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Lions in action at Crows Nest Christmas Festival Crows Nest Lions Club hosted a visit by Santa to Friday night’s Christmas Festival in Crows Nest and, in conjunction with Heritage Bank, sponsored gift bags for him to hand out to the children. Each child also received a native tree donated by Toowoomba Regional Council. Any left over Santa bags were donated to the CWA and Lions Drought Relief and children at the women’s shelters. Crows Nest Lions meet at the Crows Nest Bowls Club on the third Thursday of the month and are always looking for new members. Join the Lions family and have fun and satisfaction by helping us support those in need in our community. For more information phone membership chairman Yvonne Bradley 0408 181 146. Crows Nest Lions with staff from Heritage Bank who donated the free Santa bags for the children. - Photos contributed. Roof to underground Bassini Dual Combination Rail Shower Chrome *Wels 3 Star* $ 465 (inc. GST) Established 1979 P: 4634 2955 F:4633 2707 16 Stradbroke Street, Toowoomba 4350 www.kandrplumbingsupplies.com.au Updates from the Toowoomba Region Lion Meg Hatfield with the winner of the Lions cake raffle Donna Porter. DAM LEVELS 41.3% Australia Day competition Are you an aspiring poet? You too could be like Dorothea McKellar by writing a poem specific to life in Australia. The Crows Nest Australia Day planning committee is once again conducting a poetry competition open to amateur writers only. There is a section for up to grade 7, grades 7 to 12 and open (senior) with a chance in winning one of three $50 vouchers. The winners will be announced and presented with their prizes at the Crows Nest Australia Day ceremony on January 26. Winning writers will have the chance to recite their winning entry at the morning ceremony. The competition is open to residents from Cabarlah north to Mt Binga and west to Haden and Thornville. The competition closes January 11. • Entry forms are available from TRC Service Centre Crows Nest, Crows Nest Library, Community Arts and Craft, Bailey’s Key Hardware and Crows Nest News or by emailing Barry Miller bazza63@bigpond.com. Completed entry forms can be left at Bailey’s Key Hardware. Are you an aspiring Poet? You too could be like Dorothea McKellar by writing a poem which is specific to Life in Australia Council Meetings The next meetings of Council’s Standing Committees will be held on 12 and 13 February 2019 commencing at 9am. The next Ordinary Meeting of Council will be held on 22 January commencing at 10am. All meetings are at City Hall, 541 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba. Waste Audit We’re conducting an audit of the rubbish that goes into kerbside bins throughout the region over the next eight weeks. At randomly selected properties, our consultant’s crew will bag and tie rubbish early in the morning before regular collection trucks come through the street. Analysing the rubbish will help us understand the region’s waste disposal habits. All waste is kept confidential and disposed of in the normal way afterwards. If you would like to opt out of the audit, please call us. Activate Survey (prizes to be won!) We’d like to hear your thoughts and ideas on the future of sport, active recreation and healthy living in the Toowoomba Region. Have your say by completing our survey and go in the draw to win some amazing prizes to the value of up to $500! Surveys are open until 5pm on Friday 15 February 2019. Complete one online via http:// yoursay.tr.qld.gov.au/activate-survey or in hard copy at Council customer service centres. To find out more details, please call 131 872 or visit www.tr.qld.gov.au CHANGE Project Activities A range of low-cost opportunities are available in Highfields and Crows Nest each week to help residents get out and active. To join or find out more visit www.tr.qld.gov.au/change Emu Creek Road & Post Office Road Closures Emu Creek Hall Road, Crows Nest and Post Office Road, Ravensbourne will be temporarily closed from February to June 2019. These temporary closures will allow us to replace the existing structures with a new structure which will improve safety for motorists and allow for continued traffic flow. Local detours, additional signage and controls will be in place for the safety of motorist and construction crews. We would like to thank the community for their patience and cooperation during these works and apologise for any inconvenience these works may cause. When Trucks are About, Keep a Look Out In courts and dead ends, our waste trucks have to turn around and reverse, and the drivers can’t see all around them at the one time. Please be sure to supervise your children, particularly on bin collection days. It’s common for kids to ride bikes, skateboards and play games in the street. Remember that our trucks are big and kids are small, so please keep a safe distance from our vehicles. Highfields Plaza Shopping Centre Highfields QLD 4352.O. Box 242, Highfields Qld 4352 Phone (07) 4615 4416 herald@highcountrynews.net.au Editor: Neil Lomas editor@highcountrynews.net.au Phone: 0417 801 537 Office Manager: Ann Lomas herald@highcountrynews.net.au Phone: 0409 890 081 Advertising: herald@highcountrynews.net.au Phone: 0409 890 081 Classified advertising: Phone: 07 4615 4416 Published by Diamond Valley Enterprises Pty Ltd ACN Printed by APN Print Warwick All original material is copyright. Any significant errors will be corrected as soon as possible. Proudly Australian owned and independent FREE community newspaper - Published weekly - Available Tuesday CAB audited circulation May 2018 - 12,308 Current distribution 12,600 to the letterboxes of all rural and urban homes in the northern sector of Toowoomba Region 2 - HIGH COUNTRY HERALD - DECEMBER 18, 2018 To advertise phone 4615 4416 or email herald@highcountrynews.net.au TR_SEC_181218_HCH_16x4 3 Vouchers to Be WON Winners announced and prizes presented and all winning poems to be presented by authors at the Australia Day ceremony on January 26. Maximum 3 to 5 minutes Open to amateur writers only from Cabarlah north to Mt Binga and west to Haden and Thornville Competition closes January 11 Entries available from: TRC Service Centre Crows Nest, Crows Nest Library, Community Arts & Crafts, Bailey’s and Crows Nest News Co-ordinated by the local Crows Nest Australia Day Planning Committee
