Articles by Craig Wilson

  • Salvos appeal for warm clothes and blankets

    ARARAT’s Salvos Store needs the local community to dig deep this winter
    By donating warm clothes and blankets, local residents will be helping others and will earn a discount at Salvation Army stores.
    The Salvos are encouraging the local community to dig deep into wardrobes and linen cupboards for warm items to donate to ensure their store is kept stocked with winter woollies during the colder months.

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  • Art students explore climate change in new exhibition

    ARARAT Gallery TAMA’s latest community-driven exhibition offers thought-provoking art that explores themes surrounding climate change.
    A group of Year 9 Art Students from Marian College have created a series of relief sculptural works in response to how they have seen climate change affect their environment.

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  • Torch relay coming to Ararat

    IN 2023, one of Australia’s most respected institutions Legacy will celebrate 100 years, to be marked with a 50,000 kilometre torch relay.
    The torch will travel through 100 locations, carried by approximately 1,500 Torch Bearers to mark the significant contribution Legacy has made to the widows and families of veterans.
    The relay begins on Anzac Day, 25 April 2023, in Pozieres, France and will travel to London and then  continue its tour throughout Australia.
    Ararat has been chosen to host a leg of the relay on the 8th of September, 2023.

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  • Renewed push to vaccinate

    THERE is a renewed push for Ararat residents to get booster vaccination shots as new variants of COVID-19 run rampant in our local community. One in 20 Australians infected with COVID-19 during the Omicron wave is expected to still have symptoms three months later, but as vaccination rates rise the prevalence of long COVID among […]

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  • Bin revolution : what you need to know

    ARARAT Rural City residents will notice new purple and green bins starting to appear in their communities over the coming weeks as part of council’s new waste and recycling program, Revolution Ararat.
    Revolution Ararat is council’s commitment to reducing the amount of waste delivered to landfill by introducing a new residential four-bin system collection that separates waste, recycling, organics, and glass, as part of Victoria’s waste reform.
    Spanning over the next eight weeks, purple and green lid bins will be delivered to all residential properties under five hectares by council staff members.

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  • Memorial walk returns to Ararat

    A memorial walk will return to Ararat in September in memory of people who’ve died from suicide.
    Ararat Suicide Prevention Awareness Group plans to hold its second memorial walk in the Alexandra Gardens, bringing together family and friends of people who’ve suicided. 

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  • Say trees!

    DESPITE being in the middle of an icy winter, the weather was kind to the volunteers and locals who joined with Ararat Landcare and workers from Ararat Rural City Council for last weekend’s tress planting program.
    Council staff assisted volunteers by using their machinery to dig good sized holes to assist the volunteers to plant 102 native trees.

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  • Ararat Hospital benefits from solar

    EAST Grampians Health Service is saving tens of thousands of dollars on its annual power bill following the successful installation of a solar carpark.
    The new system was installed on the roof of the health service’s new undercover carpark, providing shade and weather protection for visitors as well as contributing to energy generation on site.

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