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Submitted photo Six months ago, Bella Tiesenhausen got on a plane to Panama. Although a sunny place to travel, the eight-year-old wasn’t going on vacation.

Submitted photo. “Sometimes you have a plan and it all goes beautifully and you think, ‘Thank Christ I had a plan.’ Sometimes you walk blindly into the dark and let the moment take you on the journey it has mapped out for you.

Creative Commons photo It’s spring, and as the days lengthen and warm up, we listen for the return of the robins. Soon, we’ll open our windows and wake to their enthusiastic chirping, their songs promising us green leaves and long summer days.

T. Nichols photo The Jasper Curling Club’s mixed bonspiel drew players from across the province to town last weekend, and for many it was their last chance to compete for the season.

From housing prices to the push for street performers, laws governing development and expansion are an inescapable and omnipresent part of life in Jasper.

The two young cats that were abandoned at the Jasper Elementary School March 17 “are doing excellent,” according to their temporary foster mom, Karen Dyck.

For the second year in a row, the Jasper Brewing Co. Barley Kings came out on top in the Commercial League Championships, March 30.N.

With its Trans Mountain Expansion Project before the National Energy Board, energy company Kinder Morgan held an open house at the Jasper Activity Centre March 27.

Submitted photo Early next May, as the last of the snow seeps into the ground and Jasperites begin preparing for summer, hundreds of yogis will descend upon the town, to take part in the second annual Grounded in the Rockies Festival.

Lawren Harris. Athabasca Valley, Jasper Park, 1924. Oil on panel. Art Gallery of Alberta Collection, gift of the Enrest E. Poole Foundation, 1975.