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About: Edwina Williams

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Edwina is a journalist at the Ballarat Times News Group, and Golden Plains Times, based in Ballarat. She is a passionate art lover and photographer, who enjoys capturing the colour and life of the city in her own time. Edwina has worked as a social media management contractor, and has had previous news experience with the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 7.30, Victoria Votes for Channel 31, and Junction Journalism. Contact her at [email protected] Twitter - @edwinawilltweet Facebook - @edwinawilliamsjourno

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June 26, 2019

Royal Commission asks older Australians to speak up

A SESSION for seniors, their carers and family was hosted last Thursday in Sebastopol, assisting people to better understand the national Royal Commission into...

June 12, 2019

Possums reunite with help of council grant

THE Victorian Branch of the 161 Independent Reconnaissance Flight Association has received a Community Impact Grant from the City of Ballarat to assist in...

June 12, 2019

Behind the cute koalas

TWENTY-three-year-old Shelby Sherritt understands the value of art therapy deeply. Following an appendix and bowel cancer diagnosis in 2016, creativity became a major coping mechanism...

June 12, 2019

Seeking students for Citizenship Awards

Order of Australia is a national acknowledgement of people who’ve made a major contribution to their various activities and community. Now the organisation responsible for...

June 12, 2019

New sounds for the city

FOLLOWING over 12 months of discussions with the City of Ballarat event organisers of music festival Spilt Milk are bringing the multi-stage event to...

June 12, 2019

A WREN’S FIRST WREATH

NINETY-four-year-old Margaret Wood laid a wreath last Thursday at the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial in commemoration of D-Day’s 75th anniversary. She was accompanied...

June 10, 2019

Past Grammar Headmaster acknowledged

SHE Oaks local, Stephen Higgs has received a Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to education over 45 years. Appointed in 1995,...

June 10, 2019

Service to community behind award

MARGARET Robinson has received a Medal of the Order of Australia, or OAM, for her service to the Ballarat community as part of the...

June 6, 2019

Calling all landscape artists to create historical document

ALL members of the wider community are invited to create artworks that depicts the landscape between Beaufort and Skipton, and down to Lismore, before...

June 6, 2019

Not at lot

Did the State Budget forget Golden Plains?

GOLDEN Plains Shire Mayor, Cr Owen Sharkey said council is disappointed by the recent State government...

June 5, 2019

Time to cry ‘timber’ on fernery

DEMOLITION works have begun on the current Ballarat Botanical Gardens’ fernery to make way for its redevelopment. A new structure, designed by heritage architect, Andrew...

June 5, 2019

Historian shares invasion story

FEDERATION University’s Associate Professor of Aboriginal History, Dr Fred Cahir has launched his new book My Country All Gone, The White Men Have Stolen...

June 5, 2019

Support for more parents

CHILD and Family Services is pleased to see State government funding allocated to a new parenting centre to be built in Ballarat. Currently Cafs works...

June 5, 2019

Charity Ball to host Samuel Johnson

NOT-for-profit, Twin Hearts Inc, will host a Red Carpet themed Love Your Sister Ball on Saturday, 12 October at the Civic Hall. It’s the first...

May 30, 2019

Commemorating 75 years since D-Day

A SERVICE commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day will be held at The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ballarat on Thursday, 6 June at...

May 29, 2019

Sensory Garden to support students’ self-regulation

MOUNT Pleasant Primary School is developing its own sensory garden with the help of a Engaging Communities Grant received last year. The north corner of...

May 29, 2019

Wendouree Centre set to get Ritzy

RAZZAMATAZZ and style is back with the all-singing and dancing stage production, Puttin’ on the Ritz, starring performers from London’s West End. The show will...

May 29, 2019

Have a ball for breast cancer

A BLACK tie cocktail party will support and raise awareness for local McGrath Foundation Breast Care Nurses this Saturday night. Hosted at the Old Colonists...

May 29, 2019

Eat, sip and shop tonight in town

PLATE Up Ballarat’s Eat Sip Shop evening will hit the catwalk tonight, Thursday 30 May at the Mining Exchange. Seats are available in the Grandstand...

May 25, 2019

Celebrating our first heritage

HERITAGE Weekend will feature new and exciting celebrations of Ballarat and Australia’s indigenous history and culture. Armstrong Street North’s off-street carpark will be transformed into...

May 22, 2019

Young Achiever celebrated

DISABILITY support worker, Teghan Henderson, won the CFA Volunteer Excellence Award at the recent Victorian Young Achiever Awards at Flemington.

Alongside...

May 22, 2019

Agriculture meets business at Grammar

A NEW agricultural entrepreneurship course is set to challenge and engage young minds at Ballarat Grammar. The AgriFutures Startup Business Entrepreneurial Learning in Action program...

May 22, 2019

Synthetic track opened at Turf Club

BALLARAT Turf Club’s synthetic track was officially opened last Friday afternoon by the State Minister for Racing, Martin Pakula. The Polytrack surface has been a...

May 22, 2019

Film fans to Buninyong for festival

THE twenty-seventh annual Buninyong Film Festival will be the biggest yet, beginning this Friday, 24 May. Over three days within the grand, historic Buninyong Town...

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