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PDD cuts a disgraceful ‘shell game’: Swann BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The province has cut roughly $45 million in funding for Persons with Developmental Disabilities living in the community just weeks after announcing plans to close Michener Centre. “I just can’t believe they’d come out and do that cut right now. It’s like you’re already bleeding and they now they want you to hemorrhage,” said Bill Lough, president of Society of Parents and Friends of Michener Services, on Monday. The society is fighting the plan to move 75 of Michener Centre’s 125 residents to community group homes, and 50 medically fragile residents to seniors care facilities by next January. Opponents argue Michener is the only home residents know and the high level of care can’t be equalled outside the centre. Up until now, families believed remaining residents, whose average age is 60, would be allowed to stay at Michener until they died based on a 2008 report that recommended consolidating all operations at Michener’s south site. David Swann, Alberta Liberal human services critic, said in a press release that he was appalled by the cut to funding that is distributed to care agencies for Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD). Liberals say it means possible staff shortages and a reduction in services. “The government has hidden these cuts in the budget by promising increased wages for those who work with PDD, but Community Access Support programs in Calgary alone are left with a $16 million hole to fill. Because of the complex nature of this year’s budget, a lot of the agencies couldn’t tell how severe the cuts were until they crunched the numbers themselves,” Swann said.

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Lacombe resident feeling ‘defeated’ in fight against huge water bill BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

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A motorist stopped at the Ross Street and 41st Avenue lights watches a costume-clad Johannes Vandenakker Monday. Calling the elaborate rig his Spirit of My Inner Self, Vandenakker spent nearly two hours at the intersection delighting and confounding passersby. “I felt like doing it for a week now,” he said. “Let’s call it spring fever.”

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Brookes Wallace did not get the mid-winter blues and install and fill a swimming pool at the halfduplex she owns — but she is facing a water bill suggesting she did something of the sort. The Lacombe resident could not believe her eyes a few weeks ago when her monthly water bill showed her owing $1,028, a 12-fold increase on the average charge of the residence where her two tenants live. The bill corresponded with the 364 cubic metres of water that apparently passed through the residence’s water meter in February. At first incredulous, Wallace is now exasperated that she cannot find a sympathetic ear.


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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Country musician Dean Brody will headline this year’s Westerner Days. Brody was nominated for a Juno for country album of the year in 2013. The Canadian country musician has played Westerner Days before. In 2011, he was the Molson Canadian Ranch Stage performer on the Wednesday of the fair. “We are definitely very excited,” said Meghan Gustum, Westerner Park marketing manager. “He put on an awesome show last time and I think it’s going to be even better this year.” But this year Brody has been upgraded to the main stage act, performing on the Hampton Inn & Suites Main Stage in the Centrium on July 20. “I think people are going to have a good time,” said Gustum. “He has a lot of songs out right now that are really high energy. I think he’s going to be really good.” Brody has won six Canadian Country Music Awards, along with 17 nominations, and has two previous Juno award nominations. Tickets for the concert go on sale on Friday and cost $20, excluding service fees, taxes, gate admission or parking. They can be purchased online at ticketmaster.ca, at the Centrium box office or by phone at 1-855-985-5000. A promo code for advanced ticket purchases, part of an exclusive presale, will be made available to Westerner Park twitter followers, @westernerpark, or for those who like the Facebook page for the Westerner Days Fair and Exposition. The three other bands featured during this year’s Westerner Days will be announced closer to the event. The annual fair runs from Wednesday, July 17, through Sunday, July 21. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Canadians involved in Algerian terrorist attack were friends from London, Ont.: Report LONDON, Ont. — CBC News says it has identified the two Canadians involved in January’s deadly terrorist attack at an isolated Algerian gas plant. Citing unidentified sources, the news outlet says Ali Medlej and Xristos Katsiroubas — high school friends who were both from London, Ont. — were the Canadians whose bodies were found amidst the carnage. CBC says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was asking questions about both men at one

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in the four-day siege of the natural gas plant that ended when the Algerian military stormed the energy complex. In the aftermath of the attack, Algeria’s prime minister had said two Canadians were among the band of militants who took hundreds of workers hostage — claims Canada couldn’t initially confirm. Hostages who escaped recalled hearing at least one of the militants speaking English with a North American accent. Members of the RCMP were sent to Algiers to investigate. In March, the Mounties first said a Canadian was among those killed in the attack, but wouldn’t say if the remains were discovered among the al-Qaida linked terrorists or the hostages.

just having the individual with the developmental disability. They are basically just trying to survive.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

your citizens reach out to you, you’re supposed to help them. Even respond. A phone call; something. I’m getting nothing with any of these people. I’m disgusted with the help I’m getting. “I’d like to know how my little 900-and-somesquare-foot duplex can use that amount of water and it can still be standing,” she said. Wallace’s request to send the meter out for an additional test arranged by herself was turned down because the city does not give out its property. A new meter was installed following Wallace’s complaints, and she said the readings are back to normal. “We are not sure where the water loss occurred from, but the water did flow through the meter,” said City of Lacombe communications officer Deven Kumar, “Our assumption is that there must have been a leak somewhere in the owner’s property which, of course, is the owner’s responsibility.” Kumar said a leaky tap or toilet is often to blame when water bills spike. The city does actual meter readings every eight weeks. When an unusual reading is spotted, one of the city’s utility staff notifies the residents so they can search for the culprit. Between actual meter readings, the city issues bills based on estimates relating to average consumption. Kumar said such a large total will be excluded from calculations so as to not drastically affect Wallace’s average payments. Wallace said she is not trying to dodge the bill, but plans to fight it “tooth and nail” until someone can tell her where all the water went. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

“I don’t know what to say, I don’t know what to do. I can’t get anybody to listen. I can’t get anybody to understand that a thousand dollar water bill just isn’t right. I’m feeling pretty defeated here,” said Wallace. After receiving the bill, Wallace contacted the City of Lacombe, which agreed to have the home’s meter tested independently. That test, done by the City of Red Deer, showed the meter to be 99.75 per cent accurate, well within the city’s acceptable parameters. While that test settled the matter for the city, Wallace maintains that there is no way her bill is right. She did a dye test in the home’s toilets to test for leaks and found nothing awry, with no other apparent problems anywhere on the property. She has reached out to city administration, the mayor and councillors on the matter, but has not found the help she is seeking. The city’s position is that the meter was right and Wallace should set up a payment plan with them. “The thing that’s really ticking me off is that the City of Lacombe councillors and the mayor, when

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point after a family member contacted authorities in 2007 with concerns that the pair were associating with the wrong crowd. But the report says CSIS did not have the two men, who were thought to be in their mid-20s, under surveillance when they left Canada for Algeria sometime last year. The report also says it has learned that two other individuals from the London area travelled to Algeria with Medlej and Katsiroubas, but it isn’t known if they were involved in the gas plant attack. Sgt. Greg Cox, a spokesman for the RCMP, says the force’s investigation into Canadian involvement in the attack continues and added that no further information would be provided at present. At least 38 hostages and 29 militants were killed

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The reduction in funding to Central Alberta agencies was not available. In Alberta’s 2012-13 budget, PDD is to receive a $5.5-million increase as part of a transition to a new service delivery system. “This is a disgraceful ‘shell game’ by Human Services with no planning or consultations with those directly affected. The quality of life of these individuals is going to suffer and care will be compromised,” Swann said. Lough said closing Michener and the funding cut to Community Access Support are all about saving money on the backs of the most vulnerable. The province’s move towards more community care with more family management doesn’t automatically mean quality of care will be there. “It only works when people are able to advocate strongly and are prepared to go through the bureaucratic process. But a lot of families fall through the cracks and aren’t able to do this so the quality of care actually goes down,” Lough said. “A great many parents are just overwhelmed by

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A pair of Canada geese land on the still frozen lagoon at McKenzie Trails Recreation Area Monday. The familiar honking can be heard around the city and Central Alberta as the bird return from their southern United States wintering grounds.


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Did you hear the one about.....? ROUNDUP OF APRIL FOOLS’ DAY PRANKS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Did you believe everything you read on the web on Monday? In case you hadn’t clued in yet, it was April 1 on the calendar — April Fools’ Day. Some of the web’s heavy hitters — including Twitter and Google, which always goes overboard with pranks — have posted a slew of phoney stories designed to trick and amuse readers. A list of some of the best: ● Google Nose: It’s billed as “the new scentsation in search,” the “sharpest olfactory experience available.” Google allows search by smell AND has come up with technology to transmit scents over the Internet. This gag runs deep. Search for “belly button,” “diaper,” “fresh baked bread” or “Grandmother’s closet” today and you’ll see a box at the right of the screen with details from the Google Aromabase (diaper’s smell notes are: baby powder and poop). http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/ ● Google Blue: Gmail like you’ve

never seen it before. Blue, all blue. “You click on Compose, the button Compose: blue. The word Compose itself: blue. You write in the body of the email, the font comes up blue. You don’t have to make it blue. It just is blue,” says a Google employee in a slickly produced video for the product. “We tried orange, brown — brown was a disaster.” https://mail.google.com/mail/help/ intl/en/promos/blue/index.html — Google Maps treasure maps: Search for something on Google Maps today and look for the “Treasure” layer, which transforms the screen into sepia-toned graphics replete with cartoon trees and local landmarks, including the CN Tower, Niagara Falls and Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. https://maps.google.com/maps?t8 ● Can I buy a vowel, Twitter?: In a bid to make communication even more streamlined and efficient on its social network, Twitter announces using vowels is now a premium service. Those not willing to shell out $5 a month for A, E, I, O and U (Y is always free) must instead log on to Twttr. http://blog.twitter.com/2013/03/ annncng-twttr.html — Bigfoot sighting in Canada: Banff National Park announces an “amazing observation” made, a new species

caught on camera near Lake Louise. http://ow.ly/i/1NmFH ● “Star Wars” director J.J. Abrams recruits George Takei: The actor best known for playing Hikaru Sulu in the “Star Trek” franchise says he’ll play Master Ceti Maru, a member of the Jedi High Council, in the new upcoming “Star Wars” remake. https://www.facebook.com/ georgehtakei ● HBO announces “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage is being replaced by British actor Warwick Davis. http://hbowatch.com/peter-dinklageapril-season-four/ ● TTC’s “personal car”: Toronto’s transit service announces it’s sectioned off a subway car where there are no holds barred, riders can exercise all their annoying habits — wear bulky backpacks, eat slovenly, crank their music, clip their nails — with no regard to common courtesy. http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v7e8BmBoQv5U&featureyoutu. be ● WestJet, the pet-friendly airline: Any animal that can fit on one of its planes can now travel with WestJet, in the passenger cabin, without being confined to a kennel. It’s the airline’s new “furry family” program.

http://www.westjet.com/guest/en/ deals/offers/furry-family.shtml?s m— cidsm-tw-af-ss-ge-20130401&mrd0 ● Sony’s Animalia tech: Headphones for cats, TVs designed just for dogs? Tech toys marketed to pet owners who want the very best for their furry friends. https://blog.sony.com/2013/03/animalia/ ● YouTube has seen enough videos: YouTube announces that after nearly eight years of collecting videos, it’s nearly ready to stop accepting uploads and name one clip the best of the Internet. http://youtube-global.blogspot. ca/2013/03/youtube-contest-submiss ions-closing—31.html Offline, others were also looking to get in on the April Fools’ fun by sending out fake press releases. Bob Rae said he would run for the leadership of the federal Liberal party after all, noting: “I’ve changed my mind. That’s a lot easier than changing parties. So I will be Crazy Uncle Bob after all.” And Swimming Canada sent out a release saying that two-time Olympic medallist Ryan Cochrane would be giving the bobsled chute a try for the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

Man and his dog save girls from icy river RESCUER ALMOST SWEPT AWAY IN ATTEMPT TO SAVE TWO GIRLS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Adam Shaw was taking an Easter stroll with his wife, two young children and the family dog when they heard the screams. It sounded at first as if kids were cavorting in the spring sunshine in a northeast Edmonton park. But Shaw and his wife, Kelsey, quickly realized that two girls had been playing on ice near a footbridge and had fallen into the bone-chilling water of the wide North Saskatchewan River. “We looked down to see one young girl floating in the river and her sister trying to pull her out,” he recalled Monday at a firehall news conference. “We tried to yell to them to hang onto the ice and stay where they were if they could.” After asking his wife to dial 911, Shaw called his eight-year-old lab-husky-cross Rocky to his side and together they scrambled down the steep bank through tangles of bushes and onto the river ice. By now the second girl, 9, had fallen in. Shaw managed to pull her 10-yearold sister out reasonably quickly. “The ice was still fairly solid where she was and I was able to pull her out. I told her to head back to shore and stay there and wait for help.” But even in those few moments, the situation grew more dire. “The second girl had floated quite a ways down the river. She was bobbing in and out. We could barely see her, so we started running down the ice, trying to get close to her.”

“WE LOOKED DOWN TO SEE ONE YOUNG GIRL FLOATING IN THE RIVER AND HER SISTER TRYING TO PULL HER OUT. WE TRIED TO YELL TO THEM TO HANG ONTO THE ICE AND STAY WHERE THEY WERE IF THEY COULD.” — ADAM SHAW

He yelled out to her so she knew he was there. He asked her if she could swim closer to the ice. But she said she was really cold and couldn’t move her arms or legs. That’s when things got even worse. Shaw was trying to throw Rocky’s leash to the girl when he fell in and Rocky fell in with him. That’s when Shaw “got scared for myself.” “It was breath-taking. It was very cold.” But the adrenalin was pumping and he just kept going. Man and dog tried to pull themselves back to shore, but the thinning ice kept collapsing beneath them. “It kept breaking, kept breaking.” Rocky finally managed to get his front paws on the ice. “I pushed his back end up so he was on the ice, then used the leash and him to pull myself up on the ice.” Shaw realized he needed to try a different approach if he wasn’t going to become a victim. “I just really didn’t want to fail,” Shaw said. By this time, he couldn’t see the second girl. He said it seemed as if his eyes searched for her a long time along the expanse of open water.

2nd hare found shot with arrow BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — An Alberta conservation group is alarmed after another hare has been found shot with an arrow in Calgary. It was found over the weekend in the southwest part of the city and had a shattered jaw, all of its teeth were broken and a torn muscle. Diane Wittner of the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation says there was no way to repair all the damage, so they had to euthanize the animal. The discovery came just one week after another hare was found in the southeast part of the city with an arrow lodged in its side for a month. It survived, and is now recovering at

a local wildlife centre. Staff say they have seen a disturbing increase in the number of deliberate injuries to wildlife. “We deal with some pretty horrific injuries all the time, and a lot of time they are accidental,” Wittner explains. “But when it’s intentional, it’s a lot harder on all of us because they are completely avoidable and inexcusable.” Often, animals aren’t killed outright and are left to die from infection or starvation. The target practice arrows found in both hares have been turned over to the authorities, and charges of animal cruelty could be laid. It is also illegal to discharge any kind of firearm in the city.

“I started to look around and I couldn’t see her. She had gone underneath the water and I thought she was gone. She popped up ... down the river and she was still screaming and I started to run after her again.” Shaw and his dog got as close as they could. “I put the leash around Rocky and pushed him to get in the water. I told her I was going to get him to jump in and if she could grab a hold of his leash, we could get her back to the ice.” Rocky, a burly canine with a greying muzzle, jumped in right beside the girl and she managed to cling to his leash. “I called him back and he swam towards the ice.” Again the ice crumbled as Rocky swam closer with the girl in tow. But Shaw managed to grab the dog and the girl’s arm and pull them both to safety. The girl was hypothermic. He tried carrying her back up the bank, but it was too steep, so they sat down at the edge of the river. Amazingly, despite getting cold and wet, his cellphone rang. It was the emergency rescue team telling him to stay put. Later, after the girls had been taken to hospital where they were examined and declared fine, Shaw called his mom. He told her he was famished from the exertion and she said she would bring him a burger — and one for Rocky, too. Shaw said he isn’t surprised by his dog’s actions. “He’s very adventurous. He’s always in and out of the water. He’s always shocking us with jumping off the ice and stuff like that his whole life, so I knew that he could jump in the water

and swim back, no problem.” He also feels Rocky sensed he had to come through with some heroics. “I think he knew something out of the ordinary was going on. After it all happened, we were sitting on the shore and he’s a pretty active dog, he’s usually running around and stuff, but he came and sat down beside me and beside the girl and he didn’t move,” Shaw said. “When the rescue team actually approached us, he was growling at them, which is kind of out of the ordinary for him, so I think he was a little scared for me or something.” Rocky has no special training other than spending a lot of time outdoors with Shaw, who has had him since he was a puppy. Edmonton’s fire chief presented Shaw with a fire rescue helmet for his bravery, while Rocky was given a big, rawhide bone he gnawed on enthusiastically. Shaw said he thought about little else the whole time except getting the girls out of the frigid water. “They were really scared. They were screaming. I just wanted to help them.” It didn’t really hit him until later that night. “My family came over and we started talking about it, how it could have gone a lot differently. That’s when it started to sink in. It worked out well. “It was a good ending to a scary experience.” The mother of the two girls — Samara, 9, and Krymzen, 10 — is thankful for what Shaw did and hopes to meet him one day. “I would just give him a big hug, and tell him he’s my angel,” Miranda Wagner told CTV Edmonton. “ The doctor said two more minutes and Samara would have been gone.” Wagner said Samara not only had hypothermia, but suffered a number of cuts and scratches to her whole body, she was released at midnight. Wagner said her daughters were playing in the park with three other children, but weren’t allowed near the river.

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Measure of greatness ALBERTA IS THE PRODUCT OF THREE DYNAMIC LEADERS Our identity as a province — how we work, how we play, how we see ourselves within Canada — carries the qualities we have adopted from our leaders. Unique in Canada (and probably unique in the world), Alberta has been shaped by three strong leaders who we chose and kept in office for what adds up to most of our history. And it is also unique that in the past few months, two of GREG the strongest NEIMAN leaders in our history have passed away. With the passing of Peter Lougheed last December and Ralph Klein last week, so ends an era of leadership that modern times may not ever repeat. We’ve had 14 premiers since Alberta gained provincial status in 1905, but three — Ernest Manning, Lougheed and Klein — together held the lion’s share of our history. At one point, Manning, who was premier from 1943 to 1968, was the longestserving democratically-elected leader in the world. Think of the changes that took place, from the time Canada was still engaged in the Second World War, to the beginning of the Apollo space program that sent astronauts to the moon. When Manning started his life in politics, much of Alberta’s grain harvest was taken in by horses. He ended it with agriculture becoming a mechanized, international industry. Manning won seven consecutive elections, and it was his hand on the tiller during the time that Alberta changed from being a collection of small agrarian communities tied to two minor cities, and found its destiny as an energy producer. All but eight years of the great Social Credit dynasty (begun in 1935 in the depths of the Great Depression) were led by Manning, who himself changed the party from a right-wing religious revolution into a modern, pragmatic political party. That dynasty began to crumble in 1965, when a young lawyer, Lougheed, became leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party. In 1967, Canada’s centennial, Lougheed became leader of the Opposition with six members, all elected in either Edmonton or

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Calgary. It was the signal of change. The 1971 election brought Lougheed to the premier’s post, and Alberta would never again be chiefly agricultural in character. Lougheed would serve as premier until 1985, ushering in the era of Alberta’s rise on the national agenda. The Heritage Fund was begun by Lougheed, as was the Alberta Bill of Rights. Lougheed invested hundreds of millions in direct funds, plus tax and royalty incentives, to get the oilsands industry on its feet. Remember the Alberta Opportunity Company? It had its headquarters in Ponoka and many an Alberta family got in for $10 a share in 1972. A pretty good investment, looking back.

Don Getty served almost as an interim premier upon Lougheed’s retirement, when Alberta’s third great leader — Klein — took up the mantle of securing a Tory dynasty that has outlasted even the historic Social Credit run of power. Gregarious where Lougheed was austere, Klein seized popular consent to address a recurring problem for us: the cycle of energy prices that drives our economy. Alberta was $23 billion in debt by the time the cycle bottomed out. Klein convinced us that we were not the “blue-eyed sheiks” of the Lougheed boom years. Or, at least that we could not live like we were all the time. Klein campaigned on severe — almost punitive — cutbacks. No opposition could slow the tidal wave of salary

and pension cuts, hospital closures, layoffs in health care and rises in service fees of all kinds. In fact, we lauded Klein for them. Klein was mayor of Calgary for the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, and he topped that by being premier for Alberta’s centennial party in 2005. It was punctuated by showcasing Alberta as the lowest-taxed region in the industrialized world, and the only one with no debt. That we also have almost no savings to show for the billions earned selling non-renewable resources would be a problem for leaders to come after him. Under Klein’s tenure, our energy industry changed in character. Where once Albertans were characterized as local risk-taking mavericks who could parlay small exploration startups into multi-million-dollar profits, the oil and gas industry has become international in scope. Where Alberta and Canada have no indigenous, government-owned energy firms of any kind, the nationally-owned corporations of other countries have billions invested in our borders. Syncrude, begun under Lougheed using technology developed in household washing machines, is now run by Imperial Oil Ltd., which is in turn owned by international giant Exxon Mobil, out of Irving, Texas. During a single lifetime, Alberta has changed from being inward-looking, small-town, family-farm-based to discovering our potential as Canada’s national economic engine, to finding ourselves a place on the world stage of energy supply. And it was accomplished under three leaders, whose ambition, acumen and personal qualities matched the spirit of their times. You won’t find another district anywhere where three such leaders could be democratically elected in such close succession, without violence. And where each leader’s legacy paved the way for the next. Alberta’s political and social character is to follow a strong leader, and to follow that person for many years at a stretch. Can we get used to a rotating leadership, such as the rest of the world has, or will someone with the right mix of vision and common touch rise to carry on for decades longer? Whatever happens in the future, we can say for now that we are who our leaders made us. Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

Klein was the ordinary guy with power If there is a Ralph Klein out there somewhere today in the Canadian political world, I have yet to meet him or her. If there is one lurking in the weeds, ready to burst onto the national stage, I very much look forward to that meeting. But something tells me that Friday marked the passing of a politician who will not pass my way again. Klein was not one to wade deeply into policy because he seemed to live his political life in an executive summary, instinctively knowing that he TIM was dealing with an electorHARPER ate that, by and large, would choose the summary over a 500-page policy paper any day. That was the essence of his formidable communications skills. He never spoke down to a voter, he always spoke to a voter, and more often than not, spoke with the voter. In an era when populism is available to anyone with a BlackBerry and 140 characters of thoughts, the former Alberta premier was his own social media, a man who would rather talk to a voter in a pub than meet with an analyst in his office. As a journalist, particularly one from the dreaded Toronto Star and based in Ottawa, I came into Klein’s orbit only fleetingly, during prime minister’s visits to

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Edmonton, Team Canada trade missions abroad or federal-provincial meetings in the capital. I didn’t know him, I merely encountered him. But the thing with Klein was whenever we would sporadically collide, he made me feel like we knew each other. Some politicians with real power retreat into message tracks, repeat the same guarded anecdotes or instinctively shy from journalists. Perhaps because he had once been one of us, Klein appeared to relish the conversation, whether it was in front of the mikes or away from the scrum. As an Ottawa-based reporter, the questions put to Klein usually involved some friction. I invaded his domain with the federal health minister of the day, Allan Rock, during the famous health-care wars between the federal Liberals and the Alberta premier, a trip which Klein famously labelled “a drive-by smear.” He was usually accused of tearing apart or assaulting something the Star stood for, whether it was public education, public health care, labour rights or civil rights, but any time Klein took a question from a Star reporter during that era, he was ready to parry. He was disarming because he appeared ready to break into a full-bodied guffaw at any time. Abroad, we would run into each other in the latenight hours and the early morning hours — the latter time as I boarded a hotel elevator only to meet the Alberta premier in his sweats, towel wrapped around his neck, the picture of health, as I staggered down to breakfast. His greeting was just as ebullient at 2 a.m. as it

was at 8 a.m. Don Martin, the host of CTV’s Power Play and author of King Ralph, liked to tell the story of his first encounter with Klein at the Calgary City Hall press gallery. Klein showed him how to remove an air grille in the media room so he could hear an in-camera meeting underway. Alas, as Martin recalls, the first thing Klein did after becoming Calgary mayor was take care of that pesky grill. Among the politicians paying tribute on Friday, there was a common thread. Former prime minister Jean Chrétien, with whom he sparred from afar, told CTV News he considered Klein a friend and believed Klein, too, considered him a friend. Former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow said he could always share a confidence with Klein, another hallmark of a friendship. For many of us in the press gallery, Klein was the guy with whom you could share a beer or step outside with for a smoke. Not many of us drink much any more, hardly anyone smokes. Both, of course, contributed to King Ralph’s demise. But it’s not the lifestyle that makes Klein emblematic of another era. It was the dishevelled style of a regular guy who had power without pretension, and one doesn’t find that type around any more. Tim Harper is a syndicated national affairs writer for the Toronto Star.

