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The Mounties always get their man RED DEER CITY RCMP ENDED 2014 ON A HIGH NOTE WITH SEVERAL HIGH-PROFILE DRUG BUSTS. THE DETACHMENT IS LOOKING FORWARD TO MAKING RED DEER AN EVEN SAFER CITY IN 2015. SEE RELATED STORY — PAGE A2

City of Red Deer RCMP Cpl. Sarah Knelsen holds packages of marijuana and ecstasy with other examples of drugs and weapons seized as evidence in Red Deer. File photo by JEFF STOKOE/ Advocate staff

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not necessarily be police officers. Some of the plain clothes officer units will be realigned to target property crimes and prolific offenders. And making the city streets safer for everyone is part of a traffic plan that is on both City Hall and police’s radar. TerryLee Ropchan, the executive director of the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre, said 2014 was a building year for the two-year-old agency. She said she cannot say definitively the centre’s programs and organizations have yet made a huge impact on reducing crime in the city. But she said the centre had 2,766 personal interactions with residents through workshops, neighbourhood programs, special events and community projects. “We definitely started to make some headway,” said Ropchan. “I can’t say we hugely impacted crime within our city this year but we have really started to build ourselves in that direction.” She said the centre has increased its use of social media and its online presence, which has allowed it to get its messages out and reach more people. “We are so positive now about the plans that we have to be able to interact with everybody and to really get people involved,” said Ropchan. “We are looking to really engage the community and get residents involved in making their neighbourhoods safer and making the community safe in gen-

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On any given day, Red Deer City RCMP will receive more than 130 calls for service. The calls range from crimes against persons, such as assault or robbery, to less serious ones like requests for assistance. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that Red Deer has a growing crime rate. “While we’re a big detachment, it’s overall a safe community,” said Red Deer RCMP Insp. Scott Tod, who took charge of the detachment in May. “Like most communities, we have a small percentage of the people causing us the large percentage of the work.” Tod said the community and City Hall have been very supportive of the RCMP’s efforts to make Red Deer an even safer place. Still, Tod will ask for a “modest increase” to staffing during the 2015 operating budget deliberations next week. The policing budget for 2014 was set at roughly $30.8 million. Four police officers and an additional ALERT member were approved as part of the last budget and 147 officers now work for the Red Deer detachment. Another 12 or so Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) officers share space in the detachment. The integrated policing unit tackles serious crime covering drug trafficking and gang activity and in Central Alberta set up shop in Red Deer last year. The province funds ALERT teams and other specialized integrated policing units in Calgary, Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Fort McMurray, Medicine Hat, and Lethbridge. Lately, there has been some concern that funding will be cut because of the drop in oil prices and the impact on the economy. Mike Tucker, ALERT spokesperson, said he cannot comment on any potential cuts to funding. “We are just focusing on the day-today,” he said. “There’s a lot of work to do in this province to tackle organized crime.” ALERT has secure funding for the next year. Tucker said the team has had some recent successes in Red Deer, including the shutting down of an alleged crack cocaine lab in a Lancaster home where two young children lived in November, and the recovery of a large cache of drugs, jewels and weapons, including a 50-metre calibre rife, in November from homes in Red Deer and Bentley. “We’re going out of the year on a high,” said Tucker. “I think they are making progress for sure.” A $1-million expense to ease the space crunch at the downtown RCMP building, to develop the second level, was approved by city council in November. The level was only half finished when the 86,000-square-foot, twostorey building opened in the fall of 2010. Looking ahead to 2015, the police have a few new initiatives in the fight against crime. Improving the dispatching service is one of the priorities. Tod said the detachment will bring some of its dispatching duties inhouse as opposed to using the current call centre. He said the police are looking at taking complaint calls during the peak periods during the day. He said this will streamline the complaints process so the less serious ones are directed to the appropriate resources, which may

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Central Albertans welcome New Year’s babies BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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Joanne Giant and Brandon Ducharme of Red Deer celebrated the birth of their first child, Shauntay Ducharme-Giant, early New Year’s Day. House also saw its New Year’s Baby born on Jan. 1. Paxtyn Corrina Marie Osborne was born at 7:32 a.m. to Holly Furniss, 21, and Kenneth Osborne, 25. Paxtyn weighed 3.34 kg (seven pounds, six ounces) when she was born at Rocky Mountain House Health Centre. Osborne said they arrived at the health centre around 5 p.m. on Dec. 31. Labour was later induced because Furniss was experiencing high blood pressure. Paxtyn is the couple’s second child. They also have two-year-old son. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Baby arrives during ride to hospital BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A new road sign is needed on Hwy 11 between Sylvan Lake and Red Deer that says: Madyx Thomas Rodin was born right here. Jaime Rodin, 33, of Sylvan Lake was in labour and was being driven to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre early Wednesday morning when her newborn son made a surprise appearance at 2:45 a.m. “I thought we had a lot more time,” said Rodin, who had her first contraction at about 12:40 a.m. Her father Leonard Rodin, of Maple Creek, Sask., was driving her to the hospital in his truck. Her good friend Shantel Bartole, of Sylvan Lake, accompanied them. About 10 minutes into the drive, Rodin knew the baby was coming — now.

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BRIEFS Preliminary hearing in arson case delayed A preliminary hearing for a man accused of setting a fire that destroyed a Red Deer mobile home did not go ahead as expected on Friday. Randy Evans, 30, faces one count of arson in connection with the Nov. 4, 2013, fire in Mustang Acres near Taylor Drive and 68th Street. It took fire crews nearly 40 minutes to put out the afternoon blaze that completely destroyed the mobile home.

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No one was injured and nearby units were saved from damage. The owner of the mobile home said its tenants had been served with eviction papers several days earlier and were to have been out the day after the fire. A preliminary hearing was to take place in Red Deer provincial court on Friday afternoon. However, Evans’s defence lawyer Kevin Sproule said he and his client had lost contact with each other prior to the preliminary hearing and he was prepared not go ahead. Evans and Sproule have now sorted out their communication problems and he will continue to represent him. The new preliminary hearing date was not available on Friday. Preliminary hearings may be requested to test the strength of the Crown’s evidence.

many babies are born outside the hospital, but it does happen. Madyx, whose due date was Jan. 17, was born weighing 2.55 kg (five pounds, 10 ounces). “He’s as healthy as can be. He’s the greatest baby. He sleeps all the time. Doesn’t cry. Couldn’t ask for better,” said his mom, who returned home with her newborn on Thursday afternoon. Madyx has three siblings — Zoey, 15, Braelyn, nine, and Jaztyn, five. Rodin said all her births have been done naturally without drugs for the pain and the labours were fairly quick — four or five hours long, but never as quick as two hours before. She said labour pains were far apart at first. They started coming one on top of the other as they pulled out of Sylvan and became really intense. “Now I understand why. He was ready.” Rodin, a private day home provider, said Madyx definitely takes after his grandpa. “His grandpa was born on the backseat of a car on the side of the road. (Madyx) was born in grandpa’s truck and grandpa was born in his

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her husband became controlling shortly after she landed here. Lam changed her phone number because he didn’t want her to have friends. He wanted to choose her clothes. He didn’t want her to work, but she got a job anyway. Then he hit her. Once, he choked her so hard she thought she was going to die, she said. He threatened to kill her if she called police. Truong said in the document that she was so unhappy she had sex once with another man. Lam became suspicious and a DNA test proved that their son, Elvis, was not his. Lam planned “to actually kill off her whole family and he was going to look for a gun, but no one would sell it to him,” a court interpreter said while translating Truong’s testimony during an emergency protection hearing. “He asked his ex-wife if she could find him a gun ... but the ex-wife told him not to do it because he has two kids with his ex-wife too.” The protection order was granted. It was revoked two months later when Truong failed to show up at court. Criminal charges against Lam — assault, sexual assault and uttering threats — were stayed. Prosecutors have said she and other witnesses recanted their stories. The couple eventually had another child, but other court documents filed when Lam declared bankruptcy indicate they separated as early as February 2013. Police said they were trying to determine if Lam and Truong were still living together.

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BY DOMINIC BASULTO SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE A new study from researchers at the University of Hong Kong claims that 420 million people are addicted to the Internet, about six per cent of the world’s population. That six per cent number may not sound high but it is — it’s actually more than three times the rates of pathological gambling observed in even the most gambling-obsessed nations around the world. Taken at face value, this study supports the notion that the rapid rate of technological adoption around the world is being taken way out of control, and that we’re awash in gadgets, phones and digital devices. Consider another, more positive scenario: That six per cent number is actually a sign that more people than ever before are using the Internet to drive rapid and systematic socioeconomic change. In short, rapid rates of Internet adoption by the world’s youth are the reason why we are seeing Arab Spring-type scenarios spontaneously happen around the globe. To set up the study, the Hong Kong researchers considered two possible hypotheses. The first one, based on Robert E. Mann’s paper Availability as a Law of Addiction, suggests that “availability” matters: The more you have access to the Internet, the more you will use it. The other hypothesis, not quite as obvious, is that quality of life matters: The worse your quality of real life, the more you are looking for an escapist alternative in the virtual world. The question the researchers were trying to answer is whether the relatively high rates of Internet addiction around the world were a result of availability (lots of gadgets and ubiquitous Internet access) or a result of quality of life (low GDP per capita and grim socioeconomic conditions). Based on the data used, the paper argued that Internet addiction was a result of quality of life — impoverished nations with weak socioeconomic safety nets are more likely to have worse Internet addiction rates than wealthier nations. In fact, according to the researchers, Internet addiction was found to be highest in countries or regions with a lower quality of life (defined both by low GDP and environmental factors such as bad pollution and lots of traffic jams), not in the countries with the highest rates of Internet availability. In other words, people are getting addicted to the Internet because their real-world lives are so awful and they want some form of escape, not because they are surrounded by tablets and

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The breathless hype about Internet addiction and a world awash in Internet addiction might actually be a good thing, not a bad thing. It means that the Internet continues to be viewed as the route to socioeconomic improvement and betterment.

smartphones and PCs. The Middle East scored a lot higher than Europe, for example. According to the researchers, the Middle East posted an Internet addiction rate of 10.9 per cent, compared to a rate of 2.6 per cent for Northern and Western Europe. Importantly, the researchers had to throw out a lot of the data in order to compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges. So, the average age of a person considered for the data set is 18.42 — basically, your average teenager who has lots of free time to spend texting and hanging out online (and filling out surveys). So, the study is basically saying that six per cent of teenagers around the world are addicted to the Internet, not six per cent of all Internet users. This is a huge distinction. Taken together, what it all means is that all the breathless hype about Internet addiction and “a world awash in

Internet addiction” might actually be a good thing, not a bad thing. It means that the Internet continues to be viewed as the route to socioeconomic improvement and betterment. Emerging nations with below-average GDP growth rates or low quality of life factors (high pollution, high traffic, bad health care) are the ones that stand to benefit the most from Internet penetration. From that perspective, initiatives such as Mark Zuckerberg’s bold vision to bring the Internet to the world’s billions might really might make a difference. And that’s what squares with recent experience of the Arab Spring in the Middle East (not coincidentally, the region posting the highest rates of Internet addiction in the study). There you have massive youth unemployment, combined with difficult social conditions that curtail opportunities for women and religious minorities.

As a result, the region’s youth take to the Internet, find out about Western freedoms and democracy, and begin spontaneously organizing using tools such as smartphones, Twitter and messaging apps. Their willing embrace of all new technological platforms becomes the impetus for massive social change and social betterment. So the next time someone frets about high rates of Internet addiction, just smile and know that maybe it’s a good thing, not a bad thing. The numbers appear to support the arrival of even more Arab Spring scenarios in nations where young teenagers are living without any future economic prospects. It’s not so much that they are addicts — it’s that they are intoxicated with the ability to use the Internet to change their standards of living. Basulto, a blogger based in New York City, is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post’s Innovations blog.

Was this oil war created by America? “Did you know there’s an oil war? When the oil price collapses, counAnd the war has an objective: to de- tries that depend very heavily on oil stroy Russia,” said Venezuelan Presi- exports to make ends meet are obvident Nicolas Maduro in a live tele- ously going to get hurt. vision speech last week. “It’s a straPutin, who has let Russia get itself tegically planned war … also aimed into a position where more than half at Venezuela, to try and destroy our its budget revenue comes from oil and revolution and cause an economic col- gas sales (some estimates go as high as lapse.” 80 per cent) is in deep trouIt’s the United States that ble: the value of the rouble has started the war, Maduro has halved, and the econosaid, and its strategy was to my has already slipped into flood the market with shale recession. oil and collapse the price. Venezuela, where govRussian President Vladiernment spending is cermir Putin agrees. “We all tainly more than 50 per cent see the lowering of oil dependent on oil exports, prices,” he said recently. is in even deeper trouble “There’s lots of talk about — and, like Putin in Ruswhat’s causing it. Could it sia, Maduro of Venezuela be an agreement between sees this as the result of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia an American plot. Various GWYNNE to punish Iran and affect commentators in the West the economies of Russia and have taken up the chorus, DYER Venezuela? It could.” and the conspiracy theory The evil Americans are is taking root all over the at it again. They’re fiendishdeveloping world. ly clever, you know. So let us consider whethWe are hearing this kind of talk a lot er there really is an “oil war.” The acthese days, especially from countries cusation is that the United States is dethat have been hit hard by the crash in liberately “flooding the market” with the oil price. Recently, Brent crude hit shale oil, that is, with oil that has only $55 per barrel, precisely half the price become available because of the frackit was selling for last June. The Obama ing techniques that have become wideadministration’s announcement last spread, especially in the U.S., over the week that it is preparing to allow past decade. Moreover, Washington is the export of some U.S. oil to foreign doing this for political purposes, not markets may send it even lower. (U.S. just because it makes economic sense crude oil exports have been banned for the United States to behave like since 1973.) this.

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In order to believe this conspiracy theory, however, you really have to think that a rational U.S. government, acting in its own best economic interests, would do the opposite: suppress the fracking techniques and keep American oil production low, in order to keep its imports up and the oil price high. But why on earth would it want to do that? You will note that I am going along with the notion (a necessary part of the conspiracy theory) that all important business decisions in the United States are ultimately made by the U.S. government. That is ridiculous, of course, but we don’t need to refute this delusion in order to settle the question at hand, so let it pass. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) as a means of recovering gas and oil, particularly from shale formations, has its roots in early attempts dating back as far as 1947, but it was the development of cheap and reliable techniques for horizontal drilling in the late 1980s that slowly began to transform the U.S. oil industry. By 2012, over a million fracking operations had been performed in U.S. wells — but in 2012, last year’s events in Ukraine were unforeseen and the United States and Russia were still on relatively good terms. Many oil-exporting countries were worried by the prospect that rising U.S. oil and gas production would shrink American imports and thereby cut their own profits, but it was still seen as a supply-anddemand problem, not a strategic ma-

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noeuvre. The operators wanted to make a profit, and Washington liked the idea that rising U.S. domestic oil production might end the country’s dependence on imported oil from unstable places so much that it gave tax breaks and even some direct subsidies to the companies developing the fracking techniques. But that’s no more than what any other government of an oilproducing country would have done. So did the U.S. develop fracking to hurt its enemies? The dates just don’t work for Russia: fracking was already making U.S. production soar years before Washington started to see Moscow as an enemy. As for Venezuela, it continues to be the fourth-largest exporter of oil to the United States, at a time when the glut of oil on the market would let Washington cut Venezuela out of the supply chain entirely. And President Barack Obama is not opening the floodgates for massive American oil exports that will make the oil price fall even lower. The U.S. still imports a lot of oil, and will go on doing so for years. He has only authorized the export of a particular kind of ultra-light oil that is in oversupply on the domestic market: only about one million barrels of it, with actual exports not starting until next August. If this is a conspiracy, it’s a remarkably slow-moving one. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Federal election priorities The big Canadian story in 2015 will be the Oct. 19 federal election. Will Stephen Harper be back as prime minister, perhaps with a minority government? Does Thomas Mulcair, leader of the Opposition, have a chance of forming an NDP government? Or will it be DAVID Justin Trudeau CRANE and the Liberals, either leading a minority government or winning a majority? Much can happen between now and then, and almost certainly will. But an election campaign is more than an election — it is also an opportunity to test out ideas and identify our priorities as a country. In that spirit, here is one person’s list of some priority issues for the next federal election. ● First, which party has the best ideas on how to build an innovative, well-diversified and prosperous economy? While Canada came out of the Great Recession reasonably well, our economy has limped along since then. Federal policy has made us over-reliant on expanding oil exports and high oil prices. But as the recent fall in oil prices shows, this is a high-risk strategy. We need a more diversified economy with advanced manufacturing and knowledge-based services that can export around the world and deliver good jobs. ● Second, which party is best equipped to address the pressing challenge of climate change? As one of the world’s leading emitters of greenhouse gases on a per capita basis, we have a responsibility to act. The federal government is failing to

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meet its promise to reduce emissions by 2020 to a level 17 per cent below 2005 emissions. In December 2015, nations from around the world will meet to set out a global action plan on climate change. Canada will have to have a credible policy. Will any of our parties have the fortitude to advocate the most effective approach, a carbon tax? Can we develop an action plan for a low-carbon economy? ● Third, what are our parties proposing to deal with inequality? The key target group is the bottom 40 per cent of households. While tax measures can help, especially tax credits to top up low incomes, as can a decent minimum wage, much more is needed to enable more Canadians to participate in the economy — especially young Canadians and their families. This includes better training opportunities, wider use of apprenticeships and youth service programs. ● Fourth, we have to come to grips with the challenges facing our Aboriginal communities, in particular to give young Aboriginals hope for the future. Are any of our political parties ready to review the current reserve system, where young Aboriginals have little hope of a better future and too many end up as young suicides? ● Fifth, we need to address the needs of an aging population. To start, this means coming to grips with pension reform — including an add-on to the existing Canada Pension Plan. But it also means improving public health measures, such as requiring healthier (low-salt, low-sugar) foods, promoting exercise and healthy living (starting in our elementary schools), finding ways to improve community care and seniors’ housing, ensuring palliative care for the frail elderly, and addressing dying with dignity through physician-assisted end of life. ● Sixth, Canada needs to adopt a truly smart and highly ambitious infrastructure plan so that we can become a world leader, with Canadian companies and technologies, in water systems, public transit, power grids,

traffic management, public safety, and green and smart buildings, highways, ports and airports. ● Seventh, we need to deal with the democratic deficit. This is more than just about improving the workings of the House of Commons or reforming political parties so that MPs are primarily accountable to their constituencies than to the murky workings of the leader’s office. It is about creating an accountable Senate, which means it must be elected through provincially-run election campaigns. But for an effective democracy we also need independent institutions that provide reliable information for voters and MPs — institutions that

governments have abolished in recent years, such as the Economic Council of Canada, the Science Council of Canada and the National Round Table on Environment and the Economy, which government has frustrated in their activities, such as the Parliamentary Budget Office. Others will have their own ideas on what should be on the list of election priorities. But what is most important is that we voters get tough with our politicians and demand clear answers on how they would handle the big challenges facing the country. Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

What could possibly go wrong in 2015? Really? A whole new year? Half way through the first decade of the new millennium, no less. A new page, a blank slate, a fresh start and another knot in the pit of the stomach. On account of what this new year might be like — good and bad, yin and yang, up and down — HARLEY depending on HAY whether you’re a glass-half full or glass half empty kind of dude or dudette. All of which got me to thinking, which is never a really good idea, but it got me wondering what those scary new year’s expectations turned out to be, say, 10, 20 or even 50 years ago when people stood at the first few days of each nouvelle année and wondered and worried. Here then, accordingly, are some totally true random historical moments of history:

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1965 turned out something like this: ● The Beatles charted approximately 412 No. 1 songs in a row, but the really important news was that on Feb. 7, Beatle George Harrison had his tonsils removed. Also John Lennon passes his driver’s test eight days later, and promptly hired a chauffeur. ● No, the Cold War wasn’t a conflict at the North Pole, it was more about red telephones and the ability to blow up the entire world with one press of a button. Russia performs a number of nuclear tests on obscure Russian tundra (Moscow), and the U.S. also conducts nuclear tests in “safe areas” (Moscow).

