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Four byelections called for Oct. 27
Alberta Premier Jim Prentice announced Monday he will put himself and his mandate to the test on Oct. 27.
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AUC urged to review decision
INJURY ACCIDENT
BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF
The City of Red Deer will ask the Alberta Utilities Commission to review its power line route through the Pines neighbourhood.
Mayor Tara Veer announced the city’s intention to formally ask the commission (AUC) to reconsider its decision in a meeting with more than two dozen Pines residents on Monday afternoon.
“I can say we’ve heard you and weighed various
options,” said Veer.A group representing Pines residents has already
made its own application for a review of the AUC’s decision to allow AltaLink to use an existing right-of-way behind Pines homes for a higher-capacity 138-ki-lovolt line strung along taller unipole transmission towers.
Residents have lobbied to move the power lines below the escarpment, a position the city endorsed before AUC hearings on $350 million worth of trans-mission upgrades for Central Alberta began in March.
The announcement the city would make its own application for review and variances was greeted with loud applause by residents, who gathered in a city conference room in the Professional Building downtown.
“We’re just really, really, really pleased. We’re just glad that the city came through for us,” said Ash-ley Meyers, who is the mother of two young children and concerned about the health impacts of a higher voltage line so close to her home.
Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff
Afternoon traffic was disrupted in the intersection of Gaetz Avenue at 74th Street on Monday after a motor vehicle collision. Here City of Red Deer fire-medics load a patient in preparation for transport to hospital.
CITY BACK PINES RESIDENTS ON POWER LINE PLACEMENT
City backs spending for school site servicing
BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF
Red Deer city council thinks the province should pay its share for servicing for school sites.
At Monday’s meeting, council approved close to $9 million in spending for sanitary and storm trunk ser-vicing for new development in the city’s northeast.
Council has already approved $7.9 million in the 2013 capital budget for servicing projects in the area, including the North Highway Connector project.
Part of the reason for the additional cost of the projects was the faster than anticipated approval of a high school in the Emerson quarter near 30th Av-enue.
The long-term is for three high schools, public, Catholic and francophone, to be established in the area, and to ultimately share facilities — including community sports fields — in a “campus style” devel-opment in northeast Red Deer.
That vision is set out in a proposed Northeast High Schools and Play Fields Area Structure Plan, which was endorsed in August by the city’s munici-pal planning commission.
The plan area consists of nearly 56 acres of city-owned land northeast of where 67th Street and 30th Avenue will intersect following their future realign-ment. The eastern portion of the parcel would be earmarked for high school construction, which is expected to occur over the next 10 to 25 years.
Work on a new Red Deer Regional Catholic School Division high school is expected to begin next year, with Red Deer Public School District anticipating another public high school by around 2020. A high school for Conseil scolaire Centre-Nord likely won’t be required for 20 years or more.
Although the three schools would share some facilities, they’d each also have private space to en-sure their identities are maintained, said Planning Department documents.
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NDP leadership hopefuls take aim at energy sector, public services
BY MURRAY CRAWFORDADVOCATE STAFF
Ideas of rethinking energy royalties and eliminat-ing the energy regulator and the flat tax dominated the Alberta NDP leaders forum in Red Deer, all with the goal of better providing public services for Albertans.
The party known for defending public services such as health care and education spent the two-hour forum advocating pushing back and expanding these services to better serve the energy and cash rich province.
All three candidates and about 40 Central Alberta residents packed into the Snell Auditorium at the Red Deer Public Library Monday evening. The field includes Rod Loyola, NDP candidate and president of the non-academic staff association at the Univer-sity of Alberta, and MLAs Rachel Notley and David Eggen.
The vote is scheduled for Oct. 18 with a leadership convention as current leader Brian Mason is set to retire after 10 years at the helm.
“There is a myth that if you vote for anybody but
the PCs, you will lose your job,” said Loyola. “It’s nothing more than a big lie.”
Loyola said the energy regulator was designed to be as far from a crown corporation as possible and stacked with PC “cronies.”
“That needs to be turned upside down,” he said, advocating a move to renewable energy.
“We can’t turn our back on oil and no one is sug-gesting it. We need to diversify, need to start a transi-tion.”
He talked about developing a 15-year plan to transition, not completely, to a renewable resource economy.
Notley, Edmonton-Strathcona MLA, talked about the need to better understand the impacts of frack-ing on public water supply before a proliferation of the controversial form of energy extraction. She pointed to the primrose site near Cold Lake that is leaking into a water supply last year. She also talked about phasing out coal, developing a climate change strategy and developing energy efficiency strategy.
“We’re the only province without an energy effi-ciency strategy.”
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POWER LINE: Buoyed by support from neighbours
Meyers was buoyed by the strong support from neighbours at the gathering.
“We’re all in it together. It’s not just one or two people leading it,” she said. “We’re passionate about it. We don’t want it in our backyard. We want our beautiful area to stay beautiful.”
Residents are hoping that their proposed alter-nate route will be put back on the table. It would move the power lines to the bottom of the escarp-ment and leave more than 50 homes outside a 150-metre zone around the power line.
That route was not considered by the AUC. In-stead, the panel considered — but dismissed — an AltaLink-proposed alternate route that would have moved a shorter stretch of line below the escarp-ment.
AltaLink’s alternate is considered a second-best option by residents.
Paul Goranson, the city’s director of corporate services, said the municipality will argue that the AUC misinterpreted how the power lines impact on residents should be measured.
In making its decision, the AUC suggests that since the upgraded line would follow an existing route with transmission towers, the impact on resi-dents is virtually “nil.”
The City of Red Deer disagrees and will argue that an alternate route should be chosen.
Parsons Close resident Tom Conroy is not happy that AltaLink has already been tagging trees for trimming and removal along the existing right-of-way even before the appeal period is over.
“It makes it seem like this thing was decided a long time ago and that all these steps we’re taking are just meaningless.”
That shows a lack of respect for residents, he said.AltaLink spokesman Peter Brodsky said the com-
pany has been given approval to complete the trans-mission upgrade and is in the process of beginning right-of-way clearing.
Work is underway on other parts of the project and he didn’t have a specific date when brush and tree crews might be in the Pines area.
“I know we have signage in the area. We will up-date that signage and any information for residents
as we get closer to that area.”Brodsky said if the AUC chooses to review the
route, “we will certainly participate in that process.“But we’re currently under the direction the proj-
ect is going ahead and we’re working to the schedule as approved by the AUC.”
SERVICES: Province creates challenges for city
At last week’s Alberta Urban Municipalities Asso-ciation’s annual convention in Edmonton, Red Deer sponsored a resolution calling on the province to pay its share for school site servicing.
Coun. Ken Johnston said the projects would have gone forward anyway, and the city will save on in-flationary costs. He said the projects allow to build for the future, while pointing out there is a broader issue.
“It reminded me of me telling the kids that they were responsible for shovelling the driveway but they had to buy their own snowblower,” said John-ston. “It does reflect the realities in our province — downloading responsibility without resources.”
Mayor Tara Veer said growing communities al-ways appreciate and welcome provincial announce-ments of new schools, but they create challenges for municipalities.
Coun. Lawrence Lee said the city continues to grow and they must meet needs — and in order to do that, they must spend the money.
Council approved $3.5 million for the North Highway Connector 30th Avenue Storm Trunk from Northland Drive to the South Quarter Line, but an additional $6.5 million is needed because of the el-evated construction of the school site and reorienta-tion of the proposed school site near 30th Avenue to 67th Street.
It was also found that the trunk needs to be buried an additional three to four metres and the subgrade material was unsuitable for road construction.
The developer of the Evergreen development plans to start construction of the neighbourhood storm pond before winter.
The sanitary trunk extension project needs an additional $2.3 million. Council approved $4.4 mil-lion in funding previously for two sanitary offsite projects for the Timberlands subdivision. The south quarter line to 67th Street requires an additional $150,000 and the North Highway Connector (30th
Avenue Sanitary Trunk — Northland Drive to South Quarter Line) requires an additional $2.3 million to finish.
NDP: Focused on switch to renewable energy
Eggen, Edmonton-Calder, talked about investing the current non-renewable energy wealth into devel-oping a new renewable energy wealth, with the in-clusion that the province raise energy royalties. He advocated upgrading bitumen in province, instead of relying on pipelines to ship raw bitumen to upgrad-ers and refineries outside of Alberta. He said Alber-ta should not be extracting more bitumen than it can upgrade, and by building capacity to do so it could better regulate the extraction of the raw crude.
All three candidates focused on the importance of preparing the province for a transition to using renewable energy.
Alberta’s flat tax and corporate tax rate came un-der fire during the forum, with all three expressing frustration with the regime.
“We’ve been through the flat tax experiment for more than a decade and no other province seems to be trying this asinine idea. We need a reasonable tax structure that pays for the services people want to have,” said Eggen.
Loyola said a progressive tax regime would go a long way to mitigate the province’s boom-bust cycle it rides under the current royalty and flat tax system.
“Important we have a system where people who aren’t making as much don’t pay as much and people who make more and are benefiting from the system, pay a little more.”
Eggen said they are seeing a dynamic change in how the province is being run and a change in the character and beliefs of the people who live there.
“You get drawn into the salaries here, but when you need the child care, education or eventually seniors care you see how expensive things are in the province.”
Eggen talked about recent victories for the party, including the announcement about two weeks ago that the Michener Centre would stay open.
“It’s not like Jim Prentice made that decision out of the goodness of his heart, he made that decision because we forced him to.”
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Council approves Evergreen area structure plan
BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF
Red Deer’s newest northeast neighbourhood — Evergreen — is gaining ground.
City council passed a bylaw amendment cement-ing the Evergreen Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan on Monday.
The neighbourhood is located northeast of the 67th Street and 30th Avenue intersection.
It will boast natural areas, mixed land uses, con-nectivity and eight different housing types.
Coun. Dianne Wyntjes said she is looking forward to watching the area develop and to see what the next chapter of this growth brings to the city.
The Evergreen community will have the option to allow a Home Owners Association (HOA). This would be the a first in Red Deer for an entire community.
An association would provide a level of service or maintenance of the community that are above the city standards.
Coun. Tanya Handley raised concerns about the impact a HOA would have on future planning for neighbouring sites.
She noted that having a HOA might limit who moves into this community because of the added fees.
If an association is formed, the city and the HOA would hammer out a deal to determine responsibil-ity for services.
Director of Planning Kim Fowler used Calgary as an example to illustrate a scenario.
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Four byelections called for Oct. 27BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice an-nounced Monday he will put himself and his man-date to the test on Oct. 27 in one of four byelections.
“We’ve begun to shape a new Progressive Conser-vative government with essentially new leadership, new voices and a new way of doing things,” Prentice told a news conference. “We’re ready to hit the doors and to engage every voter in these constituencies.”
Three of the byelections will be in Calgary and one in Edmonton. The Tories hold 57 of 87 seats in the Alberta legislature, so the results won’t affect the balance of power.
Prentice, who won the Progressive Conservative party leadership on Sept. 6, will run in Calgary-Foot-hills, in the city’s northwest.
The constituency adjoins the federal riding of Calgary Centre-North, which Prentice won handily three times when he served as a Conservative MP from 2004 to 2010.
Prentice, a 58-year-old Calgarian, said his home is in north Calgary and that is where he wanted to run.
The riding came open just hours earlier Monday when Independent legislature member Len Webber
announced he was resigning. Webber, a three-term MLA, won the federal Conservative nomination on the weekend to run in Calgary-Confederation.
He left the PC caucus in March to protest what he called the bully tactics and tantrums of then-premier Alison Redford. Redford resigned soon after as cau-cus and party discontent mounted over her leader-ship style, lavish travel and office expenses.
Also Monday, backbencher Ken Hughes quit his riding of Calgary-West to return to the private sec-tor, allowing Prentice to introduce Calgary police Sgt. Mike Ellis as the party’s standard-bearer in that byelection.
Hughes, a former Conservative MP and cabinet minister under Redford, said in a news release he wanted to help Prentice with his agenda for govern-ment renewal.
Gordon Dirks, a former chairman of the Calgary Board of Education, was brought into cabinet by Prentice to be education minister and was acclaimed last week as the PC candidate for the byelection in Calgary-Elbow, which is Redford’s old constituency.
Dirks said he’ll focus on the future, including get-ting schools built for a rapidly growing population.
“I’m not focusing on the opposition. I’m not focus-ing on the past.”
Former Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel was ap-
pointed health minister by Prentice two weeks ago. He has been acclaimed to run for the Tories in Ed-monton-Whitemud. That riding opened up recently when Dave Hancock, who took over as premier after Redford, announced he was leaving public life.
Since taking the top job, Prentice has been on a whirlwind tour of announcements: he has put the government air fleet up for sale, axed changes to public-sector pensions and cancelled a redesign of the province’s licence plate.
The opposition is urging voters not to let the To-ries off that lightly.
“Mr. Prentice can probably fix up some of the cor-ruption and the scandals that plagued the Redford government, but he can’t run away from the govern-ment’s record on health care or education or on the development of our natural resources,” said NDP Leader Brian Mason in Edmonton.
“Those are the issues that we’re going to be taking to voters in these byelections.”
The Opposition Wildrose party is running its cam-paigns under the slogan: “Help Send the PCs a Mes-sage.”
Prentice had promised the byelections would be out of the way before the legislature resumes sitting on Nov. 17. A general election must be held by law in the spring of 2016.
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Man convicted in Alberta RCMP deaths held on drug charge released from jail
EDMONTON — One of two men convicted in the deaths of four Alberta Mounties who pleaded guilty to a drug charge this month has been released from jail.
Dennis Cheeseman was fined $1,000 on Sept. 9 for having prescription drugs that were not in his name.
Cheeseman was released from prison last Novem-ber after serving two-thirds of his sentence for man-slaughter in the fatal shooting of the RCMP officers at a farm in Mayerthorpe in 2005.
The conditions of his release included abstaining from drugs and alcohol until his entire sentence ex-pires on April 13, 2016.
Sources tell The Canadian Press that Cheeseman was released back into the community from a federal prison Sept. 17 on the same conditions.
The Correctional Service of Canada declined to comment, citing federal privacy laws.
Cheeseman and his brother-in-law, Shawn Hen-nessey, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for giving James Roszko a rifle and a ride to his farm where the Mounties were gunned down.
Constables Peter Schiemann, Anthony Gordon,
Brock Myrol and Leo Johnston were guarding a Quonset hut on Roszko’s property on March 3, 2005, as part of a marijuana grow-op and automobile chop-shop investigation.
Roszko ambushed the officers before he was shot and wounded, then killed himself.
Hennessey was granted day parole on Sept. 23.
Ranchers to conserve huge tract of native grassland
CALGARY — Southern Alberta ranchers have banded together to preserve a huge swath of almost untouched native grassland that some call a prairie Serengeti.
“Everything — everything — that was there when Columbus arrived is still there,” said Larry Simpson of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, which helped put the deal together. “That’s what makes this area so special.”
The 72 members of the Waldron Grazing Co-op have agreed to sign a conservation easement on more than 12,000 hectares of rolling prairie and foothills that their group has owned since 1962. The land, located on either side of Highway 22 south of Longview, Alta., was being eyed by developers and could have been sold for at least $75 million, said Simpson.
Instead, the ranchers agreed to easements that forbid subdividing, draining of wetlands, or cultiva-tion of the land.
“We’re not in it for the money, we’re really not,” said rancher Tim Nelson from Stavely, Alta., chair-man of co-op board.
ALBERTABRIEFS COUNCIL: Other news
She said the HOA would be responsible for plow-ing the boulevards (middle sections between roads) and the city would be responsible for its standard snow clearing and road maintenance.
In other council news:● One councillor wants the city to look at options
for reducing air conditioner noise.Coun. Paul Harris introduced a notice of motion
asking the city to advocate for changes to the Alberta Building and Safety Codes. The notice of motion will be considered in two weeks.
● Red Deer had a strong presence at the last week’s Alberta Urban Municipalities Association convention in Edmonton.
Its temporary foreign worker resolution was passed unanimously as an emergency resolution by the delegation on Friday. The resolution calls on the province to lobby for changes to the federal govern-ment that address the abuses in the program.
“I think this has been one of our most productive AUMA meetings,” said Mayor Tara Veer. “Histori-cally we have always been strong participants but I think the receptivity from the premiers office and the cabinet portfolio tells me we are making signifi-cant headway in positioning Red Deer’s role as third largest city and capitalizing on the influence that we have.”
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The crowds of protesters in the streets of Hong Kong continue to grow, and they have spread beyond Central (the business district) to Kowloon and Cause-way Bay.
The police are already us-ing tear gas and pepper spray, and rubber bullets will be next.
It’s not exactly Armaged-don, but it’s the most serious organized protest that China has seen since the pro-democ-racy movement on Tiananmen Square was drowned in blood 25 years ago.
Hong Kong isn’t exactly China, of course, in the sense that it doesn’t live under the same arbitrary dictatorship as the rest of the country.
While it has been under the ultimate control of the communist regime in Beijing since Britain handed the territory back to China in 1997, the deal London made before the hand-over guaranteed Hong Kong’s existing social system, in-cluding freedom of speech and the rule of law, for another 50 years.
Indeed, the “one country, two systems” deal even stipulated that the Hong Kong Special Administra-tive Region would get more democratic as time went on. There was already an elected Legislative Council when the British left, but by 2017, Beijing promised, there would also be a democratically elected chief executive. (The holder of that office is now chosen by a 1,200-person Election Committee that is packed with pro-Beijing members.)
But free elections for the chief executive turned out to be more democracy than the Beijing regime
could swallow, mainly because it’s terrified of the example spreading to the rest of China. So it broke its promise: late last month the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing declared that it will allow only three candidates to run for chief executive, and that all of them must be approved by a nominating committee chosen by the regime.
That’s what triggered the current wave of demon-strations. As Martin Lee, founding chairman of the Democratic Party, said at a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong: “What’s the difference between a rotten orange, a rotten apple and a rotten banana? We want genuine universal suffrage, not democracy with Chi-nese characteristics.”
Li Fei, deputy secretary-general of the NPC stand-ing committee that wrote the new rule, said that opening up nominations would cause a “chaotic society,” and that the chief executive must “love the country and love the party.”
It’s the classic communist mind-set and it left Hong Kong democrats with no options other than surrender or popular protest. Now thousands of people are out in the streets.
Where does it go from here?This confrontation comes at a particularly unfor-
tunate time for Hong Kong’s pro-democratic move-ment, because the relatively new supreme leader in Beijing, President Xi Jinping, cannot afford to make any concessions.
Since he came to power two years ago, Xi has launched a massive anti-corruption purge that has made him a lot of enemies. At least 30 senior offi-cials and hundreds of their family members and as-sociates have been put under investigation or taken into custody. Thousands of other officials might also face arrest (and rightly so) if the purge spreads. About 70 officials have actually committed suicide in the past year and a half.
The campaign against corruption is necessary and
long overdue, but it is widely resented by those who fear that they and their families might also be caught in the net (including the family and associates of former presidents Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin). The resentment is all the deeper because Xi Jinping’s own family and associates are magically untouched by the purge.
Many powerful people in the communist hierar-chy would therefore be greatly relieved if Xi lost power, or at least was forced to end the anti-corrup-tion campaign. If he were to surrender to pro-democ-racy protests in Hong Kong, he would be giving those people an excuse to unite against him in defence of the Communist Party’s monopoly of power, and not just of their own personal interests.
Using excessive force to quell the protests, up to and including massacres, would also leave Xi open to criticism, of course, but mainly to criticism from abroad. As we saw in the suppression of the Tianan-men Square protests in 1989, in the end Communist Party cadres will usually support the use of violence in defence of their power and privileges.
As for the general public in China, the events in Hong Kong are already represented in the state-con-trolled media (to the extent that they are reported at all) as the anti-patriotic actions of people who are being manipulated by hostile foreign powers. Many ordinary Chinese people won’t believe that, but they probably won’t risk much to support of the people of Hong Kong. (If the protests spread to the mainland, of course, it’s a whole different game.)
Xi Jinping would doubtless prefer to win his con-frontation with Hong Kong’s pro-democracy move-ment peacefully, but he will use as much violence as necessary to suppress it. Massacres would do great damage to China’s relations with the rest of the world, but he knows where his priorities lie.
Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist liv-ing in London.
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C E N T R A L A L B E R T A ’ SD A I L Y N E W S P A P E R
What should we make of the tear-stained apology given by the prime minister’s parliamentary secretary for his bizarre behaviour last week in the House during question period?
Was Paul Ca-landra’s apology sincere or an at-tempt to down-grade his circus p e r f o r m a n c e into mere soap opera?
However his l i t t le two-act play was script-ed, we simply can’t believe the performance was genuine. And the very real public suspicion that we are being played for fools with our money and our very lives in-fects not only the current zoo in Parlia-ment, but every aspect of our lives.
When you can’t trust the govern-ment — chiefly because they won’t tell you the truth, or anything at all — the authority of government is badly com-promised.
That affects more than you think.Bottom line: government needs our
permission to operate. They need our support on everything from a man-date to go to war, to trust that oilsands and pipeline megaprojects are safe, to whether we should allow a high-voltage power line near our homes, to whether anyone really cares about ag-ing and severely handicapped people at Michener Centre.
Canada is about to commit hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment and Canadian service people’s lives in a conflict against an enemy Canadians don’t even know. We’ll be sending per-sonnel into a mission that has not been defined and therefore has no goals.
We’ve been promised a public de-bate this week on a U.S. request that free nations unite against a terrorist group seeking to set up a medieval ca-liphate in the Middle East.
Canadians definitely support stop-ping them. But it would be nice to know what the expectations are of us in helping that effort.
Two weeks ago, we were training Kurdish troops and giving humanitar-ian aid to refugees displaced by the fighting in Iraq. Now, it seems we’re dropping bombs.
Next, will we be invading Syria, in the same way our troops went to Af-ghanistan? How’s that worked out?
The problem is, our own govern-ment won’t tell us what they’re plan-
ning. Prime Minister Stephen Harper surprised everyone during an inter-view in New York with the Wall Street Journal by saying that he is consider-ing Canada’s taking on an active fight-ing role in Iraq.
Previously, Canadian troops were to be advisors and humanitarian assis-tants. They were to be there for 30 days and then we’d decide what comes next.
We don’t even know that for sure, because no such announcement was ever made in Parliament.
That set up the circus with Calan-dra last week. Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair was simply doing his job when he asked in the House if Canada’s com-mitment to sending troops to Iraq end-ed on Oct. 5, 30 days after they were sent in.
With Harper absent, Calandra went off on a rant about a tweet sent by an NDP MP about Israel a whole month earlier.
Nonplussed, Mulcair pressed on, with both Calandra and other govern-
ment MPs, for an answer about our role in Iraq, only to hear the same rant repeated over and over again.
An appeal to Speaker Andrew Scheer ended with a rebuke to Mulcair and no more questions from him would be allowed.
Despite the hooting from the back-benches, even Conservative MPs were later reported to be infuriated by this blatant contempt for Parliament. On national TV later, Calandra was unre-pentant, and when asked by a reporter if he had an obligation to answer a question in the House, Calandra went off on the same rant again.
Since then, CBC News learned that Calandra was ordered by the “kids in short pants” in the PMO to answer ev-ery question about Iraq in this way.
So what to make of Calandra’s weep-ing apology days later? He absolved the PMO of interference and said he took complete responsibility to for his clownish behaviour.
Sorry? Really? If you’re sorry, then
answer the damn question.Canadians appear to support the
mission against terrorism, but they are beginning to doubt whether they are being told the truth about what the mission is supposed to entail. We don’t even know, after years of budget cut-backs for military maintenance, if our equipment is up to the task.
Harper got his mandate by prom-ising open, transparent government. Since being elected, he has given us anything but.
It’s one thing to believe politicians lie. That’s just a standing joke.
It’s a whole new order of things when we begin to believe we’re be-ing played for fools. That’s when local organizers, from pipeline protesters, to power line critics and the Occupy movement decide the authority to act lies with them at home.
Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate edi-tor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate.blogspot.ca or email [email protected].
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AltaLink ignores residentsin Pines power line dispute
Re: AltaLink power line route through Pines neighbourhood
It’s been smoke and mirrors from the start. AltaLink never had any in-tention to do anything other than what they wanted from the very beginning of the power line upgrade project through the Pines subdivision.
Yet AltaLink spokesman Peter Brodsky states, “We feel we did right by the Pines residents in terms of ad-dressing their concerns.” (Red Deer Ad-vocate, Sept. 17)
The Pines residents group proposal to move the power lines to a less intru-sive location, taking every residence out of the way, was never given any consideration.
Over 90 per cent of the affected resi-dents were contacted and signed a pe-tition supporting the alternate route with support unanimously endorsed by the City of Red Deer.
AltaLink clearly dismissed this pro-posal, since during their portion of formal review by the Alberta Utilities Commission board they didn’t even mention the residents’ proposal of an alternate route.
