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A Victorian-inspired dress creation, cleverly crafted out of the remnants of fast fashion, catapulted Wakatipu High School to top spot and ‘Star of the Night’ as the Southland Regional TOI Wearable Arts student winners at Invercargill’s Civic Theatre on May 19.

A second valuable Life Education Trust Heartland mobile classroom has finally been purchased specifically for the Queenstown Lakes-Central Otago area, enabling the trust to reach an extra 5000 students a year.

Girls just want to have fun… and a few boys too, in kids’ netball in the Wakatipu with huge growth in the number of especially primary aged girls playing during the past five years.

If you’re planning to head in to LUMA this King’s Birthday Weekend the last thing you want to be doing is driving around looking for a park.

It’s been a popular community favourite for some 35 years and if somebody doesn’t come to the rescue quickly Queenstown Costume Hire’s collection of thousands of fabulous items will be sold off piece by piece.

Wānaka is set to be immortalised in a special edition of the world-famous Monopoly board game later this year.

Local charity, Sustainable Queenstown, has announced this month’s Green Drinks event. It’s all about Healthy Homes That Don’t Cost The Earth.

RRRRIP- not a sound you want to hear your jeans make when you’re setting up an event with no spare clothing at hand. Lucky for me, the event happened to be the first ever Repair Cafe in Glenorchy last weekend, and our volunteer seamstress had reported early and sorted out a quick patch so I didn’t have to spend the afternoon walking around with a drop cloth wrapped around my waist.

Taking the crown for the Wakatipu’s oldest living born and bred local, Bill Dagg epitomises the Southern Man… and not because he drinks Speights.

Hāwea is now home to a set of consistent waves thanks to some Kiwi ingenuity. YourWave is a unique artificial surf wave and the brain child of product designer Ross McCarthy. It’s suitable for surfers of all abilities – beginners can learn to pop-up, while experts can carve steeper breaking waves.

In a day long before it was fashionable Tonnie Spijkerbosch led the charge on repurposing, renowned locally as a creative entrepreneurial visionary, plumbing genius and King of DIY.

The Cancer Society invites courageous people to ‘Jump for Cancer’ to support the 1 in 3 people impacted by cancer. The skydive fundraiser will happen at Skydive Wanaka on Saturday, 27 May and at NZONE Skydive Queenstown on Sunday, 28 May where Cancer Society staff will be cheering on the brave jumpers. Skydivers can also arrange another time in May if these jump days do not suit.

A bright idea to make the LUMA Southern Light Project accessible to all is being sponsored by Queenstown Airport.

About 470 trees are likely to be felled from Kelvin Heights Golf Course, most of them this month – at least 330 Douglas Firs and 100 aging poplars, because of safety and nuisance concerns.

A couple of Queenstown-raised brothers, who owned several local rental properties each by their late 20s, are showing young people how to be cash savvy after huge demand from others wanting to know their secrets.

Recent extreme climate events and unseasonable weather got your eco-anxiety at an all time high? Join the Repair Revolution and be a part of the solution!.

If you were at the Remarkables Market on the 15th of April, you might have seen me and a bunch of people walking around in our green Headlight T-shirts holding post-it notes. We were there talking with our community and asking them to ‘write a message of support to someone experiencing mental distress’. Maybe you saw us, maybe you wrote a message or maybe you wondered ‘what’s that all about?’

A selection of 18 inspiring short films and documentaries will be featured at the first Wao Film Festival in Wanaka next month. A film inspired Wao co-founders Arna Craig and Monique Kelly to create the sustainability-focused non-profit in 2018 and Arna told the Wanaka App the transformative power of film inspired them to create the new festival.

Queenstown Trails has launched a new look fundraising campaign inviting locals – and visitors – to become official Trail Lovers. The campaign that kicked off earlier in the moth replaces the annual Friends of the Trust appeal. The idea with the new campaign is to connect with, and garner support from, all trail users.