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Brew Books photo The mayor is requesting Jasper’s poetically inclined put their words down on paper and speak them out proudly in celebration of the annual Mayor’s Poetry Challenge.

Jasper was decked out in rainbows last weekend, to celebrate the sixth annual Jasper Pride Weekend.

N. Veerman photo Another week, another chance to be a hero. Last week, it was Jacob Bartziokas, winning Game 2 for Jasper in double overtime with a blast from the point.

T. Nichols photo The Bantam Bearcats invited teams from Grande Prairie, Spruce Grove, Hinton, High Prairie and Grande Cache to Jasper last weekend to take part in their annual home tournament.

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N. Veerman photo The Barley Kings are hockey royalty, annually asserting their dominance and earning their reign over the Jasper Hockey League.

N. Veerman photo This year’s Jasper Pride Weekend was the biggest and best attended in the festival’s six-year history.

Submitted photo For its final screening of the year, the Jasper Film Club is bringing in the big guns, with the Oscar-winning film Still Alice.

Submitted photo Jack Garton’s accordion doesn’t play that incessant bouncing polka, or that nauseating carnival-ride refrain. Jack Garton’s accordion plays raspy chords and smoky riffs: ones you usually don’t hear from the squeezebox.

N. Veerman photo If your barber lives on Fleet Street, take heed, as he might just be a throat slitting, vengeance-filled maniacal murderer out to kill anyone who dares sit in his chair.