ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Isobel Lippiatt will help feed the hungry over the school holidays. For the past three years the Inglewood primary student has been volunteering for Food Rescue, which collects unsold food from cafes and restaurants and donates it to refuges and charities like Shopfront, St Bartholomew’s and Uniting Care West’s Tranby Day centre. Her mum…

Bayswater 1 Vincent 0 AFTER criticising the city of Vincent in the past on their stalling tactics in renewing the lease and helping the multi cultural association in Farmer Street, North Perth—I must now thank them. The centre, run by Home and Community Care Services, now has a new home in Morley (which they now…

THE state government has ordered two concrete batching plants in Claisebrook to close by 2024, following years of complaints from locals over noise, dust and traffic. One plant has been there since 1987 and is owned by Holcim, and the other since the 1960s and is owned by Hanson. Many residents say the dust, noise,…

CHRISTMAS may bring good tidings, but it’s not bringing peace and quiet for those living on Railway Parade in Maylands. This week residents were delivered NBNCo flyers telling them that “construction work near your property” was about to commence to upgrade pipes along the roads—some seven weeks after verge-work had already started. Bayswater councillor Catherine…

A 120-year-old brewing legacy in Leederville is set to be revived. In 1896 JJ Wallis established the Golden West Company, operating out of a large factory on Carr Place and selling “aerated waters, The High Class Rain Water Drink”. The factory was demolished in the 1970s and the recently completed apartments on that site has…

THE local government standards panel has cleared Bayswater councillor Brent Fleeton of wrongdoing by letterboxing flyers criticising council in the lead up to the October elections. In August Cr Fleeton hand-delivered 1000 flyers in Morley and Noranda with opinion pieces criticising council, including one on the latest budget, which he argued pushed rates up too…

FOLLOWING a community backlash, Bayswater council bureaucrats have claimed their recommendation to sell the Maylands Autumn Centre was a misunderstanding. When city staff prepared a report for councillors about the city’s three seniors centres in Bayswater, Maylands and Morley, they stated their “preferred option” for Maylands’ was the “disposal of the building and land”. That…

ARTIST Ill Withers was in Maylands this week, working on his new travel-themed street art for the town centre. A joint commission between Bayswater council and Perth Airport, Withers also created the Yellow Brick Road on the retail strip. The next two footpath artworks are a world map testing geographic knowledge, and a giant Monopoly…

THE Christmas-themed display in Perth MP John Carey’s office window has drawn a lot of festive smiles from people passing by, but there’s a poignant backstory to the miniature Xmas buildings. “Mum collected them for about 10 years,” says the Perth Labor MP. In 2006 Carey’s mum, Delys, was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Towards…

A HOUSING department tenant staying in the “West Perth Bronx” says he’s surrounded by violence and flagrant drug use and it’s too unsafe for his son or nephews to visit. Damien Hume has been living at the complex at 122 Charles Street for about seven years, and has been anxiously awaiting a transfer for six…