23 Jul 08 | ON MONDAY, August 18, thousands of cupcakes will be devoured to raise funds for RSPCA Tasmania.
The inaugural Cupcake Day fund-raiser is a simple concept.
Take some freshly baked cupcakes, some s...
23 Jul 08 | Damien Quilliam's heavy involvement with the local arts scene started from a desire to relate to his wife writes CLAIRE VAN RYN.
IN MANY ways, art is Damien Quilliam's bread and butter.
...
23 Jul 08 | ENCOURAGING people to get off the couch and involved in physical activity is a new community project called Active Launceston.
A partnership between the University of Tasmania, Launceston City Counc...
23 Jul 08 | RSPCA Tasmania is calling for a ban on the sale of animals in pet shops.
The animal welfare organisation is collecting signatures on a petition at shelters across the State with Launceston recordi...
23 Jul 08 | LAUNCESTON had its second Living Library open day on July 11, giving people a chance to shelve unnecessary stereotypes.
The concept, launched earlier this year, allows people to read a "book".
Th...
23 Jul 08 | ADAM Scholtes' teaching techniques have been rated as five-star in an award that recognises efforts to encourage pupils to be active for life.
Tasmanian Labor Senator Kerry O'Brien presented...
16 Jul 08 | FREQUENTERS of Theogenes health centre can breathe easier with last week's donation of a defibrillator from Launceston Motor Group.
The device, at a cost of more than $3000, was given as part ...
16 Jul 08 | THE history of Launceston's businesses has been represented through the eye of a true Tasmanian.
Photographer and long-term resident John Shepherd will present an exhibition of Launceston then...
16 Jul 08 | Reform in children's welfare is on both the national and State agenda. CLAIRE VAN RYN reports. IN LIGHT of recent child abuse cases around Australia, child protection has come to the forefront...
16 Jul 08 | CLAIRE VAN RYN reveals how a couple's goals are going to be a huge loss in the national basketball world, especially for the Launceston Tornadoes.
g.' GOD, then family, then basketball...
16 Jul 08 | NEGLECT was the main child-related issue that welfare services organisation Centacare Tasmania encountered across the State's North.
Centacare Northern Regional manager Maurice Dawe said child...
16 Jul 08 | .' SINCE January this year, two Launceston men have toiled tirelessly to build a bluestone wall skirting the new Regional Aquatic Centre at Windmill Hill.
Last week Vaughan Fisher and Ken Salter...
09 Jul 08 | l over town. He has been the best of the best and he is still the best.' On March 4, 1977, Terry Fox received his first pay packet from Cario's Bodyworks in Launceston.
Last month, the 67-ye...
09 Jul 08 | WALKING by a barber shop on George St last week, you would have been forgiven for thinking Labor MHR Dick Adams was venting some steam on Liberal Senator Guy Barnett.
Holding a cut-throat razor to M...
09 Jul 08 | MORE than just a mouthful, The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate's Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production Of Macbeth, by the Launceston Players, is set to turn the classic interpret...
09 Jul 08 | LUKE Beller is something of a celebrity in Launceston's echelons.
And while the name might not ring familiar, his voice, guitar case and the beanie pulled down over his ears probably will.
M...
09 Jul 08 | ONE of three mobile toy libraries was unveiled in Launceston last week to bring a range of toys and educational equipment to families in small communities around the State.
The Northern Toy Express ...
09 Jul 08 | Volunteering revealed a whole new world of opportunities in Ghana for one Launceston couple. CLAIRE VAN RYN tracks their charitable journey.
n need here too.' Life for Kylie and Spencer Gi...
02 Jul 08 | SIERRA Leone migrant George Davis said he spent about three months studying for the Australian citizenship test. And he breathed a great sigh of relief when he passed and was able to take part in the ...
02 Jul 08 | CONTEMPORARY additions to the historic St Aidan's Church at East Launceston have won a 2008 Tasmanian architects award.
Designed by Architects Workshop in Launceston (now called mj architectur...
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