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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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May 4, 2021

A hive of learning for veterans

FOUR recently returned defence force veterans will be part of a new therapeutic beekeeping education program in Ballarat. HiveMind Community Apiary will facilitate regular sessions...

May 4, 2021

Mathematic mural a star-spangled storyteller

COMBINING history and maths, Eureka: Singular and Plural is a new work from digital artist Gordon Monro. Now on display at the Eureka Centre, the...

May 3, 2021

Get your steps up in the grass trees

WOOWOOKARUNG Regional Park’s Grass-tree Nature Trail has officially opened for the community to enjoy. The 1.8-kilometre bush track amongst the native grass trees takes approximately...

May 2, 2021

Charities boosted by Christmas book collab

A RETIRED primary teacher and secondary school student have teamed up to produce a children’s storybook which explores the pandemic’s impact on productivity at...

May 2, 2021

Change the story, change the world

THE third and latest episode of local podcast Gather was released earlier this month, exploring the world of myths and fairytales. Minerva’s Books and Ideas’...

May 2, 2021

Bills a BREAZE for groups on solar

FIVE additional community groups are being powered by solar, following panel and battery installations funded by the State’s Solar on Public Buildings Program. The Ballarat...

May 1, 2021

My Country takes to the Opera House

BALLARAT, My Country (2019), by artist and Wadawurrung elder Marlene Gilson is being projected on the sails of the Sydney Opera House. The painting is...

April 30, 2021

Jane Austen adaption awarded

BALLARAT National Theatre’s Pride and Prejudice podcast is an honouree in the Limited Series Podcast - Scripted Fiction category of the 2021 Webby Awards. The...

April 29, 2021

Communities unite to remember them

SHIRE residents paid their respects to Australia and New Zealand’s fallen servicepeople and returned veterans during Anzac Day last Sunday. Acknowledging the sacrifices of defence...

April 29, 2021

Ideas to keep Three Trails on track

IF you’ve ever enjoyed a trip on the Shire’s Ballarat - Skipton, Kuruc a Ruc or Rainbow Bird trails on foot, on a bike,...

April 29, 2021

Meet you on the piste

OVER many years, petanque has been played across Ballarat at private facilities. But when Gordon Oliver and friends saw the game increase in popularity and...

April 28, 2021

Fifties fest back to Rock Ballarat

FEBRUARY’S ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown postponed Rock Ballarat, but its team is rebooting the rockabilly and rock-and-roll festival this weekend. From Friday, 30 to Sunday, 2 May...

April 28, 2021

Roll on up, give feedback

A DRAFT design for the upgrade of Bannockburn’s skatepark has been released before works begin in July. Now Golden Plains Shire is encouraging residents, especially...

April 27, 2021

Golf Club in swing for over 125 years

THE Ballarat Golf Club celebrated their belated one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary recently, having postponed the event in 2020. President Lesa Gray said the Club was established in...

April 26, 2021

Arts service award for BLOC stalwart

BALLARAT Light Opera Company life member Carmel Flynn has been awarded the Ballarat Arts Foundation’s 2021 Denis Bateman Award for her long-term service to...

April 26, 2021

Life members honoured at opening

THE Sebastopol Bowling Club’s newly renovated facilities were officially launched last Wednesday and dedicated to life members for their passionate, long-term contributions to the...

April 26, 2021

Magical dementia-friendly trail for park

PARKS Victoria have begun works to construct the country’s first-ever dementia-friendly forest and sensory trail at Woowookarung Regional Park. The one-kilometre compacted gravel trail is...

April 25, 2021

Little shop offers a lot more than books

THAT Little Bookshop is Wayne Compton’s TARDIS; it looks small on the outside, but it’s bigger once you step in. Previously a pop-up, he took...

April 23, 2021

Discover the north’s hidden arts gems

GOLDEN Plains Arts Inc members in the Shire’s north are opening their creative studios monthly to share their work and spaces with curious art-loving...

April 23, 2021

Chat with councillors over a coffee

OFFERING residents opportunities to speak to local government representatives in person, further Shire councillor conversation posts and coffee with your councillors events are approaching. Saturday,...

April 23, 2021

Walking off the mental War once more

EMERGENCY and defence force servicepeople will stand supported by the public at this weekend’s Walking off the War Within event. The 20-kilometre walk is held...

April 22, 2021

Anzac camaraderie and catch-ups return

INVERLEIGH RSL’s outgoing president Malcolm Johns has said the “beautiful” part about marking Anzac Day in 2021 is that people will be a part...

April 22, 2021

Cyclone appeal helping Timor-Leste friends

BALLARAT Ryder-Cheshire is asking the city to “step up and support our near neighbours.” Following Easter’s Cyclone Seroja, Timor-Leste has received catastrophic flooding and landslides,...

April 22, 2021

Women’s baseball a home run

THE Alfredton Women’s Baseball Club have made history recently, playing in round one of the newly formed Western Victorian Women’s Baseball League. Alfredton’s Eagles played...

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