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Photo left: The Strutts (now The Slur-Tones) at Rippon 08
Photo right: the Rippon 2010 Crew on site at Rippon Vineyard

COUNTDOWN TO RIPPON


The eighth Rippon Festival presented by Lake Wanaka SouNZ Inc is now just around the corner.

5000 people will be attending the Waitangi Day event at Rippon Vineyard. Tickets to the festival sold out in less than three weeks last October. Over 25% of tickets were sold to patrons within the local region.

Featuring such bands as Fat Freddy's Drop, The Black Seeds, Opensouls, The Mint Chicks and ex-Wanaka band The Slur-Tones, spokesperson Clare Scurr attributes the strong community support as the main reason for the festival's continued success.

The non-profit society has donated over $36000 - mainly to the local community - with profits from the festival. Last year $4500 went towards relief efforts in Samoa following the tsunami devastation.

Festival-goers can find more information in this week's Messenger.

The Messenger of today is an advertiser-sponsored publication. Over 4000 copies are distributed weekly throughout the Upper Clutha region and also now to Cromwell at the New World and BP service station.

Anyone can purchase display advertisements (from $30) or line ad notices (from $8) to announce sales, accommodation vacancies or flats wanted, jobs, events, meetings, birthday/anniversary greetings or anything else that needs announcing.

The Upper Clutha Messenger- free to readers since 1978.

The Upper Clutha Messenger was first printed on November 1, 1978. It was a free double-sided B4 based on the Cromwell "Copycat" Its purpose was to provide a regular and reliable means of communication within the District.

The Messenger today normally ranges between 28-36 pages depending on the number of weekly advertisers.  It now has a full colour cover, but still maintains the original purpose of providing a "notice board" for the community and keeping people informed.

The original "Community Diary" continues, still the "what's on", when and where of Wanaka.

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  • Pages 17-20
  • Pages 21-24
  • Pages 25-28
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  • This week's accommodation listings

    • If you're looking for a place to share thoughts and/or photos of your time in Wanaka, check out the Wanaka Community Website

    Wanaka's advertising weekly, often described as "the bible" because "everyone reads The Messenger". Unlike a newspaper, the Messenger is not classified, so it is pored over from cover to cover, making it the most powerful advertising medium in the Upper Clutha region, which includes Wanaka, and the smaller centres of Tarras, Luggate, Cardrona, Hawea, and Makarora. It is also available at the New World, the BP Service Station and several other sites in Cromwell.

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