The third annual Leon Treadwell Memorial charity golf day in aid of the Oncology (Cancer Care) Unit at the Toowoomba Hospital will be staged at the City Golf Club on Friday 3rd September.
Leon was an avid golfer at City, representing the club in representative Pennant competition, before his untimely death at the young age of 32 due to an extremely rare cancer disease to his appendix. A schoolboy friend from Leon’s Charleville days, Kris Currie, contacted Toowoomba Hospital Foundation CEO Peter Rookas and so far the two memorial days have been a huge success, raising in excess of $10,000.
Kris said Leon was a great friend and he appreciated how well he was treated at the Oncology Unit at Toowoomba Hospital during his illness. I wanted to do something to perpetuate Leon’s memory so what better than a golf day to help the cancer care unit, and especially at his favourite golf clubâ€.
Hospital Foundation CEO Peter Rookas was easy to convince to help organise the day. ‘I played golf with Leon and know his wife Leah and their two lovely girls. And I knew our staff at the Toowoomba Hospital cared for Leon and remember him fondly so it was a natural to get involved with the day.’
The event will be a 4-a-side Ambrose with a shotgun start at 11.30am with the entry cost just $30 player ($120 a team) and there will be a host of great trophies on offer. The Leon Treadwell Memorial shield will be presented to the team with the best nett on the day.
Leah with daughters Emily (l) and Jade (r) and good friend Kris Currie who came up with the idea of the Memorial golf day....
(Leon’s widow, Leah and local identity Michael Betros (who lost his wife Jodie to cancer) found romance and love after both their tragic losses and have a little boy, LACHLAN JOEL BETROS – The name Joel is derived from their two precious late spouses, Jodi and Leon)..
It is a great story and both Leon & Jodie were cared for at Toowoomba Hospital….)
For nominations and further information, contact Peter Rookas at 46166 166 or 0418Â 713 138.
Kiyua Performing Arts Inc, formerly known as The Community Performing Arts Project, is a not for profit organisation that provides dance and drama classes free for young people. Their vision is ‘A community based group nurturing self worth and personal development through performing arts’.
On Sunday 22nd August, Kiyua will be holding a ‘Choreography Day’ at ‘The Barn’ on Flagstone Creek Road, Toowoomba. The day starts at 9am and will run till about 2.30pm. The young people divide into groups, get given a song and make up a dance as a team. They have lunch, then the groups perform their dances as the finale to the day in the afternoon. They are provided with a free sausage sizzle, and cake to celebrate the anniversary of the start of the project.
The Project has the full support of the Toowoomba Regional Council with the patron of the project being Cr Carol Taylor, who will be present and mingling with the young people.
This Sunday is special as we have Mayor Peter Taylor coming down at about 1.30pm to acknowledge our junior teachers, the young people (14-22yrs) who give up their Saturdays and other times to teach and mentor other young people. The Mayor is giving out certificates to 5 of these young people.
We welcome you to attend and view the project for yourself
For further details contact Sheriden Wright on 0412 135 925.
There’ll be Bulls, Broncs, Barrels & Music at the annual Fossil Downs Charity Bush Rodeo Extravaganza, Fifteen Mile Road, Murphy’s Creek on Saturday 4th September….
It’s top class rodeo with NRA affiliated cowboys in action plus all the thrills of barrel racing. There will be poddie calf rides, children’s games, Cleo the Clown & face painting plus a host of country music entertainment. Some of the biggest & meanest bulls will be in action including ‘Pocket Rocket’, ‘Terra Firma’ & ‘Eden’ while the NRA Bucking Horse of the Year 2006 ‘Denim & Lace’ will be on show plus ‘Strawberry Roan’, ‘Turbulance’ and ‘Crazy Horse.
This is the third year of the rodeo and nominations for this year’s event have more than doubled so there will be plenty of action and some of the best cowboys and cowgirls on show. Entertainment by renowned country artists including James Anderssen & the Outlaws and Dude Lovett & Kathy O’Sullivan will keep everybody entertained.
