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THE fight to end period poverty across Queensland is set to continue, with the renewed backing of one of Ipswich’s largest retail chains.
Share the Dignity, a charity which provides sanitary products to females in need, this week announced it had partnered with Booval Fair Shopping Centre for its fourth consecutive year.
It comes as part of the organisation’s March Dignity Donation Drive, in which 20 donation points are to be established at Retail First shopping centres across south east Queensland.
The organisation is now calling upon the Ipswich community to do its part, by providing tampons, pads, liners, period underwear, menstrual cups, and incontinence products.
Toddlers and Tales is returning to Booval Fair.
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FOLLOWING a prolonged hiatus due to COVID-19, Booval Fair’s Toddlers and Tales event is returning this Friday, February 19.
There will be two sessions of the popular family story time event on Friday, at 9.30 and 10.30am.
A shopping centre spokeswoman said Toddlers and Tales had been a mainstay at Booval Fair for five years, but unfortunately could not continue on through the recent pandemic measures.
“We’re very excited to be able to resume the event and offer local parents a free story time for their little ones, free morning tea and some free take home resources,” she said.
A DECLINE in foot traffic is partly to blame for the closure of Commonwealth Bank Australia’s Booval Fair branch.
The shutdown was revealed just last week after a notice announcing the unfortunate decision was displayed at the site.
Regional general manager Kylie Hall said transactions at the branch had almost halved in the past five years.
The long-standing site is set to shut for good following a day of trading on March 5.
“Following a recent review and in line with our lease expiry, we made the difficult decision to permanently close the Booval branch,” she said.
The onslaught of coronavirus also proved a key contributor to its inevitable demise, with more customers reportedly turning to digital services.
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AS the fastest growing region in Queensland, and one of the fastest growing in the country, new developments are popping up constantly across Ipswich.
Here’s some of the more prominent commercial and industrial developments which were proposed to Ipswich City Council in 2020. A development application was submitted to Ipswich City Council in December to build a service station complex over two stages on Mount Crosby Rd in Chuwar.
A service station development, complete with a medical centre, food outlets and car wash facilities, could be a new fixture just off the Warrego Highway on Mount Crosby Rd.