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A TRAFFIC warden will be stationed at the dangerous Clifton Crescent crossing in Mt Lawley after three years of lobbying by the local primary school P&C. Parents feared it’d only be a matter of time before a student was hit by a car at the busy Second Avenue intersection. They initially made a bit of…
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THE man who turned around the fortunes of the ailing Bayswater bowling and recreation club has stepped down as president. When Steve Lay returned to the club in 2015 they had no social members and the books were in a dire state. “It was in more trouble than the early explorers,” Mr Lay says. Within…
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AS Bayswater Bowling and Recreation Club goes from strength to strength, the Inglewood Bowls Club is set to close. Two years ago Stirling council held a review of its sporting clubs to find out which ones were financially viable, and with its ageing building and high maintenance costs, the IBC didn’t score well in the…
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THOUSANDS of people around the world will be gazing into stranger’s eyes for one minute on September 22. The social experiment is for anyone who wants to experience the power of real human connection, says Peter Sharp, founder of The Liberators International. “When you’re looking into someone’s eyes you’re telling them, ‘You exist. You’re here.…
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INGLEWOOD’S Peteris Ciemitis is one of four WA artists representing Australia at this year’s Asian Art Biennale in Bangladesh. Mr Ciemitis, a Black Swan Portrait prize winner, says the biennale is like the art world’s Commonwealth Games and is a fantastic platform for Aussie talent. Traditional world He’ll be displaying his painting Shock of the…
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Motor mouth VINCENT council is misleading its citizens again. A “trial” has been announced. This one is to lower speed limits to 40kmh in a swathe of minor streets in the south-east section of Vincent. The evidence to justify this “trial” is thinner than someone wanting to share a bank account windfall in Nigeria. Like…
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IN Perth, you’re never far away from a Malaysian restaurant. There are lots of dodgy ones and the good ones can be a little out of the way, but they’re usually worth seeking out. Ria Malay Kitchen in Leederville is definitely a good one; in fact it’s one of the best I’ve been to. The…
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THIS year’s Over the Fence Comedy Film Festival, The (Un) Making of Relationships! is all about making and breaking up. “We put the ‘Un’ in brackets because some movies are about the destruction of relationships, but some are not,” says organiser Greg Coffey. He describes the 15 short films from Iran, Turkey, France, Australia, the…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) Life has you cornered. It has you in a paddock rather than in an open field. This is for a reason. This is a time of renewal. There are situations and patterns that need to go, in order for there to be room for fresh adventures. Distraction won’t work…
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THIS delightful four-bedroom house is on Sopwith Elbow – a nod to Perth’s first airport built across the road on the Maylands foreshore. In 1928 Charles Kingsford Smith made the first non-stop flight across Australia from Point Cook near Melbourne to Maylands, and from the balcony of this home you can gaze down at the…
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