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• Call for cooperation

  September 24, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  I’m back from a week in Ontario, happy to see the mountains again. While it’s always fantastic to swim in non-glacier fed lakes, the appreciation of the peaks is heightened in absence. And after driving past the Mount St. Louis Moonstone ski h...

• Sleepless in the snow

  September 24, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  Wallace defends his title  Not even the snow or a mild case of hypothermia could stop Cory Wallace, who took home first place honours in the Bow 80, in Kananskis Country, on Sunday after coming a close second in Squamish on Saturday.  ...

• Underpass delayed until spring

  September 24, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  Jasper’s pedestrians will be left waiting in the cold this winter as construction to the Hazel Avenue underpass will take longer than expected. ...

• Riding to the top

  September 24, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  Jasperite tops dirt bike circuit It’s a long way to the top, but dirt bike racer Joe Bartziokas has made it.  But it didn’t come easy. The Jasper man trained harder, rode more and pushed through extreme conditions to finish first place...

• Mining the soil

  September 24, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Jasperite to lecture on turning diamond mines into organic farms Dropped into a nation ripped apart by civil war and violent diamond trade with little more than a small support team and a few contacts, Jasper resident Larissa Stendie was given what sound...

• Art camp comes to Jasper

  September 24, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  Children from across Canada came together at the Palisades Stewardship Education Centre (PSEC) last week to spend time getting acquainted with the Canadian Rockies and stimulating their creativity. ...

• Jasper wardens celebrate 100 years of service

  September 24, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  It was a weekend of celebration. A chance for old friends to reunite, a time to set aside political differences and appreciate the men and women who have lived and still live the unique lifestyle that remains such a Canadian icon; the park warden. ...

• Young bears still learning the park

  September 24, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  It’s similar to the first time a child is allowed to go to the mall on their own. Up until now, they always went with their mother. But now, old enough to go alone, the child stand there, dumbfounded by all the possibilities. Substitute the mall fo...

• Wardens looking for elk poacher

  September 24, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  Jasper park wardens are investigating an attempted poaching of a bull elk on Sunday, Sept. 20. The bull elk was spotted near the start of Snaring Rd. near the Palisades on both sides of Highway 16 with two arrows pierced almost right through its lower ne...

• Bear numbers sobering

  September 24, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  In 2002, grizzly bear biologists were panicked after it was revealed there were fewer than 1,000 grizzly bears in the province. Pressure to put the bears – long time symbols of the Canadian West – onto the endangered species list, and for the ...

• School celebrates Peace Day

  September 24, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  It started 27 years ago by one man - Jeremy Gilley, a british filmmaker. More than a quarter-century later, it is an internationally recognized event, declared by the United Nations as an official day of peace, one even in the small community of Jasper, p...

• Health, senior’s group waiting for answers

  September 24, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Two community groups are looking for answers about a pilot project designed to transport Jasper residents to Edmonton for medical appointments.  ...

• Lack of signage causing problems for hospital

  September 24, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  A lack of signage surrounding the Seton General Hospital has caused several headaches in the community this summer. ...

• What is a leader?

  September 24, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  Jasper to send six youths to astronaut lecture Six of Jasper’s youths will be given the chance to meet with Dr. Roberta Bondar during Leadership West Yellowhead’s speaker series next week thanks to the municipality of Jasper.  ...

• Ordeal by ice

  September 24, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  Man survives nine days alone on Columbia icefield Set with a three day weekend, George Joachim, 46, thought he’d go for a day hike on the Athabasca Glacier. He put on his favourite running shoes, long johns, gloves, fleece layers top and bottom, r...

• Marketing corporations hires CEO

  September 24, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN and JUSTIN BRISBANE

  The Jasper Destination Marketing Corporation (JDMC) has hired a Chief Executive Officer and is gearing up for the 2009/10 winter campaign. Maggie Davison, who has nearly 20 years of experience in the travel and tourism industry, was announced as the new ...

• September 24, 2009

  September 24, 2009 - Author: THE FITZHUGH

  A new century for Parks Canada Underneath a dark blue, perfect September sky, beside the calm waters of the Bow River, behind the great Whyte Museum, the gigantic Brewster tent was held aloft with the emotion of 600 plus people. Holy Stetsons, wrinkles ...

• Jasperites help Stollery hospital

  September 17, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Jasperites helped raise more than $2.3 million for the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. Peter Hayashi, former owner of Cavell Drugs, helped raise $37,000 for the hospital  with a Miracle Builder’s breakfast at the Sawridge Inn l...

• Banff Mountain film fest coming to Valemount

  September 17, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Seven films from last year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival (BMFF) World Tour will get the red carpet treatment in Valemount on Sept 25. Red Helmet, Papiroflexia, Journey to Centre, Seasons, The Unbearable Lightness of Skiing, Sharp End Eastern Europ...

• Man survives nine days on the Columbia Icefields

  September 17, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  After spending nine days on the Columbia Icefields, a 46-year-old man wandered into the Icefields Centre, called his wife and then spent one more night out in the wilderness before calling the RCMP on Tuesday (Sept 15) morning. ...