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Murderer jailed for lies

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A former Red Deer man already serving a life sentence for first-degree murder was sentenced to four years in prison in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday.

In August, Christopher Martin Fleig, 29, pleaded guilty to three counts of giving contradictory evidence while testifying at his own trial, as well as at the preliminary hearing for three other men charged in connection with the same incident.

Fleig and the others were arrested in connection with the gang-style mur-

der of Red Deer resident Brandon Neil Prevey, 29. Prevey died in a hail of bullets outside a home on Ibbotson Close in the early hours of April 5, 2009.

Fleig was found guilty of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years, the mandatory sentence under the Criminal Code.

“As a result of his contradictory evidence, three others were discharged from the crime,” said Crown prosecutor Robin Snider.

She said Fleig’s actions were planned and deliberate.

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Mayoral hopefuls make their case

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF City debt and downtown parking were among the hodgepodge of issues addressed by candidates jostling for the mayor’s job at a forum on Tuesday.

The five hopefuls — William Horn, Cindy Jefferies, Chad Mason, Dennis Trepanier and Tara Veer — were all present and shared their platform before taking questions from a packed auditorium at City Centre Stage.

Explaining the city’s debt of $199 million was the first question from the floor.

Veer, a third-term councillor, said she takes a balanced approach to the city’s debt. She said there’s a trend for Alberta municipalities to go above and beyond the debt limit.

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Red Deer Rebel Devan Fafard and Everett Silvertip Logan Aasman fight during the second period at the Centrium Tuesday night. The Rebels lost the game 2-1. Please see related story on page B4.

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Union donation to Wyntjes’ campaign three years ago questioned

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A three-year-old donation by a union local representing Red Deer Advocate employees has been questioned in the local blogosphere.

In 2010, the Media and Communications Workers of Alberta Local 30400 gave then-rookie council candidate Dianne Wyntjes a $100 campaign donation after the longtime executive for the Canadian Union of Public Employees made a presentation to the local.

It was the only time such a donation to a Red Deer candidate has been made by the union, which represents

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about 160 media employees in Red Deer, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat, said Jack Wilson, who was local president at the time.

“Unions have historically supported candidates in all levels of elections, federal, provincial and municipal, who are friendly to labour, who support labour views,” said Wilson.

For example, the Media and Communications Workers of Alberta provincial organization provided a donation to a Calgary provincial candidate more than a decade ago.

No donations were made by the union local in this municipal election.

The whole issue of political donations was discussed last month by the

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Barr was not on the union’s executive in 2010, nor was she present at the meeting when the donation was voted on by the seven to 10 union members present.

While it is the democratic right of unions, businesses or individuals to donate to a candidate, Barr said as a journalist she would not personally support donations from unions that include journalists among their members.

That a small donation was made years ago does not have any effect on

the integrity of the newsroom, she said.

“I don’t believe the Advocate journalists have been influenced in any way or prevented from doing a fair and honest job.”

Advocate publisher Fred Gorman does not believe union locals should financially help candidates in their communities.

He said he believes strongly that the newspaper’s integrity remains intact.

“We are committed to a fair and balanced reporting on all issues, whether they be political or otherwise.”

The Red Deer Advocate does not make political donations to candidates. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Duffy the subject of new allegations The RCMP are looking at new allegations of fraud and breach of trust against Sen. Mike Duffy, based on fresh findings.

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Workers vote to ratify new contract CALGARY — Workers at Real Canadian Superstore and Real Canadian Liquorstore outlets in Alberta have ratified a new contract, ending a short strike at the grocery store giant.

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PERJURY: Contradictory testimony about location of men During Fleig’s trial in 2012, he gave details on the locations of the three men. But at the preliminary hearing in 2011, held to determine if there is enough evidence to warrant an accused be tried in Court of Queen’s Bench, he did not provide their locations.

Defence lawyer Walter Kubanek said after the murder that his client was fearful of the men and didn’t want to be in jail with them.

Fleig told the court he was trying to protect himself and his family when he gave the contradictory evidence.

“People don’t know what goes on in the shadows and the underworld,” said Fleig, who maintained he was a big player in the local drug trade for six years.

Judge Bert Skinner accepted the four-year prison sentence presented as a joint submission from Crown and defence counsel.

“By accepting this lifestyle you know the risks involved,” Skinner said.

Fleig was also scheduled to appeal his murder conviction before the Alberta Court of Appeal in Calgary on Tuesday.

FORUM: Downtown revitalization Veer said she was behind putting the move to cap the debt (at 90 per cent) and now part of her mayoral platform is to reduce the debt cap to 75 per cent because it is a conservative and responsible approach.

“It still allows us to fulfill our 10-year capital plan but it doesn’t cripple our population in terms of debt servicing as well as some of . . . the facilities costs,” said Veer.

Mason said the city incurred the debt to build the water treatment plant. He said the debt limit is absolutely useless.

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The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401 says workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the deal.

Details of the agreement have not been released, but the UFCW says the contract will provide significant improvements over and above the company’s last offer. considering debt is zero,” said Mason. “That’s the number if you go into debt, you try to get back to that number. In 2015-16 we’re going to hit the debt peak.

If you’re going to hit that peak and hit down . . . the money has to come from somewhere. We have to save a bit. We have to sacrifice a bit.”

Horn said it is all well and good to say what the city can afford. He said the city should ask residents what they can afford.

“I think the city is taking just a little too much out of your pocket,” said Horn. “I think we need to get back to the basics and keep it down to the cost of living index.”

Jefferies, also a third-term councillor, said the city borrows for capital not for operating expenses.

She said when the city borrows, the city always has a plan to pay it back. She said currently 68 per cent of the debt is related to self-supported activities like utilities.

“Right now our actual debt as of December 2012 is 46 per cent of the debt limit as set by the province,” said Jefferies. “Our city practice has always been to remain well under the provincially prescribed debt limit and now we have put it into policy.”

Trepanier said debt is a serious issue and something that cannot be taken lightly. Trepanier said Red Deer needs to stop following the trend of other municipalities by growing its debt.

Attracting businesses to the downtown when there is a parking crunch was also addressed by candidates.

Jefferies said the city is starting to shift at how it looks and deals with parking and the amount of money invested in parking spaces. She suggested encouraging business employees to use Sorensen Station Parkade and using alternate forms of transportation.

Veer said the land use bylaw is always under review, which is something the city can do as the downtown continues to revitalizes. Veer said there’s capacity in the existing downtown parking. On the same page as Jefferies, Veer said part of the answer is to encourage downtown workers who use on-street parking to switch over to the city’s parkade.

Horn said there has been enough money put into the downtown and it’s time for the private sector to look at the opportunities.

Next up on the forum circuit is an all-candidates Construction, Development and Real Estate Forum tonight at the Red Deer Lodge. The forum runs from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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A spate of teen suicides over the last year and a half has brought the difficult issue to the fore in Red Deer, with community information sessions, fundraising events and meetings held to bring awareness and show support.

Now, one group that sprang up in February following the sixth suicide of a Red Deer teen is hoping its effort will engender hope among those who see suicide as a way out.

With more than 7,000 members, the Facebook group Suicide Awareness Red Deer, its #timeforchange has made it its mission to raise awareness and provide a safe place to talk about the six young lives that were lost.

Trevor Jenner, one of the page’s administrators, had a plan two months ago to bring the issue right in front of the eyes of Red Deerians. The plan was to stage a fake suicide at the intersection of Molly Banister Drive and Gaetz Avenue during the noon hour one day in September — a young person was to walk into the intersection and put a fake handgun to his head while the scene was filmed, to become part of a public awareness video.

The idea was to make the fake suicide as real as possible so as to shock people and force them to take note of the prevalence of suicide locally and around the world.

“We want real reactions, because some people do do it publicly. We want natural reactions. We want to hit people in a place where they don’t normally want to go. We’re at a point where it’s turning into a pandemic,” said Jenner in mid-August.

But neither the RCMP nor the City of Red Deer would support the idea of staging a death at a trafficheavy public location, and Jenner and the group were forced to change tack. It took all of September to come up with an alternate arrangement, and finally on Sept. 29 about a dozen participants ranging in age from 14 to their mid-30s faked a suicide for their video in a controlled environment at Bower Ponds.

Jenner said the alternate arrangement resulted in a shoot that went “phenomenal,” with the weather turning from gloomy to bright to match the attitude the group is trying to convey.

“I’m still trying to wrap my head around how well that went and how our final scene really impacted a lot of us,” said Jenner.

“All our hearts stopped, and once our actor finished, we were like ‘Wow.’ ” The shoot was organized so that the public would not be exposed to the scripted drama. Jenner said at first he was disappointed that the public mock suicide could not go ahead, but ultimately he was glad for the perspective the alteration afforded him and the diminished pressure the controlled shoot placed on participants.

While the RCMP got involved once it caught wind of the original plan and successfully dissuaded the group from doing the public display, Cpl. Sarah Knelsen with Red Deer City RCMP said the force was not made aware of the revised plan, and that could have made for a dangerous situation.

“If the police are called and we see somebody with a firearm and we don’t know, we take it as what we perceive it to be and we treat any firearm that we see as a firearm . . . . So it’s always better if they advise us what they are doing so we are aware and nothing bad will happen if we are called,” said Knelsen.

The executive director of Red Deer’s Suicide Information and Education Services did not agree with the group’s initial approach when notified in August.

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Parent involvement tops at forum TOPIC CAME UP OVER AND OVER

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF

RED DEER PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD

How to increase parent involvement when it comes to public education was a hot button topic during the first Red Deer Public School board election forum Tuesday night at Hunting Hills High School.

The fourteen candidates in the running for trustee titles — the largest pool to contend for the governing spots since 1995 — answered questions on a wide range of topics including the evolving role of trustees, how to move forward with the provincial government’s Inspiring Education initiative and grappling with the ever-changing status of technology in the classroom but it was the subject of parents that came up over and over.

Incumbent trustee Bev Manning, seeking her seventh term on the board, said it’s a matter of hard work and building more partnerships.

“I’ve always been a supporter of our city wide school council. They are a group that represents parents and we need to continue working with that council and expanding their opportunities for input,” Manning said.

Lianne Kruger said the board is doing well at incorporating the wider community, parents included, with its town hall meetings but that she would like them to be videotaped and webcast to allow more time-constrained people to observe the proceedings and get involved.

Incumbent Cathy Peacocke agreed, noting holding open houses for parent engagement is a thing of the past.

“A number of our open houses were sparsely attended. We then put our information out online to our parents and we had over 2,000 responses and that really is the way of the future,” she said.

“I think one of the assumptions we make is that all parents are chomping at the bit to get into the schools and help out and the reality is that about a quarter of our parents at least feel excluded as a result of poverty and less than conducive life experiences,” Bill Stuebing, a trustee for the past 18 years, said.

“They feel intimated. One of the consequences of that is we have schools that don’t have school councils because they haven’t been able to find parents to fill them. We need parents involved across the district . . . We have to go after them.”

Social media is another tool that can be further explored when it comes to involving parents, Kurt Spady told the crowd of about 80 gathered to hear the candidates’ platforms.

“A Grade 3 teacher just put on Twitter that she was looking for volunteers to come into her class and talk about their careers and she had a number of responses. That’s amazing to me. That’s another vehicle to use and break down barriers for more participation.”

Milt Williams, who spent the past 24 years teaching in Red Deer public schools, wants more functions held at schools that are family oriented.

“Why not have chili nights or something that can make the school like a community centre rather than

just an isolated school? Let’s tear down the ivory tower approach and make it so parents want to come and interact with teachers.”

It was an idea that registered well with incumbent Bill Christie, who noted hosting things like pot luck suppers could also help appeal to First Nations, Métis and Inuit parents.

“Let’s celebrate the cultures and we’ll find it will bring in not only First Nations, Métis and Inuit parents but other families as well. It’ll bring in understanding and build a team and that’s what’s happened in other jurisdictions. It’s hard but it can happen.”

The candidates also all touched on the importance of supporting teaching staff across the board, especially as new technologies change the way students are learning.

“Don’t pile more work on staff without taking something away. We can’t overburden our teachers,” said Williams.

“When new technology is introduced to the schools, teachers need to be provided with ongoing professional development about how to use it properly. Not one type of professional development suits all. Involve teachers in designing the professional development. They know their students and their needs.”

There are seven positions available on the board.

Also in the running are candidates Dick Lemke, Dianne Macaulay, Shari Hanson, Kerri Kenworthy, Ben Ordman, Jim Watters and Raymond Yaworski. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

RDC president receives second five-year term

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF In 2019, Joel Ward sees Red Deer College as being an institution with 10,000 students, state-of-the-art athletic facilities, new degree options for learners, and a reputation as a community-builder.

On Tuesday, he was given the mandate to see that vision through.

With a unanimous vote followed by a round of applause, the college’s board of governors gave Ward a second five-year contract as president of the growing institution, a deal that will keep Ward at the helm until Aug. 30, 2019. Ward succeeded Ron Woodward as RDC president in 2009, coming to the post from Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College on an initial fiveyear contract that was to expire next year.

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SUICIDE: People are talking about it “There’s a lot of post-traumatic stress that comes along with suicide.

When people are exposed to that it can cause a lot of different ranges of emotions. For us as an agency, this is not something that we would support,” said Laura MacNeill at the time.

This week, MacNeill said she had not been made aware of the revised shoot and “our stance remains the same, that we want awareness to be done in a positive fashion. We want to look at providing positive mental health and tools for that.”

Jenner said the group’s main goal through the video project is to raise awareness and bring attention to the issue, which affects all ages and all classes. With the Facebook page including members from many countries around the world, he said the finished product stands to have a big effect on many people.

“I have friends in the States that are begging me, ‘You need to get this out!’ ” said Jenner, 25.

He said the group is planning on

Ward’s current salary is $281,091 with an annual salary review coming up in December. He is currently on the fifth rung of the board’s 10-rung pay scale, which allows for five-per-cent salary increases each year upon the president meeting his executive requirements.

Ward stands to top out on the pay scale at $351,716 in 2017.

Board chair Shelley Ralston cited Ward’s leadership and “innovation bent” as positive qualities that made the board’s extension decision an easy one. She also noted the connections Ward has made in the community and on a provincial level as helping to move the college forward and allowing it to earn honours such as being named one of the 25 most innovative organizations in the province by Alberta Venture magazine in August, the only post-secondary institution to be included in the list.

“What that does is it tells us that (we’re balancing) the operational excellence with running a large institution like this with the creativity and innovation that you need to go forward,” said Ralston.

By the end of his next contract, Ward said he believes the college population will increase more than 30 per cent from the 7,500 it sits at now.

“I see more degree opportunities for our learners with some of our own degrees, and also new degrees in partnership with our other institutions. I look for a program mix that includes things like engineering and so on, and then new great facilities including new residences for our students and a new multiplex which will really raise our athletics facilities to a level that will be first class in this province, because right now they’re not that great,” said Ward.

And he said the college’s Centre for

Innovation in Manufacturing will grow in importance over the years, supporting small and medium enterprises as they grow their business and create new products.

Evaluating his first four years in the position, Ward said funding levels have made for challenging situations. Due to a seven per cent cut in provincial funding, the college faced a $6-million shortfall in its budget this year and ended up laying off over 30 employees and cutting certain program offerings.

RDC Student Association president Martin Cruz said Ward sticking around for another six years bodes well for the student population. He cited the movement of business students over to the downtown Donald School of Business campus, the opening up of the City Centre Stage and the increase of food services on campus as positive movements already made by Ward. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

working with area high and middle schools to affect change. It is also hoping to organize a T-shirt sale at a mall later this month.

While the group has reached out to Suicide Information and Education Services for resources to hand out at a future T-shirt sale, MacNeill stressed that the group is a separate entity from the local non-profit organization, which provides educational supports, counselling and therapy while making referrals in the community. She added that through her organization and others there are well-established resources and supports to deal with the issue of suicide, and those without training or a background in suicide prevention might not provide the best help to those in need.

On the whole, MacNeill said Red Deer has responded “wonderfully” since the six suicides came to light earlier this year.

“People have stood up and are talking about suicide. We get calls all the time from people who have now learned about what we do as an agency and are accessing services they may not have been aware of.

Red Deer has had an incredible year of supporting one another and the community should be very proud of itself,” she said.

A new support group for survivors of suicide will be starting up in Janu-

ary, and MacNeill said anybody wanting customized workshops can call the office at 403-342-4966.

As for the video project, a second fake suicide is to be filmed.

While the first shoot focused on public suicides and males, the second

will feature a fake suicide done in private and focus on females.

Jenner said the goal is to have the video finished by the end of the month, at which point it will be uploaded to YouTube. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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Why wards make sense If anything is telling about whether Red Deer should go to a ward system, it’s the record-breaking number of candidates in this municipal election.

In Edmonton, which does operate on a ward system instead of an at-large system like Red Deer, the most number of candidates that electors have to deal with in a given ward is 16.

But for the most part, each of MARY-ANN their 12 wards BARR have four or five candidates, or less.

In Calgary, the most councillor candidates in any of the 14 wards is five. In fact, the nine candidates for mayor in that city outnumber any of the wards.

Today, Red Deer city council runs on an at-large system where each of

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the eight councillors and the mayor represents the entire city as a whole, rather than any particular part of the city.

This brings me to the Red Deer municipal election plebiscite on a ward system come Oct. 21.

It’s a rare thing that a plebiscite is included in a municipal election in this city. Plebiscites present an opportunity for city council to gather direct voter input on certain issues. While their results are not binding — council takes into account the direction given in its future decisions.

A near-tie in the ward system plebiscite will likely result in no near-future ward system for Red Deer. But a strong vote for or against should be council’s lead to move ahead or leave the idea alone.

The question on the ward system will be: Do you want the city of Red Deer divided into wards?

Voters will select one of these two questions: Yes, I want to be able to vote for the candidates who run in the area I live in (my ward); or: No, I want to keep voting for candidates for the

whole city, not just the area where I live.

I will be answering “yes” for several reasons.

In this election, we have 30 candidates running for one of eight councillor positions. While it’s great to have so many people willing to take the plunge, it’s simply unmanageable for voters to get a good feel with so many candidates.

Break them into five or six wards (some with perhaps more than one seat) for example, and everything changes. Voters have a much better chance of evaluating the candidates and getting to know them better.

Would you prefer to attend a candidate forum where there are five or six candidates, or 30?

I believe it to be a smarter vote today to have a ward system. And with Red Deer almost at 100,000 population, I believe that councillors can better represent their community when they understand and focus more on particular issues in particular areas.

The mayor would remain in essence an “at large” representative of the city.

A ward system won’t preclude the greater good because often council decisions are based on that all-important factor — The Bottom Line.

One misconception about a ward system is that only people who live in the ward will be able to run in that ward. It’s not true and that’s good.

Anyone, wherever he or she lives in Red Deer, would be able to run in any ward. After all, we do all live in the same city.

I also believe a ward system would generate more interest in municipal elections and help hold councillors more accountable — the latter being a common theme in every election in the history of democracy.

I would be against an electoral system that could include a mixture of at-large and ward councillors. It just complicates things for voters. Voter turnout is already in fragile territory.

Keep it simple and bring on a ward system.

Mary-Ann Barr is the Advocate’s assistant city editor. She can be reached by email at barr@reddeeradvocate.com or by phone at 403-314-4332.

The U.S. government is not broke A salient feature of American “exceptionalism” is the belief that the United States can never be ordinary.

If it is not the best, then it must be the worst. If it is not destined to dominate the world forever, then it is doomed to decline and decay.

This kind of thinking explains why much of the commentary in the United States about the recent “shutdown” of the U.S. government, and also about the impending default on the GWYNNE national debt DYER (due on Oct. 17), has started at hysterical and quickly geared up to apocalyptic. We Americans have lost the mandate of heaven, and it will soon be raining frogs and blood.

So everybody take your tranquilizer of choice (mine’s a double scotch), and let’s consider what is actually going on here. The United States is the world’s oldest democratic country, with an 18th-century constitution that is bound to be an awkward fit for 21st-century politics.

But that hasn’t stopped the United States from becoming the world’s biggest economy and its greatest power.

Has something now gone fundamentally wrong?

The problem lies in Congress, specifically in the House of Representatives, where the Republican majority is refusing to pass the budget, and threatening not to raise the official debt ceiling either, unless President Barack Obama postpones the implementation of his bill extending medical care to all Americans.

The Affordable Care Act was passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by Obama almost four years ago. Last year, it passed scrutiny by the Supreme Court, and was subsequently welcomed by a majority of the voters in the presidential election, so Obama is understandably refusing to yield to blackmail.

But the House Republicans seem mysteriously unworried by the fact that the public blames them for the impending train wreck. Why? Because 80 per cent of the Republicans in the House of Representatives don’t have to worry about what the general public thinks. They represent Congressional districts that have been so shamelessly gerrymandered by state legislatures that it is almost impossible for anybody who is a Republican to lose an election there. National public opinion is no threat to them, whereas the views of their extremist Tea Party colleagues are a potentially lethal danger.

You can’t gerrymander the Senate; every senator’s “district” is the entire state he or she represents. State legis-

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latures controlled by the Democrats also gerrymander congressional districts to create safe seats for their own party, but there is no organized extremist group in the Democratic Party that will try to destroy elected members of their own party who do not toe the ideological line. Whereas in the Republican Party, there is.

Republicans seeking reelection to the House of Representatives may not have to worry about their Democratic opponents, but they certainly have to fear the Tea Party. If it decides to mount a challenge to an incumbent in the Republican primary elections, the far-right challenger will be lavishly funded by the Tea Party’s wealthy supporters, and that may mark the end of the incumbent’s political career.

So the Republicans in the House of Representatives, even those generally open to compromise, are keeping their heads down for fear of angering the Tea Party. That means it is possible

(though not probable) that the Oct. 17 deadline will be missed, and the U.S. government will be forced to default on its debt. How bad would that be?

Very bad, according to a U.S. Treasury spokesperson. “Credit markets could freeze, the value of the dollar could plummet, U.S. interest rates could skyrocket, the negative spillovers could reverberate around the world.”

And it might rain frogs and blood.

Or maybe not There would certainly be turmoil in the markets: many people would lose money, and some would gain.

But it would not be a repeat of the crash of 2009, when it was suddenly understood that huge amounts of the mortgage debt held by banks could never be repaid. The U.S. government can still pay its debts; it just has to get Congress’s permission first. And the markets, while prone to panic, are not completely stupid.

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Nor is the U.S. Constitution fundamentally broken. It always requires a fair degree of compromise between the various branches of the government in order to work smoothly, and at most times in history that cooperation has been forthcoming. The current paralysis is due mainly to the gerrymandering of Congressional districts that makes members of the House of Representatives less afraid of public opinion than of the views of their own party’s hard-liners.

It wouldn’t hurt to put some controls on election spending as well, so that rich ideologues had less influence over the political process. But that is merely desirable; ending the gerrymandering is absolutely essential. It will take time, but this is a problem that can be fixed. And in the meantime, the U.S. government is not really going broke.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — An RCMP allegation that Sen. Mike Duffy awarded $65,000 in Senate contracts to a friend who did little actual work is the latest twist in the case of the troubled former Conservative.

The Mounties filed a production order in an Ottawa court on Tuesday to gain access to bank account records related to the allegation. They are looking at new allegations of fraud and breach of trust against Duffy, based on fresh findings.

“That investigation determined that Sen. Duffy hired a friend as a consultant over an approximate four-year period and paid him a total of approximately $65,000 during that time, for little or no apparent work,” wrote Cpl. Greg Horton, the lead investigator.

Duffy said in an email that it would be “inappropriate for me to comment while these matters are be-

ing examined by the RCMP.” No charges have been laid against Duffy.

Police had been building their case against Duffy using Senate documents obtained previously from the upper chamber. Initially, they scrutinized his housing and travel expenses and the $90,000 the prime minister’s former chief of staff gave him to repay questioned expense claims.

But while a auditor was sifting through those papers, he flagged a series of payments to Duffy friend Gerald Donahue, a former TV technician. The money represented 57 per cent of Duffy’s general Senate office expenses.

Between 2009 and 2012, Duffy asked the Senate to pay Donahue for a range of writing services including speeches, advice on web page design and development and general media consulting.

But Donahue told police that he didn’t do any writing and never produced any tangible document, report or work product and never worked on the

website.

His company also didn’t have any other employees, even though Duffy once told the Senate that Donahue had brought in “additional staff.”

“The work he performed for Duffy was limited to research and verbal advice,” says the police report of an interview, adding that it was Duffy who devised a $200 an hour “inflated” payment.

The RCMP points out that Donahue was a TV technician for most of his working life, with no consulting experience.

Donahue told police that he didn’t personally get the money. He said he has been on disability and so could not receive such income. His company, Maple Ridge Media Inc. (later Ottawa ICF), was under his wife’s name.

The Mounties are also seeking bank records for Sen. Patrick Brazeau, another former member of the Conservative caucus, in connection with disallowed housing claims.

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Lawyer challenging judge’s appointment to top court

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The newest member of the Supreme Court of Canada says he won’t hear any cases while a challenge to his appointment is before the courts.

A Toronto lawyer is going to Federal Court in order to test Justice Marc Nadon’s eligibility for the highest bench.

Rocco Galati argues that Nadon — formerly a Federal Court of Appeal judge — does not qualify to fill one of three slots reserved for judges from Quebec on the top court.

Galati says only judges from Quebec’s appeals or superior courts, or lawyers who have belonged to the province’s bar for at least 10 years, can be appointed to the Supreme Court.

But former Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie wrote a legal opinion for the federal government in support of Nadon’s appointment.

A spokeswoman for Justice Minister Peter MacKay defended the decision to appoint Nadon.

“Justice Nadon is qualified and we are certain he will serve the court with distinction,” Paloma Aguilar wrote in an emailed statement.

“Constitutional experts agree that the Supreme Court Act allows for a sitting Federal Court judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada — this includes the opinion of former Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie.”

Nadon’s reaction came in a terse, oncesentence news release from the Supreme Court: “Mr. Justice Marc Nadon has decided, in light of the challenge to his appointment pending before the Federal Court, not to participate for the time being in matters before the Supreme Court of Canada.”

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Nova Scotia Liberal Party leader Stephen McNeil raises his hand in victory at his campaign headquarters in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia on Tuesday after winning the Nova Scotia provincial election. Voters in Nova Scotia dumped the NDP after giving Darrell Dexter a historic election victory four years ago, turning this time to McNeil, who swept to power on promises to bring soaring electricity rates under control while putting an end to corporate handouts. It’s been 14 years since the Liberals were in government, and McNeil returns the party to its glory years of the 1990s with a majority, winning at least 32 seats in the 51-seat legislature. Dexter lost his seat in Cole Harbour-Portland Valley by 31 votes after a tight battle in the Halifax-area riding, an area he represented in the legislature for 15 years. Several of his top cabinet ministers also went down in defeat as the NDP plummeted to third place with six seats.

