About: Edwina Williams
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- Edwina Williams is the Times News Group's Northern Victoria editor covering the Ballarat Times News Group, Golden Plains Times, Moorabool News, Bendigo Times, and McIvor Times.
February 18, 2021
Shed and Vets shoulder-to-shoulder
THE Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia Ballarat Sub-Branch has found a new home at the Ballarat East Community Men’s Shed. The...
February 18, 2021
Cheers to a bumper weekend
FOOTBALL and froths will have Ballarat buzzing this weekend. In one of the city’s biggest event-filled weekends since COVID-19 restrictions eased, Western United will play...
February 18, 2021
Family-inspired club looking to grow
THE Woady Yaloak Warriors Football Netball Club are encouraging young families to join their community, hosting a come-and-try day this Sunday. Offering Auskick, NetSetGO, and...
February 17, 2021
Gallery gifted art from personal collection
FORTY years ago Dr Graeme Williams OAM moved into a workers’ cottage in Melbourne and collected art to liven the space. With connections in the...
February 15, 2021
Farmgate to open in Gordon
WHILE on a trip to Canberra, Susanna McPherson dropped into a farmgate store. Loving the way it operated, supporting the area’s food producers and getting...
February 14, 2021
Serving community and sharing knowledge
IN the 1950s, Clarendon Presbyterian Ladies College student Helen Eyres could often be seen riding her bike from the Mair Street campus to Sturt...
February 14, 2021
From the river to the sea for FECRI
IN November of 2019, Jim Waight was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s follicular lymphoma. Undergoing six rounds of chemotherapy, the keen cyclist always looked forward to his...
February 11, 2021
Fiesta celebrates Shire’s artistic talent
VISUAL art, live tunes and poetry were presented harmoniously during last Sunday’s Smythesdale Arts and Music Fiesta. Held on the town green, in The Well...
February 11, 2021
Bringing the love back to Linton
LINTON’S community green spaces will soon be spruced by the Progress Association’s Gardening Group. Members including Mardi Reilly are aiming to get the town’s streetscape...
February 11, 2021
Student to present poem of remembrance
THIRTEEN-year-old Heidi Erwin will read a poem at this Sunday’s virtual seventeenth anniversary service for The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial. The young speaker was...
February 11, 2021
Men’s Shed gets a power-up
THE community of Linton and District Men’s Shed expects to open their new purpose-built facility for action by mid-April. But before the team moves into...
February 11, 2021
Para athletes power through RoadNats
BALLARAT-Sebastopol Cycling Club had a strong para-cycling presence at last weekend’s Australian Road National Championships in Buninyong. In Thursday’s time trials, Reece-Emerson Van Beek won...
February 7, 2021
Connection for city’s creative writers
ALMOST five years ago Rebecca Fletcher was an arts student looking to join a local writers’ group. Discovering Ballarat Writers, she connected with likeminded people...
February 6, 2021
One-stop tipple shop – Eat Drink West
New tastes and old world charm A SPACE that takes inspiration from merchant spice traders, old-world ships and warehouses, Roy Hammond is the new kid...
February 6, 2021
Fun and a friendly comp at Skate Park
SKATE, scoot or ride your BMX in the Shire’s free Bannockburn Skate Park clinic and competition this month. On Saturday, 20 February YMCA Action Sports...
February 6, 2021
Input on new Catchment strategy
CORANGAMITE Catchment Management Authority is facilitating an update of a key document. Known as the Regional Catchment Strategy, it aims to outline management goals and...
February 5, 2021
On top of the world in Linton
JUST west of Linton, a hill-top tower is tall enough to make anyone feel like the king or queen of Golden Plains Shire. Seven hundred...
February 5, 2021
Grant boosts online veterans’ resources
SUPPORT and advocacy services are set to be more accessible to Ballarat’s five thousand veterans than they’ve ever been before. The Ballarat Veterans Assistance Centre...
February 5, 2021
New chair for Committee
DAMIAN Ross has been announced as the Committee for Ballarat’s new chairperson. Having spent 20 years at Mars-Wrigley, he has held senior positions in operations...
February 4, 2021
City’s cycle-centric as RoadNats return
THE Federation University Road National Championships have launched, with time trials rolling through Buninyong and over the mountain yesterday. As club and all-abilities time trials...
February 4, 2021
Chamber seeks new expertise
THE Bannockburn Chamber of Commerce is seeking enterprising people from the south of the Shire to join their committee. President Bronwyn Davie said the group...
February 4, 2021
Movie Night connects families
THE free Buninyong Community Movie Night is back at De Soza Park this Saturday evening, screening Sonic the Hedgehog. An initiative of the RoadNats’ sponsors...
February 4, 2021
Oarsome racing back in a big way
BOAT trailers from across Victoria flocked to the shores of Lake Wendouree last weekend for the annual JG King Wendouree-Ballarat Regatta. Held over two days,...
February 2, 2021
Flag flies for faiths in harmony
BALLARAT Interfaith Network launched their celebrations of World Interfaith Harmony Week on Monday morning with a flag-raising ceremony at St Peter’s Anglican Church. As leaders...
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