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With all the action hap-pening in Southeast Sas-katchewan, Bienfait is now looking to get involved with a development that will bring in 14 new residential lots.

A public meeting at the Legion in Bienfait was held Oct. 12, to allow residents the opportunity to see the latest proposals for a new housing development and give some comments on the two propos-als presented by developers.

The block between Young Street and White Street is where the proposal for a new park and the new lots is being planned.

As the lots were drawn on the suggested proposal, the size for lots will be about 47 feet by 140 feet deep or 47 feet by 130 feet, while those that face Carbon Avenue will be 58 feet by 129 feet deep.

Eric Salmers, of Salmers Contracting Inc., presented two options, one which was heavily favoured, and led discussion with about 30 resi-dents who attended the meet-ing. Salmers and Turnbull Excavating are the developers for the project.

A paved road connect-ing Souris Ave and Carbon Ave was incorporated into the main proposal, as well as a lane connecting that new street to White Street.

Salmers said that the residents have the most input as far as what the green space is used for. It could be used for a pool, or a full-size soccer or football fi eld, he suggested.

One issue that brought some concerns from the au-dience was that of the pool. There is currently a park that

includes a pool at the corner of Young Street and Carbon Avenue. Under the most de-sired proposal, the park would be relocated just south of the Bienfait Museum and cover a space of 350 feet by 179 feet. The ground where the park currently sits would be converted to residential lots.

Most of the comments at the meeting were in favour of installing a new pool in this park. It was noted at the meeting that the current pool is experiencing some problems with one of the walls, and that in a couple of years it will be eroded away.

There was some question about putting a soccer fi eld in the new space.

Salmers said, You could do just about anything. You could do a soccer field-football fi eld combination, but if you did that, you wouldnt have enough room to do a pool and a playground.

It was noted there is a soccer fi eld at the Weldon School.

Salmers said they would be building homes on lots for people to buy. He said the

houses they would build will be between 1,000 and 1,500 squared feet and would in-clude bungalow, starter homes as well as more upscale mod-els. There was a suggestion that some of the lots would be left vacant, so people who so desired could buy the lot and build a home themselves.

It was noted that the town may have to enact an architectural control policy to make sure the homes are in keeping with the rest of the community.

Salmers called Bienfait a perfect satellite community for Estevan. The message was repeated by several at the meeting that with the amount of energy jobs in the area, many of which are as close to Bienfait as Estevan, there is no reason Bienfait cant take advantage of the growth in the southeast. With accommodation problems in the Energy City, communi-ties like Bienfait can provide lots of opportunities for new housing.

One problem that was brought up in the meeting was that Bienfait is nearly exhausted of land available for the town and that it is kind of trapped by rail lines on three sides. Land will have to be annexed if they are going to continue to develop new ar-eas. Residents at the meeting asked about the possibility of developing west of the town by Weldon School, but it was noted the town has no land west of the school.

The water and sewer plans in Bienfait are being updated by a fi rm in Regina, and Salmers, In a month or so we should hear back from them whether everything is OK, what things need to be improved. We do kind of need that information, so we know what direction were going.

As far as a timeline for the beginning of construction, Salmers said, construction could get going in the spring if proposals get approved, and it would likely be a couple of years before all the lots were developed.

There will be further discussion amongst the pub-lic, the town and developers as to what the fi nal plans will be, though the latest proposal didnt receive any vocal ob-jections during the meeting.

New lots, park on horizon in Bienfait

Eric Salmers, of Salmers Construction, led the meeting at the Bienfait Legion regarding the new residential development in the town. With his company currently set to develop the area, he presented two proposals to the residents in attendance Oct. 12.

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them over the fence into the fair grounds.

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The ribbon has been cut on the new land port of entry at Noonan, with a small ceremony and facility tours.

About 20 people packed into the inspection garage for the ceremony Oct. 18 and to hear from Mary Delaquis, the area port director of Pembina U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and Eu-gene Schied, assistant com-missioner for the Offi ce of Administration of U.S. CBP.

About $420 million was appropriated through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to update or build 31 of the 41 CBP-owned land ports of entry in the United States.

Schied noted that port buildings have been con-structed regularly in diffi cult economic times, with large-scale projects to provide new land ports of entry in the 1930s and 1960s.

