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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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March 12, 2021

McCallum gets power-up

THE State’s Grampians Renewable Energy Program has seen McCallum Disability Services’ residential units fitted with a solar system. Forty-two kilowatts worth of panels are now...

March 11, 2021

Have your say on Buninyong streetscape

THE Buninyong & District Community Association are encouraging residents to give feedback to the City of Ballarat regarding the Buninyong Streetscape Concept Plans. The residential...

March 11, 2021

WBRC honours pioneering women’s crew

SIXTY-one years ago, Wendouree Ballarat Rowing Club’s first women’s crew was formed, winning their maiden race on the lake. Last Monday, on International Women’s Day,...

March 11, 2021

Cemeteries move for anti-cancer campaign

STAFF at Ballarat Cemeteries are putting their sneakers on to make tracks for cancer research this month. As part of The March Charge, a Cancer...

March 11, 2021

Beck and Cormick weave musical magic

THIS Tuesday it’s just You & I on stage, as musical theatre greats, Rachael Beck and Michael Cormick perform at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Friends for...

March 10, 2021

Fun and fitness for women’s education

WORKOUT for Women this Saturday morning in Ballarat North. PerFit Training Centre will host a fundraiser for the Esther Education Foundation, a Ballarat-run charity which...

March 7, 2021

Paintings presented from the heart

PAINTER Laura Day will present a very personal solo exhibition, Whispers of the heart at the Mercure next month. Experiencing a miscarriage last year, Day...

March 6, 2021

NEXT GEN continues city’s ceramic story

PETER Pilven’s skills as a ceramicist have informed the artistic process of student, Audrey Martin. You might assume Pilven has taught Audrey through his work...

March 5, 2021

BAF to award special grant

THE Ballarat Arts Foundation are seeking applications for a one-off grant round, The Jess Crowe Special Award. BAF chair Paula Nicholson said young Ballarat people...

March 4, 2021

Quick quad aims for national title

BALLARAT City Rowing Club will be represented by a young men’s coxless quadruple scull in the under twenty-one division of this month’s Australian Rowing...

March 4, 2021

Award for Her Maj restoration works

NICHOLSON Construction has won a Master Builders Association of Victoria award for their restoration of Ballarat’s Her Majesty’s Theatre. The 2019 project included the demolition...

March 4, 2021

New TEAM raises youth profile

TOGETHER Enhancing the Achievements of Many, Ballarat Youth Services’ new community committee for young people is seeking contributors. City of Ballarat youth development officer Bridget...

March 4, 2021

Love and care for ‘rough diamond’ river

WHAT do you know about the habitat of elusive native water rat, the rakali, or noisy eastern banjo frogs, pobblebonks? Alongside turtles, they live in...

March 2, 2021

Home-sweet-home for Linton’s birds

WITHIN a couple of months, you could be taking a map-guided walking tour of bird-friendly Linton. The Linton and District Progress Association’s garden group are...

February 27, 2021

Empowering women to thrive

AS a young woman in rural New Zealand, Shiree Pilkinton dreamed of becoming a journalist. With on-air aspirations, she nervously walked into an audition for...

February 26, 2021

A familiar face behind the Red Door

A NEW era’s begun at Buninyong’s Red Door Pizzeria with former owner, Trevor Whitworth passing on the pizza peel to Katrine Taylor. Also the operator...

February 26, 2021

Youthful painting is people’s choice

PAINTER Abbie Matthews has won the Ballarat Arts Foundation Eureka Award People’s Choice. Matthews entered her work, Lucy into the competition, and BAF exhibited all...

February 26, 2021

Lyric gets ready to Rock You

BALLARAT Lyric Theatre wants everyone to hear a little less ‘COVID blah blah’ and a lot more Radio Ga Ga in 2021. The performing arts...

February 26, 2021

Warriors shape-up for season launch

THE Woady Yaloak Warriors Football Netball Club hosted a junior come-and-try day last weekend at their new Smythesdale home ground. Offering an Aussie-rules football clinic...

February 25, 2021

CHW to build sewer of the century

ALMOST one-hundred years since the city’s original sewerage system was installed, Central Highlands Water is set to build a new pipeline for the future. On...

February 25, 2021

Eureka Mums expands operations

FAMILY support service Eureka Mums hope to open their larger Sebastopol premises in the coming weeks. Still at the same location, operations manager, Trinsa Lewis...

February 25, 2021

Upstart is back on

PREPARING the workforce’s next generation for innovation and critical thinking, the Upstart Challenge is returning in 2021 to engage and strengthen Ballarat’s school students. Encouraging...

February 24, 2021

Car club keeps on Morryin’

NEXT month, the Ballarat Morris Minor Club will celebrate their 40th birthday. Suited to people with a connection to a Morris Minor automobile, president Glen...

February 23, 2021

City’s chess scene returns for Open

GLOBAL participation in chess has grown since the release of Netflix series, The Queen’s Gambit. If the...