Herald 20221018

Heritage Bank
committed to
Highfields
The Highfields community is
certainly home for the leaders
of Heritage Bank’s Highfields
Community Branch.
Heritage Bank has proudly
run its Highfields Community
Branch as a joint venture for
nearly 20 years with local partner
Progressive Community
Crows Nest.
The Branch provides the
people of Highfields with a full
range of banking services, and
also contributes tens of thousands
of dollars every year to deserving
local community groups
through Heritage’s community
branch profit sharing model.
Heritage has appointed two
locals to key roles in the Highfields
team, with Branch Manager
Aaron Jones and Lending
Specialist Aimee Rosenthal fixtures
of the community.
Mr Jones and his family have
built their first home in Highfields
and he loves helping fellow
Highfields residents achieve
their financial goals.
“I am really passionate about
Heritage’s Community Branch
model. I absolutely love helping
our members with their financial
goals and giving them the tools
to achieve them,” he said.
“Knowing I get to do this, all
while a portion of our profits go
back into helping my community,
that is just really special
and unique, and something I am
proud of.”
Lender Aimee Rosenthal is
also a proud Highfields native
committed to helping fellow
community members turn their
home dreams into reality.
“I have grown up and lived in
Highfields for most of my life.
"Now I’m raising my family
here,” she said.
“I have worked in the Heritage
Community Branches at
Crows Nest and Highfields since
2015.
“As a lending specialist, I am
passionate about helping people
understand the process of applying
for a loan and achieving their
dream of buying or renovating a
home.
“I work across our Crows
Nest and Highfields community
branches, so I’m able to meet
clients at whichever branch suits
them best and have flexible appointment
times, including Saturdays.”
Heritage’s Highfields Community
Branch is a joint venture
with local organisation Progressive
Community Crows Nest.
Fifty per cent of the profits
from the branch are distributed
to community organisations
each year.
These generous grants help
Aaron Jones
Branch Manager
Aimee Rosenthal
Lender
community groups like schools
and sporting clubs fund important
projects that benefit Highfields
residents.
Heritage’s Highfields Community
Branch is located at
Shop 9C Highfields Village
Shopping Centre and is open
Monday to Saturday.
Anyone interested in talking
with Heritage about their financial
goals is invited to pop in and
speak with Aaron or Aimee.
Crows Nest groups amalgamate
An amalgamation of the
Crows Nest Tennis Club and
Progress Crows Nest has seen
a new organisation formed that
looks to bring more recreation to
the town.
The Crows Nest Progress
Recreation and Tourism Association
came about after the tennis
club approached the progress association
about merging the two
groups.
Tennis club president Paul
Fleming said the idea of combining
both organisations was
brought forward to Progress
Crows Nest as a means of keeping
the club’s assets in the community.
Concerns about the club’s assets
were brought forward at the
start of the year when the club
was made aware that the public
was to have free access to the
courts by the Toowoomba Regional
Council.
On November 5, Toowoomba
Regional Council contacted the
tennis club about the new changes
to sporting facilities on TRC
owned land which allows free
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“With the courts being made
free to use, the club lost its main
source of income which would
have led to the club folding,” Mr
Fleming said.
“We own the land that holds
the club house, toilet block and
electricity facilities, and we
wanted to make sure it stayed in
the community.”
The Crows Nest Tennis Club
was formed in September 1945
and the following month the
Crows Nest Shire Council granted
it a suitable site for new tennis
courts which opened a yearand-a-half
later.
Crows Nest Progress Recreation
and Tourism Association
interim president Paul O’Brien
said the new entity’s additional
focus of recreation aligned with
the aim of the former Progress
Crows Nest to promote the town
as a soft-adventure tourism hub.
“It was already in our aim to
bring active tourism to Crows
Nest, so it was a good fit joining
with the tennis club,” Mr
O’Brien said.
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He said having a recreation
arm to the organisation gave it
the ability to bring sports into
Crows Nest.
The tennis club’s assets rolled
into the new entity has allowed
the space to be used by various
community groups and the
re-emergence of a monthly market
at Crows Nest.
The Crows Nest Progress
Recreation and Tourism Association’s
inaugural annual meeting
is on October 25. - Sean White
QCWA creative and practical art expo
The QCWA State Exhibition
of Creative and Practical Arts
Expo is being held in Toowoomba
on Saturday and Sunday, October
29 and 30, at The Goods
Shed, Victoria Street.
The exhibition is free to enter
and open to the public from
8.30am to 4pm on both days.
The doors will be be officially
opened by Mrs Sheila Campbell,
QCWA State President and
Mayor Paul Antonio at 8.30am
on Saturday.
The Expo will showcase the
talents and versatility of QCWA
members and friends and will
also present to the public a diverse
range of local artisans.
Local artisans include Natures
Rewards, Noelene Peters, Darling
Downs Potters Club, Mophead
By Linda, Nettie’s Country
Creations, Heidi’s Face Painting
- Kylie Karner, Southern Beekeepers
Association, Colonial
Woodcrafts - David and Julie
Harriman, and Leah’s Creative
Glass Designs.
There will also be other displays
and goods, demonstrations
and workshops including QCWA
State Cookery, handcraft, floral
art, dressmaking and sewing,
photography, knitting and crochet,
International, patchwork,
Ag and Environment, Centenary
and Country Kitchens.
Demonstrations and workshops
will run over the two days,
the key ones by Alex Stalling of
Tinker Art, Toowoomba, Alex
Stalling and Heather Drake’s
Gingerbread Houses along with
workshops and demonstrations
by QCWA members.
On the Saturday night, a gala
dinner at Picnic Point will cele-
brate the QCWA’s 100 years. It
will be an event to celebrate, to
reflect and to socialise.
The annual State Conference
of members and delegates will
be held at the Empire Theatre
from October 31 to November
2 with the official opening ceremony
at 9.30am on Monday,
October 31.
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