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Tickets Available at Sproules IDA, Buy And Sell By Photo, And Servus Credit Unions all over Central Alberta 42537L31 BREAKING NEWS ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER MONDAY, DEC. 31, 2012 WEATHER A mix of sun and cloud. High -3, low -10. FORECAST ON A2 Four sections Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3 Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C3,C4 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A5,A6 Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D1-D3 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C2 Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C5 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B1-B6 ENTERTAINMENT FIFTY SHADES ALL OVER IN 2012 E. L. James’s erotic novel Fifty Shades phenomenon certainly permeated all parts of pop culture in 2012. C5 NEW YEAR’S DAY NO PAPER TUESDAY The Advocate will not publish on Tuesday, New Year’s Day, and all offices will be closed. Normal publishing and office hours resume on Wednesday, Jan. 2. INDEX PLEASE RECYCLE HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Pressure growing on Harper And... what for 2013? TO ADDRESS FASTING CHIEF’S DEMANDS Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff A town of Sylvan Lake Parks employee makes his way around the lake’s skating surface, clearing the ice with a brush-mounted vehicle. The rink is expected see more activity when temperatures started to rise this week. Year ending on a warmer note BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF New Year traditions dating back to Rome and Babylon lead people to look at the world with fresh eyes and, perhaps, find some way to im- prove themselves during the coming year. The value and validity of the New Year’s reso- lution, however, varies widely from person to person. “It’s a waste of time,” says Justin Wand from Leicester, UK, who spent the Christmas season vis- iting friends and family in Central Alberta. Wand, 40, says he has not committed himself to a formal resolution for quite a long time, although he has made them in the past. Resolu- tion or not, he feels he needs to be fitter and healthier — a common theme among people in- terviewed on Sunday for their thoughts on New Year resolutions. Angus Thomson, 45, visiting from Florida, says he tries to make a New Year resolution every year, but has had varying levels of success at keeping them. By Sun- day afternoon, he hadn’t yet given much thought to his resolution for 2013, stating that he would like to get rid of one bad habit — procrastinating. Cassie Howdle of Red Deer said she has found that ideas for resolutions that seemed really great on Dec. 31 don’t neces- sarily hold as much ap- peal on Jan. 1. BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A visibly weak Chief Theresa Spence made a brief appear- ance on Sunday — in Day 20 of her fast —as a parade of politicians and protesters turned up the volume to de- mand action from the Harper govern- ment on treaty issues. Through a spokesperson, the chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation said she was “deeply humbled” by the sup- port she’s received from aboriginals and non-aboriginals in her appeal for a face-to-face meeting with Prime Min- ister Stephen Harper and Governor- General David Johnston. A demonstration in support of her hunger fast took place at Toronto’s Eaton Centre, where protesters crowd- ed a section of the mall in a loud, but peaceful gathering. A smaller crowd backing Spence as- sembled in Calgary outside of Harper’s constituency office. The chief acknowl- edged the outpouring from members of the Idle No More movement, but called for other First Nations leaders to also step up. “This is a call to arms and a call to action in the most peaceful and re- spective way that reflects our natural laws as Indigenous nations,” she said in the statement. “First Nations leadership need to take charge and control of the situa- tion on behalf of the grassroots move- ment. Please see TREATY on Page A5 BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF If you feel like swapping your mukluks for a pair of flip-flops when the outside temperature rises to -10C, you just might be from Red Deer — or somewhere nearby. Central Albertans are getting a break from what has been an unseasonably cold December, although no records were actu- ally broken. Sunday’s high of -4C felt positively balmy when compared with the days of icy cold that hit through the past month, especially on Christmas Day. Environment Canada meteorologist Chris Emond calculated that, as of Thurs- day afternoon, the average temperature in Red Deer for December was -14.8C, a sig- nificant departure from the normal average of -11.1C. The average for the month is based on calculations of the mean temperature for each day, with the mean temperature be- ing the midpoint between the high and the low. While -14.8 is chilly enough, that would mean that some days were much colder than that. During the past month, Christmas Day was coldest of all, with temperatures dropping to -29.6C by 11 p.m. and the wind chill making it feel like -36C. That was about as cold a Christmas as Red Deer has seen since 1971, when ther- mometers that actually go that low regis- tered -42.2C with a wind chill of -46C. Coping with those temperatures becomes a challenge when pipes freeze and burst, batteries play dead and stiff transmissions refuse to turn. At those temperatures, standing still or leaving your skin exposed can be dan- gerous if not deadly, say people who routinely work out of doors re- gardless and sometimes because of the cold weather. There’s no weather like cold weather — the colder the better, say David Martel and Michael Weinman at Canyon Ski Resort. From a business perspective, tempera- tures between -10 and-5 are best for draw- ing customers, because that’s relatively comfortable for outdoor activities, says Martel, general manager for the resort. He and his staff have a temperature and wind chill chart that tells them how long they should stay outside at one time. Wind chill is not a big issue, however, because Canyon is relatively sheltered from the winds that may blow much more vigorously over the fields above, says Mar- tel. He supplies Helly Hansen outerwear to all staff who work outdoors to offer maxi- mum protection from the cold. Christmas Day was no problem at all because the ski hill was closed for the holiday, he says. The only time Can- yon would close due to weather conditions is when the schools have shut down their trips to the ski hills because of the cold. School trips make up about 95 per cent of Canyon’s business during those days, says Martel. The balance is mostly parents who want to ski with their children, he says. There is no minimum temperature for weekends, when there are always enough hardy skiers to keep the lifts running, he says. CENTRAL ALBERTANS ARE GETTING A BREAK FROM WHAT HAS BEEN AN UNSEASONABLY COLD DECEMBER COPING WITH COLD TEMPERATURES BECOMES A CHALLENGE WHEN PIPES FREEZE AND BURST, BATTERIES PLAY DEAD AND STIFF TRANSMISSIONS REFUSE TO TURN Please see COLD on Page A2 RESOLUTIONS Please see 2013 on Page A2

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Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3

Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C3,C4

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ENTERTAINMENT

FIFTY SHADESALL OVER IN 2012E. L. James’s erotic novel Fifty Shades phenomenon certainly permeated all parts of pop culture in 2012. C5

NEW YEAR’S DAY

NO PAPER TUESDAYThe Advocate will not publish on Tuesday, New Year’s Day, and all offices will be closed. Normal publishing and office hours resume on Wednesday, Jan. 2.

INDEX

PLEASE RECYCLE

HAPPY NEW YEAR!HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Pressure growing on Harper

And...what for 2013?

TO ADDRESS FASTING CHIEF’S DEMANDS

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

A town of Sylvan Lake Parks employee makes his way around the lake’s skating surface, clearing the ice with a brush-mounted vehicle. The rink is expected see more activity when temperatures started to rise this week.

Year ending on a warmer note

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

ADVOCATE STAFF

New Year traditions dating back to Rome and Babylon lead people to look at the world with fresh eyes and, perhaps, find some way to im-prove themselves during the coming year.

The value and validity of the New Year’s reso-lution, however, varies widely from person to person.

“It’s a waste of time,” says Justin Wand from Leicester, UK, who spent the Christmas season vis-iting friends and family in Central Alberta.

Wand, 40, says he has not committed himself to a formal resolution for quite a long time, although he has made them in the past. Resolu-tion or not, he feels he needs to be fitter and healthier — a common theme among people in-terviewed on Sunday for their thoughts on New Year resolutions.

Angus Thomson, 45, visiting from Florida, says he tries to make a New Year resolution every year, but has had varying levels of success at keeping them. By Sun-day afternoon, he hadn’t yet given much thought to his resolution for 2013, stating that he would like to get rid of one bad habit — procrastinating.

Cassie Howdle of Red Deer said she has found that ideas for resolutions that seemed really great on Dec. 31 don’t neces-sarily hold as much ap-peal on Jan. 1.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — A visibly weak Chief Theresa Spence made a brief appear-ance on Sunday — in Day 20 of her fast —as a parade of politicians and protesters turned up the volume to de-mand action from the Harper govern-ment on treaty issues.

Through a spokesperson, the chief

of the Attawapiskat First Nation said she was “deeply humbled” by the sup-port she’s received from aboriginals and non-aboriginals in her appeal for a face-to-face meeting with Prime Min-ister Stephen Harper and Governor-General David Johnston.

A demonstration in support of her hunger fast took place at Toronto’s Eaton Centre, where protesters crowd-

ed a section of the mall in a loud, but peaceful gathering.

A smaller crowd backing Spence as-sembled in Calgary outside of Harper’s constituency office. The chief acknowl-edged the outpouring from members of the Idle No More movement, but called for other First Nations leaders to also step up.

“This is a call to arms and a call to

action in the most peaceful and re-spective way that reflects our natural laws as Indigenous nations,” she said in the statement.

“First Nations leadership need to take charge and control of the situa-tion on behalf of the grassroots move-ment.

Please see TREATY on Page A5

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

ADVOCATE STAFF

If you feel like swapping your mukluks for a pair of flip-flops when the outside temperature rises to -10C, you just might be from Red Deer — or somewhere nearby.

Central Albertans are getting a break from what has been an unseasonably cold December, although no records were actu-ally broken.

Sunday’s high of -4C felt positively balmy when compared with the days of icy cold that hit through the past month, especially on Christmas Day.

Environment Canada meteorologist Chris Emond calculated that, as of Thurs-day afternoon, the average temperature in Red Deer for December was -14.8C, a sig-nificant departure from the normal average of -11.1C.

The average for the month is based on calculations of the mean temperature for each day, with the mean temperature be-ing the midpoint between the high and the low.

While -14.8 is chilly enough, that would mean that some days were much colder than that. During the past month, Christmas Day was coldest of all, with temperatures dropping to -29.6C by 11 p.m. and the wind chill making it feel like -36C.

That was about as cold a Christmas as

Red Deer has seen since 1971, when ther-mometers that actually go that low regis-tered -42.2C with a wind chill of -46C.

Coping with those temperatures becomes a challenge when pipes freeze and burst, batteries play dead and stiff transmissions refuse to turn.

At those temperatures, standing still or leaving your skin exposed can be dan-gerous if not deadly, say people who r o u t i n e l y work out of d o o r s r e -gardless and s o m e t i m e s because of the cold weather.

There’s no weather like cold weather — the colder the better, say David Martel and Michael Weinman at Canyon Ski Resort.

From a business perspective, tempera-tures between -10 and-5 are best for draw-ing customers, because that’s relatively comfortable for outdoor activities, says Martel, general manager for the resort.

He and his staff have a temperature and wind chill chart that tells them how long they should stay outside at one time.

Wind chill is not a big issue, however,

because Canyon is relatively sheltered from the winds that may blow much more vigorously over the fields above, says Mar-tel.

He supplies Helly Hansen outerwear to all staff who work outdoors to offer maxi-mum protection from the cold.

Christmas Day was no problem at all because the ski hill was closed for the holiday, he says.

The only time Can-yon would close due to weather conditions is when the

schools have shut down their trips to the ski hills because of the cold.

School trips make up about 95 per cent of Canyon’s business during those days, says Martel.

The balance is mostly parents who want to ski with their children, he says.

There is no minimum temperature for weekends, when there are always enough hardy skiers to keep the lifts running, he says.

CENTRAL ALBERTANS ARE GETTING A BREAK FROM WHAT HAS BEEN AN UNSEASONABLY COLD DECEMBER

COPING WITH COLD TEMPERATURES BECOMES A CHALLENGE WHEN PIPES

FREEZE AND BURST, BATTERIES PLAY DEAD AND STIFF TRANSMISSIONS REFUSE

TO TURN

Please see COLD on Page A2

RESOLUTIONS

Please see 2013 on Page A2

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A Better Worldhelps thousands

BY RANDY FIEDLER

ADVOCATE STAFF

A Better World’s numbers stagger the mind:

● 109,100 people with clean drink-ing water

● 68,100 patients treated in health clinics

● 60,000 people helped in emergen-cy situations

● 54,260 stu-dents getting ed-ucations

● 9,700 people eating from their own gardens

● 2,000 jobs created through microfinancing

Yet after 22 years, A Better World’s modest founder doesn’t c a l l h i s L a -combe-based aid agency a charity.

“We take other people’s money and we want to invest and we want re-turns,” said Eric Rajah.

“Are we getting the most value for the dollar? What’s the money doing in the end?”

Rajah said 2013 brings another am-bitious year of helping abroad. Eight trips to Kenya are scheduled, with the first in just a few weeks with 22 Se-niors Association of Greater Edmonton members.

“They’re all 55 plus and the oldest is 84 years old. All have funded a school and they’re going to open it.”

Another 11 Australian seniors are also on the trip, enticed to come through a Lacombe senior who is also

going.Rajah said older donors “want to

leave their money in a way that out-lasts their lives.

“People are thinking about what they can leave for the world as a lega-cy.”

Next year also brings the expansion of Neighbours, A Better World’s new program focusing on local projects.

“We’re looking for people who are missed because of gaps . . . and not covered by grants or government sub-sidies.”

For example, he’s negotiating to partner with Central Alberta busi-nesses to provide vouchers for car oil changes and family photos, saying these are services commonly over-looked or ignored as families struggle to make ends meet.

“These little things can give a lot of hope to people.”

Rajah said A Better World’s efforts wouldn’t be possible without tremen-dous support over the years.

“Thanks to Central Albertans, we’re approaching $1.7 million (do-nated) and thank all the volunteers for travelling and following up on their donations.

“We’re grateful to the community.”More information about A Better

World’s activities is available online at www.a-better-world.ca.

[email protected]

COLD: Outdoor staff watch for frostbite

Lift staff are trained to watch for signs of frostbite, particularly among the 12 to 17-year-olds who make up the bulk of Canyon’s customer base. It seems that, for people in that age group, it’s not cool to cover your face, which can lead to frostbite, says Mar-tel.

Weinman, whose jobs include mak-ing snow, running lifts and mainte-nance, says it’s easier to keep warm if you keep dry and keep moving.

Making snow is probably the coldest job on the site, because he sometimes has to stand in front of the snow gun while it’s working and then has to get on a cold snowmobile and ride to the next gun.

Howeer, the coldest weather is the best weather for making snow, he says. So far this season, Canyon has been able to make a tremendous volume of snow, quite literally putting Weinman and his crew under the gun in their daily routine.

Weinman likes to fend off the cold by wearing multiple layers of wool un-der his Helly Hansens, including a soft layer of Merino wool next to his skin and a heavy wool sweater.

He brings a change of socks and uses both gloves and mittens, depend-ing on what he is doing.

Mittens are warmer because you can keep your fingers, but sometimes you need gloves for better dexterity, says Weinman.

While some of Canyon’s customers bring hot packs to help keep their feet and fingers warm, he says he has never

tried them.Emond says Environment Canada’s

long range forecast for Central Alberta looks fairly normal in January and February, meaning there will still be more days of icy, bitter cold broken up by a few days of warmer weather.

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2013: Make, break resolutions

“I’ll make one tomorrow and break it on the First,” said Howdle, who feels her philosophy regarding New Year resolutions is pretty much in line with that of other people.

She said that a friend who works for a gym club has noticed that it attracts a great number of new members at the start of each year, but that most of them will have lost interest by the end of February.

Working on health and fitness is probably a fairly common theme for New Year resolutions says Scott Dowl-er of Innisfail, whose resolution for 2013 is to eat healthier foods and get more exercise.

Dowler, 40, said he made a similar resolution a few years ago and man-aged to keep at it for four years, but acknowledged, like Howdle, that most resolutions don’t seem to last much longer than New Year’s Day.

His 12-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn, said she hasn’t made a resolution in the past, but has resolved in 2013 to be-come a better dancer.

Like her twin sister, Mikayla, Kait-lyn does a wide varieties of dance styles, which she hopes will lead her to a career that includes entertaining on cruise ships.

Time will [email protected]

STORIES FROM PAGE A1

Photo by BRENDA KOSSOWAN/Advocate staff

Many layers, a change of both gloves and socks and never standing sill is the key to keeping warm when the wind howls and the mercury drops, says snowmaker Michael Weinman while offering a treat to Canyon Ski Resort’s new mascot, Bernard — named after a beer brand from his home in the Czech Republic.

Teen charged with threat linked to deadly school shooting in U.S.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

MEDICINE HAT — An 18-year-old man from southern Alberta has been charged with making an online threat that allegedly touched on this month’s deadly elementary school shooting in Connecticut.

Police in Medicine Hat say they started an investigation on Boxing Day into comments posted on Face-book.

Investigators say the post included remarks about the deadly shooting in Newtown, Conn., and a threat aimed at a Medicine Hat school.

Police did not go into detail in a news release issued Friday evening, but did call the post “disturbing.”

The 18-year-old was arrested and has been charged with making threats and publishing obscene mat-ter.

He is being held in custody until his next court appearance today.

Police have not named the man charged or the school involved. They also didn’t say whether he was a stu-dent at the school.

It’s the second time in the space of a little more than a week that a young person has been charged with making threats aimed at an Alberta school.

On Dec. 21, a 17-year-old student at Ponoka Composite High School, south of Edmonton, was charged with mak-ing threats.

Area schools were put in lockdown while the boy was arrested at his home. Police say they seized two rifles and ammunition.

The youth was released on bail Fri-day.

There was rash of threat-related class cancellation and school closures in Alberta on the same day as the Po-noka arrest.

One of those school closures came in Medicine Hat.

Classes were cancelled as a precau-tionary measure at Crescent Heights High School because one student over-heard another student talking about school violence.

School officials termed it a “low risk issue.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — With half of its electricity plants fuelled by coal, the head of TransAlta Corp. is a believer in how valuable carbon capture and storage could be for the company.

But a decision in April to scrap Project Pioneer, a $1.4-billion project to capture carbon diox-ide emissions from an Alberta coal plant and store them under-ground, has TransAlta (TSX:TA) president and CEO Dawn Farrell less optimistic about the technol-ogy’s feasibility in the future.

TransAlta was one of the com-panies backing the project. En-bridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) and Capital Power Corp. (TSX:CPX) were the others.

The idea was to sell some of carbon dioxide to nearby energy producers, who would inject the gas into their fields as a means to get more oil out of the ground.

The federal and Alberta gov-ernments have been banking on carbon capture and storage to re-duce the carbon footprint of the power generation and the oil and gas industries.

Project Pioneer, which would

have been connected to the Kee-phills 3 coal plant west of Edmon-ton, received $779 million in back-ing from Ottawa and Edmonton.

Although an initial study found the technology worked and the capital costs were in line with expectations, Farrell said things changed as planning moved for-ward and other methods of oil ex-traction improved.

“What had changed was this horizontal drilling, which has changed the cost structure of find-ing gas and now oil,” Farrell said, in an interview with The Cana-dian Press.

“As a result of that the cost of taking oil out of the ground ... with CO2 is now being overtaken by the cost of horizontal drilling.

“Effectively what happened is the ability of the oilfields to use CO2 moved out five or 10 years and we had federal funding we needed to put in place right away.”

Farrell said new federal legis-lation on carbon emissions means TransAlta’s Sundance plant will reach the end of its first lifespan in 2019.

Other plants will follow in the ensuing decade. Once a plant reaches the end of its life, the company can continue to operate

it with a carbon-capture retrofit or shut it down.

“So 2019 is the first big decision for TransAlta,” Farrell said.

“If they’re coming to the end of their life at the end of this decade, in 2019, I don’t think they have a very good chance for retrofit un-less my team can discover some other way of dealing with it.”

Alberta has a 1,000-year supply of low-sulphur coal, but Farrell said it still gives off double the emissions of natural gas.

The cost of coal at this point continues to make it an attractive alternative, but Farrell notes the high costs of carbon-capture and the lack of a market to sell the captured carbon could put coal “out of the money” as plants reach the end of their lives under fed-eral rules.

TransAlta has power plants in Canada, the United States and Australia.

Farrell said the utility is look-ing at further expansion in the United States in 2013 and is hop-ing to make some acquisitions, possibly in California, related to wind energy.

Carbon capture could be unfeasible for years

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RCMP say fire in St. Albertis suspicious

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

ST. ALBERT — Police say they are using dogs to scour the scene of a suspicious house fire in St. Al-bert, northwest of Edmonton.

The dogs are looking for any signs of flammable liquids.

RCMP say the fire has been deemed suspicious because the fire department was not immediately able to determine a cause of the blaze.

They say a man was at home at the time of the fire and needed to be taken to hospital for treatment.

The rest of the family that lives at the home was on vacation.

Firefighters were able to keep the fire from dam-aging any of the neighbouring houses.

Police say overnight shooting was not a random act of violence

CALGARY — Police in Calgary say they don’t be-lieve a overnight shooting in a south-end neighbour-hood was a random act of violence.

Officers went to a home in the Parkland area and found a 23-year-old man with a gunshot wound.

He needed surgery in hospital, but is expected to survive.

Police say they think the injured man and the shooter knew each other, though investigators have yet to confirm where the shooting took place.

Parkland is in the city’s south bordered on the west by Fish Creek Provincial Park.

Man charged with arson afterfire at his home

LETHBRIDGE — A 26-year-old southern Alberta man has been charged in a fire that started in the basement of a Lethbridge home.

City police say the fire broke out Thursday night.One person at home at the time of the fire was

treated in hospital and released.Damage was pegged at more than $150,000, though

firefighters were able to keep the fire from damag-ing any neighbouring homes.

Heinrich Friesen has been charged with arson as well as mischief and is to appear in court Monday.

Police say Friesen lived at the home that burned.

Photo radar usedto reward good drivers

CANMORE — Photo radar is mostly used to pun-ish bad drivers, but in one southern Alberta town it will soon be used to reward good drivers, too.

Officials in Canmore, just to the east of Banff National Park, say they want to offer financial incen-tives to those who follow the rules of the road.

Beginning New Year’s Day, drivers captured on camera obeying the speed limit will be entered in a draw and four lucky winners will be chosen to receive a $250 dollar certificate to a local busi-ness.

The licence plate numbers will be posted in the local paper or on Facebook and it will be up to the winners to claim their prize.

Coun. Sean Krausert says even if it’s not effective in reducing speeding, it will help promote safety and help promote local business.

Krausert and another councillor introduced the idea after hearing about a similar project in Europe.

They’re hoping it might make a dent in the 5,500 tickets the town mailed out last year.

The pilot project is expected to last about a year.

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Canada weighs options for possible military training mission in West Africa

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Harper government is examining whether to dispatch Canadian troops to help train an African force whose purpose would be to take back a vast swath of Mali from an off-shoot of al-Qaeda.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay, speaking in Hali-fax Sunday, said what form of military assistance can be provided to a growing international swell is some-thing that’s under active discussion.

“What I can tell you is that we are contemplating what contribution Canada could make,” MacKay said at an announcement related to rental housing rates on military bases.

The United Nations recently decided to back a proposal from Economic Community of West African States — ECOWAS — to send 3,300 troops to the re-gion.

Canadian special forces troops were active in the west African country for several training missions prior to the coup last March that installed a shaky interim government. Those missions also took place before Islamic Maghreb — known as AQIM — over-ran much of the northern portion of the impover-ished nation.

“We are not at a point where we would be making an announcement, but as you know, training is some-thing that the Canadian Forces is particularly adept at doing,” MacKay said. “We’ve demonstrated that repeated in the last, well, throughout our history, but certainly the training mission in Afghanistan is a testament to that commitment and that ability and something that has garnered the admiration of re-

cipient nations but also other countries who emulate Canadian training techniques.”

Mali, a landlocked country bordering on Algeria and Niger, has been one of the biggest recipients of Canada’s foreign aid.

France has been at the forefront of organizing an international response, including the African-led in-ternational force which could be trained by western troops.

Malian Prime Minister Diango Cissoko, last week, pleaded for military intervention “as soon as pos-sible.”

The African troops would need training in desert combat and counterinsurgency warfare.

Canada could also provide what the military call enablers: communications, intelligence, transport planes or helicopters for airlift.

But it is in the area of special forces, more specifi-cally counter-terrorism training, that the Canadian military would likely make the most immediate con-tribution.

Briefing records for the commander of the coun-try’s special forces show members of a highly-trained, ultra-secret regiment have conducted at least three training mission in the country between 2010 and 2011.

“Each involved embedding training Canadian Special Operations Regiment (CSOR) trainers with-in” training units from other countries, said a Sept. 27, 2011 briefing to Brig.-Gen Denis Thompson.

But the memo took pains to emphasize there would be no combat, and much like Afghanistan, the troops would be restricted to inside the wire instruc-tion.

Ottawa renews caution warning for travellers to Haiti after U.S. advisory

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs con-tinues to caution Canadian travellers to Haiti after the United States tough-ened its travel warning for Americans heading to the Caribbean country.

Foreign Affairs does not have a sim-ilar countrywide advisory in place but on Saturday renewed its lesser warn-ing that Canadians should exercise a “high degree of caution” in Haiti.

It says crime continues to put travel-lers at risk, particularly in some neigh-bourhoods in capital Port-au-Prince.

Foreign Affairs also says those at-tending National Carnival celebrations

February in the northern city of Cap-Haitien should also be particularly vigilant about their safety.

The U.S. State Department issued an updated travel warning Friday stat-ing that “no one is safe” from kidnap-ping and violent crime in the capital and highlighting the risks from rob-bery, lawlessness, infectious disease and poor medical facilities.

It says in recent months travellers arriving in Port-au-Prince on flights from the United States have been at-tacked and robbed after leaving the airport, while at least two U.S. citizens were killed in robbery and kidnapping incidents.

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In September 2003, an enraged Josif Fekete gunned down his wife, Blagica, and their three-year-old son, Alex, in a Red Deer apart-ment building, before turning the shotgun on himself.

The tragedy horrified the community, but served has a stark reminder that the city is not immune to the worst kind of domestic vio-lence.

It was as an eye-opener and Red Deer ral-lied to address family violence through proactive programs.

But overall in Canada, while many may think the battle against spousal abuse has gained ground, a recent re-port begs to differ.

A major federal investigation in 2009 said spousal violence in Canada cost society $7.4 billion, for the thou-sands of incidents that occurred in that year alone. And the problem is far

from being addressed adequately.The 145-page report completed this

fall and obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act said nearly 50,000 cases of spousal violence were reported on the police data base that year. Eighty per cent involved women; there were 65 spousal homicides — 49 of them women. The definition of spouse included married, common-law, separated, same-sex and divorced partners.

The study shows, said Vancouver ac-ademic Colleen Varcoe, that violence against women remains far too preva-lent in Canada.

“There’s this ‘You’ve come a long way, baby’ kind of ethos in Canada. . . . Where people have a sense that per-haps violence is lessening, perhaps it’s less of a problem, perhaps women have greater equality, and that trans-lates into less violence,” said Varcoe. “There simply isn’t any evidence of that.”

Varcoe was lead researcher for a 2011 study that examined in detail the costs associated with a sample of 309 women who left abusive partners.

(In all fairness, however, the fed-eral study also looked at men suffering at the hands of an abusive spouse. In those cases, it cost taxpayers $2.6 bil-

lion of the $7.4 billion total.)“Spousal violence is a widespread

and unfortunate social reality that has an effect on all Canadians,” the report stated.

“Victims of spousal abuse are susceptible to sustaining costly and long-lasting physical, emotional and financial costs. Every member of so-ciety eventually feels the impact. . . . Through the additional financial strain imposed on publicly-funded systems and services.”

A spokesperson for Justice Canada said the study “was designed to fill a knowledge gap in Canada and raise awareness and understanding on the impact of spousal violence among the public and professionals in the crimi-nal justice, health and social services sectors, among others.”

Closer to home, an unrelated study says Alberta has an unenviable re-cord of having the fifth highest rate of police-reported intimate partner violence and the second highest rate of self-reported spousal violence in Canada.

To that end, Red Deer deserves ap-plause for recognizing the problem and taking action through education.

After the Fekete murder-suicide, a local domestic crime unit was es-

tablished. The RCMP and the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter now work as a team under the project. A social worker from the shelter works alongside the police in dealing with spousal abuse cases — a first for Red Deer.

“In this partnership with Red Deer City RCMP, they’ve really become sen-sitive to the needs of the victims and we as the shelter have really become sensitive to the legal issues and the investigative issues police face,” said Ian Wheeliker, executive director of the shelter.

CAWES has also launched a unique project encouraging men to get in-volved against spousal violence. The shelter held an event in November called Breakfast with the Guys.

“We’re hoping men who care about this (violence), that men who have daughters, sisters, mother and wives will come out and say it’s time to step up to the plate and take a stand,” said Wheeliker.

Family violence is a community concern. A combined effort, as Red Deer has shown, is a positive step in addressing those shocking federal sta-tistics.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

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DRIVEN VERSUS TRANSFER-DRIVEN — ARE AT WAR IN CANADA

BY BRIAN LEE CROWLEYAND KEN COATES

SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Recent protests organized by the Idle No More movement and angry statements by some Western Canadian aboriginal leaders reflect real frustration among indigenous Canadians.

At the same time, several impressive agreements between aboriginal groups and businesses reveal a burst of job creation, joint ventures and revenue sharing the likes of which Canada has rarely seen.

Which model — anger or co-operation — provides the best window on the future of indigenous rela-tions with other Canadians?

The answer is both.The collaborative arrangements are very real.

The recent agreement between Pinehouse First Na-tion and uranium companies Cameco and Ariva are truly impressive. Cameco, a leader in engagement with First Nations and Metis communities, has a workforce that is 50 per cent aboriginal and con-tracts 70 per cent of the supply work to indigenous firms. Comparable developments with Syncrude and Suncor in the oilsands have shown great promise. On an even larger scale, Inuit participation with the huge Baffinland (Mary River) mine is truly precedent setting.

Most of the best aboriginal-business partnerships in the country have been signed in the last 10 years, promising a pattern of job creation, Indigenous business development and community benefits that seemed beyond reach just a decade ago.

The anger, however, is neither phoney nor manu-factured. The hardship and suffering in many indig-enous communities is as real as it is painful. Schools

are underfunded. Housing in many communities is totally unacceptable. Add in serious problems with addiction (including the scourge that is OxyCon-tin), violence, welfare dependency and entrenched poverty and the rage of some indigenous people be-comes all too easy to understand.

This is, therefore, the best of times and the worst of times.

The government of Canada, pursuing policies of equalizing opportunity, not circumstance, is provid-ing policy tools (like the power to tax, reforms to property holding, heightened requirements for trans-parency) and investments that support those commu-nities willing to commit to economic engagement and to take bold steps to improve socio-economic condi-tions among their people. The business community is more willing than ever to support these self-help ini-tiatives. First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities looking to engage with the resource and industrial economy or to otherwise assume responsibility for their future directions are finding strong support.

Many communities, however, are not there yet.Sometimes individual and community dysfunc-

tion is too overwhelming. In other instances. the best indigenous will in the world cannot conjure jobs and growth out of being too far from opportunities. And in still other cases there is still the passive expecta-tion (embodied in the now-defunct Kelowna Accord) that the federal government will swoop in and make everything better through massive spending.

The idea of government-led improvements, popu-lar in the 1970s and 1980s, falls short on two grounds. First, the government believes that building on op-portunities, not increased transfers, is the best way forward. In this they are surely correct. Secondly, non-aboriginal support for more government trans-fers appears very low, especially among new Cana-dians. Indeed, there is mounting evidence that what support there is is declining, not rising.

The emergence of these divergent models of in-digenous revitalization — opportunity-driven versus transfer-driven — creates enormous challenges. There is no greater stain on Canada’s reputation and conscience than aboriginal people living in abject

poverty, condemned by poor education and commu-nity dysfunction to a life of hardship and marginal-ization. Yet, as a practical matter, prosperity cannot be conferred; it must be earned. The government can hardly be faulted for wanting to break with the old paternalistic model of massive but poorly-conceived spending, passively received.

Given the diversity of indigenous circumstances, however, neither model alone answers the need. The government needs to articulate its “equality of op-portunity” approach and to be clear about the tool kit that aboriginal communities will have at their disposal.

The tool kit is substantial, including education, self-government, economic development, housing, and improved infrastructure.

But the obligation cannot be one-sided. Ottawa also needs to articulate precisely what is required from individual communities — transparency to the community and government, a commitment to good governance, community support for education, and openness to commercial opportunities — if First Na-tions wish to capitalize fully on these measures and truly be Idle No More.

Most of all, aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadi-ans need to be frank with each other. Governments need to indicate, to all Canadians, what is on the table. Indigenous communities have to be invited to the table not as supplicants (an old model that is as patronizing as it is unproductive) or even as insistent and occasionally truculent bargainers (the current plan for many communities).

Instead, governments and First Nations have to come as full partners, with a shared vested interest in the long-term improvement of prospects for Ab-original People. This is the only real foundation for meaningful reconciliation and shared prosperity.

Brian Lee Crowley is the managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an independent non-par-tisan public policy think tank in Ottawa. Ken Coates is the Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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Ex PM Joe Clarkwarns Canada, First Nations headed in ‘dangerous direction’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Joe Clark says he’s concerned Canada and its First Nations are “headed in a dangerous direction.’’

Clark issued a statement after meeting Saturday with Chief Theresa Spence, who has been fasting for more than two weeks in an effort to persuade Prime Minister Stephen Harper to meet with her and other First Nations leaders over treaty issues.

Clark, who was a Tory prime minister from 1979 to 1980, says friends of his in the First Nations com-munity had suggested he meet with Spence, chief of a remote reserve in Northern Ontario.

He says National Chief Shawn Atleo managed to get him an invitation to visit Spence and also accom-panied Clark on a visit to Victoria Island near Par-liament Hill, where Spence has taken up residence during her protest.

Clark says he found Spence to have a “humble and achievable’’ vision and adds that those no longer in active political life may still have a role to play in helping discussions resume.

Spence stopped eating solid food on Dec. 11.Clark says he appreciated having an opportunity

to listen to Spence’s concerns.“My experience has been that direct and honest

dialogue is always useful and sometimes essential, particularly in dealing with issues as complex and multi-faceted as the relations between First Nations and Canada,’’ his statement read.

“Chief Spence expressed a humble and achiev-able vision — one which I believe all Canadians can embrace.’’

Spence’s fast has drawn attention to current First Nations issues but there have also been calls for her to abandon the fast.

Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq joined other federal officials Friday asking Spen-ce to accept a meeting with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan but Spence rejected the recommendation.

The government points to a meeting it held last January with First Nations leaders as proof it is seri-ous about improving their relationship, and adds it has spent millions on aboriginal health, housing and education.

But aboriginal leaders say they are being left out of the discussion the Harper government is having about how best to develop Canada’s lucrative natu-ral resources. A series of protests over the last two weeks under the banner of Idle No More were in part spurred by the recent budget bill which re-moved federal oversight over waterways without consulting aboriginal groups who depend on them for water and food.

STORY FROM PAGE A1

TREATY: Re-ignite debate“We need to re-ignite that nation-to-nation rela-

tionship based on our inherent and constitutionally protected rights as a sovereign nation.”

We are demanding our rightful place back, here in our homelands, that we all call Canada.”

Spence invited MPs and senators to visit over a two hour period Sunday at her teepee, situated on an island in the frozen Ottawa River looking up at Par-liament Hill.

Former prime minister Joe Clark, the highest profile visitor, made an appearance Saturday, meeting with Spence and issuing a statement that said honest conversation can often lead to common ground.

Other current politicians, both opposition NDP and Liberals, issued similar cautions, but also ex-pressed concern for Spence’s health.

“She’s a very determined woman and she’s heard the message from others that she’s done what people think she needed to do, but she noted that the prime minister has not talked to anyone, or put out a mes-sage that he is willing to meet with leaders, and that’s all she’s asking for,” said New Democrat MP Paul Dewar, who was among 16 of the party’s politi-cians to be invited inside.

Both Dewar and fellow New Democrat Craig Scott said they were worried about her condition.

“She’s very peaceful in her demeanour, but that goes along with being quite weak now,” said Scott. “She talks about sleeping more than she had earlier, in the first two weeks. I think it’s very clear it’s start-ing to take a physical toll.”

Concern is string enough that some have urged to give up and let Opposition politicians take up the fight — something Craig said tried to convey to to her.

“I spoke directly to her and said: ’You know, you’ve done more anybody could expect one per-son to do, and there’s no reason you and you alone should have to carry this burden.’ And she said: ’It’s my burden to carry.”’

Spence stopped eating solid food on Dec. 11.An adviser to the chief and band council said

there is no backing down.“The chief is a strong spirited, determined indi-

vidual,” said Danny Metatawabin. “We need to get the message out to the prime min-

ister of Canada.”“Although she is drinking her liquids of water

and fish broth, you know, she is getting weak in body when you don’t eat solids.

