Author: Your Herald
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THE folks from the Vincent Men’s Shed are hard at work crafting 200 crosses for Anzac Cottage’s Remembrance Day. The Mt Hawthorn cottage was built in one day during the Great War as a memorial that also served as a home for a returned serviceman: it was bestowed on Cuthbert John Porter when he returned…
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JUST 10 escaped birds started it all, and now Hyde Park is plagued by rainbow lorikeets. Back in the 1960s fewer than 10 of the pretty but nasty eastern states birds were “either deliberately released or had escaped” according to the WA agriculture and food department. Fifty years later the population’s booming, with complaints about…
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STIRLING residents living in congested streets will be able to apply for free parking permits under a new city-wide scheme. A council committee wanted to charge residents $25 a year for a permit, but the council eventually voted to issue them for free, and to review the scheme after 12 months. A free transitional permit…
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ST JOHN OF GOD hospital in Mt Lawley wants more Tom Clancy and less Mills and Boon. The hospital is starting up a patient library and is looking for volunteers to run the library and people to donate books. So far staff have donated around 150 books, but hospital coordinator Kerrie James says they would…
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DOWN amongst the turnips and spuds you might glimpse a flying trapeze artist or a teenager walking the high-wire. Since CirQuest moved into City Farm last year, the circus club has gone from strength to strength and now has around 100 members and teaches everything from juggling to silk trapeze. CirQuest founder Isobel Lyall says…
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Walk and chew NEITHER myself nor the Labor Party has shown any signs of being soft on terror, contrary to the claims of Mr Livingston (Voice Mail, September 27, 2014). My point is that at the same time as attending to threats from without, we need to be vigilant to the Abbott government’s attempts to…
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FROM the searing heat and red dirt of the Kimberley’s 40-plus temperatures, to 35-minus and deep snow in Mongolia, Kimberley Kohan really has suffered for her art. “We travelled 350km through the Gobi Desert in mid-winter,” the North Fremantle local tells the Voice. Coupled with the killing cold, and her job with a mining company,…
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The word Sukhothai means the Dawn of Happiness. It was the first truly independent Thai kingdom founded in 1238. The Sukhothai period was relatively short-lived but considered to be a golden age of Thai culture and of immense cultural importance to the nation’s history. The opening of Bangkok on William heralds a new golden age…
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by JENNY D’ANGER THE grizzled, grey-haired bloke in the high-vis working clobber looked incongruous, sitting alone in a sea of Asian diners–most wearing suits. But his enthusiastic farewell for the Hong Kong BBQ House staff proved he’s a regular. The Northbridge eatery has earned quite a reputation for its barbecue duck, and given the number…
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LOOKING for your first home? Or maybe it’s time to downsize, to a lock and leave? This Wellington Road, Dianella home could be just what you’re looking for. The two-bedroom villa, sitting on just 218sqm, is as neat as a new pin inside and out, with a fresh paint job brightening up the 1970s abode…
