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FREMANTLE Ho ERALD Volume 26 N 14 Fremantle’s own INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday April 4, 2015 Letterboxed to Fremantle, Beaconsfield, East Fremantle, Hilton, North Fremantle, Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com O’Connor, Samson, South Fremantle and White Gum Valley 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? Surf’s up for What better than starting as a weekly paper-girl or paper-boy, with your help. by EMMIE DOWLING It’s great pocket money. PERTH’S first surf FOR OLDIES TOO simulator, which And what a way for older guarantees a rideable folk to stay fit: a wonderful weekly or fortnightly walk, wave, will open at Port meeting neighbours and Beach by the end of the council summer?website, which was nor nearby sand dunes, and Kalgoorlie’s Goldfields Oasis fremantle.wa.gov.au and keeping active. year if all goes well for not possible until March 30. will allowing unfettered Recreational Centre. Flow head to the community It’s much cheaper than the the developer. Ms Harrington is public access to the bay. House has similar attractions engagement page. gym. And a great way to Fremantle council this concerned the development WA’s only other in the UK, US and Thailand. Submissions close Friday, top up retirement income. week released detailed site, a former fuel depot and wave simulator is at To comment visit April 15. We have areas available designs of a plan to build a makeshift car park, is too now. See maps inside. “temporary” 1600sqm water close to sand dunes and the Contact Marie now on sports centre—complete bay to be environmentally 9430 7727 - hurry, these with a wave simulator, viable. positions go fast. cafe, showers, carpark and The centre would be just clothing store—about 50m metres from the beach. north of Salt on the Beach “I would recommend TRADIES! restaurant. The centre will new developments—with GET 8 WEEKS FOR consist of custom-fitted the exception of surf THE PRICE OF 6* shipping containers. livesaving clubs—to be The plan, by Flow House, built further inland,” says We now have an exciting needs support from local Ms Harrington, who has new Starter Pack and other residents over the next campaigned for more than great deals for tradies old fortnight before it gets the a decade for a stringent, and new. We print and council’s green light in May environmentally sensitive deliver more papers every or June. plan for the local coast. week and we’re online. You Council economic “Plonking this here, near can trust us with your hard development manager Tom the dune system, is just earned cash to get Griffiths says if the project going to further degrade the to every letterbox each and is approved Flow House is area.” every week. likely to get a 10-year lease, In a document Flow Contact 9430 7727 costing it $80,000 per year. House says, ”We are or trades.services “Having this in Fremantle conscious of the need to @fremantleherald.com to increase your customers. will bring with it significant develop a venue that is social and economic benefits environmentally friendly. As *Conditions apply. while having a low impact a result, the structures we on the environment given will be putting in place … the structures are able to be are of a temporary nature. easily moved,” he says. Currently, there is very little • Alemay Fernandez and Richard Jackson headline the Fly’s Victoria Hall debut. Photo supplied Local Sue Harrington vegetation on site.” Win!Win! filed a complaint to the The company plans to A DOUBLE PASS TO council this week about plant more trees and shrubs its “poor” community to reduce “existing” erosion. HARBOUR THEATRE’S Flow House Soulful start for new Fly NEW SHOW + MORE. consultation process. A sign went up at Port Beach on spokeswoman Kaila Milne SEE COMPETITIONS says the development will Hall, who pulled together “The initial response was PAGE FOR DETAILS. Friday March 20, asking by JENNY D’ANGER the show and lured Jackson it will be boomy, but the Fly locals to comment on the not encroach on the beach A FEAST of jazz, soul and and Fernandez to the port By Night is doing everything city, says Vic Hall is a great to stop reverberation.” FindFind thethe FakeFake AdAd && winwin aa IN last week’s Herald in state parliament. In this Motown will kick off Fly venue. A big plus is the high chancechance forfor aa feastfeast forfor two!two! Thinking Allowed week’s Thinking Allowed, By Night’s grand opening “With its high ceilings it’s stage, which means punters reader Martin Lee claimed mayor Brad Pettitt and at its new digs, Victoria not too far removed in terms won’t have to