Author: Your Herald

  • HEALTH ADVISOR: Cancer’s grim march

    IT’S estimated that more than 17,500 Australians will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer this year. That will make it leapfrog ahead of breast cancer to become the second-most common, and lethal, form of cancer in the country. But while the disease continues its march up cancer’s grim ranks, there is some good news; in the…

  • North Perth Feature

    Local Finance Experts Award-winning finance broker Diversifi is proud to be involved in the local community and loves being a part of the vibrancy of North Perth. The business recently became the WA advocate for a new anti-bullying initiative called “You Can Sit With Me”. This campaign is run nationally through schools, sports clubs and community…

  • The time is now to buy the perfect Christmas Gift!

    The gift that promises health and relaxation. Over 100 different blends of tea including: Black Tea, Green Tea, White Tea, Oolong Tea, Pu-erh Tea, Blooming Flower Tea, Matcha Blends Chapels on Whatley has been importing a wide selection of tea direct from growers for over 12 years. We challenge you to find a tea range larger than ours anywhere in Perth. We operate…

  • Christmas Services Feature

    The Christmas Story 18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her…

  • Making a play for space

    PARENTS and neighbours are fighting an education department plan to gobble up a third of Inglewood primary school’s oval with six new classrooms. The parents say the $3.5 million building shouldn’t come at the cost of play space and want the plans rethought. The 400 students at Inglewood already have an oval roster because of…

  • Poison pens in Baysy

    LONG time local politics watchdog Tony Green has been sent a poison pen letter by someone unhappy with his scrutiny of Bayswater council. The president of the Bayswater City Residents Association recently quizzed Bayswater councillors about the council’s impending Christmas closedown, worried about casual staff who wouldn’t get paid holiday leave. The questions earned him…

  • Award for piazza

    THE Mary Street Piazza has seen Vincent council pick up the Great Place Award from the Planning Institute of Australia. The Beaufort Street Network had long called for a public space to encourage people to be “Beaufort Street Loiterers,” turning the strip from a thoroughfare into a destination. The piazza was created during a trial…

  • Little dove docks

    THE Duyfken replica is sailing further upriver than usual this December, docking at its specially built island berth at Elizabeth Quay. The Duyfken usually lurks around Fremantle’s moorings or sails up the coast to Hillarys Boat Harbour but can now dock at an island berth built bespoke last year. The Dutch-inspired replica’s in its element…

  • Mt Lawley’s DIY MP

    AFTER waiting six weeks for Vincent council to take action over an unkempt privately-owned block in Mt Lawley, local Liberal MP Michael Sutherland got some gardening tools and tackled the problem himself. “I’m a hands on MP,” Mr Sutherland told the Voice. “I should have sent you a picture of the rubbish I pick up…

  • School awarded for indigenous program

    MT LAWLEY Senior High School has received $25,000 as part of a premier’s award for excellence in aboriginal education. Principal Milton Butcher says the school uses an outreach program called Follow the Dream which identifies aspirational indigenous students and helps them work towards a university entrance. The program operates in 27 public schools throughout the…