Author: Your Herald
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VOICE photographer Jeremy Dixon dropped by Hyde Park Tuesday to snap a few pics of the baby swans. The fluffy cygnets are nearly full size, but they’re going through awkward teenage years and have yet to shed their baby down. While the lake has plenty nutrients in it, causing the green algae, a couple of…
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Daughter tackles stigma with jumble sale When Ciara Thiedeman’s mum took her own life in 2009, her dad told her “don’t mince your words”. He told his daughter to be direct about how Noreen Lowe had died and to be open about her mental illness. Four years on Ms Thiedeman still lives by the advice.…
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This week marks Eid, the Muslim religious festival of sacrifice. For the first time Vincent city council is teaming up with the Muslim community to celebrate the holiday, and is hoping to include non-Muslims in the festival too. Former mayor Alannah MacTiernan says she wanted to help support a mainstream Muslim festival that everyone can…
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The red man finally has a home, ending long debate over whether to buy it and where to put it. The controversial $65,000 artwork Games by Chinese sculptor Chen Wen Ling is being installed at the corner of Vincent and Bulwer Streets. When councillors two weeks ago again demurred over where to put it, former…
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Friends of Lightning Swamp president John Williams says Bayswater city council has “missed the mark” by not contributing to a proposed $6 million sustainability centre at the Noranda swamp. He says the council doesn’t understand the “vision” for the centre and has failed to allocate a brass razoo in its 2013/14 budget for it. “The…
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A catalina test flight on the Swan River is expected to pave the way for the first passenger trips this summer. Catalina Airlines says the Swan River Trust caved into pressure and gave the company permission to conduct the noise test yesterday. Catalina boss Mack McCormack told the Voice he had been summoned to the…
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Barnett mirrors Brisbane mistake DO not destroy a good council. The question needs to be asked—when Brisbane is in the process of de-amalgamating its gigantic council because being too large has been a failure, just why is WA hell-bent on making the same mistakes? Bigger councils have been shown to breed corruption—look at the histories…
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LITTLE BIRD CAFE, Northbridge by JENNY D’ANGER: A black crow sat on the fence nearby, its head cocked quizzically, checking out my meal, while its mates caw cawed in a nearby tree, asking for more. “Never more,” I replied, with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe, swallowing the last morsel. There was no way I was…
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SIAM THAI, Mt Lawley Have you ever visited the same restaurant twice and felt as if though you’re were visiting a a different restaurant the second time? The service was different, the feel was different, even the food was different. The lack of unity in many restaurants have left people hopping to and fro in…
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An Aussie “holiday” turned into a new life and a highly successful career as a sculptor for UK-born Stephen Glassborow. The artist’s brother had “persuaded” him to come to Australia to help build a boat in the ‘80s. Sunshine, family and an idyllic lifestyle saw a “couple of years” turn into more than a quarter…