Mayoral candidate under police protection

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAVAL, Que. — An unnerving sequence of incidents has prompted a mayoral candidate to seek police protection in scandal-plagued Laval, Que. The candidate first released a phone conversation she recorded with her former boss, ex-mayor Gilles Vaillancourt, who faces criminal gangsterism charges.

Despite his legal troubles, Vaillancourt was overheard offering to get involved in her campaign and help with financing, which echoed similar offers he is alleged to have made to other politicians over the years. The candidate, Claire Le Bel, refused the offer and publicly released the recording Monday.

Later that same day, her campaign manager was assaulted.

Le Bel told a news conference Tuesday that she fears for her safety and no longer drives her car alone. She asked for and received police protection, she said. She also said her aide is doing well after the Monday night assault.

She said her campaign manager Reny Gagnon has filed a complaint with provincial police, but wouldn’t provide any details about the circumstances surrounding the attack.

As for the recording, Le Bel told reporters the 50-minute conversation was taped as a precaution in August. In it, Vaillancourt asks Le Bel how the campaign is going and whether she’d recruited all her candidates. He discusses financing and asks for a private meeting with Le Bel. Le Bel said investigators with Quebec’s Charbonneau inquiry were made aware of the tape the next day, but they decided not to act on the information and deemed it a “low priority.”

So Le Bel decided to go public.

A copy of the recording is now in the hands of Quebec’s anti-corruption police unit.

“After all this city has been through, I have no doubt that Laval residents have a right to know that Gilles Vaillancourt is trying to interfere in the cam-

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paign,” Le Bel told reporters.

Le Bel wondered whether Vaillancourt has made a similar offer to other political parties or their candidates, and why.

“Where does this money come from, and have other candidates received or accepted this offer?” she said.

“I would find it very surprising that he only met with me.”

Vaillancourt ruled the city just north of Montreal for 23 years before his name started surfacing at Quebec’s corruption inquiry and his home and office were targeted in police raids.

The ex-mayor resigned in November 2012. He was eventually arrested, with 36 others, in May 2013. In addition to the gangsterism charge, Vaillancourt is also charged with conspiracy, fraud, influence peddling, and breach of trust.

Since Vaillancourt’s departure, Laval has had two interim mayors and was placed under trusteeship by the province.

Quebecers vote in municipal elections on Nov. 3.

Le Bel said Tuesday that she should have gone public with her information sooner.

She is the only member of Vaillancourt’s nowdisbanded former party to be running for mayor.

She didn’t hold a spot on the city’s executive body and wasn’t tied to the key decision-makers on council, focusing mainly on local issues in her district.

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BALI, Indonesia — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he’s “very concerned” about reports that Canada’s top-secret electronic spy agency is conducting industrial espionage in Brazil.

Harper said Canadian officials are “reaching out very proactively” to their counterparts in Brazil.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is accusing the Ottawa-based Communications Security Establishment Canada of mounting a sophisticated spy operation against her country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy.

“Obviously I’m very concerned about this story and about some of the reports around it, very concerned,” Harper said at a closing news conference following a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders.

The claim is based on documents leaked to Brazilian media by Edward Snowden, a former contractor with the National Security Agency — the American counterpart of Canada’s CSEC. Canada has long complained about industrial and commercial espionage by countries such as China, which makes the revelations particularly embarrassing.

The Prime Minister’s Office initially dismissed the reports of the Brazilian spying by saying it never comments on matters of national security. However the claims relate specifically to economic espionage and cannot be so easily brushed aside.

Brazil’s Foreign Minister Luiz Alberto Figueiredo summoned the Canadian ambassador in the capital of Brasilia on Monday to “transmit the indignation of the Brazilian government and demand explanations,” said a statement from the Foreign Ministry.

The statement said Figueiredo expressed “the government’s repudiation of this serious and unacceptable violation of national sovereignty and the rights of people and companies.”

The CSEC, headquartered in Ottawa, monitors foreign computer, satellite, radio and telephone traffic for intelligence of interest to Canada.

But it has never been known as a hub of economic intelligence gathering.

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THE TALK IS A BIT LESS BELLIGERENT, BUT STILL NO RESOLUTION IN SIGHT WASHINGTON — After weeks of gridlock, House Republicans floated broad hints Tuesday they might be willing to pass short-term legislation re-opening the government and averting a threatened default — in exchange for immediate talks with the Obama administration on measures to reduce deficits and change the nation’s three-year-old health-care law.

“I suspect we can work out a mechanism to raise the debt ceiling while a negotiation is underway,” said Rep. Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican, who is close to Speaker John Boehner.

“I want to have a conversation,” Boehner told reporters. “I’m not drawing lines in the sand. It is time for us to just sit down and resolve our differences.”

The White House responded with marginally less bellicose language of its own without yielding on its core demands in the latest test of divided government.

President Barack Obama told Boehner in a phone call he would be willing to negotiate “over policies that Republicans think would strengthen the country” once the eight-day partial shutdown was over and the threat of default eased.

The events unfolded as the stock market sank for the second day in a row. And in the latest in a string of dire warnings, the International Monetary Fund said failure to raise the $16.7 trillion borrowing limit later this month could lead to a U.S. government default that might disrupt global financial markets, raise interest rates and push the U.S economy back into recession.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has said the deadline for Congress to act is Oct. 17, setting that as the day the government will exhaust its ability to borrow funds and will have to rely day-to-day on tax and other receipts to pay its bills.

In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid readied legislation to raise the debt limit by roughly $1 trillion, enough to prevent a recurrence of the current showdown until after the 2014 elections.

It was unclear whether Senate Republicans would slow progress of the bill, which was shorn of all items that many GOP lawmakers favour to reduce deficits or delay the health overhaul, which takes effect more fully on Jan. 1.

Inside the Capitol, the threat of a default overshadowed the continuing partial government shut-

down, in its eighth day with little or no talk of an immediate end. An estimated 450,000 federal workers are idled at agencies responsible for items as diverse as food inspection and national parks, although all employees are eventually expected to receive full back pay.

In the House, majority Republicans announced plans to pass legislation reopening Head Start, the pre-school program for disadvantaged children. It is the latest in a string of bills to end the shutdown in one corner of government or another in hopes of forcing Democrats to abandon their own demands for a full reopening of the federal establishment.

Republicans also announced they would vote to make sure federal workers on the job don’t miss their next regularly scheduled paycheque on Oct. 15.

In a potentially more significant political development, a third vote was expected on legislation to create a House-Senate working group on deficit reduction and economic growth. The 20-member panel would be empowered to recommend steps to raise the debt limit and reduce spending, including in so-called direct spending programs — a definition that appears broad enough to encompass benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security as well as the health care law that Republicans oppose.

The measure does not contain any provision to end the shutdown or raise the debt limit, although it could be amended to include them at a later date if a compromise emerges.

The shutdown began more than a week ago after Obama and Senate Democrats rejected Republican demands to defund “Obamacare,” then to delay it, and finally to force a one-year delay in the requirement for individuals to purchase health-care coverage or face a financial penalty.

It was not a course Boehner and the leadership had recommended — preferring a less confrontational approach and hoping to defer a showdown for the debt limit.

Their hand was forced by a strategy advanced by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and tea party-aligned House members determined to eradicate the health-care law before it fully took root.

That portion of the strategy was doomed to failure, since money for the health care program was never cut off.

With the government partially shut down, Boehner and the GOP leadership decided to allow the closure showdown to merge with one over the debt limit.

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Nearly 50 years after they came up with the theory, but little more than a year since the world’s biggest atom smasher delivered the proof, Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgian colleague Francois Englert won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping to explain how matter formed after the Big Bang.

Working independently in the 1960s, they came up with a theory for how the fundamental building blocks of the universe clumped together, gained mass and formed everything we see around us today.

The theory hinged on the existence of a subatomic particle that came to be called the Higgs boson — or the “God particle.”

In one of the biggest breakthroughs in physics in decades, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced last year that they had finally found a Higgs boson using the $10 billion collider built in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the Swiss-French border.

In a statement issued by the University of Edinburgh, where he retired as a professor, 84-year-old Higgs said he hoped the prize would help people recognize “the value of blue-sky research.”

Englert, 80, said the award pointed to the importance of scientific freedom and the need for scientists to be allowed to do fundamental research that doesn’t have immediate practical applications.

“You don’t work thinking to get the Nobel Prize,” said Englert, a retired professor at the Free University of Brussels. Still, “we had the impression that we were doing something that was important, that would later on be used by other researchers.”

The Nobel selection committees are notoriously cautious, often allowing decades to elapse before honouring a scientific breakthrough. But this time, the judges awarded the prize to people who were widely expected to get it.

“In CERN here, most all of the physicists I know, about 95 per cent, expected those two would win it.

The question was if there would be a third and who it would be,” said Joe Incandela, a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara and leader of the CMS experiment, one of the two groups that discovered the Higgs particle.

Still, there had been questions over whether a group of American scientists who published a paper shortly after Higgs would also be honoured, or whether any of the thousands of scientists at CERN would share in the prize, too.

But deciding who among them should be singled out would have been a tricky decision for the judges, since each Nobel Prize can go to only three winners.

Ulf Danielsson, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the physics prize, noted that the prize citation also honoured the work done at CERN. “This is a giant discovery. It means the final building block in the so-called Standard Model for particle physics has been put in place, so it marks a milestone in the history of physics,” Danielsson said.

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Fire at garment factory kills at least 10 people DHAKA, Bangladesh — A fire Tuesday night at a garment factory outside Bangladesh’s capital has killed at least 10 people, an official said.

Fire official Zafar Ahmed said 10 bodies were found inside the Aswad garment factory in Gazipur outside Dhaka. He said several other people were injured while trying to escape from the building.

Local journalist Iqbal Ahmed said from the scene that the fire occurred when the factory was closed for the day, but some employees were still inside working overtime.

Farhaduzzaman, another fire official, said the fire spread to two nearby buildings that also housed garment factories belonging to the Palmal Group of Industries. He said firefighters had doused the flames in two of the buildings and were seeking to bring the blaze under control in the third building. He could not immediately say whether any people were still trapped inside.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

Harsh and often unsafe working conditions in Bangladesh’s garment industry drew global attention after the collapse of an eight-story factory building in April killed more than 1,100 people.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The chief of the global chemical weapons watchdog said Tuesday the organization is sending a second team of inspectors to Syria to expand its high-stakes, high-risk mission to rid Syria of its poison gas stockpile.

Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, spoke to the group’s 41-nation Executive Council at the start of a four-day meeting in The Hague. The organization’s inspectors are in Syria to verify and destroy the country’s estimated 1,000 tons of chemical weapons, in the midst of a two-year civil war.

Uzumcu called initial Syrian co-operation with the team last week — providing more detail of the country’s chemical weapons and beginning to destroy them and facilities to produce them — “a constructive

beginning for what will nonetheless be a long and difficult process,” according to an OPCW statement.

Syria also highlighted the inspectors’ work in video broadcast on state TV late Monday showing their activity for the first time.

The inspectors were shown touring what appeared to be a chemical plant and a storage facility, inspecting containers and taking samples.

The inspectors could be seen taking photographs of the facility in the piece that aired during the Syrian official TV station’s prime-time news program.

The location of the plant was not disclosed. State TV said the inspectors were filmed during their on-site work Monday morning.

An advance team of 35 OPCW and UN staff originally travelled to Damascus last week. Some OPCW staff members have already returned to the organization’s headquarters to report on their talks with offi-

cials from President Bashar Assad’s regime in Damascus.

Uzumcu said he will soon sign an agreement between the OPCW and the UN to provide security and logistics to the inspection teams.

In Damascus, ruling Baath party lawmaker Walid al-Zoubi said the chemical weapons “have become a heavy burden on the state and are not a strategic defensive stock anymore” and the nation is ready to dispose of them.

“Our defensive strategic reserve is much stronger than the chemicals,” al-Zoubi told The Associated Press. “For this reason, Syria now has to get rid of this chemical inventory.”

Uzumcu did not specify how many people would be in the second team, but in a letter to the UN Security Council obtained

by The Associated Press, UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon recommended Monday that approximately 100 UN and OPCW staff eventually make up the mission.

Arrest strains ties between The Netherlands, Russia

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded Tuesday that the Netherlands apologize for the arrest of a top Russian diplomat, a feud that comes as the two countries, which were supposed to be using this year to celebrate their historical ties, are at odds over Russia’s decision to put on trial a group of Greenpeace activists.

The diplomat, Dmitri Borodin, was arrested by Dutch police in The Hague late Saturday, and he has accused the police of even pulling his one-year-old daughter’s hair as they took him and both his children to the station.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Borodin had been arrested over an “absolutely contrived” allegation of child abuse, and that the Dutch ambassador to Russia had been summoned to the ministry in Moscow to receive an “official protest” over the case.

The Netherlands’ Foreign Ministry said an “incident occurred with a Russian diplomat that led to an arrest by the Dutch police” and that it is under review.

Speaking from the APEC summit in Bali, Indonesia, Putin described the arrest as a “rude violation” of treaties on diplomatic relations. The Dutch ministerial statement, while not exactly conciliatory, said, “If it emerges from the investigation that actions were taken in conflict with the Vienna

Treaty on Diplomatic Relations, the Netherlands will apologize to Russia.”

The timing of the disputed arrest is sensitive.

On Sept. 18, the Russian coast guard seized the Dutch-flagged ship “Arctic Sunrise” after Greenpeace activists used it to stage a demonstration near an oil rig owned by Gazprom. Last week, the Russians charged all 30 occupants of the ship with piracy — which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years.

Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said Friday that he would seek to recover the ship at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, based in Hamburg, Germany, because it wasn’t clear whether the ship’s seizure was legal.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Doctors removed a blood clot pressuring the right side of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez’s brain on Tuesday, relieving pressure that had been giving her headaches and numbness. Their report said she was doing well, that there were no complications and that she would remain hospitalized for now.

The president’s spokesman went further as he briefly addressed a crowd of supporters outside the hospital, saying the operation “has been satisfactory, it has been very good,” and that Fernandez was happily thanking all who helped her.

“She’s in very good spirits. She’s greeting everyone. She thanked her medical team, she thanks all of you who are praying for her. She’s in very good spirits, so the next medical report will come at midday tomorrow,” said Alfredo Scoccimarro.

Experts described the procedure — drilling through the skull and suctioning out the blood — as low risk and almost always having positive results, but recovery can take three months or more, and many Argentines have struggled to imagine the country with anyone but the 60-yearold leader at its centre.

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Olds plant saved FACILITY WAS SLATED FOR CLOSURE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

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Work is continuing on the new Marriott TownPlace Suites hotel which is being constructed at 6822 66th St. The four-storey, 92-suite hotel will be designed for long-stay guests, with full kitchens in every room and laundry facilities. Other amenities will include a pool, an exercise and spa area, and a breakfast room. There is a possibility of 71 additional suites in a later phase. The $13-million project is being developed by 6822 ES Ltd. of Red Deer.

‘WE KNEW THE PLANT WAS VALUABLE, JUST BECAUSE OF THE CERTIFICATION THAT IT HAS.’

Young customers are becoming eager for Moonwalkers in Alix EQUIPMENT COMES FROM CLOSED FUN CENTRE IN RED DEER

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The Moonwalkers countdown is at six.

That’s how many sleeps remain until Oct. 15, when the children’s play centre in Alix opens its doors to eager young customers.

“I’m not expecting a big rush that day,” said CoraLee Brookes, Alix’s recreation co-ordinator and the person who will manage the facility. “On the following Saturday I am.”

This prediction is based on the volume of queries about Moonwalkers that Brookes has been fielding.

“Every day I take at least two calls for birthday parties.”

That’s encouraging for Brookes, who was afraid a delay in opening the play centre, which was originally expected to start up last spring, might dampen interest. But youngsters in Alix and elsewhere in Central Alberta have remained eager to check things out.

“I get calls from Sylvan Lake

A highly specialized manufacturing facility in Olds that was slated for closure at the end of this month appears to have a new lease on life.

The Banner Pharmacaps plant, which produces and packages nutritional and pharmaceutical products, has been sold to Advanced Orthomolecular Research of Calgary, confirmed a spokesperson with Banner Pharmacaps’ parent company, Patheon Inc. of North Carolina.

He said the deal was expected to close around Oct. 31.

Patheon bought Banner Pharmacaps from Dutch company VION N.V. a year ago, and then announced in March that it planned to close the Olds plant while continuing to operate other Banner Pharmacaps manufacturing facilities in North Carolina, Mexico City and the Neth— NORM MCINNIS, THE erlands.

TOWN’S CAO Just over 100 people remain on the job at the 5807 47th Ave. plant, which has specialized equipment like filtration and pressure differential systems needed for the production of nutritional and pharmaceutical products.

Advanced Orthomolecular manufactures a broad range of health supplements.

“It looks like a number of the jobs are going to stay intact,” said Norm McInnis, the town’s chief administrative officer.

The Town of Olds played an active role in trying to find a buyer for the plant, which has operated in Olds since 1981.

“We were doing as much as we could,” said McInnis. “We knew the plant was valuable, just because of the certification that it has.”

He added that Olds has become a vibrant community that’s attractive to employers.

An official at the Banner Pharmacaps plant said Advanced Orthomolecular had not yet indicated what it intends to do with the facility, but he’s optimistic.

The Advocate was unable to obtain a comment from Advanced Orthomolecular. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

often, and people in Rocky Mountain House.”

Occupying 3,500 square feet in Alix’s new multi-purpose building, Moonwalkers was developed using equipment from Red Deer’s Moonwalker Fun Centre, which closed in 2009.

That equipment included a multi-level play structure with ramps, tunnels, slides, enclosures and other child-focused features.

“It is set up differently,” said Brookes.

“We’ve changed a few things and added a few things.”

For instance, the ball pits — which prompted concerns about cleanliness — are gone. And a new toddler area has been added.

Other elements include arcade games and a sitting area where parents can sip a coffee and munch on food from Potluck Cafe & Catering, which is in the same building.

“Party rooms are available to rent as well,” said Brookes.

Admission is $10 per child, with adults and infants under two allowed in for free. Half of the

proceeds from Moonwalkers will be used to help fund Alix’s recreation programs, which should benefit a broad cross-section of village residents.

“I do programs from pre-school to seniors,” said Brookes.

Another benefit flowing from the municipally operated facility will be the attraction of children and their consumer parents from outside Alix, she said. And Moonwalkers will employ two fulltime and two part-time staff, with Brookes expecting this number to increase.

Located on Railway Avenue, Moonwalkers will operate from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday to Sunday. An official grand opening is expected to be held in the future, likely in November, said Brookes.

In addition to Moonwalkers and Potluck Cafe, the multi-purpose building is the site of a youth centre and another commercial bay that’s designated for use by a start-up business. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Android phones, suggests the data, which is based on surveys with more than 12,000 Canadians conducted last fall and this spring.

“It isn’t surprising to see that in a country as diverse as Canada that you’re going to see diversity not just between anglophones and francophones but also the regions as well,” said Andrea Sharkey, MTM manager of market insights.

About 83 per cent of all the anglophone adults polled said they owned a cellphone, while it was a nation-leading 90 per cent among Alberta residents.

Sharkey called the cellphone ownership figures in Alberta “shocking” and added that they’re

probably not headed much higher.

“I think we’re just going to see that stay at a steady pace, at some point you’re going to see a saturated market, that everyone who’s going to have a cellphone has a cellphone and you won’t necessarily see a rise beyond that point.”

About two in three Albertans said they had a smartphone — which is 10 percentage points higher than the overall average for anglophone consumers — with nearly half using an iPhone, about 25 per cent carrying an Android device and 20 per cent owning a BlackBerry.

With three months remaining in 2013, local builders had nearly exceeded the number of housing starts recorded in Red Deer during all of last year.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported on Tuesday that work had begun on 566 homes in the city from January to September. That marked a 27 per cent increase over the nine-month tally of 447 in 2012, and was just two starts shy of last year’s total.

As of Sept. 30, there were 294 starts on singledetached homes in the city, up from 262 the previous year. Multi-family projects added 272, as compared with 185 for the same period in 2012.

In September alone, there were 47 housing starts in Red Deer, including 29 single-detached projects.

Last September, there were 20, with all of these coming in the single-detached category.

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Housing starts Report on tech trends across Canada are already close reveals Albertans buy the most gadgets to 2012 numbers

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Albertans are buying smartphones and tablets more than any other consumers in Canada — and they prefer Apple products — while francophones living in Quebec City are least likely to have one of the devices, according to a new report by the Media Technology Monitor, which compares how consumers across the country are embracing technology.

Alberta is iPhone country, Toronto consumers and anglophones living in Montreal are the most faithful to BlackBerry, while Vancouverites are most into Google

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GADGETS: Tablet ownership highest in Alberta Tablet ownership was also highest in Alberta at 35 per cent, five percentage points above than the overall anglophone average.

Sharkey said it makes sense that Alberta consumers are so plugged in given how hot the labour market is there.

“Certainly any time you have an economic boom in certain parts of the country you’re going to see people adopt technology that might be slightly more expensive, whether that be the tablet or the smartphone or a smart TV or advanced services for them,” she said.

British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan were tied as the provincial leaders in social media usage, with 65 per cent of the respondents in those provinces saying they were users of Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, compared to the overall anglophone average of 62 per cent.

Ontario had the highest numbers of Twitter users (17 per cent) and LinkedIn users (19 per cent), while the Atlantic provinces, Manitoba and Saskatchewan tied for the largest proportion of Facebook users (61 per cent).

Overall, 57 per cent of all anglophone adults said they were on Facebook, and 16 per cent each said the same of Twitter and LinkedIn. Struggling BlackBerry still had about a third of the smartphone market in Ontario, where it was in a dead heat with Apple and Android. About 18 per cent of both Toronto consumers and anglophones living in Montreal said they still used a BlackBerry.

About 19 per cent of Vancouver consumers had gone with an Android phone, while the Google operating system had about 30 per cent of the smartphone market in the Atlantic provinces and British Columbia.

Only 68 per cent of francophones in Quebec City owned a cellphone — just over half had a smartphone — and 18 per cent had a tablet, which were the lowest results among those surveyed.

HOUSING: National pace picks up In the case of Alberta’s urban municipalities with 50,000 or more people, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Red Deer and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo had seen more housing starts this year than for the same period in 2012. Calgary, Grande Prairie and Medicine Hat all experienced decreases.

Among communities with 10,000 to 49,999 residents, the city of Lacombe had 56 starts on singledetached homes and 19 in multi-family projects from January to September.

That was down from the same period in 2012, when there were 60 single-detached starts and 111 in the multi-family category.

The town of Sylvan Lake was up when it came to single-family projects, to 97 from 92; and also multifamily development, to 89 units from 80.

Nationally, the pace of housing starts picked up in September, boosted by a jump in projects such as condos, townhouses and apartments, said CMHC. “The slight firming in the trend level of housing starts is consistent with the renewed strength seen in the existing home market this year,” TD Bank economist Leslie Preston said in a report.

“However, we continue to expect that the extended period of overbuilding in the Canadian housing market is on its last legs. Putting some perspective on today’s number, the trend pace of homebuilding is 16 per cent below last year’s peak.”

The pickup in housing starts came as sales of existing homes also gathered steam.

The Canadian Real Estate Association reported last month that August sales through the Multiple Listings Service were up 11.1 per cent from a year ago when Ottawa tightened mortgage rules and sent a chill through the market.

Since then, however, home sales have bounced back, helped by interest rates which, until recently, have remained near record lows.

CMHC said Tuesday that the increase in housing starts came as starts in urban areas rose 4.3 per cent in September and multiple-unit projects increased 5.9 per cent. Urban starts of single-family homes increased 1.4 per cent.

Royal Bank economist David Onyett-Jeffries said the strength is consistent with the pickup in resales over the past six months.

“As we move into 2014, we anticipate that the demand for housing will moderate as affordability deteriorates against a backdrop of elevated home prices and rising interest rates and result in a moderation in new home construction,” Onyett-Jeffries said.

Regionally, the seasonally adjusted annual rate of urban starts increased in Atlantic Canada, the Prairies, British Columbia and Quebec and fell in Ontario.

With files from The Canadian Press.

TRADE DEFICIT

Trade still dragging down growth THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s trade performance continued to underwhelm in August with the deficit widening to an above consensus $1.3 billion, suggesting that once again the sector will prove a major drag on growth in the just completed third quarter.

Fresh data from Statistics Canada showed exports growing by 1.8 per cent to $41.1 billion during the month, but that improvement was overtaken by the 2.1 per cent increase in imports to $39.8 billion.

It was the 20th consecutive monthly trade deficit.

The gap was higher than expected. Also revised higher was July’s trade deficit, to $1.2 billion from the previously reported $931 million.

In a recent speech, Bank of Canada deputy governor Tiff Macklem said that Canada’s economic growth going forward would need to depend on a rotation from domestic spending on such things as housing to exports to kick into gear.

“The Canadian economy is still waiting for that growth rotation into exports,” Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter said of the latest report.

“And given the U.S. government shutdown and the deepening uncertainty over the fastapproaching debt ceiling, no one is holding their breath in anticipation of a quick revival on that front.”

The encouraging element in the report was that exports did pick up 1.8 per cent, reversing the 1.7 per cent dip in July.

Three cost-effective lead generation strategies My last column presented the It can easily be measured and Five Ways formula. evaluated to determine the value The core of any business is fu- of future arrangements. eled by five profiting-generating Remember to calculate the lifeareas that drive business: lead time value of your clients and only generation, conversion share revenue from the rate, average dollar first sale. sale, average number Referrals of transactions and A satisfied customprofit margins. er is usually willing to Using the Five Ways give a referral, espeformula will identify cially when they have fundamental issues purchased the right that directly impact the product, received a fair bottom line. deal and experienced Once identified, it’s an exceptional service. critical to implement However, asking for the strategies that will referrals can be tricky improve results in because you are asking JOHN those areas. people to risk someMACKENZIE Take lead generathing very important: tion.

ACTION COACH the respect of their This factor is a difriends, families and rect cost of client accolleagues. quisition and often the most exMake it known that your busipensive function of any business. ness operates on a referral system.

The three lead-generating strat- Offer incentives or discounts to egies reviewed below require very those that secure qualified leads. little, if any, up-front money.

Reward anyone who introduces Yet, surprisingly, I’ve found friends and colleagues with a free that few businesses implement gift or even a referral fee. Develop them. a simple system of communicating Joint ventures and strategic al- with your customers on a regular liances basis.

