Red Deer Advocate, March 02, 2013

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Red Deer coach says fencing may be the ultimate

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Riley Norman, 13, works with Red Deer Fencing Club coach Petar Toshkov during a Wednesday night training session at Grandview Elementary School. See related video at reddeeradvocate.com

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR There’s more to fencing than meets the eye, insists Petar Toshkov.

Much more.

“Fencing is a great sport. I’ve been a professional athlete and have done many sports. Fencing is the most challenging, it took me the longest to learn,” said Toshkov, coach of the Red Deer Fencing club, a 45-member group that meets four times weekly in the Grandview Elementary School gymnasium.

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chess, so you’re basically playing chess at a high pace,” he continued.

“You have to be really smart, a thinker. You have to be physically fit, but also a strategic person who is quick, balanced and co-ordinated. There are more skills needed to compete in fencing than any other sport. It’s very challenging.”

That being said, Toshkov has helped guide more than a few local fencers into provincial and national prominence.

The list includes Zac Zanussi, 17, 13-year-old Riley Norman, who recently took top honours in the under-17 epee event of the Don Laszio Open at

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Calgary — a competition that attracted top fencers from throughout Western Canada — Nathaniel Johnson, Devyn Hurry and University of Calgary student Karis Langvand.

Hurry is ranked No. 1 in Canada in the U17 epee, while Langvand, who fences with a club in Calgary and works with Toshkov while in Red Deer on weekends, is among the top five in the nation in senior women’s epee.

Toshkov was hired by the Red Deer Fencing Club in 2009 after holding a variety of instructional posts.

He taught the sport at San Jose University, Stanford University and the San Jose Fencing Centre, as well with

the Hawaii Fencers Club.

A native of Bulgaria, he is a former national champion of his country and a two-time World Cup medalist. He was ranked among the top 100 fencers in the world over a five-year stretch and was once ranked as high as 30th.

Despite his personal success, he never competed in the Olympics due to ‘new rules’ that were aimed at having a more global representation instead of a glut of European fencers.

“I was at the (Olympic) qualifying competition twice but didn’t make it,” said Toshkov.

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Former sheriff facing assault charge

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A former Red Deer sheriff accused of attacking a mute cancer survivor inside the Red Deer courthouse will have his day in court.

Red Deer resident Bill Berry, 54, received the court’s permission on Thursday to lay a charge of aggravated assault against former Alberta Sheriff Thomas Bounds.

Berry alleges that the former sheriff assaulted

him without cause while he was attempting to pay a traffic ticket at the provincial court counter.

An investigation by the Solicitor General’s Office’s Law Enforcement and Oversight Professional Standards Unit concluded that Bounds used “excessive” and “unjustified” force in the incident.

An RCMP investigation did not recommend charges.

Berry has been seeking charges since the Dec. 9, 2011, incident.

Represented by Calgary lawyer Michael Bates, Berry presented evidence in judge’s chambers on

Thursday to support his allegation.

Bates explained that private informations may be laid by any citizen, subject to a judge’s scrutiny.

Provincial court Judge Bruce Fraser said such scrutiny is necessary to prevent frivolous or malicious charges from being laid by people who do not have the benefit of training and other resources available to police officers.

Bounds will appear in Red Deer provincial court on April 15. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Academics defend Flanagan’s child porn views SHOULD BE CONSIDERED PUBLIC DEBATE, FREE SPEECH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Some academics are coming to the defence of former Stephen Harper strategist Tom Flanagan.

The retiring University of Calgary professor came under fire for controversial comments on child pornography during a public lecture in southern Alberta on Wednesday.

Flanagan told the crowd in Lethbridge he has “grave doubts about putting people in jail because of their taste in pictures” and “for doing something in which they do not harm another person.”

Barry Cooper, a fellow political science professor at the university, said Friday that Flanagan was making a reasoned argument in an academic setting and he doesn’t deserve to be so widely condemned for having an opinion.

“That is a defensible position. It’s not one that is held by most people in this country but it is, nonetheless, a defensible position.”

A man in the audience recorded Flanagan’s comments on his cellphone and posted the video on YouTube. There was widespread outrage.

The CBC dumped him as a panellist on its “Power and Politics” show. The University of Calgary, the

Prime Minister’s Office and other politicians sent out tweets or news releases distancing themselves from his views.

Alberta’s Opposition Wildrose party said it would no longer have anything to do with Flanagan. He managed the party’s election campaign last year.

Cooper calls the response cowardly or, in scientific terms, a moral panic. “This is such a taboo subject that you simply cannot talk about it and, if you do, you’re denounced.”

Cooper said he ran into Flanagan on campus when the firestorm erupted Thursday. “He was sort of amazed about the volume of noise. I said it was a personal best: He’s been thrown under the bus by seven different organizations.”

News of Flanagan’s remarks also travelled the globe. The story was picked up by the BBC in the United Kingdom.

The CBC posted a note on its website from Flanagan apologizing to anyone he offended. He said he chose his words poorly and absolutely condemns child abuse.

Mark Mercer believes Flanagan has nothing to apologize for.

“I don’t know why people are so up in arms,” said the philosophy professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. He and Flanagan are both executive

members of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.

Mercer said he was so aghast by the backlash that he fired off an opinion piece defending Flanagan that ran in an Ottawa newspaper.

Flanagan has every right to publicly discuss his views on child porn, said Mercer. And creating controversy isn’t a bad thing.

“It’s certainly a question and, if you think that Flanagan is wrong, the task is to produce evidence and argue — not to denounce him for actually having an opinion on the matter.”

Duane Bratt, a political scientist at Calgary’s Mount Royal University, describes Flanagan as one of the top political strategists, authors and commentators in the country.

Bratt said some professors, such Flanagan, are intentionally provocative and play the devil’s advocate to stir debate. But he said he has closely watched the YouTube video of Lethbridge lecture and doesn’t think that’s what happened.

The topic of discussion was the Indian Act and although Flanagan was asked questions about other topics, he chose to answer the one about his views on child pornography. And he crossed the line doing it, said Bratt.

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FENCING: ‘The epee is the most popular’

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For local fencers hoping to one day approach Olympic status, Red Deer coach Petar Toshkov is upfront when offering them advice. “I told all these kids I can prepare Olympic fencers, but it takes about seven or eight years with one coach and much dedication from both sides,” he said.

“It’s also the most difficult and heaviest of the three weapons and always draws the most competitors.”

For local fencers hoping to one day approach Olympic status, Toshkov is upfront when offering them advice.

“I told all these kids I can prepare Olympic fencers, but it takes about seven or eight years with one coach and much dedication from both sides,” he said.

“The problem here is there is no university. Look at Zac Zanussi, I built him up as a fencer and he’ll be leaving us next fall to go to a university in Ontario, where he will continue to fence. Most of the univer-

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sities in Canada that have fencing programs are in Ontario and Quebec.

“I can build fencers up to a certain level here, then they have to leave . . . they’re gone. Unfortunately I don’t have the time with them.”

The Red Deer Fencing Club will host the provincial championship April 13-14 at the Collicutt Centre. The Western Canada championship will be held in Edmonton in May and will be followed by the national finals in Ottawa.

Toshkov hopes to be accompanied to nationals by “four or five” Red Deer fencers. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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“The new rules were not fair to Europeans. I was top 30 in the world and would have gone to Olympics under the old rules. The new rules allowed maybe the 400th-ranked fencer in the world to compete because he’s from a different region.

“Instead of removing fencing from the Olympics, which was threatened, the Olympic committee decided to cut down the numbers, so they made new rules (under which) really strong fencers can’t go, but weak fencers can go. It’s kind of weird.”

Toshkov did coach with the Bulgarian national team in two Summer Olympics — at Atlanta and Sydney — and was negotiating to become the coach of either the Ireland or Iran national team when Norm Wiebe, a co-founder of the Red Deer Club, came calling.

“I kind of knew Norm. He called me and we negotiated,” said Toshkov. “I was looking at national team positions in Ireland and Iran, but decided that there was too much responsibility and politics involved. I wanted to get away from that for awhile.

“I’m enjoying myself here, it’s a good community and a good challenge for me because Red Deer was not on the map for fencing when I came.

“Now the kids are doing real good and people know about us.”

Toshkov’s salary and other club expenses are paid via member fees and fundraising bingos and casinos.

“It can be quite difficult for us. For examples, Edmonton and Calgary have more bingos and casinos so fencing clubs there can raise more money,” said Toshkov. “We’re the least subsidized of all clubs in the province but we have the best quality.”

Fencing weapons include the epee, used by the vast majority of Red Deer fencers during competitions, sabre and foil.

“The epee is the most popular of all because it’s more close to the real dueling sword,” said Toshkov.

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Alan Sharp and Cindy Hellrud of Boat Mart mount an outdoor motor on a fishing boat at Westerner Park Friday.

They were among the many exhibitors readying for the 47th annual Red Deer Sportsman and Outdoor Adventure Show which runs this weekend from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday in the Parkland, Prairie and Stockman’s Pavilions.

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BRIEFS Vehicle fire set by arsonist Red Deer city RCMP are looking for the arsonist behind a vehicle fire that took place late Thursday.

Police and Red Deer Emergency Services responded to the fire at 33rd Street and 50th Avenue at about 11:20 p.m. It’s believed the vehicle was deliberately set on fire.

Anyone with information can call Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575, anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online through www.tipsubmit.com If the information leads to an arrest, tipsters are eligible for a cash reward of up to $2,000.

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Alleged carjacker dumps lawyer A man accused of a knifepoint carjacking in Red Deer earlier this year has parted company with his lawyer.

Duane Karl Luz, 42, was arrested on Jan. 17

by Red Deer City RCMP called to investigate a shoplifting incident at a food store in the Anders subdivision.

Police arriving at the scene were told that a man with a knife in his belt had approached a vehicle where a woman was putting her child in the carseat, ordered her and the child away from the vehicle and then drove off.

Luz was arrested at the north end of the city by police who allege that the vehicle he was driving collided with two police cars. He was charged with numerous offences, including theft, robbery, fleeing police, dangerous driving, assaulting a police officer with a weapon and possession of a dangerous weapon.

Red Deer lawyer Patty MacNaughton advised Judge Gordon Deck in Red Deer provincial

Man charged with making and possessing child porn Rocky Mountain House RCMP arrested and charged a 25-year-old man on Wednesday after a lengthy investigation into child pornography.

In September 2012, RCMP and ALERT’s southern Internet Child Exploitation Team began an investigation into allegations that a male was in possession of child pornography.

RCMP charged the man, whose

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She admitted to drug trafficking and two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

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The Red Deer Rebels hockey team scored big with blood donations thanks to their fans.

The Rebels collected 249 donations compared with their Western Hockey League rivals, Lethbridge Hurricanes, which received 218, during the month of February.

This was the first time the two teams took the battle from the ice to their community Canadian Blood Services clinic.

Halfway through the campaign, the Rebels were trailing but they came through in a big way.

court on Friday that she and her client had lost confidence in each other and asked that she be removed as his counsel of record.

Appearing by closed-circuit TV from the Red Deer Remand Centre, Luz confirmed that he wished to part company with MacNaughton and would ask Legal Aid to appoint a new lawyer.

Luz remains in custody until April 3, when he is scheduled to return with new counsel.

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U.S. budget battle could hurt Canada: Flaherty NO BUDGING ON BUDGET CUTS E5

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Jim Flaherty says he is concerned about the impact on Canadian exporters from the latest budget battle in Washington, and appealed to U.S. lawmakers to bring to an end the drumbeat of confidence-sapping fiscal crises.

The finance minister told reporters Friday he believes the so-called sequestration crisis — involving about $85 billion in spending cuts — will be a tempest in a teapot in terms of U.S. economy.

But the potential for tie-ups at the Canada-U.S. border if guards are affected could slow trade routes between the two countries and have an impact on Canada’s economy, he said.

“I do know the size of the U.S. economy, I know the size of our trading relationship,” he explained.

“It concerns me a great deal to hear some of the speculation about border delays because we have the largest trading partner(ship) in the world, and a lot of the trade moves by border crossings on land.”

Flaherty said he could not put a hard figure on the potential loss to trade, but said Canadian and U.S. policy-makers will need to keep any disruptions at a minimum.

U.S. homeland security chief Janet Napolitano

projects the cuts could affect the equivalent of about 5,000 border patrol agent positions, many on the Canada-U.S. border. As well, the equivalent of 2,750 inspectors is on the chopping block.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency estimates the cuts could result in waits for as long as five hours at larger ports of entry, most of them in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia.

The Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters group both warn about repercussions to trade.

In a memo sent to its members this weekend, the CME noted there’s no evidence that any border contingency plan has been worked out between the U.S. and Canada.

Flaherty appeared more frustrated with the ongoing political squabbling over budget issues in the U.S., mostly due to the inability of Democratic and Republican lawmakers to come to an agreement on a wide array of issues, from taxes to debt limits to spending.

Few regard the current impasse to be on a level with December’s so-called fiscal cliff crisis, which had the potential to shave about four percentage

points from U.S. growth and was averted literally in the final hours. By contract, sequestration is estimated to trim only 0.4 percentage points from the world’s largest economy, a relative trifle.

But economists say the succession of crises, and doubts about if and how they will be resolved, has contributed to growing uncertainty among business and consumers, and damaged the recovery. America’s barely visible 0.1 percentage growth rate in the last three months of 2012 was mostly blamed on risk posed by the fiscal cliff issue.

“It is regrettable ... that the U.S. continues to move from crisis to crisis in fiscal terms,” Flaherty said.

“I’m not blaming anybody except everybody who is responsible for developing a medium-term plan in the largest economy in the world, because it effects all of us in the world, including Canada.”

Still, Flaherty said he still regards Europe as the biggest threat to the global outlook, not the U.S. Analysts said Friday that Canada’s disappointing 0.6 per cent growth rate, as reported by Statistics Canada, was also at least partially attributable to the climate of uncertainty posed by the fiscal cliff battle.

They note that most of the weakness came from a drawdown in stockpiled inventories, suggesting firms were concerned about future sales should the U.S. economy take a hit.

Navy will get supply ships: MacKay

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Lead dogs for Samual LaForce’s team from New Brunswick, Canada get ready to race at the start of the World Championship Sled Dog Derby on Friday in Laconia, N.H.

OTTAWA — Defence Minister Peter MacKay says the navy will get the supply ships it needs, despite a parliamentary budget officer’s report that shows the government has not set aside enough cash to build them.

MacKay would not indicate whether he’ll ask the federal cabinet for more money.

In a report Thursday, budget officer Kevin Page said if the government sticks to the $2.6-billion budget, it will have to strip out capabilities from the ship design, which has already been downgraded once.

Page estimated replacing the existing replenishment ships — HMCS Preserver and HMCS Protecteur — would cost about $3.2 billion, but that the budget should be set at $4.1 billion because the Canadian industry has no recent experience building similar vessels.

Federal officials have said the ship’s design will undergo a costing review, perhaps later this year.

MacKay says he’ll study the advice, but insisted new ships will either “match or surpass” the current vessels.

Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose earlier this week defended the government’s estimates, saying safeguards have been put in place to ensure the project is affordable.

Like MacKay on Friday, Ambrose underscored that the ships were still in the design phase.

Defence expert Dave Perry, of Carleton University and the Conference of Defence Associations, said the chances of the navy getting the ships it wants are “pretty low.”

Based on government statements, the only option will be to reduce the vessels’ capabilities, he said.

“They’re not going to be able to get the same calibre of (resupply) ship,” Perry said.

“Not only are you not getting the extra capability that was intended in 2004, ’05, ’06, you’re going to be getting less capability than what was planned for in 2008.”

The program to replace the existing replenishment ships, which refuel and restock warships at sea, was first proposed in by the Chretien government in 1994, but the Liberals didn’t get around to ordering them until 10 years later.

The Harper government embraced the program, but shipyard proposals were deemed too expensive, among other things, in 2008.

B.C. Liberal MLA condemns his own party over plans to woo ethnic vote news to the ethnic media, ensuring there is proper translation. Use of taxpayer resources for political purposes is forbidden.

“In all my 12 years as an MLA I have always reached out to all communities, regardless of ethnic background, because that is the right thing to do,” Hayer said. “I believe in doing the right thing, regardless of whether it will, or will not, ‘win the vote’ of any particular group.”

In an interview before Haakstad resigned, Hayer said it the proposed policy — which the Liberals have referred to as a draft — was the wrong thing to do.

“Nobody in their right mind would be telling anybody to do anything like this. I can tell you, all the MLAs I talked to think this is wrong. We think whoever did this should be held responsible.”

As the fallout continued Friday, the Liberals were forced to explain that two of three riding association presidents who resigned recently quit their jobs well before the strategy plan was leaked.

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VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark accepted the resignation Friday of one of her closest advisers as the political fall-out over a leaked strategy aimed at wooing ethnic voters continued to rock the Liberal government.

Kim Haakstad, who was Clark’s deputy chief of staff and has worked with the premier for years, resigned as the controversy over the ethnic vote courting strategy tore at caucus unity.

“Kim reached her decision after much consideration of her roles and responsibilities,” Clark said in a three-sentence statement late Friday afternoon.

“Consistent with circumstances of resignations, no severance payment applies.”

At least one Liberal MLA slammed his own party publicly over the leaked memo, which appeared to condone using public money to help the Liberals spread their ethnic message in time for the May 14 election.

Dave Hayer, an Indo-Canadian who has been a Liberal MLA since 2001, condemned the plan Friday, adding his voice to a furor unleashed earlier in the week when the Opposition NDP leaked the 17-page strategy document dated January 2012 in the legislature.

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Dark Knight Rises shooter might plead insanity THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Attorneys for the suspect in a deadly movie theatre shooting said for the first time in court papers made public Friday that they are considering entering a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on behalf of their client.

But they said they can’t make their decision about their defence of James Holmes until the judge rules on their motion challenging the constitutionality of the state’s insanity defence law.

The attorneys say the law is unfair to defendants who invoke it because it requires the disclosure of potentially incriminating information, such as mental health records, while those who plainly plead not guilty are not required to turn over any evidence.

Prosecutors have not announced whether they will pursue the death penalty, but they have 60 days from when a defendant enters a plea to do so. Holmes’ hearing is March 12.

A legal expert said the manoeuvring may be part of a defence strategy to make sure prosecutors never get their hands on a notebook that was purportedly sent by Holmes to his psychiatrist and included descriptions of a possible attack.

The notebook was the subject of court hearings in the months after the July shooting. Under state law, the

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In this July 23, 2012 file photo, James E. Holmes appears in Arapahoe County District Court in Centennial, Colo. Lawyers for Holmes have indicated their client might plead not guilty by reason of insanity. notebook was protected because it was part of a doctor-patient relationship that Holmes had with the psychiatrist.

“That’s why there’s a big issue there, there’s information that the prosecution may not be entitled to unless they plead not guilty by reason of insan-

ity,” said Karen Steinhauser, a Denver criminal defence attorney and law professor who is a former prosecutor.

Representatives for the prosecution and the defence didn’t immediately return phone calls Friday. The judge has ordered attorneys not to speak pub-

licly about the case.

Under state law, defendants who plead not guilty by reason of insanity must reveal to prosecutors mental health records as well as psychiatric evaluations that may include details of the crime for which they’re accused.

While the law has not been challenged before in cases involving the death penalty, determining whether it violates a defendant’s constitutional right against self-incrimination directly impacts their decisions about Holmes’ defence, his attorneys argue.

Steinhauser said the defence had to file their motion challenging the insanity defence law before the plea is entered because they could not raise issues with the statute afterward. They could still, however, raises other trialrelated issues later.

Steinhauser said the judge can rule on the matter, which likely will be appealed to higher courts and possibly delay Holmes’ arraignment.

Holmes’ attorneys have said their client is mentally ill and had sought the help of a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he was a neuroscience graduate student.

Holmes faces multiple charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the shootings at an Aurora theatre during a midnight showing of the latest Batman moving, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Parole decision to release former Manson follower rejected by California governor LOS ANGELES — The enduring mystery of why young people joined Charles Manson’s murderous family appeared to be at the heart of Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision Friday to reverse a parole board’s recommendation and keep Bruce Davis in prison.

Brown said he wants Davis, who has been behind bars for 42 years, to come clean about all the details of his involvement with Manson’s cult and the two gruesome killings of a stuntman and a musician.

It was the second time in less than three years that a California governor has rejected a parole board ruling in Davis’ case. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused his release in 2010, citing the heinous nature of Davis’ crimes and his efforts to minimize his involvement.

Brown repeated those reasons in a six-page decision but added his belief that Davis still has more to disclose about the killings.

“Until Davis can acknowledge and explain why he actively championed the Family’s interests and shed more light on the nature of his involvement, I am not prepared to release him,” Brown said.

“After 42 years of incarceration, it is encouraging that Davis is beginning to reveal the actual details of what happened. But it is clear that he continues to withhold information about these events,” Brown said.

The state parole board, citing the prisoner’s positive progress, approved release of the 70-year-old Davis, but the Democratic governor had the last word.

Brown gave his decision to The Associated Press at the downtown Los Angeles County courthouse after a meeting with District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who had recommended that Davis not be paroled.

“I find the evidence ... shows why he currently poses a danger to society if released from prison.

Therefore, I reverse the decision to parole Mr. Davis,” the written decision said. Brown’s decision focused on Davis’ role in the murderous Manson Family in the late 1960s.

“The record indicates that Davis fully embraced and championed the family’s distorted values and goals, and was willing to protect the family’s interests at all costs,” the decision said.

Davis would have been only the second Mansonrelated murder defendant to be granted parole since the killing spree began in 1969.

Davis was not involved in the notorious Sharon Tate-LaBianca killings but was convicted with Manson and others in the murders of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman ranch hand Donald “Shorty” Shea.

Manson was a direct participant in both killings, according to witnesses.

Steve Grogan, another participant in those murders, was released in 1985 after he led police to

where the bodies were buried on a remote movie ranch in the San Fernando Valley.

Brown’s decision outlined the killings in gruesome detail. It also quoted trial testimony of Barbara Hoyt, a former Manson Family member, who has become a constant attendee at parole hearing and an advocate for keeping all members of the cult in prison.

Many of the details she gave were proven wrong when the bodies were exhumed. She had spoken of dismembered bodies, but both men’s bodies were intact.

Davis was 30 when he was sentenced to life in prison in 1972 in the case, which was a postscript to Manson’s notorious reign as leader of the murderous communal cult.

Davis long maintained that he was a bystander in the killing of the two men. But in recent years, he has acknowledged his shared responsibility.

He said his presence may have emboldened others to take action because he was an elder of the group.

Brown said Davis’ refusal to fully acknowledge his responsibility for the killings was central to his decision.

“I do not believe that Davis was just a reluctant follower who passively went along with the violence,” he said.

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Do our gun laws really need fixing?

‘NO GUN LAW ON THIS PLANET CAN PROMISE TOTAL IMMUNITY FROM FIREARMS VIOLENCE.’ Sheldon Clare, president of Cana- should be moving toward America’s da’s National Firearms Association, is is frightening. The mass slaughter of determined Canadians should share American children and adults in the the same love affair with guns as do past 18 months by madmen carrying our neighbours to the south. enough firepower to supply Also known as Capt. Shela small army clearly illusdon D. Clare, with an extentrates U.S. gun laws require sive military background some revision. including involvement with President Barack Obama the U.S. military, Clare is proposing tougher laws gave an “exclusive interfor the U.S. The suggesview” last week with Yahoo tions were greeted with a News over the Internet. His hail of fire by the 4.5-milthoughts smacked of cultilion-strong National Rifles vating a U.S.-gun mindset in Association, adamant their Canada. guns are sacred, protected Clare says Canada’s gun under the Constitution and laws are too strict, armed are “hands off”.

RICK guards in Canadian schools The 50,000-strong NFA ZEMANEK would serve a purpose to found a place in the debate, protect children, and gun and urged members to back laws here “should be movthe NRA in its battle. ing toward America’s, not Clare’s argument that the other way around,” reported Ya- firearms ownership is a culture “which hoo News. is a long proud one in Canada” falls It’s debatable if Canada’s gun laws flat. That was the case eons ago when a are “too strict”, but they are in place gun meant bagging a moose for winter for a reason. No gun law on this planet meat. Today, firearms do not reprecan promise total immunity from fire- sent an icon in the Canadian culture. arms violence. But this nation’s laws And any suggestion tight gun laws are are in place to prevent as much vio- intruding upon that “gun culture” eslence as possible. tablished hundreds of years ago is luClare’s comments that our laws dicrous.

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Calling Canadian gun laws excessive, Clare said “In terms of the situation in Canada, we have been operating under successive, oppressive firearms control regimes for decades.”

He further argues none of the laws “have done anything whatsoever to have any effect upon firearms crime rates, or violent crimes at all.”

So does that mean loosening up the laws similar to the U.S. would successfully make a dent in the prevention of gun violence? Obviously the U.S. laws aren’t working either.

Clare also opposes background checks for potential gun owners and a mandatory licensing system to own a firearm. Background checks, he said, “ . . . don’t really work. In effect they are a feel-good legislation. People feel they will stop someone somehow. They haven’t.”

Background checks were required long before the Liberal government’s revamping of the 1995 gun legislation.

It wasn’t a big deal.

Clare also protests the 1995 legislation which required all firearms owners to have a licence “merely to own their own property.” But that was the case long before the 1995 legislation. Then (the licence) was called a Firearms Acquisition Certificate. And

again, it was no big deal, and all gun owners were required to have one.

Potential gun owners are also required to take a gun safety course which Clare also opposes. “The key thing for firearms use is a voluntary education system, rather than anything compulsory or legislated. The heavy hand of the state doesn’t need to be doing this.”

Is the NFA and the NRA guarding “tradition”? Or are their noses out of joint and pride stinging by being bullied by government legislation?

Despite his push for slacker laws, Clare conceded in his interview that gun violence in Canada is on the downward trend.

In all fairness, his explanation to the trend is, well, puzzling, if not obscure.

“Quite frankly we don’t have a huge problem with violence in Canada,” he said. “It has been dropping over the years, mainly due to an aging population. That seems to be the main factor.” Does that mean the seniors have cut down on gun use?

According to Clare, things are fine in Canada, so why fix the gun laws when they’re not busted?

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

Italy: Grillosconi wins but the crisis goes on The winner of last week’s election The older part of the beast is Silvio in Italy was a mythical beast called Berlusconi, the former cruise-ship “Grillosconi.” crooner and billionaire media magThat is bad news for Italy, for the nate (he’s the richest man in Italy) single European currency, whose cynical populism has the euro, and even for the dominated Italian politics future of the European for the past twenty years.

Union.

For more than half of that Not that “Grillosconi” time he has been the prime will ever form a coherent minister, and even when government in Italy. he’s out of power he domiThe problem is that he nates the political stage.

— or rather, they — will Berlusconi is 76 now, but prevent anybody else from he still manages to generdoing that either. ate constant sex scandals.

The newer part of this (His “bunga bunga” parhybrid beast is Beppe ties are notorious, and he Grillo, a former stand-up currently faces charges in GWYNNE comedian who is essenconnection with an underDYER tially an anti-politician. His age prostitute.) He has been blog boils with bile against fighting charges or appealItaly’s entire political class, ing against convictions for and his public appearances corruption for the whole are angry, foul-mouthed, arm-waving time he has been in politics, and keeps rants against the whole system. changing the criminal law to avoid Raging against Italy’s privileged, doing jail time. Yet a large number of corrupt and dysfunctional political Italians go on voting for him. class is a perfectly reasonable thing to Their devotion is even more inexdo, but Grillo’s Five Star Movement, plicable when you recall that Italy has which in just a few years grew from been in steady economic decline for nothing to take a quarter of the nationmost of Berlusconi’s two decades as al vote in last Sunday’s election, has the country’s dominant political figure. nothing useful to put in its place. Just The Italian economy is smaller than “throw the bums out”, and the demoit was twelve years ago, over a third of cratic power of the internet will solve the under-25s are unemployed, and the all of Italy’s problems. state auditor estimates that 60 billion “We want to destroy everything,” euros is stolen from the national budGrillo said in a recent interview with get by corrupt politicians every year. the BBC. “But not rebuild with the So 29 per cent of Italians voted for same old rubble. We have new ideas.”

Silvio Berlusconi’s party in the elecWe have heard this sort of talk in tion last weekend, and 25 percent Europe before, always from people voted for Beppe Grillo’s. who turned out to be totalitarians More than half of Italy’s voters preof some sort, whether Communist or ferred some part of the “Grillosconi” fascist. It should not be necessary for monster to more serious politicians Italy to go through all that again. who talked about fixing the economy,

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Beppe Grillo, a former stand-up comedian who is essentially an anti-politician.

tackling the budget deficit, fighting organised crime, and reforming the country’s badly broken justice system The result is political paralysis: no party or group of parties is able to form a stable government, and there will probably be another election within a year.

(Only one Italian government in the past seven decades has served out its full five-year term.) But why should we believe that that will produce a better outcome? Grillo confidently predicts that his Five Star Movement will win a majority next time round, and he may well be right.

Berlusconi promises to bring back the good old days with a wave of his magic wand: four million new jobs, tax cuts, and even refunds for taxes paid in the recent past. But you have to shut your eyes to the financial disaster that is engulfing Italy to believe that, and it will be even harder to do that a year from now. Grillo promises salvation in a fantasy future where everything happens on the web, but he’s really just getting the protest vote. Even he

admits that “the (Five Star) Movement is a dream of what could happen in 20 or 30 years. Not now. Now, nothing will happen.” So why would anyone look to him for a solution to today’s pressing problems? Good question.

Meanwhile, the Italian economy continues to decay, and the government goes on spending money it does not have. One number says it all: about 70,000 Italian public officials are given cars with chauffeurs. (In Britain, the number is 300.) The risk grows that Italy will need a financial bail-out so massive that it causes a collapse of the euro.

Why so many Italians put up with this kind of thing passes understanding. But so does the fact that so many of those who are infuriated by it turn to a clown like Grillo, who offers salvation in the form of a web-based direct democracy.

The crisis will therefore continue indefinitely.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Education summit hardly a coup for PQ Because no one slammed the door tuition freeze. on Quebec’s summit on higher educaThe recurrent 3-per-cent annual tion, it was widely deemed a success increase that the premier has now refor Premier Pauline Masolved to implement does rois’s government. not live up to those expecThat rosy assessment tations. says more about how low That does not mean a rethe bar had been set for the peat of last spring’s wave of summit than about its actual protests is in the cards, but accomplishments - includneither is another pro-PQ ing on the partisan front. student rush to the election When all is said and barricades. done, the aftermath of the That is not the only sumsummit is as likely to reap mit outcome that could a bitter election harvest for come back to haunt Marois the Parti Québécois as to at election time. bolster the party’s prospects This week, the premier CHANTAL for a governing majority. dangled the prospect of HÉBERT Without the help of a future reinvestments in the mobilized student electorprovince’s university netate last September, Marois work. But over the next two might not be premier today. years, austerity will be the She barely beat the Liberals to a miorder of the day as budget cuts take nority government. their toll on the province’s campuses.

