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Students at École Jasper Elementary School put their creative hats on to create links with kind words and pictures on them.

Break-A-Leg Theatre will bring its show to Jasper on Feb. 26 with doors at the Jasper Activity Centre Main Hall opening at 6 p.m. Photos supplied by Break-A-Leg Theatre director Don Engerdahl.

Tourism Jasper is anticipating more visitors this summer as health restrictions begin to ease. | Parks Canada/D.McDonald photo Jason Stockfish, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | advertising@fitzhugh.

Council members discussed possible renovations to the Jasper Activity Centre and Aquatic Centre during their Feb. 22 committee of the whole meeting. | J. Stockfish photo Jason Stockfish, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | advertising@fitzhugh.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] A Calgary man has died following a collision between a passenger vehicle and a semi on Highway 16, approximately one kilometre west of Jasper House. On Feb. 20 at around 12:15 a.m.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] Parks Canada will be conducting avalanche control work on Wednesday, Feb. 23, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the Icefields Parkway (Highway 93) south of Jasper.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] Parks Canada will be conducting avalanche control work on Wednesday, Feb. 23, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the Icefields Parkway (Highway 93) south of Jasper.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] Parks Canada is reminding residents and those working in Jasper National Park that a valid park pass must be displayed in their vehicles at all times.

Peter Amann, a certified mountain guide in Jasper for 40 years, kicked off the “Stories from the Mountains” series at the Jasper-Yellowhead Historical Museum & Archives in December.

The Jasper Beer and Spirits Festival returned at Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge last weekend after a one-year COVID hiatus. | P.Shokeir photos Peter Shokeir | editor@fitzhugh.