AltaLink wanted their higher, ug-lier, increased voltage towers to go through the existing right of way and that was that. Without listening or car-ing about residents concerns, the AUC has approved the project.
An application for review has been filed by the Pines group to the AUC and AltaLink is aware of this.
Instead of respecting the process when an appeal has been submitted, AltaLink responded on the same day as the application was filed by erect-ing signs in the neighbourhood an-nouncing “power line construction” and marking their chosen path with spray paint and taping trees they in-tend to remove.
How is this “doing right by the Pines residents,” Mr. Brodsky?
Arlene and Randy HjertaasRed Deer
Pines power line projectleaves many questions
This will effect many of us even if you are not on the existing power line route.
I without a doubt and have spoken with several other experienced Real-tors who agree this will greatly hurt our property values.
I am resident and Red Deerian on a unique lot. I have a view of the city, Red Deer River and in a community that strives to keep their homes in tip-top shape.
I am asking fair market value and know that I am going to need to reduce significantly should AltaLink move for-ward with its power line project in the Pines.
Above the concern of money, as many of these homes are like anyone’s part of their retirement, there is the concern for electromagnetic fields (EMFs). There is solid scientifically proven documentation saying it is
dangerous and unhealthy for you but AltaLink has “experts” saying it’s all fine.
At one point we thought asbestos and tobacco were fine and more re-cently the plastic additive BPA was also considered fine.
If we truly knew EMF was fine for us, why are they making the power line clearances higher? Because there are engineering guidelines for safe dis-tances for exposure.
Why in a rural area will AltaLink go around one residence but here is an opportunity to go around 50 residences in an urban setting and they won’t? Just because they don’t have to and they have an existing right of way.
The city unanimously supports the Pines Group alternate route and is willing to swap land to provide the re-quired right of way.
Why is the Alberta Utilities Commis-sion deciding to say no, there would be too much tree clearing? The difference between the two are minimal. They neglect any reforestation that could be done to narrow the path along the existing route.
When you read the decision from AltaLink, it is clear that AUC did not understand our points, they never toured the route, asked questions and they just took whatever AltaLink said as fact. How can AUC issue permits for construction to AltaLink when they know it is the appeal process?
The process is flawed to say the least!
I was beside myself to see the signs up for clearing the paths many resi-dents in Red Deer use daily and I had no clue they we were moving ahead. Is this a scare tactic?
Karrie-Anne BrewsterRed Deer
Hwy 2A through regionmust be upgraded
How long are residents going to have to deal with the dangerous fiasco of the Hwy 2A corridor between Pen-hold and Lacombe?
I have seen numerous close calls and accidents on this section of high-way.
It’s unbelievable that a busy rail line still exists south of the Blindman River and it is a major traffic snarl. Traffic gets backed up for miles!
I have heard stories of semi drivers waiting 40 minutes to make a safe left turn onto Hwy 2A from around the Pre-cision Drilling area. It’s so congested.
Alberta Transportation continues to drop the ball year after year.
This problem should have been fixed years ago.
Travis BeebeBlackfalds
We need Alberta solutionfor shortage of workers
I am so proud and happy with our city councillors for “pushing the dia-logue between the provincial and fed-eral governments.”
The Temporary Foreign Worker Program possibly works in other prov-
inces but Alberta is totally unique in its labour needs.
I understand how and why the new rules set out can work in other parts of Canada where the jobs are not so plentiful.
So my personal thanks to city coun-cillors for making the effort to truly see what is good for our city and province.
Gail VanMale Red Deer
Gravel pit proposalshould have been approved
I have made applications for a gravel pit on my land over the last few years. Each time, the Red Deer County administration reviewed our applica-tion and recommended approval with conditions. Each time, councillors on the Municipal Planning Commission and then the Subdivision and Develop-ment Appeal Board refused to listen to the recommendations of county admin-istration and turned my application down.
With this last application, the com-mission and the board both turned the application down because of environ-mental issues. These issues will be dealt with by Alberta Environment and the federal Department of Fish-eries and Oceans under provincial and federal laws and by experts who are qualified to rule on these issues. I don’t understand why the commission and the board are dealing with envi-ronmental issues when they are not qualified to do so.
I asked the board to come out and see my land and the surrounding for themselves. They would not do so. Had they done so, they would have under-stood the true situation. Instead, they refused my application based on spec-ulation and emotion. The board was influenced by a group who call them-selves environmentalists and yet many of these “environmentalists” engage in activities that are far more harm-ful to the environment than the pro-posed gravel pit, such as cattle farming directly adjacent to (and sometimes in) the Medicine River. They express concerns about preservation of agri-cultural land and yet many of them live on acreages. Once the gravel was mined from the gravel pit, my land would have been put back into its agri-cultural state; the acreages will never be used for agricultural production.
The individuals who opposed the application told the board that river floods every year and covers my prop-erty. In the over 10 years that I have owned the property, I have only seen it flood once. When it did flood, the Med-icine River was not in the proposed gravel pit area and the water simply dissipated when the river went down. Since then, I have built a road to my cabin that will act as a berm so there is no way for the Medicine River to flood the proposed gravel pit area.
The opposition complained about noise and dust and yet the closest resi-dence is 580 metres away, through sev-eral layers of brush and heavy spruce
on the other side of the Medicine Riv-er. The next closest other residences are 800 to 900 metres away. I have seen crushers in cities and towns operating much closer to hundreds of people.
Two of the individuals who opposed the application run river boats on the Medicine River. Anyone who has heard the river boats knows how much noise they make and yet these indi-viduals complained about noise from the gravel pit.
The gravel pit that I was trying to get approved was only 11 hectares. It would serve the needs of the local ar-ea. Once the gravel was mined, I would have to reclaim the land. I planned to plant trees and create two small lakes. I was going to leave a buffer zone for wildlife and shade for the spawning walleye. It would be a win-win situa-tion.
I am not the greedy developer. I am just a retired farmer who would like to supplement his income in the summer months. I cannot believe that a small group could have so much power as to be able to stop me from using my land in a way that was not going to bother any of them and was not going to harm the environment.
Wendell Miller6M Holdings
Red Deer County
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Magnotta not criminally responsible: lawyerBY THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL — Luka Rocco Magnotta is schizo-phrenic and was not criminally responsible when he killed Chinese student Jun Lin in 2012, his lawyer told jurors on Monday.
Magnotta has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and there is a history of schizo-phrenia in his family, Luc Leclair said on the first day of his client’s highly publicized first-degree mur-der trial.
“I intend to show to you that at the time of the events, he was not criminally responsible,” Leclair told the eight women and six men who will hear the evidence.
His comments capped a stunning morning in the courtroom that began with Magnotta, 32, entering fresh not-guilty pleas to five charges, including mur-der.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer then advised the jurors that Magnotta had admitted to committing the crimes and that their task over the next six to eight weeks would be to determine his state of mind at the time.
“I have to tell you, Mr. Magnotta admits the acts or the conduct underlying the five offences he’s
charged with,” Cournoyer said. “Your task will be to determine whether the Crown has proven he has committed the five offences with the required state of mind for each offence.”
Leclair revisited the matter as he spoke to the jurors.
“Mr. Magnotta has admitted the physical acts for each of the offences,” he told them. “The other part to each charge is the mental part — so the defence will be focusing on that.”
The defence lawyer provided the jury with snap-shots of Magnotta’s life, including several visits to psychiatrists and a hospitalization in a psychiatric ward in Miami.
Leclair also made mention of a meeting with a Toronto reporter about an allegation he had been dating killer Karla Homolka.
He said he hopes several of Magnotta’s relatives will testify, including his father, Donald Newman, who also has a history of schizophrenia.
Leclair took the unusual step of addressing the jurors before the Crown had presented the outline of its entire case. He said he wanted to ensure the jury didn’t think it was simply “wasting its time.”
The lawyer said a large number of medical files will be presented.
Earlier, Crown prosecutor Louis Bouthillier told jurors he expects to show them the crimes were pre-
meditated.“The two words you should have in mind while
listening to the evidence are ’planned and deliber-ate,”’ he said.
Magnotta was impassive as Bouthillier said the testimony of a journalist from England will indicate Lin’s murder had been in the works for six months.
He said the reporter and his media organization received an email in December 2011 that shows Magnotta was intending to kill a human and film the event.
“This email makes it clear that Mr. Magnotta was planning to kill a human being and that he was going to make a movie,” Bouthillier told the jurors.
He also said they will see Lin’s last moments alive, images that were captured by a surveillance video at a Montreal apartment.
Lin’s body was later found cut up: hands and feet were mailed to political offices in Ottawa and schools in Vancouver. The rest of the body was found in the trash behind the apartment.
His head was found in a Montreal park one month after his slaying.
The jury is expected to hear testimony from about 60 witnesses, including some from France and Ger-many who were interviewed by Canadian authori-ties.
Cabinet to debate expanding air war
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — The federal cabinet is poised to con-sider the possible deployment of CF-18 jetfighters and CP-140 Aurora surveillance aircraft in the ever-expanding air war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
But there is concern within National Defence and among critics about the wear and tear of yet another combat mission on the veritable fighter-bombers, which are well into middle age, and about how the aircraft will be used.
The expectation that Canada will contribute a combat detachment is running high in the interna-tional community, as allies have already offered spe-cific airfield space in the region.
Before that happens, though, the Harper govern-ment has promised to hold a vote in Parliament — a pledge Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird repeat-ed.
“We have been asked to do more by the Obama administration,” Baird told the House of Commons. “I can assure the member opposite, clearly no deci-sions have been taken.”
He went on to state that “if there were to be a combat mission, we would seek to bring it before Parliament as a matter of confidence.”
Declaring the vote to be a matter of confidence, which if lost could technically defeat the govern-ment, smacks more of pre-election bravado than political drama, since the Conservatives have more than enough votes to carry the motion.
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Habs still Canada’s best hope
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
During last season’s play-offs , Canadiens players couldn’t help but wonder how Montreal might respond if the team won the Stanley Cup.
“The way the city reacts when we win one playoff round, it’s almost shocking,” Max Pacioretty said. “We joke around like, ’Could you imag-ine winning a Stanley Cup there and what the reaction would be?”’
P.K. Subban has thought about it.
“It’s scary,” the 2013 Norris Trophy winner said. “It’s scary in a great way. How passionate those fans are, the province, it’s scary.”
Oddsmakers think the cur-rent landscape across Canada is scary in a bad way and are betting that the country’s Stan-ley Cup drought will extend to 21 seasons. But among the sev-en teams, the Canadiens have the best odds of ending it at 18 to 1, according to the online sportsbook Bodog.ca, which is no surprise given they were the only club to make last sea-son’s playoffs.
The Vancouver Canucks (33-1), Toronto Maple Leafs (40-1), Edmonton Oilers (50-1), Ottawa Senators and Win-nipeg Jets (66-1) and Calgary Flames (75-1) aren’t inspiring much confidence to bring the trophy back to Canada for the first time since the Habs did it in 1993.
Montreal came the closest in last year’s playoffs by reach-ing the Eastern Conference fi-nal before losing to the New York Rangers. Beating the ri-val Boston Bruins to get there was what Pacioretty called the
best feeling he’s had in hockey to this point.
Pacioretty knows winning a Cup would be the pinnacle. The stage is set for the Habs to at least be in the running to get back to the same spot with goaltender Carey Price healthy, Subban locked up to a long-term contract and the East looking as wide open as ever.
Before now, the longest title drought in franchise history was 12 seasons, between 1931 and 1944.
Subban, now one of the Habs’ four alternate captains along with Pacioretty, centre Tomas Plekanec and defence-man Andrei Markov, doesn’t feel the pressure of 1993, but definitely has since 2010.
“I think we’re responsible for the time that you’re here,” Subban said. “You’re respon-sible for the time that you wear the jersey to do every-thing you can to help the team win.”
Despite wholesale changes — a new president in Trevor Linden, general manager in Jim Benning and coach in Wil-lie Desjardins — the Canucks don’t think they’re far off from being back in contention.
“We felt like we made some good changes in the summer and got a little bit stronger, got a little bit younger, got deeper,” defenceman Kevin Bieksa said. “But the same pieces are still in place that were successful two years ago and for the five, six years prior to that.”
Daniel and Henrik Sedin will begin new four-year con-tracts at the age of 34, but they’re two of just six players left from the 2011 team that lost to the Bruins in the Cup
final. Bieksa, Alex Edler, Alex Burrows and Jannik Hansen are the others.
Gone are Cory Schneider and Roberto Luongo, but the Canucks signed Ryan Miller to bring back some goaltending stability.
“It solidifies us,” Bieksa said of Miller. “To have an experienced guy who’s been around, who’s not going to get flustered, he’s won a lot of big games, he’s played on the big
stage, that helps us.”As much as the Canucks’
season went off the rails in 2013-14, the Leafs had a bigger thud by losing eight straight and 12 of their final 14 to fall out of playoff contention. Since, there has been much more talk about changing the “culture” in Toronto than about 1967 or anything about the Cup.
When commissioner Gary Bettman said that a hypothet-
ical second team in Toronto would struggle to gain a foot-hold if the Leafs won the Cup, new “Hockey Night In Cana-da” host George Stroumbou-lopoulos said what most were thinking: “That’s a big hypo-thetical.”
It might be difficult for Leafs players to think that far ahead, given the day-to-day spotlight they’re in.
CANADIENS HAVE BEST ODDS TO END CANADA’S STANLEY CUP DROUGHT THIS SEASON
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Montreal Canadiens players celebrate after defeating the New York Rangers 3-2 in overtime in Game 3 of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs Eastern Conference finals, May 22, 2014, in New York. During last season’s playoffs, Canadiens players couldn’t help but wonder how Montreal might respond if the team won the Stanley Cup.
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Hall scores pair to lead Oilers past Jets in preseason action
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Oilers 3 Jets 1EDMONTON — Taylor Hall
looks like he is ready to get the regular season going.
Hall, who has finished in the top 10 in NHL scoring the past two seasons, scored a pair of goals as the Edmonton Oil-ers came away with a 3-1 vic-tory over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night in pre-season play.
“I feel good. I don’t want to be that guy who says ‘I’m in the best shape of my life and I never felt better,’ but I feel good,’’ Hall said. “For me, my stick handling, my shot, my skating is always there at the start of the year. It’s just my thinking of the game and the way I process it that takes a while to get up to speed. So that’s probably been my focus throughout training camp.’’
Mark Fayne also scored for the Oilers, who improved to 3-2 in exhibition play.
“I thought we played a pretty solid game,’’ said Oil-ers centre Ryan Nugent-Hop-kins, who had a pair of assists for four points in three exhi-bition games. “Winnipeg al-ways plays hard, they played us hard in Winnipeg too. It’s good that we seem to be able to get a lead and hold on to that. That’s something when it comes to regular season we have to be better at for sure. It starts in exhibition and I thought a few games in exhi-bition have been good in that sense.’’
Mathieu Perreault replied for the Jets, who fell to 1-3.
“You want to win no mat-ter what, because we are com-petitive as professionals, but at the same time you have to learn from these games and do better in the next one,’’ said Jets defenceman Mark Stu-art, who made his pre-season debut. “We did do some good things and threw some good shots on net, it was just not quite the emotional effort that you want.’’
Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice said that one positive was the play of Perreault, who signed a three-year deal as a free agent this summer after splitting last season between Washington and Anaheim.
“Mathieu Perreault is a re-ally good player for us,’’ said
Maurice. “He is going to fit re-ally well and bring a lot five-on-five and five-on-four. I re-ally like what he has. He can handle and move the puck and create some open space.
“It’s good to have (Stuart) back and have some strength on that blue-line as well.’’
Edmonton got on the board first, scoring on their first shot of the game three minutes into the first period. Junior-aged training camp invite Vladimir Tkachev continued his strong play as he seeks a contract, making a cross-ice pass to Fayne that he blasted high to the glove side past Winnipeg goalie Michael Hutchinson. It was Tkachev’s third assist in three games for the Oilers.
Edmonton looked to have taken a two-goal lead on the power play with six minutes left in the opening period, but Tyler Pitlick’s goal was called back due to incidental contact with the Jets’ goalie.
Winnipeg had a glorious
chance to tie the game with two minutes left in the first with several whacks during a scramble in front of the Oil-ers net, but couldn’t manage to get one past Edmonton starter Viktor Fasth.
Edmonton went up 2-0 two minutes into the second on a power-play goal as Nu-gent-Hopkins threaded a long saucer pass through a maze in front to hit Hall on the fly. He scored his first of the pre-season on a shot that Hutchin-son got a piece of, but couldn’t stop.
“It was great pass, it’s a new look on the power play for us,’’ Hall said. “It was really cre-ated by Pitlick getting open and attracting guys to him. It worked out tonight, I would have liked to get a few more chances on the power play to work on it but that will come as the pre-season wears on’’.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chiefs 41 Patriots 14KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It
made sense that Andy Reid spoke in baseball metaphors after Kansas City whipped the New England Patriots on Monday night, with the Royals poised to end a long playoff drought just across the park-ing lot from Arrowhead Sta-dium.
He may have stretched things a bit when it came to Jamaal Charles, though.
“It’s a heck of a thing to bring 25 off the bench as a relief pitcher,” Reid said. “That’s a pretty good player. To add him back to the mix is something.”
Relief pitcher? How about staff ace.
Charles returned from an ankle injury to score three touchdowns, Tom Brady was picked off twice by the oppor-tunistic Chiefs, and Kansas City routed New England 41-14 to hand Bill Belichick one of his worst losses as coach of the Patriots.
Charles, who missed last week’s win in Miami with a sprained ankle, ran for 92 yards and a score.
The Pro Bowl running back also caught two short touch-down passes from Alex Smith, who had 248 yards passing and three touchdowns in a sharp performance before a raucous crowd.
“Coach said he was going to look for me, and see how it feels during the game,” Charles said, “and I guess I started feeling like myself. He didn’t want to take me out.”
The Chiefs (2-2) ended a four-game skid at Arrowhead Stadium dating to last season by making things miserable on Brady, who had one of his two picks returned for a touch-down.
Brady also was strip-sacked and finished 14 of 23 for 159 yards and a touchdown.
“It was just a bad perfor-mance by everybody,” Brady said.
“We need to make sure we never have this feeling again. We’ve got to figure out what we have to do better.”
With the game out of hand, the Patriots gave rookie quar-terback Jimmy Garoppolo a chance to play. He threw a late touchdown pass to Rob
Gronkowski to complete the scoring.
“Just wanted to play every-body,” Belichick said.
The Chiefs forced the Pa-triots to air it out by stuffing Shane Vereen and Stevan Rid-ley. And when Brady dropped back, their front seven ran roughshod over New Eng-land’s suspect offensive line.
It hardly helped the Patri-ots’ offence that it was trying to operate on the same night Chiefs fans were trying to re-claim the record for loudest outdoor sports venue. The re-cord was set in the first half, when Guinness World Re-cords noted a noise level of 142.2 decibels — breaking the mark of 137.6 that the Seattle Seahawks’ fans had set last season.
“My ears are still ringing,” Reid said with a smile.
The crowd included sev-eral members of the Royals, who made the walk across the parking lot from Kauffman Stadium to watch the start of the game on the sidelines. The Royals will play their first post-season game since 1985 against the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.
Knile Davis added 107 yards rushing for Kansas City, form-ing a potent one-two punch with Charles in the backfield. Tight end Travis Kelce had eight catches for 93 yards and a score.
“Some nights things come together,” Smith said. “Guys execute and you take advan-tage.”
Charles was executing right from the start, giving the Chiefs a lead with his first-quarter touchdown plunge. He then extended the lead with a 5-yard TD catch in the second quarter.
Cairo Santos added a 22-yard field goal just before halftime for a 17-0 lead.
The field goal came after the Chiefs were bailed out by a defensive penalty. They had been stopped short on a pass play with 8 seconds left, but the penalty gave them a sec-ond chance.
Kansas City had 303 yards of first-half offence, the most against any Belichick-coached team.
Charles added his third touchdown of the game early in the second half, taking a short pass in the flat and stum-bling into the end zone.
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Edmonton Oilers Darnell Nurse (74) and Taylor Hall (4) celebrate a goal against the Winnipeg Jets during second period NHL action in Edmonton, on Monday.
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VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions lost more than just a key West Division game Saturday night to the Calgary Stampeders.
The Lions announced Monday running back An-drew Harris and receiver Bryan Burnham had been placed on the six-game injury list following B.C.’s 14-7 loss to Calgary at McMahon Stadium.
Harris will undergo surgery Tuesday to repair a dislocated left ankle while Burnham is out with a lacerated spleen. Both are expected to miss the re-mainder of the regular season.
The loss of five-foot-11, 213-pound Harris is a significant one for a B.C. team already missing start-ing quarterback Travis Lulay. The Winnipeg native is ranked fifth in CFL rushing with a team-high 652 yards and is averaging a solid 5.3 yards per carry. He has also run for two touchdowns.
But Harris is also a solid receiver, having record-ed 46 catches for 529 yards (11.5-yard average) with four touchdown grabs.
Harris rushed for 76 yards on 12 carries against
Calgary and added six catches for 29 yards.Harris, in his fifth CFL season, was hurt in the
fourth quarter Saturday and required assistance to leave the field.
With the loss of Harris, Stefan Logan is expected to get the start when the Lions (7-6) visit the Hamil-ton Tiger-Cats on Saturday. Logan has rushed for 508 yards and a touchdown this season.
Hamilton (5-7) is tied for first in the East Division and has won three straight and four of its last five games since the return of starting quarterback Zach Collaros from concussion-like symptoms.
B.C., which has lost two straight, is currently fourth in the West Division standings, four points behind both the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Ed-monton Eskimos, who are tied for second with identi-cal 9-4 records.
Calgary leads the way with a CFL-best 11-2 record while the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (6-7) are last in the West Division.
The six-foot-two, 195-pound Burnham is in his first season with the Lions. The former Tulsa star has six catches for 113 yards and a TD so far this year, registering one reception for 23 yards against the Stampeders.
Simpson, MacPhaden named athletes of the week
Innisfail’s Riley Simpson was named Boston Pizza Red Deer College men’s athlete of the week on Mon-day.
Simpson, a forward with the Kings hockey team, scored one goal in each of the King’s first two games of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference season, both losses to the University of Alberta Augustana Vikings.
Simpson is in his third year of the Electrical En-ergy Technology program at the school.
Alyssa MacPhaden, meanwhile, was named the female athlete of the week for her terrific defensive play for the Queens soccer team on the weekend in a pair of 1-0 wins over the SAIT Trojans and Olds Col-lege Broncos.
The Lloydminster native is in her third year of study in the Kinesiology program at RDC.
RDC finish well back at ACAC golf championship
It was a tough day for Red Deer College at the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference golf champion-ships at the Cardiff Golf Club on the weekend.
The men finished eighth out of eight colleges while Bennett Williams was their top golfer, finish-ing 23rd overall with a two-day score of 18-over-162, 16 shots behind individual champion Justin Wood (71-74-146) from Lethbridge College.
Also for Red Deer, Tim Hannebury shot a 166 (82-84-166) followed by Joel Carroll (92-84-176) and Tan-ner Shapka (95-81-176), Logan Crawford (92-94-186) and Chandler McLaren (95-101-196).
RDC had one women’s golfer competing, Rochelle French, and she finished 10th out of 12 golfers with a final score of 216. Lisa Reid of Lethbridge won the women’s title with a 161.
The team titles were decided by taking the top four out of five scores from each school.
MacEwan University took the men’s team title with a 606, two shots better than Lethbridge at 608. Medicine Hat College was third at 626 while RDC shot a combined 680.
MacEwan also won the women’s title with a 311 and were the only school with a full team competing.
RDC finishes third at third ACAC cross-country Grand Prix
Red Deer College finished third overall in the third Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference Grand Prix on Saturday in Red Deer, hosted by RDC and Hunting Hills High School.
RDC’s Mitch Doré was the sixth ACAC runner to finish the eight kilometre course and 19th overall at 29 minutes and 12 seconds, while his teammate Noah Arychuk was close behind in seventh at 29:21. Austin Midkiff was 17th at 32:58 and Jonathan Allan (35:33) was 29th.
Keenan Viney from the Running Room Athletic Club was the top overall finisher at 25:26, while Leth-bridge College’s Edwin Kaitany was the top ACAC finisher at 26:13 — third overall.
Lethbridge won the team title with 17 points, SAIT was second with 32 points and RDC took the bronze with 59 points— team standings are based on the top four finishers from each school.
RDC finished fourth in the women’s race with 65 points, behind Lethbridge (21), SAIT (32) and NAIT (36).
RDC was led by Jordanna Cota finished the five kilometre course in 21:42 and placed 18th overall and ninth in the ACAC, Samantha Debree was 17th in the ACAC at 23:33, Anna Duda (24:23) was 19th, Lauren Friesen (24:25) was 20th, Celine deWit (25:06) was 24th, Melissa Ray (28:42) was 31st and Laura McKenzie (31:36) was 36th.