Schied said most of the individual projects were between $10 and $15 mil-lion, though he didnt have a specific figure for the Noonan port. He added that it was diffi cult to put an exact dollar fi gure on one site, as some costs were combined into all the projects, like design. Those practices al-lowed them to scrunch the dollar, he said.

We did the design centrally, and then replicated the design, so we have one design contract. A lot of the environmental work was done centrally, said Schied. Each of the construction projects was done on a project-by-project basis.

The upgrades are pri-marily about securing the border, and a media release also noted that the CBP con-tinues to deploy unmanned aircraft over 950 miles of the northern border from Washington to Minnesota, including the skies above the North Portal and Noonan ports.

Delaquis said opera-tionally, the upgrades include the ability to have two lanes of traffic come through the port, and also radiation monitors.

We have radiation fl oor monitors in place that are strategically located so that every vehicle has to

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Eugene Schied, CBP assistant commissioner for the Offi ce of Administration, spoke to a small group who attended the opening ceremony of the new land port of entry at Noonan on Oct. 18. The new border station has been operational since August.

go through the screening, she said.

Schied said that quite a lot of change, and quite a lot of investment went into this.

Delaquis said advance-ments to their computer system are being constantly made and the new infra-structure they now have will make those easier to do. She noted the old building was constructed long before they knew there would be a need for computers.

The new document scanners should make going through the port quicker, which is one of the things

they looked at very closely when setting up the new building: getting people through the port with ease.

Documents can now be scanned, passports, you scan them right through. It will improve your processing time. Thats one of our goals, to make sure the travellers that are arriving, we identify who you are, and should you be admitted into the United States or else you should be welcomed back. And if not, were going to take respon-sibility for that.

The previous facility did not meet CBPs current

operational mission, and it underwent little renovation, despite growing security challenges, particularly in the last decade. The previous port building, built in 1961, was 1,637 square feet, while the new building stands at 8,489 square feet, with a supplemental inspection building sitting at around 1,350 square feet. The build-ing includes an enforcement area with two holding cells, one interview room and a search room.

The Noonan port has seen 2,961 commercial ve-hicles pass through in 2011 as of Sept. 30 and 35,887 privately-owned vehicles, and there are always at least two people on staff.

It is one of our busiest areas, with what weve seen in increases of traffi c in the last year or so, especially with the oilfi eld industry, said Delaquis, noting, A lot of the commercial vehicles we get are empty.

Delaquis recalled an incident where someone approached the previous port facility, only to drive through, claiming that they thought it was a gas station.

Now she said, We look distinguished. We look good. We look professional and we look inviting. This is a beau-tiful facility that recognizes the important work we do on our nations border.

Delaquis noted that the new holding cells allow some privacy for individuals who require further searches of their cars. Being able to

place an individual in a cell means they arent subjected to the prying eyes of other motorists who are moving through the station, she said, but also keeps everyone safer.

We can secure them so we can go about not only conducting the rest of our search but securing the rest of the travellers. If youre

sitting someone down in the main lobby of our building, sometimes thats a little disruptive, and we dont necessarily have the control that wed like to have.

She also noted that facility is much more en-vironmentally sound, with power being provided by both solar panels and geo-thermal energy.

Employees of the US Customs Border Protection offi cially cut the ribbon on their new port of entry at Noonan.

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Jordan BakerThoughts From

My Fingers

Science says that my parents have a favourite child and probably so do yours.

I read an article recently, adapted from the book The Sibling Effect by Jef-frey Kluger, about how all parents have a favourite child.

The articles stats say 65 per cent of mothers and 70 per cent of fathers outwardly exhibit a preference for one child, and prob-ably a majority of those other 30 per cent just hide those preferences and never admit it. The others wont admit it to a researcher doing a study, and they defi nitely wont admit it to their children.

It got me thinking about how I stack up against my four siblings in our parents eyes.

In some ways not being the favourite is a good thing. In some cases the favourite is the favourite because a parent sees it as the least likely to survive on its own. My parents may not have doted endlessly on a six-year-old me because they already new I was tough stuff and could handle the world beyond.

