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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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February 23, 2021

Keeping creativity in the family

RETURNING home to Ross Creek, textile designer and printmaker Monique Doust is motivated by the rural landscape. Taking every opportunity to enjoy a bushwalk on...

February 23, 2021

Share a love of reading at Book Chat

SEBASTOPOL Library’s First Thursday Book Chat is connecting diverse readers of varying ages and interests. Ballarat Libraries learning services officer Eloise Brown said the once-a-month...

February 20, 2021

Feel young again at mums’ football

INTRODUCTORY football program, GO Soccer Mums is engaging women of all ages in the fun and fitness of ‘the world game.’ Facilitator Nancy Kay said...

February 20, 2021

Chapter closes for community cafe

AFTER six-and-a-half years of hospitality in Lake Gardens, Sharon and Neville Monson have decided to close their business, Providore Cafe. Mrs Monson said she’s grateful...

February 18, 2021

Quad sculls make Head of the Lake history

THE Ballarat Associated Schools Head of the Lake regatta will bring the Lake Wendouree rowing course to youthful life this Friday. Damascus College, Phoenix College,...

February 18, 2021

Cheers to a bumper weekend

FOOTBALL and froths will have Ballarat buzzing this weekend. In one of the city’s biggest event-filled weekends since COVID-19 restrictions eased, Western United will play...

February 18, 2021

Shed and Vets shoulder-to-shoulder

THE Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia Ballarat Sub-Branch has found a new home at the Ballarat East Community Men’s Shed. The...

February 18, 2021

Making lemonade, and a difference

INSPIRED by a curiosity for lemonade stands in American movies, a group of young people have given Cafs’ homelessness services a financial boost. Andrew Sawitsch...

February 18, 2021

Potential and resilience within BHS rowers

AHEAD of tomorrow’s annual Head of the Lake regatta between secondary schools, Ballarat High School’s rowing club isn’t dwelling on the pandemic’s training interruptions. Participation...

February 18, 2021

Family-inspired club looking to grow

THE Woady Yaloak Warriors Football Netball Club are encouraging young families to join their community, hosting a come-and-try day this Sunday. Offering Auskick, NetSetGO, and...

February 16, 2021

Men’s Shed gets a power-up

THE community of Linton and District Men’s Shed expects to open their new purpose-built facility for action by mid-April. But before the team moves into...

February 15, 2021

Farmgate to open in Gordon

WHILE on a trip to Canberra, Susanna McPherson dropped into a farmgate store. Loving the way it operated, supporting the area’s food producers and getting...

February 14, 2021

Serving community and sharing knowledge

IN the 1950s, Clarendon Presbyterian Ladies College student Helen Eyres could often be seen riding her bike from the Mair Street campus to Sturt...

February 12, 2021

Stop on Sturt to smell the roses

DEAN flower producers, Soho Rose Farm have launched their Valentine’s Pop-Up Shop in the CBD. Farm owner and florist Kristy Tippett said the store at...

February 11, 2021

Gallery gifted art from personal collection

FORTY years ago Dr Graeme Williams OAM moved into a workers’ cottage in Melbourne and collected art to liven the space. With connections in the...

February 11, 2021

From the river to the sea for FECRI

IN November of 2019, Jim Waight was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s follicular lymphoma. Undergoing six rounds of chemotherapy, the keen cyclist always looked forward to his...

February 11, 2021

Student to present poem of remembrance

THIRTEEN-year-old Heidi Erwin will read a poem at this Sunday’s virtual seventeenth anniversary service for The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial. The young speaker was...

February 11, 2021

From happy snapper to Garage Hero

ON the eve of the 2021 Rock Ballarat festivities, an automotive award will be presented for the first time in the event’s history. If festivalgoers...

February 11, 2021

Para athletes power through RoadNats

BALLARAT-Sebastopol Cycling Club had a strong para-cycling presence at last weekend’s Australian Road National Championships in Buninyong. In Thursday’s time trials, Reece-Emerson Van Beek won...

February 10, 2021

Test your driving skills in a race car

IF you’re over the age of twelve, the Ballarat Light Car Club is inviting you to cut a few laps on their dirt track...

February 9, 2021

On top of the world in Golden Plains

JUST west of Linton, a hill-top tower is tall enough to make anyone feel like the king or queen of Golden Plains Shire. Seven hundred...

February 7, 2021

Connection for city’s creative writers

ALMOST five years ago Rebecca Fletcher was an arts student looking to join a local writers’ group. Discovering Ballarat Writers, she connected with likeminded people...

February 6, 2021

One-stop tipple shop – Eat Drink West

New tastes and old world charm A SPACE that takes inspiration from merchant spice traders, old-world ships and warehouses, Roy Hammond is the new kid...

February 6, 2021

Input on new Catchment strategy

CORANGAMITE Catchment Management Authority is facilitating an update of a key document. Known as the Regional Catchment Strategy, it aims to outline management goals and...