I drive in from Sylvan Lake daily. What appears to happen is dozens, if not hundreds, of vehicles stop for these lights while little if any traffic is coming from the north or south. These lights are poorly timed and need to be looked at. This is very inefficient, increases the chances of accidents, and the stop-and-go causes excess emissions to be emitted.

I contacted Mr. Fischer, the operations manager at Alberta Transportation in late 2012 and was advised a review is underway, yet nothing has been done. What is the point of stopping so much traffic entering Red Deer in the early morning? I think we should be able to do better. Tom King Sylvan Lake

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Watchdog to study muzzling of scientists

AFTER GIANT CLEANUP COSTS BALLOON BY BOB WEBER THE CANADIAN PRESS Cleanup costs at a single northern mine next to Great Slave Lake are ballooning so high they are forcing Ottawa to rethink plans for thousands of contaminated sites across the country. Documents obtained by northern environmentalists show the government expects the cost of cleaning up the Giant Mine just outside Yellowknife to be nearly a billion dollars — perhaps the largest single environmental cleanup in Canada and paid for entirely by taxpayers. Initial estimates for safely dealing with the huge site, which includes a toxic smorgasbord of buildings, tailings ponds and a quarter-million tonnes of arsenic stored underground, were about $488 million. A federal progress report on the project says costs have increased as more has become known about the scale of the problem. “The increase in estimated costs occurred as a result of the normal progression through the preliminary phases of the remediation project (... increased site information and detail obtained over time),” the report says. Rising labour and equipment costs are also part of the problem. So is the current state of the mine, which is so bad that emergency measures need to be taken this summer before large amounts of arsenic start escaping from collapsing buildings. The official price tag of $903 million could get higher yet. “There is a potential for the total project cost estimates to increase over time,” says the report, which uses figures as of March 2012. The costs are already squeezing funding for other federal cleanups. The Giant Mine remediation project is funded out of a federal program for contaminated sites. Beginning in 2005, a total of $3.6 billion over 15 years has been earmarked for the program. That was supposed to be enough for 6,765 known toxic sites, including 2,709 “priority” sites. They include the Lennard Island lighthouse off the coast of Vancouver Island, the Happy Valley-Goose Bay air force base in Labrador and Rock Bay in Victoria Harbour. Cleaning up the Faro Mine in the Yukon alone is expected to cost up to $590 million. Contaminants found on the sites vary widely, but most common are fuel residues, metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated bi-

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A miner is silhouetted as he passes through a doorway in a mine shaft 100 feet below the surface at the Giant Mine near Yellowknife, N.W.T. Environmental costs at a single northern mine are ballooning so high they are forcing Ottawa to rethink the cleanup of thousands of contaminated sites across the country. phenyls (PCBs). Environment Canada spokesman Mark Johnson said there’s enough money in the kitty for immediate work. “There is currently sufficient funding available to cover the cost of planned remediation activities at high priority sites,” he said in an email. Other sites, however, may have to wait. “The government of Canada will re-examine its approach to identifying the highest priority sites for funding.” The Giant Mine is getting so bad that the federal government has asked the N.W.T.’s environmental regulator for emergency approvals to clean up the crumbling site. About 3,600 cubic metres of arsenic and arsenic-contaminated material remain in surface structures — uncontained and in many cases exposed to the elements. Photographs from the site show piles of arsenic dust lying exposed inside the old flues that used to carry it underground. Those flues are pulling away from the building they were at-

tached to and slowly collapsing as concrete and wood pillars that held them up rot away. Snow blows freely through derelict walls and roofs onto arsenic-contaminated equipment. Asbestos insulation waves in the wind as it flakes off old pipes and buildings. Underground, arsenic-stuffed caverns are in danger of falling in from the surface or collapsing into mined-out areas below. The mine’s main smokestack is crumbling. Arsenic poisoning starts with headaches, confusion, severe diarrhea and drowsiness. When the poisoning becomes acute, symptoms may include diarrhea, vomiting, blood in the urine, cramping muscles, hair loss, stomach pain and more convulsions. Continued poisoning leads to a coma followed by death. The cleanup will be so dangerous that buildings will have to be sealed off as they are demolished and removed. Workers would have to wear full hazmat suits and breathe supplied air.

After visit to Iraq, Baird sets sights on repairing relations with U.A.E. BAGHDAD — Fresh from establishing a new diplomatic beachhead in Iraq, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird turns his attention Tuesday to knocking down a contentious visa imposed on Canadians when he visits the United Arab Emirates. Relations between Canada and the U.A.E. soured in 2010 over Canada’s refusal to grant Emirati airlines extra landing rights in Canada, a dispute that prompted the closure of a key Canadian Forces staging base outside Dubai. The following year, the U.A.E. imposed a costly visa on Canadians visiting the country. Diplomatic irritations were partially soothed last year with news that Canada will sell the U.A.E. nuclear technology. At the same time, the U.A.E. announced it would cut the fees for visas, though the requirement remains in place — for now. The visa issue is expected to be part of Baird’s discussions with Emirati officials, although aides to Baird refused to confirm Monday whether progress would be announced. On Monday, Baird paid an unannounced

visit to Iraq, where he opened a new Canadian diplomatic mission. Canada wants to expand its engagement with a country that’s become a pivotal force in a troubled region, and doing so requires a Canadian presence in Baghdad, Baird said in a statement. “With conflict raging in neighbouring Syria, with the ayatollah’s regime relentlessly pursuing sectarian hegemony and nuclear ambitions, and with a NATO ally and economic partner bordering Iraq’s north, today’s opening here in Baghdad expresses Canada’s intention to expand our engagement with a key regional player.” The new diplomatic office will be an offshoot of Canada’s embassy in Amman, Jordan, and will operate out of the Brit-

ish embassy in Baghdad, Baird said. Canada has not had an ambassador formally accredited to Iraq since 1991, although the embassy in Jordan was tapped to assume responsibility for Iraq in 2005. The Baghdad office will be run by charge d’affairs Stephanie Duhaime, who served previously in Iraq, Lebanon, Bangladesh and Syria and who played a role in developing NATO and Canadian counter-insurgency efforts in Afghanistan in 2009-2010. She is fluent in English, French and Arabic. Baird acknowledged there are many challenges in a troubled country which lies at a crossroads of serious international security challenges. “Today’s opening is a historic milestone in

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OTTAWA — Federal policies that restrict what government scientists can say publicly about their work are about to be put under the microscope. Federal Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault has agreed to investigate how government communications rules on taxpayer-funded science impact public access to information. Legault is responding to a detailed complaint lodged by the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria and the ethics advocacy group Democracy Watch. Their lengthy report — “Muzzling Civil Servants: A Threat to Democracy?” — laid out repeated examples of taxpayer-funded science being suppressed or limited to pre-packaged media lines across six different government departments and agencies. In a letter to the complainants, the commissioner’s office noted she is required under the Access to Information Act to investigate any matter related to obtaining or requesting records. The complaint alleges that by keeping government scientists from speaking out about their work, the public is denied the chance to request records — because no one is ever made aware they exist in the first place. The complaint “alleges that the right of access to information under the act is impeded by government policies, practices or guidelines that restrict or prohibit government scientists from speaking with the media and the Canadian public,” Legault’s office responded, saying it “falls with the scope” of the legislative mandate. In addition to four government departments and two agencies cited in the complaint, Legault said she will also examine the Treasury Board Secretariat “because of its role in relation to the development and implementation of government policies.” Chris Tollefson, the executive director of UVic’s law centre, said their research into suppressed science revealed both the wide scope of the practice and that it “represents a significant departure” in government practice over the last five to seven years. “It really is a core issue in terms of the health of our democracy,” Tollefson said in an interview. “We need to know what the best science is as we make difficult decisions about policy.” The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been accused of silencing scientists on number of subjects, particularly environmental science, since the Conservatives came to power in 2006. Gary Goodyear, the minister of state for science and technology, was not available Monday to defend Conservative practices. His office provided an email stating government scientists “are readily available to share their research with the media and the public.” “Last year, Environment Canada participated in more than 1,300 media interviews, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada issued nearly 1,000 scientific publications, and Natural Resources Canada published nearly 500 studies,” said the statement. It came the same day that the Globe and Mail reported that the National Research Council declined to make available its lead engineer for a front page story on research into truck safety. ]Environment Canada forbids scientists from speaking publicly on issues such as climate change, polar bears or caribou without getting specific approval from the Privy Council Office, the bureaucracy that supports cabinet and the prime minister. Natural Resources Canada requires pre-approval on any interview on topics such as “climate change, oilsands” as well as with any reporter from a national or international media outlet. Fisheries and Oceans Canada has a communications policy that ensures “approved media lines are in place” before a scientist may speak with a reporter. Calvin Sandborn, the legal director of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre, said a formal investigation by Legault, who has the power to subpoena witnesses and take evidence under oath, is crucial. “This should make it possible for civil servants, and government scientists specifically, to speak freely to the information commissioner,” said Sandborn. “We have indications that there is very, very broad discontent amongst scientists about being muzzled and having their research suppressed.”


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Discrimination, harassment, make corrections ’toxic’ WORKPLACE SURVEY THE CANADIAN PRESS An internal survey suggests the federal correctional service and the prisons it runs are a “toxic” place to work, with many respondents reporting acts of harassment or discrimination by co-workers and bosses. “Unhealthy work environment within CSC (Correctional Service Canada) is an area that needs attention,” the “ethical climate survey” report states. “All these practices create a toxic work environment and must be addressed on an ongoing basis.” Almost one-third of survey participants said they were harassed at least once within the past year, with derogatory statements, quips insulting personal appearance and public putdowns chalking up the most complaints. In this group, a majority — nearly 60 per cent — were harassed weekly or monthly, according to

results from the anonymous survey last year, in which 2,200 corrections staff in positions ranging from prison guards to top office managers took part. Roughly 20 per cent of respondents who said they were harassed cited sexually suggestive remarks or invitations, the displaying of sexist or racist images and inappropriate emails, while one in 10 reported unwanted physical contact such as touching or pinching. Corrections spokeswoman Sara Parkes said harassment complaints are not treated lightly by the prison service. “Harassment is a serious offence and will be dealt with promptly. Responses to harassment complaints are prompt, sensitive, and administered with discretion,” she said in an email. “CSC prevents harassment and discrimination through mandatory training, increased awareness, early problem resolution, and the use of informal conflict resolution mechanisms, which include mediation,” Parkes said.

Restaurant, business leaders in B.C. split over return to provincial sales tax BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The harmonized sales tax has been wiped out in British Columbia, and the provincial sales tax is back in force, but business leaders remain at odds over whether the change is good or bad for the province’s economy. The restaurant sector said Monday it was delighted to return to the lower tax, an announcement that was quickly followed by concerns from the Business Council of British Columbia saying the switch will hurt the province’s competitiveness. Observing that debate were former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm, an architect in the fight against the HST, and B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix — two leaders who heralded the reversion back to the PST as a triumph for democracy. “We were able to practise democracy in a way like it’s never (been) done before in Canada or in the British Commonwealth of nations,” said Vander Zalm. “This was a first. It was historic.” The HST’s official passing came Monday, almost four years after the Liberal government announced it had accepted $1.6 billion from the federal government to switch over to a harmonized federal-provincial tax system. Public outcry and protest followed the introduction of the tax, which combined the five-per-cent federal goods and services tax with the seven-per-cent PST, and

it was defeated in an August 2011 referendum. “HST cost B.C.’s food service industry a total of $1.5 billion in lost sales,” said Mark von Schellwitz, of the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservice Association, in a statement issued Monday. While the HST was on the books, the restaurant industry grew at just 1.4 per cent in B.C., he added, noting the sales growth for the industry in the rest of Canada was 11.5 per cent. Von Schellwitz said he expects the industry now to grow about 5.1 per cent this year thanks to the seven per cent tax savings and a reduction in liquor markups. That’s good news for British Columbia’s third largest private sector employer,” he added, noting customers will now pay less to eat out. But the Business Council of British Columbia was not pleased, saying the change back to the PST “represents the single biggest tax increase on business in the province’s history” and will be a significant blow to the province’s competitiveness. The organization said that under the HST, businesses received offsetting tax credits for all sales tax paid on items such as machinery, computer equipment, vehicles, legal services, purchased energy, furniture and fixtures, and construction materials, but those tax credits won’t be available now. The business council noted 40 per cent of the PST’s revenue will be paid directly by businesses —

costs competitors outside of B.C. don’t have to pay — and as a result goods and services produced in the province will be more expensive, especially with the high Canadian dollar taken into account. “Restoring the PST, and doing away with the value-added sales tax system created by the HST, will increase production and operating costs for B.C. businesses as a whole by roughly $1.5 billion per year,” said Jock Finlayson, a business council spokesman. “On top of this is another $150 million of additional compliance and administrative costs that will fall on the shoulders of B.C. businesses due to the loss of the benefits from sales tax harmonization with the federal GST.” Reflecting back on the referendum victory, though, Vander Zalm said the battle to dump the tax was the most rewarding thing he’s ever done because it crossed philosophical and political lines and united people. “They worked for a common cause,” he said. “There were no fights, no arguments.” Dix said the NDP would not revive the HST if the party forms government. “I don’t intend to bring it back,” he told reporters in Vancouver. “This was a tax transfer on the middle class.” He said the HST has damaged the B.C. economy on the way in and on the way out and disrupted every business and consumer in the province during the past four years.

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MONTREAL — Friends of a Quebec man who vanished while driving home through Mexico’s dangerous north say they’re confident they’ll find him and bring him home. Marc Menard has not been heard from in more than two weeks. The 44-year-old husband and father was returning to Canada after a three-month stay in Mexico. He was driving a white Pontiac van with Quebec licence plates and was travelling with his basset hound, Maya. His plan was to cross the U.S-Mexico border at the notoriously dangerous town of Nuevo Laredo, a haven of drug cartel violence. Friends say it’s the route he’d mapped out, but there is no evidence he actually made it all the way to the volatile city. Marc Morneau, a longtime friend of Menard’s, said on Monday it’s not characteristic of his friend, a bus driver in Laval, Que., to simply disappear. “It’s not like him,” Morneau said. “He has a modest life in Quebec, but he had obligations here, taxes to pay, money in his account and a daughter who has been waiting for him.” Morneau said the last place Menard had contact with his family was Matehuala, about 500 kilometres south of the U.S.-Mexican border. In Matehuala, there was a withdrawal from his bank account on March 12. Morneau says there was also at least one friend who had a Skype conversation with Menard on March 14. “There might have been others, but the last one we’re sure of was on the 14th,” Morneau said. “He was in a hotel room, said he was on his way to the border and was hoping to get there soon.” Since then, there has been nothing but silence. Morneau noted that his friend was travelling without a cellphone and speaks only minimal English and Spanish in addition to being fluent in French. He had a laptop that he used to communicate with relatives and friends. “He was learning Spanish a little more each time he visited,” said Morneau, adding that Menard had been making visits to Mexico since 2010. Morneau wondered if Menard was being detained for some reason.

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Spring in full swing Story and photos by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

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entral Alberta’s greenhouses offer a splash of colour well in advance of the snow melting outside. It only takes one step inside Parkland Nurseries and Garden Centre or Dentoom’s Greenhouses to feel like spring is in full swing, with perennials, bedding and hanging plants from one end of the greenhouse to the other. Gloria Beck, owner of Parkland Nurseries, which operates year round, says that with the seasons changing, there are new plants and flowers to be seen every week. And Beck says now is the time to start thinking about planting bulbs for summer blooming, especially

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once the ground dries up from the melting snow. The nursery has also just begun to prepare certain varieties of small tomato plants for the public to take home in coming weeks, including lemon boy, which produce yellowcoloured fruit. While Dentoom’s Greenhouses does not open until May 1, employees have been busy seeding, transplanting, trimming and preparing cuttings for the public since January. Every section of the greenhouse features a variety of plants and rows of hanging plants that will be ready for home growers and gardeners to take home on opening day.

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Nashville’s burning desire FLAMING HOT CHICKEN TAKES OVER AS NASHVILLE’S SIGNATURE DISH BY CHRIS TALBOTT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — Most folks know Memphis for its barbecue and Philly for its cheesesteaks, but how about Nashville and its hot chicken? If you’re not sure, you’ve never tried this fried chicken so fiery it will leave your mouth in shock. It’s a flavour you don’t soon forget. Born as cheap, flavourful fare for Nashville’s working class community and offered late into the night for its party-goers, hot chicken has long been a staple in town. But its reputation has grown in recent years. Taylor Swift and B.o.B. even featured one of the city’s best known hot chicken shops in a video they did together. At heart, it’s fried chicken that gets finished with a potent — and nearly always secret — blend of dry, peppery seasonings (paprika and cayenne are common, though that’s just the start). But that oversimplifies things. “I don’t know,” James McNew, hot chicken fan and bassist for New Jersey indie rock band Yo La Tengo, says of the recipe. “Some kind of combination of love and hate. I’m not sure of the measurements, whether it’s half and half or not.” McNew and husband-wife bandmates Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley have been coming to Nashville for almost two decades. For the music, of course. And the chicken. They sing its praises to anyone who will listen. They even named two songs in honour of their love for Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, which has been serving up searing hot chicken since sometime during the 1940s. “It’s something different,” said Andre Prince Jeffries, second-generation owner of Prince’s. “It’s not a boring chicken. I mean, you wake up on this chicken. You’re gonna talk about it.” And talk about it they do. The members of Yo La Tengo heard about hot chicken from another band that already had fallen for it. They visited the humble strip-mall home of Prince’s in north Nashville, far from the trendy districts, and were immediately enchanted. “It really was love at first sight,” Kaplan said during a recent interview at Prince’s. “Even before we tasted it. It was obviously unique.”

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Nashville’s signature dish, hot fried chicken is shown. Prince’s is the most popular of Nashville’s growing roster of hot chicken restaurants. Over the years, it has moved several times and its owners have missed a few bills, but Jeffries, with the help of her daughter, niece, brother and cousins, has managed to keep it in her family. As the story goes, it all began with Jeffries’ great uncle Thornton Prince, a bit of a man about town whose girlfriend had put up with enough and wanted a bit of spicy retribution. So she made him a special chicken for breakfast with a fiery kick. “But he liked it, I’m sure after he kind of startled himself on it,”’ Jeffries said. “He had her make some more, whatever stuff she put on it. And word got around. People started coming out to the house for chicken.” “My great uncle started it, but of course I give credit to his lady friend,” Jeffries said. Sixty-odd years later, the family will be honoured in May with a prestigious James Beard Foundation America’s Classics Award. It’s a proud moment for Jeffries, but one born out of a simple idea. “I just wanted something to stay in the family,” she said. “Mom and pop places, they are phasing out. Big business is taking over, and so I think there’s very few mom and pop places open that’s been going

for as long as we have. That was my goal. But it’s nothing that I’ve done. I’m standing on the shoulders of somebody else.” Many of Nashville’s hot chicken restaurants are family run. Like Prince’s, the chicken recipe at Bolton’s Spicy Chicken & Fish — the restaurant that made the appearance in the B.o.B.-Swift video for Both of Us — has been handed down from one generation to the next. Dollye Ingram-Matthews, who owns Bolton’s with her husband, Bolton Matthews, thinks there’s a reason it’s become a Nashville tradition. “Probably because it’s nowhere else and you have to have experience with it to know what you’re doing,” she said. “It’s not something you can say, ‘I’m going to open up a restaurant and da da da da da.’ You have to have experience with the pepper to make sure it comes out. Because if not you’re going to have a lot of errors with your cooking.” The same is true for the customer. Ordering errors occur all the time. It’s best to start low. Hot is over the limit for most people, Ingram-Matthews says. And mild is hotter than what most chain restaurants consider spicy. Anyone who orders extra hot is asked if they’re a first-timer and politely instructed to start at a lower temperature if so.

And, of course, there’s a little danger involved if you don’t take the encounter with the fiery pepper seriously. “With the dry rub, wash your fingers,” she said. “Wash up under your nail beds. Do not touch your eyes. And definitely wash your hands before you use the bathroom.” Ingram-Matthews has plenty of advice. But don’t bother asking her for the family recipe. “They say, ’What is the secret to your recipe,’ and I say, ‘Love, joy, peace and happiness,”’ she said. “And I leave it that. Because it’s full of all of that.” NASHVILLE HOT FRIED CHICKEN To ensure that the exterior doesn’t burn before the interior cooks through, keep the oil temperature between 300 and 325 degrees. Start to finish: 2 hours Servings: 6 2 quarts cold water ½ cup hot sauce Salt and ground black pepper ½ cup plus ½ teaspoon sugar 3 ½- to 4-pound whole chicken, quartered 3 quarts peanut or vegetable oil 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper ½ teaspoon paprika ¼ teaspoon garlic powder

2 cups all-purpose flour Hearty white sandwich bread (optional) Pickle chips (optional) In a large bowl, whisk the cold water, hot sauce, ½ cup salt and ½ cup sugar until the salt and sugar dissolve. Add the chicken and refrigerate, covered, for 30 minutes or up to 1 hour. When ready to cook, in a small saucepan over medium, heat 3 tablespoons of the oil until shimmering. Add the cayenne, ½ teaspoon salt, paprika, remaining ½ teaspoon sugar and the garlic powder. Cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Transfer to small bowl and set aside. Remove the chicken from refrigerator and pour off brine. In a large bowl, combine the flour, ½ teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon pepper. Two at a time, dredge the chicken pieces through the flour mixture. Shake excess flour from the chicken, then transfer it to wire rack. Do not discard the seasoned flour. Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 200 F. Set a clean wire rack over a rimmed baking sheet. In a large Dutch oven over medium-high, heat the remaining oil to 350 degrees. Return the chicken pieces to the flour mixture and turn to coat, then shake off the excess. Add half of the chicken to the oil and fry, adjusting the burner as necessary to maintain oil temperature between 300 F and 325 F, until the skin is a deep golden brown and the white meat registers 160 F and the dark meat registers 175 F, about 25 to 30 minutes. Drain the fried chicken on the prepared wire rack and place in oven to keep warm. Return the oil to 350 F and repeat with the remaining chicken. When all of the chicken is cooked, stir the spicy oil mixture to recombine, then brush it over both sides of the chicken. Serve on bread, if using, and top with pickles, if using. Nutrition information per serving: 780 calories; 510 calories from fat (65 per cent of total calories); 57 g fat (10 g saturated; 0.5 g trans fats); 140 mg cholesterol; 27 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 2 g sugar; 38 g protein; 1100 mg sodium. (Recipe adapted from Cook’s Illustrated magazine) Follow AP Music Writer Chris Talbott: http://twitter.com/ Chris—Talbott

Top-rated chef Boulud says Canadians are sophisticated WHEN IT COMES TO FINE DINING BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Daniel Boulud gives a categoric yes when asked if there’s an identifiable Canadian cuisine. He should know. After all, he’s been described as one of the finest chefs in North America. An impish smile crosses his face when he mentions the Canadian dish that has particularly pleased his palate. “Poutine,” the French chef says in an interview at his posh Maison Boulud restaurant in Montreal. “For me, it’s so interesting. “I’ve had some outrageous poutine. It was so good, so tasty.” But it’s not just poutine that tingles his taste buds, the chef says, pointing to oysters, duck, foie gras, venison and game birds. And let’s not forget the fish. ”All the salmon — from the east coast to the west coast — fabulous,“ he said. Maison Boulud is the Montreal outpost in Boulud’s international food empire of 15 restaurants in cities including New York, London, Beijing and Miami. The Montreal establishment is closing in on marking its first year and is one of the attractions in the newly refurbished Ritz-Carlton luxury hotel. The chef is also active in Toronto: his Cafe Boulud, part of the Four Seasons Hotel, opened last fall. A Vancouver venture, however, closed after two years in 2011. Boulud is best known for Daniel, his Michelin three-star restaurant in New York, which has been acclaimed as one of the 10 best restaurants in the world. He’s been in New York since 1982 and was executive chef at the upscale Le Cirque when that restaurant became one of the highest-rated in the United States. While there’s no questioning the high-end look of his Montreal restaurant, Boulud says pretentious fine dining is a thing of the past — or at least it

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Chef Daniel Boulud, one of the top French chefs in North America, stands in the dining room of his restaurant at the Ritz, in Montreal. should be. “It’s not about how fancy the place is,” says Boulud, whose voice is tinged with an obvious passion as he lists off the key ingredients for successful fine dining. It’s not just the food but also the service, the wine, the setting. “For me, fine dining is a communion between simplicity and perfection.” It’s the total experience that counts, says the hands-on chef, and that can be had in a casual or an upscale environment. “Fine dining is in fine shape when people can appreciate it in a more casual way.” Boulud, a native of Lyon, is comfortable when he visits Canada from his New York base, saying being in Montreal reminds him of home. “Toronto, it’s a little more urban, certainly more like New York, a bigger city.” The recipient of a slew of awards, including the 2011 Chef of the Year award from the Culinary Institute of

America, Boulud is not wedded to trends and his menus have traces of the traditional cooking he grew up with on his family’s farm in the Rhone Valley. “Sometimes you see trends with ingredients because everybody uses it,” he says, citing using kobe beef or white truffles on pizza because it’s expensive or trendy at the moment. He says he tends to think seasonally instead of a being a slave to food fads. For example, he loves to use crab in the spring and to combine it with watermelon or lime. In the fall, green apple and celery might be used. “Every year we have a new interpretation of how we compose this dish,” he said. Still, restauranteurs do keep an eye on each other to see what new ideas can be gleaned and one of the places they watch is the Great White North. “New York is looking at Canada for what’s happening here,” said the chevalier of the French Legion of Honour.

