LOCATION 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg.

Heat/water/parking incl.

Call 403-342-2899

SUNNYBROOK

2 bdrm. apt. avail. Feb 15 & Mar 1. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686

Wanted Tenant Large 1 bdrm. adult suite.

Heat/water/parking incl’d.

Call 403-342-2899

3090

Rooms For Rent

3190

Mobile Lot

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820

3040

Newly Renovated Mobile Home

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

A MUST SEE!

20,000with Intro

$

Only AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable

$

2000-2290

2140

Horses

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

403-651-5912 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Sharon (403) 340-0225 www.lansdowne.ca

279426C30

Renter’s Special FREE Cable 2 & 3 bedroom

modular/mobile homes in pet friendly park

wegot

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

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

BLACKFALDS 3 bdrm. house, 2 appls, avail. Mar 1. $900 + utils. $900 DD 403-885-1871

Starting at

950

$

/month

Mauricia (403) 340-0225 www.lansdowne.ca

The

Rent Spot

Your Rental Key to Houses, Condos, Suites & More

CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-314-4397 TO ADVERTISE HERE

Beautifully Reno’d Apt. in Hawkwood

Luxury Condo In Royal Oaks at 39 St.

Close to downtown! 2 bdrm, 1 bath. 2 appls, coin-op laundry. NO PETS, Avail NOW! $1025 & Elect., SD $1025

Adult only, 2 bdrms, 2 baths, Balcony, In-suite laundry.

U/G Parking, Storage, No pets. $1295& Elect; SD $1295; Avail MARCH 1st.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

Homey Townhouse in Clearview

RECLINING Leather Massage chair, Sony Laptop. 403-343-8439

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

WANTED

2 BDRM,. w/balcony, quiet clean professionally managed bldg. $825/rent /d.d., immed. 403-358-8670

2 BDRM. bsmt, shared 2 BDRM. mobile on farm, 4 kitchen, prefer employed or student.

Avail. immed. appls, prefer older couple, pets negotiable $900/mo. 403-342-7789, 358-0081 inclds. utils., avail. Apr. 1. FURN. room, all utils. and 403-784-3786 cable incld, $425/mo.

TREADMILL, True HRC, 403-506-3277 $1400. ; Universal exercise Newly Reno’d Mobile bike, $700. Like New! FREE Shaw Cable + more ROOMS FOR RENT, 403-347-1992 $899/month close to uptown. Employed Sharon 403-340-0225 gentleman Rent $425/mo, TREADMILL, Weslo, s.d. $250, 403-350-4712 $600 obo 403-343-6306

GLASS & Brass Coffee table. $50.; 403-343-8439

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

3060

Suites

Homey Townhouse 1 BDRM, apt in Eastview, avail. immed. $795, in Clearview 403-343-0070

2 bdrms & den , 1,5 bath, Balcony 5 appl, In-suite laundry. NO PETS. Avail MARCH 1st. $1095 & Elect.& Gas, SD $1095.

TABLE & 4 CHAIRS. $30.

403-343-6306

3030

Adult only, 2 bdrms, 2 baths, Balcony, In-suite laundry. U/G Parking, S A F E S T E P WA L K I N Storage, No pets. $1295 TUB, new $17,000 asking & Elect; SD $1295; $6900 obo 403-346-4926 Avail MARCH 1st.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 SMALL Home Safe, like or 403-396-9554 new. Approx. 2’x2’x2’. $65.

403-347-1992 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 Dogs baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets.

HUSKY WOLF PUPS!! www.greatapartments.ca 1st shots, yr. guarantee.

2 Males. 403-749-2924

DOWNFILLED coat, size XL, worn twice, reg. $350, a s k i n g $ 1 0 0 , 403-343-1112 LEATHER MOTORCYCLE JACKET, GREEN CUSTOM MADE Men’s S - M. $150. obo.

403-302-4422

TOP WAGES, BENEFITS. Exp’d. Drivers required.

MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.

