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MAYLANDS PENINSULA primary P&C has raised $17,000 to buy electronic equipment for its school. Parents raised the funds via sausage sizzles, lap-a-thons and home-made baking sales. The money will be used to buy 28 iPads, a portable synching/charging unit and junior primary apps for the pre-primary and year one rooms. P&C president Teresa Borwick says…
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THE only purpose-built pawnbroker’s building known to exist in WA is set to be added to the state heritage register. The Barrack Street shop was built between 1890-1900 for pawnbroker Phineas Seeligson, a philanthropist and prominent leader in WA’s Jewish community. Henry Stirling Trigg, the first architect born and trained in WA, designed the narrow…
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ABORIGINALITY, homosexuality and family angst come together in the classic indigenous play What Do They Call Me? at the Blue Room. Written by Eva Johnson more than 25 years ago the themes still resonate, director Eva Grace Mullaley says. “I read this play about 12 years ago…[and] haven’t been able to get it out of…
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“GALAKTOBOUREKO”. It’s Greek for custard pie—but could just as easily be Greek for delicious. Made with semolina, eggs, vanilla and cream it slid down my throat like silk, the taste delicate and the syrup-soaked filo pastry sweet. And at $3.50 for a generous slice it was great value. Pranzo, on Colin Street in West Perth…
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YOU can search all you like for Green Cove in Mt Lawley but you won’t find it, as I discovered to my cost after mishearing the address. Fortunately the agent texted to confirm our appointment and in no time I was happily parked in Bream Cove, opposite Banks Reserve, a green delight right on the…
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THERE’S an edge of darkness to Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor, despite the laugh-a-minute jokes that sent chuckles and guffaws around the State Theatre this week. Set in 1953, on a fictitious 23rd floor of the Rockerfeller Plaza in New York the play is based on the life of legendary American comic Sid…
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ELDERLY Homeswest tenants in Mount Hawthorn have endured their second week without plumbing as they wait for the WA housing department to fix sewers. They’re worried because they haven’t spotted any plumbers on-site in seven days. The department’s placed portable toilets and showers in the complex’s courtyards, but the plastic facilities, designed for building sites,…
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STIRLING ratepayers are being slugged a full recycling and waste fee in rates, even though the council has recycled virtually nothing for more than a year. Sending 84,000 tonnes of waste straight to landfill has saved the council a whopping $1.6 million, but none of it has gone back to ratepayers. Every month since last…
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POLICE were called after a 75-year-old tenant from the complex climbed a tree to stop workers hacking branches. Workers had marked trees for a severe lopping to get the portable loos to the courtyards. Ray Boyle says trees help cut down noise pollution from the busy highway. Workers called police when Mr Boyle refused to…
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THE group Inglewood on Beaufort wants to establish a local community garden. The budding community group has been impressed by the success of the North Perth community garden opened last year and is investigating potential sites. IOB deputy chair Matt Seabrook says the group is canvassing people on its Facebook page to gauge public support…
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