Everyone deserves a sanctuary to retreat to after a long day, but for many in Jasper that’s not a reality. 

Instead, they go home to a couch tucked in the corner of a friend’s living room. Or they go home to a bachelor apartment where they can reach out and touch their roommate.

Jasper is a can-do community. When something needs doing, someone will surely step up and do it. Whether it’s coaching a hockey team, reffing a game, baking a cake, building a trail, chaperoning a field trip, sitting on a board or raising funds for an ailing roof, the people of Jasper are there.

The term “work to live, not live to work,” is a common mantra associated with work/life balance; that magical equation that allows us all to have both a satisfying and meaningful career while still enjoying both the little and big things in life. We all want to enjoy sunsets, watch our children grow and participate in the special moments that give our lives meaning, and we want to do these things free of stress or depression.