● On June 5 Wooly Bully by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs reaches No. 2 on charts, behind 12 more Beatles hits — all tied for No. 1. ● 1965 saw the first person to walk in space, but it was historically insignificant because it was a Russian cosmonaut. The U.S. suspects he was probably conducting nuclear tests. ● In Canadian politics and other oxymorons: Lester B. Pearson was prime minister of Canada and in Alberta, a rich lawyer and by all accounts a lovely man, Peter Lougheed, was elected to the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party leadership, and would reign for the next 112 years. ● Canada adopted a new flag — the one with the big red maple leaf on it. The kind of maple leaves you find mostly in Ontario. ● And finally, in 1965 Trans-Canada Airlines was renamed Air Canada, whereupon they introduced their new slogan: “We’re not happy until you’re not happy.” 1975 had some of this happened: ● The British Conservative Party chooses its first woman leader — Margaret Thatcher, the so called “Iron Lady,” mostly referring to her hair. ● Great consternation abounds when oil goes over $13 a barrel. As opposed to $13 a litre for gasoline at the pumps several decades later. ● Jan 6 — Wheel Of Fortune debuts on NBC, featuring Vanna White. who is four-years-old at the time. ● Proving that nothing has been learned about world peace in 10 years, U.S. performs nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site (just outside of Moscow). ● In Beatles news, March 3 — Linda McCartney is charged in the U.S. with possession of marijuana, confirming that she is indeed a vegetarian. ● Tommy premieres in London, forever immortalizing those Shakespearean words: “That deaf dumb blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.” ● Also in 1975, Darryl Sittler is

named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and it marks the last time the Maple Buds would ever win a game. ● Oct. 7 — The U.S. decides John Lennon won’t be deported due to a U.K. pot conviction. (see L. McCartney, above). ● Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after a warning. ● The beaver is adopted as ‘official symbol’ of Canada, and the indigenous moose population plan a non-violent protest. ● And in a fitting end to ’75, the U.S.S.R. performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk, U.S.S.R. (near Moscow).

laugh and also think, this year sees the last Far Side by cartoonist Gary Larson and the last Calvin & Hobbes comic strip by Bill Watterson. ● Windows 95 debuts, Ebay is founded, and O.J. Simpson is found not guilty. Coincidence? ● And in more sad news — Canadian beer giant Labatt is sold to a Belgian company that changes the names of all Labatt’s products to “Hercule Poirot.” ● Dec. 6 — The toonie is introduced and is immediately valued at 26 cents U.S. ● Iran, Japan, Latvia and Madagascar forge ahead with nuclear testing (not far from Moscow).

1985 featured this kind of thing: ● Jan. 2 — the 90th hat trick in Islander history is scored by Central Alberta’s Brent Sutter (all five of his brothers had assists). ● Playboy magazine announces an end of stapling centerfolds. No one notices on account of we only read the articles. ● In Beatle news, pop star Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million (approximately the same amount he paid for his new nose). ● Sept. 1 — The wreck of the RMS Titanic is found off the coast of Newfoundland (by Canadian film director James Cameron). ● On a particularly sad note for Rusty and Gerome, the last episode of The Friendly Giant airs on CBC TV. ● As the year ended, the U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site (in what’s left of Moscow).

2005 looked something like this: ● March 26 — Ian and Sylvia’s Four Strong Winds is named the greatest Canadian song of all time by CBC Radio, who only play music written before 1970. ● YouTube is launched in the United States, immediately spawning one million videos of cats playing pianos. ● Famous cyclist and pathological liar Lance Armstrong “retires” after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory. But he was just kidding. ● The movie Brokeback Mountain is released and in a totally unrelated story, Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry. ● Somebody, somewhere is testing nuclear weapons (at the site where the city of Moscow once stood). So there you have it — a quick peek back as to how the new year trepidations turned out way back when. See, it’s not so bad. I mean, what go wrong in 2015? Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

1995 had several interesting things go on: ● 1995 is declared the International Year of Tolerance, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio, and Forest Gump is the big movie of the year. Coincidence? ● In a blow to anyone who likes to

All that’s left are the memories There are some phone calls that you or the faith to resist it. just don’t want at any time of the day, Over the last several years, we have but for some reason this was a phone had many conversations and I got to call I was expecting. I didn’t know his background a little know when, but I knew it bit. He was born into a famwould come. ily in which music played Right now as I write this, a very large part. As far as I am so angry all I want to I could determine, both he do is strike out at someand his mother played backthing; I don’t know what exup for Stompin’ Tom Conactly, but something. nors, and many other stage That is one sentiment performers out east. that should not happen durHe grew up in P.E.I. and ing the Christmas season, for many years played in but here I am having just lounges and bars. The one received the phone call incomment, when we were forming me of the death of talking about alcohol, was CHRIS a good friend; an avoidable when he told me that in all SALOMONS and senseless death. the years that he performed, Avoidable because he he never bought one drink; was an alcoholic who in within half an hour of sitspite of the fact that he grew ting down to a piano, it into a faith that he embraced and sang would be lined with drinks supplied about, just could not leave that stupid by the patrons. “And I drank every one bottle alone. of them.” The attraction to alcohol was at this I’m not overly sure of why (even point no longer an attraction, it was in though it’s pretty obvious), but he left his own mind a need far greater than wife and children behind when he the common sense to walk away from it came out west. He wanted to escape

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the addiction he knew that he had; it had damaged his life already, so he wanted to get back on track. His fondest memories were of Christmas time and his children, but he had bungled that as well. He reminisced about going to Christmas Eve midnight mass, after which they would come home to Gaudet, a scrumptious meat pie. I have the recipe and wanted to make it for him. In the last year he was staying sober longer and longer, but he would always keep a bottle handy just in case; just like me when I was trying to quit smoking (failure insurance). The hardest thing to deal with was when he would come down from a binge, and he would be filled with remorse and guilt. So great was the weight of it that my shoulder at times would be soaking wet with his tears, and I would just stand there feeling totally inept at how to deal with all this emotion. Sometimes I wish that I didn’t care so much, but then I would not have had the opportunity to experience this man’s life as he revealed when he was

on the piano. The very first time that I heard him, I knew that I was listening to a man’s true heart, and that is what prompted me to find a real piano, not just an electronic rinky-dink as he called a keyboard. In the years following, he would play for meal times and periodically he would come in during the day while we were preparing and play for several hours at a stretch. He took the time to learn gospel music and he loved to play and sing it; all the while railing against it because it often would prevent him from drinking. In this way I began to realize just how great the battle really was for him. He would play and sometimes sing during a church service and everybody loved it when he did, but it just wasn’t enough. All that’s left now are the memories. I learned to truly love this man and I will miss him dearly. Good Bye Al. Allan McKinnon, deceased Dec. 25, 2014 Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

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Little Jimmy Dickens dies at hospital at 94 NASHVILLE — Little Jimmy Dickens, a diminutive singer-songwriter known for his sense of humour and as the oldest cast member of the Grand Ole Opry, has died. He was 94. Dickens died Friday at a Nashvillearea hospital of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke on Christmas Day, Opry spokeswoman Jessie Schmidt said. Dickens, who stood 4-foot-11, had performed on the Opry almost continuously since 1948. His last performance was Dec. 20 as part of his birthday celebration. He sang “Out Behind The Barn” and delivered his trademark comedy. He had turned 94 a day earlier. “The Grand Ole Opry did not have a better friend than Little Jimmy Dickens,” said Pete Fisher, Opry vice-president and general manager. “He loved the audience and his Opry family, and all of us loved him back. He was a oneof-kind entertainer and a great soul whose spirit will live on for years to come.”

HONOLULU — The United States imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea on Friday in its first public act of retribution for a crippling cyberattack against Sony. The stepped-up sanctions, authorized by executive order from President Barack Obama, will affect three North Korean entities, including a government intelligence agency and a North Korean arms dealer. The U.S. is also sanctioning 10 individuals who work for those entities or the North Korean government, the Treasury Department said. “The order is not targeted at the people of North Korea, but rather is aimed at the government of North Korea and its activities that threaten the United States and others,” Obama wrote to a letter to House and Senate leaders.

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Even though I was wearing an ugly swimsuit, the beach at the Occidental Grand Xcaret resort was still great. The cost of a new swimsuit was a minor expense to salvage the trip after my luggage was lost.

wimsuit shopping is not one of my favourite pastimes, but on a recent trip to Mexico I found myself in a hotel gift shop purchasing an ugly one-piece suit. Although the young woman working in the store assured me that I looked attractive in it, I knew otherwise. Only a handful of people on the planet DEBBIE could have pulled OLSEN off that look, and I TRAVEL was not one of them. I bought it anyway, because wearing an ugly bathing suit on the white sand beach was much better than wearing black dress pants and a matching sweater.

Losing your luggage is just one of the challenges travellers might have to overcome when vacationing. If you have ever been stranded in an airport due to a flight cancellation, been in a destination during a natural disaster, or waited for hours in an airport or train station due to a delay, you know that things don’t always turn out the way you plan them. When things go wrong, it’s usually wise to just try to make the best of it and consider your experiences part of the adventure of travelling. You can mope in your air-conditioned room in your black dress slacks or you can proudly wear the ugliest bathing suit on the beach — it all comes down to making a choice. Maintaining a positive attitude is the best way to approach travel, but there are other things you can do to make your trips go more smoothly. Please see TIPS on Page B2

ABOVE: When you are booking your ticket with frequent flyer miles, some plans offer first class for only a small amount of additional miles. It’s always a good idea to check the number of miles required to upgrade your seat. LEFT: You can avoid the scramble to exit the aircraft by purchasing premium economy seats near the front of the aircraft. Premium economy typically offers more legroom and other perks like priority boarding and baggage access.

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REBELS CAN’T BUY A GOAL IN 5-3 LOSS TO KOOTENAY ICE BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Ice 5 Rebels 3 Goals were expensive for the Red Deer Rebels Friday night at the Centrium. Despite outplaying and outshooting their guests, the Rebels couldn’t buy a goal until Brooks Maxwell connected on a power play at 12:29 of the second period. The Kootenay Ice, meanwhile, were shopping in the bargain bin, making the most of their scoring chances en route to a 5-3 Western Hockey League win in front of a recorded gathering of 4,845. Ice netminder Wyatt Hoflin played a huge role in the outcome, turning aside 38 shots. Rebels goaltender Rylan Toth stopped 11 of 15 shots before being replaced in the second period by Taz Burman, who blocked eight of the nine he faced the rest of the way. “Their goalie saw a lot of the shots. We didn’t make it hard on him,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, who wasn’t giving Hoflin all the credit while also being less than impressed with Toth. “At one point I looked up at the clock and the shots on goal were 30-14 and we’re down 4-1,” he added. “That’s obviously not good enough. Tother needs to be better, he’s fighting it a little bit right now and he needs to get going.” On a night when they couldn’t get their share of pucks past Hoflin, the Rebels were somewhat snake-bitten. For starters, Ice forward Levi Cable snuck behind the Red Deer defence on a play that appeared to be offside, broke in alone and beat Toth low to the glove side at 12:39 of the opening period. The Ice were being outshot 10-0 in the second frame when Jaedon Descheneau batted a puck out of the air and past Toth at 8:16 for a 2-0 lead. Jon Martin banged home a loose puck in the crease three minutes later for a 3-0 cushion, before Maxwell finally got the Rebels on the board with a shot from the faceoff circle.

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Red Deer Rebel Scott Feser looks for some room to skate as Kootenay Ice player Tyler King blocks the way during first period action at the Centrium Friday. But the Rebels were victims of another bad break five minutes later when defenceman Brett Cote fell after being caught with an undetected high stick, and was caught up the ice when Martin potted his second of the night. Kootenay’s fourth goal spelled the end for Toth, but Sutter was quick to blame some of his big guns for not bringing the needed intensity in a con-

test versus a red-hot Central Division rival. “Tonight our best players weren’t our best players, and their guys were,” he said. “It doesn’t matter what level you’re at, whether it’s this level or pro hockey or midget hockey . . . it doesn’t matter. “If your best players are going to get outplayed by the other team’s best

players you’re not going to win very many games, and tonight we didn’t bring what we had to bring here in a big divisional game. It’s unacceptable, to be quite honest. For whatever reason we’ve let our emotional and intensity levels drop off here at home and it’s cost us.”

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Canuck firepower proves to be too much for Danes

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Canada forward Curtis Lazar, left, celebrates his goal with teammate Connor McDavid (17) Denmark during first period quarter-final hockey action at the IIHF World Junior Championships in Toronto on Friday.

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TORONTO — Connor McDavid made hockey look fun. Canada made it look easy. McDavid had a goal and two assists and captain Curtis Lazar scored twice as Canada blew out Denmark 8-0 Friday night at Air Canada Centre in the quarter-finals of the world junior championship. It was a show of force from the undefeated Canadians, who advance to play Slovakia in the semifinal Sunday. “It was too much for us to face in Canada with their speed and physicality,” Danish coach Olaf Eller said. “We faced an amazing team, which, with their speed and extremely quick transition game, killed us.” McDavid earned player of the game honours and deservedly so. The projected No. 1 pick dazzled in his first game at Air Canada Centre, recording one assist falling down, scoring a goal by deking the goalie out of the net and picking up another assist by turning a defenceman inside out. Lazar, his right-winger, said sometimes he gets wowed by McDavid and has to catch himself. Teammates on the bench get to enjoy more of the 17-yearold’s play. “We’re all starstruck just like the fans,” winger Anthony Duclair said. “He’s a great player and he’s got unbelievable skill.”

McDavid now has two goals and seven assists through five games at the world juniors. “He’s been our best player the whole tournament,” winger Max Domi said. “Sometimes the puck goes in for him, sometimes it doesn’t. Tonight it went in.” It went in a lot for Canada. In addition to McDavid and Lazar, Canada got goals from Sam Reinhart, Lawson Crouse, Nick Paul, Brayden Point and Nick Ritchie. Depth of scoring was again evident, just as it was in the tournament-opening blowout of Slovakia. “It’s huge,” said Lazar. “To get contributions from guys: Ritchie, Crouse, Paul, etc., that’s big for us especially we’re getting down to playing for keeps. ... We need to get all guys going and firing on all cylinders.” Canada was firing on all cylinders Friday night from the first shift, when the top line of Domi, Reinhart and Duclair hemmed Denmark in its own end. That was a preview of things to come. By the time the night was over, Canada outshot Denmark 50-14. The result would have been even more lopsided had Danish goaltender Georg Sorensen not made a handful of memorable stops.

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Tavares scores twice to lead Islanders past Flames BY THE CANADIAN PRESS New York 2 Calgary 1 CALGARY — John Tavares scored twice to lead the Islanders to a 2-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Friday night, for New York’s third consecutive win. After Tavares opened the scoring eight minutes into the game, the score remained 1-0 until 12:16 of the third period when Tavares got the puck in the slot, fended off Deryk Engelland and fired his team-leading 17th goal through the pads of Jonas Hiller. The Flames got a goal from Johnny Gaudreau with 3:25 left in the third period to get back within one but they

could not tie it against Jaroslav Halak, who had 22 stops to win his seventh straight game and improve to 21-6-0. New York (26-11-1) improves to 7-1-1 in its last nine games and keeps pace with the Pittsburgh Penguins atop the Metropolitan Division. The Islanders third stop on a season-long seven-game road trip goes Sunday in Edmonton. Calgary (21-16-3) had its four-game winning streak snapped. The Flames are not back in action until Wednesday when they host Detroit. They are 3-1-0 with two games left on a six-game homestand. The first game of 2015 for both teams looked more like the first game of the pre-season for much of the night. The game was devoid of any flow with both

teams guilty of errant passes, numerous stoppages for icings and offsides and general sloppy play, especially in the first two periods. Looking to tie the game, the Flames got back-to-back power plays early in the third period but were unable to take advantage against a New York penalty-killing unit ranked 29th in the NHL. Calgary failed to generate a shot on the first chance and the best scoring chance of the second power play, a Curtis Glencross set up of Sean Monahan, was stopped on a superb pad save by Halak. New York took a 1-0 lead eight minutes into the game, capitalizing on a two-minute two-man advantage.

