The weekly program keeping you up to date with Toowoomba Regional Council’s facilities, activities and services. Council Connections with Darren Burton
This week Darren talks about the next round of council meetings, available community grants, Gowrie Junction Road repair works, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery closing its first floor (for renovations) until August 29, renaming Long and South Streets park, 2012/2013 waste collection calendars, renewal notices for dog and cat owners, a reminder to take care during regional roadworks and we again mention the council emergency number.
Toowoomba audiences are in for a treat when Australia’s only official Beatles tribute band, The Fab Four, hits the Empire Theatre on Saturday 21 July at 8pm, proudly presented by Toowoomba’s Palm Lake Resort.
The Fab Four will headline The Australian Beatles Experience, and will be joined on stage by The Toowoomba Concert Orchestra and Friends. The Australian Beatles Experience is the complete Beatles story, from the early years during the 1964 World Tour, through to the Magical Mystery Tour period.
With the title of Australia’s only official Beatles tribute band, The Fab Four will transport audiences back in time to relive the excitement of an authentic Beatles concert. Featuring the much-loved classic songs She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Can’t Buy Me Love, Eleanor Rigby and more, this musical event promises to be a trip down memory-lane for diehard fans and an unforgettable night for first-timers.
As well as the Classical Mystery Tour featuring The Toowoomba Concert Orchestra, the evening will also include a re-enactment of The Beatles Australian Concert of 1964. The Fab Four has perfected The Australian Beatles Experience, which includes lavish costumes and impressive musical compositions created on authentic Beatles instruments.
For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact the Empire Theatre’s ticketing office on 1300 655 299 or visit www.empiretheatre.com.au
Submitted by: Vivien Doneley Marketing Officer Empire Theatres
The weekly program keeping you up to date with Toowoomba Regional Council’s facilities, activities and services. Council Connections with Darren Burton
This week Darren talks about Gowrie Road repair works, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery closing its first floor (for renovations) until August 29, renaming Long and South streets park, 2012/2013 waste collection calendars, renewal notices for dog and cat owners, a reminder to take care during regional roadworks and the council emergency number.
St Patrick’s Cathedral in Toowoomba was filled to overflowing for the ordination of the most Reverend Robert McGuckin as the Bishop of Toowoomba, and in a first for the Toowoomba Diocese, it was streamed over the internet.  Bishop McGuckin suceeds William Morris, who was dissmissed from the post in controversial circumstances.
The Ordination Ceremony was preside over by principal consecrator His Grace Archbishop Mark Coleridge BA DSS, Archbishop of Brisbane, while Fr. Peter Schultz MC’d the event. Music at the event courtesy of Toowoomba Combined Churches and Toowoomba Choral Society.
Excerpts from the ordination of the new Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba, Robert McGuckin:
Toowoomba’s tiniest tots are among the kids who will benefit from a total of $12,000 in donations that Heritage Bank has made recently to assist the Children’s Ward at the Toowoomba Base Hospital. Heritage made a $7500 donation in June to the annual Give Me 5 For Kids appeal, which raises money for the Children’s Ward at the Hospital.
Heritage then topped it up with a further $4500 donation to the Children’s Ward this week. The additional funds were raised through sales of the annual Heritage Calendar in the Darling Downs area. Heritage Bank’s Regional Sales Manager Mr Kevin Gates presented the donation to the Toowoomba Hospital Foundation’s CEO Mr Peter Rookas during a visit to the Special Care Nursery at the Hospital recently.
The annual Heritage Calendar has become a much-loved tradition for customers. Each year since 1982, Heritage has chosen a prominent Queensland house to feature on its annual calendar, to help celebrate excellence in Queensland domestic architecture. The house featured this year was Rhossilliâ€, located in the inner-Ipswich suburb of Newtown.
Heritage Bank’s Regional Sales Manager Kevin Gates (left) visits the Special Care Nursery to present the Toowoomba Hospital Foundation CEO Mr Peter Rookas with a donation that will help the Children’s Ward treat the region’s sick kids.
Heritage customers pay a gold coin donation for a copy of the calendar. The proceeds are then donated to a number of charities each year. A total of almost $25,000 is being distributed across south-east Queensland this year, with the Darling Downs region’s donation of $4500 going to the Children’s Ward. Heritage prides itself on putting People first in everything we do,†Mr Gates said.
The money donated will help the Hospital in buying the equipment it needs to look after sick kids from the region, particularly in the Special Care Nursery where the right machines are so vital in saving lives. It’s a great cause and Heritage is very pleased to be able to make this donation.â€
Submitted by: Andrew Fox Manager Corporate Communications Heritage Bank
Co-ordinator of the Toowoomba Hospice Camellia Show, Joan Falvey
Camellias – Glorious Camellias!
All are welcome this weekend to the Southern Queensland TAFE Horticultural Centre to indulge your senses with the beauty and the sheer delicacy of the camellia blooms. Heritage Camellia Hall will be filled with hundreds of beautiful camellias from perfect whites, creams and pinks through to deep reds. There could even be a yellow one or two. Truly a mass of colour and beauty.
We again have a panel of inspirational speakers who will share their knowledge and help you with all your gardening questions.. Stephen Ryan, Penny McKinlay, Brian Sams, Rusell (correct spelling) Campbell, Donna Hay and our own local panel of camellia growers, David and Lyn Newlands and Lyn Shailer . They will be only too happy to give you all the tips to grow your camellia plants to perfection and to inspire you to have the courtyard of your dreams.
This year we are adding Christmas in July to our festival. We are having a gourmet market with christmas goodies and wine. Our chefs, Lee Faulkner and Ric Osborne will be putting a christmas flavour into all of their dishes. Come and learn from the very best.
The Toowoomba Floral Art Group will be displaying christmas decorations and also demonstrating how to make christmas wreaths. Come and stroll through our delightful winter garden. It is a beautiful garden that will delight and inspire you.
For the first time photographers will capture the essence of Toowoomba in winter with their entries in our Photographic Competition.
Santa will call both Saturday and Sunday for the children.
Enjoy a coffee/tea and cake, gourmet sandwiches, soup or a barbeque or sit around the pond enjoying a wonderful day listening to our great entertainment.
Australia’s largest schools recycling program, MobileMuster’s 2012 Schools Recycling Challenge, has kicked off again for the fifth year running.
Offered by the telecommunications industry, MobileMuster is school-curriculum program designed to educate and engage students in learning about product stewardship and the importance of keeping old mobiles and their accessories out of landfill.
This year’s redesigned challenge has ten new learning modules plus two new online interactive classroom activities. Learning modules include how mobile phones are made, resources inside phones and resource recovery, end products made from mobiles, and product stewardship.
‘With environmental stewardship a part of the SOSE curriculum, this is a great opportunity to engage students in activities that will conserve our natural resources and protect our environment in a fun and interactive way,’ says Rose Read of MobileMuster.
The MobileMuster program collects and recycles mobile phones and their accessories from a network of over 4500 mobile phone retailers, local councils, government agencies and business drop off points across Australia. Credit: MobileMuster
Since its inception, more than 1500 schools and over one million students have been involved in MobileMuster’s Schools Recycling Challenge.
‘Looking back at the history of the Challenge, over 6000 handsets and 8000 batteries have been recycled. The environmental benefit of this is significant – more than 45 kg of heavy metals, such as lead and cadmium have been diverted from landfill, and more than 9350 kg of plastics and metals have been recovered for reuse, enough aluminium to make over 9170 cans and plastics to make nearly 930 fence posts.’
