Coronavirus in Ballarat: City leaders call to keep hope in lockdown

Pioneers of Ballarat. The Welcome Nugget. President: Keith Laynon email: Keith Laynon. Keith Lanyon, our Chairperson extended a warm welcome to everyone with best wishes for the Christmas season. Visitors from Melbourne and Geelong joined us for a most pleasant afternoon with lots of chatter and renewing of friendships. Jenny Burrell presented a posy of flowers to Robyn Coates in appreciation for her work on the Newsletter.

Easy Eating · Gardening · Outdoor Living · Travel · Fashion · Dating Victoria will be shut down over the next 48 hours with only essential “This is not something that we do lightly, but it’s clear that if we don’t There are eight cases in the Greater Geelong area and three in Ballarat, while the Surf Coast.

To more completely experience this website as it was intended to be presented, please enable JavaScript on your device. The memorabilia section displays scouting collectables gathered by Scouts and Leaders over many years. Some of the displays are on loan from a private collection and donations are continually received allowing the change-over and updating the exhibits.

Most Scouts like to collect District cloth badges, when attending a Jamboree they have the opportunity to swap with the Scouts they meet, however collectibles extend a great deal further than cloth badges. In the Pax Hill Heritage Centre you will find woggles, metal badges, International and Event scarfs, Australian and International Jamboree badges, old belts and buckles, key rings, old uniforms, framed Cub, Scout and Senior Scout proficiency badges pre New Design in the early s.

The collection includes various Venturer Award badges since introduction in February as well as District badges worn by the Scouts of Ballarat over the past years. The Founder, Baden-Powell dominates part of our display with a variety of memorabilia including cloth badges, medals and medallions, and other items of interest from Baden-Powell Masonic Lodges. Recently we have received an excellent collection of framed very old pictures of Scouting. The Archive Area is where outdated books and historical information are filed and recorded as supplied by Troops who have been part the Ballarat District, Area and Goldfields Region since the introduction of Scouting in Ballarat dating back to May This site relies on JavaScript which is disabled in your browser.