Author: Your Herald
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STIRLING city council cannot say when it will return to recycling domestic kerbside waste. The council has recycled virtually none since August, dumping nearly 7000 tonnes of rubbish in landfill every month (Voice, May 3, 2014). The council’s recycling system collapsed when the Atlas recycling facility in Mirrabooka unexpectedly ceased operations last August. The council…
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Too much to pear JOHN CAREY is concerned about tree vandals (Voice, May 3, 2014): that is the pot calling the kettle black Mr Carey, when the City of Vincent is uprooting and dumping the beautiful Bradford Pears in Beaufort Street and replacing them with Flame Trees. What a waste of ratepayers’ money. The Bradford…
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EVERYONE loves jazz—they just don’t know it, says singer Kristin Beradi, who’ll soon be in town for the Perth International Jazz Festival. The booming base notes of Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World prove her point. And who doesn’t know Glen Miller’s In the Mood or that the Boogie Woogie bugle boy was in Company…
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THAT men and women have very different ways of seeing the world was highlighted over lunch at this sleek, utilitarian West Perth restaurant. The only woman in a sea of suited men, I was thinking “glass ceiling”, and imagining female minions eating sandwiches at desks. My lunch companion on the other hand was thinking “privileged…
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IT was like someone had pushed a “mute” button the minute I stepped into this South Fremantle home: traffic noise simply stopped. “No, there’s no double glazing,” the vendor said, pointing out the limestone walls which are around half-a-metre thick. Noise is dealt another blow by the solid front fence and a bank of flowering trees,…
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CBD worker Jason Miller spends his lunch breaks documenting local people for his Humans of Perth project. The 35-year-old IT administrator came here from New Mexico seven years ago and started taking pictures of Perth people soon after his arrival. “I was walking through downtown and I was taken by the variety, the diverse culture…
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THE pedestrian bridge at Dog Swamp (the actual swamp) has been closed because the handrails are unsafe. Stirling city council has earmarked $25,000 in the draft 2014/15 budget for repairs. Located off Wanneroo Road in Yokine, the wetland is a refuge for waterbirds and has a playground and grasslands. The bridge leads to the “Old…
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NORANDA and Maylands are set to host street festivals in November. Bayswater councillors green-lit $25,000 in funding for the Noranda community market and Maylands street festival. North ward councillor Michelle Sutherland says it will be the first time Noranda has hosted a major street festival. “Since 2006 the city has held festivals in Bayswater, Morley…
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STIRLING city council has decided to delay installing $150,000 of new signs in the city’s parks and reserves until it has a clearer picture of what’s happening with council mergers. The council is mulling over the approval of updating its 2011 style guide, which will involve new signs. As part of the 2011 style guide,…
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STIRLING city council has recycled virtually none of its domestic kerbside waste since August, dumping nearly 7000 tonnes of rubbish in landfill every month. The council’s recycling system collapsed when the Atlas recycling facility in Mirrabooka unexpectedly ceased operations last August. The facility had achieved a 65 per cent recycling rate over 10 years, from…
