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Mayoral candidates square off at forum

Gettin’ down and dirty CENTRAL ALBERTA RACEWAYS WAS THE PERFECT SETTING TO SHOOT THE VIDEO FOR THE ROAD HAMMERS’ UPCOMING SINGLE, MUD

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF The five contenders for the mayor’s job shared part of their vision for Red Deer at a short forum hosted at the Golden Circle on Wednesday.

Mayor hopefuls — William Horn, Cindy Jefferies, Chad Mason, Dennis COUNCIL Trepanier and Tara Veer — followed CANDIDATES’ the crowded field of council can- FORUM A3 didates answering one question either about the arts, recreation fees, a 50-metre pool, transportation, crime or poverty.

Veer said she has a solid track record with three terms on council and has consistently demonstrated herself as an industrious worker who is passionate about Red Deer.

Veer said there are some steps to take to move forward or to resolve the question of the need for a 50-metre pool in Red Deer. She suggested exploring the existing Michener Centre site, reviewing the aquatic centre vision and proposed a scaled back version of the project.

“As mayor, I would not be willing to fully debt finance the entire project but would work with our community for federal and provincial corporate sponsorship and community fundraising,” said Veer.

“We could, of course, take on a municipal portion of the $50 million, but I fully believe we could establish a capital projects reserve.”

Jefferies shared some of her platform including improving transit, working with private sector investors to re-develop Riverlands and Railyards areas, and improving city amenities. She told the roughly 200 people that she is a leader with the courage to move this city forward.

Jefferies drew the question –– should user fees be set so that recreation facilities pay their way? Jefferies said recreation facilities serve a greater good and everyone benefits when people pursue recreation.

“I feel equitable access is critical,” Jefferies. “Access fees are prohibitive for some people at every level. It’s important to have programs that make access to recreation possible for all.”

Trepanier, a project manager, used his opening statements to highlight the “wanton wasteful spending of the last nine years” giving the bike lanes as an example.

In answering his question about the city’s role in supporting the arts, Trepanier said he would demand from anything, including the arts, a proper business analysis.

“No more tax increases,” promised Trepanier.

“Trend down. That’s what I stand for. No more debt.”

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The Road Hammers were at Rimbey’s Central Alberta Raceway this week to film the video for the second single from their upcoming album.

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF The Road Hammers are back, and they’re not afraid to get a little messy.

The popular country band returned from a threeyear hiatus in a big way at Rimbey’s Central Alberta Raceways this week. A big, muddy way.

The 2006 Juno-award winning trio was at the track to film the video for the second single from their upcoming album. With the rain falling on Monday and 40 trucks throwing up mud as they made their way down two drag pits, the track made for the perfect setting as the band gave their song Mud the video treatment.

“I’ve probably showered half a dozen times in the last two days, and I’m still pulling mud out of my ears,” laughed Clayton Bellamy, who is in the band with Jason McCoy and Chris Byrne.

Bellamy had a friend who was involved with the Rimbey track’s mud bogs, and the idea for staging the video at the site came together quickly. On Monday, drivers from as much as six hours away came out to tear up the track and appear in the video, despite the “crummy weather” on the day.

‘I’VE PROBABLY SHOWERED HALF A DOZEN TIMES IN THE LAST TWO DAYS, AND I’M STILL PULLING MUD OUT OF MY EARS.’ CLAYTON BELLAMY THE ROAD HAMMERS

“Mud is kind of focused on everything that has to do with four-by-fouring and being a kid and just getting in the dirt and getting messy and having fun,” said Bellamy of the song.

He said Rimbey and the driving community rallied around the video shoot to make it possible, with fans of the band across North America responding with excitement towards the prospect of a new record. Central Alberta Raceways president Cory Kincaid said he is expecting the music video will provide great exposure for the rural track.

“It’s going to be a real good promotion for our racetrack and facility, that’s for sure. We’re hoping to get them back here next summer to do a show,” said Kincaid.

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Bountiful crops have farmers scrambling for storage

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

With recent wet weather, the harvest that is not already in the bin has been delayed. This field southeast of Red Deer will have to dry out before machinery can once again work on the harvest.

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We all have regrets.

For Rick Hoogewoonink, it’s that he didn’t order more grain bags this year.

His Clyde-based Amity Welding and Fabricating Inc. and Amity Ag-Enterprises Inc., which supply the big plastic storage bags to customers from Red Deer north, have sold some 2,000 units this year.

That’s a 200 per cent increase over 2012, and the most Hoogewoonink has moved during his 21 years in the business.

The number could have been higher.

“We are right out of stock,” said Hoogewoonink, who grew up in Red Deer.

Keith Jones, manager of market strategy for grains and oilseeds with UFA Co-op Ltd., said UFA’s farm supply stores have also experienced a run on grain bags, as well as grain baggers, bins and bin rings.

“It’s the biggest grain storage year for quite a few years, for sure,” said Jones. “There’s no question.”

What’s got farmers scrambling to find places to keep their grain and oilseeds is one of the biggest crops in years.

Last week, Agriculture Financial Services Corp.

(AFSC) reported that yields in Central Alberta were 20 to 30 per cent above the five-year average. And farmers across the province were enjoying similar results.

“Most guys that we talk to, when you ask them about yields they’re usually pretty happy to tell you about them,” said Mark Cutts, a crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development’s Ag Info Centre in Stettler. “So that tells you that they’re good.”

The bountiful results appear to apply to all crops, added Cutts, who has also been hearing from producers who have maxed out their bin space.

“Quite a few guys have moved to the grain bags for storage.”

Hoogewoonink said 80 per cent of the bags his companies sell hold between 12,000 and 15,000 bushels each. He noted that some farmers are turning to other alternatives.

“A lot of guys are putting bales in a circular fashion and then filling that with grain and covering it with a silage cover.”

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Psychiatrist to assess man charged in shooting

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A man accused of firing a shotgun into the face of a convenience store clerk during a robbery was ordered by a judge on Wednesday to undergo psychiatric testing.

Jeffrey Lyle Geary, 30, is charged with attempted murder; using a prohibited weapon to commit robbery; possession of a prohibited weapon; possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, possession of a loaded prohibited weapon, and possession of a stolen prohibited weapon.

Police said a suspect armed with a sawed-off shot-

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BRIEF Electricity bills set to rise in January Electricity bills in Red Deer are set to rise in January.

On Monday, city council delayed the inevitable — a 20 per cent increase in the transmission portion on the bills. The increase will add about $5 to a typical monthly electric bill.

Expressing frustration with Alberta’s electricity system, council did not give third reading on the bylaw amendment. Council will consider third reading at its final meeting on Oct. 15 before the Oct. 21 municipal election.

The increase stems from the spike in the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) transmission costs.

They were set to increase by 35 per cent on Tuesday.

AESO recently received approval to increase their rates effective Oct. 1.

Jim Jorgensen, manager of city’s Electric Light and Power Department, said AESO normally applies for new rates every three years and depending on costs that are encountered over that time frame, they can apply for interim rates based on their budget projections for costs incurred. AESO’s next regular rate application will come in 2014.

“They have requested and were approved for in-

gun walked into the West Park Fas Gas shortly after 11 p.m. on Sept. 11 and demanded cash.

When the clerk placed money on the counter, the suspect fired the shotgun, hitting the clerk in the hand and face.

Jaysen Arancon Reyes is still recovering from his injuries in Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre. The 26-year-old came to Canada from Philippines as a temporary foreign worker and has worked at the Fas Gas since May. Defence lawyer Patty MacNaughton requested that Geary be given a psychiatric assessment to determine whether he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the alleged offence and may not have been criminally responsible.

MacNaughton said that at the time, her client ex-

hibited “very bizarre behaviour.”

He turned himself in to Blackfalds RCMP two days after the robbery.

Crown prosecutor Murray McPherson said he had no objections to the assessment.

Red Deer provincial court Judge Jim Hunter ordered Geary to be checked out at Alberta Hospital Edmonton.

Geary, who had appeared through closed-circuit TV from the Red Deer Remand Centre, is to return to court on Oct. 31. He will remain in custody.

A second suspect, Eric Michael Ayotte, 29, of no fixed address, faces a single charge of using a sawedoff shotgun to commit a robbery. He is due to appear in court today. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

terim rates starting in 2013 to address their cost projections for 2013 as well as 2014,” he said.

Jorgensen said as a result, the Electric Light and Power Department recommended a 20 per cent increase to the transmission portion of the bill starting on Jan. 1.

Jorgensen said a typical resident consuming 600 kilowatt hours and who pays $100 a month can expect to pay $5 or $6 more on their bill.

Jorgensen told council the situation is not unique to Red Deer. He said all services and customers in the province are responsible for transmission costs in the same way.

He said the costs are levied by the province for building, maintaining and operating the transmission infrastructure.

to Albertans include counselling for smoking cessation and a larger focus on medication management for diabetics.

Health Minister Fred Horne says the deal is a step forward in improving access to care and enabling pharmacists to provide even more services to Albertans.

Byron Bergh, president Alberta Pharmacists’ Association, says the financial package provides stable funding and ongoing access to high quality pharmacy care.

“Further it formalizes the relationship between pharmacists and government that will enable a better approach to dealing with agreements and new programs in the future, including proactive mechanisms to work through the challenges we jointly face,” Bergh said in a news release Wednesday.

Province, pharmacists, Blue Cross reach compensation deal EDMONTON — Alberta pharmacists and Alberta Blue Cross have reached a tentative agreement with the provincial government.

The agreement-in-principle includes four years of funding, changes to dispensing fees, a strengthened relationship between Alberta Health and the Alberta Pharmacists’ Association, and updated compensation fees for the services pharmacists provide to Albertans.

The agreement maintains Alberta’s position as a top investor in pharmacy services and, if approved, will come into effect on April 1, 2014.

Future pharmacy services that will be available

Man charged after car crashes head-on into taxi, injuring four people EDMONTON — Edmonton police have arrested a Grande Prairie man on hit-and-run charges following a head-on crash that sent four people to hospital.

One of the crash victims was in critical condition and clinging to life.

Police say a man drove a BMW car across the median of a city street and crashed into a taxi carrying four people. A man and a woman in the BMW then ran away. Police believe alcohol was a factor.

Chris Lindgren, 21, faces criminal hit-and-run and possession of stolen property charges and more charges are possible.

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ALBUM: ‘Really going to catch people’s ears’ The band stopped touring in 2010 and went on a hiatus while solo projects were worked on. This year, they started writing together again.

“We just decided rather than keeping going for the sake of keeping going, we wanted to put the brakes on it and make sure that the fun was still in The Road Hammers, because if that leaves there’s no Hammers,” he said.

Will they be producing the same kind of music this time around, though? Bellamy says no, sort of.

“Better!” he exclaimed, “This album has an energy like the first record. It’s really going to catch people’s ears and get them to want to crank it up and speed down the highway. That’s what The Road Hammers do.”

The first single, Get on Down the Road, which Bellamy described as “just a good ol’ fashioned road song,” will be released on Tuesday. Mud will be released shortly thereafter, and the full album is expected early in 2014.

Bellamy said a tour to promote the album is in the works. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

HARVEST: About 75% complete Cutts estimated that harvesting in Central Alberta was more than 75 per cent complete when this week’s cool, wet weather halted combining. With Environment Canada forecasting a return to sunny conditions by Friday, he’s optimistic farmers will soon

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People drove for up to six hours to tear up Rimbey’s Central Alberta Raceways and appear in The Road Hammer’s video, despite the “crummy weather” on the day. return to their fields. If that’s the case, crop quality shouldn’t suffer.

Right now, that quality looks very good. AFSC rated 90 per cent of the spring wheat, 92 per cent of the barley and 96 per cent of the canola in Central Alberta in the top two grades.

Prices have come down since last year, a consequence of the high yields and increased output of competing crops south of the border, like corn and soybeans. But the volumes Alberta farmers are enjoying should more than make up for the reduced values.

“If prices are down and yields are up, the math is probably still pretty favourable for most producers,” said Cutts.

He said the warm weather in recent weeks had a big impact on the 2013 crop — allowing it to mature quickly and giving producers a relatively uninter-

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rupted harvest period.

“Once harvest started up, until basically this week, if you had something to combine the weather hasn’t delayed that one little bit.”

Hoogewoonink is happy for his customers, although he wishes he had more grain bags to offer them. But, a shortage of product beats the alternative.

“We’ve had years where we’ve been stuck with a lot of inventory.”

Jones foresees another issue that could arise as a result of the big harvest.

“It’s going to put lots and lots of pressure on the grain transportation system, for sure,” he said. “But in the short term, the good news is there’s lots and lots of product out there for farmers and ranchers to sell.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Voters ask about bike lanes, pool ELECTION FORUM DRAWS OVER 200 TO HEAR CANDIDATES

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A crowd of over 200 people had the opportunity to start whittling down their choices for city council at an election forum at the Golden Circle on Wednesday night.

Candidate Dennis Moffat said voters in Red Deer have never had it so good.

“You’ve got 30 good candidates to choose from and if you can’t choose eight good ones out of 30, there’s something wrong with you,” Moffat said to laughter from the crowd of mostly seniors at the first candidate forum for the Oct. 21 municipal election.

Some people were turned away from the forum because the seniors centre was packed.

Several members of the audience stood the entire time the 29 candidates who attended took turns at the microphone during the marathon session that lasted an hour and 45 minutes.

Moffat didn’t wait to voice his opinion on Red Deer’s controversial bike lanes and earned a round of applause.

“I think the bicycles should stay on the sidewalks and not the roads.

They’re too dangerous,” said Moffat, a former city councillor.

After one minute introductions,

CANDIDATES FORUM each candidate randomly pulled one of eight questions out of a hat. Accommodating the growing number of residents using cycling as transportation was one of the questions a few candidates had to tackle.

Candidate Calvin Yzerman joked that the cyclists needed “prayer.”

He said as traffic has became heavier, he chose to ride his bike on sidewalks to be safe and suggested doublewide sidewalks, expanding the trail system and looking for better solutions when building new subdivisions.

Paul Harris, who was on city council trying to solve the cycling issue, said it was just like magic that he picked that question.

“My very first stance, and it’s still my stance, is that bike lanes should be safe and separated,” said Harris, an incumbent.

He said he has rented bikes to cycle in other cities and has found safe and separate lanes work.

Candidate Lloyd Johnson said the bike lane project should be shelved.

Building a 50-metre pool, if the province closes Michener Centre pool, had support from candidates who chose that question.

Judge quashes decision to bar groups from oilsands hearing

Candidate Ken Johnston said with Red Deer’s growing population the city has a “pool deficit” and he was in favour of a new pool as it would draw visitors and events.

“We are the only city in Western Canada with a population of about 45,000 people without access to a 50-metre pool,” Johnston said.

Incumbent Frank Wong said the city must be creative when it comes to funding and could partner with a corporation to construct a 50-metre pool.

Candidates that were asked if Red Deer should have a concert hall were mostly in favour of the project.

“If we are willing to pay for these things by having fundraising I would support it.

“Those things that improve the arts in Red Deer improve the lives of everyone who lives here. The one thing I would object to though is bringing consultants in to tell us what to do,” said Moffat which had the audience clapping loudly.

Candidate Dan McKenna said the city already has facilities for concerts.

“For this size of city, I don’t believe a concert hall is necessary. If it is we should probably look at a private in-

vestor to build this thing,” McKenna said.

In response to a question about the city’s role in assisting seniors, Tanya Handley, a member of the Red Deer First slate of candidates, said the city’s debt is unmanageable for the senior population.

“Our taxes continue to go up year after year and those living on fixed incomes are strapped,” Handley said.

To deal with the root causes of crime, candidate Lawrence Lee said engaging youth, finding out their lives, and providing them with support programs would help address such a complex issue.

Other candidates participating at the forum were incumbents Buck Buchanan, Dianne Wyntjes, and Lynne Mulder, as well as candidates Jerry Anderson, Bettylyn Baker, Terry Balgobin, Matt Chapin, Stephen Coop, Gary Didrikson, Serge Gingras, Calvin Goulet-Jones, David Helm, Tim Lasiuta, Victor Mobley, Dawna Morey, Ben Ordman, Janella Spearing, Troy Wavrecan, Jonathan Wieler, and Darren Young.

Candidate Bob Bevins was unable to attend the forum. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s Environment Department has been rebuked by a judge for working behind the scenes to silence groups that question the effects of oilsands operations on the environment.

“This is a black mark for the government of Alberta,” Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, an environmental think-tank at the heart of the dispute, said Wednesday.

“Alberta needs to walk the talk and be judged on its actions both in terms of environmental performance of the industry and its actions in terms of the regulatory process.”

In a ruling filed Tuesday, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Richard Marceau said a provincial director who in 2012 refused the Oil Sands Environmental Coalition standing into a review of a proposed oilsands project was adhering to a 2009 internal department policy memo.

The coalition includes a number of environmental groups, including the Pembina Institute and the Fort McMurray Environmental Association.

That memo, said Marceau, made it clear that the coalition was to be thwarted because its member groups refused to work with the government through such initiatives as the Cumulative Effects Management Association.

Marceau said the director then “breached the rules of fundamental justice” by beginning from a place of bias.

Nowhere in the law, wrote Marceau, “is there a suggestion that promoting Alberta’s economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner permits the director to reject statements of concern from those persons or groups who voice negative statements about proposed oil sands development.”

The 2009 memo made it clear that the Oil Sands Environmental Coalition, or OSEC, should no longer be given standing at regulatory hearings into oilsands projects on the grounds it was not directly affected by the impact of the operations.

Up until that point OSEC had been routinely granted standing.

The memo, sent to the deputy minister, the top bureaucrat in the department, singled out the Pembina Institute, noting that the institute, “as reflected in (its) recent publications about the oilsands, are less inclined to work co-operatively.”

Environment Minister Diana McQueen was not made available for comment Wednesday.

She is in Europe meeting with leaders to try to head off a European Union directive that would label oilsands oil more environmentally harmful than conventional oil.

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FORUM: Another takes place tonight Answering the same question on supporting the arts, Horn said Red Deer has many directions to go to promote the arts. The taxi driver with a masters in business administration suggested Red Deer take a page out of Edmonton’s book and offer its own fringe festival and a Taste of Red Deer. He said working with the Red Deer Museum to appeal to the younger generation would be a good idea.

Horn also talked about the importance of partnering with businesses that are moving out of the city because of the high taxes.

“Tax increases should match the basket of goods –– the cost of living

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Shelsea Closs work on a new exhibit at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum on Wednesday. The exhibit entitled ‘Steps Through Time’ explores how sports footwear has evolved over the last 60 to70 years. Skates, ski boots and cleats are featured in the display. The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is located along the Hwy 2 at Heritage Ranch in Red Deer.

Jobs training fund doomed without changes: premiers THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Unless the federal Conservatives make substantial changes to the Canada Job Grant, the jobs training fund is doomed to failure, provincial leaders said Wednesday.

Ottawa has to be open to changing the program because a “one-size-fitsall” approach to helping more people find jobs isn’t going to work, said British Columbia Premier Christy Clark and New Brunswick Premier David Alward.

“If the federal government is hellbent on moving forward without dialogue, the provinces have said, we will not be participating,” Alward said after a roundtable meeting in Toronto with representatives from the labour sector.

“That is clear.”

All 33 stakeholders at the meeting in Toronto said changes were needed to the program and only three said they were prepared to support the program, Clark said. Small businesses also have concerns.

“The closer the organization was to actually delivering training on the ground in communities, the more concerned they were about the impact it was going to have,” she said.

“And that really, I think, speaks to index,” said Horn. “If it doesn’t, we’re reaching right into your take home may and taking it from you. To raise taxes four and a half per cent when people get a two per cent raise . . . you can’t be doing that.”

Mason touched on the city’s rising debt saying the only way to pay down debt is “to raise more and spend less.”

He also questioned the role of government.

“We can elect an intrusive government that actively tries to manipulate how people live their lives,” he said. “I don’t think the bike lanes were needed. We’re not a big enough city... I really think we need to have a hands-off government that recognizes that certain investments must be made but leave the people to live their lives the way they see fit.”

The next mayoral candidate forum takes place tonight at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library starting at 7 p.m. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

the concern that a big, one-size-fitsall solution is just simply not going to work on the ground where training is actually delivered and where workers get what they need to go into the real workforce.”

There’s a lot riding on getting the program right, Alward said.

“Ultimately it means that people will not be working,” he said. “Ultimately it means that businesses will not be successful, and ultimately it means governments — at all levels — will not have the revenues that they need to provide the services that people need.”

The federal Conservatives want to divert some of the money they give to the provinces and territories to the new Canada Job Grant, which would provide a grant of $15,000 per worker.

The provinces and territories, as well as the employers, would each kick in $5,000. But the provinces and territories worry that it won’t give them

enough flexibility to direct the money where it’s needed most and could jeopardize existing provincially run programs that help disadvantaged groups.

They say they’d have to come up with more than $600 million to maintain their current programs as well as match the cost of the Canada Job Grant. Employment and Social Development Minister Jason Kenney is expected to meet with provincial and territorial leaders this fall to talk about the program.

His office said he’s met with dozens of stakeholders in recent weeks who “strongly support” the program, adding that employers best understand skills training and labour market needs.

“Employers have been expressing frustration for some time that they are excluded from direct involvement in skills training programs, and this has to change in order to effectively tackle skills shortages,” his office said in an emailed statement.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 2013

Can we cope with aging?

Tuesday was a special day around the world, and if trends continue, Oct. 1 could probably rival Valentine’s or Mothers Day in global importance: International Day of Older Persons.

Of course, they’ll have to change the title before Hallmark issues a line of greeting cards, but that’s just a marketing problem.

Canada is GREG still one of the NEIMAN youngest countries in the Group of Eight developed nations, second only to the U.S. But in all of North and South America, Canada is the “senior” member. We have the highest proportion of people over 65 in our hemisphere.

We’ve known this for a few years now.

Since 2009, we’ve been warned that sometime between 2015 and 2020, a

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major demographic shift will occur.

Canada will have more people 65 years and over than who are 14 years and younger.

By 2030, when the last of the baby boomers hit 65, Canada’s demographics will resemble that of Japan today.

Taking Statistics Canada’s medium view of population growth projections, Canada will have close to 10 million seniors in a total population of around 40 million, before a child born this year can graduate high school.

That’s roughly 100 per cent growth in the senior demographic since 2009, when these warnings were first made.

That’s not much time, in the course of the life of a nation. Not much time for people to plan for a radically different type of Canada than the one we’re used to.

Canada will weather this change better than most, though.

On Tuesday, the United Nations World Population Fund made its global demographic study public. It ranked 91 countries on the basis of well-being of seniors.

Sweden, where public pensions have been common for a century, and health care is mostly government-funded, came out on top, followed by Nor-

way, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada.

Afghanistan was ranked last.

Not surprising once you think about it, but developing countries are seeing a seniors boom, the result of improved economics, education and health care.

Of the 15 countries around the world with 10 million or more seniors, seven are in this group of nations.

But living longer doesn’t necessarily mean living better, or that all changes are for the good.

Globally, about half of all children under 14 live in poverty, as measured by a family needing to spend a high portion of total income on survival.

No room for savings, little capacity to handle emergencies. Less capacity to care for more seniors.

But by those same measures, we are told that three-quarters of the world’s seniors will live in “poor” countries by 2040.

That’s something humanity has never seen before — perhaps because we’ve never measured it before.

“Unless you measure something, it doesn’t really exist in the minds of decision-makers,” said John Beard, director of Aging and Life Course for the World Health Organization.

“One of the challenges for population aging is that we don’t even collect the data, let alone start to analyze it. ...

For example, we’ve been talking about how people are living longer, but I can’t tell you people are living longer and sicker, or longer in good health.”

But decision-makers are going to have to make some decisions, real soon. The world’s population over age 65 is growing at better than 870,000 a month. With declining fertility, the rising chart line of seniors will cross the line of children under 14 sometime in the current generation.

We have no idea in Canada what things will look like when millions of people live more than 20 years in “retirement age,” with health and fitness declining a bit more every year.

Couple that with an unemployment rate of people under 25 double the national average — unable to contribute to the national pension plan.

Humanity has never seen this before.

Who’s going to buy the Happy International Day of Older Persons cards?

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Harper and the art of quiet compromise The U.S. government shutdown is a searing indictment of our neighbour’s political system and a spectacular failure for the Republican leadership.

It is also a reminder that a political system that has lost the ability to compromise is doomed to ridicule and futility. But sometimes compromise is not always possible or desirable.

In this case, Barack Obama would have looked foolish had he compromised with a radical right-wing faction that would rather shut down the government than abide by a law passed by both legislative TIM chambers and upheld by the HARPER highest court.

But Obama has compromised time and again, in matters both domestic and international, and that is why his hard line now seems out of character.

Knowing when to seek compromise and when to hold the line is key to political success, and Stephen Harper is a textbook study of a politician who appears unable to compromise, but has, in fact, done just that to get to where he is today.

Just last week, speaking in the U.S., Harper took a position that would have made the Tea Party proud when he simply announced he was not going to take “no” for an answer on the Keystone XL pipeline.

In this case, Harper’s lack of compromise may have been a sign he will wait out the Obama adminis-

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tration or it may have been a signal to the provinces, environmentalists and First Nations that he was also not going to accept their “no” on pipelines traversing this country.

Such inflexibility leads to unnecessary brinksmanship, but it is a style that has served Harper well. As he heads into the second half of his majority mandate, there is no indication that this style will change. He will not compromise on foreign policy.

He was quick to shutter our embassy in Tehran and he now seems unconcerned that Ottawa is becoming an international outlier with its dismissive attitude toward a “charm offensive” by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

Obama may be wary and tentative, but he talks to Rouhani by phone and his Secretary of State John Kerry meets with his Iranian counterpart. Harper’s hard line matches Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, who calls Rouhani “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.’’

Last winter, during escalating First Nations demonstrations and a rogue chief refusing to eat solids in a high-profile protest, Harper met with native leaders, but would not compromise on his timeline or overarching agenda.

He would not compromise with the opposition on his omnibus budget bill and he will not compromise on his goal to balance the budget in 2015. That’s not a refusal to compromise on principle, but because he has political goods to sell that are only available if that deficit is slain.

He will not compromise with a press gallery that wants more access to him, he will not compromise with those who believe he should address the United Nations, and he will not compromise with premiers who call for a federal-provincial conference.

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In 2008, brinksmanship replaced potential compromise and he was forced to prorogue Parliament to save his job. Harper believed the former Progressive Conservatives too often watered down their principles and he believed Liberals stood for nothing but a lust for power — all compromise, no principle.

But Harper, like Obama, has compromised and while Obama has been accused of weakness for doing so publicly, Harper has done so quietly.

Harper knows the road to power was paved with compromise, so he largely muted the social conservatives in his party, leashed their independence and spent as fiscal conservatives in his party shuddered.

He once was part of an earlier Canadian version of the Tea Party, an undisciplined, right-wing gang of populists who mouthed their independent thoughts when the spirit moved and shunned consensus.

In his ebook Rebel to Realist, Postmedia journalist Mark Kennedy recalled a mid-1990s speech Harper made to conservative activists, seeking to meld traditional PCs and Reformers. He not only compromised, he preached compromise.

“Reformers will have to realize that there is something genuinely conservative in the Tory penchant for compromise and incrementalism,” he said.

“Tories will have to admit that compromise, to be honourable, must be guided by underlying principles, and that Reformers are not extremists for openly advocating smaller government, free markets, traditional values and equality before the law.”

Public defiance and quiet compromise have served this prime minister well. It’s a style he will ride in the second half of his mandate.

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Harper courts Asia

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Stephen Harper and some of his senior ministers will depart Thursday for Southeast Asia in an effort to drum up support for trade and foreign investment at a leaders’ summit in Bali.

Along the way, the prime minister will stop in Kuala Lumpur, Harper’s first visit to Malaysia since taking office in January 2006.

It’s all part of a continuing Conservative government push into Southeast Asia that got off to a slow start and has since been hobbled by mixed messages.

The week-long trip to Malaysia and Indonesia, the prime minister said in a release, will “further Canada’s interests, advance regional trade liberalization and promote Canada as a business partner of choice.”

However, some experts say Canada is playing catch-up at a time when the emerging Asian tigers face economic turbulence of their own.

This week, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce released figures that show foreign investment in Canada has plummeted more than 90 per cent so far in 2013 compared to last year, down to $2 billion from $27 billion.

Mergers and acquisitions have also felt the squeeze, down to $8 billion this year compared to $66 billion in the same time frame in 2012.

