Sudbury Living lifestyle and home show focuses on fall, holiday season

BY VICKI GILHULA

In 2006, when Nestlé Canada was launching a new brand of instant coffee and looking for a pitchman, it commissioned a poll asking Canadians about the people they trusted. Mike Holmes, host of HGTV’s Holmes’ Inspections and the former host of Holmes on Homes topped the list.

“When they approached me about the commercial, I said if they can relate the commercial to what I do and keep it real, I’d say yes to it, because the real truth is I drink Nescafé and have for years,” he said.

Keep It Real. Make It Right Holmes, 46, lives by these words. He has “Make It Right” tattooed on his right bicep, and has trademarked the phrase in Canada and the United States.

The ruggedly handsome television personality with an expertise in home repairs and renovations will be the special guest at the Sudbury Living Lifestyle and Home Show this Sunday, Oct. 18 at the Radisson Hotel.

He will give two presentations at Rainbow Cinemas at 1 and 3 p.m. He is expected to talk about building green, making it right, and some of the horror stories he has encountered.

Ticket sales for Mike Holmes have been very good, but there are a few left, said event co-ordinator Tiana Di Pasquo.

Tickets for the Holmes presentation must be purchased in advance and are $30, plus GST. The presentation ticket includes admission to the lifestyle show, which is $8. One dollar from each admission will go to the Sudbury Community Foundation.

“We got so much good feedback about the Lifestyle and Home Show in the spring that we decided to do a fall show,” Di Pasquo noted.

The lifestyle and home show will feature everything from home decor ideas to how to live a healthier life,
“This is the ideal time and place to start Christmas shopping,” she said.

The main sponsor of the fall event is the Carpenters Union Local 2486. Show sponsors are Lavigne Construction, Maple Stucco & Wall Systems Ltd. and MSKV Enterprises Ltd.

The lifestyle and show opens at 11 a.m. and will run until 5 p.m. All municipal lots and on street parking meters offer free parking all day Sunday. There is also free parking at the Rainbow Centre for show attendees.

There will be many exhibitors and door prizes, said Di Pasquo.

For more information, visit Sudbury Living’s Lifestyle & Home Show website at www.sudburylivingmagazine.com/show. For tickets, phone 673-5667, ext. 369.

Vicki Gilhula is managing editor of Sudbury Living magazine.