GERRY MAIO is Bayswater’s Mr Soccer and on Monday was made the city’s citizen of the year. When his kids starting playing the roundball game 40 years ago he didn’t have a clue. For the past 10 years he’s been president of the Bayswater city soccer club: “My kids started playing and they asked me…

ART venues across Perth are closing at an alarming rate but wife and husband artists Liz Marruffo and Campbell Whyte are taking a punt on a new space in Bayswater they’re calling milktooth. They’re soon to start kids’ art classes there, but long-term they want to offer it as a space for emerging artists who…

BRUNO MRKIC is tired of drinking the dirty water that comes from his tap. The Mount Lawley man says he pays first-rate fees for water but gets a third-world product. Two months ago he was getting consistently murky water every morning for days in a row. Getting on the phone to Water Corporation results in…

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Time to grow up I READ with interest, and more than a little disappointment, the community response (Voice, January 24, 2015) to the cover picture on your paper a couple of weeks ago. Your editorial last week listed responses ranging from prurient to straight up sexist, and none agreeing with the right of the woman…

A FAILED geothermal heating project at Beatty Park has resulted in Vincent city council having to return $100,000 to the federal government. Mayor John Carey was uncharacteristically furious at Tuesday night’s first council meeting for 2015, strongly criticising his team of senior officers for what he called a culture of poor project management. “I can…

IN a part of town where hardly anyone has space to swing a spanner, Ewan MacDonald has opened a combo garage/cafe where blokes can buy a coffee and bagel while they work on their hogs. The 27-year-old was looking for a sea change from his job as a cardiology technician so he, his dad and…

THE members of the Bayswater Bowling Club have turned to Facebook to attract a new generation of bowlers. Facing an uncertain future in the face of a review of local sports clubs, they’ve launched a Facebook page called “Save the Bayswater Bowling Club”. The council is reviewing the level of support it provides the various…

STAFF at the arts and recycling organisation Remida in West Perth arrived at work Tuesday to discover they’d been the victims of a khat burglar. To be precise, someone nicked the 2m khat tree that had graced their courtyard. The thief was tidy at least, going to careful lengths to re-fill the hole and even…

THREE groups are locked in a struggle to deliver the next Maylands street festival. The Maylands Business Association ran the last of three biennial events in 2012, with a November 2014 festival not happening because the MBA couldn’t organise enough funding or volunteers (Voice, December 11, 2014). With the MBA now focused on a March…