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The Red Deer Rebels No. 1 goaltender Patrick Bartosak will be in the hands of new goalie coach Taylor Dakers this season.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Identifying and then developing netminders is the new order of the day for the Red Deer Rebels — and major junior hockey teams across the country and northwest United States.

Gone are the days when teams could scoop a stopper in the Canadian Hockey League import draft. Hockey Canada, in conjunction with the CHL, put a halt to that this year, essentially ruling that major junior clubs were developing European and Russian goalies who were in turn beating Canada in international competitions.

The ban on import goalies will force CHL clubs to produce more top-notch homegrown netminders.

“There’s two ways of doing it — you either have to draft them or find them and list them,” said Rebels general manager/head coach Brent Sutter. “No one trades good, young, proven goalies, so you have to do it from within.”

To that end, Sutter hired Taylor Dakers during the off-season. Dakers has replaced Brett Belecki as the club’s goaltender coach and has taken on the added role of scout.

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‘No one trades good, young, proven goalies, so you have to do it from within.’

“Sometimes a goalie coach can spend too much time with and pay too much attention to the No. 1 guy, and not enough attention to the backup and the prospects in your system,” said Sutter.

“That was something I wanted to make firm with Taylor, that whoever was going to come in to be our goalie consultant/coach, his role would be to work with and make all of our goalies in the system better.

“When Taylor is here he’s going to spend as much time with our backup goaltender as he is with Patty (starter Bartosak). We also know that our No. 1 guy is No. 1 for a reason, but we can’t

be neglectful of the other goalie (Taz Burman) on the team or others in the system.”

Dakers was hired when Belecki — a Calgary firefighter with a young family — confirmed that he would not be able to travel to Red Deer as often as Sutter had hoped.

He will work with Bartosak and Burman 10 to 12 times per month this season. Dakers is involved with World Pro Goaltending, a teaching program for minor hockey, junior A, major junior and professional netminders that operates out of a privately-owned rink in Calgary.

“When I’m in Red Deer I’ll try to be on the ice as much as I can, but the main thing will be maintaining contact with the goalies and making sure that there’s a lot of discussion regarding their game, where the team is at and how their life is here,” said Dakers.

“We’ll have a younger goalie in addition to Patty and we’ll want to make sure we’re getting the most out of him. With Patty being 20, he’ll be expected to take most of the load, and with Burman being a younger player he has to learn as much as he can to get as good as he can without playing for long stretches.

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Trust fund set up for shooting victim

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A trust fund has been established to support the victim of last week’s shooting at a local Fas Gas. Parkland Fuel Corp., the company that owns Fas Gas, has set up the fund at Scotiabank to collect donations for Jaysen Arancon Reyes, 26, who was shot while working at the West Park Fas Gas on Sept. 11.

Reyes has been in hospital in Calgary since the incident, where he has undergone several surgeries relating to injuries he suffered to his face and hands.

Reyes, in the country as a temporary foreign worker, came to Canada from his home in the Philippines in May. His mother and much of his family is still in the Asian nation.

Parkland is working to bring Reyes’ mother to Canada; she is securing a visa to visit her son. The company has committed to cover all costs relating to Reyes’ mother’s visit — it has already wired her $1,000 — and the visit of Reyes’ uncle, who lives in Ontario and is already in Calgary with the victim.

In a release, the company says Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen is “helping us try and expedite the visa process.” It adds that the trust account was set up at the request of concerned community members.

Shortly after the shooting, a donation box was set up at the Fas Gas location, through which many people offered financial support to Reyes. Parkland spokesman Tom McMillan said that box has now been taken down and people will be directed to donate into the Scotiabank account.

The company’s investigation into the incident is ongoing. McMillan said the company follows industry standards in terms of clerk safety and security, a topic on which he said there is a lot of research.

The trust account is named Parkland Fuel Corporation ITF Jaysen Arancon Reyes — account number 12989 0475718. The fund is a national account, with donations accepted at Scotiabank branches.

Donations will be accepted until Dec. 31.

Soaring on warm winds blowing down along the Red Deer River a Gull takes flight near Bower Ponds Thursday. Through the weekend more great soaring weather is forecast with lows in the 3 to 5 degree range and the highs coming in at 18 to 22 degrees.

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REBELS: Burman likely to be No. 1 next season “Mentally, there’s a lot of development on and off the ice. Physically, there’s a lot of development in practice. He (Burman) will have to approach each practice as if it’s a game and get the most out of it.”

Dakers was on the job during the summer, accompanying Bartosak to Los Angeles to work with the Kings goaltending coaches. Los Angeles selected the Czech netminder — the best in the entire Canadian Hockey League last season — in June’s NHL entry draft.

“The coaches there gave me an outline of where they want to see Patty get to this season,” said Dakers. “He’s a great WHL goalie, which is obvious just by the accolades he got last season, but there’s always a big jump up to the pro level.

“If we can get a head start on that and kind of get him prepared for next year, it will serve to help us here.”

Dakers, a 27-year-old Langley, B.C., native, blocked pucks for the Kootenay Ice for four seasons, then turned pro in 2007 with the San Jose Sharks, who selected him in the fifth round of the 2005 NHL entry draft.

He appeared in a total of 58 games over two years in the AHL and ECHL before retiring due to a bad hip.

“I had to undergo hip surgeries because I couldn’t move in the net anymore. I had problems with my hip since I was 15 and had to deal with those issues my whole playing career,” said Dakers, who was the Everett Silvertips goaltending coach for two years prior to joining the Rebels.

With Bartosak graduating after this season, Burman will almost certainly be the main man in the Rebels crease next year. Dakers is confident the Vancouver native has the goods necessary to succeed in the WHL. “There’s a lot to be said about what he does technically,” said Dakers. “He can stop the puck. He’s mentally composed and gives the team a real presence back there, plus he’s a good kid in the dressing room. He’s what you want out of a young kid. He’s seems very willing to learn.”

Dakers will hit the road periodically to work with Rebels midget AAA prospects in Moose Jaw (Grant Naherniak, Colby Entz) and North Battleford (Rylan Toth), and will assist the Rebels scouting staff in identify promising goaltenders for the 2014 WHL bantam draft.

“I haven’t had a reason to watch a lot of bantam hockey until now. I’ll be able to attend a lot of games in Calgary and I’ll also get to tournaments in St. Al-

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Red Deer Rebel goaltending coach Taylor Dakers works with goaltender Taz Burman during a practice at the Centrium. bert and Medicine Hat,” said Dakers.

Placing his goaltender coach into a scouting role is a no-brainer, Sutter suggested.

“I’ve learned over the years that your goalie coach has a tremendous feel not only for the goalies on the team, but also in the system, and he has to help the scouts in seeing the difference between a good goalie and an average goalie,” said Sutter. “You can have 10 scouts talking about a goalie prospect but you’ll listen more to the opinion of someone who has played the position.”

While he’s had extensive coaching experience with the Rebels and in the NHL, Sutter realizes he doesn’t possess the same knowledge of goaltenders as does Dakers.

“It’s always nice to have a coach who has played that position, the most important position on your team,” said the Rebels boss. “One thing I learned at the NHL level is you lean heavily on your goaltend-

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ing coach more than any other person in the system, including your scouts. More than anyone else, he knows these guys, he knows their makeup.

“He sees tangible things in their game that other coaches might not see. As a coach and GM, your want your goalies to just stop the puck and don’t give up easy goals. But to go out there and work with a goalie’s skill set and the technical package that he has, you can’t do it because you’ve never worked with goalies through your life.”

While Sutter knows Dakers is a valuable addition to his coaching staff, the newcomer is equally as grateful to be on board.

“With the guys here, Brent, Steve (assistant O’Rourke) and Jeff (associate coach Truitt), I’m learning things every day,” said Dakers. “I’m like a 16-year-old goalie in the Dub. There’s always something to learn.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Primary care in need of reform: experts

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Primary care in Alberta is not patient-focused and is in need of reform, according to a team of medical experts.

Released through the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, Accountability By Design: Moving Primary Care Reform Ahead in Alberta suggests that health care must change on a system-wide basis, with primary care as the “hub of the system.� The province has spent about $870 million on establishing 40 Primary Care Networks (PCNs) since 2005, but the report’s authors say the system is plagued with vague expectations and an overall lack of attention to accountability.

This, the report says, is because the province wanted to encourage buy-in to the new model when it was established and so wanted to “avoid any suggestion that physician autonomy may be influenced.� “We suggest that in the main, political sensitivities around the powerful physician lobby caused the province to err on the side of sweetening, and not stirring the physician pot,� it reads.

Primary care is to be the first point of delivery of health services, with PCNs focused on co-ordinating all health services and information around a unique patient or family. The report says over 70 per cent of primary care physicians in the province now belong to a PCN. But the authors claim the system, as it exists now,

is funded as a “physician-only enterprise that views team-based care as an optional strategy.� “We focus very much in Alberta on the physician and we haven’t done a great job — and nor did the objectives support — any kind of accountabilities around them building a team or working with a team, and we do believe strongly that a team needs to be there to support that physician-patient relationship in order for the patient to receive the level of care that they require,� said Cheryl Andres, one of the authors.

While acknowledging that different PCNs operate differently, Dr. Peter Bouch, chairman of the Red Deer PCN, said locally, a team has been established.

Though not possible to have all members of such a team under one roof, he said physicians within the PCN refer patients to family nurses, psychologists, dieticians, and biokinesiologists, among other health professionals.

In the report, the Red Deer PCN is singled out as an example of integrating community action with health services in relation to obesity issues.

Bouch said he agreed fully with the report’s insistence that there has not been enough analysis relating to the value of PCNs based on the money the province has invested in the initiative. Through the PCN 2.0 process to evolve the system though, he said across-the-board standards will be implemented. “In the new PCN 2.0 there is going to be accountability. There are going to be certain things each PCN is going to have to measure and have some measurable outcomes at the end of the day. We’re all working with government money, and the govern-

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ment wants to see what we’re doing with it. “When initially these PCNs were set up, the government didn’t give us a great deal of guidance in what they would want at the end of the day,� said Bouch.

The PCN 2.0 process will see some new policies rolling out soon, with the process complete within six to eight months, according to Bouch.

The report also states that Alberta Health’s new model of creating Family Care Clinics (FCCs) will cause tension in the system with the risk that FCCs and PCNs will duplicate effort and compete for resources. “Our concern is that by resurrecting another model, we’re creating potentially another silo in the system instead of learning what mistakes we made with the PCNs and improving on those. We would rather see improved integration in terms of improvements made in the system versus building another silo,� said Andres.

But Bouch said he does not see a conflict, believing FCCs will be more aligned to dealing with specific populations of high need in niche areas such as inner cities. Though Red Deer was put on a list of 24 communities identified as possible sites for FCCs, Bouch said in June that he did not think Red Deer needed one.

The Red Deer PCN is comprised of 80 physicians in 16 clinics and 35 professional staff. Among its initiatives is the Street Clinic to serve a vulnerable population in the downtown and the installation of 10 outdoor gyms and two disc golf courses in the city. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

Safe injection site marks 10 years of saving lives

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BRIEFS RCMP need help to find man kidnapped near ENG apartments Red Deer RCMP are looking for the public’s help to find a kidnapped man who was dragged away in his underwear on Tuesday.

Police say residents of the ENG apartment building, located at 4904 54th St., reported seeing three men assaulting and dragging a man, who was only wearing red underwear, across the parking lot around 9:25 p.m. on Tuesday.

Two of the men were described as Caucasian and the third was black. The victim was also black.

The victim was forced into a white GMC van that sped away. Police have since recovered the van.

The victim has not been identified or located and his well-being is unknown at this time.

The Red Deer GIS serious crimes unit is investigating this incident and are seeking the public’s assistance in locating the victim, witnesses or anyone else who may be involved.

Anyone with information is asked contact Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575.

County of Stettler celebrates opening of Fenn Road An opening ceremony was held in the County of Stettler on Friday for a $6.8-million road paving project that serves as an important link for farmers, gravel pit operators and oilfield companies.

Fenn Road is an 11-km link between Hwys 56 and 835 south of Stettler that had been falling apart because of heavy truck traffic. At least half a dozen gravel pits are located along the route, which is also used by the oilpatch and local farmers.

More than a dozen residences along the route will also benefit by not having to contend with dust and other nuisances.

The county contributed about $582,000 in federal gas tax money and $2.8 million in other municipal funds to the project. The province provided about $3.4 million.

VANCOUVER — It has survived political venom and high court challenges that threatened to close it down, but two million injections later, North America’s only legal supervised injection site is marking a milestone 10th anniversary.

InSite first began as a three-year pilot project to serve drug addicts when it opened its doors Sept.

21, 2003, in the centre of Vancouver’s drug-infested Downtown Eastside.

Between 2004 and 2010 there were over 1,400 overdoses at the site, but health-care staff were able to successfully intervene.

There hasn’t ever been an overdose death at the safe-injection site.

Dr. Patricia Daly, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority’s medical health officer, said there’s no argument that the safe injection site has saved lives over the last decade.

InSite has 12 supervised injection booths where clients are given clean needles and supplies.

BOARD MEMBER The Red Deer Housing Authority (RDHA) is entering an exciting phase in the growth of the organization. We are looking for enthusiastic community members who have a passion for community development to serve on its Board of Directors. As a Board Member, you will help guide the future direction of RDHA as well as explore new opportunities in providing housing options for low and moderate income families in Red Deer and area.

This position is a voluntary 2-year term.

If you are interested in serving in this capacity, please send your resume to: Outi Kite Red Deer Housing Authority #302, 4719 48 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 3T1 Email: outi@rdha.ab.ca

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TORONTO — Forcing would-be Canadians to take an oath to the Queen as a condition of citizenship is constitutional, even if it does violate free-speech rights, an Ontario court ruled Friday.

In his ruling, Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Morgan dismissed an application by three permanent residents, who argued the requirement was discriminatory and unjust. “The oath of citizenship is a form of compelled speech,� Morgan states. “But it is saved by Section 1 (of the charter) as a reasonable limit on the right of expression that is justifiable in a free and democratic society.�

Morgan also ruled the oath does not violate either religious or equality rights as the applicants claimed.

Selwyn Pieters, one of the lawyers involved, said they were considering an appeal. “The finding that the oath violates freedom of expression is a positive step,� Pieters said. “But it is disappointing that the ruling found the violation to be demonstrably justified.�

The Citizenship Act requires applicants for citizenship to swear or affirm they will be “faithful and bear true allegiance to Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, her heirs and successors.�

The long-time permanent residents oppose the oath on religious or conscientious grounds, saying pledging allegiance to Canada should be enough to

become citizens.

They also noted that people born in Canada or abroad to Canadian parents are automatically citizens and don’t have to take any such oath.

The federal government maintained that taking an oath to the Queen has been around since Confederation as a condition of “acquiring membership in the Canadian polity.� “The inability to enjoy the benefits of citizenship — to hold a Canadian passport and to vote — are amongst the costs reasonably borne by individuals whose personal beliefs run counter to Canada’s foundational heritage,� the government argued.

It also insisted the three are in Canada voluntarily, and their political and religious views enjoy constitutional protections.

In siding with the government, Morgan noted that freedom of expression includes the right not to express views, but said the applicants’ interpretation of the oath was somewhat extreme and showed a misunderstanding of its purpose.

They are, after all, free to oppose the monarch or advocate for its abolition, he said.

One of the applicants, Michael McAteer, 79, a retired journalist who immigrated almost 50 years ago, has said his father was persecuted in Ireland for supporting Irish independence.

Swearing allegiance to the Queen would violate his conscience and betray his republican heritage, he told The Canadian Press.

Dror Bar-Natan, an Israeli, and Jamaican-born Simone Topey were the other applicants.

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Al-Qaida kills at least 38 Yemeni troops

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANAA, Yemen — Under a heavy fog, al-Qaida militants disguised in military uniforms launched car bomb attacks on three different security and military posts in southern Yemen on Friday, killing 38 soldiers in the group’s biggest attack in the country since last year.

The co-ordinated attacks point to how al-Qaida is exploiting the continued weakness of Yemen’s military to rally back here at a time when the group’s branches across the region grow more assertive.

More than two years after U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, factions of the group he led are taking advantage of turmoil in multiple Arab nations to expand their presence and influence.

In Syria, foreign jihadis linked to or inspired by al-Qaida have become such a powerful force in the rebellion that the Syrian opposition on Friday accused them of being opportunists hijacking the uprising against President Bashar Assad. After the coup in Egypt toppled the Islamist president, al-Qaida leaders have called on sympathizers to join militants’ fight there against the military. Iraq’s al-Qaida branch has stepped up attacks in that country and extended operations into neighbouring Syria.

Last month, the U.S. temporarily closed 19 diplomatic missions across the Middle East and North Africa after intelligence agencies intercepted a message between al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri and Nasser al-Wahishi, also a one-time confidant of bin Laden who leads the Yemen branch, known as alQaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

“I think there’s been a promiscuous rush to write al-Qaida’s obituary, and it’s always been presumptuous. It’s certainly had setbacks . . .but its resilience has always been more formidable than we imagine,” said Bruce Hoffman, director of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University.

Experts in extremist networks see no clear evidence of co-ordination between groups under the al-Qaida banner. But gains by one serve as powerful encouragement and recruiting tools for others.

“What matters perhaps more is how they may draw inspiration from each other,” said Theodore Karasik, a security and political affairs analyst at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis.

CHICAGO — An assault-style weapon with a highcapacity magazine was used in a late-night attack that wounded 13 people, and it’s “a miracle” that no one was killed, Chicago’s top police official said.

Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said such weapons belong on a battlefield, not on American streets, and that laws are needed to restrict such weapons.

McCarthy said investigators believe several people were involved in Thursday’s attack, which appeared to be gang-related. Several victims are gang members. No arrests had been made.

The attack was the latest violence in a city that has struggled to stop such shootings by increasing police patrols. Chicago’s number of homicides last year topped 500 for the first time since 2008.

A 3-year-old boy, Deonta Howard, was critically hurt but was alert when he arrived at a hospital and seemed to be doing well, family and friends said.

Two other people were in critical condition. The others were reportedly in serious or fair condition.

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ed with people watching a basketball game and enjoying a warm summer night.

The child’s uncle, Julian Harris, told the Chicago Sun-Times that dreadlocked men in a car shot at him before turning toward nearby Cornell Square Park and opening fire. He said his nephew was shot in the cheek.

“They hit the light pole next to me, but I ducked down and ran into the house,” Harris said. “They’ve been coming round here looking for people to shoot every night, just gang-banging stuff. It’s what they do.”

Among the 13 victims were at least two minors, ages 15 and 17.

The Rev. Corey Brooks spoke with the 3-year-old’s family members and said the boy was resting with his mother.

“He was talking when they first brought him in, but he’s heavily sedated now,” he said.

“They say he’s good,” said Semecha Nunn, the boy’s grandmother. “They going to have to do a little plastic surgery on him, but he’s OK.” Francis John, 70, said she was in her apartment when the shooting occurred. She said she went down to see what was going on, and “a lot of youngsters were running scared.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Syria has sent the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons an “initial declaration” outlining its weapons program, the organization said Friday, in keeping with the agreement Russia and the U.S. brokered to have Syria give up its chemical weapons arsenal.

Michael Luhan, the organization’s spokesman, told The Associated Press the declaration is “being reviewed by our verification division,” but details of it will not be released.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the United States and other nations that have joined the chemical weapons organization “will be making a careful and thorough review of the initial document.”

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague, polices a global treaty known as the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, which bars the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical arms. The organization relies on a global network of more than a dozen top laboratories to analyze field samples.

U.S. officials said last week that the United States and Russia agreed that Syria had roughly 1,000 metric tons of chemical weapons agents and precursors, including blister agents, such as sulfur and mustard gas and nerve agents like sarin.

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BRIEFS City’s green report released The City of Red Deer released its Environmental Master Plan report card to the community on Friday.

Distribution of the Our Environment, Our Role Report to the Community is part of the city’s plans to inform residents and partners about the steps being taken to improve the environment.

The report was included with Friday’s Advocate.

The second annual report highlights the progress made on seven focus areas of water, ecology, transportation, built environment, air, energy, and waste. This year, the report places more emphasis on the role of residents in creating a better environment. Practical tips for actions such as conserving water and energy, and reducing emissions were highlighted.

Coupons are included for savings on mulch and rain barrels, as well as reminders to take free transit on World Car Free Day and check out a Home Energy Audit Kit at the Red Deer Public Library.

The report is available at city facilities and online at www.reddeer.ca/ environmentalmasterplan.

Schools collect batteries Red Deer’s annual school battery drive, where students across the city compete to collect the largest number of dead batteries to keep them out of the landfill, kicks off on Monday.

The fifth annual competition aims to educate people about the risk of batteries to the environment. Batteries are considered household hazardous waste because they contain compounds such as heavy metals that have the potential to damage landfill liners and leach into groundwater.

Red Deer students collected more than 4,743 kg of dead batteries in 2012 compared to 1,900 kg from 16 participating schools in 2011.

The student body that collects the greatest weight of batteries per capita will win planetarium programming for their school. The battery drive ends on Oct. 18. Car batteries, rechargeable batteries or lithium ion batteries, such as those used in power tools and cellphones, are not accepted.

Residents can drop off batteries and other household hazardous waste for free all year at the city’s Waste Management Facility at 1709 40th Ave. (east of the Westerner Park).

The drive is hosted by the City of Red Deer and Kerry Wood Nature Centre. For more information, call the Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 403-3462010 or, for information on the city’s Household Hazardous Waste Program, call 403-342-8750.

Council hears hotel bid Red Deer city council will hear from residents about a proposed bylaw amendment that would allow hotel rooms to be converted into apartments in the Bower neighbourhood at a public hearing on Sept. 30.

The hearing gets underway at 6 p.m. in council chambers. Residents may submit a letter or petition to be included in the council agenda by Friday.

Council will consider amending the Land Use Bylaw to add a site exception to allow as a permitted use a maximum of 47 one-bedroom multiple family residential units from hotel rooms at the Travelodge Hotel (2807 50 St.).

The area is currently zoned as C4 Commercial (major arterial) District.

Theft case delayed The first court appearance for a Cochrane woman accused of defrauding a Red Deer County oilfield company has been set over to mid-October.

Blackfalds RCMP allege that Shelley Davidson, 36, bilked her employer of more than $1 million during the five years in which she worked as the company’s bookkeeper, starting in 2006.

Her duties included accounts receivable, payroll and day-end returns.

Davidson was originally scheduled to appear in Red Deer provincial court on Friday to answer charges of fraud and theft at values exceeding $5,000.

Her court date was moved back to Oct. 18, when she is to enter her pleas.

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Students at three elementary schools in Red Deer will soon be dogearing books as part of a co-ordinated literacy project.

The Three Schools, One Book initiative will kick off in October. It will see 900 families provided with a copy of The Good Dog, a novel where the story is told through a canine perspective.

Each student at Westpark Middle School, West Park Elementary School and Mattie McCullough Elementary School will be given a copy of the book, which they will be encouraged to read at home to “create a culture of literacy.” Schools will follow up readings with discussion in the classroom.

The kickoff will take place at an open house held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Westpark Middle School’s gym on

Cookie drive aids schools Cookie lovers who want to support a local pre-kindergarten program can buy cookies at Tim Hortons locations in Red Deer next week.

Smile Cookies are being sold for $1 from Monday to Sunday, Sept. 29.

All proceeds are being donated to the Foundation for Red Deer Public Schools — Bright Start.

The project is a pre-kindergarten program that provides extra support to children before they begin school. For details about Bright Start, check www. rdpsd.ab.ca/BrightStart.php.

Smile Cookies are being sold in Tim Hortons stores across Canada to benefit different community programs. For details check www.timhortons.com.

Drug suspect being sought Police continue to hunt for one of four suspects arrested during a drug raid in Olds on Dec. 21.

Jennifer Ellah, 36, was one of four people facing charges as a result of the raid. Ellah was set for trial in Didsbury provincial court this week on charges arising from the bust but did not show up. A warrant for her arrest has been outstanding since July 8, when she missed an earlier court date.

Also charged in the raid were Natalie Carriere, 43, Michael Kelm, 36, and Jessica Fedyk, 26. Charges against Carriere were withdrawn this week.

Kelm, pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of possession of a controlled substance and was fined a total of $1,000 with victim of crime surcharges totalling $187. A charge of possession for trafficking was withdrawn.

Fedyk has pleaded not guilty to charges of possession of drugs for trafficking, breaching probation and breaching release conditions. Her trial has been set for Oct. 21 in Didsbury.

Hearing set into assault A week-long preliminary hearing has been scheduled for a young man accused of running over another man after a bar fight in Innisfail.

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Court of Queen’s Bench on charges that include aggravated assault, dangerous driving causing bodily harm, and failure to stop at the scene of a Vermont Avenue in south Red Deer collision. His lawyer has asked for will close to traffic at 19th Street while a preliminary hearing to review the city crews begin curb and paving work Crown’s evidence. The hearing was starting on Monday. scheduled on Friday to run from June There will be detour signs in place.

18 to 25, 2014. Duchesne was released The road closure will be in effect from custody shortly after his arrest on between Monday and Sept. 30, depend$1,000 cash bail. ing on weather. Residents are reminded to watch for construction crews.

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Merkel carries a big torch WILL SOON OVERTAKE FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER TO BECOME THE LONGEST-RULING FEMALE LEADER IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY It’s not a question of whether “Mutti” (Mom) will still be in power after the German election on Sunday. Of course she will: Chancellor Angela Merkel, the “mother of the nation,” will soon overtake former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to become the longest-ruling female leader in modern European history.

The question is what kind of government she will lead.

It’s a big question, because Germany is the economic powerhouse of the European Union.

The fate of GWYNNE the troubled DYER euro currency will be decided in Berlin, as will the associated project for a closer political union.

Germany has only 80 million of the EU’s 400 million citizens, but Angela Merkel is indisputably its main decision-maker.

However, she cannot make those decisions alone. Coalitions are inevitable in German politics.

Neither the main conservative party, Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (permanently allied to its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union), nor the biggest left-wing party, the Social Democrats, ever wins enough seats to rule alone.

And Merkel may have to form a different coalition after this election, because its current partner, the centreright Free Democratic Party, is going down.

The business-friendly Free Democrats were always the most comfortable coalition partner for both the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, so they have been in government for all but 19 of the past 64 years.

However, they were always a junior partner, obliged to accept and defend the right- or left-wing policies of the bigger coalition member, and over the years they have gradually lost their own distinctive identity.

In last week’s local elections in Bavaria, the second-largest German state, the Free Democrats got only three per cent of the vote, well short of the five per cent threshold they must pass to win any seats in the state assembly.

The same five per cent threshold applies in federal elections on Sunday, which means they will probably not

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures during an election campaign event of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Bad Koestritz, central Germany. Merkel may be faced with forming a new type of coalition after Sunday’s German election. make it back into the Bundestag (the federal parliament) either. So if they are unavailable as a coalition partner, who else is there?

There are the Greens, who once looked well on their way to replacing the Free Democrats as the third-largest party.

Last year, in the aftermath of the disaster at Fukushima, their anti-nuclear power policy seemed justified to many Germans, and they were polling up to 30 per cent of the vote.

But Angela Merkel promptly declared that her own party would close down all of Germany’s nuclear reactors, stealing the Greens’ main issue, and their support began to plummet.

So what did the Greens do to win the voters back?

They declared that there should be a “vegetarian only” meal day once a week in office canteens and schools nationwide.

“How dare the Greens tell us what to eat!” blared the tabloid paper Bild the next day. Germans are meat-lovers — sausages are the national dish — and the furor over “Veggie Day” refused to die down.

