Jasper Residents Reflect on Loss of Homes in Wildfire, ‘Touchstones’ Gone Forever

For Mike Day, the wildfire devastation in Jasper brought a range of emotions. “There’s moments of tears, and then there’s moments of laughter, and and then there’s moments of gratitude, where no one lost life. So that’s incredibly important,” the former town councillor and longtime resident told The Epoch Times in a phone interview. “Unfortunately, our home was lost in that initial phase. It appears that our building, our business, is still standing,” he said referring to his 17-year-old restaurant Evil Dave’s. “It feels like we’ve lost everything in the sense of, you know, raised five children, and we have grandchildren. The house was filled with all those memories, all those touchstones, collected over the years.”...