Green light for new CAT bus A Transperth CAT (Central Area Transit) bus near the Swan Bells. A FREE green CAT service operating between Leederville and the Perth CBD will start running in time for next month's planned train disruptions. The Guardian Express reports that the 19-stop service will start on Monday, July 1, running every 7-8 minutes from 6.30am to 7.30pm on weekdays. Buses will also run at 6am and 6.15am. Public Transport Authority (PTA) spokesman David Hynes said the service would help commuters negotiate travel into the city during rail line shut downs in July and August. The $8.2 million CAT service is part of the State Government's CBD Transport Plan to address congestion in the city, with seven buses purchased. PCYC gets new head Former police officer John Gillespie is the new PCYC chief executive. JOHN Gillespie has seen the good and the bad of youth in Perth and overseas. Western Suburbs Weekly reports that the former police officer of 31 years was recently appointed chief executive of the Federation of WA Police and Community Youth Centres. The married father of two adult daughters most recently worked in the public sector in the Pacific Caribbean Micronesia regions where he liaised with prisons, police, local government and government agencies. Mr Gillespie was the Community Justice co-ordinator in Lautoka for two years where he helped to introduce alcohol and drug counsellors and crime prevention committees within local government. New unit for Armadale hospital AN Acute Medical Unit to relieve pressure on Armadale's Emergency Department opened last week, reports Comment News. The 10-bed unit, first established as a trial in the disused Galliers day surgery, has now been formalised. Armadale Health Service medical director Alison Maclean said the service would mean acutely ill patients with medical, not surgical or obstetric, conditions could be sent from ED to the unit and assessed twice a day by consultants before being sent to a ward. She said patients would likely stay for 36 to 48 hours in the unit, which was next to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to cater for patients who deteriorated, and also for ICU patients needing stabilising before going to a ward. Healthy ambitions for bodybuilder GEORGE Wong has been busy on the natural bodybuilding circuit, reports the Canning Times. Most recently, he placed second in the Junior Men, sixth in the Open Men's Short and sixth in the Open Men's Under 65kg at the Australasian Natural Bodybuilding Asia Pacific International 2013, held on the Gold Coast. Natural bodybuilder George Wong (right) with fellow competitor Steve Hoang. Picture: InMyCommunity.com.au Source: PerthNow That came after a third-place at the International Natural Bodybuilding Association Perth Classic and the INBA City Nationals 2013 in Sydney, where he place second in the Junior men and third in the Open Men's Class 1. The fifth-year medical student, of Karawara, said he hoped to combine his interests in bodybuilding, fitness, nutrition and medicine in his future career. Online future for neighbourly watchdog IT is not the end for Neighbourhood Watch, district police boss Charlie Carver has declared to The Wanneroo Times. Supt Carver has spoken out amid criticism from local Neighbourhood Watch members, whose funding cuts have hit home. District teams have been holding their final meetings this month, after the WA Police community engagement division ended its financial support for Neighbourhood Watch last November. Supt Carver said it would live on, but in a more effective manner online. Read more at InMyCommunity.com.au Journalists: Anne Gartner, Denise Cahill, Jaime Shurmer, Susanne Reilly, Mark Donaldson and Lucy Jarvis