DOWN amongst the turnips and spuds you might glimpse a flying trapeze artist or a teenager walking the high-wire. Since CirQuest moved into City Farm last year, the circus club has gone from strength to strength and now has around 100 members and teaches everything from juggling to silk trapeze. CirQuest founder Isobel Lyall says…

ST BART’S will open a new $1.3 million shelter for older single homeless women—the first of its kind in WA. The shelter will be located at St Bart’s old aged care building on Brown Street, which has been empty since 2012. St Bart’s CEO John Berger says the organisation raised $1.3m in six months and…

Voice photographer Matthew Dwyer was stopped in traffic when this little fella popped by for a preen. And wouldn’t you, if you were as handsome?

DESPITE a last-minute scare, a multi-million dollar bar and live music venue in Maylands has been given the green light by Bayswater city council. Council staff had recommended refusal for the three-storey Lyric Lane on the grounds of insufficient parking and 103 locals signed a petition opposing the development. It was standing room only in…

MAYLANDS town hall will be the new home of the WA Australian youth jazz orchestra. Bayswater city council has approved a five-year lease for the young jazzers at $6000 per annum. WAYJO plans to use the building as an HQ during the day and for rehearsals at night and on weekends. The hall will be…

STUART LOFTHOUSE has pleaded not guilty to assault of a public officer. Footage of a scuffle between Mr Lofthouse and Vincent council staff was captured on CCTV, but prosecutors won’t be tendering it as evidence. The charge stems from the July 22 incident at council chambers. Ranger bosses Steve Butler and Simon Giles had sought…

BAYSWATER city council has approved a 12-month trial of pop-up food vans in the city. Council came under fire in June when it voted to delay approval of a pop-up food van on Railway Parade for three months so staff could prepare a formal policy first. Pop-up food van owners will be charged $500 (3-month…

A DIGITAL model of Perth’s wetlands-laden terrain prior to colonisation has been crafted after researchers pored over old maps, explorers’ journals, early paintings, town plans, and Aboriginal stories. Edith Cowan University’s Nandi Chinna says the genesis for the Reimagining Perth’s lost wetlands exhibition was a book that showed New York’s Manhattan before colonisation. “The pictures…

THE finance director who failed to spot a serious error in Vincent city council’s budget, which has left the council’s spending program in tatters, will retire in November. Mike Rootsey has served as corporate services director for 15 years, and took over as acting CEO when John Giorgi left. It was on Mr Rootsey’s watch…

A MT LAWLEY author has won a WA book award for her literary tale of same-sex love and regret. Yvette Walker snagged the emerging writers gong for her debut novel Letters to the End of Love at this week’s premier’s book awards. The epistolary tale—chronicling love letters written by gay, lesbian and straight couples from…