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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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November 25, 2021

BADAC films keep history alive

A FIRST-hand digital history of Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative is now accessible to the broader community. As part of their 40th anniversary celebrations, BADAC...

November 23, 2021

Linton cricket nets under construction

KIRK McDonald remembers bowling and batting in the Linton Cricket Club nets as a kid. Decades on, now the club’s president and junior coordinator, he...

November 22, 2021

Comedic Cavanagh hosting awards

IT’S almost time to roll out the red carpet for the virtual City of Ballarat Youth Awards. From 7pm on Friday, 26 November, the event...

November 21, 2021

Carving landscapes in lino

SMYTHES Creek printmaker Marie Mason is the latest visual artist to present work within the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Backspace. A master of colourful reduction...

November 20, 2021

Radio icon switching off after 65 years

SINCE the late-sixties, former 3BA managing director Peter Caligari has been one of Ballarat’s most iconic and generous local radio personalities. But in recent weeks,...

November 20, 2021

Refugee group appeals for assistance

IT’S been twenty years since Australian Defence Force personnel rescued asylum seekers from the freight ship Tampa near Christmas Island. In the same year, hundreds...

November 20, 2021

Online raffle buoying dragon boats

THE SpringFest Online Raffle will be drawn in just under two weeks, so there’s still plenty of time to purchase a ticket, or ten,...

November 20, 2021

Crafts, friends and fun in Sheila’s Shed

WHILE staying at her son’s home, Isabel Birch was tasked with decorating some of his handmade wooden scissor-holders. Brightening them up with paint and stickers,...

November 20, 2021

Artist draws on the environment

JULIE Mahnken has brought some Equilibrium to Soldiers Hill. Currently the Old Butchers’ Shop Gallery’s featured artist, Mahnken’s “expressive, dramatic” charcoal drawings of the built...

November 19, 2021

Local SES Unit busier than ever

VICTORIA State Emergency Services volunteers have been active for seven decades, yet the state’s units were collectively called out to more jobs in the...

November 19, 2021

Small grants boosting Buninyong

MULTIPLE Buninyong community groups are set to benefit from Federal funding that was distributed by Member for Ballarat Catherine King last week. The Senior Citizens...

November 19, 2021

Local papers put Ballarat’s name in bold

STORYTELLERS of Ballarat stopped the presses at the annual Community Newspaper Association of Victoria Awards earlier in the month. Local grassroots publications were finalists in...

November 19, 2021

Underbar a top-80 restaurant

GOURMET Traveller has named Underbar one of the country’s top eighty restaurants. Included in the magazine’s 2022 Restaurant Guide, the Doveton Street venue offers a...

November 19, 2021

Shedders’ story told in new book

THE first Australian men’s shed was established in rural South Australia in 1993, and the concept has since boomed, with more than two-and-a-half thousand...

November 19, 2021

Masterful Christmas cooking at Carols

SUNDAY, 19 December will be packed with Christmas cheer and song as Carols by Candlelight returns, welcoming tens of thousands to Mars Stadium. The program...

November 19, 2021

Champions of activity appointed

FOUR new ambassadors have been named to the City of Ballarat’s Active Women and Girls Program for the next twelve months. All passionate about female...

November 18, 2021

Dementia advocate state’s senior of the year

BIGGER Hearts Dementia Alliance Ballarat founder Anne Tudor OAM has been awarded Victorian Senior of the Year. A retired psychologist and psychotherapist, Ms Tudor is...

November 18, 2021

Ballarat Cup day back on track

THE country race day atmosphere of the annual Sportsbet Ballarat Cup will return to the Ballarat Turf Club this weekend, following a no-crowd event...

November 18, 2021

Riders’ recce on RoadNats track

THE FedUni WestVic Academy of Sport’s young elite cyclists are already gearing up for the Federation University Road National Championships in January. The Academy hosted...

November 16, 2021

Rebel voices heard through song

THIS year, the Eureka Centre is keeping annual Stockade anniversary commemorations in the family. On Friday, 3 December - the 167th anniversary of the Eureka...

November 16, 2021

Sounds of fest to celebrate Creswick

CRESWICK is set to overflow with music, performance, and dancing in April. The blues and roots-centric CresFest 2022 will be held from Friday, 1 to...

November 16, 2021

16 days of anti-violence activism

THE Zonta Club of Ballarat will participate in Sixteen Days of Activism later this month, standing against violence towards women. Their campaigning will begin with...

November 15, 2021

School’s crazy hair-dos care

LINTON Primary School went wild and wacky last Friday as its students took part in Crazy Hair Day, presenting new and unusual dos for...

November 15, 2021

Pitches seek to solve problems

FEDERATION TAFE students recently participated in a youth summit, exploring issues that broadly affect young people. Discussing topics from diversity, to buying a house, to...

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