City dumps course after pony club creates a ‘minefield’

City dumps course after pony club creates a ‘minefield’

The City of Armadale has dumped plans for a new pony cross country course in Wungong saying the Pony Club Association of WA ‘unacceptably intervened’ in the project’s tender process. Last year the city started a process to find a tenderer to construct a new cross...
‘You deserve to live a great life’

‘You deserve to live a great life’

Kelmscott 18-year-old Laura Smith is smashing the stereotype of children in care despite a difficult start to life. Neglected by her parents, she and her brother were removed from their home when she was aged nine months. Since then she has been the victim of domestic...
Saving multiple lives via organ donation

Saving multiple lives via organ donation

A staff push to give the Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital’s intensive care unit organ retrieval capabilities has earned them a team excellence nomination in the 2016 Hesta Australian Nursing Awards. Previously patients who died at the hospital were sent to other...
Nurses nab two awards

Nurses nab two awards

Today is international nurses day and with two winners at the recent WA Nursing and Midwifery Awards Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital has no shortage of stellar nurses. Elsie Joseph from the Armadale Health Service took out the Excellence in Registered Nursing...
Growers want answer on tax

Growers want answer on tax

Hills Orchard Improvement Group spokesman Brett Del Simone has slammed the Federal Government’s indecision regarding a tax on foreign backpackers amid talk its implementation could be postponed by six months. The proposed change would see 417 visa holders taxed 32...