High school update
Progress continues at the Jasper Joint School Facility.
According to a report provided to the Grande Yellowhead School Division, the exterior masonry block walls and ceramic bathroom floors have been completed. The exterior aluminum windows, interior steel stud work, heating and ventilation and domestic water rough-in and sprinkler lines are all substantially completed.
Also ongoing is drywall boarding, interior painting, framing for the green roof and mechanical room piping and ductwork.
The school, which will house both the Jasper Junior/Senior High School and 脡cole Desrochers, is scheduled to open for the 2014/15 school year.
Grizzly talk
Gordon Stenhouse of the Foothills Research Institute will be in Jasper March 31 to speak about his research.
Stenhouse is a wildlife biologist and the program lead for the institute鈥檚 grizzly bear research.
His presentation 鈥淕rizzly Bears and Roads鈥擣rom a Bear鈥檚 Perspective鈥� is open to the public and will take place at the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives at 7 p.m.
Women of Willmore up for awards
Women of Willmore Wilderness, a film about women both past and present who have challenged traditions and blazed trails into the Canadian Rockies, is up for two awards at the Alberta Film and Television Rosie Awards.
It is nominated for Best Documentary Over 30 Minutes and Best Original Musical Score (Non-Fiction Over 30 Minutes).
The awards ceremony is April 12 in Calgary.
Characters in the film include Caroline Hinman, Mary Jobe, Ishbel (Hargreaves) Cochrane, Margie (Hargreaves) Duncan, Louis McMahon, Laura Vinson, Lavone Vinson, Margie Jamieson, Susan Feddema-Leonard, and more.
