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Talking travel<br />
Talking travel plans at italktravel Travel and Cruise Expo at the Highfields Cultural<br />
Centre are Ainsley Hardy from italktravel, Highfields, and Kim Cahill, Highfields.<br />
PROFILE<br />
Greens candidate<br />
I moved from rural Wales in<br />
my youth and now live in Crows<br />
Nest.<br />
Since early days I’ve engaged<br />
with initiatives such as clean<br />
energy and social justice for a<br />
better world.<br />
In my local community I’ve<br />
been an advocate for community<br />
services to improve health, safety,<br />
public transport, inclusivity<br />
and protection of heritage.<br />
The farmlands and natural environments<br />
of Condamine need<br />
protection from the impacts of<br />
mining ventures and inland rail.<br />
Also, prime agricultural land<br />
is being eaten up by over development<br />
of housing with ecological<br />
deficit.<br />
Peri-urban areas have been<br />
traumatised by excessive tree<br />
clearing and loss of wildlife<br />
habitats.<br />
I also stand to support conservation<br />
farming practices,<br />
grassroots land care and indigenous<br />
rangers.<br />
Here we have a local, Queensland<br />
and global responsibility<br />
to lower the impacts of climate<br />
change.<br />
I advocate for less dependence<br />
on coal mining which directly<br />
elevates temperatures and<br />
ocean acidity.<br />
There needs to be a stronger<br />
acceptance from government of<br />
INDEPENDENT<br />
LIVING UNITS<br />
FROM<br />
$314,000 *<br />
STEVE THOMAS<br />
Greens candidate for<br />
Condamine<br />
the capability of the renewable<br />
energy sector to make a rapid<br />
change in the energy market.<br />
I support strong and responsible<br />
regulation of a state public<br />
energy provider to stop providers<br />
rorting the system.<br />
I encourage initiatives for responsible<br />
consumerism including<br />
shared transport efficiency.<br />
In Condamine I am a local<br />
representative of the people,<br />
and I demand for the people full<br />
consultation, legal protection,<br />
responsible government and<br />
weeding out corruption. - Steven<br />
M. Thomas.<br />
History talk on wartime Toowoomba<br />
Toowoomba during WWII<br />
was a city on the front line -<br />
headquarters for the defence of<br />
eastern Australia, large houses<br />
resumed for officer accommodation,<br />
air raid shelters and drills,<br />
operational air sorties, schools<br />
taken over as military hospitals,<br />
a refuge for coastal school children,<br />
and hundreds of Australian<br />
and American troops on rest and<br />
recreation leave.<br />
War-time life in the city is the<br />
subject of the next talk at the<br />
Toowoomba Historical Society.<br />
The speaker is Paul Herbert,<br />
a Toowoomba heritage enthusiast<br />
who has delivered numerous<br />
walking tours in and around<br />
Toowoomba and (with heritage<br />
architect wife Stephanie Keays)<br />
helped organise the Toowoomba<br />
Open House program and Festival<br />
of Rail.<br />
This talk is a reprise of a talk<br />
he gave to a small, but highly appreciative,<br />
audience at Cobb and<br />
Co Museum earlier this year.<br />
The meeting will be held at<br />
the society’s rooms, 49 Lindsay<br />
Street, Toowoomba on Monday,<br />
November 20, at 7.30pm. All<br />
welcome.<br />
INDOOR SPORT<br />
OAKEY: Wednesday mixed<br />
netball: Smashers 28 d. Netty<br />
Balls 23. Biddeston Biatches<br />
25 d. A Mixed Bag Of Nuts 18.<br />
Big Buddy 17 d. Bunny Club 10.<br />
Pineapple Punch had a bye.<br />
Thursday ladies netball: Rowdy<br />
Rockets 46 d. T-Rex’s 21.<br />
Hoops n Scoops 43 d. The Ring-<br />
In’s 18.<br />
Ladies volleyball: Star Jumpers<br />
d. Power Rangers on forfeit.<br />
So Close, Yet So Far on a bye.<br />
MEET YOUR COUNCILLORS<br />
