1/36Supporting the doggo family portrait day fundraiser at Bar Wunder are Bridget Noonan (left) and Hildy Tack with Stanley the dog, Thursday, January 9, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
IN PICTURES: The year that was 2020
Take a look back at the year through the lens of the photographic team of The Chronicle. These are the team’s most memorable and favourite photographs made in 2020.
2/36Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and Cameron Dick speak to student pilots. Official opening of Qantas Group Pilot Academy at Wellcamp Airport. Wednesday, 29th Jan, 2020.
3/36Darling Downs eisteddfod at Millmerran.
4/36Storm clouds build over Toowoomba as seen over the Western Rivers Cup indigenous cricket carnival run by South West Indigenous Network (SWIN) and Queensland Cricket at Captain Cook ovals, Saturday, January 25, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
5/36Seamstress Lucy Andrews. Toowoomba Clothes Hospital making masks. Covid-19, Coronavirus. Picture: Bev Lacey
6/36Ngaa Ngorima, TGS. GPS basketball, Toowoomba Grammar vs Brisbane Grammar. Saturday, 18th Jul, 2020.
7/36Pampas residents Ted and Margaret Kelly will spend their 65th wedding anniversary at an inland rail meeting in Millmerran, Tuesday, January 28, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
8/36Sisters Paige Lake (left) Grade 4 and Amber Lake , grade 2 study at home with their mum Merissa Lake . The girls are students at Highfields State School. Photo Bev Lacey
9/36The Fireflies perform at the opening night of the LIT festival. Friday, 13th Mar, 2020.
10/36Greenmount dairy farmer Scott Priebbenow is overjoyed with all the recent rain, Monday, February 10, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
11/36TGS Ting Tong . Baxter McDonald .
12/36Water bomber plane tends to bushfire burning in Jubilee Park on Toowoomba's range. Saturday. 26th Sep 2020
13/36Australian Off-Road Championship competitor Jeremy Carpentier gives a demonstration during a visit to Meringandan State School, Friday, February 21, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
14/36Brock Tuesley, sales manager with Toowoomba Wholesale Distributors stock of pallets and shelving full of toilet paper rolls. Wednesday, 11th Mar, 2020.
15/36Sarima Chong with her daughter Evie Norman, enjoy the colour of Queen's Park during the Carnival of Flowers.
16/36Laurie Taylor slides in safe for Toowoomba Rangers against Pine Hills Lightning in GBL division four baseball at Commonwealth Oval, Sunday, October 11, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
17/36Klub VW Dubs on the Hill 2020. Sunday, 8th Mar, 2020.
18/36Dancing in front of a green screen are Alexa Cockburn (left) and Sabine Conroy in the Garden of Curiosity during the Curious Arts Festival at Empire Theatres, Friday, October 16, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
19/36Dr Louis Gilshenan with Penny the dog at Toowoomba Family Vets. Thursday, 9th Jul, 2020.
20/36Ahou Dau on the slip'n slide as part of Darling Downs Christian School colour fun run, Friday, October 30, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
21/36Kerryn Kent of Flying Fox Rescue and Rehab with some of the mammals in her care. Saturday, 1st Feb, 2020.
22/36Businesses band together for Movember (front left) Anson Cockburn, (back row, from left) Bruce Murphy, Matt Edwards, Matt Bohm, Matt Burke, (middle row, from left) Thomas White, Clayton Menyweather, Adam Nesbitt and Quinton Coleman, Monday, November 9, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
23/36Resident priest Father Dave O'Connor searches the ruins of St Leo's Catholic Church destroyed by fire in Haden. Sunday, 7th Jun, 2020.
24/36Tepaki Toro (front) and Apa George. Work starts on St Vincent's Hospital new emergency department. Photo Bev Lacey
25/36Anthony Adams of Anthony's Snake Relocating with his pet blue-bellied black snake, Sunday, November 22, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
26/36Toowoomba Koala and Wildlife Rescue volunteer Judi Gray and QFES senior firefighter Peter Robinson remove Rose the Koala from a tree in Moore Crescent due to concerns for her safety. Thursday, 3rd Sep, 2020.
27/36Black Lives Matter rally in Queens Park.
28/36Dixie Towsing during a dress rehearsal of A Christmas Wish Dance Concert hosted by Dance Force Toowoomba as a Toowoomba Hospital Foundation fundraiser at Empire Theatres, Saturday, November 28, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
29/36Elisa Niki, Tigers. Toowoomba vs South Toowoomba. AFLDD Senior Womens grand final Saturday. 3rd Oct 2020
30/36Koala, Land and Wildlife Support (KLAWS) volunteer and vet nurse Kiara Hill and Natalie the rescue koala touch noses in a koala greeting, Thursday, December 10, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer
31/36Katherine Greeves looks at her house destroyed by fire in Gardenia Crescent, Millmerran Downs. Wednesday, 15th Jul, 2020.
32/36Press conference. Toowoomba Covid-19 update. Picture: Bev Lacey
33/36Grammar vs Dowmnlands for the O'Callaghan Cup. Saturday, 1st Aug, 2020.
34/36Katharina Fredericks turns 100 years old on the 13th November. Thursday. 12th Nov 2020
35/36( From left ) TAS students Jake le Roux, Mackenzie Smith and Maarten Dekeyser enjoy working with robotics. Thursday, 27th Feb, 2020.
36/36Sonny Whitley has written a letter as part of the Australia Post "Dear Australia" National Archives of Australia, where letters, telling the stories of Covd-19 will be kept for future generations.Photo Bev Lacey
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