Band turkey dinner tonight
Cravings for turkey dinner and live music will be satisfied at tonight’s (Thursday, March 7) band turkey dinner fundraiser at the Activity Centre.
The dinner runs from 5 to 8 p.m. with continuous double serving lines throughout the night. To compliment the delicious home-cooked meal and delectable dessert, the senior and jazz bands will play tunes all evening.
This is the 38th annual Jasper Junior/Senior High School (JHS) band turkey dinner. All money raised benefits the school’s band program, which has 75 students this year.
Tickets are available at the door and are $15 for adults and $5 for students.
New museum roof…one square foot at a time.
It was 50 years ago that the community of Jasper, mostly volunteers, came together, to build their new museum. Now, with the roof leaking, the museum is calling on the community once more.
In order to ensure the safety and continued preservation of the museum’s irreplaceable collection, the museum is offering to sell the roof. For a donation of $25, the donor will receive one square foot of the museum’s roof.
“We have set an immediate goal of $70,000 to cover the cost to repair the entire roof,” said Anna Marie Couture, a board member of the Jasper Yellowhead Museum and Archives.
The museum will be starting a door to door campaign in Jasper starting around March 18.
The Jasper Yellowhead Museum & Archives has achieved a standard of museum and archival excellence that has made it the go-to repository for researchers and visitors interested in the human and natural history of Jasper National Park as well as the Yellowhead corridor, says Couture.
Penny donations, as of Feb.21, now total $1,427.59 and the library is still collecting. Any one interested in buying a square foot of roof, or two or three ... can visit www.jaspermuseum.org, click on events and pay via Paypal. Visting the museum or writing a cheque also works.
Davis Dyslexia Correction Program
Paddy Carson, a Davis Dyslexia Facilitator, is hosting an information sessions at École Desrochers on March 12, at 7 p.m. Although most people associate dyslexia with letter reversals and reading difficulties, dyslexia encompasses a much larger umbrella of learning difficulties.
Included under the spectrum of dyslexia are ADD, ADHD, dyscalculia (math difficulties), dysgraphia (writing), auditory and/or visual difficulties.
For further information please contact Carson at [email protected] or 780-489-6225.
Visit www.dyselxiagifted.com.