One of the easiest, yet most efPosition your business up front fective ways to grow a business is with new clients. to partner with one or more nonCarry referral cards with you competing businesses to work to- and have them ready to hand out gether to achieve common objec- when the discussion arises, and tives. set them in an obvious location Each partner is willing to share where every client can pick them a customer base or endorse com- up. plementary products or services Follow up with each and every to the respective customer base. lead you receive. Not all referrals A successful alliance depends will be your ideal clients. Don’t be of your ability to define your ideal afraid to direct a lead to another customer in terms of age, sex, in- business. terests or income.

Be known as a friendly and Your proposal must be well trusted business professional. thought out and clearly demonBusiness groups like local strate the benefits to each busi- chambers of commerce or Execuness, including a risk-free offer to tive Leads Associations expect their customers. members to share business-toIn many cases, there are no up- business referrals. front costs associated with this Be an active member, attend strategy. meetings and functions and don’t Any revenue earned (that is hesitate to direct a lead to another to be shared) is typically paid to business. the partner after the sale is made, Risk reversal saving the first partner any initial This concept is simple. Offering fees. a guarantee lowers many barriers A simple discount coupon from people have when making a puran alliance partner adds value to chase. your sales and creates an addiA strong guarantee provides a tional opportunity for your part- compelling reason to buy today ner. without fearing remorse tomorAn example would be a men’s row. clothing store that sells a suit or The “try and buy” guarantee a pair of pants, and includes a dry works best with specific products. cleaning coupon with the sale.

The customer gets to test the prodThis strategy works well to es- uct beforehand with minimal risk, tablish new leads. knowing that full payment is due

at a later date.

Include bonus or sample items with the purchase.

You often see this type of riskfree transaction when the customer gets to keeps bonus items even if they return the product.

An attractive bonus won’t cost much but will have a high perceived value.

A hassle-free, money-back guarantee is a good place to start.

Keep in mind that only 0.5 to two per cent of customers will exercise a money-back guarantee.

Reversing the buying risks entirely is the best guarantee of all.

Evaluate your own strengths.

What area of your business is your strong point?

Is it installations, maintenance or responding quickly to customer queries?

Do your products or services produce consistent results? Do you have the widest selection in town?

Will your customers really save money?

Be fully prepared to stand behind and honour these claims.

A company called Zappos started selling shoes over the Internet.

Shoes are something you need to pick up, feel and try on before buying.

There were a multitude of reasons to not buy shoes online.

Zappos guarantees that any purchase can be returned, for any reason, for up to one year. Plus, they’ll pay the return shipping.

They have effectively reversed every single doubt a customer may have.

Another example is Osprey, an Internet-based company dealing in backpacks.

Osprey will “repair for any reason, free of charge, any damage or defect in our product — whether it was purchased in 1974 or yesterday.

If we are unable to perform a functional repair on your pack, we will happily replace it.

We proudly stand behind this guarantee, so much so that it bears the signature of company founder and head designer, Mike Pfotenhauer.”

Customer confidence equals happy, repeat customers. Eliminating any perceived risk is the best guarantee of all.

ActionCoach is written by John MacKenzie of ActionCoach, which helps small- to medium-sized businesses and other organizations. He can be contacted at johnmackenzie@ actioncoach.com or by phone at 403340-0880.

Pipeline push begins at National Energy Board hearings THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — A pipeline operator has begun arguing its case to send oilsands crude flowing from the Alberta oilpatch to Eastern Canada, in a controversial proposal to reverse the flow on one of its lines.

The National Energy Board hearings into the proposal by Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) have gotten underway at a time when Canada is struggling to find ways to ship Alberta bitumen to foreign markets amid stiff opposition fuelled by safety and environmental concerns.

Representatives for Enbridge made their case in Montreal as hearings began Tuesday, saying the plan would benefit Canadians across the country.

Enbridge counsel Douglas Crowther opened by saying the project “would redeploy an existing pipeline in a safe, efficient and economical way to the benefit of refineries in Quebec, oil producers in Western Canada and the broader Canadian public interest.”

The Calgary-based company hopes to reverse the flow and increase the capacity of its existing Line 9, an initiative that would pump oilsands crude across southern Ontario and Quebec.

The project would uncork an important outlet for Alberta oil producers as they search for ways to get their product to market.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been engaged in an increasingly bitter dispute with U.S. President Barack Obama over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline by TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) to send

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Douglas Crowther, counsel for Enbridge Pipelines, prepares for the start of the National Energy Board hearings Tuesday, in Montreal. oilpatch crude south to the Gulf of Mexico.

Ottawa is also facing significant resistance within Canada against the Northern Gateway proposal to ship bitumen through the B.C. backcountry to tankers on the Pacific coast.

In the face of such bottlenecks, use of rail has skyrocketed in transporting oil. The National Energy Board hearings on Line 9, which runs from Sarnia, Ont., to Montreal, are occurring in a climate where alternative means of transporting oil face significant scrutiny, particularly following last summer’s rail disaster in Quebec.

On July 6, a train transporting crude derailed and exploded in the Quebec community of Lac-Megantic, killing 47 people and obliterating the community’s downtown core.

The Line 9 hearings will continue over the next few days in Montreal before moving to Toronto next week.

The panel is expected to take up to three months to deliberate and is expected to reach a decision by early 2014,

at the latest.

The board will hear from parties on both sides of a heated debate.

Enbridge’s Line 9 proposal has met resistance from environmentalists, First Nations and residents who fear the proj-

ect would pose significant risks to communities along the corridor, which is Canada’s most populated region.

This would be the second change in direction for Enbridge’s line.

Oil initially flowed east from Sarnia to Montreal through the 40-yearold Line 9 but, since market conditions changed in the 1990s, imported crude has been piped in the other direction.

The new plan calls for oil to be pumped eastward once again along the 831-kilometre-long stretch of pipeline and for its daily capacity to be increased to 300,000 barrels, up from the current 240,000 barrels.

Enbridge has said the pipeline is continuously monitored from an Edmonton control centre and it can be turned off in up to 10 minutes. The line is also patrolled on foot and by air.

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COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Tuesday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 87.58 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.81 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.73 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.23 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.78 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.64 Cdn. National Railway . 107.30 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 132.83 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.36 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.59 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.40 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 38.52 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 42.25 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.17 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.94 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.21 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 18.00 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.74 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 44.06 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 53.86 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 33.93 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.26 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 44.00 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 91.33 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.93 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 12.90 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.10 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.14 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Tuesday as economic worries associated with the U.S. budget crisis sent most sectors down.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 95.84 points to 12,692.41, led by sliding mining stocks.

The Canadian dollar fell 0.51 of a cent to 96.45 cents US after data showed that housing starts came in at 193,637 units in September, up from 183,964 in August.

Meanwhile, Statistics Canada said the trade deficit expanded to $1.3 billion in August from $1.2 billion in July. The increase came as imports grew 2.1 per cent and exports rose 1.8 per cent in August.

New York markets added to sharp declines chalked up Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials racking up a second, straight triple-digit decline, down 159.71 points to 14,776.53.

The Nasdaq was off 75.54 points at 3,694.83 and the S&P 500 index gave back 20.67 points to 1,655.45.

A partial shutdown of the U.S. government continues into its second week after lawmakers failed to agree on funding. Traders were increasingly worried that the two sides won’t be able to come to a spending agreement before Oct. 17 when the government hits its debt ceiling and starts to run out of money to pay its bills.

Republicans have said they want changes to President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law and spending cuts in exchange for reopening the government and raising the debt limit. The president has said he won’t negotiate over both those issues.

Short-term U.S. Treasury bill yields surged to levels not seen since 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis as investors worry about what happens if the debt ceiling is hit.

Also, the CBOE Volatility Index has returned to the highs seen in December and June, rising to 20.45, up from around 16 a week ago.

Manitoba Telecom Services (TSX:MBT) was a major TSX decliner, down $2.74, or 8.47 per cent, to $29.62 after Ottawa rejected a deal that would have seen its Allstream business sold to Egyptian investment group Accelero Capital Holdings due to “unspecified national security con-

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.81 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.27 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 59.38 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.90 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.60 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.28 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.46 First Quantum Minerals . 17.55 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 25.47 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.92 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.95 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 33.57 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.50 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 26.56 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 26.07 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 67.82 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 48.93 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.36 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 55.02 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.11 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 19.76 Canyon Services Group. 12.35 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.11 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.720 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 17.71 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.68 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 85.51 cerns.”

The gold sector led declines, down about 2.6 per cent while the December bullion contract slipped 50 cents to US$1,324.60 an ounce. Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) faded 52 cents to C$18.28 while Goldcorp (TSX:G) lost 58 cents to $25.47.

The base metals group fell 2.26 per cent as December copper lost early gains and closed unchanged at US$3.29 a pound. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) lost 77 cents to C$26.56 while First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) dropped 39 cents to C$17.55.

The energy component erased early gains to move down one per cent as the November crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange was up 46 cents to US$103.49 a barrel. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) fell 77 cents to C$35.81.

Talisman Energy (TSX:TLM) (NYSE:TLM) lost early momentum to move down 26 cents to $12.98, a day after activist U.S. investor Carl Icahn disclosed he has bought more than 61.5 million shares of the energy giant for a 5.97 per cent stake. The dip followed a 4.8 per cent advance Monday. The consumer staples sector was the sole advancer.

Shares in food company Saputo (TSX:SAP) ran up $2.02 or 4.08 per cent to $51.50 after the Montreal-based company entered into a $378-million agreement to buy Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company Holdings Ltd., one of Australia’s biggest milk processors.

After the close, resource giant Alcoa (NYSE:AA) posted earnings ex-items of 11 cents a share, far higher than the five cents that analysts expected and its shares ran up 2.9 per cent in after-hours trading. Alcoa also beat on revenue which came in at $5.77 billion, against estimates of $5.63 billion.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Tuesday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,692.41 down 95.84 points TSX Venture Exchange — 939.36 down 8.16 points TSX 60 — 728.43 down 5.40 points Dow — 14,776.53 down 159.71 points

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 48.66 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.52 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 28.69 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.76 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.40 Penn West Energy . . . . . 11.20 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.580 Precision Drilling Corp . . 10.46 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.81 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.89 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.66 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 10.18 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 56.94 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 68.65 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 58.83 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.66 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 30.80 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.05 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.40 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 47.66 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 62.15 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.00 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 84.66 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.20 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 66.37 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 32.62 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.01 S&P 500 — 1,655.45 down 20.67 points Nasdaq — 3,694.83 down 75.54 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 96.45 cents US, down 0.51 of a cent Pound — C$1.6674, up 0.78 of a cent Euro — C$1.4072, up 0.71 of a cent Euro — US$1.3573, down 0.06 of a cent Oil futures: US$103.49 per barrel, up 46 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,324.60 per oz., down 50 cents (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.053 per oz., up eight cents $773.30 per kg., up $2.57 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 939.36, down 8.16 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 133.71 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $4.40 higher $483.00; Jan. ’14 $4.90 higher $492.70; March ’14 $5.30 higher $500.20; May ’14 $5.40 higher $506.30; July ’14 $5.70 higher $511.30; Nov. ’14 $6.10 higher $510.50; Jan ’15 $6.10 higher $512.80; March ’15 $6.10 higher $511.80; May ’15 $4.00 higher $506.00; July ’15 $4.00 higher $506.00; Nov ’15 $3.00 higher $505.00.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’13 $0.50 higher $149.50; Dec ’13 $0.50 higher $152.00; March ’14 $0.50 higher $154.50; May ’14 $0.50 higher $155.00; July ’14 $0.50 higher $155.00; Oct. ’14 $0.50 higher $155.00; Dec. ’14 $0.50 higher $155.00; March ’15 $0.50 higher $155.00; May ’15 $0.50 higher $155.00; July ’15 $0.50 higher $155.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 452,920 tonnes of canola; 500 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 453,420.

BlackBerry could face Feds over encryption assets

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The encryption technology that helped build Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry into a global player is likely to be the centre of a review from the federal government, if any foreign takeover offers emerge.

Treasury Board president Tony Clement said Tuesday that national security interests will be considered, but that Ottawa is watching from the sidelines as BlackBerry shops its assets to technology companies around the world.

Clement stopped short of saying what would be of particular focus for officials.

“I think we’ll let the marketplace respond,” he said at a Canadian Government Technology event in Ottawa.

“We have a role to play obviously, which involves national security, and making sure that what occurs is in the public interest.”

While analysts have frequently discussed how BlackBerry (TSX:BB) has fallen behind in the consumer market, one area that is often overlooked is the company’s encryption technology, which is especially important for business customers.

The Waterloo, Ont., company has

built its reputation on protecting highly-sensitive information from being decoded for international or corporate espionage. It has said it doesn’t store or have access to the encrypted data.

“The encryption is probably some of the most rarefied science you can imagine in the telecommunications space,” said Carmi Levy, an independent telecom analyst. “Those secrets are guarded very closely.”

BlackBerry has run into numerous challenges over its encryption technology. Countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia pushed to ban some of the device’s services because governments can’t monitor content as it passes through the system.

Last month, BlackBerry received a conditional takeover offer from Fairfax Financial (TSX:FFH), BlackBerry’s largest shareholder, worth $9 per share. The offer values the company at US$4.7 billion and Fairfax has said the consortium of unnamed buyers would be composed entirely of Canadian investors.

Fairfax aims to sign a definitive agreement for the transaction by early November. However, other interested buyers are also circling the company, according to reports from various media outlets.

G20 likely to try peer pressure to bring Washington to senses

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Following a warning from the IMF, finance ministers from G20 countries will meet in Washington this week in the hopes their unified front may have some sway in bringing U.S. lawmakers to their senses and avoid a credit default later this month.

In Canada, an official with the Finance Department told reporters Tuesday the potential crisis from even a technical default, along with the continuing U.S. government shutdown, will dominate International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings that run Wednesday to Sunday.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official would not prejudge whether a statement urging quick resolution will be part of the official communique from the ministers, including Canada’s Jim Flaherty.

But the G20 could play a role through peer pressure, the official said.

Earlier, the IMF downgraded the outlook for the world economy, and

warned of further “serious damage” if Congress fails to avert a partial default by refusing the raise America’s debt ceiling.

In a statement, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said political gridlock in Washington was “not good” for either the global or Canada economies, although he expressed confidence politicians would reach an agreement.

The question of whether the agreement will come in time — some analysts say a default could happen anytime between Oct. 17 and the end of the month — remains open, however, as both sides stake out seemingly irreconcilable positions.

At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, President Barack Obama said he could not cave to extortion and warned that a default would be as “catastrophic” as it was unprecedented. He pointed out that the mere threat of a default in the summer of 2011 led to a sharp market correction and a downgrade in the U.S. credit rating.

But Republicans were downplaying the possible repercussions.

EU-Canada trade talks hit snag on wording of human rights clause

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — There’s a new pothole on the long, bumpy road towards a Canada-Europe free trade deal: whether

human rights and weapons of mass destruction should be addressed in a side agreement to the overall pact.

Diplomats from the European Union say that Canada is balking at the inclusion

of language in a final text that would speak to the importance of affirming human rights and non-proliferation efforts.

The clauses would not appear in the Comprehensive

Economic and Trade Agreement but in a separate socalled Strategic Partnership Agreement.

The EU’s new ambassador to Canada, Marie-Anne Coninsx, said Tuesday the two pacts

are linked and there won’t be a deal on one without the other.

However, the spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said that’s not the case.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9, 2013

‘Tips take down Rebels SOLID GOALTENDING AND COSTLY PENALTIES KEYS TO REBELS’ LOSS

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Silvertips 2 Rebels 1 The sooner the Red Deer Rebels learn they can’t score from the penalty box, the better.

With the Rebels two men short in the second period, former Red Deer defenceman Matt Pufahl beat Rebels netminder Patrik Bartosak with a shot from just inside the point and the goal stood up for the Everett Silvertips in a 2-1 WHL win before 4,284 fans at the Centrium.

“It was a hard-fought game, which is typical of the way Everett plays,” said Rebels general manager/ head coach Brent Sutter. “In the second period we didn’t play well enough to really gain momentum.

We took some bad penalties.”

Rebels forward Dominik Volek was already serving a slashing penalty when Bartosak was nailed for cross checking, giving the visitors a lengthy two-man advantage which ultimately resulted in the winning goal.

“That’s another learning curve for us and a learning curve for our 20-year-old goaltender, too,” said Sutter. “A sin in hockey is a goalie who takes a penalty and puts your team down two men. He just can’t do that. He’s the last guy on the ice and he has to be your best penalty killer, not someone who shoots himself in the foot.

“It’s a mistake by Patty in a 1-1 game. They capitalized on it and full marks to them for doing that.”

Pufahl’s goal was his second of the game, his first — and second of the season — coming off a pass from Manraj Hayer and pulling the ‘Tips into a 1-1 tie at 7:37 of the first period. Pufahl took the feed while skating into the high slot and beat Bartosak with a perfectly-placed wrist shot.

Matt Bellerive, with Everett defenceman Ben Betker serving a checking-from-behind infraction, gave the Rebels an early lead with his fourth goal of the season, firing a rebound past goaltender Austin Lotz just 3:06 into the contest while stationed alone in front of the net.

Following an evenly-played opening frame, the Silvertips took charge in the second period as the Rebels took all three minor penalties called by referees Kevin Webinger and Derek Zalaski.

The Rebels were on their heels for much of the period and parts of the third stanza, yet still created some excellent scoring chances.

“In the third we got some opportunities we didn’t capitalize on, but you have to play 60 minutes,” said Sutter. “Again, it was a learning lesson for us.”

Lotz faced only 21 shots, but came up big on several occasions, robbing Brooks Maxwell from close range, getting a pad on a deke by Rhyse Dieno and stopping Haydn Fleury on a breakaway. He also had luck on his side as Brady Gaudet and Conner Bleackley each rang a shot off the crossbar.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Everett Silvertip Matt Pufahl is tripped up by Red Deer Rebel Wyatt Johnson during second period action at the Centrium Tuesday night.

“We had enough chances to win the game, but just couldn’t find the back of the net,” said Dieno, who was assessed a 10-minute misconduct following a first-period scrap with Pufahl.

“I didn’t have my tie-down done up and that’s a bad call on my part,” said Dieno. “Penalties killed us tonight.”

The Rebels 20-year-old forward noted that the Silvertips defencemen played a big role in keeping the Red Deer shots to a minimum.

“They have some big guys, some big D-men who are tough to get around,” said Dieno. “They make it tough. They grind you down . . . hit after hit when you have the puck. But you have to find a way to battle through that.”

Silvertips assistant coach Marc LeRose credited Lotz and the club’s special teams for pulling out the win.

“It was a good effort on our part. It was a tight

game and fortunately our power play stepped up in the second period and scored a timely five-on-three goal,” said LeRose.

“Our special teams have been good for us so far.

Unfortunately, we gave up one power-play goal, but that a good unit Red Deer has . . . tough to stop.”

As for Lotz . . .

“He made some big saves, at least three great stops,” said LeRose. “We tried to give him support and block some shots. Sometimes there are breakdowns and he was there for us when they happened.”

While the Silvertips improved to 4-1-1-0, the Rebels fell to 5-3-0-0 with Friday and Saturday home dates with Prince Albert and Spokane looming.

“We know what we have to do to be better,” said Dieno. “We have a (seven-game) homestand here and we have start winning some games.”

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Hockey Canada unveils Olympic hockey jerseys

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Youth players model the new Canadian Olympic team hockey jerseys as they are unveiled in Toronto, Tuesday.

TORONTO — It took until he stepped onto the ice at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton at the 1986 world junior championship for Joe Nieuwendyk to appreciate what it meant to wear a Team Canada jersey.

“I didn’t really understand the magnitude of what it meant until that moment: skating out there in front of 1920,000 people, flags flying everywhere,” Nieuwendyk said. “It was a special feeling.”

On Tuesday morning, he got to pass that feeling on to about a dozen teenage players chosen to model Hockey Canada’s 2014 Olympic jerseys at the official unveiling at the Mattamy Athletic Centre.

Hockey Canada told them they’d be doing some promotional things, but the players didn’t learn exactly why they were at the arena until just before the event.

“Their mouths dropped, a little awestruck,” Nieuwendyk said.

“They didn’t realize what they were here for. When they saw the jersey for the first time, it hit them like it hits

any NHL guy that’s going to don that jersey.”

For many hockey fans it wasn’t the first glimpse of the red, white and alternate black jerseys that the men’s, women’s and sledge hockey teams will wear at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi. Pictures of the uniforms have leaked out over the last month.

But that didn’t damper the enthusiasm for the teenagers who stepped onto the ice amid club music and laser lights and skated around to show off the uniforms.

“First to ever try on the Team Canada Olympic Jersey and unveil it to everyone. Speechless,” Paul Coffey’s son, Blake, wrote on Twitter afterward.

“Honoured to get the opportunity to unveil the 2014 Team Canada Olympic Jersey Launch.”

Hockey Canada’s reveal was another opportunity for fans to give their opinions about the jerseys. Some said it looked like Petro-Canada’s logo, while others wanted to go back to the jerseys used when Canada won gold in Vancouver in 2010.

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Hancox building skills while playing in his backyard When Dallas Hancox arrived at Hunting Hills dreams of playing Division I, but it’s great to be here, High School in Grade 11 he had visions of grandeur. close to home and I can fulfill my academic career.

“When I arrived at Hunting Hills I was “As well we have a team that has the hooked on Division I (in the states), but afopportunity to seize an ACAC championter talking with Clayton (RDC Kings head ship. I can get the experience here and coach Pottinger) I realized this would be in a few years go to the CIS and start over another start for me where I could build again.” my skills,” explained the six-foot-eight Hancox has already learned a thing native of Sylvan Lake, who has been getor two about playing inside at the postting some starting assignments with the secondary level. defending Alberta Colleges Men’s Basket“It was a real eye-opener against the ball League champions in the preseason.

CIS teams like the University of Alberta,” “I’m making progress but I still have to he said. “It was rough for me physicalfight for my place. Some of the most comly, as I couldn’t do the things I normally petition we have is in our own gym against could do. The second experience against each other.” the UNBC (University of Northern B.C.) COLLEGE Hancox had a solid final season at was similar, but the first game gave me an Hunting Hills, but he felt it could have indication of what I had to do.”

REPORT been better.

What Hancox needs more than any“I didn’t have the year I wanted, but thing is experience playing the post. as an athlete you always want to be at the “For sure,” he said. “At Hunting hills top. I thought at the time I would receive I didn’t get that much work done in the additional scholarship offers, but honestly I’m more post, it was more shooting. But then if your can shoot than satisfied being here. This is a great experi- the ball it makes life easier. ence and it’s in my own back yard. I think everyone “But working on my post play is the No. 1 thing I

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have to work on and gain experience.”

He’s been working hard at improving and also listening to players such as veteran Jacob Cusumano.

“I take advantage of what the veterans know and it helps round out my game,” he said.

Hancox will gain a little more experience this weekend as the Kings host the RDC iHotel Fall Basketball Classic.

The Kings open play Thursday at 4:30 p.m. against Keyano College and meet Canadian University College (CUC) of Lacombe Friday at 4 p.m. and Lakeland College Saturday at 6 p.m.

Other games Friday has Olds College meeting Keyano at 2 p.m. and Lethbridge taking on Lakeland at 6 p.m. On Saturday, Lethbridge and Keyano clash at 3 p.m. and Olds and CUC at 8 p.m. On Sunday Lakeland and CUC tip off at 10 a.m. and Lethbridge and Olds at noon. ● The hockey Kings, 2-2, will look to get back on the winning track as they host the Grant MacEwan University Griffins, 1-1, Friday at 7:15 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

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Tigers rally past A’s to force Game 5 SCHERZER ESCAPES JAM WHILE IN RELIEF, MARTINEZ GETS A LITTLE HELP FROM THE FANS

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REBELS: Injured ● Already minus the services of injured forwards Lukas Sutter and Grayson Pawlenchuk, the Rebels lost Kolton Dixon in the first period when the defenceman slammed into the end boards. Dixon didn’t return and is out indefinitely with an upper-body injury . . . The Red Deer scratches, besides Sutter and Pawlenchuk, were forward Cole Chorney and defenceman Jake MacLachlan. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

JERSEYS: Respects where it all started “People talking about how they feel about a jersey that’s close to their heart and represents their country is a great thing,” Nike creative director Ken Black said.

The red and white jerseys feature a Maple Leaf logo with a stripe across the chest, while the black jersey has “CANADA” written across it in white letters on a gold stripe. All three include 12 gold maple leaves inside the collar to commemorate the eight men’s, three women’s and one sledge hockey gold medal the country has won at the Olympics.

Black said the jerseys were inspired by the 1920 team that won gold at the Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, with touches from the 1972 national team uniform.

“The best resource that we have in our country are our players and our people,” Hockey Canada president and CEO Bob Nicholson said. “This really respects where it all started back in 1920.”

Back then there were fewer avenues for fans to express their feelings about jerseys. This time around criticism began in early September when a photo of Jonathan Toews wearing Canada’s red jersey surfaced online.

“That’s the great thing about the game of hockey: Everyone’s passionate,” Nicholson said. “The key is the players will be proud to put it on, and know when the players are on the ice, whether it’s our women’s team, our men’s team or our sledge team, Canadian fans will support the jersey and the team.”

Montreal’s Caroline Ouellette, a forward on the women’s team and a threetime Olympian, offered a very positive review.

“I think they’re lighter and they seem very comfortable,” she said.

“I think every time change happens, there’s some people that resist it. I know we’ve heard some negative comments on it so far, but for me the jersey becomes the memories we make with that jersey.”

International Olympic Committee regulations prohibit sports federations from putting their logo on uniforms.

Canada is the only team that will have a third jersey in Sochi. Nicholson said he wasn’t sure how many times it would be worn at the Olympics but mentioned it was added because fans and players like black.

Of course, Nicholson said, Canada’s “real colours” are red and white.

That’s why those jerseys got praise from Nieuwendyk for their simplicity.

“The most important thing is the Maple Leaf,” he said. “You follow a little bit of Canadian hockey history,

run all series until Tuesday.

After Crisp put the A’s ahead 4-3 with an RBI single off Scherzer in the seventh, Martinez lifted a fly to right against reliever Sean Doolittle. It would have been an extremely difficult catch for Reddick, and it looked as though the ball might have cleared the wall even without the fans’ involvement.

“I have no doubt I was going to catch that ball. When I looked at the replay, that’s what I thought,” Reddick said.

“It’s totally frustrating that a fan can influence the game.”

Gary Darling, the crew chief, was umpiring in right field. He disagreed, even after watching the replay.

“It was clear he was not going to catch the ball, so it was clearly going to be a home run,” Darling said.

“There wasn’t any other evidence on replay to turn it another way.”

