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Managers are awesome. I don’t mean your grumpy, ungrateful manager at the office, telling you to work harder and expect less pay. I mean hockey team managers—volunteers who put up with a lot.

This weekend was to see the Midget Bearcats finish off the regular season with two games, Saturday versus Mayerthorpe and Sunday versus Whitecourt.

N. Veerman photos This year’s Chili Cook-Off judges sampled 19 concoctions before picking a favourite: the scrumptious chili slaved over by employees of SunDog Tours.

Tuesday, Feb. 4Jasper Legion, 8 p.m.$35 He won a European Blues Award in 2013, he was the best solo performer at the Memphis Blues Challenge in 2010 and he’s won multiple Maple Blues Awards.

Patricia Street was chock-full of enthusiastic locals and visitors Jan. 25 for the ATCO Street Party.

N. Veerman photo Earlier this month a horde of alpine ski racers descended upon Jasper and Marmot Basin to compete in the first giant slalom race of the season.

Submitted photo There’s an unspoken code among mountaineers that you don’t go out of your way to help a struggling climber. In an environment as unforgiving as the side of a mountain, heroics don’t often lead to happy endings.

Lads and lassies from across Jasper and beyond hunkered down for some haggis at Arts Jasper’s Robbie Burns night Jan. 18.

The Midget Bearcats have been busy in 2014. Since the New Year rolled in, they have played three games. Two at home; one against Mayerthorpe that ended in a 6–6 draw and another against Athabasca, in which the boys got a shutout.

Dear Editor, I was perusing your articles and enjoyed the one from Loni Klettl about Marmot Basin.