The bad is that in most cases, favourit-ism develops as parents decide who is most likely to be outstanding, and they decide to put most of their eggs into that basket in the hopes of developing one extraordinary person. I wasnt fi ngered early on as the exceptional genius that could bring great

Every parent has a favourite

things to the Baker name. Im the second child, but its the fi rst

child who often receives favouritism. Its natural to desire that something one puts the most time and money into becomes a suc-cess, and there will always have been more money and effort gone into the fi rst child.

That sounds like it applies to my sib-lings. My older sister is the most effortlessly successful of us kids. She got a degree, got a job right out of school and has moved on to more schooling, expecting a new career in the health fi eld that has some pretty good prospects.

I did a victory high school lap before going to college, only received a diploma and have spent time collecting employment insurance. One of my brothers didnt fi n-ish his college program and has recently restarted his education, and the other fi n-ished a one-year program and is without a job in his fi eld. All three of us boys moved back home immediately following post-

secondary school. My youngest sister is still in high school, so she has to at least graduate before she can be considered any kind of success story.

The article also pointed to how the youngest boy in a family needs to develop certain abilities to disarm the larger kids in a playroom, and I dont mean an awesome arm hold. My youngest brother is certainly the most charming of the three boys. Mom defi nitely appreciates his disarming charm more than my smarmy sarcasm.

In turns out a lot of kids are very percep-tive to either being treated better or worse than a sibling.

While the simplest formula for fi guring out those who are the parental favourites sums up as Mom likes the eldest boy and Dad the youngest girl, I think my mom favours the youngest boy and dad the oldest girl. I asked my oldest sister what she thought and she confi rmed my intuition, adding that maybe Mom likes me best, but I think she just didnt want to hurt my feelings by not giving me some consideration. My parents can feel free to use the comment section on our website to voice their opinion.

The only way to be sure is to ask my parents themselves to be honest and fess up to which of us they like more. Ill keep my fi ngers crossed, but I wont hold my breath.

If there is one thing most of us in Canada, and most of the industrialized world, take for granted, its our food.

We are completely sure that anytime we go to a local grocery store, the shelves will be lined with food, and again, for most of us, we have the money to buy good quality food to ensure we are not hungry at the end of the day.

Given that is the case for most in North America, I suppose its not too surprising that World Food Day came and went with few paying attention to it at all.

Most of us are not likely to know the day was Monday (Oct. 16), and the theme of this years day was Food Prices - From Crisis to Stability.

We may not know about the day, but the theme may resonate with consumers.

There is a feeling that our food costs are too high, although the reasons for that may be somewhat misunderstood.

To begin with, food costs are not the result of what farmers are paid. In fact in most cases, even with generally better com-modity prices, what farmers are paid is an

insignifi cant element of food costs in the store. For example, wheat is a small part of the cost of a loaf of bread.

Most of the costs go into processing, wages and transportation between the farm gate and the kitchen table.

There is also a general belief we spend more on food than is actually the case. We take the grocery store bill and look at it as a food cost, but it generally includes everything from laundry soap to razor blades and the local newspaper. Those things add to the cost of the grocery cart.

Then there is the fact fewer and fewer of us do a lot to directly impact our food costs.

In the past I have talked about how home gardens are increasingly rare, with few having a store of home-grown food canned,

frozen and ready for winter.In many cases we are even losing the

skills to cook at home, relying on ready to eat food options, that are more highly processed, and often more costly as a result.

With that said, the theme for World Food Day, Food Prices - From Crisis to Stability was chosen to show the impact food price swings pose for the worlds most vulnerable peoples.

Food may not be an issue for most read-ing this column, but many people in our world are starving, and as the population grows and arable land shrinks, the number of starving may well grow.

In North America we also have food concerns surrounding ideas about safety and sustainability.

With all the issues around food, we might expect World Food Day to be more recognized, with more events around it to help focus attention on the issues.

Perhaps in the future we will start the process to raise the importance of the day, and to start dealing with the existing issues of having safe, affordable food for all of us.

Dont take your food for granted

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Ive been pretty lucky to have had mostly positive experiences fl ying. Not to say that there havent been times where I could smell the unwashed hair of my neightbour, and that one time when I drooled on myself in my sleep while travelling to Europe with the school. But other than that, my fl ights have mostly gone well. And I dont think anyone saw me drooling.

Seriously though, I usually sit with interesting people. One time, I sat with a young doctor who had travelled the world with her husband. Another time I was seated with a bunch of young men travelling to the Minot Air Base. Once I travelled with a man who claimed to be an Olympic track coach and who gave me life advice that Ill never forget, though I havent really listened to most of it (and it turns out I should have).