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With Lance Bouma already in the penalty box for tripping, Matt Stajan was sent off on the ensuing face-off for covering his hand on the puck. Calgary killed off the first 45 seconds of the 5-on-3 without any troubles but once the Islanders got set up, they moved the puck around nicely and eventually, Ryan Strome fed a perfect pass through the top of the crease to Tavares, who one-timed a shot in the open side before goaltender Jonas Hiller could slide across. On the verge of being shut out for the first time this season, the Flames finally showed some life when Gaudreau pounced on a loose puck in the slot and rifled in his 13th of the season.

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B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015

Cowboys saddle up for New Year’s Eve events

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REBELS: Hurricanes up next The Ice made it 5-1 early in the third period. Martin was denied by Burman after busting in alone, but Ryan Chynoweth buried the rebound. Red Deer battled back with a pair of goals in the second half of the period as Riley Sheen worked out of the corner and fired a backhand past Hoflin, and Maxwell roofed a shot from close range. But it was too little, too late. For the Ice, it was their 18th win in a 23-game stretch and pulled them to within two points of the secondplace Rebels in the Central Division. Still, assistant coach Jay Henderson voiced his displeasure with the fact his club was outshot 21-7 in the middle frame. “Twenty one shots against . . . . that’s way

But Lambert took the top prize money ($1,556) as the average winner, with his 169.5 point total. That will serve as a good warm-up for him, as he’s in Baltimore, MD this weekend to begin his run on the 2015 PBR Built Ford Tough Series. “I took two months off because I was sore in some spots,” admitted the Ponoka cowboy. “But everything is feeling good, so I should be firing good for the new year.” Last year was Lambert’s first full one on the richest PBR BFTS, and for the first time he’s seeded coming into the season. That means he’s guaranteed an appearance at five events and he’s hoping to earn his way into several more. “If I could get to eight events, I could get something done.” After Baltimore, his next stops are Chicago, Denver and New York. He and Tanner Byrne are the only two Canadians in the line-up for these early season PBR’s. In the saddle bronc riding contest at Ponoka, Zeke Thurston of Big Valley had the best mark of the first round at 75.5. On their second horse of the night, Layton Green of Meeting Creek was best of the bunch with his 82.5. Then in the final-four round, Green and Call Marr tied for first with 79 point rides. The stock contractors were also competing in Ponoka, with some young bucking horses and sophomore bulls. The Darcy Hollingsworth team came in first for the horses, while the Vold Rodeo/Prescott team won the honors for the bulls. Meantime, Eckville’s Scott Wyzykoski moved the event he’d produced in

too many for our liking,” said Henderson. “I thought Wyatt did a great job for us and kept us in the game and we executed on a few plays and scored some goals, but that’s still too many shots against.” Regardless, the Ice found a way to pull out yet another victory in their impressive run. “It’s a little different for us from the beginning of the year,” said Henderson. “The shots against are still a big concern, but at the beginning of the year we were getting outshot badly every night and weren’t scoring goals. It’s nice to be on the other side of that, but there’s still a lot of work to do.” Henderson is unaware of whether Kootenay GM Jeff Chynoweth will attempt to bolster the team’s roster prior to or at the Jan. 10 trade deadline. “I don’t know what’s in store for us that way,” said Henderson. “You have your fingers crossed . . . you always like to make your team better. I’m hoping he (Chynoweth) is on board for that, but we’re playing well right now and

it’s always a concern if you mix up what you have. “But we also have two guys coming back from the world juniors . . . two huge pieces for us.” Henderson was referring to Canadian forward Sam Reinhart, who has 27 points in 15 games since being returned from the Buffalo Sabres, and Russian defenceman Rinat Valiev. ● The Rebels travel to Lethbridge today for a 7 p.m. meeting with the Hurricanes. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

CANADA: McDavid a star But the plays the 18,448 fans in attendance and those watching on television will remember mostly belong to McDavid. On Lazar’s goal to open the scoring, McDavid drove to the net and around it and kept his head up as he was falling to the ice. Mid-slide,

But with a ‘no time’ in both the steer wrestling and team roping, it came down to the bull riding. “I’d gotten on a few bulls, but I never did focus on it,” said Elliott, about his past experience with a bull rope. “My brother and Dad both did it, so it was one those deals where I needed to try it. But I’ve only been on about a dozen bulls. Saddle bronc riding is my specialty.” Elliott got his bull ride started just right, but one wrong move nearly cost him everything. “He was upside down at about six seconds,” noted Wyzykoski. “Both legs were in the air over his hands. But with good old-fashioned cowboy try he hung on.” Steven Turner won the bull riding, to go along with his steer wrestling victory. But Elliott still placed in the bulls, and in the bareback, so he finished first with 115 points. Big Valley’s Colter Harden was second in three events, and that gave him second overall with 95 points, while Turner finished third with 85. Elliott will be headed back to class at Panhandle State University in Oklahoma, where he’s on the rodeo team, with $3,360 in his jeans from the Ultimate Cowboy Championship. Wyzykoski was extremely happy to see nearly 2,000 fans at the Agrium Western Event Centre for the New Year’s Eve fun. It also meant the partnering charity Dreams Take Flight raised almost $5,000. Dianne Finstad is a Red Deer freelance writer

Ponoka the previous two New Year’s Eve’s to Calgary this year to take advantage of the new Agrium Western Event Centre at Stampede Park. The Ultimate Cowboy Championship featured 10 contestants who each took part in all six rodeo events. That takes some courage, in a day and age when most contestants specialize in one or possibly two rodeo contests. But it’s right up the alley for Canadian AllAround Champions like Steven Turner and Travis Reay, both regular participants. “This was the first year that everyone entered was really tough,” commented Wyzykoski. “The crowd loved it. When it came time for the bull riding, eight of them still had a chance to win. It was super tight.” In the end, a college kid emerged as number one in the Ultimate Cowboy contest for the second year in a row. Clay Elliott of Nanton won the saddle bronc portion of the night with an outstanding 86.5 point ride on the Weatherly horse Skyfall. He was also the fastest in the tie-down roping. Those are the same two categories he aced last year in winning the title. But it’s those other competitions that become the deciding factor. “Bareback riding is my ‘foreign’ event,” admitted the 20-year-old. “I’m not real confident in it. That was only the second bareback horse for me ever, so it’s the event I thought most about.” Wyzykoski has designed the format so contestants can have some choice on the level of difficulty of their bucking stock, and Elliott was able to choose a bareback horse with lots of experience. So he made the whistle there. McDavid found Lazar in front, and the 19-year-old Ottawa Senators forward beat Sorensen short side. “It’s good that he was there I guess,” McDavid said.

On his goal, McDavid picked off the puck in the neutral zone and turned on the speed before stopping at the edge of the crease. He deked enough to get Sorensen out of position and could

slide it into the net for his second of the tournament. “He took like two strides and he just took off and just beat everyone to the net,” Domi said.

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It was an extra happy start to the New Year for some cowboys at several rodeo events held on New Year’s Eve. In Ponoka, the Calnash Ag Events Centre bucked in 2015 with a new event put on by the Centre itself. The Bucking Bash featured bronc riders and bull riders, and some top notch stock. Hometown DIANNE favorite Zane FINSTAD Lambert was the big winner of the Bull Riders Canada-sanctioned bull riding. He rode El Hombre from the Flying High Rodeo Company for 81.5 points in the opening frame, which was taken by Brian Hervey of Brant with an 83.5. But in the finals, Lambert came back and made a stellar 88 point ride on another Flying High bull called Last Wish. “They were telling me how he comes out and spins to the right, and then they said ‘he just gets mean’!” said Lambert. “He must have a bad reputation. I guess he got both (bullfighters) Bo and Scotty Byrne at their finals, so I hit the ground running.” “But I felt more solid on my second ride than my first one. I wasn’t really in a bad spot once, and kept tight to my rope.” Cole Young of Alder Flats was only half a point behind Lambert, at 87.5.

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Unlikely heroes a staple of wild-card weekend PLENTY ON THE LINE IN THE OPENING WEEKEND OF THE NFL PLAYOFFS While quarterbacks and other bigname, high-priced players get most of the attention, unlikely heroes often emerge to help their teams win in the NFL playoffs. Three of the past four Super Bowl winners played in the wild-card round and each team got help from a surprise performer during its championship run. Packers rookie James Starks had 123 yards rushing in Green Bay’s 21-16 win over Philadelphia on Jan. 9, 2011 after running for just 101 yards the entire season. Giants No. 3 receiver Mario Manningham caught touchdown passes in each of New York’s first three playoffs wins in January 2012, nearly equaling his total of four TDs in the regular season. Ravens cornerback Corey Graham matched his season total with two interceptions in one game against Peyton Manning, including a pick in overtime to set up the winning field goal in Baltimore’s 38-35 win at Denver on Jan. 12, 2013. One of the top defensive performances came from unknown safety Vernon Perry in a playoff win. Perry intercepted four of Dan Fouts’ passes and blocked a field goal in Houston’s 17-14 victory over San Diego on Dec. 29, 1979. Here are potential unsung heroes for each team this wild-card weekend: CARDINALS: Outside linebacker Alex Okafor led the Cardinals with eight sacks and could be the key to pressuring Cam Newton and limiting his scrambling. Mobile quarterbacks

Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick hurt the Cardinals recently, so they have to keep Newton in check. PANTHERS: WR Philly Brown has turned into Carolina’s deep threat and has been used on running plays late in the season. While Kelvin Benjamin will likely go against Patrick Peterson, Brown’s speed and playmaking skills could make the difference. RAVENS: Cornerback Lardarius Webb has a difficult assignment covering Steelers All-Pro Antonio Brown in a matchup that could determine which team advances. Brown had an excellent season, but Webb isn’t backing down. STEELERS: RB Josh Harris had nine carries this season, but the rookie is being asked to replace the injured Le’Veon Bell. Fellow rookie Dri Archer along with newly acquired Ben Tate also are in the mix, but Harris will keep getting the ball if he’s productive. BENGALS: TE Jermaine Gresham averaged a career-low 7.4 yards per catch on 62 receptions while Pro Bowl receiver A.J. Green and Mohamed Sanu make the big plays for Cincinnati’s offence. Andy Dalton likes dumping the ball off, so Gresham could be quite active. COLTS: LB Jonathan Newsome set a franchise rookie record with 6 ½ sacks, including two last week that built his case for more playing time. The Colts had trouble pressuring quarterbacks, so they’ll need Newsome to disrupt Dalton’s rhythm. LIONS: S James Ihedigbo had a career-best four interceptions in his first season with the Lions. He is coming off being benched in the second half in last week’s loss at Green Bay, so he’ll have even more motivation to make

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Swedes double up Fins TORONTO — Adrian Kempe’s power-play goal at 1:24 of the third period held up as the winner as Sweden eliminated defending champion Finland 6-3 in quarter-final action at the world junior hockey championship on Friday. Sweden will play Russia in the semifinals. The Russians edged the United States 3-2 at Montreal’s Bell Centre earlier in the day. Lucas Wallmark struck twice for Sweden - including an empty-net goal with four seconds left in the third period - and Toronto Maple Leafs draft pick William Nylander had two assists. Gustav Forsling, Oskar Lindblom and Adam Brodecki also scored. Jusso Ikonen had a goal and an assist for Finland, while Mikko Rantanen and Kasperi Kapanen rounded out the offence. Sweden’s Linus Soderstrom stopped 30 shots to pick up the victory. Ville Husso made 29 saves in shouldering the loss for Finland. The teams were tied 3-3 before Sweden erupted for three goals in the final period.

Slovaks blank Czechs to advance MONTREAL — Michal Kabac scored in the first period and Denis Godla had a 34-save shutout as Slovakia defeated the Czech Republic 3-0 in the quarter-

finals of the world junior championship on Friday. Peter Cehlarik added a goal in the third frame and Martin Reway had an empty-netter for Slovakia, which advanced to a semifinal meeting with the winner of the Canada-Denmark game. Canada beat Slovakia 8-0 in the opening group stage game for both teams last week. Kabac got his first of the tournament 18:50 into the first period as his shot from close range went off goalie Miroslav Svoboda’s stick into the air. It dropped behind him and slid over the goal-line with Czech forward David Pasternak swinging and missing the puck to try to clear it away. The goal was confirmed by video review. The Czechs wasted three glittering chances in the second, starting with Ondrei Kase hitting a goalpost on a short-handed breakaway. Patrik Zdrahal fanned on a one-timer with the net wide open and David Kampf had a gaping net but saw the puck roll off the end of his stick. Cehlarik scored on a second crack at the puck after Czech defenceman Dominik Masin failed to clear it from the front of the net at 14:08 of the third. Slovakia outshot the Czechs 3634.

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CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Medicine Hat 37 26 9 1 1 151 100 Red Deer 39 20 14 3 2 136 129 Calgary 37 20 14 1 2 148 113 Kootenay 39 21 17 0 1 128 142 Edmonton 39 18 16 3 2 116 111 Lethbridge 37 9 23 3 2 97 158

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WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 38 29 6 3 0 164 93 Victoria 39 18 18 2 1 128 135 Prince George 38 19 19 0 0 116 151 Vancouver 37 17 19 1 0 113 117 Kamloops 40 13 22 3 2 119 153

Pt 61 39 38 35 31

GP 37 36 39 37 36

Everett Spokane Portland Seattle Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 22 11 3 1 21 12 3 0 19 17 0 3 18 15 2 2 18 17 0 1

GF GA 119 101 112 97 129 134 99 100 99 106

Pt 48 45 41 40 37

z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; xclinched 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 Friday’s results Everett 2 Prince Albert 0 Regina 6 Moose Jaw 4 Edmonton 3 Lethbridge 2 Kootenay 5 Red Deer 3 Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Prince George at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Tri-City at Seattle, 8:35 p.m. Today’s games Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Everett at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Calgary at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Kootenay at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Tri-City at Portland, 8 p.m. Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Prince George at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Ice 5, Rebels 3 First Period 1. Kootenay, Cable 17 (Alfaro) 12:39. Penalties — Descheneau Koo (holding) 8:42, Vetterl Koo (tripping) 13:06, Cote RD (hooking) 14:55, Overdyk Koo (tripping) 19:12. Second Period 2. Kootenay, Descheneau 21 (Bozon) 8:16. 3. Kootenay, Martin 5 (Alfaro) 11:32. 4. Red Deer, Maxwell 11 (unassisted) 12:29 (pp). 5. Kootenay, Martin 6 (unassisted) 17:29. Penalties — Alfaro Koo (holding) 0:54, Nogier RD (interference) 9:49, Bozon Koo (interference) 11:04. Third Period 6. Kootenay, Chynoweth 3 (Martin, Lishchynsky) 4:44. 7. Red Deer, Sheen 9 (Nell, Bobyk) 11:34. 8. Red Deer, Maxwell 12 (unassisted) 11:50. Penalties — Feser RD (slashing) 0:36, Kopeck RD (tripping) 6:55. Shots on goal by Kootenay 8 7 9 — 24 Red Deer 8 21 12 — 41 Goal — Kootenay: Hoflin (W, 21-14-0); Red Deer:

Toth (L, 18-11-3). Power plays (goal-chances) — Kootenay: 0-4; Red Deer: 1-5. Referees — Colin Watt, Derek Zalaski. Linesmen — Chad Huseby, Cody Huseby. Attendance — 4,845 at Red Deer. NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 38 24 9 5 53 117 Montreal 38 25 11 2 52 104 N.Y. Islanders 38 26 11 1 53 119 Tampa Bay 40 24 12 4 52 130 Detroit 38 20 9 9 49 108 Washington 37 19 11 7 45 108 Toronto 39 21 15 3 45 129 N.Y. Rangers 35 20 11 4 44 107 Florida 36 17 10 9 43 84 Boston 38 19 15 4 42 101 Ottawa 36 15 14 7 37 97 Columbus 35 16 16 3 35 89 Philadelphia 38 14 17 7 35 104 New Jersey 40 13 20 7 33 85 Buffalo 39 14 22 3 31 76 Carolina 38 11 23 4 26 75 WESTERN CONFERENCE Anaheim Chicago Nashville Los Angeles St. Louis Vancouver San Jose Winnipeg Calgary Minnesota Dallas Colorado Arizona Edmonton

GP 39 38 36 39 37 36 38 38 40 36 36 38 37 39

W 24 25 24 19 22 21 20 19 21 18 17 15 14 8

L OT Pts GF 9 6 54 107 11 2 52 119 9 3 51 106 12 8 46 106 12 3 47 108 12 3 45 105 13 5 45 104 12 7 45 96 16 3 45 115 14 4 40 103 14 5 39 108 15 8 38 98 19 4 32 86 22 9 25 83

GA 90 88 104 106 95 96 117 89 93 103 99 110 115 115 130 101 GA 104 81 78 96 93 97 96 92 105 99 118 113 121 133

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Friday’s Games Colorado 2, Edmonton 1, SO Florida 2, Buffalo 0 Montreal 4, New Jersey 2 Pittsburgh 6, Tampa Bay 3 Carolina 2, Philadelphia 1 Minnesota 3, Toronto 1 N.Y. Islanders 2, Calgary 1 St. Louis at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Today’s Games Ottawa at Boston, 11 a.m. Nashville at Los Angeles, 2 p.m. Philadelphia at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Montreal at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Toronto at Winnipeg, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 6 p.m. Columbus at Arizona, 6 p.m. Detroit at Vancouver, 8 p.m. St. Louis at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Sunday’s Games Boston at Carolina, 11 a.m. Florida at Washington, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 5 p.m. Dallas at Chicago, 6 p.m. Columbus at Colorado, 6 p.m. Nashville at Anaheim, 6 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Hurricanes 2, Flyers 1 First Period 1. Carolina, Malone 1 (Boychuk) 13:41. Penalties — None. Second Period 2. Carolina, E. Staal 10 (Jo. Staal, Faulk) :41. Penalties — McClement Car (delay of game) 5:23, Schultz Pha (holding) 12:23, Tlusty Car (hooking) 14:21. Third Period 3. Philadelphia, VandeVelde 2 (Lecavalier, Streit) 8:45. Penalties — MacDonald Pha (tripping) 3:47, McClement Car (high-sticking) 13:22. Shots on goal by

