Monday, January 13, 2025

Denmark Bulletin

Publisher details

An independent, privately-owned tabloid newspaper published every second Thursday.

Delivered free to every household in the town of Denmark and is also available in Walpole, Bow Bridge, Peaceful Bay, Youngs Siding, Albany and a dozen collection points for out-of-town residents and visitors.

Digital edition of current issue available on website

Articles

Recent articles

Alex back on his feet

Denmark Bulletin
Family
Serena Kirby. Denmark GP Alex Sleeman is learning to walk again after sustaining serious spinal injuries from a tractor accident on his property last September ... “I plan to do everything I used to do but I’ll just do it a bit differently and good luck to anyone that tells me I can’t do something.”

Nannas decry prescribed burn’s ‘bleak aftermath’

Denmark Bulletin
Biodiversity
Conservation group Denmark Nannas for Native Forests found a bleak aftermath of a 1123ha prescribed burn in November of Sheepwash North in Mt Lindesay National Park. They were shocked to see big areas of tree canopy defoliated and most of the remaining canopy scorched.

Les paddles his own canoe to the hall of fame

Denmark Bulletin
News
Serena Kirby. Sea kayaker Les Allen is one of the latest inductees into Paddle WA’s Hall of Fame. Denmark resident Les is a past president of the association and a founding member of the Sea Kayak Club of WA.

Earlier articles

Work set to start on Steiner high school in the new year

Denmark Bulletin
Education & training
Serena Kirby. Site works will get underway in January for the construction of the $2-$3 million Golden Hill Steiner School high school facilities. The $900,000, 6ha block that adjoins the school was purchased in October by a foundation for school use. Half the block will be used for the new school buildings with the other half to be set aside for three residential lots.
Denmark Christmas Festival

Merry Christmas Denmark! $5m for park upgrade

Denmark Bulletin
Council
Berridge Park will get a $5 million upgrade following a Lottery West grant of $2,857,500 announced last Friday at the Christmas Festival ... The concept plan features improvements to public and youth recreational infrastructure while retaining existing mature trees and quiet spaces to retain and enhance the park’s place in the landscape.

Two decades under pressure

Denmark Bulletin
Employment
Serena Kirby. A career as a commercial deep-sea diver is not for the faint hearted but it’s been Jason Thornton’s profession for nearly two decades. Jason works for companies that supply divers to the oil and gas industry for the construction and maintenance of underwater pipelines. He says the job is far from glamorous.
Zacs windbox

Zac’s windbox a winner in first sculpture competition

Denmark Bulletin
Arts
Patricia Gill. Zak Launay has won the inaugural Denmark Arts sculpture competition’s big works section with Anemophilous Recyclum, a windbox designed to harvest the energy of winds ... The windbox is made of metal, wood and glass recycled from ‘bits collected here and there’ and, according to Zak, does what a windbox is supposed to do.

Harp strikes a chord with an early music fan

Denmark Bulletin
Arts
Patricia Gill. Shamara de Tissera began to play the harp as a young woman when pregnant with her son and no longer able to do eurythmia ... With her move to Denmark and first performance directing the Hildegard Harp Meditation at the Brave New Works Festival in January, she brought a wave of interest in the instrument.
Denmark harpists
Gus ready to dive off

Gus ‘didn’t give a backward glance’

Denmark Bulletin
Land & environment
Gus, the emperor penguin found on Ocean Beach last month, was released into the Southern Ocean on November 20 ... The care, attention and efforts of wildlife rehabilitator Carol Biddulph and her husband Graham gave the Antarctic bird, found thousands of kilometres outside of its home range and in a different climate, a fighting chance of survival.

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About Denmark Bulletin

The Denmark Bulletin is an independent, privately-owned tabloid newspaper published every second Thursday. Printed under contract by Fairfax Media and run by two of WA’s most experienced journalists, the Bulletin has a nationwide reputation as a community newspaper of outstanding quality.

This year’s Shire of Denmark Community and Customer Needs Survey found that almost three quarters of respondents favoured the Bulletin first for community consultation and access to information.

The paper was named one of Australia’s best looking newspapers winning the ‘Best Newspaper on Enhanced Stock’ in a competition for newspaper printers in Australia and New Zealand.

It was chosen as an entry by printers Fairfax Media and won ahead of an edition of The Australian Financial Review, printed in Victoria.

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