THE Highfields Gem Issue 13 | April 2018

The Barn & Scotty’s Garage In Review

Bigger, Better Blocks Only 8 Left! Sneak Peek Week Open for Business Soon Director’s Message

Welcome to the April edition of GemLife Your back garden will be yours to landscape as Highfields’ newsletter! Construction is you wish, so the opportunities really are endless. These bigger blocks are limited though, still moving on swiftly at the resort, with so make sure you get in quick in case new homes popping up and more you miss out! residents moving in. The Sneak Peek Week will be a great We’d like to offer a huge welcome to all new moment to stop by the resort and residents – we know that you’re going to love have a look at our phenomenal living here and forging new friendships with display homes that will really help your neighbours. you visualise your own home. There is plenty to see, feel and touch, If you haven’t heard already, we are now offering so do get in touch with our Sales an exclusive number of bigger blocks at the resort, Team to book a time. which will allow you to still maintain a garden should you want it. This is an excellent opportunity Yours sincerely, for those who are perhaps coming off the land and Adrian Puljich can’t bear to transition completely into suburbia. Director & CEO, GemLife

COMING SOON Sales Manager’s Message

We have some exciting news this month, with the announcement that we will now be selling oversized garden blocks – perfect for those who want to get down and dirty in 3D Tours the back garden. GemLife will soon be Our Sneak Peek Week with furnished launching 3D virtual tours displays will be open from 12 to 17 April, so please call the office to book a session – of our display homes! times are 10am, 1pm and 3pm. This will be a great opportunity Our landscaping is now well underway, for interested parties to look with new trees having been planted down at their favourite floorplans the new road leading to the entry, so be over and over again. Accessible sure to check out some of the pictures from anywhere in the world, later on in this newsletter. these 3D tours will help you visualise, dream and discover Rachael Benham your life in a GemLife home. Sales Manager Watch this space!

FEATURED FACILITY One of the greatest things we offer at GemLife is the opportunity to have a day out, without having to travel anywhere! Our state of the art championship bowling green will do just that.

With six rinks, you won’t have to bother paying expensive membership fees or travelling to other clubs. Maybe you’d like to get a team together and take it all seriously or perhaps just enjoy a casual game with a beer – the choice is yours! Bowl Located just behind the five-star country club at the heart of the resort, we have gone to great lengths to provide a quality experience through the use of needle your way punch synthetic grass, used by champions around the world. We have used the best equipment to ensure no divots and excellent longevity. The 917sqm bowling to glory! green will allow you to live the dream – just a few steps from your front door.

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SOCIAL UPDATE 1 3 The Barn & Scotty's Garage

The GemLife Highfields’ team took a trip down memory lane to The Barn & Scotty’s Garage – an authentic Aussie dining experience with good old-fashioned home-style cooking.

4 This was a great day out and a fantastic opportunity for everyone to get to know each other – before they’ve even moved into the resort. The community of any GemLife resort is integral and for some is the most appealing part of the whole idea. We run regular outings for interested parties to many places in the surrounding areas, so do keep an eye out for invitations.

Images: 1 Step back in time at Scotty’s Garage. 5 6 2 Sarah, owner of The Barn, serves amazing homemade scones. 3 Over 20 years of memorabilia is on show. 4 Jenny, Sales Consultant at GemLife, getting a history lesson from Merv. 5 Scotty sharing his passion with future residents. 6 Brendan and Colleen sampling homemade Devonshire tea. 7 Merv and Shirley enjoying their morning. 8 Willie and Jenny getting to know each other. 9 Scotty and Irene swapping vintage car stories. 7 8 9

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Here at GemLife, it is vitally important to us that we offer as much to our homeowners as we can. We have carefully CONSTRUCTION UPDATE listened to feedback over the years so that we can invest in future facilities that will not only future-proof our Roof resorts and attract new homeowners but also enhance the lives of those already living there. Trusses Our exclusive partnership with • Potential access to government PresCare is a way that we can funding to subsidise home Roof trusses have arrived for the country ensure you can live in your home as care services such as in-home club at GemLife Highfields. This is a great long as you want to. This optional nursing, domestic services step for the country club as the true shape service is yours to use only if and (cleaning, hanging-out washing, of the build will soon begin to show. when you decide the time is right. etc.), community and social activities, transport to and PresCare offer a wide range of from appointments, and in-home services, along with home-based rehabilitation exclusively owned businesses, services (occupational therapy, The Contented Chef, Walk on physiotherapy, podiatry, exercise, Wheels, and Adapt Health Care. physiology) Our partnership with PresCare offers several benefits to • Help with navigating the GemLife residents: complexity of applying for government funding • Assistance with the eligibility assessment to qualify for government funding • Highly competitive rates for all services for those who may not qualify for government subsidies