“Not everyone is getting the message that Canada remains open to the world,” CIBC executive Jim Prentice, Harper’s former industry minister, told a business audience in London earlier this week.

“In fact, some are coming to believe the opposite.”

So it’s no surprise that International Trade Minister Ed Fast is firing up his frequent flyer points, stopping first in Bali this week — where Harper will later attend the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit — and then hitting Singapore and China.

It will be Fast’s second trip to China this year, and his 13th trip to Asia overall since being appointed trade minister in May 2011. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is not attending the APEC summit in Bali, although Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird will be on hand.

Yeun Pau Woo, the president of the Asia Pacific

Foundation of Canada, said Canada has “been playing catch-up for a long time” in Southeast Asia, dating back to before the Conservatives came to power.

Jean Chretien, in 1996, was the last prime minister to visit Malaysia, and Harper took almost four years after coming to office before visiting China — a delay that was undiplomatically noted by Harper’s host when he arrived in Beijing in December 2009.

Woo said that since 2008, the Harper Conservatives have had “a lot of enthusiasm” for Asian trade and investment, but results have been mixed.

“I would say that the easy part of the Canadian effort to build stronger ties with Asia is coming to an end. Now we’re entering the hard part,” Woo said from Vancouver. “This is where I would be very keen to see some concrete measures to address long-term engagement.”

Harper will be using his Malaysia and Bali visits to talk up the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a fledgling trade pact among 12 Pacific Rim countries that is still being negotiated. Indonesia, the APEC host, and China — the economic giant of the Pacific — are notably absent from the TPP. Harper will no doubt also be asked about Canadian foreign investment rules that have clamped down on spending by state-owned enterprises.

Prentice, the CIBC executive, noted this week that Chinese investment has “essentially stopped” in Canada since huge takeovers in Alberta’s oilpatch by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation and Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas were grudgingly approved last year — and the rules subsequently changed.

Woo said the CNOOC and Petronas decisions and other legislative changes in Bill C-60, last spring’s budget implementation bill, have made foreign investors leery.

“The easy part is to say, yes, we want investment from Asia. Everybody says that,” said the Asia-Pacific Foundation president.

“The hard part is making it easy for them to invest. Instead we are doing the opposite. So what’s going on here?”

Perhaps it was no coincidence that Harper’s trade minister was out beating the drum Thursday on a major investment in Mississauga, Ont., by a subsidiary of Swiss biotech company Roche Holding AG.

Somali-Canadian arrested after four young sons beheaded

No journalists barred from Harper’s trip, PMO insists OTTAWA — A veteran TV cameraman will be allowed to travel to Malaysia with the prime minister this week after all.

Early Wednesday, Stephen Harper’s office appeared poised to scratch CTV journalist Dave Ellis from the trip because he asked an impromptu question during a media event last week in New York.

The TV networks fought back, insisting that they — not the Prime Minister’s Office — should decide who to assign to cover Harper when he travels abroad.

Shortly after news of the dispute became public, however, Jason MacDonald, a spokesman for the prime minister, said no accredited journalist would be prevented from boarding Harper’s plane.

During an event last week in New York, Ellis asked Harper about the charges laid against then-Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, even though reporters and photographers had been told questions were not allowed.

Harper leaves Thursday for a seven-day trip to Malaysia and Indonesia, and CTV had Ellis accredited to work on the assignment as a pool cameraman.

But following Ellis’s New York assignment, CTV said it was told by the PMO that Ellis would not be allowed on Harper’s plane, even though he had earlier been approved for the trip.

That has apparently changed. “No one has been barred from this trip,” MacDonald said.

CTV News spokesman Matthew Garrow said earlier Wednesday the network had nevertheless decided to send Ellis to the Ottawa airport to try to board the prime minister’s plane with other journalists, and that other networks were backing that decision.

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STATUES DEFACED

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The mother of four young boys who were allegedly beheaded by their Somali-Canadian father says she doesn’t know of any motive for the killings.

Police in Somalia arrested Omar Hassan, 60, after the children, aged 11, 9, 7 and 6, were killed Monday, Qadro Addawe said.

The alleged slayings happened in the central town of Beledweyne, about 330 kilometres north of the capital Mogadishu.

Speaking from Mogadishu, Addawe said Hassan was a taxi driver in Calgary and had returned home a few months ago.

She said the children had never been to Canada, but had Canadian citizenship through her estranged husband, who had migrated to Canada 30 years ago.

“They were born in Kenya, but they were Canadian because the father was Canadian,” she said.

A regional police commissioner told Agence France-Presse Wednesday that the children’s bodies were found near a village and have been buried.

The news service quoted Col. Isak Ali Abdulle as saying: “The man handed himself in and is in custody now. I think he is not mentally fit but we are questioning him.”

Addawe, 29, said she does not know of any motive for the killings.

She insisted Hassan was mentally stable.

“He had some health problems, but he had no mental problems.”

Addawe said her own efforts to migrate to Canada had been unsuccessful.

A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa said they were aware of reports of “a possible consular case in Somalia,” but said consular officials have not received a request for assistance.

Mohamed Jama, president of the Somali Canadian Society of Calgary, said he and others in the group don’t know Hassan. But he said they’re all shocked by the man’s alleged crime.

“The community is very sad about it. It’s unheard of.”

Ottawa appeals ruling on veterans’ lawsuit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government says it intends to appeal a B.C. court ruling that cleared the way for a class-action lawsuit involving veterans of Canada’s war in Afghanistan.

A group of ex-soldiers is taking Ottawa to court, alleging that the federal government’s new system of compensating veterans violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The government’s new veterans charter eliminated the lifetime disability pension for disabled soldiers and replaced it with lump-sum payments.

The veterans say the new disability payments are paltry compared to awards given to those who fought in previous wars, and don’t keep up with worker’s compensation claims — or even civil settlements in personal injury cases.

Don Sorochan, the lawyer for the soldiers, said he had hoped the government would allow the case to proceed and be decided on its own merits.

The fight over whether the soldiers have the right to sue is little more than a stalling tactic, Sorochan said — one that could find its way to the Supreme Court of Canada and delay the case for years.

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Brazeau fine following private medical situation OTTAWA — Independent Sen. Patrick Brazeau’s office is appealing for privacy after an unexplained medical incident at his home early Tuesday morning.

Spokeswoman Debby Simms says Brazeau was not arrested as some early media reports suggested, but that someone else at his home in Gatineau, Que., had a private medical situation that has since been resolved.

Simms says most people believe medical information should be kept private.

Police in Gatineau, Que., say they responded to a call for help in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.

They would not confirm that the 38-year-old senator was involved, but referred to an address associated with him.

Simms said that the situation was chaotic, and that some may have mistakenly believed Brazeau was the person in distress.

Brazeau was kicked out of the Conservative caucus earlier this year after he was charged with assault and sexual assault.

The Senate is also holding back some of Brazeau’s wages to repay $48,000 in disallowed housing expenses.

Toronto mayor calls man arrested on drug charges ’a friend’ TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Wednesday he’s surprised and shocked one of his friends has been arrested and charged with four drug offences in the city’s west end.

Toronto police say Alexander Lisi, 35, is one of two men arrested Tuesday after a search warrant was executed in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation.

Lisi is charged with trafficking in marijuana, possession of proceeds of crime, possession of marijuana and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.

Ford defended his friend in an impromptu news conference at a gas station near his west-end home, saying Lisi is “(on the) straight and narrow” and he’s never seen him drink or do drugs.

“He’s a friend, he’s a good guy and I don’t throw my friends under the bus,” he said.

He refused to comment further on Lisi’s arrest.

Nephew heard loud bangs in direction of gang shooting: trial VANCOUVER — The nephew of one of the innocent bystanders killed in a horrific gang shooting near Vancouver says he heard a series of loud noises in the direction of a condo where his uncle and five others were gunned down.

But Zach Brown says he can’t be sure exactly what the noises were, and he told police at the time he didn’t think they were gunfire.

Brown was at the Balmoral Tower condo development in Surrey on Oct. 19, 2007, servicing the building’s gas fireplaces with his uncle, Ed Schellenberg.

Schellenberg was last seen entering unit 1505, where he, building resident Chris Mohan, and four men with ties to drugs and gangs were executed.

Brown has told the trial of three alleged gangsters that he was servicing a fireplace in unit 1508 when he heard four or five loud noises, but shortly after, he told police the noises sounded like something hitting a wall, rather than gunshots.

Gun lobby warns Ottawa against treaty

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ARMS TRADE

OTTAWA — Canada’s recreational firearms lobby is telling the Harper government to avoid signing a landmark United Nations arms trade treaty, arguing it could lead to an insidious return of the federal long-gun registry.

That’s the message Canada’s National Firearms Association and the Canadian Shooting Sports Association are delivering to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird as he weighs whether Canada should follow the United States in signing the Arms Trade Treaty, which aims to regulate the multibillion dollar global arms trade.

Proponents of the treaty, including Secretary of State John Kerry who signed it last week on behalf of the U.S., say it would have no impact on domestic gun owners.

Not so, says Canada’s sports shooting lobby, which has been consulting with the government.

“We think that it has the potential to raise prices on firearms, firearms accessories, parts and ammunition,” Sheldon Clare, president of the National Firearms Association, said in interview.

“We rely heavily on imports.”

Clare said he doesn’t think Canada will follow the U.S. and sign the treaty, suggesting that the Conservatives realize this could affect them at the ballot box in 2015.

“I think they also recognize there would be some significant ramifications in their voting base were they to approve this,” he said.

The Harper government came to power in 2006 in part on a promise to scrap the long-gun registry, which was reviled by recreational shooting enthusiasts and rural gun owners. The registry was voted out existence in February 2012.

During that time, recreational firearms users have had greater access to weapons and accessories than in the previous years.

An analysis of Industry Canada data by The Canadian Press shows that imports of revolvers, pistols, rifles, shotguns, accessories and ammunition into Canada totalled $2.84 million between 2006 and 2012.

That’s almost double the nearly $1.56 million in similar imports to Canada during the previous seven years when the Liberal government was in power, from 1999 to 2005.

Total imports reached an all-time high at just over $507,000 in 2011 but then fell to $445,000 in 2012.

Tony Bernardo, head of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, said he’s been working hard to oppose UN gun control efforts since the mid 1990s.

He said the treaty could impose a bur-

densome bureaucracy on Canada not unlike the now-defunct gun registry.

“I think there’s lots of potential links to the gun registry,” said Bernardo.

“The problems we’ve had with the gun registry — unaccountability, the incredible cost, complete ineffective uselessness — those things are not only a potential scenario, they’re a likelihood” if Canada were to sign the treaty.

The groups say that if the federal government signs the treaty it will have to create a new bureaucracy of regulations, one that could potentially be less strict than the current rules that govern the arms imports and exports.

Bernardo said he didn’t think Baird was likely to follow the U.S. lead on adopting the treaty any time soon.

“Minister Baird has been very thoughtful and intelligent on the Arms Trade Treaty right from Day One,” said Bernardo. “At the beginning of the process he asked the United Nations to remove civilian firearms from scope of the treaty. He’s seen the writing on the wall. He’s not a dumb man.”

Baird has said there is a potential link between signing on to the treaty and Canada’s now-abolished long gun registry.

Baird’s spokesman said the government will take its time, and do its “homework” to ensure that the interests of Canadians are protected before deciding whether to sign on to the treaty.

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Weapon inspectors begin mission as war rages

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Deadly clashes raged on the edge of Damascus on Wednesday and rival rebel factions battled each other in northern Syria as international chemical weapons inspectors began to secure the sites where they will work.

The fighting underscored the immense security challenge that the dozens of disarmament experts must negotiate as they work amid the civil war to meet tight deadlines for eliminating President Bashar Assad’s estimated 1,000-ton arsenal of chemical weapons.

The inspectors’ mission — endorsed by a UN Security Council resolution passed last week — is to scrap Syria’s capacity to manufacture chemical weapons by Nov. 1 and destroy its entire stockpile by mid-2014.

A convoy of SUVs with UN markings departed the central Damascus hotel where the team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is staying as the inspectors headed out for their first full day in the country.

The UN and OPCW said in a statement that “joint work with the Syrian authorities has begun on securing the sites where the team will operate, especially in outlying areas.” It added that planning continues for disabling production facilities as do discussions on the size of Syria’s stockpile.

One of the challenges the inspectors face is navigating the war itself.

On the northern edge of Damascus, fierce clashes between Syrian troops and al-Qaida-linked fighters killed at least 19 soldiers and pro-government militiamen in the past three days, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The fighting in the contested district of Barzeh flared Monday when the army stepped up attacks against opposition forces who have been trying to capture the area for months, the Observatory said. Districts such as Barzeh, on the edge of Damascus, are important for rebels based in the capital’s outer suburbs as the fighters try to move closer to the heart of the city.

The rebels, mostly from the ranks of

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A convoy of inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons prepares to cross into Syria at the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa, eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Tuesday. al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra fighters, also sustained losses but did not disclose them, the Observatory said.

It also noted clashes in Jobar on the capital’s eastern edge.

In northern Syria, the Observatory reported clashes between al-Qaida rebels and more moderate groups in the town of Azaz on the Turkish border. Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant made advances against fighters from the Westernbacked Free Syrian Army, the Observatory said. There were no reports of casualties.

The rebel infighting, which in recent months has risen in intensity, adds a new layer of complication to the 2 ½-year-old conflict, in which more than 100,000 have been killed.

Syria’s war is the first that inspectors from the OPCW have faced in a disarmament mission.

An advance group of 19 OPCW experts and 14 UN staff members arrived Tuesday in Damascus, and they

will be joined within a week by a second group of inspectors.

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi told The Associated Press that the country will co-operate with the OPCW and facilitate the experts’ mission, “including destroying the (chemical) stockpile.”

Experts at The Hague, where the OPCW is based, say the inspectors’ priority is to reach the first milestone of helping Syria scrap its ability to manufacture chemical weapons by a Nov. 1 deadline. Some of the inspectors will double-check Syria’s initial disclosure of what weapons and chemical precursors it has and where they are located, while others will begin planning the logistics for visits to every site where chemicals or weapons are reportedly located.

The inspectors’ mission stems from a deadly attack on opposition-held suburbs of Damascus on Aug. 21 that the UN has determined included the use of the nerve agent sarin.

NAIROBI, Kenya — NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Closed circuit television footage from a Nairobi mall attacked by terrorists last month shows four men carrying automatic weapons, a top government official said Wednesday, an indication there may not have been as many attackers as government officials first said.

Kenya’s government initially said 10 to 15 attackers were involved in the Sept. 21 attack on Westgate Mall, an assault that killed at least 67 people and which the al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for.

The mall security footage shows armed men casually strolling through the mall, shooting unarmed civilians.

The footage may not show all of the assailants that took part in the attack, though the government official said he believes only four took part in the protracted siege.

The official insisted on anonymity to discuss information not publicly released.

Six security officers — three military and three police officers — died in the confrontation, according to government officials.

Dozens of youths have been detained in the Majengo slum area of Nairobi in recent days in police efforts to track down the mall attackers.

Pathologists on Wednesday conducted autopsies on two bodies of military men retrieved from the rubble in the Westgate Mall on Tuesday.

It is not clear if the two bodies increase the death toll. A military spokesman’s phone was off and could not be reached for comment.

Al-Shabab has said it carried out the attack in retaliation for Kenya sending troops into Somalia nearly two years ago The group has promised more attacks inside Kenya unless those troops are withdrawn. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to continue the military mission inside Somalia despite the mall attack.

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Yemeni troops regain control of military base, ending standoff SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni troops stormed Wednesday a military base overrun by suspected al-Qaida militants, and a senior officer said that the government had regained control of the compound after a three-day standoff.

It was not clear if soldiers reportedly taken hostage by the militants at the beginning of the siege have survived. Maj. Gen. Mohsen Nasser told the Associated Press that all the militants were killed in the operation, which followed three hours of intense clashes. He said hostages are believed to be freed, but he didn’t have a count of the number held.

The gunmen had planted explosives and deployed snipers to keep security forces away, officials say.

At least 10 soldiers and security agents have been killed since the start of the standoff at the base in the eastern province of Hadramawt.

The militants, dressed in fatigues and riding in military trucks, overran the base on Monday and took an unknown number of soldiers hostage. The military sent in reinforcements and surrounded the building.

Nasser said the militants had refused to surrender, forcing authorities to storm the building.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect asks judge to lift prison restrictions BOSTON — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked a judge Wednesday to lift restrictions placed on him in prison, arguing that the conditions are overly harsh, have left him nearly totally isolated and are impairing their ability to defend him.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers said in court documents that he has been confined to his cell except for visits from them and “very limited access” to a small outdoor enclosure.

Tsarnaev, 20, is accused of building and planting

bombs near the finish line of the April 15 marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260.

Authorities say he and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, ethnic Chechens from Russia who emigrated to the United States as children, planned and carried out the attack to retaliate against the United States for its involvement in Muslim countries.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed four days after the marathon following a gun battle with police.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found wounded and hiding in a boat parked in a backyard. Authorities said he had scrawled anti-American messages on the inside of the boat, including “The U.S. Government is killing our innocent civilians” and “We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all.”

Feds shut down black market website dealing cocaine, heroin, other drugs NEW YORK — A hidden website operated by a San Francisco man using an alias from “The Princess Bride” became a vast black market bazaar that brokered more than $1 billion in transactions for illegal drugs and services, according to court papers made public on Wednesday in New York.

Users of the website, Silk Road, could anonymously browse through nearly 13,000 listings under categories like “Cannibus,” “Psychedelics” and “Stimulants” before making purchases using the electronic currency Bitcoin.

One listing for heroin promised buyers “all rock, no powder, vacuum sealed and stealth shipping,” and had a community forum below where one person commented, “Quality is superb.”

The website protected users with an encryption technique called “onion routing,” which is designed to make it “practically impossible to physically locate the computers hosting or accessing websites on the network,” court papers said.

Federal authorities shut the site down and arrested its alleged mastermind, Ross William Ulbricht, on Tuesday while he was using a computer at a public library in San Francisco, where he was living. A criminal complaint said Ulbricht “has controlled and overseen all aspects of Silk Road.”

The defendant announced in a website forum in 2012 that to avoid confusion he needed to change his Silk Road username, court papers said. He wrote, “drum roll please . . . my new name is: Dread Pirate Roberts,” an apparent reference to a swashbuckling character in The Princess Bride, the 1987 comedy film

based on a novel of the same name.

Ulbricht, 29, made an initial appearance in a San Francisco court on Wednesday, authorities said.

Rights group: Prominent Saudi activist detained after hosting forums DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A rights group says a prominent Saudi Arabian activist has been detained after leading meetings to discuss political affairs and other issues in the kingdom.

It was unclear whether Waleed Abu al-Khair will face new charges or was placed in detention related to his ongoing trial on charges that include opposing Saudi Arabia’s monarchy and ruling institutions.

The London-based Institute for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia says al-Khair was taken into custody Wednesday in Jiddah, where he was holding discussion forums on Saudi affairs. Al-Khair is a lawyer and founder of a human rights group.

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab allies have expanded crackdowns on activists and perceived political dissent since the beginning of the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011.

Release of hot water a sign NKorean nuclear reactor has restarted WASHINGTON — New satellite imagery offers further signs that North Korea has restarted a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium for bombs, a U.S. research institute said Wednesday.

North Korea in April announced plans to restart the reactor at Nyongbyon that was shuttered in 2007 under a disarmament deal. Satellite imagery at the end of August showed steam coming from an adjacent generator building, suggesting North Korea was in the process of starting it up.

The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies says that a satellite photo from Sept. 19 shows hot water being released through a drainpipe that is part of a cooling system for the five megawatt reactor. That most likely shows the reactor is now operating and its generators are producing power.

The findings are being published on the institute’s website, 38 North, and are based on analysis

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There’s more to hunting than killing

While most Alberta big game hunters will toss and turn in their beds for many sleeps yet, as visions of big bucks dance in their heads, others have been hunting for more than a month already.

Those others are bow hunters, who are privileged in Alberta to have as much as twomonth longer hunting seasons than the huge majority that hunts with firearms. I always resisted joining the archery ranks because I found it challenging enough to do it right with my rifles, and that too many new bow hunters cared only for the longer seasons, and nothing about the discipline and demands of the BOB bow.

SCAMMELL One of those new bow hunters who never practised shooting had to go to Rocky Mountain House for more arrows before noon on opening morning. So later, I was not surprised to find several landowners who would not allow a bow hunter on their land ever again, when, after the first season, they found too many dead deer with arrows stuck anywhere in them, and had too many of their cattle seriously injured by “lost” razorsharp broad head arrows.

All that said, a handful of bow hunters rank high among the finest hunters I know. Now I add chiropractor Lindsey Paterson of Pincher Creek, also the angler who caught Alberta’s record brown trout in the Waterton River in 2010.

At first light on Sept. 1, bow hunting opening day north of Pincher Creek, Lindsey glassed 21 mule deer bucks from a high ridge. One wore huge, distinctive antlers he immediately recognized as the buck he passed up last season, hoping the deer would survive the winter, to be even bigger this year, which he was.

At 9 a.m., the big buck and three others bedded down, and Lindsey’s more than eight-hour stalk started. By 10 a.m., Paterson, within 200 yards, took a last drink of water, took off boots and pack to keep a lower profile, then commenced crawling through thin cover that included thistle and stinging nettle.

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My best mule deer buck, tracked three hours through a high-country swamp.

Worse, he crawled over an ant hill; he was still picking biters off his hide two hours later.

By 11 a.m., within 45 yards, the bow hunter discovered he had a problem: the big buck was bedded on the far, upwind side of an eight-foot snow fence with inch and a quarter gaps between its slats, and the three smaller bucks were bedded 30 yards away on the near side.

Lindsey had two hopes: that the big buck would join his three buddies in the shade of the snow fence, and/or that the rancher had been a post or board short and that there would be a wider gap. Three

times the big buck rose, but just turned and bedded in the sun again. Patterson was enduring heat, bugs and such a thirst that he’d have paid $50 for one glass of cold water.

At 5 p.m., the three closer bucks rose, fed to within 15 yards, then away up a hillside. Paterson crawled to where the three smaller bucks had been bedded, and, don’t LOL, the rancher had been one board shy of a load and there was a four-inch gap in the fence directly across from the bedded buck, just 30 yards away.

After 20 minutes, the buck rose, stood broadside, and Lindsey, from his knees, made an instantly killing shot with one arrow from his Hoyt compound bow, through that four-inch gap in the fence.

The bow hunter stood, inhaled great gasps of air wafting from the Livingston Range to the west, and paid his respects: probably, thanked the departing spirit of the great buck. Paterson does liken his hunting to a spiritual quest: “I believe hunting is so much more than killing an animal and, if you think it isn’t, you’re missing the point.”

The rack is a nine by seven, totally and, unofficially, “green” scoring 199 gross, 193 net, non-typical, Boone and Crockett points. I am green with envy, not so much of the antlers as of the account of as long, arduous and accomplished a stalk as I have ever heard of.

My best mule deer buck scored only 160, typical but, on the second last day of the 1987 season, and the day before my 50th birthday, I tracked him for three hours on month-old, tracked-up corn snow through the swamp near where the Panther and the Dormer Rivers join. Then I did a big button hook downwind and back, sat on a log and killed the buck who was trying to sneak out behind me at 20 yards with the only hunting shot I ever took with the .270 Winchester Model 70 presented to me as part of being Winchester’s 1983 Canadian Outdoorsman of the Year.

Whether you hunt with bow or rifle, first day of the season or last, the real trophy is the feeling you get when you know you did it the right way.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Use the last warm days to prepare for next year’s garden October can be a busy time in the yard. Use the last warm days wisely to make a difference in next year’s garden. Chores that can be completed leisurely on a warm fall day can be rushed during the busy spring season.

The last two months have been warm and dry, which has depleted the moisture in much of the topsoil. Watering trees, shrubs and perennials in October will provide the plants with moisture needed to survive the winter and begin growing next spring. Fall watering is a must for new plantings and evergreens.

Newly planted trees and shrubs need extra water close LINDA at hand as they do not have TOMLINSON an extensive root system to gather moisture to support the plant.

Evergreens transpire all year. They need to absorb as much moisture as possible to keep their stems, needles and scales hydrated during the months when the roots can’t absorb water from the frozen ground.

Purchase and plant fall bulbs now. Daffodils, tulips, scillia and grape hyacinths are bulbs that will consistently provide colour in the early spring gar-

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den in Central Alberta. There are other bulbs that will flourish but only if they are given a special spot.

When purchasing spring bulbs, choose ones that are free of cuts, blemishes and mould. The larger the bulb, for that variety, the better show it will produce next spring.

Prune deciduous trees and shrubs from now until next spring. Keep in mind that pruning springblooming plants now will remove next year’s blooms.

Removing older stems from a shrub allows the light to penetrate the centre of the plant, encouraging new growth at the base of the plant, preventing it from becoming leggy.

Weed, weed, weed. Weeds are like perennial plants. They might look like they are dormant on top but in reality their roots are still active until the ground freezes. Perennial weeds left in place will continue gathering nutrients and expanding their root system, ready to take over a larger area next spring. Removing the weeds now will make spring work lighter.

Cutting back the tops of perennials in the fall is optional. Removing the foliage of perennials in the fall means a clean garden and less work in the spring. If rodents are a problem, it also eliminates their winter homes, making it harder for them to eat the plants in the bed.

Leaving foliage helps insulate plants from the extreme cold and shifting temperatures that can occur over the winter months. Foliage also helps capture

snow and create shapes, bumps and shadows in the winter landscape.

Take time to put away all hoses, tools and plant pots. It is much easier to take something out when needed than hunt for items after it snows.

Covering tender plants with at least six inches (15 cm) of mulch will provide protection from the extreme cold and changing temperatures. Protective mulch can be anything that insulates while allowing air to circulate; leaves, straw, peatmoss or grass work well. When using a protective mulch, spread it over the plant or bed that needs extra protection, taking care to remove all excess air pockets from around plants.

Mulch is less important on years when the snow falls early and stays for the entire season. Snow is nature’s insulator. In years that snow comes early and stays late, there is very little winterkill.

Placing a thin layer of humus — compost, manure or peatmoss — over a bed will improve the soil texture and nutrient level. Over time, the worms will mix the organic matter into the original soil.

There are still many things to be done to produce a spectacular garden next year. Spend time this fall working in the garden to allow a more leisurely pace next spring.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist that lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at www.igardencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com.

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Bodywide health boost that busts stress — for free Don’t blow off the amazing long-term mind-body benefits of deep breathing.

Your heart, brain, lungs, immune system and mood all get a boost, and new research keeps finding additional bonuses.

All it takes to get more of the benefits?

Five minutes a day of mindful inhalations and exhalations.

The latest news about breathing’s so-easy, sopowerful, do-anywhere health perks comes from the Cleveland Clinic, where Dr. Mike is chief wellness officer.

When 300 people test-drove a new Internet-based stress-management program that included meditation with deep breathing, their stress levels fell 25 per cent.

That’s a lot of “ah.”

And the payoff is huge, too: When stress fades, you’re better able to avoid or control health conditions made worse by tension, such as asthma, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, headaches, depression, digestive woes and accelerated aging.

But if you rarely pay attention to your breathing, you’re not alone.

Chances are you use just one-third of your lung capacity.

That’s because you have slouchy posture and spend oodles of time hunched behind the wheel of your car or in front of a digital device.

The result?

Shallow breathing that doesn’t fully use the bottom portion of your lungs — home to hundreds of tiny blood vessels that help transfer oxygen from the air you inhale into your bloodstream and then help remove carbon dioxide with each exhalation.

Taking shallow breaths also means you’re missing out on the nervous-system calming effects of activating the sheet of muscle between your lungs and lower abdomen (diaphragm).

As it moves up and down, helping fill your bloodstream with energizing oxygen, it also switches on your body’s relaxation response.

That may be why breathing exercises, sometimes combined with meditation or yoga, are proven to help lower blood pressure, improve asthma symptoms, ease feelings of panic and anxiety, reduce pain, ease chest pain due to angina and help people with diabetes better control their blood sugar.

There’s even evidence that slow, calm breathing may boost production of alpha brain waves that put you into a relaxed, alert zone.

And it improves heart health by boosting heartrate variability, a sign of a relaxed, responsive cardiovascular system.

So here are four fun ways to be a better breather:

Practice belly breathing Sit or lie down comfortably, with your right hand resting lightly on your chest and your left hand resting on your belly button.

