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Past To Come Alive At Easter Vintage Festival In Highfields
Highfields Pioneer Village is celebrating its 16th Annual Easter Vintage Festival Easter Saturday, Sunday and Monday (30th of March to the 1st of April, 2013). The theme of the festival is ‘A time when life was much Simpler’. Come and experience rural life in the Australian Pioneer days! Milk a cow, learn how to crack […]
Toowoomba Regional Council Harmony Day Celebrations
Toowoomba’s Village Green became a cultural feast on March 21st as part of Harmony Day celebrations. In addition to guest speakers, there were a number of performances from representatives of different cultures followed by a barbeque. Mayor Paul Antonio says the celebration was a chance for the community to come together and learn more about […]
New Starting Time For 2013 Toowoomba Carnival Of Flowers Parade
Toowoomba Regional Council’s portfolio leader for Tourism and Events Cr Geoff McDonald says the floral parade has come under the spotlight and there has been a suggestion that the parade be put back to 3pm to avoid the heat of the day – which makes perfect sense to me.” He said a straw poll through […]
Our First Model Rocket Launch For 2013
Have you noticed how busy the skies have been of late? …. and here, I’m not talking about planes and helicopters …. beyond that! This year started with a meteor explosion over Russia, and lately two comets, Panstarrs and Lemmon have been barely visible to the naked eye in the west, after sunset … and […]
Guest Speaker At Prostate Cancer Support Group March Meeting
Marguerite Lumsden – Depression and Prostate Cancer, Psychologist Cancer Care Services, Toowoomba Base Hospital will be the guest speaker at the March meeting, Tuesday 19th.at 5.30 for a 6pm start. It will be held at the CCQ office 137 Herries Street Toowoomba. RSVP: Christine Ward, 07 4690 5800 “Marguerite Lumsden is a Psychologist of some […]
71st Anniversary Of 25th Battalion Departing From Spring Bluff
On St. Patrick’s Day 1942, the 1,000 strong Darling Downs 25th Infantry Battalion left Cabarlah Barracks at 2.00am and marched down the steep range to the siding at Spring Bluff. There the soldiers boarded trains bound for the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds, Townsville and eventually Milne Bay at the eastern tip of New Guinea. Each year […]
UN Message For International Women’s Day (March 8th)
This year’s theme for International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on 8 March, is: “A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women.” United Nations Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet stresses that discrimination and violence against women and girls have no place in the 21st century. “Enough is enough,” she says in […]
