MELVILLE CITY HERALD Volume 23 No 9 Melville Cityʼs own INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday March 3, 2012 Letterboxed to Applecross, Alfred Cove, Ardross, Attadale, Bicton, Booragoon, Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 Applecross to Bicton Edition Brentwood, Melville, Mt Pleasant, Myaree and Palmyra. Email: [email protected] Sack CEO over stink: Trade slump Labor MP
by BRENDAN FOSTER FRAN LOGAN wants Water Corporation CEO Sue Murphy sacked after her agency spent $137 million batters Freo on a failed bid to fi x odour problems at the Woodman Point Waste Water Treatment STEVES Plant. GRANTG He says the agency’s failure to deal with odour has resulted FREMANTLE’S retail sector in it telling Munster residents a continues to slump despite 20-year-old “temporary” buffer modest signs of improvement zone around their homes is likely across the rest of the state. to be made pemanent. “I got $100 million out of the The Australian Bureau of Carpenter Labor government Statistics reports a 0.5 per cent to address the odour problems retail sector improvement for WA at Woodman Point Waste Water over December and January. Treatment Plant,” the former A survey of 315 businesses Labor energy minister said. commissioned by Fremantle “The total cost of the council over the same period project appears to have blown found many that had been out to $137 million and now keeping their heads above water Watercorp’s press release tells last year were now fl oundering. residents that they cannot Almost 44 per cent reported lower guarantee they will not get sales over the past year, up from odours from time to time and 30 per cent in February 2010. the buffer zone over their land The number expecting sales to should stay in place. drop even further almost doubled “If Watercorp have spent and those who thought they’d sell $137 million worth of taxpayers’ more rose just three per cent. • Photo by money and the odours still cannot Matthew Dwyer be controlled, then people in Sack Watercorp need to be sacked...” • Deirdre Westerhout wants to close her store and is looking for someone to take over the lease. Jobs are on the line, with 18 per • continued page 7 cent planning to sack staff or not replace those who leave. All shock, no awe: Closure looms Beat the gloom Despite its appointment of DO your bit for the economy economic consultants and gurus, DEIRDRE WESTERHOUT’S But with empty shops lining weren’t enough. The couple - deliver the Herald and then its creation of business precincts company Shock and Oar is a the city’s streets, her Fremantle has young children and trying fl spend your cash in one of the and committees and spending little microcosm of the issues Property Services landlord isn’t to juggle a agging store great shops that advertise with hundreds of thousands of dollars facing retailers. keen on releasing the couple while cranking up an internet us. Check out the maps inside on slick marketing campaigns, from their lease, so they’re business isn’t working. then call Marie 9430 7727 the council has lost traders’ Following an eight per cent searching for some other business “If retail took off we would confi dence. decline in sales from last year, to take over. be able to take people on and Almost half those surveyed Ms Westerhout and hubby Brian Ms Westerhout says FPS have a good quality of life, but Find the Fake Ad & WIN a think the council isn’t helping are trying to close the doors on “came to the party” in trying to it just doesn’t look like it,” she Chance for a Feast for 2 improve the local economy. their Fremantle clothing store offer inducements to keep the told the Herald, sadly. In February 2010 just 18.4 per and focus on online retailing. store running, but they simply • continued page 9 cent thought the same. Satisfaction with the council plummeted from “cooperative trading/marketing when expensive TV ads featuring assertion that clicks on a website 32.7 per cent to 18.9 per cent. approach...had been successful”. some Dockers spruiking the city didn’t translate into bums on However, Mayor Brad Pettitt Council offi cials pointed had aired in the eastern states. plane seats or money in local tills. tells the Herald council offi cials For details, please see the proudly to the fact 10,000 people However, Dr Pettitt glumly “The evidence is that both Competitions page are telling him the council’s had entered an online competition acknowledged the Chooks’ • continued page 9 The Grand Pearl Sale - Peppermint Grove Jewellers Little Penguins in peril Limited off sale time only a serious threat to the colony’s 40% ends 31 March by BRENDAN FOSTER long-term survival. “Not only did we see an 42 Napolean St. Cottesloe • Tel: 9383 1108 • Layby welcome A MURDOCH UNIVERSITY researcher fears for the future increase in dead birds, but of Perth’s Little Penguin breeding was also very poor in 2011. population. “If penguins lay their Research associate Belinda eggs later in the year, their Cannell says the death rate is chicks will be in the nests in running four times above normal November to January and and rising sea temperatures are are also at risk of death from year, but in 2011 we found 49.” to blame. overheating. “This marine heat wave “Members of the public and “The penguins in Perth are probably led to a decline in department of conservation staff quite unique compared to other the fi sh stocks that the Little found dead penguins between Little Penguin colonies, so it is Penguins rely on for food.” Safety Bay and the mouth of the vital we understand the various Dr Cannell says some birds Donnelly River as well as on pressures they face in order to died from starvation, others Penguin Island,” she says. protect them.” from overheating while others “Between 2006 and 2010 we • Little Penguins used to be still were mowed down by boats. found an average of 12 dead known as Fairy Penguins. 