The unresolved student crisis was The academic community has long front and centre in the campaign and been friendly to the PQ, but the debate the PQ milked it for all it was worth. of the past few months — complete In the wake of Marois’s victory, the with cuts to research and assertions student leadership had cause to bethat the universities are not underfilieve that it would secure a coveted nanced — has left many of its members

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disillusioned with the government. A wave of belt-tightening measures will do little to soothe them.

A normal government would make up for fickle student votes with support from other constituencies. But the PQ is not a normal party: its sovereigntist creed limits its capacity to expand its reach.

Since it will not rule out holding another referendum, the party will largely be restricted to fishing for a governing majority in the sovereigntist pond in the next election.

That pond has become shallower over the past decade and the PQ has to contend with competition for its votes from two fledging sovereigntist rivals.

Since Marois took power, the policy gap between her government and the left-leaning Québec Solidaire and Option Nationale has become wider.

A cost-cutting budget compounded this week by the summit’s developments will do little to move some of those parties’ votes over to the PQ. It is no accident that Québec Solidaire’s leaders were front and centre in the well-attended student demonstration that punctuated the end of the

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That study in contrast is more likely to stick in the public’s mind than the thousands of words expended on the summit.

In opposition, the PQ lobbied hard for an inquiry into corruption in the construction industry.

Its hearings have rapidly become a high-audience television staple.

This week, that popular success was at the premier’s expense.

Marois’s performance at the summit was her best since becoming premier.

She was on top of the event in every way.

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Our economy needs diversification A successful Canada is one where in the same period, according to InterCanadians in all parts of the country national Monetary Fund economists have the opportunity for good jobs and in their recent review of the Canadian a decent standard of living. economy.

That means building a well-diversiThe other 40 per cent of loss of fied economy — in natural resources, share of the U.S. market is explained manufacturing, high-value services by increased product competition from and tourism.

China.

Right now, we don’t have The debate over the that. One reason — but not the role of commodity prices only one — is that the high ex— energy and metals - in change rate for our dollar is driving up the exchange hammering the manufacturing rate of the Canadian doland tourism industries and lar and the ensuing negamaking Canada less attractive tive impact on Canadian for new investment. We have manufacturers, especially an unbalanced economy, and in Ontario, has, not surthe reliance on growth in the prisingly, been more poresources sector is a factor in litical than economic . driving up the dollar.

NDP leader Thomas The answer is not to halt Mulcair, who has exthe oilsands but to help manupressed serious concerns, DAVID facturing and tourism in make has been the target of CRANE the transition to competitivebashing by the Harper ness at an exchange rate at government. He has been approximate parity with the accused, for example, of U.S. dollar. wanting to shut down the The fact that resource develop- oilsands, which he has never done. ment has pushed up the dollar is not What he has done has been to raise in serious question. Canada’s large the problem of our manufacturers and exchange rate appreciation between to push for stricter environmental reg1999 and 2011 was driven by a “surge ulations. in commodity prices”, notably energy Even the federal Liberals have and metals, and explains close to 60 jumped in, for political and not ecoper cent of the fall in Canada’s market nomic reasons, accusing Mulcair of share of U.S. manufacturing imports being “divisive” for even raising the

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issue.

But when the IMF economists decided to look into the issue, they found that, in effect, Mulcair was right. They based their analysis on what economists call the real effective exchange rate, which is a weighted measure of real effective bilateral exchange rates (adjusted for inflation) of our trading partners.

This is a more solid measure than the nominal exchange rate, which we use, for example, for travel — it tells us how many U.S. dollars, or Euros or other foreign currency we can buy for a Canadian dollar.

Canada’s merchandise exports have taken a big hit over the past decade or so. In 2000 they accounted for 40 per cent of the GDP; by 2010, this had fallen to 24 per cent. In fact, 85 per cent of the decline in our overall merchandise exports as a share of GDP in the 2000s was from a decline in manufacturing exports.

For example, Canada’s share of U.S. imports of transport equipment and machinery and equipment fell from 20 per cent in 1999 to 10.5 per cent in 2011 while China’s share rose form 15.5 per cent to 25.5 per cent.

The impact of commodity prices on the exchange rate is “particularly relevant” because of the recent commodities boom and, critically, because “petroleum exports could more than

double over the next decades,” the IMF economists contend.

They calculate that the rise in commodity prices in 2000-2007 accounted for about 75 per cent of the rise in the exchange rate in that period.

While Canada’s lagging productivity performance has also been a factor in loss of U.S. market share, “the impact of commodity prices, however, dominated and led to a substantial appreciation in the Canadian dollar.”

So the question is, where do we go from here?

Will future manufacturing investment decisions favour the U.S., or Mexico, over Canada because of our dollar?

Will we price much of the economy out of the global market?

While some effort is being made to reverse the decline of manufacturing in Ontario through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, more needs to be done.

We need a manufacturing strategy to offset the impact of the commoditydriven rise in the dollar.

This is not a call to halt the oil sands, but to stress the need for a welldiversified economy that can compete under the higher exchange rate.

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

Radical mukluks — be careful what you wish for “But Mom, everybody’s got them, and I really really need mukluks, you know, to keep my feet warm.

My feet are always freezing like frozen ice cubes!”

I said, very nearly stomping my feet tantrum-style which weren’t really that cold to tell you the truth.

I seriously coveted mukluks when I was in Grade 3 at South School. After all, I had to walk all the way down the block and across the footbridge where (appropriately) the museum is now and down another block before I even got to the crosswalk at South School. And let’s face it, most of the time I was forced to walk that walk out in the cruel elements of a freezing, snowfilled Central Alberta winter.

After all, mukluks were what we called in those days HARLEY “radical” which was the highHAY est form of praise before “groovy”, “far out” and “cool” came along. And after all, Ricky had some, Mark had some. Even John and Fred each had a pair. Not a single girl at school had any, which made it a musthave for any self-respecting kid of the male gender.

Mukluks, for those of you who have never heard of snow, were originally created by the Arctic aboriginal people whom we used to call ‘Eskimos’ but who have since legally changed their name to ‘the Inuit.’

The real mukluks are soft warm boots made out of the skins and fur of various animals, although over the years synthetic trendy fashion footwear mukluk boots have become all the rage to the extent that the Kardashians and Hiltons wear them in tropical places like California, which looks as ridiculous as it sounds.

But back in the snowbank/snowfort/snowball days of youth, the first mukluks I saw, and the ones that I immediately coveted, were plain grey moccasin-type winter boots that laced up to the tops of your thick grey woolen winter socks.

Of course, I myself, with my elementary school braces (on my pants not my teeth), long-sleeved shirts buttoned at the collar, and my immovably perfect Suave hair cream wave perched permanently on my forehead like some yellow hair bump — I myself sported ‘overshoes.’

This was exactly the same as carrying a large sandwich-board sign that said ‘HOPELESS NERD’ on one side and ‘LOSER GEEK’ on the other.

These overshoes, which only men in suits called “galoshes” and nobody under 20 called “rubbers” with a straight face were either half-shoe covers that slipped over the bottoms of dress shoes, or full-on overshoes that pulled on over regular shoes and boots. They came up about as high as the radical mukluks, but they had zippers or fasteners instead of radical laces. They were so un-radical that you had to hide to put on your overshoes in the boot room.

Those lucky enough to have a pair of mukluks (aka: everybody but me) were allowed to wear their mukluks in class instead of leaving them in the boot room, which, of course, another good reason for me to have a pair. Wearing mukluks in class was, for

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sure, the very pinnacle of radicalness.

“You’ll get chilblains,” Mom would say whenever I would mention how ‘rad’ it was that you could wear mukluks all day, inside and outside. I had no idea if chilblains were an actual real thing that you could get or not.

“If you have cold feet, and you come inside and you wear your warm boots and your feet get hot, it can be bad and you can get sick,” Mom would say.

And although in Grade 3 you totally believe everything your Mom says, I kind of suspected she was making it up because she was of the adult opinion that geeky overshoes were far better for a school kid than radical (and expensive) mukluks.

Turns out, there really is a medical condition known as “chilblains” which, according to the Mayo Clinic website is ‘a painful inflammation of small blood vessels in your skin that occur in response to sudden warming from cold temperatures.’

Go figure. But as usual, I digress. One particularly cold day that snowy winter, I finally got my very own mukluks. I remember clearly going to the Eaton’s store downtown with my Mom, where the shoe department was past the big white staircase in the middle of the store. When I came out of Eaton’s lugging a brown paper shopping bag with string handles on the top that held a box with my very own mukluks I was so happy that Mom decided to mark the occasion by stopping at Kresge’s next door where we sat at the soda shop counter and had ice cream sundaes. (Chocolate for me, maple walnut for Mom).

That’s how big of a day getting mukluks was!

The very next morning brought a typical frozen world of ice and snow that I was chomping at the bit to attack in my radical new grey leather mukluks with the brown leather laces.

I took one step out the back door and my feet went flying out from under me and down I went, my toque, mitts and books flying randomly through the air like a flock of scared birds.

When I picked myself and my accoutrements up and took another step, I slipped again. I didn’t go down but it took some nifty moves to stay upright.

It was like that all the way to school. In fact when I wasn’t crashing windmill-style, it looked like I was practicing a complicated modern dance routine.

Seems the smooth bottom of my precious mukluks weren’t that great traction-wise for anything but deep snow. And not only that, my feet were surprisingly cold. Hmmm. Radical? Not so much.

As I hung onto the snow covered bike rack in the playground trying to stay upright on my cold and slippery feet, my friends just laughed and simultaneously lifted up the bottom of their moccasins. There on the bottom of the prized (and expensive) mukluks were thick brown leather soles.

“You gotta take them down to Kovak’s, the shoe place downtown, and get a hunk of rough leather sewed onto the bottom. Otherwise ya got no traction and you’ll be on your butt most of the time.”

My friends were enjoying this a little too much.

And later that morning, sitting at my desk wearing my mukluks and practicing long-hand writing, it felt like my legs were going to explode from overheating.

I was sweating, and my feet were stinging and I was trapped in my radical mukluks.

Come to think of it now, I’m pretty sure I had a bad case of the chilblains.

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

It’s important to find a balance in life Wherever and whatever we do in life, we are always in a position to find a balance in which we are comfortable to function.

We find ourselves weighing different options, choosing between them and then trying to live with the results.

We choose between things like work verses play; a four-door sedan or a supercharged two seater; a highpaying job or one that gives us satisfaction and purpose, the list is endless.

Then there are also the balances between right and wrong; good and bad; and even our understandings of truth and untruth.

It is finding these balances of the mind that most greatly influence our interactions with each other.

CHRIS In these interactions, we SALOMONS need to strike a balance in what we hear from each other, both that which builds and that which destroys.

The last couple of weeks have been challenging to both extremes; criticisms and compliments; enough of both to choke a horse.

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And although I try my best to stay neutral to both, lately they have been having an effect on me to the point that I find myself trying to strike a balance between the two.

On the criticism or destroying side, I’ve been called a control freak for insisting that the kitchen clients follow a few simple rules while in the kitchen, like no drinking alcohol, or no smoking cigarettes or weed or crack.

Then when I have to refuse service or even have to kick them out of the building, the comment I hear the most is, “And I thought you were a Christian!” or “That’s not a very Christian thing to do,” or “I’ll bet you think you’re somebody don’t you?”

These comments on my character do not only come from the kitchen clients, but also from people who read my articles.

On the complimentary or building side, I have had about twenty to thirty comments and compliments on the quality of the food I prepare, the care that I show individuals, and the articles I write. Some days it’s enough to give a person a swelled head which I have to fight against.

Here I find that I really have to find a balance between the two.

Like I mentioned earlier, I try to stay neutral to both, because I also know that when you place yourself in a position where you are that public, you invite comments both good and bad. Even with that

knowledge, I find that I will sink or grow like everyone else, so the struggle of balance is a continual thing.

On the criticism side, I know who I am, and feel that when my character is called into question, I will let my actions speak for themselves and leave the final judgement up to the one who is qualified and worthy to judge.

On the complimentary side, (which I tend to prefer) I don’t want to end up with a swelled head, so I force myself to remember that any knowledge, compassion, or literary skill I might posses are a gift from my creator so as a result are credited to him and not to me.

I don’t always do it right, but that is the premise that I work under.

As a result, finding a balance in my work, in my personal life, and in my social life is an essential part of who I am and it is what drives me to do what I do at the kitchen, and how I interact with those I serve.

In so doing, I have been able to form some beautiful relationships with volunteers, co-workers, and clients, giving me more than enough to write about.

That’s how I see it anyways.

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

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. ings. A can of Coca-Cola sat on the table before him in photos shared with AP by VICE. Smith, after speaking to the VICE crew in Pyongyang, said Kim and Rodman “bonded” and chatted in English, though Kim primarily spoke in Korean through a translator.

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PYONGYANG, North Korea — Ending his unexpected round of basketball diplomacy in North Korea on Friday, ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman called leader Kim Jong Un an “awesome guy” and said his father and grandfather were “great leaders” — an assessment that got short shrift from the U.S. government.

Rodman, the highest-profile American to meet Kim since he inherited power from father Kim Jong Il in 2011, watched a basketball game with the authoritarian leader Thursday and later drank and dined on sushi with him.

At Pyongyang’s Sunan airport on his way to Beijing, Rodman said it was “amazing” that the North Koreans were “so honest.” He added that Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s founder, “were great leaders.”

“He’s proud, his country likes him — not like him, love him, love him,” Rodman said of Kim Jong Un. “Guess what, I love him. The guy’s really awesome.”

At Beijing’s airport, Rodman pushed past waiting journalists without saying anything.

Rodman’s visit to North Korea began Monday and took place amid tension between Washington and Pyongyang. North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test just two weeks ago, making clear the provocative act was a warning to the United States to drop what it considers a “hostile” policy toward the North.

The State Department on Friday distanced itself from Rodman’s visit and his praise for Kim, saying he doesn’t represent the United States.

“The North Korean regime has a horrific human rights record, quite possibly the worst human rights situation in the world,” spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters in Washington. He accused the regime of depriving their people of food, shelter, water and maintaining prison gulags.

Ventrell also took aim at Pyongyang for its grand treatment of the visiting basketball stars.

“Clearly you’ve got the regime spending money to wine and dine foreign visitors, when they should be feeding their own people,” he said.

Rodman travelled to Pyongyang with three members of the professional Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, VICE correspondent Ryan Duffy and a production crew to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series.

Kim, a diehard basketball fan, told the former Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls star that he hoped the visit would break the ice between the United States and North Korea, said Shane Smith, founder of the New York-based VICE media company.

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Top: While it’s hard to identify the exact origin of the hot dog, the word “frankfurter” definitely comes from Frankfurt, Germany.

Left: You can find love locks all over Europe – even on the Frankfurt pedestrian bridges.

The tradition is said to have begun in Italy. Couples carve their names on a lock and attach it to public property as a symbol of their never ending love.

Right: If you have a couple of days, consider taking a daytrip up the Rhine. Ferry boats depart from the downtown river area of Frankfurt regularly.

Above: Frankfurt Cathedral rises above Old Town. The cathedral is situated just off the northeast corner of the Main Square. It is the largest church in Frankfurt and was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. Kings of the Holy Roman Empire were elected here from 1356, and Emperors were crowned here from 1562 – 1792. The cathedral was severely damaged during the Second World War, with the interior burned out completely.

It was reconstructed in the 1950s. The spire is 95 metres tall.

Above: The Alte Oper, or Old Opera House, is a stunning, modern recreation of Frankfurt’s original Opera House that opened in 1880 in grand style with Kaiser Wilhelm I in attendance.

Right: If you only have a few hours in Frankfurt, head to Romerberg Square in Old Town. The historical section of the city was completely destroyed during the Second World War, but was rebuilt and is now the best place in town to hang out.

There are great cafes, street performers and interesting shops surrounding the square.

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rankfurt is one of those cities that people visit, but don’t really see.

Home to the busiest airport in Germany and the second busiest airport in all of Europe, for many travellers Frankfurt is just a stopover on their way to somewhere else.

But even though it is sometimes neglected as a final destination, Frankfurt has much to offer to those who choose to explore it.

Whether you take a few hours during an airport layover or spend a day or two, you may be surprised by what you

can find beyond the confines of the international airport.

Modern Frankfurt is a marvelously walkable city and public transportation and foot power are the two best ways to get to know it.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about Frankfurt is the fact that it is such a city of contrasts. Frankfurt is famous for its futuristic modern skyline and its financial district, but it is only a short walk from the modern skyscrapers to the old heart of the city with its cobblestone streets, historic half-timbered buildings and traditional wine bars.

Here are a few of the highlights you can expect to find on a self-guided walking tour of Frankfurt.

Financial District For centuries, Frankfurt has been Germany’s main financial centre and today its financial district is one of the most important financial centres in the world.

Frankfurt is the home of the European Central Bank and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as well as the offices of more than 60 national banks and over 150 international banks.

Frankfurt is so famous for its skyscrapers and skyline that some Germans refer to Frankfurt am Main as “Mainhattan.”

Altstadt (Old Town) If you only have a few hours to spend in Frankfurt, the Old Town area is the place to go.

Bombardments during the Second World War destroyed the original historic district, but most of the buildings were reconstructed following historical photos and models soon after the war.

The reconstruction efforts

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were so well done that you get the feeling the buildings have stood on the spot for centuries.

Römerberg is the central square in the Altstadt and it is a pleasure to sit at one of the outdoor cafes, wander around the cobblestone square or relax on the steps of the fairytale-like half-timbered buildings and people watch.

During the spring and summer months, street performers often fill the square and it can be very entertaining to watch their performances.

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Balloon crash deepens tourism worries in Luxor The hot air balloon was carrying 20 tourists from Hong Kong, Japan, Britain, Belgium and France on a sunrise flight over Luxor’s dramatic pharaonic sites and desert landscape.

The disaster occurred when it was trying to land, just after 7 a.m. Tuesday.

Initial investigations suggested that the fire broke out when a landing cable tore one of the balloon’s fuel tubes, used to fire the burner that heats the air in the balloon. Investigators said it appeared the pilot jumped out of the balloon’s gondola when the fire first broke out, still relatively close to the ground. The investigators spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe was not complete.

The balloon then rose back up, to some 300 metres (1,000 feet), the fire spread to the balloon itself, which burst. Amateur video taken from another balloon flying nearby shows it crashing it back to the earth like a fireball.

The only other survivor was a tourist from Britain, who may have gotten out at the same time as the pilot. He and the pilot were being treated in military hospitals in Cairo, as families of some of the victims arrived in the country to identify their loved ones.

For residents of Luxor, the main city in a province of around 1 million people, the tragedy only further added to their worries over the tourism trade on which they rely. Tourism is the main employer in the area — and practically the only industry besides farming and a sole sugar factory processing the region’s sugar cane crops.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LUXOR, Egypt — The fiery crash of a sightseeing balloon that killed 19 tourists has cast a further pall over this city of ancient temples and tombs, already perhaps the hardest hit by Egypt’s two-year drop in tourism, which has left hotels here empty and residents desperate for income.

Some connected to the tourist trade in Luxor, a city utterly dependent on foreign visitors to survive, were seething with anger Wednesday at the country’s Islamist president for his silence over the crash.

Mohammed Morsi has yet to publicly speak about the tragedy — and some here took that not just as insensitivity to the victims’ families but as indifference to the vital tourism trade.

“Morsi should have taken a plane and come here,” Salah Zaky, one of the owners of the five-star Steigenberger Hotel in Luxor , 510 kilometres (320 miles) south of Cairo . “The whole world is watching and he is asleep. It’s as if there is no government.”

Morsi spoke by telephone to Luxor’s governor to discuss the balloon disaster, according to state media. Hours after the crash, he spoke live on TV at a meeting with political leaders — but only about upcoming parliamentary elections, without mentioning the crash.

“They don’t care if this hotel closes.

They only care about the ballot box,” Zaky said, referring to the Muslim Brotherhood, the fundamentalist group

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Foreign tourists visit the Hatshepsut Temple, in Luxor, Egypt, Wednesday.

Nineteen people were killed Tuesday in what appeared to be the deadliest hot air ballooning accident on record. The tragedy raised worries of another blow to the nation’s vital tourism industry, decimated by two years of unrest since the 2011 revolution that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. The southern city of Luxor has been hit hard, with vacant hotel rooms and empty cruise ships. from which Morsi hails and which has dominated all elections held since Mubarak’s ouster.

Nine of those who died in Tuesday’s crash were in a tour group from Hong Kong that was staying at the Steigenberger. The husband of one of the victims had chosen not to go on the balloon ride and watched from the ground as it burst into flame and plummeted to the earth, with his wife, daughter, sister and brother-in-law on board, ho-

tel staffers said. The man flew out of the country Tuesday evening.

Investigators were still gathering evidence about the cause of the crash, the head of the probe Walid el-Moqadem told The Associated Press, refusing to give details. He said investigators had not yet questioned the balloon’s pilot, who survived the crash with severe burns.

“He could barely open his eyes,” elMoqadem said.

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FRANKFURT: Easy to explore during a layover The Main River Frankfurt is defined by the Main River and the riverfront area is one of the best places to go for a walk in the city. Both banks of the river have wonderful walking and cycling trails and you can get excellent views of Frankfurt’s famous skyline from the two pedestrian bridges. As you cross the pedestrian bridges you will likely notice many “love padlocks” attached to the bridges. Some couples like to attach a padlock bearing each of their names to a bridge or other public fixture as a symbol of their everlasting love. The tradition began in Italy in early 2000 and is said to have originated from an Italian book and film. Festivals and celebrations are also common along the riverfront and if you happen to visit during a special event the area is extra fun to explore.

Museums and Historical Sites Frankfurt’s Museum Riverbank is an area along the Main River where many of Germany’s best museums are located including the Städel Museum of Art, the German Architecture Museum, the German Film Museum, and the Jewish Museum. If you are interested in visiting several museums, a Frankfurt Card will save you 50 percent off entrance fees. The Museum Riverbank Festival, which is held in August, is a great time to visit Frankfurt if you are a museum lover.

Frankfurt also has some excellent historical sites that can easily be seen on a self-guided walking tour. The Archaeological Garden is located in the middle of the city and shows Roman ruins that date to the 1st century AD. Frankfurt’s oldest building, St. Justin’s Church, dates to about 850 AD and is one of Germany’s few completely preserved churches from the Early Middle Ages. There are also many other

Dreikonigskirche sits along the river and is one of the largest evangelical churches in Frankfurt. historical buildings that can be seen around the Old Town area and near the Main River.

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Weiner schnitzel is another good choice if you’re looking for a classic German dish. Germans are also famous for their cakes, so you might consider a stop at a bakery to try a slice. Many regions have their own special cakes. The Frankfurter Kranz, or Frankfurt Crown Cake is believed to have originated in Frankfurt am Main, but Black Forest cake and many other kinds are also sold in local bake shops. ● For more information on visiting Germany, check out the official tourism website of the German National Tourism Board at: www.cometogermany. com. The official tourism site for Frankfurt am Main can be found at www.frankfurt.de.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and congressional leaders unveiled a full-length statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in the Capitol Wednesday, paying tribute to a figure whose name became synonymous with courage in the face of injustice.

Parks becomes the first black woman to be honoured with a full-length statue in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

A bust of another black woman, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, sits in the Capitol Visitors Center.

Obama said that with the installation of the statue, Parks, who died in 2005, has taken her rightful place among those who have shaped the course of U.S. history. He said her presence in Capitol would serve to “remind us no matter how humble or lofty our positions, just what it is that leadership requires.”

Obama and House Speaker John Boehner jointly led the unveiling, standing with the statue between them as they grasped and pulled in opposite directions on the braided cord that held the covering. Congressional leaders in the House and Senate joined Parks’ niece in tugging on the cord.

“We do well by placing a statue of her here,” Obama said, “but we can do no greater honour to her memory than to carry forward the power of her principle and a courage born of conviction.”

The statue portrays Parks seated, wearing a hat and clutching her trademark purse — “a permanent reminder of the cause she embodied,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The several hundred lawmakers, family and congressional staff who gathered for the ceremony in the vaulted hall rose to their feet and whooped as Boehner opened the ceremony.

“Here in the hall, she casts an unlikely silhouette — unassuming in a lineup of proud stares, challenging all of us once more to look up and to draw strength from stillness,” said Boehner, R-Ohio.

Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there’s plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family.

While Parks and her husband, Raymond, were childless, her brother, the late Sylvester McCauley, had 13 children. They decided Parks’ nieces and nephews didn’t need to know the horrible details surrounding her civil rights activism, said Rhea McCauley, Parks’ niece.

“They didn’t talk about the lynchings and the Jim Crow laws,” said McCauley, 61, of Orlando, Fla. “They

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President Barack Obama speaks at the unveiling of a statue of Rosa Parks, left, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. didn’t talk about that stuff to us kids.

Everyone wanted to forget about it and sweep it under the rug.”

He said more than 50 of Parks’ relatives travelled to Washington for the ceremony.

In a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in segregated Montgomery, Ala. She was arrested, touching off a bus boycott that stretched over a year.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Parks had “moved the world when she refused to move her seat.”

Jeanne Theoharis, author of the new biography “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” said Parks was very much a full-fledged civil rights activist, yet her contributions have not been treated like those of other movement leaders, such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “Rosa Parks is typically honoured as a woman of courage, but that honour focuses on the one act she made on the bus on Dec. 5, 1955,” said Theoharis, a political science professor at Brooklyn College-City University of New York.

“That courage, that night was the product of decades of political work before that and continued ... decades after” in Detroit, she said.

Parks died Oct. 24, 2005, at age 92.

The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in her honour on Feb. 4, which would have been her 100th birthday.

Parks was raised by her mother and grandparents who taught her that part of being respected was to demand respect, said Theoharis, who spent six years researching and writing the Parks biography.

She was an educated woman who recalled seeing her grandfather sitting on the porch steps with a gun during the height of white violence against blacks in post-World War I Alabama.

After she married Raymond Parks, she joined him in his work in trying to help nine young black men, ages 12 to 19, who were accused of raping two white women in 1931. The nine were later convicted by an all-white jury in Scottsboro, Ala., part of a long legal odyssey for the so-called Scottsboro Boys.

In the 1940s, Parks joined the NAACP and was elected secretary of its Montgomery, Ala., branch, working with civil rights activist Edgar Nixon to fight barriers to voting for blacks and investigate sexual violence against women, Theoharis said.

Just five months before refusing to give up her seat, Parks attended Highlander Folk School, which trained community organizers on issues of poverty but had begun turning its attention to civil rights.

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s tourism industry is off to a stronger start in 2013 thanks to more visits by people from Japan and the western U.S. The Hawaii Tourism Authority said Thursday that total visitors in January were up nearly 6 per cent compared with the same month last year. The islands welcomed nearly 682,000 visitors in January.

Total spending for the month was $1.43 billion, up 5.7 per cent compared with January 2012.

Chief executive Mike McCartney of the Hawaii Tourism Authority said the gains are the result of significant increases in the number of seats available on flights to Hawaii. The state is on pace to have more spots on flights available this year than ever before, he said.

“We recognize that we cannot take this growth for granted,” McCartney said. “It has taken three years to rebuild our airlift after having lost 1.5 million air seats between 2007 and 2009.

“It is important that we continue to focus our efforts on highlighting our unique people, place and culture in order to drive demand, offer opportunities for travel during slower fall and spring shoulder seasons and increase visitor distribution throughout the Hawaiian islands,” he said.

The biggest increases in the market came from air travellers from western states. Just over 243,000 visitors came from the region in January, up 9 per cent compared with January last year.

Spending from the western U.S. jumped 14.5 per cent to $419.6 million.

Visits from Japan increased nearly 8 per cent to nearly 118,000, though spending from Japanese visitors increased at a slower pace of 3.8 per cent, to nearly $228 million. Average daily spending from Japanese visitors was down 1.7 per cent to $334 per day.

Japanese tourists still spend more per day than tourists from the United States and other countries, though their visits are shorter. Americans and Canadians tend to stay 10 to 14 days, while Japanese stay on average fewer than six days.

Boeing making progress in resolving 787 battery problems lution “that addresses all probable causes of the incidents in the aircraft.”

“It is not an interim solution. This is a permanent solution,” Conner said.

“We are very hopeful that we will get the aircraft back in the air very soon.”

Dreamliners were grounded after an overheated battery aboard an ANA 787 domestic flight forced an emergency landing in Japan on Jan. 16. Investigators are still probing the cause of that event, and of a Jan. 7 fire that erupted in an auxiliary power unit battery of a JAL 787 about a half-hour after the plane landed at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

Boeing’s plan, presented to U.S. regulators last week, calls for revamp-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ing the batteries to prevent potential short-circuiting from spreading from any one battery cell to others.

Officials in the U.S. said Boeing would fix the problem with the batteries overheating by having more robust ceramic insulation around each of the battery’s eight cells so as to prevent any thermal runaway, a chemical reaction that leads to progressively hotter temperatures that was found in damaged batteries in JAL and ANA incidents.

“This solution takes into account any possible event that might occur,” Conner said.

“We see nothing in the technology that would tell us it’s not the appropri-

ate thing to do,” he said.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is considering the plan.

There are a total of 50 of the planes in service worldwide, and Boeing had orders for 800 of the airliners at the time they were grounded.

ANA has extended the cancellations of its 787 flights to May 31, with the total number of flights affected at nearly 3,600, involving some 167,820 passengers. JAL has cancelled its 787 flights through Mar. 30.

TOKYO — The president of All Nippon Airways, Boeing’s biggest single customer for its troubled 787 Dreamliner, said Friday that he believes the U.S. manufacturer has made progress in resolving problems with the aircraft’s lithium-ion batteries.

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MACDONALD RETIRES Red Deer mixed martial artist Jason MacDonald is no longer a competitive fighter. The 14-year veteran announced his retirement this week, citing family and business commitments.

“I’ve had a great MMA career,” MacDonald told MMAFighting.com. “I have traveled, met great people and have done things I would have never dreamed of through MMA. It’s been an honor to be with the UFC over the years, but it’s now time to move on. I’m getting older, my four kids are growing up fast.

