AFTER FLOW R18+ Night time Event, 27th February at Glenshea Park

Featuring:

"Boogie Monsta", a great waikato based covers band, check out http://www.boogiemonsta.co.nz/ to learn more about the band.

Cash Bar

Bar Fly

Mechanical Bull

Produce and Craft Market

Tickets are available on the 1st February from the Putaruru Information Centre. Tickets are limited so get in as fast as you can before they are gone you MUST be over the age of 18 to attend the evening event, and the police will be in attendance checking ID.

Devonshire Cream Teas - Gold Coin Donation

This year at the Water Festival, the Combined Churches will be having Devonshire Cream Teas at the far end of the main Grandstand. All proceeds from the donations will go to the Bible in Schools programme - freshly baked scones with butter, jam and cream, freshly made tea & coffee - all for a gold coin donation, with the money going towards a great cause within our own community! CHECK IT OUT - at the back of the main Grandstand - just through the other side of the Arts & Crafts exhibits!

Water Walkers

Guess what will be part of the Top Team on the Water.....


now have you got your team ready???????

and on the main showground a massive waterslide measuring 50m long and 11m high!



We are also having a pool inflatable made for the Top Team on the Water race.... Team places are limited - Each school will have the chance to put forward a team, 4 childrens community group teams (ie, Scouts etc) and 10 adults teams. To view the kind of thing that we are having made - take a look below (ours WILL differ from this to fit the specifics of our town pool!)




Mark it in your diary - Saturday 27th February .....GLENSHEA PARK!

Vox Nova at the Putaruru Water Festival 2010

Click Here to listen to VOX NOVA - a Latin jazz quartet that will be playing in the main marquee on the showgrounds for the Water Festival.... look out for new information and maps due out soon on what will be happening - where and when!

Putaruru Water Festival 2010

Can you believe that it is time once again for our Water Festival, and we have a great day of activities planned! For 2010, we have once again teamed up with the A & P Society and the Putaruru Axemen to not only bring you a fantastic 1 day event, but an evening event too—strictly for the over 18’s to finish a perfect day!

Saturday February 27th 2010

Is the date to mark in your diary, and it is ALL happening at Glenshea Park AND the Putaruru Municipal Pools!


7 events in ONE day in ONE location!

A & P Show
Axemen Wood Chopping
Top Team On The Water
Arts & Crafts
Fluid Fashion Show
Wai Jazz
After Flow * over 18’s
Market Stalls
Heaps of rides & family fun!!


**PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ORIGINAL DATE FOR WAI JAZZ WAS THE 14TH FEBRUARY 2010 AND FLUID FASHION WAS TO BE HELD ON THE 19TH FEBRUARY 2010. AS FUNDING IS TIGHT AT THE MOMENT, WE HAVE MADE THE DECISION TO HOLD EVERYTHING ON ONE DAY ON THE 27TH FEBRUARY 2010 **


Top Team

Top Team this year will take place at the Municipal Pools adjoining Glenshea Park. Entry forms for Top Team are available at the Putaruru Information Centre, and the kids race will begin at 10am, followed by the adults.
BE PREPARED TO GET WET!!!!!

We are hoping to have adults entering into the fun of fluid fashion too!!!!

2010 Arts & Crafts Programme

We have made some changes to the 2010 craft
programme as we had such a great response to our 2009 show.

All entries must be delivered to the Grandstand
building on the morning of 27th February between
8 and 9.30am. The Grandstand will be closed for
judging between 9.30am and 12 noon, and will open for viewing between 12 noon and 4.30pm. Exhibits can be removed from the Grandstand after 4.30pm.

We now have additional categories listed below:

Arts & Craft - All Must Be Water Themed
Canvas or artwork in any medium.
3 handmade cards **
12 x 12 Scrapbook Page
1 stitched item - either hand, embroidery or machine.
1 knitted item.
1 black & white photograph (mounted)
1 colour photograph (mounted)
3 decorated cupcakes (must be identical) **
Decorated Cake—min 20cm round or square *

Home Craft
1 jar of any jam or marmalade
1 jar or bottle of any sauce or relish
1 filled bread roll
1 after school snack
1 school lunch box

* Decorated cake will be judged on décor only and can be a polystyrene base.
** For Kindergarten, New Entrants, Year 1, 2 and 3, only 1 handmade card and 1 cupcake is needed.

Age Groups:

Kindergarten and New Entrants

Year 1 – 3

Year 4 OR
PRIDE Bronze medal level

Year 5 OR
PRIDE Silver medal level

Year 6 OR
PRIDE Gold medal level

Year 7 OR
PRIDE Platinum medal level

Year 8 OR
PRIDE Diamond medal level

Year 9, 10 & 11

Year 12 & 13

Adults

Entry forms are in the Prattler or are avaliable from the Putaruru Information Centre.

Fluid Fashion

Do you fancy yourself as the next GOK Wan, Karen Walker or Stella McCartney?

Pride In Putaruru will be running a Fluid Fashion Show at the 2010 Water Festival..This will now take place at Glenshea Park, 2pm on Saturday 27th February 2010...THIS IS A REAL FASHION SHOW and not wearable art..The theme for the fashion show is WATER.

