Author: Your Herald
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BAYSWATER local Jim Chantry wants the old Maylands Hall turned into a new community theatre. The 67-year-old actor, who also likes to tinker in the mens shed, says he got the idea when the council moved the library into the new Rise building, leaving the hall empty. “It’s a lovely hall,” he says. “I thought…
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HIGHER rubbish fees are on the way for Vincent residents, and neighbouring Stirling council is to blame says mayor Alannah MacTiernan. Stirling is pulling out of the Mindarie Regional Council, which handles household waste for seven councils. When Stirling leaves the remaining councils will have to make up the shortfall. “It is completely unacceptable that…
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ART lovers are planning to boycott a new bakery that’s about to open in the old Soto Espresso cafe because the new owners are removing a mural (Voice, April 20, 2013). Some are threatening to vandalise whatever replaces it with their excrement. The day-of-the-dead style mural was painted on Soto over six weekends by local…
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A weird message popped up in my Facebook feed the other week with a friend saying his cat was a vegan. My first thought was ‘I better reply and tell him that’s impossible’ and my second thought was ‘I should probably research that first’. Nathan Verney says he decided to put his cat Luna—a rescue…
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Pull your head in I THINK the big blue head on the City of Vincent lawn is very symbolic of its narcissistic view. The council needs to stop with its self-promotion and return to its core function of providing the basic services expected of a local government. The Perth Voice (April 20, 2013) provides two…
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CRANKED COFFEE, Leederville by JENNY D’ANGER: We had forgotten to book at our restaurant of choice in Oxford Street, Leederville, but had figured getting there at 6pm after work wouldn’t be a problem. We hadn’t counted on gridlock and the carpark that Thomas Street becomes. So we arrived closer to 7pm, to be told there…
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We felt that since we’d recently released a live album we had a little more freedom to play with some new sounds THE gals from Hussy Hicks rounded up some of their fave musicians, stocked up on some duty-free scotch and produced an album in five days. The Gold Coast-based duo of Julz Parker and…
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A WALL mural that took six weekends to paint will be removed because the new tenants don’t like it. The mural was painted on the side of Highgate’s Soto Espresso by local artists Konfucius, Destroy and Idol. They’d donated their time and materials, with Vincent city council kicking in $1000. But Soto closed after going…
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UNELECTED bureaucrats are on the verge of approving a concrete batching plant, over the objections of the elected Bayswater city council and hundreds of local residents. In June 2011 the council rejected the proposal for Collier Road after receiving 400 protest letters concerned about noise, truck traffic and pollution. Ransberg wants three 19m silos and…
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NO, it’s not a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds—it’s a house beside Nando’s overflowing bins in Mt Lawley. Loose garbage has attracted up to a dozen crows and several ibis every day, irking residents with droppings, noise and chicken bones (Voice, April 13, 2013). After reading last week’s front page story, council health inspectors…
