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

Posts by: Edwina Williams

August 30, 2020

Crime thriller’s Cloud travels local ground

A NEW fictional rural crime thriller from author, Sandi Wallace is set amongst territory familiar to local readers. Black Cloud is the sixth...

August 29, 2020

Does this found military photo belong in your family archive?

WHEN St Andrews Uniting Church closed on Sturt Street, Buninyong RSL president, Ron Fleming made a discovery during the clean-up. “I came across a...

August 29, 2020

Homebuyers saving on stamp duty

IN the 2019-2020 financial year, more than eight hundred Ballarat homebuyers had their stamp duty fees reduced or removed. Approximately, $10 million was saved under...

August 28, 2020

New face to lead East’s Neighbourhood House

SARAH Greenwood-Smith has been appointed the permanent manager of the Ballarat East Neighbourhood House. Bringing a background of paid and volunteer work for community...

August 28, 2020

Sporting plan activates across the region

THE City of Ballarat and surrounding regions will work to strengthen participation in sport and recreation through new strategic plan, Activate 2020-2030. The 10-year program...

August 28, 2020

Young musicians to create in Lockdown Lab

THE City’s Youth Services team and Sonika committee has launched an arts initiative, Lockdown Lab, to ensure Ballarat’s musical youths can continue to...

August 27, 2020

BCH has better things to do than take a punt

HOW much money would you expect a local poker machine chews up on a regular day? Between 2018 and 2019, an average of $157,646 was...

August 27, 2020

Design firm named to build future Ballarat Library

REFURBISHMENT plans for the Ballarat Library aim to see it become an architectural showpiece for the district. Sydney Studio Hollenstein has been employed by...

August 26, 2020

Lecture looks at changing lake ecosystems

FRIENDS of Lake Wendouree Natural Environment’s second annual lecture will be presented by palaeoecologist, Professor Peter Gell this afternoon via Zoom. FoLWNE’s Judith...

August 26, 2020

Veterans celebrate newborn’s arrival

ALTHOUGH 2020 has been unlike any year previous, some traditions have remained. On Tuesday, 18 August, also known as Vietnam Veterans’ Day, the...

August 26, 2020

Wild and woolly designer at home in Gordon

INSIDE Elise Cakebread’s rural studio is a woolly wonderland. As the textile designer behind seven-year-old brand, Cakebread, she crafts soft furnishings, including cushions, and sculptural...

August 24, 2020

Water security to improve for Clarkesdale Bird Sanctuary

THROUGH the Golden Plains Shire Community Strengthening Grants program, Clarkesdale Bird Sanctuary has received funds for a water security project. Within the program’s...

August 24, 2020

Green organisation growing more than Fifteen Trees

MANNA, snow, Yarra and swamp gums are all at home in the Ballarat area, alongside woolly and silky tea trees, the silver banksia and...

August 24, 2020

Better access at Bannockburn Bushland Reserve

THROUGH the Shire’s Community Strengthening Grants, Friends of Bannockburn Bush has received funds to grade three kilometres worth of their reserve’s four-metre wide...

August 23, 2020

Cleaner air to breathe at Buninyong Shed

A NEW air filtration system at the Buninyong Men’s Shed will ensure all members of the creative and social community organisation can breathe easily...

August 22, 2020

Fully Sick music and craft entertains young and old

MINDFUL of the region’s isolated young and elderly people, Ballarat youth councillor, Brienna Kamp has led a social project to connect and entertain them. A...

August 21, 2020

Blouse could be bound for Bendigo

A DELICATE and intricately illustrated tissue paper blouse by two Ballarat creatives has been entered into the Paul Guest Prize for Drawing. Fashion designer,...

August 21, 2020

Grants for veteran support and commemoration

COMMUNITY groups working to support, celebrate and remember war veterans will be eligible for a new round of State government grants. Those providing welfare services,...

August 21, 2020

Celebrated nature strip alive in Buninyong

DEBORAH and Ron Gilchrist are runners up in the 2020 Open Gardens Victoria Nature Strip Garden Competition. Their three-year-old front garden was judged virtually,...

August 20, 2020

Blanket mum behind Leroy Mac Designs wrapped in awards

LEROY Mac Designs’ Rebecca McErvale is a finalist in four 2020 AusMumpreneur Awards categories. Nominated for people’s choice accolades in the customer service...

August 20, 2020

Burke closes the book on an educational era

BALLARAT Books’ owner-operator, John Burke will soon retire, having launched the educational resource business forty-six years ago. First working in a Newcastle bookshop at 15,...

August 20, 2020

Being kind and brewing coffee

FUNDS may be tighter in the COVID climate, but plasterer, Martin Anderson didn’t want Ballarat residents to go without a good latte. Setting up a...

August 19, 2020

Commemorating Vietnam Veterans Day

YESTERDAY marked the nation’s Vietnam Veterans’ Day, recognising the contributions of all service people during the Vietnam War. Originally Long Tan Day, after...

August 19, 2020

Call to reopen dog parks – City of Ballarat council meeting briefs

THE City of Ballarat will conduct a risk assessment of off-leash dog parks, following correspondence from ratepayers requesting access for their high-energy pets. Received...