10-12 HOUSE plants $5-$30, 403-342-4572

OAK spice rack, (holds 15 spice bottles) $15; 2 sets of framed pictures $10/set, 403-343-1112

920

Career Planning

1760

Misc. for Sale

DE-HUMIDIFIER, used 3 hours. New cost $200. Asking $100.

403-304-1013

OILFIELD TICKETS

Homestead Firewood

E-mail bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn Bill/Service

UNC LE

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

285128B12

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• • • • •

to meet your needs.

In the towns of:

UNC

LE

SAFETY COURSES

Scott St./Somerset Close.

Sunnyside Crsc.

77 PAPERS $412/MO.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

offers a variety of

INGLEWOOD AREA

For delivery of Red Deer Advocate by 6:30 a.m.

Mon. through Fri. & 8:00. .am. on Saturday in DEER PARK Dempsey St. area 79 papers $423/mo.

ALSO Davison Dr. area 101 papers $541/mo.

OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for

278950A5

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

Condos/ Townhouses

279430A2-C31

Misc.

Help

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

CALL CLASSIFIEDS

309-3300

TO ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY HERE!

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 E5

Mobile Lot

3190

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon 403-340-0225 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

wegot

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Income Property

4100

5030

Cars

BRAND NEW SECONDARY SUITE HOME. 403-588-2550

Cottages/Resort Property

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by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TIMBUKTU, Mali — French troops began to withdraw from Timbuktu Thursday after securing the fabled city as they ramped up their mission in another northern Mali city, searching for Islamic extremists who may be mixing among the local population.

French military spokesman Col. Thierry Burkhard said Thursday that the operation to secure Gao is still under way, nearly two weeks after French and Malian troops moved into the area.

New clashes nearby raised questions about how solid a hold the French military has on the strategic area.

There is a risk of “residual presence” of terrorists mixed among the population, Burkhard said from Paris.

Extremists fired rocket launchers at French troops near Gao on Tuesday.

France launched a military operation in Mali on Jan. 11 to help the Malian government restore control.

Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaida had imposed severe rule in northern Mali then started pushing toward the capital last month.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon told a group of journalists Thursday that the military operation “so far has been effective and successful.” “ All these jihadists and armed groups and terrorist elements — seemingly — they have fled somewhere,’ he said. ”Our concern is that they may come back. As you have seen yesterday, they are hitting back in some areas. It is good that Timbuktu and Gao and all these major cities have been cleared.“ In a sign of heightened security, authorities briefly detained three Tuareg men in Gao on Thursday who were stopped after they did not have their identity papers. The men, who came from a nearby village, were in Gao because they had missed their bus to a nearby market. The mayor intervened and the men were released.

Meanwhile French troops began to draw out of Timbuktu, after greater successes in securing the desert city.

Soldiers in fatigues could be seen pushing an artillery cannon onto the barge crossing the Niger River, located on the southern perimeter of Timbuktu. France has commandeered the river crossing, and on Thursday small convoys of military vehicles were lining up, waiting for the barge, including armoured cars, trucks covered with camouflage-colored tarps, and vehicles loaded with supplies, like cartons of bottled water.

While the population of Timbuktu is anxious, worrying that the departure of French troops will open the door for the Islamists to return, French military officials said they had fulfilled their mission here.

“We have succeeded in handing over the majority of our responsibilities to the Malian army and now she will assume our duties. But we will not leave the city of Timbuktu completely,” said Capt. Franck, an official with the French operation codenamed

Serval, after a sub-Saharan wildcat.

He gave only his first name in keeping with military protocol.

He said some French forces will stay because “once we are gone, these people will come back in order to trouble the population. At the same time, we can’t stay indefinitely.”

French president Francois Hollande has said France could begin withdrawing its 4,000 troops from Mali as early as March. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius reiterated that stance Thursday, saying the administration was sticking to its schedule and emphasizing the need for political as well as military action.

“Our objective cannot be achieved with arms only,” Fabius said in an interview on French television BFM. Fabius said France had carefully studied foreign interventions elsewhere in the world before undertaking the Mali mission. “It’s not Afghanistan, it’s not Somalia, but there are nonetheless lessons to be learned.”

