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Toowoomba CBD Smart Parking is here!
So, what has changed?
Small pay station
New pay machines
Two types of pay machines are available for
on and off-street parking areas around our
Toowoomba CBD.
The tall machines accept card and cash
payments, while the small machines only
accept card payments.
Receipts aren’t printed
Paper receipts are no longer available
from pay station machines.
If you need a receipt, take note of your
receipt number displayed on the screen
of the pay station and visit, https://
myparkingticket.com.au/. Enter
your receipt number displayed on the
machine screen.
Parking sensors
In-ground parking sensors are installed
for on-street bays and a Licence Plate
Recognition (LPR) vehicle has been
introduced to support the system.
For more information, visit
www.tr.qld.gov.au/cbdsmartparking
Scan to discover
how to use the parking
pay stations.
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Tall pay station
The LPR vehicles scan, mark and photograph
a vehicle’s number plate and location and
alert the Smart Parking System of an overstay.
The first 30 minutes are FREE
Free parking is available for the first
30 minutes in all of Toowoomba’s CBD
on-street car parks.
Toowoomba Parking app
You also have the option to use our
new Toowoomba Parking app.
The app enables you to:
• Save time searching for
an available parking space.
• Provides quick and
contact-less payment.
• Extend your parking time
within the time limits.
To download the
Toowoomba Parking
app, please visit
www.tr.qld.gov.au/parkingapp
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Tony Zancola
Graphic Design
Toowoomba Regional Council_020822_19x3_HCH
Three trips to town for me in the week meant
buying two of the regional papers.
Wow! The big media conglomerates must be
raking in the cash. Those papers were at least half
full of full-page colour advertisements mostly
from the large retail groups.
After leaving Google, Tim Hwang wrote “Subprime
Attention Crisis."
Among other things, he noted large retail groups
and advertisement producers found reducing their
digital space spend and putting only some of the
Lyn Collier
Admin-Accounts
Back: Lisa Strohfeld, Maclagan Windermere Kindergarten teacher/director, Russell Duggan,
Dudley Schilf and Laurie Parmenter from Maclagan Men Shed, and Brady Ryan.
Front: Max Scravell, Emily Luckock, Caitlyn Anderson, Georgia King, Amalia Taylor, Darcy
Gibson, Cinch Doring, Cira Rossow, Kodi Rossow - Men’s Shed share smoko with children
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Value in newspaper advertising
Crossword Number 1041 Sudoku Number 1041
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1. Thunder
4. Port in Fiji
7. Note of hand
8. Curve
10. Priest’s vestments
12. Uncleanness
13. To an extent (4,2)
15. Expert
16. Comes after
17. Stinging plant
20. Stage show
22. Small dam
23. Moral offence
24. Glacier
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26. Not hard
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3. Thin fog
4. Imbue
5. Confirm
6. School study
9. Prattle
10. Lifts off
11. Australian port
14. Outdoor (4-3)
18. Affectedly dainty
19. Edges
21. Chest bone
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Solutions to
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ADVERTISING
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Email: herald@highcountrynews.net.au
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reduced digital spend into traditional media increased
their messaging reach.
Obviously, the large retailers have noticed and
are pouring promotion into regional media.
It is surprising then that the Chronicle has raised
the sale price of its physical paper, as that is where
even skimming readers glimpse all the ads - unlike
the limited selection seen on-line.
Congratulations to the High Country Herald for
keeping the physical paper free! - Dougal Johnston,
Hampton
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Sudoku Difficulty Level - Hard
SUDOKU RULES
Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every
3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. There is no
math involved. You solve each puzzle with reasoning
and logic. Each puzzle only has one solution.