Last week, for the first time in years, popular support for the Greens fell below 10 per cent.

They’ll still make it back into the Bundestag, but not with enough seats to make their preferred option of a Social Democrat-Green coalition viable.

A Christian Democrat-Green coalition is also imaginable, though it would not be the preference of either party.

However, Angela Merkel’s party may not even win enough seats to make that possible.

Her personal popularity remains undented, but her party is bleeding support to the new “Alternative fuer Deutschland” party (AfD — Alternative for Germany).

The AfD only launched last February, but its proposal to kill the euro and resurrect Germany’s beloved former currency, the Deutschmark, or at least to kick the weaker economies of southern Europe out of the euro, got instant traction.

“It can’t be a taboo any more (to say) that it’s an option for Germany to return to the Deutschmark,” declared Roland Klaus, the AfD’s leader, and the party began its rapid rise in the polls.

It’s still not clear whether the AfD will win enough votes to clear the five per cent threshold and enter the Bundestag, but it’s getting likelier by the day. As a populist, nationalist, anti-im-

migrant party its support comes mainly from the right, that is, from people who used to vote for the Christian Democrats, but its euro policy is so toxic politically that it is not a candidate for a coalition with either major party.

The arithmetic for forming a new coalition is therefore getting harder and harder to do. Neither of the main parties has changed its standing much — Christian Democrats around 40 per cent, Social Democrats around 25 per cent — but the turbulence among the smaller parties has been so great that neither of the major parties is likely to be able to form a coalition without the other.

Which brings us back to the “broad” coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats that neither major party wants, but both can tolerate if they must. Indeed, that was the coalition that Angela Merkel led in her first term as chancellor in 2005-09.

And poll after poll confirms that it is the coalition most voters would prefer to see — precisely because it would be unable to change very much.

The Germans are happy enough right where they are.

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

Rapists to pay ultimate price in India “Hang them! Hang them!” basic protection.

A 62-year-old grandmother, Arun Hoping for a ride home from a Puri, scribbled the words on her du- movie theatre last December, the vicpatta, a traditional scarf, after hearing tim and a male companion boarded a the fate of four men recently convicted private bus, not realizing the six men in the brutal gang rape in aboard had been cruising India that eventually killed Delhi in search of a victim. the 23-year-old victim.

After knocking her From the moment it friend unconscious, they broke, the story of the vicdragged her to the back tim dubbed “Nirbhaya,” or of the bus and raped her, “Fearless,” awoke real rage then penetrated her with a in India and around the metal rod, inflicting grave world. internal injuries.

India’s government was An hour later, they left with little choice but to dumped her on the road react. naked and bleeding. She In an unprecedented ruldied two weeks later. ing last week, celebrated Enraged young men and RICK countrywide by large gathwomen launched a joint ZEMANEK erings, one of which Puri grievance through social attended, India’s top court media; protests across the planted the seeds of equalcountry erupted, demandity with a death sentence by ing tougher laws and more hanging. effective policing.

The grandmother’s four words “As a woman, and mother, I undersummed up the frustrations and abuse stand how protesters feel,” said Sonia that women in that country have his- Gandhi, India’s most powerful female torically endured. politician and president of the governIt’s a great moment for the women of ing Congress Party.

India after violent years of oppression “Today we pledge that the victim and abuse. will get justice.”

The death penalty will likely be Another person, homemaker Rosy seen as the significant turning point John, 62, said the death sentence is too for India’s female population to be rec- humane. ognized as equals, and to be afforded “After death, they will get freedom,”

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she said. “They should be tortured and given shocks their whole life.”

Some of India’s most determined women’s rights advocates, according to the New York Times, greeted the verdict with skepticism, doubting the case will do nothing to stem violence against women.

“I think a lot of people were hugging each other because they thought this evil is localized, and will be wiped out, and that is not the case,” said Karuna Nundy, a lawyer who has argued before India’s Supreme Court.

“The sad truth is that it is not a deterrent.”

That remains to be seen.

New legislation is in the making.

Yes, violence against women will continue, as it does in other countries. But India’s court has set a powerful deterrence — the death penalty — to punish such behaviour.

Other skeptics fairly question whether death sentences might sway people away from the root cause of sexual violence against Indian girls and women.

Most rapists are not strangers, Nilanjana S. Roy wrote in India’s publication The Hindu.

She said if convicted rapists were hanged consistently for a year, that would entail 10,000 neighbours, shopkeepers, tutors, grandfathers, fathers and brothers.

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Her observations clearly illustrate the horrific circumstances Indian women have been have been enduring.

At the same time, major changes are rapidly taking place today.

Many of India’s women are now stepping forward. Reports of rape have skyrocketed.

In the first eight months of this year, Delhi’s police force registered 1,121 complaints — more than double the number from the same period in 2011.

The number of reported molestations has increased six-fold over the same period.

In addition, the government has created a fast-track court for rape cases and introduced new laws, criminalizing acts like voyeurism and stalking.

Brutal rapes (if there’s such a thing as a non-brutal rape) is now what they call “a capital crime.”

Analysts predict that it’s unlikely these four men will hang, instead having their sentence changed to life in prison.

But the seed has been planted. The women of India still face a long struggle to gain equality. But there’s a new sun on the horizon.

Unfortunately, it took a brutal murder for many to see that light.

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Survey understates income gap Despite its flaws, the National Household Survey raises important questions about income inequality in Canada, as well as underscoring the great gap between those at the top and those further down the income ladder.

To be in the top on per cent of income earners, an individual would have to have income — salary and other employment income, investment income and government transfers — in excess of $191,000 in 2011, when the survey was conducted, and to be in the top five per cent they would have to have income in excess of $102,300.

As Statistics Canada reported, the average income of Canadians in the top one per cent was $381,300 and in the top five per cent $179,800.

These numbers almost cerDAVID tainly understate the gap.

CRANE They are based on voluntary, not mandatory, disclosure. They do not include capital gains, a major source of income for high-income Canadians.

They do not measures differences in wealth — the ownership of homes, stocks and bonds, other real estate or other assets. But ownership of assets yields dividends and interest, and in 2011 almost 57 per cent of investment income was earned by Canadians in the top 10 per cent.

Nor do they take into account unrealized stock options and deferred income that is commonplace for top executives.

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Concern over income inequality tends to be much more focused on two groups — top executives with multimillion-dollar salaries, stock options worth millions more, deferred income and generous pension plans, and on what might be called the plutocracy, those with very high levels of net worth, and these are not apparent in the National Household Survey.

Other research by Statistics Canada shows that the top one per cent of tax filers between 1982 and 2010 increased their share of total income by 4.3 percentage points and accounted for the biggest growth in inequality.

The middle class saw their share of national income decline while those at the very bottom saw minuscule gains.

Statistics Canada also found that between 1984 and 2005, the share of total wealth owned by the top 10 per cent of Canadian families grew from 51.8 per cent to 58.2 per cent.

Tax policy under both the Liberals and Conservatives has helped widen inequality so this is an issue that needs to be carefully examined.

When Prime Minister Jean Chretien came to office, 75 per cent of capital gains were subject to the capital gains tax and taxed as income at the top marginal rate of each taxpayer.

The Chretien government lowered taxable capital gains tax to 50 per cent of the gain and lowered marginal tax rates as well, a benefit that mainly went to high-income Canadians.

The Harper government then lowered the GST by two percentage points, which made a major dent in federal tax revenues but also disproportionately enriched top income earners who were more likely to gain savings when they purchased high-end automobiles, furniture or clothing, for example.

One way that governments can address income in-

equality from the volatility of free market capitalism and the “creative destruction” from major new technologies is through social programs. Yet tax policy has weakened the ability of governments to provide social programs.

But a bigger question is why has inequality grown?

Technology — the information and communications technology revolution — has eliminated many middle class jobs. Globalization has enabled companies to shift production to lower-cost regimes or to significantly squeeze wages and benefits by threatening to relocate activities elsewhere.

There is another cause that’s important — the insistence that the only function of a corporation is to maximize shareholder value.

This has shifted focus to boosting the price of a company’s share and this has been achieved by severe cost-cutting — including jobs, pay and benefits — and a focus on short-term earnings results rather than longer-term value creation.

It meant a major escalation in executive pay and generous stock options while jobs and pay for most were being frozen or cutback.

There will always be inequality, and that is a necessary feature of an innovative economy where change and productivity raise overall well-being.

But at the same time, a sustainable society is one where wealth creation is widely shared. Yet our society is becoming too polarized, with a small minority reaping huge gains while the majority face stagnation.

We need a serious look at the growing divide between those at the top and everyone else and the implications of this for long-term social progress.

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

What happened to manners?

Watch out for clowns, crocodiles, maple syrup Just when you think life and the world as we know it has momentarily settled into some semblance of normalcy for a change, just when the kids scamper back to school and the glowing autumn leaves turn from green to gold and the Edmonton Eskimos (Inuit) have finally won a football game, all of sudden the world goes weird again HARLEY and creepy HAY clowns are appearing out of nowhere, and crocodiles are hiding under hotel beds.

That of course means it’s time for another dive into the deep pool of weird, wacky and wonderful world news, as I am wont to do on occasion when things get just a little too normal.

Since I am duty-bound to share anything remotely residing in the category of weirdness, wackiness or wonderfulness under the Universal Columnist Content Guidelines, which I just totally made up, here are some items that you probably shouldn’t spend your Saturday morning without knowing:

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As he finished his lunch, he slid back his chair, got up and left. Quite a normal procedure really — when you have had enough to eat and you have somewhere you want to be, you get up and leave, right?

Only there is one step missing: You gather up your paper dishes or whatever you used and throw it in the garbage, which is only a metre from where you are sitting.

But this fellow doesn’t do that.

This happens constantly at the kitchen, to the consternation of staff and volunteers.

CHRIS One of our volunteers SALOMONS uses a walker and when she is ready to leave and heads toward the door, often has to stop because several young people even squeeze by her in an effort to get through the door themselves.

Again, the volunteers make a comment such as, “Are they blind? or “Don’t they see she is using a walker; where are their manners? Were they never taught any social etiquette?”

Quite often when we overhear conversations between of our clients, the language is abusive and tempers always seem to be on the edge of physical violence. You wonder: Did they never learn how and when to open their mouths, or that the words used have an impact?

Many are the times growing up that my Dad would box my ears or take me aside to remind me that I did or said something inappropriate.

And just as many times, Mom would take me to task for not keeping my room clean or actually using the garbage can that was staring me in the face.

At the time, I always thought it was just nagging.

But now that I have had a few years to contemplate the issue, I realize that this was part of my training as a wilful child.

The older I got, the smarter my Mom and Dad became type-of-thing.

Part of my training was learning the ability to cope with different situations as they arose in life, as they always do. Many times, it would have been easier not to face an issue because it was so upsetting; it would have been easier to go and tie one on so I wouldn’t have to deal with it.

The trouble is, if you choose that route, it always comes back to bite you.

So in our discussions at the kitchen, we talk about all the different programs that we have for people to change their ways and the fact that the changes never seem to last.

At the first sign of difficulty, not knowing how to handle a situation, they seem to slip back into their old ways.

We just can’t understand why they don’t seem to learn the different ways to handle a situation, especially since we have spent so much time and resources to help them change.

This can and often does lead to discontent among the workers, who can become discouraged and quit.

And it is futile until we begin to understand what exactly is happening.

When we look at a product, say a car, we do not look at the fact that it took a vast multitude of resources painstakingly developed over many years to put it together.

Rubber for the tires, many different types of metal and plastic, nuts, bolts and screws, etc. If we were to count them, I am sure the number would be in the tens of thousands.

In the training of a child, the number of times we were consistently corrected, admonished or even punished would also number into the tens of thousands over a period of 16 to 20 years.

Now we take a person who has not had that type of training and attempt to cram 16 years of learning into weeks or months.

That’s like trying to put an elephant into a Volkswagen Beetle!

When a child has been in 13 foster homes in just seven years, there is no continuity of training, if there is any training at all.

So how can we then expect, without a clearly defined structural training system, to see changes in the behaviour of those we purport to help?

This bears thinking about, because I believe it can be done!

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

As quoted by the London Daily Mail, Mr. Whittall said that “the really disconcerting thing is that I was sitting on the edge of the bed, barefoot and just centimetres away from the croc.”

Workers captured the beast and set it free in a nearby river.

Still, I figure it could’ve been worse. This is Africa, after all, and that beast under his bed could have been a lion or a wildebeest or even a rhinoceros. Those things are really dangerous, especially under your bed.

Northampton, England — According to numerous newspaper reports and Internet blogs, a creepy clown has been “terrorizing” a town in Britain 67 miles (114 km) from London. This particular clown is “dressed in white face paint with drawn-on eyebrows, a curly red wig and ruffled collar, like Pennywise from (Stephen King’s) IT. Its first appearance was Friday, Sept. 13.

Apparently the scary clown just appears and stands there on empty streets at night with a creepy clown look on his face, holding some balloons and a teddy bear, just standing there long enough to have his picture taken.

And then he promptly disappears again, before police or clown catchers can arrive.

I know this sounds like a typical Saturday night in downtown Red Deer, but the residents of Northampton are “freaked out.”

And who can blame them really? I mean, who hasn’t had those nightmares about those clowns coming at you with buckets in the Westerner Days parade or approaching your car at a stop light and thrusting scary baskets of McIntosh apples at you?

I know I have.

North Charleston, S.C. — As reported on Wednesday by CNN, a 54-year-old woman allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed a 64-year-old man because he wouldn’t stop playing songs by the classic country rock band The Eagles. (Who can blame her, really. When I played in various and many bad wedding bands, my buddy Cal and I used to say, “If we have to play Lyin’ Eyes one more time, I’m gonna stab my own arm with a drumstick!” I was just kidding of course, it was actually Peaceful Easy Feeling that drove us crazy.)

The Eagles-loving man suffered some hand and arm lacerations, and the woman was arrested. The police report said “all parties involved were intoxicated,” which came as a huge surprise to no one.

Again, it could have been worse.

The man could have been playing songs by clowns (which consists solely of honks and whistles).

Crocodile found hiding under hotel bed

Town ponders fines for owners of loud roosters

Humani, Zimbabwe — Just this week, a man was sitting on his hotel bed when the maid came in and screamed. No, the man wasn’t dressed as Pennywhistle the Clown (or worse), she screamed on account of there was a 330 pound (1,200 kg) crocodile “lurking” beneath the man’s bed.

Thing is, the man happened to be Guy Whittall, 40, the director of the hotel, which for some reason makes the story even more amusing.

Oakland, Maine — In another disturbing story involving animals, the city council of this town of 6,200 people (6,200) just north of the state capital of Augusta, which I personally thought was a town in Georgia, the city council seems ready, willing and able to add roosters to an ordinance that already imposes a US$100 US (Cdn$42) fine on barking dogs, or to be a little more accurate, on the owners of said barking dogs.

This fine would furthermore and

Woman stabs housemate for playing Eagles songs

forthwith apply to roosters who crow excessively, which apparently is a problem in Oakland, which I personally thought was a city in Southern California.

The proposal is not without objectors, however. One Ethan Pullen, a local teenager, has gathered a petition protesting the fine against the cock-a-doodle-doo cacophony.

UPI reports that young Ethan told council: “Roosters are important because we like to show our chickens in the fairs, but you can’t buy a chicken that you can show. You have to breed them, and in order to breed, you need a rooster.”

Ethan’s cleverly argued petition garnered 65 signatures, all of them from clowns.

Mystery maple syrup smell wafts through NYC New York, N.Y. — And finally, a truly Canadian story. The UPI blog reports that lately Manhattan has been stuck with the sweet smell of the syrupy sap from maple trees.

And since our “fair province” (la provancee du bonne ami) of Quebec produces a staggering three-quarters of the world’s output of maple syrup, one would think that the mystery aroma would be on account of strong winds from the northwest carrying an official Canadian scent into New York. And we all know an awful lot of Canadian cents go directly to the U.S. (haha).

Be that as it may, truth is, the maple waft has been traced to an aroma factory in New Jersey, causing many New Yorkers to once again blame Jersey for everything by demanding: “What the heck is an aroma factory?”

I don’t know, but I’ve been to New York and I would tend to think the Big Apple might be excessively grateful to be breathing some Canadian maple fumes instead of the regular rancid Manhattan malodorous morass.

And besides, New York has no right to complain. Isn’t that where they invented clowns?

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate.

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THE NICARAGUA THAT TWAIN ENCOUNTERED WAS ON THE VERGE OF A POLITICAL REVOLUTION, BUT TODAY IT SITS ON THE VERGE OF AN ECONOMIC ONE. AS ONE OF THE SAFEST TRAVEL DESTINATIONS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, THE COUNTRY IS IN THE MIDST OF AN UNPARALLELED TOURISM BOOM. Photos by DEBBIE OLSEN/freelance

TOP LEFT: Locals get around Nicaragua on these inexpensive buses that have been affectionately dubbed “chicken buses.” It’s a bumpy ride but you can’t beat the price.

LEFT: You will catch glimpses of Mark Twain’s Nicaragua on a journey through the country.

BELOW: The view from Punta Jesus Maria can’t be beat. In the dry season, the sand bank can stretch into the lake for more than one km.

TOP LEFT: Women do their laundry in Lake Nicaragua — a reminder of simpler times.

ABOVE: I think Mark Twain would like the fact that the Hotel Victoriano, where he once stayed, has since named its excellent bar and lounge after him.

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tanding on the wooden pool deck in front of the Victoriano Hotel in San Juan del Sur, I sip a cool drink and watch a coppery sunset reflected off the ocean’s surface in the crescent-shaped bay.

A few boats are bobbing on their anchors in the harbour and music is rising on a gentle breeze, airlifted from one of the beach bars across the street.

Inside my hotel is a plaque that proudly declares that Mark Twain stayed at this hotel when he visited Nicaragua. Although San Juan del Sur still resembles the sleepy fishing village it was in Twain’s time, in many ways the town and the hotel are vastly different from what they were nearly 150 years ago. But the sign doesn’t say anything about that.

Nicaragua was really more of a side trip than an end des-

tination for Twain the first time he stopped there. After completing his first lecture tour in 1866, he needed to get from California to New York and the fastest way to make the journey was by sea through Central America.

In those days, travellers would arrive at San Juan del Sur and then travel overland across the 19-km isthmus to reach Lake Nicaragua. From there, they would travel across the lake and down the

San Juan River to the Caribbean Sea, where they would board a steamer bound for New York.

The voyage cut weeks or even months off the total travel time by land and became a popular route during the California gold rush between 1848 and 1855.

By the time Twain made the journey, it had become such a common route that plans were hatched to build a canal across the narrow strip

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of land to facilitate a better crossing and assist the shipping industry. It was a plan that made a lot of sense but due to political unrest, it never came to fruition. The canal was built in Panama instead.

Twain was 31 when he first travelled this route and he documented his journey in a series of letters that were published in San Francisco’s Alto California newspaper.

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Surrounded by forest vegetation, these two pools on Ometepe Island are filled with thermal spring water. It is a great spot to relax and cool off on a hot day.

You might say he was one of the first to mine the field of travel writing.

After nearly two weeks of travel aboard a steamship from California, Twain said that Nicaragua’s “bright green hills never looked so welcome, so enchanting, so altogether lovely.”

But his first impressions of San Juan del Sur were not so favourable.

He described the community as: “a few tumble-down frame shanties — they call them hotels — nestling among green verdure.”

Much has changed since those days and I can’t help wondering how the famous writer and author would describe San Juan del Sur now.

The Nicaragua that Twain encountered was on the verge of a political revolution, but today it sits on the verge of an economic one. As one of the safest travel destinations in Central America, the country is in the midst of an unparalleled tourism boom.

This economic development has some upsides for travellers — the Victoriano Hotel is certainly more comfortable than the “tumble-down frame shanties” Twain described.

That night as I relax in my comfortable room, I am glad I am not sleeping in a beach shack. But the next day as I wander along the bay and pop into one of the beach bars for a bite to eat, I can’t help wishing I could step back in time and see this place as Twain once described it.

Ometepe Island day trip When Mark Twain travelled to Nicaragua, he made the journey across Lake Nicaragua, the largest lake in Central America, but did not take the time to stop at Ometepe Island. He did, however, comment on the hour-glass-shaped island, whose interesting topography is due to two volcanos. In his letter to the Alto California, he stated that he was impressed by the “two magnificent pyramids, clad in the softest and richest green, all necked with shadow and sunshine.”

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It takes little more than a great lunch of fresh-caught fish and grilled jumbo shrimp to bring me back to reality.

I think Twain would have missed the rustic, unspoiled beach town that he once knew, but I am certain he would appreciate the comforts of good accommodations and fine food.

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ST-CONSTANT, Que. — The iron and steel titans in Canada’s biggest railway museum are scuffed in some spots with the effects of an honest day’s work and they reek with the history of the country in its formative years.

No matter how charmingly quaint some seem compared to today’s technology they were marvels of innovation in their era.

Each has a story to tell — be it ferrying average folks packed into a streetcar for the first time, bringing a new king and his queen to Canada for their first visit, or carrying a titan of industry to a ceremony to drive the last spike in the railway that would link the country from sea to sea.

And they’re all at Exporail, the Canadian Railway Museum, which is almost a tiny village itself with its own rail lines nestled in St-Constant near Montreal.

Railways were thrust into the public eye this summer when a runaway freight train loaded with fuel oil derailed and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Que., killing 47 people and destroying a chunk of the town.

All that attention didn’t affect the volume of visits, Exporail says, although there were myriad media requests for people to talk about trains.

There might be a future exhibit on the tragedy but nothing is planned for now.

The museum has in fact seen a steadily increasing number of visitors since it was founded in 1961 on 10 acres of land. It now occupies 55 acres and has 160 vehicles, 1,000 model trains, extensive archives, and 10,000 artifacts including dishware, clothing, signs and gear.

“It’s one of the largest collections in the world,” says Stephen Cheasley, president of the Canadian Railway Historical Association, of the museum’s impressive acquisitions. The association founded the museum and runs it with a core of staff and volunteers.

Visitors can travel aboard a vintage Montreal streetcar or a small train on a section of outdoor tracks. As well, there are a couple of stations dotted along the route that give people an idea of what it was like to wait for the train in olden days.

Located near Canada’s very first railroad — the Champlain and St. Lawrence Rail Road of 1836 — the site boasts several buildings.

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“Two-thirds of everything that moves on land in Canada is moved by rail,” noted Cheasley.

“Even your box of cornflakes that are showing up on your breakfast table — some part of that is going to be moved by rail.”

Forty-four trains and cars are on exhibit and visitors can climb aboard several in the Grand Gallery building, where a train whistle sounds periodically in the distance like a ghostly call from the past.

Arranged in long, hulking rows, the jewels of the collection on display include the locomotive that pulled the royal train in 1939 that carried King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during their first visit to Canada.

There is also the plush “Saskatchewan” coach, which was built in 1883 for Sir William Cornelius Van Horne’s use during the construction of Canadian Pacific’s transcontinental line and ferried him to the ceremony for the driving of the fabled last spike in 1885.

There’s a “school car,” a rolling classroom that brought education and a live-in teacher to remote

communities as recently as 1967.

And some sleeper cars that whisked the Montreal Canadiens to out-oftown games before they switched to jets. Wooden freight cars and other workhorses such as snow plows are also there.

Vintage streetcars from several cities including Montreal and Toronto are also represented.

Among them is the ornate “Golden Chariot” open observation car used for trips around Mount Royal, which is a stark contrast to a sleek 21st century subway car loaned to the museum by the Montreal transit authority in advance of it going into service.

Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways have provided a lot of material to the museum, and sharp-eyed association members are credited with scouting out treasures such as the Dominion of Canada steam engine, which was spotted in England just as it was headed for the scrap heap.

Built in 1937, the engine type holds the world speed record for steam engines at 126 mph.

It was restored for Canada’s centennial year in 1967 and is a soughtafter piece by British museums. The engine is currently on loan in Britain and is one of a handful of that type remaining in the world.

Cheasley, who is a fountain of facts about railroading but never worked for one, says Canadians have a strong connection to trains.

He noted that railways were not only major employers but also revolutionized society as they introduced a cheap, relatively fast way to overcome long distances that made the world a bigger, more interesting place.

“It’s like the Internet today,” said Cheasley.

“It’s facilitating a whole lot of things that we didn’t think we could do before.

While the trains are the stars, the museum offers plenty of activities to keep people entertained, such as its exhibit of vintage railway-related postcards.

As the fall progresses into winter, a number of theme events are planned, including culture days on Sept. 28-29, with free admission between 10 a.m. and noon.

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Rebels open with win

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 4 Ice 2 CRANBROOK — The Red Deer Rebels got a standout performance from a usual suspect and a pair of third-period goals from rookie forwards in a 4-2 win over the Kootenay Ice Friday in the WHL regular-season opener for both teams.

“It was great to see. We got contributions from young and old,” said Rebels associate coach Jeff Truitt, following the contest played in front of 2,399 fans at Western Financial Place.

Trailing 2-1 after 40 minutes, the Rebels pulled even just 34 seconds into the third period when Grayson Pawlenchuk beat Kootenay netminder Mackenzie Skapski. Fellow freshman Adam Musil scored a mere eight seconds later and the visitors had a lead they would not relinquish.

“We got our feet moving in the third period, caught fire and did some good things,” said Truitt.

“The young guys scored early and we continued to initiate the play. We gained a lot of momentum once we got our feet moving.”

Overage winger Lukas Sutter potted Red Deer’s fourth goal — a power-play marker — at the nineminute mark of the final frame.

After being outshot 27-22 through the first two periods, the Rebels fired 20 shots at Skapski over the final 20 minutes.

Netminder Patrik Bartosak yielded first-period goals to Sam Reinhart and Jagger Dirk, then shut the door the rest of the way. Included among his 32 saves were several quality stops in the first half of the contest.

“Patty came up clutch when we needed him to,” said Truitt.

“He came up big when we were under fire and that was the difference in the game. We gained momentum off the big saves he made.”

Haydn Fleury scored Red Deer’s first goal, his shot deflecting off a Kootenay stick and past Skapski on the glove side at 5:05 of the first period, 71 seconds after Reinhart had opened the scoring and four minutes prior to Dirk restoring the Kootenay lead.

The Rebels were one-for-five on the power play.

The Ice were zero-for-three with a man advantage.

The clubs meet again tonight at the Centrium. The puck drops at 7 p.m. ● Defenceman Kayle Doetzel arrived in Cranbrook after the warm-up session and was rushed into duty. Doetzel arrived in Calgary from the Nashville Predators training camp at about 2 p.m. and was driven to Cranbrook by Rebels senior vice president Merrick Sutter.

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Esks gun down Bombers in OT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton 35 Winnipeg 27 (OT) WINNIPEG — Mike Reilly was happy and relieved it was Edmonton Eskimos’ turn to be on the right side of a close game.

The Eskimos quarterback threw for 418 yards and one touchdown as his team dug its way out of a big hole to defeat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 35-27 in overtime Friday.

Hugh Charles ran nine yards for the winning TD and Shamawd Chambers hauled in the two-point convert pass.

“We’ve had our fair share of games where they’ve been just like this and we’ve been on the other end,” said Reilly, who didn’t tally any rushing yards after running for 113 yards in a 25-7 win over the Bombers last weekend.

“I don’t think that anything would break this team, but another one of those would be tough to swallow.”

Edmonton, which has lost five games this season by five or fewer points, lifted its record to 3-9, leaving the 2-10 Bombers in the CFL basement in front of 28,859 fans at Investors Group Field who booed at the end of the game.

Winnipeg had led 27-11 early in the third quarter before the Eskimos started chipping away to force overtime after a wild tipped pass late in regulation.