strain their the numbers on Fremantle council CEO Graeme Hall on High Street. of height from the old drill necks to see the action, council’s ambitious Kings Mackenzie respond, Soul legends Richard hall.” Hall says: “[And] it has the Square project don’t add spruiking the project’s Jackson and Alemay Acoustics had been a atmosphere of being in a IndianIndian RestaurantRestaurant up, and questions were also benefits—but pointedly do Fernandez will join Perth’s problem, but curtains lining great old theatre.” asked about the project by not say Mr Lee got his sums SeeSee thethe competitionscompetitions Adam Hall and the Velvet the walls will dampen the Saturday April 11. Tix at page for details. Willagee MP Peter Tinley wrong. See page 7. Playboys. noise. www.flybynight.org Banovich Hotel plan for Leighton by EMMIE DOWLING Pharmacy A SIX-STOREY hotel is on the horizon for Leighton Beach. Hotelier and developer Natural Health Roger Foster has set his sights on coastal property in Caring for our community North Fremantle for his latest development—a six-storey for over 45 years... hotel with 100 rooms, three restaurants, a pool and gym. The proposed development site is near Bib and Tucker restaurant and bounded by Leighton Beach Boulevard, • An artist’s impression of a six-storey hotel proposed for Leighton Freeman Loop, Curtin Avenue Beach, North Fremantle. Image supplied. and Walter Place. Mr Foster hopes to open the council website www.fremantle. April 23 from 5.30-6pm at hotel in a year. wa.gov.au and an information 8 William St, Fremantle. Locals can comment on the session will be held Thursday Submissions close Friday, May 8. Dunny destruction South Street which will result in find a single mention of any by STEVE GRANT the demolition of the outhouse. dunnies. A DECADE after being The thunder box at 14 South We asked whether its singled out in Fremantle’s Street is “in dangerous state condition had been checked heritage festival for its of repair” says designer Sam and why the discrepancy in the colourful role in the port Payne, who submitted the agenda, but hadn’t heard back application on behalf of owner before deadline. city’s development, the David Lucy. A neighbour who’d Fremantle Society president THE ONLY IMPOSSIBLE appeal of the outdoor dunny objected to the development say Henty Farrar told the Herald appears to be fading for up- its removal is a “concern”. it’s preferable to see outside sizing owners. The council agenda claims toilets preserved and retained to JOURNEY IS THE ONE At this week’s planning the neighbour’s concerns were maintain a property’s integrity, committee, council staff addressed in council heritage but modern lot sizes make it YOU NEVER BEGIN! recommend approval of a planner Vanessa Collins’ report difficult. He says the condition two-storey rear addition to on the application, but the of an outdoor toilet is not a good Let the team at Banovich Pharmacy a heritage-listed property on Chook scoured that and couldn’t reason to approve its demolition. guide and support you in achieving your health goals for 2015 Be it Domestic violence • increased energy • improved digestion • stress reduction or • body confi dence caught in teens’ net Let our knowledge, support and expertise help you turn your dreams into your reality. by STEVE GRANT STUDENTS from South Fremantle senior high school are helping reinvigorate a Meet the team state-wide campaign tackling domestic violence. Jessica Dagan This week a small group BHSc. (Naturopathy) helped Media on Mars design a new website for the Youth Jessica has a lifelong passion Say No campaign, replacing a dated site that attracted few for natural medicine and after hits. The students say working many years working in the on the campaign has taught healthcare industry, is now them a great deal about the issue, particularly how domestic qualifi ed with a Bachelor of violence comes in many forms. Health Science. She utilises MoM presenter Kate Wilkinson says the aim is to evidence based natural create a website that appeals • Students from South Fremantle SHS help shape the state medicine together with to young people and makes government’s new domestic violence campaign. Photo by Steve Grant traditional practices to assist them feel safe: in a tragic nod to the circumstances some young Hird, who’s organising the intuitively with the net. clients in achieving an optimal people live in, the site comes campaign, acknowledges budget She hopes to get schools to level of wellbeing. Jessica treats a broad range of with a toggle switch that allows cuts are part of the motivation adopt the campaign within their the screen to quickly disappear.