“The body tends to shut down. They should just come and talk to us. Why are we afraid to communi-cate with one another?”

Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq joined other federal officials Friday asking Spence to ac-cept a meeting with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan but Spence rejected the recommenda-tion.

The government points to a meeting it held last January with First Nations leaders as proof it is seri-ous about improving their relationship, and adds it has spent millions on aboriginal health, housing and education.

But aboriginal leaders say they are being left out of the discussion the Harper government is having about how best to develop Canada’s lucrative natu-ral resources.

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Members of the Haisla First Nation march in Kitimat, B.C. as part of a rally in support of the Idle No More movement on Sunday. As well as voicing support for the hunger strike by Chief Theresa Spence, Haisla members spoke of their opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project.

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HALIFAX — The Maritime provinces were grappling with heavy snowfall, blowing snow and rain that knocked out power for thousands and grounded flights on Sunday.

Environment Can-ada said the intense nor’easter brought near-ly 40 centimetres of snow to parts of southern New Brunswick, while about 15 to 20 centimetres was forecast for Prince Ed-ward Island by Sunday evening.

About 20 centimetres of snow was expected to fall in northern Nova Scotia and blowing snow warnings were issued for much of the province.

Meteorologist Andy Firth said the snow changed to rain in Hal-ifax northeast to New Glasgow as the day went on, but it then changed back to snow as the low pressure system tracked toward Cape Breton.

“It’s a little closer to the coast than what was originally expected so it’s a bit stronger low (pressure system) than what was originally ex-pected,” Firth said from Dartmouth on Sunday.

“When it goes by, tem-peratures cool off really quick and the blowing snow starts up and it gets kind of nasty again.”

Firth said the western

tip of Nova Scotia expe-rienced blowing snow with wind gusts up to 80 km/h, while snow squall warnings were in effect for western Cape Breton overnight Sunday and on Monday.

Storm surge warnings had also been issued for northern Nova Scotia and along the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, where high water levels and strong winds were expected to produce pounding surf.

About 1,000 customers in western Nova Scotia and another 1,500 in cen-tral areas of the province were without power Sun-day afternoon.

In New Brunswick, about 1,400 people were waiting for their power to be restored in Bouc-touche mid-day, while about another 1,500 were in the dark in Moncton, Sackville and Shediac Sunday evening.

The storm grounded flights at Halifax Stan-field International Air-port Sunday morning, with delays and cancella-tions continuing through-out the day.

It was also to blame for several flight can-cellations and delays at St. John’s International Airport and the Greater Moncton International Airport.

Arrivals from some major Canadian airports — like Toronto Pearson International Airport — to Halifax, Moncton, Saint John and Frederic-ton were also either de-layed or cancelled Sun-day.

H a l i f a x a i r p o r t spokesman Peter Spur-way said the delays could continue into Mon-day and urged travellers to check on the status of their flights before head-ing to the airport.

Public transit in Moncton, N.B., came to a halt Sunday, as Codiac Transpo suspended its

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High winds on the Cabot Strait caused Ma-rine Atlantic to cancel ferry crossings between Port Aux Basques, N.L., and North Sydney, N.S., on Sunday.

Traffic on the Confed-eration Bridge between New Brunswick and P.E.I. was restricted for vehicles including mo-torcycles, cars towing trailers, trucks, tractor trailers and buses due to high winds.

Areas of central new New Brunswick — like Fredericton and Gag-

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The storm was expect-ed to hit Newfoundland and Labrador today.

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OTTAWA — Whether as a rising star on the world stage or a central banker under scrutiny amid suggestions of po-litical impropriety at home, it was hard to ignore Mark Carney in 2012.

Canada’s omnipresent Bank of Can-ada governor was constantly making headlines.

If he wasn’t hectoring households for not saving enough, he was blasting business leaders for saving too much, or weighing in on the contentious is-sue of whether Canada’s economy was showing symptoms of Dutch disease.

As well, he continued to press glob-al financial institutions to reform in the wake of the carnage they caused in triggering the crisis of 2008, warning that as head of the Swiss-based Finan-cial Stability Board he intends to use all his powers to make sure they do.

And then there was that head-turn-ing job switch — the first non-Brit to be named governor of the Bank of England in the storied institution’s 318-year history.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne called the Canadian the “outstanding central banker of his generation.’’

Even admirers back home won-dered if Mark Carney was worth such adulation.

Recent revelations that he may have entertained thoughts of dumping one of the more exalted and non-partisan public offices to jump into the ring as a Liberal leadership contestant have elicited a different kind of head-turn-ing, and raised questions about his judgment.

Even before that recent media splash, the central banker was the clear choice in the annual survey of editors and broadcasters for The Ca-nadian Press Business Newsmaker of the Year.

The governor pulled in 59 per cent of votes, compared to Finance Minis-ter Jim Flaherty’s eight, and nine for Pierre Duhaime, the disgraced former head of SNC-Lavalin. Second spot, at 17 per cent of the votes, wasn’t even a person, per se. It went to “The Cana-dian in Debt.’’

“Canada’s top exports: Lumber, oil, water, wheat, and Mark Carney,’’ ex-plained Rick Hughes, business edi-tor of the Hamilton Spectator, for his choice.

“His role as bank governor is noted for his good counsel and stability, and Britain’s banking system will be well-served under his leadership. He offers the best that Canada’s develops: stabil-ity, democracy, and one other thing ... he’s a hockey player.’’

While Daniel Tencer, business editor at The Huffington Post Canada, opined that “Carney’s contribution to Canada’s relatively strong economic performance in recent years is prob-ably overblown,’’ he was nevertheless compelled to cast his vote for the cen-tral banker.

“It’s so rare for a central bank gov-ernor (especially a Canadian one) to become an international household name that that alone makes Carney’s ‘achievement’ significant.’’

And Richard Dettman of Vancou-ver’s CKWX News1130 saw the honour

as one rightfully shared with Carney and the fiscal and monetary policies of the Bank of Canada and the federal Finance Department.

The annual survey also named per-sonal debt as the top Business Sto-ry of 2012 — not surprising in a year when the household-debt-to-income ratio rose to a record high of 164.6 per cent.

While personal debt garnered 24 per cent of the vote, CNOOC buying Cal-gary’s Nexen for $15.1 billion came in at a close 20, and Research In Motion’s bumpy ride to releasing the BlackBer-ry 10 operating system and devices in January garnered 19 per cent.

Carney, for his part, kept personal debt in the headlines with his repeat-ed warnings to Canadians that cheap money won’t last forever — interest rates will eventually rise.

The shine surrounding Carney throughout 2012 was at threat of being tarnished, however, with the late year surfacing of tales of political court-ship.

Carney was cleared of conflict of interest in accepting to stay at Liberal finance critic Scott Brison’s Nova Sco-tia summer house, by the bank’s own general counsel. But he has more than disappointed — in some cases angered — senior people in the Harper govern-ment.

The silence from Flaherty, who had called Carney “my friend’’ in Novem-ber during the Bank of England an-nouncement, spoke volumes.

Given repeated chances to defend the man he hand-picked in 2008 for one of the country’s most exalted public of-fices, Flaherty held his tongue. “I have no comment on any of that,’’ he told re-porters, more than once, “and I usually have comments on everything.’’

Some in London also are wondering if they got the man they bargained for.

“He’ll have to be far more careful over here — no riding with (Prime Min-ister David) Cameron or skiing with Osborne,’’ Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman Matthew Oakeshott told British media. Others said Carney would get a rough ride on Feb. 7 at the parliamentary confirmation hearings.

Many bank watchers believe the Teflon coat that Carney has worn since becoming governor in February of 2008 has been dented, if not pierced.

Carney may not have technically crossed the line, but, “here’s a case where, in my view, there’s a clear ap-parent conflict of interest,’’ said Mike Moffatt, assistant professor at the Uni-versity of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business.

He notes that Carney delivered a much-publicized dismantling of the Dutch disease diagnosis favoured by NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who had cit-ed Alberta’s oil boom and subsequent appreciation of the Canadian dollar for much of the troubles experienced by manufacturers in central Canada.

The speech was delivered on Sept. 7, at the time Carney was being wooed by the Liberals.

“We’re now having to look at mone-tary policy and the speeches he makes through a political lens. That’s a ques-tion you never want to ask about the Bank of Canada, they should be above politics.’’

CANADA’S OMNIPRESENT BANK OF CANADA GOVERNOR WAS CONSTANTLY MAKING HEADLINES

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney smiles as he speaks with colleagues at the start of a meeting with provincial finance ministers Monday December 17, 2012 in Chelsea.

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TIMEOUT

REID ON THE WAY OUT?

Andy Reid is out after 14 years coaching the Philadelphia Eagles, three people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press following Sunday’s 42-7 season-ending loss to the New York Giants. Reid is scheduled to meet with owner Jeffrey Lurie on Monday to discuss his future and an official announcement will come afterward, according to one person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because a final agreement hasn’t been reached. That person says there’s a chance Reid might remain with the team in some capacity. Reid is due to make $6 million in 2013 in the final year of his contract. He said he wants to coach next year, but it’s possible Lurie could persuade him to take a season off and perhaps help out in the front office in an “advisory” role.

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Today● Midget: Mac’s midget AAA tournament, in Calgary, Red Deer Chiefs vs. Vancouver Giants, quarter-finals, 9 a.m., Max Bell; if win, semifinals 3 p.m.

Tuesday● Midget: Mac’s midget AAA final 6 p.m., Saddledome.

Wednesday● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Kootenay Ice, 7 p.m., (on Big 105)

Thursday● Bantam: Major AAA, CAlgary Royals at Red Deer Rebels White, 7:15 p.m., Arena.

Friday● WHL: Red Deer Rebels. Vs. Vancouver Giants, 7:30 p.m., Centrium.● CHL: Fort Sask. at Innisfail, 8 p.m.● Junior B: Heritage League, Blackfalds at Red Deer Vipers, 8:15 p.m., Arena.

Saturday● Minor midget AAA: Red Deer North Star Chiefs vs. Calgary Blazers, 11:30 a.m.; Calgary Blues at Red Deer IROC Chiefs, 4:45 p.m., Arena

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada 2 U.S. 1UFA, Russia _ Malcolm Subban stepped

up for Canada in a big way on Sunday.The goaltender made 36 saves as the Ca-

nadians defeated the United States 2-1 to stay perfect after three games at the world junior hockey championship.

Subban, who plays for the OHL’s Bel-leville Bulls, made a number of game-sav-ing and game-changing stops. Coming into the tournament, there were questions about his concentration after he yielded ques-tionable goals during selection camp and pre-camp, as well as his propensity to give up long rebounds.

The 19-year-old put those questions to rest against the Americans and reinforced both his confidence and his teammates’ faith as Canada moves towards the medal round.

``We needed that,’’ Canadian coach Steve Spott said. ``You have to have elite goalten-ding to win this tournament. We’ve seen it over the last number of years that you need your goaltender to be your best penalty killer and certainly he was tonight.’’

Subban didn’t play badly in wins over Germany and Slovakia, in which he allowed three goals on 28 shots in each. But the Bos-ton Bruins prospect stepped up his game against the U.S. for his best of the tourna-ment so far.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Team Canada forward Ryan Hugent-Hopkins, right, battles for the loose puck against Team USA forward Mario Lucia, left, during IIHF World Junior Championships hockey action in Ufa, Russia on Sunday.

Subban superb in Canada’s win over U.S.

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Redskins 28 Cowboys 18

LANDOVER, Md. — Robert Griffin III and Alfred Morris needed only four months to put the Washington Redskins in a place they haven’t been this millennium — on top of the NFC East.

Led by a pair of rook-ies serenaded loudly and lovingly as “R-G-3!” and “Al-fred Mor-ris!,” the Redskins claimed their first division title since 1999, beating the archri-val Dallas Cowboys 28-18 Sunday night in a win-ner-take-all finale to end the NFL’s regular sea-son.

Griffin, the Heisman Trophy winner drafted second overall, ran for 63 yards and a touch-down. Morris, the out-of-nowhere sixth-rounder

from Florida Atlantic, ran for 200 yards and three scores. He set the franchise single-season rushing record for the Redskins (10-6), who re-vived the season behind their quarterback’s tal-ent and leadership to win seven straight after their bye week. They are the first NFL team to ral-ly from 3-6 and make the playoffs since the Jack-sonville Jaguars in 1996.

“I could never imag-ine coming in here my rookie year and doing what I’ve been able to do,” Morris said. “It’s better than my wildest dreams.”

After the final whis-tle, team captain Griffin walked off the field with a big smile, holding up his left index finger in a No. 1 gesture. He then held his left fist aloft.

“These aren’t ordi-

nary rookies,” corner-back DeAngelo Hall said. “For a guy to win the Heisman Trophy, be the top pick, the saviour of the franchise, come in here so humble — from Day 1 he came in here working, that’s why he has that ’C’ on his chest.”

Washington will host Seattle next Sunday, the Redskins’ third consecu-tive playoff game against the Seahawks. They lost at Seattle in 2005 and 2007.

“I’ve been here for the 4-12, the bad times, almost being the joke of the NFL,” said defensive lineman Kedric Golston, one of the team’s longest-tenured players. “But to do this with this group of guys — the old and the new — it’s good to be here.”

The Cowboys (8-8), meanwhile, will miss

the playoffs for the third straight season, having stumbled in a make-or-break end-of-regular-season game for the third time in five years.

Tony Romo threw three interceptions — matching his total from the last eight games com-bined. A poor throw was picked by Rob Jackson when the Cowboys had a chance to drive for a winning score in the fi-nal minutes.

Romo almost became the first Dallas quarter-back to throw for 5,000 yards in a season, but his career is instead further tainted by post-Christmas disappoint-ments. He also had Week 17 losses to the Philadel-phia Eagles (44-6) in 2008 and the New York Giants (31-14) last year, as well as his 1-3 record in play-off games.

Morris finished with 1,613 yards, topping Clin-ton Portis’ 1,516 in 2005. He was especially domi-nant in the Redskins’ go-ahead drive in the third quarter, when six plays were runs by Mor-ris and the other three involved fake handoffs to him. The touchdown came when Griffin faked to Morris — one of sever-al times linebacker De-Marcus Ware was totally fooled by deception in the backfield — and ran 10 yards around the left end. It put Washington ahead 14-7 in the third quarter.

The Cowboys an-swered with a field goal early in the fourth, but Morris’ 32-yard scamper gave the Redskins a 21-10 cushion with 10:32 to play.

Redskins take out Cowboys, win NFC East

Wheat Kings down RebelsBY DANNY RODE

ADVOCATE STAFF

Wheat Kings 6 at Rebels 5Any time the home team

scores five goals the fan base expects to be celebrating.

In fact Red Deer Rebels president/general manager/head coach Brent Sutter doesn’t expect anything less.

But the Rebels found a way to score five times and still drop a 6-5 decision to the Brandon Wheat Kings in Western Hock-ey League play before a disap-pointed crowd of 5,298 at the Centrium Sunday.

“You score five in a game you have to win, especially at home,” said Sutter, who only had to look at his team’s sec-ond-period to find a reason for the loss,.

The Wheat Kings scored four times in the second peri-od against backup netminder Grant Naherniak to take a 5-3 lead into the third period.

“Giving up four goals in one period is uncalled for,” said Sutter.

“That second period really hurt. We were sloppy, all you had to do was look at the goals we gave up. It was a lack of com-posure in our zone, we didn’t have our work ethic, it was like we were patting ourselves on the back after a good first pe-riod.”

The Rebels came out of the first period tied 1-1 but turned in a much better effort than Thursday during a 6-1 loss to the Edmonton Oil Kings.

“We’ve been talking to the kids about competing, playing harder and being more asser-tive . . . being like the team we were two or three weeks ago. We did that and then we took our foot off the peddle.”

The Wheat Kings did some solid work deep in the Rebels zone to score three straight goals to open the second period.

Taylor Cooper connected at 2:37 and 120:38 and Quinton Lisoway, scored his first career goal at 3:11.

All three goals came with-in two feet of Naherniak, who could have possibly stopped all three, but didn’t receive any help.

The first two came on plays from behind the net and third directly off the faceoff.

“Unfortunately for Grant all three goals came from the edge of the crease when we left them wide open. That was a lack of composure on our part,” said

Sutter.The Rebels battled back and

got goals from Cory Millette and Rhyse Dieno to narrow the gap to 4-3 before Geordie Maguire scored on a nice feed from Eric Roy on a two-on-one at 19:17.

The Rebels came out strong in the third period and goals by Brooks Maxwell, his second power play marker of the game, and Scott Feser, his first WHL goal, tied the game by the 7:01 mark.

However, Michael Ferland, who was playing his second game since returning form the

Calgary Flames organization, took the puck off Matt Dumba at the Red Deer blueline and rifled a shot high to Naherni-ak’s glove side for the winner at 13:08.

“That was again a bad mis-take as we twice had the puck on our sticks and turned it over. They were veterans and they have to be better at what they do,” said Sutter.

Brandon head coach Dwayne Gylywoychuk was glad to see Ferland come through.

Photo by ROB WALLATOR

Brandon Wheat Kings defenceman Tyler Yaworski tries to block a shot from Rebels forward Dominik Volek during WHL action at the Centrium, Sunday. The Rebels lost the game 6-5.

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FOUR SECOND-PERIOD GOALS BY BRANDON THE DIFFERENCE IN HIGH-SCORING AFFAIR

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

NEW YORK — As the NHL and NHL Players’ Association continue to creep perilously close to another lost season, the union now finds itself wielding a fair amount of influence over where things are headed.

Not only is the NHLPA expected to show up for a meeting at the league of-fice this morning with a counter-offer — a potentially pivotal one with less than two weeks remaining to reach a deal — it also finds itself still ponder-ing whether to file a “disclaimer of interest” by Wednesday night.

That would likely only happen if things don’t go well when the sides gather Monday a few blocks from Times Square, where thousands of rev-ellers will celebrate the start of 2013 hours later. It will be the first time the league and union have met for a bargaining session since Dec. 6, when talks went off the rails following the NHLPA’s most recent proposal.

The league has since shown a will-ingness to bend on key issues by soft-ening some of its demands in a com-prehensive proposal delivered on Thursday night. The NHLPA also came away from informational sessions Sat-urday and Sunday, where aspects of the 288-page document were clarified, feeling like there could be some room for even more movement.

Among the biggest issues for the union is a proposed salary cap of $60 million in 2013-14, which would severe-ly limit the amount of money available for free agents this summer. It is also believed not to be in favour of having the proposed amnesty buyouts counted against the players share of revenue, although not on an individual team’s salary cap.

After the sides went three weeks between proposals, there is a sense of urgency as they return to the bargain-ing table.

The league’s latest offer is de-signed to preserve a 48-game season that would see the playoffs end before July. For that to happen, commission-er Gary Bettman has told the union that an agreement would need to be reached by Jan. 11 so the puck could be dropped Jan. 19.

The NHL’s proposal calls for a six-year term limit on free-agent deals — up from five previously — and will al-low teams to re-sign their own players for up to seven years. It also includes a provision that salary can vary by 10 per cent from year to year during the course of a deal.

In the NHLPA’s Dec. 6 offer, it pro-posed an eight-year term limit on con-tracts with a 25 per cent variance.

Another area where there is ground to make up is the length of the agree-ment itself. The NHL is asking for a 10-year CBA that includes a mutual option to terminate after eight seasons. The NHLPA has favoured a shorter deal, most recently suggesting an eight-year contract that could be terminated after six years.

Even still, the NHLPA has main-tained that the sides aren’t very far apart.

If the key negotiators from each side aren’t able to come up with a new CBA soon, the next battle between them is likely to be waged in court. The NHLPA’s executive board has until Wednesday to file a “disclaimer of in-terest” that would see the union dis-solved and give players the chance to file anti-trust lawsuits against the league.

At this late stage, it would almost certainly put the season in jeopardy.

There is also a pending class-action lawsuit from the NHL filed with the U.S. federal court in New York. Ear-lier this month, the league asked the court to rule on the legality of the lock-out and argued that the NHLPA was only using the threat of a “disclaimer of interest” as a bargaining tactic to “extract more favourable terms and conditions of employment.”

In the meantime, the damage caused by another lockout contin-ues to worsen. Players missed their sixth paycheque of the 2012-13 season on Sunday and instead of having the league’s key stakeholders gather over new year’s to celebrate the sport like usual at the Winter Classic, the NHL’s hierarchy was headed back to the bar-gaining table.

But with the lockout hitting its 15th week and another proposal in the off-ing, everyone knows the stakes are high.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada 5 HC Fribourg 1DAVOS, Switzerland — The Canadian team at the

Spengler Cup is a mix of European league players and locked-out NHLers who have had little time to get used to playing with each other.

You wouldn’t know it by the results on the ice.Matt Duchene scored twice and added an assist

as Canada posted a convincing 5-1 semifinal victory over HC Fribourg on Sunday to lock up a spot in the championship game.

“From top to bottom its been such a good dynamic in the room,” said Duchene, a forward with the Colo-rado Avalanche. “In our first game we had some tough luck, but we’ve used it as a stepping stone and our chemistry has been awesome.”

Jason Spezza, Marc-Antoine Pouliot and Carlo Colaiacovo also scored for the Canadians, who have outscored opponents 10-1 since losing the tourna-ment opener in overtime on Boxing Day.

Canada will play for the championship Monday against HC Davos after the hosts downed Vitkovice Steel 5-4 in the other semifinal.

“The more we play, the more the more in sync we are and the better we are as a group,” said Colaia-covo. “We’ve been rolling out four lines and eight defenceman, and knowing we can count on anyone that’s out there, that’s is a huge bonus to us.”

Devan Dubnyk, earning the start over Jonathan Bernier, followed up his shutout against Davos on Thursday by making 25 saves for the win. He out-duelled his NHL counterpart Cory Schneider, who made 28 saves in a losing effort.

“It can be such a short tournament if you give up that semifinal, so we didn’t want that to happen,” said Dubnyk. “The guys did a good job from start to finish of picking away at them and not giving up much. They blocked a lot of pucks out there.”

Fribourg had two separate 5-on-3 power plays in a tight first period, but Canada fought them both off. Spezza opened the scoring on the power play at 16:32 when he tapped in a rebound off a Colaiacovo shot.

“We took advantage of them playing consecutive games,” said Colaiacovo. “Knowing they were facing an uphill battle, we knew we needed to score early.”

Pouliot made it 2-0 early in the second when he capitalized on a turnover and made a clever deke to beat Schneider. Duchene added a short-handed goal late in the second period but Fribourg answered 24 seconds later on a goal from Canadian-born defence-

man Joel Kwiatkowski.“You can’t criticize a win,” said Canadian head

coach Doug Shedden. “But our game was a seesaw with that down time in the second period ... we can play better.”

Fribourg pressed the Canadian side in the third period, but Duchene made sure Canada stayed on top for good. He won a clean faceoff to get the puck back to Colaiacovo, who blasted it through traffic at the 6:25 mark to restore Canada’s three-goal lead.

Eight minutes later, Duchene took a nice pass just

inside the blue-line from Jason Williams, streaked down the wing and fired home a high wrist shot for another insurance goal.

Duchene and Kwiatkowski were named the play-ers of the game for their respective teams.

Colaiacovo hopes Canada can feed off the momen-tum in the short turnaround before Monday’s final.

“We’ve still got a goal to attain, we’ve got to win,” he said. “But when you’re playing with this much skill, it makes you elevate your game that much more.”

DUCHENE HAS THREE POINTS IN SEMIFINAL WIN, FACE HOSTS IN FINAL

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Team Canada’s Matt Duchene, 2nd right, celebrates his goal with teammates Cam Barker, left, Josh Holden, second left, and Jason Demers, right, after scoring during the semi-final match between Team Canada and HC Fribourg Gotteron at the 86th Spengler Cup ice hockey tournament, in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday.

NHLPA expected to make counter-offer to NHL today

NHL LABOUR NEGOTAITIONSPlayoff matchups set after Redskins win seven in row to take division

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RG3 and the Washington Redskins are heading to the playoffs as NFC East champions.

By winning their seventh straight game, the Redskins rolled to their first division title in 13 years with a 28-18 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night.

Next up for Robert Griffin III & Co.: a home playoff matchup next Sunday with the Seahawks — the third straight post-season game for Washington against Seattle.

“It’s just a mindset change,” the rookie quarterback said.

“When you have all these guys com-ing to work every day, putting it on the line, we knew we couldn’t afford to lose one game, we made sure we didn’t”

Thanks to Houston’s late-season slump, Denver and New England will have byes when the AFC playoffs be-gin next week.

The Texans fell from first to third in the conference Sunday when they lost 28-16 at Indianapolis, which welcomed back coach Chuck Pagano after nearly three months of treatments for leuke-mia.

AFC West champion Denver won its 11th straight game, 38-3 over Kan-sas City to secure the top seed. New England blanked Miami 28-0 for the second spot.

Minnesota edged Green Bay 37-34 to grab the final NFC wild card, sinking the Packers to the third seed. Those teams will meet again next Saturday night at Lambeau Field.

The other NFC matchup will have Seattle (11-5), which beat St. Louis 20-13, at Washington on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. ET.

Cincinnati (10-6) will be at Houston on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET, and In-dianapolis (11-5) goes to at Baltimore (10-6) on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the AFC wild-card rounds.

The divisional round games will be hosted by Denver on Saturday, Jan. 12, followed by San Francisco (11-4-1) at night. On Sunday, Jan. 13, Atlanta (13-3) will host the early game, followed by New England (12-4).

Peyton Manning threw for three touchdowns as Denver (13-3) routed the Chiefs.

New England got the second seed despite having the same record as Houston because it beat the Tex-ans, who lost three of their final four games.

Adrian Peterson had 199 yards against the Packers, finishing with 2,097 — Dickerson’s single-season rush-ing mark in 2,105.

But it was rookie kicker Blair Walsh who won it with a 29-yard field goal as time expired.

“Ultimately we got the ’W,”’ Peter-son said.

“I told myself to come into this game focused on one thing, and that’s win-ning.”

Green Bay would have been seeded second in the NFC by beating Minne-sota.

“The road got a little tougher hav-ing to play on opening weekend, but we’ve got a home game and that’s why you win the division,” Aaron Rodgers said. “We get to go back home, and the game will be different. They won’t have home-crowd advantage, and hopefully that will make a difference.”

Baltimore Pro Bowl safety Ed Reed is looking forward to a reunion with Pagano. He wishes it would come a little later in the post-season.

“Chuck’s like a dad to me,” Reed said “He means a lot to me. I would have much rather seen them in the AFC championship game than the first game.”

But Reed will see him next week at Baltimore.

The Ravens had a chance to move up to the AFC’s third seed with a win and a New England loss. But Baltimore lost at Cincinnati as both teams played backups for much of the game.

Pagano coached the Ravens’ second-ary for three seasons and was promot-ed to co-ordinator last year. Players and coaches in Baltimore have kept in touch, offering encouragement as he fought through the cancer treatments.

“Going back to Baltimore, obviously there’s some familiarity there,” Pagano said.

“We had four great years there as a family. It’s a top-notch organization, you know, really good football club. It’s a great challenge and they have a great team and they have great players all over the place.”

The Colts were 2-14 last season and chose quarterback Andrew Luck with the top selection in the draft. Luck and offensive co-ordinator Bruce Arians, who stepped in as interim coach with Pagano sidelined, led the turnaround.

Next week, Pagano goes up against former boss John Harbaugh.

“I love his family, and he’s one of my closest personal friends in coach-ing,” Harbaugh said.

“What he’s been through is phenom-enal, but we’re all competitors so that gets set aside.”

Houston beat Cincinnati in the opening round of last year’s playoffs.

“I think it will be good,” said Ben-gals QB Andy Dalton, who grew up in suburban Houston. “We played there last year and know the atmosphere and what it’s going to be like. The experi-ence last year will definitely help us.”

The defending Super Bowl champi-on Giants are out of contention. When Chicago beat Detroit 26-24, the Giants (9-7) were eliminated, even though they routed Philadelphia 42-7.

“It hurts,” said Eli Manning. “Each year you want to make the playoffs to give yourself an opportunity to win a championship; 9-7 last year was good enough. It wasn’t good enough this year and we knew it wouldn’t be.”

Minnesota’s win eliminated Chica-go.

NFL PLAYOFFS

HOUSTON’S LOSS GIVES DENVER, NEW ENGLAND TOP SEEDS IN AFC

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLTS 28, TEXANS 16INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Colts

made Chuck Pagano a winner in his return to the sideline.

Andrew Luck threw for two touch-downs and Deji Karim swung the game with a 101-yard kickoff return in the third quarter. It was Pagano’s first game back as coach since starting treatment for leukemia Sept. 26.

Indianapolis (11-5) heads into the playoffs as the No. 5 seed and on a roll. The Colts will open the post-season next Sunday on the road against the Baltimore Ravens.

Slumping Houston (12-4) is the third seed and will host Cincinnati. The Tex-ans lost three of their last four games, and J.J. Watt failed to break Michael Strahan’s single-season sacks record.

The game turned on two big plays: Karim’s kickoff return, which wiped out a 16-14 Houston lead, and Luck’s 70-yard TD pass to T.Y. Hilton.

BENGALS 23, RAVENS 17CINCINNATI (AP) — Carlos Dunlap

returned an interception 14 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter.

The Ravens (10-6) had already clinched their second straight AFC North title, and they will open the playoffs at home against Indianapolis, which defeated Houston on Sunday.

The Bengals (10-6) are at Houston next Saturday.

The Ravens let quarterback Joe Flacco and running back Ray Rice play only two series. Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton and receiver A.J. Green sat out the second half.

BRONCOS 38, CHIEFS 3DENVER (AP) — Peyton Manning

threw for 304 yards and three touch-downs to lift Denver into the No. 1 seed for the AFC playoffs.

Manning finished the season with 4,659 yards, 41 short of his career high. He finished with 37 touchdown pass-es, and none will be more memorable than the last two — circus catches by Eric Decker and Demaryius Thomas that turned the game into a blowout.

Denver (13-3) won its 11th straight and leaped past Houston for the top seed after the Texans lost to Indianap-olis 28-16 earlier in the day.

The Chiefs gained only 119 yards all day and finished their season 2-14. They will get the top pick in April’s draft.

49ERS 27, CARDINALS 13SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Michael

Crabtree caught touchdown passes of 49 and 7 yards as the 49ers won a sec-ond straight NFC West title.

Colin Kaepernick threw for a ca-reer-best 276 yards and two TDs as the Niners (11-4-1) earned a No. 2 seed thanks to Green Bay’s loss to Minne-sota.

Frank Gore ran for a 2-yard touch-down early in the fourth quarter for his franchise-best 51st touchdown rushing.

Brian Hoyer went 19 of 34 for 225 yards and a late TD toss in his first career NFL start as Arizona’s fourth quarterback.

The Cardinals (5-11) lost for the 11th time in their last 12 games in what might have been Ken Whisenhunt’s fi-nal game as coach.

SEAHAWKS 20, RAMS 13SEATTLE (AP) — Russell Wilson

tied Peyton Manning’s record for most touchdown passes by a rookie with 26, and his 1-yard TD run with 1:39 left allowed Seattle to finish as the only unbeaten team at home.

Seattle (11-5) entered the day with hopes of still winning the NFC West and getting a home playoff game, but those dreams were dashed when San Francisco beat Arizona. Seattle will be the No. 5 seed and play at Washington next weekend.

The Rams (7-8-1) sacked Wilson six times, but couldn’t come up with their first winning record since 2003.

PATRIOTS 28, DOLPHINS 0FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom

Brady threw two touchdown passes and New England earned a playoff bye.

Stevan Ridley ran for two touch-downs as the Patriots used a ball-con-trol offence and a defence that racked up a season-high seven sacks.

Now, seeded second in the AFC, they have an extra week to savour the win and prepare for their post-season opener.

The Patriots (12-4) led 21-0 at half-time on Brady’s 9-yard touchdown pass to Wes Welker and Ridley’s runs of 1 and 2 yards, capping drives last-ing 14 and 13 plays. They ended the scoring on Bra-dy’s 23-yard scoring pass to Rob Gronkowski, who missed the previous five games after breaking his left forearm.

The Dolphins (7-9) fin-ished with a losing record for the fourth straight sea-son.

BUCCANEERS 22, FALCONS 17ATLANTA (AP) — The

Falcons couldn’t follow through with their plan to gain momentum for the playoffs as Josh Freeman threw a touchdown pass to Mike Williams and Doug Martin ran for 141 yards.

The Falcons (13-3) had little to play for as they

already have home-field advantage through the NFC playoffs. Coach Mike Smith said he wanted to “finish the regular season the right way,” and he stayed with his starters through the game.

The danger to Smith’s strategy was losing a top starter to an injury. De-fensive end John Abraham, Atlanta’s best pass rusher, left with an apparent left ankle injury in the fourth quarter. Cornerback Dunta Robinson suffered a head injury in the first quarter and did not return.

BEARS 26, LIONS 24DETROIT (AP) — Jay Cutler threw

for 257 yards and a touchdown and helped seal the game with a late scramble.

Chicago (10-6) needed a Minnesota loss to Green Bay to reach the post-season, but didn’t get it.

The Lions (4-12) lost their last eight games and turned the ball over four times in the finale. Calvin Johnson fell short in his attempt to become the first player with 2,000 yards receiving in a season.

Cutler’s 19-yard run on third down helped Chicago run out the clock late in the fourth quarter.

GIANTS 42, EAGLES 7EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) —

There will be no Super Bowl repeat for the Giants. Not even a playoff berth despite Eli Manning’s career-high five touchdown passes.

The Giants (9-7) were eliminated from post-season contention minutes after routing the Eagles. Chicago’s win over Detroit ended New York’s long-shot playoff chances.

Eagles coach Andy Reid is out after 14 years in Philadelphia, three people familiar with the decision told The As-sociated Press. The official announce-ment could come Monday.

The loss means that it will be seven straight seasons that the Super Bowl champion has failed to win a playoff game the following year.

Philadelphia closed the season 4-12.

STEELERS 24, BROWNS 10PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roeth-

lisberger threw three short touchdown passes, and Pittsburgh avoided its first losing season in nearly a decade.

Antonio Brown, Leonard Pope and Plaxico Burress scored for the Steelers (8-8). Pittsburgh’s top-ranked defence forced four turnovers as the Steelers won for just the second time in the last six weeks, a slide that knocked them out of the playoffs for the first time since 2009.

Cleveland’s third-string quarter-back, Thaddeus Lewis, passed for 204 yards with a touchdown and an in-terception in his first NFL start. But the Browns (5-11) dropped their third straight in what was likely coach Pat Shurmur’s final game.

BILLS 28, JETS 9ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — C.J.

Spiller scored on a 66-yard catch and run in helping underachieving Buffalo, while Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez had two more turnovers.

Safety Bryan Scott also returned an interception 20 yards for a touch-down for the Bills (6-10), who snapped a three-game skid.

Both AFC East rivals had already been eliminated from playoff conten-tion.

The Bills finished last in the AFC East for a fifth straight season amid speculation about coach Chan Gailey’s job security.

Sanchez may have started his final game for the Jets (6-10), who closed the season with three consecutive losses amid all sorts of turmoil.

PANTHERS 44, SAINTS 38NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees

made more NFL history, but so did the Saints’ porous defence in a loss to Carolina.

DeAngelo Williams rushed for 210 yards, including touchdown runs of 54 and 12 yards, for Carolina (7-9), which closed the season with four straight wins. His 65-yard gain set up the first of three 1-yard scoring runs by Mike Tolbert.

Brees passed for 396 yards, giving him 5,177 this season. That makes him the first player to eclipse 5,000 yards three times. His four TD passes gave him 43 in 2012, and he’s the first player with 40 TD passes in consecutive sea-sons.

The Saints (7-9) also gave up 530 yards, raising their season total to 7,042 to break the record of 6,793 allowed by the 1981 Baltimore Colts.

REBELS: A lot of goals for us

“Mike adds experience to our line-up and he’s scored a lot of goals for us and it was good to see him find the puck and put it in.”

Maxwell opened the scoring and Ja-son Swyripa tied it on Brandon’s fourth shot, which was the end of the evening for Bolton Pouliot.

“He wasn’t ready to play,” said Sut-ter. “He can’t allow a soft goal on their first real scoring opportunity. It was the fourth shot and the first three were from the perimeter. The goaltenders have to be held accountable like every-one else in that dressing room, wheth-er it’s Bartosak, Poolie or Grant.”

One of the bright lights for the Reb-els was Feser’s goal which he redi-rected past Brandon netminder Curtis Honey on a two-on-one with Maxwell.