“It’s the north so there’s always things that happen here that don’t happen anywhere else. Canada is looking down south as well, at what’s happening in New York, what’s happening in Charleston, South Carolina.” Ingredients such as Canadian salmon and oysters are also popular, he said. The 58-year-old described Canadians as “quite sophisticated” when it comes to food. Boulud pointed to Quebecers with their history of food taken from their European roots and to other ethnic groups such as the Italians, Portuguese and Asians who have made contributions to Canadian cuisine. And he says it’s not impossible to create fine dining at home. Joking that with his experience, he could probably figure out how to cook a meal using candles, Boulud said having a good source of heat, either electric or gas, is crucial for preparing a good meal. So is having a good selection of knives and pots and pans. “Today we have an excellent quality of stainless steel and some of them have a copper core inside which is good for conduction,” explained Boulud, who is active in promoting food education and hunger relief, as well as running restaurants. He also advised home cooks to be careful to get good quality produce for their ingredients and to pay attention to the preparation — letting the meat rest, for example, when it’s ready so the juices can soak in. Underseasoning and overseasoning are other areas to watch. However, he acknowledges there’s a certain amount of trial and error and people are bound to learn from their mistakes. The author of seven cookbooks also had one last bit of advice to anyone planning to pick up a skillet. “I would always take a cookbook written by a chef who cares about making sure the recipe works at home,” said Boulud. “That’s not always the case.”


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What is it? The old man and “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer, and poet I heard a story once about a man who suffered a seizure and awoke in his hospital bed with most of his memories gone. His body functioned. His intellect was still intact. Yet he couldn’t remember a thing. It was almost as if someone had hit delete and left his mind a blank page. He had to learn everything over again — walking, eating, reading and writing. Despite the mental and emotional setbacks, the loss of memory gave him back one thing he hadn’t had in years and that was a deep appreciation and insatiable curiosity about absolutely everything. “What is it?” he cried out MURRAY one day, his eyes wide with FUHRER wonder. Relearning to appreciate the wonder of all that is around us can prove challenging. Without awareness, even the most amazing splendour can become commonplace. What happened so simply and naturally as a child now requires conscious effort. We become so involved in our own struggles and thoughts that we take it all for granted. Imagine if we could close our eyes and re-open them to the miracle of life — to see the world with a beginner’s mind. Beginner’s mind is a concept of Zen Buddhism. It refers to an attitude of openness, excitement and a lack of prejudice when assessing a subject. It asserts that there is value at times in taking all the things we know — our brilliant opinions, our logic, reason and most cherished beliefs — and setting them aside for the moment. As with the man in the story who is seeing everything again for the first time, it is a letting go of judgments and preconceived notions. One of the great challenges of living an empowered life is letting go of false ideas we have about how things are or should be. It is about reassessing at time the labels we have affixed to people, places and things and freeing ourselves from opinions and conceptualizations. Consider the possibility that at least some of the time when we think we know, we don’t. All we have are past impressions and conclusions about similar events or circumstances. Living with an “I know it all” attitude can keep us lost in the past or projecting fearfully into the future. It may not allow for anything new: no new surprises, no insights or discoveries. To better understand the concept, imagine placing ourselves in the position of saying, “I don’t know.” Few of us would consider this stance because we all want to be experts. We want to have all the answers or at least appear as if we do. None of us want to appear foolish. I have been practising beginner’s mind for some time now and have come to many realizations. If you’d like to try this exercise, here’s the approach I recommend. To start, find a quiet spot where you will be undisturbed for a few minutes. Acknowledge the distractions — the passing car, the voices of others, an errant worry, a fear or a physical sensation. To put a distraction aside, you must first acknowledge it. Promise yourself you’ll attend to it at a later time. Notice your breathing. Become physically aware of the sensation of breathing. Breathe in and hold it – sense and feel – then exhale with a sigh. This will help bring you into the moment. Appreciating the moment begins with appreciating yourself and the miracle of your body. Next, make a mental scan of your body searching for areas that may be holding trapped stress or tension. Start with your feet (your foundation) and move up to your head. Should you find any stress or tension, imagine breathing relaxation right into that very spot — almost like expanding a balloon. Breathe in relaxation and exhale any stress or tension from your body. Tell yourself to relax completely. Whisper the word freedom aloud or silently to yourself. As best you can, let go of the concept of time passing. Imagine all judgments and beliefs slowly ebbing away from you. Take a deep breath and open your eyes. Scan the room and allow your mind to settle upon whatever captures your attention — an image, a sound, a smell. Imagine that you’re experiencing it for the first time. Allow yourself to be awe-inspired. Allow yourself to ponder its purpose. Allow yourself to giggle at the absurdity of its form and function. After the exercise is over, you can go right back to the shelf and pick up what you had temporarily set aside. You can wear all those reasons, opinions and cherished beliefs again, if you like. However, you just might find that you’re coming away with something new and different — a greater appreciation for the wonder that is all around us — a new or broader perspective. Beginner’s mind is simply acknowledging that this magnificent thinking mind may have, at times, distorted reality and obscured the true nature of things from our view. The journey of self-esteem and empowerment must begin with the question, “Is it true?” Fostering a beginner’s mind can help to confirm or refute what we “know” to be true. “There are only two ways to live your life,” wrote Albert Einstein. “One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” In answer to his question, someone explained to the man that what he was seeing was a bird — an ordinary, everyday, run-of-the mill sparrow. It sat on the branch of a tree outside the window. He mouthed the word and reached out his hand toward the window. The sparrow hopped about on the branch and then flitted away. The man gasped and clapped his hands to his mouth. To him, he had just witnessed a miracle and to my way of thinking, he certainly had.

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“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when (I know) there are footprints on the moon.” — Author Unknown Murray M. Fuhrer – The Self-Esteem Guy www.theselfesteemguy.com

the pussy willows Whenever I spot the first pussy column and their acreage) but willows of spring on our back sadly the rest of his titles are long country roads an old story by Ken- out of print. I discovered the pussy neth McNeill Wells pops to mind. willow story in a copy of By JumpWells and his wife Lucille Oille ing Cat Bridge that I picked up in moved from the city to the Medon- an antique store in Edmonton. te township of Ontario The story begins in the 1940’s. when Ken comes There they found an across Tom, an elderly abandoned log home neighbour, while out they recognized as on a springtime walk. once being an object He falls into step with of craftsmanship and the old man and tries beauty. — without success — to They purchased the strike up a conversahouse for fifteen doltion. lars with the provi“It’s too bad you’re sion it be moved. Afbusy,” says Tom partter a frantic search way into their walk. they finally found a “I ain’t.” Ken cheerSHANNON piece of nearby propfully replies. They erty on which to place continue on around a MCKINNON it. Ken writes how the willow bog where Tom telephone lines shook asks Ken where he’s with laughter as locals heading. swapped tales of the Ken replies that he hapless pair of city slickers who has no particular destination. And not only bought a log home wor- then it dawns on him. “Are you thy of a bonfire, but were now at- trying to say you don’t want me tempting to reassemble it on four along?” starved acres rife with ravines, “In a manner of speakin’...” stumps and boulders. comes the reply. Happily the hard-fought result “Dang!” Ken explodes. was four acres of Eden where they “You don’t need to git riled,” kept milk goats, chickens, ducks says Tom. “I’m just tellin’ you. I’ve and — most successfully — bees. been tryin’ to git rid of you ever An artist of many mediums, Lu- since we met at the crossroads.” cille designed beautiful little hon“No,” Ken protests. ey pots that occasionally surface “I figured you’d leave when I on eBay today. started up the side-road,” says Ken wrote about the couple’s Tom. hilarious and often poignant ad“You tagged along. I was sure ventures in a newspaper column you’d leave when I headed across for the Toronto Evening Telegram. the field. You still followed on.” The columns were later repub“Why didn’t you say...” Ken lished in a series of books illus- starts to ask. trated with woodcuts by Lucille. A “I didn’t want to hurt your feelcollection of these stories can still ings,” says Tom. “I figured for sure be found in The Owl Pen Reader you’d go about your business when (Owl Pen being the name of Ken’s I started tromping through all that

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slush in the field back there.” Ken stammers, “I don’t...I don’t understand.” Tom leans in and points a bony finger first at Ken and then at the willows in the bog. “You see them trees?” “Yeah,” nods Ken. “Them’s pussy willows.” Ken nods again, confused. “I’m an old man,” says Tom. “I’m old enough to know that it’s only kids who gather pussy willows in the spring time. I don’t aim to have you going around telling the world I’m in my second childhood.” Then he thrusts out his chin and adds, “But seeing as how you’re here I’ll give it to you straight. I am to start pickin’ pussy willows. I aim to start right away. I’m going to pick ‘em for my old woman, same as I have done every spring time since me an’ her were kids together in the old red school over on the side-road.” Then Tom leans in close and shakes his fist in Ken’s face. “You call me an old fool!” he roars. “You say there is no fool like an old fool an’ so help me...” “Dog-gone it, Tom!” Ken roars back. “Dog-gone-it-all, I’ll help you pick ‘em.” “No,” says Tom. “Yeah,” insists Ken. Tom stares at Ken for a moment and the fire goes out of his eyes. The cords in his neck relax. A slow smile spreads across his face. “No,” he says again. “You pick some for your own woman.” Shannon McKinnon is a syndicated humour columnist from Northern BC. You can read past columns by visiting www.shannonmckinnon. com

Blended family adjusts discipline Question: My husband and I recently married. We both have children from previous marriages. It’s hard to be fair and consistent in how we treat all of them. Do you have any ideas on how we can build strong relationships among all of us? Jim: Congratulations on your marriage! Blending two families can be tough, but it’s not impossible. Ron L. Deal, an expert on blended families, has identified three positive relationship stages that you and your husband should consider: 1) The baby sitter role. Baby sitters have power to manage children only if parents give them power. Your husband should make it clear to his kids that he has granted you the power to manage JIM them, and you should do the DALY same with your kids. For a while, you will simultaneously be the primary parent to your own kids and the “baby sitter” to your husband’s. But this arrangement will not work if you have one set of rules for his kids and another for yours. 2) The “uncle/aunt” role. An uncle or aunt is not a full-fledged parent, but carries authority as an extended family member. Stepparents can gradually gain respect that allows children to accept them as extended family members. 3) The “parent” or stepparent role. Eventually, as trust is built, some stepparents gain “parental” status with some children. Younger kids tend to grant stepparents parental status more quickly than adolescents. For more, read Ron L. Deal’s book The Smart Stepfamily: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family (Bethany House Publishers, 2006). It’s essential reading for families in your situation. Question: My son responds to discipline in a defiant manner. We have come up with clear consequences for certain behaviors. Even though he knows the consequences, when we

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apply the discipline (e.g., wash the dishes for a week) his anger gets out of control. Do you have any suggestions on how to help him respectfully respond when he has made the choice to disobey? Leon Wirth, executive director of Parenting and Youth: The main issue here is not your son’s disobedience (you’ve already established reasonable consequences for that), but his angry and inappropriate outbursts when those consequences are enforced. Author Shana Schutte suggests that parents not wait until their child becomes too angry to deal with the problem. Think about the last time you were really angry. Was it easy to reason with you? More than likely, the problem was resolved after you had a chance to cool off. In the same way, wait until your son is calm before addressing his anger. In addition, author Lynne Thompson suggests the following: ● Show respect. Don’t participate by calling names or getting physical. ● Give your child words to express his anger. Say, “I know you are disappointed (or sad, or frustrated).” ● Set positive limits. Instead of saying, “Don’t you throw that toy,” say, “After you put the toy on the table, we can talk about this.” ● Avoid power struggles. If your goal is to control, you will teach him to control others. ● Provide a cooling-off period by reading a book together or going on a walk. Then calmly discuss what happened and make a plan for next time. ● Finally, help your son find clarity about what is driving his anger. Is it the consequences? Is it guilt about getting caught in certain behaviors? He needs to learn what’s in his heart that’s driving his anger, not just focus on the surface of his angry actions. Your son’s outbursts might simply represent an attempt on his part to avoid the consequences (e.g., washing the dishes) of his original infraction. Even as you employ techniques to help diffuse his anger, make sure he follows through on washing those dishes! Catch up with Jim Daly at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

Boy Scouts reject troop sponsored by gay rights group BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY — The Boy Scouts of America have rejected an application for a scouting troop sponsored by a Utah gay rights organization. The Utah Pride Center recently asked permission to start a troop for 10 middle-school aged children with straight troop leaders, said executive director Valerie Larabee. Many of the boys’ parents had previously left Scouts or opted not to join because of their opposition to the Boy Scouts’ long-standing policy excluding gays and lesbians. After spending four months preparing a proposal to adhere to Scouts’ standards, Utah Pride Center officials said a local representative from the Boy Scouts’ Great Salt Lake Council returned

the entire application intact four days later— including the business cards they had given him. They were told that the mission of their organization didn’t properly align with the goals of Boy Scouts, said Charles Frost, Utah Pride Center director of community engagement. The Salt Lake City-based group is an advocacy and service group for gays and lesbians. The rejected proposal was first reported by The Salt Lake Tribune. Rick Barnes, executive of the Boy Scouts’ Great Salt Lake Council, said it was a decision made by the national organization and forwarded inquiries there. Boy Scouts of America spokesman Deron Smith said in an emailed statement that, “Based on the mission of this organization, we do not believe a chartered partner relationship is beneficial to Scouting.”

The Boy Scouts national executive board is currently mulling a proposal to move away from its nogays membership policy or create a local option that would give the decision to the individual troops. The board is expected to decide in May. The organization has sent out a questionnaire distributed to 1.1 million adult Scouts that uses fictional situations to discern where Scouting’s membership falls on questions of homosexuality, gays camping with children, and gays in church leadership. They are also accepting feedback from local Scouting councils. In the Boy Scouts’ Great Salt Lake Council — one of the largest in the country with 5,500 troops and 73,400 youth — four out of five Scout leaders and parents that responded to a survey said they are opposed to lifting the ban on gays.


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Oilers roll over Flames SCHULTZ HAS THREE POINTS TO HELP OILERS TO FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY SIDNEY CROSBY

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Oilers 4 Flames 1 EDMONTON — Justin Schultz had a goal and two assists as the Edmonton Oilers continued their march toward a playoff spot by winning their fourth in a row, 4-1 over the Calgary Flames on Monday. Taylor Hall, Ryan Jones and Nail Yakupov also scored for the Oilers (15-13-7) who have gone 7-2-2 in their last 11 games. With the win, the Oilers kept pace in the tight Western Conference playoff race, sitting in a tie with Columbus, one point back of the eighthplace St. Louis Blues. Brian McGratton replied for the Flames (1317-4), who were likely rattled as defenceman Jay Bouwmeester was traded to St. Louis shortly before the contest in what looks like a fire sale in Calgary. The Flames have lost two in a row and six of their last eight games. Edmonton struck first just before the fourminute mark to start the opening period as Hall spotted Schultz creeping in from the point and fed him the puck in the

Sidney Crosby’s broken jaw was the unfortunate end of an otherwise spectacular month. The NHL named Crosby the first star for the month after the Penguins captain’s 25 points in 15 games helped Pittsburgh go undefeated in March. Montreal defenceman P.K. Subban was named second star, while Columbus goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky took thirdstar honours. Crosby is out indefinitely with a broken jaw after he was hit in the mouth with a puck in the first period of Pittsburgh’s 2-0 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday. Prior to that, the NHL’s leading scorer had a stellar month with six goals and 19 assists as Pittsburgh went 15-00 for March. Subban led all defencemen in March with 18 points (seven goals, 11 assists) in 14 games, including a leagueleading 11 power-play points. The 23-year-old Toronto native leads all NHL defenceman this season with 10 goals and ranks third with 27 points in 28 games. Bobrovsky led the NHL with three shutouts and also ranked second in wins (nine), goalsagainst average (1.49) and save percentage (.950) as Columbus went 10-2-4 in its most successful month in franchise history.

Today

● Curling: Red Deer Curling Centre club championships, 6:15 and 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday

● Curling: Red Deer Curling Centre club championships, 6:15 and 8:30 p.m.

Thursday

● Junior B hockey: Provincial championship at Wainwright — Red Deer Vipers vs. Grande Prairie Kings, 1 p.m. ● Curling: Red Deer Curling Centre club championships, 6:15 and 8:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, first game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal, 7 p.m., Saddledome.

Friday

● Gymnastics: Southern zones and trials to Westerns at Exelta Gymnastics, Collicutt Centre. ● Senior hockey: Provincial AA/A championships at Innisfail. ● Junior B hockey: Provincial championship at Wainwright — Red Deer Vipers vs. Cold Lake Ice, 7 p.m. ● Curling: Red Deer Curling Centre club championships, 6:15 and 8:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, second game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal, time TBA, Saddledome.

slot where the rookie was able to beat Calgary goalie Miikka Kiprusoff for his sixth of the season. The pair reversed spots on the scoresheet midway through the first as Schultz picked off a pass in the Calgary zone and sent it to Hall in front. Hall was able to freeze Kiprusoff with a deft move and then lift in a backhand for his fourth goal in the last two games. Edmonton scored on both of its first two shots in the game, similar to what happened in their 4-0 blanking of Vancouver on Saturday. The Oilers went up 3-0 with three-and-ahalf minutes to play in the first as Jones beat Cory Sarich to a puck along the boards and muscled a one-handed backhand shot that somehow got through Kiprusoff. The veteran goalie, who many believe may have been playing in his final game as a Flame, was yanked in favour of backup Joey MacDonald after allowing three goals on six shots. The game slowed considerably in the scoreless second period with

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Calgary Flames’ goalie Joey MacDonald makes the save on Edmonton Oilers’ Ales Hemsky during second period NHL action in Edmonton, on Monday. the best chances belonging to the Flames, however Edmonton goaltender Devan Dubnyk was able to come up with a pair of big saves on a tip by Curtis Glencross and a nice move by McGratton. The Oilers put the

game away for good midway through the third as MacDonald got a piece of a Yakupov shot from the slot, only to see it dribble in behind him. It was the first goal in 17 games and seventh on the season for the 2012 first-overall draft pick.

Flames send Bouwmeester to Blues on heels of Iginla trade BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Calgary Flames continued to usher big names out the door with the trade of defenceman Jay Bouwmeester to the St. Louis Blues on Monday. The move comes ahead of the NHL’s trade deadline 3 p.m. ET on Wednesday, and on the heels of Calgary dealing captain Jarome Iginla to Pittsburgh last week. The Flames get a conditional first-round draft pick, 22-year-old defenceman Mark Cundari and 26-year-old Swiss goaltender Reto Berra for Bouwmeester. For Iginla, Calgary picked up a first-round pick and two college forwards from the Penguins.

If the Blues don’t make the post-season, Calgary gets a fourth-round pick in this year’s draft from St. Louis and that first-round selection will be deferred to 2014. “Our point is, if they make the playoffs, and we certainly hope that they do ... that’s three first-round picks in the ’13 draft,” Feaster said in an interview with The Canadian Press. “If they don’t make it and we get it next year, that’s back-toback years where we would be going in with two first-round picks, which organizationally we think is really important.” Bouwmeester was in the fourth year of a US$33.4-million, five-year contract he signed with the Flames in 2009. He currently holds the NHL’s consecutive games streak at

611, which remained intact. His trade was announced after the puck dropped between St. Louis and Minnesota, which made Bouwmeester ineligible to play in that game, but before Calgary’s game in Edmonton. “He’s certainly a big body and he’s a tremendous skater,” Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said. “He’s a workhorse back there and he logs 25 minutes a night on a regular basis. He gives us, really, what we believe is one of the stronger defences in the NHL right now. “When you bring Jay and (Jordan) Leopold into it with the consistent players we have on the right side, we have a lot of players now.”

