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File photo :: N. Veerman photo Community Dinners are back For more than a decade, Jasperites have shared Sunday dinners together at the Jasper Activity Centre.

Photo courtesy of the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives The door to Shangrila will remain locked until March, after Parks Canada’s recent announcement on delayed winter access to the Maligne Valley.

R. Gruys photo On Dec. 22 Parks Canada announced that it was restricting winter access to the Maligne Valley until Feb. 28, and Whistler Creek until Feb. 15.

Parks Canada photo Parks Canada has collared both of the juvenile cougars seen skulking around the townsite the past six weeks and has relocated one of them to the east end of the park.

R. Buchanan photo At birth, a caribou calf slips from its mother to the ground, a tangle of endless limbs and slick fur.

N. Veerman photo Despite significant opposition, Parks Canada has—for the second time—given conditional approval to the rezoning of two lots on Connaught Drive for the development of an apartment building.

T. Nichols photo A Jasper couple left its mark on the Hinton Healthcare Centre early this month when mother Diana Donat gave birth to the town’s New Year’s baby. Markus Jan Valecia was born at 9:27 a.m. on Dec.

Parks Canada wildlife specialists completed the 28th annual roadside elk count in Jasper National Park this December. The park’s elk count started in 1986 to monitor local population trends.

N. Veerman photo An early morning crash in Jasper has left a Greyhound bus in tatters, but no one seriously injured. Just before 6 a.m. on Jan. 5, Greyhound bus No. 5046—en route from Prince George, B.C.

Parks Canada/R. Gruys photo Parks Canada has closed the Maligne and Whistler Creek valleys for the majority of the winter. According to an email announcement made Dec. 22, winter recreational access to the Maligne Valley will be delayed until Feb.