“It feels good,” he said. “I used to sit in the stands when I was a kid and now to do it at home is special.”

The only negative was that the goal didn’t come in a victory.

“The loss wasn’t what we were look-ing for,” he said. “It was a game with a lot of ups and downs and a game we have to learn from. It shows we have to play for 60 minutes and be more con-sistent.”

Feser is one who is being more con-sistent in his second extended appear-ance with the Rebels. He got playing time last year but this year didn’t have a good training camp and was sent to the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

“I struggled in training camp, and going to Camrose was good for me,” he said. “I give them a lot of credit. I played a lot and it gave me confidence. I think I’ve played well since coming back. My ice time has varied, but I have to be ready to play when I get a chance and I think I can play here. Today I got a few minutes on the top line in the third period and I thought I fit in.”

The win was big for Brandon giv-ing them 32 points and moving them to within three of eighth-place Moose Jaw. The six goals were also something they haven’t seen much of this season.

“It was good for us to find some goals, especially from our younger guys,” said Gylywoychuk. ‘We have a team that needs to score by committee and tonight we did just that.”

The Rebels saw their record slip to 22-15-2-1 as they remain in fourth place with 47 points.

● Rebels are missing defenceman Hadyn Fleury and forward Conner Bleackley, who are at the World U17 Championship, injured rearguard Bra-dy Gaudet as well as forward Jesse Miller and defenceman Riley Boom-gaarden . . . Rebels had winger Gray-son Pawlenchuk, up from the Sher-wood Park midgets, on the roster . . . Forward Connor Bicsis, who was in camp after Christmas, was playing with his midget team, Tisdale, at the Mac’s tournament . . . Rebels visit the Koote-nay Ice Wednesday then host Vancou-ver Friday and Moose Jaw Saturday.

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NFL: Sealed the winTrying to play catch-up, Dallas

pulled within three on a 10-yard pass to Kevin Ogletree and a 2-point conver-sion with 5:50 to play. But Morris’ third touchdown, a 1-yard run with 1:09 left, sealed the win.

Playing against a defence missing its five best run defenders, the Redskins didn’t need Griffin to throw much. He completed just 9 of 18 passes for 100 yards.

The Redskins were calling designed runs for Griffin as a regular part of the game plan for the first time since he sprained his right knee four weeks ago. He lacked the explosiveness he showed earlier in the season, perhaps hampered by his big brace, but he was still a running threat.

Romo completed 20 of 31 passes for 218 yards.

The Cowboys also dealt with in-game injuries to receivers Miles Aus-tin (left ankle) and Dez Bryant (back). Bryant, who had a torrid second half of the season despite breaking his left index finger, had four catches for 71 yards.

The Redskins also set a franchise record for fewest turnovers in a season with 14, fewer even than the 1982 team that played only nine regular-season games because of a players strike.

Washington’s slow start this season

prompted coach Mike Shanahan to dis-miss playoff hopes and declare the re-maining seven games would determine which players would be on his team “for years to come.”

Griffin and his teammates had other plans, and the coach quickly changed his tune. Now the Redskins are in the post-season for the first time since a wild-card berth under Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs in 2007.

WIN: Proved a lot of people wrong

``No one deserves it more than him,’’ Canadian forward Ryan Strome said. ``He proved a lot of people wrong. We knew he had it in him.’’

Strome and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored goals for Canada, whose biggest game of the preliminary round now looms Monday against host Russia.

The battle of the unbeaten teams will determine which country tops Pool B and gets the bye to the semi-final. The loser must advance to the semifinal via a quarter-final win.

Canada sits first in the group at 3-0 with nine points, followed by Russia at 2-0-1 with eight. The U.S. and Slova-kia, both with a win and three points apiece, meet Monday to determine the group’s third playoff team.

Defending champion Sweden tops Pool A with eight points, followed by the Czech Republic with six and Fin-land and Switzerland tied with five heading into the final day of prelimi-nary-round games.

Defenceman Jacob Trouba scored for the Americans. John Gibson, who plays for Spott’s Kitchener Rangers of the OHL, made it a goaltender’s duel with 30 saves

After the win, Subban wore the black nylon cape that Canadian coach-es award to the game’s hero.

He stopped John Gaudreau on a breakaway in the first period and held off an American flurry during a dou-ble minor to Canada’s Griffin Reinhart early in the second. But it was an open-ing stop on Trouba that got Subban in a groove.

``I felt really confident coming into the game and after that save, my confi-dence went right through the roof after that,’’ Subban explained. ``It’s not so much that it was a tough save.

``I felt really good making the save, I felt comfortable making it, so I think that was the biggest thing for me.’’

Canada played with 11 forwards because JC Lipon and Boone Jenner were serving suspensions. They will be back in Canada’s lineup against Rus-sia, but Spott was forced to furiously juggle his second, third and fourth for-ward lines Sunday.

``It was really a character win in a lot of ways,’’ Spott said. ``The moral of the story tonight is our depth players, our penalty killers, (and) you know, ob-viously, Malcolm Subban.

``I’m really proud of him. It’s a big moment for Malcolm. He stood up tall to the task tonight.’’

Canada had to kill off a boarding penalty to Nugent-Hopkins with one minute 37 seconds remaining in the game.

``It was pretty nerve-wracking for sure,’’ Canada’s captain said. ``Some-thing that I can’t be doing obviously. I’m obviously happy we got a big pen-alty kill.’’

After Trouba’s goal pulled the U.S. within a goal at 11:02 of the third, the Americans hurt their own comeback attempt with penalties.

Captain Jake McCabe and forward Ryan Hartman took misconducts for checking to the head later in the third period. Trouba and forward Tyler Biggs took minors as well.

The U.S., which finished seventh in the 2012 tournament, has lost back-to-back games by one goal after also suf-fering a 2-1 loss to the Russians.

``We had our chances,’’ coach Phil Housley said. ``It’s one thing if you’re not getting the opportunities to score, but we are. We’ve played two very good hockey teams and had a chance to tie the game in both.’’

When Ty Rattie and Phil Danault were foiled on a short-handed, 2-on-1 scoring chance, Trouba scored a pow-er-play goal on the following rush back to Canada’s end.

Strome made it 2-0 at 18:19 of the first period with his fourth of the tour-nament. Brett Ritchie worked the puck out from behind the net and Strome snapped it upstairs on Gibson.

Nugent-Hopkins opened the scoring for Canada at 7:13 in the first period, when his team won the faceoff in the U.S. zone. He feathered a low wrist shot past Gibson.

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Peterson just short of recordBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Vikings 37 Packers 34MINNEAPOLIS — Adrian Peterson

picked up the Minnesota Vikings and gave them a thrilling ride to the play-offs, where the next stop on this im-probable journey is, yes, Green Bay.

This game was so full of action, in-trigue and tension they’re going to stage it again next weekend.

Peterson finished 9 yards shy of breaking Eric Dickerson’s single-sea-son rushing record, but he still pow-ered the Vikings past the Packers 37-34 Sunday with 199 yards to set up a rematch at Lambeau Field in a first-round playoff game.

“I told myself to come into this game focused on one thing, and that’s win-ning,” Peterson said.

Peterson rumbled around the left side of the line for a 27-yard gain in the closing seconds, his career-high 34th carry exactly one year after recon-structive surgery on his left knee. That set up Blair Walsh’s 29-yard field goal as time expired and put the Vikings (10-6) in the post-season after consecu-tive last-place finishes.

“For our guys to be as resilient as they were, it has you swelling with pride,” coach Leslie Frazier said.

The division champion Packers (11-5) dropped to the NFC’s No. 3 seed. Their five-game winning streak against the Vikings ended.

“I had a feeling that we had the game in the bag the whole game,” Vikings cornerback Chris Cook said. “It was just a vibe that I had on the sideline, in how we were carrying our-selves.”

Aaron Rodgers completed 28 of 40 passes for 365 yards and four touch-downs and no interceptions, connect-ing with Jordy Nelson from 2 yards to tie the game with 2:54 remaining. But Christian Ponder threw for three scores, including one to Peterson.

Ponder went 16 for 28 for 234 yards, including a 65-yard zinger in stride to Jarius Wright midway through the fourth quarter that set up Ponder’s third touchdown toss.

“It’s disappointing. A lot of us want-ed that extra week,” Rodgers said.

Peterson finished with 2,097 yards, becoming the seventh player in NFL history to reach the 2,000 mark. He had to work for it, pulling out all the cut-backs, stutter-steps and spins he could find in his exceptional skill set. His longest run was only 28 yards against a defence geared to slow him down, and the first contact often came at, near or

behind the line of scrimmage.“It wasn’t meant to happen, or

it would’ve happened. Not to say it doesn’t hurt, because it does,” Peter-son said of Dickerson’s 28-year-old re-cord. “But we came in here tonight and accomplished the ultimate goal, and that was getting a win and punching our ticket to the playoffs.”

The Packers cut the lead to 27-24 late in the third quarter on a touch-down reception by James Jones. The on-field ruling was a fumble at the goal line, triggering an automatic review. Because the Packers threw the chal-lenge flag after the replay process be-gan, however, they were only penal-ized for unsportsmanlike conduct, not prevented from benefiting from the overturned call. That’s what happened to Detroit infamously on Thanksgiving, when a disputed score by Houston was prevented from review.

After posting a 9-23 record over the last two years, the Vikings made so many strides in 2012 that the season was already a success. But no NFL team would ever be satisfied by finish-ing in defeat against a division rival, and the emotion and energy behind the quest was palpable all afternoon.

“It took us a little while to adjust to the crowd noise, and we didn’t get going,” Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. “That usually happens up here. This is a tough place to play, no doubt. We anticipated this being the loudest environment of the year. They pumped it in here pretty good today.”

The NFC North was sewn up by the Packers two weeks earlier. Even though the bye remained in the bal-ance the top seed didn’t do the Pack-ers any good last season. They went 15-1 and lost their opener at home to the eventual champion Giants.

Rodgers played without injured leading receiver Randall Cobb, so Greg Jennings was the main guy, grab-bing eight passes for 120 yards and two touchdowns. But the Vikings sacked Rodgers five times, recovering a fum-ble on one of them at midfield to set up a third-quarter touchdown.

Rodgers has 24 touchdowns, only four interceptions and a 70 per cent completion rate over 10 career starts against the Vikings. His poise, arm strength and savvy came through clear against them as much as any other team. Plus, cornerback Antoine Win-field’s aggravated hand injury kept him on the sideline for most of the game.

Just as Ponder capably complement-ed Peterson, DuJuan Harris came out of nowhere to provide Rodgers some help.

VIKINGS RUNNING BACK CAN’T CATCH DICKERSON BUT LEADS HIS TEAM TO A BIG WIN AND NFC PLAYOFF SPOT

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, tries to break a tackle by Green Bay Packers inside linebacker Brad Jones during the first half of an NFL game Sunday, in Minneapolis.

Chelsea stays in title hunt with win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Frank Lampard boosted Chelsea’s hopes of reeling in the Manchester teams in the Pre-mier League title race, scoring twice in a 2-1 win at Everton on Sunday to remind the club of his endur-ing class with his future still uncertain.

However, beleaguered Queens Park Rangers edged closer to relegation with a lacklustre 3-0 home loss to Liverpool, leaving the last-place club eight points adrift of safety heading into 2013.

Chelsea fell behind to Steven Pienaar’s strike after just 63 seconds at Goodison Park but hit back through goals either side of the halftime by Lam-pard, who is free to talk to other clubs from Tuesday with his contract up in the summer.

A fourth straight win kept third-place Chelsea four points behind Manchester City, and 11 off Man-chester United, with a game in hand on both rivals going into the new year.

Rafa Benitez is slowly putting his stamp on the European champions five weeks after joining the club as interim manager but his next task may be to persuade his bosses to hand the 34-year-old Lam-pard, who has been at Chelsea since 2001, a new deal.

“I just hope for me personally (to) play in a win-ning team,” said Lampard, who has scored in each of his last three starts. “I know there’s a lot of specula-tion and talk . but for me the enjoyable bit is the 90 minutes.”

Luis Suarez scored twice in the opening 16 min-utes to take his league tally to 13 — one behind top scorer Robin van Persie of Man United — and Daniel Agger added the other for mid-table Liverpool, with all three goals coming in a one-sided first half.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers wasn’t at Loftus Road — he was sent home from London hours before kickoff because of illness — but he would have enjoyed watching from afar as Suarez and his teammates ran amok.

“We played probably our best football of the sea-son in the first half,” Liverpool captain Steven Ger-rard said. “Luis Suarez has been brilliant ... he’s a magician.”

Liverpool climbed a position to ninth and is five points off fifth-place Arsenal.

Chelsea stayed in the title hunt by ending Ever-ton’s nine-month unbeaten run at home, but the visitors will come away from Goodison Park knowing they were fortunate to survive an onslaught by David Moyes’ side.

Nikica Jelavic twice struck the goal frame, as did fellow striker Victor Anichebe, as Everton passed up a chance to move ahead of its opponent.

“We’ve run the European champions really close but we didn’t quite have enough in the end,” Moy-es said. “We played well enough to get a second goal but were unfortunate, having shots back off the woodwork. I thought we were a bit unlucky.”

It was left to Lampard to rescue Chelsea, dem-onstrating the priceless knack of finding time and space in the area that has made him one of the most prolific midfielder in Premier League history.

Records continue to fall during final week

McDavid leads Ontario to rout of Slovakia

Connor McDavid scored a hat trick as Ontario romped to a 12-0 win over Slovakia at the 2013 un-der-17 world hockey challenge Sunday.

McDavid’s goals were part of a six-goal explosion in the second period for Ontario, which rebounded after losing 6-5 to the United States in their first game Saturday.

Sam Bennett and Robby Fabbri each scored twice for Ontario (1-1), while Dante Salituro, Spencer Wat-son, Josh Ho-Sang, Jaden Lindo and Brett Hargrave added singles.

Matthew Mancina made 23 saves for the shutout, while at the other end of the ice Maximilian Pajpach and Stanislav Skorvanek combined to stop 39 shots for Slovakia (0-1).

Elsewhere at the tournament it was: Sweden 7, Finland 3; United States 6, Atlantic 3; and Russia 6, West 2.

At Plessisville, Que., Salituro and Bennett each scored to give Ontario a 2-0 lead in the first period.

McDavid’s two goals within the first five minutes of the second kicked off the rout, with Watson, Ho-Sang, and Lindo also scoring during the period and McDavid adding his third at 11:47.

Bennett, Hargrave and Fabbri’s two goals finished off Slovakia in the third.

Sweden 7, Finland 3At Drummondville, Que., Felix Sandstrom made

34 saves as Sweden (2-0) scored three goals in the

third period to blow past Finland (0-1).United States 6, Atlantic 3At Victoriaville, Que., six different players scored

for the U.S. (2-0), who overwhelmed Atlantic (0-2) de-spite a 40-save performance from Antoine Landry.

Russia 6, West 2At Drummondville, Ilya Zinoviev scored twice for

Russia (1-1) while West (0-2) remained winless at the tournament.

U18 girls get another win

VIERUMAKI, Finland _ Catherine Dubois scored twice and Kimberly Newell picked up her first inter-national shutout Sunday as Canada defeated Finland 4-0 at the under-18 women’s world hockey champion-ship.

Hanna Bunton added a goal and an assist for Can-ada, while Emily Clark also scored.

``We talked about habits, doing all the little things to the best of our ability and I thought we did a good job executing that,’’ Canadian head coach Jim Fetter said. ``We kind of backed off in the third period and the girls know that so we just talked about putting a full 60 minutes together.’’

In other preliminary round games, Hungary de-feated Germany 2-1, the United States pounded the Czech Republic 10-0 and Russia beat Sweden 5-4.

Canada, which defeated Hungary in Saturday’s tournament opener, will play Germany on Tuesday.

``They’re another European team that packs in front of the net,’’ Fetter added. ``It’s pretty tough to get shots through so we’ve got to a good job off the rush.’’

The playoff round begins Wednesday and the medal games are set for next Saturday.

Canada won last year’s tournament in the Czech Republic.

HOCKEYBRIEFS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Adrian Peterson nearly ran into the NFL record book, fall-ing 9 yards short of breaking Eric Dickerson’s single-season rushing mark.

Peterson had 199 yards and a touchdown in Minnesota’s 37-34 victory over the Green Bay Pack-ers on Sunday, becoming the sev-enth NFL player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season. He needed 208 when the day began to top Dicker-son’s record of 2,105 set in 1984.

“I know Eric Dickerson is feel-ing so good right now,” Peterson said with a chuckle, referencing comments Dickerson made a few weeks back saying he hoped Pe-terson didn’t break his record. “But God willing, I’ll get it next year.”

Peterson, who finished the reg-ular season with 2,097 yards on the ground, also tied Hall of Fam-er Earl Campbell’s single-season mark with his seventh game of 150 yards rushing or more.

“He is without question the best running back in our game and truly, in my mind, the MVP of our league,” Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said after his team earned

a playoff spot with the win.Seattle quarterback Russell

Wilson tied Peyton Manning’s NFL record for most touchdown passes by a rookie with 26 after a third-quarter score in a 20-13 win over St. Louis.

“To tie that record is really something special,” Wilson said. “It’s a tribute to my faith and all God has put me through, but al-so to my team and what they’ve done.”

Manning threw for three touch-downs in a game for the 73rd time, surpassing the record set by Brett Favre. Manning finished 23 of 29 for 304 yards in Denver’s 38-3 romp over Kansas City.

Andrew Luck, the man who re-placed Manning in Indianapolis, finished as the only rookie in NFL history with at least 4,000 yards passing and 10 wins. The Colts beat the Houston Texans 28-16 for their 11th victory.

Detroit’s Matthew Stafford fin-ished the season with an NFL-re-cord 727 pass attempts, topping Drew Bledsoe’s mark of 691 in 1994. But he fell short of a sec-

ond consecutive 5,000-yard sea-son, finishing at 4,967. Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson narrowly missed becoming the first play-er with 2,000 yards receiving in a season. Johnson, who broke Jerry Rice’s record of 1,848 yards re-ceiving the previous weekend, fin-ished at 1,964 after catching five passes for 72 yards. He also had his record streak of eight 100-yard receiving games snapped.

“Had a good year, but there’s a lot of things that could have been done better,” Johnson said.

Drew Brees passed for 396 yards in New Orleans’ 44-38 loss to Carolina, giving him 5,177 this sea-son — third-most behind the 2011 totals posted by himself (5,476) and New England’s Tom Brady (5,235). Brees became the first player to eclipse 5,000 yards three times. His four TD passes gave him 43 in 2012, and he’s the first player with 40 TD passes in consecutive seasons.

New Orleans also set a record it probably would rather have no part of as the Saints gave up 530 yards, raising their season total to 7,042 to break the old record of 6,793 allowed by the 1981 Balti-more Colts.

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SACRAMENTO, Cal i f . — Isaiah Thomas scored 27 points and made one of Sac-ramento’s two four-point plays in the second half as the Kings handed the Boston Celtics their third straight lopsid-ed loss on a California road swing, 118-96 on Sunday night.

John Salmons added 23 points off the bench, Jason Thompson scored 20 and De-Marcus Cousins had 12 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for his first career triple-double for the Kings, who ended the calendar year by winning their sixth home game out of the last seven.

The Celtics are going in the other direction after handily beating Brooklyn on Christmas Day. They followed that win with a trip to California to face the Los Angeles Clippers, Golden State and Sacra-mento and got outscored by 69 points in losing all three.

The Kings were in con-trol for most of this game and then pulled away with their long-range shooting in the fourth quarter. Even the return to the lineup of star point guard Rajon Rondo couldn’t help.

CALGARY — One bad period prevent-ed the Red Deer Optimist Rebels Chiefs from finishing first in their pool at the Mac’s Midget AAA Hockey Tournament.

The Chiefs gave up four goals on nine shots in the opening period of their final round-robin game against Pirati Chomu-tov of the Czech Republic Sunday and they went on to drop a 5-4 decision which left them in second place in the pool.

As a result they face the undefeated Vancouver North West Giants in the quar-ter-finals today at 9 a.m.

The Rebels came back with goals by Gabe Bast, Jody Sick and Colton Bobyk in the second period then split a pair of goals in the third period.

Miroslav Bednar made it 5-3 for Pirati before Logan Hermus narrowed the gap

at 10:47.Matt Zentner started in goal for Red

Deer before giving way to Jayden Sittler, who made nine saves, to start the second period.

The Rebels finished with 38 shots against Pirati’s Stepan Lukes.

The Rebels earned themselves a berth in the playoffs Saturday with a 3-2 come-from-behind victory over the Lloydmin-ster Bobcats.

The Bobcats jumped into a 2-0 lead in the first period before Chase Thudi-um and Sick scored the even the count. After a scoreless second period Bast

notched the winner at 14:42 of the third period on the power play.

Sittler picked up the win, making 13 saves while his mates had 37 shots on goal.

In other quarter-final play Pirati takes on the Cariboo Cougars at 9 a.m. while at noon the Greater Vancouver Ca-nadians clash with the Carolina Jr. Hurri-canes and the St. Albert Raiders meet the Saskatoon Contacts.

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2013 IIHF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPAt Ufa, Russia

PRELIMINARY ROUNDGroup A

GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PtSweden 3 2 1 0 0 12 4 8Czech Republic 3 2 0 0 1 8 7 6Finland 3 1 1 0 1 11 8 5Switzerland 3 1 0 2 0 13 10 5Latvia 4 0 0 0 4 6 21 0

Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PtCanada 3 3 0 0 0 17 7 9Russia 3 2 1 0 0 12 3 8U.S. 3 1 0 0 2 10 4 3Slovakia 3 0 1 1 1 7 10 3Germany 4 0 0 1 3 4 26 1

Note: Three points awarded for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/shootout loss, which is registered in the

respective OTW or OTL columns.

Saturday’s resultsRussia 7 Germany 0Sweden 5 Latvia 1

Sunday’s resultsCanada 2 U.S. 1

Czech Republic 4 Latvia 2Finland 5 Switzerland 4 (SO)Slovakia 2 Germany 1 (OT)

Monday’s gamesSwitzerland vs. Czech Republic, 12:30 a.m.

U.S. vs. Slovakia, 3 a.m.Sweden vs. Finland, 5 a.m.Russia vs. Canada, 7 a.m.

End of Preliminary Round

Wednesday, Jan. 2Championship Bracket

Quarter-finalsTeams TBD, 2 and 6 a.m.

Relegation BracketFourth A vs. Fifth B, 4 a.m.

Thursday, Jan. 3Championship Bracket

SemifinalsTeams TBD, 2 and 6 a.m.

Relegation BracketFourth B vs. Fifth A, 4 a.m.

Friday, Jan. 4Relegation Bracket

Fifth A vs. Fifth B, 2 a.m.Fourth A vs. Fourth B, 6 a.m.

Championship BracketFifth Place

Quarter-finals losers, 6 a.m.

Saturday, Jan. 5Bronze Medal

Semifinal losers, 2 a.m.Gold Medal

Semifinal winners, 6 a.m.Note: If Russia qualifies for either quarter-or semifi-

nals, it will play in late game.

Sunday’s summary

Canada 2, U.S. 1First Period

1. Canada, Nugent-Hopkins 3 (Huberdeau, Scheif-ele) 7:132. Canada, Strome 4 (Ritchie, Camara) 14:44Penalties — Barber US (slashing) 11:15, Strome Cda (slashing) 18:19.

Second PeriodNo Scoring.Penalties — Reinhart Cda (double minor, high-sticking) 6:52, Jones US (slashing) 12:13.

Third Period3. U.S., Trouba 3 (Gaudreau, Reilly) 11:02 (pp)Penalties — Subban Cda (tripping, served by Scheifele) 7:35, Strome Cda (delay of game) 9:51, McCabe US (minor, misconduct, checking to the head) 12:06, Bigg US (interference) 13:30, Trouba US (tripping) Hartman US (minor, misconduct

checking to the head) 15:50, Huberdeau Cda (slashing) Trocheck US (cross-checking) 16:25, Nugent-Hopkins Cds (boarding) 18:23.

Shots on goalCanada 11 8 13 — 32U.S. 10 15 12 — 37Goal — Canada: Subban (W,3-0); U.S.: Gibson (L,1-2).Power plays (goals-chances) — Canada: 0-4; U.S.: 1-5.Attendance — 6,985 at Ufa, Russia.

World junior men’s hockey championship scoring leaders

UFA, Russia — Scoring leaders at the 2013 world junior hockey championship following Sunday’s games: G A PNugent-Hopkins, Cda 3 5 8Strome, Cda 4 2 6Scheifele, Cda 3 2 5Dano, Svk 2 3 5Galchenyuk, Rus 1 4 5Huberdeau, Cda 1 4 5Martschini, Sui 1 4 5Granlund, Fin 4 0 4Collberg, Swe 3 1 4Kunzle, Sui 3 1 4Andrighetto, Sui 2 2 4Molin, Swe 1 3 4Yakupov, Rus 1 3 4Richard, Sui 0 4 4Kosov, Rus 3 0 3Teravainen, Fin 3 0 3Trouba, U.S. 3 0 3Yarullin, Rus 3 0 3Aaltonen, Fin 2 1 3Bertaggia, Sui 2 1 3Frk, Cze 2 1 3Kucherov, Rus 2 1 3Barber, US 1 2 3Drouin, Cda 1 2 3F.Forsberg, Swe 1 2 3Khokhlachyov, Rus 1 2 3Lindholm, Swe 1 2 3Mikus, Svk 1 2 3Ouellet, Cda 1 2 3Rielly, Cda 1 2 3Ristolainen, Fin 1 2 3Simion, Sui 1 2 3Zangger, Sui 1 2 3

SPENGLER CUPAt Davos, Switzerland PRELIMINARY ROUND

Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Ptx-Vitkovice 2 1 0 1 0 6 6 4y-Fribourg 2 1 0 0 1 6 3 3y-Ufa 2 0 1 0 1 6 9 2

Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Ptx-Canada 2 1 0 1 0 6 2 4y-Davos 2 1 0 0 1 6 7 3y-Mannheim 2 0 1 0 1 4 7 2

x — Clinched semifinal berth.y — Clinched quarter-final berth.

Note: Three points awarded for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/shootout loss, which is registered in the

respective OTW or OTL columns.

Saturday’s results Quarter-finalsDavos 7 Ufa 5

Fribourg 5 Mannheim 2

Sunday’s results Semifinals

Canada 5 Fribourg 1Davos 5 Vitkovice 4

Monday’s gameChampionship

Canada vs. Davos, 4 a.m.

IIHF WORLD UNDER-17 CHALLENGE At Drummondville and Victoriaville, Que.

PRELIMINARY ROUND

Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PtSweden 2 2 0 0 0 11 3 6Russia 2 1 0 1 0 13 10 4Pacific 1 0 1 0 0 8 7 2Finland 1 0 0 0 1 3 7 0Western Cda 2 0 0 0 2 2 10 0

Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PtU.S. 2 1 1 0 0 12 8 5Ontario 2 1 0 1 0 17 6 4Quebec 1 1 0 0 0 5 2 3Slovakia 1 0 0 0 1 0 12 0Atlantic Cda 2 0 0 0 2 5 11 0

Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime win and one for an overtime loss.

Saturday’s resultsAt Drummondville, Que.

Pacific 8 Russia 7 (OT)Sweden 4 Western Canada 0

At Victoriaville, Que.Quebec 5 Atlantic Canada 2

U.S. 6 Ontario 5 (SO)

Sunday’s resultsAt Drummondville, Que.

Sweden 7 Finland 3Russia 6 vs. Western Canada 2

At Victoriaville, Que.U.S. 6 Atlantic Canada 3Ontario 12 vs. Slovakia 0

Monday’s gamesAt Drummondville, Que.

Pacific vs. Sweden, 11:30 a.m.Western Canada vs. Finland, 5:30 p.m.

At Victoriaville, Que. Slovakia vs. Atlantic Canada, 11:30 a.m.

U.S. vs. Quebec, 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s gamesAt Drummondville, Que.

Atlantic Canada vs. Ontario, 11:30 a.m.Quebec vs. Slovakia, 5:30 p.m.

At Victoriaville, Que. Sweden vs. Russia, 11:30 a.m. Finland vs. Pacific, 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s gamesAt Drummondville, Que.

Slovakia vs. U.S., 11:30 a.m.Quebec vs. Ontario, 5:30 p.m.

At Victoriaville, Que. Russia vs. Finland, 11:30 a.m.

Western Canada vs. Pacific, 5:30 p.m.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE

East Division GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtPrince Albert 38 24 11 0 3 135 109 51Saskatoon 38 19 18 0 1 127 131 39Swift Current 40 17 18 3 2 117 109 39Moose Jaw 39 14 18 3 4 98 125 35Regina 40 15 21 2 2 105 146 34Brandon 38 14 20 2 2 111 154 32

Central Division GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtEdmonton 37 24 8 2 3 133 92 53Calgary 37 24 9 1 3 117 96 52Red Deer 40 22 15 2 1 114 118 47Lethbridge 40 18 17 1 4 126 120 41Medicine Hat 37 16 19 2 0 125 134 34Kootenay 36 11 24 1 0 87 129 23

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. Division

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtKamloops 40 26 10 2 2 145 110 56Kelowna 38 26 10 1 1 160 94 54Victoria 35 19 14 0 2 106 113 40Prince George 37 12 20 1 4 95 133 29Vancouver 37 10 27 0 0 102 152 20

U.S. Division GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtPortland 37 31 5 1 0 167 82 63Spokane 36 24 11 1 0 144 108 49

Tri-City 37 20 14 1 2 111 104 43Seattle 37 16 18 2 1 118 140 35Everett 40 15 23 0 2 97 141 32Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout

receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Saturday’s resultsCalgary 4 Lethbridge 1

Medicine Hat 4 Swift Current 1Portland 4 Tri-City 3

Prince Albert 4 Saskatoon 2Regina 5 Moose Jaw 1Everett 2 Seattle 1 (OT)

Kamloops 9 Vancouver 5Kootenay 7 Spokane 3

Victoria 4 Prince George 3 (SO)

Sunday’s resultsBrandon 6 Red Deer 5Kelowna 5 Everett 1

Regina 6 Saskatoon 2Vancouver 8 Prince George 4

Monday’s gamesCalgary at Kootenay, 5 p.m.

Brandon at Edmonton, 6 p.m.Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 9 p.m.

Tuesday’s gamesLethbridge at Swift Current, 2 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 5:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s gamesKamloops at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Calgary, 7 p.m.Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s gameEdmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s summary

Wheat Kings 6 at Rebels 5First Period

1. Red Deer, Maxwell 4 (Dumba, Dieno) 2:36 (pp)2. Brandon, Swyripa (Pankewicz) 5:27Penalties — Robinson B (slashing) 1:05, Miller B (tripping) 2:27, Dieno RD (high-sticking) 8:23, Yaworski B (interference) 11:09, Miller B (checking from behind, fighting major) Underwood RD (instiga-tor, fighting major, 10-minute misconduct) 13:20.

Second Period3. Brandon, Cooper 4 (Palmer, Meilleur) 2:374. Brandon, Lisoway 1 (Van Horne, Pankewicz) 3:115. Brandon, Cooper 5 (Palmer) 10:386. Red Deer Millette 8 (Johnson, Bellkerive) 14:307. Red Deer, Dieno 8 (Dumba) 18:07 (pp)8. Brandon, Maguire 2 (Roy) 19:17Penalties — Lisoway B (checking from behind) 6:1, Hamilton RD (tripping), Miller B (double minor, spearing) 14:47.

Third Period9. Red Deer, Maxwell 5 (Hamilton, Volek) 5:58 (pp)10. Red Deer, Feser 1 (Maxwell) 7:0111. Brandon, Ferland 1 (13:08Penalties — Dumba RD (slashing) 3:19, Robinson B (cross-checking) 4:03, Ferland B (tripping) 18:57.

Shots on goalBrandon 10 15 4 — 42Red Deer 10 3 19 — 30Goal — Brandon: Honey (W,5-5-1-1). Red Deer: Pouliot (0:00-5:27, four shots-three saves), Naher-nuiak (5:27 of first period, 25-20,sL,0-1-0-0).Power play goals (goals-chances) — Brandon: 0-3. Red Deer: 3-8.Attendance — 5.298.

AHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtPortland 30 17 11 1 1 90 91 36Worcester 30 16 11 1 2 83 87 35Providence 29 16 11 0 2 74 80 34Manchester 32 14 14 2 2 86 85 32St. John’s 33 15 17 0 1 80 95 31

Northeast Division GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtSpringfield 30 17 8 2 3 99 70 39Bridgeport 31 16 12 1 2 97 96 35Albany 29 11 11 1 6 69 77 29Connecticut 31 13 16 2 0 86 103 28Adirondack 30 13 16 1 0 74 88 27

East Division GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtSyracuse 31 19 7 2 3 113 87 43Binghamton 28 18 7 1 2 92 71 39Hershey 32 16 14 1 1 85 80 34W-B/Scranton 30 14 13 2 1 78 83 31Norfolk 30 14 15 1 0 79 90 29

WESTERN CONFERENCENorth Division

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtToronto 31 19 9 1 2 104 81 41Abbotsford 31 16 9 3 3 74 66 38Lake Erie 33 16 14 2 1 106 107 35Rochester 30 15 12 2 1 103 99 33Hamilton 30 11 16 1 2 69 97 25

Midwest Division GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtGrand Rapids 29 17 10 1 1 89 79 36Rockford 32 17 13 1 1 101 94 36Milwaukee 31 15 13 2 1 83 88 33Chicago 29 14 11 3 1 74 81 32Peoria 31 13 14 2 2 75 98 30

South Division GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtCharlotte 33 18 11 1 3 101 91 40Houston 31 16 10 2 3 95 89 37Texas 31 16 10 3 2 79 81 37Okla. City 30 16 10 1 3 100 89 36San Antonio 34 13 17 0 4 86 101 30

Note: A team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W

column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL

columns.

Saturday’s resultsAbbotsford 3 Chicago 2

Toronto 3 Grand Rapids 1St. John’s 5 Syracuse 4 (OT)

Lake Erie 4 Hamilton 0Albany 3 Hershey 2

Binghamton 2 Rochester 1Bridgeport 4 Manchester 1Connecticut 4 Springfield 2

Norfolk 3 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 2 (OT)Rockford 3 Milwaukee 1

San Antonio 2 Houston 1 (OT)Texas 3 Charlotte 1

Worcester 3 Providence 2Portland 2 Adirondack 1

Sunday’s resultsChicago 3 Abbotsford 2

San Antonio 5 Charlotte 2Springfield 4 Norfolk 1

Monday’s gamesBridgeport at Adirondack, 1 p.m.Hamilton at Rochester, 1:05 p.m.

Syracuse at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 3:05 p.m.Connecticut at Portland, 3:30 p.m.Rockford at Grand Rapids, 4 p.m.