It was certainly an anxious wait for fans while umpires reviewed the play, which brought back memories of Derek Jeter’s fan-aided homer against Baltimore in the 1996 AL championship series at Yankee Stadium.

Peralta followed with a double, and Austin Jackson — who was 1 for 14 with 10 strikeouts in the series to that point — managed a broken-bat single to put the Tigers ahead 5-4.

It appeared Detroit was in big trouble in the eighth, but Scherzer was able to protect the one-run lead, and the Tigers eventually added to it.

Detroit starter Doug Fister allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings before being relieved by Scherzer, who came back on three days’ rest after his victory in Game 1.

this follows some of the history and captures that. It’s just such a clean look: red, white and a Maple Leaf.”

The process of getting to the final products was far from simple. Phil Pritchard from the Hockey Hall of Fame took some historic Team Canada jerseys to Nike, where designers got to see and feel what former players wore.

The jerseys are 15 per cent lighter than anything previously worn by Team Canada. The uniform fabric contains material from recycled water bottles.

“Even this design is much lighter than what we wore in Nagano or Salt Lake,” Nieuwendyk said. “It’s getting lighter. They look faster. But the athletes are getting bigger and faster too.”

Tuesday’s event at the Mattamy Athletic Complex, located on the former site of Maple Leaf Gardens, didn’t have much to do with the construction of the Olympic teams. But Nicholson said that “seeing the jersey is a key stepping point for all three teams.”

“We are launching a symbol that truly serves to unify our great nation,” Canadian Olympic Committee president Marcel Aubut said. “In Canada the concept of (a) jersey is an integral part of our DNA.” The next step is for the teams to be named.

“There’s a lot of work going on behind the scenes,” Nicholson said. “(General manager) Steve Yzerman and his whole crew are out now every night watching NHL games to select the men’s side.”

The provisional men’s roster of 22 skaters and three goalies must be submitted to the International Ice Hockey Federation no later than Dec. 31. The women’s team has until later in January to submit a roster to the Canadian Olympic Committee.

The Games will be held Feb. 7-23, and the Paralympic Games are set for March 7-16.

RDC: Volleyball dominates awards The teams meet Saturday in Edmonton. ● The hockey Queens host the Edge Hockey Academy of Calgary in exhibition play at 7 p.m. Thursday. ● The basketball Queens are on the road, playing a trio of games in Vancouver.

The meet Langara College Friday, Kwantian Polytechnical University Saturday and Capilano College Sunday. ● The RDC cross-country team will compete in Grand Prix No. 4 Saturday in Camrose at the University of Alberta, Augustana. ● Volleyball dominated the Boston Pizza RDC athlete of the week voting.

Right side Braden O’Toole received the top male award after turning in an outstanding performance as the Kings finished second to the University of Calgary in the Mount Royal University tournament.

In four matches, and 14 games, against university competition, O’Toole had 62 kills, eight stuff blocks, 14 digs and two aces.

Setter Bronwyn Hawkes turned in a solid performance to lead the Queens to first place in their annual Wild Rose Classic tournament. The Queens won 10 straight sets with Hawkes finishing with 102 assists and 16 digs.

The cross-country running teams received the Breathing Room team of the week award. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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Oakland Athletics right fielder Josh Reddick stretches but is unable to catch the solo home run by Detroit Tigers designated hitter Victor Martinez during the seventh inning of Game 4 of baseball’s American League division series in Detroit, Tuesday.

The umpires reviewed the play and upheld the call of a home run.

Red Sox finish off Rays, reach ALCS for first time since 2008 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Red Sox 3 Rays 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Shane Victorino’s infield single snapped a seventh-inning tie and journeyman Craig Breslow gave Boston a huge boost out of the bullpen, sending the Red Sox into the AL championship series with a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.

Koji Uehara got the final four outs — one night after giving up a gamewinning homer — and the Red Sox rebounded to take the best-of-five playoff 3-1.

Back in the ALCS for the first time in five years, they’ll open at home Saturday against the Athletics or Tigers.

Oakland hosts Detroit in a decisive Game 5 on Thursday.

Both managers mixed and matched all night in a tense game that felt more like a chess match. Desperately trying to avoid elimination, Rays skipper Joe Maddon used nine pitchers and had ace David Price warming up for a possible 10th inning.

Breslow relieved Boston starter Jake Peavy in the sixth and struck out his first four batters — all of them in the middle of Tampa Bay’s lineup.

The 33-year-old lefty from Yale has pitched for six teams in eight big league seasons, including two stints with the Red Sox. The highest-scoring team in the majors this season, Boston scratched out three runs on six singles in a game that featured only one extrabase hit.

Xander Bogaerts scored the tying run on

Joel Peralta’s wild pitch in the seventh and Victorino followed with an RBI infield single.

Dustin Pedroia drove in Bogaerts with a sacrifice fly in the ninth to make it 3-1, and Uehara struck out Evan Longoria to end it.

The resilient Rays won four win-or-go-home games over the previous nine days and led 1-0 this time before Boston rallied.

David DeJesus snapped a scoreless tie with an RBI single in the sixth and Boston squandered several opportunities before finally breaking through in the seventh.

Bogaerts, pinch-hitting, drew a one-out walk and raced to third on Jacoby Ellsbury’s two-out single off Jake McGee. The Rays brought on their sixth pitcher, Peralta, and the game shifted suddenly on his first pitch, which skipped in the dirt past catcher Jose Lobaton — allowing the tying run to score.

Ellsbury was stealing second on the pitch and continued to third when the ball rolled toward the backstop. Victorino beat out a slow chopper to shortstop, putting the Red Sox ahead 2-1.

Breslow pitched 1 2-3 scoreless innings for the win. Uehara earned a save, bouncing back from Lobaton’s ninth-inning homer in Game 3.

Tampa Bay won three win-or-go-home games just to get into the division series last week.

Coming from behind in another elimination game Monday gave them hope of taking the series back to Fenway Park, where the Rays were outscored 19-6 in the first two games.

The trip to the ALCS

will be Boston’s first since 2008, when the Red Sox lost in seven games to Tampa Bay. When the Red Sox acquired Peavy from the Chicago White Sox at the trade deadline, they had nights like this in mind.

The 32-year-old righthander made his third career post-season start 2,562 days — a span of seven years, five days — after starting Game 1 of the NL division series for San Diego in 2006.

Both he and Rays starter Jeremy Hellickson were working with plenty of rest.

Although he pitched two innings in a simulated game last week while the Red Sox were waiting to learn who they would face, Peavy hadn’t appeared in a major league game in 13 days. Hellickson hadn’t pitched since Sept. 27, and his selection as Tampa Bay’s starter in an elimination game was somewhat of a surprise.

Although the 26-yearold righty made a teamhigh 31 starts this season, Hellickson lost seven of his last eight decisions — winning just once after July 26. His careerhigh 5.17 ERA was the second-highest in the AL to Joe Saunders’ 5.26.

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Tigers 8 Athletics 6 DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers are heading back to California with the help of Max Scherzer and some fans in right field.

During a relief outing to remember, Scherzer escaped a major jam one inning after two fans reached out to try to reel in Victor Martinez’s disputed home run, and the Tigers rallied past the Oakland Athletics 8-6 on Tuesday to force a decisive fifth game in their AL division series.

Playing catch-up most of the way, the Tigers tied it first with Jhonny Peralta’s threerun homer in the fifth inning and then on Martinez’s solo shot in the seventh. A couple of fans attempted to catch Martinez’s drive, and at least one of them bobbled the ball as he reached over the railing above the wall.

That prevented right fielder Josh Reddick from having any chance at a leaping grab. Reddick and centre fielder Coco Crisp immediately protested, pointing up at the stands in the hope of a fan-interference call. But umpires upheld the home run after a replay review.

Scherzer, making his first relief appearance since the 2011 post-season, gave up a run in the seventh and got in trouble again in the eighth.

With the Tigers ahead 5-4, he allowed a walk and a double to start the inning, but after an intentional walk to load the bases, manager Jim Leyland left his 21-game winner on the mound.

Scherzer struck out Reddick and Stephen Vogt before

getting pinch-hitter Alberto Callaspo to line out to centre.

“It was surreal,” Scherzer said.

“Maybe it’s not the ninth inning, but that’s the stuff you dream about pitching — bases loaded, eighth inning, no outs and I was able to do it.”

Detroit, hitless through the first four innings in a game of twists and turns, added three runs in the eighth on a wild pitch and a two-run double by Omar Infante that made it 8-4.

Yoenis Cespedes hit a tworun single in the ninth, bringing the potential tying run to the plate, but Joaquin Benoit struck out Seth Smith to end it.

After avoiding elimination, the Tigers can now send Justin Verlander to the mound for Game 5 on Thursday night in Oakland. Verlander shut out the A’s at the Coliseum in the decisive fifth game of the division series last year.

Scherzer was in line to start Game 5 before being pressed into service Tuesday.

“We took our best shot and we had to because we were behind the 8-ball a little bit,” Detroit manager Jim Leyland said.

“We took that shot and, hey, both teams are going to have a good pitcher going two days from now.”

Oakland hasn’t announced a starter for Game 5. It is Bartolo Colon’s turn in the post-season rotation, but rookie Sonny Gray could also come back on normal rest after a brilliant performance in Game 2.

Crisp had four hits and three runs for the A’s, who led 3-0 and 4-3 but couldn’t close out the defending American League champions. The Oakland bullpen hadn’t allowed a

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Hockey

Local Sports

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Prince Albert 8 6 2 0 0 35 Swift Current 7 5 1 0 1 29 Brandon 7 4 3 0 0 27 Moose Jaw 7 4 3 0 0 22 Regina 7 2 5 0 0 18 Saskatoon 7 1 5 0 1 22 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Medicine Hat 7 5 1 1 0 32 Red Deer 9 5 4 0 0 29 Kootenay 7 3 3 1 0 22 Calgary 6 3 3 0 0 22 Edmonton 7 3 4 0 0 29 Lethbridge 6 1 4 0 1 16 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 6 5 0 0 1 31 Prince George 8 4 4 0 0 17 Victoria 9 4 5 0 0 18 Kamloops 6 2 4 0 0 14 Vancouver 7 1 5 0 1 12 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Seattle 8 6 2 0 0 34 Spokane 6 5 1 0 0 25 Everett 6 4 1 1 0 19 Portland 7 3 3 0 1 35 Tri-City 8 2 5 0 1 18

Power plays (goal-chances) — Everett: 1-5; Red Deer: 1-3.

Attendance — 4,284 at Red Deer.

GA 32 16 26 22 27 34

Pt 12 11 8 8 4 3

GA 19 26 24 24 27 30

Pt 11 10 7 6 6 3

GA 16 25 26 21 25

Pt 11 8 8 4 3

GA 29 12 12 32 21

Pt 12 10 9 7 5

Tuesday’s results Prince Albert 4 Vancouver 3 (SO) Everett 2 Red Deer 1 Medicine Hat 6 Calgary 4 Tri-City at Kamloops, late Kelowna at Spokane, late Wednesday’s games Everett at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Toronto 4 3 1 0 6 13 Boston 2 2 0 0 4 7 Detroit 3 2 1 0 4 6 Tampa Bay 3 2 1 0 4 7 Ottawa 2 1 0 1 3 5 Montreal 2 1 1 0 2 7 Florida 3 1 2 0 2 5 Buffalo 4 0 3 1 1 4 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 3 3 0 0 6 12 N.Y. Islanders 3 2 0 1 5 12 Carolina 3 1 1 1 3 6 N.Y. Rangers 2 1 1 0 2 4 Columbus 2 1 1 0 2 6 Washington 3 1 2 0 2 10 New Jersey 3 0 1 2 2 7 Philadelphia 4 1 3 0 2 5 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Colorado 3 3 0 0 6 11 St. Louis 2 2 0 0 4 11 Winnipeg 3 2 1 0 4 12 Chicago 2 1 0 1 3 8 Dallas 2 1 1 0 2 4 Nashville 3 1 2 0 2 6 Minnesota 3 0 1 2 2 7 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF San Jose 2 2 0 0 4 8 Vancouver 3 2 1 0 4 12 Anaheim 3 2 1 0 4 8 Calgary 3 1 0 2 4 12 Phoenix 3 1 2 0 2 6 Los Angeles 3 1 2 0 2 7 Edmonton 3 1 2 0 2 11

GA 10 2 7 7 5 5 11 10 GA 3 7 9 5 6 12 12 10 GA 3 2 10 7 5 9 10 GA 2 10 11 13 11 10 15

Monday’s Games Edmonton 5, New Jersey 4, SO N.Y. Rangers 3, Los Angeles 1

Friday’s games Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Spokane at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Regina, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Everett at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Lethbridge at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Tuesday’s Games Colorado 2, Toronto 1 N.Y. Islanders 6, Phoenix 1 Philadelphia 2, Florida 1 Pittsburgh 5, Carolina 2 Tampa Bay 3, Buffalo 2, OT Nashville 3, Minnesota 2 New Jersey at Vancouver, late N.Y. Rangers at San Jose, late

Tuesday’s summary Everett 2, Red Deer 1 First Period 1. Red Deer, Bellerive 4 (Gaudet, Bleackley) 3:06 (pp).

2. Everett, Pufahl 2 (Hayer, Stadnyk) 7:37.

Penalties — Betker Eve (checking from behind) 1:54, Macdonald Eve (tripping) 11:52, Pufahl Eve (fighting), Dieno RD (fighting), Dieno RD (misconduct) 16:04, Gaudet RD (holding) 19:00.

Second Period 3. Everett, Pufahl 3 (Nikolishin, Sandhu) 12:49 (pp).

Penalties — Mpofu RD (goaltender interference) 5:37, Aasman Eve (fighting), Fafard RD (fighting) 7:41, Volek RD (slashing) 11:15, Bartosak RD (cross-checking) 12:41.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Fafard RD (charging) 4:32, Bauml Eve (goaltender interference) 9:58.

Shots on goal Everett 11 13 8 — 32 Red Deer 10 6 5 — 21 Goal — Everett: Lotz (W, 3-1-1); Red Deer: Bartosak (L, 4-3-0).

Wednesday’s Games Chicago at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Calgary, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s summaries Predators 3, Wild 2 First Period 1. Minnesota, Parise 3 (Koivu, Suter) 4:05 (pp) 2. Nashville, Forsberg 1 (Hornqvist, Jones) 5:07 (pp) 3. Nashville, Wilson 1 (Cullen, Fisher) 5:46 (pp) 4. Nashville, Nystrom 1 11:14 (penalty shot) Second Period 5. Minnesota, Spurgeon 1 (Niederreiter, Granlund) 7:26 (pp) Third Period No Scoring.

Shots on goal Minnesota 13 12 9 — 34 Nashville 10 4 11 — 25 Goal — Minnesota: Harding (L, 0-1-0); Nashville: Rinne (W, 1-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Minnesota: 2-5; Nashville: 2-4.

PF 446 419 395 340

PA 323 316 350 409

Pt 22 18 18 6

East Division W L T 9 5 0 7 7 0 6 8 0 2 12 0

PF 407 360 349 279

PA 370 383 385 459

Pt 18 14 12 4

Toronto Hamilton Montreal Winnipeg

GP 14 14 14 14

Week 15 Friday’s results Hamilton 33 Toronto 19 Saskatchewan 31 BC Lions 17 Saturday’s results Montreal 47 Edmonton 24 Calgary 38 Winnipeg 11

CFL Leaders SCORING Touchdowns (Ru-running; Rc-receiving; Rt-kickoff/punt/ missed FG return; D-defensive return) TD Ru Rc Rt D Cornish, Cal 12 10 2 0 0 Stamps, Edm 11 0 11 0 0 Gable, Ham 10 6 4 0 0 Sheets, Sask 10 10 0 0 0 Gore, BC 9 2 7 0 0 Green, Mtl 9 0 9 0 0 Chiles, Tor 8 0 8 0 0 Goltz, Wpg 8 8 0 0 0 Harris, BC 8 6 2 0 0 Dressler, Sask 7 0 7 0 0 Getzlaf, Sask 7 0 7 0 0 McDaniel, Cal 7 1 6 0 0 Price, Cal 7 0 7 0 0 Barnes, Tor 6 0 6 0 0 Ellingson, Ham 6 0 6 0 0 LeFevour, Ham 6 5 1 0 0 Simpson, Wpg 6 6 0 0 0 Ta.Smith, Sask 6 0 6 0 0 Collaros, Tor 5 5 0 0 0 Koch, Edm 5 0 4 1 0 RUSHING Cornish, Cal Sheets, Sask Harris, BC Gable, Ham Simpson, Wpg Reilly, Edm Charles, Edm Messam, Mtl Kackert, Tor

Yds. 1415 1302 760 665 581 539 504 492 401

71 66 29

371 338 297

5.2 5.1 10.2

70 25 27

Stamps, Edm Getzlaf, Sask Green, Mtl Grant, Ham Moore, BC Durie, Tor Smith, Sask Dressler, Sask Ellingson, Ham McDaniel, Cal Owens, Tor Fantuz, Ham Bruce, Mtl Arceneaux, BC

No. 59 55 64 62 58 78 61 57 52 60 68 53 50 41

Yds. 1086 931 930 876 857 843 808 804 800 795 735 721 701 694

Avg. 18.4 16.9 14.5 14.1 14.8 10.8 13.2 14.1 15.4 13.3 10.8 13.6 14.0 16.9

L 51 72 74 51 43 48 70 45 39 45 37 64 86 80

Avg. 7.1 5.7 4.8 6.2 5.4 9.6 5.4 4.9 6.7

L 53 37 23 28 75 45 70 29 57

C-A Burris, Ham 303-462 Durant, Sask 279-447 Reilly, Edm 245-398 Lulay, BC 221-343 Collaros, Tor 183-276 Glenn, Cal 169-247 Ray, Tor 148-189 Calvillo, Mtl 115-196 Mitchell, Cal 92-130 Neiswander, Mtl 89-153

Pct. 65.6 62.4 61.6 64.4 66.3 68.4 78.3 58.7 70.8 58.2

Yds. 4173 3595 3345 2787 2251 2049 1824 1322 1144 1112

TD 22 28 21 19 13 14 15 6 10 9

Int. Eff. 16 95.8 8 101.0 13 92.4 11 94.7 6 98.0 5 104.1 0 134.0 5 78.7 3 113.7 6 84.1

TEAM OFFENCE (Totals include losses) Calgary Saskatchewan Hamilton Toronto Edmonton B.C. Montreal Winnipeg

Pass 3755 3911 4416 4141 3911 3568 3471 2865

Rush Avg./Gm 2005 395.7 1726 381.4 1292 378.5 1255 364.4 1388 355.1 1385 331.5 1319 315.8 1273 269.1

Pass 3454 3713 3733 3554 3801 3580 4080 4123

Rush Avg./Gm 1212 310.5 1157 323.8 1283 332.6 1508 338.9 1459 358.6 1875 362.9 1583 378.2 1566 385.7

TEAM DEFENCE (Totals include losses) B.C. Montreal Saskatchewan Calgary Hamilton Edmonton Winnipeg Toronto

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 4 1 0 .800 95 N.Y. Jets 3 2 0 .600 98 Miami 3 2 0 .600 114 Buffalo 2 3 0 .400 112

Indianapolis

W 4

South L T Pct 1 0 .800

PF 139

PA 70 116 117 130 PA 79

Thursday

● High school football: Lacombe at Hunting Hills, 4 p.m., Great Chief Park; Sylvan Lake at Stettler, 4 p.m.; Wetaskiwin at Rocky Mountain House, 4 p.m.; Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● College men’s basketball: iHotel RDC Classic, RDC Kings vs.

Keyano, 4:30 p.m. ● Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber at Notre Dame, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● College women’s exhibition hockey: Edge Academy at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Avalanche 2, Maple Leafs 1 First Period

Friday

No Scoring.

Second Period 1. Toronto, Lupul 2 (Ashton) 13:12.

2. Colorado, Sarich 1 (Downie, Duchene) 16:39.

Third Period 3. Colorado, Parenteau 3 (McGinn, MacKinnon) 2:30.

Shots on goal Colorado 10 15 8 — 33 Toronto 12 7 9 — 28 Goal — Colorado: Varlamov (W, 3-0-0); Toronto: Bernier (L, 2-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Colorado: 0-3; Toronto: 0-2.

Penguins 5, Hurricanes 2 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Jokinen 1 (Crosby, Kunitz) 14:17 (pp).

Second Period 2. Pittsburgh, Martin 1 (Orpik, Crosby) 1:04.

3. Carolina, E. Staal 1 (Faulk, Sekera) 13:24.

Third Period 4. Carolina, Gerbe 2 (Dwyer, Sekera) 3:13.

5. Pittsburgh, Jokinen 2 (Malkin, Maatta) 5:03.

6. Pittsburgh, Glass 1 (Vitale) 8:24.

7. Pittsburgh, Jokinen 3 (Maatta, Sutter) 13:03 (pp).

Shots on goal Carolina 8 12 13 — 33 Pittsburgh 12 11 13 — 36 Power plays (goal-chances)Carolina: 0-2; Pittsburgh: 2-3.

NHL Scoring Leaders Player Team Alex Ovechkin Wash Lars Eller Mtl Mikhail Grabovski Wash Henrik Sedin Van Damien Brunner NJ Brandon Saad Chi Jason Garrison Van Jiri Hudler Cal David Jones Cal Mason Raymond Tor

Tennessee Houston Jacksonville

3 2 0

GP 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3

2 3 5

G 4 3 3 0 3 2 2 2 2 2

A PTS 2 6 2 5 2 5 5 5 1 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 2 4

115 93 51

95 139 163

0 .600 0 .400 0 .000 Pct .600 .600 .600 .000

PF 117 101 94 69

PA 110 94 87 110

Pct 1.000 1.000 .400 .400

PF 230 128 98 125

PA 139 58 108 129

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 2 3 0 .400 135 Dallas 2 3 0 .400 152 Washington 1 3 0 .250 91 N.Y. Giants 0 5 0 .000 82

PA 159 136 112 182

Baltimore Cleveland Cincinnati Pittsburgh

W 3 3 3 0

North L T 2 0 2 0 2 0 4 0

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

W 5 5 2 2

West L 0 0 3 3

RECEIVING

PASSING

Week 16 Friday, October 11 BC Lions at Calgary, 7 p.m.

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

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

Toronto at Hamilton, 2:30 p.m.

No. 200 227 158 108 108 56 94 100 60

Ford, Wpg Whitaker, Mtl Durant, Sask

● High school football: Sylvan Lake at Stettler, 4 p.m.

Flyers 2, Panthers 1 First Period 1. Philadelphia, Schenn 2 (Voracek, Lecavalier) 4:49.

2. Philadelphia, Coburn 1 (Couturier) 7:31.

Second Period 3. Florida, Boyes 1 (Campbell, Barkov) 19:53.

Third Period No Scoring.

Shots on goal Florida 12 13 9 — 34 Philadelphia 8 9 13 — 30 Goal — Florida: Thomas (L, 1-2-0); Philadelphia: Mason (W, 1-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Florida: 0-5; Philadelphia: 0-5.

Football CFL West Division GP W L T Calgary 14 11 3 0 Saskatchewan 14 9 5 0 BC Lions 14 9 5 0 Edmonton 14 3 11 0

Today

Lightnings 3, Sabres 2 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Second Period 1. Buffalo, Hodgson 1 (Vanek, McBain) 11:09 (pp) 2. Tampa Bay, Johnson 1 (Hedman, Palat) 13:35 3. Buffalo, McBain 1 (Hodgson, Vanek) 18:34 (pp) Third Period 4. Tampa Bay, Purcell 2 (Malone, St. Louis) 5:43 (pp).

Overtime 5. Tampa Bay, Killorn 1 (Brewer, Filppula) 1:50.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Tampa Bay 10 10 12 2 — 34 Buffalo 3 7 13 0 — 23 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 2-0-0); Buffalo: Enroth (LO, 0-1-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Tampa Bay: 1-3; Buffalo: 2-4.

T 0 0 0 0

W 5 1 1 0

South L T 0 0 3 0 4 0 4 0

Pct 1.000 .250 .200 .000

PF 134 74 122 44

PA 73 58 134 70

Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota

W 3 3 2 1

North L T 2 0 2 0 2 0 3 0

Pct .600 .600 .500 .250

PF 131 145 118 115

PA 123 140 97 123

Seattle San Francisco Arizona St. Louis

W 4 3 3 2

West L 1 2 2 3

Pct .800 .600 .600 .400

PF 137 113 91 103

PA 81 98 95 141

New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay

T 0 0 0 0

● College men’s basketball: iHotel RDC Classic, Olds vs.

Keyano, 2 p.m.; RDC Kings vs.

Concordia, 4 p.m.; Lethbridge vs.

Lakeland, 6 p.m. ● High school football: Camrose at Ponoka, 4 p.m. ● WHL: Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Rodeo: Foothills Finals Rodeo, 7 p.m., Westerner Stockmens Pavilion. ● College men’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7:15 p.m.

Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m.

Saturday

● Peewee football: Innisfail at Rocky Mountain House, 11 a.m.; Olds at Stettler, 11 a.m.; Red Deer Steelers at Sylvan Lake, 3:30 p.m. ● Bantam football: Notre Dame at Ponoka, 11 a.m.; Hunting Hills at Lindsay Thurber, 1:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Stettler at Rocky Mountain House, 1:30 p.m.; Strathmore at Olds, 2:15

p.m. ● Major midget female hockey: Calgary Flyers at Red Deer, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Rodeo: Foothills Finals Rodeo, 1 and 7 p.m., Westerner Stockmens Pavilion. ● College men’s basketball: iHotel RDC Classic, Lethbridge vs. Keyano, 3 p.m.; RDC Kings vs. Lakeland, 6 p.m.; Olds vs.

Concordia, 8 p.m. ● Major bantam female hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kin City B. ● Midget AAA hockey: UFA at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Ramada, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● WHL: Spokane at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Fort McMurray at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Stettler, 7:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m.

Sunday

● College men’s basketball: iHotel RDC Classic, Lakeland vs.

Concordia, 10 a.m.; Lethbridge vs. Olds, noon. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Parkland, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major midget female hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam female hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. ● Rodeo: Foothills Finals Rodeo, 1 p.m., Westerner Stockmens Pavilion. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Airdrie at Stettler, 3:30 p.m.; High River at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Loydminster at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

Baseball MLB PLayoffs WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 1: NL: Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 2 Wednesday, Oct. 2: AL: Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 0 DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) American League Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Boston 12, Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, Oct. 5: Boston 7, Tampa Bay 4 Monday, Oct. 7: Tampa Bay 5, Boston 4 Tuesday, Oct. 8: Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Oakland 2, Detroit 2 Friday, Oct. 4: Detroit 3, Oakland 2 Saturday, Oct. 5: Oakland 1, Detroit 0 Monday, Oct. 7: Oakland 6, Detroit 3 Tuesday, Oct. 8: Detroit 8, Oakland 6 Thursday, Oct. 10: Detroit (Verlander 13-12) at Oakland (Colon 18-6), 7:07 p.m.