Still for residents of this desert capital of Timbuktu, which was subjected to 10 months of often-brutal Shariah rule, the departure of the troops is premature.

“It really worries me to see the French military leave right away,” said Abdel Kader Konta, the village chief of Korioume, the locality from which the troops were embarking onto the barge. “We think it’s too early for them to leave because the Islamists have not fully quit the city. Some of the Islamists have simply shaved their beards and blended into the population. Before the French leave, they should assure themselves that security has been restored.”

Curious onlookers gathered near the river crossing to watch the French departure, which is expected to be phased over five days. Several had long faces, despondent with worry.

“People think that the Islamists have left. But we think they are still here,” said fisherman Baba Ali Sampana, who had stopped to watch their departure, standing next to his fishing canoe. “The French military should not leave right now.”

Further north in the area of Kidal French Mirage 2000 and Rafale fighter jets had been hammering targets including the Islamic extremists’ logistical depots and training camps.

Burkhard said fighters flew around 30 sorties during the night of Feb. 2-3, striking 20 targets.

French troops are in control of the Kidal airport, while the city and surroundings are patrolled by some of the 1,800 Chadian troops taking part in the operation.

On Wednesday, France asked the Security Council to consider establishing a U.N. peacekeeping operation in Mali. France’s U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud told reporters that he started discussions on the issue during closed council consultations on Mali, but insisted that a U.N. force would deploy only when security conditions permit.

Japan says two Russian fighters intruded air space THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — Japan’s Defence Ministry said two Russian fighter jets briefly intruded Thursday into Japanese airspace as the country was holding rallies demanding that Moscow return a group of disputed islands.

Japan’s Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with the Russian Embassy in Tokyo. Russia, however, denied any border violation.

The incident occurred as Japan was observing “Northern Territories Day,” when it holds annual rallies urging Moscow to return the islands, seized by the Soviet Union in the final days of World War II. Defence Ministry official Yoshihide Yoshida said Japanese air force jets scrambled after an intrusion by two Su-27 jets which lasted just over a minute.

Yoshida said it was not immediately known whether the incident was intentional or accidental, but that it was “extremely problematic.” The last intrusion by Russian jets in Japanese airspace was on Feb. 9, 2008, he said.

In Moscow, the Russian Defence Ministry issued a statement denying any intrusion. It said Russian military aircraft

taking part in a military exercise in the area flew in “strict conformity with international rules without any border violations.”

It was not immediately clear whether the incident off the northwestern tip of Japan’s Hokkaido island was related to Northern Territories Day. In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. is closely monitoring the situation but declined to comment on the incident itself.

“It’s something that we are very focused on, because we have an important role to play as a Pacific power,” he said Thursday.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a governmentsponsored rally in Tokyo that he will do his utmost to resolve the territorial dispute, which has kept the two nations from signing a peace treaty officially ending their hostilities in World War II. Soviet troops captured the islands off Hokkaido’s eastern coast in the waning days of the war, forcing about 17,000 Japanese residents to be deported over the next few years.

About 17,000 people, mostly Russians, live there now.

Japan says a treaty dating back to Feb. 7, 1855, supports its claim

to the islands, called the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.

They lie as close as 10 kilometres (six miles) to Hokkaido and are also near undisputed Russian territory.

The islands are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and are believed to have offshore oil and natural gas reserves, plus gold and silver deposits.

Addressing former Japanese residents of the islands and others gathered in a large Tokyo concert hall, Abe said he told Russian President Vladimir Putin in December that he wants to settle the dispute. Abe plans to send former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori as a special envoy to Russia this month, but prospects for progress on the issue are uncertain.

“We aim to finally resolve the problem with Russia on the disputed islands and realize the signing of a peace treaty,” Abe said in a brief speech before being whisked back to parliamentary proceedings.

In 2010, former President Dmitry Medvedev became the first Russian or Soviet leader to visit the islands, triggering sharp rebukes from Tokyo.

He visited a second time last July.

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