I’m going to focus on my family and my CrossFit gym.” MacDonald lost his last UFC fight by knockout to Tom Lalor last May. He retires with an MMA record of 2516 and a UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) slate of 6-8. The 37-yearold’s last win inside the Octagon came against Ryan Jensen at the record-breaking UFC 129 event in April of 2011.

TODAY

● Curling: Provincial juvenile championship at Sylvan Lake.

High school basketball: Central Alberta JV tournament finals, start 8:30 a.m., at Notre Dame and Hunting Hills.

Major midget female hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-five AMMFHL South semifinal, if necessary, 4:30 p.m., Kin City B. ● College women’s hockey: NAIT at RDC Queens, second game of best-of-five ACAC final, 5:15 p.m., Arena.

Bantam AA hockey: Innisfail at Sylvan Lake, first game of best-ofthree South Central League Northern Conference semifinal, 5:30 p.m. ● Senior AAA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Bentley, fifth game of bestof-seven provincial semifinal, if necessary, 7 p.m. ● WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, fifth game of best-of-seven North Division semifinal, 8 p.m., Arena; Blackfalds at Mountainview, fourth game of best-of-seven North Division semifinal, 8 p.m., Didsbury.

SUNDAY ● Curling: Provincial juvenile championship at Sylvan Lake. ● Bantam AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Innisfail, second game of bestof-three South Central League Northern Conference semifinal, 2:10 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: UFA at Red Deer, third game of best-of-five AMHL South Division semifinal, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Blackfalds, fifth game of best-of-seven North Division semifinal, if necessary, 3:30 p.m.

Rebels 4 Ice 1 CRANBROOK — The Red Deer Rebels turned in that all-important complete game performance Friday.

“The guys played well from start to finish. To a man they played so much better than our last two games,” said Rebels GM/ head coach Brent Sutter, following the Rebels 4-1 WHL win over the Kootenay Ice before 2,410 fans

at Western Financial Place “It was important for us to get back on track,” continued Sutter, referring to the club’s ability to snap a two-game losing streak, “We paid attenttion to details which is vital at this time of the season with not a lot of games left.”

Cory Millette opened the scoring with his ninth goal of the season 1:43 into the conest, and after Jayden Descheneau pulled the Ice even

at 12:35 of the second period, Millette potted the eventual winner two minutes later.

“It was important for us to regain the lead and give us some momentum and confidence,” said Sutter. “We got back to focusing on how we have to play and how we have to maintain our compete level.”

Sure enough, the Rebels put the game away with a pair of late third-period goals, with Brooks Maxwell potting

his ninth of the season at 17:39 and Rhyse Dieno sniping his 26th just over a minute later.

“Cory was very good for us tonight, but to a man the entire team was much better tonght,” said Sutter. “I know I wasn’t happy with our schedule last week when we had to play four (games) in five (nights), but it was important to get any points we could and it’s the same now.”

The Rebels’ 4-0 loss to the visiting Saska-

toon Blades last Tuesday snapped a five-game home-ice winning streak.

The Rebels can start another Centrium streak when they host the Swift Current Broncos tonight.

“It was importnant to get the win tonight, now we have to prove ourselves again on home ice,” said Sutter.

Rebels netminder Patrik Bartosak ade 21 saves, while Mackenzie Skapski made 22 saves for the Ice.

Blues rally from two goals down THE ASSOCIATED PRESS St. Louis 4 Edmonton 2 ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues reclaimed the home-ice advantage that has been missing for most of the season.

And they did it the hard way.

Vladmir Sobotka put St. Louis ahead early in the third period and added an assist for the Blues, who rallied from two goals down to beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 on Friday night.

David Backes added an insurance tally with 5:20 to go, and Jaroslav Halak was strong throughout in net for the Blues, who trailed 2-0 after the first period.

“We’re not a pretty team to tic-tac-toe up the ice, 3-on-2, saucer pass across the ice for something cute,” said Backes, the team captain.

“That’s just not us. We’re hard-nosed, blue-collar, in-your-face. We saw glimpses of that tonight that we haven’t seen in a long time.”

They had been 1-5-1 in

their previous seven at home while getting outscored 26-11. The Blues totalled just three goals the previous four games overall, all but one of them at home, and were shut out twice.

Kevin Shattenkirk scored the tying goal late in the second to snap St. Louis’ 0-for-14, power-play drought. Jaden Schwartz also scored for the Blues, who lost six home games in regulation last season but are 5-5-1 there this year.

Schwartz played on the first line with Backes and David Perron in place of injured Andy McDonald.

“I thought our second period was excellent,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. “We really started to take the game over.”

Taylor Hall and Ryan Whitney scored in a span of 23 seconds late in the first period for Edmonton, which played the third game of a ninegame trip. The Oilers, who ended a six-game losing streak against the Dallas Stars with a

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St. Blues center Patrik Berglund tries to leap clear of a shot as he screens Edmonton Oilers goaltender Devan Dubnyk during the first period of an NHL hockey game Friday in St. Louis. The Blues won 4-2.

5-1 victory on Thursday, have lost six in a row in St. Louis.

“I think we get comfortable,” Whitney said.

“I don’t know really what it is. They’re a big, heavy team, and we could do the same thing, but it seems like we don’t want it sometimes.”

Halak made his fourth

straight start with slumping Brian Elliott on the bench for the eighth straight game. Halak made just 15 saves in the win after losing to Chicago on Thursday.

Elliott, who led the NHL with a 1.56 goalsagainst average and nine shutouts last season, is just 3-5-1 with a 3.57

goals-against average.

Hitchcock plans to play him on Sunday at Dallas.

“In fairness to Brian, I think we’d like to start him on the road and see how he goes,” Hitchcock said. “This was important. We needed to get this game. We couldn’t afford to lose this game.”

Kings advance to hoop semis

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 80 Ooks 67 FORT McMURRAY — The RDC Kings have one of the better offences in the Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League, but it’s defence they take pride in.

That showed during the opening day of the ACAC championships as the Kings advanced into the semifinals with an 80-67 victory over the NAIT Ooks Friday.

“We definitely want to establish our defence and we’ll need that to advance through the play-

ACAC CHAMPIONSHIPS offs,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger.

“We did a good job in three of the four quarters today. The fourth quarter we let up a bit and let them get away for 24 points. Other than that we played well.”

The Kings led 64-43 heading into the final 10 minutes. Pottinger had both Rob Pierce and Lloyd Strickland on the bench for most of that final quarter before putting them back in near the end to make sure they secured the victory.

The Kings, led by Strickland and Pierce, got off to a solid start, jumping into a 16-11 lead and extended that to 2115 after the first quarter. They led 43-28 at the half.

“Our start was good and we played with a high pace, which we felt we could maintain,” said Pottinger. “We felt we were in slightly better shape.”

The fact the Kings are returning four players off last year’s ACAC silver medal winning team,

which finished fourth at the nationals, was an advantage.

“I thought some of the other guys showed some nerves today, but the veterans were clam and that helped a lot,” added Pottinger, who liked the fact it was a team effort.

“I was impressed with the whole team,” he said.

“The scoring was spread out and everyone was consistent.”

Plus the Kings didn’t show the Lethbridge Kodiaks, who they face today, any secrets.

“We do have a few more tricks we didn’t show, which was good,” said Pottinger, who knows the Kodiaks won’t be a pushover.

“We split with them this season and they added a player since we saw them, which makes them a different team. I thought they looked a bit nervous today, but will be better when we see them.”

The Kodiaks came from behind to beat the Grant MacEwan Griffins 87-82.

See COLLEGE on Page B5

Flames claim they did their homework on offer sheet THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Calgary Flames general manager Jay Feaster says the team performed due diligence before signing Colorado forward Ryan O’Reilly to an offer sheet.

The Flames released a statement Friday afternoon after Rogers Sportsnet reported that O’Reilly would have been placed on waivers if the Avalanche hadn’t matched Calgary’s offer sheet.

Had the deal played out that way, the Flames would have lost a firstand third-round draft pick and O’Reilly, who would have likely been

Ryan O’Reilly snapped up by another team.

That would have been an unacceptable result for any team, but particularly devastating to an aging Flames squad struggling to get into the Western Conference playoff picture.

According to the

NHL’s collective agreement, O’Reilly would have had to clear waivers because he played two games in Russia’s KHL after the start of the NHL season.

But Feaster said in a statement that the team did its research before drafting the offer sheet for O’Reilly, who led Colorado in scoring with 55 points last season.

“Prior to tendering the offer sheet for Ryan O’Reilly we, as a hockey operations department, examined whether there were any impediments to our successfully securing the services of the player including, but not limited to, his having played in the KHL after

the start of the current NHL season,” Feaster said.

At issue is Article 13.23 of the collective bargaining agreement, which states that a professional or former professional player that played in a league outside North America after the start of the NHL regular season must clear waivers before playing in the NHL that same season.

An amendment to that article was made in the latest agreement, allowing teams re-signing their own restricted free agents to avoid the waiver process, which means Colorado won’t risk losing O’Reilly by matching

the offer sheet.

There doesn’t appear to be any protection for a team signing a free agent from another club, but Feaster said in the statement that the Flames’ interpretation of Article 13.23 “was, and continues to be, different than the NHL’s current interpretation.”

He also said that the prospect of losing two high draft picks as well as O’Reilly himself is now a moot point since Colorado matched the offer sheet.

The NHL declined to clarify whether O’Reilly would have had to clear waivers if the Avalanche refused to match Calgary’s offer sheet.

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Howard shows no sign of stopping at his 15th Brier ONTARIO SKIP PLAYING IN RECORD NUMBER OF BRIER BONSPIELS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Team Ontario skip Glenn Howard throws a rock during the practice session at the Tim Hortons Brier in Edmonton, Alta., on Friday. the world championship.

“My first Brier win was ’87 and my last was last year, 25 years difference,” Howard acknowledged. “I’m proud of the fact I’ve personally stayed competitive.

“The last seven or eight years has probably been some of the best curling I’ve done on a personal basis, but you’re only as good as your team. You can play great, but if you don’t have great guys behind you, it’s not going to happen.”

Chiefs season ends after being swept from division semifinal Tigers 2 Chiefs 1 When the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs skated off the ice for the last time this season at Kin City Friday they had every right to feel good about themselves.

Despite a 2-1 loss to the Southeast Tigers, which eliminated the Chiefs from the best-of-five Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League South Division semifinal 3-0, the Chiefs looked anything like the team that took to the ice at the beginning of the season.

A team that didn’t have any experience on defence or in goal, challenged the top-ranked Tigers every step of the way.

“This is tough to take because of the way we saw the girls at the beginning of the season to now,” said Chiefs head coach Curtis Scutchings.

“It’s tougher to see them done because of how much they improved.

They put their hearts into it, battled right to the end against a great team.”

In the end it was a fortunate power play goal by the Tigers Rachel Pritz at 10:59 of the third period that spelled the difference in the game.

The puck was bouncing all around the Red Deer net before Pritz managed to get a piece of it and had it

bounce in off goaltender Nisa Bartlett, who was outstanding, finishing with 35 saves.

“They’re a very good all-around team with several girls off Team Alberta and even Team Canada,” said Scutchings. “They can all skate and handle the puck. I was proud of the way this team played and didn’t quit until the end.”

While Red Deer had to kill off three penalties in the final period, they had two power play chances of their own, but couldn’t generate any second shots against a stout Tiger defence.

“I thought that was a really well refereed game for a playoff game,” said Scutchings, who doesn’t know for sure if he’ll be back with the Chiefs next season, but would like to “I learned a lot this season from my assistant coaches and goalie coach, which hopefully makes me a better coach,” he said. “As for being back that’s up to Red Deer minor hockey. But I love coaching and if they need me I’d love to do it, unless they find someone better. Whatever is best for the team.”

Taylor Hall opened the scoring for the Chiefs on the power play at 4:24 of the second period while Tricia Van Vaerenbergh tied it at 17:56.

The Chiefs finished with 23 shots on the Tigers Jessica Lohues. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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High school basketball zone playoffs The best-of-three zone 4A high school basketball playoff dates have been set.

Both the Lindsay Thurber and Hunting Hills boys and girls open Tuesday at LTCHS, with the girls at 6 p.m. and the boys to follow.

The teams return to Hunting Hills Thursday, once again with the girls at 6 p.m. and the boys to follow.

If third games are necessary the games go Friday with the girls at 6 p.m. at LTCHS and the boys at Hunting Hills. The time for the boys’ game has yet to be announced.

Red Deer junior varsity basketball teams still in the hunt Five of the six Red Deer teams are alive on the A side following the opening day of the zone high school junior varsity basketball tournament at Hunting Hills and Notre Dame Friday.

All three boys’ teams advanced as Notre Dame won by default over Ponoka, Lindsay Thurber beat Lacombe 89-51 and Hunting Hills stropped West Central of Rocky Mountain House 76-51.

Kolbi Street had 15 points and Cam Black 14 for LTCHS while Jordan Snopek hit 17 for Lacombe.

Chris Petersen had 27 points and Matt Mackie 10 for Hunting Hills with Jesse Holbein contributing 15 for West Central.

In the other boys’ game, Wetaskiwin got 21 points form Elias Buwaldo in downing Camrose 65-56. Tim Carberry had 18 for Camrose.

Notre Dame plays Wetaskiwin and LTCHS takes on Hunting Hills at 10:15 a.m. The final is at 5:15 p.m. at Hunting Hills.

On the girls’ side, LTCHS stopped Ponoka 86-39, Hunting Hills beat Lacombe 71-17, West Central defeated Notre Dame 57-31 and Camrose got past Wetaskiwin 45-36.

Bretton Bowd had 15 points and Kinedy Graham 14 for LTCHS with Brittany Ness dropping in 14 for Ponoka.

Nicole Fischer had 22 points and Zaza Lockhart 13 for Hunting Hills while Courtney Petrie had 13 for

COLLEGE: Pierce scores 24 in win On the other side top-seeded Briercrest Bible College downed the University of Alberta, Augustana 100-84 and Keyano defeated Concordia 86-71.

Pierce led the Kings with 24 points and 11 rebounds while Mari PeoplesWong added 11 points, Demaine Nelson and Strickland had 10 each and Ashaunti Hogan and Brian Prenosolo eight apiece.

The Brier’s first draw is Saturday afternoon, but the three headliners play their first games in the evening. Martin and Stoughton open the round-robin against each other, while Ontario faces B.C.’s Andrew Bilesky.

The top four teams at the conclusion of the preliminary round Friday advance to the Page playoff.

The winner of the March 10 final represents Canada at the world championship March 20 to April 7 in Victoria.

Gumancho Ibrahim had 18, Mattieu Johnson 16 and David Kohler 14 for NAIT. In women’s play in Camrose, the Olds Broncos upset the NAIT Ooks 84-55 and advanced into the final against Camrose, who beat Grant MacEwan 72-59. ● Two members of the Kings were named the ACAC All-Conference teams Thursday. Pierce was selected to the first team in the south with Strickland on the second team. ● On the women’s’ side, Olds placed Jylsia Williams on the first team and Te’Anna Edman-Rowe on the second team.

Bisons even series with double overtime win over Chiefs Bisons 2 Rebels 1 (2OT) STRATHMORE — Things have been going so well for the Red Deer Optimist Rebels Chiefs of late they may have taken the UFA Bisons a bit lightly.

Whatever the reason the Rebels weren’t at the top of their game as they dropped a 2-1 double overtime decision to the Bisons to even their best-of-five Alberta Midget Hockey League South Division semifinal at 1-1 Friday.

“I didn’t feel we were mentally sharp,” said Rebels head coach Doug Quinn. “We looked tired and weren’t moving or reacting as quickly as we normally do.”

The Chiefs got behind quickly on a goal that netminder Jayden Sittler would have liked back, but a goal by Jacob Schofield evened the count until the second overtime.

Lacombe.

Kate Bertagnolli led Rocky with 16 points with Andrea Gabriel hitting 11 for Notre Dame.

LTCHS clashes with Camrose and West Central meets Hunting Hills at noon with the final at 5:15 p.m. at Notre Dame.

Vipers and Airdrie tied with two games a piece in division semifinal The Red Deer Vipers return home tonight all tied up with Airdrie in their best-of-seven Heritage Junior B Hockey League North Division semifinal series.

The Vipers dropped a 3-1 decision in Airdrie Friday to see the series tied at 2-2. Game 5 is tonight at 8 p.m. at the Arena.

Fatboys annihilate Monstar Murray Cunningham poured in 27 points to lead the Tiffany’s Fatboys to a 73-64 win over Monstar in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play.

“We did have multiple scoring chances, but we weren’t sharp around the net and didn’t capitalize,” added Quinn.

“Plus they battled hard and kept competing and eventually got a chance to put it away.”

Quinn hopes it’s a wake up call for his troops, who have been rolling over everyone of late.

“You don’t like losing at this time of the year, but it’s a reminder how hard it is to win in the playoffs. You have to play with some desperation. On the other hand we can’t over react as we still have home ice advantage.”

The third game of the series goes Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Arena with the fourth game, March 6 at Strathmore. If a fifth game is necessary it’s March 8 at 8 p.m. at the Arena.

Rob Blais added 12 points for the winners while Adam Glover had 19 points and Anthony Davidson 14 for Monstar.

Grizzlys drop close game to Calgary Mustangs OLDS - Blair Wentworth’s goal at 3:56 of the third period was the winner as the Calgary Mustangs edged the Olds Grizzlys 4-3 in AJHL action Friday.

Also scoring for the visitors before 558 fans at the Sportsplex were Joe Colborne, David Norris and Matthew Alfaro. Spencer Dorowicz, Matthew Marcinew and Dylan Hubbs replied for the Grizzlys, who got a 28-save effort from Ethan Jemieff.

Ravi Dattani made 32 saves for the Mustangs.

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The Ontario foursome, Alberta’s Kevin Martin and Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton are co-favourites heading into 84th Canadian men’s curling championship. The host team of Martin, John Morris and front end Marc Kennedy and Ben Hebert are the reigning Olympic champions. Stoughton is a three-time Brier winner.

Howard, Martin and Stoughton were also the first three teams to secure berths in December’s Olympic trials in Winnipeg.

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EDMONTON — Glenn Howard has hit the sweet spot in his curling career.

The oldest player in the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier at 50 combines experience few possess with the skill his brother Russ says he’s always had, plus some of the best position players in the game as teammates.

Howard, third Wayne Middaugh, second Brent Laing and lead Craig Savill open the Canadian men’s curling championship Saturday at Rexall Place as defending champions and Ontario’s representative.

Howard will play in his 15th Brier this year, which is more than any curler in tournament history. He’ll pass the previous record of 14 held by Russ, who was Glenn’s skip for their first seven Canadian championships.

Glenn played in his first Brier in 1986 and won his first title playing third for Russ the following year when it coincidentally was held in Edmonton.

“I’m still flabbergasted, on a personal note, that I’ve gone that many times,” Howard says. “I surrounded myself with great curlers. It’s not just me. It’s because the other three players I’ve played with over the 30-some years I’ve been competing.

“I went to seven with my brother and then I had about a 12-year hiatus from getting back to the Brier and didn’t think it was ever going to happen again.”

But Howard, Laing and Savill are extending their run of representing Ontario at the Brier to eight straight years. They’ve won the Canadian title twice and also lost in the Brier final four times during that span.

Middaugh joined the team prior to last season when they won in Saskatoon and then went on to to capture

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WHL All Times Local EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt dx-Edmonton 65 45 15 2 3 248 143 95 d-Saskatoon 65 41 21 0 3 246 185 85 x-Calgary 64 40 19 1 4 223 177 85 Prince Albert 65 36 23 2 4 219 199 78 Red Deer 65 35 24 4 2 186 186 76 Medicine Hat 65 33 29 2 1 217 215 69 Swift Current 65 31 27 3 4 185 178 69 Kootenay 64 32 30 2 0 175 187 66 Lethbridge 63 26 28 2 7 190 208 61 Moose Jaw 64 21 33 4 6 160 227 52 Regina 64 22 35 3 4 162 234 51 Brandon 65 21 38 4 2 170 265 48 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt dx-Portland 65 51 11 1 2 297 149 105 dx-Kelowna 64 45 15 3 1 277 162 94 x-Kamloops 64 41 18 2 3 229 170 87 x-Tri-City 62 37 22 1 2 216 184 77 x-Spokane 63 37 24 2 0 232 203 76 x-Victoria 62 32 25 1 4 198 216 69 Seattle 64 21 35 7 1 179 255 50 Everett 63 22 36 1 4 146 230 49 Prince George 62 18 36 2 6 154 232 44 Vancouver 64 17 45 2 0 174 271 36 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.

Friday’s results Red Deer 4 Kootenay 1 Regina 3 Moose Jaw 2 (OT) Saskatoon 4 Brandon 1 Swift Current 3 Calgary 1 Kamloops at Prince George Seattle at Tri-City Spokane at Victoria Edmonton at Everett Lethbridge at Vancouver Today’s games Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Spokane at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Everett at Vancouver, 4 p.m.

Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Kelowna at Kamloops, 6 p.m.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OL GF GA d-Montreal 20 13 4 3 58 43 d-Pittsburgh 21 13 8 0 70 58 d-Carolina 19 10 8 1 54 55 Boston 17 13 2 2 51 36 Ottawa 21 12 6 3 49 39 Toronto 22 13 9 0 64 55 New Jersey 20 10 6 4 49 52 Winnipeg 20 10 9 1 55 61 Philadelphia 22 10 11 1 64 67 N.Y. Rangers19 9 8 2 48 49 Tampa Bay 20 9 10 1 71 64 N.Y. Islanders21 8 11 2 61 73 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OL GF GA d-Chicago 21 18 0 3 68 40 d-Anaheim 19 15 3 1 67 50 d-Vancouver 19 10 5 4 54 52 St. Louis 20 11 7 2 59 57 Detroit 21 10 8 3 60 57 Nashville 21 9 7 5 45 52 Los Angeles 18 10 6 2 47 42 San Jose 19 9 6 4 45 43 Minnesota 20 10 8 2 45 49

Dallas Phoenix Edmonton Colorado Calgary Columbus

21 20 20 19 19 21

10 9 8 8 7 5

9 8 8 8 8 12

2 3 4 3 4 4

57 57 49 49 53 47

62 55 54 58 66 65

22 21 20 19 18 14

d — division leader.

Note: division leaders are ranked in the top three positions regardless of point total; 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 OL (other loss) column.

Friday’s results St. Louis 4 Edmonton 2 Anaheim 3 Minnesota 2 Chicago 4 Columbus 3 (OT) Today’s games Ottawa at Philadelphia, 10 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Boston, 11 a.m.

New Jersey at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Washington at Winnipeg, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Florida at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Anaheim at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Nashville at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Chicago at Detroit, 10:30 p.m.

Ottawa at N.Y. Islanders, 1 p.m.

Colorado at Columbus, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Florida, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at N.Y. Rangers, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Blues 4, Oilers 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Hall 4 (Eberle, J.Schultz) 17:30 2. Edmonton, Whitney 1 (Smyth, Yakupov) 17:53 Penalties — Reaves StL (interference) 8:01, Gagner Edm (cross-checking) 11:58, StL bench (too many men, served by D’Agostini) 13:20.

Second Period 3. St. Louis, Schwartz 2 (Oshie, Backes) 3:38 4. St. Louis, Shattenkirk 2 (Sobotka, Stewart) 10:30 (pp) Penalty — StL bench (too many men, served by Stewart) 6:41, Smid Edm (boarding) 9:56.

Third Period 5. St. Louis, Sobotka 2 (Cracknell, Porter) 4:28 6. St. Louis, Backes 3 (Oshie, Schwartz) 14:37 Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Edmonton 7 4 6 — 17 St. Louis 8 11 11 — 30 Goal — Edmonton: Dubnyk (L,6-6-3); St. Louis: Halak (W,5-1-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 0-3; St. Louis: 1-2.

Referees — Dean Morton, Brad Watson. Linesmen — Brian Mach, Lonnie Cameron.

Pt 29 26 21 28 27 26 24 21 21 20 19 18 Pt 39 31 24 24 23 23 22 22 22

Ducks 3, Ducks 2 First Period 1. Anaheim, Getzlaf 7 (Perry, Palmieri) 4:45 2. Anaheim, Selanne 6 (Sbisa, Ryan) 11:21 Penalties — Ryan Ana (holding) 15:00, Stoner Minn, Beleskey Ana (fighting) 17:28.

Second Period 3. Anaheim, Beleskey 4 (Winnik, Cogliano) 11:26 Penalties — S.Koivu Ana (high-sticking) 4:54, Konopka Minn (roughing, fighting), Maroon Ana (fighting) 8:17.

Third Period 4. Minnesota, Brodziak 2, 0:29 5. Minnesota, Setoguchi 4 (Rupp, Suter) 10:37 Penalty — Beauchemin Ana (tripping) 16:43.

Shots on goal by Minnesota 8 15 10 — 33 Anaheim 12 6 11 — 29

Bryan Pancich, Vaughan Rody.

AHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Providence 54 32 18 0 4 150 141 Portland 53 32 19 1 1 158 153 Worcester 53 25 22 1 5 133 150 Manchester 55 25 24 3 3 159 152 St. John’s 57 23 30 1 3 139 177 Northeast Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Springfield 52 31 14 3 4 167 127 Connecticut 56 26 23 5 2 162 170 Albany 52 23 19 1 9 141 149 Bridgeport 53 22 24 3 4 158 181 Adirondack 52 21 27 2 2 123 149 East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Syracuse 55 34 15 2 4 191 145 Binghamton 54 32 17 1 4 163 138 W-B/Scranton 56 29 24 2 1 130 128 Hershey 55 26 21 3 5 143 136 Norfolk 54 25 25 3 1 130 150 WESTERN CONFERENCE North Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Toronto 52 28 18 2 4 164 140 Abbotsford 57 27 22 3 5 126 132 Lake Erie 56 26 21 2 7 164 167 Rochester 52 27 22 2 1 169 154 Hamilton 54 21 27 1 5 117 165 Midwest Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Grand Rapids 53 31 18 2 2 177 149 Chicago 51 27 17 4 3 140 133 Rockford 55 28 25 1 1 169 163 Milwaukee 54 25 23 3 3 136 158 Peoria 54 23 24 4 3 135 165 South Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Texas 56 33 15 4 4 162 138 Charlotte 55 32 18 2 3 171 141 Houston 56 28 21 4 3 149 148 Okla. City 52 25 20 2 5 162 171 San Antonio 54 24 25 1 4 140 156

Pt 68 66 56 56 50 Pt 69 59 56 51 46 Pt 74 69 61 60 54 Pt 62 62 61 57 48 Pt 66 61 58 56 53 Pt 74 69 63 57 53

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

Friday’s results Abbotsford 4 Houston 2 Manchester 5 St. John’s 4 (SO) Binghamton 3 Hamilton 2 Albany 3 Syracuse 1 Chicago 2 Texas 0 Connecticut 7 Bridgeport 3 Grand Rapids 5 Milwaukee 1 Hershey 3 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 2 Norfolk 6 Charlotte 2 Providence 3 Worcester 1 Rockford 4 Peoria 1 Springfield 3 Adirondack 2 (SO) .

Saturday’s games Binghamton at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Manchester at St. Johns, 4 p.m.

Adirondack at Bridgeport, 5 p.m.

Norfolk at Hershey, 5 p.m.

Worcester at Portland, 5 p.m.

Providence at Springfield, 5 p.m.

Albany at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 5:05 p.m.

Hamilton at Lake Erie, 5:30 p.m.

Rochester at Syracuse, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Texas, 6 p.m.

Grand Rapids at Peoria, 6:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Rockford, 6:05 p.m.

Houston at Abbotsford, 8 p.m.

Goal — Minnesota: Kuemper (L,1-2-0); Anaheim: Hiller (W,6-2-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Minnesota: 0-3; Anaheim: 0-1.

Referees — Dan O’Rourke, Tim Peel. Linesmen —

Sunday’s games Albany at Adirondack, 1 p.m.

Connecticut at Bridgeport, 1 p.m.

Worcester at Springfield, 1 p.m.

Binghamton at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Portland at Providence, 1:05 p.m.

Rochester at Lake Erie, 2 p.m.

Grand Rapids at Milwaukee, 2 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Charlotte, 3 p.m.

Syracuse at Hershey, 3 p.m.

from Minnesota for a 2014 second-round draft pick.

Acquired F Nicole Powell and a 2013 third-round draft pick from New York for the rights to G-F Deanna Nolan and 2013 second- and third-round draft picks.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS—Released LB Stewart Bradley and CB William Gay. ATLANTA FALCONS—Released RB Michael Turner, DE John Abraham and CB Dunta Robinson.

BUFFALO BILLS—Designated FS Jairus Byrd as their franchise player.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Designated DE Michael Johnson as their franchise player.

CAROLINA PANTHERS—Released DT Ron Edwards.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Designated P Pat McAfee as their franchise player.

NEW YORK JETS—Signed DT Junior Aumavae, DB Eric Crocker and WR Thomas Mayo.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS—Released FB Mathieu Bertrand.

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS—Acquired K Brody McKnight and a 2013 sixth-round draft pick from Edmonton for two 2013 fifth-round draft picks.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES—Reassigned F Zac Dalpe to Charlotte (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Recalled D Dalton Prout from Springfield (AHL).

DALLAS STARS—Announced F Tom Wandell cleared waivers and was assigned to Texas (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES—Recalled F Chris Brown and F Rob Klinkhammer from Portland (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Reassigned F Richard Panik to Syracuse (AHL).

VANCOUVER CANUCKS—Claimed LW Tom Sestito off waivers from the Philadelphia. Reassigned F Andrew Ebbett to Chicago (AHL).

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS—Signed D Cody Lampl to a professional tryout.

HAMILTON BULLDOGS—Announced the team signed a three-year extension to its affiliation agreement with Montreal (NHL).

NORFOLK ADMIRALS—Announced D Nick Schaus and D Gabe Guentzel were assigned to Fort Wayne (ECHL).

LACROSSE National Lacrosse League WASHINGTON STEALTH—Signed G Matt Roik to a one-year contract. Released G Nick Patterson.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS—Suspended D.C. United F Dwayne De Rosario for two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for violent conduct that endangered the safety of Philadelphia MF Danny Cruz, during a Feb. 23 preseason game.

FC DALLAS—Placed MF Peter Luccin and D Ugo Ihemelu on injured reserve.

HOUSTON DYNAMO—Signed F Brian Ching to serve as a player and assistant coach.

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION—Signed MF Gabe Latigue.

PHILADELPHIA UNION—Traded F Chandler Hoffman to the LA Galaxy for a conditional 2014 SuperDraft pick. Signed F Don Anding, F Leo Fernandes and G Chris Konopka.

SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC—Traded M/F Cordell Cato to San Jose for a 2014 fourth-round Supplemental Draft pick.

