The annual Enviro Fair will be held this weekend, and a full day of activities on the Info Centre lawn is planned. 

The fair finishes up Environment Week with a bang, and will run this year from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Local businesses and organizations will have booths set up highlighting their environmental initiatives. The Environmental Stewardship Awards will be presented, which will honour groups that have been nominated by the public. 

An E-waste round up and Take It Or Leave It is being held at the Old Fire Hall parking lot. Jasperites are invited to bring items that are still in good condition that they would like to see recycled by other community members, or drop off things such as old computers and other electronics for the E-waste round up.

Janet Cooper, environmental stewardship co-ordinator for the municipality of Jasper would like to remind the public that the Take It Or Leave It event is not a junk drop off, and that appliances will not be accepted this year. 

Cooper said the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge is bringing by a selection of old-style televisions that are still in very good condition.

The Enviro Fair will also bring out the hockey fans for the Green Cup Road Hockey Tournament. Elm St., located next to the Jasper Artist’s Guild, will be closed off for the friendly competition. 

There will be a hot dog stand as a concession for the entire event. 

The fair will also see the presentation of the Bike Town winners. Three bikes are being given away for the summer to a few lucky Jasper residents, who demonstrated a need for a bicycle through an essay contest. The bikes are donated by Freewheel every year. 

Cooper said should the event be rained out, they have a back-up location at the activity centre, but she hopes to be able to keep the event outside. 

“We’re hoping for a sunny day,” she said. 

Throughout the entire day, performers and musicians of all kinds will be on the stage, organized by Kim Wallace. Paulette Blanchette-Dubé will do a poetry reading, a group will perform a story about water and there will be music with local musicians Kai Okazaki and Monika Schaefer. 

Wallace says the performers are all using the environment as their muse, and using their various artistic platforms to express what it means to them.