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• Wildlife Guardians on patrol

  July 26, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  Carrying reflective vests, traffic signs and disarming smiles, Valérie Domaine and Miki Eslake patrol Jasper’s highways, looking for tourists in need of a little local knowledge. The pair makes up half of the national park’s contingent of &l...

• Jasper Motorcycle Run for charity returns in August

  July 26, 2012 - Author: FITZHUGH STAFF

  The early-bird deadline for next month’s Jasper Motorcycle Run has been extended. The fourth annual event, set for Aug. 25, sees participants ride along a route that stretches from the Jasper townsite to Maligne Lake and back, down to Sunwapta Fall...

• Fastball tournament hailed as a success

  July 26, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  The Alberta Provincial Masters Fastball Championships earlier this month were so popular, organizer Doug Charlebois is already being asked if he will prepare another bid for Jasper to host the event again in 2013. ...

• American grizzly expert joins area research program

  July 26, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  An American researcher has joined the Foothills Research Institute’s (FRI) grizzly bear program in hopes of developing a more efficient and cost-effective way of counting the bears. Tabitha Graves is a wildlife biologist who has been working with g...

• Gearing up for annual celebration of local culture

  July 26, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  A local arts group has received funding from the provincial government to be one of 35 host communities during Alberta Culture Days in September. Marriane Garrah, of It Only Takes a Dream (IOTAD), applied for a grant from Alberta Culture and recently fou...

• Archival discoveries a bonus for family reunion in Jasper

  July 26, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  A family reunion was made all the more sweet for eight cousins who came from across North America to Jasper and found pieces of their family history in local archives. “We’ve had reunions before but never out here, where grandpa and grandma l...

• Servers to share July 28 tips with AIDS organizations

  July 26, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  Servers from 21 local restaurants will donate half of their tips to two AIDS organizations July 28. “So if you’re going out to eat, go out to one of the restaurants that’s participating and if you’re serving, participate,” s...

• BBQ chefs to duke it out for charity

  July 26, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  More than a dozen grill masters will bring their barbecues and best recipes to the Jasper Legion on Sunday for an all-out, winner-take-all contest to be decided democratically. The legion’s inaugural BBQ Cook Off is set to get underway at 1 p.m. on...

• Communities in Bloom judges take Jasper in

  July 26, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  Jasper welcomed the national Communities in Bloom (CiB) judges July 16, with a full day of history, heritage, wildlife and nature. The day began with a welcoming reception at the historic Robson House, where judges Sandy Cairns and Alex Pearl drank coffe...

• Responding to each other

  July 26, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  It’s reassuring to know that there are systems in place to support the people in our community who regularly deal with traumatic situations. ...

• Emergency responders learn to administer ‘emotional first aid’ to one another

  July 26, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  A group of Jasper’s first responders were trained earlier this month to help colleagues overcome trauma. The two-day Group Crisis Intervention workshop taught local firefighters, RCMP officers, bylaw officers and others to be the first level of psy...

• Two cliff-jumping injuries at Horseshoe Lake

  July 26, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  Two women cliff jumping at Horseshoe Lake July 6 were rescued by Parks Canada staff after sustaining injuries resulting from jumps. The women were with separate parties at different locations on the lake and coincidentally ended up injuring themselves wi...

• Council news from July 17

  July 26, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  Crime down, for the most part Jasper saw relatively stable or declining rates of crime across most categories in the second quarter of 2012, according to data presented to council by RCMP Sgt. Dave Maludzinski. ...

• National Park News July 26

  July 26, 2012 - Author: PARKS CANADA

  New signage on Jasper’s Easy Trail system While hiking or biking in the valley this summer, be sure to check out the new interpretive signs along Jasper’s Easy Trail System. ...

• IN BRIEF - July 26, 2012

  July 26, 2012 - Author: FITZHUGH STAFF

  Jasper police arrest Hinton robbery suspects Less than an hour after a store in Hinton was robbed at knifepoint, members of the Jasper RCMP arrested two suspects on Highway 16 near Talbot Lake. Speak your mind on social policy Jasper residents are invi...

• Chasing Orchids

  July 26, 2012 - Author: NIKI WILSON - On Science

  My son Dylan runs down the Jasper House Interpretive Trail, stick in hand, at first oblivious to the hundreds of orchids that are just off the path. After a couple of sword fights with his buddy, us parents call a time out and point to the yellow lady sli...

• Concerns for wildlife persist as Discovery Walk construction looms

  July 19, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  While “scouting out” the site of the controversial Glacier Discovery Walk earlier this month, a group of concerned Jasperites saw eight mountain goats grazing below the ridge, further adding to their concerns that the project will negatively a...

• Bustling Salsa Night transforms Jasper legion into Latino haven

  July 19, 2012 - Author: NICOLE VEERMAN, EDITOR

  Artificial tea lights flicker on the tables. The air is thick with the moisture of sweaty bodies. Latino beats are blasting out of the sound system, drowning out the sound of feet quickly sliding around the dance floor – the feet of men and women tu...

• Welcome to politics, Bashir

  July 19, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  An Alberta teenager has injected himself into the national discourse by daring to ask a question of a federal minister. Bashir Mohamed, 17, boldly – and, it should be noted, rudely – stood up while Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was delive...

• Celebrating 60 years of the Lutheran mission in Jasper: Part two

  July 19, 2012 - Author: ROBSON FLETCHER, EDITOR

  Last weekend the Jasper Lutheran Church celebrated 60 years in Jasper with a special service and the launch of a book written by retired pastor John Ekstedt about the church’s unusual approach to maintaining a congregation in this unique environment...