TORONTO FC—Signed F Robert Earnshaw, F Ashton Bennett, F Taylor Morgan and MF Jonathan Osorio.

COLLEGE NCAA—Placed Saint Mary’s (Calif.) on four years of probation for a “failure to monitor its men’s basketball program.” The program will have a reduction in scholarships from 13 to 11 for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. Gaels coach Randy Bennett will be suspended for the first five West Coast Conference games next season.

AUBURN—Dismissed DT Devaunte Sigler for violating undisclosed team rules.

CALIFORNIA—Signed Sonny Dykes football coach to a five-year contract.

OKLAHOMA—Named Jay Boulware tight ends coach.

ST. JOHN’S—Suspended sophomore basketball G D’Angelo Harrison for the rest of the season.

TENNESSEE—Named Robert Gillespie running backs coach.

Arizona Chicago Los Angeles Miami Philadelphia San Francisco San Diego Atlanta New York Pittsburgh Milwaukee Washington Cincinnati

N.Y. Mets 6, Detroit 2 Kansas City 3, Cincinnati 2 San Diego 7, L.A. Dodgers (ss) 5 Arizona 6, Chicago Cubs 2 L.A. Angels 16, L.A. Dodgers (ss) 8 San Francisco 13, Oakland 9 Cleveland 9, Chicago White Sox 7 Seattle 8, Texas 6 Colorado 5, Milwaukee 2 Washington vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 6:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (ss) vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 7:05 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League TEXAS RANGERS—Promoted general manager Jon Daniels to president of baseball operations/ general manager and chief operating officer Rick George to president of business operations.

National League CINCINNATI REDS—Agreed to terms with RHP Mark Prior on a minor league contract.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Agreed to terms with RHP Vic Black, INF Chase d’Arnaud, RHP Jeanmar Gomez, INF Josh Harrison, RHP Jared Hughes, RHP Phil Irwin, RHP Chris Leroux, LHP Jeff Locke, OF Starling Marte, RHP Vin Mazzaro, C Michael McKenry, RHP Kyle McPherson, RHP Mark Melancon, INF Jordy Mercer, RHP Bryan Morris, LHP Andy Oliver, RHP Stolmy Pimentel, OF Alex Presley, INF Clint Robinson, C Tony Sanchez, OF Jerry Sands, OF Travis Snider, RHP Hunter Strickland, LHP Tony Watson, RHP Duke Welker and LHP Justin Wilson to one-year contracts.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS—Signed LHP Joe Harris.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS—Signed RHP Ian Durham, LHP Carlos Rivas, INF Aljay Davis and RHP Matt McSwain.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS—Signed INF Brandon Pinckney.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS—Acquired OF Stephen Douglas from Amarillo for a player to be named and cash.

ST. PAUL SAINTS—Signed RHP Wes Roemer.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES—Signed C Luis Alen.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS—Signed INF Frank Martinez to a contract extension.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS—Signed RHP Jose Trinidad.

ROCKFORD AVIATORS—Signed RHP Jacob Kemmerer, RHP Josh Schneider and RHP Syke Severns.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MIAMI HEAT—Assigned F Jarvis Varnado to Sioux Falls (NBADL).

Women’s National Basketball Association TULSA SHOCK—Acquired G Candice Wiggins

Minnesota

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 35 20 .636 Brooklyn 34 25 .576 Boston 31 27 .534 Philadelphia 22 34 .393 Toronto 23 36 .390

GB — 3 5.5 13.5 14

Southeast Division W L Pct 42 14 .750 33 23 .589 18 39 .316 16 43 .271 13 45 .224

GB — 9 24.5 27.5 30

Central Division W L Pct 37 22 .627 33 25 .569 28 28 .500 23 38 .377 20 39 .339

GB — 3.5 7.5 15 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 46 14 .767 Memphis 38 19 .667 Houston 32 28 .533 Dallas 26 32 .448 New Orleans 21 39 .350

GB — 6.5 14 19 25

Miami Atlanta Washington Orlando Charlotte

Indiana Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

Northwest Division Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

W 42 37 32 26

L 15 22 27 31

Pct .737 .627 .542 .456

GB — 6 11 16

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Pacific Division W L Pct 43 18 .705 33 26 .559 29 30 .492 20 39 .339 20 40 .333

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GB — 9 13 22 22.5

Friday’s Games Indiana 93, Toronto 81 Houston 118, Orlando 110 New York 96, Washington 88 Boston 94, Golden State 86 L.A. Clippers 105, Cleveland 89 New Orleans 100, Detroit 95 Dallas 98, Brooklyn 90 Miami 98, Memphis 91 San Antonio 130, Sacramento 102 Utah 98, Charlotte 68 Atlanta at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Golden State at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Miami at New York, 11 a.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Sacramento, 5 p.m.

Memphis at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Houston, 5 p.m.

Detroit at San Antonio, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Indiana, 6 p.m.

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

Golf HONDA CLASSIC At PGA National (Champion Course) Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Purse: $6 million Yardage: 7,110; Par: 70 Second Round Luke Guthrie 68-63 — Michael Thompson 67-65 — Boo Weekley 66-67 — Graham DeLaet 65-68 — Lee Westwood 66-68 — Geoff Ogilvy 68-66 — Doug LaBelle II 66-68 — Charles Howell III 67-67 — Sean O’Hair 66-68 — Justin Rose 68-66 — Graeme McDowell 67-68 — Robert Streb 65-70 — Brian Stuard 66-69 — Nicholas Thompson 69-66 — Lucas Glover 69-66 — Tom Gillis 67-68 — Billy Horschel 66-69 — Daniel Summerhays 69-67 — Chris Kirk 68-68 — Keegan Bradley 68-68 — Rickie Fowler 65-71 — Jeff Klauk 67-69 — Branden Grace 65-71 — James Driscoll 69-68 — Ross Fisher 71-66 — Cameron Percy 71-66 — Dustin Johnson 66-71 — Martin Kaymer 71-66 — Chris Stroud 67-70 — Erik Compton 69-68 — Kevin Stadler 67-71 — Jeff Overton 67-71 — Bob Estes 69-69 — Gary Woodland 68-70 — Mark Wilson 70-68 — Ryan Palmer 69-69 — D.A. Points 67-71 — Brendon de Jonge 70-68 — Charl Schwartzel 70-68 — Marc Leishman 69-69 — Peter Hanson 71-67 — Fabian Gomez 66-72 — Hank Kuehne 67-72 — Stewart Cink 68-71 — Brian Gay 67-72 — Ernie Els 69-70 — Freddie Jacobson 70-69 — Y.E. Yang 67-72 — Greg Chalmers 68-71 — Jamie Donaldson 73-66 — Darron Stiles 71-68 — Ben Kohles 66-73 — Vaughn Taylor 71-68 — Kevin Streelman 71-68 — Kyle Stanley 70-69 — Jason Dufner 69-70 — Russell Henley 68-71 — George McNeill 71-68 — Brendan Steele 72-67 — Ben Crane 70-69 — Retief Goosen 72-67 — Jason Bohn 70-69 — Justin Hicks 71-68 — Steven Bowditch 70-69 — Nicolas Colsaerts 69-71 — Brandt Jobe 69-71 — Scott Stallings 74-66 — Brad Fritsch 68-72 — Patrick Reed 67-73 — Steve Marino 71-69 — David Lynn 72-68 — Tiger Woods 70-70 — Trevor Immelman 73-67 — Matt Jones 67-73 — Matteo Manassero 73-67 —

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Failed to qualify Dicky Pride Camilo Villegas Ted Potter, Jr. Ken Duke Troy Kelly Seung-Yul Noh Harris English Charlie Beljan Henrik Stenson Ben Curtis Mike Weir Sang-Moon Bae Andres Romero Roberto Castro Joey Snyder III Robert Allenby Will Claxton Chez Reavie David Hearn Bud Cauley Stephen Ames Kevin Na John Merrick Jonas Blixt Casey Wittenberg Martin Flores John Huh Wes Short, Jr. Chad Campbell Matt Every Justin Leonard Stuart Appleby Ricky Barnes David Lingmerth Michael Bradley Brian Harman Troy Matteson Richard H. Lee Paul Scaletta Jason Kokrak Martin Laird Rory Sabbatini Luke List James Hahn Jerry Kelly Colt Knost Johnson Wagner Louis Oosthuizen Scott Langley William McGirt Tag Ridings Scott Gardiner Cameron Tringale Greg Owen Lee Williams Alexander Noren Ryo Ishikawa David Duval Jesper Parnevik Jeff Maggert J.B. Holmes Tommy Gainey John Mallinger Tim Herron Paul Casey David Mathis Rory McIlroy Brian Davis

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Lacrosse NATIONAL LEAGUE LACROSSE East Division GP W L Pct. GF GA GB Toronto 9 6 3 .667 110 99 — Philadelphia 8 5 3 .625 87 95 1/2 Buffalo 9 5 4 .625 103 110 1 Rochester 8 3 5 .375 88 81 2 1/2 West Division GP W L Pct. GF GA GB Calgary 9 5 4 .556 128 118 — Washington 9 5 4 .556 111 110 — Edmonton 9 4 5 .444 111 98 1 Minnesota 8 3 5 .375 99 106 1 1/2

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Baltimore vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Boston vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Miami vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 11:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. San Francisco (ss) at Scottsdale, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

San Francisco (ss) vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 1:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Oakland at Phoenix, 1:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Texas vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 1:10 p.m.

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Minnesota vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Toronto vs. Philadelphia (ss) at Clearwater, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Detroit vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 11:35 a.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Chicago Cubs (ss) at Mesa, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Arizona vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 1:10 p.m.

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Week Nine Friday’s result Philadelphia 11 Buffalo 10 (OT) Thursday’s result Buffalo 15 Toronto 13 Saturday’s games Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Rochester at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s game Minnesota at Washington, 4 p.m.

Baseball

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NATIONAL LEAGUE W L 5 2 4 2

L 0 1 1 2 3 2 3 2 4 4 4 5 5 6 7

Pct 1.000 .875 .857 .714 .667 .667 .625 .600 .500 .429 .429 .286 .167 .143 .125 Pct .714 .667

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3 3 3 3 3 2 5 4 3 4 6 3 7

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NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Friday’s Games Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 4 Baltimore 6, Pittsburgh (ss) 5 Philadelphia 10, N.Y. Yankees 5 Minnesota 8, Miami 7 Houston 8, St. Louis 8, tie

Today’s Games Pittsburgh vs. Detroit (ss) at Lakeland, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Philadelphia vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Detroit (ss) vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Washington vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Atlanta vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Lowell sympathizes with angry Marlins fans

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JUPITER, Fla. — Mike Lowell grew up in Miami, helped the Marlins win a World Series and knows all too well about the franchise’s tradition of humble payrolls and modest crowds.

Back in uniform this week as a special instructor, Lowell says the team can win again and win back fans, but it will take time. And he sympathizes with South Floridians angry the Marlins this season will be near baseball’s basement in payrolls — again.

The return to a tight budget comes after a brief spending binge and only

one year in the long-sought new ballpark that was supposed to transform the franchise.

“You just had so much hope,” Lowell said. “You’ve been wanting for this for 15 years and you get it, and it seemed like it didn’t last very long.

“But it’s not my team. It’s not my money. They have the right to do what they want. But there’s going to be a consequence.”

While the Marlins’ latest payroll purge will keep disenchanted fans away, Lowell said it might also deter future free agents from considering Miami.

Sunday’s Games Philadelphia (ss) vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis vs. Washington at Viera, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Houston vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 11:05

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“I didn’t quite have my game like I did yesterday,” Woods said. “I hit it much better yesterday, but I putted better today, so it all evened out.”

Also having a tough time was tennis star Serena Williams, following in Woods’ large gallery.

She took a picture of the 14-time major champion after his tee shot on the 17th and was scolded by security.

The PGA Tour does not allow photos on competition days.

A few minutes later, she posted the photo. And she finished with one last tweet: “In my Defence peeps always take pics of tennis players.”

There was no reason to get a snapshot of Camilo Villegas, who joined a dubious list of PGA Tour players who went from worst-to-first. Villegas, playing primarily on sponsor exemptions this year because he lost his full status, opened with a 64 for his best start in more than a year.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Rory McIlroy left before his round was even over. Tiger Woods had to rally just to stick around.

And with all that drama Friday in the Honda Classic, hardly anyone noticed that Luke Guthrie showed off his potential in a big way with a 7-under 63 to take a one-shot lead going into the weekend at PGA National.

Guthrie, pegged by many of his peers as a rookie worth watching going into the year, played bogeyfree on another cool, cloudy day.

Of his seven birdies, perhaps the most impressive for the Big Ten champion from Illinois came on the sixth hole when he had mud on the side of his ball and was able to work the shot in from the right to about 10 feet.

After finishing his round, he walked into an interview room when someone mentioned that McIlroy walked off the course after being 7-over par through eight holes.

“I had no clue,” Guthrie said. “I was just kind of going about my business out there.”

He was at 9-under 131 and had a one-shot lead over Michael Thompson. Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., is two shots back.

Ottawa’s Brad Fritsch, who opened with a 68, had a 72 to just make the cut at 140. Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., finished at 141, while David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., and Stephen Ames of Calgary wound up at 142.

McIlroy, who missed the cut in Abu Dhabi and lost in the first round of the Match Play Championship in his previous two starts, made a double bogey on his second hole and rinsed two balls in the water on the 16th hole on his way to a triple bogey.

He hit his approach to the 18th in the water and STAR Catholic Schools is looking for never finished the hole.

He shook hands with Ernie Els and Mark Wilson and was on his way, but not before conflicting messages.

McIlroy told three reporters who followed him to in Lacombe and Ponoka. his car that it was nothing physical but that he was “not in a good place mentally.”

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SOCHI, Russia — Canadian skip Corryn Brown dropped a 3-2 decision to Hannah Fleming of Scotland on Friday at the world junior curling championship.

The rinks were tied at two heading into the final end at the Ice Cube Curling Center. Fleming attempted a doubletakeout for the win but missed slightly, leaving rocks for each team just touching the eight-foot.

The measurement went to Scotland, which remains undefeated in the round robin while Canada fell to 0-2.

Brown’s team from Kamloops, B.C., opened the tournament with a 9-1 loss to Denmark.

“It was definitely a better game than our game yesterday,” said Brown. “So we’ll take that and we’ll learn a lot from that game. Can’t ask for more than coming to down a measure.

“The girls played really well and it was definitely better than last game.”

Canada will play Russia’s Alina Kovaleva on Saturday.

In men’s play, Matt Dunstone’s Winnipeg team had the day off after winning two games on Thursday. His rink will return to the ice Saturday morning against Scotland’s Kyle Smith.

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Toronto Raptors’ DeMar DeRozan (centre) dunks on Indiana Pacers Ian Mahinmi (right) and David West during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Friday March 1 , 2013.

George’s 22 points, 10 rebounds leads Pacers past Raptors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Paul George’s 22 points and 10 rebounds helped the Pacers pull away from the Raptors on Friday as Indiana downed Toronto 93-81.

George led all scorers and helped the Pacers (37-22) recovered from a 99-91 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers the night before.

Roy Hibbert scored 18 and David West chipped in with 15 points.

Rudy Gay led Toronto (23-36) with 21 points and DeMar DeRozan had nine, while Alan Anderson added 14. The Raptors have

lost three games in a row. They now start a four-game road trip.

It was the first time in four meetings between the two clubs this season where the winning margin was more than two points.

Already up 64-51 after three quarters, George had a pair of three-pointers during an 8-2 Pacers run to start the fourth. His second three-pointer with 9:56 remaining in the fourth put Indiana up by 19.

Despite hitting just three field goals in the first quarter on 17 attempts for 17.6 percent shooting, Toronto only trailed 17-13 largely

thanks to going seven of eight from the free throw line.

It was an even second quarter that was punctuated with an emphatic right-handed DeRozan dunk to end the period. Indiana led 39-34 at half.

The teams traded baskets early in the third quarter and just past the halfway mark of the third quarter, Hibbert and George each hit a pair of free throws to put Indiana up by 10.

Toronto kept things close early in the third but Indiana quarter on an 11-4 run that George ended with another three-point shot.

TORONTO — In the midst of a not-so-great season, Patrick Chan went looking for answers in Calgary and Detroit.

The 22-year-old from Toronto will be aiming for his third consecutive world figure skating title this month, but has talked about feeling like an “underdog” for the first time in awhile.

So instead of going to the recent Four Continents championships, Chan went to Calgary to live and train with fitness guru Andy O’Brien, and then to Detroit to soak up the positive training environment of the skaters there.

Operation reboot began in Calgary where Chan spent a week with O’Brien, whose clientele includes hockey superstar Sidney Crosby. The skater has worked with O’Brien before but this time fully immersed himself in that environment, living, eating and working out with the trainer.

“I basically assimilated myself into what I wanted to mimic in my everyday training,” Chan said. “It was perfect.”

Chan, who’s had some disappointing results in this pre-Olympic season, also took the opportunity to pick O’Brien’s brain. After going undefeated for a year and a half, the Canadian finished second at Skate Canada International and then third at the Grand Prix Final.

“It was almost like an all-around opportunity to really talk to him about my season, because this has been a bit of a rough season,” Chan said. “A lot of deep questions, because he’s had a lot of experience with other elite athletes, like Sidney Crosby. I talked to him about dealing with the challenges of trying to repeat as the world champion.

“Overall it was a really good week, a very productive week.”

Then, instead of heading back to his training base in Colorado, the six-time Canadian champion continued “retooling” at the Detroit Skating Club, where he will have spent the final three weeks before the world championships begin March 10.

“I really wanted to stay in the same time zone as where the world championships in London would be,” Chan said on a conference call Friday. “The best place I could train, the most competitive and friendly and (with a) positive environment, where I would be with other skaters, was DSC.” Chan’s coach Kathy Johnson has also travelled to Detroit, where Chan said the fun training atmosphere that includes Canadian ice dancers Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, and Canadian singles skater Elladj Balde, has been a big mental boost during a rough season.

Buehrle strikes out two, Lawrie and Nanita homer in Jays win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Mark Buehrle works quickly.

“Very few guys do it, but the guys that do it, they have success,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “Good or bad, it’s over fast.”

Making his second start of spring training, Buehrle allowed one run and three hits in two innings Friday as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4. Buehrle struck out two and walked two, finishing by retiring Sean Rodriguez on a flyout to escape a bases-loaded jam.

“I know it’s spring training and results don’t matter as much, but I still like to get outs,” Buehrle said. “I don’t like getting hit around, giving up runs.

It was a pride factor.”

Buehrle wasn’t proud to have walked Desmond Jennings twice. He did joke about his strikeouts of Rodriguez and Tim Beckham.

“A couple of guys thought they were changeups,” he said. “No. That was my fastball.”’

Jennings singled in his only other plate appearance in the fifth, then stole two bases and scored his second run on Sean Rodriguez’s sacrifice fly.

Shelley Duncan then tied the score at 3 with a solo homer.

Rays starter Jake Odorizzi struck out two in the first, including Jose Bautista after third baseman Chris Gimenez failed to locate his foul popup near the line.

Toronto took a 3-1 lead in the second on a two-run homer by Brett Lawrie and a solo shot by Ricardo Nanita.

Loser Mike Montgomery allowed two runs, three hits and a walk in the sixth, giving up RBI singles to Andy LaRoche and Adam Loewen

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Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Emilio Bonifacio, centre, misses the catch to out Tampa Bay Rays first baseman Shelley Duncan, right, at second base during first inning MLB Grapefruit League baseball action in Dunedin, Fla., on Friday, March 1, 2013.

Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon only wants to become familiar with the left-hander, acquired with outfielder Wil Myers, Patrick Leonard and Odorizzi in the off-season trade that James Shields and Wade Davis to Kansas City.

“The expectations are just to watch.

I swear, I don’t have any,” Maddon said. “I don’t want him to come out there and feel like he’s going to make it. He’s not going to make the club right now. There are a lot of things that have to happen.

“The big thing is for him to come out here and be comfortable, hopefully find that little mental thing that permits him to get back to 95, 96 (mph) on a more consistent basis and get people out. He’s really high end. Montgomery’s got great stuff, and it’s just a matter of him mentally understanding what he can do and going ahead and doing it.

But he could be really good.”

Dave Bush pitched one scoreless inning for his second spring training victory. Non-roster pitcher Neil Wagner pitched the ninth for the save.

NOTES: Toronto won for the first time in five spring training home games. ... Former Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Curtis Joseph threw the ceremonial first pitch.

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Red Deerians did not waste any time lining up to sample a slice of six creative and tasty centennial cakes at the Parkland Mall on Saturday, Feb. 23.

The delectable event drew six bakers from Central Alberta who put their clever talents to the baking and decorating test in the 2013 Centennial Cake Competition.

Leslee Burton, events committee chairperson, said celebrating the Centennial is gaining momentum with more and more people attending events.

And the Red Deer 2013 Centennial organizing committee is just getting warmed up as the major events continue to unfold.

On March 25, the city celebrates its actual birthday — the day Red Deer was incorporated as a city. A special Red Deer city council meeting is planned.

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes a judge in the cake competition, said the event is still under wraps but that will be the commemorative day.

“I can’t tell you,” said Wyntjes. “We talked about the time capsule and what we’re going to do. Personally I am going to be writing a letter to the future council in 100 years ... All the other councillors may do something else. It’s shaping up to be a good year so far.”

Vivian McKenzie won the Adult Amateur category with a three-layer cake with the deer on top and beautiful snowflakes on the bottom layer.

Loni Weslelowski’s cake won the People’s Choice award and first place in the Adult Professional category.

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Catholics praise outgoing pope A TASTE OF IRELAND AT PONOKA Everyone is a little Irish on St. Patrick’s Day and the Ponoka Legion is serving up its taste of Ireland. The annual Pie and a Pint St. Patrick’s Day event takes place on March 16 in the clubroom at the legion, 3911 Hwy 2A Ponoka, from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. For $6.50, patrons can have a stew or a pot pie with all the trimmings.

Proceeds from the event go towards the legion. There will be Irish entertainment and a sing-a-long.

People can stay for an hour or all day. For more information call Verna Raycraft at 403783-5396 or email at raycraftverna@yahoo. ca.

LOOKING BACK A CENTURY The Central Alberta Historical Society will look back a century at its March meeting. City historian Michael Dawe will present on the topic 1913 Red Deer Becomes a City! for the club’s monthly get-together on March 20 in the Snell Auditorium of the Red Deer Public Library.

Dawe, who is putting together the book Remarkable Red Deer in celebration of the city’s centennial, will tell the stories behind the history of Red Deer’s incorporation in 1913 at the meeting. The event is free and open to the public, starting at 7 p.m. For more information, contact Iris at 403-340-2588.

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF The first pope to resign in 600 years is being praised within the Red Deer Catholic community for his quiet, caring and humble demeanor.

Benedict XVI left the Vatican on Thursday, choosing to step down due to failing health. He was the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church for almost eight years.

Grade 12 students Michael Marcinek and Alison Gebbink and Grade 10 student Daniel Alexander Pope Benedict XVI have been following the monumental news as part of the Super Team youth ministry at Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame High School.

“We’ve grown up with that pope almost all our lives,” said Alexander, 15. “It’s going to be sort of different with a new pope.”

Marcinek, 17, and Gebbink, 17, were much more familiar with John Paul II, who was commonly called the “people’s pope”

before his passing in April 2005.

“I didn’t really hear much about Pope Benedict,” said Marcinek.

“It was more quiet,” added Gebbink, regarding Benedict’s papacy. “He seemed more caring and humble — and from what I’ve been reading he’d always give his undivided attention and make you feel like you were the only person in the room.”

“He was definitely there for everyone.”

Alexander said he’ll best remember Benedict XVI as the first pope to resign in six centuries.

All three hope the next pope will reach a larger Catholic audience. And especially to a younger audience as John Paul II did, added Marcinek.

Alexander said he’d like to see a pope who is a blending of the two former popes.

“We have to respect his decision to step down if he was not well enough,” said Gebbink.

Ryan Ledene, associate superintendent and in charge of faith development for Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools, said this pope came in at a very interesting time, immediately following the death of well-loved John Paul II. The retired Pope Benedict has a very strong academic background, having been a professor in Germany. He helped found the theological journal Communio and until his election as pope, he remained one of the journal’s most prolific

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TIPS FOR PHOTOS Two landscape photographers will give talk on filters both essential and advanced early in April.

The Central Alberta Photographic Society is hosting the event featuring Darwin Wiggett and Samantha Chysanthou, which will take place on April 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Golden Circle, 4820 47A Ave. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available at McBain Camera, 5129 Alexander St., and cost $30. For more information visit the CAPS website at www.centralalberta photographicsociety. com.

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“I think he was put in as a strong person to put after Pope John Paul II and he did that well,” Ledene said. “I think he’ll be most remembered for his writings and academia.”

Ledene is cheering a little bit for Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet to become the next pope. It would be monumental for a Canadian, even a North American, to be given this responsibility.

Some students at Red Deer Catholic are learning about the pope selection process.

“It’s an exciting time in the Catholic church and it gives us a chance to teach how popes are elected through the cardinals and the conclave they form to decide on a new pope,” said Ledene.

For the three high school students in Red Deer, they say they haven’t heard any instructional talk about the pope’s resignation and legacy.

“I was even talking to some of my classmates and they had no idea,” said Marcinek.

“It’s usually based on our own investigation on the topic because it hasn’t been really notified by any of our teachers,” said Alexander.

The only area it may be talked about is within religion classes, but not everyone is in these classes this term, added Gebbink. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

Appeal hearing for RV resort adjourned until May

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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An appeal hearing connected to a proposed 1,125-lot RV resort and marina on Gull Lake has been adjourned until May. The Gull Lake Water Quality Management Society and two individuals are appealing Alberta Environment approvals related to Sandy Point RV Resort being developed by Delta Land Co. Inc. Alberta Environment has approved two water licences allowing the resort to draw 62,000 cubic metres of water per year from three wells for the development on the west side of the lake just northeast of Bentley.

Approvals were also granted last August for the construction of the inland marina and storm drainage system.

All but the storm drainage approval are under appeal.

The Environmental Appeals Board held a preliminary motions hearing in Edmon-

ton last Monday to determine the issues that will be heard at the hearing schedule for May 14-15. Submission on a stay application will also be heard at that time.

A temporary stay remains in place that was issued in December preventing the developer from doing any work along the bed, bank and shore and in the waters of the lake. Work inland, including excavation of the marina can continue.

The society is concerned the science hasn’t been done to prove that taking the large amounts of water required for the resort, which will also include a golf course, won’t affect lake water quality.

Also of concern is the impact the marina and its 175 first-phase boat slips will have on the nearby habitat, which is popular with pelicans and serves as a fish spawning location. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Citizens are helping solve crimes but less than half the tipsters are collecting the cash rewards from Central Alberta Crime Stoppers.

Since its inception in 1986, the local crime fighting chapter was approved for $203,065 in payouts from 687 tips, of which $21,935 was collected.

Callers to the Crime Stoppers tips line are eligible for rewards up to $2,000 for information leading up to an arrest, recovery of stolen property or seizure of illegal drugs.

Debb Mann, chapter president, said the tipsters are seeking justice, not a payment.

“They want drugs off the street,” said Mann. “They want the guns off the street.

Bad guys put in jail or arrested. They just get a good a feeling that they can help and remain anonymous.”

Last year, $2,220 was approved for 11 rewards but only $850 was collected from three of the tips. The reward money remains in a bank account for two years before it goes back into the pool. The organization is completely funded through donations and fundraisers.

“We are very valuable because we are getting results,” said Mann. “It’s really difficult if you do not have the funding. We’ve tried very hard to have fundraisers. We have one casino every three years. That pretty much gets us through.”

A board of volunteers calculates and approves the reward depending on certain criteria. In 2012, there were 518 tips, 14 arrests and 26 charges laid for a variety of offences related to drugs, weapons and stolen property.

Mann said the 2012 statistics show 12 criminal cases were cleared but this number could be higher because in some cases they have not received confirmation from various police departments.

In order to collect a reward, the tipsters must call back to inquire if a tip leads to an arrest because Crime Stoppers is completely anonymous. When a caller gives a tip, he or she is provided with a code.

Phone calls are never recorded and no personal information is ever collected. Crime Stoppers does not subscribe to caller identification or last number features. The calls are routed through a call centre to the Red Deer office.

Mann said a tipster would never have to appear in court to testify.

The next fundraising casino is on March 28 and March 29 at Cash Casino on 67th Street. For information, call the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre, where Crime Stoppers is housed, at 403-986-9904 or email crime.prevention@hotmail.com To submit a tip call Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 (TIPS) or www.tipsubmit.com crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Malone receives Bob Stollings Memorial Award

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A human resources specialist who worked at the city for more than two decades is the recipient of the Bob Stollings Memorial Award.

Patti Malone received the city’s prestigious employee award at the 32nd annual Employee Recognition Awards banquet at the Harvest Centre on Friday night.

Close to 100 city employees were recognized in areas of long service, work practice, safety achievement and special recognition.

Malone began her career with the city as a benefits administrator in treasury for financial services before moving to human resources as a specialist dealing with benefits and pensions. She started at the city about 23 years ago.

City staff said Malone’s greatest Patti Malone strength is her abil-

ity to treat every employee with the utmost respect and dignity. They said she deals with sensitive and personal issues on a daily basis, which requires a special kind of person.

Red Deer city council began hosting the banquet in 1982 to acknowledge the contributions made by the dedicated and conscientious employees.

The Bob Stollings Memorial Award was established in 1985 and is named after Robert E. Stollings who worked for the city from 1960 to 1984.

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On the separation of church and history On the night he was betrayed, the rabbi from Nazareth gave blunt, but mysterious, instructions about the rite that would forever be at the centre of Christian life.

The Gospel of St. Luke reports: “He took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.” Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”

These images mystified the faith’s Roman critics. In his multimedia project “Church TERRY History Made Easy,” Baptist MATTINGLY scholar Timothy Paul Jones noted that one ancient pagan wrote this vivid speculation about Christian worship: “An infant is covered with dough, to deceive the innocent. The infant is placed before the person who is to be stained with their rites. The young pupil slays the infant. Thirstily, they lick up the blood! Eagerly they tear apart its limbs.”

How can anyone learn these kinds of human details, asked Jones, and come away thinking that history is boring? The stories and lessons of church history are especially important, he said, for millions of evangelical Protestants who attend the many modern megachurches — flocks with few, if any, denomination ties that bind — that have helped reshape the landscape of American religious life.

“Taking church history seriously helps us sink our roots into something deeper than the present,” said Jones, who teaches at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. “One of the dangers of this whole post-denominational world we live in is that people can lose their rootedness and lose a sense that generations of Christians have passed the faith on to us.”