My point is: there are often super cool people on fl ights and I usually, some-how, get to sit with them. And being that Im annoying (a journalist-in-training thing) I usually can get them talking.

There are also lots of other people on the plane, and after fl ying to and from St. Louis over the Thanksgiving

The many faces of airplane people

weekend, Ive noticed that there are always at least four of the same types of people on every single fl ight.

For example: The Facts Guy. This guy (or woman, this isnt really gender-specifi c) knows all kinds of garbage that most people will never want to know. And he wants to share it with anyone who will listen and, just as often, with those who arent listening at all. The Facts Guy will loudly ramble on about the Wright brothers and the Zeppelins well beyond the point when a normally polite person turns away and puts on his or her headphones. The Facts Guy normally has a loud, odd voice, and he wants to impress you. For hours. Non-stop.

Theres also The Ca-nadian. If youve ever been on an American fl ight, you might know what Im talk-ing about. The Canadian is the woman wearing the ear-rings with beavers on them (not exaggerating). She isnt loud and demanding, and she will apologize if she acciden-tally bumps into you with her appropriately-sized carry-on

luggage, even though it was not her fault. I always instinc-tively like the Canadian, and secretly covet her earrings.

Another gem: The Ba-bys Mother. There is a baby on every fl ight and the mother spends the entire trip freaking out in fear that her offspring might start squawking and draw the stink-eye from every person on-board. She sees the sighs and eye-rolls from those seated next to her and is on constant alert. She notices that the smile of

the man in front of her fades a bit after he passes back the soother the baby chucked for the ninth time. The Babys Mother knows that if anyone gets a whiff of a questionable scent, the blame falls on her and her child. So she spends the entire two-hour flight sniffi ng, playing, juggling and feeding her baby like its an offensive time-bomb set to go off at any second.

My personal favourite is The Person Who Hates Babies and shes always sit-

ting in close proximity of a child. I once witnessed The Person Who Hates Babies surrounded by three infants, two of whom screamed/stunk the entire fl ight. That unfortunate girl shrunk low into her seat, watched Will Ferrell movies on her iMac, and sent the aforementioned stink-eye in all directions. Hilarious.

To conclude, fl ying is awesome. Except for taking off, landing and being in the air. But the socializing aspect

is great. Plus all the label-ling people into neat, little categories is fun. Or maybe thats just me?

Tonaya hopes you all noticed that she worked her columns title into the end of this weeks edition. Shes been trying to do that for ages. Kind of cheesy? Let her know by e-mailing her at [email protected]. You can also follow her @tellemarr on Twitter, where she has been known to say nothing of importance.

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Halloween is coming up and Jesusween is a movement to make the day more religious by hand-ing out Bibles to trick-or-treaters instead of candy on Oct. 31, and spreading the gospel to youth. Im not sure they will consider that a treat or a trick.

First off, Halloween is all about giving junk to kids, so why not throw in a Bible for good measure?

If you thought handing out apples at Hal-loween got you some crooked looks from unhappy pirates and fairies, or whatever kids dress up like now, but if you hand them a Bible that look is probably going to be many times more venomous.

Whether youre religious or not, Bibles arent fun, and thats exactly what Hal-loween is. Its no easy feat to mix something kids love, with something kids probably consider a chore. Either way, Scripture is probably something that is a little mature to be giving a child who is dressed up as a dinosaur wearing snow pants. I remember an uncle in the U. S. saying he had a bit of a problem with his son reciting the Pledge of Allegience because it had some pretty powerful words my cousin couldnt possibly comprehend. Well, religion is about as appropriate as that for children.

I remember Halloween as being lots of fun when I was a kid. It was like Christ-mas, but you had to put in the work to get your gifts by laboriously trudging from one house to the next. It made receiving the candy all the more rewarding.

Jesusween is going to spoil all that fun. There are plenty of days that are marked for religious reasons and parents, if they so choose, can teach their children about those traditions at that time.

Its true that religious holidays are losing their meaning in our modern world, but I dont think Halloween was originally a celebration of something from the Bible. So rather than pilfering secular holidays religious people should probably be doing more to strengthen the traditions of the days they already have.

