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The summer of 2018 marked the first Skeena Salmon Arts Festival - something that has become a much-anticipated event in Terrace each year.  The festival celebrates salmon through art, intending to beautify Terrace with public art initiatives and raise awareness of salmon as the foundation of many local communities along the Skeena.  "The Skeena Salmon Arts Fest has been an excellent community-building exercise over the last five years," says Dave Gordon, City Councillor and President of the Skeena Salmon Art Festival Society. "We've been able to link settlers, First Nations, and communities across the Northwest through their love of salmon as expressed through...

Enter to win a year of your favourite coffee! I am celebrating five years in business - and a new name - by offering 12 months of coffee to one lucky winner! Submit your best, hilarious, inspiring, and creative ideas for what Ascent’s tagline should be before April 22, 2022. 

Sarah Haglund is a graphic designer who has been working with Aleksa as she transitions her brand from White Goat Coffee to Ascent Coffee. Sarah's whimsical, rustic, and perfectly imperfect creations have been an excellent fit, not only with what Ascent Coffee is becoming but also with Aleksa herself.We chatted with Sarah about her style, her inspirations behind the Ascent Coffee art, and her new puppy Walter.

You may wonder about who roasts your beans. You may not. You may be so lost in the rich flavour of your cup of Ascent coffee that you couldn't care less how it came to be - and that's fantastic. But for those curious cats out there, please meet Aleksa. Aleksa and her husband moved to Terrace in 2016 from the lower mainland. Leaving behind her dream job working as a buyer for a major national outdoor retail company, she had no idea what lay ahead, other than mountain adventures, new friends, and a lot more snow.  If you had...