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Author: Your Herald
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WHILE many ailing seniors clubs stick to the landline, fax machine or even a stamped envelope to communicate with members, older folk in Bayswater are taking to the web to keep their long-lived clubs alive and kicking. Sue Hayes is president of the Maylands Autumn Centre and at a recent meeting they resolved to go…
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THE Mount Lawley Society is hoping to make its historical archives more widely accessible by moving into a permanent home in Stirling. The society’s current storage space is an ignominious basement; cold, dark, and accessed through a busy commercial kitchen. Society president Paul Collins hopes an upgrade is on the horizon and has asked Stirling…
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“WANJOO, kwobodak koorda.” (Welcome, beautiful friends). A Perth-based choir is using the power of music to try and protect the endangered Noongar language of WA’s south west, and is pushing to get the message into more Perth schools. Madjitil Moorna started the Noongar Songs in Schools project last year, mentoring young Noongar performers such as…
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WORK on Highgate primary school’s eight new classrooms is due to start soon, says Perth MLA Eleni Evangel. The $6.5 million, two-storey building will go on the corner of Lincoln Street and Bulwer Avenue. When Ms Evangel was elected to state parliament in 2013, she said school upgrades were one of her “primary priorities”. School…
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Divido opened its doors in 2005, offering Perth diners a casual Italian eating and drinking experience within a stylish and intimate venue. Divido’s menu represents a love of good, honest food, made with passion and skill. It draws influences from Italian regional peasant style cooking, including old family recipes. It’s comfort food – wholesome, rustic…
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PERTH VOICE cartoonist Jason Chatfield’s on a fun-filled and partly disastrous tour of US’s corn syrup-soaked mid-west, and he’s cartooning every bump in the road along the way. The Perth-born comic moved to New York a couple years back and when he’s not scribbling toons for our letters page, or Ginger Meggs, Chatters pursues a…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The Sun leaves Libra and you can immediately feel the constraints coming off. That doesn’t mean it’s all plain sailing. All the emotions you have been damming up under a veneer of politeness will now have to be siphoned off, or worked through in some creative way, before clarity…
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THIS North Perth 4×2 home is gorgeous, and I reckon the right buyer could take it to a whole new level. It’s perfect for an upwardly mobile family looking to get into something stylish but with enough homeliness to keep the kids from turning into spoiled brats. The front of the house is late federation,…
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Welcome to a world of difference with Silversea Cruising. Everything is taken care of – there’s no lugging of heavy cases, getting lost without a map, or wondering how much to tip your waiter. With gracious finishing touches and little surprises, what you want is often in place before you’ve even thought of it yourself. Silversea…
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AROUND 350 protesters rallied at Parliament House this week demanding better protection of Perth’s dwindling wetlands. A planned housing development that saw a large chunk of privately-owned wetlands cleared in Bayswater sparked the rally, but others with concerns ranging from the Roe Highway extension through Beeliar wetlands to the Point Peron canals used the occasion…
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