This is especially important in the age of The Da

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Vinci Code and other works of popular culture that can leave people thinking that “there is no heresy and that there is no orthodoxy,” he said in a telephone interview.

“What you’re left with is a lot of competing voices and the sense that everything is up for grabs.”

This is tricky territory for Protestants in churches born through the work of John Calvin, Martin Luther and other reformers who — to varying degrees — questioned the authority of ancient traditions preserved in Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy.

It’s even harder to stress church history, said Jones, in today’s rapidly changing independent churches that embrace modern media and other marketplace trends.

In these flocks, “tradition” is often measured in months or years, not centuries.

Thus, Jones opened the Church History Made Easy book with a reference, not to St. John Chrysostom, St. Augustine, Calvin, Luther or even Billy Graham, but to a classic Peanuts strip by the late Charles Schulz.

In it, Sally Brown is writing a paper on “church history.”

To address this subject, she writes, “We have to go back to the very beginning. Our pastor was born in 1930.”

Digging into ancient church history can leave some Protestants — both liberals and conservatives — facing questions about which traditions to embrace, which to adapt and which to avoid. Take, for example, the penitential season of Lent that leads to Easter.

One Baptist progressive, Central Baptist Theological Seminary President Molly T. Marshall, recently noted that “since the earliest times of the Church, there is evidence of some kind of Lenten preparation in the 40 days leading up to Easter (not counting the Sundays).

After the legalization of Christianity in CE 313, Lent developed patterns that continue, at least in the West.”

In recent years, she added, something unusual has happened: “Many Baptists are learning the significance of paying attention to Lent.”

Some Baptists will welcome that kind of connection to church history, noted Jones, while others will not. His own congregation recently observed Ash Wednesday, “ashes and all,” leading some Southern Baptists to think “we’ve gone Catholic,” he said.

The goal is not to uncritically accept symbols, rites and experiences merely because they are ancient, he said. For evangelicals, the goal is find what they believe is the doctrinal core that they share with Catholics, the Orthodox and other believers through the ages.

Terry Mattingly directs the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Contact him at tmattingly@cccu.org or www. tmatt.net.

LOCAL EVENTS SUNDAY, MARCH 3 Cowboy Church Service at Great Bend Church of Christ will be on March 3, 10:15 a.m. located 13.5 km north of Delburne on Hwy. 21, or 6.5 km north of Hwy. 595 intersection, or 8 km west of Content Bridge. Enjoy worship music with Strings ‘N Things featuring Steve and June Potter, Paul Potter, and Pat Smith. Message by Fred Lane. Bring a dish to share for pot luck lunch. Contact Bonnie at 403-749-3251.

TUESDAY, MARCH 5 Heartland Cowboy Church is on the first and third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Stettler Agriplex. Dates are March 5 and 19. Call 403-742-4273.

UPCOMING EVENTS Roast Beef Dinner and Silent Auction at Gaetz Memorial United Church will be held on March 14 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tickets are available from the church office, or by calling 403-347-2244 until March 11. There will be 150 tickets available. Adult tickets cost $12, and tickets for children under 10 years cost $6.

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA

Sunday, March 3

KNOX FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Centre for Spiritual Living

43 Ave. & 39 St. • 403-346-4281 Pastor Chris Wilson Worship Pastor David Richardson

11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service Doug Craig www.cslreddeer.org

10:30 a.m. Worship Service Speaker: Rev. Dennis Stone Alberta Area Minister

#3 - 6315 Horn Street

www.firstbaptistrd.ca

Sunday Services Services Sunday 8:30a.m., 10:30a.m.

9:00a.m. & 11:00a.m.

Established 1898

4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560

Balmoral Bible Chapel

Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

“Learning From The Past” 10:30 am Worship Service Sunday, March 17 Knox AGM immediately following Service

403-347-5450

Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.) 10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Bob Northey “Hands Wide Open” Genesis 22 Childrens Sunday School 2 1/2 - Grade 5

West Park Presbyterian 3628-57 Ave.

403-346-6036

SUNDAY WORSHIP 11:00 a.m.

www.balmoralchapel.ca

& 12:30p.m.

WELCOME YOU

Sunday, March 3

ELCI EL CIC CI C GOOD SHEPHERD ELCIC 40 Holmes St.

403-340-1022 Rev. Marc Jerry

WORSHIP SUNDAY 10:30 AM with Holy Communion

Lenten Evening Prayer Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.

Everyone Welcome

Saved by grace - called to serve

Wednesday Wednesday Ministries Ministries 7:00p.m.

7:00p.m.

Passion for God, Compassion for People.

2020 40th Ave, Red Deer www.livingstones.ab.ca 403.347.7311

LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER

Helping people encounter the goodness of God Corner of 55th St & 46th Ave 10:30 am Contemporary Worship

streamschurch.com 403.342.7441

Streams Christian Church afÀliated with the PAOC

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at 9:00am, 11:00am & 6:30pm

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Messy Church:

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#8 -Order in Worship CrossRoads Kids (Infant to Gr. 6)

AFFILIATED WITH THE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH OF CANADA

Sunday, March 3

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL “A Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769

www.stleonardsonthehill.org Celebrant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

Saturday, March 2 5:00 p.m. “The Gathering” Contemporary Eucharist Sunday, March 3 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Celebration Service 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist Sunday School/Nursery

#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

ST. LUKE’S

DIVINE SERVICE 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m.

Sunday School 9:00 a.m.

Gaetz & 54th 403-346-3402

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk

Join us this Sunday, March 3

The Anglican Church of Canada

Kings Kids Playschool www.mclcrd.org

Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

"Old Church Blessing a New World"

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Celebrant Noel Wygiera 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 10:00 a.m. Family Friendly Worship with Eucharist Sunday School & Refreshments Thurs. 2:00 p.m. Eucharist

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GAETZ MEMORIAL

Corner of Ross Street and 48th Avenue — Phone 403-347-2244

10:30 a.m.

"Put Manure On It" www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

SUNNYBROOK UNITED CHURCH 12 Stanton Street

403-347-6073

10:30 a.m. – Worship Service “Feeding Our Spiritual Life” Babyfold, Toddler Sunday www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Room,Room Sunday Club Clubwww.sunnybrookunited.org

Loving God . . . Loving People 10:15 am Worship Service 2960 - 39 Street, Red Deer 403.343.1511

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A Western Canadian comedy style PRAIRIE WINTER THEATRE PRODUCTION BLOOM OPENS IN NICKLE STUDIO hood with silly hijinks that focus on the more ridiculous aspects of life.

Take poor Alice, played by Debby Allan. No sooner has her husband died painfully from cancer than You know you’re living in a tight-knit community, she stumbles across an illicit cannabis operation in says the widow Alice, when you can’t sneak a peek at an abandoned barn on her property. Thinking her the marijuana grow-op in your barn without drawing lay-about son, Darryl, is finally taking some business the whole neighbourhood’s attention. initiative — however misguided — Alice Her friend Olive retorts that Alice is reluctant to get the police involved. would be less conspicuous if she wasn’t Then she notices the pot plants gettiptoeing around the farm in a black ting a little droopy. What’s a supportive trench coat: “This is Stony Valley, not mother with a green thumb to do, other downtown Iran — you stand out!” than add a little fertilizer?

This dry exchange was hilariously deThese unorthodox events require Olive livered on Thursday night in Bloom, the (Erna Soderberg) to do what friends do longer of two one-act plays that are part best— zip her lip and pass no judgment. of the Prairie Winter Theatre production While Olive manages the latter, she can’t that opened in the Nickle Studio, upstairs quite get her head around the first part, in Red Deer’s Memorial Centre. cracking wise about everything from the The Central Alberta Theatre presentaplants drying in Alice’s bathroom to the tion about two women who have to reinspecial dessert that turns up at Marge’s vent their lives after losing their spouses LANA come-and-go tea. is one part whimsy and two parts earthy MICHELIN Allan is a poker-face wonder as Alice, humour. This is a particularly Western managing to convey both a recently bereft Canadian comedy style that Saskatchewidow as well as a woman on a rush from wan playwright Leeann Minogue pulled the first real adventure she’s had in years. off to great effect in her full-length play Soderberg is equally good as gossipy Dry Streak, which was successfully mounted by CAT Olive, who despite her tart tongue, proves a true supa couple seasons ago. portive friend.

In Bloom, Minogue once again combines underlyDirector Deb O’Brien delivers the right quirky ing messages about friendship, loyalty and parent- tone for this clever, one-hour play. Although a few

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

REVIEW

spots could use tightening, the action mostly moves right along and there isn’t a dull moment.

Even the set changes are matched with a laughout-loud soundtrack, ranging from Mary Jane by Rick James to Wacky Tobacky from the TV series Weeds.

(Who knew there were so many tunes written about what Alice refers to as “the devil’s lettuce?”

Sound designer, take a bow.)

Prairie Winter Theatre opened with the one-act Prelude to Thirty-Five by Seth Kramer.

This comedy, deftly directed by Nicole Leal, is the theatrical equivalent of speed dating as it delivers a whole rom-com in 15 minutes.

It seems Rae (Tara Rorke) just had a fight with her boyfriend, Jay, while staying at his parents’ house.

After running off in a huff, she’s stubbornly waiting for the train she just missed, wearing only a fleece pullover in a snowstorm.

Jay (Jarrett Viscko) delivers her winter coat and gets a bleeding nose in the process.

So how exactly is this romantic?

Some of it has to do with the chemistry between Rorke and Viscko (their two rather juvenile characters deserve each other), and some of it has to do with the script by Kramer, who understands that in romance, timing is everything.

If Prairie Winter Theatre doesn’t make the last stretch of winter a little more bearable for you, it at least guarantees a solid evening’s entertainment. It continues to March 9. (There’s a cash bar). lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

‘Vikings’ brings ancient Norse warriors to TV

BY CASSANDRA SZKLARSKI THE CANADIAN PRESS Cast aside notions of the barbaric, filthy Viking.

“Camelot” scribe Michael Hirst is on a mission to rehabilitate that image with a scripted series that portrays the seafaring Scandinavian marauders as not only familyoriented, but rather civilized.

“Culturally for us the Vikings are always the other — they’re always the guys who break down your door in the night and rape and pillage and they’re not normally seen as sympathetic or attractive people,” Hirst says in a recent phone interview from

his home, just outside Oxford, England.

“Two of the main things about that culture was, one: it was far more democratic than anything in the West — anything in England or France or Ireland.

That they had public meetings, that they had pseudodemocratic institutions. And the other thing that really stood out was ... that unlike in the West, women could divorce their husband, they fought with their men, they could rule. They could inherit property. And this was so far away from the sort of cliche of these raping, pillaging guys that I thought, ‘Well that’s a way to start. That takes me in-

to their world.”’

Of course, there’s still plenty of pillaging and plunder going on in Hirst’s nine-part drama, Vikings, an international Irish/Canadian co-production that debuts Sunday on History.

The eighth-century action centres on the fearless Norse warrior Ragnar Lothbrok, an ambitious adventurer who urges his corrupt chieftain Earl Haraldson, played by Gabriel Byrne, to explore the undiscovered West.

A bloody opening battle establishes Ragnar’s ruthless precision in dispatching enemies, but when back in his tight-knit community, he’s revealed to be a loving husband, father and farmer.

Australian actor Travis Fimmel stars as Ragnar while Toronto-bred Katheryn Winnick plays his warrior wife, Lagertha, and Montreal’s Jessalyn Gilsig play’s Haraldson’s wife Siggy.

Gilsig says a deep backstory helps add texture to her calculating character, who comes from an established family and married young, probably around 12. She’s forged a Macbeth-like partnership with Haraldson to rule their community with fear, but along the way they lost two sons in battle.

“We are as vulnerable as a family could be in our position — he’s getting older, we don’t have an heir and we have this

really ambitious young man who is curious about a new way of exploring and also a new way of ruling,” says Gilsig, also known from Nip/Tuck and Glee.

“It’s not accidental that Siggy comes into the Great Hall and sits beside him. It’s because he needs her to sit beside him, because they have a plan and she needs to keep him focused on that plan and together they build a strategy and had always built a strategy to maintain their position.”

They live in a brutal society, but Gilsig notes that punishments are not meted out casually.

Vikings debuts Sunday on History.

Bonnie Franklin of ‘One Day At a Time,’ dies at age 69

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Bonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress whom millions came to identify with for her role as divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom “One Day at a Time,” has died.

She died Friday at her home in Los Angeles due to complications from pancreatic cancer, family members said. She was 69. Her family had announced she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September.

Franklin was a veteran stage and television performer before “One Day At a Time” made her a star.

Developed by Norman Lear and co-created by Whitney Blake — herself a former sitcom star and single mother raising future actress Meredith Baxter — the series was groundbreaking for its focus on a young divorced mother seeking independence from a suffocating marriage.

It premiered on CBS in December 1975, just five years after the network had balked at having Mary Tyler Moore play a divorced woman on her own comedy series, insisting that newly single Mary Richards be portrayed as having ended her engagement instead.

On her own in Indianapolis, Ann Romano was raising two teenage girls — played by Mackenzie Phillips, already famous for the film “American Graffiti,” and a previously unknown Valerie Bertinelli. “One Day At a Time” ran on CBS until 1984, by which time both daughters had grown and married, while Romano had remarried and become a grandmother. During the first seven of its nine seasons on the air, the show was a Top 20 hit.

Like other Lear productions such as “All in the Family” and “Good Times,” ”One Day at a Time“ dealt with contemporary issues once absent from TV comedies such as premarital sex, birth control, suicide and sexual harassment — issues that had previously been overlooked by TV comedies whose households were usually headed by a husband and wife or, rarely, a widowed parent.

Meanwhile, the series weathered its own crises as Phillips was twice written out of the series to deal with her drug abuse and other personal problems.

Writing in her 2009 memoir “High On Arrival,” Phillips remembered Franklin as hardworking and professional, even a perfectionist.

“Bonnie felt a responsibility to the character and always gave a million notes on the scripts,” Phillips

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Bonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress whom millions came to identify with for her role as divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom “One Day at a Time,” has died. wrote. “Above all, she didn’t want it to be sitcom fluff — she wanted it to deal honestly with the struggles and truths of raising two teenagers as a single mother.”

In her 2008 memoir “Losing It,” Bertinelli noted that Franklin, just 31 when the show began, wasn’t old enough to be her real mother.

Even so, wrote Bertinelli, “within a few days I recognized her immense talent and felt privileged to work with her. ... She was like a hip, younger complement to my real mom.”

The truth of “One Day at a Time” was brought home to Franklin when in 2005 she got together with both TV daughters for a “One Day at a Time” reunion special. She told both actresses, “You are living, in a

sense, Ann Romano’s life — you are single parents raising teenage kids. That is shocking and terrifying to me.”

Bertinelli reiterated Friday that Franklin was a “second mother to me” and one of the most important women in her life.

“My heart is breaking,” Bertinelli said in a statement. “The years on ’One Day At A Time’ were some of the happiest of my life, and along with Pat and Mackenzie, we were a family in every way. She taught me how to navigate this business and life itself with grace and humour, and to always be true to yourself.

I will miss her terribly.”

Lear noted that despite tackling some serious subjects in her work, Franklin always stayed cheery and positive.

“I was wrong — I thought life forces never die.

Bonnie was such a life force,” Lear said in a statement. “Bubbly, always up, the smile never left her face.”

Franklin herself was married for 29 years. Her husband, TV producer Marvin Minoff, died in 2009.

Born Bonnie Gail Franklin in Santa Monica, Calif., she entered show business at an early age. She was a child tap dancer and actress, and a protege of Donald O’Connor, with whom she performed in the 1950s on NBC’s “Colgate Comedy Hour.”

A decade later, she was appearing on such episodic programs as “Mr. Novak,” ”Gidget“ and ”The Man from U.N.C.L.E.“ On stage, Franklin was in the original Broadway production of “Applause,” for which she received a 1970 Tony Award nomination, and other plays including “Dames at Sea” and “A Thousand Clowns.”

Franklin’s recent credits include appearances on “The Young and the Restless” and the TV Land comedy “Hot in Cleveland,” which again reunited her with Bertinelli, one of that show’s regulars.

Franklin was a “devoted mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend,” her family said in a statement. She also was a longtime activist for a range of charities and civic-oriented issues, among them AIDS care and research and the Stroke Association of Southern California.

In 2001, she and her sister Judy Bush founded the non-profit Classic and Contemporary American Plays, an organization that introduces great American plays to inner-city schools’ curriculum.

A private memorial will be held next week, her family said.

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‘Tomb Raider’ a compelling origin story for Lara Croft

ENTERTAINMENT

BRIEFS

Bugs Bunny’s greatest hits in Red Deer Bugs Bunny’s greatest hits — and other looney tunes — will be performed at the Animation Orchestration concert on Thursday by the RDC Symphonic Winds and Red Deer Youth Orchestra.

Part of the magic of Saturday morning cartoons was created by the colourful accompanying soundtracks.

Highlights of the Animation Orchestration concert program include: What’s Up at the Symphony? (by Jerry Brubaker), The Barber of Seville and William Tell Overture (both by Gioachino Rossini) and Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 — which were all used to score Warner Bros.’s Looney Tunes.

Also hear music used by Disney and MGM cartoons, such as Tom & Jerry.

Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. show at the Red Deer College Arts Centre are $14.20 ($11.20 students/seniors) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

High school students interested in pursuing music at RDC can obtain a free ticket to this concert and information by calling 403-342-3512 or emailing performing.

CHRIS CAMPBELL

GAME ON Tomb Raider Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Genre: Action Publisher: Square Enix ESRB Rating: M, for Mature Grade: 4 stars (out of 5)

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Square Enix’s new release, “Tomb Raider” for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

The game is rated M, for Mature. use environmental elements to thwart foes.

You’re kept constantly engaged and want to see the game through to its conclusion, even if many plot elements seem rather staid.

The throwaway online multiplayer content — recycled from any other third-person shooter game — is not horrible, but it’s not memorable, either.

Aside from that hiccup, “Tomb Raider” remains a fantastic game that the heroine’s fans will instantly love.

Even if your mind wanders toward “Hey,

this plays a lot like ‘Uncharted’ games” territory, rest comfortably in the knowledge that before there was Nathan Drake, there was Lara Croft. She paved the way, and she deserves an origin story as compelling as this.

Follow Chris Campbell @campbler or email game_ on_games@mac.com.

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LOS ANGELES — A judge refused Friday to delay Lindsay Lohan’s trial on reckless driving and other charges and admonished her attorney, saying the lawyer needs help on the case.

Superior Court Judge James R. Dabney advised New York lawyer Mark Heller that his pleadings weren’t appropriate under California law.

Heller was told to get assistance from another attorney or Lohan would be required to attend hearings to gauge his ability to represent her.

The actress wasn’t obligated to attend Friday’s hearing. Heller said after the hearing that while his motions didn’t conform to California law, he was simply trying to protect Lohan’s rights and would continue to do so.

Dabney also said there was no good reason to delay the March 18 trial, noting that he was skeptical that more time would allow Lohan to demonstrate she had changed after years of run-ins with the law.

“I don’t know how the next two weeks is suddenly going to change the history of this case, these cases,” Dabney said.

Lohan has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanour charges of reckless driving, lying to police and obstructing officers after her sports car crashed in June as she and a passenger headed to a movie shoot.

Lohan was on probation in a theft case at the time.

Heller had sought a delay as he works with prosecutors to reach a plea deal that could allow Lohan to pursue inspirational speaking or other community service.

The attorney rejected the notion that the actress needs rehab, noting that she has been sentenced to treatment several times before and she still ends up in trouble. “This is not what she needs — rehab,” Heller said.

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when armed cult members come for you.

While far from MIT graduates, the goons wisely use cover and a range of weapons to flush you from your hiding spot.

Having to constantly shift positions in order to brutally take down those who would otherwise burn you at the stake makes for thrilling sequences.

And, thankfully, “Tomb Raider” doesn’t cram gunfights down your throat at a constant clip — instead, it allows you opportunities for stealth takedowns or to

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When gamers first met Lara Croft back in the mid-1990s, she was a battled-tested adventurer who quickly went to guns when not leaping across bottomless pits or discovering ancient artifacts.

Rather than continuing that narrative thread, Square Enix wisely takes us back to the beginning, to introduce us to Lara when she was more likely to be digging through a textbook than scrambling to stay alive.

“Tomb Raider” creates a marvelous experience by immersing us into how Lara becomes the character Angelina Jolie plays in movies — and becomes one of the heroines of the videogame world.

You learn in quieter moments of the game that she has a deep thirst for knowledge and discovery, and you sense her despair and conflicting emotions when she has to take a life to save her own.

The game does an admirable job of allowing you and Lara to soak in the dark moments when she kills for the first time or has to watch those closest to her sacrifice themselves so that she may live.

These tropes are hardly new to adventure games, but here they are given more weight and you are less likely to just pass them by without considering their impact on the character.

Shipwrecked on an island of ancient temples and, predictably, nasty cultists, Lara sets out to rescue her fellow researchers.

The island’s various locations are both gorgeous and creepy.

Peaceful explorations through a cave are fleeting when the ground gives way and suddenly you must guide Lara down a rushing river through World War II remnants and debris lest she gets impaled.

The rise and fall of tensions work well, and you value the quiet moments to take in the scenery as much as you do the thrilling moments

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TODAY IN HISTORY March 2 1986 London, England — Queen Elizabeth II signs The Australia Bill, formally severing the last constitutional ties with Britain.

1982 Ottawa, Ontario — Progressive Conservative members boycott Parliament for two weeks in protest of the American Energy Security Bill.

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1947 Ottawa, Ontario — Ottawa hit with 48.3 cm snowfall, one of its biggest single day March snows.

1927 New York City — Babe Ruth signs 3-year contract with the New York Yankees for $70,000 a year, becoming baseball’s highest paid player.

1836 Texas — Texas declares independence from Mexico.

1807 Washington D.C. — US Congress bans the slave trade effective January 1, 1808.

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Keystone clears hurdle PIPELINE GETS BLESSING FROM U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department says rejecting TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline would neither put the brakes to Alberta’s oilsands development nor significantly diminish greenhouse gas emissions, critical findings that could help White House green-light the controversial project.

The pipeline “remains unlikely to significantly impact the rate of development of the oilsands or the demand for heavy crude oil in the United States,” a State Department official told reporters in a conference call Friday minutes after the voluminous draft report was released to the public.

Canada will develop its lucrative oilsands “with or without the proposed project,” the State Department’s analysis reads.

The report acknowledges that develop-

ing the oilsands would create cause greenhouse gas emissions but added that other methods used to transport the oil — including rail, trucks and barges — release even more.

Government analysts also found that Keystone XL would produce, each year, the equivalent carbon dioxide emissions of 620,000 passenger cars operating for a year. But those emissions would likely occur anyway because of fuels produced and obtained from other sources, the report found.

The analysis also says the $7-billion pipeline, which would carry bitumen from Alberta’s carbon-intensive oilsands through six U.S. states to Gulf Coast refineries, would cause “no significant impacts to most resources along the proposed project route.”

U.S. President Barack Obama rejected TransCanada’s original permit application

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CONSUMER CONFIDENCE SLIPS IN FEBRUARY OTTAWA — The Conference Board of Canada says consumer confidence fell last month amid concerns about the strength of the job market. The consumer confidence index fell 2.2 points to 80.8 in February, with the board noting the economy shed almost 22,000 jobs in January according to Statistics Canada. While the slip was attributed to concerns about future job market conditions, the board said there was little change last month in Canadian attitudes about their prospects for future income. Some 25 per cent of respondents said they expected their family to be better off financially in six months’ time — up 0.4 percentage points from January. That was offset by 15 per cent who said they expected their family to be worse off. There was, however, an improvement in Canadians’ attitudes about making major purchases.

Some 42 per cent of respondents indicated it was a good time to make a big ticket purchase, up 2.9 percentage points from January. Across the country, consumer confidence fell in every region except for British Columbia — which saw a rise of 1.2 percentage points.

AUTO SALES UP OVER 2012 Chrysler sold 16,832 vehicles in Canada in February, a two per cent increase over last year as the automaker said Friday that it remained Canada’s sales leader so far in 2013.

Chrysler, which sold 16,536 vehicles in the same month in 2012, said the results were the company’s best since 2000 and its 39th consecutive month of year-over-year sales growth, the longest such streak in its history.

Combined January and February sales totalled 33,845 vehicles, also a two per cent increase over the 33,120 sold in the opening two months of 2012.

Meanwhile, Ford Canada also reported an increase in vehicle sales in February compared with the same month last year.

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last year due to concerns about the pipeline’s proposed path across a crucial aquifer in the state of Nebraska.

He invited the Calgary-based company to submit a new application with an altered route; TransCanada did so last fall.

The State Department has now given that new route its blessing, too, despite claims by environmentalists that the risks to the Sand Hills region of the state remain dire.

“The new proposed route is 509 miles shorter than the previously proposed route; however, it would be approximately 21 miles longer in Nebraska to avoid sensitive areas including the... Sand Hills region,” the lengthy report reads.

The findings mean TransCanada has cleared a major hurdle in its marathon bid to win approval for Keystone XL from the Obama administration.

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Chinook Solutions opens doors in Red Deer

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Taylor Malyon, left, and Brianna Barnes fold T-shirts in the new Gord’s Smoke Shop store Friday. The longtime business re-opens Monday in its new larger location at D7, 2310 Gaetz Ave. beside Bo’s Bar and Grill after years in the Bower Place Shopping Centre.

Home sales ahead of 2012 pace

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Home sales in Red Deer this year remain ahead of the pace set to the same point in 2012, according to the latest Multiple Listing Service statistics issued by the Central Alberta Realtors Association on Friday.

However, the number of residential deals elsewhere in Central Alberta is down.

Red Deer generated 141 MLS sales during February, up five per cent from 134 for the same month in 2012. The two-month tally for the city was 240, a nine per cent improvement over the 221 sales recorded in January and February last year.

In the area covered by the Central Alberta Realtors Association outside Red Deer, there were 143 MLS home sales last month. That was a 14 per cent drop from the 167 sales in February 2012.

For the January-to-February period, regional sales totalled 257 — a 13 per cent slide from 294 for the first two months of 2012.

The average price of the homes sold in Red Deer last month was $316,203, as compared with $302,836 a year earlier, and $317,919 in January 2013.

Outside the city, the average selling price in February was $263,226. A year earlier it was $264,360, and this January it was $242,735.

The Central Alberta Realtors Association advises against relying on average prices as an indicator of market trends, because they include homes of all types and from a variety of neighbourhoods.

The association processed 523 new residential listings in February, with 226 of these in Red Deer and 297 outside the city.

That compared with 637 for the same month in 2012, when there were 219 in Red Deer and 418 in the outlying region.

For the year to date, 1,009 residential MLS listings have been processed by the association, of which 424 were in Red Deer and 585 were outside the city. Last year to the same point, the tally had reached 1,201, with 416 in Red Deer and 785 elsewhere.

A high-profile management consulting firm with international connections has set up shop in Red Deer.

Chinook Solutions Inc. opened its doors at 4711 51st Ave. last week, after nearly 14 years in Calgary.

Founder Lawrence Hobbs said Red Deer appealed to him because it’s midway between Alberta’s two biggest cities, where most of his clients are located.

The fact that his Lawrence Hobbs son attends Red Deer College was also a factor, in that it gave Hobbs and his wife Angela an appreciation of the city’s abundant green space, relatively light traffic flows and friendly people.

“The lifestyle is a significant step up, we find.”

Chinook Solutions helps businesses and other organizations with strategic and business planning, implementation and governance, and performance improvement.

Its clients include the likes of SaskPower Corp., TransCanada Corp., Farm Credit Canada, the City of Calgary and a number of provincial departments and agencies.

The sectors it works in range from aviation to services and technologies.

“Our clients are all over,” said Hobbs, who is a certified management consultant and a project management professional.

“Probably the furthest away were a couple in Colombia that we did five or six years ago.”

The firm works with affiliates in Texas and Mexico, and has associates in Calgary and Edmonton.

Hobbs said much of the work Chinook Solutions does relates to a methodology called “Strategic DNA.” “Fundamentally, it’s an integration of Harvard Business School best practices,” he explained.

Hobbs codified Strategic DNA in a 2008 book by the same name, and has registered it as a trademark in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Formerly an air traffic engineer in the U.K., Hobbs was recruited by Canadian aviation giant Bombardier Inc. in 1987.

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Conflict not necessarily a bad thing Dear Working Wise: Do you have any advice on handling conflicts in the workplace?

I thought I had the personality and interpersonal skills to work well with just about anyone, but lately I’ve been clashing with the head of another department over priorities and resources.

Help! — Conflicted Dear Conflicted: Conflict is not necCHARLES essarily a bad thing.

STRACHEY Differences of opinion can be positive WORKING WISE when they create opportunities to improve the organization or workplace. But left unresolved, conflict can increase stress and lower morale in your workplace, which can cut productivity, reduce customer satis-

faction and increase staff turnover.

You may be able to resolve a workplace issue by talking it through with your coworkers in an informal, positive way. For more information and suggestions, read the Handling People Problems at Work tip sheet on the Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) website at http://alis.alberta. ca.

If you’re facing an issue you can’t resolve informally, you may need to try a more structured approach like issue-based problem solving. This six-step approach brings together everyone involved in the conflict to talk about the issue.

1. Explore the issues Identify issues by using concrete examples, including who is involved along with when, how often and where the problems happen. Focus on what others have to say and not how you feel about them.

Ask questions like: Do we have all the details? Is everything out in the open? Do we agree on what we need to talk about? Do we understand how these issues are affect-

ing other people?

2. Understand interests Everyone involved has needs, wants and fears. Listen to what they need (their interests) instead of their wants (positions). The best solution to the problem is the one that satisfies the most interests.

Share your own interests on the issue and why. Ask open-ended questions to find out what their interests are. Ask why they have a specific position/opinion to discover their interest. Ask more probing questions to understand their fears and concerns.

Focus on areas of common ground without losing sight of different and opposing interests.

3. Develop options Brainstorm possible solutions that satisfy the shared and separate interests. Don’t judge any options until you run out of ideas.

4. Choose a solution Ask the group to choose a solution that meets the most interests.

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Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 78.10 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.99 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.74 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 31.81 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 45.89 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.93 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.64 General Motors Co. . . . . 27.21 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.45

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Friday as disappointing economic data from China punished commodity prices and resource stocks.

The S&P/TSX composite index was off the worst levels of the session in the wake of better than expected U.S. consumer sentiment and manufacturing data.