SAIT’s Sara Hewitt (19:56) was the top ACAC finished, coming in fourth place, while Jessica O’Connell (19:01) took the overall title, four seconds ahead of former RDC runner and Canadian Colleges Athletic Association champion Jodi Nesbitt.
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TORONTO — He may not be the answer to the Blue Jays’ problems but general manager Alex An-thopoulos hopes to have popular Japanese infielder Munenori Kawasaki back next year.
The 33-year-old Kawasaki brings more than a bat and glove to Toronto.
Anthopoulos, at his end-of-season media session Sunday, said all you need to do is watch Kawasaki in the dugout.
“(The) different people he sits beside during the game and the different backgrounds, knowing he can’t speak English, just shows you how he can con-nect to anybody,” said Anthopoulos. “It’s amazing.”
Manager John Gibbons agrees.“He’s a special guy,” said the Texan. “That’s not
what the game is all about, but he’s good for our team.”
Jays fans love Kawasaki for his quirky manner-isms, from stretching in the field inbetween plays to bowing to teammates. Despite his limited English, he even won a sponsorship with a local car dealership.
He spent all but three games in April and May with triple-A Buffalo, returning to Toronto in mid-June. In 82 games, he hit. 258 with 17 runs batted in. Wearing No. 66, he struck out 49 times in 240 at-bats but prolonged more than a few of those at-bats with his plate coverage, making things difficult for the pitcher. And he can play anywhere on the left side of the infield.
“You feel good when he goes to the plate or if there’s a play he’s got to make on the field, you think he’s going to get it done, and he normally does,” said Gibbons. “He’s been a pleasure. I mean, he’s an up-lifting guy. We’ve got some extreme personalities in that clubhouse. He’s a guy that everybody kind of gravitates to and has fun with.”
Kawasaki, who signed a minor-league deal with the Jays this year, played in Japan from 2000 to 2011 before joining the Seattle Mariners in 2012. The next year he joined Toronto. He sealed his part in Jays lore in May 2013 with a game-winning double in a 6-5 walkoff win against Baltimore.
In a memorable post-game TV interview, an ex-cited Kawasaki said “Thank you very much. My name is Munenori Kawasaki, I come from Japan, I am Jap-aneeeeese.”
He then consulted some notes.“My teammates gave me an opportunity, so I want-
ed to do something about it,” he added.He got no further as he was pied by a teammate
and doused in Gatorade.Asked Sunday if he wants Kawasaki back in 2015,
Gibbons said: “I love the guy. I don’t know what’s going to happen with the team, but he’ll be playing somewhere. I know that.”
Anthopoulos went further.“I think we’ll look to bring him back. I think that
goes without saying,” said the GM. “I haven’t talked to him. I don’t know what his desires are. I don’t think the finances have ever been an issue for him. My understanding is he can make more money in Japan, but he’s wanted to play here. We’ll see. I don’t know what his goals are for the off-season, but at some point we’ll sit down with him.”
Lions lose leading rusher Harris for rest of season with ankle injury
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Toronto Blue Jays’ Munenori Kawasaki slides into home plate to score against the Seattle Mariners during a baseball game in Toronto on September 24, 2014.
HOPE: Scrutiny“It’s hard for our players in this market to go down
the street and not be noticed,” coach Randy Carlyle said. “There’s a tremendous amount of scrutiny that takes place.”
The Leafs look like the biggest wild card in the NHL, let alone in Canada, because of sweeping changes in the front office and on Carlyle’s staff. There might be enough talent to be a legitimate playoff team or enough problems that another top-10 draft pick is on the horizon.
Edmonton has had six straight years of top-10 picks and no playoff appearances to show for it. The core of Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins hasn’t been able to make that leap.
“It is frustrating having to answer ’Why?’ or ’What is the next step?’ all the time, but that’s just the way it goes when you’re on a team that’s done the way we have,” Hall said. “It’s all about having a year that lives up to expectations. Whatever they may be, there’s no set-in-stone expectation.”
It’s certainly not the Cup for the Oilers. Not yet.The same can be said for the Senators, who are
now without long-term captain Daniel Alfredsson and last-season captain Jason Spezza. Defenceman Erik Karlsson remains, and he said recently this is the best pre-season vibe he has felt in Ottawa.
“I have no doubt that we’re going to be a better team this year than we were last year,” Karlsson said.
In order to defy the odds and return to the play-offs, Ottawa will need a strong season from goalten-ders Craig Anderson and Robin Lehner.
Goaltending remains a question for the Jets, who haven’t made the playoffs in three seasons since the Thrashers moved to Winnipeg from Atlanta. Among goalies with at least 100 games played over that time, starter Ondrej Pavelec has the lowest save percentage (.904), and his backup is unproven rookie Michael Hutchinson. Just making the playoffs in an impossibly difficult Western Conference would be a boon for the Jets.
That would be a good perspective for the Flames, too. The rebuild is underway with the likes of Sean Monahan and Johnny Gaudreau, but there are still internal expectations for the veterans who remain.
“We want to get significantly better,” centre Matt Stajan said. “We’re going to push to climb the stand-ings and try to get into the playoffs. Anything less is a failure for all of us.”
OILERS: UneventfulThe Jets outshot the Oilers 26-15 through 40 min-
utes. There was no scoring in a rather uneventful third period that saw each team register only two shots apiece.
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — The agonizing image of Kyle Lowry’s blocked shot at the Game 7 buzzer has played itself over and over in the Raptors’ minds all sum-mer, like a bad song stuck on repeat.
The point guard who’d carried To-ronto through their first playoff ap-pearance in six years was blocked by Paul Pierce at the buzzer, ending their season as the Brooklyn Nets moved onto the second round.
Rather that bury that heartbreaking image, the Raptors have harnessed it.
“I think about it all the time because we’re going to need that to feed off of, honestly, and understand how bad that hurt, that feeling of losing Game 7 and coming so close, losing by one point,” said guard DeMar DeRozan. “We’ve got to carry that starting tomorrow for training camp, have that hunger and that edge to do the same thing all over again this year.”
The Raptors held their traditional season-opening media day on Monday and talked about picking up where they left off. Toronto went a club-re-cord 48-34 last season to win the Atlan-tic Division title before being elimi-nated in the opening round of the play-offs.
The sting of that loss lingered long for all of them. Patrick Patterson es-timated it probably took him a month and a half to get over it.
“Just people back home talking about it, friends talking about it, fam-ily talking about it, still seeing it in the media,” he said. “I felt like we should’ve won it. We should’ve ad-vanced, but unfortunately it didn’t go our way. It was definitely a tough loss, a bad taste in my mouth. It took a while for me to get over it.”
DeRozan wouldn’t watch the Nets play the Miami Heat in the second round of the playoffs.
“I probably watched the first game and I couldn’t even watch anymore, honestly, because I knew we could’ve been there. And it sucks. I’m (at home) in L.A. and they’re in Miami playing against a team we should’ve been play-ing against,” DeRozan said. “It was tough. It was tough. That whole time, I couldn’t wait for (the Nets) to lose, hon-estly, just to feel better about myself.”
Five months later, the Raptors are
eager to get going. They open the pre-season Sunday in Vancouver against the Sacramento Kings.
Monday’s media day came the morning after they went bowling, a team bonding exercise. Chuck Hayes claimed to have bowled a team-high score of 136.
There was a palpable difference, said DeRozan, from media days past.
“Hell, yeah,” said the all-star guard. “Just the energy and the positivity of everything, and not the ’What ifs’ so much. It definitely do feel different.”
The positive vibe comes not just as a carry-over from the Raptors’ thrilling playoff run, but also in the fact that the club retained its core — starting with Lowry, who signed a multi-year deal with Toronto in the off-season.
“We feel continuity is big for us. Consistency is really big for winning teams,” said GM Masai Ujiri. “That formula has proven to work. We hope that it works for us. These guys, they like each other. We have a chemistry.
They compete. They go out there and play for each other. We’re not a selfish team. The young guys continue to grow and the platform continues to be there — I think that’s very important for us.”
Key off-season additions include nine-year NBA veteran Lou Williams and James Johnson, who starts a sec-ond stint with the Raptors.
Lowry said with last year’s record-breaking campaign comes loftier ex-pectations for this season. He gladly shoulders his share of responsibility.
“Just knowing from the jump it’s a lot of pressure on me, which you ex-pect, which you want, which I want,” Lowry said.
“Every day I have to be mentally prepared and physically prepared to be the best player I can be. Even if I’m not doing my best, I have to make sure my teammates, pump them up to do their best.
“Last year we were trying to figure out how to win games, now we have to know how to win games. Know for a fact how to win games that are closer games.”
The 28-year-old was finally able to enjoy an off-season without injuries, and Ujiri marvelled at the “unbeliev-
able shape” his star point guard is in. Rather than rest on his new contract, Lowry worked harder.
“The worst thing is getting yourself out of shape and trying to get back in shape,” he said. “Me, I like to work, I like to actually put work in, it’s fun. I mean, this is my job. I like to get in the gym, I like to lift weights, I like to play basketball, I like to do everything, I like to just get better.
“Those people who thought I would (return out of shape), they’re idiots. People that expected me to come back in shape, they’re smart,” Lowry added laughing.
The Raptors returned from an off-season training and playing at various points abroad. DeRozan and Jonas Va-lanciunas played in the FIBA World Cup, with DeRozan helping the Ameri-cans to a gold medal.
Valanciunas, also spent time work-ing with Hall of Famer Hakeem Ola-juwon and a running coach in Oregon “running on the track. . . doing some special exercises how to use less en-ergy, be lighter on your feet, all the terms,” he said.
While the Raptors are coming off a strong season, coach Dwane Casey said critics might call them a “one-year wonder.”
He wants his players to keep a chip on their shoulder.
“Going through the playoffs is a con-fidence builder. But this is a new year, so we’ve got to take that experience, add it to the work in the summer and get that two-by-four on our shoulder, because again, we still don’t have the total respect of the NBA, we’ve got to make sure we gain that respect and keep that respect,.” Casey said.
The goal, said Casey, is to repeat as division champions. Asked if the franchise’s first 50-win campaign could come this season, Casey wouldn’t bite.
“I don’t know if we’re in the conver-sation where we can say, hey we’re a 50-win team or a 55-win team,” Casey said. “Will we be an improved team? Yes. Whatever number that is, that’s not my job to put a number on it. My job is take make sure we get back and get up running again and get that chip back on our shoulder from last year.”
The Raptors will practise in Toron-to on Tuesday before departing for Vancouver, where they’ll work out all week until Sunday’s exhibition game. Their first pre-season game in Toronto is Oct. 10 versus Boston. They open the regular-season at home on Oct. 29 ver-sus the Atlanta Hawks.
Five local tennis players took their first steps towards qualifying for ju-nior nationals on the weekend, com-peting in the U10, U14 and U18 cham-pionships at the Tennis Academy in Calgary.
Innisfail’s Charver Vincent Dael, 15, defeated Fernando Araujo of Spain to win the U18 boys’ title, Tereza Simon-ova, 15, of Sylvan Lake beat Jai Yi Tan of Calgary to win the U18 girls’ title, and Red Deer’s Michael Robinson, 12, topped Ryan Murphy of Calgary to take
the U14 boys’ consolation title. Also, Red Deer’s Ella Collins, 11, fell to Mia Kupres of Calgary in the U14 consola-tion quarter-final and Red Deer’s Isaac Aspinall lost out in the second round of the U10 consolation to Calgary’s No-lan Cherneski.
There are a series of four qualifying tournaments with the top four overall from those tournaments will go to na-tionals while the top eight overall from the first three events will also go to provincials.
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WHLEASTERN CONFERENCE
EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtBrandon 4 4 0 0 0 21 8 8Prince Albert 3 2 1 0 0 11 8 4Swift Current 4 2 2 0 0 14 12 4Regina 4 2 2 0 0 14 14 4Moose Jaw 4 1 3 0 0 10 19 2Saskatoon 4 0 4 0 0 8 21 0
CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtEdmonton 3 3 0 0 0 11 4 6Medicine Hat 4 3 1 0 0 13 7 6Red Deer 3 2 1 0 0 14 7 4Calgary 3 1 2 0 0 12 10 2Kootenay 3 1 2 0 0 8 14 2Lethbridge 3 0 3 0 0 5 17 0
WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION
GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtKelowna 3 3 0 0 0 21 5 6Vancouver 3 3 0 0 0 13 7 6Kamloops 4 2 1 1 0 18 15 5Prince George 4 1 3 0 0 10 25 2Victoria 5 1 4 0 0 13 25 2
U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtEverett 3 3 0 0 0 12 5 6Spokane 2 2 0 0 0 7 4 4Tri-City 4 2 2 0 0 14 8 4Seattle 3 1 2 0 0 5 5 2Portland 5 0 5 0 0 12 26 0z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; 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 point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns
Sunday’s resultsCalgary 9 Lethbridge 2Vancouver 5 Victoria 3
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Tuesday’s gamesMedicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Prince George, 8 p.m.
Wednesday’s gamesCalgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Kamloops, 8 p.m.Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.
Thursday’s gamesRed Deer at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer RebelsScoring GP G A Pts PIM +/-Polei 3 2 2 4 0 0Cote 3 0 4 4 2 8Johnson 3 1 2 3 2 4Maxwell 3 1 2 3 2 2Doetzel 3 0 3 3 2 8Kopeck 3 2 0 2 0 2Nell 3 2 0 2 2 0Bleackley 1 1 1 2 0 1Feser 3 1 1 2 2 1Charif 3 0 2 2 0 0Musil 3 0 2 2 0 2de Wit 3 1 0 1 0 2Dixon 3 1 0 1 4 2Fafard 3 1 0 1 4 2Pawlenchuk 3 1 0 1 7 2Toth 2 0 1 1 0 —Chorney 3 0 1 1 0 2Burman 1 0 0 0 0 —Mahura 3 0 0 0 4 -3Strand 3 0 0 0 0 -2Goaltenders MP GA SO GAA Sv%Toth 120 2 0 1.00 .947Burman 59 4 0 4.04 .826
WHL Scoring Leaders G A PtsJay Merkley, SC 6 2 8Tyson Baillie, Kel 4 4 8Cole Sanford, MH 1 7 8Carson Stadnyk, Eve 3 4 7Cole Ully, Kam 3 4 7Matt Revel, Kam 2 4 6Ryan Pilon, Bra 2 4 6Nick Merkley, Kel 1 5 6Graham Millar, Eve 4 1 5Jesse Gabrielle, Bra 4 1 5Colton Heffley, Kel 3 2 5Riley Stadel, Kel 3 2 5Jayce Hawryluk, Bra 3 2 5Parker Bowles, TC 2 3 5Brian Williams, TC 2 3 5Joel Hamilton, Van 2 3 5Kris Schmidli, Kel 2 3 5Travis Brown, Vic 2 3 5Matt Needham, Kam 1 4 5Sawyer Lange, P.A. 1 4 5
John Quenneville, Bra 1 4 5
National Hockey LeagueEASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAToronto 7 4 2 1 9 21 18Detroit 5 3 1 1 7 10 8Montreal 4 3 1 0 6 9 8Boston 4 2 1 1 5 11 9Ottawa 4 2 1 1 5 11 11Tampa Bay 3 2 1 0 4 10 6Buffalo 4 1 2 1 3 8 10Florida 4 0 2 2 2 9 15
Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAColumbus 6 5 1 0 10 19 12N.Y. Islanders 4 3 1 0 6 11 10Washington 5 3 2 0 6 12 11New Jersey 4 2 1 1 5 10 12Philadelphia 6 2 3 1 5 15 20N.Y. Rangers 3 2 1 0 4 14 9Pittsburgh 5 2 3 0 4 7 11Carolina 3 1 2 0 2 7 8
WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GADallas 5 4 1 0 8 20 18Nashville 5 3 2 0 6 9 9Minnesota 4 2 1 1 5 11 9Chicago 4 2 2 0 4 10 8Winnipeg 4 1 3 0 2 8 11St. Louis 4 0 3 1 1 12 17Colorado 5 0 4 1 1 7 17
Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAArizona 6 4 0 2 10 21 15Los Angeles 4 3 0 1 7 16 13Vancouver 5 3 2 0 6 14 12Edmonton 5 3 2 0 6 9 10Calgary 6 3 3 0 6 9 13San Jose 4 2 1 1 5 11 9Anaheim 6 2 3 1 5 15 17NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Sunday’s GamesToronto 3, Buffalo 2, SOChicago 5, Edmonton 0Washington 2, Montreal 0New Jersey 3, Philadelphia 1Calgary 2, Colorado 1Los Angeles 4, Anaheim 2
Monday’s GamesN.Y. Rangers 6, Philadelphia 3Detroit 3, Toronto 0Minnesota 4, Pittsburgh 1Columbus 3, Nashville 0Dallas 5, Florida 4Edmonton 3, Winnipeg 1Arizona 4, Vancouver 2
Tuesday’s GamesN.Y. Islanders at Boston, 5 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Ottawa at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.Carolina at St. Louis, 6 p.m.Tampa Bay at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m.Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesWashington at Buffalo, 5 p.m.Carolina at Columbus, 5 p.m.Pittsburgh at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.Montreal at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.Arizona at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Monday’s summary
Oilers 3, Jets 1First Period
1. Edmonton, Fayne 1 (Tkachev, Nikitin) 2:44.Penalties — Yakimov Edm (hooking) 1:50, Frolik Wpg (holding) 1:57, Stuart Wpg (hooking) 3:46, Cormier Wpg (fighting) 9:13, Pinizzotto Edm (fight-ing) 9:13, Peluso Wpg (delay of game) 13:48.
Second Period2. Edmonton, Hall 1 (Nugent-Hopkins, Hunt) 2:08.3. Winnipeg, Perreault 1 (Lowry, Ellerby) 6:34.4. Edmonton, Hall 2 (Nugent-Hopkins) 9:12.Penalties — Lowry Wpg (holding) 0:39, Albert Wpg (holding) 10:08, Nurse Edm (roughing) 16:50, Cormier Wpg (high-sticking) 19:40.
Third PeriodNo Scoring.Penalties — Westgarth Edm (interference) 1:58, Morrissey Wpg (hooking) 7:31, Musil Edm (tripping) 9:39, Pinizzotto Edm (holding) 14:08, Pinizzotto Edm (fighting) 16:22, Peluso Wpg (fighting) 16:22, Peluso Wpg (unsportsmanlike conduct) 16:22.
Shots on goalWinnipeg 9 17 2 — 28Edmonton 10 5 2 — 17Goal — Winnipeg: Hutchinson (L, 1-2-0); Edmon-ton: Fasth (W, 1-1-0).Power plays (goal-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-5; Edmonton: 0-8.
Thursday● High school football: Camrose at Ponoka, 4 p.m.; Lacombe at Notre Dame, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park.● College women’s preseason hockey: Edge Academy at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.● WHL: Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. (The Drive).● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m.
Friday● High school football: Stettler at Sylvan Lake, 4 p.m.; Rocky Mountain House at Wetaskiwin, 4 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park.● College women’s volleyball: iHotel Wild Rose Classic at RDC — Matches at 4:30, 5:45, 7 and 8:15 p.m.● AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7 p.m.Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Northstar at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 8 p.m., Arena.● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail Eagles Chinook League Classic — Okotoks vs. Innisfail, 8 p.m.
Saturday● College women’s volleyball: iHotel Wild Rose Classic at RDC — Matches at 9:30 and 11 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 6 and 7:15 p.m.● Peewee football: Red Deer Hornets at Olds, 10:30 a.m.; Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 11 a.m.; Strathmore at Innisfail 11 a.m.; Rocky Mountain House at Stettler 11 a.m.● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer White, noon, Arena.● Peewee AA hockey: Lacombe at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Red Deer Parkland at Sylvan Lake, 3:30 p.m.● Bantam football: Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, 1 p.m., Great Chief Park; Sylvan Lake at Stettler, 1 p.m.; Strathmore at Innisfail, 1 p.m.; Springbank at Rocky Mountain House, 1:30 p.m.; Ponoka at Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Red Deer Northstar, 2 p.m., Arena.● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail Eagles Chinook League Classic — Stony Plain vs. Okotoks, 4 p.m.; Bentley vs. Fort Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.● Major bantam girls hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kin City B.● Midget AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena.● Bantam AA hockey: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 5:45 p.m.● WHL: Red Deer at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. (The Drive).● College men’s hockey: Concordia at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.AJHL: Spruce Grove at Olds, 7 p.m.● Midget AA hockey: Foothills at Red Deer Elks, 7:30 p.m., Arena.● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Cochrane at Three Hills, 8 p.m., Trochu.
Sunday● College women’s volleyball: iHotel Wild Rose Classic at RDC — Matches at 9:30 and 11 a.m., 12:30 and 2 p.m.● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kin City A.● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail Eagles Chinook League Classic — Fort Saskatchewan vs. Stony Plain, 1 p.m.; Bentley vs. Innisfail, 4 p.m.● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Lacombe, 2 p.m., Arena.● Bantam AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m.; Airdrie at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m.● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Southside at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena.● Heritage junior B hockey: Strathmore at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.● WHL: Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m. (The Drive).
Football AlbertaHigh school rankings
(Last week’s ranking in parenthesis)Tier 11. (1) Calgary Notre Dame, 3-02. (2) Calgary St. Francis, 3-03. (3) St. Albert Bellerose, 4-04. (4) Lethbridge Collegiate, 4-05. (5) Calgary Henry Wise Wood, 2-16. (6) Sherwood Park Salisbury, 4-17. (7) Sherwood Park Bev Facey, 4-18. (8) Calgary Bishop O’Byrne, 1-29. (—) Edmonton Harry Ainlay, 2-210. (10) Red Deer Lindsay Thurber, 2-1Tier 21. (1) Grande Prairie St. Joseph’s, 6-02. (2) St. Albert Paul Kane, 4-03. (3) Medicine Hat, 4-14. (4) Okotoks Foothills, 4-35. (5) Red Deer Hunting Hills, 2-26. (6) Calgary St. Mary’s, 2-07. (7) Edmonton Austin O’Brien, 2-38. (8) Lethbridge Catholic Central, 2-29. (9) Airdrie George McDougall, 1-110. (10) Okotoks Holy Trinity, 3-2Tier 31. (1) Cardston, 5-02. (2) Cochrane, 4-13. (3) Calgary Rundle College, 2-14. (5) Medicine Hat Crescent Heights, 5-05. (9) St. Albert, 2-16. (5) Lethbridge Winston Churchill, 2-17. (6) Whitecourt, 3-18. (7) Olds, 3-29. (8) Taber, 3-110. (10) Sylvan Lake, 2-2Tier 41. (1) Lloydminster Holy Rosary, 6-02. (2) Claresholm, 3-13. (3) Cold Lake, 2-24. (4) Sexsmith, 1-15. (6) Ardrossan, 2-26. (9) Coaldale, 1-17. (7) Cochrane Bow Valley, 1-18. (5) Drumheller, 1-3-19. (8) Rocky Mountain House, 1-110. (—) Wainwright, 2-2
CFLEast Division
GP W L T PF PA PtMontreal 13 5 8 0 245 313 10Hamilton 12 5 7 0 262 272 10Toronto 12 4 8 0 308 325 8
Ottawa 12 1 11 0 180 308 2
West Division GP W L T PF PA PtCalgary 13 11 2 0 361 239 22Edmonton 13 9 4 0 341 252 18Sask. 13 9 4 0 296 289 18B.C. 13 7 6 0 275 250 14Winnipeg 13 6 7 0 304 324 12
Week 14Saturday’s resultsHamilton 16 Winnipeg 11Calgary 14 B.C. 7
Week 15Friday, October 3Winnipeg at Ottawa, 7 p.m.Friday, October 3Calgary at Saskatchewan, 10 p.m.Saturday, October 4Edmonton at Toronto, 4 p.m.B.C. at Hamilton, 7 p.m.