Jesusween, a movement to give Christian works away on Oct. 31 rather than buying costumes and candy, is essentially pointless. It isnt going to replace Halloween, which I understand to be one of the motives. Halloween has lasted this long, and all I can see happening is a couple more Christian books being recycled Nov. 1.

I remember returning from trick-or-treating every year and sitting in the living room with my

sisters to take stock of the cool Halloween candy wed received that evening. It was a fun and special time during which wed brag about how many full-size Twix bars wed gotten and, at least in my case, trade away some of the less desirable treats.

And if someone had somehow slipped a Bible in among my candy, it was either disregarded among the half-opened Tootsie rolls, or recycled, because even as a child I was environmentally-minded.

My own current religious views aside, I didnt ignore Scripture-among-my-candy when I was a kid because I hated religion or anything like that. I just wasnt interested in some passive-aggressive preaching when I had sweets to be munching.

I wasnt the only kid like that, and I know for a fact that many of the children I used to venture out with would skip over houses that were notorious for leaving Bibles on the step. Bibles arent candy. And so we didnt want them for Halloween, a night devoted strictly to candy.

Even in Saskatchewan, when too often we have to pull our costumes on over our snowsuits, Halloween is a blast. Jesusween is against wearing costumes. Even at my advanced age, wearing a costume on Halloween is hilarious fun, and I think the overwhelming majority would prefer to spend their money on a fun night out than a couple of novels to pass around to people who arent going to read them. And the people who would read them probably already have a copy. So its just a waste of time.

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Well friends, Ive just read an article that says Western Canadians can expect one of the top three coldest winters in the last 20 years. As someone who moved from the sunny shores of Australia to Canada, I can assure you that the article was not read with joy nor excitement.

As I wrote in an ear-lier article, the seasons of life, whether in nature or personally, will come and go and I realize that there is nothing neither you nor I can do anything to change what lies ahead. Rather, we need to prepare and equip ourselves for what is predicted to be a long and very cold winter.

With that in mind, I am reminded about the breakfast I prepared for our family this morning. I like to send my kids off to school well fed, with something stuck to their ribs. Studies prove that children who have a good breakfast are able to learn better, to focus more and to simply manage their day better. Studies also show that fewer and fewer children are arriving at school well fed. Schools and communities are now

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As I read more and more about the opposi-tion to the Keystone XL pipeline, particularly in Nebraska, I am becoming increasingly convinced there is something in their water - and it isnt oil. The hyperbole has grown to a point of being completely insane, particularly re-garding the environmental protection aspect.

My experience in the oilfield wasnt on drilling rigs, but building pipe-lines. While this term isnt often used, it should be - these were transcontinen-tal pipelines, in the same way the railroads spanned the continent. I spent the better part of two years on the Alliance Pipeline, which ran from Fort St. John, B.C., to Chicago,

Pipelines like Keystone XL are safest for environment

and a good chunk of the year prior to that working on Enbridges Terrace B expansion.

I have worked on, or beside, nearly every single crew on the pipeline. There is precious little I have not been exposed to. And as an experienced pipeliner, I can tell you this: nearly all the hysteria is hogwash.

For example, every truck you see carries great big white cotton pads to

catch or clean up any spill from a piece of equipment. If theres a hydraulic leak, you jump on it with these pads immediately.

At one point one of those projects came across a birds nest in on the prai-rie near Regina. So they spent $150,000 or so to drill a road bore UNDER THE NEST. Thats a crew of about 12 guys and five pieces of equipment for the road bore crew. Then they had to bring in a tie-

in crew of four welders, four welders helpers, five or six sideboom operators and their accompanying sidebooms, a foreman and bus driver. All of this for a birds nest.

To protect the envi-ronment, pipeline owners and pipeline construction contractors spend mil-lions of dollars on every project to avoid sensi-tive grasslands, sensitive watercourses, sensitive breeding and migration routes. It used to be that pipelines were built in the summer, the easiest season to build in. Now for proj-ects like this you cannot strip topsoil between May and August in Canada due to concerns over nesting birds. If your topsoil was not stripped beforehand, you cant do the work until Aug. 1.

