Volume 31 No 21 Your local, INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday May 23, 2020 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] A little thanks goes a long way LAST week’s Herald story about a family’s Covid-19 experience in Uruguay (“Thanks, Uruguay,” May 16, 2020) was quite a hit with the South Americans. The country’s biggest selling daily newspaper El Pais covered our story about former Fremantle Ports chief engineer Jesz Fleming’s stay at the Brittanica Hospital in Montevideo in its 100,000 circulation Sunday edition. Uruguay’s popular foreign affairs minister Ernesto Talvi also re- Tweeted a picture of Mr Fleming’s grandchildren holding up a copy of the Herald, though • Councillor Adin Lang and Native Arc manager Dean Huxley investigate Booyeembara Park for native animal releases. Photo by Steve Grant we’re not sure that Google’s translation of his Tweet, which had Mr Fleming’s daughter Claire Leong “rescue the enormous humanity of Tough cat law paves way the Uruguayans”, quite captured his sentiment. for park quenda release to release rehabilitated He said fencing would involved after being has been very positive. by STEVE GRANT animals, which manager be ideal, but the small contacted by Fremantle The department is also BOOYEEMBARA PARK Dean Huxley says is only marsupials were short-lived, councillor Adin Lang, who assessing Samson Park as could soon be home to feasible with the new cat high-breeding animals well put forward the new cat another potential release • Uruguay’s foreign native quenda, turtles laws to prevent fauna being suited to the environment. laws. site. minister Ernesto Talvi and bobtails courtesy of re-injured. Mr Huxley says the He’s also been in contact Cr Lang said he was very Tweets the Chook story. “From the size of it, I park was ideal for releasing with the Department of nervous putting up the law, Fremantle’s tough new would say we could release bobtail lizards and native Biodiversity, Conservation which bans cats from 12 A small non- cat laws. about 50 quenda a year in birds, while the lake and and Attractions, which bushland areas in the city government organisation Cockburn wildlife the park,” Mr Huxley said artificial wetland might would need to issue a and imposes $200 fines for called Audele reached hospital Native Arc is on a visit to Booyeembara sustain a turtle population. license before releases took owners of straying moggies. • Continued page 6 looking at using the park on Thursday. Native Arc became place, and says the reception • Continued page 6 Moving House? Fast track your real estate settlement with BAFC to save Anne Meiklejohn Licensee/Director you time & money. 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The proposed facility consists of the replacement of three existing for three have been living while locked (3) new 5G panel antennas on the existing turret mount at CL 25m; three (3) down through the Covid-19 new and three (3) existing 4G panel antennas to be mounted onto a new pandemic. triangular headframe to be attached to the existing turret at CL 21.8m; removal of three (3) redundant panel antennas; ancillary equipment to be The Quality Times was the brainchild of Radio Fremantle’s upgraded including remote radio units, tower mounted amplifiers, cabling Mate Date presenter Kavi and feeders; and internal works within the exchange building. Guppta, who has invited people 2. Telstra regards the proposed installation as a ‘Low impact’ Facility under the to upload photos, videos and Telecommunications (Low Impact Facilities) Determination 2018 based on sound grabs of their daily lives; the description above. capturing the moments that 3. In accordance with Section 7 of C564:2018 Mobile Phone Base Station don’t make headlines but will be gold for sociologists in years to Deployment Code, we invite you to provide feedback about the proposal. come. Further information and/or comments should be directed to: Planning “This is an incredibly unique Consultant on behalf of Telstra, via email to moment in history; whether [email protected] , via post to Planning Consultant, it’s the only one in our lifetime Servicestream, PO Box 14570, Melbourne, VIC 8001 and at we’re yet to find out, but I would www.rfnsa.com.au, RFNSA No. 6163013, by 5pm 9th June 2020. like us to reflect back on it in years to come,” Mr Guppta said. Experience Wendy Binks Designs Noting how the devastating bushfires of last summer had WENDY BINKS gone from dominating front • Journalist and The Quality Times curator Kavi Guppta. pages to an afterthought, he hoped the Times would help COLOURING COMPETITION people remember what living under the cloud of Covid-19 had been like and what we could Peek behind take from the experience. Mr Guppta said he hoped The WINNERS people continued adding contributions even as WA’s restrictions eased, saying the the curtains recovery was also an important part of the corona experience. people start working from home, He’s noted that women had finding ways to pass the time, been the major contributors to or dressing up to express their the site, but says many were moods and activities. doing it “for the men as well”. UWA learning designer “This is a display of how Liberty Cramer posted a picture familial this town is, and it’s of her first day working from been incredibly interesting to home, saying the experience see the levels of connectedness,” provided her with an he said, noting how a single “overwhelming feeling of relief”. submission could reveal layer Ms Cramer said she’d been upon layer of relationships. on leave and practicing social • Amelia Smoker found the The site follows Fremantle distancing before having to go gloomy weather matched her as it heads into shutdown and mood. back into the office for a few I received 70 pictures so I just days. “By the time they let us work had to pick more than one winner! Shelters disappear from home I was so keyed up Joshua Lie • Chloe McClymont • Grace Highman about the risks that being sent by STEVE GRANT “PTA data showed that over home made me feel so much Caitlin Carter • Emily Smith • Indiana L-C • Eamon Morrison a two-week period (prior to safer,” she said. Calliani Peterson • Sophia O’Neill • Flynn Highman HILTON bus users are up in Covid-19) each of the seven stops Lisa Wynne found the arms over the loss of seven bus average five or less passengers per experience a bit isolating: “We Congratulations to everyone shelters from the 160 route. day,” a council spokesperson said. “The city will arrange for have the option of going to work who participated. Your pictures The Public Transport Authority benches to be installed at these and I plan to do that next week has been upgrading shelters on were so awesome I am going stops, but the cost of installing for a change of scenery and the route between Hampton and to give you all a signed replacement shelters can’t hopefully higher productivity.” Stock Roads to bring them up to copy of my Where’s Stripey be justified due to the low Amelia Smoker headed to the universal access standards, but patronage.” top of Clontarf Hill with a rug ACTIVITY Book! found the seven shelters in poor But Hilton resident Susan is to capture a sunset, but instead condition and little used.