After being down 27-14 going into the fourth quarter, Edmonton backup quarterback Kerry Joseph made it 27-24 with 5:48 left when he plunged in for a one-yard TD. Winnipeg’s next possession included an Eskimos penalty that kept a drive alive, but Bombers kicker Sandro DeAngelis went wide left on a 35-yard fieldgoal attempt and Edmonton cornerback Joe Burnett brought it out to the one-yard line.

Reilly almost had a pass picked off and then missed on another forcing the Eskimos to punt. Winnipeg got possession at midfield, but also ended up punting with 1:29 left.

Edmonton started from its own 29-yard line and a

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Edmonton Eskimos’ Hugh Charles, Fred Stamps and Adarius Bowman celebrate their touchdown during overtime in their CFL game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Winnipeg on Friday. flukey play kept the drive alive.

On third down with 10 yards to go, Reilly started scrambling and threw a long pass that bounced off Bomber defensive back Demond Washington’s fingers into the hands of Eskimos receiver Fred Stamps for a 51-yard gain.

“I just know Mikey, he put a lot of muscle behind it and it slipped through a lot of guys’ hands and it came into mine,” said Stamps, who led all receivers with eight catches for 157 yards.

“Our quarterback will give us opportunity. I guess the football gods were looking down on us on that one.”

Edmonton was called for an illegal block and the ball moved back to Winnipeg’s 40-yard line. Reilly then completed a 30-yard pass to receiver Chambers.

Reilly went back to a wide-open Chambers in the end zone, but the receiver dropped the ball and

Edmonton settled for a 17-yard field goal from Hugh O’Neill to send the game into overtime tied 27-27.

Edmonton’s overtime possession was also helped when Bomber Cauchy Muamba was called for a face mask.

Winnipeg head coach Tim Burke thought Washington was trying to intercept the pass to Stamps and that was the wrong play at the wrong time.

“A veteran guy would have knocked the ball down and we would have won,” Burke said.

It also didn’t help they had some injuries, a missed field goal, bad penalties and starting QB Max Hall left the game late in the fourth quarter with what Burke suspected might be an injury to the rib area.

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Kings runs their record to 2-0 at Challenge Cup

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 3 Blues 0 Their meeting with the defending PacWest champion Capilano University Blues of North Vancouver was a match up the RDC Kings were looking forward to.

The Kings, the defending ACAC champions, had their hands full when the two met last Christmas, winning 3-2.

“It was probably a match we should have lost,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “Somehow we pulled it out, so the returning guys were looking forward to this one. And I assume so where they as they have the majority of their team back from last year.”

But this time the Kings didn’t give the Blues much of a chance as they won 25-19, 25-17, 25-18 Friday and ran their record to 2-0 in the annual Challenge Cup tournament at RDC. The tournament format was changed a bit this year with four ACAC teams and four teams from the B.C. PacWest Conference. The conference with the most wins receives the trophy. So far the ACAC holds a 6-2 lead with eight matches scheduled for today.

The Kings play the Vancouver Island University Marineers from Nanaimo at 1 p.m. and Douglas College from New Westminster at 8 p.m.

The Kings started a bit slow Friday, although they

never trailed.

“We did a good job after the halfway mark of the first set,” said Schulha. “We started to solidify their serve and put some pressure on them with good blocking and defence. We made a lot of errors up to 15 points in that set, but steadied ourselves on first contact, which made a difference.”

Despite the 3-0 win, Schulha believes the Blues will be one of the better teams in B.C, “They have a lot of good athletes and once they get into the season I expect them to challenge for the title again.”

Schulha went with what appears to be his starting lineup, although things could change a bit before the season starts.

“Justin (Lukacs) is our second middle blocker right now, but he could be fourth by the time we open the season. It’s that close between No. 2 and 4.

We’re not afraid to use any of them, which is good. If we need to rest (Chris) Osborn we have the guys who can step in.”

Overall Schulha used 13 different players.

“It was good and we didn’t lose anything when the other guys came in,” he said. ‘I think everyone was a bit loser tonight than Thursday (a 3-0 win over College of the Rockies). We have nine new guys and that was their first game at home and they were a bit tight.

“Tonight was good. We still have a few things to work on, but it’s a nice foundation to start with.”

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-44363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Briercrest Bible College Clippers are also 2-0 as they defeated Douglas College 3-0 and VIU 3-1. SAIT downed Capilano 3-2 and lost 3-1 to College of the Rockies.

Medicine Hat downed Douglas 3-0 and lost 3-1 to VIU. Hockey Kings 2 Thompson Rivers 2 CALGARY — The Kings ran into some hot goaltending and managed a 2-2 tie with Thompson Rivers University of Kamloops at the SAIT tournament Friday.

Jeff Archibald and Doug Jones scored for the Kings while Mike Salmon made 27 saves in goal.

The Kings held a 39-29 edge in shots, including a 20-10 edge in the third period.

The Kings face Simon Fraser University of Vancouver today at 3 p.m.

Team Alberta 6 Hockey Queens 1 CALGARY — A poor second period did in the RDC Queens as they dropped a 6-1 decision to Team Alberta of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League in exhibition play Friday.

Rachael Hoppins scored for the Queens in the first period, but four goals in the middle stanza gave the Alberta team a 4-1 lead.

Camille Trautman was in goal.

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Stenson starts strong, builds 4-shot lead

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Lindsay Thurber Raider Sam Vesely cuts away from Lacombe Ram Tristan Monahan during high school football action at Great Chief Park Friday night.

Ground game key to Raiders win

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Raiders 33 Rams 13 Sam Vesely rushed for 90 yards and scored two touchdowns to lead the Lindsay Thurber Raiders to a 33-13 Central Alberta High School Football League win over the Lacombe Rams Friday at Great Chief Park.

Vesely scored on runs of eight and 10 yards as the Raiders erupted for 18 unanswered second-half points.

Raiders quarterback Braydon Moorman scored on an 11-yard run in the first quarter and tossed a six-yard touchdown pass to Gordie Walls in the second quarter. Owen Smith booted four converts and a 28-yard field goal and added a single off a kickoff that sailed through the Lacombe end zone.

Quarterback Judah Knip accounted for Lacombe’s touchdowns, sneaking over from the one-yard line on both. The Rams opened the scoring 9:36 into the contest and were up 13-7 late in the second quarter, but were held without a point the rest of the way.

Moorman completed eight of 18 passes for 80 yards, including three to Walls for 56 yards.

Knip was good on six of 15 attempts for 18 yards. Rams running back Josh Prevost led all rushers

with 167 yards on 13 carries.

Lakers 14 Cougars 7 SYLVAN LAKE — The Notre Dame Cougars defence could hold on for only so long before they gave in against the Sylvan Lake Lakers.

The Lakers, who dominated the statistics, scored a pair of fourthquarter touchdowns to down the Cougars 14-7.

The Cougars took the lead in the third quarter on a 42-yard pass and run play between quarter-back Keegan MacDonald and receiver Ross Doris.

Eric Meraw added the convert and the score held up until 8:38 of the fourth quarter when the Lakers tied it on a 25-yard run by Landon Rosene and a Cam Lee convert.

Shon Zenert got the winning points with just 22 seconds remaining in the game on an 11-yard run. Lee converted.

The Lakers rushed for 250 yards and passed for 166 for 416 yards while the Cougars, who are battling injuries, had 90 yards rushing and 74 passing.

Rosene led the Lakers with 173 yards rushing on 17 carries while Trent Kondor had 39 yards on four carries and Zenert 37 yards on four carries.

Jesse Kowalchuk had 55 yards on 21 carries for the Cougars and

OLDS GRIZZLYS OLDS — Former Red Deer Rebels prospect Trace Elson scored at 14:47 of the third period to give the Whitecourt Wolverines a 6-5 win over the Olds Grizzlys in Alberta Junior Hockey League play before 403 fans at the Sportsplex

Friday.

Clay Spencer and Ryan Berlin scored twice each for the Wolverines with Joel Herbert adding a single marker.

Kyle Star scored three times for the Grizzlys with singles added

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REBELS: Musil named third star of the game ● Musil, who was named third star of the game, had an assist to go with his first-ever WHL regularseason goal, as did Pawlenchuk. Bartosak was selected as the game’s first star and Ice defenceman Landon Peel was named second star. ● Following tonight’s home opener, the Rebels are idle until next Friday when they host the Regina Pats. Red Deer will tangle with the host Calgary Hitmen 24 hours later and will head east Sept. 30 for a four-game road trip that will include stops in Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Moose Jaw and Brandon. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

MacDonald had 35 yards on 11 tries.

Kane Price connected on four of 11 passes for the Lakers with Rosene grabbing two for 93 yards.

MacDonald hit on two of six passes. ● In other action Friday, the Wetaskiwin Sabres edged the home standing Stettler Wildcats 7-3 and the Hunting Hills Lightning whipped the Camrose Trojans 63-13. ● In action Thursday, the West Central Rebels of Rocky Mountain House downed the Ponoka Broncs 53-0 in Rocky.

Zach Hazen led the Rebels with two touchdowns, four converts, a field goal and a single while Darcy Gusek added a pair of touchdowns. Devin Dwyer, Ryder Wood and Thomas Soodsma added single majors while Donnie Bertagnolli kicked a single. Their final points came on a safety.

Gusek carried the ball nine times for 96 yards while Hazen had 61 yards on six carries.

Soodsma connected on six of eight passes for 116 yards with Wood grabbing three passes for 34 yards and Dwyer two for 29.

The Rebels finished with 212 yards rushing and 121 passing while limiting the Broncs to three yards on the ground and 24 in the air.

by Austin Kernahan and Spencer Dorowicz, who also had two assists.

Chris Gerrie had three helpers for Olds.

The teams were tied 2-2 and 4-4 by periods.

Jake Tamagi finished with 23 saves in goal for Olds, who had 31 shots on Tanner Kovacs.

Veteran Bombers receiver Terrence Edwards, who caught his first TD of the year on a 12-yard pass from Hall, agreed with his coach.

“We just gave it away, that’s as simple as I can put it,” Edwards said.

Adarius Bowman had a 12-yard TD reception for the Eskimos. O’Neill also made field goals from 22, 35 and 46 yards, but went wide left from 17 yards out for a single.

Winnipeg backup QB Jason Boltus ran one yard for a TD, while Jovon Johnson, playing safety for the first time since November 2011 instead of his usual cornerback spot, ran 49 yards on a fumble return for his TD 32 seconds into the third quarter to make the score 27-11.

DeAngelis added field goals from 27 and 32 yards.

The Bombers led 14-0 after the first quarter and mounted a 20-0 lead until O’Neill connected on his field goal at 8:07 of the second quarter.

Edmonton took advantage of a turnover after linebacker JC Sherritt Hall intercepted Hall, which led

ATLANTA — Henrik Stenson broke another club Friday — this time by accident.

And it didn’t matter.

Playing with only 13 clubs in the bag after his 4-wood broke on the practice range, Stenson made three birdies on the opening four holes at East Lake to quickly seize control and shot 4-under 66 to build a four-shot lead over Adam Scott in the Tour Championship.

For all his birdies, the best move he made all week was deciding to put the 4-wood in his locker instead of carrying it with him.

Stenson heard a funny sound after hitting five shots on the range, showed it to Steve Stricker and realized the face caved in. A television viewer who heard about the incident called the PGA Tour to see if the Swede had kept it in his bag, and officials checked with Stenson after his round.

If he had left it in the bag without using it, Stenson would have been assessed a four-shot penalty — the margin of his lead. If he had used the club, he would have been disqualified. Stenson had no intention of using it, though sending it to his locker saved him.

He wasn’t sure it was a violation to carry a nonconforming club, nor did he know the penalties.

“You asked me how well I knew the rules the other day. I gave myself 7 out of 10, didn’t I?” he said. “I guess this was in the other 30 per cent then . . . . Good thing that we put it in the locker before we teed off.”

The way he’s going, a bizarre incident like that might be the only thing that can stop him.

Stenson was at 10-under 130 going into the third round and might be playing a course far less firm.

The forecast is for rain most of day, and the starting times have been moved up to Saturday morning with hopes of getting it in.

Tiger Woods is not in position to halt the hottest player in golf. Woods was headed toward the best round of the day, 5-under through 13 holes, when he made double bogey on the 14th, had a triple bogey on the 17th and wound up with a 71. He was 14 shots behind. It was the first time since the 2011 PGA Championship that Woods began a tournament with back-to-back rounds over par.

“I put everything I had into that start and didn’t have much at the end,” Woods said. “Just ran out of gas.”

Scott sputtered at the start. He was one shot behind Stenson and quickly fell five shots behind with a couple of poor tee shots. Scott played the last 14 holes without a bogey and wound up with a 69 that put him at 6-under 134.

The Masters champion chose to look at a different number — not four shots back, but only a guy ahead of him.

“Look, Henrik is playing fantastic, so he’s got this thing under control at the moment. But not for 36 holes,” Scott said.

“I think there’s too many good players here. It’s not just myself or someone at 5 under. If it is softer tomorrow because of rain, there could be a lot better scores because it’s playing probably as tricky as it can at the moment.”

Jordan Spieth, the 20-year-old rookie, had a 67 and was five shots behind. U.S. Open champion Justin Rose, Dustin Johnson and Billy Horschel were another shot back.

There’s never a dull moment with Stenson, who only last week made news for all the wrong reasons when he smashed his driver on the final hole of the BMW Championship and tore up his locker at Conway Farms.

“They’re not going to believe me anyway after last week that the 4-wood broke during natural causes,” he said.

His hope was to find a new head in a nearby pro shop, though it was unlikely he could test it in time with the early start Saturday. Told that Stenson only had 13 clubs in the bag, Scott said, “It didn’t seem to bother him.”

Stenson could not recall another time that he started a round with fewer than the maximum 14 clubs allowed. Finishing a round with fewer than 14?

That’s different.

“In general, I try to keep it at 14,” he said. “Most rounds I manage to finish with 14 as well.” to Bowman’s TD and a 20-11 halftime score.

COLLEGE: ‘Left her out to dry’ “We left her out to dry in the second period,” said Queens head coach Bob Rutz. “We didn’t play well in the second period, but they are a quality team and overall we played hard. We are right there with some very good teams and I’m excited about seeing what happens in the regular season.”

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● JV volleyball: Hunting Hills tournament. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lacombe at Red Deer TBS, 10:15 a.m., Collicutt Centre; Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Parkland, 3:45 p.m., Arena. ● College men’s volleyball: ACAC/Pacwest Challenge — Games at RDC at 11 a.m., 1 (RDC vs. Vancouver Island University), 4, 6 and 8 p.m. (RDC vs. Douglas). ● Peewee football: Rocky Mountain House at Olds, 11 a.m.; Strathmore at Red Deer Hornets, 1:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Red Deer Steelers at Lacombe, 1:30 p.m.; Sylvan Lake at Innisfail, 1:30 p.m. ● Bantam football: Rocky Mountain House at Hunting Hills, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park; Springbank at Innisfail, 11 a.m.; Ponoka at Lacombe, 11 a.m.; Strathmore at Sylvan Lake, 2 p.m.; Notre Dame at Stettler, 2:15 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Red Deer Rebels Black vs. Red Deer Rebels White, 1:15 p.m., Arena. ● Major midget female hockey: Highwood at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● WHL: Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena, exhibition; Mountainview at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

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● Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Ramada, 10:45 a.m., Arena. ● College basketball: RDC Queens vs. Calgary Storm, 11 a.m., vs. RDC Alumni 5 p.m., RDC. ● Major midget female hockey: Calgary Flyers at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Rebels Black, 1:15 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AAA preseason hockey: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 3:45 p.m., Arena. ● College soccer: Lethbridge at Olds, women at noon, men at 2 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Red Deer TBS, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre.

Transactions BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Announced the retirement of LHP Andy Pettitte at the end of the season.

National League NEW YORK METS—Activated 3B David Wright from the 15-day DL. Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Released C Marc Mimeault and OF Dany Deschamps.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined N.Y. Jets G Willie Colon $34,125 — $26,250 for contact with an official, and $7,875 for punching an opponent. Fined Tennessee RB Jackie Battle $21,000 for lowering the crown of his helmet into an opponent, Philadelphia LB DeMeco Ryans $21,000 for a hit to the head and neck area of San Diego WR Malcom Floyd and Tampa Bay DE Adrian Clayborn $21,000 for a helmet-to-helmet hit on New Orleans QB Drew Brees. Fined New England DE Chandler Jones $15,750 for roughing N.Y. Jets QB Geno Smith and Chicago CB Charles Tillman $15,750 for a horse-collar tackle of Minnesota WR Greg Jennings. Fined N.Y. Jets OT D’Brickashaw Ferguson $15,000 for punching a New England player. Fined Tennessee C Robert Turner and Washington OL Will Montgomery $10,000 each for illegal peel-back blocks. Fined New England DE Michael Buchanan, CB Alfonzo Dennard and DT Vince Wilfork $7,875 each for throwing punches. Fined Cleveland LB Paul Kruger $7,875 for pulling off an opponent’s helmet and Washington LS Nick Sundberg $7,875 for unnecessary roughness against Green Bay’s M.D. Jennings.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Assigned G Mac Carruth to Rockford (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Assigned D Taylor Aronson, D Anthony Bitetto, F Zach Budish, D Charles-Olivier Roussel and F Josh Shalla to Milwaukee (AHL). Reassigned F Felix Girard to BaieComeau (QMJHL), Mikko D Vainonen to Kingston (OHL) and F Tommy Veilleux to Victoriaville (QMJHL). Released D Kayle Doetzel, F Sebastian Geoffrion, G Eric Levine, D Michael Moffat, G Cody Reichard, D Teddy Ruth and G Allen York from their tryout agreements.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned G Maxime Clermont, D Seth Helgeson, D Raman Hrabarenka, D Dan Kelly, D Corbin McPherson, D Reece Scarlett, F Reid Boucher, F Riley Boychuk, F Mike Hoeffel, F Chris McKelvie, F Harri Pesonen, F Ben Thomson, F Joe Whitney, F David Wohlberg and F Darcy Zajac to Albany (AHL). Returned G Anthony Brodeur, F Myles Bell, F Graham Black, F Remy Giftopoulos, F Ben Johnson and F Ryan Kujawinski to their junior hockey league teams.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS—Signed F Matt Read to a four-year contract extension.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned F Adam Erne to Quebec (QMJHL).

WINNIPEG JETS — Reassigned F Austen Brassard, RW Blair Riley, D Brenden Kichton, D Cody Sol, F J.C. Lipon, LW Jason Jaffray, F John Albert, G Jussi Olkinuora, C Kael Mouillierat and D Will O’Neill to St. John’s (AHL). Released F Ian White from his tryout contract.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Sent F David Marshall, F Domenic Manardo, D Mike Banwell, D Ryan Kavanagh and D Bryant Molle to Hershey (AHL) and F Louie Caporusso and F Marc Zanette to Worcester (AHL), F Ian O’Connor and D Matt Campanale to Manchester (AHL) and F Sean Wiles to Bridgeport (AHL) and F Bobby Shea to Rockford (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended Toronto FC MF Jonathan Osorio two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his act of violent conduct that endangered the safety of New York D Kosuke Kimura in a Sept. 14 game. Fined New York MF Dax McCarty an undisclosed amount for violating the policy regarding hands to the face/head of an opponent and New York D Jamison Olave for violent conduct in a Sept. 14 game against Toronto FC. Suspended Montreal sporting director Nick De Santis one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for continued aggressive, confrontational, and irresponsible behaviour toward the match officials following the Sept. 14 game against Columbus.

COLLEGE GEORGIA TECH—Suspended G Chris Bolden for the first three games of the basketball season for an undisclosed violation of team rules.

NORTH CAROLINA STATE — Signed baseball coach Elliott Avent through the 2018 season.

B6

SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 2013

Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Swift Current 1 1 0 0 0 7 2 Prince Albert 1 1 0 0 0 6 1 Brandon 1 1 0 0 0 6 3 Moose Jaw 1 0 1 0 0 3 6 Regina 1 0 1 0 0 2 7 Saskatoon 1 0 1 0 0 1 6 Central Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Edmonton 1 1 0 0 0 7 Medicine Hat 1 1 0 0 0 6 Red Deer 1 1 0 0 0 4 Calgary 1 0 1 0 0 3 Kootenay 1 0 1 0 0 2 Lethbridge 1 0 1 0 0 1

Pt 2 2 2 0 0 0

GA Pt 7 6 7 6 8 5 12 5 5 4 6 4 13 4 11 3

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF Columbus 4 3 1 0 14 Washington 4 2 0 2 14 Pittsburgh 3 1 1 1 9 Philadelphia 4 1 2 1 11 New Jersey 2 1 1 0 5 N.Y. Rangers 2 1 1 0 4 N.Y. Islanders 3 1 2 0 10 Carolina 3 0 3 0 6

GA Pt 12 6 14 6 12 3 13 3 6 2 4 2 12 2 16 0

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF Dallas 3 2 0 1 12 Chicago 3 2 0 1 10 St. Louis 3 1 1 1 12 Winnipeg 4 1 2 1 8 Minnesota 2 1 1 0 5 Colorado 2 1 1 0 5 Nashville 3 0 2 1 6

GA Pt 9 5 8 5 13 3 13 3 4 2 5 2 14 1

Pacific Division W L OL GF 3 2 0 19 2 1 1 14 2 1 0 8 2 1 0 11 1 2 1 12 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 3

GA Pt 17 6 12 5 9 4 9 4 13 3 2 2 7 0

Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

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

Sunday’s games Chicago at Detroit, 3 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Nashville, 4 p.m.

Buffalo at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Colorado at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

2 2 2 0 0 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kamloops 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kelowna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Prince George 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Victoria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0 0 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE U.S. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0 0 0

Note: A team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Friday’s results Brandon 6 Moose Jaw 3 Edmonton 7 Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 6 Lethbridge 1 Prince Albert 6 Saskatoon 1 Red Deer 4 Kootenay 2 Prince George at Portland Kelowna at Kamloops Victoria at Vancouver Today’s games Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Prince George at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

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

Sunday’s game Prince George at Tri-City, 5:05 p.m.

GP Calgary 5 Edmonton 4 Anaheim 3 Phoenix 3 Los Angeles 4 San Jose 1 Vancouver 2

(L,1-1-0).

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Canadiens 6, Hurricanes 0 First Period 1. Montreal, Pateryn 1 (Desharnais) 3:30 2. Montreal, Galchenyuk 1 (Prust, Nygren) 3:56 3. Montreal, Desharnais 1 (Subban) 11:07 4. Montreal, Bournival 3 (Holland, Subban) 15:41 Penalties — Tarnasky Mtl, Blanchard Car (roughing) 2:41, McCarron Mtl (holding) 7:46, Prust Mtl, Corrente Car (fighting) 11:01, Staal Car (highsticking) 19:26.

Second Period 5. Montreal, Subban 2 (Holland, Nygren) 7:39 (pp) Penalties — Tarnasky Mtl (roughing, fighting), Westgarth Car (fighting) 2:50, Carolina bench Car (too many men) 5:35, Nash Car (tripping) 7:01, Dietz Mtl (hooking) 16:09.

Third Period 6. Montreal, Pacioretty 2, 4:39 Penalties — Staal Car (tripping) 7:49, Desharnais Mtl (hooking) 9:46, Komisarek Car (high-sticking) 15:22.

Shots on goal by Montreal 7 5 6 — 18 Carolina 6 4 6 — 16

Pt 3 1 2 7 4 0

Everett Portland Seattle Spokane Tri-City

NHL PRE-SEASON Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF Buffalo 3 3 0 0 13 Tampa Bay 3 3 0 0 13 Toronto 3 2 0 1 9 Florida 4 2 1 1 12 Detroit 3 2 1 0 12 Ottawa 3 2 1 0 9 Boston 3 2 1 0 11 Montreal 3 1 1 1 13

Goal (shots-saves) — Montreal: Budaj (W,1-0-0) (6-6), Tokarski (10:00 second, 10-10); Carolina: Ward (L,0-2-0).

Note: A team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OL column.

Friday’s results Chicago 5 Washington 4 (SO) Colorado 4 Los Angeles 3 Tampa Bay 4 St. Louis 3 Anaheim at San Jose At Quebec City Montreal 6 Carolina 0 At San Antonio Dallas 4 Florida 1 Today’s games Columbus at Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.

Toronto at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

New Jersey vs. N.Y. Islanders (at Brooklyn), 5 p.m.

Stars 4 at Panthers 1 First Period 1. Dallas, Roussel 1 (Daley, Jokipakka) 4:25 Penalties — Gazdic Dal (fighting, major), Selleck Fla (fighting, major) 5:25, Goligoski Dal (hooking) 10:23.

Second Period 2. Dallas, Roussel 2 (Mueller, Nemeth) 0:45 Penalties — Eakin Dal (hooking) 3:45, Goligoski Dal (high-sticking) 8:59, Howden Fla (hooking) 11:17, Butler Fla (interference) 14:46, Gazdic Dal (unsportsmanlike conduct) 17:09.

Third Period 3. Dallas, Sceviour 1 (Roussel, Goligoski) 2:37 (pp) 4. Florida, Gilbert 1 (B.Campbell, Goc) 3:43 (pp) 5. Dallas, Mueller 1 (Morin) 14:10 Penalties — Ortmeyer Fla (slashing) 1:09, Gazdic Dal (delay of game) 3:36.

Shots on goal by Dallas 9 10 6 — 25 Florida 9 10 10 — 29 Goal — Dallas: Ellis (W,1-0-0); Florida: Houser

Lightning 4 at Blues 3 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Sergeev 1 (Filppula) 7:31 (pp) 2. St. Louis, Steen 1 (Backes) 15:25 Penalties — Thompson TB (roughing), Tyrell TB (roughing), Jackman StL (roughing), Backes StL (cross-checking, roughing) 0:11, Lapierre StL (roughing) 7:29, Steen StL (boarding) 19:53.

Second Period 3. Tampa Bay, Connolly 3 (Filppula, Killorn) 14:10 4. St. Louis, Locke 1 (Shattock) 15:12 5. Tampa Bay, Palat 2 (Johnson, Panik) 15:59 Penalties — Crombeen TB (slashing) 7:30, Connolly TB (delay of game) 10:58.

Third Period 6. Tampa Bay, Labrie 1 (Filppula, Brewer) 5:39 7. St. Louis, Oshie 1 (Bouwmeester, Locke) 7:28 Penalties — Crombeen TB (roughing), Backes StL (roughing, tripping) 3:14.

Shots on goal by Tampa Bay 9 6 8 — 23 St. Louis 11 9 10 — 30 Goal (shots-saves) — Tampa Bay: Bishop (15-14), Lindback (W,1-0-0)(10:51 second)(15-13); St. Louis: Halak (L,0-1-0).

Blackhawks 5 at Capitals 4 (SO) First Period 1. Washington, Backstrom 1 (Johansson, Carlson) 1:23 2. Chicago, Olsen 1 (Kruger, Hayes) 13:47 Penalties — None Second Period 3. Chicago, Morin 1 (Dahlbeck) 3:58 4. Washington, Wilson 2 (Burakovsky) 6:35 5. Chicago, Winchester 1 (Olsen, Toews) 10:01 6. Chicago, Bollig 2 (Clendening, Hartman) 16:40 7. Washington, Fehr 1 (Chimera, Ward) 17:59 Penalties — Beach Chi (fighting, major), Wilson Wash (fighting, major) 13:04.

Third Period 8. Washington, Ovechkin 1 (Carlson, Johansson) 8:17 (pp) Penalties — Backstrom Wash (holding stick) 5:41, Winchester Chi (high-sticking) 6:36, Carrick Wash (holding) 11:07.

