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Photo courtesy of Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives Pick your apples, Jasper, or you might just kill a bear.

A disoriented 54-year-old hiker died Sept. 8 after falling off Parker Ridge, near the Columbia Icefield, in Banff National Park.

R. Bray photo This past weekend, fire specialists took advantage of a short window of opportunity for burning in the pre-designated Vine Creek prescribed fire area (know as a burn unit) 20 km north of the town of Jasper. From Sept. 13 through Sept.

Submitted Photo Culture Days is back in Jasper for a fifth year. The weekend, Sept. 27–29, will be packed with events celebrating the town’s arts community.

Council wage review Retired town manager George Krefting has been tasked with reviewing council’s remuneration. It is council policy to do such a review prior to each election. “Mr.

Park Warden Percy Hamilton Goodair died at this time 84 years ago. On his cairn, located in the Tonquin Valley, it says he “died on or about Sept. 12, 1929. Age 52.

While holding up a small white book the size of a novel, Peter Waterworth flips three-quarters of the way through the pages and stops.

Imagine standing on the summit of a mountain. It’s cold: so cold the air sears your nostrils every time you breathe in. You’ve climbed for two days, across glaciers, over crevasses and up sheer rock walls. You’re exhausted, but you can’t rest.

The Jasper Folk Music Festival is finally here. Friday, Sept. 13 the rockin’ weekend of good tunes will kick off, beginning with a set by Battle Royale winner Emma Acorn.

T. Nichols photo You can explain the physics of it until you’re choking on variables, but when an AW139 helicopter teeters off the ground, its whomping, six-metre blades spitting rocks and conjuring dust clouds, it feels like magic.