The main lines have aerial over-flights every day or just about every day, looking for leaks. I was buzzed every day, I recall, when working on the line. Smaller pipelines are also over-flown regu-larly. This is in addition to sophisticated monitor-ing systems and frequent remotely-operated shut-off valves that are meant to shut down the flow very quickly after any leak is detected.

And the Nebraskans

think theyre concerned about the environment?

Pipelines are the saf-est way known to man to move hydrocarbon materi-als in either liquefied or gaseous states. Pipelines have a better safety track record than rail, sea or road. The reason no one has really squawked about them for the last 60 years is exactly because of their inherent safety record.

Keystone XL is sup-posed to carry 830,000 barrels a day of bitumen. In North Dakota, where there is insufficient pipe-line infrastructure, unit trains are being loaded with 60,000 barrels of oil on each train. You would need 14 trains each and every day running from Fort McMurray to Texas, through blizzards, floods, and -40 C weather, to equate the carrying capac-ity of Keystone XLs 36-inch pipeline. How many of those trains (5,110 per year; 204,400 trains over the next 40 years) do you think you can run before you have a major derail-ment?

The pipeline infra-structure is largely respon-sible for our economic well-being. It is as im-portant to our economy in North America as the blood in our veins. With-out pipelines, our lives

as we know them, would grind to a halt for lack of fuel and the products made from petrochemicals.

The safest route is se-lected considering popula-tion density and access; and ecological protection is chosen in the planning stages. All these things are deeply considered long before the route is decided upon.

In the end, environ-mental opposition from landowners often boils down to economic com-pensation for land ac-cess. As for the crazies? It shows the American psyche can be whipped up into such a frenzy, there is no reasoning to be had.

Unless you want to go back to wool and wood and horse-drawn cart, let the pipeline be built.

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Those behind the idea say transgendered people are often harassed, bullied or embarrassed no mat-ter which bathroom they choose. They even suggest that the prospect of having to pick a gender-specifi c bathroom can lead to health issues since many ignore the call of nature until they can fi nd a suitable bathroom.

At the University of Regina, the student asso-ciation decided to raise the issue with senior adminis-tration after noticing the single-stall handicapped washrooms were always full and not always with disabled students.

Kent Peterson, presi-dent of the universitys student association, said there is a concern students could essentially out themselves by using a gender-neutral bathroom. But some are essentially al-ready doing that by using a washroom for the disabled when they have no obvious disability, he said.

NationalOTTAWA - Letters

went out Sunday to thou-sands of Ottawa area resi-dents, warning them theres a slim chance they could have been exposed to H-I-V or hepatitis.

Registered letters are being sent to as many as 6,800 people who dealt with a single physician at a non-hospital clinic.

Off ic ia l s say the

chance that any one of those receiving a letter may have been exposed to serious illness is remote.

The potential exposure also may have occurred over a 10-year period, raising questions about whether offi cials will be able to deliver the letters to everyone who could be affected.

***HALIFAX - Sable

Island is Canadas newest national park.

Premier Darrell Dex-ter signed the agreement today in Halifax with Peter Kent, the minister respon-sible for Parks Canada.

The crescent-shaped island sits about 300 kilo-metres southeast of Nova Scotia and is home to 400 wild horses, as well as breeding grey seals and numerous bird species.

The island is also known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic for the more than 200 wrecked ships off its coastline. Nova Scotia and Ottawa will table legislation to prohibit oil and gas drilling from the surface of Sable Island and out to one nautical mile from shore.

***TORONTO - Prime

Minister Stephen Harper plans to give Ontario 13 ad-ditional seats in the House of Commons.

Sources confi rmed the change to The Canadian Press today.

That will increase the provinces presence in the Commons to 119 seats from the current 106.

But the additional 13 seats is fewer than the 18 the province was slated to receive under previous legislation that died when Parliament was dissolved.

Earlier today, Premier

Dalton McGuinty refused to speculate about the num-ber of seats Ontario could end up with but suggested that it could be fewer than expected.

InternationalWARSAW, Poland

- Two competitors at the World Scrabble Champion-ships were asked to empty their pockets when a letter G went missing.

An offi cial said Tues-day that the disappearance of a G tile occurred dur-ing the international event, which was held in the Pol-ish capital from Oct. 12-16.

Brian Dede, the event co-ordinator, said a referee had to intervene when op-ponents Edward Martin from Britain and Chollapat Itthi-Aree from Thailand noticed a missing tile dur-ing the last draw of their match.

