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With its Trans Mountain Expansion Project before the National Energy Board, energy company Kinder Morgan held an open house at the Jasper Activity Centre March 27.

Submitted photo Early next May, as the last of the snow seeps into the ground and Jasperites begin preparing for summer, hundreds of yogis will descend upon the town, to take part in the second annual Grounded in the Rockies Festival.

Lawren Harris. Athabasca Valley, Jasper Park, 1924. Oil on panel. Art Gallery of Alberta Collection, gift of the Enrest E. Poole Foundation, 1975.

Restoration program intern Luiz Drummond came to Jasper from Brazil and volunteered more than 600 hours last summer.

For the second year in a row, the Jasper Heritage Rodeo Association is asking for a break on the rental cost at the Jasper Activity Centre. The municipality increased the cost to $16,822 last year, bringing it up 240 per cent.

Putting Jasper on the eco-map Jasper is getting its first public charging station for electric cars.

High school update Progress continues at the Jasper Joint School Facility. According to a report provided to the Grande Yellowhead School Division, the exterior masonry block walls and ceramic bathroom floors have been completed.

Council will vote on the proposed capital budget for 2014—in the amount of nearly $4.6 million—at its April 1 regular meeting. The budget includes funding for the library and cultural centre—up to the $8.

N. Veerman photo The fifth year of Jasper Pride Weekend was the biggest party yet.

From housing prices to the push for street performers, laws governing development and expansion are an inescapable and omnipresent part of life in Jasper.