Highfields ideal for high tech business - Denis Wagner By MILES NOLLER A Wagner group leader, Denis Wagner, says Highfields could become a technical hub of the Toowoomba region, but it would be different to the commercial hubs being developed at Wellcamp and Charlton. Mr Wagner said it was unlikely that big industry would be established in Highfields. But he said there was no reason that developments aligned with high tech industries and offices could not established in Highfields. Mr Wagner, however, did emphasise the importance of the trees and ambience of Highfields, and said Highfields had real opportunities with residential, and several lighter industries, associated with technology. Mr Wagner was addressing the December meeting of Highfields and District Business Connections. He detailed the decision making process that led to the construction of the Wellcamp Airport, Australia’s first major airport constructed on a greenfield site since Tullamarine in Melbourne in 1967. He explained that the development of an airport at Wellcamp came more than a decade after local and State governments developed plans for a heavy industrial area in the Wellcamp/ Charlton area including some of the Wagner’s 3000acres of land at Wellcamp Downs. He said the industrial development was being planned by EDROC (Eastern Downs Regional Organisation of Councils) which included all eight councils that became the Toowoomba Regional Council, plus the Warwick and Gatton councils. Jondaryan Shire Council approved the development of a quarry at Wellcamp Downs in 1996, and in 2001 Jondaryan Council also rezoned the area for industry. In 2006 the Wagner family decided to develop a business park on their Wellcamp land, but found it difficult to attract businesses to it, because of the lack of connectivity to the Toowoomba area. This frustration led to the decision in 2012 to build an airport. Denis Wagner said the approval was relatively straight forward because of the rezoning and approvals of the Jondaryan Shire previously. The application to develop an airport was code assessable. Work on the airport started in March 2013 and was completed in November 2014. This was despite scepticism by the public, the aviation industry, the southern media and others. “It proved to Australia that regions can achieve significant projects.” Now Wellcamp Airport has 90 passenger flights a week in and out of the airport, and it has a weekly freight service to Hong Kong that is now oversubscribed. Mr Wagner said it was hoped that Cathay Pacific would add more freight services each week to meet the demand. The Cathay 747-800 each Tuesday carries 138 tonnes of freight to Hong Kong and southern China. Fresh beef loaded at Wellcamp at 5pm can be in a restaurant in Shanghai at 5am the next day. The 747-800 is 50metres longer than the 747 passenger planes. The success of the Wagner group to secure a Qantas pilot training academy at Wellcamp is yet another major achievement. It is due to open in June, 2019 with buildings for accommodation, training and maintenance yet to be constructed. Qantas wants to be training 250 pilots at Wellcamp over 20 years. The Wagners would like it to increase to 500 pilots. Besides Wellcamp, training would also occur at eight smaller satellite airports including Toowoomba, Oakey, Dalby, Millmerran and Pittsworth. There are plans to take young pilots who have just learned to fly, and train them to commercial level, using training simulators in the program. When the inland rail is constructed on Wellcamp Airport’s western side, Wagners will connect it to their business park. They will then have the rare distinction of operating road, rail and air services from Wellcamp. Sea freight will be added when the Wagners complete a shipping terminal in the Brisbane River at Pinkenba. The combination of these four types of transport is likely to be a first for Australia, and maybe the world. Highfields and District Business Connections president Tess Bourke and Wagner Group director Denis Wagner whose address to the business group’s December breakfast meeting detailed the process that led to the construction of Wellcamp Airport and pointed to the positive future for the area that the developments planned by the Wagner Group will bring. The first Cathay Pacific 747-800 freight aircraft touched down at Wellcamp Airport on November 22, 2016 to load freight for Hong Kong. Since then Cathay Pacific has taken freight from Wellcamp on a weekly basis, but there is now more freight than aircraft space. Denis Wagner said it was hoped that more flights each week wiould be added to the Wellcamp schedule. 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If you’d like your yard looking fab for Christmas lunch, book in now 0407 912 535 TRADING HOURS: Closing lunch time Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day Chris, Nicole & all the Team wish you all the best this holiday season and throughout the New Year Merry Christmas IN STOCK NOW!!! • Lime Impact • Lucerne mulch bags • Wood Shavings • Blood & Bone P: 4696 9111 I M: 0418 716 883 E: sales@highfieldslandscape.com.au www.highfieldslandscapesupplies.com.au 4 Darian St, Highfields Industrial Estate 2 mins past McDonalds Left off Highfields Road New England Highway Opposite Toowoomba Christian College See us today for Great Christmas Gift Ideas! Wishing Everyone a Safe and Merry Christmas. Happy New Year and Best Wishes for 2019 Christmas trading hours Monday 24th 8am-3pm Tues 25th - Fri 28th Closed Sat 29th - Mon 31st 8am-3pm, Tues 1st Closed Wed 2nd onwards Open as usual 8am-5pm 9 Recreation Reserve Road, HIGHFIELDS 4630 8548 Highfields Largest Plant Nursery HIGH COUNTRY HERALD - DECEMBER 18, 2018 - 3
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