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The Lionyls, Alex Jee, Anto Rizzuti, Robbie Rigg and Zach Raynor. Ontario foursome the Lionyls are touring Canada behind their self-titled first album. They hit the Jasper Legion on Sept.

by Craig Gilbert | [email protected] The grey-clad Wolfpak of Hinton rolled into Jasper like the stormclouds that decided to join the forest fire smoke overhead for the return of football in the mountain town on Sept. 8.

Coming off a season-capping win over a big city squad with just seven players at the end of last season, Jasper Glaciers coach Chuck MacKinnon has a good feeling about tomorrow’s home opener against rival Hinton.

The fifth annual Tour of Alberta has cycled through Jasper and is in the rear view, or (bike) side mirror. Starting in Jasper on Sept. 1 and ending in Edmonton on Sept.

The cycle continues, as the fourth annual ATB Tour of Alberta soon comes to town. It’s Canada’s first and highest ranked professional road cycling stage race, according to organizers, and has an international audience of over 40 million viewers.

Rot’n Dan Shinnan and Boogie Patrol, including bass man Nigel Gale, just about brought the house down at the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival Aug. 17-20. I C. Gilbert photo. This is the first in a series of Q&As we held with artists at SARB25.

Natalie Allin placed sixth at the 2017 Miss Canada World pageant. A local beauty queen shone bright on a national stage last week, finishing in the top six of the Miss World Canada Pageant.

Colten Thomas continued his successful season at the Region B swimming championship by winning the gold medal in the 50-metre back stroke and silver in the 100m freestyle, Aug. 12-13.

The financial picture for the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives appears to be headed in the right direction thanks in large part to $49,000 in municipal funding. Council unanimously approved supporting the museum on Aug.

Jasmine Bowen, owner of Live History, will be in Jasper on Sept. 10 to teach two theatre workshops. Submitted photo. If you thought theatre was a dying medium you might want to think again.