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Inmate escapes while on work-release at Jasper campground

September 29, 2011 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

An inmate from Grande Cache Institute escaped from custody this week while on a work-release program at Jasper National Park’s Wabasso Campground. Dennis Paul Haines, 38, was found to be missing during a routine check at 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 27, acco...
A fond farewell to Jasper

September 29, 2011 - Author: CARRIE WHITE, EDITOR

It’s my last day at the Fitzhugh and like many other occasions in the past few months, I find myself pondering the concept of random. I eventually had to look up the word in the dictionary and here’s what I came across: ...
Hinton Council briefs for Sept. 20

September 29, 2011 - Author: LYNDA GEYMONAT - Fitzhugh's Hinton Reporter

Plaque honours cultural exchange with Japan On Aug. 19 and 20 the Alberta/Japan Twinned Municipalities Association held its annual general meeting in Hinton. Since March a group of organizers, including Coun. Ian Duncan, had been working together for a s...
What’s happening around the region

September 29, 2011 - Author: CARRIE WHITE, EDITOR

HINTON: Arts Days: Hinton will celebrate Alberta Arts Days with a host of activities beginning on Sept. 30. From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., the fun begins with open house tours of Creative Campus and The Guild. ...
Reflections, remembrances & recollections - Felix the Grasshopper

September 29, 2011 - Author: GLENN BOYCHUK - Special to the Fitzhugh

There are some things on the road of life that just seem to happen. It’s not knowing exactly when, where or why that surprises us the most. Sometimes these occurrences are a good thing and at other times it just seems at that particular moment it co...
Free screening tests for depression available in Hinton

September 29, 2011 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

If you or someone you know might be suffering from depression, there will be an opportunity to get a free evaluation next week in Hinton. ...
Poetry reading not one to pass up

September 29, 2011 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

Award-winning poet John Pass will visit Jasper on Oct. 5 to give a reading from his latest book, crawlspace. The book is the first volume Pass has published since he won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry in 2006, and the reading will...
Be responsible for your waste

September 29, 2011 - Author: CARRIE WHITE, EDITOR

In an effort to make the fall clean-up collection more efficient, the municipality is changing things up for residents this year. During the fall town clean-up scheduled for Oct. 11 and 12, only bagged organic yard waste, furniture and appliances will be...
Library gets a boost from Kinder Morgan

September 29, 2011 - Author: CARRIE WHITE, EDITOR

The Jasper Municipal Library received a donation from Kinder Morgan last week that will help to develop the child and youth section in the newly renovated facility that is set to begin construction early next month. Judy Krefting, director of library ser...
Cancer no match for comedy

September 29, 2011 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

If laughter is the best medicine then Jasper residents should be in pretty good health after the aptly named “Boob Tour” hit town on Sunday evening. The laughs emanating from a packed Champs Lounge were positively infectious as a group of pop...
Restoring Jasper’s meadows and grasslands

September 29, 2011 - Author: CARRIE WHITE, EDITOR

In an effort to help restore some of the park’s meadows and grasslands, Jasper National Park’s fire management team were out in the backcountry, hard at work, from Sept. 23 to 26. The team planned to begin small-scale burning in specific sub-...
Community Futures brings in CBC’s chief correspondent

September 29, 2011 - Author: CARRIE WHITE, EDITOR

One of Canada’s most well known faces in journalism will make his way to Hinton on Oct. 5. As part of Community Futures West Yellowhead’s (CFWY) Regional Celebration, Peter Mansbridge will give the keynote speech, drawing on the world leaders...
Caribou Joe & the building of the Grand Trunk Pacific - Episode 2 (Part 1) - Incident at Starvation Flats

September 29, 2011 - Author: LEONARD FRAZER - Special to the Fitzhugh

The land north of Cranberry Lake (Valemount), southeast of Prince George, was relatively flat, with only a few gullies to cross. Joe looked around as he rode and studied the forest. A forest indeed! Almost the entire valley floor was like a healing scar. ...
Keep it consistent

September 29, 2011 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

A letter to the editor in last week’s edition of the Fitzhugh highlighted the apparently inconsistent manner that the provincial law requiring cyclists under the age of 18 to wear helmets is being enforced in Jasper. ...
Jasper’s got talent

September 29, 2011 - Author: CARRIE WHITE, EDITOR

In just a few days, long-time Jasperite Matt Cushing will find out if he gets to move on to the next round of Canada’s Got Talent. Nationwide auditions for the upcoming CityTV series were held throughout the country recently and Matt made the trip ...
National Park News September 26

September 29, 2011 - Author: PARKS CANADA

Prescribed Fires – Backcountry Meadow Restoration Jasper’s fire management team began carrying out small-scale meadow burns in the park’s backcountry this past Saturday, Sept. 23. ...
IN BRIEF - September 29, 2011

September 29, 2011 - Author: FITZHUGH STAFF

Daycare savings expected The town’s new daycare has offered many improvements for children and staff but the ongoing construction at the Jasper Activity Centre is limiting their ability to take part in outdoor activities, according to community and...
Jasper to the coast on the road less travelled

September 29, 2011 - Author: PAUL and LORIE BENNETT - Special to the Fitzhugh

Headed from Jasper to Victoria following our annual stay at Lake Edith, we decide to follow Yogi’s wise (but obviously ambiguous) advice. We spread out the B.C. road map and check our options. There are lots of forks in the road between &ldqu...
Winged harbingers: the decline of the ‘common’ barn swallow

September 29, 2011 - Author: NIKI WILSON - On Science

If you walked down the airstrip in east Jasper National Park this summer, you likely crossed the flight path of barn swallows roosting in the cook shelter nearby. Maybe you witnessed the elegant dive of their light cinnamon and blue bodies as they hunted ...
The Second Last Word

September 22, 2011 - Author: ANNALEE GRANT, PHOTOJOURNALIST

Alright, so I got a bit ahead of myself thinking I was writing my “last” Last Word last week – so here it is everyone, the first ever Second Last Word. I drank a bit too much coffee this morning, which was chock-full of sugar, so my typ...