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 Summer Tunes, planning for Anzac Day, the immunisation clinic, various community grants on offer, our emergency number, the criterium track and ecoli at Cooby Dam.
Hi my name is Janell Freer and I represent the Long Term Weight Loss Community Challenge I’m contacting you today with an important message about the obesity epidemic here in our region.
We’re holding a community service event to help educate people on how to live a healthier life.
We really want to reach as many people as we can. The event is a community wide weight loss challenge. It’s going to be AMAZING…In fact the proceeds will be awarded in cash and prizes. I would like to post a flyer about our event and I’m wondering if you would be so kind as to post this flyer below in your meal room or in your front window and/or simply show your clients. Maybe you or someone you know would be interested. It’s open to EVERYONE. I thank you in advance for your help in getting the word out to our community.
Toowoomba Regional Radio’s Krazy Kevin speaks with Janell Freer
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 seeking volunteers to monitor household water use, Council’s immunisation clinic, Cooby Dam being temporarily closed due to E-coli, the roll out of electronic parking units, ANZAC Day planning meeting, applicants called for Green Army program, Friends of the Library Book Sale and Regional Sports Conference.
Mixed Miniatures is an online art show coordinated by Emerge calling for Australian artists of all ages.
Artists are encouraged to use a variety of media and styles to create their works onto canvas, paper, cardboard, vinyl record and so on to the dimensions of 30cm x 30cm.
The cost to exhibit is $10 per entry, with no limit to the number of entries and all works entered are to be for sale at $90 with no commission kept on sold artwork.
The theme for the exhibition is open, allowing the artist to come up with infinite ideas and concepts!
The innovative exhibition will run from 12 June to 12 September 2012, with an open studio day held in Toowoomba.
The deadline for entries is 31 May 2012.
For more information and entry forms please head to the website www.emergeart.net.au
Submitted By: Chantel Schott
With the prevailing and forecast weather conditions, changes to a number of Australia Day celebration arrangements have had to be made due to being outdoors, state of the grounds, public safety etc. Toowoomba Regional Council have now advised that all council controlled parks are closed to activity until further notice due to the wet conditions.
TOOWOOMBA – Picnic Point Park
The Australia Day Concert has been cancelled. The Australia Day Awards ceremony has been transferred to City Hall and will go ahead between 11am and 12 noon.
MILLMERRAN
The Australia Day Breakfast will now take place in the Cultural Centre, Walpole Street, with the free breakfast from 7.30am and the Awards ceremony at 9 am. The Australia Day Bike Ride has been postponed to a date to be advised. Further information from Katrina Grundon on 0428 951 425.
CROW’S NEST
Because of the unavailability of Centenary Park (see above), Crow’s Nest Australia Day activities and Awards presentation will now go ahead in the RSL & Community Centre with the same timings.
HIGHFIELDS PIONEER VILLAGE
Our Volunteers are carrying on with as much of the program of activities as possible on Australia Day at Highfields Pioneer Village (The care of our animals will come first so some activities may be postponed until Easter}.
We will then move to the Highfields Cultural Centre for the official ceremony and presentation of Awards at 2pm.
The Village will remain open until 4pm for those who wish to partake in Billy Tea and Damper for Afternoon Tea. Please bring an umbrella and your blucher boots and support the Highfields Australia Day Ceremony if you can.
Link to Toowoomba Regional Council advice: (click here)
We will post any further information as it comes to hand.
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 Summer Tunes, council’s Goombungee meeting, TRC’s after-hours emergency phone number, saving water, rules for the criterium track, immunisation clinic hours and community support grants.
Over the years, the Australia Day Ambassador Program has allowed a number of high-achieving and fiercely proud Aussies to attend local Australia Day celebrations in towns and cities across the nation to share what Australia means to them.
It is with great pleasure Toowoomba Regional Council welcomes this year’s special guests on January 26th:
Designer and Inventor – Jean Madden
Speaking at Greenmount Australia Day Awards (From 10.30am)
After realising the negative effects of ‘sleeping rough’, Jean Madden designed the Street Swag made from lightweight waterproofed canvas with a high-density foam mattress that also has room for extra belongings. With schoolchildren, prisoners, and Aboriginal communities, Jean and her supporters have now bedded and given a basic shelter to over 20,000 of Australia’s homeless.
Speech Pathologist – Dr Dimity Dornan AM
Speaking at Oakey Australia Day Awards (From 8.45am)
Dimity Dornan AM is a speech pathologist, and the founder and managing director of Hear and Say. This not-for-profit program, opened in July 1992, and enables children with hearing loss to listen and speak through the use of modern hearing technology combined with the simultaneous education of parents and children (Auditory-Verbal Therapy).
Chef, author and television presenter – Ben O’Donoghue
Speaking at Clifton (From 7am) and Pittsworth (From 7pm) Australia Day Awards
For chef, author and television presenter Ben O’Donoghue, cooking is a passion and almost a reflex. It’s something he’s done since childhood and it never ceases to give him pleasure or stimulate his imagination. He unequivocally believes that food should be simple and distinctive, and technically and culturally correct. Ben’s passion for the Australian countryside and love of local produce is very much evident .
Masterchef contestant – Ellie Paxton-Hall
Speaking at Highfields Australia Day Awards (From 2pm)
Before Masterchef Ellie was at university studying nursing and public health but always had dreams of becoming a chef and owning her own deli one day. She says she was very privileged to have the experiences of series three of Masterchef Australia. “I am very passionate about living a healthy life through food, indulging when necessary and not feeling guilty”.
You can read more about the local Australia Day Ambassadors by clicking here.
Jenny Foxton
Senior Communication Officer
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
Toowoomba Regional Council