Overtime No Scoring Penalties — None Shootout Chicago wins 1-0 Chicago (1) — Toews, goal; Hartman, miss.

Washington (0) — Chimera, miss; Ovechkin, miss; Backstrom, miss.

Shots on goal by Chicago 12 8 12 2 — 34 Washington 7 11 9 3 — 30 Goal (shots-saves) — Chicago: Raanta (W,1-00); Washington: Neuvirth (17-14), Leggio (L,1-0-1) (10:01 second)(17-16).

Football Toronto Hamilton Montreal Winnipeg

GP 11 11 11 12

CFL East Division W L T PF 7 4 0 321 5 6 0 288 4 7 0 259 2 10 0 251

PA Pt 288 14 303 10 321 8 368 4

Calgary Sask.

B.C. Edmonton

GP 11 11 11 12

West Division W L T PF 9 2 0 346 8 3 0 354 7 4 0 301 3 9 0 294

PA 268 258 280 328

Pt 18 16 14 6

WEEK 13 Friday’s result Edmonton 35 Winnipeg 27 (OT) Saturday’s games Montreal vs. Hamilton, 2 p.m. (at Moncton, N.B.) Toronto at Calgary, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games B.C. at Saskatchewan, 2:30 p.m.

WEEK 14 Friday, Sept. 27 B.C. at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 28 Calgary vs. Hamilton (at Guelph, Ont.), 4 p.m.

Toronto at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 29 Saskatchewan at Montreal, 11 a.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Eskimos 35, Blue Bombers 27 (OT) First Quarter Wpg — TD Boltus 1 run (DeAngelis convert) 5:17 Wpg — TD Edwards 12 pass from M.Hall (DeAngelis convert) 12:10 Second Quarter Wpg — FG DeAngelis 27 0:07

Wpg — FG DeAngelis 32 4:24 Edm — FG O’Neill 21 8:07 Edm — Single O’Neill 31 12:34 Edm — TD Bowman 12 pass from Reilly (O’Neill convert) 14:37 Third Quarter Wpg — TD Johnson 48 fumble return (DeAngelis convert) 0:32 Edm — FG O’Neill 35 12:44 Fourth Quarter Edm — FG O’Neill 46 1:40 Edm — TD Joseph 1 run (O’Neill convert) 9:12 Edm — FG O’Neill 17 14:37 Overtime Edm — TD Charles 9 run (Reilly 5 pass to Chambers for two-point convert) Edmonton 0 11 3 13 8 — 35 Winnipeg 14 6 7 0 0 — 27

Pittsburgh Cleveland

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2 2

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19 16

36 37

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Pct 1.000 1.000 .500 .500

PF 71 90 36 61

PA 34 50 30 61

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 1 1 0 .500 52 Philadelphia 1 1 0 .500 63 N.Y. Giants 0 2 0 .000 54 Washington 0 2 0 .000 47

PA 48 60 77 71

W 3 2 1 1

Kansas City Denver Oakland San Diego

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 2 0 0 1.000 36 Miami 2 0 0 1.000 47 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 28 Buffalo 1 1 0 .500 45

PA 31 30 30 46

Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

W 2 1 1 0

L 0 1 1 2

South T Pct 0 1.000 0 .500 0 .500 0 .000

PF 61 41 40 11

PA 52 41 39 47

Baltimore Cincinnati

W 1 1

L 1 1

North T Pct 0 .500 0 .500

PF 41 41

PA 55 34

Monday, Sep. 23 Oakland at Denver, 6:40 p.m.

New Orleans Atlanta Carolina Tampa Bay

W 2 1 0 0

L 0 1 2 2

South T Pct 0 1.000 0 .500 0 .000 0 .000

PF 39 48 30 31

PA 31 47 36 34

Chicago Detroit Green Bay Minnesota

W 2 1 1 0

L 0 1 1 2

North T Pct 0 1.000 0 .500 0 .500 0 .000

PF 55 55 66 54

PA 51 49 54 65

Seattle St. Louis San Francisco Arizona

W 2 1 1 1

L 0 1 1 1

West T 0 0 0 0

PF 41 51 37 49

PA 10 55 57 48

Attendance — N.A. at Winnipeg.

Sunday, Sep. 22 San Diego at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Arizona at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Houston at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Washington, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at New England, 11 a.m.

Green Bay at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 2:05 p.m.

Indianapolis at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

Jacksonville at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 2:25 p.m.

Chicago at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday Kansas City 26, Philadelphia 16

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery Corp.; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Sunday Arizona at NEW ORLEANS 8.5 48.5 GREEN BAY at Cincinnati 2.5 48.5 St. Louis at DALLAS 4.5 47.5 Cleveland at MINNESOTA 5.5 40.5 San Diego at TENNESSEE 2.5 44.5 Tampa Bay at NEW ENGLAND 8.5 44.5 Detroit at WASHINGTON 1.5 49.5 NY Giants at CAROLINA 0.5 45.5 HOUSTON at Baltimore 2.5 45.5 Atlanta at MIAMI 0.5 44.5 Buffalo at NY JETS 1.5 39.5 Indianapolis at SAN FRANCISCO 10.5 46.5 Jacksonville at SEATTLE 19.5 40.5 CHICAGO at Pittsburgh 2.5 40.5 Monday Oakland at DENVER 14.5 50.5

Miami at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Atlanta at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Milwaukee, 6:05 p.m.

D.Carpenter (8), Kimbrel (9) and McCann; S.Baker, Rosscup (5), H.Rondon (6), Grimm (7), Raley (7), B.Parker (7), Strop (8), Gregg (9) and D.Navarro.

W—D.Carpenter 4-1. L—Gregg 2-5. HRs—Atlanta, C.Johnson (11), F.Freeman (22). Chicago, St.Castro (10), Do.Murphy (11), D.Navarro (13).

Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .500

Baseball x-Boston Tampa Bay Baltimore New York Toronto

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 94 61 .606 83 69 .546 81 71 .533 81 73 .526 70 83 .458 Central Division

Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Chicago

Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle Houston

W L 90 64 84 70 81 72 65 87 60 93 West Division W 90 83 74 67 51

L 63 70 78 86 103

Seattle at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

Minnesota at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

GB — 9.5 11.5 12.5 23

Pct .584 .545 .529 .428 .392

GB — 6 8.5 24 29.5

Pct .588 .542 .487 .438 .331

GB — 7 15.5 23 39.5

x-clinched division Friday’s Games Cleveland 2, Houston 1, 7 innings N.Y. Yankees 5, San Francisco 1 Detroit 12, Chicago White Sox 5 Boston 6, Toronto 3 Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City 2, Texas 1 Minnesota at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Today’s Games Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 10-7) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 9-3), 11:05 a.m.

San Francisco (Vogelsong 3-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 8-5), 11:05 a.m.

Minnesota (P.Hernandez 3-1) at Oakland (J.Parker 11-7), 2:05 p.m.

Houston (Clemens 4-5) at Cleveland (Kazmir 8-9), 4:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 11-13) at Detroit (Porcello 13-8), 5:08 p.m.

Texas (Garza 3-5) at Kansas City (Guthrie 14-11), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 11-9) at Boston (Buchholz 11-0), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (J.Saunders 11-15) at L.A. Angels (Williams 8-10), 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Houston at Cleveland, 11:05 a.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Toronto at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 11:40 a.m.

Texas at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 91 62 .595 83 71 .539 71 82 .464 69 84 .451 56 98 .364 Central Division

Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami

W L 90 64 88 66 88 66 68 85 64 90 West Division

St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Milwaukee Chicago

x-Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado

W 88 77 71 71 71

L 65 76 81 83 84

GB — 8.5 20 22 35.5

Pct .584 .571 .571 .444 .416

GB — 2 2 21.5 26

Pct .575 .503 .467 .461 .458

GB — 11 16.5 17.5 18

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston 010 Cleveland 010

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1 2

4 4

3 0

(7 innings) Oberholtzer and Corporan; McAllister, Rzepczynski (6), Shaw (6) and C.Santana. W—McAllister 9-9.

L—Oberholtzer 4-4. Sv—Shaw (1). HRs—Houston, B.Laird (4).

Chicago Detroit

100 214

200 050

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5 9 12 18

2 0

Axelrod, Troncoso (3), Purcey (5), D.Webb (7) and Phegley, Mig.Gonzalez; Scherzer, Alburquerque (7), J.Alvarez (8), Putkonen (9) and Avila. W—Scherzer 20-3. L—Axelrod 4-10. HRs—Chicago, A.Garcia (5).

Detroit, V.Martinez (13).

Toronto Boston

x-clinched division

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Ja.Turner, Hatcher (6), B.Hand (7) and Mathis; Zimmermann and W.Ramos. W—Zimmermann 19-8.

L—Ja.Turner 3-8.

New York 301 Phila.

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100 400

100 000

— —

6 10 4 5

1 1

Matsuzaka, Atchison (7), Black (8), Feliciano (8), Hawkins (9) and T.d’Arnaud; Hamels, De Fratus (8), C.Jimenez (8), Diekman (9) and Ruiz. W—Matsuzaka 2-3. L—Hamels 8-14. Sv—Hawkins (11). HRs— New York, D.Wright (17).

Cincinnati 100 010 Pittsburgh 200 200

003 100

1 — 0 —

6 9 0 510 1

(10 innings) Latos, Ondrusek (7), M.Parra (7), LeCure (8), Hoover (9), A.Chapman (10) and Mesoraco, Hanigan; Liriano, Melancon (9), Watson (9), Farnsworth (10), Morris (10) and R.Martin. W—Hoover 5-5.

L—Farnsworth 1-1. Sv—A.Chapman (38). HRs— Cincinnati, Frazier (17), Votto (24). Pittsburgh, Tabata (6), N.Walker (12).

Friday’s Games Atlanta 9, Chicago Cubs 5 Cincinnati 6, Pittsburgh 5, 10 innings Washington 8, Miami 0 N.Y. Mets 6, Philadelphia 4 N.Y. Yankees 5, San Francisco 1 Colorado 9, Arizona 4 St. Louis 7, Milwaukee 6, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Today’s Games San Francisco (Vogelsong 3-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 8-5), 11:05 a.m.

Atlanta (Medlen 14-12) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 9-11), 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (H.Bailey 11-10) at Pittsburgh (A.J.Burnett 8-11), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 3-10) at Washington (Strasburg 7-9), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Gee 11-10) at Philadelphia (Cloyd 2-5), 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 13-10) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 119), 5:10 p.m.

Arizona (Cahill 7-10) at Colorado (McHugh 0-2), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 14-9) at San Diego (B.Smith 1-1), 6:40 p.m.

Sunday’s Games San Francisco at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

E.Rogers, Jenkins (3), Loup (6), Wagner (7), Jeffress (7), Oliver (8) and Arencibia; Lester, Tazawa (8), Uehara (8) and Saltalamacchia. W—Lester 15-8. L—E.Rogers 5-8. Sv—Uehara (20). HRs— Toronto, Lind (23).

Maholm, S.Downs (6), Ayala (6), Avilan (7),

(10 innings) S.Miller, S.Freeman (7), Maness (7), Rosenthal (8), Mujica (9), Axford (9), Ca.Martinez (10) and Y.Molina; Hellweg, Wooten (6), Mic.Gonzalez (7), Kintzler (7), Henderson (8), D.Hand (9), Blazek (10) and Lucroy. W—Axford 7-7. L—Blazek 0-1. Sv— Ca.Martinez (1). HRs—St. Louis, Ma.Adams (15).

Milwaukee, Ar.Ramirez (11).

Tiger Woods Jason Dufner Brandt Snedeker Boo Weekley Charl Schwartzel

Scott Simpson Mark O’Meara Mark McNulty Sandy Lyle Bob Niger Duffy Waldorf R.W. Eaks Steve Pate Steve Elkington Jeff Hart Rod Spittle Roger Chapman Esteban Toledo Fred Couples Larry Mize Jay Don Blake Doug Garwood Steve Jones Peter Senior Steve Lowery Brad Bryant Bob Gilder Tom Kite Kenny Perry Hale Irwin Joe Daley Mark Mouland Dick Mast Mike Goodes Ronnie Black Chien Soon Lu Russ Cochran

John Riegger Nick Price Tom Pernice Jr. Bob Tway Dan Forsman Barry Lane Jeff Freeman Anders Forsbrand Bobby Wadkins Morris Hatalsky Bill Glasson David Eger Tom Purtzer Bobby Clampett Joey Sindelar Tom Byrum Kohki Idoki Jim Rutledge Rick Fehr Tommy Armour III David Ishii Andrew Magee Isao Aoki Gary Hallberg Gene Jones Mark Brooks Craig Stadler Gary McCord Nobuo Serizawa Bruce Summerhays

Texas K. City

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5 9

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M.Perez, Cotts (6), Frasor (8), Feliz (8), J.Ortiz (8) and G.Soto; E.Santana, Hochevar (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez. W—Hochevar 5-2. L—Frasor 4-3.

Sv—G.Holland (44).

San Fran. 001 New York 010

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1 5

7 6

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Lincecum, Kontos (7), Hembree (8) and H.Sanchez; Sabathia, D.Robertson (8), M.Rivera (9) and J.Murphy. W—Sabathia 14-13. L—Lincecum 10-14.

HRs—New York, A.Soriano (16), A.Rodriguez (7).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Atlanta Chicago

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004 100

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9 8 5 11

0 0

Arizona Colorado

200 002

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101 21x

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4 9 9 13

0 0

Delgado, Sipp (6), Putz (6), E.De La Rosa (7), Langwell (7), W.Harris (8) and Nieves; Chacin, Boggs (7), Belisle (8), Corpas (9) and Pacheco. W—Chacin 14-9. L—Sipp 3-2. HRs—Arizona, Pollock (8), Goldschmidt (35). Colorado, Chacin (1), Blackmon (5), Co.Dickerson (4), Tulowitzki (24).

St. Louis 100 010 Milwaukee 300 010

202 002

1 — 0 —

716 0 613 0

Golf TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP At East Lake Golf Club Atlanta Purse: $8 million Yardage: 7,307; Par 70 Second Round Henrik Stenson Adam Scott Jordan Spieth Justin Rose Dustin Johnson Billy Horschel Keegan Bradley Nick Watney Gary Woodland Zach Johnson Steve Stricker Phil Mickelson Jim Furyk Roberto Castro D.A. Points Hunter Mahan Bill Haas Graham DeLaet Webb Simpson Sergio Garcia Luke Donald Kevin Streelman Brendon de Jonge Jason Day Matt Kuchar

64-66 65-69 68-67 68-68 68-68 66-70 72-65 72-65 70-67 69-68 66-71 71-67 70-68 67-71 72-67 70-69 70-69 68-71 68-71 68-71 70-70 69-72 70-72 68-74 69-74

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64 66 66 67 68 68 68 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 70

PACIFIC LINKS HAWAII At Kapolei Golf Club Kapolei, Hawaii Purse: $1.8 million Yardage: 7,002; Par 72 First Round Mark Wiebe Mark Calcavecchia John Cook Brian Henninger Bart Bryant Brad Faxon Corey Pavin Gene Sauers John Inman Jim Gallagher, Jr. Bernhard Langer David Frost Kirk Triplett Willie Wood Olin Browne Vijay Singh Rocco Mediate Jeff Sluman Joel Edwards

31-33 34-32 32-34 33-34 35-33 34-34 34-34 34-35 34-35 35-34 34-35 33-36 33-36 31-38 37-32 33-36 36-33 34-35 33-37

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Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia, right, reaches for the ball as he catches Toronto Blue Jays’ Brett Lawrie trying to steal second during the fifth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Friday, in Boston. walked two more to make it 2-0.

Chad Jenkins came in and got Saltalamacchia to hit into an inningending double play.

Toronto loaded the bases with nobody out in the fourth on a walk, an error by third baseman Will Middlebrooks and a single.

But Middlebrooks fielded Anthony Gose’s chopper, stepped on third and threw home to get Kevin Pillar in a rundown for a double play. Lester struck out J.P. Arencibia to end the inning.

Rajai Davis singled, stole second and third and scored on Lawrie’s single to make it 2-1 in the fifth. But Neil Wagner gave up four straight singles to start the seventh, including an RBI single

by Ortiz to make it 3-1.

Jeremy Jeffress came in and got Mike Napoli to ground into a shortstop-to-home-to-first double play. But Mike Carp hit a line

drive to left-centre that made it 5-1. After Lind made it 5-3, Pedroia added an RBI single in the eighth.

NOTES: Lester is the 11th pitcher in Red Sox history to record 100 victories, and just the third left-hander. ... Toronto CF Colby Rasmus was beaned by a warmup throw before the bottom of the first inning. He was replaced in the lineup by Pillar. ... John Farrell is the seventh manager to lead the Red Sox to the playoffs in his first year on the job. The last was Terry Francona in 2004. ... The Red Sox announced before the game that tickets for AL divisional playoffs to be played in Boston will go on sale Tuesday. ...

The Yankees’ win over San Francisco on Friday ensured that the last-place Blue Jays will be the only team in the AL East to finish the season with a losing record.

With offense core locked up, Oilers turn to blueline TEAM LOOKING FOR SCHULTZ TO BE THE LONG-TERM ANSWER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Now that the Edmonton Oilers have secured their offensive future, the defence is next on their to-do list.

With Thursday’s signing of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, the Oilers have their three key forwards — Nugent-Hopkins, Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle — locked up for the next six or seven years.

The focus now shifts to Justin Schultz, the future of the team’s blue-line who is in the final year of a two-year contract he signed as a free agent.

“Long-term, Justin Schultz is definitely going to be a key ingredient for us,” defensive coach Steve Smith said after Friday’s skate. “Justin just has a natural gift to be an offensive player. He jumps into the play so well, he’s so skilled, he shoots the puck hard, he’s able to find open spots in the offensive zone and, quite frankly, he’s strong defensively.”

The 23-year-old is still happy he chose the Oilers when several NHL teams were pursuing him and he sees himself being in Edmonton for a long time.

“All of us want to be here for a

long time,” said the six-foot-two, 185-pound Schultz, adding he’s not concerned about his contract.

“Not worried about that at all.

I have this year to play and we’ll see what happens.”

What the Oilers see happening is Schultz leading the development of a number of key defensive players and becoming the face of that group, which is fine with him.

“You want to be one of those key guys,” he said.

“It’s nice to have the responsibility. We’re all a pretty young core group of guys and some veterans who came in who can help us.”

But Smith noted it’s not just Schultz, who had eight goals and 27 points in last year’s 48-game shortened season.

“We’ve got a bunch of guys who compete real hard,” he said. “It’s a hard-working group and there’s a lot of character in it so there’s a lot of promise moving forward.”

He had particular praise for 25-year-old Jeff Petry, who Smith says carries the puck well and is “as pure a skater as there is the game as far as I’m concerned.”

Smith, a former defenceman with the Oilers, was generally pleased with the way the defence

At 41, Pettitte announces retirement

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Andy Pettitte had no interest in a farewell tour or some big pronouncement regarding his (second) retirement. Anything more than a conference call the day after the season would only feel embarrassing.

“Because I’ve done this before,” said a sheepish Pettitte, who briefly stepped away from baseball two years ago. “I feel awkward doing this right now, to tell you the truth.”

Still, the New York Yankees pitcher was having a hard time telling people he wasn’t sure if he would be back next season when he already knew this was it.

And he wanted to thank fans for all their support, something he wished he had a chance to do the Andy Pettitte first time.

So after discussing it with several close friends — including Mariano Rivera over lunch in Toronto — Pettitte chose to formally announce his decision at a Yankee Stadium news conference Friday.

“I’m ready to be home again,” Pettitte said. “But the biggest thing is, I’m just done.”

In a statement released Friday afternoon, hours before the Yankees began their final homestand, the 41-year-old Pettitte said he has reached the point where he knows he has left everything he has on the field.

The left-hander initially retired after the 2010 season, but sat out only one year before returning to the Yankees.

This time, he means it.

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played last year, although he concedes the team did struggle in its own end, partly because of the lack of commitment to defence by the young forwards.

“We had some good results offensively,” said Smith. “Justin coming in definitely helped us in the offensive zone. And Jeff Petry is another one. They just have abilities that just aren’t taught.

So you look at it and say both of those guys are pretty well-rounded players and the future is very bright.”

Short-term, he said, the club bolstered its defence with the addition this summer of free agent Andrew Ference from Boston and Nick Schultz last year.

Add a pretty consistent Vladislav Smid and the Oilers do have some steady veterans to help the youngsters.

Plus, there is young Darnel Nurse, their first-round pick in last spring’s draft.

“He’s raw and he’s got some steps to take to get the NHL level, but I have to tell you we’re really happy with what we’ve seen of him so far,” said Smith.

The Oilers are home to the Vancouver Canucks in another preseason meeting Saturday evening.

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TORONTO — Retired welterweight Chris (Lights Out) Lytle fought 19 times in the UFC and knows anything can happen in a sport that offers so many different ways to win and lose.

So Lytle is not about to write off the chances of heavy underdog Alexander (The Mauler) Gustafsson in his UFC 165 main event Saturday night with lightheavyweight champion Jon (Bones) Jones.

“Jon Jones is on a big streak, he’s done fantastic, he looks unstoppable,” said the 39-year Lytle, an Indianapolis firefighter. “But everybody’s stoppable.”

Then, after talking up what he calls an intriguing matchup for Jones against the big Swede, Lytle paused. And took a step back into reality.

“That being said, man, ever since Jon Jones in his fourth (UFC) fight when he dismantled (Matt) Hamill, I remember thinking I don’t see anybody being able to beat him for a while,” he added with a laugh. “I don’t know, he’s really tough to beat.”

UFC president Dana White, who loves to dismiss the odds in talking up his main events, has been candid this week.

“Jones is good,” he said. “Really good.”

Ask fellow fighters about the 26-year-old Jones and they go into fan mode.

“He’s athletic as all hell, for sure,” said heavyweight Matt Mitrione, a former NFL lineman. “As a fighter, he’s creative, he’s lanky, he uses his body extremely well. He gains a tremendous amount of leverage.

“If somebody’s on the ground beneath him, that is not a good place to be.”

Unless you are a specialist in facial reconstruction.

Former heavyweight Brandon (The Truth) Vera needed surgery after being battered by Jones’ elbows.

Flames name Giordano team captain

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Mark Giordano was named captain of the Calgary Flames on Friday, becoming the 19th player in franchise history to wear the captain’s ’C.’ The 29-year-old Toronto native succeeds Jarome Iginla as team captain. Curtis Glencross and Mike Cammalleri will return as assistant captains.

“Mark represents all the qualities that we set as a coaching staff and an organization,” head coach Bob Hartley said in a statement. “He is a quality man who is proud to represent the Calgary Flames both on and off the ice.

“We are very happy with these three men leading and setting the example for our team, and especially our young players, as we move through this crucial yet exciting period in the history of the Flames franchise.”

Iginla was team captain for nine seasons before signing with the Boston Bruins as a free agent in the off-season.

Giordano has 150 points (41 goals, 109 assists) and 366 penalty minutes in 385 career regular-season games with the Flames. He has one goal in four career playoff games.

He was invited to attend the team’s development camp in the summer of 2004, signed as a free agent and spent the next two seasons with Calgary’s American Hockey League affiliate.

He split the 2006-’07 season between the AHL and Calgary before becoming a staple on the Flames’ blue-line the following seasons. Giordano was appointed assistant captain to start the 2011-’12 season.

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One night after securing their first playoff appearance since 2009, the Red Sox added their first division title since ’07. Boston entered the night with a magic number of one — meaning the next Red Sox win or Rays loss would clinch the division.

Lester (15-8) allowed one run on five hits and two walks, striking out eight to win for the seventh time in nine decisions. It was his 100th career victory.

Toronto pinch-hitter Adam Lind hit a two-run homer off Junichi Tazawa in the eighth to make it 5-3 before Koji Uehara got five outs for his 20th save. With the crowd standing for most of the final inning, he struck out Brett Lawrie to end the game and the Red Sox poured out of the dugout and bullpen.

Dustin Pedroia had three hits for the Red Sox, who have won 19 of their last 25. Toronto starter Esmil Rogers (5-8) did not make it out of the third inning, allowing two runs on three hits and five walks and striking out two while getting only seven outs.

The Red Sox took the lead early when Pedroia doubled to lead off the first inning, went to third on a fly ball and scored on a wild pitch. Boston had runners on first and second with nobody out but Mike Carp lined out to the shortstop and David Ortiz was thrown out at the plate when he tried to score from second on Jarrod Saltalamacchia’s single.

Daniel Nava doubled to lead off the third inning and, after intentionally walking Ortiz, Rogers

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A beautiful fall day brought 400 enthusiastic participants to Heritage Ranch for the annual Terry Fox Run. People of all ages biked, roller-skated, ran and walked to raise about $22,000 for cancer research.

Organizers say it was a privilege to have the 41 Signal Regiment members from Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer join the run for the first time.

The Terry Fox Foundation ensures that 84 per cent of all funds raised are allocated for cancer research. To achieve this goal, local organizing committees depend entirely on community donations to hold the run.

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28. Kicking off at 7 p.m., the pub night and silent auction will feature music from Celtic band St. James’ Gate and from the pipe band itself. The event is a fundraiser for the pipe band’s planned battlefield tour through Europe next year. Tickets are $20 and include a pint and appetizers. For tickets, call Arnie at 403-782-7183 or any other Red Deer Legion Pipe Band member.

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At cosplay Otafest in Calgary, Jessica Smallboy-Dixon, left, was in character as England from anime Hetalia, Dustyanne Evans was there as Kenshin Himura from anime Rurouni Kenshin and Danielle Evans as school girl Yuki Cross from anime Vampire Knight.

CRUDE DUDES RAISE CASH The Crude Dudes recreational hockey team out of Blackfalds raised more than $4,000 for a local charity. For the past five years, the team has held a combination charity slo-pitch/hockey combination tournament over the Sept. 14 to 15 weekend. In the past, they have donated $1,280 and $1,090 in different years to the Special Olympics, $1,000 to Blackfalds Minor Hockey, $2,600 to the Blackfalds Field House Society, $500 to the Blackfalds Food Bank twice and $3,450 to Parkland Youth Homes.

This year’s fundraising haul, $4,000, is going to both the Zed 98.9 Christmas Charity and the Blackfalds Food Bank, with the food bank receiving about $1,000 and the rest going towards the Zed’s Christmas Charity.

QUILTERS AT ART SHOW Award-winning quilter Patti Morris, of Red Deer, and the Kansas Ridge Quilters will be special guests at the Rimbey Art Club’s Annual Show and Sale, Friday to Sunday, Sept. 27 to 29. Visual artists and quilters from the Rimbey area will be selling their creations at the Rimbey Community Centre from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Refreshments will be served and draws will be held for artworks, quilts and other prizes.

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Animated about anime ROCKY GROUP DEDICATED TO JAPANESE ANIMATION HAS BROAD REACH

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF At work, Dustyanne Evans is a licensed practical nurse.

But during costume play, known as cosplay at anime conventions, she could be samurai Kenshin Himura from the series Rurouni Kenshin or she could be a punkedout version of Disney’s Snow White.

Anime, short for animation, is the style of character drawing used in Japanese graphic novels called manga, and in television shows and film.

Evans, 26, of Rocky Mountain House, founded Rocky Otaku Group last November, for people age 13 and up, who are interested in anime.

She said it’s the only group in Central Alberta that is not a high school-based group. Rocky Otaku Group is open to adults and its 317 members span generations, including two anime fans who are 65.

“It kind of blossomed and I was kind of horrified,” Evans said with a laugh.

Most members participate via the Rocky Otaku Group Facebook page, including members from Japan.