St. John’s at Binghamton, 4:05 p.m.Worcester at Manchester, 5 p.m.Texas at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.Abbotsford at Peoria, 5:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s gameOklahoma City at Houston, 4:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s gamesHamilton at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Providence at Portland, 5 p.m. (rescheduled from Dec. 27)

Thursday’s gamesCharlotte at Lake Erie, 5 p.m. Chicago at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

National Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBNew York 21 9 .700 —Brooklyn 16 14 .533 5Boston 14 16 .467 7Philadelphia 14 17 .452 7 1/2Toronto 11 20 .355 10 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 20 8 .714 —Atlanta 19 9 .679 1Orlando 12 18 .400 9Charlotte 7 23 .233 14Washington 4 24 .143 16

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 16 12 .571 —Indiana 17 13 .567 —Milwaukee 16 13 .552 1/2Detroit 11 22 .333 7 1/2Cleveland 7 25 .219 11

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio 24 8 .750 —Memphis 19 8 .704 2 1/2Houston 16 14 .533 7Dallas 12 19 .387 11 1/2New Orleans 7 23 .233 16

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 23 6 .793 —Denver 17 15 .531 7 1/2Minnesota 14 13 .519 8Portland 15 14 .517 8Utah 15 16 .484 9

Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 24 6 .800 —Golden State 21 10 .677 3 1/2L.A. Lakers 15 15 .500 9Sacramento 11 19 .367 13Phoenix 11 20 .355 13 1/2

Saturday’s GamesAtlanta 109, Indiana 100New Orleans 98, Charlotte 95Toronto 123, Orlando 88Brooklyn 103, Cleveland 100Chicago 87, Washington 77Oklahoma City 124, Houston 94Memphis 81, Denver 72Minnesota 111, Phoenix 107Milwaukee 104, Miami 85Portland 89, Philadelphia 85Golden State 101, Boston 83

Sunday’s GamesSan Antonio 111, Dallas 86Detroit 96, Milwaukee 94Sacramento 118, Boston 96Utah at L.A. Clippers, Late

Monday’s GamesCharlotte at Chicago, 1 p.m.Memphis at Indiana, 1 p.m.Miami at Orlando, 3 p.m.Atlanta at Houston, 5 p.m.Brooklyn at San Antonio, 5 p.m.Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesDallas at Washington, 4 p.m.Portland at New York, 5:30 p.m.Sacramento at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.Atlanta at New Orleans, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Denver, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

National Football LeagueAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PAy-New England 12 4 0 .750 557 331Miami 7 9 0 .438 288 317N.Y. Jets 6 10 0 .375 281 375Buffalo 6 10 0 .375 344 435

South W L T Pct PF PAy-Houston 12 4 0 .750 416 331x-Indianapolis 11 5 0 .688 357 387Tennessee 6 10 0 .375 330 471Jacksonville 2 14 0 .125 255 444

North W L T Pct PF PAy-Baltimore 10 6 0 .625 398 344x-Cincinnati 10 6 0 .625 391 320Pittsburgh 8 8 0 .500 336 314Cleveland 5 11 0 .313 302 368

West W L T Pct PF PAy-Denver 13 3 0 .813 481 289San Diego 7 9 0 .438 350 350Oakland 4 12 0 .250 290 443Kansas City 2 14 0 .125 211 425

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAWashington 10 6 0 .625 436 388N.Y. Giants 9 7 0 .563 429 344Dallas 8 8 0 .500 376 400Philadelphia 4 12 0 .250 280 444

South W L T Pct PF PAy-Atlanta 13 3 0 .813 419 299Carolina 7 9 0 .438 357 363New Orleans 7 9 0 .438 461 454

Tampa Bay 7 9 0 .438 389 394

North W L T Pct PF PAy-Green Bay 11 5 0 .688 433 336x-Minnesota 10 6 0 .625 379 348Chicago 10 6 0 .625 375 277Detroit 4 12 0 .250 372 437

West W L T Pct PF PAy-San Francisco 11 4 1 .719 397 273x-Seattle 11 5 0 .688 412 245St. Louis 7 8 1 .469 299 348Arizona 5 11 0 .313 250 357x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

Week 17Sunday’s GamesTennessee 38, Jacksonville 20Carolina 44, New Orleans 38Buffalo 28, N.Y. Jets 9Cincinnati 23, Baltimore 17Pittsburgh 24, Cleveland 10Indianapolis 28, Houston 16N.Y. Giants 42, Philadelphia 7Chicago 26, Detroit 24Tampa Bay 22, Atlanta 17San Diego 24, Oakland 21San Francisco 27, Arizona 13Seattle 20, St. Louis 13Denver 38, Kansas City 3Minnesota 37, Green Bay 34New England 28, Miami 0Dallas 18, Washington 28

NFL Playoffs

Wild-card PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 5Cincinnati at Houston, 2:30 p.m. (NBC)Minnesota at Green Bay, 6 p.m. (NBC)

Sunday, Jan. 6Indianapolis at Baltimore, 11 a.m. (CBS)Seattle at Washington, 2:30 p.m. (FOX)

Divisional PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 12Baltimore, Indianapolis or Cincinnati at Denver, 2:30 p.m. (CBS)Washington, Seattle or Green Bay at San Fran-cisco, 6 p.m. (FOX)Sunday, Jan. 13Washington, Seattle or Minnesota at Atlanta, 11 a.m. (FOX)Baltimore, Indianapolis or Houston at New England, 2:30 p.m. (CBS)

Conference ChampionshipsSunday, Jan. 20AFC, TBA (CBS)NFC, TBA (FOX)

Pro BowlSunday, Jan. 27At HonoluluAFC vs. NFC, 5 p.m. (NBC)

Super BowlSunday, Feb. 3At New OrleansAFC champion vs. NFC champion, 4 p.m. (CBS)

NFL 2,000-Yard RushersYear Player, Team G Att Yards Avg. TD1984 E. Dickerson, L.A. 16 379 2,105 5.6 142012 Ad. Peterson, Min. 16 348 2,097 6.0 122003 Jamal Lewis, Bal. 16 387 2,066 5.3 141997 Barry Sanders, Det. 16 335 2,053 6.1 111998 Terrell Davis, Den. 16 392 2,008 5.1 222009 Chris Johnson, Ten. 16 358 2,006 5.6 141973 O.J. Simpson, Buf. 14 332 2,003 6.0 12

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Longhorns 31 Beavers 27

SAN ANTONIO _ This season was a history-making turnaround for the No. 15 Oregon State Beavers.

But in the final 10 minutes of it, everything turned on them.Oregon State began the fourth quarter of the Alamo Bowl cruising toward its first 10-win season since 2006, but that opportu-nity unraveled when Texas quarterback Da-vid Ash shook off a rocky start to throw two late touchdowns, carrying the Longhorns to a 31-27 comeback win Saturday.

The Beavers (9-4) en-tered the game already assured of a school-re-cord turnaround after going 3-9 the year before. But after a sudden col-lapse _ they had negative 4 yards of total offence in the fourth quarter _ they’re ending the sea-son disappointed instead of celebrating.

``It was definitely a game we let slip away,’’ quarterback Cody Vaz said. ``I don’t take any-thing away from Texas, they are a great team, but I definitely feel we let this one slip out of our hands.’’

Ash threw the go-ahead 36-yard touch-down strike to Marquise

Goodwin with 2:24 left. The Longhorns (9-4) nev-er led before Goodwin scored his second touch-down on that deep post pattern, just a down af-ter Texas converted a fourth-and-1 play to keep its chances alive.

``I guess in in every situation you have to be thankful,’’ said Ash, who was pulled in a loss to TCU a month ago and wasn’t immediately se-lected the starter for the Alamo Bowl. ``I learned a lot at TCU. It was a tough situation I was in. I was just really thankful I got another opportunity to play a game I love.’’

With Texas down 20-10 at halftime, Longhorns coach Mack Brown said he told his players they would win.

``I told them this it wasn’t going to be easy, but I told them this game was ours and we would win it,’’ Brown said. ``This one is really spe-cial.’’

Storm Woods ran for 118 yards and scored two touchdowns for the Bea-vers.

``Not to take anything away from Texas, that was a great team offen-sively and defensively,’’ Wood said. ``In the first half we had a great style of football. In the sec-ond half, Texas made some adjustments and I guess, they just wanted it more.’’

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LOS ANGELES — Al-though Montee Ball and Stepfan Taylor have barely met, Taylor is pretty sure they would get along famously.

“We had a quick hello this week, but you can tell we’ve got a lot in common,” the Stanford running back said. “At least on the field.”

In an era of college football dominated by spread schemes and pro-lific quarterbacks, these two tailbacks personify an old-fashioned, smash-mouth approach to of-fence. Running behind similar massive offen-sive lines at Wisconsin and Stanford, both backs persevered through slow starts to their careers to earn prominent spots in the record books head-ing into their big finales in the 99th Rose Bowl.

“You can’t really have a better running back matchup in college foot-ball than this one,” Wis-consin coach Barry Alva-rez said.

Ball and Taylor expect to get to know each other while they prepare for the upcoming NFL draft, where they’re both likely to be high picks. They’ll first finish up their col-lege careers against each other when the surpris-ing Badgers (8-5) make their third straight Rose Bowl appearance Tues-day against the favoured No. 8 Cardinal (11-2).

When Ball is asked about Taylor’s abilities, he realizes he might as well be describing him-self.

“We’re both not blaz-ing fast, but we both do a good job playing to our strengths,” Ball said. “We run behind our pads, run between the tackles and always stay physical. We’ve got a lot of similarities, so it’s good to see him have success. Just hopefully not too much success in the game.”

The Rose Bowl is a culmination of two re-silient tenures at a no-toriously fickle position. Both backs are playing in their third straight BCS bowls: Ball was out-standing in both of the Badgers’ previous trips to the Rose Bowl, while Taylor had big games in Orange and Fiesta bowls

over the past two years.Ball, who won the

Doak Walker Award as the nation’s top running back this season, has scored 82 touchdowns — more than anybody in FBS history.

Taylor is merely the leading rusher in Stan-ford history — and one score shy of becom-ing the school’s career touchdowns leader — as an incredibly durable performer who almost never leaves the field when the Cardinal have the ball.

Yet neither Ball nor Taylor started his college career as the main man, instead win-ning their starting jobs through persistence and hard work.

Taylor was a backup to Toby Gerhart as a freshman, getting just 56 carries.

He was overshadowed for most of his first three seasons on The Farm with Heisman contend-ers Gerhart and Andrew Luck in the same back-field before getting the spotlight this year — and even then, he was over-shadowed on the West Coast by fellow Pac-

12 ball-carriers Ken-jon Barner at Oregon, Ka’Deem Carey at Arizo-na and Johnathan Frank-lin at UCLA.

Yet Taylor broke Dar-rin Nelson’s Stanford career rushing record in the Pac-12 title game, getting 78 more yards to give him 4,212 in his ca-reer. With a touchdown against Wisconsin, he’ll break his career tie with Gerhart at 44 TDs.

“I don’t worry about people paying attention to me as long as we’re winning games, because that’s all you can con-trol,” Taylor said.

Ball played behind John Clay as a freshman and in a three-back com-bo with Clay and James White as a sophomore. Ball was frequently the third option in that troi-ka in 2010, particularly when he didn’t even play in a win over Ohio State, a setback that left him contemplating a transfer or moving to linebacker.

“I learned a lot about distractions during my career, and that helps you when you get in a situation like the Rose Bowl where you need fo-cus,” Ball said.

Ball has rushed for 1,730 yards and 21 touch-downs in the final sea-

son of his decorated ca-reer at Wisconsin. With three touchdowns in the Big Ten title game, Ball broke the FBS ca-reer record for rushing TDs with 76 while top-ping 5,000 yards for his career.

He was a Heisman Trophy finalist last season after scoring 39 touchdowns, and he rushed for 164 yards in Wisconsin’s loss to Ore-gon in last season’s Rose Bowl.

Ball won’t catch Wis-consin career rushing leader Ron Dayne, the top ball-carrier in FBS history with 6,397 yards, but he’s done just about everything else possible in Madison.

When David Shaw was asked about his single biggest concern in the Rose Bowl, the Stanford coach was blunt: “He wears No. 28 for the oth-er team.”

That would be Ball, of course. The Cardinal have replicated Ball in practice with Stanford backup running back Barry Sanders — yes, the son of that other Barry Sanders, whose single-season record of 39 touchdowns for Okla-homa State was tied by Ball last season.

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LAS VEGAS _ Cain Velasquez stood and delivered on Saturday in the main event of UFC 155.

Velasquez dominated Junior Dos Santos for 25 minutes to reclaim the Ultimate Fighting Champi-onship’s heavyweight title, fulfilling a promise he’d made in the weeks leading up to the card.

The 30-year-old Velasquez pushed the pace from the opening bell, rushing forward with an aggres-sive mix of punches and takedowns. In fact, it looked as if he might knock out his open in the first round after scoring a devastating right hand. He followed Dos Santos to the floor and unleashed a flurry of punches, but Velasquez could not finish before the bell sounded.

Still, he set the tone for the remaining 20 minutes.Dos Santos displayed incredible heart throughout

the fight, even as Velasquez landed some 210 punch-es according to a FightMetric report. He even gained a second wind in the fourth and fifth rounds as he looked to pull off an improbable comeback victory.

However, it was not to be as Velasquez’ impres-sive pace never slowed, and he never gave the Bra-zilian slugger room to operate. Judges awarded him the win and the UFC heavyweight belt with scores of 50-45, 50-43 and 50-44.

``I knew that Junior was a tough striker and he was able to end our last fight that way, so I was prepared for him this time,’’ Velasquez said. ``I was able to ef-fectively use my striking and my grappling to control him throughout the fight and get the title back.’’

Following the loss, Dos Santos was transported to a local hospital for observation but did not sustain any substantial injuries and was quickly released. UFC president Dana White said he expects the pair to have a third meeting at some point in the future, but former Strikeforce champion Alistair Overeem will likely earn the next crack at Velasquez should he prove victorious over Antonio Silva in February.

``I think Junior Dos Santos is going to have to take some time now and relax and heal up,’’ White said. ``Cain will probably fight again before he sees Junior if we do that rematch.’’

In the night’s co-feature, lightweights Jim Miller (22-4 MMA, 11-3 UFC) and Joe Lauzon combined (22-8 MMA, 9-5 UFC) for an epic 15-minute affair that may very well prove a late entry in many ``Fight of the Year’’ lists.

Miller was the sharper fighter in the early going with crisp punching combinations and stinging low kicks that buckled his opponent’s legs. A short elbow opened a huge gash over Lauzon’s right eye, and the

fight immediately shifted in a plasma-filled affair. Despite the early damage, Lauzon pushed coura-geously forward and tried to reverse the momentum. He would do so briefly in the second.

With the crowd on its feet, Miller scored an ear-ly takedown to open the second frame, but Lau-zon somehow reversed to top position, where he spent much of the frame. The nasty cut continued to pour blood, but Lauzon dominated the position and threatened with a leglock in the final seconds of the round.

With the fight hanging in the balance to open the final round, both competitors were understandably fatigued.

Bloodied and battered, Lauzon continued to press forward, but it was Miller’s counterattacks that proved the most effective blow. Lauzon looked for a miracle again in the closing seconds, but he came up short on another leglock. The crowd erupted at the final bell, and both fighters embraced after the en-tertaining scrap. Still, it was Miller’s hand who was raised for a unanimous-decision victory with three scores of 29-28.

``Joe Lauzon is a tough kid,’’ Miller said. ``I knew I was going to have to bring my best effort to put him away, and I was never able to. That’s how good he is on the ground. And even in the last minute, look what he was trying to do to win the fight.

``I’m pleased with this win, and I’m looking for-ward to getting back in the gym again.’’

In a 185-pound match Costa Philippou (12-2 MMA, 5-1 UFC) earned his fifth straight fight with an odd but convincing victory over former light heavyweight Tim ``The Barbarian’’ Boetsch.

Boetsch looked to avoid his opponent’s impressive boxing skills by taking the fight to the floor, which he did successfully in the opening round. However, he appeared to break his hand during the round, and things quickly went downhill.

In the second, an accidental head butt opened a cut on Boetsch’s forehead, and an eye poke left him squinting with his right eye. Philippou capitalized on his ailing opponent by pushing forward and open-ing up in the pocket. A game Boetsch refused to back down, but he was forced to settle for pulling guard and hoping to win the fight off his back. Philippou pounced on his wounded prey and finally finished it in the third after a failed takedown left a bloody Boetsch defenceless on his back. Philippou swarmed with punches, and referee Kim Winslow mercifully

called the fight at the 2:11 mark of the final round.``I expected to win this fight, but not like this,’’

Philippou said. ``I made a few rookie mistakes in letting him take me down, but once we started trad-ing blows back and forth later in the fight I had him. I was eventually able to get the better of him in the striking game and have the fight stopped.’’

In a key rematch between middleweight contend-ers, Yushin ``Thunder’’ Okami (29-7 MMA, 12-4 UFC) earned a unanimous-decision victory over Alan ``The Talent’’ Belcher (17-6 MMA, 9-5 UFC).

Belcher looked intent on striking throughout the fight, as he pumped jabs and launched a few high kicks. But Okami countered with effective wrestling and brought the fight to the floor multiple times in the three-round affair. Belcher compounded his problems by unsuccessfully looking for guillotine chokes in all three rounds, allowing Okami to settle into top position each time he worked his neck free from the holds.

The crowd often booed Okami’s strategy, but it proved just as effective as it did in the pair’s 2006 meeting, and the Japanese fighter cruised to a unan-imous-decision win with scores of 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28.

``The wrestling, striking and the clinch game were all successfully implemented in this fight to de-feat Belcher,’’ Okami said through an interpreter. ``Belcher is a very tough opponent, and I feel that a win over Belcher should allow me to keep challeng-ing more of the top guys in the middleweight divi-sion.’’

In the night’s first main-card contest, Strikeforce import Derek Brunson (10-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) earned a unanimous-decision win over longtime veteran mid-dleweight Chris Leben (22-9 MMA, 12-8 UFC). In what proved a rather lacklustre affair, late-replacement Brunson used well-timed takedowns and avoided Leben’s left hand to take the fight 29-28 on all three judges’ cards in a slow-pace 15-minute contest.

Brunson, who took the fight on less than two-weeks’ notice, admitted he faded as the fight wore on, but he was still excited to win in his UFC debut.

``I wanted to go at it with him but maintain my gameplan and fight my fight,’’ Brunson said. ``I start-ed slowing down in the second round, and I feel that’s just a matter of taking the fight and training for it on such short notice.

``Overall, I feel like I’m getting better, but I know I have a long way to go to compete in the UFC’s mid-dleweight division.’’

According to UFC officials, UFC 155 drew 12,423 fans for a US$3.286 million live gate.

Velasquez dominates to reclaim titleFORMER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION GETS TITLE BACK AFTER WIN BY DECISION

UFC 155

Top tailbacks Ball and Taylor in spotlight at Rose Bowl

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Texas rallies for win in Alamo Bowl

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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

ADVOCATE STAFF

Probably the last gas pump in Canada to issue fuel by the gallon still stands guard in a business whose owners were threatened with jail for refus-ing to convert to metric.

Almost 30 years have passed since that fateful Friday af-ternoon when two officers from Canada’s Department of Weights and Measures sealed the pumps at the Eckville Super Station, jointly owned by Art Carritt and two of his sons, Roy and Laurie.

There was no warning, said Laurie Carritt, who became sole proprietor when his father died in 2010. Roy had died eight years earlier.

The Canadian government, under direction of then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, had started converting the country to metric in 1970.

There was a period of transi-tion during which the Imperial system was to be replaced with metric on everything, includ-ing road signs, weather data, groceries, fuel sales and any-thing else that could be quanti-fied in gallons, pounds, square feet, Fahrenheit degrees or calories.

The Carritt family’s twin fuel pumps, first installed in 1941 when the store was a Case deal-ership, were not physically ca-pable of being converted.

While gas pumps throughout the country had long ago made the switch, Eckville Super Ser-vice continued to sell fuel by the gallon.

So, on that summer afternoon in 1984, when the “metric po-lice” came to shut them down, Art Carritt dug in.

He phoned the department and said that he was going to cut the seals himself at 1 p.m. on the following Monday.

The person at the other end of the line said he better not or he would go to jail.

That’s fine, said Carritt, who then called as many news desks as he could think of while orga-nizing a group of locals to line up at the pumps in preparation for the crime he was about to commit.

It didn’t happen.At about 11 a.m. that Monday,

with reporters and photogra-phers from across the country gathering for the big showdown, a man from Weights and Mea-sures came and broke the seals, says Laurie.

He didn’t say anything, just got into his pickup truck and drove away.

And Art and his boys contin-ued selling gas by the gallon.

Seated at his desk overlook-ing Eckville’s town centre, Lau-rie says it wasn’t just the cost, it was the politics.

His dad had been keeping a close watch on policy and leg-islation in both Canada and the United States.

While Trudeau and his crew justified the conversion by stat-ing that they wanted to get the jump on the U.S., Art Carritt al-ready knew from reading gov-ernment postings that, south of the border, all notions of going metric had been dumped.

He was further distressed with the amount of cheating he discovered by conducting his own measurements of consumer goods such as coffee and cola.

A quart was a quart and a pound was a pound, but the two-litre bottles of pop were two millilitres short of full measure and the little bags of coffee that had formerly been sold by the pound contained a lot less than 454 grams, says Laurie.

Of course, it couldn’t last for-ever.

The two old gas pumps were sitting on an underground tank that would eventually need to

be upgraded to meet new envi-ronmental regulations.

With their father easing slow-ly into retirement, Laurie and Roy ordered the retrofit in 2001, ripping out the underground tanks and purchasing a new set pair of pumps that would sell gas by the litre.

They then had the same pump their dad had posed with on that August afternoon in 1984 cleaned up and restored to match its original condition as closely as possible.

The price window doesn’t read past $9.99.

Its sales window is perma-nently fixed at 33 and a quarter gallons for 32.7 cents per gallon, which would total $10.87.

At today’s price of 99.9 cents per litre, that fill-up would fall a few cents short of $150.00.

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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

ADVOCATE STAFF

Materials are being gathered to test drive the idea of converting ordinary ga-rages into environmentally friendly food factories.

Rene Michalak, managing director of ReThink Red Deer, has been providing space in his family’s former home on Ox-bow Street for the non-profit society’s ongo-ing efforts.

So far, he and his group have erected a greenhouse, replaced a pair of mature spruce trees with a yard full of berry bush-es and set up systems to collect rainwater from rooftops.

They raise boxes of earthworms in the dining room and most of the living room has been converted to a pepper plantation.

There’s room for a guest in the spare bedroom while the master bedroom has been converted to an office with space for two desks.

The separate units mesh together in an urban gardening project designed as a demonstration site for people interested in growing a lot of food in a small space without creating negative impacts on the environment.

Until now, the garage has been left out of the equation, serving as a storage unit for vehicles and supplies.

Scratch that.Michalak and another member of the

society are now putting together ReThink Red Deer’s version of the MEGGA-watt garage.

The acronym comes from Micro-Energy Generating Garage Assembly, which con-verts a heated garage to generate power and grow food.

With a gas-fired heater for backup, the ReThink Red Deer garage is being refit-ted with solar panels that will be used to

support fish tanks and aquaculture during the winter while provided heat generation and storage for the greenhouse during the warmer months.

Once complete, the system will be able to produce food throughout the year, in-cluding production of fish species such as tilapia, which grow well within a limited environment and produce excellent plant fertilizer, says Michalak.

Rainwater will be processed and bal-anced for the fish and then filtered and re-cycled through an aquaponics system being set up to grow sprouts.

Coupled with the garage will be a geo-desic dome greenhouse that will capture sunlight to generate the heat and electric-ity needed to operate the system.

The geodesic shape was chosen because it captures the maximum possible sunlight, says Michalak.

Probably the most costly element in the plan is the light system set up for the sprouts, which he estimates will run to $30,000.

Ultimately, many of the costs can be re-duced by scavenging an scrounging the ma-terials, including food-grade water and fish tanks as well as the building materials re-quired for the greenhouse.

The beauty of it is, with a two-car heated garage, there will still be room for a car and a small workshop, says Michalak.

He and his partners hope to raise some of the funds they will need through a con-test being held by The Carbon Farmer, an environmental project based at Manning, Alta. Winning communities will receive $2,551 to help fund their eco-friendly face-lifts.

Michalak encourages people to investi-gate the idea and then vote for it as often as possible by visiting www.thecarbonfarmer.ca and then clicking the Face Your Foot-print link.

Primarily web based, ReThink Red Deer is organized to gather and share informa-tion on environmental sustainability, says Michalak.

It takes no ownership of its work or its findings, preferring that people use its re-sources to learn and to share their own findings, he says.

Some of its funds are raised through the sale of worm farms and food produced at Michalak’s former home in Oriole Park.

Visit ReThink Red Deer online at www.rethinkreddeer.ca or call 403-986-7981 to learn more.

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Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail [email protected]

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WOODYS RV MARATHON

REGISTRATION

Registrations for the 2013 Woody’s RV World Marathon, half marathon and 10-km run are now open. The race will be held on May 19, and is in its 15th year. Last year, it was voted one of the top three best road races in Alberta by Athletics Alberta. Tickets for the full marathon are $70 before March 19, $85 until April 19 and $100 after that. The half marathon costs $65 before March 19, $75 until April 19 and $85 after. The 10-km run costs $50. During race weekend, there will be a three-km friendship run hosted by the Red Deer Runners, a fitness and wellness expo, and banquet with a keynote speaker. The Ronald McDonald House of Central Alberta is the chosen charity for 2013. Donations can be made with registration. Last year, $12,000 was donated. For more information, or to register, visit www.reddeermarathon.org.

GIVE US A CALLThe Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta. We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages. We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit. Call 403-314-4333.

LIBERAL LEADERSHIP CANADIDATE

COMING

Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidate Martha Hall Findlay will be in Red Deer on Jan. 24. From noon to 1 p.m., she will hold a get-together with supporters at the It’s All Greek to Me restaurant at 37th Street and Gaetz Avenue. The event is open to the public.

STRINGS N’ THINGS

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You are invited to worship with Strings N’ Things band on Sunday at 10:15 a.m. at Great Bend Church of Christ. They will be putting on a western themed cowboy church service. The church is located 13.5 km north of Delburne on Hwy 21. Bring a dish for the potluck lunch following the service. For more information, contact Bonnie at 403-749-3251.

Crime prevention office to openBY LAURA TESTER

ADVOCATE STAFF

Central Alberta Crime Pre-vention Centre will open its doors to the public in mid-Jan-uary with regular hours after it received $19,530 from the City of Red Deer.

The one-stop shop for crime prevention received the one-time funding from city council in October.

The money was earmarked mainly for staffing, as well as some program costs.

TerryLee Ropchan, past president of the Red Deer

Neighbourhood Watch Associa-tion, was hired as the executive director of the centre.

Cindy Hunt from Central Al-berta CrimeStoppers is the pro-gram co-ordinator.

The two women came on board in December after the Central Alberta Crime Preven-tion Board approved the hir-ings.

Ropchan said the hours haven’t been set in stone, but it’s likely they’ll fall around the lunch hour.

The centre was opened March 1 and includes Neigh-bourhood Watch, CrimeStop-pers and Central Alberta Citi-

zens on Patrol Association. It’s located at No. 108, 3711 51st Ave.

Ropchan said the centre didn’t have any public hours, so this will be new in January.

The centre was trying to bring groups together and en-sure that the first year of costs were covered.

“When we realized we were working good together, then we realized we needed to provide some hours and services to the community,” said Ropchan.

Ropchan and Hunt will work part time and during that time, they will also apply for grants. The hope is to hire summer

staff.

The crime prevention cen-

tre was set up to make things

easier for residents to find the

resources they need.

“Rather than tracking down

programs all over the city, they

would come to one location

and see how we can help them

change their neighbourhood,”

said Ropchan.

The centre’s aim is to help

people to be proud of their

neighbourhoods and improve

upon them, so they feel safe,

Ropchan said.

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Garages to greensPROJECT TO TEST GARAGE AS PLACE TO GENERATE POWER

AND GROW FOOD

ONE-STOP SHOP FOR CRIME PREVENTION OPENS WITH CITY FUNDING

Photo by BRENDA KOSSOWAN/Advocate staff

Rene Michalak is assembling materials in his garage to be converted to a MEGGA-watt project for ReThink Red Deer. The garage will generate its own heat and power in support of systems for growing fish and greens.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Laurie Carritt holds a photo of his father Art Carritt, standing at the pumps at the Eckville Super Service when his pumps were sealed by the federal government after he refused to convert to metric measurement.

Last gas pumps to sellgas by the gallon remain as symbols of defiance

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SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.

Solution

ARGYLE SWEATER

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI & LOIS

PEANUTS

BLONDIE

HAGAR

BETTY

PICKLES

GARFIELD

LUANN

TUNDRA

SHERMAN‛S LAGOON

RUBES

Dec. 311929 — Guy Lombardo and his Royal

Canadians play Auld Lang Syne to usher in the New Year for the very first time, in their first annual New Year’s Eve Party at the Hotel Roosevelt Grill.

1982 — Ottawa reports 12.8 per cent un-employment, the worst since the Great De-pression of the 1930s.

1966 — Lester B. Pearson lights Centen-

nial Flame at entrance to Parliament Hill to begin celebrations.

1963 — Nuclear warheads for Bomarc missiles arrive at RCAF base near North Bay, Ont.

1931 — Canadian stock index plunges 37.2 per cent; GNP declines 12.7 per cent; worst business year on record in the country.

1857 — Queen Victoria chooses the town of Ottawa as the new capital of Canada. The official announcement is made on Jan. 27.

1638 — A lunar eclipse in Huron country panics natives, who place blame on Jesuits.

TODAY IN HISTORY

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Many Canadians are planning their winter travel vacations without travel in-surance, possibly leaving them and their loved ones exposed to heavy medical and other expenses should anything happen while they are away.

T h e T r a v e l Health Insurance Association of Can-ada (THIAC) reports that 52 per cent of Canadians intend to take a vacation outside the country but many may not be aware that their provincial health insurance pays only a small portion of out-of-country med-ical expenses.

Another study by BMO Insurance has found that only 41 per cent of Canadians who travel purchase travel insurance on a regular basis, in spite of the fact that four

in 10 say that at some point in their lives either they or a companion have required medical attention while travelling.

Getting sick or having an accident while out of the country can be very expensive. A broken leg in the United States, for ex-ample, is likely to set you back up to $20,000 while an air ambulance trip from Florida to Ontario can run up to $15,000.

A number of years ago, my father suf-fered a heart attack in Florida and the bill for treatment and three days in hospital was more than US$50,000.

“It’s necessary to have private travel in-surance to be fully protected against unex-pected medical emergencies encountered during foreign or inter-provincial travel,” said Martha Turnbull, past-president of THIAC.

“While Canadians can sometimes be cov-ered under the terms of their credit card or workplace health care plans, the need to be certain that the correct insurance is in place given the high cost of medical services that can be incurred while away from home,” added Julie Barker-Merz, vice-president and chief operating officer of

BMO Insurance.Part of the problem is that many Canadi-

ans don’t understand who is responsible for paying for medical costs.

Only half in the BMO survey correct-ly identified that if you travel outside of Canada without medical insurance you are responsible for covering the majority of medical expenses.

Twenty-one per cent believe their pro-vincial or the federal government pays the bill and 11 per cent believe their workplace health care plans pick up the tab when someone gets sick or has an accident while away.

Basic travel insurance will cover things like lost luggage, trip cancellation and missed connections but may not include seeing a doctor, so travellers should look for a travel medical policy that includes medical and dental coverage, air ambu-lance, private duty nurse expenses, and airfare and lodging for a family member to fly out to be by your side.

It’s important to know your own health.

Harley Richards, Business Editor, 403-314-4337 E-mail [email protected]

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TAKESTOCK

AMPHORA AUTHENTIC GREEK CUISINE4617 Gaetz Ave.

Red Deer403-986-8900● Owners

Katerina Sakkalis & Azmina Manji

● Type of businessRestaurant with a

western lunch menu and Greek dinner

menu.● Opening date

Dec. 19

GO AUTO DIRECT7424 Gaetz Ave.

Red Deer

1-888-394-2776● General manager

Matt Maclean

● Type of businessSales of used and new vehicles from the Go Auto Direct network of dealerships.

● Opening dateDec. 10

THINK KITCHEN4900 Molly Bannister

Dr.(Bower Place Shopping

Centre)Red Deer

403-340-2666● Manager

Donna McIntyre● Type of business

Specialty kitchenware and houseware

store, with barware, cookware, bakeware, dinnerware, kitchen

tools and a variety of other merchandise.● Opening date

Dec. 8

RUSCAN MEALSNo. 110, 100 Kent St.

Red Deer403-350-3635● Owners

Katia Bylinka and Tamara Shestakova● Type of business

Russian and western cuisine, with a different menu every weekday.

● Opening dateDec. 3

New business that have opened in Central Alberta within the past three months and wish to be listed here can send their information to Harley Richards by email ([email protected]) or fax (403-341-6560).

French panel overturns big

tax on ultrarich

Embattled French President Francois Hollande suffered a fresh setback Saturday when France’s highest court threw out a plan to tax the ultrawealthy at a 75 per cent rate, saying it was unfair.In a stinging rebuke to one of Socialist Hollande’s flagship campaign promises, the constitutional council ruled Saturday that the way the highly contentious tax was designed was unconstitutional. It was intended to hit incomes over (euro)1 million ($1.32 million). The largely symbolic measure would have only hit a tiny number of taxpayers and brought in an estimated (euro)100 million to (euro)300 million - an insignificant amount in the context of France’s roughtly (euro)85 billion deficit. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was quick to respond, saying in a statement following the decision the government would resubmit the measure to take the court’s concerns into account. The court’s ruling took issue not with the size of the tax, but with the way it discriminated between households depending on how incomes were distributed among its members.

— The Associated Press

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Travelling Canadians need health insurance

Please see TRAVEL on Page C4

Burden shifts to SenateBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Senate lead-ers rushed to assemble a last-ditch agreement to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly delay steep spending cuts in an urgent attempt to find common ground after weeks of postelection grid-lock.

The focus turned to the Sen-ate after President Barack Obama held an hour-long, high-stakes meeting with the leaders of Con-gress on Friday afternoon to try to avoid the automatic austerity measures that begin to take effect Jan. 1 that threaten to send the economy sputtering into another recession

An impatient Obama pressed top lawmakers to cut a deal, even one that falls short of the ambi-tions he and congressional lead-ers may once have harboured for a bigger deficit reduction package. Without a resolution, he warned, “every American’s paycheque will get a lot smaller.”

“Congress can prevent it from happening, if they act now,” he said in his weekly Saturday radio and internet address.

The U.S. faces the so-called “fis-cal cliff” in January because tax

rate cuts dating back to President George W. Bush’s tenure expire on Dec. 31. The pending across-the-board reductions in government spending, which will slice money out of everything from social pro-grams to the military, were put in place last year as an incentive to both parties to find ways to cut spending. That solution grew out of the two parties’ inability in 2011 to agree to a grand bargain that would have taken a big bite out of the deficit.

Unless Obama and Congress act to stop them, about $536 billion in tax increases, touching nearly all Americans, will begin to take ef-fect in January.

That will be coupled with about $110 billion in spending cuts, about 8 per cent of the annual budgets for most federal depart-ments. Economists predict that if allowed to unfold over 2013 this double whammy would result in a big jump in unemployment, finan-cial market turmoil and a slide back into recession.

Facing a deadline that was born out of Washington’s dysfunction, success was far from guaranteed

— even on a slimmed-down deal that postponed hard decisions about spending cuts into 2013 — in a Congress where lawmakers grumbled about spending the new year holiday in Washington.

Following Friday’s White House meeting, aides to Senate Republican leader Mitch McCon-nell and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, began rac-ing against the clock for a bipar-tisan bargain. The leaders could present legislation to senators as early as Sunday, with a vote pos-sible on Sunday or Monday.

Adding pressure was a warning from Treasury Secretary Timo-thy Geithner that the government would hit its $16.4 trillion borrow-ing limit today, the final day of the year. That would make it harder for the U.S. to pay its bills.

The guest list for the White House meeting included Reid, McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner, and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. But the key players were clearly Reid and Mc-Connell, both of whom stayed be-hind briefly at the White House and huddled with their staffs and Obama’s top legislative aide, Rob Nabors, in the West Wing Cabinet Room just outside the Oval Office.

The start of something goodBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Almost four years removed from the start of the so-called economic recovery, 2013 could be the year Canada finally leaves the legacy of the Great Reces-sion behind.

It may not look like it from the numbers.With few exceptions, most economists

see the upcoming year as not much better than what happened in 2012, when the pil-lars of global expansion came tumbling down like so many dominoes.

Says Arlene Kish of IRS Global Insight: “It is more like the Canadian economy will be able to keep its head up by treading water while waiting out external global winds.”

And CIBC chief executive Avery Shen-feld, who was recently voted the most ac-curate forecaster of the past two years, says the time for Canada to set sail from a few years of dead calm is 2014’s story.

Canadians should hope Shenfeld doesn’t win the accuracy award next year because he is predicting the country’s gross domes-tic product output will only expand by 1.7 per cent, marking the third consecutive year of losing altitude in the growth statis-tics since 2010.

That’s the year the economy shot out of Great Recession with a 3.2 per cent spurt. Since then, the numbers have trended downward — 2.6 in 2011, about 2.0 in 2012, and according to the latest consensus, 1.8 in 2013.

So where’s the good news in all this?It’s that even the pessimists among the

private sector forecasters say the second half of 2013 will start resembling the econ-omy Canadians have been expecting for several years.

For the optimists, solid growth and job creation arrive even earlier.

“I think it’s certainly possible,” says Doug Porter, who was recently named the Bank of Montreal’s new chief economist —

if Canada and the world manage to skirt the potholes.

The first crater is just around the corner. The U.S. Congress and White House have to work out a fiscal deal that prevents govern-ment action from sabotaging the economy. Pothole number two is Europe, which will remain a major risk for years.

“Ultimately to really get rolling we need a much healthier U.S. economy and I do think things are starting to fall in place for the U.S.,” Porter says.

“Their housing sector is turning the cor-ner, auto sales are getting back to almost normal ... and if that happens, then that would be a huge positive for the Canadian economy.”

