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Sunhouse Cafe is one of the Jasper businesses raising money for wildfire relief in Australia. Pictured from left: Managers Tim Starck and Vladi Dostalova | F.Dragon photo Fuchsia Dragon | publisher@fitzhugh.

Jasper is under an Extreme Cold Warning and two days this month have been the coldest recorded by Environment Canada. Yesterday, January 13, hit -40.

Prior to the formation of Jasper Forest Park, the area was home to a number of Métis families who were the centre of human development in the Jasper region.

Building work has finally finished on a new school in Lisakhani, Nepal, replacing one destroyed by an earthquake in 2015 | Supplied photos Fuchsia Dragon | publisher@fitzhugh.

Travel Alberta’s annual report shows an increase in tourism to the province but a small drop in national park attendance | F.Dragon photo Fuchsia Dragon | publisher@fitzhugh.

Get your layers ready - this week is going to be a cold one. Today (Saturday, January 11) will be mainly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of flurries this morning and early this afternoon.

Young skiers from across the province descended on Marmot Basin last weekend for Jasper Freeride’s Club Competition and the Alberta Winter Games qualifier. | @explorejasper photo Fuchsia Dragon | publisher@fitzhugh.

Helmut Kreiner looked after Lions Park in Jasper for 25 years. His legacy will live on there with a memorial bench, commemorated by his family and Jasper Lions Club on Friday | F.Dragon photo Fuchsia Dragon | publisher@fitzhugh.

Parks Canada photo It was a record first day for Jasper National Park camping reservations on Tuesday. Reservations opened for frontcountry camping in Jasper on January 7.

Jasper councillors voted for function and safety at Tuesday afternoon’s meeting when they decided to spend nearly $1.5 million on a new floor slab and boards for Jasper Arena. | File photo Nicolle Hodges | reporter@fitzhugh.