Red Deer Advocate from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada • 2

HI I) 1)1 i II ADVOCAU Wednesday. Sept 1, 199 UN mediator on downed helicopter Herd Wagner of Germany was on board, but said the 12 passengers included UN and international officials. Four crew members also were on board. Wagner is a deputy to top international envoy Carlos Westendorp of Spain. Other international officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Wagner was on board.

Local police sources also said the envoy was among the passengers. The helicopter was leased to the United Nations from Ukraine, said another UN spokesman, Alexander Ivanko. NATO and UN officials said the helicopter was most likely a Soviet-made Mi6HIP, and that the crew was probably Ukrainian. Ivanko said the helicopter left Sarajevo at 9:15 a.m. (1:15 a.m.

MDT) for Bugojno and the northern town of Brcko. Weather conditions in the Bosnian capital were fine and clear, and were believed to be the same over central Bosnia. At least one UN and two NATO helicopters were sent to the crash site to search for survivors and possible clues as to the cause of the crash. SARAJEVO, Bosnin-Hcrzcgovina (AP) A UN helicopter with Hi people on Ixiurd, including an international mediator, crashed today in central Bosnia. Eleven people were killed and four were injured, officials said.

One person was missing hours after the helicopter went down over high ground about 15 km southeast of the town of Bugojno in central Bosnia, said UN spokesman Liam McDowall. Bugojno is about 80 km northwest of Sarajevo. McDownll refused to confirm that mediator History unearthed Unity wording deserves vote: Socred He said Albertans will likely reject the new concept, which he sees as a new name for dis- By BRENDA KOSSOWAN Advocate staff A new name for distinct society still makes Albertans into second-class citizens, says the leader of the provincial Social Credit party. Randy Thorsteinson, defeated by Red Deer South MLA Victor Doerksen in the last two elections, wants a provincial referendum on acceptance of unique character recognition for Quebec. The provinces 83-member legislature is set to decide on the new concept in a special session to be called in December.

But Thorsteinson said Tuesday its an issue on which all Albertans should get a vote. The provinces voters should be asked whether or not they support the recognition of Quebecs unique character, he said. Alberta and B.C. both require a provincial referendum before endorsing changes in the the Constitution. But the new concept of unique character recognition is being introduced outside the Constitution, said Thorsteinson.

tinct society. The acceptance of unique character recognition of Quebec by Premier Ralph Klein is simply the recycling of the tired and rejected concept of distinct society status." Albertans overwhelmingly dumped the Charlottetown Accord and they! I do the same with the new concept, said Thorsteinson. The Social Credit party will be working against any recognition of unique character for Quebec, he said. I feel its just semantics. Any time you designate any group of people as having special attributes or characteristics you immediately discriminate against those who do not have those characteristics.

Thorsteinson said his party considers two key concepts regarding Quebec. First of all, Social Credit believes all Canadians should be equal, period. Secondly, the party believes that if Canada can be divided, then so can Quebec. Cruelty: Animals dont have choice Continued from Page A1 "As humans, we can speak and we can remove ourselves from situations that are dangerous Animals do not have that choice. We place them in dangerous situations and there is no escape.

The fine was way too low, she said They might as well not give a fine1. As a sociotv, we continue to not place value on all life Hov Marshall, owner of Alberta Animal Services, agreed the fine should have boon higher. My feeling is people need to be aware animals can die from this type of treatment, said Marshall. There was a certain amount of distress to the body of the dog for sure. It was a very tragic scenario.

However, cases of animals being left in hot vehicles are rare in Red Deer, she said. People who commit cruelty to animals can also be charged under Albertas Animal Protection Act. The maximum fine for a first offence is $5,000 Repeat offenders face a maximum penalty of $10,000. TV: Bids opposed Continued from Page A1 The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission licensed the two Alberta stations last November. Craigs application for new English language television services was chosen by the CRTC over a rival bid from CanWest Alberta Television Inc.

RDTV and another small market television station in Lethbridge opposed both applications during public hearings before the countrys broadcast operator. In its intervention, RDTV said revenues could fall by 30 to 50 per cent if it was forced to compete with an out-of-town broadcaster for national and regional advertising dollars. As a concession to opponents, Craig Broadcast Systems agreed to wait a year to offer the service in Red Deer and Lethbridge. Craig said the company plans to install rebroadcast transmitters in both cities in 1998. Red Deer viewers would then pick up a boosted Edmonton signal while those in Lethbridge would tie into a feed from Calgary.

We are working as hard as we can to advance the date, said Craig, noting orders have already been placed for the two transmitters. Once the equipment is installed, viewers will be able to receive the A-channel over the air using home antennas. Cable subscribers in Red Deer, Pen-hold, Sylvan Lake and Blackfalds will also get the new channel next year, said Wayne McLean, corporate vice-president with Shaw Cable. RDTVs general manager Lloyd Lewis said hes sure some viewers are disappointed about not receiving the A-Channel at the same time as Edmonton and Calgary. But the delay will give the Red Deer station more time to get ready for the eventual arrival of a major new rival, said Lewis.

