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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 10, 2014, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A2 ASK US HOW WE CAN GIVE YOU A LOYALTY REBA TE OF UP TO $ 2 , 000 TOWARDS YOUR NEW CAR PURCHASE! N N UA L V I CK A R ' S A N NU AL Sale A REBATES OF UP TO $ 18 , 500 ON ALL VEHICLES! RE AS LOW AS 0% ON ALL BRAND NEW2014' S! BATES Rebates Loyalty Rebates this is not a gimmick, this is a fact ! ALL THIS FEBRUARY VICKAR WILL BEAT ALL COMPETITOR'S PRICES BY A MINIMUM O F $ 777! A NE Interest Rates * See dealer for details. 964 REGENT AVE. W. SPECIAL SALES HOTLINE 1- 800- 616- 6551 OPEN 24 HOURS www. vickarchevrolet. ca ( Including Winnipeg) * 60/ 72/ 84 month finance rate at lowest possible rate available. OAC. all payments plus taxes, fees and freight. All prices include $ 1,000 finance rebate, vehicle must be financed. All rebates to dealer. Example of finance @ $ 16,349.00 with $ 1180.94 GST cost of borrowing is $ 5814.51. See dealer for details. Prices subject to change without notice. Ask your sales consultant for details. ** Lease range from 24- 60 months plus freight, taxes and fees. Silverado prices in lieu of subvented interest rates. Equinox, Cruze, Sonic, Malibu, Impala & Silverado prices include all loyalty rebates. HOURS MON - TUES 8: 30AM - 9: 00PM WED - SAT 8: 30AM - 6: 00PM 204- 661- 8383 FOR ADDITIONAL SAVINGS OVER AND ABOVE WHAT YOU SEE! " LIKE" US ON & FOLLOW US ON Brand New! Brand New! 2 YEARS FREE MAINTENANCE $ 1 2 , 577 or $ 25 / wk Lowest Price Ev er of... 2014 CHEVY SONIC INCLUDES 0% FINANCING ! OVER 40 ON THE GROUND! READY TO GO! Do not buy a 2013 Sonic, get a 2014 for the same price! # EC0162 LEASE Me For $ 69 / BW TOWARD Brand New! We have been awarded the distinction of being General Motors Cruze headquarters for 2014. This gives us the ability to give you rebates no other dealer can offer you! INCLUDES 0% FINANCING UP TO 84 MONTHS ON 2014' S! 2014 CHEVY CRUZE 0% LEASING ON 2014' S! NOT A MISPRINT 2 YEARS FREE MAINTENANCE $ 12 , 549 or $ 24 / wk LEASE Me For $ 51 / BW EC8123 Lowest Price Ever of... B Brand New! 2013 CHEVY CAMARO We are the ONLY dealer in Canada that has these in stock. These are loaded at this price and will be sold quickly. Choose from of 22 11 8 available! Lowest Price Ever of... $ 19 , 988 or $ 69 / wk GM CAMARO HEADQUARTERS OF CANADA DC3451 2014 CHEVY IMPALA 0 % AT THIS PRICE! Lowest Price Ever of... # EC2043 WE HAVE ORDERED 35 OF THESE SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS SALE! THEY ARE HERE AND READY TO DRIVE AWAY! $ 24 , 3 77 or $ 65 / wk 2 YEARS FREE MAINTENANCE ONLY 12 LEFT! LEASE ME FOR $ 174 / BW Brand New! Vickar Chevrolet is the only dealership in Manitoba that has these trucks for sale so hurry in for up to $ 18,000 in discounts! 2013 CHEVY SIL VERAD0' S DO NOT BUY A 2014 SILVERADO! YOU CAN GET A 2013 for over $ 10,000 Cheaper! BEST SELECTION OF TRUCKS INCANADA! Starting at St St ar ar ar ti ti ti ng ng $ 16 , 997 or $ 55 / wk Brand New! Lowest Price Ever of... 2013 CHEVY MALIBU L T Other dealers advertise basic Malibu's that you don't have. We have 9 of these loaded LT versions on the ground and ready to go! These have every option you can think of! LOWER PRICE THAN A USED MALIBU! LEASE A 2014 $ 121 / BW $ 18 , 777 or $ 44 / wk DC1210 WORLD Giraffe- death outcry A12 BUSINESS Osborne Village condos B4 ARTS & LIFE Oswald's TV picks D2 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS 1355 Mountain Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2X 3B6 Privacy policy and questions www. winnipegfreepress. com/ privacy. html CIRCULATION INQUIRIES NEED A REPLACEMENT PAPER? Call or email before 11 a. m. weekdays or noon Saturday City / 204- 697- 7001 Outside Winnipeg / 1- 800- 542- 8900 press 1 6 a. m.- 6 p. m. M- F. 6 a. m.- 12 p. m. 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HOW- TO VIDEO READER SERVICE / GENERAL INQUIRIES 204- 697- 7000 A 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014 winnipegfreepress. com C ALL me a dreamer, but I think the world would be a much better place if everything in it was coated in a thick layer of delicious chocolate. I reached that conclusion Friday afternoon when I courageously left my house and drove to Mordens' of Winnipeg, the legendary chocolate shop at 674 Sargent Ave., to shoot our latest biweekly weather video. If you haven't yet seen one of these entertaining and educational videos, they are designed to provide viewers with weather information that is less