FREMANTLE HVolume 29 No 15 ERALD Your local, INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday April 14, 2018 Melville North: Letterboxed to Applecross, Alfred Cove, Ardross, Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com Attadale, Bicton, Booragoon, Brentwood, Melville, Mt Pleasant, Myaree and Palmyra. Email: [email protected] HERALD Tragedy unites us F OTY • Ben French. TIPPING Photo by Anna LITE! Gallagher THIS WEEK’S GAME: West Coast V Gold Coast Saturday, 14 April - OS Visit fremantleherald.com and submit your tips now for your chance to win! WIN A • Locals collect donations for Ben French at the East Freo 1 NIGHT STAY Jetty, close to where his food van Eat No Evil operated. Photo by Alan Holbrook AT QUEST days, 983 people raised just FREMANTLE by KAVI GUPPTA over $94,800. SEE COMPETITIONS WELL-KNOWN Alongside generous Fremantle foodie Ben donations were empowering PAGE FOR DETAILS comments of support. French drew his last Hospitality workers breath in the early hours shared fond memories of of April 10. slinging around fish tacos SOMEWHERE Peace has come to the and canapés with French, beloved gentle giant, who and his mate Ben Foss, in IN THIS co-owned popular food their popular Eat No Evil truck Eat No Evil, after food truck. PAPER IS A he suffered severe head FAKE AD! trauma, multiple broken Sadness bones and punctured organs Find it for your from a scooter accident in The page encouraged us Thailand on March 28. to express our frustrations, chance to win a While French’s accident hope and support, and it feast for two at local and eventual passing has became a virtual town hall favourite, Clancy’s generated significant media reminding us that help is Fish Pub Fremantle. attention across Perth and always around. Australia, the past two One acquaintance, who SEE COMPETITIONS weeks have reinforced one had experienced a similar PAGE FOR DETAILS thing—you don’t have to loss, wrote: “I am happy to grieve alone in Fremantle. offer advice on dealing with that grief. I have no right to Fond memories do that and I understand if you want no advice, but I Three hundred people gave me so much purpose Doctors had run out of Early news of French’s thought I would offer. I can enjoyed music from Freo and it generated great options to bring him back. accident and mounting empathise with what you artists like The Durongs, feedback and love from the His family made the medical bills transformed guys are going through.” Racoo Charles, Shiny Joe community,” he said. painful decision to let him the city’s collective sadness Locals rallied around Ryan, Galloping Foxleys, go from this world. into powerful action. and organised a fundraiser Salary and Jack Davies. A brother Now Fremantle must say Fremantle asked itself at East Freo Jetty on Easter In less than three hours goodbye to Ben French. “How can we help our Monday. the food was gone and “It gave us all so much.” Our puffy eyes and long mate?” Under the clear night another $10,000 was raised. By Friday April 6, French faces can’t hide that a mate, The response—lead sky, against the glow of the Close mate and local would return home to Perth a brother and a son is no by family, friends and the harbour and a gentle breeze, carpenter Jarrah Stevenson- Royal Hospital and continue longer with us. young cultural backbone mates auctioned off art and Marsh recalled how the healing. The life-long marathon of of baristas, cooks, bar staff raffle prizes. event provided space What came next gutted grief continues and each of and artists—has left Freo Long lines snaked for a hurting community the hearts of the vigilant us will run it differently. swelling with pride. around the buzzing food to channel its sadness, hopeful. The spirit displayed by Within hours a Go Fund trucks Flying Falafels, including his own. French’s injuries had our city in the past two Me page was set up by Gary’s Diner and French’s “Being able to direct taken a quick and dramatic weeks proves that it’s a family members. Over 12 Eat No Evil. my energy to fundraising turn. journey we can run together. HEVEYA™ Australia’s fi rst 100% natural & organic latex mattress supplier AUTUMN Heveya™ is a brand of Certifi ed Organic SALE Bedding Products in Australia including Organic Latex Toppers, Mattresses & Pillows. UP TO 20% OFF Heveya range Exclusive to European Bedding. 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On Wednesday the council’s finance, policy, operations and legislation committee We can save them! unanimously passed a proposal · CD + DVD copying to shift $360,000 it raises via a differential rate on CBD · Film to DVD (8mm, 16mm, super 8) businesses from the Business · Videos, Blue Ray, VHS to DVD Improvement District (BID) to a mass marketing tourism · Cassette, Vinyl, Microcassette, audio campaign. • Rowena Mitchell from The Artisan Store says the loss of · Slide, negatives, photo scanning Under the plan the council Fremantle’s BID will be tragic. Photo by Steve Grant would also wind up its in-house · Restoration services destination marketing and create a new arms-length group made Tourism WA. felt like she was hitting her head up of marketing professionals But BID chairman Karl against a brick wall trying to and business representatives. Bullers argued that pulling its negotiate with the council trying Unit 3/346 Fitzgerald St The group would have four funding was stripping small to get approval for her artists North Perth 9228 8889 years to develop and oversee a retailers who relied on local to use a loading zone on High new branding campaign. trade of their voice. Street while bringing new works It would replace the “They don’t feel they have an to the store. Fremantle Story marketing plan ear in the city,” Mr Bullers said. She said after weeks of which is approaching the end of Mr Bullers said with getting the brush-off, she its life cycle. his organisation’s funding approached the BID who’d running out at the end of the sorted the problem within days. Stagnated financial year and the new Ms Mitchell was also knocked Keeping organisation needing time to back when she asked for her The council’s economic settle in, it would leave business upcoming arts prize to get some development manager warned languishing too long. publicity through Fremantle in a report to councillor “They have never ever Story, getting a bewildering the smile that visitor numbers have competed in such a hard time, range of bureaucratic reasons “stagnated” in Fremantle. so to close the door on the BID it didn’t qualify, including that Local chamber of commerce is, like they say, taking away a it wasn’t “family friendly” and on your CEO Olwyn Williams spoke lifeline.” didn’t generate enough Google in favour of the destination His appeal got some clicks. marketing group. sympathy from councillor She said the chamber had face. “We keep losing people from Andrew Sullivan who said the also refused to promote the our streets,” Ms Williams told issue shouldn’t have pitted recent Westend Weekender on HBF preferred provider. Medibank members • New Dentures complete and partial choice. All health funds accepted. HiCaps on site. councillors. destination marketing against High Street because participants INTEREST FREE “We cannot anymore rely on the BID. He successfully moved weren’t members. • Custom Sports Mouth Guards PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE the result of purely just planning an amendment that opens the “Why, I ask, when we are all • Relines vision, talking about how hard door for the council to find some on the same side,” she asked. • Repairs it is and a business as usual money to help prop up the bid. “It’s like the council and the approach.” Under the plan, the council’s chamber are doing their utmost The group also has the staff are now offering to take up to make the BID fail, but despite support of the management much of the slack of the BID in their petty politics the BID has of the Fremantle Markets, the terms of dealing with business succeeded and is a champion of Kardinya Commercial Centre ( behind Kardinya Tavern ) Fremantle Tourist Association, inquiries.