A home show in Grovetown this weekend is the place where people can get free barbeque, learn grilling and landscaping secrets and buy some vegan soap.
About 80 local vendors, including Recteq grills, will have booths at the first Casa home show at the Columbia County Exhibition Center. Tickets are $7 per adult. Kids 12 and younger get in for free.
If you are into buying local, this is a place to find out how to fix up you home, from floor to roof, with all local businesses, said the home show’s two organizers, Blane Bailey and Jack Posey.
There is even a booth with a local dentist’s office and a local chiropractor. No teeth nor bad backs will be serviced on site.
“What we wanted to do is bring a cool show and get some business,” Posey said Friday during the event’s set up.
Doors open at 9 a.m. Saturday and close at 7 p.m. On Sunday the show goes from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
On Saturday, Recteq Chef Greg Muller will give a seminar at 11 a.m. on grilling techniques. At noon a representative of Signature Interiors and Gifts will give a talk about interior design. Steve Leedom of Kohler Tubs will talk about upgrading your bathroom at 1:30 p.m. and at 3 p.m. Bill Tiszai of Cold Creek nurseries will talk about outdoor landscaping.
On Sunday Muller will give a second seminar at 11 a.m., Signature will have a second presentation at 1 p.m. and Taylor Padgett of Wincore Windows will talk at 2 p.m.
There will be a raffle for a $2,000 Recteq grill. Tickets are $20 and part of the proceeds will go to the Salvation Army’s homeless program in Augusta, Bailey said. Casa is also giving away two huge gift baskets worth at least $3,000 each and participants need to visit 25 booths to be entered into the raffle for one of the gift baskets, Bailey said.
This is Casa’s first home show. Bailey, owner of the Supersavers coupon booklet company and Tranter Grey Media in Evans, said he hopes to make this home show an annual event.
For more information visit casahomeshow.com.
Joshua B. Good is a staff reporter covering Columbia County and military/veterans’ issues for The Augusta Press. Reach him at joshua@theaugustapress.com
