FORMER Bayswater mayor Terry Kenyon says his successor, Cr Sylvan Albert, has wasted $8000 of council money on three pages of “self-promotion”. The council recently paid for full-page ads in three local newspapers informing ratepayers that council mergers had been cancelled. Cr Kenyon says the same information was in the council’s letterboxed newsletter, the Bayswater…

A TAVERN licence planned for the Mezz shopping centre has been rejected by Vincent council. Locals had expressed concern that Mount Hawthorn’s village atmosphere would be threatened if it had gone ahead. The owners of the Peasant’s Table restaurant want a tavern licence to let patrons have a drink without a meal and to enable…

MT HAWTHORN’S Alex Rendell has been selected to cycle for Australia at the UCI junior world track championships in Kazakhstan. The 17-year-old, who attends Mt Lawley Senior High School, won two golds at last year’s Oceania track cycling championships. He is looking to add to his medal tally at the worlds in August. “I’m doing…

HE’S the Spanish missionary, surgeon and bishop who built St Mary’s cathedral and fought for Aboriginal and convict welfare, but for more than a century Bishop Martin Griver’s name had been all-but forgotten. Yokine scholar Odhran O’Brien’s written a book on the Spanish missionary and surgeon who landed in Fremantle in 1849, after coming across…

IN an ironic health twist, Leederville nippers consuming fizzy drinks are helping to build wheelchairs for kids in developing countries. After guzzling their pop, pupils at Aranmore primary school deposit ring-pulls in a container which get sent to the Wheelchairs for Kids workshop in Wangara. The workshop sells the ring-pulls and cans to a scrap…

VINCENT council hopes shining a light on dingy alleys will cause crime to drop. An alley troubling locals is the right-of-way between Harold and Clarence Streets (just off the Beaufort Street strip), with many a complaint about vandalism and general ruffian activity. The council reckons it’s likely “criminal behaviour was heightened due to a lack…

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FITZGERALD STREET won’t be getting high-tech cutting-edge light rail any time soon, but the Barnett government is offering a consolation prize: a bus. The public transport authority wants to convert the clearway along Fitzgerald into a peak-period bus lane from Walcott Street into the city. Perth city council staff sounded lukewarm, predicting “minor negative impacts”…

AUDIENCE heckling isn’t usually encouraged, but at Kiss Club it’s expected, albeit in a gentle, nurturing way. “The artists are there for the feedback, and the audience acknowledges it’s very brave to put your work out there,” CIA Studio, (Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts) special ops Finn O’Branagain says. This is Kiss Club’s fifth year and…