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Follow these tips from Alberta Health Services to help keep safe on ice this winter. | File photo Winter is here! If you’re planning to get outside, make plans to be safe.

Hugh Lecky and his wife Johanne Roy are pictured at the top of Cerro Madsen in Patagonia, Argentina in 2017. The mountain in the background is Mt Fitz Roy. | Supplied photo Joanne McQuarrie, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | reporter@fitzhugh.

Joanne McQuarrie, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | [email protected] To pass the 2021 operating budget outright, or an interim operating budget: that decision was rallied around the table at the town's committee of the whole meeting on Dec.

Parks Canada firefighters gathered for a photo in early October after actioning the Lions Head fire in Oregon. The crews are from Alberta and Ontario.

Outbreaks have been declared at both Seton - Jasper Healthcare Centre and Alpine Summit Seniors Lodge. Five cases are associated with the hospital, and eight with the seniors' home.

The combined enthusiasm of Joe Urie and Nicole Veerman has led to a fantastic start to the December Project, the fourth year for this motivating fundraiser. | Supplied photo Joanne McQuarrie, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | reporter@fitzhugh.

Cabin Creek properties' 42-year leases with Parks Canada expire in 2022 and some residents are getting the groundwork done now. | File photo Joanne McQuarrie, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | reporter@fitzhugh.

Tourism Jasper will receive a share of $8 million from the provincial government to help bring visitors to the town in spring and summer 2021.| File photo Joanne McQuarrie, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | reporter@fitzhugh.

Twenty hours of work went into Jennifer Ottaway's huge Christmas card mural, put on display at the St. Mary and St. George Anglican Church on Dec. 5. It features a detailed image of the help King Wenceslas and a page gave to an impoverished man. | J.

Enid and Urb Rolin lived in Jasper for 21 years. They raised Diane and Bruce and were part of many community groups before moving away in 1982. The Rolins live in Kamloops now but have fond memories of Jasper.