Events
Child Restraint Installers Course Bound For Toowoomba
Kidsafe’s Type 1 Car Seat Installers Course is coming to Toowoomba! This is a 2 day, Nationally Recognised Training Course that will provide participants with the knowledge & skills required to install all types of car restraints, give advice on the correct selection & use of restraints, as well as the laws and Australian Standards […]
Careers Day For Years 8 And 9 Students At USQ
About 230 students from high schools around the Darling Downs will find out more about life after school at the University of Southern Queensland. Toowoomba’s Year 8-9 Careers Day is to be held on Thursday, June 12. Students will get to try out interactive sessions from various potential career paths and study areas as well […]
Ergon’s Darling Downs Crews Tops For Safety
Darling Downs crews were dominant at Ergon Energy’s annual Field Safety Days competition in Townsville this week, taking the honours in both streams and top two positions overall. General Manager Service Delivery Southern Paul Jordon said the results were a credit not only to the team members who attended the competition, but also their fellow […]
Toowoomba Chamber Welcomes New CEO
The Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce is pleased to welcome Helen Jentz who officially commenced in the position of CEO on 2 June 2014. Outgoing CEO, Greg Johnson will be spending the next four weeks introducing Helen around town and assisting her to settle in to the role. “I am very excited to be taking up […]
Mobile Service Centre Visit To Assist Drought-Hit Farmers
Minister for Human Services, Senator the Hon Marise Payne said a Mobile Service Centre will be travelling to Allora, Inglewood and Millmerran next week, and Chinchilla, Wandoan, Condamine, Tara and Moonie the following week to offer farmers assistance with Interim Farm Household Allowance claims. “My department’s two Mobile Service Centres ‘Kangaroo Paw’ and ‘Desert Pea’ […]
Rise In Property Offences Occurring In Toowoomba Area
Police are wishing to alert Toowoomba residents that we are currently experiencing break and enter offences into homes and vehicles. Most recently there has been activity in the Newtown, Harlaxton, and Kearney Spring areas. Police are actively patrolling these hotspots and other areas of Toowoomba investigating potential suspects, and Volunteers in Policing have been hitting the […]
A Major Donation For Lifeline Can Appeal
On school parade on Tuesday the 3rd of June, Centenary Heights State High School has donated 4,000 items of non-perishable food to Lifeline Darling Downs and South West Queensland. The food will be given to local families accessing Lifeline’s Emergency Relief assistance this winter. The food collected was unveiled at parade and afterwards the students […]
Caitlyn In The Running For Another Walkley
University of Southern Queensland (USQ) alumni Caitlyn Gribbin is once again up for a prestigious journalism award. The ABC reporter has been nominated for a Young Walkley Award for the second year in a row. Ms Gribbin took out the radio/audio category of the 2013 Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year awards for her […]
