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• Hockey night in Jasper

  October 29, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  The working class hockey player Last weekend I played my first hockey game in two years. Sure, I’ve played shinny and pick-up a few times, and skated on some outdoor rinks in Canmore the last two winters, but for the first time in a couple years, I...

• Community dinners looking for cooks

  October 29, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  The Jasper Food Bank is looking for a few decent cooks. Community dinners will once again take place in town, and organizer Patrick Mooney is looking for culinary teams to cook the Sunday dinners. ...

• Enough Already!

  October 29, 2009 - Author: CARMEN OTTAWAY - Special to the Fitzhugh

  If I have to shovel one more foot of snow this winter I’m going to scream! ...

• The trouble with the flu

  October 29, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  The province’s H1N1 response is in full flight after a bumpy start. Long lines and outcries against a lack of priority marred the first few days of vaccinations. After Premier Ed Stelmach called for understanding, Health minister Ron Liepert issued ...

• Hinton Pool opening delayed

  October 29, 2009 - Author: FITZHUGH STAFF

  Although it’s been under construction for the entire summer, Hinton residents must wait a little longer before using their recreation centre. ...

• Hawks soar over Wolves in home opener

  October 29, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  If games were decided by the shots on goal, the Jasper Wolves would have been laughing on Oct. 24. Unfortunately that’s not the case, and the Jasper Wolves weren’t laughing as they took a 12-2 loss to the Slake Lake Winter Hawks, despite out-s...

• Rock + pipes = Mudmen

  October 29, 2009 - Author: DAVE WHITFIELD - Special to the Fitzhugh

  Batten the hatches – the Mudmen are coming. The Mudmen, darlings of the hockey world after founding members and pipers Sandy and Robby Campbell were featured on the winning anthem for CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada theme song contest and played...

• Coming this fall – Children of Autumn

  October 29, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  It’s a high profile show, put on by some of Jasper’s finest: combination of Jasper’s youth – more than 30 of them, a few select adults, and written with original music by Grace Kohn and Greg Deagle. ...

• 150 pounds of magic mushrooms seized near Lake Louise

  October 29, 2009 - Author: FITZHUGH STAFF

  A traffic stop turned into a major drug bust for Lake Louise RCMP last week. ...

• Activity centre renovations get go ahead

  October 29, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Town approves $1 million loan for upgrades Jasper will borrow a million dollars to pay for renovations to the Activity Centre, bringing the cost of the first phase to $5.5 million. ...

• Industry on board to save caribou, forestry says

  October 29, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Forestry and oil and gas companies need to work with government if the Little Smoky caribou herd north of Hinton is to survive, according to Wayne Thorp, a forestry representative and director with the Foothills research institute landscape management for...

• Student combats hunger at Halloween

  October 29, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  Thanks to a local teenager, the Jasper Food Bank will receive extra food donations this Halloween week. ...

• Trail riders improve access

  October 29, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Jasper trails just became a little more accessible thanks to the arrival of two trail riders in town. ...

• Six months in prison for drunk driver

  October 29, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  A man who was caught driving drunk with a suspended licence and no insurance in Jasper will spend the next six months in jail....

• Jasper pursues 2012 Canadian special olympics with joint bid

  October 29, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Jasper has teamed up with the town of St. Albert to bid for the 2012 Canadian Special Olympics National Winter Games. However at this time, the town is not prepared to support the bid financially. ...

• Jasperites win ALTO awards

  October 29, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Jasperites were well represented at this year’s Travel Alberta ALTO awards, with the Jasper Discovery Trail and Pine Bungalows receiving awards. ...

• Jasper prepared for H1N1

  October 29, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Jasper is prepared to deal with an H1N1 pandemic, according to emergency officials. Fire Chief Greg Van Tighem told councillors the town has ramped up its emergency planning for the flu pandemic, during the Oct. 20 council meeting. ...

• October 29, 2009

  October 29, 2009 - Author: THE FITZHUGH

  It is NOT $35,000 for just a Plaque In the Fitzhugh on October 8th you reported correctly that two councillors had commented that it was to cost $35,000 for a plaque.  Unfortunately their remarks were inappropriate and consequently you have misled t...

• Sicko

  October 22, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Like much of the community, The Fitzhugh is ill. The office has been transformed into a clinging, clanging caucophony of coughing and wheezing. Alternating between sweats and chills, we schizophrenically wear toques while sweating up a storm. ...

• Time for a plan

  October 22, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Ok Jasper, this is your opportunity. The draft sustainability plan has been released by the municipality. Based on the concepts that the town should be a green, tourism-based mountain town with a high standard of living with an effective governance model...