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Futurepeople are going to have to living, transform ingsFreo tra c bridge, but that several council initiatives, by STEPHEN POLLOCK part with cold hard cash. Square, create a Fremantle money as removed including: Wi!Wi! BRAD PETTITT has t the very heart val precinct, make the old from the budget by this • an extra 9500sqm of launched a charm of this vision is that tra c bridge car free public government. retail and 30,000sqm of A $50 VOUCHER Fremantle has great space and create a northern overnment assets o ces at ictoria uay offensive in a bid to oo TO SPEND AT DE BARBER potential that can only be gateway. are crumbling or being m ings quare See Competitions page. backers for Fremantle realised in partnership Fremantle Labor MP sold off, reo Emergency redevelopment council’s ambitious Freo ith the state government Simone McGurk, who Department has closed, • making Fishing 2029 project. and the private sector, he attended the dinner, was and the government ants Boat Harbour a tourism Find the Fake Ad & win a On Thursday potential said. e are approaching pessimistic about the vision to drive a massive free ay hotspot chance for a feast for two! investors from the the th anniversary of coming to fruition. through the centre of our • more facilities government and private Fremantle’s settlement and “It’s one thing to come community. around Bathers Beach industry, as well as local we will argue that we are up with ideas for how to “Until the state affordable housing community leaders, were important and the state’s revitalise remantle, but government comes on on the old Stan Reilly treated to a swanky dinner second city. to my mind the real issue board, I fear Freo will nursing home site. and marketing pitch at Freo 2029 aims to is how this is actually be struggling to achieve reo ill have Bathers Beach House. connect the CBD with achieved, she said. the turnaround it really its public launch in the See the competitions Mayor Pettitt says to its beaches and the port, “Labor had allocated $80 needs. council reception room on page for details. make the vision a reality, encourage more inner-city million for a new Fremantle Freo 2029 incorporates March 10.
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Concerning War, Considering Peace Presented by the Medical Association for • Library user une Hutc ison is urging a ret ink of t e ings S uare designs Photo by Steve Grant Prevention of War, Monash University’s HERRLICHT Dr Carolyn Holbrook will look back at how WOOD FRAMES-CRAFTED BY HAND WW1 is remembered, while Melissa Parke nder round will look forward to contemplate how the humanitarian and human security issues at the heart of current global conflicts can be peacefully resolved. resistance to 2pm, Sunday March 8 Fremantle Town Hall Entry by donation RSVP to Peter Underwood at 9337 8441 or uried oo s [email protected] by STEVE GRANT ‘If we had a bigger library with BIBLIOPHILES have declared war on plans to more services it would draw bury Fremantle library. As part of its long-planned revamp of Kings Square, the more people into Fremantle.’ council wants to put the library underground. to be interactivity for a library, chair is Cr Andrew Sullivan, But critics say the plan is which is a valuable community who’d sat on the panel that short-sighted and fails to harness service,” Ms Hutchison told the selected Kerry Hill Architect’s the library’s potential as an Herald. design for the square. attraction in its own right. “If we had a bigger library Valerie Cousins believes They say a better-planned with more services it would there’s a physical risk to council open, light lled library draw more people into records that can’t be ignored. extending into Kings Square Fremantle. Noting that in 2010 UWA could become a major cultural “You could have more lost 20 per cent of its achives attraction and modern computer work spaces, where in a freak hailstorm, she says a communications hub and tell people who work from home ood could damage the city’s the story that Fremantle values could hire it out for a couple of irreplaceable local history literature, literacy and learning. days so it’s an income.” collection of documents and Ms Hutchison, who spent photographs ood damage eight years on the state library could occur from leaking The Home of Handmade Unhappy board, notes tiny Peppermint sewerage, rising seawater or Herald sources say the city’s Grove library has a grand piano from water and chemicals used Eyeware mild-mannered librarians are and holds recitals to coax in new to hose do n a re. deeply unhappy at the prospect users. Mr MacGill says libraries of being sent underground, but “You could have more should be “circulation spaces” have been unable to express community involvement and with users able to seamlessly their views publicly because of we’d be crazy to miss this head to other destinations: council gag rules. opportunity to think about that putting the library downstairs 51 Market Street Three former councillors, in the design,” she says. makes it a dead end. Fremantle WA 6160 June Hutchison, Gerry MacGill North Fremantle precinct Ms Hutchison says it’s Lookgood.com.au and Valerie Cousins, say the chief Gerry MacGill sits on the important to remember the undergrounding is a mistake. council’s library committee with council’s plans aren’t nal and Tel 08 9335 2602 “We talk about interactivity the librarians and he says the there is a chance for a rejig, but at street level when we’re proposed cellaring has been she acknowledges it will take talking about shops, and it’s raised at successive meetings. a major shift in thinking to get even more important for there He notes current committee councillors to change gear.
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