A Warning To Protect Your Personal Information
Friends, Consider this… a gentle reminder to protect/care for your personal information. Last night a resident in a retirement village was phoned by people purporting to be from ‘Telstra” and telling them there was a problem with their computer connection. Unfortunately they followed instructions and this morning found their computer to be compromised and they […]
Toowoomba’s Harristown High Students Deal With Personal Safety
Members of the Toowoomba Child Protection and Investigation Unit have instigated a dual-agency project to help improve the personal safety and awareness of students at Harristown State High School. Partnering with staff from the high school, and with the assistance of the school based police officer, Senior Constable Rebekah Naumann, a 10 week program has […]
Litter Fighting Fund Launched By Keep Australia Beautiful
Despite more than 45 years of campaigning, shocking statistics have revealed that too many people are still littering, with Australians dumping almost 48 million litres of litter each year. In response Keep Australia Beautiful today will launch a Litter Fighting Fund where all Queenslanders can donate to directly fund litter reduction programs. National Association Chief […]
Child Restraint Installers Course Bound For Toowoomba
Kidsafe’s Type 1 Car Seat Installers Course is coming to Toowoomba! This is a 2 day, Nationally Recognised Training Course that will provide participants with the knowledge & skills required to install all types of car restraints, give advice on the correct selection & use of restraints, as well as the laws and Australian Standards […]
Careers Day For Years 8 and 9 Students At USQ
About 230 students from high schools around the Darling Downs will find out more about life after school at the University of Southern Queensland. Toowoomba’s Year 8-9 Careers Day is to be held on Thursday, June 12. Students will get to try out interactive sessions from various potential career paths and study areas as well […]
Ergon’s Darling Downs Crews Tops For Safety
Darling Downs crews were dominant at Ergon Energy’s annual Field Safety Days competition in Townsville this week, taking the honours in both streams and top two positions overall. General Manager Service Delivery Southern Paul Jordon said the results were a credit not only to the team members who attended the competition, but also their fellow […]
Toowoomba Chamber Welcomes New CEO
The Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce is pleased to welcome Helen Jentz who officially commenced in the position of CEO on 2 June 2014. Outgoing CEO, Greg Johnson will be spending the next four weeks introducing Helen around town and assisting her to settle in to the role. “I am very excited to be taking up […]
Mobile Service Centre Visit To Assist Drought-Hit Farmers
Minister for Human Services, Senator the Hon Marise Payne said a Mobile Service Centre will be travelling to Allora, Inglewood and Millmerran next week, and Chinchilla, Wandoan, Condamine, Tara and Moonie the following week to offer farmers assistance with Interim Farm Household Allowance claims. “My department’s two Mobile Service Centres ‘Kangaroo Paw’ and ‘Desert Pea’ […]