About: Edwina Williams
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- Edwina Williams is the Times News Group's Northern Victoria editor covering the Ballarat Times News Group, Golden Plains Times, Moorabool News, Bendigo Times, and McIvor Times.
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...
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...
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