The Royal Bank, among the glass half-full crowd, sees policy-makers steering clear of cliffs, fiscal and otherwise, with the result being a stronger global perfor-mance.

Boostlikely

for TSX

THE CANADIAN PRESS

The Toronto stock market may be in for im-proved performance fol-lowing a lacklustre 2012 if the U.S. and Chinese economies revive next year and boost prices for commodities and re-source stocks.

But much depends on whether Republicans and Democrats in Wash-ington, D.C., can find a compromise to avoid steep tax increases and significant spending cuts that are set to kick in automatically early in 2013.

Analysts have warned that the shock of going over the so-called fiscal cliff would halt already tepid global economic growth in its tracks and likely push the U.S. back into recession.

“This is very much a binary event that we’re watching unfold,” said Andrew Pyle, investment adviser with ScotiaM-cLeod in Peterborough, Ont.

“There is no in-be-tween on this. It’s either going to be bad or it’s going to be great for the market.”

The TSX is set to fin-ish 2012 trading with a slight gain of about 3.5 per cent following an 11 per cent slide in 2011.

Losses on the re-source-heavy Toronto market were highlighted by weakness in the base metals sector, which slid nearly 10 per cent — primarily because of lower demand from Chi-na as the government slowed economic growth to bring inflation down from unacceptably high levels.

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SOME SEE 2013 AS START OF TURNAROUND FOR CANADA’S MIDDLING ECONOMY

IF FISCAL CLIFF AVOIDED

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United States President Barack Obama gestures during a statement on the fiscal cliff negotiations with congressional leaders at the White House on Friday, in Washington. The negotiations are a last ditch effort to avoid across-the-board first of the year tax increases and deep spending cuts.

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TRAVEL: Know your health conditions

“Know what conditions your doc-tor is treating you for, what medica-tions you have been prescribed and when changes have been made to your medications,” said Turnbull. “Since every insurer has different approaches to covering pre-existing conditions, it’s critical to read and understand the benefits, exclusions, limitations, eligibility and especially pre-existing conditions.”

It’s important to understand key definitions, such as stable, uncon-trolled, treatment and emergency. The definition of pre-existing conditions varies among insurers.

Some policies may cover pre-ex-isting conditions that are considered stale and controlled for a specific period (such as 90 days) prior to depar-ture or booking date (which applies to trip cancellation and trip interruption coverage).

Some may not cover pre-existing or related conditions. So understand how all this applies to you.

THIAC recommends booking your insurance as soon as you put a deposit on the trip and try to purchase your travel using a major credit card. If the travel supplier goes out of business or suspends operations you may be able to recover some of your costs through the credit card company. Travel insur-ers do not cover financial solvency of airlines, cruise lines or other travel suppliers.

And do not minimize your health status to get lower premiums. Inaccu-rate or incomplete information could invalidate your claim and leave you stuck with the bill.

“Just like packing sunscreen and cancelling the newspaper before leav-ing home, making sure you have travel insurance should be a high-priority item on any travellers’ to-do list,” said Barker-Merz.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based busi-ness communications professional who has worked with national news organiza-tions, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

ECONOMY: Boost would drive dividends

And it sees the resultant boost drawing early dividends.

The RBC has Canada’s economy picking up steam in each of the first three quarters of 2013, starting with a 2.4 per cent gain in the first quarter and peaking at 3.4 in the third, the summer months. Overall, 2013 will av-erage 2.4, mostly because of the weak handoff, and 2014 expands to 2.8 per cent.

RBC chief economist Craig Wright doesn’t see this as particularly strong growth, given that typically recover-ies can generate rates as high as five and six per cent. But in comparison to the last few years, it constitutes solid progress.

The reason it won’t be more robust, says Wright, is that while exports pro-vide a boost as the global economy strengthens, the domestic side goes into hibernation for awhile.

Canadian households have spent their limit the past few years, he ex-plains, so their contribution is likely to cool going forward, led by a much more tame housing sector.

TD Bank chief economist Craig Al-exander also sees the U.S. fiscal cliff negotiations as key.

If there is a deal between the Demo-crats and Republicans, about four per-centage points of stimulus — in terms of spending and tax cuts — will stay on the books another year.

But the importance of a political deal goes beyond the direct aid to business and workers, he says.

Some have argued only fear and lack of confidence has kept trillions of dollars in U.S. corporate treasuries — what Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney called “dead money” — from being unleashed, triggering a new growth cycle.

“If you had a bipartisan deal you could have remarkably strong eco-nomic growth in the United States be-cause you would unlock business con-fidence, which could allow very strong balance sheets to be put to work, cre-ating jobs and economic growth,” he explained.

On the other hand, if it went the other way, even the most pessimistic of forecasters would be embarrassed by how rosy his outlook had been.

Economists say an example of what could be in store is to consider the stock market crash that occurred in the summer of 2011 when Republicans threatened to hold up extending the U.S. debt limit.

Next year’s “fiscal cliff” repercus-sions would be scarier and longer last-ing, they say.

It’s one reason Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says he’s “relatively optimistic” it won’t happen. “I think there’s a keen realization of the seri-ousness of the issue.”

Early on, as Canada was emerging from the slump, economists warned

this recovery would be different, lead-ing the CIBC’s Shenfeld to label it “the Great Disappointment.”

Their reasoning was that the 2008-09 crisis wasn’t caused by fatigue or cen-tral banks hiking interest rates to con-trol inflation. So cutting rates wouldn’t work, or wouldn’t work dramatically.

At the centre of the crisis was years of excessive spending, particularly on borrowed money, which only years of saving could reverse.

That wasn’t so much the case in Canada, but as a trading nation, Can-ada paid the price when its foreign customers stopped buying what it was selling. They’re still not buying. Ex-ports have actually contracted in the past year and overall, are still below where they were in 2007.

But economists say winds are changing on that front, particularly south of the border, where households have reduced debt and built up their net worth to near pre-slump levels. As well, China, which went through a particularly soft patch this year, is expected to put in a more solid perfor-mance in 2013.

Barring another major setback, those two sources of external strength will help lift Canada’s economy. The question is will it be this year?

MARKET: DragSimilarly, the energy sector sus-

tained a drop of about eight per cent as slowing economic conditions left the world awash in crude oil.

Gold stocks were also a significant drag for the Canadian stock markets as miners contended with higher costs for extracting the previous metal. The TSX’s global gold index fell about 19 per cent.

The financial sector, another major pillar of the TSX, has fared better. It ends 2012 about 13 per cent higher af-ter the six biggest banks posted record profits — roughly $30 billion for 2012 on about $107 billion in revenue, com-pared with $25 billion on $98 billion in revenue in 2011.

But analysts warn that growth in Ca-nadian retail banking, a key strength for the sector over the past several years, will likely slow in 2013 amid re-cord consumer debt levels and a cool-ing housing market.

At the same time, market watchers are confident that U.S. lawmakers will arrive at a framework for avoiding the fiscal crisis by the beginning of 2013 deadline although a comprehensive deal on taxes and spending cuts will likely take longer.

“We’re of the view that there will be some kind of an agreement and at the end of the day, there will be some tax increases and some spending cuts,” said Robert Gorman, chief portfolio strategist at TD Waterhouse.

“So you will end up with fiscal drag, which will to some degree likely reduce growth modestly but won’t go over the proverbial cliff.”

The eurozone will continue to weigh on global markets.

The region’s debt crisis has resulted in recessions for several countries that use the euro as governments in Spain, Greece, Italy and Portugal deliver tough austerity measures.

“For anyone out there that’s ex-pecting a big turnaround in the euro-zone or anything in Europe in 2013, they probably will be disappointed,” said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

“I think it’s going to be a lot more of the same as it relates to Europe and that means slow to no to maybe nega-tive economic growth in the eurozone in 2013.”

Even so, there are some real posi-tives for the TSX this year.

The drag on the U.S. economy cre-ated by whatever agreement lawmak-ers come to will be offset in part by the housing sector, which is expected to finally start making a contribution to economic growth.

“That’s one of the key points,” said Gorman.

He pointed to a huge drop in hous-ing inventories, which are now down to 6.1 months from a high of 12 months at the worst of the downturn.

He also noted that prices are still off around 30 per cent from the peak reached in 2006 and financing is still ultra-low with a 30-year mortgage go-ing for around 3.5 per cent. Inventories are down quite sharply.

“Historically in the U.S. if you look at the history of coming out of reces-sion, housing has historically contrib-uted fully 13 per cent of all US GDP growth,” said Gorman.

“In this cycle, there has been no such contribution and 2013 will be the first of any significance.”

Gorman also said the U.S. economy will benefit from a strengthening auto sector.

China is also expected to be a plus for the TSX resource sector as eco-nomic growth in the world’s second-biggest economy finally started to pick up towards the end of 2012.

Key manufacturing indexes finally moved into expansion territory and there was also positive factory output, retail sales and electricity consump-tion figures.

“All of these things suggest eco-nomic growth could start moving higher as opposed to continuing to slide lower in China, that bodes quite well for the Canadian economy,” Fehr says.

“It also bodes well for commodity prices and the resource sector.”

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$1-B Toyota acceleration settlement cases gets judge’s preliminary OK

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — A U.S. judge gave preliminary approval to a $1 billion-plus settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. in cases involving problems of sudden, unintended acceleration by its vehicles, a plaintiffs’ attorney said.

Attorney Steve Berman said in a statement he was pleased District Judge James V. Selna gave swift initial approval.

Toyota has said the deal, announced Wednesday, will resolve hundreds of lawsuits from motorists who said the value of their Toyota vehicles plum-meted after recalls stemming from claims that the Japanese automaker’s cars and trucks accelerated uninten-tionally.

The preliminary approval means current and former Toyota owners in-cluded in the settlement will receive information through notices expected to be mailed in early March. Informa-tion about the settlement will also be published in newspapers around the country.

Selna plans to hold a fairness hear-ing June 13 to consider granting final approval.

Numerous cases filed since 2009 were consolidated in Selna’s court and divided into two categories: economic loss and wrongful death.

Claims by people who seek com-pensation for injury and death due to sudden acceleration are not part of

the settlement; the first trial involving those suits is scheduled for February.

Toyota has recalled more than 14 million vehicles worldwide due to ac-celeration problems in several models and brake defects with the Prius hy-brid.

A spokeswoman for Toyota Canada said in an email that the settlement ap-plies only to lawsuits filed in the U.S. and to owners and lessees of vehicles intended for sale in the U.S.

Toyota, which has blamed driver er-ror, faulty floor mats and stuck accel-erator pedals for the problems, plans to take a one-time, $1.1 billion pre-tax charge against earnings to cover the estimated costs of the settlement.

Berman has said the total value of the deal is between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion.

Toyota plans to offer cash payments from a pool of about $250 million to eligible customers who sold vehicles or turned in leased vehicles between September 2009 and December 2010.

The company also will provide sup-plemental warranty coverage for cer-tain vehicle components and retrofit about 3.2 million vehicles with a brake override system designed to ensure a car will stop when the brakes are ap-plied, even if the accelerator pedal is depressed.

The settlement would also establish additional driver education programs and fund new research into advanced safety technologies.

Nexen takeover shook upoilpatch, Ottawa in 2012

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Nexen Inc. began 2012 as a troubled oil and gas company struggling to meet its production tar-gets and appease its shareholders.

It ends the year on the brink of be-ing sold to China’s CNOOC Ltd. for $15.1 billion — the Asian superpower’s largest-ever overseas foray.

The transaction reverberated be-yond Nexen’s sleek glass office tower in downtown Calgary, past the pock-etbooks of its investors, all the way to Ottawa.

It forced Prime Minister Stephen Harper to weigh whether foreign state-owned enterprises ought to own Ca-nadian resource companies and, if so, which players are welcome and what extent of control is acceptable.

He ultimately decided that SOEs deserve more scrutiny than private ones, and that the oilsands — the third-biggest reserves on the plant — war-rant greater protection than other re-sources.

“Harper was caught a little flat-footed in the sense that I don’t think he fully understood both the political reaction to the CNOOC bid and that there might be subsequent bids from state-owned companies coming into the Canadian oilsands,” said Queen’s University business professor David Detomasi.

Nexen started 2012 in a rough spot. Marvin Romanow made an abrupt exit as CEO in January. The company’s flag-ship Long Lake oilsands project had yet to come close to producing the vol-ume of crude it was designed to, out-ages at a North Sea offshore platform were causing headaches and Yemen had just booted it out of a major oil project.

Investors’ patience was wearing thin.

It would later be revealed that nego-tiations to sell Nexen to CNOOC began in earnest once Romanow was out the door.

CNOOC was rebuffed twice before Nexen (TSX:NXY), under the leader-ship of interim CEO Kevin Reinhart, accepted its offer.

But winning over Nexen’s board of directors and shareholders would be the least of CNOOC’s challenges.

Gordon Houlden, the head of the University of Alberta’s China Institute, said the subject would not have been so prickly if it had been France or Nor-way bidding for Nexen, and not China.

“Certain state enterprises, certain countries, come with more baggage and China is that because of its size,

because of its internal complexities, its history, its profile,” said Houlden, a former diplomat with postings in Chi-na.

On Dec. 7, the CNOOC-Nexen deal was given Ottawa’s blessing.

So, too, was the $6-billion acqui-sition of Progress Energy Resources Corp. (TSX:PRQ) by Malaysia’s state oil and gas company. That deal would have been relatively uncontrover-sial under ordinary circumstances, but it had the misfortune of being an-nounced right before CNOOC and Nex-en dropped their bombshell this sum-mer.

The approvals came with a key cave-at for future deals — that state control in the oilsands will only be allowed in “exceptional” cases from now on.

The Harper government’s handling of the Nexen-CNOOC file was “reactive in nature,” said Wenran Jiang, a senior fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

It’s a stance Jiang found curious, giv-en that the Conservatives had for years been actively courting Chinese invest-ment — not the other way around.

CNOOC, having been burned by its unsuccessful bid for U.S. energy com-pany Unocal seven years earlier, was getting the signal that perhaps the con-ditions were right to try again.

Instead, Ottawa found itself having to navigate around negative public sen-timent toward Chinese investment that Jiang sees as largely “misinformed.”

“Somehow we’re the boy scout and the Chinese are just coming to invite themselves for dinner and then they’re ready to roll us over,” he said.

“It’s not the case at all. We invited them for dinner. We invited them to come and they bought a big dinner ticket and that’s why they thought they were coming — for a good party.”

By contrast, Jiang praised Liberal leadership candidate Justin Trudeau for arguing in a newspaper column that foreign investment is good for Canada and that the Nexen takeover must go ahead.

It’s an approach Jiang would have liked to have seen from Harper.

“You need to make a passionate, positive and proactive case for China needing energy. There’s nothing sinis-ter about it.”

China is no stranger to Canada’s oil-patch. For the past two decades its companies have been gradually build-ing up their presence through joint-venture deals and small-ish acquisi-tions.

Jiang said it’s hard to argue that their track record has been anything but good.

DILBERT

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Visitors walk around a Toyota showroom in Tokyo, Thursday. Toyota Motor Corp. said it has reached a settlement worth more than $1 billion in a case involving unintended acceleration problems in its vehicles.

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From reports of a Fifty Shades baby boom and Fifty Shades baby clothes, to a Fifty Shades stage spoof and even a Fifty Shades of Chicken cookbook, E. L. James’s erotic novel phenome-non certainly permeated all parts of pop culture in 2012.

And the trend is set to continue well into the new year, with several other authors riding the adult romance wave that swelled in the past year thanks to James’s steamy whips-and-leather-filled trilogy.

“I definitely don’t see this phenomenon slow-ing down. It certainly hasn’t yet,” says Beth Lockley, executive direc-tor of publicity and mar-keting for Penguin Group of Canada.

“It sort of seems al-most hotter than ever in a way.”

“Certainly E. L. James with Fifty Shades ... boost-ed the whole genre and it hasn’t shrunk back down to where it was before, and I’m doubtful it ever will shrink down to be that small again,” notes Nathan Maharaj, direc-tor of merchandising at Kobo.

Lockley points to American author Syl-via Day’s erotic Crossfire series, which became a bestseller for Penguin in the past year. Like Fifty Shades, the trilogy features a 20-something woman who falls in love with a troubled billion-aire.

The first two Crossfire books, Bared to You and Reflected in You, are now on shelves. The third, Entwined with You, is due out in the spring.

“This is a huge, huge book. People were ram-pant for it,” says Lockley

of Reflected in You, not-ing it sold almost 20,000 copies in Canada alone in the first week it hit shelves at the end of Oc-tober.

Other Penguin erotic romance writers stirring up buzz include Maya Banks of Texas, who is gaining traction with her Sweet series and will re-lease Shades of Gray from her KGI series in Janu-ary.

Then there’s a Cana-dian author who writes under the pseudonym Sylvain Reynard and is making headlines with the recently released Gabriel’s Inferno series that Lockley calls “kind of a Fifty Shades comes to Toronto.”

“I think that’s really just gone mainstream, at this point,” Lockley says of the genre. “You look at the bestseller lists and almost the first four or so are erotica or romance fiction.”

Fifty Shades publisher Random House, which was recently able to give every employee a $5,000 bonus thanks in part to the success of James’ se-ries, is now focusing on its February release of S.E.C.R.E.T.

Written by a Canadian erotic fiction writer with the pseudonym L. Ma-rie Adeline, S.E.C.R.E.T. follows a widow who immerses herself in an underground sexual fan-tasy society in New Or-

leans.The story, which has

already sold in at least 17 countries, is also part of a series.

“It’s a bit more about female empowerment than perhaps E. L. James, which was a bit more about a love story spiced with you know what,” says Brad Martin, president and CEO of Random House of Can-ada.

Other romance au-thors leading the charge include Beth Kery and her Because You Are Mine series, and Jennifer Probst with her Marriage to a Billionaire books.

While adult literature has existed for centuries, experts say Fifty Shades

has had a unique effect on the genre for a couple of reasons.

For one thing, the se-ries that began as online fan fiction got a boost from “mommy bloggers” who spread the word, says Maharaj.

Plus, it hit the mar-ket as ebooks became mainstream, allowing readers to enjoy the racy material anonymously in public.“You used to have your erotica in your nightstand and now peo-ple are just like read-ing it wherever they are,

which is fascinating,” says Newfoundland-based writer and poet Leslie Vryenhoek.

The Fifty Shades story setting and book covers were also uniquely con-temporary and discreet.

“It wasn’t like Fabio on the cover. It was a re-ally slick tie, which made it way more acceptable to read,” says Lockley.

“The biggest erotic novel that we’ve seen to date now has no flesh on the cover, and that’s ex-traordinary,” notes Ma-haraj.

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Canuck turns ‘more U.S.’BY CASSANDRA SZKLARSKI

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Canadian-born TV writer An-drew Orenstein had been work-ing in Hollywood for well over a decade by the time he was invited to work on his first Canuck series, but it wasn’t his northern roots that got him the gig.

The veteran writer from 3rd Rock from the Sun and Malcolm in the Middle was tasked with inject-ing “a U.S. feel” into CBC’s newly-wed sitcom 18 to Life, about a teen-age couple and their overbearing parents.

Apparently CBC’s partners at ABC feared the show skewed a little too Canadian.

“The U.S. portion felt that the show, while good, didn’t have a U.S. feel, whatever that is. And so I came up and I executive pro-duced the first 13 (episodes),” says Orenstein, who struggles to define what the difference is.

“Canada seems to have a great history ... of children’s program-ming and sketch comedy and dra-mas. But the sitcoms by-and-large either feel too broad maybe, for U.S. audiences, or too sketchy.

Or fall somewhere in between a dramedy and a comedy. None of which by the way is bad — it’s not a judgment — it’s just, if they wanted us to go on after ’Scrubs,’ it didn’t (work).”

This was back in 2008 at around the time of a bitter Hollywood writers’ strike, he notes, and while opportunities dried up south of the border Orenstein says a new world for writers opened in Can-ada and he fell in love with work-ing in his homeland.

Nearly five years later, he’s bringing his cross-border sensibil-ities to Citytv with Package Deal, about three extremely close broth-ers and the woman who comes be-tween them. Orenstein says it’s based on his own crazy family dy-namics.

It’s one of several new home-grown series joining the winter lineups, along with CTV’s new de-tective series Motive, CBC’s crime drama Cracked and Citytv’s com-edy Seed.

Package Deal is notable for be-ing a multi-camera show shot in front of a live studio audience — a uniquely American format little seen in Canadian television since the ’70s laugher King of Kensing-

ton. As its name implies, the style employs more than one camera to cover several angles as a scene plays out, in this case on a Van-couver soundstage. Notable U.S. examples include The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men.

That’s opposed to the single-camera format of Mr. D and Mod-ern Family, where only one cam-era is used and there is a greater variety of off-set locations.

“It’s very, very specific,” Orenstein says of the multi-cam style.

Multi-cam shows were the stan-dard through the ’80s but fell out of favour in the past decade as single camera shows like The Of-fice, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Modern Family took over.

But he struggles to answer whether he thinks the series has that “U.S. feel.”

“I didn’t set out to do an Ameri-can show or a Canadian show,” he says.

“This is a show I always want-ed to do because it’s personal to me and I find it honest and ob-servational and real. And I think it would work in any country, I hope.”

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Andrew Orenstein had been working in Hollywood for well over a decade by the time he was invited to work on his first Canuck series, but it wasn’t his northern roots that got him the gig.

CITYTV TURNS TO HOMEGROWN U.S.-STYLE COMEDY FOR 2013 LINEUP

Authors to continue ‘Shades’ erotic fiction trend in 2013

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Monday, December 31

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Val Kilmer, 53; Ben King-sley, 69; Anthony Hopkins, 75

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Mercury finally enters the ambitious sign of Capricorn. Our minds will be focused and strategically in-clined. Beauty and love matters, both governed by Venus, are both challenged by the warrior planet, Mars. When these two planets do not meet eye-to-eye, our sense of value might encounter some struggle. Later today, the Moon in Leo will glide smoothly along with Venus. Recep-tiveness will help us keep conflicting interests to the minimum making sure we all live in a peaceful place. Happy New Year’s Eve!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, greater intimacy and ful-filment can be reached through close romantic relationships. Love will not al-ways be evident or demonstrative, but can be felt in most meaningful ways. It will most likely manifest itself in deep spiritual ways.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your need to expose your mind to new pos-sibilities can seem limited at times. But, good fortune will ensure to wipe off that perception and free your spirits to new opportunities which will be introduced to you. Did someone say there was a party?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do not let professional commit-ments or responsibilities create some tension to your flow of the day. Besides, you are in too much of a good mood to let anything become an impediment to your happiness. Home is where you will find joy.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Engaging in diverse interactions will make you feel that you are living in a peaceful, nurturing environ-ment. Reach to others and share your thoughts, ideas and concerns. You will be amazed how much support and gratitude you get.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You may be the one dealing with all the chores at hand while others are playing around. You don’t mind being the entertainer of such gatherings; you actually end up playing the host ensuring you meet everyone’s expectation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): High productivity and efficiency are on your agenda today. Whatever you decide to complete today, no small detail will be missed. Your vitality keeps on boosting and fun-loving activities or a new blossoming romance seems to thrill you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Children can be your source of ex-

citement today. It is also possible that at this time, it is much easier for you to let out some hidden part of you and convey your concerns into words. Clarity within your emotions and deep reflections will pre-vail deeply within your psyche.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your source of nurture and enlighten-ment derives from aligning with individuals who share your visions for the future. It is imperative to you to have continuous respect and mutual receptivity from your peers. Acceptance within your circle is highly sought after.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your concentration powers are rock-solid. The need for public recognition and profitable gains from other sources are pointing towards a valuable accord that can be life-changing. It is also possible that news of a great magnitude will direct you towards a new pathway.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your situation at home might not be lucid; however, a stream of ideas and a number of unantici-pated news will stimulate you into expanding your horizons to whole new levels. Exhilaration is highly emphasized in your agenda.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You aim high and you know without a doubt where you are headed. You seek comfort within your private space and a secret lover can offer you much fulfilment and in-ner peace right now. Privacy appeals to you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You will be astounded at how much appreciation and validation you can get from your closest peo-ple in your life. Relating to others seems so natural to you. You know they are your main source of love and joy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Household tasks remind you that it your duty to accomplish them. At the same time, your public receives you well and your presence is welcomed among their circle. You are more liberal and approachable at this time.

Tuesday, January 1

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Morris Cahestnut, 44; Carlos Gomez, 51; Frank Langella, 75

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Happy New Year! As a new cycle un-folds, Mercury welcomes Neptune to its kingdom and when these two are in harmony, wisdom can manifest in most subtle, intuitive kind of ways. The sky sends us a special celestial secret. Subconscious messages will be easily deciphered by our keenly attuned extrasen-sory abilities.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, in the year ahead, you will make a detailed analysis of your daily habits and regime. It will ask of you to take a close look at your eating habits and you might decide to enrol in a new fitness routine. You will dedicate your-self entirely into improving the quality of your lifestyle.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It is time to clean that mess behind and do some sorting out of your today’s tasks. Even though it’s a New Year, obligations remind you of what has to be done. It’s all about the basics and it’s time for routine work.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re still in the mood to party and

enjoy some well-deserved fun. You are feeling invigorated and full of life. You need to show off your artsy side in order to feel totally your-self. Go ahead, dare to reveal your creativity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You possess a special talent which enables you to guess people’s intentions. A non apparent light may be shed on your destined path. Suddenly, you find yourself guided by telepathic vibes that assist in guiding you towards the right path.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Stay well planted on both your feet and don’t let your daydreaming drag you away from amazing ener-gies that are in store for you today. Key relationships will go extreme-ly well today and you will share deep feelings for each other.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Material comforts will bring you a great fulfillment and a sense of security. Your energy levels are benefiting from a balance between your inner needs and your core identity. You are in your element today and this helps you carry on with ongoing tasks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There’s a certain telepathy that you and your partner experience now. Your antennae seem to be well hooked into each other’s. Isn’t it a wonderful feeling when sometimes words are better off left unspoken and you can still manage to be on the same wavelength?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You find a need to clear out past ac-tions and sort things through. You need to do some psychic cleansing and improvements. All in all, you know that this is all working towards enhancing your own happiness and building a stronger, more solid foundation from scratch.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You aspire for a future that will nourish both your structured ideas, as well as your materialistic needs such as making new purchases or acquisitions. You believe that these possessions will contribute towards a higher level of comfort.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are not certain which way to go from here. You are feeling stuck or simply misguided. Your call-ing is your main concern right now, but domestic matters seem to be incomprehensible. Luckily, your daredevil spirit can get you out of this temporary confusion.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You might feel misunderstood or not finding on the same boat as others. You seem bewildered by this momentary, yet revealing information you are receiving. Deep down inside, you are aware of all the support you can get from your loved ones.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Private talks and secret nego-tiations are primordial for a well-structured understanding. Right now, you crave closure with a special someone and you feel that you need to take care of their most intimate concerns.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Leave the tedious life behind and invite yourself into the world of art and music. Artistry of all types ap-peals to you greatly. You have an innate knack for synthesizing what your peers are trying to convey to you and your senses hold much spiritual insights.

Astro Doyna — Internationally Syndicated Astrologer/Columnist.

Dear Annie: My husband and I lived with a very dys-functional situation for several years. His children from a prior marriage were encouraged by their mother to tell false-hoods about our home life. She was planning to leave the state and needed full custody in order to take them, and she ultimately accomplished this.

We went to counsel-ing and considered le-gal action, but realized that even if we won, we no longer agreed on how to parent these kids. The constant discord did some damage to our mar-riage. My husband put up with a lot of nastiness as long as the kids would see him. I tried to help, but couldn’t tolerate their continuing dishon-esty and disrespect. The kids eventually devel-oped problems in their personal lives, school and jobs. Slowly, my hus-band rebuilt a relation-ship with them, but in do-ing so, he allowed me to be viewed as the enemy. I stopped being included in family plans.

Now his ex-wife and grown children treat my husband as if he is single. The holidays are fine, since the grown children spend them with their mother, and my husband spends his with our little family. However, he at-tends his children’s grad-uations, weddings and birthdays without me.

I love my husband. He is happy with us and lets us know. Most of all, he thanks us for allow-ing him to be a normal parent. He has his adult children in his life and sees them once or twice a year, but the situation is becoming increasing-ly untenable to me. I no longer know what line to draw. Where do we go from here? -- The Second Wife

Dear Second: Actually, the line was drawn some time ago: Your husband attends his grown chil-dren’s functions without you. This is not ideal, but it also doesn’t have to be cause for constant mis-ery. It would show tre-mendous grace for you to tell your husband to go and spend time with his adult children, without any residual bitterness on your part. It’s only once or twice a year, and we suspect Hubby would be enormously grateful.

Dear Annie: My hus-band, whom I love, has sleep apnea, snores loud-ly and refuses to wear a CPAP. He also won’t see his doctor about alterna-tives. How am I supposed to get any sleep? I need my rest. -- Tired in Ne-braska

Dear Tired: We trust your husband is aware of the severe health risks of having untreated sleep apnea. However, you cannot force him to do anything about it, so we recommend that you in-vest in earplugs or that one of you sleep in an-other room.

Dear Annie: I’m re-sponding to “Want My Husband Back,” whose

married life turned to hell when her husband retired.

When I married my wife, I was very sports minded and adventurous with several hobbies. My wife was not interested in those

things. I managed to teach her cribbage, but that was about

it. Now, we are both retired and work part time a couple of days a week. I started to explore some “on the edge” sports, and I forgot about her. After she called me on the car-pet about it, I realized she had a point. All of my activities were directed toward me, and she was on the outside.

We decided on a course

adjustment, and now I’m en-joying the opera while she is learning about extreme sports. She has even expressed some interest in trying one. The best part is, we’re together so much more often that it’s like we went back in time 45 years. And our private time together has really improved.

We have an agenda every

day, even when we work. So my advice for retired couples is to call a timeout, make some adjustments and have fun. -- Enjoying Retirement in New England

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BRYSON1965 - 2012Michelle Denyse Bryson of Trochu passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Sunday, December 23, 2012 at the age of 47 years after a courageous battle with cancer. Michelle was born in Portage Le Prairie on March 14, 1965. She was of a military family and spent time in Winnipeg, Ottawa and Cold Lake. Michelle spent 15 years working at 4 Wing Cold Lake at Roads and Grounds and last worked for The City of Red Deer for Parks and Recreation for four years. M iche l l e w i l l be deep ly missed by her husband Donald Paige; mother Theresa Ethier; grandmother Wynn Ledieu; father Marcel Ethier and her sisters Danielle Ethier and Chantal Ethier. Also to cherish Michelle’s memory are her stepdaughters Linette Paige, Amanda Paige, Danielle Paige, Breanne Hill, Brittney Lucier a n d B e c k y M a c D o n a l d ; grandchildren Isaac George, Reagan George and Olivia Cataford and her uncles Gerald Gibney, Thomas (Brenda) Gibney and Robert Gibney. Michelle was predeceased by her grandfather Fred Ledeu. In fo l lowing wi th Michelle’s wishes, cremation has taken place and no service w i l l b e h e l d . M e m o r i a l donations in Michelle’s honor may be directed to the Central Alberta Cancer Centre (Patient Care), P.O. Bag 5030, Red Deer, AB T4N 4E7.

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METROSteven Frank (Blackie)Steve passed away suddenly, at home, in the early morning of December 24, 2012. Born the oldest child of Frank and Jeannette (Krovak) on February 26, 1957, he is survived by his love Crystal Seminuk; his sons Cambell and Cory (Kaysha); grandchildren Raegan, Casha, Steven and Asher, and a new baby girl, expected soon; and his siblings David (Karen), Allen (Vicki) and Lorna (Johnny) and Virginia. His memory will also be cherished by many relatives and friends, including h is n ieces and nephews whom he loved dearly. He was predeceased by his parents and brother Dwayne. Steve spent much of his early working life on the drilling rigs, tried his hand as an electrician and until his passing was with Alken Drilling as a Water Well Technician. He spent his free time as an avid fan of the Bentley Generals. An informal memorial and lunch will be held at Bentley AG Centre at 11 a.m., on Wednesday, January 2, 2013. Please join his family and friends for sharing of memories. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the Bentley Fire Department. Cremation has taken place. Wherever he found himself in the world he was never t ruly at home unless in the Blindman Valley. Hold everything; “Heaven just got a little darker.”

Obituaries

ENGENDarius Antony1975 - 2012It is with great sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of Darius Antony Engen of R e d D e e r o n Tu e s d a y, December 25, 2012 at the age of 37 years. Dar ius was born and raised in the Edmonton area until 1987, when he moved with his family to Williams Lake, British Columbia. He then moved t o R e d D e e r w h e r e h e a t t ended the Red Deer C o l l e g e a n d b e c a m e a journeyman mechanic, later moving into the oilfield industry and becoming a supervisor. Darius enjoyed cooking and mastering the BBQ, and was a great friend who was always there to lend a helping hand. He also enjoyed being with his children, Logan and Kayla, to whom he was a very loving father. He is survived by his wife; Erika Engen, son; Logan Engen, and daughter; Kayla Engen. He is also survived by his parents; Glen and Fay Engen, sister; Cindy (Al) Novakowski, grandmother; Margaret Lavallee, niece; Kennedy, nephews; Austin and Ben jamin and bes t f r iend; Jon (Toni ) Haley along with numerous close f r iends. A celebrat ion of Darius’ life will be held at Park land Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer on Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. with interment to follow at Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer. Memorial contributions may be made in t rust to Darius’ children; Logan and Kayla through any branch of Servus Credit Union.

Condolences may besent or viewed at

www.parklandfuneralhome.comArrangements in care of

Joelle Valliere,Funeral Director at

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In MemoriamDOLORES TODJune 29, 1934 - Jan. 1, 2008

Love lives on forever,It will never fade away,

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Start your career!See Help Wanted

Misc.Help 880

ADULT or YOUTHCARRIERS NEEDED

For delivery of Flyers, Express and

Sunday Life in

DEER PARKDempsey St. area

$45.00/mo.ALSO

Dempsey St. Dumas Crsc. & Duffy Close area

$88.00/mo.ALSO

Duston St. Donnelly Crsc., area

Densmore Crs. Dale Close

$270.00/mo.ALSO

Doran Crsc.Dunn Close$50.00 /mo.

ALSO Doran Crsc.,

Doan Ave. area$53.00/mo.

LANCASTERLenon Close, Lacey Close, Landry Bend

area $76/mo.ALSO

Logan Close Lee St. &

Lawrence Crsc. area $158/mo.

MICHENERWest of 40th Ave.North of Ross St.

area$245.00/mo.

Good for adult w/a small car

ALSO East of 40th

North of Ross St. Michener Green

Cresc. area.$268/mo.

Good for adult with small car.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

Celebrate your lifewith a Classified

ANNOUNCEMENT

You can sell your guitar for a song...

or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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Misc.Help 880

ADULT & Youth Carrier Needed

For Delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday

Life in

RIVERSIDE MEADOWS

57, 58 & 58A ST& 58 AVE.

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

for delivery of Flyers

Red Deer Express& Red Deer

Life Sunday in

MOUNTVIEWWEST LAKEWEST PARK

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

for early morning delivery of

Red Deer Advocate6 days per week in

EASTVIEW100 ADVOCATE

$525/MO.$6300/YR

2 HRS./DAY

GRANDVIEW75 Advocate$393/month

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Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

For delivery of Red Deer Advocate

by 6:30 a.m. Mon. through Fri. & 8:00. .am. on

Saturday in

LANCASTER AREA

77 papers$412/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA72 papers$386/mo.

DEER PARKDempsey St. area

79 papers$423/mo.

ALSO Davison Dr. area

101 papers$541/mo.

ALSOClearview RidgeTimberlands area

59 papers$376/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the

Central AB. Life in the towns of

Blackfalds Lacombe PonokaStettler

Call Rick at 403-314-4303

DISPATCHER req’d. Knowledge of Red Deer

and area is essential. Good communication,

skills both verbal and writ-ten. Must have effective time management skills

and able to multi task in a fast paced environment.

Experience preferred, but will train suitable applicant.

Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

Something for EveryoneEveryday in Classifieds

Misc.Help 880

CARRIERS NEEDEDFOR FLYERS,

RED DEER SUNDAY LIFEAND EXPRESS

ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

Adams Close/

Adair Ave.

BOWER AREA

Baile Cl. /Boyce St.Beatty Crs./Barrett

Dr.Brown Cl./Baird StBarrett Dr./Baird St

INGLEWOOD AREA

Isbister CloseIssard Close

LANCASTER AREA

Lancaster DriveLindsay Ave.

Lagrange Crsc

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Scott St./Somerset Close.