Monthly meetings held Saturdays, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Rocky Mountain House Public Library, attract five to 20 members.

The next meeting is Oct. 5. Meetings are free to attend.

Evans said she was introduced to the unique animation genre by friends in high school.

“A lot of the (North American) graphic novels are more about superheroes. Manga from Japan are more humanistic. If they are a fantasy, even the people with the super powers are still everyday people.

They’re not more special than anybody else.

“There’s one I just read. It’s literally these two little boys decide to become manga artists. One’s into art and one’s a writer.

They are 14 years old. They live in Tokyo.

That’s what the whole series is about.”

Manga subjects span a broad range — action and adventure, romance, historical drama, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, suspense, horror and more.

Evans said the animation is more realistic compared to the caricature approach used in North American cartoons.

“A lot of them use a little more sharper lines. It’s not a cartoony style. They’re not out of proportion. They do look like people.

The animals look like animals.”

Evans said if she had to guess, she probably has 450 manga, including the entire series for some and other one-shot books.

“I’ve got a lot more than any of the libraries I’ve ever been to.”

Evans has been drawing anime charac-

Dustyanne Evans in her Snow White costume. ters since high school but has no desire to create anime for publication.

“I kind of do it for my own fun. I don’t think I’d want to go through the scrutiny (anime artists) do.”

It’s pretty tough to master and the top level artists are “scary good,” she said.

When Evans is not drawing anime characters, she could be working on an anime costume she has made herself, purchased or blended together.

She said her mother is always left speechless when she sees her daughter’s costume collection.

“Then she twitches a bit. They always thought I’d grow out of it. But I never did.”

Samurai Kenshin Himura from the manga Rurouni Kenshin is one of her favourite male characters. She likes to give him a feminine twist.

“I’m the only girl I know who does him so my version is quite a bit different. He’s like this super tough samurai. Everyone knows of him, but when they meet him, they’re so shocked because he’s so little and petite,” Evans said.

Kenshin Himura uses a reverse-blade sword so he doesn’t kill his opponents.

“He’s fun. He’s kind of goofy.”

She has also given Disney’s Snow White some attitude.

“I think Snow White is a little bit punk inside. She did have that black hair after all. And she has the big collar.

“I’ve done a goth version of her. And I’ve done a steampunk version of her.”

Evans said a lot of people take Disney characters to a whole new level at cosplay during anime events.

She is a regular at Otafest, an annual three-day anime convention in May at the University of Calgary.

“You meet some pretty awesome people there and some pretty talented ones. Some spend a year making their outfits. Yet at the same time they’re professionals. I’ve met lawyers. I met a doctor at one convention. That blew my mind. I did not see that coming.”

Otafest offers plenty. Organizers have brought in anime voice actors and every year they have a rock band from Tokyo.

Education panels introduce the basics on Japanese culture, besides bringing in the latest anime.

This year, Otafest attracted about 5,000 people so a lot of people enjoy anime in their spare time, she said.

Evans, who speaks Japanese, had the thrill of a lifetime when she went to Japan as part of a delegation to visit Rocky’s twin community, Kamikawa, Japan, in 2012.

She just saw an ad one day in the local newspaper looking for delegation members.

“Some people might have thought it was a joke or something.”

She has stayed in contact with a member of her host family. After they met and he realized she was an anime fan, “he started whipping out all this manga. It was kind of funny,” she said.

Evans is still involved in the society that is maintaining a relationship between the two towns. The fact that few young people were involved in the twinning project was one of the reasons she decided to develop Rocky Otaku Group.

“It’s kind of like Trekkies. They get sucked into it in their teens and they just don’t leave it behind. They get horrified when I relate them to Trekkies. But they’re not much different,” Evans joked.

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/RockyOtakuGroup. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Public input sought, meetings next week The Red Deer River Watershed Alliance is once again looking for public input as it engages in the development of a comprehensive watershed plan.

“We want to hear from the community,” said the group’s executive director Gerald Aldridge, “We also want to have a conversation with stakeholders — What are you doing in the watershed now and how can we work together in the future to implement the watershed plan?”

As part of a process that started in 2010 and is scheduled to wrap up next year, the alliance is having four background technical reports produced, from which an Integrated Watershed Management Plan will be created. Two of the four have already been produced — on surface water quality and wetlands, riparian areas and land use

WATERSHED ALLIANCE — and the latest focuses on surface water quantity and groundwater resources.

The final report, expected to be compiled in early 2014, will deal with terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity.

Parts of the report are very technical but others are more general, and Aldridge said any and all feedback is welcomed.

“We encourage everybody to take a look at it. I think within the document everybody is going to find something that they’ll want to provide input on. ... They’re all things we’ll take into consideration.”

Input can be provided online at www. rdrwa.ca, where the draft report can also

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be found. The alliance is also holding three public and stakeholder workshops next week in Central Alberta to discuss the latest report.

The workshops will be held in Red Deer on Tuesday, Sundre on Wednesday, and Drumheller on Thursday. Each runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Pre-registration is encouraged, as lunch will be served at each session. Aldridge said more than 20 people have already registered for the Red Deer event.

To register for the workshops, visit www. rdrwa.ca, phone 403-340-7379 or email iwmp@rdrwa.ca.

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Buddy’s phone sex request a double betrayal to friendship Dear Annie: My wife of 50 years told this fellow and wants to remain friends me that a longtime friend has called her with his wife, it’s probably OK. If you notice twice trying to have phone sex. I exploded! changes in that direction, however, don’t She told me not to say anything because it hesitate to address it. would ruin our friendship with this couple.

Dear Annie: I’d like to add my two cents I confronted him anyway and about whether parents treat told him he disrespected my their children the same. wife, me and all women in genMom, Sis and I live equidiseral. He did not deny what he tant from one another. Sis still had done. Frankly, I can’t blame lives near the place where we him too much, considering his grew up. Mom moved to a warmwife of 50 years. er climate. We call each other Still, as far as I’m concerned, every weekend to catch up and he totally crossed the line, and stay in touch. Sis and I fly to visit our friendship is over. My wife, Mom about once a year. however, continues to associate Mom visits Sis and her family with both of them. What do you a few times a year. But despite think? — Mad in the Bluegrass the many invitations I have exDear Mad: We think you threw tended, she will not visit me.

MITCHELL out quite a zinger about the When I had heart surgery five & SUGAR man’s wife. years ago, Mom did not come.

We don’t care what she is like.

When I was hospitalized for panIt doesn’t justify his hitting on creatitis, Mom did not come. Of another woman, especially one the 25 stage plays I’ve appeared who is married to a good friend. That’s a in, Mom came to see exactly one. She will double betrayal. never see the home my wife and I remodWe will give him one possible excuse, eled. It seems the things that are important however. If he’s been married for 50 years, to me don’t matter much to her. he is probably in his 70s or older, and it’s I suppose there is a certain amount of possible he is displaying early signs of de- validity in her excuse that there’s nothing mentia, which include loss of inhibition that interests her in my city, but when we and personality changes. Please suggest he visit our son and his family, we don’t care see his doctor for a checkup. whether there is anything to do. We are As long as your wife has no interest in simply glad to be with them. time is right to have fun.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Bring a proj- ponder over something into inconsequential ect to completion or put the finishing touches details.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have to an endeavour. Later on today, you will resurface, coming back to life in full force. You a sharp sense of your material needs and of get such comfort and satisfaction when you your monetary limitations. While considering your living situation, you will take into account know you are at your usual self.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You relate your family’s personal interests and their welquite easily to any type of personality and you fare necessities. can adapt just about in any environment of inSunday, Sept. 22 dividuals. Networking is almost second nature CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: to you where you can juggle with anyone’s differences in a smart way. Take a break later Tom Felton, 26; Bonnie Hunt, 52; Nick Cave, 56 on.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Sun enters CANCER (June 21-July 22): You may feel as if that all eyes are on you now and that graceful Libra. The Libra Sun dwells on egaliyou are being scrutinized from every angle. tarian grounds and likes to be surrounded Before you let it all get to you on a personal by utter peace and fairness. The emphasis level, you will be feeling way too sociable and will be on all types of relationships, be it on a romantic or on a business level. During gregarious.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The first part of this time, we find a greater need to be in a the day you will seek to bring some adventure partnership or some kind of joining together, into your daily life. Your daring nature will otherwise, we will feel a huge emptiness for seek new refreshing experiences. As the sun- the lack thereof. Whatever promises to bring light dissipates, you will seek a more serene us a harmoniously infused environment, will environment. You may trade your social out- gain our trust.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthing for some relaxation at home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are feel- day, the forthcoming year will bring you a ing intense and probing. You will not take no greater awareness in terms of your security for an answer or leave any stone unturned needs. You might be pressured to make a wherever you are curious about something. few adjustments in your personal finances in Nonetheless, you will know exactly when the order to obtain the stability which you might

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OAKLAND, Maine — Roosters in the small central Maine town of Oakland are free to crow as loud as they like.

The town council has tabled a proposal that would have levied fines as high as $100 on the owners of loud roosters.

The Morning Sentinel reports that a dozen residents of the town of about 6,200 showed up at the council meeting to oppose the ordinance.

Ethan Pullen says some people like to breed chickens to show at agricultural fairs, and to breed chickens, you need a rooster.

Town manager Peter Nielsen said the proposal was sparked mostly by the concerns of one resident, who complained about a neighbour’s four loud roosters. The neighbour has since given three roosters away, which Nielsen says appears to have solved the problem.

on equality and justice. Your personal magnetism radiates through your dedication to fairness and bringing everyone into accordance.

Make love, not war is a typical Libra’s motto!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Close the curtains which were exposing you to the outside world and let your soul dive into a journey of its own. It is time to face the real you, away from the public eye. Introspection and introversion appeal to you more during this soul-searching time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As adventurous and as open-minded as you are, you will still keep your life under wraps.

Humanitarian causes and events with likeminded individuals will prove fun, but not as rewarding as the ones that are rather inconspicuous.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put your best suit on and pair it with your nicest smile.

You are entering a world which you are familiar with and where you want to excel at any cost. Public standing and building up a name for yourself will be highly emphasized for you as of now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Boredom has no place for you and it will not even prevail what is yet to come. Prepare to go on a journey that will take you anywhere but to nearby places. Foreign lands and international people will highly predominate for you now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are ready for the next step in your life, wholeheartedly. You seek soul-merging through unification of your values, resources and souls. There will be no shades of grey in your mystical world. You want is the total devotion of another soul into your world.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): As independent and self-reliant as you are, companionship will be of utter importance to you. You seek nothing but quality time spent with your dearest and nearest. Remain open-minded about the options available to you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s time that you consume your energy into your daily obligations. You may start investing a greater deal of your time into improving your body with a course of therapy or spend more time preparing healthy foods based on new recipes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you felt like your life was too grounded lately, the good news is that you will no longer feel as if you are imprisoned between those four walls. It’s time to plan some fun-loving activities and don’t forget to bring along that animated spirit of yours!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will likely see yourself hosting most of your gettogethers and family celebrations closer to your own home. This also means more time spent around the kitchen and more updates on your family lore.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You know how to put on a show and exude personal magnetism through your leonine roaring. Everyone will be expecting a compelling host, so prepare to entertain them during your next improvisation act.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You hate wasting money frivolously. Centre your attention towards various options such as how to save and invest your money wisely. You will look into various banking opportunities and ways of managing your own wealth.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here comes the ultimate peacemaker who pledges mainly

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Good fortune comes quickly LOCAL ACTOR NABS PLENTY OF MOVIE AND TV ROLES

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Actor Joel Jackshaw. Below, on a movie set.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Joel Jackshaw portrays an avenging Mormon in the hit TV series Hell on Wheels, an enforcer in the Klondike mini-series, and an Irish baddie in the feature film The Cut, which is bound for the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

He’s also taken on an RCMP officer’s role in the Canadian-made docudrama Antigone and a good-guy gunfighter in the upcoming Western, Forsaken, starring Donald and Keifer Sutherland and Demi Moore.

What makes this all so astonishing is Jackshaw’s only been a professional actor for the past eight months.

“It’s just been ridiculous!” said the 49-year-old, who lives in Red Deer with his wife and two teenage daughters.

A late bloomer in the acting field, Jackshaw only signed with an agent last February.

“I’m just a rookie, but I’ve had some really good fortune come my way,” said the actor, who was told it usually takes years to build up the kind of film and TV roster he’s achieved in a few months.

Jackshaw — who was a salesperson and owned a car lot before deciding to pursue his long-held dream of taking classes at Calgary’s Company of Rogues Actors’ Studio — hopes his mid-life success gives people of any age encouragement to pursue their goals.

But at the same time, he doesn’t believe he can personally take too much credit for it.

One of the things he’s learned is that landing a part usually has more to do with fitting a director’s idea of what a character should be than blowing anyone’s socks off in the audition process.

“I think I’m a decent actor, and I’m working hard at being a great actor,” said Jackshaw, who still studies in Calgary whenever he’s not working.

“But an actor’s really just a cog in the wheel. ... Behind that there are so many great people that make an actor look good — makeup, costume, lighting and other production people. ...”

Although Jackshaw eventually hopes to branch out into varied roles, his stocky build and shaved head have helped him nail down a lot of toughguy parts — including Tom, the violent

Irish-American gang leader in The Cut, an anticipated film by award-winning Turkish-German director Fatih Akin about the aftermath of the Armenian holocaust.

It was filmed this summer in Drumheller — as well as Cuba, France, Turkey, Jordan and other locations.

In the AMC western Hell on Wheels, which is shot near Calgary, Jackshaw plays Aubrey, who is “muscle” for the Mormon church.

“The part I play is supposed to be the tender age of 32 ... I’m all clean

shaven and they put a blond wig on me,” said Jackshaw, who doesn’t care much for the period hairstyle, so is glad his character mostly wears a hat.

One of his biggest thrills has been watching Irish actor Colm Meaney, of Star Trek: Next Generation and Deep S p a c e N i n e , m a k e the most of his part of railroad magnate — JOEL JACKSHAW Thomas Durant on the AMC’s hit series.

“He’s a great actor. He just chews up every line.”

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episodes of Hell on Wheels so far, and Aubrey may well make other appearances next season.

In Klondike, Jackshaw had been hoping to land a larger role but now understands “I wouldn’t have been right for it.”

He’s content, in retrospect, to have done the smaller part — otherwise, he wouldn’t have been free to take the Irish gangster role in The Cut, a feature film helmed by Amin, a Turkish-German director he admires.

“That really worked out in my favour, as far as I’m concerned.”

Jackshaw was born in B.C. but grew up mostly in Lacombe. While in school, he was more interested in football than acting. Even after graduating, he never got involved in community theatre.

“But I was always a real movie buff,” said Jackshaw, who first started taking acting classes at Company of Rogues some 16 years ago.

“I got an agent and started auditioning,” he recalled, “but my children were quite young then, and I found it difficult to be away during the week ...

I got discouraged and quit after about a year. Now I wish I hadn’t.”

How successful Jackshaw might have been then is up in the air, but his more weathered looks are certainly going in his favour now.

“My agent tells me that most (movie) parts are written for men between 33 and 55. It’s a very male-dominated industry,” said the actor, who fits with this demographic.

His next challenge will be auditioning for Fargo, a new TV series for the FX cable network, produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. It’s based on their hit 1996 movie and stars actor Billy Bob Thornton.

Jackshaw is already working on his Minnesota accent by repeating “Right there, Bob” in a flat, nasal way.

Plenty of actors from Los Angeles, New York, Toronto and Vancouver will also be vying for a role, and “I have no idea what’s going to happen,” said Jackshaw.

But he’s confident Albertans can hold their own.

“They film a lot of period pieces up here because of the scenery for Westerns and the tax breaks. ... But I’ve heard American producers and directors say there are terrific film crews in Alberta.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Butterflies spread wings on CAT stage PLAY FROM 1969 STILL RESONATES TODAY

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Aspiring actress Jill Tanner is a vivacious freespirit who won’t be tied down.

Her neighbour, Don Baker, is about as regimented as you can get. As a young blind musician trying to live on his own, Don knows the exact number of steps it takes to get to the laundry, the delicatessen or anywhere else he needs to go.

When Jill meets Don in the play Butterflies Are Free, sparks fly and values clash.

“It is not an easy relationship,” said Tanya Ryga, who’s directing the romantic comedy for Central Alberta Theatre.

“Just as he starts to fall in love with her, she pushes him away.”

This four-person, flower-power play from 1969 was turned into a popular 1972 film that helped launch Goldie Hawn’s career. Some 30 years later, Ryga believes the Leonard Gershe script remains relevant because of its insight into relationships: Neither Jill nor Don are portrayed as having all the right answers about how to get through life.

The play also poses timely questions, such as what compels us to follow rules and when should they be broken?

Anything-goes Jill and rigid Don personify the societal struggle happening when the script was written. Ryga believes the comedy that opens on Thursday at the Nickle Studio, upstairs at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre, is all about authority versus liberty.

“The ’60s represented huge changes at every level of society.”

Not only were thousands of protesters demanding U.S. government bring soldiers home from Vietnam, but young men on the home front were showing disregard for convention by growing their hair and sporting tie-dyed shirts. Women in flowered hippie skirts were throwing away their brassieres.

“There was this huge colour explosion. ... The mores of society were eroding and anything that was a societal norm was up for grabs,” said Ryga.

The theatre instructor at Red Deer College lived

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Jordan Galloway, playing Don Baker, and Nicole Leal as Jill Tanner play out a scene during a rehearsal from the Central Alberta Theatre production of Butterflies Are Free.

BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE What: Central Alberta Theatre presents Butterflies Are Free, a romantic comedy by Leonard Gershe When: 7:30 p.m., Sept. 26 to Oct. 12 (2 p.m. Sunday matinees) Where: Nickle Studio, upstairs at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre Tickets: $31.45 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre through the era, and is excited to be bringing it back to life in this season-opening play for CAT. Ryga’s practical hurdle was finding authentic furniture, kitchen items, clothing and music of the 1950s and ’60s. “I didn’t want to have a cup that would read to people that the design was too modern,” said the director, who scoured thrift shops and “grandmas’ basements” for appropriate props, costumes and set pieces.

Since Don is supposed to be living in a dumpy apartment on the lower east side of Manhattan, Ryga purposely tried to find things that didn’t match — a trunk for a coffee table, for instance, or wooden crates for shelves.

A bigger challenge was working with actor Jordan

Galloway, who is in RDC’s Motion Picture Arts program, on his portrayal of a man who was blind from birth.

Ryga had personal insight into this, as she grew up with a mom who lost her eyesight in her 30s from an autoimmune disease.

“I had a mother who lived through her hands,” added the director, who therefore, wanted to convey blindness “without it being hokey or disrespectful.”

Getting Galloway and actor Nicole Leal, who plays Jill, to depict falling in love without their characters being able to make eye contact was also tricky.

Ryga believes this obstacle was surmounted when Leal, an RDC theatre graduate, realized that Jill feels perceived “on every level” by Don, whose sharpened senses are hyper-aware of her presence.

This may be why Jill eventually allows herself to fall for Don, even though her love for him will limit her freedom.

He’s able to appreciate all of her attributes, not just her looks.

While Don finds his feelings for Jill “scary” because he can’t anticipate where they will lead him, Ryga believes their relationship ultimately “tears down all these walls and opens up his world.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Some teachers retire, but never lose their creative spark.

The Central Alberta Retired Teachers’ Association is having a third annual Art Show and Sale on Saturday, Sept. 28, at Pioneer Lodge, 4324-40A Ave. in Red Deer.

The show is on from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Everyone is invited to drop in for coffee “and to support the artistic talents of our retired teachers.” For more information, call Margaret at 403-347-5500.

Play tells a life story A theatrical show “that unravels the beautiful messiness of divine intimacy” will be shown in Red Deer.

The Deer Park Alliance Church presents Breathe, based on the award-winning book, Close Enough to Hear God Breathe, by Greg Pauls, on Friday.

Created by award-winning actor and filmmaker Jason Hildebrand, with music by contemporary jazz composer Mike Janzen, Breathe is the story of a man seeking a personal connection to God. The show tells his life story through the eyes of various characters he meets along the way.

Breathe is being made into a feature film that’s partially funded by the Salvation Army of Canada.

The 7 p.m. stage show at the 2960-39th Street church is free. Everyone is welcome.

Original work to be performed An original work by Red Deer composer Vernon Murgatroyd will be performed — along with pieces

by Mozart, Strauss and Puccini — at the next First Thursdays in the Snell concert.

Soprano Angela Siemens and pianist Murgatroyd will team up for a varied program of song and music on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 12:15 to 1 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium of the Red Deer Public Library.

Coffee and tea at the recital will be provided by Cafe Noir.

There’s no admission charge but donations can be made at the door.

Lacombe gallery offers classes, more The Gallery on Main in Lacombe has a packed fall program of exhibits and classes.

The watercolour and acrylic paintings of Sandra Bingeman are featured at the gallery until Friday.

Starting on Saturday, Sept. 28, a new exhibit of paintings by Calgary nature artist Fraser Hine will be showing. Hine will attend a meet-and-greet opening reception that evening from 5 to 9 p.m.

During the Lacombe Culture and Harvest Festival, from Sept. 27 to 29, the Gallery on Main will stay open later (8 p.m. on Friday, 9 p.m. on Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday).

The fall art season will officially begin with a Gallery Mosaic Show and Sale at the gallery from Oct. 18 to 20. Paintings, pottery, stained glass and sculptures from more than 80 Alberta artists will be exhibited.

Evening receptions will be held Friday and Saturday until 8 p.m., and the Gallery on Main will be open from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

An animal pencil drawing class will be held at the gallery on Oct. 26, instructed by Dee Poisson.

Learn to how to depict the musculature of a dog — a technique that can be applied to other animal forms.

Poisson has done numerous canine portraits for the RCMP. Call 403-782-3402 for fee information and to register.

In November, the eclectic works of Red Deer artist Justina Smith will be featured at the gallery. An opening reception for the three-week exhibit will be

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Learn how to paint birds with watercolours during a Nov. 16 class instructed by Bingeman. Goldfinches, hummingbirds, and chickadees will all be featured, as tips are shared on colour and shaping techniques. Call 403-782-3402 for fee information and to register.

More information about classes and exhibits can be found at www.thegalleryonmain.com.

Valdy to play at The Hideout One of Canada’s most enduring folk artists will bring his Rock and Roll Song and other tunes to The Hideout near Red Deer on Thursday.

Valdy, a twice Juno Award-winning singer, has put out 14 albums since the 1970s — four of them certified gold.

The Salt Spring Island resident, who has received an Order of Canada, still has legions of followers across the country who appreciate his sizable contributions to Canada’s folk music scene.

The Ottawa native, born Paul Valdemar Horsdal, began his career in the 1960s as a member of the London Town Criers. He then joined Montreal band The Prodigal Sons before going solo in the early 1970s.

When his Country Man album produced the successful singles Rock and Roll Song and Good Song in 1972, Valdy’s career was launched, putting him into the same company as Gordon Lightfoot, Stompin’ Tom Connors and Murray McLaughlin.

Valdy’s music was featured in the Steve McQueen film The Getaway.

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the reunion production of The New Beachcombers.

The singer/songwriter, who went on to write heartfelt tunes such as Simple Life, Dirty Old Man, Peter and Lou, Easy Money and Sonny’s Dream, has continued to tour and create new music throughout the years — right up to his 2012 album, Read Between the Lines.

Tickets to Valdy’s 8 p.m. show are $20 in advance from The Hideout in Gasoline Alley, 53rd Street Music, or Gord’s Smoke Shop, or will be $25 at the door.

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Popular Juno Award-winning children’s performer Fred Penner will strike up some lively tunes at a fundraising concert next week in Lacombe.

The singer/songwriter who built a devoted following with his 12-season CBC TV series Fred Penner’s Place will perform a 6:30 p.m. concert on Thursday at St. Andrew’s Church in Lacombe.

Proceeds from the event will go to the Caring for Children Fund, administered by the Lacombe Family and Community Social Services (FCSS).

Penner has been dubbed “Mr. Multi-Media” for his diFred Penner verse 25-year career, which has included an output of 12 children’s albums, countless energetic live shows, and compositions for other TV shows, including Tipi Tales (APTN/YTV).

The guy who magically crawled out of a hollow log on his TV show started out as a one-man band in his native Winnipeg.

Initially conflicted about career choices, Penner opted to become an entertainer after doing some “soul-searching,” following the untimely deaths of his sister, from Down Syndrome, and his father just a year later.

The married father of four stated he was inspired to perform by his sister’s pure love of music — and has never looked back.

Penner, an Order of Canada recipient and spokesperson for UNICEF and UNESCO, said he still gets fan mail to this day from some of the Canadian and 55-million American viewers who watched his TV show.

Tickets are $16 a person from the church office at 5226 51st Ave. in Lacombe.

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Battle of the Year 1.5 stars (out of four) Rated: PG

There’s not much story to Battle of the Year, but the athletic bboy dancing (actually more gymnastics with attitude) is visually entertaining and bad-boy Chris Brown gets punched in the face, so it’s not a total wash.

Directed by Benson Lee, Battle of the Year is a fictionalized film version of his 2007 documentary Planet B-Boy (including an onscreen product placement).

It’s a transition that is hardly helped by a tortuously bad script penned by Brin Hill and Chris Parker (Vampire in Brooklyn).

The action kicks off as Los Angeles hip-hop merchandise mogul Dante (Avatar’s Laz Alonso) frets that b-boying (formerly known as break dancing, for all you old schoolers) isn’t cool anymore among the young customers he relies on to keep his empire afloat.

Blame the power of offshore industries; the Americans are getting their red, white and blue butts handed to them by superior, more disciplined dance crews from Russia, Korea, France and Germany at the annual Battle of

the Year dance competition in France.

Dante figures his pal, harddrinking broken man and onetime basketball coach Jason Blake (Lost’s Josh Holloway in the role usually reserved for Gerard Butler) can whip the faltering crew into shape.

But Blake has a better idea: audition the best b-boys from across the country to create an all-American Dream Team.

If this was a 1940s musical, this would be the point where someone would pipe up: “My dad’s got a barn! Let’s put on a show!”

He’s aided by likable second-incommand Franklyn (Josh Peck of The Wackness) a Jewish wanna-be dancer who archly explains “my people were not exactly chosen to be b-boys.”

The dancers, some played with varying degrees of success by real

b-boys (Do Knock, Flipz), work on their moves while Blake goes all Rocky on them.

He picks off a member a week to send home to winnow down the crew, with stoic reminders that there is no “I” in team.

Enter a pretty choreographer (Caity Lotz), several montages, jittery camera effects and some split screens and you’ve got yourself a movie.

With a vow to bring the dance battle trophy to the U.S. “where it all started” hanging in the air, the crew heads to France to repeat the plot of every Step Up movie, plus a couple of 1960s Elvis flicks.

“Let’s bring this trophy back for America,” mumbles Brown, who plays strutting wise-ass b-boy Rooster.

Sent to invade France with a warning from Blake not to behave like “ugly Americans,” the crew does just that.

But they’ve got some dancing to do and the final battles against international adversaries are impressive in their execution, even if the uneven, dark and jittery 3D camerawork does them no favours.

Fancy footwork is a fine thing, but how about a little movie with that posing, crew?

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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Baruchel wants Canadian films to stay close to home

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Jay Baruchel has a Canadian flag tattooed on his heart — but sometimes it seems the Maple Leaf might as well be etched across the motor-mouthed actor’s lips.

His new hybrid heist flick The Art of the Steal is a cross-border caper set against the inimitable backdrop of Niagara Falls, Ont. And really, it’s set there — not Niagara Falls dressed to look like some generically tourist-friendly town someplace vaguely in the U.S. — and on the Canadian side.