Philadelphia Carolina

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Goal — Philadelphia: Mason (L, 6-12-6); Carolina: Ward (W, 10-15-2). Penguins 6, Lightning 3 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 12 (Letang, Crosby) 1:56 (pp). 2. Pittsburgh, Ebbett 1 (Malkin, Despres) 6:50. 3. Pittsburgh, Malkin 17 (Ebbett, Rust) 13:39. 4. Tampa Bay, Boyle 7 (Palat, Carle) 15:11. Penalties — Stralman TB (tripping) 1:36, Downie Pgh (unsportsmanlike conduct) 15:11, Ehrhoff Pgh (cross-checking) 19:43. Second Period 5. Tampa Bay, Hedman 4 (Johnson, Palat) 12:48. 6. Pittsburgh, Ehrhoff 3 (Bennett, Crosby) 17:07. Penalties — Ehrhoff Pgh (holding) 7:39, Sustr TB (cross-checking) 14:59. Third Period 7. Tampa Bay, Killorn 9 (Stralman, Hedman) 11:18. 8. Pittsburgh, Downie 6 (Crosby, Spaling) 11:52. 9. Pittsburgh, Downie 7 (Letang, Crosby) 19:55 (en). Penalties — None. Shots on goal by Tampa Bay 11 10 14 — 35 Pittsburgh 11 8 10 — 29 Goal — Tampa Bay: Nabokov (L, 3-5-2); Pittsburgh: Greiss (W, 4-2-2). Canadiens 4, Devils 2 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Merrill NJ (interference) 9:00, Eller Mtl (holding) 13:56. Second Period 1. Montreal, Bournival 1 (Gonchar, Beaulieu) 6:31. 2. Montreal, Pacioretty 15 (Subban, Galchenyuk) 19:09 (pp). Penalties — Zidlicky NJ (hooking) 2:24, Gonchar Mtl (interference) 15:39, Jagr NJ (hooking) 18:00. Third Period 3. Montreal, Bournival 2 (Weise, Subban) 2:47. 4. New Jersey, Ryder 5 (unassisted) 3:21. 5. New Jersey, Cammalleri 12 (Jagr, Gomez) 14:11. 6. Montreal, Plekanec 11 (Gallagher, Subban) 19:33 (en). Penalties — Zidlicky NJ (high-sticking) 10:54, Galchenyuk Mtl (high-sticking) 15:42. Shots on goal by Montreal 7 6 13 — 26 New Jersey 6 7 11 — 24

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2 Avalanche 2, Oilers 1 (SO) First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Gazdic Edm (slashing) 5:43, McLeod Col (fighting) 15:46, Hendricks Edm (fighting) 15:46, Mitchell Col (goaltender interference) 19:08, Lander Edm (cross-checking) 19:08. Second Period 1. Colorado, Briere 7 (Duchene, Barrie) 7:55. Penalties — Hall Edm (slashing) 0:45, Landeskog Col (roughing) 14:30, Fraser Edm (roughing) 14:30, MacKinnon Col (hooking) 18:14. Third Period 2. Edmonton, Pouliot 4 (Schultz, Eberle) 4:47 (pp). Penalties — Briere Col (tripping) 2:04, Tanguay Col (hooking) 4:03. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — None. Shootout — Colorado wins 2-0 Edmonton : Roy miss, Eberle miss. Colorado : MacKinnon miss, Duchene goal, Tanguay goal. Shots on goal by Edmonton 9 5 12 2 — 28 Colorado 10 12 3 3 — 28 Islanders 2, Flames 1 First Period 1. NY Islanders, Tavares 16 (Strome, Okposo) 8:00 (pp). Penalties — Bouma Cgy (tripping) 6:48, Stajan Cgy (face-off violation) 6:48. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Nielsen NYI (holding) 10:49. Third Period 2. NY Islanders, Tavares 17 (Okposo, De Haan) 12:16. 3. Calgary, Gaudreau 13 (Hudler, Russell) 16:35. Penalties — Strome NYI (slashing) 4:10, Tavares NYI (high-sticking) 6:32. Shots on goal by NY Islanders 9 6 9 — 24 Calgary 7 9 7 — 23 Goal — NY Islanders: Halak (W, 21-6-0); Calgary: Hiller (L, 13-11-2).

Goal — Montreal: Price (W, 21-9-1); New Jersey: Kinkaid (L, 1-2-2). Panthers 2, Sabres 0 First Period 1. Florida, Boyes 7 (Barkov, Bergenheim) 3:29. 2. Florida, Bjugstad 14 (Hayes, Ekblad) 11:51 (pp). Penalties — Weber Buf (tripping) 11:31. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — None. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — Bolland Fla (tripping) 19:21. Shots on goal by Florida 19 10 4 — 33 Buffalo 7 11 12 — 30 Goal — Florida: Luongo (W, 15-7-7); Buffalo: Neuvirth (L, 3-9-1). Wild 3, Maple Leafs 1 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Clarkson Tor (stick holding) 16:53. Second Period 1. Minnesota, Brodziak 5 (Coyle, Niederreiter) 10:14. Penalties — Koivu Minn (holding) 6:34. Third Period 2. Toronto, Franson 6 (Phaneuf, van Riemsdyk) 2:37 (pp). 3. Minnesota, Spurgeon 4 (Coyle, Koivu) 7:23. 4. Minnesota, Koivu 6 (Vanek, Pominville) 9:18 (pp). Penalties — Spurgeon Minn (slashing) 1:38, Suter Minn (delay of game) 2:16, Winnik Tor (slashing) 9:07, Coyle Minn (roughing) 10:45, van Riemsdyk Tor (roughing) 10:45, Carter Minn (tripping) 14:17,

Transactions BASEBALL American League TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Named Dane Johnson bullpen coach, Eric Owens assistant hitting coach, Sal Fasano minor league pitching co-ordinator, Darold Knowles rehabilitation pitching coach and Rick Langford senior pitching advisor. Promoted Heather Connolly to manager, major league administration and Joe Sheehan to manager, baseball research and development. FOOTBALL National Football League GREEN BAY PACKERS — Promoted Eliot Wolf to director of player personnel. HOCKEY National Hockey League

Kessel Tor (unsportsmanlike conduct) 16:12. Shots on goal by Toronto 14 12 9 — 35 Minnesota 10 10 9 — 29

Canada USA Slovakia Finland Germany

GP 4 4 4 4 4

GP Sweden 4 Czech Republic 4 Russia 4 Switzerland 4 Denmark 4

IIHF-U20-2015 Group A WOTWOTL 4 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 Group B WOTWOTL 4 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2

L GF GA Pts 0 21 4 12 1 14 6 8 2 7 14 6 2 5 8 4 4 2 17 0 L 0 2 2 2 1

GF 18 12 13 9 10

GA Pts 6 12 14 5 9 5 18 4 15 4

Three points awarded for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/ shootout loss. Friday, January 2 Switzerland 5 Germany 2 Russia 3 USA 2 Sweden 6 Finland 3 Slovakia 3 Czech Republic 0 Canada 8 Denmark 0 Saturday, January 3 Switzerland vs. Germany, 5 p.m. Sunday, January 4 TBD vs. TBD, 2 p.m. TBD vs. TBD, 6 p.m.

Saturday

● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Elks, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Soccer: Red Deer Rangers Sheraton/ Realty Experts Group tournament at Westerner Agricentre and Collicutt Centre. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Lacombe, 1:45 p.m.; Airdrie Red at Olds, 2:45 p.m. ● Junior women’s hockey: Medicine Hat at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Sylvan Lake, 5:45 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Mountainview at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● Major midget girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, noon, Collicutt Centre. ● Soccer: Red Deer Rangers Sheraton/ Realty Experts Group tournament at Westerner Agricentre and Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Grande Prairie at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Junior women’s hockey: Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Lacombe, 2 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Bentley; Okotoks at Olds, 5:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Northstar, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Olds, 2:45 p.m.; Okotoks at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m.

Football NFL Playoffs Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 3 Arizona at Carolina, 2:35 p.m. Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 6:15 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4 Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 11:05 a.m Detroit at Dallas, 2:40 p.m. NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Playoffs Spread O/U Saturday Arizona at CAROLINA 6.5 37.5 Baltimore at PITTSBURGH 2.5 46.5 Sunday Cincinnati at INDIANAPOLIS 3.5 49.5 Detroit at DALLAS 7.5 48.5

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News outlet will take to cyberspace BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR It’s been 5 ½ years since CHCA-TV went black and Red Deer lost its only local television station. But a former videographer and producer at the station now hopes to fill part of the lingering void. Rene Rondeau is developing Channel 6 News, an online news network. “It’s going to be all locally based, from news items that affect you and me and your family: to schools, to health, to sports, to entertainment and business news,” said Rondeau, who worked at CHCA for nearly 10 years, when it operated as RDTV. “Our goal at the end of the day, like any other news medium, is to inform people, educate them and empower them with the information where they can actually make decisions and do something.” Channel 6 News will have its own videographers and reporters, and will post news on its website as it’s generated throughout the day, he said. A “mini newscast” is also expected to go up every evening. The online news channel will be available for free, and accessible when and where it’s convenient for users, said Rondeau. He expects to generate revenue from local advertisers, who will pay for 10-second videos that will appear on Channel 6 News. “We’re looking for the local corporate support. That’s the big thing that’s going to drive this network.” Rondeau said he’s currently developing that advertising backing, and has received a good response. His goal is to launch Channel 6 News in the first half of 2015. Newspapers and radio stations play

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Rene Rondeau is preparing to launch a web-based video news channel in Red Deer. an important role in informing local residents, said Rondeau. But there’s also a place for television, and Red Deer is one of the largest urban areas in Canada without a local TV station. “What I want to do is bring back that local television component. “With the amount of growth that’s

been happening, it’s screaming for a place to be seen.” Online news programming already exists elsewhere, said Rondeau, but most of it is affiliated with traditional television networks. Rondeau currently operates iMediaTV.ca, which produces videos for

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In this Tuesday, March 18, 2014, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures after signing a treaty to incorporate Crimea into Russia in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.

Canadian exporters assess fallout of currency crisis BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Canadian exporters stung by Russia’s currency crisis and its retaliatory sanctions against the West wonder what 2015 will hold for a market filled with promise less than 12 months ago. Companies from farm-equipment manufacturers to pork producers spent much of 2014 adjusting to the economic instability in Russia, a country that bought $563 million worth of Canada’s agricultural exports in 2012. For some firms, the first half of 2014 had the hallmark of a banner year - and then sales evaporated. A senior executive for one of Canada’s biggest exporters to Russia said his company did about $250 million in annual business there in recent years, mostly selling frozen pork products. Olymel, a pork and poultry processor and distributor, appeared on track for its best year yet in Russia after more than two decades of working there, said

Richard Davies, the company’s senior vice-president of sales and marketing. But in August, Russia banned meat products and other goods from countries such as Canada in retaliation for financial sanctions by the Western countries. “We knew (the ban) was potentially going to come, but we certainly didn’t expect it to unravel as quickly and as strongly as it did,” Davies said in an interview. “Obviously, the embargo in August had a significant impact on us and basically the Canadian and North American pork market, for that matter.” Last March, Canada and some of its allies sought to punish Russia for its annexation of Crimea and its provocative military activity in eastern Ukraine. They imposed a number of sanctions against Russia and its supporters.

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Alberta farmers have the opportunity to develop farm safety plans at workshops across the province, including in Red Deer and Olds. Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development is looking for feedback on its new Alberta FarmSafe Plan, which provides a step-by-step process for putting together a farm health and safety plan. “Farmers who are interested in completing a safety plan for their farm and who are willing to provide feedback on the program are needed for the upcoming pilot project,” said Laurel Aitken, farm safety coordinator with Alberta Agriculture. “Representation from all sectors of agriculture and all sizes of farm operations is needed.” At the workshops, farmers will learn how to identify hazards and control or eliminate them, said Aitken. Those who volunteer to take part in the Alberta FarmSafe Plan program will receive two days of instruction, followed by one-on-one farm visits, e-mails or phone calls. Workshops are scheduled for Jan. 16 and 22 in Olds and Jan. 29 and Feb. 5 in Red Deer. To register, contact Lindsay at 780-427-4187 or at Lindsay.rodriguez@gov.ab.ca.

Online maps forecast pests, including midge and sawfly Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development is offering a series of pest forecasting maps online, with the first two — focusing on wheat midge and wheat stem sawfly — already up. “Producers or industry as a whole will have an overall view on what’s happening with those two insects for the next planting season,” said Scott Meers, insect management specialist at Alberta Agriculture. In the wheat midge survey, Central Alberta was found to have some high-count areas. The wheat stem sawfly survey indicated that numbers were extremely low across the province. Forecasting maps for cabbage seed pod weevil, pea leaf weevil, bertha armyworm and grasshoppers are scheduled to go live this month. The maps can be accessed online at www.agric. gov.ab.ca/app21/loadmedia.

Learning a company’s culture before changing jobs Dear Working Wise: I can’t stand the company that I work for anymore and so I’m thinking about switching to a competitor, but I don’t know anyone there and I’m not sure if it’s any better there. Is there any way to find out what it’s like to work there before I take the plunge? — Ready to Go Dear Ready: There are a number of ways you can find out about a company’s culture, management and compensation before you accept a new job. As you mentioned, the best and easiest is to ask someone you know who works there. If that’s not possible, another option is asking someone you are connected to on LinkedIn. Just type in the company’s name in the search box and LinkedIn will show you anyone you are connected to who has ever worked there, along with anyone they are connected to who has worked there as well. If you don’t think it will get back to your current employer, you could try calling the company’s human resources department and ask for an informational interview. This isn’t a job interview; it’s just an opportunity for you to talk to someone at the new company about their culture and work environment. If you are looking for a more impartial source of information, check out Canada’s Top 100 employ-

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 122.22 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.90 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 18.15 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 62.66 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.70 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO - The Toronto stock market began the new year on a high note Friday, posting a triple-digit advance amid gains across nearly all sectors. The S&P/TSX composite index ended the session up 121.21 points at 14,753.65, helped in particular by climbing gold and metals and mining stocks. But the optimism in equities didn’t translate to the Canadian dollar. The loonie plunged 1.18 cents to 85.02 cents US in the face of a strengthening U.S. greenback and generally weak crude oil prices. The last time the currency closed this low was May 15, 2009, when it finished at 84.81 cents US. Meanwhile, New York indexes were essentially flat after surging at the open. The Dow Jones industrials gained 9.92 points to 17,832.99, while the Nasdaq was down 9.24 points at 4,726.81. The S&P 500 index pulled back 0.7 of a point to 2,058.20. The U.S. markets fell after the release of slightly disappointing economic data. The Institute for Supply Management reported that U.S. factory activity grew at the slowest pace in six months in December, weakened by declines in orders and production. The trade group of purchasing managers said its manufacturing index fell to 55.5 in December from 58.7 in November. A figure of 50 or above still indicates expansion. Also, the U.S. Commerce Department reported that a sharp slowdown in governmentbuilt schools and infrastructure caused U.S. construction spending to fall slightly in November. It said construction spending slipped 0.3 per cent in November, after having climbed 1.2 per cent in October. In Canada, the latest economic gauge also showed that manufacturing also moderated in December. The RBC Canadian purchasing managers index slipped to 53.9 last month from 55.3 in November and October. A reading of 50 or above on the index also

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.63 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.90 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 33.12 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 12.86 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.28 First Quantum Minerals . 17.13 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.16 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . 10.612 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.43 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.71 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 41.76 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.00 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 16.13 Energy ARC Resources . . . . . . . 25.75 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.29 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 56.17 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.49 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 42.72 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.30 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 10.33 Canyon Services Group. . 9.28 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 24.38 CWC Well Services . . . . . 0.42 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.25 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.37 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 92.83 indicates expansion. In commodities, oil prices continued to slide towards fresh five-year lows as the February crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange lost 58 cents to US$52.69 a barrel. Paul Vaillancourt, executive vice-president of private wealth at Fiera Capital, said investors may finally be looking at the bigger picture when it comes to lower oil prices. “Sometimes a little bit of time allows for a different perspective,” Vaillancourt said from Calgary. “That perspective is that lower energy prices isn’t the end of the world. It’s positive for a great number of economies for the world, so investors are shaking (off) the doom and gloom and starting the year fresh with a brighter perspective.” February gold rose $2.10 to US$1,186.20 an ounce as the TSX gold sector came out as the day’s biggest gainer, up 3.76 per cent. March copper dipped a penny to US$2.82 a pound, while the metals and mining sector on the TSX climbed 3.39 per cent. In corporate news, Ballard Power Systems (TSX:BLD) says it won’t achieve its guidance for 2014 revenue and adjusted earnings due to alleged contract breaches by Azure Hydrogen, which was licensed to assemble Ballard products for the Chinese market. Ballard says it won’t recognize any of the $3 million in revenue that it had expected to book from Azure in the fourth quarter and will record an impairment charge of $4.5 million from outstanding receivables owed by Azure. Its shares fell more than nine per cent or 22 cents to $2.15 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index 14,753.65, up 121.21 points

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RUSSIA: Signs of sanction’s impact Russia struck back by slapping a ban on meat, seafood, milk and dairy products, fruit and vegetables from Canada, the U.S., the European Union, and other countries. The Canadian hog industry exported more than $490 million worth of pork products to Russia in 2012, according to Canada Pork International. Signs of the impact have already begun to surface in the trade data. The most-recent Statistics Canada figures show exports of fresh, chilled or frozen pork to Russia totalled $7 million for the months of August, Sep-

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.49 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.85 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.78 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 50.18 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.80 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.48 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 0.20 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.13 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.35 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.19 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.82 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.40 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 58.10 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.55 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.54 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.36 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 32.51 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.16 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.52 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 46.58 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 84.36 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.24 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 50.05 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.80 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 80.70 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.12 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.22 Dow - 17,832.99, up 9.92 points S&P 500 - 2,058.20, down 0.70 of a point Nasdaq - 4,726.81, down 9.24 points Currencies: Cdn - 85.02 cents US, down 1.18 cents Pound - C$1.8036, down 0.35 of a cent Euro - C$1.4119, up 0.81 of a cent Euro - US$1.2004, down 0.96 of a cent Oil futures: US$52.69 per barrel, down 58 cents (February contract) Gold futures: US$1,186.20 per oz., up $2.10 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.669 oz., up 38.9 cents $632.36 kg., up $12.51 (H&H now closed for holidays; next quote will be until on Jan. 5) ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG - ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ‘15 $3.00 higher $455.30; March ‘15 $3.20 higher $443.00; May ‘15 $3.70 higher $436.80; July ‘15 $4.30 higher $434.30; Nov ‘15 $2.40 higher $423.30; Jan. ‘16 $2.40 higher $424.90; March ‘16 $2.40 higher $429.80; May ‘16 $2.40 higher $431.40; July ‘16 $2.40 higher $431.40; Nov. ‘16 $2.40 higher $431.40. Barley (Western): March ‘15 unchanged $177.00; May ‘15 unchanged $179.00; July ‘15 unchanged $181.00; Oct. ‘15 unchanged $181.00; Dec. ‘15 unchanged $181.00; March ‘16 unchanged $181.00; May ‘16 unchanged $181.00; July ‘16 unchanged $181.00; Oct. ‘16 unchanged $181.00; March ‘17 unchanged $181.00. Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 244,040 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 244,040.

tember and October 2014. By comparison, the same three-month stretch in 2013 saw Canadian firms send $64 million worth of those products to Russia. In another major area, Statistics Canada didn’t record any Canadian exports of crustaceans to Russia from August to October 2014 after it yielded $16.1 million for the same three-month period in 2013. Canadian sales of frozen fish (excluding fillets) were $750,000 between August and October 2014, down from nearly $19 million over those months a year earlier. Davies said the pork producers have redirected some of their products into existing markets, but that has driven down prices. He added that some 2014 losses were offset by price increases after a virus outbreak killed millions of piglets in the U.S. He has no idea what’s next for Russian-Canadian trade, though he fears Ottawa’s condemnation of Russia could hurt relations even if the sanctions are lifted.