Sunnyside Crsc.

VANIER AREA

Viscount Dr./Voisin Crsc

Call Prodie @403- 314-4301 for more info

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314-4300

CIRCULATION Service Runner

(Part Time)

Do You:- Want extra income- Possess a clean, valid drivers license- Have a friendly attitude- Enjoy customer service- Want part-time work (12 to 22 hours per week)

As part of our customer service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliv-ery newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle is pro-vided.Hours of shifts are Monday through Friday 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. or longer, and/or afternoon shifts Monday to Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.. Saturday and Sunday, 7 a.m.-11 a.m. or longer

Submit resume, indicating “Service Runner Position”,

along with your drivers abstract immediately to:

[email protected]

or mail to:Human Resources

2950 Bremner AvenueRed Deer, AB. T4N 5G3or fax to: 403-341-4772

We thank all applicants for their interest, however,

only selected candidates will be contacted.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS

REQUIRED forAfternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail

Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@

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WHOLESALE FIREPLACE Sub-contract installers

req’d for fireplace installa-tions( possible $50/hr.+) Call John 780-993-2040

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS

REQUIRED for

In Town of TrochuMorning Delivery1 hour per day

6 days per weekNo collectionNo Sundays

The Town of OldsNo collecting!

Packages come ready for delivery!

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Also afternoon delivery in

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CLASSIFICATIONS1500-1990

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stuff

Auctions 1530Bud Haynes &

Co. AuctioneersCertified Appraisers 1966

Estates, Antiques,Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave.347-5855

Equipment-Heavy 1630TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or

storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Farmers'Market 1650

FREE range naturally raised turkey, gov’t. inspected, skinless,

boneless turkey breast $5.99/lb, turkey breast steaks $5.99/lb, ground

turkey $5.99/lb, drumsticks avail. $10/pkg. Germane Market Gardens,

Gail 403-843-6864

Firewood 1660BIRCH or Pine 347-7211

bluegrassnursery.com

EmploymentTraining 900

Firewood 1660AFFORDABLE

Homestead FirewoodSpruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver

1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. /

del. Lyle 403-783-2275

HouseholdAppliances 1710APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances

403-342-1042

HouseholdFurnishings17202- 20” TV’S $15 EACH, Toshiba 27” $25; Royal blue arm chair, $25; single bed, oak frame and mat-t r e s s , a s n e w $ 7 5 ; 403-346-2859 dble. bed and mattress 1 yr old only $25; loveseat floral pattern $65; ken-more 14.7 L, humidifier $45 replacement $170; 403-346-2859

BED ALL NEW, Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

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new, never used. 15 yr. warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice

@ $545. 403-302-0582.

DBLE. bed and mattress 1 yr old only $25; loveseat floral pattern $65; Ken-more 14.7 L, humidifier $45 replacement $170; SOLD

WANTEDAntiques, furniture and

estates. 342-2514

Misc. forSale 1760FUR coat, muskrat, long, size 10-12 ladies, very god cond, $150 403-346-0093

Cats 1830HOUSE cat to give away, declawed front paws, call 403-728-3151

SIAMESEALSO BELINESE

(3) KITTENS FOR SALE$60 each obo.403-887-3649

Dogs 1840 HUSKY WOLF PUPS!! 1st shots, yr. gaurantee.403-506-3395, 749-2924

TravelPackages 1900

TRAVEL ALBERTAAlberta offers SOMETHINGfor everyone.

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AGRICULTURALCLASSIFICATIONS

2000-2290

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

SAVANNA OFFERS EMPLOYEES

2535

29G21

,22

OPPORTUNITIES FOR:Rig Managers

OperatorsDerrick Hands

FloorhandsBoiler HandsEntry Level

We Welcome Full Crews!(referral incentives)

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:- Concrete Finishers- Carpenters/WoodworkersTop Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www.eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: [email protected].

is expanding its facility to double production.

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for our office in Rocky Mountain House.

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Please e-mail resumes to:

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FROM START TO FINISH

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TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300ASSOCIATIONS

www.centralalbertahomebuilders.comCentral AB Home Builders 403-346-5321

www.reddeer.cmha.ab.caCanadian Mental Health Assoc.

www.realcamping.caLOVE camping and outdoors?

www.diabetes.caCanadian Diabetes Assoc.

www.mycommunityinformation.com/cawos/index.html

www.reddeerchamber.comChamber of Commerce 403-347-4491

BALLOON RIDESwww.air-ristocrat.com

Gary 403-302-7167

BUILDERSwww.fantahomes.com

403-343-1083 or 403-588-9788

www.masonmartinhomes.comMason Martin Homes 403-342-4544

www.truelinehomes.comTrue Line Homes 403-341-5933

www.jaradcharles.comBUILDER M.L.S

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www.albertanewhomes.comStevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIESwww.ultralife.bulidingonabudjet.com

MLM’ers attract new leads for FREE!

CLUBS & GROUPSwww.writers-ink.net

Club for writers - meets weekly

COMPUTER REPAIRwww.albertacomputerhygiene.com

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HEALTH & FITNESS www.antlerhillelkranch.com

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PET ADOPTIONwww.reddeerspca.com

Many Pets to Choose From

REAL ESTATEwww.homesreddeer.com

Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

RENTALSwww.homefinders.caPhone 403-340-3333

www.lonsdalegreen.com

Lonsdale Green Apartments

SHOPPINGwww.fhtmca.com/derekwiensOnline Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONSwww.radkeoutfitting.com

AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

WEB DESIGN affordablewebsitesolution.ca

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

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Horses 2140WANTED: all types of

horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

CLASSIFICATIONSFOR RENT • 3000-3200WANTED • 3250-3390

wegot

rentals

Acreages/Farms 3010EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW

ON ACREAGE IN RED DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 bath, rent $2000 + DD avail. Mar. 1, 403-346-5885

Condos/Townhouses3030

32 HOLMES ST. 1 1/2 blocks west of mall, 3 bdrm. bi-level, blinds, lg. balcony, 4 appls, no pets, n/s, rent $1195 SD $1000

Avail. Feb. 1 403-304-7576 or 347-7545

HALMAN Heights3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, no pets, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 avail. Jan 2

403-304-7576 or 347-7545

KITSON CLOSEnewer exec. 3 bdrm.

bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking,

no dogs, rent $1395SD $1000. n/s Avail.immed. & 2 for Jan. 2

403-304-7576 / 347-7545

Kyte/Kelloway Cres.Lovely 3 level exec. 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath,

concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000

Avail. Jan. 2 403-304-7576 or 347-7545

SOUTHWOOD PARK3110-47TH Avenue,

2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses,generously sized, 1 1/2

baths, fenced yards,full bsmts. 403-347-7473,

Sorry no pets.www.greatapartments.ca

Riverfront EstatesDeluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, bi-level townhouse, 5 appls,

blinds, large balcony,no pets, n/s, $1195

or $1220 along the river.SD $1000. avail.

Jan. 2 403-304-7576 347-7545

ManufacturedHomes 3040

ManufacturedHomes 3040Newly Reno’d MobileFREE Shaw Cable + more

$899/monthSharon 403-550-8777

Suites 30601 BDRM. apt. avail. Jan. 1

$750 plus power, 403-872-3400

2 BDRM. adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet,

lrg. suite, Avail Jan. 15$850/mo., S.D. $650.

Call 403-304-5337

GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, 1 BDRM., $740, N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed..

1-403-200-8175

LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

OPPOSITE HOSPITALLarge 2 bdrm. apt., balconyNo pets. $775. avail. Jan. 1.

403-346-5885

SUITES FOR RENT -THREE HILLS

Affordable housing for low income, single adults of

any age, F/S, water/sewer included. $400/mo, $400 DD.Further information & applications available at

www.studiosalberta.com orby calling 1-888-963-5698

RoommatesWanted 3080QUITE, very nice 2 bdrm condo. N/S working M. $525, $500 s.d. 403-986-3165

RoomsFor Rent 3090ROOM $600. Blackfalds. All incld’d, furn. 588-2564

ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & utils incl. 403-304-6436

MobileLot 3190

LACOMBE new park,animal friendly. Your mobile

or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.Excellent 1st time home

buyers. 403-588-8820

MOBILE HOME PAD, inRed Deer Close to Gaetz,

2 car park, Shaw cable incl.Sharon 403-550-8777

CLASSIFICATIONS4000-4190

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homes

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HousesFor Sale 4020

FREE Weekly list ofproperties for sale w/details,

prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355Help-U-Sell of Red Deerwww.homesreddeer.com

Acreages 4050

7 ACRES, all utilities, road, quonset, greenhouse, antique

home $353,000. 20 min.to Red Deer, great for horses, 403-227-5132

Farms/Land 4070

Red Deer Land For Salebelow appraisal!!! check it out on kijiji

ID# 440913568ID# 440917484

or phone403 345 5250

ManufacturedHomes 4090

MUST SELLBy Owner $7,000.

Sharon 403-340-0225

Cottages/ResortProperty 4130KIMBERLY ski hill condo 1/8 title share, offers at $28,000, 6 or 7 weeks per year, pre-selected in early fall for following yr, condo fees, utils, and taxes incld. for 2013. 403-227-1603 or 357-2491

Lots For Sale 4160

FULLY SERVICEDres & duplex lots in Lacombe.

Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or

subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great

returns. Call 403-588-8820

CLASSIFICATIONS5000-5300

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wheels

Cars 5030

2011 CADILLAC CTS 4 AWDCoupe nav full load, 1 owner 53,000 km $39,888Sport & Import 348-8788

Cars 5030

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has relocated to

Trucks 5050

2011 GMC SIERRA 1500SLT 4X4, sunroof, htd. lthr., 61,557 kms $33,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 GMC 3500 HD 4x4Duramax Dually, leathernav dvd 54,000 km $49,888Sport & Import 348-8788

1997 CHEV 1/2 ton. Nice, lots of extras. Sitting in storage.

Must sell. $3500 obo. 587-877-3744

AutoWreckers 5190RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

VehiclesWantedTo Buy 5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal

removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519

REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for

complete cars. 304-7585

WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to

buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

Sharon (403) 340-0225www.lansdowne.ca

Newly Renovated

Only $20,000with Intro

$400/month lot Rent incl. Cable

Mobile Homewith Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

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274500L1-31

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2 & 3 bedroom modular/mobile homes

in pet friendly park

FREE Cable

2744

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Renter’s Special

Starting at

$849/month

Accounting 1010INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.

with oilfield service companies, other small

businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors 1100BRIAN’S DRYWALL

Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings,

36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

COUNTERTOPSWes Wiebe 403-302-1648

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

Escorts 1165EDEN

587-877-7399 10am-midnight

EROTICAS PLAYMATESGirls of all ages 598-3049

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Escorts 1165LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY*INDEPENDENT w/own car

HandymanServices 1200

BUSY B’S HANDYMANSERVICES LTD.

Res/Comm.Reno’s, repairand more. Give us a buzz

@ 403-598-3857Free quotes. WCB, insured.

MassageTherapy 1280

Gentle Touch Massage4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445

LINDA’S CHINESE MAS-SAGE Grand Opening #3 4820-47 Ave. 403-986-1550

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME

4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

TRADITIONAL CHINESE MASSAGE, new girls, 4606 48 Ave. Open 7

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MassageTherapy 1280

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#7 7464 Gaetz Ave.(rear entrance if necessary)www.viimassage.biz

In/Out Calls to Hotels. Open New Years Eve and

New Years Day 403-986-6686

Misc.Services 12905* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

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FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal. No household appliances

403-396-8629

Tired of Standing?Find something to sit on

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Misc.Services 1290

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up

scrap again! Farm machin-ery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta. 403-318-4346

Seniors’Services 1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small reno’s or jobs, such as, new bathroom

sink, toilets or safety bars in bath tubs. Call James

403- 341-0617

HELPING HANDSFor Seniors. Cleaning,

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Brazilian authorities struggling to keep crack off the streets

BY JULIANA BARBASSA

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Bo-bo has a method: Cocaine gets him through the day, when he cruises with a wheelbarrow around a slum on Rio’s west side, sorting through trash for re-cyclables to sell. At night, he turns the day’s profit into crack.

“Sometimes I don’t sleep at all; I’m up 24 hours,” says Bobo, a former sol-dier who doesn’t use his given name for safety reasons. “I work to support my addiction, but I only use crack at night. That drug takes my mind away. I lose all notion of what I’m doing.”

Bobo says balancing crack with co-caine keeps him working and sane. On the shantytown’s streets, life can be hell: Addicts unable to strike Bobo’s precarious balance use crack day and night, begging, stealing, prostituting themselves, and picking through trash to make enough for the next hit. For them, there’s no going home, no job, nothing but the drug.

With a boom in crack use over the past decade, Brazilian authorities are struggling to stop the drug’s spread, sparking a debate over the legality and efficiency of forcibly interning users. Brazil today is the world’s largest con-sumer of both cocaine and its crack derivative, according to the Federal University of Sao Paolo. About 6 mil-lion adults, or 3 per cent of Brazilians, have tried cocaine in some form.

Rio de Janeiro has taken the lead in trying to help the burgeoning number of users with an approach that city leaders call proactive, but critics pan as unnecessarily aggressive. As of May 2011, users living in the streets have been scooped up in pre-dawn raids by teams led by the city’s welfare depart-ment in conjunction with police and health care workers. By Dec. 5, 582 people had been picked up, including 734 children.

The sight is gut-wrenching. While some people go meekly, many fight, cry, scream out in desperation in their altered states. Once they’re gone, their ratty mattresses, pans, sweaters and few other possessions are swept up by a garbage removal company.

Adults can’t be forced to stay in treatment, and most leave the shelters within three days. But children are kept in treatment against their will or returned to parents if they have a fam-ily. In December, 119 children were being held in specialized treatment units.

Demand for crack has boomed in recent years and open-air “cracolan-dias,” or “crack lands,” popped up in the urban centres of Rio and Sao Pau-lo, with hundreds of users gathering to smoke the drug. The federal gov-ernment announced in early 2012 that more than $2 billion would be spent

to fight the epidemic, allotting money to train health care workers, buy thou-sands of hospital and shelter beds, and create transitional centres for recover-ing users.

Mobile street units stationed near cracolandias are among the most im-portant and visible aspects of the gov-ernment’s approach. The units, housed in metal containers, bring doctors, nurses, therapists and social workers to the areas where users concentrate. Slowly, by offering health care and other help, the units’ workers gain the trust of users and refer them to treat-ment centres.

Studies suggest the approach can work: 47 per cent of the crack users surveyed in Sao Paulo said they’d wel-come treatment, according to the Fed-eral University of Sao Paulo study.

Ethel Vieira, a psychologist on the raid team, thinks their persistence is paying off.

“Initially, they’d run away, react ag-gressively, throw rocks,” she said of users. “Now most of them understand our intention is to help, to give them a chance to leave the street and to con-nect with the public health network.”

Human rights groups object to the forced commitment of children, saying treatment delivered against the will of patients is ineffective. They also op-pose the sweeps, which they describe as violent.

“There are legal procedures that must be followed and that are not be-ing followed. This goes against the law and is unconstitutional,” Marga-rida Pressburguer, head of the Hu-man Rights Commission for Brazil’s Association of Attorneys, said during a debate last year.

Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes suggested in October that the city would start forcing adults into treatment. “A crack addict isn’t capable of making deci-sions,” Paes said from the Jacarezinho shantytown in the week after police stormed the area and seized control of what was then Rio’s largest cracol-andia.

The Rio state Attorney General’s Of-fice responded by telling city officials “the compulsory removal of adults liv-ing in the streets has no legal founda-tion.” It said adults can be committed only when they become a danger to themselves or others and outpatient treatment options have run out.

“They give us a place to sleep, food, clothes, everything,” said Bobo. “I’ve been picked up by the city and I liked it. They are doing this for our good.”

But even as Bobo endorsed the city’s approach, a friend was stepping over to the drug stand for more cocaine. Bobo asked for $5 worth of drugs — cocaine for now, crack for later. Then he rolled up a bill and dumped a small mound of white powder in his palm for snorting.

With a nose full of cocaine, he set off, ready for another day.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this photo taken Dec. 21, former soldier Bobo smokes crack in his home at a slum in western Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Bobo spends his day sorting through trash for recyclables to sell. At night, he turns the day’s profit into crack. With a boom in crack use over the past decade, Brazilian authorities are struggling to help such users and stop the drug’s spread, sparking a debate over the legality and efficiency of forcibly interning users.

DEBATE SURGES OVER THE USE OF FORCED COMMITMENT AS ADDICTION NUMBERS SOAR

Nine dead in Oregon tour bus crashTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LA GRANDE, Ore. — A tour bus careened through a guardrail on an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down an embankment Sunday, killing nine peo-ple and injuring about 20 others, authorities said.

The charter bus carry-ing about 40 people lost control around 10:30 a.m. on the snow- and ice-cov-ered lanes of Interstate

84 in eastern Oregon, according to the Oregon State Police.

Lt. Greg Hastings said the accident happened on the west end of the Blue Mountains, and west of an area called “Deadman Pass,” where stretches of the highway tend to be icy in winter months.

I-84 is a major east-west highway through Oregon that follows the Columbia River Gorge.

Police did not say

where the vehicle was

travelling to or from, or

information on the com-

pany that owns the bus.

Rescue workers were

using ropes to help re-

trieve people from the

crash scene.

The bus crash was the

second fatal accident in

Oregon on Sunday morn-

ing.

A 69-year-old man

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BEIRUT — The international envoy seeking to end Syria’s civil war warned Sunday that the failure of the govern-ment and the rebels to pursue a politi-cal solution could lead to the ``full col-lapse of the Syrian state’’ and threaten the world’s security.

Lakhdar Brahimi, who represents the United Nations and the Arab League, said that as many as 100,000 people could be killed in the next year as Syria moves toward ``Somalization’’ and rule by warlords.

Brahimi has reported little progress in his mission to push forward a peace plan for Syria first presented in June at an international conference in Ge-neva. The proposal calls for an open-ended cease-fire and the formation of a transitional government to run the country until new elections can be held and a new constitution drafted.

But so far, neither the regime of President Bashar Assad nor the scores of rebels groups fighting his forces across the country have shown any in-terest in negotiations.

The rebels’ political leadership has called Assad’s departure a prerequi-site for any political solution, and it is unlikely that the opposition’s National Coalition could even stop rebels on the ground from continuing to fight.

Likewise, it is doubtful that top members of Assad’s regime will volun-tarily give up power.

The Syrian government has re-mained officially mum on Brahimi’s plan, which he has pushed in the past

week in meetings with Assad in Da-mascus, with top Russian officials in Moscow and on Sunday with the head of the Arab League in Cairo.

Speaking alongside Nabil Elaraby on Sunday, he estimated that 100,000 people could be killed if the 21-month conflict continues for another year.

``Peace and security in the world will be threatened directly from Syria if there is no solution within the next few months,’’ he said. ``The alterna-tives are a political solution or the full collapse of the Syrian state.’’

Since meeting Assad early last week, Brahimi has given no indica-tion how his plan was received. When asked Sunday if there is any willing-ness among the opposition to enter a political process, Brahimi said, ``No, there isn’t. This is the problem.’’

Syria’s crisis began in March 2011 with political protests against Assad. The conflict has since evolved into a civil war. Anti-regime activists say more than 45,000 people have been killed.

The Syria government does not give death tolls for the conflict and says the rebels are terrorists backed by foreign powers who seek to destroy the coun-try.

The Syrian conflict has split world powers, with the United States, Turkey and many European and Arab states calling for Assad to stand down. Rus-sia, China and Iran have stood by the regime and criticized calls for Assad’s ouster.

On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Syrian refugees along Turkey’s southern bor-der, where he was joined by Mouaz al-Khatib, head of Syria’s National Co-alition.

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BANGUI — The lead-er of the African Union, Benin’s President Thom-as Boni Yayi, has pro-posed a government of national unity to resolve the rebel conflict in Cen-tral African Republic.

Boni Yayi arrived here Sunday to try to find a negotiated resolu-tion to the country’s cri-sis. The president of the African Union met with President Francois Boz-ize and then made an ap-peal to the rebels.

``I beg my rebellious brothers, I ask them to cease hostilities, to make peace with Presi-dent (Francois) Bozize and the Central African people,’’ said Boni Yayi at a press conference in Bangui, the capital. ``If you stop fighting, you are helping to consolidate peace in Africa. African people do not deserve all this suffering. The African continent needs peace and not war.’’

Boni Yayi said that Bozize had pledged to have an open dialogue with the rebels with the goal of establishing a government of national unity, which would in-clude representation from the rebels and the Bozize government.

Bozize also addressed the conference and said, although he plans to stay in power until his term ends in 2016, he is not against having the rebels enter a coalition govern-ment with him.

``We’ll probably be able to set up a nation-al unity government. I apologize to the suffer-ing Central African peo-ple,’’ said Bozize. ``It is a message of peace to my brothers of Central African Republic, ‘’said Bozize.

The African Union’s leader arrived in Bangui when many feared there would be a fight over the capital, Bangui, a city of 600,000.

According to several families in Bangui, mem-bers of the Presidential Guard have kidnapped people suspected of sup-porting the rebels who have seized 10 cities in the country’s north over the past three weeks.

A rebel spokesman, Col. Juma Narkoyo, warned Bozize: ``We warn the head of state and his family to stop abducting our parents. They have nothing to do with it. If he wants to solve its problems, he comes to meet us on the ground. We expect firm feet. ‘’ He said that a doz-en people have already been arrested in Bangui.

On his arrival in Ban-gui, Yayi Boni had a pri-vate meeting for more than two hours with Boz-

ize in the VIP lounge of Mpoko airport, which is secured by French troops.

So far Boni Yayi has no meetings scheduled with rebels or with the democratic opposition.

Boni Yayi’s diplo-matic effort comes as France has deployed an additional 180 troops to protect its interests. The French reinforcements arrived Sunday from nearby Gabon, bringing the total French military force in the capital, Ban-gui, to nearly 600, Col. Thierry Burkhard told The Associated Press Sunday. The troops are to protect French resi-dents in the capital, which many fear will be attacked by the rebels.

As fears mounted that the rebels would attack Bangui, Bozize imposed a curfew from 7 p.m. un-til 5 a.m.

Bozize earlier ap-pealed to France for help against the rebels, but French President Francois Hollande’s gov-ernment said it would

only protect French in-terests and would not prop up the Bangui gov-ernment.

As the rebels have made a rapid advance across the country’s north, residents in the capital now fear the in-surgents could attack at any time, despite assur-ances by rebel leaders that they are willing to engage in dialogue in-stead of attacking Ban-gui.

On Saturday the reb-els seized the city of Sibut, 185 kilometres (114 miles) from Bangui.

Sibut, a key transpor-tation hub, fell without a shot being fired because the Central African Re-public army and forces from neighbouring Chad had pulled back to Da-mara, 75 kilometres (46 miles) from Bangui on Friday, said Minister of Territorial Administra-tion Josie Binoua.

Neighbouring African countries have agreed to send more forces to sup-port the Bozize govern-ment.

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Obama wants gun violence containedBY JIM KUHNHENN

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama pledged to put his ``full weight’’ behind a legisla-tive package next year aimed at containing gun vio-lence, recalling the shooting rampage that killed 20 elementary school students as the worst day of his presidency.

In an interview with NBC television’s ``Meet the Press’’ that aired Sunday, Obama voiced skepticism about the proposal by the National Rifle Associa-tion, the leading gun-rights lobbying group, to place armed guards at schools in the aftermath of the Dec. 14 deadly assault at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Instead, the president vowed to rally the Ameri-can people around an agenda to limit gun violence, adding that he still supports increased background checks and bans on assault weapons and high capac-ity bullet magazines. He left no doubt it will be one of his top priorities next year.

``It is not enough for us to say, ‘This is too hard so we’re not going to try,’’’ Obama said.

``I think there are a vast majority of responsible gun owners out there who recognize that we can’t have a situation in which somebody with severe psy-chological problems is able to get the kind of high capacity weapons that this individual in Newtown obtained and gun down our kids,’’ he added. ``And, yes, it’s going to be hard.’’

The president added that he’s ready to meet with Republicans and Democrats, anyone with a stake in the issue.

The schoolhouse shootings, coming as families prepared for the holidays, have elevated the issue of gun violence to the forefront of public attention. Six

adult staff members were also killed at the elemen-tary school. Shooter Adam Lanza committed suicide, apparently as police closed in. Earlier, he had killed his mother at the home they shared.

The tragedy immediately prompted calls for great-er gun controls. But the National Rifle Association is strongly resisting those efforts, arguing instead that schools should have armed guards for protection. Some gun enthusiasts have rushed to buy semiauto-matic rifles of the type used by Lanza, fearing sales may soon be restricted.

Obama seemed unimpressed by the NRA pro-posal. ``I am skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools,’’ he said. ``And I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem.’’

The president said he intends to press the issue with the public.

``The question then becomes whether we are actu-ally shook up enough by what happened here that it does not just become another one of these routine episodes where it gets a lot of attention for a couple of weeks and then it drifts away,’’ Obama said. ``It certainly won’t feel like that to me. This is some-thing that - you know, that was the worst day of my presidency. And it’s not something that I want to see repeated.’’

Separately, a member of the president’s cabinet said Sunday that rural America may be ready to join a national conversation about gun control. Agricul-ture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the debate has to start with respect for the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which guarantees the right to bear arms and recognition that hunting is a way of life for millions of Americans.

But Vilsack, a former governor of the Midwestern state of Iowa, said Newtown has changed the way people see the issue. ``I really believe that this is a

different circumstance and a different situation,’’ Vilsack said on CNN.

Vilsack said he thinks it’s possible for Americans to come together. ``It’s potentially a unifying conver-sation,’’ he said. ``The problem is that these conver-sations are always couched in the terms of dividing us. This could be a unifying conversation, and Lord knows we need to be unified.’’

Besides passing gun violence legislation, Obama also listed deficit reduction and immigration reform as top priorities for 2013 as well as deficit reduc-tion. A big deficit reduction deal with Republicans proved elusive this month and Obama is now hoping Senate Democratic and Republican leaders salvage a scaled back plan that avoids tax increases for vir-tually all Americans.

He also issued a defence of former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, who has been men-tioned as one of the leading candidates to replace Leon Panetta as secretary of defence.

Hagel supported the 2002 resolution approving U.S. military action in Iraq, but later became a critic of the war. He has been denounced by some conser-vatives for not being a strong enough ally of Israel. Also, many liberals and gay activists have banded against him for comments he made in 1998 about an openly gay nominee for an ambassadorship.

Obama, who briefly served with Hagel in the Sen-ate, stressed that he had yet to make a decision on a secretary of defence but called Hagel a ``patriot.’’

``He is somebody who has done extraordinary work both in the United States Senate,’’ he said. ``Somebody who served this country with valour in Vietnam. And is somebody who’s currently serving on my intelligence advisory board and doing an out-standing job.’’

Obama noted that Hagel had apologized for his 14-year-old remark on gays.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS

’Tis the season for resolutions. And many of us are already busy pledging that come Jan. 1 we will do more of some things, less of others, or stop do-ing still other things altogether.

But what if experts made your health-related resolutions for you? What changes might they try to per-suade you to make in your life?

We at The Canadian Press won-dered that. So we asked a number of doctors, health organizations and pub-lic health experts whose expertise we draw on from time to time to name for us the one health-related resolution they wish people would make for 2013.

There is some predictable common ground, and some surprising sugges-tions as well. Here goes:

1. Get some exercise.It doesn’t have to be a lot — just

some, and on a regular basis. With an increasing number of studies suggest-ing that prolonged sitting is unhealthy and that even short bursts of exercise are beneficial, it’s no wonder this was the most suggested resolution to come forward from our experts.

Dr. Mike Evans, a family physician and health information advocate at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, puts it this way:

“There are 24 hours in a day, and you might spend most of it caring for family, sitting at work, couch surfing, obviously sleeping and eating,” Evans says.

“The evidence shows that the best thing you can do for your health is be-ing active for half an hour each day and that, if you can do it, you can real-ize great health benefits.”

The Canadian Cancer Society, dia-betes expert Dr. Hertzel Gerstein (Mc-Master University), Dr. Perry Kendall, who is B.C.’s chief medical officer of health, and a number of others asked people to make a point of getting regu-lar but moderate exercise.

“It doesn’t have to be extreme,” says Dr. Michael Gardam, an infectious dis-eases expert at Toronto’s University Health Network, who suggests starting slow and gradually building up your endurance.

“A lot of people go crazy in the new year and ultimately fail because they start too fast and try to do too much.”

2. Choose better foods — and tell your government you want their help to do so.

Several of our experts suggested variations on this theme. The Heart and Stroke Foundation would like people to resolve to eat five to 10 por-tions of vegetables and fruit a day for a heart-healthy 2013.

Dr. Tiffany Chow, a senior clinician-scientist at Baycrest Health Sciences’ Ross Memory Clinic in Toronto, sug-gests people organize their meals so that produce is the main attraction and

meat is more of a side dish.Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, an Ottawa-

based weight loss expert, would like to see people cook more meals from fresh ingredients and eat them, as a family, around a table.

“The corollary to that resolution would be markedly reducing pur-chased, convenient and heavily pro-cessed meals,” Freedhoff says.

And the University of Calgary’s Dr. Norm Campbell, who specializes in the treatment of high blood pressure, wishes Canadians would push the fed-eral government to put consumers’ in-terests over those of the food industry.

Campbell says good food policy could prevent a substantial portion of chronic disease in Canada. “But our politicians introduce solutions that maintain the status quo and then blame us for making poor dietary choices,” he says.

“If we want to stay healthy, it is like-ly our most critical health choice is in voting and advocating to politicians to introduce effective health policy.”

3. Make the tough decisions — and let your family know about them.

Perhaps the recent Supreme Court of Canada hearing on the Hassan Ra-souli case, which centres on end-of-life decisions, put some of our experts in a pensive mood. But several suggested Canadians should give serious thought to the degree of medical intervention they want when their time comes.

“Without being too macabre, I think too many folks do not address how they wish to exit this world and leave it to others to try and figure it out,” says University of Alberta cardiologist Dr. Paul Armstrong.

Do you want doctors to try every-thing possible to keep you alive under any circumstances? Or would you pre-fer health workers not use heroic mea-sures, if you are near the end?

Armstrong suggests people should make these decisions and communi-cate their wishes verbally and in writ-ing to their loved ones.

Dr. Ross Upshur, an ethicist and primary care physician, agrees.

If you haven’t designated a surro-gate decision maker — someone who has the legal right to make choices about your care if you cannot — or haven’t given someone power of at-torney, set those things up, Upshur suggests, adding that you need to talk through your choices with the people you ask to fill those roles.

“We are all mortal and technolo-gy is increasingly powerful. We leave the discussions too late and then the situation is usually too fraught with exigency and emotion,” says Upshur, who practises at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, which is the hospital caring for Rasouli.

Dr. Rob Fowler, who is Rasouli’s physician, is even more to the point: “While eating turkey on the holidays, ’Talk turkey’ with your family about

your wishes for end-of-life care.”4. Learn to manage stress levels.“Decrease stress by not overcom-

mitting yourself and finding the right balance between work and leisure,” says Dr. Jean-Pierre Chanoine, head of the endocrinology and diabetes unit at B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.

Chow offers similar advice. (The Baycrest doctor cheated a little and offered two resolutions under the umbrella of taking care of your brain health and lowering your risk of devel-oping dementia.)

People should recognize sooner when their stress level is unsustain-able, Chow says, and ask earlier “Do I really need to do this (or) take respon-sibility for this by myself?”

“The answer is usually No!”5. There was no clear-cut fifth resolu-

tion, but we did get a bunch of interest-ing individual suggestions. Here are some:

• Resolve to drink less alcohol, sug-gests Dr. Joel Ray of St. Michael’s Hos-pital in Toronto. “Give the money to someone else to buy food.”

• Make sure your vaccinations, and those of your family, are up to date, says Dr. Bonnie Henry, medical direc-tor for communicable disease preven-tion and control services at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

• Give your kids a healthy start, says Dr. David McKeown, Medical Officer of Health for Toronto. “Feed break-fast to your kids, walk your kids to school, teach them to wash their hands properly, teach them to swim, talk and read to them, hug them. Small lessons learned early last a lifetime and makes a healthy community.”

• Resist the urge to seek or take medicine, advises Dr. David Juurlink, head of clinical pharmacology and toxicology at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital. He says people are too quick to take prescription drugs or over-the-counter medications, suggesting they should be used sparingly and only when the likelihood of benefit is real.

• Learn to engage in informed deci-sion making with your physician, says Dr. Gordon Guyatt, a professor of clini-cal epidemiology and biostatistics at McMaster University in Hamilton.

And finally, from Canada’s Chief Medical Officer of Health comes some poignant advice. Dr. David Butler-Jones is working his way back from a stroke he had earlier in the year.

“Do not let anyone else limit your expectations of how much you can re-cover or become as you are more likely to get what you expect,” he suggests.

Happy 2013!

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Five ideal New Year’s resolutions from health experts

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Are you a celebrity watcher? A magazine clipper? A list maker, sup-plement taker, whole grains baker? No matter what kind of person you are, there’s a new diet cookbook to help lay the foundation for that inevi-table New Year’s resolution.

The 2012 crop of healthy eating books runs the gamut from secrets of the rich and famous to levelheaded lifestyle recommendations and quick-loss programs. Here are a few that crossed our desks.

———For celebrity worshippers• One Dish at a Time by Valerie Ber-

tinelli (Rodale Books)Television actress-turned-Jenny

Craig spokeswoman Valerie Berti-nelli offers recipes and stories based on her Italian-American upbringing. Dishes such as ribollita, a tomatoey vegetable soup, garlicky linguine and clam sauce and chipotle-spiked bi-son burgers (from the American side) sound warm and filling enough for a cold winter day. Each recipe offers calorie counts (some of which you’d rather not know — that bison burg-er will cost you around 600 calories). And for those of you who didn’t catch it, the title riffs on Bertinelli’s claim-to-fame, the 1975 television show “One Day at a Time.” Yes, that’s correct, 1975.

• Now Eat This! Italian by Rocco DiSpirito (Grand Central Publishing)

Celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito’s latest installment in his “Now Eat This” series conjures more than 90 Italian dishes, such as chicken parmi-giana, lasagna Bolognese and whole-wheat pizza margherita, all under 350 calories. And yes, there is still cheese involved. Even desserts make the cut. A fat-free ricotta cheesecake boasts just 176 calories, and a cannoli, those cream-filled pastry tubes, 136 calo-ries.

———For magazine readers• The Food Lover’s Healthy Habits

Cookbook by the editor’s of Cooking Light magazine (Oxmoor House)

More than 250 recipes from the edi-tors of Cooking Light magazine pair with lifestyle changes and a 12-month plan for carrying them out. A solid

how-to for people seeking a healthi-er lifestyle, the emphasis here is on cooking at home and incorporating more fruits, vegetables and grains in-to your diet. Cooking techniques and introductions to potentially unfamil-iar ingredients, such as edamame (soy beans) and the ancient grain farro, are peppered with recipes for dishes such as oatmeal pancakes, the Middle Eastern red pepper dip called mu-hammara and cinnamon-laced beef tagine with butternut squash.

• 101 Recipes You Can’t Live Without by Lori Powell (Rodale Books)

The nutrition experts at Prevention magazine build their recipes around 13 essential nutrients, such as magne-sium and vitamin D. Vitamin B12 and omega-3 fatty acids arrive in a bowl of spaghetti with sardines and caramel-ized fennel. Roasted pork tenderloin with edamame succotash brings vi-tamin C and folate. And dark choco-late pudding (with whipped cream) squeaks by with a quarter of your dai-ly calcium. Who doesn’t want to feel good about dessert?

———For list makers• The 7 Day Slim Down by Alisa

Bowman with the editors of Women’s Health magazine (Rodale Books)

“Lose 7 pounds this week!” boasts the cover of this book, which offers

what it calls “the Vitamin D diet.” Based on research that suggests vita-min D promotes weight loss, this diet offers lists, lists, lists: a slim-down shopping list, a day-by-day, meal-by-meal menu list for the first week, and charts for “pick this, not that” and other dieting techniques. Vitamin D-rich dishes such as mushroom, on-ion and avocado quesadilla, chicken cacciatore with sauteed escarole and beef barley soup are staples here.

