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Jian Ghomeshi’s top five In WestJet’s Up! magazine, CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi highlighted the Jasper Legion in his top five venues to see a concert. The Legion appears alongside the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, Calif.

High five, Jasperites! You rocked the polls on Monday. A total of 1,486 of you showed up and cast your vote. That’s 43 per cent of eligible voters, which is up seven percentage points from the 2010 election.

Due to the Fitzhugh's print deadlines, we were unable to address this issue in our Oct. 17 edition of the paper. In our effort to provide the community with the best possible coverage ahead of the Oct.

Students of Jasper Junior/Senior High School put candidates for mayor, council and school trustee on the spot, Oct. 17, in their very own all candidates forum.

Human resource managers from around the region gathered in Hinton last week to gauge how recent changes to the temporary foreign worker program will affect their businesses.

1. What is your motivation for running in the election this year? Betsy DeClercq (incumbent) I have a passion for children, and to be a small part of the opportunity to share in the educational process for our students is very special.

1. What is your motivation for running in the election this year? Betsy DeClercq (incumbent) I have a passion for children, and to be a small part of the opportunity to share in the educational process for our students is very special.

Creative Commons photo Despite what seemed like an unwieldy number of candidates, the Oct. 9 all candidates forum gave each prospective mayor and councillor a chance to share their platform and answer at least one question from the crowd.

Printed here are the final questions the Fitzhugh posed to the 23 candidates running for mayor and council in the Oct. 21 municipal election.

T. Nichols photo Deputy Fire Chief Don Smith visited the Jasper Elementary School Oct. 8 as part of a week-long series of visits to talk to kids about fire prevention.