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Melville City Herald, Saturday March 3, 2012 - Page 3 n ❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■ experienced, herald letters advertising No awards I SUGGEST you ignore for The Paper That Lives Here the moment what appears est. 1989 salesperson Newspaper House to be the height of arrogance 37-45 Cliff Street from the minor politicians Fremantle WA 6160 PO Box 85 wanted. of the Fremantle city council North Fremantle, WA 6159 and focus on the far more Ph: 9430 7727 Please forward your CV, pressing problem of the Fax: 9430 7726 including references to Henderson Street warders’ [email protected] Natalie Hug, Advertising Director quarters. Who is responsible Publisher: The Herald Fremantle Herald, PO Box 85, Publishing Co. Pty Ltd for the systematic destruction Editor-in-chief: Andrew Smith North Fremantle WA 6159 of these buildings? And, Directors: Andrew Smith & Pip Thomson or email who can we now call on to [email protected] properly protect them? EDITORIAL R McK Campbell Editor: Andrew Smith Chief of Staff &
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Steve Grant ❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■ Journalists: Jenny D’Anger, Brendan Foster, Brad Jefferies, Second best Carmelo Amalfi Photographer: I AM a cyclist and 10 days Matthew Dwyer ago was enjoying a ride on Cartoonist: Ange, Chatfi eld Organ Recitals a combined cycle/walking Story Deadline: Wed. noon path beside the beautiful ADMINISTRATION Swan River. Receptionist: Julie Rainbow The path was narrow and Music to warm the heart ADVERTISING had wire fences on either side. subsequently have an accident of the better aspects of A pack of cyclists came the with another bike rider, possibly Aboriginal life, that knew of no Director: Natalie Hug on the Clifton pipe organ other way—two abreast, which Assistant to Director: me. alcohol and had a strict moral Melanie Buljan meant it would have been a real - Organist Please consider that any code. Real Estate: Graham Devenish squeeze for us to pass safely. interaction between a bike and a Such administration needs Natalie Hug WILL PRESENT A 40-50 MINUTE RECITAL They were aware there was a car is going to result in the bike to be developed and controlled Display Ad Reps: cyclist coming the other way but Liz West, Whitney Isabel, Elin ~ Guilmant Sonata no 4 in d min ~ rider coming off second best. by the Aborigines themselves McCarthy some didn’t bother to drop back ~ Bach chorale preludes ~ Gordon Whitmore and should be endorsed and Production: Matthew Eeles, to form a safe single fi le. ~ Mendelssohn Sonata no 5 in D ~ Kitchener Rd, Melville supported by the rest of the Nibha Mehra, Fernanda For my own safety I had to community Herrmann, Helena Tay Sunday March 4th 9.30am jam my brakes on hard, nearly Is this a pipe dream? I know Ad Copy Control: Susanne coming off, and pull right over there are Aborigines who would Ottosson, Paola Fischer, Thursday March 8th 1.00pm Hilltop idea Jess Tana Bankoff against the fence. They were like welcome such a development, Trades & Services: a pack of wild animals and a DO let your imagination what I don’t know is what Whitney Isabel FOLLOWED BY DRINKS AND NIBBLES disgrace to the cycling fraternity. run wild for a moment infl uence they have over others, Classifi eds: Julie Rainbow It’s been said before “cyclists and visualise Cantonment how the numbers stack up. Ads Deadline: Tues. noon St Johnʼs Anglican Church are their own worst enemy”. Hill (Herald, February 18, Not to ignore the loss of ACCOUNTS: Church in the Square How would our Bolshie biker 2012) changed to its native Cantonment Hill to other races, Director: Christine Smith Fremantle (Herald Thinking Allowed, status: Yes, in relation to its can some way be found to Assistants: Janelle Tester, February 18, 2012) feel if he’d hasten the process of restoring Molly Brown vegetation, yes, in relation to FREE ENTRY - DONATION - GOLD COIN been on a combined cycling/ Booyeembara Park to full use, DISTRIBUTION: its administration. walking path and a group of offering some compensation for Manager: Marie King walkers were using the full It requires very little the loss of Cantonment Hill? !#( ( (/ (/4 (/4 (/4% Assistants: Stephanie !#( !