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Marco Bulfon is so grateful for the treatment his baby sister received at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton he donated $2,680 to its charitable foundation earlier this month. Photo provided.

Students with the University of Alberta have been sampling lakes throughout the mountain national parks, such as Hunagee Pond in Yoho National Park, to study the effects of invasive sport fish and the impact of climate change.

The Cottonwood Corrals Association, the Jasper Park Cycling Association and The Yellowhead Regional Arts Festival Society each received $4,166. P. Clarke photo.

Joe Lescene, Craig Thomson and Don Morris are taking part in the ninth annual Military Police National Motorcycle Relay. They stopped in Jasper on Aug. 2. Craig Gilbert photo The military police rolled into Jasper in intimidating fashion last week.

Jasmine Bowen, owner of Live History, will be in Jasper on Sept. 10 to teach two theatre workshops. Submitted photo. If you thought theatre was a dying medium you might want to think again.

Midnight Vesta will be performing at the Jasper Royal Canadian Legion on Aug 23 at 8 p.m. P. Clarke photo. For all you cityslickers out there make sure to mark Aug. 23 on your calendar because Jasper is about to get a taste of Toronto.

Council will decide on a new name for the exchange lands on Aug. 15. P. Clarke photo.

Highway 93 has reopened between Radium Hot Springs and the B.C.-Alberta border. Parks Canada initially closed the highway in both directions on Aug.2 due to smoke from the Verdant Creek wildfire burning in Kootenay National Park.

Bull Trout are listed as “threatened” by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). J.

Jim Everard recently hiked to the top of Mount Fryatt and conducted a smudge ceremony. Experts welcomed his gesture of reconciliation, but suggested there are more appropriate ways to reconcile with Indigenous peoples. Photo provided.