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N. Veerman photo “In Jasper it doesn’t matter who you love—it matters that you love!” Those are the words the Jasper Pride Festival Society lives by. They’re words of welcome.

M. Figueira photo The joint review that was undertaken last year to assess the town’s current land use planning and development processes will be completed in a few weeks.

Photo courtesy of the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives Ever since legendary Rocky Mountain explorer Mary Schaffer—guided by a hand-drawn Stony Indian map—picked her way there in 1908, Jasper’s Maligne Lake has captured the imagination of adventu

Marj Buerger and Krysta Fitzgerald got engaged during Jasper Pride. Submitted photo It wasn’t until her partner, Marj Buerger, asked her to close her eyes that Krysta Fitzgerald put two and two together.

M. Bradley photo One of the juvenile cougars that was conspicuously hanging around town last December was struck by a train earlier this month.

Richard Allaway photo Because of the effects of new government legislation, Robinsons Foods will no longer offer Western Union money transfers as of March 31.

N. Veerman photo The Barley Kings are hockey royalty, annually asserting their dominance and earning their reign over the Jasper Hockey League.

N. Veerman photo This year’s Jasper Pride Weekend was the biggest and best attended in the festival’s six-year history.

Submitted photo For its final screening of the year, the Jasper Film Club is bringing in the big guns, with the Oscar-winning film Still Alice.

Submitted photo Jack Garton’s accordion doesn’t play that incessant bouncing polka, or that nauseating carnival-ride refrain. Jack Garton’s accordion plays raspy chords and smoky riffs: ones you usually don’t hear from the squeezebox.