{"id":118211,"date":"2025-12-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=118211"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:23:13","slug":"women-with-a-view-can-wrap-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/women-with-a-view-can-wrap-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Women with a VIEW can wrap for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED some assistance with your gift wrapping as Christmas draws nearer?<\/p>\n<p>Ballarat Evening VIEW Club members can help you until Christmas Eve, Wednesday 24 December, at Stockland Wendouree.<\/p>\n<p>With a stall set up outside Kmart, the social women&#8217;s group are wrapping presents for a gold coin donation to raise funds for The Smith Family&#8217;s Learning For Life program for another year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stockland are very good to us,&#8221; said member of 20 years Bronwen Butler. &#8220;They buy the paper, our members donate the ribbons, and I buy the sticky tape and run the roster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stockland put us on their website and advertise when we will be up there, so they&#8217;re very, very good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038 \" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/bronwen-1024x623_18826.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ballarat Evening VIEW Club&#8217;s Bronwen Butler wrapping Christmas presents at Stockland Wendouree. 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