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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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March 17, 2021

Open Studios a chance to support local

GOLDEN Plains Arts Inc’s Southern Open Studios event will be held across the lower end of the Shire this weekend. Members of the public who...

March 17, 2021

Promoting the perks of coworking

VICTORIA’s inaugural Coworking Week will be held later this month. The five-day event is launching in 2021 to encourage businesses to look at how physically...

March 16, 2021

Cemeteries move for anti-cancer campaign

STAFF at Ballarat Cemeteries are putting their sneakers on to make tracks for cancer research this month. As part of The March Charge, a Cancer...

March 14, 2021

School connects to country and community

ONE of the town’s community hubs, Linton Primary School is leading the charge when it comes to bringing people together. Last Friday, staff and the...

March 13, 2021

People and cultures boost BRMC stalwart

GEORGINA Vagg was recently described by her friend Dianne McGrath as being, “like a tapestry.” As a young woman, Mrs Vagg was a ‘Jill of...

March 13, 2021

History in future – Eat Drink West

Can’t go past the good-old classics IT’S been twenty-four years since Charlie Graham first launched Bibo café and restaurant on Sturt Street. Although he’s moved the...

March 13, 2021

Variety of Volunteering at Hospice

BALLARAT Hospice Care are seeking volunteers to support their patients receiving palliative treatment, or the organisation’s broader operations. Recently retired patient support volunteer of 35...

March 12, 2021

McCallum gets power-up

THE State’s Grampians Renewable Energy Program has seen McCallum Disability Services’ residential units fitted with a solar system. Forty-two kilowatts worth of panels are now...

March 12, 2021

Have your say on Buninyong streetscape

THE Buninyong & District Community Association are encouraging residents to give feedback to the City of Ballarat regarding the Buninyong Streetscape Concept Plans. The residential...

March 12, 2021

Beck and Cormick weave musical magic

THIS Tuesday it’s just You & I on stage, as musical theatre greats, Rachael Beck and Michael Cormick perform at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Friends for...

March 11, 2021

More than one day to Clean-Up the Shire

LAST Sunday may have been the official Clean-Up Australia Day, but Shire residents and community leaders know ridding of rubbish is an ongoing project. Linton...

March 11, 2021

School connects to country and community

ONE of the town’s community hubs, Linton Primary School is leading the charge when it comes to bringing people together. Last Friday, staff and the...

March 11, 2021

WBRC honours pioneering women’s crew

SIXTY-one years ago, Wendouree Ballarat Rowing Club’s first women’s crew was formed, winning their maiden race on the lake. Last Monday, on International Women’s Day,...

March 7, 2021

Paintings presented from the heart

PAINTER Laura Day will present a very personal solo exhibition, Whispers of the heart at the Mercure next month. Experiencing a miscarriage last year, Day...

March 6, 2021

NEXT GEN continues city’s ceramic story

PETER Pilven’s skills as a ceramicist have informed the artistic process of student, Audrey Martin. You might assume Pilven has taught Audrey through his work...

March 4, 2021

Jed’s kitchen keeping Shire fed

MOORABOOL Valley catering business, Fed by Jed has found a new home-delivery focus. The team of Jordi Ellingham, Ella Scanlon and Darcy Scanlon have discovered...

March 4, 2021

Love and care for ‘rough diamond’ river

WHAT do you know about the habitat of elusive native water rat, the rakali, or noisy eastern banjo frogs, pobblebonks? Alongside turtles, they live in...

March 4, 2021

Inclusion plan approved – Golden Plains Shire council meeting briefs

COUNCILORS adopted the 2020-2024 Active Ageing and Inclusion Plan at the Golden Plains Shire’s council meeting on Tuesday, 23 February. The document should be a...

March 4, 2021

Quick quad aims for national title

BALLARAT City Rowing Club will be represented by a young men’s coxless quadruple scull in the under twenty-one division of this month’s Australian Rowing...

February 28, 2021

A familiar face behind the Red Door

A NEW era’s begun at Buninyong’s Red Door Pizzeria with former owner, Trevor Whitworth passing on the pizza peel to Katrine Taylor. Also the operator...

February 27, 2021

Empowering women to thrive

AS a young woman in rural New Zealand, Shiree Pilkinton dreamed of becoming a journalist. With on-air aspirations, she nervously walked into an audition for...

February 26, 2021

Home-sweet-home for Linton’s birds

WITHIN a couple of months, you could be taking a map-guided walking tour of bird-friendly Linton. The Linton and District Progress Association’s garden group are...

February 26, 2021

Warriors shape-up for season launch

THE Woady Yaloak Warriors Football Netball Club hosted a junior come-and-try day last weekend at their new Smythesdale home ground. Offering an Aussie-rules football clinic...

February 26, 2021

Lyric gets ready to Rock You

BALLARAT Lyric Theatre wants everyone to hear a little less ‘COVID blah blah’ and a lot more Radio Ga Ga in 2021. The performing arts...