The index fell 48.71 points to 12,773.12 while the TSX Venture Exchange was down 13.27 points to 1,120.09.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.4 of a cent to 97.36 cents US as Statistics Canada reported that gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of 0.6 per cent in the fourth quarter, which matched expectations. However, GDP actually shrank in the final month of the year, dropping 0.2 per cent, which was also in line with economists’ forecasts.

The Institute for Supply Management’s February reading on the manufacturing sector showed stronger than expected expansion, rising to 54.2 from 53.1 in January.

And the University of Michigan’s widely watched consumer sentiment index rose to 77.3.

The Dow Jones industrials

came back from a triple-digit tumble to gain 35.17 points to 14,089.66, the Nasdaq was ahead 9.55 points to 3,169.74 and the S&P 500 index was up 3.52 points to 1,518.2.

In other economic news, the U.S. Commerce Department said Friday that consumer spending rose 0.2 per cent in January, driven by an increase in spending on services, partly reflecting higher heating bills. Spending on durable goods, such as cars and appliances, fell 0.8 per cent.

Income fell 3.6 per cent in January, the biggest drop since January 1993. But it followed a hefty 2.6 per cent rise in December which reflected a rush by companies to pay dividends and bonuses before income taxes increased on top earners.

Traders also considered the effect of deep U.S. government spending cuts due to take effect Friday. It’s known as the sequester and involves US$85 billion of across-the-board cuts.

After meeting with congressional leaders during the morning, President Barack Obama blamed Republican lawmakers for failing to stop the automatic spending cuts. Republicans said the fault was his, for insisting that increased taxes be part of the

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resolution.

Also in the background was the uncertainty surrounding Europe’s third-biggest economy following inconclusive elections earlier this week.

“The Italian election results set the week off on a soft tone and then the inability of the Congress and the president to come up with a more surgical solution to the sequester disappoints people, but also points to the dysfunction of the U.S. political process,” said Norman Raschkowan, North American strategist at Mackenzie Financial Corp.

“And I think it’s not necessarily a long-term issue because I think they will come up with something. But I think it is just another element of uncertainty that people don’t need.”

There was big news on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline just before the close.

The U.S. State Department says TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline won’t have a significant impact on Alberta’s oilsands development, a finding that might make it easier for the White House to approve the controversial project.

The report’s findings represent the clearing of a signifi-

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Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.96 Canyon Services Group. 10.33 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 32.74 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.720 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 18.32 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.12 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.43 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.63 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.36 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 31.78 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.05 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.94 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.61 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.01 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.09 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.40 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 30.90 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.70 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.58

cant hurdle for Calgary-based TransCanada (TSX:TRP) in its marathon bid to win approval for Keystone XL from the Obama administration. TransCanada shares were already in the red before the announcement, losing 23 cents to $47.81.

Prices for oil and copper registered sharp declines as government data showed that Chinese manufacturing activity expanded at a slower rate in February than January.

The government-sponsored version of the manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index came in at 50.1 for February, only marginally ahead of the 50-point threshold that signals an expansion. Economists had looked for a reading of 50.5.

The gold sector led decliners, down about 1.4 per cent while April gold fell $5.80 to US$1,572.30 an ounce.

The base metals sector was also a major decliner, down about 1.1 per cenet while May copper on the Nymex fell five cents to US$3.50 a pound. China is the biggest consumer of the metal.

The energy sector was down about 0.4 per cent as the April crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell $1.37

to $90.68 a barrel.

The consumer discretionary segment led advancers as shares in automaker Magna International (TSX:MG) rose $2.17 to $57.02 after it reported stronger than expected fourth-quarter results, raised its production outlook for 2013 and announced a dividend increase.

The TSX finished up 0.56 per cent on the week while the Dow industrials rose 0.63 per cent.

In other earnings news, after the close Thursday, National Bank of Canada (TSX:NA) reported adjusted net income of $2.02 per diluted share for the first quarter of fiscal 2013, beating analyst estimates by a penny. Total revenue for the quarter, however, was $1.24 billion, mostly flat compared to the year earlier period and below analyst expectations of $1.29 billion.

Its shares dropped 61 cents to $77.95.

And toymaker Mega Brands Inc. (TSX:MB) posted quarterly earnings of US$4 million, up from $200,000 a year earlier while sales jumped 18 per cent to US$127.5 million.

There is relatively little analyst coverage of Mega Brands but it appears the company’s sales were better than expected

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and profit missed the mark. But its shares gained 68 cents to $12.47.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: March ’13 $2.60 lower $626.00; May ’13 $7.40 lower $617.60; July ’13 $7.10 lower $609.40; Nov. ’13 $4.80 lower $561.30; Jan. ’14 $6.00 lower $557.80; March ’14 $8.30 lower $553.00; May ’14 $8.30 lower $550.90; July ’14 $8.30 lower $549.00; Nov. ’14 $8.30 lower $537.80; Jan ’15 $8.30 lower $537.80; March ’15 $8.30 lower $537.80.

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.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 228,060 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 228,060.

Disappointing end to’12 sets economy up for weak year

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canadian economy suffered through its second consecutive below-par quarter at the end of 2012, setting the stage for another year of disappointing growth and job creation in 2013.

Statistics Canada reported Friday that the economy squeezed out a mere 0.6 per cent advance in the last three months of last year — following a 0.7 per cent increase in the third quarter — and was on a downward path in the final month, when output retreated by 0.2 per cent.

The sickly production numbers were in line with economist expectations, but that is only because analysts had been hurriedly batting down their forecasts in the weeks before the report.

In reality, the final tally is still about half what the Bank of Canada had predicted in January, and about one-quarter what it had said was likely in October.

Still, economists cautioned the results could have been worse, and in fact expressed relief that most of the weakness in the fourth quarter was due to a $10.3-billion inventory write-down, rather than from

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PIPELINE: Not all good news in report It wasn’t all good news for the company, however.

The report also cast doubt on one of the strongest pro-pipeline arguments — that Keystone XL will help the U.S. meet its energy needs.

In fact, the report suggests the growth in rail transport of oil from western Canada and America’s Great Plains could provide plenty of energy for the U.S. over the next decade, regardless of whether the pipeline is ever built.

The analysis also put a far more conservative estimate on the number of jobs that would be created

by Keystone XL. Proponents of the pipeline have predicted a veritable hiring bonanza, with some Republicans suggesting hundreds of thousands of jobs are in the offing.

But the report said that while the pipeline’s construction would support 42,100 jobs during the oneto two-year construction period, with total wages of about $2 billion, only 35 permanent and temporary jobs will remain once Keystone XL is fully operational.

Nonetheless, TransCanada CEO Russ Girling agreed with the State Department on the more significant finding — Canada will tap into the oilsands regardless of whether Keystone XL ever sees the light of day.

“The marketplace will determine what’s produced and what’s refined. The oil will find its way to the Gulf Coast,” Girling said in Calgary. “A pipeline is by far the safest and most efficient way to transport oil to markets.”

Alberta Premier Alison Redford said she was pleased by the State Department’s findings, saying

a consumption collapse.

“Obviously the headline is pretty sour, but the details aren’t terrible,” said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist with BMO Capital Markets.

“There are actually are some slivers of good news.

Things like consumer spending and business investment and even net exports were a little bit better than expected. It suggests the economy is still grinding ahead slowly but surely.”

The markets also saw it that way. The Canadian dollar was down initially on the news but quickly recovered and was modestly up to 97.01 cents US by mid-morning.

For 2012 overall, growth in Canada came in at 1.8 per cent, down from 2.6 per cent in 2011 and the weakest number since the end of the 2008-09 recession.

Many analysts now believe 2013 will be even weaker, at between one per cent and 1.5 per cent, assuming there is no major shock..

The StatsCan report drew calls from left-wing commentators for more government intervention, but that didn’t appear to sway Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.

“I think our results do reflect Canada’s solid economic and fiscal fundamentals, but they also reflect the uncertainty that we see abroad and weakness in the global recovery,” Flaherty said at a news conference Friday afternoon.

“What we can do in our country is, of course, control our own spending which is what we’re doing.

We’re working hard on the budget.”

The budget, Flaherty added, won’t contain any new “risky spending schemes” and the government remains on track to balance the budget by 2015.

Erin Weir of the Progressive Economics Forum said both federal and provincial governments should invest in public services and infrastructure rather than continuing to pursue austerity measures that crimp growth.

In the Commons, NDP whip Nicole Turmel called continuing spending cuts while the economy sinks a “recipe for disaster.”

Conservative MP Shelly Glover, the parliamentary secretary for Flaherty, boasted that Canada still had the strongest growth rate of any Group of Seven economy in the fourth quarter.

the draft analysis represents real progress in the long and winding road to Keystone XL approval.

“We believe that the people involved in this have listened to what we have said with respect to our environmental record here in Alberta,” she said.

She added she was confident Obama would base his ultimate decision on “science and fact.”

passenger service from the Red Deer Airport.

Some clients will travel to Red Deer, he added.

Chinook Solutions can accommodate 12 to 20 people in its boardroom, but in many cases he expects to book meeting space at local hotels and conference facilities.

Additional information about Chinook Solutions can be found online at www.chinooksolutions.com. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

CHINOOK: Launched in ’99 There, he recommended and helped implement changes to the way the company operated, and assisted with the integration of other companies acquired by Bombardier.

“That’s what led me on to change management and then business consulting.”

Hobbs launched Chinook Solutions in 1999 with the help of a business partner, who died a few years later. Today, he runs the firm with Angela.

In addition to Strategic DNA — of which 10,000 copies were printed — Hobbs has published three other management books. Angela has a half-dozen titles to her name, with these focusing on health issues.

After relying on publishing companies for each of their first books, the couple set up a publishing division within Chinook Solutions. It operates as Bold World Books.

“Now we’re starting to receive manuscripts and proposals from other people,” said Hobbs.

“We are in discussions with several authors at the moment.”

Despite relying on air transportation to reach many of his clients, Hobbs thinks Chinook Solutions’ new Red Deer base gives him a travel advantage.

“I’ve got two major airports to choose from,” he said, adding that a drive to the Calgary International Airport doesn’t take much longer now than it did when he lived in Calgary.

Hobbs also pointed out that he can reach two of his major clients, the City of Kelowna and Kelowna Airport, using scheduled

CONFLICT: Issue-based problem solving 5. Implement the solution Decide as a group what needs to be done, how the solution will be evaluated, who will do what, what support they will receive, when it will be done and how they will be accountable for following through on the plan.

6. Evaluate the solution Measure the success of your solution and report back to the group on its success, or the need to develop a new solution.

Issue-based problem-solving is a common-sense approach to resolving workplace conflicts before they become complex and costly. Everyone wins when you listen and respect others while working towards a solution.

For more information on issue-based problem solving, check out the Let’s Talk publication on the ALIS website at http://alis.alberta.ca/pdf/cshop/letstalk.pdf.

You may also want to engage the services of a conflict resolution practitioner or professional facilitator who is trained to help others find solutions without taking sides.

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Painting stripes — with pink. Sadly this doesn’t come in a can. A little elbow work is required to achieve results like the bedroom featured here.

Painting the right way So you’re decorating — not for you, of everyday life. per se, but for your child — and you’re Yup, spills, thrills and childhood stressed to the blinkin’ hilt. ills all need consideration in exacting Oh, for the love of God, chill out; it’s measure. only paint and paper and, if you’re tactics are even remotely careful, there’s no reason to get it wrong.

The secret to success is Right? a washable and comfortBut this latest project able background that can be has brought on a case of modified as time and tastes hives. fluctuate.

Your blood pressure is Our watch word, thererising. fore, is flexibility.

You’re just, well, frenThe last thing you want to zied. Guess it’s fair to say deal with is a complete gut that, when planning adult down six months after your decor, you enjoy a fair child’s allegiance springgrasp of what works and COLIN & boards from Batman to Suwhat doesn’t, but junior JUSTIN perman, or from Barbie to taste is oh so different . . .

My Little Pony. and it changes on a whim.

And therein, dear readers, lies (just part of the) problem.

Child-friendly design, you see, For the most part, adults can assess should be tempered not only by what’s their own risks. cool for kids, but by factors such as Children, however, particularly safety, growing older and sharing spacyoung ones, need safety taken care of es with siblings.

But it doesn’t stop there; junior de- for them. sign must also have practicality at its root to cope with the rough and tumble Please see PAINT on Page D2

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If, as we cover certain points, it feels like we’re teaching our grannies to suck eggs, please excuse us.

This is important stuff and we want to get it right.

Tiny fingers can be easily hurt in door hinges, so fit plastic safety mechanisms.

Check out your big box hardware store for a range of options.

Ensure window cords, blind chains and curtain pulls are safely tucked out of harms way.

Each year, sadly, there are accidents and deaths when little souls become trapped in the workings of seemingly innocent window apparatus.

Windows should be fitted with locks that allow for good ventilation yet limited opening without adult supervision.

Avoid trailing electrical cords or flexes and ensure that all plugs are fitted with childproof fronts.

We never install open or gas fires in kids’ rooms.

We don’t even need to explain why.

If you have exposed radiators, ensure they’re kept on a separate thermostat so they don’t become too hot.

If this isn’t possible, employ a safety screen to protect delicate fingers.

Rugs on hard flooring should be anchored on antiglide mats to protect against slippage or, were there even such a word, trippage.

Avoid hanging shelves at low level; while this might sound like a practical solution to lower stature, excited play and room perimeter mini-marathons can result in a head-on collision.

For further advice, check out the home safety section at safekidscanada.ca.

Let’s start at the very beginning.

Blessed, as we are, with a veritable army of nephews and nieces, and having worked on various shows where kids have been involved, we know they’re more likely to protect space if they’ve been involved in its design from the outset.

This in mind, discuss ideas, especially with older kids, and run through colours and room functions before moving forward.

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FLOORING OPTIONS Carpet Choose product that’s washable and stain repellent.

Even fastidious kids will drop paint pots or food trays.

And don’t even think about Little Mermaid or Batman roll stock Berber; it’s safer to choose product where design cues come from colour rather than pattern.

This way you can tailor the environment as your child matures. Try Carpet Mill (carpetmill.ca) for a great deal.

Amtico A resin-based pliable product like this makes great sense as it deals well with spills or accidents.

Future proof — good quality boards can be sanded and varnished as tastes evolve.

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Oft maligned, these make perfectly acceptable beds as long as you invest in a quality option with a firm, comfy mattress.

Space saving to the max (by day they fold into deep sofas to free up the floor) theyíre low slung with a trendy feel that can be incorporated into a host of design looks from brightly coloured Chinese to loft living with a twist. Get ready to slumber at futonshop.ca.

LIGHTING So that mood may be altered at the flick of a switch (to suit sleep, play or study), install a dimmer switch.

And, when choosing bedside lamps (particularly for very young children) select heavy-based models that are less likely to be knocked over.

FLEXIBLE FURNITURE We steer well clear of sports car or castle shaped beds; it’s better to add personality through paint, linen and ancillary dressing.

For maximum future proofing, avoid miniature chairs and tables and opt instead for squashy bean bags or comfy seating cubes that will have worth further down the line.

Basket chests and trunks are also smart furniture and the latter can be repainted as years pass.

BUNKBEDS Working on a stack ‘em high principal, these are cool as long as safety is properly considered.

If bunks are near ceiling lights, or if children are within reach of cables or flexes, we recommend calling an electrician to move the wiring.

The best types of bunks are those which grow with your child.

Search for models whose ‘ground floor’ converts into a comfy seating area (when a second bed isn’t required), or whose lower level can be subsequently reconfigured as a study area for junior.

Try kidsroomscanada.ca for 98 different styles!

DOUBLE-DUTY BEDS Seek out beds with hidden storage or drawers.

Anything on legs will give space to stash linens and toys in trunks or trays.

If you have a redundant chest in your basement, remove the drawers and add wheels to the bottom of each.

Hey, presto!

Inexpensive roll out of sight storage.

SOFA BEDS Foldable, like futons, these, traditionally, are constructed on a tension sprung base or built from dense foam.

If you hope to achieve a look thatí’s more living room than bedroom, choosing a sofa bed is practical and will allow you to adapt the space further into childhood.

EXTENDA-BEDS These, while they look for all intents and purposes like standard cribs, transform easily into adult nests by removing the side bars and installing full length struts and a larger mattress.

An investment buy, perhaps, but, with a competitive market, prices have lowered.

The Stork Craft Tuscany, for example, costs $244 (from walmart.ca) and, with adaptations available to transform it into a full-sized adult bed, it’s the measure of flexibility.

So worry not.

De stress.

And breathe.

Take it from us; if you remember the two most important ingredients of kids’ room design you’ll be just fine.

And they are?

Love and laughter.

Don’t look upon your project as a chore, make it a fun exercise and, as it provides for the smallest in your brood, watch, in awe, as your efforts rejuvenate everyone else in the family.

Yup, decor for the young — and the young at heart — really can be the beginning of something wonderful.

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Perhaps it’s best to avoid the pros and cons of gender-specific colour schemes; suffice to say we both grew up in Barbie pink bedrooms and it didn’t do us any harm whatsoever.

Ahem, kidding!

Seriously, though, it’s up to you and your issue to decide upon shade preference.

We reckon our time today is better spent on paint types and varieties.

Ensure that, whichever colour you choose, finish is at least wipeable — or better, washable — so that crayon marks and pen scribbles can be easily removed.

And remember options; Matt latex, for example, is less durable than silk finish so study specs to discover the appropriate product.

Chalkboard paint, while fun, is better applied onto MDF panels or specially designed portable boards (which have dust catching lips at the bottom) rather than directly onto walls due to chalk clouds when erasing.

Better still, get your kids into the habit of using a damp cloth to ‘rub out’ and contain dust mountains.

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Striped paint?

Sadly this doesn’t come in a can; a little elbow work is required to achieve results like the bedroom featured here, although essentially it wasn’t that difficult.

You don’t, after all, need a masters degree in interior design to operate a spirit level, nor do you need a degree to unroll masking tape or brandish a roller.

Just remember to allow adequate drying time between coats so paint doesn’t dislodge as you pull the tape away.

Magnetic paint (harmless metal constituents provide grab) is a fun product that allows for fixing and repositioning of fridge magnets, pictures or alphabetic letters as required.

Some manufacturers produce pre-selected colours but we find that the magnetic primer from Rust Oleum (which can be used below regular latex) is most convenient.

Visit rustoleum.ca for more info.

Fluorescent or glitter paints are great fun although their appeal may diminish as your child’s fascination with stellar configurations is replaced by a fascination with stars of a more earthly nature; how frustrating will it be when all that lovingly applied sun and moon imagery is suddenly usurped by Harry Styles or Taylor Swift?

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Spruce up, from floor up HOUSE TO HOME

make a house appealing to perspective buyers.

I wouldn’t be concerned about the size, at one point it was just right for your son, and everybody has to start somewhere. But how does it show?

Cleanliness and order head the to-do list.

If it is obvious that care has been taken in maintaining the home, its good qualities will shine through.

It is often difficult for us to see details that we have lived with for years, but these can be a deal-breaker, so be gently honest about how you view their home.

Organize clutter, and edit extra furniture so that the existing space glows. Personal collections can be packed away for their next home.

If there are any eyesores, such as cracks in walls, broken faucets, mildewed grout, stained floors or carpets, it is worth every cent to repair or replace the damage.

Eliminate the negatives wherever possible.

A fresh coat of paint will brighten up any room; it’s not necessary to repaint the entire house, but you can’t go wrong with a welcome hallway or kitchen.

I would keep the colour neutral for resale.

A warm white is probably best. Think about the floors.

There are area rugs and runners that are not costly and will add a fresh touch to the interior.

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Good luck with the sale; I’m sure it will go well.

Question: I painted my kitchen Thai Green (a mellow yellow beige).

I love the colour and it works with my ruddy brown cabinets.

However, the window and door trim is white, and doesn’t look good at all.

Can you suggest a good trim colour please?

Answer: Your kitchen colours sound lovely.

The base for both the cabinets and walls is brown (light and dark), so the white trim, rather than being fresh, makes an unappealing contrast.

Look for the antique whites or a butter cream shade that has a brown tint to it.

The softer tone will complement what you have, bring out the best in both colours and present a warm yet clean trim line.

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The top 3M rubbing pad is the superfine grade and ideal for cleaning old furniture finishes. Tough cases might require the fine grade (middle). The medium grade (bottom) is suitable for stripping furniture.

Cleaning sticky furniture finish Question: What’s the pens when shock waves best way to remove sticky travel through the pipes residue that’s on an an- as water flow stops when tique table? It doesn’t a faucet or fixture is come off with a damp turned off. rag.

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I’ve used 3M rubbing pads for this work with great success.

They’re a non-woven, synthetic abrasive that looks like a kitchen scouring pad.

I buy mine at Lee Valley Tools (www.leevalleytools.com; 800-267-8767).

Start with the superfine grade.

It’s white in colour.

You might also try wax remover liquid made especially for furniture, but be sure to experiment on a small area first.

Dealing with wood finishes can be tricky, so caution is essential.

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es a pressure tank.

This is a normal part of rural water systems that use pumps to draw water from wells and lakes, but they’re perfect as whole-house water hammer arrestors, too.

Have your plumber install 5 or 8-gallon diaphragm pressure tank in the incoming cold water line where it enters your house and your pipe noise will stop, regardless of where it’s coming from.

Be sure to specify a diaphragm-type tank.

Pressure tanks without diaphragms are available, but they need to have air added to them every year or so to make up for the air that gets dissolved in the water and lost.

Water heater leak protection Question: Is there any way I can protect a laminate floor from water damage at our cottage?

It’s the possibility of a water heater leak I’m concerned about most.

Answer: Many yearround homes are vulnerable to water heater leaks, so it’s wise to think

about the issue sooner rather than later.

The best approach is to find a safety pan that sits underneath the water heater, or have one made.

Galvanized sheet metal with soldered corners offers one excellent approach.

Any pan needs to have a drain pipe that leads down through the floor, ending some place safe.

You might also feel better to know that modern laminates are surprisingly resistant to water.

That’s no reason to ignore the danger of a leak, but I have seen entire laminate floors completely submerged for several days with nothing more than a little swelling along the edges.

Since this floor was a click style, parts were taken up and outside, allowed to dry and replaced with no issues.

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Our dogs are often as fat as we are, according to the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention. Family cats can look like furry ottomans. At Tufts University, they’ve set up an obesity clinic at the vet school.

It’s time to get our pets up and at ’em.

Dogs and cats love to play, and there are scores of great toys to engage their bodies and minds.

Be mindful of your pet’s breed and character when choosing games and toys, advises Victoria Wells, senior manager for behaviour and training at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ adoption centre in New York City.

DOGS “Scent-oriented dogs will respond best to games that involve seeking out something that has an odour, so hide treats around the house that they have to locate,” she says. “Buy toys that you can hide treats inside, and the dog has to tumble it to get at them.”

Intelligent dogs need mental stimulation just as people do, says Wells.

Spot’s Seek a Treat sliding puzzle and Discovery Wheel might fill the bill. Company of Animals has a Twister treat-finding game. The Kong line of toys are pack pleasers; the toys have holes at one end to hide treats, and the heavy-duty rubber construction makes them tough enough for larger dogs. (Available at many pet stores, or at www.wag.com ; www.companyofanimals.co.uk ) Big, energetic dogs will have fun chasing the sturdy Varsity Ball. And for a little humour, consider Moody Pet’s Humunga lips-, tongue- or moustacheshaped chew toys that give your dog a hilarious visage when they’re holding them. (www.varsitypetsonline.com ; www.moodypet.com ) Dogs that love to interact love to tug — and Wells says that, contrary to some opinion, tugging can be a great game.

“It’s all about who’s in control of the game. You decide when you play it, when the toy must be released, when it must be dropped,” she says.

Teaching these skills early in a puppy’s life makes play a lifelong joy. But even a rescue dog can learn, with patience and understanding.

Try a tennis ball attached to a rope, which makes retrieving and throwing easy — no slobbery balls to grip. Petco also offers Bamboo’s Combat Bone, a soft and floatable bone-shaped tugger, while Homegoods’ extensive pet department, HG Pet, has great squeakand-fetch options too. (www.petco.com , www.homegoods.com ) Sturdy coils of small, medium or large marinegrade rope also do the job, but for multi-dog tug action, consider Ruff Dawg’s four-handled rubber toy. (www.wag.com ) If you’ve got a ball-loving dog, you’ve probably spent hours throwing one; tennis balls seem to be the toy of choice. For something a little different, consider the Mystery Tree, which requires the dog to trip a lever to release the ball. And for truly energetic canines, get the Hyperdog Launcher, which shoots up to four balls 220 feet via a slingshot-like contraption. No more goober-y hands or sore throwing arms. (www.activedogtoys.com ) Some dogs love hide and seek; Kyjen has a plush tree trunk you stuff with mini squirrels for Dog to extricate. (www.kyjen.com ) And how about chasing bubbles? Activedogtoys. com has the automatic Bubbletastic and Bubble Buddy, which blow bacon- or chicken-scented bubbles.

Perform a toy test: Does your pet respond best to a plush toy, a ball or an interactive food toy?

On his website Cesarsway.com, dog behaviour specialist and TV show host Cesar Millan advises that toys can help a dog learn not to bite. With puppies, introduce toys quickly as substitutes for hands.

Wells suggests some easy-to-make homemade toys.

Poke holes in a 2-litre soda bottle and fill it with a few kibbles: Pawing the bottle will randomly release the treats.

A popular treat at shelters is a savory ice pop.

“We put some treats in deli or carry-out containers, then fill them with water or chicken stock” and freeze them, she says.

Caregivers also scent objects with cinnamon, clove or lavender at different times of day, she says, depending on whether they want to energize or soothe their furry charges.

When you leave the house for a long period, Wells say, “limit the number of toys you leave out. Just like children, pets get bored if their entire toy box is available to them every day.”

CATS Cats appreciate an interesting toy as much as dogs do. Kitty condos, which often have several elevations and platforms to climb, sit on and hide in, are excellent choices.

“Vertical hiding places and sanctuaries are very important to cats,” notes Wells, since they seek these out in the wild.

Look for upholstered versions in kneadable micro plush, or carpet remnants.

Scratching posts made of sturdy jute will save your furniture, and can be purchased or made at home. A feline version of the mouse exercise wheel is available at Catwheelcompany.com.

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Sunday, March 3 HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthSaturday, March 2 HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birth- day, you will submit yourself to a year of day, this may be the year that you will get to transformational changes where you will entravel to exotic lands or pursue your studies counter many intense yet truth-seeking expeoverseas. You prefer to invest yourself emo- riences. You won’t take anything at face value tionally wisely and efficiently. You seem to and you will strive to get to the bottom of an be inclined to pursue a long-term discipline issue. You will be inclined to act with much into a higher learning education or a specific zest and confidence and will respond to life in degree. You long to widen your horizons in somewhat straightforward and keen ways.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): life and to see life from a different You develop a greater need to tap perspective which will cheer up into your innermost feelings and your spirits with much optimism you experience life in its most proand with a thrill for freedom and found, yet mystical ways. Everyindependence. thing underground appeals to you ARIES (March 21-April 19): and you are pretty comfortable with This is a time of enhanced intitaboo subjects. macy in your closest affairs. Avoid TAURUS (April 20-May 20): procrastination or giving up on The need and the feeling of being what you are doing. You are more with someone really warm you up. prone to leave now some unfinToday you long to be in the compaished business behind or simply ny of a loved one more than usuneglect a credit issue. ally. You seek closure and you are TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ASTRO not afraid to voice it. You aspire to If you chose to get together with DOYNA work towards your common goals. new or old acquaintances you will GEMINI (May 21-June 20): derive much thrill through these You are more focused to put your social activities. There could also responsibilities into order by ridding be a lessening of tension in a love yourself of unwanted junk. Certain relationship or your mate may prove more items have simply outlived their purpose. Be encouraging and supportive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you have picky about the foods you ingest today and been trying to keep your private life under avoid playing the martyr.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You seek the radar, now it may become more open or emotionally satisfying recreational activities exposed. Getting that long-awaited validation can feel so rewarding and gratifying. Be and you feel young at heart when creativity careful when indulging in fatty foods or sub- blends well with fun. Later on tonight, you will develop the need to implement some fun in stances.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Romance your daily routine, making it less of a chore.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Nostalgia will should run like clear water right now and if you are thinking of a family vacation, this kick in and your branches of nostalgia will be could prove a heartwarming experience. It’s shaken by certain memorable moments from your past. Your mother might also come into an exciting time to indulge in life’s pleasures.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today you are la- focus today. You will both relate to one anzily comfortable in your own home. You want other on a more profound level.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The need to to stay in and simply cuddle up under some warm covers. Self-indulgence and keeping a speak up your mind and to share what’s on low profile appeal more to you now. Peace your mind will come easier to you now. You will also be predisposed to be more eloquent and serenity reigns within your soul.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are more and more forthright than usual. As the night likely to spend some time close to your neigh- unfolds, you will seek more quiet, intimate bourhood while moving around and running moments at home.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You feel warm some essential errands. Should you decide to get together with your friends, you will opt for and comfortable in a stable and secure environment. Today you will do whatever is in a nigh in rather than go out in the town.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You could ex- your power to provide your own family with perience a less stressful situation pertaining such necessities. Soon enough, you will be to monetary issues. You are feeling more se- in a chattier mood trying to catch up on the cure where your wealth is residing at the mo- latest news.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may ment. Relationships with women will improve tend to mother everyone around you today. now or diminish in pressures.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may There’s a certain unconditional care and symmeet someone that will catch your eye today. pathy that you are willing to offer others toYour amorous antennae are highly receptive day. This will bring others closer to you while today and you are in the mood for some fun. seeking for your sharply honest opinions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You You will become more sought after and popular. For others it is quite easy to unburden may feel overly emotional or simply, detached from everyone else today. Soon enough, you their hearts to you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As will no longer seek seclusion, or isolation. outgoing as you usually are, today you will You will yearn to do something bold and perbe looking forward to some relaxation. You haps, implement some radical changes into are not feeling particularly in need to put your your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This is a emotions on display and you would rather stay in. Spending some time close to your day where you feel that your place is amongst your friends or your local community. You home will feel more necessary.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): After need to be around individuals you can relate a somewhat stagnating and perhaps less to and with whom you share similar goals. sizzling romantic period, you may now re- Later on, you will suddenly look forward to ceive more invitations to attend various social some quiet times.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You seek events or activities. A female’s presence will predominate more frequently in your daily life. recognition and you will go about it by followAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your fi- ing your instincts. You will not refer to data nances are looking so good right now and or statistics in order to assess your worth, you feel that you deserve to indulge yourself but rather look within the power of your own in some specific purchase. Perhaps you want values.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today you to acquire a good that you are certain that it will make you look good or of a higher rank- may come into interaction with people from abroad or you will simply desire strongly to ing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your heart evade somewhere far away. Whatever you is aching for an agreeable trip somewhere do, try to control your sense of purpose and overseas. You receive great assistance and focus on the road ahead.

