27/08/2008 | OFFERED a plate of whale in Japan, exchange student Sarah Jefferson decided to pass. “I just thought “no, I don’t want to eat that. Let’s not open up that issue”.”

27/08/2008 | HE’S peddled halfway round the world on a battered Centurion bike, but Mohammad Tajeran doesn’t plan to rest long at the Great Lakes. “I want to go to the Philippines, all of southeast Asia, and then on to Japan,” he said.

27/08/2008 | THE quality of life offered by the Great Lakes is among the worst in Australia, according to a new study. Dismal poverty, unemployment and crime figures have made Great Lakes the state’s eighth-worst area in the BankWest Quality of Life Index. Of 590 Australian local government areas (LGA) listed, Great Lakes languishes at number 559.

27/08/2008 | YOU’RE not done watching ridiculously fit people push themselves to a standstill. Not by a long shot. The Anaconda Adventure Race rolls into town Friday, and organiser John Jacoby knows exactly what he wants for the sophomore race.

27/08/2008 | GREAT Lakes Aquatic and Leisure Centre is on track to defend its 2007 swim school prize, and it could pick up an individual gong at next month’s State awards.