He said that led to a search on and under the table, and that both players were asked to show the contents of their pockets.

The missing letter was nowhere to be found, so the referee added another G to the letters to create a complete set.

***ANKARA, Turkey -

Turkeys state-run televi-sion says a roadside bomb explosion has killed four policemen and two civil-ians, including a 2-year-old girl, in Turkeys southeast. Several other people were injured.

TRT television, cit-ing local authorities, said the blast occurred in the town of Guroymak in Bitlis province as a police vehicle passed by. It says authorities have launched an operation to catch the culprits who are believed to be Kurdish rebels.

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The statisticians calcu-lators were clacking away and the numbers showing up were mind-boggling. Emer-son Etem of the Medicine Hat Tigers was coming off a three-goal game against Vic-toria Royals in early October and after fi ve games of the 72-game schedule, was on pace for a 144-goal season in the Western Hockey League.

Considering the all-time one-season record in the 45-year-old league is 108 (by Brandons Ray Ferraro, in 1983-84), 144 goals would be Gretzky-like in eclipsing an old mark.

OK, so the 19-year-old Etem, a Long Beach, Calif. native, will almost certainly not score 144 goals this year. What he is likely to do, however, is lead the WHL in goals this season and confi rm his status as one of Anaheim Ducks most prized prospects.

Etem will also go down in WHL annals as the best Californian to ever play in the league ... so far. But watch out, the Americans are coming.

The WHL even has the son of a rock star in its midst. Liam Stewart of Hermosa Beach, Calif., whose parents are Rod Stewart and Rachel Hunter, is on the roster of the Spokane Chiefs.

In 1988, when Gretz-ky was traded to the L.A. Kings, sociologists said that a hockey boom would surely follow in the land of the sun and surf. It has. Twenty-three years after that pivotal hockey event, there are no fewer than 19 players on WHL rosters listing California, Texas or Arizona as their places of birth.

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Budd Bailey of the Buffalo News, after a man delivering Chinese food to Falcons kicker Matt Bryant was charged with stealing Bryants golf clubs from his garage: Seems like he confused delivery with takeout.

Cam Hutchinson of the Saskatoon Express, after

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RJ Currie of sports-deke.com: TSN said Riders quarterback Darian Durant was questionable for Thanks-giving. Hasnt he been ques-tionable all year?

Dwight Perry in the Seattle Times, after Tiger Woods had a run-in with a fan at the Frys.com open: Just wondering: Do golf rules

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Headline at TheOnion.com: Lone post on Jaguars fan message board requests directions to stadium.

From Perrys column: Tigers slugger Victor Marti-nez, to the Detroit Free Press, channeling his inner Yogi Berra after tweaking his side: The only way I wont play tomorrow is if I wake up and Im dead.

Steve Harvey of The Bottom Ten, after a personal-foul penalty helped drop Indianapolis to 0-5: How can a horse-collar penalty be called against a Colt?

Another one from Perry: Commissioner Da-vid Stern cancelled the fi rst two weeks of the NBA regular season as labour talks remained at a standstill. Negotiators vowed to really

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Janice Hough of Left-coastsportsbabe.com, with a sure sign of the apocalypse: The best professional team in Michigan plays football, and the best professional team in Texas plays base-ball.

Comedy writer Argus Hamilton, on beleaguered Tiger Woods fi nally landing a new endorsement, with Rolex: He lost Gatorade, Gillette, AT&T, Accenture, and dont even ask about his deal with Fidelity.

Headline at Sport-sPickle.com: Vancouver successfully goes riot-free despite season-opening loss.

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Janice Hough, of leftcoastsportsbabe.com: A rough week for New York sports fans. The Yankees were eliminated. And the Jets and the Giants both lost. On a more cheerful note, it looks like the Knicks season may be cancelled.

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The most unsettling part of all this is that there are still three games left to go.

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the Lions would have prolonged Saskatchewans playoff aspirations for at least another week. Of course it didnt happen. Not this year.

It actually looked as though the team was going to pull it out as they led for most the game including 12-9 at halftime and 15-

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drought has gone on for a month now. Four games ... seventeen quarters and counting.

Its killin me, said Rider coach Ken Miller after the game. We moved it well today, like gang-busters, for three quarters. You have to put it in the end zone. Its hard to drive 100 yards. We had it deep a lot but couldnt put it in.

