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December 12, 2018

Food group seeks to cut back on footprint

BUNINYONG Community Collective’s aim is to get the community together to help reduce their environmental footprint by reducing food miles, packaging and supporting local...

December 12, 2018

Help make BHS feel better

BALLARAT Health Services is seeking ideas from the public to help make its environment a place not just associated with being sick. BHS is asking...

December 5, 2018

Heavy tracks a thing of the past

NOW the Ballarat Cup has been run and won work has begun on resurfacing the course at the Ballarat Turf Club. Polytrack manufacturer Martin Collins...

December 5, 2018

If you can open your mouth and speak, you can sing

THE Lost Ones Basement Bar doesn’t spring to mind as a traditional venue for Christmas Carols. But then this is no ordinary festive season sing...

December 5, 2018

Ballarat brick maker donates toys to 3BA Christmas Appeal

EVERY Christmas for almost 20 years Selkirk Brick has made a large donation of toys to 3BA Christmas Appeal. This year it is no different. There...

December 5, 2018

Teamwork across the Arts

WEATHERING the Future at the Backspace Gallery is a collaboration of multiple layers of media – artworks, written text, digitally produced posters and music. Artworks...

December 5, 2018

Choral Society sing with MSO

IN the world of choral singing Handel’s Messiah is every bit a Christmas tradition as presents and plum pudding with the Hallelujah Chorus the...

December 5, 2018

Check out your competition, it could make you a winner

BEAUFORT tourism destination Cave Hill Creek received the top gong at the RACV Victorian Tourism Awards recently. Having won gold in the same category for...

December 5, 2018

Last minute spark a winner for Ballarat electrician

CHRISTMAS came early for Miners Rest electrician Luke Hoffman when took home a $10,000 Gold Scholarship from electrical wholesaler Middy’s. The nation-wide Middy’s Scholarship Program...

December 5, 2018

Paws for reward as PETstock scores top retail award

AT the 2018 Australian Retail Awards, held in Melbourne recently, Ballarat’s PETstock took out the title of 2018 eftpos National Retailer of the Year. Hosted...

December 5, 2018

A small amount can make a big difference at Christmas

BALLARAT Salvation Army is hopeful that the Christmas spirit is alive and well in the local community and are encouraging everyone to give a...

December 5, 2018

Tech for kids in need

SHARON Murphy is excited. Keeley’s Cause Foundation, established by Mrs Murphy and her 14-year-old daughter Keeley, provides iPads for children diagnosed with autism and intellectual...

December 5, 2018

Carols replace footy at Mars Stadium

FOR an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of AFL and VFL players join the local community for the inaugural Ballarat Carols on the...

December 5, 2018

Hoisting the Morning Star to raise awareness of West Papua

BERNIE Constable raised the West Papuan Morning Star flag atop the Ballarat Trades Hall on Saturday, 1 December as part of a global event...

November 28, 2018

Little known Ballarat inventor celebrated in new biography

BALLARAT’S Henry Sutton made Australia’s first telephone and invented the telephone handset less than year after Alexander Graham Bell patented the device in 1876. Mr...

November 28, 2018

Horses will strut their stuff at Kingston Show Grounds

GROOMED horses and smartly dressed drivers will be out in full force at the Sky Park Rugs Summer Harness Champion Show. Organised and run by...

November 28, 2018

Wooden it be lovely

IN October last year the Ballarat Woodworkers’ Guild members started making wooden toys. Last week they presented 800 beautifully crafted items to the 3BA Christmas...

November 21, 2018

Buninyong Soccer Club could get home ground

BUNINYONG Soccer Club will finally have a home ground if the Liberal Nationals are elected. Liberal candidate for Buninyong Andrew Kilmartin announced a Coalition government...

November 21, 2018

Shared parenting can bind women to abuse

UNDERSTANDING the urgency and importance of research in the area of family violence, a free lecture on the topic will be presented by Federation...

November 21, 2018

Business threads combine

NECESSITY is the mother of invention - a proverb that Kassie and Andrew Blaszak could have written. The Blaszaks own and run Ballarat’s last remaining...

November 21, 2018

ALP match Libs Miner Dome commitment

PREMIER Daniel Andrews announced a re-elected Labor Government would deliver $11.8 million to transform the Eureka Sports Precinct last week. $5.2 million of the funding...

November 21, 2018

BSO show inspired by 20th century American greats

BALLARAT Symphony Orchestra is going out swinging for their last performance of the year. The music of Bernstein, Gershwin and Copland will feature in their...

November 21, 2018

New home for small businesses

STARTING a business requires a lot of planning – setting up an office, hiring staff, organising technology and communications – which can be daunting. Ballarat...

November 21, 2018

Environment is as important as profit for business

FINANCIAL, social and sustainability results are now detailed in the Annual Report of most public companies and multi-national organisations. These three outcomes are known as...