#( #( ( ( width of the path, as is their imagination to work out the Alexander Primosi Campbell, Dave D’Anger, Sandy /54( "% Brooks & an army of locals! /4%, 3/54( "% right? reaction to such a proposal from Wiluna Ave, ( , a vast majority of Fremantle’s Transport: Ron Fowler "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%! I imagine he would rapidly White Gum Valley ( population, but it could be 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#HOT MARCH DEALS ( become very frustrated and WEBSITE interesting to anticipate tourist (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( % try and force his way through, Dead quiet www.fremantleherald.com ( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( # potentially resulting in injury reaction to such an outlandish Matthew Eeles, , 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( AT THE SBH to someone. Is this signifi cantly development. Stephen Pollock 5 WE now hear claims that #( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%/ different to what he is doing to An area could be available for Fremantle council has the We publish four separate 4( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!# motorists? the best representatives of the editions every weekend which BOTTLE SHOP %! support of the silent majority, carry local and regional news 4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL! / All roads and path-users original inhabitants of this area and advertising. !#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4( need to use facilities in a co- to present their ceremonies, an when forcing planning 54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!" operative rather than a selfi sh area that proud Noongars would scheme amendment 49 down $4099 99 Beaconsfi eld, East /4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/$34 3 and almost antagonistic manner. like to keep attractive to visitors. our throats. !#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( ( Fremantle, Fremantle, Hilton, "% save ( fi North Fremantle, O’Connor, 54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "$5 save An example is car drivers who, Visitors wanting to nd Is that the same silent 3/ $3 ( rather than allowing other such an area have to travel far majority that could not be Samson, South Fremantle, (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3 , White Gum Valley "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( cars to merge, actively prevent north, Australia-wide to my bothered to put submissions in, 19,500 papers (approx.) # them. I would add Bolshie knowledge, and to open such and the same silent majority that 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( 4 (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, Carlton Draught Carton Coopers Mild Ale Carton biker’s riding habits as an other. an area in a city like Fremantle could not get off its bums to vote ( 99 4 4( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#$16 ! Bolshie biker, I respectfully would be an advantage to the at local council elections? Atwell, Aubin Grove, Beeliar, %, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54 request that you seriously local tourist trade. If that is the case, we now Bibra Lake, Cockburn, Coogee, save / Coolbellup, Hamilton Hill, #( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%$2 / consider your riding habits, There are enough open- have a council acting on behalf Hammond Park, Jandakot, 54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!" fi rst because if you continue minded people who would of a silent majority that did not Munster, North Lake, South /4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/53 to cycle down the middle of a welcome better relations vote for it. That to me seems a Lake, Spearwood, Success, !#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/ fi Yangebup % 99 ( traf c lane you will become an between Aborigines and others, strange interpretation of what 31,000 papers (approx.) /54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%Little Creatures $39 save Pipsqueak 6pk ( accident statistic. Secondly, and the prerequisite that the physical democracy is. (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3$3 , more importantly, a car driver and administrative changes to Roel Loopers "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (XXXX Summer Bright Carton ( you have antagonised may the site would be representative Captain’s Lane, Fremantle 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( 99 4 Applecross to Bicton for $17 Alfred Cove, Applecross, (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 2 save $3499 % Ardross, Attadale, Bicton, ( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( $30 $3 ! Booragoon, Brentwood, %, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54save 5 Have your say today on Melville, Mount Pleasant save $5 Myaree, Palmyra #( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%, 3/54( "%!#( (/4%$10 / 24,900 papers (approx.) 