• The Belly Melt Diet by the edi-tors of Prevention magazine (Rodale Books)

This one’s got the others beat, because apparently you can lose 8 pounds in just 3 days. List lovers will gorge on quizzes (What kind of bird are you, lark or owl? Are you getting enough sleep?), lists of nutrient-rich foods and yes, day-by-day, meal-by-meal guidelines. Recipes for dish-es such as orzo and chickpea salad, sweet potato and black bean chili and pan-seared salmon over kale sneak in amid copious amounts of text.

———For sexy ladies• The MILF Diet by Jessica Porter

(Atria Books)Don’t know what MILF means?

Don’t look it up unless you’re OK with profanity. Let’s just say it’s a refer-ence to attractive older women and leave it at that. This book builds its healthy eating plan around what it considers “MILFy” foods — whole grains, vegetables such as kale and bok choy, plant proteins like lentils, seaweed and fermented foods such as miso. This diet promises not only a youthfu

l body, but a detoxified one with fully raised consciousness. Recipes for dishes like polenta with wild mushrooms, and sea vegetables with onion, carrot and corn are intended to keep you both desirable and desiring.

• Cook Yourself Sexy by Candice Kumai (Rodale Books)

The spaghetti-strap camisole on the cover says it all. Author Kumai, a former model and Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, offers recipes for miso-glazed cod with baby bok choy, Dijon-braised Brussels sprouts and oxtail ragu with pappardelle to move you toward a sexier bod (and perhaps even help you cook in high heels and a mini-skirt, as she apparently does).

New year means fresh onslaught of diet-related cookbooks

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OTTAWA — Health Canada has an-nounced the recall of various Kirah Col-lection vases, planters, pedestals and urns due to a potential safety risk.

The department said the affected prod-ucts haven’t been tested to determine whether they are compliant with Cana-dian standards for product safety and may pose a safety hazard.

The recalled products include:• Kirah Urn with Light 48 cm x 62 cm

(19 in x 24.5 in)Item number: 07679400• Kirah Pedestal with Light 39 cm x 88

cm (15.5 in x 34.5 in)Item number: 07679500• Kirah Planter-Urn with Light 43 cm x

37 cm (17 in x 14.5 in)Item number: 07679000• Kirah Planter-Urn with Light 52 cm x

41 cm (20.5 x 16 in)Item number: 07679100• Kirah Vase with Light 35.5 cm x 80 cm

(14 in x 31.5 in) Item number: 7679200Kirah Vase with Light 30.5 cm x 60 cm

(12 in x 23.5 in)Item number: 07679300The products were manufactured in

China and imported by John G. Hofland Ltd. of Mississauga, Ont., west of Toronto.

Neither John G. Hofland Ltd. nor Health Canada has received any reports of incidents or injuries to Canadians re-lated to the use of the products.

Approximately 945 of the collection products were sold across Canada from January 2009 to December 2011.

Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately and return it to John G. Hofland for a refund.

For more information, consumers may contact Aleksandra Damnjanovic at John G. Hofland Ltd. toll-free at 1-800-387-6760 or by mail at: 6695 Pacific Circle, Missis-sauga, Ontario, L5T 1V6.

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YEAR IN REVIEW

Jan. 1A city resident hit paydirt two days

before Christmas. Joseph Towpich of Red Deer won $712,744 on the Lotto Max draw on Dec. 23. Towpich checked his tickets at a gas station in Olds. He bought his Quick Pick ticket at Short Stop Food Store in Olds. Towpich planned to spend his winnings on travelling, buying land — and getting married.

Jan. 2Years of contributing to the Red

Deer Kinsmen Dream Home came back in spades for a legendary Red Deer Honda dealer and his wife. Glenn and Joyce Turple had purchased tick-ets for all 33 dream homes offered since the project was first launched, while the family business, Turple Bros. Ltd., contributed to the prize package, including the brand new Sea-Doo of-fered this year. Still in a minor state of shock after a group from the Kinsmen club came to their door to make the announcement, the Turples walked through the front door of their new home shortly before 9 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, where they were greeted by a spontaneous round of applause.

Jan. 4“From that 3 a.m. phone call to now

I am forever changed and my heart is broken,” Jill Taylor said, reading from a victim impact statement at the sentencing of 19-year-old Darith Rin, who was drunk behind the wheel of the vehicle Taylor’s son Matthew and a friend were passengers in during the early hours of Sept. 7. Rin, of Red Deer, pleaded guilty in Red Deer pro-vincial court to impaired driving caus-ing death and was sentenced to two years in prison by Judge Bruce Gar-riock. He will also be prohibited from driving for five years following a joint submission from the Crown prosecu-tor and defence. The Crown withdrew three other drunk driving-related charges.

Jan. 14Lacombe-based country singer Gord

Bamford was positioned to reach an even larger market — anybody men-tion the U.S.? — by recently signing with Sony Music Entertainment Cana-

da. Bamford said he started exploring major recording labels after feeling he had gone about as far as he could as an independent artist. “We needed a bit of machinery behind us to help us out...I’ve been very lucky with the success I’ve had,” said Bamford, who admitted it’s amazing to reflect upon how much ground he was able to cover with his own team of supporters over the last few years.

Jan. 16The Collicutt Centre was expected

to open following an evacuation that caused hundreds to flee from the rec-reation facility. Red Deer Emergency

Services platoon chief Randy Kidd said a maintenance crew was making a repair on the ammonia tanks in the ice plant when the crew ran into trouble and triggered an ammonia leak just before noon. Kidd said the crew was repairing a faulty part and there was no leak previously. The facility evacu-ation process was enacted to ensure public safety. There were no reported injuries.

Jan. 17Jack Anderson, an 84-year-old

Calgary-based businessman, donated 100 vintage cars and trucks — valued at roughly $2.5 million — to Olds Col-

lege. The donation was the largest in-dividual gift in Olds College’s 99-year history. Anderson was the previous re-cord holder when he gave $1 million in cash to the college in 2007. Jordan Cle-land, vice-president of advancement for Olds College, said that Anderson wanted to help with the college’s 2013 centennial plans by giving 100 cars and trucks for the college’s 100 years.

Jan. 23A Red Deer sheriff used “unjusti-

fied” and “excessive” force to remove a deaf and mute man from the Red Deer provincial courthouse, an inves-tigation concluded. A report by the So-licitor General Office’s Law Enforce-ment and Oversight Branch revealed the details of the incident through witnesses, video surveillance and interviews with the sheriffs involved. Bill Berry, a 52-year-old Red Deer man who breathed through an opening (or stoma) in his neck and had a feeding tube through his nose, went to pay a $140 traffic ticket at the courthouse when he entered through the exit door.

Jan. 25Three young people were injured,

one critically, after the truck they were in collided with a train at a main downtown intersection in Olds. Olds RCMP and firefighters, as well as ambulance crews, were dispatched shortly before 11:45 p.m. to a collision involving a pickup truck and CP Rail train at the intersection of 50th Street and 50th Avenue. RCMP said the pick-up truck was westbound on 50th Street when it collided with the southbound locomotive. At the time of the cross-ing, the crossing arms and alternating flashing lights and bells were activat-ed and functioning, said police.

Jan. 26The execution of a search warrant

involving major police and other emer-gency services resulted in over 70 long-barrelled weapons and eight handguns being seized from a residence south of Crestomere. Ponoka RCMP said a 38-year-old man from Ponoka County had been charged with 15 firearms-related offences, including: trafficking a firearm, possession of prohibited weapons, possession of explosives, unsafe storage of firearms and posses-sion of firearms while prohibited. In addition, charges under the Wildlife Act were pending.

JANUARY

Feb. 1Red Deer pharmacist Michael

Tweedy was suspended from practis-ing for up to one year, starting Feb. 15, for unprofessional conduct and for over-billing Alberta Blue Cross about $1 million. According to the Alberta College of Pharmacists’ report on a tri-bunal hearing into Tweedy’s conduct, an Alberta Blue Cross audit of Hilltop Pharmacy, from June 1, 2007, to Jan. 31 2009, was initiated after a tip on the Fraud and Abuse Hotline in February 2008 alleging that drugs were deliv-ered weekly but billed to Alberta Blue Cross daily. Tweedy told the tribunal that daily billing generated about $45,000 per month in extra revenue and in October 2009, Alberta Blue Cross wanted its $1 million back.

Feb. 1A Red Deer woman was named one

of the top 30 under 30 people for her commitment to positive change. Maria Mihok, 29, was one of 30 people select-ed from Alberta and around the world for contributing to social justice and international co-operation. Mihok was one of the young people profiled in the Top 30 Under 30 Magazine that was being widely distributed during the Canadian International Development Agency’s International Development Week Feb. 5-11. The Alberta Council for Global Co-operation hoped that by sharing their stories they will inspire others to make positive change.

Feb. 3Red Deer City RCMP seized quanti-

ties of date rape drugs and metham-phetamine during a search of a city residence on Thursday. Members of the Red Deer City RCMP Street Team and Organized Crime Unit executed the search warrant and arrested a resi-dent at his home. Police found various quantities of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, known as GHB, and ketamine. Both are referred to as date rape drugs commonly used to assist in sexual as-sault.

Feb. 7A report to city council shows the

typical household would pay $97.85 a month in utility fees in 2012, up from $64.71 in 2008, a 51 per cent increase. “That’s too much, Coun. Chris Stephan said. “It doesn’t need to go up at this rate.” Most people’s incomes haven’t increased by more than 50 per cent in the last five years and many are on fixed incomes, he added. “I don’t think that those types of increases are sustainable. I think we need to look a

lot harder at our utilities because that does have a large impact on people.” Stephan voted against the rate sched-ule, along with Coun. Frank Wong.

Feb. 8The Mad Butcher owner Ron Burn-

dred decided reluctantly to close his doors for good. Burndred’s Innisfail business was hit by a fire last Au-gust. The fire started on the kill floor and destroyed a third of the building before firefighters could put it out. Burndred was insured and had hoped to reopen within a few months. How-ever, when he looked into the cost of rebuilding to the latest government regulations, it became clear it wasn’t financially feasible. The well-known butcher shop and meat processing plant employed 43.

Feb. 9An armed standoff came to a tragic

conclusion near Three Hills. At 5:30 a.m. RCMP were called to a distur-bance at a rural residence north of Three Hills near Hwy 21 and Twp Rd 324. An adult male was reported to have assaulted the property owner and damaged property. Police say the inci-dent escalated and the adult male bar-ricaded himself inside the residence and refused to co-operate with police. After learning the man was believed to have firearms, RCMP secured the area around the property and blocked off

highways to keep the public safe. With assistance from the Calgary Police Ser-vice tactical team, RCMP support units and neighboring detachments, police made repeated but unsuccessful ef-forts to make contact with the man. RCMP sent in a police robot equipped with a camera at 2 p.m. but the camera picked up no activity. When Calgary police entered the home at 4 p.m., the male was found dead from a self-inflicted gun shot wound. Police have not yet released the identity of the dead man.

Feb. 9RCMP seized 959 marijuana plants

worth about $1.2 million in a raid southwest of Rocky Mountain House. Rocky Mountain House RCMP also seized a large amount of harvested dried marijuana and elaborate grow-ing equipment. The plants were in var-ious stages of development. A search warrant was granted and executed in the early morning hours. Daniel Rich-ard Dejong, 32, faced charges of culti-vating and possessing marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. RCMP were assisted by the Combined Forces Spe-cial Unit (Green Team/Calgary ALERT/Calgary RCMP Drug Section and Cal-gary Police Service).

Feb. 16A one-day illegal wildcat strike

across Alberta by hospital workers in-

cluded staff at Red Deer Regional Hos-pital Centre. Chris Mazurkewich of Al-berta Health Services said they agreed late Thursday afternoon to binding arbitration with the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees and the 22,000 staffers who perform the non-medical jobs at hospitals and health centres. “AUPE has agreed to cease all wildcat strike activities at hospitals and other care sites,” Mazurkewich, the chief operating officer of Alberta Health Services, told reporters. “We will im-mediately begin rescheduling surger-ies and diagnostic tests, and patients will be contacted personally as soon as possible.” He said General Support Services workers were to be back on the job Thursday night, that bargain-ing would begin next week and that no one who walked the line will be reprimanded or punished. All staff were back to work around 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Between 600 and 800 work-ers took part in the job action at about 20 health facilities.

Feb. 21Red Deer’s own Spandy Andy was

making an international splash Down Under in his sparkly Speedos. A You-Tube video the local busker, formerly known as Andy Rimer, made of himself dancing on St. Kilda Beach in Mel-bourne, Australia, went viral. His Sexy Beach Party in My Sparkly Speedo video had, as of Tuesday afternoon, received more than 2.6 million hits from around the world.

FEBRUARY

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Kinsmen Dream Home winners Glenn and Joyce Turple, right of Red Deer celebrate their good fortune. The Turples paid a visit to their new home on New Year’s Eve after finding out they had won the home in the annual fundraiser. See related video at reddeeradvocate.com.

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Jason Heistad, an Alberta Union of Provincial Employees vice-president, leads union members in an information picket outside the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Feb. 16.

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March 5A big dump of snow in Central Alberta caused

rural bus cancellations and slippery road conditions for the Red Deer area. As of 5 a.m. 19 cm had fallen at the Red Deer Airport, said Colin Fong, meteo-rologist for Environment Canada. Most of Central Alberta, especially the region closer to the Rock-ies, received up to 20 cm of snowfall. Three to four semi-trucks were pulled from the ditches along Hwy 2 around Ponoka, said Cpl. Jerry Court from Ponoka RCMP. Highway lanes were restricted but the high-way remained open.

March 5Members of Edmonton’s Filipino community

were in grief after four temporary foreign work-ers were killed in a head-on crash by the driver of an SUV who RCMP believe may have been drunk as he wildly drove the wrong way down a divided highway. The dead included two 35-year-old men, a 39-year-old woman and a 52-year-old woman. A fifth occupant of the vehicle — a 29-year-old female — sustained serious injuries and underwent surgery. The driver of the SUV walked away unhurt but was taken into custody after refusing to provide a breath test. “It’s a very, very difficult thing,” said Esmerel-da Agbulos, an honorary consul for the Philippines based in Edmonton.“It’s horrific, because these people do not have relatives here. They’re here to work and when something like this happens, it’s a tragedy.”

March 8Nova Chemicals announced that it was looking at

spending up to $900 million to boost polyethylene production at its Joffre complex by 40 per cent. Con-struction on the project to add a third polyethylene reactor was slated to start in early 2013 with start-up in late 2015 or early the next year, said Nova’s Joffre site manager Rick Van Hemmen in a presentation to Lacombe County council. The four-year project is expected to cost $750 million to $900 million. It would add 430 million to 500 million kg of linear low-density polyethylene production. At its peak, 500 construction jobs would be created with an average of 150 to 250 tradespeople on site.

March 11A 33-year-old snowmobiler from the Summer

Village of Birchcliff was found dead following an avalanche in British Columbia’s remote backcoun-try. Mark Coleman, British Columbia’s interior re-gional coroner, said a group of six Albertans were snowmobiling around Corbin, B.C. about 30 km southeast of Sparwood, B.C. in the south Rockies when they triggered an avalanche. Coleman said the 33-year-old died on the mountain while the others managed to escape the avalanche. Three others were taken to a hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

March 13A Red Deer man was facing child pornography

charges after an electronic device containing im-ages was found. RCMP said the device was found in the city by a member of the public and was turned over to police. A search warrant was executed at local home, where police seized several electronic devices, including computers. Randy Adams, 52, was charged with single counts of possession of child

pornography, accessing child pornography and mak-ing child pornography.

March 14RCMP confirmed that human remains found in

the woods near Whistler, B.C., were those of Mike Grefner, formerly of Red Deer. The remains were found by hikers and police said the level of decom-position made identification difficult. Grefner, 34, was reported missing on Jan. 17 after he failed to show up for a shift at a nightclub where he was a DJ. He grew up in Red Deer and moved to British Columbia about seven years ago to pursue his music career.

March 15The son of a former Edmonton police chief was

charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Dana Jane Turner, whose body was found west of Innisfail in October 2011. Mark Damien Lindsay, 25, of Edmonton has also been charged with performing an indignity to a body and obstruction of justice. Lindsay was arrested in the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam, B.C.

March 19A man has lost his home and dog after a fire broke

out in the living room of his Morrisroe house on March 19. Emergency crews were called to 25 Morris Ave at 9:56 p.m. after a neighbour reported seeing smoke. The man, the only occupant of the house, was

just running out to his lawn when EMS arrived. The fire was spreading rapidly inside and firefighters had to enter from the rear of the house, said Gail-loux. The man’s small bichon-shih tzu dog was killed in the blaze.

March 20Red Deer Chamber of Commerce president Mau-

reen McMurtrie was pleased with the findings of an assessment by MoneySense magazine, which slotted Red Deer into the No. 9 spot of Canada’s Best Places to Live 2012. Every year, the personal finance and lifestyle magazine lists the most desirable communi-ties in which to reside. In 2011, Red Deer was ranked 96th, and in 2010 the city came in 117th.

March 23A Mountie formerly posted in Innisfail was con-

victed of tormenting his tenants and defrauding lenders and their insurance companies. Const. Hoa Dong La, currently on paid leave from his job with the RCMP passport and immigration section in Cal-gary, committed “a clear abuse of public office that brings shame and dishonour to the RCMP,” Justice David Gates said in reading his verdict in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. La was tried before Justice Gates earlier in 2012 on three counts of criminal harassment, two counts of extortion and 10 counts of mortgage fraud in relation to properties he and members of his family had purchased in Innisfail and Bowden. One of the three counts of criminal ha-rassment was dropped during final arguments in the trial, which finished on Feb. 9.

MARCH

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Your Children, Our Students,Everyone’s Future

4747 - 53 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-343-1405 Fax: 403-347-8190

With Glad Tidings From Our Entire Staff At The Holidays

May all your news be good news this holiday season.

We’re proud to serve this fine community and we thank you

for your loyal readership and support all year long.

2950 Bremner Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-343-2400

Mitchell & Jewell“Fine Jewellers Since 1919”

Gold and gemstones may be rare, but genuine friends are truly priceless!

Thank you for being ours.

4910 - 45 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-346-2514www.mitchelljewel.com

Best Wishes for a Happy New Year and a Healthy and Prosperous 2013

- From Management & Staff

4500 Fountain Drive, Red DeerPhone: 403-347-5441 Fax: 403-343-2594

Melcor Developments

We always look forward to this time of the year. It’s our opportunity to wish

everyone in this exciting community a Happy New Year!

#502, 4901 - 48 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-343-0817 Fax: 403-343-7510

Bettenson’s Sand & Gravel Co. Ltd.

Delivering wishes for a New Year filled with laughter

with friends and family.7774 - 47 Ave. Close, Red Deer

Phone: 403-343-0203 Fax: 403-346-9210

Cunningham Electric Ltd.

“Put the light and sparkle in everyone’s eyes, making the

Holiday Season the brightest ever.”

#7, 7880 - 48 Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-342-4111

Turple Bros. Ltd.Have a fun filled New Year.

Our sincere thanks for helping us achieve a great year, and for being such valuable

customers.

175 LEVA AVE., Red Deer CountyPhone: 403-346-5238

www.turplebros.ca

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Canada SafewayWe are pleased to provide service to Central Alberta for over 70 years.

May you have a happy Holiday season.

Two locations to serve youPort-O-Call safeway, Red Deer

Parkland Mall Safeway, Red Deer

Catons Ltd. “Dairy Barn Equipment Specialists”

“Serving the Dairy Industry since 1950 and Proud of It.”Holiday Greetings from All of Us at Catons!

3806 - 53 Avenue, LacombePhone: 403-786-9999

1105 - 36 Street North, LethbridgePhone: 403-327-1414

#4, 3003 Miller Avenue, Saskatoon, SKPhone: 306-955-5474

#500, 4911 - 51 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-347-2226

www.heywoodholmes.com

“We wish our valued customers a very

happy and prosperous New Year.

Many thanks to all! Peace On Earth and Goodwill to AllWishing everyone a never ending

season of love and peaceBay #8, 7428 - 49 Avenue, Red Deer

Phone: 403-347-1845

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Hoa Dong La and his wife Janice leave court during a break in his trial in March. He was later convicted.

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April 3An $11,000 wedding ring lost in

March was found, to the relief of its owner. Julie Oberg of Red Deer found her missing ring in her home on Fri-day night. She had reported the ring stolen after a session of hot yoga at the Amaryliss Centre in downtown Red Deer on March 14. “I just feel so stupid now,” said Oberg, who had left the ring — attached to a watch and earrings — in a deep, inside pocket of her coat along with her cellphone while doing yoga.

April 4Jordan Bargholz and Carl Wilson

had front row seats when they heard a loud crash as they were about to dig into their chicken salads at Cities Gastro Pub. Bargholz, from Sylvan Lake, said he looked out the window to see a slew of damaged vehicles in the nearly full parking lot on 3301 Gaetz Avenue. A silver pickup truck was in the middle of the chaos. City RCMP Const. Dave McKenzie said the silver pickup truck was believed to be travelling northbound on Gaetz Avenue when it veered off the road on 33rd Street, smacked a few cars parked on the street, and damaged several others in the pub’s parking lot before coming to a stop.

April 6Two young sisters were fighting

for their lives at the Stollery Chil-dren’s Hospital in Edmonton after they fell through ice on a body of water on a rural property southwest of Red Deer. Media relations special-ist Doris Stapleton of the “K” Divi-sion strategic communications said the two girls aged 3 and 5 were dis-covered by family members around 10:20 a.m. The two girls were taken by ambulance to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre then airlifted by STARS air ambulance to the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

April 9The highway crash that killed one

Red Deer youth early in the morning of March 31 claimed a second life in early April. Red Deer teenager Tyson Vanderzwaag, crushed while he and some friends were pushing a broken-down car off the road, died on Friday morning in the intensive care unit at Foothills Hospital in Calgary, three days after his 18th birthday. Vanderz-waag and the friends he had been trav-elling with had done everything right that night, his mother, Wendy said. Tyson’s group of five was heading east on Hwy 11A at about 3:30 when their car broke down near Range Road 281, about three kilometres west of Red Deer city limits.

April 16Construction on a $4.5-million

expansion to the Enmax Centrium of-ficially kicked off with a ground-break-ing ceremony, even though work had actually already begun on the project to add 1,000 seats, 13 luxury suites and 40 club seats (like the suites, club seats have access to premium food and beverage services). The project at the west end of the 6,000-seat arena also includes new barrier-free washrooms, stairs and an elevator. It was expected to take about five months to complete the upgrades.

April 23Red Deer RCMP said the body of

a woman found murdered in Febru-ary was disposed of in a recycling dumpster in Red Deer. The body of Nellie Talia Meguinis, 27, was dis-covered when a recycling truck was emptying its load at a recycling facil-ity in the Riverside Industrial Park in Red Deer on Feb. 22. The woman was earlier identified as Meguinis, a mother of three from Calgary who had arrived in Red Deer earlier that month.

April 29A mother of four young children

said she was touched by the out-pouring of community support fol-lowing the death of her husband in

an avalanche in southern British Columbia in March. Lara Hall, 33, and her children — Kobee, seven, Macee, five, Burke, three, and Sadee, one — attended the Macaroni and Cheese fundraiser inside HJ Cody School. The event attracted more than 250 people and raised more than $30,000 for the widow of Steve Hall. The 33-year-old man was one of three men from Sylvan Lake who

were snowmobiling in British Co-lumbia between Crowsnest Pass and Sparwood when an avalanche hit on Friday March 9. Hall died on the mountain while the others escaped. “It’s been a huge blessing to have that support,” said Lara Hall inside HJ Cody School where the fundraiser was held. “We’ve been in Central Alberta for eight years and the com-munity has been our family.”

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Pine Lake Sand & Gravel Co. Ltd.

May our greetings bring loads of happiness and joy to you

and your loved ones this New Year.P.O. Box 67, Pine Lake

Phone: 403-347-0671 (Mildred)or Phone: 403-346-0881 (Jim)

Sun N Fun Pool & SpaGerry Bell & Sheila Edmondson

As we look forward to 2013 we would like to take this moment to thank-you

for your continued business!#9, 7711 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer

Phone: 403-346-4465 Fax: 403-340-0008www.sunnfun.ca

Pasquale Mancuso Construction Partnership

Concrete ContractorsPeace, health, happiness and prosperity. This is our wish for the upcoming year.

#7, 4812 - 78 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-346-6715 Fax: 403-342-1549

Lousana Water Wells (1987) Ltd.

“Well! That’s Our Business”

Thank you for your patronage. May the New Year bring blessings to all.

Lousana, ABPhone: 403-749-2242 Miles lewis

Holiday Greetings to all our many customers. It’s always a pleasure doing

business with you. See you in 2013!

#10, 4608 - 62 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-346-4769 Fax: 403-342-4603

“We’re always happy to be of service to you now and again next year. Have a wonderful

holiday with those dear to you.”

#3, 7429 - 50 Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-346-8827 Fax: 403-346-8820

EQUIPMENT & FURNITURE(SINCE 1962)

It’s time to reflect on the friendships and blessings we’ve enjoyed for the past years. Best wishes and gratitude to all.

2804 Gaetz Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-346-5577

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From Our Family To Yours....Best wishes for a New Year filled with

peace, health and happiness.

#1, 5128 - 52 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-342-1255 Fax: 403-343-7025

Sid’s Electric Ltd.Wishes, Warm and Bright.

May you bask in the light and love of family members and good friends.

#9B, 7483 - 50 Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-346-2147 Fax: 403-343-7422

Celebrating over 40 years of service to the commercial, industrial and

community markets.“You can build on our reputation”

8105-49 Avenue Close, Red DeerPhone: 403-343-7270 Fax: 403-346-4310

7026 Johnstone Drive, Red DeerPhone: 403-343-6060 Fax: 403-346-5240

www.bruinsplumbing.com

With warm wishes for a happy holiday season along with thanks for your continued business and friendship.

Servicing Red Deer and area

Cosmos Group of Companies

We would like to wish our customers and clients a Very Happy New Year.

Thank you for supporting our citizens with disabilities.

#1, 7428-49 Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-343-0715

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

An RCMP officer photographs some of the eight vehicles smashed by the stolen silver truck behind him that drove over a Gaetz Avenue median into the Cities Gastro Pub parking lot on April 4. Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Eagle Builders workers move a pre-fabricated floor panel lifted by a crane into place on the Centrium expansion on April 16. The building’s 6,000-seat capacity will grow by 1,000 more general seats, 40 new club seats and 13 additional luxury suites when the project is completed.

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May 3About five years ago bleak trends

and limited feedstock supplies haunt-ed Nova Chemicals’ Joffre plant. There was a different story to tell this year as it had been the strongest yet for the plant, which further intends to in-crease its polyethylene production by 40 per cent with the addition of a third world-scale polyethylene reactor as part of the existing facility. The expan-sion to the west side of the 900 acre site would cost $750 million to $900 million,

May 4Several people were injured when

a City of Red Deer transit bus veered into a light standard to avoid a full collision with a small car Thursday evening. At approximately 6:45 p.m. the bus, transporting approximately 10 people, was travelling north on Taylor Drive through the intersection of 22nd Street on a green light. Cpl. Kathe DeHeer, media resource officer with Red Deer City RCMP, said the bus was struck by a southbound Pontiac Sunfire which made a left-hand turn in front of it. In an effort to avoid the ve-hicle, the transit operator veered the bus off Taylor Drive and struck a light standard on the northeast side of the intersection. A 30-year-old woman was issued a ticket for making the unsafe left-hand turn, DeHeer said.

May 9A driver of a big rig escaped with

minor injuries after the semi-trailer truck he was driving left Hwy 2 and slammed into nine new vehicles at a car dealership in Innisfail. Const. Chris Warren of the Innisfail Inte-grated Traffic Services said just before 2 p.m. an unloaded semi-trailer truck pulling a flatdeck trailer was travel-ling south on Hwy 2, south of Hwy 54, when it swerved off the highway into the ditch and over an embankment before ploughing into nine 2012 trucks and cars on the Palliser Chevrolet Ltd. dealership lot in Innisfail. The male driver from Manitoba was taken to Inn-isfail Hospital and was expected to be released from hospital soon.

May 11A big rig driver was charged with

hauling a load higher than permitted after the truck’s empty oilfield stor-age container struck the bottom of an overpass and came dislodged onto the highway near Red Deer on Thursday night. No one was injured and there was no structural damage to the over-pass. Innisfail Integrated Traffic Unit said around 7:25 p.m. a semi winch tractor driver carried a load exceed-ing the 5.2 metre clearance of the Hwy 11 overpass and Hwy 2 when the load

smacked the bottom of the overpass and came dislodged onto the highway.

May 14The closure of the Parsons Clinic in

Red Deer on June 29 left some people scrambling for a family doctor. Par-sons had 11 family doctors but only seven of them — five full-time and two part-time — were moving to practise at the new Piper Creek Medical Clinic that opened July 2 in a new commer-cial building, 32nd Street Crossing, at 3215 49th Ave. Parsons doctors Betty Cowie, Nellie Radomsky, both part-time doctors, and full-time doctors Michael Thain and Donald Tillier re-tired. Dr. Jennifer Corrales, a full-time doctor, relocated to Cochrane.

May 18Kelly Yelenik will be remembered

as a happy go lucky man who always brought laughter to the kitchens where he whipped up culinary delights for his customers. Yelenik, 49, and his girl-friend, Sheryl Eldridge, 42, were iden-tified Thursday as the victims of a mo-bile home fire in the Bowden Estates Trailer Park early Sunday morning. The couple had been dating for about eight months and had lived in the trailer park for about six months. “He was always laughing,” said his mother Phyllis Yelenik, who lives in Innisfail. “He was joking all the time. He was hard working. He was always cooking. He loved his job.”

May 21Despite more compliance, officers

were kept busy during the Victoria Day long weekend as campers and rec-reationalists flocked to Central Alber-ta’s West Country. Sgt. Chris Matechuk, of the Rocky Mountain House RCMP detachment, said the weekend was less rowdy than last year but he did note an ATV fatality. Police said a 22-year-old man from Wetaskiwin was ATV-ing in the Seven O’clock Creek area about 10-km south of Hwy 752 at approximately 7 p.m. Sunday night. “He was quading down a trail and came to a site where a bridge was taken out,” Matechuk said on Monday. “The trail went off to one side, down and around and back up but he went straight through.”

May 28A trusted family financial advisor

was accused of planting the bomb that killed a young Innisfail mother. Brian Andrew Malley, 55, of Innisfail, was arrested in Red Deer and charged with first-degree murder. He’s also charged with causing an explosion likely to cause serious harm or death and sending an explosive device. RCMP confirmed at a Monday morn-ing news conference that Malley was a financial advisor to Vicky Shachtay, 23, and had known the single mother of a young daughter for a number of years. Malley was also a former police officer, having served a brief stint with a municipal force about 30 years ago. Police declined to name the commu-nity. Shachtay’s father expressed the family’s gratitude for the timely arrest by police six months after the Nov. 25 explosion.

May 28RCMP closed part of Hwy 12 near

Coronation while they tracked a man on foot after a woman was shot in Stettler this morning. Four area schools were in lockdown and police were warning people to stay away from the area as the man is considered armed and dangerous. The woman was transported by STARS Air Ambulance to Foothills Hospital in Calgary. Her condition was unknown.

May 29Red Deer City RCMP said arson was

the cause of an early-morning blaze that demolished three homes and damaged two others on Sisson Avenue on Friday. Fire investigators turned the investigation over to RCMP after looking for another cause throughout the weekend, said Cpl. Kathy DeHeer, media liaison with the Red Deer City RCMP. “If they handed it over to the police for investigation, it would be deemed an arson,” she said. Damage to the homes was likely to be more than $1 million.

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Bildex Construction Ltd.Residential Concrete Form Work

At this time we would like to tell you how much we appreciate your business.

Have a wonderful holiday season.#5, 4801 - 78 Street, Red Deer

Phone: [email protected]

E & D Services

There’s nothing better than a new beginning...

Another chance to serve you in the year ahead.

175 PINE STREET, Red Deer County, ABPhone: 403-342-5272 Fax: 403-340-1085

Q&QFencing

“May a circle of family, friends and good cheer surround you in 2013.”

101 POPLAR st. , Red Deer County, AB. T4E 1B4Phone: 403-347-7994 Fax: 403-343-9449

There’s no place like home for the holidays. Wishing our customers

a happy and healthy New Year!

Office: 403-748-2143Show Home: 403-347-6689

Bemoco Land Surveying Ltd.

“Festive greetings fill this time with much warmth and cheer

with family and friends.”

#100, 6040 - 47 Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-342-2611 Fax: 403-342-2910

Service Plumbing & Heating

A new year is on the rise.Many thanks to you for the past 33 years.

We look forward to serving you in the year ahead.

#10, 6150 - 46A Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-342-1338

Fanta Homes Ltd.A Sincere “thanks”

to all our customers & trades.

May the peace & beauty of the hoilday season be with you throughout the coming year.

203 - 4322 54 avenue, red deerphone: 403-343-1083; Phone: 403-588-9788

www.fantahomes.com

Good Friends, Good Neighbours, Loyal Customers

Best wishes to all in the New Year24 O’Neil Close, Red Deer

Phone: 403-347-2736

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May Peace and Joy be yours during this Christmas

Season and coming New Year,

Phone: 403-343-1500

Sylvan ElectronicsSpecializing in JVC, Phillips, Panasonic, Toshiba,

Samsung, LG, Sharp, Hitachi, Sony

A message of thanks and best wishes in the new year from all of us.#12, 7619 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer

Phone: 403-358-3540sylvanelectronics.ca

It may be cold outside, but we get a warm feeling when we recall the times

we’ve had getting to know you.#48 Burnt Lake CRESCENT, Red Deer County, ABPhone: 403-342-7870 Fax: 403-346-7840

Dr. jytte roy-poulsenAlternative Health Care Clinic

Naturally, we hope your new year is filled with health and happiness.

4907 - 48 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-347-1103

And a sincere Thank Your to all my Clients

Photo by CYNTHIA RADFORD/Advocate staff

A man in protective clothing walks out of a house at 48th Street and 44th Avenue Close in Innisfail on May 28. Several RCMP were on site with a mobile forensic response trailer, an RCMP special tactical operations van, an Innisfail Fire Department trailer and a temporary blue tent. Brian Malley of Red Deer was subsequently charged in the death of Vicky Shachtay of Innisfail.

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June 4Thunder-like noise sounded and

houses vibrated throughout Lacombe County Saturday night as Nova Chemi-cals’ Joffre plant experienced an un-planned shutdown suddenly around 10 p.m. The Ethylene 3 plant at Nova Chemicals, the largest plant on the site, experienced an automatic shut-down after the system detected an equipment malfunction, said Joffre site leader Rick Van Hemmen. “We were experiencing equipment issues with one of the major compressors on the plant,” he said. “The compressor tripped and as a result, the control sys-tem shut down the plant.” There were no safety concerns during this shut-down and the site and surrounding community were not at any risk, said Van Hemmen.

June 14She’s raced dragsters since the age

of eight, but Amanda Trimble didn’t know “death-defying” until she ended up in hospital with two blood clots in each lung. The 21-year-old survivor of four pulmonary embolisms was now set to put her life experience on film. “This story is kind of my way of getting over that time and moving on,” said Trimble, a Red Deer College Motion Picture Arts student, who intended to shoot the half-hour film Reaction Time at an Edmonton race track in Septem-ber.

June 18Starting prices for prime waterfront

properties in Sylvan Lake continued to fall and that had led to an upswing in sales. The typical starting price for a three-bedroom winterized recre-ational home on a 15-metre waterfront lot dropped to $750,000 from $800,000 a year ago, says the Recreational Prop-erty Report 2012 prepared by RE/MAX. The price adjustments were “making today’s climate one of the most afford-able in recent years,” says the report.

June 20Driving 2,600 km to see a taping of

The Late Late Show With Craig Fer-guson in Hollywood really paid off for two Red Deer fans who ended up in front of the TV cameras. Anyone who watched last Friday’s episode of the Late Late Show would have seen Travis Kuschminder and Josh McLean plucked out of the studio audience to join Ferguson on stage for a short seg-ment at the start of the program.

June 24A 55-year-old cab driver died fol-

lowing a two-vehicle collision early Saturday morning. Red Deer City RCMP say around 12:45 a.m. taxi driver

Donald Roland Ogloff was travelling north in his cab on 30th Avenue. When he approached the intersection of 55th Street a south bound Ford Focus slammed into the cab while trying to make a left hand turn onto Highway 11. Ogloff was on duty at the time of the collision and had one passenger in the vehicle. Ogloff was taken to the Red Deer Regional Hospital where he later died. The 22-year-old male passenger was also taken to hospital to be treated for minor injuries. The driver of the Ford Focus was treated at the scene and released.

