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Red Haven will be playing at the Olive Bistro and Lounge on May 11 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door. Photo provided.

Friday, May 8 Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives, 7 p.m. Frank S. Smythe—the world’s first professional mountaineer—has two Canadian mountains named after him, one officially and another unofficially.

Students at Jasper Elementary school played their recorders during the Yellowhead Regional Arts Festival last week.Photo - P Clarke.

N. Veerman photo The Jasper Dance Program celebrated International Dance Day with its final performance of the season, April 29.

N. Gaboury/Parks Canada photo With the exception of a few sporadic snow storms, spring arrived early this year in Jasper National Park.

N. Veerman photo While most of us were huddled inside cursing Mother Nature, April 24, hundreds of high school students were at Centennial Field, playing rugby in the snow.

Gordie Tentrees will be preforming at the Olive Bistro and Lounge on May 4. The show starts are 8 p.m. and tickets are $10 at the door. Photo provided.

Nearly 20 Canadian poets—and a poetry writing robot—are headed to Jasper on the Great Canadian PoeTrain. The tour, in celebration of National Poetry Month, will stop at the Jasper Heritage Train Station Friday, April 24.

Dear Editor, I’m not pleased about MP Jim Eglinski’s comment “don’t expect changes to the foreign worker program.” The federal Conservatives have their heads in the sand on this one.