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Opening day features a lot of emotion, home runs and chilly start in Minnesota BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Josh Hamilton jumped into a cab, headed to Great American Ball Park and got all nostalgic. The Los Angeles Angels newcomer saw Cincinnati fans packed downtown and remembered making his big league debut in the same spot a while ago. “People are lined up in the streets, there’s the parade,” he said. “It’s just an awesome feeling. It never gets old — opening day — especially when you’re where you started.” All across the majors, baseball was in full swing Monday. Bryce Harper put on quite a show in Washington. The 20-year-old star hit home runs his first two times up and earned a few “M-V-P!” chants during a 2-0 win over Miami. At Target Field in Minnesota, Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS players and fans bundled up. It was 35 degrees with 17 mph winds as the Plate umpire Jim Joyce, right, signals Detroit Tigers’ Prince Twins took on ace Justin Verlander Fielder safe as he scores on a wild pitch by Minnesota Twins and the AL champion Detroit Tigers. pitcher Josh Roenicke in an opening day baseball game “It’s whoever whines about it the Monday, in Minneapolis. least, I think, who’ll have the best chance of winning today,” Twins first Yankees in New York, Giants-Dodgers in Los baseman Justin Morneau said. Angeles — there was plenty to celebrate with a The slugger’s remedy for the cold? dozen games. “Put hot sauce all over and throw some long “The three big holidays — Thanksgiving, sleeves on and some long johns and go out there Christmas and opening day,” LA co-owner Stan and run around and enjoy it,” he joked. Kasten said, watching the stands at Dodger StaThe hot chocolate line was 12 to 15 people dium fill up before the game against World Sedeep at the ballpark while the beer vendors ries champion San Francisco. were generally talking among themselves. A few minutes later, a stadium camera swung “It’s opening Day. You can’t not come,” said to Vin Scully’s booth, where he’s starting his fan Ripley Peterson, dressed in six layers for the 64th season, and the revered broadcaster prochill. nounced: “It’s time for Dodger baseball.” “I love baseball, I love the Twins. Opening day Dodgers co-owner Magic Johnson was standis a special thing. Unless it’s like a blizzard I’m ing on the mound before the game when mangoing to be here.” ager Don Mattingly came out and signalled for a The 2013 season officially opened Sunday reliever. night when the Houston Astros beat Texas. Most every other team was in action Monday. From old rivalries on the coasts — Red Sox- Please see BALL on Page B6

Calgary spoiled Dubnyk’s hopes of earning a second consecutive shutout with just 1:32 left as McGrattan scored. Dubnyk made 33 saves in the game. The two teams play a rematch in Calgary on Wednesday.

Jacobs stays undefeated at worlds with two more wins CURLING BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — Brad Jacobs is still perfect at the world men’s curling championships. Jacobs made short work of his first opponent Monday, posting a 7-2 victory over Switzerland’s Sven Michel that lasted just eight ends in the afternoon draw. In the evening, Jacobs beat Brady Clark of the United States 7-2 to improve to a 5-0 record. It was the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., skip’s 11th straight win dating to the Canadian men’s curling championship in Edmonton, where he finished with a sixgame winning streak. Jacobs said lessons learned at the Brier are continuing to pay off at the worlds. “We have been able to keep rolling along, even after the twoor-three-week break,” said Jacobs. “I just think that what we had, what we found, in ourselves at the Brier, those last six games, really helped us get to this point and know how we have to be from now on — not just here but (for) every event.” The 27-year-old is trying to become the youngest Canadian to win a world title since Edmonton’s Kevin Martin prevailed at the age of 24 in 1991. Canada has won the past three world crowns. “I’m happy that we’re performing pretty much each and every game,” said Jacobs. “We had that little slip-up against Finland (when the Finns scored four in one end.) “That’s fine. We came back, but we’re still going out with the same intensity, the same focus and putting on great performances like we did at the Brier.” Jacobs, making his first appearance at worlds, did not have much difficulty with Michel (3-2), whose rink was locked in a second-place logjam with five other teams after Sunday’s play. “We had some really difficult shots, but they played really well, and we had no chance at the end,” said Michel. Jacobs said the Brier win, the first for Northern Ontario since Al Hackner triumphed in 1985 en route to a world title, has given his rink the confidence to take several high-risk shots that continued to make with the Swiss. “If you’re not playing with confidence, you’re not trying the confidence that we’re trying,” said Jacobs.


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Basketball National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts d-Pittsburgh 36 28 8 0 56 d-Montreal 35 23 7 5 51 d-Winnipeg 37 18 17 2 38 Boston 34 22 8 4 48 Ottawa 35 19 10 6 44 Toronto 36 20 12 4 44 New Jersey 36 15 12 9 39 N.Y. Rangers 35 17 15 3 37 N.Y. Islanders 36 17 16 3 37 Carolina 34 16 16 2 34 Washington 35 16 17 2 34 Philadelphia 35 15 17 3 33 Buffalo 36 13 17 6 32 Tampa Bay 34 15 18 1 31 Florida 36 11 19 6 28

WHL Playoffs All Times Local FIRST ROUND Conference Quarter-finals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Red Deer (4) vs. Prince Albert (5) (Red Deer wins series 4-0) Edmonton (1) vs. Kootenay (8) (Edmonton wins series 4-1) Friday’s result Edmonton 4 Kootenay 1 Wednesday’s result Edmonton 4 Kootenay 0 Saskatoon (2) vs. Medicine Hat (7) (Medicine Hat wins series 4-0) Calgary (3) vs. Swift Current (6) (Calgary wins series 4-1) Thursday’s result Calgary 3 Swift Current 1 WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Everett (8) (Portland leads series 3-2) Monday, Apr. 1 Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m. Saturday’s result Everett 3 Portland 2 Friday’s result Portland 11 Everett 4 Wednesday, Apr. 3 x-Everett at Portland, 7 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum) Kelowna (2) vs. Seattle (7) (Seattle leads series 3-2) Saturday’s result Kelowna 4 Seattle 3 Tuesday, Apr. 2 Kelowna at Seattle, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 3 x-Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

GA 84 84 110 75 76 100 100 86 113 101 101 108 113 103 125

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA d-Chicago 35 27 5 3 57 119 76 d-Anaheim 36 24 7 5 53 111 90 d-Minnesota 35 21 12 2 44 98 90 Vancouver 35 19 10 6 44 92 90 Los Angeles 35 20 12 3 43 103 88 Detroit 36 18 13 5 41 94 94 San Jose 34 17 11 6 40 85 84 St. Louis 34 18 14 2 38 98 94 Edmonton 35 15 13 7 37 91 96 Columbus 36 15 14 7 37 87 97 Nashville 36 14 14 8 36 89 99 Dallas 35 16 16 3 35 94 107 Phoenix 35 14 15 6 34 94 101 Calgary 34 13 17 4 30 94 118 Colorado 35 12 19 4 28 86 111 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader

Canadiens 4, Hurricanes 1 First Period 1. Carolina, J.Staal 11 (Dwyer) 3:38 2. Montreal, Markov 7 (Subban, Gallagher) 15:03 (pp) Second Period 3. Montreal, Halpern 1 (Beaulieu) 1:46 Third Period 4. Montreal, Pacioretty 10 (Bouillon) 10:58 5. Montreal, Pacioretty 11 (Gionta, Plekanec) 19:30 (en) Shots on goal Carolina 5 8 6 — 19 Montreal 11 9 9 — 29 Goal — Carolina: Peters (L,3-5-0); Montreal: Price (W,18-6-4). Power plays (goals-chances) — Carolina: 0-5; Montreal: 1-3.

Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at Boston, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m. Florida at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. Colorado at Nashville, 6 p.m. Los Angeles at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Spokane (4) vs. Tri-City (5) (Spokane wins series 4-1) Saturday’s result Spokane 3 Tri-City 1 Thursday’s result Spokane 4 Tri-City 3 (OT) x — If necessary.

Monday’s summaries

WHL PLAYOFF LEADERS Through Mar. 31 SCORING A 7 8 4 6 6 8 5 6 1 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5

Pt 11 11 10 10 9 9 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

Oilers 4, Flames 1 First Period 1. Edmonton, J. Schultz 6 (Hall, Eberle) 3:52 2. Edmonton, Hall 12 (J.Schultz) 9:55 3. Edmonton, Jones 2 (Yakupov, J.Schultz) 16:28 Penalties — None. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Comeau Cal (cross-checking) 8:30, Smid Edm (roughing) 8:30. Third Period 4. Edmonton, Yakupov 7 (Jones, Whitney) 10:30 5. Calgary, McGratton 2 (Jackman, Begin) 18:28 Penalties — Paajarvi Edm (tripping) 7:10, McGratton Cal, Jackman Cal, Smyth Edm, Brown Edm (roughing) 18:57. Shots on goal Calgary 10 7 17 — 34 Edmonton 6 11 3 — 20 Goal (shots-saves) — Calgary: Kiprusoff (L,6-10-2) (6-3), MacDonald (16:28 first, 14-13) ; Edmonton: Dubnyk (W,11-10-6). Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 0-1; Edmonton: 0-0.

GOALTENDERS L 1 0 0 1 1

GAA 0.76 1.00 1.25 1.91 2.66

SO 2 1 1 1 0

Blackhawks 3, Predators 2 (SO) First Period 1. Chicago, Saad 7 (Hjalmarsson, Toews) 19:48 Second Period 2. Chicago, Kane 19, 12:10 Third Period 3. Nashville, Legwand 9 (Bartley, Klein) 3:56

Blues 4, Wild 1 First Period 1. St. Louis, Schwartz 4, 12:32 Second Period 2. Minnesota, Heatley 10 (Brodin, Mitchell) 6:59. 3. St. Louis, McDonald 4 (Steen, Backes) 12:17. 4. St. Louis, Shattenkirk 3 (Schwartz, Berglund) 14:07. Third Period 5. St. Louis, Jackman 3 (McDonald) 19:09. Penalty — Perron StL (boarding) 10:26. Shots on goal St. Louis 12 10 2 — 24 Minnesota 5 7 13 — 25 Goal — St. Louis: Halak; Elliott (W,4-6-1); Minnesota: Backstrom (L,19-8-2). Power plays (goals-chances) — St. Louis: 0-1; Minnesota: 0-5.

Baseball Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto New York

GB — 1/2 1/2 1/2 1

Chicago Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 0 1 .000

GB — — 1/2 1 1

Houston Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Texas

West Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000

GB — — 1/2 1/2 1

Sunday’s Games Houston 8, Texas 2 Monday’s Games Boston 8, N.Y. Yankees 2 Detroit 4, Minnesota 2 Chicago White Sox 1, Kansas City 0 L.A. Angels 3, Cincinnati 1, 13 innings Seattle at Oakland, Late Tuesday’s Games Baltimore (Hammel 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Price 0-0), 1:10 p.m. Cleveland (Masterson 0-0) at Toronto (Dickey 0-0), 5:07 p.m. Texas (Darvish 0-0) at Houston (Harrell 0-0), 8:10 p.m. Seattle (Iwakuma 0-0) at Oakland (Parker 0-0), 8:05 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m. Texas at Houston, 12:10 p.m. Detroit at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m. Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m. Cleveland at Toronto, 5:07 p.m. Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m. Seattle at Oakland, 8:05 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H 1 3 0 2 1 3 2 2 1 3 1 2 1 3 0 2

Pct. .667 .667 .667 .667

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Home Runs Ankiel, Houston, 1; Flowers, Chicago, 1; Iannetta, Los Angeles, 1. Runs Batted In Ankiel, Houston, 3; Iannetta, Los Angeles, 3; Victorino, Boston, 3; Cervelli, New York, 2. Pitching Norris, Houston, 1-0; Verlander, Detroit, 1-0; Lester, Boston, 1-0; Sale, Chicago, 1-0.

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Central Division W L Pct 47 27 .635 40 32 .556 36 37 .493 25 50 .333 22 51 .301

x-Indiana x-Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

GB — 6 10 22 24

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB x-San Antonio 55 19 .743 — x-Memphis 50 24 .676 5 Houston 41 33 .554 14 Dallas 36 37 .493 18 New Orleans 26 48 .351 29

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1/2 Pacific Division W L Pct x-L.A. Clippers 49 25 .662 Golden State 42 32 .568 L.A. Lakers 38 36 .514 Sacramento 27 47 .365 Phoenix 23 51 .311 x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference

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Sunday’s Games New Orleans 112, Cleveland 92 Washington 109, Toronto 92 Chicago 95, Detroit 94 Miami 88, San Antonio 86 New York 108, Boston 89

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Monday’s Games Detroit 108, Toronto 98 Atlanta 102, Cleveland 94 Houston 111, Orlando 103 Memphis 92, San Antonio 90 Minnesota 110, Boston 100 Milwaukee 131, Charlotte 102 Utah 112, Portland 102 Indiana at L.A. Clippers, Late

1/2 Tuesday’s Games Chicago at Washington, 5 p.m. New York at Miami, 6 p.m. Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Northwest Division W L Pct GB

Curling 2013 World Men’s curling championships VICTORIA — Standings Monday following the seventh draw at the 2013 World Men’s Curling Championship, to be held through April 7 at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre: Round Robin (before late draw) Country (Skip) W L Canada (Jacobs) 4 0 China (Rui) 4 1 Sweden (Edin) 4 1 Norway (Ulsrud) 3 1 Scotland (Murdoch) 3 1 Switzerland (Michel) 2 2 Denmark (Stjerne) 2 2 Czech Republic (Snitil) 2 3 Japan (Morozumi) 1 3 U.S. (Clark) 1 3 Finland (Kauste) 0 4 Russia (Drozdov) 0 5

Tuesday’s games Ninth Draw, 10 a.m. Czech Republic vs. Canada; Sweden vs. Switzerland; Finland vs. Russia; China vs. Norway. Draw 10, 3 p.m. Japan vs. Sweden; Russia vs. Scotland; China vs. U.S.; Czech Republic vs. Denmark. Draw 11, 8 p.m. Finland vs. Switzerland; Japan vs. Denmark; Norway vs. Canada; U.S. vs. Scotland. Wednesday’s games Draw 12, 9:30 a.m. Norway vs. Scotland; U.S. vs. Finland; Denmark vs. Switzerland; Japan vs. Canada. Draw 13, 2:30 p.m. Canada vs. Russia; Switzerland vs. China; Czech Republic vs. Finland; Norway vs. Sweden. Draw 14, 8 p.m. U.S. vs. Czech Republic; Scotland vs. Sweden; Russia vs. Japan; Denmark vs. China.

Monday’s results Sixth Draw Sweden 7 U.S. 6 (extra end) Denmark 8 Russia 6 China 7 Japan 5 Scotland 7 Czech Republic 3 Seventh Draw Canada 7 Switzerland 2 China 6 Russia 3 Norway 7 Finland 4 Sweden 7 Czech Republic 4 Eighth Draw Denmark vs. Norway; Canada vs. U.S.; Switzerland vs. Scotland; Japan vs. Finland - Late

Thursday’s games Draw 15, 10 a.m. Sweden vs. Denmark; Czech Republic vs. Japan; Scotland vs. China; Russia vs. U.S. Draw 16, 3 p.m. Switzerland vs. Japan; Denmark vs. Canada; U.S. vs. Norway; Finland vs. Scotland. Draw 17, 8 p.m. China vs. Finland; Norway vs. Russia; Canada vs. Sweden; Switzerland vs. Czech Republic. End of Round Robin

Sunday’s results Third Draw Canada 8 Finland 6 Norway 8 Switzerland 7 Fourth Draw Czech Republic 7 Russia 6 (extra end) Japan 7 U.S. 6 Scotland 5 Denmark 4 (extra end) China 5 Sweden 4 Fifth Draw Canada 9 Scotland 4 Denmark 9 Finland 2 Switzerland 8 U.S. 4 Norway 8 Japan 6

PLAYOFFS Friday’s games Tiebreakers, 10 a.m, 3 and 8 p.m. (if necessary) Page Playoffs One vs. Two or Three vs. Four, 8 p.m. Saturday’s games Page Playoffs One vs. Two or Three vs. Four, noon Semifinal, 5 p.m. Sunday’s games Bronze Medal Game Semifinal losers, noon Gold Medal Game Semifinal winners, 5 p.m.

Transactions

American League East Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000

National League East Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000

Southeast Division W L Pct GB 58 15 .795 — 42 33 .560 17 27 46 .370 31 19 56 .253 40 17 57 .230 41

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NFL TRADE ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Oakland Raiders have traded for Seattle backup quarterback Matt Flynn in the team’s latest change at the game’s most important position. The deal announced by the Seahawks on Monday signals the end to Carson Palmer’s tenure in Oakland. Palmer is expected to be dealt to Arizona. Oakland will send a fifth-round pick in 2014 and a conditional pick in 2015 to Seattle for Flynn, who left Green Bay and signed a lucrative free agent deal with Seattle last year.

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Los Angeles Arizona Colorado San Diego San Francisco

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Central Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 0 1 .000

GB — — 1/2 1 1

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GB — 1/2 1 1 1

Monday’s Games Washington 2, Miami 0 N.Y. Mets 11, San Diego 2 Chicago Cubs 3, Pittsburgh 1 Milwaukee 5, Colorado 4, 10 innings L.A. Angels 3, Cincinnati 1, 13 innings L.A. Dodgers 4, San Francisco 0 Atlanta 7, Philadelphia 5 St. Louis at Arizona, Late Tuesday’s Games Colorado (De La Rosa 0-0) at Milwaukee (Estrada 0-0), 6:10 p.m. St. Louis (Garcia 0-0) at Arizona (Cahill 0-0), 7:40 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 0-0), 8:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Miami at Washington, 5:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. San Diego at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m. Colorado at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m. St. Louis at Arizona, 7:40 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Freeman Atl 1 4 1 3 Ellis LAD 1 3 1 2 Johnson Atl 1 3 1 2

Pct. .750 .667 .667

Home Runs Harper, Washington, 2; 12 tied at 1. Runs Batted In Cowgill, New York, 4; Freeman, Atlanta, 3; Utley, Philadelphia, 3; Byrd, New York, 2; Harper, Washington, 2; Ramirez, Milwaukee, 2; Rizzo, Chicago, 2; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 2. Pitching Henderson, Milwaukee, 1-0; Niese, New York, 1-0; Strasburg, Washington, 1-0; Samardzija, Chicago, 1-0; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 1-0.

Lester 1-0. L—Sabathia 0-1. Kan. City 000 000 000 — 0 7 0 Chicago 000 010 00x — 1 8 0 Shields, Crow (7), K.Herrera (8) and S.Perez; Sale, N.Jones (8), Thornton (8), Reed (9) and Flowers. W—Sale 1-0. L—Shields 0-1. Sv—Reed (1). HRs—Chicago, Flowers (1). Detroit 210 000 010 — 4 9 1 Minnesota 000 001 100 — 2 7 1 Verlander, Smyly (6), Alburquerque (7), Benoit (8), Coke (9) and Avila; Worley, Fien (7), Duensing (8), Roenicke (8) and Mauer. W—Verlander 1-0. L—Worley 0-1. Sv—Coke (1). INTERLEAGUE L.A. 001 000 000 000 2 — 3 6 3 Cinc. 001 000 000 000 0 — 1 3 1 (13 innings) Weaver, Richards (7), S.Burnett (8), Jepsen (9), S.Downs (10), M.Lowe (11), Frieri (13) and Iannetta; Cueto, Broxton (8), Chapman (9), LeCure (10), Hoover (12) and Hanigan. W—M.Lowe 1-0. L—Hoover 0-1. Sv—Frieri (1). HRs—Los Angeles, Iannetta (1). NATIONAL LEAGUE Miami 000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Wash. 100 100 00x — 2 5 0 Nolasco, Qualls (7), M.Dunn (8) and Brantly; Strasburg, Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and W.Ramos. W—Strasburg 1-0. L—Nolasco 0-1. Sv—R.Soriano (1). HRs—Washington, Harper 2 (2). San Diego 001 001 000 — 2 4 1 New York 022 300 40x — 11 13 1 Volquez, Bass (4), Brach (7), Thayer (7), Thatcher (8) and Hundley; Niese, Lyon (7), Atchison (8), Rice (9) and Buck. W—Niese 1-0. L—Volquez 0-1. HRs—San Diego, Alonso (1). New York, Cowgill (1). Chicago 200 001 000 — 3 6 1 Pittsburgh 000 000 001 — 1 3 1 Samardzija, Marmol (9), Russell (9), Fujikawa (9) and Castillo; A.Burnett, Ju.Wilson (6), J.Hughes (8), Melancon (9) and R.Martin. W—Samardzija 1-0. L—A.Burnett 0-1. Sv—Fujikawa (1). HRs— Chicago, Rizzo (1). Col. 002 010 001 0 — 4 12 0 Milw. 001 000 030 1 — 5 8 0 (10 innings) Chacin, Belisle (7), W.Lopez (8), Brothers (9), Ottavino (10) and Rosario; Gallardo, Figaro (6), Badenhop (8), Axford (9), Henderson (10) and Lucroy. W—Henderson 1-0. L—Ottavino 0-1. HRs—Colorado, Tulowitzki (1), C.Gonzalez (1), Fowler (1). Milwaukee, Aoki (1). San Fran. 000 000 000 — 0 4 0 Los Ang. 000 000 04x — 4 7 0 M.Cain, Kontos (7), S.Casilla (8), Affeldt (8) and Posey; Kershaw and A.Ellis. W—Kershaw 1-0. L—Kontos 0-1. HRs—Los Angeles, Kershaw (1).

Monday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 040 000 103 — 8 13 0 New York 000 200 000 — 2 6 0 Lester, Uehara (6), A.Miller (7), A.Bailey (7), Tazawa (8), Hanrahan (9) and Saltalamacchia; Sabathia, Phelps (6), Logan (7), Kelley (8), Chamberlain (9), Eppley (9) and Cervelli. W—

Phila. 000 120 110 — 5 10 0 Atlanta 211 012 00x — 7 10 0 Hamels, Durbin (6), Horst (6), Aumont (8) and Kratz; T.Hudson, Avilan (5), O’Flaherty (7), Walden (8), Kimbrel (9) and Laird. W—Avilan 1-0. L—Hamels 0-1. Sv—Kimbrel (1). HRs— Philadelphia, Utley (1). Atlanta, Freeman (1), Uggla (1), J.Upton (1).

Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL — Named Michael Hand chief marketing officer. American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Promoted Einar Diaz to assistant coach. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Placed 2B Darwin Barney on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 31. Selected the contract of 2B Alberto Gonzalez from Iowa (PCL). Designated RHP Robert Whitenack for assignment. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled INF Justin Sellers from Albuquerque (PCL). American Association AMARILLO SOX — Released RHP Matt Lackie. Traded OF Oscar Garcia and RHP Jake Negrette to San Angelo to complete an earlier trade. KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed C Mike Thomas. ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed LHP Matt Meyer. Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed INF Bryant Nelson and OF Adam Bailey. Placed INF Shawn Williams on the reserved/retired list. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Baltimore S Christian Thompson four games for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed QB Brian Hoyer, RB William Powell and DE Ronald Talley to one-year contracts. Released QB John Skelton. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Re-signed CB Terence Newman to a two-year contract. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Traded QB Colt McCoy and an undisclosed 2013 draft pick to San Francisco for two undisclosed 2013 draft picks. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Agreed to terms with WR Darrius Heyward-Bey. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Announced the resignation of chief financial officer Bill Prescott. Promoted business planning manager Kelly Flanagan to vice-president of finance and planning. Released DT C.J. Mosley. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed LB Edgar Jones. Released LB Andy Studebaker. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Agreed to terms with DE Kenyon Coleman and QB Luke McCown on oneyear contracts. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Traded QB Matt Flynn to Oakland for a 2014 fifth-round draft pick and a conditional 2015 draft pick. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with WR Kevin Walter and OL Chris Spencer on one-year contracts.