Entry is Adults $15, Children $5, Concessions $10, Families $30 (unlimited kids under 16). Camping with breakfast is also available $10 per adult & $5 for children over 8 years. Contact Rosemary on 46305714 or Gaye on 0417-633051. BYO Swag & chairs. No eskys allowed.
Proceeds from the day will aid the Renal & Cancer Units at the Toowoomba Hospital. Gates open at 1.00pm, music from 1.00pm to 3.00pm and the action gets underway at 3pm with the Open & Junior Barrel racing, at 4.30pm Local Poddie Calf rides and then rodeo action from 5.00pm.
Just follow the signs to Murphy’s Creek and get into the action of Charity Rodeo…..
For further information, Peter Rookas, Toowoomba Hospital Foundation Ph. 4616 6166
Heritage Crow’s Nest community branch has presented a cheque for $33,302 to Crow’s Nest Historical Society Inc. for a shed to built at Carbethon Folk Museum in Crow’s Nest.
The shed will be 18 metres x 7 metres with a sealed cleaned storage area with shelving. One third of the shed will be used as a workshop area with craft workshops such as leatherwork and silver smithing and school holiday programs among future uses in this area of the shed. Machinery and other items will be housed in the rest of the shed.
Inspecting the plans for the shed to be built in the south-east corner of the grounds are Crows Nest Historical Society Inc. President Sue Pechey (left) and Heritage Crow's Nest Community Branch Manager, Julie Murphy.
Heritage Crow’s Nest Community Branch is a joint venture between Progressive Community Crow’s Nest Ltd (PCCN) and Heritage Building Society. Under the Heritage community banking model, 50% of branch profits are distributed to community organisations, charities and special community events.
Darren talks about the Seniors Expo, Pre-poll voting, the next Ordinary meeting of council, rates notices, Shutterbugs, Highfields water mains cleaning and Laurel Bank Park tours.
Rosalie Gallery, Goombungee will exhibit the first solo exhibition for Oakey artist Edna Peterson during August.
The exhibition entitled “Shore to Shore .. Caloundra to Geraldton,” a collection of new works, features 20 paintings in pastel and watercolour and 8 photographs. The subject of Edna’s exhibition is a canvas of many wonderful experiences undertaken in 2009 including her work as a volunteer with wombats in Queensland and South Australia and her travels across the Nullabor to Geraldton W.A.
“This exhibition consolidates some ten years of my painting with the Oakey Art Group,” says Edna who has won numerous prizes in local shows. The highlight of her awards to date includes the Kenneth Macqueen memorial prize at the Toowoomba Show this year for “Keeping Watch.”
A stone cottage S.A.
She has also won Champion Painting at the Cooyar show for the last three years and firstprizes at Goombungee, Dalby and Millmerran shows. Edna has taken part in group exhibitions with the Oakey Art Group at the Cam Robertson Room, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery and Flavours Art Gallery Hampton.
The exhibition commenced Wednesday 11th August and will be officially opened by Marianne de Graaf of the Oakey Art Group on Friday 13th August from 7.00p.m. Opening hours are 10.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday. The exhibition continues until 5th September.
The Rosalie Gallery is in Mocatta Street, Goombungee. Phone the gallery on 4696 5600 for further information.
The exhibition will be officially opened on Friday 13 August, 2010 at 6pm at 53 Russell Art Gallery, 53 Russell Street, Toowoomba. All are Welcome.
This is an exhibition featuring a selection of recent paintings which have been produced by emerging artist, Chantel Schott.
Chantel is a self taught abstract artist and has been painting since 2005. She enjoys using acrylic as her main medium and from that creates vibrant, vivid and quirky artworks. Out-of-place creatures or objects feature in the Enchanted Mixed Bag exhibition musing the idea that the characters are stuck in a dreamscape – where anything goes.
The Enchanted Mixed Exhibition will run to Wednesday, 25th August.