As you breathe in, gently expand your belly so your left hand rises. (Try to keep your chest still to prevent shallow breathing.) Fill your lungs from the bottom to the top.

As you exhale, purse your lips to blow out the air, and suck your belly button in toward your spine. Try to empty your lungs completely.

Inhale and exhale gently this way for five minutes; if you feel lightheaded, go easier on the inhalations.

This is a great way to unwind before you go to sleep.

Tap into an app Several free apps for smartphones and laptops can help you breathe better with guided exercises: Breath Pacer and Breathe2Relax are two.

Use your breath for a.m. energy In the morning, try this before your first cup of joe!

Stand up. Inhale as you reach for the sky, chin high, mouth open, arms overhead.

Exhale slowly and evenly as you slowly bend your head and shoulders forward, and then bend from your waist with hands extended toward the floor.

Repeat.

This stretches your neck, shoulders, back and core, clears your nasal passages and delivers plenty of wake-you-up oxygen to your brain and body.

Beat the afternoon slump with a lung-powered pick-me-up Instead of cola or a sugary treat, try this: Sit in a chair with your feet placed evenly on the floor, arms relaxed at your sides.

Using your diaphragm to move air in and out of your lungs, breathe rapidly (about three breaths per second) for five to 15 seconds.

You’ll feel revitalized!

Mehmet Oz, MD, is host of The Dr. Oz Show, and Mike Roizen, MD, is chief wellness officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, visit sharecare.com.

ment in children and adults with ASD. Examples of treatments used in naturopathic medicine include: l Fixing vitamin and mineral deficiencies: High rates of ASD patients have significant deficiencies. l Removing food intolerances/ sensitivities: This improves constipation/diarrhea, abdominal pain, and boosts immunity; these are struggles typically reported in ASD patients. l Heavy metal chelation/removal: Autistic children often have difficulty with their detoxification pathways and are known to accumulate heavy metals in their body.

If your child or a child you know has an Autism Spectrum Disorder, seeing a naturopathic doctor and discussing the treatments listed above can be incredibly helpful in improving your child’s symptoms and ability to function.

Consider adding a naturopath to your treatment team!

Dr. Shane Johnson ND was born and raised in Red Deer and is the owner of Aspire Natural Medicine.

He completed his naturopathic medical training at Bastyr University, and has completed an additional one-year residency in family medicine. For more detailed information on naturopathic medicine visit www.aspiremedicine.ca.

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St. Paul’s hospital in Vancouver. A new report suggests that people who check themselves out of hospitals against the advice of their doctors are likely to make a return trip in the near future.

Not following doctor’s orders: leaving hospital against advice is risky THE CANADIAN PRESS A new report suggests that people who check themselves out of hospitals against the advice of their doctors are likely to make a return trip in the near future.

The report says people who discharged themselves were more than twice as likely to be readmitted to a hospital within a month, and three times as likely to visit an emergency room within a week, when compared to people who leave when their doctor says they are ready to go.

And three out of five of the people who self discharged and then came back to an emergency room for help ended up being readmitted to hospital.

The findings are part of a national study from the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

It is based on an analysis of data from all provinces except Quebec.

It shows that 1.3 per cent of all discharges from Canadian acute inpatient care hospitals in 2011-12 and nearly one per cent of discharges from emergency departments in Alberta and Ontario were made against medical advice.

The report says the rates are comparable with those of other countries.

The work supports other studies that have found people who leave hospitals against the ad-

vice of doctors often end up needing additional care. In fact, a study based on Manitoba data that was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in late August found that self discharge from hospitals was associated with higher rates of readmission and of death.

Dr. Stephen Hwang, who specializes in inner city medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital in downtown Toronto, suggests the problem is a complex one.

“It’s a reminder that this is an important problem and we should be developing problems to it,” Hwang says of the study.

While close to half of the people who dis-

charged themselves from hospitals had a documented mental health disorder or a substance abuse problem, more than half did not.

“It is important to realize that all kinds of people do leave against medical advice. Young and old, men and women. Sometimes people of higher income as well as those of lower incomes,” he says.

The reasons why people ignore the advice of their doctors are also varied, says Hwang.

Some say they are leaving because they feel better.

Others with a substance abuse problem may leave to be able to drink or get a drug fix.

Some people report

needing to go home to take care of a family member or a pet. In other cases, an income cheque may be due and the person needs to deposit it in time to cover their rent and avoid eviction.

And in a number of cases, people simply say the reason they are leaving hospital early is none of the doctor’s business.

“Hospitals are not jails and they’re not obliged to give us the reason that they disagree with us and want to leave,” Hwang says.

He suggests that rather than trying to dissuade a patient from a path they are determined to take, doctors should try to organize some support for the patient.

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Imagine thinking there is some- evidence-based treatments in my thing different about your child practice, it is frustrating and disbut not knowing what. heartening to see parents who You spend the first years of come in after being promised your child’s life searchcures for their children ing for answers. with no results.

You finally receive a Why the rise in audiagnosis but then you tism rates? are left feeling equally This is a much-conas lost. You are told tested discussion but there is no cure and some possible reasons few standard medical include better reporttreatments available. ing, increased recogniWelcome to the tion, and environmenstruggle of parents with tal toxins. a child with an Autism In my practice, I see Spectrum Disorder the last reason playing (ASD). a significant role in shane For a condition that both the development johnson is rising as fast as ASD, of the disorder and the it is hard to believe Naturopathic increase in symptom that there are currently severity. only two U.S. Food and We are living in the medicine Drug Administrationmost toxic environapproved treatments, ment that we have ever both of which are prescription lived in. drugs, leaving all other treatments Everything from pesticides in “off label.” our food, mercury in our fish supUnfortunately, medication on- ply, genetically modified foods ly addresses a small piece of the and areas of poor air quality. puzzle.

I believe these environmental Due to the multiple struggles “stressors” combined with a gethat come along with ASD, most netic susceptibility leads a child families are forced to seek out “al- down the path of autism and other ternative” medical treatments for neurological/behavioural conditheir children, which can be an tions. overwhelming and daunting task.

When we think about “alternaWhen searching for “alterna- tive” treatments for ASD, naturtive” medical treatments for ASD, opathic medicine can play a sigthe information is endless. As nificant role in symptom reduca naturopathic doctor who uses tion and quality of life improve-

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Making your home healthy for winter SOME TLC FOR YOUR HOME WILL KEEP ALL SAFE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Leaves are turning, temperatures are dipping. As they warn on the novels-turned-TV cult favourite, Game of Thrones: Winter is coming.

For homeowners or home dwellers, that means there are chores that need doing to ensure a safe and healthy home for the months to come.

From the basement to the attic, here are some things that need tending to in the weeks ahead: The furnace: You can’t through a winter without one in our part of the world — or at least a heating stove of some sort. But the beast in the basement needs regular care and maintenance to run efficiently and safely.

“It should be done once a year, particularly in the winter when the furnace will be running. You don’t want to have any problems with carbon monoxide,” says Wolf Saxler, manager of healthy environments for Toronto Public Health.

Filters should be replaced as frequently as the unit’s manufacturer instructs, he says.

“Put a date on it so you know when it was last changed and just replace it. It helps with allergens and dust moving around the house. And it helps with the efficiency of the furnace.”

Raynald Marchand of the Canada Safety Council says if there’s a humidifier system attached to the furnace, it’s a good idea to give it a good cleaning.

Bacteria can accumulate in the units, especially the older drum types, he says.

The wood stove or wood-burning fireplace: If you heat with a wood stove or enjoy a blazing hearth on cold winter nights, it’s important to make sure your chimney is checked out and cleaned regularly, Marchand says. Creosote buildup in a chimney can trigger a fire.

“If you’re using it at Christmas and then you don’t use it again, then it can probably go a few years. But if you’re using it reasonably ... you probably should have it cleaned every year or two. It depends on usage,” he suggests.

Check for radon: A radioactive gas emitted from the soil, radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, after smoking. It’s responsible for about 16 per cent of lung cancer cases in this country.

All homes have some radon, but in some the undetectable gas can build up to dangerous levels. Concentrations vary depending on where you live and the type of soil on which your house is built.

There are measures you can take to reduce the amount of radon in your house if it reaches dangerous levels. But the only way to know how much radon is in your home is to test.

Health Canada recommends homeowners test their homes. You take readings over several months and the best time to start is in the fall and winter, when windows are closed.

You can find plenty of information about radon and radon testing on Health Canada’s website at http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/radiation/radon—brochure/index- eng.php.

Space heaters: If you use a space heater to take the chill out of a drafty room, it’s a good idea to check out the state of the unit before plugging it in for the season, Marchand says.

Space heaters should be plugged directly into a wall socket, not into an extension cord that can heat up because of the amount of power the units draw, he notes. “They take a lot of electricity so you’ve got to make sure you don’t overload the circuit.”

Marchand also suggests space heaters should be located away from flammable items when in use.

Carbon monoxide detectors: Hopefully if you’ve kept your furnace in good nick, carbon monoxide shouldn’t be a problem. Experts recommend having carbon monoxide detectors to alert you in case there is a build up of the odourless gas, which can kill.

Like real estate, with CO detectors the important thing is location, location, location. A unit in the basement, near the furnace, isn’t going to be of much help if you are losing consciousness two storeys up.

“With carbon monoxide, if the levels do go up it’s not noticeable. You’ll tend to drift off into sleep. You need the alarm to wake you,” Saxler says.

“Make sure you have one in the bedrooms.... If one goes off in the basement, you won’t hear it.”

Smoke detectors: If yours aren’t hard wired, ensuring that the batteries in your smoke detectors are still functioning could save your family in the event of a fire.

The best idea, experts say, is not to wait till the device starts that annoying beeping that signals the batteries are about to die. They suggest people replace batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide detectors pre-emptively twice a year, when clocks are put forward and turned back in conjunction with the start and end of daylight savings time.

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Eighty-year-old Marianne Blomberg works out at a gym in Stockholm. Much of the world is not prepared to support the ballooning population of elderly people, including many of the fastest-aging countries, according to a global study scheduled to be released by the United Nations and an elder rights group.

The grey wave WORLD NOT PREPARED TO SUPPORT GROWING ELDERLY POPULATION

BY KRISTEN GELINEAU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study being issued Tuesday by the United Nations and an elder rights group.

The report ranks the social and economic well-being of elders in 91 countries, with Sweden coming out on top and Afghanistan at the bottom.

Canada is at fifth place.

“In 2011, an estimated five million Canadians were 65 years of age or older, a number that is expected to double in the next 25 years,” the report said.

The study reflects what advocates for the old have been warning, with increasing urgency, for years: Countries are simply not working quickly enough to cope with a population greying faster than ever before.

By the year 2050, for the first time in history, seniors older than 60 will outnumber children younger than 15.

Truong Tien Thao, who runs a small tea shop on the sidewalk near his home in Hanoi, Vietnam, is 65 and acutely aware that he, like millions of others, is plunging into old age without a safety net.

He wishes he could retire, but he and his 61-year-old wife depend on the US$50 a month they earn from the shop.

And so every day, Thao rises early to open the stall at 6 a.m. and works until 2 p.m., when his wife takes over until closing.

“People at my age should have a rest, but I still have to work to make our ends meet,” he says, while waiting for customers at the shop, which sells green tea, cigarettes and chewing gum.

“My wife and I have no pension, no health insurance. I’m scared of thinking of being sick — I don’t know how I can pay for the medical care.”

Thao’s story reflects a key point in the report, which was released early to The Associated Press: Aging is an issue across the world.

Perhaps surprisingly, the report

shows that the fastest aging countries are developing ones, such as Jordan, Laos, Mongolia, Nicaragua and Vietnam, where the number of older people will more than triple by 2050.

All ranked in the bottom half of the index.

The Global AgeWatch Index (www.globalagewatch.org) was created by elder advocacy group HelpAge International and the UN Population Fund in part to address a lack of international data on the extent and impact of global aging. he index, released on the UN’s International Day of Older Persons, compiles data from the UN, World Health Organization, World Bank and other global agencies, and analyzes income, health, education, employment and agefriendly environment in each country.

The index was welcomed by elder rights advocates, who have long complained that a lack of data has thwarted their attempts to raise the issue on government agendas.

“Unless you measure something, it doesn’t really exist in the minds of decision-makers,” said John Beard, Director of Ageing and Life Course for the World Health Organization.

“One of the challenges for population aging is that we don’t even collect the data, let alone start to analyze it. ...

“For example, we’ve been talking about how people are living longer, but I can’t tell you people are living longer and sicker, or longer in good health.”

The report fits into an increasingly complex picture of aging and what it means to the world.

On the one hand, the fact that people are living longer is a testament to advances in health care and nutrition, and advocates emphasize that the elderly should be seen not as a burden but as a resource.

On the other, many countries still lack a basic social protection floor that provides income, health care and housing for their senior citizens.

Afghanistan, for example, offers no pension to those not in the

government. Life expectancy is 59 years for men and 61 for women, compared to a global average of 68 for men and 72 for women, according to UN data.

That leaves Abdul Wasay struggling to survive.

At 75, the former cook and blacksmith spends most of his day trying to sell toothbrushes and toothpaste on a busy street corner in Kabul’s main market.

The job nets him just $6 a day — barely enough to support his wife.

He can only afford to buy meat twice a month; the family relies mainly on potatoes and curried vegetables.

“It’s difficult because my knees are weak and I can’t really stand for a long time,” he says. “But what can I do? It’s even harder in winter, but I can’t afford treatment.”

Although government hospitals are free, Wasay complains that they provide little treatment and hardly any medicine.

He wants to stop working in three years, but is not sure his children can support him. He says many older people cannot find work because they are not strong enough to do day labour, and some resort to begging.

“You have to keep working no matter how old you are — no one is rich enough to stop,” he says.

“Life is very difficult.”

Prosperity in itself does not guarantee protection for the old.

The world’s rising economic powers — the so-called BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — rank lower in the index than some poorer countries such as Uruguay and Panama.

However, the report found, wealthy countries are in general better prepared for aging than poorer ones.

Sweden, where the pension system is now 100 years old, makes the top of the list because of its social support, education and health coverage, followed by Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada.

The United States comes in eighth.

Experts aim to eliminate tuberculosis in children NUMBER INFECTED WORLDWIDE REMAINS UNCERTAIN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Health officials are embarking on an ambitious plan to wipe out tuberculosis in children worldwide, even though they don’t know exactly how many cases there are.

Experts say tuberculosis in children — defined as people under the age of 15 — has often been overlooked because there isn’t a reliable diagnostic test and its symptoms are similar to many other childhood illnesses. Also, because children don’t spread the disease, it hasn’t been considered a major public health problem.

“We think that in some regions, up to 90 per cent of children with TB are not being reported,” said Dr. Steve Graham of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. He was one of the authors of a strategy issued Tuesday by many health and advocacy groups, including the World Health

Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The plan identifies 10 priorities, including treating children preventively if family members already have TB, and training health workers to spot the disease in kids. It says that stopping children from dying of TB is “within our grasp.”

TB is a treatable bacterial disease usually spread by coughing or sneezing — but young children don’t cough strongly enough to pass on the bacteria. It is the second-leading killer among infectious diseases after AIDS. The new plan will cost an estimated $120 million per year, but it’s unclear if donors will invest; there is already a projected $21 billion shortfall for global efforts to fight TB until 2015.

According to the new plan, WHO estimates that TB infects about 500,000 children every year and kills around 74,000. But there was no breakdown of where cases were geographically and the figures were based on the agency’s 2012 TB report, which said it was too complicated and expensive to measure the actual number of cases.

Critics said the lack of solid figures was worrying.

“It is unacceptable practice to use numbers without any credibility,” said William Easterly, an eco-

nomics professor at New York University who was not part of the new TB plan. He said more efforts should be made to determine the size of the problem before asking for money. “To say they are going to try to reduce the number of cases they can’t measure to zero is absurd,” he said.

Others said officials should move faster to correct the past neglect of childhood TB. For example, the report said children should be included in trials of new diagnostics and drugs by 2020.

“Why should we be waiting another seven years before including children?” asked Ruth McNerney, a TB expert at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who also has no connection with the new TB plan.

She said the health community’s focus on children was long overdue.

“For a long time, public health officials weren’t interested in treating children because they aren’t considered to be infectious and they thought they could solve TB by focusing on the people who were infectious,” McNerney said. “But that clearly hasn’t worked at all.”

Online: http://www.who.int/tb/challengs/children/en/index. html

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Kerry Wood Nature Centre program co-ordinator Todd Nivens looks through a new telescope donated to the centre this week. The Kerry Wood Nature is hosting a Family Planetarium event at the centre this Sunday. Although the telescope will not be used, participants will have the opportunity to learn the constellations of the fall night sky, learn about Greek mythology and learn basic astronomical navigation skills. The event runs from 1 - 2 p.m. on Sunday Oct. 6 and again Nov. 3rd. Admission is $3 per person or $10 per family.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● The Associated Canadian Travelers, United Commercial Travelers Red Deer Council 1021 (ACT/UCT) are holding an Open House on Oct. 4 at Elks Hall from 7 to 9 p.m. The group is looking for those who have a couple of hours to spare each month to share in fun and fellowship and help people with special needs. Contact Marg at 403-342-4211. ● First Friday’s lineup on Oct. 4 includes: Second Time’s a Charm: An Upcycled Exhibit at Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre from 5 to 7 p.m.; Art of Ambient — a collection of works by Gord Cannon — meet and greet the artist on from 4 to 6 p.m. at The Hub on Ross, Brave New Worlds; Brave New Worlds, Bold New Plans by Red Deer artist Daniel Anhorn from 6 to 8 p.m. at Harris-Warke Gallery at Sunworks; Connections: Fibre Art by Dawna Dey Harrish with a performance by The Eclectics at Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. ● Widow and Widower Support Network meets on the first Friday of every month at Remington’s Grill in Black Knight Inn at 6 p.m. for food and fellowship, and on the third Friday of each month at 7 p.m. at the First Christian Reformed Church, 16 McVicar St. The group provides a safe place for men and women who have lost their spouse through death, to interact and support each other.

Upcoming dates are Oct. 4 and 18. Email to widowedsupportnetwork@gmail.com. or call 403-7550977. ● Paul Rumboldt concert with special guests Carolyn Harley and the Davidsons takes place at The Hub on Ross on Oct. 4, 7 to 9 p.m.

Tickets at the door. Cash only. Admission is $15 per person, or $30 per family. Phone 403-3404869. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House has many upcoming events: Flag Whist Oct. 4 at 1:30, $4; Cribbage every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Oct. 10 and a special Cribbage Tournament and pot luck on Oct. 20, $8, register

by Oct. 17; Whist every Friday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Oct. 18; 500 every Monday and Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Oct. 28; Fun Contract Bridge every Wednesday at 1 p.m. Games cost $3. Tournaments cost $6. A pot luck supper will be held in Oct. 4 at 5:30 p.m. Cost is $5. Please bring a meat dish, salad or dessert. A jam session followed by dinner will be held on Oct. 12 at 1:30 p.m. for a cost of $6, and a turkey supper will be held on Oct. 18, 5:30 p.m. with a Dutch auction to follow. Advance tickets on sale now for $12. Enjoy Karaoke on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m.

Admission by donation. Phone 403-346-4043. ● Much Music Video Family Dance, Oct. 4, 6:30 to 10 p.m. at Ecole Steffie Woima Elementary School in Sylvan Lake. The dance will be the kick off to National Family Week which runs Oct. 7 to 13. Admission is $5 per family, or $2 person. A concession will be available with refreshments and pizza donated by Sylvan Lake Boston Pizza. More events are planned for the week by Sylvan Lake Family and Community Support Services, and other community agencies. See www.sylvanlake.ca.

Saturday ● Magdalene House Society/Joy Smith Foundation in support of victims of human trafficking will be on Oct. 5. To donate, see www.rideforrefuge.org, or contact David at 403-342-6191 or dacat2@shaw.ca. ● Sierra of Taylor Drive Music Jam is held the first Saturday of every month from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Everyone welcome to play an in-

strument, dance or simply listen to the music. Next jam session is Oct. 5. Each session $2. Phone Chris at 403-341-3385. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Oct. 5 session is called Golden Oldies with artist Shannon Woolgar, and the Oct. 12 session is Make Your Menu with artist Carlene La Rue. All materials supplied. Families welcome.

Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission. ● Sunnybrook United Church Cookie Walk, Oct. 5, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Buy a box for $6 and fill the box with a choice of cookies. Complimentary coffee. Contact Linda at 403-347-6073.

Monday ● Zumba Gold Class will be offered at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre on Mondays from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. This is an entry level class designed for older adults. A drop in fee of $4.50 applies. Phone 403-343-6074 for more information. ● Ladies Auxiliary of Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion Branch #35 holds general meetings the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. For a ride please call Harry at 403-598-5331 before noon on meeting day. Meat draw every Friday at 5 p.m. ● The Golden Circle Singers hold practices on Mondays at 1:30 p.m. If you love to sing, please join them. These singers perform in local nursing homes and lodges and other venues. For more information call Rose at 403-342-4047.

Tuesday ● Seniors skating will be offered at the Red Deer Arena on Tuesdays from 2:30 to 3:30, $3.

Ages 50 years plus. Warm up with a coffee following the skate. Phone 403-347-6883. ● Red Deer Celiac Support Group meets in the coffee lounge at the south location of Sobeys Inc. on the second Tuesday of every month starting at 7 p.m. The next meeting will be on Oct. 8. Those sensitive and allergic to gluten are invited to come out and find out more about celiac disease, gluten free diets and products, support, fellowship, coffee and goodies. See www.celiac.ca, or contact Fay at 403-347-3248, or Clarice at 403-341-4351 or email Red Deer Celiacs @yahoo.ca. Rocky Mountain House Group meets at Rocky Mountain Library on the second Thursday of every month starting at 6:30 p.m. Contact Jaclyn at 403-847-8878, or Susie at 403-844-4117. Stettler Group meets at Stettler Hospital Board Room on the first Tuesday of every month starting at 7 p.m. Contact Diane at 403-7420903, or Val at 403-742-5217. ● Inner Peace Movement of Canada will present a lecture on Oct. 8 at 1 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. at the Super 8 Hotel. There will also be a presentation on Oct. 15 at Stettler Recreation Centre at 1 and 7 p.m. Admission is $20 at the door. This is a community based, organization that gives people practical tools and techniques to find answers for themselves to create the life they would like to have. For more information email dfuechtman@ shaw.ca or call 780-667-6583. ● The Central Alberta Mopar Association (CAMA) Car Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Humpty’s Classic Restaurant in Gasoline Alley. Admirers and owners of Chrysler family vehicles are welcome. Yearly membership is $17 for new members and $12 for current members. For more information contact Glen at 403-318-8388 or visit www.centralalbertamopar.ca/.

Wednesday ● Donald School of Business Speaker Series presents author, and CBC Dragon’s Den judge — David Chilton — on Oct. 9 at City Centre Stage. Networking and refreshments from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. followed by speaker presentation from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $75 each and $35 for students, and tickets are available at www.bkticketcentre.ca or by calling 403-755-6626. ● Personal And Social Transformation Action (PASTA) Players meet on Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Hub. Persons aged 12 years and up invited to explore theatre. Free to join. No experience required. Phone 403-340-4869. ● Olds Calico Capers Square and Round Dance Club dances are held on Wednesdays at 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Olds Evergreen Senior Centre.

New dancer lessons start Oct. 9. Phone 403-5566423. ● Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Elnora Drop In Centre. Cowboy boots and hats welcome. Next dates are Oct. 9 and 30.

For more information, call 403-749-2047 and 403749-3361. ● Epilepsy Association of Central Alberta located at 4811 48 Street holds monthly support group meetings at 5:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. The next meeting is Oct. 8. Presentations on epilepsy are available for organizations. Phone 403-358-3358 or email normak@epilepsycalgary.com. ● Daytime Documentaries will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. A documentary film will be shown on a variety of issues from the environment to history and anything in between, and then discussion will follow, facilitated by a staff member. Free. Phone 403-346-2100. ● Golden Circle Ho-Downers are a fun band of seniors who entertain other seniors in nursing homes, lodges and by special request. Practices are held on Wednesdays starting at 2 p.m. Everyone welcome. For more information call Bea at 403-346-5802. ● Downtown Market will be held on Wednesdays from 4 to 7 p.m. until Oct. 9 on Gaetz Ave. from the corner of Ross St. right to 48 St. (Alexan-

der Way). Phone 403-340-8696. ● Drop-in Time for Twos is offered on Wednesdays from 11 to 11:45 a.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch Children’s Department. Busy two year olds and their parents and caregivers are invited to join in rhymes, songs, books, and puppets to keep both their minds and their bodies moving. Afterwards, play and interact using age appropriate toys, puzzles, books and craft materials. Phone 403-346-4688. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Five Plus One is on Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403342-0035. ● United Way Soup Benefit Luncheon invites diners on Oct. 9 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Hub. The cost is $7 for home made soup, bun, drink, cookie and drink with all proceeds to United Way. Volunteers to make soup or help in other ways are needed. Phone 403-340-4869.

Thursday ● Red Deer College Music Concert Series presents Cheryl Clooney and Debra Bakland, Piano Duo on Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. on Mainstage, Arts Centre. RDC professor emeritus Cheryl Clooney and Canadian University College faculty member Debra Bakland present an evening of duo piano music by Bach, Lutoslawski, Brahms, Rachmaninov, and Rzewski. Tickets are available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, www.bkticketcentre.ca, 403755-6626, or 1-800-661-8793. ● Red Deer TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets Thursday nights at the Elks Lodge, 6315 Horn Street. Weekly weigh in from 6:15 to 6:55 p.m. with program to follow at 7 p.m. Low membership and weekly fees. Drop in for a free session or call Jo-Anne at 403-347-3939. ● Dancercise is a senior friendly, low impact, dance class, and a great way to get your exercise and meet new people, held Thursdays at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. There is a drop-in fee of $1. Phone 403-343-6074. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Oct. 10, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Country Gold North Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-246-3896.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● GrammaLink-Africa Chili Luncheon will be held on Oct. 30. For $15, choose a hand made pottery bowl to keep and fill with home made chili at the The Hub on Ross. See www.hubpdd.com, or phone 403-340-4869. ● Target Senior Falls workshop will be held on Nov. 19 at CrossRoads Church. Registration is $10, and includes lunch. Contact Safe Communities Central Alberta at 403-346-8101, or scca@ telus.net to register. ● Red Deer College Theatre Productions presents A Comedy of Errors, Oct. 10 to 19, and Alice Through the Looking Glass, Nov. 21 to 30, and on the Mainstage, Arts Centre. Tickets are available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, www.bkticketcentre.ca, 403-755-6626, or 1-800-661-8793. ● Red Deer College Music Concert Series presents Women of the Baton on Oct. 24, and Faculty Recital on Oct. 26, both at 7:30 p.m. on Mainstage. Tickets available through Black Knight Tickets, phone, 403-755-6626, go online to www. bkticketcentre.ca, or in person at the Black Knight Inn. ● Life After Loss: Children’s Life After Loss Group will be offered for eight weeks starting on Oct. 15 at Parkland Youth Homes Society. This therapeutic group program will assist children who

are grieving the death of a loved one within their family or close to the family. An affordable sliding fee scale applies. Contact Kim or Jeremy at 403340-8995. ● Red Deer Legion sports clubs are organizing winter leagues in shuffleboard, darts, crib, and bridge. Drop in to the Legion to learn more about the these league or drop in programs or call 403342-0035. ● Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre is seeking youth volunteers who have an interest in health care or medical careers. The time commitment is two to three hours per week for a minimum of one semester (six months). Youth must be 13 to 17 years of age. Contact Darci at 403-343-04715, ext. 3 or darci.shave@albertahealthservices.ca.

Deadline for fall applications is Oct. 15. ● Stettler Social Society Oktoberfest supper and dance is held on the third Thursday of every month from Sept. to June at Stettler Legion Hall.

Live bands each time. On Oct. 17 dance to Old Tyme Aires. Dance from 5 to 6 p.m. Hot supper from 6 to 7 p.m. Dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets at the door cost $17.50 per person, or $10 for dance only. Phone 403-742-5640. All ages welcome.

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Concert promoter cleared in Jackson death JURY REJECTS CLAIM THAT AEG LIVE WAS NEGLIGENT IN HIRING DOCTOR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — A jury cleared concert promoter AEG Live on Wednesday of negligence in the hiring of the doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson.