Reto Berra. CAROLINA HURRICANES — Activated G Dan Ellis from injured reserve. Assigned G John Muse to Charlotte (AHL). CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Reassigned F Brandon Bollig to Rockford (AHL). Acquired F Michal Handzus from San Jose for a 2013 fourth-round draft pick. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Assigned C Nick Drazenovic to Springfield (AHL). DALLAS STARS — Recalled F Francis Wathier from Texas (AHL). Assigned F Toby Petersen to Texas (AHL). Assigned F Brett Ritchie from Niagara (OHL) to Texas. EDMONTON OILERS — Signed D Ladislav Smid to a four-year contract extension. MINNESOTA WILD — Reassigned G Darcy Kuemper to Houston (AHL). NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Activated LW Dainius Zubrus from injured reserve. NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Agreed to terms with F Anders Lee on a two-year, entry-level contract. Reassigned F Ryan Strome to Bridgeport (AHL). PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Traded F Harry Zolnierczyk to Anaheim for F Jay Rosehill. ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled G Brian Elliott from his conditioning assignment at Peoria (AHL). SAN JOSE SHARKS — Reassigned G Alex Stalock to Worcester (AHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed F Tanner Richard to a three-year, entry-level contract and D Luke Witkowski to a two-year contract. Agreed to terms with F B.J. Crombeen on a two-year contract extension. Recalled F Mike Angelidis from Syracuse (AHL). Reassigned F Dana Tyrell to Syracuse. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Assigned G Philipp Grubauer to Hershey (AHL). American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Signed F Olivier Archambault to an amateur tryout contract and D Adam Ross to a professional tryout contract. PEORIA RIVERMEN — Released F Mike Pelech from his professional tryout contract. SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Returned F Josh Birkholz, F David Pacan, D Brian O’Hanley and G Brian Foster to Cincinnati (ECHL). TORONTO MARLIES — Signed G Garret Sparks to an amateur tryout contract. ECHL READING ROYALS — Announced D Brett Flemming was assigned to the team from Hershey (AHL), G Mark Owuya was assigned to the team from Toronto (AHL), F Danick Paquette was assigned to Hershey and D Joe Sova was assigned to Charlotte (AHL). Announced F David Civitarese was recalled by Hershey. Released D Bobby Shea from his amateur tryout

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Monday’s Games Chicago 3, Nashville 2, SO N.Y. Islanders 3, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Rangers 4, Winnipeg 2 Montreal 4, Carolina 1 Detroit 3, Colorado 2 St. Louis 4, Minnesota 1 Anaheim 4, Dallas 0 Edmonton 4, Calgary 1 Vancouver at San Jose, Late

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Calderon helps Pistons beat former team SCORES 19 POINTS TO LEAD DETROIT COMEBACK WIN OVER RAPTORS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry tries to drive around Detroit Pistons guard Jose Calderon during second half NBA action in Toronto on Monday.

Pistons 108 Raptors 98 TORONTO — Fans in Toronto have been known to show their rancour when ex-Raptors make their return, but that wasn’t the case for Jose Calderon. Unlike the boos that regularly rain down on former Toronto stars Chris Bosh or Vince Carter, Calderon was showered with adulation prior to the Detroit Pistons’ 108-98 comeback victory over Toronto on Monday. Calderon had 19 points and nine assists for Detroit in his first game back since being traded in a three-team deal that brought Rudy Gay to Toronto from the Memphis Grizzlies on Jan. 30. But old habits die hard for the 31-year-old Spaniard, who played in Toronto for seven and a half seasons. He needed to be reminded where the visitors’ dressing room was, as cameras caught Calderon headed toward the wrong locker-room at halftime. “I went to the wrong tunnel, but they called me out real quick and it was just three or four steps,” said Calderon. The longtime Raptor, who remains the franchise’s all-time leader in assists (3,770) and free-throw percentage (.877), was given a brief standing ovation after he was introduced before the game. He smiled and waved to the 17,115 in attendance at Air Canada Centre. Calderon got a longer ovation midway through first quarter after a video tribute, but he was focused in the midst of a Pistons timeout huddle and could hardly acknowledge the outpouring of love. “It was a tough one because it was during time out, so I didn’t know whether to check the board, coach was

talking, or just saying thank you,” said Calderon. “It was great, thank you.” Greg Monroe had 24 points for the struggling Pistons (25-50), who won for only the second time in 15 games. Rodney Stuckey scored 12 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter to lead Detroit’s rally. Gay poured in 34 points and Jonas Valanciunas had 17 points and six boards for the Raptors (27-47), who have dropped seven of eight and were officially eliminated from playoff contention with Monday’s loss. “It hurts,” said Raptors head coach Dwane Casey. “Our goal was to knock on the doors and get into the playoffs. A couple of weeks ago we saw that light, but it faded when we could not take care of games against Washington, Cleveland and Milwaukee. “Unfortunately it is over now. It hurts.” Calderon was instrumental in Detroit’s fourth quarter comeback. The Raptors’ four-point lead disappeared early in the final frame as Pistons reserve Jonas Jerebko of Sweden dropped in four points before Khris Middleton put Detroit ahead 83-81 with a reverse layup, forcing Casey to call time. It didn’t do much good as Calderon connected on a two and Middleton did the same to give the Pistons their biggest lead of the game, 90-81 at 7:42. Toronto came alive to go on a 13-3 run with two straight DeRozan buckets and a Gay three, making it a 96-94 game with three minutes to play. But Detroit wouldn’t go away, as Rodney Stuckey hit a three followed by Jerebko’s two from the corner and once again the Pistons led 101-94 with 2:29 to play. The Raps cut the lead to five with a minute to play but didn’t get any closer.

Former Red Deerian Hogg trains with national team Despite being born and raised in Red Deer, Shauntelle Hogg figured by the time she got into Grade 9 she needed to move on if she wanted to develop her volleyball skills. As a result she travelled back and forth three to four times a week to Calgary to play with the prestigious Dinos program at the U15 level and the following year her whole family moved to the Stampede City. “I lived in Red Deer and attended Hunting Hills in Grade 9, but I felt there was better coaching and a higher calibre of training with the Dinos that I needed if I was to attain my goals,” she said. “I needed to put in the work at a younger age and develop a strong base.” Her father, Brian, also worked in Calgary at the same time and commuted between the two cities, so making the move to Calgary was a natural move. “My brother was going to attend Mount Royal and with my dad working there it was a good fit for the whole family,” said Hogg. Hogg continued to play club volleyball for the Dinos and at William Aberhart High School, one of the top programs in Calgary. “Aberhart was great. It has a high academic standard and a strong girl’s volleyball program,” Hogg

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TRADE: Green light Calgary sits 13-17-4 and 14th in the Western Conference after Monday’s 4-1 loss to Edmonton. Facing a fourth straight season out of the playoffs, it appears Feaster has been given the green light from a Flames ownership to ship expensive veterans out of town. When he traded Iginla, Feaster said he didn’t want to use term “rebuild” for the hockey club. “I use the phrase ’retool’ and I realize people have said ’Feaster can call it anything he wants, but we’re going to call it what we think it is,’ and that’s fine, that’s fair if that’s what people want to do,” Feaster said. “The reality of it is while two really good players went out the door, this franchise has missed the playoffs with those two really good players the last three years. At the time we initiated both transactions, we were in hard to try and make the playoffs this year. It’s time for us to go in a new direction.” The departure of Bouwmeester and Iginla also represents almost $14 million in salary cap dollars coming off Calgary’s payroll. “The salary cap comes down in the National Hockey League next year and there are going to be teams that are in trouble,” Feaster said. “There are going to be teams that need to move players because they don’t have the cap space. We’re going to be a team that’s sitting there with cap space. We’re going to have an opportunity to get better quickly.” Bouwmeester, 29, has been a durable, big-minute man for Calgary, averaging just over 20 minutes per game this season. The Edmonton native has six goals and nine assists in 33 games. The third overall pick in the 2002 draft by Florida, Bouwmeester quickly signed with Calgary when the Flames acquired his rights in 2009, rather than enter unrestricted free agency. Bouwmeester has 71 goals and 229 assists in 750 NHL games, but has yet to appear in an NHL playoff game in his 10th season in the league. Cundari, from Woodbridge, Ont., has seven goals and 18 assists for Peoria in the American Hockey League. The five-foot-10, 200-pound defender played four seasons with the Ontario Hockey League’s Windsor Spitfires and won back-to-back Memorial Cups in 2009

explained. “We were always one of the top two or three teams in the city and ranked provincially. This year we won the city, but didn’t perform our best the first two days at the provincials, which hurt.” However, overall the move to Calgary paid off for Hogg as she’s now training with the women’s national team full time training centre in Winnipeg. The 17-year-old graduated on Jan. 28, a semester early, and immediately joined the training centre. Her first chance to see what Shauntelle Hogg the national program was all about came when she was 12. “My dad won an auction online for an item called Team Captain for a Day. I travelled to Winnipeg and worked out with the team for a weekend and got a chance to sit on the bench for an international game against Peru,” Hogg explained. “That’s when I was introduced to the coach.” However, it was contact between the national team coach and the University of Calgary head coach, Natalie Schwartz, that ultimately led to Hogg’s invitation to the training centre.

and 2010. He went undrafted before signing with the Blues in 2010. “He’s a physical guy, in-your-face guy,” Feaster said. “Our players in Abbotsford hate playing against him because he’s just relentless. He’s hard to play against. He’s not a big guy, but he plays a bigger man’s game. We don’t have that kind of a physical guy and certainly at that age. “We’re aware of the fact he has a wrist injury that’s been bothering him and he’s probably going to be on the shelf for about seven to 10 days.” The Blues drafted Berra in the fourth round in 2006, but he has yet to play in the NHL. The six-foot-four, 200-pound goalie from Bulach, Switzerland, has a goalsagainst average of 3.01 and a save percentage of .906 in 49 games with Biel of the Swiss A League. He’s also played for Switzerland at the world hockey championship. The Flames acquired the rights to Finnish goaltender Karri Ramo in the same deal that brought Mike Cammalleri to Calgary in January 2012. Feaster says his scouts identified Ramo, currently playing in the KHL, and Berra as the top two goaltenders in the world not playing in the NHL. “Recognizing that at some point in time we’re going to face life without Miikka Kiprusoff, to have both of those guys in our organization and be in a position where we can try to sign them, that was a big piece of it too,” Feaster said of his latest transaction. That’s as much Feaster would say about Kiprusoff, a 36-year-old goaltender with a year remaining on his contract. The departure of Iginla and Bouwmeester fuelled speculation that the Flames are also shopping the Finn, who gave up three goals on six shots before getting pulled in Monday’s loss to the Oilers. “We’ve been pretty steadfast in saying we’re not going to discuss trade issues or trade-deadline matters until such time as we have something to say,” Feaster said. “Until such time we have anything to announce on any of the guys, we’re not talking.”

BALL: Honour In came Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax wearing his No. 32 vintage jersey, and the ol’ left-hander threw out the first ball to former Dodgers ace Orel Hershiser.

“I’m going to attend the U of C next year and the national team coach contacted Natalie and asked if there was anyone who would fit into their program and she said I’d be a perfect fit.” The six-foot-two Hogg plays middle blocker, a position she’s playing with the national program. “I thought I may be switched to the right side, but so far I’m still in the middle. I hope I stay there, although it’s tough internationally as there’s some middles six-foot-five and up.” Normally Hogg would be looking for a position on the junior national team, but because of a lack of funds there’s no team this year. “Unfortunately this year there’s no funds to run a senior B team or a junior team,” Hogg said. “So they’re keeping 18 players on the senior A team. However, I got an opportunity to train from June 24 to July 24 with six to eight other girls my age group as well as some players from the senior team who won’t travel with the team. “That’s not bad as I still get to train with high calibre girls and awesome coaches.” That will only help her as she prepares for university. “Definitely,” she said. “It allows me a chance to realize how fast the higher level is and the work ethic you need to put in to be successful.” drode@reddeeradvocate.com

There was a lot more to remember and honour, too. Players, managers, coaches, umpires and everyone else in uniform wore patches in tribute to those killed last December in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. At Yankee Stadium, the names of the 20 children and six educators who died scrolled on the video board in centre field during a moment of silence. The honour guard included members of Newtown police and firefighters. Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo had a patch attached to a lapel on his pinstriped charcoal suit. It has the seal of Newtown, a picture of a black ribbon and 26 little black stars, each representing a victim of that shooting. “It’s so we don’t forget about the people in Newtown,” Rizzo said, tapping the patch with his hand. “It honours them and keeps them in our thoughts.” At Citi Field in New York, the Mets honoured hundreds of Hurricane Sandy responders and volunteers in a pregame ceremony. A large orange heart with a blue NY logo was placed in centre field and storm volunteers wearing white shirts lined up around it in the shape of home plate. The team donated 1,000 opening day tickets to storm responders and those affected by the destruction.

First responders from several organizations, including the NYPD and FDNY, lined up in uniform behind the infield dirt, facing the stands. They remained there as players from the Mets and San Diego Padres lined up along the baselines for pregame introductions Singer and actress Emmy Rossum sang the national anthem backed by 50 choir members from the Scholars’ Academy School Chorus from the Rockaways, an area hit hard by Sandy. Opening day prompted Hamilton to recall his first game in the majors, in Cincinnati in 2007 after he overcame years of drug abuse. The All-Star outfielder who joined the Angels in the off-season returned to Cincinnati for an unusual interleague opener. “I enjoyed my year here,” he said. “It was the beginning of everything that’s happened so far in my career, so it’s always going to hold a special place in my heart. It’s always fun to come back to the places where you began.” In Washington, there is an abundance of optimism. Good reason for it, as the Nationals come off a season in which they led the majors with 98 wins. Stephen Strasburg threw the first pitch against the Marlins at 1:09 p.m. That was 4 minutes later than scheduled, because all the pregame festivities, which included unveiling a red, white and blue sign atop the outfield scoreboard that read “NL East Division Champions” in all caps.

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POTTERY SHOW AND SALE A winter’s worth of work by city artists will be on display and available for purchase on April 20. The Red Deer Pottery and Red Deer Art Clubs host their spring show and sale from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Recreation Centre’s foyer. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided. The art club is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year. The pottery club meets every Tuesday night from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Recreation Centre basement studio.

Smog still choking city POOR AIR QUALITY DUE TO WEATHER INVERSION CONDITION BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Smog continues to diminish air quality in Red Deer. On Monday morning, the city scored a five out of 10 on air particle and ozone levels. At that level, people sensitive to smog should consider reducing or rescheduling strenuous outdoor activities if they experi-

ence symptoms. At-risk populations include people with diabetes, lung or heart disease, seniors and children. By early afternoon, Alberta Environment’s Air Quality Health Index for Red Deer dropped to four and was forecast to remain at that level Monday night and today. Levels of seven to 10 on the Air Quality Health Index are considered a high health risk, especially for people suffering from

allergies and respiratory ailments. Levels of four to six are considered a moderate health risk with no need for the general population to modify outdoor activity unless they experience symptoms like coughing or throat irritation. The smog is due to inversion layers, which develop overnight when a layer of cold air becomes trapped under a layer of warm air.

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RETHINK RED DEER MEETING ReThink Red Deer holds its annual general meeting on April 14. The Sustainable Red Deer Society’s Annual General ReUnion runs from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Margaret Parsons Theatre at Red Deer College. The 2012-13 year will be recapped. The guest speaker is Tad Hargrave, founder of Edmonton’s Marketing for Hippies, which specializes in helping green local businesses grow. More information is available online at www.rethinkreddeer. ca.

GREAT CLOTH DIAPER CHANGE Central Alberta moms will attempt to break the cloth diapering world record during The Great Cloth Diaper Change on April 20 at 10:30 a.m. In recognition of Earth Day, Pure and Simple Babies is hosting the event to raise awareness about cloth diapering and join the effort to change the most cloth diapers at one time around the world. The diaper challenge will be held at Mommy Connections Rock Your Bump Mom and Baby Expo at Black Knight Inn. The expo runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a new mommy fashion show and more than 45 booths on site. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ pureandsimple babies#!/events/ 315605261895022/ or call Michelle at 403597-2984 or Chantrelle at 403-896-1831.

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Film career rises BY ADVOCATE STAFF Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Alison Harman, 13, Aidan Schafer, 12, Connor McCallister and Cole Webber, both 13, explain details of their mockup for the School of the Future Design program at Eastview Middle School.

Students earn chance to design school of future ADVANCE IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Four Red Deer middle school students have a once in a lifetime chance to compete with students from around the world, in a school of the future design competition. Alison Harman, 13; Aidan Schafer, 12; Connor McCallister, 12; and Cole Webber, 13, are headed to Pittsburgh in the middle of this month to compete against two other student groups from Dayton, Ohio, and the United Kingdom in the finals of the Council for Educational Facility Planners International school of the future design competition. The four, who attend Eastview Middle School, have been working together since mid-September to design a future school for Red Deer. Rather than start with the design of the school itself, the group first looked at educational models different from Canada, which became the basis for the school’s design. “We looked at international test scores and who was placing highest and it looked like Finland and South Korea were generally the best,” said Webber. They specifically looked at Finland because they thought it was a friendlier model for students. “They spend less time than most education systems around the world in class,” said Webber. “Where South Korea had a longer school day and more school

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weeks in the year. “The whole atmosphere was a lot more personalized and interactive in Finland, so we thought theirs would be a better choice.” Spending about four months developing the school, the group would work during evenings and weekends at Webber’s father’s office (he is an architect). They completed the project by Jan. 18, which was the submission date. They named it Mamawayawin School, which in Cree means ‘living in a community.’ The school is kindergarten to Grade 8, with a proposed science centre nearby being merged with a high school. Also incorporated into their design is an expanded aquatics centre and a new museum and art gallery for the city. Sustainability was also worked into the school, which would use geothermal heating and solar energy, and harness waste energy from rinks to cool the buildings. On the roof of the main school facility is a green space, edged with a railing so it could double as a playground. “I like the way we actually de-

signed the school,” said Harman. “The exterior, the interior, the colours, the way it really suits where it is placed in Red Deer and the way the students would learn in the school as well. It would be a really neat school to go to.” McCallister said he enjoyed taking the educational model that isn’t really known in North America and building a school around it. Harman said they’ve had kids come up to them after they presented their school plan and ask why the school hasn’t been built already. Webber said they are submitting to put on a workshop at the CEFPI conference in Indianapolis. As well, they are submitting a proposal to take to the Alberta minister of education on a few of the items with their school design. “It tied together so many areas,” said Webber. “The educational model, the design component and also the sustainability we researched. It was our twist on plans the city already had.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

A Red Deer filmmaker is a rising star in the movie business. On the weekend, Lori Ravensborg will be honoured for The Long Road at the Canada International Film Festival in Vancouver. “I am looking forward to the experience and it’s nice to be an arena where you feel primarily the artist,” said Ravensborg, who is a Red Deer College part-time instructor, a mother, an actor and a writer. “And the other avenues of your life take a backseat for a few hours. I’m just excited to be a filmmaker for a couple days and take it all in.” The film festival features film submission from all around the world. Various awards are given out throughout the weekend. Ravensborg will receive the Rising Star Award in the short film category. “It feels great to get any kind of recognition,” said Ravensborg, 42. “When you take an artistic pursuit, you hope it’s going to be viewed with admiration and respect, that it is going to affect or touch someone. I am thrilled about that.” The Long Road is a 28-minute film that tackles the choices that people have to face at the end of life and how those choices bring families together and pull them apart. The film focuses on an Albertan farmer who loses his wife of 41 years.

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Handley offering ‘good old-fashioned common sense’ BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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A mother of three who says she has “good old-fashioned common sense” has joined the field of Red Deer city council hopefuls. Tanya Handley, 39, announced on Monday that her name will be on the Oct. 21 civic election ballot, bringing the tally to six political rookies and four incumbents in the running to fill the eight spots. “My greatest asset is good old-fashioned com- Tanya Handley

mon sense,” said Handley. “I honestly believe every dollar that is spent with tax dollars is my money essentially. I want it to be spent the way I would spend it — carefully. I have to live within my own means within my house and I expect the city to do the same.” As a candidate under the Red Deer First banner, Handley said she shares the principles of fiscal responsibility, accountability and transparency. Handley is married to Ryan Handley, Red Deer First spokesperson and the man behind the anti-bike lane petition. Even before Red Deer First was formed, however, Handley said she was interested

in pursuing municipal politics. The seed was planted during the building of the civic yards. A few years ago, Handley wrote a letter to all members of city council expressing her displeasure on what she felt was excessive and extravagant spending. Handley said she received two letters back and one offering advice: If you don’t like it, you should run. Now that her children are a little older and the timing is better, Handley said she is happy to take the advice. She is finishing up a hair styling apprenticeship through MC College. Previously, she has worked as a teller and account services at a bank.

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Lacombe scales back recreation planning BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe County has scaled back a recreation plan to keep it close to the $100,000 budget. The regional recreation plan was commissioned by the county last year and is designed to serve as a blueprint for how recreation is developed. Just over $37,000 has been spent so far on the first two phases of the plan being created by Calgarybased CDC Consultants. Initially, six phases were proposed. However, the cost to complete all phases was pegged at $176,925, so county administration asked for changes. To keep the project within budget, a plan to develop and implement a policy for facility develop-

ment and maintenance has been dropped, along with a parks, trails and open spaces plan. Council voted on Thursday to spend $63,250 on a third and final phase for the plan. It will include a recreation facility inventory, a recreation needs assessment, including a phone survey, and the development of a recreation cost-sharing model for the county and its urban municipalities. A series of open houses will be held to gather input later this year. County Reeve Ken Wigmore said the consultants expect the last phase to take about six months to complete. “There was a little bit of debate but we are doing the survey, including the telephone survey. “We will go ahead with the plan as recommended,” he said.

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“I think what council is looking for is some direction and some means of consulting with our ratepayers. “Right now, it seems to be ad hoc.” Wigmore said the county expects to face a growing number of requests from urban municipalities within its boundaries for financial recreation help. The dollar amounts will also likely increase as communities look to replace aging facilities. “We also have to realize that some of our smaller communities can’t afford the multimillion-dollar structures. I’m not sure some of the bigger ones can afford them either. “Hopefully, (the plan) will give us a road map to go down.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Lacombe county to help pay for parking upgrades Lacombe County has agreed to contribute $80,575 towards parking lot upgrades in the City of Lacombe. County councillors wrestled with the funding request because the work could be interpreted more as a maintenance issue than the kind of recreation projects on which the county has typically shared costs. The city wants to realign entrances to the parking lot to improve traffic flow and safety as part of a project that also involves improving the nearby spray park. The county routinely picks up a share of construction and operating costs for recreational facilities in its urban communities. Contributions are based on the percentage of county users. As part of that arrangement, the City of Lacombe requested about $266,000 to go towards upgrades and improvements to the Lacombe Memorial Centre, Aquaplex, arena, the arena parking lot and the spray park. The total cost of the work is $933,700. Earlier in March, county council approved spending $183,000 but wanted more time to consider the parking lot request, and to ensure all of council was present. Reeve Ken Wigmore said although the motion was passed, some councillors still had concerns about sharing the parking lot funding.

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Ryan Van Bavel shows off his skills on his bike at the Rotary Skateboard Park in downtown Red Deer on Monday.

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A proposed plastics recycling business has ironed out its permit problems with Lacombe County. The county’s municipal planning commission granted SLC Canada for

will move over Central Alberta. It should clear it up,” Zhong said on Monday. Afternoon breezes on Monday were expected to die down in the evening so haze would likely return today, he said. Only Edmonton was reporting worse air quality than Red Deer due to the inversion layers. That city was at six out of 10 on the index early Monday, dropping to five in the afternoon. Air quality was expected to remain at five on the index today. The smog appears to be channeling along river valleys. Air quality conditions are posted on Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development’s web page, including a chart showing the levels at which people should take precautions. Visit online at environment.alberta.ca or call 1-877-247-7333 for an automated update on current conditions. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Fiscal responsibility and communication are part of her platform. “We need to get the city back on track,” said Handley. “We are so far in debt. Spending has been out of control for probably the last eight years. The last few councils have been heading in the wrong direction, in my opinion. “We need to get that back on track.” Handley said the city needs to have more transparency with residents and points to the implementation of the bike lanes. She said there were not enough surveys for the city to approve a project with a $800,000 price tag. Handley said the city should have tried to gather more input before proceeding. BBQ BUCKS BBQ BUCKS BBQ BUCKS Also running for council are Troy Wavrecan, Darren Young, Lawrence Lee, Calvin Goulet-Jones and Matt Chapin. Councillors Paul Harris, Dianne Wyntjes, Lynne Mulder and Buck Buchanan are seeking re-election. Councillors Tara • One Coupon per purchase • Selected Models Only Veer, Frank Wong and *Discount off suggested retail price on selected models • Not Valid with other promotions *Offer expires March 31, 2013 * See store for details Chris Stephan have not confirmed their intentions. HARBOUR SPAS 6751 - 50th Ave Red Deer 403-343-3620 Mayor Morris Flewwelling is not seeking re-election. Proudly serving Red Deer and the surrounding community Coun. Cindy Jefferies and Chad Mason are running for mayor. At Red Deer Funeral Home & Crematorium our mission is to always show crhyno@reddeeradvohonour and respect for the deceased, to serve families with integrity, cate.com

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Coming events in Olds will benefit from some added visibility from now on, with the installation of a new electronic message board on the west end of town. The double-sided board replaces an older community events sign that required the hand-placing of messages letter by letter. The new sign joins another electronic sign on the east side of Olds. The sign will be used to promote community events, celebrate local achievements and advertise service clubs. Anyone interested in posting a message can request space by calling the town office at 403-556-6981.