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EastWest tried the same our way back there? like Albany and Bunbury. location but also walked, back Amendment 49 will be Premier Barnett has also said to where they were and which liberating and its proposals, in End of Summer recently that he saw Bunbury as seems to work. the scheme of things, modest growing into the second capital At night that end of town can and compromising. Even Special city of WA. be most dispiriting to say the Melbourne, lauded for its least. I am astonished that there “liveability”, has decided to Experience the dawn of - The latest Whoa! That would have been generation French SPL Technology! an unthinkable statement not is such virulent opposition to its expand its core, lift all height all that long ago. This is all bad radical re-invention. restrictions to create a high-rise, One Month Only news for Fremantle. The old Friendly Societies high-density city able to hold its Labor hasn’t any plans for it, building was empty for years own and more in the world. Underarm the Liberals can never win it and and only now has been rescued One only needs to go to Hong so don’t have any, the Greens are by a government department. Kong often enough to see that obstructionist and Adele Carles It is a case in point: Too big, too high-rise, high-density living is $ Brazilian is unlikely to hold it. convoluted for locals, too small not inimicable to vibrant street- So where does this leave this for substantial business. When it life and a sense of human scale. 60 was opened, would you believe, Actually, there are cities in China ailing, shrinking town? On our fl $ own I suggest. the second oor was given over which, despite its 1.4 billion The city needs re-building. to selling tableware and such. population, are deadly dull 99 Those days are long gone. and the people seem similarly Yes, shock, horror, real heritage fl excluded, but a lot of its built There are laneways in this af icted because the built area aplenty and they would be environment is low-rise, uniform stock is decrepit and unsuited fi to contemporary society and terri c upgraded but there is and hence uninspiring. Garden City Hairfree not the density mass of people economy. Riseley Corporate Centre For instance, consider in Fremantle to make them safe Vigour Suite 7/135 Riseley St Booragoon buildings like the Myer and commercially viable. There is vigour in eclecticism. monolith. It has fl oors of Young people populate them Fremantle Hairfree All the great old cities of the unused space which the digital and of them we are short! The Shop 42 (Woodsons Arcade) world that I have seen, and revolution will dump into mall is a dead loss to the city and 13-15 Cantonment St Fremantle that’s a lot, have old quarters history’s bin. The same goes its own traders. It needs opening meshing with high-rise for the Woolstores. There lots up from the old Hoyts corner, Call 1300 669 767 right through to the Round development. The only challenge www.thehairfreecentre.com House. The original street will be is to do it well. visit the website for terms and conditions born anew with wide footpaths, To say, as some do, that the I have heard one-way traffi c and an air of council has no mandate for activity, possibly around the such a radical vision and call too a call for clock. for its removal, emasculates the I have heard too a call for city’s leadership and threatens refurbishment refurbishment as opposed to to leave it without a viable radical renewal. That won’t be regenerative vision. Perhaps as opposed to enough. The public space of it’s not unreasonable to draw Fremantle has had a fair bit of on historical memory and point radical renewal. beautifi cation in recent years and to the great cities of northern yet business in the city continues Italy like Florence, Genoa and That won’t be to decline. Venice: They grew prosperous It is heart-breaking to see and extraordinarly beautiful enough. small traders described as under strong city leadership The freshest, farm direct looking as though they are and private development. It’s a produce at wholesale prices selling trinkets just to survive. model that has the runs on the has just arrived in town.... board. of small shops are simply no The city and its traders deserve This council should be longer competitive nor attractive better. applauded for its courageous enough to stay relevant. Sometimes I think there is a intent. I venture that some of The tenants are doing what coterie of people in Fremantle the great mayors of the past, like they must by leaving. The east who see it as retirement home beetroot brothers support local growers Bill McKenzie for one, would be end of the town is in desperate or a large refuge. I doubt the casting his lot right in with them straits. The mall behind Target is people who sweated to build and his heritage credentials were a sad place. Spotlight has gone it out of next to nothing would impeccable. because it needed a big, single- appreciate the view. I am Sweet Fremantle should strike level customer space with oodles reminded too of some early c out for the future. The past is ea of free parking at its door and a traveller’s remarks that it was 99 another country. geographic position that enabled the meanest place that he had 99 Sweet $2 kg Honeydew Melon Learn Tree Ripened Sweet Tegan Blue Plums how to Open all public Massive meditate holiday weekend. 