Sustainability trip postponed
The Jasper Junior/Senior High School students scheduled to be in Slave Lake last weekend had to postpone their trip indefinitely because of funding and scheduling issues.
The sustainability students were meant to be in the community from April 18-21 to film a 10-minute documentary about how youth would like to see their hometown rebuilt after the devastating 2011 fire that wiped out a large portion of the town’s infrastructure.
Free camping for a cause
Hinton/Jasper KOA Campground is offering one free night of camping, May 11, to all guests who pay to camp on May 10.
The deal is in celebration of the 10th anniversary of KOA Care Camps “Big Weekend.” Along with the free night of camping, there will also be some fun events designed to entertain campers and help raise funds to support KOA Care Camps—summer camps around North America that provide “a true summer camp experience for children with cancer and their siblings,” according to a press release.
Last year, the “Big Weekend” raised more than $500,000.
Kids parade for volunteers
Students from Jasper Elementary School will parade around town, April 26, to show their appreciation for community members and parents who volunteer in their school.
The parade begins at 10:45 a.m. and wraps up at noon. Along the way, the students will stop in seven places to give a cheer for those volunteers.
The elementary school invites community members to meet the students on the street to either join in the parade or a cheer.
Muni receives clean audit
An independent firm of chartered accountants, Hawkings Epp Dumont, LLP, presented a clean municipal audit at council’s April 16 meeting.
“There was a decrease in cash, decrease in deferred revenue, increase in casual capital assets and all that revolves around activity for the library,” said associate Chris Guilbeault. She clarified that $5 million was spent on the library renovation project this year, and that much of the money came from government grants.
There is an end-of-year accumulated surplus increase of $6.2 million, “which is a good thing,” she commends. “Because last year [the municipality was] running in a deficit position.”
In regards to net financial debt, liabilities are still more than assets, “but it is getting better, so you’re on the right track.”
Jasper gymnasts in Edmonton
Tess Melanson and Madelaine Britt from the Jasper Gymnastics Club represented their team at the Provincial Championships in Edmonton last weekend.
Britt, 11, finished third on beam and floor, sixth on bars and eighth on vault, placing her fifth in the province in the Level 4 category.
Melanson, 9, finished 10th on bars, 11th on vault, 13th on beam and 18th on floor, placing her 13th in the province in the Level 2 category.
