youtube travel videos Mark Shea returned to Ararat after living away for fifteen years and was amazed at the turnaround in the Town after the crushing blow of industry shutdown.
Through community spirit the Town has managed to find new ways to continue and thrive.
Tourism and Training are two initiatives that have helped put the Township back on its feet.
When a town loses its main employment source, change for the better doesn't occur overnight. There must be a belief in the town's people that, step by step, things will improve. And no better example of this can be seen in the work of the Ararat Regional Development Board. The original Board was made up of twelve business leaders from fields as diverse as manufacturing to agriculture. Its work was instrumental in getting Ararat back on its feet after the staggering blow of industry shutdown. The Board worked tirelessly behind the scenes to awaken Ararat from its punch drunk state. Some of the members have mentioned an amazing synergy in the group. In times of trouble leaders must step forward, and the Board, shoulder to shoulder, took on the challenge to lift Ararat out of the doldrums. Some people are ahead of their time, their ideas even grander than the ideas of their own governments. Don Reynolds had a dream to establish strong ties with China and to build a museum celebrating the unique fact that Ararat was founded by Chinese gold prospectors. China, the sleeping giant, is awakening, its people starting to experience prosperity. Slowly, slowly, like the trickling stream where gold was first found in Ararat, Chinese visitors are starting to arrive. In twenty years, Don Reynolds may well be viewed as a visionary. The most astounding story of Ararat's turnaround comes from within the Community itself. When word was put out that JWard, the old bluestone Gaol and former Institute for the Criminally Insane could be bulldozed, the townspeople joined together to protect their history. A group of volunteers decided to try opening JWard to the public as a tourist attraction in the hope of saving it. Success was theirs, and to this day JWard is still run by volunteers and is one of the State's premier tourist attractions.
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