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Melville City Herald, Saturday March 3, 2012 - Page 5 n Learn how to meditate herald letters Fremantle at the moment. published in July 2006 my bicycle ZEN BUDDHIST MEDITATION The system is Well done to the mayor and commute to the city and back should IN FREMANTLE councillors for approving modifi cations to be on a high-quality Principal Shared local planning scheme 4, amendments 49, Thursday Evenings from 7pm failing. Full stop Path (PSP) “in the near future”. at the council meeting last Wednesday. I READ with some distress the letter, I personally admired the initial Considering how many cars have modifi cations but good on you for come close to knocking me off my bike on “Remember the lives that are saved” the non-PSP part of the route, this severe (Herald letters, February 11, 2012). compromising so we might still manage Mob: 0413 826 119 to have a city going forward instead delay is potentially life-threatening for There is no doubt that those who www.zgwa.org.au of backwards, despite some in the cyclists. I would like to ask fellow cyclist choose to work in mental health community. Brad Pettitt when exactly in the future are providing a great medical and I look forward to seeing this city that we will be able to enjoy the full pleasures humanitarian service. I choose to live in evolving in a positive of the journey to Perth without life- However, most of the patients from threatening car drivers fi ghting for road AUSSIE and sustainable way over the years. Alma Street and Fremantle Hospital who Fremantle has great potential and we are space. DOLLAR20% OFFUP! have committed suicide shortly after fortunate to have a council at present who Taylor HAMATIC & discharge or from being refused treatment “live and breathe Fremantle”. Well done East St, East Fremantle were actively seeking treatment, and again. Editor’s note: We’re pretty sure Fremantle trying not to be discharged. Pat Winnacott council doesn’t fund bike routes to Perth HEVEYA UNTIL MARCH 15 To insinuate these patients were High St, Fremantle and nor for that matter through East Freo. craftily deceiving their caregivers into Perhaps you might like to pick a bone with discharging them so they could carry your town mayor, town councillors or your out their fell pans is disgusting. In my Tinley gets it state MP? Save our planet daughter’s case, she’d attempted suicide on the ward the day before she was done Perth teaches while you sleep discharged! Introducing the most comfortable, My daughter had tens of admissions I WOULD like to commend the effort natural, healthy mattress in the world. into the adolescent mental health system made by Peter Tinley MLA and Freo heritage Heveya is available exclusively from European Bedding. and it is my opinion that these prolonged his staff to help the public housing Environmentally friendly mattress. her life. She had one admission into the unit tenants in Hargreaves Rd, lesson Made of 100% natural Heveya™ latex, bamboo adult mental health system and she died. Coolbellup. and cotton. I do not think that is coincidental. Ruby WE notice the progressive Perth city had no admissions between her 18th The WA housing department was council is starting an upper-storey We adopt an acre of tropical rainforest for not answering phone calls. People were birthday in September 2011 and her fi nal activation program on its remnant every mattress you buy. waiting for up to an hour on the phone and fatal admission in February 2012 of old buildings, ie opening upper 2 fi with no result. The sprinkler system was One Heveya™ latex tree absorbs 1.8T of CO because she was petri ed of WA’s adult storeys with appropriate planning in its lifetime. mental health system. turned on in the day time, security lights were off in places for prolonged periods. modifi cations. Sleep in natural comfort and help preserve our The system looks like it is failing, it All the lawns were not mowed. That is their way to achieve a “bit of planet. sounds like it is failing, maybe it’s time Within days after Peter Tinley was buzz and excitement”. What does our The Original to accept that it is failing and not try to argue away such grim outcomes. made aware of the situation all these dreary old-fashioned council do, say Latex Specialists Geoff Diver problems were corrected. Sincere thanks in say High and Market Streets? Well, to Peter Tinley and his staff. nothing. It paves the way for anti-buzz 25 Years of Exceptional, Lachlan Way, Bibra Lake TM J Goodall with city-centre high-rise apartments, of Personal Service Hargreaves Rd, Coolbellup course, and probably dwarf our heritage Comfort Meets Nature Go the 49ers! gems. Call now to fi nd out more. Where’s my Ron and Dianne Davidson 557 Stirling Hwy, THERE was a sign on the Berlin Fothergill St, Fremantle Cottesloe wall which read: “He who wants the (next to the Post Offi ce) world to remain as it is doesn’t want bike path? it to remain at all.” WE love letters. Send yours to us ASAP 9384 0388 ACCORDING to a very helpful (see page 4 for details). 