Author: Your Herald
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NO official records can be found in national archives of 18 soldiers whose names are on the Maylands cenotaph. Historian Bob Corby has been helping the Maylands Historical Society identify the 110 names on the cenotaph, a symbolic “empty tomb” monument, and has so far tracked down 68 from official records. But he’s been unable…
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ANXIETY, not cyber-bullying, is the most common mental health issue affecting high school students, says psychologist Iva Filipovska. Since 2012, Ms Filipovska has been the permanent psychologist at Mount Lawley SHS and has worked in the sector for six years. “Cyber-bullying tends to be very prevalent in middle school, when kids first become exposed to…
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THE current Perth city council might’ve brought us Opera in the Park, but lord mayoral candidate Mike O’Hanlon brought us Ghostface Killah in an alleyway. Last year the 32-year-old entrepreneur—who owns toasted sandwich bar Toastface Grillah—hosted the Wu-Tang Clan rapper for a secret impromptu gig on the back of his ute in Grand Lane, outside…
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Spending saves MY latest supermarket receipt states in a bold print I saved $3.90. Illogical reasoning arrives at this amount. It assumes I would have bought certain items at the original recommended retail price, before various discounts. Not necessarily so. I spent what I spent. “Saved” nothing. Here the story ends. Belle Watson Fitzgerald St,…
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IT was one of those miserable winter days, where black clouds hung over the city like a bull’s scrotum. In need of a gastronomic cuddle, my buddy recommended we head to Viet Hoa, a restaurant he’d frequented for 20 years after first visiting with his mother in the days of grunge and AltaVista. “The décor’s…
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NORTH PERTH artist duo Snapcat has been chosen for the prestigious Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Salon 2015. Comprising Anna Dunnill (26) and Renae Coles (28), over the past few weeks the pair has been amusing and baffling Perth with their “Tiny Parades,” micro marches about little issues like celebrating obsolete technology or mourning all…
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THERE are three main features that set this modern Dianella house apart from the rest. It has a home theatre room, air conditioners can be controlled with a phone app and the main bedroom’s ensuite is like no other of its kind I have ever seen. Walk into the ensuite and find his-and-hers (or his-and-his…
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Beaufort Realty When it comes to real estate, experience counts, which is certainly the case at Beaufort Realty – a progressive, independent real estate company led by Pam Herron, Christine Kirkness, Jon Adams and Donna Buckovska, who together share almost 100 years’ of real estate experience. The Beaufort Realty team believes the process of selling,…
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A LEBANESE cafe in Maylands may have to scrub off its $2000 mural because of laws that ban the promotion of smoking. The WA health department is investigating Rotana on Eighth Avenue—which has a sheesha lounge at its rear—to determine if it needs to remove a courtyard mural portraying clouds of smoke billowing from a…
