Running Event Sunday, 18th September To Aid Toowoomba Hospital
Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers Sunday, September 18th, 2011, will see the running of the 32nd Carnival Half Marathon. Sponsored by Marlene’s Studios and conducted by the Toowoomba Road Runners, the run is widely known as the ‘Ridge to Ridge’ for its unique route along the edge of the Great Divide and is sometimes described as […]
Toowoomba-based Heritage Plans To Become Australia’s Largest Member-owned Bank
Heritage Building Society Limited has announced plans to take the next logical step forward in the organisation’s evolution by changing its name to Heritage Bank Limited. Heritage will put that recommendation to a vote of members and must also gain approval from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) If successful, it would make Heritage Australia’s […]
Toowoomba To Host Major Disaster Recovery Seminar Saturday, 10th September
Speakers from as far away as Kinglake in Victoria will address a major seminar on community disaster recovery in Toowoomba this Saturday. Hosted by Global Care’s Western Region Manager Pastor Jonathan Oastler, the seminar will cover a wide range of issues including the effects of a natural disaster on a local community, how local businesses […]
Sandra Pollard Lecture On Tuesday, 13th September
A public lecture conducted by the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society, Toowoomba Walter Sickert and the Camden Town Group Walter Sickert was a leader of a group of English artists living and working in the Camden Town area of London prior to and during the First World War. This group of post-impressionist painters, known […]
Council Connections: Week 1, September 2011
The weekly program keeping you up to date with Toowoomba Regional Council’s facilities, activities and services. Council Connections with Darren Burton This week Darren talks about council’s Street Tree masterplan, rates notices having gone out, weedbusting at Redwood Park, Emily Rodda session booked out, Library book sale, lending a hand for Carnival and a reminder […]
Charity Rodeo Underway To Support Murphy’s Creek Community & Toowoomba Hospital
It’s Bulls, Barrels, Utes & Music at the annual Fossil Downs Charity Bush Rodeo Extravaganza, Fifteen Mile Road, Murphy’s Creek on Friday evening 2nd and Saturday 3rd September. Top class rodeo with RSA affiliated cowboys in action plus all the thrills of the richest barrel racing in Australia and a Ute Show to boot. There […]
Toowoomba Amputees & Families Fundraising Golf Day Saturday, 24th September
The Fundraising Golf Day will be held by the Toowoomba Amputees & Families Support Group on Saturday the 24th September at Borneo Barracks Golf Club, Cabarlah. It is an 18 hole Ambrose and there will be heaps of prizes and Bar and BBQ all day. Nominations $15. Bookings open 10th September and close 19th September. […]
Army Helicopter Provides Night Medical Evacuation In East Timor
An Australian Army Black Hawk helicopter evacuated two seriously ill East Timorese nationals from an island off the coast of Dili last night for urgent medical attention. The Black Hawk, operated by the Australian-led International Stabilisation Force (ISF) in East Timor, responded to a request from the United Nations to use its night-flying capability to […]
