THE historic North Perth Bowling and Recreation Club Open Day is this Saturday October 14 from 12 noon. The Voice caught up with super-friendly club secretary Dean Evans last week as he shovelled sand in preparation for the big day. He said the club was “the social hub of Vincent” set high on the hill…

ABOUT 60 years ago Perth council ordered verandahs on several grand old buildings be pulled down. Traffic rules weren’t as codified back then and kerbs lower, so cars would occasionally clip the verandah poles and the city was worried they would collapse. Perth councillor Reece Harley says he’ll introduce a policy to help owners reinstate…

“I GOT my first piece of hate mail,” Bayswater council candidate Greg Smith told the Voice—”And they paid a dollar to send it.” Most of the campaign nark we’ve seen this election has been online, but this week Mr Smith got a genuine Australia Post-delivered envelope telling him he was a “conceited old man”. It…

DFES is offering a unique experience for anyone heading to its Perth Heritage Days event at the old Perth Fire Station on Murray Street: jump in an RAC helicopter and get whisked off to a crash site somewhere in the Wheatbelt. OK, you won’t actually leave the ground, as all the action takes place in…

Thanks to Luna Palace Cinemas, we are giving readers the chance to win an in season double pass to this years Cunard British Film Festival! Exclusively at Luna Palace Cinemas, the Cunard British Film Festival is back for its fifth year with a blockbuster line-up featuring a spread of British cinematic delights from sweeping romances and beloved book adaptations,…

MALE candidates outnumber female candidates two to one at the upcoming local government elections. And the gender imbalance in mayoral races is even more pronounced, with women only making up 25 per cent of nominees. Joanne Fotakis is running for Vincent’s north ward and says women can be deterred by male-dominated politics and the criticism…

AFTER being a Stirling councillor for a quarter of a century, Rod Willox is calling it a day. “I’ll be turning 80 in January, and I’ve seen men hang on too long,” he says. A retired colonel who went on to work in medical science, Cr Willox says he’d prefer to stand down “on a…

VETERAN Stirling councillor Terry Tyzack says he’s concerned and disappointed by the “significant involvement of both major political parties” in the local government elections at Stirling and Bayswater. “…councillors cannot serve two masters and this is a retrograde step reminiscent of the practices of the Burke era,” he says. “The introduction of political agendas into…

YOU might be tossing out electioneering pamphlets by the handful but the state library is hoping people donate a few to be preserved in the historical election collection. State library CEO Margaret Allen says election material might be short lived but it has lasting significance, and donations of today’s flyers will help “future generations…see the…

PUBLIC relations expert Dianne Bain says the City of Perth needs to end its “war on the media” and she’ll push to restore communication with the press if elected on October 21. A former ABC journalist who now runs Bain Media, she says the city media staff need to get on the front foot and…