To learn more about our exclusive LANDSCAPING UPDATE partnership, talk to our fantastic Sales Team on: 1800 910 278 or Thinking visit: www.prescare.org.au Green Landscaping at the resort is now in full flow, with many mature plants being placed around the resort much to the excitement of the residents. Highfields is blessed with such gorgeous leafy surroundings, that it is important that we reflect that within the resort itself – no one likes a concrete jungle!

4 The Highfields Gem 30 Kratzke Road, Highfields Qld 4352 1800 910 278 | www.gemlife.com.au Issue 13 – April 2018 5 EVENTS Sneek Peak Week You’re invited! Join us for an exclusive preview of our display homes.

This appointment only event, offers three sessions each day where you can have the pleasure of inspecting our luxurious homes.

When: Thursday 12 April – Tuesday 17 April (open Toowoomba Show Holiday)

Where: GemLife Highfields Display Village 30 Kratzke Road, Highfields at 10am, 1pm or 3pm daily.

To confirm your participation, please call or email: Rachael 0437 256 745 [email protected] or Jenny 0436 011 527 [email protected] WIN! a $500 Gift Voucher Book today, attend the inspection and you will be automatically entered into the draw to WIN a $500 gift voucher.

4 The Highfields Gem 30 Kratzke Road, Highfields Qld 4352 1800 910 278 | www.gemlife.com.au Issue 13 – April 2018 5 FOODIE FUN INGREDIENTS Brownie layer: •• 8 tbsps melted butter •• 1 cup sugar •• 1 tsp vanilla extract •• 1/4 cup cocoa powder •• Pinch of salt •• 1 tbsp red food colouring •• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar •• 2 eggs •• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour

Cream cheese layer: •• 230g cream cheese, softened •• 1/4 cup sugar •• 1 egg Red Velvet •• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract Cream Cheese Preparation time: 10 minutes Equipment: Brownie or cake tin Cooking time: 30 minutes Brownies Serves: 12

Indulgent, decadent and powder, salt, food colouring, and the cream cheese layer. Using the downright delicious. Marrying vinegar, mixing after each addition. tip of a knife, swirl through the 2. Whisk the eggs into the cocoa mix. both red velvet with brownies – cream cheese mixture to create 3. Mix in the flour until lightly combined. a swirl pattern. a match made in chocolatey 4. Pour the batter into the prepared 4. Bake the brownies for 30 minutes. creamy heaven. These brownies are baking pan, saving 1/3 to 1/4 cup of 5. Remove to a cooling rack and perfect for a bake sale, entertaining the batter for the cream cheese layer. allow them to cool completely guests, or just because. Cream cheese layer: before cutting. 1. Blend together cream cheese, sugar, METHOD If you have a recipe that you’d love to egg and vanilla in a mixing bowl. share with us – send it through to the Brownie layer: 2. Spread the cream cheese on top of Editor at: [email protected] 1. Add melted butter to a large the brownie batter in the pan. bowl and add sugar, vanilla, cocoa 3. Put the remaining cocoa batter over