The short was filmed locally using Central Albertans, including actor John Treleaven and production manager James Wilson, along with newcomers Shannon Strumecki, Rob Hay, Tamara Werden and Rivera Reese. The film was released last spring and was shown at the Oceanside Film Festival in Oceanside, Calif., and at the Red Deer College’s Arts and Culture Days in September. Ravensborg has a couple of other shorts in the conceptual phase on her plate. This year’s festival program showcases a variety of North American and international feature films, shorts, documentaries, animations and more. The festival is held on April 5 and April 6.

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Waste Processing Inc. a conditional three-year development permit on Thursday. It reverses a previous commission decision to refuse a development permit because a soft-skinned structure on site did not meet acceptable standards for the Aspelund Industrial Park, west of Blackfalds. The temporary-looking building drew complaints from industrial park neighbours. In a concession to SLC, the commission waived a six-month waiting period normally required to reapply for a new permit with a more appropriate structure. SLC had also run afoul of the county because it started building on its site without approval. Eventually, a stop-work order was issued by the county. A report to the commission by development officer Anita O’Driscoll says the company’s new proposed building and landscape plans “are considered acceptable and meet the intent of the Aspelund Site Development Guidelines.” Reeve Ken Wigmore said all previous concerns have been addressed. Construction is expected to start soon. “I would think it’s going to go ahead pretty quick because they were chomping at the bit last October,” Wigmore said.


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Crude spill comes at bad time ARKANSAS SPILL SHOWS ‘NIGHTMARE SCENARIO’ IF KEYSTONE APPROVED, GROUP WARNS BYTHE CANADIAN PRESS A crude oil leak from an ExxonMobil pipeline in Arkansas comes at a particularly bad time for the Canadian company looking to build the contentious Keystone XL pipeline through the American heartland. TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) hopes it’s in the home stretch of a years-long process to win U.S. government approval for its multibillion-dollar project, which has been assailed by environmental groups for its potential impact on everything from fresh water sources to climate change. The spill from ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline is likely the last thing TransCanada needed, with the U.S. State Department being months away from issuing a final decision on Keystone XL after repeated delays, said Queen’s University professor Warren Mabee. “I think that just is another set of bad publicity that Keystone is going to have to overcome,” said Mabee, director of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at the university in Kingston, Ont.

“As we move towards a decision, this just becomes another hurdle for a new project to overcome — the idea that maybe these pipelines aren’t as safe as they’re made out to be.” The leak from the Pegasus pipeline in no way changes the facts around the safety of Keystone XL, said Mabee, yet “politically, this is a big problem.” “If it was purely down to the facts, the decision would come down easily on the side of the Keystone. That project would be approved,” said Mabee. “If you have a president or a State Department that is looking for excuses to either put this project on hold or to justify cancelling it, this works right into that argument, unfortunately.” Jim Murphy, senior counsel at the National Wildlife Federation, said the Pegasus spill serves as a “sad illustration” of the risks associated with oil pipelines. “I think it certainly highlights the nightmare scenario that’s playing out in a lot of minds along the (Keystone XL) route,” he said. In Arkansas, it doesn’t appear at this

point that the oil has reached any major water sources in the area, said Murphy. “We certainly hope there’s no impact to water, but the fact that this much oil was able to spill so near important water bodies I think really indicates that if that oil doesn’t reach water bodies, it’s more luck than anything else.” Pegasus carries 96,000 barrels per day from Patoka, Ill. — a major destination for Canadian crude, including that from the oilsands — to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Keystone XL would dwarf that in size, with an initial capacity of 830,000 barrels per day. ExxonMobil says as of Monday, some 12,000 barrels of oil and water had been recovered and crews continue to work on the cleanup. It says “a few thousand” barrels of oil could be seen in the area, but it’s prepared to respond to a leak of 10,000 barrels. The company is working on a plan to excavate and remove the broken pipeline. Nearly three years ago, a spill from an Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) pipeline in southern Michigan fouled part of the Kalamazoo River.

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Boeing 787 has test flight SEATTLE — Boeing Co. conducted another test flight of its 787 passenger jet over the West Coast. The company said Monday’s flight was designed to test system upgrades and not to check operation of the plane’s batteries. Airlines have 50 of the planes, which Boeing calls the Dreamliner. But they’re still grounded after two of them overheated in January. Boeing is trying to assure regulators that after some design changes, the batteries are safe. Boeing expects to make at least one battery-test flight. On Monday one of the 787s made a 2-hour flight from the Seattle area to Moses Lake, Wash., then returned to Boeing Field.

Rona pays former CEO $4.5 million Hardware and lumber retailer Rona Inc. says it paid former CEO Robert Dutton a severance package worth more than $4.5 million as part of nearly $6.9 million in total compensation last year. The Quebecbased company said Dutton’s severance package included $1.8 million in cash representing two years of base salary and the vesting of more than 224,000 options granted since 2009. Rona (TSX:RON) disclosed it paid Dutton $75,000 a month to work as a consultant during a three-month transition period after he resigned last November. The 35-year Rona employee also earned $793,141 in base salary in 2012, $845,138 in share-based awards, $281,513 in options and a pension value of $304,000. While Rona is in severe competition with Home Depot and Lowe’s, its hardware segment will also face off with retailers Home Hardware, Canadian Tire (TSX:CTC), Sears and Wal-Mart. — The Canadian Press and The Associated Press

Legality of move may face challenge BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BOUCHERVILLE, Que. — Stocks in Strateco Resources Inc. (TSX:RSC) closed down Monday more than 60 per cent in the first trading session since the Quebec government imposed a moratorium on uranium mining in the province. Strateco, which has invested more than $120 million in its Matoush uranium project in northern Quebec, has said it intends to investigate the legality of the province’s move. On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Strateco shares were down 7.5 cents, or 62.5 per cent, at 4.5 cents in trading Monday. Quebec Environment Minister Yves-Francois Blanchet announced last Thursday that it was putting uranium mining projects on hold while it examined the environmental impacts of the industry. Blanchet said no permits for uranium exploration or exploitation would be issued until the evaluation process has been completed. The government is not expected to receive a final report with recommendations from Quebec’s environmental assessment agency for about a year. In a statement issued shortly after the announcement, Strateco president and CEO Guy Hebert said that “in addition to overlooking the recommendations of his own review committee, the minister has also completely ignored the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s expert opinion.” “These internationally recognized experts have all concluded, without exception, that our project is safe,” Hebert said. The government announcement came amid ongoing legal proceedings aimed at forcing it to make a decision on Matoush, which Strateco said “it has refused or neglected to make for nearly two years.” “Strateco intends to look into the legality of such an announcement given that the Superior Court has not yet had the opportunity to rule on the matters brought to its attention,” it said.

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Green Planet Wholesale co-owner and vice-president Justin Cooper adjusts the position of a light in a grow tent for sale at the hydroponics business in Surrey, B.C..

B.C. hydroponics company booms thanks to legalization of pot in U.S. TWO STATES LEGALIZE POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA THROUGH BALLOT THE CANADIAN PRESS SURREY, B.C. — Business has been smokin’ at one hydroponics shop and warehouse in Surrey, B.C., ever since two U.S. states legalized the possession of marijuana through ballot initiatives last November. On any given day, courier vans and transport trucks join a steady stream of walkin customers at Pacific Northwest Garden Supply and Green Planet Wholesale Ltd., ready to pick up or purchase hydroponics equipment and nutrients to grow medical marijuana and organic food products. Sales have quadrupled in the last three weeks alone, and the multi-million-dollar businesses now employ about 60 people, including three new members of a sales team. The owners of two companies even have plans to open a new distribution facility in Washington state, somewhere near Bellingham or Seattle, in the next 90 days. “I say a good portion of (the growth) would be the initiatives that have taken place,” said coowner Steven Betts, who says he’s been involved in the hydroponics industry for about 20 years.

‘I THINK THERE’S BEEN MORE OF A SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF THAT FOR, YOU KNOW, MEDICAL BENEFIT. SO PEOPLE ARE KIND OF GETTING OVER THE SOCIAL STIGMA OF IT.’ — STEVEN BETTS

“I think there’s been more of a social acceptance of that for, you know, medical benefit. So people are kind of getting over the social stigma of it, and they’re jumping into it. Plus, there really is a big movement towards just general home gardening.” The companies other co-owner Justin Cooper said the hydroponic business has “come out of the shadows” in the last five to 10 years because people are also accepting it as a better way of growing healthier plants. The ballot initiatives behind the business boom were approved in Washington state and Colorado Nov. 6, 2012 and allow adults over the age of 21 to posses up to an 28 grams of marijuana. In Colorado, users can also grow up to six marijuana plants in a private, secure area, although under U.S. federal law the plant still remains illegal. Betts said about 40 per cent

of their success now takes place in the U.S., and products are distributed through centres located in California, Colorado and Michigan. But the headquarters for the companies’ retail, wholesale and manufacturing operations remain in a 1,980 square-metre warehouse in Surrey. Inside is equipment to purify water for plant nutrients through a reverse-osmosis process, bottling and labelling machinery, as well as shelves stocked with artificial-lighting and ventilation systems, growing structures and tents, air conditioning units, non-toxic pesticides, and plant nutrients. Hanging near the checkout counter is a giant yellow sign, warning customers that they’ll be asked to leave if they mention any “illegal substances.”

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Canadian companies seek brand buzz BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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MONTREAL — Some Canadian companies tried to generate some good-natured brand buzz Monday by releasing April Fools’ Day ads, but not everyone viewed the effort as a laughing matter. This year’s participants included WestJet, the Toronto Transit Commission, Lululemon, Boston Pizza and Rogers, each of which seemingly introduced a new product. Calgary-based WestJet’s tongue-in-cheek ads last year promoted kid-free planes. This year, the airline said it’s allowing any kind of animal, including bears, to roam free on board.

“We recognize that a growing number of families want to travel with their ’extended’ family and we are proud to be the first airline to offer this type of service,” said Richard Bartrem, the airline’s vice-president of communications, in a video posted on YouTube. The ad concludes with employees acknowledging it was a prank. Bartrem said WestJet (TSX:WJA) expects that a very small percentage of people won’t get or like its efforts. Last year, their April Fools’ video gar-

nered more than 600,000 hits, boosting the airline’s search engine ranking. This year, WestJet added a three-day promotion at the end of the video to drive potential revenue. “But ultimately the primary goal is to just demonstrate that this is a fun brand and take advantage of the one day a year where there’s a bit of licence to demonstrate that,” said Bartrem. For April Fools’, clothing maker Lululemon (TSX:LLL) said it was introducing lululeather after partnering with local cow farmers who feed their animals organic grass and chia seeds.

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Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.99 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 54.61 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.43 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.70 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 29.48 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.80 First Quantum Minerals . 18.88 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 33.97 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.46 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 66.98 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 7.99 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.29 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.92 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 28.30 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 26.72 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 40.00 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.73 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.84 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 48.41 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.36 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.99 Canyon Services Group. 11.03 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 31.72 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.650 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.54 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.21 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 90.77 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.93 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.35

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market started off secondquarter trading Monday with a loss amid mixed manufacturing data that showed a strengthening sector in China and slowing expansion in the U.S. The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 54.76 points to 12,695.14, led by falling mining stocks as copper prices hit an eight month low. The Canadian dollar dipped 0.07 of a cent at 98.36 cents US. U.S. indexes were also in the red after the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index for March came in at 51.3. Economists had expected the widely-watched index to remain unchanged from February at an 18-month high of 54.2. “This could be the first sign that the impact of U.S. government budget cuts could be impacting business/ manufacturing activity,” said BMO Capital Markets senior economist Jennifer Lee. “New orders and production (think of those two components as future activity and current activity, respectively) took a sizable drop to threeand six-month lows.” But the news wasn’t all bad as the manufacturing survey also showed that “employment popped up to a nine-month high, fully erasing February’s decline.” The Dow Jones industrial average declined 5.69 points to 14,572.85, the Nasdaq composite index dropped 28.35 points to 3,239.17 and the S&P 500 index points declined 7.02 points to 1,562.17 after the index hit a record high on Friday. Other data showed that U.S. construction spending rose 1.2 per cent in February compared with January, a month that had seen construction activity drop 2.1 per cent. Spending rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of US$885.1 billion, 7.9 per cent higher than a year ago. Meanwhile, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said Monday that the country’s manufacturing picked up in March in a potentially positive sign for the world’s second-largest economy. Its Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 50.9 in March from 50.1 in February, which was the lowest reading in five months. Numbers above 50 denote expansion on a 100-point scale. Chinese manufacturing is closely watched as an indicator of global consumer sales and demand for commodities such as copper and oil. High demand in the past has fuelled higher share prices for energy and mining stocks on the resourceintensive TSX. However, despite the improve-

ment in factory output, analysts said investors remained worried about a possible property bubble, inflation and what policies the new Chinese government might have in store. “Better than expected (Chinese) data six months ago would have been music to the market’s ears,” said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis. “I think right now investors are weighing any better than expected data against the potential for that to heat up property values and thus put (monetary) policy against growth in the near term.” The base metals component fell 1.68 per cent as May copper slipped three cents to an eight-month low of US$3.37 a pound. Taseko Mines (TSX:TKO) moved down eight cents to C$2.75 while Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) lost 16 cents to $4.28. Railway stocks fell alongside miners with Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) down $3.54 to $129. The gold sector lost about 1.1 per cent even as June bullion gained $5.20 to US$1,600.90 an ounce. Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) faded 36 cents to C$29.48. Tech stocks were mainly lower with CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A) down 74 cents to $26.87 while smartphone maker BlackBerry (TSX:BB) gained 26 cents to $15.35. The energy sector shed early gains to end the session flat as the May crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed down 16 cents to US$97.07 a barrel. But Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) was up 26 cents at C$31.72. Elsewhere on the market, shares in Molson Coors (NYSE:TAP) (TSX:TPX.B) gained $2.97 or 6.07 per cent to US$51.90 in New York after Goldman Sachs upgraded the brewer to a buy rating from neutral. The TSX started the secondquarter trading period up a slight 2.5 per cent year to date, down from highs of mid-March when the market was ahead about 3.5 per cent, reflecting a stubbornly slow global economic recovery. In contrast, a stream of positive economic indicators, including a resurgent housing sector and continued stimulus measures from the U.S. Federal Reserve, helped power the Dow Jones industrials to a string of record-high closes, leaving the blue chip index up almost 11.25 per cent year to date. Evidence that growth is continuing have kept stocks on a largely upward trajectory, leaving investors waiting for dips to add to their holdings. The TSX Venture Exchange lost 9.44 points to 1,089.56.

Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.09 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.45 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 3.01 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.15 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.78 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 1.170 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.28 Pure Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . NA Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 30.83 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.47 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.28 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.26 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 52.55 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 63.94 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 58.95 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.77 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.31 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 34.76 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 27.04 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 45.29 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 63.22 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.74 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.44 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.18 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 61.27 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.36 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.84

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Monday: Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,695.14 down 54.76 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,089.56 down 9.44 points TSX 60 — 728.67 down 2.67 points Dow — 14,572.85 down 5.69 points S&P 500 — 1,562.17 down 7.02 points Nasdaq — 3,239.17 down 28.35 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 98.36 cents US, down 0.07 of a cent Pound — C$1.5482, up 0.42 of a cent Euro — C$1.3061, up 0.36 of a cent Euro — US$1.2846, up 0.26 of a cent Oil futures: US$97.07 per barrel, down 16 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,600.90 per oz., up $5.20 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $29.607 per oz., down 29.1 cents $951.87 kg., down $9.35 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Monday at 1,089.56 down 9.44 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 87.97 million shares. ICE Futures Canada WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: May ’13 $5.40 lower $620.10; July ’13 $2.40 lower $606.40; Nov. ’13 $0.50 higher $555.50; Jan. ’14 $0.50 higher $555.50; March ’14 $0.50 higher $552.00; May ’14 $0.50 higher $549.90; July ’14 $0.50 higher $548.00; Nov. ’14 $0.50 higher $523.60; Jan ’15 $0.50 higher $523.60; March ’15 $0.50 higher $523.60; May ’15 $0.50 higher $523.60. Barley (Western): May ’13 unchanged $243.50; July ’13 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $244.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $244.00; March ’14 unchanged $244.00; May ’14 unchanged $244.00; July ’14 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $244.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $244.00; March ’15 unchanged $244.00; May ’15 unchanged $244.00. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 223,800 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 223,800.

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“We’ve never been about doing things illegally,” said Betts. “We’re not martyrs. We don’t try to be radicals or rebels. We’re really about how to garden and how to garden efficiently.” Tucked into a back isle is a digital camera and green screen, the nerve centre for the companies’ social-media marketing efforts meant to woo customers via Twitter, Facebook and a newly launched website. The connection allow customers to link to online tutorials and videos about gardening and growing when they scan matrix barcodes, known as QR codes, with their cellular phones, said Cooper. In an effort to connect with the community, the companies employees have also spoken to school children about organic gardening. Lee Bryant, owner of Great Lakes Garden Wholesale, the Michigan-based U.S. distributor of Green Planet products, said most of the customers who are buying the products in his state are doing so with a medical card for marijuana. In Michigan, he said, the state allows individuals to obtain a medical card that allows them to grow marijuana for themselves or for other patients as a caregiver. Bryant credits Green Planet’s success on its use of high-quality products, like reverse-osmosis water and raw nutrients, and its decision not to use plant-growth regulators, which may grow larger plants but are harmful to the health of consumers. “We got the product in and it’s done phenomenally,” he said. “I mean we have absolutely changed the market in Michigan and now in quite a few other states in the U.S. that have become big supporters of the product.” Because of that success, one university academic is questioning how long it will be before other, larger companies get into the game, too. Stephen Easton, professor of economic at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., and a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, said whenever there’s a big margin of opportunity in business, others begin looking. “You’ve got to believe that somebody else is going to move in, too,” said Easton. “You think that Wal-Mart’s not going to notice or Home Depot?” Easton said he’s not surprised

Americans are drawing resources from a Canadian company. “Obviously, they have some expertise,” he said, adding social attitudes towards marijuana have changed, although the laws in Canada have not. “The olden days, where it was sort of demon marijuana, you know, turn you into a slavering fiend, right, you know, dope fiend, I think a large part of society is past that, but the laws are sufficiently slow in reacting,” he said. But with the company being responsible for feeding 60 families, Cooper and Betts said they’re already looking at the companies’ future growth. Cooper said while a portion of the company’s business is focused on medical marijuana, its long-term vision is food production, giving people the ability to grow healthier, more environmentally friendly, more sustainable crops. “We’ve got to stay ahead of the curve,” said Cooper. “Everything we do is always, ‘how can we make this better.’ That’s one on of the things we say all the time. ‘What is it going to take to make this type of product better than what currently is on the market.”’


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Max Irons, left, and Saoirse Ronan in a scene from The Host. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Twilight author Stephanie Meyer. And this is more of the same stuff, simply replacing aliens for vampires.

Jazz favourite Don Berner to play at One Eleven Grill

The Parkland Mall tile selling charity fundraiser has wrapped up, providing $22,000 to three local charities. The Red Deer River Watershed Alliance, Red Deer Regional Health Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society sold tiles of a larger mural. The three charities competed against each other to sell the most tiles. The RDRWA led the way, along with their media partner Sunny 94, selling 474 tiles. In sales, they raised $4,740 and took the top prize of $7,500 to their charity. Meanwhile the RDRHF, and their media partner The River, sold 213 tiles, raising $2,130 in sales and the $5,000 second place prize. Finally, the CCS sold 44 tiles, with their media partner Kraze 101.3, earning them the third prize of $2,500 as well as their $440 in sales.

Vat hosting Two Hours Traffic Two Hours Traffic is coming to Red Deer touting their new album Foolish Blood. Two Hours Traffic will be at the Vat, at 5301 43rd St., on Friday starting at 8 p.m. Foolish Blood, the Charlottetown, P.E.I., band’s fourth full-length album, was produced by Darryl Neudorf, a former drummer for 54-40 who has worked with The Sadies, Jim Cuddy and Neko Case. The debut video from the album is for the song Amour than Amis and is available on Youtube. Two Hours Traffic has been shortlisted for a Polaris Music Prize, a prize for a Canadian album based on artistic merit, for the album. Along with Two Hours Traffic will be the band Rah Rah, an indie rock band from Regina that has released three albums and toured through North America and Europe. Tickets are $15 in advance, available at The Vat, or $20 at the door.

Saskia and Darrel coming to The Hub Writing and singing about what they know best, Saskia and Darrel find their inspiration from the wide vistas and big-sky landscapes of the Canadian Prairies. The duo will perform at The Hub, at 4936 Ross St., on Friday at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the door, cash only, for $15 per person or $30 per family. Darrel spent his first 17 years on the northern Prairies while Saskia can trace her lineage from generations of flat land Dutch. They have toured extensively with Daniel Powter, the Stampeders and Emerson Drive, among other bands.

Cheers invites punk bands Cheers Pub in Red Deer will turn a little punk on April 13 as rockers The Casualties roll into town for a show. Along with The Casualties are Canadian punk rockers Dayglo Abortions. The show starts at 7 p.m. at the pub, at 6017 54th Ave., with tickets costing $20 at the door. The Casualties released their latest album, Resistance, last year and are teaming up with the Dayglo Abortions, who have been around since the 1980s and shocked people with their album cover Feed us a Fetus, which featured Ronald and Nancy Reagan and an aborted fetus.

