THE Vincent community has launched a campaign to reduce the speed limit across all the city’s residential roads to 40kmh. Cyclist Geraldine Box and pedestrian advocate Andrew Main have started the “Our Streets at 40” group and are collecting signatures for a petition they will lodge with the state parliament. In May 2016 Vincent councillors…

CANCER COUNCIL WA and the Australian Council on Smoking and Health have joined forces to help the growing number of apartment dwellers living next door to heavy smokers. Following the Voice’s recent story about an ex-nurse driven out of her house by the chainsmoker next door (“Smoked out,” Voice, April 21, 2018), ACOSH got in…

A BROKEN toilet fixed with a paperclip, a cracked bathtub patched up with gaffer tape and renters forced to give up their pets after being told they could have them. These were just a few of the issues raised at the renters’ rights forum at the City of Perth library on May 2. “The unfortunate…

IT’S more frontispiece than full novel, but hopes for a dedicated Vincent Writers Centre have at last turned a page. Starting later this month, WA Poets will be holding a 16-week trial of workshops in the subset of the North Perth town hall, courtesy of a cultural grant from Vincent council. It’s been a long…

FRESH from award-winning performances at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Soul Playboys are partnering up with the Cycling Development Foundation to help people with cancer. Part proceeds will go to the Solaris Cancer Care Centre in Cottesloe, which offers a variety of services including counselling, outreach services, telephone support, along with massage, reiki and meditation…

FRINGE WORLD says it’s willing to compensate artists left out of pocket after the collapse of events company JumpClimb. The festival organiser says it will pay some of the $200,000 owed to artists if it can’t be recouped. On Thursday May 3 the Fringe board announced it was employing lawyers K&L Gates to commence proceedings…

THE owners of a tiny dog named Speedy who was mauled by a husky/Alsatian cross at Woodville Reserve want the mutt muzzled. On Thursday April 26, Fiona Robinson and her kids were walking their four-year-old papillion near the kids play area when it was attacked by the dog, which was on a lead but still…

ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The Moon begins the week waning in Aries. Let whatever it is that is ending, end. A fresh cycle is due. Take time out from having your foot on the pedal. Use this moment as a quiet time, a reflective time. The solitude you have is for healing. It…

VINCENT council CEO Len Kosovo stopped a community group from running the city’s biannual plant sale because he thought one of its members—former councillor Dudley Maier—was too negative about the city. In a February 3 email to staff about the plant sale, Mr Kosova said; “I absolutely will not tolerate participation in our events by…

AN events management company that went bust owing Perth Fringe artists $200,000 was the subject of a string of complaints stretching back to last year’s festival. Fringe World organised the overall festival, and confirmed to the Voice this week that it cancelled the last week of one of this year’s shows at Noodle Palace following…