It’s an important point to the 31-year-old Montreal native.

“I’m just sick of watching Canadian movies with Canadian actors and Canadian backdrops and then they exchange money and it’s American cash,” said the excitable star during a promotional whisk through the Toronto Inter-

national Film Festival, where the film premiered ahead of its crossCanada opening on Friday.

This comment raises the attention of writer-director Jonathan Sobol, seated next to him.

Given that the film — which casts Kurt Russell as a reformed criminal-turned-motorcycle daredevil who’s pried from that depressing gig by the promise of one more big score — explicitly needs to take place on both sides of the border, it makes sense that characters’ wallets would be packed with more than just American greenbacks. Still, it was apparently an issue.

“I didn’t tell you this, but when we were onset one day and Kurt (in character) had to give his lady money —” Sobol begins.

“I bet there was a convo,” Baruchel interjects.

“Well, I got pulled aside,” replies Sobol, nodding. “I mean, like, of course, you’re in Canada,

you use Canadian money.”

“Why the ... wouldn’t you?” says Baruchel.

Sobel responds: “But then there was a little huddle. They’re pulling me over. I’m like, no, what?”

Asked to explain the anxiety over Canadian currency appearing onscreen, an exasperated Baruchel takes over.

“They seem to think that the moment Americans see Canadian cash on the screen, no matter how long they’ve watched the movie already, they’ll say: ‘Aw, (screw) this then!”’

The film, which features a sparkling international cast including British Oscar nominee Terence Stamp, Americans Matt Dillon and Russell and Canadian supporting players including Katheryn Winnick, Chris Diamantopoulos and arch Daily Show vet Jason Jones, doesn’t try to hide its setting, in fact basking in Niagara Falls’ kaleidoscopic carnival.

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Newly gay man seeks dating advice

HARLAN COHEN

HELP strings-attached sexual relationship?

My friend is proposing the idea, and I’m not sure it can work. — Friendly Proposition Dear Friendly Proposition; Do you mean can you have sexual relations with a friend completely void of all emotional connections? No. At least, I can’t.

I don’t think even a prostitute can be 100

percent emotionally detached (although I’ve never been with one).

With friends, there always will be some emotions involved. And that means there always will be a string attached.

You can try to totally detach, but why? To avoid being vulnerable?

To save money on dating? To avoid drama?

All the benefits are short-term. If a friend wants to have sex with you, but that friend doesn’t want to date you, expect strings in the future.

Plan on losing the friend. Plan on the friend or you wanting to be more than friends.

And if you don’t think it will be a problem, just try being friends with a former sex partner when you have a relationship with someone you love.

Your future significant other isn’t going to be a big supporter of your former sex buddy being in your life. And

then you’ll have to cut the string, even if there never was a string attached.

Dear Harlan; If I have a girlfriend back home and I want to have sex in college, what do I do?

I still have feelings for my girlfriend, but I feel conflicted. Help! — Conflicted Dear Conflicted; Have sex with yourself, break up with your girlfriend and date other girls, or find a hobby (other than having sex with yourself).

Whatever you do, don’t cheat. You’ll have many years to experiment with other women in college.

Save yourself the itching, burning and pissedoff ex, and give your current relationship some time.

Find a life on campus.

Wait to see if the idea of random sex with random girls is worth losing what you have.

I have a strong feeling

that you might change your mind.

Dear Harlan; I’ve just moved into a room with two other guys.

I’ve never lived with roommates before. I’m used to my own space and privacy. How does a guy find time to masturbate when he’s surrounded by other guys?

I’m not sure how to bring this up. Any advice? — Master Dear Master; Wait it out a little.

Your new roommates might find the conversation a bit little (one or the other) unsettling.

Take a break and do something else with your hands. Build something, conduct an orchestra, learn sign language.

Once the year gets moving, you’ll have a better sense of everyone’s schedule.

You’ll also have an idea of where you can go to have some alone time.

In the meantime, there’s the shower (why

everyone should always wear sandals), the library (study break in the bathroom), your room (lock the door and put something in front of the door).

If one of you should decide to quietly take care of business and it disrupts everyone else’s sleep, discuss the problem.

Don’t ignore it.

Treat the situation like you would if a roommate brought a partner into the room.

You guys can use this convo as an opportunity to work out a system. For example, you can designate a time when each roommate can be in the room for personal time to video chat, study or take care of other personal business.

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Dear Harlan; I recently came out to my friends and family. Now, I’m ready to start dating.

My biggest problem is finding the right way to approach someone.

How can I approach a guy without making him uncomfortable? — Fresh to Gay Dear Fresh to Gay; You’re not in charge of straight guy’s emotions.

Personally, I find it flattering just to be wanted. As for the men who have a problem, they’re either secretly gay and can’t come out, or they can’t handle rejection.

Assuming these men aren’t secretly gay, the best way to help them get comfortable being approached is for you to be as comfortable as possible while doing the approaching.

This means being comfortable with your sexuality and all possible reactions.

When you’re not comfortable in your skin or fear making someone uncomfortable, it’s going to be impossible to approach a man and make it comfortable for him to react. It’s the difference between approaching a man and being afraid that you’re going to offend him and approaching a man knowing that he would be lucky to meet, date, and be in your life.

With the second mindset, you can project a sense of calm while doing the approaching. If he’s not interested or is offended, you can help him get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

You can explain that you didn’t mean to offend him, but you’re a gay guy with a bad gaydar. Tell him you still find him interesting. Then bring up the idea of being interested in a friendship.

If he doesn’t want to be your friend, move on to the next man. In the meantime, surround yourself with gay men and women who have been there and done it.

Find a community that can support and help you. The more people you have around you, the easier it will be to find men who are available and open to your advances.

Assuming you do your approaching during daylight hours, while sober and while clothed, give men permission to react however they choose.

Again, you’re not responsible for their emotions.

That’s their job.

Dear Harlan; I’m in a long-distance relationship and don’t know how to balance my time.

I just moved away and want to try and establish a life in my new home.

But at the same time, I miss my girlfriend.

She wants me to visit her more than I’m thinking we should visit. What are the guidelines to having a life, but still being in a relationship? — Out of Balance Dear Out of Balance; You need a life that belongs to you. You need friends that belong to you. You need a sense of independence that belongs to you. And she needs the same.

This can happen only if you two take time to grow as individuals while apart. This isn’t growing apart.

If having a life, friends and a sense of independence tears you apart, it was never a good relationship. Find things you want to do and figure out how much time it will take to do them. Choose a couple of activities, organizations or projects.

Encourage her to do the same. Hope she shares your desire to create a life while you’re apart.

If she’s too afraid or resists the idea, figure out what scares her.

She might be afraid that you’ll forget her or find someone better. Reassure her that you love and care about her. Find a compromise, but don’t compromise your desire to establish a new life in your new home.

Dear Harlan; Can anyone actually have a no-

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 2013

How worship and babies intertwine Pollsters have been asking Americans questions about God, sex and babies for a long time, and the answers used to be pretty predicable.

Early in the 20th century, it was easy to predict which flocks of believers would produce the most children — with Mormons reporting the highest numbers, followed by Catholics, then Protestants and so forth as fertility rates declined.

But things changed as the century rolled on and America became more pluralistic and, in elite ZIP codes, secular.

After Woodstock and the sexual revolution, it was TERRY clear that “what really matMATTINGLY tered wasn’t what religion you claimed to be practising, but the degree to which you actually practised it — especially whether or not you were in a pew week after week,” said journalist Jonathan A. Last, author of What to Expect When No One’s Expecting.

These days, people who attend worship services once a week or more have a sharply different fertility rate from those who avoid religious sanctuaries, and “it really doesn’t matter what kind of services we’re talking about — Catholic, evangelical, Jewish, Mormon, whatever. What matters is whether you show up.”

The bottom line: An activity that encourages people to get married sooner, stay married longer and have a higher rate of happiness while married will almost certainly produce more babies.

“When it comes to people having what people today consider large families — three or more children — there are two Americas out there,” he said, and the division is between those who actively practise a faith, especially a traditional form of faith, and those who do not.

RELIGION

This is crucial information in an era in which declining birth rates affect debates about a wide array of hot-button cultural issues, from social security to national health care, from immigration reform to the future of major religious groups.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that U.S. births appear to be leveling off, although the numbers continued to show some decline.

While birth rates edged up for women in their early 40s and throughout their 30s, rates kept falling for women in their 20s and among Latinos.

A key factor, Last explained, is “aspirational fertility,” or the number of children that parents say they want to have.

In the early 20th century, a clear majority of Americans favoured having three or more children.

Now, 66 per cent of those who seldom or never attend worship services say that zero, one or two is ideal, while 41 per cent of those worshipping weekly desire three or more children.

If a woman frequently attends worship services, it is much more likely she will have a larger family, if that is her goal.

It’s hard to pin political or cultural labels on some behaviours that are inspiring so many people to avoid marriage, to marry later, to have fewer children or to have their children later in life.

At one end of the cultural spectrum is the 30-something male whose solo life remains focused on his Xbox.

At the other end is the professional woman working 70-hour weeks while striving to rise in a major law firm, even as her biological clock ticks loudly.

Of course, it also matters that children are expensive.

In his book, Last examines a variety of expenses and career realities and concludes that it costs about $1.1 million to raise a single child, with home costs and college expenses higher in prime locations.

When living in New York City, San Francisco or Washington, D.C., having two children is “having a

lot of children,” he said.

“What’s countercultural in one city is normal in another.”

The bottom line is that North Americans who choose to have large families are almost certainly making “some kind of theological statement,” he said.

“They are making countercultural decisions and people just don’t keep taking specific countercultural actions without having some kind of purpose, a larger reason for what they are doing.

“Think of it this way. At some point, you have to ask: ‘Am I the most important — or even the only — character that matters in the movie of my life? ... Parents just can’t think that way and the more children you have the less you can afford to think of yourself as the centre of everything that happens in the world. ... That’s a very important lesson to learn about life.”

Terry Mattingly directs the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Contact him at tmattingly@cccu.org or www. tmatt.net.

LOCAL EVENTS SUNDAY Living Faith Lutheran Church invites everyone to Sunday Worship at Bethany CollegeSide with Pastor Mel Kornfeld. Officiating service starts at 10 a.m.

UPCOMING EVENTS Unpacking Gender Identity will be presented on Sept.

30, 7 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church in Lacombe. Jordan Sullivan — a former Lacombe resident and student at Canadian University College who is now on staff with the national United Church — will speak on gender identity, identity barriers of transgendered people, and more. Contact Marg at 403-782-1887.

Join us this Sunday, September 22 at 9:00am, 11:00am or 6:30pm

PROMISES - Getting Your Feet Wet • CrossRoads Kids (to gr. 6) SW Corner of 32 Street & Hwy 2, Red Deer County

www.CrossRoadsChurch.ca

AFFILIATED WITH THE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH OF CANADA

Helping people encounter the goodness of God Corner of 55th St & 46th Ave 10:30 am Contemporary Worship

streamschurch.com 403.342.7441

Streams Christian Church afÀliated with the PAOC

Sunday Services Services Sunday 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.

9:00a.m. & 11:00a.m.

Wednesday Ministries 7:00p.m.

Passion for God, Compassion for People.

2020 40th Ave, Red Deer www.livingstones.ab.ca 403.347.7311

Listen To The Christian Science Sentinel Radio Edition

SUNDAY MORNING 8:00 A.M. CKMX AM Radio 1060

For information call 403-346-0811

Centre for Spiritual Living 11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service Rev. Judy Andersen www.cslreddeer.org

The Anglican Church of Canada Sunday, Sept. 22

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL “A Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769

#3 - 6315 Horn Street

www.stleonardsonthehill.org

403-347-5450

Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.) 9:00 a.m. Communion Service 10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Bob Northey “Prayer for Participants in God’s Plan” Ephesians 1 Verses 15-23

12:30 p.m. Community BBQ Everyone Welcome!

Children’s Sunday School 2 1/2 - Grade 5 www.balmoralchapel.ca

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Celebration Service 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Sunday School/Nursery 7:00 p.m. “The Gathering” Contemp. Eucharist

ST. LUKE’S

“Old Church Blessing a New World”

Gaetz & 54th 403-346-3402 www.saintlukereddeer.posterous.com

Celebrant: Noel Wygiera

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 10:00 a.m. Family Friendly Worship with Eucharist Sunday School & Refreshments Thurs. 2:00 pm Eucharist

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

403-346-0811

10:30 a.m.

Worship Service www.firstbaptistrd.ca

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA Sunday, Sept. 22

KNOX

Established 1898

4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560 Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

“Unanswered Prayer” 10:30 am Worship Service

3628-57 Ave.

403-346-6036

Loving God . . . Loving People 9:00 a.m.

Sunday School For All Ages 10:15 am Worship Service 2960 - 39 Street, Red Deer 403.343.1511

www.deerparkchurch.ca

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GAETZ MEMORIAL Corner of Ross Street and 48th Avenue — Phone 403-347-2244

10:30 a.m.

“Walk Lightly Upon Me” www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

SUNNYBROOK UNITED CHURCH 12 Stanton Street

403-347-6073

10:30 a.m.

“Worldly Wisdom” Babyfold, Toddler Sunday www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Room,Room Sunday Club Clubwww.sunnybrookunited.org

LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER WELCOME YOU

Sunday, Sept. 22

GOOD SHEPHERD ELCIC 40 Holmes St. 403-340-1022 Rev. Marc Jerry

WORSHIP SUNDAY 10:30 AM with Holy Communion

West Park Presbyterian

SUNDAY SCHOOL & SERVICE — 11:00 A.M. WED. MEETING. 8:00 P.M., 2ND WED. EACH MONTH. Christian Science Reading Room: Wed., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Thurs., 12 Noon-3:00 p.m.

4907 GAETZ AVE.

CHURCH

43 Ave. & 39 St. • 403-346-4281 Pastor Chris Wilson Worship Pastor David Richardson

Celebrant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

Sunday, September 22

Balmoral Bible Chapel

FIRST BAPTIST

SUNDAY WORSHIP 11:00 a.m.

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN 26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road) Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Paul Furseth Everyone Welcome!

Everyone Welcome

Saved by grace - called to serve

MOUNT CALVARY (LC-C)

#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798 Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk

DIVINE SERVICE 10:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Kings Kids Playschool www.mclcrd.org

Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

Living Faith

Lutheran Church NALC Worship 10:00 AM

Bethany Collegeside 99 College Circle RDC

Everyone Welcome

Rooted in the word of God, Growing in the likeness of Christ, Reaching out by the power of the Holy Spirit.

BAHÁ'í Faith “Divine education is that of the Kingdom of God: it consists in acquiring divine perfections, and this is true education; for in this state man becomes the focus of divine blessings, the manifestation of the words, “Let Us make man in Our image, and after Our likeness.”

This is the goal of the world of humanity.”

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 2013

Canada-EU strike meat deal BEEF AND PORK ONE OF THE BIGGEST OBSTACLES IN FREE TRADE TALKS

BY MIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada and the European Union have quietly reached a tentative agreement on beef and pork, one of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of a comprehensive trade and investment deal.

Multiple sources tell The Canadian Press the two sides recently settled on a quota that is big enough to allow Canadian meat producers to penetrate the European market, but not so big that European farmers would feel threatened.

No one is talking publicly for fear the deal could unravel, falling victim to the horse-trading that char-

acterizes the final rounds of trade negotiations.

“It seems like they have found a place to agree,” said one person close to the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity.

But since the beef and pork conundrum was a potential deal-breaker for Canada, insiders are growing optimistic that the elusive agreement may now be within reach.

On Thursday, International Trade Minister Ed Fast was in the heart of cattle country, boasting about the market access the Canadian government had negotiated for the beef industry. He went out on a limb, saying only a few barriers remain in the trade talks.

“There’s still a very, very small handful of issues

left outstanding that need to be resolved,” Fast said at a beef industry forum in Calgary.

“As with all trade negotiations, the toughest issues get left until the very last.”

Fast’s spokesman Adam Taylor wouldn’t confirm whether a specific breakthrough had been made on beef and pork, but did say Canada has been pressing for greater access to the EU market.

“We have made that point very clear to our EU counterparts,” Taylor said in an interview Friday.

“If that message has been received by our EU counterparts, that’s good news for moving the negotiation forward.”

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RDC marks opening of City Centre Stage

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Red Deer College’s City Centre Stage was alive with entertainment on Friday, as those on hand for the facility’s grand opening watched performing arts students in the theatre, viewed an RDC film in the cinema, and heard musicians playing in the gallery amidst local artwork.

The importance of the arts was emphasized by several people who spoke at the reception.

“Communities that place arts and learning at their centre, thrive,” said Shelley Ralston, chair of the Red Deer College board of governors.

Acting Red Deer Mayor Cindy Jefferies agreed that turning the former Uptown Cinema building into a teaching and learning facility that will also be available to the public showed great vision.

“When we make choices in our community to build public amenities, to invest in space for people, we create nothing but opportunity and potential.”

Cal Dallas, Alberta’s minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations, commented on the “crucial role” that arts play in the lives of Albertans.

He said his government has identified culture as a key areas in its mandate to build Alberta.

College president and CEO Joel Ward applauded this recognition that the arts have economic value to the province, and communities. And he praised the

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As Red Deer photographer Dwight Arthur records the event, Red Deer College’s Joyce Howdle and Brenda Munro share a laugh with Alberta Band Association managing director Neil Corlett during the grand opening of the Red Deer College City Centre Stage on Friday afternoon.

City of Red Deer for its support of the college in buying and developing City Centre Stage.

He stressed its importance for educating RDC students, but also said that other members of the community have a place there.

“Every single person in Central Alberta is welcome in these facilities to enjoy the art, to enjoy the music, to enjoy the film, to enjoy the theatre — we want you here.”

That includes use of the premises by Central Alberta Theatre and other arts groups.

Speaking to reporters later, Ward said Red Deer College has been moving towards the arts despite the fact many of its post-secondary counterparts are

doing the opposite.

“By adding these new assets, it means more opportunities for more people to access great facilities to do whatever it is they need to do: art, literature, theatre, film.”

Ward said City Centre Stage will further the college’s teaching mandate, not only for those studying the arts but for students in other disciplines. The centre is being used for the Donald School of Business’s Distinguished Speakers Series, as well as a venue for major speeches and other presentations.

But, he added, having an arts-focused facility will benefit all students.

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Crane signals new phase in Nova expansion

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

Contributed photo

A tower crane marks the site of Nova Chemicals Corp.’s polyethylene plant expansion at its Joffre complex.

Nova Chemicals Corp.’s nearly $1-billion expansion of its Joffre facilities has taken a visible jump forward — or at least upward.

A 57-metre-high tower crane has been erected at the site where Nova plans to install a third reactor in one of its polyethylene plants, as well as related infrastructure like a flare stack and cooling tower. The crane, which has a 60-metre working radius and can lift up to 12 tonnes, will be used for the installation of materials and equipment, as well as for pouring concrete.

“It will sit in that initial construction zone and be

used for a whole host of things,” said Rick Van Hemmen, Nova’s Joffre site leader.

So far, much of the construction activity has focused on developing the infrastructure required for the project, said Van Hemmen.

“There’s not much of a skyline change because almost all of the work right now is at grade level. It’s work on piling and foundations and underground activities, and really just setting up the construction area.”

He said expansion of the rail yards that serves the Nova complex is also underway, including earthwork for temporary facilities, grading of soil, and preparing the ground for rail installation.

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Foundational literacy skills in short supply Dear Working Wise: Like many employers, I’m struggling to find good people who can do the job.

I own a small retail shop, and so my employees don’t have to be highly trained.

But they do need to have basic math and computer skills.

Why are these simple skills so hard to find? — Frustrated Dear Frustrated: A lack of what many people consider to be “basic” skills is an emerging workforce problem.

An ABC Life Literacy Canada survey of employers last year found that 80 per cent of CHARLES Canadian employers are havSTRACHEY ing difficulty finding staff with the right skills and 76 per cent WORKING WISE agreed that literacy is a major issue in Canada’s workforce.

When most of us think of literacy, we think of reading and writing. But the definition of workplace

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literacy has been expanded to include the following essential skills: ● reading; ●writing; ● document use; ●numeracy (using numbers); ●computer use; ●critical thinking and problem solving; ●oral communication; ●working with others; ●continuous learning.

One in three working-age Albertans do not have the foundational literacy skills they need to succeed in today’s workplace.

It’s a real problem. A friend told me a story this week about having a 15 per cent off coupon for a restaurant, but no one at the restaurant knew how to calculate the discount.

Literacy and essential skills enable us to think critically, learn new skills, communicate effectively, solve problems and manage change. They have also been found to impact family well-being and our ability to get and keep a job. Solid essential skills are

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critical especially with today’s rapidly changing technologies and work environments.

Of course, we all have these abilities — it’s just a matter of how good they are. Essential skills can be taught and measured, but nearly half of Canadians would not be high enough, according to the Calgarybased Essential Skills Group. They have a short, interesting video on essential skills on their website at www.essentialskillsgroup.com.

It pays to take essential skills seriously. Workers with good essential skills tend to be: healthier and safer on the job; more productive; adapt to change better; learn technical skills faster; make more money; and find work faster — 29 weeks faster.

Studies show that a one per cent increase in essential skills translates into a 2 ½ per cent increase in productivity.

Current research shows that employers who invest in essential skills training experience a reduction in errors, absenteeism and workplace injuries, an increase in productivity, and build a more nimble, adaptable team.

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Friday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange fell sharply Friday amid news that smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd. is cutting 4,500 jobs and will post a substantial loss next week when it reports its latest quarterly earnings.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 120.31 points to 12,806.47, while the Canadian dollar lost 0.35 of a cent to 97.10 cents US. Shares in Waterloo, Ont.,based BlackBerry (TSX:BB) closed down 16.08 per cent, or $1.74, at $9.08 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

BlackBerry says it expects to post a loss of between US$950 million and US$995 million when it reports its second-quarter earnings next Friday.

Most of that will come from a massive writedown of up to $960 million it will take from poor sales of its new smartphone devices that went on the market earlier this year. It will also book a $72-million restructuring charge related to changes in its operations, which include previous layoffs.

BlackBerry also said it’s reducing the number of devices in its portfolio from six devices to four. Half of the lineup will be

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TRADE: Several contentious areas Sources say there are still several contentious areas, apparently including financial services, procurement, cheese, fish and investor state dispute settlements.

Talks have been bumped up to the highest level of government in recent months in the hopes of breaking the logjam that has held up any formal announcement of a deal.

At the same time, Ottawa insiders say Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants some economic trophies to put in the showcase for his throne speech next month. On Thursday, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced a new plan for what he hopes will become a national securities regulator.

Stuart Trew, a trade expert with the Council of Canadians, said his organization’s executive director was dismayed to hear of a breakthrough on “agricultural issues” when he visited Brussels recently to present European parliamentarians with a petition signed by Canadians who oppose the deal.

Trew said the council is concerned that Harper will agree to a deal, under pressure to get something finished before the ramping up of Europe’s talks with the United States in October.

STAGE: Better ties with downtown “The creative side of the brain will be exposed to things other than spreadsheets and accounting formulas.”

Ward also said he’s pleased the college is strengthening its ties to Red Deer’s downtown — a connection that took hold two years ago when RDC opened its Donald School of Business in the Millennium Centre.

“If you take a look at downtown redevelopment across the country, you’ll notice there are a number of things that will ensure the success of downtown revitalization. One of the keys is a post-secondary presence downtown.”

Red Deer College announced last November that it was buying City Centre Stage from the Mah family of Red Deer for $1.6 million. The 4922 49th St. building was being leased by Central Alberta Theatre, which had completed extensive renovations there but indicated it could no longer afford the space. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

NOVA: Expansion proceeding as expected Approximately 65 workers were on site during the summer, a number that Van Hemmen expects to grow to about 100 this fall. He anticipates a peak workforce of around 800 late next year and into 2015.

The project is pro-

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marketed towards higher-end consumers, while the other two will be for entry-level customers, it said.

On Wall Street, markets were also lower with the Dow Jones industrials down 185.46 points at 15,451.09, the Nasdaq off 14.66 points at 3,774.73 and the S&P 500 down 12.42 points to 1,709.92.

The BlackBerry news came on the same day that tech giant Apple Inc. began worldwide sales of its two newest smartphone models — the iPhone 5C and the pricier iPhone 5S. Shares in Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) fell one per cent, or $4.89, to

ceeding as expected, he said. Completion has been projected for the end of 2015, but Nova officials will have a better sense of the timelines early next year, said Van Hemmen.

The new reactor is expected to boost Nova’s annual polyethylene output at Joffre to about 3.5 billion pounds from its current 2.5 billion pounds.

Meanwhile, work is expected to begin shortly on the enhancement of a wetlands area north of the Joffre complex. Announced in conjunction with the official launch of the polyethylene plant expansion in June, the project will include the development of a nature trail and other features on approximately 220 acres of Nova land.

An assessment of the land and the wildlife living there was completed this summer, with design work now wrapping up.

“We really want this to be a class installation,” said Van Hemmen. “We do want this to be used by the community, by our employees.”

The wetlands project is expected to be completed early next year. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

SKILLS: Sept. is Literacy Month The Alberta Government produced Living Literacy: A Literacy Framework for Alberta’s Next Generation Economy to co-ordinate the efforts of the government and its many partners to improve the literacy levels of Albertans. The framework’s primary goal is to increase the literacy level of Albertans by 10 per cent or have 70 per cent of Albertans with literacy levels equivalent to high school completion by 2020. You can learn more at http:// eae.alberta.ca.

September is Literacy Month and Sept. 27 is Essential Skills Day. You can learn more about literacy and essential skills, and discover resources for both employers and employees, by visiting Literacy Alberta at www. literacyalberta.ca or calling their help line 1-800-767-3231.

Information is also available at: www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/jobs/les/index. shtml and www.awes.ca/why-essentialskills.html.

Good luck!

Do you have a work-related question? Send your questions to Working Wise, at charles.strachey@gov.ab.ca.

Charles Strachey is a manager with Alberta Human Services. This column is provided for general information.

Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta HuContact him at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.

close at US$467.41.

Meanwhile, Allan Small, a senior investment adviser with DWM Securities, said the markets have kind of lost their way because anticipation on Fed tapering is over for now, and the Syrian crisis is on the back burner as a result of diplomatic efforts to defuse tension over its chemical weapons stockpiles.

“The market now is sitting around saying, OK so now what?

What do we have to focus on?” said Small. “The market is kind of pausing. It doesn’t really know which way to go.”

Many traders had expected the U.S. Federal Reserve to start pulling back on its $85 billion a month asset purchase program, which had been put in place following the 2008 financial crisis to keep long-term rates low. But instead, the U.S. central bank said it would continue to buy the mortgage bonds and Treasurys because of continuing worries about the pace of the economic recovery.

The Fed will meet next in October and again in December.

A decision on tapering the socalled quantitative easing program could be made on either occasion.

“Either way, the taper is coming. It’s going to happen at some point. Anyone who tries to figure out when the next taper is, that’s a fool’s game,” said Small.

“The message is very simple.

Whether the Fed tapers today, tomorrow or next year, the message is that interest rates are on the rise. That’s the bottom line.”

Meanwhile, trading volume on the TSX ballooned to 650 million shares. On average, the TSX sees a range of 280 million to 330 million shares traded each day.

All sectors were lower except for telecom, which saw an uptick of 0.27 per cent.