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revert back and we’ll see the Canadian dollar back to 90 cents US by the end of the year.” Elsewhere on the commodity markets, February gold gained $2.10 to US$1,186.20 an ounce while March copper lost a penny to US$2.82 a pound.

TORONTO - The loonie plunged to a level not seen in more than five years Friday amid a strengthening U.S. greenback and weaker crude oil prices. The Canadian dollar ended the day down 1.18 cents at 85.02 cents US. The last time it closed below this level was on May Powered by 15, 2009. The currency finished Central Alberta’s 2014 down about eight career site of choice. per cent or 7.8 cents US against the American currency compared with where it began the year. In contrast, the U.S. dollar strengthened last year as the Federal Reserve wrapped up its massive program of buying bonds and mortgage-backed securities, which has helped keep interest rates low. The Fed is expected hike rates for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis in mid-2015. Expectations are the Bank of Canada will also move to Looking Look oki for a hike rates sometime after that. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, reported that U.S. factory activity grew at the Employers: slowest pace in six months 1. Avon in December, weakened 2. Tim Hortons Mini Job Fair by declines in orders and 3. Action Group Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015 production. Its manufac4. Alberta Line Find 9:30 a.m. - Noon turing index fell to 55.5 5. FMC Technologies Alberta Works Centre in December from 58.7 in 6. The Phone Experts 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place November. 7. Greatway Financial 8. G4S Secure Solutions Still, any reading above 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer 9. World Financial Group 50 signals expansion and, Bring your resumé 10. McDonald’s Restaurants despite the slowdown, a 11. Canyon Technical Services For more info, call 403-340-5353 measure of employment 12. Red Deer Catholic School rose, suggesting factories Transportation likely added jobs last month. Government Meanwhile, the loonie also continued to feel pressure from crude prices. “Oil prices are flirting with their lows and remain an important weight (on the Canadian dollar),” observed Camilla Scott, chief FX strategist, global banking and markets, ScoJOIN OUR GROWING TEAM! tiabank. Base Manager – Whitecourt, AB: The February crude oil contract in New York The qualified candidate will have excellent oral and written faded 58 cents to US$52.69 communication skills, knowledge of office processes, procedures and technology. Must be a team player and requires a minimum a barrel. Crude oil has been on of 8 years of Pumping Supervisory experience. Requires a valid driver’s license and clean abstract. a downward trajectory since its most recent high Responsibilities include but are not limited to: overseeing dayof US$107 a barrel back day pumping operations, dispatching, provide support for all in June and has plunged fluid and nitrogen operations, implement the company’s HSE more than 50 per cent program, and provide leadership and guidance to employees in accordance with company policies and procedures. since then due to low demand and a global supply Nitrogen Supervisors glut. Fluid Pumping Operators & Supervisors Paul Vaillancourt of Grande Prairie and Whitecourt, AB: Fiera Capital said the looThe qualified candidates must have a valid Class 1 driver’s nie’s performance is tied license with a clean abstract, current safety tickets and nitrogen to oil prices but he proj- and/or fluid pumping experience. All positions require driving ects both will rise in 2015. and operating equipment. “There’s a clearly link between our currency and We offer a great working environment, a competitive salary and bonus plan, a comprehensive benefits package, and a company the price of oil and what matching RRSP plan. Pre-employment testing is in effect. investors think will happen to the Canadian econ- Please send your resume (indicating job title and location) and driver’s abstract to Human Resources at hr@bonnettsenergy. omy,” he said. “Our view is short-term com or fax to 780-532-4811. www.bonnettsenergy.com pain for long-term gain... We thank all that apply; only those under consideration for (The loonie) will be hard the position will be contacted. hit in the short term, impacted with the price of oil but both the Canadian dollar and price of oil will

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Festival of Trees For the fourth straight year, the Red Deer Festival of Trees raised more than $1 million Red Deer and Central Alberta residents proved yet again what “community” means! In spite of the record low temperatures experienced the week of Festival of Trees, which resulted in slightly lower attendance during our public hours, the support for health care still shone through! The festival entertained more than 22,000 guests to enjoy the work and efforts of our 2,600 volunteers. With the support of 500 donors and over 1,500 volunteer entertainers in 2014, this all resulted in $1.075 million raised for the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre! The 2014 Festival of Trees proved that the weather won’t stop us from achieving what we set our sights on! We were very excited to direct those funds to enhance equipment and services for the Obstetrics Operating Rooms to

be constructed adjacent to the Maternity Unit at the Red Deer hospital. The Festival of Trees has raised over $11.8 million to date for the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. The week-long festival at the end of November boasts 12 special events, a tree room with decorated Christmas trees on display for auction, raffle alley, silent auction items, gift shop, sweet shop and, of course, Candy Cane Lane and Santa’s Secret Shoppe for the children! With something for everyone, Festival of Trees is proud to kick off the Christmas season in Red Deer! Save the date for our 22nd annual Festival of Trees next year: Nov. 25 to 29, 2015! Feel free to visit us at our website, http://www.reddeerfestivaloftrees.ca/, email us at foundation@albertahealthservices.ca, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, or contact Alaine Martin at 403-406-5517 or 403-343-4773.

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Brewing up approval? CITY COUNCIL TO EXAMINE MICROBREWERY REQUEST, WOOD-FIRED BOILERS ON MONDAY BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Microbreweries and wood-fired boilers are back on the Red Deer city council agenda to start the New Year. City council sits for its regular meeting on Monday, before launching into a week of operating budget debates on Tuesday. The boilers are back on the agenda after a resident came forward saying he would be out a lot of money if a ban was put in place. A motion has been made to reconsider a ban on wood-fired boilers in Red Deer approved by city council in early December. A Red Deer businessman was in the process of installing an outdoor woodfired boiler at the time the ban was made.

He told the Advocate he had invested $20,000 into the boiler just before the ban was approved. The city’s Environmental Services Department recommended the ban in a Nov. 25 report. The department cited air quality concerns and, according to a report, were working proactively to protect local air quality. In light of the new developments, council will debate a motion to direct city administration to investigate what it would take to develop a regulatory framework for wood-fired boilers with emissions restrictions. That report would then return to council half way through 2015. Rocky Mountain House also bans wood-fired boilers, while St. Albert regulates them through their emergency services. Lethbridge is considering changes to its regulations that may include boilers.

Red Deer city council will also consider adding microbreweries as a discretionary use in the Riverlands and Railyards neighbourhoods. The issue was brought forward at the Nov. 24 council meeting. Administration had been receiving inquiries about developing microbreweries. However, such operations are not covered in the city’s land use master plan as a permitted use. As a result, a site-specific bylaw would be required and is considered cumbersome for potential business owners. Only the Drummond Brewing Co. in Edgar Industrial Park had developed a microbrewery with site-specific approval. First reading on the discretionary use bid was given on Nov. 24. Public feedback the city has received on the proposal is split, with one letter supporting the development and one op-

posing. If approved, the bylaw would allow for the businesses provided they also have an onsite tasting room, drinking establishment or restaurant and that the production and packaging of the alcohol be no more than 70 per cent of the total floor area. Also up for discussion on Monday, council will consider giving a loan to the 2019 Canada Winter Games organization for interim operating expenditures. If approved, the loan would have a principal of up to $2 million with a 2.075 per cent interest rate, to be paid before the end of February 2019. The loan would be provided to the Host Society Organization and until the society is incorporated, the city will act as agent of the loan on behalf of the host society. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Kris Donaghy, one of the sleigh drivers at Heritage Ranch, puts a bridle on Gem prior to an evening’s Winter Night Lights Tour. Going for a sleigh ride is just one of the many activities Red Deerians are enjoying this winter.

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Child abduction suspect has lawyer A Red Deer man accused of trying to abduct a 13-year-old girl near G.H. Dawe Centre last month made a brief appearance in court on Friday. Alexander Beaulieu, 29, appeared via closed-circuit television from the Red Deer Remand Centre. He faces seven charges, including attempted kidnapping, choking with intent, assault and robbery. He was arrested in connection with the alleged attempted abduction of a teen at about 1 p.m. on Dec. 22.

Police allege that a man stopped his truck near the school and asked if he could use the girl’s cellphone. He allegedly tried to pull her into the truck but she fought back and escaped. A suspect was arrested a few hours later in north Red Deer. Beaulieu was represented by duty counsel, who said the accused has retained Red Deer lawyer Jim Dixon. The case was set over to Monday. Beaulieu remains in custody.

BRIEF Current photo radar sites Here are the Red Deer photo radar locations scheduled through Jan. 15. For school zones, enforcement locations include Douglas Avenue, 49th Avenue, 55th Avenue, 42A Avenue, Oleander Drive and Lawford Avenue. For playground zones, photo radar enforcement locations include 57th Avenue, Ellenwood Drive, Cornett Drive, Duston Street, Boyce Street and Nolan Street. For traffic corridors, enforcement locations in-

Calgary Police Service arrested a man in connection with a New Year’s Eve shooting in Stettler. At 4:47 p.m., Stettler RCMP responded to a 911 call regarding a man being shot in the northwest part of town. Witnesses said there was a collision between two vehicles prior to the shooting. Shots were fired and the shooter left in a pickup. Both men involved in the incident were known to police and RCMP determined it was not a random shooting. The 37-year-old victim was taken by STARS air ambulance with several gunshot wounds. None of the wounds were lifethreatening. On New Year’s Eve, RCMP released a statement that they were looking for Darren James Bauer, 33, of no fixed address, in connection with the shooting. On New Year’s Day at about 4:15 p.m., Bauer was allegedly observed driving in a stolen truck in Calgary and was arrested without incident. Bauer, who was considered armed and dangerous, was wanted on 12 Canada-wide warrants for firearm and property offences and faces a previous charge of attempted murder. Bauer was being transported to Airdrie RCMP detachment, where the investigation will continue with RCMP resources.

Sex assault suspect in custody A man accused of abducting and sexually assaulting a Gasoline Alley hotel worker last month has found a lawyer. Justin Chase Mueller, 28, appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Friday via a closed-circuit television link with the Edmonton Remand Centre, where he remains in custody. Mueller was represented by duty counsel on Friday. But Judge Gordon Deck was told that Edmonton lawyer Amy Lind had been retained by the accused. Police allege that a woman was forced into a vehicle at knifepoint

clude 49th Street, 49th Avenue, 50th Avenue, Taylor Drive, Riverside Drive, 43rd Avenue and 50th Street. Red Deer RCMP reserve the option to change the locations without notice.

Reading, with a dog’s help A four-week reading program at Red Deer Public Library for children ages six to 12 is taking registration now. Reading Tales is for kids who want to practise their reading skills with a therapy dog buddy and handler. The program runs in four-week segments. For more information, contact Laural at 403-3464688 or by email at lgrimes@rdpl.org..

Sylvan pet licence prizes offered Sylvan Lake is doling out $1,500 worth of prizes to

about 12:20 a.m. on Dec. 3, shortly after she finished her hotel shift south of Red Deer. It is alleged that a suspect drove the woman to a bank machine in Red Deer and forced to withdraw cash. The woman was later dropped off at a convenience store in Inglewood, police said. Mueller was arrested by police in Edmonton on Dec. 5. He is charged with armed sexual assault, armed robbery, kidnapping, uttering threats and theft over $5,000. His next court appearance is set for Jan. 16.

encourage local dog and cat owners to renew their pet licences. Pet owners have until the end of January to license their pets and enter the draw. Licences cost $25 for altered dogs and cats and $50 for intact animals. Those who don’t license their dogs face a $50 firsttime offence penalty. Cat owners face a $200 fine. Dogs and cats older than four months must have a licence, which can be purchased at the town’s municipal building. Licensing pets is an important way to get lost animals back to their owners. Sylvan Lake has one of the highest return-to-owner rates in North America, with 97 per cent of lost dogs going back to their homes. Prizes include gift cards for gas, hotels, kennels, pet stores, pet boarders, animal clinics and veterinarians.

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Saturday, Jan. 3 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Mel Gibson, 59; Eli Manning, 34; Victoria Principal, 65 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today is going to be a highly energized day and I don’t mean this is in the most positive way. You are going to be frustrated. You are going to want your freedom! This will be created by an intense situation in your life. The best thing to do is to laugh it off, express it out through music and get far, far away from your predictable routine. Your desires will change after today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year financial gain is promised, but only on your terms. It will be a year when you decide how and what you spend your money on and how much you make as well. The actions you put into your accumulating personal worth will be rewarded. It will be a LARISA MAIRA highly charged year energetiOZOLINS Sunday, Jan. 4 cally, so do guide yourself in CELEBRITIES BORN ON the right direction to create SUN SIGNS THIS DATE: Labrinth, 26; Migains! chael Stipe, 55; Dave Foley, 52 ARIES (March 21-April THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will be 19): Breakthroughs and breakdowns are one of those days when you will be lost in expected for you on a professional and public level for you today. I would say that it a daydream. It’s not a good day to plan to will veer more towards breakthroughs, but accomplish a lot because it simply will not there will still be a need to let go of some happen. Your imagination will be high and aspect you carry publicly and profession- your thoughts will be on significant relationships. If within a business partnership, you ally. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A break- will be thinking of ways to help them. This through for you on a public and profession- is a day to help others sort out their issues al level is highlighted today. There will still in new and creative ways. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your be some stress involved, but nonetheless, things will change for the better. Go with birthday, this year will prove to be one in the flow, let go of an old vision you have which you will be able to get much accomplished. This will be with the help of those carried with you for far too long! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are significant relationships in your life, either going to have to dig a bit deeper in order to business or romantic. Opportunities with find the proper direction forward. Your as- regards to finances will come out of the pirations and wishes are one step in front blue and perhaps from someone you would of you. Today will offer you a little shake least expect. So, keep your options open in order to grab a hold of the prize. Let go and think positively! ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is of fears you might be having, they’re not an opportunity for you to share your wisfounded. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Those dom with others today. This can be withsignificant others in your life will prove to in a group setting or simply with friends. have made some drastic changes that will Perhaps, even the reverse will happen, a get you excited. This is not without some friend will offer you some great advice that major upheaval for them, so be extra kind will help you move towards your true aspiwith them today. All in all, it is the start of rations. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The possimore freedom and breakthroughs for you bility and opportunity of receiving new busiboth! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Something ness contacts with those in foreign lands is needs to change for you. Your health, work, great today. You will be seen as someone daily life, and things will be shaken up to- who is lucky, but also someone who is very day to create that needed breakthrough. realistic with those wishes. Do what is right After today, your perspective of your future for your family and country now. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There is will change. You will also learn something new that will forever change how you func- an opportunity for you to experience new joy today. This can be anything from being tion on the daily. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are able to travel to obtaining a new perspecgaining more finances from the work tive. You will be quite joyful today and rethat you do, starting today. But what has lationships with others will be your primary changed? Is has to do with how you are focus, especially those who are far at the expressing your values now. Others are moment. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Forming picking up clues on how to treat you from your expressed energy. Express your truth better bonds with those you interact with today, throughout your daily life, will be of pritoday! mary importance to you. As it should, you LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Okay, so major frustration will happen today. This will stress out relationships with family and with others in your life. There has to be a change, you will have to be the one who expresses yourself differently now. Speak from your heart today, let the rest go! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The gifts you have for others might not be seen by everyone. This could be a challenge for you to understand today. Add emphasis to your expressions and you will be heard. There will still need to be a breakdown of your truth to expose that which truly bothers you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What you are expressing and how you are expressing yourself now will say a lot about your personal worth. Take the time to fully realize that you are frustrated

