Author: Your Herald
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MARTIN TOLDO is trying to overturn a council decision to delay dealing with issues raised at the recent Bayswater AGM of electors. He has lodged a rescission motion that, if successful, would see the items come back to the council this month. His move is supported by councillors Terry Kenyon, Mike Anderton and Chris Cornish.…
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We understand that today we are a culturally diverse nation of more that 23 million people with different likes and dislikes. That’s why, through our network of independently owned stores (all 1,400 of them) we tailor our ranges and brands to give our local customers more of what they like it. This includes many of…
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FOUR-YEAR-OLD Téa Lake can barely move or communicate. She has tubes inserted into her stomach and lower intestine to administer medicine and enable digestion. If that wasn’t enough, she takes potent tranquillisers four times a day to prevent severe epileptic fits. Téa is the only person in Australian known to be born with microcephaly-capillary malformation…
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THIS massive mural’s gone up on the side of an apartment building in Little Parry Street. We hear it’s a collaboration between artists Hosae, Daek, Ayers + Pures along with some of the Voice’s favourite street artists we’ve featured before: massive mural specialist Kyle-Hughes Odgers and alien creature-creater Martin E Wills.
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When Thursday, 19 February 2015 – 6:00pm to 8:00pm Where Perth Town Hall This February we’re holding a captivating event to protect the Helena Aurora Range – a jewel in the Great Western Woodlands. The event will bring together a diverse group of people and organisations to celebrate this amazing Range, highlight our National Park proposal and help everyone to take action to make…
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REMEMBER that time your landlord bought your new light bulbs for you? That’s right, nobody does, yet Vincent ratepayers are being slugged $9000 for light bulb repairs at Leederville Oval so the East Perth and Subiaco footy teams can play under lights. Vincent CEO Len Kosova has looked over the 21-year lease between the clubs…
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PRIDE Fairday is on this Sunday February 15 at Hyde Park with live music, stalls, food, kids’ play areas, roving Sugar Blue Burlesque performers, and the semi-famous dog show. It’s on 11am to 6pm, and you can BYO if you are super responsible about it. TREMENDOUSLY bearded tree lover Greg Smith says he was a…
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ART curator Leigh Robb is hoping her couture swimsuit will repel sharks when she does the Rottnest Channel Swim later this month. She is part of a four-woman team, nicknamed the PICAnauts, who will take on the 19.7km open water event from Cottesloe Beach to the island. “I heard sharks don’t like bright neon colours,…
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AFTER three years of toing and froing, a men’s shed in Bayswater is still nowhere in sight. Cr Terry Kenyon has had enough, and has tabled a motion demanding that a men’s shed be erected in the city within two years. In 2012, Osboine Contemporary Aged Care, a residential home for the elderly, spearheaded the…
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TWO mail boxes have been removed with great haste from the front of the Malaysian consulate on Adelaide Terrace over “safety and security concerns”. We spotted an Australia Post notice in last week’s Voice quietly noting the removal. The posties played coy when we asked for specifics, with spokesperson Michelle Skehan saying they periodically check…
