COVID-19 and flu update Ballarat: Masks Still Matter in 2024 | thecourier.com.au
"MASKS still matter is the advice from the region's public health leader as the community faces rising cases of COVID-19 and influenza."
"If everybody who is symptomatic tests themselves, many will show they have COVID-19." - Dr Rob Grenfell, Grampians Public Health Unit chief strategy and regions officer
Historic chess game played at Ballarat tournament over the weekend just gone. Round 2, board 5 saw 9 year old Reyaansh Chakrabarty become the youngest Australian, and 8th youngest ever, to beat a Grandmaster in a long, classical, game of chess.
CFA units are battling the fire which is growing in intensity and burning in a south-easterly direction at Bayindeed.
An emergency warning has expanded from Bayindeen, Buangor, Middle Creek and Mount Cole to now also include Ballyrogan, Beaufort Buangor East, Challicum, Cross Roads, Eurambeen, Lake Goldsmith, Langi Kal Kal, Main Lead, Middle Creek, Nerring, Raglan, Shirley, Stockyard Hill, Trawalla, Waterloo and Yalla-y-poora.
#Victoria's bushfire chief says next Wednesday is shaping as the state's most dangerous day since the black summer fires. The forecast means crews are now racing to contain the enormous blaze that's still burning out of control west of #Ballarat. Temperatures are expected to rise to 40 °C / 104 °F on Wednesday with strong winds.
Koalas stuck between highways and loggers #After the timber is logged, the koalas are on their own."
"With the koalas' plantation home being harvested for timber all week, animal advocates predict the marsupials will flee to the closest patch of bush which is unfortunately located on the other side of a busy freeway."
Tonight from 6pm @ballarat Hackerspace is having an open night. Come check the space out, get a little tour of our makerspace/workshop, see our member-built 1 cubic metre 3D printer, peruse the current projects being worked on, or just to say hi.
This is a beautiful gesture of #community - by Lexie Jeuniewic and Laura Mayers for #ABC#Ballarat - Artist Simon Laffey does A4 paintings of houses around the town.
Ballarat resident Caitlin Honeyman said she was touched when she found the A4 painting signed by Simon Laffey tucked inside her letterbox on Tuesday morning.
"I thought, 'What on earth is this? I didn't commission a painting … have I forgotten something?'," Ms Honeyman said.