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.
August 7, 2020
Library tailors book bundles for home borrowers
BALLARAT Libraries have had to be creative in the way they offer some of their most basic services during the pandemic. While people can only...
August 7, 2020
A celebration of courage and resilience
SUPPORTING the city’s individuals of enterprise every day, Commerce Ballarat’s team knows plenty of local legends in business. A new video series, Local Legends, is...
August 7, 2020
Awa showcases young international performers
THE Centre for Multicultural Youth’s virtual choir, band, art, and dance performance piece, Awa, went live on YouTube from Sunday the public to view. The...
August 7, 2020
World flavours shared from A Pot of Courage
PREPARED at Barkly Square for you to enjoy in your home kitchen, migrant women of social enterprise, A Pot of Courage are cooking up...
August 6, 2020
Centennial Park officially opens for Lucas community
ROTARY Centennial Park at Winter Swamp and Mullawallah Wetlands was officially opened on Sunday morning with volunteers planting one hundred and fifty trees and...
August 6, 2020
First female lead makes Ballarat Golf Club history
LESA Gray has become the Ballarat Golf Club’s first female president, elected at last month’s annual general meeting. Moving into the role with experience, Mrs...
August 4, 2020
Literature, conversation and friendship over a cup of coffee
PLANNING to meet on the second Tuesday morning each month, the Linton Gold Diggers Book Club hopes soon-to-open café, the Linton Larder, will become...
August 4, 2020
Waste wanted in its warm new life
MATERIALS planned for landfill aren’t always destined to end up in the ground. This is something maker and re-user, Deb Weston has come to learn...
August 3, 2020
Friends’ green thumbs ready to touch master plan
FRIENDS of the Buninyong Botanic Gardens are in talks with the City of Ballarat, following their council vote to proceed with a master plan...
August 3, 2020
Sustaina-bee made wraps keep food fresh
WHEN Paige Phelan took maternity leave in 2016, she knew a project was in order. “I needed something to do. I’d seen cloth food covers...
August 3, 2020
A place to reflect at Linton’s historic cemetery
LINTON Cemetery Trust’s monthly working bee will run from 9am to 12pm on Saturday, 8 August, compliant with social distancing rules. Committee member, Chris Grigg...
August 2, 2020
A purposeful passion weaving fibrous functionality
BENITA Martin discovered fibrecrafts nine years ago, crocheting a blanket before her first baby was born. Now a mother of four children, the youngest three,...
August 1, 2020
Reserve’s native flora flourishes with a little help from its friends
THE Black Hill Flat Native Garden is thriving with the help of the Friends of Black Hill Reserve as they facilitate COVID safe working...
July 31, 2020
Grants to connect and fund community
VARYING not-for-profit projects and initiatives will be eligible for the third round of Ballarat Connected Communities’ grants. Offering funding bundles up to $5000 to eligible...
July 30, 2020
150 full boxes will feed those in need
BALLARAT’S Coles supermarkets have given one hundred and fifty boxes worth of non-perishable food, and grocery vouchers, to the 3BA Winter Appeal. Appeal ambassador, Peter...
July 30, 2020
Chronic pain at the fore of nationwide campaign
UNTIL this Sunday, 2 August, the country marks National Pain Week, driven by Chronic Pain Australia. The seven days are an opportunity for the organisation...
July 30, 2020
Foodworks’ fruit feeding furry and feathered friends
TWO large drums of fresh produce are reducing waste and feeding animals each week at the Ballarat Wildlife Park. Since the park was closed mid-lockdown...
July 30, 2020
State funds to support women’s start-ups
BALLARAT Regional Multicultural Council’s women’s business incubator has received a funding boost from the State government of thirty-two thousand, five hundred dollars. Based upstairs at...
July 28, 2020
Family wine brand more than six-foot tall
IN 1982, Pamela and Richard Austin developed a three-acre vineyard in Waurn Ponds. This first passion project led them to buy one hundred and fifty...
July 28, 2020
Students’ water posters will make artistic splash
IN conjunction with the Australian Water Association, Central Highlands Water is running their annual poster competition in celebration of National Water Week, coming up...
July 28, 2020
Big little train proposal for Bannockburn
WITH a father that worked on the railways for five decades, Brian Gray has a passion for trains that runs through his bloodline. Six years...
July 27, 2020
Feel-good drawing to stress less
WHAT imagery do you imagine when you read the words change, hope and future? An art project coordinated by Ballarat Youth Services, Drawing the Good,...
July 26, 2020
Theatre company has only Pride for podcast production
BALLARAT National Theatre’s Pride and Prejudice podcast series, dramatically reading the Jane Austen novel, has gained three hundred digital subscribers and three thousand listens...
July 25, 2020
Club donation helps cancer research continue
FUNDING cancer research programs, Ballarat Golf Club has donated four thousand, five hundred and twenty-five dollars to the Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute. Ballarat Golf...
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