National League Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 2 Thursday, Oct. 3: St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 1 Sunday, Oct. 6: Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 3 Monday, Oct. 7: St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1 Wednesday Oct. 9: Pittsburgh (Cole 10-7) at St. Louis (Wainwright 19-9), 6:07 p.m.

Los Angeles 3, Atlanta 1 Thursday, Oct. 3: Los Angeles 6, Atlanta 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Atlanta 4, Los Angeles 3

Sunday, Oct. 6: Los Angeles 13, Atlanta 6 Monday, Oct. 7: Los Angeles 4, Atlanta 3 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League Saturday, Oct. 12: Oakland-Detroit winner at Boston Sunday, Oct. 13: Oakland-Detroit winner at Boston Tuesday, Oct. 15: Boston at Oakland-Detroit winner Wednesday, Oct. 16: Boston at Oakland-Detroit winner x-Thursday, Oct. 17: Boston at Oakland-Detroit winner x-Saturday, Oct. 19: Oakland-Detroit winner at Boston x-Sunday, Oct. 20: Oakland-Detroit winner at Boston National League Friday, Oct. 11: Los Angeles at St. Louis or Pittsburgh at Los Angeles Saturday, Oct. 12: Los Angeles at St. Louis or Pittsburgh at Los Angeles Monday, Oct. 14: St. Louis at Los Angeles or Los Angeles at Pittsburgh Tuesday, Oct. 15: St. Louis at Los Angeles or Los Angeles at Pittsburgh x-Wednesday, Oct. 16: St. Louis at Los Angeles or Los Angeles at Pittsburgh x-Friday, Oct. 18: Los Angeles at St. Louis or Pittsburgh at Los Angeles x-Saturday, Oct. 19: Los Angeles at St. Louis or Pittsburgh at Los Angeles

OLDS GRIZZLYS

Monday’s Game N.Y. Jets 30, Atlanta 28 Thursday, Oct. 10 N.Y. Giants at Chicago, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 13 Carolina at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Houston, 11 a.m.

Green Bay at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Seattle, 2:05 p.m.

Jacksonville at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

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

New Orleans at New England, 2:25 p.m.

Washington at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Atlanta, Miami Monday, Oct. 14 Indianapolis at San Diego, 6:40 p.m.

OLDS — Brad Forrest’s power-play goal at 3:25 of overtime gave the Calgary Mustangs a 3-2 win over the Olds Grizzlys in an Alberta Junior Hockey League game Tuesday.

Jamie King and Connor Collett, whose goal at 19:51 of the third period forced overtime, also scored for the Mustangs. Reid Wilson, in the first period, and Landon Kletke, who gave the home side a 2-1 lead just 16 seconds before Collett potted the equalizer, tallied for the Grizzlys.

Calgary netminder Ravi Dattani made 26 saves in front of 294 fans at the Sportsplex. Olds goaltender Ethan Jemieff blocked 22 shots.

The Grizzlys, who fell to 4-7-2, host the 12-0-0 Fort McMurray Oil Barons Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League LOA ANGELES ANGELS—Announced RHP Robert Coello, LHP Brandon Sisk and LHP Andrew Taylor have cleared waivers and were sent outright to Salt Lake (PCL). Announced hitting coach Jim Eppard and bench coach Rob Picciolo will not return next season.

SEATTLE MARINERS—Claimed OF Travis Witherspoon off waivers from the Los Angeles Angels. Designated C Henry Blanco for assignment.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Announced coaches Charles Nagy and Steve Sax will not return in 2014.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Named Larry Bowa and Pete Mackanin to the coaching staff. Announced assistant hitting coach Wally Joyner will not return in 2014.

American Association AMARILLO SOX—Released C Chris Grossman, RHP Jason Johnson, INF Adam De La Garza, INF Jermel Lomack and RHP Andrew Romo.

Frontier League RIVER CITY RASCALS—Signed LHP Patrick Crider to a contract extension. Signed 1B Corey Davis.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS—Signed Casey Delgado.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS—Waived G-F Dahntay Jones.

MIAMI HEAT—Exercised their 2014-15 option on G Norris Cole.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS—Signed WR Brittan Golden from the practice squad. Released WR Kerry Taylor.

BUFFALO BILLS—Signed LB Ty Powell off the N.Y. Giants practice squad. Signed CB Brandon Smith from the practice squad.

Signed QB Dennis Dixon to the practice squad. Released LB Marcus Dowtin and CB Johnny Adams.

CAROLINA PANTHERS—Waived WR Armanti Edwards.

Signed WR Toney Clemons to the practice squad. Terminated the practice squad contract of WR Cordell Roberson.

CHICAGO BEARS—Signed DT Christian Tupou to the practice squad. Terminated the practice squad contract of DE Aston Whiteside.

DALLAS COWBOYS—Released S Will Allen.

GREEN BAY PACKERS—Signed CB Jumal Rolle to the prac-

tice squad.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Placed S Dwight Lowery, OT Luke Joeckel and TE Allen Reisner on injured reserve. Claimed OT Sam Young off waivers from Buffalo. Promoted OT DeMarcus Love from the practice squad. Signed G Jacques McClendon.

Signed WR Jeremy Ebert to the practice squad. Waived WR Tobais Palmer from the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Signed QB Josh Freeman. Waived QB McLeod Bethel-Thompson.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Re-signed RB Da’Rel Scott. Waived DE Justin Trattou. Signed CB Junior Mertile and LB Darin Drakeford to the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Placed C/G Jared Smith on practice squad/injured reserve. Signed WR Josh Lenz.

TENNESSEE TITANS—Signed RB Kendall Gaskins and LB Brandon Copeland to the practice squad. Waived OT Al Netter from the practice squad.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS—Announced DB Gary Wilburn and DE Daryell Walker were assigned to the team.

HOCKEY National Hockey League MINNESOTA WILD—Recalled F Carson McMillan from Iowa (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS—Reassigned F Kirill Kabanov to Stockton (ECHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Recalled C Michael Latta from Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS—Loaned F Paul Crowder to Cincinnati (ECHL).

PEORIA RIVERMEN—Named Michelle Novak athletic trainer.

ECHL FLORIDA EVERBLADES—Agreed to terms with D Mike Cornell.

GWINNETT GLADIATORS—Signed F Alex Belzile and D Kirill Tulupov. Acquired the rights to D Nathan Martine from Toledo Walleye for future considerations. Released D Dan Christensen, D Dustin Hopfner and F Scott Howe.

COLLEGE EAST CAROLINA—Suspended WR Danny Webster and WR Quataye Snyre indefinitely for violating team policies.

FELICIAN—Named Matt Marotta and Simon Walters assistant baseball coaches.

HOUSTON—Announced junior QB David Piland will to end his playing career because of multiple concussions.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 B7

NHL ROUNDUP

Jokinen hat trick leads Pens over Hurricanes

PM Harper says not enough done to curb hockey violence

other terrific start from Semyon Varlamov in net.

Joffrey Lupul scored for Toronto.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PENGUINS 5 HURRICANES 2 PITTSBURGH — Jussi Jokinen collected his first hat trick in nearly six years and the Pittsburgh Penguins pulled away from the Carolina Hurricanes for a 5-2 win Tuesday night.

Jokinen helped the Penguins improve to 3-0, opening the scoring in the first period and adding two goals in the third after Carolina drew even at 2-2.

Paul Martin and Tanner Glass also scored for Pittsburgh, while Sidney Crosby picked up his first two assists of the season. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 32 shots for the Penguins, who have not trailed through three games. Pittsburgh has outscored opponents 12-3 while getting off to the franchise’s best start since 1994-95.

Eric Staal and Nathan Gerbe scored for the Hurricanes and Cam Ward made 32 saves.

PREDATORS 3, WILD 2 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Filip Forsberg and Colin Wilson scored power-play goals 39 seconds apart in the first period to lead Nashville to victory over Minnesota in its home opener.

Eric Nystrom added his first career penalty shot goal all in the first period for Nashville, matching the goals the Predators had totalled in losing their first two games. Pekka Rinne made 32 saves.

Zach Parise scored a power-play goal, and Jared Spurgeon also scored for the Wild.

Minnesota lost goalie Niklas Backstrom to a lower body injury in the first when Nystrom crashed into him after being tripped on a breakaway. The Wild said Backstrom will be evaluated Wednesday.

Josh Harding replaced Backstrom and gave up the goal to Nystrom.

AVALANCHE 2, MAPLE LEAFS 1 TORONTO — P.A. Parenteau scored early in the third period to help Colorado edge Toronto.

Tied 1-1 going into the third, Colorado went ahead at 2:30 on a two-on-one with Jamie McGinn setting up Parenteau.

The goal stood up to video review.

“According to Rule 78.4 ’if an attacking player has the puck deflect into the net, off his skate or body, in any manner, the goal shall be allowed.’ Good goal Colorado,” the NHL said in explaining the call.

Avs rookie Nathan MacKinnon, the 18-year-old first overall pick in the draft, got an assist — his fourth — on Parenteau’s third goal of the season.

Cory Sarich also scored for Colorado, which got an-

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ISLANDERS 6, COYOTES 1 UNIONDALE, N.Y. — John Tavares scored his first two goals of the season and defenceman Matt Donovan added the first of his NHL career to lift New York over Phoenix.

Peter Regin and Tavares scored in the first period, and Donovan, Tavares and Colin McDonald connected in the second against beleaguered goalie Mike Smith to turn it into a rout.

Frans Nielsen earned the second of his three assists on the night when McDonald made it 5-1 with 2:36 left in the second.

Evgeni Nabokov was the beneficiary of all the offence and made 33 saves for the win. The 38-year-old goalie has started all three games for the Islanders.

Martin Hanzal scored in the second period for the Coyotes.

FLYERS 2, PANTHERS 1 PHILADELPHIA — Brayden Schenn and Braydon Coburn scored to lead Philadelphia past Florida make Craig Berube a winner in his coaching debut.

Berube was on the bench a day after Peter Laviolette was fired after a 0-3 start.

With Berube calling the shots, the Flyers scored their season high for goals.

Steve Mason had 33 saves for the Flyers.

Brad Boyes scored for the Panthers.

LIGHTNING 3, SABRES 2, OT BUFFALO, N.Y. — Alex Killorn scored 1:50 into overtime to lift Tampa Bay to a come-from-behind victory over winless Buffalo.

Teddy Purcell had the tying goal 5:43 into the third period and Tyler Johnson also scored for the Lightning (2-1), who have two wins after regulation.

Tampa Bay has yet to hold a lead in regulation after coming off a 3-2 shootout victory at Chicago in which the Lightning overcame a 2-0 third-period deficit.

Jamie McBain and Cody Hodgson had a goal and assist each for Buffalo (0-3-1).

Despite the loss, Buffalo finally generated some offence by doubling its season goal total. And the Sabres also earned a point to avoid extending their franchise-worst season-opening losing streak to four games.

Buffalo had previously never lost more than two straight in regulation.

BALI, Indonesia — Stephen Harper has dropped his prime ministerial gloves and put on his hockey historian’s helmet to wade in on the subject of violence in Canada’s most popular sport.

And he did so from a beach-front hotel in Bali, Indonesia, of all places.

The prime minister, who has a book coming out next month on the early history of professional hockey, prefaced his unsolicited comments Tuesday on his role as an author, not as a politician.

“Since I’m taking off my hat soon on this (hockey historian) business anyway, as you know, I welcome the opportunity to comment on it,” he told bemused reporters at a closing news conference following a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders.

Harper — a sharp-elbowed partisan in the political game — said hockey is a rough sport but he’s an admirer of skill over brawn.

“I do think that authorities have historically not taken their responsibility to try and keep the rough, tough part of the game within the rules,” he said, adding he’s particularly concerned about head shots.

“These are very serious issues and they do have to be taken seriously by the NHL and other sports bodies.”

Last week’s opening of the 2013-14 NHL season saw a nasty incident in which Montreal Canadiens enforcer George Parros pitched to the ice during a battle with Toronto Maple Leafs tough guy Colton Orr, falling hard on his chin and knocking himself unconscious. The Parros incident was one of several that marred the early season and renewed yet again the debate over fighting on ice.

“I’m not trying to be nonchalant about some of these incidents, which I think are of concern to any parent watching this and seeing examples set and worrying about what could happen to their own boys and girls when they step on the ice,” Harper said.

“That all said, what we all have to realize is that this debate is as old as the game itself.”

In fact, said historian Harper, “there has never been an era in hockey, including from the very beginning, where violence was not an issue of controversy.” Matters are actually less rough today, said the prime minister, who called the level of violence in pre-war hockey “quite shocking.”

Harper’s coming book is titled A Great Game: The Forgotten Leafs and the Rise of Professional Hockey.

Author and Globe and Mail columnist Roy MacGregor acted as an editorial consultant on the book, which is to be released Nov. 5, with proceeds going to a military charity.

MacKinnon loving life as an NHL rookie TORONTO — Teenager Nathan MacKinnon is clearly enjoying his NHL rookie season ride.

The 18-year-old centre from Cole Harbour, N.S., was all smiles Tuesday as the media descended on his stall in the box-sized visitors’ dressing room at Air Canada Centre.

The Colorado rookie took the time to pull on an Avalanche cap and then enthused about life in the big league.

Asked what has surprised him about the NHL, he replied: “I guess how good they treat us here.

“It’s awesome. I’m loving every second of it. The travelling with the team, the way that they treat the players is pretty special. Obviously a little different than junior but I can’t complain about that either, it’s been great.”

MacKinnon’s parents flew out for the Toronto game.

The Avs are taking care not to pile on the pressure on the top overall pick in the 2013 draft. MacKinnon, who has three assists in two games, is playing on the third line with Jamie McGinn and P.A. Parenteau.

“It’s the perfect fit for him,” said head coach Patrick Roy. “He doesn’t have to come here and be the saviour.

He can come in here and be himself and play.”

“We’re extremely happy with our decision (to draft him),” added Roy. “He’s been outstanding in the first two games, despite the fact that he had an injury in training camp. We’re very excited and we love what we have seen so far of him.”

Away from the rink, MacKinnon lives with veteran Jean-Sebastien

Giguere. The 36-year-old goalie is married to a Halifax native and there is a family atmosphere with six-, four-, and one-year-old sons in the house.

“It’s still early,” centre Matt Duchene said of MacKinnon. “He’s still making the transition. It takes a while.

It takes a couple of years, I think. But he’s had a good start. We’re all pulling for him, for sure.”

The Avs are 2-0-0 to begin a season for the first time since 2009-10 and only the third time since 1995.

It’s the first meeting between Colorado and Toronto (3-0-0) since October 2011.

Roy was the other centre of attention Tuesday.

The former star goalie and rookie NHL coach has already made headlines for an outburst behind the bench directed at his Anaheim counterpart Bruce Boudreau. He was fined US$10,000 for his glass-rattling action, prompted by a concern that a Ducks player had gone after MacKinnon.

“I felt like a kid again,” Duchene said, recalling the moment. “I felt like I was watching him fight (Mike) Vernon back in the day. It was pretty funny.”

Roy preferred to talk about the game ahead rather than his outburst, but his players spoke warmly about his passion.

“He wants the best for his players, no doubt about it,” said winger Alex Tanguay. “We saw what happened with Nathan in the first game, the intensity and things like that. He wants us to succeed.

“I think the quality he has above all is he wants to win. He was like that as a player and he’s certainly like that as a coach.”

Added MacKinnon: “He’s a players’

coach but the same time he’s all business when he’s at the rink.

“He’s a very good man as well, treats everybody very well. Everybody wants to play for him, I think that’s huge. ...

We all love him here and he’s doing a great job.”

Duchene described the players’ relationship with Roy as “more of a partnership.”

“It’s hard to describe. It’s just more of a winning feeling. We all feel like it’s within our control where before we didn’t really know what was going on sometimes, just in terms of stuff in the (dressing) room.”

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“Our relationship right now is fantastic and everybody seems to be enjoying themselves. There’s a lot of energy on our team. We just want to bring it on the ice and see how far we can go.”

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Eskimos going to let Reilly run QUARTERBACK SAYS HE IS FINE AND TEAM WILL BE GOING BACK TO PLAYBOOK THAT LETS HIM IMPROVISE CFL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly said Tuesday he will start Saturday against Saskatchewan, and dismissed suggestions the team rushed him back too quickly last week from a concussion.

“Being a competitor and a guy that loves the game and tries to play with as much passion as you can, you don’t ever want to come off the field,” Reilly said after practice at Commonwealth Stadium.

“But at the same time, I’m not an idiot. I’ve looked at what has happened to guys that have come back too early (from concussions).

“I’ve seen the newspaper articles about guys committing suicide, having issues with concussions down the road.

“As much as I love this game, I’m not going to put myself in a bad position.”

Reilly was concussed on Sept. 28 when he took a pile-driving helmet-to-helmet blow to the back of his head against the Toronto Argonauts.

Four days later, he was cleared to practice, and three days after that he was starting against the Montreal Alouettes, despite criticism from fans and media that he was being rushed back in a futile attempt

to salvage a lost season.

Those fears were stoked when the Eskimos ran essentially a Reilly-lite offence in the loss to Montreal, abandoning his successful scrambling style to keep him in the pocket to throw quick “one steamboat” passes and avoid contact.

Reilly said he understood the skepticism, but said a battery of tests from Eskimo and third-party doctors convinced him he was OK. “It was just very difficult for people to really believe that within seven days I was ready to play,” he said. “I’m not going to put my career in jeopardy for one game.

“But if I’m ready to play — and I knew that I was — and all the proper protocols were passed and I’m medically cleared to play, then I’m not going to take myself off that field because that sends the wrong message about the way that I play.

“It (also) sends the wrong message to my teammates and to the fans that we’ve given up — and that’s simply not the case.”

The 3-11 Eskimos need to win their last four games and have Montreal lose their last four to win a crossover playoff spot.

Reilly was 13 for 21 for 180 yards and two interceptions before he was pulled at halftime against Montreal, with the Eskimos down 31-3.

After the game, both Reilly and head coach Kavis Reed admitted to reporters the playbook was altered to keep Reilly away from contact.

“We wanted to be very careful in how we used

him and managed the game that way,” said Reed at the time.

“Play-calling wise we wanted to make certain we didn’t put him in a situation where he was exposed to protection breakdowns, like running the football and all those things.”

On Tuesday, however, Reed denied the game plan was adjusted to specifically keep Reilly out of harm’s way.

“We made certain that we had a game plan that the ball was going to come out quickly from Mike’s hand because we were playing a high-pressure defence,” said Reed.

“I said that we did things to get the ball out of (Reilly’s) hands quickly and to be responsible with our quarterback,” he added when asked if he was misinterpreted by reporters.

“That was the game plan. (It was) not because of concussion.”

Regardless, “One Steamboat” Reilly is no more.

The quarterback confirmed from here on out the plan will be for him to roam, scramble and improvise.

Football doesn’t work any other way, he said.

“If we’re going to design plays around the possibility of me getting hurt, I may as well just not play anymore,” he said.

“Every time you set foot on that field you understand you’re at risk from an injury. But if you’re playing with that in mind, you aren’t going to be effective in this league.”

New breed of tight end changing football POSITION NOT JUST FOR THE BIG BLOCKERS ANY MORE AS NEW STARS EMERGING THAT LEARNED THEIR SKILLS ON THE HARDCOURT NFL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Tight ends are no longer big plodders who might be mistaken for jelly-belly linemen. They’re athletic, fast, powerful and shifty, traits many of them honed on the hardwood.

Guys like Jimmy Graham, Julius Thomas and Jordan Cameron.

With size and jumping ability, they’re part of a new breed of tight ends changing pro football.

“The big thing is we’re starting to inherit a different type of athlete from the college ranks,” Denver tight ends coach Clancy Barone said. “It isn’t like the old days when those guys were big, thick, square-body blockers or guys that maybe played linebacker in high school and college.

“Now, we’re getting guys that were maybe bigger receivers and they got moved inside to tight end. Maybe a backup quarterback who wants to see the field in college. So, we’re getting more athletic guys who now come to our league.”

Increasingly, the place to find them is in the gymnasium.

“It seems like if you’re a 6-foot-6 power forward in college, you end up going to our league to play tight end,” said Barone, who coached the alpha hoopster-turned-gridiron great, Antonio Gates, in San Diego in 2007-08.

“That’s the new generation.”

Cameron, who played hoops at BYU and walked on USC’s team before concentrating on his football career, has quickly developed into one of Cleveland’s top offensive players and is a big reason the first-place Browns have won three straight games since trading running back Trent Richardson.

Graham and Thomas played just one year of college football after helping lead their schools into the NCAA basketball tournament, Graham at Miami and Thomas at Portland State. Yet they’ve quickly joined the list of elite tight ends with the likes of Jason Witten and Rob Gronkowski, and they, too, have helped their teams get off to great starts.

From March Madness to NFL stardom, they are the vanguards of this towering tight end trend that is a big headache for defences in today’s passheavy game.

With six TDs in September, unprecedented for his position, Graham was

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — New Orleans and Indianapolis, the sites of the past two Super Bowls, and Minneapolis are the three finalists to host the NFL championship game in 2018. Those three cities have been selected from a pool of six at the owners’ meetings.

Colts owner Jim Irsay says: “It proves that Indianapolis is really a unique city, being a medium-sized market in a colder market.”

Owners say that the subject of changing the Washington Redskins’ nickname was not discussed in any formal way during Tuesday’s sessions. Among the decisions made: There will be three games played at London’s Wembley Stadium next season.

The Falcons, Jaguars and Raiders will be the “home” teams. Dates and opponents will be announced later.

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Peyton Manning’s favourite target in Denver’s shootout win at Dallas wasn’t Wes Welker but Thomas, who caught nine passes for 122 yards and two TDs. That gave him six touchdowns, most by a Broncos tight end since Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe had eight a decade ago.

Thomas, whose 27 catches this season are 26 more than he had in his first two years combined, when he was bogged down by leg injuries, said his basketball background helped him navigate the crash course of NFL football.

He makes split-second decisions, deciphers defences, anticipates the action, adjusts on the fly, just like he did on the basketball floor, where he was a bully on the blocks. Shielding a defensive back to give the quarterback an opening, he said, is just like posting up a player under the basket to give the point guard a clear passing lane.

Even those who aren’t gym rats are prepping for the pros in college football’s spread offences, Barone said: “It’s hard to find a tight end in a threepoint stance anymore. Everyone’s spread out.”

Browns defensive co-ordinator Ray Horton said the tight ends with power forward in their DNA are a matchup nightmare.

“Because they’re so big, they’re faster than the linebackers but they’re bigger than the safeties,” he said. “It’s kind of that hybrid position that everybody covets right now.”

The NFL is a master at countering the trend de jour, but finding a retort for the transformer tight end is proving difficult, suggested former Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi.

“That special athlete you’re looking for is the guy has the cover skills who can also come down in the box and play the run but also be very athletic in coverage,” he said.

A super safety, if you will.

“Right,” Bruschi said, “the hybrid safety that can be a linebacker and also play the deep third. How many of those are out there?”

Not many.

“Yeah, you’d have to look down some depth charts because those guys are rare,” Bruschi said. “LaRon Landry comes to mind. But you need that hybrid safety/linebacker because of

LOCAL FRONT DRUM CIRCLE Drum away the autumnal doldrums in Blackfalds on Oct. 25. Starting at 7:30 p.m., Blackfalds United Church will host a drumming circle designed to help people relieve stress and get themselves emotionally and spiritually connected. People are encouraged to bring their own drum if they have one, but no experience is necessary. Jeannette Hippie, a local drumming facilitator, will lead the group. Registration is $10 for adults or $5 for children, with use of drum included. Contact Karen at 403-885-4151 or dkolfert@ telus.net to register or for more information.

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Aviva starts local drive MAGDALENE HOUSE SOCIETY JOIN NATIONWIDE CONTEST

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer society who will work to get survivors of sex and labour trafficking back on their feet is calling for public votes to help secure the funding they need for a long-term facility.

It will be the second such facility in Canada.

The Magdalene House Society has joined the popular, nationwide Aviva Community Fund contest to kick start their $500,000 fundraising campaign,

slated to officially begin on Dec. 3 at Parkland Mall.

T h e society w a n t s to build a home with 12 spots for men and women struggling to recover from the trauma experienced by human trafficking.

In the meantime, they want

to lease space beginning in January to help at least six indi-

exploited by either labour or sex trafficking,” society president David Bouchard said.

“They can stay there as long as they need to and we’ll provide help with job skills training, — SOCIETY PRESIDENT DAVID BOUCHARD dress for success training and they can viduals. take over their lives again.

“We’re recognizing the need for a place to recover for those Please see AVIVA on Page C2

‘WE’RE RECOGNIZING THE NEED FOR A PLACE TO RECOVER FOR THOSE EXPLOITED BY EITHER LABOUR OR SEX TRAFFICKING.’

CHANGE OF SEASONS David Cadrin works on the front window of La Petite Jaunefleur Flower Boutique on Ross Street Tuesday.

While Cadrin has been working on the change of seasons display the City of Red Deer has been working at removing the Ross Street patio, tables, flowers, benches and planters where people have been gathering through the summer months. Once lines are painted and the barricades removed street parking will return to the patio area.

Over the summer, there were 28 performances by local artists, three First Friday Patio Parties and other community events hosted on the patio.

BOOK SALE Friends of the Red Deer Public Library will host a low-cost used book sale on Oct. 17 at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library. The sale will run from 5 to 9 p.m. and is open to members only. Memberships will be available at the door for $7.50 an individual or $10 per family. The sale continues on Oct. 18 and 19 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the general public. All proceeds will go to the library. Book donations accepted at the downtown branch year-round. For information call 403-3465721.

SUNDAY FUNDAY Willowdale Equine Centre is holding a Sunday Funday on Oct. 20 from 1 to 6 p.m. for its Horses to Hearts fundraiser. The event will feature a silent auction boasting donated items from vendors across Red Deer. Inside the centre’s main arena there will be miniature horses to see, jumping demonstrations, horse dressage display, dog tricks and obedience lessons, and much more.

There will also be a 50/50 draw, wagon rides, a petting zoo and a giant sandbox. A family day pass costs $15 or six donated items to Red Deer charity Loaves and Fishes. It’s $5 per person or three donated items. All proceeds go to CAWES women’s shelter and Loaves and Fishes.

For more, visit www. willowdaleequinecentre. com.