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Woman doesn’t need to sit in silence during cousin’s narrow-minded rants Dear Annie: I am 60 years old and I am also the only one who attended have a cousin the same age. “Kevin’s” college. I am graduating in May and conversations are sexist, racist, imma- mentioned to my parents that I hoped ture and extremely self-centered. He to have a small graduation party with mocks people who recycle and told me family and close friends. One friend helping others is “a waste of time.” already offered to make my cake.

His takes on current events and You can imagine my disappointment politics sound like drunken when my parents said it was barroom rants. I find mysilly to have a graduation self walking away from him party, and they’d rather shell-shocked. spend money on a wedding I know we are supposed whenever I get married. to keep away from toxic Annie, I wasn’t asking people, but Kevin and I them to spend money. I just had many wonderful adwanted to use the hospitalventures together when we ity of their home because were young. We still have my college apartment is a our past memories and a few hours away. few subjects in common. But I’ve worked hard for my I’m afraid he is taking my sidegree, and I’m hurt by lence during these rants for their lack of excitement. I MITCHELL tacit approval. want to share my happiness. & SUGAR Does he need to be chalI don’t need gifts. Would lenged? Am I being idealisit be against etiquette to tic to think he might change, throw myself a party? — or should I just try to keep Puzzled my distance? — Florida Cousin Dear Puzzled: It is OK to give yourDear Florida: Kevin may never self a party, but please don’t mention change his narrow-minded views, but your graduation until after your guests that doesn’t mean you have to sit in arrive. silence.

You don’t want to give the impresIf you don’t want to cut him out of sion of, “I’m so fantastic and accomyour life, understand that he is going plished — bring presents.” Simply say to say things that bother you, and it’s you want to have a party. You can then perfectly fine to tell him so. tell them during the event that you are It doesn’t require confrontation. celebrating your degree.

Simply say, “Kevin, I strongly disagree Another option is to get together with you and don’t wish to discuss it with your classmates and have a group further,” and then change the subject. celebration, whereby you are essenIf he persists, you have the option of tially giving a graduation party for one ending the conversation altogether. another.

In time, either Kevin will understand Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy which subjects are off-limits, or you Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ediwill be spending a lot less time in his tors of the Ann Landers column. Please company. email your questions to anniesmailbox@ Dear Annie: I am the youngest of comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, seven children and the only one who c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, didn’t marry young.

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LODEWYK Dick 1940-2013 Dick Lodewyk of Red Deer passed away at his home on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at the age of 72 years. Dick Lodewyk was born on July 23, 1940 in t’Zandt, Groningen,

DUNFORD Kathleen Marian 1925 - 2013 Musician, music teacher, community volunteer. Wherever

she went, music followed.

Kathleen Marian Dunford, nee Spurr, passed peacefully February 4th at the Edmonton General Continuing Care Centre at the age of 87. Born in Loyalist, Alberta June 4th, 1925 the only child of Jack and Susan Spurr. Kay grew up and completed school in Sceptre, Saskatchewan and Crossfield, Alberta. After graduating she trained as a pianist in Calgary earning degrees from both the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Western Board of Music.

In 1952, Kay married Warren Dunford and settled in Sylvan Lake later moving to Stettler in 1966. Throughout her life Kay brought music to all around her. For over forty years she taught piano to hundreds of children and adults. A number of her students went on to become teachers in their turn. She served as organist at both Memorial Presbyterian Church in Sylvan Lake and Stettler United Church and gave the gift of her warmth and her music to countless weddings, funerals and community events. Kay was an active member of Stettler’s Gilbert and Sullivan Company throughout its history and a founding member of the Stettler and District Music Festival, serving as a board member for many years. She was also a long-time volunteer at the Stettler Hospital and Care Centre and an active m e m b e r o f t h e U C W. I n 1989, Kay was recognized for her many contributions to the community as co-winner of Stettler’s Citizen of the Year. In retirement, Kay and Warren travelled and enjoyed many peaceful summers at their cottage at Rochon Sands. In 2003, Kay and Warren relocated to Edmonton to be closer to family. Kay is survived by her three children Penny (Ron Johnson) and Janice (Francois Boucher) of Edmonton, Kendall (Anne Reid) of Hamilton and by five grandchildren: Megan Dunford and Michael Dunford (Nadia S t a i k o s ) o f To r o n t o a n d Etienne Boucher (Laura Zemrau), Gabriel Boucher, and Lindsay Boucher of Edmonton. She was predeceased by husband Warren in 2010 after more than 57 years of marriage. A memorial service to celebrate the life of Kay Dunford will be held at the Stettler United Church on Monday, March 11, 2013 at 2:00 P.M. with the Rev. John Crowdis officiating. Condolences can be forwarded to the family by visiting our website at www.brennenfuneralhome.com

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The Netherlands. Then at the age of 11, together with his family, immigrated to Red Deer. He attended Central School until halfway through grade 12. Dick worked several different jobs in and around Red Deer; including masonry work, Bert’s Meat Market, delivery van driver, and drywalling.

In 1959, he met Shirley Ludwig, who would become the love of his life, and were married in 1963. They were blessed with their first child, Bill, in 1964. Shortly after, work took them to Prince George, BC, where he also served on the church council. They were blessed with three more children; Sandy in 1966, Teresa in 1967, and Kevin in 1969. In 1974, Dick moved his family back to Red Deer and soon started his company, Alpine Drywall, and served a term as president of the Construction Association. Faith and family were very important in Dick’s life. He was a positive influence and very involved in each of his children’s life journeys as they began their own families. Dick was an advocate and strong Christian school supporter. When Dick and Shirley had been married 35 years, to celebrate, they took their children on a trip to Holland. In 2001, they moved out of the city to a peaceful acreage that they enjoyed together for 10 years.

Due to Dick’s cancer, they moved to their current residence in Red Deer, which Dick enjoyed. Dick will be dearly missed by his wife and best friend, Shirley, along with her family; two sons; Bill (Michele) Lodewyk of Blackfalds and Kevin (Stacey) Lodewyk of Red Deer, two daughters; Sandy (Chris Holden) Lodewyk of Red Deer and Teresa (Bernie) TenHove of Lacombe, nineteen grandchildren; Christine (Brad) Buchinski, Stephanie, Kaitlyn, Kyle and Brandon Lodewyk, Kalee and Jory Lodewyk, Melissa, Jeff (Dallas), Jesse and Jamie (Vanessa) Hofstra, Bowen (Rebekah), Travis, Brittany and Taylor TenHove, as well as one great granddaughter, Autumn Hoffman Hofstra. He is also survived by his siblings; Dewey (Tova) Lodewyk of Richmond BC, (Ineke) Lodewyk of Surrey BC, Eileen (John) Sneep of Burnaby, BC., and many nieces and nephews. Dick was predeceased by his parents; Willem and Reina Lodewyk, and his brother, Bob Lodewyk.

Memorial service will be held at First Christian Reformed Church, 16 McVicar Street, Red Deer, on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 1:30 pm. Officiated by Pastor Gary Bomhof. Donations in Dick’s name may be made directly to the Parkland Christian Education Endowment Fund. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com

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MORRIS Gertrude Elizabeth “Bette” On February 21, 2013, Gertrude Elizabeth “Bette” Morris of Edmonton passed away at the age of 92 years.

She was predeceased by her parents, Lloyd and Norma Morris of Delburne and her sister, Gwen MacDonald of Edmonton.

She is survived by her sister, Joan (Cy) McAndrews and many nieces and nephews.

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IRWIN 1927 - 2013 Edith Apha Jean (Linton) Irwin of Red Deer, Alta., passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at the age of 85 years.

Edith was born in Alameda, Sask. and later attended the Teachers College in Moose J a w, S a s k . t o b e c o m e a teacher. She taught school for several years in Carnduff, Sask. until 1950 when she married the love of her life, Clifford Irwin. They moved to Oxbow Sask. and resided there until Clifford’s passing when Edith then moved to Red Deer, Alta. Edith will be sadly missed but lovingly remembered by her son Robert (Cathy) and daughters Judy Irwin and Lorna (Wes) Kells. Also to cherish her memory are five grandchildren; six great grandchildren; sister Helen and numerous nieces, nephews and many dear friends. Edith was predeceased by her husband Clifford and daughters Patricia and Marlene.

A Memorial Service to celebrate Edith’s life will be held at a later date in Oxbow, Sask.

Memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation (Unit 32), 3942 - 50 A Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 4E7.

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WALTER Gordon Aug. 22, 1945 - Feb. 22, 2013 Gordon passed away from complications with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease while in Florida on holidays while visiting special friends from Switzerland. Gordon was born to Gus and Esther Walter in Horsham, Saskatchewan on August 22, 1945. When he was five the family moved to south west of Sylvan Lake where he lived to this date.

Gordon always wanted to be a farmer but his dad wanted him to be a teacher. He was glad that he was†farmer and not a teacher many times o v e r. G o r d o n w o r k e d i n Thompson, Manitoba in the mine and also as a laborer in Red Deer, saving to purchase his own land. At the time of his parents passing he also purchased their land from his two brothers. He loved the land and the animals.†He was very good at taking care of both. Gordon also loved John Deere tractors and auction sales and always came home with a treasure. He had a love for donuts and playing cards. He leaves to mourn his companion and love Joyce Jackson along with his extended family Jake and Kelly Jackson of Winfield, BC, Barbie and Grahame Brown of Airdrie, AB and his three grandchildren which he loved with all his heart, Brittany Jackson of Edmonton, Keegan and Cooper Brown of Airdrie; his sister in law Jane Walter of Kimberley, BC, one niece Brandi Walter and two nephews Lorne and Brian; as well as a few uncles, aunts and cousins.

Also, dear to his heart his little d o g H e n r y. G o r d o n w a s predeceased by his parents Gus 1991 and Esther 1992 and his brother Norman 2010.

Gordon was a loving and kind man, a good friend to all and a wonderful companion. He will be sadly missed. A Celebration of Gordon’s life will be held at the Chapel of The Sylvan Lake Funeral Home, Sylvan Lake, Alberta on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 2:00 P.M. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Gordon’s name to Stars Ambulance.

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SMITH Raymond Murray 1934 - 2013 Raymond Murray Smith passed away at the Foothills Hospital, Calgary, on Monday, February 25, 2013, at the In Memoriam age of 78 years. Ray was born on December 24, 1934, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

He moved to Red Deer in 1969 and was employed with Safeway until his retirement.

He loved to travel and spend time with his friends. Ray will be lovingly remembered by his son, Bill and daughter-in-law, SHIRLEY CLARK M a r y R o s e o f B o n s h a w, May 22, 1936 - March 2, 2012 P.E.I., and his grandchildren; Randi Glen and Joel Glen of You’ve been gone Sherwood Park, AB, and 1 year ago today sadly missed by his good Not a day goes by that we friends at the East 40th Pub. would love to phone and say hi.

Ray is also survived by his We call cherish the sister, Joana (Dave) Fleming memories, laughter and all of Saskatchewan, and brother, the love you gave us.

Jim Thompson of Medicine Hat, AB. Ray was predeceased CONST. ANTHONY GORDON Love Dave, Don, Dianne, by his wife, Irene, daughter, Oct. 6, 1976 - Mar. 3, 2005 Sherry, Smokey, Vickie, Raelene, sister, Myrt Dent, Norm and families and brother, Roy. At Ray’s He is gone but not forgotten request, there will be no And, as dawns another year, funeral service.

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OWCHAR Anna Sept. 13, 1920 - Feb. 27, 2013 It is with great sadness that the family of Anna Owchar announces that Anna passed away at the Red Deer Hospital on February 27, 2013 with her family by her side after suffering a massive stroke on February 26, 2013. Anna was 92 years old at the time of her death. She was a fun-loving, happy woman who loved life, her family and her friends. She saw the good in everyone and everything.

Anna spent the last few years of her life in Bethany CollegeSide Gardens where she enjoyed playing bridge, watching figure skating, curling and movies and visiting with her friends. Anna is survived b y h e r d a u g h t e r, M a r g o (Dan) Hein, and her son, Don ( K i m ) O w c h a r, h e r o n l y grandchild, Megan Hein, her sisters, Lena and Elin, her brothers, Harold (Queade) and Wayne (Josephina), and their families, numerous nieces and nephews, and too many friends to name. Anna was predeceased by her husband, Eugene, her sisters, Andy and Thelma, and her brothers, Eddie, Johnny (Audrey) and Arni (Lynn). Anna’s family would like to thank Dr. Heinrichs and the doctors and nurses in Emergency and on Unit 33 for their care and support. A celebration of Anna’s life with be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 67A Street (Taylor Drive), on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, #202, 5913 - 50th Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4C4, or to a charity of your choice.

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 403.340.4040

RUSSELL Patricia Elizabeth (nee Tarrant) Dec. 22, 1924 - Feb. 25, 2013 It is with great sadness that the family of Pat Russell announce her passing on February 25, 2013 in Edmonton due to a stroke. Patricia (Pat) Tarrant was born in Wimbledon, England to Arthur and Bertha Tarrant and grew up in East Horsley. Pat was one of four daughters. Pat met her husband, Wallace Russell (Russ) during the war and they married on September 4, 1943. She came to Canada as a war bride on the Aquitania in 1946 and they settled in Ladysmith where her twin daughters were born the next year. In 1954 Russ joined the RCAF and they moved to Winnipeg and then Red Deer. While in Red Deer Pat worked for Eaton’s, a time she always remembered very fondly. In 1960 Russ was stationed in Germany for five years and Pat gave birth to two more children there. The family returned to North Bay in 1965 and finally settled in Red Deer in 1970 when Russ retired from the military. Pat moved to Edmonton in 2005 to be closer to family. Pat loved children. She raised four of her own, helped care for all of her grandchildren and volunteered at schools as well. Pat was an amazing knitter and sewer. She loved to garden and was happiest when she was outside. Her family was the most important t h i n g t o h e r. P a t w a s predeceased by her loving husband, Russ (2000), and son-in-law, Ernest Munro (1998). She was also predeceased by her sisters, Pamela Barwick and Moya Mills in England as well as three brothers-in-law. Her surviving sister, Fran Belsham, lives in England. Pat is survived by her children, Anne Munro of Thorold, Ontario, Susan Wakefield (Doug) of Ladysmith, BC, Deborah Halldorson (Bill) of Edmonton, Alberta, and David Russell (Darlene) of Penticton, BC. She is also survived by seven grandchildren, Neal Munro and Kelly Dionne, Joshua, Rachel and Katie Halldorson, Emily and Ethan Russell and two greatgrandsons, Kaleb and Hayden Dionne. She is also survived by two sisters-inlaw, Bertha Smith (Milton) and Ethel Russell, and twelve nieces and nephews in Canada and England. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2013 in Edmonton. Pat and Russ’s ashes will be spread over Ladysmith Harbour later this summer. Donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, NWT & Nunavut, 10985-124 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5M 0H9 or to Operation Eyesight, 4 Parkdale Crescent N W, C a l g a r y, A l b e r t a Canada T2N 3T8

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CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB Life, one day a wk. in Rimbey & Sylvan Lake ALSO Adult Carriers needed in Sylvan Lake & Bentley Please call Debbie for details 314-4307 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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MC College Group We are currently looking for an Esthetics Educator for our Red Deer location.

If you are enthusiastic, friendly, enjoy dealing with people, have three years certified experience and want to share your knowledge and love for a rewarding industry please send your resume to lynn@mccollege.ca or fax to 1-780-428-7733 Att: Lynn Van Lersberghe Human Resources.

IT SUPPORT TECH

Position based in Red Deer corporate office.

Provide remote support to Looking for a place staff in our chain of retail to live? stores, and onsite support Take a tour through the to our corporate office.

CLASSIFIEDS Support Windows XP Pro/7, network routers, switches, printers, scanComputer ners and various software Personnel products such as MS Office and Shortcuts, the POS software.

INSL, Integrated Network Some travel, within Alberta, Solutions for Business to complete IT setup at is seeking a HELPDESK COMPUTER new locations may be req’d.

Candidate must have a SUPPORT †ANALYSTS. Computer Systems We are a fast paced Technology diploma or Red Deer based company equivalent in experience. with exciting IT opportunities Excellent customer and projects. If you have service, communication & an accredited diploma in organizational skills an IT related field, related required. experience and want to Team player; willingness to join a progressive adhere to company company with the best policies & procedures. clients in Western Canada, Remuneration based on please send your resume experience and education. to: resume@insl.ca Excellent benefits packCandidates living in, age, competitive wage, or around Red Deer will be perks. given preferential priority Apply in confidence to in our interview process careers@chatters.ca Classifieds or fax resume to Your place to SELL 1-888-409-0483 Your place to BUY

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INTERMEDIATE TECHNICAL ANALYST POSITION INSL, Integrated Network Solutions ltd, provides IT Network, Server and Lost application solutions for the best business clients LOST in Red Deer or throughout Western Sylvan Lake on Feb. 5 Canada. We have an gold/quartz nugget on gold opening for an Intermediate chain, great sentimental Technical Analyst. This value, family heirloom, position is responsible for REWARD 403-887-3806 assisting in designing, implementing, and maintaining IT solutions for our clients. You must be a Found graduate from an accredited IT program. Qualifications for this position include a FOUND in Downtown Red minimum of 5 years of Deer. Family ring. Call to experience with Microsoft identify. 403-346-4784 Server, Microsoft Office WEDDING band found in 365, IP in-depth knowlSylvan Lake. Call to iden- edge, light MS-SQL, light tify 403-887-6208 IIS and Apache web services. Microsoft certifications are an asset to this position. Preference will Personals be given to candidates within the Red Deer, Alberta area. Please send 1957 CHEV your resume into WANTED resume@insl.ca.

I am looking for the gentleman who bought a dark green 1957 Chev 2 dr. sedan from me approx. 40 Caregivers/ yrs ago, about 1970, near Aides the Londonderry Mall Edmonton. Could you please call Gary Smith 780-962-0313

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Dental

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F/T RDA II with Ortho Module and asset.

Position open in in a busy family dental practice in Rocky Mountain House.

Competitive salary, benefit package & uniform allowance & 4 day work wk..

If you are willing to work in a team environment and are pleasant and ambitious we look forward to your resume. Fax resume to 403-845-7610 RDA II / Administrator required in Red Deer. Are you looking for a change?

Full Time? Part Time?

Would you like to work for a nice relaxed dentist in a beautiful modern and comfortable office environment? Mon-Fri no evenings or weekends great hours and co-workers. If this is something you are interested in please fax your resume 403 340-2160 we look forward to hearing from you!

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Caregivers/ Aides

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Kids Uncomplicated is hiring in Wimborne for a part-time aide role.

This role involves working with a special needs child in their home.

RESPONSIBILITIES: develop activities targeting goals, working with family, OT, PT, SLP, Psychologist & Behaviour Consultant, documenting progress, meeting participation.

If you love working with children & feel you can meet the demands of this role, e-mail: laurab @kidsuncomplicated.com LADY requires part time Female caregiver with reliable transportation, 403-227-5433. Innisfail LOOKING for caregiver for 7 yr. old, monthly salary $1846 less room & board.

Email: gilchys@yahoo.com

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

Medical

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PLASTIC SURGEONS OFFICE requires medical receptionist . Send resume to Box 1035, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9, Deadline March 15, 2013

Oilfield

If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 lkeshen@1strateenergy.ca Please specify position when replying to this ad.

Your Degree/Diploma in Social Services (or equivalent) combined with two years experience working in the Social Services field have prepared you for this challenging and rewarding role. Knowledge of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, family stresses, grief and loss, addictions and community-based

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

Location: Red Deer

We offer flexibility, a comprehensive benefits package and a supportive working environment.

Police Information Check, Intervention Record Check and/ or summary of driving record are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.

Please send resume, quoting the competition number 13-052 before March 6, 2013 to:

COLTER PRODUCTION TESTING SERVICES INC Join Our Fast Growing Team and Secure Your Future with our Optimum Benefit Package & RRSP’s!!

Catholic Charities Human Resources Office 4811- 49 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1T8 Fax: (403) 342-1890 www.catholicsocialservices.ab.ca

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

RECEPTIONIST/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

MANAGER INVENTORY & LOGISTICS Predator Drilling is Western Canada’s premiere drilling operator.

Predator is a leading service provider in Oil Sands Delineation, Preset Drilling, Shallow Horizontal Oil and Gas well drilling. Predator’s culture of excellence is based around our Core Values: Accountability, Safety, Teamwork and Performance Excellence.

Reporting to the VP of Operations, the Manager Inventory & Logistics is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Shipping & Receiving Department, Warehousing of Predator Equipment, Asset Management, Fleet and maintaining all inventory and assets in NAV database.

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Please forward resume to mlajeunesse@ tartancontrols.com

PRESSURE CONTROL SPECIALIST

Nexus Engineering is currently seeking a mechanical individual for their shop to perform testing of all BOP’s and Pressure Control Equipment. Duties include heavy lifting, manual labour, operating forklift and overtime as necessary.

We offer a competitive wage, benefits and RRSP plan.

Experience is not mandatory, but a definite asset.

Email resume to: resume @nexusengineering.ca Looking for a new pet?

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RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Sylvan Lake req’s exp. swamper. Email tom@ roncooilfieldhauling.ca or fax. 403-887-4892

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PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D RETIREMENT & SAVINGS PLAN BENEFITS COMPETITIVE WAGES

Immediate Positions Available Experienced Day Supervisors Night Supervisors Must be able to provide truck Please send resume to 403-340-0886 or email: pnieman@ cathedralenergyservices.com website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent judgment and a genuine concern for SERVICE RIG safety.

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd • Strong problem solving is seeking an exp’d and organizational skills.

FLOORHAND • Ability to be on call, Locally based, home every travel when required, work weekends and night! Qualified applicants must have all necessary overtime.

• Must possess knowledge valid tickets for the position being applied for. of oilfield equipment.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary Education and Experience: and benefits package along with a steady • Must have previous work schedule.

Inventory Management Please submit resumes: & Procurement experiAttn: Human Resources ence Email: • Valid driver’s license hr@bearspawpet.com • Experience with budgeting, Fax: (403) 258-3197 or cost controls and Mail to: Suite 5309, strategic planning.

333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Please apply directly to abutler@ predatordrilling.com www.predatordrilling.com Tartan Completions Services is currently accepting resumes for experienced horizontal completions field technicians, drilling motor experience would be an asset. We offer comprehensive benefits, competitive salary’s and field (day) bonuses.

Professionals

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires CLASS 1 BED TRUCK Operators for Central Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floor hands for the Red Deer area.

Please contact Steve Tiffin at stiffin@galleonrigs.com or (403) 358-3350 fax (403) 358-3326

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CRIMTECH SERVICES LTD. provides engineering and custom fabrication for the petroleum industry.

The successful candidate will have previous Quality Control leadership experience†within the Oil & Gas Industry, complemented by excellent technical, planning, organizational, and interpersonal skills.

Welding or Materials Engineering Technologist diploma or B-Pressure background is preferred however equivalent education and experience will be considered.

We invite you to visit our website at www.crimtech.com for more position details.

Please forward resumes to cslhr@crimtech.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

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DISHWASHER needed.

Please apply in person to Red Deer Buffet at the Village Mall EXPERIENCED sandwich maker required for busy downtown store.

Must be punctual, efficient and be able to work in a team environment.

Please call 403-318-1199 or e-mail resume to TPham2@slb.com

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MCDONALD’S Restaurant in Stettler AB is looking to immediately hire a full time GENERAL MANAGER to oversee and take over primary control of the daily operations of the restaurant June 1st. Applicants must be customer and people focused, have reliable transportation, willing to work flexible shifts, weekends and evenings.

Minimum 2 years experience in equivalent position is a must. We offer customizable benefits packages, and store specific training. Please apply on line with resume, cover letter and references to: cbay22@telus.net RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s.

ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred. Also BREAKFAST ROOM ATTENDANTS, early morning shifts, flexibility req’d. Only serious inquiries apply.

Rate $13.50/hr.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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SHOW HOME HOSTESS masonmartinhomes.com WEST 285 LTD. o/a O/A Energy Factor in Red Deer req’s F/T shift sales people $14/hr & 1 to 2 yrs. Exp’d supervisor, $17.50/hr email: west285ltd@gmail.com

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Child and Youth Care Worker Competition # 13-050 Competition # 13-051 Two part-time positions: Competition # 13-050 is 30 hours per week.

Competition # 13-051 is 16 hours per week.

Join us in leading the way and making a difference in the lives of children in care. As a Child and Youth Care Worker you will be responsible for a variety of duties including: evaluating the needs of clients, facilitating family contact and home visits, and maintaining medical records and appointments. Your ability to think creatively will drive you to develop household recreation and community access programs for children and youth. Building meaningful relationships with clients and members of the community make you an effective member of a team dedicated to client care.

Your dedication and professionalism combined with enthusiasm for the field of child and youth care will assist you in supporting our clients in gaining life skills and encouraging growth. You are an effective role model with strong written and verbal communication skills. Your attention to detail and organization skills allow you to write comprehensive reports in an effective and timely manner. You are both willing and able to perform personal care, light household chores and be available to work varied shifts including, evenings and weekends.

You have a Diploma/Degree in Child and Youth Care or equivalent, and experience working with children and youth is preferred. A vehicle and valid Operator’s Licence is required for this rewarding position.

Location: Red Deer We offer flexibility, a comprehensive benefits package and a supportive working environment.

Police Information Check, Intervention Record Check and/or summary of driving record are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.

Please send resume, quoting appropriate competition number before March 6, 2013 to: Catholic Charities Human Resources Office 4811- 49 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1T8 Fax: (403) 342-1890 www.catholicsocialservices.ab.ca We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer Serving and Employing People of all Faiths and Cultures Since 1961Employing People of all Faiths and Cultures Since 1961

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SHIFT GEARS WITH YOUR CAREER! in our Red Deer location

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Heavy Duty Mech. (App 2nd/3rd yr, Journeyman/Red Seal) Hwy Hauling Long/Short CAN/US Oilfield Hauling Journeyman Picker Operators Winch, Bed Truck Operators Logistics Coordinator (Experienced required) Swampers (Class 5 driver’s license preferred) www.vdmtrucking.com

Locations in: à Edmonton à Grande Prairie à Red Deer Fax: 780-463-3341 Email: jobs@vdmtrucking.com

Qualified Day & Night Supervisors - (Must be able to provide own work truck.)

Field Operators - Valid First Aid, H2S, driver’s license required!

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HIGH ARCTIC ENERGY SERVICES

BOP - Pressure Control Technician High Arctic Energy Services is currently seeking a skilled BOP Technician to work out of our Red Deer Location.

Core Laboratories Petroleum Services Division is the world’s most recognized and highly respected rock and fluid analysis laboratory serving the oil and gas industry. We require an individual for field sampling in the Red Deer area.

The successful candidate will be responsible for sampling gas/oil wells and gas plants and be part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining markets in the Reservoir Fluids Division.

The individual will possess excellent interpersonal skills, be self starter and team player and have strong mechanical and problem solving skills.

A BSc/College graduate or related industry experience and valid driver’s license is required.

Preference will be given to those with previous experience in servicing BOP’s and other Pressure Control Equipment, as well as experience with rental equipment.

Some duties include • Maintenance of BOP’s and other pressure equipment • Field calls for troubleshooting • Coordinate BOP certification with third parties • Ensure all HAES quality procedures are followed during repairs

Interested applicants should forward their resumes to: Core Laboratories Canada Ltd. 2810 12th Street N.E. Calgary, Alberta T2E 7P7 Fax: 403-250-5120 Email: ps.calgary.recruiting@ corelab.com 288145B23

Please submit resume and current drivers abstract to subject: BOP Tech

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Your application will be kept strictly confidential

If you are a proactive person with excellent customer service skills, take pride in your work, have ambition to excel and provide attention to detail-this maybe a the position for you.

careers@haes.ca

JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Day Supervisors, Night Operators, and Helpers. RSP’s and benefits pkg. incentives.

Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com or mikeg@jagareenergy.com

Oilfield

Please see our website @ www.colterenergy.ca or contact us at 1-877-926-5837

Central Alberta s longest servicing Mortgage Brokerage is currently looking for a full time Receptionist/Administrative Assistant to work in our Red Deer office.

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* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants

Full time 40 hour contract position

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NOW HIRING!

Competition # 13-052

Please drop off your confidential resume to our office, #2, 5511 Gaetz Avenue, Red Deer, AB or Email to mortcent@telusplanet.net or Fax 403-346-1926

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

As a Community Worker, you work in a team setting to provide mentoring and support to families or adults affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the Red Deer area. Your knowledge of FASD and ability to assess families’ needs as well as your awareness of community programs would be an asset to this program. As a mentor you will assist families or adults to obtain services for diagnosis where required and/ or appropriate. You will also assist families in the adjustment in living with children or adults affected by FASD and support individuals with developing skills to promote quality of life.

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We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer Serving and Employing People of all Faiths and Cultures Since 1961

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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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F/T HAIRSTYLIST REQUIRED. Phone 403-347-3010 Ask for Linda

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager)

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BUSY ELECTRICAL Firm looking for P/T receptionist.

General office duties as well as little office cleaning.

Must have computer experience in excel and Microsoft word. Benefits available. Please email resumes to: trpoel@telus.net

Computer Personnel

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Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

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:

Class 1 Driver / Operators: Nitrogen and Fracturing – Pump Operators and Bulk Drivers; Journeyman Parts Technician; Journeyman Heavy Equipment Technician Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety—focused

f Team orientated f Clean Class 1 drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset

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

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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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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 2, 2013 E3

WANTED: Outside sales people for a fast growing security company.

Successful applicants must possess an outgoing personality, be self motivated, and be very organized. Door to door sales experience is an asset but not necessary.

Please email resume to hr@ bond-ocommunications.com

Teachers/ Tutors

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Electronics Technicians Needed We are seeking the services of an Electronic Technician to work for the ADGA Group at the Correctional Services Canada facilities in the Drumheller area and at various locations within Alberta. Responsibilities include performing maintenance of electronic security/safety systems.

To apply, please email careers@adga.ca and quote reference# ETD3422-NB

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

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Trades

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Requires

QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS

Wolf Creek Public Schools

Principal, Alix-M.A.C. School

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

invites applications for the following position:

Local Foundation company currently seeking experienced Commercial Foundation Form Workers.

