WingFest

Hamilton Wingfest Day 2

2008-05-31T17:02:00.000-07:00

Wow, what a day, we started off with Maddie's Wish project which was an incredible success story, an estimated 5-600 walkers showed up, and they raised over $35,000.00, which as Sharon said to me is about a billion dollars in Kenya!

Well done everyone what a great start to the day.

In the afternoon we had some rain and thunder boomers, but it blew through and then the crowds started to come out in force.

My website is going ballastic with hits, we will set a new record today in the next hour or so.

I have lots of pictures also to upload, if you have any please feel free to send them over.

Thanks for coming out, so who has the best wings??

http://www.wingfest.ca/

Hamilton Wingfest Day 1

2008-05-30T23:21:00.001-07:00

Well day 1 is over at the 1st annual Wingfest in Hamilton, and it might have been the best day to attend!

Small crowds a bit chilly, but with tommorow maybe raining all day, it looks like sunday might be the big day as it is supposed to be sunny all day.

I will put some pictures up soon but come on down and have some fun there is rides for the kids, an art show, bands, fun for everyone!!!

http://www.wingfest.ca/

Canadian Wingfest Takes Flight

2008-01-11T16:52:00.000-08:00

Yesterday the Canadian Wingfest moved from a dream to a reality, I spent most of the day down at the Waterfront, first a meeting with mayor Larry DiIanni, and then followed up with a second meeting with Councilor Chad Collins and Werner Plessel from the Waterfront Trust.

They took me for a tour after our talks discussing the plan, and showed me a empty wearhouse that we could use for part of the event, along with the new trail and Bayfront park.

Now you should know by now that my motto is go big or go home, and I see this festival turning into the biggest one this City has ever seen.

There could be so many different things that go along with this festival at the same time.

It could infact replace Aquafest.

Here are some ideas for the festival

1. Wingfest

2. Artist displaying work, and painting at the same time

3. The waterfront trail is 13 km's in length, how about a " Wingfest Walkathon"

4. Looking out over the water, I thought " Airshow"

5. How about bringing in some Tallships?

6. How about a Speed boat race?

7. How about some Water skiiers?

8. How about some rides for the kids?

9. How about some clowns, face painters?

10. How about some bands playing?

11. Maybe some guided tours of the HMCS Heida?

12. How about tours of the new Waterfront center?

This is just a start, but there is a great potential for this all to happen, more to follow on this.

http://www.wingfest.ca

Rotary Club Backs Canadian Wingfest

2008-01-05T13:14:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I had a 3 hour meeting with members of the Hamilton Downtown Rotary Club of Hamilton whom expressed interest in helping out with our proposed wingfest to take place here in Hamilton.

The Rotary Club is very enthusiastic about this event, as they should be because there counterpart club in Burlington started the Ribfest in Burlington and they have a lot of experience in these type of events.

This is great, to run an event like this we need to find those individuals and service clubs that have the needed experience and drive to make an event like this happen.

This is a great start, I had a 30 minute conversation with Councilor Chad Collins later that day and he was very excited to know the building support for the wingfest idea.

More to come, get involved, sign up on our forum and Facebook group:)

http://www.wingfest.ca

Wingfest Face Book Group

2008-01-04T09:02:00.000-08:00

We hit a milestone today with our 100th member signing up :)

And guess who it was?

Our former mayor Larry DiIanni !!

Many thanks for joining Larry, we hope you will get involved and help us out in any way you can, there is a lot of interest being expressed in this movement, and actually guess what?

Today I am having a meeting with a very well known service group in the City that has expressed interest in helping out:)

Details to follow!

http://www.wingfest.ca

Red Rocket Chicken Wings in Hamilton

2007-12-28T08:46:00.000-08:00

A member on our Chicken Wing Festival facebook group and a new neighbour to boot, left a post about his favourite Chicken Wing place, and one place he mentioned was Red Rockets, which if I remember correctly is on Upper Ottawa, at Stonechurch.

We have ordered from there many times in the past, and I must admit they do have tasty chicken wings:)

Has anyone else ordered from Red Rockets?

http://www.wingfest.ca

Canada's Wingfest now on Facebook

2007-12-26T11:39:00.000-08:00

Attention Chicken Wing lovers and Facebook users, if you are registered on Facebook then visit our new Facebook users group, you can find us at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6937263401

If you are a Facebook user, invite your friends to come and join this group, together we can make this a huge group and at the same time do something good for Hamilton!

We are always looking for veteran Facebook users to help us out, so if you want to get involved just let us know!

http://www.wingfest.ca

Merry Christmas Hamilton

2007-12-25T08:55:00.001-08:00

Ho-Ho-Ho, Merry Christmas Everyone!

I hope that Santa has been good to everyone and that there where not to many lumps of coal in your stockings this morning!

If you have kids, I hope you got some great pictures of them opening up there presents, its great to see their little smiles and amazement when they open their presents isn’t it!

Christmas is all about giving, let’s not forget that, if you have not done something for the less fortunate, it’s not too late, drop some money into a kettle at the mall for the Sally Ann, drop some bags of groceries off at the food bank, or give generously to your staff or neighbours.

And speaking of neighbours, I challenge everyone right now to pick up the phone or knock on their doors, and wish them a Merry Christmas. If you don’t get along with your neighbour, today is a “ truce” day, be the bigger person and go by, knock on their door, extend your hand and wish them a Merry Christmas, go on, you can do it!

http://www.wingfest.ca

Hamilton Wingfest

2007-12-23T08:13:00.000-08:00

Who wants a Wingfest in Hamilton!!!!

I do for one, that is why I have built and donated all my web design teams services to build this website, because it is a great idea for Hamilton!

My goals for this website are to educate, inform and hopefully get some feedback and discussion going on this subject, as it is one almost all of us can identify with having eating wings at some time in our lives!

The website as you see also has a blog where daily updates can be added for your reading pleasure also.

Next week we also be adding a forum, where one can go and join and get involved in the discussion, maybe even sharing a recipe along the way!

Till then enjoy!

http://www.wingfest.ca

First WingFest post

2007-12-21T11:42:00.000-08:00

Chicken wings, also known as Buffalo wings, hot wings, or just plain 'wings', are chicken wing segments that are deep fried and then coated in a sauce. According to the Wikipedia entry on the subject, Buffalo wings were first prepared at the Anchor Bar at 1047 Main Street in Buffalo, NY on October 3, 1964. Teressa Bellissimo, the bar's co-owner, needed a fast and easy snack to serve to her son and his friends when they came in late one night. Improvising, she came up with the idea of deep frying chicken wings, normally thrown away or saved for stock, and tossing them in "Frank's Red Hot" hot sauce.

Some U.S. restaurant chains, serve them breaded. Other 'wing spots' offer wings coated with hot spices, such as Cajun or Caribbean-style. 'Pit' wings offered in Buffalo are fried, coated in barbecue sauce, then charred on the grill. It seems as if there are as many different preparation methods as there are chickens!

You'll learn more about not only wing preparation but also the whole WingFest phenomenon as this blog progresses. Please check back soon.

http://www.wingfest.ca