The gold sector was the

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,806.47 down 120.31 points TSX Venture Exchange — 946.10 down 6.78 points TSX 60 — 734.60 down 6.32 points Dow — 15,451.09 down 185.46 points S&P 500 — 1,709.92 down 12.42 points Nasdaq — 3,774.73 down 14.65 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 97.10 cents US, down 0.35 of a cent Pound — C$1.6492, up 0.41 of a cent Euro — C$1.3923, up 0.37 of a cent

Euro — US$1.3519, down 0.12 of a cent Oil futures: US$104.67 per barrel, down $1.72 (October contract - expires Friday) US$104.75 per barrel, down $1.11 (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,332.50 per oz., down $36.80 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.499 per oz., down $1.223 $755.49 per kg., down $39.32 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $7.50 lower $484.00; Jan. ’14 $7.20 lower $493.80; March ’14 $7.10 lower $502.00; May ’14 $7.00 lower $507.90; July ’14 $6.80 lower $513.30; Nov. ’14 $7.70 lower $500.30; Jan ’15 $7.70 lower $500.30; March ’15 $8.70 lower $499.40; May ’15 $8.70 lower $499.40; July ’15 $8.70 lower $499.40; Nov. ’15 $8.70 lower $499.40.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’13 unchanged $158.30; Dec ’13 unchanged $161.30; March ’14 unchanged $163.30; May ’14 unchanged $164.30; July ’14 unchanged $164.30; Oct. ’14 unchanged $164.30; Dec. ’14 unchanged $164.30; March ’15 unchanged $164.30; May ’15 unchanged $164.30; July ’15 unchanged $164.30; Oct. ’15 unchanged $164.30.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 533,620 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 533,620.

BlackBerry in bad shape

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A giant inventory of unsold smartphones is casting a shadow over BlackBerry’s future as the company struggles to recoup what’s left of its reputation, even while it slashes 4,500 employees across its global operations.

The company, based in Waterloo, Ont., has been hemorrhaging staff for

months, but the latest job reductions announced Friday mark one of the deepest cuts by the company.

The losses will affect 40 per cent of its staff, leaving about 7,000 people at the company.

“From our perspective this is a move made out of desperation,” said Bill Kreher, a technology analyst with financial services firm Edward Jones.

“The job cuts, while necessary, likely came way too late.”

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From a forlorn passageway between floors, below — (if you’ll excuse us) it was more about inferior design than interior design, to above with modest financial input, you can update a particularly bleak scene.

Stairway to a bold vision Bedrooms, family rooms, kitchens which was also being renewed during and bathrooms — all zones that fea- our project. ture prominently in our before and The breezy ladder effect immediateafter epistles. ly opens up the space to make the hall, One week, for example, we’ll magi- staircase and living room feel larger cally transform a down-at-heels bed- and brighter. room and the next we’ll add You will find an excellent muster to a lifeless living range of handrails and lumroom. In short, we rotate ber in various timber genus, our subject matter like deshapes and sizes at various signer dervishes, hell-bent building supply stores. on decorative trance.

This in mind, and as our social media army burgeons, we’ve learned to adWall-to-wall stair carpetdress the specific needs of ing can be dated. But, rathour readers and followers. er than reveal full timber Each and every day, in fact, treads (which can be noisy), we analyze statistics (and we sanded all the wood suryour lines of questioning) to faces and prepared for a COLIN & ensure we hit the mark. new look: white paint, carJUSTIN The provision of inforpet runner and a gap at eimation is our stock in trade; ther side. we pride ourselves on delivStair runners can be ering that which you need. made with most carpet variEven if you don’t yet know eties but cut sections should always be you need it.

The aforementioned rooms are of whipped and bound to avoid fraying. primary interest — in so far, certain- Alternatively, taped edges can be fashly, as Twitter and Facebook are con- ioned from tonal or complementary fabrics. cerned.

Visit www.loveyourrug.ca and disBut, from time to time, we also enjoy positioning info about zones oft’ cover a host of services to amend, adapt, or repair new or existing floorignored.

Which is why, without further ado, ing. we’re turning our attentions to the staircase.

Many homes have one but often they’re little more than forlorn pasDon’t clutter hallways and passagesageways between floors and (if you’ll ways; treat them as valuable domestic excuse us) more about inferior design space and dress them accordingly. than they are interior design.

We swapped out the old boxes for Folk, we imagine, prefer to direct a white, bow-legged console. This crecash towards the zones most frequentated a feature zone, as well as adding ly seen by either family or guests.

Guess it’s fair to observe that, when another surface for dressing and enjoy‘open concept’ is undermined by a dat- ing. Try www.structube.com for intered feature (like the staircase in our esting case goods, chests and dressers. before shot) remedial assistance is re- These guys have an inspired inventory quired. Correction, though, isn’t neces- at affordable price points. sarily a huge job — if you’re prepared to put in a little effort.

Here’s how, with modest financial input and a whole load of man hours, we stepped up to the plate. In doing so, updated a particularly bleak scene.

When a staircase impinges upon a primary living zone, the former needs to balance the latter.

This in mind, keep on top of coats and clutter, and think about interestThe boxed-in section — and accom- ing artwork to provide focus. panying swirly handrail — did little Don’t forget about good lighting — for the overall vision so we opted for carefully chosen, this will help max a simple two-inch by two-inch timber out the feeling of space. Overhead baluster with a rich mahogany hand- potlights, for example, will provide rail. streamlining in lower areas and, conThese new aspects helped visually versely, if ceiling heights are tall, an connect the stairway to the main floor,

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Join rooms with flooring Using continuous flooring between zones will form an immediate bond and makes each spatial component appear larger. To emphasize this, we laid engineered timber from the front to the rear of the house to exaggerate length. Laying boards side to side would visually fatten space. It’s a useful manoeuvre should your hall be long and skinny.

Check out an excellent range of options at www.kentwoodfloors.com.

A big finish “Successories,” as we call them (successful accessories) are the perfect finishing touch, so don’t spare the vases, books, glass wares and ceramics as you carefully compose your new space.

Hanging a mirror on the wall opposite steps (if proportions allow) will

create a focal point to cleverly reflect the surrounding area as you descend.

Better still, pop a console below to create a commanding vignette.

Analyze and appraise space, before you re-do it, to determine where your eye is naturally drawn. This will stop picture hanging, furniture arrangement and lighting from appearing plonked.

In the past, we’ve re arranged countless halls and staircases, to dramatic effect each time, using only that which already existed.

Suitably informed, you should now be ready to waft clouds of designer magic up and down your own staircase.

And remember this: as you tackle the transformation, you won’t simply accelerate atmosphere, function and connectivity, you’ll also ramp up your home’s overall saleability and value factors.

Who knows?

Spend wisely and you might just find your new staircase is the first of many profitable rungs on your property investment ladder.

Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan are the hosts of HGTV’s Colin & Justin’s Home Heist and the authors of Colin & Justin’s Home Heist Style Guide, published by Penguin Group (Canada). Contact them through their website colinandjustin.tv.

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interesting pendant (chosen to compliment the main area) will provide a little luxury.

Keep in mind that, rather than being simply a passageway to other rooms, it’s better to promote the staircase (or the hallway for that matter) as part of your home’s shared identity.

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Make the transition Dear Debbie: We have the typical old 1970s brick and cement fireplace in our den. It really dates the room. I’m thinking of painting it a cream colour and adding glass tiles to the top of the hearth. What do you think? — Sheri Dear Sheri: Your idea sounds fine.

Glass tiles have a shimmery, translucent appearance, which will add an extra dimension to your fireplace.

With the glass tiles, you can go very calm and pensive with the watery colours, or add an amazing tapestry of shades for a cheerful atmosphere.

Think about how you use the room and that will set you in the right direction.

Here’s another option to update that ’70s look.

I have updated many dens and recreation rooms, and one of my favourite makeovers is shown here.

This room was vintage ’70s with yellowing panelled DEBBIE walls, a parquet floor and TRAVIS red brick fireplace. The challenge was to lighten up the space, and make it comfortable and welcoming for the young family. We removed the mantel and applied a faux brick facade over the entire back wall, to expand the focal area. I put up faux brick panels (available in four-by-eightfoot panels at your building store) on either side of the brick fireplace I then smeared plaster randomly over the panels and fireplace bricks so that some areas were covered but the brick shapes still showed through. The whole wall was then primed, painted white and then rubbed with a creamy yellow glaze to highlight the textures. The dark panelling on the other walls was painted white, and the parquet floor stained a rich dark brown. A new pale blue sofa, a few turquoise accessories, and some greenery complete the transformation.

Dear Debbie: We purchased a synthetic wicker outdoor furniture set several years ago when the price was high. It is still in good condition, but I now prefer the darker colours to the original light shade we have. Can I paint? — Heather Dear Heather: I don’t advise you to paint. You have a high quality set, and the tight weave and material of this furniture is not conducive to a painted finish.

However, colours are cyclical, and lighter shades in outdoor furniture are returning.

Why not alter the appearance of the chairs with new seat covers. Table linens, flower pots, and outdoor lighting are all powerful design elements that will offer a fresh look without replacing the furniture.

Dear Debbie: We are renovating our dark-stained, oak staircase. We have ordered new pickets in off white which will have no grain and a dark, smooth railing. We want to paint everything else but the treads (we are having a stair runner) in the same off white for a traditional look, but we are worried about the grain of the oak, which will show through the paint. — Kata Dear Kata: If you have any knots in the wood, they should be sealed with shellac before you paint to stop any bleed.

It’s OK to see a bit of the wood grain through the paint. It shows off the authentic texture of the oak and will enhance the staircase. Shades of white vary significantly, so wait until you have your new pickets to match up the paint.

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That’s a wrap HOW WRAPPED LAMINATE PROFILES OFFER QUALITY KITCHEN CABINETS FOR LESS MONEY Beautiful wood will always be popu- ing set of doors or drawers, but that’s lar, but the rising cost of solid wood not much good if those doors don’t excabinets is becoming more and more actly match the rest of the kitchen. of a problem.

Besides lower cost, greater durabiliThis is one reason wood is showing ty is another reason wrapped laminate up less often in new Canadian homes, kitchens are taking off. even though homeowners One recurring problem want wood more than ever. with solid wood kitchen The challenge is getting cabinets, for instance, is the look of wood in a way the way wood gets disthat’s also financially attaincoloured with grease and able, environmentally sound oil around door and drawand practically efficient, er knobs. and a technology called It’s a widespread issue wrapped laminate profiles and virtually impossible to can help fix without complete refinEven though I’m a hardishing. core wood guy, I’m imWrapped laminate doors pressed. and drawers are completeLet me show you why, ly impervious to staining then you decide if wrapped like this, and their durabillaminate cabinet doors and ity goes beyond just grease STEVE drawer faces make sense for resistance.

MAXWELL your next kitchen or bathIt’s actually quite diffiroom. cult to harm wrapped lamiWrapped laminate technate profiles. nology allows amazingly authentic I know because I’ve tried. wood grain reproductions of cherry, Car keys, a screw driver or even walnut, mahogany and dozens of other a letter opener didn’t make a mark luxurious hardwoods to be applied to on the surface of NEXGEN doors kitchen and bathroom cabinet doors during my tests, even if your rub and drawer faces at the factory. fairly hard.

Even though I’ve worked professionMost kitchen cabinet manufacturally with wood for more than 25 years, ers offer a five-year warranty on these I can’t tell the difference between doors and drawers, which is much lonwrapped laminate doors and drawers ger than you’ll find with wood. and real wood without looking from Materials for making these doors several inches away. can also be specified as certified susBesides good looks, good value is tainable by the Forest Stewardship the main reason homeowners consider Council, and offered with built-in antiwrapped laminates. bacterial properties.

Some homeowners find they can If you’re concerned about indoor even pay for a granite countertop with air quality, NEXGEN doors and drawthe money they save moving from a ers have super-tight corner joints, solid wood kitchen to a wrapped lami- so there’s no chance for off-gassing nate alternative that looks at least as of formaldehyde from the MDF inner attractive. core, as verified by independent testAnd it’s not just a matter of appear- ing. ance, either. The best wrapped lamiFrom everything I’ve seen, wrapped nate products also have woodgrain tex- laminate kitchen cabinet doors, drawtures, so they have the rich feel of fine ers and trim have all the features that hardwoods. will let them take off. That’s already According to my research over the happening in Quebec where about onelast four years, Olon Industries (www. third of new kitchen cabinets now use olon.ca; 800-387-2319) offers the widest wrapped laminate doors and drawer variety of wrapped laminate products faces instead of solid wood. in Canada.

For those who can pay the price, Their NEXGEN doors and drawer solid wood will continue to go into the faces are used by kitchen and bath- fanciest kitchens. room cabinet manufacturers and trim But for the majority of us, it looks to shops across North America. me like something new and better is One reason these are popular is about to become mainstream. the way species and colours are made Steve Maxwell, syndicated home imto match the prefinished sheet goods provement and woodworking columnist, used by cabinetmakers to build kitch- has shared his DIY tips, how-to videos ens and bathrooms. and product reviews since 1988. Send It’s one thing to have a decent look- questions to steve@stevemaxwell.ca.

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Above: Although it looks like wood, the wrapped laminate doors and drawer faces are tougher and less expensive. This emerging technology also reduces harvest pressure on forests.

Below: The wood grain patterns on this wrapped laminate bathroom vanity follow traditional directions normally found only in custom cabinets. It takes very close examination to recognize this as a wood substitute.

HOUSEWORKS

The driveway that came with the 1921 Craftsman-style house that David Ulick bought five years ago was the original concrete one, marred by cracks and with tree roots starting to break through.

“I didn’t like the driveway,” said Ulick, of Pasadena, Calif. “I wanted something a little bit nicer.”

He looked through books and drove through the Craftsman-rich neighbourhoods of Pasadena to get ideas before deciding on a concrete drive with an antique finish, accented with reclaimed red bricks from the 1920s.

“I wanted this to look like the original driveway, an original, nice driveway, and using used bricks gives it a nice oldfashioned look,” Ulick said.

“It really makes it a grand entrance for the house,” he added, noting the brick walkway up one side. “I figured I’d treat the Craftsman the way it deserves to be treated, and maintain its design style and heritage.”

While a driveway may still be a utilitarian afterthought for many homeowners, others like Ulick are adding some serious curb appeal to their homes by moving beyond basic options like grass or gravel, asphalt or concrete.

“The driveway is commonly overlooked,” conceded Michael Keenan,

others are mottled to add colour variation to the driveway.

Installing a customized driveway is a way to put your own stamp on the hardscape and set your house apart from the rest.

Depending on the neighbourhood, the materials and the quality of the craftsmanship, Keenan said, a driveway also could increase a home’s resale value.

“It does become a point of distinction,” he said.

“It is something people notice.

“It is elegant.”

The least expensive paved driveways are made of asphalt, which cost about $12 to $15 a square foot, and con-

crete, costing about $14 to $18 a square foot, Keenan said.

Though concrete is more resilient and lasts longer, both materials will crack over time, he said.

Pavers, which start at about $20 to $25 a square foot, should last a lifetime, Keenan said.

“The key is the fact that the pavement acts as flexible fabric and it can move with the earth, and isn’t a rigid system and isn’t prone to cracking,” he said.

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“Driveways are not cheap necessarily, but they are completely functional and necessary if you have a car and a garage.”

Doing up the driveway, Keenan said, is a chance to “celebrate the function because it is a piece of the property you do use every day.”

The design options have grown in the last decade or so, he said, as pavers — made from precast concrete, clay and natural stone like granite — are being turned out in a range of colours and sizes.

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LUANN Sept. 21 1995 — Royal Canadian Mint issues first Canadian $2 pieces.

1929 — Gerry Seiberling throws first legal forward pass in Canadian football to Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers in a game against Edmonton.

1928 — Post office introduces airmail stamps.

1902 — Rocky Mountain Development

Company strikes oil at 1,020 feet in the Waterton Lakes, the first oil find in Alberta.

1862 — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than three million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.

1875 — Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time after stealing a basket of laundry. He later broke out of jail and roamed the American West, eventually earning a reputation as an outlaw and murderer.

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Card Of Thanks ESHPETER Wilma BETTY Eshpeter (Powell) slipped away in the early hours of August 20, 2013 in Kelowna B. C. after a long and fulfilling life. She was two months shy of her 97th birthday. Betty was born in Prince Albert Saskatchewan and lived there with her husband Jim and their four children until their move to Red Deer in 1963. Jim passed away in 1969 and Betty continued to live in Red Deer for the next 4 2 y e a r s . I n 2 0 11 B e t t y moved to Kelowna to begin the last chapter of her life’s story. Betty loved her four children: Barry and his wife Eva, Michael and his wife Lynne, Wendy and her husband Ron (Schmidt) and Janice and her husband Mike (Henry). Betty was blessed to have 10 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren along with her very special and much loved extended family members.

Another love of Betty’s was music. Although she never played an instrument, she sang in the church choirs in Prince Albert and Red Deer.

She also sang in various other choirs, performed in musical productions, and took hundreds of Central Albertans to Edmonton to enjoy productions presented

by Edmonton Opera. Thank you to all of those who shared Betty’s journey. A celebration of her life will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church, Red Deer, on Saturday September 28, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. with Betty’s dear friend Rev. Bert de Bruijn conducting the service. Memorial donations may be made to: Operation Smile, Box 235, Station M, Markham, Ontario, L3P 3J7.

STEWART Darren Stewart’s family would like to express a heartfelt thanks to all who reached out to us at this time.

Thank you for all the kind words, thoughts and prayers.

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A sincere thank you to Marlon Wombold, Judy Farwell and St. Augustine’s Church for the compassionate help and support given to our family.

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Friends and associates both professional and personal are invited to stop by and give Steve one last handshake for old times’ sake. 1 pm to 5 pm on Sunday, September 29, 2013.

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24 ISHERWOOD CLOSE Sept. 20, 3-7, Sept. 21, 9-3 Multi family. Books, ladies clothing, household extras, small furniture, lots more.

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PRICE Brenda Lee Ann 1958 - 2013 It is with heartfelt sadness that the family of Brenda Lee Ann Price announce her p a s s i n g o n W e d n e s d a y, September 18, 2013 at the age of 55 years. Brenda will be forever missed by her loving husband Terry, and her two daughters; Melissa and Kathleen, her two very special grandchildren; Dominic and Rylan. She will also be missed by all of her family and friends. A memorial service for Brenda will be held at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel on Monday, September 23, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. Memorial donations in Brenda’s memory can be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6.

As a special tribute to Brenda, she had requested all those who wished, to plant a tree to keep her memory alive.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

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Accounting

1010

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

Cleaning

1070

Eavestroughing

1130

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542

Moving & Storage

1300

FANTASY

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

International ladies

Painters/ Decorators

Escorts

1165

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1200

ATT’N: Looking for a new sidewalk, help on small jobs around the house, such as small tree cutting, landscaping, painting or flooring?

Call James 403-341-0617 GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

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

Massage Therapy

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d)

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

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EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

587-877-7399 10am-midnight P/T CLEANING HELP REQUIRED Afternoons to LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* Evenings, Sunday-Thursday. INDEPENDENT w/own car Call 403-318-7625 VINYL SIDING CLEANING Eaves Trough Cleaned, Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

Pricing. 403-506-4822

Massage Therapy

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(FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

MASSAGE

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Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its Plumbing BEST! & Heating 403-986-6686 Come in and see ALBERTA SUMPS AND why we are the talk PUMPS. Sales/Services/ Installation 780-781-6401 of the town. www.viimassage.biz

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving central AB. 403-318-4346

Seniors’ Services

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HELPING HANDS Home Support Ltd. for SENIORS. Companionship, cleaning, cooking - in home, in facility.

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Window Cleaning

1420

WINDOW CLEANING. Outside / Inside / Both.

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770

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780

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HAIR THAT ROXS High end salon looking for a talented and self-motivated individual to join our team. We offer education and training. If you want to control your career, we are the right employer for you.

Email resume to: hairthatroxs@hotmail.ca JUST CUTS is looking for F/T HAIRSTYLIST No clientele necessary.

Call Jen at 403-340-1447 or Christie 403-309-2494 NEW IMPRESSIONS SALON & SPA Seeking F/T Hair Stylist Drop off resume to 190 Northey Ave.

Oilfield

CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr.

Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463

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A position for an RNor LPN is avail. for one day a week (Wed.) We offer a friendly working environment and staff. Please bring your resume to 215-5201-43rd St. Red Deer or fax to 403- 341-3599

P/T Dental Receptionist required, dental experience an asset. Day Dental, Innisfail. Send resume to admin@daydental.ca

Farm Work

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Glass LLP t/a Altalaw If you fit these requireOur firm is expanding!

Legal Assistant positions in ments, please forward your resume to: Litigation, Real Estate, rosanne@schnell-law.com Wills & Estates and or fax to 403-340-0520 to Corporate/Commercial are the attention of available. Competitive Rosanne Benoit. salaries, great benefits in a good working environment We appreciate your application but will only contact is offered. Please email those chosen for an interview. your resume to the Office manager at ssimmons@ altalaw.ca Only candidates on the short list will be contacted for interviews.

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Fluid Experts Ltd.

Fluid Experts of Red Deer is seeking experienced 1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

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

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Instream Integrity Inc. is currently looking for a full time pipeline integrity technician (this position includes monitoring pig progress in pipelines, AGM placement as well as extensive travel). Must be 21 years of age with a clean drivers abstract.

Position available immediately. Please send resume to Kelly@instreamintegrity. com

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Class 1 Operators

to haul clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry. Home every night, company benefits with exceptional pay structure. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

Compensation based on experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

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

CLASS 1 DRIVER needed for small acid hauling company based out of Red Deer. Drivers need 3 years previous oil field hauling experience and should live within 1/2 hour of Red Deer. We offer safety training and benefits as well as job bonuses.

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EXPANDING accounting office is accepting resumes for skilled accounting technicians. Positive attitude, ethics, and good work habits are essential.

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EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS

requires OPTICAL ASSISTANT Training provided.

Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB.

Restaurant/ Hotel

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SALES ASSOCIATE IRIS is expanding and we are looking for an outgoing, energetic Optician in our Red Deer location. We will also consider training applicants as opticians provided they possess sales experience and can demonstrate enthusiasm and passion for what they do in their work and community. Also greet customers, book appointments & various other tasks.

Drop resume off to: Kayla Macaulay, Manager IRIS is Canada’s largest eyecare provider with over 165 locations across the country. IRIS features the finest fashion frames, lenses from the world’s leading manufacturer’s and laser vision correction.

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com

Trades DENNY’S IS NOW HIRING Viking Projects Ltd. is located in Lacombe, Alberta and services all of Western Canada. We specialize in a variety of pipeline, facility and reclamation services.

FOR ALL POSITIONS. MUST BE AVAIL. ON WEEKENDS. BENEFITS AFTER 6 MONTHS Apply in Person!!

We are looking for:

PIPELINE PERSONNEL and HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS

GOLDEN DRAGON RESTAURANT HIRING Waitress & Dishwasher.

For application please call 403-348-0081 or apply with-in.

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ORIGINAL Joe’s Restaurant & Bar is hiring experienced Line Cooks, starting wage $13 - $16/hr based on exper. We offer competitive wages with tips and a benefit package after 3 months. We also have opportunities to move up quickly! Please apply in person after 2:00 pm.

Pho Thuy Duong Vietnamese Restaurant hiring F/T kitchen help. $12./hr. Open avail.. Eves. & weekends. Please drop resume at Bay #4, 5108 52 St.

Apply by: Fax: (403) 341-3820 or in person at Downtown KFC 4834-53 St., Red Deer

QUEENS DINER REQ’S P/T DISHWASHER Hours are Mon.- Fri. 6:30-4 & Sat. 8-2:30 pm Drop off resume any time after 1 & before 4, Mon-Fri. 34 Burnt Basin St, Red Deer Fax: 403-347-2925 email: accuracyonlineoffice @gmail.com RED DER BINGO CENTRE IS NOW HIRING CONSCESSION COOKS 2 positions avail. 35-40 hrs/wk. Exp. pref. Must be 18 yrs or older. Email: ognib@telus.net or apply in person to 4946 53 Ave. THE CITIZEN’S DOWNTOWN HOUSE Req’s P/T Cook, Mon-Fri. Drop off resume at 5414 43 Street Attn: Debbie

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NOW HIRING G.M. Tech or ASEP - With good communications skill and work ethics - Work with Award winning G.M. dealership in Lacombe Alberta - Good hours & bonus for production - Training provided.

Apply to: Bert Rumsey, Service Manager Email: bert.rumsey@telus.net

ARROW ARC WELDING is looking for WELDING APPRENTICE LOCATED BY Gull Lake.

Phone Brian 403-318-6760

BRAATT CONST.

Of Red Deer is seeking exp’d. carpenters for the agricultural industry. Must have drivers license. Call Brad 403-588-8588

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Restaurant/ Hotel

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Looking for Part/Full Time BARTENDER/SERVER. Apply with resume to 3811 40 Ave, Red Deer

Viking Projects Ltd. offers competitive wages, WHMSI and TDG tickets done in house.

Safety Tickets required: - H2S, CSTS/PST, First Aid, and Ground Disturbance - Valid driver’s licence an asset

Email: reception@vikingprojects.ca Fax: 403-782-6856 3412 53rd Ave., Lacombe, AB T4L OB5 Phone: 403-782-2756 Website: www.vikingprojects.ca

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Night Supervisors

Sales & Distributors

(2-4yrs experience)

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Trades

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THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T DISHWASHER F/T COCKTAIL SERVER and DININGROOM SERVER Must have experience!

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

C & C COATINGS in Innisfail is seeking F/T Laborers, duties include prepping, sanding and power coating and also seeking f/t sandblasters., Competitive wages and benefits. Fax resume to: 403-227-1165 or email bslager@telus.net CHILES SANDBLASTING & PAINTING REQ’S I Labourer & 1 Prepper, exp. would be an asset, must have own transportation. Wage is $15 - $18/hr.

Please submit resume by fax: 403-340-3800 DUE TO A LARGE INCREASE IN BUSINESS,

PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET

is currently seeking JOURNEYMAN AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS & SERVICE ADVISORS. We offer competitive wages, a great working environment, and a great benefit package.

Please email resume to Joey Huckabone joey@pikewheatonchev.ca

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GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

NEWCART CONTRACTING (1993)LTD

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pipefitter/apprentice, experienced turnaround/shutdown personnel

Requires

Red Deer Advocate Classified: WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floor hands for the Red Deer area.

Please email: jwalsh@galleonrigs.com or Fax (403) 358-3326

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

Is currently recruiting

for an upcoming turnaround project to start work immediately. The successful candidates must have experience or related experience in a similar field with the blinding and de-blinding and buffing of vessels.

Newcart Contracting is offering competitive wages and additional incentives for the duration JEETS PLUMBING of the project. There are no & HEATING 1st or 2nd Year Apprentice. fly in/fly out for this project.

This project is in a camp Competitive wages. Fax setting; therefore, no LOA resume: 403-356-0244 will be provided.

REQUIREMENTS: JOURNEYMAN H.D. MECHANIC req’d immed. The successful candidates must have or willing to for very busy heavy equip. acquire the following sales lot in Innisfail. safety tickets prior to the Wage range $25. - $35/hr start date of Sept. 23 depending on exp.

• H2S Alive Preference will be given • Confined Space to those with previous equipment rental service, • CSTS When applying, please lifts and off road quote “ CAMP PROJECT construction equipment or LOA PROJECT” experience. Fax resume in the subject line. If you to 403-227-5701 or email: are interested in joining a bouvier9@telus.net growing industrial construction company, please forward a copy of your resume, along with the safety tickets mentioned above with the attention of HR to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com LINE LOCATING Failure to apply with the ASSISTANT required documents or in REQUIRED the way specified by the Central Line Locating req’s employer, will not guarana locator assistant. No tee an offer of employment experience necessary, willing to train. Must be physically fit. Working Pro-Water Conditioning in varied hours. Send Lacombe seeks a highly resumes to: office@ motivated individual to centrallinelocating.com install and service water Fax 403-747-3535 treatment equipment, Office: 403-747-3017 pumps and pressure systems. Experience with LOCAL certified trailer Auto Trol and Fleck is an manufacturer looking to fill asset. Resumes to the following positions: lori7151@me.com Lead Frame Foreman Framer helpers with experience Journeyman Carpenters SHEET Metal Installer Carpenter helpers with for HVAC Company. experience Residential or retro-fit exp.

