Visitors to Cobb and Co. Museum this weekend will have the opportunity to watch two heritage trades workshops. A knife making blacksmithing workshop will be held on 20 and 21 June and participants will have the opportunity to make a knife in different styles such as a dagger, skinning or kitchen knife over the two [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Cancer nursing skills to benefit local patients
Carolyn Janes, of Toowoomba, has gained new skills to support cancer patients by completing a three day ‘Introduction to Cancer Care’ course, run by Cancer Council Queensland in Brisbane this week. Ms Janes, a health worker at St Vincent’s Hospital, was awarded a scholarship worth $1,500, enabling her to attend the course to advance her [...]
2009 Hampton Festival
The sun was out and so were the people, enjoying the culinary delights and visual pleasures of the Hampton High Country Food & Arts Festival. With an attendance of over 4500 people and a warm sunny Sunday, the 17th of May turned out to be all the festival organisers and stall holders had hoped for [...]