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The Icefields Parkway was the first road in the world that could take people to the toe of a glacier. This photo was taken around 1940 and shows the Athabasca Glacier in the distance.Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

TD Bank presented a $15,000 cheque to the Jasper Pride Festival, Feb. 22. T. Loh photo. Community spirits ran high as the Jasper Pride Festival Society was presented with a $15,000 cheque from TD Bank, Feb. 22.

Jasperite Raj Bhai receives garlands of gratitude from a group of students in his hometown of Lisakhani, Nepal, where work to replace a school leveled by an earthquake in 2015 has begun. Photo courtesy Raj Bhai.

Jasper National Park will be holding a public forum on March 14 to update Canadians on the progress, accomplishments and challenges with implementing the park’s management plan.

There is an old adage that says what looks good on paper doesn’t always work in real life. Nowhere is this more often the case then in politics, where ideology and political tact often seem to supersede the facts.

Dear editor, In your extensive coverage of Jasper’s Royal Canadian Legion last week (51°µÍø Feb. 23, 2017), there was not a word about the uncomfortable fact that there is a continued prohibition against me entering their premises.

Jasperites can catch David James and his Big River Band at the Legion on Mar. 3 at 9 p.m. Tickets are $35. Photo provided.

Shred Kelly regularly draws sold out crowds at the Jasper Royal Canadian Legion. Brian Van Tighem photo. If there had been live music at Cheers we might still all know Norm’s name.

The Jasper Community garden now includes 56 plots, more than double the number of plots when it moved five years ago to its new location on Connaught Drive. Facebook photo Jasper’s community garden is about to bust out of its first planter.

The Jasper Freeride Ski Team proved they have what it takes to compete with the best of the best during two provincial mogul competitions at Castle Mountain and Fernie, B.C. earlier this month. In Castle Mountain on Feb.