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NAIDOC: Celebrate NAIDOC at Wuchopperen Health Service, 6 Moignard St, Manoora, 11am3pm today. Free, family friendly event. Dance troupes, soul singer Rochelle Pitt, stalls, activities for kids, free, healthy lunch. BLACK FRIDAY: German Club Cairns is open for Black Friday, July 13. Scary outfits competition. Dinner from 6pm. Swamp Donkey Bands playing Saturday, July 14. Ph: 0424 256 772 or 0490 063 768. BASTILLE DAY: Alliance Francaise Bastille Day celebrations, Saturday, July 14. French classes starting Monday, July 30. Various levels. Visit www.afcairns.org.au or call 0488 765 550. MODEL RAILWAY: Cairns Model Railway Club inaugural meeting, 10am, July 15, Unit 10b, 175 Newell St, Bungalow. Own clubrooms, large HO guage layout. Ph: John King 0410 042 114 or visit www.cairnsclubs.com/cmrc JAZZ: Cairns Tropic Jazz, live jazz music, 1pm-4pm, Sunday, July 15, Portsmith Club, 43 Aumuller St, Portsmith. Blues & rock, 4pm-8pm. GUINEA PIG DAY: Petbarn Cairns, 270 Mulgrave Rd, Westcourt, is celebrating Guinea Pig Appreciation Day, July 16 for the first time. Small mammal experts on hand to answer questions and provide tips. FOOD BANK: Anglicare Foodbank’s pop-up store is open at Marlin Coast Neighbourhood Centre, 9.30am-2.30pm, July 16. PROBUS: Combined Probus Club of Cairns Trinity Inc meets 9.30am July 17, Community Hall, Woodward Retirement Village, Winfield St Whitfield. Ph: Phyllis 4039 1439 or John 4057 7340. GARDENERS: Cairns Garden Club annual plant sale, Brinsmead Community Hall, Loridan Dr, Brinsmead, 2pm, July 21. Speaker: Gary Morton, National Electric Ant Eradication Program. Competition: Cut cordyline. Light afternoon tea. Ph: Barb 0414 696 856. SUMMIT: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are invited to become changemakers by applying for Oxfam’s Straight Talk summit in Canberra, Nov 26-29. Applications close August 3. Ph: (03) 9289 9444 or email womensbusiness@oxfam.org.au.