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Profile yourself or your staff. to revitalising King Square, which could deliver medium-term economic Booking Deadline Tues 28 Feb benefi ts said the mayor. “Short-term strategies such as marketing and improving the city are also key,” he said. 10 March - It’s Chilli Festival Time! “The city has a number of strategies And that means Fremantle will be full to bursting in place to address a broad range of issues that challenge retail trade with lovers of great food and the spicy life. Let the in Fremantle and the imminent thousands of visitors know what you have to offer. deregulation of trading hours is just one of these,” he said. Booking Deadline Tues 6 Mar Dr Pettitt said the council would launch 12 marketing campaigns in the next fi nancial year—up from seven this year—and also get its business 17 March - Harmony Week improvement district idea up and running. An opportunity to celebrate the best of multicultural life in our town - from food, art and culture to services • from page 1 “We certainly get more walk-in and products - where would we be without it? trade than online, as people like to touch the clothes they’re buying, but Booking Deadline Tues 13 Mar • Notre Dame historian Deborah Gare. Inset: Mary Higham. with the overheads it can’t compete.” Photo by Matthew Dwyer Ms Westerhout took part in some of Fremantle council’s subsidised advertising in the Murdoch-Stokes- Last Chance to Register for the Great by DAVID BELL not that long ago,” she says. owned paper, but said it had little to “There was a lot of domestic WE want your tales no impact on sales. $2500 Footy Tipping Competition! violence in Fremantle, Fremantle chamber of commerce of women: Hardy women were not allowed by CEO Tim Milson echoes her Reckon you know a thing or two about Footy? grandmothers, wily law to leave their husbands.” comment, saying even the council PROVE IT! and win $2500 cash. traders, wives, mothers, Because Fremantle was seems to acknowledge it isn’t doing a home to both the prison lawyers, politicians.... great job marketing the CBD. Booking Deadline Tues 13 Mar A Notre Dame historian and the asylum, a lot of He sits on the council’s Business is compiling a book on the “troubled” women— Improvement District committee and women of Fremantle, and probably suffering post-natal says it’s likely to take on the primary wants to hear local stories. depression or abuse at the job advertising the CBD when up and 24 March - Designs for Living For years there’s hands of husbands—were running. been a sentiment that sent here. Fremantle, this is When the Herald asked why a Each month we profile a business specialising in home the place in the colony where women’s contributions to volunteer-led organisation would or garden care with a big half page feature article. Fremantle aren’t recognised women who didn’t conform have more success than both the to expectations were sent.” (particularly in our public art: failed joint chamber/council $100,000+ Booking Deadline Tues 20 Mar all those statues of blokes). There are success stories Fremantle First campaign and the Associate professor but at least in the 1800s council’s current efforts, which have Deborah Gare says there are when women succeeded it included TV ads in the eastern states, a lot of great yarns being told tended to be despite their Mr Milsom acknowledged it would 31 March - Street Arts Festival 2012 around dinner tables that husbands, such as in the case be a big ask. need to be brought to light. of Mary Higham who ran He is pushing for the BID board to Mayhem, madness and mirth will hit Fremantle on an emporium on High and She’s focussing on the take the job from the council: While Easter weekend. The annual Festival has become bigger 19th and 20th centuries and Market Streets. the council was crucial in instigating wants to hear stories of why “She’s really interesting, the initiative, it’s time business took and bolder each year and attracts thousands. But what women came to Fremantle she had the good fortune to more direct control, he said. happens when those happy visitors look for food, drink and their experiences through lose her husband early to He believes the diversity of the decades: At home, in alcoholism,” assoc prof Gare opinions and skills that businesses and mementos of their day in Freo? Invite them into business, and even in prison. muses. “A good example of can bring to the table will help it your business with a Buskers Delight special or two! Assoc Prof Gare says someone who didn’t meet produce creative and successful women in early WA had a expectations, because she was marketing campaigns. Booking Deadline Tues 27 Mar particularly hard lot in life. a woman who succeeded in Meanwhile, the Woolstores The Swan River Colony business.” shopping centre will have another retained a “frontier” feel If you have a good story empty store at the end of the month Call today for bookings for many decades past the to tell about a woman in when optician OPSM closes. The or more information eastern states becoming Fremantle, particularly in store will be incorporated into Just urbanised. the 20th century, get in touch Spectacles near Gino’s, as both are Phone 9430 7727 “I’ve read the most with Deborah Gare through owned by eyewear giant Luxottica horrible stories of marriage, [email protected] or (which also owns Laubman and Pank, [email protected] truly awful things and it’s call the Herald on 9430 7727. Bright Eyes and Budget Eyewear).