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Williams wants to share knowledge of career

Hollman wants people to talk about inclusion within division

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Milt Williams wants to share the knowledge he’s gleaned over the past 24 years teaching in Red Deer’s public schools.

“I still have a strong desire to be involved in education and I want what’s best for schools and their students so that’s why I’m running for trustee,” said Williams, who retired last year.

Williams, 63, is married to another former teacher, Mari- Milt anne, and the Williams couple have four sons: John, Andrew, Daniel and James, who all went through the public school system.

“I have a variety of backgrounds so I think I bring in a unique perspective as a father of students who attended Red Deer Public schools and as a former teacher. ... It all makes me well rounded,” he said.

He was also in business before he switched gears and decided to teach, working as the store manager of operations for a national furniture retail chain and ran a number of small businesses over the years.

In 2009, Williams brought the MicroSociety program to Aspen Heights Elementary School — the only one in Canada.

This program operates like a miniature community within the school where students own

and run businesses, hold elections and even have their own currency.

Williams was internationally recognized last year with the George Award at the MicroSociety Conference in Philadelphia.

“To develop a program like that was a lot of work but it was fun,” he said, adding it helped him with his leadership skills.

In terms of his platform, Williams wants to see classrooms stay a “reasonable” size, encourage the growth of critical thinking within the classroom and is advocating for an elected student representative to participate in board meetings.

“They would provide insight that board members won’t posses on contemporary things like cyber bullying for example.”

He also wants to promote more open communication between parents, trustees, teachers and the wider community.

“We have some school partnerships already with businesses, but I think we can expand on that; give them more options, develop critical thinkers through real world experiences.

Let’s get them involved with the food bank, see what the SPCA does, stuff like that.”

Other Red Deer Public School candidates include Cathy Peacocke, Ray Yaworski, Bill Christie, Shari Hanson, Kerri Kenworthy, Lianne Kruger, Dick Lemke, Dianne Macaulay, Bev Manning, Ben Ordman, Jim Watters, Kurt Spady and Bill Stuebing. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate. com

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Should voters choose to include him on the next Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division board, Murray Hollman would like to talk about inclusion within the division.

And he would like to get others talking about inclusion as well.

“We’re all for i n c l u s i o n , i t ’ s Murray just in how it’s Hollman being developed and how we can streamline that, get more of the parties involved, get the teachers more informed on the resources that are out there to help them out,” said Hollman.

“There’s a lot of people working for the same thing, they just need to all talk together.”

Hollman said he has already met with school principals, the Alberta Teachers’ Association, and CARE to talk about inclusive education within the Catholic system.

While the concept pertains to students with developmental disabilities and those for whom English is not a native tongue, Hollman said the Catholic division also has to improve the opportunities it provides to

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gifted students through Advanced Placement courses.

He also cited the need for a new high school in Red Deer and a Catholic school for fastgrowing Blackfalds as issues he would like to see tackled by the new board.

At 27 and running for the first time, Hollman is the youngest candidate for the Catholic board.

Hollman and his wife have one infant child with another expected in the spring.

A quality manager at CMR Fabricators in Red Deer, Hollman said his talents and work ethic would serve the board well.

“I’m an organized individual.

I’m very driven.

“I come from the quality industries with the oilpatch, so I’m very detailed.

Lots of details, procedures and policies doesn’t scare me,” he said.

Hollman said he feels a calling to serve the local division, having been very involved with the Catholic church for many years.

Along with his wife, Hollman handles registration duties for Red Deer Engaged Encounter marriage preparation courses.

Also running for the Catholic board are David Bouchard, Adriana LaGrange, Cory Litzenberger, Guy Pelletier, Brandie Towers and Anne Marie Watson. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Bamford donating $100,000 to children’s hospitals Lacombe country music star Gord Bamford is celebrating his recent Canadian Country Music Association Awards, new album launch and fall tour with Reba McEntire by donating $100,000 to children’s hospitals across Canada.

Since creating the Gord Bamford Charitable Foundation in 2008, Bamford has generated nearly $1.5 million thanks to an annual charity golf classic he hosts in Central Alberta every summer.

Those monies have gone to support underprivileged youth and single-parent families in Canada by supporting education, health care and music.

However, children’s hospitals are also a priority for Bamford, and he’s quick to recognize that music is a form of therapy for children who are ill.

Bamford will be presenting $10,000 cheques to facilities in Victoria and Vancouver, St. John’s, NL, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto and London, Ont. Two Alberta hospitals were also recent recipients of Bamford’s generosity.

The Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton and the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary each received $10,000 for their music therapy programs in September.

The Gord Bamford Charitable Foundation offers under-privileged youth and single-parent families in Canada an equal opportunity in life by providing monies to support education, health care and music.

Feds investing $2 million in seniors’ social isolation projects

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Having lost his leg in a lawnmower accident, Roan Heck, 5, of Stettler, is well qualified to alert other children to the importance of being safe at play. This past summer, Roan, who has been named The War Amps National Safety Ambassador, joined Calgary Stampeders Brandon Smith, left, and Keon Raymond, right, to film a new War Amps PLAYSAFE public service announcement.

The PSA will begin airing the Friday of the Thanksgiving weekend during TSN football telecasts and will continue through the CFL playoffs and the Grey Cup.

The federal government is tackling the issue of seniors’ social isolation with an investment of $2 million.

Earl Dreeshen, Red Deer MP, made an announcement on behalf of Alice Wong, minister of state for Seniors, calling for proposals to fund approximately 20 community-based pilot projects in Central Alberta.

Each of these projects will be eligible to receive between $50,000 and $100,000 of federal funding over a maximum of 24 months.

That will be matched with funding from other sources.

“Through these local projects we’re combatting the social isolation of seniors and helping them to remain active in the community.

Centres like the Golden Circle (Red Deer), the Innisfail Seniors Drop-In Centre, Family Services of Central Alberta and many other groups do a tremendous job of engaging seniors in our communities,” Dreeshen said.

“This funding opportunity has the potential to build on that work and hopefully reach more seniors who are in isolation.”

The application period for the pilot projects began last week and will close on Nov. 13.

For more details on how to apply, visit seniors. gc.ca.

numerous projects, including four years spent on the Heritage Preservation Committee and contributions to the Community Mapping Project and Veterans’ Park interpretative signage.

She was also behind ensuring the Cenotaph on Ross Street, honouring Central Albertans who served in the First World War, was preserved in its original location during the 1980s.

There were a handful of winners for the awards’ newest category, which recognizes non-professional youth under the age of 25 who have made special efforts in the name of heritage.

Grade 5 students from Fairview Elementary School, Koinonia Christian School and the Riverside Meadows Community Association won an award for the North Red Deer Centennial Postcard Project, an education and creative campaign that built awareness for the 2011 Centennial of North Red Deer celebrations.

The Heritage Awards, which were cancelled last year due to a lack of nominations, are sponsored by Red Deer County and the City of Red Deer.

Four Red Deer Heritage Recognition Awards nominees win plaques

25 arrested in prostitution sweep, vehicles involved may be forfeited

All four nominations for the 10th Red Deer Heritage Recognition Awards took home winning plaques on Sept. 27 as part of the Alberta Culture Days celebration.

The Stephan G. Stephansson Icelandic Society was recognized for its work on the Historic Markerville Lutheran Church Restoration Project.

More than 4,700 volunteers came together to undertake hours of research and fundraising to finance, plan and restore the century old building.

Red Deer County also took home an award for the preservation of the ACR Mintlaw Trestle Railway Bridge, which was built between 1911 and 1912.

The bridge is the largest surviving railway structure in Central Alberta and the third longest steel railway trestle in Western Canada.

Heritage enthusiast Mary Fink was honoured at the awards ceremony as well for her leadership in

Red Deer City RCMP arrested 25 people in a prostitution sweep last week.

Nine escorts, seven street workers and nine alleged clients were arrested.

RCMP and other units conducted a project focusing on locating and arresting escorts, street workers and their customers between Sept. 30 and Oct. 4.

All of the escorts and street workers who were arrested met with the K Division KARE Unit and Red Deer Domestic Violence Unit to provide safety planning and counselling.

Charges are pending against all nine alleged customers who were arrested.

In each case, their vehicle was seized under Section 173.1 of the Traffic Safety Act and may be forfeited to the Crown.

Police say an unintended outcome of this project was that three foreign nationals were identified, including one with an expired visa.

The units involved included Red Deer RCMP general investigation services, Red Deer street team,

With a little luck and a large chunk of cash, renovations at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre could get moving this fall.

The expected price tag for renovations to the centre 67 km southwest of Red Deer is $2.5 million, but only $100,000 is needed to finish the concrete walls and footings to enclose the upgraded structure.

The engineering and design work is done, contractors are in place and permits have almost all been secured, but now the centre is looking to an online crowdfunding drive to raise the required funds.

The initiative has not been set up yet, but executive director Carol Kelly said it is the route the rural centre will go to raise funds.

“If crowdfunding works and weather co-operates, there still is a possibility we could move on it this fall,” she said.

“It’s moving much slower than we would love but it is moving.”

Kelly added that the centre has received a commitment from a major oil company to provide funding for the build next year.

The fundraising effort will be ongoing. The Prairie Thunder Riders for Charity pitched in recently by raising more than $1,100 from the group’s charity ride on Sept. 22.

The renovations will allow the facility to grow from its current 4,500 square feet of space to 10,000 square feet.

The existing building, which had significant water damage and a dysfunctional heating system, is being stripped bare and rebuilt.

The original plan was to have the exterior work done in the summer, with the inside finishing work done over the winter.

The goal is to have the renovations done by 2014 to coincide with the centre’s 30th anniversary.

For more information, visit www.mrwc.ca.

online votes from the Canadian public move onto a second, third and semifinal round of voting to determine the top 30 projects, all of which will receive a minimum of $5,000.

Aviva judges then select the grand prize winners based on certain criteria, such as the likelihood of success and the level of community impact.

Other Central Alberta organizations are also setting their sights on securing votes for bolstered finances with Aviva. Red Deer’s Guitar Bank, a group that refurbishes old guitars and donates them to those less fortunate, has joined the competition.

It’s looking for up to $50,000 to help spread awareness, purchase supplies, build a website and eventually acquire a space for business.

In Sylvan Lake, the Serenity Pet Shelter Society is seeking extra money to build feral cat shelters, covered feeders and waterers “so feral cat colonies can

remain intact but not breeding,” in response to the community’s abandoned cat problem.

Residents in Delburne are looking to see if there’s interest in building a recreation/drop-in/play centre to make the community just as fun as it is in the summer time with its outdoor spray park.

The Caroline Community Hub is looking for help in completing the construction of its new 13,000-square-foot addition to the existing community complex, a $1.4-million project set to break ground this fall.

Ashley Hilkewich with the Aviva Community Fund Team estimated there are about 30 projects across Central Alberta vying for votes in the competition, a “great showing for the region,” she said.

To place a vote, which can be cast once a day, visit www.avivacommunityfund.org. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

AVIVA: Competition held to generate positive change “If they don’t have that long term care, they will often end up in the same trap again, as we’ve seen from other agencies.”

Aviva Insurance holds the annual competition to donate a share of $1 million to various community organizations to generate positive change from sea to sea.

Project ideas that receive the highest number of

RED DEER CATHOLIC MEET AND GREET

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Division does things differently during trustee elections The Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division does things differently when it comes to trustee candidates taking the public floor during election time.

They hold meet and greets instead of the more standard, structured forums, as seen with the public school board.

Many of these meet and greets are taking place inside local parishes, such as St. Mary’s Church on McMillan Avenue after the 11 a.m. mass on Sunday.

One will also occur at the board office on this evening.

“It’s a more casual approach to meeting parents and voters and discussing concerns that may exist,” divi-

sion superintendent Paul Mason said.

“It’s more of a low-key way to chat with voters, get a sense of what they want to see.

“All our candidates have been attending.”

The board also used this method in the previous election in 2009 and found it to be “very effective,” he said.

Mason said the public feedback on the meet and greets has been overall positive and while it may seem that there would be less debate, he said that isn’t exactly the case.

The arrangement “still allows an opportunity for open dialoguing” and expression of different opinions, just not in a formal debate setting, he said.

Once again this year we will be featuring many local recipes from Central Alberta’s best cooks in our upcoming Carols & Cookies publication on Saturday, November 16.

We will include categories for appetizers, entrees and desserts. Prizes will be awarded in all categories, with a grand prize winner chosen from all recipes submitted.

PLEASE SEND OR DROP OFF YOUR RECIPE TO: Carols & Cookies Recipes, Attention: Special Sections 2950 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 or Email: specialsections@reddeeradvocate.com

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E-cigarettes could hook new generation on nicotine, medical journal warns COULD LURE YOUTH WHO WOULDN’T OTHERWISE SMOKE INTO A NICOTINE HABIT

BY HELEN BRANSWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS A leading Canadian medical journal is raising concerns that electronic cigarettes could hook a new generation into nicotine addiction.

With fruit-flavoured products and movie star endorsements, e-cigarettes could lure youth who wouldn’t otherwise smoke into a nicotine habit, an editorial in this week’s issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests.

The editorial was written

by Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, a Toronto-based respirologist and an editor at the journal.

He said it may be tempting for society to embrace e-cigarettes based on the assumption that they help some people to quit smoking. But he warned that some people use e-cigarettes to get a nicotine hit where they are not allowed to smoke and continue to smoke regular cigarettes as well.

“It isn’t as obviously a good thing as those trying to sell these are trying to make it appear to be,” Stanbrook said in an interview.

“You would think: ‘Well, here’s a cigarette that doesn’t have all the bad stuff. How could that be bad?’ But you have to think beyond an e-cigarette versus a regular cigarette and think about how this is going to change the behaviour of smokers. And that’s the concern.”

Electronic cigarettes are small cigarette-shaped canisters that are used to simulate the sensation of smoking. Batteries in the canisters heat up fluid-filled cartridges that then give off a vapour, which from a distance resembles smoke.

Some of the cartridges are

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A sales associate demonstrates the use of an electronic cigarette and the smoke-like vapour that comes from it in Aurora, Colo. A leading Canadian medical journal is raising concerns that electronic cigarettes could hook a new generation into nicotine addiction. tool he credits most for having driven down smoking rates in Canada — the restrictions on smoking in workplaces, in restaurants and bars and many other public settings. These policies have made it harder for smokers to smoke, and have turned public perception against the habit.

“It was to make it more and more inconvenient to continue their addiction so that they were finally motivated to quit, as the overwhelming majority of smokers want to do anyway but can’t,” said Stanbrook, who practises at Toronto Western Hospital.

“So anything that reverses

filled with flavoured liquids, for example cherry or menthol.

Others contain nicotine, though those are not meant to be sold in Canada.

Under Canadian law, it is illegal to sell e-cigarettes with nicotine.

Still, vials of nicotine for ecigarettes can be purchased in the U.S. or ordered over the Internet.

Canadian border authorities will seize shipments of nicotine vials for e-cigarettes — when they spot them.

One of Stanbrook’s major concerns is that increasing use of e-cigarettes could 0 the

that most effective tool we’ve ever invented is of concern.”

Stanbrook acknowledged that e-cigarettes probably do help some people quit smoking. But he worries that — unlike nicotine patches or gum — the devices have a cool quotient that could appeal to youth and spur them to start consuming nicotine.

“The gum isn’t cool for youth to use in clubs. No one’s going to make that sexy. No one’s going to make sticking a nicotine patch on sexy and trendy. But here’s something that looks to a casual observer exactly like smoking, can be made trendy, can be expanded

to people who never smoked.

That’s where the concern comes in.”

The editorial comes as the Canadian Cancer Society calls on federal and provincial governments to ban all flavoured tobacco products.

Data from the national Youth Smoking Survey, released Monday, showed that more than half of high school students in Canada who used tobacco products in the previous 30 days reported having used flavoured tobacco products.

While the federal Tobacco Act bars the use of flavours — except menthol — in cigarettes, cigarillos and blunt wraps (flavoured rolling papers), there are ways around the ban, the society said in a release.

For instance, the act defines cigarillos as weighing 1.4 grams or less. Some tobacco companies have produced flavoured cigarillos that weigh more than 1.4 g, thereby sidestepping the regulation. As well, there is no prohibition on flavouring tobacco used in water pipes or adding flavours to smokeless tobacco — products like snuff, chewing tobacco and snus.

The Youth Smoking Survey found that among high school students, 14 per cent had smoked cigarettes in the previous 30 days, 20 per cent had used a tobacco product in the previous 30 days and 10 per cent had used a flavoured tobacco product (including menthol cigarettes) in the previous 30 days.

“Swift action is needed to protect youth from these products. It is essential that governments introduce new legislation without delay,” said Rob Cunningham, senior policy analyst for the Canadian Cancer Society.

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On Saturday, November 9th, the Advocate, with the generous support of the local business community, will pay tribute to those who have answered Canada’s call in time of need by publishing a very special pictorial section honouring our veterans.

In Search of Pictures and Stories . . . of yourself, your family, loved ones or friends who have served in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War I, World War II, the Korean ConÀict, Desert Storm, Afghanistan or any of Canada’s Peacekeeping Missions.

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The Red Deer Advocate would like to thank participating businesses and families of veterans for their assistance in the publication of this very special section.

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We cannot reproduce photocopies of pictures.

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LUANN Oct. 9 1982 — Canada wins 26 gold, 23 silver and 33 bronze medals, finishing third at Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia.

1974 — Hervé Filion wins his 5,000th harness race, the first North American driver, and first Canadian, to do so.

1878 — John A. Macdonald sworn in as

prime minister. He is back in power after a win over Alexander Mackenzie.

1874 — James Farquharson Macleod arrives at Fort Whoop-Up with the first North West Mounted Police troop, guided

by Metis scout Jerry Potts. They find the whiskey trading post empty, but build a fort on an island in the Oldman River that is now known as Fort Macleod. The first arrest comes with the capture of five whiskey traders with two wagon loads of fire water, buffalo robes and rifles.

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HOROSCOPE Wednesday, Oct. 9 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Steve McQueen, 44; Guillermo del Toro, 49; Sharon Osbourne, 61 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Archer’s influence should set a light vibe to our day. When the Moon meets Uranus in the sky, they will guarantee us pleasant surprises. Innovative ideas stimulate our minds. Emotional fulfilment can be achieved when we can express ourselves in a liberating, unique kind of way. We seek excitement through some kind of adventurous circumstances. Our sense of purpose and will are greatly synchronized with our innermost needs and intentions. We know intuitively what is right for us.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year promises to be highly active and ASTRO sociable. You will be busy running DOYNA around like a chicken with no head.

Your restless nature will push you to seek a life plenty of adventures and random coincidences. This year, you may be learning a new skill. The philosopher in you may turn writing into one of your main hobbies.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have certain issues over money that is being owed to you. You might not receive as much as you had hoped for. Despite this temporary anguish, you manage to rock on and your day proves to be quite frivolous and playful.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Others might not be as responsive to your calling, but this won’t stop you from enjoying a nice boost of cash stream. Your pleasures are increased and you experience great feelings of comforts. A secret surprise will swipe you off your feet in a very delightful way.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You display a new way when dealing with an ongoing issue. Some perceived failures or unresolved matters can now be negotiated. Be careful with messages that you are trying to convey now as they can either heal or worsen your situation.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The help that you receive now might come from unknown sources. It appears that there’s an invisible hand willing to cooperate with you. An unforeseen occasion will take you by surprise today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The freedom that you get within your relationships can feel so liberating and invigorating. You will be in demand today so prepare to go out in the town tonight. Don’t let your emotions get too seriously tonight.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Saying the right thing at the right time can mean the difference between a beautiful union and relationships with others today or it can be a total mess.

Your gains are on the rise and you seem to gain in popularity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When someone comes up to you today for advice, offer them the best guidance you can offer. This might not cost you anything at all, but it could be similar to a therapy session to someone else. Money issues aside, enjoy a night in the town.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You could go through a very restorative experience today with one of your children. He or she might open up to you regarding some painful matters which will affect you profoundly. You might find a loophole in a specific pattern.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Certain family discussions could bring up some unfortunate past event. This experience will open up the atmosphere at home making room for more air to breath. Enjoy the sensation of relief that comes with it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Learn to quiet your mind today. You may be wondering all over the place and feel as if your thoughts are scattered. Recognize and accept some of those painful memories as being part of you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are probing for the missing links. You are questioning you merit and you strive to not make similar mistakes on the budgetary front as you once did. This should serve you as a valuable lesson to your present.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have the ability to use your voice therapeutically. Everything you say today can directly affect anyone. Somehow, you manage to grasp this non-logical communication and turn it into a transparent body language.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

SUN SIGNS

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The fall colours pop out as the fog slowly clears in the background during a recent morning north of Ponoka.

Woman wondering if relationship with older man worth pursuing Dear Annie: Recently, won’t make you happy.

I was introduced to an Sorry. older gentleman.

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Dear California: Run, What would you do? — don’t walk, from this re- Hurt and Worried lationship. This man is Dear Hurt: We assume not partner material. He your dog is as easy to may seem intelligent and care for as you claim. nice, but he will expect If so, your handyman you to be at his beck and is overcharging you. call, and he will have lit- Most dog-sitters charge tle respect for you. And between $15 and $30 intimacy? Forget it. per day. If someone has The most you can ex- to come multiple times, pect is a bossy kind of they may charge $15 per one-sided friendship, visit, but it still doesn’t and we don’t need a crys- add up to $90 a day. tal ball to know that he Make sure he didn’t

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mean $90 for all five days, which would be more than reasonable.

You can find reliable pet-sitters online or get a referral from your veterinarian’s office. And if you are not able or willing to take care of your neighbors’ mail and flowers, so be it. It is a kindness, not an obligation.

Dear Annie: My cousin is a police officer in a neighboring city, and we only see him when the whole family is together.

Recently, he was caught on camera beating up a woman he’d pulled over for something. From his statement and the camera footage, it seems the woman got mouthy and he responded physically.

We’re all keeping silent on this matter, and fortunately, it hasn’t spread all over the universe on YouTube or anything. But I’m really angry about it.

We would never tolerate seeing a man attack a woman on the street. We would not tolerate my cousin hitting his wife.

Why do we tolerate him doing this just because he’s a cop?

I’ll hold my tongue for another six months, but that’s it. I really want to suggest to my parents that we stop inviting him to family events, because I don’t want to seem as if I am condoning his behavior. What should I do? — Angry Cousin Dear Angry: We assume your cousin’s superiors are aware of the incident and have reprimanded or disciplined him accordingly.

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Dear Annie: This is for “Leave Us Alone,” who is getting pressure from their families about having children.

My wife and I were married at 26 and had our children when we were in our 30s. We spent the first six years of our marriage establishing our careers, beginning our savings, buying our home and taking some great vacations that involved lots of camping and low-cost motels.

Reflecting back, I think those years provided a solid foundation for our now 38-year marriage by giving us the experience of working together as a team, providing mutual support to each other as we tackled the challenges of building our careers and sharing our lives. — Still Going Strong Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

BARTENDER GETS BIG TIP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — An Oregon bartender just got the tip of a lifetime.

One of Aurora Kephart’s regulars at Conway’s Restaurant and Lounge in Springfield often tips her with Keno tickets from the Oregon Lottery. On Tuesday evening, the man who wishes to remain anonymous asked Kephart to choose two. When she checked the numbers, Kephart’s first ticket won $5.

The second turned into a $17,500 gratuity.

“The look on his face was incredible,” Kephart, 25, told The Register-Guard newspaper. “I automatically handed it back to him; it was his ticket.”

But the man wouldn’t take the ticket and made Kephart sign it so she would be the only one able to collect the prize. Kephart said 80 per cent of her customers are regulars, and they were excited for her.

“The reaction was crazy,” Kephart said. “Everyone was so amped up.”

With the bar busy, Kephart went right back to work, her brain “scrambled” by the big tip. The next day, she claimed her prize at the Oregon Lottery office in Salem. Kephart said she gave the man a percentage of her winnings.

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SCREENWRITER AIMS FOR TRADITIONAL, YET MODERN, VERSION OF SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDY TORONTO — Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes says today’s film audiences simply aren’t interested in a straight adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

He says that’s the reason he made controversial changes to the text for a big screen version opening this weekend, adding he knew “there was bound to be criticism” of his take.

“Nobody just slams the original play onto the screen,” Fellowes says of adaptations in general, noting Ralph Fiennes overhauled Coriolanus in a big way for his directorial debut.

Julian Fellowes “All the stuff you remember is all in, I don’t think we’ve cut any line that is ever one of the quoted ones . . . . About 70 per cent of it is Shakespeare anyway, because quite often we’ve shortened the scene but that doesn’t mean we’ve altered the lines.”

The Downton Abbey creator has come under fire from some experts for rewriting certain passages.

The changes condense sections, create new scenes and bump up the prominence of some characters by either inventing new lines or inserting them in scenes they otherwise don’t appear in.

Fellowes says the idea was to make the story “more accessible and clearer,” not to mention shorter.

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BRIEFS Innisfail woman wins CAT raffle grand prize Brenda Kennedy of Innisfail won the $5,000 cash grand prize in the Central Alberta Theatre raffle.

Kennedy said she was thrilled to win and will put the money towards her mortgage.

The second prize in the raffle, a heritage bear, created of raccoon and muskrat fur by Bernice Storlie, was won by Ron Dancey of Pine Lake, and the third prize, two framed drawings of elves by artist Heather Cookson-Hills, was won by Cynthia Edwards of Red Deer.

CAT’s latest raffle raised $4,000, which fell short of expectations. But “every dollar counts” — as it goes towards facility repairs and upkeep, said CAT member Judy Moody.

She noted the community theatre group also made $4,000 in profits from 50-50 draws that are done each night plays run throughout the season.

Alberta Ballet graduate chosen to study in New York Georgina Moore of Red Deer is excited to be attending the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.

The highly competitive college auditions students from all over the globe. Graduates have gone on to appear on Broadway, in productions such as War Horse, Rent and Wicked, and in feature films, including Midnight in Paris, 3:10 to Yuma, American Beauty and Enchanted. They have also appeared in television shows such as Boardwalk Empire, Modern Family, and Criminal Minds.

Moore, a recent graduate of the Alberta Ballet, professional division, school, has also studied at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Boston and Cincinnati Ballet schools.

The 18-year-old said she’s “thrilled” to have the opportunity to attend the AMDA.

Good for Grapes performs on Thursday at The Hideout Come see what all the fuss is about when Good for Grapes plays on Thursday at The Hideout, south of Red Deer.

The indie folk band from Surrey, B.C., has quickly built a large and loyal following in the Vancouver area, with fans stomping, clapping and singing along to songs such as Stepping Stone, Little Carmichael, My Bass, London Fog and others.