will receive opportunities that you might not get any other day. So do take advantage of the dialogue that happens now. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today is a great day to put yourself out there. You will receive opportunities to delve deeper and expand creative projects now. You will be able to gain solid valuable knowledge through simply hanging out with others and enjoying yourself. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Listen to family today. They will offer you some very valuable advice in relation to your health, work and daily existence. You will be inclined to naturally be a dutiful child or partner, but do know it will be to your benefit to embody those lessons and advice now. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will be socializing with more mature individuals now. This will be wonderful as they can provide you with valuable advice regarding children and local entertainment which will make you very happy. Take others up on their offers, it will also bring you joy today! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The reality of the relationship you have with your family will be of primary importance today. The values you share with them will establish a proper set up with your business dealings. Others in your life will offer you some valuable business advice, take it! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Duty and responsibility will call today. Do put

your best foot forward and accept that you have to be more mature with your dealings today. Focus on what is in front of you today. It will help to accept the reality of the situation and a lucky break is waiting to be found. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Opportunities will come out of the blue today and from someone you would least expect. Try your best to put your best foot forward, even if these specific individuals don’t deserve that type of welcome. It will benefit you to accept that they are wiser now and trust them. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Friends and acquaintances within groups you are part of will provide you with the opportunity to recognize a lucky break. Take others up on their offers and it will be a special day for you. Business opportunities and networking will be good for you and your business. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The effort you are putting towards improving or simply stepping up to the plate when dealing with business or your public life will have a strong impact today. Speak your mind. Today is wonderful for personal analysis of your current situation. Let opportunities arrive now. Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Seven New Year’s resolutions for progressive churches BY REV. CAMERON TRIMBLE ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES At the start of every year, I sit in front of a stack of magazines and create a vision board. On it I cut out and place images of goals that I want to accomplish, experiences I want to try, people I want to meet, and places I want to visit in the coming year. I have done this for almost 10 years now. I rarely fail to complete the dreams I have on my vision board. As a minister dedicated to the progressive church, I dream that we seize this new year to write a new story of our own hopes and possibilities. Here’s what I’ve put on my vision board for 2015: Ignore the headlines Remember, headlines are designed for shock factor and never tell the full story. Read headlines about Mainline and progressive churches and we think the church is dying. That’s dangerously disempowering. Yes, congregational life is changing and denominational structures are adapting, but the Church is not dying. The trend lines tell a hopeful new story. Creative new ways to fundraise online, like crowdfunding, is a trend opening big possibilities for small churches. Ignoring the headline that no one goes to church anymore, crowdfunding helped St. Lydia’s Dinner Church raise enough money to pay for a new space for its worshipping community in Brooklyn, New York. St. Lydia’s has become a community launchpad, organizing initiatives like a clean up campaign for the local canal and mo-

bilizing people to march in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Dream bigger My greatest concern for progressive churches is not that we are fading, but that we are dreaming too small. Obsessed with filling our Sunday pews, we fail to see the multitude of ways we make a difference in our communities the other six days of the week. What we measure shapes what we collectively strive to pursue, and what we pursue determines what we measure. Which means we need to change the metrics of what it means to be a healthy, vital congregation in the United States today. What if we used literacy rates, teen pregnancy rates, unemployment rates, and crime rates as our measure of the kinds of impact we could have in our communities? What can your church do to live its faith so boldly and powerfully that the world is changed by dreaming bigger? That is your metric. Collaborate like it’s 2015 We can’t dream alone. Today we face societal challenges that are too large, complex and fast-changing for any one entity to adequately address alone. We live in an era that demands “collective impact,” working with businesses, government, and other faiths and non-profit organizations in our communities to address the great needs of our age. Simplify Most of our congregations were designed in an age when hierarchical, corporate structures brought order and stability to our institutions. Today, we live in a networked, adaptive world where we’ve got outdated structures that are now destroying those congre-

gations. Try simplifying some of your bylaws, bureaucracies, and committees in 2015. Free your people to be in ministry, not management. Find your passion Freed up to minister means defining your passions. I once worked with a coach who told me, “Everyone gets somewhere in life; the rare person gets somewhere on purpose.” You will go somewhere as a congregation this year no matter what; make sure it is where you want to go. What do you want to have created, accomplished, midwifed, or supported — what do you want to be able to say on December 31, 2015 that you can’t say now? As the theologian and civil rights leader, Howard Thurman, reminds us, “Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” Where is your church going . . . with passion and on purpose? Create your “Don’t” list Just because your congregation can do something doesn’t mean that it should. Stop doing some of those things that take up too much time with too little result. For just one year. See what happens. I bet you will find the Spirit leading you in new, exciting directions. Take voice lessons I first heard this advice from the inspiring Rev. Carol Howard Merritt. Progressive Christianity abdicated its voice in the public square 30 years ago to a brand of Christianity that has not served us well. I agree with Rev. Merritt. We must encourage leaders to reclaim their prophetic voices and speak out in protest about the injustices that fly in the

face of our progressive Christian principles. We could be influencing legislation, advocating for equality and working for peace. It’s time to reclaim and proclaim our story of a more just and generous Christianity. Being progressive in our culture today provides much-needed hope. The “progressive” label is a lifeline to many people who are looking for a community of acceptance and grace. So let’s give food and water to the least of these, ordain women, protect the environment, push back the New Jim Crow, be a voice in #BlackLivesMatter, march in the protests, advocate for the economically oppressed, wave that rainbow flag, write op-ed pieces, rally congregations, host conferences, get on the evening news, sing songs of hope, and realize our outrageously courageous, fully alive, faithful church. I believe we can embody a livingboldly call to a more just and generous Christianity, guided by Micah 6:8: “God has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” That is what the world is hungry for. That is what I believe the progressive church is hungry for. And that is what I have put on my vision board for 2015. Rev. Cameron Trimble is a national speaker, author, preacher, teacher and entrepreneur. She is the CEO of the Center for Progressive Renewal, an organization designed to recruit, assess, train and coach innovative leaders for the mainline church. She also serves as the director of Convergence Network, a meta-denominational movement working to bring about expressions of a just and generous Christianity.

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Jack O’Connell, centre, as Louis (Louie) Zamperini, tormented by The Bird, right, in Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the life of Olympian and war hero Zamperini, who survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in the Second World War, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisonerof-war camp.

Unbroken’s focus misses the mark IN TELLING THE STORY OF AN OLYMPIAN RUNNER TURNED HEROIC WAR SURVIVOR, ANGELINA JOLIE’S FILM FOCUSES ON OVERCOMING ADVERSITY AT THE EXPENSE OF ALMOST EVERYTHING ELSE Unbroken Two stars (out of four) Rated: 14A “The salvation of man is through love and in love,” wrote Second World War concentration camp survivor Dr. Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning, a celebrated 1946 memoir and therapeutic journal. Frankl found he could transcend horrific suffering by concentrating on memories of beloved friends and family. His highly readable account ennobles and transfixes. It’s quite different, in other words, from what Angelina Jolie is doing with Unbroken, her well-intended but one-dimenPETER sional account of wartime stoHOWELL icism, adapted for the screen from Laura Hillenbrand’s bestselling 2010 biography of the same name. For Jolie, it’s all about the suffering, without much meaning. Zamperini’s postwar religious works, which indicate he transcended his pain by promising to serve God, get little more than a tangential mention. In telling the story of Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell), an Olympian runner turned heroic Second World War survivor of air, sea and land traumas, she has chosen to focus on overcoming adversity at the expense of almost everything else.

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It makes for a very tough film to sit through, despite its obvious sincerity toward both its subject and its desire to reap Oscar ambitions. Jolie’s intentions are telegraphed right from the beginning and throughout the film, from the preacher who counsels “Accept the darkness, live through the night, love thine enemies” to the brother who sloganeers, “If you can take it, you can make it.” No question that Zamperini, the scrappy American son of Italian immigrants who died last summer at the age of 97, just as Jolie was locking her film, makes for a most compelling and sympathetic subject. And O’Connell does him proud, demonstrating the grit and steel of a man who had to fight not just to succeed but simply to survive. An Olympic runner in the 1936 “Hitler Olympics” in Berlin, who became an ace U.S. air force bombardier when war started, Zamperini survived being lost at sea for 47 days after being shot down over Japan. He later spent two years in a PoW camp at the hands of that same Asian enemy. With a subject this fascinating, along with Roger Deakins as her cinematographer, Alexandre Desplat as her composer, and Joel and Ethan Coen assisting with the screenplay, Jolie has ample material for a film that truly would deserve Oscar laurels. Yet she’s delivered a film that is strangely bereft of real drama, apart from a thrilling early sequence in which O’Connell’s cumbersome B-24 bomber does battle with nimble Japanese Zero fighters, winning the skirmish but losing the argument with gravity. The plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Louie stranded with two life rafts but not much food and water, in the company of his pilot, Capt. Russell Alan “Phil” Phillips (Domhnall Gleeson), and tail gunner, Sgt. Francis “Mac” McNamara (Finn Wittrock).

The clock ticks grimly on as the men struggle to subsist on what few fish they can pull out of the ocean, including a shark Zamperini punches into submission. The situation could hardly get worse, except it does. When rescue finally comes, it’s in the form of brutal Japanese soldiers and solitary prison confinement. Zamperini is singled out for special abuse from the PoW’s most sociopathic official, a Japanese army sergeant known as “Bird” (Miyavi), whose antipathy toward Louie seems based solely on eye contact he doesn’t appreciate. The rest of the movie is an exercise in adversity for the audience, too, as Jolie subjects the viewer to relentless torture scenes. Where other directors might have used judicious edits to show a scene where Bird punishes Zamperini by forcing his fellow PoWs to punch him in the face, one at a time, Jolie insists on letting it all roll out, almost in its entirety. Punishing overuse of close-ups makes the watching all the more difficult. On another occasion, Jolie seems curiously unaware of the exertion expended. Following the race at the Olympics where Louie set a record for finallap speed, he’s shown with nary a drop of sweat on his body or brow. There’s no question that Unbroken is a major step up in ambition, scope and achievement from Jolie’s 2011 directing debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey. And there’s no denying her interest in Zamperini and her desire to do right by him in telling his story. Yet in concentrating so much on his suffering, rather than what meaning he drew from it, she’s left Unbroken in fragments. Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Sutherland’s film seeks to recapture his Canada PIRATE’S PASSAGE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It was Matthew McConaughey and a long chain of acquaintances who brought Donald Sutherland to his new passion project, Pirate’s Passage, which he says captures his youth in Nova Scotia. The animated film, debuting Sunday at 8 p.m. on CBC-TV, is based on the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning novel by William Gilkerson of Mahone Bay, N.S. Sutherland, who produced, co-wrote and voiced the lead character for the film, says he hadn’t heard of the book until he was in Australia making the 2008 film Fool’s Gold with McConaughey. “When I met him he was there with a brown-paper-wrapped book and he said, ‘A fella I know knows a fella who knows another fella who knew a fella who was the son of another fella in Nova Scotia, and a friend of his gave him this book to give me to give to you,”’ said Sutherland, 79. “So I took it from Matthew and I said, ‘Thank you.’ I had nothing to do that night because my wife was not yet in Australia, so I read it and I read it again and I phoned Bill in Nova Scotia — it’s not something that I do — and I said, ‘Certainly I don’t read books twice.”’ “I was in love with it,” said Sutherland. Set in 1952 Grey Rocks, N.S., the story follows 12-year-old Jim (Gage Munroe), who suffers from bullying in school and the worry that the inn his widowed mother (Carrie-Anne Moss) is struggling to maintain will be bought out by a rich and powerful local family. Enter Captain Charles Johnson (Sutherland), a mysterious seaman who comes ashore in the town that was once a favoured port of pirates to help Jim and his mom. Other actors voicing characters in the story include Paul Gross, Gordon Pinsent, Megan Follows, Colm Feore and Sutherland’s actor-son Rossif. “It captured everything about my youth,” said Sutherland, a two-time Golden Globe Award winner who was born in Saint John, N.B., and also grew up in Nova Scotia. “It captured everything about what I thought Canada was about, what I thought the CBC was about.” Sutherland recalled listening to the CBC Radio show Jake and the Kid while driving home from his job as a teenage news correspondent at a radio station in Bridgewater, N.S. “I wouldn’t go home,” he said. “I would sit there every Sunday night and listen to Jake and the Kid, and this Pirate’s Passage, for me, captured that — cap-

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A scene from the animated film Pirate’s Passage: how Canada was and should be, says Donald Sutherland. tured the desire to participate in that kind of dream, of our country, of that province, of our hopes, of our belief in the future, and it was perfect for me.” The story also touched on Sutherland’s love of sailing, which he did when he was younger — albeit not very well, he admitted. “I nearly drowned a bunch of times,” he said, recalling one particular incident off Lunenburg. “I was out on a little 16-foot Lightning (sailing dinghy) and the fog came down. I had no idea which way was England and which was Nova Scotia, and there are 365 islands there. It was tricky but I got home.” When Sutherland moved to California for his career that has seen him star in films including Dirty Dozen and MASH, he “hated it,” he admitted. “I hated seeing the sun sink into the sea every night and die,” said Sutherland. “I kept having dreams about lying on a gurney in Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles thinking my life was a complete failure because that’s where I was dying. I had to be close to the ocean on the East Coast, so I left California.

“I had to be in the United States because I’m a green card holder, but I looked at Maine, I looked at New Hampshire, every place, and then I looked at Miami Beach and it was the same ocean, it was just a little warmer, so I went there.” Pirate’s Passage is rich in Canadian history and has the same artistic feel of the book’s illustrations. Sutherland said though the story is about pirates from the 18th century, it also points to pirates from today who are “called ‘gentlemen.’ They’re capitalists but they’re pirates.” He hopes families will watch it together and “that it will be a catalyst that will say: ‘This is maybe a Canada that I forgot about.”’ “People in Canada, we’ve lost something, we’ve lost something, and I hate that we’ve lost it,” said Sutherland. “This maybe will remind people of why our country is so important and that we cannot try to become a clone of some other country. “We have to be who we are, and who we are is who we were, not who we are now.”

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A down year for Hollywood at the box office BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Hollywood’s 2014 may well go down as a mere box-office blip, or it could be Act One in a drama of coming digital disruption. When the year’s final receipts are tallied at the end of Wednesday, the final take is estimated by box-office firm Rentrak to be about $10.4 billion, a 5.2 per cent drop from the record $10.9 billion of 2013. In and of itself, such a dip isn’t much for Hollywood to fret about. The industry still cleared $10 billion in revenue, the year was widely viewed as a cyclical in-between to bigger years, and a number of major releases that would have moved the needle were postponed (most notably Furious 7, following Paul Walker’s death, and Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur). But there were also signs that pointed to long-term trouble for the movie business. A Nielsen study found movie attendance for Americans ages 12-24 dropped a worrisome 15 per cent in the first nine months of the year, compared to the first nine months in 2013. The overall number of tickets sold — a meaningful statistic since it’s not impacted by rising ticket prices — slid to about 1.26 billion. That means that fewer people went to the movies in 2014 than they have in the last two decades.

The crunch was felt most by exhibitors in North American, where profits dropped drastically for the country’s top two chains, Regal Cinemas and AMC Theatres. To add salt in the wound, the chains were cast as the villains in the fallout of The Interview when Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton blamed them for the film’s temporary cancellation. However, amid the usual mix of hits (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Lego Movie, Gone Girl) and misses (Transcendence, The Legend of Hercules, A Million Ways to Die in the West), business for the studios was steady, if less spectacular. Universal Pictures, for example, finished fifth in total revenue out of the six major studios, but distribution head Nikki Rocco called it “the most profitable year in the history of Universal Pictures.” The studio found success with a slate of modestly budgeted films. All of its 2014 releases, including Neighbours, Lucy and the holiday hit Unbroken, were made for less than $70 million. Meanwhile, though, the forces of change seemed to be gathering. Netflix partnered with the Weinstein Co. to release a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel and with Adam Sandler for a series of films. The digital release of Seth Rogen’s North Korea farce The Interview ($15 million in its first four

days) proved that the studios are eager to test the traditional theatrical window, even if it means upsetting the exhibitors. “I wouldn’t say we’re on the cusp of radical change but I think the industry as a whole needs to find ways of increasing revenue sources and changing windowing is a part of how to grow the business,” said Rocco, who is retiring at year’s end. “Everybody has to take a look at it because the world has changed.” Theatres have begun adapting new techniques to lure more avid moviegoing. This fall, AMC and MoviePass began offering monthly subscription packages in a handful of cities — a kind of Spotify-for-movies. Much of the movie business is now about franchise making, and a number of potentially lucrative ones were spawned in 2014. There are already plans for a trio of subsequent Lego movies, and more is on tap for Guardians and Big Hero 6. Of the top 10 films of 2014, only one was wholly original: Christopher Nolan’s space adventure Interstellar. Disney continues to lead the way in the franchise department, thanks to its massive partnerships with Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm. Next year, The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Star Wars: The Force Awakens are virtually assured to net billions. They join a

heavy-hitting 2015 lineup that includes Jurassic World, the final Hunger Games and new Terminator and Mission Impossible installments. “The movies next year look particularly strong and should deliver the biggest box-office year ever,” says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Rentrak. “We’ll be happy when we close the books on 2014 and open them on 2015.” Dergarabedian is most cheered to see the studios “walking the walk of the 52-week-a-year business model.” Warner Bros. has been one of the studios pushing to open big movies outside of standard blockbuster dates, like springtime’s Lego. It has also dated its 2016 Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice for March. But Warner Bros., often the market-share leader, fell behind both 20th Century Fox and Disney in 2014. Though Warner finished strong, thanks to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, several of its releases sputtered, including Blended and Winter’s Tale. CEO Kevin Tsujihara announced layoffs in September. Jeff Goldstein, head of domestic distribution for Warner Bros., says the studio is still committed to deep roster of movies: “Kevin Tsujihara is willing to even increase that, so we’re really committed to a broad slate of films,” he says.