accurate than what they would get if they simply stuck their heads out of a window. While I appear in all of these videos, the real star is Creepy Santa, a onemetre- tall plush Santa doll I have immortalized in a series of groundbreaking holiday columns in recent years. He was nicknamed Creepy Santa by my daughter because his pale plastic face has a malevolent, open- mouthed glare, like one of those icky inflatable dolls you can find on the Internet, or so I'm told. Anyway, senior editors at this paper felt the presence of Creepy Santa would help punch up the energy level in our weather videos, so in recent months I have been forced to drag this stuffed monstrosity wherever I go, including the Olympic curling trials and the indoor pool at the Delta Winnipeg. With Valentine's Day creeping up on us, I agreed to drag Creepy Santa to visit the nice folks at Mordens' because, as a respected investigative journalist, I was confident I could talk them into giving us free chocolates. If you have never taken an evil- looking Santa doll to a candy store before, what happens is nervous customers edge away from you the way they would back away from a naked person wielding a machete in the frozen- food aisle at a local supermarket. Fortunately, the proprietor of the chocolate factory, Fred Morden, was comfortable being interviewed by a man the size of a refrigerator accompanied by a stuffed gnome with a frightening resemblance to former Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich. I was curious whether Fred, who has been making chocolate for the last 35 years, still enjoys cramming the gooey stuff into his mouth. " Oh, yeah," Fred chirped with delight, " a quarter- pound a day, easy. You have to make sure it's good quality." The top seller at the store is the iconic Russian Mints. " I think it's one of the best chocolates in the world," Fred said proudly as a steady stream of customers edged around us to stock up for Valentine's Day, the busiest single day at the store. " In New Orleans in 1984 at the World's Fair, we won the gold medal for best chocolate piece," Fred noted. " That's when Russian Mints really took off. We were also the first in North America to put chocolate on jujubes and coffee beans. Now everyone is doing it." As we chatted, a beaming female customer strode over to inform us that when she went to Spain for her brother's wedding, she brought along several kilograms of Russian Mints because it seemed a classy and tasty way to boast about her hometown. The highlight of our visit came in the huge kitchen in the back, where Fred let me drizzle dark chocolate on top of strawberries that had already been dipped in white chocolate. It was the highlight of my journalistic career. At the end of the messy process, the camera zoomed in on Creepy Santa's eerie plastic face, which like the strawberries, was now lovingly coated in a thick layer of milk chocolate. When I arrived home, the delicious chocolatey aroma wafting from Creepy's face sent our two dogs - Zoe the wiener dog and Mr. X, a cross between a cotton swab and a sofa cushion - into a drooling, tail- spinning frenzy. Chocolate is extremely bad for dogs, so I parked Creepy Santa safely on the couch in the den and, later in the evening, I sat there with him, partly watching the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, but mostly trying to lick hardened chocolate off his frowning plastic face. Because, as a crusading journalist, that's the sort of sacrifice I'm prepared to make on your behalf. doug. speirs@ freepress. mb. ca Business B 4 Classified C 10 Comics D 5 Diversions D 6 Editorials A 9 Entertainment D 1 Horoscope D 4 Jumble C 9 Letters to the Editor A 8 Miss Lonelyhearts D 4 Movies D 2 Sports C 1 TV C 11 Weather C 12 . OBITUARIES C 8 In the event of a discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail. PICK 3 Winning number Sunday was 575. Winning number Saturday was 567. EXTRA Winning number Sunday was 1035152. Winning number Saturday was 6096473. LOTTO 6/ 49 Winning numbers Saturday were: 2, 5, 16, 36, 41, 43. Bonus number was 25. The jackpot of $ 7,000,000 was carried over. LOTTO MAX Winning numbers Friday were: 13, 19, 37, 38, 40, 43, 48. Bonus number was 46. The jackpot of $ 40,000,000 was carried over. INSIDE LOTTERIES Creepy Santa in a chocolate shop - sweet In the Doug House Doug Speirs WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Creepy Santa apparently has a taste for chocolate. Who knew? A_ 02_ Feb- 10- 14_ FP_ 01. indd A2 2/ 9/ 14 9: 50: 05 PM ;