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Wednesday, 15th of December is your last opportunity to vist Toowoomba’s Christmas Tree Festival in St Luke’s Anglican Church on the corner of Herries and Ruthven Streets.

The church has been transformed. with a forest of over 100 Christmas trees. Look and wonder at the trees adorned with displays depicting international traditions, hymns, carols and songs.

Free tea and coffee is available in the adjacent Church Hall, where you will find craft stalls with excellent gift ideas.

There is also a music program sponsored by the City Golf Club. On Wednesday the U3A  Chamber Singers will be performing from 12.30 to 1.30pm and the evening concert from 6 to 7pm will feature Christingle and Women in Harmony.

Toowoomba’s Christmas Tree Festival will be open for the final time for 2010 from 9am to 9pm Wednesday, 15th of December.

The Queensland Police Service’s new hoon hotline – 13 HOON (4666) commenced operation December 13th.

The 13HOON hotline gives the public an easy to remember central contact point to report hoons to Police.

The implementation of the Hoon Hotline enables community members to provide information in relation to hooning activities such as illegal street racing, travelling at high speeds, burnout offences, drifting and rolling road blocks directly to the QPS.

It further provides the opportunity for community members to provide information related to other types of traffic complaints and report traffic related offences.

Non-urgent calls made to the QPS Hoon Hotline will be entered as a QPRIME occurrence.

Trained call takers will answer the call and record details including vehicle registration, vehicle characteristics and location of the illegal activity.

For hooning incidents actually underway, the information obtained by the operator will be forwarded to the designated Police Communications Centre for a response as required.

The Queensland Police Service emphasises that community members should not place themselves at risk to report this anti-social behaviour. If anyone is in immediate danger or it is a life threatening incident, police urge callers to call Triple Zero (000).

Tony Rehn, Crime Prevention Officer

Southern Region, Queensland Police Service

Ph 07 46316755 Fax 07 46153200

Marshall Cox, Toowoomba West Lions Club’s Christmas Wonderland of Lights Co-ordinator advises that Kids’ Night at Toowoomba’s Christmas Wonderland of Lights has been rescheduled from tonight to next Saturday night, 18th of December. Due to the inclement weather, the Christmas Wonderland of Lights in the Botanic Gardens will not be open to the public tonight(11th December).

With rain forecast for this weekend, the 2010 Highfields Carols on Sunday December 12th will play it safe and be held indoors at the Highfields Cultural Centre. The carols were to have been held at Peacehaven Park, but other details remain unchanged. The fate of the fireworks is as yet unresolved.

The Highfields District Community Carols Committee, friends of Peacehaven Park and the Toowoomba Regional Council are presenting a great family evening of food, entertainment and community carol singing. Doors open at 5.00pm and the show commences at 6.00pm with local choirs and singers, plus John Townsend, a singer of international renown who now resides on the Darling Downs, and Leisa Johnson.

The Highfields Cultural Centre is off O’Brien Road, Highfields.

Further information from Mandy Anderson (Ph 0407 645 153).