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Dear Editor, Jasper National Park’s Manager of Resource Conservation has been fired for no stated reason but anyone who knows Dr. Wilmshurst is well aware of the great love and deep concern that he has for this park.

Dear Editor, Another cold, grey pallor has settled down on the town of Jasper, another unsettling and unnerving quiet smothers the June streets.

Parks Canada/R. Bray photo What is snowshoe jigging? Come and find out this Saturday as the Métis Nation of British Columbia hosts Jasper’s National Aboriginal Day celebrations.

Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra will headline Friday night of the 2015 Jasper Folk Music Festival. Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra is the Jasper Folk Music Festival's Friday night headliner.

E. Christie photo Canada Day committee receives grant from feds The Jasper Canada Day Committee received $7,000 from the federal government to host the community’s Canada Day festivities July 1.

S. Gustafson photo The founders of the Robson Valley Music Festival are using recycled tires and straw bales to construct a creative retreat, in hopes of generating additional revenue for the August event.

Megan Vicente picks up what appears to be a large clump of grey hair during Stewardship Day. | N. Veerman photo Litter pickers collected two metric tonnes of trash along Jasper’s highways, June 4. That equates to 2,000 kgs of garbage or 4,409.25 lbs.

Last minute registration for this weekend’s inaugural Jasper Gran Fondo and Jasper Triathlon is still possible.

Matt Staneland photo Like a phoenix out of the ashes, the Jasper Park Cycling Association is reborn.

Maynard and her three siblings, all of whom were placed in a residential school at a young age. Maynard is on the right. Others, pictured from left, include her two sisters Betty and Milly and brother Freddy.