The panel unanimously rejected a lawsuit brought

by Jackson’s mother that sought to financially punish AEG Live LLC, the promoters of her son’s This Is It concerts planned for London.

“I couldn’t be more pleased with the way the jury came out. They got it exactly right,” AEG Live lead defence attorney Marvin S. Putnam said after the verdict was read.

Katherine Jackson told reporters she was OK after the verdict.

A victory could have meant hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for Katherine Jackson and the singer’s three children and provided a rebuke of AEG Live LLC, the nation’s second-largest concert promoter.

Lawyers for Katherine Jackson argued that AEG Live hired Dr. Conrad Murray to be the singer’s physician without considering whether he was fit for the job.

AEG Live denied any wrongdoing and said it was Jackson who hired Murray.

Murray was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter after giving Jackson the overdose as he prepared for a series of comeback shows.

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The case provided the closest look yet at Jackson’s drug use and his battles against chronic pain and insomnia. It also took jurors behind the scenes in the rough and tumble world of negotiations with one of the world’s most famous entertainers looking to solidify his legendary status after scandal interrupted his career.

Witnesses said he saw the This Is It concerts as a chance for personal redemption after being acquitted of child molestation.

But as the opening date of the shows approached, associates testified that he had bouts of insecurity and agonized over his inability to sleep. They said he turned to the drug propofol and found Murray, who was willing to buy it in bulk and administer it to him on a nightly basis even though it is not meant to be used outside operating rooms.

Testimony at the civil trial showed that only Jackson and Murray knew he was taking the drug.

In his closing argument, AEG Live attorney Marvin Putnam told jurors that the company would have pulled the plug on the shows if they knew he was using the anesthetic.

“AEG would have never agreed to finance this tour if they knew Mr. Jackson was playing Russian roulette in his bedroom every night,” Brian Panish, a lawyer for the Jackson family, countered that AEG Live was negligent by not looking far enough to find out what it needed to know about Murray. He claimed in his closing argument that the lure of riches turned the company and Mur-

ray into mercenaries who sacrificed the pop star’s life in a quest to boost their own fortunes.

Panish asked jurors: “Do people do things they shouldn’t do for money? People do it every day.”

He said a $150,000-a-month contract to care for Jackson was a lifeline to help Murray climb out of his financial troubles, which included $500,000 in debt. AEG Live, meanwhile, had only one interest — launching a world tour for the King of Pop that would yield untold millions in profits, the lawyer said.

AEG Live’s lawyers framed the case as being about personal choice, saying Jackson made bad choices about the drug that killed him and the doctor who provided it. They said he was the architect of his own demise and no one else can be blamed.

Putnam said Jackson insisted on hiring the cardiologist, despite objections from AEG Live.

“It was his money and he certainly wasn’t going to take no for an answer,” the lawyer said.

Putnam portrayed AEG Live and its executives as victims of deception by Jackson and Murray. He showed brief excerpts from the This Is It documentary to show that Jackson appeared in top form just 12 hours before he died.

“AEG Live did not have a crystal ball,” he said.

“Dr. Murray and Mr. Jackson fooled everyone. They want to blame AEG for something no one saw.”

Murray was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter for causing Jackson’s death and is due to be released in October after serving a two year jail sentence.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE B4 ● Canadian Cancer Society Jail ‘N’ Bail will go on Oct. 24 at Parkland Mall. The roundup begins to turn in prospective “jailbirds,” volunteers, and sponsors for a good cause and raise funds to fight cancer. See cancer.ca/ab/jailnbail or call 403-309-5429, or trish. king@cancer.ab.ca. ● Delburne Friendship Group Roast Beef Supper will be held on Nov. 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Delburne Hall. Admission for adults is $10, and $3.50 for children. Phone 403-749-2083. ● Shadynook Community Centre Annual General Meeting is coming up on Nov. 4, 7:15 p.m. Coffee is on for new and old community members. Contact Lynn at 403-342-0353. ● Great Bend Community Harvest Turkey Supper will be celebrated on Oct. 18 at Delburne Hall from 5 to 7 p.m. Costs are $12.50 for adults, children ages six to 12 years $5, and children ages five and under free of charge. Pay at the door. Phone 403-749-2453. ● Alzheimer Society presents Seeds of Hope Family Learning Series focussing on Early Stage Dementia beginning on Oct. 17.

The series consists of several sessions with activities and presenters for families of persons living with Alzheimer Disease and related dementias. Free of charge. For details and to register, contact Christine Prysunka at 403-342-0448. ● Red Deer River Watershed Alliance Ambassador Breakfast will be held on Oct. 18, 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at Quality North Hill Inn for a cost of $15 per person. Carole Kelly of Medicine River Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre will be guest speaker. RSVP to info@rdrwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 by noon on July 17. ● Weight Wise free interactive workshops led by Alberta Health Services professionals will be offered to local residents at the Education Room at Bethany CollegeSide. Workshops run Oct. 7 to Dec. 16 and are suitable for people aged 17 years and over. Family members are welcome to attend. Not suitable for pregnant women.

Participants are welcome to attend all or some workshops. For details, topics, and to register, phone 1-877-314-6997. ● Mountain View Housing Foundation is accepting nominations for its Board of Directors. A two year commitment from individuals who have talent and experience in related fields are sought. Contact 403-335-8404, sam.smalldon@mvsh.ca. ● Blackfalds and District Victim Support Society is seeking adult men and women to act as volunteer advocates. Basic and ongoing training provided. Must be Canadian citizens, able to pass an enhanced security check through the RCMP, and have a valid drivers licence. See www.victimsupport.ca or contact Gloria at 403-885-3355. ● Bethany Care Society is seeking volunteers to help with the hydration cart program. The time commitment is one to three hours per week. Contact Ann at 403-357-3702, Ann.vanhemmen@bethanyseniors.com. ● St. Stephen’s Catholic Church Traditional Turkey Supper will take place on Oct. 26 from 4 to 7 p.m. in Olds. Costs are $30 for family with children up to 18 years, children and adults 13 years and up are $10, students ages six to 12 years are $5, and preschool children free. Contact Theresa at 403-556-6566 or coups2@telusplanet. net. ● Family Services of Central Alberta needs volunteers for the Under 6 Club which runs Thursday mornings and helps children develop motor skills. Volunteers are needed with set up, snacks, and clean up. Contact Sandy at 403-309-8215, stwidale@fsca.ca. ● Migrante-Alberta Fundraising for Filipino shooting victim Jaysen Arancon Reyes will be Oct. 19 at The Hub on Ross from 1 to 4 p.m. See the film The End of Immigration, a one-hour documentary about the lives of temporary foreign workers in Canada and the impact they make in Canadian societies. Proceeds will be forwarded to Reyes and his family through a trust fund established by Parkland Fuel Corporation. Tickets cost $10. To find out more, phone 403-3928286, migrantealberta@gmail.com. ● Ten Thousand Villages is seeking volunteers. Contact Leslie at 403-341-0178 or reddeer@villages. ca. ● Teen Empowerment Day will be celebrated on Nov. 23, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Red Deer College Cenovus Learning Commons.

Youth ages 13 to 17 years are invited to hear speakers Madison Fertig — Miss Teen Red Deer, AJ Mahoney — high school teacher, Chad Olsen — on the impact of drinking and driving, Lyle Cheney — on martial arts and self defence, and Shane Feldman — Toronto speaker, actor, humanitarian, activist, leader, teenager, and Darren Jacklin — how to stay positive and much more. Full details and registration at http://TeenEmpowermentDay.eventzilla.net.

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HOUSTON — The nation’s most active deathpenalty state has turned to a compounding pharmacy to replace its expired execution drugs, according to documents released Wednesday, weeks after Texas prison officials declined to say how they obtained the drugs amid a nationwide shortage.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, responding to a Freedom of Information request from The Associated Press, released documents showing the purchase of eight vials of the drug pentobarbital last month from a compounding pharmacy in suburban Houston. Such pharmacies custom-make drugs but aren’t subject to federal scrutiny.

Texas’ previous supply of the sedative expired last month, but prison officials wouldn’t say where they were getting their new supply. Several companies have been refusing to sell the drug for use in executions, leading to a shortage in death penalty states, though at least South Dakota and Georgia have also turned to compounding pharmacies.

Texas — which carries out far more executions than any other state — now has enough pentobarbital to carry out scheduled executions into next year, department spokesman Jason Clark said. Pentobarbital has been used as the lone drug in lethal executions in Texas for more than a year.

“The agency has purchased a new supply of the drug from a Texas pharmacy that has the ability to compound,” Clark said.

A message left by the AP for the pharmacy, The Woodlands Compounding Pharmacy, wasn’t returned Wednesday.

Texas’ purchase invoice shows that the warden from the Huntsville Unit, which houses the state’s death chamber, bought eight 2.5-gram vials of pentobarbital on Sept. 16.

SPORTS

B6 Rebels can’t get past Raiders

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Raiders 4 Rebels 1 PRINCE ALBERT — The Red Deer Rebels lost track of time too early Wednesday night and the end result was a 4-1 Western Hockey League loss to the host Prince Albert Raiders.

“We didn’t play 60 minutes,” said Rebels general manager/ head coach Brent Sutter. “We played a really good first period, it might have been our best period in our last three games. But in the second period we took our foot off the pedal a bit and didn’t play to our level. We took some penalties, they gained momentum and we were playing catch-up after that.”

Reid Gardiner paced the Raiders with a pair of goals, giving the home side a 1-0 lead late in the first period and then closing out the scoring with a power-play tally just short of two minutes into the final frame.

Craig Leverton upped the count to 2-0 at 6:24 of the second period before Rebels forward Matt Bellerive, with his third of the season, cut the deficit to one four minutes later.

Jayden Hart restored the Raiders’ two-goal lead with a power-play goal at 9:16 of the middle period and the hosts never looked back.

The Rebels directed 25 shots at Raiders goaltender Cole Cheveldave while Patrik Bartosak turned aside 27 shots in a losing effort.

“He was OK,” Sutter said

of Bartosak’s performance.

“He made some big saves but the third (Prince Albert) goal wasn’t a good one,. Still, he made some saves when the score could have gotten out of hand. He gave us a chance to keep it close.”

For a third consecutive game, the Rebels didn’t get enough from their older players.

“They were awful,” said Sutter, making his point clear.

“We need more from those guys. The returning veterans have to be better than that.”

The Rebels were minus the services of 20-year-old forward Lukas Sutter, who is listed as week-to-week with an upper body injury suffered in Saturday’s 4-1 loss at Calgary, and veteran defenceman Devan Fafard, who is under an indefinite suspension after being assessed a checking-to-thehead major and game misconduct in the second period of a 4-2 win Tuesday at Saskatoon.

“We’ll know the length of the suspension tomorrow (today),” said Sutter.

The Rebels will resume their four-game East Division road trip Friday with a date with the Moose Jaw Warriors.

Red Deer closes out the trip Saturday against the Brandon Wheat Kings.

The Rebels’ next game at the Enmax Centrium is Tuesday against the Everett Silvertips, the first of seven consecutive home contests for the club.

The Raiders and the Spokane Chiefs will visit the Centrium Oct. 11 and 12, setting

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Photo by PERRY BERGSON/Prince Albert Herald

Prince Albert Raiders forward Reid Gardiner keeps his eyes on the puck after being knocked over

by Red Deer Rebels forward Grayson Pawlenchuk as goalie Patrick Bartosak guards the corner of the net during third period action at the Art Hauser Centre in Prince Albert on Wednesday. the stage for visits by the Edmonton Oil Kings, Calgary Hitmen, Saskatoon Blades and Kootenay Ice on Oct. 18, 19, 25 and 30. ● Red Deer entered

Wednesday’s game as the 10th ranked team in the Canadian Hockey League. The Raiders were ranked second . . . Red Deer was scoreless during three man-advantage situa-

tions, while the Raiders were two-for-five on the power play . . . The game drew 2,306 fans to the Art Hauser Centre. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Rays send Indians packing after wild-card win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Tampa Bay Rays relief pitcher Fernando Rodney celebrates after the final out in the Rays’ 4-0 win over the Cleveland Indians in the AL wildcard game Wednesday, in Cleveland.

Rays 4 Indians 0 CLEVELAND — The Tampa Bay Rays’ road show rolls on. Next stop: Boston.

Alex Cobb dodged trouble for nearly seven innings and the Rays pitched their way to another must-have win on the road, beating the Cleveland Indians 4-0 Wednesday night in the AL wild-card game.

Cobb, who missed a chunk of the regular season after he was hit in the head by a line drive, quieted a thundering Cleveland crowd and ended the Indians’ unexpected season.

“Can’t put into words the appreciation I have celebrating on this field,” Cobb said. “I knew how close it was to not coming back. Sitting on the couch watching these games, I knew we had a good chance. We have a great team. I was going to do everything I could to get back and be a part of it.”

Delmon Young homered in the third inning off rookie Danny Salazar as the Rays, playing in their third city over four days, advanced to face the AL East champion Red Sox in the division series starting Friday.

“I felt like we’ve done it and been here before,” said Desmond Jennings, who hit a two-run double. “The road we took to get here

was pretty tough going to New York, Toronto, playing a game in Texas.”

Cobb’s comeback in August from his frightening injury helped stabilize the Rays, who have spent the past two weeks winning crucial games to reach the post-season for the fourth time in six years.

Cobb pitched out of massive jams in the fourth and fifth, and allowed two runners to reach in the seventh before turning it over to Tampa Bay’s dependable bullpen.

Joel Peralta struck out Nick Swisher on three pitches, ending Cleveland’s last real chance.

Fernando Rodney worked a perfect ninth, striking out Lonnie Chisenhall to end it. Rodney dropped to one knee, pointed skyward and soon was mobbed by all the Rays, who may be a little homesick but are Boston-bound.

“Go out and play our game,” Jennings said. “It’s going to be tough anytime you play Boston.”

Unfazed by a raucous, red-clad, towel-waving crowd of 43,579 that roared like a jet engine inside Progressive Field, the Rays handled the Indians and will now face their division nemesis, the Red Sox, who went 12-7 against Tampa Bay this season.

David Price set the tone for the Rays’ post-season

run by throwing a complete game to beat Texas in the wild-card tiebreaker Monday night, and Cobb picked up where his teammate left off. After he was pulled in the seventh, Cobb walked to the dugout where he was first greeted with a highfive from Price.

“The adrenaline was going pretty fast there in the early going,” Cobb said.

“Once Delmon hit that home run, I tried to fill up the strike zone. My stuff wasn’t the best, but I made my defence work. They were awesome.”

There was a time when Cobb wasn’t even sure he would pitch again this season.

On June 15, he suffered a concussion when he was struck in the right ear by a line drive hit by Kansas City’s Eric Hosmer. Cobb was sidelined for 50 games and Tuesday he recalled lying on his sofa and wondering if he would be able to help the Rays contend for a playoff spot.

He didn’t want a repeat of 2011, when he couldn’t pitch in the playoffs after undergoing surgery to remove a blood clot in his ribs. But not only did Cobb go 5-1 after his scary moment, the 25-year-old finished 11-3 in 22 starts and manager Joe Maddon didn’t hesitate giving him the ball for the winner-take-all wildcard game.

Ticats, Riders primed for upsets this weekend We have hit the 15th week of the CFL schedule Rogers Center in a match against the faltering Tiger and the Toronto Argonauts will meet the Hamilton Cats. Hamilton pivot Henry Burris has been in a bad Tiger Cats for the first time this season. slump for the past few games and one would assume The main reason for this situation is ‘Cat coach Kent Austin will have a short both teams have no control over their leash on Hank for this game. home schedules this year; a temporary The pressure is squarely on Burris’s dilemma for the ‘Cats and a permanent shoulders to dial up his game and torpedo problem for the Argos because of their the Argonauts. I believe he can do the job, Rogers Center landlords and their apif for no other reason than his wish to exparent utter contempt for the CFL. The tend his football career past his current age Argos’ new theme song should be the of 38 years old. One falls off a big cliff in old Animals classic We Gotta Get Out Of pro sports when time catches up to you and This Place.

Hank is feeling the heat of old age.

Consequently the first Friday in OcBurris is a healthy but ancient pro foottober is the first time these two bitter ball player and he needs a victory to legitirivals will meet each other this year. mize his claim to the game as a CFL star in The rational choice to win the game his twilight years. I believe Hank definitely JIM is the Toronto Argonauts because they has something left in the tank and the Cats SUTHERLAND have been able to win four straight road win in an upset over the Argos. games without the services of otherSpeaking of upsets, I predict a Rider worldly quarterback Ricky Ray, weapon victory in the Lions’ den on Friday night of mass destruction Chad Owens and and no, I do not use hallucinogenic drugs.

2012 Grey Cup MOP tailback Chad Kackert.

Some people may have noted my misgivings about Imagine if you will a 1964 Beatles road tour with- Saskatchewan quarterback Darian Durant and my out Lennon, McCartney and Harrison; a dark moment resentment over his exclusion from responsibility in entertainment where Ringo Starr has to carry that for severe Rider shortcomings on offence over the weight of success for the Fab Four. This kind of hor- past few years. rifyingly unimaginable scenario is essentially what The Riders have become an absolute disaster the Argos faced on offence during the bulk of their in the second half of the 2013 season because even road show-and they won every game.

Winnipeg has beaten them and the onus has been on Now Toronto returns to the lukewarm confines of Durant to step up his game. He has responded with

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more turnovers than a medium-sized bakery because he is not that guy in a Ricky Ray or Doug Flutie kind of way.

However Durant may see the return of tailback Kory Sheets for the Lion game and Sheets may be just what the journeyman quarterback ordered to beat the Leos. Riders upset BC in Lotus-land.

Montreal visits Edmonton in a Saturday afternoon game that will likely feature Mike Reilly behind center for the Eskimos and he will be the main reason I pick Edmonton to win this one.

I would pick Montreal if Edmonton was forced to use either raw rookie quarterback Jon Crompton or miled-out veteran quarterback Kerry Joseph in the game. The Eskimos would have been better off calling Tom Wilkinson to see if he was free to take snaps this weekend if Reilly was unavailable to play. Look for an Eskie victory if Reilly is good to go and pick Montreal if Kerry Joseph starts for Edmonton.

Last game of the weekend takes place in Calgary on Saturday when a team with three legitimate starting quarterbacks on their roster (Calgary) plays a team with no legitimate starting quarterbacks (Winnipeg). The thin list of plus factors for Winnipeg are their solid front seven on defence and the fact the season is nearly over for this hapless Bomber squad.

The negative factors are absolutely everything else about the 2013 Bombers; including the fact their current roster does not include a priest to administer last rites to this pathetic team.

Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer

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Hockey

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Prince Albert 5 5 0 0 0 28 Swift Current 5 3 1 0 1 18 Brandon 5 3 2 0 0 21 Moose Jaw 5 2 3 0 0 14 Regina 5 1 4 0 0 12 Saskatoon 5 0 5 0 0 13 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Medicine Hat 5 4 1 0 0 22 Red Deer 6 4 2 0 0 20 Calgary 3 2 1 0 0 12 Kootenay 4 2 2 0 0 12 Edmonton 5 2 3 0 0 17 Lethbridge 5 1 3 0 1 14 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 4 3 0 0 1 19 Victoria 7 3 4 0 0 13 Prince George 7 3 4 0 0 14 Kamloops 4 1 3 0 0 10 Vancouver 4 1 3 0 0 5 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Spokane 5 4 1 0 0 24 Portland 5 3 1 0 1 30 Seattle 5 3 2 0 0 19 Tri-City 6 2 3 0 1 17 Everett 3 2 1 0 0 15

GA 15 13 19 17 17 26

Pt 10 7 6 4 2 0

GA 10 16 11 14 21 24

Pt 8 8 4 4 4 3

GA 11 21 25 15 15

Pt 7 6 6 2 2

GA 11 20 20 17 10

Pt 8 7 6 5 4

Tuesday’s results Medicine Hat 4 Moose Jaw 2 Red Deer 4 Saskatoon 2 Prince George 2 Victoria 0 Tri-City 3 Seattle 0 Wednesday’s results Brandon 4 Edmonton 3 Prince Albert 4 Red Deer 1 Calgary 5 Lethbridge 3 Swift Current 5 Saskatoon 3 Victoria 1, Prince George 0 Spokane 4, Portland 6 Kelowna 6, Everett 3 Friday’s games Vancouver at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

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

Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday’s games Red Deer at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Seattle at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries Prince Albert 4, Red Deer 1 First Period 1. Prince Albert, Gardiner 2 (Hart, Quinney) 18:41.

Penalties : Busenius P.A. (hooking) 9:00.

Second Period 2. Prince Albert, Leverton 3 (Andrlik) 6:24.

3. Red Deer, Bellerive 3 (Pawlenchuk, Bleackley) 7:23.

4. Prince Albert, Hart 3 (Busenius, Morrissey) 9:16 (pp).

Penalties : Gaudet RD (cross-checking) 9:08, Gardiner P.A. (holding) 11:18, Dixon RD (holding) 14:50, Gaudet RD (cross-checking) 17:20, Gaudet RD (roughing) 17:20, Braid P.A. (roughing) 17:20, Dixon RD (cross-checking) 18:49, Dixon RD (roughing) 18:49.

Third Period 5. Prince Albert, Gardiner 3 (Hart) 1:54 (pp).

Penalties : Danyluk P.A. (tripping) 2:40, Dixon RD (roughing) 9:09, Dixon RD (roughing) 9:09, Volek RD (Major-Fighting) 9:09, Andrlik P.A. (MajorFighting) 9:09, Braid P.A. (roughing) 9:09, Braid P.A. (roughing) 9:09.

Shots on goal Red Deer 9 8 8 — 25 Prince Albert 7 15 9 — 31 Goal — Red Deer: Bartosak (L, 3-2-0); Prince Albert: Cheveldave (W, 5-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Red Deer: 0-3; Prince Albert: 2-5.

Attendance — 2,306 at Prince Albert.

Calgary 5, Lethbridge 3 First Period 1. Lethbridge, Watson 3 (Laurencelle, Wong) 2:18.

Penalties : Rissling CAL (delay of game) 0:14, Rissling CAL (Major-Fighting) 12:39, Derko Let (Major-Fighting) 12:39, Virtanen CAL (tripping) 14:07,

Brassart CAL (holding) 16:10, Bench (served by Virtanen) CAL CAL (Unsportsmanlike Cnd.) 20:00, Bench (served by Yakubowski) Let, (Unsportsmanlike Cnd.) 20:00 Let. Second Period 2. Calgary, Padakin 2 (Lang, Draude) 8:20.

3. Lethbridge, Ramsay 2 (Maxwell, Pilon) 11:32 (pp).

4. Calgary, Chase 5 (Helgesen, Brassart) 13:26.

5. Calgary, Rissling 1 (Helgesen, Virtanen) 17:45.

Penalties : Thrower CAL (Checking from Behind) 10:37, Yakubowski Let (slashing) 14:05, Fazleev CAL (roughing) 16:11, Watson Let (roughing) 16:11.

Third Period 6. Lethbridge, Watson 4 (McKechnie, Pilon) 5:25.

7. Calgary, Thomas 2 (unassisted) 8:32.

8. Calgary, Jones 1 (Zgraggen) 17:58.

Penalties : Wong Let (high-sticking) 8:41, Chase CAL (roughing) 19:28, Helgesen CAL (MajorFighting) 19:28, Rissling CAL (roughing) 19:28, Pilon Let (roughing) 19:28, Ramsay Let (MajorFighting) 19:28, Yakubowski Let (Checking from Behind) 19:28.

Shots on goal Calgary 8 21 15 — 44 Lethbridge 15 6 7 — 28 Goal — Calgary: Driedger (W, 2-1-0); Lethbridge: Boes (L, 1-1-0).

Brandon 4, Edmonton 3 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties : Roy Bra (hooking) 8:29, Samuelsson Edm (hooking) 9:40, Moroz Edm (Fighting) 15:23, Hunter Bra (Fighting) 15:23, Samuelsson Edm (tripping) 19:03, Samuelsson Edm (Unsportsmanlike Cnd.) 19:03.

Second Period 1. Brandon, McGauley 2 (Pulock, Waltz) 1:05 (pp).

2. Brandon, Pulock 1 (Hunter, Quenneville) 6:42 (pp).

3. Brandon, Hawryluk 1 (Pulock, Hunter) 9:08 (pp).

4. Edmonton, Moroz 4 (Samuelsson, Sautner) 11:16.

5. Edmonton, Moroz 5 (Mayo) 12:57.

6. Edmonton, Moroz 6 (Kulda, Corbett) 13:48.

7. Brandon, Pulock 2 (Hunter, Palmer) 18:59 (pp).

Penalties : Honey Bra (tripping) 3:41, Moroz Edm (tripping) 6:33, Bauer Edm (slashing) 8:26, Shmoorkoff Edm (high-sticking) 18:23.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties : Palmer Bra (cross-checking) 1:49, Corbett Edm (Checking from Behind) 2:45, Bench (served by Kulda) Edm Edm (too many men) 7:07, McGauley Bra (Checking from Behind) 9:12.

Shots on goal Edmonton 17 9 10 — 36 Brandon 5 12 6 — 23 Goal — Edmonton: Jarry (L, 2-3-0); Brandon: Honey (W, 3-1-0).

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Toronto 2 2 0 0 4 Detroit 1 1 0 0 2 Boston 0 0 0 0 0 Florida 0 0 0 0 0 Ottawa 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 Buffalo 1 0 1 0 0 Montreal 1 0 1 0 0 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 Columbus 0 0 0 0 0 New Jersey 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Islanders 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 Pittsburgh 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia 1 0 1 0 0 Washington 1 0 1 0 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Colorado 1 1 0 0 2 Chicago 1 1 0 0 2 Winnipeg 1 1 0 0 2 Dallas 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota 0 0 0 0 0 Nashville 0 0 0 0 0 St. Louis 0 0 0 0 0 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts Calgary 0 0 0 0 0 Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 Phoenix 0 0 0 0 0 San Jose 0 0 0 0 0 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 Edmonton 1 0 1 0 0 Anaheim 1 0 1 0 0

GF GA 7 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 GF GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 6 GF GA 6 1 6 4 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GF GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 1 6

Tuesday’s Games Toronto 4, Montreal 3 Chicago 6, Washington 4

Winnipeg 5, Edmonton 4 Wednesday’s Games Toronto 3, Philadelphia 1 Detroit 2, Buffalo 1 Colorado 6, Anaheim 1 Thursday’s Games Tampa Bay at Boston, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Calgary at Washington, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Nashville at St. Louis, 6:30 p.m.

Florida at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Friday’s Games Ottawa at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Calgary at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Today

● Senior high volleyball: Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● JV volleyball: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● High school football: Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 7 p.m. ● College women’s exhibition hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Wednesday’s summaries Maple Leafs 3, Flyers 1 First Period 1. Philadelphia, Schenn 1 (Lecavalier, Streit) 19:53 (pp).

Penalties : Orr Tor (tripping) 6:51, Lupul Tor (fighting) 10:12, Schenn Pha (fighting) 10:12, Ranger Tor (hooking) 11:18, van Riemsdyk Tor (interference) 18:43.

Second Period 2. Toronto, Kessel 1 (Phaneuf) 17:06.

Penalties : Ranger Tor (high-sticking) 4:18, Timonen Pha (interference) 10:01, Phaneuf Tor (tripping) 14:37.

Third Period 3. Toronto, Bolland 1 (Lupul, Kulemin) 2:30.

4. Toronto, Bolland 2 (Lupul, Franson) 19:37 (pp).

Penalties : Fraser Tor (high-sticking) 3:35, Orr Tor (cross-checking) 3:35, Rosehill Pha (roughing) 3:35, Kulemin Tor (interference) 5:33, Timonen Pha (hooking) 19:02.

Shots on goal Toronto 9 9 7 — 25 Philadelphia 15 7 10 — 32 Goal — Toronto: Bernier (W, 1-0-0); Philadelphia: Mason (L, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Toronto: 1-2; Philadelphia: 1-7.

Red Wings 2, Sabres 1 First Period 1. Detroit, Samuelsson 1 (Emmerton, Kronwall) 12:05.

2. Detroit, Datsyuk 1 (unassisted) 12:41.

Penalties : Zetterberg Det (high-sticking) 3:32, Ericsson Det (closing hand on puck) 4:01, Stafford Buf (boarding) 15:17, Quincey Det (interference) 19:25.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties : Zetterberg Det (tripping) 5:03, Myers Buf (high-sticking) 9:27, Cleary Det (goaltender interference) 11:25, Samuelsson Det (hooking) 16:36, Emmerton Det (delay of game) 17:45.