THE HOST IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME MUSHY DEAL AS TWILIGHT, WITH INTERSTELLAR CARPETBAGGERS INSTEAD OF CRYPT DWELLERS The Host Two stars (out of four) Rated: PG It’s bad enough that space aliens want to invade our planet and our bodies. Worse yet is that they also assume our foul habits, such as our irrational love of gooey sci-fi/fantasy melodramas, which lately has been confined mainly to the teen female of the species. The Host is an example of this unholy occupation, although we can’t blame the ray gun brigade for its existence. It’s written and directed by New Zealand-born Andrew Niccol, who 15 years ago was heralded as the bright young PETER spark behind such thoughtful HOWELL sci-fi thrillers as his own film Gattaca and Peter Weir’s The Truman Show. The spark has dimmed of late (recall the 2011 misfire In Time) and risks being snuffed out entirely by The Host, in which Niccol is invaded by a presence named Stephenie Meyer. She’s the endless pen and fattened bank account of the Twilight series, in which we learned over four books and five movies that teen vampires and werewolves can be every bit as lovesick and moody as their human counterparts. The Host, which Niccol adapts from Meyer’s 600-plus-page novel, professes to be more of an adult story. But it’s essentially the same mushy teen deal, with interstellar carpetbaggers instead of crypt dwellers: one girl in love with two guys, although the girl is really two in one. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. A prologue sets the post-apocalyptic scenario: Earth is finally a perfect place of peace, love, understanding and free ice cream (I put that in). But there’s a catch: “It’s no longer our world.” The planet has been overrun by astral-tripping squatters called Souls, who resemble shiny disco versions of the creepy-crawling body Vincent Price battled in The Tingler. They slide into a human host and take control of both body and mind, leaving no physical evidence apart from sapphire eyes. They also like to dress like the Man from Glad and tool about in flashy silver Lotus Evora sports cars. At least they have good taste in wheels. The Souls have just about finished conquering

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Earth, save for a few scruffy holdouts who have eluded the aptly named Seeker (Diane Kruger), a fascist in a supermodel’s body. One such holdout is Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), whom we meet as she’s bravely making a last stand to keep the Souls at bay. She has reasons for her stubbornness, including a hunk named Jared (Max Irons, Jeremy’s son), a fellow fugitive human whom Melanie has fallen for. Faster than you can say OMG!, Melanie is occupied by a Soul named Wanderer. But her love for Jared is so strong, she refuses to allow the alien to fully control her mind or body: “You take the body and the feelings come with it. That’s the deal,” Melanie tells Wanderer, using the think-speak that will soon submerge the film in syrup. Things get even goofier when Melanie/Wanderer vamoose, with Seeker in pursuit, to a New Mexico desert mountain hideaway of human rebels, lead by prairie sage Jeb (William Hurt), who promptly nicknames Wanderer “Wanda.” There the two-girls-gonewild meet another hunk, this one named Ian (Jake Abel). Hint: check out the movie poster and think Bella/ Edward/Jacob with more cosmic complications. Up to this point, The Host has shown promise as a sci-fi thriller, with an empathetic protagonist in Ronan and a hissable villain in Kruger. As with most of his films, Niccol is very good at the setup, and at conjuring worlds with lighting, design and concept that flatter both mind and eye. He’s managed to pare much of the fat out of Meyer’s novel. He’s also good with visual puns, as when we see an advertising-free store simply called STORE — why would perfect people need to be pitched? But Niccol also usually has trouble with the follow-through, especially when his screenplay is finally completely taken over by Meyer’s toxic treacle. Sci-fi hits the skids as bad melodrama rules, and we get such risible dialogue as, “It’s not really me you like, it’s this body” and “I’m still of two minds.” And how about this groaner: “Kiss me like you want to get slapped.” Sad to think that space invaders can be so easily suckered by our stupid human tricks. No wonder the rest of the universe doesn’t trust us. Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic. www.carnivalcinemas.net 5402-47 St. Red Deer MOVIE LINE 346-1300 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH 3D

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An Alberta jazz favourite, Don Berner, will perform live at the One Eleven Grill later this week. On Friday and Saturday, starting at 7:30 p.m., Berner, along with Pal Courage on organ and Efa Etoroma Jr. on drums, will be at the restaurant, at 5301 43rd St. Berner has been called “one of Canada’s fastest rising saxophone stars,” by Juno award winner P.J. Perry. Jazz icon Hugh Fraser said Berner’s talent “is supported by his compositional and band leading talents.” Don Berner Berner has performed at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Polish Embassy in Ottawa, as well as leading his sextet to Mexico’s Internacional Festival de Cervantino and returning there to perform for the Canadian Embassy’s Canada Week. He has also performed on CBC’s Hockey Knight in Canada and on numerous radio and TV specials. A former Grant MacEwan Outreach instructor, he maintains a busy performing, lecturing and teaching schedule. He is completing his third album, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed Fortress of Solitude.


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Dear Annie: My father, ferers. Also, please contact my brothers and I all served the VA’s National Center for during Operation Iraqi Free- PTSD (ptsd.va.gov) or Milidom. Only my father and I tary One Source (militarydeployed to combat areas. onesource.mil) at 1-800-342Dad retired five years ago 9647, and ask to speak to a and is showing drastic symp- counselor or get a referral toms of PTSD. to local military treatment He is stockpiling food and facilities. medical supplies and keeps Dear Annie: My maternal trying to get my wife and me grandparents passed within to “prepare” for months of each when “it all hits other. My mother the fan.” hated her parents He spends and kept them hours a day obsesaway from us. I sively watching never knew them the news and getwell. ting angry at the I’m in my late television. Our 20s and have nevchildren used to er been an emospend time unsutional person. I pervised with my went to my grandparents, but that parents’ funerals stopped when I out of respect, but MITCHELL found a loaded my sister went & SUGAR handgun in his overboard, sobbathroom cabibing and moaning net. during the service My mother has even though she broached the topic of ther- knew them less than I did. apy, and I’ve offered to go For weeks after, she with him, as I’ve been wres- emailed and texted me saytling with some mild PTSD ing she couldn’t sleep and issues myself. But my broth- that she’d never “fill the ers intercede every time and hole” the loss represented. say Dad’s fine and it’s no big My sister and my parents deal, and they convince him say I’m heartless because I not to go. I believe this is didn’t respond this way. My dangerous. I’ve been unable mother actually upbraided to find any home counseling me for not weeping suffiservices, and even our pastor ciently. People grieve in difsays this is out of his realm ferent ways. How do I nicely of expertise. What other op- ask them to please stop crytions are out there? — New ing on me because it’s makYork Son ing me uncomfortable? — Not Dear Son: You may have Grieving That Much better luck getting your faDear Grieving: Unless ther to accept help if you someone is crying on you day approach this as a possible after day, please try to tolermedical problem, rather ate what you can, and then than a psychiatric issue. gently extricate yourself. Pat We also suggest you ask them on the shoulder. Get him to join you for an exer- them a seat. Ask if they need cise or yoga class, which can a tissue. Then walk away. be useful for some PTSD suf- You don’t have to demon-

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strate such obvious mourning yourself. You are right that everyone grieves differently, and you are not obligated to put on a show. But it would be useful to learn how to convey sympathy to others, whether or not you believe they deserve it. Dear Annie: I was surprised to learn that people register for housewarming gifts. I thought housewarming gifts were something simple like a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine or flowers. A neighbor brought me a cutting from a cactus that has bloomed on time for more than 40 years. Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I thought you furnished your house yourself as you were able over the years. — Canaan, Conn. Dear Canaan: Most guests bring gifts to a housewarming. A registry is a bit much, but there is nothing wrong with having a friend or relative make suggestions when asked. Dear Readers: We are carrying on Ann Landers’ tradition that April 2 be set aside as Reconciliation Day, a time to make the first move toward mending broken relationships. It also would be the day on which we agree to accept the olive branch extended by a former friend or estranged family member and do our best to start over. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast. net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You need your home as a means of refugee or to escape reality somehow. You long to be more connected to your inner world now rather than Tuesday, April 2 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: face the harsh realities. The past has settled Michael Fassbender, 36; Adam Rodriguez, into your present in most subtle ways. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your abil38; Linda Hunt, 68 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon ity to tap into other people’s intentions has a marvellous effect on those around you. It glides into hard-working Capritakes only a few words of yours corn while setting a more serious that can touch and produce a tune to the day. It’s all about busipowerful influence over others. ness. A need to structure and to Your mental activity is extremely plan for our future is heightened. keen. Ambition and success come SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22hand in hand today and we strive Dec. 21): You may experience to do our best in order to move a strong attachment over your up the ladder. Time is very prebelongings. Certain items are cious and we will attempt to not hard to let go as they have trewaste our energies or resources mendous emotional significance into activities and endeavours to you. You see them as your that we believe will not bring us security blanket which makes benefits. you feel warm and protected. ASTRO HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. DOYNA is your birthday, the year ahead 19): Objectivity and rational marks increased responsibilities thinking may become a bit of a and a lot of work. Be prepared to challenge to you now. Try not to be totally focused into moving up absorb other people’s problems professionally as that’s what you will have mainly on top of your mind. Emotion- or concerns as you have your own baggage ally, you will tend to keep your guards up and of issues to deal with. You will be prone to moodiness. be reserved in your attitude towards others. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may ARIES (March 21-April 19): You want to shine and be recognized in your chosen find yourself a bit lost in translation today. vocation. As long as you do not deviate from Past resentments seem to hunt you or overother’s opinions today, you may gain a few whelm you in the present. A trip to the subextra points. Exercise active listening and conscious world brings back melancholic be responsive whenever your guidance is memories. Try not to become too morbid. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today you required. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This is a day may want to catch up with some old buddies where you will envision your life under a dif- and share the latest news. A friend of yours ferent light. You own a certain call for explora- may go through an emotional crisis. Your tion and diving into experiences that will bring presence may be needed more than just your you closer to your higher consciousness. You mental support or empathy. Astro Doyna — Internationally Syndicated want to enhance your skills by pursuing some Astrologer/Columnist. class or study. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Themes of sharing power or resources will most likely predominate today. Subjects that are hard to digest or the ones which are considered taboo may ask for your full attention. Do not fear new approaches when dealing with such matters. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Contracts and social concerns will preoccupy your mind today. You may have to deal with the public more than usually. Try not to be too codependent over your primal partnerships and you will not feel as lonely. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Concerns over your health and your lifestyle habits will certainly require you to slow down and to strategize your routine through careful, practical planning. Steps you undertake now will be in effect for the long-haul, so plan wisely. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You feel that despite all the heavy energy around you that is weighting you down, you have someone special you can rely on. It’s a great feeling knowing that your need for self-expression and for individualism are being recognized and acknowledged for.

DETROIT — An 1877 Steinway grand piano used by Motown greats during the label’s 1960s heyday, and restored thanks to Paul McCartney, is back home in Detroit, officials announced Monday. Steinway technicians delivered the 9-foot (3-meter) Victorian rosewood to the “Hitsville, U.S.A,” building midday Monday and workers set it up in a former recording studio in what’s now the Motown Historical Museum. McCartney, a longtime fan of the Motown sound who played and recorded several of the label’s songs during the Beatles’ early days, told museum officials after a 2011 concert in Detroit that he wanted to help with the piano’s refurbishment after learning the historic instrument no longer could be played. Work on the piano was completed last August, and the ex-Beatle and Motown founder Berry Gordy played it together during a September charitable event at Steinway Hall in New York City. The instrument first made its way to Motown when the label acquired Golden World Records in 1967, a facility redubbed Motown Studio B and used by musicians and songwriters to create songs by Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and other Motown greats. To celebrate the piano’s return, museum officials are inviting the public to visit Hitsville with free admission during Esther Gordy Edwards Community Day on April 25. “This piano is part of our treasured collection of historical artifacts that tell the Motown story,” Robin Terry, the muse-

um’s board chair, said. “We are thrilled to welcome it back home to Detroit, where it will be used to educate local students about the legendary history created in their hometown and share the Motown story for generations to come. “We’re happy to see our baby come home,” she told the AP. The piano was brought back to professional recording quality, Terry said, with all of its internal components — soundboard, keys, hammers, pins and strings — restored. The piano’s case was left as is to preserve its authenticity, while the legs, which were not original, were replaced. While the original strings and hammers were worn beyond repair, they were retained and are being returned to the museum for exhibit. Despite its condition upon arrival at the Steinway facility in New York, Terry said technicians described it as “one of the finest instruments they have ever worked on.” One technician listened to it “and said, ’This piano can stand up to any concert piano anywhere,”’ she said. While historical preservation remains a priority at the museum, Terry said the restored instrument won’t be off-limits all the time — at least to special guests like McCartney who know their way around the ivories — but will need a couple weeks of readjusting to its environment. “One of the lessons that we were learned in this process is that instruments like that have to be played,” said Terry, Berry Gordy’s grand-niece. “Our approach to the piano prior to that was not to play it and to protect it and preserve it.”

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It is with heavy hearts that the family of Kenneth Dawson announce his passing at the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital, Medicine Hat, Alberta, on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at the age of 87 years. Kenneth leaves to cherish his memory three children and their families: Son, Herbert (June) Dawson and children, Adrienne (Brad) Dixon and Ashley (Scott) Jackson; Daughter, Joanne Dawson (Wayne) and her two children, (son, Mark Black - Deceased) and Mark’s children, Meggyn, Alex, Abbiegail and Daniel; daughter, Mary Ann (Mark) Heather and their children, Scott, Everett and Wesley; Son, Chris (Doris) Dawson and daughter, Darlene and f a m i l y. K e n n e t h i s a l s o survived by his sisters, Lillian Dawson, Gloria (Orville) Hyde; one brother, Howard (Val) Dawson; numerous nieces and nephews as well as Dawna Dooley and her family. He was predeceased by his mother and father, Jean and Samuel Dawson; sisters, Glenna Finney (nee Dawson) and Gladys Carpenter; brother, Morris Dawson; two wives, Nelda Mary Shirley Dawson (nee Elder) and June Dawson as well as his grandson, Mark Black. Kenneth David Dawson was born in Mille-Isles, Quebec on July 30, 1925. He worked as a carpenter before his retirement. He enjoyed the last number of years having moved to Medicine Hat to be close t o h i s f a m i l y. G i v e n t h e opportunity, he wouldn’t miss watching a game of golf, and he also enjoyed his curling! Those wishing to pay their respects may do so at Cook Southland Funeral Chapel, 901 - 13 Street S.W., Medicine Hat, Alberta, on Monday, April 1, 2013, between 1:00 P. M . a n d 1 : 5 5 P. M . A Celebration of Ken’s life will f o l l o w a t 2 : 0 0 P. M . w i t h Pastor Bob Findley officiating. Interment will take place at a later date. (Condolences may be expressed by visiting www.cooksouthland.com) Honoured to serve the family is COOK SOUTHLAND FUNERAL CHAPEL, 901 - 13 Street S.W., Medicine Hat, Alberta, T1A 4V4. Telephone toll free: 1-877-528-6455.

Mr. William Enns of Delburne passed away at the Ponoka Centennial Centre on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at the age of 86 years. William was born on February 11, 1927 in Morris, Manitoba, to Henrietta Unger and Peter J. Enns. As a young adult, William joined the Military Service and fought in WWII until being discharged in September of 1945. He then met the love of his life, Eleanor Cooper, and started a family. In 1962, they moved to the Delburne/Red Deer area where William worked as a Butcher for Red Deer Packers. Along the years, he was also employed with the City of Red Deer. William will be lovingly remembered by h i s l o v i n g w i f e , E l e a n o r, children; Bill (Nadine), Russell (Bonnie), Darlene, and Holly (Richard), eight grandchildren, and fourteen great grandchildren. He is also survived by his brothers; Stan and Art. William was predeceased by his son, Roger Enns. A Funeral Service will be held at the Salvation Army Community Church, 4837 - 54 Street, Red Deer, on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 11 a.m. Burial will take place at Alto-Reste Cemetery, Highway 11 East, Red Deer County, prior to the service, at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, d o n a t i o n s i n M r. W i l l i a m Enns’ name may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Society, 104 - 4805 - 48 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 3T2. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

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MacKAY William Michael 1961-2013 Mike passed away very unexpectedly on Saturday, March 30, 2013 at the age of 51 years. Mike was known for his good sense of humor, his giving nature and his love of cars. A Memorial Service will be announced at a later date. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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HILL Robert Robert “Bob” Hill passed away on Friday, March 22, 2013 while in Grande Prairie. Bob is lovingly remembered by his family; partner, Lori Hemming; daughter, Dianna Bonder; two granddaughters and sister, Lynda Hill. Bob was a hotel manager and owner in numerous places in Alberta and BC including Calgary, Bowden, Red Deer, Banff, Edmonton and Kimberly. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Best Western Regency Room, 121 Edmonton Tr a i l S E , A i r d r i e , A B o n Thursday, April 4, 2013 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Flowers are graciously declined. If you would like, donations may be made to any of the Rotary Clubs. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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MANN Marion Ethel 1958 - 2013 Marion Ethel Mann of Red D e e r, A B p a s s e d a w a y peacefully on March 21, 2013 at the age of 55. Marion was born in Milden, Saskatchewan on February 19, 1958. She ran a day home for many years and loved all those babies as much as she loved her grandchildren. Camping and quading out west with her family was one of her favourite things to do, along with working endless hours in her flower garden. She loved to bake, no one could say no to a piece of her famous apple pies! There were a few dogs over the years that were very dear to her heart, they were her babies too. Marion is survived by her husband David Mann, Son Bradley Mann (Nina) and children Earl, Jessica, and Jacob, Daughter Sheri Cretney (Corey) and children Calyb, Gabriel, and Korah, Sister Ruth Ward (Larry) and family, Brothers Adrian Mallett (Audrey Laurie), Stephen Mallett (Stacey) and family. Marion is predeceased by her parents Glen (2010) and Maribel (2004) Mallett. A memorial service will be held at 11:30 am on April 6, 2013 in the Common Room at Pines Court, #120 Piper Drive, Red Deer. In lieu of flowers, Donations can be made to The Cognitive Neurosciences at University of Calgary, in care of The Fund Development Office. 3300 Hospital Drive N.W Calgary, AB T4N4N1

Obituaries

MELVIN Dave Wallace “Mel” 1928 - 2013 It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our dearest Dave “Mel” Melvin on Thursday, March 28, 2013 at the age of 84 years. He was born on July 12, 1928 in Wainwright, AB to Milo and Dora Melvin (nee Pfenning). Dave moved out on his own when he was 15 years old and while playing in the Salvation Army youth band met his lifelong friend Walt Sandford. Dave entered the Canadian Navy and served on the HMCS Crescent and the HMCS Iroquois. While in the Navy, Dave met the love of his life, Millie Chambers, in Victoria, B.C. They married December 7, 1949. After they married the couple moved to Alberta and eventually settled in Stettler where they opened, and operated, Mel’s Shoes for 25 years. After selling Mel’s Shoes in 1978, Dave went to work for Westward Parts (Red Deer) who he travelled for until retiring. The couple moved to Riondel, B.C. in 1994 where they lived until he experienced a stroke in February of this year. As someone who lived a life following Jesus, he looked forward to Heaven. His wife and children were at his side listening to a song of worship and celebration at the moment that he stepped from this world to the next. The family would like to thank Dr. Nav Rattan and the nurses, therapists and staff on Units 33 and 35 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital for the excellent care received. Dave is survived by his loving wife of 63 years, Millie, two sons Budd (Maureen) and Darrel (Bonny), one daughter Margie, (Kevin Jeffrey) and one sister Joyce Rogers. Also to cherish Dave’s memory are his wonderful grandchildren, Jeremie, Ryan, Lacey, Cori, Joel, Tim, Stephen and Amy, his great grandchildren, Shea, Autumn, Colton and Rylee, as well as numerous other family members and friends who will miss him dearly. He was predeceased by his parents, his brother Victor Melvin and infant sister Dorothy. A celebration of Dave’s life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6 2 8 7 6 7 A S t r e e t ( Ta y l o r Drive), Red Deer, on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 1:00 pm. Memorial donations in honor of Dave may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, #202 5913 50 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4C4. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

In Memoriam

ANNA HUTMACHER SFO April 2, 2011 Anna you will always be loved, missed, and never forgotten. The Hutmacher Family

In Memoriam

MARGARITA TURCIOS “As days go by, our memories remain, my days are nights, because I don’t see you, and nights are days when you are present in my dreams. We said goodbye, but in the hope to meet you shortly again, because we will say hello again. I really miss you”. Te hecho de menos Gris,blanco, silencio a mi alrededor. Frío, viento, nieve, niebla. “La Vie en Rose” se escucha a lo lejos, una taza de café, memorias volando. Rutina, melancolia, lágrimas y risas. Tareas domésticas, pequeñas, continuas. Acople de vida, acople de sueños, acople de todo. Mis manos vacías, mi piel que se arruga. Te sueño de siempre, te quedas te marchas. Rutina gris, melancolia, lágrimas y risas.

FISHER In loving memory of Ronald who passed away April 2, 2012. Always, always loved. Teresa and family.

El tiempo se queda, yo sigo mi marcha. Se acaba mi vida, te sigo de lejos, te sigo de cerca. Memorias que pasan, memorias que quedan, solo sé que te quiero, como sé que me quieres. Rutina de siempre, melancolia, lágrimas y risas. Vendrán muchos años, vendrán pocos años. Salir de este mundo, salir a encontrarnos. Nuestra fé tiene vida, nuestra fé tiene gozo, Fé que consuela, que no es conformista. Memorias que pasan, memorias

que quedan. Rutina de siempre, rutina de antaño, lágrimas y risas.

In loving Memory Of Lynn Miller (Spendiff) Aug. 7, 1961 - Apr. 2, 2009 There will always be a heartache, and often a silent tear. But always precious memories, of the day we had you here. We hold you close within our hearts, And there you will remain, to walk with us throughout our lives, until we meet again. Forever in our hearts, Randy, Mom, Brian & Darlene, & Spendiff Family

Viajar hacia el Norte, viajar hacia el sur, rostros que vienen, rostros que van. Regocijo para el que espera, gozo del que llega. Sonoro silencio para el que ama memorias, silenciosa la llegada, muda la espera. Rutina vacía, rutina de canas, rutina de muchos colores. Frente a ti nuevamente, te veo dormida. Inmenso silencio, trinares de fondo, soledad blanco verde, frío, viento, niebla. Decoro tu lápida, con flores alegres, colores vívidos, Precioso contraste, regreso a la casa,amando memorias. Rutina vacía, rutina de canas, rutina de muchos colores. Tu esposo de siempre: David / Marzo del 2013

Card Of Thanks MILLER (Spendiff), Lynn One thing we will always cherish No matter what life sends A memory of the happiness Of us all just being friends ~Janice, Sharon & Tara

WOJTOWICH Our Dad recently passed away. We wanted to say a big thank you to Parkland Funeral Home for helping us through this process. Your team was amazing. ~ Wojtowich family

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Class Registrations

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ZEN KARATE & KICK BOXING

Cheney Karate Studios, Red Deer’s most trusted name in Martial Arts is now accepting registration for all adult & children’s programs starting April, 2013. Enrollment is limited. (403)347-9020 www.cheneykarate.com You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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Coming Events

QUILTERS! Central Alberta Quilters Guild presents the 22nd Annual Quilt Show at the Parkland Pavilion Westerner Park, Red Deer on Friday, April 5, 10:00AM to 7:00PM and Saturday, April 6, 10:00AM to 5:00PM. Over 200 quilts displayed, Large Merchant Mall, Demos and Door Prizes. Special guest display by Buggy Barn. Contact Lynne at 403-783-5808

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Caregivers/ Aides

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P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-348-5456 or 403-505-7846

Clerical

720

BOOKKEEPER/ DATA ENTRY

Local industrial supply company is looking for a bookkeeper. Please fax resume to 403-342-0233

Dental

740

RDA LEVEL II / ADMINISTRATOR required for Dr. Rogers office. We are growing and would like to include a new F/T team member to our office. Mon-Fri, great hours, no evenings or weekends. Please fax 403-340-2160 or email rogersgentle@shaw.ca No phone calls please.

Hair Stylists

760

URBAN IMAGE HAIR CO.

requires stylist, commission & chair rental. Call 403-314-4288

LOST: WOMENS WEDDING BAND. Lost at Red Deer Hospital or Superstore. If found, please call 403-341-4197 Can identify with matching band.

Janitorial

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FOUND IPHONE 4 Ingelwood & Irwin. Black case w/ rainbow peace sign on back. Must be able to open phone w/ your code. Contact Marjorie @ 403-341-9474

Companions

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* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants

Legal

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Immediate Positions Available

Night Supervisors

Please specify position when replying to this ad.

