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• 13 things to do in 7 days: Getting out in Toowoomba | Chronicle

  

  TO HELP plan the next seven days, here are 13 events happening across the Toowoomba region.FRIDAYSeminar for parents of picky eatersA PRACTICAL workshop for parents and teachers on how to stop table tantrums, manage mealtime meltdowns and nourish a child who struggles to eat or refuses foods.It is designed to help you understand why your child can't or won't eat a variety of foods and provide strategies to enhance your relationship with your child through eating together.The cost is $197 to atte..

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• Property gold: Toowoomba suburbs Qld's best performing | Chronicle

  

  TOOWOOMBA is a property investor's and first home buyer's dream according to a review into Australia's top performing suburbs.Property website realestate.com.au looked at one and two-bedroom units with a maximum median price of $350,000 to identify where Australia's highest growth suburbs were.Queensland's five top performing suburbs are all located in Toowoomba.They are Wilsonton, Toowoomba City, Centenary Heights, Kearneys Spring and Newtown.Wilsonton recorded the best annual growth of 5.7 per..

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• Tour of Toowoomba picks up state award | Chronicle

  THE FKG Tour of Toowoomba's reputation as a quality event has grown after taking out another award.The National Road Series event took out the Cycling Queensland Event of the Year award in Brisbane at the weekend.It was the third time the Tour of Toowoomba had taken out that honour.The recognition was a great reward for the many workers and volunteers who put on the event in and around Toowoomba back in May.German rider Michael Schweizer won this year's Tour of Toowoomba and the victory of an in..

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• Frisky bull interrupts Toowoomba wedding | Chronicle

  

  AN amorous bull has interrupted a Toowoomba couple's wedding by mounting a cow during proceedings.A viral video shows the happy couple and wedding party conducting a wedding in the luscious Toowoomba countryside.The bride climbs a fence and is seen carrying a beer with her bridal party.The group lines up for photographs and a herd of hungry cows is seen lurking in the area.The amorous bull mounts a cow during the nuptials.The bride then prepares to throw her bouquet when the bull makes an entran..

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• Board funds second CT scanner for Toowoomba Hospital | Chronicle

  

  DDHHS Director of Medical Imaging Aiden Cook (left) and Toowoomba Hospital Senior Radiographer Andrew Page.Photo ContributedRESIDENTS of Toowoomba and surrounding areas will soon have easier access to specialised scanning services following the announcement that a second CT scanner has been ordered for Toowoomba Hospital's medical imaging department.Director of Medical Imaging Mr Aiden Cook said the department was looking forward to the arrival of the new scanner."Toowoomba Hospital has a compre..

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• Chamber Chat: Priorities for small business in Toowoomba | Chronicle

  

  CHAMBER CHAT:I followed with interest over the past week commentary relating to the Rebuilding Foundations for Reform Conference held on November 5-6 in Melbourne.The theme of this year's conference was investigating the challenges in developing a constituency for reform and provided commentary on essential ingredients of successful policy implementation in the most pressing national priorities, ranging from tax reform and the budget to retirement policy and reducing inequality.Reform is always ..

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• Five quirky ways to get healthy in Toowoomba | Chronicle

  

  Instructor Sarah at Pure Pole in Toowoomba demonstrates pole dancing for fitness.ContributedPOLE DANCINGPURE Pole national manager Georgia Marie said pole dancing for fitness was a full-body workout that combined elements of gymnastics, dance and circus."It's great exercise because you have to lift and hold your body weight in a variety of fun positions to pull off the pole tricks, climbs and spins you'll be taught," she said."The best part is anyone can get started and you don't have to be fit ..

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• A 'quiet' revolution under way at Toowoomba university | Chronicle

  

  COPLAND:There's been a quiet revolution happening in K Block, at the Open Access College of the University of Southern Queensland over the past five months.It might not be large, it might not be loud but it is significant nevertheless. It is the Clemente Program. A program first sparked by an encounter between an academic and a prisoner in the United States. The late Earl Shorris, founder of Clemente interviewed over 600 prisoners as part of a study into poverty.When the question, "Why do you th..

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• Christmas pops up in Toowoomba CBD | Chronicle

  

  Cody Hardimon and Helen Bradford from pop-up speciality store Christmas Shack will have all your festive goods until Christmas eve.Charlotte Lam"TOOWOOMBA loves Christmas," said Christmas Shack store manager Helen Bradford.The speciality pop-up is the first of its kind in the Garden City and the response so far is that it's already a hit.It's more than a place to snatch up affordable Christmas goods."With the Christmas carols playing and bright colours, beautiful decorations, we've had some peop..

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• Couple's wedding pictures interrupted by a mounting bull in...

  

  Moo-ve over! Watch the hilarious moment a couple's romantic sunset wedding video is interrupted by a bull mounting a cowMounting bull interrupted a newlywed couple's tasteful wedding picturesBridal party were posing for photographs in front of a herd of cowsVideo shows them laughing when a bull tried to mount one of the cowsByJenny Awford For Daily Mail AustraliaPublished:10:18 EST, 9 November 2015|Updated:10:44 EST, 9 November 2015This is the hilarious moment a mounting bull interrupted a newl..

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