Third Period 3. Buffalo, Girgensons 1 (Flynn) 12:36.

Penalties : Tallinder Buf (tripping) 16:02.

Shots on goal Buffalo 6 9 5 — 20 Detroit 8 10 16 — 34 Goal — Buffalo: Miller (L, 0-1-0); Detroit: Howard (W, 1-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Buffalo: 0-7; Detroit: 0-3.

Ducks 1 at Avalanche 6 First Period 1. Colorado, O’Reilly 1, 15:39 Penalties — Stastny Col (tripping) 4:29, Winnik Ana (hooking) 11:45.

Second Period 2. Colorado, Downie 1 (O’Reilly, Tanguay) 8:38 (pp) 3. Colorado, Mitchell 1 (Barrie, McLeod) 10:42 4. Colorado, McGinn 1 (MacKinnon, Tanguay) 17:20 Penalties — Stastny Col (hooking) 1:08, Winnik Ana (tripping) 7:16, Lovejoy Ana (roughing), MacKinnon Col (roughing) 9:56, Fistric Ana (cross-checking) 12:17, Maroon Ana (fighting, major), McLeod Col (fighting, major) 18:08.

Third Period 5. Colorado, McGinn 2 (MacKinnon, Parenteau) 11:14 6. Colorado, Duchene 1 (Downie, Tanguay) 13:42 (pp) 7. Anaheim, Silfverberg 1 (Bonino, Fistric) 19:53 Penalties — Getzlaf Ana (hooking) 12:55, Getzlaf Ana (fighting, major), Downie Col (fighting, major) 18:53, Colorado bench (unsportsmanlike conductcoach, ) 20:00.

Shots on goal Anaheim 7 15 14 — 36 Colorado 14 9 6 — 29 Goal — Anaheim: Fasth (L,0-1-0); Colorado: Varlamov (W,1-0-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Anaheim: 0-2; Colorado: 2-5.

Postseason Baseball

CFL East Division W L T 9 4 0 6 7 0 5 8 0 2 11 0

West Division GP W L T x-Calgary 13 10 3 0 x-B.C. 13 9 4 0 Saskatchewan 13 8 5 0 Edmonton 13 3 10 0 x — clinched playoff berth.

Houston Jacksonville PF 388 327 302 268

PA 337 364 361 421

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PF 408 378 388 316

PA 312 319 299 362

Pt 20 18 16 6

WEEK 15 Friday’s games Hamilton at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Saskatchewan at B.C, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games Montreal at Edmonton, 1:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Calgary, 4:30 p.m.

WEEK 16 Friday, Oct. 11 B.C. at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 12 Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 2:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 14 Winnipeg at Montreal, 11 a.m.

Toronto vs. Hamilton (at Guelph, Ont.), 2:30 p.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 4 0 0 1.000 Miami 3 1 0 .750 N.Y. Jets 2 2 0 .500 Buffalo 2 2 0 .500

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North L T 2 0 2 0 2 0 4 0

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PF 91 64 81 69

PA 87 70 81 110

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PF 179 102 108 71

PA 91 41 102 91

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 2 2 0 .500 104 Philadelphia 1 3 0 .250 99 Washington 1 3 0 .250 91 N.Y. Giants 0 4 0 .000 61

PA 85 138 112 146

Baltimore Cleveland Cincinnati Pittsburgh

Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

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W 4 1 1 0

South L T Pct 0 0 1.000 2 0 .333 3 0 .250 4 0 .000

Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota

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Pct .750 .750 .333 .250

PF 122 127 96 115

PA 101 114 88 123

Seattle San Francisco Arizona St. Louis

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West L T Pct 0 0 1.000 2 0 .500 2 0 .500 3 0 .250

PF 109 79 69 69

PA 47 95 89 121

PF 108 68 94 44

PA 55 36 104 70

Thursday, Oct. 3 Buffalo at Cleveland, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 6 Detroit at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

New England at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Miami, 11 a.m.

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

Carolina at Arizona, 2:05 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 2:25 p.m.

Houston at San Francisco, 6:30 p.m.

San Diego at Oakland, 9:35 p.m.

Open: Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Washington Monday, Oct. 7 N.Y. Jets at Atlanta, 6:40 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 10 N.Y. Giants at Chicago, 6:25 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Thursday Buffalo at CLEVELAND 4.5 41.5 Sunday Jacksonville at ST. LOUIS 11.5 41.5 KANSAS CITY at Tennessee 2.5 39.5 Philadelphia at NY GIANTS 1.5 54.5 Baltimore at MIAMI 2.5 43.5 Detroit at GREEN BAY 6.5 52.5 New England at CINCINNATI 0.5 45.5 New Orleans at CHICAGO 0.5 48.5 CAROLINA at Arizona 0.5 42.5 DENVER at Dallas 7.5 56.5 Houston at SAN FRANCISCO 6.5 43.5 SAN DIEGO at Oakland 4.5 44.5 SEATTLE at Indianapolis 2.5 43.5 Monday NY Jets at ATLANTA 9.5 44.5

COMMUNITY SPORTS AWARDS the annual banquet, set for March 27 at the Sheraton Hotel.

Residents of Red Deer or the County of Red Deer or those competing, coaching or working with a team or club in Red Deer are eligible to be nominated.

Awards are based on performance and activity from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2013.

Nomination categories and forms are available at www. scord.ca or at the City of Red Deer. Nomination deadline is Jan. 10.

DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) American League Boston vs. Tampa Bay Friday, Oct. 4: Tampa Bay (Moore 17-4) at Boston (Lester 15-8), 1:07 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 5: Tampa Bay (Price 10-8) at Boston (Lackey 10-13), 3:37 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 7: Boston (Buchholz 12-1) at Tampa Bay x-Tuesday, Oct. 8: Boston (Peavy 12-5) at Tampa Bay x-Thursday, Oct. 10: Tampa Bay at Boston Oakland vs. Detroit Friday, Oct. 4: Detroit (Scherzer 21-3) at Oakland (Colon 18-6), 7:37 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 5: Detroit (Verlander 13-12) at Oakland (Gray 5-3), 7:07 p.m.

National League St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh Thursday, Oct. 3: Pittsburgh (Burnett 10-11) at St. Louis (Wainwright 19-9), 3:07 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 4: Pittsburgh at St. Louis (Lynn 15-10), 11:07 a.m.

Sunday, Oct. 6: St. Louis at Pittsburgh x-Monday, Oct. 7: St. Louis at Pittsburgh x-Wednesday Oct. 9: Pittsburgh at St. Louis Atlanta vs. Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 3: Los Angeles (Kershaw 16-9) at Atlanta (Medlen 15-12), 6:37 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 4: Los Angeles (Greinke 15-4) at Atlanta (Minor 13-9 or Teheran 14-8), 4:07 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 6: Atlanta (Minor 13-9 or Teheran 148) at Los Angeles (Ryu 14-8) x-Monday, Oct. 7: Atlanta at Los Angeles x-Wednesday Oct. 9: Los Angeles at Atlanta

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS—Placed LB Vic So’oto on injured reserve. Signed LB Marcus Benard.

Traded OT Levi Brown to Pittsburgh for a conditional draft pick.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Released DB Curtis Marsh. Signed LB Michael Boley.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Released G Thomas Austin from the practice squad.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Traded OT Eugene Monroe to Baltimore for two undisclosed draft picks.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Released LB Darin Drakeford from the practice squad. Signed G Chandler Burden to the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Released S Kelcie McCray and FB Tyler Clutts. Signed LB Austin Spitler.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Re-signed S Kanorris Davis to the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Released OT Steven Baker from the practice squad. Signed WR Marcus Harris to the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS—Signed WR David Nelson.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Signed QB John Skelton to a one-year contract and LB Jermaine Cunningham. Released QB B.J. Daniels and RB Owen Marecic.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Released LB John Lotulelei. Released FB Jameson Konz from the

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practice squad. Claimed QB B.J. Daniels off waivers from San Francisco. Signed WR Arceto Clark to the practice squad.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS—Signed RB Robbie Rouse to the practice roster.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Added WR Jheranie Boyd, OL Shea Allard, LB Taylor Reed, DB Semaj Moody and DE Jake Killeen to the practice roster.

HOCKEY National Hockey League SAN JOSE SHARKS—Assigned F Freddie Hamilton to Worcester (AHL). Recalled F Matt Pelech from San Francisco (ECHL).

American Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN—Signed Fs Brett Lipscomb and Branden Parkhouse; D Jarrett Rush and Tyler Amburgey; and G Russell Stein.

SYRACUSE CRUNCH—Reassigned D Carl Nielsen to Florida (ECHL).

TEXAS STARS—Assigned D Etienne Boutet to Idaho (ECHL).

WORCESTER SHARKS—Named Charlie Townsend video coaching assistant.

ECHL FLORIDA EVERBLADES—Agreed to terms with D Jordan Henry.

READING ROYALS—Signed Gs Ryan Klingensmith and Shawn Sirman and D Brock Sawyer to tryout agreements.

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● College women’s volleyball: RDC Queens Wild Rose tournament. ● Peewee football: Red Deer Hornets at Sylvan Lake, 10 a.m.; Strathmore at Red Deer Steelers, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park; Innisfail at Stettler, 11 a.m.; Lacombe at Rocky Mountain House, 12:30 p.m.; ● Bantam football: Olds at Sylvan Lake, noon; Hunting Hills at Ponoka, 2 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Stettler, 2 p.m.; Lacombe at Rocky Mountain House, 3 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Red Deer Black, 2 p.m., Arena. ● College soccer: Lakeland at RDC, women at 2 p.m., men to follow. ● Major bantam female hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kin City B.

Sunday

● College women’s volleyball: RDC Queens Wild Rose tournament. ● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Parkland, 10 a.m., Arena. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Northstar, 12:15 p.m., Arena. ● Major bantam female hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. ● Bantam AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:15 p.m., Kinex. ● Chinook senior hockey: Innisfail Eagles preseason tournament — Bentley vs.

Fort Saskatchewan, 2:30 p.m.; Innisfail vs. Stony Plain. 5:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Mountainview at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Foothills at Sylvan Lake, 2:45 p.m.; Red Deer Indy Graphics at Red Deer Elks, 5:30 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AAA hockey: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 3:30 p.m., Arena.

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Friday

● High school football: Rocky Mountain House at Camrose, 4 p.m.; Notre Dame at Wetaskiwin, 6 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park; Ponoka at Stettler, 7 p.m. ● College women’s volleyball: RDC Queens Wild Rose tournament. ● WHL: Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton K of C at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: High River at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Innisfail Eagles preseason tournament — Okotoks vs.

Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blue at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Ramada, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Wheatland at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Innisfail Eagles preseason tournament — Stony Plain vs. Bentley, 5:30 p.m.; Fort Saskatchewan vs. Okotoks, 8:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Brandon, 6 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Sylvan Lake, 6:15 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: NAIT at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 7:30 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Banff Academy at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.

B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

Taking his training to Thailand RED DEER’S JOSIAH MACPHERSON GOING TO BIRTHPLACE OF MUAY THAI IN HOPES TO BECOME A BETTER KICKBOXER

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Josiah MacPherson is willing to travel far and wide to further his advancement in Muay Thai.

Next month, in fact, the 18-year-old Red Deer man will venture to Thailand to train with some of the masters of the sport.

“I’ve done a couple of tournaments in Alberta, but basically this trip will be my first step in taking it to the next level and making it a serious sort of career,” said MacPherson, who trains at Arashi-Do Red Deer. “Training in Thailand is a pretty big deal, it’s pretty intense. Once you go there you get a little more recognized and I’m hoping that I can eventually compete for Alberta and then for Canada one day and win some titles.

“I’ve decided to take this seriously and see if it goes anywhere for me. It it does, we’ll let it take off and see where it goes.”

MacPherson was introduced to Muay Thai three years ago.

“It kind of just happened by accident,” he said. “I was looking for a sport to get involved in, something I could excel at.

I decided to try some karate and kick boxing at Arashi-Do. They’re amazing. They worked with me and focused on me and helped me start to take it seriously once I decided to put in the effort. They have some amazing trainers and partners there.”

MacPherson will head to the Far East Nov. 11 with two members of an Arashi-Do studio in Edmonton and return 19 days later.

“We’ll be working with some high-end fighters,” said MacPherson. “This is not something to take lightly. It’s some pretty difficult training and I’m going to have to put everything I have into it, but it will definitely be worth it in the end.”

Naturally, such an excursion does not come cheap and MacPherson has enlisted the aid of a website — makeachamp.com — to hopefully offset some travel expenses.

“With this website, which originated in Montreal, you basically make a campaign and a profile of yourself and then turn to your friends, family and community to help raise funds for trips involving your sport,” said MacPherson. “It’s for people who go to big tour-

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Josiah McacPherson, left, works the pads with partner Cody Bertsch at Arashii Do Martial Arts in Red Deer Tuesday. MacPherson is travelling to Thailand in November to seek out more intense elite training in the sport of Muay Thai. naments throughout the world, which can get pretty costly for young athletes.

“People can follow your campaign on facebook and twitter and see your progress as well as donate to your cause. Basically it helps out a lot of young athletes who want

to take that next step and take things a little further.”

So far, MacPherson hasn’t been overwhelmed with sponsors.

“I’ve had some help from friends and family. I was trying to reach out to some local businesses for sponsorship

but that’s not going as well as I hoped,” he said. “I’m trying my best to get the word out, not just for my campaign but also for the website. I think it’s an amazing thing that can help all young athletes.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

No signs of Masters champion Scott trying to concussion leave Presidents Cup with a trophy symptoms for Reilly, but Esks staying cautious

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

EDMONTON — Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly went through a normal day of practice Wednesday and showed no signs of any residual concussion symptoms following the nasty head shot he took from Toronto Argonaut defensive lineman Cleyon Laing last Saturday.

Reilly was knocked out the game and the team said on Sunday he had suffered a concussion.

He missed practice Tuesday but was back taking most of the reps on Wednesday.

“Today was pretty much full-go for me.” the six-foot-three, 215-pound first-year Eskimo said afterwards.

“Because it’s noncontract every day for us (quarterbacks) nothing changed for me than it would on a normal Day 2.

(Thursday) we will probably be a little more rigorous than a normal Day 3 for me.

“We’ll come out, have a normal practice and then do some strenuous cardio stuff and just push everything a little harder than normal.

“As long as everything continues to go as expected I’m hopeful that I’ll be cleared to play.

There only a few days but those are long days, there’s still lots to do.”

The 3-10 Eskimos play the 5-8 Montreal Alouettes Saturday in a game they have to win to retain any realistic playoff hopes.

Reilly remained in the game for one play after the hit — throwing a touchdown pass — but was pulled after feeling dizziness and confusion on the sidelines.

He said Wednesday he’s felt no adverse symptoms since waking up on Sunday.

“My schedule, my routine hasn’t changed.

The first night after the game even went pretty smoothly.

“Neck was a little sore that night but gone by the next morning. Since then there’s been nothing to deal with. Meals have been going good, sleeping is going well, meetings and picking up the ready list and being prepared has all gone

well.” He admitted, however, that concussions affect people differently and he’s not out of the woods yet.

“This is a learning experience and realizing what guys go through when they get injured,” he said. “It’s not fun to be on this side of it but I’m just thankful that things have gone well so far and hopefully they will continue to be that way.

“It was disappointing not being able to practice yesterday. That was the first practice I’ve ever missed, college, high school, professional or anything.”

Reilly, in his fourth CFL season, has taken a tremendous amount of punishment this season but said it was ironic that he took the most dangerous hit when he was doing what people have been saying he should do to protect himself.

“Everybody’s talked all season about how I need to change my style of play because I’m going to get hurt and the play I get hurt on I’m actually in the pocket and I’m not out there running around trying to lower my head.”

always gets mentioned.

“Scotty is really determined,” said Marc Leishman, who will partner Angel Cabrera against Woods and Kuchar. “He has not been on a winning side. Ernie has been vocal, as well; Angel, too.

All the experienced guys are really motivated and determined to win. Think they are getting sick of being on the wrong end of this competition.”

It’s getting to the point where “competition” might be a little strong. The last three President Cups have been a rout.

“I feel it’s really important for the Internationals to get a win,” Scott said. “We need to make this thing really relevant, make it a real competition, because it’s gotten a big lopsided the last few outings. I think we’ve got a team that can win this week, but the only way we can do it is by playing good and wanting it more than the Americans. The last few days have been about building our spirit and our feeling to that point where we want to get out there tomorrow and want it badly.”

The Americans have never trailed after any session dating to Sunday singles in 2005.

The International team has been talking about the need to win for the last 10 years. The difference this year is that not many expect that to happen at Muirfield Village. As much as Price can lean on experience from Scott and Els, the seven rookies might be the key. They don’t have experience in the Presidents Cup. They don’t have experience losing, either.

“The guys who have not been here want to start on the right foot,” Scott said. “And the guys who have played in several ... want to turn this around and get a win. And so I think everyone is coming in very determined to put ourselves in front and try and win as many sessions as we can.”

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DUBLIN, Ohio — Adam Scott was in the middle of all the chaos in South Africa as darkness gathered.

Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, in a sudden-death playoff to decide the 2003 Presidents Cup, halved three straight holes and could barely see the last two putts fall.

Both teams and captains were on the second green at Fancourt when a tie was proposed. That’s when U.S. captain Jack Nicklaus reminded International captain Gary Player that the Americans would retain the cup as the defending champion.

“Let’s keep playing!” Scott demanded over the din.

He was 23, two months removed from his first PGA Tour win. It was his first Presidents Cup. The burst of emotion got the attention of his teammates. The teams eventually agreed to share the cup.

Scott would not have guessed it would be as close as he would get to being on a winning team at the Presidents Cup. The 10th edition of the Presidents Cup starts Thursday, and the odds do not exactly favour the International team.

It has seven rookies, and while all but Hideki Matsuyama have played a fair amount on the PGA Tour this year, Scott is the only team member to have won — at the Masters for his first major, and The Barclays during the FedEx Cup playoffs.

The American team is regarded as one of the strongest ever for any cup — all 12 players are among the top 30 in the world ranking, and four other players from the top 30 were left out (Jim Furyk, Dustin Johnson, Nick Watney and Bubba Watson).

The matches are at Muirfield Village, were Tiger Woods has

won five times and Matt Kuchar won in June. The Americans have never lost the Presidents Cup on home soil, which is not all that unusual considering they have only lost once since the Presidents Cup began in 1994.

“I understand that and how it looks on paper,” Scott said Wednesday after practice. “It’s hard to write off guys who are top 60 in the world, because on any given day, anyone can beat anyone. And we’ve seen that a million times, especially in 18-hole match play. Yeah, I see how that looks.

I also see seven guys here for the first time pumped up and ready to go. And I think that’s giving me a great feeling about a new experience in the Presidents Cup after having a run of really big defeats.”

The Presidents Cup gets started with Jason Day and Graham DeLaet taking on Hunter Mahan and Brandt Snedeker in the first of six fourballs matches. It’s the first time since 1996 that the betterball format has been used in the opening session.

Scott is taking the youngest player on the International team — 21-year-old Matsuyama — as his partner against Bill Haas and Webb Simpson. Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley, undefeated in three matches last year at the Ryder Cup, take on Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel.

International captain Nick Price made sure a veteran played with a rookie, except with seven newcomers, he had no choice but to put two rookies together — Branden Grace and Richard Sterne in the anchor match against Zach Johnson and Jason Dufner.

Els is the veteran of this International team, especially with five other players from southern Africa. But when the younger players talk about the week and the importance of winning, Scott’s name

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FOODGRAIN HARVEST POSTPONED Ponoka Foodgrains Project Harvest has been postponed to Oct. 11 due to wet weather in the forecast. The harvest will start at noon will all proceeds from the crop going towards the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, which is celebrating 30 years of fighting hunger with help from Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada.

Lunch will be catered before the harvest begins.

The field is located (from the north) 3.2 km south on Hwy 2A and 1.6 km west of the C&E Trail; or (from the south) west on Spruce Road. Watch for signs. For more information, contact Larry Henderson at 403782-5218. The event was originally scheduled for Friday.

FIREFIGHTERS RASING FUNDS FOR MD Red Deer firefighters will line up along Taylor Drive, boots in hand, trying to raise funds for muscular dystrophy this weekend.

On Saturday from noon to 3 p.m., firefighters will be between 32nd and 43rd Street on Taylor asking the public for donations for Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

Firefighters across Canada have long supported the organization, raising more than $65 million over the last half century.

OCTOBER IS CARPOOL MONTH October is carpool month and the City of Red Deer has teamed up with carpool.ca to give Red Deerians a free, easy way to save money on their daily commutes. More than 200 people have registered so far and the city would like to get more than 300 participants registered by the end of October. Registering for carpool.ca only takes a few minutes and is open to all residents in the Red Deer area. Some businesses in and around Red Deer have pre-entered into the system and the city is looking to partner with as many businesses as possible. Red Deerians can visit carpool.ca and complete the online registration to receive a list of potential carpool partners. All information is confidential and users are under no commitment to sign up.

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This proud, mule deer buck spotted in west Red Deer peers out towards traffic passing along the road Wednesday morning.

Representatives from five municipalities — Red Deer, Calgary, Strathcona County, St. Albert and Lethbridge — gathered in Edmonton on Tuesday to learn about bid guidelines and hosting rules for the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

Lyn Radford, chairperson of Red Deer’s 2019 Winter Games Bid Planning Ad Hoc Committee, said it was a good mix of municipalities, but Red Deer has some advantages for both athletes and spectators.

She said Red Deer College could serve as the athletes’ village. Collicutt Centre, together with Notre Dame and Hunting Hills high schools, could create a larger hub for the games. RDC’s proposed multiplex, Westerner Park and Canyon Ski Hill also have a lot to offer.

Radford said Red Deer would provide a broader spectator draw than Calgary or municipalities near Edmonton, and hosting the games would help Red Deer move out of the shadow of Edmonton and Calgary.

“It would allow us to move forward and become our own entity. It is a really good platform,” Radford said.

The 2019 Winter Games will draw 3,600 to 3,800 athletes over two weeks, with about half of the 19 sports held the first week and the rest held in the final week.

One sport can be held outside the host community.

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Yzerman running again, has plenty of goals

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Calvin Yzerman is hoping the third time’s the charm to secure a seat on Red Deer city council.

Yzerman ran unsuccessfully in the 2001 and 2010 civic elections.

But the 53-year-old hopes his dedication and passion for the city will have vot- Calvin Yzerman ers marking an X beside his name on the Oct. 21 ballot.

Yzerman says he’s a great ambassador for the city, welcoming new residents. He has

RED DEER CITY COUNCIL been married to Liz IliscupidezYzerman for 15 years and has strong ties to Red Deer’s Filipinos community.

One of his goals is to help out the Filipinos business community.

If elected, Yzerman would like to mentor Filipinos with political aspirations.

Other items on his platform include improving safety, transit and snow removal in Red Deer. More open houses and a City of Red Deer booth at the public market are also on his priority list.

“There has been a lot of controversy with some of the decisions the current council has made,” said Yzerman.

“My feeling is there has to be better consultation with the

public before any sort of project is considered.”

He said council should take longer looks at items, and broad issues like the fluoride debate should be on the ballot.

“You’re spending limited tax dollars so you have to make sure that you’re making the right decision before you go ahead,” said Yzerman. “We have so many amenities in the city.

“We are so fortunate. I don’t think there’s a rush.”

Yzerman said he would work full time on council to be more visible and accessible to Red Deerians.

Yzerman, a seasonal construction worker with Quinn Construction, has lived in Red Deer since 1961.

Other council hopefuls in the Oct. 21 municipal election are Jerry Anderson, Bettylyn Baker, Terry Balgobin, Bob Bevins, Buck Buchanan (incumbent), Matt Chapin, Stephen Coop, Garry Didrikson, Serge Gingras, Calvin Goulet-Jones, Tanya Handley, Paul Harris (incumbent), David Helm, Lloyd Johnson, Ken Johnston, Tim Lasiuta, Lawrence Lee, Dan McKenna, Victor Mobley, Dennis Moffat, Dawna Morey, Lynne Mulder (incumbent), Ben Ordman, Janella Spearing, Troy Wavrecan, Jonathan Wieler, Frank Wong (incumbent), Dianne Wyntjes (incumbent), and Darren Young.

The five-way mayoral race includes Councillors Cindy Jefferies and Tara Veer and newcomers William Horn, Chad Mason and Dennis Trepanier. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Pelletier wants to keep building relationships

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Budget woes and greater student involvement in governance are central to one longtime Red Deer Public School District trustee’s re-election campaign.

Bill Christie wants the district to consider adding a student trustee to the board, as is standard in other jurisdictions, including Ontario.

“It was brought to the Bill Christie board about two years ago and they turned it down,” said Christie, 66. “Two of us were supportive of it. Now I notice the Edmonton Public School board is going to appoint a student trustee to their board.”

The retired B.C. civil servant, who now works part-time for the One Stop licence shop, said he likes challenges and being in the position where he has to deal with budgets and provincial governments can be challenging.

But he always tries to keep the best interests of the students and teachers at heart.

Christie said one of the bigger issues now is class sizes.

“We’ve asked for a report from the superintendent for the beginning of October on, not on-

ly class sizes but different programs and individual class options and what size those classes are,” said Christie. “We’ll be able to look at those programs and be able to evaluate them and see if there are ones that need to be kept.

“We’re not saying large ones, there are some courses that only have five students in them so we have to look at those.”

Citing a deficit budget, he said they can only carry those for so long, until their surplus runs out.

“Then you have to look at efficiencies you can find in the system and the second part is for the board to look at being a little more entrepreneurial,” said Christie.

“To me that means looking for revenue opportunities to offset the deficit.”

He served 11 years on the public school board in Nelson and 14 years on the one in Prince George. At the end of this term, he will have served a total of 28 years as a trustee.

Trustee candidates will be on the Oct. 21 municipal ballot along with city council and mayoral candidates.

Other Red Deer Public School board candidates are Shari Hanson, Kerri Kenworthy, Lianne Kruger, Dick Lemke, Dianne Macaulay, Bev Manning, Ben Ordman, Cathy Peacocke, Kurt Spady, Bill Stuebing, Jim Watters, Milt Williams and Raymond Yaworski. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate. com

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Incumbent Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division trustee candidate Guy Pelletier wants to keep building relationships during another term on the board.

As he runs for another four years on the board, Pelletier said he would like to see the next Catholic school board continue to build relation- Guy Pelletier ships throughout the region.

“We’ve made some terrific relationships with our neighbouring boards as well as other municipalities that our schools are in,” said Pelletier, noting that the division encompasses schools from Rocky Mountain House to Olds.

“There are always benefits from knowing what each other is up to, our common goals.

“And quite often we can work together then to achieve those,” he said, citing the utilization of school space for community programming and sharing of bus routes as two examples.

Pelletier, 47, was successful in his first election run in 2010, finishing with the second most

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He said the division is fairly well run, but space has become an issue in its schools and a new high school is badly needed.

“As a board, that’s a big part of our role, to make sure that we’re getting what we need from the funding body, which is the provincial government.”

Although aware that school board elections do not attract the public interest of other races, Pelletier said he encourages all voters to reach out to candidates in order to inform themselves of the choices.

“I believe that the school board trustees are the most important politicians on the ballot, because if we get education right, then everything else gets that much easier. If we can make sure every student graduates, every student has literacy, some technology skills, some ability to work in teams, then everything else flows more smoothly,” he said.

Pelletier is married with three children in the local Catholic school system. He works for Melcor Developments as its vice-president for the Red Deer region.

Also running for the Catholic board are David Bouchard, Murray Hollman, Adriana LaGrange, Cory Litzenberger, Brandie Towers and Anne Marie Watson. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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C2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 ported missing by her family on Friday.

She lives in Blackfalds and has run away on previous occasions, police said. She was believed to be in the Red Deer area.

The RCMP would like to thank the public for their assistance and information in assisting with her safe return.

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Student nabs U of A Scholarship

Theft from Kneehill County alleged

A man charged in relation to breaking into a residence and threatening a woman with a knife has pleaded guilty to some of the charges he faced, while others have been dropped.

Justin Holt, 28, broke into a Red Deer apartment on Aug. 31, contrary to a peace bond.

On Sept. 25, he pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court to break and enter and breaching a peace bond. The Crown dropped an assault charge and an assault with a weapon charge was stayed.

