Choat has another attempt at Toowoomba Regional Council
MURRAY Choat has indicated that he will again stand for Toowoomba Regional Council in the upcoming election. Mr Choat, who has had unsuccessful tilts at earlier elections, said he wanted to see changes in a bid to make the region a better place to live, work and play. Water is also on the agenda, with Mr Choat calling for an independent inquiry into the Wivenhoe pipeline charges to reduce the cost burden on ratepayers. He has also called for a water feature in the Toowoomba Railway P..>> view originalCity's Chinese New Year celebrations now are family friendly
TOOWOOMBA International Multicultural Society has been running Chinese New Year events for years, so this year the team decided to do things a bit differently. In the past guests would pre-purchase tickets for a fantastic night at one of our local restaurants complete with all the trappings including a lion dance. This year the event has taken more of a carnival feel, according to TIMS member Daphne Fung. The event will be held during the day in the Bell St Mall and anyone can come a..>> view originalINCubate workshops teach kids skills for the future
TOOWOOMBA'S future entrepreneurials presented their business start up ideas to an expert panel including Dr John McVeigh, the University of Southern Queensland's Anna Stephenson and Toowoomba's leading innovation entrepreneur Chris Mills recently. Mr Mills, who is the founder and director of Strategenics, said he believed that today's kids were tomorrow's future visionaries and entrepreneurs. INCubate for Kids was launched during school holidays for children from Prep to Year 6 giving t..>> view originalBaby monitor 'ghost' spooks terrified parents
A VIDEO that purports to show a "ghost" approaching a sleeping baby has spooked its terrified parents. The footage shows a baby called Ruby curled up in her blanket. While the baby is fast asleep a "white figure" suddenly emerges exactly above where she rests. The parents said the ghoulish figure appeared to have a head and body. "It moves from left to right before floating towards the wall and shrinking in size." The orb gradually disappears before a much larger white figure m..>> view originalFrom home-based office to covering three regions in 10 years
SUNSHINE Coast law firm Aitken Legal has a lot to celebrate with the start of 2016, widening its coverage to another area of the state. The firm had humble beginnings on the Coast 10 years ago, starting as a private home-based practice, but soon moved into larger offices and in 2011 brought the Gold Coast on board. Continuing that pattern of growth, the firm opened an office in Toowoomba last week. Managing partner Lisa Aitken said she and her team saw an opportunity. "When lookin..>> view originalAlliance Francaise enjoy gallettes des rois to mark Epiphany
ALLIANCE Francaise de Toowoomba's gallettes des rois event was a great way to introduce what the group was all about to new members said administration assistant Natalie Holden. "It was a good way to relax and introduce them to what we do," she said. She said the gallettes des rois was a pastry-sharing tradition that usually took place in January in France to celebrate the Epiphany. "The way it works is there's a feve charm hidden inside one of the pastries and whoever finds it gets ..>> view originalMen caught breaking into Easternwell site by workers
TWO men caught in the act of an early morning break and enter of a Toowoomba work site have been sentenced to jail. Ross Ian Burgess, 36, and Frank Herbert Bond, 33, pleaded guilty to seven charges stemming from the one instance where they were caught red-handed by Easternwell workers arriving for work the morning of January 6. The Toowoomba Magistrates Court was told Burgess and Bond had driven a ute to the work site in which police located a blue plastic tub with various tools and acc..>> view originalGrab extra groceries to help out our farmers
IN HER job as centre manager at Toowoomba Plaza, Michelle Turley noticed that fundraisers tended to happen most at the end of the year, leaving important charities struggling through the first half of the year. If most of us stopped and thought about it, fires, floods and droughts don't just stop when Christmas appeals finish. It's a problem that is compounded in the case of droughts, which are quickly forgotten around cities when rain starts to fall, as people forget that the weather p..>> view originalBig rain fails to fall for second weekend in a row
THE sun is trying to peep through in Warwick this morning but for the second weekend in succession, the big rain did not fall on the Southern Downs. In recent years, heavy rain in the Central Queensland and Wide Bay areas has often moved on to the Southern Downs but not this weekend. The official overnight Warwick recording at the automatic station at The Hermitage Research Station east of Warwick was 14mm. One private recording in Warwick was 13.8mm. There was .2mm in Warwick from d..>> view originalNew Fitbit Alta is fashionable too
Paul Mallon Published 05/02/2016 | 02:38 Fitbit Fitbit has shown off its latest activity tracker - the Fitbit Alta - and it's adding some fashionable kinks into the mix Fitbit activity trackers do their thing really well but they're not going to win any awards for stylishness. The company is hoping to change things with the Alta, and it looks like this. VIDEO The tracker itself is made of stainless steel, which is a definite visual improvement over the plastic norm. Another b..>> view original
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