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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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January 14, 2022

Foto finish for booming Biennale

THE lens officially shut last Sunday on the biggest Ballarat International Foto Biennale ever. BIFB general manager Kate O’Hehir said despite it being the most...

January 13, 2022

Children’s vax program underway

BALLARAT Health Services’ paediatric COVID-19 vaccination program for five-to-eleven-year-olds began on Monday morning at the Mercure-based community clinic. Approximately 250 children received their first dose,...

January 13, 2022

Uniting for the welfare of horses

HORSE welfare organisation Project Hope will run two events for the local equine community with money received as part of a State Government grant...

January 13, 2022

Street Fiesta shares artistic talent

GROWING year-by-year, the free Smythesdale Arts and Music Fiesta is returning next month to bring creatives and art-lovers from the north of the Shire...

January 13, 2022

Book borrowing now fine-free

BOOK-borrowing and returning from the Golden Plains Mobile Library and the Bannockburn Library will be even more pleasant than usual in 2022 and beyond. Operator...

January 13, 2022

Races to see this RoadNats week

ELITE cyclists are currently in Ballarat and Buninyong for the Australian Road National Championships, and you can get amongst the action until Sunday, 16...

January 13, 2022

Club strikes gold as Miners return

AHEAD of the start of the Coles Express NBL1 South season in April, three major basketballers have re-signed with the Ballarat Miners. Zac Dunmore, Will...

January 12, 2022

National Boys Choir on the Goldfields

THE National Boys Choir of Australia will bring Ballarat Trades Hall alive in classical song this weekend. As part of their Gippsland to Goldfields series...

January 10, 2022

RoadNats ready and set to race

ELITE cyclists from across the country will compete in Ballarat and Buninyong from next Wednesday as the Australian Road National Championships get on the...

January 9, 2022

Festival offers food-growing ideas

THE Sri Lankan Tamil festival of Thai Pongal celebrates the harvest and the sun. An initiative of Neil Para, the local Multicultural Harvest Festival will...

January 7, 2022

Unusual stages for poetry and song

A SERIES of summer performances by two Ballarat creatives are being held in some very unusual, but playful locations. Megan J Riedl and Amie Brûlée’s...

January 6, 2022

Splish, splash all summer long

THE municipality’s pools and splash parks are open across Ballarat for another summer of fun. Ready to keep families cool and entertained on the hotter...

January 3, 2022

Nursery backs local veterans

AVALON Nursery’s staff love to get into the Christmas spirit of giving. In previous years they’ve run giveaways, but in 2021, the Nursery’s David Winters...

December 31, 2021

Venturer Scout awarded top honour

EIGHTEEN-year-old Hamish Hall has been presented with the highest Venturer Scout honour in Australia, the Queen’s Scout Award. Joining Cubs 10 years ago, he has...

December 31, 2021

Rotarians celebrate successes as Club closes

THE Rotary Club of Wendouree officially closed this month after sixty-four years of service to the Ballarat community. Concluding with a meeting at the Ballarat...

December 30, 2021

Record-breaking Christmas for Appeal

THIS year’s 3BA Christmas Appeals was one of the most successful to date, with record community donations rolling in. 3BA general manager John Fitzgibbon said...

December 30, 2021

Trust gives to Avenue tree appeal

FOLLOWING October’s destructive storm, the Arch of Victory-Avenue of Honour committee launched an appeal to repair and replace damaged and destroyed trees along Ballarat’s...

December 28, 2021

New interchange connects bus travellers

BUSES will no longer queue up on Lydiard Street north, following the official opening of the Ballarat Station bus interchange. Located between the north platform...

December 26, 2021

Band’s songwriters return to flight

MEMBERS of The Dead Salesmen and Epicure are releasing an album together under a new name, The Blue Lighters. Justin ‘Hap’ Hayward, Justin ‘Ryda’ Charleson,...

December 24, 2021

A night full of carols cheers the city

THE triumphant return of Ballarat Carols by Candlelight had young and old in song, and in the Christmas spirit on Sunday evening, just six...

December 24, 2021

Live music RISEs with grant

MINERS Rest live music business Regional Touring has received a giant gift this Christmas week. Promoter Duane McDonald received $490,000 from the Federal Government’s Restart...

December 24, 2021

Pupils ponder puddles and tadpoles

ST Mary MacKillop Catholic Primary School pupils continue learn from the Friends of Bannockburn Bush about how to best protect and appreciate the native...

December 23, 2021

TV show chronicles Shire stories

PUTTING local historical sites, heritage, and stories in the spotlight, a new TV show is being produced in the Golden Plains Shire. Mystical Guides Studios...

December 23, 2021

City scores elite women’s basketball

THE Ballarat Sports and Events Centre will host WNBL games during a statewide festival of women’s basketball in January. Six of the competition’s fifteen matches...

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