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N. Veerman photo Whenever the Jasper Glaciers six-a-side football team travels to Edson, it is a close hard-fought game. This year’s season opening tilt was no exception.

Prescribed burn delayed again Mother Nature kiboshed the plans of Parks Canada’s fire management team to undertake a small burn near Vine Creek, Sept. 21. The winds were too strong to safely ignite a fire. So, yet again, the burn has been delayed.

Nature has a powerful healing quality.

A couple of old water valves are leaking, causing water to bubble up to the surface at two intersections on Patricia Street.

Photo courtesy of Wildrose Official provincial opposition leader Danielle Smith stopped in Jasper last week, to meet with council and members of the Jasper Park Chamber of Commerce, during her tour of the West Yellowhead riding.

As bright yellow tents popped up around Marmot Meadows, Sept. 19, a 16-month-old baby crawled through the maze of tent pegs and guylines, checking out the scene.

April Callow photo A few of the park’s illusive cougars have been seen peeking their faces out of the bushes in the last few weeks, giving passersby an uncommon treat.

It was a math exam lorded over by a stern substitute teacher that sparked the whole thing. During the test Imogen Pohl dropped her pencil, and when she tried to retrieve it she got lambasted by the sub.

Photo courtesy of Communities in Bloom Jasper was recognized for innovation in urban forestry protection at the international Communities in Bloom competition in Charlottetown, PEI, Sept. 20.

N. Veerman photo Jasperites embraced their creativity, earlier this week, transforming milk jugs, detergent bottles, egg cartons, plastic containers, sticks and coiled metal into creatures of all shapes and sizes using paper mache.