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Melville City Herald, Saturday March 3, 2012 - Page 9 n Learn how to meditate ZEN BUDDHIST MEDITATION IN FREMANTLE Thursday Evenings Big bins plan dumped from 7pm Mob: 0413 826 119 Con Abbott is fl abbergasted the big bin residents’ support. www.zgwa.org.au MELVILLE city council might have to purchase new garbage trucks if plan was knocked back, with few in the A common sentiment was recyclables community knowing about it. “Why was currently end up in waste bins because it proceeds with plans for weekly there even a trial in the fi rst place?” he the yellow-tops fi ll up ahead of time. recycling pick-ups. asked. “We constantly end up having to save In December the council rejected a “The problem with weekly pick ups is recycling in plastic bags in the garage DENTURE ARTISANS $1.92 million four-year plan to introduce they need new trucks, unless they already because our bin gets full (and that’s after PREMIUM DENTURES AT AFFORDABLE PRICES! 360-litre recycling bins, despite the have them sitting around, which begs squashing it down) only to nearly fi ll up Full dentures • Partial dentures • Mouthguards success of a trial and a positive staff another question. again immediately after it’s emptied,” Emergency denture repairs • Relines recommendation. “It’s not passing the common sense Celeste Marinovich wrote. Denture clean and polish • Mobile denture clinic Councillors complained the cost was test.” “We’ve always needed more frequent too high and decided instead to look at Mark Warman Mr Abbott reckons many residents collection and a larger bin is the perfect the feasibility of weekly pick-ups. Your local dental prosthetist would—if offered—have bought their solution.” Attadale Dental Centre CEO Shayne Silcox says a weekly existing smaller bins to use around the Dr Silcox told the Herald the big bin Ph: 9317 8822 service might require new trucks but garden. That would have helped defray trial may have been a success from staff’s 420 Canning Hwy won’t result in higher gate fees at the extra costs. point of view, but at the end of the day recycling centre. The comment board below the original it was up to the elected council to decide Leeming local and council-watcher trial announcement was fi lled with whether to proceed. MassageWalk-In MYAREE SPECIAL Heart burn room in the total complexity of be doing.” $60 CALL FOR services that will be provided Dr Woollard questions south of the river to have also 1 hour full body BOOKING BRAD Dr Hames’ claim there’s the single major trauma service no room at FSH for both massage. JEFFERIES unit at that site,” he said. cardiothoracic surgery and All massages: Voucher must be presented. “That should stay at Royal a major trauma centre. Offer ends 31 March 2012 1/2 hr: $38 THE Barnett government has confi rmed Perth, where it is.” “Currently, Fremantle 1 hr: $65 Eighteen months ago Dr it is backfl ipping on plans to install a Hospital has cardiac • BBalineselM Massage 1 1/2 hr: $95, Hames had said he wanted surgery, trauma—maybe 2 hr: $120 cardiothoracic unit and WA’s major cardiothoracic surgery spread not major trauma—and it • Swedish Massage trauma centre at Fiona Stanley Hospital. across FSH, Sir Charles has all the other tertiary • Deep Tissue Massage Responding to a question from Alfred Gairdner and RPH, but expert services. • Re exology • Shiatsu Cove independent MP Janet Woollard, advice now was to restrict it “Why is it that the new fl WA health minister Kim Hames says the to RPH. flagship hospital will not Gift Vouchers Available hospital is likely to have one or the other, “So I am clearly left with a have both those services?” but no longer both. dilemma,” he said. Dr Woollard asked. Unit 7/45 McCoy St, Myaree (Cnr of Hulme Ct) He conceded south-of-the-river residents “I have not made up my While the units would • Janet Woollard 9317 8082 / 0479 112 680 and surgeons would, “go ballistic if we did mind yet: I am still very tempted take up just 60-80 beds out www.wimm.com.au not have cardiothoracic services at Fiona to stick with what I have said, of FSH’s planned 635, provision was also Open 7 Days 10am - 8pm. Last booking 7pm. Stanley Hospital.” which is spreading it out, but that is not needed for paediatric, obstetric, and general “If I do that then there is not suffi cient what all the experts are telling me I should surgery services, the minister said.
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FTER 18 wonderful years at the helm of Gateway Printing “The Gateway Printing team collectively has more than 200 years Ain Forsyth Street O’Connor, Rod and Mandy Wood have experience,” says Amanda. “Our people are the best in the business.” handed the reins over to enthusiastic new owners Richard and Products and services include concept and design, marketing Amanda King. materials, stationery and business cards, books and magazines, This enterprising young couple brings vast experience in corporate branding, press advertising, photography, digital, wide-format business and marketing to Gateway Printing, with their focus digital and off set printing. fi rmly on customer service, product excellence and value for money. “Gateway Printing is just one of three And right now as an introductory off er Gateway Printing is printers in WA with this higher level of giving every customer a whopping great 30% more free on environmental accreditation.” any business stationary and free delivery for orders received Gateway Printing is a one-stop shop that off ers the most by 31 March. (conditions apply). competitive price because nearly every job can be completed “The Gateway Printing brand has an exceptional reputation in-house. Delivery is included free to all businesses throughout the within the industry, amongst clients and throughout the Perth metropolitan area. community across Perth and Australia,” says Richard. Already a Green Stamp certifi ed printing company - ensuring “Every project, big or small, is treated environmental impacts are minimised - Gateway Printing will later this month receive SPG national accreditation, making it just one with the highest priority.” of three printers in WA with this higher level of environmental “With exceptional product quality and personalised advice accreditation. and service, Gateway Printing guarantees to deliver on time, Gateway Printing is also proud to be an active member of the on budget, every time.” local community and sponsors local events and charities, including Gateway Printing keeps up to date with the latest Gimme Shelter and St Patrick’s Community Care. technology and has just installed a wide-format printer that’s perfect for signs, banners, vinyl wrapping, car graphics canvas, For a free, no-obligation quote on any of your stickers and much more. printing, signage or design needs contact Gateway Printing on 9314 6009 or email [email protected]
