THE action is hotting up for the Commonwealth Games, another 100,000 tickets released this week, volunteers heading to the Gold Coast to learn the ropes and more batonbearers for the Queen's Baton Relay on March 29 next year.

Good to see John Telfer and Linda Bunch chosen as batonbearers last week.

I often see John doing laps at WIRAC to improve his fitness but his selection is not about his daily 50 laps. He has run marathons, competed in triathlons, won two cultural awards in this area and been an active member and history book writer for the Warwick RSL Sub-branch.

Linda Bunch is an outstanding volunteer who does as much as anyone in this area for their chosen sport. She doesn't highlight what she does for netball but being a baton bearer is recognition of her work as a quiet achiever.

My current list has nine batonbearers from Warwick, Linda Coombes, John Davis, Xsanthia Frith, Aaron Payne, William Reardon, John Telfer, Linda Bunch, Amy Bradfield and Rex Baguley who will carry a torch/baton for the third time after being involved in the 1956 and 2000 Olympic torch relays.

Stanthorpe residents Steve McEvoy, Angelina Sims and Michael Hayes are baton bearers in Warwick. Last week, Michael Hayes who I know through rugby league, won a national award as a winemaker.

Special guests in the Warwick leg of the baton relay are Tshinta Kendall, a Queensland sevens rugby representatives from Scots PGC, Samantha Kennedy, Elle Leahy, Nathanial Leigh and Laura Geitz who also carried the Olympic Torch in 2000 when she was a star runner and swimmer and just getting into netball.

Shelley Duggan from Clifton and Matthew Denny from Allora will carry the baton in Toowoomba.

More tickets went on sale for some previously sold out events on Monday and even for those who missed the initial rush, the odds are there will still be tickets on sale, especially athletics.