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New Year’s is the perfect time to make resolutions about improving your home. Colin and Justin’s include cleaning their carpets and rugs, fixing the hardwood floor and checking the smoke alarms.

A home resolution to-do list Holy Moly: 2014 travelled at warp speed in our wee world. In the private client domain, we tackled various U.K. projects, several Toronto condos, a N.Y.C. Park Avenue apartment and a dinky wee villa in upscale West Hollywood, L.A. Yup, it’s been a busy time. But we wouldn’t have it any other way. As for small screen commitments, we reprised our roles as City TV’s red carpet COLIN & correspondents during TIFF JUSTIN and bagged interviews with Hollywood luminaries Ben Kingsley, Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, to name but a few. We filmed the second season of Colin and Justin’s Cabin Pressure and guested, every second Monday, on the morning chat show monolith that is Cityline. And of course we’ve been here, for your stylistic delectation, each weekend, showcasing before and afters and keeping you apprised of design trends and related matters like the ongoing C+J Home collection (linens, table wares, accessories and more) which you can find in stores like HomeSense, Marshalls and Winners. And now, well, it’s January 2015. But before we can even start getting our heads around our proposed professional output, we need to focus on some rather more minor (but nevertheless important) home front issues. This observed, here’s our domestic New Year resolution list. A list we shall diligently observe. Looks like we’re going to be busy! ● Kitchen cupboard clear out — ours are stuffed with all manner of detritus, most of which we’ll never again use. From pots and pans (that don’t work on our induction hob) to a food blender we were given at a recent event, there’ll be dispatch to Habitat For Humanity before January is out. ● Check our smoke alarms — although amply within their recommended lifespan, we’re always extra cautious where safety is concerned. Even if they need replaced, the cost of a basic alarm is little more than a few Starbucks lattes. New batteries? Even less. ● Locker logic — like many condo dwellers, we’ve a cage in our basement. Currently stuffed with old books, sack loads of clothes and a hundred and one gadgets we’ll probably never use again, we so need a clear out. Note to selves: load it all into the truck and consign it to charity. ● Flooring fix up — on both sides of the pond, in Scotland and Canada, our hardwood floors have lost their shine due to the bleaching powers of light. Yup, even in Scotland (where we do get some sunshine!) that which was once a rich honey tone is fading fast. If truth be known, we’re somewhat daunted by the prospect of shuffling massive black sofas and

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rugs outdoors to facilitate — but it has to be done. As it does in our Toronto condo, where once ebony toned hardwood is slowly yielding to the grey scale. ● Deep clean rugs — whenever we see a TV ad for carpet cleaning, we’re always horrified at the debris drawn from apparently clean berber. Don’t get us wrong: where housekeeping is concerned we’re like Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest — but, that said, a professional suck will soon be required to remove footfall debris from a hundred and one parties. ● Book an oven cleaning pro — over the last 12 months, all manner of spattering meals have lined our stove with a hefty coating of (what appears to be) indestructible food debris. Hmm: gagging a little as we recount that particular observation. ● Stone love — we pledge to have the Statuario counters in our Toronto kitchen refinished. Years of social affray have reduced their grey white gleam to a muddy pallour beset with wine glass marks that would give the Olympic rings a run for their money.

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● Have more staycations — home, after all, is where the heart is. So that means even more dinner parties, laughter and (happy) tears under our own roof. And more wine. Yes lots of that. Imbibed responsibly, of course. Everything in moderation and all! In the meantime, if you’ll excuse us, we’ve cleaning products to buy and a diary to write up so we can prioritize the aforementioned task list. Thank you so much for your readership during the last year and we look forward to imparting more pearls of wisdom as the next 12 months endure. Wishing you good health, great fortune and ceaseless joy. And blessings all the way from Bonnie Scotland. Cheers! Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts in print and on TV. Find their international product range in stores like HomeSense, Winners and Marshalls. facebook.com/ColinJustin, twitter.com/colinjustin, colinandjustin.tv.

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Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle was born in 1795, and he said something about tools that’s at least as true today as ever: “Man is a tool using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.” This notion is behind a growing Canadian and international movement that provides tools and workspaces for people who couldn’t otherwise afford them. It’s one of the best things to happen to the do-ityourself movement, and for more than just obvious reasons. Tool libraries are cooperatives where members pay small monthly or annual fees to get access to tools. Makerspaces (sometimes called hackerspaces) include co-operative sharing and low-cost fees, but also workshop space for people who want to make good things happen with their hands. It’s a great way to empower creative people, but it’s also STEVE something that promises to MAXWELL revolutionize the way creativity turns into reality because of the kind of people it draws together into community. Toronto is home to one of the leading tool libraries and makerspace venues, not only in Canada but also the world. I find it hugely inspiring to see just how far this movement can go when I look at what’s happening in Toronto. Watch the co-founder of the Toronto Tool Library in action right here: stevemaxwell.ca/tool-libraries. So what’s the difference between a not-for-profit tool library and a tool rental business? Cost is one thing. Annual fees range from $50 to $100 per year for unlimited access to the entire tool collection, and that’s pretty cheap. You could easily spend that much to rent one tool for one day in the open market. One of the newest tool libraries in Canada is the Ottawa Tool Library. It bills itself as a not-for-profit community venture, and it’s just starting up. Co-founder Bettina Vollmerhausen is typical of the kind of enthusiastic people you’ll find behind the movement, and she expects the library to open its doors early this year. “Once we’re up and running,” explains Bettina, “people will be able to become a member of the tool library and we’ll make it very affordable. “We don’t want to exclude anyone to become a member.” In November, I launched a tool giveaway contest on my website but something went wrong. Three high-end tools were up for grabs by anyone who produced the best video about their best or worst DIY project, as determined by crowd voting. Despite lots of traffic and interest, we never actually got any videos. A surprise to me, but a good thing for four tool libraries in Canada. The Ottawa Tool Library (ottawatoollibrary.com) will be getting a terrific set of pro-grade screw extractors from Irwin. These are just the tools you need to remove broken bolts and screws from machines and motors. The Sudbury Tool Library (sudburylibraries.ca) will be getting a 20-volt cordless framing nailer from DEWALT. It drives full-size framing nails up to three and a quarter inches long into wood without need for an air compressor or hose. A standard cordless tool battery provides the power. The Halifax Tool Library (halifaxtoollibrary.ca) will be getting the latest air-powered finishing nailer from Bostitch, an 18-gauge model that’s perfect for installing trim and molding of all kinds. The Calgary Tool Library (calgarytoollibrary.org) will be getting a Stanley Cross 90 self-leveling laser. It’s ideal for laying out all kinds of projects, from drop ceilings to wall tiles. Tool libraries and makerspaces are part of a wider movement called the “sharing economy,” and it promises to empower people to do things they couldn’t do on their own. I can’t wait to see what happens.

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Above: Make your own funky shelf with an old piece of barnboard coated with plaster to add colour and exaggerate the aged texture. Left: Home stores are filled with practical and stylish solutions for storage: wall-mounted organizers with cubbies and hooks, wire mesh storage and whitewashed crates. Below: A thin coat of dark blue plaster is smoothed over the board with a spatula, allowing some of the light blue plaster to show through.

Dear Debbie: We enjoy DIY projects and are looking for some fresh ideas for storage or shelves in our kids’ bedrooms. Do you have any ideas with instructions? Much appreciated. — Bob and Leeanne Dear Bob and Leeanne: Storage and shelving have become such hot items that you will find lots of great ideas to inspire you in home stores. Available at HomeSense. ca in Canada and Homegoods.com in the U.S. are crates and hanging wire mesh containers, umbrella DEBBIE stands with a textured finish TRAVIS and shelves with hooks that you can easily imitate and personalize with some wood and a bit of paint or plaster. You might choose a combination of store-bought and homemade to make up your children’s rooms.

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I built a unique shelf for our family room to display a collection of colourful pottery. I was experimenting with plaster and a few colourful coats gave a salvaged piece of barnwood a whole new look. You can buy Venetian plaster in colours or have the paint store tint it for you. Here I chose light and dark blue. Use a wire brush and a small amount of soapy water to rub away dirt, and sand very rough areas. Let the board dry completely, then apply water-based varnish to both sides and the edges to seal the board. Once dry, apply the light blue plaster with a brushmaking sure to get into all the indentations and grooves. With a metal spatula, apply the dark blue plaster, pulling a thin coat along the top of the board. Allow the lighter colour to show through. As it dries burnish some areas with the spatula to make it shine and leave other areas flat. This burnishing technique will only work with Venetian plaster, as it has marble dust in it. Dear Debbie: We recently purchased a cottage with a propane fireplace flanked by built-in cabinets and shelves that rise to the high ceiling. The wood is a light shade, while the floor is darkly stained. How would you update the overall look of

the cabinets and would you change the small mantel? — Susan Dear Susan: Your fireplace and surround are lovely, but the light tone of the wood does not complement the dark floor, so that is where I would make the change. You can either stain the cabinetry a darker colour or paint it. Look for a product such as MinwaxPolyShades to re-stain, which can be applied over previously stained wood that has been protected by a polyurethane coating. Clean the wood of any dirt, sand the surface lightly to scuff up the existing finish. Test a hidden area to ensure you have the colour of stain that you want. Because you are working on a previously stained surface, the colours will interact. The mantel should be larger; an old piece of wood would enhance the overall appearance and add character. Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter.com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices rose in October at a slightly slower pace, as real estate sales have fallen and affordability has increasingly become a challenge for potential buyers. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index increased 4.5 per cent in October from 12 months prior. The figures reported Tuesday mark the eleventh straight month of price gains decelerating and the smallest gain since October 2012. The slowdown in price growth comes after surging double-digit increases for much of 2013. Home values climbed as the market recovered from bottoming out in 2011 in the aftermath of the housing bust and the Great Recession. But home prices have outpaced lacklustre wage growth, leaving many potential buyers unable to afford homes and causing both sales and price growth to stall this year. The recent decline in mortgage rates has yet to bring more buyers into the market. Simultaneously, there are fewer distressed properties and bargains coming onto the market that attract investors as buyers. All of that has occurred despite an improving U.S. economy that has generated 2.65 million new jobs so far this year, as the unemployment rate has dropped to 5.8 per cent from 6.7 per cent at the start of 2014.

Prices barely budged over the past 12 months in Cleveland (up 0.9 per cent), Chicago (1.9 per cent), New York (2 per cent), Phoenix (2.1 per cent) and Washington, DC (2.2 per cent). Still, there are signs that broader improvements in the U.S. economy may be causing prices to rise faster in some cities. Compared to September, eight cities reported stronger year-over year prices growth in October. This includes San Francisco (up 9.1 per cent), Denver (7.2 per cent) and Tampa (6.1 per cent). “We are seeing hints that prices could end 2014 on a strong note and accelerate into 2015,” said David Blitzer, managing director and chairman of the index committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices. The Case-Shiller index covers roughly half of U.S. homes. The index measures prices compared with those in January 2000 and creates a threemonth moving average. The October figures are the latest available. Other housing reports confirm a broader slowdown. The National Association of Realtors estimate that 2014 sales will end up below 2013 levels. The trade group forecasts that 4.94 million existing homes will be sold this year, down 3 per cent from 5.09 million in 2013. Analysts say sales of roughly 5.5 million existing homes are common in a healthy real estate market. The Commerce Department said last week that new home sales slid 1.6 in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 438,000.

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LUANN Jan. 3 2004 —NASA’s Spirit rover lands on Mars. The craft was able to send back black and white images three hours after landing. 1992 — Miss Canada Pageant is scrapped after 45 years, due to changing tastes and politics. It is revived in 2008 with a focus on personality over physical appearance. 1959 — Alaska became the 49th state in the United States of America .

1941 — Canada and the U.S. acquire air bases at Gander and Goose Bay, N.L., on a 99-year lease. 1912 — New Westminster Royals beat Victoria Aristocrats 8-3 in first Canadian hockey game played on artificial ice. The game was organized by Frank Patrick. 1863 — A covered skating rink opens in Halifax, the first covered skating rink in Canada. Up to this time, skating was all done outdoors. 1793 — A British decree abolishes slavery in Canada.

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announcements Obituaries Buruma (nee Van Der Beek) Reimke (Pam) Born Nov. 5, 1931 in Ferwerd, Friesland Holland she passed away on December 24, 2014. Always of strong spirit, she emigrated to Canada with her husband to be, Sye, in 1952. First to PEI where they wed and then to Red Deer, Alberta. Always a worker with a loving and generous heart she was a devoted mother and wife through thick and thin. A successful retailer with stores in both Red Deer and Victoria she moved with her husband to Victoria in 1980. Bridge with the ladies a favorite pass time. Always a gracious host, her favorite guest was her granddaughter Tiana. She is survived by her husband of 62 years Sye (Sid), her son Frank (Aileen, Tiana), brothers, sisters and family in Holland. No service by request. To send a condolence, please visit www.earthsoption.com.

CROSSIE Hilary Claire Hilary Claire Crossie of Red Deer passed away on December 29, 2014. Born on July 11, 1934 in Belfast, Ireland. Eldest daughter of Jim and Hilda Lyttle. Predeceased by her husband, Pat; granddaughter, Shantel; sister, Yvonne Rajchert; and by her parents. Survived by her son, Paul; daughter-inlaw, Karrie; granddaughter, Christina (Jesse); nieces, Tara Lind and Siobhan Rajchert; and cherished great grandchildren, Liam, Siobhan, Aidan, Kian and Ella. At Hilary’s request there will be no memorial service held. Following cremation, a family gathering will be held at Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer County. Officiated by Knox Presbyterian Church. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Safe Harbour Society or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences may be forwarded to family and friends at www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319.

HOATH Linda Elaine 1947 - 2014 Mrs. Linda Elaine Hoath of Byemoor, Alberta, formerly of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at the Drumheller Health Centre, Drumheller, Alberta on Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at the age of 67 years. Linda will be lovingly remembered by her husband Merritt Hoath of Byemoor, her daughters, Laren of Byemoor, Cheryl of England and Tammy of Red Deer and many loving grandchildren. She will also be sadly missed by a brother and two sisters. A Memorial Tea in Celebration of Linda’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium Reception Centre, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gary W. Anderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040 or 1.800.481.7421

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Personals HODGKINSON Norman F Mar. 18, 1938 - Jan. 1, 2015 Norm was born on a farm near Lousana, attended a country school, and then completed his high school in Delburne. He began work as dye-man at the Bowden Refinery, before continuing his education and obtaining is 3rd Class Steam Ticket. He lived in Bowden awhile and met Marilynne. They were married in 1964 and had two children, Scott and Lori. They lived in Red Deer for a short time, and then moved to Olds where Norm has lived ever since. Norm work for many years as a Gas Plant Operator at Harmattan, Lone Pine, and Wimborne Gas Plants. After retiring he worked part-time at the Annex at the Bowden Institution. Norm had many interests. He enjoyed calf roping in the FCA and later team roping in the OTRA, shooting gophers for his farm friends, and handcrafting spurs during the winter. For many years, he donated the “Hard Luck Cowboy” spurs at the CPR finals. When Norm finally retired for good, he rediscovered his love for curling. His winters were occupied with Seniors Curling Leagues, Mens Bonspiels, and the Olds Oilmens Bonspiel. For the past two years, Norm also attended Seniors Fitness classes at the Olds College. Norm was predeceased several years ago by his sister Elaine, and by his wife Marilynne in 2002. He is survived by his son Scott of Red Deer, his daughter Lori (Jim), and his granddaughter Bailey of Bowden. He will be missed by not only his family, but by many long-time friends in the Olds-Bowden area. Funeral services will be held on Friday January 9, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #105, Olds. Memorial tributes may be made directly to S.T.A.R.S. Air Ambulance or Kidsport. HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES LTD., OLDS entrusted with arrangements. 403-507-8610 www.heartlandfuneralservices.com

NEIGUM Cody Joseph Douglas Alexander It is with great sadness our family announces the passing of Cody Neigum surrounded by family on December 31, 2014 at the age of 28. Cody will be forever loved and missed by his mother Loree; father Dale; brothers Anthony (Danielle & Kinley) and Cody; sisters Shanaya and Kaylee; his special grandmothers Jean and Shirley; uncle Joey; aunts Brenda, Theresa, Lorraine, and Joan; uncle Al; and cousins Chad and Amanda. Cody is also survived by numerous family and friends. Cody is predeceased by his Papa (Joe Neigum) and grandpa (Doug Hodgkinson). Also meeting him in heaven are his two favorite dogs, Minnie and Peanut. Cody was full of life with a big heart. His interests included hauling cattle with his papa, chasing pigs at Burnt Lake, playing baseball, and in his later life, he enjoyed drilling wells with Garth. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him! A memorial service will be held January 5, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at Crossroads Church (38105 Range Rd 275, Red Deer County).