The group that’s played at the Vancouver Folk Festival, Rifflandia and the Rock the Peach Festival put out a selftitled EP in 2011 and has been getting play on The Peak and other West Coast radio stations.

Good for Grapes performs at 8 p.m. in The Hideout in Gasoline Alley, south of Red Deer.

There’s no cover charge.

Fellowes says he considers this a very traditional take on the story, noting there hasn’t been a movie version actually set in the intended Renaissance period in decades. He says he wanted to offer this generation their own lyrical, romantic Romeo and Juliet.

“They’ve had other versions, some of them very good, but (filmmakers) transposed them or put them in modern dress or whatever. And this was going to be the first kind of traditional rendition of the story on celluloid, really, since Franco Zeffirelli’s (in) 1968.”

But because so much seems authentic, some critics have suggested audiences could be misled into thinking the script features Shakespeare’s original words.

Fellowes points out that he is listed in the credits as screenwriter, and doubted there would be much confusion.

“Of course I understand why Shakespeare experts (are upset). They feel he is either the greatest or one of the greatest writers that ever lived and why tamper with him. And for them to understand that not everyone hears the word Shakespeare and runs to see the next production is perhaps hard. But such is the case,” says Fellowes, who received a best screenplay Oscar for Gosford Park.

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A contemplative short film made by Red Deer College Motion Picture Arts graduate Justin Brunelle received a major award at a Utah film festival.

Under the Acorn Tree, starring Red Deer actor Paul Boultbee as a man reflecting on his past, was officially selected for screening this fall at the Moab International Film Festival in Utah, from 1,400 submissions from across the globe.

The film written and directed by Brunelle ended up winning 2013 Short of the Year at the festival. Brunelle followed up this success by giving a talk at some Utah schools about the importance of following dreams, and also getting into a good film program.

“I am so incredibly grateful for my time at the Motion Picture Arts program at RDC. I met some very talented people that will be lifetime friends, and I learned more than I could have ever imagined,” said Brunelle, who appreciated the small classes and supportive faculty.

“The program pushed us hard and demanded the best.”

Brunelle, an Edmonton native who graduated from RDC last spring, has since been living the dream as an actor/director.

Among his many projects are appearances in Ridley Scott’s Discovery Channel miniseries Klondike, as a Mountie. He also just finished working on Cut Bank, a feature film, starring John Malkovich, Billy Bob Thornton and Liam Helmsworth. And his latest project is co-directing a televised documentary mini-series being filmed in Russia. Other episodes include filming in India, the Arctic and possibly Africa in 2015.

Brunelle founded and operates his own video production company, Moving Artistry Productions, which was involved in projects in Costa Rica and the Yukon. More information is available at www.movingartistry.com.

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“I mean the play is four hours,” he says from Los Angeles. “(Young people) associate Shakespeare with their education but we wanted to break through that and take them into an enjoyment of Shakespeare and one of Shakespeare’s most famous stories. From which I would love to feel that they then get interested in the play in its original form and maybe go and see the play.”

In some cases, he says the changes attempt to smooth the storyline or explain a plot point insufficiently addressed by the original play, which traces the tragic love affair of two youths.

“Nowadays an audience is very, very plot literate and so it’s harder to have just sort of unexplained events,” Fellowes says, pointing to a crucial plot twist in which a messenger fails to warn Romeo that Juliet is only pretending to be dead.

“In the play, he just sort of doesn’t get there. But that’s not enough for a modern audience, you know — they want to know why he doesn’t get there if it’s that important. And so we’ve actually given him a reason that prevents him getting there.

“Now, I don’t think that is a distortion of Shakespeare’s meaning. In fact, the net result in terms of the narrative is identical. But we’ve given it a logic base which is more suited to a modern audience.”

Much of the film, however, is meticulously faithful, with shooting even taking place in the northern Italian cities of Verona and Mantua, where the play is set.

Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth play the “starcross’d lovers,” with Steinfeld just 15 when shooting took place.

“She’s a lovely girl and brought that, well, I suppose youth,” Fellowes says of the True Grit star, whose character Juliet is nearly 14 in the play.

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BROWNLEE Alastair Ninian “Red” 1928 - 2013 Alastair “Red” Ninian Brownlee of Eckville passed away surrounded by family on Sunday, October 6, 2013 at the age of 85 years. Red was born on September 30, 1928 and raised on the family farm near Kelvington, Saskatchewan.

As a young man he moved to Oshawa, Ontario to work for General Motors and then moved to the Joffre area, working in the oil field and finally settling in Eckville where he farmed and battery operated. He had a quick wit and loved to tease. He loved his family and friends, his farm and his black cattle.

Red is survived by his beloved wife of 63 years, Bernice, children; Heather (Brian) Lazzer, Karen (Ron) A n d r e w, S a n d y ( B o b ) French, Brian Brownlee and Shelley Brownlee, ten grandchildren; Andrea (Nathan) Trainor, Steven Lazzer, Gina (Trevor) Hamilton, Darren ( K y m ) A n d r e w, J o l i n e (Wayne) Magwood, Tracy (Darcy) Black, Michelle (Bryan) Middleton, Brad (Erin) French, Dylan (Christina) Brownlee and Chantelle Brownlee, ten great grandchildren; Aidan, Cale, Louis, Declan, Grace, Calder, Ryan, Jayden, Jessica and Matthew, sister Mollie (Mac) Boyes, brother in-laws, sister in-laws, nieces, nephews and many caring friends. Red was predeceased by his parents Alex and Elizabeth Brownlee, brother Ian (Jean) Brownlee and sister Margaret (Marvin) Colby. Red’s family would like to thank the staff at Extendicare Michener Hill, Red Deer for their loving care over the past three years. A celebration of Red’s life will be held at the Eckville Community Centre, 52 Street and 54 Avenue, Eckville, on Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. Interment will be held at Eckville Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 202-5913 50 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4C4 or to the Eckville Arena. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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Edward Harrison Hopkins Aug. 22, 1926 - Sept. 30, 2013 Edward Harrison Hopkins passed away in Rocky Mountain House on September 30, 2013 at the age of 87. Ed, the oldest of 9 children of Nellie (Butler) and Henry Hopkins was born on a farm near Erskine, AB. He grew up on a farm outside of Joffre, and left school in grade six to help his family. Ed helped build the Alaska highway and was a catskinner and later became a heavy duty mechanic and welder. He has made Caroline home for the past 36 years. Ed loved reminiscing about the places he had travelled; a highlight being a family reunion in Rhode Island. He loved his heritage, geography, fishing, camping, brain teaser games, repairing lawn mowers and taking road trips with family.

Ed is survived by his loving family: daughters Wanda ( J o s h ) C a r r i e r, J e a n n i n e (Don) Sellick and Jerri-Jay Hopkins and son Frank Hopkins; his grandchildren John, Melissa Dawn, Darren, Meghan Dionne, Danicarose, James, Lindsay, Jessie Lee and 7 great-grandchildren Harrison, Flynn, Danni-Lynn, Jamie-Ellin,Taylor-Rose, Tyler and Zizi; sisters, Frances Hamilton, Emily McKenzieGrieves and Margaret Brown as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Ed is predeceased by brothers: Murray, Irvin, Walter, Kenneth and sister Arlene. The family welcomes friends and family to an Open House on Friday October 11th from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Kurt Browning Arena Complex in Caroline. Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium. In lieu of flowers, please donate to Ed’s favorite charities STARS Foundation Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation (1441 Aviation Park NE Box 570, Calgary, AB, T2E 8M7) or the Royal Canadian Legion in Caroline (Box 37 Caroline, Alberta T0M 0M0) ROCKY AND SYLVAN LAKE FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your GoldenRule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements.

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LEES William (Bill) Born: December 29, 1937, Calgary Died: October 6, 2013, Red Deer Beloved husband of Fran Lees passed away following a brief illness at the age of 75 years. Bill’s greatest love was his family: wife, Fran; daughters,

Linda (Mike); Audrey and Maureen (Lawrence); along with his grandchildren Kodi, Ty l e r, K a s s i d y, W a y d e , Shannon, Curtis, Scott, Dawson and Crosby. Bill was always ready for any outdoor adventure with friends and family, whether it was canoeing, skiing, camping or hiking.

On his next journey he is planning to do more fishing.

His humor, stories, wit and wisdom will be greatly missed. Bill faced his illness with grace and courage. Bill’s family wishes to extend a heartfelt thank-you to the EMS, Doctors and staff from Banff, Canmore, Foothills, Tom Baker and Red Deer Hospitals for the true compassion shown. It was Bill’s wish that there was no funeral.

In honour of Bill, friends and relatives are invited to a gathering at the Golden Circle Centre, 4620-47A Avenue, Red Deer on Saturday, October 12, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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SLAGHT Edward Alexander Slaght passed away peacefully at the Lacombe Hospital in the early morning of October 3, 2013. The Family wishes to extend a heartfelt Thank You to the staff in Unit B at the Lacombe Hospital, and most importantly to the staff at the Royal Oak Manor in Lacombe for their generous care and support. Edward donated many years of his time in the Lacombe community coaching a n d r e f e r e e i n g h o c k e y, spending countless hours at the Lacombe Arena, known by “Eagle” at the rink. He also did a lot of umpiring fastball and coaching baseball. Ed was predeceased by his wife Mary. Ed is survived by his three sons; Marc Slaght and Paul Slaght of Red Deer, and Brant (Cathy) Slaght of Nova Scotia. Grandchildren; Cody, Marissa, and Brooke. In following with Ed’s wishes, cremation has taken place and no formal service will be held.

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McCAMUS Priscilla Anne (nee Orford) Jan. 14, 1931 - Oct. 4, 2013 Priscilla died peacefully at the Red Deer Hospice. Predeceased by her husband, Frank McCamus, she is survived by her daughters, Deborah (Warren) Blair, Jessi (Craig) Tutt and Jamie (Roger Bakes); son, Robert (Nancy Blackwood); grandchildren, Tracey (Brad) Vandeveen, Adam and Jacob (Trisha) Blair, Virginia, Ben and Anna Tutt, Teresa and Katherine McCamus; great grandchildren, Amanda Blair, Dayne McGrath, and Charlotte Pena-Tutt; great great grandchild, Ty Pilon; sisters and brothers-in-law, Rossi Cameron, Judy and Ray Watt, Liz and Mike DeAbreu; beloved members of the extended Orford and McCamus families; cherished friends; canine companions, Clifford, Willie and Millie. Priscilla was the firstborn to Mena and Tom Orford. At the age of 4 her father, a physician, was stationed in Pangnirtung, Baffin Island. The family lived among the Inuit for 5 years and spent many of the following years living in the Canadian north before moving to Edmonton, where she later met her husband Frank, on a blind date. A 6-week whirlwind romance resulted in a loving union that lasted 60 years. Frank’s career in the oil industry saw the family living in many locations throughout North America, and international travel for Frank and Priscilla. Early exposure to the nomadic Inuit came in handy as she moved her household, 4 children and assorted pets more than 30 times.

Her naturally generous, unaffected, plain-spoken and determined nature served her well as she navigated a life full of change and adventure. Recently, Priscilla enjoyed visits with many of her family members and dear friends, allowing her to say goodbye. Frank and Priscilla demonstrated “a life well lived”, an example that their family cherishes and strives to replicate.

Knowing they are together again is the thought that comforts us. The family is deeply grateful to Trenna Doucet for her compassionate care of our Mom. We also extend our sincere thanks to the staff and Priscilla’s friends at Symphony Senior Living for their care and kindness over the last 2 years; to her extraordinary care team, Dr. James McIntyre, Dr. Norman Costigan and Joanne, Dr. Jennifer Bestard; the staff at the Calgary ALS Clinic, particularly Dr. Smuts and Sue Monroe; Carla Falk and the ALS Society; and Home Care, especially Kathy, Sandy and Paula. Priscilla’s final days were spent under the skillful care of the Red Deer Hospice staff. Their compassionate and dedicated care for our Mom, Priscilla, and our family made all the difference. Priscilla’s memorial will be held on Friday, October 11, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Red Deer Hospice and the ALS Society of Alberta. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com.

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LIVINGSTON Sandra Sandy Livingston passed away peacefully on Friday, October 4, 2013 with her husband by her side. Sandy will be greatly missed by her husband Kim, children: Shae (Kayla), Allison (Skylar); her brothers and sisters: Wendy (Steve), Mark (Brenda), Susan (Al) and David (Deb); numerous nieces and nephews; her adopted parents Jerry and Mary Louise Strawberry and many friends. She was predeceased by her parents Jennifer and Kenneth Gardiner - together again. Sandy had a heart of g o l d . S h e l o v e d d e e p l y, worked hard and always made sure the people in her life knew that no matter what they always had a special place in her heart. Whether it was a kick in the butt to get you going in the right direction or her arms tightly wrapped around you in that one of a kind hug, you knew it was entirely out of love. Sandy’s love of caring for people was well known throughout Rocky and the O’Chiese First Nation.

She loved helping whoever needed her and making a difference. She always made sure to make time for herself despite a busy career. Her passion of gardening, quilting, scrapbooking and photography, all leave behind memories many will cherish. Sandy will live on through her acts of love and kindness, because of the wonderful impression she left on us. The Funeral Service for the late Sandy Livingston will be held at the Rocky Mountain Alliance Church, Rocky Mountain House on Friday, October 11, 2013 at 1:00 P.M. with Pastor Trevor Scott officiating. Cremation to follow at the Rocky Mountain Crematorium. In honor of Sandy’s love for animals, donation may be made to the Roar Society, Box 2098, Rocky Mountain House, AB T4T 1B5.

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DEBBIE ILG April 25, 1981 - Oct 9, 1994 With tears of sorrow we cry each day In angels arms you were carried away.

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HARRY T. WALTON Nov. 23, 1932 - Oct. 9, 2005 A million times we’ve needed you A million times we have cried If love alone could of saved you You would never have died In life we love you dearly In death we love you still In our hearts you hold a place No one else will ever fill.

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SANDERSEN Hans Harvey te Kampe (Haworth) 1927 - 2013 Gerrit and Joy It is with great sadness we October 12th announce the sudden passing Happy 50th Anniversary of Harvey Sandersen of Red Mom and Dad! Deer, on Friday, October 4, 250-656-5917 2013 at the age of 86 years. gtejanoe@sgaw,ca Harvey was born in Calgary on June 25, 1927. He received all his schooling in Standard, Alberta and took his plumbing and pipe fitting apprenticeship Births in Red Deer. Harvey enjoyed the outdoors and was an avid golfer and crib player, always up for a game. He also enjoyed many good times at the Legion and was a proud member of Union 496 for over 60 years. Harvey is survived by his brother Verner (June) and sister Bernice Cole, along with five nephews.

A special Thanks to Symphany Inglewood staff as Harvey enjoyed living there for the past three and a half years. A memorial service in Harvey’s honor will be held at STRONG Parkland Funeral Home, Jeremy and Winter, 6 2 8 7 6 7 A S t r e e t ( Ta y l o r along with big sisters Skylee Drive) Red Deer, on Friday, and Sienna, are thrilled to October 11, 2013 at 11:00 announce the arrival of a.m. with Reverend Larry Shelby Alexis Hope Brotherton officiating. In lieu on September 13, 2013, of flowers, memorial donations weighing 7 lbs, 8 oz. may be made directly to the Proud grandparents are Royal Canadian Legion, Harold and Jeanette McCannell 2810 Bremner Avenue, Red and Larry and Karen Strong.

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Based in our Innisfail offices, duties will include reviewing and documenting our processes; and creating/revising systems and procedures.

You will also perform data analyses, review our legal documents, and assist legal counsel by organizing evidence, preparing exhibits, and arranging witnesses.

We require related education and several years experience in senior administrative work. We require excellent written and verbal communication, strong attention to detail, and profi ciency in MS Office and MS Visio.

Apply by October 14th:

Service Plumbers NEEDED!!!

Clark’s has immediate openings for qualified, experienced Residential, Commercial

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Trades

ELEMENTS is looking for CARPET COLOUR 5 retail sales reps. selling CENTRE season gift packages and is currently looking for personal care products in EXP’D. TILE INSTALLER Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Applicant must have ability Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + to lay out tiles, be familiar bonus & comm. FT. No with setting materials and products. This is a F/T exp. req`d. Please email October Training elementsreddeer@gmail.com position with a wage of $20 Schedule -$25/hr. depending on exp.

FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN Submit resume attn: Curtis OSSA Fall Protection is looking for 5 SALES cpoiercarpetcolourcentre.

October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 REPS, selling shoes & com or drop off at apparel, at our Parkland Carpet Colour Centre OSSA Elevated Work Mall. 4747 67 St. Red 1100, 5001-19 St. Red October 31 Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus Deer, Ab. T4R 3R1 & comm. F/T Position. No OSSA Confined Space CERTIFIED WELDER exp. req’d. Email Entry / Monitor Permanent Flurriesrd@gmail.com October 24 Certified Welders $28 - $45 per hour Work Place Fall Protection dependent on level of exp.

October 11,25 Group benefit plan after 3 Buying or Selling month probation. your home?

• Red Seal Welder or Contact us at: Check out Homes for Sale equiv. academic & exp. www.rhinotraining.ca in Classifieds Is looking for F/T • Min, 2 yrs welding exp. admin@rhinotraining.ca SALESPERSON. Mon. Fri. at a Journeyman level (403) 358-5102 GLENN’S 8-5. Job requirements will • Familiar with working RESTAURANT be: quoting jobs, dealing PACIFIC VALVE outdoors in remote loLINE COOKS & with walk in clients, phone cations and all weather SERVICES DISHWASHERS sales, scheduling and conditions is looking for a F/T NEEDED. customer service. Very • Working knowledge of Valve Technician/Shop Cooks start at $15./hr competitive wages and pertinent industry reguLabourer Dishwasher start @$12.hr benefit package. Fax lations and OH&S. AND a Field Service Must be willing to work resumes to: 403-343-1325 Technician. varying shifts. Exc. wages Driver’s license & abstract SOAP Stories is seeking 5 COPP’S SERVICES INC. and benefits. Must have 225 Burnt Ridge Road must be provided with retail sales reps. Selling reliable transportation.

Red Deer County, AB resume. We offer profit Apply in person to Sandy s o a p & b a t h p r o d u c t s .

T4S 2L4 sharing, dental & medical at Glenn’s Restaurant on $12.10 hr + bonus & combenefits, & a positive, safety Gasoline Alley or phone for mission. Ft No exp. req`d. Email: HR@coppsinc.ca Fax 403-403-5447 oriented work environment.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. an app’t. 403-346-5448. www,.coppsinc.ca Wages will depend on Red Deer. email resume to experience. Must be LUCKY’S LOUNGE premierjobrd@gmail.com CHILES SANDBLASTING prepared to work overtime. located in Jackpot Casino, & PAINTING REQ’S Please fax resume with requires Experienced I Labourer & 1 Prepper, references to P/T Servers. exp. would be an asset, (403) 346-8847 or email to: Please apply in person at Trades must have own transportajwhitelaw@pacificvalve.com 4950 47 Ave. tion. Wage is $15 - $18/hr.

No phone calls please.

No phone calls please Please submit resume by fax: 403-340-3800 Q TEST Pho Thuy Duong Vietnamese Restaurant INSPECTION LTD. EAGLE Builders LP, a hiring F/T kitchen help.

Now has immediate concrete Erecting Company $12./hr. Open avail.. Eves. openings for CGSB based out of Blackfalds & weekends. Please drop Level II RT’s and CEDO’s requires a hard working, AFTERNOON SHIFT motivated individual to fill a resume at Bay #4, 5108 52 St. for our winter pipeline projects. Top wages and CNC LEAD full-time welding position at TAP HOUSE comprehensive benefit our company. The HAND/SUPERVISOR package available. successful candidate will NORTH Subcontractors also welcome. be a 2nd or 3rd year (formerly Sam’s Cafe) is Nexus Engineering is Email resumes to: apprentice and must be a now taking applications for currently looking for qtestltd@telus.net SMAW CWB qualified experienced SERVERS, Afternoon shift Lead or Phone 403-887-5630. welder. There will be on BARTENDERS, hand/supervisor. the job training. Must also DISHWASHERS AND Duties include, ensuring Looking for a place be able to travel. All meals COOKS. Bring resume to production flow to live? and hotel expenses are 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer on Mazak C.N.C lathe Take a tour through the paid when out of town. and mills, trouble shooting, CLASSIFIEDS Applicant must have Central Alberta’s Largest min 1 years experience as reliable transportation to a lead hand/supervisor Car Lot in Classifieds and from work and a valid in a machine shop. class 5 driver’s license.

We offer competitive Successful applicant must wages, company paid provide an up to date drivers benefits and abstract. Construction SERVICE RIG a RRSP matching plan. experience an asset. Full Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd Please forward resumes to benefits provided. Starting is seeking exp’d resume@ wages based on FLOORHANDS and nexusengineering.ca THE RUSTY PELICAN is experience. Fax resumes DERRICK HANDS now accepting resumes for Locally based, home every ALPINE DRYWALL to 403 885 5516 or e-mail a well experienced at HR@eaglebuilders.ca. night! Qualified applicants Immed. openings for F/T HOSTESS must have all necessary tradespersons. Commercial. We thank all applicants for & SERVERS their applications, but only valid tickets for the position Phone 403-348-8640 Must have Ref’s & Exp. those selected for an being applied for.

DOCK Person with Apply within: 2079-50 interview will be contacted.

Bearspaw offers a Forklift exp, needed.

Ave. 2-4 pm.

Mon.-Fri. very competitive salary Call 403-346-0158 or fax F/T PAINTER Fax 403-347-1161 Phone and benefits package resume to 403-314-9234 Commercial/Residential calls WILL NOT be accepted. along with a steady Brush/Roll Application. work schedule.

Exp. req’d. Vehicle req’d.

Please submit resumes: Contact Drew at CCL Attn: Human Resources Trades 403-596-1829 Email: hr@bearspawpet.com FOUNDATION company in Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Red Deer is currently Mail to: Suite 5309, hiring experienced 333-96 Ave. NE foundation form workers.

Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Please fax resume to: 403-346-5867.

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989240 AB LTD. o/a TIM HORTONS Hiring 15 Permanent F/T Food Counter Attendants & 4 Permanent F/T Food Service Supervisors for eachRed Deer Locations Parkland Mall 6359 50 Ave. & 6020 - 67 St. & 2325 - 50 Ave. Fax: 403-314-4427, email parklandtimhortons @gmail.com Must be available all shifts, evenings., wknds., nights $11./hr. - FCA No exp. needed. $13.50/hr. - FSS 1-2 yrs. industry exp. needed.

Apply in person, by fax or email.

We are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floorhands for the Red Deer area. $2 safety bonus and above CAODC recommended wages.

Please email jwalsh@galleonrigs.com or Fax (403) 358-3326.

Ponoka Publication date: WED. OCT. 16 Deadline is: Thur. OCT. 10, 5 p.m.

Rimbey Publication date; TUES. OCT. 15 Deadline is: Thur. OCT. 10, NOON

Restaurant/ Hotel

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CLASSIFIEDS THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY Hours & Deadlines

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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

PLUMBING & HEATING CORP.

and Industrial Plumbers.

One position is 2 week on and 1 week off shift it is located in Lac La Biche/Bonnyville, Alberta, (furnished living accommodations provided for out of town employees in both locations) Second is 2 weeks on and 1 week off and is a Camp position.

The successful candidates will: • • • • • • • •

HVAC Service Person required for busy well established company in Red Deer. Attractive wage and benefit package. Full hours guaranteed. Start immediately. e-mail: brad@comfortecheating. com Phone: 403-309-8301 or Fax: 403-309-8302

hold a current Journeyman’s ticket and H2S be experienced in all aspects of Plumbing service must pass a Pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening Provide a current Driver Licence and Abstract be a motivated self-starter take pride in doing great work and willing to work long hours if needed be energetic, positive, and keen to work with a rapidly expanding company be 100% dedicated to customer service and satisfaction

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

Clark’s offers top wages,10% holiday/vacation pay, overtime after 8 hrs, training, Health and Dental packages, Cell phones, Company Truck. We are a COR Certified and ISNetworld Compliant, safety-conscious company that provides a safe and enjoyable workplace.

Fax Resume to 780-623-7451 or Email: sales@cpandh.ca

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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

www.trican.ca

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

...Join our Team!

TRANSX

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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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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 D3

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Trades

WE ARE GROWING, NOW HIRING

F/T MEAT CUTTER

Competitive wages.

Apply in person or fax resume to 403-885-5231.

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Truckers/ Drivers

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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. Full Time.

Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC. Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743 WANTED: Exp’d driver with clean Class 1 license for Super B work in Central Alberta. F/T, benefits.

Fax resume and current driver’s abstract to 403-728-3902. or 403-746-5794 or email mrmike71@hotmail.com Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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*REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY* Parts Person/ Service Writer: able to maintain internal, manual or computerized record-keeping system(s).

Experience an asset but willing to train the right Individual. Email your resume to sales@ siautomatics.com or Fax 403-885-2556

Academic Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START

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. GLENDALE 71 St. & Gehrke Cl. ALSO 59 Ave. & Gray Dr.

Norquay St. & Nordegg Cres.

WASKASOO

(Reliable vehicle needed)

45 & 46 Ave. Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY 100,000 Potential Buyers???

TRY

MICHENER AREA 134 papers $793/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA 76 papers $407/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA 67 papers $360/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

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 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

FURNACE DUCT CLEANING TECH REQ’D. IMMED. Wages neg. 403-506-4822

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 MOBIL 1 Lube Express Gasoline Alley req’s an Exp. Tech. Fax 403-314-9207

Asmundsen Ave./ Ainsworth Cres.

INGLEWOOD AREA Inglis Cres.

Long Close Law Close/ Lewis Close Langford Cres.

Landry Bend Lawson Close

SUNNYBROOK AREA

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

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 truckmounted hydrovac units.

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 self-motivated. Applicants will be expected have some Shipping Receiving, Inventory control as well as be part of a team, being able to meet deadlines.

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Sherwood Cres./ Stanhope Ave. Springfield Ave. VANIER AREA Visser St. Vanson Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE:

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

CLEARVIEW AREA Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $180/mo.

ALSO Castle Cres., Clark Cres. & Crawford St. $141/mo.

CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Connaught Cres. & Cooper Close area $192/mo.

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.

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.

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

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DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino

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Children's Items

CHILDS HIKING SHOES Size 13. Columbia. Like new. $20. 403-314-9603

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

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To deliver 1 day a week in OLDS Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

Homestead Firewood Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 FREE FIREWOOD Bring your power saw.

403-346-4307 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

FOR SALE: Large wash tub $30.

Electronic De-Humidifier $55. 403-342-7460 FREE HOUSEPLANTS Palm, Gardenia, Ivy, Sedum, Shamrock, Philodendron.

