Last Friday saw the Terrace Sportsplex play host to the K5T Regional Career Expo and Forum.
This was the 4th edition of the expo and after it was originally held in the Sportsplex’s Banquet room, the event organizer, Brigitte Watts, explained why it’s now held in one of the bigger hockey rink spaces;
“The banquet room was too small, people were not liking the hallways so we thought to put them all in the arena. And now we’re filling up the arena and we have people in the hallways again and we barely advertise. I sent out one email at the end of January last year and it just grew from there.”
The event drew a packed house as it did during previous years and Watts mentioned that it wasn’t only the attendees who came to look around that seemed to enjoy themselves;
“I talked to a couple of booths, I like to go around and talk to people and see how things are. There’s no complaints, everybody’s loving it and it’s great.”
The event included over 90 vendors and Watts shone a light on one part of the expo tailored towards Indigenous people;
“The Kulspai Marketplace is a specially curated space where we invite Indigenous entrepreneurs that are mostly established and we like to uplift and support them. So we invite them for free, we give them that space and we support them 100 percent.”
Door prizes were also available to youths between the ages of 15 and 24 through the expo’s Community Quest event.