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Coogee Twist for Circus School Metropolitan Coast in Living by CARMELO AMALFI Memory MELVILLE CITY HERALD Volume 23 No 14 Melville Cityʼs own INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday April 7, 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] Coogee twist for circus school metropolitan coast in living by CARMELO AMALFI memory. COCKBURN’S collection of Fremantle councillor and historical artefacts is running architect Andrew Sullivan says out of space—of which there some landowners hope LandCorp can help them relocate to other is plenty at the old South • These workers at the SMRC waste recovery centre in Canning Vale face uncertain futures, with the Barnett industrial areas such as latitude 32 government ordering the facility’s closure within nine weeks. Photo by Matthew Dwyer Fremantle power station, in Hope Valley. says mayor Logan Howlett. Landowners along Cockburn “I will be pushing to get the Road include the WA potato ground fl oor developed for marketing board, Western Salt a new museum and business Refi nery and Almoral Skin and centre and the second fl oor for Hide Exporters. On the scrapheap activities such as Scitech and the “They want a reasonable deal Museum of Early Childhood,” out of this,” Cr Sullivan says. “For ‘I have two children; a two-year-old and a he told the Herald, leaving space some of them, relocating will cost by BRENDAN FOSTER for artists who have diffi culty millions of dollars.” four-year-old and my family relies on my fi nding room in Fremantle—the Once the land is made MORE than 40 workers at the soon-to-be-homeless WA Circus available, developers can focus SMRC waste recycling plant in income’ Fitter, Lyndon Murray School came to mind. on the building at the rear of the Canning Vale could lose their “Why not?” the mayor said. cathedral-style power station. jobs after the WA government it remaining open, let’s hope the open even if the odour issues are “And once it’s cleaned up, the Options include gutting and ordered the place to shut government comes to its senses.” addressed. front of the power station could decapitating the eight-storey within weeks. Mechanical fi tter Lyndon “The closure of this facility will be turned into ocean pools and structure to accommodate a Administration offi cer Helen Murray has worked at the SMRC have a signifi cant impact on our an adventure water playground. 13-storey hotel tower inside. Selleck says it will be the second for nine-and-half years. rate of recycling and has potential Azelia Ley homestead is “It’s still early stages,” Cr “I have two children; a two- ramifi cations for the waste fl job she has lost in two years. over owing with thousands of Sullivan says. “I think landowners “I left retail in the hopes of year-old and a four-year-old and treatment industry in this state,” artefacts donated by people over are waiting to see what comes more security in a government my family relies on my income,” he said. the years. We want to put them out of it. “Some are a little bit position and it’s upsetting,” she he said. • Council fury, residents’ on display.” incredulous that something would “I’m surprised by the decision delight, pages 2 and 3 fi told the Herald. Mr Howlett says the rst happen to the power station.” “I think we do a brilliant job but encouraged by the support two storeys of the multi-storey Ugly transformers could here reducing landfi ll and now from the community for keeping station should be dedicated be relocated to land owned by that they’re looking at shutting the facility open. Find the Fake Ad to community uses such as Cockburn council, making room us down I’m worried about the “I hope the DEC comes to its & WIN a Chance museums and art galleries, the for a market plaza that leads to impact of that decision not just on senses and puts the interest of the for a Feast for 2 rest for residential and hotel cycle paths, jetties, boat ramps, staff but on the WA environment.” environment and the community apartments. and a Rottnest Island ferry service. She says the Barnett fi rst and let us continue the work Discussions had already “Imagine 8000 people arriving government has sent a clear we’re doing here.” begun with owners of industrial here,” Mr Howlett says, turning to message: “They don’t care about Meanwhile, WA local land pegged within the next the sea. “This happened 100 years the impact on the environment, government association chief Troy THE MUSSEL BAR decade to be home to 10,000 ago, so why can’t we now with which is upsetting. Pickard, the mayor of Joondalup, people in the biggest high-rise all the technology and progress says there is no guarantee the For details, please see the “A lot of people visiting the Competitions page transformation on the southern recreate that?” facility are offering support for DEC will allow the SMRC to re- SAVE $$$ QUOTES LOUIS’ANTIQUES Selling & CALLOUT Perth’s largest showroom of quality antiques. and Leasing Now - Electrician 24/7 NEW - TV Wall Hangs CALL ANDREW CONTAINER ARRIVED - Digital TV Antennas - TV Points & DATA Cabling Ph 9383 9239 - Computer & Laptop Repair 83 Nanson Street, Wembley Install & Repair Man 10% Sen Discount (cnr Grantham St) Open 7 Days ONLINE 24/7 CHAT! 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BLUGURU Canning Melville Odour Bluegrass sitar meets Punjabi Swing Action Group chair Rod Petterson wants an apology from Presale $20 Members $18 Door $25 Melville city council for allowing the odour problem to go on. Like Fremantle, East Fremantle, Cockburn, thursday 19 APRIL » 8pm Rockingham and Kwinana, Melville is a part-owner of the SMRC and its plant. Melville mayor Russell CHRIS WHILE & JULIE MATTHEWS Aubrey isn’t in an apologetic mood, saying the council has The legendary British folk duo diligently sought to pursue the Presale $25 Members $20 Door $30 highest environmental goals set by the WA government. Victims friday 20 APRIL » 8pm “I believe the city, its SMRC partners and their ratepayers are all victims,” Mr Aubrey says. “If there is a need for an apology KAVISHA MAZZELLA it should come from the state Songs of Love & Sorrow government.” Lawyer Mark Blundell, who’s Presale $20 Members $18 Door $25 lived in Leeming for nine years, says everyone has a different • Rod Petterson and Leeming neighbours have put up with the way of describing the smell. odour from the SMRC plant for years—but not for much longer. saturday 21 APRIL » 8pm “To me it’s like a sour old rubbish bin,” he said. “It’s the smell is like sticking his head He says his wife had immediately offensive, and in a wheelie bin. developed a condition where immediately recognisable.” “For the past month it’s her face became hot and irritated He admits to having been almost been a daily occurrence when hot air blew through the Samuel J Dass surprised by the department’s Some days, I come home to it, house. decision. shut my doors to it at night, and “You have to shut off the air- World-class Indian sitar mastery “I’m being realistic and a bit wake up to it. con because otherwise it blows Presale $20 Members $18 Door $25 cynical, because nothing had “It gets depressing, you never in the hot air: It’s an impost on been done for seven or nine know if you can invite people our quality of living. U years.” over.” “We’re delighted. There AU A He says DEC offi cers M. M Phil Nixon lives about 1500m should be no grounds for appeal OM. OM O investigating odour complaints C away and says the odour can but if there is then something is O.C O O. over the past six months had, for fi N strike at any time, day or night. really shy. IN I DIN DI D the fi rst time, applied stringent N “We do a lot of barbecuing, as Jim Newton, who’s lived in AN A rules which the plant had RAN RA R families do, and we have friends Leeming for 22 years, agreed B - BB B-B B- B breached. 1 who invite us over to theirs,” he the smell makes him think twice 11 1 0 He compared the credibility L says. about having the family over: U fi KUL K and thoroughness of the ndings “We would like to invite them “All credit to Rod [Petterson], to expert criminal evidence.
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