The weekly program keeping you up to date with Toowoomba Regional Council’s facilities, activities and services.
Council Connections with Darren Burton
This week we talk about train trips to Spring Bluff, Bushcapades, rate notices having gone out, change of time for immunisation clinic, food handling safety course and Tombstone Tours.
Over 60 paintings by Julie Boyce are being displayed from 1st to the 30th of September at Village View Gallery, Highfields Pioneer Village. All works are on sale.
Julie, who was brought up on a 27,500 acre property in the Charleville area, paints in the ‘naive’ style in acrylics and watercolours. She says her works reflect her passion for the Australian bush and country living. Her interest in art began at an early age. Julie remembers her first drawings were in mulga dust, progressing to crayons, with her work ‘Fishing on the Banks of the Warrego’ being exhibited at the local show.
Julie retains her love of the bush and open spaces, and now resides on a 1,200 acre property at Cressbrook Creek.
The Village View Gallery is open from 10am to 4.00pm daily. Entry to the Gallery is free, though normal fees apply to explore the many historic buildings and displays at Highfields Pioneer Village.
Jody Ashford,
Village View Gallery
Highfields Pioneer Village,
73 Wirraglen Rd, Highfields QLD 4352.
Phone 07 4635 6223 or email: highfieldspioneervillage@hotmail.com
The Millmerran Sheep Races is a major fundraiser for St Joseph’s Primary School. We are a small school with 80 enrollments and the Sheep Races is now in it’s seventh consecutive year.
The Sheep Races is a great family day and every effort is taken in making sure the whole family gets good value for money and that each member has a wonderful time. The children are catered for with side show alley style rides including sumo wrestling, face painting, bouncy boxing and of course the mechanical bull.
The Macquarie Wagyu Wine Marquee promises to be a hit with the ladies with a fashion parade of woolen garments from AWI as well as the Fashions Of The Field with many categories.
The Sheep Races are on this Saturday 28th August, gates open at 11am and the first of a six race program begins at 1pm. The calcutta draw and auction commence at 3.45pm and the final shall be run at 4.30pm. Our band Toowoomba’s “The Solitary Men” start playing at 5pm and will break while the mechanical bull competition takes place.
We would especially like to thank our Gold Sponsors Raff Farm Supplies and Hardware, Waratah Fencing Products and TJ & RA Antonio Fencing Contractors. More information and pictures from last year are at www.millmerransheepraces.com or you can find Millmerran Sheep Races on Facebook.
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Nikki Macqueen Ph 4695 6199 email: bnmacqueen@bigpond.com
Schools, Businesses, Clubs/Community Groups or individuals on the Downs and in the Lockyer Valley are encouraged to have a Trash Ya Hair Day during the month of October.
You can colour, mousse, gel or shave your hair to raise money for the Toowoomba Hospice. These funds will assist the daily operations of this important community facility providing palliative and respite care for all ages.
There are some great prizes to be won for Schools, Businesses, Clubs/Community Groups or individuals, that raise the most money!
The Toowoomba Hospice’s mission is to provide optimal palliative care; based on mutual respect and trust, the needs of those who come to us and their families.
For more information call Mark NOW on 07 4659 8500 or email him on admin.toowoombahospice@bigpond.com
Students and staff at The Glennie School for in Toowoomba have celebrated the official opening of their new hospitality training centre recently.
Member for Toowoomba North, Kerry Shine said the new centre was a major asset for the school community.
The hospitality centre offers an excellent training facility for hospitality students,†Mr Shine said. It has a commercial training kitchen containing a barista-style coffee machine, and an industrial oven, and the neighbouring classroom can double as a function room for school events.
The hospitality students are putting it to good use – they helped cater for the Glennie Foundation cocktail party and have prepared morning tea for the official opening.â€
The State Government contributed $250,000 in capital assistance funding to the project, adding to the $850,000 raised by the school.
The Member for Toowoomba North represented the Minister for Education and Training Geoff Wilson at the opening. Mr Wilson said the Queensland Government was pleased to help support the school’s ongoing development.
Over the past five years, The Glennie School (an Anglican school for girls) has received more than $5.6 million in recurrent funding and $1.9 million in capital assistance from the State Government.â€
Further Information
Phone: 4638 5755 or Email: toowoomba.north@parliament.qld.gov.au
Local primary school children are being encouraged to celebrate Children’s Book Week this week (August 21-27).
Member for Toowoomba North Kerry Shine Week said With the State Government’s continued focus on improving children’s literacy, Children’s Book Week represents another opportunity to help us spread the word about the importance of reading, and to encourage young Queenslanders to learn to love reading from an early age. I urge parents to make the most of any Book Week activities and celebrations taking place at local schools.â€
Children’s Book Week is organised by the Children’s Book Council of Australia and this year marks the program’s 65th anniversary, with the 2010 theme ‘Across the Story Bridge’.
Mr Shine went on to say Currently more than 60,000 students from 400 schools are involved in the fifth annual Premier’s Reading Challenge, which sets reading targets for all primary students in Queensland. The Challenge finishes on August 27 and I’m told we’re on track to better last year’s results where more than 1.2 million books were read during the campaign.â€
Further Information:
Phone: 4638 5755 or Email: toowoomba.north@parliament.qld.gov.au
Treasures from the Royal Collection†is the topic chosen by Oliver Everett for the public lecture he will present for the Toowoomba Group of the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society (ADFAS) on 24 August.
The Royal Collection comprises more than 485,000 objects collected by the Royal Family over the past five centuries. It includes works by many great artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Rembrandt, Monet, Lucian Freud and Michelangelo; porcelain; jewellery; furniture and manuscripts. Oliver Everett has selected about fifty of the finest items in the Collection to speak about in his illustrated lecture.
Oliver Everett is well qualified to speak on his chosen subject having served in the Royal Household in several positions including that of Librarian in the Royal Library, Assistant Keeper of the Royal Archives and Private Secretary to Diana, Princess of Wales. He is a graduate of Cambridge University, Tufts University (USA) and the London School of Economics.
Oliver Everett’s lecture will be given in the Glennie Room, The Glennie School, Herries Street, Toowoomba on Tuesday 24 August starting at 6.45 pm and will be followed by supper. Members of the public are welcome to attend. The cost is $20 for persons who are not members of ADFAS and $10 for students.
For further information about Oliver Everett’s lecture and about membership of ADFAS contact the Secretary of ADFAS, Toowoomba on 07 4636 6164.
The weekly program keeping you up to date with Toowoomba Regional Council’s facilities, activities and services.
Council Connections with Darren Burton
General information on rates notices, volunteers for the gallery, Tombstone Tours, getting tickets for the Ergon Energy Flower, Food and Wine Festival and an online business survey.