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GemLife Highfields recently announced its plans to sell bigger blocks Depending on your personal with enough space for your own private garden. We know that not preference, you can put these in pots to keep them mobile, or dig them everyone likes the same thing, so this space is available for you to set right into the garden. Give it the herbs out as you wish! For the green-thumbed amongst us, here’s our list of a few weeks to settle into their new plants that are perfect for those just starting out. home before you start picking. These herbs can mask even the to do with them. These alien-like Mint most terrible cooking. If you have It loves water and isn’t fussy for invaders will fill up your freezer no herbs coming out of your ears, start sunlight, so a damp and semi- 1 matter how many you give away to drying them, infusing them with shaded space is perfect for this multi- friends and neighbours. Planting too oils, or give away as gifts. There are purpose herb to grow. This plant is a many seedlings and then becoming plenty of creative opportunities. creeper, so give it a fair bit of space. attached to every single one of them It will require a pot at least 30cm makes culling almost impossible, but GemLife Highfields promotes an active deep and in diameter. It should take you must be a fascist when it comes and healthy lifestyle where you can roughly 1-2 months before you can start to squash. Despite their staggering meet like-minded others. For more utilising it for your evening mojitos. numbers, squashes are delicate – information, call: 1800 910 278 or visit: The great thing about mint is that so make sure you employ your www.gemlife.com.au even if you go away for a couple of best-looking neighbour for watering days and can’t water it – the plant duties should you go away. will mend itself following neglect. Spring Onion Cherry Tomatoes This plant is a dream to grow. This is a fool-proof harvest Like the Jedi, should you provided you don’t lose interest 4 2 strike it down it will only grow back or kill it before it gets to that point. As more powerful than before. Some fear a vertical grower, let it climb and save your blue-chip garden spots for those artificial intelligence, we fear the spring that need it. Plant some basil next to it onion. Space them roughly 3-5cm apart for some excellent cooperative growing in their own little armada as they all – the two go together like cookies and get on well with each other. If you milk. Fortunately, even if you neglect place them in plenty of compost these its needs, this plant will sprawl out into hardy little plants will thrive and be an organic tangle of mess. It’ll produce ready in just six weeks. You can even fruit, but then the overwhelming urge go on holiday without having to worry Coming soon to rip out this messy dog’s breakfast about them. ! Our gate entrance system is will inevitably cut the harvest short. Perennial Herbs being upgraded to include Squash Need some sage advice? number plate recognition There could become a stage 5 Thyme to spend? The future’s – making your resort more where you have so many looking rosemary if you chive in to convenient, safe and secure! 3 planting these staple garden herbs. squashes you don’t know what

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Zumba Gold Monday 9 April, 9:00am–10:00am St Thomas More’s Parish Hall, Toowoomba Zumba Gold is a fun, modified class that recreates the original moves you love, at a lower intensity. The class is perfect for the active older adult, beginners and those that have tried Zumba before but found it too difficult to keep up the pace. Each class focuses on balance, range of motion, $8 coordination and on all elements of fitness.

Karaoke at Highfields Tavern Friday 13 April, 8:00pm onwards FREE Highfields Tavern, Highfields Are you Highfields’ answer to Adele? Or maybe ANZAC Day you just love any excuse to get in front of a Wednesday 25 April, 5:15am crowd. Well, your chance has come! Every Friday, Highfields Community Highfields Tavern will be putting on karaoke for Memorial, Highfields all. So start doing your warmups and work on your ANZAC Day at Highfields begins tone, because it’s your time to sing! with a dawn service at 5:15am with FREE a gunfire breakfast at the Cultural Centre at 6:005am. Whether it’s a Bites and Beats call of the bugle at sunrise or the Saturday 14 April, 4:00pm–9:00pm mid-morning service, there should Frogs Hollow, Toowoomba be an option to suit everyone. Raise a This will be a very special Twilight Shopping event glass to our diggers. Lest we forget. reflecting an inner city Eat Street vibe. Browse the boutique markets at dusk, then stay on for a relaxed dinner. Indulge in a smorgasbord of delicious cuisines while listening to local musicians. Approximately 50 market stalls, jumping castle, face painting and much more. $2

Monday Night Meditation Monday 23 April, 6:00pm–7:00pm 8 Merlin Court, Preston Come and join in a meditation class with a difference; back to basics. You will learn what mediation is all about and how it affects your entire being. Additionally, you will discover the chakra system and its relationship to your body including underlying issues. No experience is necessary, just a desire to learn more about yourself. $35 $10 Best of Tour Thursday 26 April, 8:00pm An Evening with Da Vinci Highfields Tavern, Highfields Friday 27 April, 5:00pm–9:00pm Jon Stevens is recognised as one of Cobb & Co Museum, Toowoomba the most talented rock musicians Spend an evening immersed in the history of the to emerge from Australia in recent Italian Renaissance genius and enjoy the tastes of memory. He has had phenomenal his home county. This evening will be presented success as a solo artist, knocking by Luigi Rizzo, CEO of Artisans of Florence Michael Jackson off the top of the International and curator of the Da Vinci Machines charts in Australia, and as the lead exhibition. You will be taken behind the scenes to singer of major rock acts: , share the work of Leonardo da Vinci. $20 INXS and .

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