Fluid fashion is open to anyone from the age of 8 upwards. Children wishing to take part can use this to count towards their PRIDE homework programme for 2010. If you haven’t already received the information from your school please call into Putaruru Information Centre and collect a information pack.

Categories

Street wear for girls or boys
Everyday - ie, what you would wear to the shops.
Party wear - Anything you would wear to a party or night out.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - This mean taking an old piece of clothing and redesigning it, to make it into something Completely different e.g. Taking an old pair of pants and making them into a skirt or bag.

To enter you must first submit a design board that outlines your whole look and the idea behind it, explaining how your design fits the theme.
The board should include examples of fabric, buttons, thread, ribbon anything that you are planning to use in the creation of your outfit. You also need to include images that explain hair, makeup and accessories and a write up explaining the tie between your design and the them. And of course, your design sketch!
The Designs Board is your entry form, and entries have been extended to 12th February to allow for the 2010 PRIDE programme. Age categories are the same as the Arts & Crafts section.

BP Mural

We have just noticed that even though the mural has been featured in the recent edition of the Prattler we haven't loaded it onto the blog.
If you haven't already stopped in at BP to view the mural, it is worth the stop.
What a fantastic effort by 3 local ladies - Fiona Barrett, Alison Hemming and Annie Waterworth. They completed the top layer of the mural after members of the public painted out the existing chalk drawings and created a base for the mural to be painted onto.
A huge thanks to the Creative Communities grant scheme for their support in this project!

Shop Local Prize Winners

A big thankyou to all the people who shopped local. The number of entries we had in this promotion showed us that our people are great supporters of local businesses and demonstrates the strength and support within our community .

Winners:
Unichem Pharmacy
A Rogers
Sue Dixon
Rebecca Johnson
Kerry Kearney
Val Gray
P Thrope
Kate Campbell
Rebecca Johnson
Jan Goodwin
Kassie Stockholmes

Over the Moon Dairy Co. Gift Basket - Andrea Shaw

Model Food market Gift Basket plus Voucher - Mrs Stannard

Rainbow Hall/Putaruru Fruit and Vege Vouchers - K Harker

Dales Country Wools Quilt - Raoslie Nicholson

Toy World Voucher - Vicki Feierabend

The Last Tangle Gift Basket - Judith Grey

Cassius Blue Vouchers
Johnie Jensen
Sheryl Van Dyk
Melissa Isaacson
Liz Ellis

K Bees Voucher - Denvil Spinley

Edmeades Jewellers - D Wallace

Aroha Voucher - Horohuia Cameron

The Cutting Company Voucher and Gift Basket - Ann Gressy

Steinies Barber Shop Gift Set - Nan Wine

Paper Zone Voucher - Ronnie Bennett

Putaruru Information Centre Map Books - Sarah Burrows

Late Nights Santa Stocking - J Roache

Canvas - Erin Richmond

Ladder - Paula Christenson

Tropical Trip - Kris Carson

Congratulations to all our winners and a big thankyou to all the businesses that supported this promotion.

A Room at the Inn

Over 600 people came through the doors at this years Room at the Inn. A big thankyou to Mark Reynolds of the Putaruru Hotel who donated the use of the hotel and the Putaruru Combined Churches for supplying the supper and manning the door. This year the community raised over $700 for the Putaruru Bible in Schools programme so a big thankyou to the community for their support.

All of the 2009 rooms were well planned, of high quality and varied greatly. The voting results were:

1st Megan Ince with Santa's Brain. This room was full of orignality and humour and was a snapshot of what goes on in Santa's brain during preparation for christmas.

2nd was the team of Sue Heslop, Helen Haigh and Gillian Robbins with Sugar and Spice. An amazing gingerbread house was the centre piece of this room and the decorations were in harmony with this centrepiece.

3rd was the Putaruru Floral Art group with the Tree Room. An array of beautifully decorated trees made out of different materials filled this room . Angels, flowers and other beautiful decorations added to the impact of this room.

The prize money for the winning room was $120 and a big thankyou goes to the winner Megan Ince who kindly donated her prize money back to Pride in Putaruru.

Putaruru Christmas Float Parade

The theme for 2009 was Tropical Paradise and Putaruru had the pleasure of seeing over 26 floats. A big thankyou to our judges - Gordon Blake, ex South Waikato Mayor, N icola Warrington the Manager of the South Waikato Perfoming Arats Centre (The Plaza) and Megan Ince a South Waikato based Social Worker.

Winners of the 2009 float parade were:

Overall Winner St Marys Catholic School

Youth Section

1st - Te Waotu School

2nd - Putaruru Childcare

3rd - Putaruru Playcentre

4th - Glenshea Kindergarten

Commercial Section

1st - Stenies Barber Shop

2nd - Peter Glidden Honda

3rd - Putaruru Unichem

Service Section

1st - South Waikato Safer Community Council

2nd - South Waikato SPCA

3rd - The Salvation Army

Light Up Your Home

Joint winners of 2009 were Gladys Crickett and Carol Bernhard with their amazing displays. Third place went to Ngaire Wallace with her eye catching display.

Light Up Your Business went jointly to Tanner Industries and Putaruru Unichem. Third place went to Edmeades Jewellers.

The street taking out the title of 2009 Light Up Your Street was Myrtle Grove with Overdale Street coming in second.