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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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November 21, 2021

Carving landscapes in lino

SMYTHES Creek printmaker Marie Mason is the latest visual artist to present work within the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Backspace. A master of colourful reduction...

November 20, 2021

Radio icon switching off after 65 years

SINCE the late-sixties, former 3BA managing director Peter Caligari has been one of Ballarat’s most iconic and generous local radio personalities. But in recent weeks,...

November 20, 2021

Refugee group appeals for assistance

IT’S been twenty years since Australian Defence Force personnel rescued asylum seekers from the freight ship Tampa near Christmas Island. In the same year, hundreds...

November 20, 2021

Online raffle buoying dragon boats

THE SpringFest Online Raffle will be drawn in just under two weeks, so there’s still plenty of time to purchase a ticket, or ten,...

November 20, 2021

Crafts, friends and fun in Sheila’s Shed

WHILE staying at her son’s home, Isabel Birch was tasked with decorating some of his handmade wooden scissor-holders. Brightening them up with paint and stickers,...

November 19, 2021

Local SES Unit busier than ever

VICTORIA State Emergency Services volunteers have been active for seven decades, yet the state’s units were collectively called out to more jobs in the...

November 19, 2021

Local papers put Ballarat’s name in bold

STORYTELLERS of Ballarat stopped the presses at the annual Community Newspaper Association of Victoria Awards earlier in the month. Local grassroots publications were finalists in...

November 19, 2021

Small grants boosting Buninyong

MULTIPLE Buninyong community groups are set to benefit from Federal funding that was distributed by Member for Ballarat Catherine King last week. The Senior Citizens...

November 19, 2021

Shedders’ story told in new book

THE first Australian men’s shed was established in rural South Australia in 1993, and the concept has since boomed, with more than two-and-a-half thousand...

November 19, 2021

Masterful Christmas cooking at Carols

SUNDAY, 19 December will be packed with Christmas cheer and song as Carols by Candlelight returns, welcoming tens of thousands to Mars Stadium. The program...

November 19, 2021

Champions of activity appointed

FOUR new ambassadors have been named to the City of Ballarat’s Active Women and Girls Program for the next twelve months. All passionate about female...

November 18, 2021

New CFA ute a beaut

BANNOCKBURN CFA will expand their fleet of emergency service vehicles in the new year. The community fire brigade has received a grant of just under...

November 18, 2021

Linton cricket nets under construction

KIRK McDonald remembers bowling and batting in the Linton Cricket Club nets as a kid. Decades on, now the club’s president and junior coordinator, he...

November 18, 2021

Moon fest full of family fun

BANNOCKBURN Bush Reserve was alive with community activity on Sunday, as its Friends group and Geelong Landcare Network hosted the long-awaited Full Moon Festival. Although...

November 16, 2021

Rebel voices heard through song

THIS year, the Eureka Centre is keeping annual Stockade anniversary commemorations in the family. On Friday, 3 December - the 167th anniversary of the Eureka...

November 16, 2021

16 days of anti-violence activism

THE Zonta Club of Ballarat will participate in Sixteen Days of Activism later this month, standing against violence towards women. Their campaigning will begin with...

November 15, 2021

School’s crazy hair-dos care

LINTON Primary School went wild and wacky last Friday as its students took part in Crazy Hair Day, presenting new and unusual dos for...

November 15, 2021

Pitches seek to solve problems

FEDERATION TAFE students recently participated in a Federation TAFEyouth summit, exploring issues that broadly affect young people. Discussing topics from diversity, to buying a house,...

November 13, 2021

Big regional stage for rapper

AT the age of fourteen, Sami Regague took a passion for music and started to experiment, putting his own lyrics to some beats. Four years...

November 12, 2021

Festive appeal set to help families

THE 3BA Christmas Appeal is underway for the forty-second year, supporting families in need across the city this festive season. 3BA general manager John Fitzgibbon...

November 11, 2021

Alliance unites for business advocacy

STRIVING to be a collective voice for business associations and chambers of commerce outside Melbourne, the Victorian Regional Chamber Alliance is now operational. Officially launching...

November 11, 2021

160 years of Ballarat Rowing Club

THE city’s rowing community will mark the one hundred and sixtieth anniversary of Ballarat Rowing Club this month. Current and former members, and long-time supporters...

November 10, 2021

O come all ye carollers

LOCALS are invited to get into the Christmas spirit at Mars Stadium this December, as Ballarat Carols by Candlelight returns, presented by Harcourts Ballarat. Carols’...

November 10, 2021

Steps support families this Christmas

ARE you hitting ten thousand steps a day, and think you could maintain that for a month? To generate funds for Cafs Christmas Appeal, a...

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