ICal "ghost" alarms

I previously set an alarm for a repeating monthly luncheon (event) that I was attending. The meeting was changed. I deleted the events from my iCal calendar. I later set a new repeating event with an alarm for the luncheon on the new day. Now I get two sets of alarms. One of the alarms is for the deleted events. The other is for the current correct events. I have gone back through every month of my calendar and can find no evidence of the older event that keeps alarming. I cannot find a way to display a list of events.
How can I get rid of the extra alarm? Is there a way to view just the events themselves in a separate window?
I want to avois deleting all alarms if possible.

Ahh, OK. I was picturing desktop alarms, which have a link.
Not solving the initial problem, but ... set up a group for the other attendees. Add the name of the group to the list of your email addresses on your contact card. When creating an email alarm select the group name and the alarm email will be sent to all.
Try running this script in Scrip Editor - it should list the start date of every recurring alarmed (email) event in your Home calendar (change the 3rd line if it is not Home). You may then be able to find the original event to delete it.
AK
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">tell application "iCal"
set AlarmList to ""
set EventsList to events of calendar "Home"
repeat with MyEvent in EventsList
if (count of mail alarms of MyEvent) > 0 then
if recurrence of MyEvent is not "" then
set AlarmList to AlarmList & (start date of MyEvent) & return
end if
end if
end repeat
AlarmList
end tell
</pre>

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