It’s Five Minute Friday! Your weekly local news update includes everything from a flower workshop in Taringa right through to the Brisbane City Council’s 2023 Gold Star Reading Program.

Making headlines this week:
🎤Toowong Village has hearts for charity thanks to local artists
🎤 Indooroopilly State High held a Ted X talk and it was awesome!
🎤 The Second Phase of the Chapel Hill Community Garden has begun(10 Planter boxes have already been donated!)
🎤 Feel free to lend a helping hand at the Chapel Hill Community Garden
🎤 Learn everything flowers at a Taringa workshop
🎤 Kids! Get your read on for the Gold Star Reading Program
🎤 Ironside Book Fair is about to happen
🎤 Rediscover Brisbane through a new lens thanks to the Lord Mayor’s Photography Awards
🎤 Clarence intersection traffic lights are now fixed!
🎤 Say goodbye to the old Robertson Park fitness equipment with more changes to come.

Welcome back to the first 5 Minute Friday of May (sorry, 6 minutes as there was a lot of feel-good news to get through)

Making local headlines this week:
🐶 Moggill Rd updates
🐶 I had a youth roundtable
🐶 We planted our 40,000th Tree in St Lucia
🐶 A pop-up office with the Lord Mayor
🐶 A Growth Sustainability meeting with locals and the Lord Mayor
🐶 Taringa knitters made blankets to donate
🐶 A new multicultural aged care has just opened
🐶 UQ’s brand new Kev Carmody building opened for students
🐶 Brisbane City’s potential new spot for an off-leash dog park

Welcome back to another 5 Minute Friday.
Catch up with the latest on my YouTube, and Instagram to prepare for the upcoming commemorative ANZAC Day events.

Making local headlines this week:
🌹 Safe plates are back!
🌹 Local school kids paint food pantry
🌹 New ‘Slow Down’ sign installed
🌹 Little Athletics awards
🌹 Discussed carbon emissions with Brigidine College
🌹 ANZAC Day
🌹 Support your local RSL
Lest we forget.

Welcome back to another 5 Minute Friday!

In this week’s local news:
🟢Illegal Garden planting
🟢Caring Cuisine Community Garden
🟢St Lucia Garden
🟢Council Garden Club of QLD
🟢Fresco Grand Opening in Toowong
🟢Pop-up Office with the Lord Mayor
🟢Missing- Lesly Turner
🟢Food Pantry Box

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Happy St Patrick’s Day! In this week’s 5 Minute Friday, the Lord Mayor came down to Toowong to talk all things Green Bridges and road upgrades.

In more local news:
🍀No school for Toowong Bowls Club
🍀A brand new pick-up shelter for Fig Tree Pocket State School
🍀Men’s Shed planter boxes at the Chapel Hill Community Garden
🍀Pop-up office- your thoughts matter
🍀Brisbane City’s new Green Bridge in Toowong
🍀Moggil Rd Upgrade update
🍀How pretty is City Hall
🍀Rain didn’t stop a Boot Sale for the Chapel Hill Uniting Church

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