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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...