Melville City Herald

Volume 32 No 17 Your local, INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday April 24, 2021 Letterboxed to: Applecross, Ardross, Booragoon, Brentwood, Mt Pleasant, Myaree, Bateman, Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com Bullcreek and Winthrop Street Press: Murdoch, Bicton, Kardinya, Leeming, Attadale, Willagee and Willeton Email: [email protected] the Cockburn War Memorial by STEVE GRANT after the local RSL’s mid- morning service. THE largely unheralded The release was the contribution of pigeons brainchild of Yangebup bird in saving Allied lives fancier Robert Sheehy, who Winged during the two world became fascinated by the wars will be recognised pigeons’ wartime service in Fremantle and after taking up the sport two Cockburn for the first years ago and discovering a time this Anzac Day. reference in a pigeon racing book. The Amalgamated “And when I read that Melville Homing Club book, I thought about the will be releasing hundreds warriors people saying they are rats of pigeons at South Mole with wings, that they shit in Fremantle after the everywhere, and I think Anzac Dawn Service on they should get a bit more Monument Hill, and later at respect,” Mr Sheehy said. Homing pigeons were used to get their carry messages by both sides of the conflict, particularly during World War I when telegraph cables were easily cut and wireless radio messages simple to parade intercept. Mr Sheehy says that put the birds high on the Germans’ most-wanted list. “In Europe the Germans used to go into the towns looking for them, to knock ‘em off, and in northern France they helped to save a lot of American lives.” In fact, one particular pigeon, Cher Ami, was awarded the French Croix de Guerre with palm for his heroism delivering 12 important messages across the Western Front. • Continued page 5 • Pigeon racer Robert Sheehy and Willagee MP Peter Tinley, an SAS veteran who’s thrown his support behind the recognition of pigeon’s role in fighting for the Allies during both world wars. Photo by Steve Grant by STEVE GRANT accompanied her elderly nurses told her they’d have mother for her jab. to dump unused vaccines PRECIOUS stocks of The White Gum Valley because they couldn’t be AstraZeneca vaccine resident, who didn’t want stored once opened. Hospital bins were thrown out from to be identified for fear of “We got there at 11.20am a Fremantle Hospital her mother’s second needle and there was virtually no clinic when there weren’t being jeopardised, says one else there, just one lady enough people booked that given shortages of the who’d had her vaccine and in for appointments, vaccine across the country, another gentleman who was she was shocked when booked in at 11.45,” the Covid vaccine says a woman who • Continued page 3 Share your condolences for His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh Join the Hon Ben Morton MP, Federal Member for Tangney in giving thanks for Prince Philip’s life of service and send your love and deepest condolences to Her Majesty and all the Royal family at this time of sorrow by signing the condolence book at his electorate office. Your condolences will be collated and sent to Buckingham Palace. 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Concerned about the waste of the vaccine, she offered to REASONS FOR ANODE REPLACEMENT promote the clinic amongst • If you replace the ‘sacrifi cial anode’ before the tank friends who work in health starts corroding, the tank will last years services or were old enough to longer. meet the federal government’s • Some preventative maintenance now criteria for Covid immunisation. can save you a lot of money in the Encouraged by the nurses future. she put up a Facebook post, • The single most important factor but her contacts immediately in whether a water heater lives started reporting that Fremantle or dies, is the condition of its Hospital was no longer coming ‘sacrifi cial anode’. up as an option. When they contacted the All Anode Replacements | 9312 1583 | www.allanodes.com.au hospital itself, they were told • Fremantle Hospital. the vaccinations would only be made available to healthcare She came back a short time later coming,” Mr Hazzard said. workers. confirming she’d be the point of “I must have been the only contact. GP knock-backs one who got that little window In the end the email came when you could book in without directly from head office, but While vaccines might be being a healthcare worker,” after almost two days of waiting going begging in the health she said, although she said the the unattributed comment system, the Herald has heard gentleman who followed her wasn’t very enlightening. reports that some GP clinics mother was clearly retirement “While this query was are so under the pump they’re age. referred to the SMHS, WA refusing to vaccinate people who COMPLETE DENTURE & MOUTHGUARD SERVICE The Herald didn’t have much Health has also continued to aren’t already on their books. Health Fund Preferred Provider & Veterans Affairs luck getting information from the follow-up your first enquiry One Coogee woman in her Come and see Mark at Spearwood Denture today and cannot establish the 80s and suffering diabetes and Health Department about what Professionals to have your new Partial or Full happened. veracity of the claim presented,” asthma, tried to book into a new Initially a spokesperson from was all they could muster. GP clinic because her regular Dentures expertly hand crafted to give you a the department’s Covid team NSW health minister Brad doctor wasn’t able to comply smile you can be confi dent to show off again. at head office said to contact Hazzard revealed on Thursday with storage requirements for We can also: the vaccine and wasn’t included the South Metropolitan Health that there’d be a “fairly • Reline your current denture Service which runs Fremantle dramatic” … “70 to 80 per cent” in the roll-out. However, Don’t hide your smile Hospital. drop in his state’s health workers when she turned up for her • Same day repairs any longer. Bring this SMHS’s media representative turning up to vaccination appointment, was left frustrated • Professionally clean your dentures said they’d been told only head appointments amidst fears because they were only offering • Custom made sport mouthguards advertisement in to receive office could deal with Covid- of blood clots linked to the vaccinations to existing clients 10% off the balance of related enquiries, but offered AstraZeneca vaccine. because they only had limited Phone Janeen or Mark on 9418 5788 to clarify who was responsible. “They’re cancelling or not supply. to arrange an appointment for your free, any treatment! no obligation quote or drop in & see us at Police break up picket 3/235 Rockingham Road, Spearwood STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS - by SOPHIE MANNERS CFMEU organiser Michelle decaying and the parks are One stop shop for Mum Sheehy said the unionists were falling in to disrepair,” she wrote A STRIKE by City of trying to see CEO Philip St John on a Facebook post. Fremantle depot workers after not getting a response to The union’s members look escalated on Friday when their latest correspondence. after the city’s sanitation, police were called in to “It was not long ago that we rubbish collection and parks and break up a picket outside knew the City of Fremantle as a building maintenance. progressive and compassionate The council didn’t answer the council‚Äôs offices at employer,” Ms Sheehy said. questions on any maintenance Fremantle Oval. “The current management backlog, but repeated that the Around 60 members of the have taken a very hostile disputed clause 19.3.2 of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, approach to their employees and workplace agreement was Mining and Energy Union are they are all disappointed.” simply a carry-over from the in a protracted dispute over a But the statement from the previous agreement which had clause in their work contracts council said the CFMEU were been voted on and accepted by allowing the council to stand politely asked several times to the workers.

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