Author: Your Herald
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IT’S the plan that’s been hovering around for a decade, but at long last there are serious moves to get a new CBD helipad on Riverside Drive. Perth city council’s been wanting to get a new helipad to cater for high flyers ever since the old one was pulled off the foreshore 10 years ago.…
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CHRISTMAS, Labour Day, and now the olive harvest is becoming an annual tradition. The kids and P&C from North Perth primary will be out again ANZAC weekend collecting olives to make oil so they can fundraise for their school. Previous efforts have helped buy much-needed playground equipment, pulling in nearly a tonne of fruit over…
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A SUNSET service will be held at the ANZAC Cottage in Mt Hawthorn. Originally built as a memorial to those who died at the landing at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915 it now serves as a salient reminder of all Australian soldiers who’ve died in combat. In February 1916, 4000 turned out to witness 200…
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Wasted money WHY did the City of Bayswater spend $1.2 million of ratepayers’ money on the aborted local government reform (Voice, April 11, 2015)? I understand the council could have picked up a better tree-loving culture from the Town of Bassendean, but the reverse could also have been result. But what really gets me annoyed is the blatant…
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DELIBERATELY barren, witch and bitch were just some of the many arrows fired at Julia Gillard. The vicious treatment of Australia’s first female prime minister in the national parliament and across the media exposed deep-seated gender discrimination in politics and the wider community, says composer Cat Hope. Now she and seven female composers have set…
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AN innovative Bayswater couple have transformed their verge into a vegie plot and want others to follow in their green footsteps. Cameron Moir ran out of space in his Embleton duplex and decided to plant sweet potatoes, egg plant, tomatoes and kale in his 50sqm verge instead. The vegie patch has gone down a storm…
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THE Barnett government has told Bayswater it won’t refund any of the $1.2 million the council spent preparing for aborted mergers. “The state government has already provided the sector with funding in the order of $1.7 million and any further funding will only be considered where councils agree to take the initiative themselves to successfully…
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THE latest request by Meat Lovers Paradise to expand its premises in Yokine has been T-boned by Stirling city council. The butcher has been trying unsuccessfully for four years to win council approval to expand its shop on Wanneroo Road. Councillors voted unanimously to refuse Meat Lover’s latest application. The shop, between The Mighty Quinn…
