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• Two men die in B.C. avalanche

  March 25, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  Two French men are dead following an avalanche caused during a heli-skiing holiday in Wells Gray Provincial Park in British Columbia near Valemount on Saturday, March 20. According to Valemount RCMP, the avalanche occurred when ten skiers and two guides ...

• Time to watch the skies

  March 25, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Conservation abounds in the spring skies. Ghost-like caribou catch aurora borealis through antenna-shaped antlers, attuned to milky way signals that  sends them into impossible landscapes. It is there they hide, odd creatures living on lichen. But l...

• The Joys spread the good word

  March 25, 2010 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  The Joys are making their way back to Jasper on a high note – and why shouldn’t they? The band is returning to Jasper to play at the D’ed Dog, and is coming off a US tour, which included a stint at one of the biggest music festivals in t...

• A new look for the Fitzhugh

  March 25, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  News is constantly evolving and so are we here at the Fitzhugh. You may notice a few changes in this week’s edition, as starting today, the paper has undergone several changes. It is our attempt to stay fresh and offer our readers a product that can...

• Alpine racers reach the podium

  March 25, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  The Jasper Alpine Racing Club posted a succession of top ten finishes this weekend, with Jacqueline Proc once again leading the way in what is turning out to be the most successful season for the team to date. Twenty-one skiers competed in two races on...

• Artist waxes poetic in latest show

  March 25, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  An artist coming to showcase her work in Jasper paints with the conviction that there is beauty in all of nature. Almost to prove her point, her primary artistic medium is nature in raw form: bees wax. Starting April 2 and running until April 18, the ...

• Dunster French horns travel the globe

  March 25, 2010 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  Keith Berg is a strong supporter of economic diversity. If a couple hundred people could do their own thing in the Robson Valley, the community would have a stronger economy. And he’s doing his part. Nestled down a dirt road and up a muddy hill ...

• Glass Menagerie explores fragile family relations

  March 25, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  The inner workings of the dysfunctional family have become common place on the television screen. Reality television explores the tensions of life in a rather exploitative fashion. So it’s refreshing to see the same theme explored in a different ...

• Avalanche conditions in Jasper potentially deadly: Parks

  March 25, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  Anyone thinking deadly avalanche conditions are only relevant for the mountain ranges to the west of Jasper couldn’t be more wrong. Jasper National Park is now warning that the risk of avalanches inside the park is considerable and potentially deadl...

• Remembering a war hero: Plaque commemorates memory of Patrick Langford

  March 25, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  “As you view this plaque from time to time, share the pride that Patrick was one of you.” With those words, Dennis Langford, the younger brother of Patrick Langford – the only Jasperite to be given military honours in the Second Worl...

• Federal government revamps avalanche danger scale

  March 25, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  In the wake of the recent avalanche deaths in British Columbia, the federal government has unveiled a new avalanche warning system that it believes will keep back-country users safer. But those deaths are also raising questions about how far the governme...

• Trees act as ‘facebook of the forest’: biologist

  March 25, 2010 - Author: TANYA FOUBERT - Special to the Fitzhugh

  A variety of species of wildlife in the Rocky Mountains are using trees in the woods and along the trails to communicate with each other. What that communication is and what exactly it means is not apparent, but one thing is certain: there is somethin...

• A curious woodpecker

  March 25, 2010 - Author: CARMEN OTTAWAY - Special to the Fitzhugh

  In the last few days I heard the pileated woodpecker begin its spring courting call. Two springs ago, I saw this fellow start this cavity with two distinct holes, one on top of the other. Last spring he pecked away until it was almost through the tree ...

• Special education funding increases across school board

  March 25, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  More students getting help The total amount of funding for children aged zero to six with special needs has nearly doubled over the past three years, as have the amount of children who are receiving special needs services in the Grande Yellowhead Regiona...

• No change to dispatch service – for now

  March 25, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  The Province is freezing plans to centralize ambulance dispatch services around the province, including in Jasper. “There are a lot of concerns in rural Alberta,” Alberta Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky said Tuesday, March 16, after making the...

• Town has few plans for Earth Hour

  March 25, 2010 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  Communities around the world this weekend will be turning out their lights and going about business without the use of electricity for Earth Hour this Saturday, March 27 at 8:30 p.m. The first Earth Hour was held in Sydney, Australia in 2007 in an effort...

• Solar investment paying off for Jasperite

  March 25, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  Mike Wasuita, a Jasper man who installed a solar panel powered water heating system in his home almost a year ago, believes making a difference globally requires people changing locally. In the process of acting on this belief, he’s beginning to rea...

• Town investigates change to mayoral selection process

  March 25, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  The town of Jasper is launching an exploratory committee to look into new ways of electing or possibly even appointing the Mayor of Jasper. The committee could recommend Jasperites lose the power to directly elect the mayor, who would instead be appointe...

• March 25, 2010

  March 25, 2010 - Author: THE FITZHUGH

  Mandatory helmet call wrong headed Seriously, it drives me mad to have people tell me what to do or how to live my life. As long as I’m not endangering anyone else, why is it any business of yours? If a person makes the decision not to wear a helme...

• Proc takes silver at Caribou cup

  March 18, 2010 - Author: BRADLEY HALLETT, INTERN

  The Jasper Freeride team had an amazing performance at Mt. Norquay last weekend as they competed in the Caribou Cup. Four racers from Jasper competed in the event which landed one up-and-coming star on the podium. “We had a great weekend,&r...