Please fax resume to 403-346-5867

For further specifics on the above position, please visit Wolf Creek Public Schools’ website at www. wolfcreek.ab.ca, or contact the Division Office at 403-783-3473.

MECHANICAL FOREMAN NEEDED FOR SHOP IN LACOMBE. Duties include: Servicing diesel company vehicles and fabricating. Please fax resume to: 403-342-7447.

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Trades

AGRICULTURAL MECHANIC WANTED: Central Alberta equipment dealership. Heavy Duty ticket accepted but not SECURITY guards required. Excellent wanted, F/T & P.T benefits and wage to the days, nights ,evenings, right candidate. A great weekends and holidays. place to work and a Must be bondable, friendly environment. and have security guard Call 403-302-7710 or fax license. resume to 403-347-3740.

Call or fax 587-273-0077 ARMOR INC is looking for to set up appointment licensed diesel and suspension mechanic for light SHOP FOREMAN duty performance shop.

Pressure Piping & Steel Diesel and transmission fabrication shop exp. preferred.

Only experience personnel Bring resume to: need apply 106 -6439 67 St. RD -Journeyman Pipefitter Phone 403-346-9188 preferred or emal -Must be able to organize donavan@armorinc.ca men and projects -Background & experience with Acorn Piping program Understanding and implementation of QC for structural & Piping -Oversee all material ordering, handling & receiving -Competitive Wage & Custom Energized Air Benefits Req’s MECHANIC exp’d Please apply to info@ In air compressors, dryers, dynamicprojects.ca or fax Control systems, electrical 403-340-3471 A/C D/C circuits, 1-3 ph.

Piping, fabrication, & SHUNDA Welding an asset. Email: CONSTRUCTION Del.trynchuk@cea-air.com requires Fax: 403-348-8765

F/T Safety Officer

to help implement & maintain safety programs.

Fax resume to: 403-343-1248 or email admin@shunda.ca is hiring for the following position: * APPRENTICE HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC

Professionals

With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

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Truckers/ Drivers

CLASS 1 DRIVER Exp. driver to haul Canadian Tire trailers in Alberta, B.C. & Sask.

Mountain driving exp. an asset. F/T position, home weekends. Forward a resume & current driver’s abstract to Brian Dick Transport Ltd. Box 8014 Westaskiwin, AB T9A 3S6 Contact Brian Dick 780-361-7924 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 RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Sylvan Lake req’s exp. swamper. Email tom@ roncooilfieldhauling.ca or fax. 403-887-4892 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

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

Business Opportunities

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Join Distinctly Tea in the high growth & high margin retail loose leaf tea industry. Steve@fylypchuk.com Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Trades

For the Red Deer Area.

Please fax resume to: 403-347-8060 OR EMAIL: tricia.cunningham@ lafarge-na.com

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SIGN INSTALLER ACADEMIC Express req’d for local sign shop..

Adult Education Must have at least 5 yrs and Training exp. with sign fabrication & installation, and be able • GED classes evening to work independently or and days as part of a team. Valid driver’s license a must.

• Women in the Trades Computer skills an asset.

Wage to be negotiated.

• Math and Science in Apply by fax 403-341-4014 the trades or email only: office@questsigns.ca.

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be avail.

TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Clearview Area Castle Crsc.

Clark Crsc. & Crawford St. $155/mo.

Rosedale Approx. 2 blks of Reichley St. & Reighley Close $68/mo.

Michener Area West of 40th Ave. North Ross St. to 52 Ave. $236/monthly Good for adult with small car.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

Now Hiring ALL POSITIONS ALL SHIFTS GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem)

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Packages come ready for delivery!

Also for the afternoon in Town of Penhold!

Also afternoon delivery in Town of Springbrook

4 days/wk Flyers & Sun. Life IN Highland Green Holmes St. & Heath Close

1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

ALSO Wedgewood Gardens St. Joseph’s & Montfort Heights

Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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

ORIOLE PARK O’Brien Crsc., O’Neil & Oxley Close

MOBIL 1 Lube Express Gasoline Alley req’s an Exp. Tech. Fax 403-314-9207

850

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

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

900

Employment Training

OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

offers a variety of

Adams Close/ Adair Ave. Ainsworth Crsc.

Allsop Ave.

SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.

BOWER AREA Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St INGLEWOOD AREA

Isbister Close Inkster Close

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.

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Lagrange Crsc

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.

We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

REMINDER BUD HAYNES

SPRING FIREARMS AUCTION Sat., March 2 @ 9 am Bay 4, 7429 49 Ave R.D. 600 Lots.

Preview Friday, 3 - 8 p.m.

Saturday, 8 a.m. till sale.

Ph: 403-347-5855 www.budhaynesauctions.com

1580

BABY carrier front carry custom reversible, “Baby Hawk Meitei” $65; Baby sling carry “Rockin Momma” $50; blue & brown, bumble collection baby shopping cart cover $25; nursing pillow baby buddy, $40, baby mirror for car $10; 403-746-2456:

1590

Household Furnishings

1720

4 PC. SETTING of Courier & Ives dishes $50 403-346-7658 CHINA CABINET/display case, tall, narrow , efficient, 5 shelves, glass 3 sides w/oak border, and mirrored back, stain glass design, just under curved top, Height to top of curved centre 76”, to top of side of cabinet, 72”, w/30-1/2: depth 13-1/4”, $200, was $600 new, ***SOLD*** DINING room table, glass top, off white stone base 42”w x 72”L, standard height $200 403-358-4279 GOSSIP (phone) bench, oak 34 1/2”L x 16 1/2” deep x 25”H with stained glass door on cubical $175 403-314-2026 MICROWAVE stand $50; entertainment unit 20” deep x 52”long, 50”high $100; 2 occasional wood tables $20/ea, 2 Panasonic speakers $40 403-346-7658

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1760

Misc. for Sale

HIGHLAND Irish Jig dress, green, with eyelet petty coat. $150. 403-346-5922

AIR CONDITIONER, Samsung, with remote.

Perfect condition. $125.

HIGHLAND KILT, 403-347-0104 (Buchannan), vest, socks BLUE WILLOW CHINA, 6 and blouse. $200.

Blue Willow china coffee 403-346-5922 mugs, $30; 1 Blue Willow HIGHLAND Sailor Suit, round platter, 12” diameter navy, with white hat. $150. $25, 1 Blue Willow serving 403-346-5922 bowl, 9” diameter. $20, ***SOLD*** GRAD DRESS SALE New Equipment& Consigned 15 McPhee Heavy St. Feb. 28 & Mar. 1 4-8pm Mar. 2 12-4pm Great TRAILERS for sale or rent Prices. budgetbridal Job site, office, well site or boutiquereddeer.com storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721. O U T D O O R p a t i o t a b l e (grey resin) w/4 chairs $45; coffee table w/ closed cenFarmers' ter cubical 58” x 22”w x 15”h and matching end taMarket ble with pullout drawer, both for $150; box of wildTHE FARM with life adventure books, hard THE GOOD FOOD: cover $5 403-314-2026 Free-range brown eggs; SNOW BLOWER, 5 hp chickens; Danish pork Electric start. $250. roasts, chops, cervalet Like new. 403-347-2148 sausage. 403-347-0516

1630 1650

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 Accounting

********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

860

1010

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

Contractors

SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

1100

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

COUNTERTOPS

CINDY’S Western & Chinese Traditional Massage, micro computer diagnosis. Insurance avail.

New girls coming. 4606 48 Ave. 8 a.m.- 9:30 p.m. 7 days a wk. 403-986-1691

Gentle Touch Massage

4919 50 St. New staff. Daily Specials. New rear entry, lots of parking. 403-341-4445

COUPLES SPECIAL

OVERHEAD DOORS & operators installed 391-4144 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia preferring non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

1165

EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages 598-3049 www.eroticasplaymates.net LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

HANDYMAN PLUS Painting, laminate, tile, mud/ tape, doors, trim, Call 403-358-9099 TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. 587-876-4396 or 587-272-1999

1290

Misc.

Services

ASIAN Executive Touch Exclusive for men. Open 10 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

LINDA’S CHINESE MASSAGE

EDEN

• Class 1 Drivers • Lowbed Drivers with Class 1

1280

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

587-877-7399 10am-midnight

Pidherney’s is growing and requires experienced Truck drivers to work with our team:

Massage Therapy

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648

Escorts

Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 ELECTRIC heater (Comfort Zone) oak cabinet 15” x 17 1/2” x 15 1/2”H, remote control, thermostat/child proof $200 403-314-2026 FRIDGE very good cond.

Danby, $100, best offer 403-782-5818 INGLIS dryer, exc. cond. $150 estate sale, 403-782-5818 KENMORE HD dual action top load washer; Kenmore HD dryer,white, good shape $125/pair 403-347-2374 WASHING machine very good cond. $75 , best offer 403-782-5818

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

Top wages paid based on experience Assigned units Scheduled days off Valid safety tickets an asset

1530

1710

Household Appliances

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

Sherwood Crsc Scott St./Somerset Close.

Sunnyside Crsc.

Blackfalds & Grande Prairie

Auctions

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

services

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Reporting to the Shop Foreman, this individual will be responsible for a variety of duties in a serviceoriented environment. The successful candidate will be willing to work towards their Interprovincial Heavy Equipment Technician certification and have completed at a minimum their 3rd year apprenticeship requirements. This individual must be highly motivated and mechanically inclined.

Ferus offers a competitive compensation package including a competitive base salary, bonus incentive plan & an excellent Benefits Package, including flex days, flexible spending account and a Group RSP Savings Plan.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, please email your resume

by March 15th, 2013

1500-1990

Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

wegot

LANCASTER AREA

VANIER AREA

CLASSIFICATIONS

Clothing TOP WAGES, BENEFITS. Exp’d. Drivers required.

MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.

CARRIERS NEEDED

Heavy Duty Mechanic Apprentice

stuff

Children's Items

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

To: humanresources@ferus.com or fax 1-888-879-6125 Please reference: Ad #RDGP-MEC-0313

920

Career Planning

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

288678B27-C5

403.341.4544

ANDERS AREA

Truckers/ Drivers

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Apply in person at any location or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

WESTLAKE 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. /day

ALSO

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE WEST PARK

Ferus’ Operations division requires a Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic to join our growing team to service Ferus’ expanding fleet of tractor & trailer units in our Blackfalds and Grande Prairie Bases.

Reporting to the Shop Foreman you will be responsible for a variety of duties in a service oriented environment. Working in the Oil and Gas Field you will be required to work effectively unsupervised, have good working knowledge of Heavy Duty Truck and Trailer repairs, combined with a great attitude. A CVIP inspection license or the ability to obtain one is required. Due to the nature and volume of work some overtime and on call work will be required.

820

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Pallo, Payne & Parsons Cl.

288032B23-C13

Restaurant/ Hotel

OILFIELD TICKETS

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

GRANDVIEW 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. per day

AFFORDABLE

Industries #1 Choice!

For afternoon delivery once per week

1660

Firewood

Homestead Firewood

TRAINING CENTRE

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

In the towns of:

Piper Dr. & Pennington Cres.

Blackfalds & Grande Prairie

288760B28-C5

Please drop off resumes at 6740 65 Avenue, Red Deer, AB email Lynn@badgerinc.com fax to 403-343-0401

EASTVIEW 100 ADVOCATE $525/MO. $6300/YR 2 HRS./DAY

PINES Patterson Cres. & Pamley Ave.

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

Heavy Duty Mechanic Journeyman

No phone calls please

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

Carriers Needed

www.ferus.ca

Responsible for overseeing the day to day accounting functions and supervision of the billing department, accounts payable, general ledger, cash posting of receipts, up to month end statements preparation for CND Accounting Manager Finance and Administration review. Knowledge in Excel.

900

SAFETY

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. & Leung Close $61/mo.

Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry.

Reporting to CDN Manager, Finance and Administration

Employment Training

FREE

810

JUNIOR ACCOUNTANT

880

Misc.

Help

for all Albertans

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

Our Red Deer based company requires a

880

Misc.

Help

278950A5

830

288031B25-C7

Sales & Distributors

Bring loved one & the 2nd person is 1/2 price.

Open daily 9 am-9 pm.

403-986-1550 #3 4820-47 Ave 4 therapists, Insurance receipts MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE

Feeling overwhelmed?

Hard work day? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave.(rear entrance if necessary) www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels.

403-986-6686

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the house such as roof snow removal, bathroom fixtures, painting or flooring Call James 403- 341-0617

Property clean up 340-8666

5* JUNK REMOVAL

HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 Better For Cheaper with a Low Price Guarantee. helpinghandshomesupport.com

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

Septic Service

Misc.

Services

1290

FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629 JUNK REMOVAL, Yard/ Garden Serv. 588-2564

1375

Septic System Design & Installation & Skid Steer Services AOWMA Certified Call Miller Services Ltd. at 403-588-7971 or albertanhb@live.com

E4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 2, 2013

BEAUTIFUL silky white satin bunnies desperately need loving home. Litter box trained. FREE. 403-782-3130

1830

Cats

SIAMESE ALSO BELINESE ( 4) KITTENS FOR SALE $50 each obo.

403-887-3649

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

NEW Oriole Park area, 6032 Orr Dr., lower unit half duplex, upgraded execu. style, $990 /mo. + utils., 3 bdrm. 4 appls., $500 d.d. fenced, 2 car off street parking, n/s, no pets, separate entry, bright, avail.. immed., Don 403-742-9615

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

Warehouse Space

3140

WAREHOUSE FOR SALE OR LEASE

4860 sq.ft., new, bright, two 14’ O.H. doors, heated, fans, can be divided into 2 bays, call 403- 318-4848 to view

Mobile Lot

3190

1860

4040

Quick Possession

wheels

Next to new

CLASSIFICATIONS

#2, 6220 ORR DRIVE 2 bdrm., 2 bath bi-level.

Stainless steel appls., single att. garage, underfloor heat. $235,000 Condo fee $205.00 Margaret Comeau Remax Real Estate 403-391-3399

Sierras on Taylor! 2 bdrm, 2 bath, sunroom & great amenities! $264,900.

Help-U-Sell RD 403-342-7355

Acreages

4050

homes

1870

Collectors' Items

21 LP’S for sale, many titles to choose from, 1960’s and newer, $7 each 403-885-5720

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2140

Horses

STANDARD bred gelding, bay, owner Robert Smith.

403-347-4977 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

wegot

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

3010

Acreages/ Farms

EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW ON ACREAGE IN RED DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 bath, rent $2000 + DD avail.

403-346-5885 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

Bright 3 bdrms,1.5 bath, In-suite laundry. Yard & unfinished bsm’t. No pets.

N/S. $1275 & UTIL; SD $1275; Avail APRIL 1st.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554

MODERN CONDO AT IRONSIDE ST.

2 bdrm, 2 baths. w/balcony.

5 appls, En-suite laundry.

NO PETS, Avail APRIL 1st. $1325 INCL UTIL., SD $1325 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

NORMANDEAU

3 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., fenced yard, rent $1175, S.D. $000; avail.

April 1. 403-304-5337

Manufactured Homes

3040

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Houses For Sale

4020

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

8 Brand New Homes starting at $188,900

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3060

1 BDRM suite, w attached laundry, facing south at #1, 4616-44 St., to an over 40, ns/no pets, quiet tenant in a quiet neighbourhood.

Rent $700/D.D. $700.

Ph: 403-341-4627.

1 BDRM. $740; 2 bdrm. $825 N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed.

1-403-200-8175 1 BDRM. apt. in Penhold, $740/mo. Avail. immed.

Incl. most utils, no pets.

Call 403-886-5288 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

BLACKFALDS: 2 bdrm. 2 bath, dbl. att. garage. $325,000.

2 bdrm. 2 bath. $297,900.

3 Bdrm., 2 bath 2 storey. $369,900. Inclds. all fees.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

You can save thousands!

Helping sellers sell for a low set fee. No advance fee.

Money back guarantee.

1/2 duplex in 50 + area in Olds. 1100 sq. ft. 2 bdrm., 3 bath, 2 car garage. $259,900 403-507-0028

Great for retirement. 2 bdrm., 2 Bath 1/2 duplex in Olds.

Attached garage. $242,500. 403-507-0028

Freshly reno’d fabulous 4 bdrm. w/dbl garage on a quiet Ave. $313,000.

Penhold new home! 2 bdrm., 1 bath, 6 appls, upgrades galore. $267,900

279426C30

Renter’s Special

4 bdrm., 3 bath with a warm, welcoming open floorplan. $349,900

FREE Cable

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

2 & 3 bedroom

Condos/ Townhouses

modular/mobile homes in pet friendly park

Starting at

/month

Mauricia (403) 340-0225 www.lansdowne.ca

279430A2-C31

950

$

2004 PONTIAC Grand Am GT FWD, $4888 348-8788 Sport & Import

4040

PUBLIC NOTICES Public Notices

6010

2006 LAND ROVER Sport HSE AWD $28888 3488788 Sport & Import

To Creditors of the Meeting of Creditors in the Matter of the Bankruptcy of Janelle Marlena Penteluk Estate #24-1719060

2006 CADILLAC Escalade ESV Platinum, $24888 348-8788 Sport & Import

NOTICE is hereby given that the bankruptcy of Janelle Marlena Penteluk of Red Deer, Alberta occurred on the 26th day of Feburary 2013 and that the First Meeting of Creditors will be held on the 19th day of March, 2013 at 8:00 AM at:

Trucks

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

2009 MAZDA 3 GS FWD, $ 11 8 8 8 1 0 4 4 6 3 k m s , 7620-50 Ave. Sport & Import

4090

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Mauricia 403-340-0225

4100

2009 DODGE Charger $13,888 348-8788 AS & I

Businesses For Sale

4140

2008 MERCEDES BENZ E300 77,001 kms., $26888 348-8788 Sport & Import

5050

2011 FORD Ranger, 4x4 S/C 12,000 kms., $18,000 obo 506-7047 782-2125 2004 BMW X3 AWD, lthr., pano-roof, $14,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2003 BMW 3 series 325xi htd. lthr., sunroof, $10,888 348-8788 Sport & Import 1957 CHEV WANTED I am looking for the gentleman who bought a dark green 1957 Chev 2 dr. 2007 GMC 2500 SLE turbo sedan from me approx. 40 diesel, $25,888 Sport & yrs ago, about 1970, near Import 403-348-8788 the Londonderry Mall Edmonton. Could you please call Gary Smith 780-962-0313

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

FAST GROWING firewood business. Incl. most equipment 2007 BMW 335i htd. lthr., needed. $125,000. sunroof, $19888 7620 -50 403-887-2428 Help-U-Sell Ave., Sport & Import Red Deer 403-342-7355

has relocated to

Lots For Sale

4160

112 ACRES of bare land, located in Burnt Lake area structure plan, great investment property with future subdivision potential. Asking 1.2M 403-304-5555

FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe.

2006 HONDA Civic LX Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or FWD, $10,888 348-8788 subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820

2005 CHRYSLER 300 $11,888 348-8788 AS & I

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

2010 FORD Expedition Eddie Bauer 4X4, $27,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2005 DODGE Magnum $9888 , 348-8788 AS & I

Auto Wreckers

5190

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

2008 JEEP Grand Cherokee Laredo AWD, turbo WANTED FREE REMOVAL diesel,$29888 348-8788 of unwanted cars and 2006 ENVOY Denali full trucks, also wanted to load, Call Larry buy lead batteries, $17,000 403-340-8892 call 403-396-8629

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Open House Directory

Tour These Fine Homes Out Of Red Deer

4310

NEW BIL-LEVELS ATTENTION - 1st Time BLACKFALDS! Buyers NO condo fees!

O.H. Sun 3rd March 2013 1100 sq.ft. 3 bdrm/2 bath 2.00 - 5:00 pm townhouse. Immaculate.

(All 3 bdrm., 2 baths) Quiet area. Close to transit, shopping and schools.

• 199 Cedar Square with QUICK POSSESSION. dbl, att. garage $199,911. Call Coldwell $352,000 Banker Ontrack Realty, Jon Nichols, 403-302-0800 • 73 Cedar Crescent $289,900 MOVE IN READY LAST ONE. • 61 Cedar Cres. Huge RISER HOMES reverse pie lot.

DON’T MISS OUT! $297.000.

3 bdrm., 2 bath townhouse in Lacombe. Walk-out, AVRIL EVANS front att. garage.

Century 21 Advantage Many upgrades.

Cell: 403-348-6303 $240,000 incl. all fees.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

You can choose to visit your doctor 12-15% more in a year* or just walk a dog.

Use our unique Attention Getters and make your ad a winner.

Call: Classifieds

Make the healthy choice, adopt a dog today.

309-3300 to place your ad in the

now!

AARON BICKMAN

Solicitor for the Estate at LEON BICKMAN BRENER Lawyers #350, 603 7 Avenue S.W. CALGARY, AB. T2P 2T5

GLADYS IRENE SAGEN who died on July 13, 2011

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file you claim by April 3, 2013 and provide details of your claim with

AARON BICKMAN

Solicitor for the Estate at LEON BICKMAN BRENER Lawyers #350, 603 7 Avenue S.W. CALGARY, AB. T2P 2T5

NOTICE TO Creditors And Claimants

REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585

4430

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file you claim by April 3, 2013 and provide details of your claim with

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

4400-4430

MORTGAGES AVAIL.on all types of real estate including raw land and acreages. Bruised credit and self employed welcome. Fast approvals Ron Lewis 403-819-2436

who died on September 7, 2009

If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519

2005 HONDA Accord EX-L FWD,64981 kms, $11888 348-8788 Sport & Import

Gordon Samuel Sagen otherwise known as Gordon Samuel Saggen

2011 DODGE Ram Laramie 2500 4X4, hemi, DVD, pwr. boards,htd. lthr., tonneau cover, $38,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

2005 NISSAN Altima SER $12,888 348-8788 AS & I SYLVAN LAKE - Pie lot, Well priced. Good location.

403-896-3553

Money To Loan

5070

5040

2010 TOYOTA Venza AWD, 44700 km, black, automatic, leather, sunroof, backup camera, warranty, excellent condition, $12200., abma@netscape.com

NOTICE To Creditors And Claimants

Estate of

279139

2011 MITSUBISHI Outlander silver 45,000 kms, 10 yr. 160,000 warranty, LS, V6 auto 4wd, 1 owner, lease return, was $22,995 reduced to $20,995 Call Amy 403-357-0388 HRDS

MNP LTD. Trustee in Bankruptcy 4922-53rd Street Red Deer, AB T4N 2E9 Phone (403)342-5380

Notice To Creditors And Claimants

1998 CHEV Silverado 1500 ext. cab, 4x4 diesel loaded. 350,000 kms. $5500. 403-350-1784

SUV's

Dated at Red Deer, Alberta this 27th day of February, 2013.

If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard 2007 FORD F-150 XLT to any claim you may 4X4, 107115 kms, $14,888 have.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Vans Buses 2006 PONTIAC Grand Prix FWD, 65611 kms, $10,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

MNP Ltd OFFICE OF THE TRUSTEE 4922-53 Street Red Deer, Alberta

Estate of

2007 GMC Sierra 2500 SLE Turbo diesel $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

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

Sharon (403) 340-0225 www.lansdowne.ca

5030

2004 PONTIAC Grand Am GT FWD, $4888 348-8788 Sport & Import

Pine Lake acreage! 4 bdrm., 3 bath, attached garage.

Lake view. $369,900.

403-318-4448

CLASSIFICATIONS

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable

$

Cars

2010 MAZDA 3 GT FWD, 33,986 kms, $15,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

FINANCIAL

20,000with Intro

2006 SUBARU Tribeca , AWD, V6, 3L, H6 boxer motor, sunroof, 7 pass., cloth power heated seats, 18” mags, new tires, all valves have been ground and reset, at 137,000 kms. new timing belt and bearing, 286,000 kms., $9700.

403-505-3113

At

A MUST SEE! Only

5040

www.garymoe.com

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

$

COLLECTOR CAR Auction & Speed and Custom Show. Featuring Ian Roussel, from Car Warriors & Big Schwag.

Mar 15th - 17th. Westerner Park, Red Deer. 150,000 sq.ft. indoor show.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, March 2, 2013 E5

No budging on budget cuts COMBATIVE OBAMA, REPUBLICANS BLAME EACH OTHER AT SEQUESTER DEADLINE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Gridlocked once more, President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders refused to budge in their budget standoff Friday as $85 billion in across-theboard spending cuts bore down on individual Americans and the nation’s still-recovering economy.

“None of this is necessary,” said the president after a sterile White House meeting that portended a long standoff.

Even before Obama formally ordered the cuts required by midnight, their impact was felt thousands of miles away. In Seattle, the King County Housing Authority announced it had stopped issuing housing vouchers under a federal program that benefits “elderly or disabled households, veterans, and families with children.”

The president met with top lawmakers for less than an hour at the White House, then sought repeatedly to fix the blame on Republicans for the broad spending reductions and any damage that they inflict. “They’ve allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit,” he said, renewing his demand for a comprehensive deficit-cutting deal that includes higher taxes.

Republicans said they wanted deficit cuts, too, but not tax increases. “The president got his tax hikes on Jan. 1,” House Speaker John Boehner told reporters, a reference to a $600 billion increase on higher wage earners that cleared Congress on the first day of the year. Now, he said after the meeting, it is time take on “the spending problem here in Washington.”

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was equally emphatic. “ I will not be part of any back-room deal, and I will absolutely not agree to increase taxes,” he vowed in a written statement.

At the same time they clashed, Obama and Republicans appeared determined to contain their disagreement.

Boehner said the House will pass legislation next week to extend routine funding for government agencies beyond the current March 27 expiration. “I’m hopeful that we won’t have to deal with the threat of a government

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Barack Obama pause as he speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Friday following a meeting with congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. shutdown while we’re dealing with the sequester at the same time,” he said, referring to the new cuts by their Washington-speak name.

Obama said he, too, wanted to keep the two issues separate.

White House officials declined to say precisely when the president would formally order the cuts. Under the law, he had until midnight. Barring a quick deal in the next week or so to call them off, the impact eventually is likely to be felt in all reaches of the country.

The Pentagon will absorb half of the $85 billion required to be sliced between now and the end of the bud-

get year on Sept 30, exposing civilian workers to furloughs and defence contractors to possible cancellations. Said Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, only a few days on the job: “We will continue to ensure America’s security” despite the challenge posed by an “unnecessary budget crisis.”

The administration also has warned of long lines at airports as security personnel are furloughed, of teacher layoffs in some classrooms and adverse impacts on maintenance at the nation’s parks.

The announcement by the housing agency in Seattle was an early indication of what is likely to hit as the cuts

take effect. It said it was taking the action “to cope with the impending reduction in federal funding,” adding that it normally issues 45 to 50 vouchers per month.

After days of dire warnings by administration officials, the president told reporters the effects of the cuts would be felt only gradually.

“The longer these cuts remain in place, the greater the damage to our economy — a slow grind that will intensify with each passing day,” he said.

Much of the budget savings will come through unpaid furloughs for government workers, and those won’t begin taking effect until next month.

Two men indicted on charges in synagogue firebombings

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. — Two men were formally charged Friday in a series of firebomb attacks on synagogues in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

A grand jury handed up a 30-count indictment against Aakash Dalal and Anthony M. Graziano, Prosecutor John Molinelli said. Graziano faces nine counts of attempted murder stemming from the firebombing of a rabbi’s residence in Rutherford on Jan. 11, 2012.

Police said Molotov cocktails were thrown at Congregation Beth El in Rutherford, igniting a fire in the secondfloor bedroom of the rabbi’s residence where he, his wife, five children and his parents were sleeping at the time and escaped serious injury.

Graziano and Dalal are charged with bias intimidation, conspiracy to commit arson upon a synagogue and aggravated arson. They also face charges related to terrorism, possession of destructive devices and hindering apprehension.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Engineers work in front of a home where sinkhole opened up underneath a bedroom and swallowed a man Friday in Seffner, Fla.

Large sinkhole opens under home, swallowing man

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEFFNER, Fla. — A huge sinkhole about 30-feet (10-meters) across opened up under a man’s bedroom and swallowed him, taking all of the furniture too.

Jeff Bush, 37, was feared dead after the floor gave way Thursday night. As he screamed for help, his brother Jeremy Bush jumped into the hole to try to help, but couldn’t see him and had to be rescued himself. With the earth still crumbling, a sheriff’s deputy reached out his hand and pulled Jeremy Bush to safety.

“The floor was still giving in and the dirt was still going down, but I didn’t care. I wanted to save my brother,” Jeremy Bush said through tears Friday as he stood in a neighbour’s yard. “But I just couldn’t do nothing.”

The only thing sticking out of the hole was a small corner of a bed’s box spring. Cables from a television led down into the hole, but the TV set, along with a dresser, was nowhere to be seen.

Officials lowered equipment into the sinkhole but didn’t see any sign of life.

Jeremy Bush said it took him only seconds to get to his brother’s room about 11 p.m. Thursday. He had just knocked on his brother’s bedroom door, telling him they weren’t working Friday. The brothers were employed by the Transportation Department and picked up trash along interstates and roads.

“I went in my bedroom, heard a loud crash, ran in that direction,” he said.

“I was getting ready to run into the room and I almost fell into the hole. I jumped into the hole and started dig-

ging for me. I started screaming for him.”

Engineers worked to determine the size of the sinkhole. At the surface, officials estimated it was about 30 feet (10 metres) across. Below the surface, officials believed it was 100 feet (30 metres) wide.

From the outside of the small, sky blue house, nothing appeared wrong.

There wear no cracks and the only sign something was amiss was the yellow caution tape circling the house.

There were six people at the home when it collapsed, including Jeremy Bush’s wife and his 2-year-old daughter.

“It was something you would see in a movie. You wouldn’t, in your wildest dreams, you wouldn’t think anything like that could happen, especially here,” he said.

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Deputy Douglas Duvall rescued Jeremy Bush.

“I reached down and was able to actually able to get him by his hand and pull him out of the hole. The hole was collapsing. At that time, we left the house,” Duvall said.

Sheriff’s office spokesman Larry McKinnon said authorities asked sinkhole and engineering experts to help with the recovery effort, and they were using equipment to see if the ground can support the weight of heavy machinery that was needed.

“We put engineering equipment into the sinkhole and didn’t see anything compatible with life,” Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Jessica Damico said. “The entire house is on the sinkhole.”

Neighbours on both sides of the home have been evacuated.

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OPINION GREG NEIMAN

Greg Neiman came to work at the Advocate in 1976, straight out of university, and has watched Red Deer grow as a strong, modern community.

Married, with four grown children, he is a volunteer with several non-profit agencies and community projects, and enjoys outdoor pursuits such as gardening, cycling, canoeing and hiking into our mountain region’s backcountry trails.

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