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Starting bright and early on Friday, March 1, snow kept stacking up in Jasper until the morning hours on Sunday, March 3. Accumulating up to 60 cm in some areas, this was the largest snowfall of the 2012/13 season.

Pennies for Jasper museum roof For the month of February, École Desrochers students in Jasper collected pennies to donate to the Jasper-Yellowhead Historical Society’s Repair the Roof Fund.

Four hundred people at the Activity Centre enjoyed a succulent turkey dinner prepared by chef Diane Johnston and countless parent and student volunteers.

According to John Wilmshurst, acting resource conservation manager for JNP, there is DNA evidence that proves caribou have been living in the park boundary area for thousands of years. “Woodland caribou are what they call a meta-population.

“While there was never a number attached to what you could receive, it was an incentive for people to donate,” said Garrah. “I think the fact that the province was offering supplemental donation did result in people openly donating.

While surrounded by maps, Google Earth images of his route and handwritten notes breaking down where he’ll be each day of the trip, Van Tighem said he chose Highway 93 because of Jasper’s sister city relationship with Wickenburg—the

The juniors spent their final two ice times competing against each other in a house tournament, said Jasper Curling Club president Lee Chorley. The wind up was a way of recognizing the junior curlers and celebrating tournament winners.

Stompin’ Tom Connors thought he had preserved his place in the great Canadian songbook when he rhymed about tobacco pickers, miners, long-haul truck drivers and tomato farmers.

The three-day spectacle began with a school-wide assembly where Science in Motion outreach worker Dan Alfano gave students a “bite-sized science” presentation.

In that 2002 study, Jasper’s changing demographic and higher foreign worker population was not addressed, said Chad Gulevich, one of JCHC’s directors.