ROBBINS Wilma Mae April 28, 1941 - Dec. 30, 2014 Wilma passed away on December 30, 2014 in Palliative Care at the Lacombe Hospital and Care Center. Wilma was the youngest child of the late Charles and Lena Smith, and was born on April 28, 1941 at Lake Isle, Alberta. Wilma is survived by her loving husband Roy Robbins of 53 years; children David (Penny), and grandson Chad; Steven, and granddaughter Hope. Wilma is also survived by siblings Verna Lewis, Leslie (Beth), Leona (Dale) Larsen, and brother-in-law Tom Thomeus, and many nieces and nephews. Wilma was pre-deceased by Sister Doreen Thomeus, Brother Floyd and brother-in-law Stanley Lewis. Wilma loved the outdoors and particularly liked the West Country with snowmobiling in the winter, camping and bicycling the forestry trails in the summer. Wilma with good friend Carol Damant greatly enjoyed gold panning, which also included a memorable overnight canoe trip down the Red Deer River. Wilma never willingly gave up the battle of increasing disability and chronic pain from Multiple Sclerosis. Finally, the battle was lost with the addition of cancer. The family wishes to thank Doctor Janni Prins for his years of working with us to assist Wilma in managing her health problems. We also thank other Doctors and the Lacombe Hospital staff for Wilma’s care during recent hospital stays and finally in Palliative Care. The sincere concern and support for the caregiver was also greatly appreciated. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the Lacombe Palliative Care Society, Box 5576 Lacombe, Alberta T4L 1X2, or the charity of one’s choice. In respecting Wilma’s wishes, no services will be held. Condolences may be made by visiting www.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”

WHITE Ranald Parke White, born January 24th, 1931 in Edmonton, Alberta passed away peacefully in his eighty fourth year on December 29th, 2014 at Sylvan Lake, Alberta. Ranald was predeceased by his lovely wife, Lorna Geraldine, April 3, 2014. Ran was a jovial soul with a wonderful joy and love for life. Ranald will be missed by his children Cathy, Ranald Jr., Gail and Dean, and Duncan and Melinda. Granddad will also be dearly missed by his grandchildren, Cale and Lachlan (Cathy), Joshua, Ryan, Natasha, Jared (Ranald), Holly, Christina, Jacob, Melody (Gail and Dean), and Ethan and Emily (Duncan and Melinda). great-granddad will also be missed by his six great-grandchildren, Lucia, Joshua, Emma, Lincoln, Andrew and Kadance. Ranald is also survived by his dear brother Walder White and Nancy. Ranald was a School Principal for the Calgary Board of Education after he was a High School Teacher and strong advocate for Physical Education. One of his legacies with the Board was the initiation of the Environmental and Outdoor Education programs. He was the first President of the Provincial ATA Health and Phys. Ed Council. Since his retirement in 1989 and after moving to Sylvan Lake, Alberta, in 1997, he started up the Sylvan Lake Watershed Society, worked on racking up his points as a Grand Master Bridge player and became a lifetime Lion and tenor in his church choir. Ranald was an active volunteer throughout his years in Calgary. He volunteered his time for the Red Cross participating in many ventures helping others. He was chairman of the Red Cross Water Safety Branch for a several years. Ran saw life as an everchanging adventure, making sure to let everyone know of the special gifts that our world provides. He loved to fish the local streams, bird hunt, drive his car and explore.

In Memoriam TERESA ROSELLE March 9, 1961 - Jan. 3, 2006 An empty space No one can fill I miss you Sis And I always will Arby-dar Wendy

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ANYBODY witnessing a hit and run on December 29, 3:10 pm. at Olymel North Parking Lot involving a green 1992 MX3, 2 dr. Damage was done to the front passenger side. Vehicle was hit hard enough to move it. No name was left behind. If you have any information please contact 587-877-1392 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you! Is someone’s drinking causing you problems? AL-ANON 403-346-0320

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FULL-TIME IN-HOME caregiver for employer ejabagat at 36 Jamieson Ave., Red Deer for four children: newborn, 20 mo. old, 3 yrs. old and 9 years old. Duties; bathe, dress, feed and meal prep. and some light housekeeping. $10.20/hour; 44 hours per wk, benefits pkg. Compl. of high school, and 1 to 2 yrs. exp. Call (403) 986-4154 or e-mail jabagate@yahoo.com

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BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting applications for a

JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR

in our Stettler Field. Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly. Associated industry experience eg. instrumentation or facilities construction experience would be an asset but is not necessarily required. This position offers a diverse and challenging work environment with competitive pay, attractive benefits and the ability to grow within the organization. Applicants must live or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute commute of the work place location (Stettler). Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1

CEMENT OPERATORS/ DRIVERS

REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY. Charger Pumping Solutions is seeking experienced class 1 drivers. Oilfield Safety Tickets are an asset. Email resume’s to dlindstrand@ chargerpump.com or fax to 403-887-8733

Fluid Experts Ltd. Is seeking to hire

Shop Hand

for our Red Deer location. This position is a fulltime and is a salary based position with company benefits. Duties include maintain shop & inventories, loading of trucks with fluid products and blending of KCl products in shop. This is a 24 hr rotational on call basis position when on duty. Ideal candidate will have a mechanical aptitude with a class 1 license with fluid hauling experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd AL-Terra Engineering is seeking a (Red Deer) Ltd. is looking FLOORHAND for a cheerful, motivated, Locally based, home every and well organized individual. Must be capable night! Qualified applicants must have all necessary of inputting data, working valid tickets for the position with the quick books being applied for. accounting program, and Bearspaw offers a willing to learn other very competitive salary duties. Must have strong and benefits package computer knowledge along with a steady (word, excel, windows, work schedule. e-mail etc.). Must be willing Please submit resumes: to answer phones & comAttn: Human Resources plete some clerical duties. Email: The successful candidate payroll@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 252-9719 or can choose to make this a Mail to: Suite 5309, full time or part time 333-96 Ave. NE position. Salary will be Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 commensurate with experience and abilities. STREAMLINE Inspection Ltd. is looking to fill helper Visit our web site at positions. Experience in www.al-terra-rd.com for NDT and oilfield safety more information about tickets an asset but will AL-Terra. train. Candidate must be willing to travel and have a Applications can be valid drivers license. submitted by fax to Send resumes to (403) 340-3038 attention cgraham@ Tyler Broks, or by e-mail to streamlineinspection.com tbroks@al-terra-rd.com.

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BOWER DENTAL CENTRE is currently seeking a registered dental assistant who is a member of CADA. We are looking for a multi-talented person who will work chairside and reception as needed. Please e-mail your resume to marina@bowerdental.com or drop off at BDC. LOOKING for dedicated RDA with receptionist skills for family dental practice. Fax resume to 403-343-3465. P/T DENTAL Hygienist req’d in Innisfail. Email resume to jtkdental@hotmail.com

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Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

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Has Opening for all positions! Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement,and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers. Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com

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F/T Food Service Supervisor and Store Manager. $13-$19.50/hr. Must be able to work nights/days and weekends. Call Little Ceasars Red Deer at 403-346-1671 or email to allan_barker25@yahoo.ca THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T DISHWASHER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted. PART-TIME help for Burnt Lake Cafe in the Burnt Lake Industrial Area. Call Louise @ 403-342-6687

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time. 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

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JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Welcome to Trail Appliances, a family owned and operated company since 1974! Trail Appliances is one of the leading independent appliance retailers in Western Canada, We have an immediate opening for a full-time Plumber to work within Red Deer and surrounding areas based out of our location at 2823 Bremner Avenue.

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F/T Permanent Truck Driver Required for Rocky Fast Express (1790810 AB Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 axles and van Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs exp. $25 per hr/ with OPEN availability Duties: pick up/deliver freight, pre-trip truck inspection, communication with customers. Physically demanding position. Time management skills required. Apply at: 8004 Edgar Industrial Green, Red Deer, T4P3S2 Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: 587.997.7719 Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

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SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company. Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position. Reliability essential. Own transportation required. Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

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R H2S Alive (ENFORM) The main duties of this R First Aid/CPR THE RUSTY PELICAN is position include, but are Misc. now accepting resumes for not limited to: R Confined Space Help F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at R WHMIS & TDG all stations. MUST HAVE: * The installation and R Ground Disturbance service of water 1699960AbLtd is looking R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. for 2 F/T permanent shift • 2 yrs. min. on-the-job purification products R D&C (LEL) supervisors for days, exp., must have com- * Installation of dish#204, 7819 - 50 Ave. pleted High School be washers, water softeners, evenings, wknds. 120 - 47 Clearview Market Red (across from Totem) (across from Rona North) reliable, self motivated fridge water lines, waDeer, AB. must have exc. work well under limited ter heaters and customer service, cash supervision. humidification prodhandling, and supervisory ucts. related. wage $13.75 w/at Rate is $13.25 - $15./hr. least 1 year exp. email: No benefits. The Company provides a restuarantbusiness@ comprehensive and comhotmail.ca 733644 Ab Ltd. petitive benefit program O/A The Rusty Pelican including such things as: Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to Location of employment: * Medical & Dental find the purrfect pet. CLASSIFICATIONS 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. benefit Program Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 * Flex days 1500-1990 Blue Grass Sod Farms Ltd. email: * Stat holidays off Box 11, site 2, RR1 bennett.bkkp@xplornet.com * Paid vacation time Red Deer, AB or Call 403-347-1414 * Employee & Family Equipmentor Fax to: 403-347-1161 Assistance Program Reqs Farm labourers for Heavy Only candidates selected * Referral Incentives 2015 season for an interview will be * Employee discounts (April -November) TRAILERS for sale or rent contacted. * Paid overtime in Red Deer. Duties include: sod farming Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or The Company is always and tree nursery. Sales & wheeled. Call 347-7721. looking for people who Tree nursery will involve Distributors want opportunities to grow, planting, pruning and take initiative and work digging trees. Will well within a team OUTSIDE SALES train/exp. An asset. Firewood environment. Wage $10.20/hour, 60 hrs OPPORTUNITIES You possess excellent weekly. Growing industrial supply AFFORDABLE communication and Email resume to company in Red Deer interpersonal skills, with Homestead Firewood steve.richardson@ looking for an aptitude for time bg-rd.com or by telephone Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits OUTSIDE SALES management. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 at 403-347-7211 REPRESENTATIVES to If you are looking for a join our team. We offer an challenging and rewarding attractive compensation, Advocate career as a Plumber, benefits & bonus program. please submit your resume Opportunities Sales experience is not including cover letter and necessary but an industrial salary expectation to: background is a definite ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed reddeerjobs@ asset. Please forward your For Early Morning Delivery of the trail-appliances.com or by resume to fax at (403) 342-7168. RED DEER ADVOCATE human.resources.depart1 Security clearances will be @gmail.com conducted on successful Monday through Saturday. applicants. We thank all Teachers/ Delivery to be done before 6:30 am. interested applicants, however, only those Reliable vehicle needed. Tutors selected for an interview will be contacted.

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WOLF Creek Public Schools invites applications for the following position:

Coordinator of Inclusive Programming

- Early Years to Grade 3 Inclusive Learning Services Division Office Ponoka, AB For further specifics on the above position, please visit Wolf Creek Public Schools’ website at www.wolfcreek.ab.ca, or contact the Division Office at 403-783-3473.

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DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. Experience an asset. 403-341-7619 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds GALAXY Plumbing & Heating is seeking full time journeyman service plumbers to start immediately. Must have drivers license, steel toed boots, own tools, self motivated and able to work independently. A good attitude is essential. Please call Joe at 403-588-0392, fax resume to 403-347-4539 or email galaxyadmin@telus.net

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! STUCCO PLASTERERS & LABOURERS. Needed Immed. Exp’d but will train. Drivers License pref’d. Lots of work! 403-588-5306 STONE MASONS Exp. only, 403-588-5306

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to implement, manage & enhance our existing safety program. Fax resume and references to 403-343-1248 or email admin@shunda.ca.

Truckers/ Drivers

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ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling automated & roll off trucks. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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.

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NEW LIZ AREN NY, 1 red croc. make-up bag. c/w 12 eyeshadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. $195 value, asking $50. Would make a great Christmas gift. 403-227-2976

Household Appliances

1710

WASHER, Kenmore, Dryer Maytag, large capacity both in good working cond. $65. pr. 403-782-7439

Household Furnishings

1720

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Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

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3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1600./mo. $1000. d.d. Avail Feb . 1. 403-304-5337

Condos/ Townhouses

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ALIX, 2 bdrm. 1 bath condo, 1210 sq. feet with balcony & 2 parking. Avail, immed. 403-341-9974

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www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

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EARRINGS, stirling silver, ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. pierced earings, never worn. 1 1/2” drop, Jeweller ~ Holmes St. appraised $135. S.D. $1000 Asking $100. obo Rent $1245 to $1445 403-227-2976 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, Celebrate your life lrg. balconies, no dogs. with a Classified N/S, no utils. incl. ANNOUNCEMENT Avail. immed. & Jan. 1 References required. SOUTHWOOD PARK Misc. for 3110-47TH Avenue, Sale 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 SNOW Tracks to fit Arctic baths, fenced yards, Cat Quad, $800; Computer full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Stand Fits Ford F250Sorry no pets. F350, $175; Eamor Saddle www.greatapartments.ca Wade Tree 15” seat, Cowboys Cowgirls, $1400; 4 Plexes/ Cross Country Skis, Rossignal xt208 and new 6 Plexes boots (45 cm), all used twice, $175; and ORIOLE PARK adjustable ball-type 5th 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. wheel hitch, $300. rent, s.d. $650, incl water 403-350-0959 sewer and garbage. Avail. Feb. 1st. 403-304-5337 ZIPPERED Tote Bags (3) 12x8.5x5.5, red satin, black paten crock, metallic gold satn. $10. ea. or 3 for Suites $25. 403-227-2976

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DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo. Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo. Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo. Dowler St., Daniel Cres. Dawe Cl., Dunham Close and area $412.00/mo. For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

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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 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, roof snow removal? Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

FANTASY SPA International Ladies Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc. Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 SNOW blowing, junk/metal p/u, odd jobs 403-885-5333

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Cars

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

To deliver the

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE NORMANDEAU Nash St. & Neville Close ALSO Northey Ave.

Kirsch Close, Kemp Ave. & Kee Close MUSTANG ACRES TRAILER PARK

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AVAIL. immed., lrg. fully furn. bdrm. c/w working gas frpl. $300 dd, $600/mo Working or student M. 2010 SANTA FE, V6, silver only. 403-396-2468 87,000 kms., remote start, CLEAN, quiet, responsible, 4 summer, 4 winter tires & Furn. $575. 403-466-7979 whls., A1 shape, $16,750. obo. 403-347-6889 ROOM TO RENT very large $450. 403-350-4712

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Mobile Lot

Utility Trailers

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CAR TRAILER, Tandem axle, flat deck, bumper PADS $450/mo. tow. $1500. 403-343-0687 Brand new park in Lacombe. Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Auto Down payment $4000. Call Wreckers at anytime. 403-588-8820 RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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Realtors & Services

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PUBLIC NOTICES

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Public Notices

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

DONALD JOHATHON LEONARD

You have 2 weeks to call Red Deer Queen of Courts Bench 403-340-5220 on behalf of your divorce

NEW YEAR Special

MOVE IN TODAY

1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550 PEACHES & CREAM $259,000, 1,064 sq. ft. duplex, 4 bdrm., 3 full bath, all freshly painted, some new flooring, fenced, 2 offstreet parking. Call Margaret Comeau at (403) 391-3399 (cell) RE/MAX real estate central alberta STEAL OF A DEAL 3 bdrm double wide, $85,000, 2 bath, 1,248 sq. ft., gas fireplace, small shop with elec., lot fee $530/mon. Call Margaret Comeau at (403) 391-3399 (cell) RE/MAX †real estate central alberta

Use our unique Attention Getters and make your ad a winner. Call: Classifieds

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Advocate Opportunities CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Ahlstrom Close Andrew Close Asstlee / Ansett Cres. Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres. Anderson Close Anquetel Close BOWER AREA Bell St. INGLEWOOD AREA Iverson Close Isbister Close MORRISROE AREA McKenzie St. / Marion Cres.

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JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations. 403-342-7801.

Seniors’ Services

5000-5300

1 BDRM, bsmt. suite. $575/mo. 403-343-0974

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

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CLASSIFICATIONS

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Rooms For Rent

With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo.

Call Classiﬁeds 403-309-3300 1165

QUIET home for working M/F, utils. wifi incl. N/S, $475/mo. 403-506-1907

MORRISROE AREA:

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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Spec Homes Ready in McKay Ranch, Blackfalds newest subdivision 1st 3 mortgage payments are paid by Riser Homes Happy New Year!!! Call LLOYD FIDLER 403-391-9294

1 day a week in:

CLASSIFICATIONS

Escorts

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444

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CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

PARKVALE AREA $586./mo.

OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

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Call GORD ING at 3810 47 ST. Spacious 2 RE/MAX real estate Sporting bdrm. suite. Stove, fridge, central alberta 403-341-9995 security. Adult only, no pets. Goods gord.ing@remax.net Rent $945. Avail. Jan 1. 587-877-5808 TOBAGGAN, 3 seat, wooden, good cond. $45.; ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious Houses Super GT snow racer, with suites 3 appls., heat/water For Sale foot brakes & steering incld., Oriole Park. wheel, exc. to new cond. Mike 403-350-1620 3 LEFT!! $65. 403-348-6449 403-986-6889 RISER HOMES

DOWNTOWN AREA $638./mo

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KENTWOOD

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LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

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2001 Chev Malibu, 4 dr. SENIOR housemate wanted 134,000 kms. 403-352-6995 $500/mo. 403-347-1036 1999 BUICK Regal, loaded 3 bdrm. house, main floor, 154,000 km.403-352-6995 TOO MUCH STUFF? 5 appls., fenced yard, Let Classifieds large deck, rent $1550 incl. help you sell it. all utils. $900 s.d. Avail. Feb 1. 403-304-5337 SUV's

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Painters/ Decorators

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

Condos/ Townhouses

MOUNTVIEW

Monday through Saturday. Delivery to be done before 6:30 am. Reliable vehicle needed.

Massage Therapy

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Suites

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Roommates WANTED • 3250-3390 Wanted

RED DEER ADVOCATE

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

Owner Operators & Contract Drivers

SPLIT Dry Firewood. Pine & Birch. Delivery avail (403)845-8989

Advocate Opportunities

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

Safety Coordinator

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Travel Packages

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CARRIERS REQUIRED

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

Requires

RIVERSIDE MEADOWS

NOW HIRING for following Positions Tile setters $28.25/hr Floor Covering Installer $ 28.25 / hr Full time and Permanent 40hrs/week Min 3 year experience Labourer $20/hr 40hrs/week No experience required Full time and permanent position Valid Driver’s Licence preferred email resume at: cat1employment @gmail.com or drop off resume at Central Alberta Tile One 7619 50 Ave Suite 9 Red Deer

FIREWOOD, Spruce & Pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754

Health & Beauty

SAFETY

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HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle provided by company! Work 3 to 4 shifts a week. Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer. Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

SUNNYBROOK AREA Scott St. / Somerset Close LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lord Close Landry Bend / Landry Close Ladwig Close VANIER AREA Vickers Close Victor Close Viscount Drive Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300