Must be able to provide truck

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

Please send resume to 403-340-0886 or email: pnieman@ cathedralenergyservices.com

NEW Red Deer Based busy & growing oilfield trucking company looking for EXPERIENCED WINCH TRUCK DRIVERS. Successful candidates will receive top wages & benefits. Valid Class 1 licence is necessary & oilfield tickets is an asset. Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug & alcohol screen test. Please forward all resumes to: danacg@shaw.ca

website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com

POWER TONG OPERATOR

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Phone Shirley for job specifics at 403-843-6004 Fax resume to 403-843-2899 Only qualified applicants need to apply. Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Experienced Day Supervisors

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SERVICE RIG

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

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

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

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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Afternoon & Evening Bingo 7 Days a Week

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

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Harvard Park Business Centre Ltd is looking for an experienced cook for our kitchen. Starting ASAP. Banquet experience is a plus and knowledge on dealing with large groups. Fax resume to 403-886-5003. LOOKING for exp’d waitress with liquor license, p/t or f/t 403-342-5555 LUAU Investments Ltd. (O/A Tim Hortons) Food Counter Attendant F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) Must be avail. weekends $11.00 per hour. 4217 - 50 Ave. 6721 - 50 Ave. 7111 - 50 Ave. timhire@telus.net

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

Cleaning

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ANN’S Cleaning Services - Weekly & bi-weekly. Homes & Offices 302-0488

Contractors

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EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages 598-3049 www.eroticasplaymates.net LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Massage Therapy

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ASIAN Executive Touch Exclusive for men. Open 10 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 5003-50 St. 403-348-5650

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Massage Therapy

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VII MASSAGE

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

Misc. Services

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Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Property clean up 340-8666

CUSTOM HOMES

LINDA’S CHINESE MASSAGE

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned. 403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

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

COUPLES SPECIAL

2nd person is 1/2 price. Open daily 9 am-9 pm. 403-986-1550 #3 4820-47 Ave

Misc. Services

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MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980 Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648

Health/Dental benefits, paid training, free uniforms. Apply in person 4217 - 50 Ave. timhire@telus.net Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society requires a

PART TIME COOK

to provide catering services at the CRONQUIST HOUSE. Food service experience, the Food Sanitation & Hygiene Certificate, & excellent communication skills essential. Please send resume to email: rdchs@telus.net or fax 403-347-8759 info, call 403-346-0055

Sales & Distributors

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Outside Sales Rep

for our solutions driven sales team. Experience in air compressors and pneumatics a definite asset, but will train the right candidate. Base + commission + mileage + benefits. For Red Deer & area. Apply: del.trynchuk@cea-air.com Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Trades

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CUSTOM MUFFLER

Looking for apprentice or journeyman mechanic. Pipe bending skills would be a great asset. Wages depend on exp. Going concern shop. Fax resume to:403-346-9909 or drop off at 2410 50 Ave. Phone 403-346-7911 Eagle Builders is expanding its facility to double production. We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

* Concrete Finishers * General Labourers Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included. Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403 885 5516 or e-mail: HR@eaglebuilders.ca. F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo. Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

5* JUNK REMOVAL

HOUSEHOLD ITEM REMOVAL 403-346-3844

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

Seniors’ Services

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

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Lot Person Competitive Salary plus benefits Apply in Person

3110-50 Ave. Red Deer No Calls Please

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Timberlands Area Talson Place, Thomas Place Trimble Place, Traptow Place Timberstone Way $152/mo. Michener Area West of 40th Ave. North Ross St. to 52 Street. $236/monthly Good for adult with small car. ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Clearview Area Castle Crsc. Clark Crsc. & Crawford St. $155/mo. Clearview Ridge Clearview Dr. & Crossley St. area $202.00/mo. Deerpark Area 3 blks of Duston St. Denmark Crsc & West half of Donnelly Crsc. $94/mo. Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. $61/mo. ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area $76/mo.

FURIX Energy Inc is hiring for the following positions Sandblasters Apprentice Welders Journeymen welders with CWB and 400BBL tank manufacturing experience. Level 1 Q/A QC Inspector Please email your resumes to Darryl@furixenergy.com or fax to 403-348-8109. LICENSED mechanic for truck maintenance on 20 truck fleet. Reply to Box 1036, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 or fax resume to 403-346-0295 LOOKING for Experience. Carpenter with farm & metal bldgs. 403-318-6406 S M A L L R U R A L M E AT SHOP in central AB looking for F/T meat cutter. Knowledge of cutting hanging carcasses needed. Rental house avail. within walking distance of meat shop. Please call 403-843-4383 WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

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

ANDERS AREA

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

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Carriers Needed 4 days/wk Flyers & Sun. Life IN PINES Patterson Cres. & Pamley Ave.

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Sherwood Crsc VANIER AREA

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Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.

Riverside Meadows Morning delivery 6 days /wk by 6:30 a.m.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308 GRAYSON EXCAVATING LTD. requires experienced foremen, pipelayers, equipment operators, Class 1 drivers, topmen and general labourers for installation of deep utilities (water and sewer). Fax resume to (403)782-6846 or e-mail to: info@ graysonexcavating.com Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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Misc. Help

Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

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Rocky View Schools (RVS) is the fifth largest jurisdiction in Alberta serving almost 20,000 students in both rural and urban schools. As a 21st Century student-centric learning organization, RVS is committed to engaging, enriching and empowering all learners through meaningful and challenging experiences that prepare them to understand, adapt and successfully contribute to our changing global community. We are seeking outstanding professionals for the following positions: Competition #3357 - Coordinator of Grounds - Closing April 9, 2013 Competition #3353 - Manager of Supply Management - Closing April 12, 2013 To learn more about this job opportunity and the application process, please visit our website at www.rockyview.ab.ca or go directly to www.applytoeducation.com under Management and Professional. Resumes can also be emailed to careers@rockyview.ca

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required. Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town. Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

Truckers/ Drivers

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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Premium paid on night shift.

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Escorts

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requires F/T Customer Service Night shift and afternoon shift..

F/T Safety Officer

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NIGHT OWLS

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

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LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced F/T Servers. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

CUSTOM Energized Air is a leader in compressed air technology and requires an

SERVICE RIG

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Bingos

RETIREMENT & SAVINGS PLAN BENEFITS COMPETITIVE WAGES

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

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

55 YEAR old single M. would like to meet the Legal Assistants same 18 - 55. Reply to Box 1039, c/o R. D. Advocate, Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrender 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Glass LLP t/a Altalaw Requires the services of Start your career! an experienced Corp/Comm See Help Wanted Legal Assistant as well as a Real Estate Conveyancer. Part-timers for summer and vacation relief welPersonals come to apply. Please email resume to ALCOHOLICS ssimmons@altalaw.ca or ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 fax to the attention of Office Manager on COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403.343.0891. 403-304-1207 (Pager)

Chevrolet

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D

CARRIERS NEEDED

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

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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:

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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators. We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person. 6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

Misc. Help

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BATTERY DOCTORS Exp. not req’d but heavy lifting is involved, mechanical skills an asset. Hours: Mon. to Fri. 8-5. Apply in person at 1, 4801 78 St. No phone calls please.

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1 TICKET FOR BON JOVIApril 2, Saddledome, $200, call 403-347-4447 after 6 p.m.

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

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HUSKY BRAID NAILER, new in box, $25.; 2000 lb. remote control winch, $65; New air compressor, 100 psi; $65; New Woods outdoor 24/hr timer; $10; New sz. 11 black leather, zippered boots, $25; 20’ tow ropes (2) $10. ea. 403-887-4981

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GRAD gown, gorgeous floral sheer with scarf, size 8. $15. 403-347-5316

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WORK bench vise $18; bundle of bungee cords $6; 3 trouble lights $6/ea; Cameras & bow saw 30” in wooden Accessories case $15; clay pick $7; 2 hand saws $6/ea.; wooden SONY handicam, exc. miter box $5; 10’ tow rope cond. $200 obo $10; 1/4” steel tow cable 403-307-1586 $15; wooden tool box for Central Alberta’s Largest truck 40”l x 17” w x 8 1/2” deep $15; post hole auger Car Lot in Classifieds 5” $20; galvanized garbage can/lid $12; 2 1” x 36” piano hinges $4; 2 tin snips 2/$10; 2 boxes of Children's nice clam shells $5/box Items 403-314-2026

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1 BDRM. apt. across from hospital, 3rd flr. balcony, Avail. Now. $780./mo. 403-877-3323 1 BDRM. apt. in Penhold, $740/mo. Avail. immed. Incl. most utils, no pets. Call 403-886-5288 1 BDRM. bsmt. suite 4223 42 Ave in Grandview. $350/mo for 1 person. All utils incl, except phone & cable. No pets, no drugs. 403-309-2438 BSMT. bachelor suite with walkout, fully furnished, RENTED LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

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WANTED: SYLVAN LAKE COTTAGE or HOUSE for first week of July. Lakefront preferred. Price negotiable. Please contact 604-982-0554

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Pipeline and Facility Installation Inspectors Skystone Engineering will host a training seminar on the role of the inspector as the client (owner) representative, providing code and regulatory requirements for inspectors to fulfill their QA role. It also covers site safety, project management and admin requirements to assure new installations satisfy owner requirements. It addresses all sections of CAPP’s Guidance Document: “Competency Assessment for Upstream Oil and Gas Pipeline Installation Inspectors”. The seminar will be April 23-25, 2013 at the Delta Edmonton South Hotel in Edmonton, AB. Attendees must register on or before Sunday, April 21. For info, visit www. skystone.ca or call (403) 516-4217, Nancy.

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“I had a huge adrenaline rush,” said Bryan Beard, whose best friend Alex Sullivan was killed in the attack. “I love the choice. I love it, I love it.” He added: “I hope I’m in the room when he dies.” But the prospect of a longer legal battle troubles others such as Pierce O’Farrill, who was shot three times. “It could be 10 or 15 years before he’s executed. I would be in my 40s and I’m planning to have a family, and the thought of having to look back and reliving everything at that point in my life, it would be difficult,” he said. Legal observers said Holmes’ lawyers publicly offered a guilty plea in what may have been a bid to gain support among victims’ families for a deal that would spare them a painful trial and lengthy appeals. The prosecution and the defence could still reach a deal before the case goes to trial. Holmes’ lawyers have indicated in court papers that they may instead pursue a defence of not guilty by reason of insanity. But that carries great risk: Prosecutors could argue that Holmes methodically planned his attack, casing the theatre, stockpiling weapons and booby-trapping his apartment with explosives. If he is found not guilty by reason of insanity, he will be sent to the state mental hospital, then returned to prison after treatment. Colorado has three people on death row but has executed just one person over the past 45 years, in 1997. The judge newly assigned to the case, Carlos Samour Jr., is considering whether a New York-based Fox News reporter should have to testify about how she obtained confidential information about Holmes.

Connecticut close to deal on ‘strongest’ gun laws in U.S. by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut state lawmakers announced a deal Monday on what they called some of the toughest gun laws in America including a ban on new highcapacity ammunition magazines after a massacre left 20 children and six educators dead in December. The proposal also called for background checks for private gun sales and a new registry for existing magazines that carry 10 or more bullets, something of a compromise for parents of Newtown, Connecticut shooting victims who had wanted an outright ban on them. The package also creates what lawmakers said is America’s first statewide dangerous weapon offender registry, immediate universal background checks for all firearms sales and expansion of Connecticut’s assault weapons ban. A new state-issued eligibility certificate would also be needed to purchase any rifle, shotgun or ammunition under the legislation. To get the certificate, a buyer would need to be fingerprinted, take a firearms training course and undergo a national criminal background check and involuntary commitment or voluntary admission check. The deal is “the most comprehensive package in the country because of its breadth,” said Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, a Republican whose district includes Newtown. McKinney said people tend to focus on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, but he said “there’s a lot here underneath the surface” addressing mental health, school security and other issues. The proposal was disclosed to rank-and-file lawmakers Monday after weeks of negotiations among legislative leaders. A vote was expected Wednesday in the Legislature. Both Democratic and Republican leaders were expected to support the proposal, making passage all but assured. The bill would then be sent to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who has helped lead efforts to strengthen the state’s gun laws. Connecticut is sending a message to Washington and the rest of the country “this is the way to get this job done,” said House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, a Democrat. The shooting reignited the gun debate in America and led to calls for increased gun control legislation on the federal and state levels. While some other states, including New York, have strengthened their gun laws since the shooting, momentum has stalled in Congress, whose members were urged by President Barack Obama last week not to forget the shooting and to capitalize on the best chance in years to stem gun violence. The gunman in Newtown blasted his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and fired off 154 shots with a Bushmaster .223-calibre rifle within five minutes. He went through six 30-round magazines, though half were not completely empty, and police said he had three other 30-round magazines in addition to one in the rifle. He gunned down 26 people, then shot himself to death with a handgun. Six relatives of Newtown victims visited the Capitol on Monday, asking lawmakers to include a ban on existing high-capacity magazines. Some handed out cards with photographs of their slain children. They delivered a letter signed by 24 relatives that demanded that legislators include existing large-capacity ammunition magazines in the ban on the sale of magazines that carry 10 or more bullets.


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Pope visits tomb of St. Peter FIRST VISIT TO NECROPOLIS BY PONTIFF FOR DECADES WAS ‘EMOTIONAL’ FOR FRANCIS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Monday took an emotional, close-up look at the tomb of Peter, the church’s first pontiff, buried beneath St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said. By doing so, Francis became the first pontiff to visit the necropolis, where pagans and early Christians were buried, since extensive archaeological excavations were conducted at the ancient site decades ago, the Vatican said. The 45-minute “visit of devotion to the tomb of St. Peter” was private, the Vatican said, but it later released a video of it. The basilica was built over the location where early Christians would gather in secret, at a time of persecution in ancient Rome, to pray at an unmarked tomb believed to be that of Peter, the apostle Jesus chose to lead his church. The Vatican first said Francis would pray at Peter’s tomb, but later said he prayed instead in the basilica. The new pope “paused in silent prayer, in profound and emotional meditation” in the Clementine Chapel in the vast basilica that is “the closest place (in the basilica) to the tomb of the Prince of the Apostles,” it said. During a tour of the necropolis conducted by its director and an Italian cardinal, the pope “climbed up a bit, got closer to the place where the tomb of St. Peter lies, exactly under the central altar and the dome of the basilica,” the Vatican said. Francis walked down the entire main street of the ancient city of the dead, the statement said. The streets of the necropolis are similar to those

of ancient Rome, only they are flanked by tombs instead of shops and apartments. The Vatican said Francis walked to the necropolis entrance from the hotel on the Vatican grounds where he lives, took the tour and later — after paying homage at the tombs of several popes in another underground level known as the grottoes, including Pius XII, Paul VI and John Paul I — strolled back to his residence. The underground excursion was a sharp departure from how popes in past years often spent the day after Easter, known in Italy as “little Easter.” Those pontiffs would head to Castel Gandolfo, the Vatican palace in the Alban Hills, a short drive from Rome. But that oasis of sprawling gardens and strolling paths in the quaint hill town is occupied by the predecessor of Francis, Benedict XVI, who spent the last hours of his papacy there before becoming the first pope in 600 years to retire. Benedict is staying in Castel Gandolfo until a monastery at the Vatican in Rome can be readied for him. Many Italians spend “little Easter” by having a picnic lunch in the countryside or in city parks, and Francis told Romans and tourists who gathered in St. Peter’s Square at noon Monday to see him to “have a good lunch.” Francis said he was praying that Easter would inspire the faithful so that “hatred gives way to love, lies to truth,” and that it would especially comfort those in “most need of trust and hope.” He spoke to them from the studio window of the apartment in the Apostolic Palace overlooking the square. Benedict and popes before him lived there, but so far Francis, who stresses simplicity, has declined to move into the quarters.

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In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, followed by Cardinal Angelo Comastri, right, and Bishop Vittorio Lanzani, partially hidden, visits the necropolis where pagans and early Christians were buried under St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican and where St. Peter is believed to be buried, Monday, during what was called the first-ever visit by a pope. The basilica was built over the location where early Christians would gather in secret, at a time of persecution in ancient Rome, to pray at an unmarked tomb believed to be that of Peter, the apostle Jesus chose to lead his church.

Syrian activists say 6,000 killed in March DEADLIEST MONTH SINCE CONFLICT STARTED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — March was the bloodiest month yet in Syria’s 2-year-old conflict with more than 6,000 documented deaths, a leading anti-regime activist group said Monday, blaming the increase on heavier shelling and more violent clashes. Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the increased toll is likely incomplete because both the Syrian army and the rebel groups fighting the government often underreport their dead in the civil war. “Both sides are hiding information,” Abdul-Rahman said by phone from Britain, where his group is based. “It is very difficult to get correct info on the fighters because they don’t want the information to hurt morale.” The numbers, while provided by only one group, support the appraisal of the conflict offered by many Syria watchers: The civil war is largely a military stalemate that is destroying the country’s social fabric and taking a huge toll on civilians. The increase also reflects the continuing spread of major hostilities to new parts of Syria. While clashes continue in Aleppo, Damascus and Homs, Syria’s three largest cities, rebels have launched an offensive in recent weeks to seize towns and army bases in the southern province of Daraa, largely with the help of an influx of foreign-funded weapons. The Observatory, which works through a network of contacts in Syria, said those killed in March included similar numbers of combatants on both sides: 1,486 rebels and army defectors and 1,464 soldiers from the Syrian army. But the number of civilians killed exceeded them both: 2,080 total for the month, including 298 children and 291 women.

In addition, there were 387 unidentified civilians and 588 unidentified fighters, most of them foreigners fighting with the rebels, bringing the March total to 6,005, Abdul-Rahman said. He criticized the international community for not doing more to stop the bloodshed, which he said could increase. “If there is no solution, we think the numbers will get worse in the coming months,” he said. The March toll surpassed what had previously been the deadliest month, August 2012, when airstrikes, clashes and shelling killed more than 5,400 people, Abdul-Rahman said. His total death toll for the conflict through the end of March was 62,554, a number he acknowledged as incomplete, suggesting the true figure could be twice as high. Besides the underreporting of dead fighters by both sides, he mentioned the tens of thousands of missing persons and captives held by the regime and the rebels. The fate of these people is rarely uncovered, he said. He also said more than 12,000 pro-government gunmen known as “shabiha,” along with government informers may have been killed by the opposition and never reported. The constant stream of new reports, in addition to the lack of free access to much of the country, makes full investigations impossible. “Since there are more dying every day, it is very hard to go back and document those who died before,” Abdul-Rahman said, calling for an independent international investigation inside Syria. The Observatory’s numbers are not as high as those given by the United Nations. On Feb. 18, a U.N.-appointed Commission of Inquiry on Syria issued a 131-page report saying about 70,000 people had been killed in the conflict. The report compiled and corroborated death reports from a number of different sources. The U.N. has not updated its number since. The Syrian government does not provide regular

death tolls for the conflict. Syrian officials did not immediately comment on the reported death toll. Assad’s regime describes the conflict as a foreign conspiracy to weaken the country carried out by terrorists on the ground. In an attempt to boost that argument and rally regime supporters, Assad’s wife, Asma, broke her long silence on the events shaking the country in a video shown on Syrian TV stations over the weekend and posted on the Internet.

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social programs, while Maduro vows to continue the late leader’s legacy, which would include the controls. “We are facing a transition situation, and they are going to wait until this situation is cleared up,” Gutierrez said Monday.

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CARACAS, Venezuela — Doing business in post-Hugo Chavez Venezuela is not for the faint of heart. Thousands of companies suffer under currency controls that all but deny them the U.S. dollars they need to import vital items into this oilrich country, from food to cars to spare parts — even gasoline. Venezuelan firms must sell their wares at state-controlled prices that don’t reflect the 22 per cent inflation rate, the highest in Latin America. Even Venezuela’s socialist government admits the controls don’t work — but its attention is focused on the April 14 election to replace the late President Hugo Chavez. It’s a largely improvised economic policy that, despite oil earnings, has turned people’s lives upside down and produced shortages of flour, coffee, butter and

medicines. It’s also a mess that will immediately challenge whoever becomes the president of this 28 million-person country. Jeni Suarez, a 51-yearold Caracas homemaker, experienced the crisis first hand after waiting three months for a colonoscopy at a public hospital. When she got there, doctors told her they needed new parts from abroad to perform the procedure, and the deliveries weren’t coming any time soon because the hospital didn’t get dollars from Venezuela’s government to buy them. “I have an intense pain, and I don’t know what to do,” Suarez said after the appointment at Jose Maria Vargas Hospital. Such economic headaches have, in fact, defined much of the late president’s legacy here. Chavez imposed draconian currency controls a decade ago to punish business leaders who had mounted a crippling opposition strike. He was

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University of Alberta. 1962 — Alberta Government Telephones and CN Telecommunications opens 640 km microwave system from Peace River to Hay River, NWT. 1906 — First session of the Saskatchewan legislature opens. 1871 — Dominion of Canada’s first census shows a population of 3,689,257, including 2,110,000 of British origin and 1,083,000 of French origin.

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Push on for more baby-friendly hospitals SUPPORT FOR BREASTFEEDING KEY COMPONENT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS When Michelle Delbaere gave birth to her son Henry seven months ago, she had planned to exclusively breastfeed him because she’d been told that mother’s milk is considered best for baby’s health. Despite her intentions, she agreed to initially bottle-feed her newborn with formula because it was taking time for her milk to come in. “Once in the hospital. Actually, it was twice in the hospital,” the first-time mother says, almost sheepishly, about consenting to formula at Ottawa General Hospital, where Henry was delivered. “I was very hesitant to use it. “He was so hungry. And the nursing staff finally suggested we just give him a little bit of formula to make him a little more comfortable.” But with a push to have hospitals and other health-care centres promote exclusive breastfeeding, that scenario of opting for formula may be increasingly less likely to happen. Indeed, a recent report by Ontario’s Healthy Kids Panel recommends that hospitals across the province that deliver maternity and pediatric care should be encouraged to be certified as Baby Friend-

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First-time mom Michelle Delhaere is pictured with her sevenmonth-old son Henry at their home in Ottawa. ly Initiatives, a program launched by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in 1991. Under the designation in Canada, hospitals must not accept free or low-cost breast milk substitutes, feeding bottles or soothers; they must strictly fulfil 10 criteria, including placing babies skin-toskin with their mothers right after birth and encouraging mothers to breastfeed for a minimum of six months, unless supplements are medically indicated. So far, just three hospitals in Ontario have earned their

BFI accreditation — St. Joseph’s Health Care in Hamilton, Grand River in Kitchener, Ont., and Toronto East General. Across Canada, there are roughly a half-dozen others already certified or in the process of becoming babyfriendly centres. Experts say there are lots of health benefits linked to breastfeeding: breast milk contains disease-fighting antibodies that may also reduce a baby’s risk of developing allergies, and research suggests breastfeeding offers some protection to women against breast and ovarian cancer as

well as osteoporosis later in life. “Babies who are breastfed exclusively have fewer hospitalizations, fewer trips to the doctor, fewer ear infections and respiratory illnesses,” says Alex Munter, co-chair of the Healthy Kids Panel. Recommendations by the panel are aimed at reducing the rate of childhood obesity — almost a third of Canadian kids and teens are overweight or obese — by 20 per cent in the next five years. Promoting breastfeeding is one part of a multi-pronged attack on obesity. “As it relates to obesity, we know that the longer a baby is breastfed, the more significant the impact,” says Munter, CEO of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa. “So it’s estimated that for every month up to eight months, the risk of overweight and obesity is reduced by four per cent.” Statistics show that 87 per cent of Canadian moms start off breastfeeding their newborns, but by the six-month mark, only about 25 per cent are continuing the practice. “Making the decision to breastfeed is a very personal matter,” acknowledges Munter. “But seeing the data around the link between breastfeeding and reducing obesity, we want to make the environment as supportive as possible for women who make that choice.” Yet there’s huge variabil-

ity among the 100-plus Ontario hospitals that provide delivery services or pediatric health care: some have lactation consultants, others don’t, he says. “Even at CHEO, there are varying degrees of expertise and knowledge amongst staff and physicians. “What the Baby Friendly Initiative does is it helps hospitals up our game so that we can support women as they make a choice around breastfeeding to be able to maintain it and continue.” In response to the report, the Ontario government says it plans to look for ways to enhance breastfeeding supports, including more BFI-certified hospitals. Since 2011, the ministry of health has required all 36 public health units in the province to work towards BFI designation, a spokesman says. But the process isn’t easy, health providers say. “It’s pretty comprehensive,” says Linda Young, director of Maternal Newborn and Child at Toronto East General, which recently went through its five-year recertification. This country’s accrediting body, the Breast Feeding Committee for Canada, conducts on-site interviews with doctors, nurses and other staff in obstetrics, pediatrics and the special-care nursery. The process also includes an audit of obstetrical patients’ charts, covering all three nursing shifts going back several days.

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