Canadian Football League Scoring Leaders TD C FG S PtWaters, Tor 0 29 27 8 118Paredes, Cgy 0 37 26 2 117Whyte, Mtl 0 20 28 13 117Medlock, Ham 0 24 28 6 114McCallum, BC 0 23 29 3 113Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 26 26 6 110Milo, Sask 0 27 25 4 106Shaw, Edm 0 21 23 7 97Maher, Ott 0 17 18 5 76Grigsby, Wpg 9 0 0 0 54Allen, Sask 7 0 0 0 42Arceneaux, BC 7 0 0 0 42Ford, Sask 7 0 0 0 42O’Neill, Edm 0 12 7 5 38Bowman, Edm 6 0 0 0 36A.Harris, BC 6 0 0 0 36Tate, Cgy 6 0 0 0 36x-Cornish, Cgy 5 2 0 0 32Fuller, Cgy 5 0 0 0 30Steele, Tor 5 0 0 0 30Barnes, Tor 4 0 0 0 24D.Carter, Mtl 4 0 0 0 24Gable, Ham 4 0 0 0 24LeFevour, Ham 4 0 0 0 24Marsh, Mtl 4 0 0 0 24McDaniel, Cgy 4 0 0 0 24Miles, Ott 4 0 0 0 24Mitchell, Cgy 4 0 0 0 24
Owens, Tor 4 0 0 0 24Walker, Ott 4 0 0 0 24x-Dressler, Sask 3 2 0 0 20Banks, Ham 3 0 0 0 18Cunningham, Cgy 3 0 0 0 18Guyton, Edm 3 0 0 0 18Kelly, Wpg 3 0 0 0 18Kohlert, Wpg 3 0 0 0 18Marve, Wpg 3 0 0 0 18Parker, Cgy 3 0 0 0 18Rodgers, Mtl 3 0 0 0 18Slaton, Tor 3 0 0 0 18T.Smith, Sask 3 0 0 0 18Tasker, Ham 3 0 0 0 18Watson, Wpg 3 0 0 0 18
National Football LeagueAMERICAN CONFERENCE
East W L T Pct PF PABuffalo 2 2 0 .500 79 75Miami 2 2 0 .500 96 97New England 2 2 0 .500 80 90N.Y. Jets 1 3 0 .250 79 96
South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 3 1 0 .750 87 67Indianapolis 2 2 0 .500 136 95Tennessee 1 3 0 .250 60 110Jacksonville 0 4 0 .000 58 152
North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 3 0 0 1.000 80 33Baltimore 3 1 0 .750 103 60Pittsburgh 2 2 0 .500 97 99Cleveland 1 2 0 .333 74 77
West W L T Pct PF PASan Diego 3 1 0 .750 102 63Denver 2 1 0 .667 75 67Kansas City 2 2 0 .500 102 79Oakland 0 4 0 .000 51 103
NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast
W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 3 1 0 .750 122 104Dallas 3 1 0 .750 115 86N.Y. Giants 2 2 0 .500 103 91Washington 1 3 0 .250 95 109
South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 2 2 0 .500 131 113Carolina 2 2 0 .500 73 96
New Orleans 1 3 0 .250 95 110Tampa Bay 1 3 0 .250 72 119
North W L T Pct PF PADetroit 3 1 0 .750 85 62Green Bay 2 2 0 .500 92 96Minnesota 2 2 0 .500 91 84Chicago 2 2 0 .500 92 100
West W L T Pct PF PAArizona 3 0 0 1.000 66 45Seattle 2 1 0 .667 83 66San Francisco 2 2 0 .500 88 89St. Louis 1 2 0 .333 56 85
Sunday’s GamesGreen Bay 38, Chicago 17Houston 23, Buffalo 17Indianapolis 41, Tennessee 17Baltimore 38, Carolina 10Detroit 24, N.Y. Jets 17Tampa Bay 27, Pittsburgh 24Miami 38, Oakland 14San Diego 33, Jacksonville 14San Francisco 26, Philadelphia 21Minnesota 41, Atlanta 28Dallas 38, New Orleans 17Open: Arizona, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Se-attle, St. Louis
Monday’s GameKansas City 41, New England 14
Thursday, Oct. 2Minnesota at Green Bay, 6:25 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 5Cleveland at Tennessee, 11 a.m.Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 11 a.m.Houston at Dallas, 11 a.m.Chicago at Carolina, 11 a.m.St. Louis at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.Atlanta at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.Buffalo at Detroit, 11 a.m.Baltimore at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.Arizona at Denver, 2:05 p.m.Kansas City at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.N.Y. Jets at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.Cincinnati at New England, 6:30 p.m.Open: Miami, Oakland
Monday, Oct. 6Seattle at Washington, 6:30 p.m.
American LeagueEast Division
W L Pct GBx-Baltimore 96 66 .593 —New York 84 78 .519 12Toronto 83 79 .512 13Tampa Bay 77 85 .475 19Boston 71 91 .438 25
Central Division W L Pct GBx-Detroit 90 72 .556 —y-Kansas City 89 73 .549 1Cleveland 85 77 .525 5Chicago 73 89 .451 17Minnesota 70 92 .432 20
West Division W L Pct GBx-Los Angeles 98 64 .605 —y-Oakland 88 74 .543 10Seattle 87 75 .537 11Houston 70 92 .432 28Texas 67 95 .414 31x-clinched division y-clinched wild card
Saturday’s GamesBoston 10, N.Y. Yankees 4Toronto 4, Baltimore 2Tampa Bay 2, Cleveland 0Minnesota 12, Detroit 3N.Y. Mets 2, Houston 1Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 4Texas 5, Oakland 4Seattle 2, L.A. Angels 1, 11 innings
Sunday’s GamesCleveland 7, Tampa Bay 2Baltimore 1, Toronto 0Detroit 3, Minnesota 0N.Y. Mets 8, Houston 3N.Y. Yankees 9, Boston 5Kansas City 6, Chicago White Sox 4Oakland 4, Texas 0
Seattle 4, L.A. Angels 1End of Regular Season
AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.Altuve Hou 158 660 85 225 .341VMartinez Det 151 561 87 188 .335Brantley Cle 156 611 94 200 .327Beltre Tex 148 549 79 178 .324JAbreu CWS 145 556 80 176 .317Cano Sea 157 595 77 187 .314MiCabrera Det 159 611 101 191 .313LCain KC 133 471 55 142 .301MeCabrera Tor 139 568 81 171 .301Eaton CWS 123 486 76 146 .300
Home RunsNCruz, Baltimore, 40; Carter, Houston, 37; JAbreu, Chicago, 36; Trout, Los Angeles, 36; Bautista, Toronto, 35; Ortiz, Boston, 35; Encarnacion, To-ronto, 34.Runs Batted InTrout, Los Angeles, 111; MiCabrera, Detroit, 109; NCruz, Baltimore, 108; JAbreu, Chicago, 107; Pu-jols, Los Angeles, 105; Ortiz, Boston, 104; Bautista, Toronto, 103; VMartinez, Detroit, 103.PitchingScherzer, Detroit, 18-5; Weaver, Los Angeles, 18-9; Kluber, Cleveland, 18-9; Shoemaker, Los Angeles, 16-4; WChen, Baltimore, 16-6; PHughes, Minne-sota, 16-10; Lester, Oakland, 16-11.
National LeagueEast Division
W L Pct GBx-Washington 96 66 .593 —Atlanta 79 83 .488 17New York 79 83 .488 17Miami 77 85 .475 19Philadelphia 73 89 .451 23
Central Division W L Pct GBx-St. Louis 90 72 .556 —y-Pittsburgh 88 74 .543 2
Milwaukee 82 80 .506 8Cincinnati 76 86 .469 14Chicago 73 89 .451 17
West Division W L Pct GBx-Los Angeles 94 68 .580 —y-San Francisco 88 74 .543 6San Diego 77 85 .475 17Colorado 66 96 .407 28Arizona 64 98 .395 30x-clinched division y-clinched wild card
Saturday’s GamesCincinnati 10, Pittsburgh 6, 10 inningsWashington 5, Miami 1San Francisco 3, San Diego 1Atlanta 4, Philadelphia 2Milwaukee 2, Chicago Cubs 1N.Y. Mets 2, Houston 1Arizona 5, St. Louis 2L.A. Dodgers 6, Colorado 5, 12 inning
Sunday’s GamesN.Y. Mets 8, Houston 3Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 1Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1Washington 1, Miami 0Chicago Cubs 5, Milwaukee 2San Francisco 9, San Diego 3L.A. Dodgers 10, Colorado 5St. Louis 1, Arizona 0End of Regular Season
NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.Morneau Col 135 502 62 160 .319JHarrison Pit 143 520 77 164 .315AMcCutchen Pit 146 548 89 172 .314Posey SF 147 547 72 170 .311Revere Phi 151 601 71 184 .306Span Was 147 610 94 184 .302Lucroy Mil 153 585 73 176 .301Puig LAD 148 558 92 165 .296
Werth Was 147 534 85 156 .292SCastro ChC 134 528 58 154 .292
Home RunsStanton, Miami, 37; Rizzo, Chicago, 32; Duda, New York, 30; Frazier, Cincinnati, 29; JUpton, Atlanta, 29; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 27; LaRoche, Wash-ington, 26.Runs Batted InAdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 116; Stanton, Miami, 105; JUpton, Atlanta, 102; Howard, Philadelphia, 95; Duda, New York, 92; LaRoche, Washington, 92; Desmond, Washington, 91.PitchingKershaw, Los Angeles, 21-3; Cueto, Cincinnati, 20-9; Wainwright, St. Louis, 20-9; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 18-10; Greinke, Los Angeles, 17-8; WP-eralta, Milwaukee, 17-11; Fister, Washington, 16-6.
Postseasonx-if necessaryWILD CARDTuesday, Sept. 30: Oakland (Lester 16-11) at Kan-sas City (Shields 14-8), 6:07 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1: San Francisco (Bumgarner 18-10) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 13-7), 6:07 p.m.
DIVISION SERIES(Best-of-5)American LeagueLos Angeles vs. Oakland-Kansas City winnerThursday, Oct. 2: Oakland-Kansas City winner at Los AngelesBaltimore vs. DetroitThursday, Oct. 2: Detroit (Scherzer 18-5) at Balti-more (Tillman 13-6)
National LeagueWashington vs. San Francisco-Pittsburgh win-nerFriday, Oct. 3: San Francisco-Pittsburgh winner at Washington (FS1)Los Angeles vs. St. LouisFriday, Oct. 3: St. Louis (Wainwright 20-9) at Los Angeles (Kershaw 21-3) (FS1)
SoccerEnglish Premier League
GP W D L GF GA PtsChelsea 6 5 1 0 19 7 16Southampton 6 4 1 1 11 4 13Manchester City 6 3 2 1 12 7 11Arsenal 6 2 4 0 11 7 10Swansea 6 3 1 2 8 6 10Aston Villa 6 3 1 2 4 7 10Man. United 6 2 2 2 11 9 8Tottenham 6 2 2 2 8 7 8Crystal Palace 6 2 2 2 10 10 8West Brom 6 2 2 2 7 7 8Stoke 6 2 2 2 5 5 8Leicester City 6 2 2 2 9 10 8West Ham 6 2 1 3 10 10 7Liverpool 6 2 1 3 8 9 7Everton 6 1 3 2 12 14 6Hull City 6 1 3 2 9 11 6Sunderland 6 0 5 1 5 6 5QPR 6 1 1 4 4 13 4Newcastle 6 0 3 3 5 12 3Burnley 6 0 3 3 1 8 3
Saturday, Sept. 27Liverpool 1, Everton 1Chelsea 3, Aston Villa 0Crystal Palace 2, Leicester City 0Hull City 2, Manchester City 4Manchester United 2, West Ham 1Southampton 2, Queens Park Rangers 1Sunderland 0, Swansea 0Arsenal 1, Tottenham 1
Sunday, Sept. 28West Brom 4, Burnley 0
Monday, Sept. 29Stoke 1, Newcastle 0
England Championship GP W D L GF GA PtsNorwich City 9 6 2 1 20 8 20Nott. Forest 9 5 4 0 17 7 19Wolverhampton 9 5 3 1 11 6 18Watford 9 5 2 2 17 10 17Ipswich 9 5 2 2 13 7 17Derby County 9 4 4 1 17 10 16Middlesbrough 9 5 1 3 13 7 16Charlton Athletic 9 3 6 0 12 9 15Sheffield Wed. 9 4 3 2 9 6 15Blackburn 9 4 2 3 16 16 14Reading 9 4 2 3 14 14 14Brentford 9 4 2 3 11 13 14Leeds 9 4 1 4 10 12 13Bournemouth 9 3 3 3 14 11 12Cardiff 9 3 3 3 12 12 12Millwall 9 3 2 4 9 10 11B & H Albion 9 2 3 4 8 10 9Wigan Athletic 9 2 2 5 10 12 8Roth. United 9 2 2 5 6 12 8Hudd. Town 9 2 2 5 9 19 8Birmingham 9 1 4 4 8 16 7Bolton 9 1 2 6 7 15 5Fulham 9 1 1 7 8 20 4Blackpool 9 0 2 7 4 13 2
Saturday, Sept. 27Birmingham 1, Fulham 2Blackburn 2, Watford 2Blackpool 1, Norwich City 3Bolton 0, Derby County 2Bournemouth 2, Wigan Athletic 0
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Oakland Raiders fired coach Dennis Allen on Monday night four games into his third season.
The decision was announced soon after the Raiders (0-4) re-turned from London, where they lost their 10th straight game dating to last season, 34-14 to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. The firing was first reported by Fox Sports.
Allen was the first head coach hired by Oakland after the death of longtime owner Al Davis. His 8-28 record is the worst for the franchise since before Davis arrived in 1963. His contract was set to run through next season.
An announcement on the interim coach will come Tuesday, with offensive line coach Tony Sparano and offensive co-ordina-tor Greg Olson the most likely options.
Allen is the third coach fired during the season by Oakland since Davis arrived. Mike Shanahan was fired after four games in 1989 and Lane Kiffin was let go four games into the 2008 sea-son.
The Raiders have had 11 straight seasons without a winning record or a playoff berth. Oakland will now have its eighth coach since 2003.
Allen and general manager Reggie McKenzie were hired af-ter the team finished 8-8 under coach Hue Jackson in 2011, fall-ing one game short of a playoff bid.
They were expected to steady a franchise that ran into dis-repair during Davis’ final years as owner. Instead, the team has only gotten worse.
The two were hamstrung their first two seasons by a lack of premium draft picks and a difficult salary-cap situation due to bad contracts handed out by Davis.
But after spending their first two years tearing down the team, owner Mark Davis expected the Raiders to be much more competitive this season after having ample salary cap room in the off-season and a near full complement of draft picks.
Instead, the Raiders have looked overmatched at times. They fell behind 27-0 after three quarters of their only home game against Houston and trailed by 31 points after three quarters against the Dolphins.
In all, Allen had more losses by at least 20 points (nine) than wins. It was performances like those that Davis said he no lon-ger wanted to see in Allen’s third season and ultimately led to his downfall.
Allen was a former defensive co-ordinator in Denver who was expected to modernize a defence that ran what were considered outdated schemes under Al Davis’ watch.
The defence, instead, has gotten worse. Allen has overseen two of the three highest-scoring seasons by opponents in fran-chise history.
The Raiders have yielded 27.8 points per game since the start of the 2012 season, allowing opponents to complete 67.6 per cent of their passes with a 101.6 passer rating.
Raiders fire coach Dennis Allen following team’s 10th straight loss
BUSINESS B5TUESDAY, SEPT. 30, 2014
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed little changed Monday after sustaining a se-ries of jolts as the greenback strengthened on speculation about when the U.S. Federal Reserve may start to raise in-terest rates.
The loonie was up 0.01 of a cent to 89.66 cents US follow-ing a loss of 1.7 per cent last week. The currency has tum-bled about two U.S. cents this month, pushing it to its lowest levels since the end of March.
Markets have generally looked for the Fed to raise rates around the middle of 2015.
The greenback also found support as revised official data on Friday showed the world’s largest economy expanded at an annual rate of 4.6 per cent in the spring — the fastest pace in more than two years. But traders are looking for reassurance that job growth is also showing similar strong advances.
Markets are looking Friday for the U.S. government to re-port that the economy creat-ed about 210,000 jobs during September. And it is possible that the disappointing August report will also be revised up-ward.
Canadian job figures for September come out Oct. 10.
Traders also focused on the latest reading on the health of the Canadian economy. Statistics Canada is expected
to report Tuesday that gross domestic product rose 0.3 per cent during July.
A major deal in the energy sector could also prove to be a weight on the Canadian cur-rency in the coming weeks.
Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA) is buying Athlon Energy in a US$7.1-billion deal that will give the Canadian gas pro-ducer access to a major Texas oil play and speed up its shift towards more liquids produc-tion.
The deal includes assumed debt but most of the value is from US$5.93 billion in cash that Encana will pay to ac-quire Athlon’s shares.
Camilla Sutton, Chief FX Strategist, Managing Direc-tor Scotiabank Global Bank-ing and Markets, said the deal “could imply a large Canadian dollar negative flow leading into mid-December when the deal is expected to close.”
The commodity-sensitive Canadian currency has also been pressured by commodity prices that have weakened be-cause of the rising U.S. dollar.
A stronger greenback makes it more expensive for holders of other currencies to buy oil and metals which are U.S.-dollar-denominated.
Commodity prices ad-vanced Monday as the Novem-ber crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained $1.03 to US$94.57 a bar-rel, December bullion climbed $3.40 to US$1,218.80 an ounce and December copper was up two cents to US$3.06 pound.
Watchdog calls to cut roaming ratesBY THE CANADIAN PRESS
GATINEAU, Que. — Can-ada’s competition watchdog says consumers would benefit from the introduction of a new national wireless carrier.
But the Competition Bu-reau says regulators need to do more than simply capping roaming rates to prevent the big three wireless carriers from stifling any new competi-tion.
The bureau was the first to appear at public hearings that began today into the health of Canada’s wholesale wireless market.
The CRTC is examining whether more regulation is
needed to taper or cap the wholesale rates cellphone carriers charge other wire-less companies to allow their customers to roam outside of their home networks.
And while the commission is not examining the roam-ing rates consumers pay, bu-reau senior economist Patrick Hughes told the hearings that wholesale and retail markets are inherently linked.
As the hearings got under-way, at least one think tank questioned whether the CRTC should do anything at all to affect the wholesale roaming market.
The Montreal Economic Institute says, despite the im-pression of some Canadians
that they pay among the high-est cellphone roaming rates, consumers in many other countries pay more.
Still, the Competition Bu-reau told the CRTC there is evidence that the profit mar-gins of the major wireless carriers are higher than they should be.
The Harper government has repeatedly tried — so far unsuccessfully — to entice a fourth national player to set up a wireless service in Can-ada to compete against Bell, Rogers and Telus.
The government’s argument has been that more competi-tion would result in lower con-sumer prices.
The Competition Bureau
agreed, saying a fourth na-tional carrier would increase choice and reduce retail wire-less prices by about two per cent.
Quebecor Inc. has suggested the wholesale roaming rates it pays to piggy back on a ma-jor carrier’s cellphone towers may prevent it from expanding its mobile business.
Other smaller carriers have also said roaming rates are a major factor affecting their ability to compete.
But Rogers Communica-tions Inc. (TSX:RCI.B), BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) and Telus Corp. (TSX:T) maintain that further regulation would hin-der their ability to invest in improvements to their own
wireless networks.Ottawa has already passed
legislation capping the rates carriers can charge on a wholesale basis at no more than what they charge their customers at the retail level, pending the outcome of this week’s hearings.
Montreal-based Cogeco Ca-ble Inc. (TSX:CCA), which is hoping to offer wireless ser-vices without building its own cell tower network, is expect-ed to ask the CRTC to adopt new rules to allow for the cre-ation of what are known as mobile virtual networks, effec-tively giving smaller carriers access to large players’ spec-trum and cell towers.
COMPETITION BUREAU WANTS TO SEE MORE REGULATIONS
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY — Encana Corp. is speeding along plans to shift its focus toward lucrative liq-uids with a US$7.1-billion deal to buy Athlon Energy Inc., giv-ing it an entry into the oil-rich Permian formation in Texas.
The acquisition of Athlon Energy announced Monday includes nearly US$6 billion in cash and the assumption of more than US$1 billion in debt.
The transaction brings En-cana’s earlier target of deriv-ing three quarters of its cash flow from liquids by 2017 two years closer, said CEO Doug Suttles.
“In some ways we’re al-most pinching ourselves how quickly we’ve gotten here.
We’re very, very pleased,” said Suttles, a former BP executive who unveiled a sweeping over-haul to Encana’s strategy near-ly a year ago. “I don’t think it was a predictable outcome at this pace. I think it was some-thing we thought would take a number of years.”
The Calgary-based company (TSX:ECA) has been eyeing a deal in the Permian for rough-ly a year. It considers the re-gion — where Suttles noted his oilman grandfather plied his trade back in the 1930s — one of the top resource plays in North America.
This is the second big oil deal Encana has done this year in Texas, following a US$3.1-billion deal with Free-port-McMoRan for acreage in the Eagle Ford shale an-nounced in May.
Encana had been known as
a natural gas-centred player, a challenging strategy amid a prolonged price slump. But with Suttles’ arrival last year, the focus shifted to more valu-able oil and natural gas liq-uids.
With the Athlon deal, En-cana aims to produce 250,000 barrels per day of liquids by 2017, a sharp increase from the 50,000 barrels per day it churned out last year.
Athlon’s shareholders are being offered US$58.50 per share cash, for a total of US$5.93 billion.
Shares in the company (NYSE:ATHL) jumped about 25 per cent on Monday, rising $11.59 to US$58.32 on the New York Stock Exchange. In To-ronto, Encana’s shares closed up 47 cents at C$24.06.
Encana says the Athlon deal will add the equivalent
of about 30,000 barrels of oil per day of production focused in the Midland Basin, part of the Permian formation. It says that can grow substantially, with 5,000 possible drilling lo-cations and up to three billion barrels of resource potentially in the ground.
The company intends to in-vest at least US$1 billion in the play and ramp up produc-tion to at least seven horizon-tal rigs by the end of 2015.
Last week, Encana sold its remaining stake in PrairieSky Royalty Ltd. (TSX:PSK) for about $2.6 billion to a syndi-cate of underwriters.
PrairieSky has a big roy-alty land position in Alberta that was spun off from Encana through an initial public offer-ing in May.
There had been suggestions the recent PrairieSky sale was
a sign Encana was winding up to make a major move.
“The strengthened balance sheet provides Encana ’dry powder’ to act opportunisti-cally to accelerate its liquids focused strategy,” CIBC World Markets analyst Arthur Gray-fer wrote in a note to clients ahead of Monday’s announce-ment.
Suttles said Monday one did not have anything to do with the other.
“The timing is just fortu-itous,” he told reporters.
The CEO did not rule out Encana doing more deals to bolster its portfolio, but de-clined to give specifics.
“An oil and gas company in my view at least has to always pay attention to its portfolio. So it’s something you’re never done with and it’s something we’ll continue to look at.”
Encana speeds up liquids push with acquisition of Athlon
GREENBACK STRENGTHENED ON SPECULATION ABOUT WHEN THE U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE MAY START
TO RAISE INTEREST RATES
Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff
A sign outside the new McDonalds Restaurant at Clearview Market Square in Red Deer indicates the location is hiring staff ahead of its opening. The fast food restaurant, located beside The Canadian Brewhouse is a 5,279-square-foot building seating 94 with a dual drive-through lane.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT WORTH, Texas — Qantas is putting the world’s biggest passenger plane on the world’s longest airline route.
A Qantas Airbus A380 touched down Monday at Dal-las-Fort Worth International Airport about 15 hours after leaving Sydney, Australia, on the 8,578-mile journey.
The double-deck, four-engine jet was greeted with a water-cannon salute, then taxied to a two-story gate that was configured just for the be-hemoth. The inaugural flight carried a full load of 484 pas-
sengers, according to a Qantas spokesman.
DFW is a large airport with connecting flights throughout the U.S. and Latin America, making it ideal for the plane and the route. But the A380’s size also limits its appeal. Smaller planes such as Boe-ing’s latest, the 787, are more economical on many routes.
Qantas previously flew the Sydney-Dallas route with the Boeing 747, which required a stopover in Brisbane, Austra-lia.
“The 747 served us really well, but it doesn’t have the range of the A380,” said Qan-tas Senior Vice-President
Vanessa Hudson. “The A380 is much bigger, so we can actu-ally now provide 10 per cent additional capacity.”
For travellers wishing to fly the new route, it won’t be cheap. Hudson said tickets are roughly $1,900 in economy; double that for the roomier seats in premium economy; $7,000 for business class; and $12,000 to $13,000 for first class, where the airline toss-es in a set of pyjamas and a sheepskin mattress. The spe-cial A380 gate at DFW will be used again on Wednesday, when Gulf airline Emirates begins flying the huge plane between Dallas and Dubai.
Qantas puts the world’s largest passenger plane on the longest airline route
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft plans to offer a glimpse of its vision for Win-dows this week, as its new CEO seeks to redefine the company and recover from missteps with its flagship operat-ing system.
Although the new software won’t be formally released until next year, analysts already consider its success crucial for Microsoft and Satya Na-della, who has made mobile devices and Internet-based services priorities since becoming CEO in February.
With its tablet-like touch controls, Windows 8 had been Microsoft’s an-swer to slumping sales in personal computers amid a rising demand for mobile devices.
But the company alienated many users by forcing radical behavioural changes. Research firm IDC even blamed Windows 8 for accelerating a decline in PC sales in the first full quarter following the system’s release in October 2012.
Microsoft has released updates that address some of the complaints, yet
analytics firm Net Applications esti-mates that five out of six Windows us-ers are still using something other than Windows 8.
The next major release will be the company’s chance to regain its footing and show that Microsoft can embrace mobile devices without sacrificing the traditional computing experience.
“It’s one of the most important launches that they will ever have,” said Patrick Moorhead at the research firm Moor Insights and Strategy. “It’s very important they get it right.”