Holt was sentenced to 27 months jail for the break and enter charge and received a 10-year firearm prohibition. Police said Holt has a history of domestic violence and he faces several other charges, including uttering threats and breaching court orders.

He was arrested on Sept. 6 and has been in police custody since.

Police hunt for missing man

RCMP have charged a former Kneehill County employee over allegations that he stole over $100,000 from the county.

Niall Sharpe, 52, who lives in Red Deer, has been charged with fraud over $5,000, forgery and theft over $5,000. He worked as the county’s emergency services officer for six years before resigning in June of this year.

Kneehill County is south of Red Deer and surrounds the towns of Trochu and Three Hills.

Through an investigation of more than two months, RCMP allege that Sharpe obtained money, goods and services by way of forgery, fraud and theft.

RCMP arrested Sharpe on Monday and executed a search warrant on Tuesday on Sharpe’s Red Deer home, during which they seized “a number of items alleged to be obtained by crime.”

Sharpe is scheduled to appear in court in Drumheller on Nov. 6.

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer student has won big in the scholarship world thanks to his soaring high school grade point average.

Deepan Hazra, a recent graduate of Hunting Hills High School, was recently awarded a President’s Citation Scholarship from the University of Alberta, worth $25,000 over four years.

“I was very excited when I got the notification I’d won this, when it showed up on the website in late August,” Hazra said. “It was surreal because I didn’t really expect it. It took me by surprise.”

Hazra, 18, didn’t even know he’d been nominated.

He plans to go into medicine and began his general bachelor of science degree this fall.

“The medical community in Alberta has done a lot for me. I’ve Deepan Hazra had positive experiences ... I want to give back,” he said. “My inspiration to get into medical school comes from my parents and the people around me. My parents have continually supported me and instilled a very strong work ethic in me.”

The scholarship is one of the Edmonton-based school’s top awards, offered to outstanding students beginning their first undergraduate degrees and who had a minimum average of 95 per cent throughout high school.

It’s also a part of the school’s scholarship distinction program, which has handed out 76 awards with a total value of $950,000 this year. The program complements a broader scholarship package offered from the Students Awards Office worth more than $25 million annually.

Hazra and fellow top students, professors and staff were honoured recently at the University of Alberta’s annual Celebrate! Teaching, Learning and Research awards ceremony.

“I really appreciate this and so do my family. It’s certainly made my first year at university easier to handle in terms of finances,” Hazra said. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

Bail hearing set

Red Deer City RCMP seek the public’s assistance in locating 21-year-old Matthew Neufeld.

He has not been in contact with his family for an extended period and his well-being is of concern.

Neufeld is described as Caucasian, 1.85 metres (six foot one) tall, weighing 75 kg (170 pounds), with short reddish-brown hair and hazel eyes.

He has tattoos on his left upMatthew per arm (of a girl’s face, skull and Neufeld gears), left wrist (writing) and his inner right forearm (a monster drink symbol).

If you have any information on his whereabouts, you are asked to contact the Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575.

Girl contacts family Police say a missing 14-year-old girl from Blackfalds contacted and met with her mother on Tuesday evening.

Earlier in the day, Blackfalds RCMP put out an alert seeking help in finding the girl, who was re-

A bail hearing has been set for a Red Deer man accused of trying to kill Lacombe police officers.

Weston Kleigh Pickford, 22, faces numerous charges, including two counts each of attempted murder, assaulting a police officer, flight from police and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. He is also charged with possession of break-in instruments and breach of probation.

A bail hearing will take place in Red Deer provincial court on Oct. 10.

Lacombe Police Service says two officers narrowly escaped injury after trying to arrest a suspect at a Lacombe residence about 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 4.

As three officers approached the home, a suspect got behind the wheel and allegedly aimed the vehicle at two of them.

The suspect raced away from Lacombe at a high speed towards Red Deer, where a spike belt was used to blow out the vehicle’s tires as it entered the city. The vehicle then hit a tree and caught fire.

The driver was arrested without incident.

The officers had gone to the Lacombe residence after getting information that a man was there who allegedly assaulted a Red Deer city traffic enforcement officer earlier in the day after being pulled over during a traffic stop.

Woman pleads guilty to lesser charge in West Park Fas Gas incident A Red Deer woman accused of robbing the same Fas Gas where a clerk was shot in an unrelated incident two weeks earlier pleaded guilty to a lesser charge on Wednesday.

Karla Pittman, 28, pleaded guilty to theft under $5,000 for stealing a pair of lighters from the West Park Fas Gas on Sept. 24.

She also pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching an undertaking for having contact with her husband, which had been forbidden following an earlier incident between the couple.

Red Deer provincial court Judge Jim Hunter fined her $150 on each count.

Crown prosecutor Murray McPherson withdrew the robbery charge.

Court heard that Pittman and a man went into the store and two lighters were shoplifted. As they left the store, police allege a male suspect pulled out an extendable baton and threatened the clerk.

Defence lawyer Patty MacNaughton said Pittman was not even in the store at the time of the alleged threat.

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Pittman had been in custody since Sept. 29.

Another suspect, Mitchell Brunet, 27, of no fixed address, has been charged with robbery and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose in connection with the incident. He returns to court on Friday.

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Red Deer would need to use a pool, probably in Edmonton or Calgary, for synchronized swimming.

Bids for the games must be submitted by Nov. 29. Technical reviews for each facility must be submitted by Jan. 3, 2014, and the shortlist of cities will be announced in February 2014. Proposals on things like accommodations, cultural activities and food management for the athletes, will follow.

The successful community will be announced in September 2014.

Radford said some of the facility upgrading that will be required has already been included in the city’s bid plan.

Red Deer will need $20 million for capital upgrades, not including the offsite pool venue.

Each level of government — municipal, provincial and federal — must contribute $3 million. Red Deer would spend a minimum of $3 million.

The operational budget would be about $30 million, of which the provincial and federal governments will provide $8.12 million each.

Funding from Red Deer would include ticket sales and corporate sponsorship.

Radford said traditionally the games are awarded to a mid-sized city because the games don’t receive as much attention in large cities.

For the winning municipality, it will be the chance to host athletes who will go on to represent Canada in the Olympics.

She said 61 per cent of the country’s 2012 Olympic medalists attended Canada Winter Games or some sort of Canada Games. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

has no idea why she stole a lighter.

Pittman, who works for the Safe Harbour Society, was remorseful.

“I just want the opportunity to go home and be with my kids,” she said tearfully to the judge from the prisoner’s dock. “I changed my life and I’m not the person I used to be.”

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Underwood’s mom among consultants on reboot IRONSIDE

TORONTO — Blair Underwood had a couple of consultants, including his mother, to help him understand the physical and emotional aspects of being in a wheelchair for his Ironside series reboot.

The one-hour drama finds Underwood as intrepid NYPD Det. Robert Ironside, who is in a wheelchair after his spine was shattered by a bullet on the job two years ago.

Underwood says he worked closely with engineer and athlete David Bryant, who is a paraplegic, to nail the physicality of the role. Bryant doesn’t have handles on the back of his wheelchair because he doesn’t want anyone to help him, and that outlook inspired the toughness Underwood needed to play Ironside.

To tap into the emotional component, Underwood looked to his mother, who has multiple sclerosis.

“My mother happens to be in a wheelchair, so I’ve spent a lot of time with her talking about her experiences,” the two-time Golden Globe nominee said during a recent stop in Toronto.

The emotional element was the most difficult to deal with, he noted.

“I have to tell you, it was more of an adjustment mentally, psychologically for the character but also for the actor portraying this disabled man.”

Debuting Wednesday on Global and NBC, Ironside stems from the 1960s/’70s show starring late Canadian actor Raymond Burr as the eponymous San Francisco chief of detectives, who was also a paraplegic.

Underwood, who is a producer on the reboot, said they wanted to respect the original series, which has some fervent fans.

“It’s amazing when you mention Ironside, people who are 45-plus who remember it, I often hear: ‘Oh, I loved Ironside!’ Not just ‘I remember it,’ but ‘I loved Ironside.’

But the creators also wanted to present something new for a contemporary audience.

“For our Ironside, truly the only thing you’ll see that is similar to the past version is the character’s name, Robert Ironside, he’s a detective and he’s in a wheelchair,” said Underwood, 49, who played a lawyer on the legal drama L.A. Law for seven years and was a love interest to Cynthia Nixon’s character on Sex and the City.

“Other than that, it’s all new characters, it’s a new time, it’s a new city. I’m obviously a different type of actor than Raymond Burr was in the 1960s, so it’s a different vibe.”

Underwood noted the original Ironside represented “a different time in America, a different time in television, a different style, different everything.”

However, he does think it was socially progressive for its time.

“There was an African American character at the time who was a guy who came from the streets and then Ironside brought him in and over seven years he became an integral part of the group,” said Underwood, referring to Don Mitchell’s role.

“And that was very progressive.

You’re talking about the 1960s, you know.”

In the new reboot, Ironside is fearless and doesn’t let his lower-body paralysis stop him from pursuing some of the city’s biggest cases with a dogged determination.

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ed to be a producer — so he also took on mixing and engineering duties on the Monday Morning release, which is being sold in part for charity ($1 from each album sale will be donated to the Canadian environmental group Ecojustice).

This is Moir’s third alt-folk CD, following his highly praised Road, which was compared to the music of Eddie Vedder, Rufus Wainwright and even The Beatles.

Moir draws much inspiration from the Canadian landscape, although he has performed at clubs and festivals on both sides of the border. Among the artists he has opened for are Kathleen Edwards and Kevin Kane (of Grapes of Wrath).

For more information about the show, call The Vat at 403-346-5636.

Singer/songwriter Daniel Moir will perform melodic tunes from his justreleased Monday Morning album on Saturday night in Red Deer.

The Vancouverite, who contributed all the singing and instrumentation on his latest album, plays at The Vat. Moir is only 23 but has always want-

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Earning million-dollar advances for his novels, he also wrote nonfiction works on the military and even ventured into video games, including the bestselling Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent. His recent Jack Ryan novels were collaborations with Mark Greaney, including Threat Vector and a release scheduled for December, Command Authority.

As of midday Wednesday, Command Authority ranked No. 40 on Amazon.com’s best-seller list.

Born in Baltimore on April 12, 1947 to a mailman and his wife, Clancy entered Loyola College as a physics major, but switched to English as a sophomore. He later said that he wasn’t smart enough for the rigours of science, although he clearly mastered it well enough in his fiction.

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NEW YORK — Tom Clancy, whose high-tech, Cold War thrillers such as The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games made him the most widely read and influential military novelist of his time, has died. He was 66.

Penguin Group (USA) announced that Clancy had died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not provide a cause of death.

Tall and thin, with round, sunken eyes that were often hidden by sunglasses, Clancy had said his dream had been simply to publish a book, hopefully a good one, so that he would be in the Library of Congress catalogue. His dreams were answered many times over.

His novels were dependable bestsellers, with his publisher estimating that worldwide sales top 100 million copies. Several, including The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, were later made into blockbuster mov- Tom Clancy ies, with another based on his deskjockey CIA hero, Jack Ryan, set for release on Christmas. Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck and Harrison Ford were among the actors who played Ryan on screen. The upcoming movie stars Chris Pine, Keira Knightly and Kevin Costner, with Ken-

neth Branagh directing.

A political conservative who once referred to Ronald Reagan as “my president,” Clancy broke through commercially during a tense period of the Cold War, and with the help of Reagan himself. In 1982, he began working on The Hunt For Red October, basing it on a real incident in November 1975 with a Soviet missile frigate called the Storozhevoy.

He sold the manuscript to the first publisher he tried, the Naval Institute Press, which had never bought original fiction.

In real life, the ship didn’t defect, but in Clancy’s book, published in 1984, the defection was a success.

Someone thought enough of the book to give it to President Reagan as a Christmas gift. The president quipped at a dinner that he was losing sleep because he couldn’t put the book down — a statement Clancy later said helped put him on the New York Times best-seller list.

Clancy was admired in the military community, and appeared — though he often denied it — to have the kind of access that enabled him to intricately describe anything from surveillance to the operations of a submarine. He often played off — and sometimes anticipated — world events, as in the pre-9-11 paranoid thriller Debt of Honor, in which a jumbo jet destroys the U.S. Capitol during a joint meeting of Congress.

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Husband’s father creeping out woman with raunchy emails Dear Annie: I have a problem that I pleasant, depressing and a huge dishave never seen in your column. appointment, especially if you are exMy 64-year-old father-in-law sends pecting too much. my middle-aged husband pornographTeenagers, in particular, often go ic pictures. My husband and I share through emotionally rough waters, the same email address, and the last becoming upset with their adoptive picture was extremely explicit. families and mistakenly believing the My husband does not biological family would be check his email regularly. easier. Your parents are When he does, he ignores simply trying to protect most of his father’s stuff, you. thank heavens.

But we understand that I haven’t deleted these this is hard and unsatisfyemails, but I now think ing for you. my father-in-law is a total There are counselcreep. ors who specialize in this Is there anything I field. Ask your parents should do? I hope he sees to make an appointment himself in this letter. — Offor all of you to talk with fended Wife someone who will assist in Dear Offended: Is your figuring out the best way to husband aware that his fadeal with your frustrations MITCHELL ther is sending him these and how much information & SUGAR photos? your parents can give you.

If not, tell him. Then ask They can get a referral whether he wants to refrom your pediatrician. ceive these pictures.

Dear Annie: “In Turmoil He may not care, or he in Kansas,” the 45-year-old may prefer not to confront his father. gay man, could have been me 16 years Since they’re meant for him, he ago. should have the final word, although I lived alone in Michigan, but I had you can encourage him to tell Dad to no job, no social life, no partner and stop. only one friend — and he lived far We also recommend that you open away. your own email account so you are I was in the closet and didn’t know not subjected to this assault on your anything about PFLAG. I found that senses. Although why you would volun- smoky, noisy and crowded bars were tarily open any email from this man is not for me. beyond us.

I was so scared to tell anyone I’m Dear Annie: I’m 14 years-old and gay. adopted.

I am now 46, have a great partner, As I’ve gotten older, the feeling of live in Florida, joined the local PFLAG wanting to know my real family has chapter, have two great jobs and am grown stronger. Because my adoption out to everyone, including my very acwasn’t open, I can’t meet my biological cepting parents — something I never family. expected.

I know the government means well I never go to gay bars, although I by these laws, but it makes me feel have many gay pen pals. empty inside.

In two years, I’ll be moving to BosMy adoptive family drives me insane ton to live with my partner, who is with the excuse, “I can’t tell you much transferring jobs. until you’re 18.”

Isn’t it great how life can be so wonIsn’t there something they can tell derful after being depressed and loneme? ly for so long?

Can the government really bar me Please tell him not to give up hope. from seeing my birth family? — Left — Sarasota, Fla. Lonely in My Heart.

Dear Lonely: First of all, your “real Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy family” is the one that raised you.

Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ediThere are legitimate reasons why tors of the Ann Landers column. Please birth records are not intended to be email your questions to anniesmailbox@ seen by kids under age 18. Reunions comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, with birth parents sometimes work out c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, OK, but they also can be difficult, un- Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Practice constructive criticism and encourage others to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Our health radar is more likely to pick up at this time and to implement the necessary changes.

Edit your life and improve just about any facet of your routine.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, your assiduous nature will serve you very well this coming year.

Your work will increase in new responsibilities. Be patient in completing all of your chores.

You are at a great advantage from a monetary point of view. You are becoming more popular in your professional sphere.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): This is a highly productive time to take care of business. You are able to execute certain items on your to do list with much efficiency and determination. You are feeling at peace knowing everything is where it should be.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Relationships with others have a stable feel to it and you are in control of your state of mind. Your dreams are profound and you seem to emerge into a spiritual journey. You are deeply involved in the search for the ultimate truth.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are happy that personal issues at home are placed where they belong.

Your emotional happiness is strong right now and you derive much profoundness

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SUN SIGNS and intimacy from confidential matters. It’s great to be up to date.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Despite some overly confident feelings of inner control, you may deviate a bit from reality. Luckily you have a good solid romantic affair going on or a partnership that offers you feelings of intensity and great emotional nourishment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are more content when you know that your bank account is in a rock-solid condition.

Gains that you have accumulated so far derive from a lot of sweat and hard work.

Only you know how much sacrifice you had to make in order to get where you are right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): Set realistic goals for your future and rationalize your upcoming steps to follow before you make any decision. Agreements with others run smoothly and a new love interest catches your attention. Any romantic experiences lived now will certainly be anything but indifferent.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You realize that by fixing the miniature pending matters which you would rather keep to yourself, you can gain a greater control of your

life. Your personal space and your assets would greatly appreciate this considerate attention from your part.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): An unfathomable relationship with one of your friends develops now. Your bond is becoming more meaningful and they will naturally desire to open up to you. It turns out that they need to unburden their hearts to you as you are their most dependable source of confidence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Set reasonable goals for your future and know which direction you are heading to. It looks like your life needs some sorting out to do before you advance any further. Watch your every move as higher ups are surely noticing you at this time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Nothing seems to stop you from pursuing your aspirations. Your spirited nature is so high that sky’s the limit for you. Trust and have faith in your own abilities. You are more capable and talented than you think you are.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): Some tax related issue may come into focus today.

It is possible that you will put your time and efforts into some paperwork than requires your homework. Make sure your binding documents are on a timely matter.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Relationships with others will give you the space and the freedom you seek, but impediments from your home life will imbalance your personal comfort. Parents might annoy you or be too difficult to deal with now.

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FOERDERER Oskar Foerderer of Red Deer County, Alberta passed away on Thursday, September 26, 2013 at the age of 91 years.

He was born in Germany on January 14, 1922. He is survived by his daughter Heide (Gilbert) Madoar and their daughters, Dena (Roy) VandenBrink and their children Nathan and Makenna, Melisa (Mark) Milne and their daughter, Megan; son Jauergen (Val) Foerderer and their daughter Kelly; as well as grandsons Cruz and Diego. Oskar was predeceased by his wife Johanna; grandson Jeffrey; granddaughter Jaime; as well as his parents and siblings.

Oskar wanted a simple and intimate farewell with family and close friends. A Private Graveside service will be held at Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta at a later date.

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HUMPHREY James “Jim” Arthur Aug. 12, 1946 - Sept. 27, 2013 James “Jim” Arthur Humphrey passed away on September 27, 2013 after a lengthy battle with cancer, with his wife and best friend, Dory and sons; Tyler (Melanie) of Canmore and Trevor of Red Deer by his side. Jim will also be lovingly remembered by his brothers; George (Barb) of Kamloops, BC, Terry (Jan) of Spruce Grove, AB and Bill (Elaine) of Maple Ridge, BC as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, George and Evelyn Humphrey of Abbotsford, BC. Jim was retired after a thirty-five year career with the RCMP. He was a dedicated police officer, a devoted husband and father and will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved him. At Jim’s request there will be no Funeral. A private family graveside service will be held at a later date.

Jim’s family would like to thank all the doctors and nurses involved with his care during his lengthy illness.

Special thanks to Dr. McIntyre for always being there whenever we needed you. The amazing support you gave our family during this long and difficult journey will never be forgotten.

You were our strength. Thanks also to everyone for your expressions of love, support, sympathy gifts of flowers and f o o d d u r i n g t h i s d i ff i c u l t time. Special thanks to the RCMP Veterans for your calls, condolences, especially Doug McLay and Kevin Glover. Thanks Doug and Kevin for all your support and guidance. To our incredible friends Dave and Lori Malone and George and Reta Dynes who have always been there for the good times and the difficult ones, thank you for your love, support and amazing friendship. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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LIDDICOAT Carol Jean (Nee Allan) Oct. 10, 1954 - Sept. 30, 2013 Carol Liddicoat of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, surrounded by the love of her family, on Monday, September 30, 2013. Carol is survived and lovingly remembered by husband, Howard; daughter, Kerri (Drew); 5 grandchildren; sister, Susan (John); brother, Doug (Zoe) In Memoriam and many extended family members. She will be remembered as a wonderful person who always thought of others and handled life’s difficulties with determination.

Funeral services will be held at L.D.S Bower Chapel, 3002 - 47 Avenue, Red Deer on Friday, October 4, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Those wishing to pay their respects to Carol are encouraged to do so immediately prior to the service, beginning at 10:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes may be made directly to the Cerebral Palsy Association or Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.

ELMER STOYBERG Condolences may be sent or Oct 3, 2012 viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Sadly missed along life’s way Arrangements in care of Quietly remembered every day Joelle Valliere, No longer in our lives to share Funeral Director at But in our hearts PARKLAND FUNERAL you’ll always be there.

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CONNOLLEY Kenneth ‘Ken’ George Connolley of Rimbey, Alberta, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and brother, passed away peacefully at the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre, Acute Care on Sunday, September 29, 2013 at the age of 64 years. Ken was born on April 5, 1949 in Berwyn, Alberta to Annie and Harold Connolley. His career spanned many years working extensively in road construction across Alberta and B.C. Ken completed many projects, such as the development of the new town site for Grande Cache, as well as the supervision of the construction of the Deerfoot Trail exchange in Calgary. Ken was Foreman for the Town of Rimbey for many years, and served one t e r m a s To w n C o u n c i l o r.

Ken was the owner and operator of K & D Bobcat and Trucking. One of his last projects was the building of the heliport at the Rimbey Hospital. Ken was an avid outdoorsman, participating in activities such as hunting and fishing, and operating every recreational vehicle known to man! His motto was: ‘the family that plays together, stays together.’

“Ken, although gruff around the edges, was a teddy bear inside. He was loved greatly and will forever be missed.

He is now at peace!” Ken will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his beloved wife, Colleen; his son, Darren of Rimbey; his daughter, Shari (James Benoit) of Rimbey; and his precious granddaughter, Bailey. He also leaves to mourn his four brothers, Gilbert (Edie) of Olds; David (Jean) of Berwyn; Eddie (Shirley) also of Berwyn; and Gordon (Lorraine) of Bentley; as well as his brother-in-law, David (Susan) Kennedy of Innisfail; in addition to numerous nieces and nephews, and many cherished friends. Ken was predeceased by his parents, Harold and Annie. A Public Memorial Service in Celebration of Ken’s Life will be held at the Zion Lutheran Church, Rimbey on Friday, October 4, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. with Mr. Dave Mulligan officiating. Interment will follow at 2:30 p.m. in the W e s t H a v e n C e m e t e r y, Rimbey. If friends desire, memorial tributes in Ken’s Memory may be made directly to the David Thompson Health Trust, c/o Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre ~ Ceiling Lifts Project, Box 440, Rimbey, Alberta T0C 2J0.

Condolences to the Family may also be expressed by email to: special_reflections@telusplanet.net Funeral and Cremation Arrangements for the Late Kenneth ‘Ken’ George Connolley entrusted to the care of

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CLASSIFIEDS Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D Day Supervisors (5- 10yrs experience)

Night Supervisors (2-4yrs experience)

JOIN OUR FAST GROWING TEAM!!

Competitive Wages, Benefits, Retirement and Saving Plan!

QUALIFICATIONS: • •

Do you have a Desire to be Part of a Growing Company...

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Experienced Oilfield Construction • Lead Hands • Experienced Oilfield • Construction Labourers Journeyman Picker Operator (Class 1) Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Team in Hinton.

Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction industry since 1969.

Please Apply at www.alstaroilfield.com Career Section “Committed to enriching the lives of our workforce, while Providing quality energy construction solutions”

Fluid Experts Ltd.

Fluid Experts of Red Deer is seeking experienced

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 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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Must be able to Provide own work truck Leadership and Supervisory skills- mentor and train crew Strong Computer Skills Operate 5000psi 10,000 psi (sweet and Sour wells) Collect Data - pressure, rates, temperatures Assist in Rig in and Rig out of equipment Tr a v e l t o a n d f r o m locations across Western Canada REQUIREMENTS: Va l i d 1 s t A i d , H 2 S , Driver’s License required!

Must be willing to submit pre access fit for duty test, as well as drug and alcohol Travel & be away from home for periods of time 21/7 Ability to work in changing climate conditions

website: www.cathedralenergyservices.com Methods to Apply: HRCanada@ cathedralenergyservices.com pnieman@ cathedralenergyservices.com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

Q TEST INSPECTION LTD.

Now has immediate openings for CGSB Level II RT’s and CEDO’s for our winter pipeline projects. Top wages and comprehensive benefit package available.

Subcontractors also welcome.

Email resumes to: qtestltd@telus.net or Phone 403-887-5630.

Stettler & Weekender

Publication date: WED. OCT. 16 FRI. OCT. 18 Deadline is: Fri. OCT. 11 NOON Sylvan Lake News & Eckville Echo Lacombe Express Publication date: THURS. OCT. 17 Deadline is: FRI. OCT. 11, 5 p.m.

Bashaw Publication date: WED. OCT. 16 Deadline is: Wed. OCT. 9, noon Castor - Regular deadline Have a safe & happy holiday CLASSIFIEDS 309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com wegotads.ca

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Deer Park

Oriole Park

80 DUNHAM CLOSE Fri. Oct. 4, 2-7, Sat. Oct. 5, 9-2. Estate Sale. Massive vintage Avon collection, vintage Mickey Mouse collection, antique Jim Beam bottles, lamps, spa bed and stool, new stroller, barn board furniture, tools, luggage, etc.

34 OVERAND PLACE Thursday Oct 3, 5 - 8 pm.

Friday Oct 4, 5 - 8 pm and Saturday Oct 5, 9 - 2 pm.

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Vanier Woods 11 VICTOR Cl. Thurs.

Oct. 3, 4-7, Fri. 10-7, Sat. 9-noon. Antiques, furniture, misc. items, LP record collection from 50’s, 60’s, 70’s & 80’s.

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 TEAM Snubbing Services now hiring experienced operators Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com fax 403-844-2148

Professionals

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An oilfield maintenance company offering a competitive compensation and benefits requires a full-time

Accounting Clerk/Payroll and Account Receivable Support.

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BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley Red Deer County Food & Beverage Server

$12.25/hr.

To provide Food & Beverage service, handle cashiering, arrange and setup the outlet. maintain cleanliness and hygiene.

Cook

$14.00/HR. To prepare and cook all food up to standard, clean kitchen and maintain hygiene follow recipes, assist in receiving and storing

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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.

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Trades

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 DOCK Person with Forklift exp, needed.

Call 403-346-0158 or fax resume to 403-314-9234

RAMADA INN & SUITES $11/hr REQUIRES To clean kitchen following ROOM ATTENDANTS. safety and hygiene Exp. preferred. standards. Clean utensils, Only serious inquiries apply.

DUE TO A LARGE cutlery, crockery and Rate $13.50/hr.

INCREASE IN BUSINESS, glassware items.

Drop off resume at: PIKE WHEATON Clean floors.

6853 - 66 St. Red Deer Assist in prep.

CHEVROLET or fax 403-342-4433 All positions are is currently seeking Shift Work & Weekends. THE RUSTY PELICAN is JOURNEYMAN Fax resume 780-702-5051 now accepting resumes for AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS & SERVICE ADVISORS. must be avail. nights and We offer competitive weekends. Must have: wages, a great working • 2-3 yrs. post secondary environment, and a great benefit package. education.

Please email resume to yrs. training DENNY’S IS NOW •• 2-5 Joey Huckabone 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp.

HIRING joey@pikewheatonchev.ca • Provide references FOR ALL POSITIONS. MUST BE AVAIL. ON WEEKENDS.

The hourly rate will be $13.10.

Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161

BENEFITS AFTER 6 MONTHS Apply in Person!!

Sales & Distributors

HOLIDAY INN

KITCHEN HELPERS For (Thai Cuisine) wage $12 hr. Please apply in person w/resume to: BLACKJACK LOUNGE #1, 6350 - 67 St. Phone/Fax: 403-347-2118

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Canada’s largest home health care supplier has an exciting Opportunity for a

Customer Service Representative

Delivers outstanding Customer service.

Attention to detail.

Good Sales Skills.

Knowledge of POS. Good verbal and written Communication skill.

Organizational skills.

Send resumes by fax to 403-342-4516 Attn: Robert or email Rhogan@ Shoppershomehealthcare.ca

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Is looking for F/T SALESPERSON. Mon. - Fri. 8-5. Job requirements will be: quoting jobs, dealing with walk in clients, phone sales, scheduling and customer service. Very competitive wages and benefit package. Fax resumes to: 403-343-1325

Trades

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LINE LOCATING ASSISTANT REQUIRED

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

LOCAL certified trailer manufacturer looking to fill the following positions: Lead Frame Foreman Framer helpers with experience Journeyman Carpenters Carpenter helpers with experience General Tradesmen with experience in various aspects of construction industry.

