{"id":66350,"date":"2019-12-31T14:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T03:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=66350"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:26:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T03:26:05","slug":"ready-to-ride-november-2019-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/ready-to-ride-november-2019-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to ride – November 2019 in review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who doesn\u2019t love a freebee? – Thursday, 7 November edition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thursday, 7 November edition front page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WITH the City of Ballarat getting ready to roll out its new parking plan, freshly minted mayor Cr Ben Taylor gave the gift of free parking across the city<\/a> for two thirds of summer.<\/p>\n

As all the old parking meters and other infrastructure needed to be removed to make way for updated technology and rather than do it incrementally, the municipality made the call to do it all in one go.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say council is the Grinch, but we\u2019re not,\u201d he said. \u201cChristmas is coming early.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething we hear about at Christmas time is parking. That awkwardness with the coins if you don\u2019t have the coins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Free on street parking, as well as use of the new Creswick Road off street facility<\/a> continues until 31 January.<\/p>\n

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Dorothy Donaldson celebrated her 100th birthday and reflected on her time in the Women\u2019s Air Force. Photo: EDWINA WILLIAMS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

100 years young – Thursday, 7 November edition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The city got a new centenarian as former member of the Women\u2019s Air Force, Dorothy Donaldson, marked her one hundredth birthday<\/a> in the company of the Air Force Association\u2019s Ballarat Branch.<\/p>\n

Ms Donaldson has been passionate about seeing the whole globe, but Pakistan was a standout.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved all of my trips, especially camping in the Hindu Kush… Travelling on the Karakorum Highway from Pakistan into far western China,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mrs Donaldson\u2019s sons, Roger and Peter Donaldson travelled from California and Sydney respectively to celebrate their mum and held a party with 84 members of family, and friends, at the Swiss Mountain hotel.<\/p>\n

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Ballarat Rush president Rob Pompe, Member for Buninyong Michaela Settle and City of Ballarat mayor, Cr Ben Taylor officially open the club\u2019s new track. Photo: EDWINA WILLIAMS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ready to ride – Thursday, 21 November edition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A sea of blue and yellow jerseys rolled around Marty Busch Reserve as Ballarat-Sebastopol Rush BMX Club\u2019s christened their new all-weather Sic Surface track<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Funded by the State government, the $200,000 track upgrade received the most votes from the community in the Pick My Project initiative.<\/p>\n

Reaping the rewards of a state-of-the-art facility, club president Rob Pompe said the whole process had been \u201csensational.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started about 10 years ago here, and it was just a dirt track. It\u2019s been a long haul, but the track\u2019s changed, it\u2019s been redeveloped, we\u2019ve got the containers… now we\u2019re here today with Sic Surface,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of little kids coming through the ranks. I think we\u2019ve more than doubled our membership since we started this, so it\u2019s been a huge job and we\u2019ve worked tirelessly to get this where it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thursday, 14 November edition front page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sounds of change – Thursday, 28 November edition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Voice FM officially started broadcasting from their new digs at Barkly Square.<\/p>\n

The move<\/a> represented the culmination of months of work by volunteers at the community radio station and marked the start of a new era.<\/p>\n

Voice FM chairperson, Ron Egeberg championed the relocation with the support of the Voice board and the station\u2019s passionate volunteers.<\/p>\n

He said the move would not have been possible without broad, generous community support like that of the Lillingston Charitable Trust and Wes McKnight at Widgery and Wilson.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also a credit to our tradespeople and our skilled volunteers who have provided technical and IT expertise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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