GONE HANGERS. Wooden, Plastic, Metal. Box full for $10. 403-314-9603 LAMP, COFFEE MAKER, PLACEMATS, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. Whole box for $20. 403-314-9603 THANKSGIVING & CHRISTMAS IS UPON US! Electric Roaster, never used. Self baster.

Does everything you do in the kitchen oven. $80.

403-347-0104.

VARIETY of brand new instrumental, country, old time music CD’s, (16) $30 Must take all.

403-309-1838

Pets & Supplies

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LARGE bird cage on wheels with 2 large doors and 4 smaller ones. Lots of toys and accessories.

Mint condition. Call 403-746-3914 after 6 pm.

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Houses/ Duplexes

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 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.

Condos/ Townhouses

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Manufactured Homes

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.

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COUCH/Sofa bed, from Leons, clean in exc. cond. $150.

3 WOOL ACCENT CARPETS, clean, $50 for all 3.

403-352-8811 LOVE SEAT, good cond. $100 2 BAR STOOLS, $40 ea.

30” x 48” WHITE WOODEN TABLE. STANDING LAMP, $10.

403-346-2346

The ideal candidate will: • be able to maneuver merchandise in excess of 100lbs • possess exceptional customer service skills • enjoy working within a ROUND 40” Mable table & diverse team 4 chairs, exc. cond. $200.

403-352-8811 Launch your career with a well known and respected SIM’S Burgundy Leather company. Become a part Reclining Sofa. Exc. cond.

Paid $2500. Asking o f t h e s u c c e s s f u l Tr a i l team by applying in person $550 obo. 403-343-6187 to: WANTED Colin Parsons in person at Antiques, furniture and #6 4622 61 Street, estates.

342-2514 Riverside Industrial District, Red Deer or fax to Start your career!

403-347-3314. A security See Help Wanted check will be conducted on successful candidates.

Stereos TV's, VCRs

Wanted experienced tire service tech must have Passenger & Light Truck experience. Phone or visit Fountain Tire 6195 67 a st Red Deer 403.343.9422

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FREE 8 week old orange kittens 5 mo. old Calico kittens, 1 gorgeous pinky orange 5 mo. old M. kitten, all need loving homes 403-782-3130

Dogs

BERNESE MOUNTAIN dog puppies, ready to go NOW 403-357-7108

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LARGE, 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

1 BDRM. bsmt, prefer employed or student. Avail. immed 342-7789 /396-7941 FURN. room, all utils. and cable incld, $425/mo.

403-506-3277 FURNISHED Bdrm. $500 incl. utils. 403-342-4604 VANIER WOODS 1 bdrm. $490/mo. + DD 403-588-6268 after 6 pm.

Warehouse Space

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SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

Mobile Lot

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MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

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Realtors & Services

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HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

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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 phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

IMMED. POSS. $379,900.

Bower bi-level fully dev. 3 bdrm., 3 bath. large rec. rm, can possibly add an extra bdrm. Desirable upgrades.

Corner lot w/det. 15x24 heated workshop. RV parking. OPEN HOUSE - 94 Boyce St. 1 - 4 pm.

Sat. Oct. 5th. 403-350-1690

LOOKING for a shop and a Home? Benalto home on 175’ x 200’ lot, 928 sq. ft. 2 bdrm. apt. above & triple 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. 1 2 0 4 s q . f t . g a r a g e Adult bldg. N/S No pets w/under flr. heating, bath403-755-9852 room & LED lighting Something for Everyone throughout. Will be ready Everyday in Classifieds N o v. 2 0 1 3 . C l e a r t i t l e .

Asking $460,000. Can see Spacious 1 & 2 bedroom at 4812 50 Ave. Benalto. suites perfect for all walks 403-721-2050 eves. of life. Cat friendly. Plaza www.laebon.com Apartments: 1(888)784Laebon Homes 346-7273 9279 rentmidwest.com

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Your Guide To Entertainment

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TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

COLECO table top Packman game. $80.

403-782-3847

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3 bdrm. 4-Plex, 1.5 bath 4 appls. Rent $1125 incl. sewer, water and garbage.

D.D. $650. Avail. Nov. 1, 403-304-5337

F1B GOLDEN DOODLES, black now but will brindle as they get older. Non shedding, well handled, long time breeder. $900.

Delivered to Alberta.

Text 306-521-1371 or call 306-792-2113 www.furtettishfarm.ca

Travel Packages

360 XBOX, 10 Games, $10. ea.

PS 2, 10 games, $60.

Panasonic stereo, Ipod hookup. $40.

403-782-3847

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(2) BURMAN kittens. $40/ea.

403-887-3649

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

for sale w/details, Newly Reno’d Mobile properties prices, address, owner’s

RABBIT Hutch, outdoor, FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month partially insulated, incld’s h e a t e d w a t e r d i s h a n d Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225 Semi loads of pine, spruce, food. $75. 403-340-2462 tamarack, poplar.

4 Plexes/ Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 6 Plexes 403-318-4346 Cats Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

THE NORDIC

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3 BDRM, 1 1/2 bath townhouse in well kept condominium complex at #9, 15 Stanton St. 5 appls & fenced yard.

Tenants must be over 40 w/references & quiet living.

Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo. $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627

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3 PORCELINE dolls $20/ea; dbl. comforter and bed skirt, $20; skidoo AGRICULTURAL boots size 6 ladies $20; set of Corelle dishes $20; CLASSIFICATIONS small 32” fiber optic Christ2000-2290 mas tree $10; electric Christmas house $15; WELL ESTABLISHED brand new queen bed skirt grooming shop in Lacombe $20; 403-352-3521 Horses is looking for a certified groomer with experience in 6’ CHRISTMAS TREE, $10. all breeds. We are a small GOLD FRAME MIRROR, WANTED: all types of grooming shop focused on 25”x30”, $10. horses. Processing locally quality. Quality and pride in SEWING MACHINE, in Lacombe weekly. your work is extremely never used, $95.

403-651-5912 important, 3-5 years’ work 403-346-2346 experience is recom9 assorted Corral dinner mended when applying, Grain, Feed plates, 6 side plates, e-mail your resume to Hay 4 soup bowls, $12 for all. pawsitive.cj@gmail.com 1 Large fruit bowl, TIMOTHY & Brome square WESCLEAN - Red Deer great design. $7.

SHIPPER/ RECEIVER / 8 old fruit nappies, $2 for all. bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry INSIDE SALES req’d.

Medium size old and covered, $5/bale Competitive wages, full meat platter $7.

Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 benefits, forkilft exp.

Dream Catcher, $10. preferred. Dangerous Rhinestone Necklace & goods exp. preferred.

Earrings, from the 1950’s, Familiar with shipping/ $75. 403-346-2231 receiving procedures.

Deck table, in green metal Able to lift 30-60 lbs. with glass top 38”x60”, Basic computer skills 4 chairs, & 1 matching an asset. Must have a rocker chair (new was $700). good personality and Asking $75.

CLASSIFICATIONS easy to work with .

CACTUS - 8 ft. live cactus Drop resume off at FOR RENT • 3000-3200 plant. $50. # 7, 7973 49 AVE. WANTED • 3250-3390 KENMORE DEHUMIDIFIER or email to: model 24. Exc. cond. $75. mdoll@wesclean.com or 403-352-8811 fax to 403-347-8803

AFFORDABLE

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

BOWER AREA ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in

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WEEKEND dispatchers req’d. immediately.

Knowledge of Red Deer essential. Will require good verbal and written communication skills. Fax resume to 403-346-0295

Firewood

LANCASTER AREA

McKinnon Cres/ Munro Cres.

Marion Cres./ MacKenzie Cres.

Maxwell Ave./ McGill St. Metcalf Ave./ Mayberry Close.

McLean St.

Badger Daylighting is recruiting for the following positions in Badger’s Red Deer Office for a Shipper Receiver.

For afternoon delivery once per week

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

CALL 309-3300

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ANDERS AREA

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SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

Interested applicants should respond with a resume to: bhoffer@badgerinc.com Fax 403-343-0490

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EASTVIEW AREA 60 papers $321/mo.

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

Central Alberta LIFE

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk

CARRIERS NEEDED

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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GED preparation to start November 5

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To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery in WESTPARK & WESTLAKE AREAS Please call Quitcy at 403-314-4316 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 EXP’D PARTS PERSON req’d by Chrysler Dealership.

Apply in person with resume at: Northwest Motors 3115 Gaetz Ave. R.D. F/T sales and customer service associate, bilingual French/English an asset.

Hourly wage plus benefits. email: careers@buyairsoft.ca HOUSE CLEANER Honest, reliable, exp.

3.5 hr/jobs. General residential 403-598-1906

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

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

CONCRETE!

Stamp finish, exposed finish, basements, garages, patio pads, driveways & sidewalks. etc. No job to Big or too Small, we do it All! Call Mark 403-597-3523

Contractors

1100

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

Eavestroughing

1130

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

Escorts

1165

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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

Misc.

Services

1290

Seniors’ Services

1372

Executive Touch 5* JUNK REMOVAL HELPING HANDS Home Ltd. for SENIORS. Massage (newly reno’d) Property clean up 340-8666 Support Companionship, cleaning, (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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

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

cooking - in home, in facility.

We are BETTER for CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving central AB. 403-318-4346

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

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Window Cleaning

1420

WINDOW CLEANING. Outside / Inside / Both.

403-506-4822 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Yard Care

1430

SECOND 2 NONE Fall cleanup, eavestrough, hedges, odd jobs, etc.

403-302-7778

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013

FAST TRACK PHOTOS Call 403-309-3300 to get your vehicle pictured here

2008 JEEP Rubicon

REDUCED $20,500 2010 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 black with grey interior 4 cyl. 4 spd. Clean, great cond. 59,500 kms.

Call 403-302-2175

2008 LAND ROVER SE LR 2, 4X4, sunroofs, $19888

2011 CARDINAL 38’.

Only used once. Top line. $56.000 obo. 403-347-5947

2008 Acura MDX tech pkg 79,851 km $26,888 AS&I 7652-50 Ave 403-348-8788

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 CRESTLINER Sport Fish SST. C/W 225 Evinrude Etec, elec. down riggers, 110 low ramce, all safety gear. Asking $50,600.

403-340-2535

2008 BMW 535xi $29,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

2010 CAMARO 1LT, sunroof, Synergy Green package, 29,638 kms., $23,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2011 F-350 Lariat Diesel.

Loaded + spare fuel/toolbox & 5th wheel hitch.

28,000 km. $53,000 obo.

403-347-5947

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 BMW X5 3.0 $31,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

2010 CHEV Silverado 1500 LT 4X4, Z-71 $22,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2011 KEYSTONE Alpine $54,900. Top of the line. Satellite dish, built in Cummins Onan generator, Sub-zero insulation pckg. 403 357 6950

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2003 Ford Excursion 4X4, 7.3 L diesel, $16,888.

2005 PONTIAC G6 GT, 3.5L, V6, 200HP, 4 spd auto, 4 dr, trifold sunroof, remote start, 81,832 km $8250.

403309-4255 or Picton82@shaw.ca

2007 SATURN I0N auto, p. windows/doors, low mileage, only 54,000 kms, $7900 obo ***SOLD***

1997 DODGE Ram 1500 145,000 km. Manual, 4x4, gas, canopy. $6500 obo.

403-728-3161 or 304-4239

2003 HONDA Odyssey EX-L V6. Loaded.

2005 TOYOTA Spyder MR2 Roadster, 64,527 kms., 5 spd, $16,888.

2007 SUBURBAN 1500 LT loaded, new tires. DVD, 103,000 km. 403-346-2608

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 BMW X3 AWD, sunroof, 6 spd. $13,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 COROLLA CE. exc. cond. 78,000. kims.

Offers. 403-392-5628

2004 CHEV Avalanche 4x4 loaded $8000 obo SOLD

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

348-8788 Sport & Import

One owner. $7800.

Call 403-396-0722.

Wrangler 4X4, $20,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

348-8788 Sport & Import

AB Sport & Import 403-348-8788

DO YOU HAVE VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2002 CHEV Avalanche, 4 dr, box cover, loaded, no leather, only 165,000 kms $5650. 403-348-9746

2005 AUDI S4 6 SPEED. Mint, 94,661 km.

Sport & Import 7652-50 Ave ***SOLD***

2006 Jetta TDI 73,699 km $16,888 AS&I 403-348-8788

2008 BMW X5 4.8i.

Pano Roof, Nav, DVD 67,566 km, $36,888 AS&I 403-348-8788

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 VW Diesel Jetta Diesel, 6 spd., highline model.

Loaded, new winter X-Ice Tires, 68,000 km, warranty. $22,500. *SOLD*

2002 LEXUS SC 430 convertible/hardtop $14,888.

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 Range Rover Sport HSE $25,888 Sport & Import 7652 50 Ave 403-348-8788

2008 CHEVY Colorado Vortec 3.7 L, 4wd, good tires & brakes, Linex box liner & undercover. 403-783-2064

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2012 Silverado LT 4x4 for sale. Power seats, mirrors, step rails. 13,000 km. $29,900. 403-843-1162, Ron

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2010 JEEP Grand Cherokee $21,000. 403-598-4131 or 403-358-4131

2008 GMC Acadia SLE

2010 SILVERADO 1500 LTZ silver, 90,000.

403-346-2608

348-8788 Sport & Import

2002 T-BIRD hard-top, convertible, red, int. ext. like new, 81,000 hwy. kms. $23,000. firm.

403-347-4915

400 HP Cummins, 4 slides, Aqua-Hot Heating, Jake Brake, 10kW Genset 403-887-0911

2005 HR Imperial

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. Has only 69,885 km.

Fully loaded including NAV and DVD. 403 343 1651or 341-0606

2007 LAND Rover Range Rover, 4X4, supercharged V-8, loaded, $33,888. 7652-50 Ave. Sport & Import

AWD, $20, 888. 7652 - 50 Ave., Sport & Import

2012 Tiffin Allegro

Breeze 32’ Diesel Pusher, 2 slides, 5200 miles, Onan Genset, Leveling system 403-887-0911

2013 Monte Carlo 38’

winterized, queen bed, 2 furnaces, 3 slides, 5 appls. loaded, immac. $43,000.

306-450-0971 in Stettler.

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Houses For Sale

4020

Cars

5030

MUST SELL

VIEW ALL OUR Condos/ Townhouses 4040 PRODUCTS New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

MASON MARTIN HOMES Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

at www.garymoe.com

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

APPROX. 30 acres. 20 min. to Lacombe. 1/2 mile off Hwy 12. Creek & exc. building site. 403-396-2925

4070

1/4 SE24-40-24-W4 $4000 oil revenue. 1/2 mile from #12 Hwy. Power & water. 403-396-2925

Locally owned and family operated

SUV's

5040

2009 ESCALADE All options, new tires 132,000 kms. white, 7 Pass, 22” Rims, Exc. $32,500. obo 403-343-3516 imstein@telus.net 2006 TUSCON V6 fwd, orig. owner, ONLY 23,700 kms, $11,100 403-346-2867

4090

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

Commercial Property

4110

2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. Has only 69,885 km. Fully loaded including NAV and DVD. 403 343 1651or 341-0606

HUNTERS SPECIAL 1991 Chev Blazer, 4 spd., hubs, winch $5888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Trucks 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 , oversized loading doors, & large graveled storage yard. 45 mins outside of Calgary in Linden, AB. Call Colliers International, Evan Truman (403) 215-7252.

2008 CHEVY Colorado Vortec 3.7 L, 4wd, good tires & brakes, Linex box liner & undercover. 783-2064

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS

5030

Cars

2004 CHEV Impala, $4200. 403-341-3593 msg.

2000 NEON, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Red, 403-318-3040 1997 GRAND AM, V6 4 dr.

Red, low kms. Must be seen. Asking $1600.

403-352-7323

1993 F150 S/C flareside, 1 of a kind, very clean, lots of extras $5500 obo 403-314-4857

Campers

12’ TRUCK Camper to give away. Everything still working but needs some work to roof.

MUST BE MOVED! **SOLD**

Tour These Fine Homes

SERGE’S HOMES 17 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS Oct 12 & 13 Sat. & Sun., 1 - 5 pm 1980 sq. ft. 2 storey walk out. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

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

GREAT

G GROCERY C RY CE RY GIVEAWAY CONTEST

6010

Onsite Auction Conducted by:

AB STORAGE Take notice that miscellaneous goods and chattels belonging to the following person(s) and stored at AB Storage (NORTH) will be sold due to unpaid charges:

Chastity Meechance Max Cowlard Charlotte Donnelly Kain Tetz Sherry Dubuque Jonah Setzer

6010

Public Notices

Stuart Murray Ernie Tersigni Tyler Pearson Calvin Desjarlais Douglas Pyska

The sale will be on Friday, October 18, 2013 at AB Storage (NORTH), 4904 79 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4P 2V2.

The goods may be viewed at 10:00 am. All bids are sealed and are for the entire contents of the storage unit. Payment can be made with cash, debit card or credit card.

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Onsite Auction Conducted by:

AB STORAGE

Take notice that miscellaneous goods and chattels belonging to the following person(s) and stored at AB Storage (SOUTH) will be sold due to unpaid charges: Teckla Ballantyne (Reserve Auction) Toni Hindman/ Shanon Kelly Garry Bush Blair Battenfelder John Roberge Robert Scheeler Amanda Morey (Reserve Auction)

Tammy Cave Stephen Maloney David Fiske Chrystal Lambert Brian Odonnell Kimberly Kanhai (Reserve Auction)

The sale will be held on Thursday, October 17, 2013 at AB Storage (SOUTH), 88 Petrolia Drive, Red Deer County, Alberta T4E 1B4.

The goods may be viewed at 10:00 am. All bids are sealed and are for the entire contents of the storage unit. Payment can be made with cash, debit card or credit card.

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4310

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

PUBLIC NOTICES

5090

Open House Out Of Red Deer

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

5200

Public Notices

5050

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5190

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

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Farms/ Land

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

4050

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

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.

Auto Wreckers

NEW CONDO

Acreages

5160

Boats & Marine

4310

SERGE’S HOMES Mackenzie Ranch 58 Mackenzie Cres.

LACOMBE Oct. 10 & 11, 2 pm - 5 pm Custom 2 storey 1392 sq. ft. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

Red Deer Advocate, in partnership with Central Alberta Co-op will be giving away up to $6200 in Central Alberta Co-op Grocery Gift Cards.

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WISE BUYERS READ THE LEGAL COPY: Vehicle(s) may be shown with optional equipment. Dealer may sell or lease for less. Limited time offers. Offers may be cancelled at any time without notice. Dealer order or transfer may be required as inventory may vary by dealer. See your Ford Dealer for complete details or call the Ford Customer Relationship Centre at 1-800-565-3673. For factory orders, a customer may either take advantage of eligible Ford retail customer promotional incentives/offers available at the time of vehicle factory order or time of vehicle delivery, but not both or combinations thereof. ˆUntil October 31, 2013, receive 0% APR purchase financing on new 2013 [Focus (excluding BEV)] for up to 72 months and until December 2, 2013, receive 0% APR purchase financing on new 2013 Ford [Edge (excluding SE)] for up to 48 months, 2014 Ford [Taurus] for up to 60 months, 2014 [Fiesta] for up to 72 months to qualified retail customers, on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest interest rate. Example: $25,000 purchase financed at 0% APR for 48/60/72 months, monthly payment is $520.83/ $416.66/ $347.22, cost of borrowing is $0 or APR of 0% and total to be repaid is $25,000. Down payment on purchase financing offers may be required based on approved credit from Ford Credit. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price. †Until December 2, 2013, receive $500/ $750/ $1,000/ $1,250/ $1,500/ $1,750/ $2,000/ $2,250/ $2,500/ $2,750/ $3,000/ $3,500/ $3,750/ $4,000/ $4,250/ / $4,750/ $5,500/ $5,750/ $6,500/ $6,750/ $7,500/ $8,000/ $8,250/ $8,500/ $9,250/ $9,500 in Manufacturer Rebates with the purchase or lease of a new 2013 [Focus (excluding S and BEV)], 2014 [Escape 1.6L] / 2013 [Fusion (excluding S)], 2014 [Focus S, Taurus SE, Escape S, F-150 Regular Cab XL 4x2 (Value Leader)]/ 2014 [Focus BEV, Transit Connect (excluding Electric), E-Series] / 2013 [C-Max], 2014 [Escape 2.0L]/ 2013 [E-Series]/ 2014 [Mustang V6 Coupe]/2013 [Fiesta S, Mustang V6 Coupe, Edge AWD (excluding SE), F-150 Regular Cab XL 4x2 (Value Leader), F-350 to F-550 Chassis Cabs], 2014 [F-350 to F-550 Chassis Cabs]/ 2013 [Explorer Base]/ 2014 [Taurus (excluding SE)]/ 2013 [Fiesta (excluding S)]/ 2013 [Edge FWD (excluding SE)]/ 2013 [Flex]/ 2013 [Mustang V6 Premium, Explorer (excluding Base)], 2014 [Mustang V6 Premium]/ 2013 [Taurus SE, Escape 1.6L, Transit Connect (excluding Electric)]/ 2014 [Mustang GT]/ 2013 [Mustang GT, Escape 2.0L]/2013 [Expedition]/ 2013 [Taurus (excluding SE)], 2014 [F-150 Regular Cab (excluding XL 4x2)] / 2014 [F-250 to F-450 Gas Engine (excluding Chassis Cabs)]/ 2014 [F-150 Super Cab and Super Crew]/ 2013 [F-250 to F-450 Gas Engine (excluding Chassis Cabs)]/ 2013 [Focus BEV]/ 2013 [F-150 Regular Cab (excluding XL 4x2)]/ 2014 [F-250 to F-450 Diesel Engine (excluding Chassis Cabs)]/2013 [F-150 Super Cab and Super Crew]/ 2013 [F-250 to F-450 Diesel Engine (excluding Chassis Cabs)] - all Raptor, GT500, BOSS302, and Medium Truck models excluded. Manufacturer Rebates are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. **Purchase a new 2013 Focus S Sedan/2013 Focus SE Sedan with Sport Appearance Package/2013 Fusion S/2013 Fusion SE/2014 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine/2013 F-150 Super Cab XLT 4x4 with 5.0L engine for $17,449/$20,249/$23,399/$ 25,249/$24,899/$28,749 after Manufacturer Rebate of $0/$500/$0/$750/$500/$9,250 is deducted. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after Manufacturer Rebate has been deducted. Offers include freight and air tax of $1,650/$1,650/$1,650/$1,650/$1,700/$1,750 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Manufacturer Rebates are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. **Until December 2, 2013, receive 0.99%/0.99%/3.99%/2.49% annual percentage rate (APR) purchase financing on a 2013 Focus S Sedan/2013 Focus SE Sedan with Sport Appearance Package/2013 Fusion S/2013 Fusion SE/2014 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine for a maximum of 84 months to qualified retail customers, on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest APR payment. Purchase financing monthly payment is $215/$250/$320/$345/$323 (the sum of twelve (12) monthly payments divided by 26 periods gives payee a bi-weekly payment of $99/$115/$148/$159/$149 with a down payment of $0 or equivalent trade-in. Cost of borrowing is $618.78/$718.08/$3,458.21/$3,731.63/$2,258.71 or APR of 0.99%/0.99%/3.99%/3.99%/2.49% and total to be repaid is $18,067.78/$20,967.08/$26,857.21/$28,980.63/$27,157.71. Offers include a Manufacturer Rebate of $0/$500/$0/$750/$500 and freight and air tax of $1,650/$1,650/$1,650/$1,650/$1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after Manufacturer Rebate deducted. Bi-Weekly payments are only available using a customer initiated PC (Internet Banking) or Phone Pay system through the customer’s own bank (if offered by that financial institution). The customer is required to sign a monthly payment contract with a first payment date one month from the contract date and to ensure that the total monthly payment occurs by the payment due date. Bi-weekly payments can be made by making payments equivalent to the sum of 12 monthly payments divided by 26 bi-weekly periods every two weeks commencing on the contract date. Dealer may sell for less. Offers vary by model and not all combinations will apply. ***Estimated fuel consumption ratings for 2013 Focus 2.0L I4 5-speed manual transmission: [7.8L/100km (36MPG) City, 5.5L/100km (51MPG) Hwy] / 2013 Fusion FWD 2.5L I4 6-speed SST transmission: [9.2L/100km (31MPG) City, 5.8L/100km (49MPG) Hwy] / 2014 Escape FWD 2.5L I4 6-speed automatic transmission: [9.5L/100km (30MPG) City, 6.3L/100km (45MPG) Hwy]. Fuel consumption ratings based on Transport Canada approved test methods. Actual fuel consumption will vary based on road conditions, vehicle loading, vehicle equipment, vehicle condition, and driving habits. †††Receive a winter safety package which includes: four (4) winter tires, four (4) steel wheels and four (4) tire pressure monitoring sensors when you purchase or lease any new 2013/2014 Ford Focus (excluding S and Focus Electric), Escape, Fusion, Edge (excluding Sport), Explorer, or Fiesta (excluding S) on or before December 2, 2013. This offer is not applicable to any Fleet (other than small fleets with an eligible FIN) or Government customers and not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP or Daily Rental incentives. Some conditions apply. See Dealer for details. Vehicle handling characteristics, tire load index and speed rating may not be the same as factory supplied all-season tires. Winter tires are meant to be operated during winter conditions and may require a higher cold inflation pressure than all-season tires. Consult your Ford of Canada dealer for details including applicable warranty coverage. ▲Offer only valid from September 4, 2013 to October 31, 2013 (the “Offer Period”) to resident Canadians with a Costco membership on or before August 31, 2013. Use this $1,000CDN Costco member offer towards the purchase or lease of a new 2013/2014 Ford (excluding Fiesta, Focus, C-Max, Raptor, GT500, Mustang Boss 302, Transit Connect EV, and Medium Truck) or Lincoln vehicle (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). The Eligible Vehicle must be delivered and/or factory-ordered from your participating Ford dealer within the Offer Period. Offer is only valid at participating dealers, is subject to vehicle availability, and may be cancelled or changed at any time without notice. Only one (1) offer may be applied towards the purchase or lease of one (1) Eligible Vehicle, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales per Costco Membership Number. Offer is transferable to persons domiciled with an eligible Costco member. Offer is not combinable with any CPA/GPC or Daily Rental incentives, the Commercial Upfit Program or the Commercial Fleet Incentive Program (CFIP). Applicable taxes calculated before $1,000CDN offer is deducted. ®: Registered trademark of Price Costco International, Inc. used under license. ©2013 Sirius Canada Inc. “SiriusXM”, the SiriusXM logo, channel names and logos are trademarks of SiriusXM Radio Inc. and are used under licence. ©2013 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

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