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FREMANTLE Ho ERALD Volume 31 N 43 Your local, INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday October 24, 2020 Letterboxed: East Fremantle, Fremantle, North Fremantle, Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com Street Press: Beaconsfield, Hilton, O’Connor, Samson, Sth Beach (North Coogee) and Sth Fremantle Email: [email protected] Not off into the sunset? by STEVE GRANT When she announced the decision on her Facebook THE South Beach Sunset page, which has more than Markets look like getting 25,000 followers, it’d be fair a reprieve after operator to say the council copped a Georgie Adeane was told pasting. by Fremantle council “The most stagnant and they wouldn’t be allowed self-serving council in WA,” to run this summer. thundered Kelly McManus. “They really know how With Ms Adeane’s licence to stuff things up, come due to expire next month, on it’s a great evening and council officers told her we all look forward to it,” earlier this week that under fellow follower Michael the city’s Covid recovery Pritchard added. plan, she was to be treated “Whoever made this call as a pop-up event and as is a muppet,” … and we such wouldn’t be allowed to could go on. compete against bricks and But south ward mortar businesses. • Continued page 5 • Saroor restaurateur Sid Satnam, councillor Marija Vujcic and the Free Spirit Dance and Wellness dancers prepare for the Bleeding first South Fremantle Festival of Lights. Photo by Steve Grant for equality they’ll be able to afford by KELLY WARDEN pads and tampons each month, many Shining light YOUNG girls are being from underprivileged forced to wear tampons backgrounds are being by STEVE GRANT councillor Marija Vujcic a non-profit organisation to Covid-safe plan to meet for two days or steal forced into drastic action got to chatting with Saroor run the festival. WA Health Department GIVEN the gloomy year socks from laundromats because they simply don’t Indian restaurateur Satnam Cr Vujcic said 15 local guidelines but says being because of WA’s have the money. 2020 has turned out to be, (Sid) Sidhu about business businesses put money able to close off four street “I met this young girl it seems appropriate that during Covid-19. into the kitty, but it was blocks made it feasible. chronic rates of “period poverty”. late last year who was South Fremantle’s bright Cr Vujcic said after the response from local “It might not have a experiencing homelessness emergence from Covid-19 premier Mark McGowan community organisations crowded festival feel, but Charity groups say at the age of 14 due to will be highlighted by a ordered the state’s ‘soft which was truly it will still have its own that while most women family violence… she celebration dedicated to lockdown’ in late March, overwhelming. festival feel,” Cr Vujcic said. take it for granted • Continued page 5 businesses in her ward Mr Satnam said Saroor the “victory of light over were doing it tough, but as Bollywood survived Covid by ramping darkness”. restrictions eased she saw up its takeaways, and in Next Sunday November an opportunity. “We’ve got Bollywood the last few months trade 1, South Terrace will be “One night I was performers, Portuguese, in South Fremantle had Get musos humming closed to traffic for the Aboriginal performers from walking by Saroor in July really picked up. Cafes and FOLLOWING a sell-out classical musos get back inaugural South Fremantle or early August and things the Clontarf Foundation, restaurants are packed, Festival of Lights from 11am were looking up and I said South American tango while the Herald can report concert of his Fremantle on stage. to 10pm. ‘are we doing Diwali’ and and salsa, the Free Spirit having to circle once or Chamber Orchestra at Chapman is the former An annual Festival of suggested we should shut bellydancers, Croatian twice for a parking spot just St Patrick’s Basilica last head of music at St Hilda’s Lights, or Diwali, is an down the street and have a singers, we’ve got the CBC to pick up a takeaway. Saturday, cellist Hans Anglican School for Girls in Indian tradition which party,” Cr Vujcic said. jazz band, the Fremantle Cr Vujcic said there Hug has joined forces Mosman Park. celebrates new beginnings Other businesses along Sailing Club’s pipes and would be street stalls and with organist/pianist The pair’s Romantic and the triumph of good the strip were eager to get drummers – and no one is food vans running during Tim Chapman for a Baroque concerts kick off over evil. involved, so the pair set getting paid,” she said. the day, and she plans for “tour” of five concerts tomorrow (Sunday October She’s just spent three 25) at St John’s Anglican South Freo’s version up the South Fremantle the community association to raise funds to help came about as local Community Association as days putting together a to run two festivals a year. • Continued page 5 Join the SOS PROGRAM and support a local school every time you shop at Gilbert’s Fresh. 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Written comments to be addressed to PO Box 1097 Fremantle 6959 or emailed to [email protected] GARY TUFFIN Merfolk make a Chief Executive Offi cer Advertisement splash for bridge S McGurk by LUKE COMMINS State Member for Fremantle A QUICK-FIRE protest Come along to my mobile office and let me against current plans to replace the Fremantle Traffic know about the issues that concern you Bridge had a mystical touch to it on Sunday. WHEN: 1:00 - 2:30pm, Sunday 25 October The colourful gathering of WHERE: Cockburn Spring Fair, mostly Fremantle residents Manning Park, Hamilton Hill at the base of the bridge on N Warrall Park also boasted a large contingent of local Merfolk, styled off the men’s mental health calendar recently featured in the Herald (“Brad’s our Mr May-or,” Herald, September 2, [email protected] 2020). simonemcgurk.com.au Simone McGurk MLA Residents held signs reading Pause the Bridge and Our Authorised by Simone McGurk, Shop 2, 8-12 Market St, Fremantle Bridge, Our Say. Roe 8 campaign.” Main Roads was due to Alignment North Fremantle resident meet with local stakeholders Keeping WA Safe and Strong Greg Dale lives in nearby yesterday (Friday, October 23) to The protest was organised by apartments and said Main discuss their concerns. the Better Bridge Community Road’s alignment would Campaign which says Main give him an unwanted new Road’s proposed alignment, neighbour. ALCOA’S KWINANA REFINERY which will mean demolishing “It will be four metres Mermen a hit the existing structure, lacks away from our bedrooms,” he Meanwhile, free-diver Tania SEEKING A LOCAL CATERER proper consultation, doesn’t said. “It’s a lovely vista being Douthwaite’s Mermantle recognise the old bridge’s destroyed. calendar has been selling like significance and has design “It will ruin the last park the hotcakes since being featured flaws that will negatively affect council owns on the river,” Mr in the Chook. The lure of a residents in North Fremantle. Dale said. bare-chested mayor Brad Campaign organiser and Campaigner and event Pettitt sporting a dashing tail White Gum Valley resident organiser Kavi Guppta said has seen the first run sell out Rebecca Clarkson said given Main Road’s plan to leave 19 even before the official public the event was organised just metres of the original bridge for launch. Ms Douthwaite is using three days prior, she was thrilled heritage purposes was a “token money raised from the calendar with the turnout, particularly gesture”. to help young men experience the effort that had gone into the “The bridge is a heritage- free-diving, which she says is a mermaid costumes. listed asset,” Mr Guppta said.