Microsoft is expected to give an early look at some new features Tues-day during an event the company has billed as a discussion about “what’s next for Windows.” The company hasn’t said what it plans to call the new Windows version.
The San Francisco event is geared toward the business market. Separate sessions focused on home computer users and others will be held in the coming months.
Analysts say the sessions are part of an effort by Microsoft to gather feed-back and avoid the stumbles it made with Windows 8.
MARKETS CLOSETORONTO — The Toronto
stock market added to a string of sharp losses Monday as traders continued to opt for caution amid Chinese economic data that kept concerns elevated about global economic strength and the tim-ing of U.S. rate hikes.
The S&P/TSX composite in-dex closed off the lowest levels of the session, coming back from a 174-point tumble to lose 49.85 points to 14,976.92 after falling 1.55 per cent last week.
The Canadian dollar rose 0.01 of a cent from Friday’s close to 89.66 cents US.
U.S. indexes also finished the session off the worst levels of the day wth the Dow Jones industrials down 41.93 points to 17,071.22 after losing one per cent last week. The Nasdaq fell 6.34 points to 4,505.85 and the S&P 500 index declined 5.05 points to 1,977.8.
TSX miners led decliners after China reported a 0.6 per cent fall in industrial company profits in August, indicating eco-nomic growth might be declin-ing further. Despite improved September manufacturing data, analysts said declining industrial production, lower property pric-es, weaker imports and pressure on factory prices are pointing to softening economic conditions.
Markets are set to exit Sep-tember trading lower as inves-tors wonder if the U.S. central bank will move before the middle of next year to raise rates from near zero, where they have been since the 2008 financial collapse. Worries about the pace of glob-al economic growth have also made for volatility during Sep-tember. However, markets have been labouring under these in-terest rate and economic growth worries for months.
“I don’t think a whole lot has really changed,” said David Wolf, a portfolio manager in the Global Asset Allocation group at Fidelity Investments.
“We have been worried about China for some time from a longer-term point of view. But we have also generally been of the view that the government has the tools it needs to man-age the excesses in the financial and property sectors. And on the Fed side, people tend to want to see things between the lines and conspiracy theories and little nudges and winks that for the most part really aren’t there.”
September also has a repu-tation as the worst trading month of the year.
The TSX is down about four per cent for September, led by drops in the energy and mining sectors. The showing has left the main Toronto index still up al-most 10 per cent year to date.
Worries about slowing Chi-nese growth pushed the base metals component down 1.7 per cent while December copper was ahead two cents at US$3.06 a pound. HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) ran up 30 cents or three per cent to $9.62.
The gold sector faded one per cent while December bul-lion gained $3.40 to close at US$1,218.80 an ounce.
Financials were also weak, down 0.7 per cent with Royal Bank (TSX:RY) down 87 cents to $79.57.
The energy segment gained 0.4 per cent amid a major acqui-sition. Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA) is buying Athlon Energy in a US$7.1 billion friendly takeover deal that will give the Canadian gas producer access to a major Texas oil play and speed up its shift towards more liquids pro-duction. Encana shares gained 47 cents to $24.06.
The November crude con-tract on the New York Mercan-tile Exchange climbed $1.03 to US$94.57 a barrel.
Also adding to market caution were escalating pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, raising concerns that business in this Asian financial hub might be disrupted. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in a challenge against Beijing’s deci-sion to limit political reforms.
“There are worries out there in the market and people are slightly skittish and when you get news flow like that, it’s going to reinforce that kind of sentiment,” added Wolf.
MARKET HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close of
Monday at world financial market trading.
Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite Index
— 14,976.92, down 49.85 pointsDow — 17,071.22, down
41.93 pointsS&P 500 — 1,977.80, down
5.05 pointsNasdaq — 4,505.85, up 6.34
points
Currencies at close:Cdn — 89.66 cents US, up
0.01 of a centPound — C$1.8116, down
0.04 of a centEuro — C$1.4153, up 0.04
of a cent
Euro — US$1.2690, up 0.06 of a cent
Oil futures:US$94.57 per barrel, up
$1.03(November contract)
Gold futures:US$1,218.80 per oz., up
$3.40(December contract)
Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman:
$20.266 oz., up 0.03 of a cent
$651.55 kg., up nine cents
ICE FUTURESWINNIPEG — ICE Futures
Canada closing prices:Canola: Nov. ’14 $2.70 high-
er $398.00; Jan ’15 $2.50 higher $405.40; March ’15 $1.70 higher $412.60; May ’15 $1.40 higher $420.00; July ’15 $1.10 higher $426.80; Nov ’15 $1.90 higher $432.80; Jan. ’16 $7.00 higher $438.00; March ’16 $7.00 higher $441.90; May ’16 $7.00 higher $441.90; July ’16 $7.00 higher $441.90; Nov. ’16 $7.00 higher $441.90.
Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 $1.50 higher 125.00; Dec. ’14 $1.50 higher $127.00; March ’15 $1.50 higher $128.00; May ’15 $1.50 higher $128.00; July ’15 $1.50 higher $128.00; Oct. ’15 $1.50 higher $128.00; Dec. ’15 $1.50 higher $128.00; March ’16 $1.50 higher $128.00; May ’16 $1.50 higher $128.00; July ’16 $1.50 higher $128.00; Oct. ’16 $1.50 higher $128.00.
Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 785,240 tonnes of cano-la; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 785,240.
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Regulator hits delete button on Netflix and Google submissions
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Canada’s broadcast regulator is hit-ting the ’delete’ button on Netflix and Google, telling the online video services their submissions at hear-ings into the future of television will be ignored.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommuni-cations Commission wrote to the companies Monday, saying it will remove presentations made by the two companies from the public record.
As well, any information or statements from the companies would not be considered in the CRTC’s conclusions on whether television industry regula-tions need to be changed.
The letters were a response to the refusal of Net-flix and Google to provide supporting evidence to back their claims that Canadian content is thriving online.
Effectively, it’s as though the companies never of-fered any comments or appeared before the CRTC panel that has been looking into how Canadians re-ceive and pay for TV programming.
The CRTC had promised both companies the same confidential treatment for their data as it gives all other sensitive information provided to it by other companies.
But Netflix in particular said it had concerns that its sensitive corporate information could eventually be made available to its competitors to exploit under a public interest test.
CRTC secretary general John Traversy said the companies’ refusal to provide any supporting evi-dence means it cannot evaluate the strength of their arguments. And he said it undermined the authority of the regulator.
“The Commission views such actions as a direct attempt to undermine its ability to serve Canadians, as well as impair the procedural fairness owed to all participants,” Traversy said in a letter to Netflix global public policy director Corie Wright.
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The wheels on the buses may not go round and round like they should, thanks to Alberta’s healthy economy.
It seems Alberta’s economic blessings have led to fewer people wanting to be school bus drivers.
Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools needs 10 to 15 more school bus drivers.
Prairie Bus Lines, which serves, among others, the Red Deer Public School District, is also in need of drivers but the situation is not as serious.
“I would say it’s getting to be fairly urgent for us,” said Ken Jaeger, Red Deer Catholic supervisor of support services.
At this point, the school district hasn’t had to can-cel any routes but Jaeger said it could be a possibil-ity if they don’t get more drivers.
“We encounter this when the economy gets busy.”A couple of hours of work in the morning and a
couple in the afternoon makes it tough to compete because they can’t pay the same wages as the oil-patch, Jaeger said.
The Catholic district has 75 to 80 drivers, for about 50 routes. It also does a lot of charters during the day.
“It’s funny because we used to get a lot of spous-es ... generally the wives, taking a bus driving job when the husband’s in the oilfield. When the oilfield is slower, the bus driving helps to supplement in-comes,” said Jaeger.
But then when it picks up, the spouse who works in the oilfield is gone more and “so then the mom ... says ‘I need to be home with the kids.’ ”
“If we didn’t have the oilpatch, we would have lots of drivers but no kids,” he said, chuckling.
Jaeger said the district ran into the problem about seven years ago when the Alberta economy sizzled practically overnight. Today’s healthy economy isn’t quite as hot as then.
But the shortage of bus drivers “is kind of coming back.”
Drivers make a base rate and then are paid a per-kilometre rate.
Scott Hucal, general manager of Prairie Bus Lines, said besides the economy creating a labour shortage, there’s also the fact that several new schools have opened and there are more routes, so spare drivers have been taken up.
“A little bit more growth in student population means a little bit more busing.
“We probably could use another four or five driv-ers.
“It’s not a critical situation but there’s definitely a driver shortage in the area,” said Hucal.
“By no means are we in a position right now that we have to cancel routes.”
Prairie Bus Lines operates about 100 routes.Hucal describes school bus driving as a lifestyle
that suits someone who is not the main income earn-er in a household, rather a stay-at-home parent, or perhaps someone who is retired and looking for a little extra income.
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If you’re standing outside in the freezing cold wondering where your school bus is, the answer may be at your (frozen) fingertips.
Students and parents of Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools can now use their smart phones to get up-to-date information on cancelled or de-layed buses by way of a downloadable application (app).
The Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools Bus Status App is available on iOS or Android operat-ing systems.
Ken Jaeger, Red Deer Catholic supervisor of Support Services, said an opportunity arose when the school district switched Internet providers. Bus route status can be viewed at the district’s website, and anyone can download the Bus Status App on their smart phone for free.
It’s always a struggle trying to communicate to parents in a timely fashion regarding bus route changes, he said.
The district uses local radio but not everyone hears the message. They’ve used direct phone calls but by the time they get halfway down the list, drivers should have been picking students up.
They’ve also used texting, with moderate suc-cess, said Jaeger.
Hence the new bus app, developed by an Ed-monton firm, Box Clever Inc.
The district will continue to use Twitter and notify radio stations, he said.
Parent and students can mark the routes they care about as favourites. They will get push noti-fications (messages that come through the phone automatically) if a bus is late or cancelled, with a short explanation.
While the app hasn’t been downloaded a lot, Jaeger expects interest to increase significantly once bad weather moves in.
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Shooting haunts victimSHOOTING DURING FAS GAS ROBBERY LEAVES CLERK WITH
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Sentencing recommendations were heard on Monday for the robber who shot a clerk in the face and hand with a sawed-off shotgun last September.
Jaysen Arancon Reyes was working at West Park Fas Gas when the armed robbery happened in the evening of Sept. 11, 2013.
He had turned over the cash from his drawer when the shotgun was fired, severely injuring him.
In August, Jeffrey Lyle Geary, 31, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to charges of robbery, possessing a load-ed prohibited weapon, manufacturing
a prohibited weapon and aggravated assault.
Crown prosecutor Ed Ring recom-mended an eight-to-10-year prison sen-tence with a lifetime firearms prohibi-tion for Geary.
Geary was addicted to drugs at the time of the offence.
Ring said the shooting caused in-juries to Reyes’ eye, face, teeth, skull and “catastrophic” injuries to his right thumb and ring finger when he raised his hand to protect himself.
Some metal bits from the shotgun pellets are still in his face.
Reyes also suffered a minor heart attack before one of his surgeries. His most recent surgery was two weeks ago.
“Mr. Reyes understands full recov-ery is not certain,” Ring said.
Ring said Reyes’ vision is still lim-ited.
He has decreased mobility in his hand.
Injuries have affected his employ-ability and Reyes is now unemployed.
Reyes, who was 26 at the time of the shooting, was in the country as a temporary foreign worker. He came to Canada from his home in the Philip-pines the previous May.
“This really changed my whole life,” said Reyes in his victim impact state-ment.
Ring said Reyes continues to suffer mentally and physically, and “bears scars and disfigurement.”
Defence lawyer Patty McNaughton recommended a five-to-eight-year pris-on sentence for her client.
She said the robbery wasn’t planned and no money was taken. Geary turned himself in and the case was “never ever” going to trial.
Geary has spent one year and two weeks in custody in remand and should get credit for one and a half years, she said.
Geary told the court he takes full responsibility for the shooting and was “deeply sad for the pain and suffering he caused.”
Judge Darrel Riemer will sentence Geary on Monday in Red Deer provin-cial court.
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BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF
Sidewalks, water slides and canoe launches were among the ideas tossed about Lacombe residents for budget consideration this year.
In a first-time initiative, council put out a call to residents to propose projects for possible inclusion in the budget. Nineteen submissions came in by the August deadline, and those were whittled down to seven budget prospects.
City staff will now cost out the ideas and bring a report back to council next month. Priority items will become part of the budget debate.
Mayor Steve Christie was pleased with the experi-ment, which formalizes the input council routinely gets as it is out and about in the community.
“It’s kind of neat to look and see what people are actually thinking and what they would pay possibly extra taxes or higher taxes for, and what they are not willing to support.
“It’s kind of interesting.”Some items suggested were new, such as a water
slide at the city’s pool. Others, an observation deck, boardwalk and canoe launch at Cranna Lake, were talked about years ago and have now been revived.
Other ideas that council will consider include: a new park, walk-through entrance to Heritage Park, sidewalks and a stop sign on Fairway Drive, cross-walks lights at 54th Avenue and 58th Street and the potential to employ local youth for trail mainte-nance.
Also being considered in this year’s budget will be strategic priorities outlined in the Downtown Area Redevelopment Plan adopted by council in January 2013.
Among priorities was pursuing a hotel, an initia-tive that has borne fruit with the announcement earlier this month that Best Western is planning to build.
Another initiative focused on making higher-den-sity downtown housing more viable. The city is look-ing at tapping into the Alberta Main Street Program, which provides cash to upgrade buildings, and to consider in this year’s budget a patio program to make downtown more desirable.
Preserving the community’s enviable heritage re-sources was also recommended and was backed up by a $20,000 Heritage Program this year. It is recom-mended the funding continue for 2015.
City council is expected to pass its budget in De-cember.
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A two-week drug trafficking trial started in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday.
Ahmed Nur, 31, faces one count each of trafficking crack cocaine, possession of crack cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, and possession of property obtained by crime or proceeds of crime exceeding $5,000.
Nur originally faced 34 charges following a pre-liminary hearing that wrapped up last year. A total of 31 charges were dismissed on Monday.
Charges stemmed from a RCMP raid on two homes in Red Deer, as well as on a storage unit in Edmon-ton in July 2011.
At the time, Red Deer RCMP reported that they seized more than $60,000 worth of drugs, $65,000 in cash and eight firearms.
On Monday, all 34 charges against co-accused Raed Abdulla, 32, were stayed by Crown prosecutor Patricia Giroux of Edmonton.
The trial is before Justice C.S. Anderson.
Long list of charges whittled down
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Red Deer City Councillor Diane Wyntjes speaks with Zainab Mohamoud during a Freedom Lunch to aid Somalians at the HUB in Red Deer on Monday. Those taking part in the lunch had a taste of Somalian culinary fare Monday and helped to raise money to build a school in the country. Mohamoud who organized the meal is trying to raise $20,000 to build a school, buy furniture, books and supplies and pay staff salaries in Somalia. For anyone wanting to contribute to the campaign visit www. iniegogo.com and search Education for Somalian.
Knifepoint holdupin Eastview investigated
Red Deer RCMP are searching for three suspects who robbed a man at knifepoint in Eastview on Sunday morning.
Police say a man was walking to work about 7 a.m. near 39th Avenue and 44th Street when he was ap-proached by three knife-wielding men.
One of them threatened him with a knife and punched the victim once. The three stole the victim’s backpack, cellphone and wallet before running east on 44th Street.
Police searched the area but could not find the men.
The victim was not injured in the attack.
The suspects are described as wear-ing black pants, black winter jackets and balaclavas. They are between five-foot-six and five-foot-eight (1.69 to 1.73 metres), with skinny builds and are between 16 and 19 years old.
Anyone with information should call RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or on-line at www.tipsubmit.com.
Autopsy scheduled after body found in vehicle
Red Deer RCMP are investigating after a man was found dead in a vehi-cle in the area of 51st Avenue and 34th Street on Monday.
Police do not believe the death is suspicious.
However, an autopsy will be sched-uled in Calgary to confirm the cause of death.
Police received a call at 7:30 a.m. about an unconscious or deceased man.
Police, EMS and several vehicles were on scene for several hours until the deceased person was removed from the vehicle.
Rimbey RCMP seize drugs, weapons, make arrest
Pursuing a vehicle heading towards Rimbey led RCMP to a car filled with drugs and weapons.
One man is now in custody.Rimbey RCMP Sgt. Mark Groves
said officers were tracking the car on Hwy 20 leaving Sylvan Lake towards Rimbey on Friday about 10:30 p.m.
A vehicle stop was initiated and police say they found a sizable amount of narcotics, including methamphet-amine, oxycodone and cocaine.
Several prohibited weapons were also found, police say, including brass knuckles, a knife and an imitation fire-arm made to look like a Glock hand-gun. Also found was an undisclosed quantity of cash and drug parapherna-lia.
Groves said a 29-year-old Eckville male has been charged with obstruc-tion of justice and possession of pro-hibited substances for the purpose of trafficking.
“The Rimbey RCMP have made nu-merous seizures of meth and cocaine over the last year,” said Groves, adding they are tackling the illegal drug prob-lem in the community.
“It’s a problem really everywhere, but it has made its way into Rimbey.”
CUC seeks inputon changing name
Canadian University College in La-combe is going to change its name.
But first it will hold a community focus group to gather input and new name suggestions from city residents.
The focus group, led by professional facilitator Brenda Beck, will meet on Friday at 1 p.m. in the County Room of the Lacombe Memorial Centre. The
meeting is open to everyone.Recently the college received per-
mission from the Alberta government to drop the word “college” from its name.
The “university college” name is not understood by many employers and graduate school admission com-mittees, CUC president Mark Haynal said.
In Canada alone, there are three definitions of a university college — being able to offer college diplomas and undergraduate degrees, an educa-tional institution that cannot grant de-grees or, as in Alberta, an independent post-secondary institution with its own board and authority to grant tertiary degrees in its own name.
Haynal said that because CUC can grant degrees, it is a university in the thinking of most people.
“Dropping the word ‘college’ from our current or new name will clear up much confusion,” he said.
It’s hoped that the process to adopt a new name will take no longer than a year.
The president said CUC will take into consideration the advice and opinions of alumni and friends.
Four other faith-based post-second-ary institutions were recently given permission by the province to drop the work “college” from their names.
These include Concordia Univer-sity College and The King’s University College in Edmonton, and Ambrose University College and St. Mary’s Uni-versity College in Calgary.
Three public schoolsjoin for literacy project
The Red Deer Public School Dis-trict hopes to encourage family read-ing, bringing three elementary schools together to read the same book.
The One Book, Three Schools proj-ect was launched on Monday evening.
Each family involved will be given a copy of The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. Families will be asked to read one chapter each night together
and then it will be followed up with in-school activities the next day.
“We want to build a community of readers,” said Della Ruston, Westpark Middle School principal. “What a great way for families to connect, spending quality time together, reading a won-derful story.”
Students at Westpark Middle School, West Park Elementary School and Mattie McCullough Elementary School and their parents are all partic-ipating in this reading activity. Those schools were chosen because students from Mattie McCullough and West Park Elementary feed into Westpark Middle.
All students from those three schools, from kindergarten to Grade 8, will read the science fiction novel,
which was chosen because it was ac-cessible to all grades.
Funds raised for diabetesRed Deer will be one of 22 locations
across Canada supporting diabetes re-search when volunteers pedal hard on stationary bikes.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation bike-athon in Red Deer is scheduled for Wednesday at Bower Place, 4900 Molly Bannister Dr. The event starts at 11 a.m. and goes until 2 p.m.
The hope is to raise thousands for research towards a cure for type 1 diabetes. For more information, visit www.jdrf.ca/ride.
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“You not only broke my heart, you broke my expecta-tions of how love is supposed to be.”
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“Things are not working out,” he said with a heavy sigh. “All we do is fight.”
“What are you fighting about?” I asked. “Is there a common theme?”
“Apparently, I’m not living up to my end of the bargain.”
“And by ‘bargain’ she means your responsibili-ties?”
“I guess.” He shift-ed uncomfortably in his chair. “No matter what I do, she’s upset.”
Let’s face it, we’ve all experienced not living up to someone else’s ex-pectations and we’ve all had people in our lives who failed to live up to our expectations of them. It seemed to me that my companion and his part-ner were suffering from a classic case of unfulfilled expectations. Unfulfilled, principally, because they had seldom been shared, discussed or clarified.
Take a relationship — any relationship, personal or business — and think about the expectations you bring to the table. Grab a pen and paper then begin compiling a list of all the expectations you have of your spouse, employer, friend or colleague. Once you’ve completed the list, ask yourself just how many of these items you’ve discussed — not just with col-leagues around the water cooler, but with the per-son or persons directly in-volved in the relationship. If the answer is all or most of them, great. If the an-swer is few or none, con-sider the reasons why.
Most expectations hang in a thick fog of assump-tion. That is, we assume the other person knows or should know our expec-tations but, in reality, he or she may have no clue whatsoever.
Though we may not admit it or even acknowl-edge it consciously, we of-ten prefer ambiguity, and for no other reason than the belief that a lack of clarity allows us to assume a lack of responsibility.
Essentially, if we stay vague, we cannot be pinned down or held ac-countable and thus avoid a painful confrontation that may result from an open airing of views.
Stephen R. Covey, au-thor of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, says that unclear com-munications undermines both trust and communi-cation in every type of re-lationship.
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FAMILY C3TUESDAY, SEPT. 30, 2014
The pressing guilt I had been experiencing all day hadn’t started with the fact that I had slept in.
Nor did it stem from when I cut that guy off on 60th Street the other day.
It wasn’t that itching reminder that I’ve been dropping the proverbial ball with friendships lately or that my healthy eating plan has somehow evolved from rice cakes and cottage cheese to loaded nachos with salsa and sour cream.
It wasn’t any of these things that caused the mind-numbing, puffy red eyes under dark shades, anxiety-ridden feel-ing that I had been dealing with for the last six hours.
No, my guilt today came from quite literally a pair of uncomfortable shorts. Well, that and my bad attitude.
After the fifth pair of pants I struggled to get on Lars, I began to get a little per-turbed. He and I both were tottering on a thin ledge — any abrasive movements would result in a mean fall into the obliv-ion of meltdowns and waterworks. I knew this, so I tried to stay cool.
But it was when we heaved on his last pair of clean shorts and his fingers continued to fiddle with the seams, or the bulk of the pockets, or the button on the fly, or the fly itself, that I snapped.
“WHAT’S WRONG NOW?” I yelled.Yes I yelled.I could begin typing down all of my excuses for
yelling at the boy this early morning hour but that would just be futile. Because what it boils down to is that I yelled over something really, really dumb. He didn’t answer, he just stared at me with a sad blank look.
I dug into his pajama pants drawer, threw a pair of sweats his way and told him he could just wear that. I reiterated for the 10th time that we were going to be late for school so, “hurry up.”
As I walked out of my son’s room, I heard his cry-ing but I didn’t turn back to comfort him.
Selfishness, annoyance, stubbornness and clearly child-like behaviour (on my part) stopped me.
Lars walked into the kitchen a few minutes later holding his Dad’s hand.
“I’ll walk him to school, hun,” Jamie said without a trace of judgment in his voice from my temper tan-
trum moments before. This only made me feel even more ridiculous.
I knelt down to Lars’s height gave him a hug and once again heard his sadness over our previous debacle. He sobbed deeply into my chest and it was all I could do to keep my own tears at bay. “I’m so sorry I yelled at you Lars — that was wrong of me.”
“That’s OK Mama,” he replied between cavernously deep breaths.
I attempted to remind him of the hap-py notes he gets to look forward to at school, like library class and gymnastics. And because Lars is the sweet and sensi-tive soul he is, he tried to indulge my ef-forts with a half-hearted smile.
But when it came down to it, I had single-handedly ruined my son’s morn-ing — a kid who had already been having anxieties about his new venture into el-
ementary school.My outburst did not help and no amount of happy
notes could change that.And this is how the Mom-guilt began. I watched
the boys walk out the back door towards the school.Quickly I retrieved the laundry basket of dirty
clothes and scurried downstairs to the washing room.
There I let myself cry. I cried over how stupid I felt. I cried out of anger for allowing myself to make my son feel so sad over something as trivial as get-ting dressed. I cried because the guilt had gobbled up any goodness I tried to summon at that exact mo-ment.
After a few minutes in my pool of self-pity and dirty clothes, I pulled it together. I did my chores and ran my errands — all the while not able to get Lars out of my mind.
I wondered how he was doing as I checked canta-loupes at the grocery store. I revisited the events of our terrible morning in my mind over and over again as I jogged down the path behind our house.
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And as I quickly scurried towards his school to pick him up, my anxieties ran high over what I would find when he walked out of those front doors.
Imagination can sometimes be an awful thing, especially in times like these. I imagined my boy exiting that school as a fragile and frail little being — ruined by the confrontation we had that fateful morning.
Instead, the kid ran out with rosy cheeks and a smile from ear to ear on his face.
