Author: Your Herald
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SIXTY-EIGHT people have signed a petition calling for pedestrian crossings on dangerous sections of Beaufort Street. Locals want crossings at the intersections of Wood Street, and Third and Central Avenues. Janelle Marshall, 43, was partially paralysed and suffered brain damage after a car accident when she was nine. Now confined to a gopher, it’s difficult…
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BAYSWATER residents have petitioned the council about smells and noises from a waste transfer station on Collier Road. Residents living in Shalford Street 150m behind the station have lost patience with Transpacific Cleanaway, which manages the plant. Lead petitioner Kevin Buckley wants a 5m concrete wall built at the rear of the site to block…
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VOLUNTEERING WA is looking for food and clothing to give to the homeless. Every year the organisation holds Homeless Connect, a community event where the homeless can pick up free food, clothing and goods. The event also offers pro bono services, including health and dental checks, accommodation assistance and legal counselling. Homeless Connect manager Marija…
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A NOT-FOR-PROFIT organisation teaching Italian to 22,215 students in WA schools is worried a WA government review could jeopardise its language program. For 35 years the Italo-Australian Welfare & Cultural Centre has been teaching italian in WA schools. It now employs teachers in 81 schools, including Kyilla primary (North Perth), Our Lady’s Assumption (Dianella) and…
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AS summer beckons, Stirling city council is warning people not to attempt to catch or kill snakes. Rangers are busy erecting “snakes on this reserve” signs, before they emerge from hibernation in search of food and a mate. Stirling parks manager Ian Hunter says residents should be like Indiana Jones and stay clear, especially of…
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BACK when he was a private citizen trying to get the Beaufort Street Festival off the ground, John Carey says he walked into Vincent city council and staff told him “you won’t be able to do it”. Shortly after, a suspicious councillor walked the streets trying to find out who exactly these Beaufort Street Network…
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WEREN’T we just the hippest—sitting in a packing crate “box” seat in an industrial chic courtyard in Northbridge, sipping aperol spritz and Spanish champers. Rough timbers, designer-rusted metal screens shielding punters from foot traffic on James Street, and colourful murals feature at Lot Twenty, just down from PICA. The heritage-listed building was police stables, and…
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“THIS land is ours” is emblazoned across a rusty ute at FORM gallery. “Always was, always will be,” a fender says. It sums up artist Reko Rennie’s feelings on an issue close to his art. “I painted [that] because the land was stolen, pastoralists are squatters on Aboriginal land.” With WA’s 99-year pastoral leases expiring…
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FROM the elevated timber deck of this Menora home you can imagine you’re in the wilds of a sub-tropical paradise far from civilisation. As far as the eye can see there’s nothing but rolling green grass and soaring mature trees and greenery–and sky. Dumbarton Crescent is one of a handful of homes in the area…
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Parents crowdfund for playground AFTER getting knocked back for two state government grants the parents from North Perth primary school are taking fundraising into their own hands. They want to buy a high-end German climbing frame designed for unstructured “free play”. An embodiment of teutonic engineering, the “Explorer Dome” is built to challenge kids’ mental…