Indoor, year-round work, top wages and top benefit packages.

Please email resume to inquiries@sheltersrus.ca or call Alex between the hours of 8AM-8PM Monday to Friday 403-350-7086

FOUNDATION company in Red Deer is currently hiring experienced foundation form workers.

Please fax resume to: 403-346-5867.

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

LOOKING for concrete carpenters, placers and finishers with experience. Send resume to tri-blade@shaw.ca or Fax: 403-755-3130 phone 403-598-1394 MOTIVATED individual required to work as apprentice in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning trade. Good mechanical and people skills an asset. Clean driver’s license mandatory. email: info@ comfortecheating.com fax: 403-309-8302 Pro-Water Conditioning in Lacombe seeks a highly motivated individual to install and service water treatment equipment, pumps and pressure systems. Experience with Auto Trol and Fleck is an asset. Resumes to lori7151@me.com Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Trades

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Production Bonuses Comp. wages & benefits.

Long term employment Please email resume to shop@rebelvac.ca Or fax to: 403-314-2249

Parts man required for rapidly expanding HD Parts Supply Store.

Must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment.

Have experience in the heavy truck/trailer industry.

Must possess strong customer service skills.

Above average wages, benefits package.

Apply with resume @ Artic Truck, Email: ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com Fax: 403-348-5198 Service Plumbing & Heating is looking for experienced residential and commercial service technician with current Alberta gas/plumbing ticket. Benefit package after 3 months, wages based on experience.

Email: info@serviceplumbing.ca or fax to (403) 342-2025 SHEET Metal Installer for HVAC Company.

Residential or retro-fit exp. req’d. Great benefit pkg.

ALSO, Shop helper required. E-MAIL resume to: info@comfortecheating. com or fax: 403-309-8302

F/T MEAT CUTTER

Competitive wages.

Apply in person or fax resume to 403-885-5231.

Truckers/ Drivers

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.

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

SHOPPERS HOME HEALTH CARE

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd, a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full time Maintenance position.

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Apply by: Fax: (403) 341-3820 or in person at Downtown KFC 4834-53 St., Red Deer

in UPPER FAIRVIEW Fairbanks Rd, Fir St. & Fox Cres.

ALSO Fairway Ave. & Freemont Cl. ALSO

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

Class 5 license Clean, Clear drivers abstract Installing and set-up of equipment in client’s homes. Mechanical and electrical aptitude an asset. Verbal and written Communication skills.

Understands the importance of delivering legendary customer service. Send resumes by fax to 403-342-4516 Attn: Robert or email Rhogan@ Shoppershomehealthcare.ca

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Academic Express

JOURNEYMAN AND APPRENTICE WELDERS

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START •

GED preparation to start November 5

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in UPPER FAIRVIEW Fairbanks Rd, Fir St. & Fox Cres.

ALSO Fairway Ave. & Freemont Cl. ALSO Farrell Ave., Flagstaff Cl. & Fountain Dr. PINES

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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Piper Dr. & Pardue Cl. Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

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

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Requires

ANDERS AREA

STEAM TRUCK OPERATOR

Abbott Close Allan St. Allan Close

We require an organized individual to operate our steam truck on site and in the yard, and perform routine maintenance. This position will be based out of our Blackfalds office. Assets include: Class 5Q Driver’s license and all safety tickets.

Application Closing Date: October 25 2013.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to: Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113 Alix, Alberta T0C 0B0 FAX: (403)747-2660 EMAIL : mlyle@rahr.com NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

CARRIERS NEEDED

This position will work in coordination with the Operations group and is accountable to the Maintenance Supervisor.

A valid trade certificate is an asset but not mandatory.

Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.

Daytime, Evening, FT & PT Shifts Available

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

DELIVERY DRIVER/ SET UP TECHNICIAN

Continuous learning and growth is our goal for every employee! If you would like to be a part of a growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking:

The position includes maintenance inspections, lubes, PM’s and repairs to all types of equipment in order to maintain the safe operation and fulfill production requirements of Rahr Malting. The position is rated under the Heavy Job classification.

DELIVERY DRIVERS

ROSEDALE AREA 67 papers $360/mo.

Farrell Ave., Flagstaff Cl. & Fountain Dr.

THREE Class 3 w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for new contract.

Email resume to canpak@xplornet.ca or call 403-341-9300

Truckers/ Drivers

MOUNTVIEW AREA 76 papers $407/mo.

Canada’s largest home health care supplier has an exciting Opportunity for a

Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom oilfield equipment for international clients, within our 7 shops and 10 acres of land in Innisfail Ab.

hr@bilton.ca

MICHENER AREA 134 papers $793/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

TRANSX

Competitive starting wages These are full-time permanent shop positions with benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Please fax resume to:

MAINTENANCE POSITION

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CLASS 1 DRIVER WANTED End dump or quad wagon exp. preferred. Steady work, local haul. Fax resume 403-314-9990 or email blaineth@telus.net

AES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD. looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Fax resume to 403-342-0233 STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop.

MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk

EASTVIEW AREA 60 papers $321/mo.

WE ARE GROWING, NOW HIRING

Shipper / Receiver

F/T Entry Level Mechanics helper. Valid driver’s licence & basic tools req’d.

Possible apprenticeship available. Competitive wage and benefits. Please fax resume to: Attn: Ted 403-341-3691

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Help

(Reliable vehicle needed)

Required Immediately PARTS MAN

email to:

The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

850

APPRENTICES

JEETS PLUMBING & HEATING 1st or 2nd Year Apprentice.

Competitive wages. Fax resume: 403-356-0244 JOURNEYMAN H.D. MECHANIC req’d immed. for very busy heavy equip. sales lot in Innisfail.

Wage range $25. - $35/hr depending on exp.

Preference will be given to those with previous equipment rental service, lifts and off road construction equipment experience. Fax resume to 403-227-5701 or email: bouvier9@telus.net

Trades

Wanted experienced only, industrial preppers, painters and coaters for full time positions. Also looking for a full time experienced yard person with forklift ticket. Fax resume to 403-346-0626 or email to nancy.hacoatings @gmail.com

2nd, 3rd Yr.

Central Line Locating req’s a locator assistant. No experience necessary, willing to train. Must be physically fit. Working varied hours. Send resumes to: office@ centrallinelocating.com Fax 403-747-3535 Office: 403-747-3017

F/T PAINTER

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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Trades

REBEL METAL FABRICATORS MIG WELDERS

Commercial/Residential Brush/Roll Application.

Exp. req’d. Vehicle req’d.

Contact Drew at CCL 403-596-1829

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS ELEMENTS is looking for & FLAT ROOFERS 5 retail sales reps. selling season gift packages and Valid Driver’s Licence personal care products in preferred. Fax or email Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 bonus & comm. FT. No exp. req`d. Please email NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! elementsreddeer@gmail.com FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN is looking for 5 SALES REPS, selling shoes & apparel, at our Parkland Mall. 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus & comm. F/T Position. No exp. req’d. Email Flurriesrd@gmail.com

Trades

403-227-7796

KFC requires

Oilfield

Sales & Distributors

820

GOLDEN DRAGON RESTAURANT HIRING Waitress & Dishwasher.

For application please call 403-348-0081 or apply with-in.

Restaurant/ Hotel

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced P/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

Kitchen Helper

REBEL METAL FABRICATORS DRAFTSPERSON

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

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

This position requires EXPRESS experience in all RED DEER accounting functions, and Is seeking the ability to perform a FRONT DESK CLERK variety of duties, including * Answer phone calls reconciliation of accounts, * Take reservations the preparation of company * Check in/out Guests payroll and associated Balance cash out government reporting & Attend to guest needs tasks. Some assistance to $14.00/hr. the accounts receivable department and office HOUSEKEEPING ROOM reception will be required.

ATTENDANT The successful candidate * Clean and vacuum will possess: rooms, public areas, pool • Strong initiatives etc.

• Good judgment in handling Replenish amenities, confidential materials linens & towels • Experience with MS * Adhere to Holiday Inn Office products including safety stardands Excel, Word, Outlook $14.00/hr.

• Works well indepen- All positions are Shift work dently and in a team & weekends environment Fax Resume to: • Excellent communication 780-702-5051 and time management If you are interested in this HOLIDAY INN position, please forward Red Deer South, your resume with the Gasoline Alley attention of Human Resources to Is Seeking resumes@ FRONT DESK CLERK newcartcontracting.com or * Answer phone calls you may fax it to * Take reservations (403) 729-2396. * Check in/out Guests * Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs EYEWEAR $ 14.00/hr LIQUIDATORS HOUSEKEEPING ROOM requires ATTENDANT OPTICAL ASSISTANT * Clean and vacuum rooms Training provided. public areas pool etc.

Apply in person with * Replenish amenities, resume to: 4924 59 St. linens & towels Red Deer, AB. * Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards $ 14.00/hr All positions are Shift Work & weekends Fax resume 780 - 702-5051

Immediate Opportunity.

This position is responsible for ABSA drawings & shop layout drawings for truck mounted vacuum systems using Autodesk Inventor.

Production Bonuses Comp. wages & benefits.

Long term employment Please email resume to hr@rebelvac.ca Or fax to: 403-314-2249

Restaurant/ Hotel

INGLEWOOD AREA

Pidherney’s offers: • Top paid wages based on experience • Scheduled days off • Benefits package • Company matched RRSP’s

Fax résumé to 403-845-5370 E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS and DERRICK HANDS

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Oilfield

Isherwood Close Inglis Cres.

Iverson Close LANCASTER AREA

800

Long lose Law Close/ Lewis Close Langford Cres.

Addington Drive

www.trican.ca

SUNNYBROOK AREA

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

Sherwood Cres./ Stanhope Ave. VANIER AREA

...Join our Team!

Visser St. Vanson Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

WORLDWIDE KNOWLEDGE - LOCAL SOLUTIONS

DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 D3

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CIRCULATION Service Runner (Part Time)

Do You: - Want extra income - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hours per week) As part of our customer service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to delivery newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle is provided.

Hours of shifts are Monday through Friday 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. or longer, and/or afternoon shifts Monday to Friday 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. or longer Submit resume, indicating “Service Runner Position”, along with your drivers abstract immediately to: careers@ reddeeradvocate.com or mail to: Human Resources 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB. T4N 5G3 or fax to: 403-341-4772 We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted.

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MOBIL 1 Lube Express Gasoline Alley req’s an Exp. Tech. Fax 403-314-9207

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

BOWER AREA WESTPARK AREA Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery in WESTPARK & WESTLAKE AREAS Please call Quitcy at 403-314-4316 EXP’D PARTS PERSON req’d by Chrysler Dealership.

Apply in person with resume at: Northwest Motors 3115 Gaetz Ave. R.D. F/T SECURITY GUARDS Weekends & evenings.

TRI-WEST Security Rate of $16 -$19/hour. pending experience. Must have security license Email resume to: triwestab@yahoo.ca

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of INNISFAIL Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

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

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Volunteers Wanted

VOLUNTEER INFORMATION Night at the Crongquist House on Tuesday October 15, 7 pm Any age req’d for house tours, greeting people, assisting servers, dishwasher, kitchen and office.

Call Delores @ 403-346-0055 if interested

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

To deliver 1 day a week in OLDS

TRAINING CENTRE “Low Cost” Quality Training

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

403.341.4544 24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

Family owned and operated, Trail Appliances continues to grow and due to this, we are looking to expand our warehouse department. Trail offers excellent training and a competitive compensation.

We are currently looking for a full time Shipper Receiver to work out of our Red Deer location. Shifts will be varied including weekends.

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)

wegot

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

The ideal candidate will: • be able to maneuver merchandise in excess of 100lbs • possess exceptional customer service skills • enjoy working within a diverse team

Children's Items

Launch your career with a well known and respected company. Become a part o f t h e s u c c e s s f u l Tr a i l team by applying in person to: Colin Parsons in person at #6 4622 61 Street, Riverside Industrial District, Red Deer or fax to 403-347-3314. A security check will be conducted on successful candidates.

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

Clothing

Firewood

1580

CHILDS HIKING SHOES Size 13. Columbia. Like new. $20. 403-314-9603

1590

1660

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Appliances

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FRIDGE. Estate, white with top freezer. Good cond. $195. 403-986-2114 MCCLEARY FRIDGE, 4’x2’, $200. 403-314-0804

Household Furnishings

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COUCH/Sofa bed, clean in exc. cond. $125. Deck table, green metal with glass top 38”x60” 4 chairs, w/ matching rocker chair (new was $700). Asking $85. 403-352-8811 TABLE, round, Maple, 40”, 4 chairs. Exc. cond. $200.

403-352-8811

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

SHIPPER RECEIVER Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

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Goods

FOR SALE: Large wash tub $30.

Electronic De-Humidifier $55. 403-342-7460 FREE HOUSEPLANTS Palm, Gardenia, Ivy, Sedum, Shamrock, Philodendron.

403-342-7460

EquipmentHeavy

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

1640

LAMP, COFFEE MAKER, PLACEMATS, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. Whole box for $20. 403-314-9603 LINCOLN 225 WELDER with new helmet $200.

403-314-0804 SNOWTHROWER Electric Murray 12 AMP/20”.

Asking $75.

Call 403 358-3073

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CLEARVIEW AREA Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $180/mo.

ALSO Castle Cres., Clark Cres. & Crawford St. $141/mo.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

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Experienced Shipper / Receiver positioned at our manufacturing facility in Red Deer. Forklift experience is an asset however, the successful candidate will need to be physically fit and selfmotivated. Applicants will be expected have some Shipping Receiving, Inventory control as well as be part of a team, being able to meet deadlines.

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NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE:

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

2190

Grain, Feed Hay

N/S, executive home, all utils incl + high spd. internet & digital cable. $600/mo + d.d. 403-357-0320

Rooms For Rent

3090

FURN. room, all utils. and cable incld, $425/mo.

403-506-3277 MOUNTVIEW: Avail. fully furn bdrm for rent. $500/$250.

Working M only 403-396-2468

Mobile

3190

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

ROSEDALE AREA Roche St. & 3 Blocks of Roland St. $54/mo.

ALSO East half of Robinson Cres., Revie Cl. & Reinholt Ave. $84/mo.

ALSO Richards Cr. & Cl., Russell Cres. & Ray Ave. $120/mo.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

2 BDRM. + den, furn., 5 appls., bsmt. dev., 2 fireplaces, deck, fenced yard, Avail. Nov. 1, 2013 to Mar. 31, 2014. N/S, no pets. $1400. rent/dd. incld’s all utils. & snow removal. 403-340-4668 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 GRANDVIEW 4 bdrm., 3 bath house, 5 appls. large yard, N/S $1400./mo + utisl. Avail mid. Oct. 403-350-4230 WANTED- 3 bedroom home or town house with appliances, basement and garage. Small dog and smoking. Mature Couple, Nov1-2013. Contact us at 780-902-6013 or email at bjportr@telus.net. Looking in Red Deer area or Red Deer County.

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5 BDRMS. 3 full baths, 2 fireplaces, heated 28 30’ garage, large fenced lot, RV parking. Call Bill or Pat owners 403-341-6204 or 403-350-0014 BIG VALLEY Only $20,000 3 bdrm. on nice large treed lot. Water, sewer, garbage Good terms avail. Owner Dave 780-475-2897 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

RENOVATED spacious 5 bdrm. home in Big Valley, new kitchen and deck,renovated bathrooms with a large jetted tub, new floor, new windows in some rooms, double lot, nice backyard with trees, single garage with heat stove, May consider rent to own. Asking $115,000 obo.

Call Gord 403-710-4085

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

5030

Cars

2005 CRYSLER Sebring 93,500 kms. $5500.

2004 Mustang Convertible 92,000 kms., $8900.

Both in exc. cond.

403-346-2626 2004 CHEV Impala, $4200. 403-341-3593 msg.

2000 NEON, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Red, 403-318-3040

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Condos/ Townhouses

Locally owned and family operated

4040

MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2550 ONE LEFT!

5040

SUV's

4050

Acreages

2008 LAND ROVER SE LR 2, 4X4, sunroofs, $19888 348-8788 Sport & Import

BUY OR SELL, CALL CORDELL AT MAXWELL ACREAGE NEAR DELBURNE

9.67 Acres.

1730 sq.ft. fully reno’d home. $379,900. 403-318-5478 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

LOCATION... LOCATION! On pavement, min. from Innisfail, 1500 sq. ft. ranch style home on 3.81 acres.

5 bdrms., w/2.5 baths, att. car port, cedar vaulted ceiling, 2 fireplaces, high speed DSL internet. $495,000. 403-357-9930

4090

Manufactured Homes

2008 JEEP Rubicon Wrangler 4X4, $20,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import 2006 TUSCON V6 fwd, orig. owner, ONLY 23,700 kms, $11,900 403-346-2867 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

2001 FORD Explorer lots of extras, very clean, $3500 obo 403-314-4857

5050

Trucks

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Commercial Property

4110

REDUCED !

Must Sell by Oct. 5 2010 Toyota Tacoma

4x4 black with grey interior 4 cyl. 4 spd. Clean, great cond. 59,500 kms. $20,500 Call 403-302-2175

33,175 SQ. FT. manufacturing bldg. on 5.8 Acres for $1.4 Million. Heavy P o w e r, 1 0 To n c r a n e , HERE TO HELP oversized loading doors, & & HERE TO SERVE large graveled storage yard. 45 mins outside of 2010 CHEV Silverado 1500 Call GORD ING at LT 4X4, Z-71 $22,888 Calgary in Linden, AB. Call RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 Colliers International, Evan 348-8788 Sport & Import Truman (403) 215-7252. gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

4020

MOVE IN TODAY

4 Brand New Homes *1500 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage *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

FOR SALE: Share of commercial building in prime location in Red Deer.

Returns averaging between 8-10% annually.

Professionally managed.

Asking $220,000. Reply to Box 1060, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

2008 CHEVY Colorado Vortec 3.7 L, 4wd, good tires & brakes, Linex box liner & undercover. 783-2064 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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DEERPARK AREA Denovan Cres., Dickenson Cres & Davison Dr. Area $201/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA 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.

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CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Connaught Cres. & Cooper Close area $192/mo.

Badger Daylighting is North America’s largest provider of non-destructive excavating services. The Company’s key technology is the Badger Hydrovac, which is used primarily for safe digging in congested grounds and challenging conditions.

The Badger Hydrovac uses a pressurized water stream to liquefy the soil cover, which is then removed with a powerful vacuum system and deposited into a storage tank. Badger manufactures its own truck-mounted hydrovac units.

MORRISROE MANOR

Lot KENMORE, dehumidifyer, 24L, exc. cond. $75.; 8’ TIMOTHY & Brome square live cactus plant, $50; wool bales, great for horses, apMOBILE HOME PAD, in CUSTOM built saw mill, Red Deer Close to Gaetz, close to $20,000 to build, accent carpet, clean, $20; prox. 60 lbs. put up dry 2 car park, Shaw cable incl. all hydraulic operation,35’ Audrey Hepburn purse, and covered, $5/bale long, V twin engine, $4500 obo $25.; 4 boxes, 12 gauge Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225 s h o t g u n s h e l l s , $ 2 4 .

403-883-2013 403-740-53381 403-352-8811

880

Badger Daylighting is recruiting for the following positions in Badger’s Red Deer Office for a Shipper Receiver.

3060

wegot

wheels

3080

1620

Misc.

1660

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Interested applicants should respond with a resume to: jwinter@badgerinc.com Fax 403-343-0490

1840

THE NORDIC

Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in

Bill Wall, Maintenance Manager 301 4719 - 48 Avenue or by Fax to: 403-343-2332

2 BDRM. CONDO. New paint, fridge & stove. $950/mo/d.d. 587-679-2233 3 BDRM, 1 1/2 bath townFREE 8 week old orange kittens house in well kept condominium complex at #9, 15 Stanton St. 5 mo. old Calico kittens, 1 5 appls & fenced yard. gorgeous pinky orange 5 Tenants must be over 40 mo. old M. kitten, all need w/references & quiet living. loving homes Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo.

403-782-3130 $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627 AVA I L . O c t 1 , 4 b d r m . townhouse, 4 appl., hardDogs wood, 2 parking stalls, close to shopping & BERNESE MOUNTAIN schools. $1200 + util. + d.d dog puppies, ready to go RENTED NOW 403-357-7108 LEGACY ESTSATE: Best Adult Retirement Community 60+. 1 Bdrm. luxury condo unit. $800 + utils.

Call John 403-302-4444 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, F1B GOLDEN DOODLES, Sorry no pets. black now but will brindle www.greatapartments.ca as they get older. Non shedding, well handled, Manufactured long time breeder. $900.

Delivered to Alberta.

Homes Text 306-521-1371 or call 306-792-2113 Newly Reno’d Mobile www.furtettishfarm.ca FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225 Sporting

4020

Houses For Sale

(2) BURMAN kittens. $40/ea.

403-887-3649

1900

CUSTOM made router table w/brand new router THE TASTY BAKERY $200 403-347-3712 Pet P/T OPPORTUNITY Services Afternoons, Firewood No early mornings, AT RUFF N TUMBLE No late nights DOGGIE DAYCARE No Sundays, AND KENNELS AFFORDABLE Apply in person at: we provide play Homestead Firewood Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive and socialization Birch, Spruce, Pine Split (directly behind Nutters) for your pet that will leave 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 them happy and satisfied WE ARE LOOKING FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, at the end of the day!

FOR FIELD STAFF Poplar.

Can deliver Daycare and overnight IN THE PROPERTY 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 stays available.

MANAGEMENT FIELD. Must: have a reliable vehicle, FREE FIREWOOD Please contact us for Be a People Person, Bring your power saw. booking a stay or play day!

Be Self-Motivated 403-346-4307 Phone 403-782-5322.

And be looking for ruffntumblekennels.ca SEASONED BIRCH a new challenge. ruffntumble@live.ca 403-350-1664 If you are interested you can submit your resume to info@hpman.ca Misc.

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Help WEEKEND dispatchers req’d. immediately.

Knowledge of Red Deer essential. Will require good verbal and written commuADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED nication skills. Fax resume For delivery of to 403-346-0295

• Basic working knowledge of electricity, painting, carpentry and plumbing.

• Excellent team player needed with the ability to work independently.

• Emergency First Aid & Mandatory criminal record check required.

• Salary according to union scale.

Please apply in writing to:

3030

HOCKEY NET, like new Suites 3 BI-FOLD doors for 24” $20 403-343-7884 1 BDRM. No pets. $675 opening, 2 doors for 30” SKIS, $100. rent/s.d. Avail. Nov. 1st. opening with hardware 403-343-7884 Call 403-227-1844 $20/ea; Canada hockey SNOW BOARD Boots, bag with wheels LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. size 9 (2 pairs) $50 each. $20 403-346-9311 SUITES. 25+, adults only 1 pr. size 3, $20. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 3 PORCELINE dolls 403-343-7884 $20/ea; dbl. comforter and bed skirt, $20; skidoo boots size 6 ladies $20; set Travel o f C o r e l l e d i s h e s $ 2 0 ; Packages 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. small 32” fiber optic ChristAdult bldg. N/S No pets mas tree $10; electric 403-755-9852 TRAVEL ALBERTA Christmas house $15; Alberta offers brand new queen bed skirt SOMETHING $20; 403-352-3521 for everyone.

Make your travel BAR SINK, brand new.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, plans now. $60. 403-343-7884 N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444 C E D A R s c r e e n d o o r.

Brand new/never used.

36” X 80.5”. Comes with a Roommates set of new hardware. $60.

Wanted Call (403) 342-7908.

FREE STUFF. 1980 solid wood cabinet stereo, wood MEN’S size L hunting/cam- highchair, small bookcase, mo jackets, etc. $100/all kids toys 403-342-5609 403-342-5609 HANGERS. Wooden, Plastic, Metal. Box full for $10. 403-314-9603 Equipment-

Tools

Permanent Full time Maintenance Position:

1830

Cats

Condos/ Townhouses

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

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

Caregivers

1060

I am a caregiver looking for a live-in position for a senior.

Outstanding references.

Call Debbie 403-307-3214

Cleaning

1070

VINYL SIDING CLEANING Eaves Trough Cleaned, Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

Pricing. 403-506-4822

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Eavestroughing

1130

Massage Therapy

1280

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

FANTASY

1165

International ladies

Escorts

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

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

Massage Therapy

1280

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

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

MASSAGE

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town. www.viimassage.biz

Misc.

Services

1290

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

Misc.

Services

1290

UNWANTED Yard & House Items - Will haul to land fill. Call 403-896-2108

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Support Ltd. for SENIORS. Companionship, cleaning, cooking - in home, in facility.

We are BETTER for CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777

Window Cleaning

1420

WINDOW CLEANING. Outside / Inside / Both.

403-506-4822

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 Trucks

5050

1993 F150 S/C flareside, 1 of a kind, very clean, lots of extras $5500 obo 403-314-4857

5070

Vans Buses

2003 HONDA Odyssey EX-L V6. Loaded.

One owner. $7800.

Call 403-396-0722.

1976 CHEVY VAN, 106,000 original miles.

Good shape.

Asking $1000.

403-346-3394, 877-1352

Fifth Wheels

5110

2011 KEYSTONE Alpine $54,900. Top of the line.

Satellite dish, built in Cummins Onan generator, Sub-zero insulation pckg. and much more. Avail. for viewing. Call 403 357 6950 1995 OKANAGAN 23’. Very well maint. Must be seen.

Asking $6900. 403-342-0250

Holiday Trailers

5120

SNOWBIRDS

Avail. immed. 1978 Santa Fe, 8x40, 2, 10’ tip outs, fully furn. Scottsdale, AZ. 403-782-4128

Boats & Marine

5160

2000 CAMPION 552 with 200 hrs on 2007 Volvo Penta 4.3L I/O. All cushions, seats & tarps in great shape & winterized. Garmin fishfinder 597C & full instrument panel.

Asking $18,000, can be viewed on Kijiji. 403-341-4627 before I put the tarp on for winter.

Snowmobiles

5170

2011 POLARIS Assault, many new parts. $8200 obo 403-396-5314

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

HITCHES (2) 3’ in width. $50. And a new hitch $150. 403-314-0804

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

A-1 WILLY’S Parts Place Inc. Will haul away salvage cars free in city limits. Will pay for some.

Only AMVIC approved salvage yard in Red Deer 403-346-7278 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Misc.

Automotive

5240

SCRAP metal and cars, trades 403-304-7585

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Eight killed in fiery church bus crash in Tennessee

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — A bus taking a church group home to North Carolina blew a tire, veered across a highway median and crashed into a sport utility vehicle and tractor-trailer Wednesday in a fiery wreck that killed eight people, authorities said.

Fourteen other people were hurt in the accident in northeastern Tennessee, including eight who were in critical condition.

The bus was carrying members of the Front Street Baptist Church in Statesville, N.C., which is about 140 miles east of the crash site.

The group of seniors, known as Young at Heart, had been to the 17th annual Fall Jubilee in Gatlinburg, Tenn., a three-day event featuring gospel singers and speakers.

Inside the Statesville church, people were crying and hugging each other. One woman whispered “It’s going to be all right” while hugging another woman.

A service was scheduled for Wednesday night.

George Stadfeld, who has been a member of the church for eight years, said he knew everyone on the bus.

“We’re all shaken,” he said.

“As bad as it is, they’re all Christians and I know where they’re at.

I’ll join them later.”

The Fall Jubilee website described the gathering as “three days of singing, laughing and preaching” for “mature and senior believers.”

After the accident, a banner was posted on top of the website saying, “Our thoughts are with our friends at Front Street Baptist Church in their tragic loss. ... all the Jubilee team have you in our prayers.”

Dionne Stutts, wife of Front Street Baptist senior pastor Tim Stutts, said her husband and another pastor from the church were en route to the wreck.

“They had been there and they were on their way home today,” she said. “We are devastated and just ask for the people to be praying.”

Authorities said the chartered bus crossed the median about 2 p.m., clipped the oncoming SUV and slammed into the tractor-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this aerial photo, emergency workers respond to a crash involving a passenger bus and a tractor-trailer near Dandridge, Tenn., on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for Tennessee’s Safety Department said the bus was traveling in northeast Tennessee when it crossed the median and struck the other two vehicles. The tractor-trailer caught fire and the bus overturned. trailer, which burst into flames.

Several hours after the crash, clouds of smoke still rose from the tractor-trailer and tree branches that lined the highway were charred.