June 27A Sylvan Lake man believed he and

his wife would win a house — and they did. Floyd Anderson told his wife to take the phone with her while she was gardening because “we’re winning a house today.” They were the grand prize winners of the Red Deer Region-al Health Foundation’s Hospitals’ Lot-tery. It was one of 460 prizes drawn for the foundation’s big fundraising event. This year’s lottery helped fund pulmo-nary equipment for Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

June 28

A motorcyclist critically injured on Thursday morning in a Red Deer col-lision later died. Christopher Huhn, 31, of Red Deer, passed away from his injuries at Red Deer Regional Hospi-tal Centre. At around 6:45 a.m., Red Deer RCMP responded when a west-bound SUV allegedly collided with a northbound motorcycle that was mak-ing a left-hand turn onto 40th Avenue. The SUV then struck a tree on the northwest side of the intersection. The driver of the SUV, a 32-year-old man, was also taken to Red Deer hospital. He was treated and released from hos-pital with minor injuries. The traffic lights at the time of the accident were not working due to a power outage in the area.

June 28The driver of a transport truck was

taken to hospital after an incident near Red Deer that police called ‘a case of road rage gone wrong.’ At about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Innisfail Integrated Traffic Unit responded to a report of an assault near Gasoline Alley. According to witnesses, a dark-coloured pick-up truck traveling south forced a double-trailer transport truck off the highway and onto the shoulder. Both vehicles stopped and the male

driver of the pickup truck exited his vehicle, approached the driver of the transport truck and started punching the driver’s side window. The male broke through the window and con-tinued his attack on the victim. The suspect then fled the scene, driving through the ditch and west into the north end of Gasoline Alley at a high rate of speed.

June 29The business mix at Red Deer’s

Clearview Market Square was quickly taking shape. Servus Credit Union opened in the commercial centre on Monday — joining the Royal Bank, TD Canada Trust and CIBC branches already operating there. Nearby, work was progressing on a number of build-ings designed for single occupants and multiple tenants. Shoppers Drug Mart was to set up shop in a new store adjacent to 30th Avenue to the south, while Loblaw Companies Ltd. was de-veloping a nearly 30,000-square-foot grocery store, a gas bar and a liquor store further west. Near the northwest corner, a building for Canadian Brew House was under construction. Three multi-tenant buildings were also near-ing completion, with bays expected to be turned over to lessees in August.

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Red Deer Fasteners & Tools

No matter what the occasion, good friends always come in handy. At this special time

of year, we thank you for being ours.#7, 4999 - 76 Street, Red Deer

Phone: 403-342-6030 Fax: 403-347-9615

Enjoy the winter wonderland and all the festive season brings to your family. It’s been a pleasure doing business with you.

See you in 2013!GASOLINE ALLEY EAST, Red Deer COUNTY

Phone: 403-347-5900redde;erkawasaki.com

Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year!

Bower Business CentreBuilding B, 2319 Taylor Drive, Red Deer

Phone: 403-342-4005

“We’re happy to have the opportunity to say Happy New Year to you,

our valued customers.”6780 - 76 Street, Red Deer

Phone: 403-343-1233 Fax: 403-342-2422

Westpark IDA DrugsAll the best of the season.

All the best for the new year.3722 - 57 Ave., Red Deer, T4N 4R7

403-346-8809

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Providing Design/Build Construction

Services

Trends may come and trends may go,

but when it comes to good folks we know,

goodwill, friendship and a smile always seem to be in style! Happy New Year.

From all of us at KCB Cabinets & Renovations!SHowroom 4646 Riverside Drive, Red Deer

www.kcbcabinets.com

7018 Johnstone Drive, Red DeerPhone: 403-347-9770

www.pumpsandpressure.com

Wishing you all the happiness

of the Season and Peace and

Prosperity in the New Year.

SINCE 1985

“May peace and joy be with you and yours this Christmas season and

throughout the coming year.”

#115, 27475 Twp. Rd 380, Red Deer CountyPhone: 403-346-0116 Fax: 403-309-0136

The Battery Doctors

“Your One Stop Battery Shop”

All the best ... to all our customers ... we appreciate your loyal support all year long.

Bay 1, 4801 - 78 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-340-8777

“Excellence in Crown & Bridge”

We hope that your home may be filled with joy and happiness

this holiday season.

#100, 5440 - 45 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-347-2850

“In this season of light, we want to wish everyone a most joyous and

harmonious holiday.Thanks to our many loyal customers.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year24 Hour EmergencyPhone: 403-347-1997

“Happy holidays” “Proudly Serving Red Deer & Area

for over 25 years”

#8, 7875 - 48 Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-343-6100 Fax: 403-342-7894

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PLUMBING SERVICES LTD.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Floyd Anderson sneaks a kiss from his wife Doris as the Red Deer County couple tour their new home in Red Deer on Tuesday. The two long-time contributors to the Red Deer Regional Hospital Foundation Home Lottery fundraiser won the home and planned to take possession soon. “I don’t consider it buying tickets but paying our hospital bills over the years,”said Floyd. The couple intend to sell the property as they enjoy their life on their acreage near Sylvan Lake.

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July 3A torrential downpour stormed

through Central Alberta on Tuesday, quickly flooding numerous parking lots, streets and businesses in Red Deer within an hour’s period. The se-vere thunderstorm started at about 2 p.m. and then began to escalate into a rage so that an hour later, it was in full force. Similar heavy downpours were realized in several other Central Alberta communities, including Olds, Rocky Mountain House and Stettler, plus a small tornado was reported west of Didsbury. Drains could not keep up with the quick downpour across many locations in Red Deer.

July 3The Canada Day long weekend has

proven hazardous in Central Alberta as a series of accidents have injured several people. At least three people are injured after the vehicle they were in went off a logging road near Sundre on Monday morning. Cpl. Ryan Hodge of the Sundre RCMP detachment said they also dealt with two impaired driv-ing incidents, On July 1 stricter drink-ing and driving penalties came into effect. In addition to impaired driving, Hodge says Sundre RCMP received nu-merous firearms complaints. In Sylvan Lake two people were charged under the new drinking and driving penal-ties, said Cpl. Kevin Halwa of the Syl-van Lake RCMP detachment. Red Deer City RCMP responded to a collision on Saturday involving a motorcycle, just after 4:30 p.m. Also on Saturday, Ponoka RCMP and Integrated Traffic Service responded to a two-vehicle collision, which also involved a semi rollover on Hwy 2 between Blackfalds and Lacombe just after 3:30 p.m.

July 9Power would go out at many Red

Deer locations as high temperatures meant power demand was outstrip-ping supply. The City of Red Deer was instituting rolling power outages of 30 minutes at a time. The city was intend-ing to start with Deer Park, Rosedale, Anders and Inglewood and continue throughout the city as long as the high demand persisted. The outages could affect homes, businesses, traffic sig-nals and street lights.

July 15An explosion rocked the Norman-

deau neighbourhood sending one man to hospital and injuring another in Red Deer. Red Deer Emergency Services fire captain Terry Brew said residents of a home on Nagel Avenue were moving stuff from a rented truck to a garage when the explosion oc-curred. A propane barbecue tank in-side a van was likely the source of the

explosion. “One person suffered first degree burns on his back,” said Wes Van Bavel, Red Deer fire prevention officer. “The second male had first and second degree burns on his left arm and on his face and some lacerations. But after three hours in hospital, he was released.”

July 17RCMP say distracted driving may

have played a factor in a head-on crash that claimed the lives of two men early Tuesday morning immediately outside Rimbey. Rimbey RCMP and ambulance and fire crews were dis-patched to the scene of the two-vehicle collision on Hwy 20, south of Rimbey, at about 5:30 a.m. After the impact, one car stayed on the road, while a mini-van rolled into the ditch and was found on its roof. Rimbey RCMP Sgt. Mark Groves, who was on scene through the morning, said that both a 30-year-old man driving the car and a 36-year-old man driving the minivan died at the scene.

July 17One man was fighting for his life

and another was in custody after a stabbing in Red Deer’s Rotary Park. Red Deer RCMP said they were called to assist Emergency Health Services with a stabbing in Rotary Park. When police arrived they learned that the victim had been transported to Red Deer Regional Hospital in a civilian vehicle. The victim was in critical con-dition suffering from a life-threatening Injury. A person of interest was lo-cated nearby and was taken into cus-tody. No charges had been laid and no names were released at the time.

July 19Discount shoppers would lose one

of their local destinations on Nov. 12, when Zellers would close its Bower Place Shopping Centre store. How-ever, relief was expected with the announced opening of Target in the same space. Target Corp. struck a deal in January 2011 with Zellers Inc., a

subsidiary of the Hudson’s Bay Co., to purchase Zellers’ lease interests in 189 commercial sites. The American retail giant made the move to jump into the Canadian market, and has since con-firmed plans to open 125 to 135 stores. Target had indicated that Red Deer would be among the first Canadian communities would start operations.

July 30Sixteen people faced 24 drug-

related charges following a massive criminal investigation into organized crime and drug distribution in Red Deer. Police said the investigation and subsequent charges had disrupted two local chapters of nationally identified organized crime groups operating in the city. The groups are responsible for numerous violent crimes in the city including robberies, kidnappings, shootings and assaults. The sixteen people charged included 10 people from Central Alberta and others from Calgary, Winnipeg, Man. and Abbots-ford, B.C.

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Many thanks for your patronage this past year.

#1, 7439 - 49 ave. cres., red deer, abPhone: 403-346-0673 Fax: 403-309-3920

www.longhurstconsulting.com

“Joyous wishes for a happy holiday. Sincere thanks to our many customers.”Now that the New Year is about to arrive, we look forward to seeing you in 2013!

Hwy #11 West, Red DeerPhone: 403-347-7888

“You Dream It, We’ll Build It”

May peace, love and harmony visit your home and linger all the year through.

#1, 4699 - 61 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-341-4747 Fax: 403-347-4587

Now that the New Year is about to

arrive, we look forward to

seeing you in 2013!

#1 4608 - 62nd Street, Red Deer T4N 6T3Phone: 403-343-7183

Fax: 403-343-7171

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Mar-Ran IndustriesIndustrial Painting

& Sandblasting ExpertsFriends like you are worth making

noise about!Have a great New Year!4648 - 61 Street, Red Deer

Phone: 403-343-1494

Downloading our Best Wishes

at the NewYear.

Pike Wheaton Chevrolet

“With our gratitude at this special time of year, we’d like to extend our warm wishes to your family. We appreciate

your business all year long.”

3110 Gaetz Avenue South, Red DeerPhone: 403-347-3301

“A compassionate service dedicated to the aftercare of your pet.”

Tidings of Comfort & Joy extended to you & yours this Season!

Gerald & Connie Tomalty

RR 4, Site 19, Box 15, Red DeerPhone: 403-342-7387

Scott’s Super Trucks

Classic Trucks & Parts1932 thru 1972 Chev/GMC

May all parts of your new year be filled with health and happiness.

Hwy 592 West, PenholdPhone: 403-886-5572 Fax: 403-886-5577

Darcy D. Dunkle& John B.F. McBeath

Lawyers • General Practice of Law

To our valued clients at this holiday season, we wish you and your

families every happiness.

Phone: 403-347-5522 Fax: 403-347-5632

D&M Align and Brake Ltd.

For quality service call on us.“With warm wishes from our

family to yours for a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.”

#5, 6850 - 52 Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-343-2992

Will-Do! Furnace & Chimney

Cleaning Inc.Straight from the hearth ... warmest wishes for 2013!

Phone: 403-729-2772 or 403-346-6844

Holiday Greetings from All of Us

Wishing you much good cheer in this festive holiday season.

#5, 7450 - 49 Avenue Crescent, Red DeerPhone: 403-343-8331 Fax: 403-340-8685

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Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

After having claimed their spot on the hill at Bower Ponds Sylvia Kuebeck, left, and Rachel Jabs settle in for an afternoon and evening full of Canada Day entertainment. Thousands of people had the same idea, flocking to the ponds to celebrate Canada’s 145th birthday. See related video at reddeeradvocate.com

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Aug. 1The community of Olds was clean-

ing up after an intense rain and hail storm flooded several intersections and damaged natural landscaping on a Tuesday afternoon. The heavy down-pour began at about 4 p.m. and after 15 minutes, it was done, but not without causing some mess. Scott Chant, man-ager of utilities and public works for the Town of Olds, said at least 40 mm of rain fell in the short time accord-ing to rain gauges distributed around town. “That was probably as much as the rain gauge could catch until the hail hit,” said Chant. “From reports of some residents who have lived in the community for a number of years, it’s probably the worst storm they’ve seen in this town.”

Aug. 3The mystery of a lost wallet belong-

ing to a Red Deer man has been solved and it has been returned to the right-ful owner. Pete Priestman, 55, from Williams Lake, B.C., was camping in the back country east of Cotton Wood House on the Barkerville Hwy in the North Caribou, B.C., region last week, when he stumbled across a wallet be-longing to Neil Hamilton, 33, of Red Deer. Hamilton lost his wallet in May. He had just finished a tree planting contract near Chetwynd, B.C., a com-munity north of Prince George, and happened to be travelling through Williams Lake. The two men arranged a time to meet at Tim Hortons. “It is a good ending to the whole thing,” Priestman said. “He was quite thrilled, it was the wallet he had since he was a teenager. It’s not much usable any-more but at least he got it back and he was overjoyed, just bubbling.”

Aug. 8A Red Deer woman was charged

with attempted murder after allegedly trying to run down her mother with a car in north Red Deer. Red Deer City RCMP responded to a complaint of hit and run near Gaetz Avenue and 67th Street in Red Deer around 8:30 p.m. They alleged there was a verbal and physical confrontation between a mother and a daughter in an alley behind ATB Financial. Witnesses told investigators the daughter got into a truck and backed up quickly, hit-ting another vehicle and appeared to have driven the vehicle directly at her mother, hitting her. The driver fled the scene.

Aug. 12A Boeing 737 crashed just south

of the Red Deer Airport late Sunday afternoon. The plane had reportedly lost radio and visual contact with NAV Canada’s control tower as it made its

final approach into the airport runway. Fifty-one passengers were believed to be on board with a crew of six. In the mock training exercise, Red Deer Emergency Services crews, the Red Deer Airport staff and other agencies responded as if the simulated activ-ity was legitimate. The exercises and drills are mandatory for Transport Canada Airport certification and oc-cur every three years to ensure the agencies and the airport are prepared should disaster strike.

Aug. 15 A thick stack of charges was laid

against three former employees of the Red Deer Fields store, which closed earlier this year. Red Deer City RCMP charged Bernadette Coutourier, 42, Tara Munro, 31 and Marlina House, 25 in relation to an internal investiga-tion first launched by the company’s loss prevention department and then turned over to RCMP investigators in March. Police alleged that store em-ployees had pilfered a large volume of goods from the store and that false refunds were also made on a variety of occasions from December of 2011 through to May 3, when charges were laid, said Cpl. Kathe DeHeer, media liaison for the Red Deer City RCMP.

Aug. 19 A tincture of controversy has done

little to mar the shopping experience at public markets in Red Deer and Bentley. This year, the Red Deer pub-lic market — owned and operated by former city councillor and Red Deer College instructor Dennis Moffat and his son, Patrick — extended its hours in a bid to give shoppers more time to drop in and check out the goods and services being offered. Now in its 42nd year, the Red Deer market’s official hours were changed to 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays, an addition of 2.5 hours from previous years, when it ran from 9 a.m. to 12:30. That move has stopped a number of vendors from attending the Bentley Farmer’s Market, which runs on Saturday afternoons from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., said manager Judy Es-mond. The change at Red Deer hasn’t slowed down the number of people coming to the market, but it has lim-ited the variety of produce available to them, Esmond said.

Aug. 22A drunk driver who killed the Red

Deer parents of five children in Feb-ruary 2010 was granted full parole. Chad Mitchell Olsen, 25, formerly of

Sedalia, was granted full parole after a 90-minute Parole Board of Canada hearing was held at the downtown Red Deer parole office. He was granted day parole last December after serving a seven-month term in federal prison for the deaths of Brad and Krista Howe, both in their mid 30s, early on Feb. 7, 2010.

The two-member parole board panel ruled that Olsen, who has been living at a halfway house in Red Deer, did not pose undue risk to the public. Full parole would help him ease back into full integration with society as well.

Aug. 29Toby Lampard was confident of a

need for long-term hotel accommoda-tion in Red Deer. In fact, his company was betting $12 million on it. The president of L-7 Inc., a family-owned company, said on Tuesday that work was expected to begin this fall on a four-storey, 83-suite hotel at 6822 66th St. What would distinguish L-7’s prop-erty from those competitors would be the fact it’s designed for extended stay guests — those that often require lodg-ing for weeks or even months. “That’s the niche that we’re looking at,” said Lampard. “It’s a new offering in the Red Deer market.”

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May the New Year be an indication of all the wonderful things to come in 2013.

Best Wishes!3812 - 50 Street, Red Deer

Phone: 403-347-6455

QUIK-WAY SHELTERS & VINYL FENCING LTD.

SINCE 1994

Privacy Vinyl Fencing

Thank you for putting yourself in our Hands!#115, 5301 - 43 Street, Red Deer

Phone: [email protected]

Surround yourself with the warmth

of family and friends throughout the

New Year.

Bay 2, 7459 Edgar Industrial Bend, Red DeerPhone: 403-309-8301 Fax: 403-309-8302

Give the Gift of Education

Best wishes for much success in the new year.

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-347-6676

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

Golden Sun Health Foods“Keeping you healthy throughout the whole year.”

• Vitamins & Herbal Supplements• Best Selection

• Lowest Prices Guaranteed

#11, 5016 - 47 Avenue, Red Deer(Downtown Co-op Shopping Centre)

Phone: 403-342-4334

Season’s Greetings. Thank you Red Deer and Central Alberta for all your past

support. You have given us more reason to celebrate this happy holiday time.

4702 - 51 Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-342-1700

PARKLAND�TRANSMISSION

RED DEER

PARKLANDTRANSMISSION

Proud supporterof the Red Deer

community

Baker Family Chiropractic & Wellness CentreDr. James D. Baker, Doctor of Chiropractic

On this Holiday Season ... enjoy the wonder and excitement of family and friends.

4702 - 50 Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-347-0477

www.bakerchiropractic.ca

Aesthetic Laser& Skin Care

By: Ed Skochylas MD FRCSC

We wish everyone the best of health in 2013

#100, 5201 - 43 Street, Red DeerPhone: 403-347-6610

Our sincere wishes for a prosperous and joyous New Year.We’re proud of your trust in us.

6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive)Red Deer 403-340-4040

Proud to be Red Deer’s only

Locally Owned & Operated Funeral Home

“All the best to Our Customers and Friends at this Holiday Season.

Thanks for giving us so much to celebrate this year.”

6, 3608 - 50 Avenue, Red DeerPhone: 403-346-8900

“The Healthy Way is the Natural Way”

What better occasion than now to express our appreciation to our loyal

customers and to you all a Happy New Year!

#3 - 5108 - 52 Street, Red Deer, AB Phone: 403-314-1574 Fax: 403-314-1511

Website: europeansausage.ca

In this season of caring, well wishes to our patients and their families, and thankyou

for the privilege of caring for you.

4915 - 54th St. First FloorRed Deer, AB

Phone: 403-341-4983

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Shelley Bradshaw of Innisfail Growers helps Guy Boisvert of Red Deer select some fresh produce during the Red Deer Public Market. The market’s popularity continues to grow, as does the demand for locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables.

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Sept. 3Dana McMurray wanted her big

wedding day to include a much bigger symbol of her beloved grandfather. She thought it would be great to get married in front of the 31.5-metre tall derrick that can be easily seen on the west side of Hwy 2, just south of the Blackfalds overpass. On Saturday, the 28-year-old Blackfalds woman became Mrs. Johnson when she wed Dennis Johnson, 38, in front of 130 guests.

Sept. 4Tougher impaired driving laws

that took effect on Saturday failed to keep intoxicated drivers off Red Deer streets. Sgt. Bob Bell, in charge of the traffic unit at Red Deer city RCMP, said he was disappointed by the number of intoxicated people pulled over on Labour Day weekend, despite increased publicity over provincial legislation regarding .05 to .08 blood alcohol levels. From early Saturday until early Tuesday, five 72-hour driv-ing suspensions were issued for those with .05 to .08 levels. Six people were charged with impaired driving.

Sept. 7A former Red Deer teacher well

known in the business and livestock communities would stand trial for sex-ual assault. Warren Fertig, founder of Allandale Industries and at one time a prominent breeder and promoter of llamas and Arabian horses, was com-mitted on Thursday to stand trial in relation to the sexual assault of one of his students. Fertig, 71, was a teacher at Riverglen School in Red Deer dur-ing the mid-1970s, when the incidents are alleged to have occurred.

Sept. 7A memorial service would be held

Saturday for a Red Deer man who did not return from a swim in Amethyst Lake in the Tonquin Valley of Jasper National Park nearly two weeks ago. Grant Mark Werstiuk, 30, would be remembered at Living Stones Church at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Jasper RCMP Sgt. Dave Maludzinski said on Aug. 19, Werstiuk and some friends were fish-ing in a canoe when Werstiuk went for a swim across the lake and did not re-turn. Police do not suspect foul play.

Sept. 12A highly-valued stallion was killed

and another severely injured in what Olds College officials call a “senseless act of animal cruelty.” At some time late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, one or more people went into the horse stables on the college cam-pus and released several stallions to-gether in a common area. Predictably, a vicious fight ensued resulting in the death of one of the horses, said Tanya McDonald, dean of the animal science program.

Sept. 13Alberta Health Services confirmed

a Central Zone woman contracted the West Nile virus in the province. On Thursday, AHS reported two new hu-man cases of the virus in southern Al-berta. That brings to seven the number of confirmed cases including a woman who lives in Central Zone which in-cludes Stettler, Rocky Mountain House and Red Deer. The woman, under 65 years of age, contracted the neurologi-

cal syndrome, the more serious form. AHS said she did not travel outside of Alberta this summer. Specific details about the individual West Nile virus cases are not released for confidential-ity reasons.

Sept. 17Backlash against the city’s desig-

nated bike lanes forced city council to back pedal. Only weeks after this summer’s bike lanes were painted, city council voted to remove bike lanes on 55th Street and 40th Avenue, north of 52nd Street, and 59th Avenue, north of 70th Street. The roads will be reverted to their original configuration. The $800,000 bike lane pilot was slated for a review next fall but City Manager Craig Curtis said the safety, traffic con-gestion and parking issues raised by the community were worthy of coun-cil’s attention before the snow falls.

Sept. 19

A dispersal auction planned for a Lacombe business was attracting at-tention from as far away as Ukraine. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers would conduct an unreserved public sale at Lacombe Trailer Sales & Rentals Inc., with more than 250 items on the block, including 63 van trailers, 22 step deck trailers, 15 container trailers, 12 hiboys, nine lowboys, eight reefer trailers and eight equipment trailers. “We’ve got brand new trailers, right down to very well-used trailers,” said owner Bill Woof, who’s operated the business since 2002.

Sept. 25Four new Central Alberta schools

would get underway by next summer as part of a $288-million private-public partnership, Education Minister Jeff Johnson announced in Red Deer on Tuesday. Johnson joined Infrastruc-ture Minister Wayne Drysdale and doz-ens of community and school leaders for a sod-turning ceremony at Timothy Drive in Timberlands. A Red Deer

Public pre-kindergarten to Grade 5 school, plus a public library branch, will be built there as part of a prov-incewide bundle involving 11 other school projects. Work recently got un-derway on a middle school in Penhold for Chinook’s Edge School Division. Drysdale didn’t have firm timelines for when construction would begin on Red Deer Catholic’s new kindergarten to Grade 5 school in Clearview Ridge.

Sept. 25 Red Deer RCMP were looking for a

man who used bear spray on witnesses during a robbery at a TD Bank branch on Sunday. At about 3 p.m., a man en-tered the bank, at 6320 50th Ave., and demanded money from the tellers. He discharged bear spray in the bank and fled on foot heading south and into the Riverside Meadows neighbourhood. Witnesses hit by the bear spray were treated on scene by Red Deer Emer-gency Medical Services. Red Deer RCMP are not saying whether the rob-ber made off with any money.

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Newly married Dana and Dennis Johnson stand proudly under the rig that stands in memory of Dana’s grandfather, south and west of Blackfalds along Hwy 2.

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Oct. 4 A rising number of overweight and

obese patients was leading to changes in patient care at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Rob Swanson, direc-tor of medical and surgical in-patient services, said that over the past few years, they’ve noticed more and more patients who need different care be-cause of their weight. “We’re evaluat-ing a number of different things, from the layout of washrooms to patient care,” said Swanson on Thursday. “With a bariatric patient, we need to know how to most effectively transport them.” Obesity is a chronic disease that affects about one million Alber-tans, or approximately 25 per cent of the province’s population, according to Alberta Health Services.

Oct. 6If the recent demise of Eckville’s

Fairways at Last Hill Golf and Country Club and the Rimbey Golf and Trailer Park didn’t raise eyebrows, the receiv-ership last month of Pheasantback Golf and Country Club near Stettler certainly did. Those who work in Central Alberta’s golf industry agree that the economic downturn and bad weather have hurt most courses. But they also point to deeper problems that could threaten the viability of even more golf courses. “A lot of golf courses — 10, 15 years ago — were do-ing maybe 5,000 to 10,000 more rounds than they are now,” said Ryan Vold, director of golf at Wolf Creek Golf Resort near Ponoka. This decline re-flects an aging population, with many young people choosing not to step into the golf shoes of their parents and grandparents. “There’s definitely been a shift in demographics,” said Blair Felesky, general manager of the Pine Hills Golf Club at Rocky Mountain House. “We’ve been aware of that for many, many years.”

Oct. 9 A Red Deer man was charged in

the fatal hit and run on Taylor Bridge early Saturday. At about 2:05 a.m., an 18-year-old man was struck by a westbound vehicle and pronounced dead on the scene. A relative told the Advocate the victim was Paul Gabriel Bertin of Botha. Bertin recently moved to Red Deer and was living with two of his five brothers. He had just started working in a fencing business with them. The driver did not remain on the scene but later on Saturday police located the vehicle suspected to be involved in the collision. Brent Robert Cameron, 24, was charged with failing to stop and render assistance at the scene of a collision and public mis-chief.

Oct. 10South Red Deer had lost one of its

longest-serving restaurants. Kelsey’s Restaurant ceased operations on Sept. 28. Although the furniture and fixtures at its 1935 Gaetz Ave. premises re-mained, exterior signage had been re-moved. Kelsey’s had operated in Red Deer for 15 years.

Oct. 19 A 51-year-old man charged in two

armed robberies at local Servus Credit Union branches was also alleged to be responsible for other robberies in Alberta. Branches of the credit union were robbed on July 9 and Oct. 4. Philip Glen Noel was charged with

two counts of robbery, two counts of committing an offence while masked, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public, possession of property obtained by crime and four counts of breach of a recognizance. Noel had been remanded in custody.

Oct. 23 Central Albertans woke to the first

icy blast of winter Tuesday. Slick roads contributed to a truck crashing into the 53rd St. Music store, replacing the sound of crashing cymbals at 11 a.m. The full-sized pickup burst through the retailer’s east plate glass window and wall, shattering pianos and other instruments. The male driver was un-injured, as were the store’s employees and patrons. The female driver of an

SUV hit by the pickup truck just be-fore it entered the store suffered very minor injuries.

Oct. 23A Mexican worker who has been

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risk. Their two-year-old twins do have Alberta health coverage since they were born in province.

Oct. 26Red Deer RCMP have charged a

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Taking advantage of the fresh snow in his neighbourhood, Jim Saltvold heads out for what may be the earliest skiing he has done. Not confessing to be an avid skier, Saltvold does like to get out on his skis when the snow is good, however, and have a ski around his neighborhood in Vanier Woods. The early October snowstorm in Central Alberta gave him ample opportunity.

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Nov. 2 A Red Deer woman and her father

were celebrating a $250,000 Extra win from a recent Lotto Max draw. Jenise Muldowney of Red Deer and her father Pat Muldowney, who lives in De Win-ton, south of Calgary, shared a ticket in the Oct. 19 draw. Pat bought a couple of Lotto Max tickets for himself and his daughter at a convenience store in Calgary. When he checked the tickets the morning after the draw at another retail location, he wasn’t sure what he was seeing when the $250,000 prize amount displayed on the player-facing screen. The pair’s ticket had exactly matched all seven Extra numbers drawn to win the game’s top prize.

Nov. 5Friends of Sunnybrook Farm Soci-

ety have become the official owners of the popular agricultural attraction. In a ceremony on Monday, the title for the 10-acre site was transferred to the society by the Red Deer and Dis-trict Museum Society for a token $1. A plaque was also unveiled recognizing the late Norman Bower’s donation in 1988 of the farm that his family first homesteaded in 1899.

Nov. 7A Central Alberta man had been

charged with second-degree murder in the death of his father, a former Red Deer city councillor. Innisfail RCMP charged Aaron Guilbault, 31, in the death of Tim Guilbault, 58. Tim Guil-bault was found dead on Monday af-ternoon in his residence in Red Lodge Estates, an acreage near Innisfail. The elder Guilbault was a three-term coun-cillor, serving on Red Deer city council from 1986 to 1995.

Nov. 14A Red Deer nightclub lost its ap-

peal to keep its business licence and had to shut down after concerns were raised over public safety. In its Nov. 6 written decision, the Red Deer Appeal and Review Board said it would up-hold its decision to revoke the licence for Tequila Nightclub. The revocation was effective seven days from the is-suance of the decision, but the City of Red Deer was seeking legal advice on when that date was because of when the nightclub operator may have been notified.

Nov. 20 RCMP in Innisfail had accused a

local car dealer of defrauding four people of roughly $1 million. After an investigation that took place over the last year and a half, charges were laid against Allister Loughlin, who operat-ed G.H. Auto and Innisfail Park & Self Storage. Innisfail RCMP Cpl. A.J. Mand confirmed on Tuesday that four counts of theft over $5,000 had been laid against Loughlin, 48, who was released from custody on a recognizance.

Nov.26A restaurant that’s served meals in

downtown Red Deer for nearly three decades was on the move. Dino’s Fam-ily Restaurant was closing its longtime

business at 4617 Gaetz Ave. and relo-cating to smaller premises at No. 130, 3121 49th Ave. Manager George Oris said the restaurant had been offer-ing only take-out and delivery service since Nov. 15, and expected to be at its new location on Monday. Slated to operate there as Dino’s Take-out, it would limit its service to food pick-up and delivery. Oris said the business’s selection of pizzas and pastas will ex-pand.

Nov. 30 The RCMP officer in charge of Red

Deer’s major crimes unit lost his court bid to derail a pending disciplinary hearing against him. Sgt. Steve Black, a veteran Mountie, was accused of sex-ual harassment, drinking in the office

and operating a police car under the influence of alcohol. A federal judge said it would be premature to rule on Black’s argument that a delay of more than 10 months meant the disciplinary hearing must be scrapped.

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Dec. 4Inglewood residents were breathing

a sigh of relief after police shut down a drug house that caused neighbours to feel unsafe in their own homes. Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) closed the house at 51 Ibbotson Close in Red Deer after two investiga-tions and numerous complaints over four years. “There has been constant criminal activity, drug use, drug abuse, drug trafficking,” said Billy Kerr, manager of SCAN South, a division of Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams. “There were numerous people coming from the address from all times of the day and night bringing undesir-able people into the community.”

Dec. 5 Target Corp. would not be opening

its Red Deer store until spring, but the retail giant was already having an im-pact on the local economy. The City of Red Deer issued a building permit last month for $7.1 million worth of renova-tions to the former Zellers premises in Bower Place Shopping Centre. PCL Construction had been preparing the site for Target since mid-November, when Zellers ceased operations there.

Dec. 6Four Red Deer property owners

faced possible sale of their land on Dec. 14 because they hadn’t paid their taxes in recent years. But if they are like other property owners in the last several years, they’ll pay their bills quickly so they don’t lose their land. Deb Stott, controller for the Property Taxation Department, said that in the six years that she’s worked with the City of Red Deer, there hasn’t been one property sold through the city’s public auction. Surrounding munici-palities have experienced this as well, she added.

Dec. 7A well blowout near Innisfail

prompted new tighter regulations for fracking. The Energy Resources Conservation Board released a draft directive on Thursday that sets out additional subsurface requirements for hydraulic fracking operations in Alberta. Updated regulations focus on additional measures to prevent well failures and to reduce the risk of “in-terwellbore communication,” which is when fluids flow from one wellbore into another. Updated measures have also been introduced to reduce the impact on non-saline aquifers, water wells and the surface.

Dec. 9 This holiday season Cara and Tim

Herbert and their four children should have been decorating with tinsel and welcoming family and friends to their Erksine-area home, northeast of Alix, for the first time. Instead there were

brave faces on the family of six as they counted their blessings in a cramped holiday trailer next to the remains of their mobile home. Around 2 p.m. on Nov. 10, Cara Herbert returned home from grocery shopping in Stettler to see smoke billowing out of the roof of the place they called home since May. After calling 911, Herbert waited for the firefighters as she watched the flames spread. Fire crews arrived shortly after and battled the blaze for several hours to no avail.

Dec. 13Four people faced numerous

charges after a warrant executed on a Red Deer residence yielded numer-ous drugs and various weapons. On Sunday, members of the Red Deer RCMP executed the warrant at a home. Upon entering the residence, police said they found four males and two fe-males. A search of the residence led to the seizure of cocaine and prescription drugs, drug trafficking paraphernalia, a nine-mm prohibited handgun, a pro-hibited knife and a machete, police allege.

Dec. 14

Homeless people in Red Deer will get assistance to get off the street soon-er with an increase of provincial fund-ing for outreach services. Local agen-cies will receive a total of $3 million for outreach support programs — an increase of $615,000 over last year — as part of Alberta’s 10-year Plan to End

Homelessness. The money from the government’s Human Services depart-ment will fund a new triage program at the homeless shelter run by the Cen-tral Alberta Safe Harbour Society. It will also help maintain other existing programs offered by the society, the Red Deer Native Friendship Centre, Central Alberta Women’s Outreach, Canadian Mental Health Association and others.

Dec. 18Only 39 per cent of patients at Red

Deer’s emergency department waiting for admission got an acute care bed within eight hours of coming to emer-gency between April and September. The target for Red Deer Regional Hos-pital Centre is to admit 75 per cent of those patients within eight hours by March 2013, the end of the fiscal year. For the most part, patients waited in emergency beds. The hospital did much better when it came to treating and discharging emergency patients. Seventy per cent of patients were dis-charged within four hours and the tar-get is 80 per cent.

Dec. 21Chad Olsen lives three blocks from

the site where he killed a Red Deer couple. Every day he sees the inter-section where he caused the deaths of Brad and Krista Howe, parents of three children and guardians of two. Olsen chose to drive impaired early on Feb. 7, 2010 — a decision he will regret

for the rest of his life. “There isn’t a time that I go through (that intersec-tion) and it doesn’t take me back to that moment and what happened that night,” said Olsen, now 25. Olsen said he didn’t feel impaired that night, so he was shocked when he learned his blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit. He now believes there’s no safe limit for alcohol if one plans to drive. Olsen said he takes full responsibility for his actions. He is committed to telling his story to pre-vent others from drinking and driving. He’s never had a drink since the crash and has no desire to consume alcohol ever again. He is prohibited from driv-ing until October 2016.

Dec. 31Red Deer greets 2013 with Centen-

nial First Night on New Year’s Eve at Bower Ponds, from 6 to 9 p.m. About 2,500 glow sticks, 1,000 temporary tat-toos of Red Deer’s centennial logo, and slices of cake from 10 big birthday cakes will be given away. Sheila Ban-nerman, Red Deer Centennial Com-mittee chairperson, said according to consultations with the public and com-munity groups, people wanted to cel-ebrate on ice. “One of the things that came across really strongly was people hoped to have a skating party. And people always like fireworks,” Banner-man said. Freezing temperatures have ensured the pond will be ready, but hopefully it won’t be too cold because the fireworks would be cancelled if it’s below -20C.

DECEMBER

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Red Deer RCMP Major Crimes Unit Sgt. Brian Davison, left, and Innisfail RCMP Cpl. A.J. Mand announce that Aaron Guilbault, 31, has been charged with second degree murder in the death of his father, Timothy Guilbault, 58, (bottom right) at the Innisfail RCMP Detachment on Nov. 7.

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Al Jacobs of Riteway Fencing Inc. in Red Deer works to fence in a drug house at 51 Ibbotson Close in Red Deer on Dec. 4. The home was closed by SCAN officers.