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• Jasper dominates 24 Hours of Adrenalin

  July 29, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  When Cory Wallace was forced to drop out of last year’s 24 Hours of Adrenalin race, his mind was already made up for the 2010 race: just win.  “It gutted me to see other people still biking and I was on the sidelines,” Wallace said...

• Where's my pet?

  July 29, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  Recently I was in New York. In a city that practically defines the word overcrowded, people kept dogs, cats, lizards, whatever kind of pet you can imagine in their rented apartments. I saw a man who kept a full-size pitbull in his eighth floor apartment. ...

• A life worth remembering

  July 29, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  The contribution Willi Pfisterer has made to mountain life and safety in the Canadian Rockies is in a word, remarkable. Credited with more than 700 rescues during four decades of work, Pfisterer’s death at 83 years of age is a time for mourning, but...

• Horsepower exhibit on display at rodeo

  July 29, 2010 - Author: ANNALEE GRANT, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  The It Only Takes a Dream (IOTAD) foundation are helping celebrate the Jasper Heritage Rodeo in August by bringing in an art exhibit that will explore the bond between man and horse. The exhibit, titled ‘Horsepower’ will display paintings and...

• Principal stares down Death Race

  July 29, 2010 - Author: ANNALEE GRANT, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  Jasper Elementary School principal Raymond Blanchette-Dubé is taking a second run at the Death Race in Grand Cache this weekend, along with a team of new racers.  Blanchette-Dubé is running leg two of the grueling race along with David Amiot, a pr...

• Teams work food strategies at 24 Hours of Adrenalin

  July 29, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Soloist Dave MacDowell rolls into his pit stop following his third lap of the 24 Hours of Adrenalin. The temperature has peaked around 28 degrees. A mound of watermelon and oranges appear in front of MacDowell, as he tries to take in an amount which will ...

• In the still of the night

  July 29, 2010 - Author: FITZHUGH STAFF

  Moonlight photographers come to Jasper Several Jasperites spent a few nights outside as part of a night photography workshop with Edmonton photographer Chantal Thorlakson, beginning Sunday evening.  Each aspiring photographer brought their equipmen...

• Lost ceremonial dress reunited with owner

  July 29, 2010 - Author: ANNALEE GRANT, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  It may have gone out with a box of old dishes, or photo frames. Maybe it got tangled up with used children’s clothes. One thing was certain – Ceilidh Evans’ heirloom jingle dress was gone. ...

• Rolling Stone

  July 29, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  Jasper plans to move historic rock To most, it’s something of an eyesore. A giant rock, the ground churned up around it, sitting in the middle of a parking lot. It’s tricky to maneuver around for cars and not very attractive to look at. But t...

• Town explains garbage rate increase

  July 29, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  Questions are being raised about the Town of Jasper’s increase in garbage collection fees this year by prominent landlords in town. There have been a number of waste related fee increases in Jasper in 2010. An extra $2 per month recycling fee was a...

• FireSmart goes directly to neighbourhoods

  July 29, 2010 - Author: ANNALEE GRANT, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  The municipality of Jasper and Parks Canada are bringing FireSmart education to a neighbourhood near you.  On Wednesday, July 21, Deputy Fire Chief Ron Stanko and vegetation and fire specialist for the Jasper National Park Alan Westhaver spent the e...

• Propane leak closes gas station

  July 29, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  When the Jasper Fire Department pagers went off on July 26, it sounded like a case of deja vu all over again. The fire department responded to a propane leak at the Petro Canada on Connaught Dr. next to Robinson’s grocery at 11 a.m. Emergency crews...

• Black bear and cubs treed in town

  July 29, 2010 - Author: ANNALEE GRANT, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  A black bear and her two cubs were stuck in a tree in Jasper for two hours on July 25, after a group of onlookers prevented her from climbing back down and escaping to the wilderness. The cinnamon-coloured mother bear climbed a tree between the Tonquin I...

• Man sentenced to probation for assault

  July 29, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  A 20-year-old man from Jasper has been sentenced to 18-months of probation following a guilty plea in an assault charge. Dustin Hedge was sentenced at the July 22, session of Jasper Provincial Court. His travels through the court system have taken a len...

• Car plunges 100 metres off parkway

  July 29, 2010 - Author: ANNALEE GRANT, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  Jasper RCMP responded to a number of motor vehicle accidents on and after July 22, including one single-vehicle incident that sent one man to hospital in Edmonton.  On July 24, a GMC Suburban was travelling north on Highway 93 between 5 and 6 a.m. w...

• Krefting pushes back retirement

  July 29, 2010 - Author: CAMERON STRANDBERG, REPORTER

  Bucking plans for his retirement from the town’s administration this year, municipal manager George Krefting will continue on with his job until at least October 2011. Krefting, 63, had planned to let his contract with the town expire this year fol...

• IN BRIEF - July 29, 2010

  July 29, 2010 - Author: FITZHUGH STAFF

  Campfire costs tourists $25 each Three visitors have been found guilty of setting camp fires in Jasper National Park while hiking in the park.  Benefit for explosion victims set A barbecue is being held in the CIBC parking lot on Friday, July 30 t...

• Parks rescue pioneer, legend dies

  July 29, 2010 - Author: LYNN MARTEL - Special to the Fitzhugh

  Barrel-chested with a rolling mountain guide’s gait, Tyrolean felt hat, red wool knicker socks with specially knitted rows to cover his muscular calves and a hooked Peterson pipe always at his lips, when Brad White first met Willi Pfisterer in 1982 ...

• Fun, charity motivates Jasper cyclists

  July 22, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Pam Roy and Vidal Michaud love to ride – a lot. So much so, the couple is entering the gruelling seven-day TransRockies race from Fernie, B.C. to Canmore next month, just for the fun of it. “It came up and we decided to do it. Even if we&rsq...

• Ten rescued from explosion

  July 22, 2010 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  A catastrophic explosion levelled the staff accommodation building at Pyramid Riding Stables on Saturday, sending ten to hospital. The blast occurred at 11:20 p.m., lighting up the night sky and casting flames into the trees. Insulation was thrown high i...