As we skipped home, he told me about his day and how excited he was for gymnastics that evening. He didn’t mention our morning. It was the farthest thing from his mind.
That’s the thing about guilt, it is an onus made only for remorseful. And it is there to reminds us that when we have a bad day, we must always aim for a better tomorrow.
Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.
FUHRER: Be up front“Whether we are dealing with the question of who
does what at work, how you communicate with your daughter when you tell her to clean her room or who feeds the fish and takes out the garbage, we can be certain that unclear expectations will lead to mis-understanding, disappointment and withdrawals of trust.”
Covey explains that many expectations are im-plicit, meaning they are implied though not directly expressed. Couples involved in intimate relation-ships form implicit expectations of one another. Although these expectations may never have been discussed or even consciously acknowledged, fulfill-ing them bring positive returns while violating them brings disaster.
It’s vital for the success of any relationship, notes Covey that expectations be laid on the table. We head down a treacherous path when we assume our expectations are self-evident and therefore clearly understood and shared by those around us.
The best advice? Invest the time and effort up front and clarify expectations. Clarifying expec-
tations takes courage but doing so will save huge amounts of time and effort down the road. When expectations are not clear and shared, simple misun-derstandings compound turning minor clashes into major communication and relationship breakdowns.
I remember a friend complaining about his spouse not fulfilling his ‘needs,’ as it were.
“All right,” I said, taking out my pen and reaching for a napkin. “Let’s have ’em.”
Within a few minutes, we had a list of his expecta-tions on paper.
After confirming that my list represented an ac-curate accounting of his needs, I posed the question, “How did your partner respond when you presented her with your list of needs?”
My friend’s response was, not surprisingly, an open mouth and a blank stare.
In my experience, many of our personal and busi-ness relationships lack a simple, yet essential com-ponent to ensure their success: clarity. Without clari-ty, we are left to assume that all is well. You’ve prob-ably had a job or been involved in a relationship where the modus operandi was “assume you’re do-ing well until you hear otherwise.” Think about how frustrated you felt when someone accused you of not keeping up your end of the bargain. Unfulfilled ex-pectations damage relationships and affect how we feel about ourselves — our level of self-esteem.
Clear and reasonable expectations move relation-ships forward, adding an element of accountability. Unclarified expectations in relationships are like an
unwritten law: one can break the law without know-ing it exists, yet still have to face the consequences of frustration, disapproval, or worse, the end of the relationship.
All parties involved in a relationship need to take accountability for its success. When inter-acting with your partner or children, make sure that everyone is clear as to what the responsibilities, expectations, and consequences are and allow room for safe and honest communication.
At work, if your employer appears to have expec-tations of you that seem unjust or simply unattain-able, speak up. As an employer, ensure you roll out your expectations clearly when hiring or reviewing performance, and allow room for an open and honest airing of concerns.
It may seem easier to act as though differences don’t exist or hope that things will just work out, but that — in my experience — is seldom (if ever) the case. It is always better to arrive at a mutually agree-able set of expectations.
Remember, an expectation is a living thing and will need to be addressed and readdressed on an on-going basis to ensure clarity and avoid hurt feelings, anger or frustration. Get clear about what you need or expect from a relationship and then let the rest of us in on the secret.
Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Fac-tors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Ex-treme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.
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Question: Would you recommend adopt-ing a child from another country or a differ-ent ethnic group? My spouse and I are seri-ously interested in helping a youngster who needs a home, but we’re unsure about the potential risks and challenges of interracial or intercultural adoption.
Jim: Let me applaud you for your willingness to bring a needy child into your home. As you may know, Focus on the Fam-ily’s Adoption and Orphan Care Initiative was developed to raise awareness about the plight of orphans and to urge people to become involved. With 100,000 children waiting to be adopted here in the United States and more than 150 million orphans worldwide, it’s clear that there’s an opportunity to make a life-changing difference in these pre-cious lives.
As one who was orphaned at a young age, I would wholeheart-edly support and encourage fam-ilies to welcome any child await-ing adoption with open arms, re-gardless of his or her nationality or ethnic origin. It’s important, however, for everyone to be aware of and prepared for relational dynamics that might potentially have an impact. For example, if someone in the neighborhood, or perhaps an extended family member, harbors racial prejudice and could possibly display those attitudes in front of the child, the prospective parents need to be prepared to deal with the situa-tion appropriately.
In addition, parents should take inten-tional steps to become educated about and culturally sensitive to their child’s ethnicity.
Although it’s difficult to address this topic comprehensively in this context, you may be interested to know that our staff has devoted an entire chapter to interracial adoption in a book we’ve prepared that you might find helpful: “Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family: Real-Life Solutions to Common Challenges.” You can order a copy from our online store (family.christian-book.com), or by calling us at 855-771-HELP (4357).
Question: Our family has high standards when it comes to our movie choices. But how
do we handle movies that kids often watch at slumber parties?
Bob Waliszewski, director, Plugged In: Good question. You’re smart to assume that overnighters will involve at least one film before kids actually get to the “slumber” part of the party.
Here’s what I’d recommend: Call the parents of the child hosting the event. Explain that because of the influential nature of motion pictures, your family is very intentional about consum-ing films that have a positive im-pact, and because of this, you’d like a heads-up on what movies, if any, are being planned for the night. They may appreciate the inquiry because many parents have boundaries for their own kids. If the film being showcased presents concerns, politely ex-plain why and offer to send some alternative movies with your child. Should you experience or sense a lack of support, you may need to determine whether or not your child should attend the gathering, or if he or she is trust-
worthy and courageous enough to ask to be excused while others are watching.
One last thing: Become the “go-to” house for your kids’ activities — slumber parties and all other fun things — as much as pos-sible. Instead of watching movies (which takes no creativity whatsoever), help your kids plan a “better than watching a movie” slumber party.
Maybe you can play a game of broom soc-cer or ultimate Frisbee at a park nearby. A scavenger hunt that involves video-record-ing certain activities (e.g., videotape a dog that responds to the command, “Bang!” by rolling over and playing dead) is always a winner with kids. Or if there’s talent within the group, have the kids script and shoot a melodrama using their phones, which they can then enjoy watching together afterward.
Consider looking online for other kid-safe ideas.
Jim Daly is a husband and father, an au-thor, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.
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TORONTO — Kirsten Dunst is the only woman in The Two Faces of Janu-ary, and is caught between two power-ful male forces — her fraudster hus-band Chester (Viggo Mortensen) and mysterious con artist Rydal (Oscar Isaac).
The noir thriller opening Friday is based on a 1964 novel by Patricia Highsmith, who also wrote Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Dunst says she and screenwriter-direc-tor Hossein Amini were determined to flesh out the lone female role.
“She in the book is portrayed as a bit of a floozy and a little bit promis-cuous. Well, not a little bit, she is,” laughed Dunst.
“I wanted to make her a real wom-an,” she said. “For me, watching that in a film, where the two guys get to have this interesting dynamic — I wanted her and Chester’s dynamic also to be loaded and just as important.”
The Two Faces of January begins in Athens, where Chester and Colette (Dunst) are on the run from the vic-tims of a scam that made them rich. They meet and befriend Rydal, a well-educated tour guide with a knack for cheating unsuspecting tourists out of their money.
When Rydal stumbles across Ches-ter trying to move the body of a private detective he has murdered, he agrees to help the couple flee Greece. But as they set out on the journey, Chester be-comes increasingly jealous of Rydal’s flirtation with his wife.
“It’s really about this marriage fall-ing apart,” said Dunst. “We had to make (Colette and Chester) as in love as possible and playful with each oth-er so that you really see there’s some-where to go. And you see them deterio-rate.”
Dunst, 32, began her acting career at age six in Woody Allen’s New York Stories. She has since appeared in the blockbuster Spider-Man trilogy, and recently has leaned toward more char-acter-driven fare like Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia and Jeff Nichols’s Midnight Special, opening next year.
“If you’re in bigger films it always helps in terms of financing for the smaller ones. (Spider-Man) was a big thing for me. It helped me have the op-portunity to be in a movie like Melan-cholia,” she said.
Dunst was initially drawn to The Two Faces of January by the “beauti-fully written” script by Amini, an Os-car-nominated screenwriter who also penned Drive. This film marks his first time directing, but Dunst said it never showed.
“He’s such an intelligent man, and such a gentleman, and so in tune with knowledge of emotions. He has a very female side because of that,” she said. “I think he’s watched enough great di-rectors on sets and he’s written enough beautiful films... (that) he didn’t seem nervous.”
Dunst said the two male leads have distinct acting styles, which worked
because her character feels so differ-ently around each. She felt more re-laxed acting with her friend Isaac — who Colette also feels more at ease with as her husband descends into a jealous rage.
“I’m a fan of Oscar’s and he’s a friend of mine, so I’ll always support him. I love working with him and he’s a very special actor,” she said. “He’ll be around for a while. He just broke out in a big way.”
She added she doesn’t think the age difference between her and Mortens-en, 55, appears jarring on screen (“He’s so handsome, it doesn’t seem off-put-ting”). He was a laugh riot on set, in contrast with his often moody, dramat-ic persona in films, Dunst said.
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High expectations for second season
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NEW YORK — Sleepy Hollow was renewed after just three episodes last year, and star Tom Mison, who plays Ichabod Crane, calls the new season “the tricky second album.”
“Last season people were ... expect-ing us to be terrible,” Mison says of the Fox mythical drama, which airs Monday nights. “Let’s be honest ... (the show’s premise is) quite a bold idea. Last season: low expectations. This season: high.”
Set in modern day, Crane awakens after being killed in the Revolutionary War. He must adjust to the new time period, battle the headless horseman and prevent the apocalypse with the help of police Lt. Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie). He’s also trying to reunite with his wife, Katrina.
Beharie says Sleepy Hollow will be more character-driven this season.
“This year it’s a lot more personal, and there are a lot of questions about (whether Ichabod and Abbie) can re-main loyal to one another and to their cause,” she says.
Some fans are rooting for a roman-tic link to develop between Ichabod and Abbie. “He’s a guy, I’m a girl, and they’re like, ‘There should be kissing involved,”’ Beharie says with a laugh. “I didn’t see that happening. Not at all. ... That happens in some shows, but they’re sort of focused on saving the world and the apocalypse, so I don’t see Abbie wanting to fight over the same romantic guy in any way.”
Various Sleepy Hollow-themed books are in the works. The first, The Secret Journal of Ichabod Crane, is now in stores.
Beharie would like to do a pop-up themed episode, where various be-hind-the-scenes facts about filming ap-pear on the screen during different scenes.
Sleepy Hollow is filmed in Wilm-ington, North Carolina, which Mison says can be “very close to unbearable” when the weather is very humid.
“The noises that I make when the wig comes off and that coat comes off,” he joked. “I’ve never experienced joy like it.”
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Viggo Mortensen, from left, Oscar Isaac and Kirsten Dunst appear in a scene from ‘The Two Faces of January.’
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LEWISTON, Maine — Nearly 3,900 people helped raise more than $1.1 million for cancer care and support at the sixth annual Dempsey Challenge, organized by actor Patrick Dempsey in honour of his mother.
Aimee Arsenault, manager of spe-cial events and development at the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing at Central Maine Med-ical Center in Lewiston, announced the fundraising total at Sunday’s clos-ing ceremonies and added that it’s still growing.
Dempsey, the Grey’s Anatomy ac-tor and Maine native, was one of the roughly 1,000 people who took part in Sunday’s cycling events.
Others raised money by walking or running.
The actor founded the Dempsey Challenge following the experience of his 77-year-old mother’s battles with ovarian cancer. She passed away in March.
Tuesday, Sept. 30CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE:
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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will welcome in a bright-er perspective on your current circumstances, perhaps some leaps in judgement as well. You will feel very optimistic about the future, but will still have to con-tend with the ongoing lessons at play for you. There is a great opportunity to push yourself for-ward now, more than ever. It will lead to greater abundance for you in the long run.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If to-day is your birthday, this year will highlight greater indepen-dence on your part in terms of finances and the will to implement your true intentions. There is wonderful planetary pull to this year, indicating all is possible if you start to believe in your heart’s desires and in yourself. True wisdom will come from dis-cussing all that is on your mind and you will be rewarded for this.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will be very joyous today. Your actions and in-stinct nature will be in line with creating and expressing the future you desire. Lessons with relationships will be highlighted, but this will not faze you now, you see possibilities where there were none before.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are seeing the brighter side of not only your nature, but of those you have a strong bond with today. There is a pull for you to act more and review later, as your intuition is through the roof today. Trust it, but do re-view any issues going on at home and fam-
ily for you now.GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Others in
your life are very happy today! Join in with the fun, at the moment, as indicated yester-day, you will be feeling slightly slowed down
and in pause mode. Take the time to reflect on work, health, and daily life through interacting with those who see the posi-tives now!
CANCER (June 21-July 22): You should be feeling very optimistic about the path of your work, health, and daily life at the moment. There is an increased examination of what truly makes you happy and what your innate talents are. Trust your path forward, it is prosperous and abundant.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There will be reason to cele-brate today — other than the fact that you are actively mov-
ing into a positive direction with more ro-mance on the agenda, or you simply feel freer to do as you please now. Trust your direction; it will lead to great abundance for you in the future!
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today will highlight a time for joy to be had with family, those within your home, and with you at a soul level. The more you trust your instincts, the better able to see that your true wishes and dreams are possible now. Take the time to review, but do trust your gut instincts.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): OK, so, today you will be letting everyone know some great news! You are feeling quite optimistic right now and this will allow for a new per-spective on your current situation to emerge. This relief will be just what you need to feel more balanced and relaxed now.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today’s focus will be on your career and your public
self. You do understand that both relate directly back to your financial situation and with your personal worth. Well, today you’ll feel joyous and abundant and they will all build on each other. Trust your instincts!
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There will be no doubt about it — you will be feel-ing wonderful today! Not only that, you will be feeling very optimistic about your future as well. Move towards your aspirations and feel good about the step you are taking now. Express your truth now!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your dream life will be very active. I would even listen to dreams that are foretelling the fu-ture, write them down for reviewing later on. There is lots of work to be done behind the scenes now to focus on the prize and your dreams and it will be yours!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are feeling very optimistic with your future and the direction with friends and work col-leagues now. There is a sense that every-thing will work out for the best. Abundance of blessings are heading your way, you have gained wisdom. It’s time to claim the rewards!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are feeling amazing about your work today. You are very optimistic and feeling absolutely wonderful about the actions you are tak-ing towards future projects with work. Ev-erything is falling into place nicely for you now. Trust this path forward, your world is changing for the better now and this will also trickle into your personal relationships. En-joy today’s energy!
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Wife tired of loveless marriageDear Annie: I have been married to
“Phil” for 15 years.Between the two of us, we have
eight children. Our youngest is still in school.
The problem is, I’m not happy any-more. I’ve made mistakes, stupid ones, including flirting with other men. Phil isn’t com-pletely innocent, either, but he claims if I weren’t talk-ing to these other men, he wouldn’t have approached other women.
My oldest daughter takes Phil’s side and says I ruined the family. I don’t think he should have been running to her to complain when she was only 16. She’s since moved out, and he’s now telling our next oldest daughter, who is 14, about our problems. I think this is sick and immature.
Phil recently told me he was giving me the “oppor-tunity” to leave, although I don’t need his permission.
I’m staying because I refuse to aban-don my children. I’ve admitted my
wrongdoings. I’ve also made it clear that I’m staying only for the kids and don’t love Phil anymore.
I suspect neither one of us could survive on our own.
I’m tired of playing “happy fami-ly,” living with an obsessive man who
refuses to understand that I’m not the sole cause of our problems. It’s both of us.
I’m not looking for anoth-er relationship. I’m looking for some peace. Any sug-gestions? — Miserable and Stuck
Dear Miserable: Yes. Get counselling with or with-out Phil and find out how to cope with the situation.
Married couples who are obviously miserable and sniping at each other but insist on staying together for the sake of the children are not providing the lov-ing, stable environment that children need.
And Phil should absolutely not be confiding in your teenage daughters about your marital difficulties. It’s ma-nipulative and inappropriate. Shame
on him.Dear Annie: This is for my in-laws,
who wonder why we don’t have joint parties with both sides of the family:
When your son and I married, I had the crazy notion that our families could get together with the expectation that everyone would get along and behave civilly.
Apparently, you didn’t share that idea. I remember the snide comments, the ridicule about my family and the hurtful jokes made regarding our na-tionality. You couldn’t even be in the same room without saying something disrespectful.
I tried for 10 years, and then I said never again. For the past 20 years, we’ve alternated holidays, and we’ve seen your family dwindle.
This Thanksgiving, it’s my family’s turn and your kids won’t be around. Enjoy spending the holidays by your-self. — Had It
Dear Had It: Have you or your hus-band told your in-laws that the reason you no longer include them with your family is because they behave so disre-spectfully?
We can’t guarantee that it would make any difference, but sometimes,
given the opportunity and the under-standing, people can learn to change their behaviour — especially if the al-ternative is so lonely.
Dear Annie: I have a suggestion for “Mom,” whose daughter’s new col-lege roommate wants her boyfriend to spend the night.
The daughter should invite every-one on the floor to her dorm room for a popcorn party and make sure the roommate also helps make the pop-corn. She can do this any night the boy-friend plans to sleep over.
If she is having trouble finding enough friends to come over, she could take photos all over campus and invite people to come by to see them.
Or ask other students about the best places to hang out or which classes to take. These things will help her make friends and also keep the dorm room too crowded for canoodling. — Did It Myself
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RESTARilda Jane Leslie Resta (nee DeWalt) of Red Deer, Alberta, formerly of Rimbey, Alberta, passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Saturday, September 27, 2014 at the age of 75 years. Rilda was a beautiful person with grace, class, and an intelligent nature. She had a wonderful sense of humour along with a giving and compassionate heart. Rilda offered a sense of fairness and expected equality for all. She was tender and gentle, but fi rm. However, she
did have a ‘Mama Bear’ side to her. Rilda was hugely committed to her family, and was a doting grandmother and great grandma to many children, always making time for telling or reading a story. Her grandchildren brought great joy and happiness to her life. Rilda was a very social person and made people feel welcome. It seemed the coffee pot was always on with fresh baking just out of the oven. More often than not, these coffee times led to an upcoming mealtime. Her family was blessed to have a full table with always more than enough to eat. Rilda was always an extremely creative individual. She loved to read, garden, sew (the grandchildren grumbled if their pajamas were not sewn by Grandma), knit, crochet, and many forms of painting. She painted rocks, with many folks having one or two in their gardens. Thinking back, Rilda’s favourite painting was with no paint... just a tiny artist’s brush on the bare backs of her grandchildren as they lay across her lap... imagining that the scene they had requested was exactly the one that Grandma was painting! Rilda also loved to bake and cook. Through the years, she designed and decorated many a wedding cake for couples from near and far, and was tagged the ‘Wedding Cake Lady’ by many. Rilda always endeavoured to support the activities her children were involved in, which led her to become the fi rst-known female president of a Minor Hockey Association. Along with raising her family and working so very hard on the farm, Rilda also worked full time in town for Robinson’s Stores and became the store manager. A quote from a granddaughter: “Grandma was a rare gem among all the jewels, and I am privileged to call her my Grandma.” “Our family gives thanks that Mom is in the arms of her Heavenly Father.” Rilda will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by her beloved husband of 56 years, Silvio; her two sons, Silvio Jr. (Laurie) Resta; and Jordan (Mary) Resta, both of Red Deer; and her four daughters, JoAnne (Wilfred) Curtis of Red Deer; Judy (John) Ring of Hinton; Jacquie Sullivan of Red Deer; and Karen (Ed) Yetter of Blackfalds; as well as 14 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. She will also be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by her brother, Wilson DeWalt of Williams Lake, B.C.; and fi ve sisters: Isla Miller of Edson; Ella Anderson of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; Frances Courtney of Warren, Manitoba; Sharon (Jim) Potter of Likely, B.C.; and June (Adolf) Lehman of Chase, B.C.; in addition to numerous nieces and nephews, other relatives and a host of friends. Rilda was predeceased by her parents, Harry and Ethel; four brothers: Charles, Mickey, Clinton, and Kenny; and two sisters: Dorothy Miller and Ethel Balone. A Celebration of Rilda’s Life will be held at the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Boulevard, Red Deer on Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor Don Hennig and Pastor Peter Van Katwyk offi ciating. Cremation took place at the Central Alberta Crematorium, Red Deer. Interment will follow at a later date in the West Haven Cemetery, Rimbey. If friends desire, memorial tributes in Rilda’s Memory may be made directly to Loaves and Fishes ~ School Lunch Program, 6002 - 54 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4M8; or to the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter, Box 561, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 5G1.
Condolences to the Family may also be expressed by email to: special_refl [email protected]
Service and Cremation Arrangements forthe Late Rilda Jane Leslie Resta (nee DeWalt)
entrusted to the care ofOBERHAMMER FUNERAL CHAPELS
Rimbey, AB. 1-403-843-4445
ROPCHANGeraldine 1935 - 2014Mrs. Geraldine Louise Ropchan (nee Guenette) of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully surrounded by her family, following a courageous battle with cancer, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Thursday, September 25, 2014 at the age of 78 years. Geraldine was born on December 14,1935. She met her high-school sweetheart, Harry at Athabasca High School, Athabasca, Alberta and the couple was married on June 9, 1956. Geraldine was a successful business woman in
and around the Red Deer Area for many years. She loved to golf and was a member of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club. Geraldine also loved to entertain and was a gracious and wonderful host for many family get togethers and parties for friends over the years. Our loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister and kind friend will be deeply missed but lovingly remembered and forever cherished in the hearts of her family and many dear friends. Geraldine leaves to mourn her loving husband of fi fty-eight years, Harry Ropchan; her sons and daughter, Dwayne (Wendy) of Calgary, Alberta, Cathy (Steve) Dick, Robert (Janice) and Troy (Terry Lee), all of Red Deer; her beautiful grandchildren, Christopher, Jennifer and Karys; Melissa and Stephanie; Laine and Randi and Kali-Ann; as well as seven beloved great grandchildren and one on the way. She will also be sadly missed by brothers Donnie (Agnes) Guenette of Grande Prairie, Alberta and Gordon (Janet) Guenette of Sherwood Park, Alberta, her sister, Pauline (Gilbert) Calhoun of Edmonton, Alberta, sisters-in-law, Evelyn Guenette of St. Albert, Alberta and Mary Pasula of Edmonton, Alberta, and a brother-in-law, Andy Ropchan of Leduc, Alberta, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Geraldine was predeceased by her parents, Rene and Eleanor Guenette, a sister, Audrey Brown, a brother, Lawrence Guenette and an infant brother, Russell Guenette. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 - 48A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. with The Reverend Father Jozef Wroblewski celebrant. In lieu of fl owers, Memorial Donations in Geraldine’s honor may be made directly to www.ovariancanada.org.
Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements in care ofGary W. Anderson, Funeral Director at
PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
WEGNERWith great sadness the Wegner and Hay family announce Dr. Joanne Wegner (nee Hay) passed away at her home in Victoria on September 13, 2014. A mass will be held at 1:00 p.m. on October 4, 2014 at Our Lady of the Assumption, Sylvan Lake, and a memorial service at UVic on October 25, 2014.
CHARLOTTE DAVIDIUKJan. 31, 1943 - Sept. 30, 2012
In tears we watched you sinkingWe watched you fade away.You suffered much in silence
You fought so hard to stay.God saw you getting tiredWhen a cure was not to be.So He put His loving arms
around youAnd whispered, “Come with me”.So when we saw you sleepingSo peacefully, free from pain,We could not wish you back
To suffer that again.
Love Always,Gordon, Craig & Courtney
WILSON’S FUNERALCHAPEL & CREMATORIUM
serving Central Albertawith locations in
Lacombe and Rimbeyin charge of arrangements.
Phone: 403.782.3366or 403.843.3388“A Caring Family,
Caring for Families”
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AINSLIEHelen Catherine Born Oct. 3 1918, EdmontonLong time Delburne area Resident - recently St Mary’s Lodge in Trochu. Passed away in Three Hills Hospital September 26 2014 a few days short of her 96th birthday. She was predeceased by her husband Earl (Nov. 25, 2004). She is survived by 2 sons; Jim (Anne) and Stan (Judy); four grandchildren Carol (Gary) Lebsack, Ron Ainslie (Jen Mercier), Barb (James) Power Robert (Monika) Kupczak Ainslie;, 6 great-grandchildren Avery and Makenna Lebsack, Kiara and Scarlett Power, Nevan and Milla Kupczak Ainslie; sister-in-law Noreen Robertson; several cousins, nieces, nephews and many very special friends. Helen worked tirelessly in the community supporting numerous organizations and activities, especially important, included 4-H, Women’s Institute and Royal Purple. Helen loved to visit, she was a mentor to many; her kindness, empathy, wisdom and faith brought peace, hope and a lot of laughter to family and friends. A memorial service will be held Tuesday October 7 2014 in the Lousana Hall at 2:00 PM. In Lieu of fl owers donations in Helens memory maybe directed to St Mary’s Lodge in Trochu or Charity of your choice.
