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Month: September 2015
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SEVEN CCTV cameras are being installed in Maylands in a bid to clamp down on anti-social behaviour. Three cameras will be installed on Eighth Avenue and four on Guildford Road. In 2012, then-mayor Terry Kenyon held a crime crisis summit with WA police, residents and traders. Traders are mixed when asked if things have improved.…
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A $255,000 dunny has been installed next to a rose garden on Bayswater’s Railway Parade. Installing the Exeloo added $40,000 to the cost. It’s next to the train station, which doesn’t have a toilet. The council installed the loo after Whatley Crescent traders complained of people defecating and urinating behind their shops. It had wanted…
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MAYLANDS Labor MP Lisa Baker has criticised Bayswater mayor Sylvan Albert—who ran against her as a Liberal candidate in 2013—for not attending a WA liquor commission hearing into Woolworths’ $3.5 million redevelopment of the Peninsula Tavern. The development site is slap-bang in the middle of Cr Albert’s south ward, which he’s recontesting at this month’s…
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MOUNT HAWTHORN’S junior footy team just won their second premiership running. This month the year eights took on friendly rivals the Coolbinia Bombers at Inglewood Oval to defend their title. Scores were level at quarter time, with Mt Hawthorn team edging ahead and holding on till the final siren. The Mt Hawthorn Cardinals have about…
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THE folks from the local Claisebrook Catchment Group spend many a weekend cleaning up our waterways, so they’re hoping to encourage local greenthumbs to ditch the fertiliser-heavy gardens and go au naturale. Their yearly catchment friendly garden competition is on again to reward people who use local plants which need less water and less fertiliser…
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IT’S taken the better part of a decade and three mayoral regimes, but Vincent finally has a character retention policy that lets concerned residents maintain the look and feel of their streets. Historic streetscapes being interrupted by boxy modern buildings has long been an issue in the dormitory suburbs, accounting for a fair percentage of…
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Listen better I READ with disappointment (Voice, September 19, 2015) that Leederville Farmers Markets will not reopen in its current guise. The markets brought life to Leederville every Sunday morning with residents and visitors coming from across the city looking for farm-fresh and organic produce. Perhaps more disappointing is our mayor’s comments in your story,…
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PUBLIC HOUSE is the newest addition to Adelaide Terrace, combining a modern setting with a casual atmosphere. Movies projected onto the outdoor wall can be viewed from the decking area, while inside, animal heads pop out quirkily from the walls. Dim lighting creates a cosy feel. Before we had even looked at the menu, the…
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TAKE a boy and a balloon, add a pigeon, cat and a rat, and director Chrissie Parrott is set to weave her magic on the classic kids’ tale The Red Balloon at the State Theatre. Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 film didn’t have feral creatures but Parrott has taken artistic licence, coos Ella Hetherington, who plays the…
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MENTION Hairy Maclary and it’s like a switch goes on in kids — and their parents — as they chime in with a head-spinning array of his mates including Hercules Morse, as big as a horse, and Schnitzel von Krumm, with a very low tum. The phenomenally popular books’ Kiwi author and illustrator Lynley Dodd…
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