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Melville City Herald, Saturday March 3, 2012 - Page 11 n herald earthcare
Red-tails in the sunset
HE easterly breeze is LYNNE TINLEY is a Fremantle author, artist and biologist. still fresh, and on it a well-known call comes seeds and fruits of introduced have benefi ted from these habits. fromT afar off. trees, such as Cape Lilac and These three large birds were A questioning rasping jacaranda, as well as planted unafraid of my presence, only trumpet sound with deep eucalypts in parks and gardens. glancing now and again through gutteral undertones that carry Today two females, one wise black eyes to make sure I so well in the cool morning air. probably immature, and a kept my distance. The females’ Red-tails. In this case Forest Red- male, settled in the tall gangly black plumage was speckled tailed Black Cockatoos. branches of the Silver Princess with creamy white stars and RECONNECTING Although Fremantle has not Gum in our garden. the tail panels were a brilliant in the past been part of their Precariously they perched orange grading down to crimson range, over the past four months on the thin branches, buffeted and ribbed by black bands. ART & COMMUNITY from our garden in Hilton we by the wind, holding a bunch These are the most exquisite have seen the elegant black of gum nuts in one claw and birds, living jewels. EVENT fl ying shapes with the fl ash of hanging onto their perches with Both males and females talk red in the tail and heard their the other. with their tails, fanning the call. Crunching and cracking feathers and fl ashing the colour The red-tailed cockies sounds came as their strong bills as intraspecifi c messages to their are extending their range made short work of each nut to kin and perhaps, one might apparently—becoming nomadic get to the small nutritious seeds fancy, as visual souvenirs of their as an adaptive strategy in order within. beauty and wildness gifted to to gather the food they need. Soon a layer of cut twigs and our own jaded species. In their natural forests of chewed nuts covered the ground All too soon their long the Darling Scarp the eucalypts under the tree. In the wild, narrow winged fl ight, so much that support these birds with seed generation from beneath like toy mobiles, takes my food and nesting holes are cocky feeding stations seems to family of birds off over the increasingly being depleted by be higher than elsewhere—an busy streets and sidewalks to Get involved with your community, clearing, logging and fi res. ecological advantage perhaps other fruiting trees—following be a part of Art, Craft and Music So over the past few years from their messy feeding habits. an intricate learnt map of the birds have extended down Seed-eating mammals such resources that grows with each onto the Perth Coastal Plain, as burrowing bettong and one’s experience and is shared INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATIONS becoming accustomed to the bandicoot may also in the past between the group. Wood Sculpting, Clay, Jewellery, Stone Sculpting, Painting, Print & Dye
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Page 12 – Melville City Herald, Saturday March 3, 2012 n OLD SHANGHAI FREMANTLE INTRODUCES AUTHENTIC HONG KONG DIM SUM
When you are looking for variety or can’t make up your mind, head into Old Shanghai Fremantle for a terrifi c international dining experience. Established in 1996, Old Shanghai wins the heart of many visitors as one of the best international food courts in Fremantle. Th e food stalls are carefully selected allowing Old Shanghai to provide the best quality cuisine imaginable! Old Shanghai Fremantle was set up with the objective to provide quality cooked-to-order authentic international food at an aff ordable price. Strategically located in 4 Henderson Street, Fremantle, Old Shanghai is a favourite dining place for many locals and visitors, particularly on weekends. Inside Old Shanghai you will be spoilt for choice with many Asian cuisines including Chinese, Th ai, Malaysian, Indian and Japanese. To quench your thirst there is a bar with both local and international beers, Australian wines and spirits. Th ere is also a large selection of delicious smoothies, fruit drinks, Asian drinks and soft drinks, tea and coff ee. Old Shanghai is excited to announce a new food stall opening called Hong Kong Dim Sum. With an experienced dim sum chef from Hong Kong, the dim sum is freshly-made daily on the premises. In addition to the usual selection of dim sum, Hong Kong Dim Sum also off ers a superb selection of vegetarian and pork free-dishes, so there is a varied choice for diners. Hong Kong Dim Sum is uniquely selling dim sum at night-time on the weekends - perfect for aft er fi ve diners and takeaway. With seating for 300 there is no need to wait for a table and makes Old Shanghai an ideal location to cater for group functions. Old Shanghai serves its quality cooked-to-order food to people from overseas to local, from backpackers to offi ce workers and from individual to family. Visit Old Shanghai today to experience what a true international food court has got to off er!
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