NORTHBRIDGE pharmacist Julie Adams has won WA’s leg of the Telstra Business Woman of the Year. Ms Adams joined forces with nurse Lorna Cook in 2013 to create Chemo@Home, which as the name suggests allows cancer patients to receive their treatment without having to attend hospital. Nationally accredited, the pair’s treatment is covered by private…

STIRLING has suggested a few tweaks to the Barnett government’s transport plan for Perth. The document lays out an overarching plan for handling the transport needs of 3.5 million people (Perth’s expected population by 2050), but Stirling reckons the transport department is too fixated on heavy underground rail and underestimates how many people will walk,…

WHILE many ailing seniors clubs stick to the landline, fax machine or even a stamped envelope to communicate with members, older folk in Bayswater are taking to the web to keep their long-lived clubs alive and kicking. Sue Hayes is president of the Maylands Autumn Centre and at a recent meeting they resolved to go…

THE Mount Lawley Society is hoping to make its historical archives more widely accessible by moving into a permanent home in Stirling. The society’s current storage space is an ignominious basement; cold, dark, and accessed through a busy commercial kitchen. Society president Paul Collins hopes an upgrade is on the horizon and has asked Stirling…

“WANJOO, kwobodak koorda.” (Welcome, beautiful friends). A Perth-based choir is using the power of music to try and protect the endangered Noongar language of WA’s south west, and is pushing to get the message into more Perth schools. Madjitil Moorna started the Noongar Songs in Schools project last year, mentoring young Noongar performers such as…

WORK on Highgate primary school’s eight new classrooms is due to start soon, says Perth MLA Eleni Evangel. The $6.5 million, two-storey building will go on the corner of Lincoln Street and Bulwer Avenue. When Ms Evangel was elected to state parliament in 2013, she said school upgrades were one of her “primary priorities”. School…

AROUND 350 protesters rallied at Parliament House this week demanding better protection of Perth’s dwindling wetlands. A planned housing development that saw a large chunk of privately-owned wetlands cleared in Bayswater sparked the rally, but others with concerns ranging from the Roe Highway extension through Beeliar wetlands to the Point Peron canals used the occasion…

TINY turtles raised by the villagers of Bayswater have been released back into nature. The eggs were laid in Deborah Bowie’s backyard, just near the Carter Wetland in Bayswater and hatched in September. But with the neighbouring wetlands partially cleared for a housing development, the locals stepped up to help raise the wee testudines by…

FERTILISER might help your garden grow, but its overuse is killing the Swan River, says Gardening Australia presenter Josh Byrne. Each year around 250 tonnes of nitrogen and 26 tonnes of phosphorous leach into the Swan River, resulting in algal blooms that reduce oxygen levels in the water and can kill fish, he says. The…

THE foundation stone for the original St Luke’s Anglican church was laid 110 years ago, and in the years since it’s changed a lot to meet the needs of a new demographic around Maylands. In 1900 the suburb was staunchly working class, home to workers from the Maylands Brickworks, Aerodrome, Schulstad’s Engineering Works and Mills…