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Dear Editor, I recently attended the Parks Forum at the activity centre.

For the second year in a row, Keith Thibout was the fastest runner in the annual 10-kilometre Root Romp, Oct. 18, earning a gold medal in the adult male category.

Submitted photo If you lived in Philadelphia in the early 1900s, you likely would have known Mary Schäffer as a polite socialite. But if you lived in the Canadian Rockies, there’s a good chance you knew her as Yahe-Weha, or Mountain Woman.

Creative Commons photo The Jasper Junior/Senior High School volleyball program is having a landmark year. For the first time ever Jasper has been able to field six teams, with close to 60 players enrolled in the program from every grade.

N. Veerman photo The Glacier defense played an outstanding home game, Oct. 17, scoring two touchdowns, to help the Glaciers defeat the Hinton Wolfpak 75–6.

N. Veerman photo The Glaciers had to wait three weeks for redemption after a heartbreaking two-point loss in Edson Sept. 18.

R. Bray/Parks Canada photo Long ago, there were beings of light and energy called Kisikookuk. These “star people” roamed the realities looking for “new experiences, new understandings and new perspectives.

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Dear Editor, I can certainly understand Grant Potter’s frustration—as stated in the Letters to the Editor in your last edition—with the approval process for new commercial developments in our national parks.

R. Bray/Parks Canada photo Under Jasper's expansive night skies, Oct. 18, celestial music will ring out into the natural amphitheatre of our landscape.