Obituaries
KENZLEEileen DorothySept. 4, 1943 - Sept. 25, 2014Eileen was born to Don and Helen Liddell of of Madden, Alberta. She lived her childhood years in the Madden, Cremona, and Walter Valley districts. When the family moved to Red Deer in 1958 she attended Central Junior High and Lindsay Thurber. In 1960 Eileen met and married Eddie Stenson. By that union a daughter was born in 1963. After her divorce she met and married Ivan Kenzle. They divorced a few years ago. Eileen worked for North-West Motors as a bookkeeper, at the Thunderbird Motel, at the Granada Inn as front desk clerk, and lastly at the Eastview Gas & Wash. Eileen was diagnosed with cancer in 2008 and fought that demon with all her might until fi nally succumbing at the Didsbury Hospital with her family at her bedside. She leaves to mourn her loving mother of Crossfi eld, daughter Susan of Red Deer, brother Fred (Doris) of Red Deer, sister Joyce (Mark Lobitz) of Water Valley, niece Leann (Sean Spence) of Edmonton, nephews Adam Liddell of Blackfalds, Jonathan and Mason Klimack of Edmonton, great nephews Kyle and Brandon Spence, great niece Gabriella Liddell, also numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins. Eileen was predeceased by her sister Joan in 1987 and her father in 2008. At Eileen’s request there will not be a service. Her family would like to give special thanks to Dr. Neil Smit and to all the caring nurses and staff of the DidsburyHospital who went the extra mile to make Eileen’s last days comfortable.
Obituaries
SWARBRICKPearl1925-2014Pearl’s fi nal wish was granted as she peacefully passed away at Olds, Long Term Care on September 26, 2014 at the age of 88. On Angel’s wings, a beautiful lady was taken home. May she always wear red, enjoy a good cup of “Timmy’s” coffee, and be remembered for her giving heart. It is with sadness that the family announces the passing of Pearl. Mom to Dick (Sue) and Ellen (Wayne), beloved grandma to Kim, Dean, Shawna and Gayle and gg to Maya, Rowan, Nevin, Lakota, Marshall, Sienna, and Nathan. She is survived by two brother’s-in-law, two sister’s-in-law, and many nieces and nephews. Pearl was predeceased by her husband, Alan, and her fi ve siblings. At Pearl’s request there will be a private celebration of her life. A “coffee” reception for family and friends will be held at the Kozy Korner, 5024-53 Street, Lacombe Alberta on Friday October 3, 2014 from 1-3 pm. Please honour Pearl’s favourite colour by wearing something red. Donations in lieu of fl owers may be made to Olds long term care, cheques payable to David Thompson Health Trust, 401 Central Block, 3942 50th Ave, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4E7 in memory of Pearl Swarbrick. Condolences may be made by visitingwww.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca
WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and
Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone:
403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388
“A Caring Family, Caring for Families”
Card Of ThanksBELANGERTo our very kind neighbors for helping me through my very hard time of sorrow.~ Mary
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D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014
Classifi ed AdvertisingPhone/Front Counter Sales
Maternity Leave Position
The Classifi ed Department has a one year Maternity leave position available. This is a part time position averaging 3 days / 22.5 hours per week. Monday, Thursday & Friday 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. The person selected will also occasionally be required to work full time for staff holiday relief. The successful candidate will be responsible for the sale of classifi ed advertising in the Red Deer Advocate and associated community papers, both over the phone and at the front counter. You will provide assistance to customers’ inquiries; as well as close of day balancing procedures, sale of newspapers and general customer service duties. This position requires computer skills, knowledge of Word and Excel programs and excellent command of the English language with above average spelling. The ability to multi-task, work well on a team and be self-motivated is essential. We are looking for someone to join our team in October 2014 for paid training with the maternity leave commencing early December (possibly earlier).
If you are interested, please send your resume by October 1, 2014 to:
[email protected] or drop off at the Front Counter of the Red Deer
Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave.
Oilfield 800
$2500 BonusEvery 100 days
IMMEDIATE OPENINGS
Oil & Gas Well Testing Supervisors, Night Foremen,
Experienced/Inexperienced
Junior Day/Night Operators
Must have H2S, First Aid,valid driver’s license. Pre-employment Drug
screening Competitive Wages.
Benefi t PackagePlease submit resume
with references to:[email protected]
Only individuals selected for interviews will be
contacted
DUE to recent signifi cant growth, Alstar Oilfi eld
Contractors has immediate openings
for full time permanentJOURNEYMAN
WELDERS AND B PRESSURE WELDERS
(NOC 7265) at our Hinton location.
Duties:
• Work as part of a safety oriented team
• Fabricate pipe spools• Fabricate structural as-
semblies
Knowledge, Skills and Qualifi cations:
• Journeyman or Red Seal Welder
• B Pressure or CWB certifi cates would be an asset
• Stainless pipe ex-perience would be an asset
• Be able to interpret drawings
Compensation:• Starting at $35.00 per
hour (based on ex-perience)
• Matching RRSP program
• Medical, Dental, Vi-sion plan
• Disability and life insurance
Apply to:
Alstar Oilfi eld Contractors LTD.
310 East River RoadHinton, Alberta
T7V 2G3www.alstaroilfi eld.comhr@alstaroilfi eld.comFax: 780 865 5829
EXP’D CLASS 1 DRIVER REQ’D.Class 1 is a must and
picker exp. would be an asset. Oilfi eld exp. pre-ferred. Will require H2S and First Aid Certifi cate. This position is F/T days only in the Stettler area. Salary to commensurate with experience. Please
send resumes to:lornemurfi [email protected].
EXPERIENCED LABOURERS REQ’D.
Must have all safety tickets. Competitive wages. Call 403-502-1091
HYDROTESTORS 2000is currently taking
resumes forTESTING TRUCK
OPERATORSMust have class 5 Q endorsement license. Please provide drivers
abstract as well as valid oilfi eld tickets. Drop off
resumes at 7889 49 Ave. Red Deer.
LOCAL SERVICE CO.in Red Deer REQ’S EXP.
VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR
Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfi eld tickets.
Fax resume w/driversabstract to 403-886-4475
NEEDED: H2S Supervisors, fi refi ght-
ers and medics. Please email resume and relevant oilfi eld tickets to: [email protected] or call Carl
403-506-1255
Oilfield 800MADDON Oilfi eld Services
is seeking qualifi ed,competent, and
professional personnel tojoin our team. Slickline
Operators and Trainees.Class 3 License, WHIMIS,
H2S, First Aid preferred but not limited to. Fax
resume to 780-603-2241 Email resume to Paul.Ste.
NOW HIRING Well Testing Personnel
Experienced Supervisors& Operators
Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@
testalta.com
OIL & GAS OPERATORBearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler fi eld operations for an intermediateoil and gas operator. Applicantsmust have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivatedand hard working and live or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commuteto workplace location. This position offers a challengingwork environment, attractivebenefi ts with competitive pay and signifi cant room for promotion. Please submit resumes
Attn: Human Resourcesemail:[email protected] 403-252-9719Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3
PROVIDENCE Trucking Inc
Req’s and experienced Picker Operator
All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employ-
ment drug screen. We offer exceptional wages
and benefi ts for exceptional people. Fax resume and abstract to 403-314-2340
or email to [email protected]
TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s SHOP LABOURER
for Central Alberta.Oilfi eld related work, some long hours req’d. Oilfi eld
tickets are an asset.Competitive salary. Resume to [email protected] or
fax 403-340-8818
Sales &Distributors 830
Oilfield 800
SERVICE RIGBearspaw Petroleum Ltd
is seeking LEASEHAND & DRILLER Locally based, home every
night! Qualifi ed applicants must have all necessary
valid tickets for the position being applied for.
Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefi ts package along with a steady
work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources
Email:[email protected]
Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309,
333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3
TR3 Energy is at the forefront of reclamation
and remediation in the oil & gas industry
We are currentlyrecruiting for:
Heavy Equipment Operators Requirements:
Valid Driver’s LicenseH2S Alive
Standard First AidWHIMIS and/orCSTS or PST
Pre-Access A&D TestingGround Disturbance Level 11Please e-mail or fax your
resume to:[email protected]
Fax: (403) 294-9323www.tr3energy.com
ZUBAR Production Services
is currently taking resumes for experienced
Production TestingPersonnel
Email resume to: rdzubaroffi [email protected] or fax to (403)346-9420.
Restaurant/Hotel 820A & W GASOLINE ALLEYRequires to work at these
locations:121 Leva Avenue61 Gasoline Alley
Food Counter AttendantsPermanent F/T & P/T shifts, Weekends, day,
night & evenings. Starting wage $13/hr. Start date: ASAP, 40 hrs./wk + Blue
Cross Benefi ts. 3 Vacancies. Education &
exp. not req’d. Apply in person or at aw.ca or fax
to 403-346-6017
SERVER -CUSTOMER COUNTER - F/T
Duties: Take customer orders, portion raw food, package take-out orders, handle cleaning & store cleaning products, stock fridge, & collect money
from costumer. $11.89/hr.5 days/wk. Must be avail. on weekends & holidays.Paula @ 403-347-8001
Restaurant/Hotel 820JJAM Management (1987)
Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’sRequires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations:
5111 22 St.37444 HWY 2 S37543 HWY 2N700 3020 22 St.
Manager/Food Services Permanent P/T, F/T shift. Wknd, day, night & eves.
Start date ASAP. $18/hr. 40 hrs/week, + benefi ts ,
1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., criminal record check req’d. Req’d education some sec-ondary. Apply in person or
fax resume to: 403-314-1303 For full job
description visit www.timhortons.com
JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s
Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations:
5111 22 St.37444 HWY 2 S37543 HWY 2N700 3020 22 St.
FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift
weekend day and evening both full and part time.
16 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. +benefi ts. Start ASAP.
Job description www.timhortons.com
Education and experience not req’d.
Apply in person or faxresume to: 403-314-1303
Sales &Distributors 830
FIREPLACE PERSON required for sales in Red Deer. Light offi ce duties.
Must have drivers license. Top wages. Call or email John, 1-780-993-2040fi [email protected]
STORESMART Self-Storageis now hiring for
the following position!
P/T Customer Service Assistant
(for 6-16 hrs./week)
For job descriptions and how to apply, go to
www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs. No phone calls please.
Trades 850BIG HORN
ELECTRIC and CONTROLS LTD.
Now RecruitingElectrical and
InstrumentationJourneyman and
Apprentices Req’d QUALIFICATIONSH2S Alive / First Aid
CSTS or PST / Fall Protection
Valid Driver’s LicenceOilfi eld Experience
Will Require a Pre-Employment Drug &
Alcohol ScreeningSEND RESUMES TOFAX: 403-638-3688
OR EMAIL: [email protected]
Truckers/Drivers 860
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Trades 850BRAATT CONST.Of Red Deer is seeking exp’d. carpenters and
laborers for the agricultural industry. Must have drivers license. Call
Brad 403-588-8588
D. LESLIE WELDING LTD. We are currently accepting
resumes for 3rd. yr. apprentices and B Pressure Welders,
$30-$55/hr. Valid safety tickets req’d. Fax your
resumes to: 403-729-2771 or send by email to:[email protected]
NEEDED F/T Service Personfor after sales service and
set up of manufactured and modular home. Must
have exp. in roofi ng, siding, fl ooring, drywall, paint etc.,
Competitive wages and health plan avail. Apply to James at M & K Homes,
403-346-6116NEEDED IMMED. FOR
manufacturing company in Blackfalds
JOURNEYMANWELDERS
Competitive wages and benefi ts package. Email resume to:[email protected]
Rattray Reclamation Ltd is currently seeking an
experienced backhoe operator with a clean and
valid class 1 license preferably 3 years
experience to work in the Lacombe and surrounding areas. Duties will include lease construction, lease
cleanups and reclamation. Valid H2s, Ground Distur-
bance, and First aid tickets are a must.
Competitive wages and benefi ts available Please
email resume [email protected]. Or fax to (403)-934-5235 No phone calls please.
Required Immediately
Parts Delivery Driver / Warehouse
Must possess clean drivers abstract, know city well. The individual must be able to work
unsupervised in a fast paced environment. Some
heavy lifting is required.
Parts PersonParts person required for
rapidly expanding HDParts Supply Store.
Must be able to workunsupervised in a fast paced environment.
Have experience in the heavy truck/trailer industry.
Must possess strongcustomer service skills.
Above average wages, benefi ts package.
Apply with resume @Artic Truck, Email:
ron.cain@nfl eetsolutions.comFax: 403-348-5198
SHUNDACONSTRUCTION
Requires Full TimeCarpenters
& ApprenticesCompetitive Wages
& Benefi ts.Fax resumes & ref’s to:
403-343-1248 or email to: [email protected]
Trades 850Service Plumbing &
Heating is looking for experienced residential and commercial service technician with current Alberta gas/plumbing
ticket. Benefi t package after 3 months, wages based on experience.
Email: [email protected] or fax to (403) 342-2025
Shipper/ReceiverA local company requires an energetic person for
shipper/receiver.Email resume to
SHOP HELP AND/ORAPPRENTICE MECHANIC
REQ’D IMMED.Truck exp. preferred.
8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of Black-falds. Fax: 403-784-2330
Phone: 403-784-3811
SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION
requires a Safety Coordinator
to implement, manage and enhance existing safety
program for a commercial general contractor. Fax
resume and references to 403-343-1248 or email
SHUNDACONSTRUCTION
Requires Full TimeEquipment
Operator/Truck Driver
Q Endorsement preferred. Competitive Wages
& Benefi ts.Fax resumes & ref’s to:
403-343-1248 or email to: [email protected]
Skill Metal Fabricators in Bassano, Alberta are
looking for operators in the following departments -
CNC machine shop, sheet metal, powder coating,
welding and anodizing. We offer competitive wages
and benefi t package. These are full time
positions - available imme-diately. Please email your
resume to: [email protected] or fax to
403-641-3466.
STUCCO/Plaster & labourneeded! Can pay cash. Call /text Chris@4035507237
Truckers/Drivers 860
2-GOOD OILFIELDSERVICES
is currently seeking CLASS 1 TANK TRUCK& PRESSURE TRUCK
OPERATORS.Base salary + bonuses.
Great benefi ts pkg after 3 mo.Please fax resume & drivers abstract to: 403-346-3766
CENTRAL AB based truck-ing company requiresOwner Operators
& Contract Drivers in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558
CLASS 1 DRIVERwith super B and grain hauling experience for
Central AB. Call Wayne 403-341-9113
CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.
Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St.
Cres. Red Deer.
CLASS 3 DRIVERSw/airbrake endorsement
needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume
with a min. of 2 referencesto: [email protected]
F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.
Fluid Experts Ltd.Of Red Deer is seeking
experiencedClass 1 Operators
to join our team of drivershauling clean fl uids for the
Oil & Gas Industry.Home most evenings, scheduled days off,
company benefi ts with exceptional pay structure that includes guarantied
salary + hourly when hauling. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.
Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers
abstract to:403-346-3112 or email to:roger@fl uidexperts.com
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Truckers/Drivers 860
WE are currently looking for experienced
Winch Truck Driver&
Class 3 DriverWe offer competitive
wages based on oilfi eld experience, benefi ts after
3 months. You are required to pass the
pre-employment substance screening.
Please email or fax your resume & safety tickets to:
Fax: 403-346-4177
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CASH CASINO is hiring a F/T CLEANERS
3 am - 11 am shift. Need to be physically fi t.
Must have reliable transportation.
Please send resume attn: Greg Tisdale gtisdale@
cashcasino.ca or fax 403-346-3101 or drop off
at Cash Casino, 6350 - 67 St.
Counter SalespersonA local company requires an enthusiastic person for
counter sales.Email resume to
DAIRY equipment supplier looking for
GENERAL LABORERSFor our parts & service dept.Competitive wages and benefi ts package. E-mail
resume:[email protected]
DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer
and area is essential.Verbal and written
communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax
to 403-346-0295
GAETZ SOUTHF/T P/T MEAT CUTTER.
Apply within5111 22nd St. Red Deer
GAETZ SOUTHFT/PT CASHIERS
Apply within5111 22nd St. Red Deer
GAETZ SOUTHP/T Bakery Evening Staff
Apply within5111 22nd St. Red Deer
Misc.Help 880
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Misc.Help 880HIGH Paying Entry
Level PositionsWe are a growing water
purifi cation company proudly serving families across central AB. Aver-age starting base pay of
approx. $18/hr. with room for rapid advancement. In house training is provided
to qualifi ed applicants. Applicants should be motivated, reliable,
professional, and possess a thirst for knowledge. Call to schedule an interview
between 10 am and 7 pm. 403-356-0330
Hiring students aged 17+ in HS and College. Non-
student positions available. Flexible sched. with $17.25
guarranteed base pay, cust. sales/service, no
experience necessary, we will train, conditions apply. Visit www.work4students.
ca/rda or call 403-755-6711 to APPLY NOW!
Labourers, FlagPersons & Operators
Busy road construction company looking for
Labourers AND fl ag per-sons. Work is throughout
Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to
403-309-0489
LUBE TECHwanted for busy
dealership, possible chance for advancement
into apprenticeship.Must have drivers license. Fax resume to 341-5066
OCTOBER START!Accepting registrations for
6 mo. CommunitySupport Worker Program
ANDGED Program
Funding may be available.403-340-1930
Academic Express Adult Education & Trainingwww.academicexpress.ca
PARTS TECHNICIANWANTED. Trochu Motors
is seeking a customeroriented and responsibleindividual to join our partsteam. Prior experience inthe industry would be an
asset but not a must.Applicants must have
organizational skills, basiccomputer skills and theability to multi-task in a
fast-paced environment. We are looking forward to add to our growing dealer-
ship. Please Apply in person at 102 Eckenfelder
St. Trochu, Alberta. Fax (403) 442-3829 or by email
RESIDENTIAL APTMANAGER
23 suite apt. complex.Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration.
Fax to 403-346-5786
ClassifiedsYour place to SELLYour place to BUY
Government
Looking for a
job????ookoki
Mini Job FairWednesday, Oct. 1, 20149:30 a.m. - NoonAlberta Works Centre2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer
Bring your resuméFor more info, call 403-340-5353
Employers:1. UPS2. URS Corp3. Almita Piling4. Home Depot5. BEAR Services6. Cosmos Group7. Voltage Wireline8. Parkland CLASS9. The Phone Experts10. Wendy’s Restaurant11. St Johns Ambulance12. Sungold Specialty Meats 13. Canyon Technical Services
4514
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FRONTIER BUS LINES Ltd.EXPERIENCED
MOTOR COACH DRIVERSFull time and part time positions available. Must be willing to work evenings and weekends, and must have previous experience driving either motor coach or semi. Clean Class 1 or Class 2 with air.
HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC REQUIRED
Will consider either full or part time. Previous motor coach repair experience preferred.
MOTOR COACH CLEANER Part time position. Shop is located 6 miles from Red Deer. Applicants must have own transportation and be able to work fl exible schedule.
Please email or fax resume to:[email protected]
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APPLIANCE DELIVERY DRIVER Family owned and operated, Trail Appliances continues to grow and due to this, we are looking to expand our delivery department. We are currently looking for an experienced Delivery Driver to work out of our Red Deer Warehouse located at #6 4622 61 Street, Riverside Industrial District The ideal candidate will:
• be able to maneuver merchandise in excess of 100lbs
• possess exceptional customer service skills• enjoy working within a diverse team• hold a valid driver’s license and a clear drivers
abstract The Company provides a comprehensive and competitive benefi t program including such things as:
• Medical & Dental benefi t Program• Flex days• Stat holidays off• Paid vacation time off• Employee & Family Assistance Program• Referral Incentives• Employee discounts• Boot Allowance
Trail is always looking for people who want opportunities to grow, take initiative and work well within a team environment. Launch your career with a well-known and respected company.Become a part of the successful Trail team by submitting a resume to [email protected] or by fax to 403-347-3314.A security check will be conducted on successful candidates. We thank all interested applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. 453191I29-J3
Accounting 1010INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.
with oilfi eld service companies, other small
businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351
Contractors 1100BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads
Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542
BRIDGER CONST. LTD.We do it all! 403-302-8550
DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301
DOORS, windows, siding, soffi t, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @
403-302-9210.
Eavestroughing1130GUTTERS CLEANED &
REPAIRED. 403-391-2169
VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.
Reasonable rates. 340-9368
WINDOW / EAVESTROUGHCLEANING.
Free quotes, 403-506-4822
Escorts 1165KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY*
INDEPENDENT w/own car
HandymanServices 1200ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around
the house or renovateyour bathroom,
painting or fl ooring,or cutting small trees?
Call James 403-341-0617
MassageTherapy 1280
FANTASYMASSAGEInternational ladies
Now OpenSpecials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.
Private back entry. 403-341-4445
MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME
4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161
VII MASSAGE#7,7464 Gaetz Ave.Pampering at its
BEST!403-986-6686
Come in and see why we are the talk
of the town. www.viimassage.com
Misc.Services 12905* JUNK REMOVAL
Property clean up 340-8666
Misc.Services 1290GARAGE DOOR SERVICE.Save 50%. 403-358-1614
Painters/Decorators1310JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888
Roofing 1370PRECISE ROOFING LTD.15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.
403-896-4869
Seniors’Services 1372
HELPING HANDSHome Supports for Seniors.Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home
or facility. Call 403-346-7777for information.
SnowRemoval 1380
SNOWPLOWING Comm/Res. Contracts
welcome. 403-358-1614
WindowCleaning 1420
WINDOW CLEANING.Outside/Inside.
Free quotes, 403-506-4822
YardCare 1430YARD care, Junk/tree/snow
removal, comm/res. 403-358-1614
Celebrate your lifewith a Classified
ANNOUNCEMENT
Looking for a new pet?Check out Classifieds to
find the purrfect pet.
To Advertise Your Business or Service Here
Call Classifi eds 403-309-3300classifi [email protected]
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RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 D3
Adult Newspaper Carriers NeededFor Early Morning Delivery of the
RED DEER ADVOCATE
Monday through Saturday.Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.
Reliable vehicle needed.
EASTVIEW AREA
$605/mo.
For More Information, please callFor More informaiton, please call
Jamie 403-314-4306
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDEDFor delivery of
Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in
CLEARVIEW AREA
Clearview Ridge Area$172/mo.
DEER PARK AREA
Dolan Close$49.24/mo.
ALSO
Dumas Cres., Duffy Close, and 2 Blocks of Dempsey St.
$80.48/mo.
GRANDVIEW AREA
3900 to 4200 Blocks of 41A Ave. and 1 Block of 39 St.
MOUNTVIEW AREA
41 Ave. between 33 St. and 35 St., 3 Blocks of 33 St. and 1 Block of 35 St.
$62./mo.
ALSO42 Ave. between 33 and 35 St.
and 42A Ave. Close$74./mo.
ROSEDALE AREA
West end of Robinson Cres., Ryan Cl., Rich Cl., & Rabbis St.
$71.30/mo.
ALSORoberts Cres.
$53.64/mo.
WOODLEA AREA
47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St.
$134./mo.
For More Information
Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate403-314-4306
CARRIERS NEEDEDFOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS
3 days per week, no weekendsROUTES IN:
ANDERS AREA
Alexander Cres.Addinel CloseAllsop Close
Anquetel/Atlee Close
INGLEWOOD AREA
Isherwood Close
Illingworth Close
Issard Close
MORRISROE AREA
Metcalf Ave
SUNNYBROOK AREA
Stirling Close/Sherwod Cres.
LANCASTER AREA
Lancaster Drive
Lamb Close
VANIER AREA
Vanier Drive
Vanson Close
Viscount Drive
Vold Close
Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info
**********************TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION
DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300
CARRIERS REQUIRED
To deliver theCENTRAL AB LIFE
1 day a week in:
EckvilleBowden
OldsSylvan Lake
Please call Debbie for details403-314-4307
CARRIERS REQUIRED
To deliver theCENTRAL AB LIFE
& LACOMBE EXPRESS1 day a week in:
LACOMBE
BLACKFALDS
Please call Rick for details403-314-4303
INGLEWOOD&
MORRISROE
Adult Newspaper Carriers NeededFor Early Morning Delivery of the
RED DEER ADVOCATE
6 Days a week!Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am
For More Information, Please call Prodie
Phone 403-314-4301
NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDEDFor Afternoon Delivery
3 Days/Week(Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)
KENTWOOD
Kerr Close & Kingston Dr.also
Kendrew Dr.
NORMANDEAU
Northey Ave, Nivens St. & Norwest Cl.
For more information or to apply callJoanne
at the Red Deer Advocate403-314-4308
NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDEDFor Afternoon Delivery
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
BOWER AREA
Bunn Cres. Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres. Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.
