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Save More on Four COCKBURN CITY HEo RALD Volume 26 N 09 Cockburn City’s own INDEPENDENT newspaper liff treet, remantle Saturday February 28, 2015 Letterboxed to Cockburn, Atwell*, Beeliar*, Bibra Lake*, Coogee, Coolbellup*, Hamilton Hill, Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com/cockburn Jandakot*, Munster, North Lake*, South Lake*, Spearwood, Success* and Yangebup* *Fortnightly Email: [email protected] WALKERS WANTED Would your kids like to earn money for the things they want? Do you want them to learn the value of planning and working? What better than starting as a weeklypaper-girl or paper- boy, with your help. It’s great pocket money. FOR OLDIES TOO And what a way for older folk to stay fit: a wonderful weekly or fortnightly walk, meeting neighbours and keeping active. • ings Suare Massive new council H new buildings were It’s much cheaper than the • How te frontage of Fremantle train station migt appear ueensgate and a carpark are now gym. 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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 trac bridge carfree public government. retail and 30,000sqm of A $50 VOUCHER Fremantle has great space and create a northern overnment assets oces 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 freeay 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. 4th tyre Bridgestone Select Spearwood FREE 21 Quarimor Rd Fuel Saving Luxury Touring 9434 2677 Save more 4th tyre $10 Mon to Fri 8.00am–4.30pm Sat 8.00am–11.00am That’s 4 tyres from $229! 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Grou s aim for council TWO Fremantle residents’ blood and say one of the aims They’ll run workshops to groups say they’ll run council is to nurture future council generate new ideas, as he says candidates. they’re suspicious the Freo 2029 candidates to try and change FRRA chairman Mark the direction of the city. vision asn’t a real reection of March Woodcock says while they’re not community attitudes. The residents and ratepayers, setting out to bag the council, The Fremantle Society was and inner city residents they don’t feel that it’s genuine going to join in, but president special associations have banded in its consultation and too many Henty Farrar pulled out of the together to try and attract new voices are being ignored. Parting foils deal this week. • CLD tere be anyting better cut and tan te promise of ice cream to entice kids out of bed early on a blow dry for Saturday morning Its working a treat for te East Fremantle act Club wic as a bunc of young tackers suc as Barney oo and $99 Tom Ferguson tackling tricky winds of f e r e x p ire s 3 1 Marc h 2 0 1 5 around Preston Point in order to score a froen treat at epyrs Cafe s op / 1 0 1 ig st 1 2 6 wellington st around te corner from te club www. renatoanden o air. com fremantle mosman park Te young sailors aged between info renatoanden o air. com 9335 2222 9384 6442 and 1 race in pelicans a small dingy invented in for kids to sail at Rotto in summer Teres a bunc of new skippers looking for a crew so to kick te kids o te Box and put a tiller in teir andand an icecreamcall Leone Price on 002 11 000 MON-FRI: 9-6pm SAT: 9-2pm Closed on Sunday and public holidays Not quite the Last Post 294 South St, Hilton (next to the old squash centre) 9331 8375 by STEVE GRANT Please call for appointment WITH its ranks thinned to just 18 members and a 91-year-old president succumbing to dementia and a stroke, Fremantle’s RSL club is facing its last stand. The club once boasted more than 600 members, but current secretary-cum-everything Les Butt concedes age has wearied them. Most WWII veterans are hitting their 90s and even his comrades from Vietnam are getting long in the tooth. He says things had been looking very grim for the club with only himself doing the paperwork and organising commemorative events, but the • Les Butt and Rob Casman are leading te carge to save te cavalry recently arrived in the Fremantle RSL Photo by Steve Grant form of retired lance corporal Rob Cashman. The pair is now the community. hat reects the veterans affairs. REGISTER NOW on a rescue mission. approach being taken by the heir rst priority is a Mr Cashman, who really was state RSL under the leadership meeting of members on Saturday in the cavalry before joining the of former Labor MP Graham March 7 at their HQ in the NEW SEASON COMMENCING SOON elite SAS and being posted to the Edwards. Wyola Club on High Street. Middle-East and Afghanistan, He says this will help Mr Cashman says he’s been Come play the new indoor soccer at had asked to march in last overcome the stereotype of RSLs drumming up support the year’s ANZAC Day parade in being full of crusty old blokes old-fashioned way—armed WA STATE FUTSAL CENTRE Fremantle. in telling war stories, and may with little more than a list of “I saw Les doing all of this encourage younger veterans addresses, he’s been marching and he needed help, and I from Afghanistan, East Timor or Freo’s streets knocking on old believe that if we stand by and Iraq to join. members’ doors to encourage do nothing, nothing is ever Mr Cashman says he’d them to saddle up again. achieved,” he says. struggled after getting back After that they’ll focus on “There were a lot of people into his civvies in 2003, and he’s getting veterans marching in the WA JUNIOR STATE in the crowd on the day who seen many colleagues return, ANZAC Day parade and hope were vets who looked like they suffering posttraumatic stress that’ll bring in new numbers FUTSAL LEAGUE wanted to be engaged.” disorder and other problems. so a huge effort can go into Mr Cashman says the pair He says the RSL is well this year’s Remembrance Day U13’S wants a “grass roots” club with placed to put them in contact celebrations in November.
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