The Toowoomba Region Councillors are headed your way Friday 17 November 2017. Cr’s James O’Shea<br />
and Joe Ramia will visit Cooyar Memorial Park and Yarraman IGA. Cr’s Bill Cahill and Mike Williams<br />
will visit Crows Nest Town Centre and Hampton Visitor Information Centre.<br />
Come along and have a chat they’d love to meet<br />
you. If you would like to speak with one of the<br />
Councillors please contact your local Community<br />
Liaison Officer on 131 872.<br />
For more info, please call 131 872<br />
LETTER<br />
Writing many letters to the<br />
<strong>Herald</strong> over the years, I have<br />
thrown many an idea and suggestion<br />
for future improvements<br />
for the north and the whole region.<br />
I’ve mentioned a connecting<br />
road from Highfields to Boundary<br />
Road to ease traffic flow, a<br />
new police station and a possible<br />
hospital for Highfields, along<br />
with an adventure park land to<br />
create jobs and tourism.<br />
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• Indoor and outdoor spaces, perfect for<br />
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• 24/7 emergency call system<br />
Driver training suggestion<br />
As we see hundreds of election<br />
signs popping up all over<br />
the area, now is the time to beat<br />
the drum and get yourself a commitment.<br />
I gather the wanna-be politicians<br />
are all reading this <strong>Herald</strong><br />
today as I do have another item<br />
that I’m very passionate about a<br />
driver training facility.<br />
I call on interested hopefuls<br />
and organisations to get behind<br />
this cause as we need to change<br />
Cr O’Shea<br />
Relax<br />
you’ll<br />
Open for inspection Monday to Friday 9am to 3pm.<br />
Cr Ramia<br />
the road statistics in our area<br />
and provide better learning platforms<br />
for our children following<br />
behind.<br />
The region also needs a V8<br />
Supercar compatible race<br />
track to bring in much needed<br />
tourism monies to help fund the<br />
learning facility and a place for<br />
the car enthusiasts.<br />
Who will you be voting for as<br />
Qld decides? - Murray Choat,<br />
Highfield Ridge.<br />
Watts pledges security upgrades<br />
Member for Toowoomba North Trevor Watts<br />
has announced that an elected LNP Government<br />
will invest $145,000 in crime-prevention infrastructure<br />
for Toowoomba.<br />
CCTV installations and upgrades will be rolled<br />
out across the electorate of Toowoomba North,<br />
including at the BMX Track Captain Cook and<br />
Rockville Sports Ground.<br />
Included in the $145,000 investment is $50,000<br />
for remote monitoring devices at sites outside the<br />
current council network and $75,000 to upgrade<br />
10 City Safe cameras from analogue to digital,<br />
allowing local police to quickly identify and respond<br />
to antisocial behaviour.<br />
“I am proud to be able to announce that the<br />
LNP will make this significant investment in the<br />
crime-fighting ability of our local police,” Mr<br />
Watts said.<br />
“Every day I speak to locals who tell me that<br />
one of their biggest concerns is the explosion of<br />
crime and anti-social behaviour in our community,<br />
which has been left unchecked by a do-nothing<br />
soft-on-crime Labor Government.<br />
“Enough is enough. That is why an elected<br />
LNP Government will invest $145,000 into new<br />
CCTV infrastructure.<br />
• Shop local • Eat local<br />
• Spend local • Enjoy local<br />
It takes you to start the trend!!<br />
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES<br />
WHERE YOU LIVE, WORK AND PLAY<br />
Cr Cahill<br />
feel right<br />
at home<br />
Cr Williams<br />
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RETIREMENT COMMUNITY<br />
HIGH COUNTRY HERALD, NOVEMBER 14, 2017 - 7
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