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Matricia Bauer and her daughter Mackenzie Brown perform during National Indigenous Peoples Day at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge on June 21. | P.Shokeir photo Peter Shokeir | editor@fitzhugh.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] The Jasper Canada Day Committee is planning to show respect and support for the Indigenous community through programming over the summer.

Whistlers Campground’s new registration centre in Jasper National Park is ready to welcome visitors. | Parks Canada photo Peter Shokeir | editor@fitzhugh.

Kristin Robinson is a small business owner and a mother of three children. | A.Howat photo Ali Howat, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | reporter@fitzhugh.

The Ray Elliot Band performs outside Candy Bear Lair in 2017. | File photo Ali Howat, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | [email protected] Habitat for the Arts has opened busking applications for musicians to perform in Jasper this summer.

The Municipality of Jasper will repeal its two mandatory mask bylaws once the province reaches stage three of its Open For Summer plan. Jasper has been mandating face coverings for almost a year.

A map detailing the boundaries of the paid parking pilot project, which is slated to begin early July. | MOJ photo Peter Shokeir | editor@fitzhugh.

Tourism Jasper and Parks Canada want to encourage Albertans to “BYOB” this summer. | Parks Canada/N.Gaboury photo Ali Howat, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | reporter@fitzhugh.

In celebration of Seniors’ Week, students from the elementary school, high school and daycare took part in a silly walking parade on June 10 to entertain residents of Alpine Summit Seniors Lodge and Pine Grove Senior Citizens Manor.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] Jasper National Park is warning travellers that work on rock slope stabilization begins June 14 along Highway 16, or Yellowhead Highway, approximately 15 kilometres west of the Jasper townsite.