For more information or to apply,please call Ashley
at the Red Deer Advocate403-314-4316
Misc.Help 880
We are looking for LANDSCAPE LABOURERS to work on residential and commercial properties in
Red Deer and surrounding area. Main duties to include:
- Laying sod, spreading top soil, plant fl owers, grass,
trees and shrubs. - Cut grass, rake, fertilize,
water, prune trees and shrubs. -In snow season, we
require snow removal. No formal education or experience necessary. Full time/Seasonal posi-tion. Weather dependant
Wage: $16.51 per hour/44 hours per week Email
resume to: [email protected]
Phone: 403-347-7211 Fax: 403-342-7488 Att: Erika
EmploymentTraining 900OCTOBER START!
Accepting registrations for6 mo. Community
Support Worker ProgramAND
GED ProgramFunding may be available.
403-340-1930Academic Express
Adult Education & Trainingwww.academicexpress.ca
EmploymentTraining 900
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CLASSIFICATIONS1500-1990
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Children'sItems 1580
BOYS RUNNERS- Spiderman, size 3,very good cond. $10.
403-314-9603
LEAPSTER L-MAX with extra game, tv cables. Very good cond. $25
403-314-9603
Clothing 15902 PC. man’s suit, dbl.
breasted, grey pure wool, size 40R (Moores) worn
once, like new $75 403-314-2026
DOWN FILLEDHOODED COAT
beige colour, knee length,brand new. Size XL, $100.
403-343-1112
Equipment-Heavy 1630TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, offi ce, well site or
storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
Tools 1640AIR COMPRESSOR,
electric, on wheels, 5 h.p. $195.00 403-346-7856
Firewood 1660AFFORDABLE
Homestead FirewoodSpruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472
CHOPPED POPLAR - free, you pick up. Very close to Red Deer. 403-392-8385.
LOGSSemi loads of pine, spruce,
tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location.
Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346
Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275
AdvocateOpportunities
Firewood 1660TRUCK LOAD OF
CHOPPED FIREWOOD$50. 403-782-7439
GardenSupplies 1680RASPBERRY bushes to give away, barbless, healthy canes, dig all you want 403-392-8034
RIMBEY TREESLarge variety of trees for sale.
Planting available.Fall Specials!
Call Walter, 403-748-3611
HouseholdAppliances 1710
FREEZER. 12 Cu. Ft. $165. 403-346-7856
GE Washer & Dryer Super C. comm. quality $500. 358-1614
HouseholdFurnishings1720
KITCHEN TABLE& 4 CHAIRS
40” long with 12” wide leaf. Asking $40. 403-782-7439
MICROWAVE, Kenmore, white, 900 watts. $25.
403-352-8811
WANTEDAntiques, furniture and
estates. 342-2514
StereosTV's, VCRs 173012” COLOR TV w/remote,
2 yrs. old $25 403-314-0804
DS LITE w/19 games, $140.403-782-3847
GAMEBOY w/1 game $60.403-782-3847
PS2 w/10 games, $50.403-782-3847
SEGA Genesis w/8 games , $100. 403-782-3847
Misc. forSale 1760Canon K920 copier, good for small business, exc.
cond. $45; 3 clean, wool accent matching carpets, two 2’ x 7’, one hexagon
$45/all or will sell individually; LEE Enfi eld
.303 ammo magazine $35 403-352-8811
COMPUTER desk, black, 48”w, 23”d, 30”h, like new. Bought at the Brick, was
$250 asking $95 403-352-8811
DOWN FILLEDHOODED COAT
beige colour, knee length,brand new. Size XL, $100.
403-343-1112
FERTILIZER spreader 20” hopper $25; part bag of
OilDri (all purpose absor-bent $4, metal tamping bar $5; metal chapin spreader tank 1 1/2 gal $15, 16-20-0
fertilizer almost full bag $10, grass clipper battery operated $20, Lagostina 7L pressure cooker stain-
less steel easy lock closing $80, 2 stacking chairs
metal frame $10, turf edger (reg. $40) $20, 12 bottle
wine rack $10 403-314-2026
HIDEABED $50; home gym, $50; playpen $20; mens size 10 football
cleats $30. 403-340-1347
HOUSEHOLD ITEMS- 2 box fulls
Sheets set, afghan,cushions, dishes, glasses, coffee maker & fi lters, $25.
403-314-9603
RAILRY USEDPhillips Food Processor
- assorted blades, storage rack, containers, etc.
$150 obo.403-342-2678 please lv msg.
TOWER Fans (2), $10. ea.; Canadian made com-puter speakers, $20 set; large area carpet, gently used, $10; wireless, cord-less phone, no battery, $10; 2 plant pots (1 with stand), $5.; Christmas tree stand for large artifi cial tree, New, $5; car model kits (2) $5. ea.; older suit-case, $5. 403-986-2942
MusicalInstruments1770
AMPLIFYER for guitar, RX-100 for beginners,
7 Watt. Asking $30. 403-227-2976
Pets &Supplies 1810
37 TABS 225 mg. Milk Thistle for dogs/cats w/liver
disease. Expires 05/15 Vet cost $85. Asking $50.
403-227-2976
Cats 18302 BALINESE KITTENS
2 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE$50/ea. 403-887-3649
Dogs 1840
HIGH QUALITY LABRADOODLES and
GOLDEN DOODLE pups Long time Breeder, text 306-521-1371
www.furtettishfarm.ca
TravelPackages 1900
TRAVEL ALBERTAAlberta offers SOMETHINGfor everyone.
Make your travel plans now.
WantedTo Buy 1930WANTED: Model train set,
G or O Scale. Price negotiable. 403-986-2942
GarageSpace 3150
AGRICULTURALCLASSIFICATIONS
2000-2290
Horses 2140WANTED: all types of
horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.
403-651-5912
CLASSIFICATIONSFOR RENT • 3000-3200WANTED • 3250-3390
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Houses/Duplexes 3020LACOMBE 2 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, $1295 immed. poss. 403-782-7156 357-7465
NEWLY refi nished 3 bdrm. duplex, fenced yard, close to schools, avail. Nov. 1,
$1350 + utils, Sylvan Lake Call/Text 780-887-4430 for apt
Condos/Townhouses3030SEIBEL PROPERTY
www.seibelprperty.comPh: 403-304-7576or 403-347-7545
6 locations in Red Deer~ Halman Heights~ Riverfront Estates~ Westpark~ Kitson Close~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres.~ Holmes St.
S.D. $1000Rent $1245 to $14453 bdrm. townhouses,
1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs. N/S, no utils. incl. avail.
Oct. 15 & Nov. 1References required.
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
4 Plexes/6 Plexes 3050AVAIL. Oct. 1 recently reno’d2 bdrm 1.5 bath, 4 appls, water, sewer & garbage
incl. No Pets, N/S, $1100.403-788-3980, 391-2795
CLEARVIEW2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls. Rent $1125. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D.
$650. Avail. Oct. 1. 403-304-5337
NEWLY RENOVATEDbachelor, 1, & 2 bedroomsuites available in central
location. Heat & waterincluded. Cat friendly.
[email protected](888) 679-8031
Suites 30601 & 2 BDRM APTSin NEW BUILDING.
Avail Nov 1. No pets, N/S.Underground parking.
Great location. 3430-49 Ave.WoodWalkerVentures
@gmail.comor 403-782-5781
2 BDRM apt. for over 40 yr. old working tenants, no pets, no partiers, no drugs. Free laundry, heat, water,
private parking at 5910-55 Ave. in Riverside Meadows.
$1100 . Avail.Immed. 403-341-4627
GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000
LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111
MORRISROEMANOR
1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. Adult bldg. N/S No pets
403-596-2444
SUNNYBROOK2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.
403-346-6686
RoomsFor Rent 3090CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $575. 403-466-7979
MOUNTVIEW: Avail Oct. 1.1 fully furn bdrm for rent.
$500/$250. Working/Student M only. Call 403-396-2468
Offices 31102000 SQ.FT. OFFICE,
4836 51 Street.Parking is avail. $1800/mo.
403-343-9300
WarehouseSpace 3140SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft.$1000 Phil 403-350-0479
Houses/Duplexes 3260
4 MATURE, working,responsible adults want
4 bdrm. house w/garage, for Nov. 1st. Ref’s avail.
587-876-2335/403-877-8055
CLASSIFICATIONS4000-4190
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Realtors& Services 4010
HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE
Call GORD ING atRE/MAX real estate
central alberta [email protected]
HousesFor Sale 4020
CUSTOM BUILTNEW HOMES
by Mason Martin HomesKyle, 403-588-2550
FREE Weekly list ofproperties for sale w/details,
prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355
Help-U-Sell of Red Deerwww.homesreddeer.com
MUST SELL1217 sq.ft. duplex.4 bdrm., $191,900.
403-588-2550
MUST SELLNew Home. 1335 sq.ft.
bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.403-588-2550
Condos/Townhouses4040
NEW CONDO1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550
Cottages/ResortProperty 4130
SNOWBIRDS!1994 Park Model for sale:
Yuma, Foothills, AZ. Very good condition
in a great park. Asking $15,000. (Canadian) obo. 403-347-6466
CLASSIFICATIONS5000-5300
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Cars 50302002 CHEV Malibu LS loaded, leather, sunroof, etc. 213,000 kms, $1950 obo 403-340-3462
2001 VOLVO S60. Loaded, very good cond. 182,000 km. $4500 obo. 403-343-2058
1998 Pontiac Sunfi re 40+ MPG. Good shape. $1200 obo 403-782-2007 after 1pm
1993 CADILLAC STS like new 200,000 kms, $3000 403-358-1614
SUV's 50402010 RAV4 50,000 kms. $17,000 403-358-1614
2007 VW Tourareg, fully loaded, AWD, new wind-shield, Nokian all season
tires, in exceptionally good condition. 180,000 kms.
$14,750 obo 403-346-5440 or 403-391-0320
Trucks 5050
2013 CHEV LTZ full load, sunroof, leather, over $4000 in extras. $41,000. Sliding box cover. 403-348-9746
2011 SILVERADO E/C, 4x4, 75,000 kms., $20,000
403-347-3241
Trucks 5050
2010 DODGE RAM 3500, loaded SLT, white, 4x4,
S/B, 60,600 kms., $39,000. 403-347-4896
2004 DODGE 1/2 ton 4x4 SLT quad cab. New tires, battery, power steering
pump. $6000. 403-506-9632
2001 DODGE RAM 1500 Club Cab,
Magnum V8, 5 speed. 162,000 kms.
$4500. obo. 347-3110 after 3 pm
1989 1 TON 4x4 with plow,controls inside, & dump.
$6350. Good working order.403-348-9746
VansBuses 50702002 TOYOTA Sienna XLE fully loaded, 201,000 kms, priced to sell immed. $3950 403-391-8331
2002 CHRYSLER Town N Country, Limited, AWD, leather, very nice cond. 159,000 kms. All avail. op-
tions. $6900. 403-598-0682
ATV's 5150
1985 HONDA 250 SX Trike 950.00 **SOLD**
Tires, PartsAcces. 51802- 15” SUMMER RADIALS
$25/ea.2- 15” SUMMER RADIALS
& RIMS, $50/ea.403-358-3865
4 BRIDGESTONEBLIZZAK SNOW TIRES
P235/55R17. Take a look, good price. $200 for all 4.
403-342-5118HITCH - fi ts Chevy. New.
$100. 403-314-0804
TOOL BOXES, (2) UWS truck fender well, $500 for
both. 403-343-2058
AutoWreckers 5190RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.
AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash
for vehicle. 403-396-7519
PUBLIC NOTICES
PublicNotices 6010
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
AND CLAIMANTSEstate of
Ernest MurrayMcEachern
who died onJune 2, 2014
If you have a claimagainst this estate, you must fi le your claim by
Oct. 30, 2014and provide details of
your claimwith
Patricia E.B. MacSween Barrister & Solicitor
at4824 51 Street,
Red Deer AB T4N 2A5.
If you do not fi le by the date above, the estate
property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.
Large 2,400 sq ft plus 1,200 sq ft mezzanine double bay garage for lease complete with mezzanine. Former Town of Sylvan Lake’s Public Works Garage.
Large 9,600 sq ft metal shed for lease complete with lights, power and gravel fl oor. Can be heated. Former Town of Sylvan Lake’s Public Works Shed.
Contact Roger at 587-984-5000
PROPERTIESFOR LEASE INSYLVAN LAKE
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Call For Home Delivery314-4300
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SUDOKU
Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.
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FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
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Sept. 301994 — NHL postpones start of hock-
ey season for at least two weeks to deal with labour strife.
1993 — Statistics Canada reports drunk driving charges dropped 45 per cent between 1981 and 1991. Attributed to tougher laws, more policing, education, lower alcohol sales (down 10 per cent).
1981 — International Olympic Commit-tee votes to give Calgary the 1988 Winter Olympic Games.
1967 — $235-million Great Canadian Oil Sands plant starts to extract oil from Athabasca tarsands.
1875 — First sittings of the Supreme Court of Canada.
1846 — The first anesthetized tooth extraction is performed by Dr. William Morton in Charleston, Mass.
TODAY IN HISTORY
FOOD D5TUESDAY, SEPT. 30, 2014
With more and more jars appearing in the Asian and the dairy aisle of grocery stores, it is fair to say that ghee or clarified butter is stepping into the spot-light with other healthy oils like coconut, soybean and olive oils.
Made by simmering but-ter until all the moisture has evaporated and the milk sol-ids have browned, ghee is In-dia’s “golden oil.” It is distinc-tively aromatic with a nutty, caramel-like flavour. And al-though it is new to the North American cooking, ghee has always been valued in India — in the kitchen and out.
Ayurvedic practitioners praise ghee because it pro-motes good health and longev-ity. Used daily, it is believed to stimulate digestion, support skin glow, enhance memory, increase stamina and help protect the body from various diseases.
Since it is essentially derived from the mother cow, ghee is considered the foods for the gods and it is used in many aspects of religious worship — its purity is even reputed to have powers to ward off evil and negativity.
Its aromatic essence is used as body oil for mas-sages to keep the skin soft and joints limber, while also acting as an ointment to treat infections.
Even though it’s touted for its power, I have to ad-mit I couldn’t find any scientific studies linking ghee to specific health benefits.
However, one quality that I find superior to others oils is its distinctive, fragrant flavour and taste.
To make ghee, gently melt a stick of butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat. After melting, the butter will separate into three layers. This should only take a few minutes.
Foam will appear on the top layer, the milk solids will migrate to the bottom of the pan, and clarified butter will float between the two. Let the butter come to a simmer and hold it here until the middle layer becomes fragrant, more golden than when you started.
The milk solids at the bottom will begin to brown. At this point it is a matter of preference — you can stop now or let things progress a bit further.
Next, carefully pour the golden central layer through a strainer, into a clean glass jar, leaving the milk solids at the bottom of the pan.
There are many advantageous attributes that are unique to ghee.
First, it has a long shelf life. If you were able to remove all the solids when straining, and use only clean and dry utensils in the jar, ghee will keep at room temperature for months or even years.
Secondly, ghee has a high smoke point so you can cook and fry without it smoking and breaking down into free radicals like many other oils.
Finally, you can have the buttery taste without eliciting the dairy allergies because even though ghee is made from butter, the milk solids and the impurities are removed; most lactose and casein in-tolerant people have no issue with ghee.
So how do you use ghee in recipes?Besides being the perfect flavour base for all
curry dishes, ghee can replace other fats in pastry dough to make the dough flaky.
Since a little ghee goes a long way in taste, you can easily jazz up boring steamed vegetables with a scant drizzle of ghee and herbs.
A few drops of ghee also add a wonderful flavour garnish to unadorned fat-free soup, rice, pasta, or couscous.
You can easily mix it with quality salt and spread on sprouted grain or sourdough breads.
It can also give an instant flavour if drizzled over fish, scallops, or lobster.
Mixed with herbs and seasonings, ghee can also become a lovely rub for roast chicken.
It can replace other oils when you want to sauté or stir fry veggies, although it doesn’t complement soy-sauce based finishes.
Stir into hot maple syrup before serving with sau-sage, French toast, pancakes or waffles.
If you use it to fry an omelet or scramble eggs, you will notice that it will add flavour without the char-acteristic butter browning.
My all time favourite way to infuse the nutty ghee flavour is in rice and couscous.
Curried couscous2 tablespoon of ghee1 tablespoon ginger, grated1 medium onion, chopped1 jalapeno, seeded and chopped
1 540-ml can garbanzo beans, washed and drained2 vegetables stock cubes2 teaspoon curry powder1/3 cup dried cranberry1 cup coconut milk plus 1 cup of water1 1/3 cup brown organic couscousMelt ghee in a saucepan. Sauté ginger, onion and
jalapeno for three minutes, until onion is lightly browned. Add garbanzo beans, crumbled vegetable stock cubes and curry powder. Cook for another two minutes. Add cranberry and coconut milk and water. When it comes to rumbling boil, add the couscous. Cover and take off heat for five minutes. Fluff with a fork and serve.
Madhu Badoni is a Red Deer-based freelance food writer. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @madhubadoni. Watch for Madhu’s Masa-la-Mix blog on www.reddeeradvocate.com.
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All-time favourite way to infuse the nutty ghee flavour is in rice and couscous.
Food for the godsINDIA’S ‘GOLDEN OIL’, GHEE IS STEPPING INTO THE SPOTLIGHT
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To make ghee, gently melt a stick of butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat (top left); After melting, the butter will separate into three layers. This should only take a few minutes. Foam will appear on the top layer, the milk solids will migrate to the bottom of the pan, and clarified butter will float between the two (top right and bottom left); Next, carefully pour the golden central layer through a strainer, into a clean glass jar, leaving the milk solids at the bottom of the pan (bottom right). Since it is essentially derived from the mother cow, ghee is considered “the” foods for the gods and it is used in many aspects of temple worship — it is even believed my many to ward off evil and negativity
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Sun Media apologizes to Trudeau for Ezra Levant’s on-air photo rant
OTTAWA — Sun Media apologized on Monday for an on-air rant by its outspoken provocateur, Ezra Le-vant, about Justin Trudeau and the Liberal leader’s famous parents.
The apology aired at the beginning of Levant’s Sun News Network show. It was read by a narrator; Levant didn’t deliver the mea culpa.
“It is the view of Sun News that this segment was in poor taste and should not have been aired,” the apology’s narrator intoned.
“We understand why many viewers found both the content and language of this segment to be offensive. We apologize to Mr. Trudeau, his family and to our viewers.”
Levant’s show then began.The right-wing columnist and on-air personality
has been in hot water for a Sept. 15 tirade over a photo of Trudeau kissing a Toronto-area bride on the cheek as her bridesmaids looked on.
In his monologue, Levant maligned Trudeau for the kiss, suggesting he’d forced himself on the wedding party. He also slurred Trudeau’s mother, Margaret, and his late father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
The bride and her father-in-law stated publicly that they asked Trudeau to pose for photos, and en-couraged him to kiss the bride. They said Trudeau secured the groom’s OK before planting the kiss.
As a result of Levant’s comments, Trudeau said he would no longer speak to Sun Media reporters until there was an appropriate response from the chain, Canada’s largest newspaper publisher.
The Liberals said they accepted the apology.
Woman who died in CBSA custody had been kicked out of Canada before
BURNABY, B.C. — A Mexican woman who hanged herself inside the Vancouver airport jail while awaiting deportation had been ejected from Canada once before, a coroner’s jury heard at the inquest into her death.
Several significant details about Lucia Vega Jime-nez popped up in the Canada Border Services Agen-cy database when border agent Josie Perri looked her up before attending a call from transit police.
Jimenez had been stopped for fare evasion at a downtown Vancouver SkyTrain station on Dec. 1, 2013. The inquest heard that suspicions were raised when the 42-year-old woman, who spoke with a no-ticeable accent, provided two different names to police.
“I discovered that she was in our system,” Perri said. “She had been in Canada previously, three years prior, and had made a refugee claim which was denied and she was subsequently deported at that time.”
The encounter with police, as Jimenez headed home about 10 a.m. from cleaning work at a Vancou-ver hotel, led to her arrest and detention for transfer back to Mexico. Three weeks later, she attempted to kill herself and was found hanging in a shower at the holding cells in the airport. She died in hospital on Dec. 28.
While in jail, Jimenez had been under watch by a security company subcontracted by the border agen-cy, the inquest heard.
Her death only became public after members of the Mexican community went to media.
A coroner’s inquest was called two months later. The jury is tasked with making recommendations to prevent similar deaths, but may not place any blame.
Cabinet minister quits after critical report on nixed highway contract
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Paul Davis spent his first full day on the job accepting the resignation of his transportation minister over the handling of a paving contract that rocked the first Tory leadership round.
Nick McGrath quit Monday just hours after audi-tor general Terry Paddon’s report into the minister’s decision to cancel a highway contract on March 13. Paddon repeatedly notes it was the day before nomi-nations closed for the Progressive Conservative lead-ership race.
Davis said outside the legislature that if McGrath hadn’t resigned, he would have fired him.
“He made decisions in error, and that’s clearly reflected in the report and it resulted in his resigna-tion which I’ve accepted,” said the premier.
The Progressive Conservative government called on Paddon last May to review the contract with Hum-ber Valley Paving after it became a political hot po-tato. The company was once led by Frank Coleman, who was in line to become Tory leader and premier before he suddenly withdrew from politics in June citing an undisclosed family matter.
McGrath said Monday he hadn’t reviewed the au-ditor general’s full report, but defended his decision to cancel the contract without penalty.
“I was thinking about the taxpayers of New-foundland and Labrador,” he told reporters. “It had nothing to do with Mr. Coleman. The timing, I agree, wasn’t very good. But that’s something I have to live with.”
Toronto-area businessman jailed in Cuba maintains he’s innocent: family
VAUGHAN, Ont. — A 74-year-old Canadian busi-nessman sentenced in Cuba to 15 years in prison on corruption-related charges is determined to clear his name, his son said Monday during an emotional plea for his father’s release.
Cy Tokmakjian, who owns the Ontario-based auto-motive company Tokmakjian Group, and two Canadi-ans working for his company have been sentenced to long prison terms, the firm said, calling them victims of a campaign by Havana’s Communist government to rid the country of what it calls a culture of bribes.
Raffi Tokmakjian said his father is a proud man with the “utmost integrity” who has been doing busi-ness in Cuba for over 20 years. While he hasn’t seen his father since he was detained three years ago, they have spoken over the phone.
“Every time he calls he reminds us, he says, ’I’ve done nothing, you know that. Everybody knows that. You cannot stop fighting for what’s right,”’ he said during a news conference with his family in Vaughan, north of Toronto.
“’They’ve already taken three years of my life, but I will not admit to anything I have not done.”’
His father, who is currently in a Cuban military hospital due to poor health, has done business for more than 40 years both in Canada and abroad with-out any problem because he ran his affairs “appro-priately in accordance with every single law in the jurisdictions,” he said. The company has offices in Panama, Nicaragua, Barbados, the Dominican Re-public and Korea.
Two other Canadians received 12- and eight-year sentences, according to company officials.
New Democrat bid to improve question period thwarted
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OTTAWA — Last week’s controversial series of non-sequitur government answers prompted a re-newed Opposition bid for parliamentary reform Monday — a motion the government quickly con-signed to certain doom.
Even so, the New Democrat motion — designed to give the Speaker more power to block irrelevant answers — seemed to have at least a temporary impact on the Conservatives, who largely stayed on topic during the cut-and-thrust of the daily question period.
The New Democrats had been hoping to extend the Speaker’s authority in the Commons over not just the relevance of the questions being asked during question period, but also the answers provided by the government.
Speaker Andrew Scheer said last week he was powerless to intervene when Tory MP Paul Calandra answered NDP questions about Canadian soldiers in Iraq by posing his own questions about the Opposi-tion’s Middle East policy.
“The most important part of Parliament isn’t the question, it’s the answer,” NDP House leader Peter Julian said Monday in introducing the motion.
“For the Speaker to not have the ability to inter-vene on the relevance, or on repetition, of answers to extremely important questions that are being asked
in the House of Commons is something that I think most Canadians find aggravating.”
But the majority Conservatives argued the motion goes too far and engaged in a bit of procedural trick-ery Monday to all but ensure it never comes to a vote.
Government House leader Peter Van Loan said the proposal would hamper the government’s ability to defend itself or question the opposition or com-pare the approaches of other parties.
He called Canada’s question period the most ac-countable in the world.
“This NDP motion, which is a one-way street, seeks to fully constrain the government without ap-plying any new standards at all to the opposition to elevate the level of question period,” he said.
“This is simply unfair.”The Liberals have said they would support the
motion. The government’s decision to effectively kill the motion proves the Conservatives realize that Canadians don’t approve of their behaviour in the House, Julian said.
“We see obviously a government that is scared of voting against the NDP motion so instead of voting against it they try to throw in some procedural tricks hoping to hide it from the population,” Julian said.
“They won’t be able to do that.”Calandra issued a tearful apology Friday for his
behaviour in the House — a decision apparently prompted by Conservative constituents and members of cabinet who were angered by the performance.
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