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Restoration program intern Luiz Drummond came to Jasper from Brazil and volunteered more than 600 hours last summer.

For the second year in a row, the Jasper Heritage Rodeo Association is asking for a break on the rental cost at the Jasper Activity Centre. The municipality increased the cost to $16,822 last year, bringing it up 240 per cent.

The Jasper Atom Bears participated in the annual Edmonton Northstars Extreme tournament, hosted here in Jasper, this past weekend, and did themselves proud against some tough teams from the city.

Putting Jasper on the eco-map Jasper is getting its first public charging station for electric cars.

High school update Progress continues at the Jasper Joint School Facility. According to a report provided to the Grande Yellowhead School Division, the exterior masonry block walls and ceramic bathroom floors have been completed.

Jasper, it’s almost time to engage. Sometime in the next four weeks, Parks Canada will release its long-awaited draft implementation strategy for the Maligne Valley, and at that time, yet another public engagement process will begin.

Council will vote on the proposed capital budget for 2014—in the amount of nearly $4.6 million—at its April 1 regular meeting. The budget includes funding for the library and cultural centre—up to the $8.

N. Veerman photo The fifth year of Jasper Pride Weekend was the biggest party yet.

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

Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives If it wasn’t for a disgruntled railroad employee, who knows when Jasper’s children would have started school. In 1914, Webb B.