Author: Your Herald
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PLANS to open Bayswater’s first pop up food van have so flummoxed council staff they want six months to scratch their heads before agreeing to it. Catherine Ehrhardt understands the bureaucrats’ desire for a formal policy to be in place, but reckons she should be allowed to open in the interim, even if only for…
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MARIE WYLIE is giving Bayswater Waves the third degree—over 1.5 degrees. The 65-year-old has submitted a 51-signature petition to Bayswater city council asking for the Waves’ 25-metre lap pool to be kept at 31.5 degrees all year round. The council currently keeps it at 31.5 in winter but drops it to 30 in summer. Ms…
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LETTERS, medals, photos and memories of Perth during WWI are sought (for loan) for an upcoming exhibition Perth on the Verge of War. Richard Offen from Heritage Perth says “we’re trying to put together an exhibition by the people, for the people, as it were, and looking for those personal things that just tell us…
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BAYSWATER city council has awarded a $2.9 million tender for a nutrients-stripping wetland at the Eric Singleton bird sanctuary. It is part of a joint project with the Swan River Trust to be ensure the long-term health of the wetlands. It is estimated the work, scheduled to start in summer, will prevent around 40 tonnes…
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INVESTIGATIONS by Bayswater city council into potentially contaminated sites could stall due to a lack of funding. The council is investigating 19 sites which could be potentially contaminated. Based on advice from the WA environmental regulation department, Bayswater Riverside Gardens (east and west), Maylands peninsula golf course, Maylands yacht club and Eric Singleton Bird Sanctuary…
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PERTH computer game developers are down to their last token after the Abbott government cut Screen Australia funding by $25 million in the federal budget. SA has since announced it will shut down its $20m interactive games fund a year early and will not accept any more applications for games funding. Let’s Make Games general…
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AFTER a suicide, eight convictions, a three-year investigation and almost $1 million recovered, a final corruption and crime commission report on rorts at Stirling city council is imminent. In 2010 a CCC inquiry revealed collusion dating back to 2003. Investigators believed a former building manager had received kickbacks in return for guaranteeing contracts to suppliers,…
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Strauss is grouse LET’S embrace remembrance of Richard Strauss. Between August 12, 1938 until September 11, 1949 he and I shared the same planet. What privilege for this music illiterate. The legendary German composer and conductor was born June 11, 1864. Please let June not pass without mention in the Voice of his 150th birthday.…
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A CROSS between urban grunge and nanna’s house, with menus pegged inside the Little Golden Books that grandmas read to kids—Mrs S cafe is an eclectic mix. There’s lots of kitsch, along with delightful cups, jugs, cute tea towels, cookbooks and other tempting things to purchase, and a very distracting selection of cakes in a…
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A PHONE interview with artist Helen Ansell was a tense and anxious affair on my behalf. The gregarious Geraldton local was anything but difficult, but she was expecting a baby “any minute now”. “I’m nine days overdue,” she cheerfully told the Voice. Baby number two and an exhibition at the same time weren’t some weird avant…