The bus was on its side next to the tractor-trailer, lying across two lanes of traffic and extending partially into the median. Debris littered the interstate.

The SUV was about 50 yards away from the other vehicles. It was still upright, but the back half had been completely ripped off.

The interstate was completely shut down in both directions, and the scene was eerily quiet, despite the presence of many emergency workers. The loudest noise came from helicopters flying overhead.

Susan Wyatt, a spokeswoman for the University of Tennessee

Russia charges 14 Greenpeace activists with piracy

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Medical Center, said 12 people had been brought to the hospital, four by helicopter, and two more were still en route four hours after the accident.

Wyatt said in addition to those in critical condition, two were in serious condition and two were stable.

State Department of Safety and Homeland Security spokeswoman Dalya Qualls said in an email 18 people were on the bus and six of them were killed. One person among the three in the SUV was killed and the tractor-trailer driver also died. None of the victims had been identified.

At the church, Jerry Wright said his 73-year-old brother, John, and his wife were on the bus, and he thinks his brother may have been driving the church bus because he had done it in the past.

“If he was driving, it’s going to

be bad,” Jerry Wright, 71, said.

“I’ve been trying to ring them.

I’ve been calling their phone, but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing.”

Brady Johnson, superintendent of the Iredell County-Statesville City Schools, said a lot of people who work for the school system are church members. Johnson said he knew people on the bus and they were awaiting word on the conditions.

Johnson said the church had adopted N.B. Mills Elementary School, providing volunteers and school supplies for needy children.

Now, the school system is offering a high school auditorium as a site for a memorial.

“It hits the community as a whole when tragedy strikes. The whole community comes together,” he said.

U.S. intelligence chief says agency doesn’t track social media BUT TRIED TRACKING CELLPHONES

MOSCOW — Greenpeace says that 14 of its activists who were detained after protesting at a Russian oil platform have been charged with piracy, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

The activists from Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Sweden were among 30 people who were on board the Greenpeace ship that was seized by the Russian Coast Guard following the Sept.

18 protest.

Two of the activists had tried to scale an offshore platform owned by Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom to call attention to the environmental risks of drilling in Arctic waters.

Greenpeace says more activists, including two Canadians, were expected to be formally charged on Thursday and Friday.

Paul Ruzycki of Port Colborne, Ont., was serving as the ship’s chief mate and Montrealer Alexandre Paul was also on board.

All 30 are being held in jails in Murmansk, a port above the Arctic Circle.

President Vladimir Putin said last week that he doesn’t think the Greenpeace activists are pirates, which triggered hopes for their release. But Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday urged energy companies to adopt more stringent security measures and said the government should consider tougher penalties for those who attack or trespass on the grounds of Russian oil and gas infrastructure.

“Concern for the environment must not cover up unlawful actions, whatever lofty goals the people who were taking part in them espoused,” Medvedev was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying.

The platform, which belongs to Gazprom’s oil subsidiary, is the first offshore rig in the Arctic. It was deployed to the vast Prirazlomnoye oil field in the Pechora Sea in 2011, but its launch has been delayed by technological challenges. Gazprom said in September that it was to start pumping oil this year, but no date has been set.

The investigators said that the Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, had violated the 500-metre security zone around the platform and that it was carrying equipment whose purpose was still unclear. Greenpeace has insisted that its ship stayed out of this zone and that the inflatable boats used by activists to reach the platform posed no danger.

The activists charged on Wednesday were called into the offices of the Investigative Committee separately and presented with the formal charges in the presence of their lawyers, Greenpeace said.

The Investigative Committee, Russia’s main investigative agency, did not immediately announce the charges.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander revealed Wednesday that his spy agency once tested whether it could track Americans’ cellphone locations, in addition to its practice of sweeping broad information about calls made.

Alexander and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on proposed reforms to the NSA’s surveillance of phone and internet usage around the world, exposed in June by former NSA analyst Edward Snowden. But neither spy chief discussed proposed reforms; instead they were questioned about new potential abuses that have come to light since then.

Alexander denied a New York Times report published Saturday that said NSA searched social networks of Americans searching for foreign terror connections, and detailed 12 previously revealed cases of abuse by NSA employees who used the network for unsanctioned missions like spying on a spouse. He said all employees were caught and most were disciplined.

Alexander and Clapper also told lawmakers that the government shutdown that began Tuesday over a budget impasse is seriously damaging the intelligence community’s ability to guard against threats. They said they’re keeping counterterrorism staff at work as well as those providing intelligence to troops in Afghanistan, but that some 70 per cent of the civilian workforce has been furloughed. Any details on the jobs held by the furloughed employees is classified.

Congress is mulling changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that some believe allows the NSA too much freedom in gathering U.S. data as part of spying on targets overseas.

Alexander told the committee that his agency once tested, in 2010 and 2011, whether it could track Americans’ cellphone locations, but he says the NSA does not use that capability, leaving that to the FBI to build a criminal or foreign intelligence case against a suspect and track him.

“This may be something that is a future requirement for the country but it is not right now because when we identify a number, we give it to the FBI,” Alexander said. “When they get their probable cause, they can get the locational data.”

He said if the NSA thought it needed to track someone that way, it would go back to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — the secret court that authorizes its spying

missions — for approval. He added that his agency reported the tests to both House and Senate intelligence committees, and that the data was never used for intelligence analysis.

Only last week, Alexander refused to answer questions from Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat, about whether his agency had ever collected or planned to collect such “cell-site” data, as it is called, saying it was classified, but the general said the NSA released the information in letters to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees ahead of the Judiciary Committee meeting Wednesday.

Wyden was not satisfied with Alexander’s answer.

“After years of stonewalling on whether the government has ever tracked or planned to track the location of law abiding Americans through their cellphones, once again, the intelligence leadership has decided to leave most of the real story secret — even when the truth would not compromise national security,” he said.

Alexander acknowledged his agency collects data from social networks and other commercial databases to hunt foreign terror suspects but is not using the information to build private files on Americans. He said the operations are only used in pursuing foreign agents and sweeping up information on Americans if they are connected to those suspects by phone calls or other data.

Alexander said that not all social network searches are authorized by the secret FISA court, but he added the agency’s searches are proper and audited internally. The authority flows from a presidential executive order on national security dating back to the Reagan administration in 1981, he said, adding: “It allows us to understand what the foreign nexus is.”

Alexander called a recent New York Times report on the searches “inaccurate and wrong.” The Times said the NSA was exploiting huge collections of personal data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections.

The Times said the private data included Facebook posts and banking, flight, GPS location and voting records.

Alexander denied the NSA was building “dossiers,” or personal files on Americans, even though the Times story never specifically suggested that was being done.

He said collecting such private metadata is “the most important way” to track a potential terrorist once they have been identified.

He also said Americans are only directly targeted by such searches when they are under investigation for possible terror ties or they are the targets of terror activities.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 D5

Photo by JOHN RATHWELL/freelance

Charity event involved strapping a police cruiser to the Dyno with a prize for the person with the closest guess of the rear wheel horsepower of the car.

Red Deer Tuners hold Dyno-mite event for YIELD

JOHN RATHWELL

CLASSIC CARS hicle is a danger to the community.

It appears to me that YIELD is working and here is an example: Cory Adams of Red Deer Tuners mentioned that they decided to raise funds for YIELD to help keep younger generations well educated and safe while behind the wheel. Members with the Tuners have all lost friends who were behind the wheel from either reckless drivers or from driving under the influence. He wants to make sure that everyone knows that we care about the younger generation of drivers.

As you will notice in the photo, there is a po-

lice car with a bunch of young people all around it and they are smiling and having fun.

At this charity event, they strapped a police cruiser to the dyno and there was a prize for the person with the closest guess of the rear wheel horsepower of the police car.

The prize was donated by NAPA, and I didn’t stay late enough to hear the answer. How much horsepower do you think it has? I will find out and give you the answer in a future column.

Lastly, I would like acknowledge Cam Koole for hosting the event and his employees for donating the time for the event. Also, Const. Lee Watt for bringing in the car and being a positive role model in the community. It was great to see people like Cam and Lee step up and do things like this in our city, while supporting a worthwhile cause.

John Rathwell is a local financial planner, car enthusiast and freelance writer. If you would like to have your car or event featured, email mylittlecobra@gmail.com.

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YIELD consists of a number of volunteer police and other emergency personnel who use cars to break the barrier between the youth and these services.

This charity is combating the glorification of street racing and violence via popular culture like the Fast and Furious and Grand Theft Auto 5.

This charity feels that there should be a positive interaction between youth and police and EMS. As such, they attend street legal drag races, car shows, etc., along with providing school talks about safety.

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Chamber campign wins national support RED DEER LEADS EFFORT TO STREAMLINE THE TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKER PROGRAM

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The Red Deer Chamber of Commerce has gained national support in its campaign to streamline the temporary foreign worker program.

A policy position that it developed, which urges the federal government to simplify and improve the efficiency of the program, was adopted by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce last weekend.

“This means that we have the backing of the entire Canadian Chamber movement to bring this forward,” said Red Deer Chamber president Tyler Bowman, who presented the policy resolution at the annual general meeting of the Cana-

dian Chamber of Commerce in Kelowna, B.C. The Red Deer resolution, which was co-sponsored by the Calgary, Grande Prairie, Spruce Grove and British Columbia chambers, calls upon the Canadian government to reverse a number of changes it made recently to its temporary foreign worker program.

Those changes included suspending the fast-tracking of certain applications, requiring employers to submit a plan of how they intend to transition from foreign to domestic workers, and increasing the cost of using the program.

The resolution also urges the government to be responsive to the labour needs of different areas of the country, rather than rely on rigid im-

a cut in funding to its scientific research and experimental development investment tax credit, and to consult with industry before changing the program in the future.

The resolution was co-sponsored by the Medicine Hat and Spruce Grove chambers.

Meanwhile, the Red Deer Chamber acted as a co-sponsor on two other resolutions, both of which were also adopted by the Canadian Chamber.

One called for more aggressive action in the fight against mountain pine beetles, and the other for the Canadian government to continue to pursue trade action against the United States in response to its country of origin labelling legislation (COOL) — which has hurt Canadian meat producers

migration and foreign worker policies that apply to all of Canada regardless of their economic circumstances.

Bowman said positive feedback that the Red Deer Chamber received from its counterparts across Canada prior to the national AGM convinced him the resolution stood a good chance of being approved.

“When we went to vote there was not a lot of debate about it. The chambers across the country realize the significance of the impact this can have on us.”

The Red Deer Chamber also succeeded in having a second resolution adopted by the national chamber.

That one called upon the federal government to reverse

that export to the U.S. “It’s important to us that this (policy resolution) stays on the books and we continue to move it forward and ultimately get the COOL legislation off the books,” said Bowman.

The Red Deer Chamber has a history of getting its policy positions adopted by the Alberta and Canadian chambers.

Bowman wants this work to continue, and would like local businesses — whether Chamber members or not — to participate in the process.

“We would be happy to have people’s issues and their expertise on our committees.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate. com

India wants Canadian oil and gas ENVOY EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR EAST COAT PIPELINE THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., center, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, make their way through a crush of reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, after announcing that President Barack Obama has invited the top leaders in Congress to meet with him to seek a solution to the government shutdown crisis. Lawmakers in both parties have ominously suggested the shutdown might last for weeks.

Worries about U.S. shutdown pales to potential damage from debt ceiling crisis

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The border is still open, trade is still being conducted and stock markets have mostly shrugged off the first days of the partial shutdown of the U.S. government.

But as far as disruptions and cataclysmic economic shocks go, experts and business leaders agree the current self-created crisis in the U.S. Congress would pale next to the fallout that would occur two weeks from now if the ongoing political dysfunction leads to the first default in U.S. government history.

Failure to raise the debt limit ceiling on Oct. 17 — the next congressional self-imposed spending deadline — would in essence impact the U.S. government’s ability to keep paying its bills.

The resulting fallout would almost certainly roil financial markets and reach the shores of virtually every world economy and certainly that of neighbouring Canada.

But the fact is, nobody knows how serious it could get, says John Manley, head of Canada’s most influential business lobby, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, because it’s never happened before.

“This absolutely would be much more serious than the shutdown,” says Manley.

“You’ve got the risk of a loss of

confidence in the global financial system. Hold onto your hats, because the consequences are going to be unpredictable.”

Two recent events give a clue as to what could occur, and neither is reassuring. The most recent was a debt ceiling controversy that occurred in August of 2011.

Yet Congress rejected the law at first, which caused a market crash, forcing lawmakers to change their minds two days later.

Given the history, most analysts still do not believe U.S. politicians will be willing to risk a new debt crisis, or at least not one that lasts long enough to plunge the U.S. back into recession.

Still, economists say the uncertainty and never-ending fiscal brinkmanship in Congress is already damaging the economy, making businesses — JOHN MANLEY, HEAD OF think twice about THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF CHIEF EXECUTIVES committing to new investments and hiring.

At the time, an 11th-hour soluFurther, failure to avert the tion averted the crisis, but the crisis this time might shake conincident was enough to shake fidence longer term, they say, as market and business confidence the U.S. political system proves leading to a subsequent slowdown once again incapable of putting in economic activity. aside partisan differences even at The example is not perfect as the expense of mutual economic the debt issue followed two previ- well-being. ous shocks — the Japanese tsu“Unfortunately, this is coming nami and a flare-up in the finan- at not the nicest time for Canada,” cial crisis in Europe — which are says Michael Gregory, a senior missing from today’s equation. economist with the Bank of MonThe earlier event occurred treal (TSX:BMO). in late 2008 when the President “We’re kind of waiting for the George W. Bush proposed a bail- U.S. so we can ride those coatout of Wall Street following the tails. If the U.S. suffers a negative Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. economic impact for a week or Despite grousing among hard- two or three, or hurts confidence liners in Congress, markets as- for a month or two or three, then sumed legislators would swiftly we will feel the impact. If they are approve the bill, known as TARP, buying less cars because they are because the consequences were worried, Canada will sell fewer so dire. cars.”

‘YOU’VE GOT THE RISK OF A LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM... THE CONSEQUENCES ARE GOING TO BE UNPREDICTABLE.’

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OTTAWA — With the ink barely dry on his country’s long sought nuclear co-operation agreement, India’s top diplomat says his county is setting its sights on increasing the flow of oil and gas imports from Canada.

Indian High Commissioner Nirmal Verma also said that his country would like to see the completion of a pipeline to Canada’s east coast that would carry Alberta crude to Atlantic Ocean ports.

Verma told The Canadian Press that India would consider investing in the proposed Energy East Pipeline project, if clears regulatory hurdles and moves ahead.

“The issues are getting the energy out of where it is located in central Canada to tidal waters,” Verma said in an interview this week at his Ottawa office.

“I suppose that once there is assurance that seems to be happening, I would expect investment to come in the port sector or liquefaction plants, particularly on the east coast. There is a great opportunity there.”

India is the world’s fourth-largest energy consumer, but Canada hasn’t cracked the top 20 of its energy suppliers. Verma said Canada has the potential to offer cheaper oil and gas options to his country, despite the long distance of shipping it across the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

India is a lucrative market for Canada, as the Harper government

2013 drilling year is flat

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS This year has been as flat as the Prairies for the energy drilling industry in Western Canada.

Mark Scholz (SHOLTZ), president of the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, says rig utilization has been about 41 per cent so far this year.

He says that figure is expected to rise slightly to 45 per cent for the rest of 2013.

Scholz says wet weather and soft money markets are behind the modest numbers.

He predicts activity in the oil and natural gas drilling industry will continue to be flat into the new year.

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seeks to expand trade with Asia in order to ease its dependence on the United States.

“There has been quite a bit of dialogue between the major energy producers in Canada, and also the importers on our side, in the public and private sector,” said Verma.

Energy discussions between the two countries were formally elevated to the ministerial level last year when Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited India.

Verma said India’s cabinet minister on energy will be Ottawa later this month for talks with his counterpart, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver.

India and Canada just last week finalized their nuclear co-operation agreement, a three-year process that will allow Canadian uranium to be sold to India for reactor fuel.

Canada is hungry to find buyers for its nuclear industry, and boost its $1 billion a year in uranium sales.

The two countries signed the agreement in June 2010 but it took three years to finalize. That’s because the details of surrounding a key issue had to be ironed out: ensuring that an independent process was in place to ensure the Canadian uranium is used for peaceful purposes.

India used a Canadian-supplied reactor to create the fuel that was responsible for the country’s test blast of a nuclear bomb in 1974.

That duplicity soured relations between the two countries for decades.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 92.02 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.84 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 12.96 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.67 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.40 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed slightly lower Wednesday amid rising concerns that a partial U.S. government shutdown in its second day will last longer than thought and impact negotiations over raising the U.S. government’s debt ceiling in mid-October.

The S&P/TSX composite index was well off session lows, coming back from a 57-point deficit to finish 8.44 points lower at 12,839. Losses were partially limited by gains in the gold sector as bullion’s attraction as safe haven investment pushed prices higher.

The commodity-sensitive Canadian dollar was off the worst levels of the day, closing down 0.06 of a cent at 96.79 cents US as prices for copper and oil also advanced.

Republicans in the House of Representatives are insisting that Democrats negotiate over the new U.S. health-care law as part of the funding deadlock. Senate Democrats insist that Republicans pass a straightforward temporary funding bill with no strings attached.

Disappointing job creation data also pressured U.S. indexes as the Dow Jones industrials fell 58.56 points to 15,133.14, the Nasdaq lost 2.96 points to 3,815.02 and the S&P 500 index shed 1.13 points to 1,693.87.

Payroll firm ADP reported that the U.S. private sector created 166,000 jobs last month, lower than the 178,000 that had been expected. It also revised lower its job creation figures for the previous two months.

That’s likely all the jobs data that traders will get this week as one of the spinoff effects of the shutdown is an absence of government data that usually moves markets. The U.S. Labor Department said Tuesday it won’t be issuing its employment report for September on Friday.

Market reaction to the shutdown had been relatively muted on hopes that economic damage from the budgetary impasse wouldn’t be too severe as long as it didn’t last too long.

But there is growing dismay that the standoff on Capitol Hill shows no signs of easing with some lawmakers in both parties suggesting the shutdown might last for weeks.

The last time there was an impasse over the borrowing limit, in August 2011, it led to a downgrade of the United States’ credit rating by Standard & Poor’s and a plunge in the stock market.

The energy sector led decliners

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.03 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.54 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 59.61 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.72 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.05 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.02 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.89 First Quantum Minerals . 18.61 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.31 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.51 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.04 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 33.92 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.70 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 27.88 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 26.49 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 65.90 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 49.63 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.85 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 55.34 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.23 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 19.84 Canyon Services Group. 12.17 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.31 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 17.82 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.75 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 86.08 down, 0.75 per cent while the November crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange erased early losses to jump $2.06 to US$104.10 a barrel.

Prices accelerated after three days of declines amid a report that the southern leg of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline will be finished this month. Bloomberg News cited an interview with Les Cherwenuk, project director for TransCanada, who said completion of that portion of the pipeline would bring oil from the delivery hub in Cushing, Okla., down to the Gulf Coast, reducing reduce high storage levels. TransCanada (TSX:TRP) shares slipped a penny to C$45.19.

Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) declined 50 cents to C$30.31.

The telecom sector fell 0.64 per cent with Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) off 44 cents to $43.91.

The financials sector was also a weight, down 0.44 per cent as Sun Life Financial (TSX:SLF) gave back 27 cents to $32.85.

The gold sector rose about 0.84 per cent and December bullion gained $34.60 to US$1,320.70 an ounce. Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) advanced 42 cents to C$19.02.

The base metals sector turned positive, up 0.73 per cent with December copper up four cents to US$3.32 a pound. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) gained 47 cents to C$27.88.

Elsewhere, BlackBerry (TSX:BB) (Nasdaq:BBRY) shares were up eight cents at $8.27 on the TSX, recovering from early losses of more than four per cent amid reports that U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital aims to sign a confidentiality agreement to access the smartphone maker’s books. The move wouldn’t guarantee Cerberus would actually make an offer for the company.

Earlier, the Globe and Mail reported that BlackBerry is looking at tapping the value of its extensive real estate holdings in the Waterloo, Ont.,area to raise cash. It said that BlackBerry has asked for ideas to generate the largest possible return from its real estate in as little time as possible, through a confidential process begun last week.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Wednesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index —

Home sales in Vancouver rise sharply VANCOUVER — Home sales in the Vancouver region were up nearly 64 per cent in September as the market posted big gains compared with a year ago when sales plunged in the wake of changes to mortgage lending rules.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver said there were 2,483 sales through its Multiple Listing Service in September, up from 1,516 a year ago.

“While sales are up considerably from last year, it’s important to note that September 2012 sales were among the lowest we’ve seen in nearly three decades,” board president Sandra Wyant said in a statement.

“Home sale and listing activity this September were in line with the 10-year average for the month.”

Real estate sales in Vancouver have bounced back strongly in recent months compared with a year ago when federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tightened the mortgage lending rules.

The move by the minister sent a chill through the Canadian real estate market, however sales have since picked up again in many areas.

New listings for de-

tached, attached and apartment properties in Greater Vancouver totalled 5,030 in September, down 5.5 per cent from a year ago, but up 20.2 per cent compared August this year.

There were 16,115 properties listed in Greater Vancouver in the Multiple Listings Service, down 12.2 per cent from a year ago, but up 0.5 per cent from August.

The MLS Home Price Index composite benchmark price for Greater Vancouver was $601,900, down 0.7 per cent compared with a year ago.

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 69.01 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 59.16 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.33 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 31.11 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.08 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.68 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 48.01 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 62.68 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.14 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 85.64 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.45 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 66.35 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 32.85 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.04

12,839 down 8.44 points TSX Venture Exchange — 947.33 up 5.30 points TSX 60 — 736.05 down 0.83 point Dow — 15,133.14 down 58.56 points S&P 500 — 1,693.87 down 1.13 points Nasdaq — 3,815.02 down 2.96 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 96.79 cents US, down 0.06 of a cent Pound — C$1.6765, up 0.37 of a cent Euro — C$1.4034, up 0.69 of a cent Euro — US$1.3583, up 0.58 of a cent Oil futures: US$104.10 per barrel, up $2.06 (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,320.70 per oz., up $34.60 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.444 per oz., up $1.144 $753.72 per kg., up $36.77 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 947.33, up 5.30 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 114.72 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $0.30 higher $477.70; Jan. ’14 $0.20 higher $487.10; March ’14 $0.40 higher $494.10; May ’14 $0.10 lower $499.90; July ’14 $0.80 lower $504.50; Nov. ’14 $0.20 higher $500.00; Jan ’15 $0.30 higher $502.20; March ’15 $0.30 higher $501.20; May ’15 $0.30 higher $498.80; July ’15 $0.30 higher $498.80; Nov. ’15 $0.30 higher $498.80.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’13 unchanged $149.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $152.00; March ’14 unchanged $154.00; May ’14 unchanged $155.00; July ’14 unchanged $155.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $155.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $155.00; March ’15 unchanged $155.00; May ’15 unchanged $155.00; July ’15 unchanged $155.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $155.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 535,880 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 535,880.

Twitter pursues IPO STOCKS OF OTHER PROMINENT INTERNET COMPANIES CLIMB TO NEW HIGHS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Internet stocks are heating up again, just as Twitter is preparing to turn up the temperature with its highly anticipated IPO. Consider what’s happened in the past month: The once-scorned stocks of Netflix and Facebook have soared to new highs; Yahoo’s long-languishing stock has regained its vigour and surpassed $34 for the first time in nearly six years; enamoured investors just poured more than $1.7 billion into secondary stock offerings by LinkedIn and Pandora Media Inc.; and Priceline. com’s stock recently broke $1,000, catapulting past its peak reached in 1999 during the dot-com boom.

“There is great demand right now to invest in companies that could be powering the future, but it’s a window of opportunity that won’t last forever,” says BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis.

As hot as some Internet stocks are, the fervour is nothing like it was in the late 1990s when investors minted dozens of unprofitable companies with rich market values.

“The difference is that investors today are investing on value rather than on emotion and hype, as was the case in 1998 to 2000,” says Jeff Corbin, CEO of investor relations consultant KCSA

Strategic Communications.

Many of today’s investors are judging Internet companies on their individual merits and prospects for growth.

“Back then,” says Corbin, “just by including the word ’Internet’ in a company description or name gave rise to a multi-million if not billion dollar valuation.”

Dan Appelman, 54 is a longtime investor in technology who views the current run-up in Internet stocks as a reflection of the ever-expanding role online services play in people’s lives.

“The Internet is everywhere now, and that wasn’t the case in 2000,” Appelman says.

“It has become like electricity or plumbing.”

Twitter couldn’t have chosen a better moment to join the party. The timing proved to be ideal for recent IPOs

by Rocket Fuel Inc., a company that uses artificial intelligence software to distribute digital ads, and FireEye Inc., a maker of computer security software.

The stocks of both Silicon Valley companies nearly doubled in their Sept. 20 trading debuts.

Twitter hasn’t set a timetable for its IPO since announcing its plans to go public in a Sept. 12 tweet. Most analysts expect the San Francisco company to complete the process in November or December.

TransCanada says construction on Gulf Coast pipeline to finish this month THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A pipeline to ship crude oil from Cushing, Okla., to the U.S. Gulf Coast is 95 per cent complete, TransCanada Corp. said Wednesday.

The Calgary-based company (TSX:TRP) said major construction on the $2.3-billion pipeline is expected to wrap up by the end of October.

“Further work will need to be done before we begin filling the pipeline with crude oil and that work is expected to be completed in the near future as well,” company spokesman Shawn Howard said in an email.

“Commissioning of the pipeline is already underway and is expected to be completed in early November. Line fill can begin shortly thereafter.

We remain focused on the project becoming operational near the end of 2013.”

The pipeline’s initial capacity will be 700,000 barrels per day, with the ability to expand to 830,000 barrels per day.

The prospect of crude soon being able to move from Cushing to the Gulf sent oil prices higher, with West Texas Intermediate crude for November delivery gaining US$2.06, or two per cent, to close at US$104.10 a barrel on the New York

Mercantile Exchange.

An oversupply of oil at Cushing has been a major issue for the industry, with producers clamouring to get their oil to lucrative refining markets, such as the Gulf.

Meanwhile, TransCanada is still awaiting a decision by the U.S. State Department on the more contentious northern portion of its Keystone XL pipeline.

TransCanada, which filed its application for Keystone XL more than five years ago, was able to go ahead with the southern leg first as a separate project because it doesn’t cross an international border.

Cerberus looking at BlackBerry

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Shares of BlackBerry moved higher Wednesday afternoon following reports that the New York-based private equity firm which helped rescue Air Canada is now circling the struggling Canadian smartphone maker.

Stock in Waterloo, Ont.,-based BlackBerry rose about one per cent, or 11 cents, to $8.30 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, after a steep decline over the past week.

Earlier in the session, BlackBerry shares had fallen as much as 44 cents a share.

A report in the Wall Street Journal said that Cerberus Capital Management aims to sign a confidentiality agreement to access BlackBerry’s financial information. However, the move is no guarantee that the distressed asset manager would actually make an offer for the company.

Cerberus has a long relation-

ship with Canadian companies and in 2004 helped rescue Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) from bankruptcy.

In 2008, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSX:CM) sold part of its structured credit portfolio to Cerberus in a US$1.05-billion deal as it backed away from exposure to the U.S. residential mortgage market.

BlackBerry is in the midst of its own financial strife that has eroded the reputation of the company and its share of the smartphone market.

Late Tuesday, BlackBerry filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which said that uncertainty over its strategic review process “may have negatively impacted demand for the company’s products.”

The issued has gained heightened attention since the end of the quarter, with Fairfax Financial (TSX:FFX), BlackBerry’s biggest shareholder, emerging last week with a preliminary US$4.7-

billion takeover offer.

BlackBerry stopped providing specific data for its subscriber base earlier this year, saying that it no longer accurately reflects its business model. However, the company has confirmed that “customers” continued to decline in the second quarter in every region except the Asian-Pacific market.

BlackBerry also said the cost of reworking its operations will likely be four times as much as it estimated earlier this year — rising to at least US$400 million before the end of May 2014.

Those expenses will cover costs associated with the previously announced layoffs of 4,500 employees, the reworking of its smartphone lineup and other changes to its manufacturing, sales and marketing operations, it said.

The Globe and Mail reported Wednesday that BlackBerry has asked real estate firms to suggest ways for tapping the value of its properties in the Waterloo area, about 20 buildings.

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