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Severe fire danger advice for Lower West including Perth hills on Saturday

Friday 26 February 2010 – 5:35 PM

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a Severe Fire Danger Rating for Saturday 27 February 2010 for the Lower West, including the Perth hills.

This includes:

• City of Armadale
• City of Bayswater
• City of Belmont
• City of Canning
• City of Cockburn
• City of Fremantle
• City of Gosnells
• City of Joondalup
• City of Mandurah
• City of Mellville
• City of Nedlands
• City of Perth
• City of Rockingham
• City of South Perth
• City of Stirling
• City of Subiaco
• City of Swan
• City of Wanneroo
• Town of Bassendean
• Town of Cambridge
• Town of Claremont
• Town of Cottesloe
• Town of East Fremantle
• Town of Kwinana
• Town of Mosman Park
• Town of Victoria Park
• Town  of Vincent
• Shire of Chittering
• Shire of Gingin
• Shire of Kalamunda
• Shire of Mundaring
• Shire of Murray
• Shire of Peppermint Grove
• Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale
• Shire of Waroona
• Shire of Toodyay

Keep up to date with fire information through local radio, websites and TV. Do not wait for an emergency warning before you act. Your safest option for survival is away from the fire. If you see flames call triple zero.

If a fire starts:

• It will be unpredictable, difficult to control and move very fast.
• Embers will be blown around your home causing other fires.
• Spot fires may start six kilometres ahead of the main fire.
• Only very well prepared, well constructed and actively defended homes may offer any degree of safety.

If you live within 100 metres of bushland:

• It is safest to leave early if a fire starts, that is hours before a fire reaches you, put your survival first.
• Put your bushfire survival plan into action.
• Only stay and defend your home if it is well prepared, well constructed and you can actively defend it. If you are in doubt about defending your home, leave.

To find out how to prepare your property, how to develop a bushfire survival plan and what the Fire Danger Rating means to you visit www.fesa.wa.gov.au or call 9323 9300 during normal office hours.

Check the Fire Danger Rating for your area by visiting www.bom.gov.au or call 1900 955 366 (call charges apply).

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Celebration to mark end of revitalisation project

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Talented skateboarders and BMX riders will show off their skills at a celebration to mark the completion of the Thornlie Civic Precinct Revitalisation Project on Saturday March 20.
City of Gosnells Mayor Olwen Searle will attend the event at Thornlie Skate Park with the official celebration beginning at 10am.
The skate and BMX demonstration will follow at 11am featuring representatives from Folklore Skate Boards and Beyond Skate.
City employees Tom Langridge and Andrew Fallara will also show off their skills with local youth welcome to join in for an hour long jam session after the event.

The Council was successful in obtaining funding for the project from the Australian Government Attorney General’s Department under the Safer Suburbs Plan.
The precinct includes Thornlie Skate Park, Thornlie Library, Leisure World and Thornlie Square Shopping Centre.
Improvements to the area include more lighting, new pathways, gardens, limestone walls and a shade structure over the skate park. 


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Limb falls on ute in Thornlie

A large limb of one of "those" trees was ripped by the a wind gust, from one of the trees still standing in McNamara Drive Thornlie, landing in the back of a ute, a fair size limb but no apparent damage.

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Tributes for tireless Lyal

16/Feb/2010

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ONE of Gosnells’ finest community leaders Lyal Richardson will be laid to rest today.

Mr Richardson passed away on Monday, February 8, after a three-year battle with cancer but his contribution to the City of Gosnells will not be forgotten.

Daughter Delva Russell said her father had a great zest for life, was fun-loving and very family oriented, raising his three children – Delva, Ralph and Lloyd – to be community-minded.

Mr Richardson was born and bred in Maddington, ran an accountancy business in the same suburb and watched his seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren grow up.

City of Gosnells Mayor Olwen Searle mourned the loss of a confidante and friend this week.

“I will miss him very much and so will the City of Gosnells,” Cr Searle said. “Lyal’s record of service to the community was quite extraordinary.”

Lyal Gordon Richardson was born in Maddington on February 11, 1928, attending East Cannington Primary School, later known as Beckenham Primary School.

His local community and sporting involvement began at an early age and his hard work in revitalising the Maddington Football Club led to him being made an honorary life member in 1956, while still in his twenties.

In 1953, he married Britiannia (Betty) Holyoak, thus beginning a tandem community involvement that would continue for many decades and which contributed to the progress of the Maddington Infant Health Centre, the Gosnells Home Help Service and the establishment of the Maddington Primary School canteen.

In 1960, Mr Richardson became a member of the then Gosnells Roads Board, with his status changing to councillor when the board became a shire in 1961.

He took over from Ray Harris as mayor in 1983, became an Honorary Freeman in 1985 and retired from the council in May 1989, then was awarded an Order of Australia Medal the same year. In 2004 the City of Gosnells named the large function room in The Agonis the Lyal Richardson Room.

Mr Richardson’s funeral will take place at the Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Joondalup, at 10am.

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Waste Local Law 2010 (Proposed)

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City of Gosnells Waste Local Law 2010 (Proposed)

Council at its meeting of 9 February 2010 resolved to commence the process of adoption of a new local law.

The purpose of the local law is to provide for the regulation, control, management and removal of domestic and commercial waste from premises in the district.

The effect is to establish obligations that owners and occupiers of premises must observe relating to the storage, cleanliness, maintenance and placement of waste receptacles and containers.

A copy of the proposed local law and a copy of a Competitive Neutrality Summary may be inspected at the City’s Administration Office, 2120 Albany Highway Gosnells between 8.30am and 5pm Monday to Friday, and at the Gosnells, Thornlie, AmherstVillage and Kenwick libraries during normal opening hours, or click here.

Public comment is now being sought from members of the public and any interested parties and may be made to the Chief Executive Officer, PO Box 662, Gosnells WA6990 by the close of business Wednesday 7 April 2010.

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