It has to be killing Miller, in so many ways. He had the chance to ride off into the sunset after last season like some mythical figure in Roughrider his-tory, but his return to the sidelines has been nothing short of a disaster and hes right in the middle of it all. In fact, at his post-game press conference, he took full responsibility for the teams 4-11 record.

Now what?As Ive written over

the past few weeks, its too early to perform the autopsy while the legs are still twitching. Weve got three games left in this agonizing season, all of which are meaningless. Really the biggest question now is whether or not quar-terback Darian Durant will play again this season as he suffers from a broken foot.

Its tough man, Du-rant told CKRM after Sundays game. We dug such a deep hole early at 1-7. By the time we started playing good football, it was too late.

Arrrgh! So agonizing. So painful are the last three weeks of The Season That Wasnt. Like, what are you going to teach this team now? For whatever reason the magic this franchise had over the past decade is gone and they seem like just another team. That has

to change, but now it can wait until next year.

I told them right after the game that they played well for 45 minutes but unfortunately the game is 60 minutes long, Miller said. We gave up big plays and took bad penalties but really didnt play well in that fourth quarter.

The Riders of the past didnt need to be told the game was 60 minutes long. They would play as long as it took to beat you, or until you couldnt find the will to fight anymore. Hey, it wasnt that long ago, as the Riders beat B.C. in double overtime in last years West Divi-sion semifinal right here at Mosaic Stadium.

It seems like years and years ago.

(Rod Pedersen is the voice of the Riders on CKRM radio)

Halloween can be a spooky good time for chil-dren and adults alike, but the cost of costumes can be downright scary. When I was a child, my brother and I dressed as a pirate and a gypsy, respectively, for several years, as they were costumes that could be put together using things you might fi nd around the house. This weeks focus is on inexpensive or FREE Hal-loween costumes. Happy Halloween!

Most anyone can

come up with a ghost cos-tume (basically, a white sheet with eyes cut out and cut off at the bottom so its not too long). How about dressing up that ghost with costume jewelry and makeup, or a mustache/beard drawn on, with a tie and carrying a briefcase la-beled Scare Corporation

Use hats or other dress-up accessories to make Dr. Ghost or Offi cer Ghost. The possibilities are endless.

A basic scarecrow needs only a fl annel shirt, a pair of jeans and socks, a fl oppy hat and some straw. Stuff wadded-up plastic bags into shirt or pants to fi ll, then use rubber bands to secure straw at the cuffs. Paint on a funny face. (Thanks to J.R. in Illinois.)

Be an over-the-top tourist: A loud Hawaiian-style shirt paired with a pair of shorts, perhaps socks with sandals? Carry a camera on a strap around your neck. Use a small carry-on bag as your treat bag, or decorate a paper sack by gluing on squares cut from a map.

Be Static Cling! Use safety pins to pin a variety of small items to your outfi t -- think socks, scarves, even a pair of undies if you dare! Tease hair until its standing straight up, and use hair-spray to keep it that way.

If you have a box, you can cut arm and leg holes in it and draw a grid on all sides. Fill in the squares with different colors to make a Rubiks Cube. (Thanks to F.S. in North Carolina.)

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InternationalLAS VEGAS, Nev. -

IndyCar has cancelled its season-ending banquet following the death of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon at its season-ending race.

Wheldon, the 2005 IndyCar series champion, was killed Sunday when his car got caught up in a 15-car wreck, sailed over another vehicle and struck a catch fence 11 laps into the race at Las Vegas Mo-tor Speedway.

IndyCar had planned to hold a celebration for the 2011 season Monday night at Mandalay Bay Resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

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France, the most sur-prising of finalists, had a rest day, depriving the tournament of another of the public appearances of coach Marc Lievremont which have been, in some ways, more of a spectacle

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Disgraced for-mer FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has threat-ened to release a tsunami of corruption allegations against FIFA President Sepp Blatter.

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I have promised in the past a tsunami that would hit the FIFA, and indeed, it will come, War-ner, who was on FIFAs ruling executive commit-tee for 28 years, wrote in a letter to a newspaper in his native Trinidad.

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October 17-23, 2011

Small business IT support without the pretty pennyWhere would we be if

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