Herald 20221004

Seniors Expo moves
to a new venue
The National Seniors Australia
Garden City Branch is excited
to be presenting the region’s
largest informative event for
seniors at a new venue this year.
The annual Toowoomba Seniors
Expo is being held in
the Founders Pavilion at the
Toowoomba Showgrounds on
Thursday, October 20.
Branch president Hazel Gillies
said the new location provides
a lot more space than the
previous venue.
“The new venue has plenty of
room and there is good accessibility
at the showgrounds which
also has plenty of parking,” she
said.
“Last year’s event had visitors
from all over Southern
Queensland and we anticipate
people will again travel for this
upcoming expo.”
The Expo will have a number
of vendors with pertinent information
on health products, retirement
villages, lawyers, social
clubs, education and more.
“The expo provides information
for seniors, relatives and
carers all under one roof,” Mrs
Gillies said.
“We’re looking forward to
this year’s event which we consider
a community service.
“It feels great to be contributing
something to local seniors.
“The Expo is organised by se-
Ted Lewis, Wendy Heelan, Hazel Gillies and Julie Nutley
Toowoomba Seniors Expo committee
niors - for seniors.”
The theme for Queensland
Seniors Month, which runs from
October 1-31 is social connection
and is about connecting
with one another and aims to
improve community attitudes
towards older people, facilitate
community participation and
activity by older people, including
Indigenous and culturally
and linguistically diverse backgrounds
and more.
“We would like to thank the
Toowoomba Regional Council
for their help sponsoring the
event this year.
“Their support makes it a lot
easier to organise the expo,” Mrs
Gillies said.
The Toowoomba Seniors
Expo will be open from 9am to
3pm. Entry is free.
“The expo is organised by seniors
for seniors,” Mrs Gillies
said.
SENIORS
EXPO
Thursday, October 20
Toowoomba Showgrounds
Founders Pavilion
Glenvale Road, Toowoomba
FREE ENTRY
9am - 3pm
Contact P: 4635 4519
E: hazken59@gmail.com
Donation brings music to
Brownesholme
The sound of music now fills Carinity’s newest
aged care community in Highfields thanks
to a generous donation of a 100-year-old German-made
piano to The Residences at Brownesholme
aged care by Barry and Helen Bawden
OAM.
Helen’s father purchased the piano for her second
hand when she was 14. She owned it for more
than 60 years and is delighted that it is now bringing
joy to others.
Carinity presented the Bawdens with a certificate
of appreciation for their kind donation, which
also included a piano stool containing sheet music,
and a commemorative plaque sits on top of the
century-old piano.
An inscription on the piano cites it was “manufactured
expressly” for Kuhnel & Co in Adelaide,
the largest piano and organ store in Australia at
the time.
The Bawdens recently sold their property at
Oakey and moved into the Carinity Brownesholme
retirement village adjacent to The Residences
at Brownesholme aged care.
“My family had been at us to downsize for quite
some time because they knew it was just too hard
for me to manage a big house anymore, especially
with my physical condition,” Helen said.
“We came to look at Brownesholme and fell in
love with it and put our name down there and then.
We love the area and the way the village is laid
out. It is homely and the grounds are beautiful.
World Science Festival returns
to Cobb+Co Museum
World Science Festival
Queensland will return to
Toowoomba this weekend as
part of a state-wide regional program
with three supercharged
days of sensational science
shows and hands-on activities
for visitors of all ages.
Cobb+Co Museum will be
transformed into a STEM playground
for hands-on science fun
where visitors can launch a rocket,
captain a drone and marvel at
super silly science shows that go
off with a BANG!
Queensland Museum Network
CEO Dr Jim Thompson
said the team is looking forward
to celebrating the end of a successful
World Science Festival
Queensland 2022 tour at Cobb+-
Co Museum.
On Saturday, October 8, you
can exercise your intellect with
a seriously sensational science
trivia guaranteed to stimulate the
senses and charge neurons!
Queensland’s premier messy
scientist and quiz master extraordinaire,
Dr Rob Bell, will
be serving up fast and furious
brain bursting trivia alongside
Queensland Museum Network’s
Carinity Brownesholme aged care Residential
Manager, Jane Mackney, and Helen Bawden
OAM seated at the piano she donated to the
seniors community.
“There’s room if you want to have a garden and
you can step outside in the sun and enjoy being
amongst the trees in the outdoors.
“When we get to the stage where we can’t look
after ourselves anymore, we will move over to the
aged care units. It will be like we’re coming home
to our old piano!”
scientific experts.
Bookings are required: https://
www.worldsciencefestival.com.
au/event-program/toowoomba/
trivia
On Sunday, October 9, visitors
of all ages are invited to attend
a free open day designed to discover
the role of science in their
daily lives and the world around
them.
Experience furry, slimy and
eight-legged creatures live or
take a virtual reality trip and
play with magic worlds online.
Groove to the beats of our science-nerd
boy band, Red Rocket
3 and look out for Webster the
giant spider puppet doing his
fancy dance!
On Monday, October 10, students
from local schools have
been invited to a student day
developed to inspire the next
generation through the wonders
of science.
• The full program for
Toowoomba can be found by
visiting worldsciencefestival.
com.au/toowoomba-program
Give back our little one
These ducks photographed in Highfields were, at first,
a family of six. Then they were five. Today we saw a little
girl take a duckling. The children in our street adore this
family of ducks and saw this happen.
They yelled out to the girl and her parent but the parent
yelled out: “We don’t care” and drove off. The children
chased after the car but obviously couldn’t stop it.
This is absolutely appalling, even more appalling to see
that a parent is encouraging this kind of behaviour. If you
are reading this, please return the duckling to its family.
- From a Facebook post on the Highfields-Meringandan
Community page
4 - HIGH COUNTRY HERALD - OCTOBER 4, 2022
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