General Tradesmen with req’d. Great benefit pkg. experience in various ALSO, Shop helper reaspects of construction quired.

E-MAIL resume to: industry. info@comfortecheating.

Indoor, year-round work, top wages and top benefit com or fax: 403-309-8302 packages.

Please email resume to inquiries@sheltersrus.ca Shipper / Receiver or call Mike between the AES INDUSTRIAL hours of 8AM-8PM SUPPLIES LTD. Monday to Friday looking for an energetic/ 587-679-3776 enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Local company looking for Fax resume to experienced residential 403-342-0233 and commercial service technician with current Alberta gas/plumbing ticket. Benefit package after 3 SHOP PERSONNEL months, wages based on Req’d immed. Reliable HD experience. Email: mechanics, apprentices info@serviceplumbing.ca and shop hands for Alix or fax to (403) 342-2025 area shop. Successful applicant will be physically LPS Crane Services is fit (heavy lifting occurs on looking for: Journeyman a daily basis) mechanically Crane Operators, Boom inclined with working Truck Operators and knowledge of the tools Apprentices. We are a growing company wanting used in the trade. Reliable transportation is also hardworking motivated req’d as there is no public individuals who are looking transit. Set Mon.-Fri. for a safe, exciting career 8:30-5:00 work week with opportunities to (evenings, weekends, and advance. We offer a holidays off). Competitive competitive compensation pay, health benefits, and package with Group Health stable year round work and Dental benefits. Must with no layoffs. Please fax have a valid Drivers resume to 403-784-2330 license. Please email resume to admin@lpscrane.ca

PLUMBING APPRENTICES WANTED

Busy Local Plumbing Company is currently hiring. Residential experience an asset.

Comp wages and group benefits. Email your resume to kafonda@telus. net or fax (403)887-2208.

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2nd & 3rd Year Apprentice We are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic, goal orientated team players to join our fast paced growing team!

Vessel experience is an asset.

Please forward your resume to Fax: 403-347-7867

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CLASS 1 FLAT DECK Duane’s Trucking Ltd is seeking exp’d Class 1 drivers. Working knowledge of load securement is crucial as we only transport 53’ flat deck trailers throughout the western provinces (BC, AB, SK, MB) Successful candidate will also be up to date with Federal HOS, have to have ability to maintain LEGAL log books, be polite, punctual and courteous as well as respectful to company equipment. We offer steady year round work with no lay offs, a company benefits package, competitive pay and achievable drivers incentive bonuses.

Please fax resume with a recent CDA to 403-784-2330

Truckers/ Drivers

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WANTED: Exp’d driver with clean Class 1 license for Super B work in Central Alberta. F/T, benefits.

Fax resume and current driver’s abstract to 403-728-3902. or 746-5794 or email mrmike71@hotmail.com

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk (Reliable vehicle needed) CLEARVIEW AREA Carroll Cres. & Chappel Dr. area $519/mo DEER PARK AREA Douglas & Duston St. Area $557/mo.

DRIVER req’d. for city & rural deliveries, must be able to work alone and with others. Duties incl. driving, shipping/receiving and customer service.

Class 3 with air ticket and abstract is req’d. Drop resume off at Weldco #11, 7491 49th Ave. or fax to 403-346-1065. No phone calls please. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

EASTVIEW AREA 108 Papers $578/mo.

MICHENER AREA 134 Papers $793/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

NEED experienced Class 1 drivers for short and long haul. Part time weekdays.

Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC. Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743

Spanky’s Transit Mix is looking for concrete truck drivers. Call Gary 403-396-5993

Truckers/ Drivers

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery in WESTPARK & WESTLAKE AREAS Please call Quitcy at 403-314-4316

860

To serve our customers, we have career opportunities for:

MECHANICS req’d for busy transmission shop.

Allison Transmissions exp. an asset but will train.

Exc. wages and benefits available. Fax resume to: 403-885-2556 Micron Industries is a licensed inspection facility in Red Deer specializing in cryogenic tank repairs, currently seeking a Mechanic with HD, Hydraulic and Hose crimping experience. Must have their own tools.

Weekdays 7:00 to 4:30.

Excellent working conditions & benefits after 3 months. Fax resume to (403) 346-2072 or email admin@micronindustries. ca

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Trades

TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

QUALIFIED JOURNEYMAN 2rd and 4th yr.

ELECTRICIANS With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

Class 1 Drivers Highway LCV As an integral part of our TEAM, you will benefit from a total reward philosophy, which includes a competitive wage, Superior group benefits, RRSP Program, an annual performance and safety awards program as well as a whole lot of Rewarding FUN. Submit your résumé and abstract to: Hi-Way 9 Express Ltd. 4120-78 St. Crescent Red Deer, AB T4P 3E8 Fax: 403-823-4282 Email : employment@hi-way9.com

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URS FLINT TUBULAR MANAGEMENT SERVICES requires Tubing Inspection operator, manual lathe operator, and Shop & Yard Laborers. Exp. an asset but will train to suit.

Competitive wages and benefits. Apply w/resume to: 4115 Henry St. (Blindman Industrial Park)

Oilfield

880

EAGLE Builders LP, a concrete Erecting Company based out of Blackfalds requires a hard working, motivated individual to fill a full-time welding position at our company. The successful candidate will be a 2nd or 3rd year apprentice and must be a SMAW CWB qualified welder. There will be on the job training. Must also be able to travel. All meals and hotel expenses are paid when out of town.

Applicant must have reliable transportation to and from work and a valid class 5 driver’s license.

Successful applicant must provide an up to date drivers abstract. Construction experience an asset. Full benefits provided. Starting wages based on experience. Fax resumes to 403 885 5516 or e-mail at HR@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants for their applications, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

F/T PAINTER

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a well experienced F/T BARTENDER. GOOD WAGES. Must have Ref’s & Exp. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Commercial/Residential Experience required.

Vehicle required.

Contact Drew at CCL 403-596-1829 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

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

BOWER AREA WESTPARK AREA

ANDERS AREA

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Abbott Close Allan St. Allan Close

Use our unique Attention Getters and make your ad a winner.

Call: Classifieds

INGLEWOOD AREA

GENERAL MAINTENANCE person req’d. Exp. a must.

Please email resume to: lsservices@live.com

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JOB HUNTING? Read the Classifieds. 309-3300.

Long lose Law Close/ Lewis Close Langford Cres.

Addington Drive SUNNYBROOK AREA

VANIER AREA Visser St. Vanson Close

FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGER PART-TIME

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

An exciting, fast-paced and multi-faceted position with the Memorial Arts Centre/Central Alberta Theatre.

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Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Front of House Manager is responsible for the operation of the Front of House areas including the lobby, auditorium and concession. This position encompasses bar/concession management, volunteer training and coordination for many varied events including newsletter composition.

Candidates will have experience with volunteers, practical knowledge of theatre environment, excellent interpersonal, organizational and management skills. Proficiency in or able to learn the operation/ development of a concession POS system.

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 IMMED. POSISTION for F/T owner/operator Courier. for local delivery company.

Small pick-up or mini van would be the ideal vehicle.

Reply w/resume by fax: 403-342-7636 or email denw70@hotmail.com

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Contract position includes evening, weekends and split shifts.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in

LANCASTER AREA

Sherwood Cres./ Stanhope Ave.

880

For information or to apply; send resume and cover letter to: daniel@mycoasttheatre.com or by fax to 403-341-3356.

LOOKING for laborers and flaggers for road construction. Fax 403-309-0489

CLEARVIEW AREA Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $180/mo.

ALSO Castle Cres., Clark Cres. & Crawford St. $141/mo.

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Connaught Cres. & Cooper Close area $192/mo.

INNISFAIL

DEERPARK AREA Denovan Cres., Dickenson Cres & Davison Dr. Area $201/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA 44A Ave. & 35 St. Area $237/mo.

ALSO Spruce Drive & Springbett Dr. AND 43A Ave. between 37 St. & 39 St. and 43 Ave. between 35 St. & 39 St. $180/mo ALSO 42 Ave. between 35 St. & 39 St. AND 41 Ave. between 36 to 38 St. $196/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Roche St. & 3 Blocks of Roland St. $54/mo.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

ALSO Timberstone Way, Talson Pl., Thomas Pl., Thompson Cl., Trimble Cl., Traptow Cl. $200/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in OLDS Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE REP in green drycleaners.

Must be able to work some evenings until 7 p.m. & some Saturday. $13.50/hr Call Shannon 403-550-7440

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303 Red Deer Public School District requires an Information Technology Assistant at Hunting Hills High School. For more information visit our website at www.rdpsd.ab.ca

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WESCLEAN - Red Deer SHIPPER/ RECEIVER / INSIDE SALES req’d.

Competitive wages, full benefits, forkilft exp. preferred. Dangerous goods exp. preferred.

Familiar with shipping/ receiving procedures.

Able to lift 30-60 lbs.

Basic computer skills an asset. Must have a good personality and easy to work with .

Drop resume off at # 7, 7973 49 AVE. or email to: mdoll@wesclean.com or fax to 403-347-8803

Employment Training

900

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Plant Laborer

403.341.4544

Job Description As a critical member of our operational team, you will be required to perform tasks including climbing above three meters, loading and unloading of chemicals, some heavy lifting and general housekeeping and laborer tasks.

Qualifications Required: We are looking for workers experienced in handling chemicals, equipment use and maintenance. CFR is offering an excellent benefits package with the company matching RRSP ■ ■ contributions while providing all required training (certifications).

Workers are required to provide personal transportation with a valid “Alberta” driver’s license. Drug and alcohol policy is effect with pre-employment testing.

Please forward your resume to Dave Oyka at doyka@cfrchemicals.com Starting Wage:$17.50/hr Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to join an enthusiastic and rapidly expanding company.

General labourers

are needed to do framing, cleaning, reinforcing, pouring and other precast related jobs. All applicants must be flexible for hours and dedicated due to a demanding production schedule. Benefits are paid and lots of overtime.

Own transportation to work is needed. Please fax resume to 403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca. We thank all applicants for their applications, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

SHOP HELPER required for busy HVAC company.

E-MAIL resume to: info@ comfortecheating.com or fax: 403-309-8302 SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

WAREHOUSE HELP WANTED For Oilfield Manufacturing Facility

JUNIOR WAREHOUSE/ SHIPPER & RECIEVER Experience and knowledge is an asset.

We are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic, goal orientated team players To join our fast paced growing team!

Please forward your resume by fax to 403-347-7867

For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of:

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SAFETY

Isherwood Close Inglis Cres.

Iverson Close

309-3300 F/T sales and customer service associate, bilingual French/English an asset.

Hourly wage plus benefits. email: careers@buyairsoft.ca

880

CARRIERS NEEDED

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

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Warehouse Shipper/ Receiver

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem)

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

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Multiple Estate Auction Sunday Sept. 22 Ten O’clock am * Viewing 9 am Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Partial List only 1947 Packard Deluxe Clipper, Touring Sedan, Very clean car and runs great – 2000 F150, Extended Cab – 1994 Oldsmobile 88 Royale – 1986 Skidoo Citation LS – 2011 Massey Ferguson Tractor with Bucket, 3 pt Hitch, Rear Hydraulics, Cab, Air, Heater - John Deere Utility Tractor with Bucket, 3 pt Hitch - 2008 Arctic Cat Prowler Side by Side 116 hours - Snowbear 14 ft Trailer, Single Axle - International 354 Tractor, 3 pt Hitch, Live PTO - Acreage Sprayer – 3 pt. Hitch Rototiller - 7 ft.

Cultivator - 6 ft. Landscape Rack - Farm King 7 ft.

Blade - Inland 6 ft. Snow Blower - 6 ft. Breaking Disc, – 3 pt Hitch Finishing Mower – Antiques & Collectibles – Furniture – Miscellaneous – Tools – and Much More Next Sale October 27 For a complete list and Directions visit www. cherryhillauction.com Terms of Sale: Cash, Cheque, C/C, Everything must be paid for & removed on sale day (NO EXCEPTIONS), 15% buyer’s premium.

Sale subject to Additions, Deletions, Errors and Omissions.

Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals Phone 403-342-2514 or 403-347-8988

Computers

1600

19” HP Computer Monitor $60 obo. 403-782-3847

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

Firewood

1660

Competitive starting wages AFFORDABLE plus regular increases.

Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. Excellent benefits 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 package. Opportunities to advance. Must be FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, dependable, hardworking Poplar. Can deliver and seeking a long-term 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 career. Apply in person, or email to: LOGS hartleytj@eecol.com Semi loads of pine, spruce, 4747 - 61st Street tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

WEEKEND dispatchers Lil Mule Logging req’d. immediately.

403-318-4346 Knowledge of Red Deer essential. Will require good Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner verbal and written commu- BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / nication skills. Fax resume del. Lyle 403-783-2275 to 403-346-0295 SPLIT Dry Firewood. Delivery avail (403)845-8989

Garden Supplies

1680

COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE 6’-20’ , equipment for digging, wrapping, basketing, hauling and planting. J/V Tree Farm.

John 403-350-6439.

Household Furnishings

1720

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 WOOD / PLASTIC WARDROBE 20d x 36w x 72 h $25 WOODEN WARDROBE sliding doors, top shelf 20d x 48w x 72h, $80 WHITE LAMINATE PANTRY 4 movable shelves 16d x 30w x 60h, $40.

L-SHAPE COMPUTER DESK w/2 upper & 2 lowers cabinets, cherry finish, $40.

403-347-4727

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

PS2 w/10 games, $60 obo.

SURROUND SOUND Stereo package $100.

XBOX w/15 games $70 obo 403-782-3847

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1720

2 SMALL white cabinets, can be used as end tables/ printer stands $15/ea. or 2/$25; approx. 10 office room dividers 4’ x 6’, $50/all; antique couch and chair, blue & gold $175 offers 780-884-5441 5 YR. old table w/8 chairs and china cabinet $1000 403-596-3532 BEDROOM SET, solid oak, bed, dresser w/mirror and high boy. $200.

403-357-9363 LOVESEAT, beige; 2 La-Z-Boy leather Chairs, beige; 1 chair & ottoman, red. $200 for everything.

403-346-4811 UPPER & LOWER 6’ BANK OF DABINETS w/counter top. Nice finish, or can be painted/stained.

Exc. cond. Suitable for cabin or garage. $200.

403-347-4727

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2 BDRM. APT. CONDO Call 1-403-462-9999 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Manufactured Homes

3040

FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

LOOKER OFFICE FURNITURE ANNUAL GARAGE SALE ON NOW TILL OCT. 26!

Tues. - Sat. 11 am - 6 pm #3 - 5015-48 St. Red Deer (next to CNIB and across from Original Joes) Workstations, desks, task chairs, guest chairs, dividing panels, file cabinets and more!!

BLOWOUT PRICES!!!!

Please call 403-346-8827† for more information.

1840

Dogs

F1 & F1B LABRA DOODLE & GOLDEN DOODLE puppies. Visit www.furfettishfarm.ca text 306-521-1371 or call 403-919-1370

Sporting Goods

1860

3060

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 40 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1600, D.D. $1600. 403-341-4627 NEWLY refinished 3 bdrm. duplex, fenced yard, close to schools, avail. Sept. 17, $1200 + utils, Sylvan Lake 780-887-4430 SYLVAN LAKE private 1 bdrm., light housekeeping, bedding, dishes, cable incld’s all utils. $700./mo.

403-880-0210

MacKenzie Ranch Lacombe

Spec homes. 3 bdrm., 2.5 bath. Ready for you to choose your flooring & colours. 403-588-8820

MOVE IN TODAY 4 Brand New Homes

*1400 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage *1335 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage *1320 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage Call Kyle Lygas 403-588-2550 $10,000 Move-In Allowance MASON MARTIN HOMES

New in Sylvan Lake

3 bdrm/2 bath NEW LAEBON home is sure to please.

Open concept floor plan. $299,900 Call Jennifer 403-392-6841

RISER HOMES 1 ONLY! Ready to move into

NOW READY!

BLACKFALDS - 2 storey, 3 bdrms. 2.5 baths, with flex room, dble. att. garage, beautiful master bath, hardwood, tile, indoor/outdoor fireplace, much much more. Incl. legal fees, GST, appls., front sod & tree. $397,500 Lloyd 403-391-9294

RISER HOMES

New 2300 sq.ft. developed 4 Level Split 4 bdrms., 3 bath, walk-out.

In McKay Ranch.

A MUST SEE! $340,000.

Incl. legal fees, GST, appls., front sod & tree.

Lloyd 403-391-9294

N/S, executive home, all utils incl + high spd. internet & digital cable. $600/mo + d.d. 403-357-0320

Rooms For Rent

3090

1 BDRM. bsmt, prefer employed or student. Avail. immed 342-7789 /396-7941

Offices

3110

APPROX. 1000 sq. ft. avail. Jan. 1, downtown Red Deer (sub lease).

Anchor tenant is professional services firm. Office space inclds. 3 offices, kitchen, bathroom, access to boardroom, 2 monthly parking stalls avail. directly on location. Call Dave 403-342-5900

Mobile Lot

3190

Value Packed Home

3 bdrm/3 bath 2 storey home in Timberstone.

Large kitchen with island & stainless steel appliances $439,900 Call Chris 403-392-7118

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

Condos/ Townhouses

Houses/ Duplexes

Acreages

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Realtors & Services

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MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2550 ONE LEFT!

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

Looking for a 3 bdrm. home.

Allows dogs, cat and 3 children. Need a place by the end of the month.

Call Victoria 403-864-2411 BODY Solid equip. Pd. $1800. Asking $800 obo., Exc. cond. 403-597-3958 Cash Only SKIS, Rossignol cross country with poles, like new. $25. 1 Set of Head, cross country skis with poles $25. 587-273-2528

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

ORIOLE PARK

3080

1800

4020

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1125. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. Oct 1. 403-304-5337

THE NORDIC

Office Supplies

Houses For Sale

Newly Reno’d Mobile *1500 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage

MORRISROE MANOR

1710

Household Furnishings

Condos/ Townhouses

8x8 SCREEN HOUSE - Dome Tent - New, never Suites used. $50. 403-343-6044 ELECTRIC Model Char LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. Broil round BBQ grill on SUITES. 25+, adults only 36” stand on wheels, like n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 n e w, i d e a l f o r c o n d o $60 403-340-8199 HOUSEPLANTS TO GIVE 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

AWAY Adult bldg. N/S No pets Huge spider plant, 403-755-9852 Swedish ivy, wandering jews.

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL Will trade for empty Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., hanging baskets. balcony, No pets. $800 403-358-5599 rent/SD, heat/water incld., KARRIT Cartop luggage 403-346-5885 carrier, like new, $75; 20’ RErmineskin Arizona room good cond. $100.

403-396-2528 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, KIDDER slalom ski $50; N/S. No pets. snow machine 403-596-2444 helmet/heated shield $20; 8” hand ice auger $35; Weber electric paint Roommates sprayer, brand new Wanted $40 403-597-6580 SINGLE ELECTRIC KENTWOOD, prefer oil rig BLANKET $40 obo worker, $550/rent/+SD 403-782-3847 incld’s utils. 403-307-2664

SMALL SQUARE HAY and straw 403-340-3061 TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry Household and covered, $5/bale Appliances Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 DEEP FREEZE, Frigidaire, WILL do Custom Baling. smaller size. Good cond. JD round net or string wrap.

403-342-0891 or 340-9111 $75. 587-273-2528

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4010

1.22 ACRES

5 min. W. of Red Deer.

Private, peaceful. This 3 bdrm., 2 bath bi-level home has it all. Many upgrades, lrg. kitchen, family room, big windows for all that natural light. Fully dev. bsmt. w/walk-out. $557.900.

Shanda, Maxwell Real Estate Solutions 403-391-3597 2001/5 BR/3 Bath/ Ranch style bungalow , ICF Block, att. 28 x 33 heated garage; 40 x 48-2bay heated shop; 30 x 40 barn;X fenced;East Of Lacombe HWY #815/ TWP RD 410 $879,900 Call or Text 403-391-0383/www.

33acreslacombecountyab. com

Farms/ Land

4070

LAND FOR SALE - Central AB. 1/2 m off Hwy 12.

SE24-40-24-W4.

Power & Water 100 acres of farm land Call 403-747-2168

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

4020

4090

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

BENTLEY HOUSE FOR SALE, 4622 49 Ave. Ready for occupancy.

Call 403-877-5052

Deer park bungalow with legal suite, private entrance, 2 car garage, seperate laundry, completely reno’d, includes all appls, $329,000

Open House

95 Dawson St. Sat. & Sun. Sept. 21 & 22, 2-5 403-340-3370

ONLY $3000 DOWN $795/MO.

Includes lot rent, taxes and payment O.A.C. 16 wide, totally upgraded, 3 bdrms, 2 bath, new stainless steel appls, 2 decks, 15 x 15 shed, in Benalto. Call Jack @Sutton 403-357-4156

Open House Directory

Tour These Fine Homes SE Red Deer

4280

Sat. Sept. 21st, 2-5 p.m.

45 RICHARDS CRES Large bungalow, 4 bdrm., 3 baths. 24x26 garage. $458,000. Century 21, Dan Wind 403-341-0294

Out Of Red Deer

4310

SERGE’S HOMES 17 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS Sat. & Sun. Sept. 21 & 22 1 pm - 5 pm 1980 sq. ft. 2 storey walk out. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

YOU can sell it fast with a person-to-person want ad in the Red Deer Advocate Classifieds. Phone 309-3300

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 D9

Commercial Property

4110

Lots For Sale

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

4160

LARGE LOTS

Money To Loan

4430

Private Mortgages Our Rates start at 8%. We lend on Equity. Bus. For Self & Bruised Credit Ok. Ron Lewis 403 819 2436

Residential & duplex. $100,000 down.

Builder terms.

Phone 403-588-8820

MacKenzie Ranch, Lacombe $450 per pad. Also spec models. 3 bdrm., 2 bath.

Under $100,000 403-588-8820

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2007 SATURN I0N auto, p. windows/doors, as nice as new, low mileage, only 54,000 kms, $7900 obo 403-346-7804

Cars

5030

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

at www.garymoe.com

CLASSIFICATIONS PLACE an ad in Central Alber ta LIFE and reach over 100,000 potential buyers. 309-3300.

Cars

Locally owned and family operated 2008 BMW 535xi $29,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

2009 GMC W3500 12’ Cube Van c/w Power Tail Gate

SUV's

2008 BMW X5 4.8i. Pano Roof, Nav, DVD 67,566 km $36,888 AS&I 403-348-8788

Asking $10,200.

403-302-1138 (Red Deer)

Stk# 20832A, 20832A 52 52,000 000 Kms Kms, auto, fully equipped with power tailgate

2008 SANTA FE. Basically loaded. Set of winter tires, on rims. 161,000 km. $11,500 obo. 403-848-1377

$

28,995

2006 COROLLA CE. exc. cond. 78,000. kims.

Offers. 403-392-5628

CALL TODAY! THIS UNIT WON’T BE AROUND LONG.

1-877-399-1760 1824 - 49 Ave. Red Deer

www.honda.reddeer.ca

2008 LAND ROVER SE LR 2, 4X4, sunroofs, $19888 348-8788 Sport & Import

EASY!

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

Tenders

5050

4x4 black with grey interior 4 cyl. 4 spd. Clean, great cond. 59,500 kms. $20,500 Call 403-396-5516

Arthritis 101

September 25 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Chronic Pain Management Workshop October 17 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Red Deer Public Library, Dawe Branch Please register in advance to assure seating

Online: www.arthritis.ca/ab Phone: 1-800-321-1433

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2006 TUSCON V6 only 23,700 kms, $12,300 403-346-2867

2010 CHEV Silverado 1500 LT 4X4, Z-71 $22,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2005 NISSAN X-Trail 4wd. New tires, extra set of rims & tires. Remote start, 5 spd. man., 137,000 km. $9750. 403-340-2098

2007 DURAMAX, 197,000 kms., crew cab, 4x4, l/b, $14,800. 403-348-9746

2000 FORD EXPLORER Sport 4x4, V6, auto. $1500 obo. 403-342-1235

2005 CHEV crew cab, loaded w/leather 197,000 kms, good cond. $6300 403-348-9746

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2011 F-350 Lariat Diesel.

Loaded + spare fuel/toolbox & 5th wheel hitch. $53,000 obo. 403-347-5947

2011 CARDINAL 38’.

Only used once. Top line. $56.000 obo. 403-347-5947

5190

Auto Wreckers

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

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Wolf Creek Public Schools Offers under seal will be received by Group2 Architecture Interior Design Ltd; located at 200, 4706 – 48 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 6J4, before 2:01 p.m. local time on Thursday, September 26th, 2013, for the following project: Iron Ridge Elementary School Modular Addition This project includes the install of two Modus modular classrooms and connecting link.

General, Mechanical and Electrical, or other sub-trade contractors and suppliers may obtain their tender documents for the above named project on or after 2:00 p.m. Thursday, September 12th, 2013, from the offices of Group2 Architecture Interior Design Ltd., 200, 4706 - 48th Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 6J4.

If contractor is not a participant of the Plan Deposit Guarantee Program (PDGP), a CERTIFIED CHEQUE or MONEY ORDER for $200.00 made out to Group2 Architecture, will be required for each set of documents. This deposit will be returned, if the documents are returned in good condition within 14 days of the tender closing date.

General Contractor to furnish: a) Bid Bond in the amount of 10% of the Contract Price payable to the Owner, and; b) Consent of Surety stating that the surety is willing to furnish the required Performance and Labour and Materials Bonds.

All sub-contractors will close directly to the General Contractors.

All bids will be opened in public at the offices of the Group2 Architecture Interior Design Ltd. after closing.

Documents may be viewed at the offices of the Red Deer, Edmonton and Calgary Construction Associations, as well as from Coolnet Alberta @ http://www.coolnet.ab.ca or http://www. coolnetedmonton.ab.ca The owner reserves the right to accept an offer which is deemed most advantageous. The lowest or any offer will not necessarily be accepted.

Wolf Creek Public Schools Attn: Mr. Joe Henderson c/o Group2 Architecture Interior Design Ltd. 200, 4706 – 48 Avenue Red Deer, AB. T4N 6J4 Phone: 403.340.2200 Fax: 403.346.6570

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PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of DOROTHY IRENE MCGREGOR, also known as RENE MCGREGOR, who died on July 24, 2013.

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file with the undersigned by October 28, 2013, and provide details of your claim with: BRIAN S MACNAIRN Barrister & Solicitor 201, 5008 Ross Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y3 Solicitor For The Personal Representative Solicitor’s File: 13-2553-03 If you do not file by the date above, the Estate property can be lawfully distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

When you run in The Red Deer Advocate Classifieds:

Estate of

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• Your ad won’t get buried underneath new ads in a matter of hours.

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If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by

October 28, 2013 with

F. Murray Pritchard at Milne Pritchard Law Office #807, 400 - 4th Avenue South Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 4E1

and provide details of your claim.

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If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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Wise customers read the fine print: •, *, », § The All Out Clearout Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating dealers on or after September 4, 2013. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,595–$1,695) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees, other dealer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. •$20,748 Purchase Price applies to 2013 Dodge

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