Canmore

“Many people admitted they were trying to avoid Quarry Lake and avoid busier areas. After we started educating people and telling them there are different trails, the pond isn’t for swimming, we have a seen a drop. … Hopefully with education, improving the signage and mapping, people will use legitimately public lands, which Three Sisters private property is not.”

A look at the past week in photography in the Bow Valley as it appeared in the pages of the Rocky Mountain Outlook.

Firefighters are continuing to work at extinguishing a grassfire that began late-Friday afternoon near Dead Man's Flats and the Trans-Canada Highway.

The rejected Three Sisters Village area structure plan will head to a provincial appeal after Three Sisters Mountain Village Properties Limited filed its paperwork Monday (Aug. 9).

“We want to thank the community for their support and patience as we worked through flushing and water quality testing to confirm the safety of the water over the past week. EPCOR and the Town of Canmore appreciate the community response and cooperation and would like to confirm everyone in the town can resume regular water use.”

“It’s an awesome number to reach, an exciting milestone on that trail,” said Daniella Rubeling, Parks Canada’s visitor experience manager for Banff National Park.

CANMORE – One week into the pandemic, Dan Roycroft and his Zone4 race timing business were essentially out of work.

“This development feels very much like a residential accommodation and the application is for visitor accommodation. The application is for the visitor accommodation and with the exception of the four variances, it does meet the land use bylaw requirements … I think we’re bound by the requirements of the land use bylaw.”

“Within an hour of hearing his stories about what he had just witnessed in the village, I decided to put a video plea out to my Facebook friends to see if they could help. Within minutes money started rolling into my account via Canadian e-transfers. I realized that people really wanted to help, and to broaden that opportunity to other contacts outside of Canada, I should also start a GoFundMe campaign.”

A look at the past week in photography in the Bow Valley as it appeared in the pages of the Rocky Mountain Outlook.