Hockey Night in Canada, with two games every Saturday night, is carried by RDTV, a CBC affiliate. Driver faces charges after high-speed chase Photo by RANDY FIEDLER Advocate staff Mayor Gail Surkan studies mayoral documents from a time capsule as city cleik Kelly Kloss, left, secretary Donna Hamel and construction worker Jim Bates watch Tuesday. Bates uncovered the capsule while working on City Hall's new wheelchair ramp. The stainless steel box was placed in City Hall's cornerstone in 1963 during the Red Deer's 50th anniversary celebrations. The box, which also had a copy of the day's Advocate, will be resealed today after civic memorabilia and a digital copy of today's Advocate are enclosed.

later near Innisfail, but it didn stop. The driver eluded police spike belts at Olds and Didsbury and kept moving even after the vehicle was partially disabled north of Airdrie. Calgary police who took up the chase finally managed to stop the vehicle on 17th Avenue in southeast Calgary at 11:25 p.m. They took three males into custody. Hughie Milo Twoyoungmen, 25, of Morley faces several charges.

A driver who led police on a high-speed pursuit on Hwy 2 was nabbed in Calgary after being chased from Gasoline Alley. The incident started around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday after someone saw suspicious males putting a licence plate on the back of a vehicle. RCMP said the vehicle fit the description of one involved in a theft from a service station in the commercial zone south of Red Deer. Police tried to stop the vehicle a short time Money: Staff grows Continued from Page A1 At 6,500 square feet, the new offices were about 60 per cent bigger than its previous premises.

But now the company is knocking down walls as part of a three-to-five-week renovation to reconfigure about one-third of its space to hold more staff. Investors Group now has nearly 50 people working out of Red Deer about 18 more than June 1995, said regional manager Rod Woodcock. And the firm is constantly recruiting and training new staff, he said. Investors Group just created a fourth division within its Red Deer region to handle the growing volume of business. Covering an area from Camrose to Drumheller and Rocky Mountain House to the Saskatchewan border, the regional office in Red Deer manages nearly $400 million in investment assets alone, said Woodcock.

That doesnt include insurance or mortgage assets, he said. Its just mutual funds, GICs, stocks and bonds. 51st Avenue at 48th Street. Skoretz, whose company is AFP Associated Financial Planners, will take 3,000 square feet on the ground floor when her building is ready in November. She will move from 700 square feet she now leases on the second floor of a building across 51th Avenue.

The remaining 5,000 square feet in her new two-storey building is for rent. TD Evergreen, TD Banks full-service investment arm, opened a Red Deer office in June 1996 with two brokers. TD Evergreen is now renovating to create space to hire two more brokers and up to six support staff, said vice-president and managing director Tim Wiltzen. Welch Patched Associates opened a retail office on Parkland Malls main floor late last year, replacing a much smaller upstairs office. The company has about four investment people among roughly 20 accounting staff.

Several other investment companies have expanded, are in the midst of an expansion or are planning one. A few examples: Winnipeg-based Pro-Fund, now a unit of Midland Walwyn, opened its Red Deer office eight years ago with one or two staff. Now it has five staff in Red Deer plus one representative in Lacombe and another in Ponoka. But it plans to get much bigger. We expect to have at least nine in the office by the end of the year and another 15 in the surrounding area," said Peter Hamers, who moved from Saskatchewan a few months ago to become Pro-Funds Red Deer manager.

To make room for the extra personnel, Pro-Fund just leased 2,500 square feet at 5913 50th Ave. more than twice the size of its old offices. Its the result of the baby boomers planning for retirement, said Hamers. Independent investment advisor Elvine Skoretz is constructing her own building on I LIQUIDATOR FOR BANKS? INSURANCE COMPANIES OTHERS mmr Weather tlMATTRES SPRING SETS .1 regionaETouTlooK Executive Leather Recliner Ottoman totally leather including outside hack and under the seat "Big man" dimensions Lock-in recliner Swivel base Green, Black, Vanilla LOW 4 HIGH 7 HIGH 10 624 Coil on coil construction Twin, Double, Queen or King 25-yr Warranty Damask cover 349 39995 gEMPERATURESJESTERDAfl 95 259 COMPARE Temperatures are todays highs and tonight's lows. Ft.

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Low 4. Thursday, rain. Total precipitation amounts 15 to 20 mm. Wind north 15. High 7.

Friday, mainly sunny. Low -2; frost. High 14. Saturday, sunny. Low 2.

High 17. Sunday, sunny. Low 4. High 21. Calgary: Today, cloudy; showers.

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Thursday, periods of rain; wet snow. Wind north 20. High 7. Drumheller, Strathmore, Vulcan: Today, cloudy; showers. Wind east 20.

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