Shear Comfort! In the Woolly insulated home!

Nicki  from Shear Comfort Wool Insulation is shown below in the roof of the festival house filling the ceiling with “supa fill”. Supa-Fill is a machine blown loose wool fibre product for the ceiling with a thermal rating ranging from R2.6. According to Nicki “Supa-Fill is a cost effective, quality insulation, which allows you to put your health and well-being first.” I checked out their product and it is soft and beautiful to touch! For more information on wool insulation check out their website: www.shearcomfort.co.nz

The nearly completed home!

Wow! I was just up the Wanakafest House and it is looking incredible! They have painted all the walls, the kitchen is nearly fitted. It is now fully carpeted, tiles, water is running… even the garage is carpeted! Well done to everyone involved in the project!

Here are some of the latest pictures from today:

This is me in the new “Dream Kitchen” donated by Dream Doors!

Ian Bell installs the front door.

Here is me again… in front of the beautiful new house.

Digger work on the landscaping all sponsored by Nichol Garden Centre. It is looking fantastic!

Wanakafest “Choc-Off”

As a part of our Food, Wine and Chocolate Affair on Sunday October 18th. We are searching for the Best Wanaka Chocolate Dessert! If you have a delicious chocolate speciality dessert, you are invited to to our Choc-off! To enter you need 2 identical desserts one that is prepared for 6 judges and one prepared for auction. The auction will act as your entry and a fundraiser for the future of our community festival!

Categories include: “Best Commercial Chocolate Dessert”, “Best Homemade Chocolate Dessert”, “Most Original Chocolate creation”  and “Best Overall Chocolate Dessert”

Judges will be a combination of 3 pre-selected judges and 3 randomly selected judges from the audience.

Painting and Plumbing

The house build is coming to completion thanks to all the hard work of loads of local tradespeople! To check out which local businesses are involved, check out our new sponsors thank you banner at the A&P show site or go and check out their progress at the house site. Pictured below are  Grant Anicich and Darren Jobling from Jeff Demott’s Painting putting on the first coat in the living room.

Below is Paul Hawkins from Laser Plumbing hard at work changing the water feeds to the house.

Getting close to Finishing Touches

The Stonewood Homes House Build Project is on schedule and the exterior is almost complete. Finishing touches on the inside are now underway with tiling, painting, and landscaping making this house look beautiful!

One this that is certain is that this house will be spectacular! Check out a couple of other pictures of the house below!

Passion 4 Fashion set for success

This years Passion 4 Fashion is gaining momentum and looking like it will be a spectacular event!

The show has attracted backing from successful local businesses Edgewater Resort and Wanaka Pharmacy who are the major sponsors of this years show. Leigh Stock and Aaron Heath have joined forces to support this show and the festival to ensure that it is a night to remember!

Wanakafest Event organiser Laurel Morrison says, the progress that this show has seen this year is all down to Kasha Szot.  Kasha is the Local Wanaka Owner/Operator of K-Dance Studios. She also runs and co-ordinated the local modelling agency and has been working with her models to co-ordinate the show. Kasha has taken this spectacular show under her wings and is turning it into an event to be respected nation wide! She has  gained the assistance of Gena Bagley-Konia as a proffessional make up artist for the show and the two of them have managed to attract  support by  International Make-up Brand Revlon. With Revlon on board, this is a fantastic opportunity for the growth of Wanakafest, as well as the Passion for Fashion show.

Kasha has attracted many local shops and designers and is excited about the momentum that the show is gaining. One this is sure, this is one night not to be missed!

Tahuna Breaks Free Live Concert Confirmed!

Be prepared to have your socks blown off at this years Willowridge Wanakafest grand opening! Floats, Lanterns, Music and a special FREE Concert by Tahuna Breaks has us lined up for a great night!! Thank you BASE for bringing them here for us!! Mark Friday October 16th in your calendar now!

Bundle up warm get a good spot along Ardmore street on Friday Night. The Party kicks of with the annual Harcourts Street Parade brought to you by Kahu Youth. Kahu Youth is working hard to make sure this parade  spectacular and has insisted that all floats be decorated, have lights and music! Following the Street Parade, local Wanaka band LATE eightyeight takes the stage at the lake front. And finally, The streets of Lake Wanaka will be rocked by a Free Outdoor Concert by Tahuna Breaks!  There will be food and drinks at the lake and it will be a great night out. For those of you just warming up… continue the party at Mint Bar after the show with a full Tahuna Breaks Show!

A roof, windows and all wrapped up

With the Roof in place, the windows in, all the framing completed and the house all wrapped up, it is becoming easier to imagine how this fabulous house will look once completed! We have had such a great response from individual trades people and local businesses with help towards this project.

Thank you to Stonewood Homes, Harcourts and Willowridge, Nichols, Placemakers, Wanaka Mitre10, West Meadows, Central Trusses and Frames, Dream Doors, Lakes Environmental, Laser Plumbing, NuLook Windows and Doors, Rotary Club of Wanaka, Windsor Garage doors, Jeff Limmer Electrical Ltd, Blair Cope Builders, John Winder Flooring, Dunlop Builders, Firth Concrete , Fletcher Reinforcing, Flooring Center ,Gary Tweedy ,Ian Bell Builders, Mark Evans Building, Metal Craft Roofing, Mike Plimmer Builders, Pablo Varley Tiling, PDL , Pink Batts, Selectrix, Tarras Quarry, Upper Clutha Transport, Well Hung Doors, Shear Comfort Wool Insulation, BMC engineering, Blast Off, Fuzion Computers, Metalworks Wanaka, Pure Skin Therapy, Rhinoz

Building into the sky

With the “Gus” the dog and help from Mark Evans Building. The frames of the Wanakafest house continue to rise into the sky. The house is really looking good now! We have also had some of the underground electrical work laid down by Jeff Limmer Electrical and continued supply of much of our building materials by Placemakers. Thank you to everyone who is working hard to make this project a success!

Volunteers make Willowridge Wanakafest go round

Wanakafest is all about bringing our community together, celebrating this incredible place we are lucky enough to call home and having fun!

As you may have heard… the resurrection of Wanakafest is underway and now it is your opportunity to be involved in this fantastic event.

So many people have come forward to offer their services to the Stonewood House Build Project and as you read this, building work is underway. The slab was poured last week, frames are now up and builders are on site. To see who’s helped so far check out our sponsor’s page.

As you may have heard, the house will be auctioned during the festival among other items, and the proceeds will be put forward to a particular community project, which will be chosen by you, the community.

As amazing as these events sound, they can’t run without further community support.

“We need volunteers. We need them for various events and a wide range of activities. This is a great event and really fun to be involved in.” says the manager of the event Laurel Morrison.

If you would like to volunteer, it’s easy. Click here to download the registration form. Otherwise, if you prefer, pop into Mainly Tramping up-stairs in Spencer House Mall. There you can pick up a paper copy of the registration form. Once you’ve filled it in either drop it back to Mainly Tramping or pop it in the post.

“One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.”

Chinese proverb.

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