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• Pit stop on the hummingbird highway

  February 23, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  On the highway of flowers that leads to the southern United States and Mexico, Curtis Culp’s yard in Dunster, B.C. is the prime location for a pit stop. That’s because there’s a beautiful garden to hang out in and there’s always a ...

• Town overflowing with talent

  February 23, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  Holy moly are Jasperites talented. They can sing. They can dance. They can play piano. And they can do weird things, like stab their eyeballs with a knife, causing a spray of gross white liquid to shoot out.  ...

• Carroll to compete for Canada at world juniors

  February 23, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  After some solid Nor-Am Cup performances in Colorado, Jasper’s Tianda Carroll was added to the Canadian alpine ski team that will compete at the Junior World Championships in Italy starting next week. Team officials informed the 18-year-old that sh...

• Masters fastball championships set

  February 23, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  Jasper has been awarded the Alberta Provincial Masters Fastball Championships, set to take place at Centennial Park July 6-8. “It’s something I’ve had as a goal for the last five years,” said Doug Charlebois, who put together the ...

• Bearcats dispatch Thunder to advance in playoffs

  February 23, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  The Jasper Midget Bearcats cruised to an 8-1 victory in a playoff matchup against the Slave Lake Thunder at the Jasper Activity Centre on Saturday evening. The game turned chippy in the later stages, with players from both teams spending plenty of time i...

• What’s happening around the region

  February 23, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  HINTON: High school hypnotism Harry Collinge High School is fundraising for prom and one of the events will be an evening with hypnotist Marilyn Olsen. The event is set for Friday, Feb. 24 with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. and the show starting at 8 p.m. ...

• Verch bringing her fiddle skills to Hinton

  February 23, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  At the age of three, April Verch knew she wanted to play the fiddle. But it wasn’t until she was six that her parents realized she was serious about it. “They never asked if I wanted to play fiddle, I insisted,” she said. “They th...

• Interactive documentary stars Rockies grizzly

  February 23, 2012 - Author: LYNN MARTEL - Special to the Fitzhugh

  The cameras are rolling all the time.  They capture a mother teaching her kids which foods to eat, and how to safely navigate their neighbourhood. Her every moment is captured – swinging on a rope to splash into Johnson Lake on a hot summer da...

• Lots of smoke, no injuries in hotel fire

  February 23, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  Billowing smoke from a Monday-morning fire at the Amethyst Lodge drew a large crowd on Connaught Drive but no one was injured in the blaze and the damage was limited to just one room, according to the Jasper Fire Department. Fire Chief Greg Van Tighem sa...

• New program will pay seniors to learn tourism skills

  February 23, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  The Jasper Adult Learning Council (JALC) will pay up to 20 unemployed local seniors $1,000 each to re-train for jobs in the tourism industry under a new, federally funded program set to begin next month. The “targeted initiative for older workers&r...

• Meet two of the Team Alberta athletes who will be competing at Marmot Basin

  February 23, 2012 - Author: SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALBERTA

  Name: Chris Doty, Age: 31 From: Calgary, Sport: Alpine Skiing   How do you feel about going to games? I was at the games in Quebec in 2008, but it feels even better to go to Nationals in my home province. ...

• Special Olympics torch to arrive in advance of games

  February 23, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  The Special Olympics are coming to Marmot Basin next week, but before the athletes arrive, the Olympic torch will make its way through town. The torch will leave Hinton on Feb. 27 at 1:40 p.m. and will arrive in Jasper at 2:35 p.m.  ...

• Caribou Joe & the building of the Grand Trunk Pacific - Episode 21 - A Rude Awakening

  February 23, 2012 - Author: LEONARD FRAZER - Special to the Fitzhugh

  Now that the railway had been completed as far as Mile 53, Simms-Carey was competing with Foley, Welsh and Stewart for warehouse business at the steamship docks, which were filling up with freight. These supplies would be delivered to railway operations a...

• The digital divide

  February 23, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  From baseless child pornography comparisons to sordid divorce details to threats from faceless hackers, the story surrounding Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Bill C-30 has taken some bizarre twists and turns in the past week or so. The intricacies o...

• New group aims to make Jasper more accessible

  February 23, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  Improving accessibility for all people in Jasper and Jasper National Park is the goal of a new committee formed by Jasper Life and the Canadian Paraplegic Association. The Accessibility Committee will have its inaugural meeting March 8. ...

• National Park News February 23

  February 23, 2012 - Author: PARKS CANADA

  Cavell Road now open The seasonal closure on the Edith Cavell Road has been lifted as of Feb. 15. This annual closure, which began in the winter of 2009/10, is one of Parks Canada’s conservation actions implemented to help struggling caribou popula...

• IN BRIEF - February 23

  February 23, 2012 - Author: FITZHUGH STAFF

  New GPRC manager to address regional learning Grande Prairie Regional College (GPRC) has hired a Hinton resident as its new manager of community stewardship. Breakmen at the legion Canadian indie-folk band The Breakmen are playing in Jasper tonight, Fe...

• Car rolls onto roof on Icefields Parkway

  February 23, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  A blue Toyota Yaris rolled over on Highway 93, approximately 25 kilometres south of Jasper on Monday afternoon. A witness at the scene said there were three people in the car heading toward Jasper. ...

• February 23, 2012

  February 23, 2012 - Author: THE FITZHUGH

  Albertans have electricity options Dear Editor, As the MLA for West Yellowhead, and your voice at the cabinet table, I have heard the concerns of both my constituents and my colleagues regarding electricity prices in our province. I want to reassure Alb...

• Glacier Discovery Walk given green light in Ottawa

  February 16, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  The Glacier Discovery Walk was given the go-ahead last week, despite a significant outcry from Jasperites and Canadians in opposition to the project. The announcement was made in Ottawa on Feb. 9 by Environment Minister Peter Kent, the minister responsib...